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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	2/25/2014 5:48:28 PM
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Trey Gowdy: I get tougher questions at a Bojangles drive-thru than NBC asked of Susan Rice National Security Advisor Susan Rice’s continued narrative about what the Obama administration knew of the Benghazi attack may turn around to bite her in the posterior, according to U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. There’s “not a scintilla of evidence” to support the notion that the best evidence the White House had on the Sunday following the attack was the it was the result of a “spontaneous demonstration,” he told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren. That was the story presented by Rice, who was then-Ambassador to the U.N. when she appeared on five Sunday talk shows. “She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time,” he said. “And stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for lying to our fellow citizens.” Referring to NBC host David Gregory’s interview with Rice on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” the outspoken Congressman said, “I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-thru than he asked her.”

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	2/26/2014 11:30:28 AM
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Katy Perry faces YouTube ban after Muslim backlash over new music video because it features an Allah-inscribed necklace being disintegrated Read more: dailymail.co.uk credit monkeyman

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	2/26/2014 12:17:15 PM
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REPORT: Jihad's biggest FACEBOOK fans live in England...

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	2/28/2014 11:51:02 AM
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Obama's Syrian 'rebels' amputate man's hand and live-tweet it...

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	3/1/2014 2:31:13 PM
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Quantum computer is the future weapon of NSA ......................................................................................... by paganinip January 5th, 2014 securityaffairs.co The Washington post revealed that NSA is spending a great effort to build a quantum computer that could break most types of encryption. The NSA is monopolizing the security landscape, The Washington Post reported that the U.S. Intelligence Agency spending a significant effort to develop a computer that could break the majority of encryption algorithms and applications that use them. The intent is to improve the surveillance capabilities of the agency, breaking principal encryption systems the NSA could spy on other foreign spying applications and banking platforms. Also in this case the revelations are based on document leaked by Edward Snowden, the report mention the development of a quantum computer that could be used to break encryption codes used to protect sensitive data all over the world. “With such technology, all current forms of public key encryption would be broken, including those used on many secure Web sites as well as the type used to protect state secrets.” “The application of quantum technologies to encryption algorithms threatens to dramatically impact the US government’s ability to both protect its communications and eavesdrop on the communications of foreign governments,” according to an internal document provided by Snowden.” stated The Washington Post. The effort is impressive, a quantum computer is a computation device that makes direct use of quantum-mechanical phenomena to perform calculation. “Quantum computers are different from digital computers based on transistors. Whereas digital computers require data to be encoded into binary digits (bits), quantum computation uses quantum properties to represent data and perform operations on these data” The Washington Post revealed that a quantum computer could take years to develop, it’s use is not limited to cryptanalysis but could be extended in other sectors including industry and medicine. The newspaper doesn’t provides any information on the involvement of private companies for the designing of the supercomputer. The NSA development of a quantum computer is partially financed with funds belonging to research program codenamed “Penetrating Hard Targets” for which the Government reserved $79.7 million. “The geographic scope has narrowed from a global effort to a discrete focus on the European Union and Switzerland,” one NSA document states. There is also the news of another secret project called “Owning the Net,” that is financing the research for the development of a quantum computer able to attack encryption algorithms like RSA. In time I’m writing the NSA declined to comment for the article. Let’s wait for the next revelation based on the document leaked by Snowden. Pierluigi Paganini

