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Look at What Obama’s DHS Tried to do to this Whistleblower and Her 1-Year-Old Daughter! –

Look at What Obama’s DHS Tried to do to this Whistleblower and Her 1-Year-Old Daughter!

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The Obama administration is certainly known for its criminal activity and its Chicago ties, as well as those tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. They are a thug organization. There is nothing lawful about the Obama’s or the Obama administration. This was on display assenior special agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Taylor Johnson told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs about how Homeland Security had gone after her when she revealed irregularities in the EB-5 visa program in June.

The Daily Caller reports:

A Department of Homeland Security agent testified Thursday that she nearly lost custody of her 1-year-old adopted daughter and was told that she could not own a personal firearm after she voiced concerns about a little known federal program that grants green cards to foreign investors.

Taylor Johnson, a senior special agent with a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), testified at a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing alongside several other whistleblowers who claim they’ve faced retaliation for reporting wrongdoing in their agencies.

Johnson, an 11-year veteran of ICE, said she began investigating a U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) program called EB-5. The program grants green cards to foreigners who invest at least $500,000 in U.S. companies.

Johnson testified that during her investigation she uncovered and disclosed gross mismanagement and public corruption that posed “national security risks” and threatened public safety.

Among some of the violations that surrounded the project, Johnson pointed to “bank and wire fraud, and I discovered ties to organized crime and high-ranking politicians and they received promotions that appeared to facilitate the program.”

She also “discovered that EB-5 applicants from China, Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia had been approved in as little as 16 days” and that case files “lacked the basic and necessary law enforcement queries.”

“I found over 800 operational EB-5 regional centers throughout the U.S.,” Johnson said. Consider this a disturbing fact, since the US only allows 10,000 EB-5 applications per year. Could this have something to do with the orchestrated flood of illegals across America’s southern border in 2014? Probably. However, the retaliation by the criminal administration against an American citizen for pointing out their criminal behavior is downright criminal in and of itself.

The retaliation against Johnson was pretty severe. She was removed from her job and denied access to her case files. On top of that, the feds informed adoption workers that Johnson was no longer employed due to alleged criminal activity, though all she had done was expose the criminal activity of the government.

“When an adoption social worker tried to contact and verify employment, she was told that I had been terminated for a criminal offense,” Johnson said. “I almost lost my 1-year-old child.”

That’s not all. She also had her rights violated by not being permitted to carry a firearm.

“I was told I couldn’t even carry or own a personal weapon which is a constitutional rights violation,” she testified.

Frankly, I want to know why someone in Congress is not putting an end to the intimidation of whistleblowers. Why are whistleblowers the ones who are treated like criminals for exposing the government actual criminal activities against the Constitution and the American people? Is it because they are complicit in some of the criminal activity? I can tell you that when all they do is have hearings and bring no justice to bear, they are indeed complicit by their inaction!

Taylor Johnson falls in a long line of whistleblowers exposing the crimes of America’s government, including Julia Davis and Edward Snowden.

Courtesy of Freedom Outpost.

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Kuwaiti “moderate Islamist”: “Islam is not a religion. It’s a way of life.”

