Day: December 28, 2021

Republicans move to ban federal funds to states, cities that allow non-citizens to vote

BY JUST THE NEWS

SEE: https://americanfaith.com/republicans-move-to-ban-federal-funds-to-states-cities-that-allow-non-citizens-to-vote/;

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Several liberal municipalities from San Francisco to New York have moved to allow non-citizens to cast ballots in local elections.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is leading a coalition of Republicans in Congress to sponsor legislation that would ban federal funding to states or localities that allow foreigners to vote in U.S. elections.

The new legislation, dubbed the Protecting Our Democracy by Preventing Foreign Citizens from Voting Act, was introduced after many liberal municipalities from San Francisco to New York had moved in 2021 to allow non-citizens to cast ballots in local elections.

“It’s ridiculous that states are allowing foreign citizens to vote,” Rubio said. “However, if states and localities do let those who are not U.S. citizens to vote in elections, they shouldn’t get U.S. citizen taxpayer money.”

The measure is being cosponsored by GOP Sens. Steve Daines of Montana, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, John Kennedy, of Louisiana, Rick Scott of Florida, and James Lankford, R-Oklahoma.

Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., plans to introduce companion legislation in the House. 
  
“Voting in this country is a right that should solely be limited to American citizens. Allowing non-citizens or illegal immigrants to vote, even if only in state or local elections, gives foreign nationals influence on some of the most important decisions impacting our families, our rights, and our representation in government,” Duncan said. 

Daines said he was concerned that “far-left states and cities have moved to disenfranchise Americans by allowing non-citizens to participate in our elections.”

Kennedy said the move toward non-citizen voting makes a mockery of U.S. citizenship.”

The proposed federal law comes a few months after Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger proposed an amendment to his state’s constitution banning non-citizen voting in his state.

“From New York City to San Francisco, more and more extreme liberal jurisdictions are extending voting to non-citizens,” he told Just the News. “Citizens-only voting has overwhelming bipartisan support.”

Rubio’s new bill would prohibit federal funds from going to any state or local government that allows foreign citizens to vote in any federal, state, or local election and require all state or local governments to certify they do not allow foreign citizens to vote when applying for federal funding.

The issue of non-citizen voting first came to a boil at the end of the 2018 Georgia governor’s race, when Democrat Stacey Abrams suggested the “blue wave” of voters she hoped would put in her office included the “documented and undocumented,” the latter a liberal preferred term for illegal aliens.

Republicans from eventual winner Brian Kemp to President Donald Trump alleged she was calling for foreigners to vote. Abrams denied it, saying she only meant that illegal aliens are part of the constituency she planned to represent and was not seeking ineligible voters to cast ballots.

But within two years, several liberal communities have begun the process of allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections. A 1994 congressionally-passed law prohibits non-citizens from voting in elections for federal officeholders.

In Vermont, the cities of Montpelier and Winooski, both with populations under 8,000, have approved allowing non-citizens to cast ballots in municipal elections for mayor, city council, and school board.

San Francisco, nine cities in Maryland, and two communities in Massachusetts have all approved noncitizen voting, although the latter are still awaiting state legislative approval. And Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles are also moving forward with plans to allow foreign citizens to vote in local U.S. elections.

New York’s City Council voted earlier this month to allow 800,000 non-citizens lawfully residing in the city to vote in municipal elections. 

Islamic Rage Against the Christian Cross

BY RAYMOND IBRAHIM

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2021/12/27/islamic-rage-against-the-christian-cross-n1544802;

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Christian elementary school students in an Egyptian school were recently “beaten up by teachers and fellow students after the headmaster ordered all Christian students to remove any jewelry bearing a cross [and they refused],” to quote from a Nov. 21, 2021 report. In one incident, a female teacher “attacked a Christian student, then encouraged other students to do the same, take his cross pendant from him and destroy the cross.”

At least these latest bouts of anti-cross rage were not fatal, as others in Egypt were. In 2011, 17-year-old Ayman, a Christian student, was strangled and beaten to death by his Muslim teacher and fellow students for refusing to obey the teacher’s demand that he cover his cross. When the school’s principal was informed of the attack, he ignored it and “continued to sip his tea.”

That same year a Muslim off-duty policeman boarded a train and, while crying “Allahu Akbar,” opened fire on those passengers who had cross tattoos on their wrists (an ancient practice upheld by many Copts). One elderly Christian man was killed and four others seriously wounded.

In 2014, Muslim Brotherhood members mauled a young Christian woman named Mary to death after they saw her cross.

Furthermore, the Maspero massacre, in which the Egyptian military massacred dozens of Christians—including by running them over with armored vehicles—was a byproduct of Muslims insisting that a Coptic church be stripped of its domed cross, so it would not resemble a church, because the cross “provokes us,” to quote a Muslim elder. When Christians refused to comply, Muslims destroyed the church. This is what Christians were protesting when the Egyptian military mowed them down.

What is it about the crucifix that makes some Muslims react violently? For starters, not only is it the symbol of Christianity for all denominations; it also symbolizes the fundamental disagreement between Christians and Muslims. As Historian Sidney Griffith explains, “[t]he cross … publicly declared those very points of Christian faith which the Koran, in the Muslim view, explicitly denied: that Christ was the Son of God and that he died on the cross.” Accordingly, the cross “often aroused the disdain of Muslims,” so that from the start of the seventh-century Muslim conquests of Christian lands there was an ongoing “campaign to erase the public symbols of Christianity, especially the previously ubiquitous sign of the cross.”

This “campaign” traces back to the Muslim prophet Muhammad. He reportedly “had such a repugnance to the form of the cross that he broke everything brought into his house with its figure upon it,” wrote one historian (Muir, William, The Life of Mohammad from Original Sources, 1923, p. 200). Muhammad also claimed that at the end times, Jesus (the Muslim “Isa”) himself would make it a point to “break the cross” … KEEP READING