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republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
This video is just a minute and a half long, but it gives you the
flavor of the event. The Left-fascists and Islamic supremacists at the
University at Buffalo kept this up for the full hour and a half, while
university officials stood by and let this circus go on.
A university should be a center for free inquiry where ideas are
evaluated rationally on their merits, not indoctrination factories where
dissenting opinions are demonized without examination and ruthlessly
suppressed. The University at Buffalo is a shameful excuse for a
university, and this incident is an everlasting blot on its record.
Politely and courtesy contact UPD Chief of Police Gerald Schoenle at
gws3@buffalo.edu. and Tom Tiberi of Campus Life at tiberi@buffalo.edu
and politely and courteously call them out for their willful malfeasance
and allowance of Left-fascist thuggery. They have besmirched the
reputation of their university, which should be renamed the Left-Fascist
Training Center at Buffalo, beyond repair.
I discuss episodes like this one in my upcoming book The Complete
Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies), which you can preorder
here.
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Damage control: After Robert Spencer speech, University at Buffalo hosts TWO lying Muslim spokesmen
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
This is extraordinary. Since Left-fascists screamed at me for an hour
and a half, I barely got a word in at the University at Buffalo, but
university officials and the local Muslim Brotherhood MSA chapter are
apparently so shaken nonetheless by my appearance that they have
featured not one, but two events featuring lying Islamic spokesmen to
make sure that campus Left-lemmings stay on message and remember that
Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing to do with terrorism,
despite the ever-growing amount of evidence to the contrary. Ahmadi spokesman Qasim Rashid is a professional liar, or as Pamela Geller calls him, “a one-man cottage industry of deception and hypocrisy.” He has whitewashed Muhammad’s support for torture and the reality of jihad violence and Sharia oppression; dissembled about the Qur’an’s sanction of deception of unbelievers; lied about the presence of violent passages in the Qur’an; lied about the Qur’an’s sanction of beating disobedient women; lied about the nature of Sharia; called for limitations on the freedom of speech and expression to outlaw behavior and speech some Muslims may find offensive; and lied about Muhammad’s stance toward the persecution of Christians.
When challenged about the “facts” he has presented, he (like virtually
all other Islamic supremacists) responds with furious ad hominem
contempt, but never answers the refutations of his articles on
substantive grounds — because, of course, he cannot do so. “Maham Alamgir, a sophomore biochemistry major at Niagara University,
felt Rashid’s speech highlighted the importance of diversity. ‘It shows
that people are different and it’s possible to live in harmony with
each other and have differing opinions,’ Alamgir said.” That’s rich, coming from a student at the University at Buffalo,
which is just as much of a hard-Left indoctrination center that
demonizes and forbids opposing viewpoints as most other universities
today. “It shows that people are different and it’s possible to live in
harmony with each other and have differing opinions”? Sure, as long as
Left-fascists and Islamic supremacists are screaming abuse and shouting down anyone who dares to dissent. The university also hosted Hassan Shibly of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refusedtodenounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) A California chapter distributed a poster telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI, and a Florida chapter distributed pamphlets with the same message. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.
Much more below.
Hassan Shibly believes people are more likely to get struck by lightning than be killed by a terrorist who calls himself Muslim.
Shibly, a civil rights lawyer, UB alumnus and
director of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR), was one of two panelists for an event entitled
“Exposing Radical Islamophobes: Breaking Down the Misinformation of
Robert Spencer.” The event was hosted by the Muslim Student Association
(MSA) and also featured Dr. Katharina Azim, a professor in UB’s
psychology department. Roughly 200 people attended the event, which took
place in Norton 112 on Wednesday evening.
Azim and Shibly discussed misconceptions about Islam and addressed points made by Robert Spencer in his Monday speech at UB.
Probably not. I was able to make very few points, and none as fully as I would have if the Left-fascists hadn’t been screaming.
Shibly thinks Islamophobia is manufactured by “hate
profiteers” and believes it undermines liberty, freedom of speech and
safety.
Shibly and all other Islamic supremacist liars know full well that if
there really is any suspicion or dislike of Islam or Muslims, it stems
from jihad terror, not from “Islamophobes.” What he is trying to do is
stigmatize all criticism of Islam and jihad, so that people will be
afraid to speak out against jihad and it can advance unimpeded.
A hate profiteer is someone who makes money off of
hateful rhetoric based on double standards and information taken out of
context, Shibly said. He feels Robert Spencer is a hate profiteer.
The man who works for a Hamas front calls someone who exposes him a “hate profiteer.”
These individuals promote the same lies about Muslims that were made about Jews in Germany 70 years ago, Shibly explained.
