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LEFT & RIGHT - UNITE - FOR AMERICA/ISRAEL!

2012-01-28T10:32:00.001-05:00

LEFT & RIGHT

UNITE

ISRAEL

WATCH THIS FASCINATING INTERVIEW BETWEEN

LIBERAL BOB KUNST AND CONSERVATIVE DR. RICH SWIER

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Polar Opposites Unite in a Common Cause

The United West captured on film another historic event on the campus of the University of South Florida – colloquially known as Jihad U. What you are about to see is two men who are on polar opposite sides of the political spectrum uniting in a common cause – to defeat President Obama’s reelection attempt in the state of Florida on November 6, 2012.

Bob Kunst, founder of Shalom International and former Democratic candidate for the U.S. Congress in Florida, is a progressive Democrat and observant Jew. Dr. Rich Swier a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel is a combat veteran of Vietnam with the 101^st Airborne Division and conservative Christian Republican – an odd couple indeed. Yet, these two men have set aside political and social differences and have an insightful rational and serious discussion about saving America and its greatest ally - Israel.

Bob and Rich demonstrate what Americans are yearning for - a unified cooperative effort in the national interest of America and our allies. What you will bear witness to is Bob and Rich, both Jew and Christian, both Democrat and Republican, both liberal and conservative, coming to the same conclusion – President Obama must be defeated in 2012 - and the path to that success is Florida.

This is also a prime example of The United West mission - and the origin of our name – uniting together western civilization on both ends of the political and ideological spectrum and setting aside our differences, in order to focus America on the kinetic threat that wishes to destroy both liberals and conservatives and

America’s beacon of light in the Middle East - Israel.

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In Case You Missed It: "Preventing a nuclear-armed Iran"

2012-01-28T10:31:00.002-05:00

In Case You Missed It: "Preventing a nuclear-armed Iran"

Preventing a nuclear-armed Iran

By Bob Feferman

South Bend Tribune

January 27, 2012

The November 2011 report on Iran's nuclear program by the International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that Iran continues to work on the development of nuclear weapons in violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions. Whereas the United States government has imposed tough sanctions on Iran, there is much more that we can do, both at the state level and as individuals, to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. ...

Since we can no longer wait for tougher sanctions on Iran by the United Nations, what more can we do to support the sanctions of the U.S. government?

Leading the American grassroots efforts on Iran is the organization United Against Nuclear Iran. Recently, UANI has sponsored a bold new model for action at the state level called Iran Contract Legislation that we can support here in Indiana.

The adoption of Iran Contract Legislation would require any company signing a contract with the state to certify that it is not engaged in Iran's energy sector. This strategy is based on the fact that most of the revenues of the Iranian regime come from the production and sale of oil and natural gas. Yet, absent the help of foreign companies, Iran is incapable of exploiting its own natural resources.

So far, the state legislatures of California, Florida and New York have passed Iran Contract Legislation. The foreign companies impacted by this legislation will have to make a choice: they can do business in either Iran or the United States -- not both.

Now Indiana will have the opportunity to enact similar legislation.

Thanks to the leadership of state Sens. Tom Wyss of Fort Wayne, John Broden of South Bend and Michael Young of Milltown, an Iran Contract Legislation bill, S.B. 231, has been introduced to the Indiana General Assembly. ...

The residents of Indiana can be proud that our state government is doing its part in confronting the Iranian threat. Now is the time to do our part as individuals. Since U.S. law prohibits American companies from working in Iran's energy sector, we can choose not to invest in foreign companies such as Hyundai and Sinopec that work in Iran's energy sector. And we can demand that the international mutual funds that we invest in do the same.

Although it is not illegal for American citizens to invest in foreign companies working in Iran's energy sector, these investments certainly undermine the sanctions of our own government. By avoiding investment in these companies, we could send a strong message to Iran: No more business as usual with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.

By supporting Iran Contract Legislation in our state legislature, and avoiding investment in companies engaged in Iran's energy sector, the residents of Indiana can use nonmilitary means to help prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and make the world a much safer place.

Bob Feferman is the chairman of the community relations committee of the Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley in South Bend.

Click here to read the full piece.

Click here to read UANI's statement on Indiana's introduction of UANI model legislation.

Click here to visit UANI's model legislation home page.

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United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran should concern every American and be unacceptable to the community of nations. Since 1979 the Iranian regime, most recently under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's leadership, has demonstrated increasingly threatening behavior and rhetoric toward the US and the West. Iran continues to defy the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations in their attempts to monitor its nuclear activities. A number of Arab states have warned that Iran's development of nuclear weapons poses a threat to Middle East stability and could provoke a regional nuclear arms race. In short, the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran is a danger to world peace.

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a non-partisan, broad-based coalition that is united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons. UANI is an issue-based coalition in which each coalition member will have its own interests as well as the collective goal of advancing an Iran free of nuclear weapons.

The Objectives of United Against a Nuclear Iran

Inform the public about the nature of the Iranian regime, including its desire and intent to possess nuclear weapons, as well as Iran's role as a state sponsor of global terrorism, and a major violator of human rights at home and abroad;
Heighten awareness nationally and internationally about the danger that a nuclear armed Iran poses to the region and the world;
Mobilize public support, utilize media outreach, and persuade our elected leaders to voice a robust and united American opposition to a nuclear Iran;
Lay the groundwork for effective US policies in coordination with European and other allies;
Persuade the regime in Tehran to desist from its quest for nuclear weapons, while striving not to punish the Iranian people, and;
Promote efforts that focus on vigorous national and international, social, economic, political and diplomatic measures.

