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Following is a summary of this USA Today article:

Starting this first week of October, the government will pay for gender reassignment treatments and surgeries for soldiers, with an estimated expense between $2.4 million to $8.4 million per year.

The RAND Corporation conducted a study showing that there are between 1,320 and 6,630 transgender troops in the active duty force of 1.3 million, and of those troops between 30 and 40 would like hormone treatment, and 25 to 30 would seek surgery.

The policy of the Defense Department is if a service member’s ability to serve is hindered by a “medical condition or medical treatment related to their gender identity,” they will be treated, but the commander must approve the timing of the medical treatment.

Starting October 3, the military health program will cover therapy and hormone treatments for Tricare beneficiaries, and gender reassignment surgeries for active-duty personnel will be conducted either at military hospitals, or if not available there it will be provided at a private hospitals paid by Tricare.

Ron Crews, executive director of Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, said it is a wasteful allocation of money since soldiers undergoing treatments or surgeries are unqualified for deployment for extended periods of time.  “I think this is a gross misuse of military medical dollars that should be used to make our military forces deployable or to help those who are wounded or injured while they are deployed,” he said.

The RAND corporation says hormone therapy doesn’t require a designated recovery time, but reassignment surgeries can leave soldiers non-deployable for up to 135 days in the case of male-to-female genital surgery, and 6 to 20% of those receiving “vaginoplasty” surgery may have complications.

Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center, a public policy think tank, says the actual costs of the surgeries would be lower due to it mitigating serious conditions that impose costs such as suicidality.

Currently at least five transgender troops are seeking treatment outside the military health care system, including one seeking sex-reassignment surgery.  Three are sailors or Marines, and the other two are airmen.

The Army recently assured “Chelsea” [previously Brad] Manning, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking national security secrets, that they would pay for his gender reassignment surgery while he’s in prison.

Following is a summary of this FOX 5 D.C. article: 

A Maryland man has been charged with plotting to kill a U.S. service member on behalf of ISIS in a sting operation.

Nelash Mohamed Das, 24, a Bangladesh citizen who came to the U.S. when he was four years old, has been arrested after months of contact with undercover agents posting as ISIS members when he attempted to kill a U.S. service member in an attack that was set up with false information provided by the FBI.

On September 11, Das met with his FBI source and said he was 100% committed to conducting an attack, saying “That’s like my goal in life.”  The following day he said he would like to be paid by ISIS for doing the killings but he is willing to do it for free also.  He also said that he wants to specifically target U.S. military personnel.

On September 28, Das’s confidential informant provided him with information about a target who was believed to be a member of the U.S. military.  Das believed his information came from ISIS and he would be paid $80,000 for the attack, and he was arrested as he was driving to the location of the target by waiting FBI agents.

Das faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, prosecutors say.

Following is a summary of this Brainerd Dispatch article: 

A board of trustees of a Minnesota church wants a Pastor to resign because he invited a speaker to give a presentation warning about the dangers of Islam.

Church board President Dace Julifs of the Oak Street Chapel in Brainerd, Minnesota, said Friday they are planning to ask Pastor Todd Wooden to resign over inviting an anti-Islamist speaker Usama Dakdok to come to the church to speak about Islam.

“That was a pastor gone rogue.  Oak Street Chapel, we are a kind and caring and open people,” Julifs said.

Wooden has been a member of the non-denominational Christian church since 2000 and has been a pastor since 2013.

Julifs said he did know about the presentation in advance, but he was under the impression that “it would be an informative meeting about the Muslim community and how non-Muslims could co-exit with them.” He said, “Wooden is supposed to represent all of the congregation, but instead he looked out for the needs of just one member: Daryl Bahma, whose ‘Defenders of the Constitution’ sponsored the event in the first place.”

Julifs said the church was forced to take down its website because of all the negative messages they received in response to the presentation.  He said the church’s web administrator was “reduced to tears” after she read some of them.   [This is a tactic of powerful Islamist activist groups such as CAIR who know about Dakdok.]

When contacted by the Dispatch and informed the board wanted him to resign, Wooden laughed and said he didn’t regret Dakok speaking in the Church and he wouldn’t resign.

Apparently a “screaming match” between Dakdok and several protesters broke out when he was giving his presentation [(another tactic of CAIR)], which Wooden called “unnecessary,” and he also took issue with Dakdok calling Americans “stupid” for their acquiescence to the spread of Islam.

Wooden couldn’t say for sure if Dakdok’s presentation was “Islamophobic” though.  He said, “I don’t know how to answer that, really, because I really don’t understand all the elements of Islam at this point. … That would be like calling a Muslim-American America-phobi(c), wouldn’t it?  Because they’re so passionate about Islam being the only way to bring peace to this world.”

The congregation will decide whether Wooden will stay on as pastor.  Wooden said the board doesn’t have the authority to ask for his resignation and none of them were at the presentation, adding that the chair of the church’s ministry and several members of the church gave him positive feedback about the presentation.

Wooden said he believes the congregation will choose to act in his favor.  “They have confidence in me being the spiritual leader of the Church,” he said.

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Usama Dakdok’s website is located at http://www.thestraightway.org/

Following is a video of Usama Dakdok speaking on Valley News Live on November 5, 2015

A California woman is seeking an official apology from United Airlines for discrimination after she was re-seated by the airline due to two Pakistani Muslims refusing to share a row with her because she is a woman.

47 year old Mary Campos was called to the counter before boarding her flight, being told that her seat was reassigned because the two men who would have been sitting with her claimed they couldn’t sit next to a woman for religious reasons.

