Thanksgiving, November 24, 2011 - Washington, DC

The real meaning of Thanksgiving - Read the first Thanksgiving Proclamation / Thanksgiving proclamations of Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and now Obama / Proclamation of the first Congress / Current Thanksgiving statement of the Speaker of the House / More This special Thanksgiving update replaces the regular end of week Legislative Update that would have been distributed on Friday, November 25, 2011

Thanksgiving - From the Pilgrims to Barack Obama
REAL MEANING OF THANKSGIVING - The documents below clearly show the meaning of Thanksgiving as intended by the nation's Founders. Today in most public schools God is not mentioned, and Thanksgiving becomes an historical event rather than a Christian celebration of thanks to God. Please pass the document links on to others or print them out for distribution

The First Thanksgiving Proclamation - Readhere
Continental Congress 1782 Thanksgiving Proclamation - Readhere
George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation - Readhere
Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation - Readhere
 

CURRENT PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION - President Obama's proclamation this year is a history lesson stating: "The feast honored the Wampanoag for generously extending their knowledge of local game and agriculture to the Pilgrims, and today we renew our gratitude to all American Indians and Alaska Natives." Later in the proclamation he mentions that President George Washington changed the emphasis. See proclamation.

THE HOUSE AND SENATE 

SPEAKER'S THANKSGIVING STATEMENT - Unlike President Obama's proclamation which claimed Thanksgiving began as a politically correct diversity event, that of Speaker Boehner reflects the true nature of Thanksgiving. Referring to a painting in the Capitol Rotunda he writes: "The painting shows the Pilgrim leaders in 1620 kneeling in prayer around a Geneva Bible, appealing to God for safe travel aboard their ship Speedwell before their passage from the Old World to a new life in America. On the ship's sail is written 'God with us' and a distant rainbow symbolizes the promise of a better life." Read complete statement.
CONGRESS IN RECESS - The House and Senate is in holiday recess the entire week and will reconvene on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

INTERNATIONAL
PRAYERS FOR OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS - As we thank the Lord for His blessing to us let us pause and remember the persecuted and martyred Christians in lands such Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, and Indonesia.

A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING
1 Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all you lands!
2 Serve the LORD with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.
3 Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
5 For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations. Psalm 100 -NKJV

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Report From Washington - November 18, 2011

Obama: Last secular government must fall / No prayer at WW2 memorial / Military aid for Asia again? / Congressman: Stop aid to Egypt / Sharia "justice" for domestic courts? / Muslim only public pools / Norway embraces Islamic tyranny / Tunisia's Arab Spring calls for "Sixth Caliphate"

THE PRESIDENCY
OBAMA: LAST SECULAR GOVERNMENT MUST FALL - Conservatives in Congress have fallen in behind President Barack Obama's drive to oust the last secular government in the Middle East and replace it with one controlled by Hezbollah, a terrorist organization. Most of the Christians who fled the government set up in Iraq by President George W. Bush now live in Syria. Christians in Syria fully support the secular government of President Assad because they have seen the plight of Christians in nations such as Iraq and Egypt as the American government continues to favor Islamist governments over those that are secular in nature. If Obama wins in Syria, Christians will be massacred; there is no place left for them in the Middle East and this Administration has made it clear they are not welcome here. 
OBAMA: MILITARY AID FOR ASIA - President Obama, currently in Asia, has pledged a military buildup in the Pacific with military aid to Australia as a start. This is nuts. Australia is second only to Germany in financial soundness and does not need a dime from us in any form at all. Indeed our nation will have to borrow the money from China to send our military to Australia. Oddly, conservatives will support this while ignoring the Islamist threat from Indonesia. On his Asia trip President Obama again attacked Americans saying they are "lazy." What would it be like to have a President who was proud of our nation and its people?

CONGRESS 

FORBES FILES EGYPT RESOLUTION - Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) has filed a resolution, H.Res. 459, that would encourage any new government convened in Egypt to fully allow for the freedom of religion. Forbes and 22 other congressmen also sent a letter to President Obama urging him to denounce the violence used by the Egyptian military against Coptic Christians in October.

