Sunday, February 01, 2015 9:46:33 PM
The myth of 'no go' zones lives on
All In with Chris Hayes
01/19/15
Chris Hayes looks at the many ways Islamophobia manifests itself in the United States.
Jindal condemns imaginary ‘no-go zones’
01/19/15
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jindal-condemns-imaginary-no-go-zones [with comments]
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http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-myth-of-no-go-zones-lives-on-386381379557 [with comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRnDMk9hwmI [with comment] [and see e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106148792 and preceding and following]
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Tony Perkins: Dearborn And Neighborhoods In Minneapolis Are Muslim No-Go Zones
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Tuesday, 1/20/2015 11:35 am
While Fox News has apologized [ http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/18/media/fox-apologizes-for-anti-islam-comments/index.html ] for its discredited [ http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-14/debunking-the-muslim-nogo-zone-myth ] and [ http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/nogozones.asp ] widely [ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/world/europe/fox-news-becomes-unwilling-star-of-french-tv-show.html ] mocked [ http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/01/15/gerard_araud_the_french_ambassador_to_the_united_states_is_subtweeting_america.html?wpsrc=fol_tw ] reports about European “no-go zones” that are run according to Sharia law, Family Research Council [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/family-research-council ] President Tony Perkins [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/tony-perkins ] is standing by the false claims that there are around “700 no-go zones” in France alone and that Dearborn, Michigan, has fallen to Sharia law [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jerry-boykin-police-cant-go-dearborn-michigan-because-muslim-population ].
When a “Washington Watch” caller on Friday told Perkins about no-go zones where Muslims are “doing military-type training in Virginia and New York,” which he “heard on Bryan Fischer[’s]” radio show, Perkins said that he had also heard rumors corroborating such allegations.
In France, Perkins said, “they have like 700 no-go zones where authorities have allowed Sharia law to be imposed. There are some areas in this country that in effect that has occurred. Dearborn, Michigan, is one of the places, there are some places in Minneapolis, I don’t think it’s as clear cut as what we’ve seen in Europe, it’s been more by the effect that that’s occurred.”
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/perkins-minneapolis-and-dearborn-have-islamic-no-go-zones ) embedded]
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-dearborn-and-neighborhoods-minneapolis-are-muslim-no-go-zones [and see e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106732567 and preceding and following]
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Bobby Jindal doesn't know what he's talking about
By Jay Parini
Updated 12:48 PM ET, Tue January 20, 2015
Editor's Note: Jay Parini [ http://jayparini.com/ ], a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont. He has just published "Jesus: The Human Face of God [ http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-The-Human-Face-Icons/dp/054402589X ]," a biography of Jesus. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
(CNN)—Gov. Bobby Jindal has been speaking in London recently, and he startled quite a number of people in the House of Commons when he talked about "no-go zones" in Britain, places where Sharia law trumps British law.
He announced confidently [ http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/19/politics/jindal-no-go-zones-london/ ] to a group that included a number of British parliamentarians that the police in the United Kingdom don't dare to tread in these zones, where Sharia law is widely used. "Nonassimilationist Muslims establish enclaves and carry out as much of Sharia law as they can without regard for the laws of the democratic countries which provided them a new home," he said.
This is the sort of ill-informed fantasy that plays well in certain right-wing circles. This probably works for Jindal back home in Louisiana.
Oddly enough, Fox News got into trouble recently [ http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/18/media/fox-apologizes-for-anti-islam-comments/index.html ] on the "no-go zone" nonsense, too, as when Steve Emerson, a so-called terrorism expert, explained to the American masses that Birmingham, a major British urban center, was populated entirely by Muslims and that "non-Muslims just simply don't go in."
British Prime Minister David Cameron correctly labeled him "a complete idiot [ http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-cameron-fox-steven-emerson-idiot ]," and Emerson's remark caused [ http://www.inquisitr.com/1769175/those-so-called-european-muslim-no-go-zones-arent-a-thing-but-louisiana-governor-bobby-jindal-talked-about-them-in-a-london-speech-anyway/ ] a spokesperson for the network to admit that Muslim "no-go zones" don't actually exist, not in Britain, not in Europe.
Needless to say, there are places where a lot of Muslim immigrants live in close proximity, and outsiders might feel uncomfortable walking around. The same would be true for parts of America where you might feel uncomfortable walking around if you were, say, black or white -- it would depend on the neighborhood. (An African American colleague of mine recently told me that her sons, in their 20s, often feel threatened in white neighborhoods, and I don't doubt the truth of this.)
It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster. My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.
But the question of Sharia law is interesting. Unofficial Sharia courts will be found in Europe, here and there. But these arbitration bodies don't trump the legal system of the country where they occur. An article in The Economist noted, in fact, that there have long been rabbinical courts in Jewish neighborhoods in Britain -- not a dissimilar sort of thing.
There are even places in the United States where Christians can work out their disputes in a kind of extrajudicial manner. Family law, for instance, is often the issue here, and there are cultural values that play into [ http://www.economist.com/node/17249634 ] the need for this kind of culturally inflected arbitration. That in some Muslim neighborhoods there might be an accommodation to Sharia law seems not surprising, and this doesn't mean that sooner or later we can expect adulterous women to be stoned to death in Birmingham or thieves to have their hands lopped off in East London.
Blasphemy will not soon lead to the gas chamber in Europe -- indeed, capital punishment is not legal in any European country (or any civilized country, for that matter, except for the USA).
Getting back to Gov. Jindal, one has to wonder what prompted his ignorant outburst. Was this a lame attempt to play into the broad public fears of radical Islam that have arisen in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings? If so, that's not good enough for a politician with any shred of integrity.
In my view, Jindal immediately disqualified himself from ever holding a national political office by making such a bizarre statement, though it hasn't stopped any number of American politicians with bizarre notions from winning major national offices in the past. Such behavior does, however, embarrass this country in the court of world opinion.
The British, and most European countries, have struggled to accommodate Muslim immigrants, but they have nevertheless welcomed them in large numbers. For the most part, these immigrants have behaved well, despite the fear of their traditions and beliefs that leads to crazy exaggerations by politicians such as Jindal.
There have been isolated and gruesome incidents of terrorism -- the murder of a British soldier, Lee Rigby, in the spring of 2013 comes to mind, or the vicious attacks in London of July 7, 2005, which left 52 dead and over 700 injured. The British have had to confront terror, and they've done so without vilifying large parts of their own population. Indeed, they've been forced to come to terms with what I would call British Exceptionalism -- the old imperial feeling that nobody who is not British can possibly lead a civilized way of life. (As Americans, of course, we struggle with our own feelings of exceptionalism, preferring to think that our ways are always the best and truest ways.)
Jindal was apparently on a 10-day "fact finding" mission [ http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/19/politics/jindal-no-go-zones-london/ ] designed to bolster his credentials for a possible run at the White House in 2016. He's not as stupid as he sounds, in fact. (Indeed, he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he must have learned something.)
Let's hope that he is a quick study, and that he learns how not to say idiotic things in public that cause a good deal of offense, if not harm, to unsuspecting people, fueling hatred rather than coming to terms.
© 2015 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (emphasis added)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/19/opinion/parini-jindal-comments-muslims/index.html [with embedded video reports, and comments]
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Pamela Geller: Fox Apology 'Egregious,' 'There Are Absolutely No-Go Zones'
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Friday, 1/23/2015 5:30 pm
Anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/pamela-geller ] joined [ https://player.fm/series/850-wftl-the-joyce-kaufman-show/tuesday-01-20-2015-hr-2 ] Florida conservative radio host Joyce Kaufman [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/joyce-kaufman ] earlier this week to discuss the controversy over Fox commentator Steve Emerson’s statement that Birmingham, England, had become a “no-go zone” controlled by Islamic law. Emerson retracted his statement and Fox issued a series of apologies [ http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/18/media/fox-apologizes-for-anti-islam-comments/ ] for his remark and for other statements on the network about the myth of “no-go zones” in Europe [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-no-go-zones-myth-traveled-anti-muslim-fringe-mouths-gop-politicians ].
Geller, who has been warning of European “no-go zones” for years [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-no-go-zones-myth-traveled-anti-muslim-fringe-mouths-gop-politicians ], acknowledged that Emerson’s statement about Birmingham was wrong but was outraged that Fox had taken its retractions even further, agreeing with Kaufman that their opponents are winning “the propaganda war” and that Fox’s apologies were “egregious,” the result of a liberal ideology in which "Islam trumps gay."
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/pamela-geller-no-go-zones-are-real-fox-apology-egregious ) embedded]
“Look, any time anybody approaches this subject — you know and I know because we have suffered it for a decade — we are demonized, smeared and libeled,” she said.
“To be clear, there are absolutely no-go zones,” she said. “In parts of London, there are absolutely religious police that beat and wound and seriously attack anyone that doesn’t dress according to Islam.”
Geller went on to site a Daily Mail story [ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019547/Anjem-Choudary-Islamic-extremists-set-Sharia-law-zones-UK-cities.html ] about a small fringe group that had put up posters in a London neighborhood declaring it a “Sharia Controlled Zone” — not an actual designation observed by actual authorities. She also cited a Guardian story [ http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/24/muslim-patrol-gang-arrests-homophobic-video ] about a self-proclaimed “Muslim patrol gang” that harassed a number of people, including a gay man, in east London. Contrary to the “no-go zone” myth, the perpetrators were not given control of the area, but were arrested by actual British law enforcement officers. These stories illustrate the fact that, as a number of fact-checkers have noted, the supposed European Sharia zones are simply high-crime areas [ http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/election/article7859262.html ].
But Geller smelled a double-standard in the media: “Here we have the media, which is so pro-gay-issue it’s blinding, that you can’t turn on a television show or series or movie where there’s not some advancement of the gay agenda…and yet, Islam trumps gay.”
Kaufman, for her part, cited the killing of 13 people by ISIS in Syria [ http://nypost.com/2015/01/19/isis-executes-13-teens-for-watching-soccer/ ] as evidence of the existence of these no-go zones in Europe: “They killed 13 teenagers for watching a soccer match in Syria, obviously that’s a no-go zone.”
© 2015 People For the American Way
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http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65754190 and preceding and following,
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65739874 and preceding and following]
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Invitation to tour non-existent Sharia Law 'no go zones' in Minneapolis
Rep. Keith Ellison
@keithellison
@tperkins: While there aren't any "Sharia no-go zones" in Minneapolis, I invite you to come and see for yourself.
1:43 PM - 21 Jan 2015
[ https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/558017030423449602 [with comments]
Posted: Jan 22, 2015 2:39 PM CST
Updated: Jan 22, 2015 2:42 PM CST
MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison has sent an invitation to ultraconservative lobbyist Tony Perkins to visit Minneapolis, to debunk his claims the city is one of a few places in America with “no-go zones” where Sharia Law trumps state and federal laws.
Perkins is president of the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group Family Research Council -- a “Christian public policy ministry” with a pro-life and anti same-sex marriage agenda.
