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Woman interrupts Muslim service at National Cathedral: 'Jesus Christ is Lord'</div>
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American Muslims were invited to offer prayers to Allah inside the nation’s most iconic Christian church Friday in Washington, D.C., but the intended message of peace, harmony and tolerance isn’t so well received in Muslim countries, according to Christian leaders contacted by WND.<br />
The Washington National Cathedral, which earned the title “America’s House of Prayer” for its hosting of presidential funerals and inauguration-related prayer services, was turned into a virtual mosque in which Muslims bowed toward Mecca and shielded their eyes from the Christian cross.<br />
Prayer carpets were arranged diagonally, to the side of the sanctuary, so worshipers could face in the direction of Mecca without seeing crosses or other Christian symbols. Muslims are not supposed to pray in view of sacred symbols “alien to their faith,” the <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/muslim-friday-prayers-to-be-held-for-the-first-time-at-washington-national-cathedral/2520095.html">Voice of America reported</a>.<br />
The Episcopal cathedral becomes the first church in America to host a Muslim-led prayer service. And this isn’t just any church. Famous people are buried there, including President Woodrow Wilson, Helen Keller and Admiral George Dewey, and it is perhaps the most recognizable Christian sanctuary in the nation with its soaring Gothic architecture and grand entrance hall.<br />
A receptionist at the cathedral told WND Friday the event was not open to the public but it was live-streamed on the cathedral’s website. Attendance was by invitation only, and the invite list came from the South African ambassador, who helped plan the event. She said she did not know if any Christians were invited to the service or how many may have attended.<br />
<strong>Christian woman stands up, speaks out</strong><br />
The cathedral has hosted Muslims at interfaith services in the past. But this is the first time the cathedral has invited Muslims to come and lead their own prayers there.<br />
But just as the Imam was about to give the Muslim call to prayer, a Christian woman, who apparently sneaked into the service, stood up, pointed to the cross and shouted “Jesus Christ died on that cross. He is the reason we are to worship only Him. Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. We have built enough of your mosques in this country. Why don’t you worship in your mosques and leave our churches alone? …America was founded on Christian principles…Leave our church alone!”<br />
She was immediately grabbed by the arms and forcibly led out of the church by two men. The unidentified woman’s interruption of the service was captured on video by one of the attendees and <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2014/11/christian-woman-praying-to-christ-ejected-from-muslim-prayers-at-national-cathedral.html/">posted online at PamelaGeller.com</a>.<br />
Planners of the event <a href="http://www.nationalcathedral.org/press/PR-6UA7A-8S001J.shtml">said in a news release</a> that they hoped “people around the world will take note of this service and the welcome extended by the Cathedral so that Muslims everywhere will adopt a reciprocal welcome of Christians by Muslims.”<br />
WND asked for and was provided a recorded video of the service (see below). But the cathedral’s video of the event did not show the Christian woman standing up, walking to the front of the church and proclaiming the name of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, then rebuking the Muslims.<br />
<strong>Christian leaders react</strong><br />
The Rev. Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, said in a Facebook post Thursday that the Muslim prayer service at the National Cathedral is “sad to see” because the church should only open its doors for worship of “the One True God of the Bible.”<br />
Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, said, “Tomorrow, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. – one of the most prominent Episcopal churches in America – will host a Muslim prayer service to Allah.”<br />
“It’s sad to see a church open its doors to the worship of anything other than the One True God of the Bible who sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to earth to save us from our sins,” said Graham. “Jesus was clear when He said, ‘I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me’ (John 14:6).”<br />
The cathedral’s <a href="http://www.nationalcathedral.org/press/PR-6UA7A-8S001J.shtml">press release</a> said the goal was to encourage greater acceptance between Christians and Muslims, calling the Islamic Jumma prayers a “powerful symbolic gesture.”<br />
“Leaders believe offering Muslim prayers at the Christian cathedral shows more than hospitality,” representatives for the National Cathedral said about the event. “It demonstrates an appreciation of one another’s prayer traditions and is a powerful symbolic gesture toward a deeper relationship between the two Abrahamic traditions.”<br />
The event was planned by the Rev. Gina Campbell, the cathedral’s director of liturgy, and South African Ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool, who is a Muslim.<br />
Campbell spoke at the service and said a prayer “in the name of God” but did not mention Jesus Christ. She told her Muslim guests that “we approach the same God.”<br />
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A statement by Rasool called the service “a dramatic moment in the world and in Muslim-Christian relations.”<br />
“This needs to be a world in which all are free to believe and practice and in which we avoid bigotry, Islamaphobia, racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Christianity and to embrace our humanity and to embrace faith,” Rasool added.<br />
But Christian convert and former Muslim Dr. Mark Christian said the gesture will never be reciprocated by Muslims. They would never allow Christians into a mosque sanctuary to hold a Christian-led prayer service.<br />
“No, not ever. They can let Christians and Jews only in the U.S. and West sometimes into their mosques, because they have an agenda, but they will let them in the basement or another room, not in the main sanctuary and certainly not to say a Christian prayer. That would make it unclean. That would defile their sanctuary in their eyes,” said Christain, who lives under a fatwa placed on his life by Muslims in his native Egypt.<br />
The Washington Post quoted a local Muslim spokesperson who said: “We want the world to see the Christian community is partnering with us and is supporting our religious freedom in the same way we are calling for religious freedom for all minorities in Muslim countries. Let this be a lesson to the world.”<br />
Sponsors of the event included the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, and the Islamic Society of North America, also called ISNA.<br />
CAIR and ISNA are known front groups for the Muslim Brotherhood. The groups in question have been named as unindicted co-conspirators in the largest terrorism funding trial in U.S history. ISNA and CAIR were directly involved in laundering money through fake charities to fund Hamas operations as documented in court records related to the 2009 Holy Land Foundation trial.<br />
This is not the first time the National Cathedral has delved head first into controversial territory. In June, it celebrated “Gay Pride Month” by <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2014/June/Transgender-Priest-Preaches-at-National-Cathedral/">allowing a transgender priest to preach a sermon</a> from its pulpit.<br />
<strong>Making ‘tolerance a god’</strong><br />
Joel Richardson, a Christian filmmaker and author of “<a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/WND-Books/The-Islamic-Antichrist-Autographed-Hardcover">The Islamic Antichrist,</a>” said the hypocrisy of the Muslim world is “beyond words” when it comes to interfaith programs like the one held Friday at the National Cathedral. The Christians who host such events have made “tolerance” a god, he said.<br />
“We as a Christian nation are called to love Muslims in our midst but that does not mean we allow ourselves to be subjugated in their presence,” he said.<br />
Not only would such a prayer service by Christians not be allowed in a mosque in Islam’s home country, Saudi Arabia, he said, but Christians would not even be allowed to build a church there.<br />
“Why don’t they allow churches in Saudi Arabia? Because that’s a sign of subjugation,” Richardson said.<br />
The message being sent from Washington to Muslim countries around the world is not one of tolerance but one of subjugation, Richardson said.<br />
“To them, they are sending a sign that they have defeated us, that they’re conquering us. There’s conquest and occupation,” he said.<br />
To find an example of how tolerant Muslims are of Christians and Jews in their “holy places,” one should look at Istanbul, Turkey, and Jerusalem, Israel, Richardson said.<br />
In Istanbul, one of the oldest, most famous Christian churches, the Hagia Sophia cathedral, has recently been turned into a museum by the Turkish Islamic government and is in the process of transitioning into a mosque.<br />
Richardson visited there last year and said Christians were not allowed to pray overtly Christian prayers in the former church. The same is true on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, which Arabs call al-Aqsa and guard closely for any sign of Jews or Christians uttering prayers.<br />
“The Temple Mount was Jewish, but Muslims conquered it so the idea of them allowing Christian prayers was out of the question,” Richardson said. “They view it as their conquest of us, and to them once something has been conquered it’s considered Islamic from there on forward, and they’re allowed to wage jihad to maintain it. The hypocrisy of the Islamic world is beyond words on these matters.”<br />
<strong>Islam as the ‘perfect’ conquering religion</strong><br />
Mark Christian, whose father and uncle are Muslim Brotherhood members and whose great-uncle was one of its co-founders in Egypt during the 1960s, also cited a “conquering mentality” that is dominant among Muslim Brotherhood organizations.<br />
He said Islam has a “supremacy problem” based upon the idea that Islam has perfected the religions practiced by Jews and Christians.<br />
“In Islamic tradition, supremacy is demonstrated to all by practicing Islam where Christianity or Judaism once reigned,” he said. “This is what animates the building of mosques on the holy sites of other religions. It is a conqueror’s philosophy.”<br />
The decision to allow a Muslim imam to conduct an Islamic service from the altar of the National Cathedral in Washington is to Muslims the functional equivalent of Islam standing supreme atop Christianity in America “in our own house,” said Christian, who founded the <a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/">Global Faith Institute</a> in Nebraska and has been confronting an interfaith project in that city.<br />
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While America’s interfaith community may be well-intentioned, they are more often than not used by radical Islamists as a method of appearing “mainstream,” he said. The Islamists gain legitimacy while the Christians are left holding a watered down gospel message.<br />
According to Pew Research Center, Muslims make up just under 1 percent of the U.S. population.<br />
“CAIR and ISNA are known fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood. Is there really any doubt as to how they will present the National Cathedral event to their followers?” Christian asks. “Perhaps as a reciprocal gesture, the rector of the National Cathedral can offer communion at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem? I won’t hold my breath.”<br />
Todd Nettleton, director of media and public relations for Voice of the Martyrs, an organization that advocates for persecuted Christians around the world, many of them in Islamic countries, said the event sends a chilling message that was perhaps not intended by its Episcopal organizers.<br />
“I can’t think of a country where Muslims would willingly and openly allow a Christian prayer service to take place inside of a mosque,” he told WND. “We have on occasion seen some pretty amazing things. I recall some of my co-workers in Sudan wanted to show ‘The Jesus Film,’ and the best screen available was the side of a mosque so it was used for that purpose, but not a prayer service or evangelistic service inside of a mosque – that would likely never happen.<br />
