Is Starbucks A Cult?

“Room for smarm in your latte?” Isn’t there something creepy about Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz having [in Politico's words] “asked his Washington-area employees to write ‘Come Together’ on each customer cup today, tomorrow and Friday, as a gesture to urge leaders to resolve the fiscal cliff”?

 

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Did Schultz take a poll of his employees–sorry, “partners,” he calls them–before ordering pressuring asking them to join in this lobbying effort?

 

What if he were, say, the CEO of Chick-fil-A and he “asked” his “partners” to write “Preserve the Family” on the outside of cups and containers.

 

The End of an Empire….AMERICA COMMITS SUICIDE pdf

IN THIS ISSUE

DECEMBER 2012

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THE END OF AN EMPIRE: AMERICA COMMITS SUICIDE ······················ PG. 1

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THE WORLD IN BRIEF ·························································································· PG. 13

III. PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS ········································································ PG. 15

IV. FINAL THOUGHT: IT IS A FRIGHTENING THING
TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD········································ PG. 15

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Erica Carle — There is no End to Problems ~ (Just Where The hell Did Sociology Come From…)

The crazy Frenchman died long before IQ tests were concocted, but had they been available in the early 1800’s his score might have been one of the highest of all time. However, even high IQ nerds can have mental breakdowns, and also minds full of nutty and destructive ideas. The Frenchman’s nutty idea was to control the future of the whole world and all people–not just in his own lifetime, but forever. He expected to be in control long after he was dead because once his system was accepted, he claimed, it could never be destroyed.

The best thing to do about the crazy Frenchman and his loony ambitions would have been to ignore them. However, in his lifetime and since his death in 1857 there have been opportunists of all description who liked the idea of designing the future—especially since the crazy Frenchman wrote thousands of pages to explain every step needed to accomplish the goal. He did the heavy philosophical thinking and planning. All that the followers and lesser lights had to do was read the books and stick to the plan.

I told you the Frenchman was crazy, but he certainly was not stupid. He did know how get to people’s emotions and control their thoughts and actions. First, he devised what he called the ruler science, social science. Then he invented his own religion, the Religion of Humanity, to destroy all other religions. That’s it! That was the whole plan! The rest of his writing is “how-to” explanation. It is very boring and difficult reading, but fascinating to self-appointed world savers, managers and religion inventors. Even though you might not share the fascination, I do hope you will try to understand where his nutty ideas are leading.

The Battle is Waging…

In 1789, John Adams stated that, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

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These words of caution provide a reflective focus back verses the present while portraying just how far away we have drifted from America’s original design. Without the set limitations erected by our Founding Fathers, the freedom which they sacrificed to obtain becomes a destructive weapon leading to our demise.Freedom, at its most elementary level, requires limitations.

I mean, how may freedom be enjoyed if unrestrained? In that context, who is without possible harm? So no, freedom demands its own shoreline, its own useful precautions. It must since the freedom to act within a society works hand in hand with its required do’s and don’ts. Today, what we are experiencing is the elimination of those societal barriers and along with it, our willing acquiesce to unbounded freedoms. Black or white is turning into gray.In support of freedom, through its limiting influences is our waning religious devotion and attendance.

Check on any given Sunday, either from participation or observing those leaving their particular place of worship. The age discrepancy is obvious. Only a fool would not agree that our houses for worship are on borrowed time. And as John Adams warned, without a “moral and religious people,” our government is inadequate.What is taking place is intentional and reeks of a conspiratorial design.

Why No Coverage of This Odd Obama Remark about Religion? (“Islam demonstrates religious tolerance”)

Why No Coverage of This Odd Obama Remark about Religion? (“Islam demonstrates religious tolerance”)

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American Thinker ^ | 03/02/2012 | Fred J. Eckert

Posted on Friday, March 02, 2012 9:22:43 AM by SeekAndFind

As the media were blanketing airwaves and newspapers with nonstop coverage of old controversial religion-related remarks by Rick Santorum, something happened that compelled the media to also raise questions about a far more controversial remark that President Obama had made regarding religion.

Did you miss the widespread news coverage these past days in which that really odd comment that Obama made about religion came back to embarrass him and embroil him in great controversy?

Yes, you missed it — such coverage never occurred. It should have — and the fact that it didn’t tells yet another distressing story about the double-standard of media bias.

That Rick Santorum once told a Catholic college audience that Satan was targeting America, and that he has also said that what John F. Kennedy said about the separation of church and state made him feel like throwing up is — no question about it — controversial and something about which he should be questioned and about which it is perfectly legitimate for the news media to ask both supporters and opponents.

The media advanced this story with great zeal. And the consequence of their sharp focus was that many Americans saw Rick Santorum as sort of weird.

