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Thursday, February 11, 2016

STUPID US CATHOLIC BISHOPS LAUNCH NATIONAL CATHOLIC-MUSLIM DIALOGUE, SUCH AS WITH HAMAS, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, AL-QAEDA

STUPID US CATHOLIC BISHOPS LAUNCH NATIONAL CATHOLIC-MUSLIM DIALOGUE, SUCH AS WITH HAMAS, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, AL-QAEDA
BY ROBERT SPENCER

“The current regional Catholic-Muslim dialogues are the Mid-Atlantic (partnering with the Islamic Circle of North America), Midwest (partnering with the Islamic Society of North America) and West Coast (partnering with the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California and the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County). Each is co-chaired by a bishop and a Muslim leader from the corresponding regional organization. These dialogues will continue to meet and will work collaboratively with the members of the new national dialogue.”
The Islamic Circle of North America: “Terrorism analyst Steven Emerson claims that ICNA has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological forebear of all radical Islamic movements — including Hamas and al-Qaeda. Documents show that Hamas officials have participated in previous ICNA events. ‘The ICNA’s hatred of the Jews is so fierce,’ writes Emerson, ‘that it taunted them with a repetition of what Hitler did to them.’ In his book American Jihad, Emerson expounds: ‘The ICNA openly supports militant Islamic fundamentalist organizations, praises terror attacks, issues incendiary attacks on western values and policies, and supports the imposition of Sharia [Islamic law].’ ICNA was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document — titled ‘An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America‘ — as one of the Brotherhood’s 29 like minded ‘organizations of our friends’ that shared the common goal of destroying America and turning it into a Muslim nation. These ‘friends’ were identified by the Brotherhood as groups that could help teach Muslims ‘that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands … so that … God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.'”
The Islamic Society of North America: “ISNA leaders view Islam as being superior to all other faiths and destined to replace them. Taha J. Alwani, a leading official of the Fiqh Council of North America, which is run under ISNA, writes: ‘In considering the earth as an arena for Islam, Allah has promised its inheritance to His righteous people, and He has promised that Islam will prevail over other religions.’…In July 2008, ISNA’s lawyers conceded that their organization, through its affiliate NAIT, had given financial support to Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook. Their defense was that documentary evidence of those ties dated back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, before the U.S. government had officially designated Hamas as a terrorist organization.”
What do you think is the goal of such groups in engaging in “dialogue” with Catholic bishops? The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ 2014 statement on “dialogue” quotes the 2007 document sent to the Pope and other Christian leaders, A Common Word Between Us and You. It is likely that not a single one of the bishops was ever curious about where the phrase “a common word between us and you comes from beyond the Qur’an citation provided in that document’s epigraph. If they had looked it up in the Qur’an, they would have found that the full passage is not a call for mutual understanding and mutual respect; rather, it is an exhortation to Christians to convert to Islam: “Say: ‘People of the Book! Come now to a word common between us and you, that we serve none but Allah, and that we associate no others with Him, and do not some of us take others as Lords, apart from Allah.’ And if they turn their backs, say: ‘Bear witness that we are Muslims’” (3:64). Since Muslims consider the Christian confession of the divinity of Christ to be an unacceptable association of a partner with God, this verse is saying that the “common word” that Muslims and the People of the Book should agree on is that Christians should discard one of the central tenets of their faith and essentially become Muslims.
For groups such as ICNA and ISNA, that is almost certainly what the “dialogue” is all about, along with compelling Catholic leaders to remain silent about Muslim persecution of Christians, as when Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, suppressed a planned talk at a Catholic conference on that persecution, explaining: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” Evil works under the cover of darkness, and McManus, drunk on “dialogue,” was happy to supply that cover.
But the typical modern Catholic bishop, coddled, cosseted, regal, arrogant, authoritarian, ignorant, self-infatuated, and utterly devoid of charity, will never deign to acknowledge any of this. They are blind guides.
Blase Cupich
“US Bishops Launch National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue,” Zenit, February 9, 2016:
Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago will serve as the first Catholic co-chair of a new National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue, sponsored by the Committee on Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Archbishop Cupich’s tenure as dialogue co-chair will begin January 1, 2017.
The bishops’ ecumenical and inter-religious committee has co-sponsored three regional Catholic-Muslim dialogues for over two decades. Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of Springfield, Massachusetts, chair of the committee, said the time is right to begin a national dialogue.
“As the national conversation around Islam grows increasingly fraught, coarse and driven by fear and often willful misinformation, the Catholic Church must help to model real dialogue and good will,” said Bishop Rozanski. “Our current dialogues have advanced the goals of greater understanding, mutual esteem and collaboration between Muslims and Catholics, and the members have established lasting ties of friendship and a deep sense of trust. I am grateful to Archbishop Cupich for agreeing to represent our Conference in this crucial conversation.”
How grand: they’ve established lasting ties of friendship and a deep sense of trust. How many Christians have they saved from Muslim persecution? How many churches have they prevented from being destroyed by Islamic jihadis?
The current regional Catholic-Muslim dialogues are the Mid-Atlantic (partnering with the Islamic Circle of North America), Midwest (partnering with the Islamic Society of North America) and West Coast (partnering with the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California and the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County). Each is co-chaired by a bishop and a Muslim leader from the corresponding regional organization. These dialogues will continue to meet and will work collaboratively with the members of the new national dialogue….

