SAN FRANCISCO: JURY VERDICT: PRO-LIFE GROUP MUST PAY $2 MILLION IN DAMAGES TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOR UNDERCOVER VIDEOS OF BABY PARTS SALES

SAN FRANCISCO: JURY VERDICT: PRO-LIFE GROUP MUST PAY $2 MILLION IN DAMAGES TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOR UNDERCOVER VIDEOS 

OF BABY PARTS SALES

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: https://christiannews.net/2019/11/16/jury-pro-life-group-must-pay-2-million-in-damages-to-planned-parenthood-for-undercover-videos/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A jury deciding a civil suit in California has awarded Planned Parenthood over $2 million after finding that pro-life activist David Daleiden and his Center for Medical Progress (CMP) caused “substantial harm” by posing as members of a biomedical procurement company and secretly recording their discussions with Planned Parenthood leadership in order to expose the abortion giant’s practices.

Daleiden and his colleague, Sandra Merritt, attended abortion industry conferences from 2013 to 2015 under the names Robert Sarkis and Susan Tennenbaum and with the impression that they were representatives of a company they called BioMax Procurement Services. They recorded their conversations as they sought to learn about Planned Parenthood’s abortion practices and harvesting partnerships.

CMP then publicly released video footage of the undercover investigation, showing various Planned Parenthood leaders and representatives of biomedical companies callously discussing extracting unborn children from the womb so that their body parts can be collected and sold for research.

“We’ve been using them for over 10 years, really a long time, [and we] just kind of renegotiated the contract,” Katherine Sheehan, the medical director for Planned Parenthood Pacific Southwest, said of Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) in one video. “They’re doing the big collections for government-level collections and things like that.”

“I literally have had women come in and they’ll go to the OR and they’re back out in three minutes, and I’m going, ‘What’s going on?’” Parrin Larton of ABR also explained. “Oh yeah, the fetus was already in the [birthing] canal. Whenever we put her in the stirrups, it just fell out.”

“But most of the time, it is not intact,” she added. “The abdomen is always ripped open.. … Everything will just get ripped up, you know. Whenever we have a smooth portion of liver, we think that’s good, because most of the time, just the instruments they go in to pull and it’s just whatever presents first.”

The Senate Judiciary Committee released a report in light of the videos outlining its finding that ABR, StemExpress and Novogenics Laboratories purchased the bodily organs of aborted babies from California Planned Parenthood locations, and then resold them at substantially higher prices.

“[I]n June of 2014, an ABR technician obtained a 20-week-old fetus at a Planned Parenthood clinic, for which it paid $60,” the committee outlined. “From that one fetus, ABR sold its brain to one customer for $325, both of its eyes for $325 each ($650 total) to a second customer, a portion of its liver for $325 to a third customer, its thymus for $325 and another portion of its liver for $325 to a fourth customer, and its lung for $325 to a fifth customer.”

But Planned Parenthood accused Daleiden of initiating a smear campaign to try to harm its organization and soon sued CMP over the matter, alleging fraud, trespass, breach of conduct, and eavesdropping as part of a conspiracy under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).

“The defendants’ plan here was not to find crimes, and it was not about journalism. It was about using any means, including illegal means, to destroy Planned Parenthood,” Planned Parenthood attorney Rhonda Trotter asserted during the six-week trial, according to Courthouse News. 

Outlets state that U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick III instructed the jury to find Daleiden guilty of trespass.

“I have already determined that these defendants trespassed at each of these locations. Because I determined that these defendants trespassed, the law assumes that Planned Parenthood has been harmed and is entitled to an award of nominal damages such as one dollar for each trespass,” he advised on Thursday.

Orrick also told jurors that they could not take into account any information that Daleiden discovered during his investigation but only what he knew before launching the undercover project.

“The First Amendment is not a defense to the claims in this case for the jury to consider,” Orrick additionally wrote prior to the trial, according to Courthouse News. “Defendants’ argument that they were citizen journalists was admissible as context for the defendants’ case, not as a legal defense.”

Jurors consequently concluded that Daleiden’s actions constituted the malice and fraud elements required in order to award Planned Parenthood punitive damages, settling on a payment of $870K. Another $470K in compensatory damages was granted for “security upgrades” and screening, and CMP estimates the total damages, when RICO is factored, to be nearly $2.3 million.

Planned Parenthood has expressed satisfaction with the ruling, with attorney Trotter remarking in a statement, “The jury has spoken loud and clear. Those who violate the law in an effort to limit access to reproductive rights and health care will be held accountable.”

However, Daleiden believes the entire lawsuit was simply retaliation for publicly exposing Planned Parenthood’s practices and partnerships, and that Orrick was not just in his judgment. His legal team plans to appeal.

“Justice was not done today in San Francisco. While top Planned Parenthood witnesses spent six weeks testifying under oath that the undercover videos are true and Planned Parenthood sold fetal organs on a quid pro quo basis, a biased judge with close Planned Parenthood ties spent six weeks influencing the jury with pre-determined rulings and suppressing the video evidence, all in order to rubber-stamp Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit attack on the First Amendment,” he said in a statement.

