CAUTION, CAUTION, CAUTION
CITY IN CRISIS
UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST IN HISTORY
REGULATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS STRANGLING BUSINESS
TAXING FOOD, ENERGY, WATER, ROADS
SWEETHEART DEALS FOR A FEW WHILE THOUSANDS SUFFER
3,000 STAND IN LINES TO GET FOOD BOXES
MAYOR’S FRIENDS ENRICHED
RUBBER STAMP COUNCIL MEMBERS SELL OUT
LIES ABOUT GOVERNMENT CUTS
HIDDEN RAISES AND BENEFITS INCREASE WHILE MORE AND MORE GIVE UP LOOKING FOR WORK
FEDERAL, STATE AND CITY COLLUSION FOR LIGHT RAIL—A PERENNIAL BUDGET DRAIN
Help free the city by coming to an event to introduce you to LeAnn Hull, candidate for Mayor of Phoenix. Bring your questions and your checkbook
December 11, 2010
5:00 and 7:00 PM
Moon Valley Country Club
RSVP: cedean112@aol.com
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Public Service Employee Unions/The Paralysis of the State
Hi,
If you had any doubt that Public Service Employee Unions were a significant threat to our country and our personal well being, I think the following article will put this threat into proper prospective. We are in trouble as a result of these unions and unless we start to recognize it and deal with it...there will be no money left for anything but the support of those that are supposed to work for us but are really putting each of us in the poor house to feather their own nests. All public service employee unions must be dissolved and all ridiculous fringe benefits and early retirements have to be eliminated...not just in the future but retroactively. All pensions must be adjusted to be no more than the average in the private sector. All retirements must be at at 65 or older...as in the private sector. All wages have to be adjusted downward to be no more than their employers received...that is US! Until that is done, there is no end in sight...and the corruption will run unabated. A government employee is prohibited from lobbing for political parties...why is it that their unions are not so restricted? This entire thing is a travesty and we all have been sleeping at the switch, whoa these many years. We have to wake up now...if it means all governments filing Chapter 11 to get this done...then so be it. I see no other way to accomplish this. When a business has a down turn and cannot negotiate with it's creditors, this is the only avenue available...the same is true for governments.
So I suggest that the City of Phoenix, the County of Maricopa and the State of Arizona call a meeting with all of the Public Service employee unions and give them an ultimatum...renegotiate all plans, all wages, all retirements as noted above or 'else'. Also, no more funding of political campaigns for either party effective immediately. It is time that the people we elect to represent us start doing so and now is a better time than any.
Also, those government employees who's salaries are based on what the 'union members' received should also be adjusted accordingly. A good place to start is at the City and County Manager levels, the School Superintendents, the University Presidents and staff, etc. These people should not make more than the Governor, the Sheriff, the County Supervisors nor the Mayors of our cities. We, the voters, control those wages (unlike Congress, which also needs to be changed) but have no control over the 'hired guns' 'we' employ. Makes no sense to me.
Finally, I think it would be a good move if all Federal elected officials were paid by the State and that the State Legislature controlled their salaries. After all, they are supposed to represent the State and we the people. Why do they have control over their salaries and not we, their employers? This may be an issue for the Goldwater Institute to pursue.
By the way..."Someday" is today! There is no time like the present.
Wes
-------------------------------------BROOKS
October 12, 2010
The Paralysis of the State
Sometimes a local issue perfectly illuminates a larger national problem. Such is the case with the opposition of the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, to construction of a new tunnel between his state and New York.
Christie argues that a state that is currently facing multibillion-dollar annual deficits cannot afford a huge new spending project that is already looking to be $5 billion overbudget. His critics argue that this tunnel is exactly the sort of infrastructure project that New Jersey needs if it’s to prosper in the decades ahead.
Both sides are right. But what nobody seems to be asking is: Why are important projects now unaffordable? Decades ago, when the federal and state governments were much smaller, they had the means to undertake gigantic new projects, like the Interstate Highway System and the space program. But now, when governments are bigger, they don’t.
