Putting the War into the ‘War on Terror’
May 23, 2013 at 11:12 pm | Posted in Pajamas Media | Leave a commentTags: islam, Movies, jihad, Evil, War on Terror, Walter Hudson, Terrorism, War, Nazism, Geek Culture, Videogames, Criminals, Islam. Video Games, Second World War, Terrorists, Villains, World War II
by Walter Hudson – PJ Media – May 23, 2013
Our grandfathers ran around as children playing cowboys and Indians. Our fathers played cops and robbers. In the digital age, we have video game iterations of the same dichotomy like Counter-Strike, a classic and frequently remade title featuring frantic objective-based gunplay between terrorists and the counterforces employed to stop them.
A mainstay of masculine entertainment, the terrorist stands in place of the generic black hatted villain of yesteryear, all but tying damsels to railroad tracks. As antagonists go, terrorists come readymade, requiring little to no explanation for their menace. They hail from somewhere exotic, believe something bizarre, and destroy as a means to their chosen end. Often, we don’t even care what fuels their violence so long as we get to shoot back. As I think back on terrorist films I’ve watched multiple times, like True Lies or Air Force One, I couldn’t tell you exactly why the bad guys were bad or what they hoped to accomplish. It didn’t really matter. They were there to rally our hate and earn a satisfying death at the hands of our hero.
The Immolation of Bradlee Dean
July 29, 2011 at 6:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | 2 CommentsTags: Andy Birkey, Bradlee Dean, Defamation, Ernie Leidiger, Execution, Gay, gay marriage, Gay Rights, homosexual, islam, Kurt Zellers, lawsuit, marriage, Muslim, rachel maddow, same-sex marriage
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. In our political discourse, that’s one commandment which is frequently broken. Unfortunately, political actors often find it easier to demagogue an issue or demonize an opponent than to argue a position on its merits.
Just ask Bradlee Dean, founder of the unconventional Christian ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International. After nearly two decades of preaching at high schools, on street corners, and through television, film, and radio, Dean has spent the past year embroiled in sensational controversy. He was the central figure in the MN Forward-Target hubbub which plagued the gubernatorial campaign of Tom Emmer. That episode is now the subject of a lawsuit. Continue Reading The Immolation of Bradlee Dean…
The Top 10 Tea Party Bloggers You Need to Read
May 5, 2011 at 6:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Adrienne Ross, blog, Bloggers, Blogging, Brian Myers, C-POL, Caffeinated Thoughts, islam, Katie Kieffer, Koran, Mind Numbed Robot, Mitch Berg, NewsReal Blog, Shane Vander Hart, Sheila Kihne, tea party, The Conservative Pup, US Liberty Journal
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
The Tea Party stands as a moral challenge to the status quo. It’s not a third-party movement. It’s an extra-party movement. It’s not political. It’s philosophical. It is a manifestation of the market, an example of how free minds and free will seep through the cracks of the established paradigm to fulfill unmet needs.
Although it did not manifest in rallies and town halls until 2009, the seeds of the Tea Party were planted 15 years earlier. Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, propelled by the Contract with America. The sweeping reforms Republicans pledged to attempt were largely unsuccessful, an outcome they could lay at the feet of President Clinton. Nonetheless, the perception among rank-and-file conservatives was that the Republicans failed to deliver.
Republican credibility was further eroded when the party held both the White House and Congress during the presidency of George W. Bush. After years of listening to pundits suggest that Democrats were the sole driving force behind ever-expanding government, conservatives watched in awe as Republicans drove the ship of state 180 degrees away from every principle they ran on. Continue Reading The Top 10 Tea Party Bloggers You Need to Read…
Obama: We’re Not At War With Islam / Islam: We’re At War With You
May 4, 2011 at 9:49 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Al Qaeda, Al-Aqsa, Barack Obama, Bill Cunningham, George W. Bush, islam, mosque, NewsReal Blog, Osama bin Laden, Terror, Terrorism, War on Terror
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
When President Barack Obama announced to the world that Osama bin Laden was killed by American forces in Pakistan, he made sure to distinguish the Al-Qaeda leader’s career of terror from any religious affiliation.
… the United States is not –- and never will be -– at war with Islam. I’ve made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader;
Conservative talk radio host Bill Cunningham, who was on the air at the time of Obama’s announcement, took the president’s claim further and suggested that Bin Laden was not a Muslim at all. Such remarks are based upon the premise that Islam must be “perverted” or “distorted” in order to justify violence in its name.
Someone forgot to send that memo to an imam operating out of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Continue Reading Obama: We’re Not At War With Islam / Islam: We’re At War With You…
Arrest of Koran-Burning Pastor Terry Jones Brings Freedom of Speech Into Focus
April 26, 2011 at 9:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Bill of Rights, Dearborn, Disturbing the Peace, First Amendment, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Speech, islam, Koran, Michigan, NewsReal Blog, Pastor Terry Jones, Property Rights, Protest, Terry Jones
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
The freedom of speech is perhaps the most popular among those cited in the Bill of Rights. The ability to express yourself without fear of fine or incarceration is essential to the maintenance of a free society. Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, a prolific author on the topic of Islam, has an important article at Human Events suggesting that free speech may be endangered.
On Good Friday in Dearborn, Mich., the notorious Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones was jailed and fined for the crime of refusing to pay a so-called “peace bond” to cover the costs of extra police protection for Jones’ planned demonstration outside the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Judge Mark Somers also ordered Jones to stay away from the massive Dearborn mosque for three years.
Spencer points out that Jones was not the threat to public order that Dearborn authorities treated him as. Rather, the threat to public order was the prospect of violent reaction from Muslims.
