Report From Washington - January 13, 2102

Obama attack on religious freedom rebuffed by High Court / Former congressman jailed for Sudan contacts / New York Times op-ed says Boko Haram "not a problem" / More die in Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria / Wealthiest Christian in Egypt charged with blasphemy / Pakistan Muslim men attack children at a church

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THE PRESIDENCY

HIGH COURT DEFEAT FOR OBAMA - From his first day in office Barack Obama has been working against religious liberty. His Justice Department has attacked churches on numerous fronts. In a unanimous nine to zero decision the Supreme Court told Obama and his Justice Department that his administration could not take over the internal employment practices of church organizations. In a lawsuit against a Lutheran school, the Obama Administration contended employees of churches were no different than employees of a convenience store and thus subject to all government regulations. Read more

CONGRESS

CONGRESS IN RECESS - Congress is in recess and there will be no votes prior to January 17th. The full 2012 House calendar prepared by the office of Majority Leader Cantor can be viewed here.

CONGRESSMAN JAILED - Former Congressman Mark Siljander (R-MI), with whom I and others traveled on a fact finding mission to the Sudan in October, 2006, has been sentenced to one year in jail. He had accepted funds from a group associated with terror organizations and acted for them as a lobbyist to end sanctions on the Sudan. I have known Mark for decades and it is known to me that he was not aware of the terror association. Rather, he was blinded by the belief that Christianity and Islam are somehow comparable and he was easily manipulated by Islamic handlers assigned to him. Read more 

RELIGION AND CULTURE

BOKO HARAM NOT A PROBLEM - The Boko Haram has killed thousands of Christians in the last year in the name of Islam, yet a liberal New York professor says that in Nigeria the Boko Haram "is not a problem." In New York Times Op-ed Jean Herskovits, a professor of history at the State University of New York, says that those bombing churches and killing Christians are merely criminal gangs misusing the good name of the terror group. She further claims that the Boko Haram, which is an offshoot of Al-qaeda, was a "peaceable" Muslim organization founded in 2002 that did not turn to any form of violence until its leader was killed in 2009 by security forces. Although willing to print her articles, the New York Times fails to mention that Herskovits has served in lucrative positions associated with Nigerian Islamic billionaire T.Y Danjuma. Read more

MORE FROM THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM COALITION

NEW CHAIRMAN'S REPORT - Now available, the Chairman's Report for January 5, 2012. IN THIS ISSUE: Obama's worldwide war on religious freedom / We spill blood, China gets the oil / The White House "holiday" card featured a dog / Obama and Congress share blame for lack of certainty / New war between Egypt and Israel? / Cry for Nigeria - More Churches bombed / No Christmas for Asia Bibi / Pastor attacked with acid in his church

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INTERNATIONAL

BLASPHEMY COMES TO EGYPT - It is common in many majority Muslim nations for Christians to be unfairly accused of blasphemy and jailed. Many Christians including Asia Bibi are rotting in Pakistani jails because of blasphemy charges, but this had not been the case in Egypt until the "Arab Spring." An Egyptian liberal secular leader, Naguib Sawiris, also one of Egypt's richest men, is to be put on trial for insulting religion over cartoons he Twitted showing Mickey and Minnie Mouse in Muslim clothing. Sawiris is one of the very few Christians in Egypt with money; most are poor and repressed. Read more

MORE DEAD IN NIGERIA -On January 6th gunmen of the Boko Haram attacked Christ Apostolic Church in Yola, Adamawa State capital, killing 12 worshipers. Christians fled their homes in the night to seek refuge at the General Jalo Army Barracks. On January 7th two Christian college students were murdered in Maiduguri. On the 8th two more Christians were murdered in the same town. On the 10th three Christians were hacked to death in Dalman. Also on the 10th seven Christians were killed including a seven year old boy in Potiskum. On the 11th four Christians were killed when their bus was machine gunned by Boko Haram gunmen in the same town. Meanwhile an op-ed in the New York Times stated that the Boko Haram in Nigeria "was not a problem."

CHILDREN ATTACKED AT CHURCH SERVICE - Men praying in a mosque stopped and attacked children at the Philadelphia Pentecostal Church in New Mianwali Colony, Pakistan because they could hear them singing carols. The children were preparing for the Sunday service. Four men, one of them with an axe, barged into the church, slapped the children, wrecked the furniture and kicked the altar. Read more

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March 11, 2011 - Washington, DC

Egypt, death of Christians and Barack Obama / Obama's vision of democracy / Congressman King's Islamic terror hearings / Wisconsin's fascist legislators / School allows Ten Commandments / Imam Feisal Rauf rallies his atheist troops / More attacks on Egyptian Christians / Muslim murdered because he refused to murder daughter
 
NEW FEBRUARY 24, 2011 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT- Issue highlights: Exclusive report from Iraq - Christians in Nineveh Plain try to survive / Congressman's plan to help Christians, other minorities / South Asia suffers Islamic attacks / Freedom on trial in Europe / Liberal media confused about Ground Zero mosque / White male Islamophobe plans to bomb mosque?  

