[American Outlook] The Obama administration has been riddled with Muslims who are anti-American in their views in key national security positions. Now, Cairo-born Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, who immigrated to the States in 1990 and worked at the FBI for 22 years is calling for a national gun registry in clear violation of the Second Amendment.
Abdel-Hafiz who is consulting Obama’s "countering violent extremism," which should be more accurately titled, "countering Islamic terrorism," suggested that a national gun registry be created.
He explained his anti-American, pro-Nazi thinking to WFAA.
[Daily Beest] If all else fails, the people dreading a Hillary Clinton presidency can comfort themselves with her coughing fits.
The presumptive Democratic nominee's occasional coughing on the stump--a staple of this year's campaign reports in various right-leaning media outlets--has been a conservative meme for nearly a decade.
There’s even an anti-Clinton Twitter feed, @hillarycoughing, that has been active since February chronicling the frontrunner's supposed respiratory tic.
Her 70-year-old Republican rival, Donald Trump, trailing consistently in the latest polls, sometimes refers to the 68-year-old Clinton’s alleged lack of "strength and stamina"--apparently, the cough is evidence of same--and fired Trump campaign manager-turned-CNN political analyst Corey Lewandowski has used Clinton's coughing bouts to question her health.
"My own feeling is you have a 68-year-old woman running for president who has intense coughing fits in public, and I think the question is, What's that about?;" said Tucker Carlson, editor of the conservative Daily Caller, which has highlighted the former secretary of state's cough. "I'm not a physician. I couldn't hazard a guess. But as of this morning, she's likely to win. So I'd love to know. It's a legitimate question."
Carlson, a cohost of Fox News's weekend Fox & Friends, told The Daily Beast: "Having covered presidential campaigns for 25 years, I've never seen anybody cough that much. It doesn't mean it's a problem, but it raises obvious questions for a person who is likely to be the next president of the United States...In the 19th century, it was a sign of consumption...She coughs like a romantic poet."
The fanatical coughing coverage began as early as May 20, 2007, when the Drudge Report posted the headline, "HILLARY COUGHING, WHEEZING AT COMMENCEMENT," about her speech to graduates of New Orlean's historically black Dillard University when the former first lady was a New York senator launching her first presidential campaign. It has continued through this past Monday, when Drudge posted the headline "HILLARY COUGHING FIT RETURNS!" to characterize a video clip featuring the candidate emitting four dry little coughs during the raucous Cincinnati rally at which she appeared with Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
In a story about the conservatives' coughing fixation this past April, The Washington Post noted that Matt Drudge, the agenda-setting web site's namesake, was happy to minimize Clinton's commencement cough nine years ago, reasoning that "the campaign trail is long and tough." He exhorted the candidate on his radio show: "Hillary, dear, take care of yourself. We need you...Take a few days off, what's this frenetic pace?" He added: "She was professional. She kept going. She finished the speech."
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They're her "tell" for lying? Nah, not frequent enough. I'll go with heart issues (Assuming Dr. White has made an examination confirming she has one.).
[Huffpoo] In explosive testimony Tuesday, a witness before a Senate panel about Islamic terrorism accused the two Muslim members of Congress of having attended an event organized by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The charge was leveled by Chris Gaubatz, a "national security consultant" who has moonlighted as an undercover agitator of Muslim groups that he accuses of being terrorist outfits, and it was directed at Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and André Carson (D-Ind.). At the heart of his accusation is the attendance by those two members at a 2008 convention hosted by the Islamic Society of North America -- a Muslim umbrella group, which Gaubatz claims is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood.
"I attended a convention in Columbus, Ohio, in 2008, organized by Muslim Brotherhood group, ISNA, and both the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons had recruitment and outreach booths," Gaubatz said in his testimony. "Both Congressman Keith Ellison, MN, and Andre Carson, IN, spoke at the Muslim Brotherhood event."
Allegations that Ellison and Carson are secret Muslim agents with extremist leanings are usually found among fringe groups online, often discussed in dire tones on poorly designed websites. Rarely, if ever, do such sentiments get read into congressional testimony, with the imprimatur that offers.
Responsibility for this rare instance lies with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who oversaw the hearing as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts and whose staff likely saw the testimonies of the witnesses.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) later addressed Tuesday’s hearing and defended Ellison.
"He is my congressman. He is a man of great patriotism," she said, adding that he has advocated for additional funding for efforts to detect what attracts young people to join terrorist groups.
An aide to Ellison confirmed that he did attend the 2008 ISNA convention. He’s gone to a few of the group’s conventions, in fact. Carson’s office didn’t return a request for comment. But news reports show that both he and Carson led a discussion at the 2008 convention on how to mobilize Muslims politically. President Barack Obama has addressed the group as well, though only via a video recording.
[SPECTATOR.ORG] Next to the propagation of the big lie, one of the most elementary and common devices in manufacturing propaganda is the notion that the truth is something you are not being told.
From conspiracy theorists to those selling patent medicine on the Internet, everyone who whispers the words "secret" and "mystery" is using this device.
