The Pizzagate scandal is largely
dismissed because the alleged code words thought to be pedophilia-speak is
educated speculative guessing. Unless an actual pedophilia ring was uncovered,
law enforcement won’t point fingers at power Dem elites. Especially when
Clinton accusers and/or allies with incriminating knowledge mysteriously die or
disappear (Conspiracy websites willing to speculate on the obvious: HERE & HERE) .
The thing is wealthy elites have been getting away with
pedophilia probably for decades. And thanks to the Wikileaks hack (whether
they did it or a hacker(s) gave up info), a spotlight has been shined on
the Left in relation to the Clinton Crime Syndicate (CCS).
Now even Left Wing NBC News is reporting on a potential CCS
connection to pedophilia rings. Below is the story.
While
I am skeptical of where this will lead, it is noteworthy to see that this
report comes from NBC and more specifically Chuck Todd. In a report
earlier this week, NBC reported that there were allegations that while Hillary
Clinton was Secretary of State, the quashed investigations into a prostitution
and pedophile ring that was operating inside the department in order to avoid
scandal and protect high-ranking employees and an ambassador.
“Serious
allegations concerning the State Department,” the NBC anchor said.
“According to internal State Department memos the agency might have
called off or intervened into investigations into possibly illegal,
inappropriate behavior within its ranks allegedly to protect jobs and avoid
scandals.
“This
concerns a time when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.”
Flashback to June 11th, 2013 when NBC was reporting
real news... Hillary Clinton was never a progressive liberal, she was never a
feminist, she never cared about anyone but herself.
“There
is an old saying in Washington that the cover-up is worse than the crime. But
in this case both parts of it are disturbing,” Chuck Todd continued.
“Allegations
of prostitution and pedophilia, and allegations that those crimes were somehow
covered up or not looked into," he continued. "So the State
Department this morning is having to respond to those claims, and those
investigations involve misconduct by State Department officials, including an
Ambassador and security agents attached to then-Secretary of State, Hillary
Clinton.
“The
allegations are that these investigations were whitewashed, quashed altogether,
and that those orders came from high up,” he added.
The
report then went on to state:
NBC has obtained documents relating to ongoing
investigations into some disturbing allegations involving State Department
personnel and at least one ambassador. A State Department memo says, quote,
“the Ambassador routinely ditched his protective security detail in order to
solicit sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children."
The memo also says a top State Department official
directed State Department investigators to “cease the investigation” into the
ambassador’s conduct.” It’s just one of what another document describes as
“several examples of undue influence” from top State Department officials.
We
also know that Bill Clinton and others in the US government, such as Bob
Menendez have close ties to or have actually engaged underage girls in sex.
In the case of Clinton there a long trail of women claiming he sexually
assaulted them, as well as his ties to Jeffery Epstein, a billionaire
financierformerly with Bear Stearns,
was sentenced to just 13 months jail time when he was convicted of soliciting a
minor for prostitution. As Daisy Luther reported:
§Passengers on the manifest
were sometimes just listed by their initials since we all know that
discretion is essential when you are traveling with underage girls on board a
jet that boasts a large bed.
§Bill Clinton and his
associated security staff appear on 26 of these manifests but
on one trip, Bill seems to have ditched his Secret Service agents.
Now,
the question is, will President Trump not only ask his Attorney General to
appoint an investigation into the Clintons, but into the Clinton State
Department concerning the allegations, considering the given evidence we have
of the Clintons' ties to known pedophiles and their sordid criminal and sexual
history?
Georgetown University is a premier academic institution in
America, yet the university has unconscionable links to the Radical Islam that
hates American culture and Liberty.
USNews.com ranks Georgetown
University #20 nationally tied with UC Berkley. This makes Georgetown one of
America’s elite colleges. Georgetown was founded as a Jesuit-Catholic college
in 1789 around the time of the U.S. Constitution became the centerpiece of
American government and George Washington became the first President of the
United States.
Georgetown University, a private
university in Washington DC, is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit higher education
institution in the US.
Its alumni include two former US
presidents: Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson; as well as several other heads of
state, including King Felipe VI of Spain.
Having been founded in 1789 by John
Carroll, the US’ first bishop and archbishop, on a hilltop overlooking the
Potomac River, Georgetown awarded its first bachelor’s degrees in 1817.
