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US Obsession With Two-State Solution Is ‘Delusional’

Breaking News Updates – February 29, 2024

BY ISRAEL KASNETT/JNS.ORG FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Pushing for a Palestinian state now “would serve as the most powerful form of confirmation that the Iranian strategy of violence, chaos and genocidal terrorism is the only path to vindicating the rights of Muslims.”

The Biden administration’s dogged focus on creating a Palestinian state is “obtuse” and “delusional,” according to experts who spoke with JNS.

Their comments came after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s call last week for a “concrete, time-bound, irreversible path to a Palestinian state” during his visit to the Middle East.

Jason Greenblatt, former White House Envoy to the Middle East and author of the widely acclaimed book “In the Path of Abraham” about the Israel-Palestinian conflict and the Abraham Accords, said that for Blinken to be so obsessed with the two-state solution is “very dangerous.”

“It’s completely tone-deaf to talk about things like this at the moment after Oct. 7,” he said. “It’s not only a waste of time, it makes absolutely no sense.”

It’s “shocking that a U.S. administration under ordinary circumstances, let alone after Oct. 7, would push for that,” he added.

Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president for research at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, also called out the international community’s obsession with the two-state solution, saying that the United States, United Kingdom and other Europeans “have failed to read the room in the aftermath of Oct. 7.”

This is “not the time to ask Israelis to make painful sacrifices,” he told JNS.

“It just is not where the Israeli population is right now and it really strikes me as obtuse that the Europeans, United States and United Kingdom are pushing this line,” he said.

According to John Hannah, a Randi and Charles Wax Senior Fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) in Washington, anyone advocating on behalf of recognizing or creating a Palestinian state in the near future is “delusional.”

“It reflects a total absence of understanding, not only of the impact of  Oct. 7 on Israel, but of power politics, the Palestinian situation, and–most importantly–U.S. national interests,” he told JNS.

Hannah said that Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s message at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January “should ring loudly in every Western liberal’s ears.” Herzog had said that after Oct. 7, “no Israeli in their right mind is thinking of a Palestinian state.”

According to Hannah, movement toward creating a Palestinian state now “would be seen throughout the Middle East and Islamic world as a huge victory for the Iranian Axis of Resistance.”

Pushing for a Palestinian state now “would serve as the most powerful form of confirmation that the Iranian strategy of violence, chaos and genocidal terrorism is the only path to vindicating the rights of Muslims,” he said. 

“It would be a huge gift to the worst enemies of America and the West,” he added.

Blinken further infuriated Israelis in a press conference in Tel Aviv on Feb. 7, when he accused Israel of dehumanizing the Palestinians. He said that while Hamas dehumanized Israelis on Oct. 7, and the hostages have been dehumanized every day since, “that cannot be a license to dehumanize others.”

Greenblatt said he had been extremely complimentary regarding the Biden administration, including Blinken, until recently, following these remarks.

“The statements were shameful,” he said. “Israel is not dehumanizing Palestinians…. Those words were absolutely terrible for him to use and it plays into some of the world’s attacks on Israel about genocide,” said Greenblatt.

“It’s shocking actually that he chose to use those words,” he added.

Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren commended the administration for its ongoing assistance, but condemned Blinken’s comments as well.

“You cannot, as our ultimate ally and as the defender of the free world, come out and accuse Israel of acting inhumanely toward the Palestinians,” he told JNS. “It’s unfair, it’s libelous and it’s inaccurate. It’s simply untrue.”

On Feb. 8, Oren tweeted: “When Secretary of State Blinken accuses Israel–inaccurately, unfairly, and libelously–of dehumanizing Palestinians, he dehumanizes us and contributes to the delegitimization of Israel and the demonization of Jews worldwide…Dehumanizing us endangers our security and possibly our existence.”

Essentially, he told JNS, “It’s…telling the world we are guilty of war crimes. It’s telling all the protesters out there that ‘we agree with you.'”

With regard to a Palestinian state, Oren told JNS he believes at the moment it “has no chance of success.”

“The Palestinians hold the world record for a people who have turned down a two-state solution,” he said, noting they’ve done so “mostly with violence” in 1937, 1947, 2000, 2001 and 2008.

“Now you have a sizable majority of Israelis who understand this is an existential threat,” he said.

In his remarks in Tel Aviv, Blinken said, “The overwhelming majority of people in Gaza had nothing to do with the attacks of Oct. 7, and the families in Gaza…are just like our families. They’re mothers and fathers, sons and daughters–[they] want to earn a decent living, send their kids to school, have a normal life. That’s who they are; that’s what they want.” 

But a Dec. 2023 poll published by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) suggests otherwise.

The poll found that nearly 75% of Palestinians (82% in the West Bank and 57% in the Gaza Strip) believe Hamas’s atrocities were justified.

The poll also found that less than half of Palestinians want a two-state solution, while a majority want a terrorist, Marwhan Barghouti, as their next leader to succeed Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas.

Greenblatt was recently in Israel, where he went on a tour of the southern community of Kfar Aza, arranged with the World Jewish Congress, together with Samer Sinijlawi, a Palestinian political activist and commentator from eastern Jerusalem.

Referring to the PSR poll, Sinijlawi said he had spoken with Palestinian students and asked them directly, “Do you support killing Israeli babies, women and civilians?”

“They said ‘no,'” said Sinijlawi.

“Our national interest should be built on Israeli security,” he said. “If we cannot provide the needs for Israelis to feel secure, we will not be able to progress and develop ourselves,” he said.

In addition to the renewed push for a Palestinian state, the Biden administration appears to have returned to the old, failed linkage paradigm that says Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians is the core conflict in the Middle East and any peace agreements with other countries must be accompanied by the establishment of a Palestinian state.

The Trump administration changed this paradigm and achieved four normalization agreements, between Israel and Bahrain, Morocco, United Arab Emirates and Sudan, in effect decoupling the Palestinians from the larger Arab-Israeli conflict.

But now the Biden administration appears to be returning to the old, failed paradigm and recreating that linkage, tying any normalization with Saudi Arabia to the creation of a Palestinian state. 

For instance, Blinken said that normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia would involve a “necessary Palestinian component.”

Blinken emphasized that “the path forward for Israel and for the entire region with integration, with normalization” must include an “irreversible” and “clear, credible, time-bound path to the establishment of a Palestinian state.”

