Islam Is Not Part of Our Civilization
Bill Warner:
Obama said at the latest White House Iftar dinner:
Like so many faiths, Islam has always been part of our American family, and Muslim Americans have long contributed to the strength and character of our country, in all walks of life.
These words have no basis in fact. Islam is not part of our civilization because its foundational principles are opposite to ours. Our civilization is built on the foundation of critical thought (how we think) and the Golden Rule (ethics). Islam is built on submission (authoritative thought) and ethical dualism.
Let’s compare the principles, of these different thought systems, starting with authoritative thought and critical thought. Critical thought (also: analytic thought, scientific thought) is the necessary reasoning or intellectual basis for our culture of democracy. Critical thought is objective–no matter who does the work, they get the same results. It is fact-based, uses cause and effect, and is intellectual, not emotional. Critical thought’s tie into morals is that you don’t lie or cheat about data.
Let’s look at some authoritative reasoning. Authoritative reasoning is based on expert opinion and asserts it truth by power. It is so, because the Establishment says it is so.
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The right kind of friend for Israel
By MICHAEL D. EVANS:
The liberal-leftist media in Israel has stooped to a new low in demonizing Glenn Beck before his “Restoring Courage” rallies.
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Will Canada betray Israel?
Many of you know that on September 20 the palestinians will petition the UN Security Council to vote to recommend recognition of Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem as the new, never before existing ‘State of Palestine’. Many believe that the U.S. will veto this motion. I believe the U.S. will abstain. I hope I’m wrong.
Canada is not a permanent member of the Security Council, although by rights she should be and France should not be. Even so, as I understand it, after the Council votes, the motion, if passed, would then be voted on by the General Assembly. It is either in that order or the reverse order. In any event, Canada MUST veto this motion. Canada must not abstain or vote for it. Should Canada abstain or vote to pass the motion then the wrath of God will fall upon our nation. If the U.S. fails to veto the motion in the Security Council then palestine will be recognized but even so, Canada must not be a party to this abomination or we invite God’s judgement.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has publicly stood with Israel but Canada is on record as supporting a palestinian state through negotiated settlement with Israel. As a result, PM Harper could plausibly vote any of three ways. It is imperative he vote against this motion. He will be under enormous international and domestic pressure to vote in favour of recognizing a palestinian state. Please write to PM Harper and to your MP and encourage them to NOT vote [or abstain] in favour of recognizing a palestinian state.
Europe needs a revolution
He is out to lunch on the arab’s democracy revolutions but he’s right about everything else.
Obama Executive Order Creates ‘Office of Diversity and Inclusion’
by Buck Sexton:
In yet another expansion of government through Executive Order, the Obama administration has created an Office of Diversity and Inclusion to boost minority participation in the federal work force.
Judicial Watch reported on this new government office Wednesday, and stated that the Obama administration’s goal is to:
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Huge spike driven through heart of warmist pseudo-science
CERN: ‘Climate models will need to be substantially revised’
China announces support for Palestinian UN statehood bid
Haaretz:
China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday that Wu Sike, its special envoy on the Middle East, told Palestinian leaders in a meeting in Ramallah that Beijing and the Chinese people have always supported the Palestinian cause.
The Foreign Ministry statement said Wu expressed understanding, respect and support for the Palestinians’ bid for statehood.
Earlier in the week, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs also expressed support for an independent Palestinian state, saying that she hopes a meeting of European Union foreign ministers on September 2 in Poland will bring progress toward its recognition.
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Market crash ‘could hit within weeks’, warn bankers
By Harry Wilson, and Philip Aldrick:
Insurance on the debt of several major European banks has now hit historic levels, higher even than those recorded during financial crisis caused by the US financial group’s implosion nearly three years ago.
Credit default swaps on the bonds of Royal Bank of Scotland, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and Intesa Sanpaolo, among others, flashed warning signals on Wednesday. Credit default swaps (CDS) on RBS were trading at 343.54 basis points, meaning the annual cost to insure £10m of the state-backed lender’s bonds against default is now £343,540.
The cost of insuring RBS bonds is now higher than before the taxpayer was forced to step in and rescue the bank in October 2008, and shows the recent dramatic downturn in sentiment among credit investors towards banks.
“The problem is a shortage of liquidity – that is what is causing the problems with the banks. It feels exactly as it felt in 2008,” said one senior London-based bank executive.
“I think we are heading for a market shock in September or October that will match anything we have ever seen before,” said a senior credit banker at a major European bank.
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If we close our eyes, then our blindfolds will become our chains
Daniel Greenfield:
Let’s not pretend that the right is any more immune to leader worship and cults of personality than the zombie hordes on the left. The cult of personality as a means of power predates political orientation, it dates back to the first men who understood that leadership is not about doing what the tribe wants, but about elevating yourself above the tribe.
