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• HT:BigPeace.John Brennan Must Go.Among other things, I warned the court that – since shariah obliges its adherents to engage in jihad (holy war), whether through violent means or more stealthy techniques – in my professional judgment, any approval of a proposed 50,000-square feet Islamic Center of Murfreesboro (ICM) required the most careful and informed scrutiny.My testimony was drawn from the analysis and key findings of the pathbreaking Team B II report that have been serialized here in recent days. In particular, I noted that officials at every level of government have been, at best, willfully blind (in the words of Team member and former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy) to the dangers associated with the so-called “civilization jihad” being waged against this country by the Muslim Brotherhood. At worst, some appear susceptible to charges of “misprision of treason” – a term the U.S. code uses to criminalize a failure to act in the face of evidence of sedition.Speaking of Chicago, that city is the venue for three-days of meetings convened by what some have called “the new Caliphate” – a 56 Muslim nation entity that makes up the international institutional arm of the “civilization jihad” aimed at destroying Western civilization from within. Incredibly, at least three senior White House and State Department officials are among the scheduled participants: Rashad Hussain, the President’s special envoy to the OIC; Farah Pandith, the State Depatment’s outreach coordinator to the Muslim community; and Dalia Mogahed, an adviser to the White House Office of Inter-faith and Neighborhood Initiatives.Hussain was actually scheduled to speak on a panel “moderated” by a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). The effect of such interactions is unmistakably to legitimize these deeply problematic, shariah-promoting organizations and to facilitate their influence operations against and penetration of the U.S. government.Such perilous behavior is the inevitable result of direction provided by Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan. It is for this reason, among others, that members of Team B II called today for Brennan’s resignation. The former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Lieutenant General William G. “Jerry” Boykin put it this way:: r. Brennan is in a position of enormous responsibility. If he lacks an understanding of shariah law and the threat that it presents to America, then he is negligent and I would consider his failure to be a moral one. If he is cognizant of the dangers of shariah law and the aims of those who are driven by a quest to bring it to this nation, and he has been deceptive about the issue with the public and the President of the United States, then I believe that his behavior is criminal. Either way, he should no longer serve as Homeland Security Adviser to the President of the United States.All I can say is, “Amen.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:BacktoBasics.Senate to Obama: No recess appointments for you!How about some late-night good news from Capitol Hill? Senate Republicans did something right, stood their ground, and forced Democrats to bow on blocking White House recess appointments during the midterm election break.See? Saying no — HELL NO — can pay off. Senate Democrats agreed Wednesday night to a Republican demand to block President Obama from making recess appointments while Congress is out of town campaigning for the midterm elections.Which means no more stealthy, sunlight-evading cut-and-run appointments like Speedy Don Berwick for the next six weeks.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:BigPeace.FBI-HQ claims Big Peace article on Hamas Operative ‘Totally Fabricated’ and Photo ‘Doctored’.Following an ACT for America email sent to its 150,000 member list earlier this week linking to my Big Peace article from Monday about a known Hamas operative – Kifah Mustapha – who was escorted on a VIP tour of the top-secret National Counterterrorism Center and the FBI training facility at Quantico earlier this month as part of a FBI Citizen Academy, apparently hundreds of ACT members who called the FBI’s Washington D.C. headquarters were told the that the Big Peace article was “totally fabricated” and that the accompanying photo had been “doctored”.(UPDATE: This afternoon, FBI spokesman Paul Bresson confirmed to Fox News that Mustapha’s tour of the NCTC did in fact happen, confirming our initial report, but defended including him in the FBI Citizen Academy program, saying that “he’s a prominent figure in the community.”)"He’s a prominent figure in the community." the same could be said of Rasputin just before the Bolshevik revolution!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:BacktoBasics.Obama Ally Could Be Tried for Treason.Still have doubts about the company Obama keeps? Here is an interview with Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson with the release of his book “Conduct Unbecoming: How Barack Obama is Destroying The Military and Endangering Our Security“, revealing restrictions on our military that are putting them in danger, the consequences of repealing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell legislation, and the company Obama keeps and has invited to the White House. Why haven’t these people been tried for treason?Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Turkish, Chinese air forces secretly participated in military drill.Turkey conducted war games with China.The Turkish and Chinese air forces secretly participated in a military drill in Konya as part of the “Anatolian Eagle” war games, prompting a reaction from Washington, daily Taraf reported Thursday.Taraf based its report on Turkish and Western military sources, who confirmed that the military drills took place but did not state the exact dates of the games or what kind of aircraft were involved.Washington has requested information on the matter from Turkey, the report added.The US administration reportedly contacted the Turkish foreign and defense ministries and asked why the drill was conducted and what kind of maneuvers were practiced.Get Turkey out of NATO ....NOW!