By Peace They Will Deceive The World
WALID SHOEBAT:
While the lovers and supporters of Israel both on the right and the left celebrate the diplomatic victory of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu over President Barack Obama, the prospects for Israel in regards to its security and standing in the world is very daunting with many threats that are obvious still remain evident, however there are even more serious threats that are not so obvious and are quickly coming to the surface.
In order to understand the not so obvious we must know and understand the mindset and character of the Middle East. Our organization being made up of former Muslims from that very part of the world who understand far better the mindset, strategies, and tactics used by the Islamic world as well as the culture and religion of Arabs both Christian and Muslim.
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Why are people silent as old hatreds rise again?
Glenn Beck:
According to the Jerusalem Post, a group of political activists have ‘announced plans to set up a local version of the Nazi party.’ One would think that this story, the latest evidence that the Arab Spring is rife with anti-semitic sentiment, would turn some heads here in America. After all, we claim to be the biggest supporter and ally of Israel, despite recent comments made by The President. Why are we ignoring old hatreds?
“The founding member of the new Egyptian Nazi party is Emad Abdel Sattar. He says the party would bring together prominent figures from the Egyptian society. The party’s founding deputy is a former military official. The party believes investing all powers in the president after selecting him or her carefully, adding that the preparations are underway to choose the most competent person to represent the new Egyptian Nazi party,” Glenn said.
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“How did we go from a nation that understood good versus evil just a few years ago to now when you hear hundreds of thousands of people in many countries chanting ‘Kill the Jews’ that we don’t even recognize it; it’s not even a blip on the radar? How is that happening? Just as it happened in Europe at the turn of the century bit by bit, slowly, slowly. And you learn to dismiss it.”
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They don’t bother with euphemisms anymore
Sometimes the horror is too much: ‘Feticide’ and stopping the baby’s heart
My interview of Sam Solomon
By Ezra Levant:
What do you think of this? It was the warm-up act to Geert Wilders’ appearance in London, Ontario earlier this month.
I really knew nothing about him before I interviewed him — I Googled him for a minute, and talked to him for another minute — but the more questions I asked, the more dramatic his tale was.
What do you think?
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Waiting for the Miracle to Come
By Pamela Geller:
For those of you waiting for the miracle to come, I am here to tell you that it is here. The events of the last week were stunning. This week, the home team scored big in the face of overwhelming odds.
The week started out looking bleak. In general, the world is marching to war against “the little Jew who wrote the Bible,” as the poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen wryly put it in his song “The Future.” “Waiting for the Miracle” is another one of his songs, and a miracle might be what has to save the free world at this point. The world is marching against freedom, against the West. Those of us who are married to this work, to the fight, have chronicled the play-by-play on the road to Armageddon. We have been confounded by the apathy exhibited by good, decent folks in the face of this naked evil. It has been one blow after another here in America and across the world.
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Corrupt Language Breeds Bad History and Bad Policy
by Bruce S. Thornton:
As the history of communism and fascism both illustrate, modern political tyranny has relied on fabricated history to legitimize its claims and actions, and such history in turn relies on the debasement of language. Nowhere is this axiom more evident than in the conflict between Israel and the Arabs — so much so that, as Obama’s recent remarks about Israel show, the false history and its false vocabulary are now taken for reality and made the basis of policy.
Start with the use of “borders” to describe what is in fact the armistice line marking the farthest advance of the five Arab armies that invaded Israel in 1948.
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Confronting the Anti-Israel Jihad on Campus
David Horowitz:
Israel was not created on any land that belonged to Arabs, let alone “Palestinians.” Israel was created on land that belonged to the Turks for 400 years before the birth of the Jewish State. Four hundred years is longer than America has been in existence. The Arab claim has less justification than the claim of the Iroquois to New York. If one is going to roll back the map 400 years, why not 1,000 or 2,000? The land that is Israel today was owned by the Turks and the Turks are not Arabs, and certainly not Palestinians.
How many people under the age of 25 in this room know this fact, that Israel was created on land belonging to the Turks? I see by your hands that there are about ten. Out of more than several hundred. Some education you’re all getting at this university. For those of you new to this history, the Turks could not prevent this transfer from taking place because they had chosen the wrong side in World War I and were defeated. One of the rules of war is that when you lose, the victors get to redraw the map. This also applies to aggressors in war. The Arabs of Jordan and of all the Arab states bordering Israel launched, not one, but three wars of aggression against the Jewish State. By all the laws of international warfare, the Jews had every right to expel all the Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza. But in fact they didn’t.