“This lawsuit is payback for David Daleiden exposing Planned Parenthood’s dirty business of buying and selling fetal parts and organs,” also remarked Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society, which is representing Daleiden in court. “Rather than face up to its heinous doings, Planned Parenthood chose to persecute the person who exposed it. I am fully confident that when this case has run its course, justice will prevail, and David will be vindicated.”

The two note that Planned Parenthood admitted during the trial that the video footage accurately represented the conversations and that the organization had been compensated by its business partners for the “specimens.”

INTERFAITH HEALING WITH A GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY IMAM (PART 2)

INTERFAITH HEALING WITH A GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY IMAM (PART 2) 

BY HUGH FITZGERALD

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/interfaith-healing-with-a-georgetown-imam-part-2; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Yahya Hendi has made some large claims about the supposed Muslim presence, and influence, in America since the country’s earlist days. This too is a common interfaith theme; it is Obama’s “Islam has always been part of America’s story.”

One aspect Hendi would like to educate attendees on is American Muslims’ contributions to the U.S.

“Many people do not know that Islam is a uniquely American experience as well. American Muslims have been part of America since its inception,” he said.

That means the Muslim faith goes back further in the shaping of America than many people realize.

No, there is no “uniquely American” version of Islam. Islam everywhere remains based on the same Qur’an and the same Hadith. Muslims obviously have had a different experience in America than they have had, for example, in France or Sweden, but the Islam taught and practiced in France, Sweden, and America remains the same.

As for the claim that “Muslims have been part of America since its inception,” this claim which is now made so frequently by apologists has no basis in fact. In the last few decades, exaggerated claims have been made for the numbers of slaves in America who were Muslims. First came a claim of 5%, then 15%, then 20%, and now we hear that “30% of the slaves were Muslims.” There is no evidence supplied for any of these figures: they are simply made up out of whole cloth, or plucked from the air. What we do know is that no slave-trader, no slave-owner, and no slaves themselves, appeared to have noticed any Muslims in their midst, as they surely would have had there been any. Or rather, none were mentioned save for a handful – fewer than ten — whose names are endlessly repeated. The three most noted are Omar ibn Said,  Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (Job ben Solomon), and Abdul-Rahman ibn Ibrahim Sori. There is evidence, then, that at most one-hundredth of 1% of the slaves, not 30%, may have been Muslims.

We next find Islam as “part of America since its inception” with the building of the first mosque, in 1929, in Ross, North Dakota, a tiny one-room structure that could fit a dozen people. Then, in 1934, the “mother mosque” in America was built in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. These two mosques do not suggest much of a Muslim presence. There was, however, an Arab Christian presence, an emigration that began in 1880 and continued until 1924 (when the immigration laws were changed), consisting of those who fled the Ottoman-ruled lands, chiefly Syria and Lebanon, to escape Muslim oppression. These immigrants formed such Arab neighborhoods as Little Syria in New York, but these communities had nothing to do with Islam. Nonetheless, one finds Muslim propagandists today suggesting that Christian enclaves such as Little Syria were in fact “Muslim,” in order to backdate and exaggerate the Muslim presence in the United States.

“How many people know that Thomas Jefferson read the Quran?,” he [Yahya Hendi] asked.

No one knows if Jefferson read the Qur’an he bought, as he bought thousands of other books, because he was a curious and learned man. Muslims have made much of his owning a Qur’an, suggesting slyly that he must have read the book and admired it. But the evidence is strong that he did not read it, for he habitually left notes on all his reading, and there is nothing he wrote about the Qur’an. Instead, there is evidence that in his dealings with the North African Muslims, he was horrified by their attitude toward non-Muslims. When he and John Adams were negotiating with the envoy from Tripoli, that envoy informed them that “it was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their [Muslims’] authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.” That was enough for Jefferson, and when he became President, he was determined to go to war against the North African Muslims – the Barbary Pirates — in order to suppress their attacks on Christian shipping. He had no admiration for the Muslims; he understood them to be an enemy of the Christians, as the Tripoli envoy said,and in making war on the Barbary Pirates, Jefferson acted on that understanding.

Hendi said he will share historical data that shows how Muslims have shaped what America has become.

I’m eagerly anticipating that “data” – aren’t you? How have Muslims “shaped what America has become”? What have been their contributions to the philosophy, politics, art, literature, and music of these United States? Since instrumental music is haram in Islam, how could there have been much of a contribution to our music? Since the depiction of living creatures is also haram, severely limiting the possibilities for artistic expression, what Muslim contributions can there have been to American art? What about philosophy? There is no philosophic thought for devout Muslims outside of Islam itself, which they believe, if rightly understood, contains all of wisdom. And politics? Islam and the democratic West have very different views. In Islam the legitimacy of any government depends on whether the ruler follows the will of Allah, as expressed in the Qur’an. A ruler may be despotic, as long as he remains a good Muslim. In the United States, as elsewhere in the advanced West, the legitimacy of any government depends on its reflecting, however imperfectly through elections, the will expressed by the people. There is a big difference.