“There are some areas in this country that, in effect, that has occurred,” Perkins said, referring to the concept of "no-go zones," in an interview with [sic - as (first) reported by] watchdog website Right Wing Watch [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-dearborn-and-neighborhoods-minneapolis-are-muslim-no-go-zones (above)]. “Dearborn, Michigan is one of the places. There are some places in Minneapolis. I don't think it's as clear cut as what we've seen in Europe."
Rep. Ellison, whose 5th District covers Minneapolis, responded with an assurance that “this is not true,” and invited Perkins to visit the city and see that Minneapolis is “an inclusive and thriving city completely under the jurisdiction of local, state and federal laws.” Ellison offered to arrange meetings with local and federal law enforcement and community leaders to help Perkins take “an important step toward interfaith understanding.”
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http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/27916687/invitation-to-tour-non-existent-sharia-law-no-go-zones-in-minneapolis [with comments]
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Bobby Jindal Warns of U.S. ‘No-Go Zones’ if We Don’t Force Muslims to Assimilate
by Matt Wilstein | 5:46 pm, January 21st, 2015
Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) doubled down on his controversial comments about so-called “no-go zones [ http://www.mediaite.com/print/gov-jindal-still-pushing-discredited-claim-of-no-go-zones/ ]” for non-Muslims in a big way during a Fox News interview Wednesday afternoon. He even suggested that if the U.S. doesn’t take the threat of radical Islam seriously, we could have our own “no-go zones” in the near future.
Jindal began by addressing comments made on MSNBC by human rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar, who was banned from appearing on the network [ http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-will-not-invite-back-guest-who-made-brown-scrubbing-jindal-comments/ ] after suggesting the governor [ http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-jindal-trying-to-scrub-some-of-the-brown-off-his-skin-with-no-go-zone-comments/ ] was trying to “scrub some of the brown off his skin” with his “no-go zone” talk. “It’s foolish that MSNBC even gave somebody like this a platform,” Jindal said of Iftikhar.
“Did you know the term ‘no-go zones’ was wrong?” Fox’s Neil Cavuto [ http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/person/?q=Neil+Cavuto ] asked. “We reported the same and we were wrong. We botched it. We apologized for it,” he said of Fox’s series of apologies for similar statements [ ]. “You are not, I take it?”
Jindal said that while Fox apologized for calling “an entire city” a “no-go zone,” that he was merely referring to certain neighborhoods in those cities. “You can call them whatever term you want, but absolutely there are neighborhoods, we have communities of people that don’t want to integrate or assimilate,” he said.
As an Indian-American, Jindal argued that we have to start removing the hyphens from our identities here in the United States. “If people don’t want to come here to integrate and assimilate, what they’re really trying to do is set up their own culture, their own communities,” he said. “What they’re really trying to do is overturn our culture. We need to recognize that threat.”
“If we don’t, we’re going see a replica of what’s happening in Europe in America,” the governor continued. “We’re going to see our own no-go zones if we’re not serious about insisting on assimilation and integration.”
Asked once more if he wanted to take any comments back, Jindal replied, “Absolutely not.”
Watch video below, via Fox News [non-YouTube version embedded; a YouTube of the same, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGpcoogY-I {with comment}, in its place next below) (another YouTube of the same at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbq6zKQS4E0 {with comment})]:
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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bobby-jindal-warns-of-u-s-no-go-zones-if-we-dont-force-muslims-to-assimilate/ [with comments]
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Jindal: Liberals Want Us To Pretend 'It's A Good Thing To Kill Journalists'
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 1/23/2015 2:00 pm
During his Wednesday interview [ http://stevedeace.com/podcast/deace-show-podcast-01-21-15/ ] on “The Steve Deace Show [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/steve-deace ],” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bobby-jindal ] repeated his criticisms [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jindal-s-comments-muslims-win-plaudits-christian-nationalist-allies ] of Muslim [ http://www.wilsoncenter.org/islamists/article/muslims-condemn-charlie-hebdo-attack ] faith [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/07/muslims-respond-charlie-hebdo_n_6429710.html ] leaders [ http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/01/07/what-fox-wont-show-you-muslim-leaders-are-conde/202049 ] who denounced the recent attacks in Paris, insisting that their condemnations didn’t go far enough because they didn’t specifically say that the perpetrators are going to Hell. Maybe he missed the statements saying just [ http://www.wilsoncenter.org/islamists/article/muslims-condemn-charlie-hebdo-attack ] that [ http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/eliana-benador-vengeful-islamists-massacre-artists-in-the-name-of-their-prophet/ ], or he is simply moving the goalposts so he can continue to score political points at the expense of a frequently demonized minority.
Nonetheless, Jindal made clear that as president, he plans to “hunt down, exterminate and kill” Islamists, which he, unlike President Obama, will apparently do by ignoring political correctness.
“He can’t seem to find the words ‘terrorism’ or ‘radical Islam’ in his vocabulary; he continues to think of this as a criminal act, that is not what this is,” Jindal said. “Other people want to tiptoe around the truth, they can do that if they want but I’m not going to do it anymore. We cannot be intimidated by the left or all of these liberals who don’t want us to speak about this. The reality is, we can pretend like it’s not happening, we can pretend that it’s a good thing to kill journalists, to kill teenagers for watching soccer, to kill over 150 schoolchildren, to treat women as second class citizens, but it’s not.”
Jindal said extreme Islam “sees weakness in the West and is trying to attack that weakness. According to Jindal, the radicals “use our freedoms to undermine our freedoms,” and liberals are letting them do it with political correctness and multiculturalism: “that’s not immigration, that’s invasion.”
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/jindal-liberals-caved-to-radical-islamists ) embedded]
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jindal-liberals-want-us-pretend-its-good-thing-kill-journalists
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Growing Up Bobby: Jindal's All-American Dream
Published on Aug 1, 2014 by The Christian Broadcasting Network [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXhAHm2n8LSAtyf6ATnoC2g / http://www.youtube.com/user/CBNonline , http://www.youtube.com/user/CBNonline/videos ]
Profiles the Louisiana governor and his wife, Supriya. Looks at Jindahl’s faith, rise to political fame, and more.
The Most and Least Bible-Minded Cities in America
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The rankings are calculated using data collected by Barna Group. Each city’s Bible mindedness is determined by analyzing survey respondents’ Bible reading habits and beliefs about the Bible. The most Bible-minded respondents said they had read the Bible in the past seven days and believe strongly in the accuracy of the Bible. Nationally, only 27 percent of the population was considered Bible minded.
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http://www.americanbible.org/features/americas-most-bible-minded-cities
Priced out of New York, American Bible Society decamps to Philadelphia
Roy Peterson, president and CEO of American Bible Society.
January 28, 2015
(RNS) After almost two centuries in New York City, the nonprofit American Bible Society [ http://www.americanbible.org/ ] is moving its headquarters to Philadelphia.
“New York has become so extraordinarily expensive that nonprofit staff cannot afford to live in proximity to headquarters,” said Roy Peterson, the society’s president and CEO. “We don’t have a cohesive, synergistic global headquarters staff right now. And that’s why we wanted to find a city that was diverse, rich with culture and churches and language, but yet affordable.”
Some staffers have long commutes to the current headquarters on prime real estate near Lincoln Center. Others work from a rental location in Valley Forge, Pa., that will be closed when the new headquarters a block from the Liberty Bell opens around June.
Peterson said a small staff will remain in New York. The Museum of Biblical Art [ http://www.mobia.org/ ], which is independent but affiliated with the ABS, will also remain in New York.
The new headquarters, 401 Market St., will be housed on the eighth and ninth floors of a building shared with Wells Fargo & Co. under a 25-year leasing agreement that can be renewed for another 25. The Bible society also has proposed a ground-level “Bible Discovery Center.”
ABS leaders realized they were sitting on a valuable asset in midtown Manhattan; the current location, a 12-story building at 1865 Broadway, is for sale [ http://www.religionnews.com/2014/03/25/american-bible-society-sell-12-story-nyc-building/ ] and is estimated to be worth about $300 million [ http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/03/25/bible-publisher-aims-for-300m-pay-day-with-sale-of-columbus-circle-hq/ ].
Peterson, whose society supports Bible reading and seeks to have the sacred text translated into all the world’s languages, said he expects a staff of more than 200 will occupy the Philadelphia building within two years.
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http://www.religionnews.com/2015/01/28/priced-new-york-american-bible-society-decamps-philadelphia/ [emphasis added; with comments, including "Next up, the American Flat Earth Society is moving it’s headquarters to a place more centrally located on the flat plane of the earth........"]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFDfLXNhDwI [with comment] [also at/title taken from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUi9d4Ps3ck (with comments)]
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Bobby Jindal's Extremist Prayer Rally Brings Together Prophets, Bigots And Far-Right Activists
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thursday, 1/22/2015 1:00 pm
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bobby-jindal ], who only a few years ago was lamenting the GOP’s decline into “the stupid party [ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83743.html ],” is now staking out a position on the party’s far-right fringe in preparation for an expected run for the presidency [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/election-2016 ]. Jindal has reached out to the party’s increasingly extreme base by undermining the teaching of evolution in public schools; promoting wild conspiracy theories about Common Core, an effort to adjust school standards that he supported before it became the target of the Tea Party’s fury; and hyping the purported persecution of Christians in America, specifically citing the plight of Christians with reality television shows.
Jindal, once hailed as the GOP’s top intellectual and reformer [ http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/one-tough-talking-nerd-bobby-jindal-brands-himself-as-republican-reformer-20130125 ] who denounced “dumbed-down conservatism [ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83743.html ]” in an era of Tea Party populism, is slated to lead a prayer rally [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/response ] this weekend, “The Response: Baton Rouge,” organized and sponsored by some of the most extreme figures within the party [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindal-predictably-partnering-anti-gay-radicals-his-prayer-rally ].
Texas Gov. Rick Perry [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/rick-perry ] organized the original “Response” prayer gathering as a prelude to his 2012 presidential bid, allying with many of the same radical activists and organizations [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fact-sheet-gov-rick-perry%E2%80%99s-extremist-allies ] who are supporting Jindal’s version of the rally. While Perry’s campaign ultimately imploded, the people who helped put together his prayer rally credited it for [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/engle-perrys-presidential-announcement-may-have-alleviated-texass-drought ] various [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-response-broke-curse-native-american-cannibals ] miracles [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-prayer-ended-drought-texas-and-stopped-bp-oil-spill ]. Jindal’s event has even recycled promotional materials from the Texas rally, including a “prayer guide” blaming marriage equality for Hurricane Katrina and the 2011 Joplin tornado [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindals-prayer-rally-materials-blame-gays-legal-abortion-hurricane-katrina ].
“The Response” is being organized by David Lane [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/david-lane , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/american-renewal-project , http://americanrenewalproject.org/ ], a Religious Right activist who boasts of his great influence and low profile, and various conservative pastors, including several who claim to be modern-day prophets and apostles, who all kicked off the prayer rally with an event at the Louisiana governor’s mansion [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindal-gets-jump-start-his-right-wing-prayer-rally ] earlier this month. The American Family Association [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/american-family-association ], so notorious for its apoplectic anti-gay rhetoric and opposition to the freedoms of non-Christians that its chief spokesman earned a rebuke [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/romney-calls-out-bryan-fischers-bigotry ] from Mitt Romney [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/mitt-romney ], is putting up the funding.