UANI is led by an advisory board of outstanding national figures representing all sectors of our country.

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The Islamic Paradise of the Needle and Powder

2012-01-27T16:35:00.000-05:00

The Islamic Paradise of the Needle and Powder

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The world’s largest drug field was formerly in the Bekaa Valley where the land is warm and moist. Reflecting the poor state of agriculture in the Muslim world, some of the most arable land in Lebanon where the Romans raised acres of wheat was turned over to cannabis and opium production. In the ’90s the situation was so bad that 80 percent of the world’s cannabis came out of the valley. The valley helped finance the PLO, Hezbollah and the Syrian army which invaded Lebanon partly to get in on the drug trade.

The Clinton Administration cut deals with the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Syrian occupation of Lebanon to try and cut down on production. Officially production went down, unofficially the party never really stopped.

With the Syrians gone and the PLO living off American foreign aid on the West Bank of Israel, the lucrative Lebanese drug trade is in the hands of the Shiite Islamists of Hezbollah. Drugs have turned the Party of Allah into a global narcoterrorist ring with tentacles in Latin America and ties to Marxist narcoterrorists there and up to America and out across Europe and Asia.

There is no contradiction between the Islamic identity of Hezbollah and its drug trade financed wealth. The Mumbai terrorists of the Army of the Righteous, who during their killing spree murdered a rabbi and his pregnant wife, snorted cocaine. The Beslan terrorists of the Islamic Brigade of Martyrs who murdered hundreds of children were running on heroin. Forensic tests conducted on the bodies of suicide bombers have found that they were routinely given heroin before being sent off on their missions. And if we had been able to run forensic tests on the Al-Qaeda terrorists who carried out September 11 there would probably be a miniature pharmacy in their bodies.

The intimate connection between drugs and Islam began with the prohibition of alcohol. The ban on wine and other spirits made the need for alternatives more urgent. Coffee was the safer alternative to alcohol, and the Middle Eastern obsession with it reflected the outlawing of wine and beer. Religiously coffee was also useful as a stimulant and came in handy in some Muslim rites. But there were more efficacious stimulants that could do more than coffee and those were equally popular.

While there were at times attempts to similarly prohibit drugs, they never achieved the same status as the ban on liquor. Hashish in particular had useful religious and military effects. The right drugs could give the devout the illusion of a mystical experience, allow them to stay up all night memorizing verses from the Koran or make it easier for them to kill and for Muslim leaders to control their private armies.

The Order of Assassins, whose name “Hashishin” derives from the substance they were addicted to, consisted of young men given the drug and told that their visions were a foretaste of paradise. While the Hashishin achieved legendary status the same pattern has become commonplace among Muslim terrorist groups who ply their followers with drugs to addict them and direct them along the path of Islamic terror as the road to the paradise of the powder and the needle.

Culturally the use of drugs is far more widely accepted in the Muslim world than alcohol is. The Ayatollah Khomeini even ruled that, “Wine and all other intoxicating beverages are impure, but opium and hashish are not.” In some countries drug use is so widespread that it has practically become a national identity. That is the case with Qat in Yemen, a plant-based amphetamine whose use is so widespread that its cultivation consumes nearly half the country’s water supply.

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

UANI Statement on MTN's "Business as Usual" in Iran

2012-01-27T13:56:00.001-05:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 27, 2012

Contact: Nathan Carleton, press@uani.com

Phone: (212) 554-3296

UANI Statement on MTN's "Business as Usual" in Iran

New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, issued the following statement today after MTN's spokesman told The Wall Street Journal, in response to UANI, that MTN will continue "business as usual" in Iran.

MTN's statement appeared in today's Journal article, "U.S. Lobby Group Seeks MTN Pullout From Iran," which previews UANI's upcoming campaign against MTN.

Said Ambassador Wallace:

It is regrettable to see MTN's callous statement that it plans to keep doing "business as usual" in Iran. For the Iranian regime, "business as usual" means pursuing nuclear weapons, sponsoring terrorists, killing U.S. troops, and committing brutal and systemic human rights abuses against its own citizens.

MTN owes it to its shareholders and customers to leave Iran, and stop partnering with a regime that uses mobile technology to track, stifle, and oppress its own people.

Click here to read UANI's letter to MTN.

Click here to send a message to MTN.

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United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Inform the public about the nature of the Iranian regime, including its desire and intent to possess nuclear weapons, as well as Iran's role as a state sponsor of global terrorism, and a major violator of human rights at home and abroad;
Heighten awareness nationally and internationally about the danger that a nuclear armed Iran poses to the region and the world;
Mobilize public support, utilize media outreach, and persuade our elected leaders to voice a robust and united American opposition to a nuclear Iran;
Lay the groundwork for effective US policies in coordination with European and other allies;
Persuade the regime in Tehran to desist from its quest for nuclear weapons, while striving not to punish the Iranian people, and;
Promote efforts that focus on vigorous national and international, social, economic, political and diplomatic measures.

UANI is led by an advisory board of outstanding national figures representing all sectors of our country.

