Washington Report- July 26th, 2013

Editor: William J. Murray

Join me in a fact finding mission to Israel - Space now limited! - A once in a lifetime mission led by William J. Murray, William Federer and Frank Gaffney, all three experts on Israel and Islamic affairs. Not a standard "tour," the mission includes visits to settlements and military bases plus evening panels. Read more
In this issue: Obama's Ramadan / Al Gore's gateway to Islamist propaganda / Congressman warns of new "global caliphate" / Religious freedom becoming a "second tier right"? / No funds for atheist "chaplain" / No tax dollars for jihadists / Immigrant wins battle to keep Jesus statue up / Air Force chaplain under attack / Congressman speaks out against arming Syrian "rebels" / Syrian "rebels" attack convoy of unarmed Christians / Young girl flees forced Muslim marriage

The Presidency
Obama's Ramadan - At the beginning of Ramadan, President Barack Obama stated, "I wish Muslims across America and around the world a month blessed with the joys of family, peace and understanding. Ramadan Kareem." So far into the "holy" Muslim month of Ramadan, there have been 178 terror attacks including 18 suicide bombings. In these attacks 836 people died and 1646 have been wounded. Read more
Former VP Al Gore's gateway to Islamist propaganda - Al-Jazeera is supportive of both the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, as the article below describes. And with plenty of money, the organization is buying up a lot of talent, many with Irish and German sounding names, to disguise the fact that it is an outlet for radical Islam. "Liberal" Al Gore took tens of millions from Former Qatari emir Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and from the Qatari government in return for handing over his cable network. Read more
Congress
Congressman warns of new "global caliphate" - Speaking for almost an hour, Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) warned that we are witnessing "the rise of a new Ottoman Empire in the Middle East, which, unfortunately, the Obama Administration has helped jump-start." Read more
Congressman: Religious freedom becoming a "second tier" right- Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) believes that religious freedom is becoming a "second tier" right in the United States. He stated, "When the government says, 'You can believe whatever you want, but you will be penalized if you exercise those beliefs,' we have entered dangerous territory." Read more
Congressman says no funds for atheist "chaplain" - Congressman John Fleming (R-LA) is working to create an amendment to the defense budget bill that will prevent any atheist or humanist chaplains in the military. According to Fleming: "When it comes to the idea of an atheist chaplain, which is an oxymoron - it's self-contradictory - what you're really doing is now saying that we're going to replace true chaplains with non-chaplain chaplains.Read more
No tax dollars for jihadists - The Religious Freedom Coalition has begun an online petition asking congressmen to speak out against any funding, military or otherwise, to jihadists anywhere in the world. The petition comes at a time the Obama Administration is furnishing help from the CIA, as well as cash and "humanitarian" aid, to jihadists fighting the secular government of Syria. Provide your name and zip code, and a copy of the petition will be faxed to your congressman free of charge. See petition here.
Religion and Culture
Immigrant wins battle to keep Jesus statue up - Tuan Pham, a Vietnamese refugee who moved to the United States in 1980, has won a legal victory against the city of St. Paul, Minnesota over a statue of Jesus he had erected on his property. The city of St. Paul had ordered him to take it down. Read more
Air Force Chaplain under attack - The atheist group in the military called "Religious Freedom Foundation," which is headed by Mikey Weinstein, is once again in the news. This time, Weinstein is seeking punishment for Lt. Col. Kenneth Reyes, a Christian chaplain based in Alaska. What's Reyes' crime? He wrote a "Chaplain's Corner" column that was titled: "No Atheists In Foxholes: Chaplains Gave All In World War II." Read more
International
Syria: Congressman speaks out against arming "rebels" - Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) is speaking out against the shipment of arms to Obama's so-called Syrian "rebels," who are actually Islamic terrorist killers who recently attacked a convoy of Christians in Aleppo. Read more
Syria: Obama "rebels" attack convoy of unarmed Christians - The Obama/McCain backed Syrian terrorists this week attacked a convoy of trucks and buses in northern Syria. The convoy was a group of Syrian-Armenian Christians civilians who travel together for safety. Read more
Yemen : Young girl flees forced Muslim marriage - Nada Al-Ahdal, an 11-year-old Yemeni girl, recently fled her parents' home in order to avoid being married off against her will. Recounting her story in an impromptu video recorded in a car, she said that she would rather die than enter a marriage at her age. Read more
India: Hindus join Muslims in persecuting Christians - India's Madhya Pradesh state has passed legislation that would send those who convert to Christianity, along with their religious leaders, to prison for failing to obtain permission from authorities at least one month prior to conversion. Read more
More from the Religious Freedom Coalition
New Chairman's Report - Now available, the July 25th, 2013 edition of the Chairman's Report for the Religious Freedom Coalition. This edition includes: - First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people / Stealing organs from Falun Gong prisoners in China / RFC chairman William J. Murray's address to crowd on Capitol Hill on July 18th / More RFC newspaper ads exposing the evils of Saudi Arabia / Some congressmen still stand for truth and freedom. Read it here
My Life Without God - William J. Murray's first book, My Life Without God, is now back in print, as 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of his atheist mother's lawsuit to remove prayer from the schools. Murray writes of his life in the dysfunctional home of infamous atheist/Marxist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Learn more
Christian Bookstore and more - books, CD's, DVD's, cards and much more available at the Religious Freedom Coalition Internet Store. Please visit today!