But what happens when you already know you’re not being told the truth? The psychological impact is that much greater. Your normal inclination to be taken in by conspiracy theorists is all the more heightened when you know you are not being told the truth.
That is what President B.O. and Attorney General Lynch achieved in their clumsy and stupid attempt to redact the transcripts of Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen’s phone calls to 911 as he shot up a gay nightclub in Orlando. Their bungled attempt to manipulate reality now affirms the role of Islam in the shooting. By attempting to change Mateen’s invocation of "Allah" to "God" and redacting entirely his swearing of allegiance to ISIS, the B.O. regime has created the opposite of what it intended.
Any doubts that this shooting was inspired by Islam have now been vitiated. In addition, conspiracy theorists have found in the administration’s inept handling of Mateen’s 911 calls new sustenance for their own cherished conspiracy.
When the absurdity of the editing by Obama’s "most open administration in American history" hit the news, public outrage forced the administration to relent, especially since the tapes’ contents in the age of social media were no secret.
At some point, the administration realized the obvious. The censorship did precisely the opposite of what was intended, reminding those of my generation that the quickest way to produce a best seller was to get it banned somewhere. Henry Miller, who might never have been read beyond the well-educated and sophisticated, found a whole new audience created by censorship.
Omar Mateen was a devout Moslem. Islam prescribes not just the killing of gays but killing them in some grotesque fashion. Of the countries in the world where homosexuality is punishable by death, all but Nigeria are Moslem, and in Nigeria the death penalty is part of the Sharia law of Moslem areas.
Omar Mateen could have embraced the tolerance of the America of his birth or the intolerance of the culture that socialized him. He chose the latter. And in an Islamophilic administration, that fact had to be hidden, just as it had to be hidden at Fort Hood, at the Boston Marathon, and more grotesquely in any discussion of the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11.
The more the administration engages in that kind of deceit, the more likely we are to believe that the truth is what we are not being told. Such attitudes do not bode well for the functioning of a democracy where legitimacy is the prime value in sustaining the people’s commitment to the government. The hubris of this administration undermines that commitment.
The administration might believe that those who control the language control the definition of the situation. But in the age of social media, the language is beyond the control of babus bureaucrats or their sycophants in the mainstream media.
We are all aware that Omar Mateen killed in the name of Allah, not God, and pledged allegiance to ISIS. Dismissing this only heightens our conviction of this reality.
On the same day, a committee of the Department of Homeland Security decided that the words "jihad" and "radical Islam" only separate us into "us" and "them." I guess in World War II, the words "Allies" and "Nazis" performed the same function, and we are eternally grateful that they did.
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We are all aware that Omar Mateen killed in the name of Allah, not God, and pledged allegiance to ISIS. This does not apply to the worshipers / true believers of Obama, Hillary and Bernie Sanders, not in the least.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hezbollah is free to choose the parliamentary electoral law it likes and it's free to participate in the government or boycott it. There are no restraints imposed on it when it comes to following the domestic policies governed by the constitution and law. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Hezbollah, and even if some of those affiliated with it agree, must not intervene in another country and get involved in a war that has absolutely nothing to do with us. To justify its intervention, it has resorted to the excuse of "deterring terrorists." However this excuse just serves the purpose of throwing dust in the eyes as we can actually fortify our borders and prevent those who threaten our security from infiltrating our borders. Cooperation and coordination with security forces will also help arrest murderous Moslems and even execute them if they harm Leb.
The reason I bring this up is reports that at least 25 Hezbollah fighters have died in the past two days in different areas across Syria and that some Lebanese families have lost contact with their sons - also Hezbollah fighters - there. These members were not killed and did not go missing because they were serving higher aims or a national cause as they were only present in Syria to serve foreign interests linked to Iran's will to preserve the Syrian regime. What will Hezbollah's officials tell the families of the members killed? What will they tell them they died for? To defend Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... ? Or the Syrian regime which is slaughtering its own sons? They died while confronting who? Confronting the Syrian people who want to change their regime?
What's being committed against the Lebanese people is a crime. We pity these fighters' mothers, wives and children because we've experienced this pain, injustice and grief that deeply wound the heart. We don't want this massacre against Lebanese people who accepted to hand over their decision-making to their leaders to go on. This same category of Lebanese people has been exploited for decades using different slogans.
We do not want our sons to die in defense of Assad or of any other man. We do not want Leb to keep paying the price of other parties' wars on its territories and in the case of the Syrian war, in other territories. Leb's young men and women should be able to live and live long.
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This article makes sense from the Saudi perspective (it's Alarabiya after all) of wanting to persuade Lebanese that obeying Iran is not in Lebanon's interest. But most Shia in that region need Iranian support (what would Hezbollah have without Iran?) and also feel a very natural allegiance like Canada and Australia naturally helping the UK when Hitler attacked. One hope is that the number of Sunni refugees currently in Lebanon will help swing the power balance away from Hezbollah. A power shift is unlikely to happen solely as a result of internal Shia dissent without other major causes.
