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The United West investigative team uncovered a story so disturbing Field Sutton of Channel 9 news in Orlando, FL broke the story on their newscast. The Husse...

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Sensitivity Training 101: Abandon all your principles. Defending ideals like individual liberty and freedom of expression can be offensive to others and dang...

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By Walid Shoebat Officials said that the Florida terrorist Omar Mateen had statewide firearms license and worked for a company that provided security personnel for the Department of Homeland Securi…

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Before the bodies were even counted, the Left rushed to politicize the Orlando terrorist attack.

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Assault rifles, high capacity magazines, ammunition and chemcials used to make explosives were found Sunday in the vehicle of a man from Indiana, according to Santa Monica police.
Despite an earlier report from...

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Reddit has once again proven to be a cesspool of political correctness, now the sites mods have begun banning anyone who mentions the Orlando shooter is...

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement following Sunday's atrocious terrorist attack in an Orlando nightclub which left 50 dead and 54 wounded.

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Christian conservatives are responsible for the mass shooting at a gay bar in Orlando because they created this anti-queer climate, according to American Civil Liberties Union attorneys.
You know what is gross — your thoughts and prayers and Islamophobia after you created this anti-queer climate, ACLU staff attorney Chase Strangio tweeted on Sunday morning.
About 50 people were killed last night by Omar Mateen, a U.S. citizen born to Afghan parents suspected to have leanings toward extreme Islamic ideologies. The FBI is investigating the attack as a domestic terror incident.
But Strangio — who spend[s his] life fighting Christian homophobia while being loved & supported by [his] Muslim family — and his colleagues connected the shooting back to Christians and Republican politicians who oppose gay marriage. The Christian Right has introduced 200 anti-LGBT bills in the last six months and people blaming Islam for this, Strangio tweeted. No.

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Law enforcement has identified Omar Mateen, 29, as the shooter in the mass shooting Sunday morning in Orlando.

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It turns out Omar Mateen's father, Seddique, is a political personality.

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It turns out Omar Mateen's father, Seddique, is a political personality.

