The Struggle – Part Two
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Today’s Author: Pastor Bill
“Dear brothers and sisters, I urge you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to join in my struggle by praying to God for me” NLT
Wasim’ s struggle continues:
“They beat me severely. My chin was split wide open and my clothes were covered with running blood. It was so painful. But, this pain was a sweet pain because it was because of my faith and I proved that my faith is true. A Muslim doctor stitched up my chin.
Because I would not embrace Islam again my father refused me food and did not allow me to live with my family. I was told there would be no share of the family property because I was no longer a Muslim. He reminded everyone in the family that, according to Islam the punishment for leaving is death. He did show me some mercy by allowing me some time to think about my decision.
I did not change my mind and I was kicked from the house. On my way out the door I was told they would no longer have a relationship with me. From then on they considered me a pagan. The door was left open if I would come to the mosque and announce that I don’t believe this paganism called Christianity.
Over time many Muslim people and Islamic organizations tried to kill me. But, Jesus saved me from every step of evil.
I was asked to share my testimony from city to city. A few friends who dared talk to me told me that my parents and a certain group of Muslims were looking to kill me. I was getting a reputation as a bad Muslim example to others. Because of my Christian walk with Jesus I was an outcast from every Muslim.
I ran away to another city where the principal of the Christian Territory Training School ‘CTTS’, and an American teacher, helped me. I spent two years with them — one year training to be an electrician and one year serving the Lord in towns and villages. It was a peaceful time and the Lord gave me rest.
Eventually the Muslims heard that I was living at ‘CTTS’. They sent some bad characters to kidnap me. When the American teacher over heard what they are whispering, he told the principal. The principal sent me to another city. It was a big old hospital building that ‘CTTS’ bought for missions work. I spent two months there. The principal called me back for my final examination which I passed. Praise the Lord!
My heart burned to tell others the lies of Islam and I wrote a book titled ‘Make a Choice.’ I sent it to a Christian press. They answered, ‘We cannot print your book because Muslims will come and burn our presses.’ Then I sent the book to the USA. A Christian brother wrote me saying, ‘Muslims all over the world were looking for Salman Rushdie, writer of Satanic Verses.’ He went on to say, ‘We can’t print it, for your sake, because Muslims can kill you and we don’t want to insight riots.’
I was missing my home city. I decided to return. A Christian man gave me a room to live in. Next to my room was a preacher of the Gospel of Jesus living with his family. They were made aware of my fragile situation.
Soon I was confronted at my door by a group of Muslims. They beat me severely because I was a Christian with a Muslim name. The preacher rushed to my aide as the Muslims ran out. He looked after me for the entire night. He prayed for my life. He provided me medical treatment. When I was well enough to be on my own he said, ‘I love you Christian and your strength in your faith.’ We want to ask you if you would live with us, as a family member. I said, ‘Yes.’
They moved to another area in the city and I spent a few years with them. My brothers heard that I was back in my home city. One of them contacted me.” Part 3 tomorrow.
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How Obama Ushered in the New Age of Christian Martyrdom
How Obama Ushered in the New Age of Christian Martyrdom
- “Do you realize what you have done?” — Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
Everywhere that U.S. leadership helped Islamic jihadis topple secular autocrats in the name of “democracy and freedom,” indigenous Christian minorities are forced either to convert to Islam or die.
Many are accepting death.
Most recently, on August 28 near Aleppo, the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) tortured, mutilated, publicly raped, beheaded and crucified 12 Christians for saying they “would never renounce Christ” for Muhammad.
The jihadis took one group in front of a large crowd. They cut off the fingertips of a 12-year-old boy, who steadfastly refused to submit to Islam. They “severely beat him, telling his father they would stop the torture only if he, the father, returned to Islam.” He refused, so they “also tortured and beat him and the two other ministry workers. The three men and the boy then met their deaths in crucifixion.”
According to a Christian leader associated with the martyrs, “They were left on their crosses for two days. No one was allowed to remove them.” A sign saying “INFIDELS” was placed next to their crosses.
The other eight Christians, including two women, aged 29 and 33, were also ordered to renounce Christ and embrace Islam before a large crowd. When they refused,
“The Islamic extremists then publicly raped the women, who continued to pray during the ordeal, leading the ISIS militants to beat them all the more furiously.
“As the two women and the six men knelt before they were beheaded, they were all praying.
“‘Villagers said some were praying in the name of Jesus, others said some were praying the Lord’s prayer, and others said some of them lifted their heads to commend their spirits to Jesus,’ the ministry director said. “One of the women looked up and seemed to be almost smiling as she said, ‘Jesus!'”
“After they were beheaded, their bodies were hung on crosses, the ministry director said.”
The same is happening in the two other Arab nations where the U.S., under the pretext of “freedom and democracy,” overthrew the secular dictators who had long kept a lid on the jihadis: Libya and Iraq.
