Those of you who visit this blog from various places in the world, I want to give you more than just prophetic news.  I want to give you the Good News that Jesus saves, heals and delivers.  If you aren't familiar with the healing ministry of John G. Lake,  (passed away in 1935), who was one of the founding members of the Divine Healing, Baptism of the Holy Spirit movement of the early 1900's, do a Google search on him and read some of his sermons.  You don't get food like this many places today:

 

John G. Lake, Triune Salvation sermon: "For 15 years God has let me move among all manner of contagious diseases, and I have never taken one of them. The devil could not make me take them. I have prayed with smallpox patients when the pustules would burst under the touch of my hands. I have gone home to my wife and babies and never carried contagion to them. I was in the 'secret place of the Most High." Indeed contact with diphtheria, smallpos, leprosy, and even bubonic plague, and the whole range of diseases was in line of my daily work in connection with the work of the Apostolic Church of South Africa.
"Behold, I give you power....over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall be any means hurt you", (Luke 10:19). So the prayer of the apostle comes to us with a fresh understanding: "I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body bre preserved blameless (without corruption, defilement) unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it", (1 Thess. 5:23-24).

AFP: Man sets himself on fire at Washington's National Mall

(What can be said to such an incident happening here in this country?)
AFP: Man sets himself on fire at Washington's National Mall

Jewish Publications Publish Muslim Writer's Whitewash of Islamic Antisemitism - Atlas Shrugs

(Previous posting on Atlas Shrugs about the writer of the article regarding Jewish Temple being rebuilt, one of these days her choice will come because there is no such thing as 'moderate Islam', but she is a tool right now in promoting the conditions that will fulfill Biblical Prophecy)

Sinem Tezyapar was so proud of this article that she sent it to me directly. I read it with great interest, as we're constantly told by Muslim and non-Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. that when jihadis justify their violence by referring to the Qur'an and Sunnah that they are misinterpreting and misunderstanding those sources, and that they really teach peace and tolerance. But rare indeed is a detailed explanation of exactly how the Qur'an and Sunnah teach peace and tolerance. So I read this to see if it could fill that gap. No such luck.

In this entire lengthy piece that purports to establish that Islam "does not command war against Jews," Tezyapar never mentions Qur'an 5:82, which designates the Jews "the most hostile of men to the believers." She never mentions 5:51, which tells Muslims not to take Jews or Christians as friends and protectors. She never mentions Sahih Muslim 6985, in which Muhammad says that “the last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.”

Jewish Publications Publish Muslim Writer's Whitewash of Islamic Antisemitism - Atlas Shrugs

The Jewish Press » » A New Muslim Vision: Rebuilding Solomon’s Temple Together

 (The rebuilding of the Third Temple is key to the fulfillment of Bible Prophecy, a huge 'marker' along the road to the Second Coming of Christ)
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The Jewish Press » » A New Muslim Vision: Rebuilding Solomon’s Temple Together

Fighting Between Rebels Intensifies Over a Strategic Town in Syria - NYTimes.com

The conflict over the town, Azaz, has shuttered a Turkish border crossing long used to supply the rebel movement and heightened tensions between rebels who seek the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad and extremists who want to erase Syria’s borders and establish a transnational Islamic state. 
Fighting Between Rebels Intensifies Over a Strategic Town in Syria - NYTimes.com

MANZOOR MOGHAL: Veils, segregated schools and why we risk sowing the seeds of Islamic terror in Britain | Mail Online

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MANZOOR MOGHAL: Veils, segregated schools and why we risk sowing the seeds of Islamic terror in Britain | Mail Online

British Education: Creeping Sharia :: Gatestone Institute

 

 Many Muslim groups...have been marketing themselves as "inter-faith" schools in an effort to qualify for [free school] government funding. More then 80 free schools -- at least a dozen of which are catering specifically to Muslim students -- are currently operating in Britain and another 200 are in the planning stage.

A taxpayer-funded Muslim school in England has inflamed public anger after it emerged that the institution is operating according to Islamic Sharia law.
Islamic fundamentalists running the Al-Madinah School in Derby, an industrial city in central England, have ordered all female teachers -- including those who are not Muslim -- to cover their heads and shoulders with a hijab, an Islamic scarf.

In addition to the strict dress code, pupils have been banned from singing songs, playing musical instruments, or reading fairy tales, activities deemed to be "un-Islamic," according to non-Muslim staff members at the school.

Girls as young as four are required to sit at the back of the classroom, behind the boys, regardless of whether they can properly see the chalkboard. Girls must also wait for all the boys to get their lunches before they can eat
When teaching children the alphabet, staff are prohibited from associating the letter 'P' with the word "pig." Female staff are banned from wearing jewelry and are instructed to avoid shaking hands with male teachers to prevent "insult." Naturally, all non-halal food is outlawed at the school.

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British Education: Creeping Sharia :: Gatestone Institute

The world's oldest Jewish prayer book?

 

The world's oldest Jewish prayer book? Hebrew text predates earliest known copy of the Torah by four CENTURIES | Mail Online

Obama's DHS Advisor Mohamed Elibiary Flashes The R4BIA Muslim Brotherhood Salute

Another word to learn, 'rabia', click to read:
Obama's DHS Advisor Mohamed Elibiary Flashes The R4BIA Muslim Brotherhood Salute

Anti-Muslim Author Thinks Obama Is Creating An Islamic Dictatorship, Fomenting Syrian-Style Civil War | Right Wing Watch

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Anti-Muslim Author Thinks Obama Is Creating An Islamic Dictatorship, Fomenting Syrian-Style Civil War | Right Wing Watch

Jihadists set to Invade Tunisia from Libya?

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Jihadists set to Invade Tunisia from Libya? | Walid ShoebatWalid Shoebat

Credit card companies eye new global payment standard | Internet & Media - CNET News

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Credit card companies eye new global payment standard | Internet & Media - CNET News

Titanic victim's burial @ sea pic to be auctioned

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Rare picture of Titanic victims shows prayers being said over their bodies before they are buried at sea | Mail Online

Westgate Mall attack and an Islamic Reality

 David Wood of Answering Muslims has posted a very informative video in which he analyzes the Nairobi Westgate Mall terror attack relative to what the Qur’an says. Western leaders like British Prime Minister David Cameron continue to deny reality and Wood nails him on it. The truth is simple to understand – unless you’re a politician. Al-Shabaab was acting in accordance to the dictates of their religion.

