Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood: "No Political Role for Military Establishment in New Egyptian Constitution."
Muslim Brotherhood: "No Political Role for Military Establishment in New Egyptian Constitution."(IW).Dr. Mahmoud Ghozlan, member of the Muslim Brotherhood‘s Guidance Bureau and member of the Constituent Assembly (CA) tasked with drawing up a new Constitution, affirmed that the Brotherhood refuses any political role for the military institution in the upcoming Constitution. "The military institution belongs to the people, entrusted with protecting the homeland and its borders. There is no reason why some of its affairs should not be confidential, bearing in mind security issues inherent in this establishment’s affairs."
Ghozlan did not object to suggestions within the Committee for Defense and National Security – an offshoot of the CA’s System of Governance Committee – that the military’s status would be closer to the 1971 Constitution, so it would declare details of Armed Forces budget and laws to the National Defense Council, which includes civilian and military personnel, before submission to Parliament. Meanwhile, Dr. Ghozlan denied that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) will have any authority over Parliament in the country’s new national charter. He further affirmed the Muslim Brotherhood’s respect for the vital role of the Armed Forces as a national institution that endeavors to protect the country and its borders. He acknowledged that a part of the Armed Forces’ role will remain confidential, especially with regard to the 'armament and weapons procurement' section of the budget – but not the whole budget. "This does not completely relieve the Armed Forces of government oversight."
Regarding the Brotherhood’s vision of Military Justice, Dr. Ghozlan said the new constitution will provide for the establishment of a disciplinary tribunal, for military personnel only, with respect to their affairs, but has nothing to do with civilians, so that civilians cannot be tried by court martial. "Moreover, the Armed Forces are part of the executive branch. It, therefore, cannot be a part of the judiciary, too."Hmmmm.....Can't wait to see the 'Turkish style' trials to start on the Military staff.Read the full story here.
Sharia Crackdown by Palestinian Authority for eating in public during Ramadan, cleric wants 'crack down' on Non muslims.
Sharia Crackdown by Palestinian Authority for eating in public during Ramadan, cleric wants 'crack down' on Non muslims.(PW).by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook.
PA cleric: "Our streets are Islamic," therefore even non-Muslims should be "severely punished" for eating in public."Six people have been arrested and one sentenced to a month in prison for eating in public during the month of Ramadan, according to the official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper. Under Islamic law, eating is prohibited from sunrise until sunset during the entire month.
In addition, the Chairman of the PA Supreme Court for Shari'ah Law said PA law should prohibit even non-Muslims and those who cannot fast for health reasons from eating in public during the month.
Sheikh Yusuf Ida'is explained: "Our streets are Islamic," and formal legislation should be enacted to "severely punish" anyone who eats publicly during Ramadan. Sheikh Ida'is was appointed Chairman of the Shari'ah court by presidential order of Mahmoud Abbas in January 2012. It should be noted that approximately 10 per cent of Palestinians in the West Bank are Christian.
The following are the texts: "The Jericho court yesterday sentenced a man to a month in prison who ate in public during the blessed month of Ramadan." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 30, 2012] "The police arrested five people who desecrated the holiness of the month of Ramadan by eating in public during daytime, in the city of Nablus." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 29, 2012]
PA TV interview with the Chairman of the PA Supreme Court for Shari'ah Law, Sheikh Yusuf Ida'is: TV host: "If someone doesn't fast for some reason [during Ramadan month] because he follows a different religion or has health reasons, it's his right. However, he breaks the spirit of Ramadan by eating or drinking in public or at work." Ida'is: "We have to monitor the streets and severely punish anyone who [eats] in public during Ramadan, and this is the responsibility of the security forces. Our [Palestinian] streets are Islamic, praise Allah. Any person caught committing this sin in public during Ramadan has to be imprisoned until the end of Ramadan, as an example to others. I call upon others [non-Muslims] to be considerate of Muslims' feelings." [PA TV (Fatah), July 22, 2012].Hmmmm.....I wonder why Christians would leave this 'wonderful' religious place?Read the full story here.
