Obama Throws Christian Refugees to Lions

The anti-Constantine's support for Muslim genocide against Christians is undeniable. 

by Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute � September 25, 2015

Members of California�s Iraqi Christian community and their supporters protest the months-long detention of Iraqi Christian asylum-seekers at the Otay Mesa detention center.

The fate of those Iraqi Christians who had fled from the Islamic State only to be incarcerated in the United States has finally been decided by the Obama administration: they are to be thrown back to the lions, where they will likely be persecuted if not slaughtered like so many Iraqi Christians before them.

Fifteen of the 27 Iraqi Christians that have been held at a detention center in Otay Mesa, California, for approximately six months, are set to be deported in the coming weeks. Some have already been deported and others are being charged with immigration fraud.

Many of the Iraqi Christian community in San Diego�including U.S. citizen family members vouching for the refugees�had hopes that they would eventually be released.  Mark Arabo, a spokesman for the Chaldean community, had argued that �They�ve escaped hell [IS]. Let�s allow them to reunite with their families.�  One of the detained women had begged to see her ailing mother before she died.  The mother died before they could reunite, and now the daughter is to be deported, possibly back to the hell of the Islamic State.

Why are Christian minorities, who are the most to suffer from the chaos engulfing the Middle East, the least wanted in the United States?

The answer is that the Obama administration defines refugees as people �persecuted by their government.�  In other words, the only �real� refugees are those made so due to the actions of Bashar Assad.  As for those who are being raped, slaughtered, and enslaved based on their religious identity by so-called �rebel� forces fighting Assad�including the Islamic State�their status as refugees is evidently considered dubious at best.

As Abraham H. Miller argues in �No room in America for Christian refugees�:  �What difference does it make which army imperils the lives of innocent Christians?  Christians are still be[ing] slaughtered for being Christian, and their government is incapable of protecting them. Does some group have to come along�as Jewish groups did during the Holocaust�and sardonically guarantee that these are real human beings?�

In fact, from the start of Western meddling in the Mideast in the context of the �Arab Spring,� Christians were demonized for being supportive of secular strongmen like Assad.   In a June 4, 2012 article discussing the turmoil in Egypt and Syria, the Independent�s Robert Fisk scoffed at how the Egyptian presidential candidate �Ahmed Shafiq, the Mubarak loyalist, [and rival to the Muslim Brotherhood�s Morsi] has the support of the Christian Copts, and Assad has the support of the Syrian Christians. The Christians support the dictators. Not much of a line, is it?�

More than three years later, the Western-supported �Arab Spring� proved an abysmal failure and the same Christian minorities that Fisk took to task were, as expected, persecuted in ways unprecedented in the modern era.

Even without defining refugees as people �persecuted by their government,� the Obama administration never seems to miss an opportunity to display its bias for Muslims against Christians.  The U.S. State Dept. is in the habit of inviting scores of Muslim representatives but denying visas to solitary Christian representatives.  While habitually ignoring the slaughter of Nigerian Christians at the hands of Boko Haram, the administration called for the �human rights� of the jihadi murderers.  And when persecuted Copts planned on joining the anti-Muslim Brotherhood revolution, Obama said no.  Then there is the fact that every Arab nation the Obama administration has meddled in�especially Libya and Syria�has seen a dramatic nosedive in the human rights of Christian minorities.

The Obama administration�s bias is evident even regarding to the Iraqi Christians� illegal crossing of the U.S.-Mexico border, the occasion on which they were arrested. WND correctly observes: �At the same time the Obama administration [is] deporting Christians, it has over the years allowed in hundreds of Muslim migrants from Africa and the Middle East who crossed the Southern border the same way the Chaldeans did.�

Meanwhile, as the Obama administration nitpicks at the definition of refugee and uses it against severely persecuted Christian minorities, it turns out that four out of five migrants�or 80 percent�are not even from Syria.

And while Christian minorities pose little threat to the United States�indeed, they actually bring benefits to U.S. security�Muslims all around the U.S. are supporting the Islamic State and Muslim clerics are relying on the refugee influx to conquer Western nations, in the Islamic tradition of Hijra, or jihad by emigration.

As Koran 4:100 puts it: �And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many locations and abundance. And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him�his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah.�

In Islamic usage, the �cause of Allah� is synonymous with jihad to empower and enforce Allah�s laws on earth, or Sharia.  In this context, immigrating into Western lands is a win-win for Muslims: if they die in the process somehow, paradise is theirs; if they don�t, the �locations and abundance� of the West are theirs.

All the while, true Christian refugees, fleeing the same hostile Muslim forces being allowed to enter Europe and America by the thousands, are thrown back to the lions by the Obama administration.

Islamic State is 'beheading, raping, and selling' Christians while Obama does nothing, asserts Justice Group

The American Center for Law and Justice is pressing the Obama Administration to act swiftly to stop the genocide of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East, highlighting the administration's inaction on several fronts. But action is unlikely to be forthcoming. 

As Raymond Ibrahim has shown, reporting of Muslim persecution of Christians does not fit "The Narrative" which the Obama Administration holds to, that Islam is innocent and there is no religious dimension to the strife in the Middle East and Africa. Therefore the plight of Christians will likely continue to be ignored by the U.S. government as a matter of Obama's anti-Christian, pro-Islam policy.

Such is the political dimension of this new age of martyrdom in which we live. 


ISIS is 'beheading, raping, and selling' Christians while Obama does nothing, Justice group asserts
by Thomas D. Williams, PhD, Breitbart News, August 21, 2015

The American Center for Law and Justice is urging President Barack Obama to defend Christians who are suffering intense persecution from Islamic State terrorists, especially by naming an ambassador to fill the vacant mission of Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia.

The ACLJ has drafted a petition appealing to the Obama Administration to act swiftly to stop the genocide of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East. The petition has already garnered more than 93,000 signatures.

The organization reminds the administration that ISIS is �beheading, raping, and selling Christians� and that hundreds of thousands of Christians have been forced to flee or die. But while ISIS tracks down Christians for sale and slaughter, the Obama Administration and other Western leaders stand by idle.

For more than a year, the justice group states in an article on Thursday, �President Obama has failed to appoint an Ambassador to lead a Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia.�

�While Christians and other religious minorities are decimated in that region, the Obama administration leaves this vital position unfilled. This is why the ACLJ has urged them to fill this spot and will continue to do so,� it said.

