I am, myself, a very religious person. I am also an American.
One of the most valuable things about America is that a person is free to practice any religion he chooses, whether it is an organized religion or personal beliefs between an individual and his Creator--or any other way he or she wishes to express it--so long as it is not harmful to others.
One of the founding principles of this country is that the State does not control religion. Neither does religion control the state.
With a bit of experience (several years of experience with several different organized religions), I can say that I do not care to participate in any organized religion, because from my point of view, all of them are simply political organizations attempting to impose their views on everyone else.
However, I would like you to look at the following two blogs. We have elected a President who is perhaps a bit too "understanding" of a religion whose precepts include that non-believers can be slaughtered (as happened throughout southern Europe and the Middle East during the period from 1200 AD until about 1500 AD, and again several times throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries).
Perhaps ONE OF the most valuable things about the United States is that a person in this country is free to practice his own religious beliefs.
Unfortunately, this means that it is possible for a particular religion, when too well established, could take over the entire country and, by following its own precepts, forbid the practice of any other religion. That is what is happening now.
I am willing for anyone to be able to practice their own religious beliefs, except in one circumstance: when those religious beliefs involve COMPELLING others to adopt that religion on pain of death, or promoting that religion through killing other people, or otherwise forcing others into religious beliefs other than their own.
Please see the following two entries: one is a speech from a respected person in the Netherlands. The other is excerpts from speeches from our current President.
I admit, right here, that I have only seen these excerpts, not the full speeches. However, I believe that this number of points brought by our current President are indicative of a religious bias that is far beyond anything he should be saying or promoting, as the President of a country that guarantees freedom of religious belief and practice as a part of its Constitution.
Some of what he says is very true, but it has little to do, in fact, with the RELIGION of Islam. The CULTURE preserved learning during the Dark Ages in Europe: the people who developed many of these ideas were persecuted in Islam in exactly the same way that learned men were persecuted by the Catholic Church.
Please remember, some of the tenets of certain sects of Islam include the right of Muslims to compel others to adopt the beliefs on pain of death.
Please view the following two blogs.
Thank you for your attention. Jim
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
This was forwarded to me from one of my valued elders.
Please take the time to read this and understand what is written here.
America as the Last Man Standing
Frightening.... a must read, for we are a certain part of this danger.
America as the Last Man Standing
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Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament
Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem.
Dear friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.
First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.
The Europe you know is changing.
You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.
Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.
Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear, 'whore, whore.' Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.
In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.
In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.
A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.
Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.
The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.
Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.
Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.
The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.
Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.
Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel . First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.
This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.
The war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.
Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything.
So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem.
Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe, American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe 's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.
We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.
Please take the time to read and understand what is written here. Please send it to every free person that you know, it is so very important.
All of the above is true, not an internet rumor: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wilders.asp
Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament
Please take the time to read this and understand what is written here.
America as the Last Man Standing
Frightening.... a must read, for we are a certain part of this danger.
America as the Last Man Standing
[]
Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament
Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem.
Dear friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.
First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.
The Europe you know is changing.
You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.
Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.
Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear, 'whore, whore.' Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.
In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.
In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.
A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.
Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.
The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.
Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.
Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.
The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.
Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.
Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel . First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.
This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.
The war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.
Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything.
So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem.
Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe, American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe 's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.
We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.
Please take the time to read and understand what is written here. Please send it to every free person that you know, it is so very important.
All of the above is true, not an internet rumor: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wilders.asp
Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament
If you have any doubts about the purpose for which His Majesty King Obama got elected to the Presidency and office of Commander in Chief of the US military, please watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
Friday, April 9, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Last note for April: Regarding King Obama, watch what he DOES, NOT what he says.
Granted, things the President (or king, as the case may be) says often have the force of law. Such as his statements (twice or more) in public arenas that people should not go to Las Vegas, resulting in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in canceled convention traffic, and literally thousands of people thrown out of work. The OFFICAL unemployment rate in Las Vegas is now 13.5%, and that is only the people who are out of work who can still draw unemployment.