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Let them eat cake?First lady Michelle Obama's campaign for healthier school lunches has stalled in Congress after anti-hunger groups and more than 100 Democrats protested the use of food stamp dollars to pay for it.One hundred and six Democrats wrote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in August calling the move egregious, saying it was not a vote they would take lightly. Labor unions, anti-poverty groups and even New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg also urged the speaker to reconsider using the food stamp money."It's just plain wrong," said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., a longtime advocate for childhood nutrition programs. "The way you are going to pay for a child nutrition bill is by dipping into people's food stamps? Give me a break."To no avail. Democrats declined to take up the bill before the November elections, citing many of their members' concerns about the food stamp dollars. Many Republicans opposed the bill as well, saying it was too expensive.Supporters had hoped to pass the bill before Thursday, when many of the child nutrition programs in the bill are scheduled to expire.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• The Night Jon Stewart Turned on President Obama.Tonight—on the same day that President Obama endorsed his rally—Jon Stewart came out swinging with his strongest anti-Obama Daily Show segment to date. Inside, video of the unexpected segment, during which Stewart basically called Obama a dishonest idealist.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Tokyo concerned about China’s escalating military and maritime activity.Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan told parliament today that good ties with China are vital but expressed concerns about China's lack of transparency in strengthening its defence capabilities and about how China's maritime activities from the Indian Ocean to the East China Sea have intensified. The effects of the dispute over the Senkaku Islands continue to affect relations between the two countries.For its part, the United States announced it is resuming military contacts with China after they were cut off in January of this year when Washington sold weapons to Taiwan. Talks could be held in Beijing on 14-15 October.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Contemporary Forms of Racism: 'Islamophobia'.Mr. Githu Muigai, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination,xenophobia and related intolerance made a statement on his written report to the UNHRC September 28, 2010. Mr. Muigai apparently hoped to explain how defamation of religions and in particular, "the serious implications of Islamophobia" impact on the "enjoyment of all human rights by their followers"."Islamophobia" implies irrational fear and loathing of Islam. Since the hijackings, shooting incidents and bombings of the latter third of the last century and the more recent attacks in New York City and Washington D.C., fear and loathing of Islam is hardly irrational. The history of Islam is a 1387 year trail of blood and tears leaving an estimated 270 million innocent victims dead. The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination,xenophobia and related intolerance has clearly stated an objection to attempting to outlaw "negative stereotyping". His opinion runs counter to the mainstream.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Researchers Found 40-Fold Increase In Carcinogenic Compounds In Gulf.Researchers testing the waters off Louisiana in June found hugely elevated levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, some of which are known carcinogens.The researchers from Oregon State University say that a device taking samples just off the shore of Louisiana's Grande Isle registered a 40-fold increase in PAHs between May and June.What's worse is that the sampling device was specifically designed to measure the fraction of PAHs in the environment that could make their way through a biological membrane."This is a measure of what would enter into an organism," said Kim Anderson, an OSU professor of environmental and molecular toxicology.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• U.S. Voters Abroad Test Efforts To Expedite Balloting.It's not easy to vote if you're an American living overseas or serving in the military.Hundreds of thousands of ballots requested by military and overseas voters in the 2008 elections were never returned or counted. Many of those voters simply did not get their ballots in time.But a new law this year appears to be turning things around.Take the case of retired Texan Lanny Marcus, who has lived in Cali, Colombia, for the past 15 years, but still feels strongly about voting back home. Every election, Marcus keeps his fingers crossed when he requests an absentee ballot.Will he get the ballot on time? Too often, as in his state's primary this past March — the answer is no."I never got it," Marcus says. "Usually they come a few days before or after the election, but that one never came."So imagine his surprise when he got a message the other day from his county election office in Texas."When I went to my e-mail, I couldn't believe it," he says. "The first time in my life — absentee ballot by e-mail."A few jurisdictions, like some counties in West Virginia, are even experimenting with online voting. That has some voter groups concerned, though, about ballot security. The Overseas Vote Foundation is recommending that anyone who sends their votes electronically also send a backup paper copy, just to be safe.Hmmmmm.....Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Official: Germans, Brits behind Europe terror plot.Eight Germans and two British brothers are at the heart of an al-Qaeda-linked terror plot against European cities, but the plan is still in its early stages, with the suspects calling acquaintances in Europe to plan logistics, a Pakistani intelligence official said on Thursday.One of the Britons died in a recent CIA missile strike, he said.The revelations underscore the role of Pakistan as a haven for many would-be militants with foreign ties, a worrying prospect for Western countries who face additional challenges when tracking terror suspects among citizens who have passports and easier access to their shores. Pakistan, Britain and Germany are tracking the suspects and intercepting their phone calls, the official told The Associated Press. Although he characterized the plot as immature, the Pakistani official warned against underestimating the suspects, whom he said have backing from al-Qaeda, the Pakistani Taliban and the Afghan Taliban, all groups that are separate yet interconnected.“It does not mean that they are not capable of materializing their designs,” the official said. “They are very much working on it.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• John Boehner: A 'state of emergency'.House Minority Leader John Boehner today delivered scathing criticism of House operations and promised major congressional reforms if he becomes speaker following the November election.