Just this week, in fact, the Catholic relief agency Aid to the Church in Need announced that �Christians have become a form [of] currency in this tragedy.� They report that many Arab Christians are being abducted and held for ransom as a means of funding ISIS.  One priest�s family managed to scrape together the $120,000 ransom put on his head, but once they paid the sum, they were mailed his cut-up body parts in a box, the ACLJ notes.

The Islamic State has seized significant territory across Iraq and Syria, and for more than a year now has been heavily targeting Christians and other religious minorities.

�Despite President Obama�s insistence that there is no need for greater U.S. involvement with ISIS,� the letters states, �these jihadists continue to gain more influence, money, and power.  Every day, we see new accounts of Christians & Yazidis begin captured, women being enslaved, and mass murders being committed by ISIS.�

�If this is not the kind of evil that our government is established to stop, then one must ask what is,� the ACLJ said. �This evil must be stopped.�

When the Obama Administration when it intended to appoint a special envoy to protect religious minorities in the Middle East and South Central Asia�even though Congress passed legislation over a year ago creating the post�the White House responded that it does not know.

�We have no personnel announcement to make at this time,� said Alistair Baskey, a spokesman for the White House�s National Security Council told CNSNews.com in response to queries as to when the post will be filled and why there has been such a long delay in filling the position.

�The Butterfly Effect� - Obama, Climate Change, and Islam�s War against the World

If even the wings of a butterfly have weight and shared causality, then what of the teachings and example of a seventh century desert prophet?

by Ralph H. Sidway

President Obama, during his recent address at the Coast Guard Commencement ceremonies, again offered his profound views on the myriad vectors shaping global unrest and chaos. Ranking high among the primal forces threatening us � high enough to be emphasized by the President of the most powerful nation on the planet � is that bane of mankind, �climate change.� 

Lest there be any doubt of the gravity of the situation, or of his authority in such matters, Mr. Obama predicates his mission with a great �I am� statement:

�I am here to say that climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and make no mistake, will impact how our military defends our country.�

The Obama Administration is consistent and adamant on this topic. This past February, Vice-President Biden told college students in Iowa that �global warming is the greatest threat of anything at all, across the board,� and Secretary of State Kerry has likewise been beating the same drum.  (Never mind that the data shows we have been in a �global warming pause� for nearly two decades, and that climate-change IPCC scientists resorted to manipulating the data in order to create the fraudulent "hockey-stick graph" and advance their agenda.)

Curiously, the Administration�s emphasis on the threat from �climate change� seems to roughly balance its insistence that the Islamic State Caliphate is �not Islamic� and is not much of a threat anyway.  One might be tempted to think that the �war against climate change� is being used as a tool to deflect attention away from Islam�s war against us.

But let�s allow, for the sake of argument (and in deference to the great Ray Bradbury�s short story, �A Sound of Thunder�), that there is some validity to �The Butterfly Effect,� the chaos theory corollary which postulates that events of great consequence may be set in motion by much smaller events separated by vast scales of time and distance. �Change one thing � Change everything,� says the tag for the 2004 Ashton Kutcher film of the same name. 

So, in the Obama narrative, chaotic weather shifts are contributing to drought, floods, poverty, inequity, and a host of other effects, all triggers generating global violent extremism, as disenfranchised groups duke it out for dwindling resources � or something like that.

But no matter how you dress it up with fancy words and phony analysis, the Obama narrative of �Blame it on the weather� is not only incorrect, it is as deceitful as the hockey-stick graph itself.

Let�s rather explore �the Butterfly Effect� and take a quick ride in Ray Bradbury�s time machine back to the early 7th century. Let�s set the dials for shortly after Muhammad makes his hijra to Medina (Year 1, in the Islamic calendar). Let�s listen to the prophet and watch his actions. But take care not to step off the path.

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The first thing we might hear would be recitations of early, Meccan-period, Quran verses such as these:

50:45� We know of best what they say; and you (O Muhammad) are not a tyrant over them (to force them to Belief). But warn by the Qur'an, him who fears My Threat. 109:1-6� Say: "O Al-Kafirun (disbelievers)! "I worship not that which you worship, "Nor will you worship that which I worship. "And I shall not worship that which you are worshipping. "Nor will you worship that which I worship. "To you be your religion, and to me my religion (Islam)."

That sounds reasonable enough. Muhammad was not a tyrant - the Quran tells us so!  Islam is a �live and let live� religion.  Yes, this is what the experts and the president say Islam is. 

We might even be around to hear Muhammad share this verse, from early in the Medinan period:

2:256� There is no compulsion in religion. Verily, the Right Path has become distinct from the wrong path. Whoever disbelieves in Taghut {idolatry} and believes in Allah, then he has grasped the most trustworthy handhold that will never break. And Allah is All-Hearer, All-Knower.

I remember those Islam experts telling us this, yes! Here is the religion of peace in its formative years... How wonderful!

But let�s stay on the path and keep watching and listening.

Wait� What�s this? This sounds totally at odds with what we heard after first arriving in the Way-Back machine:

9:5� Then when the Sacred Months have passed, then kill the Mushrikun {unbelievers} wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush... 

8:39� And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone...  

8:12� I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes. 

9:29� Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.  

9:33� It is He {Allah} Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it superior over all religions even though the Mushrikun (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) hate (it).

What? This isn�t the Islam I was told about by Obama and the experts at all! Fighting, killing and domination, supposedly the literal commands of God!?  Why, that would mean the words are eternal, unchanging� 

But stay on the path� Let�s keep watching, it�s not just about the words. Surely they were taken out of context...

Wait� What�s this?  Raids on caravans? A battle at Badr? More raids on Jewish tribes?  Battle after battle� And new revelations endorsing this, killing the vanquished, deceit and treachery, taking sex slaves and booty!  

We saw other tribes exiled by Muhammad, but now, after his victory at Medina, we can hardly believe our eyes!  Muhammad ordering the beheading of hundreds of men from the Bani Quraiza!  The Muslims cheering and beheading them in huge groups. Muhammad himself setting the chief example! All the blood and carnage� Unbelievable! It�s like ISIS times twenty!

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Returning to our own time, we look around at the Islamic State, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, the Taliban. We see the beheadings, the taking of captives, the slavery, the booty. We see thousands of Muslims from Europe and North America, Australia and Central Asia, flocking to join the Islamic State. We see the persecution of non-Muslims in Indonesia (which President Obama told us is modern and moderate!), Malaysia (another moderate Islamic country!), Egypt, Turkey� 

And we hear and read of them justifying what they�re doing using the Quran itself!