Oren agreed that the administration’s position is a return to linkage, that it believes “somehow, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the core conflict in the Middle East.”

He suggested that lurking behind this linkage is something “very dark.”

“For centuries, Jews were blamed for the world’s problems,” he said. “If there is a conflict in the Middle East, it must be the Jews. What are they saying? The Jews are the problem,” he added.

According to Eytan Gilboa, an expert on U.S.-Israel relations at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan and a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, there are three reasons for the U.S. obsession with a Palestinian state.

He told JNS it is a combination of “a long-term wrong concept of how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this vision of Israeli peace with Saudi Arabia, and the upcoming U.S. presidential elections.”

Greenblatt seemed to agree, noting that “We are starting to see a shift partly, if not largely, because of U.S. politics and the political reality.”

He suggested the Biden administration is “trying to show the world that they’re saying the right words,” and “ignoring reality, either for political purposes or some other reason.”

However, he said, “it’s an exercise in futility to go down the path that they’re going.”

“Biden continues to stand by Israel, but at the same time is saying things that range from unhelpful to very harmful and I hope he pivots back to where he should be, which is unequivocal support for Israel,” he said.

Originally published at JNS.org

Shock Survey On What Muslims Think Reveal Future Of Europe

Breaking News Updates – February 23, 2024

BY DR. GUY MILLIÈRE/GATESTONE INSTITUTE FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The French weekly, Le Journal du Dimanche, has published the most comprehensive and detailed survey on what French Muslims think. Not surprisingly, the results are disturbing.

The first question in the survey was about Jews. 17% of French Muslims admit that they hate Jews. 39% say they have a bad, or very bad, opinion of Judaism.

France is the only country in 21st-century Europe where Jews regularly have been murdered simply because they are Jews. Since the kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi in January 2006, all Jews murdered in France have been killed by Muslims. 

Sammy Ghozlan, the president of the National Office for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA), which lists anti-Semitic acts and helps their victims, has emphasized year after year, for more than twenty years, that almost all violent anti-Semitic acts committed in France are committed by Muslims.

When it comes to Israel, the results are even more disturbing. Feelings go beyond hatred. 45% of French Muslims say they want the total destruction of Israel. An equivalent number of French Muslims define the massacre rape, torture, beheadings and burning alive of Jews by Hamas terrorists in Israel on October 7, 2023, as an “act of resistance”.

So, almost half of a religious community in a Western democracy openly wants the destruction of a group of people who were just massacred in another country, and in the greatest number since the end of the Holocaust.

19% of French Muslims say they have sympathy for Hamas. That so many French Muslims have sympathy for an organization whose leaders say that they will repeat the October 7 attack time and again until Israel is annihilated, and unabashedly state that they want the genocidal destruction of the only Jewish state, should sound an alarm that French Jews, and French non-Jews, are in an extremely perilous situation.

Other figures showed that 42% of French Muslims place respect for Islamic Sharia law above respect for the laws of the French republic (the percentage rises to 57% among young Muslims aged 18 to 25).

The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2003 that Sharia law is incompatible with the values of democracy. Sharia law stipulates that Allah has dictated all the rules that human beings must obey, and that all rules contrary to Sharia law must be rejected. 37% of French Muslims say they support the Muslim Brotherhood — also not surprising: the main French Muslim organization, Musulmans de France (“Muslims of France”) is the French branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Every year, Muslims of France organizes a conference that attracts hundreds of thousands of Muslims from all over Europe. The group also invites radical imams who speak to the crowd.

The survey further showed that 49% of French Muslims want Catholics to convert to Islam, and that 36% percent want churches to be transformed into mosques. Some churches already have been transformed. The survey also discloses that 25% of French Muslims said that the word “France” is a word they reject.

These figures are best seen and understood in conjunction with other facts.

France is one of the only countries in the Western world where men have been beheaded by radicalized Muslims. (The other is the United Kingdom, where two Muslims tried to behead British Soldier Lee Rigby in 2013.) Samuel Paty, a schoolteacher, was beheaded on October 16, 2020. Herve Cornara, a small business entrepreneur, was beheaded on June 26, 2015 in Romans-sur-Isère, a small town in the southeast of France. And Father Jacques Hamel had his throat slit and was beheaded on July 26, 2016 in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, while saying mass in an almost empty church.

France also happens to be the country in Europe with the largest number of “no-go zones”. There are at least 751 designated Zones Urbaines Sensibles (“sensitive urban zones”), where Muslim gangs and radical imams are in charge. Non-Muslims can still live there, on the condition that they accept the status of dhimmi (tolerated second-class citizen), bow their heads, and admit that they live in a territory ruled by Islam. Members of Muslim gangs no longer respect the police. If an incident between a police officer and a member of a gang breaks out, riots follow, and the police receive orders that if the situation risks escalation, they are not to arrest anyone.

France is a country where more than 70% of prison inmates are Muslim. According to reports, the crime rate among the Muslim population is high.

Three decades ago, Seine-Saint-Denis, a French district in the Paris suburbs, had a large Jewish community. Almost the entire Jewish population of the district, after being subjected to incessant threats, moved away to live elsewhere. The few Jews who remain hide that they are Jews.

Throughout France, Jewish men conceal their skullcaps under a hat. Jewish women tuck their Star of David necklaces inside their clothing. Many Jewish families no longer place mezuzahs at the entrance to their homes.

For more than 20 years, it has been impossible to talk about the Holocaust in French schools. When Georges Bensoussan, in 2004, published The Lost Territories of the Republic, a book denouncing the Muslim anti-Semitism widespread in educational establishments, Jewish students were already experiencing harassment and discrimination. 

Today, most Jewish families in France, out of caution, have abandoned the public education system and have enrolled their children in private schools. For years, when a Jewish student is bullied in a public school, the authorities take no disciplinary action against the bullies; instead, they might ask the Jewish child’s parents to place him in another school.

French Christians visibly wearing a cross on the street receive insults. Every year, dozens of French churches are desecrated and ransacked.

More than 120 knife attacks take place in France every day and can happen anytime, anywhere. Most of these attacks are committed are by Muslim men who then tell the police that they did it because they hate infidels and hate France. Only the knife attacks that result in death appear in the newspapers; the others are passed over in silence. 