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Eye on Iran: U.S. Lobby Group Seeks MTN Pullout From Iran

2012-01-27T13:55:00.002-05:00

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WSJ: "South Africa's flagship telecommunications company MTN Group Ltd. said Friday that it won't pull out of Iran after it became the target of an influential U.S. lobby group campaign seeking the exit of foreign businesses in the country. MTN has a 49% stake in Iran's second-largest mobile phone operator and 21% of its subscriber base is from the country, according to its most recent figures. The lobby group's campaign comes as the U.S. and Europe are enacting new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. In a letter sent to MTN's Chief Executive Sifiso Dabengwa this week seen by Dow Jones Newswires, Mark Wallace, the president of lobby group United Against Nuclear Iran and a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said MTN is enabling the Iranian government to track and locate cellphone users which it says is a violation of human rights. The group wants the company to either scale back in Iran or exit the country." http://t.uani.com/yu4CIe

WSJ: "Iran's president attacked Western powers for sanctions against Iran but offered no clear indication on whether his country would return to negotiations on its nuclear program, in his first public remarks since the European Union agreed to ban Iranian oil imports. In a public rally on Thursday in the southeastern city of Kerman, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied that Iran has been an obstacle to reviving negotiations, but stopped short of offering to restart talks, saying, 'Why would we run away from negotiations? Why should the person who is in the right and has logic avoid talks?' Iran's parliament echoed the defiant tone by saying it would consider an immediate halt of oil exports to Europe to pre-empt the oil embargo, which the EU set to begin on July 1 to give its members time to find alternative supply sources." http://t.uani.com/yq73Lz

NYT: "Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would set off a catastrophic set of events like a regional conflagration, widespread acts of terrorism and sky-high oil prices. The estimates, which have been largely adopted by the country's most senior officials, conclude that the threat of Iranian retaliation is partly bluff. They are playing an important role in Israel's calculation of whether ultimately to strike Iran, or to try to persuade the United States to do so, even as Tehran faces tough new economic sanctions from the West. 'A war is no picnic,' Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israel Radio in November. But if Israel feels itself forced into action, the retaliation would be bearable, he said. 'There will not be 100,000 dead or 10,000 dead or 1,000 dead. The state of Israel will not be destroyed.'" http://t.uani.com/xTDxTR

Nuclear Program & Sanctions

FT: "One of the first sessions to be booked out at the World Economic Forum was 'What if Iran Develops a Nuclear Weapon?' The risk of conflict over Iran's nuclear programme is debated every year at Davos, but the assembled experts and politicians now seem to be taking the prospect of war considerably more seriously. They will listen to the words of Ehud Barak, Israel's deputy prime minister and defence minister, particularly carefully when he addresses the conference today. There are several reasons for this state of alarm. First, Iran is thought to be making significant progress with a nuclear weapons programme. In particular, Iran watchers are concerned that, over the coming months, vital nuclear technology will be moved into hardened underground silos - making important parts of the Iranian programme much less vulnerable to bombing raids." http://t.uani.com/w3cton

Reuters: "Oman may sell oil to Sri Lanka in the event of a crisis, which the island nation is racing to avert with U.S. sanctions on Iranian crude threatening its primary refining supply, Sri Lankan officials told Reuters on Friday. Omani Oil Minister Mohammad bin Hamad al-Rumhy on Friday was holding a second and final day of talks with Sri Lankan Petroleum Industries Minister Susil Premajayantha, who is hunting for a new oil supply amid limited options... Nearly all its crude supply comes from Iran and its 50,000-barrel-per-day Sapugaskanda refinery was built to process only Iranian light sweet crude or the similar Arabian Light." http://t.uani.com/AAdZzp

AP: "The United States has arrested and charged an Iranian semiconductor scientist with violating U.S. export laws by buying high-tech U.S. lab equipment, a development likely to further worsen Iranian-U.S. tensions. Prison records show the U.S. is holding Seyed Mojtaba Atarodi, 54, a microchip expert and assistant professor at Tehran's prestigious Sharif University of Technology, in a federal facility in Dublin, Calif., outside San Francisco. The Iranian interest section in the Pakistani embassy in Washington said it was aware of the arrest." http://t.uani.com/zTJfzG

Bloomberg: "More than 70 percent of investors said an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would create only a short-term disruption in oil markets, according to a quarterly Bloomberg Global Poll. Only about a third of the 1,209 global investors, traders and analysts surveyed Jan. 23-24 said an attack could trigger an oil shock leading to a global recession. While regional conflicts could affect oil markets over a longer period of time, investors may have 'lurking confidence that other oil-producing nations would step up to increase production,' said J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., the Des Moines, Iowa-based company that conducted the survey for Bloomberg." http://t.uani.com/yGDmYc

Human Rights

AFP: "The United States Thursday accused Iran of trying to quash all freedom of expression ahead of March elections, as it cracks down on reporters and bloggers. US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland cited the reported arrests of four journalists and death sentences imposed on two bloggers, who she said face imminent execution over charges of spreading corruption. 'We are deeply concerned by the alarming increase in the Iranian regime's efforts to extinguish all forms of free expression and limit its citizens' access to information in the lead-up to March parliamentary elections,' she said. Security forces in the last two weeks have reportedly arrested journalists Shahram Manouchehri, Sahamedin Bourghani, Parastoo Dokouhaki, and Marzieh Rasouli, she said." http://t.uani.com/w5crlT