“If you compare Nazi quotes about Jews and Spencer’s quotes about
Muslims, it is almost verbatim. It’s the same hate with a different
target,” Shibly said.
This is a vicious slander, and Shibly’s comparison is an insult to
the memory of the Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. It’s also a
common Leftist talking point. Many, many others have made this claim
before Shibly, including Noam Chomsky; Bernie Sanders; the notorious non-Muslim Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong; Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist at The Atlantic who some time ago interviewed Barack Obama about why he won’t call Islamic terrorism Islamic; liberal media pundit Reza Aslan; Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison; Nicholas Kristof, one of the New York Times’ Mideast pontificators; Canadian Muslim leader Syed Sohawardy; and Philadelphia chapter leader of Hamas-linked CAIR, Jacob Bender. Many others have repeated it. The blazingly brilliant Daniel Greenfield takes it apart in this video.
The idea that Muslims are the new Jews is put forward by the Left,
but it also has opponents on the Left. In 2014, as part of his ongoing
awakening to the nature and reality of the jihad threat, Bill Maher noted:
“Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000 militant Jewish
groups. They didn’t do a study of treatment of women around the world
and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There weren’t 10 Jewish
countries in the world that were putting gay people to death just for
being gay.” The late Christopher Hitchens
also refuted this idea when writing a few years ago about the notorious
Ground Zero Mosque proposal: “’Some of what people are saying in this
mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about
Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,’ Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at
Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall
the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells
for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the
stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that
published cartoons they did not like.”
Indeed. Further, no one is calling for or justifying genocide of
Muslims. No individual or group opposed to Islam is remotely comparable
to the National Socialists. Not that facts have ever gotten in the way
of a good meme.
He feels people like Spencer are a threat to democracy and liberty.
“When I hear Spencer say that Islam should be illegal, I hear him
saying my religion should be outlawed… and what I hear him saying is
that he will chip away at the First Amendment to the United States
Constitution,” Shibly said.
Shibly is a straight-up liar. I have never said that Islam should be illegal.
…He also feels it is a violation of First Amendment
rights when government officials and police officers question Muslims
about their faith. He feels such questioning undermines Americans’
safety because officials become so focused on profiling Muslims they
miss out on actual criminals.
There’s his game. He wants there to be no law enforcement scrutiny of Muslims. Then the jihad can advance without opposition.
Shibly described a time his family was selected for random questioning at the U.S./Canadian border.
“Random means they saw your headscarf,” Shibly said he remarked to
his mother as they were pulled aside into a room of 40 or so people –
all of whom were Muslim.
“I swore I was in a mosque,” Shibly said. The group was held “like
criminals” for six hours. During that time, a white American man got
through the border with no issue, and ended up killing people in
Canada.”…
Cry me a river. I was detained for three hours at the Toronto
airport, doubtless in part because of the libels and smears of people
such as Hassan Shibly. If you had any genuine concern for the safety of
Americans, Mr. Shibly, you would put up with these examinations, to
which all Americans can be subject.
…Between 1980 and 2005, 7 percent of terrorism was
committed by people who claimed to be Jewish, 6 percent was done by
people who call themselves Muslim, and “double digits” terror acts were
committed by people calling themselves Christian, Shibly said.
It is so easy to lie with statistics. I believe that Shibly is here
referring to a spurious study that valued all terror attacks equally:
9/11 was one, and PETA throwing red paint on a woman wearing fur was
one. So it wildly overvalued so-called terror attacks by non-Muslims.
Shibly also clarified the definition of Sharia Law, which
he said means “path to water.” It is not a specific, monolithic code
and is open to debate and interpretation. Sharia aims to protect
religion, life, intellect, honor and property, just as the Constitution
does, he said. It forbids forcing religious practices and beliefs on
non-Muslims.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Saudi Arabia, Iran, and
Sudan are Sharia states. Pakistan is close to being a full Sharia state,
as is Afghanistan. How are women’s rights in those countries? Gay
rights? How are non-Muslims treated? That’s Sharia.
Shibly continued to slander me:
…“Even though I dramatically disagree with inviting
Spencer, I think he has a right to speak. I just don’t think he deserves
a platform like the University at Buffalo,” Shibly said.
He feels inviting Spencer to UB is no different than inviting a Nazi.
“Just as I wouldn’t invite a Nazi or a member of the KKK, I certainly wouldn’t invite Spencer,” Shibly said.
Likening analysts of the motives and goals of jihad terror to the
Nazis and KKK is clearly an attempt to stigmatize such analysis, such
that everyone will be afraid to notice the Islamic identity and motives
of jihadis.
He feels the line between free speech and hate speech is inciting violence.
