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Here is a demonstration against the persecution of religious minorities and some lessons that were learned.
Category Archives: counterjihad movement
The Brunei Moment
The Hollywood outrage over Sharia law in Brunei, accompanied by celebrity boycotts, doesn't represent a real awakening, but it does represent an opportunity.
Gay rights activists have mostly overlooked the impact of Islamic law in party spots like Dubai and Doha. The UAE has had the death penalty for homosexuality on the books for some time. Iran, a cause célèbre for the left ever since Bush considered bombing its nuclear weapons program, executes gay men.
So why is Brunei being singled out?
It might be that activists believe that while it's too late to change Kuwait or Qatar, they can still prevent Brunei from imposing Sharia law. But it may just be random. The story of Brunei may have simply pinballed around the media and blogsphere and collided with a few of the right people.
The Human Rights Campaign may have been looking to fill an international slot after its campaigns against Russia and Uganda. Brunei's local presence through the Beverly Hills Hotel also made it easy and convenient to go after in a way that Russia and Nigeria aren't. And it probably didn't hurt that HRC's corporate partners include a hotel chain and several resort chains.
Add on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a controversial trade agreement that will include Brunei and is opposed by many on the left (and the right) for a variety of reasons, and the protest gained critical mass. When Leno protested outside the Beverly Hills Hotel, he was surrounded by signs denouncing the TPP.
If the Brunei moment isn't a sea-change, what, if any, are the implications of it for the Counterjihad?
Since 9/11 Islam has been untouchable in the United States. Its activists achieved a status that placed them in the top ranks of the left virtually overnight. Muslims became the most victimized of the victims.
The Brunei moment is significant because it's the first time in a long time that Islamic law has been questioned and that Islam lost its grip on the sympathy of the American left. It's not a serious defeat, but for organizations such as CAIR it has to be viewed as a warning sign of trouble ahead.
Read more at Front Page
Bill Warner on the Arrest of Paul Weston
Dr. Bill Warner of the Center for the Study of Political Islam discusses the recent arrest of Paul Weston for quoting Winston Churchill. He suggests how Counterjihad-minded people can use Mr. Weston's example to be more effective in their efforts.
Voices for the Voiceless
Gates of Vienna, March 31, 2014, by Baron Bodissey:
Everyone who labors in the "Islamophobia" business has to contend with the same issue: a lack of effectiveness in the wider world. As has often been pointed out, this website and others like it constitute for the most part an echo chamber. We are addressing an audience that is already familiar with the issues surrounding Islamization and largely agrees with what we say.
There are intramural battles, to be sure — some of them quite fierce. Does the "moderate" Muslim exist? Can the advance of Islam be stopped without first addressing the issue of globalist socialism? Does the welfare state have to collapse before the cultural enrichment of the West can be turned back? The intensity of the arguments over these questions masks the fact that most of the people engaged in the debate already agree with most of what the Counterjihad stands for.
How do we force the same issues into the attention span of the average uninformed low-information voter? This is the essential problem.
My approach is to pursue multiple tracks, mostly Europe-related, since that's where the center of gravity for this blog may be found. The Brussels Process is one such track. The involvement of the International Civil Liberties Alliance in fighting creeping shariah through theOrganization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is another.
Dr. Bill Warner of the Center for the Study of Political Islam has developed his own ingenious approach to the same problem. He employs the methods of the Left — simplified emotion-based arguments targeting the ill-informed — to shame previously uninvolved people into paying attention to the worldwide persecution of religious minorities by Islam. He uses the same "lefty-speak" as his opponents to occupy the moral high ground in the discussion.
In the following video Dr. Warner provides some specific advice and examples of his approach:
A couple of days ago we mentioned the Religious Communicators Council (RCC) meeting in Nashville later this week. Bill Warner and other activists from Voices for the Voiceless are planning a silent demonstration at the event:
RCC is Training Writers to Deny the Persecution of Christians
We will hold a silent demonstration on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 11:15 am to protest the Religious Communicators Council (RCC) meeting in Nashville. It will besilent to demonstrate their lack of reporting persecution of Christians. We will invite the media and issue a press release.
The protest will be held rain or shine. Further details about how to park, signs, etc. are posted at voices4voiceless.org
Why We Are Demonstrating
On April 3-5 the RCC will hold a national convention at The Inn at Opryland, 2401 Music Valley Drive, Nashville, TN 37214
There is not ONE RCC speaker who will deal with the persecution of Christians. They support the oppressors, and deny the victims.
Why This is so Important
Those who attend the RCC convention are the major voices in the suppression of the news about the murder of religious minorities. They have no opposition and dominate the media. The RCC shapes the agenda and message that religious communicators use to deny the suffering of the victims, their brothers and sisters.
We need a show of force. The Muslim Brotherhood has stated that they've made their greatest gains in the apologist pulpits. Now is the time to resist their dominance.
You Are Not Powerless — What You Can Do
All we ask is that YOU SHOW UP and stand together in silent protest. If you can take part, send us an email to: firstname.lastname@example.com
Spread the word on social media, email, friends. Be sure to contact us at email@example.com and let us know you will attend. We need help with signs and other details.
Additional Info
The general philosophy of this protest can be found here.
Here is the website about this protest.
Bill Warner will be a guest on the Lisa Benson Radio Show on Sunday with Cathy Hinners, a retired police officer in Tennessee (DailyRollCall.com)
Voices for the Voiceless
Bill Warner promotes a new approach to counter jihad activism.
Here is the website where you can download the religious persecution brochure: http://a-voice-for-the-voiceless.com/
Swiss Member of Parliament Oskar Freysinger has had Enough of Islam: "It Gnaws at the Pillars of our System of Laws"
By Tim Brown:
Oskar Freysinger, a member of the Swiss Parliament, gave a passionate speech filled with truth that no politician in Washington, DC has yet to give from the floor of Congress.
"Europe is an idea," Freysinger said, "a cultural landscape, an intellectual space shaped by history. Europe is the cradle of the modern constitutional democracy, the treasure-house of opinion and expression….or at least it used to be that, until recently."
He says this history of Europe has been put into jeopardy by the "political elite bend(ing) their necks before a certain religious dogma which is completely alien to our intellectual history, our values and rule of law."
Obviously, Freysinger was speaking about nothing more than Islam. To this assertion, he received thunderous applause.
"This dogma is gnawing away at the pillars of our system of laws, wherever it is granted the space to do so," he continued. "This dogma demands total obedience from its followers."
So what does Mr. Freysinger say about such people with those "values"?