Domestic Politics

AFP: "The central bank of sanctions-hit Iran is to enforce a single exchange rate after a dramatic slide in the value of the Iranian rial on the open market, state television reported on Thursday. 'From Saturday, there will be a single fixed rate for the dollar which will be 12,260 rials,' central bank governor Mahmoud Bahmani announced on television. 'This rate is valid for all transactions and authorised imports... as well as for students abroad or those travelling,' he said. Iran previously had two official exchange rates: one of 11,300 rials to the dollar at the bank for state operations and official imports, and a variable rate for businesses and individuals to purchase from foreign exchange offices." http://t.uani.com/z9yQXM

Opinion & Analysis

Amb. Mark Wallace in The Daily Caller: "Earlier this month, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) sent a letter to Jennifer Lopez, the well-known actress, singer and judge for 'American Idol,' asking her to renounce her ties to the Italian automaker Fiat. Most Americans have seen Ms. Lopez's Fiat commercials, which she filmed as part of a multimillion-dollar deal that also includes product placement during her performances. The reasoning behind our campaign is simple: Ms. Lopez is the most prominent spokesperson for Fiat, and Fiat - through its business in Iran - is undermining U.S. national security and human rights. Fiat maintains an active business presence in Iran, and through its subsidiary Iveco has sold vehicles to the Iranian regime which have been used to transport ballistic missiles and stage gruesome public executions. It is important to place Fiat's activities in Iran in a broader geopolitical context. For one, U.S. automakers are prohibited from selling automobiles in Iran, due to laws passed in an overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion and signed by presidents both Democratic and Republican. The goal of those laws, and the Obama administration's policy towards Iran, is to exert economic pressure on Iran's government until it stops pursuing policies that threaten global peace and security as well as the rights of its citizens. When it comes to Iran, no company can ever be sure how its products might be used, or what the taxes it is paying the Iranian Treasury might help fund. UANI has tried to make Ms. Lopez aware of this fact. Unfortunately, multinational corporations like Fiat that continue to do business in Iran are throwing the regime a much-needed lifeline that is helping it remain in power and fund its activities. As such, the U.S and its allies have been encouraging corporations to end their business activities in Iran, particularly when the activities directly support the Iranian regime, as is the case of Fiat." http://t.uani.com/yw7kAy

Bob Feferman in South Bend Tribune: "The November 2011 report on Iran's nuclear program by the International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that Iran continues to work on the development of nuclear weapons in violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions. Whereas the United States government has imposed tough sanctions on Iran, there is much more that we can do, both at the state level and as individuals, to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. Due to the fact that China and Russia oppose stronger sanctions in the U.N. Security Council, many analysts believe that absent a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities (which everyone wants to avoid), Iran will eventually develop nuclear weapons. This fatalistic approach could be fatal for all of us... Since we can no longer wait for tougher sanctions on Iran by the United Nations, what more can we do to support the sanctions of the U.S. government? Leading the American grassroots efforts on Iran is the organization United Against Nuclear Iran. Recently, UANI has sponsored a bold new model for action at the state level called Iran Contract Legislation that we can support here in Indiana. The adoption of Iran Contract Legislation would require any company signing a contract with the state to certify that it is not engaged in Iran's energy sector. This strategy is based on the fact that most of the revenues of the Iranian regime come from the production and sale of oil and natural gas. Yet, absent the help of foreign companies, Iran is incapable of exploiting its own natural resources. So far, the state legislatures of California, Florida and New York have passed Iran Contract Legislation. The foreign companies impacted by this legislation will have to make a choice: they can do business in either Iran or the United States -- not both. Now Indiana will have the opportunity to enact similar legislation. Thanks to the leadership of state Sens. Tom Wyss of Fort Wayne, John Broden of South Bend and Michael Young of Milltown, an Iran Contract Legislation bill, S.B. 231, has been introduced to the Indiana General Assembly... By supporting Iran Contract Legislation in our state legislature, and avoiding investment in companies engaged in Iran's energy sector, the residents of Indiana can use nonmilitary means to help prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and make the world a much safer place." http://t.uani.com/xcg2tM

Eye on Iran is a periodic news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Eye on Iran is not intended as a comprehensive media clips summary but rather a selection of media elements with discreet analysis in a PDA friendly format. For more information please email Press@UnitedAgainstNuclearIran.com

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a non-partisan, broad-based coalition that is united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons. UANI is an issue-based coalition in which each coalition member will have its own interests as well as the collective goal of advancing an Iran free of nuclear weapons.

The Latest from National Terror Alert Response Center

2012-01-27T13:55:00.001-05:00

The Latest from National Terror Alert Response Center

FBI plans social network map alert mash-up application – BBC

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:07 AM PST

The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material “scraped” from social networks. It says the application should provide information about possible domestic and global threats superimposed onto maps “using mash-up technology”. The bureau has asked contractors to suggest possible solutions including the estimated cost. Read More This story comes to us [...]

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Emergency In Your Area? Public Alerts On Google Maps Shows Warnings

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 05:45 AM PST

Google announced a new layer of data being added to Google Maps for public alerts. If there are emergency alerts in your area, Google will show them to you on the map, with more details on the alert.You can access it over at google.org/publicalerts. The map will load with a layer of data on top [...]