In the main French cities, muggings and beatings have become commonplace. There are also more than two hundred rapes every day in France, most perpetrated by Muslim men who entered France illegally. Only 7% of illegal immigrants ordered to leave France are ever actually deported.

The poll in Le Journal du Dimanche received little comment.

Only one French political leader, former journalist Éric Zemmour, has dared to say that the situation is increasingly alarming and that a growing Islamic danger is threatening France. His comments have led to his being sentenced to pay heavy fines several times for “provoking discrimination and hatred towards the Muslim community”. In the May 2022 presidential elections, he received only 7% of the vote; his message was apparently either not widely heard or not widely accepted.

The president of the National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, has limited herself to denouncing the presence in France of an “Islamist ideology totally distinct from Islam”, and insists on saying that only a tiny minority of Muslims adhere to this ideology. She adds, perhaps wishfully, that Islam is “fully compatible” with the French institutions.

La France Insoumise (“France Unsubmitted”), the main left-wing political party in France, is violently anti-Israel. Its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, calls Hamas a “resistance” movement. He received 21.9% of the vote in 2022, but 69% of the Muslim vote.

Several members of the French National Assembly have denounced the positions of La France Insoumise and Mélenchon, but only one, Meyer Habib, has spoken out about the leftist and Muslim anti-Semitism, as well as the increasingly serious threats weighing on French Jews and on France itself. As a result, he has received death threats by the hundreds and his family and he now live under ’round-the-clock police protection.

French President Emmanuel Macron said, in October 2020, that he wanted to fight what he called “Islamic separatism”, but seemed not to want to see that Muslims tempted by Islamism do not want to “separate” themselves from the rest of the population, but to conquer others and have them submit. “Islam,” Macron added is “in crisis”. His statement provoked vehement protests from all of the French Muslim organizations, and demonstrations in several countries of the Muslim world. Since then, he has avoided talking about Islam altogether.

No Islamic organization appears to have called anyone to come to the demonstration against anti-Semitism that took place in Paris on November 12, 2023. The only reaction from the imam of the Great Mosque of Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, to Hamas’s massacre on October 7 was, “With all these bombs, these deaths, and this frustration generated over the years there, what are we creating? Hate of the other” – which was not exactly a ringing condemnation of the massacre. He then accused Israel of attacking the civilian population of Gaza: “Islam totally condemns the attack on civilians in an armed conflict.”

French Muslim online magazines were more virulent. Evidently basing what they publish on Hamas propaganda, they accuse Israel of committing “genocide” in the Gaza Strip. They never say that Hamas uses Palestinian Arabs as human shields or that the Israel Defense Forces do their best to avoid killing civilians while often putting their own lives at great risk.

The French journalist Ivan Rioufol, in his book The Coming Civil War, published in 2016, wrote:

“The question of the Muslim presence in France must be posed without artifice…. the rise of strict Islam in France would imply emergency decisions. If decisions are not taken very quickly, and if the almost generalized voluntary blindness of the country’s leaders does not cease, the future of France will be tragic and violent.”

France is the country in Europe with the largest number of Muslims: around 10% of a population of 67.75 million. By 2050, the figure is expected to increase to 17%, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.

A similar situation to that of France can be found in other Western European countries, where the Muslim population may be smaller but is quickly growing.

In Londonistan, a book by the British journalist Melanie Phillips published in 2006, she noted the existence of Sharia-controlled zones in London, and that “sixty percent of British Muslims would like sharia law to be established in Great Britain”. In 2019, she wrote in the UK’s Jewish Chronicle: “A frighteningly high number of British Muslims subscribe to extremist or anti-Semitic views”.

In Germany, Sharia-controlled zones have begun to appear. They have also been emerging in Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands. The recent victory of Geert Wilders in the Dutch elections could be the sign of a turning point and an awakening in Europe. It is too early to draw conclusions, and almost three months after his victory, Wilders has still not succeeded in forming a government.

In 2015, the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, in the novel 2084: The End of the World, described a totalitarian future in which Muslim extremists establish an oppressive caliphate where freedom of thought and action is abolished. When a television journalist asked him what, in his opinion, France will be in 2084, his immediate response was: “France will be Islamist”. “Europe too,” he added.

The former head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen, said in a recent interview that “Europeans will succumb to Islam”.

If Europeans wish to avoid such a future and keep their culture, they need to start making that outcome unmistakably clear to everyone, not just by words but by actions. If not, what we are seeing could well mean the end of the European civilization as we know it.

Originally published at Gatestone Institute

Saturday People, Sunday People And Americans At Risk

Breaking News Updates – December 05, 2023

BY LELA GILBERT/WASHINGTON STAND DECEMBER 05, 2023

If we remain silent about what is happening to Jewish people all over the world, Christians will soon face the same kind of abuses. “In fact,” he pointed out, “those terrorists always say, ‘The Saturday people are first. The Sunday people are next.’ They use those terms to identify Jews and Christians. They don’t even hide it!”

On November 29 in New York, the traditional lighting of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center Square was violently disrupted by hundreds of protestors, many in Islamic garb, chanting “From the River to the Sea…” — a call for the destruction of Israel. At least two signs bearing Nazi swastikas were in full view. 

“The Christmas tree brings a message of peace, not conflict,” one frustrated tourist said. “That’s why we’re gathered here today, not to protest but to welcome in the holiday season!”

Unfortunately, far more than the Christmas holidays will be at risk as anti-Semitic, anti-Christian hatred continues to catch fire in the United States. Jews and Christians are clearly in the crosshairs of radical Islamists, not only in the Middle East and across the world, but also here at home.

Tony Perkins recently hosted a “Washington Watch” conversation about the ongoing Gaza War with retired Israel Defense Forces Major and Middle East expert Amir Tsarfati. Perkins explained, “When I chaired the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, we were looking at this rise of anti-Semitism in Western Europe. And historically speaking, Israel is the ‘canary in the coal mine.'”

Tsarfati agreed wholeheartedly. He went on to say that if we remain silent about what is happening to Jewish people all over the world, Christians will soon face the same kind of abuses. “In fact,” he pointed out, “those terrorists always say, ‘The Saturday people are first. The Sunday people are next.’ They use those terms to identify Jews and Christians. They don’t even hide it!”

