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LEFTISTS ADMIT TO GROOMING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR TRANSGENDER CULT
A new video shows a trans activist at a city council meeting advocating
"grooming" the next generation of children. Faith Goldy joins Alex to
expose the leftist agenda to destroy America and the west by destroying
the family.
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If wrecking American sovereignty, lowering wages, and increasing the
public welfare load aren’t reasons enough to oppose the influx of
migrant invaders sitting in Tijuana, here is another: At least 30
percent of them are sick with communicable diseases they might spread to
Americans in schools, hospitals, welfare and employment offices, and
other public places. And by “sick,” officials in Mexico don’t mean the common cold. They mean serious disease.
Some of the migrants are turning around and heading home after months of traveling through Mexico, as The New American reported
today. But with a third of the 6,000 or so in Tijuana coughing and
breaking out in blisters, now is not the time for the Trump
administration to weaken. AIDS, TB, and Chickenpox That’s because the diseases many of the migrants carry are deadly — or can be.
“Out of 6,000 migrants currently residing in the city, over a third
of them (2,267) are being treated for health-related issues,” Fox News reported.
So far, officials have confirmed three cases of tuberculosis, four
cases of AIDS, and four separate cases of chickenpox, the network
reported.
Even worse, they’ve also brought in bugs. Real bugs. At least 101, Fox reported, carry lice and “skin infections.”
That means the migrants might well start a typhus epidemic or bring in chagas disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the body louse is the vector for the typhus bacterium, Rickettsia prowazekii.
“Epidemic typhus is spread to people through contact with infected
body lice,” CDC says. It noted the disease is uncommon these days,
although “epidemic typhus was responsible for millions of deaths in
previous centuries.” But cases continue to occur, in areas where extreme
overcrowding is common and body lice can travel from one person to
another.”
The Benito Juarez Sports Complex, where the migrants are housed, is
one such overcrowded area: 6,000 are packed into an area meant for
1,000.
Chagas is another of the many benefits the migrants might bring. And
unlike louse-borne typhus, chagas is not rare. It’s epidemic in Latin
America. Blood-scuking triatomine bugs cause the disease:
These blood-sucking bugs get infected by
biting an infected animal or person. Once infected, the bugs pass T.
cruzi parasites in their feces. The bugs are found in houses made from
materials such as mud, adobe, straw, and palm thatch. During the day,
the bugs hide in crevices in the walls and roofs. During the night, when
the inhabitants are sleeping, the bugs emerge. Because they tend to
feed on people’s faces, triatomine bugs are also known as “kissing bugs.”
Some eight million people in Mexico, Central America, and South America have it, and most don’t know it.
Officials also worry about a hepatitis outbreak because of the filth
in the Benito Juarez Sports Complex. “The location also has only 35
portable bathrooms,” Fox reported. “A sign reading ‘No Spitting’ was put up, as coughing and spitting by migrants are rampant in the shelter.” Multi-Drug Resistant TB Particularly worrisome is
how many of the migrants carry a particularly virulent form of TB that
is resistant to multiple antibiotics. Frightening data appeared in a
paper published last year by the National Center for Biotechnology
Information. It reported
that 37,684 immigrants with TB entered the United States between 2005
and 2009. The most, 24.1 percent, or 9,098, came from Mexico. Another
1,154, or 3.1 percent, came from Guatemala, while 853, or 2.3 percent,
came from Honduras, where the migrant invasion began.
But that’s TB generally. Of more concern are the multi-drug resistant
cases that came in: 482. Again, Mexico accounted for most of those: 66
or 13.7 percent. Fourteen Guatemalans had the disease, accounting for
about three percent. None, apparently, came from Honduras.
MDR TB is a pressing concern, CDC reports, because “it is resistant to ... the two most potent TB drugs ... used to treat all persons with TB.” Another 2,000 migrants are headed
for Tijuana. They will pack the sports complex even tighter. If the
33-percent figure for sick migrants in Tijuana now holds true for those
on the way, the town will be faced with another 660 very sick people.
Question: Is the United States expected to permit the entry of nearly
3,000 sick people, and if so, who will pay to treat their myriad
diseases?
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Beginning in 1977, the United Nations has observed the
"International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" every year
on November 29th. This is the date in 1947 when the UN General Assembly
approved its partition resolution envisaging the establishment of two
states – an independent state of Palestine and an independent Jewish
state of Israel. The Palestinians and their surrounding Arab neighbors
rejected the original two-state solution with their usual response -
violence. The creators of the Jewish state, on the other hand, were
willing to accept the partition compromise. Israel subsequently offered
the Palestinians a succession of opportunities for their own state,
which the Palestinian leadership has repeatedly rejected. Nevertheless,
the Palestinians, with a lot of help from their friends, have managed to
turn the United Nations into their propaganda arm. The highlight every
year is the UN’s treatment of the November 29th anniversary of its own
original two-state General Assembly partition resolution as, to quote
former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, a “day of mourning and a day of
grief.” To assuage its grief, the UN General Assembly passes annually a
series of blatantly one-sided anti-Israel resolutions, which have
deliberately overlooked decades of Palestinian terrorism aimed at
killing civilians.
Fiery anti-Israel speeches precede the
votes. The UN-sponsored pro-Palestinian forum known as the UN Committee
for the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People gets things started
at least a day in advance. This year, not content with leaving it to
the Palestinians’ friends among the member states to make their case,
the committee invited Marc Lamont Hill, a CNN commentator,
to the anti-Israel hatefest. CNN called Marc Lamont Hill “one of the
leading intellectual voices in the country.” This “intellectual”
advocated the use of violence if necessary as a legitimate form of
“resistance.” He supported the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and
Sanctions campaign against Israel and the so-called “right of
return.” He voiced the words that Palestinians have regularly used to
call for the end of the Jewish state: "a free Palestine from the river
to the sea." When criticized afterwards for using dog-whistle language
appealing to the anti-Semitic destroy Israel crowd, Hill did not
apologize. He argued that the “river to sea” expression
is “a phrase used by many factions, ideologies, movements, and
politicians. My reference to 'river to the sea' was not a call to
destroy anything or anyone. It was a call for justice, both in Israel
and in the West Bank/Gaza.” CNN was not buying Hill's lame explanation,
nor should anyone else who knows anything about the history of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most likely responding to public backlash
than acting on principle, CNN announced that “Marc Lamont Hill is no
longer under contract with CNN.”
