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Senior VP: 'Kudos To My Former Boss, George Soros'"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EObama's career of political activism began in some ways when he met Eileen Hershenov. He graduated from Columbia University, and as David Remnick put it, \"got it into his head to become a community organizer.\" After a brief stint actually working for a living, he answered an ad and joined Ralph Nader's left-wing New York Public Interest Research Group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgHIzSRwDoKJcP6S2FzTn3JIj1am1k_W7AfnUqSZw2E6v8YaKS6jYL7561WhsW2_htsnljrTB7qINl9HQDPRa31-XOiYLBrOipVOgjtVML7anKU8tTVi-lg-WkWSGx8GETG53T99hllOf2H2KSa45lw-VKjoNtHTbfUoPvXq4Nw4VhQLv2JRM8=s1608\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"905\" data-original-width=\"1608\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgHIzSRwDoKJcP6S2FzTn3JIj1am1k_W7AfnUqSZw2E6v8YaKS6jYL7561WhsW2_htsnljrTB7qINl9HQDPRa31-XOiYLBrOipVOgjtVML7anKU8tTVi-lg-WkWSGx8GETG53T99hllOf2H2KSa45lw-VKjoNtHTbfUoPvXq4Nw4VhQLv2JRM8=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EHis supervisor at the time, Eileen Hershenov, describes having \"some really engaged conversations about models of organizing\". After a year, Hershenov pleaded with him to stay, \"I asked him if it would help if I got on my knees and begged--and so I did,\" but Obama moved on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo did Hershenov who went on to become the general counsel for the Open Society Foundations, serving \"as chief legal officer for one of the nation’s largest private foundations and for the global network of 40 foreign affiliates founded by financier\/philanthropist George Soros.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHacked emails from the Open Society Foundations show that it \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/hacked-soros-e-mails-reveal-plans-to-fight-israels-racist-policies-464149\"\u003Ebragged\u003C\/a\u003E of its successes in “challenging Israel’s racist and anti-democratic policies” in international forums. By then Hershenov was no longer affiliated with the Soros network, but she appears to be unrepentant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese days, she “oversees” the ADL’s  “policy, program and civil rights work” as the former Jewish organization’s Senior Vice President for Democracy Initiatives. Hershenov was a recent hire who was brought on board during the Jonathan Greenblatt era. Greenblatt, the ADL’s new leader, was a veteran of the Obama administration who has been accused of jettisoning its focus on the Jewish community and Israel in favor of playing the identity politics of the Left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo single executive may embody the new ADL better than Hershenov who mentored Obama when he was just starting out and proudly worked for George Soros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I think I never really understood before as well as I do now that the fight for an open society will never ever end. Kudos to my former boss, George Soros,” she recently declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, Hershenov “oversees ADL’s civil rights team, its government relations and community engagement team, the Silicon Valley-based Center for Technology and Society” as well as \"the Civil Society Fellowship (a partnership of ADL and the Aspen Institute).\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/organizations\/aspen-institute-ai\"\u003EAspen Institute\u003C\/a\u003E has received significant support from Soros. The Center for Technology and Society \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/01\/adl-took-175-million-funder-alt-left-anti-semitism-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eis funded by\u003C\/a\u003E Pierre Omidyar, the Franco-Persian eBay founder who also funds The Intercept which regularly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/01\/adl-took-175-million-funder-alt-left-anti-semitism-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Egushes defenses for antisemitism\u003C\/a\u003E and terrorism against Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL's Center of Technology and Society board of tech experts\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/ngos\/avaaz\/\"\u003E include\u003C\/a\u003E Eli Pariser, the board president of MoveOn and a co-founder of Avaaz. Avaaz, which is also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/reports\/19\/\"\u003ESoros backed\u003C\/a\u003E, promoted BDS and teamed up with JVP: an anti-Israel hate group that hosted a murderous terrorist, and an anti-Israel activist who claimed that Jews drank Christian blood and republished a bizarre claim that “the Zionists who created Israel and still run it are descended from the Khazars.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is the sort of thing that any Jewish organization or any civil rights group concerned with antisemitism ought to be condemning, instead of collaborating with and rewarding. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the old ADL, flawed as it was, is largely defunct. Like so much of the old liberal institutional infrastructure, it's being sucked into the black hole money machines of billionaire activists like Soros and Omidyar who have destroyed liberalism and replaced it with their radical politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s why Eileen Hershenov, who boasts of working for Soros, a lead funder of anti-Israel groups, who has blamed antisemitism on Jews, is now in a key position at a group fighting antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt least on paper. The ADL spends more time on everything else, including defending Soros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If your favorite politician is attacking George Soros,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL boss warned at the former Jewish group’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/01\/adls-soros-hamas-and-hitler-anti-israel-conference-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ENever is Now 2018\u003C\/a\u003E conference, “you must stand up and tell them to stop. And do so even if they profess love for Israel up and down.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf only the ADL defended Jews and Israel half as vigorously as it defends George Soros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce upon a time the ADL had condemned Soros’ antisemitism. When Soros blamed antisemitism on Jews, Abe Foxman, the ADL’s former leader, had denounced Soros' comments as \"absolutely obscene.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut at the new ADL, you are expected to pledge allegiance to Soros and to place him above the Jewish community or the Jewish state. The ADL has more pages defending Soros than it does defending Jewish students facing leftist and Islamist antisemitism on college campuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not just Hershenov.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL's partnership with the Aspen Society has produced the Civil Society Fellowship whose fellows include Julie McCarthy, a leader in the Open Society Foundations’ Economic Justice Program, the Open Society Foundation’s Fiscal Governance Program, and the Open Society Foundations’ Revenue Watch Program. Another Soros network retread, Danielle Keats Citron, who serves as a board member for the Center on Technology and Society and on the ADL's Task Force on Hate Speech \u0026amp; Journalism had reviewed grants for the Open Society Institute.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreenblatt, the head of the ADL, had come through the Aspen Institute where he founded the Impact Economy Initiative. Soros is an\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/publication\/george-soross-two-left-hands\/\"\u003E Aspen backer\u003C\/a\u003E, but the specific initiative was backed by the Rockefeller Foundation. Greenblatt’s wife, Marjan Keypour Greenblatt, is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute which used to be a centerpiece of the Arab Lobby’s anti-Israel push. (Due to the Abraham Accords, the MEI is still hostile, but somewhat less so.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s unsurprising that Greenblatt and his allies are remaking the ADL into just another of the interchangeable leftist groups looking for handouts from Soros, Omidyar, the Rockefellers, Buffets, Gates and others that have hijacked and are controlling American politics and society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitutional capture is an ongoing process. Greenblatt joined the ADL in 2014. Hershenov came on board in 2018. The recent \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/01\/adl-hires-director-jewish-outreach-who-hates-jews-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Econtroversial hiring of Tema Smith\u003C\/a\u003E as Director of Jewish Outreach, despite tweeting, \"Jews have to be ok with Palestinians explaining why some turn to terrorism\", and the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/world\/adl-definition-of-racism-that-specifies-discrimination-by-white-people-comes-under-fire-3Ejg3YgPZLLmZsjGKlCeTV\"\u003Eredefinition of racism \u003C\/a\u003Eto exclude Jews are just the latest in a series of ADL betrayals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the ADL bemoans conspiracy theories about Soros (much more so than conspiracy theories about Israel or Jews) there is no denying the fact that what used to be an open society is closing in no small part due to his Open Society networks. Soros is not alone in this regard, he is one of a number of wealthy men of various ethnicities and backgrounds who have managed to centralize public policy through chains of non-profits in much the same way that tech industry monopolies like Amazon and Google have centralized our culture and economy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat’s happening to the ADL is what has happened to countless Jewish, Christian and non-sectarian organizations that were once liberal and are now just leftist fronts. What the Soviet Union failed to accomplish in its infiltrations, two generations of activists backed by powerful and wealthy men have done by turning every liberal group into the same front.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ACLU no longer believes in free speech, the Sierra Club no longer favors limiting immigration to protect the environment, Planned Parenthood casually tosses aside its founder, and the ADL no longer defends Jewish civil rights. Indeed Hershenov condemned the Supreme Court for intervening in Gov. Cuomo’s persecution of Jews and Christians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe vast majority of former liberal groups all say the same things and have interlinked leaderships. The only difference between them is which side of the street they’re working.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same convoluted road that saw Hershenov and Obama briefly intersect before going through Soros, that saw the top ADL executive work for Soros and then for an Obama administration member is no coincidence. The Left looks big, but it’s actually very small. The massive numbers of organizations with their own letterheads, sites, and petitions belie how much money is spent manufacturing these organizational illusions of political scale.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of this is a massive political potemkin village. The ADL is now just another false front staffed by radicals, detached from its original purpose, and existing only to serve a common agenda of manufacturing the myth that a small leftist elite should be able to speak for all Americans.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4223043091195900530\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/adl-senior-vp-kudos-to-my-former-boss.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4223043091195900530"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4223043091195900530"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/adl-senior-vp-kudos-to-my-former-boss.html","title":"ADL Senior VP: 'Kudos To My Former Boss, George Soros'"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgHIzSRwDoKJcP6S2FzTn3JIj1am1k_W7AfnUqSZw2E6v8YaKS6jYL7561WhsW2_htsnljrTB7qINl9HQDPRa31-XOiYLBrOipVOgjtVML7anKU8tTVi-lg-WkWSGx8GETG53T99hllOf2H2KSa45lw-VKjoNtHTbfUoPvXq4Nw4VhQLv2JRM8=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4206399654658612158"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-09T01:18:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-09T01:18:05.629-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Minnesota"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Somali"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"$200 Million in Minnesota Somali Welfare Fraud Paid for Trips to Mecca"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EFeeding Our Future, the Minnesota food charity sponsor whose offices have been raided by the FBI over allegations of massive fraud that some estimates have placed in the hundreds of millions of dollars, claimed that it wants to make \"the world a better place for all\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiNn_MyPbcCZdoxw9-bquLQptJacrbsiq3-DiuAdkLzuuB3uFfQFECmL0BGTn1nDb1WMQA2SSMxHI7ZwcjDZg7Mi9S5S6FW8QGzvjqm_yITopi4_0O3VeHqJASNBaXlx9JwAsPMl8kMVrZ4MbIP3pE5oVWvC9KoqB6HR-Vty8Al77edZr7Vn_U=s653\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"424\" data-original-width=\"653\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiNn_MyPbcCZdoxw9-bquLQptJacrbsiq3-DiuAdkLzuuB3uFfQFECmL0BGTn1nDb1WMQA2SSMxHI7ZwcjDZg7Mi9S5S6FW8QGzvjqm_yITopi4_0O3VeHqJASNBaXlx9JwAsPMl8kMVrZ4MbIP3pE5oVWvC9KoqB6HR-Vty8Al77edZr7Vn_U=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E10 members of FOF's staff boast of speaking Somali, others of Arabic and related languages often spoken by Muslim minorities, but only 3 speak Spanish and only 1 knows Chinese. The organization's Manager of Operations, Food Program Coordinators Manager, Food Program Support Manager, and multiple administrators, all appear to be Somali.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe contact page is decorated with a photo of a woman in a hijab chowing down on a burger.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pandemic destroyed lives, hundreds of thousands died, millions lost their businesses and jobs, but a great river of government money flowed to those who knew how to play the game.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs The Counter \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thecounter.org\/fbi-investigate-alleged-fraud-federal-child-nutrition-dollars-feeding-our-future-minnesota\/\"\u003Enotes\u003C\/a\u003E, “In the early months of the pandemic, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) acted quickly to loosen rules governing how child nutrition programs had to operate. Gone were the strict nutrition guidelines, the group dining requirements, and the in-person inspections. Instead, the agency focused on cutting red tape as part of a broad effort to keep snacks and meals accessible to hungry families while mitigating the spread of Covid-19.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thecounter.org\/fbi-investigate-alleged-fraud-federal-child-nutrition-dollars-feeding-our-future-minnesota\/\"\u003E$3.4 million\u003C\/a\u003E in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile there may be some hungry Somali Muslim kids in the Gopher State, $197 million would buy them all meals at five-star steakhouses before jetting them away from the snow to Vegas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to a lawyer for Aimee Bock, FOF's founder, who isn't Somali, but whose lawyer previously represented a Somali ISIS recruit, \"all Ms. Bock did was feed children.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2022\/02\/in-free-lunch-food-fraud-the-case-laid-out.php\"\u003Eover 200 FBI agents\u003C\/a\u003E converged on the offices of various non-profits, their search warrants \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/crime\/feeding-our-future-under-federal-investigation-for-alleged-misuse-of-funds\/89-2ff1a8b4-1535-4031-8a26-faf21e151fce\"\u003Eclaimed that\u003C\/a\u003E the Somali aid groups received \"tens of millions of dollars\" but that \"almost none of this money was used to feed children.\" The FOF’s Minneapolis offices were near the Somali Abu Huraira mosque and not far from a multitude of Somali community organizations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome of the money allegedly went to Bock and her boyfriend, Empress Malcolm Watson Jr., apparently a bail bondsman tracking wanted fugitives, who had previously been arrested for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.co.wright.mn.us\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=607\u0026amp;ARC=1084\"\u003Edomestic violence\u003C\/a\u003E, and whose construction company received $600,000 from her non-profit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only client listed on its site has the first name, “Aimee”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billglahn\"\u003EBill Glahn\u003C\/a\u003E, a reporter for American Experiment who \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/tracking-the-alleged-feeding-our-future-scandal\/\"\u003Ehas been investigating\u003C\/a\u003E the case, noted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billglahn\/status\/1485034552519241729\"\u003Ethat \u003C\/a\u003EEmpress Malcolm Watson, Jr. \"has an impressively long list of encounters with local law enforcement. 4 felony convictions, one for theft by swindle and one for domestic assault\" which is even bigger than the rap sheet of his revered father, Empress Malcolm Watson, Sr.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom there it gets quite complicated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, a Feeding Our Future employee, according to the FBI documents, controlled multiple target premises, opened over 20 bank accounts in the name of his various entities, and \"solicited and received kickbacks\" from the groups receiving child nutrition cash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to Feeding Our Future, the organization's \"extensive knowledge of the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program\" helped \"child and adult care programs maximize their reimbursement\". These were the groups on whose behalf it acted as a sponsor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFeeding Our Future was getting a 10% administrative fee off the top. But that wasn’t enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESafari Restaurant, which boasts \"traditional Somali cuisine\" like french fries and safari chicken quesadilla, where \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/omar-paid-thousands-by-restaurant-accused-of-stealing-money-intended-to-feed-starving-children\/\"\u003ERep. Ilhan Omar\u003C\/a\u003E had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/history-between-ilhan-omar-and-safari-restaurant-goes-back-years\/\"\u003Ecelebrated her victory party\u003C\/a\u003E, applied to participate in the Federal Child Nutrition program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the money was denied, Feeding Our Future complained that \"minority-owned businesses serving almost exclusively economically disadvantaged children of color\" were being denied the right to serve \"culturally relevant foods\" to \"youth\" during a \"national emergency\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECrying racism worked and at its peak Safari \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/tales-from-the-free-lunch-fraud-search-warrants\/\"\u003Eclaimed\u003C\/a\u003E to be feeding\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/556425503\/22-mj-040#fullscreen\u0026amp;from_embed\"\u003E 6,000 children\u003C\/a\u003E a day. That's a lot of children. Documents note that the Somali eatery claimed to be serving a comparable number of meals to \"the entire St. Paul public school district.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESafari was just one of the many providers who claimed to be feeding thousands of children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGlahn in American Experiment found\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/minnesota-moves-to-shut-down-a-2nd-free-food-network\/\"\u003E that\u003C\/a\u003E, “Feeding Our Future had 312 authorized sites for the program, approved for a maximum of 126,000 children.” That’s a lot of hungry Somali kids.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOliver Twist, eat your heart out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/behind-the-numbers-in-the-alleged-feeding-our-future-scandal\/\"\u003Enoted\u003C\/a\u003E that, “Five of the sites are religious centers.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Feds staked out various Feeding Our Future meal sites and found no one at the places that were supposed to be feeding 50,000 children. According to the FBI, the money being stolen wasn't used to feed children, it went into various shell companies and fronts operated by Somalis and was used to buy everything from a Porsche to African properties.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2022\/01\/21\/fbi-raids-twin-cities-businesses-suspected-of-massive-fraud-in-child-food-programs\/\"\u003E to the\u003C\/a\u003E Twin Cities Pioneer Press, S\u0026amp;S Catering led by Qamar Ahmed Hassan received $13.8 million in federal funds. The FBI warrants \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2022\/02\/in-free-lunch-fraud-before-the-raids.php\"\u003Enote that\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Qamar Ahmed Hassan wrote approximately $27,000 in checks from S\u0026amp;S Catering bank accounts... to Amax Travel, a travel agency that specializes in Haji travel packages.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHaji is the Islamic obligation for every Muslim to visit their holy city of Mecca.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmax offers trips to the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina, that non-Muslims are banned from entering, five-star hotels, and tours led by Imams.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the non-profits associated with FOF, Stigma-Free International, was incorporated by Minneapolis City Council Member \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sahanjournal.com\/news\/feeding-our-future-fraud-allegations-minnesota-search-warrants-investigation-faq\/\"\u003EJamal Osman\u003C\/a\u003E. The Somali politician is a political ally of Rep. Ilhan Omar and has been photographed with her. He had previously been featured in a Project Veritas undercover investigation which appeared \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/27\/project-veritas-uncovers-ballot-harvesting-fraud-in-minnesota\/\"\u003Eto show his brother \u003C\/a\u003E\"rifling through piles of ballots strewn across his dashboard\" and declaring, “just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe man in question had also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/nation-world\/conservative-group-says-voter-fraud-is-taking-place-in-minnesota\"\u003Eallegedly worked\u003C\/a\u003E on Omar’s political campaign.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe scale and scope of the alleged fraud is as vast as the network that perpetrated it. The FBI warrants list numerous people, the vast majority of them Somali Muslims, a dizzying variety of non-profits that received the money, and a wide variety of destinations for the cash. The fraud was lubricated by false accusations of racism and discrimination by FOF and its recepients. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the initial controversy, a video in support of Feeding Our Future at the Safari resteurant featured numerous local politicians, including Senator Omar Fateh, the first Somali Muslim in the state senate, who had been backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Deputy District Director for Rep. Ilhan Omar \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2022\/01\/21\/political-fallout-from-charity-raid-begins-to-unfold\/\"\u003Egave\u003C\/a\u003E what was described as an \"impassioned speech\" declaring, “This community is tired. It’s tired of the bulls—\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s Americans who have every right to be tried.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpen borders migration is not feeding our future. It’s stealing our future away.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4206399654658612158\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/200-million-in-minnesota-somali-welfare.html#comment-form","title":"11 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4206399654658612158"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4206399654658612158"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/200-million-in-minnesota-somali-welfare.html","title":"$200 Million in Minnesota Somali Welfare Fraud Paid for Trips to Mecca"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiNn_MyPbcCZdoxw9-bquLQptJacrbsiq3-DiuAdkLzuuB3uFfQFECmL0BGTn1nDb1WMQA2SSMxHI7ZwcjDZg7Mi9S5S6FW8QGzvjqm_yITopi4_0O3VeHqJASNBaXlx9JwAsPMl8kMVrZ4MbIP3pE5oVWvC9KoqB6HR-Vty8Al77edZr7Vn_U=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"11"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6212465048559023355"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-07T23:57:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-08T01:04:56.214-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"universities"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Ilya Shapiro Case Exposes Georgetown's Racism Double Standards"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EGeorgetown University professor C. Christine Fair tweeted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/10\/01\/georgetown-professor-white-republicans-castrated\/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller\u0026amp;utm_source=Twitter\u0026amp;utm_medium=Social\"\u003Ethat\u003C\/a\u003E \"white men\" who defend Justice Kavanaugh, “deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps” and then “we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRkDzyWbEV-HM6Iyg-Lb6YaCP1FRJxMzeDEoshQSmJJbMOZuJEH_uZCvQYjiU1rJxWcymSaA9waMcbJc0ZBhZm8XLuGNyQFvQ9D8uV3VrjCOx3oGC0FyJfRHVAPdr2mdzXpUVl0aAdSoTs5I9XXb1E9KikDfEHMDYnv1PKmCsx3e-_IFjcPao\/s615\/image_2022-02-07_205727.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"382\" data-original-width=\"615\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRkDzyWbEV-HM6Iyg-Lb6YaCP1FRJxMzeDEoshQSmJJbMOZuJEH_uZCvQYjiU1rJxWcymSaA9waMcbJc0ZBhZm8XLuGNyQFvQ9D8uV3VrjCOx3oGC0FyJfRHVAPdr2mdzXpUVl0aAdSoTs5I9XXb1E9KikDfEHMDYnv1PKmCsx3e-_IFjcPao\/s320\/image_2022-02-07_205727.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn response, Georgetown helpfully clarified that Fair's belief that white men who support due process should be killed and castrated were “not the views of the University\", but pointed out that, “our policy does not prohibit speech based on the person presenting ideas or the content of those ideas, even when those ideas may be difficult, controversial or objectionable.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgetown’s law school took a very different position after law professor Ilya Shapiro tweeted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2022\/01\/majority-dems-and-nonwhites-want-biden-consider-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ecriticism\u003C\/a\u003E of Biden’s decision, one opposed by 76% of Americans, including a majority of Democrats and non-whites, to only consider black women for the Supreme Court.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShapiro correctly pointed out that choosing a Supreme Court Justice based on race would lead to a lesser choice. As the vast majority of Americans, Democrats and minorities, agree. But Georgetown, which did not suspend a professor calling for the murder and castration of white men, decided that the constitutional professor’s speech had to be condemned and prohibited.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShapiro, who was to lead the law school's Constitutional Law Center, got a lesson in how Georgetown views free speech and academic freedom, when it placed him on administrative leave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDean William Treanor described Shapiro’s tweets as “appalling” and insisted that they, “are at odds with everything we stand for at Georgetown Law and are damaging to the culture of equity and inclusion that Georgetown Law is building every day.” Here’s what that culture looks like.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPreston Mitchum, an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prestonmitchum\/status\/889165691529637888\"\u003Etweeted\u003C\/a\u003E,  “Yes, ALL white people are racist. Yes, ALL men are sexist. Yes, ALL cis people are transphobic.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was no condemnation, let alone a suspension of Mitchum from Georgetown Law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDean William Treanor had no thoughts on Mitchum \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prestonmitchum\/status\/1134996946635165697?lang=en\"\u003Etweeting\u003C\/a\u003E, “White men are violent. Period” or, lest there be any ambiguity about his racism, also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prestonmitchum\/status\/1282811645455216641\"\u003Etweet\u003C\/a\u003Eing, “White people are evil.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHelpfully, Mitchum also tweeted, “White people don’t determine what’s racist.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI reached out to Dean Treanor and Georgetown’s press office to ask whether they would be taking any action against Mitchum, but there has been no response. Apparently declaring that  “white people are evil”, “all white people are racist” and “white men are violent” is wholly in accord with Georgetown’s culture of equity and inclusion. And its academic interests.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn, \"The Dangers of White Spaces\", Bryce Huebner, a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown, inveighs against everything from \"Google's white background\" to \"white spaces, spaces constructed around white bodies” not to mention “white values”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If white people are not a ‘real’ group, then there is nothing to work to preserve,\" he argues, and nothing that makes white people \"all white aside from an oppressive ideology.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Georgetown Library promotes, \"Decentering Whiteness in the Classroom\", while the Reading Race Book Club at the university offers, \"The Whiteness of Wealth\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne day Georgetown will save time by putting up a sign, “No Whites Allowed.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat brand of racist academic discourse isn’t unusual at Georgetown University or throughout academia where papers and talks now routinely read and sound like Hitler speeches.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe existence of white people explains every ill from obesity to global warming to inequality. The only rational conclusion to be drawn from this sort of academic discourse is that if white people were to vanish tomorrow, or be eliminated, the world would immediately become a utopia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch like Mitchum and Fair’s rants, none of this is at all out of step with Georgetown’s values.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe racist double standard here is glaringly obvious. Even the mildest criticism of the racist idea that candidates for the highest court in the land should be selected based on their race meets with furious condemnation and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/fire-statement-on-georgetowns-suspension-and-investigation-of-ilya-shapiro\/\"\u003Ean unlawful suspension\u003C\/a\u003E of a respected constitutional expert.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile, even the most vicious rhetoric from faculty members about how much they hate white people, men, Republicans, and everyone who is different than they are, is fine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgetown University's Faculty handbook claims that it \"is committed to free and open inquiry, deliberation and debate in all matters” and the “untrammeled verbal and nonverbal expression of ideas” and insists that it gives all \"members of the University community, including faculty, students, and staff, the broadest possible latitude to speak.\" Except on affirmative action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s understandable that Georgetown Law is sensitive on the issue of affirmative action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, the law school purged two adjunct professors, Sandra Sellers and David Batson, after the former complained that black students were lagging in her classes and the latter for not objecting, and noting that, \"What drives me crazy is...the concept of how that plays out in whether that is my own perceptions playing in here with certain people' or 'my own unconscious biases playing out in the scheme of things.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETreanor declared himself to be “appalled” and their heads rolled while the issue of affirmative action elevating students who weren’t ready went unaddressed to everyone’s detriment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgetown has an Office of Affirmative Action Programs, and an Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action, but awkwardly, black graduate rates continue to lag behind white graduation rates. And no amount of critical race theory racism seems to help.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdmitting students who are less likely to succeed doesn’t help them, it hurts them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVirtue signaling doesn’t actually help black people. Police defunding and support for the racist nationalism of Black Lives Matter led to the deaths of thousands of more black people. Affirmative action pushes black students into colleges where they are more likely to fail. That’s not because black students are intellectually inferior, but because they’re not selected for merit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same is true, to some degree, of legacy admissions. It’s why the USC fraud cases did not produce stellar students. When you use a criteria other than academics for an academic setting, the results, whether it’s hiring politicians as professors or picking students based on race, will always be worse than they would have been in an honest system that rewards merit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd no amount of censorship, suspensions, firings, or critical race theory will change that truth.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6212465048559023355\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/ilya-shapiros-case-exposes-georgetown.