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Al-Shabaab Terrorists To UK Muslims: Grab Your BBQ Knives And Start Killing Non-Muslims

11/18/2013 2 comments
The "slaves of Allah" who hide their face from all today will all be hiding from the face of God tomorrow ...

These “slaves of Allah” who hide their face from all today will all be hiding from the face of God tomorrow …

Revelation 6:15-17, “And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?'”

By Gary Young and Amardeep Bassey, Mirror – “His face is hidden but the voice spouts a hate-filled message that is becoming increasingly familiar.

The hooded Islamic fundamentalist calls out to the ‘disbelievers who dominate our lives and lands’.

It is a well-rehearsed argument that for years now has featured in jihadist propaganda the globe over.

But never before has a terror video been so directly aimed at potential recruits in Britain.

The hour-long tape was released last month by the al Qaida-linked Somali jihadi group al-Shabaab, which boasts about its British martyrs.

The masked narrator lists British towns and cities where he claims recruits have come from – and top of the list is Birmingham.

He also issues a chilling message to followers about bombs and other weapons – suggesting that if would-be terrorists cannot gain access to explosives they should improvise.

‘A simple knife from your local B&Q will do the job,’ he adds.

The subversive message is seen as so threatening that the content of much of the video cannot be reported because of legal reporting restrictions and laws forbidding the incitement of terrorism.

But the Sunday Mercury viewed the hour-long tape released last month by the group.” Read more.

Flashback: ‘What Are You Waiting For?’ – Al-Qaeda Calls On US Muslims To Buy Guns And Start Killing Americans – “If an event were to occur in the world that would be eschatologically pivotal for Muslims this would be sure to awaken any radical elements within the Muslim population, regardless of where they live, and even radicalize some of those who were previously considered ‘moderate’… If we are complacent into believing that any such scenario could never happen or is highly unlikely, we don’t need to look far before we come face to face with the sobering reality that Islamic terrorist cells are, today, already forming within our own borders.” Read more.

American Jihadist In Syria: We’ve Come To Spread Sharia Over The Earth, And We’ll Kill Anyone In Our Way

11/18/2013 2 comments

Abu Dujana al-Amriki, an American jihadist fighting in Syria, recorded the following video vowing that he and other rebel fighters would give their lives and souls for the cause of “Allah” and his “most honorable” messenger. The Syrian army subsequently granted his death wish in Hama province …

Qur’an Sura 8:39, “And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah.”

Abu Dujana al-Amriki (the American): “In the name of Allah, the most compassionate and the most merciful… prayer and peace be upon our master, the most honorable among prophets and messengers. This is to the people of the West … We’ve come here from all nationalities to defend this land, this Islamic land, to spread the Sharia of Allah on the face of the earth and to give our lives and our souls for this jihad… We’ve come to defy all kuffar from the West … to spread the Sharia of Allah … and raise it to the highest, and we’ve come to kill anyone who comes in our way… [It] will reign high above all the parliaments and capitals of the world and with these simple weapons we’ll free these lands, and free these people, and we’ll bright the right of Islam to rule all of the entire world, over Europe and America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Africa. This is a promise from God, and we’ve come to fulfill it. Allahu akbar.”

Hadith, Saheeh Muslim 2889, “Verily Allah has shown me the eastern and western part of the earth, and I saw the authority of my Ummah (Islamic nation) dominate all that I saw.”

South Africa: TV Journalist Disciplined After Blaming Islam For Islamic Terrorism

11/18/2013 2 comments

Islamists demand that we apologize when speaking the truth, even while they’re busy spewing lies

Qur’an Sura 9:5, “… fight and slay the Pagans [non-Muslims] wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war) …”

Deen TV – “The AL JAMA-AH Political Party which has an electoral mandate from largely Muslims and a High Court order directing it to make representations on behalf Muslims with regard to the Muslim Marriages Bill will take the demand for a ban on using the terms ‘Islamic militarism’ and ‘military Islam’ in media reporting when a terrorism attack occurs further according to Party Leader Ganief Hendricks.

‘I have been asked to be the spokesman and present the case on behalf of the formal complainant Sheikh Farook Mohammed. A tribunal notice has been given for the 2 December 2013 at 10.30 at the BCCSA Boardroom in Albary Park, Magalieszicht Avenue in Dunkeld West. The SABC will be summoned and the parties will appear before the Tribunal Head Judge Bernard Ngoepe’. Said Hendricks.