Late last year, Andrew White, an Anglican priest known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” recountedthe horrific atrocities against Christians in Iraq — including seeing their children chopped in half for refusing to embrace Islam:
“ISIS turned up and they said to the [Christian] children, ‘You say the words [shehada, convert to Islam], that you will follow Muhammad.’ And the children, all under 15, four of them, they said, ‘No, we love Jesus [Yesua]. We have always loved Jesus. We have always followed Jesus. Jesus has always been with us.” They [ISIS] said, ‘Say the words!’ They [children] said, ‘No, we can’t.’ [White starts sobbing] They chopped all their heads off. How do you respond to that? You just cry. They are my children. That is what we have been going through. That is what we are going through.”
Targeting Christian children in Iraq goes back to soon after the ousting of Saddam Hussein. In June 2008, a Canadian parliamentary committee heard about how “militant Muslims” werecrucifying Christian children: “Since the war began in 2003, about 12 children, many as young as 10, have been kidnapped and killed, then nailed to makeshift crosses near their homes to terrify and torment their parents.”
In one of his Facebook postings, White, who regularly posted pictures of Christian martyrs, wrote:
“The photo I was sent today was the most awful I have ever seen. A family of 8 all shot through the face lying in a pool of blood, with their Bible open on the couch. They would not convert. It cost them their life.”
White also told of how ISIS members came to a Christian man and said, “Either you convert to Islam or we kill all your children.” The father, in desperation, declared the shehada: “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” thus becoming a Muslim. He then phoned White:
“Abouna, abouna [father, father] I said the words! Does that mean Jesus doesn’t love me anymore? I have always loved Jesus but I said those words because I couldn’t see my children being killed!”
“No Elias,” White said. “Jesus still loves you — he will always love you.”
There are many historic accounts of Christians slaughtered for refusing to renounce Christ for Muhammad — whether 100,000 Georgians beheaded or burned alive, or a “mere” 813 Italians decapitated, or else “converting out of fear. A report, for instance, from Medieval Egypt states:
In 1389, a great procession of Copts who had accepted Muhammad under fear of death, marched through Cairo. Repenting of their apostasy, they now wished to atone for it by…returning to Christianity. So as they marched, they announced that they believed in Christ and renounced Muhammad. They were seized and all the men were beheaded one after another in an open square before the women. But this did not terrify the women; so they, too, were all martyred (Crucified Again, pgs. 113-114).
In Libya, earlier this year, the Islamic State released a video depicting 21 Coptic Christians being decapitated in the North African nation. While holding their victims’ bodies down, Islamic State members shoved their fingers in the Christians’ eyes, craned their heads back, and sliced away at their throats with knives. As with the recent public rape, beheading, and crucifixion of the 12 Christians near Aleppo, some of the Egyptian Christians were also seen praying to Christ. One Coptic priest later described the scene:
“The name of Jesus was their last word… With that name, whispered at the very last, their martyrdom was sealed.
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ISIS terrorists prepare to murder 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya, February 2015.Over one month before the video appeared, the BBC had falsely reported that the majority of those now slaughtered Copts were “released.” Sadly, such downplaying of Muslim persecution of Christians is standard for the BBC.
When the Islamic State released another video in April of more Christians in Libya being massacred, a masked IS spokesman addressed “Christians everywhere“:
“We say to Christians everywhere, the Islamic State will expand, with Allah’s permission. And it will reach you even if you are in fortified strongholds. So whoever enters Islam will have security… But whoever refuses will see nothing from us but the edge of a spear. The men will be killed and the children will be enslaved, and their wealth will be taken as booty. This is the judgment of Allah and His Messenger.”
The next scene portrays the captive Ethiopian Christians being shot in the back of the head or having their heads carved off.
The ongoing slaughter of Christians by the Islamic State, and the destruction of churches and antiquities, must be laid at the feet of those Western nations that, intentionally or unintentionally, paved the way for the Islamic State.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin recently said before the United Nations, while addressing those nations that supported the “Arab Spring” — chief among them America:
Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?
Whether they realize it or not, they continue to do it in Syria — with Christians often paying the highest price.[1]
Raymond Ibrahim, author of “Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians,” is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum
[1] Aside from the Islamic State’s slaughter of Christians who refuse to convert to Islam, Muslim individuals, mobs, terrorists, and governments all around the world have been known to try to force Christians to convert, sometimes on pain of death:
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Gaza Strip: Christians in Gaza protested over the “kidnappings and forced conversions of some former believers to Islam.” The ever-dwindling Christian community banged on a church bell while chanting, “With our spirit, with our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Jesus.”
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Pakistan: In 2004, a two-year-old child was raped because her Christian father “refused to convert to Islam.” Another “devoted Christian” was butchered by Muslim men “with multiple axe blows [24, according to the autopsy] for refusing to convert to Islam.” In April 2014, a Muslim security guard murdered a Christian worker who refused to convert to Islam.
