30.9.15

Obama's "Cool As a Cucumber" Mojo Rattled by The Donald!






By John W. Lillpop

Barack Obama’s much lauded “coolness” has apparently been rattled by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

As reported at the reference, The Donald seems to have struck a raw nerve in the overly sensitive, child-like psyche of Barack Obama:

“I’m here to say there’s nothing particularly patriotic or American about talking down America,” Obama said in a clear reference to Donald Trump.

Obama also had a response to Trump’s controversial slogan, Make America Great Again: “America is great right now. America is winning right now.”

Once again, Obama’s bloated ego and world-class vanity cloud his vision and judgment.

What The One fails to recognize is that when GOP candidates speak of America’s weakness and decline they are not lambasting America---rather, they are pointing out the singular failure of Obama to lead and govern effectively!

It’s YOUR flawed policies and failed leadership that are the problem, Mr. President!


Reference http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/73097/donald-trump-is-getting-under-president-obamas-skin

19.9.15

Vatican NOT Amused by Welcoming Committee Set-up to Greet Pope!






By John W. Lillpop

When Pope Francis arrives at the White House on Wednesday to meet with President Obama, he will be greeted by a welcoming committee comprised of a transvestite, a pro-choice nun, and a gay bishop, three Catholics whose lifestyle choices are in direct conflict with Catholic teachings advocated by the Pope.

Other than the fact that Obama has very little, or no, respect for religious customs or teachings, other than those of Islam, it is odd that the president would deliberately seek to embarrass the Pope in such a public and obvious gesture.

Importantly, Obama’s scheme has not gone unnoticed by the Vatican.

As reported at the reference:


President Barack Obama has attracted attention for planning to meet Pope Francis in the White House with a motley assortment of dissenting Catholics and others opposed to Catholic doctrine. Now, the Vatican is signaling that it isn’t happy.

Pope Francis is scheduled to meet Obama on the South Lawn of the White House next Wednesday, Sept. 23. Among those invited by Obama to meet Francis are Gene Robinson, the first gay Episcopal bishop in the U.S., Mateo Williamson, the transgender head of the LGBT Catholic group Dignity USA, and Sister Simone Campbell, a nun who lobbied for Obamacare’s passage despite the fact that it funds abortions and compels Catholic institutions to provide birth control for employees.

While the Vatican hasn’t publicly complained about the guest lineup, an anonymous Vatican official has told The Wall Street Journal they are not happy. According to the official, the Vatican fears Obama is attempting to lure Francis into a photo op where him being photographed next to these activists will be interpreted as an endorsement of their activities, and a repudiation of longstanding Catholic doctrine.


Overall, though, the Obama administration has been trying to emphasize the ways it agrees with the Vatican, rather than the social issues like abortion where they diverge sharply. Vice President Joe Biden (who is Catholic) says he’s read all of Francis’s recent encyclical on climate change, and Francis’s visit to a Philadelphia prison could bolster Obama’s own push for criminal justice reform.”

Meanwhile, the mainstream media is feasting on a so-called “blunder” by GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump who failed to correct a man at one of his campaign rallies who accused Barack Obama of being a closeted Muslim. In that exchange, Trump neither endorsed nor repudiated the claim, but instead quickly moved on.

For that horrific “blunder,” Trump has been called a racist and every other awful name that liberal pundits can concoct.

Once again the mind-boggling, insidious media bias against conservative values raises its ugly head.

To wit: Why is it OK for Barack Obama to harass the Pope with impunity from the media, but a moral outrage for Donald Trump to say nothing in response to an insensitive comment from an audience member at a public rally?





Reference: http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/18/the-vatican-isnt-happy-about-obamas-guest-list-for-the-pope/#ixzz3mC0H30xb

18.9.15

Pope’s Selective “Compassion” Exposed!




By John W Lillpop

Pope Francis has studiously crafted and nurtured a reputation as a deeply compassionate, caring man who willingly opens his heart and mind to the down trodden, abused, and powerless victims of injustice.

In that regard, it is reported that the Pope plans to speak strongly in advocacy for the tens of millions of foreign illegal aliens who violate US borders and immigration laws, take jobs that should be filled by Americans, and use welfare, health care, food stamps and other social benefits to which they are not entitled, and which cost US taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars each year.

The Pope reportedly even considered a symbolic walk across the US-Mexico to highlight the struggles of foreign aliens invading America. However, that “dog and pony show” is apparently no longer on the Pope’s itinerary, for reasons unknown.

