BREAKING NEWS: Clinton's State Department resisted labeling Boko Haram as terror group

Our friend, historian, author and Islam scholar Timothy Furnish, was consulted for this report, and is quoted near the end.

Not only did Hillary Clinton fight for years against designating Boko Haram a terrorist organization, in spite of the group's genocidal slaughter of thousands of Christians in Nigeria, but in May 2013, newly installed Secretary of State John Kerry added insult to injury, threatening the Nigerian government to not trespass against Boko Haram's human rights in their efforts to stop the group.

Raymond Ibrahim has documented numerous instances of Obama administration officials defending the "human rights" of jihadi murderers, while completely ignoring the atrocities they commit against Christians and other non-Muslims. 

Deeply disturbing and rigorously investigated by a Congressional committee should be the close relationship of Mrs. Clinton and her former chief of staff, Huma Abedin, whose entire family has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic supremacist groups.

All these revelations are mounting evidence that the Obama administration is completely compromised by its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and its general affinity for Islam and its antipathy towards Christians. As I have written here before, judged by his actions, it is clear that Obama intends to repeal the Edict of Milan.


Clinton's State Department resisted labeling Boko Haram as terror group
FoxNews.com — May 8, 2014

Clueless?  Or complicit in advancing the Islamist agenda?

The kidnapping of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls by radical Islamic terror group Boko Haram has drawn international condemnation, including that of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 

"Abominable," is how she described the kidnapping, calling it an "act of terrorism" that merits "the fullest response possible." 

But the State Department, under Clinton's leadership, repeatedly resisted and blocked efforts to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist group. Those who pushed for the designation as early as 2011 are now saying the department missed a major opportunity to track and target the deadly organization as it grew. 

BIPARTISAN GOVT REPORT FAULTS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOR IGNORING PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS

Pro-Muslim, Anti-Christian 'Obama Doctrine' exposed in Government Report.

Good to see an actual bi-partisan government report drawing attention to what Raymond Ibrahim, I and others have been reporting on for years now. But the wording and emphasis of the report's conclusions are not strong enough. 

The foreign and domestic policy choices and alliances of President Barak Hussein Obama reveal a strategic shift in U.S. orientation. In fact, we can point to and identify a specific "Obama Doctrine" which confers preferential treatment and standing upon Muslim nations and extremist groups, at the direct expense of basic safety, freedom and aid to indigenous Christians abroad, and Christian believers and organizations, including Christian churches, at home.

Regarding foreign policy, the Obama administration has explicitly allied with Islamic extremists in Egypt, Libya, Syria and elsewhere, its official support providing direct aid, "soft power," and diplomatic cover for what more than one non-partisan conference has termed an "apocalyptic," "genocidal" persecution of Christians of "biblical proportions."

Raymond Ibrahim terms the Obama Doctrine as "Obama's Proxy War on Mideast Christians," and I have written very strongly against the Obama Doctrine, including the following original articles: 

• On The Wrong Side of History (July 2013)
• Obama Doctrine makes U.S. a 'Sinister Bystander' (July 2013)
• The Obama Doctrine: Known by its Fruits (Sept. 2012)
• Repealing the Edict of Milan: Obama as the anti-Constantine (Oct. 2013)

REPORT FAULTS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOR IGNORING PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS

by William Bigelow, Breitbart News — May 7, 2014

A new report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan group, asserts that the Obama administration is turning a blind eye to persecution of Christians by Muslims in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, as well as persecution of Christians in North Korea.

Dwight Bashir, the commission's deputy director of policy and research, told FoxNews.com:

While the Obama administration should continue to shine a spotlight on abuses through public statements, it also should impose targeted sanctions to demonstrate that there are consequences, too. By not utilizing an existing legislative tool, the United States risks sending the message that it prefers a nuclear deal to standing up for the rights of the Iranian people. The United States should not be confronting such a scenario in the first place.

The worst 16 countries that violated religious freedom were listed in the report. Iran, the report stated, had gotten even less tolerant after "purportedly moderate President Hassan Rouhani" ascended to the presidency last year. Of Iran, the report added, “As of February 2014, at least 40 Christians were either in prison, detained or awaiting trial because of their religious beliefs and activities.”

Morad Mokhtari, an Iranian human rights researcher who is Christian, stated that Rouhani “has not been effective in changing the judicial system” and there is no way to ascertain if he will challenge Iran’s sharia law.

Saudi Arabia was targeted in the report, which stated, “Not a single church or other non-Muslim house of worship exists in the country.” Some Saudi Arabian textbooks in 2013 and 2014 “justified violence against apostates and polytheists and labeled Jews and Christians ‘enemies.’"

