don't shoot the messenger .... address the issues. I could have just as easily posted news about 10 jews who have been arrested.
On Thursday, August 28, 2014 1:35:36 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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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