Day: December 23, 2021

America’s Founding As A Nation Is Linked To Christmas, And The Founders’ Faith Shows This

BY CHRISTIANITY DAILY

SEE: https://americanfaith.com/americas-founding-as-a-nation-is-linked-to-christmas-and-the-founders-faith-shows-this/;

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When the U.S. was founded in 1776, Christmas was not celebrated the way it is today. In fact, historians found that some settlers who came to America brought the colonial Christmas debate over Christmas with them. Some wanted to remove Roman Catholic traditions that they believed were excessive, such as Christmas, whose roots were in the pagan Roman winter festival of Saturnalia and the Norse festival of Yule.

According to History, however, other settlers who arrived in the early 1600s in Virginia held Christmas with high regard, preserving it as “a sacred occasion and a day of rest.” Jumping forward to June 26, 1870, the American government declared Christmas a federal holiday. By the 1900s, most Christmas traditions had been established. Such traditions can be traced back to America’s Founding Fathers, who each celebrated Christmas in their own way.

According to CBN News, George Washington, the very first President of the United States and Commander of Continental Army during the American Revolution, celebrated Christmas with his family at Mount Vernon, where the entire family spent not one but 12 days to celebrate the holiday. The Mount Vernon website reported that the Washingtons celebrated from Christmas Eve on December 4 up to the Epiphany or Twelfth Night on January 6.

Washington and his wife, Martha were congregants of the Pohick Church, an Episcopalian congregation, in Lorton, Virginia. They would host family and friends to celebrate Christmas during the lengthy 12-day holiday.

Meanwhile, Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin, who was also a polymath, writer, scientist, inventor, and philosopher, was vocal about his faith in God, who he called “Creator of the universe” who “governs it by his Providence.” Because of this, Franklin believed that God “ought to be worshipped.” He remarked in his Poor Richard’s Almanac in 1733, “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

The first White House Christmas party can be attributed to the second President of the United States, John Adams, who hosted the event in December 1800. They held the Christmas party for their then-four-year-old granddaughter Susanna Boylston Adams, who lived with them. The event was attended by government officials and their children.

Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and Founding Father, held Christmas close to his heart and described it as a “the day of greatest mirth and jollity.” He also recounted how he celebrated Christmas with his grandchildren. In 1809, he spent Christmas day with his eight-year-old grandson Francis Wayles Eppes, who he said was “running about with his cousins bawling out ‘a Merry Christmas.'”

Upon inheriting the White House from Jefferson, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States continued the Christmas tradition of hosting parties at the White House with First Lady Dolley. They also began the tradition of sending out Christmas cards to their family and friends.

John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States and the son of John Adams, wrote, “Why is it that next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day on the Fourth of July?”

“Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation?” Quincy Adams wrote. “Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?”

It is through reflecting on the thoughts of the Founding Fathers on Christmas and their faith that Americans can understand how deeply rooted the holiday is in America’s identity and culture even today, no matter what those who don’t appreciate it may say.

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American Faith: Former Harvard Professor Found Guilty of Hiding Ties to University Lab in Wuhan

BY THE NEW YORK POST

SEE:https://americanfaith.com/former-harvard-prof-found-guilty-of-hiding-ties-to-university-lab-in-wuhan/;

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A former Harvard University chemistry professor was found guilty Tuesday of lying about his ties to China and not reporting income paid to him by a Chinese-run recruitment program.

Charles Lieber, 62, the former chairman of the Ivy League school’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was convicted in Boston federal court of two counts of making false statements, two counts of filing a false income tax return, and two counts of failing to report income from foreign bank and financial accounts.

Without Harvard’s knowledge, Lieber became a “strategic scientist” for the Wuhan Institute of Technology in central China and participated in Beijing’s Thousand Talents Program from 2012 to 2015.

The program was designed to recruit people with high-level ​knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property to China.

As part of the recruitment program, the Wuhan institute paid Lieber $50,000 a month and living expenses of up to $150,000, as well as giving him more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab.

Harvard University professor Charles Lieber (left) leaves federal court with his lawyer Marc Mukasey (right), on December 14, 2021.
Harvard University professor Charles Lieber (left) leaves federal court with his lawyer Marc Mukasey on December 14, 2021.
Charles Lieber's research group at Harvard University also received more than $15 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department.
Charles Lieber’s research group at Harvard University received more than $15 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department.
The program was designed to recruit people with high-level ​knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property to China.
The program was designed to recruit people with high-level ​knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property to China.