“So our fellow neighbors will know that American Muslims are not newcomers to America that we have shaped the economy, the politics, the policies of the United States of America for the last 220 years,” he said.

So those dozen-odd Muslim slaves in America – the only ones known to historians – have magically multiplied to become 5-10-30% of all the slaves in America, that is, have gone from being ten or twelve, to being several million. This mendacious multiplication took place in recent years, prompted first by Muslims, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, and unopposed by those who did not dare to question them, for fear of being labeled “islamophobes.”

For the “last 220 years” – that is, since 1800, Muslims “have shaped the economy, the politics, the policies of the United States of America.” What can Yahya Hendi be thinking? Let’s try to tease out what it might be. As for the economy, there are no records of Muslims owning any property, working in any factories or on any farms (save for the 1-12 Muslim slaves who are known), inventing new devices, or otherwise contributing to, much less having “shaped,” the economy. I suspect that what Hendi means is that “slaves contributed to the economy,” and he claims many of the slaves were Muslim, so Muslims must have “contributed to the economy,” which then resulted in a further ludicrous claim that “Muslims shaped the economy.” Read the history books, and see if there is a scintilla of evidence that more than a handful of Muslim slaves existed in America. How could those dozen Muslims — several of whom returned to West Africa, and at least one converted to Christianity – or the handful of their descendants who remained Muslims (despite being without Qur’ans or mosques) —  conceivably have “shaped the American economy for the past 220 years”?

How could American Muslims have “shaped the politics” of America for the “last 220 years”? Voting? Running for office? What can Hendi be thinking? Between those 10-12 recorded Muslim slaves, and the first one-room mosque that was built in 1929, why do we not hear anything about Muslims in America? Surely it is because there were next to none here until very recently. There have never been Muslims in elective office, state or Federal, until the last few decades; the first Muslim to be elected to the House was Keith Ellison, in 2002. He had no discernible effect on legislative policies. In 2018, two Muslim females, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, were elected to Congress; they have been noisy, and get a lot of media attention for their controversial views, but in the hard slog of legislation they have done nothing, and have had no effect on government policies. Perhaps Hendi has some “data,” as he calls it, about the “real” Muslim population in the 19th century that has till now has been hidden from view, or has uncovered evidence of Muslim industrialists and entrepreneurs (anything is possible) that he has decided to share with his interfaith audience.

As for the future, it is possible that Muslims, as their numbers increase, will indeed help to “shape” policies – concerning, for example, the Arab-Israeli conflict. But Muslims, who were hardly discernible in this country until the 1960s, have not “shaped the economy, the politics, the policies” of America for the past 220 years except in one unforgettable and disastrous way. The Muslims who attacked on 9/11 caused an estimated two trillion dollars in economic damage to this country, and also prompted further spending of another six trillion dollars on misguided wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is unlikely to be something Yahya Hendi will want to discuss. In that sense only have Muslims “shaped” our country.

It will be fascinating to see how Yahya Hendi supports his fantastical remark, that “for the past 220 years, Muslims have shaped the economy, the politics, the policies of the United States of America.” It can’t be done. Of course, he can always lie. “War is deceit,” said the Perfect Man and Model of Conduct. Who is Yahya Hendi not to take Muhammad at his word?

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SEE PART ONE IN OUR POST: https://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-hypocrisy-deceptions-of-yahya-hendi.html

SBC CHURCH LEAVES DENOMINATION OVER BETH MOORE, PAULA WHITE, WOMEN PREACHERS, & "PROGRESSIVE" LIBERALISM

SBC CHURCH LEAVES DENOMINATION OVER BETH MOORE, PAULA WHITE, WOMEN PREACHERS, & "PROGRESSIVE" LIBERALISM 

This sermon is from Grace Life Church at the Shoals, pastor Jeff Noblit. The pertinent section in which he talks about leaving the SBC is at the 9.35 mark.

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FULL CHURCH SERVICE:

SHORTER VIDEO OF THE SERMON ONLY:

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"Building True Churches In An Hour Of Apostasy"

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Office Hours Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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TRUMP POLL NUMBERS SURGE DURING IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS AS DEMOCRATS ADMIT DEFEAT

TRUMP POLL NUMBERS SURGE DURING IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS AS DEMOCRATS ADMIT DEFEAT

The impeachment hearings are blowing up in the Democrats’ face as Trump’s poll numbers surge the very week Democrats try to stop him; we’ll look at why Trump’s approval has gone up and why even Democrats are beginning to lose faith in this whole impeachment circus; you’re not going to want to miss this!