The American Civil War nearly
forced the closure of the university, with the student body dropping from 313
to 17 between 1859 and 1861, but it was in the aftermath of the conflict that
Georgetown became the institution that is known today.
Patrick Healy, the university’s
president between 1873 and 1882 and the first African American to earn a PhD,
reshaped the institution’s curriculum to place a focus on history and the
natural sciences, and started the construction of Healy Hall, the flagship
Flemish Romanesque building at the heart of the campus.
Nowadays the university is divided
into nine undergraduate and graduate schools, including Georgetown College,
which offers a liberal arts programme, and the Edmund A. Walsh School of
Foreign Service, which has educated heads of state and politicians from around
the world.
With more than 7,000 undergraduate
and about 10,000 postgraduate students, about 11 per cent of Georgetown’s
students are from overseas, being drawn from about 130 countries.
Although it has always been
independent of the Catholic Church, Georgetown’s Jesuit heritage continues to
be influential, with education at the university emphasising service to others,
particularly the vulnerable and disadvantaged.
Georgetown also runs a school of
foreign service in Doha, Qatar, and offers study abroad opportunities at villas
around the Mediterranean.
This description of Georgetown is a glowing picture, right?
Georgetown has one of the top Islamic apologists (John Esposito: HERE & HERE) that defends
Muslim terrorists that hates Israel and has a University adjunct in Doha,
Qatar. Qatar is a notorious supporter of Radical Islam and Islamic terrorists
in the Middle Eastern region. I suspect the Jesuit founder of Georgetown is
rolling over in his grave over Islamic infiltration into his Catholic
university.
ACT for America has news on
convicted Islamic terrorist Sami al-Arian having a teaching
moment at Georgetown University’s Qatar location.
Georgetown University's Qatar campus is set to host Sami
Al-Arian for a lecture tonight in Doha. According to a news release from the
school's Middle Eastern Studies Student Association, Al-Arian is a "civil
rights activist" who hopes to challenge students to "make it a
better, and more equitable and peaceful world."
Those are charitable descriptions for Al-Arian, a documented member of the
Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Majlis Shura, or board of directors. According to
the Islamic Jihad's bylaws, which law enforcement agents found during searches
of Al-Arian's home and offices, there can be "No Peace without
Islam." The group's objective is to create "a state of terror, instability
and panic in the souls of Zionists and especially the groups of settlers, and
force them to leave their houses."
It's an agenda Al-Arian took to heart. Following a double suicide bombing in
1995 that killed 19 Israelis, Al-Arian solicited money from a Kuwaiti
legislator. "The latest operation, carried out by the two mujahideen who
were martyred for the sake of God, is the best guide and witness to what they
believing few can do in the face of Arab and Islamic collapse at the heels of
the Zionist enemy..." he wrote.
"I call upon you to try to extend true support of the jihad effort in
Palestine so that operations such as these can continue, so that the people do
not lose faith in Islam and its representatives..." he wrote. Four years
earlier, he spoke at a fundraiser in Cleveland, introduced as the head of the
"active arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine."
Why, then, is a Jesuit university, albeit at a campus in Qatar, hosting a
leader of a designated terrorist group's "active arm"?
There's a family bond between Georgetown University and the Al-Arians. Son
Abdullah is an assistant professor at Georgetown's Qatar campus, teaching
history in its School of Foreign Service. He earned his Ph.D. at Georgetown,
writing his dissertation about the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood during the
1970s, a time his father acknowledges being part of the global Islamist
movement.
Jonathan Brown, Al-Arian's son-in-law, also works at Georgetown, as the [Saudi]
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization. Brown recently drew
criticism for a lecture in which he argued that slavery isn't inherently
"morally evil" if the slave is treated well. He also minimized sexual
consent as a recent social more, arguing no one is really free enough to grant consent
anyway.
Property records show Brown and his wife Laila Al-Arian bought a modest house
just outside Tampa in 2015. Brown also owns a $1.1 million house in Mclean, Va.
Brown's boss, Georgetown University Professor John Esposito, has been a staunch
Al-Arian defender. Al-Arian is "an extraordinarily bright, articulate
scholar and intellectual-activist, a man of conscience with a strong commitment
to peace and social justice," Esposito wrote in a letter to a federal
judge.
