Day: August 6, 2016

DANGER: GULEN CHARTER SCHOOLS AND THE FETHULLAH GULEN MOVEMENT PART 4

DANGER: GULEN CHARTER SCHOOLS AND THE FETHULLAH GULEN MOVEMENT
PART 4
(SEE OUR BLOG’S PREVIOUS POSTS ABOUT GULEN)

By Diane Kepus
SEE: http://www.newswithviews.com/Kepus/diane148.htm; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
August 6, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
Replacing Erdogan with Fethullah Gulen
“You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers … until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this … The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe.” —Fethullah Gülen June 1999
The philosophy of our service is that we open a house somewhere and, with the patience of a spider, we lay our web to wait for people to get caught in the web; and we teach those who do. We don’t lay the web to eat or consume them but to show them the way to their resurrection, to blow life into their dead bodies and souls, to give them a life. —Fethullah Gülen July 2007

It has been brought to my attention it could possibly be dangerous exposing anything about Gülen. Not that I think my writings are that important, but I do thank my friends for informing me about the abduction of the Turkish journalist who was going to write a book about Gulen’s “private” life. Haydar Meric was found dead at sea 18 days after having been abducted. For as much information as I have found, that must mean there is a great deal more out there to be able to write a book.
Continuing to deny not having any affiliation with his Charter schools, Institutions and Foundations, Gulen stated on his application for permanent residency in 2007 his position as the Founder and Head of The Gulen Movement having overseen the establishment of a conglomeration of schools throughout the world, in Europe, Central Asia, and the United States – also listing numerous Institutions and Foundations.
Then in 2010 in an interview with USA Today, Gülen stated, “It is well-known that I have no relation with any institution in the form of ownership, board membership, or any similar kind. I do not approve that those who are familiar with and share these ideas and opinions to any extent, or the institutions they work at, should be viewed as connected with my person.” Really?
In 1999, Turkish television aired footage of Gülen delivering a sermon to a crowd of followers in which he revealed his aspirations for an Islamist Turkey ruled by Shari‘a as well as the methods that should be used to attain that goal. One particular part caught my attention in regard to schools: “When everything was closed and all doors were locked, our houses of isik [light] assumed a mission greater than that of older times. In the past, some of the duties of these houses were carried out by madrasas [Islamic schools], some by schools, some by tekkes [Islamist lodges] … These isik homes had to be the schools, had to be madrasas, [had to be] tekkes all at the same time. The permission did not come from the state, or the state’s laws, or the people who govern us. The permission was given by God who wanted His name learned and talked about, studied, and discussed in those houses, as it used to be in the mosques.”
This should be the notice to all parents of Gülen Charter schools in America that they are using our schools for indoctrination.
In 2009, the Citizens for National Security (CNFS) presented their lengthy report on a high school pro-Islam History book to a large group in Orlando, FL after an extensive analysis of history books being used around the state. They had focused on the textbook “World History” by Prentice Hall. Noticeably, Islam was in and Christianity was out. I was at that gathering.
Over 27 Florida History and Social Studies textbooks being used at the time of the study showed over 200 false or misleading statements. In one 7th grade History book there were 34 pages regarding Islam and Sharia and NOTHING in regard to Christianity. Our goal as parents in working with GNFS was to ask the schools to supply the teachers with a supplemental booklet with corrections – all district superintendents contacted refused.
School superintendents when asked about the “World History” book stated they didn’t choose what the school was to use the state did. Then the state said “no that’s not true, all we do is give the districts a list of acceptable books and the districts choose.” I won’t bore you with you with who assessed the books.
With the support of the CIA, Gülen in his move to obtain permanent residency in the U.S. was referred to by the U.S. State Department as a “radical Islamist” and at the same time investigations have proven he is a true, dyed-in-the-wool Islamist who wishes to transform the U.S. and Turkey into Sharia states and return to the Ottoman Empire.
Just three years ago, Time magazine had Gülen listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. His congregation’s from around the world are estimated to be from 3 to 6 million people and the worth of his schools and affiliated institutions to be worth billions.
However, Gülen and his followers appear to wear masks hiding their real intentions in regard to their beliefs and purpose. Each passing day, contradiction between their smiling masks and their accumulated hatred, goals, lies, deceptions, cheating, manipulations, and anger becomes clearer. Americans are beginning to see as the rest of the world this is not a man of peace as portrayed by the CIA.
By our government allowing this manipulating man and his organizations to use our children through education to further their cause is definitely not living up to their oath of office to “protect and defend”.
Although Gülen is portrayed in this country as a protagonist of moderate Islam and a peacemaker who invented the inter-religious dialogues, his Movement hopes to reach non-Muslims (our children), people for whom Gülen and his followers wear interfaith dialogue masks, especially outside Turkey, to show them that his interpretation of Islam is different than that of any other Muslims. Those who study Islam know that Islam is Islam, and there is no such thing as moderate or contemporary Islam because the Quran is the main source of Islam, so that any genuine Muslim will follow the interpretations of the Quran, not those of Gülen.
Gülen has always looked to make his associations with other strong men. He has put on the mask of being an anti-communist which is what gained him favor of the CIA in the first place.
When Gülenists opened their schools and businesses in Central Asia after the fall of Communism in 1989, there were two sects of Muslims that were trying to influence the new independent states in the post-Soviet era, the Iranian Shi’a sect of Islam and Gülen’s version of Islam. The CIA chose Gülen.
Gülen is now also faced with being in opposition to Turkey’s most powerful politician, Recep Erdogan. In the past they were seen as friends but today they each have their own thoughts and agenda as to the direction of Islam. Gulen accuses the Turkish government of not being transparent and then wears his victim’s mask to gain the support (financial) from the government and wealthy businessmen.
For 17 years from his hide-a-way in the Poconos Mountains Gülen has run his global empire all the while plotting to overturn the Turkish government while at the same time his schools indoctrinate our children into the world of Islam.
Gülen is a mind controlling, dishonest cult and our government is protecting him from the top down. Gülen has even hinted to his followers that Erdogan will die soon, and then everything will be fine, that they just need to be patient, because their victory is close like the victory of their prophet Mohammed.
Make no mistake, the seditious effort by the Muslim Brotherhood to not only take over the U.S. and the rest of the world by “destroying from within” by using a “civilian jihad”, is exactly how the cultist organization overseen by Gülen is operating.
Take the time to read the Center for Security Policy’s new book: “The Gulen Movement: Turkey’s Islamic Supremacist Cult and Its Contribution to Civilization Jihad in America.”
Gülen’s beginning as an Imam was to middle class Turks and has grown into millions following his thoughts on the path to Islam and plenty of funding.
In 1976 Gülen and his followers opened up the first dormitory/school and proceeded to become one of the best high schools in the country. They began adding more schools and then moved on to college preparatory courses. In 1991 a group of Gülenist businessmen established the first international school in Azerbaijan. They soon spread to Mexico and Japan.
This is how the “Project” was implemented – if we can do it in these few countries why not all over the world. “We will educate them teaching our doctrine at the same time and when they come out of universities we will help them get jobs and even into politics in various countries.” Having once been told what a marvelous idea this whole thing was, Gülen replied “I never claimed that this project came out of my head … These are all blessings of Allah.”
In 1979 he and his “followers” founded Kaynak Holding comprised of 23 companies in a variety of industries ranging from retail to information technology. This past November, 2015 Turkish “caretakers” forcibly took over the companies belonging to Kaynak Holding due to alleged ties with U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gülen, a former government ally now considered the head of the “Fethullah Terror Org.” (FETÖ).
On September 1, 2015 police raided more than 20 media outlets of Koza Ipek Holding, including mining companies Koza Altin and Koza Anadolu and the Ankara office of Bugün newspaper which on that day had titled with photo-backed accusations of a weapon supply to Islamic State (ISIL) militants at the Turkish border town of Akçakale. The company is considered associated with a network of followers of Fethullah Gülen. In an ongoing investigation the chairman, Akin Ipek and others of the holding company were being accus of “giving financial support to the “Fetullah Terror Organization (FETÖ)” and conducting its propaganda.”
March 2016, the Turkish government seized the newspaper Zaman, sponsored by the Feza Media Group on the grounds that the media outlets supported terrorism based on their affiliation with the Justice and Development Party (AKP) enemy, the Fethullah Gülen Movement. It is believed by outsiders that these seizures were merely a means to take control of Gülen’s assets.
In March, 2016, another report was released and sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center which had Morton Abramowitz, Eric Edelman and Blaise Misztal once again criticizing Erdogan for his treatment of the Turkish media and his government’s seizure of businesses related to Gülen. The Bipartisan Policy Center was formed in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George Mitchell.
Former handlers of Gülen Graham Fuller and Morton Abramowitz can say all they want in support of Gülen, but Americans are not as stupid as you wish they were – at least not the ones educated before you started your big push for “Dumbing Down America”.
Fethullah Gülen continually argues he has no direct connection to the Charter schools, Foundation or Institutes here in the United States. We as Americans must take responsibility for him being here because we have not stopped the corruption and deceit in Washington.
Peace Islands Institute website will tell you “The Gulen movement, named after the prominent Turkish scholar Fethullah Gulen, has a sphere of influence on the global scale. Active in more than a hundred countries with schools and intercultural centers, the Gulen movement is considered to be one of the most significant social movements that arose from the Muslim world.
The balance of the Home page will give you a pure explanation of “The Gülen Movement, Dialogue and Tolerance “, but of course according to Gülen himself he will still contend he is not connected to any of this. Isn’t this a little like the “pot calling the kettle black”?
To remind you, as of August 2000, Islamic leader Fethullah Gülen became a wanted man. He was indicted in Turkey for “attempting to change the characteristics of the “Republic of Turkey” by allegedly trying to establish a theocratic Islamic state. A “theocratic” Islamic state is a form of government in which the civil law is defined by their religious dictate.
The prosecutor also alleged that Gülen attempted to “infiltrate” the military. The Government is seeking a maximum 10-year sentence based on Turkey’s Anti-Terror Law. At the time of the indictment, the Chief of the Turkish General Staff said publicly that Gülen “plans to undermine the State” and has supporters in the civil service. Gülen, who the CIA brought to the United States in 1999, was tried in absentia and is a wanted man in Turkey. The CIA knew this was going to happen so they brought him to the U.S. “protecting their operative” and since in office Obama has refused Turkey’s request to send him back to Turkey.
In the meantime, he continues to make a fortune off of America’s tax dollars.
Gülen’s hide-a-way in the Pocono’s was purchased sometime around 1989 by a US-based Turkish association who bought a 150-acre farm in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, for $250,000. He has said in the past he considers his time in the U.S. as “imprisonment” but refuses to return to Turkey. He told journalist Mercan he would return when the conditions are ripe.
I think with all the information out there Americans should say enough is enough. We want Fethullah Gülen out of this country or at least let the FBI do their job and file their lawsuits against his organizations and the CIA get out of the whole thing. But this isn’t going to happen because they want to use Gülen to their own ends and they don’t care if he is using American taxpayer $$ to do it.
The Fethullah Terror Organization (FETÖ) was established in the Netherlands and originates from the Gülen Movement, which evolved from a faith-based group into a politically-motivated one which relies heavily on aid from the Turkish business world, some of whose members have pledged allegiance to Fethullah Gülen.
Do not misunderstand me – Erdogan is certainly not clean as been shown in the past couple of years. The two men continually are trying to bring the other down, however both would like to see Turkey go back to the Ottoman Empire. In 2015 Erdogan and his government held another trial against Gülen finding him guilty of multiple charges mostly around taking over the Turkish government. He was found guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.
Arrests have been ongoing of any businesses or financiers known to be funding or funneling monies through to the Gülen Movement and that includes employees of the Bank Asya a lender to Gülen.
Bank Asya – Prosecutors accused them of committing fraud from charities linked to the Gülen Movement under a scheme called “himmet”.”Himmet refers to money collected as a charity from unsuspecting followers of the Movement, which prosecutors allege is then secretly funneled to Gülen-linked companies to finance the terrorist organization’s illegal activities.
I don’t know if the man is guilty or not to the charges in Turkey, but the charges there sound very much like what Americans are saying in America about Gülen.
Anyone wishing to form a national coalition to remove all Fethullah Gulen activities from the U.S. may contact me at info@americaismyname.org
Click here for part —–> 1, 2, 3, 4,

