Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say

by Glenn Beck

  PAGE 157: “‘ask them to pray for him’” Ambreen Ali, “Christian Coalition Asks Obama to Protect the Poor During Meeting,” Roll Call, July 20, 2011, http://www.rollcall.com/news/christian_coalition_asks_obama_to_protect_the_poor_during_meeting-207508-1.html. • “protest ‘fasts’ between Palm Sunday and Easter.” Thomas C. Reeves, The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity, (New York: Free Press, 1996).

  PAGE 158: “‘so we’re with him on that’” Ambreen Ali, “Christian Coalition Asks Obama to Protect the Poor During Meeting,” Roll Call, July 20, 2011, http://www.rollcall.com/news/christian_coalition_asks_obama_to_protect_the_poor_during_meeting-207508-1.html. • “‘fiscal responsibility and shared sacrifice’” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, “U.S. Bishops Join with Other Christian Leaders to Call for ‘Circle of Protection’ Around Programs for Poor People,” news release, April 28, 2011, http://old.usccb.org/comm/archives/2011/11-085.shtml. • “‘did not use a government credit card’” Christians for a Sustainable Economy, “CASE’s Letter to the President,” case4america.org, accessed April 3, 2012, http://www.case4america.org/cases-letter-to-the-president. • “‘engines of both Wall Street and the Kremlin’” Katherine Mangu-Ward, “God’s Democrat,” Weekly Standard, April 11, 2005, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/441oqlsg.asp.

  PAGE 159: “‘hurricane of human suffering’” Mark Tooley, “Sojourn to the Center: Has Religious-Left Activist Jim Wallis Gone Moderate?” Touchstone 15, no. 3 (2002), http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=15-03-054-r. • “‘anchors our nation in a common humanity’” Jim Wallis, God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006), 19. • “‘not just off the welfare rolls’” Mark Tooley, “Our Savior, the Democrats,” Weekly Standard, June 13, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/our-savior-democrats_573260.html.

  PAGE 160: “‘My hope is that we will have a partnership’” Mark Tooley, “Sojourn to the Center: Has Religious-Left Activist Jim Wallis Gone Moderate?” Touchstone 15, no. 3 (2002), http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=15-03-054-r. • “‘inclined to give Mr. Bush a chance’” Mark Tooley, “Sojourn to the Center: Has Religious-Left Activist Jim Wallis Gone Moderate?” Touchstone 15, no. 3 (2002), http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=15-03-054-r. • “‘no moral compass’” Mark Tooley, “Sojourn to the Center: Has Religious-Left Activist Jim Wallis Gone Moderate?” Touchstone 15, no. 3 (2002), http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=15-03-054-r. • “‘$150,000 in 2011 through his foundation’” Marvin Olasky, “There He Goes Again: Jim Wallis’ Sojourners Accepts $150,000 More from Atheist George Soros,” World magazine, October 22, 2011, http://www.worldmag.com/articles/18750.

  PAGE 161: “‘Just bad theology’” “Is America a Christian Nation: And Does It Matter?” lifetreecafe.com, March 4, 2012, http://www.lifetreecafe.com/topics/030412.

  PAGE 162: “‘We’ve been talking faith and politics for a long time’” Julia Duin, “Clergy Offer Obama Counsel,” Washington Times, January 22, 2009, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/22/clergy-offer-obama-counsel. • “‘This White House wants our advice’” Jim Wallis, “A Renewed Faith in Public Life,” On Faith blog at washingtonpost.com, January 25, 2009, http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/jim_wallis/2009/01/a_renewed_faith_in_public_life.html. • “‘We are in danger of losing the moral core of the health care debate’” Jim Wallis, “The Moral Core of the Health-Care Debate,” sojo.net, August 20 2009, http://sojo.net/blogs/2009/08/20/moral-core-health-care-debate.