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	3/2/2014 7:18:39 PM
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Muslim separatists blamed for 'Chinese 9/11' Officials blame Xinjiang separatists for violence at crowded train station, which left 29 people dead and 130 injured Jonathan Kaiman in Kunming and Tania Branigan in Beijing The Guardian, Sunday 2 March 2014 theguardian.com Link to video: Scores killed in south-west China knife attack China's president, Xi Jinping, has called for "all-out efforts" to bring to justice the black-clad assailants who killed 29 people with knives and machetes in a bloody terror attack in the south-western city of Kunming on Saturday night. Officials blamed Xinjiang separatists for the frenzied violence at a crowded train station. Witnesses described fleeing in fear as the assailants hacked at people apparently at random. Graphic photographs of the aftermath showed bodies lying in pools of blood. One of the 130 survivors injured in the incident described fleeing in terror as a man lashed out with a long knife, nicking his scalp. "I was terrified … they attacked us like crazy swordsmen, and mostly they went for the head and the shoulders, those parts of the body to kill," 20-year-old student Wu Yuheng told Reuters as he lay on a bed in a corridor of the Kunming Number One People's hospital. Xi urged security officials to "severely punish in accordance with the law the violent terrorists and resolutely crack down on those who have been swollen with arrogance," state news agency Xinhua said. He added: "Understand the serious and complex nature of combating terrorism … Go all out to maintain social stability." It is the first time people from the north-western region have been accused of such a major and organised attack outside its borders, despite rising unrest there in recent years. Many of its Uighur ethnic group, who are Muslim and Turkic-speaking, chafe at Chinese policies and a smaller number want an independent state. A doctor at the hospital described a scene of bedlam as scores of the seriously injured arrived. He told the Guardian the attackers appeared to be well trained because many of the cuts directly targeted internal organs. He said police were stationed in patients' rooms and doctors had been shown a notice ordering them not to divulge information on the injured, including their condition and how many there were. They were told to tell families the government would arrange compensation. They were also told that police had set up checkpoints on every route out of the city to ensure suspects could not leave. Police outside Kunming railway station after the knife attack. Photograph: AP Armed police patrolled the tense city on Sunday night as officers continued their hunt for five of the 10 assailants. They shot four attackers dead at the scene, three men and one woman, and captured a female suspect, Xinhua reported. Evidence at the scene of the "organised, premeditated violent terrorist attack" showed separatists were responsible, it said, citing the Kunming government. Magnus Ranstorp, a counter-terrorism expert at the Swedish National Defence College, noted that little information was available at present but said that if Uighurs were responsible, "it is without question an escalation … There hasn't been anything on this scale, as far as I have seen." The authorities have consistently blamed outbreaks of violence on a small number of separatists seeking an independent Xinjiang, working with the support or at the instigation of people outside the country. They reject suggestions that the unrest is fuelled by discontent at government policies rather than by an organised terrorist network. On Sunday night, 24 hours after the violence, people gathered at a vigil outside the station, where candles in cups had been laid out to form a heart shape and the date of the attack. One man in the crowd told his friends: "If I had come here two hours earlier, I would have been part of this." Close by, luggage dropped by people as they fled had been piled up on the area outside the station, apparently tagged as evidence. The heavy security presence included plainclothes officers with earpieces as well as police with machine guns and on motorbikes. Police vehicles lined the road. AP reported police were rounding up members of the city's small Uighur community, thought to number at most several dozen, for questioning about the attack. "How do we know them?" said a Uighur man who gave only his first name, Akpar. "We could not tell if the assailants were Uighurs as they were all dressed in black. We did not like the attack either." Mr Zhang, a businessman who was in Kunming for work, told the Guardian he was at a nearby hotel when a woman ran out of the station waiting area screaming that a crazy person was stabbing people. "Then people began to scatter, running in all directions – over 100 people," he said. "A man was stabbed and fell down and got up again." Sixteen-year-old student Qiao Yunao told Associated Press she saw people crying out and running before an attacker cut a man's neck. "I was freaking out, and ran to a fast food store, and many people were running in there to take refuge," she said via the Sina Weibo microblog. "I saw two attackers, both men, one with a watermelon knife and the other with a fruit knife. They were running and chopping whoever they could." Mr Wang, who works at a convenience store close to the station, said he saw police chasing a crowd of people to the street corner. "I heard gunshots and saw a man collapse. I couldn't watch after that. The police rounded up people and put them on a bus." Security in Beijing had already been tightened because the annual session of China's largely rubber-stamp parliament opens in the capital on Wednesday, with another political meeting taking place on Monday. Officials have been particularly anxious about the safety of the capital since a car ploughed into tourists in Tiananmen Square, its political heart, last October. Two pedestrians, the driver and two passengers died in an incident also blamed on extremists from Xinjiang. At least 100 people have died in outbreaks of violence in the region in the last year. Last month, police killed eight people they said had attacked patrol cars in Xinjiang. In 2009, almost 200 died in vicious ethnic riots in its capital, Ürümqi. Many in the region's Uighur ethnic minority chafe at Han Chinese migration and controls on their religion and culture, which they believe are eroding their way of life. But Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, is hundreds of miles from Xinjiang. In July 2008, just before the Olympics, a Uighur separatist group claimed responsibility for two bus explosions in the city, but officials said there was no evidence of terrorism. A commentary on the English website of the state newspaper Global Times described the attack as "China's 9/11", saying: "The latest attacks in Beijing and Kunming have clearly indicated a despicable trend that separatists are targeting civilians out of Xinjiang. "It also showed a shift in their attack strategies from targeting symbols of the government, such as public security stations and police vehicles, to roadside civilians." Xinhua quoted navy rear-admiral Yin Zhuo as saying: "The well planned attack was not an issue of [ethnicity] or religion, it was an issue of terrorism with links to terrorist forces out of the country."

