Day: July 9, 2020

REP. ILHAN OMAR CALLS FOR “DISMANTLING” OF “OUR ECONOMY & POLITICAL SYSTEMS” IN THE U.S.

 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/07/ilhan-omar-calls-for-dismantling-of-our-economy-and-political-systems-in-the-us;

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

Here is the oath Ilhan Omar took when she became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives: “I, Ilhan Omar, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

Calling for the “dismantling” of the “political system” is the direct opposite of supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. In a sane Congress, she would be impeached and removed from office. She will not be. In fact, nothing whatsoever will be done. With today’s dominance of identity politics, as a black woman and a hijab-wearing Muslim Omar has an absolutely free pass to do anything she wants. We have already seen that with the fact that she has suffered no consequences, nor even been investigated, despite strong evidence that she has broken immigration and other laws.

“Ilhan Omar Calls For The ‘Dismantling’ Of US Economy, Political System,” by William Davis, Daily Caller, July 7, 2020:

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar called for the “dismantling” of the U.S. economy and political system Tuesday.

“As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality,” Omar said. “We cannot stop at criminal justice system. We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it.”

Omar held an event Tuesday in her home state of Minnesota with members of the Minnesota People of Color and Indigenous Caucus. Omar tweeted earlier Tuesday that the purpose of the event was to address “racism in policing” in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death….

 

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN HOLDS CEREMONY TO UNVEIL BOOK ON “ISLAMOPHOBIA” IN THE U.S.

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/07/islamic-republic-of-iran-holds-ceremony-to-unveil-book-on-islamophobia-in-the-us;

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

“Islamophobia” is a propaganda neologism designed to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women.

Meanwhile, this reveals the insidious nature of the entire “Islamophobia” enterprise. The Iranian endorsement and propagation of this term, with the participation of Wayne State University’s Saeed Khan, recalls another Iranian initiative in academic propaganda: Carl Ernst, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill pseudo-academic whose work on Islam is so whitewashed, so fawningly apologetic, so complete in its denial of the jihad doctrine and Sharia oppression, that he was given an award in 2008 by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the genocide-minded anti-Semite who was at that time President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ernst happily flew to Tehran to accept. The incident was emblematic of how much American academia has degenerated.

“Book on Political Islamophobia in US Unveiled in Tehran,” International Quran News Agency, July 6, 2020:

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A book on political Islamophobia in the US was unveiled in a ceremony in Tehran on Monday.

“Political Islamophobia at American Institutes: Battling the Power of Islamic Resistance” is the title of the book by University of Tehran Professor Hakimeh Saghaye-Biriya.

The book has recently been published in 210 pages by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) in London.

It analyses the role of US think tanks in institutionalizing and fueling Islamophobia in the US government’s domestic and foreign policies.

Addressing the ceremony, held at the International Quran News Agency here in the Iranian capital, Saghaye-Biriya described Islamophobia as a branch of racism in the West.

She said at a time when protests against racism have spread globally, there is a good opportunity to make a bridge between Islamic resistance and anti-racism movements in the world.

Saghaye-Biriya also said she plans to write the second volume of the book focusing on ways of tackling Islamophobia in the West.

In recorded video messages played at the ceremony, IHRC President Masoud Shajareh and Wayne State University Saeed Khan hailed the book for providing a good analysis of the role of political think thanks in US policy making and understanding the roots of Islamophobia in the country….

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ALSO SEE: https://iqna.ir/en/news/3471922/ceremony-held-to-unveil-book-on-islamophobia-in-us-

 

WHY ISN’T BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTING THE SLAVERY THAT STILL EXISTS TODAY?

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/07/why-isnt-black-lives-matter-protesting-the-slavery-that-still-exists-today;

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

My latest in PJ Media:

It is, or ought to be, clear to everyone by now that Black Lives Matter is not a genuine movement for racial justice and a more equitable society, but a Marxist organization using real, exaggerated, and imagined racial injustice to try to destroy the United States. Anyone who is still in doubt about this should consider the fact that some blacks are still enslaved today, and Black Lives Matter never has and never will say a word about it, because that organization doesn’t really care about black lives.

