U.S. CLOSES PORTS OF ENTRY AMID REPORTS CARAVAN PREPARING TO RUSH BORDER

 U.S. Closes Ports of Entry Amid Reports Caravan Preparing To Rush Border
U.S. CLOSES PORTS OF ENTRY AMID REPORTS CARAVAN PREPARING TO RUSH BORDER 
 Migrants determined to flout American sovereignty
BY JAMIE WHITE
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The U.S. has temporarily closed several ports of entry with
Mexico after officials received reports that the migrant caravan of
3,000 is preparing to bum-rush the border, DHS Secretary Kirstjen
Nielsen announced Monday.

“This AM, all of #SanYsidro
Port of Entry’s northbound lanes were temporarily closed to initiate
additional port hardening efforts after @CBP officials were notified
that a large # of caravan migrants were planning to rush the border in
an attempt to gain illegal access to the US,” Nielsen tweeted.

This AM, all of Port of Entry’s northbound lanes were temporarily closed to initiate additional port hardening efforts after @CBP officials were notified that a large # of caravan migrants were planning to rush the border in an attempt to gain illegal access to the US.

In response, Customs and Border Protection issued a statement,
saying they blocked several port-of-entry lanes and reinforced their
numbers to head off the invasion, in conjunction with the Department of
Defense.

“In the early morning hours, CBP officials received reports of
groups of persons from the caravan gathering in the city of Tijuana for a
possible attempt or attempts to rush illegally through the port of
entry instead of presenting themselves as required to a CBP officer.”

“CBP officials suspended operations to safely place impediments
at the port of entry that would restrict access to a large group
attempting to run through the border crossing. After the CBP response at
San Ysidro, no activity materialized at the border crossing,” the
statement read.
 

.@CBP and @DeptofDefense appropriately responded by blocking the lanes, deploying additional personnel and seeking assistance from other law enforcement and federal assets. has reopened lanes for legitimate trade and travel. I want to thank them for their swift actions.

San Ysidro is known as the border’s busiest crossing, with over 100,000 people entering the U.S. daily.

About 10 lanes were reopened several hours after the closure.

Nielsen reminded the caravan that entering the U.S. by force is illegal and won’t be tolerated.

“Unfortunately, some members of the caravan are purposely causing
disruptions at our border ports of entry. There is a legal and illegal
way to enter the US. We have deployed additional forces to protect our
border. We will enforce all our laws.”

Unfortunately, some members of the caravan are purposely causing disruptions at our border ports of entry. There is a legal and illegal way to enter the US. We have deployed additional forces to protect our border. We will enforce all our laws.

Video has emerged of residents of Tijuana, Mexico, clashing with members of the caravan over the weekend, saying President Trump was right to call it an “invasion.”

Trump tweeted an updated picture of the reinforced border, saying that the Fake News has been “showing old footage.”

“The Fake News is showing old footage of people climbing over our
Ocean Area Fence. This is what it really looks like – no climbers
anymore under our Administration!”

 

The Fake News is showing old footage of people climbing over our Ocean Area Fence. This is what it really looks like – no climbers anymore under our Administration!

US HOUSE DROPS 181 YEAR OLD RULE AGAINST HEADCOVERINGS TO APPEASE NEWLY ELECTED HIJABBED MUSLIM

US HOUSE DROPS 181 YEAR OLD RULE 
AGAINST HEADCOVERINGS TO APPEASE 
NEWLY ELECTED HIJABBED MUSLIM 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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There have been Orthodox
Jewish men who have served in the House, and this rule was never changed
for them. But the principle must always be maintained: wherever Islamic
law and custom and American law and custom conflict, American law and
custom must give way.

“US House Reverses 181-Year-Old-Rule To Appease Newly Elected Muslim,” by Cillian Zeal, Western Journal, November 17, 2018:

For 181 years, you haven’t been able to wear head
coverings on the floor of the House of Representatives. Now, however,
after the election of the first hijab-wearing Muslim representative,
that’s about to be changed.

According to the New York Post,
the election of Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar will put an end to a rule that
was originally meant to differentiate Congress from British Parliament.

Parlimentarians had a tradition of wearing hats on the floor of
Westminster. Given that we took up coffee as our national beverage (and
even threw that dastardly tea over the sides of some ships in Boston
Harbor) to let the British know how we felt about their institutions,
banning hats only seemed to come naturally.

However, in the age of Ilhan Omar, that’s changing.

“There are those kinds of policies that oftentimes get created
because people who have blind spots are in positions of influence and
positions of power,” Omar said Thursday.

“I think it will be really exciting to see the stuff that we notice within the rules that don’t work for a modern-day America.”…

There have been numerous changes to dress code in Congress over the
years; women were forbidden to wear pants on the floor until 1993, and bare arms were first allowed under Paul Ryan’s speakership.

So, the times they do a-change when it comes to congressional styles.
However, the aforementioned rules were based around gender biases and
the norms of the era; there wasn’t any real or symbolic reasoning behind
them. In this case, it isn’t quite that simple.

As the House’s website
notes, proposals to ban head coverings dated back to 1822. In 1833,
future president James K. Polk proposed that the House “provide that the
members should sit in the House uncovered, unless under special leave
of the Speaker.”

Others pointed out “the symbolic value of the tradition, noting that
members of the British House of Commons wore hats during debate to
symbolize that body’s independence from the King of England.”

Of course, the case could be made that a religious argument against it could have existed since 1845, when Lewis Charles Levin became the first Jewish man elected to Congress.

Granted, Levin is probably best remembered as a vicious
anti-Catholic, anti-foreigner zealot, but the point still holds that for
173 of the 181 years that the head-covering ban has existed, there’s
likely been a compelling reason to abandon it for Jewish men who wish to
wear the kippah. Yet, we’ve seen no movement on the matter until now.

Should the tradition be amended? It’s interesting that the only representative who plans to take advantage of this new rule is Representative-elect Omar; even Watson Coleman says she’s not going to be taking advantage of it.

While we appreciate the fact that the hijab is part of Omar’s
religious dress, we also appreciate that head coverings have likely been
the part of other representatives’ religious dress, and they also
haven’t been able to wear them on the floor, either. This wasn’t just
some “blind spot” but part of congressional heritage….

SARAH SILVERMAN’S TV SHOW MOCKS JESUS CHRIST AS “PANSEXUAL”

 Sarah Silverman blasphemy mockery of Christianity | End time Christian persecution
 WARNING OFFENSIVE & INAPPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN & THE IMMATURE
 SARAH SILVERMAN’S TV SHOW MOCKS 
JESUS CHRIST AS “PANSEXUAL” 
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Sarah Silverman has repeatedly mocked the name of God – now depicting Jesus as “pansexual.”

In
just the latest of attacks on The Lord Jesus Christ and the Christian
faith, comedian Sarah Silverman used a skit from her newest TV show to
portray Jesus Christ as a profanity spewing pansexual seeking to ban
crucifixions. Silverman who has spent much of her career mocking,
attacking and ridiculing Christianity not only demonstrated the current
state of TV when it comes to its treatment of the Christian faith but
also how far society is falling from any fear of God at all.

According to reports:

“Comedian
Sarah Silverman, who has made a career out of mocking religion, took
her crass humor to another level last week with an Election Day skit
involving a cursing “Jesus” who is promiscuous.

The skit, which
appeared on Hulu’s I Love You America, shows Silverman in a line on
Election Day when she spots “Jesus” (played by Fred Armisen) at the
front and calls out his name. Newsbusters first reported about the
controversy.
“Sarah, my child, how are you?” she asks.
“I’m great, how are you?” he responds.
The
discussion quickly devolves into a discussion of his genitalia – which
he happily talks about – before the conversion turns to politics.
“I don’t want to say who I’m voting for,” he says.
Silverman asks him which issues are most important to him.
“I just want a law that says you can’t force your kid to die publicly by bleeding to death on a cross,” he says.
The discussion then turns back to sex, with Silverman saying she wished he wasn’t celibate.
“I’m essentially pansexual,” he says, before adding that he had “sex” with an oak tree recently.
When Silverman lets an f-bomb slip, he curses, too, saying, “I curse all the time. F— f— f—. D–. P–. H–, B—-. S—.” (source).

Sarah Silverman’s History of Blasphemy

Sarah Silverman I love America Blasphemy | Antichristian TV shows and movies

Silverman makes many comments with the intent to anger and “trigger” Christians.

Silverman has devoted much of her comedic efforts ridiculing Christianity. Here is just a portion:

Webster’s 1828 dictionary (based on the English of the King James Bible) defines blasphemy as:

“An
indignity offered to God by words or writing; reproachful, contemptuous
or irreverent words uttered impiously against Jehovah.
Blasphemy
is an injury offered to God, by denying that which is due and belonging
to him, or attributing to him that which is not agreeable to his
nature.” (source).

The
Bible warns: “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain;
for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”
(Exodus 20:7). Denigrating the Name of God is a serious offense in the Bible:

“Be
not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap.  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh
reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit
reap life everlasting.” – Galatians 6:7-8

And
yet, Silverman has relentlessly attacked God in her comedy skits and
shows. Why? The Bible is clear that the farther someone moves from God,
the more their anger and animosity towards The Lord grows:

“For
they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they
that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.  For to be carnally
minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to
the law of God, neither indeed can be.” – Romans 8:5-7.

All
people are born with a corrupted, sinful nature as a result of the
first sin in the Garden of Eden. And thus, we are “carnally minded”
focused on satisfying the sinful desires of our hearts that we all have.
But in addition to wanting to sin – the carnal mind is at “enmity” or
at war, with God. So, the problem for an unbeliever like Silverman is
not that she does not believe in God – but that she hates God. Hence her
spending so much time attacking, mocking and challenging a God she
claims does not exist and a faith she says is “magic.”

An Outspoken Support of Murder In The Womb

Bible verses on blasphemy | Is Sarah Silverman Jewish?

A “joke” made by Silverman during her “Jesus Is Magic” comedy show.

To
no surprise, much of Silverman’s public anger towards Christianity
centers around abortion.
She is an ardent supporter of Planned
Parenthood – the abortion corporation Beginning And End has repeatedly detailed for its racist history, encouraging minors to have abortions and having workers on video encouraging the cover up of statutory rape.
At a pro-abortion telethon Silverman berated laws that seek to prevent
corporations from using the body parts of aborted children for
commercial use. In response the comedian said: “If anything has ever
made me want to eat an aborted fetus, it’s this law.” (source).
In
response to laws that seek to provide funerals for babies killed in the
womb she stated: “F— funerals for f—aborted fetuses? I would like to
speak at those funerals. He lived the way he died. He died the way he
lived. The size of a sesame seed with no discerning brain function.” (source).
She’s also tweeted her support of abortions on a regular basis:

Sarah Silver man Illuminati Satanic Entertainment | Hollywood blasphemy of Jesus Christ and the Bible

Silverman
pretending to be pregnant with “before and after” photos of an abortion
with her then boyfriend, Alec Sulkin, a writer for the Family Guy cartoon which also has mocked The Lord Jesus Christ.

God says of those who come to belief and faith in Him and the mindset of those who willfully reject and deny Him:

“For
whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.
 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that
hate me love death.” – Proverbs 8:35-36

Notice
the verse above does not say “all they that do not believe in me…” but
rather rightly identifies the many people who hate God. And along with
that becomes a love of death. The pro-abortion movement has continually
linked attacking Christianity with their political movement – one stark
example being when a group of pro-abortion activists shouted, “Hail
Satan!” during a rally at the Texas Capitol building.

Pray For Sarah Silverman

Without
a doubt, some reading this article will be incredibly angered at the
brazen disrespect and blasphemy carried out by Sarah Silverman for over a
decade. And that anger stems from a love for God and the defense of the
Christian faith. But remember that the Bible says: “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.” (Ephesians 4:26-27).
The Lord Jesus Christ commands believers to pray for those who
persecute Christians. Pray for Sarah Silverman and the many entertainers
who use their platform to blaspheme the name of God. And pray for
society to move away from viewing blasphemy as entertainment.
Silverman
is a lost soul whose heart has been seared from years of rebellion and
enmity at God. But that does not change the fact that the same Jesus
Christ she disrespected gave His life for her, just as He did for the
soldiers who mocked and attacked Him as He walked to the cross. God
loves her just as He does all the lost souls in the world today. Pray
she repents and receives the free forgiveness that can be found through faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, taking her punishment so she could be forgiven.
If you are a Christian tune out blasphemous entertainment. And if you
are not a Christian, understand that Jesus Christ predicted this would
take place as the end times approached. And He gave a stern warning
about how we speak to Him:

“A good man out of the good
treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out
of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.  But I say unto you,
That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account
thereof in the day of judgment.  For by thy words thou shalt be
justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” – Matthew 12:35-37

Lord willing Sarah Silverman will repent of her words before the day she stands face to face with the real Jesus Christ.

TRUMP VOWS TO KICK CNN’S ACOSTA OUT AGAIN

TRUMP VOWS TO KICK CNN’S ACOSTA OUT AGAIN  
The president responds to activist judge’s ruling to restore Acosta’s “hard pass” 
BY MATTHEW VADUM
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President Trump took CNN’s improbable court victory temporarily
restoring CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s “hard pass” media
credential for the executive mansion in stride, vowing to kick Acosta
out again in the future if he breaches White House protocol again.
The yanking of the physical credential, by the way, isn’t exactly a
grave hardship. It just means Acosta would need to make an appointment
through the White House press office every time he wanted to visit the
White House grounds, just as the rest of the non-hard pass-holding
journalists who don’t work for big media outlets like CNN have to do.
Lacking a hard pass does not prevent anyone from reporting on the White
House.
Speaking to Chris Wallace of Fox News Channel in an interview that aired Sunday, Trump had some new ideas on how to deal with Acosta, who picks fights with him during pressers.
“I think one of the things we’ll do is maybe turn the camera off that
faces them, because then they don’t have any air time, although I’ll
probably be sued for that and maybe, you know, win or lose it, who
knows,” Trump said. “I mean, with this stuff you never know what’s going
to happen.”
The president described Acosta as “unbelievably
rude to [White House Press Secretary] Sarah Huckabee, who’s a wonderful
woman,” and said his administration is drawing up “rules and
regulations” for White House reporters. “And if he misbehaves, we’ll
throw him out or we’ll stop the news conference,” Trump said.
Acosta’s hard pass was pulled
after a contentious Nov. 7 press conference at the White House. After
interacting with President Trump – Acosta said he wanted to “challenge”
him on calling the Central American caravans an “invasion” – the
president called upon another reporter to speak. After lecturing Trump,
Acosta belligerently refused to yield the microphone to a White House
staffer and pushed her arm away as she reached for the device, all of
which was captured on video.
On Nov. 16, U.S. District Judge
Timothy J. Kelly of Washington, D.C., who was appointed by Trump, ruled
against the administration and ordered Acosta’s hard pass restored for
14 days, pending further hearings in the lawsuit. But it was not a
vindication of Acosta’s free speech rights under the First Amendment.
The judge specifically said that the First Amendment claim made by
Acosta and CNN had not yet been adjudicated and added that the president
was free not to call on Acosta at future press conferences.
The temporary restraining order was nowhere to be found online at press
time, but according to media reports, Kelly found that the
administration violated Acosta’s due process rights under the Fifth
Amendment to the Constitution. The White House vowed to remedy the
situation by drawing up rules governing press conferences.
The
U.S. Department of Justice said the court ruling was disappointing.
“The President has broad authority to regulate access to the White
House, including to ensure fair and orderly White House events and press
conferences. We look forward to continuing to defend the White House’s
lawful actions.”
Acosta ignorantly blathered on to reporters when he returned to the White House Friday after the court ruling, incorrectly claiming he won a great First Amendment victory.
“I’m very grateful for what happened today,” Acosta said. “I’m
grateful for my colleagues in the press who stood by us through all of
this.”
“This was a test and I think we passed the test,” he said.
“Journalists need to know that in this country their First Amendment
rights of freedom of the press are sacred, they’re protected in our
Constitution,” Acosta said. “Throughout all of this I was confident and I
thought that this would be the result at the end of the day that our
rights would be protected as we continue to cover our government and
hold our leaders accountable.”
The court case isn’t over yet. The legal antagonists have to report to the court Monday afternoon.
The court ordered the parties to “file a joint status report proposing
how they would like to proceed in this case by 3:00 p.m. on November
19, 2018[,]” according to its online docket.
According to CNN,
“White House officials sent Acosta a letter stating that his pass is
set to be suspended again once the restraining order expires.”

From the looks of the letter, the W.H. is trying to establish a paper
trail that will empower the administration to boot Acosta again at the
end of the month.
CNN responded with this statement on
Sunday: “The White House is continuing to violate the First and 5th
Amendments of the Constitution. These actions threaten all journalists
and news organizations. Jim Acosta and CNN will continue to report the
news about the White House and the President.”

The Acosta-CNN lawsuit was filed by Ted Boutrous and Trump-hating
Republican lawyer Ted Olson, of the law firm Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher.
Olson was solicitor general in President George W. Bush’s
administration. (The legal complaint may be viewed here.)
Boutrous said CNN is prepared to dig in for a protracted legal fight if it needs to.
“We’re ready to litigate as long as we have to, to protect these First
Amendment rights, to ask the court to declare rules of the road going
forward,” he said.
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MIKE HUCKABEE AT HOROWITZ’S RESTORATION WEEKEND: THE CASE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP

MIKE HUCKABEE AT HOROWITZ’S RESTORATION WEEKEND: THE CASE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP 
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 Editor's note: Below are the video and transcript of remarks
 given by Mike Huckabee at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's 
2018 Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 15th-18th at the 
Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida.
 

Mike Huckabee from DHFC on Vimeo.

Transcript:

Thank you.  Well, thank
you very much.  It is a delight to be with you.  You don’t have to worry
about me going over the time today, because I’ve got to catch a flight
out of here, get to D.C. to guest host the Sean Hannity show, because
the FBI’s looking for him and I need to go in and fill in.  Of course,
the bad news is, they’re looking for me too.  So, please don’t tell them
I’m going in to D.C.  There’s a lot of those guys up there.  Andrew,
don’t tell them.  I know you’ve got a lot of contacts in there.  It is a
delight to be with you, and I want to say thanks also for the
introduction, because he actually mentioned some biographical things
about me, which are unimportant, but these days I don’t get that
anymore.  I used to.  You know, he was governor this time.  He did
this.  He did that.  Now, most of the introductions I get are, “Ladies
and gentlemen, Sarah’s dad”, and that’s it.  That’s the whole thing.

And, as you can see, the mere mention of her name gets four times the
applause I got for showing up.  But people ask me all the time, where
does she get that toughness, and sometimes I’ll say, “Have you ever met
her mother?”  Never say that when Janet is around.  But there is an
honest explanation for it, and it’s pretty simple.  She had two older
brothers who were unbelievably mean to her.  Really.  They once
super-glued her fingers together.  That was a trip to the emergency room
late one night.  They once gave her a big glass of mud and told her it
was a chocolate milkshake, and so, when you see what the press is doing
to her, she’s used to it, and, in fact, if anything, it made her tough,
and she, even to this day, she will say, “I’m so glad my brothers were
as mean to me as they were, because it made me learn how to fight”, and
she does, and I love how she does it.
By the way, I may have
said this when I was here 2 years ago, but I want to just make it real
clear.  Donald Trump was not my first choice for president.  I was my
first choice for president, just to get that out of the way.  But the
good news is we did get a Huckabee in the White House.  It just wasn’t
the one that I thought it was going to be, but I think she’s doing a
great job for the President.  She takes nothing off those guys.  Now, I
know many of you have been in the meeting.  You may not have heard it,
and this is not a punchline.  This actually happened, but the federal
judge ruled just about an hour and a half or 2 hours ago that Jim Acosta
from CNN is going to get his hard pass back to the White House.  Yeah. 
I was just as excited as you are.  The good news is, the judge did not
rule it on First Amendment grounds, because that would’ve been
ludicrous.  There is no First Amendment case.  Jim Acosta and CNN, his
failing network, is free to say anything they want, and he is not
inhibited by the government to report.  If he were, he would’ve shut up a
long time ago.  But it was on Fifth Amendment grounds saying that there
was not a process in place to deny his hard pass.
What I
hope happens is an energy saving measure by the White House will be
announced soon.  They will permanently turn off the lights in the press
briefing room, and it will stay dark until they decide they’re going to
behave like adults and not go in there like a bunch of wild people.  And
I did wonder to myself, I wonder what would happen if Jim Acosta went
into the federal courtroom and pulled a stunt to the federal judge like
he did to the elected President of the United States.  If had gone into
the federal courthouse and said, “I challenge you, judge,” and then when
the judge said, “You’re going to need to sit down, sir,” he wouldn’t do
it, and twice more he was asked to sit down and he didn’t do it, and
finally the bailiff comes over to get the microphone and Acosta pushes
his arm away, and basically all but eats the microphone so nobody else
can have it, I wonder if that had happened in a federal courtroom if the
judge who was so understanding of Acosta’s being the southbound end of a
north mule, I wonder if the federal judge would have been as
understanding and as accommodating as he was when Acosta acted that way
toward the President of the United States in the White House.  My guess
is no, and thus sort of forms the frame of what I would share with you
today.
I don’t have to tell you we’re living in divisive and
combative times, but I also would be the first to say that one of the
reasons that I think that many people, even some never Trumpers, and
there were a lot of them out there, have come around to the President is
because despite whatever you think about him on a personal level, he
does fight back, and we are in a time where we have to.  As I said,
Donald Trump was not my first choice, but to the surprise of a lot of
people, he was my second choice for President.  He really was, and when I
left the race, which I had to do because of illness, people were sick
of me and I had to get out, but when I left the race, I endorsed Donald
Trump, and again there were a lot of people who were shocked by that,
and they said, “Why?”  You know?  You would think that I would have
endorsed one of the other evangelicals or someone else, maybe with a
kinder manner about them, and I said, “Look, here’s part of it.  He’s
the only person that I feel like on that stage that is not already
obligated to the donor class, because he’s financed his on primary. 
When he becomes President, there aren’t a thousand donors, all of whom
have their hooks in him and will begin to really direct him more than he
will be able to direct the policies of the country.”  And I said,
“That’s part of it.”  The second is because I felt like that of all the
people on the stage, including President Trump, no one knew Hillary
better than me, but because I did know her as well as I did and do, I
was convinced that there was no other person other than Donald Trump who
would be able to take her on in the matter in which was going to be
necessary to win.
Now, little did I know that she would not
show up for many of the states in the election and decide that she
didn’t really need to campaign that hard, because she had it in the bag,
and she was busy signing checks to get her fireworks show all set for
election night, but that being said, I think what we saw in this
President was that unlike so many of us kind and gentle Republicans, who
in our own congenial way end up getting our heads handed to us because
we think we’re all playing to the same rules and we find out the other
side is not, President Trump, if hit, will hit back ten times harder,
and sometimes people don’t like that, but here’s what I’ve discovered
standing up on the debate stage with him.  People would say, “How come
you never challenged him?”  I said, “Well, there’s two reasons.  First
of all, I didn’t get up there and argue with any of the other
Republicans for a simple reason.  One of us was going to win, and
whoever won needed the support of the others, and I did not want to have
to claim that these guys that I had said horrible things about now were
great guys.”  I said, “Then that’s disingenuous, so you have to battle
that.”  And I said, “The other reason was these guys aren’t my enemies. 
They’re my political opponents for the primary, but any one of us on
that stage would have been infinitely better every day of the week and
twice on Sunday than having Hillary in the White House would have
been.”  And that’s why.
When I look at the judicial
appointments alone that the President has made, two on the Supreme Court
and dozens in the federal judicial system, if for no other reason, and
add to that the relocation of the embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv,
which I thought was a gutsy and wonderful move, and throw in the tax
cuts and throw in the deregulation that has resulted in the doubling of
the GDP growth and a significant increase of people having a better
paycheck than they’ve had in many years, and the fact that we have more
African-American and Hispanics employed and in better jobs than have
been for African-Americans ever in history, for Hispanics the best
probably ever, and for women in 30 years and the list could go on, throw
those things in there and I can tolerate come 5:00 a.m. tweets that
sometimes are cringe-worthy, okay?  And if that’s the worst thing I can
say about him, I’d rather have a President who occasionally will either
say or tweet something that is not the way I would say it, but he’s
getting the job done that we sent him there to do.  And this is why I
think many of us continue to support this President.
I’ve had
friends of mine who will try to argue with me about support for the
President.  Here’s how I respond.  Suppose you have been diagnosed with a
very serious disease that is going to require surgery that could, in
fact, take your life, and there’s two doctors that you must choose from
to do the surgery, and one of the doctors comes in and he’s the kindest
guy in the world.  He comes and sits on the edge of the bed.  He hugs
your wife.  He sheds a tear as he describes how serious this is.  He
answers all the questions that every family member has, and he’s
gentle.  He’s kind and he’s just the most thoughtful guy, and before he
leaves he hugs you and hugs everybody else.  The other guy comes in.  He
throws everybody out of the room.  He says, “I ain’t got time to answer
a lot of questions.  Look, I’m just here to tell you how this goes
down,” and he’s gruff.  He’s rude.  He’s caustic.  He insults your wife,
and he has the bedside manner of a porcupine, but he’s done that
surgery 1,200 times, and 1,100 of his patients have survived.  The other
guy has done it 9 times, and 8 of them died.  You tell me who you’d
pick to be your surgeon, and that’s how I look at President Trump in the
White House.  His bedside manner may leave something to be desired from
time to time, but I sure do like the results, because folks, I want to
keep our country.  It’s as simple as that.  I want to keep the United
States of America as the great republic that we have inherited.

