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Grand Opening of World’s Northernmost Mosque Set for November 5

Korans for the Eskimos
by
Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

A mosque with a 30 foot minaret grows on the frozen tundra of the Arctic Circle.

It is located in Inuvik, a town with a population of 3,484 in the Northwest Territory of Canada.

Inuvik is inhabited largely by indigenous peoples. The Inuvialuit comprise 40% of the town’s population; the First Nations 20%; and the Metis and other aboriginals 5%.

Only 36% is non-native.

Yet this remote outpost, where temperatures fall to -100%F in the dead of winter, is home to over hundred Muslims.

The grand opening of the world’s most northernmost mosque is set for November 5.

The Arctic adherents to Islam are largely Sunni Muslim immigrants from Sudan, Lebanon and Egypt, who moved to Canada’s far north in search of jobs and economic opportunities.

The 100 – 200 Muslims of Inuvit could not afford to build a new mosque in the town, where prices for labor and materials are substantially higher than in southern parts of Canada, project coordinator Ahmad Alkhalaf said.

But they located a supplier of prefabricated buildings in Manitoba, who agreed to ship a structure to Inuvik for half the price of building a mosque from scratch on site.

The mosque was transported down the McKenzie River by barge in September.

The minaret was erected last week.

The combined structure has been painted bright yellow and has been wired to glow throughout the 30 days of polar night.

“It’s really beautiful when we turn on the lights in the dark,” Amier Suliman, a mosque committee member, told the press.

The new mosque occupies land that once housed a Roman Catholic Church. The Muslims say they are making great gains in converting the natives.

Welcome to the brave, new world.

 

 

Delusional Democrats

The Democrats sent out a mass email from Michelle Obama, friend Marcus Wilder sent me a copy:

When Barack got back from a recent campaign swing, he couldn't stop talking about how every supporter he met was fired up.

From amazing crowds at his rallies with great candidates like Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer to meeting some of the OFA volunteers who are part of this effort, he couldn't be prouder of what you're doing.

And continuing that organizing in these final days -- with person-to-person conversations on doorsteps and on the phone -- is the single most important thing that any of us can do to ensure we're successful at getting out the vote.

Sounds like they are delusional and can't face the truth -- they are going down and going down hard on Tuesday.

When you open your door this Halloween and see a terrifying ghost, ghoul, or zombie begging for a treat, it might be a trick-or-treater...or might simply be a Democrat trying to scare up the last few votes before election day.

By all accounts, Tuesday is going to be the scariest day of the year for Democrats,  (continue reading).

Obama Justice Dept. Denies Military Vote, Blames GOP

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Christians Under Attack by _____

Senior bishops have warned that the freedom of Christians to express their beliefs is being eroded following the introduction of equality laws.

In a letter to The Sunday Telegraph, prominent clerics, including Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, argue that supporters of homosexual rights must not be allowed to "coerce silence".

Their comments centre on a landmark legal challenge by a churchgoing couple who were banned by a council from becoming foster parents because they believed homosexuality was unacceptable.

The bishops claim that the case, which is expected to begin at the High Court this week, will determine whether Christians can continue to be express their beliefs in this country.

They fear that the ruling has the potential to exclude people of faith from adopting or fostering children and enshrine the discrimination of those with traditional Biblical views.

It is the latest case to test how recently-introduced gay equality laws impinge on the rights of Christians to act according to their conscience.  (continue at The Telegraph, hat tip R.J. Godlewski)

While the above article is concerned with the political correctness forced on citizens by the gay community, the same could be said for the PC situation with Islam both in the UK and in the United States and many other Western countries.  The same useful idiots in both countries cater to Islam and to the gay society.

America & Israel Enter the Death Zone

Via Israpundit:

Leading up to the midterm elections, all that we have heard from all parties are concerns about our domestic policies, while, in reality, the greatest threat to our nation is President Obama’s foreign policy.

Incredulously, with Iran being moments away from securing a nuclear-armed state, calls for the destruction of its nuclear infrastructure have fallen on deaf ears. During the past couple of years, Glen Beck, Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee have expressed their deep concern about our nation’s domestic policy and our freedoms being usurped by the forces of tyranny from within.

With the greatest of respect for these wonderful patriots, they must now address Obama’s disastrous foreign policy that will end America’s leadership in the world and bring our nation to her knees. If we are to stop Obama from writing America’s obituary, we suggest that you email Glen, Sarah, and Mike, and ask them, for humanity’s sake, to publicly call out for the immediate destruction of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

Liberty’s Last Call

When there is an aggressive plan to put out liberty’s flame of freedom, ours must be a more aggressive plan to keep the beacon of liberty lit. America: If you want to continue to have a country worth fighting for, demand an end to sanctions and call for the immediate destruction of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. If not, there will be no tomorrow, because our Beacon of Liberty will have been extinguished in this world.