“And this is the National Cathedral here, a national symbol of Christianity, so you would not see something at a prominent level like a grand mosque in Cairo opening up to a Christian prayer service. That would never happen.”<br />
<strong>Sending the wrong message</strong><br />
The message received by Muslims around the world will be clear, Nettleton said.<br />
“I think of the pictures that will be seen across the world of Muslims praying and holding an Islamic prayer services in the National Cathedra. People will think, ‘Wow, more people must be becoming Muslims in America,’ and, ‘They’re taking over Christian churches now in America.’ Frankly, I wish more churches would allow Muslims in to hear the gospel message because that is what they need to hear. It’s disappointing to see this. It seems like a compromise that doesn’t necessarily send the right message.”<br />
Richardson said tolerance is a Christian virtue that can be counterproductive when taken to extremes.<br />
“Although tolerance is a good principle that’s built into who we are, that tolerance has become the national idol of our time and our country to the point where issues such as freedom, liberty and really just rational thought have been subordinated on that great altar of tolerance,” he said. “We’ve literally become suicidal as a nation. When we welcome in those that are foundationally opposed to who we are as a nation and our Constitution, that’s called suicide. When someone says ‘I’ll eat anything’ and someone hands them a gallon of antifreeze, that’s suicide. We reach out in tolerance, but we actually welcome in that which is hyper intolerant.”</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844424209089366255noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442130746662470609.post-50086939179754026362014-10-23T07:28:00.003-07:002014-10-23T07:28:43.321-07:00Dr. Mark Christian<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">
Dr. Mark Christian was born and raised in an upscale Cairo suburb known as “Heliopolis.” His father was a Lieutenant General in the Egyptian military and the personal family physician of then-President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. From a very young age Mark was the constant companion of his father, growing up to become his closest confidante as well.</div>
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Following in his footsteps, Mark too became a physician – an Obstetrician and Gynecologist – but his emulation of his father didn’t end there. Dr. Christian’s father was a very well-known religious leader and Imam, and Mark longed to travel that path. Mark was teaching in the Masjid by the age of thirteen.</div>
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Dr. Christian was a very devout Muslim. He learned Islamic theology and tradition at an unusually young age, devoting himself to memorizing and learning the Quran, ultimately serving at mosques in the role of an Imam.</div>
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However, after years of extensive theological and historical study, Dr. Christian began to question some of the fundamental tenets of Islam. He began to search for the underlying truth of the Islamic religion, the foundation upon which his life, and the lives of millions of others had been built, and all too often, also lost.</div>
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This search, this inner struggle to find solid ground beneath his spiritual feet was vehemently opposed by… well, everyone around him.</div>
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His original quest was to solidify the foundation of his faith, to discover the immutable truths that would inexorably lead him to forever follow Allah and his Prophet. Instead, where spiritual bedrock should’ve been, Dr. Christian found only sand.</div>
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He searched through history to find others like himself – those who had questioned their Islamic faith, and discovered the answers that laid their questions to rest.</div>
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He found no one. Anyone who had sought confirmation, anyone who questioned the “why” of Islam found the razors edge of a sword as their answer.</div>
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Mark had discovered the truth behind the Islamic myth, and walked away from Islam.</div>
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Later, after nearly 10 years of “spiritual wandering,” he would come to discover Jesus Christ and commit his life to Him. Still in Egypt, he struggled to worship secretly for a long time, always fearing the knock on the door, wondering when he would be found out and beheaded as an apostate.</div>
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Mark had diverted destiny and ditched Islam for good, undergoing a conversion which would ignite a murderous hatred from his own father and family. He lives under that threat even today.</div>
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Mark came to America in 2005, and soon discovered the shocking extent of Islamic infiltration in his adopted country. To Mark, a man steeped in both religious and political Islam, a man who grew up amidst the planning and scheming of the Muslim Brotherhood, the recognition of their agenda at work in the United States was almost immediate. Mark had grown up watching his father and uncle as they, with their Brotherhood associates, had planned it all some three decades earlier.</div>
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Recognizing the urgency of this grim threat and informed by his unique upbringing, he responded with the formation of the <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Global Faith Institute</strong> as a way to protect his cherished American freedoms from the sickness he thought he had left behind in Egypt.</div>
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Dr. Christian’s great-uncle is one of the founders of the original Muslim Brotherhood, and Mark’s father, (who became a member in his teens) remains a highly-respected advisor for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to this day.</div>
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In 1965 the Egyptian government imprisoned a great many members of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of whom was Mark’s uncle, who shared his cell with Sayyid Qutb, the infamous ideological “godfather” of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.</div>
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Over the years, Mark’s father and uncle moved up in the organization, and through this high-level access Mark was afforded unparalleled exposure to the ideology and objectives of radical Islam, the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the stringent creed of Sharia law.</div>
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Though Dr. Christian was never a member himself, his daily interactions with the Muslim Brotherhood through his father and uncle gave him a direct view of their machinations and motivations.<br />Most instructively, his exposure was centered around their “re-grouping” period, beginning in the 1970’s. It was during this time that the Brotherhood made and launched their plans for their infiltration of the West.</div>
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Before Dr. Christian’s conversion to Christianity, he served as a military physician for several years at El-Maadi Military Medical Center in Cairo, a prestigious hospital providing exceptional medical care to VIP’s and other high-ranking military and government officials.</div>
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El-Maadi is to Egypt what Bethesda Naval Hospital, or Walter Reed Medical Center is to America. Former patients include former Egyptian leaders Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak.<br />It was during his tenure at El-Maadi that Dr. Christian met and came to know Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the current President of Egypt.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844424209089366255noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442130746662470609.post-86896834446975457042014-10-23T06:23:00.000-07:002014-10-23T06:23:23.003-07:00BILL MAHER CRACKS MEDIA-NARRATIVE FOUNDATION<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 12px;">
Bill Maher, comedian and talk-show provocateur, is no friend of Christianity or Judaism. In fact, Maher considers all religion to be “a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need.”</div>
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Maher is essentially an atheist, although not a particularly militant one. He describes himself as an “apatheist,” which means an atheist who just really doesn’t care about the whole thing.</div>
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So, given these facts, Maher’s recent statements on Islam are not nearly as surprising as the charges of hypocrisy Maher has leveled against his fellow leftists for their apologetics on behalf of throat-slitters.</div>
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It truly speaks to the state of Western society when an atheist, anti-religion talk-show host is the most forceful proponent of the truth about Islam among the major elite media.</div>
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Maher’s simple declaration that Islam “is the only religion that kills you if you disagree with them,” has caused liberal heads to swell and explode like the final scenes of the movie “Mars Attacks!”</div>
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Amidst shrieking denunciations of his comments, Maher has remained consistent in saying that, “You know, it’s like if dad is a violent drunk and beats his kids. You don’t blame the kid because he set dad off. You blame dad because he’s a violent drunk.”</div>
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Of course, this sort of necessary and overdue criticism of Islamic culture has no place in the present media narrative that insists we have more to fear from tea party folks than from ISIS.</div>
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Indeed, actor Ben Affleck (a recent guest on Maher’s show) almost immediately went to the equivalence argument – which erroneously claims that all religions have violence and extremists in them – when Maher broached the subject of Islam’s problem with playing well with others.</div>
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Operating some sort of perverse casualty-vs-casualty calculator, Affleck summed up his entire argument by stating irrelevantly, “We’ve killed more Muslims than they’ve killed us by an awful lot.” Aside from a crime of grammar, Affleck’s statement reveals the flaw in leftist thinking vis-à-vis the United States and well … everyone else.</div>
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According to the Afflecks of the world, the U.S. is just getting what we deserve, and apparently, until ISIS catches up to us in terms of numeric lethality, we should just quit bitching and take our decapitations with a smile.</div>
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Affleck went on to trot out the tired canard of Islamists being only a sliver of Islam itself, not at all representative of mainstream Islamic thinking. Maher set his trap.</div>
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AFFLECK: The people who would actually believe in that you murder someone if they leave Islam is not the majority of Muslims at all. …</div>
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Maher sprung his trap, citing the Pew Research Center poll that shows nearly 90 percent of Egyptians, by no means a frothing hotbed of ISIS members, support death for those who leave Islam.</div>
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Affleck (by now reduced to a palsied, spittle-flecked screamer) tried to accuse Maher of racist generalizations, not unlike declaring all young black men to be gang members.</div>
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Maher was having none of it and called out Affleck for his hypocrisy, stating “If 90 percent of Brazilians thought that death was the appropriate response to leaving Catholicism, you would think it was a bigger deal.”</div>
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The boom fell on Ben Affleck. His world of neatly ordered biases fell apart before the viewer’s eyes. Fellow leftist, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, tried to bolster his fellow traveler’s failing sanity by insinuating that Maher was in fact a closet racist, but even Kristof failed to speak with any real conviction.</div>
