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Drew, John C., 60–61
Dunham, Stanley, 40
Dunn, Anita, 250–51, 309
Durban conferences, 7–8, 121
economic stimulus, xix, 272, 310
Ecoscience (Ehrlich et al.), 294–95
Edwan, Monir, 85–87
Egypt, 9, 46, 91, 97, 161, 222
Ehrlich, Paul and Anne, 294–95
Eid al-Adha, 191–92
Eid al-Fitr, 131, 189
electricity, policy on, 315, 318
Elham, Gholam Hossein, 139
Emanuel, Rahm, 250–51
energy, 312–19
and cap-and-trade program, 314–19, 321, 323–24
climate change and, 19, 296–98, 314, 316, 318–19, 323
emergency presidential powers for, 318–19
Obama’s czars and, 296–98, 322–24
Obama’s policy on, xix, 312–14, 316–18
Erickson, Erick, 286
Europe, 18–21, 23, 28, 45, 59, 97, 233, 264
climate change and, 18–20
gun control and, 32
Iran and, 137, 141
Islamic relations and, 185–86, 264
on Israel, 95
missile defense system and, xiii, xviii, 133–34
Obama’s internationalism and, 13–14
Syrian relations and, 111
welfare system in, 18–19
executive branch power, 290–92
Exley, Zack, 282
Exxon Mobil, 317–18
Fanon, Frantz, 60
Farrakhan, Louis:
anti-Semitism of, 78–79, 81, 98
Obama’s socialism and, 286–87
White House visits of, 64–65
Wright on, 77–79, 81
Fatah, 115
Fayad, Salam, 130
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 258–60
Federal Election Commission (FEC), 85–86, 122, 135, 246–47
Feinberg, Kenneth, 300–301
Ferrara, Peter, 319–20
FightTheSmears.com, 52, 54–55, 65–66
financial regulation, 12–14
Fort Hood massacre, 215–17, 219, 232, 263
Foulkes, Toni, 309
Foxman, Abraham H., 124
Fox News, 12, 226, 248–52
France, 153, 155, 207
Freddoso, David, 318–19
free speech, 6–11, 31–32, 36, 234–64, 328
on college campuses, 261–63
health care and, 235–36, 239–40, 243–47, 254–56, 288
Internet and, 1, 8–9, 26, 237–38, 243, 252–60
Islam and, 3, 7–11, 31, 44–46, 129, 183, 205, 260–64
Koh on, 25–26
legislation on, 257–58, 260
Obama on, xiv–xv, 1, 6, 8–11, 23, 32, 46, 143, 183, 293, 326
and Obama’s war on Fox News, 248–52
racism and, 238–46
and suppressing and demonizing dissent, xiv, 236–40, 243–52, 254–56, 260–64, 288–89
United Nations and, 7–9, 44–45, 183
Fund, John, 304–5
Gaddafi, Muammar, 69, 79
Gaffney, Frank, 197
Gao Shangtao, 325
gasoline, policy on, 315, 318
Gates, Henry Louis, 216, 241, 247
Gaza, 92, 120, 128–29, 220
Israeli operations in, 94, 100, 129
Obama’s Israeli policy and, 100, 102, 104–6, 112, 118, 126, 131
Obama’s presidential campaign and, 85–89
Geithner, Peter and Timothy, 39
Genachowski, Julius, 258–59
Geneva, Geneva Conventions, 2, 128–29, 155–56
Germany, 78, 155, 288
Nazis and, 97–98, 151, 191, 228, 279
Ghaffari, Haddi, 150
Gibbs, Robert, 110, 244, 322
Ginsberg, Marc, 153–54
Gladney, Kenneth, 245–46
Glick, Caroline, 74, 99–101, 115–16
Global Poverty Act, 15
Goldstone, Richard, 128–29
Gottemoeller, Rose, 101
Gray, C. L., 271
Great Britain, 193, 202, 264
Afghani war and, 177
Iranian nuclear weapons program and, 153, 155, 163
Sharia law in, 29–31
Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (G-20), xiv,–xv, 12–13
Guantánamo Bay detention camp, 229–31
closing of, 219, 221–22
international law and, 4–5
Islamic relations and, 207
torture and, 199–200, 221–23, 225, 230–31
trying 9/11 masterminds and, 229
Gubo, Darara, 70
gun control, 1–2, 24, 31–33
Hagel, Chuck, 94–95
haj, 55–56, 191–92
Halperin, Mark, 248–49
Hamas, 86, 107–10, 114–20
Iranian relations of, 146, 152, 156
Israeli Gazan operations and, 94, 100