Brown's slavery and sexual consent lecture was hosted by the International
Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) in Herndon, Va. The IIIT was a prime
financial supporter of a think tank Al-Arian founded in Tampa called the World
and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE). It provided cover for at least three other
members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Shura Council, including his
brother-in-law Mazen Al-Najjar, an academic named Basheer Nafi and Ramadan
Abdullah Shallah – the Islamic Jihad's secretary general since late 1995.
Federal prosecutors wanted Al-Arian to tell a grand jury what he knew about the
IIIT's financial support for terrorists. He refused. Al-Arian was charged with
criminal contempt after maintaining that stance even after a judge granted him
immunity for his truthful testimony.
The case never went to trial. Al-Arian was deported to Turkey in 2015, pursuant
to terms in his 2006 guilty plea connected to his Palestinian Islamic Jihad
support. He now works as "director of the Center for Regional Politics at
Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University," the Georgetown Middle East students
group's news release said.
Al-Arian is a computer scientist.
Sabahattin Zaim opened in 2010 and claims to have about 1,100 undergraduate
students.
While the Georgetown University program is organized by a student group,
promotional material lists Mehran Kamrava as moderator. Kamrava directs the
Georgetown School of Foreign Service's Center for International and Regional
Studies.
His presence adds the university's imprimatur to the Al-Arian event. In
addition, the School of Foreign Service posted the news release promoting
Al-Arian's lecture.
Qatar has supported Hamas, the Islamic Jihad's rival Palestinian terrorist
group, providing money and refuge for Hamas leaders. In that light, Al-Arian's
invitation doesn't seem out of place. But it is still an event hosted by a
Georgetown University campus, moderated by one of its prominent faculty.
While Al-Arian has tried to deny his Islamic Jihad activities, or at least
minimize them, his work to advance the group's bloody ambitions is undeniable.
He self-identified as the Shura Council's secretary. In his plea agreement, he
admits lying about Shallah's prominent role in the Islamic Jihad.
During his 1991 remarks in Cleveland after his "active arm"
introduction, Al-Arian urged donations for jihad. "Your brothers in
Palestine are struggling with their beings," he said, "so let us
struggle here with our money."
"This is the way of giving," he said earlier. "This is the way
of struggle. This is the way of battle. This is the way of jihad. This is the
way of martyrdom. Thus is the way of blood, because this is the path to
heaven."
The student association's news release failed to mention this background as a
convicted felon, describing the former University of South Florida professor as
a "civil rights advocate." It fails to mention Al-Arian's guilty
plea, and whitewashes his resulting deportation to Turkey by saying
"Al-Arian relocated."
The federal judge who saw all the evidence against Al-Arian, who watched him
lie about his true identity and violent ambitions, called him a "master
manipulator." Old habits die hard, apparently. The question in this case
is whether Georgetown and its student groups are being duped or are witting
accomplices in whitewashing a terrorist into a "human rights
advocate."
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About a half-a-year ago, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) under the
auspices David Daleiden and Sandra
Merritt exposed Planned Parenthood not only as a baby-killing
factory but also as an agent for selling murdered baby parts to a research
organization illegally. The thing that makes Planned Parenthood heinous is that
babies had to be born intact for the most precious baby parts. Intact means
born alive then killed.
Even though Planned Parenthood committed the crimes, it was
Daleiden and Merritt that were charged – first in Texas and now in California.
The Texas charges were dropped after it became obvious
pro-Dem Party prosecutors tainted a Grand Jury to indict them. NOW, under
similar corrupt circumstances, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (who
replaced another corrupt CA AG that went after CMP undercover operators) is
another corrupt AG with ties to Planned Parenthood.
Evidently California has made it easy for criminals to
commit crimes by passing privacy laws that mandate a citizen cannot be recorded
with prior authorization. HENCE, a private citizen cannot get the goods on a
criminal or criminals for breaking the law.
If you trust more in Biblical Morality than Secular Humanism
then you understand Planned Parenthood and all people that believe a woman has
a greater right to choose baby-killing more than an unborn person has a right
to life, then you should tune into the Sixth Commandment:
When governments enforce the laws of man over God’s
Commandments, you know there is a cultural degradation in America.
Who is responsible for this cultural degradation? Left Wing
Democrats that first fundamentally transformed America in stealth via activist
Judges then down right out in the open under eight years of the Obama
Administration.
