This is a brief history as told in detail by the above video:
In 1100 the people of England came together to force King Henry to sign the 1100 Charter of Liberties promising (among other things), that: 1) Government would no longer be evil and oppressive, 2) That the men making and enforcing the laws cannot hold themselves above the law and 3) People would not be forced to buy their inheritance from the government.
In 1215 the people took Liberty into their own hands. They got fed up with King John and his violations of the 1100 Charter of Liberties and they came together to create the Magna Carta of 1215. The Magna Carta provided instructions to the government about how to live up to the 1100 Charter of Liberties. The Magna Carta created a representative style government that put the people over the King. Our 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, & 8th Amendments of our Bill of Rights all come from clauses 38-40 of the Magna Carta. “The Right to Petition the Government For a Redress Of Our Grievances,” the last Liberty identified in our 1st Amendment was first codified in the Magna Carta.
This Magna Carta, put the people in direct control of the government and set the stage for three more advances in Liberty.
1) The Petition of Right of 1628, declaring that Liberty is the inherent possession of men and not the gift of government.
2) The Grand Remonstrance of 1641, recognizing that oppressive government always operates under the same M.O.: Corruption of the Courts, Infiltration of Foreign Law, Government diminishing the property Rights of the people, Government creation of fiat to control the monetary system, and Government disarming the people while keeping the Government armed.
3) The English Bill of Rights of 1689, reinforcing that maintaining Separation of Powers is essential in preserving Liberty. In 1688 they declared that it will be the complete destruction of Liberty when the Executive Branch is allowed to write law, set aside law, and over turn law, when those are powers reserved to the Legislative Branch alone.
These five documents (Charter of Liberties, Magna Carta, Petition of Right of 1628, Grand Remonstrance of 1641, and the English Bill of Rights of 1689) make the Constitution of our Founders. These five documents form the foundation of our Constitution and are the reason why John Adams said in 1765,
“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.”
Without the Magna Carta of 1215, there would be no Declaration of Independence, no Constitution, and no Bill of Rights. We have this history to thank for our Liberty today. So let’s celebrate it and teach the truth that can defeat the progressive lies.
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“Where did Common Core come from?” is a question I often hear from parents as I travel the country speaking about the Islamic infiltration of America.
Because in 2014-15 America, public school students via Common Core are:
• Participating in public school-sponsored trips to mosques via taxpayer expense, girls must wear head scarves (Colorado parents complain)
• Debating whether or not the Holocaust was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain,” (an eighth-grade assignment defended by the Rialto Unified School District, Los Angeles)
Parents in every state are outraged, protesting and asking, “Why is Islam being taught in public schools?” and “How did this happen?” “Where is the ACLU?” “Where are the people ‘protesting against’ religion being taught in public schools?”
Common Core origins
The short answer is that President Obama’s push for “hope and change” translates into completely transforming America — for the worse. Common Core is but one of many parts of an intricate plan to infiltrate every area of American society with Islam. Which is why, Common Core’s origin and funding came from Qatar, Libya and Saudi Arabia.
Globally, Common Core originated from the “One World Education” concept, a global goal orchestrated by the Connect All Schools program. Its origin is funded by the Qatar Foundation International (QFI). The director of QFI’s Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics is Tariq Ramadan, grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder, Hassan al-Banna.
According to the WND website, in 2011, QFI “partnered with the Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to facilitate matchmaking between classrooms in the U.S. and international schools through … the ‘Connect All Schools’ project.” QFI states on its website that the initiative was founded in response to Mr. Obama’s infamous 2009 Cairo speech, during which the Muslim Brotherhood was seated in the front row.
Mr. Obama’s mentor, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, received $49.2 million from Vartan Gregorian, a board member of the Qatar Foundation, who also is involved with Mr. Obama’s White House Fellowships Commission. Gregorian is an integral part of Connect All Schools, through which Qatar invested $5 million to teach Arabic in American public schools.