… if Jones and his fellow protesters were not being violent themselves, wouldn’t the responsibility for any disturbance be upon those who decided to react to whatever Jones was doing by causing the disturbance?(…)
“Anti-Islam Extremist” Begs You to Read the Koran
April 20, 2011 at 8:36 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Brannon Howse, CAIR, islam, jihad, Koran, Mansfield, Muslim, NewsReal Blog, Qur'an, robert spencer, tea party, Usama Dakdok, Worldview Weekend
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
Usama Dakdok with Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.
Would you believe me if I told you I attended a bible conference where an Egyptian-born minister sold dozens of Korans to eagerly awaiting Christians? Believe it or not, that was the scene Monday night at a high school in Rochester, Minnesota.
Usama Dakdok is founder of The Straight Way of Grace Ministries, a Christian outreach to Muslims and herald of the threat posed by Sharia Law. He stood at the center of a recent controversy in Mansfield, Ohio, where the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) applied pressure to a school district where he was scheduled to speak. Superintendent Dan Freund caved to CAIR’s pressure, citing concerns for public safety. The Tea Party organization which organized the event pursued legal action against the district. The episode drew attention to Dakdok’s message and that of his critics.
Constitutional Fail: 7 Ways the Left Abuses the First Amendment
March 20, 2011 at 1:50 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | 1 CommentTags: constitution, First Amendment, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Association, freedom of religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, islam, morality, News, NewsReal Blog, objectivism, Public Employee Unions, secession, Socialism, tea party, unions, Wisconsin protests
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
It is perhaps the most renowned sample of law in the Western world, the first of ten amendments anti-federalists insisted upon adding to the Constitution. It’s purpose has been bemoaned by the sitting president of the United States.
…the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you. But it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.
Despite the First Amendment’s intended purpose of prohibiting federal encroachment upon individual rights, the Left has masterfully twisted its guarantees into both rhetorical bludgeons and demands for provision. It seems increasingly common to encounter mindless cries of “freedom of speech” or “religious freedom” from people who do not understand what those or other rights actually are.
Peter King Compared to McCarthy, As If McCarthy Was Wrong
March 9, 2011 at 12:05 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Communism, Fabian Socialist, islam, Islamists, Joseph McCarthy, King Hearings, News, NewsReal Blog, Peter King, Radical Islam, radicalization, Socialism, Terrorism
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
Representative Peter King will chair a hearing Thursday on radicalization within the American Muslim community. Doing so has stirred a nest of leftist hornets. The ACLU, along with several other “civil rights organizations,” have “warned” King to refrain from examining religious beliefs. A number of threats against King have necessitated additional security. And critics are tripping over themselves to craft the most hyperbolic comparisons to Joseph McCarthy.
However, such comparisons have the potential to backfire, at least among those with an accurate perception of history.
Suhail Kahn Led CPAC Panel Sympathetic to Nation of Islam and La Raza
February 17, 2011 at 12:06 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: David Horowitz, Frank Gaffney, islam, jihad, La Raza, Nation of Islam, NewsReal Blog, pjtv, Racism, Segregation, Suhail Khan, The Concession Stand
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
The Nation’s Sarah Posner authored a shameless ad hominem attack on Frank Gaffney and David Horowitz on Tuesday. The piece titled “Religious War Comes to CPAC” makes no pretense of addressing any factual claim made by either man in the ongoing case against American Conservative Union board member, and jihadist sympathizer, Suhail Khan. Instead, it relies upon name-calling and disparaging comparisons to convince readers that they ought not consider Gaffney and Horowitz’s arguments, lest they too be smeared.
Of course, Posner has a troubling association of her own. She serves as associate editor for the online publication Religious Dispatches, a plainly radical inter-faith organ preaching an intolerant universalist narrative. Religious Dispatches has an ambiguously stated mission which translates to cherry-picking through theology to concoct support for leftist ideology.
The goal of RD is to inform public debate by analyzing and critically engaging the role of religion and values on the most vital issues of our time. This will involve bringing a wider spectrum of perspectives into the conversation, especially voices that have been marginalized in most media, and increasing attention to progressive expressions of religion and values.
Inclined toward such a mission, Posner is predisposed toward ignoring any facts which undermine it. Suhail Khan, whom Gaffney has exposed as a jihadist symphaizer, and whom David Horowitz further exposed during his speech at CPAC, is a poster child for everything Religious Dispatches hopes to accomplish. As a devout Muslim seeking to dilute the conservative movement with radical voices, Khan serves the so-called “progressive” agenda.
Robert Spencer Frustrates Muslim Brotherhood Apologist on Hannity
February 16, 2011 at 12:32 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Egypt, islam, Koran, Michael Ghouse, muslim brotherhood, NewsReal Blog, Pew Research Center, polls, robert spencer, Sean Hannity, Sharia Law, The Concession Stand
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
It’s one thing to suspect that someone may be lying. It’s another thing to know they are, to behold as they emphatically proclaim as true something they plainly know to be false.
Such was the case Monday night on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program. Hannity hosted Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer and America Together Foundation’s Michael Ghouse in a debate over whether the new Egyptian government to emerge in the wake of Hosni Mubarak’s departure will be predominately secular or become an Islamic state.
Ghouse was given the first word and stated his belief that a secular government will emerge in Egypt. Ghouse supplied no evidence to support this belief. The closest he came to an argument was the absurd implication that the role of social media in organizing protests somehow imputed secular intent. Ghouse minimized the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the opposition movement, again citing no evidence for his claim.
Spencer then took the floor with facts. Ghouse was quickly backed into a corner and lashed out with flimsy attacks upon Spencer’s character, along with several bold-faced lies.
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