Why, this is exactly what we saw and heard being commanded in our time travel back to Muhammad�s day. This is exactly what Muhammad did and preached!  The Islamic State IS Islamic!

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No matter how often we check our boots, there is no dead butterfly crushed in the treads, no alternate blame to be laid on some shift in the timeline, nor on the forces of nature or even �human-caused global warming.�

The causes of �violent extremism� � Alas! � are now clear to us after seeing it with our own eyes. It is Muhammad himself who set all this in motion, fourteen centuries ago. It is Muhammad�s own example and the words he claimed were from God which devout Muslims today are following.

Of course, there is no time travel in the literal sense of the word. But our hypothetical journey to the seventh century in search of the Butterfly Effect was based entirely upon the Quran and the life of Muhammad as collected by his followers and as set down by his earliest biographer, Ibn Ishaq. Islam�s own revered texts provide the Way-Back machine, the lens into the past, which reveals to us the prophet and what he was like.

Sorry, Mr. Obama, you almost had us fooled, but no more. Sure, maybe the weather can impact human societies, but now we have seen with our own eyes the real cause of Islam�s war against the world.

And now we know it is Muhammad and the Quran. 

And the sound we hear all around us� a sound of thunder.

CNN � Retired generals: Be afraid of ISIS

Blindsided: Did ISIS catch the U.S. by surprise?

By Michael Flynn, James Livingston and Michael Smith

Updated 10:22 PM ET, Sun April 26, 2015

Story highlights:

• Authors warn President Obama must be clear about radical Islam threat
• Al Qaeda still a looming threat, they say

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Medal of Honor recipient and retired Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston, USMC, and congressional counterterrorism adviser Michael S. Smith II are co-founders of the strategic advisory firm Kronos Advisory. The views expressed are solely the authors' own. 

Watch 'Blindsided: How ISIS shook the world', on CNN.

(CNN)  Be afraid -- be very afraid. This is the warning the world deserves to hear. Because the leader of the free world refuses to look with clear eyes at the chief security challenges of the 21st century: the fruits of radical Islam.

The results of the Obama White House's innovative efforts to make the world a better place can be accounted for in the ever-growing numbers of victims of radical Islam in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Not to mention here in the United States, Canada and Europe. Is it not a tragic irony that the Arab Spring-era policies of a Nobel Peace Prize recipient accommodated the transition of Syria into the world's newest jihad theater while leaving Libya a failed state and Yemen a failing state?

The Syrian jihad gave rise to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which now uses Syria as a rear operating base to support its jihad in Iraq, which could soon spill over into Jordan. Plus, Libya is now being used as a rear operating base by ISIS and other global jihadist elements striving to redraw the map of the Middle East, even as they plan attacks in Europe and North America.

Given the frightfully slow pace America's commander-in-chief is currently allowing our military and intelligence community to take action against both ISIS and its progenitor, al Qaeda, the picture of what's in store is clear: The body count will continue to grow in the places where these groups can generate buy-in for their agendas. And neither the United States nor our Western allies are immune to this cancer.

Academics who must say something new or different to garner interest in their work may describe the agendas of ISIS and al Qaeda as distinctly different. But the fact is they are not -- their agendas, which constitute the foremost threats to the global security environment today, are manifestations of radical Islam.

Of course, it's hardly a surprise President Barack Obama refuses to acknowledge all this in plain terms -- the president and his national security advisers have too often proven na�ve, with a dangerous habit of viewing the world not as it is, but as they hope it could be.

There is no shortage of examples that highlight the absence of sound foresight on the parts of the world's most powerful politician and his national security team.

Just take the National Strategy for Counterterrorism published by the White House in 2011. That document contained the assertion that, "Since the beginning of 2011, the transformative change sweeping North Africa and the Middle East -- along with the death of Osama bin Laden -- has further changed the nature of the terrorist threat, particularly as the relevance of al Qaeda and its ideology has been further diminished."

Yet, fast forward to January 2014 and America's top intelligence official, director of National Intelligence James Clapper, advised Congress that al Qaeda was no less capable of threatening the United States and our allies than a decade earlier.

Soon after Clapper acknowledged al Qaeda was not a band on the run, as President Obama had described the terrorist enterprise, a report by terrorism expert Seth Jones of the RAND Corporation highlighted yet another inconvenient truth for the White House: As restraints on freedom of expression of radical religious views vanished in places like Libya, Tunisia and Egypt during the Arab Spring, those states became fertile recruitment grounds for terrorist groups -- including al Qaeda and groups aligned with it.

According to data compiled by Jones, from 2010 through 2013, the number of Salafi jihadist groups increased by 58%. These groups are fueled by Salafiyya Jihadiyya, an ideology that not only informs the agenda of al Qaeda, but is the source code for the agenda of the al Qaeda offshoot ISIS.

Bin Laden's death 'didn't lift shadow'

Most recently, absent from the National Security Strategy produced by the Obama White House in February 2015 is any real meaningful discussion concerning threats posed by al Qaeda. Yes, Osama bin Laden was killed on President Obama's watch. But contrary to what the White House seemed to think in 2011, bin Laden's death has not lifted the shadow he casts over America's, or our allies' security.

Indeed, within days of our new National Security Strategy's publication date, in the seventh issue of ISIS's English-language magazine Dabiq, the group's leaders described their jihad as a continuation of the jihad charted by bin Laden, while accusing his successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, of steering al Qaeda off the path of its former leader.

Meanwhile, Yemen -- home to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the al Qaeda branch that claimed credit for the January 2015 attack in Paris at the office of Charlie Hebdo -- has also become a failed state. AQAP is helmed by the second-highest-ranking official in al Qaeda writ large, and the Obama administration views it as the most dangerous component of al Qaeda's global network.

So it is interesting that, in the months before the Yemeni government was overthrown by Iran-backed rebels, President Obama described the U.S.-Yemen counterterrorism partnership as a shining example of success in the fight against al Qaeda -- interesting because the President did not do more to help that "partner" government remain in power. Once again, the president and his advisers appear to have either ignored or failed to recognize the trajectory of events in the Middle East.

What were they thinking? And how do they plan to combat AQAP now?

Despite what the White House wants the world to believe, a sober look at the security environment reveals the following key realities:

ISIS controls a large amount of territory in the Middle East, and the group is rapidly growing its ranks in places such as Libya and Afghanistan, while at the same time inspiring and plotting attacks in the West.