With everyone concentrating on jobs and spiraling debt as the central issues of the November elections, the defining moment that will challenge the very foundation upon which western civilization rests has come like a thief in the night to rob humanity of the only hope it has for securing this world as a sanctuary, free from the forces of oppression that the governance of tyranny brings. Our opportunity to avert this cataclysmic occurrence is quickly slipping through the cracks while a living nightmare is only moments away.

While we may live another day to fight against the establishment of a mosque and state satellite shrine in the shadows of Ground Zero, if Iran were to go nuclear and/or gain the technology to defend its nuclear infrastructure from attack, the entire free world would become Ground Zero. Why? Because the greatest enemy of freedom will have tested and broken America's resolve! … Who will be left to prevent the globalization of a tyrannical ethic if the greatest enemy to Israel and freedom has tested and broken America’s spirit?

Then we will have crossed the point of no return. America will have lost her identity as the advocate for the advancement of freedom in this world, thus inheriting all that she has fought against since the birth of our nation. Then, no tears of regret will be able to disperse the carnage that would descend upon the people of our nation and the free world by those who are intent on raping our soul, until the very notion of liberty as a way of life is literally ripped from the pages of history’s accounting.

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Iran and Al-Qaeda Source of Growing Terror in Yemen

Via Realite' EU

Yesterday,  security officials in Britain and Dubai intercepted two parcel bombs coming from Yemen on their way to the United States. The parcels were bound for "two places of Jewish worship in Chicago," US President Barack Obama said.[1] President Obama called the coordinated attacks a "credible terrorist threat".[2] Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is suspected of being behind the attempts. The group, which includes Yemenis and Saudis and is affiliated with Al-Qaeda, killed about 3000 people in the attacks on the US on September 11.[3]

Earlier, Réalité EU put out a backgrounder on terror in Yemen. This has not been updated with the breaking news but we thought you would find this helpful background in covering the news:

New evidence indicates that both Iran and al-Qaeda are exploiting Yemen as a base for increasing terror against the west and Saudi Arabia.

(continue reading and see references below the fold)

THE CASE AGAINST THE FISCAL STIMULUS

By JEFFREY MIRON*

INTRODUCTION

When President Barack Obama took office on January 20, 2009, the U.S. economy had been in recession for over a year, and the prospects for a quick recovery appeared bleak. The Federal Reserve had already lowered interest rates to zero,
which implied that monetary policy was unlikely to provide further stimulus.1 Thus, the Administration, along with many economists and pundits, turned to the other key pillar of stabilization policy: fiscal stimulus.

The fiscal approach was immediately controversial, however, for two main reasons. First, academic economists have come to regard fiscal policy as less suitable than monetary policy for stabilization purposes, principally because monetary policy can
act quickly, whereas fiscal policy can suffer significant delays in adoption, implementation, and impact.2 Second, the U.S. was already facing a dismal long‐term fiscal outlook because of programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the TARP bailout. This outlook
made some economists wary of new measures that would increase the deficit, even if only temporarily. Yet the Administration apparently concluded that it had no alternative given the state of the economy, so it plowed ahead with a fiscal stimulus.

Deciding to adopt a fiscal stimulus, however, did not resolve all of the issues. The other question was what combination of tax cuts and expenditure increases to include in the stimulus package.  Strict Keynesian theory holds that any tax cut or spending in‐ (continue reading pdf, Real Clear Markets.com/blog, hat tip Marcus Wilder)

 

 

 

The Martyr's Prize

The Martyr's Prize  by Brooks William Kelley, has been Number One at Amazon.com in the Bestsellers/Books/Terrorism/Mystery&Thrillers search for May, June, July, August, September, October and heading into November.  I'm not surprised, since the book centers on American exceptionalism! 

For Kyle Simms and Jason Lanford, the discovery of a roadside-bomb tutorial will prove a seminal event, changing every aspect of their lives from that moment forward. Posted to an extremist website, the meticulous schematics hint at a new era—one in which the daily death and destruction previously confined to third-world hellholes is to be brought to the American heartland.

   A mere touch of the sticky silk is all it takes, and the two find themselves drawn into a world so foreign, both literally and figuratively, that they are forced to reassess everything they previously understood about the history of Western Civilization and the global war on terror.

   The Martyr’s Prize tells a tale of American exceptionalism, paying homage to the heroism and professionalism of our Special Forces and Counterterrorism communities while delivering a profound message—the alarming non-fiction groundwork, already in place and presented in the actual words of our enemies, for the future subjugation of the West. This plan, to bring about the elimination of all belief systems beyond their own, is at once spellbinding and horrifying in the face of its likely success.

