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Islamist Fascists at CAIR Trouble-Making!

CAIR ‘Demands’ US Army War College Cancel My Lecture on Islamic History

by Raymond Ibrahim  at  American Thinker:

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The “unindicted co-conspirator” Council on American-Muslim Relations (“CAIR”) and its Islamist allies are “outraged” because the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. has invited me to give a lecture on my recent book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West.

On May 28, CAIR’s Pennsylvania leadership — namely, Jacob Bender, Timothy Welbeck, Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu — sent a letter to USAWC commandant Gen. John Kem and provost Dr. James Breckenridge urging them to revoke “the decision of the US Army War College to invite Mr. Raymond Ibrahim to deliver the prestigious 50th Annual Lecture Series of the US Army War College.”

The reason CAIR cites to disinvite me is that “Raymond Ibrahim’s book …  advance[s] a simplistic, inaccurate and often prejudicial view of the long history of Muslim-West relations which we find deeply troubling.”

Much of this is covered in a Task Force report, which contains some responses from me, titled “Army War College under fire over historian’s upcoming lecture on ‘clash of civilizations’ between Islam and the West.”

As a reflection of the unprecedented (and ongoing) nature of this Islamist campaign against me, the Task Force notes (emphasis added), “The trend of disinviting speakers on controversial subjects has been on the rise at American universities in recent years, but this appears to be the first time that a speaker at U.S. military educational institution has been subject to such a campaign, according to a database maintained by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.”

CAIR has since issued other screeds, including a Press Release and a petition that present me as a “notorious Islamophobe,” and — despite my being of Egyptian descent — a “white nationalist,” who, if allowed to speak, will cause “white nationalism, Islamophobia, and violence” against Muslims in America to break out.

In another article, I may parse through these hysterical allegations to expose the arsenal of verbal duplicity and second-rate sophistry groups like CAIR rely on in order to keep inconvenient truths suppressed.

For now, however, consider this: although my book is 352 pages and covers nearly fourteen centuries, certain epochs in great detail, not once does CAIR highlight a certain passage or excerpt to support its claim that the book “is based on poor research.”

The reason for this discrepancy is simple: although long hidden, the history I present in Sword and Scimitar is ironclad, verifiable, and beyond well documented; with about a thousand endnotes, my book is heavily based on primary sources, many of which are Muslim and from eyewitnesses.  This history makes abundantly clear that Islamic terrorism and “extremism” are intrinsic to Islam, and have been from its first contact with Western civilization in the seventh century.  Think of the atrocities committed by the Islamic State (ISIS) but on a much larger scale — and for over a millennium — bombarding every corner of Europe, and even America before it could elect its first president.

Put differently, the history presented in Sword and Scimitar proves everything that groups like CAIR are committed to suppressing.

Incidentally, whereas none of the CAIR activists petitioning the War College have any credentials in history, here is what actual historians and scholars in the fields of Muslim-Western history say concerning the book (many more can be read here):

• “Raymond Ibrahim’s Sword and Scimitar is … first-rate military history and a product of solid scholarship and philological research.” ―Victor Davis Hanson, America’s leading military historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
• “[Sword and Scimitar is] a refreshingly honest account of Islamic expansion and Christian reaction that provides useful insights into today’s problems.  This is history as it should be done: allowing the past to inform and guide the present, rather than distorting the past to fit contemporary political ideologies.” ―Paul F. Crawford, professor of Crusades history, California University of Pennsylvania
• “Ibrahim tells his story with extensive citations of primary sources[.] … Moreover, his method reveals the religious, political, and material motivations of the leading Christian and Muslim actors in this enduring conflict of visions that seem so very different from many modern western secular sensibilities.” ―James E. Lindsay, professor of Middle East history, Colorado State University
• “An accessible and well-researched examination of extremely important but often neglected cultural phenomena and historical events that have impacted several civilizations up to the present day.” ―Darío Fernández-Morera, Professor of Spanish history, Northwestern University, and author of The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
• “[An] eye-opening introduction to a millennium of warfare between the Muslim and Christian worlds before the modern age.” ―Thomas Madden, professor of Crusades history and award-winning author of Istanbul, Venice, and Concise History of the Crusades

I do, however, give CAIR some credit: unlike many anti-Islamists in the West, CAIR knows how important it is to control the historical narrative between Islam and the West — a narrative that for decades has largely been in the keeping of their allies, meaning anti-Western, pro-Islamic leftist academics.