With all of the grandstanding and political hoopla surrounding the Papal visit, one would expect that Pope Francis would be willing, even eager, to lend a sympathetic ear to the victims of oppression and human rights abuses at the hands of Cuba’s communist leaders, past and present.

After all, the Castro brothers are declared atheists and their abuses should be particularly offensive to a man of God like the Pope.

However, as reported at the reference, Pope Francis is apparently going to deliberately avoid meeting with Cuban dissidents.


“Pope Francis plans to meet with Cuba's president and its priests, its young and its sick, its churchgoers and its seminarians as he travels around the island starting Saturday. But not its dissidents.

The absence on Francis' agenda of any meeting with the political opposition has sparked bitter critiques from dissidents who say they feel let down by an institution they believe should help push for greater freedom in Cuba.

"He should exert more pressure," said Antonio Rodiles, head of the hard line group Estado de SATS. "In many cases political systems have come under international pressure that has resulted in change, and that's what needs to be happen with Cuba."

Papal observers say it's likely Francis will speak strongly to Cubans about the need for greater freedom in their country and may speak to President Raul Castro in private about the same topic. But in shying from meetings with dissidents, the pope is hewing largely to the Cuban Catholic Church's strategy of advocating for change within bounds laid out by the communist state rather than pushing the system to change as John Paul II did in Eastern Europe. There is no one Cuban officials consider more out of bounds than the country's dissidents, whom they call mercenaries paid by the U.S. government and Cuban-American interest groups in Miami.

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said this week that Francis had not accepted any invitations to meet with dissidents, and well-known opposition members told The Associated Press they have received no invitation to see him.

Lombardi noted that a possible occasion for bringing up Cuban's human rights situation could be during Francis' private meeting with Raul Castro, or while the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, meets with his Cuban counterpart.

"Often, these types of problems are dealt with in conversations, not so much with public proclamations but in personal, direct or private discussions," Lombardi said. "The tradition of the Holy See's authority is to deal with them with a discretion that can often be more efficient than other, possibly more visible but less opportune ways."

The pope "will be well aware that his not meeting dissidents will be construed in some quarters as kowtowing to the regime but he won't care about that," said Austen Ivereigh, author of "The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope."

The big question: Why are the lives of Cuban dissidents living under atheist communists less important that foreign criminal invaders who violate US borders and immigration laws and actively steal from American citizens?
Reference: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150918/cb-cuba-pope-dissidents-b480ea1fdb.html






17.9.15

Obama to Test Pope's "Progressive" Verve!





By John W Lillpop

Based on his public utterances about any number of issues, both spiritual and political, Pope Francis is generally regarded as very liberal in his thinking, a point that has American conservatives wary of his coming visit to the United States next week.

The concern is that the Pope will use his visit and overwhelming media attention to endorse progressive ideas and policies such as climate change, and/or to assist The One in cheer leading and praise on behalf of Barack Obama; two scenarios Republicans would prefer to avoid in the run up year to the 2016 presidential election.

To further complicate matters, Barack Obama plans to test the political verve of the Pope by inviting people who are decidedly opposed to Catholic teaching to participate in welcoming the Pontiff to the White House.

As reported at the reference:


President Obama will apparently test just how far Pope Francis’ notorious tolerance will go by inviting a rogue’s gallery of people opposed to Catholic teaching to greet the pontiff at the White House during his visit next week.

In a stunning show of political indecorum, Obama has invited a series of individuals who publicly flout Catholic teaching, including a pro-abortion religious sister, a transgender woman and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, along with at least two Catholic gay activists.

One of the invitees, retired Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson, made history by becoming the first openly gay Episcopal bishop in 2003 and subsequently the first to divorce his gay partner in 2014, after having previously separated from his wife of 14 years. He has attended a number of religious events with the Obama administration, offering a prayer at President Obama’s inauguration in 2009 and taking part in the 2014 National Prayer Breakfast.

Mateo Williamson, a cross-dressing woman and former co-chairman of the Transgender Caucus for Dignity USA, has also received an invitation to the White House for Pope Francis’ visit. Williamson says that though she now thinks of herself as a man, she continues to be attracted to males. “Today I identify as a gay man and before that was difficult to understand because I thought that in order to be transgender, in order to be a transgender male that I had to be attracted to females but I never have throughout my entire life.”

Though Pope Francis has said that he doesn’t believe in judging persons and is ready to welcome anyone in Christ’s name, he has also said that Catholics do not accept the modern mentality of transgenderism and once said that gay marriage is the devil’s “attempt to destroy God’s plan.”