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Emergency In Your Area? Public Alerts On Google Maps Shows Warnings

The Marxist Mission to Destroy Ayaan Hirsi Ali

2012-01-27T13:54:00.002-05:00

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The Marxist Mission to Destroy Ayaan Hirsi Ali

by Phyllis Chesler
PJ Media
January 26, 2012

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The feminism I once championed — and still do — was first taken over by Marxists and subsequently "Stalinized." It was then conquered again by Islamists and "Palestinianized." I and a handful of others maintained honorable minority positions on a host of issues. In time, women no longer mattered as much to many feminists — at least, not as much as Edward Said's Arab men of color did. The Arab men were more fashionable victims who had not only been formerly "colonized" but who, to this day, are still being "occupied" by allegedly "apartheid"–intentioned Jews.

While most of my generation of feminists have long ago retired, died, fallen ill, or have continued to rest visibly on their own earliest laurels, I continue to champion universalist values and to resist the death-grip of multicultural relativism.

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Ibrahim in Jihad Watch: "Jihad: When Elections Fail"

2012-01-26T18:55:00.001-05:00

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Jihad: When Elections Fail

by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
January 26, 2012

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The Obama administration supports "democracy" and "self determination" in the Middle East—two euphemisms that, in the real world, refer to "mob-rule" and "Islamic radicalization," respectively. Yet, as Jimmy Carter recently put it: "I don't have any problem with that [an "Islamist victory" in Egypt], and the U.S. government doesn't have any problem with that either. We want the will of the Egyptian people to be expressed."

Sounds fair enough. The problem, however, is that Muslim clerics openly and unequivocally characterize democracy and elections as tools to be discarded once they empower Sharia law. Thus Dr. Talat Zahran holds that it is "obligatory to cheat at elections—a beautiful thing"; and Sheikh Abdel Shahat insists that democracy is not merely forbidden in Islam, but kufr—a great and terrible sin—this even as he competed in Egypt's elections.

The Obama administration can overlook such election-exploitation because the majority of Muslims are either indifferent or willing to go along with the gag—with only a minority (secularists, Copts, etc.) in Egypt actually objecting to how elections are being used to empower Sharia-enforcing Muslims.

But what if Muslims do not win elections? What if there are equal amounts of non-Muslims voting—and an "infidel" wins? What then? Then we get situations like Nigeria.

While many are aware that Boko Haram and other Islamic elements are waging jihad against the government of Nigeria, specifically targeting Christians, often overlooked is that the jihad was provoked into full-blown activity because a Christian won fair elections (Nigeria is about evenly split between Christians and Muslims).

According to Peter Run, writing back in April 2011

The current wave of riots was triggered by the Independent National Election Commission's (INEC) announcement on Monday [April 18, 2011] that the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, won in the initial round of ballot counts. That there were riots in the largely Muslim inhabited northern states where the defeat of the Muslim candidate Muhammadu Buhari was intolerable, [but] was unsurprising. Northerners [Muslims] felt they were entitled to the presidency for the declared winner, President Jonathan, [who] assumed leadership after the Muslim president, Umaru Yar'Adua died in office last year and radical groups in the north [Boko Haram] had seen his ascent [Christian president] as a temporary matter to be corrected at this year's election. Now they are angry despite experts and observers concurring that this is the fairest and most independent election in recent Nigerian history.

Note some key words: Muslims felt "entitled" to the presidency and seek to "correct" the fact that a Christian won elections—which they assumed "a temporary matter."

Of course, had elections empowered a like-minded Muslim, the same jihadis would still be there, would still have the same savage intent for Christians and Westerners—Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden." But there would not be a fullblown jihad, and Obama would be singing praises to Nigerian democracy and elections, and the MSM would be boasting images of Nigerians with ink-stained fingers.

Yet the same jihadi intent would be there, only dormant. Like Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood—whose ultimate goal is "mastership of the world"—they would not need to expose themselves via jihad, would be biding their time and consolidating their strength.

Now, back to the Egyptian clerics, specifically Sheikh Yassir al-Burhami—yet another leader in Egypt's Salafi movement, who teaches that Muslims must preach peace when weak but wage war when strong. Discussing the chances of a fellow Salafi, Burhami asserts:

We say—regardless of the outcome of the elections—whether he [his colleague, the aforementioned al-Shahat] wins or loses, we will not permit an infidel [kafir] to be appointed to a post where he assumes authority over Muslims. This is forbidden. Allah said: "Never will Allah grant to infidels a way [to triumph] over the believers [Koran 4:141]." We are not worried about losing elections or al-Shahat losing votes. We will not flatter or fawn to the people.

What will you and your associates do, Sheikh Burhami—wage jihad? Of course, that will not be necessary: unlike Nigeria, most of Egypt is Muslim; one way or another, "elections" will realize the Islamist agenda.

Thus, whether by word (al-Burhami) or deed (Boko Haram) those who seek to make Islam supreme prove that democracy and elections are acceptable only insofar as they enable Sharia. Conversely, if they lead to something that contradicts Sharia—for instance, by bringing a Christian infidel to power—then the perennial jihad resumes.