Read more at Freedom Outpost
The Video "Three Things About Islam"
An important message from Citizen Warrior:
A group calling themselves "White Roses" created a video to inform non-Muslims about Islam. It's called Three Things About Islam. You can view it on YouTube or click here to see it on Citizen Warrior.
White Roses is headquartered in Sweden. The name "White Roses" is based on a student resistance group "Die weiße Rose" in Nazi Germany. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet campaign, from June 1942 until February 1943, which called for active opposition to Adolf Hitler's regime.
A spokeswoman for White Roses told me, "We see a parallel here concerning the protection of free speech. As you posted today, freedom of speech is getting more and more limited. The intention in choosing this name is to make a point that there will be groups opposing the doctrine of the state and speaking their mind."
We're honored to say the video was inspired, in part, by three Citizen Warrior articles:
The Least You Need to Know About Islam
What "Religion of Peace" Really Means
We've given White Roses the Citizen Warrior Hero Awardbecause they are doing exactly what needs to be done — what we should all be doing: Sharing with non-Muslims key information about Islam, making it interesting and easy to hear, keeping it non-partisan, focusing on Sharia and not on Muslims, keeping it clean and not staining it with racism or hatred, and in this case, putting it in a form that is easily shareable by others.
I've posted the video on a new site I'm building. The purpose of the new site is to help us reach people who might be put off by anything that smacks of Islam-bashing. I suggest you use that site to share the video with those friends and family who don't yet know much about Islam. Here's the video on that site: Three Things About Islam Video.
One last thing: The video presents information you already know, but its "target market" is people who don't know very much, so it's a good tool we can use to share with them. I hope you use it.
Also see CJR's recommended Webinars and Videos page
American Freedom Defense Initiative's Platform for Defending Freedom
American Freedom Defense Initiative Announces Platform for Defending Freedom In Wake of Boston Jihad Reuters
NEW YORK, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) has unveiled an 18-point platform for preserving and defending free societies. The Platform for Defending Freedom is the fruit of the International Freedom Defense Congress of the international group Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), which was held in New York City at the UN Millennium Plaza Hotel on September 11, 2012, and is rendered urgent in the wake of the Boston Marathon jihad bombings.
AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: "After deliberation and consultation with our international SION President's Council and our colleagues, we have developed these eighteen points to help freedom fighters focus on solution to the threat at hand. At the International Freedom Defense Congress, which was held across the street from the United Nations in New York City, representatives of European nations, as well as India, Israel, Malaysia, and Egypt's Coptic community were present. World-renowned authorities in legal strategy and political action addressed the attendees."
Geller continued: "Now we have formulated this Platform for Defending Freedom as a tool for counter-jihad activists and a set of principles to unite the counter-jihad movement in the wake of the Boston jihad bombings. We need to press our politicians and parties to accept these goals and pursue political action to make them reality, and we will rate politicians on the basis of these points. We plan now to form an international group of politicians and activists committed to these principles in countries across the globe."
AFDI calls for the U.S. and other non-Muslim governments to recognize officially that Islam is a political movement and so not solely religious in the strict sense of the U.S. Constitution. AFDI recognizes that Islam in it mainstream theological formulations and its dominant form throughout its history, not "extremist Islam" or "hijacked Islam" or "Islamism," but Islam in the Qur'an and Sunnah as understood by Islamic jurists and theologians, can and should be regarded as an authoritarian and supremacist political system as well as a religion, and thus that Muslim groups should be subject to all the scrutiny and legal requirements of political organizations, without being able to shield their political activities behind the protection of religious freedom.
– AFDI denounces the crippling rules of engagement under which our soldiers are forced to labor. They should be given the freedom to defend themselves and protect their comrades.
– AFDI calls for profiling of Muslims at airports and in hiring in professions in which national security and public safety could be compromised.
– AFDI calls for immediate investigation into foreign mosque funding in the West and for new legislation making foreign funding of mosques in non-Muslim nations illegal.
– AFDI calls for surveillance of mosques and regular inspections of mosques in the U.S. and other non-Muslim nations to look for pro-violence materials. Any mosque advocating jihad or any aspects of Sharia that conflict with Constitutional freedoms and protections should be closed.
– AFDI calls for curriculum and Islam-related materials in textbooks and museums to describe the Islamic doctrine and history accurately, including its violent doctrines and 1,400-year war against unbelievers.
– AFDI calls for a halt of foreign aid to Islamic nations with Sharia-based constitutions and/or governments.
– AFDI denounces the use of Sharia law in any Western court or nation.
– AFDI advocates deportation hearings against non-citizens who promote jihad in our nations.
– AFDI calls for an immediate halt of immigration by Muslims into nations that do not currently have a Muslim majority population.
– AFDI calls for laws providing that anyone seeking citizenship in the United States should be asked if he or she supports Sharia law, and investigated for ties to pro-Sharia groups. If so, citizenship should not be granted.
– AFDI calls for the cancellation of citizenship or permanent residency status for anyone who leaves the country of his residence to travel for the purpose of engaging in jihad activity, and for the refusal of reentry into his country of residence after that jihad activity.
– AFDI calls careful investigation of Muslims resident in non-Muslim country who have obtained naturalized citizenship or permanent residency status, to ensure that that status was not obtained under false pretenses.
– AFDI calls for the designation of the following as grounds for immediate deportation: fomenting, plotting, financing, attempting or carrying out jihad attacks; encouraging or threatening or attempting to carry out the punishments Islamic law mandates for apostasy, adultery, blasphemy, fornication or theft; threatening or attempting or carrying out honor murders, forced marriage, underage marriage, female genital mutilation, or polygamy.
– AFDI calls for the U.S. and other free nations to have jihad, as it is traditionally understood in Islamic jurisprudence to involve warfare against and subjugation of non-Muslims, declared a crime against humanity at the U.N., or to withdraw from the U.N. and have its headquarters moved to a Muslim nation.
– AFDI calls for legislating making illegal the foreign funding of Islamic Studies departments and faculty positions in our universities.
– AFDI demands the repeal of U.N. resolution 16/18 and any other resolutions that might limit the freedom of speech.
– AFDI calls for all Muslim chaplains in prisons and the military to be thoroughly vetted, and dismissed if they have ties to any Islamic supremacist group, or if they advocate jihad.
– AFDI calls for the development of energy policies that will free us from dependence upon oil from Muslim countries.