Obama’s Israeli policy and, 91–92, 100, 102–4, 112, 114–18, 126
television stations of, 117, 119–20
terrorism and, 88, 94, 107, 109, 115–16, 146, 209, 214, 264
Hammer, Joshua, 69
Hanafi, Mohammed Ibrahim, 170
Harsanyi, David, 300–301
Hasan, Nidal Malik, 215–19
Headley, David (Daood Gilani), 218
health care, xix, 67–68, 281, 284, 310, 312, 326, 329
death panels and, 274–76
free speech and, 235–36, 239–40, 243–47, 254–56, 288
Obama’s socialism and, 268, 270–79, 288
and penalties for refusing to buy insurance, 278–79
rationing of, 276–77
tort reform and, 277–78
Heritage Foundation, 276–77, 315
Hitler, Adolf, 78, 242–43, 279
Hizbullah:
Iranian relations of, 108–10, 146, 152, 156–58
Obama’s Israeli policy and, 91, 103
Syrian relations of, 108–11
terrorism and, 95, 145–46, 158, 212
Hizb ut Tahrir, 194
Holder, Eric, 135
on Guantánamo prisoners, 4
Internet free speech and, 254, 260
torture and, 223–25
trying 9/11 masterminds and, 227–28
Holdren, John P., 293–96, 298, 323
Homeland Security Department, U.S., 91, 211–12, 215, 253
Honduras, xiii, 134–36, 310
Hooper, Ibrahim, 44
Horne, Gerald, 40–41
House of Representatives, U.S., 38, 64, 84, 291, 326, 328
energy policy and, 314–16
health care and, 235, 270, 274–76, 278
see also Congress, U.S.
Hoyer, Steny, 235–36, 254, 256
Hussein, Saddam, 47–48
Ibn Kathir, 263
Ihsanoglu, Ekmeleddin, 9, 11, 45, 125, 129, 190
India, 101, 207, 242, 316
Indonesia, 39, 204, 207
Christianity in, 53–54
Obama’s childhood in, xi–xiii, 36–37, 52–54, 57, 98, 265
Inside Islam, 210
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 139, 153–54, 163–64
International Judge, The (Terris et al.), 22
international law, 1–2, 4–6, 28, 225, 227
Internet, 55, 86–88, 96–98, 217, 266, 282, 284, 320
ACORN and, 309
free speech and, 1, 8–9, 26, 237–38, 243, 252–60
net neutrality and, 258–60
Obama’s czars and, 253
Iran, 72, 95, 122, 136–65, 212
elections in, 142–46, 148, 150, 155–56, 159
Israel and, 50–51, 93, 113, 141, 146, 150, 156–59, 163
missile program of, 133–34, 141, 155
nuclear weapons program of, x-xi, 93, 113, 132–34, 136–39, 141–43, 145–46, 152–65, 198, 310, 312, 325
Ob
ama on, x–xi, xiii, xix, 50, 93, 99–100, 103–4, 106, 113, 132–34, 136–49, 151–64, 180–81, 183, 188, 197–99, 310, 312, 325
protest movement in, xiii, 136, 142–50, 159, 231, 310
Syrian relations of, 108–11
takeover of U.S. embassy in, 136–38, 142, 149, 181
Irandoost, Arash, 146
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, 148
Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act (IRPSA), 152–53
Iraq, 91, 108, 151–52, 222
Iran and, 93, 100, 103, 141, 152, 155–56
Islam and, 169, 207
Obama on, x, 103, 167–68, 172–73, 176–77, 198, 224
U.S. war in, 6, 47–48, 79–80, 97, 151, 167–69, 172, 207
U.S. withdrawal from, 100, 167–68, 172–73, 177
Ireland, 13–14, 121
Ishmael, 192
Islam, 3, 6–11, 15, 23–25, 41–59, 65–66, 107–9, 118–23, 136–37, 150–51, 177–220
anti-Semitism and, 50–51, 58, 78–79, 92, 97–98, 107, 118–19
causes of tensions with, 181–82
charitable giving in, 213–15
Christianity and, 7, 46, 50, 53–58, 77, 187–88, 190–91, 202, 205, 231, 263
comparisons between Communism and, 33–34
discrimination against, 7–9, 45, 47–48, 57–58, 187, 212–14, 218, 232
energy and, 19, 313
Fort Hood massacre and, 215–17, 219, 232, 263
free speech and, 3, 7–11, 31, 44–46, 129, 183, 205, 260–64
Hamas television and, 119–20
and institutionalized mistreatment of non-Muslims, 46, 51, 185–86, 188, 190–92, 202–3, 205, 219, 227, 263
