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Why is it illegal votes are being counted? Why is it that we the people have to beg our elected to file an appeal on a ruling that allows illegal votes before the deadline on Friday 2/13/15?

Florida's Governor and Attorney General need you to hear from you!

You see, this past November, a federal court issued an astonishing ruling forbidding the State of Florida to remove unlawfully present aliens and other noncitizens from its voter rolls in the 90 days before a federal election.  

Even more astonishing is the fact that - by all indications - Florida looks set to drop its appeal of this terrible and unprecedented ruling. 

We desperately need you to contact Florida's officials to try to convince them to appeal this ruling by going to the United State Supreme Court!

As a supporter of Judicial Watch, you should know that this entire battle began after Florida initiated a systematic effort to remove ineligible voters from its voter registration lists after Judicial Watch alerted the State of Florida that failure to maintain clean voter registration lists violates Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) - popularly known as the "Motor Voter" law.  In response to our letter, Florida then took steps to remove 53,000 dead voters from the voting rolls and, quite reasonably, thousands of non-citizens.

But the Obama administration and allied leftist advocacy groups who oppose clean elections then went federal court to enjoin the state from continuing its purge of illegal voters from the voting rolls.

These challengers relied on a provision of the "Motor Voter" law which tells state officials how to go about canceling the registrations of voters who have moved out of state.  The NVRA also mandates that such efforts must stop during the 90 days right before an election - also known as the "freeze" period.  

Those challenging Florida's law argued that this 90-day freeze should apply as well to the effort to remove noncitizens - meaning foreign nationals, whether lawfully or unlawfully present in the U.S. - from the voter rolls!

Consider just how crazy that argument is.  Noncitizens were never eligible to register or vote in U.S. elections in the first place - indeed, it is a crime for them even to try to do so

Two separate trial courts tossed out both the Justice Department and its allies' claims and held that Florida could continue to remove unlawfully present aliens and other noncitizens from its voter rolls. 

But last year, a divided three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the Obama-allied groups appeal and reversed the trial court's decision (the case is Arcia v. Florida Secretary of State).  In an activist 2-1 decision, the appeals court held that Florida cannot systematically remove noncitizens from the voter rolls during the 90 days running up to an election.  By the way, it is a felony punishable up to three years in prison to make a false claim of citizenship in order to register to vote! This issue is all the more urgent because of President Obama's refusal to secure our border and his lawless amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

I think you will agree states should be encouraged to clean their voter rolls and to remove noncitizens.  Now is the time to strengthen electoral integrity laws, not to weaken them. 

I think you will also agree that Florida should appeal this ruling. If this ruling is allowed to stand, your vote could be cancelled out by an illegal vote!

Judicial Watch reached out to strongly encourage Florida's Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi to appeal the decision, but their offices don't want to talk to us.  Why on Earth would any Florida official fail to take action to protect clean elections in the Sunshine State!

Effectively, the State of Florida has until this Friday, February 13, 2015, to decide to appeal this ruling.  That is just a few days away. 

If you are a Florida citizen, I hope you will do four things right now! 

First - please contact Florida's Governor Rick Scott at (850) 488-7146 or send him an email him at http://www.flgov.com/contact-gov-scott/email-the-governor/.  Tell him that you want them to appeal Arcia v. Florida Secretary of State to the United States Supreme Court.

Second - call Attorney General Pam Bondi today and tell her you want them to appealArcia v. Florida Secretary of State.  The main switchboard number for her office is (850) 414-3300.

Third - alert your Florida neighbors and friends to encourage them to call too. (Feel free to forward this email!)

Fourth - please make your most generous tax-deductible contribution to Judicial Watch today so we can continue to fight voter fraud and carry out all our work battling government corruption.

No other organization is fighting voter fraud like Judicial Watch, even going to court when necessary.  And your support now will ensure Judicial Watch and our Election Integrity Project will have the resources to fight this battle and so many other election fraud battles we are waging across the country. 

Please act today.  Thank you!

Sincerely,

 

Thomas Fitton

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"We are looking for the bishop of this church to slaughter him -- we are tired of the existence of this church near our mosque and the noise they are making." — Church elder quoting Muslims who attacked a priest, Zanzibar.

"Muslims wanted to punish [him]...because he had recently organised a demonstration against violence in Islam." — Local priest of a murdered Christian, Bangladesh.