A week ago, I had on my television show that I host every weekend on
the Trinity Broadcasting Network a 95-year-old World War II
Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.  I still, I just am in awe of
some of these guys that handed me my freedom.  I’m overwhelmed by what
they did.  When I read the stories of the Medal of Honor recipients, but
for that matter, even if a guy served back in the States or anywhere, I
realize I am the beneficiary of the most amazing sacrifices in the
history of humankind, people who did it not because there was a gun to
the back of their head if they didn’t move forward, not because they
were slave labor, but because they chose to serve this country and to
keep the battle for our freedom somewhere else other than in the streets
where we live, and thank God for them.
But I fear if we don’t
see the willingness to fight back against the so-called resistance, and
I wonder what is it they’re resisting?  Are they resisting liberty? 
Are they resisting freedom of speech?  Are they resisting property
ownership?  And the answer is, yes.  They’re resisting all of those
things.  The whole notion of changing our great Constitutional Republic,
a nation of law where we elect our public officials, and if the person
we voted for didn’t succeed, we suck it up and say we’ll do better next
time.  We don’t try to delegitimize every election we lose, whether by
arguing that it really shouldn’t have happened or we didn’t get the
popular vote or just being, I guess, here in Palm Beach County, or next
door in Broward County, and just keep counting votes until we come up
with enough, even if we have to dig them out of a trunk of a car or a
warehouse somewhere.
Folks, this is a dangerous place for
America to be.  The single greatest threat to us in my view is that we
don’t respect the results of our elections.  That, singularly, threatens
our republic, and for 2 years we’ve heard about Russian interference. 
We’ve got to stop these Russians from interfering, and I don’t want the
Russians interfering any more than I want us interfering, as we did
under Barack Obama with the election of Bebe Netanyahu in Israel, when
we spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars trying to defeat him
under the Obama administration.  I don’t remember the same level of
anger and angst over the U.S. Government involving themselves in that
election, but the Russians have not proven not to have turned one vote
in the 2016 elections.
But what I do worry about is that U.S.
election officials and U.S. political figures trying to change the
results of an election, either by ignoring the fundamental law of which
our elections are held by going through some of their process by which
they can overturn the election by finding new balance, claiming that the
whole point is to know the intent of the voter.  Look, if a voter is
not competent enough to mark the ballot correctly, the intent of the
voter is to be stupid, and I think at that point you throw the ballot
out, and you say when you learn how to vote like a big boy, or a big
girl, then you bring your ballot in, but if you mark it so that you mark
everybody on it, you don’t get to after the election come in and say,
“You know, I think I intended to vote for this guy.”  It shouldn’t be
that hard.
I want to preserve this country, because like so
many of you in this room, this country has been good to me, better to me
than I ever could have imagined, and I owe it more than just being a
participant occasionally and a deserver for the most part.  I know where
I come from.  I grew up dirt poor in a little insignificant town in
south Arkansas that you would never heard of had Bill Clinton not run
for President.  Yes, I to believe in a place called Hope.  So, but I
actually grew up there.  Clinton was born there.  He moved when he was
5, but you have to understand, he moved to another town in Arkansas
where he really grew up, but it would not have sounded as good in the
’92 campaign, particularly given his reputation, if he had made his
speech and said, “I believe in a place called Hot Springs, huh.”  So, as
a result, people knew where Hope was suddenly, but nobody did when I
was growing up.
But, I come from a family that were not
significant, major people in the community that everyone wanted to talk
to.  My mother and dad both grew up in the depression.  I feel like I
did, because I heard those stories so many times, I thought, my gosh. 
Some of you heard them too, walking to school uphill both ways, carrying
their homemade lunch in a bucket, walking through snow, even though it
never snowed in south Arkansas.  I mean, I heard all these stories and I
though, oh, my gosh, but then I got older and found out they were
really, a lot of them, true.  My mother grew up in a house that didn’t
have a floor.  It was just dirt.  Dirt.  It had a roof, no floor. 
Dirt.  No electricity, no running water, just a shelter.  She was the
oldest of seven and had to work from the time she was a young teenager
just to help keep food on the table for her six brothers and sisters.

My dad grew up in a time when he also had to work to help the
family have food.  These weren’t people who were working to get a
Ferrari.  These were folks who were working just to survive.  My dad
never finished high school, and his father had never finished high
school, and his father before him hadn’t, and on and on it goes.  In
fact, I am the first male in my entire family lineage to have ever
graduated high school, much less gone to college.  So, when people want
to talk about the America dream, I’ve lived it.  At the age of 8, I
remember my dad said to me, “Son, I’m gonna take you down to this new
lake that the State’s built, and the governor’s gonna come down here and
make a dedication, and he’ll make a talk, and I’m gonna take you down
there to hear the governor make his talk, ’cause son, you may live your
whole life and you may never see a governor in person.
I still
vividly remember going down at 8 years old and seeing the then Governor
of Arkansas come and make that talk, and I got to shake his hand and my
dad said, “Now, son, you cherish this, because that’s probably the only
time you’re ever gonna see a governor.”  You would never have been able
to convince my father that one day his son would spend more time living
in the Governor’s mansion than any house that I’ve lived in so far in
my life.  I don’t think he would have believed that.  But, like so many
people who built this country, he didn’t ask the country to do a lot for
him.  He never accepted a penny of relief or welfare.  He worked two
jobs.  He was a fireman, and he worked 24 hours on 24 off, and on the
24 hours that he was not at the fire station, he was a mechanic and
working on cars in a shop standing on his feet on a concrete floor and
lifting heavy things and getting his hands dirty.  And I’ve told people,
“Look, my father, that’s all he knew.  Hard, hard work.”
And
I’ll bet some of you had fathers like mine who worked with his hands and
got his hands dirty and never could scrub them completely clean, and
I’ve watched him scrub them, so I knew he tried, but there was always
the residue of his work that never could get out of his hands, and I’m
going to tell you something.  I grew up, and the only soap we had in my
house when I was a kid was Lava soap.  Many of you in this room do not
understand what that means, but let me try to describe it.  Here’s the
deal.  I was in college before I learned it isn’t supposed to hurt when
you take a shower.  What a revelation that was.  And we’re at this
marvelous hotel at The Breakers in Palm Beach, and my guess is that some
of the ladies who are here will spend some time at the spa, and they
may even spend a couple of hundred bucks and have an exfoliation.  A bar
of Lava will do the exact same thing.  But to the husbands here, let me
recommend, do not next Valentine’s present your wife with a bar of Lava
soap and say, “Here, honey.  Go exfoliate yourself,” ’cause skin’s
comin’ off of you and Lava won’t even be involved with it.

That was my life.  And, as a kid, I used to have to do the things that a
kid had to do.  If I wanted BBs for my BB gun, or if I wanted a
baseball or a baseball glove, there was no parent writing a check or
saying, “Here, here’s my credit card.  Go down and get one.”  It was,
“Well, kid, good luck.  Go find a way to make the money.”  So, whether
it was collecting pop bottles or doing some other things, and when I was
too young to get a real job that puts you on the clock, 7, 8, 9 years
old, the only job you could get was catching chickens.  Now, some of you
have not lived in an area that is prevalent with poultry.  Can I just
tell you something?  There aren’t many things in this world worse than
going out at 10:00 at night and working all night long in a chicken
house chasing chickens, catching them, and putting them in those old
wooden crates so they could be hauled off so that you could have one at
the Colonel’s house.  I’m telling you, it’s the most God-awful thing,
and every time I’d do that, I’d always say, “What do I have to do so I
don’t have to do this for the rest of my life, and the answer was always
the same.  Get a good education, work hard, treat people right.  So, I
can tell you at an early age, I said, “I don’t know how I’m going to do
it, but I’m going to get an education, I’m going to work hard, and I’m
going to do my best to treat people right.”  That’s the old-fashioned,
American formula, to do better than the generation before you, and to
pass something on to the next one.
And folks, I said all of
those things for the simple reason that the battle that we are in now is
not a battle so that Republicans can win over Democrats.  I could care
less what the labels are.  I really could.  I care a lot about what kind
of country my kids, and now my six grandchildren are going to have, and
if we don’t fight back, and if we don’t stand tall, and if we don’t do
something significant to protect our Constitutional form of government,
and I believe that next to the Holy Bible, the Constitution is the most
inspired document on planet Earth that gives us the framework for house
civilized people can and should live under a system of law.  And it’s
existed, and it has thrived, and as a country we have thrived because of
it, and before we let people shred it before our very eyes, and I hope
you believe that we’ve got to stand up and fight for our system of
government and for the processes that gave every one of us in the room
the extraordinary privilege and blessing to be citizens of the greatest
nation on God’s green Earth, the United States of America.  That’s
what’s at stake, folks.
I don’t want a single young American
growing up in poverty.  My hope and dream would be that no kid would
ever sleep in a car under a bridge at night.  My hope and prayer is that
no wife or child would ever be on the receiving end of a beating from
some abusive husband and father.  My hope and dream is that no father
would ever have to go home empty handed and not have a paycheck with
which he could pay the rent and put food on the table and be able to say
we’re going to have a decent life.  I don’t want there to be ever a
family who has a child with a developmental disability that can’t get
the access to being able to take care of that child without losing every
last dime they have, because I’m not a heartless person.  I’ve often
said I did not grow up sitting at a head table.  I grew up more
comfortable with the people working in the kitchen, not the folks at the
head table.  I had to learn how to sit at the head table.  I knew
explicitly well how to work the floor.  I want every America to grow up
with the belief and understanding that there are no limits, except the
ones that we impose upon ourselves.  And I want no one, ever, to be
limited because of their color, their gender, their geographical
backgrounds and where they’ve come from, who their father was how much
land their family owned.  It means sometimes we have to work a little
harder.  Maybe there aren’t the advantages, but folks, the United States
of America is not about guaranteeing us an outcome.  It’s guaranteeing
us the right to fight for one.  That’s all I’ve ever asked, and it’s all
I would ask for the rest of my fellow Americans.  But when we have
people who are now talking about giving everybody a guaranteed income,
regardless of whether or not they work for it, we lose this country.

When we talk about that we change the whole idea of what it means to
be even male or female, then we start losing our minds.  When we live in
a culture that thinks that somehow the greatest way to protect a woman
is to take life of the child within her, and end its life, arbitrarily,
which is not only an affront to the baby, it’s an incredible affront to
the birth mother as well, and as a pro-life person, I want to make sure
that we are very clear that there are two victims in every time Planned
Parenthood is successful in taking taxpayer money and using it, because
it’s an injury to the baby, but it’s also an injury to that woman who
probably was talked into it, and we need to love both.
So, I
say to you today, it’s time for us to be polite, to be good people, to
be gracious.  I never, ever, ever would encourage people who believe
like we believe to go into someone’s neighborhood and go bang on their
door and scream.  I would never, ever suggest that we go to a restaurant
and yell at people while they’re trying to have dinner with their
families; that we would go to them, as Maxine Waters suggested, at the
restaurants, the service stations, the malls, wherever and get in their
faces and scream at them.  That’s not the conduct of civilized people.  I
never suggest we do that.  But here’s what I do suggest.  I suggest we
work really hard to make sure that the elections are fair and they’re
just.  And I strongly urge that we get on the front lines of battle and
we don’t give up and we don’t surrender and the values and the things
that we know make America a truly great place to live and the place that
people from around the world want to come to that we yield not 1 inch
of the territory, and that we take a lesson from our current President,
and we recognize that this is no time for subtle surrender.  This is a
time for principled fighting for the things that we value and that we
hold dear.
Several years ago, Mike Levitt was Governor of Utah
and invited me and a couple of other governors to go out the Salt Lake
City.  It was February 2001, exactly 1 year before the Olympics would be
held in February of 2002.  And he invited us to come out for a
conference and so we all came out that evening and we spoke, and the
next day we were supposed to have a special activity, and he got up at
the end of it and he just said, “Now, folks, tomorrow, we’re going to go
out to Olympic Village just outside of Salt Lake.  You will be some of
the first people to see it.”  It’s not officially open, but the athletes
are there and they’re training, and we’re going to go out and
experience Olympic Village 1 year before the Olympics come to our
state.  And he said, “And we have a special treat for you.  The special
treat is we’re going to have the Governor’s bobsled competition.”  And
that caught my ear and I thought, “What?”  And, I thought, well, I guess
what they’re going to do is name bobsleds after each of the governors
and we will cheer them on, and the more he talked, the more I realized,
he was talking as if we were going to be in a bobsled.
Now, as
I told you, I grew up south Arkansas.  We didn’t have snow almost ever
there, so I’d never seen a bobsled in person, ever.  The only bobsled I
had any vision of was on ABC’s Wild World of Sports that ran on
Saturdays, and they had this ski jumper that would gracefully jump and
make this wonderful landing, and they’d say, “The thrill of victory,”
and then you’d see this bobsled go careening off the side of a mountain,
and the announcer would say, “And the agony of defeat.”  And I’m
thinking that guy probably got capitated in that bobsled for God’s
sake.  And so I go up to Levitt afterwards and I said, “Now, you’re not
serious.  We’re not going to actually be a in a bobsled, are we?”  He
said, “Yeah, yeah, but don’t worry about it.  We’re going to get you
some training before you do it.”  I didn’t sleep that night.  And the
only thing I could find out a bobsled was that a bobsled can go up to
95 miles an hour.  I asked Levitt about that.  He said, “Well, you guys
aren’t professionals.  You probably won’t get yours over 75.”  That was a
real comfort to know that.
And we get up there the next day
to Olympic Village and here’s my training.  They pair me with a
16-year-old junior Olympic athlete, who’s going to teach me how to drive
the bobsled.  Look, no offense, but I don’t want to learn how to drive
anything from a 16-year-old boy.  Nothing.  And the training was putting
spikes on my boots, and we started at the bottom of the 1‑mile track of
the bobsled, which is nothing but a sheet of ice, and the kid walks me
from the bottom to the top with those spiked boots, and at each of the
12 curves in the bobsled track, he tells me where I need to put the
skids.  Like, I’m gonna remember this.  And we get to No. 12 and he
says, “This is, like, No. 12.  And, like, when we get to this curve, you
need to, like, put the skids, like, right here, ’cause, if we, like,
put the skids up here, then we could go off, and if you put the skids
way down here, then we’ll, like, bounce back and forth against the wall,
and that’ll hurt.”  And then we get to No. 11.  He goes through the
same thing on No. 10 and all the way up to the top.  By the time we get
to the top, I’m hyperventilating.
First of all, I’m
exhausted.  I’ve just climbed a mile up a sheet of ice, and secondly,
now I’m terrified.  I’m pretty sure that that night on the news, here is
the headline.  “And in Utah, Governor of Arkansas tragically killed
trying to drive a bobsled.”  So, I get to the top, and there are a
couple of guys, and they’re the attendants that are going to squeeze me
down into the bobsled and the kid’s job, he’s the brakeman, which makes
no sense, because there is no brake on a bobsled.  And he said, “Now,
here’s what we’re gonna do.  I’m gonna push off.  I’ll jump in, and then
I realize there is no brake, so all he does is hold on for dear lie. 
I’ve got to drive it.  And the guy’s up at the top says, “Well,
Governor, are you ready?”  Oh, they were so chipper.  And I said, “Ready
for what?  To meet Jesus.  I mean, come on, guys.  This is not a good
thing here.”  And they get me down, but just before we go down, the kid
says something I’ll never forget.
He said, “Now, when we come
off the top, you’re gonna see the first curve.  And as soon as you see
it, steer for it, because we’re gonna be picking up speed pretty
quickly.”  Of that, I was certain.  And he said, “As soon as you see the
curve, steer for it,” and by the time you’ve reacted to it, you’ll be
in the curve.”  And he said, “If, if you think you’ve made a mistake,
never think behind you.  Never look behind you, because the ice behind
you can’t hurt you.”  The implication is, the ice in front of you still
can.  He said, “And if you are in the curve, don’t try to correct
everything, because centrifugal force is going to be controlling the
bobsled in the curve.  Ride it out, but don’t try to over correct,
because you can’t.  But as soon as you come out of the curve, you’ll see
the next curve, and when you do, steer for it, and you’ll be fine.”

And his basic advice was simple.  Steer for the curve ahead.  That was
it.  And by the way, I came in second only to Levitt, which I think he
cheated, because he was the host governor.  I’m pretty sure he did, but I
lived, because I listed to this piece of advice.  Steer for the curve
ahead.  And I got to thinking about it, the kid had no idea of the
profundity of that statement, but I say to you, it was extraordinarily
wise advise, not only for driving a bobsled, but being a governor, being
a husband, being a father, owning a business.  Quit worrying about the
things behind us.  Can’t fix it.  Can’t change it.  Not a thing I can do
to make it different.  Don’t try to fix everything at one time.  Can’t
do it.  The centrifugal force of nature itself is such that if you think
you can just make everything happen in an event, you cannot, but
there’s one thing that we can and one thing that we must do, and that
would be my advice for America today.
Steer for the curve ahead, and let’s win.  God bless you.  Thank you very, very much.

LIBERAL DELAWARE: BRUTAL MIDTERM ELECTION NIGHT SHOWS A REPUBLICAN CAN’T WIN DELAWARE

LIBERAL DELAWARE: BRUTAL MIDTERM ELECTION NIGHT SHOWS A REPUBLICAN CAN’T WIN DELAWARE 
NOTICE: WRITTEN BY LIBERALS FOR A LIBERAL NEWS COMPANY
BY Matthew Albright,


Delaware News Journal 
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
 
News Journal Engagement Editor Matthew Albright.



Jennifer Corbett, The News Journal

Tuesday was a brutal night for the Republican Party in Delaware.

All five of its statewide candidates lost their elections. Their margins of defeat ranged from “decisive” to “humiliating.”

The one that hurts the most is the one that was closest —
Treasurer Ken Simpler, the party’s clear rising star, lost his
re-election bid to first-time candidate Colleen Davis, 46-52.

Simpler was almost universally seen as the Republicans’
next — maybe only — potential candidate to make a serious run for
governor in the next few years. Not only does Simpler’s loss mean there
won’t be any statewide Republicans next year, it strongly suggests that
the party won’t be able to compete in such races for the foreseeable
future.

The numbers: See the results of Tuesday’s statewide elections

If any Republican could win a statewide, it would be
Simpler. He had plenty of campaign funds, he earned widespread praise
for his work in office and he cultivated a reputation as a moderate
consensus builder, which could have theoretically helped him win
independent and even Democratic voters.

But it wasn’t enough. Maybe it was rage at President
Donald Trump, maybe his message got lost in the noise, but Simpler just
couldn’t overcome the huge registration advantage Democrats enjoy in
Delaware.

Republicans are used to being outnumbered in Delaware,
but their plight is getting worse. Not only are there 135,000 more
Democrats than Republicans, the majority party is adding voters at a
significantly faster rate than the GOP.

So the gap is wide, and getting wider.

The GOP used to overcome its registration disadvantage by
running candidates like Mike Castle, who was fiscally conservative but
socially moderate or even liberal. That made him capable of winning
independents and Democrats.

These days, Republicans seem to be relaying more heavily
on candidates like Rob Arlett — Trump-supporting, family-values
conservatives. These candidates might excite Sussex County
conservatives, but they don’t have much out-of-party appeal. And simple
math says Republicans can’t win a base election.

Even Republicans with crossover appeal — like Simpler,
who Castle enthusiastically endorsed — are struggling these days. Not
only are Republican voters drifting further to the right, but Democrats
are less and less likely to cross party lines, particularly while Trump
is in office.

There was more bad news for Republicans in the races for
the General Assembly. Republicans lost a seat in the House and a seat in
the Senate, which doesn’t sound bad — until you hear who was defeated.

Rep. Deborah Hudson and Sen. Greg Lavelle were both
longtime lawmakers and top leaders in their caucuses. Lavelle in
particular was probably the single most effective legislator in opposing
Democrats’ agenda.

There is a reason why Democrats threw the kitchen sink at him — Republicans are going to sorely miss Lavelle in Dover.

There are some points of consolation for the GOP.  While
elected New Castle County Republicans are an increasingly endangered
species, they aren’t totally extinct — the GOP successfully defended two
Pike Creek-area House seats despite steep registration disadvantages
and energetic Democratic challengers.

Republicans can also take comfort in the knowledge that
their grip on the southern end of the state is now near-absolute.
Democrats were excited about many of the candidates they ran in Sussex
County, particularly Don Allan, but they all got crushed — outside of
liberal enclaves at the beaches, no Democratic candidate broke 40
percent.

It’s clear that Delaware’s two political parties are
increasingly entrenching themselves in their geographic strongholds —
Democrats are locking down New Castle County while Republicans tighten
their grip on Sussex.

Unfortunately for Republicans, there are far more people
upstate than there are downstate. And until they find some way to break
out of this mold, they will be firmly limited to minority status.

I’m convinced this is a bad thing for Delaware.

As a moderate, I worry that Democrats will be inevitably
be pushed to the left once their main concern is winning a primary
election. But regardless of your ideology, there’s reason to want
competitive general elections.

When the primary election is the vote that matters, and
when only Democrats get to vote in that election, then only Democrats
really get a say in who leads our state. Less than half the state gets
to pick who governs all of us.

Related: Delaware’s closed primary elections disenfranchise independent voters like me

That’s just undemocratic. It’s a potential recipe for
complacency and corruption. And the only way it’s going to change is if
Republicans stop playing base-obsessed hard-right-wing politics and claw
their way back into relevance on the statewide scene.

Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

VATICAN INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE COUNCIL SENDS “PRAYERFUL GOOD WISHES” TO HINDUS FOR PAGAN FESTIVAL DIWALI~TRUMP & TRUDEAU “CELEBRATE” FOR POLITICAL REASONS?

 
 For Political Reasons Only?
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 Trump participates in the White House 
Diwali ceremony
President Trump speaks at a Diwali Ceremonial Lighting of the Diya in the Roosevelt Room at the White House.
 Justin Trudeau of Canada Participates
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VATICAN INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE COUNCIL SENDS “PRAYERFUL GOOD WISHES” TO HINDUS 
FOR PAGAN FESTIVAL DIWALI 
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

ROME — The Pontifical Council for Interreligious
Dialogue recently sent greetings and “prayerful good wishes” to Hindus
for Diwali, a festival in which adherents pray to various pagan gods and
goddesses to seek a blessing of prosperity and wisdom for the new year.


The council sought to use the occasion as a time to speak of caring
for the vulnerable in society and to urge readers to “join hands with
the adherents of other religious traditions” to “make collective and
concerted efforts” to help others.


“The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue is fulfilling the
Jesuit agenda to unite all people under the papacy,” opined Mike
Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries in Plano, Texas.


He noted that Jorge Bergoglio, also known as Pope Francis—being the
first Jesuit pope—once said that all men are children of God, no matter
their beliefs.




“He said, ‘Many think differently or seek God in different ways, but
there is only one certainty: we are all children of God,’” Gendron
expounded. “The pope’s assertion is completely false according to God’s
word. No one seeks for God (Rom. 3:11). No one seeks after the true God,
but there are many who seek after false gods of their own imagination.”