Domestically, in America, Common Core was “created by” the National Governor’s Association (NGA), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), Achieve Inc., ACT and the College Board. The Common Core State Standards are copyrighted by the NGA and CCSSO, a private company, which means they cannot be changed.
Many groups helped create these standards (chief among them, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations) but Pearson Education, an NGA donor and CCSSO’s listed business and industry partner, is integral to Common Core.
Pearson Education designs “education products and services to institutions, governments and direct to individual learners.” Listed on the London and New York Stock Exchange, of its numerous investors, the Libyan Investment Authority is its largest financial contributor, holding 26 million shares.
According to the Financial Times, the Libyan Investment Authority was founded by Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Seif al-Islam; more than five Gaddafi family members own shares. The Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR, a recently designated terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates), Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the Muslim Brotherhood invested in Pearson Education through the Libyan Investment Authority.
Despite this connection, according to the Guardian, Pearson Education claims as a public company operating in a free market it has no control over its shareholders’ terrorist-related activities.
Common Core was implemented in states that accepted federal funds from the 2009 “Race to the Top” initiative, which encouraged states to receive federal money to adopt new standards that would improve their public school children’s test performance results.
In order for a state to participate, the state board of education and the state’s educational professional standards board would have voted to adopt Common Core standards. Each participating state has posted the Common Core Standards on its state department of education website.
Two years prior to the Obama administration’s Race to the Top initiative, in 2007, the FBI uncovered documents revealing the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood, and its subsidiary organizations like CAIR, planned to indoctrinate American K-12 students by teaching Islam.
The seized documents were part of the 2007 Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror-funding trial in U.S. history. The FBI uncovered the Muslim Brotherhood’s manifesto “on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America” (Exhibit 42945 and Exhibit 42946).
After states applied for “Race to the Top” federal funds in 2009, Pearson Education created Common Core curriculum and standards. Pearson Education is also the sole evaluator of teachers in some states. In order for New York State to continue receiving “Race to the Top” federal funds, it had to implement “reforms.” Pearson Education now solely administers the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA).
New York State no longer evaluates its teachers — a private company does — whose primary investors fund terrorism and propagate Islam.
Additionally, no state or federal oversight exists for university programs (under Title VI of the Higher Education Act) that train K-12 teachers to develop lesson plans and seminars on “Middle East Studies.” These programs and teacher training materials were developed by Pearson Education and largely funded by Saudi Arabia.
Parents must and can act
In order to end Common Core and eliminate the Islamic indoctrination being taught in public schools, parents must demand:
• Their state school board members be investigated and/or fired and replaced.
• Their state legislature and governor reject “Race to the top” federal funds and implement legislation or reverse its state education department’s implementation of Common Core in their state, and at a minimum, in the interim.
• Their child not participate in state testing.
Parents can also take their children out of public schools altogether.
Parental rights are guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that parents possess the “fundamental right” to “direct the upbringing and education of their children.” The court has declared that “the child is not the mere creature of the State: those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right coupled with the high duty to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations” (Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510, 534-35). The Supreme Court criticized the Nebraska state legislature for attempting to interfere “with the power of parents to control the education of their own” (Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390, 402). And ruled a parent’s right to raise his/her children means a parent is protected from unreasonable state interferences, one of the unwritten “liberties” protected by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment (Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 399).”
Parents must say no more: The $632 billion the federal government spends each year on public school “education” is being wasted on violating the First Amendment, by the federal government instituting a religion through the teaching of Islam in public schools. (See “Common Core Ties to Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia”, originally posted HERE)
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We are now witnessing the predictable outcome of yet another GOP cave on Obama’s amnesty. With promises of ‘no illegal left behind’ in Obama’s inexorable pursuit of amnesty, yet another wave of illegal immigrants from Central America are teaming across the southern border.
According to the Washington Times, thanks to improving weather, the number of illegal aliens crossing the border from Central America has risen to the highest level since last summer. And despite claims to the contrary, not all of them are the next rocket scientists.