After World War II, the entire region of East Prussia – the industrial heartland of Germany – was taken from Germany and given to Poland. That was because they had invaded Poland three times in a century. Twelve million Germans were removed from Prussia and from the homes and lands which they had occupied for nearly a thousand years. That was their punishment for being aggressors, like the Arabs.
There were other nations created out of the ruins of the Turkish empire — Arab nations: Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan. Jordan is 70 percent made up of the same ethnic people who live on the West Bank and in Gaza — in other words, Palestinian Arabs. But they are ruled by a Hashemite minority. Where are the calls for the liberation of the Palestinians of Jordan? There are none. Nobody calling for the liberation of Palestine is interested in the self-determination of Palestine. Their first priority is getting rid of the Jews. “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free.” The Jordan River is the eastern boundary of Israel, the Mediterranean Sea is the boundary to the West. In other words, Palestinian freedom is synonymous with Israel’s destruction. Who can fail to understand this?
Even the word “Palestine” is not Arabic. It is Latin. The Romans gave the region around the Jordan the name “Palestine” as a humiliation for the Jews whom they had just conquered nearly 2,000 years ago. The name referred to the Philistines, who were the Jews’ enemies but were not Arabs. There were no Arabs in the area until 500 years later. Throughout the subsequent two thousand years, there has never been a political entity or state or country called “Palestine.” The idea of such a country was invented in 1964, fifteen years after Israel’s birth.
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The Dreamer Goes Down For The Count
Walter Russell Mead:
Where he has failed so dramatically is in the arena he himself has so frequently identified as vital: the search for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. His record of grotesque, humiliating and total diplomatic failure in his dealings with Prime Minister Netanyahu has few parallels in American history. Three times he has gone up against Netanyahu; three times he has ingloriously failed. This last defeat — Netanyahu’s deadly, devastating speech to Congress in which he eviscerated President Obama’s foreign policy to prolonged and repeated standing ovations by members of both parties — may have been the single most stunning and effective public rebuke to an American President a foreign leader has ever delivered.
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As the stunning and overwhelming response to Prime Minister Netanyahu in Congress showed, Israel matters in American politics like almost no other country on earth. Well beyond the American Jewish and the Protestant fundamentalist communities, the people and the story of Israel stir some of the deepest and most mysterious reaches of the American soul. The idea of Jewish and Israeli exceptionalism is profoundly tied to the idea of American exceptionalism. The belief that God favors and protects Israel is connected to the idea that God favors and protects America.
It means more. The existence of Israel means that the God of the Bible is still watching out for the well-being of the human race. For many American Christians who are nothing like fundamentalists, the restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land and their creation of a successful, democratic state after two thousand years of oppression and exile is a clear sign that the religion of the Bible can be trusted.
Being pro-Israel matters in American mass politics because the public mind believes at a deep level that to be pro-Israel is to be pro-America and pro-faith.
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Geert Wilders’s Anti-Islam Show Trial “Must Go On”
by Soeren Kern:
A court in Amsterdam has ordered the anti-Islam hate-speech trial of the Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders to resume after Dutch appeals judges on May 23 rejected his claim that the court is biased against him.
The Wilders trial, which has turned into a two-year legal odyssey, represents a landmark case that will establish the limits of free speech in a country where the politically correct elite routinely seek to silence public discussion about the escalating problem of Muslim immigration.
The single-minded determination with which the court has pursued the case against Wilders — contrary to the advice of the prosecutors — has led many to condemn the proceedings as a show trial.
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This is a political prosecution, pure and simple.
Obama’s ineligibility: We know
Lawrence Sellin:
To our political elite and the main stream media (MSM): can we stop playing pretend and start being honest?
We know that Barack Hussein Obama has never been eligible to be President of the United States and that he has probably committed felonies both before and after occupying the White House.
We know that many Republicans, Democrats and members of the MSM have been involved in a cover-up for reasons of complicity, negligence, avarice or cowardice.We know that Obama’s birth documents are probably forgeries. We know his Social Security number was likely stolen.
We know that there is much more hidden information that might reflect very negatively upon him or provide evidence of other criminal behavior.
We know that the truth about Obama will eventually be revealed and everyone who participated in the fraud must be tracked down and punished.
We know that the Obama quandary is just one more symptom of the disease of corruption, which has infected every organ of government.
We know that the political left and the MSM love Obama, not because he is good for the country, but because by electing him, it confirms their fantasies about themselves; that they are tolerant, caring for the disadvantaged and progressive.They are nothing of the kind.
The political left is composed of the real racists and reactionaries. Every election cycle they try to cobble together a collection of racial, ethnic or other special interest groups and union members, not because they are disadvantaged or disenfranchised, but because they are disgruntled.