Click for link to blog and video:

Westgate Mall attack and an Islamic Reality | Walid ShoebatWalid Shoebat

U.S. gives Iranian president a 2,700-year-old artifact worth over $1 million

There is nothing wrong with the U.S. returning an item that had been looted in the first place. The problem is that the Infidels are the ones who are always making gestures of good will, granting concessions, etc. These gestures are never, ever reciprocated: Islamic supremacists expect the Infidels to pay tribute, but would never dream of doing it themselves.

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U.S. gives Iranian president a 2,700-year-old artifact worth over $1 million - Jihad Watch

Obama Has Dismantled America |

 
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Obama Has Dismantled America |

Islam and Christianity: The Only Hope for Peace | World History Institute

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Islam and Christianity: The Only Hope for Peace | World History Institute

Kerry to sign UN arms treaty, despite senators' opposition | Fox News

Kerry to sign UN arms treaty, despite senators' opposition | Fox News

New Army Rules for Tattoos, Grooming On the Way

 Protecting the sensibilities of Muslims?

Read on and come to your own conclusion:

New Army Rules for Tattoos, Grooming On the Way | Military.com

ObamaCare’s Muslim Exemption

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PJ Media » ObamaCare’s Muslim Exemption

White House hosts 'Bisexual Visibility Day' meeting behind closed doors - Washington Times

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White House hosts 'Bisexual Visibility Day' meeting behind closed doors - Washington Times

Senate confirms Todd M. Hughes as first openly gay federal appeals judge - The Washington Post

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Senate confirms Todd M. Hughes as first openly gay federal appeals judge - The Washington Post

Syrian rebels angry over U.S./Russia deal...

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The End Times Forecaster: The Sign of the Woman Clothed with the Sun in 2017

(If you haven't heard about this, check it out......it is pretty astounding.  It is not astrology, this has to do with astronomy)
 
The End Times Forecaster: The Sign of the Woman Clothed with the Sun in 2017

Pamela Geller, WND Column: Obama politicizes Jewish high holy days - Atlas Shrugs

DEFENDING THE WEST
Obama politicizes Jewish high holy days
Exclusive: Pamela Geller drubs BHO for his 'war' against America's No. 1 ally in Mideast
The Times of Israel reported Sunday that “President Barack Obama is set to make a pre-Rosh Hashana conference call to some 1,000 U.S. rabbis in which he will discuss key issues of the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the hopes that the spiritual leaders will raise enthusiasm for those talks among their congregants in their High Holiday speeches.”
This is so reprehensible – where to begin? Why doesn’t Obama use the elaborate gala iftar dinners he hosts at the White House to encourage the Muslim world to expunge from the Quran the Islamic Jew-hatred that fuels the war on the Jews in Israel and the world? Why doesn’t Obama address the genocidal rhetoric that is broadcast daily in Muslim media against the Jews? Why doesn’t Obama use his “Muslim Outreach” to warn the Muslim world that the U.S. will withhold aid if the schools continue to teach Jew-hatred and incitement to violence?

This is really disgusting. And it is nothing new. Obama’s bullying of Israel and the Jewish people is constant throughout his administration. Last April, White House Dossier reported that “because of the sequester … a planned reception for American Jews is getting the short end of the stick. Many other events are proceeding as planned, but according to the Jewish news service JTA, the annual White House celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month is canceled. ‘Jewish invitees usually include luminaries in the arts, sports and sciences, lawmakers, armed services personnel and the Israeli ambassador, as well as organizational leaders and political supporters of the president.’”

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Pamela Geller, WND Column: Obama politicizes Jewish high holy days - Atlas Shrugs

Egyptians protest against Muslim Brotherhood at White House, Washington Post - Jihad Watch

Egyptians protest against Muslim Brotherhood at White House, Washington Post

All Americans should have joined them. All free people should have joined them. "Coptic Christians March on White House, Washington Post," by Adam Kredo for the Washington Free Beacon, August 22:
A group of Egyptians protested in front of the White House Thursday afternoon to “expose” what they say is “the clear bias of the Obama administration and the American media in support of the Muslim Brotherhood and its terrorist ideology.” Hundreds of Egyptians, who travelled to Washington, D.C. from around the United States, gathered in front of the White House before marching to the offices of the Washington Post, news network CNN, and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim advocacy group that protestors called the Brotherhood’s “embassy.”

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Egyptians protest against Muslim Brotherhood at White House, Washington Post - Jihad Watch

Common Ground: Egypt Christians need help

Cal Thomas is a conservative columnist. Bob Beckel is a liberal Democratic strategist. But as longtime friends, they can often find common ground on issues that lawmakers in Washington cannot.
BOB: In the days since the Egyptian military's Aug. 14 crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, more than 60 Christian churches have been attacked or vandalized, with many set ablaze. Defense Minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has promised to rebuild these churches, but the worldwide Christian community has been virtually silent as Egypt's 10 million Christiansface extreme persecution. Why is that, Cal?
CAL: Part of the problem, Bob, is there is no Christian "community." The faith is fragmented into numerous Protestant denominations and fissures within the Catholic and Orthodox churches. As a result, Christians don't speak with one voice. In the 1970s and '80s, Jews united in support of their fellow Jews in the Soviet Union to great effect. When Muslims feel slighted, much less attacked, they respond quickly. With Christians, there is mostly silent indifference.

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Common Ground: Egypt Christians need help

Egyptians Bewildered Over Support for Muslim Brotherhood :: Gatestone Institute

Prophetic News Blog: Egyptians Bewildered Over Support for Muslim Brotherhood :: Gatestone Institute

Egyptians Bewildered Over Support for Muslim Brotherhood :: Gatestone Institute

 This is an excellent article written by a Coptic Christian from Egypt (an insider look at what is taking place there):

What many Egyptians cannot understand is: Why is the U.S. administration siding with the forces of oppression in their country and assisting with its transformation into a failed state under the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood? Egypt simply cannot be allowed to become another Somalia or Afghanistan, controlled by its own version of the Taliban.