“The acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift,” Francis wrote in his encyclical letter on the environment, “is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home, whereas thinking that we enjoy absolute power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation.”

Earlier this month, the Vatican officially prohibited transgender persons from being baptismal godparents posing as the opposite sex from which they were born.”

By selecting a pro-choice nun, a transgender woman, and a gay bishop to the Papal welcoming committee, Barack Obama has once again proven that his audacity is boundless!

The big question: Will the Pope be amused, or outraged, at the lack of presidential respect for Catholic teachings?


http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/16/white-house-invites-trio-catholic-dissenters-greet-pope-francis/

14.9.15

Whatever Happened to Honest, Open Government?






By John W. Lillpop

Contrary to his thundering promises to be the most transparent, forthcoming president in US history, Barack Obama has proven to be precisely the opposite. Indeed, the Obama administration has been the most secretive, non-transparent administration in history, and one which deliberately distorts, misrepresents and lies about factual matters in order to deceive the American people into believing that the state of the union is what it is not.

A most poignant example of this awful truth became painfully obvious when MIT professor Jonathan Gruber unwittingly exposed the fact that the ObamaCare fiasco would not have been enacted into law had the US Congress known the truth about the Marxist health-care proposal, and were it not for the reliable “stupidity” of the American people.

Even more alarming is the recent disclosure regarding “cooking of the books” about national security.

As reported at the reference:


On Friday, the numerous opponents of the Obama Iranian agreement and his overall national security policy have additional information that taints the administration's Iranian deal. According to a number of news stories, at least 50 intelligence officials who are assigned to the U.S. Central Command blew the whistle on suspected altering of intelligence reports by politically-motivated higher-ups.

The intelligence personnel, mostly analysts, informed the Pentagon watchdog that they believe their reports have been systematically edited to backup President Barack Obama's -- and his national security team's -- statements that the war on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as more successful than it actually is, according to news reports from outlets such as The Hill.

This revelation is being touted as the very first time that so many intelligence analysts have complained to the Pentagon's "top cop," Inspector General Jon Rymer, about the politicizing of the intelligence gathering and analysis function. In July, a couple of analysts filed a complaint with Rymer's office, after months of internal complaints were allegedly ignored.

It got so bad, according to Examiner source Pete Vanderhill, a former police intelligence division operative, that some of those career intelligence operatives who complained were bullied and forced to take early retirement, or the younger analysts just quit. After the mini-purge of intelligence officers, other analysts said they supported their colleagues' formal report and can back up their claims of political shenanigans to make Obama, Kerry and others look good.

The most important -- perhaps most damaging -- complaint is that "senior [administration] officials are editing the intelligence analysts' reports to bring them into line with the Obama administration's claims" such as the Obama-led war on ISIS is successful. Also, the analysts were pressured, they say, to make Iran look less involved in terrorist support and that the Iranians have less interaction with terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorist groups. The suspected goal was to make Iran appear less dangerous to Americans while Obama and Kerry pursue a nuclear deal with the radical Islamist government.

Besides the internal investigation by Rymer's office, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R., Texas), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said his committee is investigating. “No doubt that these allegations are troubling and the committee is looking into them,” Thornberry said. “Accurate intelligence and unbiased analysis can often be a life or death matter and must remain free from political pressure.”

These revelations should cause any reasonable person to question all of Obama’s official claims and seek truth about unemployment, the economy, immigration and climate change.

Clearly, the American people can no longer trust the words of a man who is more devoted to constructing a legacy based on lies and misrepresentations than he is on divulging truth!


http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-administration-fingered-by-intelligence-analysts-for-deceiving-americans

13.9.15

When Will America Be Told the Truth About Unemployment, the Economy, Immigration, & Climate Change?







By John W. Lillpop

Contrary to his eloquent promises to be the most transparent, forthcoming president in US history, Barack Obama has proven to be exactly the opposite. Indeed, the Obama administration has been the most secretive, non-transparent administration in history, and one which deliberately distorts, misrepresents and lies about factual matters in order to deceive the American people into believing that the state of the union is what it is not.

A most poignant example of this awful truth became painfully obvious when MIT professor Jonathan Gruber unwittingly exposed the fact that the ObamaCare fiasco would not have been enacted into law had the US Congress known the truth about the Marxist health-care proposal, and were it not for the reliable “stupidity” of the American people.

Even more alarming is the recent disclosure regarding “cooking of the books” about national security.

As reported at the reference:


On Friday, the numerous opponents of the Obama Iranian agreement and his overall national security policy have additional information that taints the administration's Iranian deal. According to a number of news stories, at least 50 intelligence officials who are assigned to the U.S. Central Command blew the whistle on suspected altering of intelligence reports by politically-motivated higher-ups.