  PAGE 163: “‘American exceptionalism, theologically, is a heresy’” Billy Hallowell, “Lib Pastor Jim Wallis: ‘American Exceptionalism. . .Is a Heresy. . .& It’s Very Dangerous’,” theblaze.com, March 8, 2012, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/lib-pastor-jim-wallis-american-exceptionalism-is-a-heresy-its-very-dangerous. • “‘And I signed up to be a follower of Jesus’” Connor Ewing, “Wallis Sparks Controversy at Christian Music Festival,” theird.org, July 15, 2010, http://www.theird.org/page.aspx?pid=1558. • “more a ‘movement person’ supposedly akin to Martin Luther King” Mark Tooley, “Our Savior, the Democrats,” Weekly Standard, June 13, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/our-savior-democrats_573260.html.

  PAGE 164: “‘American foreign policy has made the world much better’” Mark Tooley, “Exceptional America?” American Spectator, April 8, 2011, http://spectator.org/archives/2011/04/08/exceptional-america. • “‘holding the wealthy and powerful accountable’” Jim Wallis, “Praying for Peace and Looking for Jesus at #OccupyWallStreet,” Huffington Post, October 6, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/occupy-wall-street-looking-for-jesus_b_998381.html. • “‘those services for women who seek it’” “Sojourners’ Statement on Obama Administration’s Contraception Policy Change,” God’s Politics blog at sojo.net, February 10, 2012, http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/02/10/sojourners-statement-obama-administrations-contraception-policy-change.

  PAGE 165: “‘more than they’re paying now’” Napp Nazworth, “Progressive Evangelical Jim Wallis Agrees Debt Is Moral Issue,” Christian Post, April 4, 2012, http://www.christianpost.com/news/jim-wallis-responds-to-christians-for-a-sustainable-economy-letter-55769.

  PAGE 166: “‘so small that I hadn’t remembered them’” Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “Wallis Admits to Soros Funding,” Politics blog at christianitytoday.com, August 20, 2010, http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2010/08/wallis_admits_t.html.

  Chapter 9

  CHANGE THE MEDIA, CHANGE THE WORLD

  PAGE 170: “‘It will be the fast beating the slow.’” “The Big Idea,” fastcompany.com, http://www.fastcompany.com/node/653619, accessed April 29, 2012.

  PAGE 172: “front page of the Drudge Report” “The Face of CBS to Sign Off,” drudgereport.com, November 24, 2004, http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2004/11/24/20041124_001000.htm.

  PAGE 175: “culture at CBS News in the early 1980s” Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (New York: Random House, 2006), 24-25, http://books.google.com/books?id=Ff8oVIxKcSoC&pg=PA24.

  PAGE 177: “‘accountability of government. . .’” Peter Johnson, “Katrina Rekindles Adversarial Media,” Media Mix column at usatoday.com, September 5, 2005, http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2005-09-05-media-mix_x.htm.

  PAGE 179: “‘not Woodward and Bernstein on our side’” Michael Calderone, “Conservatives At CPAC Search For The Right’s Woodward And Bernstein,” huffingtonpost.com, February 13, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/cpac-conservative-media-journalism_n_1272327.html.

  PAGE 180: “journalism make it into that income group” Robert Gebeloff and Shaily Dewan, “What the Top 1% of Earners Majored In,” Economix blog at nytimes.com, January 18, 2012, http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/what-the-top-1-of-earners-majored-in.

  PAGE 181: “‘non-traditional’ sources of news” Michelle Malkin, “Announcing Twitchy.com,” michellemalkin.com, http://michellemalkin.com/2012/03/07/announcing-twitchy-com, accessed April 29, 2012.

  PAGE 186: “mainstream media remains a lure” Roy Greenslade, “Journalism Students Don’t Read Newspapers,” Greenslade blog at guardian.co.uk, October 12, 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/oct/12/cityuniversity-journalism-education.

  Chapter 10

  THE ISLAMIST AGENDA

  Facts Over Fear

  PAGE 190: “‘the State of Islam established.’” Oren Kessler, “Muslim Brotherhood Text Reveals Scope of Radical Creed,” jpost.com, February 9, 2011, http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=207415.

  PAGE 192: “‘that was not prohibited’” Sharia Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Cases, Center for Security Policy, report, May 20, 2011, 474, http://shariahinamericancourts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Sharia_Law_And_American_State_Courts_1.4_06212011.pdf. • “when she res
ists his sexual advances” Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994) 535, 619. • “New Jersey family court” US Constitution, art. VI, sec. 2. • “giving the woman the protection she was seeking”S.D. v. M.J.R., 2 N.J. 3d, 412 (2010).