Lieber’s research group at Harvard University also received more than $15 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department, but he did not disclose his ties to China during the grant application process.

The professor also lied to the Internal Revenue Service about the money he was paid by Beijing.

“​There is now no question that Charles Lieber lied to federal investigators and to Harvard in an attempt to hide his participation in the Chinese Thousand Talents Program,” ​acting Boston ​US Attorney Nathaniel R. Mendell​ said in a statement.

“He lied to the IRS about the money he was paid, and he concealed his Chinese bank account from the United States. The jury followed the evidence and the law to a just verdict,” Mendell added. ​

Lieber was convicted after a six-day jury trial that was followed by two hours and 45 minutes of deliberations. His lawyer, Marc Mukasey, argued that federal prosecutors lacked proof because investigators failed to keep records of interviews with Lieber before he was arrested.​​​

Mukasey also claimed prosecutors couldn’t prove that Lieber acted “knowingly, intentionally, or willfully, or that he made any materially false statement.” ​

Lieber has been on paid administrative leave from Harvard since being arrested in January 2020. A sentencing date has yet to be determined.

POLICE STATE New Jersey: Anti-2ND AMENDMENT Forces Continue Their Push To Erode The Rights Of The People

Opinion
New Jersey Senate Bill S. 3757 Is One More Slap-In-The-Face For The Second Amendment And Heller.

We The People Second Amendment Constitution Bill of Rights

BY ROGER KATZ

SEE: https://www.ammoland.com/2021/12/new-jersey-anti-2a-forces-continue-their-push-to-erode-the-rights-of-the-people/;

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New York – -(AmmoLand.com)- The Arbalest Quarrel read with interest the NRA-ILA alert concerning New Jersey Senate Bill S. 3757 “that would force gun owners to store their guns and ammo under lock and key or face felony-level penalties.” We also read with interest and agree with the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs’ Scott Bach’s well-written explication of the bill.

Scott points out, “this ill-conceived bill imposes an absurd, one-size-fits-all totalitarian mandate to keep guns unloaded and locked up inside the home and to keep ammunition separately locked up inside the home, except when ‘in use’ – an utterly undefined term that will surely be interpreted to exclude everything except target practice.”

As Scott notes, the New Jersey gun bill is absurd. And it is idiotic on logical grounds alone.

But there is also a legal matter attendant to the bill. The bill flaunts and raises a disconcerting matter about the law that needs to be addressed.

Just how broadly or narrowly is Heller to be read? This idea is not as simple as it may seem.

Apart from the clear and categorical holding that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is an individual right unconnected with one’s service in a militia—ostensibly knocking down once and for all time the erroneous idea often still propounded by some that the Second Amendment refers to a “collective right”—the Court addressed another matter that directly impacts the New Jersey Senate bill.

The Heller Court said——

“In sum, we hold that the District’s ban on handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment, as does its prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense.”

Does the New Jersey Senate bill square with the Heller holding? And, if it doesn’t, what is the impetus for the New Jersey Legislature drafting the thing at all?

Let’s take a closer look at the bill as written.

A preliminary “Statement” of intent, in the bill, reads in pertinent part as follows:

“This bill, titled the ‘New Jersey Safe Storage of Firearms Act,’ establishes penalties for improper storage of a firearm that results in access of the firearm; requires a warning to be issued to firearms purchasers; and requires the Attorney General to establish a public awareness campaign regarding the risk associated with improper storage of a firearm. The bill also repeals the provisions of current law that establish penalties only for a minor’s access of an improperly stored firearm, and makes an appropriation.

Under current law, there are storage requirements and penalties imposed if a minor accesses a loaded firearm that is not in use. However, there currently are no general requirements for storing firearms when they are not in use.

This bill requires a legal owner of a firearm to: (1) store or secure a firearm that is not in use at a premises under the owner’s control unloaded, in a gun safe or securely locked box or container; and (2) store ammunition, separately, in a securely locked box or container.

Under the bill, if the owner of a firearm fails to store the firearm properly as required under the bill, the owner will, for a first offense, be sentenced to period of community service of not less than 10 hours and not more than 40 hours. For a second or subsequent offense, the owner is guilty of a disorderly persons offense. If an improperly stored firearm is accessed by another person, and the access results in serious bodily injury to or the death of the person who accesses the firearm or another person, the owner is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree. A disorderly persons offense is punishable by up to six months’ imprisonment, a fine of up to $1,000, or both. A crime of the fourth degree is punishable by up to 18 months’ imprisonment, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.”