[Daily Caller] Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates shared what he believes are the two main reasons why Islamic State exists in an interview with Business Insider Thursday.
Gates, who served in both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama administrations, said it is the Syrian civil war and former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s anti-Sunni policies that gave rise to ISIS.
Gates referred to ISIS as an "outgrowth of the conflict inside Syria." Undoubtedly, the turbulence inside the country certainly gave Islamic State a vacuum from which it could entrench itself. ISIS’ rise in 2014 saw the terrorist organization conquering a large swathe of territory in eastern and central Syria. Syrian President Bashar Assad and the various Syrian rebel groups had been fighting for about three years by the time ISIS came around, and neither were prepared to counter a secondary threat. ISIS took advantage of the opportunity, and set up its capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which it holds to this day.
The former Pentagon chief’s second factor, al-Maliki’s "wrongheaded" anti-Sunni policies, is more nuanced than the Syrian factor, but it is just as important to understanding ISIS.
[PJ] On Tuesday, I was a panelist at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on "Willful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts to Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combating Terrorism."
The hearing was held by the Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts," chaired by Senator Ted Cruz (R. Tex.). I was one of six panelists. Video of the hearing, which lasted about three hours, is available on the Judiciary Committee website (here). The written testimony I submitted prior to the hearing is (here).
I was also asked to make an opening statement. Below is the prepared version of that statement (which I had to edit down a bit for purposes of time while delivering it at the hearing).
[Breitbart] How’d you like to be running a presidential campaign dependent on Muslims not acting up again between now and Nov. 8? It’s getting awfully hard for the media to keep being indignant about Trump's proposed Muslim ban, as long as Muslims keep blowing things up and shooting people.
I'm assuming here that The Washington Post has not already ruled the Muslims who blew up the Istanbul Airport to be self-hating gays infected by America’s culture of homophobia.
It turns out, Omar Mateen, the Orlando nightclub shooter, also wasn't a self-hating gay, despite media excitement over that rumor. The FBI has now run down every alleged gay partner of Omar's, searched his phone and computers, and the alleged gay lovers either had the wrong guy or were lying, and there's no evidence he was on any gay websites or apps.
As a Muslim immigrant explained in a curbside interview videotaped by Tony Vera at the Los Angeles International Airport recently -- before she was arrested -- "that's what we do, we bomb people."
With impeccable timing, three days before the Istanbul bombing, the liberal Guardian (UK) ran an article sneering at Brexit supporters for wanting out of the European Union before Turkey became a member and the door was thrown open to unlimited migration from this Muslim country that shares a border with Syria, Iraq and Iran.
The article by Liz Cookman was titled, "Turkey, the Brexit bogeyman, is not so different from the UK."
To be so fair we fall over from it, they have had jihadi attacks in Britain before. What's the difference, after all, between some and lots?
(Yes of course, /sarc.)
[Nat Review] Nine months before a terrorist attack on U.S. government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, killed four American officials, including ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, the State Department dispatched a security officer to assess the threat there.
In an interview with the House Select Committee on Benghazi, the officer recounted his report to a superior at State, then under the direction of Secretary Hillary Clinton: I told him that this was a suicide mission; that there was a very good chance that everybody here was going to die; that there was absolutely no ability here to prevent an attack whatever. . . . He said, "Everybody back here in D.C. knows that people are going to die in Benghazi and nobody is going to care until somebody does die."
The Select Committee issued its long-awaited report on Tuesday. In many ways, it is a disappointment -- an outcome guaranteed by Obama administration stonewalling, abetted by congressional Democrats’ tireless interference.
The committee held few public hearings to hold officials accountable, and major questions it was created to examine remain unanswered: Why did the State Department and CIA have compounds in Benghazi, one of the most dangerous places in the world, particularly for Americans?
What was President Obama doing during the hours of the siege, particularly once he knew our ambassador was missing? Why, despite the presence of military assets, was no rescue attempted? And why -- when the threat was extraordinary, and after months of jihadist attacks on Western targets in the region -- was no plan in place to extract the Americans from Benghazi? Nevertheless, the report is a devastating account of staggering dereliction of duty and deception by the president and his top subordinates.
Front and center in every phase of this disgraceful episode is Mrs. Clinton, whose appalling judgment and character flaws are amply illustrated in its pages. The committee’s voluminous report is ably summarized in the concurrence appended by two Republican members, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mike Pompeo of Kansas.
The Benghazi terrorist attack occurred 56 days before the 2012 presidential election. In his campaign for reelection, President Obama repeatedly declared that the killing of Osama bin Laden signaled the defeat of al-Qaeda and its network of affiliates. In reality, the terror threat still remained grave, especially in a post-Qaddafi Libya that had collapsed into chaos and provided a refuge for terrorists, including groups tied to al-Qaeda and ISIS.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Huffpoo] In explosive testimony Tuesday, a witness before a Senate panel about Islamic terrorism accused the two Muslim members of Congress of having attended an event organized by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