The Martyr's Prize is the Right Truth Book Club book for November, so order your copies now.  Hard copy here, paperback here, Kindle here.

The author of The Martyr's Prize, Brooks William Kelley is one of the good guys.  Here at Right Truth we support the good guys and this book sounds like a real page turner, right up there with Vince Flynn (who I'm reading now) and Brad Thor.

Christmas is just around the corner and The Martyr's Prize will make a great gift or stocking stuffer for family and friends.  I ordered my copy this morning, order your copies now.

 

  

National Public Radio and the Skinny Fat Man

By Paul A. Ibbetson

    I once knew a guy who was about 50 pounds overweight. Any time a friend or family member would address him on the issue of cutting out the sweets, he would get indignant and quickly inform inquiring souls that he was completely fit in all areas except his midriff, which he would address in his own good time. We might surmise that from this gentleman’s thinking he thought his body was nothing short of a series of physical quadrants of which he had worked to address all but a final set of coordinates: his stomach. More than likely, the man was just fat and did not like being told so.

    Brian Montopoli of CBS News tells us that National Public Radio no longer goes by that name; it’s NPR now. Well, I mean, the legal name is still National Public Radio as it has been for the last 40 years but they now request their brand name “NPR” be the title spoken on air. Why? Like a fat man demanding that he be called “Speedo-challenged” instead of simply overweight, National Public Radio is trying to run the fat-man scam on Americans.  Montopoli talks about conservative pundits like Sarah Palin who call for cutting off public funding to National Public Radio and he insinuates that Palin is misguided as the federal funds the non-profit organization receives are considered by him as minimal. While the overall percentage may be less than 10 percent of their total budget, NPR receives millions of public tax dollars yearly. The case Montopoli forwards is as compelling an argument as when our gentleman friend with the mild protuberance tells us he has reduced his daily cupcake intake from twelve to nine of the tasty treats. Of course, the point is that he should not eat any, especially if we the American people have to flip the bill for the indulgence.

    The public funding issue with National Public Radio comes to the forefront because of the firing of NPR contributor Juan Williams. Williams, who had been employed by NPR for a decade, was fired for saying that he gets nervous when he sees passengers in Muslim clothing on a plane. Not only was Williams fired by phone without an option to talk to upper-level NPR staff, a simple courtesy to a journalist of his standing, he was described as psychologically impaired. NPR CEO Vivian Schiller said that Williams' beliefs should stay between him and "his psychiatrist or his publicist."   The issue here goes beyond the viciousness of the Juan Williams’ job slaying. It goes beyond the fascist nature of NPR and the hypocrisy of such liberal organizations who lament their support for diversity as long as that diversity stays off Fox News. The issue goes as far as asking if Americans should have to fund a liberal radio station such as NPR.

    NPR should be allowed to be as liberal as they wish, as fascist as the law will allow--if their product is viable within the free market. It’s a free country, but they should not be allowed to push their liberal agenda on the American people’s dime. Not on one single taxpayer’s dime. That is the issue at hand. That is what exacerbates the Williams tragedy. Montopoli alludes to the idea that despite NPR’s vicious attack against a liberal on its own payroll, all is well because Williams has just signed a new contract with Fox News. Of course, this is a diversion from the extended “belly” of the problem. The problem is that National Public Radio, (NPR, if that sounds more private market to you) continues to be fattened with tax dollars they do not deserve. They should be forced to sink or swim in the private market--you know, the real private market. If NPR can flourish within its liberal scheme without a government handout taken from both liberals and conservatives in the country, the opposition has no choice but to accept its existence and engage it in the private market. However, if NPR flies solo within the free market and the wind beneath its wings lifts it only as high as “Air America,” then we will know it should have never have been around in the first place. The free market has a way of taking care of dead weight. Now, the American people have the opportunity to address this issue. To do anything less is simply to keep loading the plate of the skinny fat man.

Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books “Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society” and “Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World.” Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008, 2009 and 2010 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 FM, www.ibbetsonusa.com. For interviews or questions, please contact him at ibbetson91.9@gmail.com
        

ISLAM BECOMES LONDON’S LATEST RAGE FOR WOMEN

Hijab High Fashion in UK

Muslim Mod Emerges

thelastcrusade.org

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law announced her conversion to Islam and Lauren Booth, one of London’s most popular journalist, became a Mohammadan after what she describes as a ‘holy experience’ in Iran.

Islam has become the latest rage in the United Kingdom – - the country that gave us the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the miniskirt.

The fashion is expected to spill over to the United States.

