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Quote: State Senator Larry Shaw and CAIR's president called Christians extremists!

In an interview in the FayObserver posted yesterday, the president of CAIR, Larry Shaw, who is also a State Senator from North Carolina, was quoted as saying Christians were extremists:

"...You have extremists on the right," the seven-term senator said. "Christians, Ku Klux Klan, Nazis. All kinds of Islamic fanatics. All of them claim to speak for the majority, and that's unfortunate."

Shaw has been chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, since March. The 15-year-old advocacy group with about 15,000 members has been the target of critics, especially since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S.

Unless Shaw was misquoted here and the paper issues a correction, or I am reading this entirely wrong which I don't think I am,  this senator owes a written apology to all Christians. He could have misspoken which requires a written clarification, as well.

 There are no global movements seeking to create a fundamentalist Christianic state in countries throughout the world.  Nor are there Christianic terrorists attackings others daily in the name of their religion. 

But there are Islamist movements. 

Orthodox priest murdered in Russia after being threatened

A young Russian priest, who had received threatening e-mails for preaching to Muslims about Christianity, was murdered last night in Russia by a man wearing a surgical mask who walked up to him in his church, Church of the Apostle Thomas in Moscow:

...The gunman approached priest Daniil Sysoyev, 34, in St Thomas Church in southern Moscow Thursday night, checked his name and then opened fire with a pistol, a spokesman for the investigating committee of the Prosecutor-General's office said.

...Sysoyev was from Tatarstan, a predominantly Muslim region of Russia on the Volga river. He was threatened after preaching to Muslims and Christians from other denominations.

...Russia is home to Europe's largest Muslim community (about 20 million) and Islam is the country's second-biggest faith, something which Sysoyev criticized.

...Russia's Chief Mufti Ravil Gainuddin expressed his condolences to the Orthodox Church and to Sysoyev's family. He cautioned against assigning blame prematurely or speculating about the motives for the killing.

Rifqa Bary ordered to return to Ohio by Florida judge

A Florida judge has ordered teenage runaway, Rifqa Bary, to return to her home state of Ohio, after proof her immigration papers are in order.  A hearing is set for October 23rd to address these issues prior to the transfer.  Once in Ohio, she will be placed in foster care. 

Bary ran away from home for fear she would be killed or harmed by her father after she converted to Christianity.  Her parents are Muslims.

CAIR complains about Bible Study form - school apologizes

CAIR, sprung from the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America, wrote a formal letter to Huron Park Elementary in Roseville, Michigan complaining that Bible study forms from a neighborhood church were sent home with students was inappropriate.

CAIR, is probably the most two-faced Islamist organization in America!  They won't hesitate to ask that Muslim students be released from school for Friday prayers, or send 100,000 Qurans to public officials or go into your child's school to speak about Islam and painting it as a natural progression from Christianity. 

As an unidicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding trial, CAIR's reputation is significantly tainted.  Yet, schools and politicians cave to them in disturbing ways.

Pope meets with president of Pakistan over treatment of Christians

Video of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari as he met with Pope Benedict XVI today at the papal residence in Castel Gandalfo. :

Rifqa Bary to remain in Florida - parents file complaint

For now Rifqa Bary, the Christian teenager who ran away from home, will remain in Florida a judge ruled today.  But Ohio is likely to seek jurisdiction. 

Also,  her parents filed a complaint with the Florida police department against the Christian family who first helped her after she arrived in Florida,  They called authorities on her behalf right away, if I recall correctly.

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Baptist Minister speaks about Rifqa Bary

Ergun Caner is a Baptist minister who lives in Virginia with his wife and kids.  Recently, he was interviewed about Rifqa Bary, the 17 year-old girl who fled her home in Ohio to Florida out of fear for her life after she converted to Christianity. 