And, although ISIS is trying to "out al Qaeda" al Qaeda, resorting to attention winning stunts to boost its profile on television sets around the world, al Qaeda itself is no less of a threat to the United States and our allies today than it was in January 2014.

At the same time, the routine failures of President Obama and his advisers to understand the security environment, and to appropriately tailor America's national security posture in a manner demanded by it, foretells more disasters lie ahead.

Will Obama make the difficult decisions?

Not only Americans, but also our allies should be very, very afraid. Indeed, President Obama's refusal to simply call a problem like radical Islam by its name strongly suggests he is unwilling to make the difficult decisions that must be made today if we are to stand a chance of defeating radical Islamist groups.

History has shown the dangers that millions can be placed in if our leaders don't face down a looming threat by calling it what it is and putting our full weight behind efforts to vanquish it.

President Obama has the resources at his disposal to do just that. But if he wants to help define a future for the Middle East and North Africa in which fewer threats emanate from those regions, he must spend more time listening to talented professionals in our military and intelligence community versus the idealists and yes-men surrounding him at the White House. There is too much at stake in the near term to continue down the path of experimentation with Pollyannaish theories about how to attain this future that have actually rendered us less safe.

Indeed, President Obama should also pay closer attention to what representatives from Arab states are saying behind closed doors. Most of their bosses would love to be the claimants to the prize of defeating ISIS and al Qaeda.

However, all of them recognize that, unless we all want things to get a whole lot worse before they might get any better, the United States will have to deploy considerably more of our "kinetic" resources to put those victories in sight.

This does not mean a ground forces-intensive response is required from us at this time. But if the President thinks it prudent to wait on our Arab partners to do most of the heavy lifting, he could be guaranteeing this will be the case in the not-too-distant future.

State Dept bans Iraqi Catholic nun from entering U.S.

Sister Diana wants to tell Americans about ISIS persecution of Christians in Iraq, but the State Department won�t let her in.  Obama and company don�t want Americans to hear it. 

With Malice Toward Nun

National Review Online via Creeping Sharia � May 3, 2015

by Nina Shea

Sister Diana Momeka

See also this followup article by Nina Shea: The State Department Responds to NR�s Report on Sister Diana Momeka

Why is the United States barring a persecuted Iraqi Catholic nun � an internationally respected and leading representative of the Nineveh Christians who have been killed and deported by ISIS � from coming to Washington to testify about this catastrophe?

Earlier this week, we learned that every member of an Iraqi delegation of minority groups, including representatives of the Yazidi and Turkmen Shia religious communities, has been granted visas to come for official meetings in Washington � save one. The single delegate whose visitor visa was denied happens to be the group�s only Christian from Iraq.

Sister Diana Momeka of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena was informed on Tuesday by the U.S. consulate in Erbil that her non-immigrant-visa application has been rejected. The reason given in the denial letter, a copy of which I have obtained, is:

You were not able to demonstrate that your intended activities in the United States would be consistent with the classification of the visa.

She told me in a phone conversation that, to her face, consular officer Christopher Patch told her she was denied because she is an �IDP� or Internally Displaced Person. �That really hurt,� she said. Essentially, the State Department was calling her a deceiver.

The State Department officials made the determination that the Catholic nun could be falsely asserting that she intends to visit Washington when secretly she could be intending to stay. That would constitute illegal immigration, and that, of course, is strictly forbidden. Once here, she could also be at risk for claiming political asylum, and the U.S. seems determined to deny ISIS�s Christian victims that status.

In reality, Sister Diana wanted to visit for one week in mid-May. She has meetings set up with the Senate and House foreign-relations committees, the State Department, USAID, and various NGOs. In support of her application, Sister Diana had multiple documents vouching for her and the temporary nature of her visit. She submitted a letter from her prioress, Sister Maria Hana. It attested that the nun has been gainfully employed since last February with the Babel College of Philosophy and Theology in Erbil, Kurdistan, and is contracted to teach there in the 2015�16 academic year.

She, along with the town�s 50,000 other, mostly Christian, residents, fled for their lives from ISIS during the second week of August.

She also submitted an invitation from her sponsors, two highly respected Washington-area institutions, the Institute for Global Engagement and former congressman Frank Wolf�s (R., Va.) 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative. For good measure, she also had a letter of endorsement for her visit from Representative Anna Eshoo (D., Calif.).

The State Department wasn�t buying. It either thought that they were all in on a scheme by the nun or that Sister Diana was plotting to deceive her well-placed friends and supporters, as well as the U.S. government.

Until ISIS stormed into Qaraqosh last August, Sister Diana had a distinguished academic career and had been teaching an intensive course on spiritual direction at St. Ephrem Seminary, as well as English and peacemaking courses. She, along with the town�s 50,000 other, mostly Christian, residents, fled for their lives from ISIS during the second week of August. Since then, the 30-something religious woman has served as a spokesperson for this community, as well as for the over 100,000 other Christians driven into Kurdistan under the ISIS �convert or die� policy. Through this, she has become internationally known as a charismatic and articulate advocate for religious freedom and human rights. Mr. Wolf, who met her in Kurdistan a few months ago, explained, �We had hoped to facilitate her trip to the States so that she could speak with great candor, as is her custom, to policymakers. Perhaps just as significantly, we viewed her as a critical voice to awaken the church in the West to the suffering of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq.�

But in the eyes of the U.S. consulate, she is just another Christian IDP. (Last October a delegation of IDP Yazidis were given U.S. visas to come to Washington to speak.)

Adding insult to injury: In its 2015 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, issued this week, the State Department pledged that �every overseas post and domestic bureau will seek opportunities to engage religious leaders,� as part of its pursuit of countering �violent extremism.� Opportunities to engage with everyone, that is, except Catholic nuns in Iraq � all of whom are now IDPs.

Exposed: Decade-Old Plan to Create Islamic State � and Obama Helped

This is one of the key stories I missed during my sabbatical this past winter. Extremely important and quite an eye-opener. In places it is downright prophetic. A must read, including this concluding quote about the final phase of the plan:

"There is certainly no good reason to think Western leadership will stop the final phase from occurring: a unified, aggressive, expansionist, and eventually possibly even nuclear armed caliphate preparing to terrorize its neighbors on a grand scale � just like its historic predecessor did for centuries."