NO PRAYER AT WW2 MEMORIAL - The Obama Administration is opposed to the World War II Memorial Prayer Act (H.R. 2070), introduced by Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) The bill would add President Franklin D. Roosevelt's D-Day prayer to the National World War II Memorial. President Roosevelt delivered the prayer to the nation on June 6, 1944, the day that American troops stormed the beaches of Normandy. Rep. Johnson said, "It is unconscionable that the Obama Administration would stand in the way of honoring our nation's distinguished World War II veterans. President Roosevelt's prayer gave solace, comfort, and strength to our nation and our brave warriors as we fought against tyranny and oppression. These words should be included among the tributes to the Greatest Generation memorialized on the National Mall."

RELIGION AND CULTURE
CULTURE BASED (SHARIA) JUSTICE - The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges wants the nation's judges to determine if there is "a culturally-based explanation" when deciding whether or not a child needs to be removed from the home because of abuse or neglect. The NCJFCJ wants judges to use the Council's "benchcard" as a legal tool and checklist on abuse and neglect cases. Under the benchcard's heading "LEGAL THRESHOLD FOR REMOVAL" is the inquiry: "Have the family's cultural background, customs and traditions been taken into account in evaluating the event and circumstances that led to the removal? Have the parent(s) cultural or tribal liaison/relevant other(s) been asked if there is a culturally-based explanation for the allegations in the petition?" In some jurisdictions, the terms of Sharia or Islamic law are already being offered as a defense for criminal abuse and forced marriages of minors. Read more CAIR ATTACKS MODERATE MUSLIMS - The Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) campaign of discrediting critics now includes attacking other Muslims who speak out against terrorism. Last week, CAIR called two Minneapolis activists "anti-Muslim" for their participation in a seminar which included a discussion about an Islamic terrorist group in Somalia. Both Omar Jamal and Abdirizak Bihi are Muslims. But CAIR's Minnesota chapter attacked them over their involvement with a seminar on Somali culture and their communities in America held Thursday in St. Paul. Read more
MARYLAND PUBLIC POOL FOR MUSLIMS ONLY? - Shehlla Khan, a Muslim in Howard County Maryland did not want people (read that as non-Muslims) watching her swim in the conservative, cover-all dress required by Islamic dress codes. The Columbia Association which controls the public pool immediately created a twice weekly, women only swim time. Will this satisfy the Muslim community? No, the goal is Sharia and Sharia says that non-Muslims may not look upon Muslim women. The policy of "Muslim only" public pools is a reality in London, UK and will be here soon.
SHARIA YES, CROSS NO - The Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought by the American Atheists challenging the constitutionality of crosses placed on Utah roadsides to honor fallen state troopers. The Utah Highway Patrol Association asked the Supreme Court to hear the case after the Tenth Circuit held that the crosses violated the Establishment Clause. With Utah's permission, a private nonprofit organization placed the cross memorials at sites where state troopers were killed in the line of duty. The Supreme Court's decision declining the case means that the Tenth Circuit's decision will stand. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the Court's denial of the case saying, "Today the Court rejects an opportunity to provide clarity to an Establishment Clause jurisprudence in shambles." He continued, "It is difficult to imagine an area of the law more in need of clarity."

MORE FROM THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM COALITION
NEW CHAIRMAN'S REPORT - Now available, the Chairman's Report for November 3, 2011. In this issue: Hutton Hotel cancels our sharia conference under pressure / Tennessee church offers facilities to save conference / DOJ to National Security agencies: Train officers against terrorism, but never mention Islam / Hijabs to be a part of JROTC uniforms? / Fruits of the "Arab Spring" / U.S. Muslims demand Catholic schools remove crucifix from classrooms
 

INTERNATIONAL
NORWAY EMBRACES ISLAMIC TYRANNY - Bruce Bawer has written a new article for Hudson New York outlining in detail the anti-Semitism in Norway that is fueled by the rising tide of Islamic immigration. Bawer gives real insight into the pathology of Europe's new anti-Semitism. Read more

PASTORS HIDE FROM BLASPHEMY CHARGE - Bishop Pervaiz Joseph and Rev. Baber George were targets of the blasphemy law in Pakistan which forced them into hiding with their families. Bishop Pervaiz Joseph is leading "Pastors Care Ministries" and also serving as Pastor in a Charismatic Gospel Church. Pastor Baber George is working with Full Gospel Assemblies Church Pakistan (FGA) which is the oldest and mother church of all Pentecostal church movements in Pakistan. Read more