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Uganda: After a gang of Muslims brandishing machetes stormed a church during service. They hacked one 18-year-old woman to death and left three others, including a one-year-old baby, injured. The pastor explained that the attackers belong to a local “group of Muslims” who seek “to transform [Christian-majority] Uganda into an Islamic nation and would kill anyone who refused to convert.”
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Nigeria: A Christian teenage girl told how Boko Haram came to her household and slaughtered her father and brother because they refused to convert to Islam. After abusing her, they tied her up and left her in a state of shock between the two corpses.
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Bangladesh: After shutting down the construction of a church, a local government official threatened Christians with eviction from their village unless they renounced their faith and embraced Islam. Said one of the Christians: “Their threats chilled me to the bone. That is why I pretended to accept Islam, but faith in Christ is the wellspring of my life.” Another said: “The chairman is clipping the wings of our faith. I do not know how long we can grin and bear it. We want religious freedom. We want to practice our religion freely.”
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Russia: In Tatarstan, a Muslim-majority republic in Russia, seven churches were burned and “increased pressure on Christians to convert to Islam” was widespread.
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Uzbekistan: A 26-year-old Christian woman, partially paralyzed from youth, and her elderly mother were violently attacked by invaders who ransacked their home, confiscating “icons, Bibles, religious calendars, and prayer books.” At the police department, the paralyzed woman was “offered to convert to Islam.” She refused and was accordingly fined almost two years’ worth of her wages.
Obama’s EEOC bows to evil Muslim Beliefs
ALTHOUGH ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION: Obama’s EEOC Accommodates Muslim Beliefs
By Amil Imani and James Hyde
Overdriveonline, a trucking industry news site, blares the headline:
“EEOC awards Muslim truckers $240k after being fired for refusing to haul alcohol.” The Obama administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a trucking company, at taxpayer expense, when two Somali Muslim truck drivers were fired for refusing to haul alcohol. Doing so, the Islamists claimed, would infringe on their religious beliefs under “Islamic law.”
From the story: “EEOC also alleged that Star Transport could have but failed to accommodate their religious beliefs.” Stunning.
The intervention by EEOC was hypocritical, discriminatory and insanely out of equilibrium when the plight of Christians in the matrimonial business who object to providing goods and services for gay weddings is contrasted. Christian businesses are being fined; forced to take “diversity” propaganda courses or closed down for refusing to “accommodate” gay weddings. Are not their religious beliefs, duly protected under the Constitution’s First Amendment and 42 U.S. Code Chapter 21B – Religious Freedom Restoration equal to the beliefs of Muslims?
Since when does Islamic law trump the U.S. Constitution and U.S. federal law? For Obama, such violations of his oath began with the first breath he took after he took his inaugural oath. In fact, the scofflaw-in-chief gave us a glimpse of his personal religious preferences when, during his “Apology Tour,” he proclaimed to the world that, “The United States is no longer a Christian nation.” Had he taken the time to apply his finger to the nation’s pulse, he would have learned that an ABCNEWS/Beliefnet poll found that, “Eighty-three percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians.” Granted, that number has diminished some since he first sat in the big chair, but it’s still north of 70%.
This is but one of many glaring examples of how Obama promotes Islam and applies constitutional imperatives and federal law in mercurial and arbitrary ways when it comes to Christians. Case in point, he tasked Charles Bolden, his NASA administrator, with three initiatives:
“When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things,’ Bolden said in the interview [with Al-Jazeera] which aired last week. ‘One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering” [Emphasis ours]
This is the nation’s space agency, not the State Department. NASA’s core initiative is space flight and exploration, not being the ambassador to Islam.
Beside his obvious adoration for his true faith, Islam (after his election, his pretense toward Christian devotion completely vanished as his church attendance became an asterisk), when it comes to Christians, Obama enforces federal laws with such obvious capriciousness that the Congress, which has had quite a number of its enumerated powers appropriated by Obama, should be cited for articles of impeachment. In Article II, Section 3, the Constitution, stipulates that the president “…shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed…” Well, he’s executing laws the same way KFC kills chickens.
Worse, his penchant for sticking it to Christians (consider how he’s torturing the Little Sisters of the Poor, among other Christian groups trying to fight his hideous birth control mandate) is surpassed only by what ISIS does to those who worship Jesus Christ in the Middle East. Only Congress is permitted to make or amend laws. Barack Hussein Obama is not.
That a commission within the Obama administration would bring suit on behalf of Muslims at taxpayer expense, but allow states to ignore the Constitution and the Religious Restoration Act by fining Christian bakers in Washington State the absurd sum of $135,000 for refusing to bake a gay wedding cake is heretical in the extreme. And then there’s the notorious attempt to force a Christian baker in Colorado to bake wedding cakes for gay weddings after going through “diversity” training. This administration’s version of a reeducation camp: shades of George Orwell’s 1984!
The EEOC got the Muslims a hefty award of $245,000, but businesses in the matrimonial industry who wish not to violate their religious beliefs are losing their businesses, their homes and the shirts off their backs via unconscionable fines handed down by a far-left, PC-drunk commissioner who pushes the lesbians ahead by $135,000.