Barack Obama never brought up the Saudi intolerance when he visited the country in March, despite the fact that a bipartisan group of 70 members of Congress asked him to discuss human rights with the Saudi government.

The ‘Radicalization’ of Western Muslims

A significant analysis regarding the 'homegrown' Muslim threat.

by Raymond Ibrahim — April 16, 2014
Raymond Ibrahim is the author of the essential book, Crucified Again - Exposing Islam's New War on Christians.

A new Danish statistical study finds that “Muslims [are] 218 percent more criminal in second generation than first.”  While some of these crimes are clearly related to Islam—such as attacks on Muslim apostates to Christianity—others, such as rampant theft of non-Muslims, would appear banal, until one realizes that even robbery and plunder is justified by Islamic doctrine—as one UK Muslim cleric once clearly said.

The interesting question here is why are second generation Muslims, who are presumably more Westernized than their Muslim parents, also more “radical”?  Lest one dismiss this phenomenon as a product of economics or some other “grievance” against European host nations, the fact is, even in America, where Muslims are much better assimilated than in Europe, they too are turning to “radicalism.”

For example, some time back, Attorney General Eric Holder said that “the threat [of terrorism] has changed … to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens—raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.”

Around the same time, Sue Myrick, then a member of Congress, wrote a particularly candid letter on “radicalization” to President Obama:

For many years we lulled ourselves with the idea that radicalization was not happening inside the United Sates. We believed American Muslims were immune to radicalization because, unlike the European counterparts, they are socially and economically well-integrated into society. There had been warnings that these assumptions were false but we paid them no mind. Today there is no doubt that radicalization is taking place inside America. The strikingly accelerated rate of American Muslims arrested for involvement in terrorist activities since May 2009 makes this fact self-evident.

“They started shouting ‘Allahu akbar,’ and we knew”: Nigerian Islamic jihadists kidnap eight more girls, between ages of 12 and 15

Boko Haram mass abductions of young girls to sell off as wives or sex slaves continue. Eight more girls kidnapped yesterday. 

See also:

• Nigerian jihad leader: “There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell.”
• Nigeria: Police arrest leader of protests over abducted girls
• Nigeria: 329 schoolgirls abducted by jihadis raped 15 times daily, forced to convert to Islam

The Telegraph, via Jihad Watch — May 6, 2014

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped eight girls aged between 12 and 15 from a village near one of their strongholds in northeast Nigeria.

“They were many, and all of them carried guns,” said Lazarus Musa, a resident of Warabe, where the attack happened.

“They came in two vehicles painted in army colour. They started shooting in our village.”

A police source said the girls were taken away in the early hours of Tuesday on trucks, along with looted livestock and food. The Islamist rebels are still holding 276 girls they abducted from a secondary school on April 14.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video released on Monday that Allah had told him to sell the girls taken by his fighters from a secondary school in the village of Chibok, in northeastern Borno state.

'Muslims of the Americas' Depositions Reveal New Enclaves in New York, Michigan, California, Alaska

• See also this recent post on Dearbornistan.
• Lawsuit to stop book exposing Muslim enclaves backfires; depositions document 22 Islamic communes around the country and others in Canada.
• 'Twilight in America' authors cleared, case against them dismissed, book available in print and ebook formats; details Muslim compounds preparing to wage jihad here in America.
• Extensive info and links in story below.

by Ryan Mauro, The Clarion Project — May 4, 2014

The revelations came during depositions of three senior officials of the group after MOA unsuccessfully sued two of their critics.

Entrance to Islamberg, NY

A senior official of the Muslims of the Americas/Jamaat ul-Fuqra (MOA), a terror-linked group, said during a deposition that it has a “community” outside Anchorage, Alaska. Officials also confirmed the existence of three communes in New York, California and Michigan that have yet to be publicly pinpointed.

Lawsuit against this book backfires,
reveals even more Muslim jihad compounds.

The comments came during depositions of three senior MOA officials after the group sued two critics, Martin Mawyer and Patti Pierucci, for $30 million for their book about MOA titled Twilight in America. The judge dismissed the lawsuit last week. Astonishingly, MOA Deputy Director Hussein Adams, the son of terrorist Barry Adams, admitted he had no information to show that the defendants lacked a reasonable basis for their claims. 

The MOA officials repeatedly denied being a terrorist organization, but would not provide basic details about the group. Adams was especially secretive, claiming that the group had virtually no records and that he didn’t even know the names of those on Islamberg’s town council or who was paying the bills.

MOA says it has 22 “Islamic villages” around the country, including the one named “Mahmoudberg” in Sweeny, Texas that was identified by the Clarion Project.