The SABC has apologised on behalf of it’s journalist who blamed Islam and ‘generalised any religion when terrorism is involved’. The journalist was severely disciplined. The SABC has put a ban on referring to the religion of militants when a terrorism attack is reported and ordered that the name of the alleged organization rather be cited.

The apology was accepted but the complainant and AL JAMA-AH wants the Press ombudsman ruling overturned that if the words are banned from being used like in the TV broadcast it will be an attack on Press freedom. The complainants feel that the Press Ombudsman, Mr Retief, is with respect not carrying out his mandate. His ruling will further incite further violence as the media continues to have a free hand.

Deen TV Vice President and TV talk show Host, Faizal Sayed, added that, ‘The matter is a delicate matter but one that must be clearly defined to ensure no further related problems in the future’. He added that ‘The media is there to ensure that the authenticity of a report is delivered to the public without it being tainted with the personal notions of the reporter, especially as South African media, who hail from a county which was ravaged in a bitter oppressive past, being labelled all kinds of term without justification, and only for the world to realise later that a fair level of propagation has gone into that. So clearly something we need to steer clear of’.” Read more.

Flashback: Radical Islam Is, In Truth, The Normative Islam – “When will we believe the threat in the words of Mohammed? When will we believe the Muslims’ word when they proclaim their intention to kill us? When will we believe that they proclaim their intention to wipe Israel off the face of the map? When will we believe that they want to see the entire world including Europe and America, under submission to Islam and Muslim law?… Why do so many Western political leaders keep trying to tell us that Islam is a ‘religion of peace’?  Bombings, explosions and mass killings are certainly not demonstrations of peace.  Do our leaders support them or are they so afraid of them that they continually insist on ‘political correctness’ most often at the expense of Christians.  Will they insist on PC all the way to the grave?” Read more.

Flashback: Former Muslim’s Warning To The West: ‘Islam Is A Sick And Evil Religion’ That Will Stab You In The Back – “We will teach our children Islamic supremacy from the very childhood. We will teach them not to compromise with Infidel. Once we do that from the very early age our children won’t hesitate to be martyr. We will take over the Europe first and then US will be the next. We already have a solid ground in the UK, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Germany, and now in the US… Moderate Muslim will say there is no link between Islam and Terrorism and the West will believe it because the West is so gullible.” Read more.

German Soccer Player Turns To Islam, Develops Urge To Wage Jihad, Dies In Syria Fighting

11/18/2013 3 comments

And death and hell followed …

Qur’an Sura 4:76a, “Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah …”

Lost Soul: He only wanted to learn Arabic. Really.

Lost Soul: He only wanted to learn Arabic. Really.

The Local – “A former German footballer who represented his country seven times at youth level has been killed after joining Islamist rebels in Syria.

Burak Karan, 26, played in the youth teams with Germany’s current crop of stars including Sami Khedira and Kevin-Prince Boateng.

But in 2008 at the age of 20 he turned away from sport towards Islam, Focus magazine reported on Monday.

He travelled to Syria to join Islamist rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad where, his brother confirmed to Bild newspaper, he was killed by a bomb.

His 23-year-old wife and two children aged three and 10 months went with him to Syria, where they are believed still to be.

A video has appeared on YouTube portraying him as a engaged rebel soldier and claiming to be him, but his brother said that he was keen to dismiss this.

‘It is in Arabic. Burak wanted to learn to speak the language perfectly but he couldn’t,’ he told the Bild newspaper on Monday.

‘He didn’t want to fight,’ he said. Regarding pictures of Karan holding a gun he said: ‘He was only armed to protect his vehicles.’

‘Burak said to me that money and a career were not important to him,’ Mustafa said. He added that his brother would often search the internet for videos of war zones. ‘He was confused, and filled with sadness for the victims,’ he said.

The federal prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into whether Karan, from Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia, was helping to support an overseas terror network.

According to website transfermarket.de Karan played five times for the national U16 side and twice for the U17 team. On Monday, the website had changed its site, with ‘career ended’ written on the 26-year-old’s profile.” Source – The Local.

