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The Islamic States of America: One Nation Under Allah
Nov 22nd, 2019
CommentaryREV. MARIO ALEXIS PORTELLA
Categories: Warning

Could you imagine in the year 2040 what used to be the White House is now the White Mosque and the flag fluttering above the U.S. Capitol is not the Stars and Stripes but one emblazoned with a crescent and star? Chants of "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is the Greatest) rise from inside the building where U.S. lawmakers meet and the Super Bowl is being played at Ayatollah Khomeini Stadium. 

Allah's divine mandate to the Prophet Muhammad has been fulfilled in America: "I have been ordered by Allah to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Messenger."

Such provocatives were part of Robert Ferrigno's novel Prayers for the Assassin (2006) and a documentary-style movie, obtained by The Washington Post, outlined ten years ago by Stephen Bannon that envisioned radical Muslims taking over the country and remaking it into the "Islamic States of America." 

"The road to the establishment of an Islamic Republic in the United States starts slowly and subtly with the loss of the will to win," the outline reads. "The road to this unique hell on earth is paved with the best intentions from our major institutions. This political/accommodation/appeasement approach is not simply a function of any one individual's actions but lies at the heart of our most important cultural and political institutions."

Daniel Pipes wrote in 2004 that the hardest thing for Westerners to understand is not that a war with militant Islam is underway but that the nature of the enemy's ultimate goal, which is to apply the Islamic law (the sharia) globally. In U.S. terms, it intends to replace the Constitution with the Qur'an.

Pipes went on to say that "over the last 40 years, small groups of devout Muslim men have gathered in homes in U.S. cities to pray, memorize the Qur'an and discuss events of the day. But they also addressed their ultimate goal, one so controversial that it is a key reason they have operated in secrecy: to create Muslim states overseas and, they hope, someday in America as well. 

The Muslim Brotherhood members [already in the U.S.] emphasize that they follow the laws of the nations in which they operate. They stress that they do not believe in overthrowing the U.S. government, but rather that they want as many people as possible to convert to Islam so that one day -- perhaps generations from now -- a majority of Americans will support a society governed by Islamic law."

In June 2015 the Center for Security Policy found that 51 percent of Muslims in the United States stated that "Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to sharia." Their poll also showed that 20 percent of American Muslims believe that the "use of violence in the United States is justified in order to make sharia the law of the land;" 25 percent of them stated that violence is acceptable to punish those who offend Islam. 

Over half of America's Muslims believe that sharia should be the law of the land! A fourth of American Muslims condone violence for drawing a cartoon of Muhammad. This is the new jihad led by Islamists -- while the term is interchangeable with the term Muslim, an Islamist is one who actively or passively supports Islamic nationalism and a sharia-based society, whether through political or violent means -- in America.

I am sure that many who read this post will say, "This cannot and will never happen in America." To that I respond, "Look what is happening around you." Just last month the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition -- if four of the nine Justices feel the case has value, they will issue a writ of certiorari: a legal order from a high court for a lower court to send the records of the case to them for review -- presented by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), to hear Wood v. Arnold, a case brought by Caleigh Wood, a Christian student in 11th grade at La Plata High School in La Plata, Maryland. Wood refused to take part in a school exercise she felt would deny her faith "by making a written profession of the Muslim conversion prayer known as the shahada - "There is no god by Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."

The TMLC argues the school violated the First Amendment's Establishment and Free Speech clauses when it ordered Wood to do an assignment that she could not complete without violating her Christian beliefs. The teacher then gave her a failing grade. This is not just a violation of the First Amendment but an ongoing, albeit subtle, diffusion of Islam in our Western society.

Islamists seeking our Islamization have also gained support from our lawmakers. As reported by the Clarion Project, on November 9 at the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) 25th Anniversary Gala event, Muslim Brotherhood-linked boasted that "120+" members of Congress had sent them letters of support. The list was published by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, along with the letters of support. Among the names were Democrat presidential candidates Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar. Ninety-seven out of the 100 names on the list were Democrats; three were Republican.