Border agents have arrested dangerous individuals, including sex offenders, gang members, and suspicious foreign nationals from the Middle East. With no effective border fence in place in most of the border sectors, how many more security threats have entered undetected?
But the situation is much worse than the porous border.
Without much media attention or backlash from congressional Republicans, Obama has just implemented another major executive amnesty program. Not satisfied with the number of Central American children crossing our border, Obama is now abusing our refugee program to categorically invite in thousands of children into our country on the taxpayer’s dime. With 75% of refugees on food stamps, we already have a systemically broken system. Now Obama is using the refugee program to ensconce his broader open borders/amnesty agenda. (Read more from “Funding Fight Against Obama’s Executive Amnesty 2.0” HERE)
Emerging crises worldwide have kept the operations tempo of the Navy and the Marines on a wartime pace despite the drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the leaders of the Navy and the Marine Corps said Monday.
“We need to continue to think about warfighting first” amid the turmoil in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe, said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert.
“The volume of activity has created difficulty” for the Marine Corps, said Marine Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford. As a result, “we’ve degraded readiness on the home station” to keep Marines deployed forward, he said.
Dunford said that Marines were deploying overseas for seven months, returning home for 14 months, and deploying again for seven months on rotations that were similar to those for the Marines at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Greenert and Dunford spoke, along with Coast Guard Commandant Paul Zukunft and Maritime Administrator Paul Jaenichen, at the Navy League’s Sea Air Space conference and exposition at National Harbor, Md. (Read more from “Navy and Marines Maintain Wartime Op Tempo Due to Russia and Mideast” HERE)
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Hillary Clinton’s Facebook pages have an unexpected fan base. At least 7 percent of Clinton’s Facebook fans list their hometown as Baghdad, way more than any other city in the world, including in the United States.
Vocativ’s exclusive analysis of Clinton’s Facebook fan statistics yielded a number of surprises. Despite her reputation as an urban Democrat favored by liberal elites, Iraqis and southerners are more likely to be a Facebook fan of Hillary than people living on America’s coasts. And the Democratic candidate for president has one of her largest followings in the great red-state of Texas.
While Chicago and New York City, both with 4 per cent of fans, round out the top three cities for Hillary’s Facebook base, Texas’ four major centers—Houston (3 percent), Dallas (3 percent), Austin (2 percent) and San Antonio (2 percent)—contain more of her Facebook supporters. Los Angeles with 3 percent of her fans, and Philadelphia and Atlanta, each with 2 percent, round out the Top 10 cities for Facebook fans of Hillary.
On a per capita basis, in which Vocativ compared a town’s population to percentage of Hillary’s likes, people living in cities and towns in Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, Arkansas, North Carolina and Wisconsin were the most likely to be her fans on Facebook than any other American residents. (Read more from “You’ll Never Guess Where Hillary Clinton Has the Most Facebook Fans” HERE)
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Open-carry mayoral candidate Amy Demboski addressed the massive vandalism against her signs across Anchorage on The Joe Miller Show Monday afternoon. She talked about single-handedly nabbing one sign vandal, who was first seen in this surveillance video.
Ms. Demboski, tired of the losses of about four thousand dollars of campaign signage, finally took matters into her own hands, staking out one sign location. Within twenty minutes, the would-be vandal arrived in the same car, and matching the same description of the individual seen in the earlier surveillance video.
As the man approached her sign with a box cutter, Amy had a friend call 911. She then confronted the vandal and recorded the interaction. You can see that video HERE.
This story about Ms. Demboski’s apprehension of the vandal has gone viral, not just due to the video she took of the incident, but also due to the fact that she was open-carrying. As she explained in the below podcast from yesterday, she didn’t draw her gun – or even put a hand on it – but her open carry was enough to keep the peace with the “very agitated” vandal.