If they did actually care about the lives of black people, Black Lives Matter would today be drawing international attention to statements made recently by the Mauritanian anti-slavery activist Maryam Bint Al-Sheikh of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA). According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Maryam Bint Al-Sheikh stated in a June 18 interview: “Unfortunately, there is still slavery in Mauritania. More than 20% of people in Mauritania suffer from slavery – a situation where a person owns another person and does whatever he wants with him at any given moment. This situation exists here in Mauritania, unfortunately.”

Al-Sheikh further explained that slaves are often even “bequeathed from father to son. A person can own a slave and when that person dies, his children inherit the slave, who is later bequeathed to the grandchildren. This thing exists in Mauritania, unfortunately.” Even worse, “anyone who speaks out is considered a criminal whose natural place in in jail. Until not so long ago, [whoever spoke up] would have been killed.”

As an anti-slavery activist, Al-Sheikh has experienced this herself: “I was arrested and tortured multiple times. I was tortured both mentally and physically. The last time I was arrested, I had a 1.5-year-old baby. They separated us by force. And they weaned him. The Mauritanian state weaned my baby – a 1.5-year-old baby. He was weaned. And they prevented me from seeing him, and they wouldn’t let my husband or relatives visit me.”

Maryam Bint Al-Sheikh’s story is just one of innumerable such accounts. Why does Mauritania continually drag its feet about eradicating slavery, and persecute anti-slavery activists? The dirty little secret here is that it is because slavery is sanctioned in Islam.

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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https://ratherexposethem.org/2020/07/08/david-cloud-america-slaverythe-real-historical-facts/

 

COLLAPSE OF CANCEL CULTURE AS EVEN LIBERALS ARE DENOUNCING LEFTIST CENSORSHIP

★★★ A NEW CONSERVATIVE AGE IS RISING ★★★

Folks, it looks like we are seeing nothing less than the COLLAPSE of CANCEL CULTURE as Even leftwing LIBERALS are DENOUNCING far left CENSORSHIP! In this video, we’re going to look at an open letter signed by over 150 liberals decrying the left’s propensity towards cancel culture, and how it represents nothing less than a free speech revolt, an uprising that promises to completely and totally overwhelm and finally defeat the forces of far left cancel culture for good! You’re not going to want to miss this!

SUPREME COURT SETS STAGE FOR FULL REVIEW OF OBAMACARE

BY BOB ADELMANN

SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/36309-supreme-court-sets-stage-for-full-on-review-of-obamacare;

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

Two rulings by the Supreme Court on Wednesday not only affirm the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, they also hearten pro-life constitutional conservatives who hope the rulings set the stage for a full review of the constitutionality of ObamaCare (aka the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) by the high court in the fall.

The first ruling, in a 7-2 decision, concerned the Little Sisters of the Poor, and finally puts to rest the question whether the Trump administration, through an Executive Order to the Department of Health and Human Services, could expand the exemption under which faith-based ministries such as the  Little Sisters could avoid having to provide contraceptive health services to their employees.

When ObamaCare was first foisted upon the American citizenry in 2010, it specifically exempted churches from providing contraceptive healthcare coverage but said nothing about faith-based ministries. So, under ObamaCare, the HHS ruled that religious non-profits such as the Little Sisters of the Poor had to comply, or suffer the consequences of huge fines.

During President Trump’s first year in office, he ordered the HHS to issue a new rule expanding the exemption. Several states sued, claiming that Trump had overreached. The opinion of the high court was penned by Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote, “Consistent with their Catholic faith, the Little Sisters hold the religious conviction ‘that deliberately avoiding reproduction through medical means is immoral.’”

He explained why the court reversed a lower court’s ruling, stating that the Trump administration had not exceeded its authority by issuing the new rule that expanded the exemption:

For over 150 years, the Little Sisters have engaged in faithful service and sacrifice, motivated by a religious calling to surrender all for the sake of their brother. “[T]hey commit to constantly living out a witness that proclaims the unique, inviolable dignity of every person, particularly those whom others regard as weak or worthless.”