Exposed: Decade-Old Plan to Create Islamic State � and Obama Helped
by Raymond Ibrahim � November 6, 2014

Although the birth of the Islamic state and the herald of the caliphate are often regarded as some of 2014�s �big shockers,� they were foretold in striking detail and with an accurate timeline by an al-Qaeda insider nearly one decade ago.

On August 12, 2005, Spiegel Online International published an article titled �The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaeda Really Wants.�  Written by Yassin Musharbash, the article was essentially a review of a book written by Fouad Hussein, a Jordanian journalist with close access to al-Qaeda and its affiliates, including the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who pioneered the videotaping of beheadings �to strike terror into the hearts� of infidels (Koran 3:151).

As Hussein explained in the introduction of his book Al Zarqawi: Al Qaeda�s Second Generation: �I interviewed a whole range of al-Qaeda members with different ideologies to get an idea of how the war between the terrorists and Washington would develop in the future.�

And in fact the book details the master plan of al-Qaeda�in its �second generation� manifestation known as the �Islamic State� which follows much of Zarqawi�s modus operandi�to resurrect a caliphate.  This plan is sufficiently outlandish that Yassin Musharbash, the author of the Spiegel article reviewing Hussein�s book, repeatedly casts doubt on its feasibility.  Thus al-Qaeda�s plan is �proof both of the terrorists� blindness as well as their brutal single-mindedness�; there is �no way� al-Qaeda can follow the plan �step by step�; �the idea that al-Qaeda could set up a caliphate in the entire Islamic world is absurd�; and the following �scenario should be judged skeptically.�

Yet it is all the more remarkable that much of this plan�especially those phases dismissed as infeasible by Musharbash (four and five)�have come to pass.

In what follows, I reproduce the seven phases of al-Qaeda�s master plan as presented in Musharbash�s nearly ten-year-old article (in bullet points and italics, bold for emphasis), with my commentary interspersed for context.  Phases four and five are of particular importance as they describe the goals for recent times, much of which have come to fruition according to plan.

An Islamic Caliphate in Seven Easy Steps

• The First Phase Known as �the awakening��this has already been carried out and was supposed to have lasted from 2000 to 2003, or more precisely from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington to the fall of Baghdad in 2003. The aim of the attacks of 9/11 was to provoke the US into declaring war on the Islamic world and thereby �awakening� Muslims. �The first phase was judged by the strategists and masterminds behind al-Qaeda as very successful,� writes Hussein. �The battle field was opened up and the Americans and their allies became a closer and easier target.� The terrorist network is also reported as being satisfied that its message can now be heard �everywhere.�

Much of this is accurate and makes sense.  Sadly, if any eyes were opened after the 9/11 attacks on American soil, they weren�t Western eyes�certainly not the eyes of Western leadership, mainstream media, and academia.

But to many Muslims, the strikes of 9/11 were inspiring and motivating, giving credence to Osama bin Laden�s characterization of America as a �paper tiger.� 

A few years after the Islamic strikes of 9/11, Americans responded by electing a man with a Muslim name and heritage for president, even as he continuously empowers in a myriad of ways�including banning knowledge of Islam � the same ideology behind the strikes of 9/11. 

Meanwhile, the average Muslim relearned the truths of their religion, namely that the �infidel� is an existential enemy and jihad against him is a duty, as al-Qaeda and others had successfully shown.

• The Second Phase �Opening Eyes� is, according to Hussein�s definition, the period we are now in [writing in 2005] and should last until 2006. Hussein says the terrorists hope to make the western conspiracy aware of the �Islamic community.� Hussein believes this is a phase in which al-Qaeda wants an organization to develop into a movement. The network is banking on recruiting young men during this period. Iraq should become the center for all global operations, with an �army� set up there and bases established in other Arabic states.

This too is accurate.   Among other things, the �Islamic community,� the umma, began to be more visible and vocal during this time frame, including through a rash of attacks and riots following any perceived �insult� to Islam, growing demands for appeasement, and accusations of �Islamophobia� against all and sundry.  

If there weren�t any spectacular terror attacks on the level of 9/11, young Muslim men were quietly enlisting and training in the jihad�or in western parlance, �radicalizing.�  Al-Qaeda went from being an �organization� to a �movement��international �radicalization.�  Most importantly, Iraq, as the world now knows, certainly did become the �center for all global operations� with an �army� of jihadis set up there.

• The Third Phase This is described as �Arising and Standing Up� and should last from 2007 to 2010. �There will be a focus on Syria,� prophesies Hussein, based on what his sources told him. The fighting cadres are supposedly already prepared and some are in Iraq. Attacks on Turkey and�even more explosive� in Israel are predicted. Al-Qaeda�s masterminds hope that attacks on Israel will help the terrorist group become a recognized organization. The author also believes that countries neighboring Iraq, such as Jordan, are also in danger.

Much of this third phase as described and transpired seems to have been an extension of phase two. In retrospect, there certainly appears to have been a focus on Syria, even if the jihad started there one year behind schedule (2011).  And many of the jihadis were �already prepared� and �some are in Iraq.�   None of this was a surprise, of course, as U.S. intelligence always indicated that if American forces withdrew from Iraq, the jihadis would take over.

• The Fourth Phase Between 2010 and 2013, Hussein writes that al-Qaeda will aim to bring about the collapse of the hated Arabic governments. The estimate is that �the creeping loss of the regimes� power will lead to a steady growth in strength within al-Qaeda.� At the same time attacks will be carried out against oil suppliers and the US economy will be targeted using cyber terrorism.

This is immensely prophetic.  Recall that the timeline given (2010-2013) coincides remarkably well with the so-called �Arab Spring,� which culminated with Islamic terrorists and their allies taking over the leadership of several Arab countries formerly ruled by secularized autocrats: Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood (which plays Dr. Jekyll to al-Qaeda�s Mr. Hyde); Libya, al-Qaeda/Islamic jihadis; ongoing Syria, al-Qaeda/Islamic jihadis (or their latest manifestation, the Islamic State, al-Qaeda�s �second generation�), etc.  

It should be remembered that in each of these nations�Egypt, Libya, Syria�the Obama administration played a major role in empowering the jihadis, though in the name of �democracy.�

• The Fifth Phase This will be the point at which an Islamic state, or caliphate, can be declared. The plan is that by this time, between 2013 and 2016, Western influence in the Islamic world will be so reduced and Israel weakened so much, that resistance will not be feared. Al-Qaeda hopes that by then the Islamic state will be able to bring about a new world order.