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6212465048559023355"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6212465048559023355"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/ilya-shapiros-case-exposes-georgetown.html","title":"The Ilya Shapiro Case Exposes Georgetown's Racism Double Standards"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5758263491434689627"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-05T23:00:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-05T23:00:46.210-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"censorship"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Only Ones Banning Books are Critical Race Theorists"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003EAfter spending the last few years banning Dr. Seuss and literally\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/jk-rowling-books-burned-tiktok-transgender-issues-1532330#:~:text=A%20new%20TikTok%20trend%20has,placed%20on%20a%20burning%20pyre.\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #801717; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003Eburning\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003Ecopies of Harry Potter novels in bonfires, and\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-44604844\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #801717; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003Edenouncing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003Eclassic children’s literature like\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003ELittle House on the Prairie\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003Eand\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/02\/why-left-cant-tell-honest-working-class-dirt-daniel-greenfield\/\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #801717; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EMary Poppins\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003Eas racist, leftists are now accusing conservatives of “banning books”.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEifo5cIdiP_UqOyE6si0nq4AXjhbWm0bYv38Ke59pLmjIDI3iSv-v4tlqSvxbDg2nxY0aVsFHRCMpOh-Dr1QeFV1nTiZYTEZMyhwXJli9QA1tfEBUer7VyippqW4ILafwfv3vqdYY_5R68mSVtmChkReoEv5H8ZjyUWyS-I_VrICp_XWqF8nOg=s2560\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2560\" data-original-width=\"1952\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEifo5cIdiP_UqOyE6si0nq4AXjhbWm0bYv38Ke59pLmjIDI3iSv-v4tlqSvxbDg2nxY0aVsFHRCMpOh-Dr1QeFV1nTiZYTEZMyhwXJli9QA1tfEBUer7VyippqW4ILafwfv3vqdYY_5R68mSVtmChkReoEv5H8ZjyUWyS-I_VrICp_XWqF8nOg=s320\" width=\"244\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen a Minnesota school district\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/373260-minnesota-school-district-drops-huckleberry-finn-to-kill-a\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #801717;\"\u003Eremoved\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003ETo Kill A Mockingbird\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;from its curriculum because it made students \"uncomfortable\", the NAACP, which has been trying to ban Huck since at least\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/banned-adventures-huckleberry-finn\/\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #801717;\"\u003Ethe 50s\u003C\/a\u003E, cheered. So did the media which celebrated the effort to remove \"racist language\" that “triggered students of color” from the classroom.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThe removal of Mark Twain's authentically anti-racist masterpiece was carried out by anti-racists in school districts from Burbank, California to Lawrence, Kansas. In 2016, a Virginia school district, now at the center of media fear mongering about book bans after parents succeeded in reclaiming schools from CRT bosses, banned both books because of all the \"racial slurs\".\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003ENow the censors want to reclaim the mantle of free speech. The media, which described school districts “removing” or “replacing” books on reading lists when leftists were doing it, now calls the removal of books, whether they’re racist critical race theory texts or\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EMaus\u003C\/em\u003E, as “bans”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EMuch like erstwhile liberals went from celebrating Jefferson and Lincoln to toppling their statues, their educational counterparts who had once vocally championed Huck and Mockingbird, and shouted down any effort to keep them out of the classroom, now just as vocally want them out and replaced with the deranged hateful ravings of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhQ2tHjST8K9xhcjeUbdc7RlmfIwyzktk6i1ziuXu5TYB9RkXPmdm8KmmLRcItGrSC3E7L9s88Sul1f2yNl5llYjJ_0YVp78EwgrLH-yu579aTymzPfmsaDcjCreZYXam9J-DHJHd7eTZgdCmctty--8kNodq4yf_KkwzCvVGUL7mR9P-JNMlI=s1653\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1481\" data-original-width=\"1653\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhQ2tHjST8K9xhcjeUbdc7RlmfIwyzktk6i1ziuXu5TYB9RkXPmdm8KmmLRcItGrSC3E7L9s88Sul1f2yNl5llYjJ_0YVp78EwgrLH-yu579aTymzPfmsaDcjCreZYXam9J-DHJHd7eTZgdCmctty--8kNodq4yf_KkwzCvVGUL7mR9P-JNMlI=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EYet instead of being honest about that (or anything else), they duck into a phone booth, doff their censor togs and dress up as free speech crusaders, and then rush back and throw off their free speech tights to go back to burning books. Even by the standards of a movement that is so pathologically Orwellian that it describes protests against vaccine mandates as “authoritarian”, this is a bit much. But the only books they believe should be in school are those whose politics they like, at any given moment, before deciding that they’re hate speech and purging them.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003ERemoving books from a school curriculum isn’t a ban. If it is, then lefties have been banning books forever. It’s not just Huck Finn, there’s hardly a single classic book that hasn’t been denounced for thoughtcrimes.\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Wind in the Willows\u003C\/em\u003E? Rarcist. Narnia? Islamophobic.\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Lord of the Rings\u003C\/em\u003E? Also racist. Any book written by a white man? Systemically racist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003ERecently, a university added a trigger warning to\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003E1984\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eby George Orwell.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThe worst offenders are the proponents of critical race theory, now suddenly crying about censorship, when they had been urging schools, publishers, and readers to stop buying, publishing, and displaying books by white men in the name of racial and gender equity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EA few years ago they were touting a proposal that every racist illiterate stop reading books by white men for a year. You can still find headlines like, \"I Read Books by Only Minority Authors for a Year\" from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EWashington Post\u003C\/em\u003E, and more explicit posts at book sites like, \"Why I'm No Longer Reading Books by White Men\", \"A Year of No White Men\", \"The Year I Stopped Reading White People\". The crybullies at Goodreads, which is to young adult books what TikTok is to videos of crying teens changing gender on camera, bullied publishers into canceling books and forced writers to unpublish their own books to the wild applause of the media.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003ENow lefties are subjecting us to their self-righteous pearl clutching about censoring books.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EParents have a right to determine what their children are reading in school. They have an absolute right to reject the real racism of Ta-Nehisi Coates or Ibram X. Kendi, who dehumanize white people as a group, or, for that matter,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003C\/em\u003E, if they don’t want their children reading racial slurs, or\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EMaus\u003C\/em\u003E, if they don’t want them exposed to curse words. Parents don’t need a ‘good reason’ to keep a book off the reading list. Being the parents of their children is good enough to give them veto power over what their children are taught.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EBut there is a world of difference between taking a book out of a school and banning it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EWhen you harass publishers and authors into removing a book from sale, you’re banning the book. When you pull classic books from sale and then ban their resale, as the Seuss Foundation did, under pressure, and eBay chose to do on its own, that is an actual book ban.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EPeople who believe that men can become women by wishing hard enough have the right to burn their own copies of Harry Potter, but there’s no mistaking the message of hate and intimidation that sends. There’s a reason the Nazis loved burning books. It’s an act of violence that serves as a temporary substitute for destroying the authors and readers behind them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EAnyone can and should be able to read any book they want. The proponents of critical race theory are the biggest opponents of that idea. They don’t just want books they dislike out of schools, but they want them removed entirely from existence. That’s why they don’t just refuse to read them, or even just burn them, they pressure publishers into eliminating them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThey don’t just do this because they hate the books themselves, but as a show of power.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EBooks have been banned for a whole lot less than racial slurs or accurately describing the world as it was at the time. Beloved classic children’s books like\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EWind in the Willows\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;had messages read into them. Racial lenses have been placed over classics like\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003ELord of the Rings\u003C\/em\u003E. And contemporary teen books were forced out of existence for the mere crime of having ‘black’ or ‘slave’ in the title even when they were set in fantasy kingdoms and had nothing to do with race.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThis Salem Witch Trial of literature isn’t even about the context of the text, but the hateful power of the social justice censors who are getting high on the fumes from the burning paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EAfter all this, the book burners, statue topplers, and crowdsourced censors suddenly want to act like they’re the champions of free speech because parents don’t want critical racist texts, underage pornography, and the other garbage that the Left currently champions (before deciding a decade from now that it also needs to be banned) taught to their children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThe old liberals of the ACLU had some personal credibility when attacking censorship, the postmodern identity politics leftists who live and breathe censorship have less than none.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EMuch of lefty politics is built on wearing liberal skins and echoing liberal ideas in between illiberal bouts of destroying everything they don’t approve of and demanding that everyone swear allegiance to their politics. Sometimes it fools the declining population of Boomer liberals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EJust ask Obama.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThe very last people who should ever don the mantle of free speech are critical race theorists who believe that everything is racist and should be banned unless it was made by them. They are obsessed with “whiteness” in architecture, art, and literature the way the Nazis were obsessed with finding trace elements of Jewishness in Einstein’s theories and Strauss waltzes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EBanning books isn’t just something you do: it’s central to how you think of the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EParents trying to determine what books their children are exposed to aren’t trying to control the world, but critical race theory is concerned not with individuals, but all of society. Leftists believe that they should control not just what they read, but what everyone reads and believes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThis is the authoritarian totalitarian impulse that moves them to both ban and compel books.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EReading to them is not an individual choice, but a collective one. The mass production of books and the transformation of reading from a public activity to a private one made individualism possible. Even in totalitarian societies, people smuggled books and read them secretly. In those stolen hours, seeing words by candle light, they won the freedom of the soul.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EToday, Big Tech and their Big Publisher allies want people reading on Kindles and on digital platforms where books are not truly owned, but allocated by digital rights management lurking in the cloud which can delete any book at any time, making its words and the ones and zeros behind them disappear. Turning a private act into a public one, controlled by monopolies, and policed by the politically correct is a technosocial ecosystem that destroys individual reading.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003ECritical race theory proponents are coming for our books, they’re coming for our culture, and our souls, and even as they burn and loot our intellectual heritage, they claim to be the victims.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EIn a perversity that would have stunned even Orwell and Swift, the book burners claim that they’re fighting censorship, the censors insist that they’re defending themselves against painful words, and the racists declare that they’re imposing racism in the name of anti-racism.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EAnd if you doubt that they’re the victims, they’ll burn you too.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5758263491434689627\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/the-only-ones-banning-books-are.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5758263491434689627"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5758263491434689627"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/the-only-ones-banning-books-are.html","title":"The Only Ones Banning Books are Critical Race Theorists"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEifo5cIdiP_UqOyE6si0nq4AXjhbWm0bYv38Ke59pLmjIDI3iSv-v4tlqSvxbDg2nxY0aVsFHRCMpOh-Dr1QeFV1nTiZYTEZMyhwXJli9QA1tfEBUer7VyippqW4ILafwfv3vqdYY_5R68mSVtmChkReoEv5H8ZjyUWyS-I_VrICp_XWqF8nOg=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7907974012429122490"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-03T16:20:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-03T16:20:22.334-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"military"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Soros"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Soros General Demands Purge of Military"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The United States has Soros prosecutors who have turned our cities into violent hellholes where criminals run loose, Soros politicians who wage war on this nation from the ramparts of their offices, and Soros generals who advocate for political purges of the nation’s military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjBb5HfVFPEoF3bTfZA5GY0CKjo8kGLlB0h8a4RPcUJdzfsnw1pvZ1sGRlPggljOFaHE9Q2ElkT4dnAdWD1LQjtPuiALAXHi5G58Eu_crYOWPzeGoJzGTvc7erRgnqbopxCBpJvHlXutiVhjHQroVpoi4MDM3Gvf3jFXt_Ui2cja9upxuqB-fg=s1437\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"945\" data-original-width=\"1437\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjBb5HfVFPEoF3bTfZA5GY0CKjo8kGLlB0h8a4RPcUJdzfsnw1pvZ1sGRlPggljOFaHE9Q2ElkT4dnAdWD1LQjtPuiALAXHi5G58Eu_crYOWPzeGoJzGTvc7erRgnqbopxCBpJvHlXutiVhjHQroVpoi4MDM3Gvf3jFXt_Ui2cja9upxuqB-fg=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ERecently the Washington Post ran an op-ed from three retired generals, Antonio Taguba, an immigrant who had accused America of war crimes during the fight against Islamic terrorists in Iraq, Steven Anderson, a board member of the left-wing VoteVets, and Paul Eaton, a senior VoteVets adviser, urging that the military prepare for a \"2024 insurrection\" in proper Soviet style.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe three left-wing ex-generals called for \"intensive intelligence work\" to \"identify, isolate and remove potential mutineers\" and \"guard against efforts by propagandists.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Commie commissar couldn’t have said it any better than Taguba, Anderson, and Eaton.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese “propagandists” and “mutineers” are not the members of the pro-Hillary “Resistance” who pledged to undermine and sabotage the Trump administration in 2016. Nor are they the Democrats who insisted that President George W. Bush was illegitimately elected.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly conservatives are up for the purge.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr as Eaton had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulDEaton52\/status\/1277351988058087424\"\u003Etweeted\u003C\/a\u003E before the election, “The empty shirt in the White House deserves your contempt. Aiding and abetting is treason. What American could vote for such a person? I know: a traitor.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s rich coming from the board member of a Hungarian Nazi collaborator’s pet project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShortly thereafter Eaton spoke to NPR which, like the Washington Post, did not bother identifying VoteVets as a left-wing group or explaining to readers that his hatred for Republicans knows no bounds. Nor did it inform readers or listeners that Eaton is a board member of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft which was co-funded by George Soros and the remaining Koch brother.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEaton told NPR \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/12\/31\/1068930675\/us-election-coup-january-6-military-constitution\"\u003Ethat\u003C\/a\u003E military leaders needed to \"war-game the possibility of a problem and what we are going to do\" while warning that the United States is \"compromised... as far as 39% of the Republican Party refusing to accept President Biden as president.\" He suggested that a scenario in which the military is \"compromised\" needs to be \"addressed in a future war game held well in advance of 2024.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERemember when we held war games to fight our enemies rather than to purge our own people?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEaton, a Hillary Clinton adviser, isn't however worried about the 33% of Clinton supporters who claimed that Trump was not the legitimate winner right after the election, or the 56% of Democrats who viewed him as illegitimate a year later. Polls \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2022\/01\/democrat-poll-shows-democrats-are-threat-democracy-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eactually show \u003C\/a\u003Ethat much higher numbers thought that Bush and Trump were illegitimately elected than the number that thought Obama and Biden were illegitimately elected. Should the military be purging Dems or holding “war games” to determine what will happen if Democrats try to live out their coup fantasies?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDems would be the first to denounce that as McCarthyism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEaton keeps trying to pass off the dangerous idea that military personnel, active or retired, being skeptical about the legitimacy of an election is an existential threat. That’s un-American.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Eaton doled out fearmongering about the role of the military during a contested election, the only tangible example he managed to offer was the Flag Officers 4 America letter which was signed by retired officers and raised serious questions about the election and other issues, but at no point in time urged active duty military personnel to do anything to interfere in the process.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn response to an apparent NPR question about how a coup could play out, Eaton referred to a lack of the  \"clear-cut understanding, that can infect the rank and file or at any level in the U.S. military\" using as his example the \"124 retired generals and admirals signed a letter contesting the 2020 election.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen a difference of opinion among retired officers is defined as a threat, that is a threat against all Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEaton has spent his retirement taking all sorts of radical political stands, including actually suggesting that military leaders undermine President Trump, yet insists on trying to smear patriotic retired military leaders because they have expressed criticisms of Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Will the Air Force Chief of Staff comply or do what generals know how to do. Slow roll for a few weeks to allow sanity to kick in?\" Eaton had\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulDEaton52\/status\/1331424919863824384\"\u003E tweeted\u003C\/a\u003E, suggesting that Air Force leaders sabotage President Trump's decisions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETrump “must be stopped in his aggression against Iran,” the board member of a pro-Iran group had tweeted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“How many Americans died with blood on Trump’s hands? What does Putin have on you Trump?” he tweeted another time. He described all Trump supporters as, “sedition in pure form”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s a small sampling of unhinged tweets by the board member of a seditious Soros group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEaton would like the privilege to engage in these rants while going after patriotic officers for even expressing the least bit of concern about the abuses of his extremist political party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe constant references to Flag Officers 4 America makes it abundantly clear that this is about using a manufactured crisis to intimidate officers, retired or active, threatening the former and purging the latter. After a Washington Post op-ed, an NPR interview, and a Newsweek article, Eaton and the media hacks writing about him have come up with no meaningful examples.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If there is any doubt in the loyalty and the willingness to follow the oath of the United States, the support and defend part of the U.S. Constitution, then those folks need to be identified and addressed in some capacity,” Eaton told NPR.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDid he mean the West Point cadet displaying \"Communism Will Win\" written on his cap?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only widespread effort by supporters of a political party to sabotage a sitting president by forming covert organizations within the government was directed by Dems at President Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut any effort to root out the members of the so-called “resistance”, let alone any active duty member who did not believe that Bush or Trump were legitimately elected, would have led to cries of McCarthyism. And yet the lefties who are quickest to cry McCarthyism are also the loudest voices demanding a purge of conservatives from the military for questioning Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Soros general amps up paranoia about a civil war and urges having military leaders “war game” election outcomes, there have been plenty of contested elections, much more seriously so in the nineteenth century, without any proposed purges of the military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf General \"Fighting Joe\" Wheeler could serve as a general for the Confederacy and then command the cavalry in the Spanish–American War, overseeing, among others, Teddy Roosevelt, then the military is big enough to survive political differences of opinion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd still fight on the same team against our foreign enemies: whether it’s China, Iran, or Soros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe trouble is that the Left has manufactured a threat from the military in order to conduct a political purge of political dissent. There has never been any question about the loyalty of the rank and file, but there ought to be grave questions about the loyalty of those doing the purging.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd what they intend to do with the military that requires them to purge patriots from its ranks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Democrats go after dead Confederate generals, we ought to look at living Soros generals.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7907974012429122490\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/soros-general-demands-purge-of-military.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7907974012429122490"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7907974012429122490"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/soros-general-demands-purge-of-military.html","title":"Soros General Demands Purge of Military"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjBb5HfVFPEoF3bTfZA5GY0CKjo8kGLlB0h8a4RPcUJdzfsnw1pvZ1sGRlPggljOFaHE9Q2ElkT4dnAdWD1LQjtPuiALAXHi5G58Eu_crYOWPzeGoJzGTvc7erRgnqbopxCBpJvHlXutiVhjHQroVpoi4MDM3Gvf3jFXt_Ui2cja9upxuqB-fg=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-158134911363577953"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-02T21:49:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-02T21:49:00.280-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamophobia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"CAIR’s Islamophobia Report Shows Why it’s Accused of Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EA week before a Muslim terrorist attacked a Texas Temple in a bid to free CAIR’s favorite terrorist, Lady Al Qaeda aka Aafia Siddiqui, the hate group released another of its increasingly discredited “Islamophobia” reports seeking to cut off donations to Jewish and anti-terror groups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiNGbnI9ZufT5bCdgJCnHglIOT3kgyrZ_iOhBYS9DgLdmAclPObo_ek3KF4aobQsQLgfwBiozwPXhuPz8uePs9Bhcv5UWM2GYOsBHwxqvsqmUkuq318NYnTTwRd2G0xqg3AStwI8RwEBW2G7oqRj-hRSHufy3gvK4xbYGI9rKZihvXjyUNtJw4=s738\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"444\" data-original-width=\"738\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiNGbnI9ZufT5bCdgJCnHglIOT3kgyrZ_iOhBYS9DgLdmAclPObo_ek3KF4aobQsQLgfwBiozwPXhuPz8uePs9Bhcv5UWM2GYOsBHwxqvsqmUkuq318NYnTTwRd2G0xqg3AStwI8RwEBW2G7oqRj-hRSHufy3gvK4xbYGI9rKZihvXjyUNtJw4=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe reports, originally titled, ‘Fear Inc’, started out bad and have only gotten worse over the years. The 2021 report, ‘Islamophobia in the Mainstream’, is a cynical campaign to smear pro-Israel groups like EMET, CAMERA, and MEMRI for calling out CAIR’s anti-Semitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn MEMRI’s case, the group is guilty of posting video clips of Islamic support for terrorism and anti-Semitism that make CAIR and its pro-terrorists look bad, like \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/tv\/cair-tx-panel-aafia-%20-%20siddiqui%20linda-sarsour-attorney-government-lies-political-prisoner\"\u003Ethe CAIR-TX panel\u003C\/a\u003E on Aafia Siddiqui in which Linda Sarsour described Lady Al Qaeda as a political prisoner as well as a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/tv\/cair-rally-aafia-siddiqui-courts-zionist-judges-sham%20trials-omar-suleiman-prominent-scholar\"\u003ECAIR rally in support of Lady Al Qaeda\u003C\/a\u003E not long after the anniversary of September 11 at which a speaker blamed \"Zionist judges\" for the plight of Muslim terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECAIR complains that MEMRI \"inaccurately translates news\" and is guilty of \"inflammatory representation\", but the speakers at the CAIR events are using English and the only inflammatory materials are coming out of their mouths.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s understandable that CAIR wouldn’t want people hearing that a speaker at one of its rallies was accusing the Jews of being behind the imprisonment of Siddiqui only to have a Muslim terrorist attack a synagogue over her. The problem here isn’t islamophobia: it’s anti-Semitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Coalition for Jewish Values, representing thousands of Orthodox Jewish rabbis, correctly responded to the latest CAIR smear campaign \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/coalitionforjewishvalues.org\/2022\/01\/rabbinic-group-calls-cair-islamophobia-charge-fake-news\/\"\u003Eby calling it\u003C\/a\u003E “both pro-terror and anti-Semitic”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CAIR report mentions the term “Jew” or “Jewish” fifteen times, but fails to reference either Al Qaeda or ISIS. It dangerously insinuates that the only reason anyone is upset about Islamic terrorism is because there’s a Jewish conspiracy to smear Muslims as terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not hard to imagine how future anti-Semitic terrorists like Faisal Akram will react to that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe main targets here are Jewish communal charities and pro-Israel groups like CAMERA, which challenges anti-Israel media bias, and EMET, which advocates in support of Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECAIR's case against CAMERA is that in 2012, it \"published a report called The Islamic Society of North America: Active, Influential and Rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood. The report accuses multiple American Muslim organizations and individuals to be (sic) front groups for terrorism.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Islamist group does not bother trying to actually disprove the material or \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.camera.org\/images_user\/pdf\/CAMERA_ISNA%20Report_booklet10.4.12.pdf\"\u003Eeven linking to the report\u003C\/a\u003E. That way readers don’t know that the report has damning information about CAIR.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe report CAIR denounces noted that, “Ghassan Elashi, a founder of the Texas chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), another Brotherhood derivative, received a 65 year sentence” in a Hamas financing case, and that, “Judge Jorge Solis ruled that “the government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA, NAIT, with the Holy Land Foundation, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and with Hamas.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis isn’t Islamophobia, these are cold hard facts. But you can see why CAIR would be worried.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CAIR smear report further complains that the head of EMET Sarah “Stern alleged that Muslim student groups want to destroy America from within.” The actual source describes Sarah Stern speaking \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/emetonline.org\/extraordinary-september-4th-screening-grand-deception\/\"\u003Eabout\u003C\/a\u003E “Muslim Student Association groups”. The MSA, a\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/organizations\/muslim-students-association-of-the-us-and-canada-msa\"\u003E specific network\u003C\/a\u003E with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, rather than the general “student groups” that CAIR implies, has been linked to anti-Semitic invective on college campuses and support for Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMSA and CAIR also have close connections. Once again, CAIR defines Islamophobia as criticism of its network. That becomes absurdly obvious when CAIR denounces the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and its Muslim leader Zuhdi Jasser as islamophobes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECAIR declares, with a straight face, that an organization with “Islamic” in its name is really “an anti-Muslim lobby group founded by Zhudi (sic) Jasser”. In typical fashion, CAIR misspells Zuhdi Jasser’s name, while accusing a Muslim of being an Islamophobe. CAIR seems to have learned nothing from the Southern Poverty Law Center which was forced to pay out $3.4 million to Maajid Nawaz and apologize to him for smearing the Muslim as an anti-Muslim extremist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut this is one of many misspellings, absurdities, and errors that fill the botched smear of a report which is remarkable only for its hopeless sloppiness and elementary ignorance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe David Horowitz Freedom Center, a longstanding critic and target of CAIR since the original Fear Inc. smear campaign, comes under attack yet again. But CAIR’s report also makes it clear that its research is so terrible that it would be thrown out by an elementary school teacher.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECAIR claims that we engage in \"antiMuslim lobbying\" (sic) and \"many anti-Muslim and xenophobic projects including, Jihad Watch, ProntPage MAgazine (sic), TruthRevolt. com, Israel Security Project, Discoverthenetworks.com, Students for Academic Freedom, and Individual Rights Foundation.\" TruthRevolt hasn’t existed since 2018. CAIR’s report is 4 years out of date. The Israel Security Project also isn’t a current entity and it takes work to misspell FrontPage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter smearing the Freedom Center, CAIR attacks Gatestone Institute, falsely accusing it of spreading “anti-Muslim narratives and hysteria.” In fact, Gatestone’s ranks include \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/point\/fact-check-boltons-anti-muslim-think-tank-includes-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Emultiple Muslim writers\u003C\/a\u003E, among them, Zudhi Jasser. CAIR’s only example of its Islamophobia is that it “took out a full page advertisement in the New York Times that called on Muslims to codnemn (sic) worldwide violence, thereby implying that Islam was the cause of global violence.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECAIR neglects to mention that this was actually\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/5032\/new-york-times-beautifying-islam\"\u003E an ad by Muslims\u003C\/a\u003E, including Nawaz and Jasser, Tarek Fatah, the founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, and multiple others, that quoted the Koran and urged Muslims to oppose ISIS.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat CAIR slanders an ad by Muslims opposing ISIS as Islamophobic says everything about its bad faith, its dishonesty, and its extremism. And that of the reporters who quote its reports.