The answer is what Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal once called demosclerosis. Over the past few decades, governments have become entwined in a series of arrangements that drain money from productive uses and direct it toward unproductive ones.
New Jersey can’t afford to build its tunnel, but benefits packages for the state’s employees are 41 percent more expensive than those offered by the average Fortune 500 company. These benefits costs are rising by 16 percent a year.
New York City has to strain to finance its schools but must support 10,000 former cops who have retired before age 50.
California can’t afford new water projects, but state cops often receive 90 percent of their salaries when they retire at 50. The average corrections officer there makes $70,000 a year in base salary and $100,000 with overtime (California spends more on its prison system than on its schools).
States across the nation will be paralyzed for the rest of our lives because they face unfunded pension obligations that, if counted accurately, amount to $2 trillion — or $87,000 per plan participant.
All in all, governments can’t promote future prosperity because they are strangling on their own self-indulgence.
Daniel DiSalvo, a political scientist at the City College of New York, has a superb survey of the problem in the new issue of National Affairs. DiSalvo notes that nationally, state and local workers earn on average $14 more per hour in wages and benefits than their private sector counterparts. A city like Buffalo has as many public workers as it did in 1950, even though it has lost half its population.
These arrangements grew gradually. Through much of the 20th century, staunch liberals like Franklin Roosevelt opposed public sector unions. George Meany of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. argued that it is “impossible to bargain collectively with government.”
Private sector managers have to compete in the marketplace, so they have an incentive to push back against union requests. Ideally, some balance is found between the needs of workers and companies. Government managers possess a monopoly on their services and have little incentive to resist union demands. It would only make them unpopular.
In addition, public sector unions can use political power to increase demand for their product. DiSalvo notes that between 1989 ad 2004, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees was the biggest spender in American politics, giving $40 million to federal candidates. The largest impact is on low-turnout local elections. The California prison guard union recently sent a signal by spending $200,000 to defeat a state assemblyman who had tried to reduce costs.
In states across the country, elected leaders raise state employee salaries in the fat years and then are careful to placate the unions by raising future pension benefits in the lean ones. Even if cost-conscious leaders are elected, they find their hands tied by pension commitments and employee contracts.
The end result is sclerotic government. Many of us would be happy to live with a bigger version of 1950s government: one that ran surpluses and was dexterous enough to tackle long-term problems as they arose. But we don’t have that government. We have an immobile government that is desperately overcommitted in all the wrong ways.
This situation, if you’ll forgive me for saying so, has been the Democratic Party’s epic failure. The party believes in the positive uses of government. But if you want the country to share that belief, you have to provide a government that is nimble, tough-minded and effective. That means occasionally standing up to the excessive demands of public employee unions. Instead of standing up to those demands, the party has become captured by the unions. Liberal activism has become paralyzed by its own special interests.
The antigovernment-types perpetually cry less, less, less. The loudest liberals cry more, more, more. Someday there will be a political movement that is willing to make choices, that is willing to say “this but not that.”
Someday.
© 2010 Microsoft Terms Privacy Advertise
If you had any doubt that Public Service Employee Unions were a significant threat to our country and our personal well being, I think the following article will put this threat into proper prospective. We are in trouble as a result of these unions and unless we start to recognize it and deal with it...there will be no money left for anything but the support of those that are supposed to work for us but are really putting each of us in the poor house to feather their own nests. All public service employee unions must be dissolved and all ridiculous fringe benefits and early retirements have to be eliminated...not just in the future but retroactively. All pensions must be adjusted to be no more than the average in the private sector. All retirements must be at at 65 or older...as in the private sector. All wages have to be adjusted downward to be no more than their employers received...that is US! Until that is done, there is no end in sight...and the corruption will run unabated. A government employee is prohibited from lobbing for political parties...why is it that their unions are not so restricted? This entire thing is a travesty and we all have been sleeping at the switch, whoa these many years. We have to wake up now...if it means all governments filing Chapter 11 to get this done...then so be it. I see no other way to accomplish this. When a business has a down turn and cannot negotiate with it's creditors, this is the only avenue available...the same is true for governments.