PRESIDENCY 
ABOUT EGYPT MR. PRESIDENT - The number of dead and injured Christians in Egypt grows each day. Apparently the "democratic revolution" that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton supported in that nation just does not include any human rights for Christians. Hosni Mubarak was a dictator, but he was a secular dictator. Without that secular presence the imams of Egypt are directing the wrath of their faithful virtually every Friday toward the minority Christian population. What do we hear from the White House or the State Department about these murderous attacks on Christians? NOTHING!  
ABOUT DEMOCRACY MR. PRESIDENT - President Barack Obama has a very strange view of democracy, as do all liberals. Obama's definition of democracy goes something like this: "If we win an election, we pass whatever laws we want to and we enforce them. If conservatives win the election, we use force and mass demonstrations to stop them from passing and enforcing laws." In the liberal mind any law that is passed which they do not like, even if it is passed by a majority of the people at the ballot box, is fascist in nature; therefore, stopping its enforcement by any means, even by force, is justified.
 

THE CONGRESS 

ISLAMIC TERROR HEARING - Congressman Peter King, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, began hearings this week on the "radicalization" of American Muslims. The goal of the hearings is to determine the cause of the dozens of arrests during the last two years of American Muslims who were planning terror attacks. The liberal media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and NBC, have whipped up such hysteria and hatred against Congressman King because of his honesty on the subject of Islam, that 24 hour security had to be put in place to protect him and his family. Yesterday I wrote a letter to Congressman King thanking him for shining a light on extremism in American mosques. My letter to King
 

RELIGION AND CULTURE 

WISCONSIN'S FASCIST LEGISLATORS - The liberals' definition of a fascist is a democraticly elected official who will not bow to the wishes of a violent mob. Last November the people of Wisconsin elected a governor and legislators who said, in advance, that they would reduce the debt of the state by cutting union benefits and wages of state employees. Unwilling to accept the election results, the left has staged mass disturbances, vandalized state property and made death threats against the governor and Republican legislators. While the media painted the peaceful gatherings of Tea Party members as dangerous, the violence of union members in Wisconsin for the most part goes unreported. SCHOOL BACKS DOWN, ALLOWS TEN COMMANDMENTS - On February 23, Jacob Agee and other students who are members of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes posted copies of the Ten Commandments on their assigned lockers. Very quickly thereafter, Principal Barry Hollandsworth and Assistant Principal Tony Deibler removed each copy. The Liberty Counsel then sent a letter to the Floyd County High School administration, requesting the reversal of their censorship of religious material posted by school students on the front of the students' own lockers. Liberty Counsel gave school officials two weeks to reverse course or face a federal lawsuit. As a result, Floyd County High School officials did reverse course and will now allow students to display the Ten Commandments on their own lockers. Read more
 

NO 911 MOSQUE!

IMAM FEISAL RAUF RALLIES HIS ATHEIST TROOPS - On Sunday, March 6th, Imam Feisal Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan, rallied together leftwing nuts of all kinds, including atheists, for what was billed as an "I am a Muslim, too" protest against Congressman Peter King's efforts to investigative radical Islam. Imam Rauf, who was at one time the lead publicist for the Ground Zero mosque, refuses to refer to the Jihad attack on 9-11 as terrorism. He spoke to a crowd of what the NY Times claimed was about 300 people. Read more at no911mosque.org 
NO 911 MOSQUE - Visit the RFC site dedicated to the Ground Zero mosque controversy at www.no911mosque.org
 

INTERNATIONAL 

MORE ATTACKS ON EGYPTIAN CHRISTIANS - Violence against Christian Copts in Egypt escalated this week. A mob of 15,000 armed Muslims using Molotov cocktails, guns, and clubs, attacked Christians just outside Cairo. The Egyptian army, rather than restoring order, joined in the attack, shooting the Copts with live ammunition. So far ten Christians are known dead with hundreds injured. This attack came after Christians protested earlier attacks and church burnings in Christian neighborhoods. (See below)  
MAN MURDERED BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO MURDER DAUGHTER - This is Islam, this is a true story. Last week the father of a Muslim woman was killed by his cousin because he refused to kill his daughter to preserve the family's honor. (The daughter had a romantic relationship with a Christian man). The woman's brother then killed the cousin to avenge the death of the father. Got that so far? Imams then blamed both murders committed by Muslims on Christians. Hundreds of Muslims then attacked a Christian village killing innocent people, burning down homes and churches. When Christians near Cairo protested the attacks on the village and the murder of Christians they were attacked by the army (see above.) Read more
EGYPT, CHRISTIANS, REVOLUTION AND PERSECUTION - I urge you to read this full background report on the situation in Egypt at Family Security Matters.
 

CHRISTIAN INTERNET STORE 

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