Iranian policy and, 151, 159
Iraq and, 169, 207
Kenyan politics and, 69–71
Koh’s internationalism and, 25, 28–31
Obama on, xii, xiv, xviii, 6, 9, 31, 42, 46, 49–52, 57–59, 112, 118–19, 121, 125, 131, 141, 168–69, 173–75, 179–88, 190–93, 195, 197, 199–204, 206–9, 211–20, 222, 231, 256, 261, 310
and Obama’s childhood and upbringing, xii, 36–37, 41–42, 49, 51–55, 57–58, 98, 195
Obama’s grandmother and, 55–56
Obama’s Israeli policy and, 75, 91, 112, 131
Obama’s middle name and, 48
Obama’s presidential campaign and, 87–88
self-hating Jews and, 122–23
Sharia law of, 23, 25, 28–31, 42–44, 46–47, 51, 59, 70–71, 107, 130, 145–46, 150, 164–65, 171, 183, 186, 191–94, 199, 202–3, 205, 212–13, 219, 230, 262–63, 310, 328
State Department and, 189–90, 210
stereotyping of, 187, 198
terrorism and, 11, 54, 57, 91, 108–9, 123, 136, 182–84, 186, 191, 195, 198–200, 206–7, 209–12, 214–19, 223–24, 227, 230, 232, 239, 256
torture and, 222–24
U.S. allegedly shaped by, 204–8
U.S. history and, 203–4
U.S-Muslim Engagement Project and, 190–91, 195–99
in U.S. population, 207–8
women in, 8, 29, 31, 46, 108, 170–71, 177, 186–87, 192–95, 212–13, 231, 263
Wright and, 65, 77
Islam, Talib, 219
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), 87–88, 107–8, 118–19, 197, 209
Israel, 3, 73–86, 88–95, 97–132, 163–65, 239, 262
anti-Semitism and, 75–85, 89, 93–95, 97–98, 107
anti-U.S. rallies in, 131
Gazan operations of, 94, 100, 129
Iran and, 50–51, 93, 113, 141, 146, 150, 156–59, 163
Iraqi war and, 80, 97
Jews opposed to, 122–23
Nazi Germany compared to, 97–98
nuclear weapons and, 80, 101, 163, 326
Obama on, xi, xiii, xix, 50, 59, 73–75, 80–81, 84–85, 89–95, 98–108, 110–18, 121, 123, 125–28, 130–32, 157–58, 161, 163, 183, 187–88, 198–99, 209, 211, 310
roadblock removal in, 128
Syrian relations of, 108–11
terrorism and, 81, 83–85, 88, 90–91, 94–95, 99, 102–5, 107, 112, 115–16, 118, 158, 187–88, 196, 230
war-crimes charges against, 128–29
Isra event, 185
Jackson, Jesse, 105
Jalili, Saeed, 155–56
Jarrett, Valerie, 108, 118–19, 208
Jefferson, Thomas, 203–4
Jenin Massacre, 90
Jesus, 49–50, 78, 106, 185, 280
Jews, Judaism, xiii, 30, 208–11, 239, 310
anti-Semitism and, 7, 50–51, 58, 75–85, 89, 92–98, 102–4, 107–8, 110, 114, 118–19, 121, 123–25, 129
Hanukkah parties and, 210–11
Islamic relations and, 7, 46, 50, 58, 122–23, 187–88, 190, 196, 202, 205, 231, 263
Obama’s Israeli policy and, 73–75, 81, 102–4, 106
Obama’s popularity among, 73–76, 79, 97, 104–7, 208–9
Passover seders and, 208–9
self-hating, 122–23
job training, 268–69
Johnson, Scott, 287–88
Jones, James L., 6, 100, 116–18, 123
Jones, Phil, 320–21
Jones, Van, 247–48, 299–300
Jordan, 97, 101, 126
J Street, 122–25
Justice Department, U.S., 25, 27, 310–11
international law and, 4
Islamic policy and, 212–14
torture and, 225, 230
Kamau, Stanley, 71–72
Katz, Yaakov, 131
Kennedy, Robert F., 76
Kenya, 36, 40, 49, 51, 55–56
politics in, xiii, 68–72
Kerry, John, ix, 114
Khalidi, Rashid, 75, 83–84
Khalilzad, Zalmay, 102
Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali, 137, 142–44, 149–50, 155
Khatami, Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad, 156
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 142, 150
Kibaki, Mwai, xiii, 68, 71–72
King, Steve, 306, 309
Kirk, Mark Steven, 116
Klein, Aaron, 83
Klein, Joel, 83
Klein, Philip, 122
Koh, Harold, 25–31
Koran for Dummies, The (Sultan), 263
Korea, North, 234, 260