Because this pseudohistory has long presented Islam as a peaceful and progressive force throughout history — certainly in comparison to the West — all talk concerning modern-day Islamic terror and extremism has revolved around questions such as “What went wrong?” and “Why do they hate us?”

Unbeknownst to most, these supposedly all important questions that became so popular after September 11, 2001 are rooted to history: if the Islamic world was a tolerant and advanced force for centuries, as generations of Americans have been led to believe, then surely, its modern-day descent into radicalism and terrorism must be based on other factors — hence the nonstop claims that economics; education; politics; grievances; “lack of jobs,” to quote the Obama White House; etc. are the real reason.

Such logic is admittedly sound — but only if one subscribes to its first premise, that Islamic history is largely peaceful and tolerant.

But for those who become acquainted with Islam’s true history vis-à-vis the West — a history of virtually nonstop jihad and mind-boggling atrocities that make ISIS appear tame — there is no “What went wrong?” or “Why do they hate us?” to explain — only an unwavering, continuous line of violence and enmity, one that went on hiatus during the colonial era.

This is documented fact.

Hence CAIR’S unprecedented attack—one described as “the first time that a speaker at U.S. military educational institution has been subject to such a campaign.”  It knows that the first and long unquestioned — but ultimately false — premise of all Muslim apologetics is historical in nature and is doing all it can to keep that premise alive.

Time will tell if the U.S. Army War College will cave in to the demands of CAIR — a Muslim Brotherhood organization whose unsavory, deceptive, and even terrorist ties are well documented — or not.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/cair_demands_us_army_war_college_cancel_my_lecture_on_islamic_history.html

President Trump’s Problem Solving Challenges Enemy Fascists

Hugh Hewitt: Trump’s big win leaves critics sputtering

by Hugh Hewitt   Special To The Washington Post

Because President Donald Trump emerges as a clear winner from his week-long confrontation with Mexico over our neighbor’s lax enforcement of its southern border, reflexive Trump critics will scramble to find some way of containing what is a clear Trump triumph, which came with assists by Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who conducted the key negotiations.

Already we have heard about long-term damage to trust between the North American allies, about investor nervousness and Trump’s unpredictability. This sort of flailing about to deny the obvious says nothing about Trump and much about those critics who can no more admit he played high-stakes poker and won a round on border security than they can admit that the president delivered a magnificent tribute to the heroes of Normandy on Thursday.

Much of the media have overheated now and, like an engine that has run too long without an oil change, have begun to seize up, stall, even melt. That Trump has contributed to the slow wreck of American media is undeniable. It’s a feature, not a bug, of his presidency to attack, attack, attack the media elites. And no matter how often center-right journalists counsel him to abandon the Stalinist “enemy of the people” rhetoric, he hasn’t because it triggers a flaming hatred among the ideologies of the left, with platforms and elites eager to signal each other that they are part of the tribe menaced by this Godzilla from Trump Tower.

Voters, though — not just the “Twitter Democrats” but voters of all ages and ideologies — are a pretty smart bunch. Assume for a moment that they know, generally, that tariffs are a lousy idea in terms of economic growth. Assume as well that they know that tariffs can be an instrument of national power in confrontations unrelated to economic growth.

Assume that voters know our competition with China is far more than an economic race, but rather a complex geopolitical rivalry that both sides wish to keep contained short of open conflict and that is waged through proxies, cyber-confrontations, intellectual-property battles, freedom-of-the-seas disputes and the relative size and power of our armed forces and those of our allies. In that context, tariffs on Chinese goods are just part of an overall negotiation toward a new normal that is in everyone’s interest. So “tariffs bad, free trade good” is simplistic. “Free trade is good, and agreed-upon international conventions are required for genuinely free trade, and tariffs may be necessary to achieve those conventions” is accurate. And widely understood.