The good news this year is
that for the first time the UN member states will not just be asked to
vote on the usual anti-Israel resolutions to mark the anniversary of the
General Assembly partition resolution. As a result of an initiative
promoted by the Trump administration, they will also have to decide
whether to approve a separate draft resolution condemning
Hamas for repeatedly firing rockets into Israel and for inciting
violence that put “civilians at risk.” The draft resolution also demands
that “Hamas cease all provocative actions and violent activity.” The
administration, led by U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, has
reportedly been negotiating the final text of the resolution with other
member states, which may require some tinkering while leaving the core
condemnation of Hamas intact. There is a particular focus on obtaining European Union support. Hamas is on the 28-member EU bloc's terrorism blacklist, which the European Court of Justice has upheld.
Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, who has been working with
Ambassador Haley on the anti-Hamas resolution, is cautiously optimistic
that there will be enough votes to approve it by majority vote. That
vote could occur by this Monday. However, even if the resolution does
not pass this time, Ambassador Danon considers the process itself,
forcing the member states to take a stand on Hamas terrorism, a win-win.
“The fact that now people are talking about Hamas, and that the
Palestinian Authority – we all know about its relations with Hamas – is
sweating to explain why they are suddenly in favor of Hamas, means we
have already won,” he said.
Past attempts by Nikki Haley to
have the UN Security Council and General Assembly condemn Hamas violence
have been thwarted by procedural obstacles invoked by the Palestinians’
enablers. This time, however, a straight up-and-down vote approving the
U.S. sponsored draft resolution by majority vote is a distinct
possibility, especially if the European nations do not weasel out of
doing the right thing. Hamas is apparently getting nervous that it may
no longer be able to count on the UN entirely for kid-glove treatment.
Thus, it has suddenly decided to launch a diplomatic offensive at the UN
and invoke “international law” to justify its campaign of terrorism
against civilians.
Like the criminal who murdered his parents
and then pleads for mercy on the grounds that he is now an orphan, Hamas
is reported to have sent a letter to the UN General Assembly President,
Maria Fernanda Spinosa, condemning the U.S. initiative. Ismail Haniyeh,
the head of Hamas' political bureau, wrote in his letter that “We
reiterate the right of our people to defend themselves and to resist the
occupation, by all available means, including armed resistance,
guaranteed by the international law.” He added that Hamas would "greatly
count on the members of the UN General Assembly [to] stand by
international legitimacy in support for the right of peoples to defend
themselves and thwart these aggressive American endeavors."
According to the twisted logic of the terrorist Hamas leadership,
“the right of peoples to defend themselves” includes the launch of
thousands of rockets aimed deliberately at civilian populations in
Israel and the use of Palestinian women and children as human shields.
In response to the Hamas letter, Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny
Danon, vowed that “Israel and the United States will continue to
mobilize the countries of the world into a united front against the
terrorism that Hamas engages in on behalf of Iran."
Hamas
forcibly took control of Gaza in 2007 from Fatah, the party loyal to
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Fatah had exercised
control in Gaza from the completion of Israel’s unilateral withdrawal
from Gaza in 2005 until Fatah's ejection in 2007. Fast forward to 2018.
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have still not reconciled,
undermining any reasonable claim of Palestinian readiness for genuine
statehood. Abbas has demanded that Hamas give up its weapons as a
condition for reconciliation. “I won’t accept the reproduction of the
Hezbollah experience in Lebanon” in Gaza, Abbas said last year. He has
also used economic leverage to squeeze Hamas, at the expense of the
Gazan people.
Despite Abbas’s in-fighting with Hamas for
control over Gaza and any future Palestinian state, he has
hypocritically decided to show solidarity with Hamas at the United
Nations. His Palestinian Authority has conducted its own campaign
against the proposed General Assembly resolution condemning Hamas’
violence. This hypocrisy puts a lie to any notion that Abbas has any
interest in compromising to negotiate a workable two-state solution
under which Israel and an independent Palestinian state can live side by
side securely in peace.
During the opening debate in the
General Assembly on the anti-Israel resolutions, Israeli Ambassador
Danon turned to the Palestinians and set out three conditions that would
lead to a new era in the region: "Recognize Israel as the nation-state
of the Jewish people; stop the terrorist payments and incitements; and
choose a leadership that is committed to the Palestinian people. Only
when these conditions materialize can we continue forward in the
region."
Abbas has no intention of meeting any of these
reasonable conditions for a durable peace. He would rather use Hamas to
violently provoke an Israeli military response that Abbas can then
exploit at the United Nations for propaganda purposes, portraying the
Palestinians as innocent victims of a brutal occupying power. Too often,
the UN has played by Abbas’s rules. Hopefully, Nikki Haley will succeed
in taking an important step forward to change those rules.
_____________________________________________________________ SEE ALSO: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/11/lebanons-security-chief-praises-jihad-terror-during-a-diplomatic-counter-terrorism-conference
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YouTube is still hosting content by race hate supremacists
David Duke and Louis Farrakhan months after it permanently banned Alex
Jones.
As part of the coordinated Big Tech purge
targeting Infowars, Jones’ YouTube channel, which had over 2 million
subscribers at the time, was completely removed by Google-owned YouTube
back in August.
Even videos uploaded by other users which briefly
feature Jones are still being removed, with the radio host having been
completely de-personned by the corporate giant.
However, the video platform is still hosting content from proven race hate hustlers Duke and Farrakhan.
David
Duke is an open white supremacist, an anti-Semite, a Holocaust denier
and a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke was credited with
having “paved the way” for the alt-right movement. He also attended the
far-right ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville at which an
alt-right terrorist rammed his car into a group of protesters, killing
one. Farrakhan is leader of the notorious Nation of Islam, which is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Farrakhan
has made numerous racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic statements,
including his belief that white people are a “race of devils” created by
an evil scientist. He has also compared Jews to “termites” and
stated, “Satanic Jews have infected the whole world with poison and
deceit,” while expressing support for terrorist group Hezbollah. The Nation of Islam leader also previously called on God to “wipe this country (America) from the face of the earth.” This kind of rhetoric is freely available on YouTube, where Farrakhan’s speeches are uploaded on an almost weekly basis. Duke’s
YouTube activity has dwindled over the last couple of years, but he
still has 85,000 subscribers and scores of video uploads with titles
like CNN Goldman Sachs & the Zio Matrix and The Dynamics of the
Jewish Elite.