Flashback: ‘Greatest Threat To The West’ Is European Jihad-Tourists Returning From Syria To Carry Out Attacks – “This confirms what thinking people have known for many months, but few state authorities admit: that Western Muslims travelling to Syria to learn jihad are returning to the West in order to carry out attacks… ‘This is the conclusion in a new report from the FE that gives an insight into FE’s assessments and general work in 2011 and 2012. ‘The primary threat to the West from al-Qaeda’s involvement in Syria is Westerners who get weapons training, combat experience and contact with the militant network and then travel back to the West to carry out attacks,’ says the report.'” Read more.

Rumors Of War: Israel Said To Be Working With Saudi Arabia On Iran Strike Plan

11/16/2013 9 comments

Even though they’ll work with Israel in an attempt to neutralize an imminent Iranian threat, they’re still teaching Muslims around the world to “fight the Jews and kill them.” Saudi Arabia’s days are numbered …

Isaiah 21:1-2, “An oracle concerning the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the southland, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror. A dire vision has been shown to me: The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot. Elam, attackMedia, lay siege! I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.”

The Times of Israel – “Israel is working on coordinating plans for a possible military strike with Saudi Arabia, with Riyadh prepared to provide tactical support to Jerusalem, a British newspaper reported early Sunday.

The two countries have both united in worry that the West may come to terms with Iran, easing sanctions and allowing the Islamic Republic to continue its nuclear program.

According to the Sunday Times, Riyadh has agreed to let Israel use its airspace in a military strike on Iran and cooperate over the use of rescue helicopters, tanker planes and drones.

‘The Saudis are furious and are willing to give Israel all the help it needs,’an unnamed diplomatic source told the paper.

The report comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the midst of a blitz to lobby against a deal and cobble together an international alliance opposed to an agreement that allows Iran to continue enriching uranium.

On Sunday, Israel will welcome French president Francois Hollande, who a week earlier put the kibosh on a deal between six world powers and Iran that would ease sanctions in return for initial steps toward curbing enrichment.

Netanyahu on Friday urged France to remain firm in its pressure on Iran ahead of a new round of talks on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in Geneva, kicking off Wednesday.

After meeting Hollande, Netanyahu will head to Moscow on Wednesday to meet with President Vladimir Putin and lobby against the deal.

Iran’s bid for the bomb ‘threatens directly the future of the Jewish state,’ Netanyahu told CNN recently, in a short preview clip of an interview broadcast on Saturday. As the prime minister of Israel, he stressed, he had to care for ‘the survival of my country.’

CNN reported that Netanyahu also said in the interview that he would do whatever it was necessary to do in order to protect Israel. The full interview will air Sunday morning.

Should a deal be reached, according to the diplomatic source, a military option would be back on the table.” Read more.

Flashback: Wars And Rumors Of War

Oops: Syrian Jihadists Behead The Wrong Man, Then Apologize

11/15/2013 6 comments

Qur’an Sura 8:12b, “… terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Qur’an.”

And even if they do believe in the Qur’an, apparently. No word on whether or not he was beheaded “kindly” …

By Elad Benari, INN – “Jihadist rebels in Syria had to ask for ‘understanding and forgiveness’ after they beheaded the wrong man, the British Telegraph reports.

In a public appearance filmed and posted online, members of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), one brandishing a knife, held up a bearded head before a crowd in Aleppo.

The jihadists triumphantly described the execution of what they said was a member of an Iraqi Shiite militia fighting for President Bashar Al-Assad.

As it turned out, reported the Telegraph, the head belonged to a member of Ahrar al-Sham, which is a Sunni jihadist rebel group that often fights alongside ISIS, though it does not share its Al-Qaeda ideology.

After inquiries, an ISIS spokesman admitted the beheaded man was Mohammed Fares, an Ahrar commander reported missing some days ago.

The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, an organization which monitors deaths in the Syrian conflict, said that ISIS rebels misunderstood comments Fares had made, resulting in his beheading.

Other reports indicate that in the fog of battle, Fares – who was wounded in fighting around Aleppo – thought he had been captured by a Shiite militia, and offered up Shiite prayers in an attempt to hide his Sunni identity. Sunni Islamist fighters overheard his prayers, assumed he was a Shiite, and beheaded him.” Read more.