To those who maintain that media focus on Santorum’s Satan and throwing-up over JFK remarks was a bit excessive, expect this rebuttal: well, the media just loves controversy, so if you say something that is controversial, expect it to be a major news story. Half-true. Clearly the media is for stirring up as much controversy as it can when it could hurt a conservative. But any controversy that has the potential to hurt a liberal, especially Barack Obama, has nowhere near that kind of appeal for them.

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The Islamization of London: A Photo Tour

When I arrived in London in September it had been more than forty years since I had last spent any time in the city

Police procedures mandate that Muslim officers be included on the scene in cases where Islamic “sensitivities” might be an issue.

This is what London has come to. Halal food in all schools. No eating in front of your Muslim colleagues during Ramadan. Special accommodations for Muslims in public buildings. Officially sanctioned Sharia courts.

And above all, no “racist” speech. Muslims may gather and scream “Death to those who insult Islam!” with impunity. But a non-Muslim who objects to the spread of Sharia may be arrested, charged, convicted, fined, and slapped with an Anti-Social Behavior Order (ASBO) forbidding him from taking part in any activist events for several years.

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via The Islamization of London: A Photo Tour.

The 10 Commandments of the American Religion by James Altucher

The American Religion is a fickle and false religion. Used to replace the ideologies we (a country of immigrants) escaped from with tenets that don’t withstand the test of time. With random high priests lurking all over the Internet, ready to pounce. Below are some of the tenets of the American Religion. If you think there are more, list them in the comments.

For me: I’m not religious. I want to be happy. Every day I want to do things that increase the odds of my happiness and quality of life. Every day I want to do things that reduce the obstacles to my happiness. That’s it. Nothing more.

The Ten Commandments of the American Religion

#1 Own a Home. The American Religion wants you to have a home with a white picket fence. Why would the high priests of the American religion want that?

* So then you owe the banks money for 30 years or more (after second, third, fourth mortgages). The banks need to borrow from your checking account at 0.5% and then lend right back to you at 8%. That’s how they make money and its one of the largest industries in the country.

* So you are not flexible as to where you can move. The job market is ruled by supply and demand. Supply of jobs in an area is finite. So they want to make sure you can’t move so quickly so that demand only goes up (you can’t move and more and more people hit the age of 18 or higher).

* Note that many people equate owning a home with “having roots”. Its as if owning a home connects you in some immortal way with the 3 billion year old planet. Your roots are now connected to it. It’s linking “home ownership” with the “fear of death” that every religion attempts to assuage (through “heaven”, “reincarnation”, etc).

* [See, Why I would Rather Shoot Myself In the head than Ever Own a Home Again.]

#2 Go to college. There’s the myth that going to college leads to “a better life” or a “promised future”. Almost like how the contract Abraham had with God would lead to Judaism being a group of “chosen people”. A couple of points:

* Statistically, there’s no proof that

via The 10 Commandments of the American Religion by James Altucher.

The Ancient Evil Religion of Political Correctness ~ “The elite of the every generation would be turned over to the Professors to be indoctrinated into the new religion”

“At the beginning of the Twenty First century a new religion rose to great acclaim and with much fervor. Its followers worshiped an all-powerful god named Political Correctness and a host of minor deities including Diversity, Tolerance, Sensitivity and Inclusion. Its priests were called Professors and they were charged with passing on its teachings to the youth and guarding its most holy of secrets. Collectively, this priesthood was called Academia and they resided in their own communities called Universities. Sustained by the public treasury their power grew and their prestige spread like a swarm of locusts upon the earth.

The elite of the every generation would be turned over to the Professors to be indoctrinated into the new religion. It was at the Universities that the young were taught to despise the old ways and to reject the teachings of their parents. The old traditions, cultures, holidays, religious practices, and beliefs were reviled, trampled and belittled so that they could be replaced in the minds of the young with the new teachings of the new religion. After their period of indoctrination and training the new prostheletizers of Political Correctness would be sent forth to spread its doctrine far and wide. They became fervent missionaries of a coming Utopia and the masses were swayed by the new gospel they preached.

via The Ancient Evil Religion of Political Correctness.

Danish Psychologist: “Integration of Muslims in Western Societies is not possible”

…..In these riots, we saw Muslims who don’t practice the Islamic religion in their daily lives standing up for their culture and religion in a very aggressive way.

Copenhagen was smoking for an entire week due to several hundred of fires, and the police and firemen trying to calm the situation down were also attacked. A big part of the rioters ended up in the prison where I worked, and I therefore I had the chance to talk with them.

Almost all of them were Muslims, and they all claimed that what they have done – starting fires, attacking the police etc. – was justified since Danish society, through its pressure on integration and through reprinting the Mohammed cartoons, has proven itself to be racist and against Islam and Muslim culture.

The few Danish people among the rioters were completely different. Their explanation of their actions was predominately a search for adventure or excitement.EuropeNews:

The fourth myth is that poverty among immigrants leads to their bad social situation. In your book, you tell us that the opposite is true……………….

via Danish Psychologist: “Integration of Muslims in Western Societies is not possible”.