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECAIR is counting on media outlets to repeat its lies, rewrite its executive summary without delving into its report, and noting the multiple errors and misspellings, or following up on its actual sources, or to avoid mentioning any of this if they actually do their due diligence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbove all else, CAIR doesn’t want the media to connect the dots between the latest anti-Semitic attack in Texas and this report accusing Jews of being behind an “Islamophobia network.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis has always been the thrust of CAIR’s Islamophobia reports, but it’s never been this blatant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECAIR is trying to delegitimize mainstream pro-Israel groups as Islamophobic for advocating for the Jewish State and for being willing to report on its ugly ties to hate and terror. But if reporters start questioning CAIR now, they would also have to reevaluate the past and present smears of the Middle East Forum, the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Gatestone, the American Freedom Law Center, and other counterjihadist groups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike bad banks and worse narratives, CAIR has become too big to fail, because of all the politicians and reporters who have added to its credibility over the years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECAIR’s latest Islamophobia smear report shows why it’s so often accused of anti-Semitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd why no one in the media will hold the hate group accountable.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/158134911363577953\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/cairs-islamophobia-report-shows-why-its.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/158134911363577953"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/158134911363577953"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/cairs-islamophobia-report-shows-why-its.html","title":"CAIR’s Islamophobia Report Shows Why it’s Accused of Anti-Semitism"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiNGbnI9ZufT5bCdgJCnHglIOT3kgyrZ_iOhBYS9DgLdmAclPObo_ek3KF4aobQsQLgfwBiozwPXhuPz8uePs9Bhcv5UWM2GYOsBHwxqvsqmUkuq318NYnTTwRd2G0xqg3AStwI8RwEBW2G7oqRj-hRSHufy3gvK4xbYGI9rKZihvXjyUNtJw4=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5236832976847889918"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-31T21:50:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-31T21:50:00.259-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ADL"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Anti-Semitism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"ADL Hires Director for Jewish Outreach Who Hates Jews"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAfter the Hamas, kidnapping and murder of three Israeli Jewish teens, resulting in Israeli forces aggressively pursuing the Islamic terrorist group over the horrifying atrocity, Tema Smith retweeted and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/temasmith\/status\/497518815711076352\"\u003Epraised\u003C\/a\u003E an article titled, \"There Are No Good Guys In The Gaza-Israel Conflict\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEieQ1X0kf0Mx8cIeH4B4fGGN0ei91mA2u02PjggrOGHnZITrP_jlpyvpAvuJYxRLcK3V_1PTHabpnFf2Dr9ZNx-JZEem1t_oS999ZTyBwF4FzOSmCtkw39Oc5tSolZzhiig8D2k5mm4Ra3srdsE6TW5XwAKcZxSb_c54GLKdRwZ3jUVhId3BwA=s556\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"426\" data-original-width=\"556\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEieQ1X0kf0Mx8cIeH4B4fGGN0ei91mA2u02PjggrOGHnZITrP_jlpyvpAvuJYxRLcK3V_1PTHabpnFf2Dr9ZNx-JZEem1t_oS999ZTyBwF4FzOSmCtkw39Oc5tSolZzhiig8D2k5mm4Ra3srdsE6TW5XwAKcZxSb_c54GLKdRwZ3jUVhId3BwA=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe article, among other things, claimed that, \"Hamas — and the Palestinians as a whole — have desperately real and legitimate grievances against Israel.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe also retweeted another piece urging Jews to, “repent for Gaza’s dead.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Here’s the thing: Jews *have* to be ok with Palestinians *explaining* why some turn to terrorism,” Tema Smith\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/temasmith\/status\/1331434527475068931\"\u003E insisted\u003C\/a\u003E two years ago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, the ADL has chosen Tema Smith as its Director of Jewish Outreach. As a Jewish activist on Twitter quipped, “Whom do the Jews hire as Director of Outreach to the ADL?”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a valid question since Smith, in her own words, has said of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/temasmith\/status\/1352080233365712899\"\u003Eher role\u003C\/a\u003E, “I educate the Jewish community on race and racism as a speaker and writer.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERather than educating anyone about the threat of antisemitism, she tells Jews they’re racists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL’s idea of “Jewish Outreach” is an identity politics hire who spends her time castigating Jews for opposing critical race theory and intersectionality because of its inherent antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn an op-ed for the extremist Forward site, Tema Smith argued that black anti-semitism didn't really exist because \"antisemitism in the black community is shown to be the symptom of the structures of racism in the United States\". Last year, she \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/temasmith\/status\/1361722600662183946\"\u003Eattacked\u003C\/a\u003E Jewish institutions that \"platform speakers who call Critical Race Theory and antiracism inherently antisemitic.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETema’s views on Israel come as no surprise. She was a fellow at the Israel Policy Forum. The IPF was J Street before the Soros group even existed and engages in anti-Israel activism. The self-described, “red diaper baby” refers to Israel’s “occupied West Bank and Gaza”, and repeatedly attacks the Jewish State for defending itself against Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe latest ADL outrage comes after a series of horrifying moves by its boss, Jonathan Greenblatt, which include ties to anti-Israel activists and minimizing BDS. But the hiring of Tema Smith outraged so many Jewish activists because it conveyed the ADL’s disdain for the Jewish community. Whom, they wonder, is the ADL reaching out to by hiring Tema?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the ADL’s new constituency isn’t the Jewish community, it’s the anti-Israel Left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESix years ago, Greenblatt \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/point\/adl-boss-jonathan-greenblatt-pens-pro-bds-essay-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ewrote \u003C\/a\u003Eof BDS activists, “we should acknowledge the earnestness of their motives.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFive years ago, the ADL \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ADL\/status\/943186695666708481\"\u003Etouted\u003C\/a\u003E Rep. Ilhan Omar as “inspiring”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFour years ago, the ADL came out \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/point\/adl-opposes-security-grants-synagogues-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eagainst\u003C\/a\u003E security grants for synagogues. That same year,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJonathan Greenblatt \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/01\/adls-soros-hamas-and-hitler-anti-israel-conference-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eopened\u003C\/a\u003E an ADL conference with a vocal defense of George Soros, and invited anti-Israel activists to the conference while a panel accused \"some in the Jewish community\" of labeling \"almost all expressions that are deemed 'anti-Israel' as anti-Semitic\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo years ago, Greenblatt \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/10\/adl-stands-wbds-ngos-over-trump-israel-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eand the\u003C\/a\u003E ADL stood with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch against Israel. They cosigned a Black Lives Matter letter alongside anti-Israel hate  groups like JVP. This was one of several \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2019\/04\/adl-joins-anti-israel-groups-letter-asking-trump-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eanti-Israel letters\u003C\/a\u003E or letters with anti-Israel groups that the ADL had signed on to that year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven while the ADL has undermined Israel and the Jewish community, it has waged a war on authentic pro-Israel groups like the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/zoa.org\/2021\/11\/10444323-zoa-condemns-adl-conference-for-featuring-hostile-to-israel-speakers\/\"\u003EZionist Organization of America \u003C\/a\u003Eand\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/defaming-canary-mission-ari-lieberman\/\"\u003E Canary Mission\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL’s embrace of Tema Smith is part of its repudiation of Israel and Jews. Tema Smith isn’t just terrible on Israel, but on even the most obvious and basic forms of antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo years ago, British Jews protested antisemitism \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=tema%20smith\u0026amp;src=typed_query\"\u003Eby Wiley\u003C\/a\u003E, a British rapper who claimed that, \"there are two sets of people who nobody has really wanted to challenge Jewish and KKK\" and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antisemitism\/status\/1467875711499313157\"\u003Eranted\u003C\/a\u003E, “Why did Hitler hate you? For nothing?”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETema Smith posted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatzoBalling\/status\/1486070810649497607\/photo\/3\"\u003Ethat\u003C\/a\u003E \"the Jewish community's reactions to antisemitism coming from black people is inherently tied to (implictly racist) fears of black violence.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAcademy Award nominated screenwriter Lee Kern \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leekern13\/status\/1486436778831749124\"\u003Enoted\u003C\/a\u003E that, \"Tema helped antisemites rather than British Jews when she slandered us as the racists for symbolicly leaving twitter for a day in protest of someone who champions Nazi talking points.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven as synagogues boost their security in the face of antisemitic violence, Tema Smith \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/temasmith\/status\/1077964836506689539\"\u003Ehad\u003C\/a\u003E contended that \"security agencies uphold white supremacy through profiling, etc” and defended claims that “Jews uphold white supremacy.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESmith cheered the idea that the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/anti-semitic-murder-french-no-go-zone-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EMuslim murderer of Sarah Halimi\u003C\/a\u003E, a retired Jewish kindergarten director, who had shouted Allahu Akbar after violently beating her and throwing her out of the window, was the real victim.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn Twitter, Smith endorsed a claim that the \"Jewish community press\" are out to \"maximize outrage and minimize understanding\" of the Halimi murder case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESmith \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcinthelibrary\/status\/1486210452212404227\/photo\/1\"\u003Eagreed \u003C\/a\u003Ethat the \"sources on this have been misleading and inflammatory\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL frequently complains abut inappropriate Holocaust analogies, but Smith retweeted an \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/temasmith\/status\/1149714422878920704\"\u003Eattack\u003C\/a\u003E on the Holocaust Museum for daring to condemn AOC's comparison of llegal alien detention to the Holocaust.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETema Smith is a wholly inappropriate choice for any organization that still occasionally claims to be pro-Israel and to be dedicated to fighting antisemitism. But the ADL is actually neither.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL is far more interested in Black Lives Matter and transgender activism than Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJonathan Greenblatt, the ADL's new boss, a veteran of the Obama administration who many blame for the organization's hostility to Israel and Jews, tweeted, \"Mazel tov to @temasmith. Kudos for being honored for your vital voice in the movement to empower \u0026amp; include Jews of Color.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETema Smith’s leftist politics and her identification as a black woman matter far more to the ADL than her position on any Jewish issues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL’s hiring of Tema Smith \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/11\/adl-convenes-summit-anti-semites-fight-anti-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ecomes after\u003C\/a\u003E its Never Again Is Now summit last year invited anti-Israel figures who had falsely accused Israel of \"ethnic cleansing\" and blamed the Jews massacred in the Mumbai terror attack for their alleged attitude which \"gives the sense of an elite club for Jews alone, is part of what provoked the terrorists to target them for the attack.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI titled my coverage of that abomination \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/11\/adl-convenes-summit-anti-semites-fight-anti-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eof a conference\u003C\/a\u003E, \"The ADL Convenes a Summit of Anti-Semites to Fight Anti-Semitism.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow the ADL has hired a Director of Jewish Outreach who hates Jews.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5236832976847889918\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/adl-hires-director-for-jewish-outreach.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5236832976847889918"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5236832976847889918"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/adl-hires-director-for-jewish-outreach.html","title":"ADL Hires Director for Jewish Outreach Who Hates Jews"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEieQ1X0kf0Mx8cIeH4B4fGGN0ei91mA2u02PjggrOGHnZITrP_jlpyvpAvuJYxRLcK3V_1PTHabpnFf2Dr9ZNx-JZEem1t_oS999ZTyBwF4FzOSmCtkw39Oc5tSolZzhiig8D2k5mm4Ra3srdsE6TW5XwAKcZxSb_c54GLKdRwZ3jUVhId3BwA=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6026599534348126241"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-30T22:04:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-30T22:04:44.241-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"medicine"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Equity in Medicine is Racist and Lethal"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EFebruary 1st is the Department of Health and Human Services \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2021\/12\/01\/hhs-seeks-public-comments-advance-equity-reduce-disparities-organ-transplantation-improve-life-saving-donations-dialysis-facility-quality-care.html\"\u003Edeadline\u003C\/a\u003E for public comments on bringing \"equity\" to organ donations. Equity invariably means racial quotas and artificially moving minorities to the head of the line and there’s no reason to expect anything else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEimaj8Erra5W2U25P5y2iCZPZkwd6HjqGm90tYrpvlVQUqoMt-HEdvk9Q_Awe7anLHmTyD3R8SjFZwFekax7lB9W6xoi43uf2WZ72S5GLC3kdbXPaMVH4545KZy0pqUbv07ziD41uo7v88C7KM-dmbFr2XWKUX3tqU5fCUM-CZPUowNhzcMNoU=s651\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"490\" data-original-width=\"651\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEimaj8Erra5W2U25P5y2iCZPZkwd6HjqGm90tYrpvlVQUqoMt-HEdvk9Q_Awe7anLHmTyD3R8SjFZwFekax7lB9W6xoi43uf2WZ72S5GLC3kdbXPaMVH4545KZy0pqUbv07ziD41uo7v88C7KM-dmbFr2XWKUX3tqU5fCUM-CZPUowNhzcMNoU=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO), which had already been blamed for “organ transplant disparities”, has been constantly touting its own AOPO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aopo.org\/donation-perspectives\/aopo-highlights-plan-for-organ-transplant-equity-during-black-history-month\/\"\u003Epromising to\u003C\/a\u003E implement its recommendations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELost in all the noise is the reality that lower rates of organ donations and transplants from minorities are not, as equity advocates insist, evidence of systemic racism, but medical and behavioral differences. For \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1831604\/\"\u003Eexample\u003C\/a\u003E, “African Americans are half as likely as whites to agree to donate a loved one's organs” and there’s generally a “lower donation rate among racial\/ethnic minorities, specifically including Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrgan donations require a certain degree of altruism and trust toward a larger group whether it’s the family or the country as a whole. Indoctrinating racial minorities with critical race theory myths about systemic racism makes them much less likely to donate organs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ultimate victims of lower organ donation rates by black people are… black people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of addressing this familiar Black Lives Matter cycle in which belief in one’s own victimhood ends up killing the members of the group by deepening social mistrust, equity in organ transplants takes the victimhood as a given. Much as in education, employment, and every other area, equity in organ transplants seeks to rig the game by fiddling with the metrics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe familiar argument from equity in medicine is that minorities, especially black people, are disadvantaged, and that moving them to the head of the line will remedy the “inequity”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pandemic became a testbed for deploying racist equity measures like determining\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/12\/cdcs-affirmative-action-eugenics-coronavirus-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E vaccine \u003C\/a\u003Eand medication distribution by race.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder the CDC and NIH, the National Academies had produced a framework which claimed that \"COVID-19 illnesses and deaths are strongly associated with race\" due to \"systemic racism\" and that it was the job of the medical system to reduce these \"health inequities\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe FDA's emergency use authorization for sotrovimab, supposedly the most effective monoclonal antibody treatment for the Omicron variant, listed \"race\" as a risk factor for deciding who gets the drug. Multiple states incorporated race as a treatment factor. After lawsuit threats from Stephen Miller’s America First Legal, Utah and Minnesota have backed down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York, whose guidance was the most blatant example of racial discrimination, insists that it will go on discriminating against white patients while retaining its unconstitutional approach.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no way to know whether Gov. Hochul’s, \"non-white race or Hispanic\/Latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor, as longstanding systemic health and social inequities have contributed to an increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19” guidance will kill as many people as her predecessor’s insistence on putting COVID patients in nursing homes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETurning risk factors into privilege was always the affirmative action playbook, but unlike employment and educational discrimination, in medicine, it’s bound to get people killed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Lives Matter riots drove institutions, both private and public, into dramatic policy shifts. In medicine, the shift away from equality and toward equity took place at both the levels of the medical establishment, with the American Medical Association rolling out a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/about\/leadership\/ama-s-strategic-plan-embed-racial-justice-and-advance-health-equity\"\u003Emassive strategic equity plan\u003C\/a\u003E, and the regulatory level with government bureaucracies mandating equity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEquity in medicine means accepting and promoting unqualified doctors and medical personnel on account of their race, but it also means implementing a racial triage that prioritizes minorities for medical treatment. Equity knocks down professional merit at the top and patient need at the bottom, replacing the Hippocratic Oath and basic humanity with the tribalism of racial quotas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoctors are being taught that their responsibility is not to the patient as an individual, but to the society, and to some races more than others. And patients are being taught that, like students seeking admission to college or employees looking for a promotion, their race is all that counts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis horrid fusion of the perpetual rationing of socialized medicine based on the social good and identity politics is little more than state-mandated genocide in which politicians tell doctors who must be allowed to die so that the people whose lives matter more get better survival odds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats loudly mocked Sarah Palin and denied the existence of death panels, but not even Palin would have predicted death panels that measure the value of life based on race. And yet a decade later, a scenario that would have been ridiculed as a wild conspiracy theory is upon us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEquity advocates insist that they’re just compensating for inequity with equity, and for systemic discrimination with systemic discrimination. By discriminating against white doctors and patients, they’re artificially working to restore an ideal balance that even they admit will never be reached.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s become routine for medical professionals and institutions to declare that “equity” is at the center of everything that they do. And yet what they do is provide worse care for everyone because equity, not medicine or health care, is their aim. Much as equity in education destroyed the educational system and woke corporations are going broke, medicine is being transformed into a politicized practice that is no longer interested in healing patients, only social ills.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEquity leaves doctors unable to treat and help patients as individual people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe AMA's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/system\/files\/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf\"\u003Enew\u003C\/a\u003E Health Equity Guide is not only full of Marxist indoctrination with a paragraph on \"class consciousness\" as \"the recognition by workers of their unity as a social class in opposition to capitalists and to capitalism itself\", but denounces the idea that people have a \"personal responsibility\" to make healthy choices. The Equity Guide urges doctors to \"avoid… blaming individuals for their condition\" and instead blame capitalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis radicalizing and recruiting strategy, the underlying motive for much of the “equity” scam, does nothing to help patients. Instead it makes things worse for them at every level.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVictimhood politicization is just another form of learned helplessness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETelling groups that already suffer from obesity, diabetes, and other problems that they’re not responsible for their condition, that capitalism and racism are, is just a more elaborate way of killing them. Equity advocates not only don’t care, they profit politically from a worsening situation for minorities so that they have a statistical basis for making things worse for everyone else. The more minorities die, the more they can justify the medical murder of white people.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6026599534348126241\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/equity-in-medicine-is-racist-and-lethal.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6026599534348126241"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6026599534348126241"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/equity-in-medicine-is-racist-and-lethal.html","title":"Equity in Medicine is Racist and Lethal"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEimaj8Erra5W2U25P5y2iCZPZkwd6HjqGm90tYrpvlVQUqoMt-HEdvk9Q_Awe7anLHmTyD3R8SjFZwFekax7lB9W6xoi43uf2WZ72S5GLC3kdbXPaMVH4545KZy0pqUbv07ziD41uo7v88C7KM-dmbFr2XWKUX3tqU5fCUM-CZPUowNhzcMNoU=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6454829313571702230"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-29T22:22:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-29T22:22:05.931-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"media"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Last Days of CNN"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"CNN is far behind FOX News and MSNBC in the ratings. It averages around \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/week-of-dec-6-basic-cable-ranker-ratings-drop-but-fox-news-continues-to-dominate-cable-news-competition\/495811\/\"\u003Ehalf a million \u003C\/a\u003Eviewers in prime time and it recently hit a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/cnns-new-day-hits-7-year-ratings-low-in-july\/\"\u003E7-year low\u003C\/a\u003E in the demo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo it was the perfect time for Chris Wallace to leave FOX News for CNN+.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhxoufJRzgOaiPtLcr0haHChr3o0qb90Hj1uiF-KpgHoPWOZGRbBQe3NSWQGIEaYrv0iOeGq_DiJw5LdtIPeYkTvm04DNZBtiwAW_fRrRS_Jb27X5uEdWacsWxDfldhf5L_1IFqcKGlZ72l3JiCH7RFMYfL4REG-_ROdByVAKzWtXYSBusYDs4=s619\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"371\" data-original-width=\"619\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhxoufJRzgOaiPtLcr0haHChr3o0qb90Hj1uiF-KpgHoPWOZGRbBQe3NSWQGIEaYrv0iOeGq_DiJw5LdtIPeYkTvm04DNZBtiwAW_fRrRS_Jb27X5uEdWacsWxDfldhf5L_1IFqcKGlZ72l3JiCH7RFMYfL4REG-_ROdByVAKzWtXYSBusYDs4=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESome might have thought that Wallace was leaving to fill Chris Cuomo’s slot at CNN. No such luck, though without Cuomo the failing news network’s ratings have crashed to new lows.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut crashing to new lows is the default story at CNN.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECNN Airport, its captive audience operation, shut down earlier this year. And CNN isn’t far behind. CNN+ is the network’s bet that enough people will pay 6 bucks a month to watch it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECNN's effort to launch CNN+, a paid streaming service, at a time when its core ratings are crashing is confusing observers who wonder why the news network thinks people will pay for CNN when they won't even watch it for free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECNN President Jeff Zucker billed CNN+ as being for \"CNN superfans, news junkies and fans of quality non-fiction programming.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe existence of CNN superfans is as improbable as Bigfoot and UFOs. No one has ever spotted a CNN superfan in the wild and not even the most exotic zoos have them in stock.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENews junkies certainly exist, but they don’t bother with CNN which doesn’t offer news.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll that’s left is the “quality non-fiction programming” which is a euphemism for infotainment, cooking shows, travel shows, and whatever else you can find on PBS, Discovery, and a host of similar cable channels that, unlike CNN, people will actually watch on their own time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut CNN is short on options. Like the Washington Post and the New York Times, and other media outlets that monetized hatred for Trump, the Biden era was a rude awakening. After killing the golden goose, they’re trying to figure out how to market themselves without him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike the Post, which is owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and the New York Times, which is a family business, nobody really wants CNN. AT\u0026amp;T, which got CNN as part of a package deal, decided to roll the whole thing into the Warner Brothers Discovery megacompany. With its new motto of, \"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of\", there’s no real room for CNN in the company.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe last thing anyone associates with CNN is the stuff that dreams are made of.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECNN+ is a frantic effort to pivot back to Jeff Zucker’s earlier plans to transform the news network into infotainment. And CNN+ is focusing on having Chris Wallace interview and bore assorted personalities, while actors Stanley Tucci and Eva Longoria wander around Italy and Spain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that just raises the question of why anyone would pay $5.99 for a mediocre copy of PBS.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe prospect of CNN+ becoming a success is unlikely, but the more likely situation is that it will still cannibalize the news network to become part of an HBO Max streaming bundle. CNN will still be around as a cable news network, but as cord cutters increasingly dump their subscriptions, the news network will disappear leaving the CNN+ brand in the HBO Max empire.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a humiliating end for CNN. And a thoroughly deserved one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA CNN executive described CNN+ as “the single biggest launch that CNN has had since Ted Turner launched the network in June of 1980.\" The comparison isn’t accidental. CNN+ is meant to be the next era of CNN, and to eventually replace it when it dies its natural death on cable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 24\/7 cable news network concept was exciting when it first debuted. By the time that CNN dumbed it down to talking heads yammering at each other, the news part was deader than dead. And while that’s true of much of the media, the selling point of constant cable news was its ability to report live on breaking events. 24\/7 narrative is much less exciting than 24\/7 news especially in the age of social media when 24\/7 narrative is more conveniently packaged.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd more democratic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf CNN had focused on hard news, it might be in a better position today. Having traded news for narrative, it’s now trading narrative for infotainment. And it says everything about Chris Wallace that he left FOX News not for CNN’s news division, but for its infotainment streaming app where he can appear alongside old episodes of Anthony Bourdain only to have the latter beat him every time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECNN+ intends to blur the line between news and entertainment, but there’s not much news left. And when people think of entertainment, the last thing that comes to anyone’s mind is CNN.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHaving failed at news, CNN will go on to fail at entertainment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECNN’s decline and fall will eventually be shared by much of the news media which will either become the vanity properties of billionaires, be transformed into non-profits, or abandon even the pretense of providing news coverage. Network news will follow cable news into oblivion. And, unlike CNN, NBC News, ABC News, and CBS News won’t even live on as infotainment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s hard to know whether that’s better or worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECNN, like the rest of the media, spent too many years lying to Americans to ever be trusted. And the 20% of the country that shares its views already has too many media outlets competing for its business. The other 80% will hardly even notice that it’s gone. A news network that once had a stranglehold on the American public has lost its authority and even its airport business.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow it’ll be little more than another app hoping someone will pay 6 bucks for a membership.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6454829313571702230\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/the-last-days-of-cnn.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6454829313571702230"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6454829313571702230"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/the-last-days-of-cnn.html","title":"The Last Days of CNN"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhxoufJRzgOaiPtLcr0haHChr3o0qb90Hj1uiF-KpgHoPWOZGRbBQe3NSWQGIEaYrv0iOeGq_DiJw5LdtIPeYkTvm04DNZBtiwAW_fRrRS_Jb27X5uEdWacsWxDfldhf5L_1IFqcKGlZ72l3JiCH7RFMYfL4REG-_ROdByVAKzWtXYSBusYDs4=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6707312478226701416"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-27T19:42:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-27T19:42:00.331-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Philadelphia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Democrats Legalized Crime, Thousands Died"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"4,901 more people were murdered last year than in 2019. The 30% increase in murders during the year of Black Lives Matter and criminal justice reform was catastrophic. And it’s not over.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith the early numbers coming in, over a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10289355\/Americas-deadly-year-Philadelphia-murders-NYC-LA.html\"\u003Edozen cities \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/katv.com\/news\/nation-world\/authorities-seeing-record-breaking-homicides-nationwide\"\u003Ebroke their \u003C\/a\u003Emurder records in 2021. Cities across California are continuing to show \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/amid-pandemic-california-murder-rate-shows-shocking-rise\/\"\u003Edouble digit \u003C\/a\u003Eincreases. Philly broke past 500 murders and in response Soros DA Larry Krasner, whom many blame for the crime wave, assured tourists that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/da-larry-krasner-says-tourists-shouldnt-fear-coming-philadelphia-holidays\"\u003Eeverything \u003C\/a\u003Ewas fine and they should feel safe coming to the City of Brotherly Love.