The language of the bill, proper, says in pertinent part:

A legal owner of a firearm shall:

  • store or secure a firearm that is not in use at a premises under the owner’s control, unloaded, in a gun safe or securely locked box or container; and
  • store ammunition, separately, in a securely locked box or container.

The bill also imposes requirements on the firearms dealer:

The Superintendent of State Police, in conjunction with the Attorney General, shall adopt guidelines in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), to require each licensed retail firearms dealer in the State, or the retail dealer’s employee, to provide to any person who receives, possesses, carries, or uses a firearm, a written warning printed on eight and one-half inches by 11 inches in size paper in not less than 14 point bold point type letters which shall state:

“New Jersey State Law Requires That All Firearms Must Be Stored, Unloaded, In A Securely Locked Gun Safe Or Locked Container, And All Ammunition Must Be Stored In A Separate, Securely Locked Gun Safe Or Locked Container. Failure To Do So Is Punishable By Law And Could Result In Fines And Imprisonment.”

The written warning provided pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall include the requirements and penalties imposed pursuant to P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).

The superintendent shall provide each licensed retail firearms dealer with a sign to be displayed prominently at a conspicuous place on the dealer’s business premises at each purchase counter. The sign shall contain the statutory reference to section 3 of P.L., c. (C.). . . .”

Left unsaid in the bill, is how the New Jersey Government is to know whether or how a person stores a firearm in his house?

Is a New Jersey police officer to be given carte blanche authority to check on this? If so, would this not violate an individual’s Fourth Amendment Right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures?

But the more pressing issue is whether NJ S.B. 3757 is, on its face, patently illegal. Is the bill inconsistent with the Heller holding pertaining to one’s right of immediate access to a firearm in the home for the purpose of self-defense? It would seem so. But there is a problem.

Just how broadly, in regard to immediate access to a firearm in one’s home, is Heller to be taken? We look at this in the next segment, and consider the ramifications of Heller, for Bruen.

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SEE ALSO: New Jersey Governor’s Gun Bill Misfires in Assembly

https://www.ammoland.com/2021/12/new-jersey-governors-gun-bill-misfires-in-assembly/

 

 

Gen. Michael Flynn Files Restraining Order Against Nancy Pelosi

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/12/21/gen-michael-flynn-files-restraining-order-against-nancy-pelosi-n1543391;

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No, she isn’t stalking him, but it is almost as bad: Gen. Michael Flynn, who knows a thing or two about witch hunts, is taking action to stop the latest one. Naming all the members of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol as defendants, he has filed a complaint intended to stop a subpoena from that committee. At the same time, according to the Western Journal, Flynn “filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction specifically” against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Smirnoff). It is always refreshing, and far too rare, to see someone fighting back against this latter-day American version of the Stalinist show trials.

Remember: Flynn served as Trump’s National Security Adviser for less than a month before he resigned under a cloud in Feb. 2017, having become a central focus of the Russian collusion hoax. He wasn’t serving in the Trump administration in any capacity on Jan. 6, 2020, and had not done so for nearly three years. But that didn’t stop the rabid partisans of the Jan. 6 committee from trying to rope him into something he had absolutely nothing to do with.

“In November,” the Western Journal reports, Flynn “was mailed a subpoena ordering him to hand over documents and appear for a deposition.” According to Flynn’s complaint, “The Subpoena commanded General Flynn produce documents in response to twenty sweeping and vague demands covering a year and a half time frame — by November 23, 2021. Further, it commanded General Flynn to appear for a deposition on December 6, 2021.”

This is absurd, as Flynn was not a player in the Trump administration at that time, and so if there was any planning for an “insurrection,” (there wasn’t, as has recently been proven definitively), it would have been extremely unlikely that Flynn would have been in on it.

So why are the Jan. 6 committee and Pelosi targeting Flynn? Flynn’s complaint suggests that it may be because he was one of the many Americans who were skeptical about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. The complaint points out that “it is not a crime to hold such beliefs, regardless of whether they are correct or mistaken, to discuss them with others, to associate with those who share the same belief, or to ask the government to address such political concerns.”

There may be other reasons as well. Flynn has for years been one of the most vocal and articulate critics of the failed foreign policy establishment that the Biden administration has brought back into power. (It wasn’t entirely out of power during the Trump administration, as deeply entrenched bureaucrats fought hard against his efforts to establish American foreign policy on an America-First basis.) As far back as Aug. 2015, Foreign Policy Journal reported that Flynn, who had then recently left his position as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, stated that the Obama administration had made “a willful decision” to support al-Qaeda in Syria against the Assad regime. It came out early this year that U.S. taxpayer money went to a jihadist group in Syria during the Obama administration.