Similarities Between Islam and Communism

When many people think of Islam they tend to believe that which they have been told endlessly by politicians, journalists, academics, and other sources of presumed authority that Islam is simply a religion .

If I was pressed to define Islam in terms that many in the West are far more familiar with, I would equate it with Communism with the difference being instead of the superiority of the State, the Laws of the State, and the Party Leaders being the final authority in Communism, Islam replaces the State with Allah, the State Laws with the Koran and the Hadith, and the Party Leaders with the Imams.Further investigation leads to numerous other similarities. In Communism one is expected to fully surrender themselves to the dictates of the State while Islam demands on surrendering themselves to Allah and the defined laws attributed to Allah by Muhammad.

Communism grants to the Party Leaders the power to define the desires and rules of the State while Islam gives the power to issue religious edicts known a Fatwas to the Imams. In addition, the Imams also have the power to choose which verses of the Koran, as many are contradictory, the faithful must follow and also interpret the Hadiths and define the actions attributed to Muhammad which are to be imitated by true followers of Islam.

Should Islam Be Classified as a Religion?

Free RepublicBrowse · Search Pings · Mail News/ActivismTopics · Post ArticleSkip to comments.Should Islam Be Classified as a Religion?New English Review ^ | Rebecca BynumPosted on Monday, January 31, 2011 5:45:44 PM by ventanax5The title of my new book, Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion, seems to have provoked some controversy. Many people assume I must be overstating the case and have summarily dismissed my thesis without bothering to read the arguments and even attacking a third party for defending it. The U.S. Department of Justice weighed in on the controversy during the Murfreesboro mosque hearings.U.S. Attorney Jerry E. Martin said his office and the Department of Justice had been watching the lawsuit unfold and couldn’t sit idly by as the opponents questioned whether Islam is a religion or a political movement bent on supplanting United States laws with Muslim laws.“All three branches of government have repeatedly recognized Islam as a religion,” Martin said Monday during an afternoon press conference. “Presidents, as far back as Lincoln and Jefferson and as recent as President George W. Bush, have, indeed, publicly recognized Islam as one of the world’s largest religions.”Excerpt Read more at newenglishreview.org …

Rev. Franklin Graham: Islam ‘evil’

Rev. Franklin Graham: Islam ‘evil’

Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of Rev. Billy Graham, called Islam “wicked” and “evil” on Sunday during a televised town hall-style discussion about American’s feelings about the religion.

“They want to build as many mosques and cultural centers as they possibly can so they can convert as many Americans as they can to Islam,” Graham said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Graham went on to profess his love for “the Muslim people,” but said he has “great difficulty with the religion.”

“Especially with Sharia law and what it does for women – toward women, toward non-believers, the violence that is given in – under Sharia law,” Graham said.

Obama Seed To Socialize Jesus and Corrupt Christianity

Obama Seed To Socialize Jesus and Corrupt Christianity
WorldNetDaily ^ | Today | Joe Kovacs

Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2010 1:07:54 PM by RandysRight

Jesus was no politician, nor did he want anything to do with politics or earthly power. Even Jesus screamed called his own religious leaders vipers on snakes, dean of thieves and destroyed the money makers in front of Gods Temple. The progressives always screaming about keeping state and church separate, except when it serves their socials agenda. Jesus will not be used by earthly politicians in his name.

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By Joe Kovacs © 2010 WorldNetDaily

PALM BEACH, Fla. – Is President Obama, who once demeaned Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount as “radical,” actively trying to socialize Jesus and corrupt Christianity?

Rush Limbaugh The answer is yes, according to conservative radio giant Rush Limbaugh, who is claiming the commander in chief is not only trying to socialize America, but also the Christian religion by twisting Scripture.

The top-rated host made the allegation today during discussion of Obama’s profession of faith yesterday in Albuquerque, N.M.

Limbaugh focused in on Obama’s statement of “being my brother’s and sister’s keeper, treating others as they would treat me.”

“The reason why this is important is there’s an effort by the left to say that Jesus was a socialist,” said Limbaugh, “and they are using this to turn many evangelical people into global-warming people. We are the stewards of the planet and so forth. There’s an ongoing effort here to corrupt Christianity.”

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During yesterday’s backyard town-hall meeting in Albuquerque, Obama had explained:

I’m a Christian, uh, by choice. Um, you know, my family didn’t – frankly, they weren’t, uh, folks who went to church every – every week. Um, my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didn’t, uh, raise me in the church. Uh, so I came to, to, uh, my Christian faith later in life, uh, and it was because the, the, the, precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead – being my brother’s and sister’s keeper, treating others as they would treat me … also understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we’re sinful, and we’re flawed, and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God. But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day. I think my public service is a part of that effort to express my Christian faith.