Where is Huma Abedin’s Security Clearance Form?
Where is Huma Abedin’s Security Clearance Form?(CJR).By Cliff Kincaid
The head of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP) is defending controversial State Department official Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is suspected of playing a role in Obama Administration “engagement” with the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood.
Neera Tanden, president and CEO of CAP and Counselor for CAP’s Action Fund, has sent out an email defending Abedin and asking that Rep. Michele Bachmann be thrown off the House Intelligence Committee for asking questions about the vetting process that Abedin was supposed to go through.
“Michele Bachmann has gone from outrageous to dangerous,” Tanden said in her email to CAP supporters.
Tanden is a former Obama Administration official whose previous claim to fame was working for the Obama White House to pass Obamacare. Her work at CAP apparently includes supporting the Obama Administration’s policy to “engage” with the Muslim Brotherhood. It is believed Abedin is right in the middle of that, by virtue of her position as State Department deputy chief of staff.
CAP is the organization that hired Van Jones before he took his job as White House “Green Jobs Czar” and then re-hired him after his communist background came to light and he lost his job in the administration.
Tanden said in her email to CAP supporters that the problem was not Abedin’s access to classified information but Bachmann’s. She urged House Speaker John Boehner to remove Bachmann from the Intelligence Committee. “Rep. Bachmann’s antics have proven that she can’t be trusted to act in our best interests,” said Tanden.
Boehner, as well as Senator John McCain, had criticized Bachmann for merely asking questions about Abedin’s fitness for her position. But they didn’t indicate familiarity with or knowledge of Abedin’s security clearance form, known as Standard Form 86, or the “Questionnaire for National Security Positions.”
Despite the claims of “witch hunt” and “McCarthyism” that are echoed in the liberal media, especially by Anderson Cooper of CNN, Bachmann and other members of Congress simply want to know whether Abedin’s Muslim Brotherhood connections were disclosed and/or examined when she gained access to national security information.
Their letter to the Inspector General of the State Department points out that Abedin “has three family members—her late father, her mother and her brother—connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations,” and that “Her position affords her routine access to the Secretary and to policy-making.”
The matter can be resolved, if the media are truly interested in getting to the bottom of the controversy, by demanding access to Abedin’s Standard Form 86, which she was supposed to fill out before getting her State Department job. House Speaker Boehner could also demand a copy.
Did she disclose her family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as to Saudi Arabia, where she once lived and was raised?
“It is required that job candidates complete the questionnaire and other required forms thoroughly, honestly, and with candor,” the State Department says.
For its part, the White House says it is committed to transparency and open government. Releasing Abedin’s form is a test case and a way to start resolving the controversy.
The questionnaire for national security positions is a 127-page document which asks for such information as relatives and associates, foreign activities, foreign countries visited, the use of illegal drugs, and involvement in groups dedicated to terrorism or the overthrow of the U.S. government.
The State Department says, “Eligibility for access to classified information, commonly known as a security clearance, is granted only to those for whom an appropriate personnel security background investigation has been completed. It must be determined that the individual’s personal and professional history indicates loyalty to the United States, strength of character, trustworthiness, honesty, reliability, discretion, and sound judgment, as well as freedom from conflicting allegiances and potential for coercion, and a willingness and ability to abide by regulations governing the use, handling, and protection of classified information.”Read the full story here.
Video - Anti-Christian Paranoia.
Video - Anti-Christian Paranoia. Why is the main-stream media so opposed to Christians? Ezra Levant exposes the paranoia and asks the hard questions.Source: Ezra Levant.
International Religious Freedom Report: Obama Admin rejected many of the recommendations of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.