Related: More Federal Subpoenas Issued in Russia Hoax Op

This would explain why the political elites have targeted Flynn with such persistence and intensity: they had to make sure that his tenure as NSA would be extremely brief before he had the chance to do a thorough housecleaning and dismiss the Obama-era officials who were responsible for disastrous decisions such as the bright idea to aid jihad terrorists in Syria. When Trump dismissed Flynn, it looked as if his enemies had triumphed over him, but then it was their witch-hunt against Flynn in particular that began to unravel the entire Russian collusion hoax.

Now the fact that the Jan. 6 committee is targeting him demonstrates that they still regard Flynn as a threat, a serious challenge to their view of the world and the America-Last assumptions that guide the Left’s foreign policy. That also explains why he has not gotten even basic courtesy from a committee that is clearly avid to do anything it can to discredit and destroy him: he inquired about the subpoena, but according to the complaint, the Jan. 6 committee “stubbornly refused to provide any clarification or cooperation to resolve these issues.”

Now Flynn faces contempt of Congress charges for declining to play along with the witch-hunt. The complaint states: “Thus, General Flynn is caught between alternatives that both risk criminal prosecution by the Department of Justice, either in an ongoing criminal probe or in a new prosecution for contempt of Congress.”

Meanwhile, Flynn’s motion against Pelosi notes that he “had no part in organizing, speaking at or participating in the rallies, protest or incursion that took place on Jan. 6, 2020, and that the subpoena is furthermore an assault on Flynn’s constitutional rights.” The idea that Nancy Pelosi cares about anyone’s constitutional rights, and particularly the rights of someone she and her colleagues have targeted and scapegoated, is laughable. But we can hope that Flynn will find relief in the courts from this targeted legal harassment.

CAIR: Love for Jesus Unites Christians and Muslims at Christmas Time~POPE FRANCIS WOULD AGREE, DESPITE ALL THE JIHAD CRIME

BY STEPHEN M. KIRBY

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/12/cair-love-for-jesus-unites-christians-and-muslims-at-christmas-time;

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On December 15, 2021, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) re-released an op-ed titled “Love for Jesus Can Bring Christians and Muslims Together.”[1]  This op-ed was written by Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s current National Communications Director, and for a number of years it has been released annually before Christmas.

Hooper wrote:

As forces of hate in this country and worldwide try to pull Muslims and Christians apart, we are in desperate need of a unifying force that can bridge the widening gap of interfaith misunderstanding and mistrust. That force could be the message of love, peace, and forgiveness taught by Jesus and accepted by followers of both faiths. 

Spiritual Unity in the Koran?

After writing the above statement about a desperately needed “unifying force,” Hooper mentioned Koran 2:136:

Christians and Muslims would do well to consider another verse in the Quran reaffirming God’s eternal message of spiritual unity: “Say ye: ‘We believe in God and the revelation given to us and to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and it is unto Him that we surrender ourselves.’” (2:136)

But Koran 2:136 does not reaffirm “God’s eternal message of spiritual unity” between Christians and Muslims.  In the first place, the “ye” to whom this verse is directed are the Muslims; in the second place, even though Hooper used the word “God” in this Koran verse, this verse actually refers to Allah, the god of Islam, and Allah’s revelation (the Koran), and in both of which Muslims must believe.[2]

Here it is important to understand that Allah, the god of Islam, is not the same as the God of Christians and Jews.  We know this because here is what Allah has to say in the Koran about Christians and Jews:

Allah states that the only religion acceptable to him is Islam (e.g., 3:19 and 3:85);  Christians and Jews are disbelievers[3] (e.g. 2:120, 3:99, 3:110, and 5:65), and Jews are among the worst enemies of Muslims (5:82); Allah curses Christians and Jews (9:30) and states that those who believe that Allah had a Son commit the one unforgivable sin in Islam, Shirk[4](e.g. 4:48 and 4:116); Allah states that those who commit Shirk will go to Hell (e.g. 3:151 and 5:72-73); Allah states that Christians and Jews are among the worst of creatures and “will abide in the fire of Hell” (98:6); Allah specifically forbids Muslims from being friends with Christians and Jews (5:51), and instead commands Muslims to fight Christians and Jews (9:29).

It is also important to note that Koran 2:136 states that Jesus is just another prophet and not, as Christians believe, the Son of God.