“Hateful rhetoric is not cost free and has led to a dramatic increase in hate crimes,” Shibly said.
However, he said he was disappointed that Spencer’s
speech was disrupted. He feels it would have been more productive to
have a discussion.
He said this because he knows that their display made the screaming Left-fascists and Islamic supremacists look bad.
“We should not be afraid to let people speak but also
challenge them and be driven not by arrogance and a desire to win
debates but a desire to unite our community,” Shibly said….
That’s funny. Hamas-linked CAIR officials refuse to debate me or
appear on shows with me. He is spouting falsehoods to fool the
Left-lemmings at the University at Buffalo.
Samar Adhami, a graduate student in biology, felt the event was “very necessary” after Spencer’s event.
“A lot of people are not informed because they are so overcome by
fear. [The speakers] helped clear up negative connotations,” she said.
Overcome by fear. Sure you are, Samar. Sure.
“Qasim Rashid holds ‘True Islam: A Response to Islamophobes and
Terrorists Everywhere’ discussion at UB,” by Maddy Fowler and Daniel
Petruccelli, The Spectrum (University at Buffalo), May 4, 2017:
Qasim Rashid, a civil rights attorney, former Harvard
University Fellow of Islamic Studies and Amazon bestselling author,
spoke at UB Tuesday evening about the misconceptions of Islam.
Qasim Rashid believes there’s a philosophy in media that “if it bleeds, it leads.”
He thinks because Robert Spencer’s speech on Monday was more
sensationalized, it garnered more attention. Rashid’s event, by
contrast, was smaller, quieter and more peaceful. Approximately 125
people attended the event and 20 people left after Rashid’s lecture.
Maybe mine garnered more attention because of all the screaming
Left-fascists who made it impossible for me to speak. Because Rashid was
telling them what they wanted to hear, they let him speak.
“Unfortunately, that has dominated our media lives –
what’s going to get more clicks, what’s going to get more views,” Rashid
said. “I think that’s why people left. If I spoke up there about how
Sharia law is coming and Muslims are taking over, I guarantee you we
would have had more.”
Not enough people showed up to hear your lies, Qasim? How
disappointing! Nice that the university paper gave you a chance to
explain away your failure.
…He is not interested in “falsehoods and propaganda,” but rather what he calls the proven model of true Islam.
All Rashid does is retail falsehoods and propaganda.
…Rashid spoke about the importance of women in the
founding of Islam. He said women are equal to men, citing a part of
Sharia that states all the money a man makes belongs to his wife and she
gets to keep all of the money she makes.
A few things left out of this whitewashed presentation: “Men have
authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the
other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women
are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded
them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and
send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34
Nowhere does the Qur’an teach that a woman can beat a man under any circumstances.
The Qur’an likens a woman to a field (tilth), to be used by a man as
he wills: “Your women are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth as you
will” (2:223).
It declares that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man:
“Get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men,
then a man and two women, such as you choose, for witnesses, so that if
one of them errs, the other can remind her” (2:282).
It allows men to marry up to four wives, and have sex with slave
girls also: “If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with
the orphans, marry women of your choice, two or three or four; but if
you fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly, then only one, or one
that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent
you from doing injustice” (4:3).
It rules that a son’s inheritance should be twice the size of that of
a daughter: “Allah directs you as regards your children’s inheritance:
to the male, a portion equal to that of two females” (4:11).
It allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that
Islamic divorce procedures “shall apply to those who have not yet
menstruated” (65:4).
Islamic law stipulates that a man’s prayer is annulled if a dog or a
woman passes in front of him as he is praying. “Narrated ‘Aisha: The
things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said,
“Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in
front of the praying people).” I said, ‘You have made us (i.e. women)
dogs.’ I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in my bed between
him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I would slip
away. for I disliked to face him.” (Sahih Bukhari 1.9.490)
Another hadith depicts Muhammad saying that the majority of the
inhabitants of hell are women: “I looked into Paradise and I saw that
the majority of its people were the poor. And I looked into Hell and I
saw that the majority of its people are women.” Sahih Bukhari 3241;
Sahih Muslim 2737)
When asked about this, he explained: “I was shown Hell and I have
never seen anything more terrifying than it. And I saw that the majority
of its people are women.” They said, “Why, O Messenger of Allah?” He
said, “Because of their ingratitude (kufr).” It was said, “Are they
ungrateful to Allah?” He said, “They are ungrateful to their companions
(husbands) and ungrateful for good treatment. If you are kind to one of
them for a lifetime then she sees one (undesirable) thing in you, she
will say, ‘I have never had anything good from you.’” (Sahih Bukhari
1052)
And in another hadith: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings
of Allah be upon him) went out to the musalla (prayer place) on the day
of Eid al-Adha or Eid al-Fitr. He passed by the women and said, ‘O
women! Give charity, for I have seen that you form the majority of the
people of Hell.’ They asked, ‘Why is that, O Messenger of Allah?’ He
replied, ‘You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I
have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religious
commitment than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some
of you.’ The women asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what is deficient in
our intelligence and religious commitment?’ He said, ‘Is not the
testimony of two women equal to the testimony of one man?’ They said,
‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Is it not
true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?’ The
women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her religious
commitment.’” (Sahih Bukhari 304)
Sharia is the moral code by which Muslims live, according
to Rashid. He said it is no different than canon law for Catholics or
halakha for Jews….