TUNISIA'S NEW LEADER HAILS "SIXTH CALIPHATE" - 'The Islamist politician likely to become Tunisia's first democratically elected prime minister has alarmed liberals and secularists by claiming the arrival of the "sixth caliphate", a controversial term for a Muslim empire. Hamadi Jebeli told a rally in the city of Sousse: "My brothers, you are at a historic moment in a new cycle of civilisation, God willing. We are in sixth caliphate, God willing." Read more

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Report From Washington - November 11, 2011

Stopping Sharia / The Constitution or Sharia: Preserving Freedom Conference was held in Nashville despite a hotel cancellation / Conference a great success / Michele Bachmann predicts Muslims will use nuclear weapons on Israel / Christian South Sudan bombed by Muslim North Sudan / Muslims kill more Christians in Nigeria / Turkey turns Nicean Church into mosque
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PRESERVING FREEDOM FROM SHARIA

STOPPING SHARIA - The Constitution or Sharia Conference in Nashville, Tennessee on November 11, 2011 was a great success, with far more participants than would have been possible at the original venue at the Hutton Hotel. Just two weeks prior to the conference, the Hutton Hotel refused to honor the contract it had signed with the Sharia Awareness Action Network. The Hutton Hotel had apparently determined that it would benefit financially from becoming Sharia compliant. Sharia law forbids any critical voice against Islam. Read more

SHARIA IN THE WEST - The Constitution or Sharia Conference was truly an international event. Barrister Paul Diamond from the United Kingdom spoke on the Islamization of London and his struggle in the courts to represent Christians whose rights have been taken from them. He presented the case of British Airlines which permits employees to wear Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and other religious clothing, but prohibits them from wearing any cross or other item identifying them as Christians. The courts actually upheld British Airlines' right to discriminate against Christians. Diamond has founded Christian Concern in the United Kingdom to assist Christians who are persecuted as the United Kingdom becomes more Muslim oriented. Reverend Mark Durie, an Australian Anglican priest and scholar, discussed the Australian fight against Sharia. Read more

REGULAR FORMAT RETURNS NEXT WEEK - The normal format of the Washington Update will return on November 18th. some sections were temporarily dropped or changed in the two weeks leading up to the Preserving Freedom Conference.

CONGRESS 

BACHMANN PREDICTS NUCLEAR WAR - Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann says developments in the Middle East are setting the stage for nuclear war against Israel. In a Republican debate Saturday, Bachmann warned that Iran's attempt to develop a nuclear weapon is part of a regional push against Israel. She said Iran is working with countries like Syria and groups like Hamas to push its agenda. Read more

RELIGION AND CULTURE 

NEW CHAIRMAN'S REPORT - Now available, the Chairman's Report for November 3, 2011. In this issue: Hutton Hotel cancels our sharia conference under pressure / Tennessee church offers facilities to save conference / DOJ to National Security agencies: Train officers against terrorism, but never mention Islam / Hijabs to be a part of JROTC uniforms? / Fruits of the "Arab Spring" / U.S. Muslims demand Catholic schools remove crucifix from classrooms

INTERNATIONAL 

MUSLIM NORTH SUDAN BOMBS SOUTH - Reports of the Muslim government controlled by dictator Omar al-Bashir bombing the Christian south have been confirmed by eye witnesses. The unprovoked attacks appear to be a prelude to a full scale war against the south. Read more

MORE CHRISTIANS DIE IN NIGERIA - They stormed this town in Yobe state, northern Nigeria like a swarm of bees, and at the end of their four-hour rampage, some 150 people had been killed - at least 130 of them Christians, according to church sources. Hundreds of people are still missing, and the destruction included the bombing of at least 10 church buildings. Read more

CHURCH OF NICEAN CREED NOW A MOSQUE - CatholicCulture.org reports that the historic church where the Council of Nicea was held, which has been a museum for nearly a century, has been converted to a mosque. In 1920 the new secular government of Turkey made the building a museum. Now the government's Directorate for Religious Affairs has returned the building to use as a mosque, overriding objections from Christians who pointed to its important religious and historic heritage.

