The Left's Newest Useful Idiot, David Hogg

The Left has made a rock star of David Hogg, as he hogs the spotlight (I couldn't resist) that he has been thrust into, to gain attention for their anti-America and anti-gun agenda. He wants his opinions to be taken seriously and at the same time calls himself a "kid" who is fed up with gun violence. So, which is it? Are you an adult who has legitimate ideas or are you a spoiled kid being used as a puppet for those who need a new voice for their nonsense?

Does anyone really think he would be given all this press and praise and fame if he were AGAINST gun control, or against the trashing of the Constitution? Of course, he wouldn’t have gained any attention, except as perhaps a nut case and then he’d get summarily dismissed with a little patronizing, "Well, bless his little heart."

David Hogg has had his 15 minutes of fame and we have had enough of him too. Get back in class and out of our faces. Take the time to find out what it takes to be a real American who contributes to society instead of trying to manipulate it with clenched fists and tough-sounding sound bites. Take the time to learn the value of the Constitution and why and how it has shaped the greatest country in the history of the civilized world and get a grip on why it must be defended, not attacked or dismantled.

The Left needs new voices to promote their nonsense because the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, and CNN’s talking heads aren't getting the job done. Liberals love a good crisis and a good act of violence. They stand tall on the bodies of dead children and point attention and blame at the NRA and against guns, the inanimate objects they blame for all the violence. That is easier to do that than to address the troubled souls who commit the violence. Guns don't walk into schools, malls or churches and shoot people. They are merely tools and sometimes they are used in atrocious ways, but then so are knives, baseball bats, and speeding vehicles.

The FBI claims more people are killed every year by hands and feet than by assault-style rifles but hands and feet cannot be a target for liberty-haters, but guns and scary-looking “assault rifles” can be. Knives accounted for 1,604 deaths in 2016 while only 374 were attributed to rifles of all sorts. So where is the cry to ban knives? Logic has nothing to do with anti-gun arguments.

Let's get real about this debate and speak to the good guns actually do. When they are used to stop crimes by average citizens, we get silence from the media. Their reporting is all one-sided and we hear only what advances their agenda. They sling their lies, half-truths and misconceptions knowing if they do it often enough, some of it will stick and be taken as gospel. A lie told enough times will eventually be seen by some of the gullible and truly uninformed, as fact. But the truth remains the truth and lies, no matter how fervently they are believed, will still be lies.

No problem can be addressed effectively without taking into consideration the truth and not just the myths surrounding it. Anti-gun organizations twist facts into falsehoods and parade them as the gospel truth, doing a disservice to all Americans, including those that would benefit from the truth but are so adamant in spreading lies that they cannot see they harm themselves too.

Falsehoods serve no one. Include both sides of the story in the conversation and let the chips fall when they may. Stop demonizing everyone who doesn't believe like you do. If that's all you got to fight back with, you have already lost. That is what adults do and what kids will never understand, not even 17-year-olds like David Hogg. The system they are trying to destroy is what makes this country work and what makes it great.

They, like most people, do not like being lied to but somehow, they think it is their duty and right, of course, for the "greater good," to lie to you and I. Imagine the world we would live in if lying was not possible and everyone had to tell the truth. Since it would ever come to that, we have to sort out the lies for the truths and act accordingly. It is on us to declare our side and to remember that the truth will defend itself in the end. Lies will always lose at some point, at least, we must believe that and stand for the truth when we can. Silence sometimes has the same effect as consent.  

As for the flash-in-the-pan wanna-be celebrities who seek to destroy America for the sake of their utopia-style vision of what they think this country should be, just refuse to give them your attention. Let them fade away into irrelevancy. America is too powerful and important to be destroyed by mindless puppets who parrot what they are told, whether true or not.

Sometimes we just need to let the truth out of its cage, and like a lion, it will defend itself. As for the peddlers of lies, myths and uninformed opinions, well, “Bless their little hearts.”

The Law of Saturation, Islam's Trojan Horse - The art of taking over a country without firing a shot

During Muhammad’s early “ministry,” he was merely a preacher spreading Islam by talking about his revelations and spreading the word of Islam peacefully, even though this caused confrontations between him and the Jews and followers of other religions, of which there were 365 or so in Mecca at the time.

So how did every Arab in Saudi Arabia become Muslim by the time of his death? After he became a warrior for Allah and a Jihadist and politician in Medina, his followers increased rapidly. Converted Muslims who engaged in Jihad shared in war booty taken from non-Muslims. This was not a part of Islam in Mecca where he garnered only about 150 converts in 13 years. It was a part of the appeal of Islam, profit and gain of material goods, land and slaves.

Inhabitants were oppressed and persecuted, rights were stripped away from them and they were forced to become Muslims to relieve the pressure on them and their families. Those that wanted to hold onto their former religion were forced to pay a tax, jizya, for the right to do so. And this came with severe restrictions and punishments if they were violated.