Kuwaiti “moderate Islamist”: “Islam is not a religion. It’s a way of life.” FEBRUARY 25, 2014 3:43 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER Tareq_1_840_558_100It’s a way of life, you see — including a political system, which is something that Islamic apologists in the West generally deny. And you can have free speech, as long as you don’t insult anyone — which means you can’t really have free speech at all, because Muslims are likely to be insulted by talk of the injustice of dhimmitude, or of Islam’s treatment of women, or of how Islamic jihadists use Islamic texts and teachings to justify violence. Tareq al-Suwaidan lived in the United States for seventeen years and frequently speaks to Muslim groups in Britain, Canada, and Australia. An extremely popular speaker, al-Suweidan earns over a million dollars a year from giving talks on Islam. In 2000, al-Suwaidan addressed an Islamic Circle of North America conference, where he said that Muslims should issue a warning to non-Muslims in the West: “We must tell the West that we are extending a hand of peace now, but it will not be so for long. Even if a civilization is ready to crumble—like the West, with all the characteristics of deterioration of past fallen empires—it will not fall until we, the Muslims, strive to give it that last push, the last straw that will break the camel’s back.” “Islam not a religion but way of life, says Kuwaiti writer,” by Opalyn Mok for the Malay Mail, February 25: The self-described “moderate Islamist”, whose television shows draw millions of viewers on satellite networks in the Middle East, also said Islam’s goal is to create a civil state that administers justice that does not discriminate against a person’s skin colour, gender, or creed. “Islam is not a religion. It’s a way of life that teaches us about our relationship with God, with the universe, and our relationship with ethics with the economy and our political system,” he said in a talk organised by the state-backed Penang Islamic Foundation on “The future of Islam”. He said those who did not understand Islam’s structures, “don’t understand its very essence”. Because of that, he said Islam has been misunderstood to be oppressive and sexist when the Quran clearly states there is equality, freedom of speech, and that the freedom is for all. “If we have a civil state where everyone is free to follow any party they like, they will eventually vote for and choose Islam because we believe in freedom and social justice,” Tareq told a turnout of some 150 people who packed a halls here. But he also cautioned against confusing such freedoms as giving one the right to insult another, or practise bad ethics, saying Islam frowned on them. Challenges to Islam He said Islam faces five key challenges in today’s Muslim world. “The first three problems of behaviour, lack of effectiveness and backwardness are the results or symptoms of two major problems — our scholars and leaders,” he said. “The very essence of the goal of Islam that most Islamic scholars and Muslims do not know is that we are meant to create happiness for all of humanity. This includes non-Muslims, because we have a system that can bring this about,” he added. Tareq, who is one of the 138 Islamic scholars who in 2007 penned an open letter to Christian leaders worldwide known as “A Common Word Between Us and You”, said that those who chose not to follow Islam should not be coerced to do so. “We should not force them but we could have the freedom to show them what is Islam so that they could understand Islam,” he said. The leader of the Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood said there were many Islamic scholars who issued religious edicts, or fatwa, that was based not on the precepts of Islam but on custom and tradition, which stirred greater confusion when they were presented as a fact. “A fatwa that orders for people to be killed is un-Islamic and inhuman,” he said, without referring to any one person specifically, in reply to a question. Tareq said the using such a fatwa had been carried out en masse in Egypt previously. “This same thing was done in Egypt to kill in the name of religion but if you read the Quran, there is no such thing,” he said. He took aim at those he called “traditional” scholars whose conservatism had caused moderate Muslims to be seen as infidels. He said many “traditional” Islamic scholars see liberal Muslims as a threat to their faith, and rejected their teachings. “I believe that those who reject us do it out of tradition and not what they were taught by the Quran,” he said. But Tareq marked that the new generation of Islamic scholars shared his views and no longer held on blindly to tradition. No stranger to controversy, Tareq also shared his views on the “Allah” row that has driven a deep wedge between Malaysi

Kuwaiti “moderate Islamist”: “Islam is not a religion. It’s a way of life.”

Tareq_1_840_558_100It’s a way of life, you see — including a political system, which is something that Islamic apologists in the West generally deny. And you can have free speech, as long as you don’t insult anyone — which means you can’t really have free speech at all, because Muslims are likely to be insulted by talk of the injustice of dhimmitude, or of Islam’s treatment of women, or of how Islamic jihadists use Islamic texts and teachings to justify violence.

Tareq al-Suwaidan lived in the United States for seventeen years and frequently speaks to Muslim groups in Britain, Canada, and Australia. An extremely popular speaker, al-Suweidan earns over a million dollars a year from giving talks on Islam. In 2000, al-Suwaidan addressed an Islamic Circle of North America conference, where he said that Muslims should issue a warning to non-Muslims in the West: “We must tell the West that we are extending a hand of peace now, but it will not be so for long. Even if a civilization is ready to crumble—like the West, with all the characteristics of deterioration of past fallen empires—it will not fall until we, the Muslims, strive to give it that last push, the last straw that will break the camel’s back.”

“Islam not a religion but way of life, says Kuwaiti writer,” by Opalyn Mok for the Malay Mail, February 25:

The self-described “moderate Islamist”, whose television shows draw millions of viewers on satellite networks in the Middle East, also said Islam’s goal is to create a civil state that administers justice that does not discriminate against a person’s skin colour, gender, or creed.

“Islam is not a religion. It’s a way of life that teaches us about our relationship with God, with the universe, and our relationship with ethics with the economy and our political system,” he said in a talk organised by the state-backed Penang Islamic Foundation on “The future of Islam”.

He said those who did not understand Islam’s structures, “don’t understand its very essence”.

Because of that, he said Islam has been misunderstood to be oppressive and sexist when the Quran clearly states there is equality, freedom of speech, and that the freedom is for all.

“If we have a civil state where everyone is free to follow any party they like, they will eventually vote for and choose Islam because we believe in freedom and social justice,” Tareq told a turnout of some 150 people who packed a halls here.

But he also cautioned against confusing such freedoms as giving one the right to insult another, or practise bad ethics, saying Islam frowned on them.

Challenges to Islam

He said Islam faces five key challenges in today’s Muslim world.

“The first three problems of behaviour, lack of effectiveness and backwardness are the results or symptoms of two major problems — our scholars and leaders,” he said.

“The very essence of the goal of Islam that most Islamic scholars and Muslims do not know is that we are meant to create happiness for all of humanity. This includes non-Muslims, because we have a system that can bring this about,” he added.