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They were beaten, and they knew it. They had a credit card from the Bank of Racist, Sexist and Islamophobe that had no limit but wasn’t accepted at “Chez Maher.” They went home hungry and embarrassed.</div>
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For those of us who have been fighting the battle over Islamic reform for many years, it was encouraging to see a media figure from the left finally recognize the fallacy that is the moral equivalence argument.</div>
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There is a distinct difference between the violence described in the Bible and the violence prescribed in the Quran. One talks about what has happened while the other declares what must happen, if one wishes to be faithful to Allah.</div>
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While Maher’s stand is a good thing for the side of intellectual honesty in our media culture, it is important to remember that this is only a hairline crack in the massive media monolith. But like a crack in a house’s foundation, the freeze-thaw cycle can, over time, bring the whole thing down.</div>
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So I lift my cup for a toast. Here’s to a little more water seepage, and a really cold winter. Keep it up, Bill Maher.</div>
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<i><a href="mailto:mark@globalfaithinstitute.org">Mark Christian</a> was born and raised a devout Sunni Muslim, with strong ties to the Egyptian military and The Muslim Brotherhood, but later ditched Islam and followed Jesus Christ. He is the founder of theGlobal Faith Institute.</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844424209089366255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442130746662470609.post-83866011438582341862014-10-22T08:46:00.002-07:002014-10-22T08:46:14.710-07:00An Islamic ‘Council of Nicea’<div id="BlogTitle" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px;">
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<a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/conp.jpg"></a>Christianity and Judaism have a great deal in common, not the least of which is compassion for their fellow man and the institutional capacity to take the steps required to express that compassion in daily life.<br />
It is this reverence for the individual that led both traditions to reform themselves over the centuries, eliminating anachronistic practices while maintaining fidelity to their faith. It is an ongoing process, obviously, but it is a process to which both religions are fully committed – and have been for more than a thousand years.<br />
Islam in this regard is an outlier. In the 1400-odd years of Islam, there has never been a “reformation.” The religion forbids it. It is no accident that the oft-touted contributions of Islam to the world mostly came before Islam demanded dominance in all things.<br />
After the Mongol sacking of Baghdad, Islam reacted by retrenching inwardly. Science was no longer science, it was only Islamic science. Economics became Islamic economics, as rules proliferated for everything in order to demonstrate adherence to the faith and resistance to the <em>infidel</em>.<br />
Truthfully, Islam was better off in practice in the 10<sup>th</sup> Century than it is today. It is clear that Islam, like cigarettes, stunts your growth.<br />
Now, adherence to tradition is not a bad thing on its own. In fact, tradition is the repository of the world’s “institutional knowledge,” enabling successive generations to build on the work of their predecessors.<br />
Sometimes, though, new information is discovered and it becomes necessary to revisit those traditions to re-evaluate their utility for present and future generations. The idea of self-government is one such example.<br />
Tradition held that some people had the right to rule other people, and this tradition was accepted and enforced for millennia until the radical experiment of individual sovereignty, which found its greatest expression in our own United States.<br />
So it is with religious tradition as well. Christianity is built upon Judaism — indeed it wouldn’t exist without it — but it isn’t opposed to Judaism for those who wish to practice it. Many centuries ago, the enmity between Jews and Christians began fading with the passing of each successive generation until today it exists only as an aberration to be ridiculed and denounced whenever it appears.<br />
This illustrates the internal narrative of the Western psyche. Our minds operate in a manner consistent with liberty because our minds have been developed in the presence of liberty, both political and religious.<br />
We are capable of reform, because we are always seeking the better mousetrap. We look at life as a challenge, not just to survive it, but to improve it. To leave it better than we found it.<br />
A mind shaped by Islam generally finds such attitudes to be anathema. Islam is in continual conflict because Islam is possessed of an impossible idea – to preserve all of creation as it existed in 632 A.D., the year Mohammed died.<br />
Given the changes that have wracked the earth since that date, is it any wonder Islam is “out of sorts”? Ask yourself, how difficult would it be to conduct your daily business if you had to reconcile your actions with the cultural norms of the early Middle-Ages?<br />
In Christianity, the Church has held ecumenical councils, realigning Church doctrine with new information and greater understanding of both the natural world and the people who inhabit it. These councils also addressed heresies that had sprung up in the Church, definitively establishing what is canonical and what is apocryphal.<br />
In Catholicism, the Council known as Vatican II was the most recent “re-founding” of the Church. Pope Paul VI described the need for the Council in this way –<br />
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“…the problems of the 1960s stemmed from the Church holding to the best values which had come to maturity over the previous two centuries, despite the fact that <em>these values were born outside the Church</em>, yet they could find their place – after being purified and corrected – in the Church’s view on the world.”</blockquote>
The Pope was referring to the Enlightenment philosophies of science and reason. In the previous two centuries, Man had slowly crawled out from the cave of mysticism to stand blinking in the sunlight of a world he previously had only seen through the stained-glass windows of the Church.<br />
Reason would emerge as a complement to Scripture – and vice-versa – while the understanding of oneself and one’s role in the world evolved into an individual pursuit, rather than a purely collective one directed by religious tradition.<br />
Faith made peace with reason and a careful balance was struck between secularism and religion, between the sovereignty of God over all, and the sovereignty of Man over himself. A difficult balance to be sure, but one that is essential to the survival of both Church and individual liberty.<br />
There is no such mechanism for a similar introspection in Islam, and the resultant calcification of the religion has rendered it incapable of peaceful coexistence in the modern world.<br />
Pope John XXII called this process of re-evaluation <em>aggiornamento</em> – the adjustment of religion according to the facts of the world in which it lives. This is not to be confused with secularizing the Gospel or the elevation of humanism above God as many opponents of Vatican II charged, but rather represented recognition that immutable truths can arrive from sources beyond the Church, and that God doesn’t restrict the delivery of His wisdom only to men in robes and sashes.<br />
Throughout, Islam has held a fierce resistance to all things non-Islamic. Around the time of the Western Enlightenment, Muslims’ brutal practices had rendered them largely unwelcome anywhere in Europe (certainly not in any significant numbers), and their incessant raiding necessitated their subjugation by the more developed and cosmopolitan powers of the earth.<br />
Islam now appears to have reached a point in history where it has been behind for so long adherents can’t bring themselves to admit it. Sort of like the guy who trips over his own feet, then tries to pass it off by saying, “I meant to do that.”<br />
Islam needs a Vatican II. Actually, Islam needs a Council of Nicea (the 4<sup>th</sup> Century meeting in what is now modern-day Turkey) that codified Christian doctrine. Islam has never convened anything like a Council of Nicea. Indeed, Muslims have never really admitted to having a problem, which we all know is the first step in finding a solution.<br />
Whether the Islamists themselves or their mewling apologists among the liberal intelligentsia care to admit it, Islam must reform, or be subjugated yet again.<br />
Instead of apologizing for Islam, it is time for our leaders to demand of Islam that which we ourselves have already done –<em> aggiornamento</em> – the adjustment of our religion according to the facts of the world in which it lives.<br />
<a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/about/dr-mark-christian/"><em>Dr. Mark Christian</em><em> MD</em><em> </em></a><em>was born and raised a devout Sunni Muslim, with strong ties to the Egyptian military and The Muslim Brotherhood, but later ditched Islam and followed Jesus Christ. He is the Co-founder of the </em><a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/"><em>Global Faith Institute.</em></a><br />
<a href="http://www.abrahamstentradio.com/about-the-hosts/">Joe Herring</a> is a writer and analyst who frequently advises policy makers at all levels of government. He is the Press/Public Relations Director for <em><a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/support-gfi/">Global Faith Institute</a> </em>and the host of <a href="http://www.abrahamstentradio.com/">Abraham’s Tent radio show</a>.</div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">By Nonie Darwish</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Time for Republican
voters to stop whining over the so-called RINO (Republicans In Name Only) in
congress when in fact it is we, Republican voters, who have failed our
congressional leadership over and over again. How can we expect the republican
leadership to stand up strong to the liberal agenda, media abuse, and
entrapment, when we the voters, who should be their back bone, do not show up
to vote in decisive election years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some republican voters
and activists seem unable to not get off their high horses, when in the 2012
election, they refused to elect one of the most decent and competent Americans
running for president, Mit Romney. Their stubborn reasoning was “I would not
vote for a Mormon”, or “he is not conservative enough.” Thus Barak Obama and
Harry Reid, were both re-elected. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some republican voters
would rather shoot themselves in the foot than realize that politics is a game
of compromise and strategy. Even after the great disappointment with the
re-election of Obama, many continue to complain about the party leadership and
how Boener, McConnel and Graham, are not pushing a more conservative agenda.
Few realize and verbalize the fact that when we failed to elect Romney and kept
the senate in the hands of democrats, we have sucked the power out of
republican leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Not only are they not
getting the support they need to push the conservative agenda, but also they
must survive the cut throat environment in Washington D.C. where, as is often
said, a ham sandwich can be indicted. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The brazen violations
by the IRS and Department of Justice against conservatives and tea party
activists does not go unnoticed by politicians who could be dragged through the
mud by the democratic party machinery and the one sided media. Just ask Sarah
Palin, Michelle Backman, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay,
etc. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And now many
republicans, including those who were reluctant to vote for Romney, are singing
the same tune before the coming elections: “we are fed up with the republican
party” or “I will change to independent.” Such people are harming the
conservative cause that they claim they love, more than any liberal action.