Through SION, AFDI establishes a common American/European coalition of free people determined to stand for freedom and oppose the advance of Islamic law, Sharia. Islamic law is not simply a religious system, but a political system that encompasses every aspect of life; is authoritarian, discriminatory, and repressive; and contradicts Western laws and principles in numerous particulars. SION respects Muslims as fellow human beings and rejects Islamization as a comprehensive political, religious, cultural and social system of behavior and ideology.
AFDI and SION stand for:
– The freedom of speech – as opposed to Islamic prohibitions of "blasphemy" and "slander," which are used effectively to quash honest discussion of jihad and Islamic supremacism;
– The freedom of conscience – as opposed to the Islamic death penalty for apostasy;
– The equality of rights of all people before the law – as opposed to Sharia's institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims.
Join the SION Facebook group here
Tommy Robinson Exits the Field
by JANICE FIAMENGO:
The glee is palpable in mainstream news reports over , along with co-founder Kevin Carroll and twelve other senior members, from the English Defence League, the organization he created to combat the Islamization of Britain. Robinson had led the EDL from 2009, turning it into the voice of Middle England. Now he claims the organization has been infiltrated by neo-Nazis.
"EDL leader Tommy Robinson turns his back on his own party over 'dangers of far-right extremism,'" trumpeted The Independent. BBC News reported that Robinson still aims to "counter Islamist ideology," but "not with violence but with better, democratic ideas." Sky News reported that "in order to solve what he sees as the problem of Islamist extremism in Britain, he needs to work with Muslims, not against them." Home Affairs Select Committee chair Keith Vaz, a notable pro-Islam advocate and Labour MP, went on record that "any resignation from the EDL is welcome. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Carroll have previously engaged, promoted, and expounded extreme views. Leaving the organization is an acceptance that their opinions incite hatred and their previous actions have unnecessarily cost the taxpayer thousands of pounds." The Tommy of the EDL would surely have been quick to point out that what incites hatred in England is Islamist violence and contempt for British institutions, not EDL resistance — but the Tommy Robinson who is now dissing his former organization hardly sounds like the person he once was.
Robinson didn't quit the EDL in the way most politicians leave parties or organizations, citing personal reasons, overwork, or the desire to pursue other worthy initiatives. He could easily have done so. As someone who has become the public face of the EDL — unable to walk down the street without verbal harassment, arrested on numerous occasions on thin grounds, constantly defamed by Britain's politically correct media, and the victim of death threats and threats against his family — he could legitimately have cited exhaustion and the need to rebuild his life.
Instead, though, he has made a devastating attack on the EDL, claiming that it has become "increasingly influenced by extreme elements that did not represent what he stood for." His words confirm the charges of white-power fanaticism that critics have leveled at the EDL for years, and which Robinson always claimed to be vigorously combatting. His departure effectively cripples the organization, leaving thousands of non-fascist Britons who worked at his side without a viable base of anti-jihad activism, and with nothing more substantial for the future than the vague nostrum that securing Britain from extremists will require working with Muslims and that "from day one we've wanted to embrace everyone; all colours and creeds."
Even more disturbing, perhaps, than Robinson's denunciation of his former organization is his new alliance with the much-lauded Quilliam Foundation, a think tank that aims to "challenge extremism," according to its sleek website, by targeting those social factors that lead to "radicalization." In other words, this is an anti-extremist group that locates the source of extremism mainly in British society rather than in Islamic ideology. Quilliam, whose political affiliation is suggested by its friendly relations with the far-left anti-British Hope Not Hate group, is precisely the kind of organization — with its concern for "grievances felt every day by young Muslims" and its accommodationist stance on issues such as terrorist profiling that may "alienate and stigmatize" — about which the former Robinson would have been rightly suspicious. It is worth noting that Quilliam was named for William Abdullah Quilliam, a nineteenth-century British convert to Islam who dreamed, according to research by Andrew Bostom, of a pan-Islamic caliphate.
Read more at PJ Media
"Robert Spencer's Vital Role in Creating Conservatism 3.0″
I am honored by this piece and hope David Swindle turns out to be correct — it will take a sea change in American politics, but that may be coming. "Robert Spencer's Vital Role in Creating Conservatism 3.0," by Dave Swindle in PJ Lifestyle, October 8:
I've grown quite fond of the model presented in America 3.0, the previous book discussed in this ongoing series of my favorite authors, writers, activists, and troublemakers. James C. Bennett and Michael Lotus tell the story of a colonial/frontier America 1.0, its post-Civil War transition into the big government/corporate America 2.0 that would win World War II, the system's gradual collapse over the previous decades into the mess we have today, and the solution of a decentralized/technological America 3.0 now propelled by Glenn Reynolds's Army of Davids. In understanding what America 2.0 is and why it's now failing we can adapt our movements and businesses to dominate in the coming individual-empowering America 3.0.The 1.0/2.0/3.0 Bennett-Lotus model is applicable beyond the broad scope of their book. As America itself goes through the shifts from one era to the next so too do the cultures and institutions within it. So I will apply it to one of my preoccupations, political ideology. How does this sound?
Conservatism 1.0 = The Old Right, those who fought against the expansion of the federal government and US entry into World War II, often referred to as isolationists. This ideology was soundly refuted by US victory over the Axis. It turns out that foreign policy ideologies that assume muskets and months to sail across the Atlantic have limited utility in post-Hiroshima worlds. The heirs of this tradition today are the so-called paleo-conservatives (Pat Buchanan) and paleo-libertarians (Ron Paul) and their stealth advocate who has duped Republicans and infiltrated the Tea Party, Rand Paul. (My ax-grinding against all three will continue for the foreseeable future. These people should have been cast out of polite society long ago to hang out so they'd have more time to spend with their Holocaust-denying buddies.)
Conservatism 2.0 = The New Right, built by William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater and institutionalized at the presidential level by Ronald Reagan. While adapting the Old Right's traditionalism and opposition to the New Deal, the big shift came in reacting to the new foreign policy reality threatening human freedom: Soviet imperialism. The battle against murderous Marxism was what really animated Buckley, Goldwater, and Reagan more than anything else. (It was in reading the extraordinary Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America that this started to become more apparent.)
So I've come to conclude that what we call "the conservative movement" was really just the political/cultural wing of what began as anti-communism. Thus, the reason for the degradation of Conservatism 2.0 is that with anti-communism as the primary base the ideological tent could widen to bring in people who do not actually believe in American values. Opposing the Soviets for one reason or another does not require one to be an advocate of America's founding principles. Thus with the removal of the Soviet threat — only for a time really, of course… — the Reagan coalition has collapsed as each faction now squabbles for power and attention.