Tsarfati’s remarks mirror my own research, reflected in my book “Saturday People, Sunday People.” His words expose the ominous fulfillment of that deadly Islamist threat, which appears in graffiti across the world. In Arabic it says, “On Saturday we kill the Jews, on Sunday we kill the Christians.”

In several Middle East countries, Jewish populations no longer exist — either driven out or killed. And today, Christian populations are fleeing for their lives in those same nations.

In Syria

In 1947, the Syrian Jewish population numbered around 15,000. As of 2022, only four Jews remained in Syria.

As the Jews vanished, according to The Syrian Observer, “… the number of Christians in Syria has fallen in a decade from one and a half million (10 percent of the population) before 2011 to about 300,000 today (less than 2 percent of the population).” 

Open Doors World Watch List ranks Syria as the 12th worst persecutor of Christians in the world.

In Iraq

“Iraq’s Jewish Community Dwindles to Fewer than Five,” France24 reported in 2021.

While Iraqi Jews have all but disappeared, Iraq’s Christian community is also dwindling. Iraqi Christians date back to the church’s first centuries. As recently as early 2021, The Associated Press reported, “Iraq was estimated to have nearly 1.5 million Christians before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.”

Today, “church officials estimate only a few hundred thousand, or even less, remain within Iraq’s borders.” More recently, violent assaults on clergy and other Christians have become an everyday occurrence, including bombings and church massacres.

Open Doors lists Iraq as the 18th worst persecutor of Christians in the world.

In Yemen

“Yemen’s Jewish Population, Once Over 50,000, Drops to Below 10,” Israel’s Haaretz reported in 2021.

Unlike the Jews, Yemen’s Christians have experienced some toleration of their traditional churches. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church continue to exist, despite shrinking memberships. They are far less vulnerable to abuse than Christian converts from Islam.

In Yemen, it is illegal to leave Islam and embrace Christianity, which means that accurate numbers of Yemeni Christians are difficult, if not impossible, to find. A Google search result states that Yemeni believers, “live in fear of persecution or charges of apostasy and so rarely declare their religious identities publicly. Today, the number of Yemeni Christians is estimated to be between 2,000 – 4,000. Until recently, four churches remained in the Aden governorate from the British colonial period.”

Yemen’s Saturday People are gone; Meanwhile, Yemen is the third worst persecutor of Sunday People in the world.

In Libya

The Jewish Virtual Library reports that there are no remaining Jews in Libya.

“Though Libya had been home to a Jewish community for thousands of years, and though the Jews had lived under Greek, Roman, Ottoman, Italian, British, and Arab rule, no trace of this once-thriving community exists anymore.” 

As for the safety and security of today’s Libyan Christians? In May 2023, six Libyans were sentenced to death for converting to Christianity. According to The Guardian, “The six Libyans have been charged for circulating views that aim to ‘alter fundamental constitutional principles, or the fundamental structures of the social order,’ or overthrow the state…”

Open Doors explains that if Muslim background Libyans become Christians, “they are likely to face intense pressure and abuse from their family and the wider community to make them renounce their faith, or even be killed. Christians who publicly express their faith and try to share the gospel with others are likely to face arrest or retribution from extremist groups.”

Libya is the fifth worst persecutor of Christians in the world.

In Lebanon

In 1948, there were 20,000 Jews living in Lebanon; as of 2020, only 29 Jews remained there.

Brady Knox recently reported in the Washington Examiner, “In the mid-20th century, Lebanon was one of the wealthiest and most prosperous countries in the Middle East. Its capital, Beirut, was once known as the Paris of the Middle East. It was the only state in the Middle East where Christianity was dominant, at one point making up over 60% of the population.

But today, Lebanon’s Christians are persecuted. Knox writes that “the country is in free fall. … The more powerful and influential Hezbollah becomes in Lebanon, the less safe Lebanese Christians are.”

And What about America?

Beyond the Middle East, Jews and Christians live dangerously in most Muslim majority countries, most notably in Somalia, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sudan.

However, Amir Tsarfati’s concerns are particularly focused on the United States. Raging campus protests against Jews, and violent New York opposition to Christian holiday celebrations couldn’t illustrate his fears more powerfully.

“Right now, America must wake up!” he told Perkins. “Your southern border is so open, and I can’t even imagine how many Hezbollah and Hamas cells are already in your country right now. They’re testing you. And look, they’ve waited and waited and deceived us and the whole world. And then boom, one day they will strike.”

Originally published at The Washington Stand – reposted with permission.

Security Experts Warn Open Borders Will Lead To US Terror Attack 　 　    

Here is a thought: Open borders leading to an attack on our country, and changing the culture is the ultimate desire of Joe Biden’s administration because they are globalists and elitists. Our left wing government, intelligensia and colleges have no problem with radical Islam and are antisemitic. The hatred of Israel in the United States of America is beyond anything I thought I would ever see. If you cannot see this in today’s current events, you are naive. Do you SERIOUSLY think our president and government are unaware of the dangers posed with our wide open southern border? It is all obviously by design. Moderate Democrats are a thing of the past. “Democrats hate America.” ~ Mark Levin

In Christ, Pastor Steve <><

Breaking News Updates – November 06, 2023

BY BEN JOHNSON/THE WASHINGTON STAND NOVEMBER 06, 2023

Border Patrol agents have found an improvised explosive device (IED) at the U.S. border with Mexico, as security experts warn lax enforcement of immigration laws will invite terrorist attacks on American soil in the near future.

Border Patrol uncovered an IED in Texas in September and another at a port of entry in Arizona in May. Officials have found homemade explosives, similar to the kind terrorists used to maim U.S. soldiers in Iraq, since at least 2018. The discovery comes as officers encountered 736 people on the U.S. terror watchlist this year, and 286 people on the terror watch list between ports of entry over the last three years — compared to 11 during the last three years of the Trump administration.

“What’s coming across the southern border is not just Central Americans, Mexicans, South Americans. It is individuals from states that are bases for known terrorist entities, like Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Lebanon. The San Diego Border Patrol issued a warning bulletin about a week and a half ago, and it said, we need to be on the watch for Hamas terrorists coming across the southern border,” said Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) on “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Thursday. 

