Day: October 22, 2017

WILLOW CREEK CHOOSES NON-MARRIED CO-ED PASTORS TO SUCCEED BILL HYBELS~FIRST MEGACHURCH TO HAVE A FEMALE LEAD PASTRIX

 
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WILLOW CREEK CHOOSES CO-ED PASTORS TO SUCCEED BILL HYBELS 
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Since “no one
person can replace” Willow Creek Community Church founder Bill Hybels,
the influential megachurch has named two people: its current executive
pastor Heather Larson and teaching pastor Steve Carter.
Hybels announced on Saturday that the pair will succeed him as lead pastors when he steps down in October 2018.
The historic transition will make Willow Creek one of
the largest churches in America with a woman in the lead pastor
position, as well as the only major evangelical megachurch with
male-female lead pastors who aren’t married. 
“When we saw this shaping up, we had to ask ourselves,
‘Can our congregation have a lead pastor that’s a woman?,’” said Hybels,
speaking from Willow Creek’s central campus in South Barrington,
Illinois, one of seven locations in the Chicago region that draw a
collective total of 25,000 worshippers each weekend. “And because this
is a deeply held value in our church, we said, ‘No problem.’”
Larson will be lead pastor, overseeing Willow Creek’s
400-person staff and $77 million budget, and Carter will be lead
teaching pastor, continuing to preach most weeks.
The news comes amid Willow Creek’s six-year succession
plan for the megachurch, which was founded in 1975 and has grown to rank
among the 10 biggest in America. The 65-year-old pastor joins a wave of
greying leaders who have opted to go public with their leadership transition, as Hybels first disclosed at the church’s 2012 Global Leadership Summit.
“We know that no one person can replace Bill,” Larson said in
an interview on the Unseminary podcast last year. “That has led Willow
to talk about moving to more of a team approach in leading the church in
the future and what that might look like.”
Larson, 42, has worked at Willow Creek for 20 years and has served as Hybels’s No. 2 since she became executive pastor in 2013.


Image: Willow Creek
“There is clearly a growing tendency to see shared
senior leadership in larger churches, to do ministry as a team,” said
Warren Bird, who consults on megachurch succession and co-authored the book Next: Pastoral Succession that Works.
“Many are experimenting with titles and roles like ‘directional leader’
and ‘chief visionary,’ and giving the No. 2 person a greater role.
Willow is leading another wave of experimentation in role combinations.”
After an outside consultant recommended splitting the
senior pastor duties, the two leaders were selected by Hybels and
approved by the church’s elders.
“The shared leadership dynamic is a wise move for an
organization with the size, scale, and history of Willow,” said Jenni
Catron, a church leadership coach.
Around 5 percent of megachurches are led by a
husband-wife co-pastor team (think Joel and Victoria Osteen at Lakewood,
or Todd and Julie Mullins at Christ Fellowship Palm Beach Gardens), but
none have an unmarried pair named as lead pastors, according to Bird.
Historically, “there have been a tiny number of female leaders in the top spot­—Aimee Semple McPherson being
the most prominent, at one point leading the nation’s
largest-attendance church,” he said, noting that for a time, widows
Sharon Daugherty at Victory Tulsa, Betty Peebles at Jericho City of
Praise, and Anne Gimenez at Rock Church International also had lead
pastor roles.
“This is a significant move for not only Willow Creek
Church, but also for the greater evangelical movement,” said Tara Beth
Leach, who became the first female senior pastor at
First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena last year. “Bill Hybels and
Willow Creek have made a move that no church of its size has done
before, and I hope that moves like this will have a ripple effect across
all of evangelicalism.”
The number of female pastors overall has tripled in
the past 25 years, to about 9 percent of all Protestant pastors in the
country, according to Barna’s 2017 State of Pastors report. But the
numbers are just a fraction of that for women in lead pastor roles and
at megachurches, since female pastors tend to lead smaller
congregations. Only about a third of nondenominational churches welcome
women into senior or preaching pastor roles.
Halee Gray Scott, a researcher focused on evangelical
women in leadership, said Willow Creek’s announcement “trailblazes a
path for the Western church.”
“It is a model of leadership that is deeply scriptural,
built not on personality nor an individual’s personal charisma, but on
partnership,” she said. “It is a model that reflects the fullness of humankind, both male and female.”
Since its early days, Willow Creek has not restricted women’s leadership, eventually basing its position on a study led by Gilbert Bilezikian, a longtime Wheaton College professor and Hybels’s mentor.
In a chapter in How I Changed My Mind about Women in Leadership,
Hybels describes his desire to be proactive about adding women to
leadership teams and being intentional about the women appointed to be
paradigm-breakers as they step into significant roles.
Prior to being named executive pastor, Larson was
involved in Willow Creek’s young adult ministry, global outreach, and
compassion and justice work. She opened up about her leadership role in a
2015 interview with CT’s WomenLeaders.com:
Being a woman in this position is a much bigger deal
outside of Willow than it is inside of Willow. Because it has been so
much a part of the DNA of Willow, I get a lot of encouragement from
women and men in the church who say they’re so excited to see how I’m
leading and guiding the church.
But outside of Willow I get a lot of more shock. That
has been good for me to keep in mind how different Willow is from a lot
of other churches. I’ve never wanted to be on a soapbox about the role
of women. I would rather build influence and lead where God has placed
me, and let that speak for itself.
“She owns the values of this church all the way down to
her toes,” said Hybels. “She has the pure Romans 12:8 gift of
leadership.”
Though Larson was raised as a pastor’s kid, she said she
didn’t expect to end up working for the church; instead she started her
career working for the Red Cross. She has two daughters, ages 12 and
13, and is a graduate of Taylor University. 
“This is not something I ever planned for or expected,
but it’s something that God planted in my heart,” she said. “I want my
life to be about building the local church.”
Carter, 38, currently does the bulk of the preaching at
Willow Creek, where he has been on staff since 2013. He was also
involved in The Practice, the church’s experimental worship community led by Aaron Niequist, which concluded in June. (Carter and Niequist discussed their vision for the initiative with CT Pastors in 2014.)
Since he had only just arrived at Willow Creek when
Hybels began his global search for his replacement, Carter initially
didn’t put himself in the running. He teared up as Hybels announced his
new role.
“He’s one of the most gifted, pure teachers that I’ve
ever known,” said Hybels. “Better than that, he is coachable and has an
insatiable desire to get better.”
Carter, a father of two, is a graduate of Hope
International University. He previously served at Rock Harbor Church in
California and Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan.
His book on evangelism, This Invitational Life, came out last year. He wrote:
Over the past ten years, I’ve seen a decrease in urgency
when it comes to sharing one’s faith. I think a lot of it has to do
with the way evangelism has been portrayed and done over the years. What
I want to do is to try and reclaim the essence of the word.
My advice for those who want to live an invitational
life is to show up with expectancy, with one ear attuned to heaven, so
that when God whispers you’ll be ready to respond. God’s heartbeat is
for humanity and He is inviting us to be ministers of reconciliation. He
has given us a story of reconciliation and we are His ambassadors as if
God was making his appeal through us. He wants to use you. When the
spirit whispers, please say yes!
Carter also co-hosts a sports podcast from Relevant. “Because he’s played sports all his life, he understands the dynamics of a team,” said Hybels.
This weekend marks Willow Creek’s 42nd anniversary. Ahead of the news, Lynne Hybels wrote that
her family was “genuinely excited about this announcement because we
earnestly believe it will be a blessing and gift to this church that we
love.”
Willow Creek pioneered tech-savvy and cultural-savvy
ministry with its innovative programming, most notably its Global
Leadership Summit. The annual event has drawn top names in business to
address thousands of church leaders over the past 15 years, as well as pioneered a
new approach to organizational leadership among evangelicals. Willow
Creek spent a dozen years, from 1992 to 2004, as the largest church in
America, according to Outreach magazine.
About a decade ago, the booming Chicago-area megachurch pivoted from
what had been deemed a “seeker sensitive” approach to explicitly focus
more on Christian growth and discipleship among its members.
Research previously featured in
CT indicated that most prominent pastors leave the pulpit by 65 [see
chart below, from CT September 2014]; Hybels will be 66 when he steps
down next year, though he will remain involved in the Willow Creek
Association and Global Leadership Summit.
“We’re going to fight through the funk of succession,” Larson assured the crowd on Saturday night. “We know it’s hard.”
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 Willow Creek Promotes Egalitarianism 
by Announcing Co-Ed Pastors
BY RICHARD HAAS
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2017/10/15/willow-creek-promotes-egalitarianism-by-announcing-co-ed-pastors/; 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

