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Dec 11 2015

On the Color of Toilet Paper


Post by Paul Eidelberg

It would be a strategic error of historic proportions for the United States to allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Indeed, the greatest error of the outgoing administration of President George W. Bush was to refrain from attacking Iran knowing, after the November 2008 American election, that he was going to be succeeded by Barack Obama. Perhaps this is why John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations, urged Israel to initiate the attack in question.

Be that as it may, suppose Iran became a nuclear power. Having failed to attack Iran before it developed the bomb, we may reasonably infer that the US would not launch a preemptive strike once Iran proceeded to deploy nuclear tipped ballistic missiles.

Consider: In August 2009, Dr. Uzi Rubin, who has long been involved in Israeli military research and engineering programs, reported: “The Iranians have upgraded their ballistic missiles to become satellite launchers. The solid-propellant Sejil missile signifies a technological and strategic breakthrough. This missile already poses a threat to a number of European Union countries. Based on its demonstrated achievements in solid propulsion and staging, Iran will face no significant hurdle in up-scaling the Sejil into a compact, survivable intermediate-range ballistic missile. A range of 3,600 km. will be sufficient to put the EU [and eventually the US under threat].”

Dr. Rubin pointed out that even in August 2009 the Sejii, with only “an actual range of about 2,500 km.… could reach Warsaw and, indeed, six European Union countries: Poland, Slovakia, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Greece.” By now, we may assume that Iran’s latest missiles can reach the USA.

In any event, Dr. Rubin went on to warn that “The Tabriz launch area in Iran is as big as Azerbeijan, bigger than Israel and half of Jordan. It’s about 50,000 sq. km., full of mountains, valleys, and canyons. You can hide thousands of ballistic missiles there with a very high probability of survival. So the capability to make a survivable missile that can threaten Europe now exists in Iran.”

Post-Christian Europe would almost certainly succumb to Iranian nuclear blackmail. (Indeed, Europe’s pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel orientation should be viewed in this light.) Even a partial loss of the European economy would cripple the American economy.

Now contrast the mentality of Americans even before their brains were Obamanized or lobotomized by a con-artist who can’t speak without a teleprompter: contrast, I say, America’s mentality with that of its global-minded enemy confusingly called “Islamism” or “political Islam” or “radical Islam” or some other abbreviated conception of Islam.

If it was true in August 2009, as mentioned above, that the Iranians had already upgraded their ballistic missiles to become satellite launchers of sufficient range to strike all of Europe, is it not obvious that they can deploy nuclear weapons of sufficient range—if deemed strategically necessary—to strike the United States?

Alas, there are “experts” in the US who advocate a “containment” policy vis-à-vis Iran comparable to that the Cold War vis-à-vis the USSR! Let me therefore quote a Soviet leader who scornfully told the Americans: “We will always be able to turn out more missiles than you. The reason is that our people are willing to sacrifice for these things, and yours are not. Our people don’t require a dozen colors of toilet paper in six different scents to be happy Americans now do; for that reason you will never be able to sustain public support for military expenditures.”

Ronald Reagan proved him wrong, but a very different president now occupies the White House. And threatening America today are not Communists but Muslims who have used their own children as human bombs. Or as Michael Ledeen points out inAccomplice to Evil, he there refers to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who, during Iran’s war with Iraq, used Iranian children to walk over and explode enemy mine fields.

Unlike Nikita Khrushchev of yesterday’s “Evil Empire,” the Mullahs do not threaten America saying “We shall bury you.” No, listen carefully to the malediction of today’s Evil Empire. Ponder the difference between Khrushchev’s vicious threat and the satanic malediction of Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, who spat in the faces of today’s liberal democrats, especially those in America: “We are going to win because you love life and we love death.”

Viewed thusly, diverse opinions about “containment” of a nuclear-armed Iran is comparable to diverse opinions about the color of toilet paper.

Dec 10 2015

An Interview with an All-American


Introduction:

Paul Eidelberg writes for us on attempting to show us what really matters and in this post of his I think he gets to the heart of it as this persons in an interview at the end of this post refuses to be anything but an American which he is just as I am and as all the rest of you are as well. If we left them divide us then they will rule us in my opinion you are either a free American or you consent to be a serf/slave; but the choice is yours to make!. After reading this post you will understand why a  Muslims will find it difficult to be an Americans!