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Kansas last went Democratic in a presidential election in 1964, joining 43 other states plus the District of Columbia in choosing Lyndon Baines Johnson, who had ascended to the presidency after the assassination of John Kennedy less than a year before, over conservative firebrand Barry Goldwater. As of Friday, Hillary Rodham Clinton led Donald Trump in Kansas by seven points in the Zogby poll, respondents to which were 44 percent Republican and 28 percent Democratic.
#ad#One poll in one state on one day many months out from Election Day: All of the usual caveats apply here. Also relevant is the fact that 21 percent of those polled in Kansas had not decided on a candidate and half said that they are “very dissatisfied” with their choices.
One sympathizes with the dissatisfied and the undecided: If you were facing the prospect of having a testicle removed with a grapefruit spoon, you probably would not take any great solace from being able to choose which testicle.
But the prospect of forcible amputation should be very much on the minds of Republicans nationally: That is what they are facing in the Senate, and perhaps beyond.
Having led the GOP to one of the most commanding positions it ever has enjoyed — a majority in the House, a majority in the Senate, a very large majority of governorships and state legislative chambers, a concomitant ascent in the courts and bureaucracies — Republicans and right-facing populists were driven mad by the presence of Barack Obama in the White House, and by his cynical exploitation of the expansive reading of executive power that (forgive me for noticing) a faction of conservatives spent years refining during the Bush administration.
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Perhaps equally important, conservatives, who by their nature have a relatively weak feel for popular culture, failed to appreciate the emergence of the presidency as an instrument of pure celebrity rather than a traditional political office, a process prodded along by President Obama (and certainly, though to a lesser extent, by others before him) and now supercharged by the presence of Donald Trump, a famous game-show host, tabloid-scandal subject, occasional professional-wrestling figure, and demagogue who will be, barring something on the order of divine intervention or an intraparty coup, the Republican standard-bearer in 2016. Jesse Ventura, the other professional-wrestling figure who connected with the conspiratorial and populist tendencies in our politics, was not an aberration: He was a portent. Rush Limbaugh may have peaked too soon to be carried to the White House on the fickle tide of capricious celebrity, but give Joanne Nosuchinsky or J. J. Watt a few years.
#share#The American presidency is an unusual office, one that becomes stranger by the year as its nature is slowly (and sometimes not so slowly) converted from that of chief administrator of the federal bureaucracy and head of government into that of a pseudo-monarch, an anointed embodiment of the national identity. The character of the office, having been distorted beyond recognition, is in the popular mind entirely subsumed by the character of the man in the office, and hence the power of celebrity, with its promise of larger-than-life personalities.
Lesser offices are not immune from that personifying and aggrandizing tendency, as a few governors (Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger, two sometime professional wrestlers who appeared in action movies together) have demonstrated, but candidates for the Senate and the House of Representatives, along with most prospective governors and state legislators, remain ordinary politicians: lawyers and businessmen who out of genuine concern for the public good or mild psychosis enter careers in elected office. And it may prove an awkward year for such conventional politicians marked with an R on the ballot.
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Mrs. Clinton will be energetically courting voters in competitive states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, Florida, and Nevada, with a president and a popular former president at her side. As it happens, Republican Senate candidates are, at the moment, in relatively weak positions in many of those states. In Pennsylvania, Senator Pat Toomey leads by only a point in the most recent Quinnipiac poll. In New Hampshire, Senator Kelly Ayotte also leads by only a point. In Ohio, Rob Portman trails former governor Ted Strickland, who is, if there is such a thing, a Trump Democrat, a batty Buchananite populist who once denounced Mitt Romney for lacking “economic patriotism.” The polls are not at the moment very encouraging for any of the Republican Senate candidates in Florida. There may be a glimmer of hope in Nevada.
Trump and his factota have a maddening habit of lying constantly about almost everything they talk about, but there is one thing that he says of himself that is genuinely true: He is a different kind of Republican candidate. He has suggested that his unique appeal might put into play such traditional Democratic strongholds as New York and California. But Trump isn’t close in the polls in either of those states, and Republicans are not exactly experiencing a renaissance at large on the coasts: It is not easy to see how Chuck Schumer could blow his current 37-point lead in New York; in California, no Republican was able to muster sufficient support even to get on the ballot, the first time this has happened since California began direct election of senators. Connecticut seems a lost cause. Farther inland, Republican senators in Illinois and Wisconsin are in poor positions as well.
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Democrats were able to reshape American institutions in the postwar era not because they dominated at the White House (it’s been a six-six split on the dozen presidents after Franklin D. Roosevelt) but because of the prestige of the New Deal, their long domination of Congress (after the 1994 GOP wave, Newt Gingrich and other Republicans toured offices on Capitol Hill that they had never been permitted to enter), and generally strong position in the states. (Republicans in Texas, today seen as the model of a red state, won their first majority in the state house since Reconstruction in the election of 2002. Tom Craddick, who became speaker of the Texas house after that election, had been one of four Republicans in the state house when he was elected in the 1960s.)
With regard to the presidency, there are for Republicans two possible outcomes that are likely in November: They will lose or they will win. Which is worse is difficult to say: If they lose, as seems likely at this moment, they may very well lose disastrously, giving up the Senate in the process and reducing their standing in the House and in the states. If they win, they will win behind a mercurial, bored, autocratic know-nothing who shares few of their values and has long been strongly opposed to many of the positions they hold dear, on subjects ranging from the Second Amendment to the right to life.
Watching his supporters brawl with protesters at a rally, Trump described the scene: “Exciting.”
No doubt.
#related#The people of Kansas, who traditionally have been more Republican than conservative, are at the moment looking at all this a little sideways, and apparently drawing from this great gaudy reality-television pageant political conclusions different from the one upon which Donald Trump has founded his electoral hopes. There have been a few remarkable blowouts in modern presidential elections: 1964, 1972, 1980, and 1984. Kansas was always on the winner’s side. The state may very well cleave to its historical Republican affiliation in November, out of habit or sentiment. But “Republican” does not mean what it did a year ago, and that will not be without consequences.
— Kevin D. Williamson is the roving correspondent at National Review.