We are not calling for Duke or Farrakhan to be
removed from YouTube because we believe that even highly offensive and
controversial speech should be protected.
However, the double standard illustrates how Big Tech only targets those with an effective and unifying message.
The
left has no problem with actual extremists, since their openly divisive
message can be exploited for political grist. Both Duke and Farrakhan
are extremely divisive and therefore are left alone.
Meanwhile,
someone like Jones, who is actually trying to promote a unifying, all
inclusive message around the ideals of western culture and freedom, has
been permanently deleted.
In a related issue, changes to YouTube’s
search algorithm (the second largest in the world) have helped
corporate media dominate independent creators.
Even when searching
directly for a particular video with the exact title, a search on
anything related to news brings up a wall of CNN, CBS and NBC.
YouTube literally broke their own search engine just so they could help the corporate media supplant its competition.
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Minnesota Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar is one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. She “lauded Jewish-Muslim cooperation in combating bigotry,” while stating that “like members of the Jewish community, I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs.” Omar is not hated for her religious beliefs. She is looked upon with suspicion and disgust because of her views, which are rooted in those beliefs. It is highly insulting to Jews for her to compare herself with them. Jews experience anti-Semitism purely for being Jewish. The Islamic states surrounding Israel have tried repeatedly to obliterate it since 1948 and still aim to do so solely because it is the Jewish state. Since obliterating Israel has not proved possible, the next step for Islamic supremacists has been to try to delegitimize the Jewish state through boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS). The BDS movement is based on the lie that Israel is oppressing the Palestinians, when Israel is merely trying to protect itself and its citizens and live in peace. The record of Ilhan Omar leaves much to be desired. She has accused Israel of “evil doings” when Israel launched an aerial campaign to defend itself against Hamas rocket attacks from Gaza. She has also accused Israel of hypnotizing the world, adding: “May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” Omar also supports BDS. In fact, Omar has “fought to make sure people’s right to support it [BDS] isn’t criminalised,” making her the “first member of Congress to publicly support the BDS movement.” She also has close ties with Hamas-linked CAIR — which did fundraising for her political campaign. Now Omar is deceptively saying: “Like members of the Jewish community, I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs.” No. She is opposed for her hateful actions.
“Ilhan Omar lauds Jewish-Muslim cooperation in fighting bigotry”, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 27, 2018:
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, lauded Jewish-Muslim cooperation in combating bigotry.
“Like members of the Jewish community, I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs,” Omar, who has stirred controversy in the Jewish community for attacks on Israel and suggesting she backed the boycott movement against the Jewish state, wrote Monday in an op-ed for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “But we know that we are stronger when we stand united against bigotry and hate.” Omar, until now a state lawmaker, has come under fire for calling Israel an “apartheid regime” and for saying it had “hypnotized the world” to ignore its “evil” treatment of Palestinians.
Her op-ed notes a spike in reports of hate crimes on Muslims and Jews, and last month’s massacre at a synagogue complex in Pittsburgh.
She cited instances where the communities stood up for each other.
Muslim organizations “raised more than $200,000 to support the victims and their families from the Tree of Life Synagogue,” she said. “I remember how, less than two years ago, Jewish Americans stood with their Muslim-American neighbors against the administration’s cruel travel ban. Eighteen rabbis were arrested as they protested the ban outside Trump Tower in New York.” Omar correlated the spike in hate attacks, reported by the FBI, to Donald Trump’s presidency. “The culture of intolerance spread by President Donald Trump has clearly emboldened racist individuals to acts of violence,” she said…. _______________________________________________________
Speaking of Hate, Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar Promotes It
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In her Minneapolis Star Tribune op-ed on the FBI’s just released 2017 Hate Crimes Report, Minnesota Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar presents herself as a sort of apostle of love. Omar decries the increase in reported hate crimes. However, she immediately attributes this increase to President Trump. As Omar puts it in her first paragraph: "The culture of intolerance spread by President Donald Trump has clearly emboldened racist individuals to acts of violence.” Something tells me that Omar’s message of love is a thinly disguised invitation to hate — to hate President Trump and his supporters, anyway.
Omar notes the increase in anti-religious hate crimes committed against Jews (up 37 percent) as well as the fact that Jews have been the foremost target of hate crimes since the FBI started keeping these statistics. But Omar doesn’t ask who is committing those crimes.
However, it isn’t long before she steps forward as a victim herself: "Like members of the Jewish community, I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs. Almost one in five hate crimes committed last year was motivated by religious bias, with 18.1 percent committed against Muslims — well above the historical averages before President Trump's election.” Omar habitually portrays herself as a victim. It’s an irritating tic. But she has not been the victim of any reported hate crime. A young refugee to the United States from Somalia, Omar was elected to Congress at the age of 36. This achievement must make her one of the most fortunate citizens of the United States. Her claim to victimhood represents the new style of American assimilation.
It might have been generous of Omar to note that the number of reported anti-Islam hate crimes actually decreased from the last year of the Obama administration (307 in 2016) to the first year of the Trump administration (273 in 2017). Perhaps President Trump deserves credit for spreading the love.
Yet one wonders if her column isn’t an example of what Trump calls fake news. While the FBI report shows the stated increase in reported hate crimes, it also notes in the first paragraph of its press release: "Although the numbers increased last year, so did the number of law enforcement agencies reporting hate crime data — with approximately 1,000 additional agencies contributing information.”