Again, right on time: the �Islamic State� declared itself the �caliphate� in 2014, with many Muslim organizations and persons around the world pledging their allegiance, if not imitating their slaughter, with inspired �lone wolves� already beheading �infidels� in Western nations.   

And if the administration helped empower jihadis during the �Arab Spring� and in the name of �democracy� in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, it helped the creation of the Islamic State by withdrawing U.S. military forces that were keeping al-Qaeda at bay in Iraq.  

Recall that in 2007 George W. Bush said that,

�To begin withdrawing [military forces] before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region and for the United States.  It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to Al Qaeda.  It would mean that we�d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale.  It would mean we allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan.  It would mean we�d be increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.� 

All of these predictions have proven remarkably prescient�not because Bush was a prophet but because U.S intelligence clearly understood the situation in Iraq, and briefed Obama on it just as it did Bush. Yet, in 2011, Obama declared the Iraq war a success and pulled out American troops, leaving the way wide open for the jihadi master plan of resurrecting the caliphate to unfold.

• The Sixth Phase Hussein believes that from 2016 onwards there will a period of �total confrontation.� As soon as the caliphate has been declared the �Islamic army� it will instigate the �fight between the believers and the non-believers� which has so often been predicted by Osama bin Laden.

This needs clarification.  While many assume that the �fight between the believers and the non-believers� is between Muslims and non-Muslims, this is not always the case.  

Soon after the announcement of the caliphate, the Islamic State made clear that it was in the phase of waging jihad on �apostates� and �hypocrites,� meaning all the �apostate� or �infidel� Arab leaders like Bashar al-Assad, as well as Muslim populations that are insufficiently �Islamic.�  

It is for this reason that the new caliph took on the name of �Abu Bakr��the name of the first historic caliph (632-634) whose caliphate was characterized by fighting and bringing back into the fold of Islam all those Arabs who broke away after Muhammad died.   Afterwards, when all the Arab tribes were unified under the banner of Islam, the great historic conquests, or jihads against neighboring �infidels,� took place.

• The Seventh Phase This final stage is described as �definitive victory.� Hussein writes that in the terrorists� eyes, because the rest of the world will be so beaten down by the �one-and-a-half billion Muslims,� the caliphate will undoubtedly succeed. This phase should be completed by 2020, although the war shouldn�t last longer than two years.

Phase seven remains to be seen, as it is has another five years to go.  

As for the world being �so beaten down by the one-and-a-half billion Muslims,� actor Ben Affleck reflected this sentiment recently when he kept apologizing for Islam by saying Muslims �are a billion and a half.�   

At any rate, considering that the preceding phases have all largely come to pass�with a passive West doing nothing to prevent them, that is, when not actively aiding them�there is certainly no good reason to think Western leadership will stop the final phase from occurring: a unified, aggressive, expansionist, and eventually possibly even nuclear armed caliphate preparing to terrorize its neighbors on a grand scale�just like its historic predecessor did for centuries.

Kurds acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and their role in it

Obama sides with the Turks who "have been trying to erase the genocide from history, shortly after they gave up trying to erase the Armenians from history."

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by John Hayward, Breitbart News � April 24, 2015

Mourners at the Armenian Genocide Memorial Museum (REUTERS)

The hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide caused many world leaders to blink, notably President Barack Obama, who abandoned his old campaign promises�and fiery criticism of the Bush administration�by refusing to acknowledge it. Much of this moral cowardice emanates from Western politicians who wish to curry favor with the Turkish government. The Turks have been trying to erase the genocide from history, shortly after they gave up trying to erase the Armenians from history.

Kurdish leaders, however, have been frank in acknowledging the genocide, and the role their own people played as soldiers of the Ottoman Empire. Turkish journalist Uzay Bulut took a long look at the Kurdish recognition, and the desire of Turkish writers to break ranks with their government and acknowledge the past, for International Business Times.

Bulut lays out the background of the Kurds living under Ottoman rule and serving in its military. �During the 1915 genocide, some Kurdish tribes were also exploited and encouraged by the Turkish Ottoman regime to attack the deportation caravans of Armenians,� she writes. �However, it should be noted that there were many cases where Kurds refused to attack the Armenians and rescued them from certain death.�

Kurdish leaders are not soft-pedaling the former to emphasize the latter. �Without hesitation, I recognize the Armenian genocide,� said Selahattin Demirtas, co-chair of the Peoples� Democrat Party.

Demirtas added that �everybody, including the Kurds� was involved, but responsibility lies with those who gave the orders, meaning the Ottoman regime. He rejected the official Turkish history that treats the genocide as nothing worse than a severe battlefield defeat for the Armenians�or, worse, an auto-genocide�and noted that since the current Turkish government is eager to claim the Ottoman legacy in other contexts, they should acknowledge the genocide, as well. �As long as such problems are not resolved in Turkey, democracy will never prevail in this country,� he warned.

Totalitarians of every stripe are keen on controlling historical memory; they seek to shape the future by rearranging the foundation of the past. The amount of thought control and speech suppression required to replace memory with official �history� is incompatible with democracy. Bulut illustrates that point at the end of her article by noting that the Turkish penal code is often invoked to silence dissidents under the aegis of avenging �insults� to Turkey or its current government. These laws have been used to crush honest discussion of the Armenian genocide in the past.

The Kurds, to put it delicately, are not always worried about raising the blood pressure of the Turkish government. They will be accused of harping on the Armenian genocide as a means of sticking it to the Turks, something they have not always done metaphorically.

Kurdish recognition of the Armenian plight has been heartfelt, and often self-critical, however. Bulut also relates the Kurdish restoration of the largest Armenian Christian church in the Middle East, Kurdish leaders paying respects at Armenian genocide memorials, and the inclusion of the Armenians in their own monument to the victims of genocide.

Bulut gives Kurdish leaders and activists great credit for learning that �recognition of the genocide, respecting the rights of its victims and extending your hand in remorse, humility and penance to the grandchildren of the survivors� is the right way to deal with the memory of such a monstrous deed.

A cynic�particularly a Turkish cynic�might observe that the Kurds are relentlessly on message when it comes to laying ultimate responsibility for the genocide at the feet of the Ottoman regime. Even the stirring speech delivered by a Kurdish mayor at the dedication of the genocide monument mentioned above took pains to mention the true culprits: �Despite the sovereigns that put us through all these sufferings, we will live together. We will not make one another suffer any more.�

But they are not wrong about who was calling the shots in 1915 or what those leaders sought to accomplish. They are not wrong to believe that the centenary is the best time for people around the world, concerned with such momentous calendar dates as we are, to come fully to terms with what happened to the Armenians, to understand how their fate has been echoed in subsequent horrors, and to admit that dreams of �solving� racial problems through genocide did not die with the passing of the twentieth century.