Earlier in the day, Daines warned that more than 500 people had illegally crossed the U.S. border who hail from such hostile states as Afghanistan and Somalia. “We should be prepared that they could attack us from within,” he warned in a press conference, standing alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

“I’m very worried” that the “horrible attacks from Hamas will inspire lone wolves in our country — like we saw happen in Belgium when those two Swedes lost their lives, murdered by an Islamic terrorist,” Daines told Perkins. “It also could release terrorist cells that are going to have premeditated attacks here.” Some worry the United States is for importing Mexico’s drug wars, which have claimed the lives of 61,637 Mexicans since 1964 — the vast majority since 2006, according to Karla Quintana, head of Mexico’s National Search Commission.

On Thursday, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to brief Congress on the number of known or suspected terrorists encountered at the southern border since Biden took office, as well as “their countries of origin, their terrorist group affiliations, any documented criminal or terrorist activity they may have engaged in.”

The numbers of illegal immigration under President Joe Biden have shattered records. Border Patrol agents have encountered at least 10 million illegal immigrants during the Biden administration. Biden and “Border Czar” Kamala Harris presided over three record-breaking years of illegal immigration in a row.

U.S. officials encountered a total of 8,396,199 illegal immigrants during the Biden-Harris administration, according to official figures from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including:

3,201,144 apprehensions in fiscal year 2023;

2,766,582 in fiscal year 2022;

1,956,519 in fiscal year 2021; and

471,954 in the nine months Biden held office in fiscal year 2020.

The 8.4 million does not include the known gotaways who crossed the southern border but escaped. DHS Secretary Mayorkas testified under oath that the number of known gotaways was “over 600,000” — but Border Patrol agents and whistleblowers (who remained anonymous for fear of retaliation) told The Center Square the number is actually 1.7 million at the southern border alone. Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Chief Mark Morgan placed the number of known gotaways at one million in 2023 alone.

That brings the total of illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. during the Biden administration to 10 million — but it does not include unknown gotaways. Border Patrol figures told Senator Daines, “By definition we don’t know, but we think it’s another 50% … so, another 800,000 to 900,000” additional illegal immigrants who entirely evaded detection, Daines told Perkins. “We have no idea who these people are.”

While the southern border captured headlines, the number of illegal crossings at America’s northern border with Canada exploded by 237% over the last year — more than the previous 11 years combined. The number of unaccompanied minors has also increased by 792% between fiscal year 2020 (944) and fiscal year 2023 (7,482).

If the illegal immigrants encountered at the border during the Biden administration were a state, they would be the 10th largest state in America, after California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, and North Carolina.

The crush of humanity crowding across the southern border has imposed a high cost on the communities where they have settled — or been placed by the Biden administration. In states from Alaska to Texas “shelters are full, food pantries empty, law enforcement strained, and aid workers exhausted,” a coalition of 24 Republican governors wrote the Biden administration in September. 

“States are forced to provide financial, educational, and medical support to migrants entering our country illegally — support that is skyrocketing in cost due to record inflation and the unprecedented influx of migrants into our states.”

The governors called on Biden — who has commissioned an endless string of secret charter planes and buses to settle illegal immigrants throughout the country — “to provide honest, accurate, detailed information on where the migrants admitted at the southern border are being relocated in the United States.”

Illegal immigrants cost the American taxpayer between $84 billion and $94 billion a year, Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the Senate Budget Committee on September 13. Another estimate, from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), put the figure at $150.7 billion, subtracting the $32 billion illegal immigrants pay in taxes from the more than $182 billion illegal immigrants cost U.S. taxpayers. “Each illegal alien or U.S.-born child of illegal aliens costs the U.S. $8,776 annually,” said a report from FAIR.

The Biden administration’s porous border has made the president an object of derision for South American nations, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and illegal immigrants themselves. “I believe the Biden administration has dropped the ball on immigration,” said Irineo Mujica, who is leading a caravan of thousands of illegal immigrants into the U.S. “Mexico is … ganging up with all the countries to make sure that all of this immigration goes straight into the United States.”

“This is being used by the countries to make sure they get what they want from the United States. And Joe Biden has lost,” said Mujica. Former President Donald “Trump at least knew what to say to make sure he doesn’t fuel immigration.”

The Biden administration’s response to state efforts at curtailing illegal immigration has been to cut the wire Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) placed across the border near the well-trafficked corridor at Eagle Pass and sue to have barriers removed from the Rio Grande. U.S. District Court Judge Alia Moses, a George W. Bush appointee, issued a temporary restraining order demanding the Biden administration stop destroying the Texas border wire.

As chaos increases, Congressional Republicans have tried to bring ailing states much-needed relief — and American citizens greater security. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) has said he will not approve President Biden’s request for additional foreign aid to Ukraine unless it contains funding for U.S. border security and enforcement. Biden has requested additional funding to speed up the processing and release of illegal immigrants into the United States.

Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has introduced the Terrorist Inadmissibility Codification Act to prohibit entry to any immigrant who has publicly supported al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS), Hezbollah, Hamas, or the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ). “It’s in our national security interest to ensure foreign nationals seeking to harm our nation are prohibited entry. Those that are already here must be removed,” said Rubio.

But that will deal with only a fraction of the 10 million illegal immigrants the Democratic administration in Washington has released onto American streets in less than three years.

“This is a very, very dangerous time for our country,” Daines told Perkins. “And I hold Joe Biden and the Senate Democrats accountable for this, because it’s their policies that put us in this mess.”

Originally published at The Washington Stand – reposted with permission.

Stark Differences Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine Protests

This is no surprise. Radical Islam is hell bent on the destruction of Christians and Jews. The Jews just want to live in peace. Antisemitism and the worldwide hatred for Jews, especially among the Muslims, is reminiscent of the Nazis in the 1930’s. This religious insatiable hatred goes back to the loins of Abraham and his sons, Ishmael and Isaac. Younger people on college campuses are totally brainwashed by this propaganda. Claiming to be the intelligent arm of culture and society; in actuality they are the largest bigots and racists.

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Breaking News Updates – October 21, 2023

By Lucy Gilbert/Daily Signal October 21, 2023

Following the Hamas attacks on Israel, thousands of protestors across the world have been coming out in support of either Israel or Palestine. But the differences in the demonstrations between the two have been stark, with mostly mourning from pro-Israel demonstrators and justifications for violence and even calls for Jewish genocide from among the pro-Palestine protestors.