Egyptians Bewildered Over Support for Muslim Brotherhood :: Gatestone Institute

Experts puzzled after mysterious, four-metre-long 'sea creature' with horns found on Spain beach | News.com.au

Experts puzzled after mysterious, four-metre-long 'sea creature' with horns found on Spain beach | News.com.au

For Egypt's Christian Churches, Western Media With Their Lies Help Islamists

Cairo -- The Coptic Orthodox and Catholic Churches offer their full support to the police and to the government.
Both condemn media falsifications spread by Western countries, which give space to terrorist and bloodthirsty organisations responsible for attacks against 58 churches and 160 Christian buildings (pictured).
"We request that the international and western media provide a comprehensive account of all events with truth, accuracy, and honesty," said the statement made on behalf of Tawadros II.
In representation of the Catholic Church, Bishop Isaac Ibrahim, Patriarch of Alexandria of the Catholic Copts, slammed the "those media that promote lies and falsify the truth in order to mislead world public opinion."
Both communities would like to thank everyone, especially Muslims, who defended Christian churches, homes and shops, even at the cost of their life, from attacks from Islamic extremists.
The two statements follow in full:


For Egypt's Christian Churches, Western Media With Their Lies Help Islamists

Old order 'remnants' flex muscle in Tunisian politics | Reuters

(Tunisia and the Arab Spring)

These so-called "remnants" from Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's rule were swept aside by the first of the "Arab Spring" revolts in January 2011 and trounced in voting for a constituent assembly later that year. The assembly has considered banning them from politics completely.
But two murders of leftist leaders this year by suspected radical Salafis and mounting dissatisfaction with Ennahda's Islamist agenda have plunged Tunisian politics into turmoil, prompting the assembly to suspend its work.



Old order 'remnants' flex muscle in Tunisian politics | Reuters

The Turkish saga | JPost | Israel News

Anti-government protesters demonstrate on a street in central Ankara Photo: REUTERS

Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan was one of the most vociferous critics of the overthrow of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. He and Morsi were cut from the same Islamist cloth and both steadily began a phased anti-military purge. Erdogan, however, enjoyed a long head start, whereas wary generals, who saw the handwriting on the wall in Ankara, stopped latecomer Morsi in his tracks.

Not long after Morsi was deposed on July 3, the drawn-out Turkish saga reached its climax when former chief of staff Gen. Ilker Basbug was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in an alleged conspiracy to topple Erdogan.

Basbug was not alone. Nearly 300 people were prosecuted, including prominent politicians and journalists.

Three serving opposition parliamentarians from the Republican People’s Party were sent up for between 12 and 35 years each.

Superficially, this can be presented as a victory for democracy, just as the same superficiality portrays the Egyptian upheaval as a blow against democracy.

US President Barack Obama toes this line. He gave unstinting support to Erdogan over the years, despite his excesses, not only as the people’s choice but as a prime example of the ostensible compatibility of Islamic religiosity and democracy. For these same reasons Obama boosted Morsi. Europe followed suit with unconcealed alacrity.

Too bad the leaders of the Free World did not understand what President Shimon Peres said back in 1980, after the Turkish generals’ last attempt to seize power and impose their will (for the third time since 1960).

Peres pointed out then that Turkey debunks the accepted wisdom that the military is anti-democratic. In Turkey’s case, Peres argued, the military is democracy’s guardian.

Over the decades since modern Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, rescued his country from Ottoman decay, it was Turkey’s military that defended his progressive constitution and prevented the reemergence of Muslim clerical domination.

This might not have created a liberal democracy in Western terms, but it built a bulwark against reaction and hence became the lesser of likely evils. The same happened in Egypt, where the army stood behind every ruler from Gamal Abdel Nasser to Hosni Mubarak.

Obama didn’t get it in Turkey. He misread Egypt so badly that he abandoned Mubarak and ushered in Muslim Brotherhood hegemony.

But the big picture that eluded Obama was not misunderstood in Cairo and Ankara. Egypt’s beleaguered generals did not fail to draw operative conclusions from what was happening to their Turkish counterparts, while Erdogan instantly comprehended what Morsi’s ouster signified. Erdogan lashed out vehemently against Egypt’s military leaders, not least because they preempted the prospect of them ending up like his opponents.

Erdogan managed a piecemeal transformation whose cumulative effects are becoming increasingly intolerable to secular upwardly mobile Turks. The return to Islamic garb for women, which Ataturk forbade, the compulsory Koran classes in schools, restrictions on alcohol sales and even bans on bright lipstick for Turkish airlines stewardesses, all add up.

“Insulting Islam” has become a punishable crime in courts controlled by the government. Erdogan’s party, which rose on a strident anti-corruption campaign, is perceived as more corrupt than its predecessors. The Erdogan personality cult – exemplified in his omnipresent portraits – exacerbates the antipathy, as do his vituperative outbursts, of the sort he has frequently aimed at Israel, but which also proliferate against domestic targets.

The pugnacious Erdogan now aims to run for president, since he cannot continue for another term as prime minister. Accordingly, he aims to change the rules of the game and make the presidency more potent.

Those urban Turks who are relatively Europeanized have cause for concern.

As Peres opined all those years ago, the Middle East demolishes clichés. In this region liberal secularists put their trust in the military, whereas the forces of Islam are its hardly democratic adversaries. Chipping away at the military hierarchy – to say nothing of eliminating it – bolsters the fundamentalists and brings theocracy ever closer.

No alternative is democratic, but the West – Israel included – needs to decide with whom it would rather do business, or with whom it can do business.

The Turkish saga | JPost | Israel News

Marine Colonel Says US Has Domestic Army - Business Insider

In a rousing confrontation at a local council meeting in Concord, NH, he calls out his government for facilitating what he feels is a needless militarization of a domestic force.
And he should know, he helped build one in Iraq.
"We did everything we could to build the Iraqi Army, and I'm telling you right now, the Department of Homeland Security would kick their butts."
"What we're doing here, and let's not kid about it, is we're building a domestic army and shrinking the military because the government is afraid of its own citizens ... "

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Marine Colonel Says US Has Domestic Army - Business Insider

History of the Muslim Brotherhood Penetration of the U.S. Government

Given the long history of Muslim Brotherhood activity in this country, its declared objective to "destroy the Western civilization from within," and the extensive evidence of successful influence operations at the highest levels of the U.S. government, it is urgent that we recognize this clear and present danger that threatens not only our Republic but the values of Western civilization.

"Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration."
-- Motto of the Muslim Brotherhood

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History of the Muslim Brotherhood Penetration of the U.S. Government :: Gatestone Institute

RALEIGH: NSA establishes $60 million data analytics lab at NC State

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RALEIGH: NSA establishes $60 million data analytics lab at NC State | Education | NewsObserver.com

Bloomberg seeks mandatory fingerprinting for NYC public housing residents — RT USA

 
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Bloomberg seeks mandatory fingerprinting for NYC public housing residents — RT USA

Another good blog: Egyptian Army warns Obama: “Supporting terrorism in Egypt is OUR red line” | BARE NAKED ISLAM

Egyptian Army warns Obama: “Supporting terrorism in Egypt is OUR red line” | BARE NAKED ISLAM

New Centcom underground war room in Amman for US intervention in Syria

Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in Amman this week to inaugurate the Centcom’s Forward Command in Jordan manned by 273 US officers. US media correspondents were permitted to visit the new war room for the first time on condition of non-disclosure of its location and secret facilities. debkafile’s military sources report that the installation is bomb- and missile-proof against a possible Syrian attack. The US Air Force command section is in direct communication with the US, Israeli, Jordanian and Saudi Air Force headquarters ready for an order by President Barack Obama to impose a partial no-fly zone over Syrian air space.

Another section is designed to coordinate operations between US and Jordanian special forces, as well as the units trained in commando combat by US instructors in Jordan.  A closed section houses CIA personnel who control the work of US agents going in and out of Syria and also a communications center.
In his briefing to US forces Thursday, Aug. 15, Gen. Dempsey commented: “Jordan lives in a very volatile region and at a very critical time in its history. They can count on us to continue to be their partner.”

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New Centcom underground war room in Amman for US intervention in Syria

Recommending blog: PROPHECY UPDATE

Excellent site for prophetic news updates:

Scott

Following Medical School and Internship, I became involved in medical research and have continued in this profession for almost 25 years. During this same period, the study of biblical prophecy became more and more of a focus of study, and it became apparent that the basic principles of research could apply to biblical prophecy. Because prophetic scriptures are found throughout the bible, it is obvious that a comprehensive, systematic approach would be useful, if not necessary, for the understanding of prophecy. A literal view of prophecy clearly indicates that one last generation would see the various signs given scripturally, indicating that we are indeed living in the last generation - the generation that would see the remaining prophetic events occur, as described in the Bible. It is also abundantly clear that we have a mandate from Jesus to watch for these signs; He made it clear that the last generation should be fully aware of their unique place in history. That is the purpose of this blog - to watch for the signs, and to give hope and encouragement (1 Thessalonians 5:11) to our brothers and sisters as we await the coming of our Lord.

PROPHECY UPDATE

Muslim Brotherhood's Influence Inside American Gov't

Muslim Brotherhood's Influence Inside American Gov't | #1 News Site on the Threat of Radical Islam

Egypt's President strikes back at "Erdogan's Sultanate"

Egypt's President strikes back at "Erdogan's Sultanate" Al Bawabhnews.com (thanks to Armaros)

Interim President Mansour: "Egypt will sign on the Armenian Genocide Declaration tomorrow!"

If this information is confirmed, it would be a sign of the rise of a strategic thinking within the new Egyptian leadership. It would signal to the Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood]  allies around the world and here in the US, that the decision-making process in Egypt is not one of militaries, but of historians and strategists.

Egypt's President strikes back at "Erdogan's Sultanate": "Egypt will sign on Armenian Genocide Declaration tomorrow!" - Atlas Shrugs

Egypt: Both sides accuse the other of being agents of the Jews - Jihad Watch

Egypt: Both sides accuse the other of being agents of the Jews - Jihad Watch

Egypt championing Coptic Christians while Obama plays Nero

 
Not only is the courageous El-Sisi vowing to rebuild Muslim Brotherhood-destroyed Coptic Churches, but his order aims to have them rebuilt ASAP, according to the Mid-East Christian News.

“The Egyptian defense minister ordered the engineering department of the armed forces to swiftly repair all the affected churches, in recognition of the historical and national role played by our Coptic brothers,” read a statement that aired on Egyptian television.
Egypt championing Coptic Christians while Obama plays Nero

15-Shariah-The-Threat-to-America-Team-B-Report-Web-285-308.pdf

APPENDIX II:

“AN EXPLANATORY

MEMORANDUM ON THE GENERAL

STRATEGIC GOAL FOR THE GROUP

IN NORTH AMERICA” 

 

The following Muslim Brotherhood document was en-

tered into evidence in the

U.S. v Holy Land Foundation

trial, and is

a primary source threat document

that provides new insights into

global jihad organizations like

the Muslim Brotherhood. 

 

These

documents (covered extensively in

chapter four) define the struc-

ture and outline of domestic jiha

d threat entities, associated non-

governmental organizations and po

tential terrorist or insurgent

support systems. The Memorandum

also describes aspects of the

global jihad’s strategic informat

ion warfare campaign and indica-

tions of its structure, reach and ac

tivities. It met evidentiary stan-

dards to be admissible as evidence

in a Federal Court of law.

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15-Shariah-The-Threat-to-America-Team-B-Report-Web-285-308.pdf

Reuters Next — Saudi feud too bitter for new Iran president to fix

RIYADH/DUBAI - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah's disdain for Iran leaps from U.S. embassy cables. "May God prevent us from falling victim to their evil," he told U.S. officials, according to a cable released by WikiLeaks. According to another, he told his own diplomats he wanted Washington to "cut off the head of the snake".

On the other side of the Gulf, Iran's contempt for Saudi Arabia crackles through a report on its hardline Mashregh website. The kingdom's ruling family, it said, was "drowning in corruption and prostitutes".

Into this toxic environment steps Iran's newly inaugurated President Hassan Rouhani, promising to improve what may well be the single most venomous and destructive relationship in the entire Middle East.

It is almost impossible to overstate the hatred between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran, which has fuelled a decade of violence across the region.

Reuters Next — Saudi feud too bitter for new Iran president to fix

Britain's largest diary eight times longer than War and Peace - Telegraph

 
 An interesting read:

Britain's largest diary eight times longer than War and Peace - Telegraph

Cognitive computing: IBM unveils software for its brain-like SyNAPSE chips Trunews:

Cognitive computing: IBM unveils software for its brain-like SyNAPSE chips Trunews:

Glenn Beck Explains the ‘Real Reason Why You Should Care About the Middle East’ | TheBlaze.com

One of the hottest topics in the news day-in and day-out, oftentimes, is the Middle East. On his weekday television program Wednesday, Glenn Beck addressed the fundamental question: why should you care?