REPORT BY DR. STEVE TURLEY

THE HUMAN TRAGEDY OF THE VICTIMS OF MUSLIM RAPE GANGS

THE HUMAN TRAGEDY OF THE VICTIMS 

OF MUSLIM RAPE GANGS 

BY JOSHUA WINSTON

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/the-human-tragedy-of-the-victims-of-muslim-rape-gangs; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Everywhere Muslims settle, rape and grooming gangs spring up. Whether it be a town, city, village or a new land, rape is what many Muslim men become known for in the West. Every race and culture produce rapists, but none so flagrant and voluminous as Muslims (Pakistanis in particular). 

There is a new documentary released just now called “Why dad killed mum, my family’s secret.” Tasnim Lowe, the daughter of a young girl who was impregnated at a young age by a Muslim man and then killed along with her family in a fire that he deliberately started, is now seeking answers as to why her mother (Lucy Lowe) was killed. She is asking what red flags should have been set off by an adult man impregnating a 14-year-old girl at that time (roughly two decades ago). She is also asking what more her mother’s family could have done to prevent the deaths of her mother, aunt and grandmother at the hands of this violent Muslim man. After all, her mother started dating the 24-year-old man when she was only 13. Why was no one objecting to that? Why weren’t police and children’s services not going after a man who had raped a child in the eyes of the law?

In March, 2018, 18-year-old Tasnim (on Mother’s Day) saw her own dead mother’s face on the front page of a daily newspaper, coupled with an article stating that she had been the victim of a Muslim grooming gang. Her mother’s face is young in the picture, innocent and happy. Hard to believe that she should be involved with a grown man and having sexual relations, harder still to believe that such a young girl could be viewed as being sexually desirable by any man. Even harder to comprehend an adult wanting to terrorise her or manipulate her mind with a view towards raping and controlling her before finally murdering her. The sight of her mother’s face in relation to such a claim was a shock to Tasnim, and the reason was because another Muslim grooming gang in the area were acting in the exact same way as the Muslim man who killed her mother did. They were raping girls and threatening to burn down their victims’ houses with their family inside if they alerted the police or their parents to the fact that they were being raped and trafficked. An investigative journalist had been working for three years on a story that centered around the grooming of white girls at the hands of hundreds of Muslim men. The terrified girls were showing the journalist pictures of Lucy Lowe. Her death was being used as a warning to the girls of what would happen to them if they told anyone about what the Muslim men were currently doing to them.

The grooming, rape, beating, and trafficking of young white girls in the UK coupled with death threats is a pattern that Muslims follow the length of the country from Glasgow to Bristol. If something is a pattern, then it’s not random. Scientists (depending on the project), physicists, and astronomers look for patterns in order to prove their theories and to predict the behaviour of any particular organism, or equation, or planetary body. The rapes committed by Muslim men is a pattern unlike anything the West has ever seen, and the carnage provides the data that lays the blame at the feet of Muslim men. The obsession with virginal underage white girls drives them to commit atrocities that should have been resigned to the Medieval period, or confined in and contained to the barbaric lands of their birth.

The grooming and rapes committed by Muslim men consist of the same story that is sadly all too familiar at this point, and all too soul-numbing to recount: “a horrendous grooming ring that had been going on for decades, with girls raped, beaten, sold and some even killed…Survivors explained how the abuse worked; the groomers were nice to them at first – buying them takeaways or presents – before taking them to…be raped, or to people’s houses and passed around to friends…McKelvie kept hearing about one street where there was a row of seven or eight houses, “where there was pretty much a rapist in every house”. She also heard how underage girls were taken to rooms above takeaways to be assaulted and raped with the perpetrators selling them and making thousands of pounds.”

Tasnim’s Muslim father was called the “house blaze killer” and “the country’s worst ever murderer.” No mention was made that he is a Muslim, and no thought was given as to why he was behaving in that manner. Failings and neglect and incompetence by every safeguarding agency in the UK, from police right through to social workers, has allowed Muslim men to continue raping and grooming non-Muslim girls with impunity. And yet the number of Muslim rapists and groomers continues to swell in the UK, in spite of there being a spotlight now shining on them after a revolt from a very vocal public. Every week and month reveals a new Muslim grooming gang and the exact same horrors inflicted on a new bunch of girls who are already in or who are about to enter their teens. All of the Muslim gang members come from Muslim communities that Muslims have built. All of them are friends and neighbours, and a shockingly high number of them are related, with a granddad participating in the rape of a child tied to a bed at one point with his sons and grandsons. But do allow Muslims and imams and the media to tell you that the rapists’ families and their communities and their mosques had no idea what was going on. Lie down to the untruths that they spin if your brain can’t deal with the horrors. The shocking thing to me is that I find myself weary in the retelling of these tales. How many more times will I or anyone else have to type out the exact same stories with the only thing to have changed in the ensuing years being that of the next victims of Muslim rape gangs? The men’s religion and names won’t have changed. They’ll still be Muslims, and most of them will be called Muhammad (or a variant spelling), with the occasional Ali being thrown into the mix.