Reasoned political involvement is about fixing toilets. When your toilet is broken, you look through the listings, find a plumber who seems to have a good track record, look at his rates and decide if you want to bring him in to do the job.
Leader worship is about ignoring the broken toilet and reveling in the greatness of the plumber who doesn’t actually fix your toilet, but spends hours talking tough about fixing all the toilets or movingly about the broken toilet inside each and every one of us.
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China’s repression continues without a peep from WH
China: Writer Released from Prison Refuses To Be Deprived of Political Rights
One Million Israelis Under Missile Fire
by Noam Bedein:
It took me 20 minutes to drive to Ashdod from Tel-Aviv on Sunday morning, August 21st, 2 days after Ashdod, the fifth biggest city in Israel, was hit by seven Grad missiles fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza. According the IDF Spokesperson’s Office, over 100 rockets and mortars were fired towards Israel since Friday, August 19th.
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Arab Spring for Dummies
by Daniel Greenfield:
Last year, Israel had three stable borders and one unstable border. Now that the Arab Spring has turned into Terror Summer, those numbers have flipped around. Israel’s border with Egypt has become as troubled as the Lebanese border. And the Syrian border is following close behind.
Obama had thought to use the Arab Spring as the linchpin of his reelection campaign, tying the unrest that brought down Mubarak to his Cairo speech. But the ugly turn of events in the region has him distancing himself from events instead.
The Arab Spring did not become the Soft Power alternative to the Bush Doctrine that his advisers expected it to be. Instead the economic protests exploited by State Department backed activists are sliding formerly pro-American countries into the Islamist camp.
The regional instability is most visible as its fracture points on the Israeli border.
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This president and his sponsors have brought chaos and a coming war upon us.
The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Voice of the Martyrs, Canada
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
“The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a
man’s business
but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the
greatest blessing
to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our
lives,
be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose
if we flinch or rebel.”
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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In this week’s edition: reports from Sudan, China, Vietnam and Iraq.
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1. Church building in ruins; hostilities grow in Sudan
(Source: Compass Direct)
More than seven months after Muslim extremists burned its church
building, a Presbyterian Church of the Sudan (PCOS) congregation is
still afraid to meet for worship. The Rev. Maubark Hamad said his
church in Wad Madani has not been able to rebuild since the January 15
devastation due to the congregation’s meagre resources. Christian
sources said they are increasingly fearful as Muslim extremists pose
more threats against Christians in an attempt to rid what they call
Dar al Islam, the “Land of Islam,” of Christianity. The congregation’s
building was burned after a series of threats against its members by
Muslims extremists. When church leaders reported the case to police,
they were surprised to find officers reluctant to investigate.
Christians in Sudan are living beneath a blanket of fear since South
Sudan seceded on July 9 (for more information, go to
http://www.persecution.net/sd-2011-07-21.htm
). Just one month after the south voted for independence from the
predominantly Islamic north, pressures on churches and Christians have
increased, with Muslim groups threatening to destroy churches, kill
Christians and purge the country of Christianity.
Please pray the Lord will strengthen His Church in Sudan. May He
protect believers from harm and grow the Church in faithfulness and in
number. Ask Him to give them the grace to overcome their loss and
their current fears. Pray they will have the desire to meet with one
another for mutual encouragement and to act as witnesses for the
gospel.
For more information on persecution in Sudan, please visit
http://www.persecution.net/sudan.htm
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2. Investigation requested for missing human rights lawyer in China
(Source: ChinaAid Association)
VOM partner ChinaAid formally requested a special UN investigation
into the torture of missing Christian lawyer Gao Zhisheng on August
15, the five-year anniversary of his first kidnapping by police. The
request was submitted by ChinaAid’s legal counsel and was filed with
the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture.
Human rights lawyer Gao was taken by police on August 15, 2006, from
his sister’s home and held incommunicado until the Chinese government
announced on September 21 that he was being charged with inciting
subversion (for more information, go to
http://www.persecution.net/cn-2011-01-13.htm
).
In March 2010, a group of human rights specialists filed a petition
before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which resulted in
the discovery of serious wrongdoing by the Chinese government.
However, Chinese authorities failed to even reply to the UN enquiry.
Those involved were told that Gao’s case is a matter of China’s
internal affairs, adding that the country is under rule of law.
ChinaAid founder and president, Bob Fu, and the organization’s legal
counsel, David E. Taylor, expect that China is likely to respond
similarly to this request for a special UN investigation.
“Nonetheless, we believe it is important for the international
community to see again how the Chinese Communist Party responds with
arrogance and recalcitrance to the UN, and to show the world,
especially Gao’s family and the Chinese government, that Gao has not
been forgotten for even one second and never will be,” Taylor said.
