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• Texas Legislator Instructs Staff: Ask Muslims to Pledge Allegiance to America
• Pakistan Again Left Out in Favor of America's Closer Ties with India
• As Muslim Uighurs Flee, China Sees Jihad Risk

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Texas Legislator Instructs Staff: Ask Muslims to Pledge Allegiance to America

A Texas state Representative today said she instructed her staff to ask Muslim constituents to "publicly announce allegiance to America." "Today is Texas Muslim Capital [sic] Day in Austin," newly-elected Republican state Rep. Molly White wrote on Facebook. "I did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk in my office with instructions to staff to ask representatives from the Muslim community to renounce Islamic terrorist groups." "We will see how long they stay in my office," she added. In response to White's post, CAIR Government Affairs Manager Robert McCaw sent a letter to Texas Speaker Joe Straus asking if White violated any House ethics rules by "creating such an internal office policy that is selectively being enforced to discriminate against certain religious minorities." "The Texas Capitol belongs to all the people of this state, and legislators have a responsibility to treat all visitors just as we expect to be treated -- with dignity and respect," Straus said in a statement to ABC News. "Anything else reflects poorly on the entire body and distracts from the very important work in front of us." In a comment on Facebook, White wrote, "I do not apologize for my comments. ... if you love America, obey our laws and condemn Islamic terrorism, then I embrace you as a fellow American. If not, then I do not." "Isn't it amazing when you stand for America, our allies and against terrorism how much vile and angry responses you get? I will never cow to anti Americanism and extremists," she wrote in another comment. "I am banning users that are insulting." In a post earlier today, the Texas lawmaker insisted that "becoming an American" is "not the intent of most Muslims who move to America." "Remember, in the Koran, it is ok to lie for the purpose of advancing Islam," she wrote. "Texas must never allow fringe groups of people to come here so they can advance their own culture instead of becoming an American." [Source: ABC News]

Every day that goes past by it becomes increasingly evident the magnitude of hatred American lawmakers have for Islam. Yet despite this vitriol, Muslims in America continue to place their trust in the American system hoping that Obama will change its anti-American foreign policy. When will they wake up!

Pakistan Again Left Out in Favor of America's Closer Ties with India

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed on a joint strategic vision for regions straddling Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean last week. "To support regional economic integration, we will promote accelerated infrastructure connectivity and economic development in a manner that links South, Southeast and Central Asia, including by enhancing energy transmission and encouraging free trade and greater people-to-people linkages," the US-India Joint Strategic Vision for the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean Region said. The statement also said that India and the United States are important drivers of regional and global growth. "From Africa to East Asia, we will build on our partnership to support sustainable, inclusive development, and increased regional connectivity by collaborating with other interested partners to address poverty and support broad-based prosperity." "We will oppose terrorism, piracy, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction within or from the region," the document said. A reference to Pakistan in a separate joint statement, the only time it was publicly named, in the context of terrorism, was slightly more nuanced than the formulation the two leaders had agreed in Washington in September last year. It reiterated Pakistan's obligation to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage to book. US action against Dawood Ibrahim, Jamaatud Dawa, the Haqqani group, among others was lauded and re-iterated. [Source: Dawn]

The Pakistani army brass has invested so much time, effort, money and blood only to be left out again. This time Obama has again confirmed that India and not Pakistan is America's principal agent in the region. So the question has to be asked of the military top brass, why are they investing so heavily in America's ‘war on terror' when Washington has clearly abandoned Islamabad in favor of closer ties with New Delhi?

As Muslim Uighurs Flee, China Sees Jihad Risk

In 2002, Mehmet was at university in Xinjiang, the northwest corner of China that is home to his Uighur ethnic group and the source of a wave of deadly violence in the past two years. He and some other Uighurs decided to support Turkey in the soccer World Cup, he said. Most Uighurs are Muslim, speak a Turkic language and consider themselves part of a broad family of ethnic Turks. But students from China's ethnic Han majority were offended, Mehmet said. A fight erupted, leading university authorities to expel six of his friends. So began a political awakening that led Mehmet to a prison labor camp in Xinjiang and ultimately to Turkey, following a perilous two-month voyage, mostly without a passport, through Central and Southeast Asia. Mehmet is among hundreds, possibly thousands, of Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs) who have fled China in recent years, often heading for Turkey via Thailand and Malaysia, say Uighur migrants, activists and government officials from countries along that route. Their flight is presenting China with many of the same fears that have plagued Western nations as they try to prevent their Muslim nationals from being radicalized or trained to fight overseas. Fearing Uighur separatists are adopting the ideology and tactics of jihadists, China wants to shut down what state media call the "underground railway," which Beijing says Uighurs are using to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq or to escape after committing crimes. Over the past year, Beijing has increased pressure on foreign governments to help track Uighur militants, telling some there are roughly 300 Chinese Uighurs fighting with Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, say people briefed on those discussions. [Source: The Wall Street Journal]

From West to East, Muslim populations are treated so badly by their hosts that when few decide to become violent, neither Western governments or Chinese officials bother to look at the root cause. Instead they are quick to blame Islam. This myopic view is not un-intentional but by design. The focus of both West and East is to curb the Islamic revival sweeping the globe.