Conservatism 3.0 = As anti-communism created Conservatism 2.0, Robert Spencer's counter-jihad movement will provide a foundational justification for the shift to Conservatism 3.0. As previous generations were fueled by reports of the horrors within Marxist slave states, today the truth about Shariah slave states will gradually bring together people across cultures, borders, and ideologies. And I say Robert Spencer's counter-jihad movement because he has been a leader in this war for over a decade, documenting not just what is happening but explaining why.
His new Not Peace But a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam is a handbook for fighting back in the political and cultural battles for American hearts and minds. Robert goes down the line, explaining how Jihadists and Sharia-based states have substantial support in the Muslim world and a long tradition of Koranic interpretation to justify their brutality. It is not easy to always connect the dots when trying to explain this to people — how the Koran and the Bible articulate fundamentally different value systems which result in incompatible civilizations, one free and wealthy, the other oppressed and impoverished. Robert puts the pieces together here, showing how the Koran and the life of Mohammed resonate as the primary inspiration in today's Jihad against the West.
What Counterjihadists do Saturday Nights in Santa Monica
The following was originally published in The English Review:
Most folks chill out on Saturday nights; shopping at malls, dining out, or catching a movie at a multiplex. That is most folks. A group calling itself Counter Jihadists Coalition of Southern California spend Saturday nights at a booth in the busy Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica engaging in what I call anti-Da'wah — countering the call to Islam.
They endeavor to get the word out about what is inside the Qur'an, the Hadith, Mohammed's exemplary bio, and the ever-reliable guide to Islamic doctrine and Sharia, The Reliance of the Traveller. They number among their group some members of the West Coast branch of The United West. They even have a Coptic Christian member who can translate Arabic spoken by Muslim passersby who either walk by muttering or engage the doughty band.
Last Saturday evening marked the culmination of Ramadan with the Feast of Eid al-Fitr. So the group set up their booth laden with pamphlets and related materials elucidating the totalitarian creed that lies within the Islamic doctrine — a creed that denigrates all unbelievers and denies civil and human rights for women, those who leave Islam by choice, gays, and, of course, The People of the Book (Christians and Jews).
As Ramadan had ended the group prepared a poster from a recent score card of violence that occurred in the Ummah and elsewhere during Ramadan that they downloaded from the Religion of Peace website, The Ramadan Bombathon Scorecard for 2013. The Religion of Peace website notes:
TheReligionofPeace.com has been reporting on the number of people killed and injured in the name of religion throughout the month of Ramadan, which just ended. Here are the totals for 2013. All but one were carried out by Muslims, and that one didn't result in any deaths or injuries.
Tell your Muslim friends you are happy Ramadan is over along with the yearly spike in Islamic terror attacks around the world.
What follows is a report from one of the leaders of the Counter Jihad Coalition, Steve Amundson:
Scenes from a Saturday Night at a Pedestrian Mall in Santa Monica
The Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, CA, is one of the busiest pedestrian malls in Southern California. Hundreds of tourists and locals stroll the mall to shop, watch the street performers, and to take in the ethnic and cultural variety that makes Santa Monica so vibrant.
A group of activists called the Counter Jihad Coalition is also there to inform the public about the many ways Islamic ideology threatens the American way of life. We are armed only with a collection of illustrated brochures addressing as poignantly as possible the major concerns about Islamic ideology. Here is a list of some of the most popular brochures:
Islam in a Nut-Shell (which you can see here)
The Muslim Brotherhood
The Three Stages of Jihad
Are you a Muslim Born in a Foreign Country? (Containing challenging questions for Muslims who have never experienced freedom of speech and thought)
Women who marry into Islam may have to abandon all rights
An African-American Muslim is a Slave to a Racist Ideology
Is it "Un-Christian" to speak out about Islam?
There is no excuse for domestic violence, except Islamic Sharia Law
We attract visitors to our information table by posting large graphic signs about recent Islamic outrages — like the Boston Marathon bombing or the daylight beheading of Lee Rigby by Quran-quoting terrorists. Last Saturday, we used a 3' by 4' blow-up of the 2013 Ramadan Bombathon Scorecard published by http://www.thereligionofpeace.com.
This poster with the smiling jihadi holding an automatic got lots of attention. Passersby were signing up for the local American Congress for Truth (ACT), complementing us for speaking out, and (Muslims, of course) complaining how we have misunderstood their ideology. Having an Arabic-speaking Copt Christian and a woman on our team went a long way to diffusing the usual red-herrings dragged across our message.
As we engage the public, we are learning a number of things that other anti-Islamic activists must take into consideration:
1) Most non-Muslims are woefully uninformed about Islam to the point that many could not determine if we were for or against Islam.
2) CAIR and other Islamist propaganda organizations have been relatively successful in convincing American non-Muslims that Islam is a "religion" protected by the First Amendment instead of a political ideology operating under the cover of religious protection.
3) Muslims are terrified at even touching anti-Islamic fact sheets or looking at selected verses of the Quran in English translations provided by mosques and other Muslim sources.
4) Muslims are obsessed with displaying their Islamic "gang symbols" in public to show that "we are here and you have to accept us."
No we don't. Tolerance of the intolerant is cultural suicide.
If you are inspired to do a little activism of your own Citizen Warrior has pamphlets and flyers that you can print to hand out and here is the link to Crusader's Armory Flyers
(Information on handing out flyers legally here and here)
Notes on 'Counterjihad'
By Bruce Bawer:
"Counterjihadist." If you had told me a couple of decades ago that this would be one of the many labels that would someday be attached to my name with some regularity, I would hardly have known what to say. Counter what? What jihadist?
But then these are strange times. On the evening of September 11, 2001, you might've expected responsible-minded, in-the-know public servants, journalists, and academic Islam experts throughout the Western world to start giving their respective publics a crash course (as it were) in Islamic jihad, so as to ensure that absolutely everybody understood exactly why those men wanted to take down those buildings. Instead, the President of the United States, the Karen Armstrongs and John Espositos, and virtually the entire Western media were quick to begin issuing fervent assurances that the terrorists were a fanatical minority who'd hijacked not only airplanes but Islam itself. Similar assurances followed hard upon every major terrorist act in the succeeding years. Those of us who knew better – who recognized that the terrorists were doing exactly what the Koran ordered them to do, and who believed that it was vitally important for everyone in the West to understand this – began to see our names yanked to a term that identified us not as people who were seeking to educate and inform but as antagonists of something to which every one of us, after all, should be opposed.