But for the past seven years, they — like many other religious objectors who have participated in the litigation and rulemakings leading up to today’s decision — have had to fight for the ability to continue in their noble work without violating their sincerely held religious beliefs.

After two decisions from this Court and multiple failed regulatory attempts, the Federal Government has arrived at a solution that exempts the Little Sisters from the source of their complicity-based concerns — the administratively imposed contraceptive mandate.

We hold today that the Departments had the statutory authority to craft that exemption, as well as the contemporaneously issued moral exemption.

We further hold that the rules promulgating these exemptions are free from procedural defects. Therefore, we reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals.

The second case, Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morissey-Berru, although less known, is just as important as Little Sisters. The Supreme Court also ruled 7-2 in favor of the two religious schools who argued that they should not have to face discrimination lawsuits brought by former teachers.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion:

The religious education and formation of students is the very reason for the existence of most private religious schools, and therefore the selection and supervision of the teachers upon whom the schools rely to do this work lie at the core of their mission.

Judicial review of the way in which religious schools discharge those responsibilities would undermine the independence of religious institutions in a way that the First Amendment does not tolerate.

Applause for the ruling came from Adrian Alarcon, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles: “Religious schools play an integral role in passing the faith to the next generation of believers. We are grateful that the Supreme Court recognized [that] faith groups must be free to make their own decisions about who should be entrusted with these essential duties.”

The lead counsel for Becket, Eric Rassbach, who argued the case for the schools, called the decision a “huge win”:

Today is a huge win for religious schools of all faith traditions. The last thing government officials should do is decide who is authorized to teach Catholicism to Catholics or Judaism to Jews. We are glad the court has resoundingly reaffirmed that churches and synagogues, not government, control who teaches kids about God.

In the fall, the high court will take on a lawsuit brought by 20 states, led by Texas, calling for the elimination of ObamaCare. It will be combined with another lawsuit brought by 17 other states, led by California, seeking to preserve the law.

The Trump administration has weighed in on the side of the 20 states, filing a brief that asks the high court to consider “whether, as a result of the elimination of the monetary penalty for noncompliance with the ACA’s minimum-essential-coverage requirement … that requirement is no longer a valid exercise of Congress’ legislative authority.” And if so, “the remainder of the ACA’s provisions are inseverable from it.”

Therefore, according to the government’s brief, “the judgment of the court of appeals should be affirmed insofar as it held that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, and this Court should further hold that the insurance provisions injuring the individual plaintiffs are inseverable from the mandate and the remainder of the Act.”

Naturally, totalitarians fear the worst. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement: “President Trump and the Republicans’ campaign to rip away the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act in the middle of the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty.” Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke, denouncing Trump’s position: “It’s cruel, it’s heartless, and it’s callous.”

Constitutionalists are hoping that the high court finds ObamaCare unconstitutional. 

 

DEMOCRATS THREATEN TO SHUT DOWN GOVERNMENT OVER CONFEDERATE STATUES

BY JAMES MURPHY

SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/36307-dems-threaten-to-shut-down-government-over-confederate-statues;

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As the federal government faces yet another potential fiscal shutdown on September 30, House Democrats released spending bills on Monday that would put them clearly at odds with the Senate and President Trump. Among the unreasonable demands in the Democrats’ plan is a requirement that certain statues of Southern politicians and any Confederate statue remaining in the Capitol be removed and returned to the states that donated them.

Since passing budgets is, apparently, now a thing of the past in Washington, the federal government relies on a series of continuing resolutions (CR) — appropriations bills that set aside money for government agencies, departments, and programs. The current CR is scheduled to expire on September 30 when the U.S. government’s fiscal year ends.

With the general election on November 3, less than five weeks away from that deadline, Democrats are poised to create yet more disorder and confusion in a year that has already seen its share of chaos.