Except for those bits about stoning, amputation, polygamy, child
marriage, death for apostasy, and the rest. Rashid follows with two
straw men:
The belief that those who do not believe in Islam are
killed per Sharia is a falsehood spread by “corrupt clerics” and
“Islamophobes,” according to Rashid.
Actually that is not the claim. The claim is that Islam mandates
warfare against and subjugation of unbelievers (Qur’an 9:29), not that
they should all be killed.
He also addressed misconceptions about Jihad. He said
Jihad has been depicted by Islamophobes as “forceful conversion through
any means necessary,” but it refers to any kind of struggle. Trying to
ace exams, lose weight, or fighting cancer are all forms of engaging in
Jihad, according to Rashid.
Another straw man. Jihad’s primary meaning in Islamic theology is not forced conversion, but warfare to establish Sharia.
“The speaker last night was promoting ISIS ideology on
campus. He was essentially their spokesperson. That’s how dangerous this
rhetoric is,” Rashid said.
These liars can’t stop slandering me. I read from a legal manual
endorsed by al-Azhar, the most prestigious and influential institution
in Sunni Islam. Rashid calls that “ISIS ideology” because he is trying
to mislead his marks into thinking it isn’t as mainstream as it is.
Rashid explained that there are two narratives being
written right now: one says that people are so different from one
another that one person’s success depends on the other’s failure.
The first narrative helps people gain attention, Rashid said.
“The other narrative, the one where we come together – there’s no
money to be made. There’s no fame, there’s no fortune, there’s a lot of
ridicule and a lot of harassment behind it as well,” Rashid said.
Note the irony. I was the one ridiculed and harassed, and this liar slanders me and then claims victimhood status.
…Uma Khan felt Rashid’s talk was more productive than
Spencer’s because she believes educational dialogue is more helpful than
shutting a speaker down.
“Every speaker deserves to say what they have to say, but our
response should be an educational response, education has more power,”
the sophomore finance major said. “It’s great to have protests but it
needs to be a peaceful protest and we have to let the speaker actually
speak in order to respond. We don’t just shut someone down like that
what happened yesterday.”
Khan said the best defense against anti-Islam speakers such as Robert
Spencer is to show the Muslim community’s service, humanity and unity,
not just “shutting someone up.”
“Because now that’s his defense, he used that against us,” Khan said….
Right you are, Uma. I sure did. And I’m going to keep on doing so,
because what happened there exposed the thuggish and authoritarian heart
of contemporary academia.
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Left-fascist Gettysburg College President Janet Riggs calls for boycott of Robert Spencer lecture
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
At Todd Green’s lecture Sunday, Gettysburg College President Janet
Morgan Riggs said: “My fantasy is that we will have four or five people
sitting in a room with Robert Spencer, and the other 2,500 members with
Jerome at his rally. I think that’s what we can do to counter the fear
that a speaker like this can bring to this community.”
Riggs should be ashamed. If the Muslims at the university really
think I am not telling the truth, they should come and engage me in
discussion during the Q and A, and prove me wrong. They can’t, so
they’re boycotting, and instead of exhorting students to engage
unwelcome and unpopular ideas and deal with them on a rational basis,
the president of the university is encouraging them.
In this letter responding to alumni threats over my appearance,
Riggs uncritically accepts and retails the defamatory and libelous
falsehoods that I am “bigoted” and “hateful,” and somehow endanger
Muslim students.
I hereby challenge President Riggs: prove your statements with
quotations from my own writings, not from smear pieces from the Southern
Poverty Law Center or other far-Left groups that have no intention of
treating their targets fairly. Substantiate your characterizations of my
work from my work, or retract and apologize. Also, I invite you to come
to the lecture tonight, if you don’t end up canceling it, and if I am
not shouted down by the Left-fascist thugs you are enabling and
encouraging, then I challenge you to find any “hatred” or “bigotry” in
anything I say.