As a Republic, we cannot tolerate or allow preference for one religion (especially one based on Sharia law) over another, yet Christians are being financially and morally blackmailed by an infinitesimal gay minority (3.8% of the adult population, according to Gallup). This divergence from long-accepted societal norms should sting Congress to action and it should stick it to Obama, his administration and ‘fellow travelers.’ If it doesn’t, we’ll be as morally and religiously bankrupt as parts of Europe have become. Our Founders aren’t spinning in their graves. They’re trying to dig out of them to restore national sanity.
It’s time to say as a nation, “No you can’t.”
Overdriveonline, a trucking industry news site, blares the headline:
“EEOC awards Muslim truckers $240k after being fired for refusing to haul alcohol.” The Obama administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a trucking company, at taxpayer expense, when two Somali Muslim truck drivers were fired for refusing to haul alcohol. Doing so, the Islamists claimed, would infringe on their religious beliefs under “Islamic law.”
From the story: “EEOC also alleged that Star Transport could have but failed to accommodate their religious beliefs.” Stunning.
The intervention by EEOC was hypocritical, discriminatory and insanely out of equilibrium when the plight of Christians in the matrimonial business who object to providing goods and services for gay weddings is contrasted. Christian businesses are being fined; forced to take “diversity” propaganda courses or closed down for refusing to “accommodate” gay weddings. Are not their religious beliefs, duly protected under the Constitution’s First Amendment and 42 U.S. Code Chapter 21B – Religious Freedom Restoration equal to the beliefs of Muslims?
Since when does Islamic law trump the U.S. Constitution and U.S. federal law? For Obama, such violations of his oath began with the first breath he took after he took his inaugural oath. In fact, the scofflaw-in-chief gave us a glimpse of his personal religious preferences when, during his “Apology Tour,” he proclaimed to the world that, “The United States is no longer a Christian nation.” Had he taken the time to apply his finger to the nation’s pulse, he would have learned that an ABCNEWS/Beliefnet poll found that, “Eighty-three percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians.” Granted, that number has diminished some since he first sat in the big chair, but it’s still north of 70%.
This is but one of many glaring examples of how Obama promotes Islam and applies constitutional imperatives and federal law in mercurial and arbitrary ways when it comes to Christians. Case in point, he tasked Charles Bolden, his NASA administrator, with three initiatives:
“When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things,’ Bolden said in the interview [with Al-Jazeera] which aired last week. ‘One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering” [Emphasis ours]
This is the nation’s space agency, not the State Department. NASA’s core initiative is space flight and exploration, not being the ambassador to Islam.
Beside his obvious adoration for his true faith, Islam (after his election, his pretense toward Christian devotion completely vanished as his church attendance became an asterisk), when it comes to Christians, Obama enforces federal laws with such obvious capriciousness that the Congress, which has had quite a number of its enumerated powers appropriated by Obama, should be cited for articles of impeachment. In Article II, Section 3, the Constitution, stipulates that the president “…shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed…” Well, he’s executing laws the same way KFC kills chickens.
Worse, his penchant for sticking it to Christians (consider how he’s torturing the Little Sisters of the Poor, among other Christian groups trying to fight his hideous birth control mandate) is surpassed only by what ISIS does to those who worship Jesus Christ in the Middle East. Only Congress is permitted to make or amend laws. Barack Hussein Obama is not.
That a commission within the Obama administration would bring suit on behalf of Muslims at taxpayer expense, but allow states to ignore the Constitution and the Religious Restoration Act by fining Christian bakers in Washington State the absurd sum of $135,000 for refusing to bake a gay wedding cake is heretical in the extreme. And then there’s the notorious attempt to force a Christian baker in Colorado to bake wedding cakes for gay weddings after going through “diversity” training. This administration’s version of a reeducation camp: shades of George Orwell’s 1984!
The EEOC got the Muslims a hefty award of $245,000, but businesses in the matrimonial industry who wish not to violate their religious beliefs are losing their businesses, their homes and the shirts off their backs via unconscionable fines handed down by a far-left, PC-drunk commissioner who pushes the lesbians ahead by $135,000.
As a Republic, we cannot tolerate or allow preference for one religion (especially one based on Sharia law) over another, yet Christians are being financially and morally blackmailed by an infinitesimal gay minority (3.8% of the adult population, according to Gallup). This divergence from long-accepted societal norms should sting Congress to action and it should stick it to Obama, his administration and ‘fellow travelers.’ If it doesn’t, we’ll be as morally and religiously bankrupt as parts of Europe have become. Our Founders aren’t spinning in their graves. They’re trying to dig out of them to restore national sanity.
It’s time to say as a nation, “No you can’t.”