Obama Breaks Promise on 100th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide

"It is no marvel that Obama denies the genocide of Armenian and other Christian minorities at the hands of Muslims from a century ago, when one considers that he denies the rampant Muslim persecution of Christians taking place under�and often because of�his leadership today."

by Raymond Ibrahim � April 23, 2015

Armenian Genocide protest, Times Square NYC, 2014.

As the world continues to look on in dismay at the barbaric atrocities committed against Christian minorities by the Islamic State�the self-proclaimed new �caliphate��today, April 24, marks the genocide of Armenian and other Christian minorities by Turkey�s Islamic Ottoman Empire�the last caliphate.

Most American historians who have examined the question agree that what the Armenians experienced was a deliberate, calculated genocide:

More than one million Armenians perished as the result of execution, starvation, disease, the harsh environment, and physical abuse.  A people who lived in eastern Turkey for nearly 3,000 years [that is, 2,500 years before the Islamic Turks invaded and occupied Anatolia, now known as �Turkey�] lost its homeland and was profoundly decimated in the first large-scale genocide of the twentieth century.  At the beginning of 1915 there were some two million Armenians within Turkey; today there are fewer than 60,000.

One-and-a-half million Armenians were eradicated.  If early 20th century Turkey had the apparatuses and technology to execute in mass�such as 1940s Germany�s gas chambers�the entire Armenian population could well have been annihilated.

The atrocities suffered by Armenian and other Christian minorities are too long to list.  As occurs under the current caliphate�the Islamic State�the Muslims of the Ottoman caliphate abducted, raped, and slaughtered or sold countless Christian women and children on the Muslim slave markets.

Armenian Christians were also sadistically tortured�as Christians are today under the Islamic State.  On FrontPage Magazine, Lloyd Billingsley writes:

Torture squads would apply red-hot irons, tear off flesh with hot pincers, then pour boiled butter into the wounds. The soles of the feet would be beaten, slashed, and laced with salt. Dr. Mehmed Reshid tortured Armenians by nailing horseshoes to their feet and marching them through the streets. He also crucified them on makeshift crosses. 

The Muslims hacked Armenians to pieces and dashed infants on the rocks before their mothers. They burned bodies not for sanitary reasons but in search of gold coins they believed the Armenians had swallowed. The Muslims also tore apart the victims� feces in the search for gold.  U.S. consul Leslie Davis, a former attorney and journalist, documented the Islamic zeal. 

�We could all hear them piously calling upon Allah to bless them in their efforts to kill the hated Christians,� Davis wrote. �Night after night this same chant went up to heaven and day after day these Turks carried on their bloody work.� Around Lake Goeljik, Davis wrote, �thousands and thousands of Armenians, mostly innocent and helpless women and children, were butchered on its shores and barbarously mutilated.�

In her memoir, Ravished Armenia, Aurora Mardiganian described being raped and thrown into a harem�akin to the experiences of today�s non-Muslims under Islamic State authority.  Unlike thousands of other Armenian girls who were killed after being defiled, she managed to escape.  She recalls seeing 16 Christian girls crucified in Malatia: �Each girl had been nailed alive upon her cross, spikes through her feet and hands, only their hair blown by the wind, covered their bodies.�

Still from the film, 'Ravished Armenia' (from a German news story).

Because there is no dearth of evidence concerning the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide, 44 U.S. States have recognized it.  South Dakota, which recently joined the list, passed a resolution in February 2015 calling on

Congress and the president of the United States to formally and consistently recognize and reaffirm the historical truth that the atrocities committed against the Armenian, Greek, and other Christians living in their historical homelands in Anatolia constituted genocide and to work towards equitable, stable, and durable Armenian-Turkish relations.

Turkey, of course, continues to deny that its forbears ever committed any genocide.  As a group of American academics wrote back in 1995,

Despite the vast amount of evidence that points to the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide�eyewitness accounts, official archives, photographic evidence, the reports of diplomats, and the testimony of survivors�denial of the Armenian Genocide by successive regimes in Turkey has gone on from 1915 to the present.

Nor is the Islamic government of Turkey alone in denying the genocide. President Obama still refuses to acknowledge it�even though when he was running for office in 2008 he professed his

firmly held conviction that the Armenian Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence. The facts are undeniable�  [A]s President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide�  America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides. I intend to be that president.

Turkey's PM Erdogan and Obama: Genocide deniers.

Since taking office, Obama has refused to stand by his word.  On Tuesday, April 21, the White House announced that it would again, for the seventh year since Obama�s pledge, not use the word �genocide,� thereby disappointing many human rights activists.

Writes the New York Times:

The president�s continued resistance to the word stood in contrast to a stance by Pope Francis, who recently called the massacres �the first genocide of the 20th century� and equated them to mass killings by the Nazis and Soviets. The European Parliament, which first recognized the genocide in 1987, passed a resolution last week calling on Turkey to �come to terms with its past.�

The Armenian National Committee of America responded by saying �The president�s surrender represents a national disgrace.  It is a betrayal of the truth, and it is a betrayal of trust.�  The Armenian Assembly of America said �His failure to use the term genocide represents a major blow for human rights advocates.�

But the president�s actions are consistent in other ways.  Put differently, it is no marvel that Obama denies the genocide of Armenian and other Christian minorities at the hands of Muslims from a century ago, when one considers that he denies the rampant Muslim persecution of Christians taking place under�and often because of�his leadership today.

Franklin Graham Says Obama's 'Sympathy to Islam' Will Lead to Christian and Jewish Persecution in America

"...Growing up [Obama's] frame of reference and his influence as a young man was Islam. It wasn't Christianity, it was Islam."

by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, March 3, 2015

Rev. Franklin Graham (PHOTO: REUTERS/ALLISON SHELLEY)

The Rev. Franklin Graham has warned in an interview that President Barack Obama is "very sympathetic to Islam" and that America's foreign policy is influenced by Muslims. He added that this influence could lead to Christians and Jewish people being persecuted in the United States.

