We are told again and again by ‘experts’ and ‘talking heads’ that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless
fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout
Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.
The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ‘silent majority,’ is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.. China ‘s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.
And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving’?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friends from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.
As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts–the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on!
Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and send it on – before it’s too late.
Now Islamic prayers have been introduced into Toronto and other public schools in Ontario, and, yes, in Ottawa too while the Lord’s Prayer was removed (due to being so offensive?). The Islamic way may be peaceful for the time being in our country until the fanatics move in.
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Israel is not an apartheid nation and the Israeli government has no policy of strict racial separation.
Anyone who has ever visited Israel is keenly aware that the opposite is true. No matter where you go in Israel; the train station, the doctor’s office, the emergency room in the hospital or any of Israel’s government offices, malls or restaurants, life in this nation is integrated. Muslims wearing head scarves, ultra orthodox Jews in black, secular Israelis wearing very little and every other type of person you can imagine are jammed together into Israel’s frenetic, closely packed life style. There is simply no policy of segregation in Israel. There are Arab neighborhoods and Jewish neighborhoods but even these are generally inhabited by people of all races.
In Israel, any Jew or Arab citizen can buy any house in any neighborhood and is free to frequent whatever establishments they might desire. How different this is from the Islamic nations that surround Israel and even all the areas within Israel that are under Palestinian control. It is illegal for a Jew to even enter these places, much less buy a residence or live there.
Another important mis-information to appreciate in the campaign’s poster is the picture of the adult and child “victims” standing on ground that is hued to match the colors of the Palestinian flag between two oppressive walls.
Before the start of the two Palestinian intifadas (uprising), there were no walls! Between the years 1987-2005, nearly one thousand Israeli civilians were blown up in restaurants, on buses, at bus stops, at parties, and at almost any other place where Jews gathered. The Palestinian terrorists were free to walk into Israel from their towns and carry out their terrorist campaign. The Palestinian Authority did nothing to prevent it and even encouraged these many acts of terror. After suffering many years of indescribable horrors and hundreds of deaths, the Israeli government built the separation walls to keep the terrorists out.
The walls are there as a result of a Palestinian policy of terror and murder. Would any other nation on the earth have done any less to protect their citizens?
And finally, not surprisingly, the poster contains one final misrepresentation that is also based on a lie. The land that the “victims” are standing on bears the colors of the Palestinian flag thus implying that somehow justice demands that it is the legitimate possession of the Palestinian people and must be “returned” to them. There has never been a nation called Palestine in the history of the earth and the land itself has only been a part of one sovereign state throughout all history and that state is Israel. In recent times, this territory was promised to Israel in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, taken away in the White Paper of 1939, illegally occupied by the Jordanian government from 1948 until its legitimate return to Israel in the Six Day War of 1967.
But beyond all of this political manuvering is the undeniable truth that God himself gave the land as an eternal inheritance to Abraham and his descendants forever when he said to Abraham; “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.” (Genesis 13:14) God gave the land to Israel as an eternal inheritance and any other interpretation is contrary to the clearly stated promises of God.
In the last days as the battle rages between darkness and light, one of the victims will be truth. It is not surprising that this Muslim Inspired campaign from beginning to end is just that; a misrepresentation of the truth. In the coming months, this campaign will be continuing in many of the major cities throughout the United States. Please pass this information on so that the truth may be proclaimed and this strategy of the enemy defeated.
We thank you for standing with us. The best is yet to come!
We send you our love from Zion,
Eddie and Jackie
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013
PERVERTED PRIORITIES
by David Wilkerson
[May 19, 1931 – April 27, 2011]
Christians who neglect prayer have perverted their priorities. Many believers
pledge to pray if and when they can find the time. Yet each week, seeking
Christ becomes less important to them than washing the car, cleaning the house,
visiting friends, eating out, going shopping, watching sports events. They
simply don’t make time to pray.
People were no different in the days of Noah and Lot. Their top priorities were
eating and drinking, buying and selling, marrying, and caring for their
families. They had no time to listen to messages of God’s coming judgment. And
so no one was prepared when judgment fell!
Evidently, nothing has changed over the centuries. For many Christians today,
God remains at the bottom of the priority list; at the top are income,
security, pleasure, family.
Beloved, the Lord does not want your leftovers—those little bits and pieces
of time when you have only a moment to toss up a quick prayer request. That
isn’t a sacrifice of prayer.
The prophet Malachi writes: “If ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not
evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it now unto thy
governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the Lord of
hosts” (Malachi 1:8).
Malachi is saying, “You’re bringing just any old farm animals to sacrifice in
God’s presence—careless, thoughtless, secondhand gifts. Try giving those
kinds of offerings to your governor and see what happens!”
God expected His people to go through their flocks carefully, examining every
animal, and choosing the most perfect specimen for sacrifice to Him. Likewise
today, God expects the same from us. He wants our quality time—unrushed. And
we are to make that time a priority!
I once met with the pastor of one of America’s largest churches. This man was
one of the busiest ministers I had ever seen. He told me without apology, “I
have no time to pray.” Yet, what he really meant was, “I don’t give any
priority to prayer.” When I visited his church, I sensed no moving of God’s
Spirit in the congregation. In fact, it was one of the deadest churches I had
ever preached in. How could there be any life if the pastor didn’t pray?
No Christian will set aside time to pray unless it becomes his first priority
in life—above family, career, leisure time, everything. Otherwise, his
sacrifice is perverted!
Read this devotion online: http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/22334?src=devo-email
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013
WHY IS IT HARD FOR CHRISTIANS TO PRAY?
by David Wilkerson
[May 19, 1931 – April 27, 2011]
Scripture makes it clear that the answer to everything in our lives is prayer
mixed with faith. The apostle Paul writes, “Be careful (anxious) for nothing;
but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your
requests be made known unto God” (Philippians 4:6). Paul is telling us, “Seek
the Lord about every area of your life and thank Him ahead of time for hearing
you!”
Paul emphasizes that we are always to pray first and not as a last
resort—going to our friends first, then to a pastor or counselor, and finally
ending up on our knees. Jesus tells us, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and
his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew
6:33). We are to go to the Lord first!
Our ministry receives heartrending letters from multitudes of broken
Christians. Families are breaking up; people who walked faithfully with Christ
for years are living in fear and defeat. Each of these people has been overcome
by something—sin, depression, worldliness, covetousness—and year after year,
their problems seem to get worse.
Yet, what shocks me most about their letters is that very few of these
Christians ever mention prayer. They turn to tapes, books, counselors, call-in
radio programs, therapies of all kinds, but rarely to prayer.
Why is it so hard for Christians to seek God for their desperate needs when
they are in times of crisis? After all, the Bible stands as one long testimony
that God hears the cries of His children and answers them with tender love.
* “The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto
their cry” (Psalms 34:15).
* “The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all
their troubles” (verse 17).
* “This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing
according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us,
whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him”
(1 John 5:14-15).
* “All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall
receive” (Matthew 21:22).
These promises are overwhelming evidence of God’s care.
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