The Papal Butler's Trial

Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler Paolo Gabriele went on trial on Saturday accused of leaking confidential Vatican memos that revealed cloak-and-dagger politics among the pope’s closest aides.

Mr. Gabriele sat quietly in court for the start of a closely-watched case which if convicted could see him receive up to four years in prison for aggravated theft. The 46-year-old father of three looked wan in a pale grey suit and white shirt.

In it's first hearing of the case, the three-judge Vatican tribunal threw out some evidence gathered during the investigation of Mr. Gabriele.
The pontiff’s personal secretary Georg Ganswein, who was Mr. Gabriele’s superior, will be called to testify against his former charge, the court said.

Mr. Ganswein, 56, was Mr. Gabriele’s direct superior and confronted the butler about the leaks early in May after being tipped off by the Vatican police.

After a first session of just over two hours, mainly addressing preliminary legal questions, the court fixed the next hearing for Tuesday, October 2.

A once loyal servant who said he grew disgusted by the “evil and corruption” he witnessed, Mr. Gabriele told investigators he was acting as an “agent” of the Holy Spirit to help the Pope put a weary Roman Catholic Church back on track."

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Decapitations Called Solution For Criticism Of Islam

A jihadi writer who has praised the murderer of a Dutch filmmaker is offering a suggestion to cut down on the criticism of Islam around the globe: Behead the critics and post their heads along roads.
Oh, and post a sign that says, “This is the punishment of those who insult our prophet.”

The report comes from the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor, a unit of the Middle East Media Research Center.
The organization, which monitors Middle East media, said the comments were made by Muhib Ru’yat al-Rahman, a senior writer of a leading jihadi forum called Shumoukh al-Islam.

He suggested that Muslims living in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.S. kill Westerners who criticize Islam and display their decapitated heads along roads.

“While expressing respect for those calling to boycott European and American products over the release of the film ‘Innocence of Muslims,’ which negatively depicts Muhammad, Muhib insists that the best way to deter people from insulting Muhammad and his wives is to implement his proposal,” the terror monitor report said.

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Russia Halts Imports of Monsanto Corn Over Cancer Fears

Russia has now officially banned all imports of genetically modified corn, citing concerns from a recent study by French researchers showing rats grew massive cancer tumors when fed a lifetime of Monsanto's genetically modified corn.

Russia's consumer protection group, Rospotrebnadzor, said it was halting all imports of GM corn while the country's Institute of Nutrition will be evaluating the results of the study.

The Russian ban is the latest blow to Monsanto, a company desperately clinging to the myth that its genetically modified crops are "no different" than traditional crops and therefore long-term safety testing is completely unnecessary. Monsanto has assaulted the French study, claiming it did not use enough rats and that the duration of the study was too short -- an absurd claim, given that Monsanto's own studies on animals are only 90 days in duration, while the French study looked at the effects of rats eating GM corn (and drinking trace levels of Roundup herbicide) for two years.

Notably, the large cancer tumors did not begin to appear until after the rats reached adulthood. Monsanto's GM corn has been in the U.S. food supply for more than a decade, and its corn is found in many popular breakfast cereals.

A European ban, too?

In addition to the Russian ban, Monsanto may also soon be facing a European ban. France is reported asking for a European-wide ban on GM corn if its national health agency confirms the findings of French scientists.

On top of that, if Proposition 37 passes in California, food producers will be required to label GMO on foods sold in that state. This is widely expected to cause U.S. food producers to abandon to use of GMO in foods, since virtually all consumers who know anything about GMO would refuse to buy items labeled as containing genetically engineered ingredients.

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Obama’s Free Pass – How Establishment Media Is Helping His Campaign

By Levi Ozbey

Imagine this: Republican John McCain was elected as the President of the United States in 2008.  Four years later the economy was in a huge downturn, the national debt has grown to 16.4 trillion (with McCain’s government adding 6 trillion alone already), government spending is out of control, food stamp recipients have doubled and now number 43 million, our economy is destined for disaster, job growth is completely abysmal, unemployment is nearly 9% (effectively more like 14%) and foreign policy is a disaster.

Picture how people would respond if McCain as president apologized to radical Muslims for videos that our free citizens make. All this while American embassies are being attacked, diplomats  are brutally killed and angry mobs burn American flags.

More than that, McCain’s government also funnels aid directly to President Morsi of Egypt (2 billion in this final quarter alone) which means the money goes directly to the Muslim Brotherhood; an anti-Semitic, anti-western, terrorist organization who wants to establish a revived Islamic Caliphate with their capital as Jerusalem and is prepared to destroy Israel in order to do it.

Furthermore, McCain appoints Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Timothy Geithner, Valerie Jarrett and Rahm Emanuel to prominent political positions (even though they are all anti-free market and some are even self-admitted communists). While America’s greatest ally Israel is on the brink of bombing Iran, McCain snubs Benjamin Netanyahu by refusing to meet with him and instead goes on Letterman, the View and attends a fundraising party hosted by Beyonce and Jay-Z and this is all within the same week. 

 Does this sound familiar?

 If this were true, establishment media would tear him apart and report on this calamity on a daily basis. Barack Obama is the president and is guilty of all the previously mentioned and much more. The mainstream media chooses to give him a free pass and not report on anything that reflects negatively on the “Chosen One.”

 This is due to the simple fact that our media today is so liberal leaning. You have MSNBC, NBC, PBS, CNN and ABC heading Obama’s re-election campaign by refusing to report the truth on the state of America and focusing more on the blame game aimed at George W. Bush.

In an election year, fair media and proper balanced scrutiny become all the more important. On the contrary, MSNBC has become a hangout for liberals who do not believe in the constitution and want America to mirror a bankrupt European socialist system.

With America on the brink of a full out depression and the Middle East in the worst turmoil we have seen since the 1960s, outlets like MSNBC prefer to focus on smearing Romney and Ryan. You can turn on MSNBC at anytime in the day and you will hear how incompetent Romney is or how Ryan does not want seniors to have Medicare or something similar. These attacks are relentless and it has reached the point of insanity.

News should be non-partisan; news should broadcast information and let us decide how to take it.