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We don't have a crisis of lawlessness. We don't have a crisis of crime. We don't have a crisis of violence,” Krasner, newly reelected with a mandate to keep giving criminals a pass, insisted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiK2Z4pmbxKb2m2-V1BOvtqlI5cGSOobBdTjk_ow6WHDAFNQGUsFzTMeWNmC3QdiNb_bE5QT93VzASeBPeqJFz4JW_YEn_WNsxPGcWgMkRQ0ymMq8jWCxMUmaYPXEa7GSWpOxVF-bRv27Yz2fExzvT73NUuudLFp0ZbhfkG65greYmudJT-vDc=s853\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"476\" data-original-width=\"853\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiK2Z4pmbxKb2m2-V1BOvtqlI5cGSOobBdTjk_ow6WHDAFNQGUsFzTMeWNmC3QdiNb_bE5QT93VzASeBPeqJFz4JW_YEn_WNsxPGcWgMkRQ0ymMq8jWCxMUmaYPXEa7GSWpOxVF-bRv27Yz2fExzvT73NUuudLFp0ZbhfkG65greYmudJT-vDc=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThat was too much for even Philly’s Democrat establishment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It takes a certain audacity of ignorance and white privilege to say that right now,\" former Mayor Michael Nutter \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/commentary\/larry-krasner-michael-nutter-philadelphia-violence-20211207.html\"\u003Eblasted\u003C\/a\u003E Krasner, \"I have to wonder what kind of messed up world of white wokeness Krasner is living in to have so little regard for human lives lost, many of them Black and brown, while he advances his own national profile as a progressive district attorney.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I’d like to ask Krasner: How many more Black and brown people, and others, would have to be gunned down in our streets daily to meet your definition of a 'crisis?'\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKrasner belatedly apologized, after critics, many of them, like Nutter, black, attacked him for gaslighting them, insisting that he had just said “some inarticulate things”. Why did Krasner think he could offer up a crazy lie like that? He had just won his reelection race \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/11\/under-soros-da-philly-hits-500-murders-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eby\u003C\/a\u003E 69% to 31%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe proponents of the leftist pro-crime policies that led to this nightmare keep telling crazy lies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that, “A lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not actually panning out.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite House spokeswoman Jen Psaki falsely argued that the pandemic was the \"a root cause\" of the crime wave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe legalization of theft, the elimination of bail, the revolving door arrests and releases of criminals, the mass jailbreak of violent felons and gang members to “protect them” from the pandemic, reduction in sentences, diversion programs, refusals to prosecute certain offenses, police defunding, and the rest of the catalog of criminal justice reform are the real root causes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn typical leftist fashion, a radical transformation was enacted through a set of policies disguised as reforms based on an even more radical understanding of how society should work. And, much as with critical race theory or wealth redistribution, we’ve been bombarded with pop propaganda, but virtually no discussion of what the underlying ideology behind it believes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminal justice reform was based on the conviction that crime was due to social inequity, that criminals were innocent victims of an uncaring society, that the police were the latest incarnation of slave catchers, that prisons were the new slavery, and that crime prevention was racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPro-crime ideologues argued for legalizing property crimes since property was theft, and for substituting restorative justice therapy sessions for prison sentences for rapists and killers. They called for abolishing police and prisons because once society is transformed, there will be no more crime because the root cause of crime isn’t individual choice, but systemic racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis isn’t some fringe idea by a few nuts. It’s what the Squad believes. That’s why Rep. Tlaib introduced a bill that called for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/axios-hbo-swan-rashida-tlaib-federal-prisons-928179f0-d093-40ff-898f-67f62c4d97a3.html\"\u003Efreeing\u003C\/a\u003E all federal prisoners. It’s what key elected officials in cities like New York City, Minneapolis, and Chicago used as their guiding light when advancing the disastrous policies that wrecked their respective cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet the media has offered virtually no exploration of these beliefs to mainstream audiences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead the media lied about the most basic things like the meaning of “defund the police”, denying that it meant the elimination of police departments, and justifying assorted “abolitionist” measures like opening up prisons as one-time responses to the pandemic. Even now the media continues echoing the false claims of the Democrats that the crime wave is a pandemic crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that’s a lie.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe crime wave has followed political patterns. That’s why commercial burglaries and gang murders are up while rape is down. Those crimes that Democrats still take seriously, like rape, are not in crisis mode. It’s those crimes that they either don’t take seriously, like property crimes, or those that they enable, like murders by the career criminals they freed, that are booming.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminal justice reform is not the first time that radical leftists imposed a dramatic policy program with virtually no public explanation of what it was or how it would work. The few times that media talking heads actually asked Democrat officials, like those in Minneapolis, who would deal with crime if the police were no longer around to respond to calls, the responses were nonsensical.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet no media outlet was willing to bottom line the agenda of criminal justice reform by admitting that its proponents did not believe that crime needed to be “fought” to begin with.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If you are a comfortable white person asking to dismantle the police I invite you to reflect: are you willing to stick with it? Will you be calling in three months to ask about garage break-ins? Are you willing to dismantle white supremacy in all systems, including a new system?\" Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender tweeted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat was this new system? No one was willing to discuss what exactly it entailed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the system is plain to see. Watch a video of a thug hauling away trash bags full of stolen merchandise from a CVS. Or more videos of porch pirates brazenly walking away with packages. At the local supermarket, staff have been told not to interfere with shoplifters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new system abolishes private property by legalizing theft.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a simple proposition that the media refuses to speak out loud because the vast majority of the public would never go along with it. That’s why statements by criminal justice reform politicians and police defunding slogans can never be followed to their logical conclusion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new system abolishes private property and treats gang violence as a social problem to be met with wealth redistribution, community intervention, and other means of bribing the thugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe crime wave is not a baffling phenomenon, but exactly what the defunders wanted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThousands of people have died as a result of a leftist social experiment. And thousands more will go on dying because it’s a lot easier to destroy public safety than it is to restore it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that won’t change until we start telling the truth about what’s really happening.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs horrible as the Soros DAs, AOC, and the tip of the spear for criminal justice reform may be, they couldn’t have done their work without the complicity of mainstream Democrats and Republicans. Under the Obama administration, countless Republicans, local and national, jumped on the bandwagon of criminal justice reform contending that our prisons were too full.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven now Republicans are arguing that they could do a better job of freeing criminals than the Dems. Just like they could do a better job of carrying out all the other leftist political agendas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminal justice reform was never anything other than a stalking horse for the radical transformation of American society by enabling and legalizing crime. The entire gruesome theater of Black Lives Matter was the front for a radical Marxist project that must be stopped.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr the killing will continue.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6707312478226701416\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/democrats-legalized-crime-thousands-died.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6707312478226701416"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6707312478226701416"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/democrats-legalized-crime-thousands-died.html","title":"Democrats Legalized Crime, Thousands Died"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiK2Z4pmbxKb2m2-V1BOvtqlI5cGSOobBdTjk_ow6WHDAFNQGUsFzTMeWNmC3QdiNb_bE5QT93VzASeBPeqJFz4JW_YEn_WNsxPGcWgMkRQ0ymMq8jWCxMUmaYPXEa7GSWpOxVF-bRv27Yz2fExzvT73NUuudLFp0ZbhfkG65greYmudJT-vDc=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4226409301198459041"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-24T13:55:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-24T13:55:14.911-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamic terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on Terror"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Frees Alternate 9\/11 Hijacker and Military Base Truck Bomb Plotter"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"After Obama’s obsession with freeing as many Islamic terrorists from Gitmo as possible, the ones who remained were the absolute worst of the worst. Now Biden is setting them loose too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E5 Islamic terrorists, Al Qaeda and allies, have been scheduled for release from custody.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey include Osama bin Laden bodyguards and murderous terrorists with blood on their hands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZuhail al-Sharabi had been allegedly trained in “how to function in Western cities” and “reading airline timetables” alongside 9\/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi. He also met Khalid al-Mihdhar who, along with Al-Hazmi, was part of the crew that hijacked American Airlines 77 for the attack on the Pentagon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjMjSzE2AGeDEiqDTML2BHt43h16BmEi6AAIwaHM342TYQ_fVIaj9hEPQyvZAJrEZtCJK14iwZGjyXWhMfxnzVp6QNmpjXGb8Wsk-bBmg-4RxyWekwHaDhs4hRaFt8cT_6oW5gUKIMcdYf-eoDSD4VV180dbpY6So8p_4YKIuBiCqrn9-5oNzo=s1900\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"995\" data-original-width=\"1900\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjMjSzE2AGeDEiqDTML2BHt43h16BmEi6AAIwaHM342TYQ_fVIaj9hEPQyvZAJrEZtCJK14iwZGjyXWhMfxnzVp6QNmpjXGb8Wsk-bBmg-4RxyWekwHaDhs4hRaFt8cT_6oW5gUKIMcdYf-eoDSD4VV180dbpY6So8p_4YKIuBiCqrn9-5oNzo=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAl-Sharabi had been part of an expanded version of the September 11 attacks that would have targeted American planes in Southeast Asia; either blowing them up in mid-air or hijacking them to crash into American military bases. That part of the operation was cancelled by Al Qaeda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs government documents note, “detainee and several other al-Qaida members were designated as suicide operatives in a plot to hijack US air carriers traveling across Southeast Asia” on September 11 and that \"he traveled to Southeast Asia as part of the pre-planning for the hijacking plot” where he and his accomplices “gathered information about the security practices and defensive postures for U.S. air carriers\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAl-Sharabi functioned as the “Emir” of an Al Qaeda operation and ran “the al-Nibras guesthouse in Kandahar” where an Al Qaeda figure stayed “during a January 2001 visit to brief Osama bin Laden on the progress of the training for the 11 September 2001 hijackers.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe report notes that Al-Sharabi had stated that, \"the U.S. is going down\" and warns that he \"maintains his support for extremism and if released would reengage in hostilities\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the United States had captured a number of the alternate Asia 9\/11 hijackers, Obama had already \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.derechos.org\/terrorism\/doc\/ansi.html\"\u003Efreed three of them\u003C\/a\u003E, including Dirty Thirty members Mohammed Al Ansi, Abdul Rahman Shalabi, and Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab. Biden is helping out the 4th alternate 9\/11 hijacker.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELee Wolosky, Obama's point man for freeing Jihadists from Gitmo (currently advising Biden on Afghan refugees), recently wrote an editorial falsely claiming that, “our longest war has ended, yet Guantanamo endures” and that \"the world seemed to have moved on even more definitively from the era of the war on terror.\" Democrats may have moved on, but the terrorists haven’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIslamic terrorist plots continue to target Americans. While Biden pushes Afghan immigrants and gun control, the second largest mass shooting was carried out in an Orlando nightclub by Omar Mateen, the son of Afghan immigrants, who pledged allegiance to ISIS. Cholo Abdi Abdullah, a Kenyan member of Al-Shabaab, an Al Qaeda ally, will face trial later this year for plotting a 9\/11 style attack that included hijacking a plane and crashing it into an American skyscraper.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe war isn’t over, but the Left desperately wants Americans to forget that it’s still going on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so Biden is not only releasing the fourth alternate 9\/11 Southeast Asia hijacker, but Moath al-Alwi, another Osama bodyguard and member of the Dirty Thirty, whom U.S. documents note, has threatened to kill US personnel\" and “made a threat to kill a US debriefer upon his release\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media however emphasized that he took part in an art project, making sculptures that were displayed at the NYU Law School, which neglected to show off Hitler's watercolors next to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden is also releasing Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu, linked to the terrorist attack on the Paradise Hotel in Africa which killed three Israelis, two of them children, along with ten Kenyans, a missile attack on an Israeli plane, as well as a plot to \"attack the Kenyan Anti-Terrorism Headquarters located in Nairobi, and the Mombasa Marathon,with the intent of killing Americans and Israelis”, not to mention, \"potential attacks on US and Israeli Embassies\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, according to his lawyer, Babaju “can quote Mohandas Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King like teenagers quote Taylor Swift.” Gandhi, King, and Swift could not be reached for comment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENeither could the victims of the Paradise Hotel attack.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso set to be released is Guled Hassan Duran, a member of Al Qaeda and a Somali Jihadist group whose successor organization turned into the infamous terrorist group Al-Shabaab.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn assessment noted that the reasons for detaining the Jihadist included the belief that he had \"personally surveyed Camp Lemonier, headquarters of CJTF-HOA, for a potential truck bomb attack\", and had \"participated in the planning of bombings, robbing Ethiopian businessmen in Hargeysa, kidnapping Westerners in Somalia. and shooting down an Ethiopian Airlines jet liner.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe report noted that the Somali “may have assisted an al-Qaeda operative in bombing the Whitesands Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, and the Coral Key Beach Hotel in Malindi, Kenya.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, \"Detainee has stated that he would fight until his death for the AIAI cause.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat are the reasons for releasing him beyond a love for terrorism and a hatred for America?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECamp Lemonier housed a joint task force of the United States Africa Command in Djibouti that was set up in response to the 9\/11 attacks and hosted thousands of American and allied forces. A year after the United States set up the base, Duran \"conducted reconnaissance of Camp Lemonier\" and \"expressed interest in seeing where the U.S. military was housed\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInitial plans apparently included \"hijacking an aircraft and crashing it into Camp Lemonier\" in another 9\/11 copycat operation or \"conducting an attack against off-base US personnel.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe attack plan finally came around a truck bombing similar to those that had been used to attack American military personnel in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \"operatives identified a dark red Isuzu water tank truck that delivered water to Camp Lemonier. Subsequently, in December 2003, they agreed on a plan to target Camp Lemonier with an explosives-laden water truck… Detainee stated that a powerful car bomb would be used to blow up a military compound or hardened structure.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHad the truck bombing succeeded, the casualties could have been horrifying. The Iran-backed Beirut barracks bombings killed 220 Marines in Lebanon and the Iran-backed Khobar Towers bombing killed 19 Air Force personnel. Fortunately the Djibouti plot was disrupted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELee Wolosky, Obama’s point man on releasing the terrorists, accused America of racism for locking up these monsters. “If these detainees had been white and not brown or black, is there any realistic chance the United States… would imprison them without charge for decades?”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuran’s “special group” had also been tied to the murder of Florence Chepkemei.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChepkemei was an African aid worker. In Wolosky’s racial terms, a “brown or black” person. She was one of a number of aid workers murdered by the Jihadis, including anti-apartheid activists Richard and Enid Eyeington, who taught Nelson Mandela's children, and Annalena Tonelli\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Jihadis finally faced justice, they were sentenced to death by an African court, which unlike American courts didn't hold them for decades while they pottered around with art projects, read up on Harry Potter, demanded more varied meals, and flirted with their NYU lawyers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir defense consisted of quoting the Koran and arguing that, \"we should not be killed for killing infidels.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is the racist genocidal mindset that the defenders of Al Qaeda terrorists collaborate with.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuran is the first black site \"high value\" detainee being let loose on the world by the Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe won't be the last.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELee Wolosky, Obama's point man on freeing the terrorists, urges Biden to show \"the same resolve and leadership\" that he had \"demonstrated in extricating the United States from Afghanistan.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden is certainly doing that. Even while he abandoned Americans to the Taliban, he’s freeing some of the worst of the worst from Guantanamo Bay. It’s a degree of “resolve and leadership” that the Al Qaeda terrorists he is liberating to kill more innocent people can only applaud.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs there any Islamic terrorist too monstrous and evil for even Biden to free? It’s still a long way to 2024 and there’s plenty of time for us to find out and for him to free them all.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4226409301198459041\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/biden-frees-alternate-911-hijacker-and.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4226409301198459041"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4226409301198459041"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/biden-frees-alternate-911-hijacker-and.html","title":"Biden Frees Alternate 9\/11 Hijacker and Military Base Truck Bomb Plotter"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjMjSzE2AGeDEiqDTML2BHt43h16BmEi6AAIwaHM342TYQ_fVIaj9hEPQyvZAJrEZtCJK14iwZGjyXWhMfxnzVp6QNmpjXGb8Wsk-bBmg-4RxyWekwHaDhs4hRaFt8cT_6oW5gUKIMcdYf-eoDSD4VV180dbpY6So8p_4YKIuBiCqrn9-5oNzo=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2478610917760138881"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-22T22:19:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-22T22:19:35.708-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Democrats Must Refuse to Use the Jim Crow Filibuster"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\"Dr. King knew the Jim Crow filibuster was a barrier to progress \u0026amp; justice, and that remains true today,\" Rep. Ayanna Pressley tweeted. \"To honor his legacy and claim our place on the right side of history, we must abolish the filibuster.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf this is true, and we must assume that Pressley believes it to be so, she and all Democrats should immediately commit to refusing to make use of the filibuster under any circumstances.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOtherwise they might be kicked out of the \u003Ci\u003ERight Side of History Bar \u0026amp; Grill\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh1qAAVkWEFcVUO3-Pwql9nufBg-UmxkrKQuTw7CzRPY7OurSElXetQzwIMkauadWPWvv9hYH6GIMQT4m9D1gsMrccdm7ls8Qk0tggWBMBa7_WvPavA8roaHgi-T38DLLiku7nOSyePGpp3_CKexLcad5KK_xUMFugmO_wFms95sHZNgRvf-CM=s655\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"474\" data-original-width=\"655\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh1qAAVkWEFcVUO3-Pwql9nufBg-UmxkrKQuTw7CzRPY7OurSElXetQzwIMkauadWPWvv9hYH6GIMQT4m9D1gsMrccdm7ls8Qk0tggWBMBa7_WvPavA8roaHgi-T38DLLiku7nOSyePGpp3_CKexLcad5KK_xUMFugmO_wFms95sHZNgRvf-CM=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIt is shameful that over 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a supporter of Alabama Democrat Governor George Wallace some Democrats still continue to utilize the filibuster. Now that the Democrats have officially denounced the filibuster as the work of Jim Crow (even though it actually originated with anti-slavery Whigs like Henry Clay attacking pro-slavery Jacksonians), it’s time for them to live up to their standards and reject the filibuster.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The Jim Crow Filibuster Must Go,” the Center for American Progress hectored. \"End the Jim Crow Filibuster Now,\" MoveOn clamored.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMartin Luther King III demanded that Senator Sinema see to it that \"the Jim Crow filibuster does not stand in the way\" of Democrat plans for permanent majority rule. Because if there's anything his father stood for, it was the unambiguous right of the majority to rule over the minority.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama, as usual, got all of this started when he insisted that, \"if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConfusingly, Democrats keep relying on this Jim Crow relic, most recently when they blocked Senator Ted Cruz’s sanctions on Putin’s European pipeline possibly because, to play by their rules, Vladimir has tapes of them with micturating prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s unfathomable that at a time when we are courageously toppling the statues of anyone who lived in the 19th century (never mind the 18th century) that Democrats cling to this vestige of Jim Crow in order to protect Russian pipelines, illegal aliens and abortion, and also to stop Senator Tim Scott’s police reform legislation. Truly the Dem filibuster is a relic of Jim Crow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats, who have called this dreadful issue to our attention, must lead the way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen they are in the minority (which is likely to happen quite soon) they should make it clear that they will refuse on principle to make use of the filibuster to oppose Republican legislation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo do otherwise would make them complicit in Jim Crow, systemic racism, and other social justice buzzwords that I am sure they were wholly and entirely sincere about invoking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats must make it clear that they will have no part in the Jim Crow filibuster starting today. Even if they can’t abolish it, they must show their moral superiority by refusing to trifle with it. If there’s anything that the civil rights movement teaches us, it’s that the minority must never object to the rule of the majority. And by refusing to employ the Jim Crow filibuster, they will live up to the true legacy of the civil rights movement by abandoning minority rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s what Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted. According to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly the most ridiculous racists would believe that there is any value whatsoever in allowing minorities to obstruct the will of the majority and as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday, we should be mindful of his words in his Letter From a Birmingham Jail, “A just law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EActually, King wrote that, “An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself.” But, much like his “content of character” quote and the filibuster, that’s inconvenient. So we’ll just get rid of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats, as the momentary majority, would like to bind Republicans by the filibuster, without being bound by it. And then once out of power, they would like to revive the filibuster. And then opposition to the filibuster will be the new Jim Crow after the filibuster was the old Jim Crow. That fits King’s definition of an unjust law that a tyranny “does not make binding on itself”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if the Democrats want to disprove it, all they have to do is reject the Jim Crow Filibuster.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the filibuster really is, as Common Dreams, the Sierra Club, the Associated Press, the For the People Project, Robert Reich, the Democracy Initiative, Common Cause, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, and Senator Brian Schatz falsely claim, the \"Jim Crow Filibuster\", how can Democrats possibly justify continuing to make use of it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWould Democrats make use of Jim Crow water fountains or buses? How can they use the Jim Crow Filibuster then?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Senate Democrats won't listen to these idiots and front groups for radical billionaires, won't they listen to Rob Reiner who pleaded with senators to, \"get rid of the Jim Crow filibuster, and save Democracy. We’re watching it slip away before our eyes.\" As an oppressed white California millionaire famous for playing a television buffoon, he knows what he’s talking about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats must live up to their principles and turn their backs on the Jim Crow Filibuster.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOtherwise people will begin to suspect that they’re pathological liars exploiting the traumas of one of the most difficult eras in our history in order to seize power and make some money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that would not be very nice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom this day forward, if a Democrat makes use of the Jim Crow filibuster, he or she must be forever known as a Jim Crow Democrat. After having given themselves ample warning of its racism, their determination to continue making use of the filibuster can be seen as nothing less than complicity in the systemic racism that has characterized their party since its origins.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is no laughing matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats have shamelessly weaponized racism on both sides of the table. They have shown absolutely no hesitation in hurling the worst possible accusations of racism if there’s something in it for them. And they’ve done it in the most nakedly hypocritical ways possible. The only thing to do is to hold them accountable for their talking points even after they’re no longer convenient.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr especially if they’re no longer convenient.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince they’ve decided that it’s the Jim Crow Filibuster, let it be so every time they use it even when they suddenly change their minds and decide that the Jim Crow Filibuster should really be known as the Martin Luther King Filibuster and that employing it is a true tribute to his legacy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Words matter,” as Obama said a long time ago before he decided that they didn’t after all.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2478610917760138881\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/democrats-must-refuse-to-use-jim-crow.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2478610917760138881"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2478610917760138881"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/democrats-must-refuse-to-use-jim-crow.html","title":"Democrats Must Refuse to Use the Jim Crow Filibuster"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh1qAAVkWEFcVUO3-Pwql9nufBg-UmxkrKQuTw7CzRPY7OurSElXetQzwIMkauadWPWvv9hYH6GIMQT4m9D1gsMrccdm7ls8Qk0tggWBMBa7_WvPavA8roaHgi-T38DLLiku7nOSyePGpp3_CKexLcad5KK_xUMFugmO_wFms95sHZNgRvf-CM=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6126442865074947771"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-19T15:10:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-19T15:10:47.499-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"riots"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Wearing a Chanel Face Mask, He Yelled, “Black Lives Matter”, and Threw the Burning Box"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAfter billions in damages, hundreds wounded, and some killed, including an 8-year-old girl, the Black Lives Matter riots led to virtually no consequences. The co-founders of the racist hate group got Hollywood deals and bought mansions, and BLM groups were flooded with cash. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEi5c5aC2pV7GJvlVDC2PJTy87Gf0ZmvTKpDqXmgSdR1m5bw48nT3CKQ-p5FCSnSnqrpVo4MPoQvThs5K4vJLuQlH1_i33xGhk96s6TDeNK61vFJcwebU9wVCiYfuqSaV8K2ZHqXn8Bv63vgrOpYyizo18J4FMQ2QPLc0HRKbaU7R7jHSoHAMmc=s693\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"693\" data-original-width=\"454\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEi5c5aC2pV7GJvlVDC2PJTy87Gf0ZmvTKpDqXmgSdR1m5bw48nT3CKQ-p5FCSnSnqrpVo4MPoQvThs5K4vJLuQlH1_i33xGhk96s6TDeNK61vFJcwebU9wVCiYfuqSaV8K2ZHqXn8Bv63vgrOpYyizo18J4FMQ2QPLc0HRKbaU7R7jHSoHAMmc=s320\" width=\"210\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile cities and states rushed to give the rioters a free pass, a few federal prosecutors worked to bring at least a few of the worst rioters to justice. With no support from the Department of Justice, which under Attorney General Merrick Garland is fully invested in supporting black nationalism, and little local support, they have won serious prison time for two rioters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt may not be much, but like the Kyle Rittenhouse case every little bit of pushback counts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the Buffalo BLM riots, virtually every rioter got a pass from local authorities in upstate New York with 35 out of 57 cases dismissed, 12 adjournments, and only three guilty verdicts. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Federal prosecutors have scored a win with one rioter getting a five year prison sentence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECourtland M. Renford became a minor celebrity when he was photographed shirtless and wearing a Chanel luxury brand face mask while doing a black nationalist salute.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECourt documents\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/united-states-v-renford\"\u003E describe \u003C\/a\u003Ehim yelling, “with an arm thrust overhead in excitement, ‘Black Lives Matter!,’ just a few feet from the camera. Less than a minute later, he picks up a green laundry basket with flames in it, steps up on a waist-high two-level abutment and on to the frame of the already broken window, and tosses the flaming basket into City Hall.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fire was quickly put out, but caused $10,000 in damage. While the media has typically refused to show pictures and videos of BLM rioters, let alone ask the public for help in locating them, an attitude that has made it difficult for law enforcement to track down and arrest rioters, his image appeared on the news. The perp’s friends and neighbors stayed loyal and refused to turn him in, but a local cop who knew him called in and provided his name and address.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York's \"bail reform\" would have set him loose, as it has so many other criminals, but then federal authorities stepped in and refused to buy his excuses and give him a slap on the wrist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA court ruling noted that Renford was a career offender who though, \"only 20 years of age\" had built up quite a criminal record and had been the \"subject of multiple bench warrants while under court supervision\" and \"committed additional crimes while under court supervision.