“Alliances are good” is simplistic. “Alliances in which allies actually do what they promise with regard to percentage of GDP spent on national defense while not increasing dependence on Russian natural gas” is complex but accurate.

Hard as it is for the Manhattan-Beltway echo chamber to believe, sounding sophisticated isn’t actually being sophisticated. Trump’s record is mixed, but not this week. This week, even as Joe Biden began to melt (the headline in Saturday’s Times of London online edition was “Democrats raise doubts over Joe Biden’s stamina for presidential nomination race” — never a good sign when the neighbors notice these things), Trump put together back-to-back big successes. Historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson speculates that Trump’s enemies are so addicted to hating him that, in a classic addict pattern, all behaviors are bent in service of the addiction.

This weekend and next week will separate the outrage addicts from the serious journalists. Trump would be very well advised to take this tariff weapon off the table with regard to Mexico. It probably wouldn’t work a second time unless the Mexicans failed to deliver even a halfhearted effort. It’s not the sort of threat you can use twice, and doing so would undo the enormous win he can rightfully paint this to be at rally after rally as Campaign 2020 gets underway.

If Trump invited Democrats back to the White House for immigration reform and border security talks right now, urging them to be as serious as the Mexican government has been about the border crisis, it might actually work. House Democrats passed an immigration bill last week. Senate Republicans could quickly pass their own version to get a joint House-Senate conference with White House participation. Everyone could win: the United States and Mexico, the president and the House speaker, both parties, the undocumented in this country seeking regularization, and the desperate and easily exploited poor of Central America.

https://www.dentonrc.com/opinion/columnists/hugh-hewitt-trump-s-big-win-leaves-critics-sputtering/article_ee293867-a523-5a44-b001-19206a0912bc.html

America’s “NATIONHOOD and the BORDER CRISES” Reviewed, at last, at CPAC

ODDITIES AND ENDS AT CPAC

by  Paul Mirengoff  at PowerLine:

I look forward to the CPAC conference every year because it brings John Hinderaker to town and we get together for dinner, along with his wonderful wife Loree. I don’t attend the conference and watch little of it on television. This year I saw only a portion of President Trump’s two-hour performance.

I was struck, though, when I heard about some of the panels. First, let’s nominate Alex Azar for team-player of the year. The Secretary of HHS appeared on a panel with Alex Acosta, the rightfully beleaguered Secretary of Labor. (Linda McMahon, the former wrestling mogul and now Administrator of the Small Business Administration, was also on the panel.)

I don’t know Azar at all, but I can’t imagine he was thrilled to appear with Acosta, the guy who cut that sweetheart deal with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and who recently was found by a district court judge to have violated federal law in the process.

Why did CPAC think it was good idea to have Acosta participate at its conference? I don’t know. I have never quite understood the wheels within the wheels of that operation.

Another discussion featured Sen. Josh Hawley and Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page. They discussed the too-cozy relationship between the government and big tech. Two worthy participants and a worthwhile topic, for sure.

However, the Journal’s editorial page had recently smeared Hawley for daring to have questions about a judicial nominee’s position on abortion/substantive due process/the concept of “dignity” in constitutional adjudication. And shortly before the Senator’s appearance with Strassel, it had written a follow-up editorial attacking Hawley again.

I’m told there was no visible tension between Hawley and Strassel on stage. I wonder whether there might have been an awkward moment or two backstage, though.

The CPAC conference attendees were also treated to a speech by Van Jones. He’s the lefty conspiracy theorist the Obama administration had to get rid of for being too left-wing and too nasty. Now he’s a favorite of the Koch Brothers for working with their operation on leniency for drug felons legislation.

That was enough to land a featured role at CPAC.

I have nothing against “big tent” conservatism. But fawning over Van Jones is “big tent” without conservatism.

Nor is CPAC really about big tent conservatism. Recall that a few years ago, CPAC featured a panel touting the desirability of amnesty for illegal immigrants, another Koch Brothers pet project. There was no room for conservatives who oppose such amnesty. CPAC shut them out.

This particular outrage no longer occurs at CPAC. This year the immigration discussion was called “Nationhood and the Border Crisis.” It featured Sen. Ted Cruz and Rich Lowry.

But the change is due only to the fact that Donald Trump came along with a very different message on immigration than the one peddled at CPAC in the past. We may not have seen the last of stacked pro-amnesty panels at CPAC, or of the Koch Brothers’ ally Van Jones.

 

 

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/oddities-and-ends-at-cpac.php

Precious American, President Trump IS OUR REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY, not those Rove, Romney, Hillary HotAir Losers

Trump Is Driving Out Precious Republican Voters

by McElwee Etal  at  HotAir:

It has flown under the radar a bit, masked perhaps by the switch of millions of Barack Obama’s voters into Mr. Trump’s column, but in 2016 Mr. Trump did not receive support from a large segment of voters who pulled the lever for Mitt Romney in 2012. In fact, our data shows that 5 percent of Romney 2012 voters stayed home in 2016, while another 5 percent voted for Mrs. Clinton. These voters tended to be female, nonwhite, younger and more highly educated — the very voters Republicans feared would be alienated by a Trump victory when he was seeking the party’s nomination.

Most strikingly, one-third of 2012 Romney voters who were under 40 in 2016 did not vote for Mr. Trump, but rather stayed home, voted for Mrs. Clinton or voted for a third-party candidate. Among the under-40 Romney voters who supported Mr. Trump in 2016, 16 percent appear to have defected from the party to vote for a Democratic House candidate in 2018. Of course, we don’t know how they will vote in 2020, but what this means is that in the past two elections Republicans may have lost more than 40 percent of Romney voters born after 1976.

 

 

https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2019/02/trump-driving-precious-republican-voters/

Why I Love OUR DONALD!

Donald Trump is my favorite American leader of my life time.  I was born in 1934 and have followed very closely all American Presidential elections since 1944, Roosevelt versus Dewey.

Our country is in serious, serious trouble today, and has been since the late  1960s when a third of our juvenile college populations had  turned to LSD and such for their god of entertainment.  And then came the feminist-feminazi revolutions  at universities from coast to coast.

The human female animal is not a human male by Nature and Nature’s God…neither a century ago, ten years ago, or today.   They are not born killers as I and other human male animals  have been genetically driven to be for the past million years of our animal-human development.   She is born ditsy, instead.  Not that she is not gifted with great intelligence and abilities…..especially her God’s gift of bearing the off spring of the species.   SHE IS NOT BORN DRIVEN TO BE A PROBLEM SOLVER.  Not that she doesn’t possess abilities to solve problem……BUT SHE IS NOT A MALE HUMAN ANIMAL.

She is NOT born curious.  She is born with other important attributes of the human female being in caring for her offspring.    Yet,  most  Mothers bearing children   these days don’t Mother their children as Mothers used to Mother, as they did in my early days of life.    They go back to work in no time….except within our more JudeoChristian believing communities.

Within the first three years of human life, the typical human male child is already snooping around, searching, testing, touching, tasting, eyeing the environment around him, not by choice, but by drive…..a God-given drive, if you please!   Both my boys learned very quickly how to speed crawl and open the storage doors below our kitchen sink.    My daughter would pick and choose things to chew  and touch, but was such a relief to her parents when she limited her geography to her own room.

I have never met Donald J. Trump personally.   Being an alert American whose first career was to teach Social Studies in our American schools, I began to follow his New York life when he became a name in his New York City building company….starting somewhere around forty years ago.

I occasionally found him on television from New York quite similar to some viewings in the above collection…and he caught my attention….his arrogance,  he carriage and confidence, his certainty of thought and clarity of speech,  I believe, gathered my interest and curiosity.  I was not in a mood to like him for  I hadn’t  known people who carried on like he did on television from time to time….not here in Minnesota then when  adults were still  civil and knowledgeable,  were Christian and Churched,  were neighbors and  friendly, and were parents with children and no one swore a bad word in school, on playgrounds, or in neighborhoods….and no one had any noticeable money until 1950……and girls were girls and boys were boys!

