‘Christian terrorists’ don’t exist
‘Christian terrorists’ don’t exist
“I’m sick of these white male NRA Republicans and their mass shootings beca … um, Sayeed Farook? Hey, let’s not vilify an entire group.” – Jon Gabriel, editor-in-chief, Ricochet.com Workplace violence strikes again. “Allahu Akbar!” evidently means, “I quit,” and pipe bombs are the new resignation letter. Southern Baptist redneck Syed Rizwan Farook and his Irish… (more…)
Why Jesus celebrated Hanukkah
Why Jesus celebrated Hanukkah
“And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.” – John 10:22-23 Did you know Jesus, or Yeshua as He was known throughout His life, celebrated Hanukkah? During His earthly ministry, Hanukkah was known as the feast of dedication. In fact, it… (more…)
Texas secession resolution passes GOP committee
Texas secession resolution passes GOP committee
The Lone Star State will find out on Saturday just how eager its Republicans are to reconstitute the Republic of Texas. A state GOP committee in Austin passed a secession resolution on Friday that will require a full-party vote on Saturday. The non-binding measure would gauge the desire among state Republicans to secede. “If the federal… (more…)
Hanukkah holds hidden secrets to end-time prophecy
Hanukkah holds hidden secrets to end-time prophecy
Most Christians think of Hanukkah as “that nice little Jewish holiday,” but they miss the deeper meaning, says best-selling author and Messianic Jewish Rabbi Jonathan Cahn. They picture Jewish families spinning dreidels, lighting menorahs and eating fried potato pancakes. But there’s more to this eight-day holiday, which begins at sundown Sunday. “It actually holds a big,… (more…)
Cops Charged With Murder, Arrested After Shooting Autistic 6-Year-Old 5 Times –
Cops Charged With Murder, Arrested After Shooting Autistic 6-Year-Old 5 Times
Marksville, LA — “We took some of the body cameras’ footage — let me tell you something — I’m not gonna talk about it, but I’m gonna tell you this: it is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen. And I will leave it at that,” said Louisiana State Police Superintendent Col. Mike Edmondson in a press conference late Friday. “Tonight is about the death of Jeremy Mardis. Jeremy Mardis — six years old,” headded, sternly shaking his head. “He didn’t deserve to die like that — and that’s what’s unfortunate.”
Two of four officers, Lt. Derrick Stafford (32) and Officer Norris Greenhouse, Jr. (23), who shot and killed an autistic 6-year-old boy in a largely unexplained incident — which also critically wounded the child’s father — have each been charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder, and were arrested as Friday came to a close.
In a statement to the press announcing the charges, Edmondson appeared to be seething behind a controlled cadence when he attempted to describe what he’d seen in body camera footage collected from the November 4th shooting. Of at least 18 rounds unleashed on the pair by two officers’ guns — five of those rounds hit first-grader Jeremy Mardis in the head and chest, and an unknown number hit 25-year-old Christopher Few in the head, leaving him comatose and as yet unaware of his child’s death.
“Seventy-two hours. And 72 hours later [after the shooting], and I’m here to make the following announcement. Nothing is more important than this badge that we wear on our uniform — the integrity of why we wear it,” Edmonds admonished, pointing to his badge. “Because the public — the public allows us to wear that. It’s not a right — it’s a privilege. And tonight, that badge has been tarnishedby these two individuals.”
Two other officers, Lt. Jason Brouillette and Sgt. Kenneth Parnell, also involved in the incident, have thus far refused to speak with any officials regarding their involvement, but have each given superficial written statements. Stafford, Brouillette, and Greenhouse were moonlighting for the Ward 2 Marshal, while Parnell functioned as an officer for the Marksville Police Department at the time of the shooting.
Though specific information detailing the timeline leading up to the shooting remains spotty, at best — and officers’ reasons for killing a first-grader have been laughably implausible — those details that have been disclosed will infuriate you.