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERenford claimed that unknown individuals had given him the burning basket and told him to throw it through the window. There's no way to know whether that's true, but it does raise questions about how the BLM riots were organized and who was really behind them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe City Hall BLM arson attack was his \"eighth arrest in a two-year time frame\" that included holding up a woman for her cell phone, and he \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/united-states-v-renford\"\u003Ehas\u003C\/a\u003E six orders of protection against him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis lawyer claimed, as usual, that he had mental problems, and proposed that he be enrolled in anti-violence programs. Renford underwent three psychological evaluations and the process dragged on even though he had already confessed and there was a trail of text messages linking him to the attack. But finally the justice system delivered justice. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver in Minneapolis, Victor Devon Edwards has been sentenced to eight years in prison. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEdwards had joined a BLM riot based on the false claim that police officers had shot and killed a black man, and then engaged in a long string of of attacks over three hours during which he broke into numerous businesses, including large chain establishments like Target and Saks, as well as smaller businesses, a bar and a coffee shop.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFederal prosecutors noted\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news-primer.com\/how-emotional-can-you-get\/\"\u003E that\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Edwards bragged about his participation in the rioting and looting.\" Much of the evidence against Edwards came from Facebook live streaming video and surveillance cameras which captured him, among other things, starting a fire in the Target headquarters that caused almost a million dollars in damage. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEdwards' public defender \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/coffeeordie.com\/minneapolis-riot-sentencing\/\"\u003Einsisted that\u003C\/a\u003E \"he is not a violent person\", but \"a sensitive, impressionable young man whose life has been repeatedly derailed by tragedy and trauma.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of psychological problems, as had been the case for Renford, his lawyer blamed “learning disabilities”, an equally cliched excuse for criminals. The defense attorney did not specify which learning disability prevented Edwards from understanding right and wrong.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut according to her, he was not ”in a positive, healthy place.” Now he will be.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoffee or Die\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/coffeeordie.com\/minneapolis-riot-sentencing\/\"\u003E reported\u003C\/a\u003E that prosecutors warned that his criminal behavior had escalated, “leading to convictions for criminal sexual conduct, felony theft, driving while intoxicated, and child endangerment.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlpha News \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/federal-charges-for-three-twin-cities-men-in-connection-to-arson-at-target-hq-during-august-riot\/\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E that Edwards had \"prior felony convictions in Hennepin County for third-degree criminal sexual conduct and theft, as well as other convictions for child endangerment” but that in “both felony convictions, Edwards was granted a stay of execution or imposition and was placed on probation.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeing sentenced to 8 years in prison should at least temporarily impose some consequences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe verdict sends a clear message in Minneapolis, where over 90% of cases against Black Lives Matter rioters were dropped by the Democrat establishment. As the New York Times put it, \"prosecutors declined to pursue many of the cases because they concluded that the protesters were exercising their basic civil rights.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBurning, looting, rioting, maiming, and terrorizing entire cities is not a “civil right”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack Lives Matter have often been accused of being racial arsonists. Renford and Edwards have been accused of literal arson. The vast majority of BLM arsonists have never been caught or received a slap on the wrist, but these convictions are a sign of hope for our justice system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis won’t be in the next email about diversity and inclusion that a major corporation dispatches, it won’t show up in Attorney General Merrick Garland’s next speech or on CNN, but it happened. America isn’t dead yet and justice is not impossible: it takes hard work, dedication, and a willingness to take on an unpopular cause and see it through by rigorously following the law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is a reminder that there are still good people working to bring the race rioters to justice.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6126442865074947771\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/wearing-chanel-face-mask-he-yelled.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6126442865074947771"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6126442865074947771"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/wearing-chanel-face-mask-he-yelled.html","title":"Wearing a Chanel Face Mask, He Yelled, “Black Lives Matter”, and Threw the Burning Box"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEi5c5aC2pV7GJvlVDC2PJTy87Gf0ZmvTKpDqXmgSdR1m5bw48nT3CKQ-p5FCSnSnqrpVo4MPoQvThs5K4vJLuQlH1_i33xGhk96s6TDeNK61vFJcwebU9wVCiYfuqSaV8K2ZHqXn8Bv63vgrOpYyizo18J4FMQ2QPLc0HRKbaU7R7jHSoHAMmc=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4496137467401668650"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-17T20:01:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-17T20:01:37.660-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamic terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jewish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Texas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UK"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Texas Synagogue Terrorist Came Out of UK Islamist No-Go Zone"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAs far back as 2013, Pakistani Muslim terrorists had plotted to take \"foreign Jews\" hostage to trade for ‘Lady Al Qaeda’. In 2022, a Pakistani Muslim terrorist actually went out and did it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgTDSNXn1ZlbUV0pVUts3jyg2wILr0G2WGOGVSYHj2pEfkGGHeL3UFuFjPcKYml9T5mN1V2AObYg5QT0QGZN34fLAEoZ2KYm_T4ToutCj6G3e7D0MO9UUUFNODfwO7ecM9706Oxd3efM3Mlk0X0knWompiZG4C5ElKk_VofGhkamEKnBHb4p94=s1600\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgTDSNXn1ZlbUV0pVUts3jyg2wILr0G2WGOGVSYHj2pEfkGGHeL3UFuFjPcKYml9T5mN1V2AObYg5QT0QGZN34fLAEoZ2KYm_T4ToutCj6G3e7D0MO9UUUFNODfwO7ecM9706Oxd3efM3Mlk0X0knWompiZG4C5ElKk_VofGhkamEKnBHb4p94=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform Temple in Texas, ended with Faisal Akram of Blackburn, another post-industrial English town where Muslims make up a third of the population and Pakistanis account for over 10 percent, dead, and his Jewish hostages set free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBack home, the Blackburn Muslim Community page announced that \"Faisal Akram has sadly departed from this temporary world\" and prayed that Allah \"bless him with the highest ranks of Paradise\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BMC page had previously promoted a “charity” event to raise money for “Palestinians” by the Human Relief Foundation, which had been banned by Israel over its\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/6728\/ngo-links-to-middle-east-terror\"\u003E ties to Hamas\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe town has produced no shortage of Jihadists, including the youngest terrorist in the UK, as well as a number of Jihadis who traveled to join ISIS, an associate of shoe bomber Richard Reid, and a terrorist who played a key role in an \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/1374130.the-al-qaeda-look-out-blackburn\/\"\u003EAl Qaeda plot \u003C\/a\u003Ethat targeted New York and D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlackburn is one of the most segregated towns in the country and has been described as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/e\/\"\u003Ea “no-go zone”\u003C\/a\u003E. The area that produced the Temple Terrorist has one of the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-9648477\/Author-visited-Muslim-mosques-Britain-reveals-no-areas-white-men.html\"\u003E highest Muslim population\u003C\/a\u003Es outside of London and some claim that flying the English flag has been effectively outlawed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe setting couldn’t be any better for the media to whitewash the murderous terrorist with the familiar excuses that he was the victim of failed integration in the United Kingdom. His family, in an even more familiar excuse, is claiming that he “was suffering from mental health issues”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat, along with the claim by FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno that the terrorist, \"was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community\", is becoming the very familiar narrative for covering up the latest Muslim terror attack.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut antisemitism, like Islamism, was part of the air that Faisal Akram breathed in Blackburn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESalim Mulla, Blackburn's former mayor and current Labour councilor, claimed that Israel was behind ISIS and school shootings in America. Last year, four Muslim men from Blackburn took part in a \"Palestinian\" convoy while shouting, \"F*** the Jews... F*** all of them. F*** their mothers, f*** their daughters and show your support for Palestine. Rape their daughters and we have to send a message like that. Please do it for the poor children in Gaza.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESiddiqui aka Lady Al Qaeda, on whose behalf the Texas synagogue attack took place, was married to the nephew of 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and had assorted recipes for mass murder in her possession when she was captured. Despite graduating from Brandeis, a formerly Jewish university, she demanded at her trial that jurors undergo DNA tests to prove that they are not Jewish. And the Aafia Foundation posted bizarre antisemitic rants about the \"degree of poisonous venum (sic) within the heart of American mainstream jewry\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe hatred of Jews, like the hatred of all non-Muslims, is a crucial motive for Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Blackburn is a miserable place, the tale of the Akram family may reveal why. The official family statement by the terrorist’s brother, Gulbar Akram, claims that \"although my brother was suffering from mental health issues we were confident that he would not harm the hostages\" and denied that the FBI had rescued the hostages from being killed by his brother. \"Don’t believe the bull#### in the media they were released from the fire exit and Not rescued.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Blackburn Community message describes the terrorist as having brothers named \"Gulbar\", “Malik” and the \"Late Gulzameer Akram\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo brothers named Gulbar Akram and Gulzameer Akram in Blackburn had been locked up \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/5795467.brothers-jailed-360-000-car-crime\/\"\u003Eover\u003C\/a\u003E stolen cars. Another time, a Blackburn resident named Gulbar Akram almost \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/5937249.mans-nose-almost-sliced-off\/\"\u003Ehad his nose\u003C\/a\u003E sliced off. A Gulzameer Akram \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/1954164.170-000-cash-factory-based-terrace-house\/\"\u003Eran a\u003C\/a\u003E massive counterfeiting operation from a Blackburn home. A Malik Akram was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/18335578.man-38-jailed-following-girl-blackburn-college-ask-phone-number\/\"\u003Elocked up\u003C\/a\u003E for harassing girls. Were all of them members of the same clan?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best way to cover up a terrorist attack is to shift the context. And that’s what they’re doing. But it’s important to dig into the true context to understand the true origins of the Texas attack.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his book, Among the Mosques, ex-Islamist Ed Husain described Blackburn as “another global hub for the Deobandis and the Tableeghi Jamaat” where the mosques pray for the destruction of the enemies of Islam and texts declare that “there can be no reconciliation between Islam and democracy”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Deobandis, who control many of the mosques in Blackburn, originated the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAafia Siddiqui, better known as 'Lady Al Qaeda', is a Deobandi, the terrorist on whose behalf Faisal Akram took a synagogue hostage, and a popular cause with Pakistanis. A few years ago the Pakistani Senate had even named the Islamic terrorist, the “Daughter of the Nation”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndian Mujahideen co-founder Riyaz Bhatkal had plotted to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2022\/01\/islamic-terrorists-previously-discussed-trading-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Etake Jews hostage\u003C\/a\u003E a decade ago in order to force 'Lady Al Qaeda's release. British Muslim “charities” were a major source of funding to the Jihadist group as they are for many Pakistani Jihadist enterprises.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile much has been made of the advocacy on behalf of Siddiqui by CAIR and other Islamist colonists in America, top Muslim politicians in the UK also vocally demanded her release, including Lord Nazir Ahmed and Lord Altaf Sheikh.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Husain visited Blackburn, he warned that, \"it is clear that a caliphist subculture thrives here, a separate world from the rest of British society.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETableeghi Jamaat, whose mosques are known as \"breeding grounds\" for Jihad, is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/686\/tablighi-jamaat-jihads-stealthy-legions\"\u003Eclosely intertwined with Pakistani Islamism\u003C\/a\u003E and vectored Islamic terrorism. Quite a number have joined Al Qaeda. It is no coincidence that so many Islamic terrorists have come out of Blackburn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENor is it a coincidence that the latest Islamic terrorist attack on America originated there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFaisal Akram traveled to Texas, where ‘Lady Al Qaeda’ sleeps at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth. He was one of many Muslim pilgrims seeking to extricate her. Just last fall, the Dallas-Forth Worth CAIR and the Pakistani terror regime claimed that Aafia Siddiqui had been assaulted in U.S. custody in the latest effort of many on behalf of ‘Lady Al Qaeda’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFaisal’s target, a progressive Reform Temple which happened to carry the traditional name of Congregation Beth Israel despite its social justice activist clergyman’s hostility to Israel, was ideally selected to fit Muslim antisemitic obsessions with both Israel and Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe antisemitic rants, the hostage crisis, and the rapid cover-up are all regular features of life for Jews in Europe. Changing demographics are making them a new reality for American Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAny American city or town can become the new Blackburn. That’s the harsh lesson here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPakistani antisemitism and obscure Jihadist movements are not local issues, they are global threats. The poison nurtured in a declining British post-industrial town blew up in Texas. We are all interconnected, and that interconnectedness has made the Jihad into a global enterprise. Ideas, tactics, and organizations that once took centuries to colonize the world can travel around it at the speed of the internet and a terror plot can happen at the speed of a jet plane.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe can either police our borders, control our immigration, and build walls around our nations, or we must be resigned to being hunted, stalked, and killed anywhere and at any given moment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Blackburn, Muslims anticipate the Texas Jihadist ascending to the “highest ranks of Paradise\" where he will enjoy the company of 72 virgins. More Muslims from Blackburn, marinating in the same hatred for America, for Jews, and for anyone unlike them, will follow in his footsteps.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4496137467401668650\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/texas-synagogue-terrorist-came-out-of.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4496137467401668650"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4496137467401668650"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/texas-synagogue-terrorist-came-out-of.html","title":"Texas Synagogue Terrorist Came Out of UK Islamist No-Go Zone"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgTDSNXn1ZlbUV0pVUts3jyg2wILr0G2WGOGVSYHj2pEfkGGHeL3UFuFjPcKYml9T5mN1V2AObYg5QT0QGZN34fLAEoZ2KYm_T4ToutCj6G3e7D0MO9UUUFNODfwO7ecM9706Oxd3efM3Mlk0X0knWompiZG4C5ElKk_VofGhkamEKnBHb4p94=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8933668060236247797"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-15T23:49:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-15T23:49:25.828-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"black nationalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Black Panther Defense Minister Leaves Congress to Spend More Time With His Hate Group"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAfter the last of the old Senate Democrat Klansmen rode off into the sunset, it’s the turn of the longest serving former official of a racist hate group to throw his own retirement party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/individuals\/bobby-rush\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/individuals\/bobby-rush\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiuToHffhWJs-5XsTCZLiiFnc-_7DFJvFQubWf53yELNWvR0rx32McZx83kV4DE0alaF40kkBONoQRQCdk00lWVx4nsBp5ZIGgljhUSEKdgTpWScsBolA3wL3k-aTsPFHu7QRAt3dGJUZO3oN8OSugV3niymuuhXnC7XQ6EL2-qOiTTNixbBcg=s646\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"403\" data-original-width=\"646\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiuToHffhWJs-5XsTCZLiiFnc-_7DFJvFQubWf53yELNWvR0rx32McZx83kV4DE0alaF40kkBONoQRQCdk00lWVx4nsBp5ZIGgljhUSEKdgTpWScsBolA3wL3k-aTsPFHu7QRAt3dGJUZO3oN8OSugV3niymuuhXnC7XQ6EL2-qOiTTNixbBcg=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ERep. Bobby Rush, the former Deputy Minister of Defense for the Black Panthers, announced that he’s joining his fellow Democrats fleeing the sinking ship ahead of the midterms, not for political reasons mind you, but in order to spend more time with his grandchildren.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I don’t want to be a historical figure to my grandchildren,\" Rush said. That stands to reason considering his history.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERush was recruited by Stokely Carmichael, a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/senator-booker-quotes-violent-racist-who-urged-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ederanged bigot\u003C\/a\u003E who would later describe Adolf Hitler as “the greatest white man”, to form a Black Panther chapter in Chicago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We plan to arm the total black community so when the pigs come down on us, we will be equal,\" Rush once bragged. \"We advocate offensive violence against the power structure... we are at war and the Minister of Defense must be in charge.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a House Democrat, Rush, suffering from criminal hypocrisy and a broken mirror, falsely claimed during the BLM riots that President Trump “wants to instigate a race war”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA month after two police officers were murdered, the cops finally raided a Black Panther apartment where Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Chicago chapter, was holed up. This time around, the Panthers got the worst of the exchange. Rush, who had been there hours earlier, emerged at Jesse Jackson’s service, claiming that he had been marked for death by the cops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If I was out on the street, they would have shot me down,\" he claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Unlike Hampton, who was the subject of a recent Hollywood hagiography, Judas and the Black Messiah, the two murdered officers, Patrolman Frank Gershon Rappaport and Patrolman John Gilhooly, one Jewish and one Irish, have not been lionized by Warner Bros and the Oscars.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERush went into politics, but never left behind his affinity for his racist hate group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2019, Rush \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/repbobbyrush\/status\/1202321336904892417?lang=en\"\u003Ehosted\u003C\/a\u003E a special on the \"legacy of Fred Hampton\" featuring a propaganda poster of Malcolm X next to Mao, and claims that the Black Panther was “murdered”. In 2021, he appeared at a black nationalist conspiracist forum that included a Black Panther who had admitted to pouring \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dems-hosted-ex-black-panther-implicated-in-torture-for-event-where-panelists-praised-cop-killers\/\"\u003Eboiling water\u003C\/a\u003E on a teenager who was being tortured and then murdered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I have a lot of fun ribbing other elected officials now and other members of the Central Committee because they all came up through the Young Democrats,\" Rush told an interviewer. \"My training was in the, was in the, was in the Black Panther party. And we've been regular democrats for a while now. So I figure my training was probably a little bit better than theirs.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESay what you will about the Young Democrats, but they don’t train members to pour boiling water on people whom they suspect of being insufficiently loyal to the socialist cause. Yet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Mao portrait is no accident.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Rush visited Cuba, he called his meeting with Castro, “like listening to an old friend.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor,” he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERetiring from the House after three decades of blight and misery in the black community he claimed to represent even as he managed to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/rep-bobby-rush-paid-wife-550k-campaign-funds-kicked-190k-church-founded\/\"\u003Epay his wife $550K\u003C\/a\u003E for, among other things, consulting services, not to mention his brother, sister, and son, Rush is a mini-Castro.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike his old Communist friend, Rush is the ultimate survivor and a revolutionary hypocrite.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police is the most rabid, racist body of criminal lawlessness by police in the land. It stands shoulder to shoulder with the Ku Klux Klan then, and the Ku Klux Klan now,\" Rush ranted during the BLM riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat same month, the former Black Panther official, complained that Chicago cops, the men he called the modern KKK, sat eating popcorn in his office instead of stopping Black Lives Matter rioters from looting his office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“One was asleep on my couch in my campaign office,” Rush whined at a press conference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorse still, “they even had the unmitigated gall to go and make coffee for themselves and to pop popcorn, my popcorn, in my microwave while looters were tearing apart businesses within sight and within their reach.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd most horrifying of all, the popcorn they were eating was almost certainly white.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s tragic when the KKK won't lift a finger to stop racist thugs who view his Black Panthers as role models from looting their former Deputy Defense Minister's office. Where’s the respect?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Rush had schizophrenically pivoted from claiming that police efforts to stop the BLM riot in D.C., “reminded me of 1968, when the police were as responsible for the rioting,” to complaining that the police were eating popcorn instead of cracking BLM heads outside his offices.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the former Black Panther leader has never let consistency get him down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a Deputy Minister of Defense, he was busted on gun charges. He named his son Huey, after the Black Panther leader, Huey P. Newton, only to see his son follow in Newton’s footsteps by getting shot and killed during an argument over drugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then Rep. Rush began campaigning for gun control. He might have done better to give his son a different role model. Or perhaps dissuade him from going down the path that led him to becoming the target of a druglord named “Ball” who wanted $110,000 in cocaine from Huey.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHuey P. Newton, the original Huey and Minister of Defense for the Panthers, was shot and killed by a member of the Black Guerrilla Family during an argument over a cocaine deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe former Deputy Minister of Defense who had advocated, “we need to arm ourselves”, and had served time on gun charges, blamed not his son or his decision to use the Black Panther thug as a role model for him, or even drugs, but the firearms that were used in the argument.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Ultimately, I would like to see the manufacture and possession of handguns banned,” Rush \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/individuals\/bobby-rush\"\u003Edeclared\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a radical revolutionary, Rush wanted guns to fight the power structure, but as a member of the political power structure, his interests lie with disarming the public.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Rush can’t manage to dynastically hand over his seat to his son Flynn Rush, a failed candidate who was paid by his father’s campaign, he’ll at least be able to spend more time doing interviews about the glory days in a violent hate group. Back then reporters would line up at Bobby Lee’s press conferences as the bespectacled nerd held forth surrounded by thugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Panther minister may be leaving, but his rise is a measure of just how much the Democrat party that made him its elder statesman has become an extremist hate group.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8933668060236247797\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/black-panther-defense-minister-leaves.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8933668060236247797"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8933668060236247797"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/black-panther-defense-minister-leaves.html","title":"Black Panther Defense Minister Leaves Congress to Spend More Time With His Hate Group"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiuToHffhWJs-5XsTCZLiiFnc-_7DFJvFQubWf53yELNWvR0rx32McZx83kV4DE0alaF40kkBONoQRQCdk00lWVx4nsBp5ZIGgljhUSEKdgTpWScsBolA3wL3k-aTsPFHu7QRAt3dGJUZO3oN8OSugV3niymuuhXnC7XQ6EL2-qOiTTNixbBcg=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7308691597102673752"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-13T00:54:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-13T15:01:58.718-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Tech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"China"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Russia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Washington Post Accused Conservatives of Russian Disinformation, Its Boss Was Spreading Chinese Disinformation"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIf there’s one newspaper that could have had “disinformation” copyrighted and then collected royalties from every Russian conspiracy theory, it was the Washington Post.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg6xbPTHvHId-HO4qTJfJmykfdwOTisD2Lddx1g2fPZuV8eTvUkcPgn54Rbur0Ka7J9yGMDH7Jc40V-V-a3QEiYBSPh6NXcTcJzXTrpMgWgi1Acn2v9v3Cyn8zsrmP2GSOIN3udMckrHLGkAdWv5lzIJIH4fBwEzhK7agKaxEQznZXlK-kw8XE=s646\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"461\" data-original-width=\"646\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg6xbPTHvHId-HO4qTJfJmykfdwOTisD2Lddx1g2fPZuV8eTvUkcPgn54Rbur0Ka7J9yGMDH7Jc40V-V-a3QEiYBSPh6NXcTcJzXTrpMgWgi1Acn2v9v3Cyn8zsrmP2GSOIN3udMckrHLGkAdWv5lzIJIH4fBwEzhK7agKaxEQznZXlK-kw8XE=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe Washington Post gained power and influence and its circulation and its profits grew as the paper spread lies, smears, and conspiracy theories that pandered to the prejudices and coup impulses of an angry base of D.C. Democrat government bureaucrats, politicians, lobbyists, and contractors who fancied themselves to be the “resistance” to the 2016 election.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Post's opinion section filled up with headlines like, \"The Republicans have become the party of Russia\", but its news desk was no better with a false claim, later retracted, that Giuliani had been warned by the FBI that he was the target of a “Russian influence operation”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDay after day, the paper built a case that Republicans were a “threat to democracy” by “spreading Russian disinformation”, and urgently needed to be deplatformed and censored.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMax Boot, a Washington Post columnist, cheered Big Tech's censorship of a New York Post story about Hunter Biden while insisting that it was \"Russian disinformation\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Sorry, Republicans. Social media companies aren’t obligated to spread your lies,\" he gloated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe now know that there was no Russian disinformation, but that the Washington Post’s Big Tech boss was actually the one profiting from spreading Chinese disinformation to Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Washington Post \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/10\/china-using-companies-twitter-interfere-election-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ehad been\u003C\/a\u003E purchased by Jeff Bezos while Amazon’s federal contracts and lobbying expenditures\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/10\/china-using-companies-twitter-interfere-election-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E began to grow\u003C\/a\u003E. One of Amazon's biggest federal paydays was a $600 million cloud contract with the CIA. Then the Big Tech giant \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/08\/amazons-ceo-owns-terror-linked-paper-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eset its sights\u003C\/a\u003E on a $10 billion military cloud contract known as JEDI. After the Trump administration noted favoritism toward Amazon, the contract was instead awarded to Microsoft, leading to an Amazon sore loser lawsuit. JEDI was then canceled and Amazon got a profitable piece of a new JWCC military cloud contract.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile, Amazon was deep in bed with Communist China. Amazon’s marketplace is dominated by third party sellers and most of those third party sellers are \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/10\/china-using-companies-twitter-interfere-election-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ebased in China\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/17\/amazon-partnered-with-china-propaganda-arm.html\"\u003Erecently leaked\u003C\/a\u003E internal Amazon document also revealed that the Big Tech giant was trading the Communist regime access to Americans in exchange for doing business in China.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Amazon wanted the right to sell books to the Chinese, the Communist regime wanted to be able to push its propaganda through Chinabooks on the Amazon platform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJay Carney, formerly Obama's press secretary, now heading up Amazon's lobbying operation, was told before \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/17\/amazon-partnered-with-china-propaganda-arm.html\"\u003Ehe flew out to Beijing\u003C\/a\u003E that the key to persuading the Communist regime to allow Amazon to continue doing business was \"the Chinabooks project.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe China Books project is outwardly just another storefront, albeit stocked with books on Xi. The design may be crude but the agenda shows up at the beginning with a menu that highlights \"Governance of China\" and \"Books on China's Battle Against the Pandemic\". While the former category largely features Xi, the country’s Communist dictator, the latter is where the action is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe various texts, political, personal, and even books on the pandemic for children, highlight the efforts of the Communist party and treat the battle against the virus as a vindication of the party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe books often come through the Foreign Languages Press, an arm of the Chinese Communist Party that is used to spread disinformation and propaganda around the world. FLP is an imitation of the Soviet Union's Foreign Languages Publishing House. While the Soviet Union had shut down and freshened up its FLPH propaganda operation in the sixties, China, which copied it in the fifties, has kept FLP going with few changes to the operation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon sells a lot of books, but with the Chinabooks project it had partnered with an enemy nation’s propaganda campaign in order to be able to do business with the Communists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd much of that propaganda campaign was aimed at Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven while Amazon’s CEO was partnering his company with \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/17\/amazon-partnered-with-china-propaganda-arm.html\"\u003EChina’s state propaganda arm\u003C\/a\u003E, his newspaper was accusing Republicans of being in bed with Russia. The Washington Post’s smear campaign was true, not of Republicans, but of its owner and his Big Tech monopoly.