  PAGE 193: “irrespective of where they live” William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 57. • “‘North American environment’” Fiqh Council of North America, “History of the Fiqh Council,” fiqhcouncil.org, accessed April 23, 2012, http://www.fiqhcouncil.org/node/13. • “‘and students in this language’” Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994) xvii, http://www.bysiness.co.uk/Classical_Other/reliance.htm. • “‘conforms to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community’” Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994) xv, http://www.bysiness.co.uk/Classical_Other/reliance.htm.

  PAGE 194: “a boy not until age fifteen” Iran Bulletin, “Islamic Republic of Iran and Penal Codes,” iran-bulletin.org, accessed April 23, 2012, http://www.iran-bulletin.org/political_islam/punishmnt.html. • “Beating and raping one’s wife is authorized” Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994), 541. • “woman’s testimony in court is valued at half that of a man” Qur’an 2:282. • “amputation of a thief’s right hand” Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994), 613. • “‘Whoever a Muslim changes his/her religion, kill him/her’” Amjaonline “The Shari’ah ruling on Apostasy (Reddah),” April 17, 2006, Sheikh Hatem Mohammad Al-Haj Aly. • “against nonbelievers is required of all adherents” Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994), 599. • “death sentence mandate for apostates” Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994), 595-596.

  PAGE195: “‘not freely performing their religious obligation as Muslims’” Toni Johnson, “Islam: Governing Under Sharia,” cfr.org, October 24, 2011, http://www.cfr.org/religion/islam-governing-under-sharia/p8034. • “‘it would be doomed from the start’” Imran A. Nyazee, Theories of Islamic Law: The Methodology of Ijtihad (Chicago: KAZI, 1995).

  PAGE 196: “those decisions conflict with Constitutional protections” Sharia Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Cases, Center for Security Policy, report, May 20, 2011, http://shariahinamericancourts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Sharia_Law_And_American_State_Courts_1.4_06212011.pdf. • “laws of the Middle East in the past 11 years” Dr. Ihsan Al-Khatib, “Shari’a Law and American Courts: An Interview with Abed Awad, Esq.” Shariainamerica.com, January 23, 2012, http://shariainamerica.com/2012/01/23/Sharia-Law-and-American-Courts-An-Interview-with-Abed-Awad-Esq.

  PAGE 197: “‘I am going to dismiss the charge’” The Counter Jihad Report, “Impeach Pennsylvania’s Sharia Judge,” counterjihadreport.com, March 6, 2012, http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/judge-mark-martin. • “insult directed against the Prophet Muhammad” Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994) 597, 713, 724. • “‘the state of Michigan’s constitution’” American Islamic Leadership Coalition “American Muslims Speak Out Against the Enforcement of Shari’ah Law in America,” press release, September 7, 2011, http://americanislamicleadership.org/AILC_Response_MI.

  PAGE 198: “integrating shariah into yet another element of society” William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 265. • “an Israeli company on grounds that it is impure” William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 267. • “are fighting in the cause of Allah” William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 267.

  PAGE 199: “‘in an alien and rival system. . .’” Gregory Katz, “Archbishop: UK Should Allow Shariah,” The Associated Press, February 7, 2008, http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Feb07/0,4670,BritainShariahLaw,00.html.

  PAGE 200: “the largest Muslim charity in America” Gretel C. Kovach, “Five Convicted in Terrorism Financing Trial,” NY Times, November 24, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/us/25charity.html. • “organization Hamas under the guise of zakat” US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, 112th cong., 2nd sess., http://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/t11sdn.pdf. • “‘goal of re-establishing the global caliphate’” William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 119.

  PAGE 201: “‘at the very latest,’ Europe will be predominately Islamic” Christopher Caldwell, “Islamic Europe?” Weekly Standard, October 4, 2004, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/685ozxcq.asp. • “‘is to dominate in Europe’” Christopher Caldwell, “Islamic Europe?” Weekly Standard, October 4, 2004, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/685ozxcq.asp?page=2. • “‘become integrated into their European host nations’” Soeren Kern, “European ‘No-Go’ Zones for Non-Muslims Proliferating: ‘Occupation Without Tanks or Soldiers,’” gatestoneinstitute.org, August 22, 2011, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2367/european-muslim-no-go-zones.