These people became dhimmis and Muslims say they are a protected people, but it is merely protection as though they were one’s property. Their rights were limited and they were second-class citizens at best. They were forced to wear strange clothes so they would not be mistaken for a Muslim. They had to cross the street to allow a Muslim to pass. They were often forbidden to leave their house when it rained because they might step in a puddle of water and a Muslim might step in it later contaminating themselves.

They could not ride a horse but a poorly mule was acceptable and at times they were only allowed to ride it backwards. Christians had to wear funny dunce-style hats to distinguish them from Muslims. The yellow patch Adolph Hitler made Jews wear in World War II was inspired by the yellow cloth Jews were made to wear in some Islamic-conquered countries at various times in history. Christians were allowed to wear a cross around their neck, but it had to be too large to conceal and weigh about 2 pounds. Everything they were demanded to do was meant to humiliate them, as the Qur’an suggested. To escape these torturous demands all they had to do was to become Muslims, so after years or generations, they did just that and the Muslim population increased, not by a desire to embrace Islam, but as a means to escape unreasonable financial and societal demands placed upon them.

These tactics have limited success in today’s modern world so how does Islam grow to the point where a country becomes Islamic? Saturation.  is how.

As the number of Muslims in any given country grows, demands begin to be made that the non-Muslims conform to the edicts of Islam even though they are not Muslims themselves. And some compliance always seems to follow. Closing the swimming pool or an amusement park on a certain day reserving it just for Muslims. Remove offensive symbols, such as crosses, from their view. Remove nativity scenes from areas where a Muslim might see them because it is offensive to them. Demanding that women be allowed to cover their faces for driver’s license photos. All these appeasements and more, make us Sharia-compliant and it makes us behave like Muslims, even when we are not.

As the Islamic population grows, more demands are made, more appeasement follows and Muslims begin to gain power. In today’s world, even with the violence we see in Islamic countries, violence isn’t always necessary.

The immigration into non-Muslim countries by thousands of Muslims in the past few years has seen countries readily forsake their own values and in the name of tolerance, accept Islamic traditions and doctrine and even make excuses for crimes committed by Muslims because it is simply their culture to act a certain way. Sharia Law is at first tolerated, then promoted as acceptable and then allowed to become the law of the land for Muslims.

No-Go Zones, places where Muslims are allowed to govern themselves instead of being ruled by the country’s own law, enable the spread of Sharia-compliant communities. Pieces of their own country are given up freely by governments and slowly the country loses its identity.

By sheer saturation and appeasement, entire countries become Islamic. Turkey, for example, used to be a Christian nation called Anatolia. Slowly over a period of about 400 years, it became what it is today, a Muslim country where over 99% of its people are Muslim and the remaining portion of a percent of the population are oppressed inhabitants.

To deny that it could ever happen in America is to deny the historical record of Islam. Every country that allows Muslim immigrants and tolerates their bigotry against non-Muslims and makes excuses for their culture of oppression and domination, eventually succumbs to the growing Islamic influence and becomes Islamic in the end.

After all, once Muslims numbers grow to a majority through continued immigration and birth rates that are some of the highest in the world, cultures dating back thousands of years die and are replaced by an Islamic society.

No country that allows unbridled immigration of Muslims will survive. Coexistence is a myth. Muslims are taught from their Qur’an that non-believers are the vilest of all creatures and that tricking, lying and deceiving non-Muslims is allowed until all become followers of Allah.

There is a point when this saturation can no longer be quelled. When a country reaches that point, becoming a Sharia-compliant country is inevitable. Their culture, values and society will cease to exist and there is no going back to what they once were.

We are seeing that in the UK, portions of Europe and Africa. Australia is under assault as is America. Islam has one goal, to see every human being either bowing to Allah and His government established, or their extinction. There a can be no middle ground, no compromise, and appeasement must come from the non-Muslims, not from Muslims themselves.

Immigration is Jihad. Every time some Muslim moves to a non-Muslim land, he is practicing what Muhammad did. Muhammad’s migration to Medina marked the beginning of the end for that city. It is not about the desire for a better life but it is done in the name of Islam to conquer that city or that country for Allah, and it works. And in today’s climate of appeasement and tolerance of the most intolerable doctrine on the planet, it will always work.

Refusal to see the historic record of Islam for exactly what it has always been, is suicidal for any culture or society. Islam is a Trojan Horse and once allowed behind the walls, no city can survive.

School Educators Are Spawning School Mass Shooters

While most concerned citizens are calling for “common sense” solutions to gun violence in both our schools and in the public venue, though most only want to look like they are doing something constructive, Liberal policies are actually adding to the problem, not the solution.

Officials in Broward County, Florida, where the latest mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took place, made what they thought would be the cure for these tragedies, back in 2013. They proclaimed it as an example for other counties across America to copy. And now, in 2018, it has become evident that is was far from the cure but aided in the killing of 17 of their own.