Today (Tuesday) is election day in Anchorage. Ms. Demboski is the only true conservative in the top four contenders for the Anchorage mayor’s office. If you are an Anchorage voter, make sure you take the time to vote. The election will likely be decided by a thin margin of registered voters. Every vote will count.
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By Michael Dorstewitzs. Somalian al-Shabaab militants chose Holy Week to cross the border into Kenya to wage a brutal attack specifically targeting Christians — but you would never know that from the American president . . .
On the day of the massacre, the White House issued a statement condemning the militants but neglected to indicate the reason al-Shabaab raided the university — to kill Christians.
[Listen to Walid Shoebat explain how Obama’s catastrophic policies regarding Islam and the Middle East are driving us toward apocalypse]
It’s as though President Obama believes that when Islamic terrorists attack Christians or Jews, religion is never a factor. The statement read:
Michelle and I join the American people in expressing our horror and sadness at the reports coming out of Garissa, Kenya. Words cannot adequately condemn the terrorist atrocities that took place at Garissa University College, where innocent men and women were brazenly and brutally massacred. We join the world in mourning them, many of whom were students pursuing an education in the pursuit of a better life for themselves and their loved ones. They represented a brighter future for a region that has seen too much violence for far too long. We also commend the heroism of the responders who lost their lives in the selfless protection of the students and faculty.
I know firsthand the extraordinary resilience and fundamental decency of the people of Kenya. So I know that the people of Garissa and all of Kenya will grieve, but their determination to achieve a better and more secure future will not be deterred. And neither will the resolve of the United States. We will stand hand-in-hand with the Kenyan Government and people against the scourge of terrorism and in their efforts to bring communities together. This much is clear: the future of Kenya will not be defined by violence and terror; it will be shaped by young people like those at Garissa University College – by their talents, their hopes, and their achievements. This is a message I will relay to the Kenyan people when I visit Kenya in July. Even at this difficult hour, the Kenyan people should know they have an unwavering friend and ally in the United States of America.
(Read more from “‘You’re Kidding?’ Obama’s Statement on Kenya Killings Omitted One Crucial Fact” HERE)
Nearly 150 Dead in Al-Shabaab School Attack, Kenyan Officials Say
By Fox News. A security operation is over and 147 people have been killed in an attack Thursday by Al Qaeda-linked terror group Al-Shabaab on a Kenyan college, officials said.
The officials said four attackers were killed during the operation.
The siege on Garissa University also left dozens more injured and hundreds of students unaccounted for.
Hours after the assault began, Kenyan security forces cornered the gunmen in a dormitory at the school, and President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a speech to the nation that the attackers were holding hostages.
“There are many dead bodies of Christians inside the building,” Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab told Sky News. “We are also holding many Christians alive. Fighting still goes on inside the college.” (Read more from this story HERE)
A televised report on CBS News Saturday morning included ludicrous pro-Obama administration spin by London-based correspondent Elizabeth Palmer on reaction to the nuclear framework deal with Iran that downplayed the continued chants by Iranians of “death to America.”
Palmer spoke over video footage of a large crowd at a Tehran mosque.
“At Friday prayers there was the usual chant of ‘death to America’, but more habit than conviction. The sermon by Senior Ayatollah Kashani made it clear that Iran’s leaders support this deal. “I congratulate those who led the talks,” he said. “Great job.”
[Listen to this Middle East expert tear apart the theory that Iran means the US no harm]
Palmer emphasized the phrase ‘more habit’ to make it sound more convincing.
Palmer made her report from CBS’ London bureau, not from Tehran. The idea that chants of ‘death to America’ aren’t to be taken seriously is Obama administration spin. (Read more from “CBS News: Iran’s Death to America Chants ‘more Habit, than Conviction’” HERE)
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-04-06 03:58:572015-04-06 03:58:57CBS News: Iran’s DEATH TO AMERICA Chants Meaningless; Middle East Expert Strongly Disagrees [+video]
On Friday evening, Anchorage mayoral candidate Amy Demboski encountered an apparent vandal preparing to destroy one of her 4×8 campaign signs.