Such republicans have a misguided, punitive attitude and instead of voting
wisely, they would rather throw the baby with the bath water. They spread
defeatist propaganda among other less informed republicans, which could cause a
split in republican ranks that could bring us a repeat of the Ross Perot fiasco
that contributed to the election of Bill Clinton. But this time, it could be
Hillary.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Republican and
independent voters must wise up this time and understand what is at stake with
the rise of Islamic State while America is under the most incompetent and paralyzed
presidency in its history. If we shoot ourselves in the foot again, we have no
one to blame but ourselves and we might not be able to stand up on our feet
once again. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Democrats are good at
closing ranks and keeping their representatives in power, even those who are
embarrassingly incompetent, such as Nancy Palosi, Harry Reid etc. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">No democrat in power
today can hold a candle to the many great republicans we have in office today;
governor Scott Walker, Congressman Paul Ryan, Senator Marco Rubio, governor
Rick Perry, Senator Rand Paul, governor John Kasich, governor Jan Brewer and
former governor Jeb Bush. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The next republican
president of the US will hopefully undo the damage Obama has done to this
nation both internally and externally. But if Republicans don’t show up in
massive numbers to vote then we should not complain if Hillary takes the mantle
from Obama. In that case, it is not the RINO republicans’ fault, but the RINOs
would be us. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nonie Darwish, author
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442130746662470609.post-21011445935043993392014-09-06T09:05:00.003-07:002014-09-06T09:06:24.796-07:00The Notion of ‘Sin’ in Islam and ChristianityThis week’s <i>Glazov Gang</i> was guest-hosted by <b>Nonie Darwish</b> and joined by <b>Dr. Jim Tolle, </b>the Senior Pastor at El Camino Metro Church in Los Angeles.<br />
<b>Pastor Tolle</b> joined the show to discuss <b>The Notion of “Sin” in Islam and Christianity</b><i><b>,</b> </i>analyzing
how the stark contrast in two religions’ values fosters peace and
forgiveness in one — and violence and killing in the other:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been 13 years since 9/11 and the West is still reluctant to link the non-ending parade of jihad groups with Islam. The West is also in denial about the similarities all radical Islamic groups share. It is important for the West to realize that there is a natural division of labor between the different terror groups. Some groups specialize in terror against non-Muslims and Western governments while others specialize in terrorizing Arab governments that refused to follow Sharia. But the truly sophisticated groups are those who reside in the West, calling themselves ‘moderate’ while at the same time defending and controlling the direction of Islamist goals through advocacy, diplomacy, negotiation and PR.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of the above types of Islamist groups work together in perfect harmony like an orchestra that sings to the tune of “Allahu Akbar.” And when Islamic terrorism and beheadings anger the world and turn public opinion against Islam, that orchestra starts playing a different tune to confuse and prevent the world from uncovering their coordinated handy work. While one group proudly takes credit for the terror, another publicly denounces it. But most groups, while enjoying the power and attention the terrorists have bestowed on them, stand by with a look of victimhood saying: “I am a victim too because you condemn me and my peaceful religion when I did not do anything. That is not Islam and <em>you</em> are an Islamophobe.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The West was told the MB and Fatah were now the moderate and humanitarian face of Islam that could be counted on and that could run Islamic government. Islam will present itself as working with the rest of the world only for the sake of establishing the Kalifate. The West has been only too happy to welcome the new face of the old terror groups to the camp of moderation. But the new face of evil after the MB became Al-Qaeda.Not only is there division of labor amongst Islamist groups, but these groups also often change roles, tactics and appearances — after birthing other more radical terror groups to do the dirty work of terror. Because the West and some Arab governments refuse to deal with terror organizations, these organizations play a game of presenting a face of rehabilitation and moderation, while delegating the terror and assassinations to newer groups. Old guard terror groups like the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Fatah were able to change color and they assumed a new, but only cosmetic, appearance of moderation, but not before birthing the more violent Al-Qaeda and Hamas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the MB won the Egyptian elections, Islamists believed the Kalifate could be achieved through elections, avoiding the usual violent jihad. But when Egyptians realized they had made a mistake by electing the MB and 35,000,000 Egyptians revolted against Islamist rule, the dreams of a Kalifate through peaceful elections were defeated. The only solution for Muslims to achieve their Kalifate is the old fashioned way of 7<sup>th</sup> century Islam: pure violence, savagery and terror; thus the rise of the newest Islamist terror group, ISIS, while the MB takes a back seat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Al-Qaeda’s reputation tanked after 9/11, even inside the Middle East, the terror jihadists were forced into working under a new name — same goals, but with a more ferocious appetite for terror and torture. After the defeat of the budding Islamist State through elections in Egypt in 2013, the restrained beast of public beheadings hidden in the Islamic genie bottle finally exploded for the world to see in the form of ISIS; an organization that declared itself as the true long-awaited Islamic State. Force became the only choice. Coincidentally, this follows the example of Mohammed who tried to peacefully Islamize Mecca for 13 years but failed and could only Islamize Arabia by force, terror and the sword when he became a warrior in Medina.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ISIS rushed to declare itself as the Islamic State even before finishing the job of conquering all of Iraq and Syria. It was flaunting its savagery to the world in the hope of giving the message to reluctant Arab countries that they will be next. The plan is very similar to what Mohammed and his followers did in the 7<sup>th</sup>century: conquer Arabia quickly by force so they could move to more important goals of taking over the outside world, now the West and Israel. By doing that they are confirming to Muslims around the world that terror works and that their prophet Mohammed was correct when he said: “I have been victorious through terror.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bottom line: What legitimate Islamic organizations must adhere to is obeying Islamic commandments to conquer the world for Islam, defeat and humiliate non-Muslim nations and establish the Kalifate — to be ruled by sharia. That is the plan. It is not the opinion of the writer of this article, but it is the basic objective of Islamic law books, scriptures and preaching, which explicitly define jihad as a war with non-Muslims to establish the religion of Islam. To facilitate this mission, Islamic law freed Muslims from any restrictions on their behavior; they can wage offensive wars, kill, terrorize, behead, lie, deceive, humiliate, slander, use corporal punishment on women and children, and sacrifice the well being of the family, all for the purpose of the empowerment of Islam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But instead of properly facing the 21 Century Islamic challenge, the West has chosen denial. Obama is being criticized for resorting to golf in a time of trouble, but that is perhaps his only outlet when he feels paralyzed, because what he believed and advocated Islam to be and what it is turned out to be polar opposites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, instead of facing the incompetence and many obvious weaknesses of Islamic terror groups, the West has chosen to appease an enemy that only respects power. Thus, the Obama administration decided to be more concerned with appearances and saying instead of doing the right thing. For example, Obama likes to correct Americans on the proper pronunciation of Arabic names and expressions such as Pakistan and ISIL instead of ISIS, etc. But when the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was declared the West was too embarrassed to call it what it called itself, the Islamic State, and found the English abbreviation ISIS more appropriate than the Arabic name that linked the new terrorist state to Islam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Obama insists on presenting himself as more of an expert on Islam than the founders of ISIS when he stated, “ISIL speaks for <em>no religion</em>.” It is not appropriate for the US government or media to define what is or what is not Islam to Muslims who are reading from their books statements that command them to kill infidels. All we should do is take them for their word.I was recently asked by visitors from Egypt, “What is ISIS?” My answer was, it is the preferred name the US administration and media use to refer to the newly declared Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Their response was, “Why? In Arabic they call themselves ‘The Islamic State?’” I told them it is a long story, but the West does not want to offend Muslims who believe that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, tyranny and hatred.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both the US government and media have decided, long before Obama, that it would be the wise thing to do to keep US citizens uninformed about the true goals of Islam. The goal of this policy was partially to convince Islamic terror groups to leave the West alone and perhaps in the long run Islam will reform on its own one day. But unfortunately history was not on the side of this theory. Appeasement did not work for Coptic Christians in Egypt nor for Zoroastrians in Persia when in the 7<sup>th</sup> century the two ancient civilizations fell to the Arab Islamic invasion in the same year. Both Egypt and Persia tried to appease but failed to win hearts and minds of the Muslim invaders who used the most barbaric forms of terror and tyranny to Islamize and Arabize both civilizations. Both Egypt and Persia never saw their glory days again and today they are incapable of ruling themselves without the usual Sharia-enforced oppression and tyranny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What everyone misses here is the right of the American people to know the full truth about their new enemy directly and honestly from their politicians and media. By caring about the feelings of Muslims more than American citizens’ right to the truth, and without naming Islam by name, the US government and media will usher America into a dark phase marking the beginning of tyranny and the end of liberty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Originally posted <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/nonie-darwish/the-islamic-terror-orchestra/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442130746662470609.post-4143318793965168652014-08-19T12:30:00.000-07:002014-08-19T12:32:09.040-07:00Why I Support ISRAEL?<div align="center" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;">By Nasir Ali</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">With every
news of another death, Israeli or Palestinian, my very heart bleeds. I do not
believe or hope in my heart of any lasting peace in Middle East, because my optimism
continuously marred by false "truths" of Islamic Sharia lovers, who
are openly opposed to Israel's very existence, constantly chanting, "Death
to the Jews;" what if such threats were aimed at their families? The
horrors of this dispute and constant war has unleashed upon the people of the
region are farcical and tragic, beyond words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">In my own
small way, I am trying to shed some light on the truth, not in the defense of
anyone or against of anyone. So then, let me shed some light on some common
misconceptions, distortions of the truth, and outright lies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">I implore
Muslims<b> </b>to open their minds, hearts, and listen to reason for once, to
gain reliable knowledge about Israel and a concise and clear understanding of
this conflict instead of the gospel of catastrophe, martyrdom, death, and
Jihad. This is sin even to think to kill any human being without any valid
reason; rather you want to kill all Jews of this planet, why? They are also
human beings, why you want to follow the barbaric Sharia Laws that openly
encourage vandalism and Holocaust. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">If Muslims
really want ‘Peace’ then the only logical answer is to compromise on a
two-state solution, but the problem can not solve because Muslims are not
interested in peace, rather they want to cut down all Jews in ‘Pieces.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">This is not
a really complex conflict in the world; rather I think it is the easiest
conflict in the world. Because Israel recognizes the right of Palestinian that
they have their own state and they live in peace and tranquility. The problem
starts when not only Palestinian but the entire Muslim world does not recognize
the same right of the tiny Jewish state of Israel to exist since its birth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Israel also
do not believe in imperialism because after a decade in 1978, entire Sinai
Peninsula was given back to Egypt after peace agreement; a land bigger than
Israel itself and with oil resources! Israel is always been willing to do the
same thing with Palestinians, if Palestinians also recognize Israel as a
sovereign Jewish state and promise to live in peace and harmony with it. Unfortunately,
Muslims always glorify terrorism, humiliation of Jews and wants to annihilate
Jews completely then of course it will turn in a complex conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Very strange
and inhumane, 22 Arab countries and total 56 Muslim countries, and there is
only one tiny Jewish state in the world, smaller in size than El Salvador! If
Israeli lay down arms, without any delay, according the beliefs and tenets of
the Muslims, destruction of Israel and mass genocide of Jewish population will
happen. On the contrary if Muslims and especially Arabs lay down arms against
Israel, peace is guaranteed immediately. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">After the
greatest atrocities of the Holocaust, Israel state was founded within the
ancestral homeland of its original habitants viz the Jews; Israel was not
founded on land stolen from the Palestinian people</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. There
has never been a state in the Middle East known as Palestinian that was not
Jewish state. According to the history first Kingdom: 1000 – 586 B.C, second
Kingdom 538 – 63 B.C and today Israel is the third state to exist in the same
land. There was never any Arab state, Muslim state and never Palestinian state.