Flashback: Beheading Is To Islam What Stripes Are To Zebras

Islam Is A Belief Of Blood And ‘No Accommodation Or Kindness Seems To Stem The Tide Of Islamic Violence’

11/15/2013 6 comments

Hadith, Bukhari 2977, “I have been made victorious with terror” – The “Prophet” Of Islam, Mohammed

Hadith, Sahih Muslim 1:33a, “The Messenger of Allah said: ‘I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish [Islamic] prayer …” (The Shahada)

Qur’an Sura 33:21, “Indeed in Allah’s Messenger (Mohammad) you have an excellent example to follow for him who hopes in (meeting with) Allah and the Last Day …”

By Amil Imani, Islam Watch – “From Peshawar Pakistan to Nairobi Kenya, from Damascus Syria to Benghazi Libya, Muslims are on a killing rampage. The civilized world is shocked and distressed. Some mutation seems to take place in the humanness of the person the minute he announces his subservience to Islam by reciting the Shahada: ‘I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.’ The individual becomes intolerant, violent and the shedding of blood becomes central to his life.

The Greek had their gods, so did the idolater Arabs before Muhammad appeared on the scene. Muhammad chose a minor idol as god and the only god and elected the name of Allah for him. According to Muhammad, Allah is not only the god; he is the all-everything god, embodying all imaginable attributes that were previously monopolies of different gods of the polytheists.

What in fact stands out as Allah’s dominating attribute, is his intolerant and violent nature. He is nothing like the all-merciful the Quran claims. But he certainly is the most wrathful. Since commissioning Muhammad as his emissary and giving him the manual of mayhem called the Quran, the world has never seen a day of peace. Apparently that’s just the way Allah likes it.

‘The religion of peace,’ is in fact the religion of blood.

Distressed by the Muslims’ trouble-making and killing sprees, civilized nations are bending over backward in the hope of placating them and helping them join the family of humanity by admitting hordes of immigrants and affording them all manner of hospitality and assistance. All seems to no avail. Many of the new arrivals, deeply infected by the Islamic ethos, find it impossible to assimilate in the host countries. Instead, they strive to impose their defunct order that is the cause of their backwardness and inhumanity on the host people.

The non-Muslim world is at the end of its wits. No accommodation or kindness seems to stem the tide of Islamic violence. Countless numbers of proposals have been advanced in dealing with Islamic mayhem. Some feel that, in general, Muslims are law-abiding citizens of their adopted countries and it is a minority that is responsible for acts of atrocities. Thinking along these lines has prompted people to say that the solution to Islamic violence rests with Islamic leaders. That is, Islamic leaders should speak up and condemn jihad and jihadists.

To begin with, renouncing jihad violates the repeated commands of the Quran and the Hadith. No Islamic leader would dare to attempt that abrogation.” Read more.

Flashback: Report: Terrorism Hits Record High In 2012, Deaths Up 89% From Prior Year, 2013 Set To Hit New Record – “As terrorism increasingly becomes a tactic of warfare, the number of attacks and fatalities soared to a record high in 2012… More than 8,500 terrorist attacks killed nearly 15,500 people last year as violence tore through Africa, Asia and the Middle East… That’s a 69% rise in attacks and an 89% jump in fatalities from 2011… and most of the violence was committed in Muslim-majority countries… The previous record for attacks was set in 2011 with more than 5,000 incidents… This year is expected to outpace even 2012’s record high. There were 5,100 attacks in the first six months of 2013…” Read more.

Flashback: New Study Shows That 80% of Mosques in America Teach Jihad Violence and Islamic Supremacism – “… Then there was the Center for Religious Freedom’s 2005 study, and the Mapping Sharia Project’s 2008 study. Each independently showed that upwards of 80% of mosques in America were preaching hatred of Jews and Christians and the necessity ultimately to impose Islamic rule. And now comes yet more confirmation that mosques in the U.S. are teaching these things, and again the percentage is remarkably similar: around 80% of mosques are found to be teaching jihad warfare and Islamic supremacism.” Read more.

‘Global Crisis’: Christians In Islamic Nations Face Extinction, ‘Mass Exodus On A Biblical Scale’ Taking Place

11/15/2013 2 comments

Revelation 6:8, “And I looked, and behold a [chlōros – green] horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts [thērion – savage, brutal, bestial men] of the earth…”

By Matthew Holehouse, The Telegraph – “Christianity is in danger of becoming extinct in its ancient homelands because of a rising tide of sectarian attacks, a senior minister will warn on Friday.

Violence against Christian worshippers and other religious minorities by fanatics has become a ‘global crisis’ and is the gravest challenge facing the world this century, Baroness Warsi will say.