WHAT IS DIWALI?
As previously reported, Diwali is an ancient festival originating in
India, and is considered the largest shopping season in the Hindu
religion. In addition to hanging lights and sharing legends and
mythological stories about battles between good and evil, Hindus offer
prayers to one of more of their deities—most commonly Lakshmi, the
“goddess of wealth” and spouse of the myth god Vishnu.
“Some believe that Lakshmi wanders the Earth looking for homes where
she will be welcomed. People open their doors and windows and light
lamps to invite Lakshmi in,” National Geographic outlines.
The festival lasts for five days, but the third day is the central
day of the observance, which also recognizes Ganesh, “the
elephant-headed god of wisdom.” On the second day, Hindus celebrate the
victory of Krishna, who is considered the eighth incarnation of Vishnu,
over the demon Narakasura.
“Others, especially in northern India, celebrate Rama and his victory
against Ravana, while those in Bengal worship Kali, the goddess of
death,” Live Science explains.
Especially in India and Nepal, dogs and cows are celebrated or
worshiped as being sacred creatures, and are decorated with red dye and
garlands of flowers.
“According to Hindu tradition, the dog is a messenger, believed to
guard the gates of the afterlife. So on that second festival day, all
dogs get special recognition and honor,” explains the site DogTime.
“In Hinduism, Gauhatya (killing of [a] cow) is considered as sin.
During this day, Gai is worshipped by putting Tika on her forehead,
flower garland around her neck and offering good meals,” the site
Himalayan Glacier outlines. “People spray drops of Gaumutra (cow’s
urine) to purify their body and home.”
Reports out of Ujjain, India state that some men volunteered
themselves to lie on the ground and be trampled by cows during this
year’s festival out of the belief that doing so might bring them
prosperity.
View the video report here.
MESSAGES FROM CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP TO HINDUS FOR DIWALI

Graven image of Vishnu and Lakshmi at a Hindu temple Credit: Dinesh Kannambadi/WikipediaHowever,
the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, in its Oct. 31
message to Hindus “for the feast of Deepavali,” characterized the
observance as if all worship the same God, writing that the festival
marks “the beginning of a new year, family reconciliation, especially
between brothers and sisters, and worship of God.”
It also issued a statement entitled “Christians and Hindus: In
Defense of the Vulnerable of Society” to use the occasion to speak on
the shared interest of helping the poor, elderly, disabled, sick,
abused, migrants, marginalized and others who are “discarded and ignored
by a society increasingly indifferent and even callous in the face of
human needs and sufferings.”
“The moral duty to care for the vulnerable springs from our shared
belief that we are all God’s creatures and, as a result, brothers and
sisters, equal in dignity, with responsibility for one another,” the
message, signed by Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, read in part. “It also
stems from the realization that we too at times feel vulnerable, looking
for someone to offer us a helping hand.”
“As believers grounded in our own respective spiritual traditions,
and as individuals with shared concerns for the wellbeing of all, may we
join hands with the adherents of other religious traditions and all
people of good will, and make collective and concerted efforts to secure
a joyful present and a hopeful future for our vulnerable brothers and
sisters!” it declared.
Read the message in full here.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India similarly issued a message
wishing Hindus a happy Diwali, which it referred to as a “great Indian
festival.” It sought to find parallels between lighting lamps and
candles for Diwali with Christ’s words about being a light.
The message cited the words of Indian Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda,
stating, “Swami Vivekananda gives a clarion call: ‘Bring all light into
the world. Light, bring light! Let light come unto every one; the task
will not be finished till everyone has reached the Lord. Bring light to
the poor and bring more light to the rich, for they require it more than
the poor. Bring light to the ignorant, and more light to the educated,
for the vanities of the education of our time are tremendous! Thus bring
light to all and leave the rest unto the Lord …’”
“Each one of us is the bearer of this light,” Secretary
General Theodore Mascarenhas, who wrote the greeting, asserted. “Jesus
has taught us: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see
your good works, and glorify your Father who is in Heaven. (Matthew
5:16).”
“May this Diwali be an occasion for all of us to light up our inner
lamps of truth and integrity, justice and peace,” he continued. “May we
effuse the light of wisdom, understanding and tolerance. May our hearts
kindled with the fire of God’s love assist the poor and marginalized,
the weak and the afflicted, so that those who are less privileged may
also feel the joy of Diwali.”
Read the message here, as posted on Vatican News.
THINKING BIBLICALLY

GendronHowever,
Mike Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries said that the words
spoken by Mascarenhas are not biblical. He noted that unlike
Mascarenhas’ assertion, Jesus never inferred that all men are bearers of
the light, as Scripture is clear that those without Christ walk in
darkness.
“The Lord Jesus is not referring to all people, but only those who
follow Him in faith,” Gendron explained. “He said, ‘I am the Light of
the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will
have the Light of life’ (John 8:12).”
“All unbelievers remain in darkness and are under the dominion of
Satan (Acts 26:18). Only those God has called ‘out of darkness into His
marvelous light’ can walk as ‘children of Light’ (1 Pet. 2:9; Eph.
5:8),” he outlined.
Further, Gendron said, Mascarenhas’ hope that Diwali will serve
as “an occasion for all of us to light up our inner lamps of truth” is
not in line with Scripture as it again suggests that all men are full of
God’s light and truth.
“There is no light and no truth in Hinduism,” Gendron stated. “They
worship false gods and ‘sacred’ cows. Paul addressed this kind of
worship in the people of Athens (Acts 17:23-30). Just like the Hindus
who worshipped God in ignorance, all their worship is misdirected.”
He also disagreed with the Pontifical Council for Interreligious
Dialogue’s urging for the various religions to join hands to work toward
the common good. Truly converted Christians should rather use Diwali as
a time to share the gospel with Hindus out of love for their souls.
“Christians can make the most of this opportunity by engaging Hindus
with the true God of the Bible,” Gendron said. “They need to heed Paul’s
warnings to those who worship in ignorance: ‘God is now declaring to
men that all people everywhere should repent’ (Acts 17:30).”
“They need to establish the Bible as the supreme authority in all
matters of faith,” he continued. “There is no higher authority than the
one true God and Creator, who reveals objective truth through His
inspired, infallible word. People fall into serious error and peril when
they suppress the truth of God’s word in unrighteousness.”
Gendron, a former Roman Catholic of 30 years, said that many are
deceived and need to be rescued from false religion. It is the duty of
Christians to care for others by telling them the truth.
“The nature of deception is such that people do not know they are
deceived until they are lovingly confronted with the truth,” he
continued. “Every Christian has been entrusted with the truth of God’s
word and we need to use it … to expose and slay the lies of the devil.
False religions which lead people down the wide road to destruction need
to be exposed, and the precious souls that are being deceived need to
be rescued with the gospel of Christ.”

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HINDUS KILL CHRISTIANS 
 

Hinduism – “Satanic to its core”

BY K.B. NAPIER

SEE: http://christiandoctrine.com/christian-doctrine/anti-god-beliefs/1513-hinduism-satanic-to-its-core; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
 Hinduism is the third most popular religion, said to have started about 4000 years 
ago. 
Personally, I would have made it younger than that, for 4000 years ago marks the 
Noahic Flood, which was well before the Tower of Babel was constructed, and 
when God divided people by imposing a variety of languages upon them. The 
earliest documents showing Hinduism were written about 400 BC (the same time 
as Buddha added his wicked unbelief to the world; it is no coincidence, but a 
concerted effort by Satan to destroy God’s authority). This is about 200 years 
after the Tower of Babel was built.
As with Buddhism, Hinduism represents the wickedness of the people who were dispersed eastwards to India. They were dispersed because they wanted to become as God, and, after being dispersed, those Middle Eastern peoples who travelled to what became ‘India’, invented pagan religious ideas that are a direct insult to God. Therefore, today, its millions of followers are antagonistic towards the one and only God, the God of Abraham, etc.
And, like Buddhists, Hindus are said to be peace-loving. Not so! In the Indian state of Orissa, hundreds of Christians were attacked by Hindu mobs, who demanded that they convert to Hinduism or be killed, along with their children. This is no different to the wicked ISIS attacks on Christians in Syria! 50,000 Christians were left homeless, 59 were murdered, and thousands of houses and churches were burnt to ashes. All this was sanctioned by the World Hindu Council (The Guardian, October 2008). In the ‘conversion’ ceremonies Christians were forced by priests to eat cow dung and drink cow urine “to purify them”. Rape was also a feature. Since that time nothing much has changed. What else can be expected from people whose religion is not just pagan but demonic?
I once knew an Hindu priest who lived in the UK. He boasted about having sex with countless white girls, and of having many children by them, none of whom he supported. He also said that as an Hindu he would say whatever his host wanted to hear (by this simple deception he was greeted and acclaimed as a Christian convert by a local church, to their utter dismay soon afterwards, in spite of my warnings that he was a deceiver. He indeed turned out to be a liar). In the UK he studied as many religions as he could, so that he could ‘blend in’.
In the West, Hindus have a room in their homes dedicated to a shrine and other trappings of Hinduism, with figures and images of their gods. A Christian man stayed a night in an Hindu home and was awoken by a demon in the shape and figure of an Hindu god. The man was warned by the spirit that the home he was in belonged to him, and warned him to leave. The demon only left after the man cast him out in the name of Jesus.
It is a simple truth, that where Hinduism is, there is demonic activity, and this can spill over into violence. Some Hindus are demon possessed, but most do not require this ultimate demonic activity. All they need to do is obey the demons by maintaining their Hindu beliefs and practices, which form a deep delusion. This is just as effective as being possessed, and is just as dangerous to any man, woman, and child who comes into contact with them.
The Guardian (25th December 2014) reported that many new movies were using Hinduism as a main theme. Star Wars is one such major series of films. More recently is Vedic. In between are many plots in the various Star Trek TV and film offerings. Then there are the Matrix movies, and more.
Decades ago, I noted the popularity of Yoga and Yogic religion (Hinduism) spreading across the USA in particular; and those hungry for a selfist spiritual experience (but NOT that of Christ!) are even willing to pay large sums to gurus, who preach simplicity while driving Rolls Royce cars! The Beatles made this popular in the 1960s, opening up the dangerous occult system to people worldwide, the number of adherents now numbering about one billion worldwide. Though claimed to be the oldest religion in the world, it is not. The ‘religion’ of God in the Bible started at Creation and slowly developed as God gave knowledge, until it found its final form in Jesus Christ’s birth and death.
Hindu hatred is not just aimed at Christians; Hindus also hate atheists. August 2015 saw the brutal murder of an atheist blogger in India (he was not the first), and others, who were critical of Hinduism, have been attacked at various times, in both India and Pakistan (where Islamists will murder non-Muslims anyway).

What Is Hinduism?

A mark of the falsity of any religion is the way it divides into many paths, sometimes contradicting each other. Like Buddhism, Hinduism has many ‘types’. It is no coincidence that both Hinduism and Buddhism arose at about the same time, in the same northern area of what became modern India. Nor is it a coincidence that both share similar concepts, for Hinduism considers Buddhism to be just a branch of its own paganism. Hinduism even named its Lord Shiva ‘Buddha’, before Gautama Buddha was born. However, there are differences. But, so what? Both are demonic!

A Fusion of Many Pagan Ideas

Western scholars are right in saying that Hinduism is a fusion of many Indian ideas, which, in Christian terms, are all demonic and anti-God. In summary, Hinduism teaches honesty, not injuring other living beings, patience, self-restraint, compassion, etc. Note how above I refer you to their contradiction by modern Hindus!
“Prominent themes in Hindu beliefs include (but are not restricted to), the four Puruṣārthas, the proper goals or aims of human life, namely Dharma (ethics/duties), Artha (prosperity/work), Kama (emotions/sexuality) and Moksha (liberation/freedom); karma (action, intent and consequences), samsara (cycle of rebirth), and the various Yogas (paths or practices to attain moksha). Hindu practices include rituals such as puja (worship) and recitations, meditation, family-oriented rites of passage, annual festivals, and occasional pilgrimages. Some Hindus leave their social world and material possessions, then engage in lifelong Sannyasa (ascetic practices) to achieve moksha.” (Wikipedia).
Possibly the most popular Hindu practice in the West is Yoga, though almost no western Yoga user knows that every position in yoga is a prayer to the various gods. This is what makes yoga as dangerous as its beliefs.
I remember arguing in the media against Hindus (especially after noting that our local CofE cathedral held yoga classes in its aisles!), because they claimed yoga can be practised without reference to Hindu religion. It is a big lie, for the positions used ARE the religion! There are many other ways to enjoy physical exercise, without endangering one’s soul and spiritual walk! (Note in the description above, how yoga is a pathway to attaining Moksha [liberation/freedom] – so it IS part of Hindu religion).
Hindu texts can be ‘heard’ (Shruti) or ‘remembered’ (Smriti). The texts cover theology, mythology, philosophy, rituals and temple building. Important texts are the Vedas and Upinishads, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bjagavad Gita, Puranas, Manusmriti and Agamas. (These are all ‘smriti’). But, it does not matter what name they have – they are all anti-God and worthless. Modern ecumenists say we must ‘respect’ other religions and their adherents. NOT SO! This is not how God views them! To Him they are detestable, without value, ready to enter hell.
As Christians we CANNOT respect what hates or opposes God, but may only respect people as fellow beings. All we can say is that though Hinduism is the religion of Indians and Nepalese, there is no commonly agreed central figure or set of beliefs. In itself this makes it simply an human philosophy with sub-sets. And, as with Buddhism, a philosophy with added demonosis. Associated similar religions are Sikhism and Jainism.

The Core

When those with what could be termed ‘Indian’ language moved away to India after the sudden making of new languages at Babel, they finally rejected the God Who divided their languages, by formulating an idea about an ‘Impersonal Supreme’… the opposite of the personal God who punished them, Jehovah. This was almost a childish insult. Some, however, do worship a god of sorts (or many gods, drawing a conclusion that Hinduism is polytheistic). Like any other divided and false religion, a variety of demands are made to worship the orthodox. For some this is obeying the Vedic texts. Others demand obedience to Sanatana Dharma.
Though part of Hinduism, the caste system is regarded by some as just a social corruption of Hinduism (yet it persists to the detriment of millions). Hinduism also teaches karma and samsara (reincarnation), but so do Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists. This latter point shows us that these various religions are not unique but are simply strands of the same wicked paganism – human pay-back for the dividing of languages that brought the Tower of Babel to nothing.
Most Hindus believe in a supreme god, whose various qualities and characteristics are represented by a wide variety of deities. As with Buddhism, karma and continuous reincarnations are a feature. That is, how a man is reincarnated in the next life depends solely on how he was in the previous life. This, then, is very much self-help, the eastern version of Arminianism and similar to Buddhism. How different with the one true God, Who accepts us in this life if we are saved by His Son, Jesus Christ. No hassle, no reliving countless lives until we somehow make ourselves acceptable! Diwali (Festival of Lights) is the best known festival.

Atman

This is the pagan equivalent to our ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’, supposedly our ‘true self’ that is connected to God. In biblical terms our spirits are dead until God regenerates and saves us, and until that time we have no connection whatever to God. The Hindu ‘self’ is said to be eternal. Biblically, our souls and spirits are NOT eternal, because eternal means we are God. Rather, our souls are created at the time of our conception in the womb, and our spirits are dead at birth. The spirit indeed continues after death, either in Heaven or hell, but it is definitely not eternal.
The spiritual idea of Atman often causes some Hindus to show no interest in the world, leading to ascetism. Many Romanist monks try the same route to knowing God, and fail miserably, because what matters in us is a spirit made alive by God through salvation. Having long white hair to the ground and wearing stage-paint will do nothing to please God!

Dharma

This means duty, virtue, morality, or religion. It is Dharma that supports the entire universe and society itself. It makes ‘nature’ grow grass, food, causes the sun to shine, and makes us moral. So, we see that Hinduism is definitely ‘Arminianistic’ in style, by insisting that works of men can cause these things. In our Bible it is God alone Who performs these creational tasks and gives us our moral codes. To make matters worse, each person’s dharma is different (svar-karma: illustrated by the Bhagavad Gita), and so is his path to ‘enlightenment’. In scripture there is only one way to this – God and His word.
Correct actions depend on one’s own svar-karma, and are said to be a service to ‘God’ and to humanity. Yet, I find it insulting to God’s created beings to serve higher castes who treat them abysmally…

Varna

Hindu goodness is much linked to a man’s caste, which he must obey (varnashrama-dharma). Of course, to be expected, it was, and is, the highest caste, the Brahmins, who adhere the most to this idea. There are four castes or classes:
  1. Brahmans or Brahmins – the intellectuals and the priestly class who perform religious rituals
  2. Kshatriya (nobles or warriors) – who traditionally had power
  3. Vaishyas (commoners or merchants) – ordinary people who produce, farm, trade and earn a living
  4. Shudras (workers) – who traditionally served the higher classes, including labourers, artists, musicians, and clerks
The first three classes are called ‘twice born’ because they are born from the womb, and then receive a ‘sacred thread’ to signify their status. These classes usually go through four steps or ashramas:
  1. Brahmacarya – ‘celibate student’ stage in which males learned the Veda
  2. Grihastha – ‘householder’ in which the twice born male can experience the human purposes (purushartha) of responsibility, wealth, and sexual pleasure
  3. Vanaprastha – ‘hermit’ or ‘wilderness dweller’ in which the twice born male retires from life in the world to take up pilgrimage and religious observances along with his wife
  4. Samnyasa – ‘renunciation’ in which the twice born gives up the world, takes on a saffron robe or, in some sects, goes naked, with a bowl and a staff to seek moksha (liberation) or develop devotion (you might recognise this latter, from the westerners who wear saffron robes and beg in the street).
Karma and Samsara
Karma says that each action has an equal reaction, now or in the future. (In reality, for Christians, this is not the case, for God can remove the result of our sin, or reward us for good). For the Hindu the result of something done in this life may not be felt until we are reborn into another life, or even in heaven or hell. God tells us that everything on this earth ends with our death. After that, the Judgment.
Samsara or reincarnation is continuous, our next life dependent on how we were in the last life. Hindus think their souls at death are carried by some ethereal body to our next body, which can be human, an animal, or even a divine being. Moksha ends this continuous cycle of events, when we are at last liberated.
Purushartha
This refers to the goals of an individual, which depend on his stage in life and position. There are said to be three goals: virtuous living or dharma, profit or worldly success, and pleasure, especially sexual pleasure as a married householder and more broadly aesthetic pleasure. (A fourth goal of liberation [moksha] was added at a later date). These purusharthas are similar to the idea in godless western minds, that people have different goals and desires, but each is legitimate.
Brahman
This is a transcendent power beyond the universe. Some translate this as ‘God’, though the idea of God in Hinduism is not quite the same thing. Rather, Brahman is a ‘power’ that upholds and supports everything. Some Hindus think this power is the self, while others think it is separate. Brahman pervades everything but Hindus do not worship ‘it’. (Note how many charismatics worship ‘it’, which they define as the Holy Spirit, though their use of ‘it’ means they see Him as an impersonal power rather than as a Person).
God
Most Hindus believe in their self-styled ‘God/god’, but different groups define ‘god’ in various ways. For example, ‘god’ is said to be an ‘absolute reality’ (note the avoidance of a personal quality), who makes and destroys the universe many times over. Because ‘god’ can have many forms, he can come forth as one of the gods who are representative of his many characteristics. These are depicted on temple walls, in images, etc. Thus, an Hindu can approach ‘god’ as a woman, as a violent goddess, as a king, and so on. It does not ultimately matter which one the Hindu worships, because each is an aspect of the same one ‘god’. Thus, one Hindu might prefer to worship Shiva, another will worship Krishna, another Kali, and so on.
There are two main ideas about Bhagavan or Ishvara:
  1. Bhagavan is an impersonal energy. Ultimately God is beyond language and anything that can be said about God cannot capture the reality. Followers of the Advaita Vedanta tradition (based on the teachings of Adi Shankara) maintain that the soul and God are ultimately identical and liberation is achieved once this has been realised. This teaching is called non-dualism or advaita because it claims there is no distinction between the soul and the ultimate reality.
  2. Bhagavan is a person. God can be understood as a supreme person with qualities of love and compassion towards creatures. On this theistic view the soul remains distinct from the Lord even in liberation. The supreme Lord expresses himself through the many gods and goddesses. The theologian Ramanuja (also in the wider Vedanta tradition as Shankara) makes a distinction between the essence of God and his energies. We can know the energies of God but not his essence. Devotion (bhakti) is the best way to understand God in this teaching.
Because ‘god’ can be worshipped variously in a variety of forms, Hindus are often categorised in one of three main types, or paramparas:
  1. Vaishnavas focus on Vishnu and his incarnations (avatara, avatars). The Vaishanavas believe that God incarnates into the world in different forms such as Krishna and Rama in order to restore dharma. This is considered to be the most popular Hindu denomination.
  2. Shaivas focus on Shiva, particularly in his form of the linga although other forms such as the dancing Shiva are also worshipped. The Shaiva Siddhanta tradition believes that Shiva performs five acts of creation, maintenance, destruction, concealing himself, revealing himself through grace.
  3. Shaktas focus on the Goddess in her gentle forms such as Lakshmi, Parvati, and Sarasvati, or in her ferocious forms such as Durga and Kali.
    (http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/concepts/concepts_1.shtml )

The Occult

A question was asked on a blog site: “Is the occult just a twisted copycat of Hinduism?” (http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/61253 ). The questioner added that palm reading and spiritist channelling (also used by charismatics) are related to Hindu practices. The title of the query was more accurate: ‘Early Hinduism the Foundations for the occult?’ The fact that Hinduism speaks of chakras is enough of a sign that Hinduism is occult or ‘Eastern paganism’, which says that because the human soul is a projection of Brahman, the individual is himself – God (another thing taught by big-name charismatics).
In the West, at the same time Buddhism and Hinduism began, Plato was teaching we could reach heaven by philosophy. Really, whatever is not of God is ‘occult’ and owned by Satan, whether religious or not (Hinduism is arguably a religion; rather, it is a ‘way of life’).
“… a connection between Hinduism and the occult can be readily recognized. One does not need be a mystic to recognize the benefits that can serve in individual, whether an occultist or not. Many persons interested in the occult sciences want to abandon the self at times, which alone would substantiate a relative interest in Hinduism. This would include the yoga and meditation practices which the Way of Hinduism has promoted.”
(http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/h/hinduism.html )
In ‘Satanism and Witchcraft – the Occult and the East – Hinduism and Buddhism’ (https://www.jashow.org/articles/buddhism/buddhism/satanism-and-witchcraft-the-occult-and-the-east-hinduism-and-buddhism/), the article refers to the occultist Aleister Crowley, who used Hinduism as a point of contact with the occult.
Yoga is a part of the occult. It means union of self with the divine, to be yoked to Brahman (the ‘infinite’ or ‘universal spirit’). And it is this union behind every movement used in yoga. It is not possible to separate yoga from occultism and it is not possible for Christians to do yoga exercises with impunity. Note that Shiva, one of Hinduism’s most powerful gods, known as ‘the destroyer’, is named Yogi Swara… ‘Lord of Yoga’.
Yoga is said to isolate the soul from body and mind. In the USA alone about five million people do Yoga exercises. It would be an understatement to say that with so many people adopting and using occult methods for ‘relaxation’, we need not wonder how vile movements have taken over the USA so quickly. In response to complaints that yoga is part of a religious movement, yoga teachers deceive by saying that in the West all they teach is the exercise. (The Bloomington Herald-Times, 1991). This is balderdash! Each movement in yoga is a prayer to an Hindu god.
“Sadly, even professing Christians have bought into this lie. Every Yoga teacher is, in effect, a Hindu or Buddhist missionary, even though “he or she may wear a cross, insist that Jesus was a great Yogi, and protest that Yoga is not a religion, but science. This is the most blatant of lies. Yet it has been so widely proclaimed and believed that in America’s public schools, beginning in kindergarten and in almost every other area of society today, Yoga and other forms of Hindu-Buddhist occultism are taught and accepted as science. In contrast, Christianity has been thrown out of the schools and is being crowded out of every other area of life in the ‘broad-minded’ move to replace religion with the New Age ‘science’!” (Source: Peace, Prosperity, and the Coming Holocaust, p. 147.)
Remember that every Hindu will lie if he or she thinks it is convenient for themselves. Islamists do exactly the same thing if their lie propagates Islam. Hinduism is definitely ‘New Age’ as it fits the end-of-times anti-religious ethos. Yet, Satan began its hideous parody of religion when the Jews were being taken to Babylon as prisoners. At best it is a pseudo-religion, a paganism, riddled with the occult.
Another practice of Hinduism is Transcendental Meditation (TM – see my paper on this occult method). And its deceptive ideas are found throughout western society, even in medicine. It is also adopted by many charismatics. Of the six forms of yoga Hatha Yoga is possibly the most dangerous (http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/yoga.htm ). It deals in supposed psychic centres and powers arising from the spine (sometimes depicted as a snake).
The idea behind yoga is very simple – to draw you into eastern mysticism and occult pseudo-religions. As Johanna Michaelson says: “There is no such thing as ‘neutral’ Yoga”. (Like Lambs to the Slaughter, pp. 93-95). Yoga encourages psychic powers, but in hidden form. TM is only one of about four missionary movements within Hinduism. Though it is often denied, Hinduism is pantheistic, for Hindus see ‘God’ in everything.
In many ways the Hindu notion of ‘God’ is found to have its shadow in the charismatic use of the term ‘It’ to describe the Holy Spirit (a Person). I say this because charismatics adopt many New Age theories and see the Holy Spirit more as an impersonal power than as a person – and this is how Hindus see ‘God’. Also, many big-name charismatics (such as Kenneth Copeland) tell us we are “little gods”: another echo of Hinduism (the Bhagavad-gita). Tantras are another feature of Hinduism…
“The popular perception of tantra among Hindus espoused in Indian journalism, equates it with black magic.” (hinduwebsite.com)
AND
“Some tantric aspirants simply feel the union is accomplished internally and with spiritual entities… a ‘union’ could mean the actual act of sexual intercourse… chanting and sacrifice… cosmic joining of the divine principles of Shiva and Shakti…”
AND
“The Indian Tantras, which are numerous… are the voluminous source of present and practical orthodox Hinduism.” (Quoted from John Woodroffe, in the above).
A ‘tantra’ is said to be a dialogue between the Hindu gods Shiva, and Shakti/Parvati (his female equivalent). Between them they discuss how men can achieve moksha (enlightenment), or some desired practical objective. Broadly, tantras include:

Mantra and Yantra

In both Buddhism and Hinduism mantras are central, because they focus the mind through contact with the gods Shiva, Ma Kali and Hanesh (elephant-headed god). Mantras are repetitive words used to reach a heightened sense of being. In this, also, charismatics are guilty (such as constantly repeated choruses, or the chanted name of ‘Jesus’, with arms upheld).

Deities

These are expressions of the ‘ultimate’ Para Shiva or Brahman. They can be approached via worship (using flowers, incense, etc), or meditation, when a practitioner experiences visions of the deity. Temple dances are meditation in movement (like dervishes in Islam).

Concentration on the Body

For example, the one meditating may see his head as the moon, the heart as the sun, and his genitals as fire. Many groups tend to speak of energy centres (chakras – ‘wheel’), which accompany occult powers (siddhi).
Essential to tantra is the idea of kundalini, a flow of energies through the chakras… but some may disregard this idea. Note that this supposed flow of energies is reference to spiritual energies (also present in hatha yoga), so a chakra is a reference to demonic activity.