California AG Files Politically Motivated Charges Against
Daleiden and Merritt
From Operation Rescue
Sent March 29, 20178:40 AM
Sacramento, CA - Late yesterday, California Attorney General
Xavier Becerra charged pro-life investigative journalists David Daleiden and
Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress with 15 felony counts related
to secret recordings they made that provided evidence of Planned Parenthood's
participation in the illegal trafficking of aborted baby remains.
"Just as corruption was involved in the last attempt to
falsely charge David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, I predict that corruption is
at the heart of these California charges as well. It is despicable that the
California Attorney General charged innocent whistleblowers with felonies
instead of the career criminals at Planned Parenthood. This is the ultimate
abuse of power and tyranny. The Planned Parenthood butchers have committed tens
of thousands of felonies by illegally selling baby's body parts for profit,"
said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue who also served as a founding
member of the board for the Center for Medical Progress.
"We call on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to
aggressively prosecute Planned Parenthood and their partners in the illegal
aborted baby parts trade," said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Vice President of
Operation Rescue. "We ask that Attorney General Sessions resist any
intimidation by California authorities who are simply acting as Democratic
operatives on a political agenda to thwart any prosecution of Planned
Parenthood."
In response to the charges, Daleiden has released a new video
that features Planned Parenthood executives making statements that further
illustrate their involvement in the illicit trade of aborted baby remains.
Late Tuesday night,
California’s Attorney General charged David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt with a whopping fifteen felonies.
Daleiden and
Merritt, by way of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), released several
horrifying undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood officials negotiating
the price of aborted baby parts.
California is a
two-party consent state, meaning both parties in any recording must consent to be
recorded. 14 of the 15 charges are for recording confidential conversations
without consent. The last is for conspiracy to commit a felony by recording
private conversations at a conference.
Placing the
two-party consent nonsense on hold for a moment, Daleiden and Merritt made two
errors through the course of their investigation, one of which was omitted from
the charges levied against them.
1) creating and using fake IDs
2) using an expired employee ID to login to Stem Expresses system
The former was not
included, the latter was cited in the 15th felony charge.
Pretending to be a
fictitious person is not a crime. Neither is creating a fake organization. The
sale or purchase of fetal tissue, though (should it interfere with interstate
commerce), that’s a federal felony. We’re not holding our breath for any AG to
file charges against those who were captured on video discussing the sale of
dismembered babies.
CMP’s series of
undercover videos lead to a Congressional investigation in which Cecile
Richards, Planned Parenthood President, referred to the conversations as
“non-confidential.”
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) got into a heated debate with Planned
Parenthood president Cecile Richards during a Congressional hearing earlier
this week.
Jordan wanted to know why Richards, just a few days after watching one of the
Planned Parenthood videos which showed high-ranking officials bartering over
baby parts, issued an apology.
The media should be
rushing to defend Daldeiden [sic] and Merritt against these clearly politically
wrought charges. And yet…
Some of the best
reporting from the last century has been done undercover. Shows like Dateline and To
Catch a Predator were predicated on using undercover tactics and ruses
to either expose wrongdoing or bait would-be wrong doers.
In what seems like a
lifetime ago, I worked with James O’Keefe and his undercover investigative
outfit, Project Veritas. I recruited and coached undercover vidoegraphers
across the country. One of our biggest considerations in every investigation
was “is this legal?” I worked extensively with our attornies and videographers
on the legal boundaries of recording and investigating. A case that came up
regularly in our guidance was Medical
Laboratory Consultants vs. American Broadcasting Companies (2002).
In this case, the 9th circuit held that undercover, hidden camera
investigations in medical labs were not an invasion of
privacy.
As to the conference
Daleiden and Merritt attended and recorded, we worked on several different
investigations in two-party consent states where attending a conference was either
part of the investigation or was the investigation. Guidance
was always the same — if there is an announcement, either written or oral at a
conference that sessions and general conference going would be recorded, then
there is no expectation of privacy and hidden camera reporting would likely
pass legal scrutiny.
Daleiden further
responded to the charges by releasing yet another undercover video, and
arguably the most sickening one to date, showing Planned Parenthood officials
discussing dismemberment abortions and killing newborns:
At a networking reception at a Planned Parenthood conference, CMP
investigators posing as buyers from a biotech company are introduced to Dr.
Taylor by Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s
Senior Director of Medical Services.
Dr. Taylor confirms she does elective abortions on healthy fetuses and
pregnant women up to 24 weeks. When the investigators ask her about obtaining
intact fetal organs, Dr. Taylor replies, “It’s not a matter of how I
feel about it coming out intact, but I gotta worry about my staff and people’s
feelings about it coming out looking like a baby.”