This raises the obvious question of whether the reported increase derives from the increase in the number of agencies reporting data. Omar has no genuine interest in that possibility. She doesn’t even see the issue, let alone raise it. Her interest is entirely argumentative and political. Omar quickly finishes with the 2017 report and moves on to the administration’s allegedly cruel “travel ban.” She invokes the specter of “Islamophobia.” According to Omar, "Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are two sides of the same bigoted coin.” Well, I doubt it. “Islamophobia” is a concept fervently promoted since 2000 by the Organization of the Islamic Conference. It seeks to stigmatize expressions of disapproval of Islam as irrational manifestations of fear and prejudice. Implicitly it seeks to make us afraid to talk about perfectly reasonable fears. Having become the home of some 100,000 Somali immigrants over the past 25 years, Minnesota badly needs to make room for honest discussion of the costs and benefits of continued immigration.
At my synagogue in St. Paul, we first hired off-duty police officers to stand guard during Saturday and Sunday school hours shortly after 9/11. We didn’t worry much about mass murder before then. And despite her self-portrait as an apostle of love, Omar is a proponent of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. She is, to put it bluntly, an Islamist hater of Israel. In a 2014 tweet during Israel’s hostilities with Hamas, for example, Omar prayed for “Allah to awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” In a May 31 tweet this year, she referred to Israel as an “apartheid regime.”
This comparison is a calumny of Israel, which draws no distinctions based on race. Israel has proudly rescued black Jews and offered them refuge. In addition, Israeli Arabs — an ethnic minority in the Jewish state — are afforded equal civil rights. They enjoy the right to vote in elections. They exercise rights of speech and religion. They have access to a robust free press. They serve in the Knesset and in the judiciary. They are the freest Arabs in the Middle East. Though Omar purports to distinguish between the Jewish state and the Jewish people, the true ground of her animus against Israel is necessarily anti-Semitic.
Omar soft-pedaled her support for BDS during her appearance before a large Democratic audience at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park the week before the competitive Democratic primary on Aug. 14, though she has proudly reiterated it since her election. During the campaign the Star Tribune kept her support of BDS a deep secret to voters who get their news from the paper. Although she holds herself out today in the Star Tribune an apostle of love, Ilhan Omar is an enthusiastic trader in one side of a bigoted coin.
LAURA LOOMER CHAINS HERSELF TO TWITTER HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK TO PROTEST CENSORSHIP OF CONSERVATIVES
Investigative reporter takes the information war into the third dimension
Laura Loomer reports from Twitter headquarters in NYC to protest her recent ban from the platform. Loomer has handcuffed herself to the front door of Twitter HQ to protest internet censorship of conservatives.
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Update: Laura Loomer had been taken into custody.
Police had cut the handcuffs and, according to a citizen-journalist, she
was taken to a police precinct. She discusses what happened below: "Far-right activist Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to Twitter's New
York City headquarters for about two hours on Thursday afternoon to
protest the company's banning her from the social media platform, then
asked police to remove her.
Loomer attached herself to the building's front door, blocking the
entrance to the building in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood in a
protest that was livestreamed on Periscope, which began at about 3:45
p.m. ET.
The video stream showed Loomer wearing on her chest a yellow Star of
David such as many European Jews were forced to wear during the
Holocaust, and a sweatshirt that read on the back, "#STOPTHEBIAS."
Twitter closed the conservative firebrand's account a week ago after she
posted a tweet criticizing Minnesota Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, a Democrat,
and her Muslim faith, calling Omar "anti Jewish" and pro-Sharia law.
At one point Thursday, Loomer yelled through the doors of Twitter's
building, telling its employees that they worked for an "evil" company.
She also yelled to a group of people who stood across the street, "They
don't want you guys to know the truth."
"I am not going to stand by as people like Jack Dorsey and Mark
Zuckerberg [try to] silence the voices of millions of conservatives,"
Loomer said.
She asserted that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey banned her as a "Jewish
conservative journalist," a phrase she yelled repeatedly while chained
to the building.
Twitter released a statement during her protest, saying, "We have
notified the relevant authorities who are responding. The account holder
was suspended for violating our policies. We apply the Twitter Rules
impartially and not based on ideology..."
#Twitter employee tries to knock down someone who was standing on a ladder by aggressively pushing on the door. Then he put his hands on #LauraLoomer by ripping away her sign from her hands she was using in protest. So... this is ok? #Qanon
ROBERT SPENCER VIDEO: LESSONS FOR TODAY'S FOREIGN POLICY FROM 1400 YEARS OF JIHAD
Have you read the book yet? Get The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIShere.
Here is the transcript, from FrontPage: Editor’s note: Below are the video and transcript
of remarks given by Robert Spencer at the David Horowitz Freedom
Center’s 2018 Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 15th-18th at
the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. Transcript:
Thank you very much, and yes indeed, The History of Jihad
is the first book that chronicles the entirety of the phenomenon of
jihad for 1,400 years. Not just the jihad against Europe, although
that’s very much a part of the book, but also the jihad against India
and the jihad elsewhere, also tying in the fact that the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict is itself a jihad, and of course, the
people who struck us on 9/11 were motivated by the exact same ideology
that has motivated the jihad conquests of the distant past and is still
with us very much today. Of course, one of the reasons why anybody is
interested in reading history or studying history is because of the old
adage “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat
it.” More to the point, really, is that if you do not learn from your
mistakes, you keep making the same mistakes again and again and
again. That’s U.S. foreign policy today, because of, in large part, a
lack of awareness and understanding of the nature and magnitude of the
jihad threat and of a complete lack of knowledge of the history of
jihad. So I thought this morning very briefly I’d give you three lessons
from history that could have a very great impact on foreign policy
today in the United States, were there to be sanity in the State
Department, which, of course, I know is at a premium.
Now, the first one is that nowhere in history, and this is something
to bear in mind when you’re thinking about the case of
Jamal Khashoggi, who is, of course, the sainted and martyred journalist
who was killed by the Saudis. He was actually a pro-Al Qaeda Muslim
Brotherhood operative who was killed by the Saudis, so there are no good
guys in that story. But in light of it, it is important to remember
that when you look through and examine and study the history of Islam
for 1,400 years, there has never been a lasting alliance between a
Muslim state and a non‑Muslim state. It would be nice if there had
been. There were some sort-term alliances of convenience, but that’s
another problem as well.