The organizers
David Lane, a self-styled “political operative [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/influential-religious-right-organizer-david-lane-admits-im-actually-political-operative ]” who gloats that he has “operated since 2005 largely under the radar [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/under-radar-christian-nationalist-david-lane-quietly-waging-spiritual-warfare-save-america ]” on behalf of conservative causes and Republican candidates, is serving as the organizational muscle behind Jindal’s prayer rally.
Jindal isn’t the only potential GOP candidate who is getting Lane’s help; Lane has also arranged various events focused on energizing conservative pastors in early GOP primary states that have featured appearances from potential presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/ted-cruz/ted-cruz ], Rand Paul [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/rand-paul-0 ] and Mike Huckabee [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/mike-huckabee ]. He also organized overseas tours with various conservative activists for likely candidates including Huckabee, Perry and Paul. Lane has also teamed up [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-teams-anti-gay-extremist-and-hate-group ] with the Republican National Committee [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/republican-national-committee ], whose chairman, Reince Priebus [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/reince-priebus ], sings his praises [ http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/10/07/3576926/top-gop-leader-letting-gay-people-marry-will-undermine-american-society/ ].
Lane hopes to use “The Response” as a launching pad for his effort to recruit 1,000 pastors [ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/23/evangelical-david-lane-begins-effort-recruit-pasto/ ] to run for elected office.
Lane, who has connections to the top of the Republican Party [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/republican-party ], has views which are far out of the mainstream. He has:
• called on conservatives to attack [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/16/rick-perry-camp-s-anti-mormon-message.html ] Mitt Romney for worshiping “the false god of Mormonism”;
• warned that LGBT rights are creating an unparalleled “crisis” leading to “our utter destruction [ http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/indecency-sin-and-todays-whig-party/ ]” as a nation;
• forecasted America’s destruction [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/republican-presidential-hopefuls-favorite-christian-nation-extremist ] as a result of “the pagan onslaught imposing homosexual marriage” and “homosexual scouts”;
• declared [ http://www.gopaulrevere.com/2012/02/kingdom-of-god-will-not-arrive-on-air.html ] that “our long-term strategy must be to place the Bible in Public Schools as the principle [sic] textbook of American education”;
• and predicted [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-lane-predicts-car-bombings-la-dc-and-des-moines-over-gay-inauguration-prayers ] that “homosexuals praying at the Inauguration” in 2013 would lead to divine punishment in the form of “car bombs in Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Des Moines, Iowa.”
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The American Family Association, classified as a “hate group [ http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-family-association ]” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is providing the financial backbone for Jindal’s prayer rally, as it did for Perry’s 2011 event.
The group’s chief spokesman, Bryan Fischer [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bryan-fischer ], has won nationwide notoriety for his remarks about homosexuality and religious and ethnic minorities, which he shares on his daily program on the AFA’s radio network. Fischer has:
• called for the criminalization [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-make-homosexuality-criminal-offense ] of [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/uganda-passes-anti-gay-bill-cheered-us-conservatives ] homosexuality [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-ban-homosexuality-hazard-human-health ], bans on pro-gay-rights speech [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-russias-anti-gay-law-exactly-sort-public-policy-weve-been-advocating ], punishing gay people like people convicted of drug crimes [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-fischer-gays-should-be-treated-drug-addicts ] and prohibitions on gay people from serving [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-being-active-homosexual-should-disqualify-you-public-office ] in [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-prop-8-ruling-proof-homosexuals-should-be-disqualified-public-office ] public [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gays-are-inherently-disqualified-serving-public-office ] office [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-no-lesbian-qualified-sit-supreme-court ];
• compared gay people [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gay-sex-domestic-terrorism-i-dont-know-what-else-youd-call-it ] to [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/homo-akbar-bryan-fischer-decries-homosexual-mafia-and-obamas-spiritual-cleansing ] terrorists [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-inescapable-conclusion-gay-sex-form-domestic-terrorism ], murderers [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gays-are-just-murderers-liars-thieves-and-slave-traders ], Jim Crow proponents [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gay-jim-crow-laws-mean-christians-are-new-blacks ] and Nazis [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gay-activists-are-modern-day-nazi-stormtroopers ];
• blamed gays for the 2008 financial collapse [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-homosexuality-end-going-be-responsible-collapse-western-economy ], the rise of the Islamic State [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-god-will-use-isis-punish-america-gay-rights ], the sexual abuse of children [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-doubles-down-no-scotus-seat-pedophiles ] and even the [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-fischer-outdoes-himself ] Holocaust [ http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-gop-s-favorite-hate-monger-how-the-republican-party-came-to-embrace-bryan-fischer#hitler ];
• insisted that non-Christians have [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-our-constitution-protects-free-exercise-christian-religion ] no [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-first-amendment-does-not-apply-mormons ] First Amendment [ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/right-wing-radio-host-bryan-fischer-says-first-amendment-only-protects-christians/ ] rights [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-no-first-amendment-rights-muslims ] and non-Christian immigrants should be forcibly converted to Christianity [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-immigration-policy-bible-convert-christianity ], explaining [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-guide-judaism ] that “counterfeit religions, alternative religions to Christianity, have no First Amendment right to the free exercise of the religion.” (This includes Hindus, whose adherents include Gov. Jindal’s parents, whom he believes practice “the doctrine of demons [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-michelle-obama-inviting-demons-white-house ]”);
• said African Americans are “people who rut like rabbits [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fisher-goes-too-far-blog-post-changed-remove-rut-rabbits-comment ]” as a result of welfare programs;
• and argued that the violent expulsion of Native Americans was [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bryan-fischer-suggests-native-americans-were-justifiably-removed-their-land ] divinely [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-native-americans-need-leave-reservation-convert-christianity-and-become-full-fledged ] ordained [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-native-americans-are-mired-poverty-and-alcoholism-because-they-refuse-accept-christi ].
Other AFA officials have blamed gay people for natural disasters like Hurricane Isaac [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-buster-wilson-god-using-hurricane-isaac-punish-new-orleans-lgbt-festival ], promoted [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-goes-birther-claims-obama-not-offended-when-americans-are-killed ] birther [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-uses-kenya-massacre-promote-birther-conspiracy-theories ] conspiracy [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afa-hoax-obama-foreign-student ] theories [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-and-rise-quasi-birtherism ] and railed [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-says-secular-jews-have-been-worst-enemies-country ] against [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gabriel-islam-everywhere-rios-jewish-leftists-eager-islam ] secular Jews as threats to America.
The “apostles”
The latter half of Rick Perry’s “The Response” prayer rally was emceed [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/response-bickle-rails-against-redefining-love-and-false-religions ] by a self-proclaimed prophet who believes Oprah Winfrey is the harbinger of the Antichrist [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-perry-partners-pastor-who-thinks-oprah-precursor-antichrist ].
It looks like Jindal’s rally will be no different: Doug Stringer [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/doug-stringer ], who considers himself to be a modern-day apostle and who also worked on Perry’s rally, is spearheading the Louisiana event. Stringer has blamed American “[l]icentiousness or moral looseness to the degree that it is ‘in your face,’ including homosexuality,” for the September 11, 2001 attacks [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-perry-partners-apostle-who-blames-america-september-11-attacks ], which he described as a “wake-up call” from God.
Another self-proclaimed prophet, Cindy Jacobs [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/cindy-jacobs ], is also featured on “The Response: Baton Rouge” website [ http://vimeo.com/114364881 ]. Jacobs has quite the prophetic record. She:
• suggested that legal victories for marriage equality advocates led to Hurricane Sandy [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-god-preparing-whole-lot-shaking-punish-america-gay-marriage-decisions ] and other natural disasters;
• took credit for preventing several terrorist attacks [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cindy-jacobs-has-long-record-preventing-terrorist-attacks-just-ask-her ] and coups [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-cindy-jacobs-prevented-two-african-coups ], and bringing the dead back to life [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cindy-jacobs-i-have-power-revive-dead-children ];
• proclaimed that Rick Perry’s “The Response” prayer rally “broke the curses on the land [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-response-broke-curse-native-american-cannibals ]” of Texas brought on by “the Native American people [who] were cannibals and they ate people”;
• and blamed the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell for freak bird deaths in Arkansas [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-birds-are-dying-because-dadt-repeal , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17WGTvPHGg (next below; with comments)].
Jim Garlow [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/jim-garlow ], a prominent “The Response: Baton Rouge” endorser [ http://vimeo.com/114366453 ] who is involved in the “apostolic” movement, has been a leader of the movement against LGBT rights. Garlow has:
• claimed his prayers [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-reveals-exact-moment-god-decided-pass-prop-8 ] helped secure the passage of California’s Proposition 8, which “saved us from the bondage and enslavement [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-african-americans-have-saved-us-bondage-and-enslavement-gay-marriage ] that would come upon us if gay marriage actually passed in a state”;
• described the “radical homosexual agenda” as a tool [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jim-garlow-religious-onslaught-needed-fight-demonic-gay-marriage ] of [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-satan-attacking-marriage-and-gingrich-saving-western-civilization ] Satan [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-says-satan-behind-radical-gay-homosexual-agenda-then-demands-gays-dial-down-rhetoric ] and “almost like an Antichrist spirit [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-and-staver-gay-marriage-fight-against-antichrist-spirit ]”;
• and warned that marriage equality will lead to America’s [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-obamas-support-gay-marriage-tipped-scales-destructive-direction ] destruction [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jim-garlow-warns-marriage-equality-destruction-our-nation-ultimate-nail-coffin ], widespread persecution [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-christians-will-be-forced-underground-if-court-affirms-marriage-equality ] and even [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-if-necessary-here-we-die-fighting-gay-marriage ] death [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-opposing-gay-marriage-may-cost-us-our-lives ].
One event sponsor [ http://vimeo.com/114366452 ], Jennifer LeClaire [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/jennifer-leclaire ], has used her column in Charisma News to broadcast several “prophetic” warnings about the evils of homosexuality and the “gay agenda” that is “working overtime to send millions to hell [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-there-gay-agenda-and-its-working-overtime-send-millions-hell ].” LeClaire has:
• decried the evils of gay superheroes [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-editor-gay-superheroes-spirit-immorality-waging-war-young-souls ], comic book characters [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-gay-spider-man-weaves-wicked-web-and-unholy-gay-agenda ] and professional [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-jason-collins-must-launch-war-homosexual-tendencies-and-repent-its-too-late ] athletes [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-nfl-gays-stay-closet ];
• asserted that gay marriage is “part of Satan’s end-time strategy [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-satan-using-gay-marriage-ban-straight-marriage ]” to “outlaw traditional marriage”;
• and claimed that gay people are possessed [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-says-satan-behind-law-limiting-ex-gay-therapy-may-lead-bible-ban ] by a demonic “spirit of immorality” that “often enters in through some sort of abuse and the lies of the enemy [Satan] that follow.”