On Saturday, October 14, 2017, Bill Hybels
founder of Willow Creek Community Church announced that following his
departure in October 2018 he will be replaced by co-ed pastors. Willow
Creek has named its current executive pastrix Heather Larson and
teaching pastor Steve Carter.

“When we saw this shaping up, we had to ask ourselves,
‘Can our congregation have a lead pastor that’s a woman? …. And because
this is a deeply held value in our church, we said, ‘No problem.’ ”

When this troubling transition takes place, this will make Willow
Creek one of the largest churches in America with a woman in lead
pastrix position. It also should be pointed out that Willow Creek will
be the only major “evangelical” megachurch with male-female lead pastors
who are not married.
For years it has been clear that Willow Creek and Bill Hybels has had
very little regard for Scripture or the biblical teaching in general or
its proper context. This latest announcement by Bill Hybels and the
Willow Creek Association proves only how depraved and filled with hate
their hearts are towards God of the Bible. Hybels and Willow Creek are
bent on promoting Egalitarianism and the tearing down of the biblical outline outlined in Scripture. Willow Creek is undoubtedly anti-Complementarian.  Scripture is clear in 1 Timothy 2:11-14, 1 Timothy 3:1-13 and Titus 1:6-9 that women are not to be in the position of pastor anywhere in the church.
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 BILL HYBELS TO RETIRE AND BE REPLACED BY CO-ED PASTOR TEAM (Friday
Church News Notes, October 27, 2017, www.wayoflife.org
fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – 
Bill Hybels, founder of Willow Creek
Community Church near Chicago, is retiring in October 2018, to be
replaced by Heather Larson as “Lead Pastor” and Steve Carter as “Lead
Teaching Pastor.” Willow Creek had female elders from its inception in
the 1970s, but in 1997 all staff members were given one year to submit
to this stance or step down. That year John Ortberg, one of Willow
Creek’s “teaching elders,” wrote a paper saying that the Bible “teaches
the full equality of men and women in status, giftedness, and
opportunity for ministry” (“Femme Fatale: The Feminist Seduction of the
Evangelical Church,” World
magazine, March 29, 1997). This is open rebellion to the clear teaching
of God’s Word. Willow Creek was one of the first “seeker sensitive”
megachurches. Early on it advertised itself like this: “There is no
hell-fire and brimstone here, no Bible-thumping, just positive witty
messages.” Its main worship center in the community of Willow Creek west
of Chicago cost $73 million and seats over 7,000. About 25,000 people
attend weekend services at the church’s eight campuses.