In a letter to the Joint Committee on the Library dated June 10, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) argued that the 11 statues in question are “plainly racist ... and are a grotesque affront” to American ideals.

“While I believe that it is imperative that we never forget our history, lest we repeat it, I also believe there is no room for celebrating the violent bigotry of the men of the Confederacy in the hallowed halls of the United States Capitol or in places of honor across the country,” Pelosi wrote.

Pelosi may have a point (though whether she is sincere is another issue), but is this truly the hill the Democrats want to die on? Considering what’s already happened in 2020, a government shutdown only a little over a month from the general election doesn’t look good for anybody. And if the American public senses that the Speaker is ready to shut down the government over something as meaningless as statues that can’t do anything to anybody and will likely be replaced by the states over time, then she is completely misreading the 2020 electorate.

The statues in question are on display at the National Statuary Hall Collection at the Capitol (shown). Each state can contribute two statues to the collection and each state is allowed to replace those statues if the state’s legislature and governor approve of the change. Currently, there are 11 statues in the collection that the Democrats consider persona non grata — all of them contributed by Southern states. Their new appropriations bill would require the immediate removal of those statues.

But the states are the ones who donated the statues, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell argues that the fate of those monuments should be left up to those states. “Every state is allowed two statues. They can trade them out at any time,” McConnell said in June. “A number of states are trading them out now, but I think that’s the appropriate way to deal with the statue issue. The states make that decision.”

The Democrats’ demand for the removal of the statues — in defiance of the current rules of the Capitol — is certain to be a sticking point in negotiations of the next continuing resolution to fund the government.

The statues include depictions of:

• Joseph Wheeler of Alabama, a Democrat who would later fight for America in the Spanish-American War;

• Uriah Milton Rose of Arkansas, who founded the Rose Law Firm, which infamously hired a lawyer named Hillary Rodham Clinton;

• Edmund Kirby Smith of Florida, whose statue is already on the way out after former Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, signed legislation to replace the Smith statue with a statue of civil rights activist Mary Mcleod Bethune;

• Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia, who served as the vice president of the Confederate States of America;

• Edward Douglas White of Louisiana, a Democrat who served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court until his death in 1921;

• Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, who served as the president of the Confederate States of America;

• James Zachariah George of Mississippi, a Democrat who was a member of the Mississippi Secession Convention;

• Zebulon Baird Vance of North Carolina, a Whig who later became a Democrat, who served in the Confederate Army’s Rough and Ready guards;

• Wade Hampton, III of South Carolina, a Democrat who served as a general in the Confederate army and later became the governor of the state;

• Robert E. Lee of Virginia, who was the general in charge of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy’s largest army; and

• John Kenna of West Virginia, a Democrat and a Confederate soldier who would later represent West Virginia in the House of Representatives.

Democrats are also set for the House to vote later this month on the removal of a bust of Roger Taney, the Supreme Court chief justice who authored the notorious Dred Scott decision in 1857, which ruled that black people “were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution.” That awful decision was finally overturned, once and for all, with the passing of  the 14th Amendment in 1868.

But the Democrat Party leaders aren’t interested in true and meaningful action on race relations. They’re interested in symbolism — style over substance. They’re interested in a distraction from the real issues that they can point to and say, “See! We’re not racists!” And Democrats are again looking to paint President Trump and the Republicans as racists, even though history and common sense plainly disagree with them.

If they were actually interested in removing offensive images from the past, they would start with the Senate portrait of Robert Byrd, the Democrat from West Virginia who actually recruited 150 associates to start a new Klu Klux Klan chapter in his home state.

 

FBI DIRECTOR: CHINA WANTS TO OVERTAKE AMERICA “BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY”

BY LUIS MIGUEL

SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/36306-fbi-director-china-wants-to-overtake-america-by-any-means-necessary;

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FBI Director Christopher Wray described China’s ruling Communist Party as being involved in a “whole-of-state effort” to overturn America’s global dominance and become the world’s top superpower “by any means necessary.”

Speaking at an event hosted by the Hudson Institute, Wray said China’s anti-America program includes a number of subversive activities, from theft to propaganda to surveillance.