The activists
“The Response: Baton Rouge” has also featured endorsements from a slew of conservative politicians. Tamara Scott [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/tamara-scott ], as a member of the Republican National Committee representing Iowa and leader of the Iowa chapter of Concerned Women for America [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/concerned-women-america ], is a key political player in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. But her political clout doesn’t hide her unbridled extremism. Scott has:
• alleged that gay marriage will legalize marriage to objects such as the Eiffel Tower [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmanns-iowa-campaign-chair-says-same-sex-marriage-will-lead-object-marriage ] and usher in economic collapse [ http://www.towleroad.com/2010/08/nom-speaker-outlawing-gay-marriage-will-save-the-economy.html ];
• characterized young Central American immigrants as “highly trained warriors [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-committeewoman-warns-child-migrants-highly-trained-warriors-who-will-rise-against-us-ame ]” who could “rise up against us as Americans”;
• and suggested that Muslim-Americans are waging a “stealth jihad” to overthrow the U.S [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-committeewoman-warns-muslim-refugees-waging-stealth-jihad-against-america ].
Another official “Response” endorser, longtime conservative activist and failed Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia E.W. Jackson [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/ew-jackson ], has pushed similarly radical views, particularly on gay rights, saying [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jackson-gays-lesbians-very-sick-people-psychologically-mentally-emotionally ] that “homosexuality is a horrible sin, it poisons culture, it destroys families, it destroys societies; it brings the judgment of God unlike very few things that we can think of.” He has also:
• said of gay people: “Their minds are perverted [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jackson-gays-lesbians-very-sick-people-psychologically-mentally-emotionally ], they’re frankly very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally”;
• claimed that gay people “recruit [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jackson-gays-lesbians-very-sick-people-psychologically-mentally-emotionally ]” children into their “destructive [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ew-jackson-deliver-gays-destructive-lifestyle-obama-will-teach-children-homosexuality ]” lifestyle and gay rights supporters “have done more to kill black folks [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/e-w-jackson-pro-gay-rights-liberals-kill-black-folks-ku-klux-klan ] whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/ku-klux-klan ], lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did”;
• warned that homosexuality will bring about a “torrent of wickedness [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ew-jackson-warns-same-sex-marriage-leads-bestiality-adam-and-steve-becomes-adam-and-bull ],” including human-animal marriages;
• argued that God will stop blessing the U.S. military [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ew-jackson-god-will-stop-blessing-military-because-gay-rights ] due to the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which he called “a disaster of historic proportions [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/reaction-dadt-vote-few-proud-sexually-twisted ]”;
• and described President Obama as an evil Muslim [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ew-jackson-obama-atheistmuslim-and-were-dealing-evil-presence ] who leads an Antichrist political party [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/virginia-gop-lt-governor-nominee-ew-jacksons-long-history-attacking-gays-berating-democrats ].
Gene Mills [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/gene-mills ], leader of the Louisiana Family Forum [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/louisiana-family-forum ] and another key “Response” endorser, is a vocal ally [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/feels-heaven-conservatives-louisiana ] of Jindal’s who helped push [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/louisiana-vouchers-word-god-upset-satan ] the governor’s policies undermining public education and promoting religious schooling. It’s no surprise that Mills leads the state’s foremost anti-LGBT group, as he has:
• asserted that homosexuality is not a sexual orientation but a “disorder [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/louisiana-activist-waxes-nostalgic-days-when-homosexuality-was-considered-disorder ]”;
• falsely claimed that anti-gay speech is now classified as hate crimes [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/richard-land-cities-non-discrimination-laws-criminalized-free-speech ];
• said that abuse shelters should turn away [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gene-mills-shelters-should-reject-transgender-domestic-abuse-survivors ] transgender victims of spousal abuse;
• and explained [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/richard-land-cities-non-discrimination-laws-criminalized-free-speech ] that anti-gay discrimination is a myth because “the reality is the shame and the guilt the homosexual feels is mistakenly reinterpreted as discrimination and what they attempt to do is to call it discrimination and prohibit it.”
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Bobby Jindal - Liberty University Commencement 2014
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Bobby Jindal Won't Rest Until Non-Existent No-Go Zones Are No More
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 1/23/2015 12:55 pm
Even after Fox News retracted several of their reports [ http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/18/media/fox-apologizes-for-anti-islam-comments/ ] on European Muslim “no-go zones,” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bobby-jindal ] says he knows that such areas are real since “people in Europe” have personally told him that no-go zones run according to Sharia law are popping up throughout the continent.
Jindal, speaking to Iowa talk show host Steve Deace yesterday [ http://stevedeace.com/podcast/deace-show-podcast-01-21-15/ ], said that such anecdotal evidence trumps whatever facts are out there.
He warned that America may be next, unless his upcoming prayer rally [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindals-extremist-prayer-rally-brings-together-prophets-bigots-and-far-right-activists (above)] ushers in a spiritual revival: “Folks, if we don’t get serious, that’s what is going to be in our future. One of the reasons we’re doing something called The Response this Saturday at LSU where we are calling Christians together in prayer, just to pray to turn back to God for a spiritual revival in our country. When you talk in those terms, the media, the academic left, they go apoplectic. Just like they will call you a racist for calling out radical Islam, they will attack you for talking about a spiritual revival. That is what our country needs.”
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World Over - 2014-06-26 -- Gov. Bobby Jindal EXCLUSIVE with Raymond Arroyo
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BOBBY JINDAL, governor of the Great State of Louisiana, on his life, conversion to the Catholic faith and the important issues he faces in Louisiana including school choice, the regulation of the abortion industry and health care...and whether or not he has aspirations to run for president in 2016.
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Frank Gaffney: Obama Sounds Just Like Osama Bin Laden
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 1/26/2015 3:25 pm
Last week on “Washington Watch [ http://www.frc.org/wwlivewithtonyperkins/frank-gaffney-rep-louie-gohmert-travis-weber ],” Family Research Council [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/family-research-council ] President Tony Perkins [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/tony-perkins ] invited anti-Muslim [ http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/frank-gaffney-jr , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/anti-muslim , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/islam ] conspiracy [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-warns-obama-aiding-stealth-jihadist-groups-relinquishing-federal-control-inter ] theorist [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-abedin-was-brilliantly-placed-run-islamist-influence-operations-sixteen-years ] and birther [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-goes-birther ] Frank Gaffney [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/frank-gaffney , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/center-for-security-policy , http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/ / http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/about-us/ ] to discuss the so-called “no-go zones” in Europe, neighborhoods that anti-Muslim activists claim are run according to Sharia law and remain off-limits to police and governmental authority.
Perkins asked Gaffney if President Obama is aiding terrorists because he won’t blame terrorist attacks on Islam, prompting Gaffney to say that Obama is a Sharia law proponent who sounds just like Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the leaders of Boko Haram.
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“When the president says at the United Nations, ‘The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,’ we could’ve found those words coming out of the mouths of Osama bin Laden, or Mullah Omar of the Taliban, or the leaders of Boko Haram or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of Islamic State,” Gaffney said. “This is the doctrine of Sharia and its blasphemy codes. So it not only gives people latitude to say, ‘The president is saying we mustn’t exercise our freedom of speech or maybe we should give it up altogether lest it offend these folks.’ It is also, and this is really in a way much worse, emboldening our enemies, who when they see this behavior, they think we’re submitting to them.”
Gaffney, of course, is leaving out the fact Obama’s 2012 UN speech [ http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/25/remarks-president-un-general-assembly ] was all about the importance of the freedom of speech and opposition to blasphemy laws:
Here in the United States, countless publications provoke offense. Like me, the majority of Americans are Christian, and yet we do not ban blasphemy against our most sacred beliefs. As President of our country and Commander-in-Chief of our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day and I will always defend their right to do so.
Americans have fought and died around the globe to protect the right of all people to express their views, even views that we profoundly disagree with. We do not do so because we support hateful speech, but because our founders understood that without such protections, the capacity of each individual to express their own views and practice their own faith may be threatened. We do so because in a diverse society, efforts to restrict speech can quickly become a tool to silence critics and oppress minorities.
We do so because given the power of faith in our lives, and the passion that religious differences can inflame, the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression; it is more speech -- the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy, and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect.
Gaffney also conveniently left out the sentence immediately following the president’s remark on “those who slander the prophet of Islam”: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or churches that are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied.”
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-obama-sounds-just-osama-bin-laden
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Frank Gaffney Claims Dearborn, Michigan, Is Now A 'Muslim-Only' No-Go Zone
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 1/26/2015 3:50 pm
Not only did anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney use his interview on “Washington Watch [ http://www.frc.org/wwlivewithtonyperkins/frank-gaffney-rep-louie-gohmert-travis-weber ]” last week to compare President Obama to Osama bin Laden [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-obama-sounds-just-osama-bin-laden (just above)], but he also claimed that Sharia law has popped up in the U.S.
According to Gaffney, Dearborn, Michigan — a regular [ http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/sharia.asp ] target [ http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/10/no-dearborn-michigan-not-under-sharia-law/71120/ ] of [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-stone/hilarious-army-veteran-de_b_6536380.html ] debunked [ http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/11/mayor-to-angle-come-to-dearborn/ ] claims [ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43451.html ] about Sharia law that Gaffney calls “Dearbornistan” — has become a “ghetto enclave in which it’s Muslim-only and others, if they are not effectively proscribed or prevented from going in, know that it is too dangerous to go.”
Perkins, for his part, has previously claimed that both Dearborn and parts of Minneapolis are Islamic no-go zones [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-dearborn-and-neighborhoods-minneapolis-are-muslim-no-go-zones (above)].
The two also railed against the criticism directed at Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal for declaring that no-go zones are sweeping across Europe [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindal-wont-rest-until-non-existent-no-go-zones-are-no-more (above)] — an allegation for which Jindal offered no evidence besides anecdotal stories he claimed to have heard from people he met — and stating that Muslim faith leaders who condemned terrorist attacks didn’t go far enough [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jindal-liberals-want-us-pretend-its-good-thing-kill-journalists (above)] because they didn’t specifically say that the culprits are going to Hell.
Gaffney said the “clueless” people criticizing Jindal want to impose a “rhetorical equivalent of a no-go zone.”
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/gaffney-dearborn-a-no-go-zone ) embedded]
Gaffney also said that criticizing Jindal’s remarks amounts to enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws, decrying the “people who are trying to silence him, effectively to try to put Sharia blasphemy restrictions on his speech and his political prospects.”
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/gaffney-criticizing-jindal-amounts-to-imposing-sharia ) embedded]
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-dearborn-michigan-no-go-zone
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All In with Chris Hayes
01/19/15
Chris Hayes looks at the many ways Islamophobia manifests itself in the United States.