It might interest you to know that Caner, too, was a Muslim in Ohio who became a Christian at age 16:

"...In her Aug. 30 sworn affidavit, the 17-year-old (Bary) said in June her father was pressured by leaders of the family mosque, the Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Columbus, to deal with reports they had received concerning Rifqa’s Christian conversion.

“In a fit of anger that I had never seen before in my life, he picked up my lap top, waived it over my head as if to strike me with it and said, ‘If you have this Jesus in your heart, you are dead to me! You are no longer my daughter,’” Rifqa said in the affidavit.

...Brian Williams, a 21-year-old friend of Rifqa, contacted FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) on Aug. 28, noting that he filed a report with the Columbus Police Department that she had told him about her father’s threat and her mother finding Christian materials in July. Williams also told FDLE he baptized Rifqa in June. He also said he drove Rifqa from a friend’s house to the bus station when she decided to flee.

...The FDLE report noted during the Aug. 27 interview with the Bary family, two officials of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) were present, including CAIR attorney Romin Iqbal who characterized honor killings as “cultural and tribal, not related directly to the Islamic religious practice.”

...According to Ergun Mehmet Caner, the FDLE report is an example of “political correctness” that may endanger Rifqa’s life.  “Her blood, which is almost certain to be shed if returned, is on their hands. The police and judicial branch in Florida were her last hope,” Caner said in a Sept. 15 interview with Florida Baptist Witness..."

Carner also told the Witness that a fatwa for his death was issued last year and he takes extra security precations.  He said “Death for apostasy from Islam is firmly rooted in the most sacred Muslim texts,” citing the Qur’an and the Hadith, collections about Islam’s prophet, Muhammad.“There is also a consensus by all four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, as well as Shi’ite jurists, that apostates from Islam must be put to death,” he said.  Rifqa, he said, brings dishonor to her family by her Christian faith. 

He was critical, too,  that CAIR was present during an interview with Bary's family.

Goveror Strickland of Ohio apparently issued a statement on the 11th that Rifqa should be returned to Ohio where officials there can protect her.

Fatwa in Egypt: Sin to construct churches

(photo from Washington DC rally for Coptic Christians)   

It's well known that it is hard to get a church built in a country under Sharia Law.  In Egypt recently controversy rose over a clarification fatwa that seems to emphasize Sharia law's Islamic supremacy goals: 

A controversial Fatwa (Islamic edict) prohibiting the construction of new churches in Egypt has provoked considerable discussion and spiraled into a crisis, involving the FatwaCouncil, Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh, Christian and Muslim religious personalities, and the media. It was also reported on 8/26/2009 that the jurists who issued the Fatwa are under investigation on orders of the Grand Mufti and the Justice Minister (z: probably just for show) 

The Fatwa (Arabic) in question was issued by the Al-Azhar affiliated "Dar el-Eftta" -- Fatwa Council for Islamic interpretations of laws in Islam. It stated "the will of a Muslim towards building a Church is a sin against God, just as if he left his inheritance towards building a nightclub, a gambling casino, or building a barn for rearing pigs, cats or dogs."

To highlight the reason for this "sin" the Fatwa went on to state: "Salvation in the Christian religion is the belief in Jesus as Lord, where Muslims fundamentally disagree on it. Muslims believe that Issa [Jesus in Arabic] peace be upon him, is a slave of Allah and His Messenger, and that Allah is one. He begets not and He is not begotten and there is none like unto Him. So if it is seen that one sect has deviated from this absolute Monotheism, then according to that person's own religion he is forbidden to donate for the erection of buildings where Allah is not worshiped alone."

A Coptic priest in Egypt, Rev. Estefanos Shehata, who has tried for two years to convert part of his home into a church had a death fatwa issued against him recently.

These are the Islamic laws that American Muslim leaders need to stand up against but won't.  You have to ask yourself why.

When President Mubarak of Egypt visited President Obama last month, Egyptian Coptic Christians Protested for Human Rights, Equality in Washington.