Where is the “spiritual unity” in this Koran verse that requires Christians to believe in Allah, the god of Islam, and the Koran, and to deny that Jesus is the Son of God?

Hooper’s claim of “spiritual unity” between Christians and Muslims is further undermined by the fact that Christianity is considered to be a false religion because Allah states that Jesus was not crucified, but it only appeared so (Koran 4:157-158).  Instead, Allah took Jesus, who was inside a house with his disciples, bodily into paradise and made one of Jesus’ disciples look like Jesus; it was that disciple who was crucified.[5]  So Muslims who know their religion look at a crucifix or a painting of the Crucifixion and see an imposter hanging on the cross.  And of course, if there was no Crucifixion, there was no Resurrection.  So Islam teaches that Christianity is a false religion based on fraud and the disciples who spread that religion knew about that fraud.

The “unifying force” of Jesus’ Message

As I pointed out above, Hooper wrote:

…we are in desperate need of a unifying force that can bridge the widening gap of interfaith misunderstanding and mistrust. That force could be the message of love, peace, and forgiveness taught by Jesus and accepted by followers of both faiths. 

Hooper quoted the following partial statement from Muhammad which seemed to imply that Jesus was the unifying figure for Christians and Muslims:

Prophet Muhammad said: “Both in this world and in the Hereafter, I am the nearest of all people to Jesus, the son of Mary. The prophets are paternal brothers; their mothers are different, but their religion is one.”

But here is Muhammad’s actual statement, and in which he explained what Jesus’ message would really be when Jesus returned to earth:

Imam Ahmad recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Prophet said, The Prophets are paternal brothers: their mothers are different, but their religion is one.  I, more than any of mankind, have more right to ‘Isa [Jesus], son of Maryam, for there was no Prophet between him and I.  He will descend… He will break the cross [destroy Christianity], kill the pig, and banish the Jizyah and will call the people to Islam.  During his time, Allah will destroy all religions except Islam…’Isa will remain for forty years and then will die, and Muslims will offer the funeral prayer for him. [6]

So according to Muhammad, Jesus would return to earth, destroy Christianity, and call people to Islam, while Allah would be destroying all the other religions.  Jesus, being only a man, would then die after forty years.

And according to Muhammad, during those forty years Jesus would be judging mankind by the laws of the Koran:

Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allah’s Messenger said, “How will you be when the son of Maryam (Mary) [‘Isa (Jesus)] descends amongst you, and he will judge people by the law of the Qur’an and not by the law of the Gospel.”[7]

It appears that the Muslim Jesus will not have much “love, peace, and forgiveness” for Christians.

Conclusion

In his op-ed, Hooper acknowledged, without going into detail, that Christians and Muslims “do have some differing perspectives on Jesus’ life and teachings.”  But Hooper believed that the mutual love of Jesus by Christians and Muslims, and Jesus’ “message of love, peace and forgiveness,” would overcome those seemingly minimal differences and provide a “unifying force” for those two religions.

The reality is, as we have seen in this article, that there is a fundamental, irreconcilable difference in who Christians believe Jesus is, and who Muslims believe Jesus is.  Christians believe Jesus is the Son of God, and Muslims believe Jesus is only a human prophet who will eventually return to earth and destroy Christianity while calling people to Islam.

In spite of what Hooper claims, there is no unifying force that can bridge these fundamentally different beliefs about Jesus, because only one can be true.

Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of six books about Islam. His latest book is Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials.

[1]           Ibrahim Hooper, “Love for Jesus Can Bring Christians and Muslims Together,” CAIR, December 15, 2021, https://www.cair.com/op_eds/cair-islam-oped-love-for-jesus-can-bring-christians-and-muslims-together-3/.

[2]           Interpretation of the Meanings of The Noble Qur’an, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan and Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), p. 38; Abu al-Fida’ ‘Imad Ad-Din Isma’il bin ‘Umar bin Kathir al-Qurashi Al-Busrawi, Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged), abr. Shaykh Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, trans. Jalal Abualrub, et al. (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2000),Vol. 1, pp. 411-412; and Salahuddin Yusuf, Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan, trans. Mohammad Kamal Myshkat (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2010), Vol. 1, p. 124.

[3]           For an in-depth look at how the Koran and Muhammad differentiated between the “believers” (Muslims) and the Jews and Christians, see my article “The Fantasy Islam of the University of Chicago’s Fred Donner (Part 1),” Jihad Watch, January 30, 2019, https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/01/the-fantasy-islam-of-the-university-of-chicagos-fred-donner-part-1.