Jindal condemns imaginary ‘no-go zones’
01/19/15
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jindal-condemns-imaginary-no-go-zones [with comments]
©2015 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-myth-of-no-go-zones-lives-on-386381379557 [with comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRnDMk9hwmI [with comment] [and see e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106148792 and preceding and following]
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Tony Perkins: Dearborn And Neighborhoods In Minneapolis Are Muslim No-Go Zones
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Tuesday, 1/20/2015 11:35 am
While Fox News has apologized [ http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/18/media/fox-apologizes-for-anti-islam-comments/index.html ] for its discredited [ http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-14/debunking-the-muslim-nogo-zone-myth ] and [ http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/nogozones.asp ] widely [ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/world/europe/fox-news-becomes-unwilling-star-of-french-tv-show.html ] mocked [ http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/01/15/gerard_araud_the_french_ambassador_to_the_united_states_is_subtweeting_america.html?wpsrc=fol_tw ] reports about European “no-go zones” that are run according to Sharia law, Family Research Council [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/family-research-council ] President Tony Perkins [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/tony-perkins ] is standing by the false claims that there are around “700 no-go zones” in France alone and that Dearborn, Michigan, has fallen to Sharia law [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jerry-boykin-police-cant-go-dearborn-michigan-because-muslim-population ].
When a “Washington Watch” caller on Friday told Perkins about no-go zones where Muslims are “doing military-type training in Virginia and New York,” which he “heard on Bryan Fischer[’s]” radio show, Perkins said that he had also heard rumors corroborating such allegations.
In France, Perkins said, “they have like 700 no-go zones where authorities have allowed Sharia law to be imposed. There are some areas in this country that in effect that has occurred. Dearborn, Michigan, is one of the places, there are some places in Minneapolis, I don’t think it’s as clear cut as what we’ve seen in Europe, it’s been more by the effect that that’s occurred.”
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/perkins-minneapolis-and-dearborn-have-islamic-no-go-zones ) embedded]
© 2015 People For the American Way
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-dearborn-and-neighborhoods-minneapolis-are-muslim-no-go-zones [and see e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106732567 and preceding and following]
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Bobby Jindal doesn't know what he's talking about
By Jay Parini
Updated 12:48 PM ET, Tue January 20, 2015
Editor's Note: Jay Parini [ http://jayparini.com/ ], a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont. He has just published "Jesus: The Human Face of God [ http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-The-Human-Face-Icons/dp/054402589X ]," a biography of Jesus. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
(CNN)—Gov. Bobby Jindal has been speaking in London recently, and he startled quite a number of people in the House of Commons when he talked about "no-go zones" in Britain, places where Sharia law trumps British law.
He announced confidently [ http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/19/politics/jindal-no-go-zones-london/ ] to a group that included a number of British parliamentarians that the police in the United Kingdom don't dare to tread in these zones, where Sharia law is widely used. "Nonassimilationist Muslims establish enclaves and carry out as much of Sharia law as they can without regard for the laws of the democratic countries which provided them a new home," he said.
This is the sort of ill-informed fantasy that plays well in certain right-wing circles. This probably works for Jindal back home in Louisiana.
Oddly enough, Fox News got into trouble recently [ http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/18/media/fox-apologizes-for-anti-islam-comments/index.html ] on the "no-go zone" nonsense, too, as when Steve Emerson, a so-called terrorism expert, explained to the American masses that Birmingham, a major British urban center, was populated entirely by Muslims and that "non-Muslims just simply don't go in."
British Prime Minister David Cameron correctly labeled him "a complete idiot [ http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-cameron-fox-steven-emerson-idiot ]," and Emerson's remark caused [ http://www.inquisitr.com/1769175/those-so-called-european-muslim-no-go-zones-arent-a-thing-but-louisiana-governor-bobby-jindal-talked-about-them-in-a-london-speech-anyway/ ] a spokesperson for the network to admit that Muslim "no-go zones" don't actually exist, not in Britain, not in Europe.
Needless to say, there are places where a lot of Muslim immigrants live in close proximity, and outsiders might feel uncomfortable walking around. The same would be true for parts of America where you might feel uncomfortable walking around if you were, say, black or white -- it would depend on the neighborhood. (An African American colleague of mine recently told me that her sons, in their 20s, often feel threatened in white neighborhoods, and I don't doubt the truth of this.)
It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster. My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.
But the question of Sharia law is interesting. Unofficial Sharia courts will be found in Europe, here and there. But these arbitration bodies don't trump the legal system of the country where they occur. An article in The Economist noted, in fact, that there have long been rabbinical courts in Jewish neighborhoods in Britain -- not a dissimilar sort of thing.
There are even places in the United States where Christians can work out their disputes in a kind of extrajudicial manner. Family law, for instance, is often the issue here, and there are cultural values that play into [ http://www.economist.com/node/17249634 ] the need for this kind of culturally inflected arbitration. That in some Muslim neighborhoods there might be an accommodation to Sharia law seems not surprising, and this doesn't mean that sooner or later we can expect adulterous women to be stoned to death in Birmingham or thieves to have their hands lopped off in East London.
Blasphemy will not soon lead to the gas chamber in Europe -- indeed, capital punishment is not legal in any European country (or any civilized country, for that matter, except for the USA).
Getting back to Gov. Jindal, one has to wonder what prompted his ignorant outburst. Was this a lame attempt to play into the broad public fears of radical Islam that have arisen in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings? If so, that's not good enough for a politician with any shred of integrity.
In my view, Jindal immediately disqualified himself from ever holding a national political office by making such a bizarre statement, though it hasn't stopped any number of American politicians with bizarre notions from winning major national offices in the past. Such behavior does, however, embarrass this country in the court of world opinion.
The British, and most European countries, have struggled to accommodate Muslim immigrants, but they have nevertheless welcomed them in large numbers. For the most part, these immigrants have behaved well, despite the fear of their traditions and beliefs that leads to crazy exaggerations by politicians such as Jindal.
There have been isolated and gruesome incidents of terrorism -- the murder of a British soldier, Lee Rigby, in the spring of 2013 comes to mind, or the vicious attacks in London of July 7, 2005, which left 52 dead and over 700 injured. The British have had to confront terror, and they've done so without vilifying large parts of their own population. Indeed, they've been forced to come to terms with what I would call British Exceptionalism -- the old imperial feeling that nobody who is not British can possibly lead a civilized way of life. (As Americans, of course, we struggle with our own feelings of exceptionalism, preferring to think that our ways are always the best and truest ways.)
Jindal was apparently on a 10-day "fact finding" mission [ http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/19/politics/jindal-no-go-zones-london/ ] designed to bolster his credentials for a possible run at the White House in 2016. He's not as stupid as he sounds, in fact. (Indeed, he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he must have learned something.)
Let's hope that he is a quick study, and that he learns how not to say idiotic things in public that cause a good deal of offense, if not harm, to unsuspecting people, fueling hatred rather than coming to terms.
© 2015 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (emphasis added)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/19/opinion/parini-jindal-comments-muslims/index.html [with embedded video reports, and comments]
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Pamela Geller: Fox Apology 'Egregious,' 'There Are Absolutely No-Go Zones'
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Friday, 1/23/2015 5:30 pm
Anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/pamela-geller ] joined [ https://player.fm/series/850-wftl-the-joyce-kaufman-show/tuesday-01-20-2015-hr-2 ] Florida conservative radio host Joyce Kaufman [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/joyce-kaufman ] earlier this week to discuss the controversy over Fox commentator Steve Emerson’s statement that Birmingham, England, had become a “no-go zone” controlled by Islamic law. Emerson retracted his statement and Fox issued a series of apologies [ http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/18/media/fox-apologizes-for-anti-islam-comments/ ] for his remark and for other statements on the network about the myth of “no-go zones” in Europe [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-no-go-zones-myth-traveled-anti-muslim-fringe-mouths-gop-politicians ].
Geller, who has been warning of European “no-go zones” for years [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-no-go-zones-myth-traveled-anti-muslim-fringe-mouths-gop-politicians ], acknowledged that Emerson’s statement about Birmingham was wrong but was outraged that Fox had taken its retractions even further, agreeing with Kaufman that their opponents are winning “the propaganda war” and that Fox’s apologies were “egregious,” the result of a liberal ideology in which "Islam trumps gay."
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/pamela-geller-no-go-zones-are-real-fox-apology-egregious ) embedded]
“Look, any time anybody approaches this subject — you know and I know because we have suffered it for a decade — we are demonized, smeared and libeled,” she said.
“To be clear, there are absolutely no-go zones,” she said. “In parts of London, there are absolutely religious police that beat and wound and seriously attack anyone that doesn’t dress according to Islam.”
Geller went on to site a Daily Mail story [ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019547/Anjem-Choudary-Islamic-extremists-set-Sharia-law-zones-UK-cities.html ] about a small fringe group that had put up posters in a London neighborhood declaring it a “Sharia Controlled Zone” — not an actual designation observed by actual authorities. She also cited a Guardian story [ http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/24/muslim-patrol-gang-arrests-homophobic-video ] about a self-proclaimed “Muslim patrol gang” that harassed a number of people, including a gay man, in east London. Contrary to the “no-go zone” myth, the perpetrators were not given control of the area, but were arrested by actual British law enforcement officers. These stories illustrate the fact that, as a number of fact-checkers have noted, the supposed European Sharia zones are simply high-crime areas [ http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/election/article7859262.html ].
But Geller smelled a double-standard in the media: “Here we have the media, which is so pro-gay-issue it’s blinding, that you can’t turn on a television show or series or movie where there’s not some advancement of the gay agenda…and yet, Islam trumps gay.”
Kaufman, for her part, cited the killing of 13 people by ISIS in Syria [ http://nypost.com/2015/01/19/isis-executes-13-teens-for-watching-soccer/ ] as evidence of the existence of these no-go zones in Europe: “They killed 13 teenagers for watching a soccer match in Syria, obviously that’s a no-go zone.”
© 2015 People For the American Way
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http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65754190 and preceding and following,
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65739874 and preceding and following]
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Invitation to tour non-existent Sharia Law 'no go zones' in Minneapolis
Rep. Keith Ellison
@keithellison
@tperkins: While there aren't any "Sharia no-go zones" in Minneapolis, I invite you to come and see for yourself.
1:43 PM - 21 Jan 2015
[ https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/558017030423449602 [with comments]
Posted: Jan 22, 2015 2:39 PM CST
Updated: Jan 22, 2015 2:42 PM CST
MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison has sent an invitation to ultraconservative lobbyist Tony Perkins to visit Minneapolis, to debunk his claims the city is one of a few places in America with “no-go zones” where Sharia Law trumps state and federal laws.
Perkins is president of the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group Family Research Council -- a “Christian public policy ministry” with a pro-life and anti same-sex marriage agenda.
“There are some areas in this country that, in effect, that has occurred,” Perkins said, referring to the concept of "no-go zones," in an interview with [sic - as (first) reported by] watchdog website Right Wing Watch [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-dearborn-and-neighborhoods-minneapolis-are-muslim-no-go-zones (above)]. “Dearborn, Michigan is one of the places. There are some places in Minneapolis. I don't think it's as clear cut as what we've seen in Europe."