Ms. Booth, 43, says she now wears a hijab head covering whenever she leaves home, prays five times a day and visits her local mosque ‘when I can’.

She decided to become a Muslim six weeks ago after visiting the shrine of Fatima in the Iranian city of Qom. ‘It was a Tuesday evening,” Ms. Booth said, “and I sat down and felt this shot of spiritual morphine, just absolute bliss and joy.’

Before her awakening in Iran, she had been ‘sympathetic’ to Islam and has spent considerable time working in Palestine.

According to Kevin Brice from ­Swansea University, who has specialised in studying white conversion to Islam, these women represent a rapidly growing trend.

With a recent YouGov survey ­concluding that more than half the ­British public believe Islam to be a negative influence that encourages extremism, the repression of women and inequality, one might ask why any of them would choose such a direction for themselves.

Yet statistics suggest Islamic conversion is not a mere flash in the pan but a significant development. Islam is, after all, the world’s fastest growing religion, and white adopters are an important part of that story.

‘Evidence suggests that the ratio of Western women converts to male could be as high as 2:1,’ says Kevin Brice.

Moreover, he says, often these female ­converts are eager to display the ­visible signs of their faith — in particular the hijab — as a fashion statement.

Terror Plot Using Cargo Planes? Chicago Synagogues on Alert. UPDATES

UPS Airlines flights landing in Philadelphia and landing in Newark, New Jersey  -- a Boeing Co. 767 from Paris, France,  an MD-11 from Cologne, Germany, and a 767 from East Midlands, UK --  are being isolated and investigated for  “potentially suspicious items” onboard.  Homeland Security, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration FBI, and local law enforcement officials concern comes after investigators found a "manipulated" toner cartridge aboard a flight from Yemen to Chicago during a stopover in London, a suspicious package at the distribution center of an airport in East Midlands, in the United Kingdom. 

A security official told WNBC of New York that numerous suspicious packages had been sent from a single address in Yemen.

Moreover, CNN reported that a U.S. ally had warned of a possible threat from Yemen and that some intelligence officials believe al-Qaida might be behind a plot to send explosive devices into the U.S. via Yemen.  (MSNBC)

Also under investigation is a truck in New York City, believed to be a UPS truck.

A suspicious package containing a toner cartridge with wires and powder was found during routine screening of cargo in the United Kingdom...

Tests on the device came back negative for explosives...

In New York City, police responded to reports of a possible explosive in a UPS at the Queensboro Bridge,  (AP)

The airports are on high alertt, concentrating on cargo planes, specifically UPS although there was one earlier report of a FedEx plan also being investigated, but one plane is described as an unidentified 757.   Investigators are specifically focusing on flights coming from Yemen into the United States.  The type material that may be causing concern for investigators is not mentioned, but reports have one flight crew member, perhaps the captain of the plane, specifically mentioning a concern about possible radio active materials. (FOX)

Questions posed to all investigating agencies are being met with no response thus far.

One U.S. official said authorities are investigating whether the incident was a dry run for a plot to send bombs through the mail delivery system. ...

"We were notified this morning that synagogues should be on the alert," Linda Haase, associate vice president of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, told Reuters. "We are taking appropriate precautions and are advising local synagogues to do likewise."

This followed a report by CNN that the package on the Chicago-bound jet might have been intended for a Chicago synagogue.

 

UPDATES:

Fox news reports suspicious packages found in Dubai also.  Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula suspected, (no kidding)

While the media wants to concentrate on the apparent fake explosive device found in the UK, the Dubai device was found to have actual explosive materials in it.  UAE sources and Memphis-based FedEX officials confirm the Dubai package, also shipped from Yemen, was real.  FedEx has now stopped all shipments from Dubai originatingn from Yemen and all Yemen flights.

We are now told that intelligence officials were told:

Sept. 23 bulletin from the Homeland Security Department, obtained by The Associated Press, says the government has credible information that terrorists were interested in carrying out an attack on the U.S. and other Western countries using the mail.

LATE UPDATE FROM THE JAWA REPORT:

UPDATE DR. RUSTY SHACKELFORD:  Again, if this is true, then it's big. Up to 20 packages, an unknown number of them with real explosives. Others sent out as intentionally false leads.

That kind of plot doesn't take a lot of organizational sophistication. But it is clever and shows their adaptive capacity.

Update by SH: Inbound plane from Dubai has landed. You can watch livestream here[Per Obama, 2 packages found with explosives. One at East Midlands Airport Distribution Depot-UK, & other found at FEDEX distribution facility in Dubai]

Update by Jane: The Yemeni local news site Marib Press reports: The diplomatic source pointed out that the initial information indicates that the person who sent the packages "has a long history of terrorism." .