On November of that year, the Boward County School Board, along with the Chief Justice of the 17^th Judicial District, the Office of the State Attorney, the Sheriff of Boward County, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and about a dozen other organizations, implemented a policy entitled the “Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline.” The entire covenant can be found online should you want to read it word for word.

The problems in this document are numerous. Instead of targeting problem kids for actual discipline, or even punishment when it is deserved, they shield, pander and appease them, all in the name of “protecting the future” of these kids.

It even begins with a flawed premise: “WHEREAS, the parties acknowledge that law enforcement plays an essential role in maintaining safety in the community.” (Sounds good so far, right?) But it continues: “However, the use of arrests and referrals to the criminal justice system may decrease a student’s chance of graduation, entering higher education, joining the military, and getting a job.”

So, arresting students who engage in criminal activities that SHOULD have gained them entrance into the justice system, might make things hard on them? I submit that their own activities are the problem, NOT that they might be arrested for them.

Do sensible people really believe that the problem is arresting them and not the behavior itself that is the problem?

The document states that in the 2011-12 school year, the Department of Juvenile Justice reported 1,062 school-related arrests in Howard County and 71% were for misdemeanor offenses with over half of them never having being referred to the Juvenile Justice System before. These were new cases and new offenders which should signal there is a dire problem with discipline.

Intelligent people can see that if criminal activity is ignored or appeased instead of being dealt with it, those perpetrating these crimes in effect “get away with it.” As such, it is a reward system, not an accountability system, and rewarded behavior is repeated behavior.

The CASD also cites that people of color are impacted disproportionately by being arrested more than others. Seeking “balance” minority offenders are not arrested or disciplined simply because they are a part of a minority group. In an attempt to solve racism in the prosecution of minorities, they are simply excused based on racist policies themselves. Does anyone really think that arresting an equal number of Whites as you do those of minorities is a viable or even reasonable solution? Do all races commit crimes on an equal basis? I doubt it. The system is blamed instead of the individuals.

To increase the absurdity of the whole process of looking the other way when students commit crimes, the Boward County Sheriff’s Department brags that the record of these instances are down. Of, course they are down. They are no longer reported or addressed. How ridiculous!

In effect, we can surmise that if we stopped keeping a record of stabbing we could celebrate the report that stabbing assaults are down. Ludicrous, ignorant and insulting to a civilized society.

So, as a result of these policies, a young man named Nikolas Cruz, was repeatedly sent back and forth between schools for disciplinary reasons. He had assaulted and cursed teachers, kicked doors in school, engaged in fist fights, threatened to kill other students, mutilated small animals, pointed a rifle at his mother, and practiced self-abuse by cutting himself.

All these “cries for help” were ignored as he was simply shuffled back and forth throughout his high school years. Did this Liberal policy of ignoring his actions, never making him accountable for his choices, result in reformed or mainstream acceptable behavior? For educators who signed their name to the CASD, it might seem so. But for the families of the 17 dead and numerous wounded left behind in the wake of Cruz’s rampage, not so much.

As long as we continue to be ruled by Political Correctness and ignore the disciplining children for the sake of “equality,” others will die and those responsible for finding solutions for student violence in our schools will continue to scratch their heads and wonder why progress isn’t being made.

These educators, in their attempt to disrupt the “school-to-prison pipeline” by making excuses for the misguided students’ behavior in the name of racial equality and doing what’s best for the student’s future opportunities, will only increase the incidence of the “school-to-the-grave pipeline” for innocents who will pay the price for these so-called educated people’s insanity.

Drug Connections to Mass Shootings

Although the recent school shooting is blanketing the news, everyone is avoiding the question as to WHY these mass shootings occur when the answer might be all too obvious. It is too easy for lazy minds to blame it on guns, as if guns walked to the schools and malls and pulled their own triggers. Maybe there is a common link we don’t want to see.

Drugs for anxiety and mental challenges carry the warning that they may cause harmful and suicidal thoughts, so why don’t we see the possible connection? Kids are placed on drugs in their preteens and grow up dependent on them and their altered thinking seems normal to them. Not everyone on these drugs is off the chart like these people are who choose to murder, but it is a common denominator among them that news outlets refuse to consider or even talk about.

After all, almost every commercial break carries an ad for one drug or another. A drug company pulling their ads would cost them big and the bottom line is more important than any safety issue to them.

I quickly and plainly make no assertion that everyone on such drugs are potential killers for that would be ludicrous. Most people benefit greatly from their help and they enable them to live healthy and functional lives when otherwise they would be challenged daily due to the effects of depression and anxiety. Most of our investigations and questioning, however, happens to be conducted after the fact and there does seems to be a link, albeit ignored by many.

In June 2014, Aaron Ybarra, killed one student and wounded two others with a shotgun at the Seattle Pacific University. His plan was to kill as many people as possible and then kill himself. Two years before, Ybarra admitted that he had been prescribed the antidepressant Prozac and antipsychotic Risperdal. His counselor said that he was taking Prozac.