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	3/2/2014 11:17:58 PM
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DETROIT JURY AWARDS MUSLIM MAN $1.1 MILLION FOR "BEARD DISCRIMINATION" ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Sunday, 02 March 2014 13:02 100percentfedup.com And media bias ensues... A jury in the bankrupt city of Detroit awarded a Muslim 1.1 million dollars for his inability to find a job. He claimed that he was fired for his Muslim beard — this after 17 years on the job. So for 17 years the beard was not a problem, but when he was fired, he claimed it was because he was Muslim. And the jury, socking it to “the man,” gave him $1.1 million. “He’s Muslim, he has a scruffy beard down to his chest, he looks like he just came from Afghanistan, he’s African American because Tunisia is in Africa, I mean this man had every strike against him.” The county denies any bias and says Aboubaker wasn’t qualified. But the article bias celebrates this rape of the taxpayer as a return to American greatness. “The best of America was evident in court. ….It was chilling and it was surreal and you could just see the founding fathers’ words speaking out loud and clear about everyone is equal under the law.” Detroit Jury Awards Muslim Man A Record $1.1M In ‘Beard-Related’ Discrimination Case,” CBS local, March 2, 2014 (thanks to Kenny) DETROIT (WWJ) – A jury in Detroit federal court has awarded one of the largest verdicts in an employment discrimination case to a Muslim American. Ali Aboubaker, 56, came to Michigan over two decades ago, chasing the American dream. But he never expected what would happen, according to his attorney Shereef Akeel. “He had come from overseas from Tunisia and became a naturalized citizen,” Akeel told WWJ’s Charlie Langton. ”He came to America for a better life and he was fired after 17 years, wrongfully fired.” Akeel said Aboubaker was passed over for promotions and eventually fired from his job as a maintenance worker with Washtenaw County partially because of his religious mark of manhood. “He’s Muslim, he has a scruffy beard down to his chest, he looks like he just came from Afghanistan, he’s African American because Tunisia is in Africa, I mean this man had every strike against him,” he said. Aboubaker lost everything after he was fired, Akeel said, and was unable to find another job. “The man lost his house, he was literally homeless, he lost his family and his wife of 26 years. He was destitute,” he said. “If you look at him, he definitely would be profiled, he definitely would be picked out of the line at the airport. He fits the stereotype and he has a big strike against him.” Aboubaker decided to file a lawsuit claiming employment and religious discrimination. After six long years, judgment day finally came on Thursday when a jury awarded him $1.1 million, one of the largest discrimination awards for a Muslim. “After the verdict, he broke down crying because this is what is America to him,” he said. “And I tell you, the facts of America shined yesterday.” The verdict shows, Akeel said, that Americans really can look past the surface and realize all citizens deserve the same basic rights, no matter where they came from or what they look like. “The people saw through all of this, and they saw a simple, humble man who was just terribly wronged,” he said. “They saw past the beard, saw past his name, bypassed all of the negative stigma and they just looked at the facts and the evidence and they gave the man what he lost. I mean, we got a verdict of $1.1 million which it just, it stunned the court.” Akeel called the case one of the most influential he has ever been involved with. “The best of America was evident in court. You had a homeless man sitting side by side with a large county government on the same even playing field and you’re trying to get his rights back. It was chilling and it was surreal and you could just see the founding fathers’ words speaking out loud and clear about everyone is equal under the law,” he said. The county denies any bias and says Aboubaker wasn’t qualified. An appeal is planned. pamelageller.com f

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	3/2/2014 11:22:31 PM
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now the jihad is being taken to court room against the infidel.

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	3/4/2014 10:29:49 AM
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Cairo court bans Hamas activities in Egypt ..................................................................................... Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Soros, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, John Kerry, Chuck Hagel aren't gonna like this.