REFORMATION ASIDE, PAPIST SEAN HANNITY TO PREACH POLITICS AT FBC DALLAS UNDER THE APPROVAL OF ROBERT JEFFRESS, PASTOR

 FULLY ECUMENICAL; NO SEPARATION HERE:
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PAPIST SEAN HANNITY TO PREACH POLITICS 
AT FBC DALLAS 
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Protestants around the world are preparing to celebrate Reformation
Sunday in commemoration of the 500th Anniversary of protesting the Roman
Catholic Church. Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist pastor and regular
political pundit, has invited a Roman Catholic radio and television host to come and discuss, “his faith and perspective on what is happening in America.”

That a Southern Baptist Church would invite a Roman Catholic to share
“his faith” is already revolting, but that it would be done in the
season of Reformation is especially noxious.
Joining Jeffress will be the conservative firebrand, Sean Hannity,
who has remained a constant fixture in conservative talk radio and at
Fox News for many years. Hannity, as his listeners can tell you, is a
devout Roman Catholic and not a Christian. That a Roman Catholic would
be invited to share his faith at a Protestant church – especially as a
part of Lord’s Day worship – is more revolting than engaging in an
interfaith dialogue with a Muslim (which has caused about five months
worth of Internet ire this year) held during a special event.
For Hannity, the event is part of a publicity tour designed to sell his new “Christian” movie. The website for First Baptist Church of Dallas says…

Be our guest for an exciting Sunday at First Baptist
Dallas as Dr. Jeffress interviews Sean Hannity, host of “The Sean
Hannity Show” on radio and “Hannity” on Fox News Channel, about his new
Christian film, Let There Be Light, as well as his faith and perspective
on what is happening in America. 

For those whose heads already want to explode, it gets better (or
worse). Hannity’s “Christian” movie is about a man receiving a
near-death Heaven Tourism experience (greeeaaat) and subsequently becoming a theist. Nevermind that Jeffress’ own denomination warned its membership about Heaven Tourism.
The film stars Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) and Travis Tritt (the country
singer), and Sean Hannity serves as the executive producer.
The Christian demographic has been a boon for marketers of cinema,
and everyone seems to want in on it. It won’t be a sermon by Hannity, so
much as a commercial trailer of his film.

After Hannity discusses his faith and shills his new “Christian”
movie, Jeffress will then preach about the “moral and spiritual
unraveling of our nation.” Ironically, Hannity and Jeffress have both
been outspoken advocates for President Trump, in spite of the fact that
Trump’s election is part of the evidence for the moral and spiritual
unraveling of our nation. First time visitors to the church will receive
a free copy of Jeffress’ new book, “America at the Crossroads.”

It seems that for Robert Jeffress and FBC Dallas, politics has become
a religion, and Roman Catholicism shares the pew with Protestant
evangelicalism.
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 Dr. Robert Jeffress Gleefully Interviews Sean Hannity, Who Proclaims the False Gospel of the UNCHRISTIAN Catholic Church (10-22-17)
 Dr. Robert Jeffress Interviews Sean Hannity at First Baptist Dallas
about his new “Christian” film, “Let there be Light,” as well as his (Catholic) faith
and perspective on our nation today.

Robert Jeffress Demands Apologies from Critics, Claims Hannity Interview Shared The Gospel

SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2017/10/24/robert-jeffress-demands-apologies-from-critics-claims-hannity-interview-shared-the-gospel/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes

  “Recently, Robert Jeffress interviewed Roman Catholic political
activist Sean Hannity during the Sunday Morning service at his church
(Read more about this here). About this, Nebraska senator Ben Sasse (R) Tweeted about this, “Christians: Are we really this ignorant of the Scriptures?” He then quoted John 18:36 as saying, “Jesus answered, ‘My Kingdom is not of this world.’””

“In response to this criticism, Jeffress shared an article and claimed,
“You’ve got a Rep. senator who is criticizing what a pastor & his
church are doing to share the gospel. Sen Sasse owes our church an
apology.” However, when one looks through the interview, the Gospel is
entirely absent from the interview.”

For one thing, Jeffress blurs the lines between Christianity and
Catholicism by saying, “Nobody goes to heaven in a group; we go one by
one, based on our relationship to Christ.” However, he fails to
recognize that the Bible says that attempting to gain salvation through
the law (as the Roman Catholics do) then they are severed from Christ (Galatians 5:4).

Throughout the interview, instead of a preaching of the Gospel, the
two engage in a dialogue about Hannity’s life, Jeffress claims that
Catholics are Christians, and Hannity advertises his upcoming movie. In
light of the lack of actual Gospel in the interview and the fact that
Jeffress alleged that he was preaching the Gospel, one must question:
What does Jeffress think the Gospel actually is?

TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN CITES “THE GOSPEL IS IMMORAL”, CONTINUES SLIDE INTO ANTINOMIANISM

TULLIAN CITES “THE GOSPEL IS IMMORAL”, CONTINUES SLIDE INTO ANTINOMIANISM
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Tullian Tchividjian, the disgraced former pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church who
had multiple affairs and has since remarried, affirmingly quoted Robert
Capon as saying, “At its root, the Gospel is immoral, not moral,
because it lets scoundrels in free for nothing.”