The intelligence personnel, mostly analysts, informed the Pentagon watchdog that they believe their reports have been systematically edited to backup President Barack Obama's -- and his national security team's -- statements that the war on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as more successful than it actually is, according to news reports from outlets such as The Hill.

This revelation is being touted as the very first time that so many intelligence analysts have complained to the Pentagon's "top cop," Inspector General Jon Rymer, about the politicizing of the intelligence gathering and analysis function. In July, a couple of analysts filed a complaint with Rymer's office, after months of internal complaints were allegedly ignored.

It got so bad, according to Examiner source Pete Vanderhill, a former police intelligence division operative, that some of those career intelligence operatives who complained were bullied and forced to take early retirement, or the younger analysts just quit. After the mini-purge of intelligence officers, other analysts said they supported their colleagues' formal report and can back up their claims of political shenanigans to make Obama, Kerry and others look good.

The most important -- perhaps most damaging -- complaint is that "senior [administration] officials are editing the intelligence analysts' reports to bring them into line with the Obama administration's claims" such as the Obama-led war on ISIS is successful. Also, the analysts were pressured, they say, to make Iran look less involved in terrorist support and that the Iranians have less interaction with terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorist groups. The suspected goal was to make Iran appear less dangerous to Americans while Obama and Kerry pursue a nuclear deal with the radical Islamist government.

Besides the internal investigation by Rymer's office, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R., Texas), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said his committee is investigating. “No doubt that these allegations are troubling and the committee is looking into them,” Thornberry said. “Accurate intelligence and unbiased analysis can often be a life or death matter and must remain free from political pressure.”

These revelations should cause any reasonable person to question all of Obama’s official claims and seek truth about unemployment, the economy, immigration and climate change.

Clearly, the American people can no longer trust the words of a man who is more devoted to constructing a legacy based on lies and misrepresentations than he is on divulging truth!


http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-administration-fingered-by-intelligence-analysts-for-deceiving-americans

12.9.15

Crane Collapse & Deaths in Mecca: An “Act of God”?






By John W. Lillpop


The awful tragedy in Mecca that cost more than 100 people their lives on September 11 may have been the result of divine intervention, at least according to an engineer working on an expansion of the Mosque.

As reported at the reference:

“Mecca: The collapse of a construction crane that killed 107 people at Mecca`s Grand Mosque was "an act of God" and not due to a technical fault, an engineer for the developer said Saturday.

The massive red and white crane, which crashed into the court of the mosque during a rainstorm and high winds Friday, also injured around 200 people.

The engineer for Saudi Binladin Group, which is carrying out a massive expansion of the mosque, told AFP the crane, like many others on the project, had been there for three or four years without any problem.

"It was not a technical issue at all," said the engineer, who asked not to be identified.

"I can only say that what happened was beyond the power of humans. It was an act of God and, to my knowledge, there was no human fault in it at all."

Authorities are investigating the tragedy, which occurred as hundreds of thousands of Muslims from around the world were gathering for the annual hajj pilgrimage.

The engineer said the crane was the main one used on work to expand the tawaf, or circumambulation area around the Kaaba -- a massive cubed structure at the centre of the mosque that is a focal point of worship.

"It has been installed in a way so as not to affect the hundreds of thousands of worshippers in the area and in an extremely professional way," he said.

"This is the most difficult place to work in, due to the huge numbers of people in the area."

The crane`s heavy hook, which is able to lift hundreds of tonnes, began swaying and moved the whole crane with it, toppling into the mosque, the engineer explained.

A witness said the accident occurred during winds which were so strong they shook his car and tossed billboards around.

The development project is expanding the area of the Grand Mosque by 400,000 square metres (4.3 million square feet), allowing it to accommodate up to 2.2 million people at once.”

The fact that this tragedy took place on the fourteenth anniversary of the 911 attacks on the US (carried out by Muslim terrorists from Saudi Arabia) is sheer coincidence, and is not to be interpreted as a sign that the God of the West has exacted revenge on Allah for 911!



Reference: http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/mecca-crane-collapse-act-of-god-engineer_1795339.html

11.9.15

Gullible Fascination with Islamic Terrorists & Illegal Aliens: Inexplicable 14 Years after 911!







By John W. Lillpop


Who could have imagined that, 14 years following the deadly terrorist attacks of 911, the American people would have elected, and re-elected, as US President, an inexperienced, truth- adverse, terrorist sympathizer with a soft spot in his heart (or head) for Islam?