Raymond Ibrahim is an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

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In Case You Missed It: "How Fiat and Jennifer Lopez are indirectly enabling the Iranian regime"

2012-01-26T16:43:00.001-05:00

In Case You Missed It: "How Fiat and Jennifer Lopez are indirectly enabling the Iranian regime"

Note: View UANI's Jennifer Lopez Fiat parody at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXmpB0XDDCA

How Fiat and Jennifer Lopez are indirectly enabling the Iranian regime

By Mark Wallace

The Daily Caller

January 26, 2011

Earlier this month, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) sent a letter to Jennifer Lopez, the well-known actress, singer and judge for "American Idol," asking her to renounce her ties to the Italian automaker Fiat. Most Americans have seen Ms. Lopez's Fiat commercials, which she filmed as part of a multimillion-dollar deal that also includes product placement during her performances.

The reasoning behind our campaign is simple: Ms. Lopez is the most prominent spokesperson for Fiat, and Fiat - through its business in Iran - is undermining U.S. national security and human rights. Fiat maintains an active business presence in Iran, and through its subsidiary Iveco has sold vehicles to the Iranian regime which have been used to transport ballistic missiles and stage gruesome public executions.

It is important to place Fiat's activities in Iran in a broader geopolitical context. For one, U.S. automakers are prohibited from selling automobiles in Iran, due to laws passed in an overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion and signed by presidents both Democratic and Republican. The goal of those laws, and the Obama administration's policy towards Iran, is to exert economic pressure on Iran's government until it stops pursuing policies that threaten global peace and security as well as the rights of its citizens. When it comes to Iran, no company can ever be sure how its products might be used, or what the taxes it is paying the Iranian Treasury might help fund. UANI has tried to make Ms. Lopez aware of this fact.

Unfortunately, multinational corporations like Fiat that continue to do business in Iran are throwing the regime a much-needed lifeline that is helping it remain in power and fund its activities. As such, the U.S and its allies have been encouraging corporations to end their business activities in Iran, particularly when the activities directly support the Iranian regime, as is the case of Fiat.

Consider that several international automakers, including Toyota and Kia, have heeded this call and pulled out of Iran. A number of other international companies have also followed suit, including Komatsu, Liebherr and ABB. Even Chinese companies such as Huawei are now scaling back their business in Iran to prevent the regime from abusing their civilian goods for nefarious purposes.

But not Fiat. To date, Fiat has not responded to overtures and letters from UANI leadership and our supporters across the country, even as it tries to re-enter the American automobile market with the help of Ms. Lopez. As for her, she has yet to issue any sort of response to questions about Fiat's business in Iran, despite being contacted not just by UANI, but by numerous reporters and fans who have followed our campaign.

No one believes that Ms. Lopez supports Iran's nuclear weapons program, its public hangings of homosexuals and political dissidents, its support of terrorist groups such as al Qaida or its plans to assassinate foreign dignitaries and carry out terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. In fact we at UANI figured Ms. Lopez would be taken by surprise once she learned of our legitimate concerns regarding Fiat's business activities in Iran, and we hoped she would be eager to take a stand for international security and human rights.

Yet as the days go by, we are increasingly disappointed not just in the lack of a response from Fiat, but also with Ms. Lopez's silence. It is sad to learn that Ms. Lopez could tolerate serving as the public face of an irresponsible international corporation that is directly undermining U.S. national security - a company which by the way has benefitted greatly from U.S. tax dollars given its newly acquired majority stake in the recently bailed-out Chrysler Group.

The irony is that when it comes to endorsement deals, it is typically corporations that must distance themselves from celebrities who have gotten in trouble with the law or caused embarrassment to their images. In the case of Fiat it is the reverse: Fiat, through its callous disregard and reckless policies, is potentially damaging Ms. Lopez's reputation.

Ms. Lopez and other entertainers can and should follow a path where their endorsements do not increase the sales of corporations whose actions are diametrically opposed to the security and foreign policy goals of the United States - actions antithetical to the values Ms. Lopez presumably shares with her American fan base.

We look forward to her response.

Mark D. Wallace is president of United Against Nuclear Iran. He served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Representative for U.N. Management and Reform.

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Der Spiegel: "It's a move which has tit-for-tat written all over it, but one which could nonetheless have a serious impact: The Iranian government wants to present a bill to parliament this weekend calling for an immediate halt to oil deliveries to Europe. The move, with most reports citing the Iranian news agency Mehr, has come about in response to the EU agreement to impose sanctions against Iran, which were announced earlier this week. The sanctions banned any new contracts for buying oil from Iran, but allowed existing deals to continue until July in order to give countries time to find other sources. But that process is now at risk after the latest move from Tehran, a step the Iranian government had already threatened. 'If this bill is passed, the government will be forced to stop selling oil to Europe before the actual implementation of their sanctions,' said Emad Hosseini, spokesman for the Iranian parliament's energy commission, reportedly said. The bill is set to become law on Sunday. The EU sanctions allow for oil deliveries from Iran until July 1. Any pre-empting of this timescale by Tehran could prove problematic for countries like Italy, Greece and Spain, who would need to urgently find new suppliers." http://t.uani.com/A10CYs