What led the four officers to pursue and then gun down Few and his young passenger isn’t entirely clear — but no weapon was found in or near the vehicle, and deputy marshals’ claims they had a warrant have yet to be substantiated. According to the coroner’s report, all of the gunfire appeared to come from outside Few’s vehicle on the driver’s side. Officers’ claims of Few backing up in an attempt to assault them also remain unproven.
And that’s not all.
City Marshal Floyd Voinche Sr. — a school bus driver serving in that position for the past 12 years, who lacks any certified law enforcement training — sits at the heart of an ongoing, eyebrow-raising dispute over jurisdiction. Marksville Mayor John Lemoine said Voinche had acquired patrol cars and had begun issuing citations within city limits, including traffic tickets, about three months ago — without proper authority or permission from city council to do so.
“We have reason to believe that the Ward 2 Marshal is issuing tickets inside city limits without consent or approval of the Marksville City Council,” Lemoine stated. “We understand why State Police can issue tickets without the approval of Marksville City Council, but we are asking if the Ward 2 Marshal has the authority to issue tickets within the city limits without [that] approval.”Lemoine also told The Guardian, “I don’t know why he felt the need to start patrolling in city limits. It makes no sense to me.”
The city even asked, “Can someone in an unmarked vehicle issue tickets?”
In fact, Marksville Police Chief Elster Smith, Jr., puzzled over the same jurisdictional questions, though he agreed with Voinche that all four officers involved in the shooting had received certified Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST). Smith said he hadn’t previously had issue with his officers working part time jobs as long as that work didn’t interfere with their regular duties.
One person, Few’s reported girlfriend Megan Dixon, seemed to have a feasible theory for why the incident occurred: Few had been involved in an ongoing dispute with one of the marshals involved in the shooting, as she told the Guardian. She also interrupted the original press conference regarding the shooting several times to say she’d witnessed events and knew Few did not have a firearm — and then demanded to know how a six-year-old child could be mistaken as a threat.
State Police spokesperson Brooks David said department policy prohibits officers from shooting at a moving vehicle “unless deadly force is justified.”
“We won’t shoot to disable a vehicle,” David explained. “If [the subject] is putting the officer’s life in danger or someone else’s life in danger, [officers] can fire at them.”
District Attorney Charles Riddle explained a conflict of interest “because of the relationship of one of the accused […] and one of our assistant district attorneys” meant his office would be filing to recuse itself from prosecuting the case.
Further still, Stafford and Greenhouse are named as part of a pending lawsuit by resident Ian Fridge about a violation of his rights, stemming from events on Independence Day in 2014, in which the officers “taunted and antagonized him, pinned his arms behind his back, handcuffed him, and used a taser on him.” According to the suit as reported by The Advocate, one officer jeered, “You’re not a local boy, are you?”
Edmondson stated to the press that the investigation entailed collecting as much evidence as possible — including “countless” witness interviews, forensic evidence, body camera footage, and 911 audio tapes — and that the department had used “all means at our disposal” in order to conclude the need for charges against Stafford and Greenhouse. He pled with viewers who might have information to come forward and offer a statement to facilitate the ongoing investigation.
Something that has not been discussed — though indisputably at the heart of the entire shooting — cannot be more imperative to keep in mind before anyone attempts justifying Jeremy Mardis’ death.
Whether Few taught his young son to look up to and respect the police or to view them with caution and suspicion — the last realization six-year-old first-grade student Jeremy Mardis likely had speaks to the tragic and violent turn our country has taken of late:
As his consciousness trickled away, Jeremy felt either utter betrayal that someone in authority felt inexplicably justified to shoot and kill him, or hisworst fears about cops were confirmed in the bullets stealing his young life. But regardless which explanation you choose, a six-year-old met his fate in a state of terrified confusion — and possibly even innocent guilt, wondering what he’d done to deserve a sentence of death.
But it’s all about the kids, right? Go ahead and try your damnedest to justify that.