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven as Amazon swallows up American retail, it’s become little more than a front for China. Its products come from China, but so do the third party sellers who dominate its platform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet Amazon also wields enormous influence over American policy and politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite its close relationship to Communist China and other enemies, Amazon controls the CIA’s cloud and will have a chunk of the military cloud. Some of our most sensitive information is in the hands of a corporation that doesn’t think twice about collaborating with our enemies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon did not hesitate to give China’s Communist party the key to spreading their disinformation to American audiences. What other digital doors might it help China open?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond the sensitive role that Amazon plays in our military and intelligence apparatus is the political role that it enjoys courtesy of its chairman’s ownership of the Washington Post.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Post sets the policy agenda for the Democrats and columnists like Jennifer Rubin function as mouthpieces for the Biden administration. The partnership has been extremely profitable for the paper as lefty audiences ate up its Russiagate disinformation campaign, sending subscription rates sky high and making its articles trend on Big Tech social media platforms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EQatar’s biggest foreign influence operation, involving the death of Jamal Khashoggi, a Qatari terror operative embedded as a columnist in the Washington Post, was enormously successful and quickly became part of the Democrat foreign policy agenda. The transformation of an old friend of Osama bin Laden into a political martyr would not have been possible without the unquestioning acceptance that the Post’s disinformation campaigns have achieved among the Democrats and even among some less sensible Republicans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven after stepping down as CEO to become Amazon's executive chairman, Jeff Bezos still commands $180 billion worth of Amazon stock. The intertwining of the key media outlet of D.C. Democrats and one of the most powerful Big Tech monopolies in the country still remains.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo does the disinformation threat posed by the combination of Amazon and the Post.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftists most often accuse their enemies of their own sins. While the Washington Post colluded to censor its conservative political opponents to protect Biden’s electoral chances, Amazon stood to profit from Biden’s win, renewed relations with China, and a military cloud deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd while the Post claimed that Republicans were spreading Russian disinformation, it was actually the money behind its machine that was spreading Chinese disinformation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe paper manufactured a threat by Republicans to cover up the threat that it poses to America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs long as China calls the shots at Amazon, and the Big Tech monopoly and its paper call the shots in our retail sector and our nation’s capital, America remains in the grip of China.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7308691597102673752\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/the-washington-post-accused.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7308691597102673752"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7308691597102673752"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/the-washington-post-accused.html","title":"The Washington Post Accused Conservatives of Russian Disinformation, Its Boss Was Spreading Chinese Disinformation"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg6xbPTHvHId-HO4qTJfJmykfdwOTisD2Lddx1g2fPZuV8eTvUkcPgn54Rbur0Ka7J9yGMDH7Jc40V-V-a3QEiYBSPh6NXcTcJzXTrpMgWgi1Acn2v9v3Cyn8zsrmP2GSOIN3udMckrHLGkAdWv5lzIJIH4fBwEzhK7agKaxEQznZXlK-kw8XE=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6123285111779000080"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-11T21:24:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-11T21:24:47.999-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"iran"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"While Biden Negotiates, Iran Keeps Trying to Kill Americans"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ESix years after Obama signed off on the nuclear sellout deal with Iran, diplomats are once again meeting with representatives of the Islamic terror in Vienna's lavish Palais Saxe-Coburg.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEj0oIDy3kAMCnx99RdxagmEkxUW4_RIGfE7V71lQuwd3Am05DcwxA0srQEOCOZMIjPYpYmV6JO0dgM7BFNVdk6mP1RI6Xr1ubzxBjfLDkY43KVMyhjvUuzKLp-x1u8ZqoWKIdbUz0jPAzG91SKUFyTcdpiKsqNNn9CqhkQ26VRs0WSRe-Mdry8=s674\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"389\" data-original-width=\"674\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEj0oIDy3kAMCnx99RdxagmEkxUW4_RIGfE7V71lQuwd3Am05DcwxA0srQEOCOZMIjPYpYmV6JO0dgM7BFNVdk6mP1RI6Xr1ubzxBjfLDkY43KVMyhjvUuzKLp-x1u8ZqoWKIdbUz0jPAzG91SKUFyTcdpiKsqNNn9CqhkQ26VRs0WSRe-Mdry8=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E1,500 miles away from the white columns of the former palace turned five-star hotel, American forces are under fire once again. On January 3rd, two suicide drones were aimed at the State Department’s Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center near the Baghdad International Airport.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo more terror drones targeted American forces deployed to fight ISIS at the Al Asad air base. The base has been repeatedly hammered by Iran-backed rocket attacks over the past year, most notably when 14 rockets struck the base over the summer causing several injuries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile American forces were able to shoot down the terror drones, these latest acts of Iranian diplomacy came complete with the words “Soleimani’s revenge” scrawled on the drones. The latest Iranian attacks on Americans forces use Soleimani’s death as a pretext, but the attacks began before the Iranian terror boss was killed, and have sharply escalated under Biden in response to his appeasement of the Islamic terror regime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere were repeated Iran-backed rocket strikes against Americans in Iraq throughout the last year totaling an estimated 25 separate attacks under the Biden administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese attacks have mostly gone unpunished.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Iran and the media eagerly link the latest wave of Iranian attacks on American forces to the death of General Soleimani, they conveniently forget that the U.S. took him out in response to multiple attacks such as these, including the 2019 rocket attack that killed an American contractor and wounded four American servicemen, and the attempt by Iranian proxies to recreate Benghazi with an attack on our embassy in Baghdad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Trump administration decided to send a clear message to Iran after that. The Biden administration has sent an equally clear message of a very different kind to Tehran.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter two straight days of drone and rocket attacks, the Biden administration finally authorized strikes at several launch sites in Syria that had been used to target American forces.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We have to take that threat very seriously and we always have the right of self defense,\" Pentagon spokesman John Kirby argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe right of self defense is a very low bar.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Trump administration made it clear that it would target Iran and its Shiite terror militias in retaliation, the Biden administration is still limiting its response to preemptive self-defense. This weak approach tells Iran that it can set the terms of engagement without having to fear the kind of unexpected escalation that led the Trump administration to take out Soleimani.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIranian rocket attacks on Americans have escalated even as the Biden administration has tried to resume negotiations with the terror state and provided it with indirect sanctions relief.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Iran has made much of the January attacks coinciding with the anniversary of Soleimani's death, the most intense attacks of the Biden administration actually took place around the summer anniversary of the nuclear deal. The more recent sixth round of negotiations over restoring the deal had closed out in June. While the Biden administration remained convinced that it was on the verge of an agreement, Iran responded with its most severe attacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the first full week of July, there was an attack targeting Americans nearly every single day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Iran’s terror proxies did not even wait for the negotiations to break off. There were 7 attacks throughout June before the Iran-backed terror campaign really picked up in July with 7 attacks in just the early weeks. While the wave of attacks faded as the negotiations did not immediately resume, the Islamic terror state did make a special exception for one day in September.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn September 11, two drones launched an attack on U.S. forces at Erbil International Airport.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen, as now, the Biden administration limited American military personnel to defensive preventative air strikes against the Shiite terror groups carrying out the attacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis strategy not only failed to stop the attacks, it has emboldened the Islamic terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Biden administration has provided Iran with billions in sanctions relief, a sufficient act of betrayal on its own, it seems to have little interest in expecting Iran to stop trying to kill Americans by either linking sanctions relief to an end to terror or refusing to negotiate under fire.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans meanwhile have little idea of just how pervasive and constant the Iranian attacks are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media does report on major attacks, but buries the reports on the back page. While many people are aware of the Vienna negotiations, far fewer have any idea that American military personnel are still deployed in Iraq to meet the ISIS threat or that they’re under fire from Iran.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMany Americans think of our conflict with Iran as political, when it’s actually military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe reporting on the latest wave of Iran-backed attacks further distorts the bigger picture by emphasizing claims that they are linked to the anniversary of Soleimani’s death as if the terrorists hadn’t been doing the same thing throughout the previous year. And as if Soleimani hadn’t been a key player in organizing and funding these attacks before he was taken out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most striking contrast between the high-level American diplomats in Vienna and the low-level diplomats in Iraq is that the former chat up the Iranians while the latter are targeted by them. Iranian-backed attacks have been aimed not only at our military, but our diplomats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe State Department isn’t just selling out America, it’s selling out its own people who are facing rocket and drone attacks by the terror regime that it’s unsuccessfully trying to crawl into bed with.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the Biden administration is selling out America and Americans. Once again a Democrat administration has put military personnel in the line of fire and won’t let them fight back.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6123285111779000080\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/while-biden-negotiates-iran-keeps.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6123285111779000080"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6123285111779000080"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/while-biden-negotiates-iran-keeps.html","title":"While Biden Negotiates, Iran Keeps Trying to Kill Americans"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEj0oIDy3kAMCnx99RdxagmEkxUW4_RIGfE7V71lQuwd3Am05DcwxA0srQEOCOZMIjPYpYmV6JO0dgM7BFNVdk6mP1RI6Xr1ubzxBjfLDkY43KVMyhjvUuzKLp-x1u8ZqoWKIdbUz0jPAzG91SKUFyTcdpiKsqNNn9CqhkQ26VRs0WSRe-Mdry8=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2267050988122883876"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-08T23:34:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-08T23:34:16.803-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"future of the west"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"society"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Lonely Nation"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There is both bad news and good news for Planned Parenthood these days. Even while abortion made a brief stop once again at the Supreme Court, its numbers are dropping.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few years ago, abortion hit its lowest rate since it was legalized. The drop in abortion rates parallels the fall in birth rates. Both stem from a decline in pregnancies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica isn’t becoming more moral, only more lonely.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA recent New York Times headline declared, “The Married Will Soon Be the Minority”. But it’s not just the married, but anyone in a relationship or who is connected to other people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgrv4jVZRoR_dcsxZRO_sfmwFChxqcHXl9DHLZY0aWPjHCAwBQyeGj4a1rll5-asPh2c3jwOxXFzXJLa3FJB-sq47icw6KVWWKnS5WFoENQjF_vvuVCE5W1utEH9vNWOGs4F6YSzZTv2mq9eUmh9Xa97QZ0f4OSOjQX2s-JaT_Xd6zfMyx0xk8=s842\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"575\" data-original-width=\"842\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgrv4jVZRoR_dcsxZRO_sfmwFChxqcHXl9DHLZY0aWPjHCAwBQyeGj4a1rll5-asPh2c3jwOxXFzXJLa3FJB-sq47icw6KVWWKnS5WFoENQjF_vvuVCE5W1utEH9vNWOGs4F6YSzZTv2mq9eUmh9Xa97QZ0f4OSOjQX2s-JaT_Xd6zfMyx0xk8=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EMarriage rates hit an all-time low around the same time, with the single population rising sharply. But the singles weren’t just postponing marriage in favor of extended relationships, because there was also a sharp drop in the rates of physical intimacy between men and women.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans were becoming more lonely even before the pandemic. The arrival of the pandemic divided families, cut off grandparents from grandchildren, parents from adult children, children from other children, and made the country an even more lonely and isolated place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver the pandemic year, the nation’s population grew \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2021\/12\/us-population-grew-in-2021-slowest-rate-since-founding-of-the-nation.html\"\u003Eby only\u003C\/a\u003E 0.1%. According to the Census Bureau, that was “the lowest rate since the nation’s founding.” Its estimate also showed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2021\/2021-population-estimates.html\"\u003Ethat for the\u003C\/a\u003E first time \"net international migration... has exceeded natural increase for a given year.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s population has been declining for a while, but the pandemic was particularly catastrophic with international migration easily topping excess births at 244,622 to 148,043.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe demographic snapshot of a society coming apart, the familial, civic, and cultural bonds between Americans dissolving even as growth comes from mass migration is a familiar story from Europe. Internally and externally, we are becoming a society in name only, linked by the legal technicalities of a vast bureaucracy and a disposable multinational consumer culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo understand the wave of wokeness and other political cults consuming our civic culture, we need only observe that a third of Americans now have no religion: a number that has doubled in under 15 years. Growing numbers have no family, no children, and little more than their jobs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that is why we have open borders. Someone has to fill all those jobs. Generations of Republican leaders defined America as a place where people came to work. Every illegal alien at the border was evidence that our way of life worked at least insofar as economics went. Likewise it appeared that our culture worked because it was so popular around the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECold War logic reduced America to a marketplace. If the country passed the rigorous test of the market, then the rest was bound to fall into place. But after the Cold War came and went, mass migration and mass culture continued to hollow out the country. Free enterprise is vital to a free society, but it isn’t, for most people, the thing that gives them meaning and purpose.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA nation cannot exist as nothing more than a series of workplaces and stores in which tokens earned at the former are then spent at the latter. Mistaking the economic machinery for a nation  is the fallacy of assuming that man is nothing more than the sum of his biological systems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat happens to a society whose people have no reason to go on beyond their set routines interspersed with bouts of hedonism? What happens to a nation that loses its soul?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEurope had answered that question a generation or two before we did. Unfortunately we did not pay attention to the answer. America lasted longer because we retained our convictions of exceptionalism, our faith and our family ties longer than Europe did. But with every passing year the cities of the New World with their hipster elites and multicultural labor forces, and subsidized dying rural areas, resemble the decadence of the Old World that their ancestors once escaped.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe restrictions of the pandemic made sense to those elites in exactly the way that it infuriated the rural and working classes. Lockdowns, remote meetings, and masks allowed the elites to retreat further behind a digital iron curtain, serviced by unobtrusive servants, real and virtual, AI and gig workers, freed from having to even leave their apartments to enjoy the pleasures of life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt never occurred to them, and still doesn’t, that most people don’t want to live that way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond the now famous population crash in New York and California, and the population rise in Texas and Florida, is the fact \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2021\/12\/us-population-grew-in-2021-slowest-rate-since-founding-of-the-nation.html\"\u003Ethat the \u003C\/a\u003Ehighest percentage population growth took place in Idaho, followed by Utah and Montana, while the largest percentage losses were suffered by Washington D.C., New York, and Illinois. Some of those numbers can be explained by people from the latter places making their way to the former. But that does not explain all of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans are experiencing an internal migration and counter-migration, traveling to city-states like New York City and Los Angeles County for economic purposes, and leaving them in pursuit of meaningful connections and a different way of life. It’s why one of the underreported stories in the nation’s demographics has been the black population leaving New York City for the South.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBehind the statistics, the columns of black numbers on white paper, is a spiritual crisis that is much more difficult to fit between the narrow lines of government statistical forms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA nation needs vertical and horizontal connections, people to other people, and to something above them, a sense of awe and destiny, and without them it withers and dies. The pandemic reaffirmed to many elites their conviction that there are no meaningful connections, that other people are threats and irritants, and that man is just an intelligent ape existing on the random sufferance of a cruel universe that can blot all of us out in a single instant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is not at all irrational for anyone living with the conviction of fragility and meaninglessness to panic at the pandemic, global warming, or the threat of nuclear war. If the only order in the universe comes from the arrangement of its underlying forces, then doom is only a matter of time. And the only way to contain the catastrophe is by imposing a totalitarian order.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is little room in this gloomy universe for the future. That’s why the hipster elites, in between Uber trips to bars and eateries, avoid human connections, escape into digital carpe diems, and reject the idea of having children because they don’t expect mankind to survive global warming, or of whatever crisis comes next to justify their lack of faith in the future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir needs, for clean floors, for customer service, or takeout, can be met by a disposable labor force in America or in China. Natural population growth just hastens the apocalypse anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAgainst this tide of elite despair which permeates the culture that they produce and that has been all but written into law, some cultural resistance continues. Every child born is itself a form of resistance to this elite vision of a cold universe and its even colder technocratic counterparts on this world which would raise children in digital wombs to grow up to be the last of their kind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn this generation, for the first time in our nation’s history, most Americans have abandoned hope that the future will be better. The low birth rates, the lack of relationships, and the social collapse are all the fruits of the same poisoned tree. Defeating that defeatism will not be easy and our leaders have offered little more than shopworn cliches as the nation’s culture declined.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut despair is not inevitable. It’s the vacuum that forms when there is nothing left to believe in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGlobalization atomizes us. It breaks us up into discrete and isolated groups in the name of diversity, in the name of progress, and in the name of making us more manageable. Fragmented people have less to aspire to beyond their creature comforts. They are easier to soothe with an expansion of the welfare state, a new hate object and smartphone model.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe alternative is to rebuild those connections that make life meaningful, national and familial, and without which nations turn childless and are easily swamped by mass migration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left didn’t just open up the borders around the body of our nation, it hollowed out its soul. A lonely nation of isolates wrapped in their digital cocoons is easy prey for technocratic globalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese latest numbers are a warning sign that America is much closer to becoming Europe than we thought. To defeat the threat of demographic replacement and illegal migration, we have to build walls not only around our borders, but around our culture, our communities and our families. We have to not only fight against what we don’t want, but to fight for what we do.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2267050988122883876\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/lonely-nation.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2267050988122883876"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2267050988122883876"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/lonely-nation.html","title":"Lonely Nation"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgrv4jVZRoR_dcsxZRO_sfmwFChxqcHXl9DHLZY0aWPjHCAwBQyeGj4a1rll5-asPh2c3jwOxXFzXJLa3FJB-sq47icw6KVWWKnS5WFoENQjF_vvuVCE5W1utEH9vNWOGs4F6YSzZTv2mq9eUmh9Xa97QZ0f4OSOjQX2s-JaT_Xd6zfMyx0xk8=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-844608397913688140"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-06T14:43:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-06T14:43:58.406-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Daniel Greenfield"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamic terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"When Daniel Greenfield Joined ISIS"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"They say that everyone has a twin somewhere in the world. Scientists, when they’re not calculating the amount of chocolate someone can safely eat a day, claim that everyone has six doppelgangers somewhere around the world. And some even have their own evil twins.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMine was living in Australia all along.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhTL8VdWEKNW8TQPUURaHgRGekZwCuI7qoxQ2Olhfcgf6U-qNWthKFrJETOFQ4-xQ7gCI6TucwD2QC1VbsgP4g-3U0DcPTtIZusKQcCg87zVL_k5rtoKKkbm2erkvcuVW-BhoPrVdeALdCUiPfA5OSsmc59Y5URp3hjTXK6i59-8IkzpuvEeOk=s1280\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhTL8VdWEKNW8TQPUURaHgRGekZwCuI7qoxQ2Olhfcgf6U-qNWthKFrJETOFQ4-xQ7gCI6TucwD2QC1VbsgP4g-3U0DcPTtIZusKQcCg87zVL_k5rtoKKkbm2erkvcuVW-BhoPrVdeALdCUiPfA5OSsmc59Y5URp3hjTXK6i59-8IkzpuvEeOk=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EI had spent the time since the attacks of September 11 writing about the dangers of Islamic terrorism. But somewhere in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, another Daniel Greenfield had decided to convert to Islam. One thing led to another and before anyone knew it, he had become a fan of ISIS and was arrested with police alleging he’d been planning an attack.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile one Daniel Greenfield had been investigating an Islamic terror plot, another Daniel Greenfield, some 7,500 miles away, was having his Islamic terror plot broken up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Aussie ISIS version of Daniel Greenfield is younger and balder than yours truly. When arrested, he was wearing Nike sweatpants, and the Daniel Greenfield you’re reading now would be as likely to wear anything with the Nike logo as he would be to convert to Islam and join ISIS. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENevertheless, when Australian media and bloggers began doing rapid web searches for Islamic terrorism and Daniel Greenfield, they came up with the ten thousand articles, posts, tweets, and videos that I had been assembling since back when Australia still had freedom of speech. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe confusion was understandable. One of us was an Islam critic and the other an Islamic terrorist. Both of us, according to official dogma, had misunderstood the entirely peaceful theology of Mohammed, and therefore journalists felt free to contact me, eager to help me tell “my side of the story” about why I had plotted a terrorist attack against law enforcement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis came as a surprise to me because the only terrorist attack I had been plotting was against a garbage can that refused to work. Adding to the confusion was that I had never been to Australia and it was two in the morning. I don’t know about you, but I’m not at my best at two in the morning and if there were anything that might incline me to plot a terrorist attack, it would be being woken at two in the morning to be accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Australia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of this stopped clickbait sites from embedding my tweets and articles in stories about the other Daniel Greenfield. It seemed to have escaped their attention that those tweets and articles about ISIS were not in favor of the Islamic terrorist group. Even assuming that no one in Australia knows who John Kerry is (an ignorance which can only inspire a profound envy), how exactly does an article titled, “Arrest Kerry for Collusion With Islamic Terror States” lead one to the conclusion that its author thinks that Islamic terror states are a very good thing. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile this Daniel Greenfield had never met his Islamic doppelganger, I could tell journalists inquiring that I knew all about him because his story is almost tiresomely familiar.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDaniel Greenfield, the one with all the ISIS materials and the knives, converted to Islam, came to the attention of the local authorities, and was diverted into a “deradicalization” program which true to form accomplished nothing except to possibly make him even more bent on violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the last 5 years or so, Greenfield or Al-Greenfield allegedly continued to cheer for ISIS instead of Sydney FC. The police arrested him on Christmas Eve, an unusual time, but one that raises the possibility that he had been planning an imminent attack to coincide with Christmas celebrations. That sort of thing is favored by Islamic terrorists operating in Christian countries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocal reports (the ones that don’t confuse me and him) allege that Daniel Greenfield claimed to be a member of ISIS. That would mean that he swore a Bayat, an oath of fealty, to whoever is still alive in the ISIS leadership. If he got in early enough on the ground floor, he might have even managed to swear an oath to Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a nerdy bearded cosplaying serial rapist, who blew himself up while trying to escape a dog named after retired talk show host Conan O'Brien. (Conan, the dog was alright, Conan O’Brien’s career has been better) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it all goes to show that, like Conan and Conan O’Brien, or Daniel Greenfield and Daniel Greenfield, we all have unexpected doppelgangers out there. Some better than us and others worse than us. Some have things to teach us while others tell us what we already know. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tale of the two Daniel Greenfields is a story of the doppler effect of Islamic terrorism passing around the world, transcending oceans and national boundaries, rallying some to oppose it and others to join in it. While I warned about the danger of Islamic terrorism, the other Daniel Greenfield allegedly promoted beheading and suicide bombing videos on social media.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese lost twins remind us not to take the choices that made us who we are for granted. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPerhaps life itself requires balance, so that for every Daniel Greenfield who opposes ISIS, another Daniel Greenfield must join it. Or, more likely, such things are meaningless coincidences. But meaningless or meaningful, the ISIS Greenfield did succeed in carrying out at least one successful terrorist attack, felt not so much in Australia, but in America. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESearch for terrorism and my name, and his name will be the likeliest to come up. Over a decade and a half of writing about Islamic terrorism is all too easy to eclipse with one failed terror plot. The familiar moral of the story is that it’s difficult to create, but all too easy to destroy. As Daniel Greenfield, the one who joined ISIS and wears Nike sweatpants, works his way through the system, our names will be tangled together in the twisted infrastructure of the internet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EApologists like to say that Islamic terrorists are driven to their crimes and while I generally tend to dismiss such asinine excuses, in this case there may be something to it. Imagine that you convert, yet whenever anyone at your mosque searches for your name, they come up with the less than pleasant remarks about Islam written by your American doppleganger. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENaturally they suspect you of being an un-Islamic plant, a spy, and an undercover operative. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow else can you possibly prove them wrong except by joining ISIS and then showing your sincere commitment by promoting the terror group and then plotting a terrorist attack.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf my doppelganger across the ocean accomplished nothing else, he distinguished his position on Islam from mine. No one is likely to confuse the two of us now, he must have thought. Instead the winds of confusion are blowing the other way with Daniel Greenfield being identified with a man whom the Sydney Morning Herald dubs the “aspiring jihadist Daniel Greenfield.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow when an Australian accent next wakes me up at two in the morning to ask about my involvement in a terror plot, at least I’ll have some dim inkling of what he’s talking about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBefore I hang up on him anyway.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/844608397913688140\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/when-daniel-greenfield-joined-isis.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/844608397913688140"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/844608397913688140"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/when-daniel-greenfield-joined-isis.html","title":"When Daniel Greenfield Joined ISIS"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhTL8VdWEKNW8TQPUURaHgRGekZwCuI7qoxQ2Olhfcgf6U-qNWthKFrJETOFQ4-xQ7gCI6TucwD2QC1VbsgP4g-3U0DcPTtIZusKQcCg87zVL_k5rtoKKkbm2erkvcuVW-BhoPrVdeALdCUiPfA5OSsmc59Y5URp3hjTXK6i59-8IkzpuvEeOk=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-608954801018199116"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-04T19:32:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-04T19:32:50.394-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Indian"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"America’s Millions of Fake Indians Outnumber Real Indians"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It’s not just Elizabeth Warren.