The video was posted online by Christian Broadcasting Network and also is embedded:

Stressing he was not disputing the president’s profession of Christianity, Limbaugh went into a detailed analysis of Obama’s remarks, noting:

There’s a lot of people who do not know details of their own religious belief. But the Golden Rule is not a precept of Christianity. I hate to point this out, but the Golden Rule does not emanate, originate, from Christianity. And this brother’s keeper business? That’s not Jesus. I hate to say this, but Jesus Christ did not talk about brother’s keeper. That is from the story of Cain and Abel, and even that story is misunderstood. The story of Cain and Abel – my brother’s keeper does not mean, “I’m going to take care of my brother or take care of my sister.” The story of Cain and Abel, Cain killed Abel, and then he said he had no idea. He denied it. He denied killing Abel, and then said to God, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Meaning, “What, is he my responsibility? He’s not my responsibility, I didn’t kill my brother.” Now, a lot of people misunderstand all this, but the Golden Rule doesn’t come from Christianity, and Cain and Abel is not, “I’m going to take care of my brother and I’m going to take care of my sister,” and Jesus Christ has nothing to do with either one of them.

The Bible actually does talk about the principle of reciprocal care for others, with Jesus Himself stating, “Do for others what you would like them to do for you.” (Matthew 7:12, New Living Translation)

Even in the Old Testament, the command is given to “love your neighbor as yourself.” (Leviticus 19:18, NLT)

But Limbaugh said similar ideas had been circulated in ancient Babylon long before biblical Scripture is thought to have been written.

“The early incarnations of the Golden Rule are found in the Code of Hammurabi: an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,” he noted.

Limbaugh said Obama’s voicing of the “brother’s keeper” concept is a distortion of Christianity:

“This is where Obama now says that public service is part of an effort to express his Christian faith, that Christianity is socialism, that Jesus Christ was a socialist. Jesus Christ was apolitical. He got involved in no political ideology whatsoever.”

Limbaugh took issue with Obama’s governing style, suggesting it might not be Christ-like.

“How is his Christian faith guiding the way he’s dealing with Republicans? I mean he’s urging everybody not to listen to Republicans, don’t make arrangements with Republicans.”

And saying he was reluctant to point it out, Limbaugh also wondered about Obama’s perceived lack of compassion for his own relatives in Africa.

“Obama’s brother is still living in a hut – a 6-by-9-foot, un-air-conditioned, no-running-water, no-electricity hut in Kenya, outside Nairobi, somewhere over there. Twenty dollars. Guy lives on a dollar a year. Twenty bucks would be the equivalent of winning the lottery. And Obama has not reached out to keep his brother.”

This is not the first time Obama’s referencing of the Bible has caused controversy. On June 28, 2006, Obama addressed a conference in Washington, D.C., finding fault with both Old Testament instructions as well as Jesus’ famous Sermon on the Mount in the 5th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew:

And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson’s, or Al Sharpton’s? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount – a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? So before we get carried away, let’s read our Bibles. Folks haven’t been reading their Bibles.

Clips of the speech were later made into commercials during the 2008 presidential campaign.

The Real Reason Obama Supports Reverend Wright

Approximately two decades ago, while he was working as an activist in Chicago, Obama came to the Trinity Church in order to hear its pastor Jeremiah Wright. Obama was not particularly religious; in fact, when pastors asked which church he attended, he typically hemmed and hawed. But, in The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes, “I was drawn to the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change.” Trinity, Obama had heard, was that kind of church. Obama’s interest was sharply boosted when he saw a sign spiked into the grass outside the church building: FREE SOUTH AFRICA.

In the Reverend Wright, Obama encountered a man who frequently wore a dashiki or other African garb. A charismatic figure who was also an intellectual, Wright was capable of moving between the First World and the Third World, and of blending literary and political references with his biblical themes.

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Is Sharia Law Creeping Into American Lives?

The Muslims downplay the above question by scoffingly answering in the negative despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Of course getting devious answers from Muslims is to be expected; that is, until they are ready to threaten a lawsuit due to being offended.The February 19, 2010 online Bear Creek Ledger TN writer Toni stated “You can see the tell tale signs of creeping Sharia Law Islamic law through lawsuits and demands made by Muslims in America on an almost daily basis.

Whether it’s the Somali Muslim cabdrivers Mpls.,MN who refuse to pick up fares who have been consuming alcohol to disabled people with a service canine or it could be something like Muslims demanding foot baths in a public building, it’s the incremental creep of imposing Sharia Law in the US.”

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Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

Glenn Beck’s efforts to transform himself from Fox News demagogue into a religious leader for Tea Party America has a lot of commentators discussing the feasibility of a Mormon convert leading a wary evangelical and Catholic right in a faith-driven cause.

While there are significant roadblocks hindering Beck’s quest for leadership in the Christian Right, he wouldn’t be the first Mormon to advocate a right-wing alliance that stretches across faiths.