I do hope you will take up my challenge, but obviously you will not
do so. For being a president of a college who actively discourages the
consideration of views that dissent from the establishment line, and
actively discouraging critical thinking and free inquiry, you should be
made to resign in disgrace. Instead, you will no doubt be hailed as a
heroine by your Left-fascist peers and colleagues.
“President Janet Morgan Riggs responds to open letter from alums on
Robert Spencer,” by Janet Morgan Riggs, Gettysburg College President The Gettysburgian, May 1, 2017:
Editor’s Note: The following letter is a response
from College president Janet Morgan Riggs to the open letter sent by 375
alums urging President Riggs to not allow Robert Spencer to speak on
Wednesday.
I want to begin by thanking those who signed the petition requesting
that we rescind our invitation to Robert Spencer for caring enough about
Gettysburg College to speak out. To say this is a complex situation
would be an understatement.
Many Gettysburgians have expressed perspectives about whether or not
Robert Spencer should be permitted to speak on our campus. Some think we
should have denied YAF’s request to invite him and that we should have
over‐ruled Student Senate’s thoughtful deliberations which led them to
make the decision to approve this event. I have also heard from many who
believe that allowing Robert Spencer to speak is the right thing to do,
despite the fact that they find his views to be offensive and/or
abhorrent.
I don’t know if our alumni who signed the petition have seen the letter I sent to campus about this, but you can find it here: www.gettysburg.edu/about/offices/president/inclusion/pdfs/2017/MessagefromthePresident_email+4‐25‐17.pdf
This letter was intended to provide some information to members of
the campus community about the decision‐making process, the challenge of
balancing our values, and the additional speaker that was invited.
We are concerned for the Muslim members of our community and have met
with Muslim students to talk about what we might do to support them. We
have also reached out to Muslim members of our faculty and staff, and
some faculty members have reached out to our Muslim students to offer
their personal support. Discussions are being held in classes, and
students are planning a solidarity rally to be held at the same time
that Spencer will be speaking—not as a protest of the speech, but as a
way of showing their support for the Muslim community.
I appreciate the passion that our alumni have expressed on both sides
of this controversy. It’s quite clear that our alumni are not united in
their viewpoints. In one of the letters I received supporting the
decision to allow Robert Spencer to speak, one of our graduates quoted
American Civil Liberties Union National Legal Director David Cole: “For
the future of our democracy, we must protect bigoted speech from
government censorship. On college campuses, that means that the best way
to combat hateful speech is through counter‐speech, vigorous and
creative protest, and debate, not threats of violence or censorship.”
This is an extraordinarily complicated and challenging situation, one
that is being played out on college campuses across the nation. I can
assure you that we are giving this a tremendous amount of thought and
attention, and I am pleased that our alumni care enough about Gettysburg
College to voice their perspectives.
Sincerely,
Janet Morgan Riggs
President
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:
Thanks again to the police and security personnel who were out in force
last night as I spoke at Gettysburg College. They ensured that
Left-fascists would not disrupt the event as they did Monday at the
University at Buffalo. And now you can see the presentation yourself and
judge whether saying these things warrants all the outrage with which
my invitation to speak was greeted.
CONGRESS VOTES TO DEFUND MURDER FACTORY PLANNED PARENTHOOD
Published on May 5, 2017
Pro-life advocates praised the bills elimination of funding for Planned Parenthood. “We
commend the House, which by this vote has – for the third time – voted
to end taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s most
profitable abortionist,” said Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel
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U.S. House Votes to Reduce Planned Parenthood Funding for One Year Under Republican Healthcare Bill
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WASHINGTON —The U.S. House of
Representatives voted 217 to 213 on Thursday to repeal and replace the
Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, reducing—but not
completely eliminating—funding for the abortion and contraception giant
Planned Parenthood for one year in the process.
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) will strip Planned
Parenthood of $390 million of the more than $450 million it receives in
federal funding each year. Speaker Paul Ryan said in January that the
funding would be redirected to community health centers, which do not
perform abortions.
“[W]e think it’s better to send these dollars to those
clinics that do a very good job of giving women the services they
need—the preventative services—without all the controversy surrounding
Planned Parenthood,” he said.
The remaining $60 million will continue to be provided
through the National Family Planning Program under Title X, reports
state.
Planned Parenthood claimed on Thursday following the House
vote that the move will make it more difficult for mothers to have
healthy pregnancies and raise families.
“This is the worst bill for women’s health in a generation,”
President Cecile Richards said in a statement. “It makes it harder to
prevent unintended pregnancy, harder to have a healthy pregnancy, and
harder to raise a family. … Women and men across the country will fight
to protect access to Planned Parenthood and to defeat this bill.”