Getting politicians and the mainstream media to give terrorists and certain rogue regimes prime-time attention has distracted us from confronting the true Islamic threat. In other words, Islamists or, as William Kilpatrick classifies cultural-jihadists, have successfully diverted attention away from the protagonists of those who are subtly Islamizing our society.

Out of concern of Muslim terrorists entering the U.S., Trump implemented a 90-Day Travel Ban that was to "temporarily" bar travelers from Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Libya and Yemen. Yet none of those countries is the birthplace of terrorists who committed recent attacks in the United States connected to extremist Islamist ideology, unlike Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt and Pakistan.

Because certain countries that should have been on the list but were not, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in particular, like a Trojan Horse, Islamists have been able to  infiltrate the U.S. as they have already done in "Christian" Europe. Consequently, they have been creating an environment of receptivity and understanding for the next generation of Americans to accept their sharia-based lifestyle. 

We see this, for example in the field of education, where Saudi money has financed institutions alongside multitudes of other Islamic organizations across the world and within the United States (80 percent of 1,200 mosques operating in the were built after 2003 were built by them). Qatar's equal vision for America is being peddled through our children's classrooms, targeting a pliable population and one with a long shelf life.

A quotation I continually refer to as a warning of the Islamic invasion is that of the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who had said: "As long as Muslims are an insignificant minority in a Christian country, they can live on friendly terms, because they accept the laws and customs of the country that receives them. 

But as soon as they become numerous and organize, they become aggressive and try to impose their laws, which are hostile to [Western] civilization." As already in numerous major European cities, sharia-controlled areas are arising; such is the case in Dearborn, Michigan, which is America's biggest Muslim 'NO-GO Zone'. 

Although Islamists are still small in number, their political clout is enormous. They (CAIR) even recently coerced President Trump to cancel the annual banquet of ACT for America -- a nationwide grassroots group, founded in 2007 by a Lebanese Christian immigrant journalist Brigitte Gabriel, that educates the public about radical Islam -- at his own Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 7.

The would-be Islamic takeover of the United States within this century may seem far-fetched, but that is what is presently happening in Christian Europe. True, the latter has to deal with an unprecedented flow of immigration from the Muslim world; the U.S. to a much lesser degree because of its natural barriers of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. America, however, is equally facing a demographic collapse. 

Apart from the observance of polygamous marriages, the fact that Muslims for the most part do not practice abortion or artificial contraception, they are increasing in number. 

Consequently, Islamists are inserting themselves in key governmental and NGO positions getting the rule of law to favor them. For whatever reason, this nescience has convinced numerous Westerners to embrace Islam, failing to see it for what it truly is: a political entity with the global end to Islamize society: It is He [Allah] Who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may exalt it above every other religion. Allah suffices as witness.  -- Sura 48, 28

While imams have been invoking Allah in the House of Representatives, please God, the United States of America will never have to pledge "One nation under Allah," as students at Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins, Colorado, were coerced to recite in 2014, or like those of the Pine Brook High School in New York in 2015. 

Yet because of the refusal to admit that our culture and moral standards were shaped by Judeo-Christian beliefs as expressed in the Declaration of Independence,  individualistic secularism -- this is not what the separation of church and state entails as proclaimed by U.S. First Amendment -- has superseded our once abundant Christian roots, giving way to Islam. 

Kilpatrick says: "No matter how you parse it, it's difficult to read "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," "endowed by their Creator," "appealing to the Divine Judge of the World," and "a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence" as an endorsement of secularism," let alone Islam. 

If our dormant approach to our religious background and openness to Islam persist, the "Islamic States of America" may not be too far-fetched.

Pro - Israel Groups Denounce Canada's Betrayal of Israel At UN
Nov 22nd, 2019
CommentaryKARYS RHEA/ALGEMEINER.COM
Categories: The Nation Of Israel

Pro Israel Christian Groups and Top Jewish groups in Canada have expressed disappointment after the country voted in favor of an anti-Israel UN General Assembly resolution earlier this week.

