wow ... and to think that zionists have committed more acts of terrorism in the US than muzzies. the religious are a violent lot.
the good news! Rising atheism in America puts 'religious right on the defensive' High profile of faith-based politicians such as Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry masks a steady growth in secularism About 400 people are preparing to gather for a conference in Hartford, Connecticut, to promote the end of religion <http://www.theguardian.com/world/religion> in the US and their vision of a secular future for the country. Those travelling to the meeting will pass two huge roadside billboards displaying quotes from two of the country's most famous non-believers: Katharine Hepburn and Mark Twain. "Faith is believing what you know ain't so," reads the one featuring Twain. "I'm an atheist and that's it," says the one quoting Hepburn. At the meeting, members of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) will hear speakers celebrate successes they have had in removing religion from US public life and see awards being presented to noted secularist activists. The US is increasingly portrayed as a hotbed of religious fervour. Yet in the homeland of ostentatiously religious politicians such as Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, agnostics and atheists are actually part of one of the fastest-growing demographics in the US: the godless. Far from being in thrall to its religious leaders, the US is in fact becoming a more secular country, some experts say. "It has never been better to be a free-thinker or an agnostic in America," says Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the FFRF. The exact number of faithless is unclear. One study by the Pew Research Centre puts them at about 12% of the population, but another by the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College in Hartford puts that figure at around 20%. Most experts agree that the number of secular Americans has probably doubled in the past three decades – growing especially fast among the young. It is thought to be the fastest-growing major "religious" demographic in the country. Professor Barry Kosmin of Trinity College, who conducts the national Religious Identification Survey, believes up to a quarter of young people in the US now have no specific faith, and scoffs at the idea, prevalent in so much US media and culture, that the country is highly religious or becoming more so. "The trending in American history is towards secularisation," Kosmin said. He cites the example of the changing face of Sunday in the country. It was not too long ago when many sporting events were banned on Sundays and most shops were closed too. Now the opposite is largely true. As in Britain, Sunday in the US has become a normal shopping day for many, or a day to watch big football or baseball games. "The great secular holiday in America is Super Bowl Sunday. Even in the deep south, the biggest mega-church changes its schedule to suit the Super Bowl," Kosmin said. He also pointed to social trends – greater divorce rates, gay marriage and much higher percentages of people having children out of wedlock – as other signs that the religious grip on society has loosened. There are other indications, too. For a long time studies have shown that about 40% of US adults attend a church service weekly. However, other studies that actually counted those at church – rather than just asking people if they went – have shown the true number to be about half to two-thirds of that figure. More Americans are now choosing to get married or be buried without any form of religious ceremony. At universities, departments devoted to the study of secularism are starting to appear. Books by atheist authors are bestsellers. National groups, such as the Secular Coalition of America (SCA), have opened branches across the country. Herb Silverman, president of the Washington-based SCA, lives in Charleston, South Carolina. His local secularist group was founded in 1994 with 10 people, but now has 150 members. "I've been living here in the buckle of the Bible belt since 1976 and things are getting a lot better," Silverman said. Yet there is little doubt that religious groups still wield enormous influence in US politics <http://www.theguardian.com/world/us-politics> and public life, especially through the rightwing of the Republican party. Groups such as Focus on the Family are well-funded and skilful lobbyists. Kosmin said the attention paid by politicians and the media to religious groups was not necessarily a sign of strength. "When religion was doing well, it did not need to go into politics. Secularity of our population and culture is obviously growing and so religion is on the defensive," he said. However, it is still a brave US politician who openly declares a lack of faith. So far just one member of Congress, Californian Democrat