For example, John VI Kantakouzenos was a Byzantine emperor in the
middle of the 14th century. There was a claimant to the Byzantine
imperial throne who disputed his claim, so he asked his pal, the Ottoman
sultan, to help him by sending some armies into Europe to fight against
the rival claimant. Very fruitful alliance for John
VI Kantakouzenos, except that the Ottomans entered Europe. They have not
left yet. The Turks still control the area around what was known as the
City of Adrianople. That is their claim to be part of the European
Union, which they are still pushing. More to the point, the Ottomans
never gave up trying to destroy the Byzantine Empire, even though they
had made various alliances with not just John VI, but other Byzantine
emperors.
The Byzantine emperors were not thinking about the reality of the
jihad imperative, that an Islamic state that is avowedly an Islamic
state and is dedicated to Islamic principles is going to be aware of the
Islamic imperative to wage war against unbelievers, and to conquer and
subjugate them. It may well make use of those unbelievers at various
points for its own advantage, but it will never be friends with those
unbelievers. As a matter of, there’s a famous passage in the Koran that
says, “Do not take Jews and Christians as your friends.” This has often
been dismissed by Islamic apologists, who say that doesn’t mean that any
individual Muslim won’t be your pal. That it means that an Islamic
state must not ally with a non-Muslim state. Well, okay, that’s a lesson
in itself as well.
So when we consider Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia finds the United
States useful. The United States finds Saudi Arabia useful. President
Trump may have some very good reasons right now to maintain the alliance
with Saudi Arabia because of his predecessor’s disastrous policies that
empowered and enabled and strengthened the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Another lesson from history is that Sunnis and Shia hate each
other. They hate infidels more, but they do hate each other, and have
been waging jihad against each other for 1,400 years, as well as against
infidels. So the Saudis and the Iranians will never be friends. They
will always be rivals. They will always be at odds. So when Iran was so
strengthened and it used the billions that Obama showered upon it to
finance Hezbollah and Hamas and Islamic jihad and even Al Qaeda and the
Taliban, then the President is right to try to keep the Saudis on our
side and make sure that they stand as a bulwark against Iran. Otherwise,
Iranian power could directly threaten the survival of the free world.
The Saudis, however, are not a benign thing. I think that anybody who
might have been carried away and thought that Mohammad bin Salman was a
genuine reformer ought to have been awakened by the fact that not only
was Khashoggi killed, but he’s not the only journalist who the Saudis
have recently killed. Mohammad bin Salman has also imprisoned the
activists who called for women to be able to drive. So you see, he
allowed women to drive, then he arrested everybody who wanted it.
Now, why would he do that? You see, it’s crazy, but he’s not
nuts. What he’s doing is trying to present Saudi Arabia as a more benign
nation to encourage foreign investment, especially when the long-term
trends for oil prices are going down. Then he can attract business into
Saudi Arabia, but that doesn’t mean that he wants any dissenters of any
kind or any challenges of any kind to the rule of the House of Saud.
That brings me to the second lesson from Islamic history. There has
never been a Western-style secular republic that was based on Islamic
principles. Now, that is very carefully worded, because Turkey, of
course, was a Western-style secular republic up until quite
recently. You might have thought it still was, but
actually Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, has been very
systematically and persistently dismantling Kemalist secularism and
restoring Turkey as an Islamic state. One of the ways he did that was to
decapitate the military, which had always been the guardians of Turkish
secularism. Now, talking about learning the lessons of history,
consider this. Secularism was imposed upon Turkey; it was never a ground
up, ground roots movement. Talk about astroturfing, it’s an excellent
example of it.
What happened was this. Kemal Ataturk, after World War I, though he
was unique in the Islamic world, unique in Islamic history, in saying
the reason why our country is in the dumpster right now is because of
Islam. So if we’re going to proper, we need to imitate the nations that
have prospered, and that’s the West. So we’re going to limit the power
of political Islam and imitate the West. This is the only time this has
happened in Islamic history, and he established secular Turkey on that
basis. What he did was very popular at the time in Constantinople and
Ankara, the two largest cities in Turkey, and not popular at all in the
countryside. There were several times before Erdogan was elected that
other people who wanted to restore Islamic law were elected to positions
of power in Turkey. Every time that happened, the military would topple
them from power. So the military preserved Turkey as a Western-style
secular republic for the large part of the 20th century. Then what
happened?
Early in the 21st century, there were very large indications that
there was going to be another military coup in Turkey. Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice warned the Turkish military that the United
States was the guardian of democracy and would not accept any military
coup in Turkey. Because of that now, Turkey has become not an ally of
the United States, but a rapidly re‑Islamizing nation that directly
aided ISIS. John Kerry went to Turkey a few years ago when he was
Secretary of State and he said, “Could you please stop buying ISIS
oil?,” and they refused. Erdogan is famous for having allowed thousands
of foreign jihadis to cross through Turkey into the ISIS domains in Iraq
and Syria. They would say, “You have to fight ISIS. You’re in NATO. You
have to do something about this.” He would say okay, and bomb the
Kurds. He never fought ISIS, because he wanted to co-opt their caliphate
into his own restored caliphate. But since in the State Department they
don’t know what a caliphate is, they don’t know anything about history,
and they don’t what the pillars of Turkish secularism were, they set
this up. They made this happen. That’s what is a classic example of not
knowing the past and thus repeating the same mistakes, and being
condemned to repeat the same misery all over again.
The third lesson from Islamic history is that there’s never been a
shortage of non‑Muslims who are willing to help the jihad. There have
always been plenty of them, and it never works out for them. Take, for
example, the conquest of Spain. All of us in the room here know probably
that Spain was conquered by Islamic armies staring in the year
711. They had the whole country conquered by 718 and they ruled it for
700 years until they themselves were – this is one of the few times this
has happened in history — pushed out of Spain, and by 1492 Spain was an
entirely Christian nation, as it had been before the conquest. But
fewer people know how the conquest came about.