SAN DIEGO ATTEMPTS TO BAN TERM ‘FOUNDING FATHERS’ DUE TO ‘GENDER BIAS’

SAN DIEGO ATTEMPTS TO BAN TERM ‘FOUNDING FATHERS’ DUE TO ‘GENDER BIAS’
SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/san-diego-attempts-to-ban-term-founding-fathers-due-to-gender-bias/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

A memo intended for San Diego city employees attempted to bar them from saying the words “Founding Fathers” because of the “gender bias” the term allegedly implies.
Entitled, “Visual and Correspondence Style Guidelines,” the memo sought to implement speech restrictions banning employees from uttering everyday terms like “man made” and “mankind” on the basis that such terms exhibit “non-inclusive language.”
“Most alarmingly,” reads a press release from the Pacific Justice Institute, “is the guidelines directive, on page 76, that City employees should refrain from mentioning those to whom owe our most fundamental freedoms, the Founding Fathers.”
The legal organization has offered free help for any city employee that is reprimanded for referring to Thomas Jefferson, George Washington or any of the men that shaped the nation’s history.
“The manual’s inane attempt to recast the fathers as simply the ‘Founders’ reaches a level of political correctness, censorship and insensitivity towards time-honored American values that is indefensible,” the press release reads.
Evidently San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer was unaware of the manual’s “gender inclusive” efforts until recently.
In a tweet sent today, he stated he had already ordered the manual removed from city use, citing it as an example of how political correctness has gone wild.
“Suggesting that our Founding Fathers should be referred to as ‘Founders’ is political correctness run-amuck. We are proud of our nation’s history and there is nothing wrong with referring to the Founding Fathers,” Faulconer said.
“At my direction this was removed yesterday from the City’s correspondence manual. The manual will be reviewed for other misguided examples that defy common sense and changes will be made accordingly.”
Indeed, the case is illustrative of how political correctness can grow so out of proportion that it begins to directly infringe on civil liberties.
Cities such as Seattle have similarly moved to ban words like “citizen” and “brown bag” on the basis that such words are offensive. In Ontario, Canada, France and other places, the words “mother” and “father” have even been removed from government forms in the name of inclusiveness.
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ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISTS CALL FOR SHOOTING RANCHERS' CATTLE

