Christians and Churches Attacked in the West

signsReprinted from GatestoneInstitute.org.

“You have a cross on… Do you know what we do to people like you?” — Muslim in Denmark.

Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way into the church, cut [the pastor], his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the building on fire… We only found the charred remains of the three of them in the morning. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any traces of Christianity in the town.” — Eyewitness account, Nigeria.

Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is closed.

The Muslim persecution of Christians in September started making prominent appearances not just in the Islamic world, but also in the West—in America, Australia and Europe.

In the United States, in Columbus, Indiana, three churches were vandalized on the same night. The words most frequently sprayed were “Infidels!” and “Koran 3:151.” The verse from the Koran states, “We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve [or "infidels"] for what they have associated with Allah [reference to Christian Trinity] of which He had not sent down [any] authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.”

Father Doug Marcotte of Saint Bartholomew’s Catholic Church, one of those vandalized, said, “There’s a lot of bad stuff being done in the name of Allah and so when people see this happening in Columbus, whether that was truly the person’s intent or there’s something else going on, it makes people nervous. It makes people upset. It makes them scared.”

Meanwhile, in Australia, AAP reported that “Church-goers in Sydney’s west have been left shaken after a stranger shouted death threats from a car bearing the Islamic State flag. The car drove past Our Lady of Lebanon Church at Harris Park on Tuesday and witnesses claim it had a flag similar to those brandished by Islamic State jihadists hanging out the window.” A church official said the people in the car threatened to “kill the Christians” and slaughter their children: “They were strong words and people were scared of what they saw.” Witnesses saw a flag outside the window with the words, “There is only one god and Muhammad is the prophet.” And as happens frequently in Muslim-majority nations, police security was later dispatched to patrol the Harris Park church while hundreds partook of the mass inside.

People in a car bearing a jihadist flag verbally abused parishioners at the Our Lady of Lebanon Church in Sydney, Australia in September, threatening to “kill the Christians” and slaughter their children.

In Denmark—2013′s “happiest country in the world“—Christians of Middle Eastern backgrounds continued to experience “harassment, verbal attacks and in some cases direct violence from Muslims,” reports TV2, especially in Muslim-majority areas, such as Nørrebro. One Christian, “Jojo,” born in Denmark of Lebanese parents, shared her experiences. Once when sitting in her parked car, several Muslims surrounded it, harassing her about her Western attire. When one of them noticed she was wearing a cross, he said “Well, you have a cross on—then you are also a Christian f***ing whore. Do you know what we do to people like you? Do you know what we do to people like you? You get stoned [to death].”

Another Christian woman of Iranian background recounted how she and her son are harassed on the Muslim-majority block where they live—and where she stands out for not wearing a hijab, the Islamic veil: “My son is being called everything. I get called all sorts of things. Infidel. Filthy Christians. They tell me I ought to be stoned to death. My son was beaten at the bus stop. He was called pig, dirty potato (Muslim slang for Danes), and that ‘you and your mother should die.”‘

Islamic dreams of conquering Europe were prevalent. A senior analyst in Spain warned that, because Islamists see the Iberian peninsula as being “under Spanish and Portuguese occupation,” greater risk of terrorism exists there than in other Western areas. Because Iberia—or, in Arabic, Al-Andalus—was under Islamic domination for centuries, many Muslims consider it part of the Islamic world, or Dar al-Islam, which needs to be reconquered, no less than Israel, also seen as occupied Islamic territory.

More pointedly, in the Islamic State [IS], in a lengthy message partially addressed to the “crusaders”—a reference to the West—some members declared, “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah.” Members of the IS also invoked a statement attributed to Muhammad, that Constantinople would be conquered before Rome—and it was, in 1453. The implication was that the Eternal City of Rome would be next.

Around the same time, Rome responded by rejecting a motion to name a street after the late Oriana Fallaci, a veteran journalist who had once written that, “the Muslim world is attempting to conquer the West in the name of Islam.” In explaining their decision, local politicians described Fallaci’s writings as containing “religious hatred,” or “Islamophobia.”

In Canada, while 80 special Muslims went to the trouble of attending a Muslim rally on behalf of persecuted Christians, sadly, another rally, an extremist Al Quds Day Anti-Israel Hate Fest, drew approximately 6,000 participants.

The rest of September’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity.

Muslim Attacks on Churches

East Jerusalem: A Christian church was attacked numerous times: On September 29, young Muslim men, with ties to a Palestinian militant group, wired shut the door of the Living Bread Church and sprayed a gaseous substance at those inside. An earlier gas attack had already occurred on September 17. Hours before the second attack, someone threw a rock through one of the windows of the church, and the day before that, Sunday, September 28, a Palestinian and others assaulted a church member as he was emptying trash into a dumpster outside the church.