Report From Washington - February 17, 2012

ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL - My Friday on Capitol Hill was interrupted when I learned that a Muslim with what he thought was an explosive vest had been arrested on his way to the Capitol Building to blow himself up and "kill as many people as possible." MSNBC reported the man was Moroccan but never mentioned that he was a Muslim. The story never made it as a headline at CNN. The CNN site referred to him as "a man," and never used the words, 'Muslim' or 'terror'. On the other hand Fox News reported that the Moroccan Muslim was arrested after prayer at his mosque in Virginia but before reaching the Capitol Building. It is my guess is that if ABC, CBS or NBC mentions the story tonight that the Moroccan's prayers at the mosque will not be mentioned and no mention will be made of Islam or terror. CAIR will, I am sure, release a statement soon stating that the terrorist was "entrapped" by the FBI.

IN THIS ISSUE: Terror threat to Capitol Building / Obama, Religious Freedom and social justice / Senator Blunt speaks out on religious freedom / Congressional hearings on Obama Care and religious liberty / The Vagina Monologues at the church altar - yes, really / Colorado school choir sings "there is no other truth except Allah" / Interpol enforces Islamic blasphemy laws / Islamic coup in Maldives

THE PRESIDENCY 

OBAMA, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE - To Barack Obama religion and democracy are secondary to "social justice." What is social justice? Social justice is whatever a liberal wants to accomplish at any given moment. In the case of Obama Care, social justice is making sure every woman of child bearing age in the United States can have sex without the "burden" of children. During his 2008 campaign for the presidency, Obama actually said about his two daughters, "I don't want them punished with a baby." Faced with an absolute prohibition in the Constitution to government intervention in the affairs of the Church, Obama ordered churches to supply contraceptives and even the "morning after" abortion bill. In his mind, as in the minds of virtually all liberals, babies are a preventable disease. Liberals have a self-loathing of humanity. OBAMA'S ARAB SPRING - President Barack Obama has worked to push out secular leaders of several Muslim nations in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood. This is the result: Hazem Saleh Abu Ismail, Egypt's presidential candidate and a vocal supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, has said that there is no room for personal freedom in Islam. ""If you claim that Allah considers it your personal freedom, show me your reference? Nobody has ever said that - except for people have no understanding of Sharia," Ismail said. Read more

CONGRESS 

SENATOR SPEAKS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM - Sen. Roy Blunt, (R-MO), who heads the Values Action Team in the Senate, argued that the debate over forcing church organizations to furnish contraceptives is "not about cost" but rather about faith-based institutions' right to moral objection. "This is not a financial consideration - if you're opposed to something because it costs money, that's different from being opposed to it because you have a moral objection to it or a faith-based objection to it." Read more 
HEARINGS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM - the House held hearings on the HHS mandates that require religious organizations to furnish contraceptives, sterilization and the morning after pill to employees. Representatives of the Catholic Church, as well as various Protestant and Jewish groups, testified that the mandate was a danger to the very basic Constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. Read more

RELIGION AND CULTURE 

BLASPHEMY NIGHT AT CHURCH - St. George's Anglican Church in St. Catherine's, Ontario, a church apparently operated by a band of giggling pagan priestesses, staged The Vagina Monologues this week at the altar. The Vagina Monologues. a play which has been around since 1996, glorifies "sex workers" which is the liberal term for prostitutes, lesbians and people involved in various other forms of immorality. Read more. This is not isolated to Canadian churches. The promoters of this filth seek churches out for their performances in both Canada and the United States.
COLORADO SCHOOLS AND ISLAM - A Colorado high school student quit the school choir rather than sing an Islamic song containing the lyric "there is no other truth except Allah." James Harper, a senior at Grand Junction High School in Grand Junction, objected to singing "Zikr," which is in essence an Islamic confession of faith. Read more

