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GZ Mosque–A Trojan Horse?

by Lon Gibson ~ August 26th, 2010

Six Legit Concerns

In the recent past, Liberals have been eerily silent about the administration’s ignoring First Amendment protections of free speech(intimidating sign carriers and voters) and free press(proposing legislation controlling radio stations content) but now they are vociferously lined up behind President Obama’s impassioned stance supporting the first amendment rights of Imam Rouf to build a Mosque in the shadow of the fallen Twin Towers. Wouldn’t it be nice if they, together with Conservatives, would show that same patriotic passion when President Obama is on the wrong side of the Constitution—which seems to be often? Also, it ought to be recognized at the same time, that there are limits to even First Amendment rights. The right of free speech, for example, does not allow me to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre, nor does my right of free movement allow my fist to intersect with your chin. Many feel strongly that the GZ Mosque is a figurative punch in the face to those 9/11 families. With all the current debate, however, there are some very practical reasons for Americans to be worried not only about the GZ Mosque, but about the many that are proliferating across the United States. Here are six legitimate concerns:

1) Imam Rouf — The impetus behind the building of the GZ Mosque:

Imam Rouf will probably be getting funding for the GZ Mosque from Mid-East Countries sympathetic to extreme Islam objectives. This is obviously an issue because the Saudi’s and other sources are not known for generosity without a price. If they fund it, they are bound, somewhere down the line, to place extremist demands on this mosque, as they have others.

Imam Rouf told U.S. officials that funds would be raised in U.S. but then told Arabs that funds would be raised through Mid Eastern Countries. This contradiction reveals what some feel has been a subversive, two-faced approach to the Imams dealings with America.
Imam Rouf has been on record for years as making statements that sympathize with the extreme Muslim view while at the same time criticizing the U.S. for it’s actions.
Look for the exposition of 13 hours of tapes just discovered featuring Imam Rauf revealing his unfiltered feelings about Americas involvement with the Middle East, his dedication to Wahhabism, a radical interpretation of Muslim practice, and his view of Israel. While his exterior image is moderate, these tapes will reveal he is really “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”. He is not the pro-American unifier he pretends to be.

2) 80% of mosques are now terrorist centers:
It is possible that as many as 80% of mosques in U.S. have become extremist homes for terrorist or extremist thinking. Robert Spencer of the blog, Jihad Watch, reports the following:
“As long ago as January 1999, the Naqshbandi Sufi leader Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani declared in a State Department Open Forum that Islamic supremacists controlled most mosques in America… “… Because they are very active they took over the mosques; and we can say that they took over more than 80% of the mosques that have been established in the US.”
Spencer then quotes an Israeli terrorism “expert”:
“Terrorism expert Yehudit Barsky affirmed the same thing in 2005, saying that 80% of the mosques in this country ‘have been radicalized by Saudi money and influence.’”

Finally, Spencer tells us that Saudi propaganda literature has filled U.S. mosques:
The Center for Religious Freedom found in 2005 a massive distribution of hateful jihadist and Islamic supremacist material in mosques in this country.”

3) The Hamburg experience:
Germany recently closed the Taiba Mosque after discovering that it had been turned into a training center for young terrorists:
“Christoph Ahlhaus, Hamburg’s secretary of the interior, announced Monday: “Today we closed the Taiba mosque because young men were being turned into religious fanatics there. Behind the scenes, a supposed cultural organization shamelessly used the freedoms of our democratic rule of law to promote holy war. Hamburg cannot become a cradle for Islamists capable of violence.”
Yet that is exactly what it was. In March 2009 eleven Islamic jihadists who met in the Taiba mosque went to Pakistan, apparently to attend a jihad training camp. The mosque’s imam, Mamoun Darkazanli, may have aided al-Qaeda – and as the mosque was closed this week, his whereabouts were unknown.
The Hamburg mosque was not singular. In recent years mosques have been used to preach hatred; to spread exhortations to terrorist activity; to house a bomb factory; to store weapons; to disseminate messages from bin Laden; to demand (in the United States) that non-Muslims conform to Islamic dietary restrictions; to fire on American troops; to fire upon Indian troops; to train jihadists; and much more.”

4) The Trend:
There have been increasingly more Muslim attempts at terrorism and Sharia inspired crimes. For more information click onto creeping sharia here.

