GIULIANI CLARIFIES nOBAMA PATRIOTISM CRITIQUE
Rudy Giuliani, appearing on “Fox and Friends” this morning, clarified remarks he made reportedly questioning President nObama’s patriotism at a private dinner in Manhattan. “First of all, I’m not questioning his patriotism. He’s a patriot, I’m sure,” the former New York mayor said. “What I’m saying is that in his rhetoric, I very rarely hear the things that I used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things that I used to hear Bill Clinton say about how much he loves America. I do hear him criticize America much more often than other American presidents.” Giuliani’s dinner remarks, first reported by Politico, were made at an event for potential 2016 contender Gov. Scott Walker. -Fox News
Yahoo News: “Jeb Bush continued his introductory tour of the American political scene Wednesday, giving his third major speech in less than a month and dealing for the first time as a likely presidential candidate with his brother’s legacy in Iraq…In response to a question about instability in the Middle East, Bush unilaterally steered the conversation to the matter of the Iraq War, which was overseen by his older brother, former President George W. Bush. ‘Well, let’s go to Iraq,’ Jeb Bush said, speaking before the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. ‘There were mistakes made in Iraq for sure.’ Jeb Bush cited two examples of missteps in Iraq … which were the same two errors that George W. Bush himself admitted to in his 2010 memoir ‘Decision Points.’ -Fox News
WALKER STAFFS UP IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
WMUR: “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has expanded his political team to New Hampshire, hiring a senior adviser to lead his efforts in the early primary state as he moves closer to a likely 2016 presidential run. Walker's political fundraising committee confirmed Wednesday that Republican consultant Andy Leach, who has worked on New Hampshire campaigns since 1992, has been hired as senior adviser in the state. Day-to-day-operations will be handled there by Michael Bir, who led programs for the Republican National Committee in Ohio in 2010 and 2012. … Leach served as the New Hampshire Republican Party's executive director in the 2006 and 2010 election cycles. He also worked for New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte and former Sen. John E. Sununu, and on Scott Brown’s Senate campaign in Massachusetts in 2014. Leach left Ayotte’s office in January to start his own political consulting firm.” -Fox News
(wnd.com) - The nObama administration has named a national security threat it believes is more dangerous than even the Islamic State terrorists beheading, crucifying and burning innocent human beings: Right-wing extremists...According to CNN, “A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security this month and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists.” CNN doesn’t cite specific sources, but it says the new intelligence report references “24 violent sovereign citizen-related attacks across the U.S. since 2010.” nObama is sick person this proves it. http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/obama-dhs-right-wing-extremists-greater-threat-than-isis/
(MICHAEL WARREN) - "In your opinion, should the goal of these negotiations be to stop Iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon, or should it be to accept Iran into the ranks of nations who have nuclear weapons?” asked the question...Seventy-six percent of respondents said the goal should be to "stop Iran" from getting nukes, while just 10 percent said Iran should be allowed to have them. In addition, 79 percent of respondents said any agreement with Iran on its nuclear program should have the approval of both the president and Congress, while 67 percent agreed that Iran would use its nuclear weapons to arm terrorists that would attack the United States as well as use them to attack Israel. Voters also appear to support the upcoming address from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a joint session of Congress, with 59 percent supporting the speech (including 36 percent who say they strongly support it). Just 23 percent say they oppose Netanyahu's speech. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/poll-76-percent-say-iran-should-never-get-nuclear-weapon_859182.html?utm_campaign=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest&utm_source=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest%20-%2002%2F19%2F15&utm_medium=email
Of course, the true story of Christendom and Islam is antithetically different. Consider some facts for a moment:
A mere decade after the birth of Islam in the 7th century, the jihad burst out of Arabia. Leaving aside all the thousands of miles of ancient lands and civilizations that were permanently conquered—today casually called the “Islamic world,” including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and parts of India and China—much of Europe was also, at one time or another, conquered by the sword of Islam.
Among other nations and territories that were attacked and/or came under Muslim domination are (to give them their modern names in no particular order): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Albania, Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, Crete, Cyprus, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Belarus, Malta, Sardinia, Moldova, Slovakia, and Montenegro.
In 846 Rome was sacked and the Vatican defiled by Muslim Arab raiders; some 600 years later, in 1453, Christendom’s other great basilica, Holy Wisdom (or Hagia Sophia) was conquered by Muslim Turks, permanently. (Till this day, Turkish Muslims celebrate this day of great rapine and slaughter.)The few European regions that escaped direct Islamic occupation due to their northwest remoteness include Great Britain, Scandinavia, and Germany. That, of course, does not mean that they were not attacked by Islam. Indeed, in the furthest northwest of Europe, in Iceland, Christians used to pray that God save them from the “terror of the Turk.” This was not mere paranoia; as late as 1627, Muslim corsairs raided the Christian island seizing four hundred captives and selling them in the slave markets of Algiers.
Nor did America escape. A few years after the formation of the United States, in 1800, American trading ships in the Mediterranean were plundered and their sailors enslaved by Muslim corsairs. The ambassador of Tripoli explained to Thomas Jefferson that it was a Muslim’s “right and duty to make war upon them [non-Muslims] wherever they could be found, and to enslave as many as they could take as prisoners.”
In short, for roughly one millennium—punctuated by a Crusader-rebuttal that the modern West is obsessed with demonizing—Islam daily posed an existential threat to Christian Europe and by extension Western civilization.
Surely the United States’ European forebears—who at one time or another either fought off or were conquered by Islam—must be turning in their graves.
But all this is history, you say? Why rehash it? Why not let it be and move on, begin a new chapter of mutual tolerance and respect, even if history must be “touched up” a bit?
All this leads to another, perhaps even more important point: If the true history of the West and Islam is being turned upside its head, what other historical “orthodoxies” being peddled around as truth are also false?
Were the Dark Ages truly benighted because of the “suffocating” forces of Christianity? Or were these dark ages—which “coincidentally” occurred during the same centuries when jihad was constantly harrying Europe—a product of another suffocating “religion”?
Was the Spanish Inquisition—also condemned by nObama—a reflection of Christian barbarism or was it a reflection of Christian desperation vis-à-vis the hundreds of thousands of Muslims who, while claiming to have converted to Christianity, were practicing taqiyya and living as moles trying to subvert the Christian nation back to Islam?Don’t expect to get true answers to these and other questions from the makers, guardians, and disseminators of the West’s fabricated epistemology.
In the future (whatever one there may be) the histories written about our times will likely stress how our era, ironically called the “information age,” was not an age when people were so well informed, but rather an age when disinformation was so widespread and unquestioned that generations of people lived in bubbles of alternate realities—till they were finally popped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFkGgNsqQ_4
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/raymond-ibrahim/the-true-history-of-christendom-and-islam/
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