On Oct. 7, Hamas militants began an attack on Israel, leaving 1,400 dead and roughly 200 abducted. Mostly civilians, including the elderly, women, and children, were among those who were killed or tortured.

Many pro-Palestinian protests have shocked the world, such as one in Australia where demonstrators chanted, “Gas the Jews,” “F-k the Jews,” and “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest” in Arabic). The protest drew roughly 1,000 people who chanted in front of the Sydney Opera House holding flares and Palestinian flags.

Across the world in the U.S., many smaller protests took place in cities and on college campuses. In Indianapolis, pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protestors faced off.

The pro-Israel protesters sang songs while carrying signs that said things like, “There is no excuse to killing babies” and “Hamas=ISIS.”

Meanwhile, the pro-Palestine protestors echoed a common chant: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” This chant is a call to action to make the State of Palestine occupy the land from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Israel is in between, so if this actually happened, Palestine would become the 57th Islamic state by fully eradicating Israel, including “ethnically cleansing” the Jewish people who currently live there, as the Palestinians have decreed that they refuse to live alongside the Jews.

At George Washington University, dozens of students gathered for a planned “Vigil for the Martyrs of Palestine.” Many of the attendees covered their faces. Daily Signal Reporter Mary Margaret Olohan was given a face mask and told to wear one by the pro-Palestine participants so “they” wouldn’t identify her later in pictures.

On the George Mason University campus, an alum said the pro-Palestine protest there was “terrifying” for the Jewish students on campus. She added that the protests were “enabling Hamas to continue to oppress the Palestinian people.”

On Oct. 17, a pro-Palestinian group called for a cease-fire outside the White House. Forty-nine of these protestors were arrested for allegedly blocking entrances and crossing barriers.

The following day, pro-Palestinian protestors entered a House of Representatives office building protesting and calling for a cease-fire. Over 300 were arrested, and at least three were charged with assaulting a police officer, according to the Capitol Police.

“Demonstrations are not allowed inside congressional buildings,” Capitol Police said on X (formerly Twitter) before the protests. “We warned the protestors to stop demonstrating, and when they did not comply, we began arresting them.”

Many American college students have come out in support of Palestine, including over 30 Harvard student groups that said they held Israel “entirely responsible” for the Hamas attacks.

At George Mason University in Virginia, many of the students denied the atrocities that happened to Israelis or tried to justify it.

“The one time Hamas decides to fight back because it is their land, they’re just going to make a big deal of it, that doesn’t make any sense to me,” one student said.

Originally published at The Daily Signal – reposted with permission.

Islam Grows As The West Sleeps: More Practicing Muslims Than Catholics In France 　 　    

Breaking News Updates – May 08, 2023

BY PNW STAFF MAY 08, 2023
 
Islam Grows As The West Sleeps: More Practicing Muslims Than Catholics In France
 For the first time in modern history, there are more practicing Muslims in France than practicing Catholics. This unprecedented civilizational change has been like a frog slowly boiling in hot water as most of the West has been both ignorant and apathetic, yet has profound significance for all of Europe.

The report from Insee, the French National Institute of Statistics, reports that between the ages of 18 and 59, one and a half million Catholics pray and 800,000 go to church while two million Muslims pray and 726,000 go to church on a regular basis.

Although the Catholic religion remains the largest declared religion–29% for French people–this figure is constantly falling. The Muslim religion, which is the second largest, has been on the rise for decades and now accounts for 10% of the total population (in most big cities it’s 20 to 30 percent).

Demographics will play a huge part in the future of these numbers as 65 percent of practicing Catholics are over 50 years old. In contrast, 73 percent of practicing Muslims are under the age of 50.  “Two Ifop studies contain precise elements on the religious practice of the under 34s (understood as Sunday mass or Friday mosque): only 16 percent of practicing Catholics belong to this age group against 48 percent of practicing Muslims. These percentages indicate that currently in France there is one young practicing Catholic for every three young practicing Muslims”.

In 2019-2020, INSEE reported that 51% of the French born population aged 18 to 59 in metropolitan France said they had no religion. This number is increasing fastest among the young.

“Four important pieces of information have just arrived while France is looking elsewhere” writes Eric Zemmour, the man who had foreseen it and was not listened to, rather tried and demonized. “Immigration in France today represents 19 million people. For a country of 68 million people: that’s colossal. Immigration is steadily increasing everywhere in France, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of the population. The number and proportion of Muslims are increasing, with an ever more marked orthodoxy”.

Immigration rates will also play an important part in just how fast Islam takes over France. The influx of massive numbers of Muslim migrants has not decreased and the birth rates of Islamic families have remained steady with often 3 to 4 children being the norm.  Meanwhile traditional French families are having so few babies they are not even making up the replacement rate.

Edouard de Lamaze, president of the Observatoire du patrimoine religieux in Paris, the most important organization that monitors the state of places of worship in the country, revealed that “although Catholic monuments are still ahead, a mosque is being erected every fortnight in France, while a Christian building is destroyed at the same rate.

In 1976 France had 150 mosques, 900 in 1985, 1,555 in 2001 and so on in a dramatic progression. Today, as Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal says, “there are 3,000 mosques”. And at the end of the century there will be 10,000.

Le Monde reports that secularization is proceeding quickly only for Catholics. Muslim immigrants are not becoming “woke”. The postmodernist virus has not corroded their minds. 91 percent of Muslims educated as Muslims remain so. They remain religious, even after two generations. The use of the veil for women is also increasing: from 18 to 29 percent of all women in France in just ten years.

There are an estimated 25,000 Salafists among France’s ten million Muslims, “whose radical-fundamentalist creed dominates many of the predominantly Muslim housing projects at the edges of cities such as Paris, Nice or Lyon.  Instead of assimilation and integration, these Islamic fundamentalists pursue religious segregation while their preachers are quick to call for wiping out the infidels who live down the street. France’s director-general of intelligence, Patrick Calvar, has been clear about the rise of Salafists in France saying “confrontation is inevitable”.

Pierre Brochand, former director of the French internal secret service, has said that “the critical point for France will be when Muslim immigrants cross the 50 percent threshold” but other analysts have warned France will irrevocably change long before that.  As soon as Muslim political parties have enough voting power to change the country, they will do so.  With much of traditional France fractured among many different party lines, Islamic parties remain primarily united.  It won’t be long before they have the political power to begin implementing many Islamist related ideals.