What happened was there was a Christian leader, Count Julian of
Ceuta. Ceuta is in what is now Morocco, and it’s still a Spanish
possession. Many of you are no doubt aware that Ceuta and Melilla are
two enclaves that are in Morocco, in North Africa, but they’re part of
Spain. Right now, they’re being overrun by migrants from Africa, who go
and climb the fence in Ceuta, and then they’re in Europe even though
they’re not. They’re in North Africa. They’re in Spain, and so they are
entitled to all the guarantees of protection that the European Union is
giving to the migrants. But Count Julian of Ceuta, long ago, he sent his
daughter to the court of King Roderick, the Visigothic king of Spain,
in order to have her educated. But King Roderick, the Visigothic king of
Spain, treated interns rather like Bill Clinton did. So Count Julian
was enraged and appalled when he heard what had happened. So he went to
his friend Tarek ibn Ziyad, who was the leader of the local Muslim
region of Morocco right next to Ceuta. He said, “I’ll help you get
across the strait,” because this is what had stymied the Muslims. They
had boats, but every time they set sail across the Strait of Gibraltar,
then they would find that the Spanish would put their defenses up,
because they would see them coming. They weren’t moving all that fast in
those days.
So Count Julian gave them his boats, so that when the Spanish who
were manning the defenses saw them coming they thought, “Oh that’s our
friend Count Julian,” and they did not put up their defenses or have the
army ready. So Tarek ibn Ziyad got to Spain and he decamped his army,
and then he had ordered the boats burned, which I think was rather
ungracious of him, since they were a loaner. But what he was saying was,
“We’re here to stay. We’re going to stay here. We’re going to conquer
this place or we’re going to die here, but we’re not going back,” and he
conquered Spain courtesy of County Julian. Interestingly enough, a few
years back there was a big controversy some of you may recall in
Minneapolis, about a charter school, a public school that got public
funds but was essentially a madrassa, an Islamic school. It got public
funds and was a public school, but they had Qur’an study. They had
prayers during school time, and so on. People got wind of this. There
was a controversy. Ultimately, the school was shut down although it
started right back up again, but that’s another story. The controversy
was raging all this time, I was puzzled because nobody ever in any of
the coverage that I ever saw about the controversy, nobody ever stopped
to ask, “Wait, a minute, who is this Tarek ibn Ziyad that the school is
named for? Why is it called Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy?” Tarek ibn Ziyad,
remember, was the Muslim conqueror of Spain who burned the
boats. Probably anybody in Minneapolis who ever gave it a moment’s
thought, thought that he was some Muslim John Dewey or something, some
sort of great educator. But in reality, he was the great conqueror of
Spain, the guy who burned the boats and said, “We’re here to conquer or
die.”
Now, why do you think a Muslim school in Minneapolis would call
itself Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy? What could be the lesson there? What do
you think they were trying to say? But of course, nobody knows
who Tarek ibn Ziyad was, and so nobody thought to ponder the
significance of the name. Now in any case, Count Julian was by no means
alone in his sponsorship of the Islamic jihad and his aid for its
advance. There have been numerous non‑Muslims who have been similarly
helpful to the jihad cause throughout history.
Another primary example came in Arabia at the end of the 18th century
and along into the middle of the 19th. At that time, Arabia was
nominally under the control of the Ottoman Empire. But there came to be a
revivalist movement in Arabia at that time, and there was a gentleman
who claimed to be the great Muslim reformer. A lot of people say, “We
have to put our hopes on Islamic reform and we can hope that Islamic
reform will happen, and then all our troubles will be over.” Well, I got
news for you. Islamic reform has already happened. It happened it
started in the middle part of the 18th century in Arabia. This guy said
the Ottomans had added all these things into Islam. He was going to
strip them out and get back to the basics. He personally stoned an
adulteress to death and showed how eager he was in doing so to enforce
Islamic law. He got a wide following because he did that. He gained the
aid of a local chieftain in Arabia, and they began to make war against
the Ottomans and the other Arab chieftains in the area.
In the middle of the 19th century, this man’s movement — it became
known as the Wahhabi movement because his name was
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the chieftain who helped him
was Ibn Saud who, of course, later became recognized as founder of the
Saudi clan which today rules Saudi Arabia. But they were just one of a
number rival Arab chieftains at the time, and Muslim preachers who were
vying for control of Arabia and all fighting the Ottomans, but they got
noticed by the British. The British thought, “Hey, we want to fight the
Ottomans. We can use these guys,” and it seemed like a good idea, right?
Because the Ottoman Empire is the global caliphate, which is the
foremost exponent of offensive and aggressive jihad. So the British
started paying money to the Wahhabis in the middle of
the 19th century. They sponsored the Saudis to create Saudi Arabia after
World War I. They actually decided who was going to be in power in
Arabia and gave Jordan to the loser. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan —
the Hashemites are not from that area. They’re Arabs, Arabians, but they
lost the struggle with the Saudis, and so they got Jordan as a
consolation prize. The Saudis, meanwhile, struck oil in 1938, and they
used their billions to finance this virulent and violent understanding
of Islam that Wahhab had originated. They spread it all around the world
in areas where a cultural form of Islam had become a little bit more
benign. So it’s really courtesy of the British that we have the revival
of global jihad and the creation of jihad terrorist groups in the middle
of the 20th century, because had it not been for the British, the
Saudis would never have been much of anything and then they would never
have been the beneficiaries of the oil strike, and never would have been
able to finance the global jihad today. So I think we owe the British
government a great debt of gratitude for that.
In any case, I hope that this has briefly made it clear why it’s so
important to understand history and particularly this very, very
untraveled bit of history, the history of jihad, which I think is one of
the most crucial stories of all human history and one of the least
known. So this is one of the reasons why I wrote the book. I’m hoping
that there will be a genuine change in the public discussion as a result
of some of the things that are made clear in the book, that will in
turn themselves make clear that a great deal of our foreign and also
domestic policy is based on false assumptions, wrong assumptions,
wishful thinking and outright fantasy. Thank you very much. Audience member:
Do you have time for one question? Robert:
Okay. We have time for one question, ladies and gentleman. We can auction it to the highest bidder and fundraise. Question:
Hi, thank you for being here. I’m currently at university, and
professors all love to talk about the Islamic golden age and how it was
rational and they saved the Renaissance and all these types of
things. Were those people adhering to Islamic belief? Were they ignoring
it, or am I being lied to as a student? Robert:
Yes, yes and yes. The fact is that the Islamic golden age was part real
and part fiction. There were great Islamic empires and there were
Islamic philosophers, and there was a time when there was peace between
Jews, Christians, and Muslims particularly in Spain. However, the time
that there was peace between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Spain was
only when the Jews and Christians knew their place, accepted their
second-class status, and submitted to the hegemony of the Muslims. When,
as a matter of fact, in the year 1066, the local Muslim leader in
Granada appointed a Jew as the vizier of the city. Now, this was because
he knew this guy and they were friends. Human nature is everywhere the
same. Sometimes people ignore laws, but the law is that a non-Muslim
must not have authority over a Muslim. So the people were incited, and I
described this in the book. The people were incited by a poet who wrote
a poem about how terrible it was that the Jews were ruling over
them. They were incited to riot. It was a terrible pogrom, and 4,000
people were murdered. This was because the people knew that a Jew must
not hold authority over a Muslim. That was wonderful, tolerant Muslim
Spain. That’s just one example of many that I could give you.