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U.S. Copts Association

Free Copts

Copts United

Court to rule on jurisdiction of Christian convert Rifqa Bary

A court hearing is underway in Tampa, Florida regarding 17 year-old Rifqa Bary, a Christian convert from Islam, who fears for her life.

WDBO is live blogging the hearing here.  Below is the latest:

This case is about jurisdiction, whether she can stay in the care of the Florida Department of Children and Families, or whether she has to be turned over to Ohio authorities.

..."Rifqa wants to be here," said one of her lawyers.

....update: A hearing is set for September 3rd at 2:30 p.m.  A dependency petition will be argued at that time.

update:  Rafqa is making her statement to the court. "I've been a christian for 4 years of my life. I love my parents but I am in fear of my life because of the past abuse. I assure your honor Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I am a Christian, a believer."

...Rifqa will spend some time with her younger brothers, but does not want to meet with her parents at this time.

update: Rifqa is staying in a foster home. Her foster parents are not willing to allow supervised visitation of Rifqa's family or friends right now. The judge is recommending DCF take charge of the issue and hold these meetings in an outside location where it can be videotaped. 

...The hearing ended at 4:07 p.m.

The judge has ruled jurisdiction is in Florida, for now.

Update 8/24/09:  Not surprisingly, Time Magazine, which is owned by Timer Warner who also owns CNN,  - both spinners of the leftist ideology, hints in an article titled, A Florida Culture-War Circus Over Rifqa Bary, that if Bary's story is false this "saga" could be the result of a Crusades-era belief brainwashing and that Rifqa left home after a "dispute", rather than fear for her life as Rifqa said herself. A Muslim writer, Mohammad Anwar, wasted no "time" in his piece Case of Rifqa Barry, another attempt to defame Islam to bolster his claim that Bary's case is an attempt to defame Islam and spread hate against the religion and there is no such thing as honor killing in Islam. 

Yet, in Pakistan today, it was reported a man killed his wife and two daughters over honor.  And on the 13th of August, the Vancouver Sun reported Honour killings' of girls and women on the rise in Canada: expert, including a quadruple killing there in June.

According, to several reports, Bary's parents attend the Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Toledo, Ohio.  This mosque has been known for hosting some questionable speakers here and here

Update 9/4/09:  Judge in Rifa Bary case "willing to chance" mediation effort  WDBO Radio -  He further ordered them not to speak to the media about the case. The order does not apply to the principals, Rifqa or her parents back in Ohio.

The next hearing is scheduled for September 29.

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zTruth : Rifqa Bary, a young Christian convert in her own words 

8/24/09 From a former Muslim, Nonie Darwash titled Saving Rafqa :

Apostates are to be given three days to repent and return to Islam. If the apostate refuses, he or she will be killed immediately. Books on Islamic Sharia agree unanimously on this point. For instance, Muslim scriptures such as the Sahih Hadith by the prophet Mohammad 9:50 states: "No Umma [a member of the Muslim community] should be killed for killing a Kaffir [an infidel]. . . Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him."

2. It is obligatory for a Muslim caliph to ask the apostate to repent and return to Islam. If he does, his return to the fold is accepted; but if he refuses, he must be killed.

3. There is no indemnity for killing an apostate, nor is there any expiation required, since killing an apostate is tantamount to killing someone who deserves to die.

4. The testimony of apostates is not admissible in Sharia courts.

5. An apostate cannot claim an inheritance from Muslim parents.

6. The marriage of an apostate is immediately dissolved if the spouse is and remains Muslim.

10/2/07:  Christianity's Image Problem - TIME:  ...It used to be, says David Kinnaman, that Christianity was both ... Rather, he sees resentment as focused on perceived Christian attitudes. ...

9/13/04:  TIME Magazine: The Struggle For The Soul of Islam:  A TIME cover story explaining the The Struggle For The Soul of Islam.

3/11/07:  JORDAN: Honour killings still tolerated

 

Florida principal could face fine and/or jail time for prayer

Florida principal, Frank Lay,  could face fines or jail time or both for violating an order NOT to preach religion at school:

...Last August, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Santa Rosa County School Board, then-Superintendent John Rogers and (Pace High School Principal Frank)Lay on behalf of two unnamed Pace High students.