Please pray for Gao and his family; may they remain steadfast in the
faith (1 Peter 5:8-10). Ask the Lord to use this current investigation
request for His glory and for the benefit of Gao and other Chinese
believers who are currently in prison for their faith.
To learn more about China’s suffering Christians, please visit
http://www.persecution.net/china.htm
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3. Christian worshippers brutally beaten by police in Vietnam
(Source: International Christian Concern)
A violent attack against minority Degar Montagnard Christians in the
central highlands of Vietnam took place in July, leaving 16 Christians
severely injured. One Christian man remains under arrest, his
condition unknown.
On July 7, at approximately 8 p.m., Vietnamese security forces and
police descended upon a worship service in the village of Buon Kret
Krot, Gai Lai Province, and began kicking and beating the attendees.
Security forces threatened the villagers, stating: “If anyone worships
like this way, we will return to arrest you all and put you in prison
for five years.” Of the Christians attacked, 10 men and two women were
beaten to the point of unconsciousness.
Pray the Lord will bring swift and complete healing to those who were
injured. Pray for the release of the believer who was arrested. Ask
the Lord to strengthen these believers. Pray Christians in Vietnam
will continue to meet together in spite of the opposition. Pray for
the perpetrators of this attack. To post a prayer for these suffering
believers, please visit our Persecuted Church Prayer Wall at
http://www.persecution.net/prayerwall
.
For more on persecution in Vietnam, go to
http://www.persecution.net/vietnam.htm
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4. Church building bombed in Iraq
(Source: Compass Direct)
A wave of violence hit 17 cities in Iraq recently, claiming around 70
lives. Included in the attacks was the bombing of a church building in
Kirkuk, marking the second round of assaults against the city’s
Christian community in recent weeks. On August 15 at 1:20 a.m., a bomb
tore through one of the walls of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Mar
Afram. Thankfully, no Christians were killed in the attack, but police
have announced higher protective measures for Kirkuk’s churches.
Earlier in the month, three other churches were targeted by
insurgents. While police were able to disarm bombs near two of the
churches, a third bomb detonated in front of the Holy Family Syriac
Catholic Church.
About 334,000 Christians remain in Iraq, less than half of their
number in 1991. The violence has caused hundreds of thousands of Iraqi
people, both Muslim and Christian, to leave the country, and many more
are displaced inside Iraq, particularly in Kurdistan.
Pray for the church in Iraq. Pray they will keep their eyes on Jesus,
persevere in their faith, and not grow weary or lose heart (Hebrews
10:32-39; 12:1-3). Pray He will comfort and strengthen the many who
are grieving. Ask him to intervene in the lives of Christians in Iraq
to protect and preserve them.
Please visit http://www.persecution.net/iraq.htm
for more on the trials facing believers in Iraq.
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‘Nonsense’: Pro-Beck Jewish Academic Makes Forceful Stand Against Hostile Questions Outside ‘Restoring Courage’ Event
by Scott Baker:
While Glenn Beck was giving his main address at Restoring Courage, I could hear the chants of the anti-Beck protesters on the other side of the Old City wall.
I’m not sure how she picked out the sound, but at one point Israeli-based journalist Sharona Schwartz, who was sitting near me, turned quickly and said, “There is another group singing an Israeli anthem — I bet they are supporting Beck.”
We rapidly decamped and found that she was right.
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With Glenn Beck by the Temple’s Walls
by Barry Rubin:
Glenn Beck’s program in Israel went off without a hitch, ending in a rally on the southern side of the Old City of Jerusalem. About 1000 people were in attendance, mostly Americans (contrary to the media coverage, a number of the Americans were Jews not Evangelicals) who’d come to Jerusalem at Beck’s urging, but with a sprinkling of Israelis, including a fair proportion of Orthodox Jews.
With the Old City walls to his right and in front of him, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque looming quite close, Beck handled himself with a mixture of audaciousness toward his enemies and sensitivity toward his friends. He announced a global movement, to be headquartered in Texas, to encourage average people to act against injustice, though the details of its scope and goals weren’t clear. Since you won’t get any real coverage in the media, here is the full text of the speech.
While many fulminated against Beck and his Israel project it was hard to find something, he specifically said or did that should provoke such feelings.
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Israeli Ambassador Confirms: Erdogan ‘Hates Us Religiously’
Andrew G. Bostom:
The progressive dismantling of Turkey’s experiment in Westernization/ secularization — which began within a decade of Ataturk’s death — came to popular, if ugly, fruition with the election of the Necmettin Erbakan government in the early 1990s.
Erbakan was a full-throated, unapologetic promulgator of mainstream, “sacralized” Islamic Jew` hatred.
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