‘A mass exodus is taking place, on a Biblical scale. In some places, there is a real danger that Christianity will become extinct,’ she will say at a speech at Georgetown University in Washington.

In the new year, Lady Warsi, the Minister for Faith who sits in the Cabinet, will host an international summit to draw up a plan to end the violence against Christians – particularly in the countries where the faith was born.

Writing for Telegraph.co.uk, Lady Warsi highlights the bombing of All Saints Church in Pakistan, killing 85 congregants, in September and the gun attack on a Coptic wedding party in Egypt as the latest outrages by militants who have turned ‘religion upon religion, sect upon sect’.

‘There are parts of the world today where to be a Christian is to put your life in danger,’ she writes. ‘From continent to continent, Christians are facing discrimination, ostracism, torture, even murder, simply for the faith they follow.

‘Christian populations are plummeting and the religion is being driven out of some of its historic heartlands. In Iraq, the Christian community has fallen from 1.2m in 1990 to 200,000 today. In Syria, the horrific bloodshed has masked the haemorrhaging of its Christian population,’ she says.

Terrorists are subjecting Christians in the Middle East to ‘collective punishment’ for American foreign policy. Worshippers are now regarded as newcomers and agents of the West, despite having lived there for centuries.

The attacks come against a diverse background of political upheaval, local turf wars and social unrest – but they share the common trait of Christians becoming a ‘scapegoat’ for extremists who are insecure in their own religious identity, she will say.

It is the same mindset that motivated the Nazis to persecute the Jews and the Communists to suppress the Russian church, she says.

Lady Warsi is the first senior British politician to draw attention to the plight of Christians in the Arab world, and will call on other Muslims to defend Christians, citing the example of Christians who defended praying Muslims in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian uprising.

‘A bomb going off in a Pakistani church shouldn’t just reverberate through Christian communities; it should stir the world,’ she says.” Read more.

Unsealed: A Closer Look At Revelation 6 And ‘The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse’ – “In an April, 2012 op-ed for Arutz Sheva, Italian journalist Giulio Meotti surmised that ‘the drive for Islamic purity is going to banish all traces of pre-Islamic pasts. When the Islamists will have prevailed, the Middle East will be completely green, the colour of Islam’ [5]. In Revelation 6:8, John describes the ‘fourth horseman’ as being ‘chlōros‘, which translates literally as ‘green’… Green is the official color of Islam, and this green ‘fourth horseman’ is described as having power over the fourth part of the earth. It is no coincidence that today Islam now has dominion over a fourth part of the earth. The ‘fourth horseman’ has the power to ‘kill with sword.’ Islam is spread through Jihad, the ‘Sword of Islam.’ The ‘fourth horseman’ also kills with hunger/famine. Where Islam rises, deprivation and Sharia lawlessness quickly follows, so much so that they would even prefer to see children starve to death than to see them receive life-saving aid from the ‘Christian West.’ The ‘fourth horseman’ kills with ‘death’, and the love of death and martyrdom for the cause of ‘Allah’ permeates Islamic culture to the point where Islamists will even openly declare that they ‘love death more than you love life.’ Lastly, the ‘fourth horseman’ is described as killing with ‘the beasts of the earth.’ The Greek word for beasts is ‘thērion‘ and is very likely being used metaphorically to refer to ‘savage’, ‘brutal’ and ‘bestial’ men — a perfect description of what we are witnessing today in the radical world of Islam’s death seekers.” Read more.

Celebrating Death: Hamas Spokesman Celebrates ‘Heroic’ Murder Of Sleeping 19-Year-Old IDF Soldier

11/14/2013 2 comments

The murderer saw a sudden opportunity to draw close to “Allah” 

Hadith, Tabari 7:97, “The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, ‘Kill any Jew who falls under your power.’”

Ezekiel 35:3, 5-6, 10-11, “… ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, And I will stretch out My hand against you And make you a desolation and a waste… Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the punishment of the end, therefore as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘I will give you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you… Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the LORD was there, therefore as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.’”

Proverbs 8:36b, “… All those who hate Me love death.”

Proverbs 8:36b, “… All those who hate Me love death.”

IDF Blog – “When Hamas spokesperson Fawzy Barhoom heard that an Israeli 19-year-old soldier had been murdered, he publicly lauded the terrorist who committed the attack, and encouraged other young Palestinians to carry out similar attacks.