UN ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR OBAMA’S NATIONALIZATION OF POLICE~CALLS FOR SUPERCEDING U.S. CONSTITUTION & LAWS

ABOVE: MAINA KIAI OF KENYA
UN ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR OBAMA’S NATIONALIZATION OF POLICE 
BY ALEX NEWMAN
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/23799-un-announces-support-for-obama-s-nationalization-of-police; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
After recently demanding everything from “robust gun control” and reparations for slavery to constitutional amendments altering the supreme law of the land, the United Nations has now publicly endorsed the Obama administration’s illegal efforts to federalize America’s local police departments. A UN official also offered to provide “technical assistance” to the U.S. government in implementing its radical demands.   
Specifically, a UN official from Kenya touted one of the many schemes used by the White House to impose unconstitutional federal regulations on local law enforcement. Dubbed “consent decrees,” the plot involves extremist bureaucrats at the Obama Justice Department threatening, bullying, and suing city governments into submission to Obama’s demands. The UN “lawyer” called for the administration’s commandeering of cops to be “beefed up” and “increased” to help nationalize as many of America’s police departments as possible.
Citing “international law,” the UN figure also attacked gun rights and the concealed carry of firearms. The latest UN assault on the God-given rights to keep and bear arms, protected by state and U.S. constitutions, came after a deluge of similar attacks coming from the global body, and its widely ridiculed “Human Rights Council” in particular. While the U.S. government is not currently represented, some of the most ruthless communist and Islamist dictatorships on the planet enjoy seats on the outfit. 
The UN bureaucrat boasted of the Obama administration’s “cooperation” in the supposed investigation. However, the reaction to the UN’s attacks was swift, with criticism of the UN, often ridiculed by critics as the “dictators club,” making headlines across America after being posted on the Drudge Report, the world’s top news and information site.  
The bizarre attacks on fundamental freedoms, local police, and America’s federalist system of self-government under the U.S. Constitution were made following a recent official visit by a representative of the dictator-dominated UN “Human Rights Council.” The demands were issued by radical Kenyan lawyer Maina Kiai, whose formal title is UN “Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.”
“The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has provided oversight and recommendations for improvement of police services in a number of cities with consent decrees,” the UN “Special Rapporteur” said in his initial findings. “This is one of the most effective ways to reduce discrimination in law enforcement and it needs to be beefed up and increased to cover as many of the 18,000-plus local law enforcement jurisdictions.”
As The New American has been reporting for many years, the executive branch has been abusing its power by threatening local police departments with lawsuits and then bullying them into accepting unconstitutional federal standards. Ironically, the DOJ cites the unconstitutional Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act to engage in the bullying — the very same Clinton-Biden law now blasted by race-mongers such as Kiai as racist due to the mass incarceration of black Americans under the “three strikes” scheme — to pursue the illegal federalization. After being threatened, local jurisdictions, faced with the overwhelming resources of the out-of-control federal government in biased federal courts, often simply agree to submit to federal regulations under “consent decrees” instead of fighting a long and costly legal battle to maintain their independence from the White House.    
“The Obama administration has been especially aggressive in pushing this DOJ takeover of local policing,”The New American reported in its special issue, Police Under Fire, published last year exposing the real agenda behind nationalizing and attacking the police. Indeed, the Obama administration has been boasting about the abuses in press releases, bragging in 2014, for example, that it had bullied 15 police departments into agreements, including nine consent decrees of the sort touted by the UN bureaucrat. Citizens and police in New Orleans, Portland (Oregon), Detroit, Albuquerque, East Haven (Connecticut), Warren (Ohio), Puerto Rico, and more have all been victimized by the illegal scheme.  
The dangerous calls for trashing America’s system of government by nationalizing the police, which are supposed to be accountable to local communities rather than Obama, was hardly the only extremism exhibited by the UN lawyer. Among other bizarre theories, Kiai also argued that gun rights were not compatible with freedom of assembly. In America, of course, freedom of assembly is protected in the Constitution’s First Amendment, while gun rights are enshrined in the Second Amendment. Historically, the rights have been complimentary, with the right to keep and bear arms being seen as necessary to the security of a free state in which everyone is free to peaceably assemble, speak freely, and so on.
For Kiai, though, despite the fact that the rights have been co-existing just fine for more than two centuries in America, gun rights need to go in the interest of UN-defined pseudo-“human rights” revocable under virtually any pretext. “I wish to underscore the challenges of exercising the right to peaceful assembly when there is open or concealed carriage of guns,” he said. Ironically, perhaps, he pointed to Ferguson, Missouri, where members of the pro-Constitution Oath Keepers law enforcement group — falsely demonized as “white people” by the UN extremist — helped protect businesses from looters and rioters.
The UN bureaucrat also claimed unnamed “police” supported his warped view, despite their oath to the Constitution, because it was “scary” to know that protesters might be carrying concealed weapons. “Under international law [sic], the peaceful character of a protest is largely determined by the intent of the organizers and participants,” Kiai claimed, without citing which “international law” he was referring to, or what made this alleged global “law” effective in America. “There is no need for peaceful protesters to carry intimidating guns.”
Continuing with the references to what he views as “international law,” Kiai also claimed the UN’s views on labor and unions should override the views of Americans as expressed through their elected representatives. “International human rights law explicitly sets out the rights of workers,” the UN “special rapporteur” claimed. In particular, he said, illegal immigrants, who he called “undocumented migrants,” were not having their alleged right to a union respected by employers or local authorities. “Crossing national borders — whether legally or otherwise — does not take away these rights,” he said.    
The ignorance displayed throughout the anti-American screed was stunning. Among other examples, Kiai mistakenly referred to America as “one of the oldest democracies in the world.” In the real world, of course, America’s founders abhorred democracy, or mob rule, preferring instead to set up a republic in which the rule of law would protect the God-given rights of Americans.  
Critics, though, slammed the UN comments, and the Obama administration’s stealth efforts to illegally commandeer American police departments. “The UN Human Rights Council, on which China and Venezuela and Cuba sit, is urging the Department of Justice to nationalize as many as 18,000 local police jurisdictions,”said Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning. “That is appalling on its face, but what’s worse is Justice has already been regulating local police for years. These sue and settle lawsuits have been implemented in Newark, N.J., Miami, Fla., Los Angeles, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., Chicago, Ill. and others. Requirements include how searches are conducted, the use of force, the mandatory use of on-body cameras by the police, and so on. The agreements impose years-long compliance review regimes and implementation deadlines and regular reviews by federal bureaucrats.”
“The Obama administration has been pursuing these cases for years, and it has largely gone unnoticed,” Manning said. “Congress never authorized federal regulation of local police departments and if Obama had requested it legislatively, they likely would have said no. The DOJ has been taking over local police under Congress’ noses using an expansive interpretation of federal law. The ball was dropped but now it must be picked up and Congress needs to stop the nationalizing of local police departments. The fact that the UN Human Rights Council — which includes some of the worst abusers of human rights in the world that hate the U.S. — is cheering for this DOJ national takeover of the police should tell members everything they need to know.”
“It’s time to support local police, not render them impotent via federal restrictions against maintaining law and order,” Manning concluded. “No less than the very existence of local government is at stake.”
In an article in LifeZette that was picked up by the Drudge Report and countless other media outlets across America, senior editor Robert Romano of Americans for Limited Government echoed those concerns, giving the UN and its extremism another major black eye.  
Even while calling for American police to be nationalized, though, the UN is going even further. Among other programs, the outfit is now working on building up its own international “law enforcement” capabilities. With its so-called “peacekeeping” military troops facing outrage worldwide for raping and exploiting children with impunity, the UN’s push to expand and further empower its UN “police” force, known as UNPOL, would appear to be especially ill advised. At the same time, though, the controversial global organization is working to usurp more influence over existing national police forces. This June, the UN even brought together more than 100 national police chiefs at its first-ever UN “Chiefs of Police Summit” (UN COPS).
Fortunately, there is a very simple solution to the UN and its outrageous meddling in American affairs: an American exit, or Amexit, from the UN. Legislation sitting in Congress, dubbed the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (H.R. 1205), would not only end U.S. involvement with the UN, it would also evict the scandal-plagued outfit’s headquarters from U.S. soil. With the UN’s attacks on police, constitutionally protected liberties and even the American system of government becoming increasingly extreme, Americans should re-double their efforts to get the United States out of the UN with an Amexit. At the same time, as this magazine has advocated for decades, Americans should continue working to support their local police, and keep them independent of federal control. 
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A Circumvention Of The U.S. Constitution

Published on Aug 9, 2016
The United States is being handed over to the United Nations. Obama recently announced that he will bypass Congress and seek a United Nations Security Council resolution to outsource the United States nuclear policy to an International Body. The Daily Caller reports “The Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA) does not require Congressional approval, but likely binds future U.S. government policy towards Iran.”

Obama’s U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch wants to federalize the nation’s police with the United Nations backed Strong Cities Network. An infiltration of communities across America with nefarious new world order intentions.

In 1999 Lynch was appointed by Bill Clinton to head the U.S. Attorney’s office in New York and In 2002, according to Lynch’s bio, she ” joined Hogan & Hartson LLP (now Hogan Lovells) as a partner in the firm’s New York office. While in private practice, Ms. Lynch performed extensive pro bonowork for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established to prosecute those responsible for human rights violations in the 1994 genocide in that country.