Think of it. If there was going to be such a term, every freedom-loving person in the Western world should've been eager to see the word "counterjihadist" appended to his or her name after 9/11. The attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, after all, were jihadist acts. Ditto the later assaults on London, Madrid, Bali, Mumbai, and so on. How can you not be against all that, and proud of it? But no: the Western cultural elite managed to turn "counterjihadist" into a dirty word. One of the weirdest things of all, perhaps, is that when what is now known as the "counterjihad movement" is mentioned by those who despise it, the topic of jihad itself is usually nowhere in sight. It's invisible. It's irrelevant. It's as if we critics of jihad were opposed to an entirely imaginary enemy – like mermaids or leprechauns.
Back in the day, anti-Communists had a similar problem. I'm old enough to recall the obloquy heaped upon them by bien pensant types – professors and high-toned journalists who considered active, vocal opposition to Communism the most lowbrow of pastimes. Yes, whereas today's counter-counterjihadists act as if jihad is a figment of counterjihadists' fevered imaginations, the anti-anti-Communists (a label they wore with pride) at least acknowledged – albeit in a bland, bored way – that Communism existed. Sometimes they even admitted that it wasn't all that terrific. But by focusing their animus on anti-Communism, and remaining all but silent about the evils of Communism itself – indeed, by insisting that the very application of words like "evil" to Communism (à la Ronald Reagan) was infantile and hyberbolic – they drove home the idea that overt anti-Communism was worse – by which they meant less intelligent, less sophisticated, less worldly – than Communism itself. Indeed, even as self-identified Communists in America and throughout the West held positions of trust in the academy, government, the arts, and elsewhere, anti-Communists came to be viewed as fanatical, paranoid conspiracy theorists who, in the phrase of the day, saw "a Communist under every bed." Even now, the Hollywood Ten, a group of directors and screenwriters who in 1947 were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about their Communist Party affiliations, are considered heroes of American freedom, even though it is a matter of public record that all ten of them turned out, in fact, to be Stalinists, dedicated to destroying American freedom; meanwhile, director Elia Kazan – a former member of the Party who "named names" because he recognized Stalinism as a genuine menace to American freedom – is still remembered as a fink.
So it is today with Islam. The "counterjihadists" are the villains – the hysterics, the fools, who see a Muslim under every bed, with a bomb in his turban. Meanwhile the good guys are the counter-counterjihadists – the journalists, activists, and others who make a career of slamming Islam's critics, whom they frequently represent (especially over here in Scandinavia) as "conspiracy theorists." For just as the anti-Communists of yesteryear were viewed not as sober, well-informed students of life behind the Iron Curtain but as obsessive, ignorant haters, we counterjihadists are viewed not as people who've read the Koran and studied Islamic societies and subcultures but as semi-literate morons and bigots – and, according to one particularly noxious meme that has spread far and wide in the last couple of years, mindless disciples of what our enemies caricature as the mad ramblings of Bat Ye'or. (Never do any of these mud-slingers ever try to explain why so many writers and scholars around the world – people with a variety of professional and personal backgrounds, and with long records of thinking for themselves and of observing the world with their own eyes – all chose, apparently more or less at once, to become, supposedly, disciples of the same person.) It should be a matter of national shame for Britain that when its government banned Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller from its shores, it was doing the bidding of the counter-counterjihadists of Hope Not Hate – who, despite their manifestly Stalinist methods and sympathies, are treated by U.K. authorities as reliable ideological gatekeepers, even as the truth-telling Spencers and Gellers are tagged as anathema.
Read more at Front Page
Also see:
- The Scandalous Lies of 'Hope Not Hate' (counterjihadreport.com)
- "HOPE not hate" Publicizes the Counterjihad Network (counterjihadreport.com)
What is Our Goal in the Counterjihad Movement? (counterjihadreport.com)
History of Counterjihad (counterjihadreport.com)
What is Our Goal in the Counterjihad Movement?
Clearly something is wrong. Orthodox Islam is spreading, and great numbers of non-Muslims around the world are ignorant, confused, or blinded by an indiscriminate multiculturalism, which is allowing orthodox Islam to spread relatively unimpeded.
Those of us who have discovered the disturbing nature of Islamic doctrine(and the growing threat of its spread) want to do something about it. But what? The emotions provoked by this are intense, of course. Many of us are frightened or horrified or angry or frustrated — and some of us feel all of these and feel them strongly. We want to stop this madness we see spreading over the world. But what can we do? What should we aim at?What is our goal?
We've been at this a long time. We started Citizen Warrior about a month after 9/11. Our comments on this site are "moderated," which means we read every comment before publishing it, and we've been doing so since the beginning. We also have a Facebook page, and we read every comment there, too. So we've heard many emotionally aroused counterjihadists saying things like "we should nuke the Middle East" or "send them all back where they came from" or "ban Islam." Understandably upset, people want to do something about Islam's growing threat. But of course, nuking the Middle East is irrational, morally unacceptable, and wouldn't solve the problem anyway. You can't nuke an ideology. Many of the Muslims now living in the Middle East would defect from Islam if they had a chance. Millions are children. Nuking the Middle East is a ridiculous proposition arising out of intense feelings of helplessness. We can't "send them back" either because many of them were born in our countries. These kinds of solutions are impotent; full of sound and fury, signifying nothing but frustration.
What kind of language should we use to describe the counterjihadist's goal? On Citizen Warrior here we have characterized it a number of ways over the years: Defeating the third jihad, thwarting Islam's prime directive, stopping orthodox Islam's relentless encroachment, reversing jihad, etc. None of these are really adequate either.
After thinking about it for awhile, we've come up with the language we'd like to use, and we want to know what you think of it. Either email us orleave it as a comment below. This is our goal:
orthodox Islam.
We can't really get rid of Islam. But we can make it so weak and maligned, so cut off from resources and shunned that it no longer poses a serious threat to the free world.
The Ku Klux Klan was once a growing movement in the U.S. They had millions of members, some of whom were in high places. They had a massive demonstration in Washington DC in 1925. Fifty thousand Klansmen were in the parade, dressed in their white robes. Just as an aside, did you know the Klan had a Kloran? I kid you not. Here's a PDF version of it.
What happened to the KKK? Why didn't they grow into a national party or take over the country? They were marginalized, discredited, and disempowered, and remain so to this day. They are still around. It's an ideology. You can't really get rid of an ideology. But you can make it something that few people want to be associated with.