What happened next may surprise you.
The 38 year-old Assemblywoman confronted the would-be perpetrator, despite the fact that he was obviously aggressive, and armed with a box cutter.
[Editor’s note: the first part of the video includes surveillance footage of the vandal. Watch until the end for pictures of the destroyed and defaced signs]
What the video may not show clearly is the reason why the vandal may have thought better of carrying out his plan.
Demboski was exercising her right to open carry. I bet the press didn’t tell you that.
Here’s the evidence, a photo taken by someone who witnessed Demboski talking with the police on site.
Anchorage Police are investigating, and have apparently pressed charges.
Listen to why Joe Miller and other conservatives are supporting Amy Demboski for mayor:
UPDATE: There is some confusion as to whether mayoral candidate Amy Demboski actually drew her gun during the confrontation with the apparent sign vandal. During this interview today, Ms. Demboski confirmed that the gun remained holstered, and was never drawn or touched during the encounter.
In 1969 Steve Klein was a young, enlisted infantryman, serving as a Team Leader and translator imbedded with the Marines’ Combined Action Program (CAP) in the Vietnam jungle. As a Team Leader Corporal-in-Charge, Klein led ambush patrols in the bush for 240 nights in a row! His duties and level of responsibility were commensurate with that of a captain on an Army Special Forces (SF) A-Team doing the same mission.
In carrying out his duties, Klein gathered human intelligence in order to plan the ambush he would conduct that evening as he also coordinated three other ambushes to be executed concurrently. During the day he encrypted the ops message he sent to his company commander to de-conflict with other Marine activities in the local area of operations (AO).
The distinguishing characteristic of Marine CAPs that differentiated them from Army SF A-Teams was, while the SF lived and operated from fortified U.S. firebases, the Marine CAP teams lived “outside the wire” in the Vietnamese village they were assigned to and were regarded by the villagers as a part of their community.
This CAP people-to-people relationship greatly facilitated the team’s intelligence collection because information on Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces in the AO was more readily shared by the South Vietnamese with resident U.S. forces than was the case when U.S. patrols merely passed through an area. Because of this forward-deployed stationing and intelligence collecting, Corporal Klein’s CAP Team, as well as other similarly forward-deployed Marine CAP teams, enjoyed a great deal of success in intercepting and killing NVA units infiltrating from the A Shau Valley.
Following Vietnam, Klein became a “mustang,” that is, an enlisted man promoted to commissioned officer.
In the 1970’s Lieutenant Klein functioned as a Battalion Communications-Electronic Warfare Officer training Marines at 29 Palms, CA, in tactics that were later used in Operation Desert Storm. During this period Klein established his bona fides as an expert operational planner with the hierarchy of the Marine Corps.
The Story Continues in Iraq
After the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom, now-former Lieutenant Klein was well-recognized as a war planning expert within “the Marine fraternity” based on his proven success collecting intelligence in the midst of enemy forces and turning that intelligence into “kills.” Consequently, Klein was contracted by the Marine Corps to assist in planning for the Marine assault to capture Fallujah, Iraq, from Islamic jihadists in 2004. However, at this point, the story begins to sour. Based on Klein’s extensive Marine combat experience, he began to teach Corps planners about Mohammad’s fanatical “way of war” because he knew how important it is for U.S. forces going into combat to understand the thinking and planning guidelines of the enemy.
Political Correctness Intervenes
But when the Islamic basis and thrust of Klein’s teaching became known to the Pentagon, he was told to cease and desist from his approach and to delete the Mohammadan- and Islamic-war aspects of his war planning advice. In Klein’s estimation, ceasing to impart this insightful knowledge to Marines preparing for vicious combat with such a rabid opponent would be a criminal omission of his part. Consequently, he refused to omit such potentially life-saving knowledge of the enemy in preparing brother Marines for battle. (And as it turned out, the Battle of Fallujah was the heaviest urban combat Marines were involved in since the Battle of Hue City during the 1968 Tet Offensive.) Eventually, a “compromise” of sorts was worked out and Klein completed his service contract activities.