I want to ask Muslims, why can not the one Jewish state be allowed to exist in
their ancestral land? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">My pals,
even the close ones taunt me of pro Israel and the West, that how being as a humanist
and pacifist you can justify the killing of innocent people and children? I
don't, I can't…. As a matter of fact, I spent 26 years of my life in Middle
East and I know all Arab nationalities, their mentality, nature and hatred
towards Jews; the small children are taught there to hate from the day one.
This is brainwashing and entirely inhumane. When you are utilizing your own
children, women and civilians as human shield then it is nearly impossible to
avoid civilian causalities, remember you are in the state of war with Israel,
not indulging in Picnic or love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Israel
intentionally do not target civilians or is not committing any Genocide,
otherwise this conflict can be solved in a few days, this is Muslims’ good luck
that Jews and rest of the world are not the follower of their barbaric Sharia
laws, they are civilized people, otherwise……! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Whenever
possible, Israel goes to great lengths to try and avoid civilian causalities; I
admit, in war horrific and tragic mistakes happen. Please tell me honestly,
what would you do in such scenario,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> how to deal with the people
whose slogan is "We love death more than the Jews love life". <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">How do you
deal with the people who believe in sacrificing even their women and children
as suicide bombers, strapping explosives to their bodies and seducing them to
go to the area of highest civilian concentration that they can reach and kill
themselves and as many around them as possible?</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Dear reader,
if you are not a hypocrite and a liar then tell me, what if such threats were
aimed at your own family? No matter how horrible the consequences of the
decision may be would you not do whatever it took to save them? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Israel is
not the only best model of democracy and freedom in the Middle East rather
there is no comparison of Israel with all
56 Muslim countries of the world; a country surrounded by 22 hostile Muslim
countries, where people are able to enjoy freedom of speech and freedom of
religion. Israel is a country where Israeli Muslim Arabs also share all
benefits without any discrimination. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">On the
contrary, in oil rich Muslim countries, Arabs treat you as animals, despite believing
and share the same religion, but you are not more than a slave; Modern Slavery,
keep you living in fear, to horrify you, and to profit from it.! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">I want to
make my voice heard and spread this message of truth that the Crusades,
Inquisition, the Persian and Ottoman Empires, the Holocaust, all have been
trying to exterminate the Jewish nation from this planet for thousands of
years. No one succeeds, the Nation of Israel lives and the Jewish people will
endure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to
the verses of the Quran regarding the Jews; Jews are people of various bad
qualities, known for their loathsome characters and contemptible behavior; they
are liars, ingrates, selfish, arrogant, rebels, lawbreakers, cowardly naggers
and cheaters, prone to crime and aggression etc… Dear Muslims, please see your
own character and your history in the light of these verses; in fact these
verses fit upon you instead of Jews, you deserve wrath of the God not the Jews! </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442130746662470609.post-76687631428226389282014-07-08T09:58:00.000-07:002014-07-08T09:58:28.937-07:00Are CNN and MSNBC Now Our Government?<br />
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A lot of people are commenting that there is nothing to watch on CNN. Instead of news, CNN is daily airing hours of Anthony Bourdain travelling to experiment with food and hours of crime shows, such as “Forensic Files,” which is probably the most interesting thing to watch these days on CNN.</div>
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The current administration scandals and other important topics are ignored by CNN, unless they are in the context of criticism of Republicans. CNN seems to be trying to force a reality on the American public that does not exist. The majority of the American people are concerned about the economy, the scandals and the radical change the administration is forcing on the American people. Like it or not, all of the media, right and left, should be reporting on Obama’s push for such radical changes. If the leftist media supports the change, then fine, but they should go ahead and talk about why they support it, instead of pretending that nothing is happening in America.</div>
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We now have a situation where instead of reporting on government, CNN thinks and acts as though <em>they are</em> the government. Instead of naming their shows with titles that reflect what the media’s job should be — to be a watch-dog — they have chosen to impersonate government. We thus have a show on CNN entitled, “The Situation Room” in which Wolf Blitzer reports as though CNN and the White House situation rooms are the same.The role of the media is supposed to be to keep citizens informed and educated about what is going on inside their government, in society and in the world. America under Obama has been undergoing a major change that is very alarming to many American citizens, but the mainstream media seems not to notice.</div>
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Another CNN show is “State of the Union.” Again here CNN is playing the role of president of the United States, reporting on the state of the union. Another unsuccessful daytime show that was canceled soon after it started was Kyra Phillips’ “Raising America.” Here we see yet another maternalistic title attempting to control and teach America how to raise its kids.</div>
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The mainstream media have extended the separation of “Church and State” to their own reporting. In so doing, they have confused themselves with the government yet again. America has left untapped the great talent of many outstanding male and female pastors and religious leaders who would be wonderful guest and hosts of many non-religious shows. Just look at the success of Mike Huckabee on FOX. It is a shame to see disclaimers by some TV channels stating that “they are not responsible for the content” of religious shows such as the 700 Club, but the disclaimer is never made on other shows.</div>
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The leftist media is starting to feel the negative effects of its insincerity and bias. Instead of self-discipline and sticking to their duty to the public, they have allowed themselves to be seduced into competing with the goals and role of the government. Instead of objectively examining the causes of their shrinking viewership, they continue to impose their agenda to <em>educate</em> the public about what their of hope and change should be. Instead of reflecting what is going on in society so that the public can make informed decisions, they continue with their obsession of steering the public into their leftist agenda.</div>
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“When the truth is empowered to action, then truth is spoken to power; when light shines on equality and justice the seed of hope is sewn; it drives you to tackle the hard stuff; to stop gun violence; to protect voter rights; to fight so everyone has access to health care; and make sure that no one falls through the cracks; as hope grows so does the power of people. Change begins with you.”</div>
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The above commercial is an insult to the intelligence of the American people. It promotes a high level of conformity to values that are not necessarily universally held by all Americans. In pursuit of MSNBC’s search for the perfect life, everyone will shame and blame the other for allowing someone else to fall through the cracks. The end result will be confusion, disappointment and pitting people against one another, instead of promoting values of self-reliance, taking responsibility and pulling oneself up by one’s boot straps and doing what is best for oneself, one’s family and one’s community.</div>
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It is not the job of the media to promote the perfect society where health care is a right; or as MSNBC puts it “the healthcare you deserve.” Healthcare will never be a right because human beings cannot have rights that obligate another human being to do something for them. Healthcare is a commodity that requires doctors to provide a service and doctors will only do their job when they are paid.I have come from an area of the world that is in desperate need for hope and change, the Middle East, and this lesson is not for America. Of course, America like any nation, needs constant fine-tuning to get better and better, but those behind the MSNBC commercial have no clue what the American people need, can or cannot do. The American people need jobs and less government obstacles. They don’t need to be shamed into not measuring up to MSNBC’s unrealistic expectations. They do not need to be changed into conforming robots with hopes of false rights and duties.</div>
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The US current dysfunctional media need a major overhaul. They need to treat people like adults so they can act like adults, leave governing to the government, and leave us, citizens, to decide what is best for us, our families and our nation.</div>
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I lived half of my life in the Middle East under a “government-controlled media” and I will not accept to live the second half under a “media-controlled government.”</div>
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<b>Palestinian Arabs are always showing the world just part of the picture, but...what about the other part?</b> </div>
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My dear friend Ali Sina mentioned in his most recent article that a Muslim professor, Hossein Askari, believes that Western nations lead the World in “Islamic values” and that most Muslim nations practice the least Islamic values. I have heard such nonsense before from some Muslims, some of whom were my relatives. I will never forget the strange look on my Christian American husband’s face when an elderly Muslim man visiting from Egypt told him: “You are such a fine young man, you have the character of a true Muslim.”</div>
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It is not unusual for Muslims to describe non-Muslims whom they perceive as good as having “Islamic values.” Many Christians in Egypt have to suffer hearing comments by Muslims such as: “You are so good, you must convert to Islam, you have the character of a true Muslim.”</div>
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Muslims are trained to adjust reality to Islamic propaganda; thus everything good must come from Islam and everything bad comes from the Kafir non-believer. So it is Islamic logic to believe that if Christians are good then they must be Muslim, but they just don’t know it yet.How can educated Muslims professors make ridiculous claims like that Ireland “leads the world in Islamic values as Muslim states lag”? Islamic logic, in that case, says, if Irish people have noses, eyes, arms and legs like Muslims then they must be Muslim. This twisted logic wants to hide the truth: that many Muslims no longer want to live under Islamic values, but since that is considered apostasy in Islam, the only way out is to claim life in the land of the Great Satan is really equal to living the true Islamic life.</div>
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The Muslim dilemma about the West gets more complicated when over 70% of Muslim youth are desperately trying to leave the Muslim world to immigrate to Western nations. Many Muslims are stunned, disappointing and filled with envy when they compare infidel and Islamic nations and discover that infidels have achieved what Muslims could only dream of. Such an awakening by Muslims flies against the Islamic propaganda that has indoctrinated generations into believing that Islam is the solution.</div>
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So if Islam is the solution, how come Muslims are happier in the West? Simple: Muslims discovered what the West failed to understand about their own values; According to Muslims, it is Islamic values — so “Allahu Akbar” anyway.</div>