Human rights violations where between 500,000 and 1 million Rwandans were killed by their own countrymen. Bill Clinton apologized for standing by silently and doing nothing. The same company, Hogan Lovells, employed Gold Star Father and recent Trump annoyance Khazir Khan. Lynch and Khan come from the Clinton Foundation stable of attorneys tied to Saudi Arabia, the Muslim Brotherhood, and a who’s who of foreign dictators.

Be forewarned America. With Hillary in the White House, the Clinton’s and any of their lackeys will seek to hijack any all crisis for their own benefit. And with Saudi Arabia reportedly funding 20% of Hillary’s campaign. It is vitally important to the aforementioned and other Clinton plants that Sharia law circumvent the U.S. Constitution. And with the recent arrest of a DC Metro officer assisting ISIS….Alarm bells should be ringing as to the scale of the infiltration by a radical jihadist network operating at all levels of our government.


8,000 SYRIAN REFUGEES ENTER U.S. AS OBAMA LOOKS TO MEET GOAL OF 10,000~UP TO 200 OR MORE JIHADISTS PER STATE

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ANNE RICHARD
8,000 SYRIAN REFUGEES ENTER U.S. 
AS OBAMA LOOKS TO MEET GOAL
The Obama administration expects to hit its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees to the U.S. by the end of September, officials said Friday.
“We can now say we have welcomed 8,000 Syrian refugees so far this year and we are very confident we will welcome at least 10,000 refugees from Syria by the end of this fiscal year,” Anne Richard, assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, said in a conference call with reporters.
Delivery on the president’s pledge to admit 10,000 refugees reflects a dramatic increase in admissions in recent weeks. In the first six months after President Barack Obama’s announcement of the goal last Sept. 10, only about 1,200 Syrian refugees resettled in the U.S. The government has denied about 7 percent of applications under its Syrian refugee program, with another 13 percent held up by “outstanding concerns,” said Leon Rodriguez, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The pace of admissions was initially hampered by an extensive, months-long screening process intended to prevent anyone with links to terrorist networks or Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime from entering the country.
Still, top Republicans — led by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — have warned that the U.S. risks allowing terrorists to slip into the country as part of the program. Critics of the effort point to recent terrorist attacks, including the killing of a French priest and a bombing at a German music festival, as evidence of the danger posed by refugees.
Trump once proposed a temporary ban on all Muslim immigration to the U.S.; after drawing bipartisan criticism, he subsequently proposed blocking immigration from countries with a “proven history” of terrorism. Other than Syria, he has not specified what countries would meet that definition.
“We’re letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed,” Trump said Thursday at a rally in Portland, Maine. “This could be the great Trojan horse of all time.”
The White House has said that the U.S. focuses its refugee admissions on individuals with existing links to America, as well as women and children facing persecution or in desperate need of medical care. The screening process averages 12 to 18 months and includes biometric data and reviews by multiple law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Reaching the goal will bolster Obama as he seeks to corral additional support for refugees at a Sept. 20 summit he is hosting at the United Nations. Obama wants to persuade other countries to increase global financing for refugees by 30 percent, double the amount spent to resettle refugees, and increase the number of refugees in school and in work by 1 million, according to the White House.


KHIZR KHAN HISTORY OF SUPPORTING SHARIA EXECUTIONS~KHIZR KAHN, TRUMP, AND THE “REAL STORY”

KHIZR KHAN SUPPORTS SHARIA EXECUTIONS
Published on Aug 4, 2016
Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen discusses Khizr Khan and his ties to extremist groups.