What he DOES is much more important. WHat he SAYS is he will reform Medicare. What he DOES, through his minions in Congress, is raise the bill for American taxpayers, so that now we are covering hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal immigrants from various countries, as well as providing social security and other federal benefits for people who have never paid their dues in the system--in other words, worked for an honest living, run an honest business, and paid the taxes that support these federal benefits.
Please sit back, watch what is actually being DONE as a result of his campaign promises for change: raise taxes, increase the debt, more federal benefits for freeloaders, less benefits for taxpayers, and the destruction of the Bill of Rights and the American Constitution.
Granted, things the President (or king, as the case may be) says often have the force of law. Such as his statements (twice or more) in public arenas that people should not go to Las Vegas, resulting in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in canceled convention traffic, and literally thousands of people thrown out of work. The OFFICAL unemployment rate in Las Vegas is now 13.5%, and that is only the people who are out of work who can still draw unemployment.
What he DOES is much more important. WHat he SAYS is he will reform Medicare. What he DOES, through his minions in Congress, is raise the bill for American taxpayers, so that now we are covering hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal immigrants from various countries, as well as providing social security and other federal benefits for people who have never paid their dues in the system--in other words, worked for an honest living, run an honest business, and paid the taxes that support these federal benefits.
Please sit back, watch what is actually being DONE as a result of his campaign promises for change: raise taxes, increase the debt, more federal benefits for freeloaders, less benefits for taxpayers, and the destruction of the Bill of Rights and the American Constitution.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
King Obama CYA
Our new King has managed another CYA. Through the passage of the Cybersecurity Act in March, His Majesty has set himself up to be able to shut down the internet in America, in response to anything that HE considers a threat to "national security."
If I were King Obama, I would consider a "viral marketing" campaign to impeach the President a threat to "national security." In case you are wondering about viral marketing, it consists of people passing emails to their mailing lists.
The potential for such a campaign is that every person in the US (and likely the world) could receive an email within six forwards. It would likely take more than this (as most people, like myself, don't forward stuff), but it still means that within a couple of weeks, every person in the US with an email address could receive an email message detailing what King Obama has done and calling for an impeachment.
Please read the Cybersecurity Act. There are a lot of pieces that don't apply, but do realize there is far more than a billion dollars in your tax money committed over the next few years to giving the President the power to shut down the internet in the United States in response to anything King Obama considers a threat to National Security.
This is a PDF document. http://commerce.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=29daa3d9-291e-46ce-aba9-f2348f4c0d0d It is the text of the Cybersecurity Act as passed in March.
Please pay attention particularly to pages 30 and 31. Buried in the exact middle of this document is the trigger that King Obama can use to shut down the internet.
Also page 41-42 states that the President (as delegated) is required to only REPORT regarding civil liberty guarantees, not do anything to actually guarantee them.
If I were King Obama, I would consider a "viral marketing" campaign to impeach the President a threat to "national security." In case you are wondering about viral marketing, it consists of people passing emails to their mailing lists.
The potential for such a campaign is that every person in the US (and likely the world) could receive an email within six forwards. It would likely take more than this (as most people, like myself, don't forward stuff), but it still means that within a couple of weeks, every person in the US with an email address could receive an email message detailing what King Obama has done and calling for an impeachment.
Please read the Cybersecurity Act. There are a lot of pieces that don't apply, but do realize there is far more than a billion dollars in your tax money committed over the next few years to giving the President the power to shut down the internet in the United States in response to anything King Obama considers a threat to National Security.
This is a PDF document. http://commerce.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=29daa3d9-291e-46ce-aba9-f2348f4c0d0d It is the text of the Cybersecurity Act as passed in March.
Please pay attention particularly to pages 30 and 31. Buried in the exact middle of this document is the trigger that King Obama can use to shut down the internet.
Also page 41-42 states that the President (as delegated) is required to only REPORT regarding civil liberty guarantees, not do anything to actually guarantee them.
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