Are we seeing an emerging military dictatorship in America?
By Editor of Worth Reading.com
We all know Obama has said he wants a domestic military force, as large and well equipped as the US military. We all know he has 80,000 troops already being trained for this task.
Now, in Obamas old turf, Democrats are quietly asking to have the military patrol the streets doing the police forces job. Their claim is that gun violence is to high.
This sounds to suspicious to me, more like an opening to putting Obama’s private army on the streets and then of course taking away our second amendment right to bear arms…
Once it is done in Chicago, precedent would be set and then how easy for Obama to get it done elsewhere, everywhere…
This is AMERICA PEOPLE, do not let this become a freaking banana republic with Obamas soldiers on every corner standing around with machine guns, which is where this will lead… Remember FREEDOM people? Remember being PROUD of being an American?
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‘The Culture of the Anthill’
By Kenneth Roberts
“Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.”
So said Herbert Spencer, an English philosopher. Think of North Korea, Stalinist Russia, the Red Guards of China, Hitler’s Germany, etc.
Now consider this: Wherever Mohammed is most admired, there is the lowest regard for human rights, civil liberties and political freedoms, such as Syria, Pakistan, Egypt, and Tunisia.
The reason for this lack of human rights is something that Muslims deny and block out of consciousness. Plainly, Mohammed was a dictator and an abuser of human rights. But Mohammed is said by Muslims to be perfect. It isn’t abuse if Mohammed did it.
Mohammed took away the human rights of peaceful, pluralistic, cultured people. He insulted, robbed, assassinated, enslaved, and then expelled the rest of them from their properties and ancestral homeland in Arabia. Since the hero Mohammed committed these crimes, they are justifiable and good. Today, we call Mohammed’s political program ethnic cleansing or ‘genocide.’ Aggressive ethnic cleansing is occurring today in Iran and Sudan. It is ‘good’, because the hero Mohammed did it.
Muslims imitate Mohammed, so Islam naturally creates a despotic form of government that represses women and minorities. It’s Islam’s DNA.
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http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/hero-worship-and-the-monoculture-of-the-anthill/
On Counterinsurgency
By Eeben Barlow
Everyone knows how important it is to attack and destroy the enemy’s centre of gravity whilst preserving our own centre of gravity from enemy attacks. But, despite all the intellectual arguments about the centre of gravity and the numerous approaches to determining this critical factor, strategists and commanders continually seem to get it wrong, especially during counter insurgency (COIN) operations.
Clausewitz in his work “On War” considered the centre of gravity to be “the hub of all power and movement, on which everything depends…the point at which all our energies should be directed“. If the enemy’s centre of gravity is attacked and destroyed, he will lose his will to fight and thus be emasculated – the perfect time to direct all our energies and resources against him to ensure his total destruction.
This belief held true when massed armies faced one another on the battlefield. The modern battlefield has, however, changed somewhat and whereas the centre of gravity remains very important, it can no longer be viewed as a central point upon which the enemy’s success or failure hinges.
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http://eebenbarlowsmilitaryandsecurityblog.blogspot.com/
What makes a good Muslim?
By Bill Warner
After a murderous jihad at Fort Hood or the Christmas day airplane bombing attempt, did you hear: “Of course, not all Muslims are bad?” That brings up the question of how do you even tell if a Muslim is bad? Or good?
First off, what is a Muslim? A Muslim is a person who follows the doctrine of Islam. When that same person, does something that does not follow the doctrine of Islam, they are not a Muslim. The common idea is that anyone who says that they are a Muslim has their every action and word dictated by Islam. Put another way, every Muslim is seen as perfect follower of Islam at all times and circumstances. However, the truth is that a “Muslim” is not always a Muslim. When they do not follow Islamic doctrine, they are no longer a Muslim, but are a kafir (non-Muslim).
Now, how do we know if a Muslim is good or bad? If they are following the Koran and the Sunna (the perfect example of Mohammed), they are a good Muslim. If they don’t follow the doctrine, then they are not a Muslim. That means that from the stand point of Islam there is no such thing as a good or bad Muslim. You either are a Muslim or you are not. When anyone follows the Koran and the Sunna, they are Muslim. When anyone does not follow the doctrine of Islam then they are a kafir.
This means that a person called a Muslim has two modes of being-Muslim and kafir, or kafir-Muslim. The same person can be a Muslim in one moment and a kafir in the next.
What do kafirs mean by a good Muslim? Simple, the same way we judge all other people as good and bad-the Golden Rule. Do they follow the Golden Rule when they are with us? If so, then they are a good person.
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http://www.politicalislam.com/
Hasan Tells Why He Killed 13 Fort Hood Soldiers
By Barry Rubin
How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so. You’ve seen reports of a long list of things he did and said along these lines. But what’s most amazing of all is this:
Hassan is the first terrorist in history to give an academic lecture explaining why he was about to attack. Yet that still isn’t enough for too many people—including the president of the United States–to understand that the murderous assault at Fort Hood was a Jihad attack.