"O people of the Scripture [Christians]. Do not exceed the limits of your religion....Cease! It will be better for you...." — Koran, 4:171, Billboard in Nazareth, Israel.

Human rights organization Open Doors published its 2014 World Watch List in January, highlighting and ranking the top 50 nations that persecute Christians. The overwhelming majority of countries making the list—and nine of the top-ten worst offenders—are Muslim, and include nations from among America's allies (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait) and its contenders (Iran); from among economically rich nations (Qatar) and poor nations (Somalia and Yemen); from among "Islamic republic" nations (Afghanistan), "democracies" (Iraq), and "moderate" nations (Malaysia and Indonesia).

The report also indicates that every Muslim nation that the U.S. has helped "liberate," including during the "Arab Spring," has become significantly worse for Christians and other minorities. Previously moderate Syria is now ranked the third-worst nation in the world in which to be Christian, Iraq fourth, Afghanistan fifth, and Libya 13th. All four receive the worst designation in the ranking process: "extreme persecution."

Three of these countries—Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya—were "liberated" in part thanks to U.S. forces, while in the fourth, Syria, the U.S. is actively sponsoring "freedom fighters" against the regime. Many of these "freedom fighters" have been responsible for any number of atrocities—including massacres, beheadings, and the crucifixion of Christians, and others.

Despite this track record of interfering in Islamic nations, only for the human rights of minorities to plummet, and despite the fact that Syria has gotten dramatically worse for Christian minorities, Secretary of State John Kerrydeclared in January that, if only Bashar Assad goes away, "I believe that a peace can protect all of the minorities: Druze, Christian, Isma'ilis, Alawites—all of them can be protected, and you can have a pluralistic Syria, in which minority rights of all people are protected."

The same was predicted of Iraq over a decade ago, yet today, well more than half of the Christians are either dead or have fled, after years of constant attacks on their churches and persons once the Arab dictator Saddam Hussein was ousted.

Libya offers a more recent precedent. Since U.S.-backed "rebels" overthrew Qaddafi, Christians—including Americans—have been tortured and killed (some for refusing to convert), churches bombed, and nuns threatened.

January's roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country in alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity.

Attacks on Christian Places of Worship

Egypt: Christian churches were severely targeted during the first month of 2014. Among other incidents, during New Year Eve church services, Muslim Brotherhood supporters attacked St. George Church in Ain Shams; one young Coptic man died from a bullet wound to the head. International Christian Concern reports that on Friday, January 3, Muslim Brotherhood supporters also attacked an Evangelical Church in the Gesr El Suez area of Cairo, "pelt[ing] stones on the church and chanting slogans against Christians," in the words of a local. Reports indicate that "there was no security for the church building and that the attackers operated with impunity." On Sunday, January 5, security forces in Suez disrupted a terrorist cell belonging to the "Supporters of Jerusalem," whose members were plotting to attack a nearby church during January 7 Orthodox Christmas celebrations. In the bathroom of the Three Saints Church in the city of Beni Suef, the police found, among other items, a bomb, which was defused by police. On January 10, security forces "arrested a bearded person in possession of four hand grenades in a handbag next to the Church of Two Saints," according to a local Christian. (In 2011, a suicide attack on the same church on New Year's Eve resulted in the killing of over 20 Christian worshippers). On January 24, authorities found explosives inside a car parked behind the Al Malak Church, which was targeted, "to be exploded," sources told International Christian Concern. On January 25, security forces in the city of Ismailia found 26 Molotov Cocktails inside a bag next to the Church of St. Bishoy. Witnesses say that the person in possession of the bag of explosives was sitting in a car next to the church and that "he fled when he saw the policemen." On January 28, "A group of armed men," according to Asia News "attacked the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in the governorate of Giza. Police responded to gunfire and one officer died in the shootout, while two others were injured."

Indonesia: In the province of Aceh, where Sharia law holds sway, Christians, who make up 1.2 percent of the population, continue to be denied permits to build churches. According to Agenzia Fides, "There are only three churches in the provincial capital Banda Aceh (one Catholic and two Protestant), and even though the Christian population in Aceh is increasing, the requirements to obtain permits and the pressures of radical Islamic groups on the civilian authorities have made it extremely difficult for non-Muslims to build new places of worship. Moreover, the current governor of the province, Zaini Abdullah, who was elected in 2012, promotes a declared program of islamization of society." According to Zulfikar Muhammad, coordinator of the Aceh Human Rights Coalition, the laws that appear within Sharia districts "limit the freedom of minorities to practice their faith and are not coherent with the Indonesian Constitution."