  PAGE 202: “in predominantly Muslim neighborhoods” Soeren Kern, “European ‘No-Go’ Zones for Non-Muslims Proliferating: ‘Occupation Without Tanks or Soldiers,’”gatestoneinstitute.org, August 22, 2011, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2367/european-muslim-no-go-zones. • “exact addresses and satellite maps” GIS Urban Policy, “Atlas Sensitive Urban Areas (ZUS),” SIG of the Secretariat General of the VIC, accessed April 24, 2012, http://sig.ville.gouv.fr/Atlas/ZUS. • “non-Muslims can avoid these areas” GIS Urban Policy, “Atlas Sensitive Urban Areas (ZUS),” SIG of the Secretariat General of the VIC, accessed April 24, 2012, http://sig.ville.gouv.fr/Atlas/ZUS. • “is completely out of the picture” DerWesten, “Even in Urban Districts the Police are Afraid,” derwesten.de, January 8, 2011, http://www.derwesten.de/politik/in-problemvierteln-fuerchtet-sich-sogar-die-polizei-id4926287.html.

  PAGE 203: “under the guise of charity” Gretel C. Kovach, “Five Convicted in Terrorism Financing Trial,” NY Times, November 24, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/us/25charity.html. • “‘just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s’” Brad Knickerbocker, “Why is Glenn Beck Freaking Out Over Egypt and a Caliphate?” Vox blog at csmonitor.com, February 12, 2011, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Vox-News/2011/0212/Why-is-Glenn-Beck-freaking-out-over-Egypt-and-a-caliphate.

  PAGE 204: “‘guidance, instruction, truth and justice.’” MEMRI, “Muslim Brotherhood General Guide Muhammed Badi: Our Ultimate Goal, Establishing a Global Islamic Caliphate, Can Only Be Achieved Gradually and Without Coercion,” memri.org, February 10, 2012, http://www.memri.org/report/en/print6075.htm.

  PAGE 205: “‘is made victorious over all other religions’”United S
tates v. Holy Land Foundation, 445 F.3d 771 (5th Cit. 2006) http://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/judges/hlf2/09-25-08/Elbarasse%20Search%203.pdf. • “contacts between CAIR and the FBI” Richard C. Powers, letter to Jon Kyl, April 28, 2009, http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/265.pdf. • “because the Brotherhood pledged they would not seek the presidency” David D. Kirkpatrick, “Islamist Group Breaks Pledge to Stay Out of Race in Egypt,” New York Times, March 31, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/middleeast/brotherhood-chooses-a-candidate-in-egypt.html. • “(. . .Brotherhood wouldn’t seek the presidency), for president” David D. Kirkpatrick, “Islamist Group Breaks Pledge to Stay Out of Race in Egypt,” NY Times, March 31, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/middleeast/brotherhood-chooses-a-candidate-in-egypt.html. • “‘We have no desire at all to monopolize power’” David D. Kirkpatrick, “Islamist Group Breaks Pledge to Stay Out of Race in Egypt,” NY Times, March 31, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/middleeast/brotherhood-chooses-a-candidate-in-egypt.html.

  PAGE 206: “‘affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists’”United States v. Sabri Benkahla, 530 F.3d 300 (4th cir. 2008) 530 F.3d 300, http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/542.pdf. • “met with Islamist ‘grievance group’ leaders from CAIR” CAIRtv, “Video: CAIR Meets with FBI, NJ Officials on NYPD Muslim Spying,” youtube.com, March 5, 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkvJRR71Ebk. • “‘speaking on an Arab-American radio show to assuage concerns’” Niraj Warikoo, “FBI Ditches Training Materials Criticized as Anti-Muslim,” usatoday.com, February 20, 2012, http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-20/fbi-anti-muslim-training/53168966/1. • “‘make them slaves to Allah’” Brigitte Gabriel, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, 1st ed. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008), 117.