nuclear weapons program of, x, 101, 109, 157, 160–61, 325–26
Kramer, Martin, 83
Krauthammer, Charles, 269–70
Kristof, Nicholas, 52–53
Krugman, Paul, 238–40
Kurtz, Stanley, 236, 268, 311
Lakely, James G., 259–60
Landesman, Rocco, 287–88
Larijani, Ali, 109, 139
Lasky, Ed, 125
Lebanon, 83–84, 97, 100, 109–10, 146–47, 222
Iranian relations of, 152, 155–57
Levinson, Bill, 96
Lieberman, Ben, 315–16
Liebler, Isi, 122
Lifson, Thomas, 242
Limbaugh, Rush, 227, 266
Limbert, John, 149, 151–52
Lisbon Treaty, 13–14, 21
Listen to Your Mother (Creamer), 272–73
Los Angeles, Calif., 212, 230, 238
McCain, Cindy, 249
McCain, John, 306
missile defense system and, 134
presidential campaigns of, 35, 47, 51, 57, 84, 106, 248–49
McCarthy, Andrew, 174–76, 182, 214, 229
McChesney, Robert W., 259–60
McChrystal, Stanley, 166–67, 176
McDonough, Denis, 51–52
Malley, Robert, 91–93
Mao Tse Tung, 265, 279, 287–88, 295, 309
Mattson, Ingrid, 107–8, 197, 209
Maududi, Sayyid Abul Ala, 30, 42–43, 46–47
Medicare, 275–76
Mehanna, Tarek, 219
Menocal, Maria Rosa, 188
Mikulan, Steven, 238
missile defense system, xiii, xviii, 133–34
Moberg, David, 62
Mofaz, Shaul, 158
Mogahed, Dalia, 184, 193–94, 196–97
Moglen, Eben, 259
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 10, 228–31
Monckton, Lord Christopher, 20–22, 319
Monnerot, Jules, 34
Moore, Art, 43
Moreno-Ocampo, Luis, 5
Morris, Dick, 12–13
Moses, 49–50, 78, 185
Mousa, Sarah, 262
Mousavi, Mir Hussein, 144–45
Mozhdah, Waheed, 170
Muhammad, 44, 49–50, 185, 193, 205, 219
Muhammad, Fathiyyah, 306–8
Mumbai massacre, 218
Muslim Brotherhood, 44, 87–88, 107–8, 197, 199–200
Mustafa, Imad, 110–11
Mutua, Alfred, 68–69
Nadler, Jerrold, 88–89
National Day of Prayer, 208
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 283–85, 287
National Iranian American Council (NIAC), 149–51
National Israel Solidarity Rally, 124–25
National Rifle Association (NRA), 31–33
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), 255
Natsheh, Rafik, 115
natural gas, 312, 315, 318
Navy SEALs prosecutions, 226–27
Netanyahu, Binyamin, 74, 111–17, 128, 157
Neuer, Hillel, 3
New Party, 268
New York, 81–82, 227–31, 280–81
New York Times, The, 52, 66, 69, 90, 176, 238–40, 242–43, 247, 249, 321–22
9/11 terrorist attacks, 57–58, 88, 221, 227–33, 242, 310
causes of, 232–33, 239
Islam and, 54, 57, 123, 186, 198, 200, 206–7, 209–11, 215, 219, 227, 239
trying masterminds of, 227–31
Wright on, 67
Nixon, Richard, 240, 287, 291
Nolte, John, 284
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 101, 142, 154
Nordlinger, Jay, 293–94
norming, 2, 4, 32
nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, 325–27
disarmament and, 160, 162–63, 293–94, 296
of Iran, x–xi, 93, 113, 132–34, 136–39, 141–43, 145–46, 152–65, 198, 310, 312, 325
Israel and, 80, 101, 163, 326
of North Korea, x, 101, 109, 157, 160–61, 325–26
proliferation of, 2, 101, 142, 154, 160–63, 198
Syria and, 109
Wright on, 67
Obama, Abongo “Roy,” 56
Obama, Barack Hussein, Jr.:
anti-Semitic associates of, 75–77, 79–82, 84–85, 89, 92–93, 95–98, 102, 104, 107–8, 110, 118–19, 121
autobiographies of, 37–41, 53, 57–58, 60, 67, 96, 282, 288
birth of, 37, 42, 265
childhood of, xi–xiv, 14, 36–42, 49, 51–58, 64, 98, 195, 265
citizenship of, 239
on corruption, 68
dishonesty of, 74–75, 309
education of, xi, xiii–xiv, 13, 36, 40–42, 52–54, 59–61, 98, 195, 258, 265–66, 304–5
fake thesis of, 266
finances of, 37, 60–61, 63, 84–89, 246–47