[4]           Shirk: polytheism, worshipping others along with Allah, and/or ascribing partners to Allah (including ascribing a Son to him).  By believing that Jesus is the Son of God, Christians commit Shirk.

[5]           Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 3, p. 28.

[6]           Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 3, pp. 31-32.

[7]           Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah al-Bukhari, Sahih Al-Bukhari, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Vol. 4, Book 60, No. 3449, p. 412.

 

Lancet science paper DESTROYS false narrative of covid vaccines, reveals vaccinated are PERPETUATING the pandemic

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-12-21-lancet-paper-destroys-false-narrative-covid-vaccines.html;

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(Natural News) Since the beginning of the plandemic, the world was told that getting “vaccinated” with an Operation Warp Speed injection would “cure” the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19). Nearly two years have passed, however, and the exact opposite is proving to be true.

A new letter from researcher Günter Kampf that was published in The Lancet blows some major holes in the mainstream injection narrative, one of the biggest being that Fauci Flu shots are not stopping the spread as claimed.

In fact, there appears to be a greater spread of illness and death among those who took the shots in obedience to government guidelines compared to those who left their immune systems alone to fight disease naturally.

According to Kampf, the epidemiological relevance of the fully vaccinated “is increasing,” based on the latest data. At best, the jabs are providing no protection whatsoever. At worst, they are making the people who take them more prone to a negative health outcome.

“In the UK, it was described that secondary attack rates among household contacts exposed to fully vaccinated index cases was similar to household contacts exposed to unvaccinated index cases (25% for vaccinated vs 23% for unvaccinated),” Kampf writes.

“[Twelve] of 31 infections in fully vaccinated household contacts (39%) arose from fully vaccinated epidemiologically linked index cases. Peak viral load did not differ by vaccination status or variant type.”

In Germany, he adds, the rate of symptomatic covid among the vaccinated is increasing. Back in July, it was around 16.9 percent among patients 60 years of age and older. As of October 27, that figure skyrocketed to 58.9 percent, “providing clear evidence of the increasing relevance of the fully vaccinated as a possible source of transmission.”

CDC: Most highly vaccinated counties are also the most diseased countiesA similar phenomenon is occurring in the United Kingdom as well. Symptomatic covid cases among the fully vaccinated are rising just as they are in Israel and elsewhere where Fauci Flu shots are being widely administered.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced that four of the top five counties with the highest percentage of fully vaccinated population (84.3-99.9 percent) are “high” transmission counties.

All of this would suggest that getting jabbed likely means getting sick or spreading sickness to others. And yet the official story is that the fully vaccinated are not to even be counted as a potential source of transmission.

“It appears to be grossly negligent to ignore the vaccinated population as a possible and relevant source of transmission when deciding about public health control measures,” Kampf says.

To continue calling the current situation a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” is simply false, Kampf warns. In reality, this is a pandemic of the vaccinated, as the plandemic would already be over had everyone chosen to remain unvaccinated.

“I don’t bend over for bullies trying to ‘stigmatize’ me,” wrote a Natural News reader about this unfair mischaracterization of the unvaccinated. “And being stigmatized in a sick society is a badge of honor while being well adjusted is the opposite.”

“The ‘vaccinated’ are the ones to avoid,” wrote another. “They are the sick. They are the disease spreaders. They have compromised immune systems. They have 251x the viral load in their nasal passages and throat. Stop cowering and go on the offense.”

This writer would further add that, yes, it is time for the unvaccinated to stand boldly and unashamed, and to equip themselves with this kind of knowledge in order to counter the constant falsehoods coming from the media and the government.

If you enjoyed reading this story, you will find more like it at Pandemic.news.

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Secret Service: Nearly $100B Stolen in Pandemic Relief Funds

Secret Service: Thieves Steal $100 Billion in Pandemic Relief Funds

Secret Service: Thieves Steal $100 Billion in Pandemic Relief Funds

BY: A/P

SEE: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/virus-relief-fraud/2021/12/22/id/1049596/;

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Nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, the U.S. Secret Service says.

The estimate is based on Secret Service cases and data from the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration, Roy Dotson, the agency's national pandemic fraud recovery coordinator, revealed in an interview Tuesday. The Secret Service didn't include COVID-19 fraud cases prosecuted by the Justice Department.

While roughly 3% of the $3.4 trillion dispersed, the amount stolen from pandemic benefits programs shows “the sheer size of the pot is enticing to the criminals,” Dotson said.