At the release of the report, Suzan Johnson Cook, the U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, stated:
Freedom of religion is not just an American right but the right of all people. It goes hand in hand with freedom of expression, freedom of speech and assembly, and when religious freedom is restricted, all these rights are at risk. And for this reason, religious freedom is often the bellwether for other human rights. It’s the canary in the coal mine.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a serious and sobering speech later in the day at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in which she noted that “[m]ore than a billion people live under governments that systematically suppress religious freedom.” She stated that the report “sends a signal to the worst offenders that the world is watching.” Unfortunately, if “what’s past is prologue,” to quote Shakespeare, there is reason to believe that insufficient action will be taken by President Obama to undergird the Secretary’s inspiring words.
Although the IRFA is ambiguous as to whether a new designation is required, it is seems strange that, as part of an annual review, the State Department did not proffer an updated list.
Equally strange is that the State Department did not offer any explanations as to why it rejected many of the recommendations of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan federal government commission, that recommended CPC designation for several other countries in its 2012 Annual Report.
IRFA provides that the Secretary of State must take “into consideration the recommendations of the Commission.” While this does not mean, of course, that the Secretary must or even should adopt all of the Commission’s recommendations, it is somewhat surprising that the International Religious Freedom Report doesn’t address—even in passing—these seeming discrepancies in views toward the appropriate designation of these additional eight countries. Religious freedom has often been given short shrift at Foggy Bottom. Indeed, the U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom is one of the few Ambassadors who does not report directly to the Secretary of State, reporting instead to the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Let us hope that the President will take sufficient action under the IRFA to attempt to address the suffering that many people of faith endure at the hands of egregious violators of religious liberties abroad.Hmmmmm.......Obama: "“We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.”Read the full story here.
Related:
| USCIRF Identifies World’s Worst Religious Freedom Violators. |
WASHINGTON, D.C. –The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a federal government commission that monitors global religious freedom, today released its 2012 Annual Report and recommended that the Secretary of State name the following nations “countries of particular concern” or CPCs: Burma, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.* The report can be found at: http://www.uscirf.gov/reports-and-briefs/annual-report/3706-2012-annual-report.html. |
Video - Khamenei Warns Iran’s Top Leaders: WAR IN WEEKS.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told top Iranian military chiefs to expect “war within weeks,” at a recent war council meeting, according to israeli news outlet DebkaFile.“While retaliation had been exhaustively drilled in regular military exercises in the past year, Khamenei ordered the biggest fortification project in Iran’s history to save its nuclear program from even the mightiest of America’s super-weapons. Rocks are being gathered from afar, piled on key nuclear installations, covered with many tons of poured concrete and finally plated with steel,” .Read the full story here.
Related: Iran stockpiles 24 emergency-first food products.(TI).As part of "economy of resistance", Iran is stockpiling 24 emergency-first food products, head of Iran's Trade Commerce Yahya Ali Ishaq said, Fars reported. The products include both domestic ones, and those imported from other countries. Days ago Iran held an urgent meeting regarding the "economy of resistance", establishing special headquarters which will handle concrete emergency problems caused by the imposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic. This headquarters has been established from the members of Iran's Iranian parliament, presidential administration and the juridical system - a total of 9 people. Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani noted at the meeting that the goal of the "economy of resistance" is to stop the impact of high prices on the nation, and to lower the deficit of the goods. Yahya Ali Ishaq said that if the strategy works out fine, the community will have nothing to worry about. According to earlier reports from Iranian media outlets, the country plans to have enough of saved goods to last for 3 months, in case of emergency.Read the full story here.
Video - Khartoum Friday Sermon: The Planet Is Being Torn Apart and the Jews Are Behind It.
Following are excerpts from a Khartoum Friday sermon, which aired on Sudan TV on July 13, 2012.
Preacher: The worst thing is when societies are torn apart. We can all see on TV how the planet is being torn apart. The Jews are behind that. "Each time they kindle the fire of war, Allah extinguishes it."