WSJ: "After being slapped with an oil ban by the European Union this week, Iran has suggested its petroleum could be simply displaced, not lost, in the fungible pool of global oil markets. But experts disagree, saying the sanctions are likely to be a boon to the world's two largest crude producers, Russia and Saudi Arabia, and push up the average price of oil charged globally. 'Some of the lost supply [to Europe] may be met by Saudi Arabia,' Vienna-based consultancy JBC Energy said in a note Tuesday. But, 'Russian Urals will no doubt [also] be the clear choice for regional refiners.' ... According to Washington-based consultancy Eurasia, a total Iran-oil ban in the EU and import reductions in countries like Japan and Korea could leave about 1.3 million barrels a day of Iranian oil-half of the country's oil exports-looking for a new home. Iran's largest oil buyers, India and China, which have so far resisted U.S. pressure, have been seen as natural replacements for the loss of European markets. That's because 'by the end of the year, Iran's remaining buyers will be looking for at least a 10% to 15% price discount,' said Trevor Houser, a partner at New York-based economic-research firm Rhodium Group." http://t.uani.com/zroqqU

Guardian: "Iran is unlikely to move towards building a nuclear weapon in 2012 because it cannot yet produce enough weapon-grade uranium and is being deterred by sanctions and the prospect of an Israeli attack, according to a draft report by the Institute for Science and International Security (Isis). The report by the institute founded by nuclear expert David Albright offers a more temperate view of Iran's nuclear program than some of the heated rhetoric that has surfaced since the United States and its allies stepped up sanctions on Tehran. The Isis analysis is revealed after a prediction that Israel will attack Iran in 2012 to try and stop any nuclear bomb programme. 'Iran is unlikely to decide to dash toward making nuclear weapons as long as its uranium enrichment capability remains as limited as it is today,' the report said." http://t.uani.com/wuQDUn

Nuclear Program & Sanctions

WashPost: "Iran is ready to revive talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, as toughening sanctions aim at forcing Tehran to sharply scale back its nuclear program. Even so, he insisted that the pressures will not force Iran to give up its demands, including to continue enriching uranium, that led to the collapse of dialogue last year... Iran had previously indicated that it is ready for a new round of talks. Ahmadinejad is the highest-ranking official to make the offer. He accused the West of trying to scuttle negotiations as a way to further squeeze Iran." http://t.uani.com/zJ4b8M

Reuters: "Italian oil and gas group Eni is owed $1.4-1.5 billion in oil by Iran and has been assured its buyback contracts will not be part of the embargo on crude imports from the Islamic Republic, an Eni executive said on Wednesday. The European Union agreed on Jan. 23 to ban Iranian oil imports, but the embargo will not be fully implemented until July 1, to avoid harming economies to whom Iran has been a major supplier... About 9,000 barrels per day of oil are withdrawn each day, Eni said in an emailed statement quoting comments made by its head of communication Gianni Di Giovanni on Wednesday." http://t.uani.com/AramLQ

Reuters: "Turkish lender Halkbank will continue to handle customers' oil payments to Iran as long as they comply with international regulations, the bank's general manager said in the wake of fresh, unilateral U.S. and EU sanctions. Halkbank's dealings with Iran drew attention last year when Indian refiners disclosed they were channeling oil payments through the Turkish bank as their own central bank had shut its payment facility, fearing U.S. retribution. Majority state-owned Halkbank is Turkey's sixth largest bank, based on unconsolidated assets, and has a representative office in Tehran." http://t.uani.com/zxY2v7

Human Rights

NYT: "The judicial authorities in Iran have arrested at least half a dozen journalists and bloggers over the past few weeks, according to their acquaintances, opposition Web sites and rights groups. The moves appear to be part of a pre-emptive campaign of intimidation to thwart protests surrounding the parliamentary elections that are scheduled to be held in early March. The arrests of the journalists and bloggers, including two prominent women whose blog posts are widely read in Iran, have not been reported by the official news media. Rights groups and people who know the detained journalists said the government apparently wanted word of the arrests to spread informally, to heighten the atmosphere of fear and paranoia. It also was unclear what specific charges, if any, had been lodged against those who were arrested. None seem to have been politically active or to have published anything that might be considered seditious since the last major Iranian government crackdown on free expression in February 2011." http://t.uani.com/yPGchU

Domestic Politics

NYT: "Facing a wave of panic selling by Iranians worried that international sanctions and inflation are destroying the value of the country's currency, the rial, Iran's president reversed himself on Wednesday and allowed bank interest rates to rise sharply in an effort to stop a slide that has depressed the rial to a relentless string of record lows... The unofficial foreign exchange rate in Tehran has fallen to about 23,000 rials to the dollar, compared with about 11,000 to 12,000 to the dollar in December - a 50 percent drop over a month. The weakened rial means Iranians must pay far more for goods, especially imports... The rates will rise to 21 percent, up from 12.5 percent, to encourage people to put their rials in the bank instead of selling them. Still, it was unclear if the move would ease anxiety." http://t.uani.com/A2HntC

Foreign Affairs

Reuters: "Authorities in Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic bordering Iran, have arrested two men suspected of plotting to attack prominent foreigners including Israel's ambassador and a local rabbi, officials and media reported on Wednesday. The National Security Ministry said the men were connected to an Iranian citizen who had links with Iran's intelligence. Azerbaijan, a secular Muslim country, is home to more than 9,000 Jews and has friendly ties with Israel and the United States. A major energy producer, it exports oil to Israel and imports weapons and military hardware." http://t.uani.com/yLzfdy