Steve Klein’s Counter-Jihad Story Is A “Family Affair”
Matt Klein, Klein’s son, served as an Army sergeant in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and then back to Afghanistan. Being as versatile as his father, young Klein is a combat veteran in the capacities of combat medic, sniper, and ambush team leader. As a result of Matt’s courage and skill in an engagement with the jihadists in Iraq, he was decorated by the Army with the Bronze Star and Combat V for saving the lives of an officer whose arm was blown off and five other wounded soldiers by applying his medical expertise and by stopping the enemy with a courageous counterattack.
But again, like his father, Matt Klein ran into political correctness imposed from higher authority, hindering his efforts to fight against the Islamic jihadists. Young Klein encountered his political correctness problem in Iraq for failing to comply with rules of engagement (ROE) when he was leading combat patrols. The ROE called for patrols to be accompanied by a local Iraqi; however, Steve had advised his son Matt not to include a local Iraqi in his patrol because of unreliability of Iraqis as demonstrated in “green on blue” incidents. In spite of the successes of his patrols, Matt’s brigade commander called him in to insist that he follow ROE by adding local Iraqis on his patrols. He demurred and requested to be relieved of patrol leader duty and to be returned to his status as a combat medic. The brigade commander agreed to this change.
This enforcement of the ROE requirement to include an untrusted Iraqi on patrol is a classic case of pursuing the fiction that Muslims share our opposition to Islamic jihad. However, they do not because jihad, that is, imperialistic war of conquest against non-Muslims, is the core commandment of the Islamic religion! For example:
Quran (9:29) – “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” “People of the Book” refers to Christians and Jews. According to this verse, they are to be violently subjugated, with the sole justification being their religious status. Verse 9:33 tells Muslims that Allah has charted them to make Islam “superior over all religions.” This chapter was one of the final “revelations” from Allah and it set in motion the tenacious military expansion, in which Muhammad’s companions managed to conquer two-thirds of the Christian world in the next 100 years. Islam is intended to dominate all other people and faiths.
It is insane to continue to put the lives of our armed services personnel at risk to perpetuate the myth undergirding our irrational national security policy that Islam is compatible with Western Civilization. As the above Islamic scriptural quotation and explanation leaves no doubt, the U.S. Government’s compatibility myth, the foundation of our preposterous national security policy, is demonstrated to be counterfactual by Islamic doctrine itself.
Steve Klein’s Counter-Jihad Story Continues In The U.S.
Immediately after the 9/11 World Trade Center jihadist attack, Klein jumped into action. Using his Marine CAP intelligence collection training, he visited California mosques with translators to question the Muslims there. All of these mosque interviews more or less followed the same pattern; they would begin amicably in English with protestations of “We love America,” but soon degenerated into hostility to America and non-Muslims expressed in Arabic. When Klein went public with the results of his mosque interviews revealing Muslims’ anti-American attitudes, he was largely refuted, doubted, or ignored by skeptics.
Then about four years ago, Klein’s translator, Nabil Bissada of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, invited Steve to appear on Arabic Christian TV “The Way” to address the dire situation of Egyptian Coptic Christians who are under constant threat of death from Egyptian Muslims. The format for this series of programs was that Klein would present an American, non-Muslim point of view as the only English speaker in a panel of guests.
The owner of this TV outlet, Joseph Nasralla, mentored Klein in broadcasting, and after about a year he gave him his own show, “Wake Up America.” Klein’s popular show, also carried by Los Angeles DISH TV, Channel 35.3 as well as being aired internationally, is basically an “Intel Brief” dealing with developments in Islam’s civilizational clash with the Western world about which Americans and all non-Muslims should be aware.