Tareq, who is one of the 138 Islamic scholars who in 2007 penned an open letter to Christian leaders worldwide known as “A Common Word Between Us and You”, said that those who chose not to follow Islam should not be coerced to do so.

“We should not force them but we could have the freedom to show them what is Islam so that they could understand Islam,” he said.

The leader of the Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood said there were many Islamic scholars who issued religious edicts, or fatwa, that was based not on the precepts of Islam but on custom and tradition, which stirred greater confusion when they were presented as a fact.

“A fatwa that orders for people to be killed is un-Islamic and inhuman,” he said, without referring to any one person specifically, in reply to a question.

Tareq said the using such a fatwa had been carried out en masse in Egypt previously.

“This same thing was done in Egypt to kill in the name of religion but if you read the Quran, there is no such thing,” he said.

He took aim at those he called “traditional” scholars whose conservatism had caused moderate Muslims to be seen as infidels.

He said many “traditional” Islamic scholars see liberal Muslims as a threat to their faith, and rejected their teachings.

“I believe that those who reject us do it out of tradition and not what they were taught by the Quran,” he said.

But Tareq marked that the new generation of Islamic scholars shared his views and no longer held on blindly to tradition.

No stranger to controversy, Tareq also shared his views on the “Allah” row that has driven a deep wedge between Malaysia’s Muslim majority and their non-Muslim countrymen.

“I believe those who had said the word “Allah” is not allowed to be used by non-Muslims are being too sensitive,” he said.

Banning non-Muslims from uttering the word will spark sensitivities among the races, Tareq said; adding that such a view could result in Muslims being seen as weak.

“This very word was used by non-believers during the Prophet Mohamed’s time and ‘Allah’ simple means ‘The God’,” he said.

Like several other Muslim scholars who have voiced support for the church, Tareq said he doubted Malaysian non-Muslims would abuse the use of the word.

“Just suppose we have an Arab who is not a Muslim, what word can he use then?” Tareq asked.

“After all, “Allah” is an Arab word for God,” he said.

“Abducting Women” and “Destroying Churches” is “Real Islam”—Iraqi Grand Ayatollah –

Raymond Ibrahim | FrontPage Magazine

During a recent televised interview with Grand Ayatollah Ahmad al-Baghdadi, the leading Shia cleric of Iraq made clear why Islam and the rest of the world can never peacefully coexist.

First he spent some time discussing “defensive jihad,” saying that all capable Muslims are obligated to fight for the “liberation” of “occupied” territory, for instance, Israel (see here for a list of European countries also deemed “occupied” in the eyes of Islam).

He then explained “offensive jihad,” Islam’s primary bloodline, which forged what we now call the “Muslim world” over the centuries.

According to the ayatollah, when they can—when circumstance permits it, when they are strong enough—Muslims are obligated to go on the offensive and conquer non-Muslims (a fact to be kept in mind as millions of Muslim “refugees” flood the West).

The Muslim cleric repeatedly yelled at the secularized host who kept interrupting him and protesting that Islam cannot teach such intolerance.  At one point, he burst out: “I am the scholar of Islam [al-faqih].  You are just a journalist.  Listen to me!”

Expounded Al-Baghdadi:

If they are people of the book [Jews and Christians] we demand of them thejizya—and if they refuse, then we fight them.  That is if he is Christian. He has three choices: either convert to Islam, or, if he refuses and wishes to remain Christian, then pay the jizya [and live according to dhimmi rules].

But if they still refuse—then we fight them, and we abduct their women, and destroy their churches—this is Islam!… Come on, learn what Islam is, are you even a Muslim?!

As for the polytheists [Hindus, Buddhists, etc.] we allow them to choose between Islam and war!  This is not the opinion of Ahmad al-Husseini al-Baghdadi, but the opinion of all five schools of jurisprudence [four Sunni and one Shia].

Towards the end of the interview, because the clean-shaven, suit-and-tie-wearing host kept protesting that this cannot be Islam, the ayatollah burst out, pointing at him with contempt and saying, “Who are you? You’re going to tell me what to believe?  This is the word of Allah!”

Indeed.  Not only is it the word of Islam’s deity, but it is the fundamental, insurmountable obstacle for peace between Muslims and non-Muslims. Al-Baghdadi—and the countless other Muslim clerics, Sunni and Shia, that hold these views—are not “radicals.”  For offensive jihad is no less codified than, say, Islam’s Five Pillars, which no Muslim rejects.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam’s entry for “jihad” states that the “spread of Islam by arms is a religious duty upon Muslims in general … Jihad must continue to be done until the whole world is under the rule of Islam … Islam must completely be made over before the doctrine of jihad can be eliminated.”

Islam has yet to “completely be made over.”