The inventions, the great innovations, a lot of that is just sheer
nonsense. It also begs the further question, when people talk about all
the wonderful things — like I hear that 100 years before Copernicus,
some Muslim astronomer discovered the same thing that Copernicus did,
that the sun doesn’t revolve around the earth, wasn’t that it? Then
you’ve just got to wonder, well, okay. Well, that led to a great deal of
innovation and further discovery in Europe, what happened in the
Islamic world? The great Islamic philosophers, they did influence
Aquinas, and they had a great deal to do with the Enlightenment and the
Renaissance in Europe, but in Islam, you only know Averroes and Avicenna
and a few other others, because after that they were declared
heretical. There was Al-Ghazali, who was himself a great philosopher,
and wrote The Incoherence of the Philosophers, saying that the
philosophers contradict the Qur’an and must be killed. That had a bit of
a chilling effect on Islamic philosophy.
What you have also nowadays, because there’s such an apologetic
effort to sell Islam to the West, you have a lot of people saying, “The
first hospital was in Baghdad under the Umayyad Caliphate.” Well, in the
first place, the first hospital was many years before that, but in
reality the hospital in Baghdad was run by Christians and Jews who were
under Islamic rule, so that’s not really something that’s to the credit
of Islam and on and on and on.
Nowadays there’s a tremendous public relations effort to rewrite
history, to manipulate people into thinking. For example, Akbar Ahmed is
a professor at American University, and he’s written a book called
Journey into Europe, that he actually recommends a new al-Andalus for
Europe, which is essentially saying he wants Europe to be conquered by
Islam. He presents that as this wonderful golden age that your
professors tell you about, but in reality al-Andalus was nowhere any of
us would want to live, and if we did, we would suffer to a great
degree. So knowing history is good. It’s being used as a weapon today to
manipulate you to accept public policies of nowadays. So it’s very
important to be informed. Thanks very much.
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(Friday Church
News Notes, November 30, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org,
866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “China Mandates
Surveillance as Religious Persecution Rises,” an interview with Bob Fu, The Stream,
Nov. 14, 2018: “President Xi Jinping considers Christians one of the
greatest threats to his power. Underground churches are listed as one of
the ‘new black five’ national security threats in China. It’s new under
this president for churches to be classified as a national security
threat. The government-sanctioned churches that are allowed
to exist right now have unique restrictions. Each church has to install
a facial-recognition camera in front of the pulpit. The purpose is to
identify certain people in the congregation. Many classes of people are
banned from entering into any church. These include young people under
18 years old, college students, doctors or medical professionals, civil
servants, military members and educators. If they’re found, immediately
their boss or a government official will be speaking with them. These
are huge ramifications right now. It really began after President Xi
Jinping took office in 2012. He is now nicknamed ‘Emperor Xi’ since he
successfully removed his term limits in March of this year. When he took
power, the mass forced demolition of crosses started in Zhejiang
province. That area is called the Jerusalem of China. ... These are
government-sanctioned churches. The house churches do not have buildings
or a cross. ... On February 1 of this year, a new law called
‘Regulations on the Administration of Religious Affairs’ took effect.
Things have become dramatically even worse. Bible-burning campaigns are
happening across China. ... China is perhaps the world’s most
sophisticated surveillance police state. It’s beyond anything the U.S.
does. Some of these efforts are aided by greedy American companies. ...
Apple decided to remove all virtual private networks from Apple Stores
across China. They have a segregated Chinese version of the Apple
iCloud. Supposedly this China iCloud is still part of Apple, offering
iTunes content. But it’s totally controlled by the Chinese government.
Cisco and Google are similar. China has the most cameras in the whole
world, on every street corner. These facial recognition cameras are part
of their dynamic monitoring system. They can follow you anywhere. If
you drive a car, they can quickly track your license plate. If you buy a
train or bus ticket, as soon as you swipe your card, you are
classified. I noted how China has five categories of dangerous people.
Now China is also building the world’s largest so-called ‘social credit’
system. If you get a traffic ticket, then one point of morality is
deducted. If you are found in the underground church, your social score
is essentially zero. You lose your right to buy airplane tickets. Last
week, I was in South Korea attending a house church leadership
conference. But 240 out of 300 church leaders were blocked in Chinese
airports, even including Hong Kong, and declared as national security
threats. They were not allowed to board the flight when they checked in
to Customs.”BEIJING DEBUTS PLAN TO MONITOR BEHAVIOR OF EVERY RESIDENT
(Friday
Church News Notes, November 30, 2018, www.wayoflife.org,
fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from
“Beijing Debuts,” Breitbart.com, Nov. 23, 2018: “Beijing plans to reward
and punish its residents based on data that will be collected from
various departments monitoring citizens’ social behavior, according to a
detailed ‘action plan’ posted on Monday to the city’s municipal
website.By
the beginning of 2020, the announcement declares, China’s capital city
will have all residents officially locked into the permanent
surveillance program, part of a broader effort to have every Chinese
citizen rated on a ‘social credit system’ decreeing what public services
a person can use based on their obedience to laws and loyalty to the
communist regime.The
government will use the data collected to assess citizens’ behavior to
decide if an individual is law-abiding and ‘trustworthy’ to the
Communist Party.Residents
who behave properly in the eyes of the Chinese government will receive
high credit scores, while residents who misbehave will receive low
scores, causing them to lead more difficult lives. ‘Efforts
will be made to build a market supervision mechanism with corporate
credit as the core,’ states Beijing’s municipal website, adding that it
will explore the implementation of what it calls ‘the personal integrity
project,’ which will utilize residents’ credit scores for ‘market
access, public services, tourism,’ and ‘fields such as entrepreneurship
and job hunting.’Higher
scores can also open the ‘green channel,’ which will expedite
residents’ applications for higher quality ‘education and medical
resources.’ ‘Those
who violate the law and lose trust will pay a heavy price,’ adds the
government website, stating that it will ‘improve the blacklist system’
and that residents will find themselves ‘limited everywhere, and
difficult to move’ if they are deemed untrustworthy by the Communists in
control.”