As you see in the above screenshot, the tweet was ‘liked’ by grotesque antinomian impastor, Nadia Bolz-Weber. We were, of course, warning you of the antinomian trajectory of Tullian Tchividjian as early as 2014.

The quotation itself is as inflammatory as it is blasphemous. The
Gospel reveals the righteousness (moral perfection) of God by his
justification of the ungodly through the full satisfaction of his
wrathful judgment upon the sins of man, as imputed to Christ. All the
debt of penitent sinners has been fully satisfied. Scoundrels are not
let in “for free,” but by the payment of the blood of Jesus. In fact, Romans 1:17
says, “For in [the gospel], the righteousness of God is revealed from
faith for faith, as it is written, ‘The righteous shall live by faith.’”

The context of Capon’s statement does not absolve it of blasphemy. The quotation was taken from Capon’s book, The Astonished Heart, and the very next sentence unveils its antinomian purpose.

“…once the church started setting up ethical behavior
as a standard for membership, it quickly became a religion just like
other religions. And that descent…was accelerated in this period by the
fact that the church felt it had to take a stand against the religions
that surrounded it in the Greco-Roman world…you cannot stigmatize the
falsity of other religions without being fatally tempted to see yourself
as the true religion – and thus ending up as just one more religion.” 

Capon’s tweeted statement above was prefaced by the statement, “Jesus was not an ethical teacher” (emphasis his). Of course, Christian orthodoxy begs to strongly disagree. If Jesus was not an ethical teacher, no one was.

Capon, who apparently Tullian has been reading and citing, was an Episcopal priest and famous antinomian. He also said, “It
is not the role of the Church to tell people not to sin and to devise
lists. The world perfectly knows what sin is.  The world knows what
morality is.  The world knows what’s right.  Morality is the world’s cup
of tea. What the world doesn’t know is forgiveness and that’s what the
world needs to be told.”

This, of course, is classical antinomianism. It is cheap,
worthless grace. It is hyper-grace. It is a confusion and contradiction
of propitiation and justification.

STATE OF DENIAL: BRITISH POLS OUTRAGED AFTER TRUMP NOTES UK CRIME RISE AMID SPREAD OF “RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR”

BRITISH POLS OUTRAGED AFTER TRUMP NOTES 
UK CRIME RISE AMID SPREAD OF 
“RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR”
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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“Donald Trump was today accused of peddling ‘fake news’ and stirring
up hate after he wrongly linked the rise in crime in England and Wales
to ‘Radical Islamic terror.’”

The actual purveyors of fake news, however, are the British MPs who
are attacking Trump over this, and claiming he attributed the rise in
crime to the spread of “Radical Islamic terror.”
In reality, Trump wrote: “Just out report: ‘United Kingdom crime
rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror.’ Not good, we
must keep America safe!”

He said that the crime rate was rising amid the spread of jihad
terror — as crime increased, jihad terror was also increasing. That is
manifestly true. But as always, British authorities are more concerned
with demonizing foes of jihad terror than with actually doing anything
about jihad terror.
“Outrage as Donald Trump blames ‘Radical Islamic terror’ for 13% jump
in crime in England and Wales,” by Kate Ferguson and Richard Spillett, Mailonline, October 20, 2017 (thanks to Inexion):

Donald Trump was today accused of peddling ‘fake news’
and stirring up hate after he wrongly linked the rise in crime in
England and Wales to ‘Radical Islamic terror’.
The US president sent a tweet referring to figures out yesterday
showing crime increased by 13 per cent last year and warning ‘We must
keep American safe’.
But British MPs tore into Mr Trump for talking ‘nonsense’ and said he
is ‘spreading fear and xenophobia’ by wrongly blaming the rise on
terrorism.
Others accused him of peddling ‘fake news’ and pointed out terrorism
accounts for a ‘tiny’ proportion of crime in Britain and the rise is
down to increases in offences such as stalking.
Jo Swinson, deputy leader of the Lib Dems, accused Mr Trump of being
‘misleading and spreading fear’ while Labour MP Stephen Doughty said he
is ‘talking nonsense’.
Mr Trump wrote on Twitter: ‘Just out report: “United Kingdom crime
rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror.” Not good, we
must keep America safe!’
Home Office data released last month showed the number of people
detained over suspected terrorism increased to 379 – the highest since
records began.
But murders and attempted murders due to terrorism represent a tiny
amount of the overall 5.2million crimes committed in Britain last year.
The bulk of crimes in Britain are frauds, thefts and public order offences which have no link to extremism.
Mr Doughty, who sits on the Home Affairs Select Committee, told the
Mail Online: ‘Donald Trump is talking nonsense about issues he doesn’t
understand.’
He added: ‘Yet again it is not helpful for the President of the
United States to comment with ignorance on security and policing maters
in the UK.
‘While we have had some very tragic and horrific terror attacks in
the last year, this represents a very small proportion of overall UK
crime.
‘Donald Trump would be better paced looking at issues in his own
country such as the huge number of deaths from gun violence which
despite repeated atrocities from sandy hook to Las Vegas, the US
government have failed to take action on.’…

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 UK’s “anti-terror watchdog”: “Naive” returning ISIS jihadis should not be prosecuted
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 UK police produce pro-Islam propaganda video featuring Hamas-linked group
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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“No-one, anywhere is telling you to convert or respect or even like a
certain religion! They are reminding you that committing abuse or
assault on an other human being BASED on differing races or beliefs is a
crime. That’s it!”