“I thought I lived in a culture where women were equal to men,” Mary Campos told CBS Los Angeles. “We can’t discriminate against half the population for a belief from another nation.”

She wrote a letter to the CEO of United, part of it saying: “Any belief that prevents individuals from interacting with females should not travel on commercial aircraft.”

Campos said her intention is not to sue United, but she wants the airline to apologize to the female flight crew and the female passengers, and to change their policies.  She said if the doesn’t get that, she’ll do whatever she has to do to protect women’s rights.

Following is a summary of this Breitbart article: 

An 34 year old Ethiopian immigrant who was working as a certified Nursing Assistant in Portland, Oregon has been arrested and charged with the rape of 87 and 94 year old patients, and a half dozen other alleged victims have come forward after his arrest making him likely face many more charges.

Most shocking is the fact that the lawsuit filed on behalf of the 87 year old victim claims that many of the attacks could have been prevented if the hospital acted after the 94 year old told them she had been raped back in June.

The lawsuit alleges:

“       [St. Vincent Medical Center] knew and had reason to know that Adeladilew Mekonen had abused and was likely to again sexually abuse ill and elderly female patients, including plaintiff, if he were allowed to be alone with them in their rooms, and yet defendant Providence directed and allowed Mekonen to continue to attend such female patients, including plaintiff, under such circumstances.”

The 87 year old’s attorney told a Portland TV station: “When you get an accusation as serious as this, you’re really supposed to do something about it.  You’re not supposed to look for the first door out and try to look for a way to say it never happened.”

The hospital issued a statement saying that they are working closely with law enforcement, and that they have a team of people working to review and investigate any patient concerns in all of their hospitals.

A neighbor of the suspect expressed surprise when he was interviewed by a local news station KATU, saying: “I thought he was a very nice guy, family oriented.”

Mekonen had been working at the hospital since May, a month before the first rape was reported.  He immigrated to the United States from Ethiopia in 2011.

Following is a summary of this DailyMail article: 

A 35 year old hairdresser was stabbed to death by her husband inside their apartment in Sydney, Australia because she converted to Christianity, according the the Sydney Herald.  Both are Iranian and have been living in Australia for four years on “bridging visas.”

Amir Darbanou, 42, was charged with the murder of his wife Nasrin Abek after police broke into the apartment at the request of her father who was concerned about her welfare.  Amir had called her father in Iran and told him that he killed his daughter, leading to her father frantically attempting to get the police to investigate the apartment.

One neighbor heard screams come from the apartment in the afternoon, but only silence after.

Following is a summary of this Sydney Morning Herald article: 

An Essential Research poll released on Wednesday found that 49 percent of Australians support a ban on Muslim Immigration, including 60 percent of Coalition voters, 40 percent of Labor Voters, and 34 percent of Green voters.

The most common reasons for wanting a ban were terrorism fears and the belief that Muslims do not share Australian values and do not want to integrate into society.  The poll was conducted in early August and then repeated to ensure that it was not a result on inconsistencies.

“It’s too a big a number to say it’s an unrepresentative rump that should be shunned from polite society,” pollster Peter Lewis told the media.

Following is a summary of this American Family Association article:  

The American Family Association (AFA) has compiled a list of ten cases which showcase why Target’s bathroom policy of allowing men who identify as females to enter women’s bathrooms and dressing rooms is dangerous to woman and children.

Target defends its transgender policies by saying, “We welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity. … Everyone deserves to feel like they belong.”

AFA President Tim Wildmon said, “The overwhelming evidence continues to pile up against Target’s policy to allow men into women’s restrooms and dressing rooms in its stores.  Target’s policy is exactly how sexual predators get access to their victims.  And the proof keeps mounting.  Clearly, Target’s dangerous policy poses a threat to wives and daughters.  Over 1.4 million people have pledged to boycott Target stores until protecting women and children is a priority.”

The AFA listed 10 cases this past year of women and girls being preyed upon due to Target’s policies:

— Man wanted for taking photos inside Target changing room

— Transgender woman caught filming in Target changing room

— Man seen reaching under stall with phone in Target dressing room

— ‘Peeping Tom’ reported in Target dressing room

— Teen girl reports dressing room peeper at Target

— Police Looking for Target Peeper

— Target peeping Tom pleads guilty

— Man Arrested for Taking Photos of Woman in Target Bathroom

— Peeping tom caught filming women in Brentwood Target dressing rooms

— ‘Peeping Tom’ took pics of people in Target bathroom

From the video page: 

Written and directed by Martin Mawyer, founder of the Christian Action Network, Europe’s Last Stand is an insightful and eye opening view into the five-step methodical plan of radical Islam to overtake Europe … and the world.

Part One of this two-part series focuses on the first three pillars of the Islamic Conquest—Infiltration, Imams and Isolation—breaking down each point to fully explain how it is currently playing out in modern-day Europe, and inching closer to Islam’s goal of turning the continent into what some are calling Eurabia.

Part Two details out the final two pillars—Islamization and Implosion. Filled with first-hand accounts from those who are on the front lines in opposition to the Islamic Conquest, Europe’s Last Stand is an insightful look into the uprising that is currently taking place in Europe and should stand as a warning to America to be on its toes.

[Purchase from Amazon… Part 1,  Part 2]

In this video, Ex-Muslim Hamed Abdel-Samad debates issues of Islam on a German talk show.  He says that ISIS is an expression of orthodox Islam despite apologists claiming otherwise, explaining that all of its extreme practices are prescribed in the Quran.