Post by Prof. Paul Eidelberg

The provocative nature or question concerning Muslim immigration to the United States arises from certain principles of American liberalism. Some Americans believe that indiscriminate immigration of Muslims may undermine the survival of the United States.

To consider this issue seriously, that is, to avoid doctrinarism or mere dogma, certain demonstrable facts need to be considered:

(1)   According to Islamic doctrine, Jihad (or the slaying of non-Muslims) is a supreme moral imperative.

(2)   Moreover, Islam preaches a theologically inspired Love of Death, This love of death is encapsulated in the Quranic verse Sura 9:111, which exalts the Muslim who “slays and is slain for Allah.” Or as stated in the Islamic doctrines compiled in the Hadith: “the purest joy in Islam is to kill and be killed in the name of Allah.”

These ancient and binding dogmas of Islam are diametrically opposed to America’s primary foundational document, the Declaration of Independence, which affirms man’s God-given and inalienable rights to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Moreover, Islamic theology rejects as blasphemous the Judaic principle of the Book of Genesis, that “all men are created equal.”

This makes Islamic theology a racist or Nazi-like creed. It divides mankind not into “Aryans” and “non-Aryans,” but into “believers” and “infidels”; and it regards infidels  –  as Nazis regarded Jews – as inferior creatures, as “apes” and “dogs” or “pigs” which may be slaughtered indiscriminately – as indeed non-Muslims have been slaughtered in fourteen centuries of Islamic genocide.

Here, let us pause. Back in 1997, there occurred a telephone interview with New York Times reporter Ward Connerly. Connerly was then a leading proponent of an initiative measure in California prohibiting affirmative action by the state government. The following exchange took place:

Reporter: What are you?”

Connerly: “I am an American.”

Reporter: No, no, no! What are you?”

Connery: “Yes, yes, yes! I am an American.”

Reporter: “That is not what I mean. I was told that you are African American. Are you ashamed to be African American?”

Connerly: “No, I am just proud to be American.”

Connerly then explained that his ancestry included Africans, French, Irish, and American Indians. And so the dialogue concluded:

Reporter: “What does that make you?”

Connerly: “That makes me all-American!”

Dec 10 2015

Some Prerequisites on Becoming a Naturalized Citizen of the United States


By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

On becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States, the Naturalization Act of 1790 set the criteria for naturalization to two years of residency, proof of good moral character, and an oath to support the Constitution.

It also mandated that one must “absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty.”

Does the latter prerequisite place in question whether a devout Muslim immigrant is eligible for citizenship in the United States?

Dec 10 2015

Thoughts on Citizenship


By Prof. Paul Eidelberg
December 9, 2015

1) Citizenship is the grant of a personal status to the citizen and it creates a bond of loyalty between the citizen and the State, and endows him or her with nationality.

2) Naturalized citizens may be required to take a pledge of loyalty. For example:

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”

3) Citizenship carries with it both rights and responsibilities. Citizens should work toward the betterment of their community through economic participation, public service, volunteer work, and other such efforts to improve life for all citizens.

4) Citizenship as thus defined will not be conspicuous in a population whose children were not imbued with a strong sense of national character. This obviously applies to illegal Muslim and Hispanic immigrants in America who maintain their past sympathies or attachments.

5) Japan does not give citizenship to a child born of Japanese parents if the child was raised abroad by his own parents, as might happen if the parents were in the diplomatic corps.

6) Under Jordan’s Nationality law of February 4, 1954, a person became a Jordanian national if, “not being Jewish, he possessed Palestine nationality before May 14, 1948 and, at the date of publication of this law, was ordinarily resident in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.” This is less a manifestation of racism than of national pride and political prudence.

7) Making Muslims citizens of a Jewish state is more foolish than making Jews citizens of any Muslim state, considering only the disparity in their respective populations in the Middle East.

Just as only Jews are qualified to make the laws of a Jewish state – think of the knowledge and reverence required to preserve the Jewish tradition, its religious precepts and practices, its methods of education, the memory of its great teachers and leaders – so only Muslims are qualified to make the laws of any Muslim state.

8) A large majority of Muslim citizens of Israel identify with Israel’s enemies, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. In fact, many of these Muslim citizens have aided and/or committed terrorist attacks against Israel.