5) Dalia Mogahed, a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships:
The President’s advisor on the Muslim agenda, Dalia Mogahed speaks about the international Muslim desire to “push” Shariah ideas into the U.S., Britain and other countries. For more information click mediamatters here.

6) Muslim Tradition:
The tradition of Muslims is to build a large mosque whenever they have conquered a city or state. The name Cordova Mosque, as the ground zero mosque would be called, is intentionally symbolic of the Spanish Cordova capture in which in 1200 AD Muslims ravaged Cordova and gave Christians and Jews the choice to either become Muslims or be executed.

Is the GZ Mosque an honest effort to assimilate Muslims into our society, or is it really a modern-day Trojan Horse?

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No Laffing Matter

by Lon Gibson ~ August 15th, 2010

Arthur Laffer is the author of the famous “Laffer Curve” which illustrates how lowering taxes actually increases government revenue, a fact which has completely escaped the current administration. It opposes the tax and spend philosophy of Keynesian economists, a policy clearly demonstrated to ill effect by FDR, Carter and now Obama. Continue reading »

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Patriots and Loyalists

by Lon Gibson ~ August 11th, 2010

With any sense of history, any non-historian can see that not a whole lot has changed in 235 years. As one writer said, the Revolutionary war was not just a war against Britain, but in part, a civil war. In 1776, As many as 20% of the white population were considered Loyalists. They tended to be the wealthy with ties to Britain, or politically tied to England. Some were anti-war and feared tyranny. Amish and Quakers were considered loyalists or neutralists because of their anti-war beliefs. Wealthy merchants tended to remain loyal, as did Anglican ministers, especially in Puritan New England. Loyalists also included some blacks (to whom the British promised freedom), Indians, indentured servants and some German immigrants, who supported the Crown mainly because George III was of German origin. Continue reading »

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Where are the Liberals?

by Lon Gibson ~ August 2nd, 2010

When confronted with the stark reality of the actions of the current administration, Democrat voters run. Not physically, mind you, but they run. They may self-righteously turn away  as if trying to avoid stepping in a doggie memento, or, like so many of their representatives, they may quickly change the subject. But they will never say, “Yes, you know, you are right–I think dismissing the case against the New Black Panther Party after their conviction was imminent, was wrong.” Or, “Yes, I don’t understand either why the administration used scientists signatures on one document and moved them to another in order to fraudulently justify shutting down all drilling in the Gulf”. When Democrats refuse to admit that these actions (along with so many more I could site here) are patently wrong, they become accessories to the ‘crime’, in my view. They trade their honesty for loyalty to a party that has done more fibbing than George Costanza during Ladies Night at Webster Hall. Continue reading »

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Job Killer #1

by Lon Gibson ~ July 20th, 2010

The number 1 job killer in America today is Barack Hussein Obama and his policies. President Obama promised in 2009 that this year….pause for emphasis….would be the year he would focus on JOBS! Half way through 2010, what is the result?

Obama’s ‘heroic’ effort started with a classic dog-and-pony show featuring Obama’s dramatic White House meeting with job “experts”. The invitees were almost all Democrats, most of whom had never had a job in the private sector. Congressional Minority Leader John Boehner, who actually had a successful business for years, was not invited. Continue reading »

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Help Sharron!

by Lon Gibson ~ July 13th, 2010

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Sharron Angle, a housewife who truly has the point of view of the average American, is running this fall against the third most powerful man in our country. Incumbant Nevada Senior Senator and Majority Leader Harry Reid is her opponent for the elections to be held November 2, 2010. The contrast between the two candidates could not be more stark.

Harry Reid represents big government, tax and spend policies, pay-to-play Chicago-style backroom deal politics, obligations to lobbyists and governmental anti-business legislation and all of the other questionable trappings of the current administration. Continue reading »

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Obama’s War on Competition

by Lon Gibson ~ June 24th, 2010

On January 7th 2008 in a stump speech in New Hampshire, Candidate Obama said “I believe in Capitalism, I believe in Free Trade…” See the video here.