Breaking of Taboos

“The act of breaking taboos is the definitive feature of ‘left-hand Tantra’… (especially) sexual taboos… (those who indulge are said to have an animal disposition.. they regularly eat meat and are intoxicated… considered to be dishonest, promiscuous, greedy and violent). A fundamental requirement of all tantras is the initial transcendence beyond this base state (requiring) a strict regimen of penance, meditation, sensory control, cleansing self of negative thoughts…” (As above)
Spiritually, Tantra is ‘evolutionary’, and “deifies sex as the most approximate expression of cosmic love or God”. (As above). “Modern Tantra may be divided into practices based on Hinduism and Buddhism.” Eastern gurus say this about their beliefs and practices:
“All of these gurus espouse a similar philosophy, and they all turn it into practice in a similar way. It is a pattern that we find not only in tantra (Indo-Tibetan occultism), but in European satanism, antinomian gnosticism, and ancient pagan sorcery as well.”(http://www.inplainsite.org/html/eastern_gurus_say.html#sthash.DrmvYa0z.dpuf)
“Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, for example, states that witchcraft constitutes “one of the greatest possibilities of human growth.”(http://www.inplainsite.org/html/eastern_gurus_say.html#sthash.DrmvYa0z.dpuf )
“True spiritualism [mediumism] is a wonderful science…. It is possible by meditation and spiritual [occult] development to contact departed loved ones.” : (http://www.inplainsite.org/html/eastern_gurus_say.html#sthash.DrmvYa0z.dpuf ).
Because Eastern gurus constitute a class of occultists, they, too, are familiar with the territory and warn of the hazards of occult practices. For example, medium Sri Chinmoy, a spiritual “adviser” at the United Nations, states: “Many, many black magicians and people who deal with spirits have been strangled or killed. I know because I have been near quite a few of these cases.”
(http://www.inplainsite.org/html/eastern_gurus_say.html#sthash.DrmvYa0z.dpuf ).
AND
“He refers to deceptive spirits who will impersonate a person’s guru in visions and urge disciples to commit suicide. He also mentions several people who died from yogic breathing exercises.” Meher Baba warned about the possibility of death or insanity from the Eastern path and, in fact, like other shamans, believed insanity was evidence of higher spirituality; he also accepted the possibility of suicide as a form of liberation, if it was done with the “proper” motive.
(http://www.inplainsite.org/html/eastern_gurus_say.html#sthash.DrmvYa0z.dpuf )
“Note for example the following description of events relating to Muktananda’s own spiritual enlightenment, a path he endorses for his disciples. During so-called kundalini arousal [See article on Kundalini], such experiences may last for months or even years, in which case a protracted insanity and/or demonization must be endured. We quote at length so the reader may have a better understanding of the frightening reality that is frequently involved on the Eastern path. In Muktananda’s own words”
(http://www.inplainsite.org/html/eastern_gurus_say.html#sthash.DrmvYa0z.dpuf )
“I was assailed by all sorts of perverse and defiling emotions. My body started to move, and went on like this in a confused sort of way…. After a time, my breathing changed, becoming disturbed. Sometimes my abdomen would swell with air, after which I would exhale it with great force. Often the breath that I took in would be held inside me. I became more and more frightened… my mind was sick with fear…. My thoughts became confused, meaningless. My limbs and body got hotter and hotter. My head felt heavy, and every pore in me began to ache. When I breathed out, my breath stopped outside. When I breathed in, it stopped inside. This was terribly painful and I lost my courage. Something told me that I would die at any moment…. I could not understand what was happening, how it was happening, who was making it happen…. By now it was after 9:00. Someone had seated himself in my eyes and was making me see things…. It seemed that I was being controlled by some power which made me do all these things. My intellect was completely unstable…. I heard hordes of people screaming frightfully… and saw strange creatures from six to fifty feet tall, neither demons nor demigods, but human in form, dancing naked, their mouths gaping open. Their screeching was horrible and apocalyptic…. An army of ghosts and demons surrounded me. All the while I was locked tight in the lotus posture, my eyes closed, my chin pressed down against my throat so that no air could escape. Then I felt a searing pain…. I wanted to run away, but my legs were locked tight in the lotus posture. I felt as if my legs had been nailed down permanently in this position. My arms were completely immobilized…. Then, from over the water, a moonlike sphere about four feet in diameter came floating in. It stopped in front of me. This radiant, white ball struck against my eyes and then passed inside me. I am writing this just as I saw it. It is not a dream or an allegory, but a scene which actually happened—that sphere came down from the sky and entered me…. My tongue curled up against my palate, and my eyes closed. I saw a dazzling light in my forehead and I was terrified. I was still locked in the lotus posture, and then my head was forced down and glued to the ground…. I started to make a sound like a camel, which alternated with the roaring of a tiger. I must have roared very loudly, for the people around actually thought that a tiger had gotten into the sugarcane field…. I am in a terrible state. I have gone completely insane. You may not be able to see it from the outside, but, inside, I am crazy…. My body began to twist…. Now, it was not I who meditated; meditation forced itself on me. It came spontaneously; it was in all the joints of my body. Then, suddenly, a red light came before me with such force that it seemed to have been living inside me. It was two feet tall and shone brightly…. Every part of my body was emitting loud crackling and popping sounds…. At this time, I understood nothing about the various experiences…. Only afterward did I learn that they were all part of the process pertaining to [spiritual enlightenment]…. People who have experienced it call it the awakening of the Kundalini. The experiences I had had under the mango trees were due to the grace of my Gurudev Nityananda; they were all his prasad [blessing]…. Sometimes I would jump and hop like a frog, and sometimes my limbs would shake violently as though shaken by a deity. And this was what was actually happening; a great deity in the form of my guru had spread all through me as Chiti [consciousness], and was shaking me with his inner Shakti [power]…. The power of the guru’s grace enters the disciple’s body in a subtle form and does many great things…. Every day I had meditation like that. Sometimes my body would writhe and twist like a snake’s, and a hissing sound would come from inside me…. Sometimes my neck moved so violently that it made loud cracking sounds, and I became frightened…. I had many astonishing movements like this. Sometimes my neck would roll my head around so vigorously that it would bend right below my shoulders so that I could see my back. When the intensity lessened, I became peaceful again. But because I did not understand these kriyas [spontaneous yoga movements], I was always worried and afraid. Later, however, I learned that this was a Hatha Yoga process effected by the Goddess Kundalini in order for Her to move up through the spinal column into the sahasrara [upper psychic center].”(http://www.inplainsite.org/html/eastern_gurus_say.html#sthash.DrmvYa0z.dpuf )
This is the fate that can overtake all who believe in and practice Hinduism. Or even mere bystanders at Hindu events, or being in an Hindu home. Seriously note the similarity of this shamanistic experience with that of the Toronto Blessing and other charismatic activities. See also the testimony (one of many) below, which again can be found in some form or other amongst charismatics (same source as above):
“Bubba’s eyes rolled up, and his lips pulled into a sneer. His hands formed mudras [yogic positions] as he slumped against Sal, who also fell back against other devotees sitting behind him. Almost immediately, many of those present began to feel the effects of intensified Shakti [spiritual power], through the spontaneous internal movement of the life-force. Their bodies jerked or shook, their faces contorted, some began to cry, scream, and moan. The whole bathhouse seemed to have slipped into another world…. I saw Bubba just enter into Sal, just go right into Sal. From there he went out over everybody else, and then everybody else started going crazy. Sal fell onto me, into my lap, and then everybody else started howling and so forth.”
(http://www.inplainsite.org/html/eastern_gurus_say.html#sthash.DrmvYa0z.dpuf )
The fact is very plain – Hinduism is evil and dangerous, whether one is merely near an Hindu, or someone whose friends or family are Hindus, or one is a believer, or a full practitioner.
I remember in the 1960s reading an account by a missionary in India, who foolishly stood on a street watching an Hindu procession. As he watched, a number of adherents suddenly looked at him from the procession and ran wildly towards him screaming abuse. He ran away for his own safety, but that night, and every day afterwards for almost a year, he suffered demonic attacks of a vivid and often physical kind, because he was a Christian and not an Hindu. These daily attacks left him drained, ill, and full of fear.
He issued a warning to all Christians NEVER to align with Hindus or to watch what they do, or to enter an Hindu temple, buy Hindu artefacts, or to enter a shrine room in an Hindu house – not even when in the west. The reason is obvious – Hinduism is heavily wicked and demonic. Its roots hail back to the parting of peoples after God condemned them at the Tower of Babel, and Satan does not forget it. The development of Buddhism and Hinduism are a direct result of Satan’s hatred. Do not be fooled by an outward beauty in Hindu (or Buddhist) writings or events… they are the province of Satan… and he will use any and all means to soften our view of his wicked religious fakes, such softening being an insult to God.
Also beware and NEVER do yoga exercises. (As with the article on Buddhism, remember that this paper is broad and does not cover every possible Hindu practice or belief). Also read ‘Hindu Violence’.

Addendum to the original article on Hinduism.

It seems that most who have commented on this article (hundreds were deleted because of threats of violence and abusive language) appear to suffer from selective reading. Let me repeat that the article was based on Hindu sources!
And for those who insist Hinduism is superior to Christian belief, let me illustrate the truly horrific demonic nature of Hinduism with the following information, this time from outside Hindu sources, about the Aghoris of India…
We have all seen the documentaries about the Ganges River and noted the strange naked men covered in what seems to be grey dust. These are the Aghoris, who have been studied for years by scientists “because of their grisly ways of life – eating human flesh and mating with dead bodies…” (Ananya Roy, International Business Times, 11 March, 2017). A recently shown documentary (USA) on these weird people brought angry reactions (no surprise there!) because, said supporters, it was “showing Hinduism in a bad light”. Well, Hindus do that all on their own, and if what Aghoris do is so revolting, it is the fault of Hinduism not researchers.
The author of the documentary, Reza Aslan, was seen eating human brains with members of the group. He commented that the documentary was about the Aghoris and not Hinduism itself. That, however, is disingenuous! If the sect is Hindu, then it is Hindu and what they do is Hinduism!
Roy says “However oblivious to the worldly controversies, these mystical sadhus (ascetics) continue with their lives, high on cannabis and cannibalism…” The claim is simply put – they eat their own faeces, have sex with corpses, and eat human brains.
For me it rings true, because these people are dedicated to Lord Shiva (the destroyer) and Kali (goddess of death). To unite with their gods, the Aghoris undertake bizarre rituals and live in extreme conditions – freezing caves and blazing deserts or thick forests. Reportedly, they are commonly seen around Hindu cremation grounds and smear their own bodies with the ash from cremated bodies. Skulls are used for ornaments, and they smoke cannabis. They stay close to the Ganges to try to unite with their fake gods. The more extreme they are the closer they think they will be to unifying with the gods. Eating their own faeces* is a sign that they shun self and they prefer nakedness to show they want nothing material. (*Note that some homosexuals in the West also do this; it is a sign of satanic corruption of the mind). The oddest and most repugnant idea is to have sex with dead bodies to show they are dedicated to the gods. Many like these people because they supposedly have occult powers.
The above is extreme, but it shows the end result of Hinduism for those who are foolish enough to follow such a final course. In Christian terms the Aghoris are followers of demons, slaves to Satan. He wants to lower people to the dirt, making them appear to be less than human as created by Almighty God. As such these people, like all Hindus, are deceived, but have gone farther down the road of degradation and foulness. What they do, then, is deeply wicked.
Comments have been disabled due to abusive comments with no substance and argument.
We have received an unusually high response to this article!
I would remind Hindu readers that the article is based on Hindu writings, not my own ideas!! So, argue amongst yourselves. Needless to say, we never publish reader’s comments that are vile, wicked, godless, or using bad language. So, there is no point in sending us your comments – they are just deleted.
Suffice to say Hinduism is satanic.
Also note:
Hindus keep telling me their religion is over 4000 years old.
Firstly, this is impossible – the Flood occurred 4000 years ago, and Noah and his family were saved because of Noah’s godliness, not his Hinduism!
Secondly, Hinduism is said to be many fractured sects and branches, there being no single Hindu religion. As for making huge contributions to the world – no multi-religious sects based on demonism can possibly be of any help to the world! Christ is the only answer to the world’s needs.
Hinduismis a demonic stronghold, with no hope or reason to exist.


ANGRY GUN OWNERS SOUND OFF: CONGRESSMAN SWALWELL THREATENS TO NUKE CITIZENS IF THEY RESIST GOVERNMENT~”100 MILLION GUN OWNERS & SWALWELL THINKS THE WAR WOULD BE SHORT?”

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ANGRY GUN OWNERS SOUND OFF:
CONGRESSMAN SWALWELL THREATENS TO NUKE CITIZENS IF THEY RESIST GOVERNMENT 
 Eric Swalwell! His Tweet Goes Nuclear! 2A For Life!!
 2nd Amendment is In Place because of People Like Eric Swalwell who preach of community safety by ridding us of our rights.

Email: kotaboy32@gmail.com

 Democrats Want to NUKE Gun Owners: 
Why We Should Own Them Too
 The founders warned us about elected officials like Rep. Eric Swalwell,
who has called for nuclear war against gun owners. They had the right
idea when they believed the people should have the same arms as the
government.
“100 MILLION GUN OWNERS & SWALWELL THINKS THE WAR WOULD BE SHORT?”
 Rep. Eric Swalwell Wants Gun Confiscation by Nuking American “Resisters”, Cites Parkland Cult
 ChaseThePatriot : 
Eric Swalwell Will Nuke Gun Owners
 ChaseThePatriot : In today’s episode we examine recent comments made by
Congressman Eric Swalwell from California. He has made one outrageous
statement after the next concerning the right to self-defense and the
2nd Amendment.
 Gun Gripes #170: “Red Flag Laws”
by IraqVeteran8888
 In this Gripe we discuss the dangers of so called “Red Flag Laws,” the
consequences and dangers inherent in these unconstitutional laws that
completely ignore due process and have been proven to be statistically
relevant in states which adopted these laws early on. Stay tuned, much
more on the way.

  DEMS: Nuke And Red Flag Gun Owners

SOMETIMES “PEACEFUL” MUSLIMS ATTACK FOR SEX, SOMETIMES FOR JIHAD OR SHARIA REASONS~NO WONDER THEY’VE TEAMED UP WITH THE DEMOCRAT USEFUL IDIOTS

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 “FORGIVE YOUR ENEMIES”?
WHAT ABOUT BIBLICAL SELF DEFENSE?
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SOMETIMES “PEACEFUL” MUSLIMS ATTACK FOR SEX, 
SOMETIMES FOR JIHAD OR SHARIA REASONS
 Italy: Muslim migrant strips naked in street, 
rapes 68-year-old woman on beach
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
 

Why does this keep happening? One survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK said that her rapists would quote Quran to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam.
The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for
sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right
hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet,
tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to
bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more
suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah
Forgiving and Merciful.” (33:59) The implication there is that if women
do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may
be abused, and that such abuse would be justified.

“Man strips naked in street, rapes old woman,” ANSA, November 15, 2018:


(ANSA) – Ortona, November 15 – A 20-year-old Somali man
stripped naked in the street and raped an elderly woman who was sunning
herself on a beach in the Abruzzo town of Ortona on Thursday, local
sources said.

The man was said to be have a protected status as immigrant.
The attacker first slammed the woman’s head against some large rocks
and then forced her to submit to sexual violence, the sources said….

“I was afraid he wanted to kill me, but luckily I managed to break
free,” said the 68-year-old at a hospital where she was treated for cuts
and bruises and severe concussion.

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 Germany: Muslim who stabbed man 6 times over refused handshake gets no punishment
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
 

He wrote an apology letter, and so all is well. What could possibly go wrong?

“Germany: No punishment for man who stabbed someone six times over ‘handshake problem,’” Voice of Europe, November 16, 2018:

Fahim A. a young man gets off scot-free once more. This time for stabbing a man in the back six times in 2017.
The man was already well known to police for two ongoing drug
offences as well as theft in 2014 and 2015, yet these had no weight on
the judgment by the court in Frankfurt.
“Even though we don’t live in Brazil there are also people here, who attack your honour, insult your sister and look at her.”
In May 2018 the court gave him another warning and anti-aggression
training for stabbing a man in the back six times because of a refused
handshake in April 2017.
The only reason his victim was not too seriously injured was a thick leather jacket he was wearing at the time.
The court decided because Fahim A. wrote his victim a four page
apology letter by hand and promised not to go outside the house with a
knife anymore punishment wasn’t necessary….

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 Australia: Sharia manual preaching jihad warfare and hostage taking found in airport prayer room
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

What could possibly go wrong? It’s a religion of peace!

“‘It could certainly radicalise someone’: Muslim imam discovers
Sharia law book preaching jihad and hostage taking in Melbourne airport
Islamic prayer room,” by Stephen Johnson, Daily Mail Australia, November 15, 2018:

A Muslim imam has discovered a Sharia law book advocating
jihad and hostage taking in Melbourne international airport’s Islamic
prayer room.


Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi, a Shia imam who campaigns against Islamic
extremism, saw the Arabic language book shortly before boarding a
flight.


The Adelaide-based Shia religious leader and author made a video of
himself flicking through the index, which featured references to jihad,
‘taking hostages at war’ and taxing ‘infidel’ non-Muslims.

Shortly before boarding his flight, he told Daily Mail Australia a
fundamentalist Sunni Islamic law book had the potential to ‘certainly
radicalise someone’.
‘It can turn a regular traveller or a frustrated, vulnerable
traveller into an extremist,’ he said, shortly after midday on Thursday.
‘It goes against national security.’
Sheikh Tawhidi said that while the book of Islamic jurisprudence was
possibly planted by an activist, Melbourne airport needed to ‘take
action’.
Several hours later, Melbourne Airport tweeted to Sheikh Tawhidi to
confirm they had removed the Arabic language book, Fiqh us-Sunnah, by
Egyptian Sunni Islamic scholar As-Sayyid Sabiq.
‘Thanks for your message. We have a publicly accessible multi-faith
prayer room open to travellers of various religions,’ it said.
‘The book has been removed for assessment of its suitability.’
The book about the practices of the Prophet Mohammad was authored by a
prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a pan-Sunni Islamist group
campaigning for a global Islamic caliphate….

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 Central African Republic: Muslims murder at least 42 Christians in jihad massacre in cathedral
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

“The death toll could reach as high as 100,” but this attack will get
little international attention. The international media is much more
concerned with trying to find incidents of “Islamophobia.”

“At least 42 dead in cathedral attack in Central African Republic,” Catholic News Agency, November 16, 2018:

Alindao, Central African Republic, Nov 16, 2018 / 04:05
pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At least 42 people have died in an attack Thursday
on the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Alindao, in the Central African
Republic, according to local reports.


At least one priest was among those killed in the Nov. 15 attack.
Some unofficial estimates have said the death toll could reach as high
as 100. Many of the people killed were refugees sheltering at the
Church.

The CAR has suffered violence since December 2012, when several bands
of mainly Muslim rebel groups formed an alliance, taking the name
Seleka, and seized power.
In reaction to the Seleka’s attacks, some Central Africans formed
self-defense groups called anti-balaka. Some of these groups, mainly
composed of Christians, began attacking Muslims out of revenge, and the
conflict took on a sectarian character.
According to reports from Aid to the Church in Need, ex-Seleka forces
attacked the cathedral, reportedly in retaliation for a Muslim who was
killed the day prior by anti-balaka.
The priest killed in the attack was vicar general of the diocese,
Abbe Blaise Mada. Aid to the Church in Need added that some reports have
said second priest, Father Celestine Ngoumbango, was also killed, but
this has not been confirmed.
Houses in the neighborhood were also looted and burned.
Many Catholic churches in the country provide refuge to Muslims and
Christians alike fleeing violence, included churches in the Diocese of
Bangassou, some 140 miles to the east of Alindao, where several Catholic
institutions have taken in displaced Muslims who face violence at the
hand of anti-balaka.
Anti-balaka killed more than 100 Muslims in Bangassou in May 2017
before United Nations peacekeepers intervened, and since then the city’s
Petit Seminaire Saint Louis has been home to about 1,600 displaced
Muslims. Another 2,000 Muslims have taken refuge at St. Peter Claver
Cathedral in Bangassou….

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 UK: From appeasement to collusion-
Part 1: The Church of England
BY ANDREW JONES
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
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Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra (Muslim Council of Britain) 
and Justin Welby (Archbishop of Canterbury)
  • UK government moving from appeasement of Islamic extremists to collusion with them, while intensifying suppression of dissent.
  • UK government renews and deepens ties with Muslim Brotherhood affiliated Muslim Council of Britain.
  • Church of England engages in misguided interfaith dialogue with Islamic extremists.

Introduction
Since the end of the Second World War, and in the past 20 years in
particular, British society has undergone an historically unprecedented
transformation due to mass immigration. The speed and extent of the transformation, its negative economic and social consequences, and the fact it never had a democratic mandate, has contributed to a more divided Britain. Many difficulties have been confronted and surmounted
with a variety of immigrant and immigrant-descended communities, yet
when it comes to elements within the UK’s burgeoning Muslim population
(which increased 75% between 2001-2011 [p. 22/80]), the problems can seem intractable.
The fracture line most prone to splitting in multicultural Britain lies between Muslims struggling with (or against) integration — often for religious reasons — and the white working-class communities which have borne the brunt of their country’s imposed transformation. Many Muslims fear so-called Islamophobia (a term both arbitrarily defined and employed), while UK authorities enthusiastically pursue supposed Islamophobes. However, public concerns regarding Islamic terrorism and extremism, demographic upheaval, grooming gangs and a variety of imported Muslim intra-communal socio-cultural problems (including female genital mutilation [FGM], ‘honour violence’, polygamy and forced marriage), seem typically treated with kid-gloves by all branches of the UK establishment. FGM, for instance, although illegal since 1985, has seen zero prosecutions despite one case being reported every hour. Moreover, there are now state-funded specialist clinics
in the UK which address FGM’s health complications. From a certain
angle, the appeasement of the practice seems to have blurred into
something approaching collusion with it.
This specific instance in the public health sector of appeasement
becoming more like collusion is part of a pattern being witnessed across
all branches of the UK establishment. For the sake of avoiding social
upheaval in the short term (and therefore amassing it in the long term),
the UK establishment’s tendency is to side with sections of Britain’s
Muslim population. The flip side of this is that the government has
turned against the broader population, which manifests in an
increasingly draconian approach to dissenting voices, such as Tommy Robinson. For instance, the UK government has renewed and deepened ties with the suspected Muslim Brotherhood front, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). Ties were severed in 2009 after former MCB Secretary General, Daud Abdullah, signed the Istanbul Declaration,
which called for violence against UK armed forces. Despite this — or
perhaps because of the MCB’s potential to generate violence — Prime
Minister Theresa May now presides over a rapprochement with them. She
knows very well who she is getting involved with, because she was Home
Secretary when the still largely censored Jenkins Report was released in 2015 and therefore had full access to it. Along with the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) and Islamic Society of Britain (ISB), the report cites the MCB as an organisation with Muslim Brotherhood affiliations.
According to the Jenkins Report, “aspects of Muslim Brotherhood
ideology and tactics, in this country and overseas, are contrary to our
[UK] values and have been contrary to our national interests and our
national security”. Denounced in December 2016 by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (headed by MP Crispin Blunt), the Jenkins Report and its warnings were countered with a more favourable picture
of the Muslim Brotherhood, which now seems to be the preferred approach
of the UK government. This switch is despite the Brotherhood having
been marked as a global threat by the US Subcommittee on National Security, despite it being proscribed as a terrorist organisation in several countries, and despite its branch, Hamas, being overtly terrorist. Furthermore, the Brotherhood is the ideological root of Al Qaeda and Islamic State and works globally to subvert and Islamify societies
via infiltration of the organs of state and other public bodies, such
as media and charities. It shares the goal of a global caliphate with
the Sunni jihadists it has spawned, and only differs from them in its
general preference for gradualism over revolutionary violence.
In Western democracies, by publicly rejecting political violence and posing as moderates, the messaging of Muslim Brotherhood operatives can be seductive for politicians and establishment figures
eager to hold together their fragmenting societies and find a bulwark
against terrorism. However, the risk of reaching-out to “Islamists” who
wish to engage in/with democracy is that it increases the potential for
infiltration — and this is the weakness of the rapprochement strategy Leiken and Brooke
argued for in 2007. This misguided strategy was favoured by the Obama
administration and now seems to have been adopted by Theresa May’s
government. Forging links with Muslim Brotherhood affiliates, and
appeasing their demands in the hope it lessens jihadist terrorism,
offers only false hope. Non-violent “Islamists” and jihadists implicitly act in concert,
forming a pincer movement to Islamify society by subversion and
intimidation respectively. The appeasement of political Islam by
governments across Western Europe is transforming the continent against
the will of vast numbers of its citizens and is effectively in collusion
with the “Islamist” agenda — yet jihadist violence persists. The
strategy is not working.
The UK government is now crossing the line from appeasement to
collusion by bringing the MCB in from the cold. If its members are
indeed Muslim Brotherhood operatives, they are wolves in sheep’s
clothing who subscribe to the Brotherhood motto: “Allah is our
objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our constitution.
Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