Citing examples throughout the district, the students said school officials violated the Constitution by promoting their religious beliefs in schools.

For years, Lay had done exactly that, according to supporters and critics alike, and his actions had gone largely unchallenged.

...Within a few months, the district admitted the allegations and hammered out an agreement that would take religion out of the classroom.

U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers approved the agreement. A temporary injunction was issued on Jan. 19, then was made permanent on May 6.

Nine days later, after Lay signed the temporary injunction, he was accused of violating the order.

...On Jan. 28, he asked the school athletic director, Robert Freeman, to "bless the food" at a luncheon at Pace High for school personnel and booster club members instrumental in helping get a new fieldhouse. The school's culinary class prepared the meal.

Four-term School Board member Jo Ann Simpson, who was at the luncheon, couldn't believe her ears.

She reported what happened to Superintendent Tim Wyrosdick and the district's lawyers.

...Last month, after a series of legal filings, Rodgers ordered Lay and Freeman to appear on criminal contempt charges alleging they violated her order.

Their hearing is set for Sept. 17, and the possible punishment could range from fines to jail.

Religion should be kept out of all schools, period.

Suit filed after Muslim principal fires Christian coach

A former coach sues Dearborn schools in Michigan because his former assistant, a pastor,  caused him to be fired by Muslim principal, Imad Fadlallah, he claims.  As most of you know, it is against Islamic law to preach the Gospel of Jesus to a Muslim in Islamic ruled countries.  But, this happened in America!  

As is the casee in all lawsuits, facts presented will determine if there is any merit to the coach's claim.

A former high school wrestling coach who is Christian filed a lawsuit Monday against Dearborn Public Schools and a high school principal who is Muslim, saying he was terminated because of his association with an assistant who had helped convert a Muslim student to Christianity.

The suit was filed in Detroit by a Livonia law firm and attorneys with the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor.

Jerry Marszalek, a longtime wrestling coach at Fordson High School in Dearborn, was let go last year by the district, which did not renew his contract.

The lawsuit says that the district and Imad Fadlallah, principal at Fordson High School, violated constitutional rights to free speech and exercise of religion, and Michigan laws against discrimination.

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5/30/08:  Muslim principal fires wrestling coach; alleges his assistant converted Muslims

...According to Schlussel, the principal's cousin is Hezbollah spirtual leader, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Fadlallah who is on the State Department Terrorist List and issued the fatwa to Hezbollah terrorists to murder over 300 U.S. Marines and U.S. Embassy officials. But in 2005, Hancock came under attack by some Muslims after he baptized in Port Huron a Muslim student from Dearborn.

..."If people want to come to Jesus, I'm here for them," Hancock said. He added that such activities were done outside Fordson and the wrestling team..."

Christian homes burned in Pakistan after broadcasts from mosques

According to Persecution.org,  this morning 100 Christian homes and churches were burned in the city of Kasur South in Pakistan after broadcasts were made from mosques in the area.  This organization also urges us to call Pakistani embassies worldwide to ask for protection for Christians in their country.

Pakistan US Embassy:  202 243-6500

Pope calls for coorperation among religions

Today, Pope Benedict XVI made a plea from a mosque in Jordan for the world's religions to get along.  He also expressed concern for Christians and other non-Muslims who live in Islamic nations:

"Pope Benedict XVI, speaking at a mosque in Amman, Jordan, also expresses concern about the discrimination that he says Christians and others face in Islamic nations such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Pope Benedict XVI today called on Christians and Muslims to serve mankind with the "light of God's truth" while warning that extremists in nations such as Iraq were exploiting religious differences for political and violent agendas.

...During his speech, the pontiff made note of Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, patriarch of the Chaldean Church, Iraq's largest Christian denomination. Tens of thousands of Christians have fled Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and subsequent sectarianism.