A president who would vehemently deny that America is at war with Islam, despite all evidence to the contrary?

A president who would push for enactment of a nuclear agreement with the terrorist state of Iran that, according to some, could very well lead to the annihilation of Israel and provoke a nuclear arms race in the Middle East?

A president who would prematurely abandon Iraq, thereby enabling the creation and empowerment of ISIS, the most dangerous terrorist entity in history, because of his simplistic conviction that the US- led war there was “dumb”?

A president who has presided over the dangerous escalation of both domestic and foreign conflicts, but who ignorantly brags that the world is a “safer place” because of his efforts?

A president who claims that the threat posed by “climate change” is more serious than dealing with terrorism?

A president, who through his misguided policies, has been party to the violence and turmoil in Syria, but who now demands that thousands of Syrian “refugees” be admitted to the United States, despite the fact that said refugees could, and probably do, include any number of ISIS and/or Al-Quaeda terrorists?

A president who advocates the “Fundamental Transformation” of America into a 3rd world refuge for tens of millions of invading foreigners who do not speak English, are unskilled and uneducated, are impoverished and often diseased, and who are incapable (and or unwilling) to assimilate into American society?

A president who has attempted to use “Executive Orders” to drastically alter the political landscape of America by promoting the invasion of illegal aliens most likely to vote Democrat in the future?

Unfortunately, MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber appears to have hit the nail on the head when he called the American people too “stupid” to understand and praised the lack of transparency in the Obama administration.

How else to explain Barack Obama’s prominence in American politics
?








10.9.15

Will Pope Promote Leftist Agenda, or Will Focus Be on Spiritual?






By John W. Lillpop


As stated so well by Judi McLeod, Editor of Canada Free Press, in a recent column (http://canadafreepress.com/article/75049), conservatives are generally wary over the visit by Pope Francis, scheduled for September 22 –27. The concern is that the Pope will use his trip to promote liberal dogma, particularly with respect to the contentious issue of climate change.

Pope Francis has also made Capitalism bashing (And, slamming air conditioning!) an integral part of his repertoire; doing so in America will irritate, if not alienate, many Americans, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.

Still, the Pontiff can help focus public attention on several critical issues that need to be addressed, including:

Planned Parenthood:
This evil enterprise violates all standards for human decency by practicing infanticide and by harvesting aborted victims for body parts. The Pope should denounce Planned Parenthood, by name, and encourage US lawmakers to withdraw all government funding for these despicable baby killers.

Freedom of Religion: In implementing ObamaCare, the Obama administration has deliberately violated the constitutional right of Catholics, and others, to practice their religious beliefs without government interference. The state of Kentucky was also guilty of violating the religious rights of Kim Davis when she was arrested and incarcerated for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Illegal Immigration
: Rather than mocking US borders and immigration laws with a staged walk across the US-Mexico border, Pope Francis should state emphatically that illegal immigration is a crime comparable to stealing or bank robbery. He should affirm that the United States has a solemn duty to assure national sovereignty and stability by aggressively defending our borders, language, and culture from foreign invaders.

Perhaps the Pope should head southward on foot and observe the situation at the Guatemala-Mexico border where a massive fence is being built to keep Spanish-speaking brown people out of Mexico. He should also comment on the fact that Mexico deports more people than America does.

The bottom line: Looking for a better life and greater economic opportunity does not entitle anyone to invade a foreign nation in violation of borders and rule of law.

Acknowledgement of Evil: Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Obama administration stubbornly insists that the United States is not at war with Islam and scoffs at the notion that Islam is an evil force. Pope Francis must affirm that evil does exist, and that responsible leaders must acknowledge such and act accordingly to mitigate the impact of evil on innocent, God-fearing men and women.

Crippling Impact of Communism: While Francis is quick to criticize capitalism and capitalist societies such as the United States, he should point out that communism leads to suppression of individual liberty by an atheist government freedom. When it comes to a better life for more people, communism fails totally.


Overall, the Pope would be well advised to moderate his tone so as to not be seen as lecturing or condescending to the American people. We have had enough lecturing over the past seven years and are, quite frankly, sick of it all.































http://canadafreepress.com/article/75049

9.9.15

Indian Muslims Speak Out Against ISIS!






By John W. Lillpop

Since the horrific events of 911, many Americans have urged Muslim leaders to speak out against violence, murder, and other barbaric acts committed by Islamic extremists in the name of Islam. Although Muslims generally refute acts committed by ISIS and other terrorist groups, the volume of protest has not been, in the opinion of many Americans, sufficient to change the minds and hearts of many Americans.