Beck follows hundreds of Mormon “pro-family” activists who have united with conservative Catholics and evangelicals to form a common front in the culture wars.

The Sword & Shield to Stop the Islamization of America

This is an encouraging paper, because it explains the moral and constitutional justifications to stop the islamization of our country. We face a grave threat – the Muslims are infiltrating our country and taking over. We seem powerless to resist:

Our governments won’t acknowledge the threat; we are told Muslims have “constitutional rights” to come here, proselytize everywhere, build mosques, and implement shariah in their communities and in the public square; and our governments are letting them do it.The Muslims seek to replace our Constitution with shariah – their totalitarian political, economic, military, social & legal system – with the goal of incorporating our Country into a global Islamic caliphate.They are making progress in islamicizing our Country because we are not resisting.

And the dreadful message we are getting from all sources is that our Constitution renders us powerless to resist islamization. But read on, and I will show you how our Constitution & Declaration of Independence – properly understood – actually give our federal, State & local governments justification and authority to stop the islamization of our Country.

Once we understand two things, it becomes clear what we may – and must – do:One : Islam is not a “religion” in the sense we understand religion. Islam is about TOTAL POWER. It is a system which controls every aspect of the lives of those who have the misfortune to be subjected to it. It masquerades as a religion, but once we understand that it is just another totalitarian system – like soviet communism, we can deal with it and defeat it.

Once in place, Islam is enforced with stone-age barbarism. It masquerades as a religion to recruit gullible fools who become suicide bombers, and to provide “cover” for officials in the Western countries who, indoctrinated with the Lies of multiculturalism & political correctness, look for an excuse to do nothing.

How ‘moderate’ Muslims are Islamizing America

Based on an audacious six-month undercover operation in which three young investigators pretended to convert to Islam and became interns at the notorious Council on American-Islamic Relations, “Muslim Mafia” exposes the vast but little-reported subversion of America by the dangerous Muslim Brotherhood – parent organization of al-Qaida, Hamas and other front-line terror groups.The book’s frightening allegations are well supported by more than 12,000 pages of confidential, internal CAIR documents secretly extracted during the unprecedented undercover investigation.

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The Hypocrites of The Left

When Muslims want to engage in an activity which is insulting to non-Muslims, the left calls opposition to such activity as racist or bigoted or Islamophobic.

After all, Muslims have a Constitutional right to build where they want regardless of whom it may offend.But when that wacko from Florida wanted to burn a Quran, did the left support him? Did they call the President a racist for criticizing what the preacher wanted to do? Did they call General Petraeus a bigot for asking the preacher not to do what he wanted because it might offend some group?Doesn’t an American citizen have the right to do any lawful act even if the act is insulting, disrespectful, offensive? Liberals say,

“No.” Only a Muslim has the right to be insulting, disrespectful, offensive.Why the double-standard?Don’t bother answering, I know why: because any enemy of America is a friend to the left. If the dominant religion of our country were Muslim and our society Capitalist I ask for your willing suspension of disbelief at the oxymoron and Christians wanted to build a church near a site that showed disrespect for the memory of those who died there, the left would be supporting Christians and they would be calling Muslims bigots and racists.If the presence of Christians would help bring the downfall of our Capitalist society, then the left would be supporting them with all their heart and all their might.

What we have witnessed is not a fight for religious freedom, that’s nonsense. What the left is fighting for is the overthrow of our system of government, our Capitalist way of life, of our property rights and our individual freedom.That is why Obama took the side of the Muslims and against the side of the Christian pastor. Not because he favors Muslims, although he does, but because he desires the destruction of Capitalism.

So far he’s doing a good job.

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I Have A Bone To Pick With Beck

I’m a Beck fan. I’m convinced that he is doing America an enormous service. Beyond that, this Beck video clip, linked here at NRB is a must see. Really. Go watch it before you even read this. Excellent stuff.That said — and I trust you’ve seen the video now … no cheating — during the course of that monologue, speaking of Israel and the Arabs, Beck repeated an error that one frequently hears about matters in the Middle East, and which just frosts my tail.SNIP

It may be possible that the idea of religious war, of holy war in the sense that we understand it today, may have been introduced to Europe’s conceptual vocabulary by the encounter with the Arabs.

That holy war, war specifically for the faith, war for the purpose of spreading an ideology, or its dominance — an idea the 20th century became all too familiar with — may be a uniquely Mohammedan, and Arab, invention, as of 632

Have we learned anything in 9 years? Not much

What have we learned in the nine years since history’s most devastating attack on America by Islamic terrorists?Not much.

We’re still involved in two seemingly endless wars half-way around the world that don’t seem to have any coherent objectives or definitions of victory.Meanwhile, back home where the attack took place, we’re planning to allow a Muslim Brotherhood front group to build a victory mosque.The attack of Sept. 11, 2001, remains a dark cloud in America’s history with no silver lining – no awakening to the dangers we face from future subversion by the enemy responsible.It is as if Americans have a collective case of Stockholm Syndrome. Too many of us have become sympathetic to our enemy, the one that killed 3,000 of us and made the rest of us weep.