 

The Loss Of Syria

The violence that has engulfed Syria since March 2011 provides the latest and arguably most brutal evidence of the extremes to which a totalitarian regime will go to maintain its grip on power. The depravity of the Assad government, on display for the whole world to see, is nothing new to the people of Syria. And it seems likely that the worst is yet to come.

Syria is poised for the kind of tribal and sectarian bloodbath that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, but on a much broader scale. And while this will be horrific for all segments of the Syrian population, it will likely be the final blow for Syria’s embattled Christians.

The Assad family represents the Alawites, a minority offshoot of Shiite Islam that constitutes 12 percent of the population of Syria. Throughout more than forty years of draconian rule, the Assads, père et fils, have manipulated Syria’s other minorities—Kurdish, Druze, Ismai’li, Jewish, and Christian—by stoking their fears of a takeover by Sunni fundamentalists and then vowing to prevent it.

In exchange, these groups have given the regime their nominal support, which the Assads have then trumpeted as evidence of a policy of benevolent protection.

In the political struggles of the Middle East, Christians—all too aware of their minority status—historically have survived by supporting whatever group has come to power. This has put them in the position of being reliant on the protection of ruthless dictators, a fact not lost on the Islamist extremists who have infiltrated the Syrian insurgency.

UN observers have documented attacks against Christians singled out for retribution as a result of their pro-Assad affiliation. Along with other minorities who enjoyed the government’s protection, they have been expelled from their ancestral lands, and in some cases kidnapped, raped, and murdered. Continued

London Charity Accused Of Funding Terrorism

British charity is being accused of helping to fund a militant Islamic group in Nigeria.

Boko Haram, which is said to be tied to al Qaeda, has targeted churches and Christians as it seeks to spread terror across the country.

Now, recent reports claim money raised by the London-based Al Muntada trust fund found its way to Boko Haram, causing concern throughout the United Kingdom.

Lord Alton of Liverpool called on Parliament to investigate the alleged connection after raising the matter with the British Foreign Office.

"They then decided to report the matter to the Metropolitan Police and also to the Charity Commission to investigate those allegations," he said.

Lord Alton said the fact that Boko Haram is responsible for hundreds of murders this year makes it an issue of international concern.

"They have been laying explosives at the gates and inside churches. They have been targeting pastors and priests," Alton explained. "So churches Protestant and Catholic have been decimated, and many innocent lives have been taken."

The charity Al Muntada raises money for disaster projects in Africa.  Continued.

Gangs Of Aleppo

In the view of our Laputan foreign-policy establishment, what is happening in Syria and elsewhere is a conflict between “democracy” and dictatorship. Valiant youths who fight for “freedom” are destined to triumph, bringing happiness and prosperity to their formerly oppressed lands. This is the Whig version of history—the progressive narrative. It bears little resemblance to reality.

A Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi came closer to truth. He was quoted in the New York Times as saying that Syria faces “gang warfare.”

Gangs are one of the most basic, and most potent, building blocks of stateless Fourth Generation war. We commonly think of gangs in connection with crime. But through most of history, the line between crime and war was blurred, often to the point of vanishing. (See Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century.)

It was the state that drew the line clearly, but today in much of the Middle East and elsewhere states and the state system are collapsing. What is succeeding the state looks much like the 14th century Europe Tuchman describes: people and regions are at the mercy of roving bands of armed men who hire themselves out as soldiers when they can and otherwise take what they want from anyone too weak to resist them. Their only loyalty is to each other—to their gang.

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Ahmadinejad To UN: Messiah's Return At Hand

UNITED NATIONS – With the U.S. and Israeli delegations absent in boycott, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the General Assembly on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur in a rambling, apocalyptic speech in which he declared his confidence that the table already is being set for a “new world order.”

What Ahmadinejad means by “new world order,” however, has nothing to do with the globalist economic and political integration envisioned by President George H. W. Bush.

Known internationally as “Twelvers,” radical Shiite Muslims like Ahmadinejad believe the new order will come with the return of their messiah, the Mahdi – the child imam who supposedly went into seclusion at the bottom of a well more than 1,000 years ago.

Indeed, after a long diatribe in which he blamed Western civilization for most of the world’s major problems, Ahmadinejad concluded his speech today with an extensive description of his belief that the Mahdi will soon usher the world into a new era of peace and prosperity.

“God has promised us a man of kindness,” he said, according to the official transcript, “a man who loves people and loves absolute justice, a man who is a perfect human being and is named Imam al-Mahdi, a man who will come in the company of Jesus Christ and the righteous.”

Ahmadinejad said that by “using the inherent potential of all the worthy men and women of all nations” the Mahdi will “lead humanity into achieving its glorious and eternal ideals.”

“The arrival of the ultimate savior will mark a new beginning, a rebirth and a resurrection,” the Iranian leader said. “It will be the beginning of peace, lasting security and genuine life. His arrival will be the end of oppression, immorality, poverty, discrimination and the beginning of justice, love and empathy.”
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Paul Ryan Exclusive Interview On CBN News/ The Brody File

Below is part of The Brody File exclusive interview with vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. The interview was done Friday, Sep. 14/2012 at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C

Enjoy it , courtesy of CBN News/ The Brody File

Unconditional Love

It was five short years ago when my daughter convinced me to take into our home a new  resident: a beautiful sun conure named Milo.

It did not take long before my wife and I got attached to this little bird who in his own unique way stole our hearts and gave us a new understanding about life and about God's creation.

From Milo, we learnt the meaning of unconditional love for he was a true blessing from God as he enriched our lives with his presence and helped us understand and appreciate all kinds of pets as we learnt to discern the love that many of them have for their owners.

When Milo passed away this last May after a short illness, he left a big void in our hearts. We miss him dearly for we lost a member of our family and there is no day that goes by that we do not think of him and the great times we had together.

Our Lord created everything with care and love and with one great purpose: to help humans grow spiritually from our interaction with nature. Thus, as we mature and reach higher levels of understanding, we are, also, learning to love more and to do it unconditionally.

For us Christians, of course, there is no better example of a greater love than the unconditional love that God demonstrated to us through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on the Cross, thereby, paying out the penalty for our transgressions and reconciling us to Himself, once again.