Great. Now: how common, really, is abuse or assault on innocent
Muslims in the UK, apart from faked hate crimes, rude words, etc.? I
expect it’s quite rare. And what are the Lincolnshire Police doing to
tell Muslims in the UK to stop committing acts of jihad terror? Nothing,
because not all Muslims commit acts of jihad terror? Well, not all
non-Muslims attack innocent Muslims, either.

The group featured in the video, Al-Imdaad, has ties to Hamas.
The Lincolnshire Police are the very definition of Useful Idiots.

 “Police heavily criticised on social media after posting video on better understanding of British Muslims,” by James Peck, Lincolnshire Live, October 20, 2017:

A social media backlash has been launched at Lincolnshire
Police after they posted a video on better understanding British
Muslims.
The 12-minute long film touches on the history of Islam, its values,
its followers’ journey to British shores and reminded people of hate
crime laws.
But a barrage of negative online comments have been posted in
response, with some accusing the police of producing a “propaganda”
video and telling people what to think….
“Are we now not allowed to think our own thoughts!?” asked one. “We
don’t require any indoctrination. Police should deal with law not
religion.”
“How do Lincolnshire Police view the ordinary, decent, Christian people of this country?” wrote another.
“The answer, most unfortunately, is all too plain. Continue to
alienate the rest of us, and you’ll be facing some pretty huge problems
further down the line, won’t you?
“NOBODY should be getting special treatment and if you’re going to
promote videos like this, then you need to do it for every faith and
nationality in Britain. Looking forward very much to your video wishing
us all a wonderful Christmas.”
Others wanted police to address response times and questioned the making of the video.
But social media users also sprung up in defence of it too.
“No-one, anywhere is telling you to convert or respect or even like a certain religion!” said one.
“They are reminding you that committing abuse or assault on an other
human being BASED on differing races or beliefs is a crime. That’s it!”
Another wrote: “They’re not claiming it’s a priority, they’re simply
using this week to raise awareness of hate crime which unfortunately is a
growing issue at the moment whether it be against a person because of
their religion or sexuality etc.”
The police also robustly defended the move.
Deputy Chief Constable Craig Naylor, speaking to the BBC, said: “I’m really disappointed by some of these responses.
“I’m very committed to reducing hate crime. During National Hate
Crime Awareness Week one of the things we’re trying to do is show a
different side to Islam and to understand that Muslims here are British
and are entitled to the same respect and legislation and protection of
the law that anyone else is.”
Mr Naylor added that the force will look into any online abuse aimed
at the police and said that neither he nor the force regretted the video
being made public.

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SEE ALSO:

 UK anti-terror chief: UK is “integrating,” not prosecuting, Islamic State returnees

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/10/uk-anti-terror-chief-uk-is-integrating-not-prosecuting-islamic-state-returnees 

ROBERT SPENCER VIDEO: WHO IS THE REAL TARGET OF THE CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION AGAINST “HATE GROUPS”?

ROBERT SPENCER VIDEO: WHO IS THE REAL TARGET OF THE CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION 
AGAINST “HATE GROUPS”?
  
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
In this new video, I expose the insidious intentions of the
Congressional resolution condemning “hate groups,” and explains why
President Trump shouldn’t have signed it.

WHITEWASHING ISLAM: QASIM RASHID ON WOMEN IN THE QURAN~LIES, LIES, AND MORE LIES

WHITEWASHING ISLAM: 
QASIM RASHID ON WOMEN IN THE QURAN 
BY DAVID WOOD
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The Independent
recently published an article entitled, “How the Teachings of Islam
Could Help Us Prevent More Sexual Abuse Scandals,” by Qasim Rashid (an
apologist for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community). Rashid argues that the
Qur’an and the teachings of Muhammad would be a tremendous benefit to
women in the West.

In a previous video,
I explained why Qasim’s central thesis is correct, namely, because
Islam makes it extremely difficult for women to prove that they’ve been
abused (thus reducing the number of scandals). In this follow-up video, I
go through Rashid’s claims, point by point, to see if he’s telling the
truth.

HAMAS TOP DOG: WE WON’T DISCUSS RECOGNIZING ISRAEL, ONLY WIPING IT OUT

HAMAS TOP DOG: WE WON’T DISCUSS RECOGNIZING ISRAEL, ONLY WIPING IT OUT
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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This will only have the effect in the West of making the Palestinian
Authority look more “moderate” by contrast, but in reality, the Palestinian Authority has never recognized Israel either,
contrary to repeated claims, and shares Hamas’ goal of destroying it
utterly, which would result in a new genocide of the Jews.

“Hamas chief: We won’t discuss recognizing Israel, only wiping it out,” by Dov Lieber, Times of Israel, October 19, 2017:

The Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip on Thursday dismissed
US and Israeli demands that it lay down its arms and recognize the
Jewish state, saying the terror organization is instead debating “when
to wipe out Israel.”

The remarks came during a closed roundtable discussion between Yahya
Sinwar and Gazan youth about the ongoing reconciliation negotiations
with rival Palestinian faction Fatah, to which some media outlets were
invited to attend.

“Over is the time Hamas spent discussing recognizing Israel. Now
Hamas will discuss when we will wipe out Israel,” Sinwar said, according
to the Hamas-linked news agency Shehab.