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica has a huge “Fake Indian” problem. It’s hard to know exactly how many people, often white leftists, falsely claim to be descended from the nation’s early Indian population, but census numbers show either a massive population boom or a sharp growth in fake Indians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the 2010 census, there were 2.9 million American Indians and Alaskans, and another 2.3 million who claimed to be a combination of Indians and another race or races.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 2020 census however shows that 3.7 million claimed to be American Indians or Alaskans, and another 5.9 million described themselves as part Indian.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhjIV7PW2ClOgFvwHzJKreNsoZkTOV_wcKp46S6LXZAN828TXRemCkX2zuB10nXnyILqf4zNXRE2kE9jTKpro55Utuf-UXgxyBMbZ976B5FiS-mVwD5sYuTxo39bUsGgIlGfhUOtzByutNcZx0VSy-fOYEF-DE6BDnxuv_WFs8Vc-g5v8FTv9U=s598\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"392\" data-original-width=\"598\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhjIV7PW2ClOgFvwHzJKreNsoZkTOV_wcKp46S6LXZAN828TXRemCkX2zuB10nXnyILqf4zNXRE2kE9jTKpro55Utuf-UXgxyBMbZ976B5FiS-mVwD5sYuTxo39bUsGgIlGfhUOtzByutNcZx0VSy-fOYEF-DE6BDnxuv_WFs8Vc-g5v8FTv9U=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E5.2 million to 9.7 million is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/indiancountrytoday.com\/news\/2020-census-native-population-increased-by-86-5-percent\"\u003Ean 86.5% rise\u003C\/a\u003E. And going from 4.1 million in 2000 to 5.2 million in 2010 and then almost 10 million suggests that what we’re seeing here is not a natural increase that happened through a baby boom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Why the jump in the Native American population may be one of the hardest to explain,” CNN shrugged.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the Census Bureau provides a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2021\/08\/improved-race-ethnicity-measures-reveal-united-states-population-much-more-multiracial.html\"\u003Esimple\u003C\/a\u003E explanation, “The American Indian and Alaska Native alone population grew by 27.1%, and the American Indian and Alaska Native in combination population grew by 160% since 2010.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe biggest growth happened when the 2.3 million people who claimed to be part Indian in 2010 jumped to 5.9 million in 2020. That 3.6 million increase is responsible for the staggering growth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile identity politics activists have claimed that the Census Bureau was undercounting the American Indian population on reservations, that’s not where the real growth is coming from.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe question of who is an Indian when it comes to the tribes is a fraught issue. Some tribes have attempted to preserve their population integrity with blood quantum requirements and documented evidence of ancestry, while others have thrown open the door to everyone. There have also been legal battles over the dubious move to count the descendants of former black slaves who belonged to members of Indian tribes as being enrolled in those tribes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome tribes are legitimate peoples while others are little more than legal fictions with white leaders who act as fronts for international gaming interests and shadowy corporations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe membership rolls of even most legitimate tribes can grow a lot when money is on the table.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Navajos boasted that they had reached 400,000 members, but an Associated Press story noted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/oklahoma\/articles\/2021-09-29\/cherokee-nation-announces-it-now-has-400-000-tribal-citizens\"\u003Ethat\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Navajos also saw an enrollment increase as the tribe offered hardship assistance payments from last year’s federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, boosting the tribe’s rolls from about 306,000 to nearly 400,000 citizens.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Cherokee Nation shot up from 360,589 in 2018 to an alleged 400,000 now. Even media accounts \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/enrichment\/arts-culture\/574649-cherokee-nation-membership-surges-to-400000-strong\"\u003Econceded that\u003C\/a\u003E \"there was a significant increase in applications after Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. announced $2,000 COVID-19 assistance payments to enrolled Cherokee citizens as well as people approved for citizenship in the tribal nation by June 2022.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut most of the growth in the American Indian population is not coming from the tribes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho are the \"new\" Indians?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 2010 Census Bureau numbers showed that 63% of the mixed race population \"identified as American Indian and Alaska Native and White.\" In other words, more Elizabeth Warrens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA percentage of Americans, especially in states like Oklahoma, have rightly or wrongly claimed Indian ancestry, but the striking growth in recent years is not the natural result of old family legends, but wokeness and career development based around affirmative action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite people face growing discrimination in applying for college or looking for work. And for the new generation there is much less shame and fewer taboos around lying about race. Anecdotally, the number of millennials and zoomers who falsely claim to be black, Latino, Jewish, or members of any other minority group, has exploded according to employers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElizabeth Warren may have been a pioneer, but the number of fake Indians is growing sharply.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne author, Circe Sturm, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, theorizes in her book,  “Becoming Indian\", \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-the-native-american-population-in-the-us-increased-87-says-more-about-whiteness-than-about-demographics-170920\"\u003Ethat the\u003C\/a\u003E explosive population growth among the American Indian population is actually driven by white people who are \"fleeing whiteness\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the fake Indians, like Senator Elizabeth Warren, aren't fleeing whiteness so much as they're exploiting a racist attack on white people that they've stirred up to profit from a minority identity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd even setting up fake tribes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStrum writes, \"The number of these new self-identified tribes is startling. Over the course of my research, I discovered 253 groups scattered across the U.S. that identify as some sort of Cherokee tribe. This is a huge number considering that there are only 573 federally recognized tribes, three of which are Cherokee.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican Indian tribes have been fighting a rearguard campaign against fake Indians, but it’s one that they are likely to lose as the Left embraces fake Indian activists who are happy to put their fake identities at the service of their political causes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fake Indian problem is not unique to America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEga_1aF41SY6Z8WjkEob5aAMMe7kKypLT-VLjh7YLQMgN8FcV1VBJYQebfPgq7iqDN2jQqM15QvcxWJwvvo3NJ9L5d62Czbqb5EiXKQSslxM6rapKWrJCWREr7oN05yGehOUiPcm2lqdMLCoGq6O0_ROy8JaYrKlNrnBalxhkuJToVr16AGi3s=s774\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"435\" data-original-width=\"774\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEga_1aF41SY6Z8WjkEob5aAMMe7kKypLT-VLjh7YLQMgN8FcV1VBJYQebfPgq7iqDN2jQqM15QvcxWJwvvo3NJ9L5d62Czbqb5EiXKQSslxM6rapKWrJCWREr7oN05yGehOUiPcm2lqdMLCoGq6O0_ROy8JaYrKlNrnBalxhkuJToVr16AGi3s=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe exposure of Carrie Bourassa in Canada, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/10\/canadas-biggest-fake-indian-makes-elizabeth-warren-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eafter she appeared\u003C\/a\u003E in Indian garb and blamed systemic racism, was a major scandal in that country. Even more absurdly, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/curse-white-aborigine-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EAustralia’s “white aborigines”\u003C\/a\u003E, leftist academics, often blonde and blue-eyed, who claim special status and privileges because of their alleged aboriginal status, are a longstanding problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the rapid growth of America’s fake Indian problem suggests we’re heading for a crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndian tribes enjoy a unique legal status that has conferred significant economic and political benefits. The replacement and displacement of the tribal populations by a new activist base entirely dedicated to radical leftist politics would be a new Trail of Tears, but also quite dangerous. And yet it’s a crisis that’s been coming since the American Indian Movement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBetween 2010 and 2020, the number of part Indians went from a minority to a majority of the American Indian population. If this trend continues, the vast number of people who build careers and public identities around being American Indians will be fake Indians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s fake Indians already outnumber real Indians. And it’s only getting worse.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/608954801018199116\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/americas-millions-of-fake-indians.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/608954801018199116"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/608954801018199116"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/americas-millions-of-fake-indians.html","title":"America’s Millions of Fake Indians Outnumber Real Indians"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhjIV7PW2ClOgFvwHzJKreNsoZkTOV_wcKp46S6LXZAN828TXRemCkX2zuB10nXnyILqf4zNXRE2kE9jTKpro55Utuf-UXgxyBMbZ976B5FiS-mVwD5sYuTxo39bUsGgIlGfhUOtzByutNcZx0VSy-fOYEF-DE6BDnxuv_WFs8Vc-g5v8FTv9U=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-373032760439711815"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-03T14:52:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-03T14:52:19.680-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feminism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Taliban"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Admin Praises Taliban’s 'Openness' to Women’s Rights"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In 2001, the Taliban blew up the giant Buddha statues. Now they’re charging tourists \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/taliban-destroyed-afghanistans-ancient-buddhas-now-welcoming-tourists-rcna6307\"\u003Efive bucks\u003C\/a\u003E each to go see the statues that aren’t there. Considering the Islamic knack for destroying statues, tombs, historic buildings, and anything that isn’t a mosque, tourism can be tough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFortunately the Taliban have the opium business to fall back on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg5k8-eJmSmCw4s8P2tiK4Ldc5PjUtK47X8Csp56U-koeLR26wFNZkBtUzFdLI-CTC4Z-EgHMiPPgWSeaoYKrxUOusUlX6riaX2dxds0eZXNc_Z7aEfobJ6Jx-mndMYQF42oAQIlxmErj-7KritYOHLyfBVPsWWoCFVU69m5KgIT7-CtpEpzTk=s792\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"499\" data-original-width=\"792\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg5k8-eJmSmCw4s8P2tiK4Ldc5PjUtK47X8Csp56U-koeLR26wFNZkBtUzFdLI-CTC4Z-EgHMiPPgWSeaoYKrxUOusUlX6riaX2dxds0eZXNc_Z7aEfobJ6Jx-mndMYQF42oAQIlxmErj-7KritYOHLyfBVPsWWoCFVU69m5KgIT7-CtpEpzTk=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile officially the Taliban deplore drugs, their takeover was partly backed by the country’s drug lords who were eager for an end to America’s war on drugs. Planting season has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/afghanistans-opium-business-cranks-up-as-the-taliban-look-the-other-way-11637491200?mod=djemalertNEWS\"\u003Earrived\u003C\/a\u003E and everyone is expecting a lot of drug money to start flowing into the Taliban’s terrorist coffers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban response to international complaints has been the familiar drug shakedown.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If the international community recognizes our government and we receive aid and development assistance, then poppies will definitely disappear,” a Taliban governor told the media.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFormer U.S. administrations had offered aid in exchange for suspending the drug business. And while Afghanistan’s only real cash crop didn’t go away, the Jihadist bosses of the opium OPEC were willing to occasionally reduce production in exchange for cash from Uncle Sam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration is directing over a hundred million in aid to Afghanistan, but what the Taliban really want is the $9 billion in money from the former government they had overthrown. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat includes the $1.3 billion in gold \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/08\/biden-tried-send-pallets-cash-taliban-kabul-fell-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Esitting in\u003C\/a\u003E Manhattan vaults near Ground Zero.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban would like that gold, but so would the families of the victims killed by the Taliban’s Al Qaeda allies on September 11. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 9\/11 families had sued the Taliban and won $7 billion in damages. But back then the Taliban didn't have money just sitting around in downtown Manhattan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's no longer the case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden's problem is the familiar one facing the Obama administration over judgements won by terror victims against Iran and the PLO. How do you funnel money to the terrorists without letting their victims get hold of it? The answer is that you pay secret ransoms or send “humanitarian aid”. Withholding money from terror victims to pay terror bosses looks tacky, so just turn the money into ransom for American hostages or medicine for crying local children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so despite the fact that the Taliban negotiate with all faiths other than their own in bad faith, the Biden administration is still negotiating with the terrorists who broke every previous deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week after Thanksgiving, some of Biden's boys from the State Department, USAID, the Treasury Department, and assorted spooks, flew off to talk turkey with the Taliban in Qatar.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe assortment of departments and agencies in the delegation to the terrorists was an interesting one. The State Department's diplomats love to appease terrorists, USAID is there to dole out \"humanitarian aid\", the spooks are there to ask the terrorists for info on the other terrorists, and the Treasury Department is there to discuss economic sanctions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd how to bypass them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll it takes is certifying that the Taliban are nice folks now and it’s time to work with them on feeding and clothing the Afghan people, not to mention educating the girls of Afghanistan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week after the Taliban banned women from television, Biden's State Department spokesman Ned Price released a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/u-s-delegation-meeting-with-taliban-representatives\/\"\u003Estatemen\u003C\/a\u003Et praising the Taliban's \"openness to engaging with the international community on full access to education\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrice further claimed that the Islamic terrorist group which closed most schools to girls had actually \"welcomed efforts to verify and monitor progress to enroll women and girls in school at all levels.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban, apparently, also \"asked for support in the education sector.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPreferably in the form of cash, heroin, or Black Hawk helicopter parts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the Taliban, 75% of girls are back in school. And if you believe that, you probably work for the State Department. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban’s newfound feminism is as suspect as that of Andrew Cuomo, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and Joe Biden, but they want money and Joe Biden wants to give it to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe levers for extracting that cash are a combination of blackmail and victimhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban will cash in on opium while the people starve. And then ask for money in exchange for shutting down the drug trade and then getting the people something to eat. The remaining Americans and Afghan visa recipients are also hostages who can be traded for more dollars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s another reason why so very few of the visa recipients ever made it to the airport. And why the majority of those who did had no visas and no vetting, but probably did pay off the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban can only make so much money from charging tourists to see the missing Buddhas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe last year should have been a comprehensive education in why the Taliban can’t be trusted. After agreeing not to conquer Afghanistan, they went ahead and did it anyway. While they were doing that, the Biden administration, which is almost as trustworthy as the Taliban, assured the media, which is almost as trustworthy as the Biden administration, that everything was fine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow everything is fine again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Taliban aren’t beheading members of female sports teams, they’re showing a great deal of “openness” to “engaging with the international community” on their feminism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey’ll even field a fully progressive approved all-female sports team of men in burkas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration promised to leave Afghanistan, but the United States never leaves anywhere. Aside from taking in tens of thousands of Afghans into our country, we’re still on the hook for feeding, clothing, and educating the Afghans in Talibanland, not to mention Pakistan. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven once the Taliban get their billions and their UN seat, we’ll still be sending them aid. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn December 2000, the State Department \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/afghanistan\/fact-sheet-us-humanitarian-aid-afghan-people-0\"\u003Eboasted\u003C\/a\u003E that it had sent $113 million in \"humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people\". It further bragged that the \"United States is the largest single donor of assistance to Afghans, and has a long record of providing such assistance.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll the while it acknowledged that the Taliban were mischievously harboring Osama bin Laden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat money stolen from American taxpayers covered \"food, housing, health and education programs\" for the Afghans. And the State Department shamefully bragged that \"of every ten dollars\" in aid, \"nine dollars is a United States contribution.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext year the Taliban contributed four airplanes directed at killing thousands of Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHaving learned nothing in twenty years, the Biden administration and its career diplomats expect Americans to continue funding a Taliban welfare state. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis time the Taliban really believe in feminism, they insist. This time they’re really committed to fighting terrorism. And this time they surely won’t host another terrorist attack on America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs long as we pay them enough.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/373032760439711815\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/biden-admin-praises-talibans-openness.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/373032760439711815"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/373032760439711815"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/biden-admin-praises-talibans-openness.html","title":"Biden Admin Praises Taliban’s 'Openness' to Women’s Rights"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg5k8-eJmSmCw4s8P2tiK4Ldc5PjUtK47X8Csp56U-koeLR26wFNZkBtUzFdLI-CTC4Z-EgHMiPPgWSeaoYKrxUOusUlX6riaX2dxds0eZXNc_Z7aEfobJ6Jx-mndMYQF42oAQIlxmErj-7KritYOHLyfBVPsWWoCFVU69m5KgIT7-CtpEpzTk=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3524036141911842683"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-29T13:14:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-29T13:14:37.256-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feminism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"As Many as 1 in 3 Afghan Refugee Women at U.S. Base are Pregnant"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EWhen Biden's Afghanistan retreat first brought tens of thousands of Afghans to the United States without any visas or vetting, officials at Fort McCoy warned \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/10\/afghanistan-grows-wisconsin-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eabout \u003C\/a\u003Enumerous incidents of Afghan child brides. Democrats and senior military officials have denied these allegations, but shocking new statistics out of Fort McCoy raise new questions of just how pervasive this is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjZ_iL367ycohRrs9hZYeXC9zdHgTcu_WGnXXiva0421zmcV0eXHnBHtEmmpiSJUE9vsQrTBAvYObRvixh-4827YO2fMN_CH_gKWxO_r-pG5FvF41co_7GgrTDgTiez1cRdicce2wtdq60M6KLneHKmOgOrHnTX5o8_0dtgH5HOTiU1f5-XC5Q=s854\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"467\" data-original-width=\"854\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjZ_iL367ycohRrs9hZYeXC9zdHgTcu_WGnXXiva0421zmcV0eXHnBHtEmmpiSJUE9vsQrTBAvYObRvixh-4827YO2fMN_CH_gKWxO_r-pG5FvF41co_7GgrTDgTiez1cRdicce2wtdq60M6KLneHKmOgOrHnTX5o8_0dtgH5HOTiU1f5-XC5Q=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen thousands of Afghans first arrived at the military base in rural Wisconsin, local residents in Sparta, the “Bicycling Capital of America”, a small city of less than 10,000, began warning that the Afghans being housed at Fort McCoy were putting a significant strain on their infrastructure and their medical services. I was told that there were as many as 800 pregnant refugees at the base. The number seemed wildly implausible, but now the official number is out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to military officials, there \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wisn.com\/article\/baby-boom-at-fort-mccoy-brings-challenges-new-community-for-afghan-refugees\/38594806\"\u003Ehave been\u003C\/a\u003E 500 pregnant Afghans at Fort McCoy and, according to a local news report, “the numbers keep growing”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I am so happy that my son was born as a US citizen,” one Afghan evacuee declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConsidering that there were only 12,600 Afghans on the base, down to about 7,000 now, these numbers are staggering. According to the Pentagon, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/almost-half-of-afghan-evacuees-at-u-s-bases-are-children-pentagon-says-11634720580\"\u003Eonly 22%\u003C\/a\u003E of Afghan evacuees across all the bases are adult women. Around half of the evacuees are children. Assuming that these numbers hold true for Fort McCoy, that would mean that it housed only 2,772 adult women.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the number of Afghan evacuees fell to around 7,000, most recently, the number of adult women would have averaged around 1,500. Even as its highest population mark, that would mean that 1 in 5 Afghan women were pregnant, while as its current number it would be 1 in 3.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of that within a five month period.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn all of Wisconsin, a state of nearly 6 million people, there were only \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.wisconsin.gov\/wish\/birth\/data.htm\"\u003E60,615 births\u003C\/a\u003E last year. 1.6% of the adult women in the state had a baby in one year, but between 18% to 33% of the Afghan women at Fort McCoy were pregnant during their time there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese staggering numbers reveal the massive speed with which Islamic colonization takes place, fueled by birth rates and then religious violence, but even with the high birth rates within Islam in general and in Afghanistan in particular, the Fort McCoy numbers are still too high.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt 4.32 children per woman (as opposed to the American birth rate of 1.70), the Afghan birth rate is high, but 1 in 5 Afghan women (let alone 1 in 3) are still not pregnant at any given time. Some of the Afghan female refugees must be older which narrows down the population further. The only way to account for such a high pregnancy rate is by factoring in the underage girls.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShortly before September, Senator Tammy Baldwin, Rep. Mark Pocan and other Democrats toured Fort McCoy and falsely claimed that the evacuees were being reliably vetted and screened.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There are no cases in Fort McCoy right now with a child, 15 or under, who is married,\" Senator Baldwin insisted. The careful wording by the former lawyer leaves plenty of room for loopholes. It does not address the question of whether there are any pregnant children, 15 or under. And it doesn’t even touch on how many 16 and 17-year-olds are pregnant. And, since many of the Afghan evacuees had no documentation, there’s no way to know if any of those 16-year-olds are actually 15, 14, or even 13, despite how old the men trafficking them claim that they are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy else did the State Department demand \"urgent guidance\" after “intake staff at Fort McCoy reported multiple cases of minor females who presented as ‘married’ to adult Afghan men, as well as polygamous families?” Afghanistan has a 57% child marriage rate. Senator Baldwin and the Democrats expect us to believe that what the media is now describing as the “baby boom” is entirely due to 500 women, out of 1,500 to 2,700, all somehow being pregnant at Fort McCoy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only way to make sense of these numbers is to include many of the underage girls.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut why are so many Afghan women and girls at Fort McCoy pregnant? Obviously having a baby on American soil solidifies their legal status and provides them with assorted benefits. Demographic colonization of infidel nations through reproduction is also considered a form of Jihad. But for the men who bought and sold young girls for the trip, impregnating them is also a way to control them. It will be a lot harder for those girls to get away once they have a baby.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EState Department personnel asked for guidance and the Biden administration began a coverup.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media reporting on the “baby boom” at Fort McCoy state that the “base is partnering with local hospitals for deliveries”. Locals have long complained about the enormous demands that the Afghans at Fort McCoy are placing on local hospitals and medical personnel. For the first time we’re getting a small sense of just how enormous that demand really is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn all of Monroe County, there were only 534 births in 2017. The Afghan migrants are set to equal all of the American births in a county with a population of three-quarters of a million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen 12,500 Afghans can outnumber 741,770 Americans, what will happen when over 100,000 Afghans are brought to America? After Biden brought 53,000 Afghans to America, another 60,000 are waiting on visas in Afghanistan. That’s 113,000 Afghans and it’s just the beginning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt a time when hospitals are already under strain and there are shortages of medical personnel, Biden’s decision to dump over 12,000 Afghans into rural Wisconsin has proven to be catastrophic. Gundersen Health Systems, one of whose hospitals has been used to deliver Afghan babies, has claimed that it's near capacity with COVID patients. Could Americans lose their lives because of shortages created by the Afghan strain on our medical system?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEither way, the Afghan influx has hit the region hard and as their wave of demographic change transforms the country, the next phase of the war in Afghanistan will take place in America..\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few days after September 11, Rep. Ilhan Omar signed a letter to the Secretary of Defense in response to complaints from the evacuees, claiming that the Afghans at Fort McCoy were suffering \"mistreatment\" and had been spoken to in a \"rude condescending manner\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe next Omar, nurturing a grievance against America, is already at Fort McCoy. If the flood of Afghan migrants doesn’t stop, within another decade or two, she’ll be sitting in Congress.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3524036141911842683\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/as-many-as-1-in-3-afghan-refugee-women.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3524036141911842683"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3524036141911842683"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/as-many-as-1-in-3-afghan-refugee-women.html","title":"As Many as 1 in 3 Afghan Refugee Women at U.S. Base are Pregnant"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjZ_iL367ycohRrs9hZYeXC9zdHgTcu_WGnXXiva0421zmcV0eXHnBHtEmmpiSJUE9vsQrTBAvYObRvixh-4827YO2fMN_CH_gKWxO_r-pG5FvF41co_7GgrTDgTiez1cRdicce2wtdq60M6KLneHKmOgOrHnTX5o8_0dtgH5HOTiU1f5-XC5Q=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3850516436802117915"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-27T16:07:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-27T16:07:16.681-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tennessee"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"white privilege"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Wealthy Leftists Demand Poor White Kids in Appalachia be Taught About Their White Privilege"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The son of a bank vice president decided to teach about “white privilege” to his students in Sullivan County, Tennessee where the per capita income is $28,429.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter he was fired, the media decided to turn him into a victim.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“He Taught About White Privilege and Got Fired. Now He’s Fighting to Get His Job Back,” the headlines blared. A GoFundMe for Matthew Hawn by his sister, a principal in the Tennessee public school system, has already raised over $55,000 of its projected $85,000 goal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s more money than a lot of the locals in Appalachia would be likely to earn in a year’s time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgVuV0lY92mDLqGNAIwK-hJ7CiXbRoy03C2FH4nbebujn4y0sHVSS-vlTqMD8pxmx_pbTo3wiEf-ADexMJhQBSbUzF4x6_0I3JMSOYI2wG8WeTsMToKMTc6XOgAZV9NusIRJbUBIp0MvlO0OveXq4p-mPt6KJ-AtpUQwa6hfR-AVUkn7QJ4gLU=s621\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"458\" data-original-width=\"621\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgVuV0lY92mDLqGNAIwK-hJ7CiXbRoy03C2FH4nbebujn4y0sHVSS-vlTqMD8pxmx_pbTo3wiEf-ADexMJhQBSbUzF4x6_0I3JMSOYI2wG8WeTsMToKMTc6XOgAZV9NusIRJbUBIp0MvlO0OveXq4p-mPt6KJ-AtpUQwa6hfR-AVUkn7QJ4gLU=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESullivan County is 95% white and 2% black. The rate of hungry children in the region is double the national rate and a third of those children live in Sullivan County.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt Sullivan Central High School, where Hawn decided to teach about white privilege, 96% of the students are white, 1% are Hispanic, another 1% are Asian, and the number of black students is too small to count.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E41% of the students are eligible for the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publicschoolreview.com\/sullivan-central-high-school-profile\"\u003Efree lunch program\u003C\/a\u003E. That means their parents meet federal poverty guidelines. Another 9% qualify for the reduced lunch program which indicates that their parents don’t earn very much.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven though half the student body at Sullivan Central is low income, the graduation rate is 90% and the students rank in the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publicschoolreview.com\/sullivan-central-high-school-profile\"\u003E top 20%\u003C\/a\u003E for reading proficiency.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can understand why Hawn, who had taught for 16 years, decided to introduce them to the concept of white privilege.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/teaching-learning\/he-taught-about-white-privilege-and-got-fired-now-hes-fighting-to-get-his-job-back\/2021\/09\"\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E that helped debut Hawn's sob story to the wealthy progressives of the nation who showered his GoFundMe with cash began by describing the  \"social studies teacher in rural Tennessee\" who \"was driving to work listening to NPR\" which was going on about racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s hard to envision a better summary of the culture clash between lefty elites and America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“White privilege is a fact,” Hawn reportedly ranted at his students. “What we are going to do is we are going to discuss how we can help solve the issue of racism in America. What can we do here in Northeast Tennessee?”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESullivan County and, for that matter, the Tri-Cities area, have fairly few black people. With a \u003Ca at=\"\" black=\"\" highest=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhl.com\/news\/local\/10-year-population-growth-anemic-in-northeast-tennessee-census-shows\/#:~:text=The%20region\" overall=\"\" percentage=\"\" population=\"\" s=\"\"\u003E2.4% black population\u003C\/a\u003E, there’s not many black people to save in Northeast Tennessee.