Milo taught us about love and through his actions, he accomplished his special mission: He loved us unconditionally, regardless of our moods, of our demeanor and attitudes, our lack of patience, our crankiness or our occasional self pity.

His example was simple but its meaning was deep. The creature was imitating the Creator as the love displayed was unconditional.

There are many wonderful lessons that humans can learn from other living creatures and that is why I am hoping that you will enjoy the following video that was brought to my attention by my loving wife. Enjoy. [ El Greco]

Ahmadinejad: Israel Will be "Eliminated"

NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be "eliminated," ignoring a U.N. warning to avoid incendiary rhetoric ahead of the annual General Assembly session.

Ahmadinejad also said he did not take seriously the threat that Israel could launch a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, denied sending arms to Syria, and alluded to Iran's threats to the life of British author Salman Rushdie.

The United States quickly dismissed the Iranian president's comments as "disgusting, offensive and outrageous."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted Israel could strike Iran's nuclear sites and criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's position that sanctions and diplomacy should be given more time to stop Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Iran denies it is seeking nuclear arms and says its atomic work is peaceful and aimed at generating electricity.

"Fundamentally we do not take seriously the threats of the Zionists,"
Ahmadinejad, in New York for this week's U.N. General Assembly, told reporters. "We have all the defensive means at our disposal and we are ready to defend ourselves." Continued, here.

Obama Dismisses Netanyahu's Calls on Iran As "Noise"

U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday pushed back on the notion that he feels pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the contentious Iranian issue, dismissing as "noise" the Israeli leader's calls for the U.S. to lay out a "red line" that Iran's nuclear program must not cross to avoid American military intervention.

"When it comes to our national security decisions, any pressure that I feel is simply to do what's right for the American people," Obama told CBS' 60 Minutes, in an interview aired the night before he was to meet with other world leaders at the United Nations. "And I am going to block out any noise that's out there."

In the interview, Obama defended his foreign policy record at a time of anti-American rage in the Muslim world, firing back at suggestions from Republican nominee Mitt Romney that the president has been weak with allies and enemies alike.

"If Gov. Romney is suggesting that we should start another war, he should say so," he told CBS. Continued, here.

Muslim Protesters Rally In Athens Over Film.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Hundreds of Muslim protesters staged a rally in central Athens on Sunday to protest against a film made in California which mocks Islam’s Prophet Mohammad, the first such demonstration in Greece.


The protesters chanted “All we have is Mohammad” and held banners reading “We demand an immediate punishment for those who tried to mock our Prophet Mohammad” as they prepared to march to the U.S. embassy.

There were brief moments of tension when some demonstrators hurled bottles at police, who responded with teargas.
Police shut down a subway station and were considering blocking the march before it reached the heavily guarded embassy to prevent possible violence, police officials said. Greece is home to hundreds of thousands of Muslims.

The anti-Islam film, posted on YouTube, has provoked protests in several Muslim countries. Related violence has included the storming of U.S. and other Western embassies, the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and a suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

Many Muslims regard any depiction of the Prophet Mohammad as blasphemous, let alone one which denigrates the Prophet.

French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo stoked the furore last week when it published cartoons featuring a naked Mohammad, and on Friday France banned street protests against the drawings.

Iranian students gathered at the French embassy in Tehran on Sunday to protest against the publication of the cartoons, Iran’s Fars news agency reported.

They held placards reading “The silence of Muslims is a betrayal of the Koran” and “Shi’ite brothers, Sunni brothers, unity, unity”, and chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, Fars said.
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Harvard Scientists Write The Book On Intelligent Design—In DNA

By Dr. Fazale Rana

One of the most provocative arguments for intelligent design focuses on the recognition that DNA is an information-based system. Yet skeptics argue that biochemical information is not genuine information. Instead, they assert that when scientists refer to biochemical information, it is merely a scientific metaphor.

New research by a team from Harvard and Johns Hopkins University—in which researchers encoded an entire book into DNA—raises questions about this objection and helps to powerfully advance the case for a Creator. “When I get a little money I buy books; if any is left I buy food and clothes.” Desiderius Erasmus.

For people who love books, storage (and ready accessibility) is a problem. Without a doubt, this explains the popularity of the Kindle and the Nook. (I have yet to purchase one because I prefer the feel of an actual book in my hands. But soon I may have no choice, if for no other reason than for lack of space for more bookcases in our house.)

Recently, researchers from Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University provided the prospect of an exciting future for book lovers when they created the biotech version of an e-reader. These scientists encoded an entire book (along with illustrations) in DNA.1 The book consisted of 53,246 words, 11 JPG images, and even a JavaScript program. This accomplishment only scratches the surface of possibilities that await the use of DNA as a storage medium. One gram of DNA can hold up to 455 exabytes (one exabyte equals 1018 bytes). In comparison, a CD-ROM holds about 700 million (7 x 108) bytes of data. (One gram of DNA holds the equivalent amount of data as 600 billion CD-ROMs.

Assuming a typical book requires 1 megabyte of data-storage capacity, then one gram of DNA could harbor 455 trillion books.) In spite of the researchers success, it currently isn’t practical or cost-effective to use DNA to store data (or to house the Library of Congress). But change is coming. The use of inorganic data-storage based systems, like CD-ROMs, will soon be an antiquated technology. And organic materials, like DNA, may become the storage medium of choice.

While the technological uses for DNA storage have yet to materialize, the full impact of this type of work is felt in the creation/evolution controversy. The research by the team from Harvard and John Hopkins (and others) helps to powerfully advance the case for a Creator.

 DNA and the Case for the Creator 

As I discussed in The Cell’s Design—and elsewhere—one of the most provocative arguments for intelligent design centers is the recognition that DNA (and other biomolecules) is an information-based system. Common, everyday experience teaches that information derives solely from the activity of human beings. So, by analogy, the biochemical information systems, too, should come from a divine Mind.

The stark similarity between the way that biochemical information systems are structured and the structure of information systems designed by humans deepens the analogy (for an example, go here). Yet skeptics argue that biochemical information is not genuine information. Instead, they maintain that when scientists refer to DNA as an information storage molecule they are making use of an illustrative analogy—a scientific metaphor—and nothing more. They accuse creationists and intelligent design proponents of misconstruing their use of analogical language to make the case for design.2 But the work by the Harvard and Johns Hopkins scientists questions the validity of this objection.