Due to Klein’s media notoriety with Egyptian Coptic Christians, prior to September 11, 2012, he was contacted by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, producer to the infamous video, “Innocence of Muslims” for consultation. Nakoula, a Coptic Christian, confided to Klein his motive. Nakoula’s rationale might be termed – “inside baseball” in the world of Islamic jihad.
The Islamic jihad “playbook” that is largely being followed modern jihadists, “Milestones: In The Shade Of The Quran,” was written by Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian strategist Sayyid Qutb. As Qutb lays out in his book, preparing the Muslim world (“ummah”) for jihad requires “progressive revelation” to gradually introduce them to the extremist aspect of Islamic ideology – murder of non-believers in the name of the Muslim god Allah. In fact, the current leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri has declared: “we must not throw the masses — scant in knowledge — into the sea before we teach them to swim.” The jihadist fear is that a premature jihad would result in wrong choices that would not be in accord with Islamic law, the Shariah.
Nakoula had just this concept in mind because he reasoned – a movie mocking Mohammad would incite the Muslim ummah into frenzied revenge jihad, causing it to misfire. As he theorized with Klein, if the Muslim world is unprepared for organized jihad, it will be easier for the West to defeat. He likened premature jihad to Hitler launching World War II in the mid-1930’s when the Nazis had not yet completed building sufficient war materiel. Klein agreed to be his English language spokesman, thus getting sucked into the “Benghazi vortex” and increasing his notoriety markedly with both the FBI and Islamic jihadists. Klein reports that it felt to him like Obama and Holder would have preferred for him to have joined Nakoula in jail.
The world attention that Obama and Clinton directed to Nakoula’s video certainly advanced his objective of inciting frenzied jihadist actions. In this regard, Klein has a “mission accomplished” attitude in that, Nakoula’s production caused jihadist violence that resulted in decidedly negative world opinion toward Islamic destructiveness, even if it didn’t cause a worldwide jihad misfire as originally envisioned.
The “Enemy Of The Islamic State”
As a result of Klein’s TV broadcasting and association with Nakoula, he was singled out by the Islamic State in the seventh issue of its Internet e-zine, “Dabiq (PDF)”* as “a spiteful crusader who mocked Rasullah.”** This dangerous attention from the Islamic State prompted the FBI to consult with Klein about his personal security.
Conclusion
Steve Klein has summed up his personal counter-jihad as a fight that is unavoidable because Islamic jihad is an existential threat to the American way of life. Therefore, he invokes John Paul Jones: “I have not yet begun to fight!,” as well as “Semper Fidelis for Jesus.”
Notes
* In Islamic eschatology according to the Hadith, Daqib, a village in northern Syria, is the equivalent of Armageddon in Christian eschatology. In the end time, a Muslim army will battle and defeat an army of Romans (Christians) at Dabiq.
** “Rasullah” is Arabic for the incantation “Mohammad is the messenger of Allah.”
(See “A Former Marine’s Continuing Experiences in Countering Islamic Jihadist”, originally posted HERE)
Col. Thomas Snodgrass, USAF (retired) served over a year in Peshawar, Pakistan, working with Pakistani military intelligence. During his year in Vietnam he daily scheduled 130 U.S. Army and Air Force intelligence collection aircraft. In his final overseas tour he was the U.S. Air Attaché behind the Iron Curtain in Warsaw, Poland.
In total, Col. Snodgrass was variously an Intelligence Officer or an International Politico-Military Affairs Officer serving duty tours in seven foreign countries, as well as teaching military history and strategy at the Air War College, US Air Force Academy, and USAF Special Operations School during a thirty-year military career.
Additionally, he was awarded an Air Force scholarship to get a history master’s degree in revolutionary insurgent warfare at the University of Texas, as well as being granted a year’s educational sabbatical to teach and to write about international relations as an Air Force Research Associate in the graduate school at the Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami, Florida. Following the Air Force, Col. Snodgrass was an adjunct professor of military history for ten years at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Arizona..