So I suggest that the City of Phoenix, the County of Maricopa and the State of Arizona call a meeting with all of the Public Service employee unions and give them an ultimatum...renegotiate all plans, all wages, all retirements as noted above or 'else'. Also, no more funding of political campaigns for either party effective immediately. It is time that the people we elect to represent us start doing so and now is a better time than any.
Also, those government employees who's salaries are based on what the 'union members' received should also be adjusted accordingly. A good place to start is at the City and County Manager levels, the School Superintendents, the University Presidents and staff, etc. These people should not make more than the Governor, the Sheriff, the County Supervisors nor the Mayors of our cities. We, the voters, control those wages (unlike Congress, which also needs to be changed) but have no control over the 'hired guns' 'we' employ. Makes no sense to me.
Finally, I think it would be a good move if all Federal elected officials were paid by the State and that the State Legislature controlled their salaries. After all, they are supposed to represent the State and we the people. Why do they have control over their salaries and not we, their employers? This may be an issue for the Goldwater Institute to pursue.
By the way..."Someday" is today! There is no time like the present.
Wes
-------------------------------------BROOKS
October 12, 2010
The Paralysis of the State
Sometimes a local issue perfectly illuminates a larger national problem. Such is the case with the opposition of the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, to construction of a new tunnel between his state and New York.
Christie argues that a state that is currently facing multibillion-dollar annual deficits cannot afford a huge new spending project that is already looking to be $5 billion overbudget. His critics argue that this tunnel is exactly the sort of infrastructure project that New Jersey needs if it’s to prosper in the decades ahead.
Both sides are right. But what nobody seems to be asking is: Why are important projects now unaffordable? Decades ago, when the federal and state governments were much smaller, they had the means to undertake gigantic new projects, like the Interstate Highway System and the space program. But now, when governments are bigger, they don’t.
The answer is what Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal once called demosclerosis. Over the past few decades, governments have become entwined in a series of arrangements that drain money from productive uses and direct it toward unproductive ones.
New Jersey can’t afford to build its tunnel, but benefits packages for the state’s employees are 41 percent more expensive than those offered by the average Fortune 500 company. These benefits costs are rising by 16 percent a year.
New York City has to strain to finance its schools but must support 10,000 former cops who have retired before age 50.
California can’t afford new water projects, but state cops often receive 90 percent of their salaries when they retire at 50. The average corrections officer there makes $70,000 a year in base salary and $100,000 with overtime (California spends more on its prison system than on its schools).
States across the nation will be paralyzed for the rest of our lives because they face unfunded pension obligations that, if counted accurately, amount to $2 trillion — or $87,000 per plan participant.
All in all, governments can’t promote future prosperity because they are strangling on their own self-indulgence.
Daniel DiSalvo, a political scientist at the City College of New York, has a superb survey of the problem
These arrangements grew gradually. Through much of the 20th century, staunch liberals like Franklin Roosevelt opposed public sector unions. George Meany of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. argued that it is “impossible to bargain collectively with government.”
Private sector managers have to compete in the marketplace, so they have an incentive to push back against union requests. Ideally, some balance is found between the needs of workers and companies. Government managers possess a monopoly on their services and have little incentive to resist union demands. It would only make them unpopular.
In addition, public sector unions can use political power to increase demand for their product. DiSalvo notes that between 1989 ad 2004, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees was the biggest spender in American politics, giving $40 million to federal candidates. The largest impact is on low-turnout local elections. The California prison guard union recently sent a signal by spending $200,000 to defeat a state assemblyman who had tried to reduce costs.
In states across the country, elected leaders raise state employee salaries in the fat years and then are careful to placate the unions by raising future pension benefits in the lean ones. Even if cost-conscious leaders are elected, they find their hands tied by pension commitments and employee contracts.