DNA Data Storage 

These researchers are not the first scientists to store information within the nucleotide sequences of DNA. However, they are to be credited for storing the most information to-date, and, in doing so, addressing some limitations of this technology. In order to encode specific information into the nucleotide sequence of DNA, researchers must make DNA molecules with a prescribed sequence without error. Yet, with the current synthesis technology, the number of errors in the DNA sequence increases with the length of the sequence.

In other words, researchers can make “perfect” sequences, but only if they are relatively short—not long enough to store any appreciable amount of data. Stabilizing the encoded DNA molecules poses another challenge. DNA tends to become damaged or broken down over time. When this happens, information is lost. To sidestep the first of these two issues, the researchers encoded the book’s contents into small DNA fragments—devoting roughly two-thirds of the sequence for data and the remainder for information that can be used to locate the content within the entire data block.

In a sense, this approach is analogous to using page numbers to order and locate the contents of a book. By making short DNA sequences, the researchers were able to ensure that few, if any, errors were introduced into the sequences of the synthesized DNA fragments. The researchers addressed the problem of stabilizing the synthesized DNA by making multiple copies of each fragment. In this way, if one of the fragments becomes damaged or breaks down, the redundancy prevents the information from being lost completely.

As impressive as this advance is, the practical implementation of DNA storage is still a dream for the future. The chief hang-up at this point is the time and cost to synthesize the amount of DNA required to store a book, and then, in turn, to read out the information. But these efficiency concerns may not hinder progress for long, as the cost of making and sequencing DNA plummets. Read more...

Iran Official: "Big War" Means Mahdi Is Coming

For the first time, Iran’s highest-ranking military official has tied the reappearance of the last Islamic messiah to the regime being prepared to go to a war based on ideology.

“With having the treasure of the Holy Defense, Valayat (Guardianship of the Jurist) and martyrs, we are ready for a big war,” Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said, according to Mashregh news, which is run by the Revolutionary Guard.

“Of course this confrontation has always continued; however, since we are in the era of The Coming, this war will be a significant war.”
Shi’ites believe that at the end of time great wars will take place, and Imam Mahdi, the Shi’ites’ 12th imam, will reappear and kill all the infidels, raising the flag of Islam in all corners of the world.

Vahidi became the Revolutionary Guards intelligence officer after the 1979 Islamic revolution and later was promoted to chief commander of the Quds Forces. He is on the Interpol most-wanted list for the Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994 that killed 85 and injured hundreds.
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More Iranian Troops In Syria To Target Israel

Iran is flying more military personnel and weapons into Syria by civilian aircraft cutting through Iraqi airspace, US intelligence sources disclose.

UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon said he regretted that both sides in Syria are determined to end the conflict by military means.

By augmenting its military involvement, Iran is turning the Syrian civil war into a multinational conflict also involving Hezballah. Frequent exercises are keeping the IDF on the move and constantly ready for a real war at short notice on familiar terrain.

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Pentecostal Pastor Shot Dead In Colombia

A Christian human rights agency is calling for a full investigation into the murder of protestant Pastor Henry Rodriguez, 44, who was shot dead as he left his church in Bogota, Colombia.

The killing occurred during the afternoon of Sept. 16. According to a news release from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), Rodriguez was a leader at the United Pentecostal Church in the Marsella neighborhood in the Kennedy sector of Bogota.

The reasons behind the assassination are unknown, however, according to local press reports, witnesses said the murder was carried out by what appeared to be professional hit men. CSW said Rodriguez was shot multiple times by two men on a moped, a method commonly used in professional hits in Colombia. Hospital staff were unable to resuscitate him.

While the assassination of a pastor is extremely unusual in Bogota, CSW said countrywide church leaders are frequently targeted by illegal armed groups. CSW’s long-term partners in Colombia, the Colombian Council of Evangelical Churches (CEDECOL) Peace Commission, estimate that on average 20-30 church leaders are assassinated each year.

In general, CSW said, leaders are targeted because of their refusal to cooperate or support the objectives of the illegal armed groups. However, Rodriguez had not reported receiving any threats prior to Sunday’s events.   CSW said Rodriguez, who was on course to graduate in October from the Baptist Seminary in Cali, is survived by his wife and three children.

In a statement released by the United Pentecostal Church of Colombia, Vicente Arango, Director of Missions, said in the news release, “Our heart is troubled by the departure of our brother, companion, and faithful friend.   Our brother Henry Rodriguez, left for the King’s palace. Now he awaits the joyful words of our beloved Lord,

“Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord.”   Mervyn Thomas, Chief Executive of CSW, said in the news release, “We were devastated to learn of the assassination of Pastor Henry Rodriguez on Sunday evening and are extremely concerned at the fact that the assassination was carried out so brazenly in the capital city on the steps of the church in front of many witnesses."

He added, " We encourage the Colombian authorities to ensure that a full investigation into the murder of Pastor Rodriguez takes place soon and that those responsible are brought to justice. We also offer our condolences to his wife, Sara, and their three children.”   Christian Solidarity Worldwide works for religious freedom through advocacy and human rights, in the pursuit of justice. Source.

Minister Stresses Iran's Ability To Wipe "Zionist Regime" Off Earth

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi downplayed Israel's threats against the Islamic Republic, and warned that Tehran is capable of wiping the regime off the earth.

Iran's defensive power against Tel Aviv's threats has become so developed that it would easily wipe off the Zionist regime from the face of the earth, Vahidi told reporters in Tehran on Wednesday. "Faced with various problems, the usurper regime of Israel makes such absurd threats to compensate for its internal crisis," the minister was quoted by the Islamic republic news agency as saying. Israel and its close ally the United States accuse Iran of seeking a nuclear weapon, while they have never presented any corroborative document to substantiate their allegations. Both Washington and Tel Aviv possess advanced weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear warheads. Iran vehemently denies the charges, insisting that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry. Speculation that Israel could bomb Iran mounted since a big Israeli air drill four years ago. In the first week of June, 2008, 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighters reportedly took part in an exercise over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece, which was interpreted as a dress rehearsal for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear installations. Iran has, in return, warned that it would target Israel and its worldwide interests in case it comes under attack by  Tel Aviv. The United States has also always stressed that military action is a main option for the White House to impede Iran's progress in the field of nuclear technology. In response, Iran has warned it could target 32 US military bases in the region and close the strategic Strait of Hormuz if it became the target of a military attack over its nuclear program. Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the strategic Persian Gulf waterway, is a major oil shipping route. A recent study by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a prestigious American think tank, has found that a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities "is unlikely" to delay the country's program. Continued...