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Various reports indicate that the death toll from the jihadist attack overnight at a popular gay club in Orlando may exceed 50 people, with more than 50 others wounded. The terrorist’s identity has been reported: He is Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old American citizen and devout Muslim from Fort Pierce, Fla., the son of immigrants from Afghanistan.
#ad#The FBI has indicated that Mateen, who was killed in a shootout with police at about 5 a.m., was an Islamic extremist. Representative Peter King (R., N.Y.), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, says the shooter was “trained in the use of weapons.” As we have noted here many times, military training is generally the key that separates competent terrorists from wannabes. But whether actual or would-be jihadists, these Muslims are motivated by Islamic supremacism, the belief that sharia, Islam’s ancient, totalitarian law, must be imposed on society.
Based on all this, there is abundant Washington and media speculation that the attack is “ISIS-inspired.” This is consistent with the bipartisan, government-approved inanity we have been following for a quarter-century, what I often call the political class’s concoction of “An Islam of Their Very Own.” It goes something like this:
Islam is a religion of peace, period. End of discussion. “Violent extremist” outfits such as ISIS and al-Qaeda kill wantonly, with no real ideological motivation. ISIS and al-Qaeda are thus not Islamic, but actually anti-Islamic — and if they cite Islamic scripture to justify their atrocities, they are “hijacking” and “perverting” Islam. Because we must see these groups as “anti-Islam” rather than Islam, it is acceptable to call a mass-murder attack “terrorism” only if law-enforcement develops some plausible tie to these groups. Otherwise, if a Muslim is involved, stick with “workplace violence” and the like. Finally when an attack committed by a Muslim is too obviously terrorism to deny, call it “ISIS-inspired,” or “al-Qaeda-inspired,” or “Hamas political resistance,” etc. — but by all means do not, absolutely do not, ascribe it to Islam in any way shape or form.
This is idiocy. Will today’s event, the worst mass shooting in American history, help us see that?
We need to consider separately Islam and its sharia law.
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There are various ways to interpret Islamic scripture in order to attempt to evolve it out of violence. This, of course, does not change the fact that supremacist, fundamentalist Islam is a legitimate, mainstream, virulently anti-Western interpretation of Islam; but it does at least mean that there can be other mainstream versions of Islam that reject violence and Islam’s politico-legal system.
Sharia, on the other hand, is basically set in stone. (Or should I say “stoning”?) Even most Islamic reformers acknowledge that it badly needs reform — not that it can be reinterpreted, but that it needs to be changed. Its provisions and especially its draconian punishments were largely fixed a millennium ago.
The mandate that homosexuals be killed is not from ISIS or al-Qaeda. It is from sharia — which draws on Muslim scripture.
#share#As I’ve observed several times, an English version of the classic sharia manual Reliance of the Traveller has been endorsed by scholars of al-Azhar University, the seat of Sunni Islamic learning since the tenth century; by the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Muslim Brotherhood think tank that is influential in Washington; and by other influential Islamic governments and commentators. Here is its teaching on homosexuality, found in the chapter on “Enormities” — the most grave offenses:
Sec. p17.0: SODOMY AND LESBIANISM
Sec. p17.1: In more than one place in the Holy Koran, Allah recounts to us the story of Lot’s people, and how He destroyed them for their wicked practice. There is consensus among both Muslims and the followers of all other religions that sodomy is an enormity. It is even viler and uglier than adultery [AM: which is punished brutally, including by death].
Sec. p17.2: Allah Most High says: “Do you approach the males of humanity, leaving the wives Allah has created for you? But you are a people who transgress” (Koran 26:165-66).
Sec. p17.3: The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said:
“Kill the one who sodomizes and the one who lets it be done to him.”
“May Allah curse him who does what Lot’s people did.”
“Lesbianism by women is adultery between them.”
As I noted many times, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi may be Sunni Islam’s most influential living sharia jurist. Here, as reported by the Middle East Forum, is Qaradawi’s teaching on homosexuality:
We must be aware that in regulating the sexual drive Islam has prohibited not only illicit sexual relations and all what leads to them, but also the sexual deviation known as homosexuality. This perverted act is a reversal of the natural order, a corruption of man’s sexuality, and a crime against the rights of females. (The same applies equally to the case of lesbianism.)
The spread of this depraved practice in a society disrupts its natural life pattern and makes those who practice it slaves to their lusts, depriving them of decent taste, decent morals, and a decent manner of living. The story of the people of Prophet Lut (Lot), peace be upon him, as narrated in the Koran should be sufficient for us. Prophet Lut’s people were addicted to this shameless depravity, abandoning natural, pure, lawful relations with women in the pursuit of this unnatural, foul, and illicit practice. That is why their Prophet Lut, peace be on him, told them, “What! Of all creatures, do you approach males and leave the spouses whom your Lord has created for you? Indeed, you are people transgressing (all limits)!” (Koran, 26: 165–166)
