Report From Washington - May 31, 2013

Editor: William J. Murray

Join me in a fact finding mission to Israel - 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: State Department tells Nigeria not to abuse terrorists' "rights" / State Department refuses to recognize persecution of Christians / Saudi columnist says Obama weakest president ever / Justice Department demands no religion in private companies / Senator McCain visits anti-Israel jihadists in Syria / Vatican report says 100,000 Christians a year die for faith / Muslims kill seven Marines in Philippines / 500 Christian Coptic girls kidnapped by Muslims since "Arab Spring" / Syrian Bishops still held by McCain supported "rebels" / Afghanistan comes to London

The Presidency
Obama to Nigeria: Don't abuse terrorists - The Obama State Department is lamenting the "human rights" violations against the Boko Haram monsters in Nigeria who kill Christians on a daily basis and sometimes hundreds at a time during church services. Read more
Obama's State Department refuses to recognize persecution of Christians - The U.S. State Department has just released its 2012 report on religious freedom around the globe - and refuses to designate key oppressive nations as "countries of particular concern." Those nations are Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Vietnam, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Read more
Saudi Columnist: Obama weakest president ever - A Saudi newspaper columnist named Mashari Al-Zaydi has attacked Obama for being "short-sighted, confused and diffident" over his foreign policies. The columnist slams Obama for his policy failures in dealing with Syria - and says it shows Obama's complete failure as a leader. And these are Obama's friends! Read more
DOJ wants no "religion" in private companies - Obama's lawyers were in court on May 22 to argue that his HHS abortion and contraceptive mandate on Christian-owned companies is perfectly legal because the government is concerned about a Christian employer establishing a religion or a religious framework within his company. Read more
Congress
Senator McCain supports group calling for destruction of Israel - Senator John McCain (R-AZ) traveled to Syria illegally to visit with "rebels" seeking to overthrow the government of Syria. McCain met with leaders of the Free Syrian Army units run by Gen. Salem Idris - a man who has openly declared that Israel is his enemy and deserves to be destroyed. McCain wants to provide arms, supplies and apparently U.S. military assets to help these jihadists who have killed thousands of Christians in Syria. 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
VATICAN: 100,000 Christians a year killed for their faith - The Vatican report states: "credible research has reached the shocking conclusion that an estimate of more than 100,000 Christians are violently killed because of some relation to their faith every year. Other Christians and other believers are subjected to forced displacement, to the destruction of their places of worship, to rape and to the abduction of their leaders." Read more
International
Philippines: Seven Marines killed - During an operation to rescue civilians held by Muslim terrorists, including the wife of a Marine kidnapped from a hospital, seven Marines were killed and several more injured. Read more
Syria: Kidnapped Bishops still held- The Syrian "opposition" supported by President Barack Obama claims that a doctor visited the two kidnapped Bishops and that they are in "good health." The same official said he did not know where they were or who was holding them. Read more
Egypt: Kidnappings of Coptic Christian girls - A concerned Christian organization has registered about 500 cases with the Egyptian authorities of disappearance and abduction of Coptic girls since the "Arab spring" revolution that put the Muslim Brotherhood in control. Most are now in forced Muslim marriages including very young girls. Read more
UK: Afghanistan comes to London - The beheading on a busy London Street of a UK soldier by Muslim terrorists brings the reality of Muslim immigration to light. Yet police allow the Imams to preach hatred and violence while spending huge amounts of money suppressing any organization critical of Sharia law. Read more
More from the Religious Freedom Coalition
New Chairman's Report - Now available, the May 23nd, 2013 edition of the Religious Freedom Coalition. This edition includes: Chairman Murray and other leaders pray at the Supreme Court / Saudi diplomats holding slaves in Virginia? / RFC Saudi newspaper ads roll out across the USA / New RFC video on Saudi abuses / "Christian Right" backs adulterer for Congress because he is Republican / More on kidnapped Bishops - READ MORE
My Life Without God - William J. Murray's first book, My Life Without God, is now back in print, as 2013 marks the 30th 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

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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