A Hamas spokesperson released a few official quotes from the meeting.
The Sinwar comment about discussing “when we will wipe out Israel” was
not included in the transcript, which featured the Hamas leader again
rejecting disarmament and Israel recognition.

“No one in the universe can disarm us. On the contrary, we will
continue to have the power to protect our citizens,” Sinwar said,
according to the official statement. “No one has the ability to extract
from us recognition of the occupation.”…

On Thursday, Sinwar doubled down on Hamas’s stance that it will not relinquish its armed forces.

“Disarming us is like Satan dreaming of heaven. No one can take away our weapons,” he said.

He also reportedly admitted that the talks could collapse. “There is a
danger to the reconciliation project,” Sinwar was quoted as saying,
though he did not elaborate.

Last week, the two rival Palestinian factions signed an agreement in
Cairo to allow the PA to take full control of the Gaza, which it was
kicked out of 10 years ago by Hamas in a violent conflict….

HUNGARY FEARS SOROS COULD FORCE OUT ORBAN, OPEN DOORS TO MUSLIM MIGRANTS~SOROS OPENLY CALLS FOR BAN ON CONSERVATIVE NEWS

HUNGARY FEARS SOROS COULD FORCE OUT ORBAN, OPEN DOORS TO MUSLIM MIGRANTS
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 Hungary MP István Hollik has come out and stated fears 
that “George Soros would use his organisation, now the second largest 
political activist charity in the world, to influence Hungary’s 2018 
general election” and “remove Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party
 from power, tear down the border fence, and implement the “Soros Plan” 
to flood Europe with one million third-world migrants annually”

Viktor Orban has adamantly resisted the immigration policy of his
European neighbors, despite threats of legal action by the EU over
quotas. Like Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have also
resisted the mass intake of migrants. These countries have not
experienced the same jihad attacks, threats of attacks and mass sexual
assaults that other European countries with wide open immigration
policies have suffered. But that could possibly change with Soros’
interference:

Soros has a history of interfering in the democratic
process of sovereign nations including spending $6 billion to destroy
populism in Europe, as well as being accused of interfering in internal
politics in Macedonia and Albania.

Should the tide end up shifting in Hungary, forcing it to accept mass
migration (unvetted), its fate will resemble that of other European
countries. According to a report released earlier in the week,
in Britain alone, there are 23,000 jihadists reportedly at large, not
3,000 as previously reported. M15 Director General Andrew Parks warned
that the “threat is multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly, and operating
at a scale and pace we’ve not seen before …we’ve seen a dramatic upshift
in the threat this year. It’s at the highest tempo I’ve seen in my
34-year career.” Parks also warned of a “similar picture across Europe
and beyond where we have seen a steady drumbeat of attacks.”
István Hollik warns that “seeing what the Soros-funded organisations
do, it is not an exaggeration to say that Soros organisations and the
Soros plan itself are dangerous.”

“Hungary Fears ‘Soros Influence’ in Election After Open Borders Activist Injects $18bn into Foundation”, by Victoria Friedman, Breitbart, October 20 2017:

George Soros will use his organisation, now the second
largest political activist charity in the world, to “influence”
Hungary’s 2018 general election, a Hungarian member of parliament has
claimed.
István Hollik MP fears that Soros would use his Open Society
Foundations (OSF) to remove Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party
from power, tear down the border fence, and implement the “Soros Plan”
to flood Europe with one million third-world migrants annually, reports
the Hungarian Times.
The politician, whose Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) is
in coalition with the conservative Fidesz, also said that the OSF-backed
refugee human rights group Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s legal
challenge to the government’s national consultation on the Soros Plan
could be “the first step in the campaign”.
Hollik pointed out that Soros’s foundation, which recently received a
cash injection after the Hungarian-American speculator transferred $18
billion into the NGO, has been a “generous and intensive” source of
money for those “Soros organisations and politicians” who “regularly
intervene in Hungarian public life and who try to put pressure on the
Hungarian cabinet”, alleges Hollik.
He also accused figures within the European Union of “reporting” on
Hungary to the Soros group, saying: “There are politicians in Brussels
in their [OSF’s] pockets, through whom [the Soros organisation] is
making threats.”
Hungary is under pressure from the EU over the country’s refusal to
accept redistributed refugees, its higher education law, and legislation
demanding transparency from foreign-funded organisations – the latter
two directly affecting Soros interests.
He added that these organisations have been active since the
beginning of the migrant crisis and after Orbán prevented further mass
flows through his country and into the rest of Europe by building border
fences, training more border guards, and detaining migrantswhilst their
asylum claims are processed.
“Seeing what the Soros-funded organisations do, it is not an
exaggeration to say that Soros organisations and the Soros plan itself
are dangerous,” the Christian Democrat added.
Soros has a history of interfering in the democratic process of
sovereign nations including spending $6 billion to destroy populism in
Europe, as well as being accused of interfering in internal politics in
Macedonia and Albania.
In the United States, Soros attempted to influence local district-attorney elections in 2016 (and again in 2017)……

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 RED ALERT: Soros Group Openly Calls For A Ban On Conservative News In The United States 
 George Soros is now going for an all out push to destroy 
conservative and libertarian news outlets.
 Hungary Calls Soros’ Plan For Europe Satanic
 Hungary isn’t going lie down and take what they call George Soros’ 
‘satanic plan’ for Europe.