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California petition to put bathroom-privacy on ballot
California petition to put bathroom-privacy on ballot
It started getting public attention as a movement in California a number of years ago, where activists all of a sudden demanded “respect” for homosexuals and transgenders in public schools and progressives in the West Coast state responded with a law that banned negative portrayals of those alternative sexual lifestyle choices. Then activists moved forward to… (more…)
San Bernardino: A liberal hate crime against America
San Bernardino: A liberal hate crime against America
Ever since the smell of Karl Marx’s body odor drove patrons from the London library during the years he was crafting the proletarian utopia we see all around us today, modern-day liberalism has killed innocent people. San Bernardino, coming on the heels of the Paris massacre earlier, is merely the latest killing field – but it… (more…)
Kurdish Muslims are “Just Sick of Islam” – Turning to Christianity –
Kurdish Muslims are “Just Sick of Islam” – Turning to Christianity
I’ll be perfectly honest and open and up front. I am not a doomsday Dispensational Christian. I do not believe these are the “last days,” according to some. In fact, I believe that we may just be on the verge of a mass spiritual awakening, the likes of which the world has never seen! In making that claim, I will point to a recent article, one of manythat I have seen and one that has been testified to in an interview earlier this year from aMarine veteran who is currently helping the Kurdish people in Kurdistan. The news? Many Muslims have become disillusioned with Islam in the Middle East and have begun to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ.
A Christian ministry leader in the Kurdish Region of Iraq told the Christian Aid Mission that Muslims in the area are “just sick of Islam.”
“People are very hungry to know about Christ, especially when they hear about miracles, healing, mercy and love,” he said, as reported in the Gospel Herald.
Many of these Muslims are Muslim in name only. They are like many who claim to be Christian, but have no idea what the Bible teaches. These people are like them in that they really don’t know what the Quran is teaching them. In essence, even Islam would call them hypocritical or not true Muslims.
Christian Today reports:
The ministry director, who declined to be identified for security reason, said the Muslims in their camp have witnessed the brutality of Islamic State (ISIS) militants carrying out beheadings and other horrific acts in the name of Allah.
The director said his ministry has been swamped with Iraqi Muslims seeking to know more about Christ and the Bible.
“As terrifying and horrifying as ISIS is, they did us a great favour because they came and have shown them all the killing, saying that it’s all in the Quran verses. So now we don’t have to say much, we just say the truth,” the director.
“We just help because we love them, and maybe the next time we visit we tell them about Jesus and give them Bibles,” the ministry director said. “We believe in the power of the Word of God. We don’t have many preachers. We don’t have many missionaries, but we have the Word of God that we’re able to print, purchase and deliver to the people and their children.”
The ministry director also gave an account of a recent encounter with one of the Muslims, who was given a Bible.
“He said, ‘OK, but I’m Muslim, I can’t become Christian—I have a big family, and my father is a very extremist radical,’” the director said. “I said, ‘I didn’t ask you to be Christian. I’m not trying to change your religion here. I just want you to read the Bible and know who Jesus Christ is. I want you to have a relationship with God.’”
Not surprisingly to those of us who have engaged Muslims with the Gospel, this particular Muslim, after having read the Bible with his family came back with questions, not even understanding the Islamic faith nor its founder, Muhammad.
While the director offered some information that would be considered “non-offensive” concerning Muhammad, the Muslim responded, “You know what? I don’t like Muhammad anymore. I want to be a Christian.”
When the director confronted him, reminding him that he didn’t want to be a Christian, the Muslim man said, “Oh, I changed my mind.”
Repentance is exactly that. It’s a changing of mind, but not just about Jesus the Christ, but about the Law of God. This simple faith is what really is at stake and at the heart of the Gospel message. Once this takes root in the mind of anyone, whether heathen, pagan, Muslim, Buddhist or anyone else, it grows larger, just as Jesus said (Matt. 4:31-32).
Though I am one that is against the massive influx of Muslims from the Middle East into America because there is clearly a danger of bringing in jihadists in the name of Muhammad, I welcome these accounts of Muslims coming to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same God who established our founding forefathers when they landed at Plymouth many years ago.
Courtesy of Freedom Outpost.