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	3/11/2014 1:52:31 PM
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Iranian ex-spy to Al Jazeera: Khomeini ordered downing of Pan Am flight 103 ................................................................................... Jerusalem Post ^ \| 03/11/2014 \| JPost.com staff

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	3/12/2014 11:17:11 AM
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Remembering the Godfather of Terrorism

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	3/17/2014 1:11:09 PM
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Muslim prof threatens to stab fellow Oberlin professor ................................................................ The Daily Caller ^ \| 03/15/2014 \| Eric Owens Oberlin College professor Eunjung An, professor of French and cinema studies, has filed a lawsuit because, she claims, a professor on the Oberlin faculty has harassed her and created a hostile work environment for female employees for years. The plaintiff is comparative literature professor Ali Yedes informed an unnamed Oberlin employee last year that he had helped his nephew obtain a student visa to the United States expressly to “stab and kill someone from his department.”.. Yedes serves as the school’s “Muslim Religious Life Affiliate (Islamic Center of Cleveland).” .. An’s lawsuit claims that Yedes has been engaged in a pattern of harassment since 2006 that includes loud, disruptive behavior in faculty meetings and pointing his finger in An’s face. “His erratic and abusive behavior has caused immense instability in the department,” ... Meanwhile, in rural southern Thailand, Muslim terrorists shot and killed a Buddhist teacher who was riding to work on a motorbike... Her death marks the 170th murder of a teacher by Muslim terrorists over the course of a years-long, still-raging Muslim insurgency in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces. Thailand is predominantly Buddhist. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ... One can't be too careful what one says about the "religion of peace".

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	3/19/2014 1:30:16 PM
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Al jazeera staff: On air, former CBS News correspondent and CNN anchor Joie Chen now anchors AJA’s flagship broadcast, America Tonight; John Seigenthaler, whose NBC News contract was not renewed several years ago as a cost-saving measure, now delivers the channel’s 8 p.m. evening newscast; Antonia Mora, the former Good Morning America news reader, now reads to a profoundly smaller audience; David Shuster, who landed at Current TV after he was forced out of MSNBC, serves as an anchor; Soledad O’Brien, one of the first to go when Jeff Zucker took the reins at CNN, is one of AJA’s “special correspondents”; Sheila MacVicar, laid off by ABC News and then by CBS News, is a correspondent. As is Mike Viqueira, whom NBC News would never let off the weekend White House shift. Lisa Fletcher, laid off by ABC News in 2010, is an anchor. AJA has scooped up the same sort of refugees to work behind the scenes. The senior vice president for news gathering, Marcy McGinnis, was teaching journalism at Stony Brook University when AJA came knocking, after being forced out of CBS News. David Doss, the longtime executive producer of CNN’s AC360, was unemployed before he started at AJA in July. The pattern holds all the way on down to the network’s social-media editor, Jared Keller, who was fired by Bloomberg after text messages surfaced in which he complained about his job. His next stop? Al Jazeera America.The situation is particularly poignant for Jewish producers, some of whom had to choose between unemployment and relatively well-paying work for a channel whose parent network has exhibited virulent anti-Semitism. A cynical joke making the rounds of television Jewry refers to “Jews for Jazeera,” a subtle play, of course, on “Jews for Jesus.” nationalreview.com