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), the advocacy arm of the Jewish Federations of Canada, called the move a "betrayal."

"It contradicted explicit commitments made by liberal candidates during the recent election to maintain the principled opposition to the twenty annual resolutions whose sole purpose is to isolate and delegitimize Israel," said CIJA co-chairs Joel Reitman and Jeffrey Rosenthal.

Since 2006, both conservative and liberal Canadian governments had rejected the resolution in question, which comes up for a vote annually.

Sponsored by North Korea, Egypt, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe and the Palestinian Authority, the resolution called for "an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967" and the preservation of "territorial unity, contiguity and integrity of all of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem." It also criticized Israel's West Bank security barrier.

B'nai Brith Canada slammed Canada's backing of the measure.

"In our view, the core of the conflict remains the refusal by Palestinian leaders and their supporters to recognize the Jewish People's indigenous ties to the Land of Israel," said B'nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn. "This is what the UN -- and Canada -- should be condemning."

"We call on Canada and the rest of the international community to press the Palestinian Authority to return to the negotiating table, and to stop harmful practices such as rewarding terrorists and their families," he added.

Meryle Kates, executive director of the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs Canada, wrote her group was "stunned and disheartened" that Canada has joined "oppressive regimes like North Korea to condemn Israel at the UN."

"The resolution harshly criticizes Israel's security barrier, with no acknowledgement that it was built to stop a brutal wave of suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians during the Second Intifada," she noted. 

"It makes no mention of the 450+ rockets fired at Israel earlier this month by the Islamic Jihad terrorist group. It also effectively labels the Western Wall and Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem 'occupied Palestinian territory,' denying the history and rights of the Jewish people to the holiest site in Judaism."

Liberal MK Michael Levitt expressed his concern about the vote on Facebook, arguing that UN anti-Israel resolutions "unfairly singled out Israel of condemnation, ignoring the crimes being perpetrated by many of the resolutions' sponsors."

"For example," he pointed out, "Assad's Syria was the subject of just one resolution, compared to eight targeting Israel. The situation in Venezuela, where the illegal Maduro regime is starving millions of Venezuelans and causing the largest refugee crisis in our hemisphere's history, was entirely ignored."

The sudden shift by Canada raised questions about whether the vote was a response to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's declaration on Monday that Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank did not violate international law.

One Canadian government official confirmed that the move was meant to send a message to the US.

Rumors also circulated that Canada's last-minute switch was meant to curry favor with Arab states as the country vies for a seat on the UN Security Council in 2020.

"This resolution will do nothing to bring Israelis and Palestinians together for peace talks," Kates said. "All it does is harm the Canadian government's moral standing at home and abroad."

Let the Headlines Speak
Nov 22nd, 2019
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

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Severe hailstorm hammers Canterbury, New Zealand
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Wikipedia’s Anti-Israel Editors Unmasked
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CHRIST'S FULNESS IS MEASURELESS. (Ephesians 3:19)
Nov 22nd, 2019
Morning MeditationF. B. Meyer
Categories: Meditation;Inspirational;Book Study

There is no limit to the infinite nature of our Lord. The fulness of Deity is resident in Him. Only God the Father knows Him, and no other being, saint or seraph, beside. An angel with drooping wing might be imagined as reaching the furthest limit of space and be holding the last of the stars; but it is impossible to conceive of any limit whatsoever to the love, or power, or patience of Jesus. The ocean is shoreless. The height unsearchable.

The depth bottomless. Such is Jesus that there is no common standard by which to compare Him with the greatest and noblest and eldest created spirit in the universe of God. You might compare such a one with the aphid on a leaf, for they are alike finite; but you cannot compare the finite and the infinite.