Rep. Ellison, whose 5th District covers Minneapolis, responded with an assurance that “this is not true,” and invited Perkins to visit the city and see that Minneapolis is “an inclusive and thriving city completely under the jurisdiction of local, state and federal laws.” Ellison offered to arrange meetings with local and federal law enforcement and community leaders to help Perkins take “an important step toward interfaith understanding.”
© Copyright 2015 Fox Television Stations, Inc.
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/27916687/invitation-to-tour-non-existent-sharia-law-no-go-zones-in-minneapolis [with comments]
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Bobby Jindal Warns of U.S. ‘No-Go Zones’ if We Don’t Force Muslims to Assimilate
by Matt Wilstein | 5:46 pm, January 21st, 2015
Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) doubled down on his controversial comments about so-called “no-go zones [ http://www.mediaite.com/print/gov-jindal-still-pushing-discredited-claim-of-no-go-zones/ ]” for non-Muslims in a big way during a Fox News interview Wednesday afternoon. He even suggested that if the U.S. doesn’t take the threat of radical Islam seriously, we could have our own “no-go zones” in the near future.
Jindal began by addressing comments made on MSNBC by human rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar, who was banned from appearing on the network [ http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-will-not-invite-back-guest-who-made-brown-scrubbing-jindal-comments/ ] after suggesting the governor [ http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-jindal-trying-to-scrub-some-of-the-brown-off-his-skin-with-no-go-zone-comments/ ] was trying to “scrub some of the brown off his skin” with his “no-go zone” talk. “It’s foolish that MSNBC even gave somebody like this a platform,” Jindal said of Iftikhar.
“Did you know the term ‘no-go zones’ was wrong?” Fox’s Neil Cavuto [ http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/person/?q=Neil+Cavuto ] asked. “We reported the same and we were wrong. We botched it. We apologized for it,” he said of Fox’s series of apologies for similar statements [ ]. “You are not, I take it?”
Jindal said that while Fox apologized for calling “an entire city” a “no-go zone,” that he was merely referring to certain neighborhoods in those cities. “You can call them whatever term you want, but absolutely there are neighborhoods, we have communities of people that don’t want to integrate or assimilate,” he said.
As an Indian-American, Jindal argued that we have to start removing the hyphens from our identities here in the United States. “If people don’t want to come here to integrate and assimilate, what they’re really trying to do is set up their own culture, their own communities,” he said. “What they’re really trying to do is overturn our culture. We need to recognize that threat.”
“If we don’t, we’re going see a replica of what’s happening in Europe in America,” the governor continued. “We’re going to see our own no-go zones if we’re not serious about insisting on assimilation and integration.”
Asked once more if he wanted to take any comments back, Jindal replied, “Absolutely not.”
Watch video below, via Fox News [non-YouTube version embedded; a YouTube of the same, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGpcoogY-I {with comment}, in its place next below) (another YouTube of the same at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbq6zKQS4E0 {with comment})]:
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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bobby-jindal-warns-of-u-s-no-go-zones-if-we-dont-force-muslims-to-assimilate/ [with comments]
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Jindal: Liberals Want Us To Pretend 'It's A Good Thing To Kill Journalists'
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 1/23/2015 2:00 pm
During his Wednesday interview [ http://stevedeace.com/podcast/deace-show-podcast-01-21-15/ ] on “The Steve Deace Show [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/steve-deace ],” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bobby-jindal ] repeated his criticisms [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jindal-s-comments-muslims-win-plaudits-christian-nationalist-allies ] of Muslim [ http://www.wilsoncenter.org/islamists/article/muslims-condemn-charlie-hebdo-attack ] faith [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/07/muslims-respond-charlie-hebdo_n_6429710.html ] leaders [ http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/01/07/what-fox-wont-show-you-muslim-leaders-are-conde/202049 ] who denounced the recent attacks in Paris, insisting that their condemnations didn’t go far enough because they didn’t specifically say that the perpetrators are going to Hell. Maybe he missed the statements saying just [ http://www.wilsoncenter.org/islamists/article/muslims-condemn-charlie-hebdo-attack ] that [ http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/eliana-benador-vengeful-islamists-massacre-artists-in-the-name-of-their-prophet/ ], or he is simply moving the goalposts so he can continue to score political points at the expense of a frequently demonized minority.
Nonetheless, Jindal made clear that as president, he plans to “hunt down, exterminate and kill” Islamists, which he, unlike President Obama, will apparently do by ignoring political correctness.
“He can’t seem to find the words ‘terrorism’ or ‘radical Islam’ in his vocabulary; he continues to think of this as a criminal act, that is not what this is,” Jindal said. “Other people want to tiptoe around the truth, they can do that if they want but I’m not going to do it anymore. We cannot be intimidated by the left or all of these liberals who don’t want us to speak about this. The reality is, we can pretend like it’s not happening, we can pretend that it’s a good thing to kill journalists, to kill teenagers for watching soccer, to kill over 150 schoolchildren, to treat women as second class citizens, but it’s not.”
Jindal said extreme Islam “sees weakness in the West and is trying to attack that weakness. According to Jindal, the radicals “use our freedoms to undermine our freedoms,” and liberals are letting them do it with political correctness and multiculturalism: “that’s not immigration, that’s invasion.”
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/jindal-liberals-caved-to-radical-islamists ) embedded]
© 2015 People For the American Way
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jindal-liberals-want-us-pretend-its-good-thing-kill-journalists
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Growing Up Bobby: Jindal's All-American Dream
Published on Aug 1, 2014 by The Christian Broadcasting Network [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXhAHm2n8LSAtyf6ATnoC2g / http://www.youtube.com/user/CBNonline , http://www.youtube.com/user/CBNonline/videos ]
Profiles the Louisiana governor and his wife, Supriya. Looks at Jindahl’s faith, rise to political fame, and more.
The Most and Least Bible-Minded Cities in America
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The rankings are calculated using data collected by Barna Group. Each city’s Bible mindedness is determined by analyzing survey respondents’ Bible reading habits and beliefs about the Bible. The most Bible-minded respondents said they had read the Bible in the past seven days and believe strongly in the accuracy of the Bible. Nationally, only 27 percent of the population was considered Bible minded.
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http://www.americanbible.org/features/americas-most-bible-minded-cities
Priced out of New York, American Bible Society decamps to Philadelphia
Roy Peterson, president and CEO of American Bible Society.
January 28, 2015
(RNS) After almost two centuries in New York City, the nonprofit American Bible Society [ http://www.americanbible.org/ ] is moving its headquarters to Philadelphia.
“New York has become so extraordinarily expensive that nonprofit staff cannot afford to live in proximity to headquarters,” said Roy Peterson, the society’s president and CEO. “We don’t have a cohesive, synergistic global headquarters staff right now. And that’s why we wanted to find a city that was diverse, rich with culture and churches and language, but yet affordable.”
Some staffers have long commutes to the current headquarters on prime real estate near Lincoln Center. Others work from a rental location in Valley Forge, Pa., that will be closed when the new headquarters a block from the Liberty Bell opens around June.
Peterson said a small staff will remain in New York. The Museum of Biblical Art [ http://www.mobia.org/ ], which is independent but affiliated with the ABS, will also remain in New York.
The new headquarters, 401 Market St., will be housed on the eighth and ninth floors of a building shared with Wells Fargo & Co. under a 25-year leasing agreement that can be renewed for another 25. The Bible society also has proposed a ground-level “Bible Discovery Center.”
ABS leaders realized they were sitting on a valuable asset in midtown Manhattan; the current location, a 12-story building at 1865 Broadway, is for sale [ http://www.religionnews.com/2014/03/25/american-bible-society-sell-12-story-nyc-building/ ] and is estimated to be worth about $300 million [ http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/03/25/bible-publisher-aims-for-300m-pay-day-with-sale-of-columbus-circle-hq/ ].
Peterson, whose society supports Bible reading and seeks to have the sacred text translated into all the world’s languages, said he expects a staff of more than 200 will occupy the Philadelphia building within two years.
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http://www.religionnews.com/2015/01/28/priced-new-york-american-bible-society-decamps-philadelphia/ [emphasis added; with comments, including "Next up, the American Flat Earth Society is moving it’s headquarters to a place more centrally located on the flat plane of the earth........"]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFDfLXNhDwI [with comment] [also at/title taken from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUi9d4Ps3ck (with comments)]
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Bobby Jindal's Extremist Prayer Rally Brings Together Prophets, Bigots And Far-Right Activists
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thursday, 1/22/2015 1:00 pm
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bobby-jindal ], who only a few years ago was lamenting the GOP’s decline into “the stupid party [ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83743.html ],” is now staking out a position on the party’s far-right fringe in preparation for an expected run for the presidency [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/election-2016 ]. Jindal has reached out to the party’s increasingly extreme base by undermining the teaching of evolution in public schools; promoting wild conspiracy theories about Common Core, an effort to adjust school standards that he supported before it became the target of the Tea Party’s fury; and hyping the purported persecution of Christians in America, specifically citing the plight of Christians with reality television shows.
Jindal, once hailed as the GOP’s top intellectual and reformer [ http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/one-tough-talking-nerd-bobby-jindal-brands-himself-as-republican-reformer-20130125 ] who denounced “dumbed-down conservatism [ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83743.html ]” in an era of Tea Party populism, is slated to lead a prayer rally [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/response ] this weekend, “The Response: Baton Rouge,” organized and sponsored by some of the most extreme figures within the party [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindal-predictably-partnering-anti-gay-radicals-his-prayer-rally ].
Texas Gov. Rick Perry [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/rick-perry ] organized the original “Response” prayer gathering as a prelude to his 2012 presidential bid, allying with many of the same radical activists and organizations [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fact-sheet-gov-rick-perry%E2%80%99s-extremist-allies ] who are supporting Jindal’s version of the rally. While Perry’s campaign ultimately imploded, the people who helped put together his prayer rally credited it for [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/engle-perrys-presidential-announcement-may-have-alleviated-texass-drought ] various [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-response-broke-curse-native-american-cannibals ] miracles [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-prayer-ended-drought-texas-and-stopped-bp-oil-spill ]. Jindal’s event has even recycled promotional materials from the Texas rally, including a “prayer guide” blaming marriage equality for Hurricane Katrina and the 2011 Joplin tornado [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindals-prayer-rally-materials-blame-gays-legal-abortion-hurricane-katrina ].
“The Response” is being organized by David Lane [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/david-lane , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/american-renewal-project , http://americanrenewalproject.org/ ], a Religious Right activist who boasts of his great influence and low profile, and various conservative pastors, including several who claim to be modern-day prophets and apostles, who all kicked off the prayer rally with an event at the Louisiana governor’s mansion [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindal-gets-jump-start-his-right-wing-prayer-rally ] earlier this month. The American Family Association [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/american-family-association ], so notorious for its apoplectic anti-gay rhetoric and opposition to the freedoms of non-Christians that its chief spokesman earned a rebuke [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/romney-calls-out-bryan-fischers-bigotry ] from Mitt Romney [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/mitt-romney ], is putting up the funding.
