Why didn’t Jackson Lee rant about big threat, eco-terrorists?

A video of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) quizzing Patrick Dunleavy, the former deputy inspector of the criminal intelligence unit, NY Dept. of Correctional Services doesn’t just reflect Lee’s veering off subject —Muslim radicalization in America prisons.

Lee’s bizarre preoccupation with “Christian militants” who might try to “bring down the country” reflected a glaring omission of groups the FBI declared the top domestic terrorism threat in 2004.

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Refugees to U.S.: 27 percent self-identify as Muslims

4^th in a series on the US border and immigration

Have you ever asked yourself why US academics rarely talk about the issue of women and minority rights in repressive Middle Eastern Countries? Nevertheless, even progressive publications like The New York Times have urged the federal government to accept “persecuted women who flee to the United States…”

Women and others who seek asylum from Islamist governments made up about 27 percent of “arriving refugees self-identified as Muslim,” according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

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Blasphemy, apostasy murders in Islamic countries clash with Western law

Pakistan’s only Christian government minister was murdered by perpetrators described by Reuters as ‘Taliban militants’ on Wednesday. His crime? Speaking out against a law sentencing to death those who insult Islam.  Shortly after Christmas, a governor was murdered. Reuters said the governor’s bodyguard did the deed. The governor committed the same ‘crime’ as the Christian minister.

What very few political analysts—conservative or liberal—acknowledge is the clash between Western law and laws legalizing murder in Islamic countries over a matter Westerners regard as a fundamental human right—the right to choose one’s faith regardless of circumstance of birth or to leave one’s faith for another.

The United Nations can do little—as a matter of fact, some UN policy makers have made matters worse.

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Rep. Ellison sees Christmas as political opp for ‘crisis’ on tax deal

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) sees Christmas as more than a core tradition in America. Ellison views one of the holiest Christian holidays as a political opportunity in the tax deal crisis.

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Christian law center compares free speech issues on religion in US and Pakistan

What is the difference between the village of Itan Wali, Pakistan and the City of Dearborn, Michigan?

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TSA intensive searches, scans fly in the face of Christian teachings

Updated on Monday, November 15, 2010 at 11:52AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Photo by Kay B. DayIn a previous column I expressed frustration about ramped up security measures at airports. The Transportation Security Administration now expects Americans to agree to very detailed full body scans and/or what amounts to intensive pat downs. Travelers have been vocal about the intrusions on privacy.

I predicted a backlash from those who practice the Muslim faith, and it didn’t take an advocacy organization long to issue cautions to women who wear hijabs. Such women, said the statement from the Council on American-Islamic relations, should tell TSA they consent only to searches of the head and neck area. CNS News was one of the few media outlets to report the statement.

We Christians often overlook our own faith, in part because of ongoing assaults on the faith by government-friendly media.

Fact is body scans that show graphic images of nakedness as well as groping at the hands of a stranger infringe on Christian teachings on modesty. For references turn to the Biblical books of Genesis, Leviticus, Matthew and John among others.

The infringement on Christian faith is complimented by The Bill of Rights—at least two articles in the first ten amendments to the US Constitution. Aside from the issue of unreasonable search and seizure, current TSA protocol in essence impedes the tenet of Christian modesty.

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