MORE FROM THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM COALITION

NEW CHAIRMAN'S REPORT Now available, the Chairman's Report for February 16, 2012. IN THIS ISSUE: Obama's war on individual liberty / Obama Care and the march to central planning / Friedrich von Hayek on central planning / Contraceptive mandate and religious liberty / Air Force erases God from flight patch / Honor killings in Canada / Dubai police chief no longer trusts America / Meet Obama's man in Egypt  
LEARN MORE ABOUT SHARIA LAW - One of the best locations on the Internet to learn about Islamic Sharia law and its effect on the West is www.shariafreeusa.org FACEBOOK FAN? Sharia Free USA now has a Facebook page with more than 1,500 followers. Join with us at Facebook today!

INTERNATIONAL 

INTERPOL ENFORCING SHARIA LAW - this is a staggering and scary story. Apparently the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) caused the arrest of Saudi newspaper columnist Hamza Kashgari in Malaysia. His reported crime, committing blasphemy in Saudi Arabia. He was deported back to the Saudi kingdom to almost certain death. A Malaysian police spokesman verified that: "This arrest was part of an Interpol operation which the Malaysian police were a part of. He will be put to death for the following tweet: "I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you. There is a lot I don't understand about you - I will not pray for you." President Obama has granted Interpol permission to operate in the United States with immunity, although they do not have arrest authority as yet.
ISLAMIST COUP IN MALDIVES - Male, Maldives is a destination for wealthy tourists. Resorts line the shores of the Island. However, last week hard-line Islamists helped in overthrowing the democratically elected government. In a coup this week President Mohamed Nasheed was ousted as his political adversaries claimed he was trying to undermine their faith.

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Christmas Week, 2007 - Washington, DC

The staff of the Religious Freedom Coalition wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.

In this issue you will find links to some of the Christmas ads produced by presidential candidates.

THE PRESIDENT

WHITE HOUSE HOLIDAY- This year's visit to the White House "Holiday" section on the Internet is very interesting. The President's remarks for Kwanzaa and Eid al-Adha can be found as well as photos of the lighting of the National Christmas tree. The White House Holiday site can be viewed here.

PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS' CHRISTMAS ADS- After the now famous (or infamous if you are a liberal) Christmas TV ad by Gov Mike Huckabee, several other contenders for the White House including Hillary Clinton released their versions as well. Below are some of the most interesting. Note that Hillary Clinton is the only one promising to hand out gifts. Although John McCain featured a cross in his TV ad, the media has not mentioned it ,while beating up on Mike Huckabee for having a bookcase behind him "shaped" as a cross
Mike Huckabee - What is really important
Barack Obama - Merry Christmas
Rudy Guiliani - Happy Holiday
Hillary Clinton - Presents
John McCain - My Christmas Story
John Edwards -Seasons

THE HOUSE

HOUSE ADJOURNED- The House is adjourned for Christmas ("the Holiday" to Democrats) and will reconvene on January 15, 2008

THE SENATE

SENATE ADJOURNED- The Senate will reconvene on January 15, 2008

RELIGION AND CULTURE

BETHLEHEM'S MUSLIM CHRISTMAS- Officially Bethlehem is still 23% Christian, but the actual figure is more like 12%. Christians have been driven out since the United States forced Israel to hand over the town to Palestinian Muslim control. Read the World Net Daily story on the current conditions in Bethlehem for Christmas.

NEW CHAIRMAN'S REPORT - The December 12, 2007 issue of the Chairman's Report is now available online. This issue contains the latest information on hearings before the 9th Circuit Court on Michael Newdow's "under God" lawsuit. This issue also contains more information on House and Senate legislation and the Iraqi Christian situation. Click here to view the PDF of the new Chairman's Report.

INTERNATIONAL

NEW VIDEO AVAILABLE- Thousands of people have viewed the new video on the persecution of Iraqi Christians that is streaming from the Religious Freedom Coalition Internet site. Click here to view the 20 minute video prepared by the Chaldean Church. More information is available at www.christianrefugees.blogspot.com

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