She continues, “We have the people who do our paperwork for the
fetal death certificates, they email us calling them ‘babies’. Baby this, baby
that, baby so-and-so, and I’m like, that’s creepy!”
Dr. Taylor explains to the investigators, “In Arizona, if the fetus
comes out with any signs of life, we’re supposed to transport it. To the
hospital.” When one investigator then asks, “Is there any standard
procedure for verifying signs of of life?” Dr. Taylor replies, “Well,
the thing is, I mean the key is, you need to pay attention to who’s in the
room, right?”
Dr. Taylor then laughs as she repeats what the Arizona law requires, and
says, “It’s a mess. It’s a mess.”
Dr. Taylor acknowledges that the feticidal chemical digoxin cannot be
used in an abortion where fetal body parts will be harvested for sale, but she
remarks that in a standard dismemberment dilation and evacuation abortion, “My
biceps appreciate when the dig[oxin] works,” to kill the fetus before
the procedure. “I remember when I was a [Family Planning] Fellow and I was
training, I was like, Oh, I have to hit the gym for this,” she says,
describing the force she feels in her biceps when performing a dismemberment abortion
with forceps.
Shortly after
Daleiden released the latest undercover video, the 9th circuit granted the
National Abortion Federation a preliminary injunction, “prohibiting Biomax
Procurement Services LLC, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), David
Daleiden, and Troy Newman from releasing recordings and materials they
illegally obtained at NAF’s educational meetings.”
California’s AG may
hope to punish Daleiden and Merritt for exposing the disgusting underbelly of
Planned Parenthood, but ultimately, it will embolden life and speech advocates
nationwide.
California Attorney
General Xavier Becerra, a Democrat who filed 15 felony charges against pro-life
filmmakers Tuesday, previously accepted thousands of dollars in campaign
contributions from Planned Parenthood during his congressional campaigns.
Becerra announced
Tuesday that the state had filed charges against
David Daleiden, the founder of The Center for Medical Progress, and his
associate, Sandra Merritt, for their roles in the release of a series of
undercover videos that showed Planned Parenthood employees appearing to
negotiate the price of aborted fetal body parts.
Profiting from the
sale of human body parts — including those of the unborn — is illegal under
federal law. Planned Parenthood denied illegal conduct and applauded the
indictment of the pro-life filmmakers.
…
According to the
Washington Examiner,
Becerra, who previously served in the House of Representatives,
received campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood during his
congressional campaigns. Data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows
that Becerra received $2,000 from
Planned Parenthood during his 2012 campaign, and $1,000 in 2014.
When Becerra was appointed to
be California’s attorney general by the state’s Gov. Jerry Brown (D) late last
year, Planned Parenthood released a statement praising
him as “a long-time champion for women’s reproductive rights and health.”
Becerra’s
predecessor, Kamala Harris, who now represents California as a Democrat in the
U.S. Senate, received $2,600 from Planned Parenthood during her 2016 Senate
campaign, according to data from
the Center for Responsive Politics.
Harris had a history
of working on behalf of Planned Parenthood’s agenda.
As attorney general,
she spearheaded an investigation into The Center for Medical Progress.
Daleiden said last April that Harris’ office raided his home and seized his
video footage.
Emails obtained by
the Washington Times in September showed that Harris’ office also collaborated with Planned
Parenthood to draft legislation criminalizing the recording or
distribution of a private conversation with a health care provider, targeting
The Center for Medical Progress. The emails showed a Harris staffer asking Beth
Parker, chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, to
review the text of the bill.
Harris vowed to
defend Planned Parenthood as a senator and urged supporters to sign a petition
in defense of the group on her campaign website.
The Washington Free
Beacon reported that
both attorneys general received thousands of additional funds from other
pro-choice groups allied with Planned Parenthood during their congressional
campaigns.
Becerra’s office did
not immediately respond to TheBlaze’s request for comment about the campaign
contributions.
Daleiden’s attorney,
Tom Brejcha, who is also president and chief counsel of the Thomas More
Society, said in a statement provided to TheBlaze, “When it comes to felony
charges against our client, David Daleiden, history is on our side.”
“When David Daleiden
and Sandra Merritt were falsely charged in Texas, after they mounted a vigorous
defense, the charges were abruptly dropped. We expect that the same will prove
true in California,” Brejcha said.