Other pinpointed communes include Islamberg in Hancock, NY; Holy Islamville in York County, South Carolina;  Islamville in Dover, Tennessee; Hasanville in Barry’s Bay, Ontario, Canada;  Madinah Village near Commerce, Georgia; Aliville in Odum, Georgia; Ahmadabad West in Red House, Virginia and one with an unknown name in Meherrin, Virginia.

Deputy Director Hussein Adams said that MOA has a “community” near Anchorage, Alaska. This is the first time that a MOA enclave has been reported in the state.

Islamic Cleric From Dearborn Michigan Is a Top Online Figure for Jihadists in Syria

Dearbornistan continues its descent into a Muslim Enclave and Sharia Zone. For the backstory on how Dearborn police and local government trampled on the rights of Christian Americans, see this special summary at Answering Muslims.

by Sara Carter, The Blaze — May 5, 2014

Ahmad Jibril, a U.S.-based preacher with Arab roots, has emerged as an influential figure for jihadist fighters in Syria. (Image source: International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence)

An Islamic cleric in Dearborne [sic], Michigan, has emerged as an online leader for extremists in Syria, according to a London-based nonprofit institute studying the Syrian conflict.

Ahmad Jibril, who was released from prison in 2012 after serving time for fraud, began his online sermons just as Al Qaeda extremists began flooding into the civil war in Syria.

“When your brothers in Syria speak, everyone today needs to shut their mouth and listen, because they’re proving themselves to be real men,” Jibril said in one sermon just several weeks after his release.

But the sermons were just the beginning: Jibril has also released a number of videos and online comments that have made him an inspirational symbol for militants on the battlefields of Syria, according to the London-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence.

Raymond Ibrahim: Christians ‘Crucified Again’ for Refusing Islam

A still frame from the 1919 documentary film Auction of Souls, which portrayed eye witnessed events from the Armenian Genocide, including crucified Christian girls. 

by Raymond Ibrahim — May 5, 2014
Raymond Ibrahim is the author of the essential book, Crucified Again - Exposing Islam's New War on Christians.

To the awe of its readership, a recent Daily Mail article reports that the “jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant [ISIL],” which is currently entrenched in Raqqa, Syria, “publicly crucified two Syrian rebels in northeastern Syria in revenge for a grenade attack on members of their group.”

While the Daily Mail is to be commended for exposing these barbaric acts—along with posting photos of the crucified—it nonetheless minimized their significance, in two important ways: 1) by repeatedly saying things like “even al-Qaeda is distancing itself from ISIL,” and so implying that the act of crucifixion is some wild aberration that even the poster-child of jihadi terror, al-Qaeda, wants nothing to do with it; and 2) ignoring the much “sexier” story that Christians in Syria are also being crucified simply for refusing to embrace Islam (as opposed to the rather mundane but politically more correct story of jihadis crucifying each other in the context of vendetta killings).

Consider the atrocities earlier committed in Ma‘loula, Syria, an ancient Christian village where the inhabitants still spoke Aramaic, the language of Christ.

According to recent Arabic news media, “a Syrian nun testified to the Vatican news agency that some Christians in Ma‘loula were crucified for refusing to convert to Islam or pay jizya” (tribute subjugated Christians are required to pay to their Islamic conquerors in order to exist as Christians, per Koran 9:29).

Incidentally, they were crucified by the al-Qaeda linked Nasra Front (so much for Daily Mail’s portrayal of al-Qaeda “distancing” itself from the apparently “extra-extremist” ISIL for crucifying its victims).

Sister Raghad, the former head of the Patriarchate School in Damascus who currently resides in France, told Vatican Radio how she personally witnessed jihadi rebels terrorize Ma‘loula, including by pressuring Christians to proclaim the shehada—Islam’s credo that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger—which, when uttered before Muslim witnesses transforms the speaker into a Muslim, with the death penalty for apostasy should the convert later “renege” by returning to Christianity.

According to the nun, those Christians who refused to embrace Islam were

killed in atrocious and violent ways that cannot be described.  If you want examples, they crucified two youths in Ma‘loula for refusing to proclaim Islam’s credo, saying to them: “Perhaps you want to die like your teacher [Christ] whom you believe in?  You have two choices: either proclaim the shehada or else be crucified.”  One of them was crucified before his father, whom they also killed.

Ancient Syrian Monastery of St George of Al-Humaira in danger from Islamic Jihad

• The Islamic jihad in Syria has placed this ancient Christian monastery in extreme danger.
• The monastery was attacked by jihadist rebels in August 2013, but was successfully defended.
• A jihadi mortar attack during Holy Week this year (2014) killed several children and wounded dozens at a school near the monastery.