Of course it doesn’t help that police and media tend to forever be on the side of the Muslim rapists here in the UK. All of these agencies are prepared to lay sacrifices on the altar of multiculturalism. We think we live in a modern society, but these rapes and killings hearken back to the Aztecs and the blood sacrifices they offered to their Gods. Today the Gods that we offer up our sacrifices to are those Muslim men whose satanic impulses must be met and sated regardless the cost. In all these millennia, we haven’t really travelled that far after all. We still tolerate a bloodlust, and those who swear oaths to protect us are high priests who assist with the procuring and killings. With the Muslim male gangs in our society, the devil truly does walk among us.

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Sacrificing Our Daughters: 

On the Psychology of Islamic Rape-Gangs

In Great Britain, young white girls are being drugged, gang-raped, and tortured by Muslim men. These brutal attacks are occurring so frequently and in so many cities, it would be positively irrational not to look for a connection. So, why are Muslim rape-gangs targeting young British girls and treating them as if they're worthless? Perhaps the answers are in the Qur'an.



UK: Watch hundreds protest 

"Muslim grooming gangs" in Yorkshire

THE HYPOCRISY & DECEPTIONS OF YAHYA HENDI, OR, INTERFAITH HEALING WITH A GEORGETOWN IMAM (PART 1)~SHARIA & ISLAMIC JIHADISM CENSORED IN CLASSES

Yahya Hendi, a Muslim imam and chaplain at Georgetown University, will lead classes called “Learning About Islam.” The first class is Oct. 30, at Frederick Community College. Frederick Interfaith is sponsoring the classes.

SEE: http://www.imamyahyahendi.com/

Imam Yahya Hendi, the chaplain for Georgetown University, 

the first American university to hire a full-time Muslim chaplain

President of Georgetown University welcomes 

its first Muslim Chaplain:

QUOTE FROM: https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/yahya-hendi:

"Imam Yayha Hendi is the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University, the first American university to hire a full-time Muslim chaplain. As chaplain he leads Qiyamul-lail and Friday prayers, counsels students, and offers retreats for both Muslim and non-Muslim students. A consistent advocate for interfaith understanding, Hendi is the founder and president of Clergy Beyond Borders and Imams for Universe, Dignity, Human Rights and Dialogue. He has also written numerous publications ranging from women and gender relations in Islam to religion and Islam in the United States. Hendi is also the imam of the Islamic Society of Frederick, the Muslim chaplain at the National Naval Medical Center, and the spokesperson of the Islamic Jurisprudence Council of North America. He holds a master's degree in Comparative Religions from Hartford Seminary and is currently working on his Ph.D. in Comparative Religion at Georgetown."

YAHYA HENDI, OR, INTERFAITH HEALING WITH A GEORGETOWN IMAM (PART 1) 

BY HUGH FITZGERALD

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/yahya-hendi-or-interfaith-healing-with-a-georgetown-imam-part-1; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

The story is here:

Frederick [Maryland] Interfaith representatives are hoping a set of classes will help shine a positive light on Islam and the Muslim community.

Of course. The Interfaithers of Frederick, Maryland are not in the business of dispassionately studying the texts and teachings of Islam, but rather of “shining a positive light” on Islam and Muslims. Only an “islamophobe” or “racist” could find that worrisome.

Yahya Hendi, a Muslim imam and chaplain at Georgetown University, is leading a four-class series called “Learning About Islam.” The first class is set for Oct. 30 at Frederick Community College, with the remaining three set for other times throughout this year and next. The class is free, but contributions are welcome.

Todd Fineberg, a member of Frederick Interfaith, is part of what he called an “unofficial committee to improve relations with the Muslim community.” The committee includes Fineberg, who is Jewish; Asma Cheema, a Muslim; and Joey Hoffman, a Christian scientist.

“The three of us are working together to bring about the education program,” Fineburg said.

He added that the group hopes the classes will “improve understanding and knowledge and better relations.

Will these interfaithers be discussing the contents of the Qur’an and Hadith that are most disturbing, and most in need of examination,  or will they, rather, be guided by Yahya Hendi to look only at those Qur’anic verses that he has selected, as is so often the case in these interfaith affairs where Muslims are in charge? We know the answer to that. I suspect that neither Fineburg nor Hoffman, nor the non-Muslims attending Hendi’s talks, will know about any of the more than one hundred Qur’anic verses that command Muslims to engage in violent Jihad. And Yahya Hendi is not about to bring them up.