How can we do that with orthodox Islam? There are many ways:
1. The first and most important is getting more people to understand that Islam is unlike other religions in important ways and that the "extremists" are not doing anything but following the written creeds of their religion. They're not "picking and choosing" passages from their texts to justify what they're doing. They're not "taking things out of context" or "misunderstanding" the Koran. It is the Koran itself and the example of Muhammad that is incompatible with modern society. We need to effectively reach people. Once enough people understand the situation accurately, the rest of this list will be relatively easy.
2. Cut off oil money to OPEC, which is the main power behind Islam's current expansion in the world.
3. Stop the oppression of women in Muslim lands (and everywhere else, including Muslim enclaves in free nations). The more power and freedom and rights women have in Muslim countries, the less orthodox those Muslims will become.
4. Prevent Sharia law from worming its way into our legal system — passing legislation that explicitly forbids it.
5. Stop Muslim immigration into free societies, or at least limit it for Muslims, limit it from Muslim countries, test Muslim immigrants for their level of orthodoxy, or something along these lines.
6. Prevent the construction of mosques inside our borders.
You've learned about the terrifying brilliance of Islam and you want to do something about it. Excellent. Here's what to aim for: To marginalize, discredit, and disempower orthodox Islam everywhere in the world. Each one of the actions on the list has a link. Follow the link to find out how you can begin to make this goal a reality.
Education by Murder in Boston
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What will be the long-term impact of the Apr. 15-19 Boston Marathon attack and the ensuing action-movie-style chase, killing a total of four and wounding 265?
Let's start with what its impact will not be. It will not bring American opinion together; if the "United We Stand" slogan lasted brief months after 9/11, consensus after Boston will be even more elusive. The violence will not lead to Israeli-like security measures in the United States. Nor will it lead to a greater preparedness to handle deadly sudden jihad syndrome violence. It will not end the dispute over the motives behind indiscriminate Muslim violence against non-Muslims. And it certainly will not help resolve current debates over immigration or guns.
What it will do is very important: it will prompt some Westerners to conclude that Islamism is a threat to their way of life. Indeed, every act of Muslim aggression against non-Muslims, be it violent or cultural, recruits more activists to the anti-jihad cause, more voters to insurgent parties, more demonstrators to anti-immigrant street efforts, and more donors to anti-Islamist causes.
Education by murder is the name I gave this process in 2002; we who live in democracies learn best about Islamism when blood flows in the streets. Muslims began with an enormous stock of good will because the Western DNA includes sympathy for foreigners, minorities, the poor, and people of color. Islamists then dissipate this good will by engaging in atrocities or displaying supremacist attitudes. High profile terrorism in the West – 9/11, Bali, Madrid, Beslan, London – moves opinion more than anything else.
I know because I went through this process first hand. Sitting in a restaurant in Switzerland in 1990, Bat Ye'or sketched out for me her fears concerning Islamist ambitions in Europe but I thought she was alarmist. Steven Emerson called me in 1994 to tell me about the Council on American-Islamic Relations but I initially gave CAIR the benefit of the doubt. Like others, I needed time to wake to the full extent of the Islamist threat in the West.
Westerners are indeed waking up to this threat. One can get a vivid sense of trends by looking at developments in Europe, which on the topics of immigration, Islam, Muslims, Islamism, and Shari'a (Islamic law) is ahead of North America and Australia by about twenty years. One sign of change is the growth of political parties focused on these issues, including the U.K. Independence Party, the National Front in France, the People's Party in Switzerland, Geert Wilder's Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, the Progress Party in Norway, and the Swedish Democrats. In a much-noted recent by-election, UKIP came in second, increasing its share of the vote from 4 percent to 28 percent, thereby creating a crisis in the Conservative party.
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- Boston Bomber Exposes Islamist Secret (counterjihadreport.com)
- Connecting the Dots 101 (counterjihadreport.com)
Interview with Pulp Ark, Apostate of Islam and author of Tulisan Murtad
When and why did you get involved in the anti-Islamic movement?
When I decided to leave Islam 2.5 years back, I felt that I needed a sanctuary, a place that I can share my feelings about Islam. I started with an Indonenian forum run by Ali Sina. It's a resourceful place in finding the truth about Islam. Suddenly, I was immersed into the forum, confronting Muslims. I made many friends with fellow apostates and infidels that fights along with me.
Six months later, having understood the threat is global, I suggested to my friends to create special FB accounts to reach much wider audience. We continue our fights there, making notes, postings vile Islamic activities and events. A few of our English speaking friends, including me, have began to reach the West.
I started to change my strategy, while it was worthy to confront Muslims, making allies with the West is as important, as Islam has a major problem with Judeo-Christianity it's trying to corrupt. Earlier, I was tempted to befriended with some reformers, much like my old self. Gradually, I became assured that Islam cannot be reformed from within. It can only be destroyed from without.
I must name the few that shaped me into this today, Christopher Logan and Vin Ienco. There are other big names that I keep on losing due to my recycling FB account, such as Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, and Bridget Gabriel. In any case, I am proud to be among the growing nameless others that work around the clock dedicating themselves in exposing Islam.
I learn further that Islamic goal in world domination is actually recorded as the End of Time prophecy in the Bible; and the Mark is actually very Islamic. All the events in the Middle East and America now are as if they are staging for the Last Trumpet in Jerusalem. This fuel me further to my work, to be the instrument of God, to glorify Him in the name of Christ. I now have a deep love struck with Israel, the vessel of Blessings that Islam try to destroy.
Islamophobia is an irrational fear or prejudice towards Islam and Muslims. Are you an irrational Islamophobe?
I based my work on the Islamic teachings. They clearly condone lies and violence in attaining their goals. To be irrational, is to still think that Islam can be reformed, that those cuddly nice Muslims are the true representative of Islam. It is either they are point blank lying, or sincerely gullible to still think they can reform Islam, or just simply ignorant about the real teaching of Islam.
Muslims are equip with a fair amount of irrational hate towards Infidels alike, especially towards Jews and Christians. All whatever 'goodness' are just for among themselves. And they are being indoctrinated since young about the 'beauty' of Islam. So, a skin deep Muslim with what left of humanity in his or her heart, when happen to learn more about Islam, will either becoming a terrorist, or an apostate like me.
Much like the age of reformation when Bible becoming available to the known languages, it brought revolutionary changes that helped to enlighten the world. But as for Quran, in this age of the Internet, we are witnessing the rise of Islam around the world with ever increasing body counts and countless mistreatment to women.
Did you receive any threats from Muslims or others because of your involvement in the anti-Islamic movement?