Renowned Muslim historian and philosopher Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) explained jihad as follows:

In the Muslim community, jihad is a religious duty because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force. The other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the jihad was not a religious duty for them, save only for purposes of defense. But Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.

Here it’s worth noting that even the most offensive jihad is seen as an “altruistic” endeavor, not unlike the “white man’s burden” of the 19th century.   After all, the ancient argument that “we must reform your ways, with our ways, for your own good” has been one of the most cited justifications for offensive jihad since the 7th century.

Indeed, soon after the death of Islam’s prophet Muhammad (634), when his jihadis burst out of the Arabian peninsula, a soon-to-be conquered Persian commander asked the invading Muslims what they wanted. They reportedly replied as follows:

Allah has sent us and brought us here so that we may free those who desire from servitude to earthly rulers and make them servants of Allah, that we may change their poverty into wealth and free them from the tyranny and chaos of [false] religions and bring them to the justice of Islam. He has sent us to bring his religion to all his creatures and call them to Islam. Whoever accepts it from us will be safe, and we shall leave him alone; but whoever refuses, we shall fight until we fulfill the promise of Allah.

Fourteen hundred years later, in March 2009, Saudi legal expert Basem Alem publicly echoed this view:

As a member of the true religion [Islam], I have a greater right to invade [others] in order to impose a certain way of life [according to Sharia], which history has proven to be the best and most just of all civilizations. This is the true meaning of offensive jihad. When we wage jihad, it is not in order to convert people to Islam, but in order to liberate them from the dark slavery in which they live.

Even al-Qaeda partially justified its jihad against America for being “a nation that exploits women like consumer products”; for not rejecting the “immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling, and usury.”

If the “white man’s burden” was/is to “civilize” Muslims, by bringing them “democracy,” “human rights,” and “secularism,” the “Muslim man’s burden”—captured by Allah’s word to Muslims, “Jihad is ordained for you, though you dislike it” (Koran 2:216)—has long been to “civilize” Westerners by bringing them under the umbrella of Sharia.

This positive interpretation of jihad ensures that, no matter how violent and ostensibly unjust a jihad is, it will always be vindicated in Muslim eyes: the ugly means will be justified by the “altruistic” ends.

Finally, as Grand Ayatollah Ahmad al-Baghdadi pointed out, the need for Muslims to wage offensive jihad “is not the opinion of Ahmad al-Husseini al-Baghdadi… This is the word of Allah!”

Nor is it the “opinion” of ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr, al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, or any of the other countless past and present jihadis.  No, jihad to conquer and bring Sharia to non-Muslims is the command of Allah.

Update: A reader recently translated the video clip I linked to and uploaded it on YouTube. It follows:

Raymond Ibrahim is a Middle East and Islam specialist and author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013) and The Al Qaeda Reader (2007). His writings have appeared in a variety of media, including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst, Middle East Quarterly, World Almanac of Islamism, and Chronicle of Higher Education; he has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, PBS, Reuters, Al-Jazeera, NPR, Blaze TV, and CBN. Ibrahim regularly speaks publicly, briefs governmental agencies, provides expert testimony for Islam-related lawsuits, and testifies before Congress. He is a Shillman Fellow, David Horowitz Freedom Center; a CBN News contributor; a Media Fellow, Hoover Institution (2013); and a Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow, Middle East Forum . Ibrahim’s dual-background — born and raised in the U.S. by Coptic Egyptian parents born and raised in the Middle East — has provided him with unique advantages, from equal fluency in English and Arabic, to an equal understanding of the Western and Middle Eastern mindsets, positioning him to explain the latter to the former.

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‘Huge mistake!’ That time Hillary worked with jihadists

‘Huge mistake!’ That time Hillary worked with jihadists

Hillary Clinton (White House photo) The man who once spearheaded congressional efforts to strengthen American intelligence is hammering former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her description of the U.S. mission in Libya at the recent Democratic debate and blames both Clinton and President Obama for unnecessarily turning a reluctant ally into a hotbed for jihadism.… (more…)

Articles: Hatred of the Great Faith

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Hatred of the Great Faith

By Bruce Walker

The murder of Christians in Oregon and the grim silence of Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations on the same day seem to be unconnected events, but both reflect an old and evil war waged against the Judeo-Christian community by those who hate Jews and Christians, Israel and America, Judaism and Christianity.

The simmering of this old evil can be seen in the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.  This evil can be seen in the publication of old libels like The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and in the selected boycotts of Israel by self-appointed elites in Europe.  The development of nuclear weapons by Iran, the existential threat to Israel of which Prime Minister Netanyahu warned, is an ultimate manifestation of that malice towards Jews.

The simmering of this old evil can be seen in the savage persecution of Christians throughout the world.  The persecution of Christians is not limited to the Islamic world.  Hard-line Hindus in India persecute Christians and murder them.  The Chinese government persecutes Christians.  The same self-appointed elites in the West who boycott Israel viciously mock Christianity.