Khamenei: Iran Will Never Cave In To Western 'Anger'

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday vowed that Iran would never cave in to Western pressure, saying that it will act only in accordance with its own interests, AFP quoted his official website as saying on Wednesday.

The Islamic Republic, he told a military audience, "makes its decisions solely based on the interests of its people and the country, even if all of the world's powers get angry at its decisions." Iran likely sought for nukesIt "does not accept the demands of any superpower," he added.

The Ayatollah also accused "Western and Zionist media" of fabricating reports on the biting effects of economic sanctions, hinting that the Iranian economy was not suffering. "Drawing a black and dark picture of the country's situation is the known method of Western and Zionist media aimed at halting the Iranian nation's path," he said. Continued...

Persecution Of Christians On Rise In The US

A report by two U.S.-based religious freedom groups says anti-Christian persecution is on the rise in America.
The joint report by Texas-based Liberty Institute and Washington-based Family Research Council says groups like the American Civil Liberties Union aren’t the only culprits. The report says government agencies around the U.S. are trying to push Christian expression out the door.

“It is dramatic,” says Liberty Institute Founder Kelly Shackleford, of the recent hike in reported incidents of persecution. “I have been doing these types of cases for almost 25 years now. I have never seen the levels of attacks like these and how quickly they are now proliferating.”
Shackleford says government, from schools to social programs, is the ringleader.

“There are children being prohibited from writing Merry Christmas to the soldiers, senior citizens being banned from praying over their meals in the Senior Center, the VA banning the mention of God in military funerals, numerous attempts to have veterans memorials torn down if they have any religious symbols such as a cross, and I could go on and on,” Shackleford said.

WND reported in August 2011 on the Houston, Texas, veterans’ cemetery director who issued an order banning God from military or veteran funerals at the facility.

A pastor and family members of deceased veterans eventually filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the Houston National VA Cemetery is discriminating against their religious freedoms.

The suit alleges that cemetery administrator Arleen Ocasio required pastor Scott Rainey to edit a Memorial Day prayer so that the prayer was “general, and its fundamental purpose [was] nondenominational in nature.”

Christian civil rights organization ACLJ senior counsel David French says the exact rate of increase is hard to determine, but many of the new cases come from colleges.

“Our knowledge of incidents is only as good as the reporting,” French says. “However, it’s clear that – particularly on college and university campuses – we have seen a significant rise in attempts to silence Christian organizations by the misapplication of nondiscrimination laws.”

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We, as Christians, ought to stand up and go against the tide. We need to be counted and fight for our principles and do everything in our power to stop this erosion of our religious freedoms.

The following video is about a new film which deals with a story of Courage and of Defense of some good "old-fashioned" values that most of us grew up with. Enjoy and support it by watching the whole movie in a theater near you. [El Greco]

Iran: Hezbollah Will Defend Us 'Easily' Against Israeli Attack

Military adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says, "The boldness and foolishness of Israeli officials in threatening the Islamic republic have put Israeli citizens one step away from the cemetery" • Hezbollah vows to hit U.S. targets if Israel attacks Iran.

An aide to Iran's supreme leader said Israel's military threats had "put Israeli citizens one step away from the cemetery" and that Hezbollah was ready to hit back.

Yahya Rahim-Safavi, military adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a former commander in chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, said the increasing threats from Israel to strike Iranian nuclear facilities were "foolish," the Iranian Students' News Agency reported on Friday.

"The boldness and foolishness of Israeli officials in threatening the Islamic Republic have put Israeli citizens one step away from the cemetery," he said. "If, one day, the Israeli regime takes action against us, resistance groups, especially Hezbollah ... will respond more easily."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made increasing hints in recent weeks that Israel could strike Iran and has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's position that sanctions and diplomacy should be given more time.

The heightened rhetoric has stoked speculation that Israel may attack before the U.S. elections in November.

Hezbollah has said any attack on Iran would be met by strikes against Israeli and U.S. targets in the region, even if American forces played no role in the attack.

"A decision has been taken to respond, and the response will be very great," Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a TV interview this month.[Source]

US To Go To War With Iran In 2013?

Former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said on Sunday that he thinks the U.S. will go to war with Iran over its nuclear program in 2013.

Speaking during a panel on the CBS program Face the Nation, Indyk said, "I'm afraid that 2013 is going to be a year in which we're going to have a military confrontation with Iran."

The former ambassador stated that "Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon," but added that there's not a lot of time left until it does.

Regarding the recent friction between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over "red lines" on Iran, Indyk said that he doesn't think "the difference between Netanyahu and Obama on this is that great, in terms of the president's commitment not to allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons."

He added, however, that Netanyahu's insistence on public "red lines" was unreasonable.

"That is an unreasonable requirement. The idea of putting out a public red line - in effect issuing an ultimatum - is something that no president would do. If you noticed, Governor Romney is not putting out a red line; Senator McCain didn't, either. And neither is Bibi Netanyahu for that matter, in terms of Israel's own actions."
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Netanyahu is viewing the danger from a different perspective than the Americans. After all, it is his country that is surrounded by hostile forces whose stated objective is to "wipe off the face of the earth the Zionist state".

Therefore, do not be surprised, if the Israelis attack Iran very, very soon.. See my other post, here.

Salvation Through Jesus Christ

1. God's Purpose...Peace and Life

God loves you and wants you to know Him so He can fill you with peace and give you real life -- forever. The Bible says:: Because of our Lord Jesus Christ, we live at peace with God (Romans 5:1) God loved the people of this world so much that He gave His only son, so that everyone who has faith in Him will have eternal life and never die (John 3:16). Jesus said: "I came so that everyone would have life, and have it in its fullest" (John 10:10). Since God planned for us to have peace and real life right now, why are so many people hurting or angry inside?