What will they learn? These interfaith events inevitably follow the same script. First, Hendi will tell these trusting Infidels all about the Five Pillars of Islam: the Shehada (the Profession of Faith), Salat (the five daily prayers), Zakat (the obligatory charitable giving to other Muslims), Sawm (the fasting at Ramadan), and Hajj (the pilgrimage to Mecca that is required of all Muslims who can afford it, at least once in their lives). And what fun it is for those Interfaith Christians and Jews to learn those exotic words: Shehada, Salat, Zakat, Sawm, Hajj. Already you think you are learning something of value. And then you will be told by Hendi that the very word “Islam” means “peace.” He’ll ask a series of rhetorical questions: “Was Pope Francis wrong when he proclaimed that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Quran are opposed to every form of violence”? Was President Bush wrong when he said that “the face of terrorism is not the true face of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace”? Was President Obama wrong when he said that “For more than a thousand years, people have been drawn to Islam’s message of peace…Islam is rooted in a commitment to compassion and mercy and justice and charity?” That should impress the doubters.

Yahya Hendi will be sure to tell everyone that Jesus is “a revered prophet in Islam.” He won’t explain that the divinity of Jesus is denied. He’ll mention that one of the books of the Qur’an is named after “Mary” who is also “revered” in Islam but, he will leave out, not as the mother of the Son of God. Then he will bring up, as is de rigueur. In these interfaith events, Qur’an 2:256 – “There is no compulsion in religion.” Sounds good, and no one in the audience is likely to know enough to bring up the fact that apostates from Islam can be executed, which clearly constitutes “compulsion in religion.” A death penalty is the most convincing of compulsions. 2:256 sounds straightforward, and non-Muslims will be expected to take it at face value. But a little thought about the matter will lead to quite a different conclusion. Non-Muslims are not strictly “compelled” — this is the Muslim view – to give up their religions and convert to Islam. They have a “choice” — so supposedly no “compulsion” — either to convert to Islam, to be killed, or to live as dhimmis under Muslim rule. As dhimmis, they must pay the Jizyah (a capitation tax on non-Muslims) to the Muslim state, in order to prevent attacks on them by the Muslims themselves. They were also subject to a host of lesser disabilities, including: displaying identifying marks on both their dress and dwelling; riding donkeys rather than horses; stepping aside on footpaths so as always to yield the right of way to Muslims. Isn’t this seeming “choice” really a form of “compulsion”? In order to avoid either death, or being forced to pay the Jizyah and observe other conditions imposed on dhimmis, all of which were daily reminders of their well-deserved humiliation, the only way out was to convert to Islam. While some Christians and Jews paid the Jizyah, others, over time, in order to free themselves of this onerous tax, and all the other conditions, did indeed convert to Islam. Any fair-minded person would describe that as “compulsion.”

The other Qur’anic verse always quoted at these interfaith events is Qur’an 5:32, but in a carefully truncated version. Hendi will no doubt offer it as “If anyone slew a person… it would be as if he slew a whole people; and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of a whole people…” “See – we Muslims are against killing.” But the full verse actually reads quite differently: “if anyone slew a person – unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land – it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people.” In other words, 5:32 is not against killing. It sets out the reasons when killing is justified – “for murder or for spreading mischief (fitna) in the land.” “Spreading mischief in the land” has been taken by Islamic scholars to mean among other things, “encouraging disbelief.” So 5:32 gives license to kill the Unbelievers. And the verse that immediately follows, 5:33, provides a description of the ways to inflict that punishment. How many, in that audience, will check up on the actual wording of 5:32, and how many are likely to uncritically take the version offered by the amiable Mr. Hendi?

If 2:256 and 5:32  are the verses Yahya Hendi will surely bring up, there are other verses that just as surely he will avoid. He will not mention Qur’an 4:34, which gives Muslim husbands the right to “beat” their wives if they even suspect them of disobedience. Nor will he mention that in Islam men must “manage the affairs of women” because they are “superior to them in status.” He won’t discuss polygyny, unless someone brings it up, and then he will offer the usual justification: It was “a way for the many widows, in those days of constant warfare in 7th century Arabia, to not be left alone, but to acquire a husband to protect them and manage their affairs.” Few will ask “well, then, why is there a need for polygyny today?” He won’t explain that a Muslim husband can get a divorce merely by uttering the triple talaq, while for a woman to obtain a divorce much more is required. He won’t mention that a Muslim daughter inherits only half that of a Muslim son. Nor will he explain that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man’s, and that the reason for that is given by Muhammad himself in a famous hadith: it is “because of the deficiency of woman’s intelligence.”

Hendi, who is a former member of Frederick Interfaith, said “the class idea is the sound of freedom.”

“The sound of freedom”?  His classes will not offer the mental freedom necessary to truly learn about Islam but, rather, will be under his control, that is, the mendacious guidance offered by a well-prepared Defender of the Faith, Yahya Hendi.

“In our society, in America, in our beautiful country, we are always talking about or discussing what makes America great is diversity,” he said.

“Conversations he hopes will happen during “Learning About Islam” will help with better conversations.

“For more of America to be a better America, America needs to know about all of its citizens,” Hendi said. “It makes people much better when they talk about one another. We are empowered, we are strengthened as a nation, as a society, as a country, as a human family when we know about one another.”