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ACLU unleashes another blast at Kim Davis
ACLU unleashes another blast at Kim Davis
A legal team representing Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis in her fight for her constitutionally protected religious rights is opposing another blast against her by the ACLU, which represented some same-sex duos in a lawsuit against Davis over the issuance of “same-sex marriage” licenses. The ACLU now wants to make the fight a class action… (more…)
One Of The Most Dangerous Volcanoes In North America Is Roaring To Life –
One Of The Most Dangerous Volcanoes In North America Is Roaring To Life
More than 25 million people live in the vicinity of North America’s 2nd-highest volcano, and in recent weeks this volcano has been steadily rumbling and has been spewing out massive amounts of black smoke and ash. I have previously written about “the most dangerous mountain in the United States” (Mt. Rainier), but if the volcano that I amtalking about today experiences a full-blown explosive eruption it could potentially be a cataclysmic event beyond what most of us would dare to imagine. Popocatepetl is an Aztec word that means “smoking mountain”, and it is also the name of a giant volcano that sits approximately 50 miles away from Mexico City’s 18 million residents. “Popo”, as it is called by locals, was dormant for much of the 20th century, but it came back to life in 1994. And now all of this unusual activity in recent weeks has many wondering if a major eruption may be imminent.
Historians tell us that Popocatepetl had a dramatic impact on the ancient Aztecs. Giant mud flows produced by massive eruptions covered entire Aztec cities. In fact, some of these mud flows were so large that they buried entire pyramids in super-heated mud.
But we haven’t witnessed anything like that in any of our lifetimes, so it is hard to even imagine devastation of that magnitude.
In addition to Mexico City’s mammoth population, there are millions of others that live in the surrounding region. Overall, there are about 25 million people that live in the immediate vicinity of Popocatepetl. Thankfully, we haven’t seen a major eruption of the volcano in modern times, but at some point that will change.
As most of you already know, Mexico sits on the “Ring of Fire” that stretches along the outer rim of the Pacific Ocean. Over the past couple of years seismic activity throughout this area has started to really heat up, and according to Volcano Discovery there are dozens of volcanoes associated with the Ring of Fire that have recently erupted.
That is why so many people are alarmed about the very unusual activity that we began to see from Popocatepetl starting in mid-September. The following is from a report that was posted on September 23rd…
CENAPRED reported that during 16-22 September the seismic network at Popocatépetl recorded 15-89 daily emissions consisting of water vapor, gas, and sometimes ash; cloud cover often prevented visual observations. Variable nighttime or morning crater incandescence was observed most days, and 1-13 daily explosions were registered.
In recent days, the activity at Popocatepetl seems to be getting stronger and more intense. This next excerpt is from an article the Telegraph posted on October 21st…
Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano put on a spectacular display as it spewed out huge clouds of ash in to the sky.
The volcano, which is 50 miles south east of Mexico City spat ash and smoke 2500 metres above the volcano’s crater.
Mexico’s volcano experts says the volcano had around 40 exhalations with a series a of rumblings in the past three months.
And just over the weekend there was even more activity. This is what the BBC reported on October 30th…
Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano has erupted spewing ash and black smoke into the sky.
The volcano is located 50 miles (80 km) southeast of the capital, Mexico City.
Could all of this be the build up to a major event of some sort?
As I mentioned above, 18 million people live in Mexico City. And we do know that ash from Popocatepetl can reach Mexico City. In fact, this actually happened on a small scale back in 2013…
The Popocatepetl volcano just east of Mexico City has spit out a cloud of ash and vapor 2 miles (3 kilometers) high over several days of eruptions, and Mexico City residents awoke Saturday to find a fine layer of volcanic dust on their cars.
Mexico City is not in a particularly safe location. In addition to Popocatepetl, the city also sits in an area that is prone to experiencing earthquakes. One of these days we could see an event that could destroy much or all of Mexico City, and if that happened the entire economy of Mexico would immediately collapse and millions of refugees would start streaming north.
So ultimately Popocatepetl is not just a Mexican problem. If a major eruption took place, it would quickly become a U.S. problem too.
Speaking of the United States, the unprecedented earthquake swarm near San Franciscothat I reported on the other day is getting even worse. The following comes from NBC News…
The earthquake swarms in one San Francisco Bay Area city keeps rising, and according to the US Geological Center’s past historical data, has shattered old records.
As of Wednesday, the USGS noted that San Ramon, about 45 miles from San Francisco had experienced 446 quakes, including 86 quakes that were a magnitude of 2.0 or higher, since Oct. 13. A total of 28 earthquakes have been documented alone since Tuesday.
San Ramon had previously set a record in 2003 when a swarm of 120 earthquakes struck there over 31 days.
And that is not the only unusual “shaking” inside the U.S. that is raising eyebrows lately. Not too far from Yellowstone, a giant crack in the ground has formed…
A dramatic crack has suddenly formed in the foothills ofWyoming‘s Bighorn Mountains that measures an impressive 750 yards long and 50 yards wide. It was discovered recently by surprised backcountry hunters who travel frequently to the area in search of game.