"I urge diplomats and the international community they represent, together with local political and religious leaders, to do everything possible to ensure the ancient Christian community of that noble land its fundamental right to peaceful coexistence with their fellow citizens," the pope said."

LA Times

Video on Al-Jazeera: U.S. Military church service shares Christian faith

There's a video being shown on Al Jazeera TV today, no doubt, to paint a U.S. Military church service in Afghanistan in a bad light since these brave men and women  talked about how they share their faith.

Naturally, the far-left and the Islamists would be all upset by this video.  I say more power to our military.  They have a right to practice their faith. 

Christians have to stand strong in today's times or we could end up like Egypt, a once thriving Christian country.

The war,  or the politically correct and stupid phrase under the Obama administration; the "Overseas Contigency Operations", we are carrying out to save others and ourselves is really a struggle and a fight against a strict or literal interpretation of Islam which puts Islamic law at its core.  This fight likely will threaten the entire world for decades to come. Included in the literal interpretation are verses in the Quran that states Islam must dominate over all other religions.

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US denies letting troops convert Afghans

Reuters - ‎6 hours ago‎

Trying to convert Muslims to any other faith is a crime in Afghanistan. An Afghan man who converted to Christianity was sentenced to death for apostasy in ...

 

Afghan calls for Bible distribution probe United Press International

The vilification of a Christian by the far-left: Miss California

First, it was the odd question posed to Miss California, Carrie Prejean,  by gay judge, Perez Hilton.  It was a no-win question and he knew it was when he asked it. 

Then, it was Hilton's foul verbal and abusive attacks on her captured on his webcam that was seen by millions across America and all the others who made verbal attacks against her.

Topping it all of, the Miss California pageant itself outed the fact they paid for Miss California's breast implants. 

Retaliation? 

The good new is HIlton's actions were soundly blasted by another gay man as embarrassing and disgraceful and gives all gays and lesbians a bad wrap. He also said Hilton and other liberals only communicate with insults. A line was crossed, he pointed out.  I applaud this man for standing up for sound common sense.

Can you believe how low and degrading this has become?  The attacks against Carrie Prejean might be classified as religious persecution against a Christian by the left. 

It needs to stop.  

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To hear what one fellow gay man had to say to Hilton watch video below:

(Warning:  some may find offensive one particularly term used by this man towards Hilton.  He also repeated the foul language used against Prejean by Hilton but the overall his verbal disgust with Hilton's actions are worth it):

4:52 (audio only)

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Miss California: The anti-gay-marriage martyr extends her 15 minutes Entertainment Weekly

Pics don't lie: Michael Phelps and Carrie Prejean get cozy in Vegas Los Angeles Times

Perez Hilton takes back apology to Miss California, gets even nastier Kansas City Star

Miley Cyrus pro-gay messages set Christian conservatives all a-Twitter Metro Weekly

New ad warns same-sex ‘marriage' activists want to silence opposition

Catholic News Agency - ‎Apr 30, 2009‎

The ad, titled “No Offense,” also refers to attacks on beauty pageant contestant Carrie Prejean, Miss California, after she expressed her support for ...

 

Shuster Again: Attacks Traditional Marriage Advocate; Asks If He ... NewsBusters

 

Two Hot Topics Heat Up the Net

Pew Research Center - ‎May 1, 2009‎

"Carrie Prejean, Miss California and runner-up Miss America 2009, shows us how it's done when the Left tries to smear you." "I guess what I really a happy ...

 

Intolerance in full view

Times Press Recorder - ‎22 hours ago‎

We can see in recent responses to Miss California, Carrie Prejean, that hate, bigotry, intolerance, vilifying and bullying are really being thrown at her by ...

Symbol of Jesus's name covered for President's Obama's speech on the economy!

