In this mailing: Bassam Tawil: Migration Crisis: "Islam Will Conquer Europe Without Firing a Shot" Raymond Ibrahim: Lies about Islamic Taqiyya (Dissimulation) Timon Dias: First Citizens' Referendum on the EU Migration Crisis: "Islam Will Conquer Europe Without Firing a Shot" by Bassam Tawil  •  September 28, 2015 at 5:00 am The failed foreign policies of the EU and the US under President Obama, have brought the Arabs to the brink of chaos, and destroyed regimes which, even though they were not democratic utopias, at least provided governance and public order. These failed policies have abandoned the Arabs to the atrocities of the Sunni Islamists and to the murderous proxies of the Iranian Islamic Revolution -- and are ultimately the cause of the tsunami of refugees beating at the gates of Europe. Now the EU and Obama want to bring the catastrophe of Gaza to the West Bank. The American FDA is more careful with experiments on animals than the White House is with experiments on the people of the Middle East. Every time the Palestinians have taken steps against the Israelis, we have hurt no one but ourselves, and are left with -- nothing. The Arabs living in Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories know, although it is a bitter pill to swallow, that we have been favored by fortune, because under the State of Israel we live in security. In the face of ongoing mass murder in the Middle East, what arcane consideration, apart from Federica Mogherini being a racist, could possibly bring the EU to deal with something as marginal to global issues as boycotting Israeli face-cream and cookies? With the anniversary of Al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, internal Palestinian discourse revolves around radical Islam and America's actions. It relates to the slaughter, rape and millions of refugees who have fallen victim to Al-Qaeda, humanitarian calamity of and the Islamist terrorist organizations to which it gave birth, such as ISIS. Today an apocalyptic proportions is unfolding in territories that used to be Arab states but are now the battle grounds for feuding Arab tribes, whose only objective is to destroy one another. Continue Reading Article Lies about Islamic Taqiyya (Dissimulation) Dr. Carson Right: Washington Post and Academics Wrong by Raymond Ibrahim  •  September 28, 2015 at 4:00 am Tell that to Ka'b ibn Ashraf, whose head was cut off. for The prophet of Islam allowed his followers to lie to the Jew to slaughter him. Muslims deceived non-Muslims not because they were being persecuted for being Muslim — according to the Washington Post's definition of taqiyya — but in order to make Islam supreme. Dr. Ben Carson got it right when he said that taqiyya "allows, and even encourages, you to lie to achieve your goals." The prophet makes that clear. Dr. Ben Carson asserted that the Islamic doctrine of taqiyya encourages Muslims "to lie to achieve your goals." (Image source: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore) Dr. Ben Carson's recent assertion that the Islamic doctrine of taqiyya encourages Muslims "to lie to achieve your goals" has prompted the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler to quote a number of academics to show that the presidential candidate got it wrong: The word "taqiyya" derives from the Arabic words for "piety" and "fear of God" and indicates when a person is in a state of caution, said Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles and a leading authority on Islam. [...] "Yes, it is permissible to hide the fact you are Muslim" if a person is under threat, "as long as it does not involve hurting another person," Abou El Fadl said. Continue Reading Article First Citizens' Referendum on the EU by Timon Dias  •  September 27, 2015 at 1:15 pm Prior referenda have always been reluctantly initiated by their national governments, not by the people themselves. Within a time frame of six weeks, the campaign, initiated and led by the largest Dutch blog, GeenStijl.nl, gathered more than 430,000 signatures, while only 300,000 were needed to mount the referendum. By law, the referendum will have to be held within six months. In short, in a democracy, the Dutch people should have been consulted before ratifying a treaty of this magnitude. That did not happen. Voting the treaty down would send a clear signal that there is a democratic deficit likely to bring down the already fragile Dutch cabinet. The current referendum will send a strong message about democracy to the unaccountable, unelected and untransparent European Commission and the EU as a whole. Why do many Dutch citizens seem to oppose the EU-Ukraine treaty? European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (right) has shown the EU's contempt for member-state citizens when he said, "When it becomes serious, you have to lie," and "Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?" The Dutch did it! In a development that, apart from Gatestone Institute, very few international media outlets anticipated, the Dutch people have just become the first in EU history to mount an EU referendum -- the subject being the Dutch government's ratification of the Association Treaty between the EU and Ukraine, which took place without consulting the Dutch people. Prior referenda on the EU, such as the ones held by the Netherlands and France on whether or not to implement a European constitution in 2005 -- as well as future referenda such as the British one about leaving the EU, to be held by the end of 2017 -- have always been reluctantly initiated by national governments, not by the people themselves. Within a time frame of six weeks, a campaign, initiated and led by the largest Dutch blog, GeenStijl.nl, gathered more than 423,000 signatures, with only 300,000 needed to mount the referendum. By law, the referendum will have to be held within six months. Continue Reading Article

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