2. Our Problem...Separation From God

God created us in His own image so we can know Him personally and have a joy-filled life. He did not make us as robots to automatically love and obey Him, but gave us a will and a freedom of choice. Since the beginning of time, we have chosen to disobey God and go our own willful way. We still make this choice today. This results in separation from God and ends in misery. The Bible says: All of us have sinned and fallen short of God's holiness (Romans 3:23). The result of unforgiven sin is death. But God's gift is eternal life given by Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:23). The Bible says that disobeying God results in being separated from Him. Our attempts can never unite us with God. Through the ages, people have tried many ways to bridge this gap and reach God -- without success. The Bible says: Adam sinned, and that sin brought death into the world. Now everyone has sinned, and so everyone must die (Romans 5:12). You may think you are on the right road and still end up dead (Proverbs 14:12). There is only one way to reach God.

3. God's Remedy...The Cross

Jesus Christ is the only answer to this problem. He is the only One who can bring us back to God. He died on the Cross and rose from the grave, paying the penalty for our sin and bridging the gap between God and people. The Bible says: There is only one God, and Christ Jesus is the only one who can bring us to God (1 Timothy 2:5). Christ died once for our sins. An innocent person died for those who are guilty. Christ did this to bring you to God (1 Peter 3:18). But God showed how much He loved us by having Christ die for us, even though we were sinful (Romans 5:8). God has provided the only way -- we must make the choice.

4. Our Response...Give Ourselves to Christ

We must trust Jesus Christ to forgive our sins and determine to obey Him for the rest of our lives. That way we can know God and find peace again. The Bible says: So you will be saved, if you honestly say, Jesus is Lord, and if you believe with all your heart that God raised Him from death. God will accept you and save you, if you truly believe this (Romans 10:9-10). Is there any good reason why you cannot turn your life over to Jesus Christ right now? How to give your life to Christ: 1. Admit you are a sinner and need forgiveness. 2. Believe that Jesus Christ died for you on the Cross and rose from the grave. 3. Through prayer, confess that Jesus Christ is the only way to God and commit to live for Him for the rest of your life. From CBN.com

Blogger's Comment:

There is no better decision  that one can make in life than realizing his/her separation from God and accepting the gift of salvation and reconciliation which is available to each one of us who discerns the atoning sacrifice of Jesus.

Jesus paid the penalty for our sins by dying for us on the cross and thus, upon our acceptance of this fact and of our need for forgiveness, our relationship with God is restored and our eternal life is secured.

El Greco

Netanyahu: Iran Six To Seven Months From Nuclear Bomb Capability

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that Iran would be on the brink of nuclear weapons capability in six to seven months, adding new urgency to his demand that President Barack Obama set a clear "red line" for Tehran in what could deepen the worst U.S.-Israeli rift in decades.

Taking his case to the American public, Netanyahu said in U.S. television interviews that by mid-2013, Iran would be 90 percent of the way toward enough enriched uranium for a bomb. He urged the United States to spell out limits that Tehran must not cross or else face military action - something Obama has refused to do.

"You have to place that red line before them now, before it's too late," Netanyahu told NBC's "Meet the Press" program, saying that such a U.S. move could reduce the chances of having to attack Iran's nuclear sites.

The unusually public dispute - coupled with Obama's decision not to meet with Netanyahu later this month - has exposed a deep U.S.-Israeli divide and stepped up pressure on the U.S. leader in the final stretch of a tight presidential election campaign.

The message implicitly fit in with Romney's harsh rhetoric on Iran. Romney, like Obama, has said he would not allow Iran to add a nuclear weapon to its arsenal. The Republican nominee has been critical of Obama for not acting quickly or forcefully enough, but has not offered specifics about what he would do that is different. Neither Obama nor Romney have called for U.S. military intervention any time soon.
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Armada of British Naval Power Massing In The Gulf As Israel Prepares An Iran Strike

Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically important Strait of Hormuz in an unprecedented show of force as Israel and Iran move towards the brink of war.

Western leaders are convinced that Iran will retaliate to any attack by attempting to mine or blockade the shipping lane through which passes around 18 million barrels of oil every day, approximately 35 per cent of the world’s petroleum traded by sea.

 

A blockade would have a catastrophic effect on the fragile economies of Britain, Europe the United States and Japan, all of which rely heavily on oil and gas supplies from the Gulf.

 

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most congested international waterways. It is only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point and is bordered by the Iranian coast to the north and the United Arab Emirates to the south.

 

In preparation for any pre-emptive or retaliatory action by Iran, warships from more than 25 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, will today begin an annual 12-day exercise.

The war games are the largest ever undertaken in the region.

They will practise tactics in how to breach an Iranian blockade of the strait and the force will also undertake counter-mining drills.

The multi-national naval force in the Gulf includes three US Nimitz class carrier groups, each of which has more aircraft than the entire complement of the Iranian air force.

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Egypt's Christians Face Mass Slaughter By Islamists

NEW YORK – The Coptic Christian community in Egypt now is under threat of mass slaughter from Islamists under the pretense of revenge for a movie that depicts the Quranic figure Muhammad in a negative light, a senior Egyptian military official told WND.

The producers of the “Innocence of Muslims” movie reportedly are tied to the Coptic faith. Reports are claiming the movie sparked anti-U.S. attacks in Egypt and Libya, including the killing this week of the U.S. ambassador to Libya. However, some security officials believe the violence to be premeditated

The Egyptian military official said today that Islamic groups are threatening to slaughter “the whole Christian Coptic community” in the city of Naja Hamadi, located about 60 miles from Cairo. Naja Hamadi contains a large Coptic community.

Two Egyptian immigrants from Southern California reportedly were forces behind the “Innocence of Muslims” movie. Joseph Nassralla Abdelmasih, the president of the Duarte-based charity Media for Christ, reportedly was a producer, while Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a convicted felon, allowed his home to be used in the movie’s shooting.

Due to the Coptic ties of the two men, police in Los Angeles reportedly stepped up patrols around Coptic Christian houses of worship in the city, according to the Los Angeles Times. Similarly, the police presence was reportedly heightened outside Coptic churches in New York City.