All of the totalitarian monsters of the last century despised Christians, Jews, and America.  The Nazi war on Christianity and the Soviet war on Jews tend to be ignored by modern historians, but writers at the time had no doubt at all that the liquidation of all those who were part of the Great Faith, the various denominations of Christians and of Jews, was an absolute and inevitable purpose for these totalitarians.

This common aim of Marxists and Nazis – the practical destruction of all who believed in the Loving God of Jews and Christians – is shared by radical Islam as well, which was supported by the Soviets almost from the beginning of the Evil Empire and was subsidized and glorified by both the Nazis and the Fascists.

Once we understand that reality, then we can understand why Iran calls America the “Great Satan” and Israel the “Little Satan.”  America has had no involvement with Iran for almost forty years, and Israel has never asked anything of Iran except to be allowed to survive.  Iran fought a brutal ten-year war with Iraq that killed or maimed millions of young Iranian men.  Much of Iran has been occupied by an atheistic Soviet Russia.  In nearby India, several thousand Muslims have been killed by Hindus over the last decade.

Why, then, are America and Israel the mortal enemies of the Iranian regime?  America remains the most religiously serious Christian nation in the world, and Israel remains the homeland for Jews in the world.  Both offer a completely different worldview from what is espoused by the militant, angry voice of radical Islam or Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany or any other similar system based fundamentally on rage and venom.

The battle for the survival of the Great Faith is being waged as much within our nation as without it.  While the murder of Christians in Oregon is an extreme example of that war, the judicial war on public expression of faith, the snickering campaign of the leftist establishment on sincere belief, and the quiet strangulation of religion by the myriad tentacles of an increasingly omnipresent state are all part of this siege.  This is a battle that must be won or all is lost.  We can witness, to some extent, what happens when the militant enemies of the Great Faith confront religiously enemy lands by the slow conquest of Europe by Islam.

This is because without believe in the Loving God of Jews and Christians, those left adrift in a soulless universe will gravitate to some false faith that demands total obedience – the totalitarianism which produce fanatical Nazis and Communists, kamikaze pilots, and Islamic suicide bombers.

Explicit defense of the Great Faith ought to be a political issue in American politics, because ultimately it is our only defense.  This does not mean any special embrace of a particular faith.  Bahá’í, Zoroastrians, Sikhs are among those other faiths who also want simply to be left in peace, like Jews and Christians.

Defending the Great Faith does, however, mean directly, boldly, and unapologetically stating that the reason Israel is an oasis of safety, democracy, and liberty is because of its connection to the Jewish people – and that Lebanon, a land once also safe, democratic, and free, has been destroyed because the historic Christian majority there has been driven into exile.

The shadows in our world are growing.  The hour is late.  We need to begin today the peaceful but firm campaign to oppose the looming forces who hate the Great Faith.

The murder of Christians in Oregon and the grim silence of Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations on the same day seem to be unconnected events, but both reflect an old and evil war waged against the Judeo-Christian community by those who hate Jews and Christians, Israel and America, Judaism and Christianity.

The simmering of this old evil can be seen in the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.  This evil can be seen in the publication of old libels like The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and in the selected boycotts of Israel by self-appointed elites in Europe.  The development of nuclear weapons by Iran, the existential threat to Israel of which Prime Minister Netanyahu warned, is an ultimate manifestation of that malice towards Jews.

The simmering of this old evil can be seen in the savage persecution of Christians throughout the world.  The persecution of Christians is not limited to the Islamic world.  Hard-line Hindus in India persecute Christians and murder them.  The Chinese government persecutes Christians.  The same self-appointed elites in the West who boycott Israel viciously mock Christianity.

All of the totalitarian monsters of the last century despised Christians, Jews, and America.  The Nazi war on Christianity and the Soviet war on Jews tend to be ignored by modern historians, but writers at the time had no doubt at all that the liquidation of all those who were part of the Great Faith, the various denominations of Christians and of Jews, was an absolute and inevitable purpose for these totalitarians.

This common aim of Marxists and Nazis – the practical destruction of all who believed in the Loving God of Jews and Christians – is shared by radical Islam as well, which was supported by the Soviets almost from the beginning of the Evil Empire and was subsidized and glorified by both the Nazis and the Fascists.

Once we understand that reality, then we can understand why Iran calls America the “Great Satan” and Israel the “Little Satan.”  America has had no involvement with Iran for almost forty years, and Israel has never asked anything of Iran except to be allowed to survive.  Iran fought a brutal ten-year war with Iraq that killed or maimed millions of young Iranian men.  Much of Iran has been occupied by an atheistic Soviet Russia.  In nearby India, several thousand Muslims have been killed by Hindus over the last decade.