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Hawn set out to solve racism by teaching his low-income students that America was systemically racist beginning with an essay by black nationalist bigot Ta-Nehisi Coates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/ta-nehisi-coates-americas-next-top-victim-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E infamous book\u003C\/a\u003E, “Between the World and Me”, Coates had declared that the firefighters and police officers who were killed on September 11 “were not human to me.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn “The First White President”, the essay Hawn inflicted on his students, Coates raved that \"whiteness\" was a \"bloody heirloom\" and that \"land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETrump's grandfather, a barber, moved to the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1880s, but Coates and his ilk are as indifferent to facts as the 1619 Project or the rest of the critical race theory establishment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“There's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez had argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd being morally right is another way of saying being morally superior to the kids at a rural Tennessee high school, their low income parents, and everyone who doesn’t believe that they, along with America and all white people, are horrible racists who need to be “called out”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Coates’ essay, the country’s racist scribe to the racist elite, dismisses the idea of a cultural  “backlash against contempt for white working-class people” by elites. And yet what’s happening in Sullivan County as a result of his essay perfectly encapsulates that backlash to the elites who embraced Hawn and have nothing but contempt for the locals standing up to him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHawn followed that up with “White Privilege” by Kyla Jenée Lacey, a deranged hate filled rant that has the same relationship to a poem that the 1619 Project does to history. In it, Lacey claims that Hurricane Katrina was \"answering the government's prayers of eugenics\" and that white privilege is \"the acceptance of bombs over Baghdad, but not over Boston.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe social studies teacher was not, despite the mass of media misinformation, fired over critical race theory or introducing obscenities and hatred of America into the classroom. (The Atlantic falsely dubbed Hawn, “The First Casualty in the War on Critical Race Theory”.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe was fired for refusing to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolicy.com\/articles\/2021\/09\/22\/the_making_of_a_teacher-martyr_795411.html\"\u003Eintroduce balance\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E “Your job is not to teach one perspective,” he was told. \"Your job is also not to ensure students simply adopt your own personal perspective. Your job—in teaching current events—is to ensure students learn to seek out and consider varying and credible perspectives.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt a school board meeting, Hawn was\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sanzi.substack.com\/p\/teacher-gets-terminated-twitter-explodes\"\u003E asked\u003C\/a\u003E, \"what other reading materials have you assigned recently that would offer a different perspective\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReportedly, his response was, \"there is no credible source for a different point of view.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe line, familiar from a multitude of media fact checks, Big Tech censorship efforts, and condescending elite propaganda denies that there can be any legitimate point of view other than their own. And that their public service duty is to force their dogma on everyone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s the difference between education and indoctrination.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe son of a bank vice president wasn’t the victim of a “war on critical race theory”, as a magazine owned by Steve Jobs’ billionaire widow falsely claimed, but of Tennessee’s Teacher Code of Ethics which was, as Robert Pondiscio and Tracey Schirra of the American Enterprise Institute\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolicy.com\/articles\/2021\/09\/22\/the_making_of_a_teacher-martyr_795411.html\"\u003E pointed out\u003C\/a\u003E, a product of an older and more moderate incarnation of the NEA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of this has been hashed out at length by educational experts and Twitter pundits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat has been much less discussed are the class issues in an assault by wealthy media elites on low-income students and parents who must be taught that they and their nation are racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch of this assault is carried out under a cloud of ignorant disdain for the actual community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt The Atlantic, Emma Green's first question to Hawn is whether there was a lot of \"racial diversity\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I don’t remember there being a nonwhite person at my high school the entire four years I was there,\" Hawn replies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's not too surprising as Kingsport, where Hawn grew up, is 91% white and only 3.5% black.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lack of diversity is treated as implicitly racist, but were black people really worse off for not living in Appalachia as opposed to Malibu where Laurene Powell Jobs, who controls The Atlantic, lives? The racial demographics are virtually identical in Malibu and Sullivan County, but the politics and incomes in pro-Trump Sullivan County are a world away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftists justify their abuses, like critical race theory indoctrination, by insisting that they’re punching up, fighting the powerful, not punching down against the downtrodden. And yet it’s hard to see the assault on a local school district and its impoverished families as anything else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAside from The Atlantic, the Washington Post, owned by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, and the Boston Globe, owned by billionaire financier John W. Henry have published hit pieces on Hawn’s firing and on Sullivan County’s efforts to protect its students and its schools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Hawn’s latest appeal moves forward, media outlets owned by billionaires continue their disinformation campaign against local parents and school administrators, diverting money that ought to be going to teach students into preventing racism from being pushed in the classroom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESullivan County is a long way from The Atlantic’s headquarters at The Watergate, the Washington Post’s own D.C. digs, or downtown Boston, but the new ruling class insists that its dictates, enforced by economic pressure, lawfare, and smear campaigns must apply everywhere, even in rural Tennessee. Having heard that a school system merely asked that a leftist activist present more than one perspective on whether America is racist and evil, they have marshalled their battalions and their fortunes and gone to war in Appalachia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite privilege isn’t real, but the power wielded by the leftist elite is all too real. Behind the false claims of white privilege is the unearned privilege of a ruthless elite which wraps its totalitarianism in moral crusades that are as wickedly perverse as they are self-righteous.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s wealthiest leftist elites demand that poor white kids be taught they’re racist. Maybe they can drive by in their hybrid limos and teach the hungry kids of Sullivan County about their white privilege.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3850516436802117915\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/wealthy-leftists-demand-poor-white-kids.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3850516436802117915"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3850516436802117915"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/wealthy-leftists-demand-poor-white-kids.html","title":"Wealthy Leftists Demand Poor White Kids in Appalachia be Taught About Their White Privilege"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgVuV0lY92mDLqGNAIwK-hJ7CiXbRoy03C2FH4nbebujn4y0sHVSS-vlTqMD8pxmx_pbTo3wiEf-ADexMJhQBSbUzF4x6_0I3JMSOYI2wG8WeTsMToKMTc6XOgAZV9NusIRJbUBIp0MvlO0OveXq4p-mPt6KJ-AtpUQwa6hfR-AVUkn7QJ4gLU=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1281965101002145708"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-26T12:25:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-26T12:25:46.667-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"China"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feminism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Can Feminism Destroy China?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EChina’s one-child policy suppressed the birth rate with forced abortions and political terror for a generation. Only allowed one child, many Chinese families chose to abort their baby girls.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe deficit of 40 million female babies is now the specter stalking Communist China.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgArV7qkuxdy143XVwQ0JtrLKorY-YYTEMqhkkysdLKXoe-uRMvotQa1wc4uqIGOfHSslQAMamn9UyffonQ1mpdcs_xU0fsc0sl9E6zkkrbxqPrhanrSeTcxRmhMiiqD2XR_o99QR9P5UO4AXxJ-axQ9OgiYR3Llp_yk8zRS0-ikZzJ8-ttl0I=s557\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"359\" data-original-width=\"557\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgArV7qkuxdy143XVwQ0JtrLKorY-YYTEMqhkkysdLKXoe-uRMvotQa1wc4uqIGOfHSslQAMamn9UyffonQ1mpdcs_xU0fsc0sl9E6zkkrbxqPrhanrSeTcxRmhMiiqD2XR_o99QR9P5UO4AXxJ-axQ9OgiYR3Llp_yk8zRS0-ikZzJ8-ttl0I=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EChina’s aggressive military moves against Taiwan and India are a desperate gambit by a corrupt Communist elite facing domestic social instability and millions of men who can never marry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut while the focus has been on too many Chinese men, it’s the too few women whom the regime is starting to fear. The Communist society is being forced to reckon with the social problem of supply and demand in the marriage market. Women, formerly despised, are now in the driver’s seat, with the bride’s family demanding \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f0fe5b5e-6a0f-4b39-b457-db07294c696f\"\u003Etens of thousands\u003C\/a\u003E from prospective grooms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat price is putting marriage out of reach for a whole other category of poorer men.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what really has the Communist elite worried is not the high price of marriage, but the growing number of professional women who aren’t interested in getting married at all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd many of those who do are getting divorced, leading the regime to impose a 30-day cooling off period after there were more divorces than marriages recorded in China in 2019.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe big question for Communist leaders was whether they could defeat the West economically without becoming so much like it that they would have to adopt its society and its politics. The fall of the Soviet Union was a cautionary tale about the dangers of western liberalization. And China appeared to have avoided the pitfall, suppressing its democracy movement and maintaining a Communist oligarchy even as it outperformed America in the marketplace.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Xi and the Communist leadership fear that they just delayed the inevitable. China is seemingly more powerful than ever, its people are nationalistic, Hong Kong has been consolidated, and Taiwan is expected to follow, making One China into a reality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet the Communist leadership shows every sign of panicking, cracking down on entertainment and tech companies, and purging its own oligarchy on a monthly basis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite the outward allegiance to Xi and the Communists, the country’s rising middle class is westernized, individualistic rather than collectivist, intent on having fun and stocking up on all the latest consumer gadgets, instead of sacrificing and laboring in the cause of Communism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe falling marriage and birth rates are the obvious symptom of China’s new social feminism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarriage licenses have fallen to a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f0fe5b5e-6a0f-4b39-b457-db07294c696f\"\u003E13-year low\u003C\/a\u003E and the birth rate has hit a 43-year low. With only 12 million babies born in 2020, the old mathematical joke about the Marching Chinese now falls flat. Like the rest of Asia, China is aging, and its workforce is falling by 0.5% a year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/11\/04\/china-one-child-policy-fertility-rates\/\"\u003E1.3 birth rate\u003C\/a\u003E looks worse than those of America or Europe, but unlike them, the Chinese birth rate isn't being \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/birthsdeathsandmarriages\/livebirths\/bulletins\/parentscountryofbirthenglandandwales\/2018\"\u003Eartificially inflated\u003C\/a\u003E with a huge population of immigrants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Communist leadership has tried to apply economic fixes to a social problem, a recent survey in one rural area found that only 60% of young women wanted to get married while 82% of men did. The combination of an aspiring professional female workforce with the sex-selective abortion caused by the one-child policy has made China’s gender relations uniquely horrible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn America, as in most first world countries, women are \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2014\/09\/24\/chapter-1-public-views-on-marriage\/\"\u003Emore interested\u003C\/a\u003E in marriage \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/bizwomen\/news\/out-of-the-office\/2014\/04\/who-cares-about-marriage-women-do-men-arent-sure.html?page=all\"\u003Ethan men\u003C\/a\u003E. The reversal of the gender stereotype in China is a tribute to how the country’s toxic mixture of traditionalism, Communism, and consumerism is playing out in its dysfunctional society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunist China made marriage and child-bearing into a political duty. The rising affluent middle class that navigated the suicidal peaks of exams, pursue shallow escapism and luxury goods in the off hours from their stressful office jobs, and have little interest in children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Communist regime is taking notice. In typical leftist fashion, it's fighting\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/east-asia-pacific_china-renews-crackdown-online-feminist-groups\/6205164.html\"\u003E the problem\u003C\/a\u003E as an ideological threat, arresting feminists and banning the 6B4T keyword, a South Korean feminist movement that urges women not to marry and to avoid conventional beauty standards.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut China’s problem is coming less from the traditional activist woke feminism, which the regime will have little trouble stamping out, but the larger economic shift in gender roles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E52.5 percent of students in Chinese colleges and universities are female. That's not quite as extreme as the 60\/40 split in the United States or the even more extreme gender gaps in some European countries, but in a decade or two, China may catch up to us there as well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReligion may be declining in America and Europe, but the Communists had done their best to stamp out faith in China and replace it with party loyalty. And then it replaced starving rural labor with mega-cities and mega-buildings filled with office drones who have no meaning or purpose in life beyond purchasing the latest iPhone, listening to the latest hit or watching the latest show.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe single career women who have redefined the culture and politics of America and Europe are on the rise in China. In interviews they express a disinterest in marriage and family. They enjoy focusing on themselves, shopping, socializing and traveling with little interest in the future of their country or their society. They seek no meaning beyond the luxuries and comforts of life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the marketplace in China, much like in America and Europe, caters to them as a cultural and economic force because of their spending power and role as social media influencers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina’s entertainment landscape is filled with shows that are culturally, rather than politically, feminist. The Romance of Tiger and Rose, with \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/06\/12\/the-sneaky-conservatism-of-chinas-feminist-dramas\/\"\u003Esome\u003C\/a\u003E 900 million views, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.weekinchina.com\/2020\/06\/a-womans-world\/\"\u003Efeatures\u003C\/a\u003E a matriarchal society where men are not allowed to study or work, and are cursed when boys are born. The joke here is not just a reversal of China’s past, but a possible preview of its demographic future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHad China retained its former society, the growing economic value of girls would have led to a reverse gender gap, but the growing shift from rural subsistence farming to the urban office workers of the middle class means that the gender gap is being overshadowed by falling birth rates. The new society spends less time calculating the price and profit of marrying off children and worries about the imminent disruptions of a child on a young urban couple’s quality of life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina, despite its Communist hierarchy and total control of the economy and society, is caught in the same conjoined cultural and economic trap as the first world. On the verge of realizing its aspirations to becoming a first world power, China is stuck reliving the price that Japan, the last Asian country to try and become a military and then economic superpower, paid for its wish.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Cold Warriors of the eighties were wrong in believing that economic success was impossible without freedom and democracy. But they were generally right in believing that any country that wanted to economically defeat us would have to become us. They just failed to properly understand what becoming “us” really meant. It’s not democracy or freedom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica, like its other first world counterparts, is becoming less free, and more political. When people say that our politics is downstream of our culture, what it really means is that much of our politics is about a culture rationalizing the way that it wants to live. The abandonment of religion, family, character, and all traditional values, is not just a Marxist conspiracy, it’s the self-indulgent behavior of overgrown children who decided that they never want to grow up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the Communist heartland, under a Marxist system built to reinforce the opposite qualities, a surprisingly similar revolution is taking place. The Communist regime, which believed it had total control over the lives of its people, has gone from mandating abortions to offering families the opportunity to have three children. The labor force is shrinking, the marriage and birth rates are falling, and the Xi regime can’t figure out how to turn back the clock and preserve its power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunist China’s history is one of grandiose planned efforts that blew up in the party’s face. One of its worst famines occurred when Mao decided to have the populace wipe out all the sparrows, leading to an infestation of insects that the sparrows had kept in check. Such subtle checks and balances pervade the natural world and human society, but the Marxist view of the universe is incapable of taking into account the complex and paradoxical nature of reality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMao’s inability to grasp the nature of the sparrow, the imminent obstacle in the ecosystem, is nothing compared to the inability of his successors to understand the relationships of men and women. Human nature, always elusive to ideologues, has brought down every Communist plan for world domination before, not through force of arms, but the hubris of its miscalculations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EXi believes that China’s Communist regime is different even as demographics are undoing his mandate of heaven. While this century has been heralded as belonging to China, studies suggest that China's population will drop by 50% by 2100. While 732 million may be nothing to sneer at, much of that will consist of its rapidly aging elderly population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy 2050, 336 million Chinese elderly will form a bloc larger than that of the United States. If the birth and marriage rates keep dropping, a Communist gerontocracy will preside over failing dams, mega-cities, and a shrinking empire of senior citizens and single career women as the “barbarians” in the Muslim hinterlands with stronger birth rates sweep in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunism claimed to be able to harness history, but history always has the last laugh.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1281965101002145708\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/can-feminism-destroy-china.html#comment-form","title":"11 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1281965101002145708"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1281965101002145708"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/can-feminism-destroy-china.html","title":"Can Feminism Destroy China?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgArV7qkuxdy143XVwQ0JtrLKorY-YYTEMqhkkysdLKXoe-uRMvotQa1wc4uqIGOfHSslQAMamn9UyffonQ1mpdcs_xU0fsc0sl9E6zkkrbxqPrhanrSeTcxRmhMiiqD2XR_o99QR9P5UO4AXxJ-axQ9OgiYR3Llp_yk8zRS0-ikZzJ8-ttl0I=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"11"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4403617629287061978"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-23T18:38:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-23T18:39:43.488-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"military"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Bans Conservatives and Christians from the Military"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org\/products\/disloyal\"\u003EDisloyal: How the Military Brass is Betraying Our Country\u003C\/a\u003E, the David Horowitz Freedom Center had warned that the Countering Extremist Activity Working Group imposed by the Biden administration and headed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/06\/bishop-garrison-bidens-racist-tool-military-purge-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eby Bishop Garrison\u003C\/a\u003E (pictured above), a racist who constantly accused Republicans of racism for the most frivolous reasons, was preparing to purge conservatives from the military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow the purge has arrived.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEik2slzP0kLFFxdQlBgazV3EmqunhQ0KJnW0_WABKtU2qut1MsudRbMyQgZ6Mv4RBZlPjKbZntmJcuCTXKCsip3RxJb7RXtLgJ7gZeG8-cwYfeAh4JGFxyizKHlPjIGs88R3lcTtww_iqRdgO-6x0rGzzx1X3VstoJIOIioPjBccZTMSx6Gawc=s558\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"403\" data-original-width=\"558\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEik2slzP0kLFFxdQlBgazV3EmqunhQ0KJnW0_WABKtU2qut1MsudRbMyQgZ6Mv4RBZlPjKbZntmJcuCTXKCsip3RxJb7RXtLgJ7gZeG8-cwYfeAh4JGFxyizKHlPjIGs88R3lcTtww_iqRdgO-6x0rGzzx1X3VstoJIOIioPjBccZTMSx6Gawc=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe first task of Garrison’s CEWG was to develop a new definition of extremism. The newly added definition, which takes effect immediately, doesn’t actually define extremism. Since extremism is inherently relative to someone else’s moderation, it can’t be legally defined. But the CEWG’s definition was cunningly written to target conservatives and protect leftists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe majority of the definitions are already covered by existing military codes and laws against terrorism and treason. The only real addition here is the final definition of \"extremism activities\" which includes, \"advocating widespread unlawful discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, or sexual orientation.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe wording initially appears generic, but it’s actually written to provide military leaders with a wide latitude for targeting conservatives while exempting black nationalists like Garrison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERacism is defined only in terms of “advocating discrimination” and only “unlawful discrimination”, unlike affirmative action or the discriminatory policies of the CEWG. This is in line with the leftist claim that racism can only be defined in terms of the power to discriminate and that therefore minority racists aren’t racist. Service members can be fans of black hate groups that promote racist hatred of white people because only advocacy for “unlawful discrimination” matters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new Department of Defense policy \"prohibits active participation in extremist activities and clearly defines what we mean by the term extremist activities,\" Pentagon spokesman John Kirby falsely claimed. It actually defines almost nothing and that enables it to outlaw nearly anything.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWould Christians who oppose gay marriage fall afoul of this policy? Is anyone who donates to a church that advocates against gay marriage now deemed an “active participant” in “extremism”?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s definition of active participation includes, “fundraising for, or making personal contributions through donations of any kind (including but not limited to the solicitation, collection, or payment of fees or dues) to, a group or organization that engages in extremist activities.” Potentially donating to a traditionally biblical church or synagogue would mean violating the Biden administration’s new guidelines against active participation in extremism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe result would almost certainly be a federal case that the Biden administration would lose, but how many members of the military want to spend years of their lives fighting for their careers?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration’s leftist radicals are out to intimidate and they may well succeed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt goes without saying that counterterrorism researchers warning about the national security threat of Islamization would be punished, and that any service members who support or interact with a whole range of such organizations, including the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/\"\u003EFreedom Center \u003C\/a\u003Eand Robert Spencer’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/\"\u003EJihad Watch\u003C\/a\u003E are at risk. But so would a majority of service members who are at all conservative.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGarrison’s definition of extremism includes advocating for “discrimination” against “gender identity” which means that anyone opposed to teenage girls being forced to shower with men is now accused of being an extremist and that supporting virtually any conservative group effectively makes a member of the military into an “active participant” in “extremist activities”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe purge goes even further, reaching out to punish anyone who engages “in electronic and cyber activities regarding extremist activities, or groups that support extremist activities – including posting, liking, sharing, re-tweeting, or otherwise distributing content”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA service member who “likes” a Facebook post from a conservative group is now an “active participant” in “extremist activities”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat about opposition to abortion?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Garrison definition of extremism includes advocating for discrimination based on ”sex (including pregnancy)”. The pregnancy part of this might be an effort to silence military critics of pregnant women serving in combat roles. That’s another example of how the Biden political purge is meant to silence legitimate objections to absurd woke policies like the Navy’s new maternity flight suits. But it could be used to suppress pro-life views and church membership.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe question of whether the Equal Rights Amendment’s “on account of sex” language would protect abortion and enshrine it into the Constitution has been at the heart of the debate over the amendment. State ERAs have already been used to define opposition to abortion as a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/pennsylvania\/supreme-court\/1985\/509-pa-293-1.html\"\u003Eform of discrimination\u003C\/a\u003E on account of sex.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Countering Extremist Activity Working Group’s inclusion of ”sex (including pregnancy)” would potentially open the door to branding any member of the military who personally opposes abortion, donates to an anti-abortion group, or just a traditional church, or even likes a Facebook post by a pro-life group as an “active participant” in “extremism”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDefenders of Biden’s military purge will insist that these are unlikely scenarios. Right up until the point where they begin happening. There is nothing in the wording of these new definitions of “extremism” and “active participation” to prevent service members from being targeted because of their membership in a traditional church or their conservative religious views. And since the military has traditionally received more leeway in restricting religious expression, court battles over these issues should not be viewed as a foregone conclusion. Furthermore the existence of these codes create an intimidating effect that suppresses speech and religious expression.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExactly as they were designed to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"One extremist is one too many,\" Bishop Garrison had contended. The new definition is meant to screen out everyone whom Garrison, a supporter of black supremacists like Ta-Nehisi Coates and of extremist agendas like the 1619 Project, disagrees with. That means all conservatives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGarrison, who \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/06\/bishop-garrison-bidens-racist-tool-military-purge-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Edefended bigots and extremists\u003C\/a\u003E like Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and falsely accused Gov. Ron DeSantis of racism, has been allowed to impose his own discriminatory regime on the military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that must not be allowed to stand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new purge \"preserves a service member's right of expression to the extent possible”, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby argued. That statement is as un-American as it gets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere will almost certainly be legal battles over this, but it will be on Congress and the next administration to make it clear to future military leaders that they must rescind or at least dramatically revise Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 1325.06 if they want to lead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd any presidential candidate or congressional member must commit to opposing any military leader who does not agree to remove DoDI 1325.06 and protect political and religious liberty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe military leaders complicit in this disgrace are the products of Democrat and Republican administrations. If conservatives don’t firmly demand and hold presidential and congressional candidates accountable for undoing this, the radicals will take over the military the way that they control academia, the media, and the corporate spheres. That means ignoring the happy talk, the virtue signaling, the empty distractions, and demanding that the politicians actually do it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe military is the most conservative branch of the government. The purge of conservatives from the military is a political coup. Under the guise of outlawing discrimination, the Biden administration is engaging in the most dangerous and pervasive discrimination imaginable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is a critical threat. It’s one that the David Horowitz Freedom Center took the lead in warning against. Now that it’s embedded in the military, the career brass that the DHFC warned against in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org\/products\/disloyal\"\u003EDisloyal: How the Military Brass is Betraying Our Country\u003C\/a\u003E will do everything possible to retain it even under another Republican administration. The leaders, as we’ve warned, have to go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew leaders must commit to a merit-based military free of discriminatory “equity” measures and political purges that is built from the ground up to fight and to win for America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr else we will have lost the military and the war.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4403617629287061978\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/biden-bans-conservatives-and-christians.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4403617629287061978"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4403617629287061978"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/biden-bans-conservatives-and-christians.html","title":"Biden Bans Conservatives and Christians from the Military"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEik2slzP0kLFFxdQlBgazV3EmqunhQ0KJnW0_WABKtU2qut1MsudRbMyQgZ6Mv4RBZlPjKbZntmJcuCTXKCsip3RxJb7RXtLgJ7gZeG8-cwYfeAh4JGFxyizKHlPjIGs88R3lcTtww_iqRdgO-6x0rGzzx1X3VstoJIOIioPjBccZTMSx6Gawc=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}}]}});