You can see the golden symbol "IHS", which is Greek for the name of Jesus, with the cross above it in the picture below taken at a panel discussion on US-Russia relations and energy security on December 3rd, 2007:

   

(Getty Images )

During the president's speech on the economy on Tuesday, you can barely see that it was covered up in the photo below:.

But you can see it blacked out better in this photo:

(photos:  Gerald Herbert)

You can also see a good shot of this at the beginning of a CSPAN video here when the camera zooms out around the 20 second mark.

The day after the speech, the name of Jesus and the cross was still covered:

(Photo by Penny Starr, CNSNews.com)

Now get this, according to CBS News, the White House denies they deliberately covered up any symbol of faith:

"The White House is taking some heat today from conservative and Catholic bloggers who noticed that while President Obama delivered remarks on the economy at Georgetown University Tuesday, a monogram that is a symbol for the name Jesus was covered up behind him.

CNSNews.com, a conservative web site affiliated with the Media Research Center, reported that the gold “IHS” monogram inscribed in Georgetown’s Gaston Hall was covered by a piece of black-painted plywood.

The White House denied that there was any effort to specifically cover up religious imagery or symbols and noted that on the wall directly behind the president there are two religious paintings and there is other imagery throughout the hall.

"Decisions made about the backdrop for the speech were made to have a consistent background of American flags, which is standard for many presidential events. Any suggestions to the contrary are simply false,” White House spokesman Shin Inouye told ABC News.

Georgetown officials said that the White House requested the backdrop and asked that all signs and symbols behind the stage be covered up..."

ABC News

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So will Notre Dame need to cover 'Touchdown Jesus' for the Obama ...

Dallas Morning News - ‎10 hours ago‎

We must stop calling Georgetownor Notre Dame a Catholic College. Only a pagan would abide covering the nsme of Jesus. The Notre Dame commencement is in the ...

 

Obama's foreign policy adviser, Dr. Susan Rice, called Obama a "secular Christian"

 

...Dr. Rice's answers were clear and the convincing one. She came with two reasons why Obama would not highlight the Jesus factor. First, senator Obama is a Christian but a secular Christian... "

Christian debaters challenges Jamal Badawi and other Islamic scholars

Interesting:

An Open Debate Challenge to Shabir Ally, Jamal Badawi, and Zakir Naik

Arabic Christian Perspective has hosted a number of debates between Christians and Muslims. However, Muslims have often criticized ACP for not arranging debates with Islam’s top debaters: Shabir Ally, Jamal Badawi, and Zakir Naik. Though we at ACP have attempted to set up debates with some of Islam’s strongest proponents, we’ve found that they are extremely reluctant to debate topics that will place Islam under scrutiny. Hence, it is now time to make our challenge public.

Arabic Christian Perspective hereby challenges Shabir Ally, Jamal Badawi, and Zakir Naik to a series of ten debates to take place next September against Christian debaters James White, David Wood, and Sam Shamoun.

The Great Debate Series

Ministry to Muslims

Directory of Arab Christian organizations

Hundreds of conservative Episcopal congregations form new church, Anglican Church in North America

Hundreds of conservative congregations within the Episcopal church have broken away from the liberals within their denomination and formed a new church:

"Hundreds of conservative Episcopal congregations in North America, rejecting liberal biblical views of others in the denomination, formed a breakaway church Wednesday that threatened to further divide a global Anglican body already torn by the ordination of an openly gay bishop.

Leaders of the new Anglican Church in North America said they took the extraordinary step to unify congregations and dioceses that had fled the American Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada over issues of Scripture.

Leaders of the churches and splinter groups, saying they represent 100,000 Christians, adopted a provisional constitution Wednesday to govern their new province. They acted at the behest of conservative global Anglican leaders who, during a gathering in Jerusalem last summer, called for the creation of a new independent North American province.

To gain official recognition, the new province must still get approval from two-thirds of the 38 provincial Anglican leaders who represent 77 million Christians worldwide. If approved, it would be the first such province based on theology, not geography, a dramatic departure from Anglican policy."

L.A. Times