Pete Stark, has admitted that he does not believe in God. "Privately, we know that there are 27 other members of Congress that have no belief in God. But we don't 'out' people," said Silverman. Others think that one day it will become politically mainstream to confess to a lack of faith as US political life lags behind the society that it represents. "Politicians have not yet caught up with the changing demographics of our society," said Gaylor. On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 8:12:03 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > 10 Acts of Jihad in America That Americans Haven’t Heard About > > Posted By *Robert Spencer* On August 25, 2014 > > Here are some recent acts of jihad on American soil that you may have > missed – all from this spring and summer: > > *1. Seattle Muslim “on a jihad to kill Americans” prime suspect in four > murder cases* > > Seattle Muslim Ali Muhammad Brown, reported KING 5 News last Tuesday, is > “currently in jail on $5 million bail for the alleged murder of a college > student in late June.” He has “already been charged with gunning down two > men at 29th and King Street in Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood on June 1.” > And he is “now the prime suspect in a fourth homicide.” > > The report noted laconically in its fifth paragraph, without elaboration, > that “*multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation say Brown > told police he carried out the murders because he was on a jihad to kill > Americans.” *NJ.com added > <http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/08/accused_serial_killer_says_livingston_teens_murder_was_vengeance_against_us.html#incart_m-rpt-1> > > [2], also deep in its story on Brown’s murders: “Prosecutors say Brown is > a devout Muslim who had become angered by U.S. military intervention in the > Islamic world, which he referred to as ‘evil.’” > > If these news outlets were committed to informing Americans about the true > nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, this seemingly insignificant > detail would be in the headline and central to all the reporting on this > case. But this myopia they share with the mainstream media in general. > > [image: YouTube Preview Image] > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pE3clp_fuI>[3] > > *2. Seattle Muslim who said gays should be “exterminated” gets ten years > for arson at gay nightclub* > > Another Muslim from Seattle, Musab Mohamed Masmari, was sentenced several > weeks ago to ten years in prison for pouring gasoline onto a stairway in a > famous gay nightclub, Neighbours, and setting the stairway on fire last New > Year’s Eve, when the club was crowded and – if the fire had not been put > out – the carnage would have been great. > > Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said: *“One of Masmari’s close > associates was interviewed by investigators and reported that Masmari > confided in him that he ‘burned a gay club’ and that he did it because > ‘what these people are doing is wrong.’” *In another report from > February, we learn that an informant told the FBI before this attack that > Masmari could be planning “terrorist activity,” and that he had “opined > that homosexuals should be exterminated.” > > This incident should have been the impetus for a national discussion of > violent Sharia enforcement in the U.S., and an examination of what could be > done to stop Sharia vigilantism. Instead, the mainstream media largely > ignored the obvious motive; in this report, it is discussed as > “homophobia,” with no hint that this was one of the first incidents of > violent Sharia enforcement in the U.S. > > [image: YouTube Preview Image] > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jDl1E4aRQ>[4] > > *3. Friend of Boston Marathon jihad mass murderer found guilty of > hindering FBI investigation* > > In late July, according to the *Los Angeles Times*, “a friend of Boston > Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted Monday of > hindering the FBI investigation into the April 2013 blast by hiding > Tsarnaev’s backpack from authorities. Azamat Tazhayakov, convicted in > federal court on Boston, now faces up to 20 years in prison.” > > Azamat Tazhayakov could be a fool. A dupe. Or as his defense attorneys > have it, a “good kid.” A “mama’s boy.” Or he could be a true believer like > his friend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, hindering the investigation not solely out of > loyalty to his friend, but because he believed in the same cause — that of > jihad and Islam — that motivated Tsarnaev to commit mass murder at the > Boston Marathon. But this question was evidently not broached at his trial, > as illuminating as it may have been of Tazhayakov’s motives and actions. It > appears that to have investigated such questions would have been > “Islamophobic.” > > [image: YouTube Preview