Now, a Muslim group in India has issued a Fatwa against ISIS and has stated that ISIS does not represent ISLAM.

As reported at the reference:



n Hindu-controlled India, over 1,000 Muslim leaders and scholars have sanctioned a religious ruling, or fatwa, against the Islamic State as contrary to the true teachings of Islam.

The group, which met in recent days to discuss and search out new strategies to “protect the image” of a moderate Islam, has forcefully condemned religious extremism and the violent attacks perpetrated by ISIS militants.

Mumbai-based Islamic jurist Manzar Hasan Khan Ashrafi Misbahi drafted the fatwa earlier this week, with numerous Muslim groups and leaders signing on. The declaration denounced Islamic State’s religious vision and activities as “un-Islamic and inhuman” and said that its practices showed it had “no relation with Islam.”

In the declaration, the leaders expressed “deep concern about the spread of extremist propaganda” that is likely to spread like wildfire.

In the state of Kerala, a Muslim group called Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen (KNM) also launched a campaign, focusing on social media platforms, against Islamic State ideology that is spreading fast among Muslim youth.

Leaders of the group initiated the campaign after reports about several men from Kerala who were detained in UAE for propagating Islamic State ideas. Not long ago UAE had deported two Keralites for propagating ISIS ideology through social media.

“We have decided to bring out videos of speeches by our scholars on contentious issues and upload them on the social media. We have been conducting classes regularly to warn the youth against the hate-mongering of the IS,” Abdul Majeed Swalahi, state president of Ithihadu Subbanil Mujahideen (ISM), a feeder organisation of the KNM told The Times of India.

In recent days, Indian authorities have intensified checks to prevent terrorism in the country. The interior minister, Rajnath Singh, declared that 17 young Indians had joined the Islamic state, while about thirty Indian Muslims were arrested as they were about to leave for Syria and join the radical militant group.

Home Ministry officials said that at least half of the Indians who have joined Islamic State were living outside the country when they enlisted, some in Pakistan as members of a homegrown terror group called the Indian Mujahideen and others in the Persian Gulf region, Australia and Singapore.

Indian officials said they grew worried when four young men from a Mumbai suburb traveled to Iraq to fight in 2014. Last year, online recruitment videos also began to appear with subtitles in Hindi, Urdu, Tamil and other languages spoken in India.

Although the number of recruits is small compared to India’s population and even relative to those who have enlisted in many European countries, the Indian authorities have raised an alert against the spread of the phenomenon.

Minister Singh announced that the government has decided to ban the Islamic state based on the Indian “law for the prevention of terrorist acts.” On Friday, Singh announced that a computer engineer from Bangalore had been arrested because he used his twitter account to send messages in support of ISIS.

Abdur Rahman Anjaria, a leader of the Muslim community in Mumbai, the largest and most influential Islamic community in India, said he firmly reject the “torture, killings and violence” carried out by the extremist group.

India is home to over 170 million Muslims, giving the country the second largest Muslim population in the world, after Indonesia. Muslims in India constitute about 14 percent of the population, which is predominantly Hindu.

As practiced in India, Islam has long been considered moderate, said the religious leaders, in contrast to Islam’s radical strain, exemplified by al Qaeda and ISIS.

At the same time, Muslim leaders in India have further motivation to come out strongly against Islamic extremism, given their precarious position in many Indian states.

Recently released census figures showed Muslims’ share in India’s population has grown in the last decade, while that of Hindus had fallen to slightly below 80%.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, which has deep roots in Hindu nationalism, has introduced measures to shore up India’s Hindu identity. Right-wing Hindu activists have long tried to incite fears that higher rates of population growth among Muslims will eventually change the balance of power in the predominantly Hindu country.

The 2015 report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) placed India on the “Tier 2” list of countries, where religious freedom violations “engaged in or tolerated by the government” are serious and are “characterized by at least one of the elements of the ‘systematic, ongoing, and egregious’ standard.”

Indian officials expressed intense indignation over the report, saying it reflected ignorance of India and its culture and called it “a conspiracy to tarnish the image of the country.”

India has been ensconced in Tier 2 for the past six years, and the situation shows little probability of improvement. The Commission has found incidents of religiously-motivated and communal violence to “have increased for three consecutive years.”

These sort of steps need to be taken by responsible Muslims throughout the world to change the image of Islam!




7.9.15

Inequality of Justice: Kim Davis Vs. Lois Lerner & Eric Holder!