The end result is sclerotic government. Many of us would be happy to live with a bigger version of 1950s government: one that ran surpluses and was dexterous enough to tackle long-term problems as they arose. But we don’t have that government. We have an immobile government that is desperately overcommitted in all the wrong ways.
This situation, if you’ll forgive me for saying so, has been the Democratic Party’s epic failure. The party believes in the positive uses of government. But if you want the country to share that belief, you have to provide a government that is nimble, tough-minded and effective. That means occasionally standing up to the excessive demands of public employee unions. Instead of standing up to those demands, the party has become captured by the unions. Liberal activism has become paralyzed by its own special interests.
The antigovernment-types perpetually cry less, less, less. The loudest liberals cry more, more, more. Someday there will be a political movement that is willing to make choices, that is willing to say “this but not that.”
Someday.
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Washington Elementary School District Committee
Washington Elementary School District No. 6: Yesterday I received my copy of the “Informational Pamphlet” on the upcoming Bond Issue and Budget Override request by the WESD. NOTE THAT THIS AFFECTS EVERY ONE OF US IN MOON VALLEY!
There are a number of things I found interesting about this booklet. First it states that “…you will have the opportunity to decide two important fiscal matters for the District. First you will be asked to authorize the issuance and sale of not to exceed $65,000,000 principal ad valorem tax bonds….” (This issue will cost us $90,000,000 before it is over) “Next you will have the opportunity to decide the level of increased expenditures in the District”. The operative word in both of these “Opportunities” is “INCREASED”. If, like me, you have received your 2010 tax bill you will find the following statistics interesting:
1. WESD accounts for 36% of your total assessment
2. WESD represents 56% of the total assessment for “Schools and Education”
3. WESD current bonds and overrides represent 15% of your total assessment
4. Current Bonds and Overrides equal 42% of WESD’s total assessment.
Almost one half of their current total ‘budget’ is to pay off their last Bonds and Special Overrides and now that want to increase your tax bill even more because, unlike you and I, they cannot seem to live within their means nor adhere to the Law regarding spending levels. I don’t think so!
Additionally, this Pamphlet informs me that: “The bond election recommendation is the culmination of over two years of research, analysis and planning by the five WESD Regional School Facility Planning Councils, each of which is comprised of parents, staff and community members.” I do not recall being asked if I would like to serve as a “Community Member” on these “Councils”…do you? Who are these people and what portion of these “Councils” did they make up? 50%? 25%? 10%? We do not know but I suggest that since this entire move has been kept a big secret from the vast majority of tax payers they were not in the majority on these “Councils”. Secondly, why has there been virtually no public information issued on these “Studies”. Until I opened this “Pamphlet” that was the first time I had heard of them or their recommendations. Why the cloak and dagger approach? As further evidence of this secrecy, there are absolutely no “Argument Against the Washington Elementary School District No.6 Bond Election” nor against the override section either. Somehow I cannot believe that ‘everyone’ favors these moves…do you?
No sir…in these times of economic down turn and decreased property values (which is not at all reflecting in my current tax bill) coupled with the City of Phoenix placing over $150,000,000 in increases in water fees, other fees, and taxes on our food, I find this ‘recommendation’ totally insensitive to the Tax Payer and I, for one, will vote against it. It is time for all of our government services, including our schools, to live within “our” means. The Tax Payer is not a bottomless well of funds. This proposal sounds a lot like: “I’ve got mine…how are you doing?”
There are a number of things I found interesting about this booklet. First it states that “…you will have the opportunity to decide two important fiscal matters for the District. First you will be asked to authorize the issuance and sale of not to exceed $65,000,000 principal ad valorem tax bonds….” (This issue will cost us $90,000,000 before it is over) “Next you will have the opportunity to decide the level of increased expenditures in the District”. The operative word in both of these “Opportunities” is “INCREASED”. If, like me, you have received your 2010 tax bill you will find the following statistics interesting:
1. WESD accounts for 36% of your total assessment
2. WESD represents 56% of the total assessment for “Schools and Education”
3. WESD current bonds and overrides represent 15% of your total assessment
4. Current Bonds and Overrides equal 42% of WESD’s total assessment.
Almost one half of their current total ‘budget’ is to pay off their last Bonds and Special Overrides and now that want to increase your tax bill even more because, unlike you and I, they cannot seem to live within their means nor adhere to the Law regarding spending levels. I don’t think so!
