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[Most recent blog entries] The Death of the Grown-Up | Diana West > Home - "Victory" in Iraq ...: This anti-Christian persecution is a large part of why the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended in December 2008 that the State Department name Iraq a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) -- its dread Saddam-era designation. (Recommendation denied.) In May, to strengthen human rights in Iraq, the commission's Iraq report included suggested amendments to Iraq's constitution, which, not incidentally, boil down to abolishing the constitutional supremacy of Islamic law.

[blog.cagle.com - main] Victory? Really? | blog.cagle.com - main: Six years later, after successive waves of violence and intimidation largely unchecked by either Iraqi government action or U.S. intercession, more than 500,000 Christians have fled the country. It is a crisis that inspired Christian leaders to assemble in Baghdad in December for a conference piteously titled: “Do Christians Have a Future in Iraq?”

[In Good Faith] In Good Faith: Obama most admired by Americans, again - A blog for ...: I do have my quarrels with President Obama -- mostly that he has not pursued (or been able to pursue) as much of the progressive agenda he described during the campaign. And, yes, I do fear that the rabidly ill-informed "tea-bag" folk will work to deprive him of the small modicum of support he now has in Congress

[Verum Serum] Iranians Fight for Freedom, US President Strategically Says ...: Oh and when Bush I Clinton and Bush II let hundreds of thousands of brave, innocent Iraqis die at the hands of a brutal tyrant for all those years without doing anything, and then when you guys got so outraged when we killed hundreds of thousands more of those innocents when we invaded their country in violation of every principle this country stands for, yeah it was scary how mad you guys got. Oh and when Bush completely ignored the massive genocide in Africa somewhere (so hard to remember which country lol), yeah we sure raised our voices in protest then!

[Florida Tenth Amendment Center] NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR CONSTITUTIONALISTS | Florida Tenth ...: I’d like to note on that list a promise by elected officials that they would actually thumb through the Constitution and admit there’s nothing in there that says people can be forced to buy health insurance for themselves or people they don’t even know. I imagine that a resolution like that would have rendered the push for socialized medicine unnecessary, and then billions of dollars of debt for a scheme like mandated health care wouldn’t be heaped on the backs of taxpayers who haven’t even been born yet.

[VirtueOnline] VirtueOnline - News - Culture Wars - The Problem of Islamic ...: Roughly half of Iraq's historical Christian community has been displaced, many to Jordan and Syria, another secular Arab dictatorship. Although the government does not persecute, reports State, "violence conducted by terrorists, extremists, and criminal gangs restricted the free exercise of religion and posed a significant threat to the country's vulnerable religious minorities." Although overall violence is down, Christians and other religious minorities continue to be targeted by radical Muslims.

[KurdNet News ekurd.net] Militants kill, Kurds intimidate Iraqi minorities: Kurdish Yazidis look to Kurdistan region, the Kurdish Yazidis are concentrated in key areas for the referendum, including lands coveted by the Kurds north of Mosul and around Sinjar on the Syrian border. The Kurds see the referendum as a chance to right Saddam Hussein's historic wrongs of forced population transfer and Arabization.

[AlterNet.org] CACI: Torture in Iraq, Intimidation at Home | World | AlterNet: An adviser to the neo-conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs, Project for the New American Century, Center for Security Policy, Freedom House, and Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Woolsey is close to Stephen Cambone, the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, a key person in the chain of command who would have not only known about the torture tactics used by U.S. and Israeli interrogators in Iraq but who would have also approved them. Cambone was associated with the Project for the New American Century and is viewed as a member of Rumsfeld's neo-conservative "cabal" within the Pentagon.

[American Renaissance News] American Renaissance News: The Problem of Islamic Religious ...: Although the Karzai government responded to outside pressure and took some steps to improve religious liberty, explains State, “the residual effects of years of jihad against the former Soviet Union, Taliban rule, civil strife, popular suspicion regarding outside influence of foreigners, and still weak democratic institutions hindered the realization of this aspiration.” Relations among different Muslim sects “continued to be difficult”;

[Dhimmi Watch] Killers of Chaldean priest, deacons in Iraq wanted their ...: In the interim a press statement released by Iraq’s highest authority for Sunni Islam, the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) has condemned the murder of the Chaldean priest and his three sub-deacons, which took place June 3rd last following Sunday mass. The declaration attributes all blame for the deaths to the “occupation forces” and the “current Iraqi government”.

[SIOA] SIOA » Blog Archive » Saul Alinsky and the Rise of Amorality in ...: Our president does not appear to be seriously interested in war in Iraq or Afghanistan, these are but distractions to the main issue which is the homeland. With his oath of office taken on Abraham Lincoln's personal bible the American people thought that .

[The Crosstalk Blog » Religion] Latest Stephen King work compares fundamentalist Christians to ...: I cannot say that contact with them or other Muslims have been cordial, since they seem to want to harbor pre-conceived notions and prejudices about Americans that Islam is superior to Christianity, and American Christians in particular are of the devil. I had hoped you would haved addressed the problem of Islamic leaders fomenting jihad, but I guess you are fearful of the repercussions within the Islamic community.

[Alexandria] A Decade of Resistance « Alexandria: The circumstances of German soldiers were obviously much more delicate, the Nazi high officials were far more ruthless than those in the American military, and there was still a huge support for the war in the country, which is a stark contrast to the American people’s disapproval of their government efforts abroad. But regardless of the circumstance, the principles of disobedience to immoral orders and a refusal to follow unjust leaders were courageously defended by the 7000 thousand German soldiers who participated in the plot to destroy the Nazi regime.

[blogfrommiddleeast.com] Is Congress planning to destroy every Middle East TV Channel that ...: The language of the Bill, while far overbroad and many first Semester law students would no doubt hammer it on Constitutional Law grounds, and some lawyers think a case brought under this law would be nearly impossible to prosecute, this legislation, if it passes the Senate, will de jure establish that "It shall be the policy of the United States of America to designate as a Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) any satellite provider in the Middle East (including Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen) that knowingly and willingly contracts with entities designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists under Executive Order No. 13224, to broadcast their channels, or to consider implementing other punitive measures against satellite providers that transmit anti-American declarations (read criticize US support for Israeli crimes) or incite violence against Americans.

[Common Sense Political Thought] Common Sense Political Thought » Blog Archive » Oh, this should help!: The facts are that a significant portion of Muslims are sharia supporters, and that a significant portion of sharia supporters are potential or active jihadists, and that it’s not possible for us to disentangle the “non-dangerous” Muslims from the dangerous ones, because they are all part of one Islamic community, bound by sacred ties and obligated to defend each other from the infidel. Therefore, as long as a significant number of Muslims remain in the West, and are free to travel in the West, the threat and reality of Islamic domestic terrorism will remain, and we will have to live under these onerous security regimes, undergoing a full body scan every time we take a flight, FOREVER.

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