Democratic Convention Star Khizr Khan Has History of Defending Sharia

BY WARREN MASS
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/23794-democratic-convention-star-khizr-khan-has-history-of-defending-sharia; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Khzir Khan, the Pakistani-born lawyer (and “gold star father”) who received national attention following his speech at this year’s Democratic National Convention, during which he attacked Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, by name, has a history of defending Sharia — the Islamic legal system — going back as far as 1983. During that year, Khan defended (at least in concept) Sharia in an academic paper titled “Juristic Classification of Islamic Law,” which he wrote while studying in Saudi Arabia:
The invariable and basic rules of Islamic law are only those prescribed in the Shari’ah (Quran and Sunnah), which are few and limited. All other juridical works which have been written during more than thirteen centuries are very rich and indispensable, but they must always be subordinated to the Shari’ahand open to reconsideration by all Muslims. [Emphasis added.]
Taking into consideration that “Juristic Classification of Islamic Law” was written as an academic paper, and as such, presents arguments on both sides of each issue for consideration, the reader must determine which side Khan advocates — adhering strictly to Sharia or “reconsidering” other judicial works interpretively. One opinion on this was offered by a journalist with impressive credentials — Paul E. Sperry, who was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution, and previously was the Washington Bureau Chief at Investor’s Business Dailyand WorldNetDaily. In his recent analysis of Khan’s paper, Sperry observed that Khan explained that Sharia is derived from the Quran and Sunnah, and that the Quran “is the absolute authority from which springs the very conception of legality and every legal obligation.”
Khan also noted that Quranic law includes “constitutional law,” writing: “Family law is laid down in 70 injunctions; civil law in another 70; penal law in 30; jurisdiction and procedure in 13; constitutional law in 10; international relations in 25; and economic and financial order in 10.”
Presumably, “all other judicial works,” which Khan said must always be subordinated to the Sharia under Islamic law, include the U.S. Constitution, which Kahn pointed to during his harangue at the convention:
Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you: Have you even read the United States Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy. In this document, look for the words “liberty” and “equal protection of law.”
Trump responded:
While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr. Khan who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution, which is false, and say many other inaccurate things.
Had it not been for the fact that Khan and his wife, Ghazala, were the parents of Captain Humayun S. M. Khan — who was killed in Iraq in 2004 after an explosive-laden vehicle drove into the gate of his compound while he was inspecting soldiers on guard duty — the speech would have been dismissed as just so such partisan rhetoric. However Khan’s status as a “Gold Star Father” has granted him apparent bullet-proof immunity from any and all criticism, especially from Trump. Like most people, Americans honor their fallen warriors, and such honor is often extended to the families of fallen soldiers, whether the families have done anything to deserve such honor or not. It is simply considered poor form to say anything that might cause more emotional suffering to those who grieve.
While it might legitimately be said that Khan’s very public condemnation of Trump invited a response, the mass media and political figures disagree. And the criticism of Trump’s response to Khan has come not only from Democrats, but from prominent Republicans, as well.
Speaking aboard Air Force One, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz, while not addressing any specific portions of Trump’s comments about Khan or his wife (about whom, Trump said: “I’d like to hear his wife say something.”) said honoring Gold Star families should rise “above politics.”
“Families who make the ultimate sacrifice for this country’s freedom and this country’s safety deserve nothing but our country’s honor and gratitude and deepest respect,” Schultz said.
While statements of that sort might be expected from a member of the Obama administration, some Republicans also jumped on the bandwagon. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in a statement: “This is going to a place where we’ve never gone before, to push back against the families of the fallen.”
The GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), issued a lengthy a statement on August 1 that said in part:
In recent days, Donald Trump disparaged a fallen soldier’s parents. He has suggested that the likes of their son should not be allowed in the United States — to say nothing of entering its service. I cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump’s statement. I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates….
I claim no moral superiority over Donald Trump. I have a long and well-known public and private record for which I will have to answer at the Final Judgment, and I repose my hope in the promise of mercy and the moderation of age. I challenge the nominee to set the example for what our country can and should represent.
Speaking of McCain’s “public and private record,” since he took such great pains to chastise Trump for what he regarded as inappropriate comments toward the family of a fallen soldier, we wonder if McCain has erased from his memory the ungallant way in which he acted toward Dolores Apodaca Alfond, chairwoman of the National Alliance of POW/MIA Families, whose pilot brother Captain Victor Apodaca was missing in action in North Vietnam. One would think that McCain, a former Navy pilot who was shot down and held as a POW in North Vietnam for five and a half years would have felt great empathy for Alfond and treated her with as much respect and courtesy as he expects Trump to show toward the Khans. But that was not the case.
An article in U.S. Veterans Dispatch describes the meeting between the senator and the sister of the MIA. Unfortunately our space here is limited and the article is lengthy, but a few excerpts swill suffice to present the picture:
Apodaca … was offering testimony critical of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. [McCain] rushed into the hearing room to confront her.
 [McCain was] angry and his voice very loud, he accused her of making “allegations … that are patently and totally false and deceptive.”
Making a fist, he shook his index finger at her and said she had insulted an emissary to Vietnam sent by President Bush. He said she had insulted other MIA families with her remarks. And then he said, through clenched teeth: “And I am sick and tired of you insulting mine and other people’s [patriotism] who happen to have different views than yours.”
By this time, tears were running down Alfond’s cheeks. She reached into her handbag for a handkerchief. She tried to speak: “The family members have been waiting for years — years! And now you’re shutting down.” He kept interrupting her. She tried to say, through tears, that she had issued no insults. He kept talking over her words. He said she was accusing him and others of “some conspiracy without proof, and some cover-up.” She said she was merely seeking “some answers. That is what I am asking.” He ripped into her for using the word “fiasco.” She replied: “The fiasco was the people that stepped out and said we have written the end, the final chapter to Vietnam.” “No one said that,” he shouted. “No one said what you are saying they said, Ms. Alfond.” And then, his face flaming pink, [McCain] stalked out of the room, to shouts of disfavor from members of the audience.
McCain and others criticized Trump for defending himself against Khan’s charges made before a nationwide audience at the Democratic National Convention, but no one has suggested that Trump verbally browbeat Mrs. Khan to the point of reducing her to tears!
But returning to Khan — is he merely the father of a war hero who has been unfairly persecuted, or does he have personal baggage that should be called into question?
A report in Breitbart notes that in 1983, the same year he wrote “Juristic Classification of Islamic Law,”  Khan wrote a very sympathetic review of a book compiled from a seminar held in Kuwait called “Human Rights In Islam” in which he pointedly praised the keynote address of Allah K. Brohi, a Pakistani pro-jihad Islamic jurist who was one of the closest advisors to Pakistan’s former dictator General Zia ul-Haq — who is regarded as the father of the Taliban movement.