Copts in Egypt have reportedly been concerned about the prospects of persecution after the downfall of U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak resulted in the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the country’s parliament, presidency and military.

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Japan: Chinese Patrol Ships Leave Disputed Waters

China sent six patrolboats to the East China Sea near disputed islands, in the latest stage of a confrontation with Japan after Tokyo nationalized the contended territory.

China’s Foreign Ministry explained in a statement early on Friday that the surveillance ships were carrying out ‘law enforcement over China’s maritime rights.’  

 ‘The Chinese side has taken completely justifiable actions to uphold its rights and interests,’ said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei, adding that the move was a ‘normal performance duty.’   The ships, which had reached disputed waters around 7:00 am local time on Friday, all left the area by the afternoon.

When ordered to leave, the Chinese ships replied ‘these islands have been Chinese territory since ancient times,’ according to the Japanese coast guard. The Japanese government, which had sealed a deal to purchase the islands earlier this week, called Beijing’s move unprecedented and summoned the Chinese ambassador to protest.

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Britain 'Poised' To Evacuate Diplomats From Mideast

Britain is reportedly ‘poised' to evacuate its diplomats from the Middle East as mob violence against western targets continues, with an independent anti-Muslim film made in the U.S. serving as pretext for the rioting.

 According to the Mail Online, ‘Emergency plans are in place to evacuate UK diplomats and their families.’
Security has been ‘reviewed’ at British embassies and consulates, and U.S. delegations are on high alert.   ‘It is important to note that as these protests are taking place in different countries around the world, responding to the movie, that Friday, tomorrow, has historically been a day when there are protests in the Muslim world,'' Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, told reporters in Colorado. ‘And we are watching very closely for developments that could lead to more protests. We anticipate that they may continue.'

Afghan President Hamid Karzai reportedly postponed a planned visit to Norway, because of fear that violence could erupt in his country. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has called for nationwide protests Friday to denounce the film. Crowds of youths gathered Friday near Tahrir Square and had begun to throw rocks at police. Worse was expected after the Friday prayers…

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What Just Happened? A Former Muslim’s Thoughts On The “Muhammad Video”

By Khaled

Muslims around the world are angry to the extent that they besieged and attacked the US Embassy in Egypt, the US Consulate in Libya and the US Embassy in Yemen, and even caused the death of an Ambassador and three other diplomatic workers because they felt hurt and insulted by a YouTube video insulting Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

I am an Arab, a former Muslim, and a follower of Jesus Christ. I have been a Christian for over 20 years now. If you read my testimony, you will see that I have my own critique of Islam, Muhammad and the Quran. That critique is based on my personal experience and conviction regarding my former religion, Islam. It is based on what I personally think to be true. So, there is no question that I reject Islam, Muhammad and the Quran.

On the other hand, living in the Arab world for the greater part of my life and later also in the West exposed me to many that reject Islam. I have observed two kinds or groups among these rejectionists which I strongly disagree with.

The first of these groups consists of former Muslims who take their rejection to an extreme. This includes a willingness to twist the truth and mix facts with fiction, in order to taunt Islam and make it appear as evil and as ridiculous as possible.

The second group consists of some extreme Christians from the Middle East who lived under oppression, discrimination or even outright and cruel persecution (either direct or indirect) in their predominantly-Muslim native countries.

These groups feed on each other. The extreme former Muslims (who claim to be Christians) are now placed on a high pedestal by some of those extreme Middle Eastern Christians who invite these former Muslims to their gatherings to tell them “how bad Islam is” (or was) as a psychological reaffirmation for those extreme Christians on why they should “hate” Islam.

I have observed those extreme former Muslims become crusaders against Islam without caring very much whether what they are “crusading” about is true. As long as it can be used to hurt the image of Islam, Muslims, Muhammad or the Quran, then it is good.¹

There is no question that this site, Answering-Islam.org, contains strong critique of Islam, but we publish our criticism of Islam with our eyes focused on what is true and can be proven. We try not to exaggerate and are willing to be corrected.

Since we started, we have edited and removed several mistakes and unproven ideas from the site. In fact, a number of times I have found myself serving on the site’s inner circles where we review and filter material submitted for publication and sometimes even already published materials, even to the extent of defending the position of Muhammad or Islam against exaggerations or false accusations. We are committed to truth not expedience.

What I have learned from dialoguing online with Muslims in the past 17 years is that we really need to love truth and share it with compassion; we really have to love Muslims and desire them to be saved. A truthful, compassionate dialogue with Muslims regarding their faith, and ours, is what we need. We don’t need smear tactics and hateful anti-Muslim propaganda. And, with regret, I must admit to having naively participated in such things in the past, either because I was not spiritually mature enough or because I had more anger at Islam than I had love for Muslims.

The insulting video about Muhammad titled “The Innocence of Muslims” contains unproven theories and historical errors about the life of Muhammad. I personally think that the makers of this movie, didn’t produce it because they love the truth or love Muslims, but because they are carrying out a personal vendetta by trashing its prophet.

A true Christian is commanded not to hate anyone; we have to love Muslims. If you do not love them, please leave them alone. Do not shout truth with the breath of hate. If you cannot avoid the breath of hate, please sit down and let those who can tell Muslims the truth with the breath of compassionate love stand up and share it with them. As Ephesians 4:15 reminds us, “Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.”

Finally, I personally sympathize with all Muslims (since you remain my people and my family) for the hurt feelings and the insult they suffered. I reject this movie and I testify that it does not truly represent the real Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

In the same time I condemn the violence carried against the US diplomatic missions because violence is a choice among a wide array of possible responses. May God lead us all to genuine repentance over our wrong actions.

My heart’s desire for all Muslims is for them to be saved, “for I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.” Romans 10:2-4

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Footnotes

¹ The same observation can be made about many Muslims who write about the Bible or Christianity, but that is not the topic or concern of this article.

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For more on the author, see Khaled

Article was reproduced by permission of the author and all views expressed in here are his and do not necessarily represent the views of this blog. [El Greco]

Iran's Jails Full Of Christians

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani made international headlines and eventually won his freedom after being imprisoned and sentenced to death by an Iranian court, but several other Christians remain in the Islamic nation's prisons simply because of their faith.