Beck began by explaining why he cares, saying his approach radically changed after 9/11, when he vowed to do all he could to better understand the region and the world at large.

One of Beck’s main motivations, which he said you may or may not agree with, is the Bible, and how we are “wound in so deeply to Israel.”

“If you disagree with the Bible, that’s fine, whatever, but you have to understand the role [it] played in history, and why this matters,” Beck said.

“We are a nation that is based on Judeo-Christian values and the Bible, period…But there’s no way to deny that the majority of our laws come directly from the scriptures…and the Bible comes from Judah,” Beck continued.  “The people of Jerusalem – we owe our existence in many ways.  We owe our laws to them…We owe the people of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we owe our support and our allegiance.  Not blind allegiance – and I’m not talking about putting troops down on the ground.  We have to be not only on their side, but God’s side.”

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Glenn Beck Explains the ‘Real Reason Why You Should Care About the Middle East’ | TheBlaze.com

Millennials and Mainlines

To counter the exodus of young people from American churches, Evans says it’s time to own up to our shortcomings and give millennials what they really want—not a change in style but a change in substance. The answer to attracting millennials, she writes, is NOT “hipper worship bands” or handing out “lattés,” but actually helping them find Jesus.
Amen. I couldn’t agree more.

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Millennials and Mainlines

Sunni-Shi’ite battles spread like wildfire | JPost | Israel News

IRAQI SUNNIS wave national flags, Dec. 31, 2012 Photo: Ali al-Mashhadani/Reuters

 

Two of Iraq’s most prominent Shi’ite leaders, Moqtada al-Sadr and Ammar al- Hakim, called on Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki to resign because of his lack of action in the midst of non-stop bombings and security lapses, according to a report on Wednesday in the London based daily Asharq Al-Awsat.
A week ago, 500 al-Qaida-affiliated prisoners escaped from Abu Ghraib and Taji prisons. Iraq is in the headlines almost every day as another bombing or attack takes a heavy death toll in the sectarian war between the ruling – and majority – Shi’ites and the Sunnis. The security situation has continued to deteriorate, especially since US forces completed its withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011. The US eventually was able to keep a lid on the violence by drastically increasing its military presence and by paying off various tribes.

The war raging next door in Syria has also inflamed sectarian tensions in Iraq as the Sunni rebels fight the Iranian allied regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The rebels are resentful of the fact that the Shi’ite regime in Iraq is facilitating Iran’s involvement in the Syrian war.

Sunni-Shi’ite battles spread like wildfire | JPost | Israel News

A high divorce rate means it’s time to try ‘wedleases’ - The Washington Post

We all know that far too many marriages end in divorce, yet this institution does not adapt. Indeed, most Americans today want to expand conventional marriage to include same-sex couples.

So why is there no effort to improve the legal structure of marriage, when it shows itself to be deficient?


A high divorce rate means it’s time to try ‘wedleases’ - The Washington Post

Palestine: Kerry Commits Harakiri

US Secretary of State John Kerry has fallen on his sword in attempting to seek a renewal of negotiations designed to culminate in the creation of a new Arab State between Jordan and Israel for the first time ever in recorded history.

He has apparently learned nothing from the failed attempts of his predecessors - James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.

Each was confident in his or her ability to persuade and cajole Israel and the PLO to do a deal - but all failed for one simple reason - both Israel and the PLO hold positions from which neither is prepared to resile.

Israel has demanded the PLO recognise Israel as the Jewish State and that any new Arab state - created as a result of negotiations - be demilitarised.

These demands are non-negotiable - since the PLO Charter - first promulgated in 1964 - does not accept the right of the Jewish people to have their own state existing alongside 22 Arab Islamic States and calls for armed struggle to eliminate the Jewish State.


Palestine: Kerry Commits Harakiri - Op-Eds - Israel National News

What happened on the Ninth of Av?

 

The 9th of Av, Tisha b'Av, commemorates a list of catastrophes so severe it's clearly a day specially cursed by G‑d.

What happened on the Ninth of Av? - A Historical Overview - Tisha B'Av and the 3 Weeks

Some Historical Notes on the East Gate

 
After reading a comment that the Eastern Gate was built approximately a thousand years before 691AD when the Dome of the Rock was built, I did a little research.  I had always been under the assumption that the current wall around the old city was ALL constructed by Suleiman the Magnificient.  Here is what I found and the link to the article which included this quote:

" The East Gate or Golden Gate is the oldest of all the city’s gates. It is the only visible entrance to the city of Jerusalem from the east. It is the only gate of the Old City not rebuilt by Suleiman. This is evidenced by the monolithic stones in the wall which are just above the ground. These stones date to the 6th century B.C. from the time of Nehemiah."

Some Historical Notes on the East Gate

Unmasking the embassy threat

There is one thing certain about the publicized threat to our embassies; it is not what it is presented to be. To accept the official explanation of a nebulous threat from al Qaeda as the reason for closing our embassies across the Middle East and North Africa is being dangerously naive and simplistic.

 This is much more serious than what we are being told, but not for the reasons we are being given. We are seeing the consequences of a long running “Cold War” on two major fronts of political conflict that could escalate into military engagement with proxy nations of world super powers. The world, and life as we know it, could change in an instant should we awaken one morning to the news of bombs flying across the Middle East. That is a very real possibility, as we are now in a heightened proxy war environment. We are standing in a thick forest of dry tinder, and the smallest of sparks could ignite a conflagration the likes of which we have never before seen.

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Unmasking the embassy threat

Obama’s Limits to Growth - Club of Rome & Agenda 21

 In 1972 the Club of Rome put out a blueprint for international action called “Limits to Growth , a study based on computer models simulating unrestrained economic and population growth verses finite planetary resources. Working from a static vision of wealth Limits predicted doom as the world’s population continued to rise and the planet’s resources continued to dwindle. Limits was a landmark document, spawning the “sustainability” movement worldwide.

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Obama’s Limits to Growth

Is Muslim Group Waging “Stealth Jihad” in American Schools? Trunews:

School officials in Florida are defending a textbook that declares Muhammad as the “Messenger of God” after critics accused an Islamic education group of launching a stealth jihad in American public school classrooms.