This demographic power was highlighted by late Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, who said in 2006, “We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe–without swords, without guns, without conquest–will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”

SBC Leaders Push Pro-Islamic Propaganda in Interfaith Organization Led by Southern Baptist and Islamic Leaders

You can stick a fork in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) – they are well done and all done. They are breaking all the Biblical rules they formerly made in their own Baptist Statement of Faith and Message. What’s more, no one cares. The article below highlights this fact and reveals a plethora of their other recent shenanigans as well. Lord help them to leave their apostate mindset. Blessings, Pastor Steve <><

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It seems like every time I turn around and think things can’t get worse in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), I see something else that just blows my mind. I mean, just a few months ago, I almost couldn’t believe my eyes at the annual meeting when the leaders couldn’t even define what a pastor is and if the Bible allows for women to hold that title or position.

Southern Baptists are supposed to hold to the inerrancy and sufficiency of Scripture, but instead, they’re ordaining women to the pastorate, baptizing practicing “married” homosexual couples, embracing Critical Race Theory, and seminaries graduating far-left feminists and transgender activists. AContinue Reading on Website »nd now, they’ve started a new organization with the sole purpose of imbuing Southern Baptists with pro-Islamic propaganda.

This initiative is called Neighborly Faith. The name and the organization have actually been around for a while, and the movement has come and gone. But now, it appears they’ve ramped up their rhetoric and Southern Baptist leaders seem to be in it neck deep.

The organization describes itself as a “student movement introducing Christians to neighbors of every faith.” But the leadership and contributors are well-known Southern Baptist names including Micah Fries, Dan Darling, and Trillia Newbell—all of whom have ties to Russell Moore and the ERLC, surprise! It also includes a number of Islamic authors and speakers as part of its official list of contributors. And, of course, Matthew Soerens of World Relief and the Soros-funded ERLC-partnered organization, the Evangelical Immigration Table.

https://disntr.com/2022/09/16/sbc-leaders-start-new-organization-to-propagandize-southern-baptists-about-how-great-islam-is/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Neighborly faith claims its purpose is to help Christians understand misconceptions about Muslims and to be a “good neighbor” to them claiming that “Too few Christians know their neighbors of other faiths, and too few of our neighbors know a Christian.”

Yet, when looking through the material offered by Neighborly Faith, it immediately becomes clear that this isn’t meant to be a tool for Christians to use in the Great Commission as they carry the gospel to the lost and dying—instead, it’s meant to muddy the waters between Christianity and Islam and give a false impression about the wickedness of the Islamic religion.

In one of the featured articles on the site titled GOOD VIBES: WHY CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS MAKE GREAT FRIENDS, it attempts to lay out the groundwork for Christians and Muslims to find common ground to build a friendship. It states that “While the beliefs and religious lives of Christians and Muslims are different, where simply being a human with strong spirituality is concerned, Christian values and Muslim values are quite similar.”

One of the common “values” the article says that Christians and Muslims have in common is a “profound commitment to faith.” It reads:

For practicing Muslims, faith plays as large a role in daily life as it does for the most committed Christian, and it brings many similar challenges and rewards. For this important reason among many others, Christians should be able to readily admire, respect, and empathize with devout Muslims in their communities.

It also, laughably, labels “love of family” as one of the primary values shared between Christians and Muslims, reading:

Muslim and Christian cultures are both known for their strong family values. Muslims view families as the building blocks of society. Much as Christians do, they strive to create a secure and healthy family environment in which children can learn human virtues from positive role models. 

Interestingly, there seems to be no mention of honor killings or beheadings among that assertion of “love of family.” It’s actually quite amazing how many propaganda pieces have been written to target Southern Baptists on this website.

In another article, 7 Things You Didn’t Knew[sic] About American Muslims, (which was obviously written by one of the Islamic contributors and only actually lists 6), lists the following, ridiculous and absurd “truths” about American Muslims:

  • The vast majority of Muslims are proud to be Americans
  • Muslim Americans oppose violence more than any other religious group (completely and totally laughable, just ridiculously absurd on its face)
  • Muslims in the US are ethnically, culturally, religiously, and politically diverse
  • Muslim views align with those of both liberal and conservative Americans
  • Muslim women are often highly educated, highly compensated leaders
  • Muslims are among the most tolerant of all religious groups in America (also absurd on its face).

I shouldn’t be surprised at what I see Southern Baptists partnering with and doing these days. Nonetheless, there’s still something in me that wants to remain hopeful that there are actual godly leaders left in the denomination. Not that I ever thought that highly of any of the ones in here, but the fact that they can do this and not receive a reprimand from the denomination as a whole over this just give us all pause.

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Ilhan Omar Booed At Somali Concert In Minnesota: ‘Get The F*** Out Of Here!’

It is always good news when a radical Muslim like Omar gets booed anywhere. She had a hissy fit when a gentleman played his guitar, and a few Christians sang songs last Easter on an airplane. Now, she protests the Fourth of July and our celebration of Independence Day. Pastor Steve ><

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  • Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar was viciously booed at a concert over the weekend in front of what appeared to be a predominantly Somali crowd.

During the Suldaan Seeraar concert at the Target Center, Omar was booed for almost a minute straight, with some in the crowd telling her to “go home” and “get the f*** out of here.”

When Omar was introduced on stage with her husband, the crowd began to boo loudly.

Some people on stage can be heard in the video telling the audience, “Don’t do this,” as they continued to boo Omar.

“Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, we don’t have all night,” Omar said as the crowd kept booing.

WATCH:

Omar made headlines last week when she claimed that religious freedom in America was “dead” after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a case involving a former Seattle-area football coach who was fired from his job because he refused to stop praying on the field with players.

“The Supreme Court just ruled that public school teachers can pressure students to join in prayer at public school events but can also retaliate against those that don’t join in,” Omar tweeted. “Religious freedom is dead in America.”

The nation’s highest court has sided with the high school football coach in the crucial First Amendment case.

When the school district learned that Kennedy was praying with the team, they told him that he could pray separately from the students. Kennedy declined to change his practice, was put on paid leave, and then filed a lawsuit.

Last year, lower courts sided with the school district. The case went before the Supreme Court in April and the decision is being closely watched by many.