A Palestinian terrorist stabbed and killed an IDF soldier at the Central Bus Station in the northern city of Afula Wednesday. The soldier was Pvt. Eden Atias, from the Israeli city of Nazareth Illit.

‘Congratulations to the Palestinian West Bank hero who killed an Israeli soldier in Afula this morning,’ Hamas spokesman Fawzy Barhoom wrote on his Facebook page.

‘This is a heroic act of resistance showing that all methods of oppression and terror have not and will not succeed in stopping our people from carrying out jihad and resistance. We call on our people and the Palestinian youth to take part in the movement of the resistance, no matter the sacrifice.’

The spokesperson showed the true face of Hamas, a terrorist organization that celebrates death and seeks to destroy Israel.” Source – IDF Blog.

Flashback: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: Palestinians Who Kill Jews Cannot Be Punished – “Because to punish Palestinians for killing Jews would, in their mind, be punishing someone simply for following the commands of their ‘prophet’ Mohammed. He was, after all, a ‘perfect example for mankind‘ to follow whose teachings are ‘the fire with which’ they ‘harvest the skulls of the Jews.’ It is therefore an act of worship to kill Jews, and an act that draws them closer to ‘Allah’ is an act that must be praised, not punished …” Read more.

The Religion Of Never-Ending Threats: Hezbollah Chief Warns Of ‘War’ If No Iran Nuke Deal Is Reached

11/13/2013 1 comment

So, if the infidel West uses military force to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, there will be war. If they fail to reach a deal that allows Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, there will be war. If every last Jew in Israel refuses to drop dead, there will be war. Of course, it doesn’t matter what happens anyway, because according to the “Religion of Peace” and its immutable teachings, there will be war for the cause of “Allah.” How is any of this any different from any other day? …

Ecclesiastes 1:9b, “… there is nothing new under the sun.”

Daniel 9:26b, “The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.”

Isaiah 24:6a, “Therefore the curse [“alah“] has devoured the earth, And those who dwell in it are desolate …”

AFP – “Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned in a rare public appearance Wednesday that failure to strike a deal with ally Iran over its nuclear programme would spell ‘war in the region.’

Nasrallah, who normally appears via video link for fear of assassination by arch enemy Israel, spoke in Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold to mark the Shiite Muslim Ashura holiday.

World powers failed to reach an agreement with Iran over the weekend to curb its controversial nuclear programme in exchange for some relief from crippling Western sanctions despite marathon high-profile talks in Geneva.

The West and Israel have long suspected Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons capability alongside its civilian programme, allegations fiercely denied by Tehran.

‘What is the alternative to a deal with Iran and the countries of the world,’ he asked. ‘The alternative is war in the region.’

And he pointed the finger at Israel, accusing it of being in league with Arab countries.

‘Israel does not want any accord that would avert war in the region. It is regrettable that some Arab countries take the Israeli side in its murderous choices.'” Read more.

Israel Warns Of War From Bad Iranian Nuke Deal – ” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Wednesday that a ‘bad deal’ with Iran on its nuclear programme could lead to war and his aides challenged U.S. assertions to have offered Tehran only ‘modest’ relief from sanctions… Negotiations between Iran and six U.N. powers – the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China – are scheduled to resume on Nov. 20 …” Read more.

Flashback: Chewing Quds

‘Monumental’: Islamist Super-Bloc Begins Forming In The Middle East

11/12/2013 3 comments

Tip of the hat to Joels Trumpet for the link. Although a strategic alliance between the Shias (Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon) and the Sunnis (Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt-Gaza) will never fully erase the division that exists between both branches of Islam, their collaboration will certainly be enough to instill fear in the hearts of Egypt’s military rulers whom Turkey views as “the enemy”, the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia whom Iran views as the “enemy of Islam” and Israel, of course, who is viewed as the enemy of them all. These are sobering times for all students of Bible prophecy. As events therefore continue to unfold, “let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober” …

Revelation 17:13, 17, “These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast… For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.”

2 Thessalonians 2:8, “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.”

By Ryan Mauro, The Clarion Project – “A monumental strategic shift is taking place in the Middle East as an Islamist super-bloc is forming. Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood are making up with Iran and Hezbollah. Egypt and the Gulf states are forming their own alliance. The U.S. outreach to Iran and the Brotherhood has left it missing from the equation.

The Syrian civil war has pitted the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey against Iran, Hezbollah, Iraq and the Syrian regime since 2011. Now, with a bloody stalemate resulting in consequences each side fears, the two sides are looking for ways to make amends.