The strangest expression of these peoples’ perversity of nature, lack of guidance, depravity of morals, and aberration of taste was their attitude toward the guests of Prophet Lut, peace be upon him. [Here follows a digression on the story of Lot as related in the Koran. ---Eds.]
Muslim jurists have held differing opinions concerning the punishment for this abominable practice. Should it be the same as the punishment for fornication, or should both the active and passive participants be put to death? While such punishments may seem cruel, they have been suggested to maintain the purity of the Islamic society and to keep it clean of perverted elements.
Since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, there has been no shortage of praise for Ayatollah Ali Sistani, whom the Bush administration frequently lauded as a “moderate” and a supporter of “democracy.” (We critics countered that Sistani is a fundamentalist sharia-supremacist who supported “democracy” — meaning popular vote — in a Muslim-majority society because that was the most direct, efficient way to impose sharia.) Sistani is as influential a Shiite sharia authority as there is. As I have previously recounted, when asked, “What is [Islam's] judgment on sodomy and lesbianism?” Sistani replied: “Forbidden. Those involved in the act should be punished. In fact, sodomites should be killed in the worst manner possible.”
Yup, let it sink in: “killed in the worst manner possible.”
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The inspiration for Muslims to brutalize and mass murder gay people does not come from ISIS. It is deeply rooted in Islamic law, affirmed by many of Islam’s most renowned scholars. This is why, wherever sharia is the law, homosexuals are persecuted and killed. See, for instance, this 2014 Washington Post report listing ten Muslim countries where homosexuality may be punished by death (Yemen, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, and Iraq — notwithstanding its new, U.S.-supported constitution).
Note, again, that Omar Mateen is the American-born son of immigrants from Afghanistan, where homosexuality may also be punished by death — notwithstanding American nation-building efforts there for the last 15 years.
#related#As I have argued before, while a categorical ban on Muslim immigration would be bad policy, our immigration law must distinguish between Islam the religion and Islamism, the sharia-supremacist political ideology, which tends to grow strong support wherever Muslims form a critical mass. There absolutely should be severe restrictions on immigration from countries, regions, and communities (e.g., in Europe) in which sharia standards are de jure or de facto imposed.
The problem with mass immigration from sharia enclaves is not merely that trained terrorists may infiltrate the immigrant population. It is that sharia-adherent, assimilation-resistant Muslims will form sharia enclaves in the U.S., as they have throughout Europe, where young Muslims will be “radicalized” under our noses in the years to come.
Today, we have gotten another glimpse of radicalization, which is not “homegrown” but rather fueled by a foreign, anti-American, anti-liberty ideology.
— Andrew C. McCarthy is as senior policy fellow at the National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review.

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This is a very sensitive subject and rightfully so. We all want whats best for the poor. But maybe the reason Republicans or the right in general opposes wel...

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Afghanistan Migration Surging into America; 99% Support Sharia Law

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With stunning timing, Facebook has deleted the group of a prominent critic of Islam less than a day after the Orlando shootings.

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Omar Mateen called the cops to pledge his fealty to ISIS as he was carrying out his mass murderer in Orlando early Sunday morning. Twelve hours later, the president of the United States declared th…

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In a surprising discovery, the Palm Beach Post first reported that according to state records, Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was employed by the US subsidiary of G4S plc, the world's largest security company by revenue. The problem is that according to Judicial Watch this is the same G4S who has been contracted by DHS to drive Other Than Mexican illegal immigrants across the Mexican border to Phoenix where they are then released without proper processing or issuing court appearance documents.

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The gunman who murdered at least 50 people in a Florida nightclub early Sunday morning was a follower of a controversial gang leader-turned-bank robber who was released from prison last year despite warnings from prosecutors that he would recruit people to carry out violent acts, sources told FoxNews.com.

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Here in America, there are no massacres happening and white men are certainly not a minority, but white men are regularly passionately smeared, attacked and degraded in our country.

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The brief marriage was marked by domestic violence, she said.