The organizers
David Lane, a self-styled “political operative [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/influential-religious-right-organizer-david-lane-admits-im-actually-political-operative ]” who gloats that he has “operated since 2005 largely under the radar [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/under-radar-christian-nationalist-david-lane-quietly-waging-spiritual-warfare-save-america ]” on behalf of conservative causes and Republican candidates, is serving as the organizational muscle behind Jindal’s prayer rally.
Jindal isn’t the only potential GOP candidate who is getting Lane’s help; Lane has also arranged various events focused on energizing conservative pastors in early GOP primary states that have featured appearances from potential presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/ted-cruz/ted-cruz ], Rand Paul [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/rand-paul-0 ] and Mike Huckabee [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/mike-huckabee ]. He also organized overseas tours with various conservative activists for likely candidates including Huckabee, Perry and Paul. Lane has also teamed up [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-teams-anti-gay-extremist-and-hate-group ] with the Republican National Committee [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/republican-national-committee ], whose chairman, Reince Priebus [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/reince-priebus ], sings his praises [ http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/10/07/3576926/top-gop-leader-letting-gay-people-marry-will-undermine-american-society/ ].
Lane hopes to use “The Response” as a launching pad for his effort to recruit 1,000 pastors [ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/23/evangelical-david-lane-begins-effort-recruit-pasto/ ] to run for elected office.
Lane, who has connections to the top of the Republican Party [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/republican-party ], has views which are far out of the mainstream. He has:
• called on conservatives to attack [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/16/rick-perry-camp-s-anti-mormon-message.html ] Mitt Romney for worshiping “the false god of Mormonism”;
• warned that LGBT rights are creating an unparalleled “crisis” leading to “our utter destruction [ http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/indecency-sin-and-todays-whig-party/ ]” as a nation;
• forecasted America’s destruction [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/republican-presidential-hopefuls-favorite-christian-nation-extremist ] as a result of “the pagan onslaught imposing homosexual marriage” and “homosexual scouts”;
• declared [ http://www.gopaulrevere.com/2012/02/kingdom-of-god-will-not-arrive-on-air.html ] that “our long-term strategy must be to place the Bible in Public Schools as the principle [sic] textbook of American education”;
• and predicted [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-lane-predicts-car-bombings-la-dc-and-des-moines-over-gay-inauguration-prayers ] that “homosexuals praying at the Inauguration” in 2013 would lead to divine punishment in the form of “car bombs in Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Des Moines, Iowa.”
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/lane-expect-car-bombs-over ) embedded]
The American Family Association, classified as a “hate group [ http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-family-association ]” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is providing the financial backbone for Jindal’s prayer rally, as it did for Perry’s 2011 event.
The group’s chief spokesman, Bryan Fischer [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bryan-fischer ], has won nationwide notoriety for his remarks about homosexuality and religious and ethnic minorities, which he shares on his daily program on the AFA’s radio network. Fischer has:
• called for the criminalization [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-make-homosexuality-criminal-offense ] of [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/uganda-passes-anti-gay-bill-cheered-us-conservatives ] homosexuality [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-ban-homosexuality-hazard-human-health ], bans on pro-gay-rights speech [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-russias-anti-gay-law-exactly-sort-public-policy-weve-been-advocating ], punishing gay people like people convicted of drug crimes [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-fischer-gays-should-be-treated-drug-addicts ] and prohibitions on gay people from serving [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-being-active-homosexual-should-disqualify-you-public-office ] in [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-prop-8-ruling-proof-homosexuals-should-be-disqualified-public-office ] public [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gays-are-inherently-disqualified-serving-public-office ] office [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-no-lesbian-qualified-sit-supreme-court ];
• compared gay people [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gay-sex-domestic-terrorism-i-dont-know-what-else-youd-call-it ] to [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/homo-akbar-bryan-fischer-decries-homosexual-mafia-and-obamas-spiritual-cleansing ] terrorists [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-inescapable-conclusion-gay-sex-form-domestic-terrorism ], murderers [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gays-are-just-murderers-liars-thieves-and-slave-traders ], Jim Crow proponents [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gay-jim-crow-laws-mean-christians-are-new-blacks ] and Nazis [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gay-activists-are-modern-day-nazi-stormtroopers ];
• blamed gays for the 2008 financial collapse [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-homosexuality-end-going-be-responsible-collapse-western-economy ], the rise of the Islamic State [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-god-will-use-isis-punish-america-gay-rights ], the sexual abuse of children [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-doubles-down-no-scotus-seat-pedophiles ] and even the [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-fischer-outdoes-himself ] Holocaust [ http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-gop-s-favorite-hate-monger-how-the-republican-party-came-to-embrace-bryan-fischer#hitler ];
• insisted that non-Christians have [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-our-constitution-protects-free-exercise-christian-religion ] no [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-first-amendment-does-not-apply-mormons ] First Amendment [ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/right-wing-radio-host-bryan-fischer-says-first-amendment-only-protects-christians/ ] rights [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-no-first-amendment-rights-muslims ] and non-Christian immigrants should be forcibly converted to Christianity [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-immigration-policy-bible-convert-christianity ], explaining [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-guide-judaism ] that “counterfeit religions, alternative religions to Christianity, have no First Amendment right to the free exercise of the religion.” (This includes Hindus, whose adherents include Gov. Jindal’s parents, whom he believes practice “the doctrine of demons [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-michelle-obama-inviting-demons-white-house ]”);
• said African Americans are “people who rut like rabbits [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fisher-goes-too-far-blog-post-changed-remove-rut-rabbits-comment ]” as a result of welfare programs;
• and argued that the violent expulsion of Native Americans was [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bryan-fischer-suggests-native-americans-were-justifiably-removed-their-land ] divinely [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-native-americans-need-leave-reservation-convert-christianity-and-become-full-fledged ] ordained [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-native-americans-are-mired-poverty-and-alcoholism-because-they-refuse-accept-christi ].
Other AFA officials have blamed gay people for natural disasters like Hurricane Isaac [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-buster-wilson-god-using-hurricane-isaac-punish-new-orleans-lgbt-festival ], promoted [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-goes-birther-claims-obama-not-offended-when-americans-are-killed ] birther [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-uses-kenya-massacre-promote-birther-conspiracy-theories ] conspiracy [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afa-hoax-obama-foreign-student ] theories [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-and-rise-quasi-birtherism ] and railed [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-says-secular-jews-have-been-worst-enemies-country ] against [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gabriel-islam-everywhere-rios-jewish-leftists-eager-islam ] secular Jews as threats to America.
The “apostles”
The latter half of Rick Perry’s “The Response” prayer rally was emceed [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/response-bickle-rails-against-redefining-love-and-false-religions ] by a self-proclaimed prophet who believes Oprah Winfrey is the harbinger of the Antichrist [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-perry-partners-pastor-who-thinks-oprah-precursor-antichrist ].
It looks like Jindal’s rally will be no different: Doug Stringer [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/doug-stringer ], who considers himself to be a modern-day apostle and who also worked on Perry’s rally, is spearheading the Louisiana event. Stringer has blamed American “[l]icentiousness or moral looseness to the degree that it is ‘in your face,’ including homosexuality,” for the September 11, 2001 attacks [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-perry-partners-apostle-who-blames-america-september-11-attacks ], which he described as a “wake-up call” from God.
Another self-proclaimed prophet, Cindy Jacobs [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/cindy-jacobs ], is also featured on “The Response: Baton Rouge” website [ http://vimeo.com/114364881 ]. Jacobs has quite the prophetic record. She:
• suggested that legal victories for marriage equality advocates led to Hurricane Sandy [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-god-preparing-whole-lot-shaking-punish-america-gay-marriage-decisions ] and other natural disasters;
• took credit for preventing several terrorist attacks [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cindy-jacobs-has-long-record-preventing-terrorist-attacks-just-ask-her ] and coups [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-cindy-jacobs-prevented-two-african-coups ], and bringing the dead back to life [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cindy-jacobs-i-have-power-revive-dead-children ];
• proclaimed that Rick Perry’s “The Response” prayer rally “broke the curses on the land [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-response-broke-curse-native-american-cannibals ]” of Texas brought on by “the Native American people [who] were cannibals and they ate people”;
• and blamed the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell for freak bird deaths in Arkansas [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-birds-are-dying-because-dadt-repeal , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17WGTvPHGg (next below; with comments)].
Jim Garlow [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/jim-garlow ], a prominent “The Response: Baton Rouge” endorser [ http://vimeo.com/114366453 ] who is involved in the “apostolic” movement, has been a leader of the movement against LGBT rights. Garlow has:
• claimed his prayers [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-reveals-exact-moment-god-decided-pass-prop-8 ] helped secure the passage of California’s Proposition 8, which “saved us from the bondage and enslavement [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-african-americans-have-saved-us-bondage-and-enslavement-gay-marriage ] that would come upon us if gay marriage actually passed in a state”;
• described the “radical homosexual agenda” as a tool [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jim-garlow-religious-onslaught-needed-fight-demonic-gay-marriage ] of [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-satan-attacking-marriage-and-gingrich-saving-western-civilization ] Satan [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-says-satan-behind-radical-gay-homosexual-agenda-then-demands-gays-dial-down-rhetoric ] and “almost like an Antichrist spirit [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-and-staver-gay-marriage-fight-against-antichrist-spirit ]”;
• and warned that marriage equality will lead to America’s [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-obamas-support-gay-marriage-tipped-scales-destructive-direction ] destruction [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jim-garlow-warns-marriage-equality-destruction-our-nation-ultimate-nail-coffin ], widespread persecution [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-christians-will-be-forced-underground-if-court-affirms-marriage-equality ] and even [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-if-necessary-here-we-die-fighting-gay-marriage ] death [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garlow-opposing-gay-marriage-may-cost-us-our-lives ].
One event sponsor [ http://vimeo.com/114366452 ], Jennifer LeClaire [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/jennifer-leclaire ], has used her column in Charisma News to broadcast several “prophetic” warnings about the evils of homosexuality and the “gay agenda” that is “working overtime to send millions to hell [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-there-gay-agenda-and-its-working-overtime-send-millions-hell ].” LeClaire has:
• decried the evils of gay superheroes [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-editor-gay-superheroes-spirit-immorality-waging-war-young-souls ], comic book characters [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-gay-spider-man-weaves-wicked-web-and-unholy-gay-agenda ] and professional [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-jason-collins-must-launch-war-homosexual-tendencies-and-repent-its-too-late ] athletes [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-nfl-gays-stay-closet ];
• asserted that gay marriage is “part of Satan’s end-time strategy [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-satan-using-gay-marriage-ban-straight-marriage ]” to “outlaw traditional marriage”;
• and claimed that gay people are possessed [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/charisma-says-satan-behind-law-limiting-ex-gay-therapy-may-lead-bible-ban ] by a demonic “spirit of immorality” that “often enters in through some sort of abuse and the lies of the enemy [Satan] that follow.”