And knowing more about your neighbors and their faith and beliefs means being able “to interact with them more, work with them more and understand them more,” he said.

Hendi’s belief is that “the more you know, the more you know that you need to know more” when it comes to Islam.

“Because the more you learn about Islam, you are ‘wait a minute I didn’t know this.’ People will discover that they have been shaped by their misunderstandings, by some media outlets that don’t convey a true message of Islam or Muslims, so, therefore, people are shaped by ignorance,” he said. “And ignorance is our worst enemy. Ignorance is what divides us.”

Yes, everything bad you hear about Islam is only a misunderstanding, spread by media outlets – “ignorant” and “islamophobic” – whose effect, Yahya Hendi charges, is to “divide us.” It’s our “ignorance” of Islam that must be combated. But curiously, so many verses will need to be avoided if our “ignorance” is to be corrected in the right, non-misleading, Muslim-approved way. Such verses as 2:191-194, 3:151, 4:89, 8:12, 8:60, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4, and 98:6 won’t be brought up at all, nor will another 100 verses that command violent Jihad. Such verses would only upset and confuse people, at a time when we all have a duty – that’s what interfaith gatherings are for – to make people more aware of “authentic, peaceful Islam.” Trust Yahya Hendi. He wouldn’t deceive you, would he?

For all the Muslim variation on the Christian theme of bomfoggery – “brotherhood of man, fatherhood of God” – Hendi has no intention of letting his attendees know “more about [their Muslim] neighbors and their faith and beliefs.” He will necessarily offer a sanitized version of the faith, stressing the Five Pillars, the complimentary things prominent Westerners (the Pope and assorted Presidents) have said about Islam, and offering, along with 2:256 and 5:32, the handful of milder Qur’anic verses that seem to suggest the possibilities of co-existence but which, his attendees will not realize, have all been abrogated by the later, harsher verses of the Medinan period.

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Imam Yahya Hendi welcomed by His Emminence Cardinal McCarrick of the Washington D.C. Dioceses.

Imam Hendi speaks of the American Muslim "integration" 

in US society:

JUDGE JEANINE PIRRO INTERVIEWS GUESTS ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS' FARCE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS

JUDGE JEANINE PIRRO INTERVIEWS GUESTS ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS' FARCE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN SPEECH AT MASSIVE RALLY IN BOSSIER CITY, LOUISIANA

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN SPEECH AT MASSIVE RALLY IN BOSSIER CITY, LOUISIANA

VIDEOS OF THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY HEARINGS

VIDEOS OF THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY HEARINGS

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ANSWERS MEDIA ABOUT ALLEGED "WITNESS TAMPERING", "INTIMIDATION" OF AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE, & LACK OF DUE PROCESS, RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, DENIAL OF LEGAL COUNSEL, ETC.

"I THOUGHT IT WAS A DISGRACE"

 'The Five' on key takeaways from second public impeachment hearing

Republicans and Democrats spar again in the second public impeachment hearing. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified before the House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry hearing on President Trump. Reaction and analysis on "The Five.'

Nunes blasts Dems' 'strange cult' 

in fiery opening statement

Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, and counsel Steve Castor spent 45 minutes questioning the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, William Taylor, and State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent in the first day of public impeachment hearings. Watch this full portion of the hearing.

REP. ELISE STEFANIK GOES AFTER SCHIFF 

RECITING HIS LIES & HYPOCRISIES 

Rep. Elise Stefanik questions Amb. Yovanovitch 

about Burisma & the Bidens, Quid Pro Quos

Rep. Jim Jordan: "THIS IS A SHAM"; 

Demands Hunter Biden Testify

REVEALED: 100 SENATORS & REPRESENTATIVES WHO SENT LETTERS OF SUPPORT TO HAMAS-LINKED "CAIR"

REVEALED: 100 SENATORS & REPRESENTATIVES WHO SENT LETTERS OF SUPPORT TO HAMAS-LINKED "CAIR"

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/100-senators-and-representatives-who-sent-letters-of-support-to-hamas-linked-cair; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

The list is from the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Yes, it starts with #2; I don’t know why. Also, it dates from last year, as you can see from the presence of Keith Ellison and Elijah Cummings, and the designation of Rashida Tlaib as a “candidate.” But it is worth revisiting as an example of the normalization and mainstreaming of evil. Would any of these politicians send a letter of congratulations to a Nazi group? Of course not. Would they send a letter of congratulations to a group that opposed jihad terror? Not on your life. But in a sign of how topsy-turvy the Left’s moral compass has become, none of them hesitated to extend good wishes and gratitude to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). 

In light of what CAIR stands for and its appalling track record, how is that different from sending a fawning letter to a Nazi group?

CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce 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.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. 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. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas.



If any of the people listed below know any of that, they show no sign of caring.