JUDGES RULE AGAINST TRUMP TRAVEL BAN FOR THIRD TIME

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JUDGES RULE AGAINST TRUMP TRAVEL BAN 
FOR THIRD TIME 
BY WARREN MASS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

Federal judges Derrick Watson and Theodore Chuang are at it again:
Apparently, neither of them can stand the idea of President Trump
imposing restrictions on citizens from eight mostly Muslim countries
from entering the United States.

On October 17, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii granted
the state of Hawaii’s request to temporarily block the federal
government from enforcing the Trump immigration policy that was supposed
to take effect at midnight the next day.

Hawaii argued that the updated ban is a continuation of Trump’s “promise to exclude Muslims from the United States.”

Later that day, in Maryland, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang
ruled that the latest version of the travel ban continues to have the
same problems, and violates the same constitutional principles, as
previous versions of the ban. Despite changes made by the
administration, Chuang ruled that it still constituted a “Muslim ban”
that violates the Constitution’s protections against religious
discrimination.

Watson and Chuang issued rulings last March blocking sections of
Trump’s March 6 executive order that banned travel to the United States
by foreign nationals from six countries identified as being state
sponsors of terrorism. Both judges were appointed by former president
Barack Obama.

On July 13, Watson imposed his own interpretation of the Supreme
Court’s June 26 ruling that allowed the travel ban to go into effect,
exempting only one category of foreigners from the travel ban, those
“with a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or
entity in the United States.”

The White House said on October 17 that Watson’s latest ruling was
“dangerously flawed” and “undercuts the president’s efforts to keep the
American people safe.”

“These restrictions are vital to ensuring that foreign nations comply
with the minimum security standards required for the integrity of our
immigration system and the security of our nation,” White House Press
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. “We are therefore confident that
the judiciary will ultimately uphold the president’s lawful and
necessary action and swiftly restore its vital protections for the
safety of the American people.”

Trump signed the travel ban that the two judges just blocked on
September 24, just hours before his previous travel ban was set to
expire. His proclamation limits the immigrant and non-immigrant entry
into the United States from the eight countries. It continues the ban on
immigration from five of the six countries in the previous ban: Iran,
Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia, and adds three new countries to the
list: Chad, North Korea, and Venezuela. The proclamation also drops one
country previously named — Sudan. Furthermore, it relaxes restrictions
for non-immigrant visitors from Somalia, as well as students and other
exchange visitors from Iran.

USA Today reported that Watson, who issued a nationwide
block against the travel ban, said the measure was “simultaneously
overbroad and underinclusive” because it targets entire countries rather
than dangerous individuals. Watson ruled the new ban fails to show that
nationality alone makes a person a greater security risk to the United
States.

“The categorical restrictions on entire populations of men, women and
children, based upon nationality, are a poor fit for the issues
regarding the sharing of ‘public-safety and terrorism-related
information’ that the president identifies,” Watson wrote.

Watson’s ruling affects only the six majority-Muslim countries and
does not include two other countries included in the ban, North Korea
and Venezuela.

The USA Today report noted that Chuang, in his ruling a few
hours after Watson’s, alleged that the president’s own words make clear
to him that the focus is not on national security but on instituting a
ban against Muslims. Chuang said the administration had “not shown that
national security cannot be maintained without an unprecedented
eight-country travel ban.”

However, Chuang’s ruling was more limited than Watson’s.
It prohibits the administration from enforcing the ban against people
who cannot prove they have a “bona fide” — or good faith — relationship
with U.S. persons or entities, such as businesses or universities.

The Trump administration, in defending the ban, cited a section of
federal law that allows a president to bar admission to “any aliens or
of any class of alien” that he declares are “detrimental to the
interests of the United States.” Administration spokesmen said the
latest version of the travel ban is a carefully constructed measure
implemented only after a thorough review by the departments of Homeland
Security, State, Defense, and Justice.

The two judges’ rulings quickly drew critical comments from the media. An October 19 opinion piece in The Hill
likened the latest rulings to “a bad movie sequel.” The writer of the
piece, Jonathan Turley, after summarizing what he regarded as a tiring
round of rulings, appeals, new orders, and new rulings, said:

The new opinions in Hawaii and Maryland
offer basically the same narrative while ignoring the new factual
foundation. While both judges are respected jurists and reached
good-faith conclusions, the opinions work too hard to ignore material
changes that undermine the earlier holdings on religious and nationality
discrimination….
Watson sees the executive order as still
discriminating on the basis of nationality. Yet, it is impossible to
specify inadequate entry procedures without designating the responsible
and high risk countries. If that is discrimination based on nationality,
most procedural rules addressing the failures of individual countries
would seem to fail under the test, including orders from past
presidents….
In Maryland, District Court Judge
Theodore Chuang notably only enjoined the order as to the Muslim
countries and only as to individuals without “a bona fide relationship
with an individual or entity in the United States.” As such, the court
actually allowed much of the order to be executed. Yet, Chuang held that
travel ban 3.0 failed to “cure” the “religious animus” behind the
earlier travel ban.

Chuang seems to place a heavy burden on the administration to “prove
the negative,” or, in this case “prove you are not anti-Muslim.”

Another writer for National Review, David French, made his point in the headline of his article: “Once Again, Judges Defy the Law to Defy Trump.”

French wrote that the judges’ “job is to assess whether a policy is constitutional, not whether it’s prudent or wise.”

He continued by observing:

In the last week, two federal
district-court judges in two different federal circuits have issued new
injunctions against the Trump administration’s latest “travel ban.” Both
injunctions are wrong, but one is dangerously wrong, representing not
just an extraordinary act of judicial supremacy but also a cavalier
disregard for the Supreme Court of the United States.