The Prentice World History textbook being used in Brevard Public Schools includes a 36-page chapter on Islam but no chapters on Christianity or Judaism.
According to a copy obtained by Fox News, The ninth grade textbook declares that Muhammad is the “Messenger of God” and instructs students that jihad is a duty that Muslims must follow.

“Jihad may be interpreted as a holy war to defend Islam and the Muslim community, much like the Crusades to defend Christianity,” the book states.
The textbook published large passages from the Koran, but failed to include any Scripture from the Bible. And while the book  makes declarations about Muhammad being God’s messenger, it does not make declarations about Jesus being God’s son.

Is Muslim Group Waging “Stealth Jihad” in American Schools? Trunews:

'Israeli Government Surrendered the Temple Mount'

 
"It is truly tragic that the government has chosen to mark this occasion by once again imposing an extended ban on Jewish ascents.

"If this situation passes quietly, we will have reached a point of no return. The police are testing the waters: how important is the Temple Mount to the Jewish public? Our message - and the message of Jews around the world - must be clear: the Temple Mount is the heart and soul of the Jewish people, and we will not abandon it again."


'Israeli Government Surrendered the Temple Mount' - Inside Israel - News - Israel National News

Playing for Islam Against Ourselves

WWI was caused less by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and more by Germany and Austria Hungary’s eagerness in courting the Muslim Ottoman Empire.

Playing for Islam Against Ourselves

U.S. Pentagon Observes Islamic Ramadan Holiday By Hosting Annual Iftar Dinner | Christian News Network

 WASHINGTON – The United States Department of Defense recently observed its 15th annual Iftar dinner at the Pentagon in celebration of the Islamic holiday Ramadan.

According to a report from the U.S. Army, the event was attended by senior defense leaders, White House and Congressional staffers, imams, Muslim employees and other supporters of the Muslim religion.

“The month of Ramadan focuses on a lot of things,” Colonel Thomas Waynick, the Pentagon chaplain, told reporters. “Among them, focusing one’s heart away from worldly activities, the cleansing of one’s soul to free it from harmful impurities, and the practices of self-discipline, self-control, sacrifice and empathy, especially with the less fortunate, and thus encouraging generosity and charity. These things are common to many of the world’s religions.”

The keynote speaker was Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison, who is the first Muslim member of Congress. He spoke about the need to be charitable as a nation, and also discussed his thoughts about Muslims in the military.

U.S. Pentagon Observes Islamic Ramadan Holiday By Hosting Annual Iftar Dinner | Christian News Network

John Kerry 'Hosts an Iftar Dinner for Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni' | The Weekly Standard

 (What does an Iftar dinner have to do with Israeli Justice Minister Livni....Iftar is a Muslim dinner celebrating the end of Ramadan.  To me this is an 'in your face', accept what the Muslims want...we are giving them priority.)

Secretary of State John Kerry will host "an Iftar dinner for Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni," according to a copy of his schedule released by the State Department. The dinner will also be attended by "Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat."

John Kerry 'Hosts an Iftar Dinner for Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni' | The Weekly Standard

Rethinking the Conflict | News and Views from Jews Down Under

Posted on 21 July, 2013 by Michael Lumish

One of the fundamental things that we are trying to do at Israel Thrives is simply rethink the conflict.  Two things, to my mind, could absolutely not be more clear.  The first is that the vast Arab majority in the Middle East, including those in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria, have no intention whatsoever of giving up the long war against the Jews.  If that much is not clear by now, I cannot even begin to imagine what it will take for people to acknowledge the obvious.
The second thing that is absolutely clear is that the very way we speak on the issue is detrimental to the Jewish people because the language that we use comes from our enemies.  We need to wrap our brains around this notion, because it’s harming us and harming Israel.  This war, as much as it is anything else, is a cognitive war.

The Arab war against the Jews in the Middle East started off as a street fight by the Arab majority against the indigenous Jewish population.  It started in 1920 with riots and pogroms against the Jewish minority, turned to a civil war in November of 1947, became a conventional war (the kind with tanks and formal armies) between between 1948 and 1973, after which it is characterized by terrorism and the international effort to delegitimize both the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

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Rethinking the Conflict | News and Views from Jews Down Under

Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought - Quartz

As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought.
Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past six years. Suspects have included pesticides, disease-bearing parasites and poor nutrition. But in a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying though they do not identify the specific cause of CCD, where an entire beehive dies at once.

When researchers collected pollen from hives on the east coast pollinating cranberry, watermelon and other crops and fed it to healthy bees, those bees showed a significant decline in their ability to resist infection by a parasite called Nosema ceranae. The parasite has been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder though scientists took pains to point out that their findings do not directly link the pesticides to CCD. The pollen was contaminated on average with nine different pesticides and fungicides though scientists discovered 21 agricultural chemicals in one sample. Scientists identified eight ag chemicals associated with increased risk of infection by the parasite.

Most disturbing, bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides were three times as likely to be infected by the parasite. Widely used, fungicides had been thought to be harmless for bees as they’re designed to kill fungus, not insects, on crops like apples.

Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought - Quartz

Coming soon: America’s own Islamic ‘no-go’ zones

Across the EU, there are enclaves where Muslims make up almost 100 percent of the population. They have been known to set up Shariah religious-law courts alongside secular court systems. They exert control over every facet of life, up to and including applying Islamic limits to what people do, say, wear and believe.
“What they’re trying to do is step up from the training camp, the secretive, plotting location … and become their own state within a state,” he told WND.
Law enforcement often even is afraid to enter such zones, he noted.
Then, he said, they want to “connect the dots” and link all of the “no-go” zones together.
The concept is shocking to Western civilization, where for generations the rule of law has prevailed, he said.
“We are so used to in the past hearing about [Islam's plan], now there’s a whole strategy change, to infiltrate and immigrate, and set up societies within societies,” he said.
Dearborn, Mich., where hundreds of thousands of Muslims have settled, is an example, he said. There, city and police officials have been sued in many cases that allege discrimination against Christians effectively by applying Shariah law.
Coming soon: America’s own Islamic ‘no-go’ zones

Crippled Fukushima nuclear plant ‘leaking’ into Pacific – company Trunews:

A Japanese utility said its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is likely leaking contaminated water into sea, acknowledging for the first time a problem long suspected by experts.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, also came under fire for not disclosing earlier that the number of plant workers with thyroid radiation exposures exceeding threshold levels for increased cancer risks was 10 times what it said released earlier.
Crippled Fukushima nuclear plant ‘leaking’ into Pacific – company Trunews:

‘Secret Obama plan’ forfeits Temple Mount to Palestinians

The Obama administration has quietly presented a plan in which the Palestinian Authority and Jordan will receive sovereignty over the Temple Mount while Israel will retain the land below the Western Wall, according to a senior PA negotiator speaking to WND.