Who would have believed that only seven years after that attack Americans would elect a president raised abroad as a Muslim, bearing a Muslim name and apparently in love with all things Islamic?It would have been inconceivable. Only when he bankrupted and humiliated the country did Americans begin to wise up.The mosque at Ground Zero represents the tip of the iceberg in terms of a long-term threat to the security of this nation.

New mosques are springing up all over America – most of them funded by foreign money and controlled by the hideous ideology that form the basis for the attack of 9/11.

We’re all still screened at airports to prevent yesterday’s attack – often by Muslims wearing burkas!Islam is now taught as a religion of peace in our schools, despite 1,300 years of history to the contrary.Our media are full of accounts of an imaginary bigotry called Islamophobia.

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KORAN BURNERS AND MOSQUE BUILDERS ARE THE SAME

The Koran burning and the Ground Zero mosque are the same thing.They are both legal, and they are both wrong. They are impolite, cruel and hurtful, and protected by the Constitution.Good people would do neither.But good people aren’t behind either.Yes, the loony pastor in Florida is wrong to burn Korans as a protest. But, yes, for the exact same reasons, the loony imam in New York is wrong to put a mosque within the blood splatter of Ground Zero.Yet, ironically, the Obama Administration calls one action “protected” and the other “idiotic.”And the same people who defend burning the flag as free speech denounce burning the Koran as religious intolerance.The double standards on this deal are nauseating.First, as to Saturday. In Florida, where a tiny church has threatened to burn copies of the Muslim Koran, a PR stunt has made a flake a star, and brought attention to one more loser who craves it.He claims his Christianity compels him to burn the Muslim book.He is wrong. Christianity compels no such thing.Yes, Christianity compels him – and all believers – to reject Islam as a means of salvation. Christianity teaches that only through faith in and obedience to Jesus Christ can mankind be saved. Christianity teaches that the Koran is spiritual falsehood and confusion, akin to the idolatry and false gods of the Old Testament.But Christianity also teaches a simple standard for dealing with others:

Treat them the way you yourself would want to be treated. Not the way they have treated you – that is the devil’s plan of revenge and lowest-common-denominator relations – but the way that you would want to be treated.And it is clear that no one – including this pastor in Florida – would want a symbol of their faith treated in a disrespectful way. It’s simply not courteous, neighborly or Christian.

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Will Obama Support the Quran Burners?

Will President Obama stand up for the rights on Quran-burning Christians to practice their religion and express their freedom of speech as they choose, just as he intervened in the local matter of whether it makes sense to build a $100 million mosque at Ground Zero…

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Islam Is Not A Religion, It Is Foreign Law

What legitimate religion would demand that its members either kill or convert people of other faiths? What legitimate religion is intent on imposing its own laws on the rest of the entire world? If Islam were just about praying to Allah and worshiping Mohammed and nothing more, we would not be having a problem with Islamism and Islamic terrorists. Islam has a global mission to take over and run the world according to Islamic Shariah law. How can we call that a religion?

What legitimate religion in this country comes with its own civil laws that take precedence over national, state, and local laws? No, Islam is not a religion. It is a governing doctrine that not only dictates religious beliefs, but also social behavior that includes laws, penalties and punishments, not by God, but by people if the laws are not obeyed. Islam is a form of government, not a religion. It does not belong here. We already have government under our Constitution sort of.As Muslims build their mega-Mosques in our nation – financed by Saudi Arabia – they laugh at the stupid Americans who are selling out their fellow citizens by allowing Islam to take over our country a little bit at a time. It is the same method used over decades by the Marxist Progressives who now have control of our government – take away our liberties one little piece at a time until full control and submission is achieved.

Dear Mr. Obama, Americans don’t trust you | The Post & Email

BECAUSE YOUR ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN YOUR FALSE WORDSby 1Dragon, blogging at Socialism is not the AnswerAug. 31, 2010 — You know, if Mr. Obama was as smart as he thinks he is, he would understand that the People question who he is and what he is because of what he is hiding. No President in history has ever sealed all of the files pertaining to his past.

Your religion has been in the news before and it continues today and with good reason. Your grandfather was a Muslim, your father was a Muslim, your stepfather was Muslim and you were registered a Muslim when you went to school in Indonesia. You went on your trip through the Middle East apologizing for America being a success. You have repeatedly tried to rewrite history by telling America that Muslims played a part in America’s past. As I have stated before, I don’t remember any Muslims traveling with Columbus, coming over on the Mayflower or signing the Constitution.

Now if this were the early 1940′s and your last name was Shultz or Yamato, even more people would question you.I’m sure that all Muslims are not terrorists, but when the World Trade Center was destroyed, there was dancing in the streets throughout the Muslim world. This is one reason why people don’t like Muslims.