While AHCA does not mention Planned Parenthood by name, it defines “prohibited entities” as
those who perform abortions other than in the cases of rape, incest and
the life of the mother, and who receive more than $350,000,000 from
Medicaid.
Pro-life and religious liberty organizations cheered the
news, stating that taxpayer funds should not be provided to
controversial organizations that kill unborn children and are the
subject of numerous legal probes.
“As a nation, we are without excuse in paying for abortion
on demand in Obamacare and subsidizing Planned Parenthood’s gruesome
trafficking of baby body parts and its inhumane treatment of mothers and
their unborn children,” said Tony Perkins, president of the
Washington-based Family Research Council.
“Congress’s well-founded concern that Planned Parenthood and
its affiliates are engaged in a pattern of deceptive practices designed
to maximize their bottom-line revenue should be enough reason to end
the public largesse on their behalf, even apart from the fact that they
destroy a third of a million human lives every year and have been
involved in numerous other scandals,” also remarked Alliance Defending
Freedom (ADF) Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot.
The bill now moves to the Senate, where it needs 51 votes to pass.
According to the organization’s latest annual report, Planned
Parenthood performed 323,999 abortions nationwide during the 2014-2015
fiscal year. The figure accounts for at least one-third of all abortions
nationwide, when compared to statistics released in November by the Centers for Disease Control.
Planned Parenthood’s largest focus in 2014-2015 was sexually
transmitted diseases (STD’s), as it tested and/or treated over four
million people for sexual ailments, with over 3.5 million tests and 32
thousand men and women being treated for ailments contracted through
sexual activity.
Over 2.9 million people were provided with contraceptives or
other forms of birth control in 2014—from temporary to permanent,
including over 900 thousand emergency contraception kits. The figure is
down from 3.5 million the year before, and 3.7 million in 2012.
Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms as it is not
licensed to operate mammogram machines, and its annual report outlined
that fewer than 700,000 women received services surrounding cervical
cancer screenings (pap smears for women who have been sexually active),
equating to just seven percent of its services.
Sex-related services, such as STD testing and
contraceptives, accounted for 76 percent of its business, as opposed to
women’s health or post and pre-natal services.
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Planned Parenthood Admits Abortion Is Murder
Published on May 5, 2017
Even
the racist Margaret Sanger admitted abortion was murder and wouldn't
dream of performing them even on those she deemed less than human.
1952-QUOTE FROM FOUNDER MARGARET SANGER ADMITS ABORTION IS MURDER;
1970-FIRST ABORTION DONE BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFTER SANGER DIED IN 1966 1974-ROE VS. WADE DECISION 1976-70,000 ABORTIONS PERFORMED
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
An extraordinary confrontation caught on video shows a
deranged leftist calmly explaining why she thinks Alex Jones should be
killed for exercising his free speech.
The encounter,
filmed by Michael DiBari, begins with DiBari asking the woman, “Alex
Jones needs to be killed, is that what you’re saying?”
“Yeah, I am,” responds the woman, who is apparently a teacher.
“I
want Alex Jones to be taken out for brainwashing,” explains the woman,
before claiming “I believe in free speech” (except presumably speech
which disagrees with her opinion, in which case the thought criminal
should be subject to summary execution).
The woman’s partner then claims the man is “getting very aggressive,”
despite the fact that she just literally called for someone to be
killed for having a different opinion.
The woman then inexplicably
bursts into tears before claiming, “My son has been completely
brainwashed by this asshole,” and then stops crying immediately.
“And so you wanna kill him rather than listen to what this man has to say….you wanna kill free speech?” asks DiBari.
The woman’s partner then gets in DiBari’s face before pathetically backing down as soon as DiBari shows he isn’t afraid.
You’re
the one that’s brain damaged lady, you’re the one that’s pissing all
over the First Amendment, DiBari continues, asking her if she would also
like to kill Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos.
“How many people
do you want killed that you don’t agree with, lady – tell me how much
totalitarian Nazi bullshit you got in you?” he asks.
The woman
claims she “listens to the views of other people” (while advocating for
their execution). When asked to mention one thing that she disagrees
with, her only response is “it’s brainwashing”.
The woman then claims that her demeanor is peaceful, prompting scorn from DiBari.
“Oh
yes you’re so calm, you’re so calm and so reasonable,” he chides her,
while pointing out that she just literally called for someone to be
killed for their opinion.
“It’s almost like I’m watching an animal right now at a zoo,” the woman responds.
“Oh now I’m an animal at a zoo, should I be killed too?” asks DiBari.
The woman repeats her progressive opinion that only “Alex Jones” should be killed.
“Get out of my sight, you disgust me, you make me sick,” DiBari tells the woman before she walks away.