The activists
“The Response: Baton Rouge” has also featured endorsements from a slew of conservative politicians. Tamara Scott [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/tamara-scott ], as a member of the Republican National Committee representing Iowa and leader of the Iowa chapter of Concerned Women for America [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/concerned-women-america ], is a key political player in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. But her political clout doesn’t hide her unbridled extremism. Scott has:
• alleged that gay marriage will legalize marriage to objects such as the Eiffel Tower [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmanns-iowa-campaign-chair-says-same-sex-marriage-will-lead-object-marriage ] and usher in economic collapse [ http://www.towleroad.com/2010/08/nom-speaker-outlawing-gay-marriage-will-save-the-economy.html ];
• characterized young Central American immigrants as “highly trained warriors [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-committeewoman-warns-child-migrants-highly-trained-warriors-who-will-rise-against-us-ame ]” who could “rise up against us as Americans”;
• and suggested that Muslim-Americans are waging a “stealth jihad” to overthrow the U.S [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-committeewoman-warns-muslim-refugees-waging-stealth-jihad-against-america ].
Another official “Response” endorser, longtime conservative activist and failed Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia E.W. Jackson [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/ew-jackson ], has pushed similarly radical views, particularly on gay rights, saying [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jackson-gays-lesbians-very-sick-people-psychologically-mentally-emotionally ] that “homosexuality is a horrible sin, it poisons culture, it destroys families, it destroys societies; it brings the judgment of God unlike very few things that we can think of.” He has also:
• said of gay people: “Their minds are perverted [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jackson-gays-lesbians-very-sick-people-psychologically-mentally-emotionally ], they’re frankly very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally”;
• claimed that gay people “recruit [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jackson-gays-lesbians-very-sick-people-psychologically-mentally-emotionally ]” children into their “destructive [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ew-jackson-deliver-gays-destructive-lifestyle-obama-will-teach-children-homosexuality ]” lifestyle and gay rights supporters “have done more to kill black folks [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/e-w-jackson-pro-gay-rights-liberals-kill-black-folks-ku-klux-klan ] whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/ku-klux-klan ], lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did”;
• warned that homosexuality will bring about a “torrent of wickedness [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ew-jackson-warns-same-sex-marriage-leads-bestiality-adam-and-steve-becomes-adam-and-bull ],” including human-animal marriages;
• argued that God will stop blessing the U.S. military [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ew-jackson-god-will-stop-blessing-military-because-gay-rights ] due to the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which he called “a disaster of historic proportions [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/reaction-dadt-vote-few-proud-sexually-twisted ]”;
• and described President Obama as an evil Muslim [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ew-jackson-obama-atheistmuslim-and-were-dealing-evil-presence ] who leads an Antichrist political party [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/virginia-gop-lt-governor-nominee-ew-jacksons-long-history-attacking-gays-berating-democrats ].
Gene Mills [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/gene-mills ], leader of the Louisiana Family Forum [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/louisiana-family-forum ] and another key “Response” endorser, is a vocal ally [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/feels-heaven-conservatives-louisiana ] of Jindal’s who helped push [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/louisiana-vouchers-word-god-upset-satan ] the governor’s policies undermining public education and promoting religious schooling. It’s no surprise that Mills leads the state’s foremost anti-LGBT group, as he has:
• asserted that homosexuality is not a sexual orientation but a “disorder [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/louisiana-activist-waxes-nostalgic-days-when-homosexuality-was-considered-disorder ]”;
• falsely claimed that anti-gay speech is now classified as hate crimes [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/richard-land-cities-non-discrimination-laws-criminalized-free-speech ];
• said that abuse shelters should turn away [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gene-mills-shelters-should-reject-transgender-domestic-abuse-survivors ] transgender victims of spousal abuse;
• and explained [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/richard-land-cities-non-discrimination-laws-criminalized-free-speech ] that anti-gay discrimination is a myth because “the reality is the shame and the guilt the homosexual feels is mistakenly reinterpreted as discrimination and what they attempt to do is to call it discrimination and prohibit it.”
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Bobby Jindal Won't Rest Until Non-Existent No-Go Zones Are No More
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 1/23/2015 12:55 pm
Even after Fox News retracted several of their reports [ http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/18/media/fox-apologizes-for-anti-islam-comments/ ] on European Muslim “no-go zones,” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bobby-jindal ] says he knows that such areas are real since “people in Europe” have personally told him that no-go zones run according to Sharia law are popping up throughout the continent.
Jindal, speaking to Iowa talk show host Steve Deace yesterday [ http://stevedeace.com/podcast/deace-show-podcast-01-21-15/ ], said that such anecdotal evidence trumps whatever facts are out there.
He warned that America may be next, unless his upcoming prayer rally [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindals-extremist-prayer-rally-brings-together-prophets-bigots-and-far-right-activists (above)] ushers in a spiritual revival: “Folks, if we don’t get serious, that’s what is going to be in our future. One of the reasons we’re doing something called The Response this Saturday at LSU where we are calling Christians together in prayer, just to pray to turn back to God for a spiritual revival in our country. When you talk in those terms, the media, the academic left, they go apoplectic. Just like they will call you a racist for calling out radical Islam, they will attack you for talking about a spiritual revival. That is what our country needs.”
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World Over - 2014-06-26 -- Gov. Bobby Jindal EXCLUSIVE with Raymond Arroyo
Published on Jun 27, 2014 by EWTN [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCijDos-LUTh9RQvSCMQqN6Q / http://www.youtube.com/user/EWTN , http://www.youtube.com/user/EWTN/videos ]
BOBBY JINDAL, governor of the Great State of Louisiana, on his life, conversion to the Catholic faith and the important issues he faces in Louisiana including school choice, the regulation of the abortion industry and health care...and whether or not he has aspirations to run for president in 2016.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmCf1bEmyMs [comments disabled] [full episode at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8s5MXUvwfc (comments disabled)] [and see e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=104243560 and preceding and following]
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Frank Gaffney: Obama Sounds Just Like Osama Bin Laden
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 1/26/2015 3:25 pm
Last week on “Washington Watch [ http://www.frc.org/wwlivewithtonyperkins/frank-gaffney-rep-louie-gohmert-travis-weber ],” Family Research Council [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/family-research-council ] President Tony Perkins [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/tony-perkins ] invited anti-Muslim [ http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/frank-gaffney-jr , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/anti-muslim , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/islam ] conspiracy [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-warns-obama-aiding-stealth-jihadist-groups-relinquishing-federal-control-inter ] theorist [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-abedin-was-brilliantly-placed-run-islamist-influence-operations-sixteen-years ] and birther [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-goes-birther ] Frank Gaffney [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/frank-gaffney , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/center-for-security-policy , http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/ / http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/about-us/ ] to discuss the so-called “no-go zones” in Europe, neighborhoods that anti-Muslim activists claim are run according to Sharia law and remain off-limits to police and governmental authority.
Perkins asked Gaffney if President Obama is aiding terrorists because he won’t blame terrorist attacks on Islam, prompting Gaffney to say that Obama is a Sharia law proponent who sounds just like Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the leaders of Boko Haram.
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/gaffney-obama-sounds-like-osama-bin-laden ) embedded]
“When the president says at the United Nations, ‘The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,’ we could’ve found those words coming out of the mouths of Osama bin Laden, or Mullah Omar of the Taliban, or the leaders of Boko Haram or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of Islamic State,” Gaffney said. “This is the doctrine of Sharia and its blasphemy codes. So it not only gives people latitude to say, ‘The president is saying we mustn’t exercise our freedom of speech or maybe we should give it up altogether lest it offend these folks.’ It is also, and this is really in a way much worse, emboldening our enemies, who when they see this behavior, they think we’re submitting to them.”
Gaffney, of course, is leaving out the fact Obama’s 2012 UN speech [ http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/25/remarks-president-un-general-assembly ] was all about the importance of the freedom of speech and opposition to blasphemy laws:
Here in the United States, countless publications provoke offense. Like me, the majority of Americans are Christian, and yet we do not ban blasphemy against our most sacred beliefs. As President of our country and Commander-in-Chief of our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day and I will always defend their right to do so.
Americans have fought and died around the globe to protect the right of all people to express their views, even views that we profoundly disagree with. We do not do so because we support hateful speech, but because our founders understood that without such protections, the capacity of each individual to express their own views and practice their own faith may be threatened. We do so because in a diverse society, efforts to restrict speech can quickly become a tool to silence critics and oppress minorities.
We do so because given the power of faith in our lives, and the passion that religious differences can inflame, the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression; it is more speech -- the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy, and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect.
Gaffney also conveniently left out the sentence immediately following the president’s remark on “those who slander the prophet of Islam”: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or churches that are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied.”
© 2015 People For the American Way
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-obama-sounds-just-osama-bin-laden
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Frank Gaffney Claims Dearborn, Michigan, Is Now A 'Muslim-Only' No-Go Zone
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 1/26/2015 3:50 pm
Not only did anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney use his interview on “Washington Watch [ http://www.frc.org/wwlivewithtonyperkins/frank-gaffney-rep-louie-gohmert-travis-weber ]” last week to compare President Obama to Osama bin Laden [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-obama-sounds-just-osama-bin-laden (just above)], but he also claimed that Sharia law has popped up in the U.S.
According to Gaffney, Dearborn, Michigan — a regular [ http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/sharia.asp ] target [ http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/10/no-dearborn-michigan-not-under-sharia-law/71120/ ] of [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-stone/hilarious-army-veteran-de_b_6536380.html ] debunked [ http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/11/mayor-to-angle-come-to-dearborn/ ] claims [ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43451.html ] about Sharia law that Gaffney calls “Dearbornistan” — has become a “ghetto enclave in which it’s Muslim-only and others, if they are not effectively proscribed or prevented from going in, know that it is too dangerous to go.”
Perkins, for his part, has previously claimed that both Dearborn and parts of Minneapolis are Islamic no-go zones [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-dearborn-and-neighborhoods-minneapolis-are-muslim-no-go-zones (above)].
The two also railed against the criticism directed at Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal for declaring that no-go zones are sweeping across Europe [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindal-wont-rest-until-non-existent-no-go-zones-are-no-more (above)] — an allegation for which Jindal offered no evidence besides anecdotal stories he claimed to have heard from people he met — and stating that Muslim faith leaders who condemned terrorist attacks didn’t go far enough [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jindal-liberals-want-us-pretend-its-good-thing-kill-journalists (above)] because they didn’t specifically say that the culprits are going to Hell.
Gaffney said the “clueless” people criticizing Jindal want to impose a “rhetorical equivalent of a no-go zone.”
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/gaffney-dearborn-a-no-go-zone ) embedded]
Gaffney also said that criticizing Jindal’s remarks amounts to enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws, decrying the “people who are trying to silence him, effectively to try to put Sharia blasphemy restrictions on his speech and his political prospects.”
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/gaffney-criticizing-jindal-amounts-to-imposing-sharia ) embedded]
© 2015 People For the American Way
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-dearborn-michigan-no-go-zone
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