During the time he served as Pakistani minister of law and religious affairs, Brohi enacted a strict form of Sharia in the nation, bringing back Sharia punishments, such as amputations for theft and demands that rape victims produce four male witnesses or face adultery charges. He also made insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad a crime punishable by death. Brohi and Zia also issued a law that required judges to consult mullahs on every judicial decision for Sharia compliance.
Breitbart reported that in his book review, Khan, far from taking issue with Brohi’s extreme interpretation of human rights, asserted that Brohi “successfully” explains them and argues his points “convincingly.” (The review lists Khan as “director” of an Islamic center in Houston, and was published in the Texas International Law Journal.)
“The keynote speech of Dr. A.K. Brohi, former Pakistani minister of legal and religious affairs, is a hallmark in this book,” Khan wrote in his review. “It successfully explains the Islamic concepts of ‘right’ and ‘just’ in comparison to their Christian and Judaic counterparts.”
Since Khan is obviously sympathetic to the Islamic concept of what is right and just, in comparison with the Judeo-Christian concept expressed in our Declaration of Independence and protected in our Constitution, one wonders on what grounds Khan dared to challenge Trump’s understanding of the Constitution.
As the Breitbart writer summarized Khan’s position: “In context, Khan concurs that human rights can only be guaranteed through the establishment of Sharia’s moral and legal code.”
Another article about Khan’s past posted by Infowars.com notes that Khan co-founded the Journal of Contemporary Issues in Muslim Law, “an academic periodical that seeks to defend the arcane Sharia law to a legal system based on Western jurisprudence.” 
It was smart politics for the Democrats to have enlisted Khan as their mouthpiece to taunt Trump and elicit his response, which was characteristically imprudent and politically damaging. But their ploy was designed to accomplish more than scoring some points against Trump.
A more important goal was discussed in a recent article in The New American, which quoted from journalists Theodore Shoebat and Walid Shoebat [proprietors of Shoebat.com], who — after pointing out that Khan once wrote a paper entitled “In Defense of OPEC” — expressed their opinion: “It is likely that Khan is a Muslim plant working with the Hillary Clinton campaign, probably for the interest of Muslim oil companies as well as Muslim immigration into the U.S.”
The Shoebats continued with their theory: “It is obvious that Khan is upset, that a Trump victory will eliminate and destroy decades of hard work to bring in Islamic immigration into the United States which was spearheaded by agents in Saudi Arabia like Khan and Huma Abedin’s father (Sayed Z. Abedin).”
As The New American observed, “Whether or not the above is accurate, it certainly is true that Hillary Clinton will, just as her former boss Barack Obama has done, encourage Muslim immigration into the United States.”
Trump’s views on restricting migration from predominantly Muslim nations where terrorism has grown rampant have actually contributed to his popularity. The entire confrontation between Trump and Khan may have been engineered to reduce Trump’s appeal and divert the immigration argument into a side issue — whether or not Trump has shown sufficient respect for the parents of a fallen Iraq veteran who happened to be Muslim. 
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KHIZR KAHN, TRUMP, AND THE “REAL STORY”
SEE: http://www.newswithviews.com/Lloyd/rees178.htm; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
By Attorney Rees Lloyd
August 5, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
Excuse me for not joining in the hypocritical frenzy of liberal media and supporters of Hillary Clinton over the so called “Khan Family” controversy in which Donald Trump is portrayed as an evil anti-Muslim ogre unwilling to prostrate himself to be lectured at by Hillary Clinton supporter and Muslim immigrant immigration lawyer Khizr Khan, whose son, Army Capt. Human Kahn heroically gave his life in service.
It happens I believe in the Biblical injunction that the sins of the father should not be visited on the sons. I believe also, however, that the heroism of the son should not be visited upon the father.
In this case, the son is U.S. Army Captain Humayun Kahn, who gave his life in service. He is a hero who indeed should be honored by all Americans for his sacrifice.
The father is Khizer Khan. He is a Pakastani Muslim immigrant and immigration lawyer who is neither hero nor a person otherwise to be honored.
Indeed, Khizr Khan has made his wealth in America as a Muslim immigration lawyer associated with a large law firm by importing other mostly wealthy Muslims in the notoriously corrupt “EB5” immigration visa program. That EP5 cash-cow for immigration lawyers is, of course, threatened by the possible election of Donald Trump.
After his appearance as a speaker at the Democrat Convention where he was used to attack Trump on behalf of Hillary Clinton of Benghazi infamy, Khizr Khan, emulating the corrupt Hillary Clinton who deleted her e-mails from public view, has deleted his law firm’s website from the internet lest Americans find out how he has been making his money in the corrupt EB5 immigration program.
Oddly enough, despite the media frenzy over Trump’s failure to genuflect before Khizr Kahn as he exploited his son’s death for his own fame and glory and preservation of his EP5 Immigration wealth, all of this about Khizr Kahn was first exposed by Breitbart and by Robert Spencer’s “Jihad Watch” (www.JihadWatch.com), not by the mainstream media.
Further, although Khizr Khan dramatically waved a pocket-copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution in his star turn as Democrat Party tool, he in fact is the author of tracts supporting the desirability of elevating Sharia Law over our Constitution, as also exposed by Robert Spencer in his Jihad Watch columns.
Therefore, allow me to to salute and honor the heroic service of the son, Army Captain Humayun Kahn, who paid the ultimate sacrifice in military service for America.
But excuse me from visiting the heroism of the son on the father, Khizr Khan, who has exploited his son’s death as he has exploited America to enrich himself as Muslim immigration lawyer in one of the most corrupt aspects of immigration law, the EB5 program, all the while authoring articles advocating Sharia Law over Constitutional Law.
Further and finally, allow me to associate myself with the position and comments of Kris “Tonto” Paronto,. He is the American patriot and hero who survived the Muslim attack on the American consulate on 9-11-2012 in Benghazi despite the absolute failure of duty of then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton allowed the U.S. Ambassador and three other Americans to be killed by Muslim terrorists as she did nothing to save them. Among other things, Hillary did nothing to save the Americans — for over 13 hours — in part because of her fear Muslims would be “offended” if U.S. troops were sent in uniform to rescue the Ambassador and other Americans. The blood of Benghazi is, indeed, indelibly on Hillary Clinton’s hands, disqualifying her from holding any office, let alone Commander-in-Chief, even Muslim immigration lawyer Keizer Khan supports her.
In contrast to Hillary Clinton is Benghazi hero “Tonto” Paronto, who co-authored “13 HOURS: The Inside Account Of What Really Happened IN BENGHAZI”. “He is now heading the “Leading From The Front” effort of the American Legacy Center. He writes there regarding the Kahn Family Controversy worked up by the Hillary, the Democratts, and the media (www.AmericanLegacyCenter.org):
“This is getting ridiculous. The debate we’re having about Donald Trump and the parents of slain U.S. Army Captain (and hero) Humayun Kahn is a complete waste of time.
“After essentially ignoring Pat Smith, whose son Sean was killed in Benghazi, the mainstream media is now fanning the flames of this latest controversy, and every candidate and elected official in America from dogcatcher up is being asked to take a side.
“But here’s the real story that every single American should be focused on — in its online magazine this week, ISIS showed a picture of Captain Khan’s tombstone in Arlington National Cemetery with the caption: “Beware of dying as an apostate.” The article then urged American and other Western Muslims to either migrate to ISIS-controlled lands or carry out lone wolf attacks “where it hurts them most.”
“I know this enemy, and while we’re focused on politics, they’re butchering 84-year-old priests at the altar.”