In Austin, Texas in August 1966, Charles Whitman shot 16 people from a university tower while on amphetamines and barbiturates.  In March of 1981, John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. He was on Valium at the time. William Cruse killed 6 people in 1987 while on psychiatric drugs.

Jeffery Dahmer killed and dismembered 17 people while on tranquilizers and anti-depressants in 1991. In 1997, Jeremy Strohmeyer was charged with the rape and murder of a seven-year old girl while on Dexerdrine, known to cause hallucinations, confusion, anxiety and violent behavior and mood swings.

In the famous shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007, where 32 were killed, prescription drugs “related to the treatment of psychological problems” were found by investigators among the shooter’s effects.   

In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five children while under the influence of Effexor and Remeron, known to cause thoughts of suicide in young people as well as impulsive, irritable, agitated, hostile, aggressive, restless, hyperactive (mentally or physically) behavior, and the possibility of becoming even more depressed. The list goes on and includes the most recent shootings as well.

According to British psychiatrist Dr. David Healy, a founder of RxISK.org, an independent website for researching and reporting on prescription drugs, 90 percent of school shootings over more than a decade have been linked to a widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs.

There is no question that the mind-altering drugs influence behavior and therefore they carry warnings of “suicidal thoughts and feelings of violent behavior.” 8.7 million Americans contemplate suicide each year and 1.1 million actually act on those thoughts.

253 million prescriptions for antidepressants are filled every year in the United States, the second most prescribed drug in America, second only to cholesterol-lowering drugs.

An alarming fact is that a study in 2010 found that effectiveness of antidepressant drugs to be “minimal or nonexistent, on average, in patients with mild or moderate symptoms.” Yet, there is ample evidence on the other hand that such behavior-altering drugs “intensify violent thoughts and behaviors, both suicidal and homicidal, especially among children.”

So, is there a connection between these mass shootings and violent behavior we have seen in recent years? It appears a very distinct possibility. Personally, I think the pharmaceutical companies, or politicians whose pockets are lined with campaign donations by them, are reluctant to make that connection because it is a multi-billion-dollar industry and as we all know, money talks.

The next time you hear some politician giving lip-service to “protecting our children” especially after a school shooting, as they always do, ask yourself where their main priority is, safety of our children, or winning their next campaign and getting rich with donations and contributions?

In fact, the next time you have the opportunity to question one, ask them yourself.

Destruction of American Symbols of History is Grounded in Ignorance

We are being assaulted on all sides today by people ignorant of our history, which is actually their history as well. They seek to remove all symbols of “hate” and “oppression” from our landscape without truly knowing what those symbols actually stood for. Maybe it is time for a little history lesson.

The man revered as the freer of slaves, may not have been quite the hero of the Black man so many think he was, although he will always be considered a great president, perhaps because all the facts are not always declared openly.

In The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, we see a side of Lincoln that is never shown us, his human side, and his racist side, if we were allowed to use todays vernacular to be applied to yesterday. It bears acknowledgement in today’s climate.

He wrote, for instance: “Free them [i.e. the slaves] and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this . . . . We cannot then make them equals.” (vol. II, p. 256)

And: “What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black races.” (vol. II, p. 521)

And there is this: “I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races . . . . I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong, having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary.” (vol. III, p, 16)

And this: “I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races . . . . I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.” (vol. III, pp. 145-146)

And this: “I will to the very last stand by the law of this state [Illinois], which forbids the marrying of white people with negroes.” (vol. III, p. 146)

And this: “Senator Douglas remarked . . . that . . . this government was made for the white people and not for the negroes. Why, in point of mere fact, I think so too.” (vol. II, p. 281)

Today Lincoln would be slammed as a racist of the utmost degree.

The Civil War, with Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army, was certainly not fought to free slaves, as we are told by so many today ignorant of their own history.

He supported the Illinois Constitution, which in 1848 was amended to prohibit the immigration of black people into the state.

In a speech he once said, “Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and . . . favorable to . . . our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime.” (vol. II, p. 409) He wanted Blacks to be deported back to Africa, not given rights or citizenship.

In Lincoln’s first inaugural address of March 4, 1861, Lincoln probably made the most powerful defense of slavery ever made by an American politician. In it, Lincoln denies having any intention to interfere with Southern slavery. He also declared his support for the federal Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution which compelled citizens of non-slave states to capture runaway slaves. He also supported the Corwin Amendment, a constitutional amendment that would have prohibited the federal government from interfering in Southern slavery trade or practice forever.

At the end of his inaugural address Lincoln said, “I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution . . . has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service [slaves]. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.”