The video above is yet another example of how Trump derangement syndrome remains virulent throughout the United States.
While preaching tolerance and diversity, leftists literally want to see people who have a different opinion killed.
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Despite virtually every Republican at the federal level running on a
platform of repealing ObamaCare, the GOP-controlled House of
Representatives just voted to retain the bulk of it under the guise of
“repeal and replace.” Now, in addition to keeping in place a dizzying
array of unconstitutional and destructive federal meddling in
healthcare, Republicans have ensured that they will get the blame as
costs continue to surge and care becomes increasingly difficult to
access. Everyday Americans and constitutional governance, as usual, will
be the main losers. Now the fight moves to the Senate, where analysts
expect lawmakers to retain even more of ObamaCare.
The vote in the House was extremely close, with 213 against and 217
in favor. All Democrats, along with some Republicans, voted against the
legislation, dubbed the “American Health Care Act”
(AHCA). Indeed, media outlets reported that Democrats in the House
taunted Republicans, singing “na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye,”
apparently a reference to their belief that GOP lawmakers will be
defeated in the 2018 mid-term elections due to their vote. House
Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi called the bill “a zombie, even more scary
than before.” A coalition of Big Government Republicans also opposed it.
Some liberty-minded Republicans, meanwhile, opposed it for not getting
rid of ObamaCare.
Despite deceptive coverage of the bill by much of the establishment
media, which went along with the ruse that the AHCA repeals ObamaCare,
the legislation actually keeps huge swaths of the unconstitutional
statute in place. For instance, under the GOP version of ObamaCare, most
of ObamaCare's regulations, mandates, decrees, and meddling are kept
firmly in place. It keeps subsidies for insurance, and penalties for not
having it, but changes a few relatively minor elements. While the bill
purports to “allow” states to “apply” for waivers from some mandates,
the legislation simply requires that states create what critics slammed
as “mini-ObamaCare” schemes at the state level to obtain the exemptions.
Trump was evidently pleased with it, though. “Insurance companies are
fleeing ObamaCare - it is dead,” he said on social media, correctly
noting that ObamaCare was imploding in on itself as insurers withdrew in
large numbers. “Our healthcare plan will lower premiums and deductibles
- and be great healthcare!” Illustrating a possible lack of
constitutional understanding, or perhaps a willingness to put politics
above the Constitution, Trump vowed that “we're going to take care of a
lot of people” and their health needs, and that “we've all fought very
hard to be able to do that.” The feds have no constitutional power to do
that.
Speaking from the Rose Garden at the White House after the
legislation was approved in the House, Trump again claimed the bill
would reduce premiums and deductibles, something disputed by a wide
array of special-interest groups and analysts. Trump also argued that
the bill was “incredibly well crafted.” “Make no mistake about it, this
is a repeal and replace of Obamacare,” he insisted, adding that it would
get through the Senate. Establishment GOP leaders in Congress also
celebrated the measure as if it represented the fulfillment of their
promise to repeal ObamaCare.
But more than a few critics among conservatives and
constitutionalists rejected the phony narrative. Among the principled
Republicans who stood firm against the scheme was Representative Andy
Biggs, a freshman from Arizona. “I have opposed the AHCA from the very
beginning because it is not a clean repeal of Obamacare,” he explained.
“While I applaud all the hard work of the House Freedom Caucus, which
has made every effort in recent weeks to improve this legislation, the
final bill unfortunately does not meet the promises I made to my
constituents.”
Congressman Biggs attempted to get two amendments included in the
final legislation to reflect the wishes of his constituents, get the
ACHA closer to a full repeal ObamCare, and lower the “crushing health
insurance premiums that are devastating Arizona families,” he said in a statement posted online.
“I am disappointed that my amendments will not be included in the final
AHCA package,” he added. “However, I remain committed to a full repeal
of Obamacare and will continue to work with my colleagues to accomplish
this end.”
Other liberty-minded Republicans echoed those concerns using even
stronger language. Representative Walter Jones (R-N.C.), for instance,
blasted the bill as rushed, highly flawed, and opposed by the
constituents he represents. “It’s time to scrap this flawed bill and
start over,” he declared in a statement. “Go out across the country,
gather people’s input, and use an open, public process to thoughtfully
craft a bill that delivers the relief the American people need.”
Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), among the most faithful members of
Congress when it comes to obeying his oath of office to the
Constitution, noted that the ACHA involves “replacing mandates,
subsidies and penalties with mandates, subsidies and penalties.”