FALSE TEACHERS: THEY’RE NOT JUST ON “TBN”~THEY’RE DOWN THE STREET OR AROUND THE CORNER, TOO!

FALSE TEACHERS: THEY’RE NOT JUST ON “TBN”
BY BUD AHLHEIM
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/08/04/false-teachers-theyre-not-just-on-tbn/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
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Bearing a rhetorically inverse relationship, it seems, to the believer’s duty to discernment is the occasionally seen-on-a-meme quote by Joseph Heller, from his work Catch-22, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”
To be sure, for the Christian, the enemy is always on the prowl.  He is always after believing prey of any flavor, but perhaps especially the easy-picking sort – those willfully marinating in discernment-free acceptance of all things self-labelled as “Christian.”  For believers, what’s commanded isn’t paranoia; it’s discernment.
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour  1 Peter 5:8
The Scripturally-cognizant Christian will realize ground zero for the enemy’s attack is the church.  With ever increasing ferocity, charlatans plague, pummel, and promote both subtle and blatant false teaching from pulpits to the discernment-free flocks, heavily goat-laden as they are, occupying pews and Sunday school classrooms.
Shepherds have become, noticeably, less identified by their sound teaching and preaching of the Word and more by their unbridled, and often biblically-unguided, zeal to build the church … particularly “their” church.  “Feed my sheep” (John 21:17) lies a dormant, forgotten command from our Lord, much less the accompanying duty of protecting those sheep from the wolves He said were sure to come.
The discernment-obedient, authentic believer will quickly recognize the high-profile, brand-name false teachers that flood the wrongly named “Christian” television and radio airwaves.  Bookstores are replete with the works of these wolves.  While it seems that, by now, everybody should know that the Benny Hinns, Kenneth Copelands, Beth Moores, Joyce Meyers, et al are false teachers, it amazes that their unbiblical falsehoods yet meet with audiences eager to have their ears itched.   Skip the truth.  Just scratch my itch.
But it is not only the high profile false teachers, the ones with national visibility, that are prevalent problems.  As though inspired by the conspicuous, carnal success of those charlatans who’ve hit the big time, lesser known, lower-level, regional wanna-be’s are equally as dangerous.   Like the “celebrity” charlatans, they espouse false teaching and foment a subtle rebellion against the absolute authority and sufficiency of the Word of God.
One such lesser known fomenter of false teaching is Stovall Weems, co-pastor of Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida.  Celebration, despite its name, is neither a celebration of Christ, nor can it properly identified as a New Testament church.  The one celebrated is the pew sitter in this club of morally-inclined deists.  Oh, the other co-pastor?  Weems’ wife, Kerri.  So much for being an authentic Christian church.
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Here’s the contradiction of the subtle “say one thing, do another” deception of such “churches.”  Celebration’s “What We Believe” section on their website includes this statement:
We believe that the Bible is God’s Word.   It is accurate, authoritative, and applicable to our everyday lives. 2 Timothy 3:15-16
Lacking words typically found in an orthodox statement about Scripture such as “inerrant” and “infallible,” Celebration’s claim even to Scripture’s authority and application is disregarded by Weems.  Perhaps he should’ve looked a book earlier to 1 Timothy and that apostolic command, “I do not permit a woman to teach.”  (1 Timothy 2:12) Is that part of Scripture somehow not authoritative?
This isn’t just an slight oversight by Weems, either.  His wife isn’t merely on the staff as a result of pure nepotism.  Weems supports women in the pulpit, against the clear teaching of Scripture.  On Sunday, July 29, he invited another pastrix, Charlotte Gambill of Life Church UK, to preach in his stead.  Maybe Weems and Celebration should include an asterisk to indicate which portions of Scripture are authoritative in their view.
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Celebration currently boasts an attendance of over 12,000 each Sunday in multiple locations around Jacksonville, including two international ones in Zimbabwe and Northern Ireland.  Weems serves as a flat-screen pastor for his multi-site gatherings.
“I don’t think there’s any place in the life of the church for a flat screen pastor, I really don’t. …How do you know anything about a flat-screen face three miles away from where you are? What kind of shepherding is that? What kind of pastor is that? That’s no pastor at all. That is not a pastor.” John MacArthur
While it is non-denominational, Celebration Church is aligned with the innocuously named Association of Related Churches.  Weems – him, not her – serves on ARC’s Lead Team, joining the likes of Nick and Christine Caine (repeat after me ‘prosperity gospel heretics’) and John Gray of Lakewood Church (smile widely and please say ‘Joel Osteen.’).  Weems’ woes with discernment – as if he cares about it – with such spurious associations is further exhibited by his participation on  “reverend” Steven Furtick’s oversight board.
(There are currently over 800 “churches” listed on the ARC Church Directory. For more on the charlatan that is Furtick, see HERE.)
According to Christian Post, Weems served on Furtick’s Board of Overseers (Perry Noble was also on it, FYI) that approves his salary package.  The issue of Furtick’s income came to light as a result of his construction of a $1.7 million mansion to house the mega pastor’s family and, of course, his ego.  Weems’ residence doesn’t exactly pale in comparison, a $900,000, six thousand + square foot abode in a gated community on the edge of the St. Johns River, a community known as a favorite of Jacksonville’s NFL stars.
Before consideration is given to Weems and his horrendous handling of God’s Word , just one other point on his issues of his discernment.  In March 2015, Weems and Celebration gleefully hosted perhaps the queen charlatan of TBN’s prosperity gospel line-up, Joyce Meyer.  “We are beyond excited and honored to host Joyce Meyer.”
(For more on the charlatan that is Joyce Meyer, see HERE.)
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So, on two fundamental points of obedience to the Scripture that Celebration claims is authoritative, Weems has two strikes.  Women in the pulpit … strike one.  Discernment, or the lack thereof, is strike two.
When we are told to have nothing to do with false teachers, it’s generally understood to mean, “don’t invite them to preach in your pulpit”. It certainly means, “don’t hold hands with them on religious boards and associations.”  This admonition, of course, probably doesn’t apply if you happen to be a false teacher yourself.  No doubt, this is the defensive tack which Weems must take.
In 2014, Weems published The God-First Life.  The book’s title is currently being used as the tagline for his church’s website, “We are leading people to experience a God-first life.”  Coming from the Emergent/seeker-sensitive “church” movement as he does, Weems’ book posits nothing less than a word of faith, prosperity focused gospel.  Believers will know, of course, this is a false, “other” Gospel which the Apostle Paul anathematizes.  (Galatians 1:8)
(See Empowered By Christ’s entry on Weems HERE.)
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“Years ago, my church – Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida – rented a billboard near a busy highway.  We were looking to attract people to what God was doing in our world.  The ad featured an image of me (which made sense because the invitation was coming from the church, and well, I’m the pastor) with these words emblazoned across the ad:  Your Life, God’s Way.”  Stovall Weems
Weems’ obviously narcissistic advertising aside, a fundamental misunderstanding of God, and especially His Gospel, is on full display.  God is not interested in simply “attracting people.”  He does not need to dangle enticements before a depraved world in order to get their attention.  What He offers is not a “check out what I’m doing” (What’s He’s doing is judgment, by the way.  Romans 1:18) but rather a command to “repent and believe.” (Mark 1:15)  Repentance, though, is nowhere to be found in Weems’ doctrine-less tome.
When God so chooses – because He IS sovereign – He will move to regenerate those whom He’s chosen “from before the foundation of the world,” (Ephesians 1:4) but that is not an attractional effort; it’s a supernaturally transformative one He accomplishes exclusively through the mechanism of His Gospel.  (Romans 1:16)  And that Gospel?  Yeah, it too is completely absent from Weems’ book.
The God-First Life lacks a presentation of the Gospel and provides a disturbingly deceptive concept of soteriology.  In Weems’ text, both the purpose of whatever salvation may be gleaned as necessary from his writing, and the results of that salvation, are decidedly man-centered.  Scripture, however, gives a clear, Christ-centered focus to “all things.”   “All things were created through him and for him.”  Colossians 1:16
