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Radical Islam/Terrorism
15 Hard Questions About the Cairo Speech
by Dr. Walid Phares
Perhaps the most challenging task for analysts and commentators to accomplish after having listened to President Obama's speech in Cairo (addressed to the "Muslim World") is to know how to read it, understand the links between the points he made, capture the arguments inserted by his speech writers and thus analyze the text as a major policy change since 9/11. In short, I would recommend for readers to establish a "map of the speech" before venturing to its various exotic suggestions and hints. Evidently, each political constituency in America, the region and the international community has its priorities and will jump to the part it deems most pressing, either exciting or depressing. However, I suggest looking at the whole idea of addressing the "Muslim world" or as the President coined it often in his speech, "the Muslims" (two different things), and understand where Obama is coming from and going to. To help in this analytical task -- and to simplify what seems to be complex -- I propose to raise the following questions and address them separately in the debate before re-sowing them as a one bloc of ideas.

Constitutional Literacy	Radical Islam/Terrorism	The American Fifth Column
Circumnavigating the Rule of Law Nancy Salvato, Director of Constitutional Studies The last I heard, the United States was not a signatory to the Law of the Sea Convention. Yet back in 1996, under President Clinton, we became signatories to an agreement with the Commonwealth of the Bahamas “concerning a cooperative Shiprider and Overflight Drug Interdiction Program for Joint Operations,” known as the 1996 Shiprider Agreement. Just six months ago, The UN Council issued a resolution calling on “States and regional organizations fighting piracy to conclude agreements with countries, especially in the region, willing to take custody of pirates to put their own law enforcement officials on board as "ship riders" to prosecute detained suspects.” Convenient? Opportunistic? It seems to be the norm for this administration to follow a “One-World” mindset. More Constitutional Literacy Digest... Viewing: Understanding Our Government Many people in the United States -- and around the world -- believe that the United States is a Democracy. It is not, and for good reason. Our Framers and Founders bequeathed to the citizens a Constitutional Republic, doing so for some very good reasons, chief among them was to avoid the tyranny of the majority, or mob rule. Podcasts: The United States Is Not a Democracy A produced downloadable podcast segment from our upcoming educational CD series on our system of government and sovereignty. Study: A Study of College Student Political Engagement Young people are the future of our democracy, and a large body of research shows that their experiences in adolescence and early adulthood permanently shape their attitudes, values, and habits in relation to politics and civil society.	Obama Bombs American History 101 by Paul L. Williams, PhD Speaking at the University of Cairo, President Barack Hussein Obama said that Americans are indebted to Islam for the great contributions Muslims have made to the history and development of the United States. No one at the Egyptian University or the international media took issue with the President’s bizarre interpretation of American history, let alone his confusion of the Nation of Islam (the religion of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X) that bears scant similarity to orthodox Islam. The Nation of Islam teach that Allah in the flesh was a bona fide nutcase named Wallace Fard and that Eli Muhammad, a conman with a tested IQ of 70 and not the Prophet Muhammad, was the true last prophet of Allah. Let’s set the record straight once and for all.. More Radical Islam/Terrorism Digest... Reading: American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us For more than 10 years, Emerson has soldiered on, studying groups that operate in the United States for the express purpose of funding and managing deadly organizations. American Jihad summarizes what he has learned, and it isn't comforting. Viewing: Honor Killings in Turkey A two part expose by a British reporter who ventured in the Turkish tribal region to examine the reality of Islamic honor killings. Study: Homegrown Terrorists in the US & UK: An Empirical Examination This study addresses the present gap through an empirical examination of behavioral manifestations of the radicalization process in 117 homegrown “jihadist” terrorists from the United States and United Kingdom.	The Sotomayor Nomination Paul R. Hollrah, The New Media Journal Throughout the 2007-08 campaign the conventional wisdom was that the next president would be able to appoint no more than two associate justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, replacements for 89-year-old John Paul Stevens and 76-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is in failing health. Now, with the unexpected departure of Justice Souter, another of the four most liberal members of the court, it is clear that Obama will appoint no fewer than three new justices to the court. Although conservatives were generally not excited about John McCain’s candidacy, he did provide assurances that he would appoint strict constructionists to the high court. However, if one considers that Obama’s appointees could not possibly be any more liberal than Stevens, Ginsburg, and Souter, conservative fears of a more liberal court are largely unfounded. In the off chance that Obama would appoint replacements who would turn out to be moderate to liberal the court could, in fact, become slightly more conservative.. More American Fifth Column Digest... Viewing: The History of Political Correctness This three part video examination produced by the Free Congress Foundation, chronicles the history of "political correctness" and traces its roots back to the World War I Era migration of Marxists and the writings of the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci, and later a group of Marxists who founded an institute devoted to making the transition, the Institute of Social Research. later known as the Frankfurt School. Podcasts: Tiananmen Square & The Progressive Left Congressman Thad McCotter (R-MI) comments on the anniversary of the slaughter of pro-democracy protestors by the Chinese military in Tiananmen Square.

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