Malaysia: An unidentified assailant hurled two firebombs at a shrine fronting the Church of the Assumption. Only one bomb ignited, causing minor damage to the structure. The assault seems to have been the response to Christians using the word "Allah" to refer to the biblical God. "But the incident," said Sky News, "stirred memories of a wave of such attacks on places of worship—mostly churches—four years ago during an earlier bout of divisions over the dispute in the Muslim-majority country.... Conservative Muslims have raised pressure in recent weeks for Malay-speaking Christians to stop using the word 'Allah.'"

Nigeria: On a Friday in the Muslim-majority north, gunmen suspected of being members of the Islamic organization Boko Haram burned down a church and the house of a National Assembly member. Separately, in the midst of several Sunday morning raids by Muslim Fulani herdsmen, at least fifteen Christians were killed.

South Sudan: During clashes between rebel groups and the recently formed government of South Sudan,Catholic and Protestant churches were attacked and priests forced to flee for their lives. The whereabouts of a bishop who disappeared remains unknown. Some 600,000 people, most of them Christian, have also fled their homes amid reports of mass slaughters and ongoing attacks on churches.

Zanzibar: More than 100 Muslims stormed a church following an evening worship service and beat the visiting preacher. According to a church elder, "These rowdy Muslims were shouting and yelling, saying, 'We are looking for the bishop of the church to slaughter him—we are tired of the existence of this church near our mosque and the noise they are making.'" The Islamic mob fled when police arrived—but not before tearing the visiting pastor's coat and shirt, and causing him to suffer multiple injuries requiring treatment. According to another church member, the "congregation has been living in fear for their lives... At the moment we cannot worship freely because we are being threatened. The Muslims are accusing us of making a lot of noise while they themselves make a lot of noise."

Attacks on Christian Freedom: Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism

Algeria: Ali Touahir, a 52-year-old Muslim convert to Christianity, is paying the price for apostasy: his Muslim wife has left him, taking their seven-year-old daughter, and is divorcing him in court. One of his wife's brothers has openly threatened to kill him. According to court documents, the wife's lawyer wrote: "It is not possible that my client [the Muslim wife] still remain under the same roof with a man who has renounced his religion, as he became apostate; and we are not ignorant of the punishment that is due an apostate under sharia [death]."

Israel: Christians in Nazareth were warned against "slandering" Allah. A large billboard was posted in Nazareth featuring a picture of a stop sign, along with Koran 4:171 which reads: "O people of the Scripture [Christians]! Do not exceed the limits of your religion. Say nothing but the truth about Allah (The One True God). The Christ Jesus, Son of Mary, was only a Messenger of God and His word conveyed to Mary and a spirit created by Him. So believe in God and His messengers and do not say: 'Three gods (trinity).' Cease! It will be better for you. Indeed, Allah is the One and the Only God. His Holiness is far above having a son."

Kazakhstan: A court fined two Protestant Christians for possession of Christian publications, which it defined as "extremist material." According to a note sent to Agenzia Fides, a "tough system of religious censorship imposed by the state" prevails in the nation. Earlier, in October, 2013, Bibles and icons in a small shop were seized by police, and the owner indicted for the sale of religious material without the permission of the state. Similarly, a 67-year-old Christian Presbyterian Pastor has been under arrest since May 17, 2013, on charges of distributing "extremist material" -- basic leaflets on the Christian faith.

Lebanon: After allegations of blasphemy, that a decades-old library owned by a Christian and church leader possessed "material deemed insulting to Islam and Muhammad," the building was torched in an arson attack; two-thirds of its 80,000 books and manuscripts were destroyed.

Malaysia: Christians using the word "Allah" for worship were again attacked by Muslim groups. Similarly, a portrait of Fr. Andrew Lawrence, Director of the Catholic Weekly Herald, was burned; threats to his life continue. Msg. Murphy Pakiam, the region's Archbishop Emeritus, in a letter asked that authorities to "take the necessary measures to prevent further provocative acts of intimidation against minorities." He concluded by saying, "Let us not forget to pray for our enemies, who have misunderstood our faith."

Read more at: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4312/muslim-persecution-christians-january

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