Read what is happening in the US and the West. The most overcrowded hospitals are the psychiatric and the neurological hospitals, because they do not believe in Judgment day. They believe in worldly matters. But then the stock plummeted, and so did real estate. The philosophers of economics have failed to find an alternative. People began eating each other. They were afflicted by mental and neurological disorders.Source: Memri
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Video -Saudi Cleric Sa'd Al-Qa'ub: The CEDAW Agreement Sends Shivers Down Your Spine and Makes Your Hair Stand on End.
Following are excerpts from an address by Saudi cleric Sa'd Al-Qa'ud,
which was posted on the Internet on July 10, 2012.
Sa'd Al-Qa'ud: [CEDAW] means the elimination of all types of discrimination against women. In other words, it means complete and total equality between men and women. Allah says: 'And the male is not like the female."
The danger of this agreement lies in its being an international agreement. That means, according to the tyrannical international law, that it supersedes all local constitutions. In fact, dear brothers, this agreement contradicts the so-called democracy.
Reading the articles of this agreement, dear brothers, sends shivers down your spine, and makes your hair stand on end, due to its hideous nature. One of the articles in this agreement, dear brothers, [calls for] complete equality between men and women. Any distinction between men and women is eliminated.
One of the articles states that when a girl reaches the age of 18, nobody has guardianship over her – not her father, her husband, her brothers, or anyone for that matter. She can act with complete freedom.
They say that a girl younger than 18 has the right to decide when she will become sexually active. It means that she can decide when to exercise her right to commit consensual fornication. On the other hand, she does not have the right to marry before the age of 18.
Anyone contemplating this agreement knows full well that this is World War III – this time against the family, Muslim and non-Muslim.
Anyone who reads this sinful, infidel CEDAW agreement will see clearly that whoever promoted this agreement, followed it, or helped it come into being has renounced Islam and declared war against Allah and His shari'a.Source: Memri.
Sa'd Al-Qa'ud: [CEDAW] means the elimination of all types of discrimination against women. In other words, it means complete and total equality between men and women. Allah says: 'And the male is not like the female."
The danger of this agreement lies in its being an international agreement. That means, according to the tyrannical international law, that it supersedes all local constitutions. In fact, dear brothers, this agreement contradicts the so-called democracy.
Reading the articles of this agreement, dear brothers, sends shivers down your spine, and makes your hair stand on end, due to its hideous nature. One of the articles in this agreement, dear brothers, [calls for] complete equality between men and women. Any distinction between men and women is eliminated.
One of the articles states that when a girl reaches the age of 18, nobody has guardianship over her – not her father, her husband, her brothers, or anyone for that matter. She can act with complete freedom.
They say that a girl younger than 18 has the right to decide when she will become sexually active. It means that she can decide when to exercise her right to commit consensual fornication. On the other hand, she does not have the right to marry before the age of 18.
Anyone contemplating this agreement knows full well that this is World War III – this time against the family, Muslim and non-Muslim.
Anyone who reads this sinful, infidel CEDAW agreement will see clearly that whoever promoted this agreement, followed it, or helped it come into being has renounced Islam and declared war against Allah and His shari'a.Source: Memri.
Let them eat 'Soylent green' - White House chef says future food to be made from chemicals, not real food ingredients.