This is a call to theocratic jurisprudence and holy war is at least
implied — it is also arguably treasonable according to section 3 of the
UK’s 1848 Treason Felony Act.
What follows is the first in a series of articles examining
‘Islamist’ influence and infiltration into the various branches of the
UK establishment: Church, Monarchy, Military, Security Services, Police,
Prison Service, Judiciary, Legislature, Civil Service, state media and
banking/corporate interests.
It is perhaps appropriate to begin with the Church of England, given
the overwhelmingly religious motivations of Islamic extremists.
Moreover, the weakness of Christianity as a cultural force in Europe
seems a fundamental aspect of the continent’s crisis in confidence. It
has been observed by commentators such as Melanie Phillips that the decline of Christianity has left a moral and spiritual vacuum
ready to be filled by a more self-assured belief system. It is within
this context that the Church of England is ingratiating itself to
extremists Muslim clerics, fulfilling Christopher Hitchens’ prophetic
warning that the West’s own ecumenical and multiculturalist priesthood
will “hold open the gates” for a resurgent and expansionist Islam.
Part 1: The Church of England
The UK’s state religion is the Church of England and as such is a
centuries-old branch of the political establishment. Now largely bereft
of political power, it nonetheless still exerts some soft-power in terms
of moral influence in British public life. Headed by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Justin Welby, the Church of England has a track record of
interfaith dialogue with extremist Muslims.
A former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, advocated the absorption of aspects of Sharia law
into UK legislation. Some Muslim groups supported Williams in this, for
instance, the Rochdale-based Ramadhan Foundation, an educational and
welfare body. They said Williams’ advocacy was “testament to his attempts to understand Islam and promote tolerance and respect between our great faiths”. The same foundation has a history of making outlandish and delusional comments, including referring to Israel as “the new Hitler”.
Williams also made the claim at a 2014 conference organised by the
supposedly integrationist and progressive Islamic Society of Britain
(ISB), that Islam is rejuvenating British values. However, according to The Muslim Brothers in Europe: Roots and Discourse (p. 65), ISB is one of several movements which “have their ideological roots in the activism of Sayyid Qutb and Maulana Mawdudi,” two key founders of modern jihadism. The “offensive jihad”
of Al Qaeda and Islamic State — their holy war for Islamic
world-domination — is in no small measure the result of Qutb and
Mawdudi’s promotion of extremist teachings and violence.
As well-meaning liberals, Williams and Welby engage in interfaith
dialogue aiming for a “draw” — they aim for the common ground of
understanding among equals. However, Islamic supremacists enter such
dialogue with the aim of “winning” — as religious exclusivists, it could
not be otherwise, whether they are honest about it or not. Moreover,
 as Samuel Westrop has noted, “honorable activities do not only attract those with honorable intentions”, and the involvement of extremists poisons the entire interfaith exercise — extremists such as Inter Faith Network members, Jamiat Ulama e Britain (JUB), who are “directly affiliated”
with Pakistani seminaries that have close ties to the Taliban. The
error of the interfaith template is therefore similar to the equally
misguided attempt to engage “Islamists” in the democratic process. 
Islam, in the purist 7th century form, advocated by the Muslim
Brotherhood and others, is a totalitarian theocratic system and
therefore sees democracy as haram. For “Islamists”, engaging with the democratic process is only a means to the end of destroying it from within.
Welby has, in recent years, made numerous pointless attempts at
dialogue with those for whom dialogue has a foregone, supremacist
conclusion. In 2016, he welcomed Muhammad Naqib ur Rehman
to Lambeth Palace to counter “the narrative of extremism and
terrorism”, despite Rehman having openly praised acts of terror in
Pakistan. In July 2018, Welby hosted the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Shaykh
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyeb, for the “Emerging Peacemakers Conference”. Given the conference title, it is grimly ironic that this is the same al-Tayyeb who in 2015 refused to condemn Islamic State
as un-Islamic. Welby, in his capacity as an amateur scholar of Islam
compared to al-Tayyeb, contradicted this a year later with his claim
that ISIS had “nothing to do with Islam”. Al-Tayyeb also considers apostasy punishable by death and, as head of Al-Azhar, the world’s foremost Sunni university, is party to both incitement against Egypt’s much-persecuted Coptic Christian minority and the promulgation of Sunni jihadism’s ideological underpinning.
Concerning UK-based “Islamists”, Welby visited the Hamas-linked Finsbury Park mosque after Darren Osborne’s 2017 vehicular ramming attack. Ignoring the fact that it was a Hamas-linked mosque which had been the victim of a style of attack favoured by Hamas, Welby went on to honour its “hero imam”, Mohammed Mahmoud, at the 2018 Lambeth Awards.
Mahmoud’s award was for having prevented violence — he protected
Osborne from an angry Muslim mob in the direct aftermath of the attack.
However, Mahmoud’s association with alleged former Hamas military commander, Finsbury Park mosque trustee Mohammed Sawalha,
was discretely overlooked. From Welby’s actions, we can surmise that he
was either naively content with, or unwilling to question, the mosque’s
2017 explanation that it was “unaware” of Sawalha’s background and status as a Hamas politburo member.
Welby has done much work in the interfaith field with his “friend”, MCB Assistant Secretary General, Ibrahim Mogra. Although moderate in his public pronouncements, Mogra regularly re-tweets posts from the “extremist” advocacy group, Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), and, as a senior MCB member, is formally linked to many who have openly supported the likes of Bin Laden and Hamas. Furthermore, Mogra has promoted “Islamist” narratives within the British education system by writing a Teacher Handbook
on Islam. The handbook includes justifications for amputation
punishments, violent jihad, polygamy, slavery and — casting doubt on
Mogra’s interfaith work — Islamic supremacist thinking.
It is therefore reasonable to conclude that Archbishop Welby is
willingly blind to Islamic extremism and is actively covering for it,
for instance, with the false-equivalency that “many faiths, not just Islam” have a problem with radicalisation. Moreover, Welby asserts that it is an irrational “fear of Muslims” among the public which is tearing British society apart, rather than Islamic extremism, which he downplays by warning against “hysteria”.
Furthermore, he claimed the number of young Muslims travelling to Syria
to fight for Islamic State and other jihadist groups was “extraordinarily small” — it was approximately 800 (including family members). The UK now faces an ongoing severe terror threat from the around 400 fighters who have returned, adding a combat-hardened core to the pool of up to 35,000 potential jihadists
already in the country. For Welby, the public is not to believe its
lying eyes that it is his interfaith partners who sow the ideological
seeds which sprout into sectarian apartheid and acts of terror.  This “gaslighting”
of the British public, as shall be further illustrated in this series
of articles, is ubiquitous across British public life — the primary
problem of Islamic extremism is fearfully overlooked and the secondary
response of public concern is derided as delusional or bigoted.

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENIES REGISTRATION TO CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS GROUP FOR REQUIRING ITS LEADERS TO BE CHRISTIANS

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 Defending Truth and Christianity at the University
 A presentation given by Anna Kitko, Ratio Christi’s Chapter Director 
at University of Tennessee – Knoxville.

 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENIES REGISTRATION TO CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS GROUP 

FOR REQUIRING ITS LEADERS TO BE CHRISTIANS
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. — A Christian apologetics
group at the University of Colorado has filed a federal lawsuit against
the institution after officials rejected the group’s application for
registration because it requires its leaders to be Christians.


According to the lawsuit,
the Colorado Springs chapter of Ratio Christi “seeks to advance a
biblical worldview, explaining how the Bible applies to various current
cultural, moral, and political issues.”

It sees its leadership as “the spiritual leaders of the chapter,” who
are “responsible for promoting, guiding, and leading the spiritual
health of the chapter and its members; for leading others toward
Christian maturity; for teaching faithfully the word of God; and for
teaching, inculcating, defending, communicating, and advocating the chapter’s Christian beliefs.”
However, in 2016, after Ratio Christi applied for registration, which
would allow it to use campus space and obtain funding for activities,
its leaders were advised during a meeting that the application could not
be accepted because its Constitution requires its officers to be
Christians.

University officials asserted that the requirement conflicts with the
Board of Regents’ non-discrimination policy, which states, “The
University of Colorado does not discriminate on the basis of race,
color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, creed,
religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression,
veteran status, political affiliation, or political philosophy in . . .
its educational programs and activities.”
They also outlined the the group could not mandate that members
“agree with and promote” Ratio Christi’s mission. Ratio Christi
reportedly attempted to assuage the concerns and tried over the course
of two years to work the matter out with the university, but were
repeatedly advised that the text of the group’s Constitution still posed
a problem.
According to the legal challenge, Sabrina Wienholtz, the school’s
director of student clubs, explained that to require members to “agree
with and promote” the group’s mission sends the message that Ratio
Christi is “not open to all students,” especially “students who may
disagree.” She further noted that “[t]he requirement that club
officers profess faith is in violation of our anti-discrimination
policy.”
Wienholtz said that if the group wanted to obtain registration
status, it should use “aspirational language,” such as that leaders
“should” profess faith, and members “should” promote the group’s
mission, rather than that they must do so.
As Ratio Christi still remains unregistered with the University of
Colorado, it filed suit on Wednesday to challenge the rejection. It
notes that various campus groups require their members and leaders to
adhere to certain beliefs, and they have not been denied registration.
“The Trans Student Union requires that its members ‘believe
that transgender people are the gender they say they are,’” the suit
outlines. “[The group] threatens to revoke the membership or leadership
position of anyone who engages in ‘transphobic comments or behavior.’”
“[T]he Gender & Sexuality Alliance states that its ‘weekly
meetings are offered to all trans, queer, intersex, and
allied students,’” the legal complaint adds.
“[T]he Gender & Sexuality Alliance would refuse to accept as
members or officers students who hold biblical beliefs that human
beings are created as either male or female, that their status as such
cannot change, and that sexual conduct is to be reserved for a marriage
between one man and one woman.”
The fraternities only allow men to join, and the sororities only
allow women, the challenge further notes, and the Young Democratic
Socialists of America group is for “leftists of all stripes.”
Ratio Christi also contends that there is another Christian student
group on campus that requires its members to agree to a statement of
faith, and mandates that leaders “faithfully attend a local
Bible-believing church.”
Similarly, “[i]t would contradict Ratio Christi’s expressive and
associational purpose to permit individuals who do not profess a
relationship with Jesus Christ and share its religious beliefs to serve
as its officers,” the organization states.
“Conferring leadership positions to those who do not profess a
relationship with Jesus Christ and share Ratio Christi’s religious
beliefs would communicate a message which Ratio Christi opposes and does
not wish to communicate.”
Ratio Christi is therefore seeking a court-ordered injunction
preventing the University of Colorado from denying its registration
status.
Read the legal challenge in full here.
“Like any other student group at a public university, religious
student organizations should be free to choose their leaders without the
government meddling,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorney Travis
Barham, who is representing the student group in court, said in a
statement.
“It would be absurd for the university to require the vegan student
group to appoint a meat-lover as its president. Likewise, the University
of Colorado shouldn’t force Christian students to let atheists or other
non-Christians to lead their Bible studies in order to become a
registered club.”
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 INTRODUCTION TO R.C.
 Ratio Christi @ Colorado State University
 Ratio Christi Intro Video
  David Limbaugh on Ratio Christi

POLICE STATE NJ DENIES BONA FIDE SECURITY GUARD A CARRY PERMIT

POLICE STATE NJ DENIES BONA FIDE SECURITY GUARD A CARRY PERMIT
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
 Gun For Hire Radio Cal Carlstrom Shari Spivak
 Gun For Hire Radio with Cal Carlstrom and Shari Spivak

New Jersey – -(AmmoLand.com)-
This week on Gun For Hire Radio, we welcome Veteran Marine and all
around great guy Cal Carlstrom, and one of our favorite “repeat
offenders” Shari Spivak from the SAW Group.
Shari announced that
on December 11, 2018 at 7:00pm here at Gun For Hire at the Woodland Park
Range, The Second Amendment Women Group is having their regular “group
shoot.” It’s only $10 to participate if you’re a member of SAW and $!5
for non-members of SAW, so come on over! Also, on November 18, 2018 SAW
is going to have a membership table at Gun For Hire. Join SAW for only
$25 per year, or just come and meet the SAW Group members who will
answer all your questions. The SAW Group does instruction classes from
basic to instructor levels, and all people are welcome. Shari Spivak and
Sandy Muldoon are both very active 2A advocates and they have turned so
many opinions around about gun safety and ownership. To find out more
about the SAW Group and their fight for our rights at www.sawshootingclub.com .

Cal
Carlstrom volunteered for the Marine Corps, he served our country
without hesitation, and now he resides with his lovely wife in Union
County, New Jersey. In the last couple of years, Cal attempted to
re-enter the workforce as an armed guard, for Global Security. His new
supervisor said Cal needed to apply for an FID card, and Cal complied.
Then the supervisor said Cal needed to attend SORA classes and get a new
background check, and Cal complied. Then the new supervisor told him he
had to file for a pistol permit, and Cal complied. After all of that,
the new supervisor told Cal he needed to apply for a “carry permit for
work only.” You know so he can’t carry a gun safely in the holster,
where it belongs, but so he can keep his gun locked up in the trunk of
his car and separate from the ammunition, where it’s basically useless
in the event Cal gets attacked by a bad guy outside of the confines of
his new job, and Cal complied. A letter of need was sent by the
Federally licensed, Global Security Company offices, to accommodate
Cal’s request for the work only permit. By law the letter has to be
approved by the local Police Chief, so it can be sent for approval to
the State Police, to be returned to the local Police Chief for review
and execution of the permit, then a judge must sign off on the permit,
then Cal can go to work again and pay his income taxes. Easy
peasy…right?
So, months and months go by, even though the law in
New Jersey says that these types of permits must be processed within 30
days. Cal eventually went over to Judge Pime’s office at the Union
County Courthouse and requested a meeting with the Judge’s secretary or
some member of the office staff that could explain the details of the
delay, and what, if anything Cal could do to expedite the process. After
the frigid office staffers made sure to be as offensive as possible to
this lovable Veteran Marine, endearing Veteran Jersey City public school
teacher, and notably the nicest guy you could ever want to meet, Cal
received no replication from the Judge who originally received his
permit request.
After numerous calls from Global Security hoping
to be able to start him at work, Cal made another trip to the Union
County Courthouse, where he was informed that yet another Judge, the
Hon. William Daniels had been assigned his permit application. Cal got
the word “from the inside” that this new Judge may actually help further
his request because Judge Pime had taken his own opinion on processing
carry permit requests, versus you know following the law, and all… After
legislating from the bench, Cal and 9 other of Global Security
Company’s potential employees were denied a “work only carry permit.”
Cal
didn’t stand for that, he sat down and called Evan Nappen. We have to
get litigious on their asses. To add insult to injury, Cal found out
that his request was denied because his letter of need “wasn’t strong
enough.” But wait…there’s more! The Judge actually said that “there is
no need for armed security in movie theaters…” Ludicrous, no?
Sandy
pointed out that every single county in New Jersey gives these permit
requests to the most anti-gun judges they possibly can. That’s right,
you heard it right here on Gun For Hire Radio, county judges in New
Jersey are not ruling based on the law statutes. Welcome to our reality!
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12th Also, Anthony has some common sense, seasonal safety tips on every
Gun For Hire Radio episode, so be sure to listen!
The
Cheeseman-Jillard cases were both denied at the State level, so they are
appealing the decision. They are going to need more money to fight the
fight for all of us! If you value your rights as an American, you should
donate to the cause. “If you are tired of being told you do not have a
need for a 2C:58-4 Permit, please donate to the Case. Every dollar will
go to defeating the Siccardi Rule and NJAC 13:54-2.4d-1.” The
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TUCKER CARLSON’S EPIC TAKEDOWN OF CNN: ONE OF “FREE SPEECH’S GREATEST ENEMIES”~BUT FOX NEWS SUPPORTS CNN AGAINST “ANTAGONISTIC TONE” OF TRUMP

TUCKER CARLSON’S EPIC TAKEDOWN OF CNN: 
ONE OF “FREE SPEECH’S GREATEST ENEMIES” 
 ‘CNN almost single-handedly led the campaign to have Alex Jones banished’
BY STEVE WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
 

Tucker Carlson delivered a stunning monologue Wednesday,
slamming CNN for posing as a champion of free speech, after the network
spent months trying to have competitors silenced and banned.

Carlson addressed CNN’s lawsuit against the Trump administration for revoking Jim Acosta’s White House access.
“In
the past couple of days, you’ve heard a lot of pumping and puffing
about free speech and freedom of the press, and how those freedoms are
currently imperiled by the White House, and to be clear, we are for free
speech. Unfettered, absolute free speech.” Carlson urged.
“And we
cannot help but notice that some of free speech’s greatest enemies are
now posing as its defenders, all of a sudden.” he added.

And that’s when the smackdown commenced, with Tucker providing examples of CNN’s total hypocrisy when it comes to free speech.
“Take
CNN, for example. It was a CNN that almost single-handedly led the
campaign to have broadcaster Alex Jones banished from the Internet, on
the grounds that they didn’t like what Jones had to say,” Tucker
continued.
“Ultimately, CNN succeeded in doing that. The network
convinced every major tech platform to ban Jones and his outlet,
Infowars. You don’t have to like Alex Jones to see that as a terrifying
loss for free speech, because it was exactly that. But CNN was not done
trying to silence its critics.” Carlson further explained.
CNN is
“claiming to defend free speech only when it is their free speech.”
Tucker declared, noting that CNN also didn’t devote any airtime to even
report on the US government forcing RT to register as a foreign agent
under threat of imprisonment.
“Yes, Russia Today is owned by a
foreign government. So is the BBC,” he said. “But because RT is owned by
Russia, which the left believes got Donald Trump elected, it is fine
with CNN if they are bullied and silenced.”
“Call CNN what you will,” Carlson said. “But don’t pretend they are defenders of the First Amendment. They are not.”
“To
see a channel that has lobbied against the right of others to say what
they think is true, to all of a sudden emerge as this defender of the
First Amendment is nauseating.” Tucker added.
Carlson and his guest Victor Davis Hanson then discussed how the Obama administration actively spied on reporters.
“This is a violation of press freedom,” said Hanson. “We didn’t hear that.”
“CNN
has argued that others should lose their voice, should be silenced,
because they’re quote conspiracy theorists, but you’re listing
conspiracy theories that they have promulgated on their air.” Carlson
told his guest after Hanson cited examples of various attacks on the
President by CNN talking heads.
Turning back to Acosta, Hanson
addressed the CNN reporter’s infamous ‘chop’ to a female White House
intern’s arm, and noted that “this particular time you went over the
edge, you were disruptive you were rude, you took over an optional press
conference. Nothing in the constitution says he has to have a press
conference.”
Despite the tone of Carlson’s broadcast, Fox News
released an earlier statement expressing support for CNN’s lawsuit, for
which CNN thanked their rival network.

Fox News will file an amicus brief in support of and CNN. Thank you ! Statement from Jay Wallace below:

VIDEO: RAND PAUL WARNS OF CENSORSHIP OF CONSERVATIVES BY BIG TECH~THE SCHUMER CONNECTION

VIDEO: RAND PAUL WARNS OF CENSORSHIP OF CONSERVATIVES BY BIG TECH
 Facebook needs to ‘convince conservatives they’re not the enemy’
BY STEVE WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
 

In an interview with CNN, of all places, Senator Rand Paul
warned that there is a concerted effort by big tech, in particular
Facebook, to censor conservative viewpoints, and it will lead to their
downfall.

“I think if it gets so bad that they don’t
allow conservative viewpoints on Facebook, I think you will get to a
point where people will leave in droves,” Paul told CNN Thursday.

“So Facebook, if they want to keep making money, are going to have to
convince conservatives that they’re not the enemy.” Paul urged.
Paul
noted that while it is not in the nature of conservatives to push for
regulation of private companies, big tech has justifiably become an
exception to that rule.
“It’s a privately owned company,” Paul
said, adding “Most times, conservatives, we don’t want to over-regulate
private businesses.
“But they do have sort of a monopoly on this sort of social exchange in speech,” he added.

“[W]hat I’ve been saying for a while is that we need to look at the
barriers to entry that government might be creating,” Paul continued.
“Not
the government starting other companies but the government getting out …
to allow competition with Facebook.” the Senator added.
Paul’s comments come in the wake of revelations that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ordered the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Sen. Mark Warner, to back off of investigating Facebook with regarding to Russian interference in US elections.
A Senate source further commented
that Schumer is concerned that Facebook may “bow to pressure from the
right wing, who opposed Facebook’s purging of fake accounts and bots.”
Schumer reportedly told Warner that he should cooperate with Facebook rather than scrutinize its activity.

NYT says Chuck Schumer directly interceded on Facebook’s behalf to get Mark Warner to soften his critiques of the company.

Oh — and Schumer’s campaign received more $ from Facebook in 2016 than anyone else in Congress. And his daughter works there. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html 

 Screenshot from NYT article: "Back off, he told Mr. Warner, according to a Facebook employee briefed on Mr. Schumer’s intervention. Mr. Warner should be looking for ways to work with Facebook, Mr. Schumer advised, not harm it. Facebook lobbyists were kept abreast of Mr. Schumer’s efforts to protect the company, according to the employee."

COMMUNIST BRAINWASHING: THIS IS THE MOST SHOCKINGLY RACIST VIDEO YOU WILL EVER SEE, IF YOU CAN STOMACH IT!

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THIS IS THE MOST SHOCKINGLY RACIST VIDEO YOU WILL EVER SEE, IF YOU CAN STOMACH IT! 
BY HARRISON SMITH
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
  This Is The Most Shockingly Racist Video You Will Ever See
Communist show for children is mind-blowing 
racist indoctrination
SEE KRISTINA WONG'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVB9LCGQewhp4LxlachKPQ 
 
 KIDS BRAINWASHED TO HATE WHITE PEOPLE:
REPORT BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON 
 
 

DAVID CLOUD’S “WAY OF LIFE” SELECT ARTICLES

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All articles republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and 
research purposes:
FACEBOOK: THE DEVIL’S MIXING BOWL  

(Friday
Church News Notes, November 16, 2018, www.wayoflife.org,
fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – Facebook is a two-edged sword. On
one hand, it has benefits such as advertising churches and legitimately
keeping touch with friends. On the other hand, it is one of the greatest
tools of the devil to foster spiritual compromise. It has great
potential to corrupt through evil communications (1 Corinthians 15:33).
Facebook is the devil’s mixing bowl. It tends to mix everything
together, the holy and the unholy, the spiritual and the worldly. The
following observation is from Brian Snider, “Most people in our circles
do not have the discernment, discretion or courage to stand against
things that are wrong. For instance, when someone leaves a good church
and goes down a worldly or wicked road, many people continue to remain
friends with them and ‘Like’ everything they do. They will approve of
things on Facebook that their church and pastor plainly stand against
including immodest attire, worldly activities, wrong relationships,
wrong marriages, rebellion against church, bad doctrine…you name it.
They hear these things preached against on Sunday, but Monday morning
they approve of them on Facebook. They will not clearly and plainly
separate from folks who are going in a direction that contradicts the
doctrine of their own church. This encourages the one who is doing
wrong, weakens those who would stand against that behavior, and signals
to others that these wrong activities are okay. In doing this, they seem
to care more about the feelings of rebels than they do the feelings and
concerns of a pastor who loves and cares for them. From that
standpoint, I believe that Facebook has done untold damage to churches. I
have friends in independent, fundamental churches around the world and I
have observed that this takes place everywhere.”
CONCLUDING NOTE:
Spiritual victory in the age of social media is the same as it has been
since the days of Job, who loved God and wanted to honor Him and
therefore made a covenant with his eyes (Job 31:1). The victory is in
being born again (not just a sinner’s prayer), abiding in Christ in my
everyday life, having a pilgrim mindset so that I am aware that I
presently live in a strange land filled with spiritual and moral
dangers, and having a testing mindset to guard against those dangers and
keep them out of my life. It is a continual and daily battle. It is a
mindset whereby I refuse to be manipulated by the world system and its
technology. It is the mindset whereby I will use the technology for the
glory of God within biblical boundaries, but I will not be controlled by
it and negatively influenced by it, whatever that entails, even if it
means having
no Internet and no smartphone and no
social media. If I can use a technology for the glory of God without
being harmed by it, then I can use it. If not, then I don’t need it. I
am in a spiritual war, and I am fighting to win. “For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of
strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into
captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians
10:4-5).
SCOTLAND BECOMES FIRST COUNTRY TO REQUIRE LGBTI INDOCTRINATION IN SCHOOLS  
(Friday
Church News Notes, November 16, 2018, www.wayoflife.org,
fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – The following is excerpted from
“Scotland to Embed LGBTI,”
The Guardian,
Nov. 9, 2018: “Scotland will become the first country in the world to
embed the teaching of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex
rights in the school curriculum, in what campaigners have described as a
historic moment. State schools will be required to teach pupils about
the history of LGBTI equalities and movements, as well as tackling
homophobia and transphobia and exploring LGBTI identity, after ministers
accepted in full the recommendations of a working group led by the Time
for Inclusive Education (TIE) campaign. There will be no exemptions or
opt-outs to the policy, which will embed LGBTI inclusive education
across the curriculum and across subjects and which the Scottish
government believes is a world first. … Scotland has regularly been
ranked as one of the best countries in Europe in relation to legal
protections for LGBTI people … In 2016, the former Scottish Labour
leader Kezia Dugdale described the country as having ‘the gayest
parliament in the world’: at the time four of Scotland’s six party
leaders (Dugdale, the Conservatives’ Ruth Davidson, Ukip’s David Coburn
and the Greens’ Patrick Harvie) identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual.”
BENNY HINN’S NEPHEW RENOUNCES THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL 
 (Friday
Church News Notes, November 16, 2018, www.wayoflife.org,
fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – The following is excerpted from
“Benny Hinn Is My Uncle,”
Christianity Today,
Nov. 20, 2017: “Growing up in the Hinn family empire was like belonging
to some hybrid of the royal family and the mafia. Our lifestyle was
lavish, our loyalty was enforced, and our version of the gospel was big
business. Though Jesus Christ was still a part of our gospel, he was
more of a magic genie than the King of Kings. Rubbing him the right
way—by giving money and having enough faith—would unlock your spiritual
inheritance. God’s goal was not his glory but our gain. His grace was
not to set us free from sin but to make us rich. The abundant life he
offered wasn’t eternal, it was now. We lived the prosperity gospel. …
We lived in a 10,000-square-foot mansion guarded by a private gate,
drove two Mercedes Benz vehicles, vacationed in exotic destinations, and
shopped at the most expensive stores. On top of that, we bought a $2
million ocean-view home in Dana Point, California, where another Benz
joined the fleet. … doubts would surface. What about unsuccessful
healing attempts? I learned that it was the sick person’s fault for
doubting God. Why would we speak in tongues without interpretation?
‘Don’t quench the Spirit,’ I was told. ‘He can do what he wants.’ Why
did many of our prophecies contradict the Bible? ‘Don’t put God in a
box.’ Despite the questions, I trusted my family because we were so
successful. … After graduating college and returning home, I met my
wife, Christyne. I had no idea that God would use her in bringing about
my salvation. In fact, my family and I were nervous because she didn’t
speak in tongues. … one day she pointed to a verse I had never seen: 1
Corinthians 12:30 (‘Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in
tongues? Do all interpret?’). I was shaken to the core. There it was
plain as day—not everybody has to speak in tongues. Soon, the domino
effect began. Other longstanding beliefs were failing the biblical test.
No longer did I believe that God’s purpose was to make me happy,
healthy, and wealthy. Instead, I saw that he wanted me to live for him
regardless of what I could 
get from
him. … I am thankful that my wife was willing to question my
insistence on speaking in tongues and that my pastor loved me enough to
disciple me out of prosperity gospel confusion.”
UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES: UNHOLY HANDS ON GOD’S HOLY WORD  

(Friday
Church News Notes, November 16, 2018, www.wayoflife.org,
fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – The United Bible Societies (UBS) and
the World Council of Churches have published a book that discussed the
Bible as an ecumenical tool. It is called
Your Word Is Truth: The Bible in 10 Christian Traditions.
“The publication revives a long history between the WCC and UBS of
working together to nurture engagement with Scripture as a unifying
element in ecumenical, inter-confessional relations” (Christian
Newswire, Nov. 8, 2018). The only way that the Bible can be a unifying
element in ecumenical relations (Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox) is to
misuse it. If it were interpreted literally and accurately, it would
destroy the ecumenical movement. The Bible says, “… earnestly contend
for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3).
Fighting for the one true faith of God’s Word is the very opposite of
ecumenical unity. If I stand up, for example, for the gospel of the
grace of Christ without works or sacraments as taught in God’s Word,
then I destroy unity with those who preach a sacramental gospel. If I
stand up for the literal interpretation of Bible prophecy, I destroy
unity with those who hold to an allegorical method of interpretation. If
I stand up for the cessation of apostolic sign gifts, I destroy unity
with those who claim to exercise those gifts. In truth, the World
Council of Churches and the United Bible Societies are enemies of the
Bible. they together because they are unified in error. They have a
false christ, a false gospel, and a false spirit. For evidence of this,
see the free eBooks
Unholy Hands on God’s Holy Book and The World Council of Churches, available at www.wayoflife.org.