First reported by SNS Outfitter & Guides, a hunting company, on their Facebook page, the mammoth chasm appeared over the course of just a couple of weeks. It’s an impressive example of just how quickly very large geological events can occur under the right conditions.
“Everyone here is calling it ‘the gash.’ It’s a really incredible sight,” wrote SNS on the group’s Facebook page.
In just about every possible way that you can imagine, our world is becoming more unstable. In North America, we have been blessed with a long period of peace and prosperity, and we have had only a few major seismic events over the past several decades.
But now things are changing. The planet is starting to shake, and I believe that it is going to get a lot worse in the years ahead. And these great natural disasters that are coming will combine with all of the other major problems that we are currently facing to create something of a “perfect storm” which will bring our nation to its knees.
Or could it be possible that I am being too “pessimistic”? Please feel free to tell us what you think by posting a comment below…
Courtesy of Michael Snyder.
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Articles: Obama’s Corrupt and Immoral Abuse of the Military
Obama’s Corrupt and Immoral Abuse of the Military
By Jonathan Keiler
Barack Obama’s decision to send American special forces to Syria is not only hypocritical, but also a corrupt and immoral abuse of his powers as commander-in-chief.
This is not a comment on his circumvention of Congress, which is something that most modern American presidents have done at one time or another with respect to military engagements abroad. Rather, in Obama’s case – uniquely in American history – we have a president who puts Americans in harm’s way for no evident reason other than personal political calculations.
The insertion of fifty U.S. special-forces troops into Syrian peril, whether to serve as “non-combatant” advisors or something more, has been undertaken without any reasonable hope of meaningful military success or of advancing American interests. It is simply a political ploy, so obvious that no right-thinking American, on the right or the left, ought to countenance it, including the military officers charged with executing the mission.
Were this Obama’s only foray into meaningless and dangerous military policy, it might be excused as a rookie mistake or a well-meaning misapplication of power. But Obama has been president for seven years, and he has consistently abused the American military in ways that violate accepted principles of warfighting and application of power. In Afghanistan, Obama senselessly surged American forces and sent soldiers and Marines into some of the toughest fights of the war, with haphazardly selected force levels and without any plan or commitment to stick it out or produce a victory. The deaths and maiming of thousands of American troops in Afghanistan during Obama’s watch is a stain on his presidency.
Obama’s more recent decision to maintain a residual American force in Afghanistan, again with a randomly chosen strength suited to political calculations rather than military necessities, shows that, like an absolute monarch, he has learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
In Libya, leading from behind, Obama sent American aircrew to arbitrarily bomb that country without serious consideration for the consequences, either long-term or short. The result was the murder of an American ambassador, those charged with protecting him, and a scandal that would have, in an honest administration, resulted in the removal, for cause, of the secretary of state.
In Iraq, Obama squandered a hard-won military victory. With the stroke of a pen, heroic troops, including thousands of fallen, who fought in a just war, saw their efforts discounted and their accomplishments destroyed. Military members are willing to sacrifice. What is harder is accepting that sacrifices are in vain.
That profound error of military and diplomatic policy in Iraq was made only to advance Obama’s personal political agenda. Backfiring, this policy has so embarrassed the president and his party, and so destabilized the Middle East, that Obama, at the urging of advisers, announced the dispatch of the special forces troops and the redeployment of aircraft to bases in Turkey.
But this effort is without military justification or merit. Obama is going through the motions to deflect political criticism of his leadership. Special forces troops and air crew will put their lives at risk to cover for the president, with little or no chance of making any meaningful difference in the military/political disaster that is Syria. Their dispatch, without sound military rationale, is corrupt and immoral.
In this, Obama is arguably worse than the most cold-blooded captains who have shed the blood of their men in history, or even in fiction. These men, real or imagined, who engaged in seemingly senseless fighting, in vainglory or out of a misguided sense of martial responsibility, at least, despite flaws of character or stupidity, also pursued goals out of national interest, seeking victory.
Generals in World War I sent millions to their deaths in what today appear like senseless charges into no man’s land, but for the most part, these men, while often befuddled, unimaginative, and callous, acted in legitimate pursuit of national goals, and in the belief that national and martial honor was at stake. At Normandy, Dwight Eisenhower sent thousands of young men to their doom at Omaha Beach, but he did so out of military necessity, and the resolve to make good the terrible losses of the first waves, in the firm belief that what he was doing was both practically sound and morally right.
Many more men died in one day at Normandy than have been lost in all the military operations carried out under Obama’s leadership. Yet none of those men died in vain, or for the parochial political benefit of a narcissistic politician. Most Americans would doubtless agree that it is better that many men die in a just cause, well, righteously and professionally pursued, than a few for nothing. Under Obama, we have had none of the former – only the latter.