“The House finds itself in a state of emergency. The institution does not function, does not deliberate and seems incapable of acting on the will of the people. From the floor to the committee level, the integrity of the House has been compromised,” according to prepared remarks of Boehner’s speech this afternoon at the American Enterprise Institute.He cited, for example, the House’s failure this year to consider a budget resolution and to pass appropriations bills.“The dysfunction has now reached a tipping point — a point at which none of us can credibly deny that it is having a negative impact on the people we serve,” Boehner said.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:ThereligionofPeace.Al Qa’eda ‘abducting their sons from Iraq'. BAGHDAD // Dozens of children born to al Qa’eda fighters in Iraq have been abducted by their fathers, prompting fears they will be brought up abroad as the next generation of Islamist militants.Iraqi women who were forced to marry foreign al Qa’eda volunteers have reported infant boys being snatched away by their husbands and never heard from again.An Iraqi charity working to support the al Qa’eda wives, many of whom were effectively presented as gifts to the militants, said the abductions posed a grave and long-term danger to Iraq and other countries.“We have reports that many of these children are disappearing and that al Qa’eda wants to bring them up as a new generation that will be indoctrinated from birth and will be extremely loyal to its cause,” said Jamil Dawar, an official with Noor, a non-governmental organisation that provides help to hundreds of women who were married off to foreign militants.“I believe that is al Qa’eda’s purpose, and it is a huge problem. It is not just a problem for these children and their mothers. It is a problem for Iraq, and the entire international community. Something must be done.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Mums flood Saudi school on gender-mixing report.Talks of boys being admitted to class send parents into a tizz.Worried mothers packed a Saudi primary girls school after they learned it would allow little boys to join classes along with their daughters, causing disruption of classes for nearly a week, al Watan newspaper reported on Friday.The mothers and other custodians of the school girls continued to pour into the school every morning for nearly a week despite assurances by the headmistress that the boys had been admitted to school but into a separate building.The crowd kept escorting their children into Alabrar School in the central town of Madina and stayed inside for long hours to make sure their daughters are not mixing with the new male entrants, the paper said.Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative Muslim countries, still bans gender mixing at its schools despite a controversial decision by King Abdullah last year to establish the Gulf Kingdom’s first co-educational institution—the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).KAUST, which has been criticised by some Muslim scholars inside and outside Saudi Arabia, is designed to produce Saudi scientists and is the only educational institution in the world’s oil superpower where men and women can mix. It is located near a Red Sea village away from the clutches of religious police.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Turkey Approves Muslim Prayer Service In Armenian Church.The Turkish government has decided to allow the country's leading ultranationalist party to hold a Muslim religious service in a medieval Armenian church.The opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) announced earlier this week its intention to rally supporters for a Friday prayer at the 11th century Holy Virgin Cathedral in Ani, the ruined capital of a medieval Armenian kingdom located in Turkey's northeastern Kars region. The party had asked regional authorities and the Ankara government for permission.Built in 1001, the Ani cathedral(The Holy Virgin Cathedral)was one of the largest churches of medieval Armenia. It is now one of the few surviving examples of the ancient Armenian civilization that existed in what is now eastern Turkey until the World War I-era mass killings and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.According to official Turkish sources, the church was converted into a mosque after much of Armenia was seized by the Seljuk Turks in the late 11th century. They still refer to it as Fethiye Mosque.Hmmmm.....freedom of religion?Yeah whatever.Just again turning a Church in a mosque And claim to the E.U. that there's religious freedom in Turkey?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• US urges Turkey to respect religious sites in KKTC.The US House of Representatives urged Turkey on Wednesday to work to retrieve and restore all lost artifacts and immediately halt the destruction of religious sites, illegal archaeological excavations, traffic in icons and antiquities through a resolution proposed by pro-Greek congressmen. Moreover, Christofias told Politico news blog on Wednesday that a solution to the Cyprus problem may not come before the end of the year, adding that he felt a “lack of goodwill” on the part of Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot leadership in negotiating reunification.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Switzerland punished Turks for 'genocide' denial.Switzerland imposed a fine and sentence on three Turks for denial of the 'Armenian enocide' and calling it an international lie in a public speech. The claim was brought by Sargis Shahinyan, Chairman of “Switzerland-Armenia” Union.Ali Mercan and two others were found guilty in violating “The Law about Preventing Racism” and are obliged to pay 30 thousand Swiss francs as well as are facing 150 days’ imprisonment. The verdict was appealed by the Turks, however, Swiss Federal Court confirmed the legitimacy of the verdict.Ali and his friends are intent to go to the European Court of Human Rights, according to Sondakika.Denial of the 'Armenian genocide' is punished by law in Switzerland.Read the story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Breibart.Medal of Honor Recipient’s Family Turned Away at White House.Family of Medal of Honor recipient Vernon Baker was denied access to the White House's West Wing on Saturday, a day after the World War II hero was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.Baker's widow, Heidy, and grandson, Vernon Pawlik, 10, were denied entry because the boy was wearing shorts and a T-shirt. His shirt had a picture of his grandfather on it.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Video: Gold and Diamond Encrusted Cars.At more than half a million dollars each, lavish desert cars decorated with three kilograms of gold and diamond studs have been unveiled at an auto show in Abu Dhabi.See the whole decadence here.Click here for comments.