A POPULATION CAPABLE OF USING & OPERATING FIREARMS IS NECESSARY~RED FLAG LAW GONE BAD & BULLET ORDINANCES

A POPULATION CAPABLE OF USING & OPERATING FIREARMS IS NECESSARY
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

USA – (AmmoLand.com)- All too often the anti-gun left in America says that the 2nd amendment does not say what it means. They say “regulated” means to be controlled by the Government that the National Guard is the militia. Nothing could be further from the truth.

“A
well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free
State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
infringed.”

So – How did George Washing describe the militia?

“….
Men just dragged from the tender Scenes of domestic life; unaccustomed
to the din of Arms; totally unacquainted with every kind of military
skill, which being followed by a want of confidence in themselves, when
opposed to Troops regularly trained, disciplined, and appointed,
superior in knowledge and superior in Arms, makes them timid, and ready
to fly from their own shadows … ~ (Weatherup, Roy G.: Standing Armies and the Armed Citizens: An Historical Analysis of the Second Amendment. Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly (Fall 1975), 973)”

Hmmm… It doesn’t sound like the National Guard now does it? Ok, so it DOES seem like the French Army though. The definition of the militia from the 18th century is all able-bodied citizens between the ages of 17 and 45.
Regulated – does not mean controlled, it is about military operations being drilled and prepared.
Or we could again read a quote from George Washington:

“The
distinction between a well-regulated army and a mob is the good order
and discipline of the first, and the licentious and disorderly behavior
of the latter.”

Hummmm… sure seem to meet the definition of drilled and prepared.
So
if we translate the ORIGINAL writing of the 2nd Amendment with modern
words that match the intent of the founders we get this.

“Having
a population capable of using and operating firearms is necessary for
the security of the free state, the right of the people to keep and bear
arms shall not be infringed.”

So the 2nd amendment means what it says if you don’t play word games with it.
To illustrate it further let’s replace the word arms with books. Please consider the following:

“A
well EDUCATED populace being necessary for the security of the free
state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be
infringed.”

Ohhhh… Some books are too dangerous
for you to own, we must ban them. (I’m sure Facebook would agree!) We
should ban ALL books so that you only learn what the elite want you to
know. While the left may now agree there is a lot of correlation here,
one you should pay attention too when you see how your rights are being
affected.
In 1850 you could give a slave a gun to hunt for food if
you taught a slave to read you would be hung. Knowledge and free speech
have always been the real source of power.
As for “The People.”
The same men who wrote the 2nd amendment also wrote all the other
amendments. So, if “The People” in one amendment refers to only those in
the military does that mean that only those who have served have the
right to free speech?. As a kid, we all read Starship Trooper
or saw the movie. “Services guarantees citizenship,” is an honest
alternative to the Constitution depending on how you describe “The
People.” I don’t think the meaning of “The people” has changed or is all
that hard to understand.
So just for the fun of it, the following link shows several words whose meaning has changed over time. You might be surprised at what you read.
The 2nd Amendment means what it says; you have the natural right to own a firearm despite what they want you to believe.

About Don McDougall

Don McDougallDon McDougallDon
McDougall is an NRA instructor and member of the Los Padres “Friends of
the NRA” committee. If he’s not at the range, you will find him setting
the record straight with on gun issues and gun safety on AmmoLand
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H.R. 7115 What it Means: CONTROL
 Career politicians who know nothing of firearms making laws on Firearms
Parts pieces and processes should not be allowed here is my take on HR
7115
  
Gun Gripes #170: “Red Flag Laws”
by IraqVeteran8888
 In this Gripe we discuss the dangers of so called “Red Flag Laws,” the
consequences and dangers inherent in these unconstitutional laws that
completely ignore due process and have been proven to be statistically
relevant in states which adopted these laws early on. Stay tuned, much
more on the way.

  • UNABLE TO REACH ASIA BIBI, MUSLIMS IN PAKISTAN ARE ATTACKING RANDOM CHRISTIANS

    Protests after Christian woman released from captivity in Pakistan

     UNABLE TO REACH ASIA BIBI, MUSLIMS IN PAKISTAN ARE ATTACKING RANDOM CHRISTIANS 

    BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
    republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
     Islamists reportedly attacked travelers in Pakistan who 
    identified themselves as Christians in the wake of the decision by the 
    Supreme Court to rescind the 2010 death sentence against Asia Bibi for 
    alleged blasphemy, CNN reported on Sunday.

    Christians in Pakistan are being taught a lesson, and are being made
    an example. Rampaging Muslims who are out for Asia Bibi’s life are now
    escalating their persecution of Christians in Pakistan, since they can’t
    get to Bibi herself.

    Jihad Watch
    has been meticulously covering the deranged calls for the blood of Bibi
    after she was acquitted on trumped-up blasphemy charges. Multitudes
    rioted in the streets of Pakistan, demanding her death. Even the Supreme
    Court judges who acquitted her were threatened, and then, facing the
    mad fury over the acquittal, the Pakistani government capitulated to the rioters, banned Asia Bibi from leaving country, and is reviewing her blasphemy acquittal.
    This move by the Pakistani government was a reflection of its
    adherence to Islamic blasphemy laws. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan
    vowed
    to take the matter [of blasphemy] to the United Nations, saying that
    few in the West understand the pain caused to Muslims by such
    activities.”
    It is beyond pain. It’s Islamic law, rooted in supremacism and
    entitlement. Muhammad and Islam must not be offended, period. And this
    rule does not apply only to Muslims, but to anyone. This is the reason
    why many Islamic groups in the West work overtime to ensure that
    Westerners are kept in line with Islam’s official closed corpus. The
    “Islamophobia” subterfuge is now rooted in Western societies.
    “Islamophobia” is passed off as a form of “racism,” but the
    “Islamophobia” initiative is really about silencing criticism of Islam.
    Therefore, rather than risk Muslim ire, or violence and rioting by
    Muslims, Westerners are shutting their mouths and sticking to
    criticizing Judaism, Christianity or any other faith if they wish to,
    but they do not dare criticize Islam. It is superior to every other
    faith, in the implied view of proponents of “Islamophobia” and “hate
    speech” laws.
    Take, for example, Canada. Pakistani MP Iqra Khalid introduced her anti-Islamophobia motion M-103,
    which passed in Parliament, and now the Trudeau government, as a
    followup, is “taking action” and “monitoring citizens for compliance” —
    as part of a 23 million dollar anti-“discrimination” plan- – under the
    leadership and direction of groups such as the National Council of
    Canadian Muslims (formerly CAIR.Can) and the Islamic Charity IRFAN,
    which was designated a terror-linked group by the previous Conservative
    government.

    “Report: Unable to Reach Asia Bibi, Pakistan’s Islamists Attacking Random Christians,” by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, November 12, 2018:

    Islamists reportedly attacked travelers in Pakistan who
    identified themselves as Christians in the wake of the decision by the
    Supreme Court to rescind the 2010 death sentence against Asia Bibi for
    alleged blasphemy, CNN reported on Sunday.

    Breitbart News has long reported that Pakistan’s controversial
    blasphemy law is disproportionally used target religious minorities,
    particularly Christians.
    Human rights groups have determined that Muslims often use the law to settle personal disputes and vendettas.
    Peter Jacob, the executive director for the Center for Social Justice
    in Lahore, told CNN that half of the individuals accused of blasphemy
    in Pakistan are non-Muslims, adding that his organization registered
    cases in which anti-Bibi rioters asked travelers to divulge their
    religion, and if they revealed they were Christian, “They were taken out
    of their cars and beaten up.”
    “The mental and psychological scars” inflicted on the Christian
    community will endure in the “current climate of fear,” Jacob noted.
    CNN recently spoke to members of the Christian minority community in Pakistan impacted by Bibi’s acquittal.
    “While speculation is rife about the safety of Bibi and her family,
    there are larger conversations at stake regarding the protection of
    Pakistan’s tiny Christian minority,” CNN noted, adding, “The country’s
    strict blasphemy laws are a topic of great sensitivity in Pakistan;
    accusations of blasphemy have seen a surge in mob violence and lynchings
    in pockets of the country.”
    Followers of Christ make up less than two percent of Pakistan’s
    population of 200 million, according to Jacob. Yet they have been in the
    territory that forms modern Pakistan for centuries, long before it was
    declared an Islamic country.
    “Please don’t name us,” a member of Pakistan’s Christian minority
    told CNN on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. “But we are
    Christians and if Muslims aren’t safe from these conversations then we
    are nothing to these people, we respect the judgment of the Supreme
    Court, and that is paramount, I just want this situation to go away and
    for this tension to be lifted from our shoulders.”
    Nearly a week after the October 31 Supreme Court decision to acquit
    Bibi, Pakistani authorities moved her to an undisclosed location last
    Thursday, fearing for her safety.
    Islamists linked to the anti-blasphemy Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan
    (TLP) party that orchestrated riots across the Muslim country soon after
    the supreme court’s decision have threatened to kill Bibi, her lawyer,
    and the judges who cleared her.
    Last Friday, the Pakistani government reached a deal with TLP to
    prevent Bibi from leaving the country while the Supreme Court deals with
    petitions to review its acquittal of the Christian mother of five…..

    POPE FRANCIS, DEFENDER OF ISLAM, TO VISIT MOROCCO TO “STRENGTHEN CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM TIES”~POPE SAYS “GOSSIPERS ARE TERRORISTS”, BUT ISLAMIC JIHADIS AREN’T

    POPE FRANCIS, DEFENDER OF ISLAM, 
    TO VISIT MOROCCO TO 
    “STRENGTHEN CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM TIES”
    BY ROBERT SPENCER
    republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
     

    Why is he going? To report to his superiors?

    Pope Francis last year met
    in the Vatican with Dr. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, the secretary
    general of the Muslim World League (MWL), a group that has been linked
    to the financing of jihad terror.


    During the meeting, al-Issa thanked the Pope
    for his “fair positions” on what he called the “false claims that link
    extremism and violence to Islam.” In other words, he thanked the Pope
    for dissembling about the motivating ideology of jihad terror, which his
    group has been accused of financing, and for defaming other religions
    in an effort to whitewash Islam.


    I don’t object to the Pope’s meeting this man. After all, Jesus was a
    friend of tax collectors and sinners. But the meeting appears to have
    been a pointless feelgood session, probably featuring some sly dawah
    from al-Issa. According to Breitbart News,
    “the two men reportedly exchanged views on a number of ‘issues of
    common interest’ including peace and global harmony, and discussed
    cooperation on issues of peaceful coexistence and the spread of love.”

    The spread of love. Yes, that’s what the Muslim World League is all about.
    Nor is this the first time a Muslim leader has thanked the Pope for
    being so very useful. Last July, Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of
    Cairo’s al-Azhar, thanked him for his “defense of Islam against the accusation of violence and terrorism.”

    Has any other Pope of Rome in the history of Christianity ever been
    heralded as a “defender of Islam”? Should he be a defender of Islam?
    Shouldn’t he instead be defending the Christians who are being
    persecuted in Muslim countries?

    “Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)

    “Pope plans Morocco trip in March to strengthen Christian-Muslim ties,” by Ella Ide, Times of Israel, November 13, 2018 (thanks to Paul):

    VATICAN CITY, Holy See (AFP) – Pope Francis, who has made
    building bridges between Christianity and Islam a cornerstone of his
    papacy, will visit Morocco in March, the Vatican said Tuesday.
    Francis, 81, will be the second pope to travel to Morocco, following John Paul II more than three decades ago.
    He will take in Rabat and Casablanca on the March 30-31 trip to the Muslim-majority country, the Vatican said.
    The pontiff was “accepting the invitation extended by King Mohammed VI and the bishops,” it said.
    Francis has already visited several Muslim countries, including Turkey in 2014, Azerbaijan in 2016, and Egypt in 2017.
    John Paul II went to Morocco in 1985 on a trip that was also seen as
    an opportunity to build ties between Muslims and Christians….
    Foreign Christians worship freely and are protected by the
    authorities. But those who convert to Christianity — estimated to be a
    few thousand people — do so quietly.

    And why is that? Because they’ll be killed if they announce their
    conversions, per Islam’s death penalty for apostasy. But AFP doesn’t
    want you to know about that.
    ___________________________________________________________

     Pope: “Gossipers are terrorists,” 
    but Islamic jihadis aren’t
    BY ROBERT SPENCER
    republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

     
    “Gossipers are terrorists because with their tongues they drop a bomb
    and then leave, and the bomb they drop destroys reputations
    everywhere,”


    But Islamic jihadis are not terrorists: “Christian terrorism does not
    exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not
    exist. They do not exist,” Francis said in a speech
    last year. “There are fundamentalist and violent individuals in all
    peoples and religions—and with intolerant generalizations they become
    stronger because they feed on hate and xenophobia.”


    “Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)

    “Pope Francis says ‘to gossip is to kill,’ compares it to form of ‘terrorism,’” by Nicole Darrah, Fox News, November 14, 2018:

    Pope Francis implored his faithful followers on Wednesday
    to refrain from gossiping, as he believes it’s a form of “terrorism”
    and “to gossip is to kill.”

    “Gossipers are terrorists because with their tongues they drop a bomb
    and then leave, and the bomb they drop destroys reputations
    everywhere,” Francis said during his weekly general audience….

    “We all live by communicating, and we are continuously on the edge
    between truth and lies,” Francis said. He added that gossip “kills
    because the tongue kills like a knife.”…

    MICHIGAN FAITH COMMUNITIES IN THE CROSS-HAIRS

    MICHIGAN FAITH COMMUNITIES IN THE 
    CROSS-HAIRS 
    BY James Simpson | Center For Security Policy
    republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
     Islam’s goal in the West, as articulated in the 
    Muslim Brotherhood’s Explanatory Memorandum, is to destroy the legal and
     political institutions of our society and replace them with the rule of
     shariah (Islamic Law). To accomplish this goal, U.S. Muslim political 
    leaders have partnered with the Left, giving them otherwise unavailable 
    access to the many institutions controlled by the Left.
    As described further on, and as most of us know through our own experience, this control extends to many U.S. mainline churches and synagogues, which the Left has turned into little more than propaganda shops for the latest leftwing fad. In so doing, they have opened the door to Islam to first present itself to Christians and Jews in a non-threatening manner and then to begin the process of “dawah,” that is, the proselytizing or preaching of Islam. Today, even some evangelical churches have fallen for the trap. It is called “Interfaith Dialogue.”
    According to Gallup Polls, about 75 percent of Americans consider
    themselves Christians.[1] In Michigan, a Pew Research poll on religion
    found that 70 percent of adults identify as Christians. Of these, 25
    percent are evangelicals, 18 percent are what Pew terms “mainline”
    Protestants, with another 8 percent categorized as “Historically Black
    Protestant.”  Eighteen percent are Catholic, and about 1 percent are
    Orthodox, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses or others. Non-Christian believers
    make up only 5 percent of Michigan’s population.