9) The Balfour Declaration, the St. Remo Convention, the Anglo-American Accord, the UN Resolution affirming the establishment of the State of Israel, and Israel’s own Declaration of Independence, designate Israel as a Jewish state, and not as a multicultural state. The latter designation simply reflects the disloyal preference of post-Zionists in Israel, as well as of certain members of Israel’s Supreme Court, as may be seen in various rulings of the Court’s former and most influential Chief Justice, Aharon Barak.

10) That it is not simple for a devout Muslim to identify with Israel as a Jewish state is obvious. It is also obvious that Muslims in America are not thrilled to pledge allegiance to secular America. But that is the condition of enjoying the rights and opportunities that come with Israeli or American citizenship.

11) Citizenship for an immigrant with traditional moral values can be problematic in certain democracies.

12) The reason is this. There are two kinds of Democracy, contemporary, normless democracy, and classical normative democracy. Freedom and Equality are their basic principles. However, in a Normless democracy, freedom and equality lack ethical and rational constraints. The situation is otherwise in a normative democracy, where freedom and equality are rooted in the Bible’s conception of man’s creation in the Image of God.

13) Neither Israel nor America can be classified rightly as a Normative Democracy, not only because their Supreme Courts have legalized pornography, homosexuality, and same-sex marriage. The political leaders of these two democracies have amplified their normless propensities by consorting with and appeasing Muslim despots dedicated to their country’s destruction.

14) Therefore, given the absence of substantive normative principles and the pervasive moral equivalency in present-day America and Israel, and further, given the fact that this immoral posture goes on and on in both countries without discernible public protest or outrage; and further, since both countries have thereby betrayed their Judeo-Christian foundations – citizenship in both countries has become a travesty.

As a consequence, one may well wonder whether they are worthy of citizens sacrificing life and limb against their Islamic enemies, whose disloyal acts and pronounced dedication to the demise of both Israel and America, render these Muslims unworthy of respect and even tolerance.

Dec 10 2015

We must stop the Open Border mentality!


Post by Jeff Longo

The San Bernardino terrorist attack was the deadliest on our homeland since 9/11. Radical Islam is here, they’ve been here and they will keep coming through the Obama regime’s open border policies. How can we  trust a Commander-in-Chief who refuses to identify an enemy who wants to kill as many American men, women and children as possible. The Western world is at war with radical Islam and they have arrived on our shores.

Last year 36,000 K-1 visa holders were allowed to enter our country. This is the same visa held by the female jihadist who helped slaughter 14 innocent Americans in the San Bernardino attack. When visas held by foreign students expire many of them simply stay. Many never show up at their University and no one seems to care. Currently there are up to 5 million immigrants who have over-stayed their visas and our inept federal government has no idea where they are or what they’re doing. The terrorists who attacked Paris could have boarded a plane and flown to the US on a visa waiver.

The House Homeland Security Chairman has stated that “individuals tied to terrorist groups in Syria have already attempted to gain access to our country through the US ‘Refugee Program.”‘ Along with the Director of the FBI it has been reported that there is no adequate data base or intelligence in Syria to properly vet the refugees. Barack Obama is playing “Russian Roulette” with the security of our Republic and her citizens. It’s past time we put the brakes on Obama’s mindless “Syrian Resettlement Program” and find a safer way to help these people. Funding for safe areas in Jordon or Saudi Arabia, where these immigrants can be housed much closer to their homeland, makes much more sense for them and for the security of the United States.

And for the low information liberals who would consider these remarks racist consider this; any presumed prejudice is directed only at those who want to kill Americans and those who make it easier for them to succeed.

 

 

 

Dec 7 2015

What drives Obama?


Posts by Eidelberg

One reason why Obama does not take Islamic terrorism as a serious threat to the United States is the simple fact that he is a cultural or multicultural moral relativist who, by definition, can’t take EVIL seriously.

This is a post-American phenomenon, And it has a parallel in post-Christian Europe.

Cultural/moral relativism was also evident in the 1930s among the English intelligentsia  (led by A.J. Ayers), and it was recognized by George Orwell, He saw it in English literature, e.g. in D.H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover. Orwell deplored the fact that, unlike the ordinary man, the intellectual made no distinction between good and evil. This undermined England’s recognition? of Nazism as unmitigated evil.

This applies doubly to Obama since he is a logically inconsistent Muslim. I call him a cockamamie Muslim who is quite unique in that he combines cunning and ignorance permeated by the stupidity of a most unlearned person, The end result is an operationally evil person without a clear cut evil conscience.