Lila Rose, the
president and founder of the pro-life group Live Action, which has also
released undercover footage of
Planned Parenthood employees, said in a statement that “using state power to
attack citizen journalists who expose crimes against the defenseless is a
severe miscarriage of justice”:
The real criminal is Planned Parenthood, not David Daleiden and Sandra
Merritt. The Center for Medical Progress did a tremendous service by exposing
the barbaric baby parts trafficking that Planned Parenthood had kept hidden
behind closed doors. They should be lauded for their brave work, not punished.
California’s last two pro-abortion attorneys general have yet to
investigate Planned Parenthood after two congressional committees found
significant evidence that it may have broken the law with its baby parts
trafficking scheme. Similar charges against David and Sandra were dropped in
Texas months ago, yet Mr. Becerra insists on punishing them and putting his
political agenda ahead of the laws that he was sworn to uphold.
California AG Files
Politically Motivated Charges Against Daleiden and Merritt
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Yesterday I blogged on Marshall Polston
being suspended from Rollins College in Florida for openly disagreeing with
Professor Areej Zufari over the divinity, Crucifixion death and bodily Resurrection
of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
I posited in essence, What would you expect from a Muslim
who is taught these things about Jesus straight from their Quran, Hadith and
Sunnah? Yet, I found it quite deplorable that Rollins College suspended Polston
for his religious beliefs as if establishing the Islamic beliefs on Jesus as
the accurate truth.
I argued that this attitude of Rollins College placed the
educational institution in a position of submission to Professor Zufari and to
the theopolitical ideology of Islam. Indeed, Islamic Supremacism is the belief
Muslims are taught and that all non-Muslims must submit to Islam either in
conversion or in publicly admitting that Islam is superior to one’s separate
religious beliefs.
While browsing through a Barnes and Noble in
Westport, Connecticut in 1988, I chanced upon a book on the bottom shelf of the
Judaica section with the curious title, The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam, by
Bat Ye’or. Bat Ye’or is a nom de plume meaning in Hebrew “daughter of
the Nile.” I perused the paperback volume shocked by the
revelations that the Muslim realm was not the tolerant Islam that
Medievalist scholars had conveyed. …
…
The term dhimmi in
Bat Ye’or's pioneering volume referred to those subject to a dhimma or
treaty decreeing their status and obligations including a jizya or
poll tax that effectively amounted to onerous payments made in lieu of being
beheaded – blood money. As Bat Ye’or noted:
Dhimmitude: the
Islamic system of governing populations conquered by jihad wars,
encompassing all of the demographic, ethnic, and religious aspects of the
political system. The word "dhimmitude" comes from dhimmi,
an Arabic word meaning "protected”. Dhimmi was the name
applied by the Arab-Muslim conquerors to indigenous non-Muslim populations who
surrendered by a treaty (dhimma) to Muslim domination. Islamic conquests
expanded over vast territories in Africa, Europe and Asia, for over a
millennium (638-1683). The Muslim empire incorporated numerous varied peoples
which had their own religion, culture, language and civilization. For
centuries, these indigenous, pre-Islamic peoples constituted the great majority
of the population of the Islamic lands. Although these populations differed,
they were ruled by the same type of laws, based on the Shari’a.
…
The Third Choice should
be considered an important and timely complement to Bat Ye’or’s, The
Dhimmi. (View this presentation on the Third Choice by
author Durie at The Heritage Foundation.) He elucidates dhimmitude via discussion
of basic Islamic Sharia law contained in the Quranic canon based on
the example of Mohammed. What Durie means by the model of Mohammed is
captured in an essay by him on the
impossibility of Islamic reformation:
. . . Muhammad combined
within himself the offices of king, judge, general and religious leader, thus
unifying politics, law, the military and religion. To follow his example means
creating a theocratic political order, where the laws of the land are
controlled by Islamic theology.