"“[Chick-fil-A] have come out publicly, and they have contributed to
organizations that have been anti-LGBTQ, so that doesn’t align with our
wanting to have a place where people feel comfortable and that Rider is a
place that’s inclusive and welcoming,” Friedman-Krupnick said in an
interview with The Rider News on Nov. 12." "The email stated that “as an institution of higher learning, we
believe strongly in the open exchange of ideas and positions —
especially around a complex issue such as this one.”" "Although this was what was written to Rider’s community, Aminov said
that the administration’s actual stance on free speech is hypocritical
and limiting."
“In my opinion, the university only encourages free thinking as long as students think the way they want them to,” Aminov said."
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Chick-Fil-A is not welcome at Rider University. Rider
is a modestly-sized liberal arts university in Lawrenceville, New
Jersey. During the spring semester of 2018, administrators distributed a
survey in which students were asked about which restaurant franchises
they’d prefer to see locate to their campus. Most students chose Chick-Fil-A above and beyond any other option. And yet Rider—again, after inquiring into their preferences—refuses
to honor students’ wishes on the grounds that Chick-Fil-A’s “corporate
values have not sufficiently progressed enough to align with those of
Rider.” According to Campus Reform, a
subsequent email explaining the administration’s decision was sent to
the student body. Evidently, Chick-Fil-A fails to “promote…inclusion
for all people.”
Julia Pickett, a political science major and
junior at Rider, objected to Rider’s decision, telling Campus Reform
that since Chick-Fil-A “sell[s] chicken,” its corporate values shouldn’t
be “the focus.” She added: “If people didn’t want to buy their food
then they don’t have to.”
Pickett also shared what she takes to be the real reason that accounts for Rider’s decision:
“I think that the administration of Rider felt that having Chick-Fil-A
on campus would cause unwanted controversy and felt that the easiest
fix was to find another restaurant.” This being said, the
administration should “be honest about it though instead of trying to
cover it as a deep offense to the school.”
The Rider Assistant
Vice President of Student Affairs, Jan Friedman-Krupnick, informed
Campus Reform that both he and the University find it “important…that
all voices are heard.” However, while it’s correct that Chick-Fil-A is
(most) popular amongst students, “there are members of the community
(faculty, staff, and students) who strongly opposed the option as well.”
Of course, as anyone who has been paying any attention to the cultural
landscape for the last so many years knows all too well, Chick-Fil-A is
anathema to the political and ideological left for no other reason than
that it’s a traditionally Christian corporation. As such, it creates
employment opportunities for people young and not-so-young, male and
female, and the members of every conceivable racial, ethnic, and
religious background while insisting upon the highest quality of
customer service. Moreover, Chick-Fil-A has managed to become a
remarkably successful company, in many instances blowing away the
competition, even as it closes every Sunday to observe the Christian day
of rest.
Also in keeping with its Christian vision,
Chick-Fil-A continues to affirm what all peoples in all places and at
all times have always affirmed until pretty recently, namely, that
marriage is an inherently heterosexual union.
Chick-Fil-A, in other words, refuses to celebrate “same-sex marriage.”
But even this way of putting the matter is misleading. As such, it
reinforces precisely the narrative that the left has shaped in its
campaign to demonize one of the finest businesses in the country.
Chick-Fil-A is a family-operated business that was founded by S.
Truett Cathy. Back in 2012, its president and chief operating officer,
Dan Cathy, made an appearance on a radio program during which he made
the following comments:
“I think we are inviting God’s
judgement on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, ‘We know
better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’”
Cathy
went on to confess that he prays that God extends His “mercy on our
generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we
have the audacity to define what marriage is about.”
A month
later, when asked about Chick-Fil-A’s “support of the traditional
family” and the opposition against it, Cathy replied:
“We are very much supportive of the family—the Biblical definition of the family unit.”
Cathy elaborated:
“We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are
married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that…We want to do
anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much
committed to that.”
Cathy insisted that, despite the pressures
that leftist activist groups were bringing to bear upon his family’s
business, Chick-Fil-A had every intention of “stay[ing] the course.” He
concluded: “We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but
thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and
operate on biblical principles.”
Chick-Fil-A has donated money
to organizations known for their opposition to “same-sex marriage,”
organizations like the Pennsylvania Family Institute, the Family
Research Center, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. But notice:
the business whose “exclusive” or “anti-gay” “corporate values” are
allegedly incompatible with those of Rider University hasn’t a single
policy that so much as remotely speaks to the question of homosexuality,
to say nothing of “same-sex marriage.” Cathy was speaking to the
Christian vision of his family, a vision that is not only compatible
with, but which actually demands that gays, along with every other human being, be treated with the God-given dignity that inheres in all persons.
In other words, a person’s homosexual orientation is utterly
irrelevant to obtaining either a job or characteristically superb
customer service at Chick-Fil-A. Yet perhaps it is ultimately this Christian vision that Rider University finds incompatible with its values. _____________________________________________________ SEE ALSO: https://www.advocate.com/business/2018/11/26/anti-lgbtq-chick-fil-not-welcome-new-jerseys-rider-university EXCERPTS: ""Chick-fil-A was removed as one of the options based on the company's
record widely perceived to be in opposition to the LGBTQ+ community,”
Rider president Gregory G. Dell’Omo and vice president for student
affairs Leanna Fenneberg wrote in a letter to students posted Friday." ______________________________________________________
University Refuses Students Non-Progressive Chick-fil-A On Campus | Katie Petrick