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Ruling alters climate-papers fight
By Paige Winfield Cunningham, The Washington Times:
Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II says a judge’s order compelling the University of Virginia to turn over thousands of pages of climate-change research will likely alter his own battle for the long-sought documents.
The Republican attorney general and state Delegate Robert G. Marshall have battled the university for more than a year over the release of documents related to the work of former professor Michael Mann. Mr. Mann had been involved in a leaked email exchange with colleagues that climate-change skeptics claimed showed scientific misconduct.
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Taking Liberties: Forced Vaccinations?
By Douglas Kennedy:
To Jennifer Workman, God Himself commands her to protect her 8 year-old daughter Madison.
“I am a steward of the Lord for this child, “she said as she walked outside her single level home in Lenore West Virginia on Monday. “And I am not going to let anyone tell me what’s best for my child.”
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Workman says she was shocked when the principal told her Madison had to receive the shots.
“Helpless,” she said. “I mean there is no other word for it. I am helpless. I feel forced.”
“My child is not a ward of the state,” she explained. “And I should be able to make those choices myself.”
Workman’s attorney Patricia Finn is an expert in forced vaccination cases and she is outraged.
“This is a basic human right,” she said. “To be able to decide what is injected in our bodies, in our children’s bodies, is everything.”
Unfortunately, last December, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed, and Finn now is vowing to take the case to the Supreme Court if necessary.
“This is a First Amendment issue. This is a 9th Amendment issue. This is about basic freedom,” she said.
Most states, explained Finn have a “religious exemption” for immunizations, giving parents who don’t want their children vaccinated an out.
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She ought to homeschool if she can, that way her child will get an education.
The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Voice of the Martyrs, Canada
http://www.persecution.net
Thursday, May 26, 2011
“Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments,
despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers.”
– J. Sidlow Baxter
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In this week’s edition: reports from Algeria, Colombia, Iraq,
Pakistan, Egypt and Azerbaijan.
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1. Seven Algerian churches ordered to close
(Source: Middle East Concern)
On May 22, the Governor of Bejaia informed the President of the
Protestant Church of Algeria (EPA) that the seven churches in that
province must close down because they do not comply with an ordinance
from 2006 which regulates the exercise of religions other than Islam.
The EPA churches cannot currently comply with these regulations
because the Ministries of Interior and Religious Affairs have delayed
responding to the EPA’s application for registration. Without legal
registration, the EPA cannot apply to register their churches as
places of worship.
Please pray the order to close down the churches will be withdrawn and
that this practice will not spread to other parts of the country. Pray
the 2006 law will be repealed or the necessary procedures implemented
to allow the EPA to register. Pray, too, that all officials involved
will love mercy, act justly, learn about Jesus and choose to follow
Him.
You can find out more about the persecuted Church in Algeria along
with further information on the ordinance from 2006 in our June
newsletter. You can subscribe at
http://www.persecution.net/nlorder.htm
. You can also visit our Algeria Country Report at
http://www.persecution.net/algeria.htm
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2. Colombian Christians facing increased and intense violence
(Source: VOM contacts)
Colombian Christians are on high alert as intense and deadly violence
continues in the country. On May 12, a bomb exploded in Puerto Lleras,
killing several policemen and injuring bystanders. For several months,
members of Colombia’s main Marxist rebel group, the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), have been openly killing individuals
in town streets and burning buses throughout the region. FARC
guerillas have also been conducting an internal purge, reportedly
killing many of their own men and accusing them of being traitors to
the communist cause. It is suspected that many of those killed were
secret Christians. “In all our years in Colombia, we have never seen
it this unstable,” said a VOM contact. “Yet we believe that this is
also the most opportune time that we have ever seen for the gospel.”
Pray for those working to supply Bibles to Colombian believers in this
region, as the need is reportedly very great. Pray the various other
ministry efforts of Christian workers in Colombia will be effective.
Ask God to guide and sustain new believers as they serve Him in a
climate of intense and ongoing violence. Pray those who persecute
Christians in Colombia will repent and embrace Christ as Lord.
To learn more about the persecution of Christians in Colombia, visit
http://www.persecution.net/colombia.htm
. The May edition of The Voice of the Martyrs newsletter features the
incredible testimonies of believers serving Christ in Colombia. Find
out more about this free resource today at
http://www.persecution.net/Newsletter
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3. Iraqi Christian tortured and killed
(Sources: Middle East Concern, Compass Direct)
A 29-year-old Christian man was recently tortured and killed by
members of al Qaida in Kirkuk, Iraq. On May 13, Ashur Issa Yaqub was
kidnapped. His captors reportedly demanded $100,000 for his release.