Nov 29 2015

Vladimir Putin would make a far better President of the United States than Barack Obama! on the issue of Muslims.


Post by Paul Eidelberg

No wonder he was selected by Forbes as the most powerful person in the world. This is one time our elected leaders should pay attention to the advice of Vladimir Putin.

I would suggest that not only our leaders but every citizen of USA should pay attention to this advice. How scary is that? It is a sad day when a Communist Leader makes more sense than our LEADERS here in the USA but here it is!

Vladimir Putin’s speech – SHORTEST SPEECH EVER. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, Russian Parliament, and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia:

“In Russia, live like Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, it should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, and live the life of Muslims then we advise them to go to those places where that’s the state law.”

“Russia does not need Muslim minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell ‘discrimination’. We will not tolerate disrespect of our Russian culture. We better learn from the suicides of  America, England, Holland and France, if
we are to survive as a nation. The Muslims are taking over those countries and they will not take over Russia. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of Sharia Law and Muslims.

“When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the Russian national interest first, observing that the Muslims Minorities Are Not Russians.”

The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a five minute
standing ovation.

NOTE TO FELLOW AMERICANS
If you keep this to yourself, you are part of the problem!

Nov 23 2015

How to dispose of Obama


Post By Paul Eidelberg and Supported by Dave Pristash

1) The Joint Chiefs should hold a press conference and resign announcing they cannot serve under Obama.

2) The Congress should issue a statement calling on Obama to RESIGN.

3) Obama should be stripped of all ground and air transportation privileges.

4) No one should speak to him or obey his orders.

5) In short, Obama should be effectively quarantined.

Note by Pristash:

Military officers have an obligation to do 1) by their oath of office as I former military officer I know this to be true! This fundamental change of American that was Obama’s goal has gone far enough, he has crossed the line into TREASON since he does not follow the Constitution he swore he would defend.

Nov 23 2015

The Muslim Atrocity in Paris: Is New York Next?


Post By Prof. Paul Eidelberg 

Concerning the Muslims that killed 130 men, women, and children in Paris: French President Francois Hollande finds it easy and “politically correct” to identify ISIS as the culprit, while remaining silent about the Muslims who did the killing, thus giving Muslims a free ride.

Hollande’s caution or timidity is vintage Europe. Europe has no reluctance condemning Israel in the Jewish state’s conflict with the Muslims misleadingly called “Palestinians.” But let’s stick to Europe.

European civilization is on the verge of extinction, thanks largely to the invasion of Muslim migrants from lands south of the Mediterranean. Let us probe this deeply at the risk of embarrassing some people.

Europe, the home of Christianity, is evaporating. Europe is also the home of humanism, which is nothing more than Christianity without the Christian God. Is there a subtle defect in Christianity per se, and not merely a defect Christians share with mankind in general? Is it merely accidental that Catholic countries like France collaborated with Nazi Germany?

Since Christianity’s emergence in the first century, Christians have perpetrated what today would be called terrorist acts against Jews, including decapitation and burning Jews alive. ISIS is an old story. So let’s probe further, since the pagan acts of ISIS are not unknown in Christian history.

Of course Christianity deserves enormous credit for eliminating idolatry and paganism in much of the world. However, that the rivers of blood have flowed in Christian Europe suggests that Christianity has never fully overcome its pagan origin in the Greco-Roman world.

Hence, one may surmise there remains an unnoticed tendency even among Christian judges in America to render decisions that rationalize and legitimize certain pagan acts among human beings contrary to the rationalism of Thomas Aquinas and the humanism of the European Enlightenment.

To put it in another way, does the Christian emphasis on faith conduce to the subjectivism and irrationality encouraged by the Tertullian’s adage Credo quia absurdum: “I believe because it is absurd”?

Let us therefore consult the eminent rabbi philosopher Dr. Joseph Soloveitchik, who warns in his book The Halakhic Mind (New York: Free Press, 1986), 55, that the “reduction of religion into some … subjective current is absolutely perilous”:

“It frees every dark passion and every animal impulse in man. Indeed, it is of greater urgency for religion to cultivate objectivity [i.e, rationality] than perhaps any other branch of human culture.  If G-d is not the source of the most objective norm [hence of Reason], faith in Him is nothing but an empty phrase.”