White House chef says future food to be made from chemicals, not real food ingredients.(NN). Every two years, a consortium of Europe's most active minds converges at the Euroscience Open Forum to discuss the latest advancements in scientific research and innovation. But this year's meeting, which was held in Dublin, Ireland, featured a disturbing workshop held by White House executive pastry chef Bill Yosses, who explained and demonstrated to audience members how the food of the future will not actually contain real food, but rather various combinations of lab-created chemicals that mimic food. As reported on Six One News, a feature of RTE News in Ireland, Yosses and several other food experts showed a live audience how to create various foams, gels, solids, and other food-like textured substances out of chemicals that, when combined, resemble things like lemon souffle and chocolate pudding. These food scientists then shared samples of these laboratory creations with audience members, who were told that the imitation food products are the wave of the future. "You take the (chemical) compounds and you make the dish," said Herve This of AgroParisTech, a science and research organization based in France, to RTE News in Ireland. "So you have no vegetables, no fruit, no meat, no fish, nothing except compounds. And you have to create a shape, a color, a taste, a freshness, a pungency, an astringency, everything," he added, likening traditional cooking methods such as "cracking eggs" and using real food ingredients to "living in the Middle Ages." White House executive pastry chef Bill Yosses shares a similar sentiment, as he believes creating fake food out of chemicals will actually help improve the quality of cuisine and availability of food. He told Six One News that chefs can use the information he presented to gain a "(better) understanding of what they're doing and use that to improve the processes, to improve not only the flavor but the hygiene, the longevity, how to store things." "All that comes about from understanding cooking on a really molecular level," he added, with sort of a twinkle in his eye.
But when he was asked if these same chemical food experiments are used at the White House in meals served to the Obamas, Yosses laughed and said no, explaining that "the First Family is looking for traditional, sort of 'happy recipes' that people are familiar with."The average person, in other words, will eventually be expected to happily eat green gelatin-like blobs made of chemical compounds, along with ambiguous cracker products that resemble "Soylent Green," while the White House and the world's other elites continue to eat wholesome, natural foods, including those hand-picked from Michelle Obama's organic garden.Hmmmm........Let them eat 'Soylent green'.Read the full story here.
Black pastors group launches anti-Obama campaign around gay marriage, claim there were 3,742 African-American pastors on board.
Black pastors group launches anti-Obama campaign around gay marriage, claim there were 3,742 African-American pastors on board.(CNN).By Dan Merica.A group of conservative black pastors are responding to President Barack Obama’s support of same-sex marriage with what they say will be a national campaign aimed at rallying black Americans to rethink their overwhelming support of the President, though the group’s leader is offering few specifics about the effort. The Rev. Williams Owens, who is president and founder of the Coalition of African-Americans Pastors and the leader of the campaign, has highlighted opposition to same-sex marriage among African-Americans. He calls this campaign “an effort to save the family.”
“The time has come for a broad-based assault against the powers that be that want to change our culture to one of men marrying men and women marrying women,” said Owens, in an interview Tuesday after the launch event at the National Press Club.“I am ashamed that the first black president chose this road, a disgraceful road.” At the press conference, Owens was joined by five other black regional pastors and said there were 3,742 African-American pastors on board for the anti-Obama campaign. When asked at the press conference for specifics about the campaign – funding, planned events and goals – Owens said only that the group’s first fundraiser will be on August 16 in Memphis, Tennessee. But Owens insisted that “we are going to go nationwide with our agenda just like the president has gone to Hollywood.” At the Tuesday press conference, Owens questioned Obama’s commitment to black Americans, stating that the president is just “half-black, half-white” and has long “ignored the black press.” He is “ignoring the people that put him in the White House,” Owens said.Read the full story here.
Pakistan - Karachi, 11 nurses drink tea laced with poison during Ramadan
Pakistan - Karachi, 11 nurses drink tea laced with poison during Ramadan.(AN).At least 11 nurses, including three Christians, were poisoned at Civil Hospital Karachi for eating during Ramadan. During their afternoon break yesterday, the 11 nurses went to the hostel cafeteria for some tea and food. Rita, a Catholic nurse, collapsed first after drinking her tea. Now all the nurses are in the hospital's intensive care unit, some in very serious conditions. In Pakistan, eating in public during the Muslim month of fasting is illegal. For Muslims, fasting is compulsory. However, hospital workers and travellers are exempt. Civil Hospital Karachi staff is made up mostly of Muslims who do not tolerate that their non-Muslim colleagues eat during Ramadan. In the wake of the incident, hospital officials have opened an inquiry to find the culprits. The Masihi Foundation, a Christian rights organisation, and Life for All have condemned the incident, calling it a "vile act" against religious freedom and tolerance. Political and religious leaders have also slammed the action. For Sindh Saleem Khokahr, a member of the Provincial Assembly and president of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, "poisoning someone for eating in Ramadan is a barbaric act and must be condemned. There are many Muslims who do not fast during Ramadan. These nurses were poisoned for eating in their cafeteria, not in public." "This act reveals that our society lacks tolerance," said Fr Nasir William, a priest in Karachi diocese. It is scandalous that "nurses who save the lives of the people are fighting for their own lives due to some ignorant person."Hmmm......"The war on Christianity."Read the full story here.