Most of that figure comes from unemployment fraud. The Labor Department reported about $87 billion in unemployment benefits could have been paid improperly, with a significant portion attributable to fraud.

The Secret Service said it has seized more than $1.2 billion while investigating unemployment insurance and loan fraud and has returned more than $2.3 billion of fraudulently obtained funds by working with financial partners and states to reverse transactions. The Secret Service says it has more than 900 active criminal investigations into pandemic fraud, with cases in every state, and 100 people have been arrested so far.

The Justice Department said last week that its fraud section had prosecuted over 150 defendants in more than 95 criminal cases and had seized over $75 million in cash proceeds derived from fraudulently obtained Paycheck Protection Program funds, as well as numerous real estate properties and luxury items purchased with the proceeds.

One of the best-known programs created through the March 2020 CARES Act, PPP offered low-interest, forgivable loans to small businesses struggling to meet payroll and other expenses during pandemic-related shutdowns.

Law enforcement early in the pandemic focused on fraud related to personal protective equipment, the Secret Service said. Authorities have now prioritized the exploitation of pandemic-related relief because the federal funding through the CARES Act attracted the attention of individuals and organized criminal networks worldwide.

“Can we stop fraud? Will we? No, but I think we can definitely prosecute those that need to be prosecuted and we can do our best to recover as much fraudulent pandemic funds that we can," said Dotson, who is the Secret Service's assistant special agent in charge of the agency’s field office in Jacksonville, Florida.

 

Biden Enables Iran’s Nuke Program While Blaming Trump For It

Biden’s State Department Paving the Way for Iran to Get Nukes, Blames Trump

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/12/22/bidens-state-department-paving-the-way-for-iran-to-get-nukes-blames-trump-n1543572;

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In the course of a lengthy briefing by “senior administration officials” regarding National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s upcoming trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the topic of Iran and its nuclear ambitions came up again and again. Biden’s handlers reiterated that they were determined not to allow the Islamic Republic of Iran to get nuclear weapons, but at the same time maintained that they were intent on bringing the mullahs back into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Barack Obama’s disastrous nuclear deal that paved the way for the rogue Iranian regime to get nukes.

Iran said the unnamed official who was conducting the briefing, “will be very high on the agenda for Jake’s visit to Israel this week. The discussion will be a continuation of our ongoing consultations on the threat posed by Iran, particularly its nuclear program, but also its destabilizing activities in the region. We share, with our Israeli partners, a deep concern about the advancements in Iran’s nuclear program.”

Iran’s nuclear program, Biden’s handlers would have you believe, is all Trump’s fault: “Following the previous administration’s withdrawal from the JCPOA without much thought or plan as to what would come next — and we’ve just seen this dramatic acceleration of Iran’s nuclear program since then. The U.S. and Israel are totally aligned in our determination to ensure Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon.” He repeated this several times during the call, discussing “the real dangers that — it’s a danger to not just Israel, but a danger to the entire international security — of Iran’s rapidly advancing and accelerating nuclear program. We are, I think, both committed to ensuring that Iran — as I mentioned, totally aligned on the fact that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.”

That sounds great, but reentering Obama’s awful JCPOA is exactly the wrong way to go about it. The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran explains that among many other disquieting features, the JCPOA allows Iran to delay International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection requests for up to 24 days — ample time to clean up for the inspectors. The agreement also removes all economic sanctions on Iran. This included the removal of sanctions that had originally been intended to be removed only when Iran definitively gave up its nuclear program; now the Islamic Republic would be given sanctions relief and allowed to continue its nuclear program, only with certain restrictions that would all eventually expire anyway. Sanctions relief allows the Iranian mullahs to finance jihad groups worldwide, as they did with the billions Obama gave them.

On Sept. 23, 2015, two months after the nuke deal was finalized, Khamenei published an article entitled “The Idols Will Be Shattered,” illustrated with a drawing of the Statue of Liberty shattered in pieces. In it, he declared, “The idol of the soul, the idol of pride, [and] the idol of sexual lust; the idol of tyranny and subservience; the idol of global tyranny [that is, the U.S.]; the idol of sloth and irresponsibility; and the other idols that shame the precious human soul—a plan that will spring forth from the depths of the heart will shatter them.” That doesn’t exactly sound as if the JCPOA was a path to peaceful coexistence.