All that fulness is for us. We are settlers on the continent of Christ's infinite nature, and we are at liberty to go on putting back the walls of our enclosure, so as to take in an ever-growing share of our inheritance. But we need never fear that we shall touch its furthest limit. When we have spent a million years exploring and appropriating, we shall know as little of its real contents as the Pilgrim Fathers knew of the America which has reared itself on the foundations they laid. Though our capacities to receive out of Christ's fulness were increased a thousandfold, all their need would be as regularly and constantly met as at this present hour; because the nature of God awaits to feed them, and we may count on being filled up to the measure of the fulness of God.

That measure will always be beyond us. We may therefore rest in perfect satisfaction that we cannot exhaust it; and yet we may ever strive in our poor measure to attain more nearly towards it. The Mediterranean is ever losing volume by evaporation; and yet is always full, because it can draw by the Straits of Gibraltar on the Atlantic. And its tidelessness may well become the emblem of the peace and restfulness of that soul which has learnt the secret of taking into itself the blessedness of Jesus.

'Coup' Concerns Suddenly Don't Seem so Far - Fetched
Nov 22nd, 2019
CommentaryPJMedia VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Categories: Warning

For most of the last three years, Donald Trump's critics have scoffed at supposed "conspiracy theories" that claimed a "deep state" of bureaucrats were aborting the Trump presidency. We have been told the word "coup" is hyperbole that reveals the paranoid minds of Trump supporters.

Yet oddly, many people brag that they are proud members of a deep state and occasionally boast about the idea of a coup.

Recently, former acting CIA chief John McLaughlin proclaimed in a public forum, "Thank God for the deep state." Former CIA director John Brennan agreed and praised the "deep state people" for their opposition to Trump.

Far from denying the danger of an unelected careerist bureaucracy that seeks to overturn presidential policies, New York Times columnists have praised its efforts to nullify the Trump agenda.

On the first day of the impeachment inquiry, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff called his initial two witnesses, career State Department diplomats William Taylor, Jr. and George Kent. Far from providing damning evidence of criminal presidential behavior, Taylor and Kent mostly confined themselves to three topics: their own sterling resumes, their lack of any firsthand knowledge of incriminating Trump action, and their poorly hidden disgust with the manner and substance of Trump's foreign policy.

Oddly, both had little clue that their demeanor and thinly disguised self-importance were a perfect example of why Trump got elected -- to come up with new ideas antithetical to the conventional wisdom of unelected career bureaucrats.

Taylor and Kent announced that they are simply high-minded civil servants who serve the presidential administrations of both parties without bias.

But by nature, the huge federal bureaucracy counts on bigger government and more taxes to feed it. So naturally, the bureaucracy is usually more sympathetic to big-government progressives than to small-government conservatives.

Taylor and Kent cited their anguish with Trump's foreign policy toward Ukraine -- namely that it did not go through official channels and was too unsympathetic to Ukraine and too friendly to Russia. If so, one might have thought the anguished bureaucrats would have similarly gone public during the Obama administration.

After all, Vice President Joe Biden took over the Obama administration's Ukrainian policy at a time when his son Hunter was knee-deep in Ukrainian affairs. As a consultant for a Ukrainian natural gas company, Hunter Biden made a reported $80,000 a month without expertise in either the energy business in particular or Ukraine in general.

Also, Trump's policies have been more anti-Russian and pro-Ukrainian than those of the Obama administration. Trump armed the Ukrainians; Obama did not. Trump imposed new sanctions against Russia, used force against Russian mercenaries in Syria, beefed up NATO defenses, pulled the U.S. out an asymmetrical missile treaty with Russia, and pumped more oil and gas to lower world prices -- much to the chagrin of oil-exporting Russia.

In contrast, Obama was the architect of "reset" with Russia that reached its nadir in a hot mic exchange in which Obama offered a quid pro quo, vowing more flexibility on issues such as U.S.-sponsored missile defense in Eastern Europe in exchange for Russia giving Obama "space" to concentrate on his re-election.