The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism.

The proposed plan is part of the basis for U.S.-brokered talks that are set to resume in Washington next week after Secretary of State John Kerry announced that both Israel and PA President Mahmoud Abbas have agreed to open negotiations aimed at creating a Palestinian state.

Israel has not agreed to the U.S. plan over the Temple Mount, with details still open for discussion, stated the PA negotiator.

The negotiator, who is one of the main Palestinian figures leading the Arab side of the talks, further divulged Kerry’s proposed outline for a Palestinian state as presented orally to Israel and the PA.

‘Secret Obama plan’ forfeits Temple Mount to Palestinians

Legal Experts to Ashton: Cancel the Boycott - Inside Israel - News - Israel National News

Hundreds of legal experts from Israel and around the world plan to appeal to European Union Foreign Affairs Commissioner Catherine Ashton and ask her to annul the EU's plan to impose financial sanctions on Israeli institutions operating beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines, the Israel Hayom daily newspaper reported on Sunday. 

The experts are noting that the decision does not have a legal basis, because, they argue, Judea and Samaria is not occupied territory in the legal sense of the term.

On Friday, the European Commission ratified a resolution stating that the EU will no longer be party to any economic, social or academic ventures involving Israeli institutions based in Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem or the Golan Heights.

The appeal, which was declared on Saturday, is led by former Israeli Ambassador to Canada Alan Baker, who now serves as head of the International Action Division at the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel.

Legal Experts to Ashton: Cancel the Boycott - Inside Israel - News - Israel National News

Abandoning the region, America’s created chaos: Libya, Egypt, Syria, and a nuclear arms race | Jerusalem Post - Blogs

“Saudi Arabia has arranged to have available for its use two Pakistani nuclear bombs or guided missile warheads, Debkafile’s military and intelligence sources reveal.”

American policy in the region has had a quality of improvisation during the past fifteen years. Attacking Afghanistan had justification as response to al-Quaeda’s attack of 9/11 and the Taliban government providing refuge for Osama bin Laden. But whatever success was achieved by American Special Forces and the CIA in that country failed to be secured by conventional forces deployed to hold the ground. Instead Bush used those to invade Iraq. And the rest is history. Two wars with confused entry and absent exit strategy. Thousands of American military, tens of thousands of local civilians sacrificed in what predictably (or should have been) resulted in military misadventures. More than a trillion dollars borrowed (and outside the budget to conceal the costs) during the Bush presidency alone: just one of the “unintended consequences” that feed the fires of the Great Recession.


Abandoning the region, America’s created chaos: Libya, Egypt, Syria, and a nuclear arms race | Jerusalem Post - Blogs

Bibles-Online.net | Ancient Bibles Online

 This is a wonderful site to view bibles from 1390 to 1841:

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Taliban-style edict for women spreads alarm in Afghan district | Reuters

 

Just days after the United States launched a $200 million program to boost the role of women in Afghanistan, a senior member of the country's top religious leaders' panel said he would not intervene over a draconian edict issued by clerics in the Deh Salah region of Baghlan province.

Deh Salah, near Panshir, was a bastion of anti-Taliban sentiment prior to the ousting of the austere Islamist government by the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in 2001.

But the eight article decree, issued late in June, bars women from leaving home without a male relative, while shutting cosmetic shops on the pretext they were being used for prostitution - an accusation residents and police reject.

Taliban-style edict for women spreads alarm in Afghan district | Reuters

Vatican offers 'time off purgatory' to followers of Pope Francis tweets

A court of the Catholic church, led by Pope Francis, above, warns that the faithful cannot obtain lesser punishment just by 'chatting online'. Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images

In its latest attempt to keep up with the times the Vatican has married one of its oldest traditions to the world of social media by offering "indulgences" to followers of Pope Francis' tweets.


Vatican offers 'time off purgatory' to followers of Pope Francis tweets

Why is Al-Jazeera giving Money to Weiner?

Those puzzled by the notion of New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner accepting money from Al-Jazeera may want to consider a better question: Why is Al-Jazeera giving him money in the first place? We can’t figure it out except for one reason – his wife is a devout Muslim with extensive, irrefutable familial connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, whose propaganda is piped all over the Middle East by… Al-Jazeera.

Why is Al-Jazeera giving Money to Weiner? | Walid ShoebatWalid Shoebat

Russian Orthodox Leader Condemns Gay Marriages, Warns of Apocalypse | Russia | RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, July 21 (RIA Novosti) – Head of the Russian Orthodox Church warned Western governments on Sunday against legalization of same-sex marriages what he called a sign of approaching end of the world.

Patriarch Kirill said during a service at Moscow’s major cathedral that the recent initiatives in a range of countries to legalize same-sex marriages “is a dangerous and apocalyptic symptom” that should not spread over to Russia, according to Russian media reports.

While those who “fight the laws imposed by the minority are subject to repressions,” Kirill, who leads the Church known for its conservative views, was quoted as saying during his speech at Kazan Cathedral near Red Square on Sunday.

Russian authorities have been repeatedly criticized by human rights groups and Western officials over a recently passed law introducing punishment for “the promotion of nontraditional sexual relationships” among minors.

Russian Orthodox Leader Condemns Gay Marriages, Warns of Apocalypse | Russia | RIA Novosti

US commander: Iran let off hook in Saudi ambassador plot

Iran allegedly planned on killing Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir as he dined in Georgetown, according to the US government.

US Attorney General Eric Holder Photo: REUTERS

WASHINGTON -- Commander James Mattis, who just retired from the helm of United States Central Command, told a security conference in Colorado on Saturday he was stumped by the US response to the attempted assassination of Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the Washington by the Iranian government.
Iran allegedly planned on killing Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir as he dined in Georgetown. The US says the plot was coordinated by Quds forces and well-compensated Mexican drug cartel members.

