When it comes to politicians, you have to judge them on what they do, not what they say. You should also judge them on who they wish to appoint to positions of power.
Fox News: President Obama is big on civility. He talks a very good game. But his nominee for a top slot at the Department of Justice–Dawn Johnsen–is a leading exponent of incivility. Johnsen worked with the ACLU for years. And she joined ARM–the so-called Abortion Rights Mobilization–to strip the Catholic Church of its tax-exempt status because of its pro-life advocacy. The Catholic Church eventually won that case–but not until it had spent years and millions of dollars defending itself. The Catholic Church was just the biggest ARM target. If they had succeeded against the Catholics, they surely would have come after the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Association of Evangelicals, and The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.
If Mr. Obama is serious about civility he needs to withdraw Dawn Johnsen’s nomination. If she is confirmed, we will see a radical anti-Catholic, pro-abortion zealot influencing policy thoughout the Justice Department—but also policy throughout the entire federal government.
What we are witnessing right now is an anti-Christian programmatic pogrom. What is a “pogrom” it’s the word that describes anti-Jewish raids by Cossacks and others in czarist Russia, but a programmatic pogrom best describes what is happening right now. These are not isolated attacks. And while we no longer have Cossacks to threaten, we now have left-wing bloggers who actually call themselves Kossacks (after the Daily Kos).
In North Carolina, the Catholic college Belmont Abbey, is threatened with closure for its refusal to dispense contraceptives. Radicals are not impressed with the college president’s response: We don’t give contraceptives to female staffers–or to the monks! In this case, the local branch of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission smells discrimination.
In Washington, President Obama’s nominee to the federal EEOC, Prof. Chai Feldblum of Georgetown University, is blunt: If there’s a clash between the gay agenda and religious liberty, your liberties lose. If confirmed, she would be in position to pursue the pogrom nationwide. …..
And let us not forget who Obama appointed to head up Faith Based Initiatives: A man who accuses the Pope of killing people in the name of Jesus.
Ironic, isn’t it, that when it comes to Muslim outreach, Obama’s appointed someone who appears to be a true believer in the Islamic faith.
Pres. Obama announced today the appointment of White House Deputy Counsel Rashad Hussain as Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), a 56 nation Islamist body with wide ranging influence in the UN and in Washington, DC that espouses global adoption of Sharia. Rashad Hussain, an American Muslim born of Indian émigré parents, was raised in Plano, Texas. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was on the Yale Law Review. After law school he was appointed a Clerk to a US Appeals Court Judge. In February, 2009 Obama appointed him as a White House Deputy Counsel.
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Hussian’s views on US.Counterterrorism policies are reflective of those perennially put forth by Muslim Brotherhood fronts in America and are aligned with those of the OIC. Here are some excerpts from a joint article, “Understanding the Role of Islam in Counterterrorism Policy,” co-authored with Al Husain N. Madhany, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, published by the Brookings Institution in August 2008 ….