Hillary Clinton publicly defends Huma Abedin; applauds McCain for doing same.
Hillary Clinton publicly defends Huma Abedin; applauds McCain for doing same.(Shoebat).Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now publicly on record as defending her closest adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin. She’s also praising John McCain for doing the same.
Via POLITICO:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended her own top State Department aide Huma Abedin against charges that Abdein had ties to radical Islam — saying that those attacks have “no place in our politics.”What’s very key in that quote from Clinton is that it doesn’t contain a denial of the facts. Instead, she refers to questions as “assaults” and says they shouldn’t be asked.
Speaking at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Monday, Clinton was asked about suspicions raised by a handful of Republican members of Congress in a letter — including Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) — that the Muslim-American Abedin may have ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group.
In answering the question, Clinton tied the Abedin controversy into the struggle of developing nations to respect minority religions.
“Leadership is incredibly important. Leaders have to be active in stepping in and sending messages about protecting the diversity within their countries. And frankly, I don’t see enough of that, and I want to see more of it. I want to see more of it, and we did see some of that in our own country. We saw Republicans stepping up and standing up against the kind of assaults that really have no place in our politics,” Clinton said.
We beg to differ, especially in light of what we now know. What Hillary knows becomes very important as well.
Regular visitors to this site know that Huma’s time with the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA) is key to understanding the questions raised by the likes of Bachmann. In particular, Huma served as an Assistant Editor there for years. Blind Sheikh prosecutor Andy McCarthy explains over at PJM.
Read the full story here.
Israelis will tell Panetta that U.S. can’t prevent an attack on Iran.
Israelis will tell Panetta that U.S. can’t prevent an attack on Iran.(AA).Israel’s threats to attack Iran and the violence convulsing Syria top the agenda of U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s meetings Wednesday with Israeli government leaders, as well as efforts to prevent Syria’s chemical weapons from reaching Lebanon. Panetta arrived in Israel on Tuesday after meeting in Cairo with Egypt’s new president and its military chief. In Cairo, Panetta denied Israeli press reports that he planned to share with the Israelis any U.S. plans for military action against Iran. He said the reports gave a “wrong characterization” of what he and the Israeli leaders were expected to discuss. He said his talks in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak would be more about what threat Iran’s nuclear program represents and about sharing intelligence information. A senior government official was quoted by Haaretz as saying that even if Israel attacks Iran over Washington’s objections, he doesn't think the United States will turn its back on Israel. Israel must retain sole responsibility for its security, he told the newspaper.
While no decision on an Israeli strike has yet been made, a complex campaign is being waged over the issue on at least three fronts: between the Obama administration and the Israeli government; between President Barack Obama and his rival, Republican candidate Mitt Romney; and between politicians and defense professionals within Israel. All sides are making heavy use of the media, according to the Haaretz report. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that “things that affect our fate, our very existence, we don’t entrust to others -- not even to our best friends. Obama and Romney both said that Israel has the right to defend itself against any threat, and we are obligated to make the decisions.”Hmmmm....."Pour les vaincre, messieurs, il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace et la Patrie sera sauvée!" ~ Danton. Translation: 'To defeat them, gentlemen, we need audacity, more audacity and always audacity and the Homeland will be saved!' Read the full story here.
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