Pravoslavie — May 5, 2014

The monastery of St. George is located in Wadi-An-Nadara, or the “alley of Christians”, in the region of Tal-Kalah, sixty-five kilometers from Homs, Syria. It lies on the ancient Roman road that joins the coastal cities with the east, between Homs and Tripoli, near the famous Crusaders castle, Krak de Chevalier.

Monastery Entrance (ComeToSyria.com)

According to Arab and Western sources, the history of the monastery goes back to the sixth century, the reign of Emperor Justinian. The monastery was consecrated in honor of Great Martyr George, called by non-Christians Al-Hodr al Abbas. The monastery is possibly linked with a historical monument located nearby, or with an ancient village that was named after the pagan god of rain. Others say that the monastery was built upon the ruins of a pagan temple dedicated to the pagan god Humaira. This temple became the foundation of the St. George Monastery, and is now the first floor. If this theory is correct, then the monastery was built in the fourth century and was contemporary to the patriarchal monastery in Saidnaya. This would allow us to conclude that the Emperor Justinian built both monasteries. 

According to another version, the word Humaira is the Arab transcription of the Greek word “homiros”, which means “spiritual brotherhood of common life.” 

Patriarch John X of Antioch appeals to International Community

Renews appeal for release of Bishops Paul and John of Aleppo.

Pravmir — May 6, 2014

TEHRAN (FNA)- Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X Yazigi appealed to the international community for working to bring peace to Syria through dialogue and to combat the Takfiri. 

[The term "Takfiri" refers to so-called "extremist" Muslims such as al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, the ISIL, the Muslim Brotherhood, Boko Haram, who wage jihad against and seek to convert, subjugate or slaughter Christians, other non-Muslims, and those Muslims they consider to be apostates, such as  the Alawites of Syria.]

Patriarch Yazigi stressed during the opening session of ‘Civilizations at service of Humanity’ Conference held in the Bahraini capital of Manama that “Syria’s salvation can be met through openness to the other and the unity of the country’s land and common consciousness”, Syrian Arab News Agency reported.

Post 9/11, Muslim Brotherhood Groups in U.S. Receive Gov’t Funds

Yet another exposé of the federal government's misuse of taxpayer dollars to advance Islam, right here in America. The day is soon coming when we Christians, in order to keep our conscience clean before God, will have to make difficult choices regarding compliance with income tax requirements. 

Our is a criminal, renegade government, brazenly using taxpayer money to advance the religious and political agenda of Islam at home and abroad, as well as funding abortion-on-demand through 'Obamacare' and support of Planned Parenthood, same-sex 'marriage', persecution of Christians in abroad through support of Islamist extremist groups, and cultural warfare against Orthodox Christian nations. The United States is openly at war against Orthodox Christianity and traditional Christians of all confessions. It will only get worse. Let us strengthen ourselves for the trials ahead.

"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." (MT 5:10)

"No wonder, then, that it is so hard to be Christian—it is not hard it is impossible. No one can knowingly accept a way of life which, the more truly it is lived, leads more surely to one's own destruction. And that is way we constantly rebel, try to make life easier, try to be half-Christian, try to make the best of both worlds. We must ultimately choose—our felicity lies in one world or the other, not in both. God give us the strength to pursue the path of crucifixion; there is no other way to be Christian." — Fr. Seraphim Rose (†1982) 

Post 9/11, Muslim Brotherhood Groups in U.S. Receive Gov’t Funds

by Ryan Mauro, The Clarion Project  — May 1, 2014

Not only is taxpayer money is going where it shouldn’t, but the gov't’s broken vetting system allows the Islamists to have undue influence.

FBI officers outside the Holy Land Foundation.U.S. Muslim Brotherhood front groups were named as unindicted co-conspirators in the the Holy Land terror funding trial. Still, they continue to receive government money. (Photo: © Reuters)

A review of federal spending by the Clarion Project found that the U.S. government has engaged in financial transactions with groups with extremist backgrounds and Muslim Brotherhood links in the years since 9/11.

The U.S. government website, USASpending.gov, shows that the Defense Department had eight transactions with the Kansas chapter of the Muslim American Society (MAS) from 2006 to 2009 totaling $24,600. The listed contracting agency is the Department of the Army and the contracting office is Fort Leavenworth.

Two years before the first recorded transaction, a Chicago Tribune investigation clearly identified MAS as a Muslim Brotherhood front. In 2008, federal prosecutors stated in a court filing in a terrorism trial that MAS “was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” In 2012, an admitted member of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leadership and convicted terrorist named Abdurrahman Alamaoudi testified that “Everyone knows that MAS is the Muslim Brotherhood.”

The government website also shows that post-9/11 funding for law enforcement training and educational services was awarded to the Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), three groups that the Justice Department later labeled unindicted co-conspirators in a Hamas-financing trial. The Justice Department also listed them as U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities.