U.S. effectively deems Jerusalem (the capital city of Israel) Arab
The US government forgets what country Jerusalem is in
The God Who Bleeds
By Jonah Goldberg, NRO:
All presidents go through rough patches, and Obama’s no exception. Odds are his poll numbers will get better — and worse — in the years to come. All of this is typical.
But this misses a crucial point: Obama isn’t supposed to be a typical politician. He was supposed to be The One. He was supposed to change Washington. Transcend race. Fix souls. Bake twelve-minute brownies in seven minutes.
Oprah promised Obama would help us “evolve to a higher plane.” Deepak Chopra said Obama’s presidency represented “a quantum leap in American consciousness.” Last month, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas proclaimed that Obama stood “above the country, above — above the world, he’s sort of God.”
Well, now he’s the god who bleeds, and once you’re the god who bleeds, it’s hard to get the divinity back in the tube, as it were.
Iran: Background to Present Troubles
The View from 1776:
Slater Bakhtavar explains how President Jimmy Carter created the conditions for today’s nuclear blackmail by Iran.
President Carter’s foreign policy was based, as is President Obama’s, upon the ideology of the socialist international’s one-world government. President Carter championed an abstraction called human rights. President Obama espouses Senator John Kerry’s “sensitivity” in foreign affairs.
Liberal-progressives, including notably Carter and Obama, believe that abandoning the realities of international power politics will magically bring peace and harmony to the whole world. As did early socialist theoretician Auguste Comte, they appear to believe that the world is inevitably driven by the force of a reified “history” toward a scientific, one-world, socialist government that will transform humanity.
Both Carter and Obama are attracted to the most oppressive dictators, from Cuba’s Castro to Iran’s Khomeini, and Venezuela’s Chavez, whom they see as victims of American imperialism.
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The lonely Israeli Left
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST:
Israel’s leftists are lonely these days. This was the central thrust of an opinion column in Tuesday’s New York Times authored by Aluf Benn, editor-at-large of the left-wing Haaretz newspaper.
Benn’s article, “Why won’t Obama Talk to Israel?” was a plaintive call for US President Barack Obama to woo the Israeli public. As Benn put it, “Next time you’re in the neighborhood, Mr. President, speak to us directly.”
Benn’s article has been touted by Obama supporters and detractors alike as evidence that the president has a credibility problem with Israelis. Jewish Obama supporters sought to soften the impact of Benn’s article on their fellow Jewish leftists by claiming that Obama is listening to the likes of Benn. For instance, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg reported without irony that administration officials defend Obama’s silence toward Israel by arguing that his June 4 speech to the Muslim world in Cairo was also geared toward Israelis.
The June 4 address of course was the one where Obama compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry and to black slavery in the antebellum American South. It was also the speech where he embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim that Israel owes its existence to the Holocaust and not to the Jewish people’s legitimate right to self-determination in our homeland.
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Stimulus stimulus – Ohhhbama!
Stimulus Bill Funds Go to Art Houses Showing ‘Pervert’ Revues, Underground Pornography
h/t: Linda at The Great Pumpkin
Phony courts, phony racism
Lorne Gunter, National Post:
As if more proof were needed of how out-of-control Canada’s human-rights commissions have become, and what a threat they pose to impartial justice, along comes the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal’s ruling last month against Michael Shaw, a white Toronto police officer.
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Whither Jerusalem?
By: Richard L. Cravatts, FrontPageMagazine.com:
The stridency of the Obama administration’s attitude about Israeli settlements in the West Bank has stunned some observers, not the least of whom is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself. Even more troubling to the Israelis is the State Department’s recent scolding of Ambassador Michael Oren about a 20-unit apartment project financed by a wealthy American philanthropist who purchased the former Shepherd Hotel property in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, adjacent to a compound of Israeli government buildings. What is stunning about this latest U.S. policy is that the project in question is in Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, in an Eastern Jerusalem neighborhood that, if the Palestinians have their way, ostensibly will be the capital of their putative state; more disturbing is the fact that U.S. diplomats have now decreed that Israeli construction in Jerusalem itself constitutes the forbidden settlement activity.
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God Almighty did not restore the descendants of David to the Promised Land only to have them removed by man.
Bananas
David Warren:
Honduras has been in the news, and I’ve been tempted to write a column about developments there, where a semi-demented, Castroist-Allendist-Sandinist-Hugo Chavez Marxist was elected on the usual multi-party split. Soon he was trying to install himself as dictator-for-life, in the usual way, by rewriting the country’s constitution. He enjoys the usual avid following, among the socialist crazies in his own country; and abroad, among those who still collect Che Guevara fashion impedimenta.
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The contradictions of our elite critics
By Victor Davis Hanson:
Scolding Americans for our various sins is proving popular among an elite group of self-appointed moralists.
Take well-meaning environmentalists who warn us that our plush lifestyles heat up and pollute the planet. To listen to former vice president Al Gore or New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, we must immediately curtail our carbon emissions — or face planetary destruction.
Yet these influential prophets of doom do not have lives remotely similar to the lesser folk they lecture. From time to time, Al Gore hops on a private jet — and purchases “carbon offsets” as penances for the privilege. His mansion not long ago consumed more energy in a month than the average American home does in a year. Friedman lives on a sprawling estate reminiscent of the grandees of the 18th-century English countryside.
The rest of us would find these environmental scolds more convincing if they chose to live modestly in average tract homes. That way they could limit their energy consumption and provide living proof to us of how smaller is better for an endangered planet earth.
Elite critics in the business of racial grievance offer the same contradictions.
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Forced to think freely
Melanie Phillips:
It’s got to be one of the most unintentionally comical and yet revealing stories of the summer. An atheist summer camp has been set up to indoctrinate children in ‘free thinking’ by ensuring that not one hint of religion nor any discussion of religious ideas creeps into the programme. The ‘free thinkers’ running the camp are clearly incapable of seeing the paradox. Wouldn’t it be a good idea for a camp promoting ‘free thinking’ to be run by people who can actually think?[...]
Slouching Toward Orwell’s 1984
By Jeff Lukens:
George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” tells of an advanced world where there are no individual freedoms, and the state uses fear to manipulate and control people to conform to a prescribed belief. In the book, the Party maintains absolute power, and power has become an end to itself. His book is as relevant today as ever. In the age of Obama, the freedoms that define American life are slipping away and being replaced with ever more state control.
In Orwell’s book, the Party constantly rewrites history and rewrites the language to restrict the true meaning of words and the ideas behind them. They eliminate words to reduce vocabulary and thereby reduce uncontrolled thoughts. Doublespeak makes people believe what they would otherwise know to be false, and is encapsulated by the phrase: “War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.” Orwell defined doublethink as, “The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
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It’s Crunch Time for Israel on Iran
By JOHN BOLTON:
Legions of senior American officials have descended on Jerusalem recently, but the most important of them has been Defense Secretary Robert Gates. His central objective was to dissuade Israel from carrying out military strikes against Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities. Under the guise of counseling “patience,” Mr. Gates again conveyed President Barack Obama’s emphatic thumbs down on military force.
The public outcome of Mr. Gates’s visit appeared polite but inconclusive. Yet Iran’s progress with nuclear weapons and air defenses means Israel’s military option is declining over time. It will have to make a decision soon, and it will be no surprise if Israel strikes by year’s end. Israel’s choice could determine whether Iran obtains nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future.
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Oh yeah …
Canadian copyright collecting agency subverting open debate on copyright
h/t: Linda at The Great Pumpkin
“Human Rights” Commissars Want More Power!
Lee Duigon, Chalcedon Foundation:
“If people could be made moral by law, it would be a simple matter … for Congress to pass a law making all Americans moral. This would be salvation by law. Men and nations have often resorted to salvation by law, but the only consequence has been greater problems and social chaos.”[1]—R.J. Rushdoony“Morality always serves as a restraint on human desire … When you remove the morality, therefore, you remove the restraint. And it is this, not any new scientific or moral enlightenment, that accounts for our revision of attitude. The rules inhibited us, so we got rid of the rules. No longer must women bear the children conceived within them. No longer need men or women heed vows of sexual exclusivity. No longer need the ancient curbs against sodomy, bestiality, pederasty, and other assorted sexual delights confine and restrict us. So we steadily rid ourselves of the laws, and then make it illegal for anyone to oppose or criticize what we have done.”[2]—Ted Byfield
Whether it’s about setting up a hate-free utopia, or simply silencing all criticism of what has always, until now, been viewed as immorality, Canada’s human rights commissions have lately found their mission called into question. Critics in the Canadian and American media have been pouring on the heat, and at least some Canadian politicians have begun to listen.
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h/t: Robert A. Jason
Court can undo harm to free speech
Calgary Herald:
W hen Rev. Stephen Boissoin takes his case before the Court of Queen’s Bench on Sept. 16, the court has a golden opportunity not only to right the wrong done to Boissoin, but also to strike down the law that gives the Alberta Human Rights Commission jurisdiction over matters of free speech. Boissoin published a letter in the Red Deer Advocate in 2002 in which he criticized the representation to impressionable schoolchildren of homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle choice. Boissoin used strong language and said this would lead to desensitizing kids and recruiting them into the gay lifestyle. One can agree or disagree with Boissoin’s opinions, but what he said is irrelevant to the larger issue, which is his inalienable right to say it.
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Where are all of Obama’s Jewish boosters now?
Ed Lasky:
Criticism of Barack Obama’s stance towards Israel has gone mainstream, and has appeared in media outlets and from Jewish groups across the spectrum. TThese include, the New York Post, all the Israeli papers, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times (in a recent op-ed), Commentary Magazine, statements from Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, David Harris of the American Jewish Committee, and a statement issued by The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, Washington Post columnists, and the Washington Times.
Criticism has even appeared at the liberal New Republic, including from Marty Peretz who, during the campaign, wholeheartedly supported Obama and deflected criticism that he would not be a supporter of Israel. James Kirchick, an editor at the magazine has been especially insightful (see, for example, “Israel Betrayed” regarding the damage Obama has already caused to the American-Israel relationship).
Even Democratic Congressmen have begun to speak out regarding Obama’s approach towards Israel, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, and Congresswoman Shelley Berkley of Nevada.
So a question naturally arises. Where have Barack Obama’s Jewish defenders been hiding?
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Aussie rationalist slams metroshirleys’ doom dogma
Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites
h/t: DRUDGE
Dishonorable Muslim Mass Murder in Canada
By Phyllis Chesler:
For example, the Canadian Kingston police did not describe the cold-blooded murder of three innocent Afghan-Muslim girls (Zainab, Sahar, and Geeti Safi) and one innocent Afghan-Muslim woman (Rona Amir Mohammed) as a “Muslim honor killing.” The Canadian radio announcer did so as did other journalists. The police were very careful, and rightly so, to refrain from explicitly saying this.
However, according to all accounts, the police are on record as saying that they have evidence that the submerged car, in which all four victims were found drowned, had been driven or tampered with by the three Safi family members now under arrest; and that a female relative of Rona’s who lives in France told the media and the police about credible “death threats” that were leveled against Rona, who was Mohammed Safi’s first wife, (a fact that Mohammed did not disclose to the police or to his neighbors). Implied, but not yet clear, were possible death threats against Zainab Safi, the oldest of the three murdered daughters, who was becoming too “western.”
It is my guess that Rona supported the girls in their desire to become “Canadians” and that no love was lost between her and Mohammed’s second wife, Tooba Mohammed Yahya, also charged with her murder. Please understand: This is a wild, intuitive guess on my part, subject to change.
Westerners—perhaps it is only me—often have a problem with the Muslim names. No, it is not because I am a “racist Islamophobe” but rather because everyone seems to be named Mohammed or Mumammed; it becomes quite confusing. In this one case, we have Mohammed Safi, Rona Amir Mohammed, Tooba Mohammed Yahya. Also, the spelling of names (shades of Ellis Island and all our ancestors!) is also subject to change. Thus, this Mohammed’s last name is spelled Safia, or Safii or Safi.
Another mea culpa. Safi and his second wife have seven children altogether. Three are now in state care and one, Hamid Mohammed, (another Mohammed!) is now in police custody.
Here’s a small but important detail that I did not develop. Initially, the family members put on quite a performance. Mohammed Shafi, his second wife, Tooba Mohammed Yahya, and the biological mother of the three murdered girls, went to the police to report that their family members and second car were missing. They wept, appeared distraught, seemed in shock, carried on like mourners. But it all may have been an act.
Now, where else have we seen such behavior? Ah yes: The iconic Mohammed al-Dura’s father was also distraught about his son’s death—presumably at Israeli hands. That death turns out to have been staged by Palestinians. The world was sold a bill of Pallywood goods. Read Philippe Karsenty, Richard Landes, Nidra Poller, and Pierre Rehov on the al-Dura case and on other instances in which Palestinian Muslim propagandists and terrorists have tricked the world media into believing that Israel was the “Nazi” aggressor—all the while diverting attention from Palestinian crimes against their own people, as well as from their considerable aggression towards Israelis, Jews, and Christians.
The entire world also believed that the Israelis committed a “massacre,” a “genocide” in Jenin—when the truth was quite the opposite; to avoid world condemnation, Israel chose to send soldiers in on foot, (24 angels died), to heavily booby-trapped streets and to buildings which hid expert Palestinian snipers dressed as civilians who, in turn, held real Palestinian civilians hostage. Palestinians subsequently spoke to the media on camera weeping about the “genocide,” claiming false injuries at Israeli hands, alleging that Israeli hospitals would not treat them. I wrote about this in my book The New Anti-Semitism. The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It.
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Did the CIA ‘Cook the Books’ on Iran?
By Herbert E. Meyer:
Do you remember that 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate which concluded — to virtually everyone’s astonishment — that four years earlier Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program?
Publication of that NIE cut the ground out from under the Bush administration’s efforts to prevent Iran from getting its hands on a nuclear bomb. After all, why pressure the mullahs in Teheran to stop a program they’d already abandoned? And, of course, the NIE’s conclusion was cited by President Bush’s political enemies as (further) evidence that the President and his team were so driven by their hard-line ideology that they (as usual) ignored the evidence provided by our country’s senior intelligence analysts.
Now, thanks to a brilliant piece of journalism by German investigative reporter Bruno Schirra published in the July 20 edition of The Wall Street Journal Europe, we have evidence to suggest that the 2007 NIE’s conclusion about Iran’s nuclear bomb program wasn’t merely wrong, but corrupt.
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How settlements became ‘illegal’
MOSHE DANN, THE JERUSALEM POST
In 1967, under attack, Israel struck back and conquered the Golan Heights from Syria, the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, and Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem (the West Bank) from Jordan. Israel had been threatened with a second Holocaust, and few questioned its actions. No one spoke of a Palestinian state; there was no “Palestinian people.”
Many legal experts accepted Israel’s right to “occupy” and settle its historic homeland, because the areas had been illegally occupied by invading Arab countries since 1948.
One organization, however – the International Committee of the Red Cross – disagreed.
Meeting secretly in the early 1970s in Geneva, the ICRC determined that Israel was in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Based on the Hague Convention, GC IV was drawn up after World War II to protect innocent civilians and restrict brutal occupations. Unilaterally, the ICRC turned it into a weapon to delegitimize and demonize Israel.
As far as is known, the ICRC did not rely on any legal precedents; it made up “the law.”
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The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Voice of the Martyrs, Canada
1. Christian man murdered in Somalia
A convert from Islam to Christianity was murdered on July 20 in the city of Mahadday Weyne, Somalia by members of al-Shabaab, a militant group with ties to Al-Qaeda, according to a July 20 report from Compass Direct. Mohammed Sheikh Abdiraman, who had been a Christian for 15 years and was the leader of a group of underground believers, was shot at approximately 7:00 a.m. Abdiraman is survived by two children, ages 10 and 15. His wife died three years ago due to illness.
Ask God to comfort and guide Abdiraman’s children in this difficult time. Pray that increased persecution will result in increased boldness among believers in Somalia (Acts 4:29-31). Consider posting a prayer for Somali Christians on our Persecuted Church Prayer Wall at www.persecution.net/prayerwall.
To find out more about Somalia’s suffering Christians, go to www.persecution.net/somalia.htm.
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2. Pastor assaulted in Sri Lanka
A pastor of a church in Polonnaruwa district, North Central Province was brutally attacked at approximately 10:30 p.m. on June 23, according to a recent report from the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka. The pastor was driving home from a prayer meeting when a group of men on motorcycles called out to him. When he stopped his vehicle and rolled down his window, the assailants attacked him with knives. He was able to prevent them from slashing his neck but sustained severe arm injuries. His vehicle was also damaged. The pastor eventually fled the scene and sought help.
Pray for healing for the injured pastor. Ask God to bless the ministry of Christian workers spreading the Gospel in Sri Lanka amid opposition.
For more information on the challenges facing Sri Lanka’s Christians, go to www.persecution.net/srilanka.htm.
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3. Christians attacked by officials in Vietnam
Over 100 police and security officials attacked Christians in Dong Hoi, the capital city of Quang Binh province in Vietnam, on the morning of July 20. Approximately 150 Catholics from Tam Toa parish were gathered at their church compound to set up a temporary worship structure when officials arrived, firing teargas into the crowd and assaulting believers with batons, sticks and stun guns. More than 20 believers were injured and dozens were loaded into police vans. At last report, the whereabouts of the detained Christians were unknown. A cross, building materials and two generators were removed from the site and cameras and video recorders were confiscated.
The Christians of Tam Toa parish have attended open-air services on the church compound or gathered in local homes since the end of the Vietnam War, when their church building was badly damaged. In 1996, the People’s Committee of Quang Binh province confiscated the site and declared that it would become a memorial site. However, local Christians insist that the property belongs to the church.
Pray for healing for those injured. Pray that those in detention will be released. Pray that religious freedom will be recognized and justly upheld in Vietnam.
To find out more about the plight of Vietnamese believers, go to www.persecution.net/vietnam.htm.
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4. Two Egyptian Christians arrested following church attack
Police have arrested a Coptic Christian man and woman for allegedly burning down their own house church in the village of Ezbet Basillious, Egypt on July 11, according to a July 17 report from Compass Direct. Christians in the village believe that the arson attack and subsequent arrests of the believers indicate local police corruption and collusion.
When the Church of St. Abaskharion Kellini was set ablaze, the guards stationed at the church had left their posts. The perpetrators reportedly entered the church building through a connecting door from the adjoining residence — the home of Fulla Assad (30). It took approximately two hours for police to arrive at the church. Assad, her mother-in-law and Reda Gamal (35) were later taken to the police station for questioning. Assad and Gamal have since been arrested and remained in custody at last report. The Egyptian State Security Investigations officers have since followed up on eyewitness testimonies ignored by local police and have arrested three Muslim suspects who were seen entering the church with cans of kerosene and leaving shortly afterwards shouting “Allahu Akbar .”
Pray that those who are truly guilty will be brought to justice. Pray that Gamal and Assad will be bold witnesses for Christ while in detention. Ask God to encourage and strengthen the Christians in Ezbet Basillious.
To learn more about Egypt’s persecuted Christians, go to www.persecution.net/egypt.htm.
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5. Christians beaten, accused of forcible conversion in Karnataka, India
At approximately 10:00 a.m. on July 10, Hindu militants in the city of Chitradurga barged into a tea stall attended by Sharada, the wife of Pastor Nagaraj, and questioned her about her faith, according to a July 18 report from Evangelical Fellowship of India. The militants demanded to know how much money her family received for converting to Christianity and accused her and her husband of forcible conversion. They also threatened to burn her alive. Sharada was dragged to the police station where a complaint was filed against her. Pastor Nagaraj was also summoned to the station and upon his arrival was beaten by the militants while police looked on.
Also in Karnataka, four Christians were beaten and accused of forcible conversion by Hindus at approximately 5:30 p.m. on July 18 while visiting a housing colony in the western region of the city of Bangalore. The believers were brought to a police station three hours later. Later that night, they were presented before a magistrate and sent to the Bangalore Central Jail, where they remained at last report.
Pray for the release of the imprisoned believers. Pray that those who falsely accuse believers of forcible conversion will see that the Good News is a free gift and will respond to faith in Jesus (Ephesians 2:8-9).
For more information on how Christians suffer in India, go to www.persecution.net/india.htm.
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6. Church fined in Belarus
On July 14, a registered church in the town of Baranovichi, Belarus was fined for activity which officials claim was “not according to its statute,” according to a July 16 report from Forum18. On June 21, officials of the local Ideology Department noticed that members of the New Generation Full Gospel church had placed posters around town that advertised a special Sunday morning prayer service. A half hour before the scheduled service, the chief specialist of the department arrived at the church, accusing believers of violating Article 9.9 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Violations, which punishes “activity of a religious organization outside the statute.” On July 14, a local court judge fined the church 350,000 Belarusian roubles (approximately $135 CAD), the maximum amount under this article. The congregation insists, however, that the service was within the terms of the church’s statute.
Ask God to provide for and strengthen this congregation. Pray that the church in Belarus will continue to expand and flourish despite pressure. Join in interceding for persecuted Christians in Belarus by posting a prayer on our Persecuted Church Prayer Wall at www.persecution.net/prayerwall.
For more information on the persecution of Christians in Belarus, go to www.persecution.net/belarus.htm.
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7. In this week’s VOMC weblog (www.persecution.net/weblog.htm)
Have you been following VOMC’s Persecuted Church Weblog lately? New blogs are posted almost every day!
Here are some of the posts by our staff this week:
a) Read “Is it wrong to get angry with God” (posted July 15) and “Responding to God’s seemingly arbitrary decrees” (posted July 20), excerpts from one of the newest books available from VOMC, “The Gospel According to Job.”
b) Get a sneak peak at the upcoming August edition of The Voice of the Martyrs Newsletter (posted July 19).
c) Study Glenn Penner’s blog on Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 16 and ask yourself whether your view of suffering reflects the mind of man or the mind of God (posted July 18).
d) Follow the discussion regarding a gay man’s decision to file a complaint against his bishop with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal for removing him as an altar server (posted July 14, 16 and 19) and why VOMC believes the tribunal must refuse to consider this case.
e) In “Partnership beats pity” (posted July 17) VOMC’s CEO contends that too many aid programs implemented in the developing world are designed to raise funds more than actually partner with the recipients of the intended aid. Do you agree?
This is just a taste, mere tidbits, of what you can find online at www.persecutedchurchblog.com. We hope you will visit and give us your comments.
A Jerusalem response to Obama
Yoram Ettinger, NewsMax:
Twenty five towns in the United States, from Massachusetts to Oregon, bear the name of Jerusalem – Salem. This is a reflection of the unique bonds that exist between the USA – since the 17th century Pilgrims and the Founding Fathers – and the Jewish capital, land, history and religion.
The US Congress – the most authentic representative of the American People – has passed a series of bills and resolutions reaffirming the role of Jerusalem as the indivisible capital of the Jewish State and the appropriate site for the US embassy in Israel. US constituents and their representatives on Capitol Hill are aware that 3,000 years before President Obama entered the White House, and 2,770 years before the US gained its independence, King David entered the City of Jerusalem – the Heart of the Jewish People. However, notwithstanding his speech at the 2009 AIPAC Conference, Obama wishes to repartition Jerusalem, to prohibit free Jewish construction and entice Arab construction there. Obama does not recognize pre-1967 Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish State.
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Will someone please teach AP how to Google!
Clarice Feldman, AT:
Steve Gilbert checks online into the background of the investigator who preposterously suggests in an illegally leaked preliminary report that there was something unethical in the creation and operation of the Palin defense fund, set up to defray the over half a million dollars in legal fees the Governor has incurred fighting off an unending series of frivolous ethics charges.Here’s what he found:
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Exploring Islam’s religious double-standards
OneNewsNow:
An author and critic of Islam says a recent incident illustrates the blatant double-standard that exists in Islamic-dominated countries when it comes to proselytizing people of other religions.
A lawyer says Malaysian police recently arrested nine Christians accused of trying to convert Muslim university students to Christianity. Annou Xavier, who is representing the suspects, points out they have denied the allegation.
Proselytizing of Muslims by members of other religions is a serious crime, punishable by prison in that Muslim-majority country. However, Muslims are allowed to try to convert non-Muslims to their religion. Muslims are not legally able to change from their religion to another one.
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From Gulag Liberators to Saudi Retainers
By Gerald M. Steinberg, AT:
Human Rights Watch was founded in 1978 in New York (as Helsinki Watch) with the mission of using public demonstrations and other forms of “naming and shaming” to free prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Many Gulag denizens, including Anatoly (now Natan) Sharansky, later recognized HRW’s role in gaining their freedom. Shortly thereafter HRW began advocating on behalf of political prisoners and torture victims in other totalitarian regimes, including in Chile, Argentina, and Greece.But since then, HRW has lost its moral compass, and the organization is using its substantial budget ($42 million in 2008) to repeatedly attack Israel by exploiting the language of human rights and international law. Tendentious reports and press conferences, using distorted legal rhetoric in place of credible evidence, target Israeli responses to terror attacks from Arafat, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
My organization, NGO Monitor, annually releases a systematic analysis of HRW’s agenda, and our reports clearly show that HRW singles out Israel in the Middle East.
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Find the glaring error in DRUDGE headline …
Monkey caught on tape burglarizing Texas business…
The correct word is ‘burgling’
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