Why, then, are America and Israel the mortal enemies of the Iranian regime?  America remains the most religiously serious Christian nation in the world, and Israel remains the homeland for Jews in the world.  Both offer a completely different worldview from what is espoused by the militant, angry voice of radical Islam or Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany or any other similar system based fundamentally on rage and venom.

The battle for the survival of the Great Faith is being waged as much within our nation as without it.  While the murder of Christians in Oregon is an extreme example of that war, the judicial war on public expression of faith, the snickering campaign of the leftist establishment on sincere belief, and the quiet strangulation of religion by the myriad tentacles of an increasingly omnipresent state are all part of this siege.  This is a battle that must be won or all is lost.  We can witness, to some extent, what happens when the militant enemies of the Great Faith confront religiously enemy lands by the slow conquest of Europe by Islam.

This is because without believe in the Loving God of Jews and Christians, those left adrift in a soulless universe will gravitate to some false faith that demands total obedience – the totalitarianism which produce fanatical Nazis and Communists, kamikaze pilots, and Islamic suicide bombers.

Explicit defense of the Great Faith ought to be a political issue in American politics, because ultimately it is our only defense.  This does not mean any special embrace of a particular faith.  Bahá’í, Zoroastrians, Sikhs are among those other faiths who also want simply to be left in peace, like Jews and Christians.

Defending the Great Faith does, however, mean directly, boldly, and unapologetically stating that the reason Israel is an oasis of safety, democracy, and liberty is because of its connection to the Jewish people – and that Lebanon, a land once also safe, democratic, and free, has been destroyed because the historic Christian majority there has been driven into exile.

The shadows in our world are growing.  The hour is late.  We need to begin today the peaceful but firm campaign to oppose the looming forces who hate the Great Faith.

Official seeks to save county from ‘coming wrath’ of God

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Official seeks to save county from ‘coming wrath’ of God

A county commissioner wants to save Blount County, Tennessee, from the wrath of God. County Commissioner Karen Miller is sponsoring a resolution asking the Almighty to “pass us by in His coming wrath and not destroy our county as he did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring cities.” Her request is based on the U.S. Supreme… (more…)

You Can Know For Sure That You Are Going To Heaven!

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A pastor explains how someone can know for sure they are going to Heaven when they die.

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Tom Apusen, Assistant Pastor of North Valley Baptist Church, explains how anyone, be they black or white, Republican or Democrat, rich or poor, young or old, can get to Heaven. It does not involve being a ‘good person,’ being a member of the church, or even going to a church period. It is a lot simpler than that.

In short: trust Jesus. Love Him with all your heart, and appreciate with every fiber of your being the Sacrifice He made for you on the cross. Accept Him as your Savior, and surrender your life to Him.

Here are some verses you can share with loved ones, friends, or even complete strangers (all verses from the King James Bible):

1 John 5:13–“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”

Romans 3:23–“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”

Romans 6:23–“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Revelation 20:14 (defining ‘death’)–“And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.”

Romans 5:8–“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 10:9–“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

The people of Israel live

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The people of Israel live

The Jewish people of Israel – who last month celebrated Rosh Hashana and start of the new year 5776 – have serious cause for concern. It is hard to remember a time within the past 50 years when they had so many reasons to feel alone and under fire. The United Nations seems to relish any… (more…)

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27,000 deadly attacks by Muslim terrorists since 9/11

In the name of Allah most Merciful. The Religion Of Peace.  Disturbing the peace.

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The pace is quickening.

June 2015: 26,000 deadly attacks by Muslim terrorists since 9/11

February 2015: 25,000 deadly attacks by Muslim terrorists since 9/11

October 2014: 24,000 deadly attacks by Muslim terrorists since 9/11

May 2014: 23,000 deadly attacks by Muslim terrorists since 9/11

December 2013: 22,000 deadly attacks by Muslim terrorists since 9/11

June 2013:  21,000 deadly attacks by Islamic terrorists since 9/11 | Creeping Sharia.

December 2012: 20,000+ deadly terror attacks by the ‘Religion of Peace’ since 9/11

June 2012: 19,000+ deadly attacks by Islamic terrorists since 9/11

November 2011: 18,000 deadly terror attacks committed by the ‘Religion of Peace’ since 9/11

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Articles: The Eve of Destruction

 

The Eve of Destruction

In protest to the war in Vietnam, singer songwriter Barry McGuire recorded a song called The Eve of Destruction in 1965.  But with the advantage of hindsight the song is far more apropos today then it was then.

As tumultuous as the Viet Nam War era was and for that matter the Cold War itself, people could take solace that only the United States and the Soviet Union possessed nuclear weapons and an ability to deliver them.  As hot as things had gotten at times, rational leadership and the dictum of mutually assured destruction prevented their usage.  Not so today.

