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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (116482)	10/28/2011 10:33:46 AM
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Did Obama appointee access confidential database in effort to smear Perry as an "Islamophobe"? ANDREW McCARTHY At PJM, terrorism researcher Patrick Poole reports that Mohamed Elibiary, an appointee on President Obama's Homeland Security Advisory Council, is in hot water with the Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS). The issue is whether Elibiary used his privileged access to a state law-enforcement database to acquire intelligence reports and then tried to shop them to the media, urging that they showed rampant "Islamophobia" at TDPS under Governor Rick Perry. Poole says no story was published because, according to one press source, there was "nothing remotely resembling Islamophobia" in the leaked reports. The source told Poole, "I think [Elibiary] was hoping we would bite and not give it too much of a look in light of other media outfits jumping on the Islamophobia bandwagon." The Islamophobia bandwagon was the subject of my column last weekend. Seems there are plenty of Islamists and Leftists climbing aboard. Elibiary, you'll no doubt be stunned to learn, was also on the Obama DHS's working group on "countering violent extremism." That's the brain-trust that helped devise the new Obama counterterrorism strategy I outlined ( here and here) a few weeks back -- the one that envisions having law-enforcement pare back their intelligence-gathering activities and take their marching orders from "community partners." I call the new strategy " factophobia." As noted by Poole and the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Elibiary's history includes an appearance at a conference honoring Ayatollah Khomeini; condemning the Justice Department's successful prosecution of a Hamas-financing conspiracy designed by the Muslim Brotherhood (the Holy Land Foundation case); praise for Brotherhood theorist Sayyid Qutb; and an aggressive email exchange with Rod Dreher in 2006 (when Dreher, at the Dallas Morning News, countered Elibiary's praise for Qutb), in which Elibiary reportedly called Dreher "a Klansman without a hood" [ACM: I think that means "Islamophobe"] and warned him: "Treat people as inferiors and you can expect someone to put a banana in your exhaust pipe or something." Who better could President Obama possibly choose to help formulate counterterrorism strategy? Actually, once you read the strategy, I think you'll agree that he made a perfect choice.

To: lorne who wrote (116482)	10/28/2011 10:34:55 AM
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Attorney: Crosses at Catholic University violate human rights of Muslim students Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011, 4:05 PM By Lou Gulino The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights is investigating the Catholic University of America. The Tower, a student newspaper at the university, says the charges allege the school does not provide Muslim students with places to hold frequent prayer services free of crosses or other Catholic symbols. John F. Banzhaf III, a George Washington University Professor of Public Interest Law, ade the complaint to the human rights agency. In a news release Banzhaf alleges: "It is alleged that CUA does not provide space -- as other universities do -- for the many daily prayers Muslim students must make, forcing them instead to find temporarily empty classrooms where they are often surrounded by Catholic symbols which are incongruous to their religion." The university says it hasn't seen any legal filings on the matter, but sent a written statement to Fox News. “Our faithfulness to our Catholic tradition has also made us a welcome home to students of other religions,” said Victor Nakas, associate vice president for public affairs. “No students have registered complaints about the exercise of their religions on our campus.” Banzhaf also complained that CUA does not sponsor a Muslim student association. But the Tower reports an Arab American Student Association recently formed on campus. The founder, Wiaam Al Salmi, told the Tower, “The community here is very respectful of other religions and I feel free to openly practice it.” Patrick Reilly, the president of the Cardinal Newman Society, an organization that promotes Catholic identity on college campuses, told Fox News he was stunned by the complaint. “This attorney is really turning civil rights on its head,” he said. “He’s using the law for his own discrimination against the Catholic institution and essentially saying Catholic University cannot operate according to Catholic principles.” http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/10/muslim_attorney_crosses_at_cat_2.html