By John W. Lillpop


While so-called progressives are ever on the prowl for finding, or if necessary creating, victims of “inequality” to exploit politically, those same self-righteous do-gooders are very selective about which inequality situations warrant public attention.

For instance, Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who has steadfastly refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples based on her belief that admonitions against homosexuals in the bible are God’s very word on the subject, has been taken prisoner and jailed for her actions.

In effect. Ms. Davis is being held against her will for her religious beliefs and is denied her Constitutionally-guaranteed right to free speech and religious expression without government interference.

On the other hand, we have Lois Lerner, former employee of the IRS, who plead the 5th Amendment to avoid testifying before a session of the US House in an important investigation into allegations that the IRS deliberately used unlawful practices against political opponents of the Obama administration.

Using a federal agency to thwart political opponents is not only unlawful, it is morally reprehensible as well.

Congress declared Ms. Lerner “In Contempt of Congress” for her complicity in the IRS scandal, but she remains free to this day, as even more evidence of her malfeasance surfaces.

Another example involves former Attorney General Eric Holder, involved in the “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal that saw the US government shipping firearms to Mexico; weapons that eventually cost Americans and Mexicans their lives and actually wound up in the hands of Mexico’s notorious drug cartel thugs.

AG Holder was also found in Contempt of Congress, but skated away from justice by leaving the Obama administration.

In a just and fair society, Kim Davis would be released from jail immediately, while Lois Lerner and Eric Holder would be arrested and jailed.

Unfortunately, because of rampant corruption and inequality of justice, Kim Davis remains jailed while Holder and Lerner are free.

Whither the public outcry and furor over the inequality of justice?






4.9.15

Whither “Land of Free and Home of Brave”?


















By John W. Lillpop

Without question, these are crazy times in our beloved land.

Consider some of the more disturbing situations:

Unborn human fetuses are wantonly destroyed & body parts brazenly harvested for sale as if but cattle or hogs;

Former Secretary of State, First Lady, US Senator, and candidate for US Presidency allegedly involved in cover-up of a terror attack that costs four American ambassadors their lives, said cover-up central to the re-election of Barack Obama;

Same official allegedly processes top secret, classified information on a private, personal server in a serious breach that has potentially damaged US national security;

Acting more like a 3rd-world tyrant than as an elected official in a civilized representative republic, Barack Obama uses his unilateral judgment of what is the “right thing to do” to ignore existing law and issue Executive Orders which usurp the authority of the US Congress in violation of the US Constitution;

Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan, and “Black Lives Matter” extremists join forces in declaring a nation-wide war on US police, said declaration results in random murder of on-duty police throughout nation.

All of the above tragedies share one commonality: None of the perpetrators are under arrest.

In contrast to the laxity granted to the responsible parties above, Kim Davis, a brave young lady of faith from Kentucky, has been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gays….. because of her belief in words set forth in the Old Testament of the Christian bible.

Remember, Ms. Davis killed no one, sought not profit from harvesting body parts, has violated the Constitution not one whit.

And yet she sits in a Kentucky jail for standing by her Christian values and beliefs!

Her fate must give rise to the question, “Whither the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave”?

Is America drowning in a fireball of decadence, sin and evil, from which we may never recover?

Has the “Shining City on a Hill” that held such great promise for all of humanity been conquered by those who hate America and all she stands for?

Has Satan and his legion of demons won the battle for the souls and minds of the American people?






2.9.15

Trump Jabs Jeb: When in America, Speak English!

















By John W. Lillpop


Jeb Bush, like his brother W., boasts of his ability to speak Spanish, as if doing so were a great cultural achievement indicating international sophistication or language diversity.

Actually, speaking Spanish in America is generally a sign that one mops floors, washes cars, waits tables, picks fruit, or is otherwise engaged in menial, low-paying labor left to the lower classes.

Jeb Bush also does it to please his Mexican spouse and family, and court illegal aliens.

Whatever Bush’s motivation, Donald Trump is rightfully outraged by the use of a foreign language by an American candidate for the US presidency!



As reported:

2016 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump told Breitbart News that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush should be speaking English—not the Spanish he spoke to attack Trump in Miami this week—on the campaign trail.

Trump had harsh words for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)80%
in this interview as well and lit into the donor class, all while saying that the “silent majority” in America is waking up and fighting to take back the country from the political class.

Trump also predicted that he will not only win the White House in 2016, but that he will be re-elected in 2020–predicting he will be a two-term president–and that at the end of his eventual eight years in the White House he will be known to all as a “great conservative” just like Ronald Reagan.