Even Obama’s one righteous military undertaking, the raid the killed Osama bin Laden, is tainted by politics. Many such commando raids have taken place over the years, yet none that I can think of have been so associated with the political leader in power at the time, as opposed to the brave men who actually accomplished the mission. From the day the White House announced the raid, the mainstream media and Democrat operatives proclaimed that Obama, not the Navy SEALs who were actually there, killed Osama bin Laden. Shortly after the raid Obama, announced, “We got him,” quite as if he had been there with Navy Petty Officer Rob O’Neil as bin Laden went down.
Compare the Wikipedia page on the bin Laden raid to that of Israel’s famed Entebbe rescue operation. In the bin Laden entry, the first participant listed is Barack Obama. In the Entebbe entry, the Israeli participants are limited to the military commanders who led the raid, not the prime minister at the time. Try almost any other similar operation. The Gran Sasso raid that freed Mussolini doesn’t list Hitler. The SAS raid that liberated the Iranian embassy in London doesn’t list Margaret Thatcher. Only Obama, uniquely, it seems, among leaders in such situations, gets treated as an actual participant.
Obama has a tendency to micromanage military operations – fifty commandos here, a few sorties there. He also thinks he’s smarter than his own generals. But at least other such figures actually wanted to win a war. Obama doesn’t want to do even that. He just wants to win political points.
This brings us to the final question: at what point will America’s generals say “enough”? Even some of Hitler’s officers, on pain of death, could be pushed only so far from their professional training and honor before they resigned, or else got themselves fired, or shot, or hung by piano wire.
Our military officers are sworn to defend the country and the Constitution, not the commander in chief. When will they resign in protest?
Barack Obama’s decision to send American special forces to Syria is not only hypocritical, but also a corrupt and immoral abuse of his powers as commander-in-chief.
This is not a comment on his circumvention of Congress, which is something that most modern American presidents have done at one time or another with respect to military engagements abroad. Rather, in Obama’s case – uniquely in American history – we have a president who puts Americans in harm’s way for no evident reason other than personal political calculations.
The insertion of fifty U.S. special-forces troops into Syrian peril, whether to serve as “non-combatant” advisors or something more, has been undertaken without any reasonable hope of meaningful military success or of advancing American interests. It is simply a political ploy, so obvious that no right-thinking American, on the right or the left, ought to countenance it, including the military officers charged with executing the mission.
Were this Obama’s only foray into meaningless and dangerous military policy, it might be excused as a rookie mistake or a well-meaning misapplication of power. But Obama has been president for seven years, and he has consistently abused the American military in ways that violate accepted principles of warfighting and application of power. In Afghanistan, Obama senselessly surged American forces and sent soldiers and Marines into some of the toughest fights of the war, with haphazardly selected force levels and without any plan or commitment to stick it out or produce a victory. The deaths and maiming of thousands of American troops in Afghanistan during Obama’s watch is a stain on his presidency.
Obama’s more recent decision to maintain a residual American force in Afghanistan, again with a randomly chosen strength suited to political calculations rather than military necessities, shows that, like an absolute monarch, he has learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
In Libya, leading from behind, Obama sent American aircrew to arbitrarily bomb that country without serious consideration for the consequences, either long-term or short. The result was the murder of an American ambassador, those charged with protecting him, and a scandal that would have, in an honest administration, resulted in the removal, for cause, of the secretary of state.
In Iraq, Obama squandered a hard-won military victory. With the stroke of a pen, heroic troops, including thousands of fallen, who fought in a just war, saw their efforts discounted and their accomplishments destroyed. Military members are willing to sacrifice. What is harder is accepting that sacrifices are in vain.
That profound error of military and diplomatic policy in Iraq was made only to advance Obama’s personal political agenda. Backfiring, this policy has so embarrassed the president and his party, and so destabilized the Middle East, that Obama, at the urging of advisers, announced the dispatch of the special forces troops and the redeployment of aircraft to bases in Turkey.
But this effort is without military justification or merit. Obama is going through the motions to deflect political criticism of his leadership. Special forces troops and air crew will put their lives at risk to cover for the president, with little or no chance of making any meaningful difference in the military/political disaster that is Syria. Their dispatch, without sound military rationale, is corrupt and immoral.
In this, Obama is arguably worse than the most cold-blooded captains who have shed the blood of their men in history, or even in fiction. These men, real or imagined, who engaged in seemingly senseless fighting, in vainglory or out of a misguided sense of martial responsibility, at least, despite flaws of character or stupidity, also pursued goals out of national interest, seeking victory.
Generals in World War I sent millions to their deaths in what today appear like senseless charges into no man’s land, but for the most part, these men, while often befuddled, unimaginative, and callous, acted in legitimate pursuit of national goals, and in the belief that national and martial honor was at stake. At Normandy, Dwight Eisenhower sent thousands of young men to their doom at Omaha Beach, but he did so out of military necessity, and the resolve to make good the terrible losses of the first waves, in the firm belief that what he was doing was both practically sound and morally right.
