Report From Washington - October 21, 2011

An Arab Spring or an Arab Fall? / Obama enters another war in Africa / Vanderbilt University's attack on Christians / Muslims demand Islamic military dress code in USA / Are Hyatt Hotels anti-Semitic? / Pamela Geller barred from Hyatt Hotel / Evicting the GZ mosque / Sweden OK with Islamic hate speech on radio / Child abuse at U.K. Muslim schools / Another Christian beheaded

NEW: Chairman's Report for October 14, 2011 In this issue: No White House comment as Christians die in Egypt / Obama supports those trashing Wall Street and using drugs / The faith of presidential challengers / Santorum on Islamic fascism / Grover Norquist exposed by Congressman Wolf / Journalism school teaches that 9-11 attack not a big deal / Sharia for France
PRESIDENCY 

ARAB SPRING OR ARAB FALL - It was 1979 and President Jimmy Carter had just forced the Shah of Iran to flee into exile. The headlines read: "Shah out, democracy comes to Iran." In 1991 the Soviet backed Communist government of Afghanistan falls to the Islamic rebels supported by the United States. The headlines read: "Communists out, democracy comes to Afghanistan." Now in 2011 the Islamist rebels supported by the President Barack Obama kill Libyan dictator Qaddafi: The headlines read: Qaddafi dead: democracy comes to Libya. Enough said  
OBAMA DEFENDS UGANDA?- Uganda has a long history of terror and bloodshed. Muslim dictator Idi Amin was in control when Israeli special forces had to attack the Entebbe airport to release a plane load of hostages. Eventually the Muslim dictator was exiled to Libya. Now President Obama has sent troops to fight against the "Lord's Resistance Army." Make no mistake, the LRA does not represent mainstream Christian faith, but why is President Obama involving us in a second African war this year? Did he not say he was elected to bring troops home?
THE CONGRESS 
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITIES ATTACK ON RELIGIOUS GROUPS - Congressman Forbes appeared on Fox News this week to discuss Vanderbilt University's treatment of Christian student groups. Forbes is the Co-Chairman of the Prayer Caucus.The university demands that Christian groups allow atheist and Muslim leaders. Several religious student organizations have been placed on "provisional status" for requiring their student leaders to share the groups' religious beliefs. The Prayer Caucus sent a letter to Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos urging him to ensure that school's nondiscrimination policy is not being interpreted in a manner that discriminates against religious student groups. Political and other student groups are allowed to select leaders who share the groups' views, religious student groups are being prohibited from doing so. Watch the interview here. 

RELIGION AND CULTURE 

CAIR DEMANDS MILITARY CHANGE UNIFORMS - it starts in high school, then where. The Counsel on American Islamic Relations sent a letter last week to the superintendent of Williamson County Schools demanding a formal apology be issued to Miss Zawity and that she be allowed to participate in the Junior Reserve Officers Training Program (JROTC) program wearing her hijab. She was banned from the program because she demanded to be the only student in uniform wearing a hijab. For CAIR and the rest of the Muslim Brotherhood, this is not about the JROTC or Zawity. It is the first attempt to change the uniforms of the United States military to conform with sharia law. Look at the photo: Was this girl serious about becoming an officer in the United States Army?

HYATT HOTEL CANCELS ANTI-SHARIA CONFERENCE - The Hyatt hotel in Sugar Land, Texas, abruptly canceled a Tea Party event the same day author and Atlas Shrugs founder Pamela Geller was scheduled to speak on the dangers of Sharia. The story has gone international much to the shame of Hyatt Hotels which is now seen as somewhat anti-Semitic. Pamela Geller is a Jew. Hyatt Hotels in Muslim nations are frequently used by radical Islamic groups attacking Israel. The Hyatt did not need to be pushed very hard by the Council on American Islamic Relations when it demanded that Geller be cancelled. Geller will next speak at the Preserving Freedom Conference in Nashville on 11/11/11.

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THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE
EVICTING THE GZ MOSQUE - Power company, which owes half of the property for the propose "Ground Zero mosque" has given developer Sharif Al-Gamal ultimatum: Pay $1.7 million in back rent get out of the property. Park51, which leases the substation from Con Ed, wants the two buildings so it can knock both down and build a $100 million, 15-story community center, or maybe a four story "PrayerSpace" or maybe just use the whole plan to raise money from rich Arabs in Saudi Arabia. Read more
INTERNATIONAL 
CRY FOR SWEDEN - The same nation that tried to put Pastor Aki Green in jail for reading a Scripture critical of homosexuality told an Imam that he had permission from the government to call for the death of anyone leaving Islam. The decision was made by prosecutors after the Imam made the statement on a Swedish Public radio broadcast. Read more

KIDS ABUSED IN U.K. MUSLIM SCHOOLS - Hundreds of children are being subjected to physical abuse in madrassas, an investigation claims. At least 250,000 Muslim youngsters attend the religious instruction centers, which are not formally regulated. More than 400 allegations of physical abuse have been made over the past three years, with the total reaching 146 last year and 89 in 2009. Read more

17-YEAR-OLD CHRISTIAN BEHEADED - Militants from an Islamic extremist organization in Somalia linked to al-Qaida beheaded a 17-year-old Christian near Mogadishu. Guled Jama Muktar was killed by al Shabbab militants in his home near Deynile, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Somali capital. (Note, this is just one of the hundreds of Christians murdered by Muslims worldwide this year as part of Jihad.)