On Sept. 21, a Palestinian militant, without warning, ran up behind a church leader, Karen Dunham, and knocked her to the pavement: “This guy charged me as fast as he could,” she said. “He came up behind me and just slammed into my back, and I fell and I hit the ground. My face is bruised. There’s bruises on the side of my cheek, on my face, on my head, on my knee, cuts on my head, and my wrist was fractured.”

Egypt: A Christian priest in Egypt appealed to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to intervene on behalf of yet another church being threatened by “religious extremists.” So far, local authorities have done nothing. Four years ago, the Coptic Church of St. Abram in Shubra al-Khaima received a permit to build an additional building. During those same four years, seven “thugs”—in the words of the report—have prevented it from being built. The “thugs” had mobilized local Muslims to threaten and demonstrate against the church. “The priest lamented that ‘after suffering many long years’ they finally managed to acquire the permit to build, but then the next obstacle presented itself in the person of the aforementioned seven ‘thugs’ who constantly harass, and incite Muslim mobs, against the church, whenever it tries to exercise its right to build the services building. Islamic law forbids the building of new churches or the renovation of existing churches.”

Iraq: Islamic State militants “completely destroyed” the ancient Green Church in Tikrit. They packed the church with explosives and detonated them — completely destroying the ancient church, which belonged to the Assyrian Church of the East. Almost from the time it was built in the seventh century, when Islam overran Iraq, the church had been attacked, ransacked, and destroyed by Muslim rulers and others, but was restored on the orders of Iraq’s late President Saddam Hussein in the 1990s.

Nigeria: Many more churches and a Christian university, Kulp Bible College, were forced to shut down as a result of the advances of the Islamic jihadi group, Boko Haram. In one instance, a pastor reported that “Boko Haram violence has been getting worse every day, and our members are fleeing the area by the thousands. Recent attacks in Borno and Adamawa states where our churches are located have seen Boko Haram take over the Army base. As a result, about 350 Christians have been killed.”

Separately, in Kaduna state, where “Muslim Fulani assailants seem driven to rid the area of Christianity and use the land to graze their cattle,” according to church leaders, 46 Christians, including two pastors, were slaughtered in raids. According to an eyewitness,

“Suddenly we heard sounds of gunshots around our village. The pastor was still in the pastorate when the Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way onto the church premises. They cut him, his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the house on fire. The three of them were burned to ashes in the living room of the pastorate. We only found the charred remains of the three of them the following morning…. The gunmen then came onto the church premises and began shooting. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any trace of Christianity in the town.”

Although Muslim Fulani have historically had property disputes with Christian farmers, Christian leaders say attacks by the herdsmen constitute a war “by Islam to eliminate Christianity” in Nigeria.

Sudan: In the latest incident of a nearly two-year wave of church demolitions, closures and confiscations, security agents padlocked a 500-member church building, the Sudan Pentecostal Church [SPC] in Khartoum. The church also houses the Khartoum Christian Center (KCC). “The church is concerned that the building might be sold by the government, which renders more than 500 worshippers to have no place for worship,” a source told the Morning Star News. The Islamist government appears to be seeking any pretext for closing churches, sources said. In this instance, the space for the church was originally designated as “office space.” But, as one source asked, “How do you close a church building that has been in operation for 20 years in the name of the church being meant for offices?” The church has a deed showing that it owns the building and property — a situation that raises the question of the government’s right to sell it.

On June 30 bulldozers demolished the Sudanese Church of Christ in the Thiba Al Hamyida area of North Khartoum as church members watched, while security personnel threatened to arrest them if they tried to block the bulldozers, church members said.

Syria: The Islamic State destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor, seen as the “Auschwitz” of the Armenian Genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians perished in Der Zor and the surrounding desert during the genocide. In the summer of 1916 alone, more than 200,000 Armenians, mostly women and children, were massacred by Ottoman Turks. Armenia’s foreign minister issued a statement calling the church’s destruction a “horrible barbarity,” and referred to the Islamic State as a “disease” that “threatened civilized mankind.” The church was built in 1989-90 and consecrated a year later. A genocide memorial and a museum housing the remains of the victims of the genocide were also located in the church compound. Thousands of Armenians from Syria and neighboring countries gathered at the memorial every year on April 24 to commemorate the genocide.