…
Durie conveys the ritualized
brutality of jizya –a virtual beheading:
For the dhimmi, the
annual jizya payment was a powerful and public symbolic
expression of the jihad-dhimmitude nexus, which fixed the horizon
of the dhimmi ’s world. Although the ritual varied in its specific
features, its essential character was an enactment of a beheading, in which one
of the recurrent features was a blow to the neck of the dhimmi, at the
very point when he makes his payment. (p. 131)
Durie goes on to note the
devastating impact of the jizyaon dhimmis:
The intended result of the jizya ritual
is for the dhimmi to lose all sense of his own personhood. In
return for this loss, the dhimmi was supposed to feel humility
and gratitude towards his Muslim masters. Al-Mawardi said that the jizya head
tax was either a sign of contempt, because of the dhimmis’
unbelief, or a sign of the mildness of Muslims, who granted them quarter
(instead of killing or enslaving them) so humble gratitude was the intended
response.
The remarks of al-Mawardi and Ibn
‘Ajibah make clear that its true meaning is to be found in psychological
attitudes of inferiority and indebtedness imposed upon non-Muslims living under
Islam, as they willingly and gratefully handed over the jizya in
service to the Muslim community. (p. 141)
AND this is the reason I become so upset when an American
public figure or an American private/public institution goes out of its way to
accommodate a Muslim or an Islamic organization. It is the beginning of the
bending of the neck to submit or die to Islam.
This column provides the background of Professor Areeje
Zufari, a Professor of Humanities and Coordinator of the Humanities
Speakers Series at Valencia College located in Orlando, Florida. Zufari gained
attention when she told her students “that the crucifixion of Jesus was a hoax
and that his disciples did not believe he was ‘divine.’”
8. Maher Ghawji has admitted to
his wife of being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a violent political
movement whose members are sworn to “defend Islam” with their “blood.” He
accepted this status with a group of friends, during a trip they had made to
Cairo, Egypt (Exhibit 1).
He left Syria around 1982, the year a government-led massacre took place in the
town of Hama – a Brotherhood stronghold – which resulted in the deaths of
10,000 to 40,000 people (Exhibit 2). Following the massacre, members of the
Brotherhood fled Syria, some leaving for the U.S. or Europe, some joining up
with Osama bin Laden to fight in Afghanistan (Exhibit 3).
9. During his court deposition,
on June 4, 2004, Maher Ghawji admitted to the court and to his wife of being a
Wahhabi, an adherent to a fanatical religious form of Islam emanating from
Saudi Arabia (Exhibit 4 – page 26).
[ … ]
11a. Maher Ghawji’s son, Louis,
has written about how his father wants to “get rid” of all Jews and how his
father wants him [Louis] to become a suicide bomber. In an e-mail he sent to a
friend on June 24, 2004, he wrote, “And because he [Maher Ghawji] wants to get
rid of all Jews and everybody should be muslim and if not all others are idiots
and blah blah blah muslim allah blah blah blah wants me to go blow up myself so
he would be proud of me…” (Exhibit 5).
11b. Both of Maher Ghawji’s sons
have discussed how their father hates Jews. In the July 2, 2004 chambers
interview with Louis and K.K. Ghawji, the children state the following: K.K.
Ghawji: “So, but also, when he watches the TV and hears about Jews, he doesn’t
– he’s like saying I hate the Jews, it is – ” Louis Ghawji: “He’s always
wondering like every time there is one Jew dead, it is always a big fuss…” (Exhibit 5).
12. About Palestinians becoming
suicide bombers, Maher Ghawji stated in his June 2004 deposition, “I think this
will generate this, I’m not sure, spirit of blowing themselves up or feeling in
despair; and when you’re in despair evidently like they live, and these people
has no education, fifty percent jobless, have no running water after the
invasion of Israeli to the Gaza Strip and West Bank, destroy all their
infrastructure, evidently they feel miserable; and I said these people — I
don’t see why not.” (Exhibit 4 – page 82).
…Zufari
had given Polston a failing grade without explanation, after the two disagreed
over Zufari proclaiming during the first class that the Crucifixion of Christ
was a hoax… as
was the idea that Jesus’s
disciples did not think he was “divine.”
Polston reached out and demanded
an explanation from the professor, but she instead reported him to the Dean of
Safety for making her feel “unsafe.”
The straight-A student would
ultimately be suspended on March 24th and then face outlandish allegations by
Zufari, later that day.
She accused him of skulking
around in the brush outside the classroom, but video surveillance from a Dr.
Phillips restaurant and neighborhood gate cameras prove Polston was nowhere
near the school at the time.
Now the Central Florida Post has
uncovered a lawsuit filed in Orange County, FL in 2007 that contains bombshell
allegations against Zufari and provide insight into her radical Wahhabi
leanings. SEE THE LAWSUIT BELOW.