    Only one percent identify as Muslims according to the poll.[2] As
    discussed in the Red-Green Axis chapter (published as an Occasional Paper
    at the CSP website on October 19 2018)[3], Michigan Arabs believe the number is much larger, closer to 3 percent. Also discussed in that chapter, there is a “tipping point,” when the Muslim population grows to about 5 percent. They begin blocking streets to pray, demand halal food in supermarkets and self-rule within predominantly Muslim communities.[4] This is already happening in Michigan. Whatever their actual numbers, Muslims are having a profound impact on Michigan’s faith communities. Interfaith Dialogue can take credit for much of this.
    Interfaith Dialogue is a term that has been developed to describe efforts to bridge theological distinctions between religions, especially Christianity and Islam. The U.S. Institute of Peace describes it as follows:
    The term interfaith dialogue refers to cooperative, constructive and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions and/or spiritual or humanistic beliefs, at both the individual and institutional levels. It is distinct from syncretism or alternative religion, in that dialogue often involves promoting understanding between different religions to increase acceptance of others, rather than to synthesize new beliefs. Throughout the world there are local, regional, national and international interfaith initiatives; many are formally or informally linked and constitute larger networks or federations. The often quoted “There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions” was formulated by Dr. Hans Küng, a Professor of Ecumenical Theology and President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic.[5]
    The Institute goes on to say that, “Interfaith dialogue forms a major role
    in the study of religion and peacebuilding.”[6]
    This emphasis on obtaining “peace through dialogue” of course implies a meeting of minds on the very differing beliefs about God and salvation. The fact that this effort was born of those with globalist “peace” perspectives should put up red flags. The objective of most religions is conversion, not“peace,” whatever peace means in this context.
    Furthermore, in practice, Interfaith Dialogue has become a vehicle for Muslims who preach and practice an ideology of uncompromising domination and subjugation to draw Christians, sometimes well-meaning, sometimes with ulterior motives, into acceptance of Islam, without any corresponding acceptance of Christianity. Interfaith Dialogue is often referred to as “Building Bridges,” and some programs are specifically so-named.[7] But as Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney
    has noted:
    While the interfaith dialogue movement presents itself as a laudable effort to ‘bridge’ the distance between faiths, those more familiar with the doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood know that the actual agenda of too many such efforts is, in fact, modeled after the well-known dictum of Sayyid Qutb, who candidly reminded Muslims that such a ‘bridge’ is ‘only so that the people of Jahiliyyah [society of unbelievers] may come over to Islam.[8]
    Interfaith Dialogue does invite participation from other faiths, especially Judaism, but Christianity is the main target because our country remains a primarily Christian one. So, for Muslim activists and the Left to succeed in their subjugation of the West, its largest population has to be taught to accommodate them first. Once that is accomplished, those weaker Christians souls and/or pretenders to the faith can be drawn into the service of the civilization jihad objective. And this is exactly what is happening through Interfaith Dialogue.
    History of Interfaith Dialogue
    Various interfaith dialogue efforts, especially between Christians and Muslims, have been attempted off and on for centuries, with the recognition that the history of Christian/Muslim interaction has been largely one of either conflict or separation. Like many modern iterations of controversies with deep historic roots, the most recent version has been captured by communists.[9]
    Modern discussions of Interfaith Dialogue began in the early 1900s, with the birth of the ecumenical movement — an effort to unify Christian churches under one banner. At that time, as now, the objection to interfaith dialogue as well as ecumenism from the most clear-headed Christian leaders was syncretism, i.e., the notion that different faiths could be combined. For example, there had even been discussion among some liberal Protestant churches to create a universal religion.[10]
    This was also a time when the “social gospel” began creeping into mainline Protestant denominations. Sound Christian teaching was replaced by focus on the day’s social problems.
    The World Council of Churches (WCC) grew out of the ecumenical movement. Born in 1948, it took under its wing many of the mainline denominations around the world. Today it claims 350 member churches in almost 150 countries comprising some 590 million members worldwide.[11] 
    Major American denominations include:
    • African Methodist Episcopal Church
    • African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
    • American Baptist Churches in the USA
    • Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
    • Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
    • Church of the Brethren
    • Episcopal Church
    • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
    • Moravian Church in North America
    • National Baptist Convention of America
    • Orthodox Church in America
    • Presbyterian Church U.S.A.
    • Progressive National Baptist Convention
    • Reformed Church in America
    • United Church of Christ
    • United Methodist Church
    East Bloc intelligence agencies and the Soviet KGB targeted the WCC for
    infiltration as early as 1961 or before.[12] With their influence came Liberation
    Theology, a KGB-spawned invention which turned Christian doctrine into
    Marxist theology.[13]It was introduced first in Latin America, not coincidentally
    by a Peruvian Catholic priest, Gustavo Gutiérrez, and a few others, where conservative Catholicism stood in the way of communist efforts to overthrow rightwing authoritarian governments. At the same time, the WCC began discussing Interfaith Dialogue at its international conferences in 1961, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968 and 1970, and adopted it as a program in 1971.[14]
    The WCC has national affiliates in many countries. The U.S. branch is the National Council of Churches, formed in 1950 as a follow-on to the Federal Council of Churches, a communist front.[15] NCC’s subsidiary, Church World Service, is one of nine federal government contractors paid millions annually to resettle refugees in the U.S.
    NCC brags “38 member communions and over 40 million individuals – 100,000 congregations from Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, Evangelical, historic African-American, and Living Peace traditions.”[16] Those denominations listed under WCC membership are all members of the NCC as well. NCC is a leader in the interfaith movement. Its Interreligious Relations and Collaboration Convening Table meets regularly to:[17]
    • study interfaith issues,
    • build relationships between the churches and people of other religious 
    • traditions,
    • develop opportunities for the fullest possible sharing of ideas and counsel among the churches on the topic of interfaith relations,
    • nurture relationships with local and national ecumenical and interfaith 
    • bodies,
    • promote interreligious dialogue and understanding,
    • assist the NCC-member churches in developing their relationships with 
    • other faith communities,
    • provide resources for the churches for education in interreligious relations, and to promote interfaith study, dialogue, and common action.
    In a 2016 article for Eastern Mennonite University, NCC communications director, Rev. Steven D. Martin, described his “interfaith journey” following 9-11, and his involvement in Know Your 
    Neighbor, an Obama White House interfaith initiative.He described how, “Concerned about the recent rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric, member organizations have created religious resources and toolkits to help facilitate learning about other faiths, including how to organize a town hall meeting and host a “speed faithing” event.”[18]
    Martin also described getting involved in such lefty antics as joining the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota to protest the Dakota Pipeline. This should be no surprise. NCC’s “21st Century Social Creed” reads like a platform document for Democratic Socialists of America, including such items as a living wage, income redistribution, “just” immigration policies, nuclear disarmament, and other far left nonsense.[19]
    NCC’s A.C.T. to End Racism project looks like a page taken from an Antifa website. It dedicates itself to “awaken to the trauma of racism and the legacy of white privilege in the United States.”[20] Agendas include prison deinstitutionalization, income redistribution (as retribution for past exploitation) and an effort to shape media messaging. As usual there is an army of useful idiots willing to virtue signal their support by underwriting the cost. In this case, sponsors include Ben & Jerry’s, Nestle, Aetna, National Geographic and others.[21]
    The WCC had its own Program to Combat Racismfrom the 1970s through the 1990s. This took the form of providing $9,749,500 to Soviet-supported communist guerrilla groups around the world, including those in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Mozambique, Angola, Southwest Africa, South Africa and elsewhere.[22] These Guerrilla groups conduct white genocide campaigns, but slaughter just as many, if not more, blacks. Time Magazine summed up concerns in a 1978 article titled, “Going Beyond Charity: Should Christian cash be given to terrorists?”[23]
    Most of the churches involved in the interfaith dialogue are liberal denominations under the NCC umbrella and the Catholic Church, although, in the past few years, evangelical churches have been sucked into the Interfaith orbit as well.
    While the NCC and WCC are ground zero for the Interfaith movement, they have had a lot of help. Here are a few other national and regional organizations, many of them religious groups, but all politically aligned with the hard left, that promote the Interfaith Dialogue mantra:
    Interfaith Alliance– a 13 state network whose issues are LGBT equality, hate crimes legislation, opposition to school vouchers, bigotry toward religious minorities and bullying of same.[24] Its State of 
    Belief weekly radio program parallels leftwing talking points on political issues.
    Dialogue Institute– Since 1978 publishes the Journal of Ecumenical Studies (JES). Created the “Dialogue Decalog,” (available in 21 languages), which put forth 10 principles to guide interfaith and interreligious dialogue.[25] In 2015, the Institute hosted a three-day conference on “Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bigotry.” Notably, evangelical Christians were not invited.[26]
    It devoted its entire Spring 2016 issue of JES to the subject of Islamophobia.
    American Islamic Conference– “To change the discourse both within the
    American Muslim community and in American society in general.”
    Religions for Peace– “Transform violent conflict, promote just and harmonious
    societies, advance human development, protect the Earth.”
    Council for a Parliament of the Worlds Religions– “exists to cultivate harmony among the world’s religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and sustainable world.”
    Industrial Areas Foundation(IAF)[27]– Marxist-oriented, founded by radical leftist organizer Saul Alinsky in 1940, deeply involved nationwide in the Interfaith Dialogue movement – affiliated with both the Catholic Church (liberation theology, social justice themes)[28] and the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) by way of the USCMO Secretary General Oussama Jamaal, who was listed among the top leadership of the Dupage United Metro Industrial Areas Foundation in a 20 November 2016 Action Memo[29]
    U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)[30]– deeply involved in
    Interfaith Dialogue movement nationwide in collaboration with both the IAF[31]
    and Muslim Brotherhood front groups such as CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations), ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America), ISNA (Islamic Society of North America), MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council) and others.[32]
    Catholic Campaign for Human Development(CCHD) – CCHD is the grant-making vehicle of the USCCB. It was founded in Chicago in 1969 with the help of radical organizer Saul Alinsky, specifically to fund Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). CCHD has been a radical leftist funding vehicle ever since, giving millions to ACORN, the radical training school, Midwest Academy and others. IAF receives the largest percentage of CCHD grants of any CCHD grantee.[33]
    Call to Action[34]– a nationwide U.S. organization that calls for fundamental changes to Catholic Church doctrine and practice, in part in response to the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) – in October 1976, then-National Council of Catholic Bishops (NCCB, now the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops) called a 3-day conference in Detroit, MI – Monsignor Jack Egan of Chicago, “a long-time Alinsky supporter, IAF board member, and activist 
    on Chicago urban issues”[35] served as co-chair of the 1976 Call to Action
    plenary sessions.[36]
    International Religious Freedom[37]– Ambassador Samuel D. Brownback was sworn in as Department of State’s Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom in February 2018, but in the context of Interfaith Dialogue has been targeted and enmeshed by myriad Muslim Brotherhood front organizations that likely pre-date his appointment
    In total, there are about 91 prominent organizations spread around the globe, with at least 35 of these in the U.S. A complete listing, including a world map, can be found at the online Directory of InterFaith 
    and InterReligious Organizations.[38]
    Interfaith Dialogue: An Influence Operation
    Interfaith Dialogue presents itself as an effort to find common ground between different religions in the interest of harmony and peace. Unfortunately, anyone with an even nodding acquaintance with Islam, Christianity, and Judaism knows that there are irreconcilable differences between them. Christians see the Great Commission as bringing people to Christ, however, Christianity leaves that choice to the individual. Similarly, Judaism and most other religions practice a live-and-let-live philosophy toward other religions. Not so with Islam, which seeks converts or subjects. Individual choice does not exist. So, what is Interfaith Dialogue really, if it is a foregone conclusion that Islam is intractably at odds with other religions?
    Another question that arises frequently in this context is the seeming incompatibility between Islamic beliefs and those of secular leftists, for example on the issue of gay marriage and women’s rights. But one must understand that those at the core of the Left do not care about those issues for their own sake. They are used to define and capture voting blocs, and as a wedge to balkanize society into segments of competing groups. Their overall goal is to subvert and destroy Western society.
    Early Soviet COMINTERN agent Willi Münzenberg can be described as the father of Cultural Marxism. We know it as “political correctness.” In 1923, he helped found the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany — commonly called the “Frankfurt School.” This organization invented “Critical Theory,” following Marx’s command for “a ruthless criticism of everything existing.”[39]
    The Frankfurt school relocated to Columbia University’s Teacher’s College in 1933, and its poison has since metastasized and spread to colleges and universities throughout the U.S. The Frankfurt School’s critical theorists advocated:[40]
    1. Creation of racism offenses
    2. Continual change to create confusion
    3. Teaching sex and homosexuality to children
    4. Undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
    5. Huge immigration to destroy identity
    6. Promotion of excessive drinking
    7. Emptying of churches
    8. Unreliable legal system & bias against crime victims
    9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
    10. Control and dumbing down of media
    11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
    Münzenberg articulated this effort succinctly: “We must organize the intellectuals, and use them to make Western civilization stink… Only then, after they have corrupted all its values and made life base, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat.”[41]
    Most of the Left’s issues are ultimately devoted to this cause. They could care less about “gay rights,” “women’s rights,” or any other “rights.” As formulated by the Left, they are all wedge issues designed specifically to undermine Western culture as articulated by Münzenberg and the Frankfurt School. To the Left, Islam is a perfect wrecking bar against the West because it introduces a competing legal system, Islamic Law (shariah), while hiding under the First Amendment’s religious liberty protections. Muslim terrorism has become an existential threat to our citizens, while Islamic leaders seek to supplant Western Judeo-Christian beliefs with Islam.
    Our objections to this assault were predictable and anticipated. The equally predictable response from the Left is that we are “haters,” “bigots,” “Islamophobes,” etc. So, they introduce the concept of “dialogue” that allows us to redeem ourselves by partnering with them “building bridges” of communication that they themselves first destroyed and will now control. Those who participate then become “good” Christians, while the rest of us are marginalized, whether Christian or not.
    Interfaith Dialogue is nothing more than a communist-contrived influence operation that continues the Cultural Marxist attack on Western Civilization. The American hard Left has partnered with Islam in an unholy alliance we call the Red-Green Axis. Their mutual goal is the subversion of Western laws, culture, and traditions, and our nation’s ultimate destruction, in preparation for the imposition of totalitarian rule.
    Interfaith Dialogue is one element of the multifaceted strategy to subvert, discredit, and shut down all opposition to that goal. It takes the form of a disinformation campaign designed to enlist gullible and largely ignorant Christians, Jews, and others to work against their own interests while interjecting Islam as a religion worthy not merely of respect, but submission to. Lefty “Christians” have fed right into it as the latest cool fad. You know, . But now, evangelical Christians
    have gotten into the act. They are in fact, Interfaith Dialogue’s prime
    target. [42]
    Does this mean that everyone involved is knowingly working on behalf of our enemies? Of course not. Those involved in the Interfaith movement run the gamut from extreme leftists and committed Muslim activists to well-meaning citizens of every persuasion. The entire purpose of recruiting mainline Christians, Jews, and now even evangelicals, is to give the movement a patina of legitimacy it could not have otherwise. It has the added benefit of putting its biggest target, Christianity, at war with itself.
    It is a dangerous, malevolent agenda. Unfortunately, we tend to give the Left the benefit of the doubt. Because they have recruited well-meaning people, we impute good motives to all of them, assuming they are just naïve or ignorant. This is an understandable but dangerous assumption and is exactly the reaction the enemy is looking for. It allows us to congratulate ourselves on being fair-minded towards our opponents while flattering ourselves to think we know better than them.
    This self-serving rationalization allows us to deny their truly malevolent intentions. We thus ignore or minimize the danger, and rationalize doing nothing, because confronting them carries real risk. We may publicly embarrass ourselves if not articulate or clever enough. We also open ourselves up to being called, “Islamophobes,” “haters,” “bigots,” etc. The Left deeply understands this aspect of human nature and has used it to manipulate entire societies into death traps. We ignore it at our peril.
    Michigan’s Interfaith Community
    The Interfaith Dialogue Movement is widespread in Michigan, with dedicated organizations across the state. The following is a rundown on some of them. Note, however, that examined closely, many are actually small groups, with a Facebook page and/or only a rudimentary web presence. As with most leftist organizations, they seek to magnify their presence to gain public acceptance and discourage opponents. Virtually all spout the meaningless dog whistles of the Left, like “peace,” “justice,” “oppression,” “sustainability,” etc. This is true especially of the Muslim groups, which deliberately co-opt the language of the Left — more evidence of their willingness to at least pay lip-service to leftwing dogma.
    Council of Interfaith Communities of the United States (CIC-USA)
    Ann Arbor-based CIC-USA describes itself as “the ecclesiastic home for all interfaith, interspiritual and integral communities and organizations creating ‘interfaith as a spiritual expression’ through co-worship, education, service or community building activities. Engaging in the practice of ‘Inclusive Theology, Spirituality and Consciousness.’”[43] CIC-USA has a Facebook page with 393 followers and
    a defunct website (www.interfaithcongregations.org).
    Dearborn Area Interfaith Network (DIAN)
    Formed in 2013 as Dearborn Area Faith Network, DIAN describes Its mission as “Building Bridges for the sake of loving neighbors.” Its internet presence is a Facebook site only, but its Facebook connections are revealing. They include Michigan Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell, the League of Women VotersTake on Hate (described in the Red-Green chapter),
    Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core, and Michigan’s Remember Me Quilt project
    (an anti-gun group).[44] The exclusively leftwing associations is more evidence
    that Interfaith movement is just another facet of the Red-Green agenda.
    Fetzer Institute (FI)
    Named after its founder, John Fetzer, Kalamazoo-based FI describes its mission
    as “inspiring and serving a movement for:
    • Personal transformation: Encouraging spiritual development for all people.
    • Societal transformation: Supporting inclusive communities and institutions 
    • around the world that are grounded in spirit.
    • Scientific and spiritual inquiry: Exploring the relationship between science and spirituality to support a fuller understanding of our existence.[45]
    Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice (ICPJ)
    On its Aboutpage, Ann Arbor-based ICPJ claims it: “envisions a world free from violence, including the violence of war, poverty, oppression, and environmental devastation. To enact this vision, we commit to nurture a community in which compassion and respect foster actions that dismantle systems of violence while simultaneously creating systems of peace, justice, and ecological sustainability.”[46]
    ICPJ’s 2017 IRS Tax-Exempt filing lists one paid officer, Chuck Warpehoski, who worked 26 hours/week on average and received $28,549 in compensation. ICPJ 2017 revenues were $171,701, the highest in three years.[47]
    Muslim Unity Center (MUC)
    Based in Bloomfield Hills, MUC is “where faith, family, and fun come together.” Its mission statement announces, “The objective of MUC is to develop, support and promote an Islamic way of life and to ensure the emergence of an American Muslim identity.”[48]
    Under its, Building Bridges with our Neighbors Program, the MUC announces, “…the launch of Dual Interfaith Visitation Program that will allow your community or congregation members to visit the MUC and host MUC members. We humbly invite you for an opportunity to share resources and improve our community.”[49]
    MUC’s Building Bridges program includes such topics as:
    • Interfaith Presentations
    • Muslim Contributions to Civilization
    • Islamophobia and Its Impact
    • The Story of Mary In the Holy Quran
    • Muslim Americans after 9/11
    Note that while all Interfaith organizations understand that a major part of their mission is to combat “Islamophobia,” this is one of the few willing to openly admit it.
    In its statement of principles, MUC declares in #8, “There is no compulsion in religion as stated in the holy book Al-Qur’an. The role of MUC is to remind people to the message of Almighty God, not to compel.” Also, principle #10 states, “MUC honors the constitution of the United States as the guiding legal principle of the nation and shall abide by all the applicable laws of the land.”
    These and other statements reinforce the idea that MUC has no agenda other than “projecting and promoting Islam in an egalitarian and enlightened manner.” Principle #1, however, states “The Source of MUC’s goals and way of life are derived from the holy book Al-Qur’an and the authentic traditions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).” This and other statements conflict with the assertion that they regard other religions in an “egalitarian and enlightened manner.”
    Islamic Organization of North America
    The Islamic Organization of North America (IONA) is a Warren, Michigan-based group. Its mission states that its “Divinely ordained obligations are as follows: (1) the cultivation of a strong and authentic faith; (2) the loving and sincere obedience to the will of Allah (SWT); (3) calling all of humankind towards Islam in the most beautiful and convincing way; and, (4) engaging in the struggle to establish social, political, and economic justice.”[50]
    There is no mistaking the agenda here. The first three points make clear the Islamic belief in the supremacy of Islam and the intention to convert the world. Other religions don’t even warrant mention. The fourth point reflects the Islamic collaboration with the Left in its strategy to parrot the Left’s social justice dog whistles.
    Despite, or perhaps because of its open embrace of Islam as the only solution, IONA is deeply involved in Michigan’s Interfaith movement. IONA’s president is Imam Mustafa (Steve) Elturk. His affiliations include the following:[51]
    • Treasurer, Detroit Interfaith Leadership Council
    • Executive Board, Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion
    • Member, Religious Leaders Forum of the Abrahamic Faiths
    • Executive Board, Interfaith Center for Racial Justice (ICRJ)
    • Executive Board, American Society for Religious and Cultural 
    • Understanding (ASRCU).
    Interestingly, Elturk describes ASRCU as a “dawah (propagation) organization focuses on prisons and correctional facilities in Michigan.” In other words, despite its harmless sounding title, ASRCU’s mission is to cultivate Muslim converts in prisons.
    ASRCU has either disappeared or exists in name only. Guidestar records consist of a 2007 IRS Tax-Exempt Form 990 filing that lists income for that year of $8,650.[52]The form is signed by Steve Elturk, President. Guidestar lists the principal officer as Mustafa Elturk. The address provided is a suburban private residence, presumably Elturk’s, in Troy, Michigan. The founding year is given as 1988, but according to Guidestar only two years, 2007 and 2008, list any financial assets.[53]
    IONA is also affiliated with Michigan Interfaith Power and Light.
    Michigan Interfaith Power and Light
    Michigan’s Interfaith Power and Light, (MI IP&L) is a well-funded national organization with 39 state chapters that beckons the “faith community” into the whole global warming issue. MI IP&L’s stated goal is to “inspire and equip people of faith to exercise stewardship of and love for all Creation.”[54] In this context that means saving the earth from global warming, which, they claim, is the verdict of “the vast consensus of the scientific community.” Except there is no consensus among the experts at all. Those studies that claim there is have been thoroughly debunked.[55] MI IP&L’s
    board includes William Antoun of IONA.[56]
    This is yet another example of the Interfaith movement being assimilated
    into every single agenda of the Red-Green Axis.
    Interfaith Center for Racial Justice (ICRJ)
    ICRJ is a Macomb County organization that claims its mission is to “Initiate relationships and build bridges of understanding among people of different races, cultures and faith traditions to create a strong community while promoting social and racial justice.”[57]
    As noted earlier, IONA’s Imam Elturk claims a seat on the ICRJ executive board. Also affiliated with ICRJ are the League of Women Voters and Welcoming Michigan – a subsidiary of the open-borders advocates, Welcoming America. Like many such organizations, ICRJ is likely a paper tiger. The website is defunct. The Facebook page has 141 followers. Its most recent post is from January 2017, and it still advertises an event from 2015 at the top of its “Community” page.[58]
    The 2015 advertisement, however, is a good example of how Red-Green agendas intersect — in this case, Interfaith Dialogue and refugee resettlement — and how they have sucked state and local officials and groups into promoting them. It features a prominent photo of Elturk along with an invitation to the “Breakfast of Nations: Diverse Past… Shared Future.”
    Hosted by the Italian American Culture Center in Clinton Township, it features a list of Macomb County Democrat officials, a video speech by then Republican State Rep. Anthony Forlini, and a panel of Macomb County immigrants and refugees. The event was sponsored by One Macomb, (a county government organization), Catholic Charities, Welcoming Michigan, the local Chamber of Commerce and others — all with a vested interest in promoting refugee resettlement. A similar event was advertised for 2014 as well, hosted by the same usual suspects. No other events are listed.
    Interfaith Leadership Council & Michigan Roundtable
    Detroit’s Interfaith Leadership Council (ILC) was founded the day after 9-11. According to its History page, Rev. Daniel Krichbaum moderated monthly meetings.[59] Krichbaum was then executive director of the National Conference for Community Justice’s Detroit office. In 2006, that office became the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion. The Roundtable was actually an evolution of a separate organization, starting in 1941 as the Detroit Council of Catholics, Jews, and Protestants.[60] As shown in the chart,
    the Roundtable is one of 16 state affiliates of the National Conference.

    What all these organizations have in common is a complete lack of religious references. They are all dedicated to combating “racism,” “fear, and “intolerance,” and promoting “justice,” “inclusion,” and “diversity” — all the dog whistles of the Left. Instead of recognizing America as the country that has done more than any other to overcome racial and ethnic conflict, this group claims to battle against America’s “persistent racism,” and now the new word, “Nativism.”
    In a letter published on the ILC website titled Countering Nativism, Chairman
    Robert Bruttell states:
    Nativism is essentially a fear of immigrants… 21st-century Nativists are scapegoating immigrants and their religions – especially Muslims and Hispanic peoples – for the anxieties they feel about the future of America.
    The truth is the opposite. Nativism, alongside America’s persistent racism, tear at the soul of America… Studies consistently show that the net contribution of immigrants is vast and positive. Sadly this information is willfully ignored in favor of demagoguery and short-term political gains. (Emphasis added.)[61]
    Americans of all races and religions have been enormously tolerant and welcoming to immigrant communities — an example to the world. Were this not so, there would not be millions of people from the world over clamoring to get here. For this tolerance, Americans have been rewarded with the loss of tens of thousands of jobs, businesses, and lives.
    America has always been a welcoming nation. But the reaction to vast numbers of immigrants, legal and illegal, mostly from alien cultures that use welfare at astronomical rates while undercutting American workers, depressing wages and undermining the rule of law, is taking a heavy toll. It is not nativism, for example, that drove a record number of Blacks to the Republican Party in the last election. It is the decades of destruction visited on Black communities by calamitous Democrat economic and immigration policies.
    And then they are talked down to by “religious” leaders, who, rather than address the real issues, jump aboard the Hate America train to fix our “persistent racism.” In so doing, the ILC and similar organizations reveal their true agenda. They are merely another lobbying arm of the open borders, hard Left. Just like “Welcoming America,” they don’t actually cultivate a welcoming attitude among Americans; they instead vilify anyone who expresses the concerns that rest on all of our tongues and try to arm twist us into their politically correct view of the world. There is nothing remotely “Biblical,” “religious,” or even spiritual about this.
    Shalom Center for Justice and Peace
    The Lansing-based Shalom Center claims to provide “education, activism and spiritual community concerning areas of social justice, world peace, and peace within local towns and cities in the Lansing District.” It seeks to “facilitate activism with the Social Principles of the United Methodist Church and our Book of Discipline.”[62]The Shalom
    Center partners with Michigan State’s Campus Interfaith Council.
    Kaufman Interfaith Institute (KII)
    Housed at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Grand Rapids, KII was founded in 2006 following a triennial Jewish-Christian Dialogue that had begun decades earlier in Muskegon by Sylvia Kaufman, a Jewish community leader. KII declares its mission to be “To promote interfaith understanding & mutual respect in West Michigan.”[63]
    It hosts numerous events, the largest being its Jewish/Christian/Muslim Triennial 
    Interfaith Dialogue, held once every three years. The 2018 event will feature
    Eboo Patel, an Islamic apologist who served on President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships, and founder of Interfaith 
    Youth Core(IFYC), a wealthy Chicago-based organization described further on.
    The kicker is that Patel’s IFYC provides funding for these events.[64]