I live among them. My friends, and my greater families are still Muslims. I can be consider lucky, as a few of the open minded ones may have known what I do now, and still have not done anything, just yet. And since I am active only in the cyberspace, any threats are somewhat isolated for now.
What aspects of Islam do you find most problematic and disturbing?
Their ability to lie. Good Muslims will never cherry pick the verses. Both versions works as intended. The violent ones for the obvious, and the sweeter ones to lace them.
To the uninitiated, there is a doctrine of Abrogation in Islam, that for any contradictions, the latest ones has the weight. While Quran has no context whatsoever, especially chronological, Hadis (Muhammad's sayings) and Sira (Muhammad's biography) can help to sort this out. http://tulisanmurtad.blogspot.com/2011/04/statistical-islam.html.
Quran is just Muhammad's tool to satiate his lust of power, sex, and money. Began with bad child upbringging, he suffered an incurable narcissistic personality disorder. He fantasized Allah as his slave to his biddings.
Do you think Israel is a good ally in the struggle against Islamization?
Of course, and Jerusalem is the key. Just because Muhammad had a dream departing from Jerusalem, riding a female headed winged donkey to meet his moon god, just to ask him how many times shall his followers moon him, Muslims had made the city sacred to them.
I am at a dismay that America is at its lowest now, at the time of this Islamic rising. Israel should have its full support from America at this critical time. My saying, please stop dealing with Islamic oil for indirectly financing their Jihad against us, use Israeli instead, and protect Israel at all cost.
God has promised that never again will Jerusalem be controlled by the Gentilles. So, any attempt of it, will simply means a full scale War.
Who is a moderate Muslim?
They are just a facade of the real Islam. As Anjem Choudary would say, there is no moderate vegetarian. So, those nice Muslims neighbors we know, they are just sleeper cells. Try to ask their opinion about the Jews. If they are OK, then they really misunderstand Islam.
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The sun was shining, temperature in the low 80s, winds light — an absolutely perfect day for a round of golf in Phoenix. The Wildfire Golf Club at the Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort and Spa was in premier condition. What fabulous conditions for the opening round at the JTBC Founders Cup. Lydia Ko led for a while, early in the day, and went to the clubhouse at -5. Then Morgan Pressel got hot, fired a string of four birdies and then an eagle, made the turn at -7, fired off two more birdies and looked like she couldn't be caught until she sent a shot out into the desert, lost her momentum, gave back two strokes, and finished the day at -7. Then along came rookie Mirim Lee who teed off late in the day, played steady birdie golf, carded -8, and will get to sleep on the lead.
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Rolex Ranked No. 35 Morgan Pressel will start the second round at the Founders Cup one stroke off the lead. Pressel's been playing strong golf. She finished the Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic in an 11th place tie, then followed that with a T6th place finish at the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open and a T4th place finish at the HSBC Womens Champions.
If Pressel can sort out what went wrong for her today, and it it looked to me like what went wrong was between her ears, she could easily reclaim the top of the board tomorrow. With 22 putts, she can't lose a putting contest.
Eight players will start the second round at -6, trailing Mirim Lee's lead by two strokes: Stacy Lewis, Karrie Webb, Pernilla Lindberg, Michelle Wie, Eun-Hee Ji, Catriona Matthew, Inbee Park, and Gerina Piller. Some are hunting their first victory, some are looking to add another win to an already impressive resume, and Lewis is defending her title. Every one of them is capable of firing off a round of golf that will send her to the top of the board and make our heads spin, so expect the 2nd round to be action-packed!
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Rolex Ranked No. 3 and America's top golfer, Stacy Lewis, carded 66 today. She's going into the second round in an 8-way tie for third place.
Rolex Ranked No. 24 Azahara Munoz carded 68 today. She's going into the second round trailing the lead by four strokes, along with fifteen other players.
Rolex Ranked No. 63 Brittany Lang had a rough day. Her long game wasn't working effectively so although she played her round with 28 putts, she carded even par and is going into the second round below the projected cut line, -1.
Rolex Ranked No. 167 Vicky Hurst had an even rougher day. She carded 78 and is going into the second round at +6, well below the projected cut line. Hurst is going to need a miracle to play the weekend.
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The Founders, installed in comfy wicker chairs off the 18th green, were greeting and receiving hugs and kisses like beloved grandmothers fondly watching the women who are following in their footsteps play the game we all love in fine athletic form. Who could ask for anything more from a round of golf? Another round, of course.
Second round tee times begin at 7am local time and Golf Channel coverage begins Friday, March 21 at 6:30pm ET. I'll be back tomorrow evening as well.
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Three Kansas starters finished with double figures in this one, led by Perry Ellis who finished the game with 18 points and added in five rebounds. Freshman Andrew Wiggins had another solid performance, dropping in 17 points and adding in 17 rebounds, and Joel Embiid continued his surge, scoring 12 and adding in four boards.
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Medicare Advantage 2013 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update
This Data Spotlight provides an overview of Medicare Advantage enrollment patterns in March 2013, and examines variations by plan type, state, and firm. It also analyzes trends in premiums paid by beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, including variations by plan type, and describes the out-of-pocket limits and prescription drug coverage in the Part D "donut hole" provided by the plans in 2013.Issue Brief Read More
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Projecting Medicare Advantage Enrollment: Expect the Unexpected?
This Policy Insight explores possible explanations for the continued rise in Medicare Advantage enrollment between 2010 and 2013 in spite of a projected decrease following payment changes in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).Perspective Read More
An Analysis of the Share of Medicare Beneficiaries Who Would Benefit from an Annual Out-of-Pocket Maximum under Traditional Medicare Over Multiple Years
This analysis examines the share of Medicare beneficiaries who would be helped over time if the program were to add a limit on out-of-pocket spending to traditional Medicare. This analysis was conducted jointly with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) in response to a request made during a Feb. 26, 2013 hearing of the House Ways and Means' Subcommittee on Health.Issue Brief Read More
Faces of Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: Profiles of People with Medicare and Medicaid Coverage
This brief examines the role of Medicare and Medicaid in the lives of dually eligible beneficiaries – low-income seniors and younger adults with disabilities who are eligible for both programs – through personal profiles. It includes a glossary of eligibility and service delivery system terms and state-level enrollment and expenditure data for dual eligibles.Issue Brief Read More
Improving the Financial Accountability of Nursing Facilities
This report examines nursing facility expenditures to assess relative spending increases in areas such as nursing services, administrative costs, and profits. Using California as a case study, it explores reimbursement by cost category and a standard medical loss ratio (MLR) as potential policy options to improve nursing facility financial accountability and care quality.Report Read More
External Review of Health Plan Decisions: An Overview of Key Program Features in the States and Medicare
In 1978, the state of Michigan established a system to call on independent medical experts to help resolve disputes between health plans and patients about the medical necessity and appropriateness of care. Since then, twelve other states and the Medicare program have established similar kinds of external review programs. In…Report Read More
Do We Know If Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans Are Special?