Image] > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcTc_kKfaGI>[5] > > *4. Texas: Two Muslims arrested on jihad terror charges* > > Rahatul Ashikim Khan > <http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/06/2-texas-men-arrested-on-terror-charges/> > > [6], an American citizen born in Bangladesh, wanted to join the Somali > jihad terror group al-Shabaab. He was not Somali and did not have any > connection to Somalia. He just wanted to wage jihad. Michael Todd Wolfe, a > convert to Islam from Houston, wanted to head to Syria for his jihad. > Wolfe’s wife told a person who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent > that her husband *longed to “perform a violent form of jihad.” Wolfe, she > said, “just wants to hop into Syria. He’s just ready to die for his deen > [religion].”* > > According to the FBI, Wolfe’s jihad aspirations didn’t end with Syria. He, > > indicated that he had learned that al Qaeda in Syria was training brothers > from other countries (foreign fighters) and then sending those fighters > back from Syria to their home countries to conduct terror attacks. > > [image: YouTube Preview Image] > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Gb-jUZRsE>[7] > > *5. Florida: Muslim who threatened “2nd 911″ found guilty of terror > charges* > > In mid-June, a Tampa Muslim named Sami Osmakac was convicted of plotting > to bomb a Tampa bar and then blow himself up in a jihad-martyrdom suicide > attack in another crowded area of the city. Osmakac said of non-Muslims: > “We will go after every one of them, their kindergartens, their shopping > centers, their nightclubs, their police stations, their courthouses and > everything until we have an Islamic state the whole world.” > > [image: YouTube Preview Image] > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvn2Pa63X8>[8] > > *6. Muslim who wanted to murder 100,000 Americans cops plea* > > Ahmed Abassi, according to the *New York Post*, wanted to derail a New > York-to-Toronto Amtrak train. He also discussed with another jihad > terrorist “*a plot to release bacteria in the air or water to kill up to > 100,000 people.” He was also, according to Manhattan US Attorney Preet > Bharara, plotting to “commit acts of terror and develop a network of > terrorists here” in the U.S.* > > *Abassi could have gotten 50 years in prison, but he “avoided terrorism > charges by pleading guilty in Manhattan federal court to lying on his visa > application* and to immigration officials when asked why he flew to the > United States in 2013.” Consequently, he could soon be a free man. What > could possibly go wrong? > > [image: mufid-elfgeeh_12518] > <http://cdn.pjmedia.com/files/2014/08/mufid-elfgeeh_12518.jpg>[9] > > *7. Rochester, NY: Muslim charged with plotting jihad murder of U.S. > troops and Shi’ites in western New York* > > The Associated Press reported on June 2 that Mufid Elfgeeh, a Muslim > businessman in Rochester, New York, “bought two handguns and the silencers > as part of a plan to kill members of the U.S. armed forces returning from > war as well as Shiite Muslims in western New York.” > > AP, anxious as ever to deflect focus away from Islamic jihad, in its lead > paragraph here explains that Elfgeeh was plotting to kill troops “as > vengeance for American actions overseas.” So why did he want to kill > Shi’ites as well? As vengeance for Iran being a bitter enemy of his bitter > enemy, the U.S.? Obviously Elfgeeh is a Sunni Islamic jihadist who wants to > kill members of groups that he considers to be enemies of Islam. But the AP > will never tell you that. > > [image: YouTube Preview Image] > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvcLkBz5qNQ>[10] > > *8. Virginia: Two Muslims convicted of piracy were ready to launch > rocket-propelled grenade at Navy ship* > > Two Somali Muslims, Mohamed Abdi Jama and Abdicasiis Cabaase, each got > over 40 years in prison last May for plotting to shoot a rocket-propelled > grenade at the Navy ship Ashland. > > They each got sentences slightly longer than 40 years, rather than life > imprisonment, apparently because the RPG that one of them was holding was > broken and incapable of firing, or because U.S. District Judge Raymond A. > Jackson believed that life imprisonment was cruel and unusual punishment. > Is firing an RPG at a Navy ship not cruel and unusual punishment for those > on the ship? > > [image: Saynab-Hussein] > <http://cdn.pjmedia.com/files/2014/08/Saynab-Hussein.png>[11] > > *9. Minneapolis: Muslima gets 3 years probation for lying about funding > jihad group > <http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/minneapolis-muslima-gets-3-years-probation-for-lying-about-funding-jihad-group> > > [12]* > > Also in May, according to KSTP.com, a Muslim woman in Minneapolis named > Saynab Abdirashid Hussein got three years of probation for lying to a grand > jury about