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	3/20/2014 6:55:12 PM
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Double Trouble: The Leftist Threat and the Islamist Threat .............................................................................................. Crisis Magazine ^ \| March 20, 2014 \| William Kilpatrick We find that there are many instances of leftists working closely with Islamic groups and in support of Islamic goals. Perhaps the most obvious example is the close relationship between leftist Venezuela and Islamist Iran. The Obama administration’s warm embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood is another example. Obama and his State Department did everything they could to bring Mohamed Morsi and the Brotherhood to power in Egypt, and they did their utmost to return the Brotherhood to power once they had been deposed. And this despite the fact that the Brotherhood’s relentless persecution of Christians was by then well-known. Indeed, the Obama administration has shown a penchant for siding with more radical Muslim parties against more moderate ones. This has been the case in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Turkey, and elsewhere. According to national security expert Andrew C. McCarthy, “the more unabashed [Turkish Prime Minister] Erdogan became in promoting sharia and the Brotherhood’s jihad against Israel, the closer Washington drew to him” (Spring Fever, p. xiv).Here are some other examples of left-Islam collaboration: Under Hillary Clinton, the left-leaning State Department worked closely for several years with the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to find ways to implement the OIC’s long-standing objective of silencing speech critical of Islam. A voluminous set of documents released by the Department of Justice in early 2012 revealed a high degree of collaboration between the leftish DOJ and various Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups. In October 2011, at the request of Muslim activist groups the U.S. Attorney General’s office ordered the FBI and other national security agencies to purge their training materials of any suggestion of a link between Islam and violence. Most of the demonstrators at a September 11, 2010 rally to support the building of the Ground Zero mosque in New York City were members of various leftist, socialist and communist organizations. Leftists in the U.S. and Europe have shown themselves to be reliable supporters of mosque construction. For example, according to Soeren Kern, a senior fellow at the Madrid-based Strategic Studies Group, “Many of the mosque projects in Italy have been promoted by left-wing politicians who are waging an ideological war with the Roman Catholic Church.” The left-leaning media makes every effort to avoid implicating Islam whenever crimes are committed in the name of Islam. Whether reporting on the Fort Hood massacre, the Boston Marathon massacre, or the Nairobi mall massacre, journalists can be relied on to keep to the script which says that “This has nothing to do with Islam.” Leftist organizations such as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and The Huffington Post have been in the forefront of the campaign against “Islamophobia.” Much of their work consists of attempts to smear and silence groups that report on the oppression of women and minorities under Islam. The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, for example, is in the habit of designating human rights activists who stand up for the victims of Islam as “hate groups.” Meanwhile, in collaboration with the Council on American -Islamic Relations, the considerably left-of-center Center for American Progress has produced a report titled Fear Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America. As far as the left is concerned, there is nothing to fear from Islam; the real enemies are those who dare to point out the problems with Islam. Mecca may be 7,000 miles from Washington, but the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim-American Society, and other such groups have offices in Washington and other major American cities, and they seem to have considerable access to the current administration. If one thinks in terms of armed conquest, then of course there is little to be feared from Islam. But societies can be conquered in other ways than by warfare. Twenty years ago it would have seemed a very remote possibility that wedding photographers in the U.S. would someday be forced to provide their services to same-sex weddings or risk arrest. That once-remote possibility looks like it will soon be enshrined in law. The reason that so many once-remote possibilities—same-sex marriage, gays in the military, transgender bathrooms in grade schools—arrived far ahead of schedule is that these causes were taken up by liberals and leftists in education, media, the courts, and the entertainment industry. These social transformations occurred not because there were battalions of gay and transgendered troops massed on the borders, but because there were enough willing enablers within the borders. When your gaze is fixed on that sort of objective, it’s very likely you won’t be able to grasp the larger picture. Right now, for example, left-leaning governments in Europe are pursuing ill-advised policies in regard to Islam that will almost surely result in the Islamization of large parts of Europe within a few decades. The triumph of the left in Europe has made the eventual triumph of Islam that much more likely. America seems to be following a similar trajectory and, for that reason, it may not be wise to look at the leftist menace and the Islamist menace as two separate threats—the one immediate and the other remote. The more the left advances in America, the more likely that radical Islam will be one of the main beneficiaries. Islamists and leftists constitute a double threat. This is not to say that the alliance will last forever. At some point, one of the parties will decide that their “useful idiot” allies have served their purpose and can be dispensed with. As Recep Erdogan said in 1998, four years before his Islamist party swept the secularists aside, “Democracy is just the train we board to reach our destination.” Once they have attained sufficient power, Islamists in the West can be counted on to ditch their leftist friends. Editor’s note: The picture above was taken at a January 3, 2009 demonstration in London against Israel by various Palestinian, Muslim, and Leftist groups such as the Socialist Workers Party. In recent months, left wing American academic associations like the American Studies Association and the Modern Language Association have approved boycotts or condemnations of Israel. (Photo credit: Claudia Gabriela Marques Vieira / WikiCommons.)

