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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Week Ending April 11, 2008 - Washington, DC

Obama says rural people are "bitter" and "cling to religion" / Bush and the Pope / Pope wants Iraqi Christians helped / New House caucus on Iraqi Christian issue / Why does Nancy Pelosi help narco-terrorists? / Abortion clinic regulation? / Did Huckabee actually win? / Our Hill office closes / A gay time at McDonald's?

NEW END OF MARCH CHAIRMAN'S REPORTS AVAILABLE - The March 29, 2008 Chairman's Report from William J. Murray is now available online in PDF version. The Chairman's Report contains some material not seen in these updates. Click to view!

THE PRESIDENT

OBAMA SAYS POOR CLING TO RELIGION Of those who live in rural areas and small towns Barack Obama said: "... it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Keep in mind that this man grew up in an Indonesian village in a Muslim school, and now with his Harvard education looks down his nose at those who work for a living, something he has never had to do. This comes after his comments last week that he did not want his daughters "punished with a baby." A CNN clip on Youtube.com has his comments as well as a response from Clinton and McCain.

BUSH AND THE POPE - President George W. Bush will meet with Pope Benedict XVI this week. The Pope will once again ask the President to help the hundreds of thousands of persecuted Christians who have been displaced in Iraq. Before the US invasion, Iraq was a secular nation in which Christians were relatively safe and held important government positions. Most have now lost their jobs and homes. The situation is so bad that even economic and defense conservatives in the Republican Party have joined social conservatives in asking the President to do something. Read Cliff Kincaid's latest article at Accuracy in Media.

THE HOUSE

NEW HOUSE CAUCUS - Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) will chair the newly formed Caucus on Religious Minorities in the Middle East. An inaugural reception will be held from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room B-338 on April 15th. The Caucus on Religious Minorities in the Middle East is a bipartisan Congressional Member Organization dedicated to serving as a central location for information on religious minorities in the Middle East. This reception will focus on the persecution of Iraqi Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East, and will include a screening of a recent 60 Minutes segment that highlights the persecution of Christians in Iraq.

THE HOUSE SUPPORTS TERROR - Nancy Pelosi changed the House rules this week to block a free trade agreement with Columbia which has been fighting communist narco-terrorists for decades. While Pelosi supports free trade agreements with communist nations, she apparently does not want to do anything to assist a nation fighting communism or the drug trade. Most of the narcotics coming into her California congressional district come from Columbia, but perhaps that kind of free trade is OK with her. Bloomberg.com summarized Pelosi's move as pro-Chavez.

WHAT DOES NANCY DO? - This week Nancy Pelosi managed to derail a free trade agreement with our best ally in Latin America and to call votes on the naming of some post offices. So far under the "leadership" of this San Francisco radical leftist, 40% of the bills passed by the House have named federal buildings.

THE SENATE

ABORTION CLINIC REGULATION - Published reports of abuses in abortion clinics illustrate the need for health and safety regulation: From the LA Times 2/8/2008: "By the time paramedics arrived, the patient was lying in a pool of her own blood, her pulse racing and her blood pressure dangerously low. The woman, identified only as Angela P. in records of the Medical Board of California, had gone to the Clinica Medica Para la Mujer de Hoy in Santa Ana in the summer of 2004 for an abortion. Dr. Phillip Rand, then in his early 80s, performed a vaginal suction procedure, despite having determined that Angela was about 20 weeks pregnant, well into her second trimester. She was given no anesthesia or painkillers. Angela P.'s experience was cited in a 2004 medical board accusation against Rand as "barbaric" and a "severe departure" from a reasonable standard of care."

Unlike plastic surgery clinics, such as those that do liposuction, abortion clinics are virtually unregulated. Senator Brownback (R-KS) is currently working on legislation that would regulate the barbarous industry.

RELIGION AND SOCIETY

DID HUCKABEE ACTUALLY WIN? - Writing for the American Prospect, Sarah Posner made the bold comment that Gov. Mike Huckabee had won the "civil war" in the Religious Right. Grassroots evangelical organizations are fleeing the "old guard" leadership who backed Giuliani and Romney in the presidential primaries. In the chaos of the evangelical movement, Mike Huckabee is forming a new political entity that will probably emerge in the next week or so to replace older groups that have so discredited themselves through marriage to the Republican Party, which also seems to have lost its core values.

MCDONALD'S JOINS GAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - Richard Ellis, a vice president of McDonald's, announced last week that the restaurant chain is "thrilled to join the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce team." This move has angered the American Family Association and many other conservatives because of the belief that the NGLCC will be a powerful advocate for the homosexual social agenda, including gay "marriage." Randy Sharp of the AFA maintains that McDonald's should remain neutral and does not have to join a homosexual group in order to be fair to gay customers and employees. For more on the story, see the report at CNS News.

OUR OFFICE CLOSES - After more than twelve years, the Religious Freedom Coalition has moved out of its office at 717 2nd Street NE. We subleased space from Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation for more than a decade, but unfortunately they have sold the building to a developer and it is coming down. The Free Congress Foundation is moving to Virginia, and we have found a temporary space at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue which is six blocks west of the Capitol, toward the White House.

NEW MARCH CHAIRMAN'S REPORTS AVAILABLE - The March 29, 2008 Chairman's Report from William J. Murray is now available online in PDF version. The Chairman's Report contains some material not seen in these updates. Click to view!

INTERNATIONAL

ANOTHER IRAQI PRIEST MURDERED- Another Iraqi priest was murdered in a drive-by attack in central Baghdad on Saturday of last week, in yet another attack on Iraqi Christians. The priest, Adel Yousif was a part of the Syrian Orthodox Church which has a large presence in Iraqi. This comes just a few weeks after the murder of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho.

IRAQI CHRISTIANS NEED HELP - The work of the Religious Freedom Coalition on behalf of Iraq has a need for additional funding. Please consider a gift to the Religious Freedom Coalition this month.

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