her efforts to raise money for jihad terrorists in Somalia. > > “On June 16, 2009,” said the report, “the defendant lied to a United > States Grand Jury saying that she did not participate in raising money for > the individuals who left Minnesota to fight against Ethiopian troops then > present in Somalia assisting with the internationally-recognized > Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.” Participate with whom? Where > are her partners in this endeavor now? What are they doing? Does anyone > know? Does anyone care? > > [image: YouTube Preview Image] > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UNeqgCEB-Q>[13] > > *10. Houston: Muslim arrested for making terroristic threats and > displaying hoax bomb after four-hour standoff at Wal-mart* > > Mehrzad Malekzadeh was waving a knife around. He also had what police > described as “several unknown devices” in his pockets. After a four-hour > standoff with police in the Wal-mart parking lot, which kept customers > trapped inside the store, Malekzadeh was arrested and charged with “making > terroristic threats and displaying a hoax bomb, which are both class A > misdemeanor charges.” Bond was set at $5,000. > > America, here is your future. Here is the future you have chosen by > electing leaders who are — almost to a man or woman — willfully ignorant > about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and who complacently > trust that a Muslim community in the U.S. that is largely under the control > of the Muslim Brotherhood will clean its own house. Here is the future you > have chosen by standing by and passively acquiescing to the mainstream > media’s willful ignorance regarding this threat, and its demonization and > marginalization of everyone — everyone — who told you about this threat > honestly. > > Incidents like this will one day, not too long from now, be a more or less > daily occurrence in the United States. You can’t say you weren’t warned. > ------------------------------ > > Article printed from PJ Media: *http://pjmedia.com <http://pjmedia.com>* > > URL to article: > *http://pjmedia.com/blog/10-acts-of-jihad-in-america-that-americans-havent-heard-about/ > > <http://pjmedia.com/blog/10-acts-of-jihad-in-america-that-americans-havent-heard-about/>* > > URLs in this post: > > [1] Image: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg68NHNDmeE > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg68NHNDmeE>* > > [2] NJ.com added: > *http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/08/accused_serial_killer_says_livingston_teens_murder_was_vengeance_against_us.html#incart_m-rpt-1 > > <http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/08/accused_serial_killer_says_livingston_teens_murder_was_vengeance_against_us.html#incart_m-rpt-1>* > > [3] Image: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pE3clp_fuI > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pE3clp_fuI>* > > [4] Image: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jDl1E4aRQ > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jDl1E4aRQ>* > > [5] Image: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcTc_kKfaGI > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcTc_kKfaGI>* > > [6] Rahatul Ashikim Khan: > *http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/06/2-texas-men-arrested-on-terror-charges/ > > <http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/06/2-texas-men-arrested-on-terror-charges/>* > > [7] Image: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Gb-jUZRsE > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Gb-jUZRsE>* > > [8] Image: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvn2Pa63X8 > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvn2Pa63X8>* > > [9] Image: *http://pjmedia.com/files/2014/08/mufid-elfgeeh_12518.jpg > <http://pjmedia.com/files/2014/08/mufid-elfgeeh_12518.jpg>* > > [10] Image: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvcLkBz5qNQ > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvcLkBz5qNQ>* > > [11] Image: *http://pjmedia.com/files/2014/08/Saynab-Hussein.png > <http://pjmedia.com/files/2014/08/Saynab-Hussein.png>* > > [12] Minneapolis: Muslima gets 3 years probation for lying about funding > jihad group: > *http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/minneapolis-muslima-gets-3-years-probation-for-lying-about-funding-jihad-group > > <http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/minneapolis-muslima-gets-3-years-probation-for-lying-about-funding-jihad-group>* > > [13] Image: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UNeqgCEB-Q > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UNeqgCEB-Q>* > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmdWU4cXBjBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MDkwODczNDk-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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