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Islam has trained the Islamic mind to solve any contradictions with the goal of making sure that Islam looks good at any cost. In other words, reality has to adjust to Islamic teachings. Muslims must never admit that Western success is attributed to the Judeo-Christian value system. That is why Muslim professors on American college campuses claim that Western cultural success is due to Islamic and not Biblical values, and that the US Constitution is Sharia compliant.</div>
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This is nothing new for Islam, Mohammed himself claimed that Christianity and Judaism, which preceded Islam by thousands of years, are in fact Islam, but have just been corrupted. Mohammed started by linking himself to the Abrahamic line in order to get legitimacy and after that he discredited the Jews and Christians as apes, pigs and enemies of Allah. Mohammed taught his followers that Abraham, Jesus, Moses etc., all are in fact Muslims and have Islamic values.</div>
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Because of Islamic Sharia’s severe and humiliating punishments, Muslims had to mold their thinking to never venture outside the Islamic mental box. Muslims who are brave enough to think critically for themselves will easily find Islamic values, summed up in Sharia, to be the antithesis of Biblical values.</div>
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Mr. Askari, like many devout Muslims, refuses to judge Islam by its fruits that are exploding all around the world. Instead of graciously giving credit where it is due — to the fruits of the Bible — he chose to slap Western culture in the face by shamelessly teaching that Western nations’ success is due to Islamic values. Amazing, that sounds exactly like Mohammed.</div>
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Askari probably feels that the poor Western citizens just don’t know what Islam already knows, but are unaware that the West is practicing Islamic values more than Muslims themselves.This line of thought fits perfectly with the jihadists who are hell bent on violently converting the West to Islam. But the smart stealth jihadist Muslims choose to leave violent jihad to others, and would rather tell the American people that everything good is Islamic and that the corrupted values of the Bible could not have resulted in the fruits of Western success.</div>
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Most Muslims are unaware that it is Muslim culture that heavily borrowed from the Bible. Muslims often say “don’t go to bed angry” but are unaware that this is a Biblical value and not a Quranic value. They say “Salamu Alaykum” and respond by saying “Alaykum El Salam” but are unaware that they have borrowed this from Jews’ “Shalom Aleikhem” and the response “Aleikhem Shalom.” They say that Islam is a religion of peace when in fact Islam advocates war and relentlessly urges its followers to die in war while killing the enemies of their Allah.</div>
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The so called “moderate Muslims” who advocate that the US Constitution is Sharia compliant, are dangerous because they are stealth jihadists who have no loyalty to the US Constitution and what America is all about. Their loyalty is to the Islamic agenda of the establishment of the Khalifate. The religion of Mohammed has produced millions of people who think like Askari who are constantly struggling with a severe case of ethnocentrism.</div>
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Western nations so far have based their way of life on Judeo-Christian values of the Bible; a book outlawed by Islam under penalty of death. It is time for American college campuses to get rid of Muslim teachers who under the guise of research are advocating Islam 101.</div>
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Originally posted <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/nonie-darwish/islamic-values-vs-judeo-christian-values/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442130746662470609.post-83593216649400608712014-07-01T07:57:00.000-07:002014-07-01T07:57:39.821-07:00The Islamic Tactic of Terror and Lure<br />
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There is more bad news for moderate Muslims who deny any connection between Islam and terror and who insist on convincing the West that no one should interpret Quranic commandments to kill, behead, torture, terrorize, humiliate, belittle and never befriend the non-believer, as violent.</div>
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As I was watching an <a href="http://aljazeera.net/programs/religionandlife/2008/5/11/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%A8-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A8" style="color: maroon; text-decoration: none;">Arabic Aljazeerah TV show</a>, which did not have a date, called “Sharia and Hayaa,” meaning Islamic law and life, the topic was “Dawaa Baina Al Tarhib Wal Targhib,” Arabic for “Preaching between Terror and Lure.” The word “dawaa” means preaching or spreading Islam. “Tarhib” is derived from the word “irhab” or terror, and “tarhib” means to instill terror. Incidentally, the Quran encourages Muslims to “instill terror through the hearts of unbelievers.” The word “targhib” means luring or making something attractive. I am sure Islamic apologists will dispute the interpretation since they never admit that the word “kill” in the Quran means “kill” anyway.</div>
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A Quranic verse (The Rock 49-50) was mentioned at the beginning of the show stating that Allah said: “tell my worshippers that I am the beneficent the merciful and my torture [Athab] is a painful one”; two opposite extreme descriptions of Allah, or more accurately Mohammed himself, that became the foundation of the contradictory doctrine of Islam.“Tarhib Wal TarghibI” is an Islamic doctrine that the West and many Muslims are unfamiliar with but that demonstrates yet another clear connection between Islam and terror. This doctrine promotes the use of two extreme tools to bring people and nations to submit to Islam. Such polar opposite and extreme techniques penetrate Islamic society from top to bottom; they are encouraged in child rearing, in the relationship between men and women, leaders and citizens, mosque preachers and the congregation, Arab media and the public, and even between Islamic nations and the West — the nations they wish to conquer or lure to Islam.</div>
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This doctrine is a summation of what the Quran is all about, terror and lure, and promotes such extremely but powerful and raw cultural attributes of Muslim society; shame and pride. Such a doctrine has also evolved from Mohammed’s character when he failed to peacefully evangelize through persuasion and “lure” and therefore had to flip tactics, going straight to pure terror. Thus his famous saying “I have been victorious through terror.”</div>
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The show’s questions were more interesting than the answers. The host, Othman Othman, was trying to bring the guest, Islamic Dawah “preaching” expert Dr. Salman Alawda, to state that Islam equally balances the two extreme tools of terror and peaceful teaching. These were some of his questions: Many say terror and bullying are necessary. How do we achieve balance regarding the names of Allah between punishment and forgiveness? Why is it that the agony side often prevails over the mercy side? Are hardship and pain required for their own sake when it comes to Islamic legislation? Why does the discussion of the torment of the grave, death and the afterlife turn into a terrifying discussion? Why are Salafis more inclined to use fear/terror factor regarding global advocacy? Some ask, shouldn’t we [Muslims] be judged as imperfect humans anyway?</div>
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The host, while exalting Islam, the Quran and Mohammed, was desperately trying to get a glimmer of hope with his questions to bring out any trace of joy and hope for Muslims who want to enjoy life right here on Earth, but are not getting such a message from Islamic teachings. Unfortunately the guest provided very little hope when he skillfully spinned that Islam does have a balance. But what failed the guest was the fact that values of joy, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and making the world a better place, do not exist in the Quran. The guest could not give the host the good news, when he asserted that seeking pleasure and happiness on earth is equal to death. The guest’s discussion of the good life for Muslims was narrowed down to the after life in the Islamic jannah, heaven. Thus the Islamic promise of virgins and carnal pleasure became the infamous lure Islam uses on the jihadis, pushing them into waging Allah’s war of terror on his enemies: the unbelievers.</div>
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The lesson America needs to learn and get united under is that we, the West, right now are under assault by the good old Islamic doctrine of Terror and Lure; two sides of the polar opposite and deceptive face of Islam.</div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442130746662470609.post-69558548910021529262014-06-18T08:59:00.005-07:002014-06-18T09:01:00.662-07:00Adam, our newest Egyptian Member (now living in Australia)<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I was born to a religious father, a sheikh and imam of a mosque in Egypt. I had big confusion and serious questions about Islam. My dad never answered my questions which were based on logic. He told we practice Islam as it is because Allah told us to do so. So I wanted to convert to Christianity then was illegally detained in Shirbin police station ( Aman Eldawla or state security service). Then I was released after horrible miracle under was illegally detained again and they took a copy of my national ID. Then a year passed ( I was living this year in extreme fear from getting abused physically) the 25th revolution 2011 happened then i have a brother in </span><span class="il" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Australia</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">who helped me to get out of Egypt. I am now in </span><span class="il" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Australia</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. I love Israel and want peace with Israel and all cultures. I don't like Egyptian army and it's mandatory conscription system that's why I'm a conscientious objector. Egyptian army killed thousands of protestors and i dont agree with killing protestors regardless of their political or religious faiths. I'm now a student studying IT. I always admire you and your views, you are so open minded smart lady. I'd like to join your organisations and even hopefully we make branches for your organisations here if possible. Praise The Lord.</span></i></span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442130746662470609.post-23835450902609024902014-05-12T07:24:00.000-07:002014-05-12T07:24:25.421-07:00The War on Former Muslim Women<br />
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It is a tragedy and a shame that it had to take the mass kidnapping and sexual enslavement of 300 Nigerian girls by Muslim jihadists for the world to finally express its outrage over Sharia’s evil deeds. Similar stories of Christian girls being kidnapped, forcibly married and converted to Islam by their Muslim captors, have been a reality for decades. But unfortunately, and tragically, they have been ignored by our mainstream media. Only a few “Islamophobic” journalists have cared enough to report on such atrocities in Egypt, Syria and elsewhere — until reality exploded to such a great magnitude that it awakened the world’s conscience.</div>
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Former Muslim women like Wafa Sultan, Ayan Hirsi Ali and myself have been writing and speaking about the oppression of women in Islamic society for a long time now. I have written a book dedicated to connecting the dots between Islamic law and such kidnappings, rapes and other forms of oppression of women. But instead of helping our voices be heard, the leftist media and academia have ignored us, called us names and done everything in their power to silence us. They have treated the American people like children who are told they should not be outraged about far away cultural practices — because all cultures are equal.</div>
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After 9/11 Americans asked: “Where are the voices of Arab Americans who condemn Islamic terrorism?” This question led a few brave former Muslim women to stand up and speak. But when we did (at our own peril), the leftist media and academia called us “Islamophobes” and “racists.” What is Islamophobic and racist about warning America about the tyranny of the barbaric religious legal system that we lived under and came to America to escape from its vicious clutches?Advocates of cultural relativism who are brutal in judging conservative and Christian Americans, and call them slanderous names, have no problem in tolerating Islamic tyranny over women and other minorities.</div>