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	3/23/2014 7:56:35 PM
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Muslims Welcome St. Paul Police Hijab ........................................................................... On Islam ^ \| 3/2/2014 A leading US Muslim advocacy group has welcomed the new policy for Minneapolis’ St. Paul police which allows Muslim policewomen to don Islamic headscarf or hijab. “We congratulate Chief Smith and the St. Paul Police Department for creating a welcoming, inclusive environment for Muslim employees,” CAIR-MN Executive Director Lori Saroya said in a statement obtained by OnIslam on Sunday, March 2. “This decision will enable more Muslim women to consider serving their community through a career in law enforcement.” On Saturday morning, Kadra Mohamed was recognized as the first Somali-American woman to join the St. Paul Police Department. Mohamed was recognized at the police's Western District building during a graduation ceremony for youth who recently completed the East African Junior Police Academy. “It's nerve-wracking in a way,” Mohamed, 21, said of being the first woman of Somali descent in the department, TwinCities.com reported. “I want to be a good role model for others, especially Somali women.” Mohamed said she contacted St. Paul police a few months ago to learn about becoming an officer. She said she expressed concerns over not being able to wear a hijab on duty. In December, the police service in Edmonton, Ontario, approved the option for female officers of Muslim faith to wear a police-issued hijab. St. Paul police Sgt. Tina Kill said St. Paul police contacted the Edmonton police, and they provided input on a hijab suitable for duty -- the final product of which Mohamed wore at Saturday's ceremony. Praising St. Paul’s police move, Saroya said that Muslim women who wear the hijab sincerely believe it is their religious obligation and asking them to remove it is akin to asking them to remove a shirt or other piece of clothing. Though there are no official figures, the United States is believed to be home to nearly seven million Muslims. Islam sees hijab as an obligatory code of dress, not a religious symbol displaying one’s affiliations.

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	4/14/2014 10:43:42 AM
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Where is the feminist anger at Brandeis?: The silence on the Ayaan Hirsi Ali snub is deafening Boston Globe ^ \| 04/14/2014 \| Jeff Jacoby ‘HONOR DIARIES” might not be coming to a theater near you, at least not if CAIR gets its way. The award-winning documentary about “honor” violence against girls and women in much of the Muslim world was released last month in honor of International Women’s Day, and it didn’t take long for the Council on American Islamic Relations to slap its all-purpose “Islamophobic” label on it. The film has been shown in dozens of venues, but CAIR has raised enough of a stink to get screenings cancelled on several college campuses, including the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois. CAIR — a front group for Islamist extremism that masquerades as a civil rights organization (its first executive director, Nihad Awad, was an open supporter of Hamas) — is good at raising stinks. Last week Brandeis University caved in to demands that it rescind its offer of an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a heroic defender of women’s rights in the Islamic world. With a life story that reads like a screenplay, Ali has personally experienced many of the evils she fights, including genital mutilation, forced marriage, and savage “honor” crimes. Her remarkable accomplishments should easily merit the honor of any university that upholds reason and intellectual diversity. But Brandeis apparently has different priorities now, like giving CAIR and the Islamophobia-phobes a veto over honorary degrees. [SNIP] I put that question to Nazie Eftekhari, an immigrant from Iran and another of the women “Honor Diaries” focuses on. A successful Minnesota health care entrepreneur, Eftekhari unhesitatingly describes herself as a “bleeding-heart liberal” and a longtime Democratic Party voter, loyalist, and fund-raiser. She is as mystified as I am. “The biggest human-rights crisis of our generation is the treatment of women in Muslim-majority countries, and we’ve applied a gag order to ourselves,” she replies with unmistakable distress. “We won’t talk about it. Where are my fellow liberals? Where are the feminists?”

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (8235)	5/15/2014 8:07:38 AM
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born critic of Islam who says that Islam mandates a second-class status for women. She restricts her objection not to Sharia, but also Islam itself. She thinks reform may be possible, but receives death threats and is the subject of a Fatwa -- a religious decree that, in her case, commands that she be killed. Hirsi Ali was recently invited to speak at Brandeis University, where she would receive an honorary degree. But after Hirsi Ali received the invitation, the Council on Arab Islamic Relations sent Brandeis a list of "offensive" things Hirsi Ali said about Islam. Brandeis retracted her invitation. The University called some of Hirsi Ali's opinions "inconsistent with Brandeis University's core values." Brandeis had no problem bestowing an honorary degree on playwright Tony Kushner, who admits he has "a problem with the idea of a Jewish state." And Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke at Brandeis despite having characterized Israel as an "apartheid state." Brandeis' tolerance of a variety of opinion, apparently, doesn't apply to those critical of Islam. Townhall.com ^ \| May 15, 2014 \| Larry Elder