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University’s Muslim Official Bans Alum Who Fought Islamic State, Claims ‘One Man’s Terrorist Is Another Man’s Freedom Fighter’ | Pamela Geller
University’s Muslim Official Bans Alum Who Fought Islamic State, Claims ‘One Man’s Terrorist Is Another Man’s Freedom Fighter’
This was bound to happen. As soon as the West surrendered its values, freedom and culture to Islamic sharia, then it’s a logical consequence that savagery, oppression and genocide in the cause of Islam would be exalted and equated with the good.
How can anyone look at the UK and say it’s not doomed? More frightening is that Obama is pursuing and advancing the same jihad.
University’s Muslim Official Bans Alum Who Fought ISIS, Claims ‘One Man’s Terrorist Is Another Man’s Freedom Fighter,” by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, 6 Nov 2015
Students at a London university have banned an alumnus from speaking about his experiences fighting ISIS in Syria because they did not want to encourage others to go and fight against them. They’ve claimed “one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist” in a statement apparently overlooking the bloody and gruesome modus operandi of Islamic State terrorists.
“In every conflict there are two sides, and at [University College London Union] UCLU we want to avoid taking sides in conflicts,” Muslim official Asad Khan, the Activities and Events Office, wrote in an e-mail to Kavar Kurda, the president of the Kurdish Society who had invited the speaker.
Macer Gifford, a former currency trader who spent five months in Syria earlier this year fighting against ISIS with the Kurdish Group YPG, was due to speak. He has previously said he was “shocked to the core” by the rise of ISIS and wanted “to shine a light and to show the Kurds aren’t alone”.
However, Mr Khan said the union did not want anyone emulating his heroics. He was banned “because there were concerns an event with a person speaking about their experiences fighting in Syria could lead to others going and fighting in the conflict.”
Mr Khan told The Tab: “…although I understand YPG are fighting against ISIS the situation is far too complex to understand in black and white”. When contacted by Breitbart London, he refused to confirm that he would not cancel such an event again.
Mr Khan has previously held key positions in both the Islamic and Pakistani societies at UCL. His election to the £25,000 a year job as a Union officer was marred by an electoral fraud controversy, for which he and fellow candidate Mohammad Ali had votes deducted.
Both belonged to a slate of candidates backed by the Islamic Society, who won four of seven full-time sabbatical roles for the 2015 – 2016 academic year.
In 2010, UCL’s Islamic Society was led by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who became know as the “underwear bomber.” The institution became notorious for rampant anti-Semitism and flagrantly hosting Islamists extremist in that period.
The Union doubled down on the ban in a statement, claiming they where exercising “caution” because they had not heard back from the police and claiming the “final decision” was because the talk “could lead to others going and fighting” against ISIS, which was not seen as an “appropriate message.”
“Although we consider freedom of speech on university campuses to be of vital importance,” they add, and “despite the fact that YPG aren’t deemed a terrorist organisation,” the Union said they had concerns about “human rights abuses”, comparing the YPG to Hamas and Hezbollah, siting two critical articles by Amnesty international and the United Nations (UN).
A petition started in Mr Macer’s support states: “Macer Gifford is an excellent example of someone laying his life on the line in order to champion human rights, and to deny a man who has spoken at the BBC, Portcullis House and an ex-UCL student is absolutely outrageous”
Adding: “They placed the YPG in the same brackets as Hamas and Hezbollah, even though they are far from terrorist groups. They ignored the thousands of articles supporting and praising YPG and instead focused on bias Turkish news sources, a nonsensical Amnesty report and a hazy UN report.”
Concluding: “All in all, UCLU and Asad Khan displayed horrible prejudice against the Kurdish cause, human rights and the freedom of speech. Universities are here for academic development and intellectual enlightenment. How can we be expected to develop if we are being censored from the beginning?”
Mr. Kavar said Mr. Khan told him, “one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.” Adding: “Asad went down the same route as CAGE and other questionable organisations by appealing to white middle class stereotypes and told me the only reason Macer wasn’t arrested was because he is ‘white and middle class’.
“I find it astounding such an institution like UCL are unwilling to take a side in this conflict If you don’t support Kurds and the YPG, only ISIS are left. Where’s the freedom of speech? What about human rights?”