Since he has become President of the United States, however, he has done very little to support that statement. In a June 21 2010 Newsmax article Ronald Kessler writes that an effort to stifle competition and require that unionized government employees take over work from private businesses started “just after Obama took office. It is a new phenomenon called ‘in-sourcing.’” Continue reading »

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Failing Economics 101

by Lon Gibson ~ June 17th, 2010

How would you respond to this Yes-or-No statement? “Restrictions on housing development make housing less affordable.” If you answered Yes, you are among the approximately 80% of Republicans or Conservatives that correctly agreed. If you answered No, you are probably a Democrat, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article about a poll by Zogby researchers Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel Klein, a professor of economics at George Mason University.
A predictable 67.6% of self-declared Liberals/Progressives answered “No” to that question in a series of basic economic questions. Of 4,835 American adult respondents, Conservatives and Libertarians correctly answered the list of 8 questions at a higher than 80% rate while Progressives and Liberals correctly scored at a rate less than 30%. Continue reading »

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Runyan Can Kick Butt

by Lon Gibson ~ June 11th, 2010

Ex-Eagle, Jon Runyan, a real-life Paul Bunyan in his own right, won the Republican Primary Tuesday in New Jersey’s third Congressional District.

Newly minted Governor Christie attended Runyan’s victory celebration, a subtle indication of the importance of the upcoming race against incumbent Democrat John Adler in November. I don’t know how involved Governor Christi might have been at the celebration, but if I were the portly Governor I would have been sure to take a seat near the massive 6’9” former offensive lineman. As Rodney Dangerfield said, if you want to look thin, hang out with fat people.

Runyan has a chance to unseat John Adler in a year when every incumbent has a bull’s-eye on his/her back. Runyan also has the Eagle fan-dom advantage. The third district includes parts of Camden, Burlington and Ocean counties, prime Eagle-fan territory.
In year 2000, Runyan signed a 6 year 30million contract with the Eagles and played through his contract without missing a game. His timing has always been excellent, too, having played with two Superbowl teams, the Titans and the Eagles, in the rare year they each made it to the vaunted game. If he wins in November he’ll be well on his way to a third Superbowl….politically speaking. Continue reading »

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Princess Pelosi and her Land of Make-Believe

by Lon Gibson ~ May 25th, 2010

Nancy Pelosi at the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Summit on Capitol Hill told a group Friday, May 14th that because of the new health care reform, they would no longer be “job locked.” Here’s the quote.

“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill,” Pelosi said, “a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”
Just so you know this was not a slip of the tongue, Nancy made a similar statement three months earlier on the Rachel Maddow show. From the Washington Examiner we read:
“From Rachel Maddow’s show last night, here’s a jaw-dropper from the woman who brought you, “We have to pass the bill, so you can find out what’s in it.”
“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.” Continue reading »

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What Budget?

by Lon Gibson ~ May 14th, 2010

Congress is begging for a divorce…..

When Congress is behaving like a social-climbing dead-beat in denial, not paying it’s debts while spending money it doesn’t have, it’s understandable that the last thing it would want to do is create a budget. Creating a budget would force congress to look at it’s spending and wake up to financial reality; to say nothing of the fact that doing so would expose it’s profligate ways to the electorate almost five months before mid-term elections.

We are looking at the most irresponsible Congress in the history of this country. House Democrat leader Steny Hoyer once said that “the most basic responsibility of governing is to pass a budget.” Yet on Thursday May 13th it was revealed that, after months of speculation, Congress has indeed decided to shirk that responsibility. As reported in The Foundry, for the first time since the modern budget process was created in 1974, Congress will likely not pass a budget resolution this year.
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Mounting Currents

by Lon Gibson ~ May 14th, 2010

Incumbent Republican Senator Bob Bennett was “thrown” out of office last Saturday by delegates at the Utah GOP convention. In spite of endorsements by the NRA and Mitt Romney, he was one of the first Moderate Republicans to lose his office in what promises to be a tidal wave of Central and Left house cleaning, so to speak. An emotional Bennett told reporters, choking back tears, “The political atmosphere obviously has been toxic and it’s very clear that some of the votes that I have cast have added to the toxic environment.” His next statement revealed the attitudinal flaw among Congressional representatives which voters are finally rejecting. He said, “with minor exceptions, I wouldn’t have cast any of (votes) any differently even if I had known at the time they were going to cost me my career.”
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