Pakistani Rape and Dhimmitude

  • Four young Muslims gang raped a 15-year-old Christian girl and filmed it. The girl’s father, although he was threatened against filing a complaint, went to police, who confirmed the existence of a video that corroborates the violence. The video will apparently be introduced as evidence against the youths. A lawyer, Mushtaq Gill, issued a statement that, “Many Christian girls continue to be victims of sexual assault by young Muslims, who go unpunished” and that, “in this case there is also a video, flaunted as a trophy.”
  • Two Christian women were abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Lawyer Mushtaq Gill said, “A Christian girl, Sairish, forced to marry a Muslim in 2009, in her heart never abandoned the faith and continued to pray to Jesus Christ even after her marriage. After a few years she found the courage to rebel against the situation and run away…. Her life is now in danger because if she declares herself Christian, Muslims may accuse her of apostasy and the punishment would be death.” Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is closed.
  • Another Christian family fled their hometown, Lahore, to save their daughters from forced conversion to Islam. According to the Justice and Peace Commission, the two sisters, aged 12 and 8, were studying in public schools, where learning to recite the Koran is mandatory. Apparently, because the girls recited the shehada, the Islamic declaration of faith, “an Islamic cleric, the father of a student stated that these girls had become Muslims and thus needed to be taken from their Christian parents and entrusted to adult Muslims.” The parents pulled their daughters out of school, but then the headmaster and other Muslim teachers “warned the parents to send them back to school, offering the family financial aid regarding the school fees.” The parents quit their jobs and fled the region.
  • Police arrested 15 Christians and booked 45 other members of the minority community under the blasphemy law for allegedly desecrating Muslim graves in a village in Punjab province. According to the AP, “The case was registered after a local cleric filed a complaint alleging that the Christians had desecrated over 400 Muslim graves to occupy the land in Chak village in Faisalabad, about 150 kilometres from Lahore.” Rights groups said it was a spurious charge meant to prevent the Christians from acquiring the land. In fact, the accusations were later proven false.

Dhimmitude: Islamic Discrimination Against Christianity

Egypt: Iman Sarofim, a 39-year-old Christian mother of five, returned home to her family after being kidnapped. Initially it was believed that she had voluntarily converted to Islam and fled her family to be with a Muslim man. The woman contacted the family from Suez, where she had been brought by the kidnapper. The return of the woman was celebrated by neighbors and relatives in the city of Gabal al-Tir. Her disappearance had been the cause of clashes between Copts and police, who believed the narrative that she had voluntarily left. In retaliation, police officers entered the homes of dozens of Coptic families and violently arrested dozens of Christians. Separately, Ehab Karam, a Coptic dentist, was killed after he was abducted by unknown persons, most likely for ransom. The kidnapping of Copts for ransom has evidently become a regular part of life in Egypt for Christians, particularly in Upper Egypt. Last February, for instance, police dismantled a crime network that for months had been organizing kidnappings, robberies and extortion against the local Coptic community. “Unfortunately,” said the Coptic Catholic Bishop of Assist, Kyrillos William, “the phenomenon continues and there are no signs of improvement. Police operations are episodic and ineffective, they are unable to solve the problem.”

Iraq: The Islamic State decreed that all schools in Mosul and the Nineveh Plain which bore Christian names, some since the 1700s, must be changed. Also, the teaching of the Syriac language and culture and Christian religious education has been abolished. Reports indicate that the Islamic State took these moves “in order to erase all traces of cultural and religious pluralism in the conquered areas and turn schools into propaganda tools of jihadist ideology among the new generations.”

Saudi Arabia: In the Eastern Province city of Khafji, “religious police,” or agents from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, raided a house where at least 27 Christians, mostly expatriates from various Asian nationalities, were gathered. The Christians, including children, were accused of practicing Christianity in a house church, and were arrested and detained overnight. Authorities also confiscated musical instruments and copies of the Bible. The house had been placed under surveillance after a citizen reported that his Indian neighbor had converted his home into a Christian church. After witnessing a large number of individuals enter the home, officers raided the house. The only religion allowed to be practiced in public in Saudi Arabia is Islam. In the land of the prophet, no public places of worship for non-Muslims are permitted to exist.

Turkey: According to the Armenian magazine, Agos, many of the primary and secondary education books being used for the current school year still describe the Armenians and other Christian communities as enemy forces at the service of foreign powers, including Russia and England, after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. One eighth-grade history book tries to whitewash the Armenian genocide, which is portrayed as a “necessary deportation,” never as a massacre.