Lincoln’s purpose was not to abolish slavery but to merely not allow its expansion into new territories where it was not yet practiced. The three reasons were that 1 (Keeping slaves out would have kept Blacks out, which was the goal. 2) Whites did not want to compete for jobs with Blacks, and 3) Blacks might shift the balance and disrupt the political system giving Democrats, who owned the salves, more power during elections because although a Black was not considered a whole person, he stated that five slaves would count as three persons in the census.

The Emancipation Proclamation we all remember but know so little about, was considered a “wartime measure” and was to be considered valid only during wartime. It also only applied to “rebel territory” and specifically exempted certain areas of the South by name that were under already under control of the Union Army, such as most of Louisiana and entire states like West Virginia, the last slave state to enter the union. Some historians actually believe that it “actually freed no one”.

            The Proclamation was designed to incite the slaves in Southern states to rise up but it did not have that effect. Slavery was finally put to an end in 1866 by the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, a provision that Lincoln refused to raise support for.

There was great concern about collecting tariffs and tax money however and some states threatened to secede of it. There were lines being draw between the North and the South over sales taxes for clothing, shoes, farm tools and manufacturing parts the South bought from the North. This almost caused a war of secession in the late 1820s. When the civil War actually begun, the U.S. Senate issued a War Aims Resolution that said: “[T]his war is not waged . . . in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those [Southern] states, but to defend . . . the Constitution, and to preserve the Union . . .” By “established institutions” of the Southern states the Senate meant slavery.

The Civil War was waged for economic reasons, and not over slavery at all. People who today want to destroy Confederate statues because they think they represent oppression of the Blacks which brought about our country’s civil war, are buying into the Liberal lie that is designed to further disrupt and divide America. They have attached themselves to a cause that does not exist except in their own imagination.

But that seems good enough for them. After all, it takes time to study and understand history. It takes time and effort they do not want to spend and destroying things is so much easier than working to erase the prejudices and laziness that permeates the Liberal mind today.

Our history IS our history, good or bad, and it is a lesson to learn from if we take the opportunity to expand beyond the meager amount of knowledge that has satisfied us thus far.

This time in our history saw blood flow and it saw the writ of Habeas Corpus (the regulation that forbids use of federal soldiers on our land against our countries own people) violated by the Union Army. According to one historian over 300 newspapers that opposed Lincoln were shuttered. Sounds like a violation of the First Amendment to me.

So, in fairness, the Civil War was not about Southern slavery at all. States like Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York, used slaves to build slave ships that sailed from New York Harbor, as well as Hartford, Providence, and Boston harbors. There were slaves in New York City as late as 1853.

Someone needs to inform the ignorant destructionists that seek to destroy symbols of our history, that they are misguided and they need to go back home and behave themselves.

Maybe there are a few coloring books to color and puppies to pet to soothe their angst left over from the Hillary Clinton election loss that they can make good use of. And getting a hold of a good used school book from a decade when the truth was still taught in our schools, might help too.

Islam's Most Successful Campaign

Prior to September 11, 2001 most Americans knew little of the second largest religion in the world, Islam, outside of the fact that most Muslims lived in foreign countries. In the decade since we have been acutely aware of Islam's role in the world, almost all of which has been negative in scope.

The term Jihad was not known or understood and for the most part Muslims were seen through Western eyes which provided a distorted view at best. Distorted because we tend to view the world as if it is an extension of our own perceptions. We try and imagine Muslims as "being just like us." Americans tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. When we see conflict we try to invent a cause that puts people in the best light, often excusing behaviors we would otherwise deem unacceptable.

This has caused us to see Muslims as not much different from ourselves. After all, they, like us, are human beings so how different can they be when we get right down to it?

With the rise of various terrorist organizations we have had no choice but to attempt to understand Muslims and get a grasp of just what Islam is. This in itself is a very difficult task seeing as how there appears to be as many views of Islam as there are people trying to explain it. But one thing is certain, we are more aware now than we have ever been that we share a planet with a culture vastly different from ours.

Since its founding in the 7th Century, Islam has been on a campaign of self-promotion. More recently, it has had a great deal of help in public relations as many strive fiercely to make excuses for actions made in the name of Islam, either on behalf of their Prophet Mohammed or their god Allah.

One of the first things that happened following the events of 9/11 was that government agencies began to shape our perception of Islam. Airport security, such as it was before that fateful morning, was instructed not to profile Muslims for special attention. This in itself caught many of us  by surprise seeing as how the 19 hijackers that took the lives of 2,996 Americans, were all Muslims.

In the events that have occurred since then we have seen a refusal to acknowledge even the participation of Muslims even when it was the first obvious conclusion that could possibly be drawn.

Upon taking office as president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has made it a personal mission to erase obvious connections with Islam when terrorist attacks happen whether here or abroad. Terms like "Islamic terrorism" or "Muslim terrorist" have been removed from official documents in efforts to cover-up connections even a child could make.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been forced to change its training methods that singled out Muslims even though 99% of all the world's terrorist activity is Muslim-related.