This report describes the history of special needs plans, how they fit into the larger Medicare Advantage marketplace, and what information could help assess whether these plans are performing differently from other Medicare Advantage plans. Special needs plans serve individuals such as those who are institutionalized, people covered under both…Report Read More
Estimates of Medicare Beneficiaries' Out-of-Pocket Drug Spending in 2006
This report projects the impact of the new Medicare drug benefit on out-of-pocket spending for people who enroll in 2006. This analysis from November 2004 estimates that 6.9 million beneficiaries are projected to be affected by the coverage gap (the so-called "doughnut hole") in the standard Part D drug benefit.…Report Read More


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57 South Lisbon Road has a Walk Score of 31 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
This location is in Lewiston.
Nearby schools include Androscoggin Learning & Transition Center and Vineyard Christian School.
The closest grocery store is Fatah Al.
The closest coffee shop is Dunkin' Donuts. Nearby restaurants include Sam's Italian Foods and Taco Bell.
57 South Lisbon Road is near Randall Road Ball Fields, Sainte Croix Park and Franklin Pasture.


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Tips for Hosting a Color Wheel Party
Help children gain color confidence using activities, quizzes, and games from The Wonderful Colorful Wonder Wheel of Color ($12.99; ctpub.com). Host a Color Wheel Party with stations for kids to learn about the color wheel, color schemes, and how colors affect each other.
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Purchase a copy of the August 2014 digital issue of American Patchwork & Quilting.
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Quilting Changes Everything–American Patchwork & Quilting December 2013
Quilting Changes Everything
Writer: Linzee Kull McCray
Photographs courtesy of Diane Lehman
Quilting helped women who had moved halfway around the world form new friendships and break down communication barriers.
In January 2013, four South Korean women ventured into Tillie's Quilts in Fort Dodge, Iowa. They had moved to the area because of their husbands' jobs and hoped to gain stitching skills while in the United States. Jo Seltz, the owner of Tillie's Quilts, promptly organized a class to fit the women's schedules.
From left: Myung Suk Park, SE Youn Kim, So-Yong Lee, and Kyong Mi Kim (Alice) hold projects they've made.
"They came in and picked out their fabric," says Jo, who taught the class with shop employee Diane Lehman. "We started with the basics—learning to use the sewing machine and rotary cutter." Wooyeon Chang, the only one of the four to speak English well, translated class instructions to the other three. "After a while, we were able to figure out what they needed, and they were able to figure out what I was telling them," Jo says.
Wooyeon Chang (right) gave her first quilt to her mother.
Owner Jo Seltz and teachers Diane Lehman and Carolyn Sandvig learned that their Korean students were exceptionally meticulous.
"Even if it was something no one will see, they were very precise and wanted things to be accurate. When the women figured out they could take out mistakes, they became great friends with the seam ripper," Diane says.
From left: Carolyn Sandvig, Jo Seltz, and Diane Lehman
Tillie's Quilts owner Jo Seltz helps Alice sew an apron.
"Communication is not a barrier in quilting," says Jo.
Though none of the women had sewing machines initially and all did their stitching in class, their first quilt tops were ready for the quilter just two months after they started. The women have since stitched table runners, aprons, and tote bags.
Jeongmin Kim shows off her first quilt.
Besides learning to quilt, the South Korean women, who didn't know one another when they came to Iowa, have built real friendships since they started sewing together. And three more South Korean women have joined them to sew at Tillie's Quilts. "Quilting makes us closer," new quilter Kyong Mi Kim (Alice) says of their weekly sewing sessions.
From left: Se Youn Kim and Kyong Mi Kim (Alice) choose fabric for their next project.
They've also met other customers during open-sewing days at the shop. "We laugh a lot and share sewing challenges with each other," Diane says.
Alice and the others don't plan to leave quilting behind when they return to South Korea. "When I came in to the shop I just thought I'd learn to use a sewing machine," Alice says.
"I didn't think I had any talent for quilting. Now I am more satisfied making quilts. I can't stop."
From left: Kyong Mi Kim (Alice), SE Youn Kim, Myung Suk Park, and So-Yong Lee check out a panel.
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Cute Spool Piecing Pattern
This spool made from paper is perfect for decorating a card for a sewing friend or as an invitation to a quilting event. Substitute fabric for paper for an appliqué template.
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Quilting Trends 2012
After coming back from the Spring Quilt Market in Kansas City, we're inspired by all the new fabrics lines and products. Here's a sneak peek at some of the upcoming trends we spotted and some projects to get you ahead of the game!
1. Nautical and Beach Themes
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2. Houses
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3. Solids
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4. Circus and Jungle Animals
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5. Chevron
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French General: Kaari Meng
Take one look inside French General and you'll be whisked away to the French countryside. The shop, located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake, takes residence in a narrow 1926 pink adobe building and is chock-full of vintage glass beads, millinery supplies, ribbon, paper ephemera, and fabric.
Kaari Meng, the shop owner, stocks French General with treasures from her trips to Europe and journeys across the United States. Kaari is currently working on her newest fabric collection with Moda Fabrics (to be released in 2013).
Kaari draws inspiration from scraps of old advertising, fabric pieces, paper snippets, vintage packaging, and photos.
She combines her findings onto inspiration boards, sorts the boards by color, and displays them throughout the store.
For more information about French General visit frenchgeneral.com and Kaari's blog, The War and the Weft.
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Well, you can hardly blame her, can you?
I like Jimmy Carter. Liked him since 1975 when I met him at a harvest festival in New Boston, N.H. He and his brother Billy were between speeches, camped out along the president-stumping trail.
Most politicians elected to Congress develop a sense of when to keep their mouths shut. But not Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
This past Monday night was a historic moment for the tea party movement in America. This celebrated event occurred when the first-ever Tea Party Express/CNN televised GOP debate was aired from the state fairgrounds in Tampa.
NEW YORK -- It is hard to think largely about the sweep of events when one is reacting instantaneously to breaking ... tweets.
Barack Obama did not watch the Republican presidential candidates' debate in Manchester, N.H., on Monday night, we are told. He was busy addressing a campaign fundraising event in Miami.
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