"There are Muslims that have access to him in the White House. Our foreign policy has a lot of influence now, from Muslims. We see the prime minister of Israel being snubbed by the president and by the White House and by the Democrats and it's because of the influence of Islam. They hate Israel and they hate Christians, and so the storm is coming, I believe," Graham told Gordon Robertson, host of CBN's "The 700 Club" interactive program.

Graham further pointed out that Obama had a Muslim father, and that as a child the president went to school in Indonesia, which has the largest Islamic population in the world.

"So, growing up his frame of reference and his influence as a young man was Islam. It wasn't Christianity, it was Islam," the evangelist said.

Graham has criticized Obama's foreign policy on a number of occasions, including the president's refusal to call terror group ISIS "Islamic."

"The truth is � their barbaric murderers openly said they killed them because they were 'people of the cross.' Why is the president seemingly continuing to protect Islam and refusing to open his eyes to the truth?" Graham asked when an initial statement by the White House in February failed to identify the 21 Copts beheaded by ISIS as Christians.

Obama has responded to conservative criticism by asserting that he does not identify ISIS as "Islamic" because he doesn't want to give the terror group the legitimacy that it wants.

"These terrorists are desperate for legitimacy. And all of us have a responsibility to refute the notion that groups like ISIL somehow represent Islam, because that's a falsehood that embraces the terrorists' narrative," Obama said, using another name for ISIS.

Obama's has often stated that he's a Christian, and in January said that anyone who questions his faith does not know him.

"In our lives, Michelle [Obama] and I have been strengthened by our Christian faith. Still, as you may know, my faith has at times been questioned � by people who don't know me � or they've said that I adhere to a different religion, as if that were somehow a bad thing," the president has said.

A poll released last week as part of the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Study found that many Americans don't believe "deep down" that Obama is a Christian, however.

As many as 54 percent of Republicans who responded to the survey said that Obama is really a Muslim, and only 45 percent of Democrats said that Obama is a Christian. More Independents, at 26 percent, said that Obama is a Muslim, than those who said he is a Christian, at 16 percent.

'The Nightmare' � Europa and the Incubus

Europe, Britain and the West are pinned down by Sleep Paralysis beneath the weight of Islam and Muslim Immigration

by Ralph H. Sidway

The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781); a visual metaphor for the Incubus of Islam sitting astride the paralyzed, sleeping Europa.

Sometimes an image � a metaphor � is much more effective at presenting truth than even the most persuasive argument or laying out of facts.  'The Nightmare' is such an image.

Europeans may still have some dim collective memory of the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula (Spain) in the early 8th century, of Islam�s nearly successful colonization of the rest of Western Europe (Gaul, etc.), of centuries of Muslim raids on Italy, of Muslim piracy and dominance in the Mediterranean Sea, of repeated Muslim attempts to invade Europe through the Balkans, and of the eventual fall of Constantinople in 1453, and of Turkish crimes against the Greeks during the 18th and 19th centuries and the Armenian Genocide in the early 20th.

Then there are the great, providential battles and movements which halted, turned back and expelled the Muslim invaders from the West: Charles Martel (�the Hammer�) and his victory in the Battle of Tours (732), the �Reconquista� of Spain, the valiant self-sacrifice of Tsar-Martyr Lazar and the Serbs at the Battle of Kosovo (1389), and the famous defense of Europe against the Ottoman Muslims at the Gates of Vienna in 1683.

Yet today�s Europe seems completely moribund, ignoring both its own history as well as the history of Islamic expansion. 

It is as if Europa and her Sisters (England, America, Canada, Australia, etc.) suffer from a nightmarish sleep paralysis like helpless maidens of old, the Islamic incubus pinning her down and completely sapping her will and strength to resist. 

The British have all but surrendered already, turning a blind eye to Muslim rape gangs preying on thousands of British girls, trampling on freedom of speech by shutting down criticism of Islam, and advancing Sharia courts and Islamic finance systems. The realm which gave us the Magna Carta is behaving as if she may voluntarily raise the black flag of jihad over Buckingham Palace, a final token act of appeasement as the Islamic crocodile gnaws on England�s extremities.

The metaphor of the demonic Incubus (Islam) preying upon the paralyzed sleeper (Europa) is hardly a stretch, as this particular demon was believed to engage in sexual activity with its victim, trying to foster a hybrid human-demon child, and if unable to do that, then to bring about madness, demon possession, sickness and ultimately death to its host.

Does this not describe the horrific nightmare being played out in cities across Europe and England? Muslim immigration (the �Incubus�) literally �penetrates� Western societies (the �Sleeper-Victim�), creating hostile, alien enclaves which begin in embryonic form, but eventually give birth to hellish Shariah No-Go zones. By the time the somnambulant host begins to awaken, it has been driven nearly mad from its inner conflict between liberal freedoms and its weakened impulse to defend itself. A quick survey of the evil, supremacist behavior of Muslim populations in France, Sweden, Denmark, et al bear witness to this plague.

The great irony of this pathological societal inner conflict is that those enabling the destruction of Western civilization through advocating Muslim immigration and preferential treatment of Islam routinely demonize with the charge of �Islamophobia� those who see the dangers of Islam and dare to speak out against it. Those who willingly aid and abet the Incubus and gladly receive its demon seed accuse Christians and lovers of freedom of being demons. 

The United States now seems at least to be trying to rouse herself from her political atonia (symptomized by the Obama administration scrubbing all national security directives from any reference to Islam, which inspires 90% of all terrorist acts worldwide), yet under this administration cannot and will not confront the actual root cause of Muslim terrorism and jihad, which is embedded in Islam�s DNA through the Quran and the example of Muhammad. 

America�s problem thus seems to be less a case of paralysis, and more one of volition. For example, 4-star Admiral James Lyons, former Commander of the US Pacific Fleet, recently reported that the Muslim Brotherhood has �penetrated� (there�s that word again) all of Obama�s National Security agencies. And the President�s �Summit on Countering Violent Extremism� actually includes as one of its partners the terrorist-and-ISIS-linked Islamic Society of Boston.

The Islamic State sees Europe�s paralysis and America�s moral and ideological disarray, hence its ever increasing boldness. And Muslims the world over see it too, hence reports that tens of thousands of Muslims from all around the globe, including from Western democracies, are streaming to the Levant to join the Islamic State, even as Muslim immigration into Western host societies continues to escalate.

Are we in the early stages of a long defeat, leading to the death of a once great civilization? 

Unless paralyzed and catatonic Europa and her Sisters can shake off their sleep and throw off the Incubus pinning them down, the night looks long and the future dark indeed.