The conservative and constitutionalist GOP lawmakers who voted “nay”
included members of the liberty-oriented House Freedom Caucus. While the caucus acknowledged earlier that
the “revised version still does not fully repeal Obamacare,” most of
their members agreed to support it “to keep our promise to the American
people to lower healthcare costs.” A number of prominent conservative
groups, including Heritage Action for American and FreedomWorks, took a
similar position, giving GOP lawmakers cover to vote for the bill
because it ostensibly represents progress toward the ultimate goal of
eventually repealing ObamaCare.
Some principled grassroots organizations, though, opposed the scheme. The constitutionalist John Birch Society,
which publishes this magazine and has chapters across America, has been
urging its members to push for a full and complete repeal — and only a
full repeal, such as the exact same repeal bill that was repeatedly sent
to Obama when Republicans knew he would veto it. Instead of replacing
the unconstitutional ObamaCare with something else, the organization
called for the federal government to obey the Constitution and get out
of healthcare completely, beginning with full repeal of ObamaCare. “We
urge our members and supporters to contact their congressmen to let them
know not to pass a repeal and replace bill, rather to pass a
repeal-only bill,” reads a May 4 statement issued by JBS Vice President
for Communications Bill Hahn.
Among other reasons for the group's firm position are the plain
limits on federal power enshrined in the Constitution. “When looking at
healthcare legislation, we need to ask ourselves, `Is there a limit to
the federal government? Can it provide for all the needs of its
citizens?` The U.S. Constitution answers this by granting enumerated
powers to each of its three branches,” the JBS said. “The power to fund
or regulate healthcare is not granted to any branch of the federal
government, so according to the 9th and 10th Amendments, the states and
the people retain this power. If state legislatures want to offer
healthcare to citizens, then that battle should be fought there and not
within the U.S. Congress.”
Other liberty-minded organizations, meanwhile, blasted the new bill
for keeping in place huge swaths of ObamaCare, including many of the
worst provisions responsible for soaring costs and reduced care. “The
leadership calls this `repeal and replace,` but it is actually `retain
and renew,`” explained Campaign for Liberty President Norm Singleton,
whose organization urged members to contact Congress and ask that their
representatives oppose the scheme. “Like the so-called ObamaCare
replacement bill that was pulled from the floor last month, this new
bill preserves most of ObamaCare’s regulations and mandates. It also
retains the Republican version of the individual mandate that was a
centerpiece of Ryan’s original legislation.”
The grassroots leader also suggested that the consequences of this
bill would be disastrous for liberty, healthcare, and the GOP. “If Paul
Ryan succeeds in retaining and renewing ObamaCare, we may not get
another chance to repeal ObamaCare — at least not before the
government’s interference causes the health care system to collapse,”
Singleton warned, suggesting the GOP would now get the blame for the
looming crisis in healthcare. “And if this Republican Congress rams
through a phony repeal so they can issue press releases and run campaign
ads about how they repealed ObamaCare, they won’t deserve another
chance.”
The healthcare vote to keep much of ObamaCare follows another recent
betrayal of voters by establishment GOP lawmakers. Under the guise of
preventing what they claimed would be a “government shutdown,”
establishment Republicans in Congress joined with Democrats to pass a
massive spending bill filled with funding for virtually every
unconstitutional program and agency they campaigned against. Over 100
liberty-minded Republicans defected. Among other concerns, they noted
that the “stop-gap” bill funds abortion giant Planned Parenthood and
sanctuary cities, while specifically prohibiting any spending on Trump's
long-promised border wall.
The AHCA now goes to the Senate, where political analysts expect it
will undergo further changes to retain even more of ObamaCare. Trump has
insisted it will pass. But with Democrats, the United Nations,
and many crony special interests united against it — along with
potential opposition from some liberty-oriented GOP lawmakers and some
Big Government-minded Republicans — approval in the Senate remains far
from certain. Either way, Americans who supported Republican candidates
based on the promise that they would repeal ObamaCare are going to be
sorely disappointed once they find out what is in it. But the fight may
not be over yet.
TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER PROMOTING FREE SPEECH & RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
APOSTATE WORD OF FAITH PASTRIX PAULA WHITE STOOD CLOSE TO TRUMP IN PINK
Published on May 4, 2017
President
Trump marked the National Day of Prayer by signing an executive order
aimed at boosting religious freedom by easing IRS restrictions against
political activities by tax-exempt religious organizations, including
churches.
Declaring "no one should be censoring sermons," Trump
announced the order, which fulfilled a campaign pledge, during a Rose
Garden ceremony Thursday attended by religious leaders, activists and
Vice President Pence.
“We will not allow people of faith to be
targeted, bullied or silenced again and we will never stand for
religious discrimination,” Trump said before signing the order, which
states it is now administration policy is “to protect and vigorously
promote religious liberty.”