With a brief respite during the Reagan Administration the United States has been led by arguably the worst leadership in its history.  Under the nose of successive Administrations nuclear exclusivity has been breached by some really bad actors: China, Pakistan, and North Korea.  Equally as bad as their nefarious ambitions is their ability to sell nuclear technology to rogue states and terrorist organizations for either monetary or political gain.

As we look out at the geo-political World today, the 60’s and 70’s do seem like the good old days.  Mistakes notwithstanding, the United States at that time never embraced an apologetic policy of leading from behind as the current Administration does.  Both friend and foe recognized there were certain lines in the sand that could not be crossed; if they were, American power, political and/or military would be applied.  During this brief period of pax Americana, the Soviet Union was destroyed, China was looking inward, terrorist groups and their rogue state patrons were flying under the radar waiting for their moment.  It arrived on 9/11 and has blossomed to the point of no return during the past past 7 years of this present Administration.

From Putin and Assad to Khamenei in Iran, to Xi Jinping of China to Kim Jong-un of North Korea, the bullies of the world realize who they’re dealing with in Washington and they smell blood in the water.  As a consequence, like the bully in the schoolyard, gestures of peace and goodwill are not recognized as such but are interpreted as weakness.  And why wouldn’t they be?

Momentarily forgetting the Iran deal recently rammed down our throats, the President has once again been outwitted by his contemptuous counterpart, Vladimir Putin, a man he’s tried to cultivate with little success throughout both his terms in office.

Just days after the leader of the Free World is seen extending his hand to a disdainful Vladimir Putin at the United Nations this past week, the Russian leader wasted no time making good on his promise to bolster mass murderer Bashar al-Assad under the facade of fighting Isis.

Adding chutzpah on top of chutzpah, according to a Wall Street Journal report in Thursday’s paper, without as much as a curt hello, a Russian 3 star general walked into the American Embassy in Bagdad and told the Americans to get their planes out of Syrian air space because they were going to start bombing targets in that country.  Mind you, the targets they were bombing turned out not to be ISIS but the enemies of Assad that we are backing.  Our response:

(Go to hell and get out of the embassy?  Nah, no way.)   One defense official called it “unprofessional.” Another called it “unproductive.”  Such talk must have really shaken Putin to his boots.  Instead of kickback to this obvious slap in the face with a Reganesque rejoinder, U.S. officials were quoted saying that they are still trying to set up meetings with their Russian counterparts to discuss ways to prevent a direct conflict between the two global military powers.

Looking at the bigger picture, Andrew Weiss, vice president of international studies at the Carnegie Institute for International Studies had this to say about Putin:

“He deliberately tries to do things to throw opponents off balance and he’s always trying to get some sort of element of surprise and tactical advantage over people, that’s sort of what keeps him going is this constant springing surprises and flipping events in his favor.”

Does he ever.  Correctly believing there are no discernible consequences to his actions, with impunity, while Obama talks he acts.

It seems like 2009 was just yesterday when presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Clinton fumbled translating a Russian word proclaiming to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov a “reset” in American/Russian relations.

Fast forward 3 years to March 2012 at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul when our president and chief hand shaker reached over a table and unaware that microphones were recording him, placed his hand on his counterpart’s knee and had the following exchange with outgoing Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev regarding missile defense in Europe:

President Obama: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him (Putin) to give me space.”

President Medvedev: “Yeah, I understand.  I understand your message about space. Space for you.”

President Obama: “This is my last election.  After my election I have more flexibility.”

President Medvedev: “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”

Think about this for a moment: an American President was requesting “space” from a former KGB agent and then, stating in a clandestine manner to this enemy of our country:  “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.”  During normal times in the United States, and this certainly is not, he might have been charged with treason, not elected to a second term in office.

Knowing what we know today and what the world recognizes as well about this Administration, is it any wonder:

ISIS with all its barbaric depredations grows stronger daily; the butcher of Damascus is now firmly entrenched with Putin’s support; in the wake of American troops being hastily withdrawn from Afghanistan, the first major city since 2001, Kunduz, has fallen to the Taliban; the Baltic states warily look on, as the Ukraine is ripe for the taking by a re-emergent Russia; China in the East is remilitarizing at an alarming rate as our military is being shrunk.

With a failed American foreign policy unable to meet the aforementioned crises and Europe in perpetual disarray, bogged down by the Trojan Horse of Islamic immigration, a war of catastrophic proportions seems inevitable, sooner than later.

As the World perilously spirals in that direction, the words of McGuire’s prophetic song keep resonating in my mind….”And you tell me, over and over, and over again my friend, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction.”

In protest to the war in Vietnam, singer songwriter Barry McGuire recorded a song called The Eve of Destruction in 1965.  But with the advantage of hindsight the song is far more apropos today then it was then.

