Of course, if one "Googles" the term, " Rising atheism in America puts 'religious right on the defensive' " One will find this thread that Plain Ol' copied and pasted located at such wonderful (All George Soros funded) web sites like TheDemocraticUnderground"; "MediaMatters"; "TruthOut.org"; and "FreedomFromReligion"......All places that apparently Plain Ol' subscribes to and gathers his news information from.....
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1TSND_enDE512DE512&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Rising%20atheism%20in%20America%20puts%20'religious%20right%20on%20the%20defensive ' On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:07 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > wrote: > 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]> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> Visit Your Group >> <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmdWU4cXBjBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MDkwODczNDk-> >> >> >> [image: Yahoo! 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