Related: Biden Administration Continues to Show Its Disdain for Israel and Support of Iran

But as far as the “senior administration official” who conducted Monday’s briefing was concerned, it was all Trump’s fault: “I think it’s important to keep in mind something happened in 2019: The former administration pulled out of the JCPOA. They engaged in a maximum pressure campaign. And I think anyone who has dealt with the Iranians for some time would have predicted that Iran will react, and they did react. And one of the ways they reacted was attacking Saudi Arabia and others in the Gulf — direct state-to-state attacks. And not only did the United States not respond, the President at the time tweeted that we shouldn’t really be in the Middle East at all.”

This is remarkably disingenuous, even coming from an entity so habitually dishonest as the Biden administration. The official is trying to give the impression that Trump’s policies led an Iranian regime that had been pacified to become aggressive. Biden’s handlers are hoping you’ll forget that Iran detained and publicly humiliated ten American sailors in Jan. 2016, just as the JCPOA was going into effect. The idea that Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA ratcheted up tensions, or caused tensions where there were none, is pure propaganda.

The administration official said it again at the end of the briefing: “Iran can never get a nuclear weapon.” Yet everything it is doing is only enabling the Islamic Republic to get such weapons while trying to gaslight you into thinking that the fault lies entirely with the previous administration. Biden’s handlers are playing an extremely dangerous game; let’s hope for the sake of all of us that it doesn’t blow up in their faces.

Army Scientists Have Developed a Vaccine Against All Variants

BY RICK MORAN

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Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research announced that they have created a vaccine against all variants of the coronavirus, as well as previous SARS-origin viruses that have killed millions of people around the world.

The scientists began their efforts nearly two years ago when the coronavirus began to be seen around the world. They received their first samples of the COVID-19 virus in March of 2020 and immediately set to work trying to create a vaccine.

But instead of trying to create a vaccine that would be effective against a single strain of the virus, scientists at Walter Reed decided to create a vaccine that would work against all variants — including those in the future.

The vaccine has successfully completed stage one of human trials. While no results have been published, the scientists say the vaccine showed “positive results.” Two more trials would need to be completed successfully before the FDA would consider approving the vaccine for general use.

 

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Unlike existing vaccines, Walter Reed’s SpFN uses a soccer ball-shaped protein with 24 faces for its vaccine, which allows scientists to attach the spikes of multiple coronavirus strains on different faces of the protein.

“It’s very exciting to get to this point for our entire team and I think for the entire Army as well,” Modjarrad said.

The scientists had difficulty finding enough eligible patients for the trials because they needed unvaccinated and uninfected people for the test.

The next phase will test the efficacy of the vaccine against uninfected and non-inoculated people.

“We need to evaluate it in the real-world setting and try to understand how does the vaccine perform in much larger numbers of individuals who have already been vaccinated with something else initially…or already been sick,” Modjarrad said.

He said nearly all of Walter Reed’s 2,500 staff have had some role in the vaccine’s nearly-two-year development.

“We decided to take a look at the long game rather than just only focusing on the original emergence of SARS, and instead understand that viruses mutate, there will be variants that emerge, future viruses that may emerge in terms of new species. Our platform and approach will equip people to be prepared for that.”

Although a long way from getting approved, the Army vaccine holds out hope for the future. But regardless of how the vaccine works out, the pandemic “as a social phenomenon” is now over, according to Yascha Mounk.

The Atlantic:

From the first days of the pandemic, both experts and laypeople have disagreed about the extent to which we should engage in social distancing or government-imposed shutdowns. At every stage, some people wanted to take radical steps while others were more worried about the costs and drawbacks of such interventions. And that still holds true today. But the continuous fights over masks and vaccine mandates obscure the extent to which the field of battle has shifted in recent months.

Despite skyrocketing caseloads, few pundits or politicians are proposing strict measures to slow the virus’s spread. The appetite for shutdowns or other large-scale social interventions simply isn’t there. This means that we have effectively given up on “slowing the spread” or “flattening the curve.” To a much greater degree than during previous waves, we have quietly decided to throw up our hands.

Many on the right have taken that attitude all along, regardless of the supposed severity of the variant. All the way back in July 2020, Donald Trump was saying that we’re going to have to learn to live with the coronavirus. During the debate in October, Biden said “people are learning to die with it.”

Biden promised he could defeat the coronavirus. He said he could manage the pandemic better than Trump. He said a lot of silly things about the pandemic and has spent more than $5 trillion to jumpstart the economy.

The economy has now “jumpstarted” into near double-digit inflation, the virus is still rampaging across the country, and the Secret Service is saying that $100 billion in pandemic relief funds have been stolen.

How would you rate Joe Biden’s job handling the pandemic as president?