“It’s the people of the United States who are the victims of what amounts to Chinese theft on a scale so massive that it represents one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history,” he asserted, adding that “the greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information and intellectual property, and to our economic vitality, is the counterintelligence and economic espionage threat from China. It’s a threat to our economic security — and, by extension, to our national security.”

The FBI director went on to warn that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “believes it is in a generational fight to surpass our country in economic and technological leadership” — a fight that is not being waged by “legitimate” means, but rather “engaged in a whole-of-state effort to become the world’s only superpower by any means necessary.”

Wray explained that part of China’s strategy involved collecting personal data about American citizens.

“If you are an American adult, it is more likely than not that China has stolen your personal data.... Our data isn’t the only thing at stake here — so are our health, our livelihoods, and our security,” he said. “We’ve now reached the point where the FBI is opening a new China-related counterintelligence case approximately every 10 hours.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently said that Americans should only use Chinese social-media apps such as TikTok if they “want [their] information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.” Pompeo stated that the administration is considering banning such apps in the United States.

The Justice Department has also ramped up its scrutiny of China, starting the China Initiative in 2018 to prosecute Chinese nationals in espionage cases, combat hacking schemes, and derail efforts to steal trade secrets.

Wray said the American people “need to understand” that China “uses a diverse range of sophisticated techniques — everything from cyber intrusions to corrupting trusted insiders,” along with “outright physical theft.”

He added: “They’ve pioneered an expansive approach to stealing innovation through a wide range of actors — including not just Chinese intelligence services but state-owned enterprises, ostensibly private companies, certain kinds of graduate students and researchers, and a whole variety of other actors working on their behalf.”

The FBI chief emphasized that China “has a fundamentally different system than ours — and it’s doing all it can to exploit the openness of ours while taking advantage of its own closed system.” According to Wray, half of the bureau’s nearly 5,000 active counterintelligence cases are related to China.

Wray also touched upon the matter of Chinese propaganda in America. He stopped short of saying that the Sleeping Giant is interfering in the 2020 presidential election, saying instead that “China’s malign foreign influence campaign targets our policies, our positions, 24/7, 365 days a year” but isn’t “election-specific.”

"All these seemingly inconsequential pressures add up to a policy-making environment in which Americans find themselves held over a barrel by the Chinese Communist Party,” Wray proclaimed.

The New American has extensively covered China’s creeping control over the world generally and America at large.

One of China’s initiatives, known as Confucius Institutes, involves setting up programs on K-12 and college campuses that immerse the nation’s youth in the morals and values of the communist nation.

Recent reports have found that Chinese weapons have found their way onto American streets. Customs and Border Protection officers in Louisville recently seized 11,000 illegal firearms — valued at nearly $130,000 — that originated from Shenzen, China, and were intended for a residence in Melbourne, Florida.

This comes as the Wall Street Journal has reported on illegal firearms appearing around Black Lives Matter events in Louisville.

“They’re calculating. They’re persistent. They’re patient. And they’re not subject to the righteous constraints of an open, democratic society or the rule of law,” Wray said of the CCP.

It was the American Deep State that allowed China to fall to the communists, and it was again the Deep State that empowered China’s economy, at America’s expense, with a disastrous trade agenda. If Americans want to save their country, they must understand that the enemy without depends on the support of the enemy within.

 

ANTIFA TERRORISTS & BLM ACTIVISTS ARRESTED BY FEDS AS TRUMP STOMPS THE FAR LEFT

★★★ A NEW CONSERVATIVE AGE IS RISING ★★★

Dozens of ANTIFA Terrorists and Black Lives Matter Activists have been ARRESTED by the FEDS as President Trump STOMPS the Far Left! In this video we’re going to take a look at the latest arrests that are all part of President Trump’s crackdown on leftist rioters, how the federal government is standing in the gap left by feckless Democrat politicians, and how the left’s propensity towards violence is only guaranteeing Trump’s reelection in November; you’re not going to want to miss this!