“I like Jeb,” Trump said. “He’s a nice man. But he should really set the example by speaking English while in the United States.”

“El hombre no es conservador,” Bush said in Spanish of Trump in Miami, according to the Tampa Bay Times. That means, according to that newspaper, that Bush is saying of Trump: “The man is not conservative.”

“Besides, he tries to personalize everything. If you’re not totally in agreement with him you’re an idiot, or stupid, or don’t have energy, or blah blah blah,” Bush continued in English, according to the Times.

Trump, in his exclusive with Breitbart News, ripped that argument—that somehow he’s not a conservative.

“You know, Ronald Reagan wasn’t a conservative,” Trump said. “He became a great conservative. By the time I’m finished, people will say I’m a great conservative. By the time I’m finished with the presidency, after eight years of the presidency, people will say I’m a great conservative—far greater than Jeb would ever have the ability to be.”

Trump also fired back at Rubio for aiming to undercut his campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” The campaign slogan was used by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 campaign for the White House alongside George H.W. Bush, Jeb’s father.

According to the New York Times, this week Rubio—while campaigning in Carson City, Nevada—said Trump’s campaign slogan isn’t an accurate assessment of the country. Rubio argued America is “great” now.

“There’s one other candidate running, he says he’s going to make America great again,” Rubio said at a community center before a crowd of 200, according to the New York Times. “I understand what he means by that. I don’t mean that as a slight.”

Rubio continued: “I would remind everyone America is great. There’s no nation on earth I would trade places with. There’s no other country I would rather be. The issue is not that we’re not great. The issue is whether we will remain great. The issue is, we can be even greater than we are now. We can be even more prosperous, more powerful.”

Trump, in response, told Breitbart News that this means Rubio is complacent with where America is now—and doesn’t believe there is room for improvement in the country. Trump also called Rubio “Jeb’s plebe.”

Rubio was trained by Bush in Florida politics before the two, along with 15 other Republicans including Trump, started competing against each other for the GOP nomination this cycle. Rubio and Bush have nearly identical political viewpoints on immigration and trade, and as Bush and his campaign keep slipping more and more, it’s expected the donor class paymasters will get behind Rubio down the road, because he would give them everything they want if he’s elected president, just like Bush would.

“If Marco thinks that the country is great now, he’ll never be elected president because it’s not what it was and it’s not great enough—and we will make the country great again,” Trump said. “But if Marco is satisfied—I like Marco, but that means he’s satisfied. You can’t be satisfied [with where the country is now]. You have to use the word ‘again.’ It’s very important, because if he’s saying that, then that means there’s no room for improvement. That means he’s satisfied, that means he’s unelectable.”

Trump thinks that no matter who the establishment puts forward as the donor class candidate—whether it be Bush, or if Bush continues failing then Rubio, or Ohio Gov. John Kasich, for instance—that “they are all controlled” by the paymasters funding their campaigns.

“They are controlling the politicians—and I used to be one of those people, at the highest level, I was one of them,” Trump said. “Nobody knows the game better than I do. I think part of the reason I’m resonating with the public is that I don’t want money. I feel oftentimes foolish when people want to give me millions and millions of dollars that I’m turning them down. I feel foolish. I just hope the public appreciates what I’m doing.”

Trump said that the donor class paymasters who he says are controlling the politicians like Bush and Rubio “are looking to benefit themselves or their company, whereas I’m looking only to benefit the people of the United States.”

When it comes to the border, Trump again noted that he’d build a wall if elected president.

“I know this: We need a wall, and we need it badly,” Trump told Breitbart News. “And it’s got to be an impenetrable wall. We’re taking in people legally, but we’re not taking in any more illegals, but we will take them in legally.”

When it comes to the next debate, Trump said he’s prepared for it, but he does “hope I’m treated better than I was at the last debate.”

“Everyone said I won the last debate—according to Drudge and Time, Drudge and Time did a poll and they said I won,” Trump said. “That’s Time Magazine. Yeah, I’ve bee, I think, preparing my whole life for the next debate.”

Trump also told Breitbart News that he has noticed even more, since he first brought the line back up earlier in the campaign, that the “silent majority” is back in business in America. He said the crowds of people—hundreds of thousands, millions of folks nationwide—getting involved in the process prove that the “silent majority” is not “silent” anymore. The phrase “silent majority” was made popular by Richard Nixon.

“There is a great silent majority, and the silent majority is not so silent anymore,” Trump said. “They want to see America become great again.”


Once again, Trump strikes gold by speaking truth and American patriotism
!