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Report From Washington - November 4, 2011

French magazine firebombed for satire of Mohammed / Cowardly left says they had it coming / Nashville Sharia conference under attack / Marines may not urinate toward Mecca / Bachmann opposes Sharia law / Londonistan MP attacked by Muslims at constituent meeting / Sudan Christians attacked for trying to finish church building / More Nigerian Christians killed

SHARIA RISING 

FIREBOMBING FOR SHARIA - The offices of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo were firebombed attack after it portrayed Mohammed to be its "guest editor." The November 2 firebombing came at the same time the magazine's current issue titled "Sharia Hebdo" (a reference to Islamic law), and featuring a cartoon of Mohammed on its cover appeared on newsstands. There was no outrage on the part of the socialist left or multi-culturalists in France. They seem to agree that free speech does not allow blasphemy against Islam. 
TIME SAYS MAGAZINE CAUSED BOMBING -The Paris editor for Time Magazine writing about the bombing of Charlie Hebdo said, "Not only are such Islamophobic antics futile and childish, but they also openly beg for the very violent responses from extremists their authors claim to proudly defy." Bruce Crumley went on to say that it's "hard to have much sympathy for [Charlie Hebdo] after it published another stupid and totally unnecessary edition mocking Islam." Apparently Time Magazine holds the editorial position that Muslims have the right to blow up anyone they think has been blasphemous to Islam. Read more
NASHVILLE SHARIA CONFERENCE UNDER ATTACK - After forcing the Preserving Freedom Conference out of the Hutton Hotel with threats of violence, Islamists and their leftist supporters in the United States have moved their war on free speech to other targets. When the Cornerstone Church agreed to allow the conference on Sharia, then the conference speakers, their organizations and employers have come under attack. The Constitution or Sharia Conference will be held on 11/11/11. WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!
MARINES MAY NOT URINATE TOWARD MECCA - American Marines in Islamic nations such as Afghanistan have been directly told not to spit or urinate toward Mecca because it is disrespectful to Islam. They have also been told not to sleep with their boots toward Mecca. These are all rules of Sharia that the military is imposing on itself. Read more

CONGRESS 

BACHMANN OPPOSES SHARIA LAW - Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Wednesday she was troubled that American judges would cite Sharia law in U.S. courtrooms and that the practice would "usurp" the U.S. Constitution. "It's very troubling to see some United States justices bring in sharia law," Bachmann said in a radio interview with WHO Radio in Iowa. "Sharia law certainly does not have a place in a United States courtroom, nor should it be followed by United States judges." Read more

RELIGION AND CULTURE 

NASHVILLE CONFERENCE ON SHARIA - For daily updates on the situation with the refusal of the Hutton Hotel to honor the contract with the Preserving Freedom Conference, please go to www.shariafreeusa.org of to our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/shariafreeusa NEW: CHAIRMAN'S ACTION REPORT for November 3, 2011 In this issue: Hutton Hotel cancels our sharia conference under pressure / Tennessee church offers facilities to save conference / DOJ to National Security agencies: Train officers against terrorism, but never mention Islam / Hijabs to be a part of JROTC uniforms? / Fruits of the "Arab Spring" / U.S. Muslims demand Catholic schools remove crucifix from classrooms

INTERNATIONAL 

LONDONISTAN MP ATTACKED - U.K. MP Mike Freer was holding a constituency surgery at the North Finchley mosque when a dozen Islamists from the "Muslims Against Crusades" group forced their way into the building. Freer, a homosexual man and a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, later said one of the activists called him a "Jewish homosexual pig." He was forced to abandon the meeting and to hide in a locked section of the facility. Perhaps Mayor Bloomberg of New York should think again about sitting on prayer rugs at mosques. Read more  
MORE CHRISTIANS MARTYRED - Armed Muslims attacked a church Thursday, killing at least two people, in the town of Zonkwa, in central Nigeria. Another 14 were injured in the attack. Then, today, three suicide bombers targeted the headquarters of the military and secret service in another Nigerian city, Maiduguri. The Islamist Boko Haram group was behind both attacks.
CHRISTIANS ATTACKED IN KHARTOUM - Emboldened by government calls for a Sudan based on Islamic law since the secession of South Sudan, Muslims long opposed to a church near Khartoum have attacked Christians trying to finish constructing their building, sources have told Compass Direct News. Read more

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