Many more men died in one day at Normandy than have been lost in all the military operations carried out under Obama’s leadership. Yet none of those men died in vain, or for the parochial political benefit of a narcissistic politician. Most Americans would doubtless agree that it is better that many men die in a just cause, well, righteously and professionally pursued, than a few for nothing. Under Obama, we have had none of the former – only the latter.
Even Obama’s one righteous military undertaking, the raid the killed Osama bin Laden, is tainted by politics. Many such commando raids have taken place over the years, yet none that I can think of have been so associated with the political leader in power at the time, as opposed to the brave men who actually accomplished the mission. From the day the White House announced the raid, the mainstream media and Democrat operatives proclaimed that Obama, not the Navy SEALs who were actually there, killed Osama bin Laden. Shortly after the raid Obama, announced, “We got him,” quite as if he had been there with Navy Petty Officer Rob O’Neil as bin Laden went down.
Compare the Wikipedia page on the bin Laden raid to that of Israel’s famed Entebbe rescue operation. In the bin Laden entry, the first participant listed is Barack Obama. In the Entebbe entry, the Israeli participants are limited to the military commanders who led the raid, not the prime minister at the time. Try almost any other similar operation. The Gran Sasso raid that freed Mussolini doesn’t list Hitler. The SAS raid that liberated the Iranian embassy in London doesn’t list Margaret Thatcher. Only Obama, uniquely, it seems, among leaders in such situations, gets treated as an actual participant.
Obama has a tendency to micromanage military operations – fifty commandos here, a few sorties there. He also thinks he’s smarter than his own generals. But at least other such figures actually wanted to win a war. Obama doesn’t want to do even that. He just wants to win political points.
This brings us to the final question: at what point will America’s generals say “enough”? Even some of Hitler’s officers, on pain of death, could be pushed only so far from their professional training and honor before they resigned, or else got themselves fired, or shot, or hung by piano wire.
Our military officers are sworn to defend the country and the Constitution, not the commander in chief. When will they resign in protest?
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Obama’s rage fueling Iran deal, forensic profiler says
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Important Notice: FROM A FORMER MUSLIM———————————————Christian Cyber Ministries
Important Notice:
The following true story was told to us some years ago and then sent via email. We were overseas at the time. Because of the content, know that the countries, cities and names have been changed and I’ve done some editing. The writer will remain anonymous for the protection of him and his family. The man who wrote this asked me to use it as a cdd. I asked when it might be appropriate for him. He just said, ‘You’ll know.’ It is clear to me the time is now — the next ten devotions will run consecutively while I am in the Philippines planting four Crosses — so let me apologize in advance for a 10 part cdd which will be longest ever. I can assure you the journey will be worth it. pb
“My name is Wasim, I was born into an orthodox Muslim family in Afghanistan. My parents sent me to an Islamic school to learn the Quran. They wanted to make me a preacher of Islam. I learned the Quran by heart and was studying to learn more so that I could teach others about Islam. I was taught that Islam was the perfect religion and was set against the largest religion, Christianity.
I learned that Christian people are foolish and mad because they believe that the Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And how can they believe Mary was the wife of God? There were many questions in my mind about Christianity. Like this; how can a man, Jesus Christ, save you? How can Christians call God their Father? I learned that God is God (called Allah by Muslims), and God has no wife and that He can have no children. These questions burned in my heart.
One day I was at my uncle’s Shop. A Christian organization came by and were throwing hand bills regarding Christianity anywhere they could. I decided to read the hand bill so I would have information to debate with Christians. I could then guide them because they didn’t know the truth. Islam was what they needed.
When I started studying the hand bill Bible scriptures my interest increased. The more scripture I read the more I felt some power pulling me to know more about Christianity. Over a short period of time it all made sense to me. Islam had misconstrued what the Bible was saying. I gave my life to Jesus and since that day I could never return to Islam.
Then I met a Gospel preacher who told me more and helped me to study the Bible thoroughly. I was well aware of Islam. I studied and compared the Bible with the Quran. I found that Jesus Christ is not only a mighty prophet but He is Lord and God with us on earth. I learned that Jesus has power to forgive anybody’s sins. All the while I was talking to my family and friends about the truth of Jesus. This made them very unhappy. Before I knew it I was attacked with kicks and fists.
My parents called the Imam (a preacher of Islam) asking him to teach me the truth. After the teachings my parents and the Imam asked me some questions. The most important question to them was, ‘How can you call God the Father?’ I proved my answer with scripture. The Imam of Islam did not agree and said, ‘God is God, you can’t call God the Father. This is a big sin if you will call God the Father.’ Then he said, ‘you must apologize otherwise you will be severely punished.” He then demanded in front of a crowd of Muslims that I turn away from Christianity and once again embrace Islam. I said, ‘I cannot.’
The Imam responded, ‘You are out of your mind and the devil is working in you.’ He then whispered to the crowd. They all turned in unison and began walking toward me with evil in their hearts. Part 2 tomorrow
Prayer: Father thank you for those willing to stand up for Jesus when the pressure is on and the going gets tough. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!
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