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vthomas Posted in group: Groundswell Mar 4, 2013 4:45 PM

CAN we say..... BROWNIE POINT?!!!!

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National Security Brief: Monday, March 4, 2013

March 1, 2013: Sequestration has Just Arrived, But Our Soldiers Lives are Already in Danger
With Sebastian Gorka, Fred Grandy, Bill Gertz, and James Carafano. Rich Miniter guest hosts with co-host Jacki What happens to regional stability when the U.S. acts without,
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when the U.S. acts without, overarching doctrines and strategies? SEBASTIAN GORKA of Foundation for Defense of Democracies and author of Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism, makes the necessary distinctions concerning Syrias war to understand the absence of strategy in the role of the United States and the consequences there of. Former Iowa congressman FRED GRANDY expresses his fear that the $60 million in aid the U.S. is planning on giving to the Syrian rebels is in fact going to the wrong sorts of people. Namely, Islamists who will eventually turn against the United States. BILL GERTZ of The Washington Times explains that because China is going beyond maritime harassment of Japan to actually moving weapons across the, the likelihood of the US getting involved because of our mutual defense treaty with Japan is greatly increasing. On the day that sequestration is set to go into effect, JAMES CARAFANO of the Heritage Foundation predicts that in the long run the US will actually end up spending more on defense. Already military training, and from their preparedness, has been hurt by the budget cuts already made presequestration.

Putting politics over public safety

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. An ominous pattern has been developing, particularly of late: The Obama administration seems determined to subordinate public safety to political expediency. If a course-correction is not effected promptly, the result is predictable. Americans will be needlessly harmed, and perhaps killed. The most recent and obvious example was the release last week of hundreds of reportedly dangerous illegal aliens from federal detention. The rationale given was that the sequestration-dictated budget cuts made their incarceration unaffordable. The White House has disavowed any involvement in this reckless decision. But it was certainly in keeping with the Presidents erstwhile mantra that extremely dire repercussions including the disruption of critical public services would flow from a fiscal train-wreck that he has refused either to acknowledge devising or to stave off.
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Senior Cleric for American Muslim Group: Islamic Punishment for Apostasy is Death
by Translating Jihad

February 28, 2013: Dr. Shakil Afridi: The Forgotten Hero of the Bin Laden Operations
With Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Tom Donnelly, Roger Noriega, and Fred Fleitz

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REP. DANA ROHRABACHER (RCA), on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, reports on his recent diplomatic trip to Asia, and brings to light the plight of Dr. Shakil Afridi who, after playing an essential role in helping U.S. forces find Osama bin Laden, has been languishing in Pakistani prison, abandoned by the country that he aided. AEI Co-Director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies, TOM DONNELLY details Al Qaeda 2.0, how the terrorist organization is far from dead, but morphing and growing to new regions, and explains how a lack of bipartisanship in Washington has led to tomorrows pending budget cuts. ROGER NORIEGA, the founder of interamericansecuritywatch.com, reports on Chavezs return to Venezuela, the communist regime in Cuba, and finally on Hatian President Martellys request to stop financial aid to Haiti. From lignet.com, FRED FLEITZ reveals the inside scoop on Pope Benedict XVIs resignation, and analyzes how nuclear talks with Iran in Kazakhstan are only buying time for the Iranian regime to further develop its nuclear program.

Dr. Hatem al-Haj, a senior committee member for the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), confirmed in the below fatwa from July 2011 that the Islamic punishment for apostasy is death. A couple of things stand out to me about this fatwa. First, this fatwa was taken down from AMJAs website as far back as October 2011, along with other fatwas on the same topic, possibly in response to an article written by my colleague Andrew Bostom exposing the rulings in that same month. (See the fatwa on archive.org, while the link on AMJAs website is broken.) So either AMJA changed their minds about the penalty for apostasy; or, more likely, they just dont want non-Muslims seeing what they really think on controversial topics. If thats the case, then what else are they not telling us? Continue Reading...

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