“In your search for happiness, God is not your fiercest opponent, but your greatest ally.  But to see things from his perspective, you must master one crucial truth: Happiness isn’t about more, better, or greater; it’s about order.”  Stovall Weems
A quick perusal of, say, Foxes Book of Martyrs contradicts Weems’ “it’s all about you” false gospel.  Temporal happiness, though a heavily-stressed tenet of contemporary pop “Christianity,” the flavor Celebration proclaims – wasn’t  a remotely valued ambition evident in the lives of the many saints who died for the faith of Christ.  Temporal happiness simply was not (and is not) a featured selling point for authentic faith.   The image of an inverted crucified Apostle Peter ought to be seared into the minds of anyone who’s tempted to believe the Gospel is all about “Your Best Life Now.”
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The other obvious problem with The God-First Life approach is that it suggests a cafeteria-style, cultural Christianity intended to meet your needs, wants, and desires in the here and now.  Completely lacking the notion of authentic regeneration, much less issuing a call for repentance for the forgiveness of sin, Weems hurls forth a system that, if adroitly administered, yields God-required blessings.  You do it right and God’s obliged to bless.
“If we get the order right, God promises to meet our needs, with unexpected blessings attached.”  Stovall Weems
Contrast Weems’ teaching, though, with what Christ Himself declared:
“So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.”  Jesus, Luke 14:33
Weems’ novel approach to apprehending God’s blessing, though, is nothing more than a different veneer of presumed credibility layered across the foundation of a prosperity gospel theology.  Weems can only back up this assertion by citing – again, sans repentance and “by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone” – Proverbs 10:22.  “The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.”
Promise plucking is a well-favored feat of the prosperity preacher and this particular verse is one to which they are obviously favorably inclined.  One wonders why the apostle Paul, who, it must be admitted, was “tight” with Jesus, didn’t remind Him of this promise.  Instead, Paul, identifying himself as a slave (doulos) of Christ, (Romans 1:1) suffered horrendously in his “God-first” life.  Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians ought be considered seriously by those who are jeopardizing their souls with the false teaching of Weems:
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. 24 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; 27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food,in cold and exposure. 28 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.  2 Corinthians 11:23-28
It’s a shame the apostle didn’t simply know then what Weems teaches now.  If only the apostle had just gotten the order right.
Another example from The God-First Life reflects Weems’ mishandling of Scripture and his dismissive presentation of sin, and, of course, Christ’s redemptive work necessitated by it.  “Jesus wasn’t against happiness,” Weems writes, “he just redefined how to get it.”
Weems cites such things as greed, drunkenness, dishonesty, hatred, rage, selfishness, antagonism, and envy not as sins committed against an utterly righteous and just God, from whom judgment is forthcoming.  He calls these things “types of behaviors that characterize the untransformed life.”  The transformed life, of course, is a life with things in the right order, with God first.  Umm, no.
The authentically transformed life is one that has undergone the divinely wrought re-birth.  Regardless of the practical structure, or intentional focus, we place on the ordering of our life – psychological, emotional, religious, or otherwise – without being born again, no one will see the kingdom of God.  (John 3:3)
Just ask your favorite Pharisee.  Christ made it clear to them that their own intense focus on the structure of, and adherence to, their charade of religious behavior was not only hypocritical, it was also eternally insufficient.  The woes he pronounced on them may easily be applied to the similar works righteousness, prosperity gospel Weems proclaims. (Matthew 23)
Though Weems doesn’t deny the reality of sin, in his view, it’s not really a big deal.  Continuing with his “get everything in the right order to get your blessing” outline, Weems prioritizes, verse by verse, the structure of the Lord’s prayer as Biblical evidence that sin shouldn’t be a fixation for us.
“Now, finally, I get to forgiveness.  I cannot overstate how important it is to keep things in the priority God established.  God doesn’t want us obsessing on our sins.  Placing this fourth [according to Weem’s outline of the Lord’s prayer] gives us a check – Have I offended God?  How have I treated people? – but it avoids turning my sin into the whole story.”  Stovall Weems
Sin, according to Weems, drops in at number four on God’s prioritized spreadsheet of importance.  Somehow, the crucifixion, then, seems an awfully harsh penalty for the Son of God to pay.  If sin is merely types of behavior of the untransformed life, if it isn’t something we should obsess over – things which Scripture patently contradicts – it’s no surprise Weems’ flavor of the prosperity gospel deflects the need for repentance.
Promoting an aberrant theology as he does, Weems provides, under the banner “Experiencing The Presence Of God,” another “get it in the right order” instruction, this one in his description of worship. His explanation is that worship is about you, an “encounter” you have, an “experience” you get. Worship is about us, not God.
Though his explanation of man-centered worship is decidedly unbiblical, Weems provides yet another illicit interpretation of Scripture while explaining it.  In so doing, he also reflects his disregard for “rightly handling the word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15
“The third chapter of Revelation shows how Jesus invites us to experience him. … Now he’s standing at the door of your heart, and he’s saying, Will you go ahead and abandon yourself to me? Will you just let me in? And at that moment of abandonment and surrender you experience the presence of God.”   Stovall Weems
An astute student of Scripture will recognize this gross misinterpretation of Revelation 3:20. Christ was speaking to a church completely void of authentic believers, perhaps not unlike Celebration. To “experience the presence of God” is not driven by man’s effort. Scripture makes abundantly clear that only God can bring life to those “dead in trespasses and sins.” (Ephesians 2:1)
In the case of Weems and Celebration Church, there are, each Sunday, some 12,000 souls, many of whom are “already condemned,” (John 3:18) that are not being given the truth of the Gospel. Instead they are being fed a Pharisaical, legalistic, structured approach to “faith” that is nowhere to be found in Scripture.  It is certain to leave them in their condemned state, on the wide path that leads to destruction.
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.   Colossians 2:8
Though Weems is a wanna-be big player on the pervasive stage of false “Christianity,” he, and others like him, represent the worst of those many false teachers about whom our Lord warned authentic believers. They slather an appealing veneer of Christian-ese across a diabolical “other” gospel that ultimately damns.   They’re merely hucksters hurling a feel-good form of religion leading those who swallow it to believe that form and function equate to salvific faith and that the goal of Christianity is experience rather than obedience. It’s exactly the same sort of thing for which Jesus attacked the Pharisees.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. 28 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Matthew 23:27-28
Celebration Church and Weems are misleading thousands with a false, legalistic form of the prosperity gospel. But others, too, do so in less than TBN worthy “churches” across the country. The enemy has countless counterfeits.  These aren’t churches, and their pulpit occupants aren’t pastors. They are the false teachers Scripture tells us to avoid and expose. (Romans 16:17-18, Ephesians 5:11)
 “If the church is anything in the world, it is God’s holy people. Churches should be known by how they exalt righteousness, and how they condemn unrighteousness. Churches should be known for confronting sin and pursuing holiness.” John MacArthur
For Weems and Celebration, holiness isn’t a priority; the “experience” of God is. For them, unrighteousness and sin aren’t things over which one should obsess; they are merely behaviors which cause us to disorder what should be a “God-first life,” a life that apprehends God-obliged, temporal blessings.
But, the truly regenerate believer will be found in thankful agreement with the apostle’s words about his Christian faith …
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.  Philippians 3:8-11
Each Sunday, in Jacksonville, Florida, thousands will gather to be deceived.   Likewise, around the nation and the world, countless souls will sit under the damning words of a feel good religion. Please, pray for these souls.   And, please, warn those being misled who are in such eternally damning clubs of deistic moralism.
Contend for the faith. Many are being deceived and many are deceiving … and they’re not all on TBN.  Sometimes they’re just down the street …