Let us also consider this passage from Soloveitchik, Halakhic Man (1944), a passage referring not to Nazis but to men of the Middle Ages: “How many noblemen bowed down before the cross in a spirit of abject submission and self-denial, confessed their sins with scalding tears and bitter cries and in the very same breath, as soon as they left the dim precincts of the cathedral, ordered that innocent people be cruelly slain.”

Now turn to Elie Wiesel, A Jew Today (1978). Dr. Wiesel, a survivor of the death camps, recalls how he had been “struck by a harsh truth: in Auschwitz all the Jews were victims, all the killers were Christians.” He apologizes, as I do, for embarrassing his Christian friends, but he is morally bound to tell the truth.  He asks:

“How is one to explain that Hitler and Himmler were never excommunicated by the Church? That Pius XII never thought it necessary, not to say indispensable, to condemn Auschwitz and Treblinka?  That among the SS, a large proportion consisted of believers, who remained faithful to their Christian ties to the end? That there were killers who went to confession between massacres?  And that all came from Christian families and had received a Christian education?”

Moreover, how is one to explain that Pope Francis recently advocated statehood for the Palestinian Authority, whose charter calls for the annihilation of Israel? The PA is the successor of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the world’s leading terrorist organization, which has murdered and maimed more than 15,000 Jews, indeed, has also murdered Christians and virtually depopulated the Christian population of Bethlehem?

Returning to the Holocaust, Wiesel does not forget the brave Christians who came to the aid of Jews. But he tacitly asks, without answering, why only a few hundred among hundreds of millions in all of Europe, the home of Christian humanism?

One possible reason is that the founder of Christianity (like the founder of Islam) is an integral part of the faith. To reject Jesus is to deny the validity of Christianity (just as rejection of Muhammad implies the invalidity of Islam). Obviously, Jewish rejection of the New Testament and the Qur’an is a basic cause of Jew-hatred – for centuries misleadingly called “anti-Semitism.”

Happily, some Christian theologians have at last traced anti-Semitism to the New Testament.  (See Alan Davies, AntiSemitism and the Foundations of the New Testament, 1979). Isn’t it time to link Islamic terrorism to Islam, to Islam without adjectives, the Islam of Muhammad, the Islam of the Qur’an?

Given such candid recognition, shouldn’t Americans worry about the teaching of Islam that takes place in hundreds of mosques across the United States? Many of these mosques preach hatred of America and of Western Civilization. By so doing, don’t they incite Muslims to attack Americans and even encourage Muslims to plan and perpetrate another 9/11?

Nov 22 2015

America: A Disemboweled Superpower


Post by Prof. Paul Eidelberg

America, a liberal, secular democratic state, is ideologically and psychologically disinclined to fight a religious war against Islam, even though the leaders of Islam have declared war against America. Religious wars are anathema to live-and-let-live America.

Besides, the worshipers of Islam number about 1.5 billion people scattered among some 57 nations across the globe; and these 1.5 billion Muslims include, at the lowest estimate, 150 million jihadists – meaning psychopaths afflicted by necrophelia, a love of death.

Consider a typical American President, outwardly secular. Secular or not, his mind has been influenced, indeed, permeated, by Christian ideas and values.

Such a president is not about to declare war on Islam, a religion (or pseudo-religion) even though its Muslim leaders have gleefully screamed “Death to America”!  And it makes no difference that these Muslims  –  say the Mullocracy of Iran – are in the process of developing nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles!

The mentality of college- and university-educated Americans has been corrupted and emasculated by a fifty-year-old academic doctrine, the doctrine of moral relativism.

Such has been the corrosive influence of this doctrine that American policy makers and decision makers cannot take Evil seriously, and to such an extent that their instinct of self-preservation has been eviscerated.

For example, despite former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s malediction “Death to America,” he was casually welcomed to the United States where he was honored by an invitation to lecture at Columbia University – which one wag called a liberal haven for learned idiots.

This was the same Ahmadinejad who murdered thousands of Iranian children by having them walk across and explode minefields to facilitate the movement of Iranian soldiers on their way to fight Iraq!

This is the same Iran with which President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry concluded an internationally illegal nuclear arms agreement that makes Iran a lawful member of the “nuclear club.”

America has no future, unless it undergoes a top-to-bottom revolution, and converts its colleges and universities into havens for the homeless, That would not be an entirely radical innovation!