US commander: Iran let off hook in Saudi ambassador plot | JPost | Israel News

Lawlessness: Policeman Attacked In Paris, Hundreds Of Muslims Riot After Authorities Enforce Anti-Veil Law | MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Europe continues to reap what it has sown. This isn’t the first time, nor will it be the last, that we witness violent Muslims expressing their disdain for the laws of civilized societies …
France 24 – “About 250 people clashed with police firing tear gas in a Paris suburb on Friday, in apparent protest over enforcement of France’s ban on Islamic face veils.
Four police officers were injured and six people were arrested, while a 14-year-old boy suffered a serious eye injury from a projectile, police said.
Youtube videos showed demonstrators hurling projectiles at police in Trappes, a gritty suburb southwest of Paris, while a number of bins were set on fire.
Around a dozen vans carrying riot police were deployed to the area, while a helicopter was dispatched to carry out surveillance of the town.
Order was restored at around 3am when the crowd began to disperse.
Husband of veiled woman ‘tried to strangle police officer’

Lawlessness: Policeman Attacked In Paris, Hundreds Of Muslims Riot After Authorities Enforce Anti-Veil Law | MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Hobby Lobby: Another Major Court Win Against Contraception Mandate

Hobby Lobby: Another Major Court Win Against Contraception Mandate

"Sikhs must stand firm in this fight against Islamic totalitarianism"

Sikhs must stand firm in this fight against Islamic totalitarianism. Remember the struggle of the 10th Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, and his heroic life. Remember the battle of Chamkaur in which he fought for religious freedom, human justice and against Islamic tyranny.

As believers in a religion that respects the rights of man, Sikhs must rally around the desire of all nations to be rid of the bane of Islamic totalitarianism.

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"Sikhs must stand firm in this fight against Islamic totalitarianism" - Atlas Shrugs

» Egypt Crushes Hamas, Plans All-Out War On Sinai Terrorists

The Egyptian military has demolished hundreds of smuggling tunnels from Hamas-controlled Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula and is preparing for an all-out onslaught against Hamas, Al Qaeda and other terrorists in the Sinai, Egyptian media reported Sunday.

The Egyptian offensive is a political and military shock to Hamas, with reverberations in Ramallah and Washington, on the eve of yet another attempt by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to re-ignite the “peace process.”

“The reduction in smuggling will make it difficult for Hamas to maintain the level of its revenues, and therefore it will be hard pressed to contain the protests against its rule,” according to the Institute of National Security Studies (INSS). “It will also be difficult to infiltrate weapons into Gaza, mainly enhanced rockets and surface-to-surface missiles.”

The Egyptian Aswat Masriya media outlet reported that 805 tunnels along the smuggling route, centered in the border city of Rafiah, were destroyed.  It said that most of the tunnels have been used to smuggle fuel into Gaza.

The Egyptian army will also close the Rafiah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip “indefinitely,” an official source told Egyptian newspaperal-Masry al-Youm. It closed the Rafiah crossing and placed a severe siege on Hamas on Friday but without a peep from the international community, which still condemns Israel for the maritime embargo that is aimed at preventing the import of terrorists and weapons from the sea.

» Egypt Crushes Hamas, Plans All-Out War On Sinai Terrorists

NLI S of P Course 1: “Man the spirit”, Class 12: Spirit, soul & body a sermon by John G. Lake | The Call of the Soul .... spreading the Fire of Life In Christ

 “A comprehensive vision of the relationship of man and God is best realized through attention to the prayer of the apostle:  I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Thess. 5:23.  In this prayer we have a clear recognition of the entire man, and this prayer could well be construed as highly scientific, in that it touches the three great sciences of physiology, psychology, and pneumatology”, (John G. Lake).  This statement represents the substance of today’s lesson.

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NLI S of P Course 1: “Man the spirit”, Class 12: Spirit, soul & body a sermon by John G. Lake | The Call of the Soul .... spreading the Fire of Life In Christ

Tidal Wave of Good News | World History Institute

There is a tidal wave of Christianity spreading in nation after nation as never before in history. Christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world today. True faith is spreading and modern secularism is failing. 

In Brazil there were not enough evangelicals to notice several decades ago; now there are 50 million new believers. More than 480 million people in South America embrace their true King. In Asia there are now 313 million voluntary members of Christ’s Kingdom. An estimated 100 million Christians in China worship in underground churches. In Africa, there were only 10 million Christians in 1900; now there are 360 million

China will likely become the largest Christian nation in the world within a few decades, according to David Aikman. Aikman has spent a lifetime covering the Iron and Bamboo Curtain countries and their progressive fall into the arms of Jesus. Aikman observed in his book Jesus in Beijing that Christianity is that unstoppable, loving movement that causes entire nations, like China and the Iron Curtain countries, to eventually rise up and throw off their oppressors, overturning the global balance of power. Aikman said that Czechoslo- vakia, as if the nation were one person, cast off her communist oppressors in a week.

Today there are 560 million Europeans and 260 million Americans who are at least nominally Christian, and tens of millions of these are still holding forth the true faith. However, the believers in the developing countries are immersed in the world of the Bible often more than the devout Christians in the West. Even though 200 million of these believers face persecution and most are under dictatorships, they are spreading Christ’s kingdom with passion and sacrifice.

Tidal Wave of Good News | World History Institute

Still Time to Stop Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera is under scrutiny for subversion in Egypt, and facing a mutiny from its own reporters over supporting the Muslim Brotherhood there. But The Washington Post assures us in a story that the channel’s official launch in the United States is on August 20, and its coverage, will be different.
Philip Seib, author of The Al Jazeera Effect, is quoted as saying, “I don’t think you’ll see al-Jazeera America touting the Muslim Brotherhood. It will be more like CNN.”
But the foreign owners in Qatar will remain the same, and that is part of the problem. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has said that Al Jazeera’s purchase of Al Gore’s Current TV should be the subject of a congressional inquiry because of the channel’s foreign sponsorship.
As Accuracy in Media has been reporting for over six years, the anti-American channel works hand-in-glove with the Muslim Brotherhood and its associated terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and Hamas. Nothing has changed. In fact, Al Jazeera has become more open about its work as a foreign policy instrument of Qatar, including the promotion of al Qaeda-linked terrorist groups in Syria.

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Still Time to Stop Al Jazeera America