Report From Washington - September 16, 2011

Barack Obama reads 46th Psalm - media loves it / Obama's Arab Spring brings sharia in the Fall / U.S commission on International Religious Freedom could close / Saudi textbooks still teach hatred of Christians and Jews / Churches aiding mosque with terror ties / A truthful Ground Zero rally / How Muslims view 9-11 / New Muslim attacks in the Philippines / Muslim attacks in Thailand now almost daily

NEW: Chairman's Report from Washington, DC for September 1, 2011. IN THIS ISSUE: President Obama's way of dealing with high unemployment -- more high dollar vacations / Why does the First Lady need a separate jet to travel with the President? / Busting the Bible Belt with Somali Muslims / Does TSA hire extremists? / Allen West in Israel / More fraud associated with Ground Zero mosque / Islamic hate speech in Harlem / The London riots caused by lack of morals / Israel under attack / The Ramadan body count: 180 terror attacks kill 785
 
PRESIDENCY 
THE PRESIDENT AT GROUND ZERO - No clergy were allowed at the official Ground Zero memorial service on September 11th, but President Barack Obama read a part of the 46th Psalm, the same Psalm he referred to in Arizona after the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords. The same secularist news media who attacked Gov. Rick Perry for appearing at a public prayer meeting in Texas had not a critical word for Obama's Bible reading in public. But then, maybe they had the inside word that it was an election year gimmick.  
OBAMA'S ARAB SPRING - The new leader of Libya declared this week that the new government birthed by President Barack Obama and European leaders would have sharia law. Mustafa Abdel Jalil said, "We seek a state of law, prosperity and one where Sharia is the main source for legislation, and this requires many things and conditions." Just a few days later in Cairo the Israeli embassy was invaded by jihadists as Egyptian police looked the other way. The situation was so dire that Prime Minister Netanyahu called President Obama asking him to talk the Egyptians into protecting the embassy staff, which the Egyptians begrudgingly did. Barack Obama's plan for the Middle East appears to be surrounding Israel with even more hostile enemies than it already has.

THE CONGRESS 

U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM COULD SHUT DOWN - Ten years ago the Religious Freedom Coalition worked to pass H.R. 1856, the International Religious Freedom Act which created the United States Commission on Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The bill had a ten year sunset, which means the commission's time will expire unless there is a reauthorization. Congressman Frank Wolf, along with Foreign Affairs Chairman Ros-Lehtinen and Ranking Member Berman, introduced a bill focusing solely on the reauthorization and reform of USCIRF. The bill passed this week, but now faces a Senate vote. Please ask your Senators to extend the life of the commission.

RELIGION AND CULTURE 

SAUDI TEXTBOOKS STILL TEACH HATE - Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 19 terrorist hijackers of 9/11, continues to promote a violent form of Islam through its school system and textbooks, ten years after the attacks. The texts continue to teach students that "the Jews and the Christians are enemies" of Muslims and that Jews are "apes" and Christians are "swine." Read more CHURCHES AIDING MOSQUE WITH TERROR HISTORY - Christian houses of worship are lending their parking lots to a radical Washington-area mosque that aided some of the hijackers who attacked the Pentagon on Sept. 11, despite warnings from FBI agents and local anti-jihad watch groups that such brotherly outreach is only helping the Islamic center expand and potentially attract future terrorists. Read more

THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE

A TRUTHFUL GROUND ZERO RALLY - A rally was held near Ground Zero and sponsored by Pamela Geller's Stop the Islamization of America, as a reminder that 9-11 was not just about the victims but also about remembering who attacked us. The rally was a great success. The crowd filled two city blocks, and many brought flags and banners. Speakers included family members of those who died in the 9-11 jihad attack against our nation. Leaders from groups fighting the advance of sharia law in their own nations spoke as well. It was an honor for me to open the event with an invocation.

The Constitution or Sharia: Preserving Freedom Conference will be the first national conference on sharia and the Islamization of America, and will be held in Nashville on November 11, 2011. Topics will include: Sharia and Jihad; The European Experience; The Dehumanization and Diminishment of Women in the West under Sharia; The Muslim Brotherhood in America; Sharia and Legal Action, Grassroots Organizing against Sharia and Rabats (including Mega-Mosques); Defending Liberty In Legislatures; and Fighting Islamist Propaganda in the Media

INTERNATIONAL 

HOW MUSLIMS VIEW 9-11 - Muslim demonstrators burned an American flag outside the U.S. embassy in London during a moment of silence to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 jihad attack . Screaming "USA - terrorist state!" Muslims denounced the USA and carried anti-American banners. London police allowed the burning of the American flag but broke up a counter demonstration of pro-American Brits who had brought flowers to the embassy. Story and video  
ATTACK IN PHILIPPINES AVERTED - The Philippines National Police uncovered a plan by Islamic militants to blow up Catholic churches in Cotabato City. Regional police linked the attackers to Al Qaeda who were planning to plant three bombs in Catholic churches. In 2009, six people were killed and dozens wounded when a bomb went off outside Immaculate Conception Cathedral in the same city.
ATTACKS IN THAILAND ALMOST DAILY - Muslims demanding a separate Islamic republic under sharia law in Thailand are attacking innocent civilians almost daily. This week two Buddhist monks have been murdered. Yesterday five soldiers died when their truck was bombed in southern Thailand.

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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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