The White House is refusing to name the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
The group, which has been labeled terrorists by many governments throughout the Middle East, has been supported in the past by the Obama administration when they were controlling Egypt.
A petition on the White House website called for the administration to join other nations in designating the group terrorists. Over 213,000 signatures were obtained in a month. When a petition reaches 100,000, the administration claims they will respond within 30 days.
“[The] Muslim Brotherhood has a long history of violent killings & terrorizing opponents. Also, MB has direct ties with most terrorist groups like Hamas,” the petition reads. “A book by one of their prominent figures, Sayyid Qutb, called Ma’alim fi-l-Tariq, is the bible for many terrorist groups.”
“The Muslim Brotherhood has shown in the past few days that it is willing to engage in violence and killing of innocent civilians in order to invoke fear in the hearts of its opponents. This is terrorism. We ask the US government to declare MB as a terrorist group for a safer future for all of us.”
The White House dismissed the petition in a short reply.
“We have not seen credible evidence that the Muslim Brotherhood has renounced its decades-long commitment to non-violence,” the White House stated.
A hostile anti-Christian organization is aiming a hate campaign toward Christians in the southern part of the U.S.
American Atheists is buying billboards across the south with a picture of a devious looking child and a message that says “Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is to skip church! I’m too old for fairy tales.”
The hostile group is pushing their agenda against Christians.
“Even children know churches spew absurdity, which is why they don’t want to attend services. Enjoy the time with your family and friends instead,” said American Atheists President David Silverman. “Today’s adults have no obligation to pretend to believe the lies their parents believed. It’s OK to admit that your parents were wrong about God, and it’s definitely OK to tell your children the truth.”
The group placed billboards in Memphis and Nashville, TN, St. Louis, MO, Fort Smith, AR and a local group in Milwaukee sponsored their city.
Billboard providers in Jackson, MS refused to sell space to the anti-Christian group.
A provocative new study shows that teenagers living in East Baltimore face many of the same living conditions as children living in third world countries.
The “WAVE” study, a global research project examining the well-being of children between 15 and 19-years-old, focuses on what is considered “vulnerable” environments around the world. The study looked at Ibadan, Nigeria; Johannesburg, South Africa; New Delhi, India; Shanghai, China and Baltimore Maryland.
Factors studied included physical environment, social cohesion and how often they are exposed to violence in their community.
The study showed that in all five cities the teens were exposed to unsanitary conditions such as trash piled in the street, abandoned buildings infested with rats and used drug paraphernalia in fields and yards.
However, teens in Baltimore and Johannesburg, which are considered “wealthy” cities, consider their living conditions to be negative and had worse outcomes when it came to health issues.
Baltimore was worst in the list of cities when it came to social cohesion and was not best rated in any category.
A terrorist bombing plot against Oprah Winfrey’s studios and the iconic “Sears Tower” in Chicago has been uncovered after two of the conspirators were arrested on other crimes.
The plot was first reported by Judicial Watch.
The bombing scheme was plotted in 2009 and allegedly was inspired by militant Islamist hatred of American soldiers being on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Winfrey was targeted because the plotters resented her popularity and power over social issues and debate. The tower because of its iconic status.
Two of the plotters are jailed on state charges. The first, Emad Karakrah, is in the Cook County, Illinois jail on charges of making a false car bomb threat. He led police on a high-speed chase through Chicago with an ISIS flag on his car.
The second, Hector Huerta, is an illegal alien in the El Paso County, Texas Jail. He was arrested on August 13th for DUI and has been charged with “reentry of a deported alien” for the third time in five years.
Sources told Judicial Watch that two of the FBI’s “most wanted terrorists”, Jaber Elbaneh and Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah were part of the planning of the aborted 2009 attack.
The Department of Justice and FBI have not commented on the report.
The Centers for Disease Control has reported that over 200 babies are aborted for every 1,000 that are born in America.
Roughly one abortion for every five live births.
The report covers all 50 states for the year 2011. The study found that 730,322 women killed their babies via abortion that year. A study released by Planned Parenthood that year celebrated their ending the lives of 333,964 babies…meaning that the organization killed over 46% of the children who died via abortion.
“Among the 37 areas that reported by marital status for 2011, 14.5% of all women who obtained an abortion were married and 85.5% were unmarried,” the report states. “The abortion ratio was 43 abortions per 1,000 live births for married women and 373 abortions per 1,000 live births for unmarried women.”