You might also understand that there in a difference between a long-form birth certificate and a COLB, and since the one you posted has been proven to be a fake, it’s understandable why people think you are a fake.

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Mosques are the “Trojan Horses” of the Global Caliphate | The Post & Email

by Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely (Ret.)

What exactly is a Caliphate?A caliphate is the Islamic form of government representing the political unity and leadership of the Muslim world. The head of state Caliph has a position based on the notion of a successor to Muhammad’s political authority. It is a dream that has never been realized by Muslims and it will never be. There will always be Muslims who dream about this empire and on the other hand the power-hungry leaders will prevent any movement that could dissolve their nation-state. Therefore, Muslims are stuck in an eternal conflict between Islamists and nationalists.

What are the goals of this Caliphate?Besides uniting the Muslims, the goal is to arrange a massive army and call for Jihad against infidel states for the expansion of the Caliphate. Various caliphates have used this strategy to expand their states. The rapid Islamic expansion during the reign of the Caliphs is nothing but staggering.The reason behind that is millions of eager men willingly joining the fight with the Infidels because they believe that Allah will reward them heftily if they die. There has never been a shortage of recruits in the army. This is the same reason there is no shortage of suicide bombers today. The ultimate goal of the Caliphate would be to bring every square inch of this planet under Islam and convert/subdue all remaining Infidels.Who are behind this movement?

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Shariah for Dummies

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf claims that the U.S. Constitution is Shariah compliant. Let us examine below a few laws of Shariah to see if Imam Rauf is truthful or a fraud:1. Jihad, defined as “to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion,” is the duty of every Muslim and Muslim head of state caliph. Muslim caliphs who refuse jihad are in violation of Shariah and unfit to rule.Excerpt Read more at wnd.com …

Obama Administration Apologizes for Florida Koran Burning

This comes directly from Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay – the head of the United Nation’s human rights effort who backs the work of the Human Rights Council that coddles despotic regimes.

The Obama Administration joined the Human Rights Council in May 2009 after President Bush kept us out of it throughout his Administration.Even though Donahoe’s apology is dated August 5th and fully acknowledges and includes the OIC in her expression of “deep concern,” the OIC still demands that the Obama Adminstration“take appropriate steps to protect the sacred religious sentiments of Muslims of America and of the Muslims across the world.”Directly from the United States Mission to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva:Ambassador Donahoe Expresses Deep Concern about Attempts to Offend Members of Religious or Ethnic GroupsBelow is the text of a letter from Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay……

Is Obama effecting an Islamic takeover of the United States? | The Post & Email

CELEBRATING RAMADAN, HOSTING IFTAR DINNERS, AND SUPPORT OF THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE REVEAL OBAMA’S MUSLIM AGENDA

by Sharon Rondeau

Is the man in this picture he whom we know as “Barack Hussein Obama II,” or is it of someone else?

Aug. 24, 2010 —

In 2007, a well-known expert on the Middle East and Islam asked the question, “Was Barack Obama a Muslim?”Now, according to The Washington Post, close to one in five Americans believe he is, despite The Post’s unsubstantiated denial of it. The Christian Science Monitor also is participating in a campaign of disinformation, calling people “misinformed” in regard to the same recent poll. In a stunning display of propaganda and editorializing masquerading as journalism, CSM “staff writer” Peter Grier states:Washington — Wow – a substantial and growing number of Americans believe President Obama is Muslim.

That’s what a new Pew Research Center poll says, anyway.Fully 18 percent of respondents to the Pew survey picked “Muslim” when asked Obama’s religion, up from 11 percent who answered that way in March 2009.Where are Americans getting their information about Obama’s religion? We ask that because, on this subject, a substantial and growing number of them are wrong. Obama is Christian. We’ll say that up front, in case some of you are hazy on this point yourselves.

Muslim, Christian, or Marxist?

Muslim, Christian, or Marxist?

When questions came up during the campaign about Barack Obama’s religious affiliation, his aides flatly asserted that he was a “practicing Christian” and was “baptized” in the Trinity United Church of Christ.

However, some of the same questions have come up again in the wake of opinion polls finding people confused about Obama’s religious identity. Our media cannot understand the confusion. For most in the media, it is…..

The Mosque Is About Submission Not Tolerance

It is revealing, if not shocking, to see how much better average Americans understand the triumphant narrative that the construction of the mosque would unleash, than do our dumb and blind rulers.

If our elites don’t read books about jihad, they could at least scan a few titles at the Conservative Book Club to better appreciate the nature of the war radical Islam is waging against the west.

Unlike the 1930s, we are blessed with many Winston Churchills and Billy Mitchells warning us of the perils of jihad and sharia, as those two giants tried to warn us about Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.The woman protesting the ground zero mosque holding up the sign reading “ Islam builds mosques at the sites of their conquests and victories,” understands more about the nature of jihad than Bloomberg, Obama and our entire state department combined.