The actions of Army Major Nidal Hassen on November 5, 2009, though he shot and killed 14 including an unborn child on the Fort Hood Army base and wounded over 30 others while shouting "Allahu Ackbar," was called "workplace violence" by the Obama administration in efforts to hide the Muslim connection, as obvious as it was.

This attack wasn't the first to happen on American soil. For that one would have to go back to April 14, 1972 when ten Muslims, members of a mosque in New York city phoned in a false alarm only to ambush responding police officers, killing one and injuring three.

A police officer were also killed and another wounded by Muslims on January 19, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York when he responded to a robbery at a sporting goods store where they were trying to steal weapons.

Since then we have had Muslim terrorist attacks in cities across the country, such as Bethesda, MD, three times in Washington, DC, Berkley, CA, eight times in Oakland CA, Ingleside, CA, Savou, IL, St. Louis, MO, Tuscon, AZ, New York City, NY, Langley, VA, Lompoc, CA, and in Atlanta, GA all prior to September 11, 2001. These attacks killed 45 and injured another ten. Most were never reported honestly.

Since September 11, 2001 there have been 32,580 separate deadly Islamic Jihad attacks worldwide as of February 21, 2018. Today the entire world is aware of the Islamic threat, though too often excused or downplayed by the media or government agencies.

But these attacks or campaigns, against the non-Muslim world do not include the most successful Islam has perpetrated since its inception. Here are some contenders:

Jihad today has its roots in both the actions of Islam's Prophet Mohammed and in their Holy Scripture, the Qur'an. For Mohammed's part, when he entered Medina there were three tribes of Jews. As Mohammed's political power grew he began to take the property of those Jews, killing some and exiling others. When he finally dealt with the last tribe he lay siege on them for twenty-five days. Upon their surrender, the women were sold as sex slaves to raise money for his continued Jihad, the children were placed into Muslim homes to be raised as Muslims and 8oo men and boys who had reached puberty were beheaded in the marketplace as their bodies fell into a trench dug for that purpose. This however, was not Islam's most successful campaign.

Following the Battle of Khaybar Mohammed established a new form of status, the Dhimmi. Realizing that a dead Jew brings only so much material and monetary reward, Mohammed created a class of people who were to be granted certain rights. They could, should they choose to, remain a Jew and continue to worship in their religion, although with many very restrictive regulations and if they agreed to pay the jizah, a tax equal to about half their income. They continued to work the land as farmers or operate as businessmen as they had before so they could pay the heavy tax. Of course, not accepting this arrangement meant death. This form of oppression was the last great political creation to rule the world. However, this was not Islam's most successful campaign.

There were many Muslim leaders over the centuries. One such ruler was Al-Hakim (996-1021) who served as Caliph in Egypt. It was under his rule that a special department was created for the sole purpose of keeping track of all the property he confiscated from his murdered victims for the ten years of his reign. Christians and Jews were directed to wear special clothing so they could not be mistaken for Muslims. Many Christians converted to Islam to escape the oppression and his destruction of holy sites and murder of Christians were a part of the reason for the Crusades years later.  He built the House of Science, the first real Islamic university and he was notorious for his regulations on behavior. Chess, musical instruments, gambling, wine, beer, grapes, honey, some vegetables and some fish, singing, the wearing of jewelry by women, and even their leaving the house were all forbidden. Dogs were slaughtered and a hatred for dogs persists until this day by Muslims. He even murdered members of his family, high-ranking officials and drowned his concubines. His power was almost unequaled yet this was not Islam's most successful campaign.

Tamerlane became an Islamic ruler in 1370 and was widely known for his building of citadels, baths, gardens, and markets, much of which still exists today. His military campaigns saw the entire area of Central Asia under his control. In Afghanistan he was known to have removed the heads of his enemies and built them into his towers with the faces turned toward the roads as a warning of any with the idea of resisting his rule.

When one of his garrisons was destroyed he countered by killing one city's entire population of 70,000 including a delegation of children sent to appease him. Later he killed 50,000 Hindu captives as retaliation in a single bloody hour. Still this campaign was not the most successful of Islamic conquest.

Abdul Hamid II was quoted as saying "I will soon settle those Armenians. I will give them a box on the ears that will make them smart and relinquish their revolutionary ambitions." His perception of the Armenian reform that he feared would take place caused him to be true to his word. In 1984, at the sound of a bugle to signal the planned attack, mobs of Muslims and troops attacked Armenian headquarters. Men were murdered in the streets, women were raped, property destroyed and when it was said an done over 200,000 were dead, although the number has been given as high as one million. The world stood silent and scarcely reported the massacre. Still this was not Islamic most successful campaign.

Jihad against the non-Muslim has survived to this day, taking a total of 270 million lives in the process over the past 1400 years. Of those murdered by Islamic Jihad, 120 million were Africans, 60 million were Christian, 80 million were Hindus, and 10 million were Buddhists. But these campaigns were not the most successful for Islam.