In Horace Mann Grade School where I attended,  from 1939 to 1952 very well educated older single women ran the classes until the War ended.

Within the first three years of human life, the typical human male child is already snooping around, searching, testing, touching, tasting, eyeing the environment around him, not by choice, but by drive…..a God-given drive, if you please!

I was aware his first wife, Ivana, was a very important figure in Donald’s business….and  years later was surprised to read in the papers Donald had caused his wife to divorce him.   He had gone Hollywood TV and then I lost interest in Mr. Trump…until 2016.

Weren’t their 17 candidates in the early running for the Presidential contest that year?  I never liked any of the candidates except for the ex-Governor of Arkansas…..until that Monday when Megyn Kelly so rudely threw  candidate Donald Trump a  series of GOP attacks about how Donald has ‘misbehaved’ with women, and asked GOPly, “Is that the way you treat all women?……with the GOP camera directed right on our Trump for the blow out punch…..and Our Donald answered in a second….”No! Only Rosie O’Donnell.”

About half of the Republicans in the audience, nearly all Trump hater GOPers, exploded with laughter…and so, in agreement.  I suddenly found my man for our America’s next President….(I much later learned while listening to Dennis Prager interviewing David Horowitz during is radio show, that my conservative hero Horowitz confessed that is when HE discovered HIS candidate to beat Crooked Hillary that coming November.

Yet, being a former high school teacher of “Modern Problems”,  I decided to search the internet for more info about Donald J. Trump….to get to know him better.   I learned his older brother, and very close brother to Donald, had killed himself from alcoholism.

Late that July the Washington Post had smeared Donald big time using his exwife, Ivana’s divorce court words against Donald  as a weapon to bury  him  as a contender in the coming Presidential election that November.

Ivana had written a letter to the editor at the  leftist Washington Post Trump hater crowd, confessing that much of her anger at that time at court  had come from the shock of the cause for  the divorce and then listed a series of laudable descriptions of the Presidential candidate as a father and their good times in business together.

I knew he was very bright.  I knew he truly  loves his America and like myself  felt  our country  was falling apart in countless ugly  directions….and the suave, clever, somewhat racist anti-American Barack Hussein Obama had added so much to our cultural, moral, and financial decline.   And then there was Crooked Hillary to deal with if our USA was ever going to recover from the cultural, intellectual, and educational decays of its past half century.

President Donald J. Trump has made me confident, very confident he is the only person as President who can get our American republic back on a God-fearing, prosperous, civilized, religious, economic,  and socially sound World-leader-Nation once again….for peace and prosperity for all!  and who will BUILD THAT WALL!

 

 

 

 

Christmas at the White House, AD 2018!

Melania Trump’s White House Christmas decorations include gorgeous 18th century nativity scene

by Dorothy Cummings McLean  at  LiftSiteNews:

(Article sent by Mark Waldeland)

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The First Lady of the United States has once again included a traditional nativity scene in the Christmas decorations at the White House.

Yesterday Melania Trump released photos and videos of her Christmas preparations at the White House. Her theme this year is “American Treasures,” but among the colorful trees, gingerbread cityscapes, and tributes to the First Lady’s “Be Best” initiative rests an antique nativity scene.

The 300-year-old nativity scene first was a 1967 gift to the White House from philanthropist and collector Mrs. Charles W. Englehard, a founding member of First Lady Jackie Kennedy’s committee to restore the aging White House.

Albert J. Menendez, author of Christmas in the White House, wrote that Mrs. Kennedy’s successor, Lady Bird Johnson, asked Mrs. Englehard to find an appropriate manger scene for the White House Christmas collection. After scouring Europe, Englehard found the eighteenth century Neapolitan creche through the Christmas Crib Association of Italy. There are 22 wooden figures in the set, which has a backdrop of wood and terracotta. The figures are ornately dressed and the Three Wise Men ride horses instead of camels.

Baby Jesus is crowned.

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According to the White House Historical Association (WHHA), it has been customary for the First Lady to prepare the White House for Christmas since First Lady Lou Henry Hoover decorated an “official tree” in the White House in 1929.

“Since that time, the honor of trimming the Christmas tree on the state floor has belonged to our first ladies,” the WHHA explains on its website. “The tree stands in the oval Blue Room, and elegant space honored as the center of holiday splendor.”

In 1961, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy began a new tradition of choosing a theme and decorating the White House rooms with the help of staff and volunteers.

“At times certain decorations have been especially popular with visitors and returned each year such as the Cranberry tree in the Red Room that made its first appearance in 1975,” says the WHHA.

“For more than 50 years, White House holiday themes have included largely nostalgic or traditional themes, such as the Nutcracker Suite, early America, American Flowers, an old-fashioned traditional Christmas, antique toys, Mother Goose, family literacy, the Twelve Days of Christmas, Home for the Holidays, and Simple Gifts,” it continues.

“The elegant White House mantels throughout the Ground Level and State Floor become the canvas of some of the most creative and beautiful decorations shaped each year by the theme of the first lady’s holiday décor.”

 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/melania-trumps-white-house-christmas-decorations-include-gorgeous-18th-cent

Hinderaker Reviews Trump Surge

TRUMP SURGES: IS IT THE ECONOMY OR KAVANAUGH?

by John Hinderaker  at PowerLine:

Or both. Today’s Rasmussen Reports has President Trump at 51% approval, 48% disapproval. Equally significant is his so-called Approval Index, the difference between Strong Approval and Strong Disapproval. That index now stands at -1, with 38% strongly approving of the president. For purposes of comparison, Barack Obama’s Approval Index was -11 at the same point in his presidency. Obama rarely achieved an Approval Index as favorable as -1.

I have no doubt that President Trump is benefiting from the Brett Bounce. At the same time, the economy has to be a factor. The unemployment rate is a flawed statistic, but the lowest unemployment since 1969–3.7%–is obviously good news. President Trump’s is achieving, on the economy, what Barack Obama and other Democrats assured us was impossible a few years ago.

Just wait until voters start to notice how successful Trump has been in the realm of foreign policy!

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/10/trump-surges-is-it-the-economy-or-kavanaugh.php

Trump Closes DC Neighbor PLO Office

TRUMP SHUTS DOWN PLO OFFICE IN D.C.

by Paul Mirengoff  at  PowerLine:

Yesterday, the Trump administration ordered the closure of the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington, saying that the PLO “has not taken steps to advance the start of direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel.” That’s for sure.

The Washington Post’s account of the story is here. You can almost see the tears Karen DeYoung shed writing it.

In the paper edition, the story’s subtitle is “another blow to Palentinians.” Perhaps. But the office has been in D.C. since the early 1990s. I’m not sure what good it did Palestinians.

I applaud the closing of the office. I also like the fact that the administration ordered the closure one day before the anniversary of 9-11. That was the day Palestinians took to the street to celebrate the successful attack by al Qaeda on the American homeland.

The Trump administration has recently taken other steps in response to the unwillingness of Palestinians to advance negotiations with Israel. It canceled most U.S. aid funding to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In addition, it called for a redefinition of Palestinian refugee status and said it would no longer fund the U.N. refugee aid program. It thus dismissed the notion of any Palestinian “right of return,” a demand that effectively precludes a peace agreement.

According to the Post, “the Palestinians say those measures are designed to lay the groundwork for a yet-to-be-revealed U.S. peace proposal” by pressuring the PLO into a more accommodating posture. If so, it’s about time. For too long, all of our real pressure has been exerted on Israel, either because the U.S. government favored the Palestinians (as President Obama did) or because it viewed the Israelis as more susceptible to our pressure.

The Israelis are more susceptible, just not susceptible enough to forfeit their security, as the Palestinians demand.

So far, the PLO seems unmoved by the Trump administration’s pressure. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat declared that the U.S. is not “part of the peace process” and does not even have the right to “sit in the room” during any negotiations.

What peace process? What negotiating room?

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/trump-shuts-down-plo-office-in-d-c.php

Remember the Bloombergers Who Harassed Mary Matalin for Forecasting Trump 2016 Victory!

Mary Matalin forecast of Trump Victory Two Novembers Ago……Pray It Will Happen Again and Again!