    The Triennial Dialogue will also feature Jennifer Howe Peace,Professor of Interfaith Studies (yes there is such a thing), at Andover Newton, a school affiliated with Yale Divinity, and Elliot Cosgrove, senior rabbi at Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City.[65]
    A major project of KII is Campus Interfaith Resources(CIR). CIR seeks “to support and celebrate the religious, secular, and spiritual diversity of our campus. Campus Interfaith Resources exists to both accommodate the unique needs of various faith-based groups on campus while also proactively appreciating the richness of our diversity through educational and engaging programs.”[66]
    CIR hosts annual training seminars for students who want to be involved in organizing the interfaith crusade. These seminars are funded through IFYC.
    For example, GVSU’s Made in Michigan Interfaith Labis open to religious and secular leaders of student organizations, faculty and staff, and any students “who want to explore connections between interfaith and social justice.”[67] The Orwellian “learning outcomes” include:
    • Establish a basic knowledge of correct interfaith terms and usages…
    • Explore effective dialogue facilitation skills, diverse religious and 
    • philosophical traditions, and shared values…
    • Create a plan to bring interfaith leadership learned at the conference 
    • to campuses…
    Interfaith Dialogue Association (IDA)
    An affiliate of the Kaufman Institute at GVSU, IDA has “for almost 3 decades worked toward advancing knowledge, understanding, tolerance and acceptance among the various world religions that have expression in Michigan and beyond.”[68]
    Michigan State University Campus Interfaith Council (CIC)
    CIC appears to be a prominent organization on the campus of Michigan State. It has a very slick website which states its mission “to promote relationships between peoples of differing faiths, work to integrate a religious aspect into student life, and encourage interfaith cooperation and understanding.”[69]
    CIC claims to be “the official voice to ASMSU about religious life on campus.” CIC partners with the Shalom Center for Justice and Peace and Michigan State’s Wesley Foundation, and also works with Interfaith Youth Core, described below.
    Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC)
    IFYC is a Chicago-based organization founded in 2004 by Dr. Eboo (Ebraham) Patel. According to its website, IFYC’s mission is “…creating an ecosystem of people and campuses designed to make interfaith cooperation the norm, while creating the next generation of interfaith leaders.”[70]
    IFYC has created administrator, faculty, alumni and student networks, and underwrites undergraduate courses that incorporate interfaith concepts, as well as annual conferences, training seminars for students and other activities at colleges and universities across the U.S.[71]
    IFYC can afford it. It listed $16.9 million in assets and revenues of $6.6
    million as of 2016.[72] According to Foundation Search, a subscription
    service which compiles donation data from grantor foundations, IFYC
    received at least $26.3 million since 2003 from a broad variety of Chicago-
    based and national foundations. This includes Rockefeller, the Woods Fund
    (Obama’s old employer), the Pritzker Foundation (Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker was Obama’s national campaign chairman and Commerce secretary), The Clinton Family Foundation ($35,000), and many others.
    The Henry Luce Foundation donated $358,500 over five years. Henry must be spinning in his grave. The strong conservative, anti-communist Republican once owned Time, Life, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and other magazines and declared the 20th Century to be “the American Century.” Soviet spy-turned anti-communist informant Whittaker Chambers became a Time Magazine senior editor under Luce’s reign. Like so many other foundations created by wealthy philanthropists for truly charitable causes, the Luce Foundation appears to have been captured by the extreme Left.
    The largest donor was the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, created by liberal Greenlight Capital hedge fund billionaire, David Einhorn. It contributed $11.9 million over eight years. The Trust’s five-word mission statement is “Helping people get along better.”[73]
    IFYC has taken a prominent role in bringing the Interfaith Dialogue to Michigan. IFYC founder Eboo Patel is a Muslim and former Rhodes Scholar, with a PhD in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, who also served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council.[74]The well-heeled leftist foundation infrastructure makes sure that its agendas are richly rewarding for those willing to facilitate them. For his part, Dr. Patel received $269,441 in 2016 as IFYC president — doing well by doing good.[75]
    Order of Universal Interfaith (OUnI) & World Council of Interfaith 
    Congregations (WCIC)
    Founded in 2009, the World Council of Interfaith Congregations is co-located with the Order of Universal Interfaith at the same Ann Arbor address. Together they are dedicated to “organizing the world interfaith community…”[76]
    OUnI describes itself as “a religious society that was incorporated in Michigan to gather together the leaders of the Interfaith movement into one ecclesiastic body. It is meant to be a living example of how people from different backgrounds, cultures and religious traditions can live, work and create a spiritual community together.”[77]
    OUni’s leadership reflects the drift from traditional Christian principles, or indeed principles identified with any religion at all. For example, Rev. David Mitchell, one of three OUnI leaders, is an ordained “Eco-Minister,” and “a frequent speaker on the relationship of spiritual knowledge and issues like global sustainability, climate change, climate engineering, and cultural attitudes.”[78] He is also President of Divine Mission, described as “an organization that provides instruction on the Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita and on yogic techniques with ashrams in Silver City, Nevada and Tiruvannamalai, India.”[79]
    OUnI has received chaplaincy endorsements from the Department of Defense, International Conference of Police Chaplains, Association of Professional Chaplains and many others. In addition to traditional ministries, OUnI works with the United Nations Committee for Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns, the U.N. Eco-Spirituality Working Group and the U.N. Interfaith Harmony Week Breakfasts.[80]
    Interfaith Dialogue’s Corroding Influence in Western Michigan
    Western Michigan is unique in its heritage of faithful, seasoned Christianity, imported directly from Europe in the 19th century. In the 1840s, family-oriented, faith-based, Reformed Dutch immigrants arrived in West Michigan from their homeland. The areas surrounding Grand Rapids and Holland still bear the mark of their settlement, permeated by churches, Christian colleges and seminaries, publishing houses, and so forth. This area thus presents an apt example of how recent cultural changes have both allowed and reflect the Interfaith Dialogue’s influence.
    In 2013, the Fremont, Michigan local newspaper published an article titled
    “Fremont library to host ‘Muslim Journeys’ series.”[81] The library had received a $4,500 federal grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), a federal agency, and the American Library Association (ALA) to host a five-part reading and discussion series titled “Let’s Talk About it.  Muslim Journeys.”   According to the ALA:
    Between 2011 and 2015, NEH and ALA collaborated on the Muslim Journeys initiative, hosting two planning meetings, six pilot programs, a collection development grant for 1,000 libraries and state humanities councils, a scholar-led reading and discussion grant for 125 libraries and state humanities councils, two national orientation workshops for grant project directors and local scholars, and a third-party evaluation of the project.[82]
    Nationwide 953 libraries and state humanities councils have received Muslim
    Journeys Bookshelfgrants,[83]and 125 libraries and councils have received
    grants for Let’s Talk About It(LTAI).[84] The Bookshelf program provided books, films essays and other teaching materials. Participating libraries were required to hold at least one public forum over the program year.
    Bookshelf grantees could apply for the LTAI, which offered up to $4,500 for speakers, programming and other resources with a mandate to “educate” communities about Islam.[85] The Muslim Journeys program was
    created by the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studiesat George Mason
    University, with support provided by ALA, the NEH and private foundations.[86]
    In Michigan alone, 49 Bookshelfgrants and 10 LTAIgrants were given to the
    following libraries and councils. Note: the starred organizations** received both:
    Allen Park Public Library Allen Park Michigan Humanities Council** Lansing
    Ferris State University Big Rapids Lincoln Park Public Library Lincoln Park
    Canton Public Library Canton Peter White Public Library** Marquette
    Branch District Library Coldwater Melvindale Public Library Melvindale
    Dearborn Public Library** Dearborn Monroe County Community College** Monroe
    Bryant Branch Dearborn Stair Public Library** Morenci
    Esper Branch Dearborn Capital Area District Library-Okemos Okemos
    Caroline Kennedy Library Dearborn Hts North Central Michigan College** Petoskey
    John F. Kennedy, Jr. Public Library Dearborn Hts Pickford Community Library Pickford
    Wayne State U. Library System Detroit River Rouge Public Library River Rouge
    East Lansing Public library East Lansing Rochester Hills Public Library Rochester
    Michigan State U. Libraries** East Lansing Rochester College Rochester Hills
    Ecorse Public Library Ecorse Hoyt Library Saginaw
    Mott Community College Flint Taylor Community Library Taylor
    Fremont Area District Library** Fremont Trenton Veterans Memorial Library Trenton
    Loutit District Library Grand Haven Delta College University Center
    Davenport University Grand Rapids Saginaw Valley State University** University Center
    Grand Rapids Community College Grand Rapids Macomb Community College** Warren
    Cromaine District Library Hartland Waterford Township Public Library Waterford
    Cromaine District Library Hartland Westland Public Library Westland
    Hastings Public Library Hastings Wayne County Library Westland
    Cromaine Crossroads Branch Howell White Lake Township Library White Lake
    Howell Carnegie District Library Howell Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti
    Orion Township Public Library Lake Orion Ypsilanti District Library Ypsilanti
    Capital Area District Library Lansing
    The Muslim Journeys website credits Interfaith Youth Core’s Eboo Patel with “leading a global interfaith movement.” Patel’s IFYC website is promoted and his book, Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, 
    the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, is one of the volumes featured 
    in the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf.[87]
    Muslim Journeys is a form of “dawah,” that is, the proselytizing or preaching of Islam. By promoting Islam in a highly controlled fashion, this program appears to have advanced that agenda. The NEH slides past Establishment Clause objections by casting this as part of a “Bridging Cultures” initiative that “encourages study and informed conversation about commonalities across cultures and subcultures, both within the United States and abroad…”[88]
    The program listed initial goals to be:
    • an exploration of the role of civility in bridging differences and sustaining 
    • democracy in America, and
    • a parallel effort to enrich in Americans’ understanding of international 
    • perspectives, beginning with the Muslim world.
    NEH claims, “As the initiative develops, NEH expects to take up related themes and encourage the study of other parts of the world, with a focus on the potential of the humanities to deepen understanding of intellectual and cultural traditions.”[89]
    It is not clear, however, how far NEH got past its Muslim Journeys program. Under the “Bridging Cultures Through Film” program, NEH did report one film production, “1913: Seeds of Conflict… a film that incorporates new scholarship about the earliest origins of the modern Mideast conflict.”[90] Its “Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges Project,” created a grant program for 36 community college faculty and administrators in five states to study “Native Americans in the Midwest.”[91] Current and past projects include 7 focused on Islam, 6 on Christianity, 4 on Judaism, 6 on other faiths, and numerous studies on interactions between Christianity, Judaism and Islam.[92] But the most ambitious program
    appears to have been Muslim Journeys.
    Two important Muslim Journeys contributors were Arsalan Iftikar and Susan L. Douglass. Iftikar was Senior Fellow and Douglass was Senior Research Assistant at George Mason University’s Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, which developed the program, as noted earlier.[93]
    Iftikar was National Legal Director of the Muslim Brotherhood front group, CAIR, until mid-2007 when he abruptly left, and disassociated himself with CAIR altogether. That summer, CAIR was identified as a co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing trial.[94]
    Like many CAIR operatives, Iftikar refuses to condemn Hamas and Hezbollah
    as terrorist groups.[95]
    Iftikar is very well known. He created The Muslim Guywebsite and
    publishes columns in major outlets like CNN, USA Today and others. In
    2016 he published a book titled, Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps 
    Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms.[96] He is currently Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), where he participates in its Bridge Initiative, which focuses entirely on “Islamophobia.”[97]
    Susan Douglass is an American Muslim convert. She taught social studies at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Virginia, along with her husband, Usama Amer, earlier in her career.[98]The school, a strict, anti-Western adherent to Wahhabism, has faced intense scrutiny for its textbooks that condemn Jews and Christians as infidels and enemies of Islam.
    For ten years Douglass was an Affiliated Scholar with the Council on Islamic Education. In that capacity she reviewed textbooks, state curricula and standards, and developed instructional resources.[99]This
    work is credited with soft-peddling Islam into public school curricula across
    the country, especially through her Teacher’s Guide to Religion in the Public 
    Schools, which has been characterized as “an interfaith ‘First Amendment’
    plan.”[100]
    At GMU’s Ali Vural Ak Center, Douglass wasMuslim Journeysgrant manager.
    [101]She gained a PhD from George Mason in 2016. Presently she again
    works alongside Iftikar as an education consultant at Georgetown University’s ACMCU.
    Bill Johnson is a former public school teacher and founder of the Michigan-based American Decency Association. Desiring to get a sense of what kinds of material the local libraries would be getting, he perused a movie entitled Koran by Heart.[102] He described that in the movie, a young boy asked his father why he had to memorize the Koran. The father answered that Islam is a religion of peace; that the Koran is a vehicle of peace. The country where the boy and his father live is a breeding ground for terrorism, not a land of peace. The movie is a propaganda piece crafted to give an impression of beauty and grace when instead it is an opening salvo of dawah.[103]
    The Muslim Journeys program was brought into the community by Ray Arnett, a conservative Christian and head deacon at a local Baptist Church, who was also, until recently, the head librarian of the Fremont District Library. According to Johnson, the library featured Muslim 
    Journeys throughout most of the year until the program was completed.
    Johnson sent Arnett a letter, met with him at the library for 40 minutes and gave him a copy of the Center for Security Policy’s book,  
    Shariah: The Threat to America.[104] Johnson went through key pages of the book, highlighting doctrines of the Koran and how it conflicts with the U.S. Constitution and the Bible.  Despite his conservative Christian credentials, Arnett was hostile throughout the conversation. Johnson stated, “I have met with state legislators and pornography dealers who were more diplomatic than this individual.”[105]
    The news was not all bad. A local township, the Dayton Town Board, wrote a letter protesting the library’s decision to host Muslim Journeys. It stated in part:[106]
    Dayton Township has been proud of the performance of the Fremont Area District Library and the positive impact it has had on the community. Extremely troubling, however, is the upcoming presentation of the Muslim Journeys Programs…
    The 9/11 Commission Report clearly stated that Islam had declared war on the United States, which they consider the Great Satan. The method of achieving “submission” can be overt, as was demonstrated recently at the Boston Marathon, or covert, as demonstrated by programs as Muslim Journeys.
    The Council for American-Islamic Relations had a hand in the development of the enlightenment program you are presenting. This organization (CAIR) was referred to as a terrorist group by the U.S. Justice Department in the landmark Holy Land Foundation Trial in the U.S. District Court in Dallas and was named an unindicted co-conspirator in that trial.[107]
    Our hope as an elected board is that the Fremont Library will pursue and present programs that offer a more holistic and truthful description of the legal, economic, and theological system encompassed by Islam…
    Taqiyya and Interfaith Dialogue
    At the core of Interfaith dialogue is the concept of Taqiyya, a term for
    lying or deception for the sake of Islam. Quoting from Shariah the 
    Threat to America:
    Taqiyya is a concept in Islamic law that translates as “deceit or dissimulation,” particularly towards infidels. It is based on Quran 3:28 and 16:106 as well as hadiths, tafsirliterature, and judicial commentaries that permit and encourage precautionary dissimulation as a means for hiding true faith in times of persecution or deception when penetrating the enemy camp…
    [I]t is imperative that those whose duty is to protect the United States from shariah grasp the centrality of taqiyya in the arsenal of its adherents. This is critical because the consequences of taqiyya extend to real-world issues related, for example, to Muslim overtures for interfaith dialogue, peace, and mutual tolerance – all of which must be viewed in the light of Islamic doctrine on lying…
    American officials charged with national and homeland security have a duty to understand that which is within the sphere of their professional competence.  For anyone with such responsibilities, knowledge of these attributes of shariah is a requirement.[108]
    Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has been another instrument to open the door to shariah in Michigan. Snyder and his staff have been deceived by Taqiyya. In 2014, the American Decency Association encouraged citizens to call and express concern that Governor Snyder had plans to address the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). According to Bill Johnson, Snyder staff told them that they had investigated the organization, that it had no ties to terrorists and that ISNA is the largest peaceful Islamic organization in the country.[109]
    Readers familiar with the Holy Land Foundation trial will recognize ISNA as a Muslim Brotherhood organization and an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist finance case in American history.[110]
    As Muslims speak of using Interfaith Dialogue to promote “peace,” it’s imperative that Christians understand the Islamic meaning of “peace.” Sayyid Qutb, one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s most important leaders, said:
    When Islam strives for peace, its objective is not that superficial peace which requires that only that part of the earth where the followers of Islam are residing remain secure. The peace which Islam desires is that the religion (i.e., the Law of the society) be purified for God, that the obedience of all people be for God alone, and that some people should not be lords over others. After the period of the Prophet — peace be on him — only the final stages of the movement of Jihad are to be followed; the initial or middle stages are not applicable.[111]
    Muslims are torturing, raping, and killing Christians around the world, while Christians in America are trying to tell the world how peaceful they are. How can brothers and sisters in Christ—pulpit and pew alike—have so little regard for the plight of the 2.5 million persecuted Christians around the world? Indeed, the apostle Paul exhorts Christians to remember the persecuted as though they were bound with them. Instead, too many pulpits are more concerned with telling Christians that Muslims don’t really believe what they say they believe.
    Calvin College was once a trusted conservative Christian institution of higher learning. However, as with many Christian colleges, Calvin has lost its anchors and drifted leftward. With that change has come all the various ill-informed, leftwing-biased programs that are a common feature of academia today. One good example was a December 2015 Calvin-sponsored program on Islam titled ISIS, Terrorism & Refugees: 
    A Teach In. The program featured five Calvin faculty members speaking
    on the subjects below:[112]
    Doug Howard (History) — ISIS and Politics in the Middle East Bert De Vries (History/Archaeology) — The Refugee Crisis in the Middle East Jason VanHorn (Geography) — The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism Joel Westra (Political Science) — The Strategy of Terrorism Frans van Liere (History/Medieval Studies) — Is Islam a Violent Religion?
    Each gave a short presentation followed by a Q&A session and the program concluded with a panel discussion. It was a timely event that had the potential of dealing with topics of great import and societal impact — especially considering that the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, which took 14 lives and seriously injured 22, occurred just one day earlier.[113]
    Bill Johnson attended the event. He said that the San Bernardino terrorist attack was never brought up by any of the professors except when he raised it during the Q&A. According to Johnson, “In a 150-minute time frame, there was no mention of border control, vetting of refugees, illegal immigration, civilization jihad, taqiyya, shariah law, the caliphate, honor killing, etc.”[114]
    Johnson recounted the experience in ADA’s monthly newsletter, picking
    out a couple of memorable exchanges:
    The philosophy/worldview communicated by Professor de Vries could be best encapsulated by an emotional slide show that he had created for his students from a visit to Syria. That slideshow was his strongest pro-refugee argument — no discussion regarding vetting, cautions, or issues surrounding potential dangers at all.
    The final presenter, Frans Van Liere, was also the moderator. The title of his presentation was, “Is Islam a Violent Religion?” Professor Van Liere stated right from the top that he wasn’t a Koranic scholar, knew no Arabic and was not a specialist on the subject of Islam. What he had to share, he said, were personal observations and also his interactions with students on the subject.
    Quoting Professor Van Liere: “You cannot just compare violent episodes in the history of Islam with peaceful periods in the history of Christianity. That makes about as much sense as taking Jihadi John as a representative of Islam and Mother Teresa as the representative of Christianity. It’s no comparison. Yet, this rhetorical technique, he opined, is often applied by Christians in the discussion about Islam and violence. As he stated:  All the places where the Bible preaches peace then are juxtaposed to all the places where the Koran seems to condone violence. That will simply not do. “Because you can just find lots of places where the Bible condones violence and where the Koran preaches peace. This kind of proof-texting only proves that both religions have their origins in ancient culture where warfare and feuding were endemic.”
    One female questioner from the audience was given the opportunity to ask the last question of the evening, which left the panel stumbling for an answer and debunked the academic tone of the evening.
    So, my heart is with the Christian communities in the Middle East and North Africa who have been decimated with a concerted, intentional systematic effort to religiously cleanse Christians in the Middle East whether it’s from Boko Haram in Nigeria and Jajui in Sudan [sic]. But I hear unless I’m not listening fully – an apologist for this Islamic wave of mass murder which has touched every continent and nearly every common country. My question is, Christians who live as neighbors with their Muslim friends and neighbors in these countries in the Middle East with identical living circumstances, under the same weather/agricultural circumstances, and political and economic situations — do not engage in systematic campaigns of terror. What’s the difference?
    At several junctures, I raised concerns that the teach-in was so heavily one-sided in perspective making it dangerous for the young college students who were being slowly but surely indoctrinated to see the Koran as nonviolent, on the same level as the Bible.[115]
    One month later, Calvin College hosted another event, this time featuring
    the ubiquitous Eboo Patel of the Interfaith Youth Core. His topic was  
    Interfaith Leadership: Engaging Religious and Philosophical Diversity in the 
    21stCentury. The event was underwritten by the Christian Reformed Church
    in North America.[116]
    In West Michigan, Grand Valley State University’s Kaufman Interfaith Institute is spreading the same message as Eboo Patel. Kaufman has a nice publicity arm, which includes the Grand Rapids Press. Almost weekly the newspaper has an article in its Religion section featuring Interfaith Dialogue propaganda. That section also appears in many of their affiliated newspapers in the MLive group, the parent company of many Michigan newspapers,[117] and the Institute holds
    regular interfaith events.
    One example of these took place in 2013 at Saginaw Valley State University where senior Islamic scholar Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf was to speak. Rauf gained infamy as the Imam for the proposed “Ground Zero” Mosque, that was to be built near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack in New York City. Here, again, Rauf demonstrates how cannily so-called ‘moderate Muslims’ like himself can insert Islamic propaganda points into dialogue that the uninformed often find persuasive. This is how Johnson described the event:
    Rauf stated that Islamic shariah law is consistent with the U.S. Constitution.   This high-powered figure greases the skids for the incremental but sure acceptance of shariah. All of this is part of what is referred to as Civilization Jihad.  In other words, efforts by radical Islamists [sic] to attack America, our freedoms, and ideals, from within – seeking to indoctrinate and disarm via smooth talk and deception.
    At the meeting in Saginaw, I raised the question: “You say that shariah is consistent with the U.S. Constitution and yet under shariah if a Jew, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, secularist does not convert to Islam, they can be beheaded. How does that make shariah consistent with the Constitution?”
    Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf spent 25 minutes negating the question stating things such as “there will always be those few militants. However, that doesn’t represent the millions of moderate Muslims who love America and her freedoms.” He spoke of the uniqueness of America and how there is no other nation like it.[118]
    It will be noted how Rauf cleverly inserts expressions of ostensible American patriotism into what is, in fact, intended to be a whitewash of Islam and Muslims generally. Rauf, of course, is the 2004 founder of The Cordoba Initiative, “a multi-national, multi-faith organization dedicated to improving Muslim-West relations.”[119] Unfortunately for the uninformed, “Cordoba” was the seat of the Cordoba Caliphate for more than 100 years (929-1031) during a time when Muslim invaders ruled the Christian Iberian Peninsula. The naming of Rauf’s Initiative is no coincidence. Furthermore, Rauf is the author of “Defining Islamic Statehood,” a 2015 book that defines the ideal Islamic State.[120]
    As we can see, countering shariah, unfortunately, is not on the agenda for those Islamic organizations fronting the Red-Green Axis. This is a subversive agenda, facilitated by the Left, at colleges, universities, and in churches. Many in Christian circles are walking down that road with eyes wide shut and their brains or discernment shut off. They see taqiyya as truth and civilization jihad as their civilized duty. It is perhaps worthwhile here to expound on what Civilization Jihad (also called stealth Jihad) means:
    According to shariah, this “pre-violent” form of jihad is considered an integral, even dominant element of jihad that is at least as obligatory for shariah’s adherents as the violent kind. Dawa, the call to Islam that by Islamic law must precede jihad, is all-too-often dismissed – as are its manifestations under the rubric of non-violent jihad – simply because this kind of assault does not kill but intends “merely” to subjugate.  Absent an appreciation of the threat posed by stealth jihad, the pre-violent jihadist is free to proceed unimpeded under the radar in Western societies, infiltrating and subverting along lines specifically tailored to today’s liberal, multicultural-minded non-Muslim populations in ways that are genuinely difficult to recognize, oppose or counter.[121]
    Following is a more recent glimpse into the nefarious and ongoing efforts of Interfaith Dialogue influencers via the Kauffman Interfaith Institute. Snaring the minds of our college-age students and adults is not enough; now they want to actively pursue our children too. In an April 2018 column that appeared in the Grand Rapids Press, Kauffman Institute’s Kyle Kooyers writes:
    Kaufman Institute, in partnership with Kent Career Tech Center, is launching a Youth Interfaith Service Day Camp in Grand Rapids for students (8th to 11th grade), led by interfaith counselors/facilitators. The group will spend four days engaging with local centers of worship and service organizations building new friendships, learning about other worldviews and cultures, and serving alongside people who are doing incredible work in our community. The hope is that, out of this week, we will form a Youth Interfaith Council so that middle and high School voices also have a place at the interfaith table as Kaufman looks to the future!
    We believe that middle and high school students are the next generation of interfaith leaders who offer the world a rich perspective and energy. They have a longing to lead in the work of dismantling bias, fear, and hate in order that our schools and communities may become places where everyone is valued, respected, and loved.[122]
    Conclusion
    The Interfaith Dialogue movement is an influence operation being carried out by agents of the Red-Green Axis with knowing and/or innocent complicity of media, faith leaders, academics, NGOs, and government agencies. Michigan’s secondary schools and institutes of higher learning, as well as its churches and synagogues, are being assaulted with a well-funded, omnipresent effort to indoctrinate traditional America into accepting the alien, counter-Constitutional doctrines of shariah.
    Political correctness mutes anyone who would speak out against any aspect of this assault because to do so invites slanderous accusations of bigotry. Instead of responding to legitimate questions and concerns, influencers invite Christians and Jews to “build bridges” with Islam through the means of interfaith dialogue. The clear implication is that “building bridges” is a positive, compassionate move, that distinguishes one from those reactionary “Islamophobes”. As we have seen, however, and as the Brotherhood’s Sayyid Qutb has made clear, those “bridges” are never meant to allow the free exchange of belief, opinion, and thought, but only to disarm the unwary non-Muslim sufficiently to allow the advance of Islamic doctrine, law, and scripture.
    That is the context of the threat to Michigan, and by extension, much of the United States: a society founded on Judeo-Christian principles, whose core values have been reduced to “be nice,” finds its traditions and culture under constant attack. This has opened the door for “Interfaith Dialogue” to create a vacuum of purpose and meaning in Christian and Jewish beliefs. And as the saying goes, “If you don’t believe in something, you’ll fall for anything.”
     

    TWITTER GOES THROUGH OLD TWEETS FOR EXCUSES TO BAN NATIONALISTS

     Twitter Goes Through Old Tweets For Excuses To Ban Nationalists
    TWITTER GOES THROUGH OLD TWEETS 
    FOR EXCUSES TO BAN NATIONALISTS
     Social media giant looking for any excuse 
    to ban conservatives
    BY OWEN SHROYER
    republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
     Users are being kicked off and suspended for old posts.
     
     

    GLAZOV MOMENT: EUROPE CRIMINALIZES CRITICISM OF MOHAMMED

    GLAZOV MOMENT: EUROPE CRIMINALIZES 
    CRITICISM OF MOHAMMED 
    BY JAMIE GLAZOV
    republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
     

    In this new Jamie Glazov Moment, Jamie discusses Europe Criminalizes Criticism of Mohammed, unveiling how the European Court of Human Rights is enabling Europe’s suicide.

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    TRUMP REMINDS FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON: YOU’D BE UNDER NAZI RULE IF NOT FOR THE U.S.

     Macron Tries to Defend Globalism 
    as Nationalism Rises!!!

     TRUMP REMINDS FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON: YOU’D BE UNDER NAZI RULE IF NOT FOR THE U.S. 

     “They were starting to learn German in Paris 
    before the US came along.”
    BY STEVE WATSON
    republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
     

    The war of words between President Trump and his French
    counterpart has heated up again with Trump reminding Emmanuel Macron
    that if it were not for the US, France would be a German speaking nation
    now.

    “They were starting to learn German in Paris before the US came along,” Trump tweeted, adding “Pay for NATO or not!”

    Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two – How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!

    67.9K people are talking about thisTrump’s initial tweet touches on the fact that the proposal of a European-wide army, and even an empire, as suggested Monday by France’s finance minister, led directly to two world wars.

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     Macron to Trump: ‘You’re No Patriot!’
    BY PAT BUCHANAN
     
    republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
     

    U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- In a rebuke bordering on national insult Sunday, Emmanuel Macron retorted to Donald Trump’s calling himself a nationalist.

    “Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism; nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.”

    As
    for Trump’s policy of “America first,” Macron trashed such atavistic
    thinking in this new age: “By saying we put ourselves first and the
    others don’t matter, we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it
    life, what makes it great and what is essential: its moral values.”
    Though
    he is being hailed as Europe’s new anti-Trump leader who will stand up
    for transnationalism and globalism, Macron reveals his ignorance of
    America.
    Trump’s ideas are not ideological but rooted in our country’s history.
    America
    was born between the end of the French and Indian War, the Declaration
    of Independence in 1776 and the ratification of the Constitution in
    1788. Both the general who led us in the Revolution and the author of
    that declaration became president. Both put America first. And both
    counseled their countrymen to avoid “entangling” or “permanent”
    alliances with any other nation, as we did for 160 years.
    Were George Washington or Thomas Jefferson lacking in patriotism?
    When
    Woodrow Wilson, after being re-elected in 1916 on the slogan “He Kept
    Us Out of War,” took us into World War I, he did so as an “associate,”
    not as an Allied power. U.S. troops fought under U.S. command.
    After
    that war, the U.S. Senate rejected an alliance with France. Under
    Franklin Roosevelt, Congress formally voted for neutrality in any future
    European war.
    The U.S. emerged from World War II as the least
    bloodied and least damaged nation because we remained out of the war for
    more than two years after it had begun.
    We did not invade France
    until four years after France was occupied, the British had been thrown
    off the Continent, and Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union had been fighting and
    dying for three years.
    The leaders who kept us out of the two
    world wars as long as they did — did they not serve our nation well,
    when America’s total losses were just over 500,000 dead, compared with
    the millions other nations lost?
    At the Armistice Day ceremony,
    Macron declared, “By saying we put ourselves first and the others don’t
    matter, we erase what a nation holds dearest … its moral values.”
    But Trump did not say that other countries don’t matter. He only said we should put our own country first.
    What country does Emmanuel Macron put first?
    Or does the president of France see himself as a citizen of the world with responsibility for all of Europe and all of mankind?
    Charles
    de Gaulle was perhaps the greatest French patriot in the 20th century.
    Yet he spoke of a Europe of nation-states, built a national nuclear
    arsenal, ordered NATO out of France in 1966, and, in Montreal in 1967,
    declared, “Long live a free Quebec” — inciting French Canadians to rise
    up against “les Anglo-Saxons” and create their own nation.
    Was de Gaulle lacking in patriotism?
    By declaring American nationalists anti-patriotic, Macron has asserted a claim to the soon-to-be-vacant chair of Angela Merkel.
    But
    is Macron really addressing the realities of the new Europe and world
    in which we now live, or is he simply assuming a heroic liberal posture
    to win the applause of Western corporate and media elites?
    The
    realities: In Britain, Scots are seeking secession, and the English have
    voted to get out of the European Union. Many Basques and Catalans wish
    to secede from Spain. Czechs and Slovaks have split the blanket and
    parted ways.
    Anti-EU sentiment is rampant in populist-dominated Italy.
    A nationalism their peoples regard as deeply patriotic has triumphed in Poland and Hungary and is making gains even in Germany.
    The
    leaders of the world’s three greatest military powers — Trump in the
    U.S., Vladimir Putin in Russia and Xi Jinping in China — are all
    nationalists.
    Turkish nationalist Recep Tayyip Erdogan rules in
    Ankara, Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi in India. Jair Bolsonaro, a
    Trumpian nationalist, is the incoming president of Brazil. Is not
    Benjamin Netanyahu an Israeli nationalist?
    In France, a poll of
    voters last week showed that Marine Le Pen’s renamed party,
    Rassemblement National, has moved ahead of Macron’s party for the May
    2019 European Parliament elections.
    If there is a valid criticism
    of Trump’s foreign policy, it is not that he has failed to recognize the
    new realities of the 21st century but that he has not moved
    expeditiously to dissolve old alliances that put America at risk of war
    in faraway lands where no vital U.S. interests exist.
    Why are we
    still committed to fight for a South Korea far richer and more populous
    than a nuclear-armed North? Why are U.S. planes and ships still bumping
    into Russian planes and ships in the Baltic and Black seas?
    Why are we still involved in the half-dozen wars into which Bush II and Barack Obama got us in the Middle East?
    Why do we not have the “America first” foreign policy we voted for?

    About Patrick J. BuchananPat Buchanan
    Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.

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