Uzbekistan: Security forces reportedly raided the home of Pastor Stanislav Kim in Chirchik, 20 miles northeast of Tashkent, the capital. They detained 11 teenagers and three adults, who had gathered there for a volleyball game, and questioned them for more than four hours before releasing them. Officials also searched the pastor’s home and confiscated a New Testament, a Bible, several other Christian books, more than 100 slides of hymns, as well as some computer equipment. Voice of the Martyrs, which says there are at least 65 unregistered congregations scattered throughout Uzbekistan, said in a statement, “Please pray that this pastor and his son will not face fines, but will soon be acquitted of any perceived wrongdoing. Ask God to strengthen each believer who was present during this unwarranted raid so that they will not give in to governmental intimidation and pressure, but instead be emboldened to serve our Lord faithfully.”

About this Series

While not all, or even most, Muslims are involved, persecution of Christians is expanding. “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month.

It documents what the mainstream media often fails to report.

It posits that such persecution is not random but systematic, and takes place in all languages, ethnicities and locations.

Raymond Ibrahim is author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War in Christians (published by Regnery in cooperation with Gatestone Institute, April 2013).

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  • Bamaguje

    Mr Ibrahim, how about presenting your findings on the global pandemic of Muslims persecuting Christians at a Congressional hearing… with a view to igniting America into action.

    • Harry

      SIX JEWISH COMPANIES OWN 96% OF THE WORLD MEDIA

      “There are no important media outlets in the US that are not owned or controlled by Jews.”

      — Israel Shamir

      The Dark Secret of Jewish Power is Out

      “Every time we do something, you [Shimon Peres] tell me America will do this and will do that… I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel.
      We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”

      Ariel Sharon

      Israeli Prime Minister, homicidal psychopath

      Knesset, Tel Aviv, October 3, 2001

      • krinks

        This is how and why these things happen. They get crackpots like you to blame a Jew and people drop the issue thinking it one of demented crackpots.

  • Harry

    BUT THEY NEVER PERSECUTE JEWS – WORLDWIDE!
    WHY?
    BECAUSE ISLAM WAS CREATED BY JEWS!

    (Be sure to Google this article)

    HISTORY OF PALESTINE

    614-1096 C.E.

    From the Accession of the Mahomedans to that of the Europeans.

    By Rabbi Joseph Schwarz, 1850

    Rabbi Shallum, son of the then Resh Gelutha, in Babel, aka Abu Bachr al Chaliva al Zadik, Abu Bakr, the first Caliph, was in fact: [A JEWISH RABBI] Rabbi Shallum, son of the then Resh Gelutha, in Babel, perceiving this dreadful
    predicament, went to Mahomed, and offering him his submission, friendship, and services, endeavoured to enter with him into a friendly compact. Mahomed
    accepted his proposition with pleasure, conceived a great affection for him,
    and took his daughter, a handsome young girl (A 6 YEAR OLD CHILD), for wife; he made him also a general in his army, and gave him the name of Abu Bachr al Chaliva al Zadik, literally:

    The father of the maiden, the descendant of the righteous; this means, that of all his wives, who were either widows or divorced women, this one was the only one who had never been married before, and then she was the granddaughter of the celebrated chief of the captivity; therefore, the descendant of the righteous. This occurrence induced Mahomed to give up his terrible intention to destroy the Jews in his country, and thus did Rabbi Shallum save his people.

    THE BETRAYAL
    [Why Muhammad hated alcohol]

    Abu Bachr and Aliman now resolved among themselves to remove
    the dangerous enemy of the Jews, Bucheran. One evening Mahomed, Bucheran, Aliman, and Abu Bachr, were drinking together; the latter two soon saw that Mahomed and the astrologer were strongly intoxicated, and lay stretched out in a deep and profound sleep. Abu Bachr thereupon drew the sword of Mahomed from its scabbard, cut off therewith Bucharan’s head, and put the bloody sword back into its receptacle, and both then lay themselves down quietly near Mahomed to sleep. When Mahomed awoke and saw his friend lying decapitated near him, he cried out in a fury: “This terrible deed has been done by one of us three in our drunkenness!” Abu Bachr thereupon said quite unconcernedly:

    “Let each one draw his sword, and he whose weapon is stained with blood,
    must needs be the murderer!”

    They all drew their swords, and that of Mahomed was completely dyed with fresh blood, which proved thus clearly to his satisfaction that he had murdered his friend. He was greatly grieved at this discovery; cursed and condemned the wine which was the cause of this murder, and swore that he never would drink any more, and that also no one should do so who wishes to enter heaven. This is the cause why wine is prohibited to the Mahomedans.