2 Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) WI
3 Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D) CO
4 Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D) CT
5 Sen. Corey A. Booker (D) NJ
6 Sen. Ben L. Cardin (D) MD
7 Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D) IL
8 Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D) CA
9 Sen. Doug Jones (D) AL
10 Sen. Tim Kaine (D) VA
11 Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D) MN
12 Sen. Robert Menendez (D) NJ
13 Sen. Christopher S. Murphy (D) CT
14 Sen. Patty Murray (D) WA
15 Sen. Bill Nelson (D) FL
16 Sen. Tina Smith (D) MN
17 Sen. Thomas Tillis (R) NC
18 Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D) MD
19 Sen. Mark R. Warner (D) VA
20 Rep. Pete Aguilar (D) 31st district, CA
21 Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragan (D) 44th district, CA
22 Rep. Karen Bass (D) 37th district, CA
23 Rep. Ami Bera M.D. (D) 7th district, CA
24 Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr. (D) 8th district, VA
25 Rep. Susan W. Brooks (R) 5th district, IN
26 Rep. Anthony G. Brown (D) 4th district, MD
27 Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D) 7th district, MA
28 Rep. Salud Carbajal (D) 24th district, CA
29 Rep. Tony Cardenas (D) 29th district, CA
30 Rep. Andre Carson (D) 7th district, IN
31 Rep. Judy Chu Ph.D. (D) 27th district, CA
32 Rep. Katherine M. Clark (D) 5th district, MA
33 Rep. Yvette Clarke (D) 9th district, NY
34 Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D) 1st district, MO
35 Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D) 11th district, VA
36 Rep. J. Luis Correa (D) 46th district, CA
37 Rep. Jim Costa (D) 16th district, CA
38 Rep. Joe Courtney (D) 2nd district, CT
39 Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D) 7th district, MD
40 Rep. Rodney Davis (R) 13th district, IL
41 Rep. Suzan K. DelBene (D) 1st district, WA
42 Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D) 11th district, CA
43 Rep. Debbie Dingell (D) 12th district, MI
44 Rep. Mike Doyle (D) 18th district, PA
45 Rep. Keith Ellison (D) 5th district, MN
46 Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D) 18th district, CA
47 Rep. Elizabeth H. Etsy (D) 5th district, CT
48 Rep. Dwight Evans (D) 3rd district, PA
49 Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D) 11th district, OH
50 Rep. John Garamendi (D) 3rd district, CA
51 Rep. Gene Green (D) 29th district, TX
52 Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D) 3rd district, AZ
53 Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D) 20th district, FL
54 Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) Washington D.C.
55 Rep. Jared Huffman (D) 2nd district, CA
56 Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D) 18th district, TX
57 Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D) 30th district, TX
58 Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) 9th district, OH
59 Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III (D) 4th district, MA
60 Rep. Ro Khanna (D) 17th district, CA
61 Rep. Daniel T. Kildee (D) 5th district, Ml
62 Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D) 8th district, IL
63 Rep. Brenda L. Lawrence (D) 14th district, Ml
64 Rep. Al Lawson (D) 5th district, FL
65 Rep. Barbara Lee (D) 13th district, CA
66 Rep. John Lewis (D) 5th district, GA
67 Rep. Dave Loebsack (D) 2nd district, VA
68 Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D) 19th district, CA
69 Rep. Alan S. Lowenthal (D) 47th district, CA
70 Rep. Doris O. Matsui (D) 6th district, CA
71 Rep. Betty McCollum (D) 4th district, MN
72 Rep. Jerry McNerney (D) 9th district, CA
73 Rep. Grace Meng (D) 6th district, NY
74 Rep. Seth Moulton (D) 6th district, MA
75 Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D) 7th district, FL
76 Rep. Donald Norcross (D) 1st district, NJ
77 Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D) 6th district, NJ
78 Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D) 9th district, NJ
79 Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr. (D) 10th district, NJ
80 Rep. Mark Pocan (D) 2nd district, WI
81 Rep. David Price (D) 4th district, NC
82 Rep. Mike Quigley (D) 5th district, IL
83 Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) 8th district, MD
84 Rep. Raul Ruiz M.D. (D) 36th district, CA
85 Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D) 2nd district, MD
86 Rep. Tim Ryan (D) 13th district, OH
87 Rep. Linda T. Sanchez (D) 38th district, CA
88 Rep. John P. Sarbanes (D) 3rd district, MD
89 Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D) 28th district, CA
90 Rep. David Scott (D) 13th district, GA
91 Rep. Adam Smith (D) 9th district, WA
92 Rep. Darren Soto (D) 9th district, FL
93 Rep. Eric Swalwell (D) 15th district, CA
94 Rep. Mark Takano (D) 41st district, CA
95 Rep. Mike Thompson (D) 5th district, CA
96 Rep. Paul D. Tonko (D) 20th district, NY
97 Rep. Norma J. Torres (D) 35th district, CA
98 Rep. Juan Vargas (D) 51st district, CA
99 Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D) 12th district, NJ
100 Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) Washington D.C.
101 Governor Ralph S. Northam (D) VA
102 Candidate Rashida Tlaib (D) 13th district, MI