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Muslims have convinced the leftist elites that criticism of Islamic doctrine is a hateful phobia equal to hating all Muslim people. Students who wanted to learn the truth about Sharia and its implications on women, jihad, the Arab Israeli conflict and terrorism, have been intimidated and forced to withdraw their invitation to former Muslim women speakers.</div>
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Not only have Muslim Brotherhood front groups and the Left succeeded in silencing speech critical of Islam, but reports about Islamic atrocities around the world have been suppressed — until now, when one horrifying story of an Islamic crime against humanity could not be contained.</div>
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And so now, with the Nigerian kidnapping story, Islam’s dirty little secret has been exposed: <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/jamie-glazov/islam-slavery-and-rape/" style="color: maroon; text-decoration: none;">Sharia legalizes</a> the taking of female hostages as sexual slaves in the jihad battle against non-Muslims. And since the jihad battle against non-Muslims is taught as a permanent institution, the kidnapping, rape and enslavement can happen at any time. In fact, the Islamic Nigerian mass kidnappers, who are experts on Sharia, are bragging on camera about their actions because they are told by their books and Islamic education that what they did is holy and legal under Allah.</div>
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American students who invite experts on Middle Eastern culture and critics of Sharia, like myself, must endure horrific pressure to cancel our invitations. No matter what horror happens under Islam, we end up being dismissed by the Left as “Islamophobes.”</div>
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As a result of the suppression of the truth about Islamic oppression of women, the American public is left ignorant about what is going on in the Islamic world. Thus it takes huge acts of violence, such as the Nigeria mass girl kidnapping or 9/11 to wake Americans up. But for how long can the West afford to ignore Islamic tyranny? I hope not until Islamic jihadists do a similar kidnapping of 300 American girls.</div>
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Our culture’s suppression of speech is severely detrimental to the future of this country, which is on its way to embracing Sharia as just another set of laws that must be respected, since, as we are taught, all cultures and religions are equal.</div>
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The same leftists who ignore Islamic Sharia tyranny are also the ones who support anti-Semitism also spreading on college campuses. The offensive annual Israel Apartheid Week must end, otherwise pro-Israel students must be free to invite speakers to counter the anti-Israel propaganda.It is high time for American leftist feminists to acknowledge the truth about Islamic oppression of women. Kidnapping of girls, sexual slavery, female genital mutilation, wife beating, legal discrimination against women in the courtroom and other forms of oppression of women, must never be tolerated under the excuse of cultural relativism.</div>
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Just in the last month, I was cancelled twice after being invited to speak on college campuses due to intimidation by leftists and Islamic groups. Muslim radical groups brag about our cancellation like a badge of honor, the same way the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt brags about silencing the opposition. Suppression of speakers who expose the atrocities of Islamic law has become a shameful chronic condition on American campuses. It is true that Sharia forbids the criticism of Islam, but we should never forget that the US Constitution does not.</div>
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The situation in America today is upside down, where we see the American Left tolerating Islamic intolerance and protecting Islam’s dirty little secrets from coming to light. We are not doing Muslims and Islam a favor with this cover-up and appeasement. Blatant atrocities against women by Muslims around the world must be exposed and rejected.</div>
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It is time for the West to condemn Islamic Sharia law by name.</div>
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Shocking White House emails released to the public Tuesday by government watchdog group Judicial Watch shed new light on the Obama administration’s brazen dishonesty with the public about the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. Statements from top Obama adviser Ben Rhodes confirm what critics have long alleged: that the Obama administration’s to priority in the wake of the attack was not to seek justice for the fallen or confront the threat to our nation, but to lie to the public about the nature of the attack in order to improve President Obama’s image in an election year.</div>
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It is the tragedy of our times that that the US government advocated the video excuse as a justification for the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi — or even the attack on the US embassy in Cairo on 9/11/12. It should be common knowledge to Western governments by now that Islamic leadership habitually justifies Islamic terrorism as a reaction to some kind of injustice or offense perpetrated against Muslims. This happens all the time in the commission of terrorist attacks or after they have been perpetrated. But instead of exposing the Islamic lie as usual, America facilitated the terrorists’ excuses. This is not a bad deal for jihadists who are only too happy to see nations victimized by terror defend jihad on behalf of Muslims.</div>
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As a matter of fact, Muslims over many centuries have trained Coptic Christians and other Middle East oppressed minorities to blame themselves for Islamic jihad and to ignore the obvious Islamic jihad violence.</div>
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Since jihad against other nations is a violation of international law, Muslims have discovered that they have no choice but to lie about their motivation and religious obligation to engage in jihad. It is not the author of this article who is saying this about Muslim culture, but the Islamic law books themselves; they clearly state that Muslims are obliged to lie if it is for the benefit of Islam.</div>
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Lying to justify jihad comes to people of the Middle East naturally and without hesitation. Even I was guilty of protecting Islamic jihad at any cost when I used to be a young journalist in the Middle East years ago. Lying to protect Islam has thus developed into a virtue that comes naturally to Muslims after centuries of forced practice of the Sharia obligation — and most Muslims no longer realize the connection to Sharia nor realize that what they are saying is lying.</div>
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Muslims shamelessly justified 9/11 with incredible fabricated stories about oppression of Muslims, America’s foreign policy, the occupation, etc. But when such excuses were discredited, the Muslim leadership never gave up and, until today, continues the blame game. The versions range from how Arabs could not have accomplished such a sophisticated terror attack by airplanes (their favorite excuse) to how 9/11 was a Jewish conspiracy or that the American government itself is behind it, etc.</div>
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No one in the Bush administration was so reckless as to buy any of the Arab excuses. Even NYC mayor at the time, Rudy Guiliani, would not accept a $10 million donation for disaster relief from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East contributed to the September 11 attacks. America cannot afford to collaborate with Arab excuses over terrorism under any circumstances. If America accepts Islamic excuses for terror it is not just an invitation to more terror, but it is descending to the level of banana republics, which fool their own people into believing lies.</div>
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Western nations have always understood this pathological Islamic game and never bought it — until Sept 11, 2012, when the Obama administration coordinated an excuse for the violent attacks on the US Embassy in Cairo to avoid the embarrassment that al-Qaeda was alive and well even in Egypt, which was headed by the Muslim Brotherhood at the time. It was the first time in US history that one could see the US government not only buying the jihadist excuse, but also facilitating it.</div>
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The US State Department, even before the attacks in Binghazi, issued a statement to support the Egyptian government’s claims that the violent demonstrations were about a video when the rioters themselves never carried any signs indicating the problem was the video. What the rioters carried were al-Qaeda black flags, which they placed on top of the US Embassy building on the day they believe that Islamic jihad triumphed over the great Satan. The State Department statement said:</div>
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The above statement by the embassy was meant to tell the Egyptian government, “We believe your lie” and to provide acceptable talking points to Egypt as to the cause and nature of the riots. This is the first time in Islamic history where a nation that is a victim of Islamic terror has ended up participating in providing an excuse for terror. The Obama administration facilitated Islamic deceit to cover up jihadist terrorism. That is how the Muslim world viewed America’s apology over the video.</div>
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Until the release of the Judicial Watch emails, White House Jay Carney wanted to convince America and the world that Benghazi was a reaction to “broader protests in the region” due to the video, when in fact it was a coordinated excuse between the Egyptian government and the US government. This coordination helped both governments save face. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood administration did not have to apologize to the US and at the same time, the Obama administration did not have to engage in a military confrontation with al-Qaeda a few weeks before the elections. Thus the video was the only excuse that helped both sides, the perpetrator and the victim, to bury the inconvenient hatchet.</div>
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According to a friend of mine in Egypt, who wishes to remain anonymous, the rioters against the US embassey in Cairo on Sept 11, 2012 had no clue about any video initially, but were motivated by doing something against the US on the 9/11 anniversary. The apology from the US Embassy gave the terrorists and also the Egyptian police protecting the embassy the feeling that the rioters were justified.</div>
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Obama has a natural instinct about the Arab psyche and entertains it more than what is acceptable by American standards. It is sad to see that the Obama administration instinctively feels a need to make excuses for terrorism the same way Muslims have been trained to do for centuries.</div>
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Obama is training the American mind to ignore their instincts, what they see, hear and believe about Islam.</div>
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It is not a coincidence that most of the Obama administration scandals happened under the leadership of women. The Obama administration chooses to surround itself with “yes men” and “yes women,” but liberal “yes women” have an advantage: it is hard to criticize and grill them when a scandal happens without being accused of sexism and being a bigoted woman-hater.</div>
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In our current political environment, liberal politicians in general, men and women, get away with a lot more than conservative politicians because of media liberal bias. But liberal female politicians can get away with a lot more than their male counterparts, and that explains why almost all the Obama scandals have female faces behind them. Under ordinary conditions, men or women should end up becoming fall guys or gals, but many of the women behind the Obama scandals end up rewarded, sometimes even with a better position.</div>
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The Benghazi scandal supposedly hurt several women: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ambassador Susan Rice and Charlene Lamb, among others. It is clear that the White House, for an unknown reason, manipulated the State Department’s decision-making process regarding Benghazi and Clinton went along. Hillary, who wants to be president, has recently stated that she regrets Benghazi, but her “regret” would be more accurately described as her “failure” to be her own boss in the State Department.</div>