The study also showed a shocking amount of teenagers are ending up pregnant and seeking abortions.
“In 2011, adolescents aged … 15–19 years accounted for … 13.5% of all abortions,” it said, “and had abortion rates of … 10.5 abortions per 1,000 adolescents aged … 15–19 years.”
The study did not include the number of women who died in 2011 from obtaining an abortion.
The Syrian Electronic Army decided to take American Thanksgiving and use it to remind the world they are still watching.
A number of major websites, including major media organizations, were targeted by the SEA. Their websites were met with an error message that read “you’ve been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA).”
Other websites featured nothing but the SEA logo.
Dell, Microsoft, Ferrari and even UNICEF were hit by the group.
“It is PR move to show they have the skills, but what they are doing is not dramatically sophisticated,” Ernest Hilbert, managing director of cybercrime at investigations firm Kroll, and former FBI agent, told CNBC, who had been a victim of the group.
“This is a defacement of a website and they redirected traffic from the real site to a site with their stuff on it instead.”
The SEA are a group of hackers that support the government of Bashir al-Assad and claim that western media outlets are backing the terrorist groups that have been fighting against the Syrian regime.
A new study from the National Center on Family Homelessness says that 2.5 million American children are now homeless.
The number is the highest level recorded to date.
The report was based on data from the U.S. Department of Education and the Census Bureau. In addition to the number of homeless children, the report outlined hundreds of thousands of children who were in danger of losing their housing or living in unsafe, unsanitary conditions.
Single women were the highest for homelessness with children. Single black and Hispanic women were more likely to be in poverty and on the verge of homelessness than any other demographic.
The study said that African American families experience homelessness at a greater rate than any other demographic.
The worst states for homelessness was Alabama and Mississippi.
A new study from LifeWay shows almost a quarter of American families have sought help from church food pantries to meet their needs.
The survey of 1,158 families found that 22 percent have “relied on a church program to feed their families.” Only 26 percent of those families were churchgoers and only one third said they were Christians.
“There is an abundance of food in the U.S., but plenty of people still go hungry,” LifeWay Research vice president Scott McConnell said.
The food bank network Feeding America said that 50 million Americans struggle to put food on the table.
“Many churches respond by faithfully following the biblical principle of being open handed to the poor and needy by maintaining well-stocked food pantries to share,” McConnell said.
The Colorado Supreme Court has thrown a lawsuit out challenging the National Day of Prayer.
The ruling by the court overturns a lower court ruling that a declaration of a day of prayer is unconstitutional.
The anti-Christian group Freedom From Religion Foundation sued in 2008 claiming that then-Governor Bill Ritter was “showing governmental preference for religion” by designating a Day of Prayer. The initial ruling in 2010 was in favor of the state.
“Plaintiffs argue that the proclamations excessively entangle government and religion because it facilitates the Colorado Day of Prayer festivities. In light of the fact that most festivities are planned well in advance of the proclamation’s issuance, this argument is not credible,” wrote Judge Michael Mullins. “Announcing that people will in fact gather to celebrate a public holiday does not necessarily involve the state in any way in the planning of religious activities.”
The anti-Christianists then appealed and the Colorado Court of Appeals overturned the lower court decision.
The Supreme Court threw out the case on a 5-2 decision.
“Although we do not question the sincerity of respondents’ feelings, without more, their circuitous exposure to the honorary proclamations and concomitant belief that the proclamations expressed the Governor’s preference for religion is simply too indirect and incidental an injury to confer individual standing,” wrote Chief Justice Nancy Rice.
“To hold otherwise would render the injury-in-fact requirement superfluous, as any person who learned of a government action through the media and felt politically marginalized as a result of that secondhand media exposure would have individual standing to sue the government.”
A major winter storm is striking the northeast during the heart of the Thanksgiving travel period.
Forecasters are predicting snowfall in excess of a foot throughout most of central New England. Heavy rain and wind should reach from western North Carolina through Maine. Thunder snowstorms are a possibility through the region.
“In most cases, the worst time to travel in the mid-Atlantic and New England due to the storm will be on Wednesday and Wednesday night,” wrote AccuWeather’s Elliot Abrams.
Flight delays are possible throughout the New England corridor through the weekend.
Forecasters also are warning about ice covered roads on Thanksgiving and for weekend travel.