Opinion & Analysis

Colin Kahl in FP: "One year ago today, Egyptians took to the streets to demand the removal of Hosni Mubarak's three-decade-old dictatorship. As they waved flags and chanted for the fall of the regime, another ruler 1,200 miles to the east was calculating how to use their act of courage for his own profit. On Feb. 4, at the height of the protests in Tahrir Square, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took the stage in Tehran to deliver his assessment of the revolutionary moment unfolding in Cairo. Speaking partly in Arabic, Khamenei described events in Egypt as an 'Islamic awakening' inspired by Iran's own 1979 revolution. The speech was blasted out to thousands of Egyptians via text message, and Khamenei even claimed on his webpage to have personally inspired the pro-democracy demonstrations, comparing them to 'the yell that the Iranian nation let out against America and against global arrogance and tyranny.' Khamenei was not alone in predicting that the Arab Spring would provide Iran an opportunity to expand its influence across the Middle East. Early on, some Washington commentators fretted that he may be right. Writing in Foreign Affairs, for example, Michael Scott Doran, a former official in President George W. Bush's administration, cautioned that the 'resistance bloc' led by Tehran was 'poised to pounce, jackal-like, on the wounded states of the region.' And, in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset as recently as October that he doubted the 'high hopes that blossomed in the Arab Spring' would be realized, arguing that Iran would manipulate events to expand its influence. But even at the time, Khamenei's assertions fell on deaf ears among the hundreds of thousands risking their lives in Tahrir Square. When asked about Khamenei's boastful claims, one Tahrir protester mocked: 'Egyptians were not inspired by Iran. Rather, the Egyptian people are inspiring the world.' This proved a much more astute observation than the supreme leader's. As Foreign Policy's own Marc Lynch documents in his compelling new book, The Arab Uprising, the 2011 revolts in Egypt and elsewhere were inspired by decades-old grievances against corrupt regimes and the mutually reinforcing demonstration effects of simultaneous movements rising up across the Arab world. Iran had nothing to do with it. The reaction in Tahrir Square represented a sign of things to come. Iran has tried to exploit events, but the winds of political change have not blown in Tehran's favor." http://t.uani.com/zdMDV2

Fariba Nawa in Fox News: "Afghanistan has suffered from foreign meddling since its inception. But while Pakistan's role has been widely discussed -- most Afghans will point to concrete examples -- Iran's involvement is more subtle. Iranian influence is all encompassing--the Islamic government funds Afghan Shiite sects and politicians, has invested in building roads and providing fuel and transport, and is fighting hard against the Afghan opium trade that supplies millions of addicts. But Iran's lasting power on Afghanistan is cultural as well as political, broadcasting state radio and television programs inside Afghanistan. Yet the country's biggest cultural influence is not imposed by the Iranian government. The more than one million repatriating Afghan refugees from Iran - tens of thousands have been deported -bring the dialect, food, music, and clothes particular to Iran. Some of the Afghans repatriates are migrant workers, similar to Mexicans in the U.S., some are construction workers who became addicted to drugs in Iran, others were able to get an education and acquire job skills, and most have lived there for over three decades. Yet Iran will not grant them legal status; they do not have a right to a higher education, to own property, or to work. Most voluntarily return to Afghanistan because there are more opportunities in their home country. These Afghans are changing Afghanistan's identity to be more Iranian - for better or worse... However, Afghan bitterness toward the Iranian government is justifiable. The Islamic Republic backs religious divisions inside Afghanistan, using Afghan Shiites as pawns. Shiite Afghans, who come from other ethnic groups as well, are encouraged to watch Iranian clerics give fiery speeches against Sunni Afghans. Iran built the road from Herat City to its border, one of the finest rebuilt highways, but the signs alongside the road bear Koranic verses picked by Iran's government... I can take pop music and the Iranian Farsi drawl, but Iran's sponsorship of sectarian violence must be stopped -- by the U.S. and other foreign powers invested in Afghanistan -- but mostly, by Afghans themselves who must unite to stand up to their neighbors." http://t.uani.com/xZaILe

Gabe Collins & Andrew Erickson in WSJ: "Europe's decision to embargo Iranian oil exports is strategically sound, since a nuclear-armed Iran is in no one's interest. Yet, policymakers are overlooking how an embargo may strategically reshape the global oil trade in China's favor. Major Chinese oil traders are building businesses that are world class in terms of volumes traded. The latest oil embargo will help them further their ambitions. The first Iranian oil embargo beginning in 1979 effectively handed Marc Rich, whose company ultimately became Glencore (one of the world's largest physical oil and commodities traders), the keys to a multibillion dollar oil-trading kingdom. Now China's increasingly global oil trading companies are in the catbird seat. Chinese firms can be confident that Beijing values stable and secure oil supplies much more than cooperation with the U.S. on the Iranian nuclear issue. The EU sanctions, which will affect about 450,000 barrels per day of oil imports to Europe, will likely engender the transfer of billions of dollars in oil earnings from the Iranian government to China's main oil trading firms: Zhuhai Zhenrong, Unipec, Chinaoil, and Sinochem. These firms have become major players in the global physical crude oil market. In 2010, 3 of the 10 largest global crude oil and products traders hailed from China... Policymakers and investors alike must consider how EU sanctions targeting Iran's nuclear program may well help reshape the physical oil trading world in ways that favor China's rising state-backed oil traders. In today's globalized, economically dynamic, and resource-hungry world, unintended consequences can matter tremendously." http://t.uani.com/zqVKRb

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