Professor and writer Areej Zufari
was born in the United States to Middle Eastern parents. Her interest in Middle
Eastern culture began during her childhood in Arkansas where she also
discovered her love for writing and painting. She earned a Masters degree in
Liberal Studies from Rollins College and a Bachelors degree from Southern
Methodist University. After 2001, she took on the demanding role of Director of
Media and Communications for the Islamic Society of Central Florida. Her
experiences speaking in the media revealed to her the numerous misconceptions
Americans hold about the Middle East and Islam. Inspired by the
importance of education to promote peace, Zufari enrolled in Hartford
Seminary and earned a graduate certificate in Islamic Chaplaincy. Now, as a professor
at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida, Zufari teaches Humanities courses
full-time and writes during her weekends and summers. [Emphasis added]
Discover the Networks reports:
Imam Muhammad Musri, who oversees seven mosques from the
Islamic Society of Central Florida, believes that Arab Christians claiming
to have converted from Islam “are lying and . . . were actually Christians all
along.” “They are using tales of conversion,” he says, “to get financial
backing from evangelical ministries.” Taking a jab at Christianity’s many
Protestant denominations, he adds, “We don’t want the Muslims to end up with
700 determinations of Islam.” Musri’s speeches are sold and distributed by the Islamic Society of North
America.
Welcome! I am a Professor of
Humanities at Valencia Community College’s East Campus.
I teach the Middle Eastern
Humanities, 20th Century Humanities, Renaissance & Baroque Humanities.
Human creativity is one of the
most fascinating subjects, and Humanities courses allow us to jump into the
creative fields in an integrative manner.
My courses emphasize student
interaction and critical thinking. If you are interested in taking one of my
courses, please send me an email. I would love to hear from you.
The course covers topics such as
Middle Eastern religions, philosophy, literature, architecture, visual arts,
music, and the effects of modernity on the Middle East.
Major Topics:
Students will have the
opportunity to study the culture of the Middle East in an integrated manner
that focuses on the dominant ideas and major trends, including:
§Characteristics and Distinctions of Middle Eastern Culture
§Themes, styles, and impact of Middle Eastern Literature
§Concepts and impact of the religion of Islam
§The effects of religion on Middle Eastern peoples
§Characteristics and trends in Middle Eastern Art
§Characteristics of Middle Eastern Architecture
§The Effects of Modernity on the Middle East
Texts:
§Beyond the Headlines: A Deeper Look at Middle Eastern Culture by
Areej Zufari
Dr. Rich is a “conservative
with a conscience.” He believes that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no
vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is not virtue.” His idol is
former Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was a true conservative who
wrote this in his book “The Conscience of a
Conservative”:
“I
have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient,
for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I
propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It
is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to
the Constitution, or …
…
Rich holds a Doctorate of
Education from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, a
Master’s Degree in Management Information Systems from the George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from
Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Rich is a 23-year Army
veteran who retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1990. He was awarded the Legion
of Merit for his years of service. Additionally, he was awarded two Bronze
Stars with “V” for Heroism in ground combat, the Presidential Unit Citation,
and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry while serving with the 101st Airborne
Division in Vietnam. He is a graduate of the Field Artillery Officers Basic and
Advanced Courses, and U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
Rich was the Founder/CEO of
Sarasota Online, a high technology company that was sold to Comcast Cable in
1996. He helped start Backsoft Corporation an enterprise software development
company in 1997 whose clients included Coca-Cola, Anheuser- Busch, Hyundai
Electronics, Volkswagen, Moen and Goodyear. Backsoft was sold in 2001.
Rich twice chaired the
Sarasota Better Business Council and sat on the Board of the Greater Sarasota
Chamber of Commerce. He served on the Board of Directors of the Community
Foundation of Sarasota County from 2000-2009. He served from 2006-2011 on the
Sponsorship Advisory Committee to the Sarasota County School Board.
Rich served for ten years as
the President of the Sarasota County Veterans Commission, was an honorary
member of the BRAVE Fund, and served as Chairman of the Sarasota National
Cemetery Advisory Committee for seven years.
Rich was the State Editor for
RedCounty.com, former radio talk show host of the Dr. Rich Show and former
Editor of Watchdog Wire – Florida, an internationally read website dedicated to exposing
government fraud, waste and abuse at the city, county, school board and state
levels in Florida. –READ ENTIRETY