Advocates of the men and women who refuse to renounce their Christian beliefs in a nation where they are vastly outnumbered by an often hostile population say their best chance for freedom is international pressure. Less than 1 percent of Iran's population is comprised of people of non-Muslim faith, according to CIA's World Factbook, and Christians, Jews and Hindi face relentless persecution.

“Iran has amped up its systematic persecution of Christians over the last year, closing churches, burning Bibles, imprisoning believers, and using threats and intimidations tactics to suppress religious expression,” said Tiffany Barrans, International legal Director for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which waged a successful campaign for Nadarkhani’s release.

Nadarkhani's dramatic release after three years in prison came Sept. 8, after an international campaign of diplomatic and online pressure prompted a judge to reduce his sentence to time served for downgraded charges of "evangelizing to Muslims." But other Christian ministers still languish in Iranian prisons with deplorable conditions simply for professing their faith.


Read more: Here.

Brotherhood Calls For More Protests Against The US

Secretary General of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Mahmoud Hossein has called for protests across Egypt Friday, according to Fars News Agency, the Iranian media outlet run by the Revolutionary Guards.
“This Friday, Egyptian Muslims will conduct peaceful protests outside of the main mosques in every province condemning the insult to Prophet Muhammad,” said Hossein.

Fars News reports the possibility of a widespread protest in the region and said American officials are warning their citizens in the Middle East to remain vigilant and alert.

Protests broke out yesterday in Egypt and Libya over an American film ridiculing Prophet Muhammad though the video has been out for several weeks.
In what seemed to be a coordinated effort, protesters attacked the U.S. embassy in Egypt and the U.S. consulate in Libya on Tuesday, killing the American ambassador and three staffers.

In scenes eerily similar to the U.S. embassy takeover in Tehran after the 1979 Islamic revolution, Egyptian protesters climbed the wall of the U.S. compound and tore down the American flag, replacing it with an Islamic flag.

It was reported yesterday that just last month, U.S. intelligence agencies monitored a meeting between officials of the Egyptian and Iranian intelligence ministries, raising the specter that the newly installed Muslim Brotherhood government in Cairo could be secretly backing terrorism worldwide. Members of the anti-Muslim Brotherhood opposition believe Barack Obama has signed off on a covert agreement to support the Morsi government.

At the same time the Organization of the Mobilization of the Oppressed – the Basij of the Islamic regime in Iran – put out a statement urging Muslims throughout the world to show their anger against America.

The statement declared that, in revenge, the “filthy regime of America” because of its repeated defeats from the great Islamic front, has insulted the sanctity of Islam, hurting the feelings of the Islamic world.

Referring to the video ridiculing Prophet Muhammad, the Basij called it an act of conspiracy to insult Muslims to incite a religious war in Egypt. The statement praised the Egyptian Muslims for understanding the motives of the “Great Satan,” and in showing their anger toward America.

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How Muslim Brotherhood Fools The West

The truth about Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and other terror groups. What all people in the West and their political leaders should know.

Most western politicians, chief among them being the President of United States of America, Barack Obama, consider Muslim Brotherhood to be a moderate Islamic organization that does not support and is separate from terror groups such as Hamas and Al-Qaida.

Based on this misconception the western nations allowed the sweeping victory of Muslim Brotherhood in what was dubbed an Arab Spring. By giving this organization his support Barack Obama made one of the gravest errors in history of mankind and so did the United Nations.

To see the truth you need only to watch and listen to what Muslim Brotherhood’s leading cleric, Safwat Higazi, was saying to the crowd of thousands gathered in support of Mohammad Morsi who has recently been elected as Egypt’s first civilian president. Pay close attention to what he is saying and what the crowds are chanting. Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas are one. Higazi openly calls for martyrs to march against Jerusalem because their sole purpose is to destroy Israel and to establish an Islamic empire.

This is the very thing that Mossab Hassan Yousef was trying to warn the West against in his memoir “Son of Hamas,” which became an international best seller. He is a young man who saw Hamas created. His father is one of the founders of both Muslim Brotherhood and of Hamas in Palestinian Authority. Here is the latest speech he gave in Jerusalem while promoting a movie he is working on, also called “Son of Hamas.”

Mossab certainly does not mince words, but he is not afraid to say the truth in order to prevent violence and bloodshed from continuing. If only western politicians had ears open to listen to his warning and the warnings of others who know the true nature of these organizations.

Muslim Brotherhood members are not  peace loving moderate Muslims. They identify themselves with terror groups, support them, and praise them. This is in fact an organization that gave birth to these terror groups. Barack Obama might have killed Osama Bin Laden, but at the same time he is supporting those who incited the very violence Bin Laden helped to perpetrate.

Fanatic leaders of Islam see it as a weakness and it will only encourage them to commit terror on American soil again. It is just a matter of time, as long as the West is buying the lie. It is time to wake up.

Article from here. Thanks, Levi.

US Probing Attack That Killed Ambassador To Libya

U.S. officials are trying to determine whether a fiery attack in Benghazi that killed American Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other diplomats was pre-planned, and who the perpetrators might be.

U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the deadly assault on the American consulate in the eastern Libyan city, saying that, "No acts of terror" will shake his country's resolve.

"Make no mistake, justice will be done," Obama said Wednesday in a brief statement outside the White House, alongside Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence. None."

Obama has instructed U.S. diplomatic missions around the world to increase their security.
The consulate attack was reportedly carried out by Libyans outraged by a U.S. film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad. ...

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Another interpretation of the events that is circulating around the internet and on Facebook seems to indicate that the ambassador was lynched by Islamist fundamentalists who repeated the animalistic  killing and dragging of his body through the streets much like they did to Gaddafi a few months earlier.

When Gaddafi was sodomized, killed and dragged through the streets like a beast, the US government did not raise its voice nor did it condemn that barbarous and uncivilized act.

The blood-thirsty Islamist killers were treated like the ”nightingales” of the “Arab Spring”.

The US sowed “storms” and now it is harvesting “Hurricanes”. {El Greco]

Addendum: As of Sep. 15/2012, many blogs on the internet, are talking about the ambassador Stevens being sodomized "in the name of Allah" before getting killed by these sick extremists.