Obama can give an absurd, distorted, historically preposterous speech in Cairo about imagined Muslim accomplishments but the sign that reads, “You can build a mosque at ground zero when we can build a synagogue in Mecca,” reveals a deeper understanding of the Judeo-Christian/Muslim “clash of civilizations” than do all the free speech bromides of our culturally sensitive president.

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Chuck Norris – Obama: Muslim missionary? Part 2

With all the confusion and quandaries about Obama’s religion lately, I rearranged the order of this four-part series to detail today exactly what Obama believes, including his beliefs about prayer, sin, heaven, the Bible and the person of Jesus, based upon a rare in-depth interview by a religious reporter of a major newspaper publication.Excerpt Read more at wnd.com …

Barack Obama: Christian In Name Only CINO?

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The issue is to whom does he pray and does he believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, the resurrection?

Barack Obama: Christian In Name Only CINO?

By John Lillpop Friday, August 20, 2010

Barack Obama’s naive statements on the Ground Zero mosque have brought new energy to the debate over his religious affiliations.Yahoonews.com reports, in part, that nearly one in five Americans believe that Obama is Muslim: Ref 1

“Nearly one in five Americans incorrectly believe President Obama is Muslim, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. That total, 18 percent, is up from 11 percent in Pew’s March 2009 survey. “While the view that Obama is Muslim is more widespread among those who identify as Obama’s ideological opponents, the survey found that a growing number of independents also believe the myth, up 8 percent from 2009.”

Note that the word “incorrectly” as used in the Yahoo.news story is not necessarily true.Consider Obama’s actions since 1/20/09: Immediately called for shut down of GITMO Called for terrorists to be tried by civilian juries, rather than military, including Miranda rights and other rights conferred on citizens. Once in office, rushed off to a Muslim nation to deliver a speech in which he declared that America is “not” a Christian nation. Changed policy toward Israel such that that nation is treated like a gang of terrorists.

Supports, or at least does not oppose, the mosque at Ground Zero.

Secular Humanism Fizzles, Cosmic Humanism Flourishes ~ by Marsha West

August 21, 2010

Secular Humanism Fizzles, Cosmic Humanism Flourishes

It may surprise some readers to learn that secular humanism, the anti-religious, anti-supernatural belief system liberal reformers and radicals tried to foist on society has fizzled out. Their anti-God worldview failed to sway us away from our religious beliefs and from our obsession with “hidden knowledge.”

Instead of the promised Utopia, “secular humanists created two world wars and the death of 200 million.” They also created…..

Obama’s ‘problem is he was born a Muslim,’ Rev. FranklinGraham says

The influential Evangelical leader Rev. Franklin Graham said President Barack Obama was “born a Muslim” since the religion is “passed through the father’s seed,” in a CNN interview Friday.Graham’s comments came in response to the recently released Pew Research Center survey that showed nearly one in five Americans incorrectly believed Obama was a Muslim.

Graham told CNN: “He was born a Muslim. His father was a Muslim; the seed of Islam is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother.”He was born a Muslim; his father gave him an Islamic name,” the son of noted evangelist Billy Graham, said.“It’s obvious that the president has renounced Islam … the president says he is a Christian, and we just have to accept it as that,” the Samaritan’s Purse CEO added.

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THAT CRAZY FRENCHMAN Erica Carle

“QUESTION: How did the crazy Frenchman expect to gain universal acceptance for his world management system?
ANSWER: By controlling religion, public opinion, and education.“

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February 1, 2009
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The crazy Frenchman died long before IQ tests were concocted, but had they been available in the early 1800’s his score might have been one of the highest of all time. However, even high IQ nerds can have mental breakdowns, and also minds full of nutty and destructive ideas. The Frenchman’s nutty idea was to control the future of the whole world and all people–not just in his own lifetime, but forever. He expected to be in control long after he was dead because once his system was accepted, he claimed, it could never be destroyed.

The best thing to do about the crazy Frenchman and his loony ambitions would have been to ignore them. However, in his lifetime and since his death in 1857 there have been opportunists of all description who liked the idea of designing the future—especially since the crazy Frenchman wrote thousands of pages to explain every step needed to accomplish the goal. He did the heavy philosophical thinking and planning. All that the followers and lesser lights had to do was read the books and stick to the plan.

I told you the Frenchman was crazy, but he certainly was not stupid. He did know how get to people’s emotions and control their thoughts and actions. First, he devised what he called the ruler science, social science. Then he invented his own religion, the Religion of Humanity, to destroy all other religions. That’s it! That was the whole plan! The rest of his writing is “how-to” explanation. It is very boring and difficult reading, but fascinating to self-appointed world savers, managers and religion inventors. Even though you might not share the fascination, I do hope you will try to understand where his nutty ideas are leading.