Enviro Extremists Call for Shooting Ranchers’ Cattle
ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISTS CALL FOR SHOOTING RANCHERS' CATTLE
BY WILLIAM F. JASPER
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/22515-enviro-extremists-call-for-shooting-ranchers-cattlerepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Intentionally shooting someone else’s livestock is a crime — a felony. Doing it to make a political statement and intimidate the owners might be considered terrorism. That’s what a Facebook page for the “Public Lands Hunt Club” is advocating, and that is causing concern and anger among ranchers and farmers in the western states. Is the Facebook page merely a spoof, as some observers claim, or is it agitprop aimed at fomenting the criminal acts it glibly professes to support?
The website logo features a photo (shown) of a Black Angus cow facing the camera, with the cross hairs of a rifle scope, in red, planted directly on the cow’s head. The site also features many photos of dead cattle that the Public Lands Hunt Club (PLHC) claims — or implies — are the result of their handiwork.
The PLHC has posted these club “rules”:
Cattle that are legally grazing on our public lands are to be left alone. PLHC members are to only target cattle owned by ranchers who have publicly renounced their grazing contracts designed to provide a minimum of environmental protections. Many of these ranchers are publicly known due to their actions and associations with the Bundy Family of Nevada. Furthermore, all cattle found in areas near or surrounding militia occupied lands are fair game. Ranchers abiding by their contracts and showing good land stewardship practices are off limits to PLHC member activities.
Shoot straight. Be safe. Have fun. ©2016 PLHC
The photos of dead cattle shown on the PLHC may simply be Photo-shopped pictures taken off the Internet or agriculture magazines. The Capital Press, an agriculture news website, reported that the Oregon State Police have “no information of any cows illegally killed” or anything related to the PLHC FB page, according to an e-mail response from OSP spokesman Lt. Bill Fugate. According to the same Capital Press report, the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association is monitoring the page, but did not report any incidents. The New American was unable to document any specific cattle-killing incidents linked to the photos or claims of the PLHC.
Multiple posters on the PLHC webpage have expressed their outrage over the group’s support for criminal activity, but the PLHC’s typical response is to accuse them of being “welfare ranchers” and to tell them to “stop whining.”
“Welfare ranchers” has become a common meme among environmental militants, as has referring to cattle as an “invasive species.”
The PLHC Facebook timeline for January 29, 2016 says: “Official cattle count is now 16. Shoot straight. Be safe. Have fun.” Directly below that posting is one from a rancher (presumably) listed as “Wes Clegg,”who irately states: “You think this is funny they have been shooting my cows and horses and when I catch you guys there will be no law you’ll be six feet under you people don’t get it."
PLHC responds to Clegg: “If you are complying with your grazing permits you have nothing to fear so stop your whining.” By February 1 the PLHC claimed that its cattle body count was up to 23.
Anti-Mormon, anti-beef, anti-rancher, pro-vegan, pro-wolf
It might appear from the PLHC “rules” and some of the comments listed above that the PLHC opposes only those ranchers who graze cattle on the so-called “public lands,” but who refuse to “cooperate” with the federal agencies that manage those lands. However, the PLHC’s Facebook URL link would seem to advocate actually shooting not only the cattle of “welfare ranchers,” but ranchers themselves.
It is also apparent from numerous postings in the PLHC Facebook page, as well as the many extremist environmental groups and websites they link to, that PLHC views all ranching — whether on public or private lands — as pernicious and detrimental to Mother Earth. PETA, Sierra Club, Earth First!, Wild Earth Guardians, One Green Planet, and Natural Resources Defense Council are but a few of the far-left enviro groups that post to PLHC (and/or that PLHC frequently links to). Photos and quotations of the late Edward Abbey, the patron saint of radical “deep ecology,” “ecotage,” and “monkey wrenching” (enviro terrorism and sabotage), are liberally sprinkled throughout the PLHC FB page, including quotes denouncing ranchers, ranching, and cattle. Cattle ranching is repeatedly cited as being inimical to wolves and other "threatened" and "endangered" flora and fauna.
The Arizona Daily Independent reported that the PLHC’s vitriol “is especially harsh for those of the Mormon faith,” pointing specifically to a comment by a PLHC administrator to a posting by a critic: “Barbara would you please try again in English? We don’t speak inbred Mormon retard here.” The site is littered with many other anti-Mormon and anti-Christian comments.
How has Facebook reacted to the PLHC’s incivility, bigotry, and advocacy of criminal intolerance toward ranchers and their livestock? According to the Daily Independent, Facebook has responded to complaints and requests to take down the PLHC page with the following comment:
Thank you for taking time to report something that you feel may violate our Community Standards. Reports like yours are an important part of making Facebook a safe and welcoming environment. We reviewed the Page you reported for harassment and found it doesn’t violate our Community Standards. Thanks, The Facebook Team.
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FREE SPEECH: THE RIGHT TO TELL THE GOVERNMENT TO GO TO HELL

FREE SPEECH: THE RIGHT TO TELL THE GOVERNMENT TO GO TO HELL 
BY ATTORNEY JOHN WHITEHEAD
FROM: http://www.rutherford.org/multimedia/on_target/the_right_to_tell_the_government_to_go_to_hellrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Uploaded on Feb 9, 2016
Free speech is no longer free. Emboldened by phrases such as “hate crimes,” “bullying,” “extremism” and “micro-aggressions,” the government is whittling away at free speech, confining it to carefully constructed “free speech zones,” criminalizing it when it skates too close to challenging the status quo, shaming it when it butts up against politically correct ideals, and muzzling it when it appears dangerous. In this episode of On Target, John W. Whitehead identifies the kinds of speech being targeted for censorship or outright elimination.