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When the Benghazi scandal exploded, the administration had to quickly find a “yes” liberal woman to take Hillary’s place on TV. Susan Rice thus came to the rescue when Hillary refused to face the music in public. The White House and the media did everything they could to shield Hillary from the scandal — even from her own investigators, the State Department Accountability Review Board. The Review Board issued their report without interviewing the boss, Hillary, but they accused yet another woman, Ms. Lamb, for failure in leadership when her office denied providing extra security to the US Ambassador in Libya. But low and behold, Ms. Lamb, who was accused of dropping the ball, was never fired and instead was rewarded by the same State Department that gave her another key position.</div>
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Few men can, with a straight face, expect to get away with yelling back to questions in Congress, “What difference does it make?” Only a liberal woman with an entitlement mentality can get away with something like that without becoming the laughing stock of Saturday Night Live. Nothing works better to manipulate public opinion more than an offended woman questioned by a nasty, bigoted Republican male.</div>
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The Affordable Care Act scandal also had many women behind it and could never have passed Congress without Nancy Pelosi who, like Hillary, feels entitled to immunity from criticism. Pelosi bragged she would stop at nothing to pass the bill when she said:</div>
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We’ll go through the gate. If the gate’s closed, we’ll go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in but we’re going to get health care reform passed for the America people.</div>
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No man could have gotten away without scrutiny for a statement like: “We have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what’s in it.” Only in the current liberal environment can the media make a self-made woman like Sarah Palin the subject of ridicule material, while taking someone like Pelosi seriously.</div>
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After Pelosi passed the healthcare bill, another woman took over its implementation: Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. While only a few have read or comprehended Obamacare, Sebelius happily took over the job and consistently expressed confidence that everything was under control. She never prepared America for a possible disaster until the opening day of October 1st when the disaster exploded.</div>
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Women, who don’t like to be questioned, were also the face of the IRS Scandal. Before taking the 5<sup>th</sup>, Louis Lerner gave herself the right to state she had done nothing wrong. Lerner’s boss at the IRS, Sarah Ingram, was director of the office that oversaw tax-exempt organizations during the targeting of conservative groups. But again, instead of a demotion, she was promoted to lead the Obamacare office.</div>
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Even if these women are exposed to scandal, they act like they have been wronged, deserve to be rewarded, insist on staying the course, claim the 5<sup>th</sup>and even get promoted. When Hillary Clinton put up with and defended her husband’s accusations of sexual harassment on the job, she managed to appear as the victim who deserved to be elected Senator, Secretary of State and perhaps the Democratic nominee for President. You see, we owe her.While Democrats accuse Republicans of a “War on Women,” they have no problem in using liberal a woman as a shield from scandal. These women act untouchable and entitled and are guarded by a liberal media who will viciously attack Republicans whose job is supposed to be the loyal opposition. But how can you be an effective opposition if your opponent claims gender discrimination every time you question all these liberal women leaders?</div>
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The mainstream media and academia have produced generations of American women with a constant chip on their shoulder, with unrealistic expectations who perceive life’s challenges as a personal attack because they are women. Ironically, these are the same women who ignore Islamic scandals of honor killing, female genital mutilation and killing of apostates. Some of them even go as far as accusing critics of Islam of being “Islamophobes.”</div>
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Some liberal women’s feelings of entitlement end up driving them to exaggerate and lie about their background to get special treatment. Two examples are Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and State Senator Wendy Davis of Texas. One can only imagine what kind of work environment these women will create around them.</div>
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The current leftist political culture surrounding women is setting them up either to fail or to turn them into female dictators in an authoritarian mommy state that will threaten the fabric of our free society. Under the guise of “we are pro-women” the Left is using women as tools to silence criticism and inquiry of scandals. While the mainstream media places liberal women on a pedestal, it hammers, ridicules and uses vile insults on air to describe conservative women.</div>
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And we let them get away with it.</div>
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Forcing America out of Afghanistan was what all Arab and Islamic countries have hoped to achieve. Muslims have zero tolerance for infidel foreigners on Muslim land, even if the land is being used as a base by al-Qaeda for terrorism. That is Islamic logic.</div>
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Even though President Obama always said that Afghanistan was the good war that we should fight, his true intention was to withdraw from Afghanistan. This has been confirmed in<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/robert-gates-confirms-party-of-defeat-narrative/" style="color: maroon; text-decoration: none;"> Robert Gates’ new memoir</a>, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War,” in which the former Secretary of Defense demonstrates that Obama does not believe in his own strategy regarding the Afghan war and that the president always just wanted to extricate America out of the conflict.</div>
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Obama appears to be unsettled and torn in his decision-making process; a dangerous characteristic for any leader. That is probably the reason why his Affordable Care Act was a disaster — because, with Obama, there is often a gap between what he wants and what he does. We are told over and over again that Obamacare was the president’s signature legislation, but could it be that Obamacare is just like the president’s Afghan strategy, in which Obama says one thing, but does not really have his heart in his words?</div>
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What exactly is Obama’s true passion?</div>
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A signature legislation should take the full attention of the president in terms of crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s. It is what every president oversees at every step to avoid any embarrassment, especially if such legislation was passed without a single vote from the opposing party. Even though health care has always been central to the agenda of the Democratic Party, it does not appear to be number one on Obama’s mind because he totally relied on others to create and oversee Obamacare. However, he did appear very invested in it and rushed it through Congress by totally relying on Nancy Pelosi, who was the one who appeared to have true passion for it. Obama gave her total authority even to make ridiculous statements like <i>“</i><i>But we have to</i> <em>pass the bill</em> <i>so that you can find out what is in it.”</i><i></i> Obamacare served to keep Obama’s core supporters happy and hypnotized. Even though Obamacare has turned out to be a disaster, Obama’s supporters have never publicly acknowledged how Obama has failed them with such a defective product.</div>
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Only Obama, the first black president, could get away with such deception of his own constituents. Up to the Obama presidency, a high level of insincerity, double talk and deception were rarely an acceptable characteristic of American leaders. Americans understood the consequences to cultures that are tolerant to lying. Habitual tolerance to lying is a major reason why Banana Republics are economic and political basket cases where citizens have no problem with lying unless it hurts them personally.</div>
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Some leaders in the Arab world are especially prone to lying out of necessity. They must lie often because they live in a twisted world where truth is penalized and lies are embraced as the honorable thing to do. Every Arab leader understands that assassinations, coup d’etats and revolutions are not only a way of life, but often legal.</div>
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While Arab leaders are forced to lie to literally save their necks, Obama is using this insincere strategy for convenience. Why is he saying one thing and doing another? What leads him to consistently tell lies to the American people? Could it be that he knows he can get away with it?</div>
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Politicians in America of course do stretch reality, exaggerate and even lie, but if they are caught lying they are often finished, especially if they are Republicans. But Obama appears to be immune from scrutiny. Many American would rather put up with Obama’s insincerity, incompetence and lying than be called racist.</div>
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Obamacare is a mess that could only be the product of an insincere president who uses outwardly acceptable strategies that are at odds with his own internal struggles. In Afghanistan his intention was withdrawal; nevertheless he went along with the surge first, while simultaneously telegraphing to the enemy the expiration date. In healthcare his intention was socialized medicine but instead he destroyed the US health care system.</div>
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Now Obama’s insincerity brought us Obamacare; a miserable failure. If Obamacare was not the center of Obama’s ambitions, what then will Obama’s legacy be?In that sense, Obama is similar to some leaders in the Middle East who say one thing and do another. Arab leaders, in order to be perceived as great jihadists, recklessly threaten to throw Israel in the sea, but never actually do the hard work to examine their abilities, motivation or the honesty and sincerity of their goal. The end result was miserable failure in the 1967 war; a natural outcome of insincere goals.</div>
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Like all presidents, Obama’s legacy will be decided by history, but the one thing that Obama seems to have succeeded in doing was the one thing closest to Obama’s heart, which acted upon first thing after he assumed office. It is bowing and being of service to the Muslim world.</div>
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Obama’s legacy will be the empowerment of Islam in America, especially in red states and the Bible belt, where Muslim immigrants are flocking in large numbers and are building mosques at a breakneck pace to challenge the Judeo/Christian culture of the heartland. The same has also taken place at the international arena where the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islam have been empowered by the Obama administration, resulting in al-Qaeda dominating huge areas of the Middle East causing civil wars and chaos around Israel.</div>
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The difference between the negative effect of ObamaCare and Obama’s fumbles with the Muslim Brotherhood penetration, both inside and outside America, is that the former is repairable and can be overturned, but the latter will be hard to limit in terms of its damages and the resulting future instability, not only within the US but in the entire world for decades to come. The cleanup job for the next administration will be tremendous and perhaps impossible.</div>
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Obama will go down in history as the one who opened the door to the Islamic Trojan Horse. Obamacare was just the distraction we all fell for.</div>
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