As to how the judges were disregarding the Supreme Court, French
noted that in their previous rulings against Trump’s first two executive
orders banning travel from the nations in question, “In essence, judges
were abandoning common standing rules, rereading binding precedent, and
sometimes even ignoring controlling authority to rule against Donald
Trump.” Then the Supreme Court rectified this judicial disorder. French
continued:

On June 26, 2017, the Supreme Court
restored a degree of judicial order. It didn’t rule on the merits of the
case, but its per curiam (unanimous) decision was instructive
nonetheless….
Here’s the Supreme Court: The interest in preserving national security is “an urgent objective of the highest order.”

French’s well-reasoned article is too lengthy to do justice to here, but his conclusion is worth reading:

The latest executive order may or may not
be the best policy choice (I’m generally more inclined to favor it than
some of my colleagues), but in this instance the threat to the
constitutional order comes not from Trump but from those who seek to
check him. Judges should stay in their lane. It is not their job to
correct policy blunders or to rescue us from policy failures. And it is
certainly not their job to second-guess the commander-in-chief’s
national security assessments. Trump’s third travel ban must stand. 

Related articles:

Supreme Court Dismisses One of Two Trump Travel Ban Cases

Trump Proclaims New Travel Ban, Adds Three New Countries, Including North Korea

Supreme Court Justice Stays Appeals Court Ruling Limiting Trump Travel Ban

Trump Travel Ban Unconstitutional? But Obama, Bush, Carter Travel Bans Constitutional?

Hawaii’s Judge Watson Loosens Trump Travel Ban

Supreme Court Allows Most of Trump Travel Ban to Proceed, Will Hear Case in Fall

Ninth Circuit Court Rules Against Travel Ban, but Trump Fires Back

Trump’s DOJ Submitted “Watered Down” Version of His Travel Ban to Supreme Court

Trump Administration Asks SCOTUS to Rule on “Travel Ban”

9th Circuit Court Considers Appeal of Judge’s Order Against Trump Travel Ban

Federal Judge Upholds Trump Travel Ban Blocked by Other Courts

Federal Judges Again Block Trump Travel Ban From Nations With Terrorist Ties

Trump Signs New Immigration Executive Order

Judge Grants Stay to Bar Trump DHS From Deporting Aliens From Seven Nations of Concern

Trump’s Order Suspending Refugee Program: Racism or Balanced National Security?

Trump Executive Order to Ban Nationals of “Countries of Particular Concern”

NORTH KOREA TURNS TO AUSTRALIA FOR SUPPORT AGAINST U.S. IN RARE LETTER

 North Korea Turns to Australia For Support Against US In Rare Letter
NORTH KOREA TURNS TO AUSTRALIA FOR SUPPORT AGAINST U.S. IN RARE LETTER
 Pyongyang claims Trump’s America First agenda damaging whole world
BY RT
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

North Korea has sent a letter filled with Trump-bashing to
the Australian Parliament, urging MPs to condemn Washington’s
saber-rattling, while at the same time assuring them of its “highest
consideration.”

The letter
was penned by North Korea’s Foreign Affairs Committee and sent to
Australia’s Indonesian embassy late September, but was received by
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop only last week.

The letter starts with the North Korean embassy extending compliments
to the Australian Parliament and saying that it has dispatched similar
letters to the lawmakers of other countries.

The thrust of the letter is fervent criticism of US President Donald Trump’s declared principle of putting America first “at the expense of the whole world.”

“The US brought to their knees those countries… with its
nuclear stick and force, and then cooked up the illegal ‘sanctions
resolution,’” the letter reads.

The committee goes on to note that North Korea “has emerged a fully-fledged nuclear power,” calling Trump’s threat to annihilate it a “big miscalculation” and urging the MPs to reject  “heinous and reckless moves” that aim to “drive the world into a horrible nuclear disaster.”

Foreign Minister Bishop, who revealed the existence of the letter
on Thursday, argued that this unheard-of way of communication means
that Pyongyang has been driven into the corner by international
sanctions.

“I think that this shows they are feeling desperate, feeling
isolated, trying to demonize the US, trying to divide the international
community,” Bishop said, noting that it is the first letter on
record that any Australian foreign minister has received from the North
Korean authorities.

Bishop praised Trump’s tough stance on North Korea, arguing that
it made China review its policy towards its troubled neighbor, and more
strictly enforce the sweeping economic sanctions adopted by the UN
Security Council in response to North Korea’s missile and nuclear
program.

Last week, North Korea warned Australia that “it will not be able to avoid a disaster” if it continues doing the bidding of the US by “imposing military, economic and diplomatic pressure”
on Pyongyang. The damning message came on the heels of Bishop’s visit
to a border village in South Korea on October 11, whence she called on
the international community to step up pressure on North Korea.

Accusing Australia of “preparing a war on the Korean Peninsula,” Pyongyang stated that it betrays its own national interests by playing sidekick in “Trump’s selfish ‘America First’ Policy.”

Australia agreed to host 1,250 US Marines and 13 aircraft at
Darwin in April, in the largest deployment of US forces in Australia
since 2011.

Early October Australia announced it would fit its new warships
with US-produced Aegis anti-missile defense systems to defend itself
from long-range missiles in light of the growing threat from “rogue states.” The construction of the frigates is set for completion in 2020.