As tumultuous as the Viet Nam War era was and for that matter the Cold War itself, people could take solace that only the United States and the Soviet Union possessed nuclear weapons and an ability to deliver them.  As hot as things had gotten at times, rational leadership and the dictum of mutually assured destruction prevented their usage.  Not so today.

With a brief respite during the Reagan Administration the United States has been led by arguably the worst leadership in its history.  Under the nose of successive Administrations nuclear exclusivity has been breached by some really bad actors: China, Pakistan, and North Korea.  Equally as bad as their nefarious ambitions is their ability to sell nuclear technology to rogue states and terrorist organizations for either monetary or political gain.

As we look out at the geo-political World today, the 60’s and 70’s do seem like the good old days.  Mistakes notwithstanding, the United States at that time never embraced an apologetic policy of leading from behind as the current Administration does.  Both friend and foe recognized there were certain lines in the sand that could not be crossed; if they were, American power, political and/or military would be applied.  During this brief period of pax Americana, the Soviet Union was destroyed, China was looking inward, terrorist groups and their rogue state patrons were flying under the radar waiting for their moment.  It arrived on 9/11 and has blossomed to the point of no return during the past past 7 years of this present Administration.

From Putin and Assad to Khamenei in Iran, to Xi Jinping of China to Kim Jong-un of North Korea, the bullies of the world realize who they’re dealing with in Washington and they smell blood in the water.  As a consequence, like the bully in the schoolyard, gestures of peace and goodwill are not recognized as such but are interpreted as weakness.  And why wouldn’t they be?

Momentarily forgetting the Iran deal recently rammed down our throats, the President has once again been outwitted by his contemptuous counterpart, Vladimir Putin, a man he’s tried to cultivate with little success throughout both his terms in office.

Just days after the leader of the Free World is seen extending his hand to a disdainful Vladimir Putin at the United Nations this past week, the Russian leader wasted no time making good on his promise to bolster mass murderer Bashar al-Assad under the facade of fighting Isis.

Adding chutzpah on top of chutzpah, according to a Wall Street Journal report in Thursday’s paper, without as much as a curt hello, a Russian 3 star general walked into the American Embassy in Bagdad and told the Americans to get their planes out of Syrian air space because they were going to start bombing targets in that country.  Mind you, the targets they were bombing turned out not to be ISIS but the enemies of Assad that we are backing.  Our response:

(Go to hell and get out of the embassy?  Nah, no way.)   One defense official called it “unprofessional.” Another called it “unproductive.”  Such talk must have really shaken Putin to his boots.  Instead of kickback to this obvious slap in the face with a Reganesque rejoinder, U.S. officials were quoted saying that they are still trying to set up meetings with their Russian counterparts to discuss ways to prevent a direct conflict between the two global military powers.

Looking at the bigger picture, Andrew Weiss, vice president of international studies at the Carnegie Institute for International Studies had this to say about Putin:

“He deliberately tries to do things to throw opponents off balance and he’s always trying to get some sort of element of surprise and tactical advantage over people, that’s sort of what keeps him going is this constant springing surprises and flipping events in his favor.”

Does he ever.  Correctly believing there are no discernible consequences to his actions, with impunity, while Obama talks he acts.

It seems like 2009 was just yesterday when presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Clinton fumbled translating a Russian word proclaiming to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov a “reset” in American/Russian relations.

Fast forward 3 years to March 2012 at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul when our president and chief hand shaker reached over a table and unaware that microphones were recording him, placed his hand on his counterpart’s knee and had the following exchange with outgoing Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev regarding missile defense in Europe:

President Obama: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him (Putin) to give me space.”

President Medvedev: “Yeah, I understand.  I understand your message about space. Space for you.”

President Obama: “This is my last election.  After my election I have more flexibility.”

President Medvedev: “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”

Think about this for a moment: an American President was requesting “space” from a former KGB agent and then, stating in a clandestine manner to this enemy of our country:  “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.”  During normal times in the United States, and this certainly is not, he might have been charged with treason, not elected to a second term in office.

Knowing what we know today and what the world recognizes as well about this Administration, is it any wonder:

ISIS with all its barbaric depredations grows stronger daily; the butcher of Damascus is now firmly entrenched with Putin’s support; in the wake of American troops being hastily withdrawn from Afghanistan, the first major city since 2001, Kunduz, has fallen to the Taliban; the Baltic states warily look on, as the Ukraine is ripe for the taking by a re-emergent Russia; China in the East is remilitarizing at an alarming rate as our military is being shrunk.

With a failed American foreign policy unable to meet the aforementioned crises and Europe in perpetual disarray, bogged down by the Trojan Horse of Islamic immigration, a war of catastrophic proportions seems inevitable, sooner than later.

As the World perilously spirals in that direction, the words of McGuire’s prophetic song keep resonating in my mind….”And you tell me, over and over, and over again my friend, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction.”

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