Additionally, this Pamphlet informs me that: “The bond election recommendation is the culmination of over two years of research, analysis and planning by the five WESD Regional School Facility Planning Councils, each of which is comprised of parents, staff and community members.” I do not recall being asked if I would like to serve as a “Community Member” on these “Councils”…do you? Who are these people and what portion of these “Councils” did they make up? 50%? 25%? 10%? We do not know but I suggest that since this entire move has been kept a big secret from the vast majority of tax payers they were not in the majority on these “Councils”. Secondly, why has there been virtually no public information issued on these “Studies”. Until I opened this “Pamphlet” that was the first time I had heard of them or their recommendations. Why the cloak and dagger approach? As further evidence of this secrecy, there are absolutely no “Argument Against the Washington Elementary School District No.6 Bond Election” nor against the override section either. Somehow I cannot believe that ‘everyone’ favors these moves…do you?
No sir…in these times of economic down turn and decreased property values (which is not at all reflecting in my current tax bill) coupled with the City of Phoenix placing over $150,000,000 in increases in water fees, other fees, and taxes on our food, I find this ‘recommendation’ totally insensitive to the Tax Payer and I, for one, will vote against it. It is time for all of our government services, including our schools, to live within “our” means. The Tax Payer is not a bottomless well of funds. This proposal sounds a lot like: “I’ve got mine…how are you doing?”
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Tea Parties in Competition???
At todays very successful volunteer training secession for Janet Contreras one Jerry Stein came up to me after to meeting and informed me that "he was going into competition with me...he was forming his own Tea Party in the North Phoenix area." I was a bit taken back by this statement because I have never been under the impression that the Tea Parties were in competition with one another. After all, this is not a football game pitting one team against another. My thought was that all Tea Parties should co-operate with one another and in fact we have tried to form a Tea Party Leadership group for that purpose. Of course I told Jerry that his starting another Tea Party was a very good move and that I indeed did not consider it as being in competition with the Original North Phoenix Tea Party...or any other tea party for that matter. It is our hope that tea parties will spring up in virtually every community in the state and nation and that their objective is not to compete with other Tea Parties but rather co-operate with them so that we bring a united front against the forces that threaten our great nation. I honestly hope that Jerry's statement was not reflective of how he actually feels because if it is, it will spell the death of the Tea Party Movement in the future. Again...this is not a football game we are playing but it is, in fact, a very deadly battle against those that would see our country destroyed.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Ever Wonder what it is like to be a woman living under Sharia Law and Islam?
In this day of equality and in light of all of the clamor on the left for equal rights for this group or that group...something in this country we all have and not to be confused with 'equal rights to everyone elses money and property...it is a wonder that the 'left' does not come out against the continuation of political correctness which tolerates Islam in this country or any where else in the world. This is a 'Religion' created by one man centuries ago in order to maintain his own personal life style which abused women in general and his wifes in particular. The following article details what a women may expect living under Islam and Sharia law. It is up to us to put a stop to this in this country...first...and them elsewhere in the world (if we can do so).
"20 years from now, I will be in Heaven --bye !!"
This was written by a woman born in Egypt as a Muslim.
This is not hearsay, and it will scare the life out of you.
Make sure you read the paragraph (in red) towards the end.
Joys of Muslim Women
by Nonie Darwish
In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child, and consummating the marriage.
The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.
Even though a woman is abused she can not obtain a divorce.
To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.
Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and he does not have to say why he has beaten her.
The husband is permitted to have (4 wives) and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.
The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.
In the West World ( America ) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her. It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.
By passing this on, enlightened Australian and American women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah Law.
Ripping the West in Two.
Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two.
She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.
Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel . He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza .
When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society.
But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her ownMuslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.
In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.
For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.
Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.
While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Sharia teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.
While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with God, Sharia advocates executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as criticism.
It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.
While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.
(In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in australia and the U.S. to elect the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so ... You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA .. Dearborn Mich. is one ... and there are others ...)
I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!
It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful ... some may be but they have an army that is willing to shed blood in the name of Islam ... the peaceful support the warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their religion. While America is getting rid of Christianity from all public sites and erasing God from the lives of children the Muslims are planning a great jihad on America .
"20 years from now, I will be in Heaven --bye !!"
This was written by a woman born in Egypt as a Muslim.
This is not hearsay, and it will scare the life out of you.
Make sure you read the paragraph (in red) towards the end.
Joys of Muslim Women
by Nonie Darwish
In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child, and consummating the marriage.
The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.
Even though a woman is abused she can not obtain a divorce.
To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.
Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and he does not have to say why he has beaten her.
The husband is permitted to have (4 wives) and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.
The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.
In the West World ( America ) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her. It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.
By passing this on, enlightened Australian and American women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah Law.
Ripping the West in Two.
Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two.
She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.
Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel . He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza .
When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society.
But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her ownMuslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.
In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.
For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.
Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.
While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Sharia teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.
While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with God, Sharia advocates executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as criticism.
It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.
While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.
(In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in australia and the U.S. to elect the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so ... You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA .. Dearborn Mich. is one ... and there are others ...)
I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!
It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful ... some may be but they have an army that is willing to shed blood in the name of Islam ... the peaceful support the warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their religion. While America is getting rid of Christianity from all public sites and erasing God from the lives of children the Muslims are planning a great jihad on America .
"20 years from now, I will be in Heaven --bye !!"
This was written by a woman born in Egypt as a Muslim.
This is not hearsay, and it will scare the life out of you.
Make sure you read the paragraph (in red) towards the end.
Joys of Muslim Women
by Nonie Darwish
In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child, and consummating the marriage.
The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.
Even though a woman is abused she can not obtain a divorce.
To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.
Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and he does not have to say why he has beaten her.
The husband is permitted to have (4 wives) and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.
The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.
In the West World ( America ) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her. It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.
By passing this on, enlightened Australian and American women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah Law.
Ripping the West in Two.
Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two.
She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.
Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel . He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza .
When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society.
But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her ownMuslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.
In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.
For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.
Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.
While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Sharia teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.
While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with God, Sharia advocates executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as criticism.
It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.
While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.
(In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in australia and the U.S. to elect the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so ... You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA .. Dearborn Mich. is one ... and there are others ...)
I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!
It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful ... some may be but they have an army that is willing to shed blood in the name of Islam ... the peaceful support the warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their religion. While America is getting rid of Christianity from all public sites and erasing God from the lives of children the Muslims are planning a great jihad on America .
"20 years from now, I will be in Heaven --bye !!"
This was written by a woman born in Egypt as a Muslim.
This is not hearsay, and it will scare the life out of you.
Make sure you read the paragraph (in red) towards the end.
Joys of Muslim Women
by Nonie Darwish
In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child, and consummating the marriage.
The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.
Even though a woman is abused she can not obtain a divorce.
To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.
Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and he does not have to say why he has beaten her.
The husband is permitted to have (4 wives) and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.
The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.
In the West World ( America ) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her. It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.
By passing this on, enlightened Australian and American women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah Law.
Ripping the West in Two.
Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two.
She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.
Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel . He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza .
When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society.
But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her ownMuslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.
In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.
For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.
Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.
While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Sharia teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.
While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with God, Sharia advocates executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as criticism.
It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.
While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.
(In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in australia and the U.S. to elect the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so ... You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA .. Dearborn Mich. is one ... and there are others ...)
I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!
It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful ... some may be but they have an army that is willing to shed blood in the name of Islam ... the peaceful support the warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their religion. While America is getting rid of Christianity from all public sites and erasing God from the lives of children the Muslims are planning a great jihad on America .
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