During oral arguments two months ago, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices seemed sympathetic to Kennedy.

The Washington Post reported:

Questions from the court’s conservatives indicated they believe the school district has misread the court’s precedents regarding government endorsement of religion and perhaps was hostile to such demonstrations.

Justice Clarence Thomas questioned whether Kennedy would have been disciplined if he had taken a knee during the national anthem to protest racism. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. questioned Katskee, legal director at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, about other political activism.

Suppose “when Coach Kennedy went out to the center of the field … all he did was to wave a Ukrainian flag. Would you have fired him?” Alito asked.

Katskee said the school district could discipline a coach for such actions because it “doesn’t want its event taken over for political speech.”

“Where is the school district rule that says that?” Alito demanded.

“No teacher or coach should lose their job for simply expressing their faith while in public,” Kelly Shackelford, president, and CEO of First Liberty, who is representing the case, said in a statement.

“By taking this important case, the Supreme Court can protect the right of every American to engage in private religious expression, including praying in public, without fear of punishment,” he added.

“Paul Clement, former U.S. Solicitor General, partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and First Liberty volunteer attorney, said, ‘We look forward to presenting the Coach’s case, which goes to the heart of the First Amendment, to the Justices,’” the Daily Wire reported. “Joe Kennedy’s case, now six years after the events, has led to renewed optimism by the coach who still desires to return to the football sidelines.”

“Six years away from the football field has been far too long. I am extremely grateful that the Supreme Court is going to hear my case and pray that I will soon be able to be back on the field coaching the game and players I love,” Kennedy said in the statement.

ISLAM IS THE ANTITHESIS OF CHRISTIANITY

27 Doctrinal Differences Between: Mohammed & Jesus:

Mohammed [Qu’ran] Jesus [Bible]

  1. Mohammed was the prophet of war. Jesus is the Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6-7
  2. Mohammed’s disciples killed for their faith. Jesus’ disciples were killed for their faith. Acts 12:2, II Timothy 4:7
  3. Mohammed promoted persecution against “infidels.” Jesus forgave and converted the chief persecutor. I Timothy 1:13:15
  4. Mohammed was the taker of life. Jesus is the giver of life. John 10:27-28
  5. Mohammed and his fellow warriors murdered thousands. Jesus murdered none but saved many. John 12:48
  6. Mohammed’s method was COMPULSION. Jesus’ aim is voluntary CONVERSION. Acts 3:19
  7. Mohammed practiced FORCE. Jesus preached FAITH. John 6:29, 30
  8. Mohammed was a WARRIOR. Jesus is a DELIVERER. Colossians 1:13, I Thessalonians 1:10
  9. Mohammed conquered his enemies with the sword. Jesus conquered his enemies with another kind of sword, the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. Hebrews 4:12, Acts 2:37
  10. Mohammed said to the masses, “Convert or die!” Jesus said, “Believe and live!” John 6:47; 11:25-26
  11. Mohammed was swift to shed blood. (unbelievers – Romans 3:15-17) Jesus shed his own blood for the Salvation of many. Ephesians 1:7
  12. Mohammed preached “Death to infidels!” Jesus prayed, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Luke 23:34
  13. Mohammed declared a holy war (Jihad) against infidels. Jesus achieved a Holy victory on Calvary’s cross. Colossians 2:14-15 And Hid followers share in that victory. John 16:33
  14. Mohammed constrained people by conquest. Jesus constrained people by love. II Corinthians 5:14
  15. Modern terrorists derive their inspiration from Mohammed and they carry out their despicable atrocities in the name of his god. Christians derive their inspiration from the One who said, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” Matthew 5:9
  16. Mohammed’s modern day disciples respond to terrorists attacks by cheering in the streets. Modern day disciples of Jesus are deeply grieved at past atrocities carried out by those who were “Christians” in name only. (The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, etc.)
  17. Some Muslims are peaceful and peace-loving becase they DO NOT strictly follow the teachings of their founder. Most Christians are peaceful and peace-loving because they DO strictly follow the teachings of their Founder. Romans 12:17-21
  18. Mohammed called upon his servants to fight. Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.” John 18:36
  19. Mohammed ordered death to the Jews. (see A. Guillaume, The life of Mohammed, Oxford University Press 1975, page 369) Jesus ordered that the Gospel be preached “to he Jew first.” Romans 1:16
  20. The Koran says, “Fight in the cause of Allah.” (Qu’ran 2.244) The Bible says, “We wrestle not against flesh and blood” and “the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.” Ephesians 6:12, II Corinthians 10:4
  21. The Koran says, “Fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them.” (Qu’ran 9:5) Jesus said, “Preach the Gospel to every creature.” Mark 16:15
  22. The Koran says, “Fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them.” (Qu’ran 8:12) God inspires His terror into the hearts of believers. Isaiah 8:13
  23. The Koran (Qu’ran) is a terrorist manual which condones fighting, conflict, terror, slaughter, and genocide against those who do not accept Islam. The Bible is a missionary manual to spread the Gospel of peace to all the world. Romans 10:15
  24. Mohammed’s Mission is to conquer the world for Allah. Jesus’ Mission is to conquer sin’s penalty and power by substitutionary atonement. II Corinthians 5:21, I Peter 3:18
  25. Mohammed considered Jesus to be a good prophet. Jesus pronounced Mohammed to be a false prophet. John 10:10, Matthew 24:11
  26. Mohammed claimed that there was but one God, Allah. Jesus claimed that He was God. John 10:20-31, John 8:58-59, John 5:18, John 14:9

27. Finally, the most significant and important comparison……

Mohammed’s Tomb: OCCUPIED

Jesus Tomb: EMPTY!

Defend Your Faith With The Word!

2 Timothy 3:16-17 King James Version

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

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We could add the following to the great synopsis above. Islam encourages lying and/or deceiving people in order to promote their religion. Jesus said “I am the TRUTH……..” (John 14:6) Jesus told Pontius Pilate that the Truth stood before him.

Also, Islam and Christianity are often both referred to as monotheistic religions. That is where the comparison begins and ends. Islam is represented by a false god and empowered by demons. Christianity represents the One and Only True God! Judaism likewise represents an incomplete version of the One True God, as they have not yet accepted the Christology of the Bible, with the wonderful exception of today’s Messianic Jews who have received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

In Christ, Pastor Steve <><