It was reported that the audience was shocked and frightened by his lecture. He was supposed to speak on some medical topic yet instead talked on the topic: “The Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military.” All you have to do is look at the 50 Power Point slides and they tell you everything you need to know.
It is quite a good talk. He’s logical and presents his evidence. This is clearly not the work of a mad man or a fool, though there’s still a note of ambiguity in it. He’s still working out what to do in his own mind and is trying to figure out if he has a way out other than in effect deserting the U.S. army and becoming a Jihad warrior. Ultimately, he concluded that he could not be a proper Muslim without killing American soldiers. Obviously, other Muslims could reach different conclusions but Hassan strongly grounds himself in Islamic texts.
In a sense, Hassan’s lecture was a cry for help: Can anyone show me another way out? Can anyone refute my interpretation of Islam? One Muslim in the audience reportedly tried to do so. But unless these issues are openly discussed and debated–rather than swept under the rug–more people will die.
In fact, I’d recommend that teachers use this lecture in teaching classes on both Islam and Islamist politics. …
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http://www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2009/11/why-i-murdered.html
Another Inconvenient Truth
By Timothy Rhea Furnish
Last month the office of the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, published the 18-pp., glossy, maize-and-blue “National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America.” Even if I weren’t an Ohio State fan, I’d have problems with it. In discussing the “Strategic Environment,” Iran’s missile systems and support for terrorism are mentioned—but not the Islamic Republic’s global da`wah that reaches as far as West Africa and Latin America (and which I heard about first-hand in Iran in 2008).
As for non-state threats, the NIS lists “violent extremist groups” and “insurgents”—without bothering to note what ideology motivates the bulk of them: some variant of Islam. This willful ignorance continues into the “Mission Objec tives,” the first of which is to “Combat Violent Extremism” –for remember that according to the Department of Homeland Security these “extremists” could just as well be “Tea Party”-ers, Rush Limbaugh listeners or, perhaps—as Juan Cole has recently opined—those still-warlike Anglo-Saxons.
At least in this section the NIS does manage to include al-Qa’ida [sic: correct transliteration is al-Qa`idah] in passing , but again sans any explication of the underlying ideology. The NIS authors’ obtuseness is all the more perplexing—and maddening—considering that under “Mission Objective 3: Provide Strategic Intelligence and Warning,” the U.S. Intelligence Community is encouraged to “build and access deep understanding of the cultural, political, religious, economic, ethnic, and tribal factors in operational theaters.”
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http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/118691.html
Thinking About Truth
I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to the concept of truth.
A lot of people talk about truth; some spend a lot of time and money trying to convince us that they’re telling us the truth.
Many others spend years ‘looking for truth,’ and committing their lives to the ‘search for meaning.’
Motivational public speakers like Wayne Dyer, Gary Zhukov and even Oprah Winfrey dedicate hours, days, even weeks of television time exploring the spiritual dimension of our lives and tell us that we all have truth within and that there is power in our ‘intention.’
Other seekers dabble in eastern religions, mysticism, even the occult and witchcraft in an effort to find truth.
When it’s all said and done, there’s a lot more said than done.
Then I turn to the pages of the Bible and breathe a deep sign of relief. How wonderful it is that our Creator—the One who fashioned us with His own loving hands—loved us enough to give us a place to stand.
God didn’t want us to be adrift on an endless search for meaning and significance. He doesn’t want us to spend our whole lives searching aimlessly for something in which we can believe.
He loves us enough to give us a comprehensive source for our lives, a complete recipe for hope, dignity, spiritual strength, faith and the capacity to love one another as He loves us.
He won’t turn us loose and He will never allow us to wallow in a sea of relativistic wishful thinking. He doesn’t want us to spend our whole lives on empty intellectual mind games and empty, self-centred power struggles.
In His sovereign grace, He told us the truth and sent His only Son to not only tell us the truth, but to BE the Truth for us.
All we have to do is come to Him by faith and latch on to Jesus, the One who is the ‘Friend who is closer than a brother,’ and the One who will never let us go once we fall into His loving arms.
He died on a cross to take away our shame, guilt, heavy hearts and broken dreams. He shed His precious blood so we don’t have to carry the weight of our failures on our own shoulders.
All He asks is that we take the broken pieces of our empty emotional shell games and to put them in His compassionate hands. All we have to do is commit our lives to following His loving plan. Jesus calls us to a deep level of commit-ment, because it’s only by giving our lives to Him that we find the answers.
The answer to why we worship is that we find joy in His presence. With Him, through His Word and Sacraments, we find our greatest treasure—Him.
One church where the Word is proclaimed without apology and the Eucharist is served with joy is a new one in town. It’s Christ the King Church. We are now meeting at 10 am in the youth room at St. Joseph’s Church in Wakefield.
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Van Jones is only the surface
By Cliff Kincaid
Posted under News
This post was written by mcarl on September 8, 2009