The most successful campaign of Islamic advancement and progression began quietly in 1996 when the Runnymede Trust created the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia. The following year in their report entitled "Islamphobia, A Challenge for Us All", Islamophobia, which some believe has been around for decades, took on a more defined face. It was explained to be "an outlook or world-view involving an unfounded dread and dislike of Muslims, which results in practices of exclusion and discrimination."

To describe it in more detail, the report went on to say that Islamophobia is the "dread or hatred of Islam and therefore, [the] fear and dislike of all Muslims." Since that time the term has become so widely used one would think it has been with us for centuries. It has effectively stifled and muzzled any critical view of Islam. It has make it easy for anyone who questions Islam or Muslims in general, to be labeled an Islamophobe and therefore even their comments are forever deemed unworthy of even addressing or replying to. The term has incorrectly been expanded to mean "racist" and this stigma further shelters Islam from any critical review. The opinion of a Islamophobe is considered one which sees no value in Islam either culturally, socially, economically or even in the public forum. Therefore, it is to be disregarded and not worthy of note, no matter how pertinent or important it might otherwise be.

Once identified as an Islamophobe, nothing that person has to say ever reaches the mind of the listener for in fact, they cease to listen at all. Important issues are never intelligently discussed. Debate is impossible when one party refuses to acknowledge the validity of the opposing point of view.

Smearing one person or a whole group of people with the term Islamophobia, effectively silences their opinion. Curiously, personal growth only comes when one is open-minded to other possibilities other than the ones they currently hold. Using the Islamophobia brush to paint anyone or any group has dangerous consequences. It hides the truth and even when it is a matter of life and death.

Like a child holding his or her hands over their ears as they chant "La La La La La La" to drown out he speakers voice, the term Islamophobia has become a childish act to silence dissent and even the asking of important questions. Good people with their hearts in the right place, who seek to warn others of the terrible consequences of their ignorance and lack of knowledge, are not heard.

That is the true purpose of this word, to obscure the truth and protect it from being exposed. In today's world groups like ISIS work their most atrocious evil and for fear of being called Islamophobic, we are subdued into silence. Things that must be said are kept inside. For fear of being called a racist, a bigot, a hater, in other words Islamophobic, good people, with good questions or necessary observations, cower quietly in the corner. The term Islamophobia has won another victory and the evil that should have been displayed for all the world to see is hidden once again from sight, even if it is in plain view.

The creation of the term Islamophobia and its acceptance into our culture is the most successful campaign Islam has ever won. Every time you hear the term used, whether by a talking head on TV, a speaker at a university, in front of the green wall at the United Nations or from the podium of the President of the United States, be assured that Islam just won another victory and their campaign to cloud the issue and hide the truth of what Islam is and what its goals actually are, remain unseen.

That is the most successful campaign Islam has ever engaged in. It will be the most successful tool in Islam's arsenal used to spread its oppression, racism, bigotry and evil across the face of the globe, because we help wield it for them.

Glen Spicer

WHILE WE SLEPT

While We Slept

“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” Matthew 13:25 (KJV)

Is this what we are witnessing with the advent of Barack Hussein Obama on the world stage? I think so. Christians have been lulled to sleep by flowery rhetoric and smooth promises, just as has the rest of the world when it comes to Obama. Far from being the unifying force he promised to be, he has become the most divisive president to ever hold the office. He has divided America in the areas of religion, race, family, social interactions, economy, and anything else he touches.

His alignment with the Muslim Brotherhood is no secret but his continued advancement of it escapes many. Islam's influence is far reaching and aided by Obama and the mindset that put him in power. Illinois Democrat, Andre Carson, is the second Muslim that has been elected to Congress. The ideology that causes one to identify himself with Islam should have ruled him unacceptable to hold any office in America, especially in this post 9/11 era. But instead of awakening us to the dangers imposed by Islam in the United States, which should have become apparent on that Tuesday morning when almost 3,000 Americans lost their lives due to Islamic Jihad, America has been lulled back to sleep as if nothing had happened or it were only a scary dream. "Move along. Nothing to see here" could be the cry of the day.

When we think of Chicago we often think of corruption in government, past and present, and the misfits that it has spawned like Eric Holder, Rahm Emmanuel and Barack Obama. Now Chicago has become the birthplace of an Islamic organization under the direction of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO). If there is anything that is incompatible with the ideal that is America, a Muslim political organization tops the list.

In reality, Islam is more political than religious but it takes advantage of every religious freedom it can grasp. The religion of Islam is the matador's cape that hides the spear designed to kill the bull. Political Islam is that spear. We focus on the red cape and are unaware of the dangers it hides through its political side. I have often stated that if Islam were treated like the political organization it really is, we would chase it from our shores.