Three days later, his body was recovered, bearing marks of brutal
torture. According to a local pastor, his kidnappers had reportedly
pressured Ashur’s employer to fire him because he was a Christian.
“Because the contractor was rich and they couldn’t do anything to him,
they kidnapped Ashur, and unfortunately they killed him,” the pastor
said. Ashur leaves to mourn a wife and three children.
Pray Ashur’s widow and children will know the peace, presence and
comfort of Jesus. Pray Christians in Kirkuk will look to Christ for
strength and continue to walk His path of faithful perseverance. Pray
those responsible for the murder will know the Spirit’s conviction of
sin and the Father’s offer of forgiveness, and turn to new life in the
Son.
For more on the suffering Church in Iraq, go to
http://www.persecution.net/iraq.htm
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4. Christian accused of blasphemy in Pakistan
(Sources: ASSIST News Service, AsiaNews)
A Christian bookstore owner is facing blasphemy charges due to the
allegations of a local Muslim, his former business partner, in Punjab
province, Pakistan. Ten years ago, Gulzar Masih opened a bookstore in
Sialkot along with a Muslim associate, Abdul Rauf. In 2009, the men
parted ways and each currently run separate bookstores. On May 1,
within the precincts of the local police station, Rauf started
shouting in front of a crowd that Gulzar and his son had burned the
Qur’an and thrown it on the road. A group of Muslims then gathered to
attack Gulzar’s son. He was able to flee, however, and warn his
father. The Muslims went to Gulzar’s bookstore and attempted to burn
it down, but police intervened and dispersed the crowd. Police
allegedly tried to initiate a case against Gulzar, but local Christian
elders and moderate Muslims intervened and found the story to be
without basis. At last report, Gulzar and his family members were
hiding out at an undisclosed location.
Ask God to give endurance of hope and faith to Gulzar and his family.
Pray his case will highlight the injustice of Pakistan’s infamous
blasphemy laws and that such legislation will be abolished. Pray the
Lord will not allow Pakistani believers to be discouraged, but to be
emboldened as they serve a loving and sovereign Lord.
Find out more about the treatment of believers in Pakistan by visiting
http://www.persecution.net/pakistan.htm
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5. Muslims violently protest re-opening of church in Egypt
(Source: Compass Direct)
A church in Cairo, Egypt, was recently prevented from re-opening due
to pressure from authorities and local Muslims. Three years ago, in
November 2008, Egypt’s State Security Intelligence service closed down
the Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Abraam in Ain Shams, a poor
section of the city, after a group of protesting Muslims blocked the
entrance. On May 19, the day the church was scheduled to re-open,
hundreds of Muslims gathered outside to protest. They surrounded the
building, preventing anyone from getting into it and trapping priests
who were inside. They also threw rocks and threatened to kill the lead
priest. Several people were injured, including a Christian bystander
who was beaten by Muslims when he tried to record the attack on a cell
phone. As a result of the protest, the provisional military authority
has backed away from its promise to the church to re-open. At last
report, it was unknown if any of the Muslim protestors have been
arrested.
Pray for healing for those injured. Pray this congregation will indeed
be able to re-open its church. Pray that, in the face of violence,
Egyptian believers will confidently entrust themselves to Christ and
preach the gospel without hesitation (2 Timothy 1:7-12). Pray that
authorities will justly protect Christian citizens against opposition
from militant Islamists.
To find out more about the trials facing Christians in Egypt, visit
http://www.persecution.net/egypt.htm
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6. Officials raid churches, question Christians in Azerbaijan
(Source: Forum 18)
Several Christians were targeted by authorities in the town of
Sumgait, Azerbaijan, in recent weeks. On May 15, police raided the
Sunday morning service of Praise Church, taking place at a local
restaurant. The officials wrote down the names of all believers
present and took them to the police station. Three days later, two
church members were each fined about two weeks’ average local wages.
That same day, police went to the home of another local pastor and
questioned him about his Christian activity.
On May 17, approximately 20 police and officials of the State
Committee raided the private home of a South Korean citizen, where
members of another church had gathered. Some 60 Bibles and other
Christian books were confiscated and those present were taken to the
police station, where they were questioned and forced to write
statements. At last report, the books had not been returned.
Thank the Lord for the faithfulness of the believers and their desire
to worship Him amid opposition. Pray for continued strength for
Christians facing charges and harassment from authorities in
Azerbaijan. Pray especially for wisdom for church leaders when dealing
with opposition. Pray the Lord will continue to spread the gospel in
this nation.
For more on the challenges facing followers of Christ in Azerbaijan,
go to http://www.persecution.net/azerbaijan.htm
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