VOTER FRAUD? RIGGED ELECTIONS? OBAMA NEVER HEARD OF THESE ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL~HOW ABOUT THE DEAD BODY VOTING SCAM RUN BY HIS ENABLERS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL?

ALL HE’S EVER HEARD OF IS OCCASIONAL INVESTIGATIONS OF MINOR FRAUD 
AFTER AN ELECTION?

POTUS Denies Awareness Of Voter Fraud

Published on Aug 6, 2016

In the face of mass amounts of evidence of voter fraud, Barrack Obama claims ignorance or any awareness of rigged election, despite the fact himself, his party, and his former affiliations can all be tied into it unequivocally.

JUST A CONSPIRACY THEORY?

Obama Caught In Election Fraud Coverup

Report: ‘Hundreds’ of Dead Voters Found 

Voting in California

SEE: http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/05/25/report-dead-voters-found-voting-california/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:


An investigation by CBS News’ Los Angeles-based affiliate, KCAL-9, has determined that “hundreds” of dead people are still voting in California.


“CBS2 compared millions of voting records from the California Secretary of State’s office with death records from the Social Security Administration and found hundreds of so-called dead voters,” according to investigative reporter David Goldstein.
“Specifically, 265 in Southern California and a vast majority of them, 215, in Los Angeles County alone.”
The voters are genuinely dead, but others are voting in their names, often through vote-by-mail.
While it is not clear how the “so-called dead voters” voted, 86 were registered Republicans, and 146 were registered Democrats. Votes have been cast on behalf of some dead individuals for decades, over several election cycles.
Their votes diluted the votes of living people, whose choices count less when weighed against votes cast fraudulently.
The possibility of voter fraud in Southern California is a particularly acute problem in the run-up to the June 7 California primary, where the presidential campaigns of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are focused on vote-rich Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
Roughly two-thirds of primary ballots are expected to be cast by mail. California does not have a photo ID requirement to vote, and is the only state out of compliance with the Help America Vote Act of 2002, Goldstein says, making voter rolls less accurate.
“The problem is California has been the most derelict state in the country in implementing statewide databases that are required under federal law. They just blew it off for over a decade,” former Department of Justice attorney J. Christian Adams told Goldstein.
The Obama administration has consistently argued that new laws to improve ballot security and voter transparency, like voter ID, are racist efforts to exclude minorities, and are unnecessary because voter fraud rarely happens.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday to launch an investigation into the problem following KCAL-9’s report.
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UPDATE: AUGUST 8, 2016:

Special Report: Secret Group Behind Elections Fraud Exposed!

Published on Aug 8, 2016
Alex Jones exposes the little known group that is secretly running American Elections and how they could steal the presidency from Donald Trump. 
OBAMA’S FIVE LIES