Consider this easy explanation of the difference between religious and political ideology. Most religions say, "Here is what I believe. You are free to choose it or not." Political Islam says "Here is what I believe. You have two choices, convert to my belief system or die. Your choice."

However, it appears that now Islam is becoming openly political, especially with the formation of this new political group with the aid and assistance of President Obama himself. It seems I gave America too much credit. We aren't even paying attention.

A stepping stone for this came in 2014 when Sabri Samirah, a Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood member, was allowed into the United States by President Obama. He had previously been banned from the US for 11 years.  He immediately began the groundwork for this political organization to influence politics in America to be more in tune with what Islam's goals for the country are. Yes, while we slept, Obama helped sow weeds in America's wheat field.

Known as the UMMA, it is registered as a "non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to promoting the public and political empowerment of the American Muslim community as well as serve its interests".  One can only imagine what those interest are in light of Islamic desire to see the entire world submitted to Allah and Mohammed's Islam.

The UMMA also endorses candidates, 85 % of which are Democrat and 15% Republican. This reinforces the fact that even some Republicans nowadays don't know where they stand when it comes to the Constitution of the United States. The Democrats are no surprise.

A list of donors to the political ambitions of Andre Carson's who have Islamic ties brought him $33,911.00. While Carson denies he is doing anything against America's interests, accepting money from CAIR, ICNA, ISNA and MPAC clearly have strings attached and would serve as a red flag to anyone paying attention.

Political campaigns usually begin to gain momentum about two years before an election. Does anyone think it is a coincidence that Obama lifted this ban on this Muslim's entrance into America to become politically active two years before the 2016 presidential election? Being naive is one thing. Being willfully ignorant is another.

Since the UMMA promises to galvanize the Muslim community for political reasons, it is a given that shaping the 2016 election was the plan all along.

Remember when President Obama told the people of the world during his UN speech “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”? It appears he thinks it needs to belong to those who follow him instead.

He also stated that “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” For a man who professes to be a scholar when it comes to the Constitution, this sounds like an outright deception aimed at promoting Islamic acceptance in the America, something he does on a regular basis.

And, of course, it takes only a casual glance at any real world news to see that "dignity for all human beings" is not Islam's strong suit.

How much influence the UMMA will have upon our political system is unknown but based on their dedication and those high in government who are giving them a helping hand, it promises to be considerable. Working within the system of a country it seeks to conquer is the Islamic way. Islam's Prophet Mohammed directed Muslims to "not offer peace when you have the upper hand". Muslims now in America do not have the upper hand, but with government assisted immigration from Islamic lands by President Obama, the trend of increasing Muslim population is well underway. Seventy-five thousand are expected to arrive from Syria in the next five years alone. Step by step a goal is achieved.

America can't be conquered from the outside because we are too powerful a military force. But as Abraham Lincoln and others since warned, it is vulnerable to attack and ever destruction, from the inside. Every mosque that dots our changing landscape is a headquarters to that very end. Every militant training camp in America (the estimates are near 35) is a headquarters from which to spearhead those attacks. That is obvious to anyone with their eyes open.

However, with the aid of people like Muslim Congressmen Andre Carson and Keith Ellison, and the president himself, the eating away of America has already begun and that appears to be escaping the notice of most Americans.

As it always does, Chicago is not content to keep its corruption to itself but is determined to export it as we have seen with Obama and numerous politicians connected to him and that city. Every destructive cancer always has a place where it started and although small, it grows, especially when left unchecked and unnoticed. Islamic influence in America is a cancer that will, as cancers tend to do, destroy the host. This Islamic cancer is growing and left unchecked, will send America to the dust bin of history as it has other cultures throughout the centuries.

Turkey used to be called Anatolia, a Greek and Christian nation, now about 97% Muslim. When Islam annihilates a culture, it changes the name to erase everything that came before Islam. Egyptian culture has vanished and replaced with Islam. The face of the Middle East in particular has changed from freedom-loving nations to enslaved by Islam. America will be its crown jewel and it makes its mouth water.

Yes, while we slept, our enemies crept in and sowed weeds and slipped away unnoticed, content in the fact that the seeds they planted will do what military force could not do, infiltrate and saturate. It took 400 years for Greek/Christian Anatolia to become Muslim Turkey. How long will it take for the United States to be no longer recognizable? At the speed with which we are assisting in our own destruction, in will be sooner than later.

I find it interesting that the Arabic word for tare is tarhah  and refers to something discarded, from taraha meaning to reject. If anything in America is considered worthy of being discarded and rejected, it is Islam.

The time to deal with unwanted weeds is when they first stick their heads above the soil. It is much easier before they get established. With the new creation of the UMMA and the acceptance of such organizations as CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, USCMO, MSA and others along with the Muslim Brotherhood as valid organizations free to operate openly within our borders, unchecked, sadly America has more years behind her than ahead of her. These destructive weeds need to be dealt with now, decisively and with prejudice. It is America's only hope for survival.

Glen Spicer