Turkey has been trying to move its relationship with Iran past the ancient Ottoman-Persian rivalry for years. The Erdogan government gave secret U.S. intelligence to Iran and in early 2012, informed Iran about ten of its nationals meeting with Israeli intelligence inside Turkey.

One of the architects of the Turkish-Iranian relationship is Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, who the Israeli Defense Minister described as a ‘friend of Iran.’ Some Israeli officials privately refer to him as the ‘station chief in Ankara’ for Iranian intelligence.

These statements about Fidan’s role is not hype. The recent U.S. ambassador to Turkey and Iraq, James Jeffrey, put it this way: ‘Hakan Fidan is the face of the new Middle East.’

Until recently, the bitter civil war in Syria blunted Fidan’s aspirations. Turkey’s ideological ally, the Muslim Brotherhood, is trying to overthrow Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, Iran’s most valuable ally. But now both sides are exhausted. The war is costly, bloody and no one is gaining anything by its continuance.

Turkey sees Al-Qaeda affiliates taking control of the Syrian rebel cause and Kurdish militias gaining control near the border. The cost of overthrowing Assad would be exorbitant. Al-Qaeda and the Kurds would be even stronger and sectarian warfare will exasperate the refugee crisis.

Assad’s Iranian and Russians backers want him (or at least his regime) to remain in power for strategic reasons, but both have to realize that his forces are overstretched and cannot hope to reclaim the entirety of the country.

High-level Turkish and Iranian officials are meeting with the expressed purpose of ending the sectarian conflict. An unnamed senior Turkey official told Reuters, ‘Both Iran and Turkey are at a point where they think they can work together on Syria.’

Turkey has become the ‘regional hub for the Muslim Brotherhood’s international organization.’ It also hosts a Hamas command post.  If Turkey is reaching out to Iran, it must be assumed that the Brotherhood is doing the same.” Read more.

Flashback: The Time Of The End

Muslim Persecution Of Christians: August 2013, ‘Their Goal Was To Erase All The Traces Of A Christian Presence’

11/12/2013 2 comments

Matthew 10:22, “And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.”

By Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute – “The attacks on Egypt’s Coptic Christians and their churches that began in July on the heels of the popular June 30 Revolution — which saw the ousting of President Morsi and prompted the Muslim Brotherhood to scapegoat and incite violence against the Copts — became even more brutal in mid-August after security forces cleared out Brotherhood ‘sit in’ camps, where people were being tortured, raped, and murdered. Among other things, over 80 Christian churches were attacked and often torched. (Click here for a brief video of one of these many churches set aflame.)

Upper Egypt, especially Minya, which has a large Christian minority, was hit especially hard, with at least 20 attacks on churches, Christian schools and orphanages. ‘The Islamists,’ one resident said, ‘burnt and destroyed everything. Their goal was to erase all the traces of a Christian presence; even the orphanages were looted and destroyed.’ After storming the Prince Tadros el-Shatbi Church, Morsi supporters turned their attention to two homes for disadvantaged children located near the parish church; there, they stole church offerings, clothes, and children’s games before torching the entire building in a fire that lasted over five hours.

The attacks were not limited to inanimate objects. According to the BBC, 10-year-old Jessi Boulus, an only child, was walking home from her Bible class in a working-class area of the capital when a gunman killed her with a single shot to the chest. Her mother, Phoebe, devastated, believes Jessi was targeted purely because she was Christian.

The attacks on Egypt’s Christians were so fierce that, at one point, when they started to run out of food, they were afraid to come out of their homes for fear of being killed by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Many churches canceled services. Even at the Virgin Mary monastery, which was also torched, one priest said, ‘We did not hold prayers in the monastery on Sunday for the first time in 1,600 years.’

Although some in the West assert that the Christian minority needs to fight fire with fire, when one 60-year-old Copt tried to do just that, firing a gun in the air to scare away an invading Islamic mob, ‘It proved a fatal error,’ the Sunday Times reported: ‘They took offence at the fact that a Christian fired in the air against them, and they stormed his home and shot him to death before taking his body away and hacking it into parts.’

Scenes reminiscent of the original Islamic conquest of Seventh Century Egypt replayed themselves: an Evangelical church in the village of Bedin was not only attacked but converted into a mosque. Similarly, as reported by the AP, ‘After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like ‘prisoners of war’ before

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