    At a later period, Mahomed learned the whole transaction, and that his father-in-law was the perpetrator of the bloody deed; wherefore, he lost his favour, and he would not permit him to come before him. Abu Bachr went thereupon and conquered sixty places, which had not yet submitted to Mahomed,
    and presented them to him, through which means he became again reconciled to him, was received in favour, and remained thereafter at court.

    DO YOU THINK MUHAMMAD WAS JEWISH?

    Ben Abrahamson

    Not in the sense of “Jewish” as the word is used today. However, I propose,
    based on a reconstruction of events, that the progenitor of the Quraysh – Adnan – was identical with Onias IV (Anan in Hellenized Hebrew). This would make the Quraysh one of the last remaining descendants of the Zadokite priesthood which was expelled from Jerusalem when the Hasmoneans took over the priesthood. This is supported by alternative versions of the name Adnan being spelled as Anan. I also offer it as an explanation for why the Ka’aba, at a certain point in its history, was structurally similar to the Temple of Onias in Heliopolis.
    It is apparently also referred to in Tractate Menuchos, as a place which had
    fallen into idolatry in the first centuries of the Common Era. Abu ‘Ubayda
    Ma’mar b. al-Muthanna (d. 825CE) book called Kitab al-mathalib and another work Kitab al-munammaq and also Ibn al-Kalbi’s (d. 819CE) book Kitab mathalib al-‘arab document the numerous marriages between the Quraish and Jewish women, including members of the “noble house” of the Jewish Exilarch. It is related there that Abd al-Muttalib (ra) married a noble Jewish woman, and this was the maternal grandmother of ‘Ali (ra). ‘Ali (ra) descent and his relationship to the Exilarch is also mentioned in Geniza fragments. Some of this is also discussed in Graetz, Geschichte der Juden von den ltesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart. (History of the Jews) His positive relationship with the academies in Babylon is described in Iggeres Sherira Gaon. The Prophet (pbuh), however, was from a different marriage. His great grandmother was from the tribe of Hind. The “Judaism” of the Oniads was similar to what we know today. Qussai (ra) married the daughter of the Jurham King named “Hillel”. He formed a Sanhedrin in Mecca, called the Dar Al Nadwa, within a generation after it was forcibly disbanded in Tiberias. He announced the New Moons in an office called the Nasa (Nasi). Even so, the “Judaism” practiced in Arabia was a syncretic mixture of Sadducean, proto-Christian, and even Rabbinic influences. Though certain families among the Quraysh were “Jewish” enough to intermarry with the family of the Exilarch, it is uncertain how widely this applied.

    Zuraini Nordin

    Interesting. Rabbi, I need to know about the Jewishness of Khadijah’s cousin Waraqah who was an Ebionite Christian? The Ebionites that time, generally were Jews who believed in Jesus but at the same time kept and practiced the teachings of the Torah?

    Ben Abrahamson

    I don’t know. Ibn Hisham says that Waraqah was a Jewish priest, who knew
    Hebrew. We learn from Sahih Bukhari that Waraqah used to read the Gospel in
    Arabic. I think all the “People of the Book” were descended from Jews and
    Jordanian Jewish converts (from the Second Temple period). It is said that all the “People of the Book” kept Ashura (Yom Kippur), ritual purity (negas) of vessels, and offered sacrifices at the Ka’aba.

    Zuraini Nordin

    Thank you.

    Hebrew years 4320 to 4440 (560- 680 CE)
    Year 4330 – 570 CE – Birth of Muhammad

    Muhammad, who became the prophet of a new religion, Islam, was born in 570 CE in Mecca.

    [According to Christian sources, Muhammad's mother, Aminah, was Jewish thus making Muhammad a Jew in the sense of Jewish tradition; Rev. John Alzog mentioned in his Manual of Universal Church History, 1900, vol. 2, page 192 (without indicating his source): Mohammed, who was the only son of Abdallah, a Pagan, and Amina, a Jewess, and was descended from the noble but impoverished family of Hashim, of the priestly tribe of Koreish, who were the chiefs and keepers of the national sanctuary of the Kaaba, and pretended to trace their origin to Ismael, the son of Abraham and Hagar, was born at Mecca, August 20, A.D. 570].

    His parents died when he was young so he never had a scholastic education. He is said to be of the Quraysh tribe and to descend from from Ishmael, son of Abraham. Modern genetics have explored the Y-DNA pool of the Quraysh tribe, which features today the following haplogroups: about 50% of J (80% of the
    Jewish people are also J, and J is also preponderant in the Arabian peninsula
    in the same proportion as the Quraysh tribe), 25% of E (it is an haplogroup
    commonly found in the Middle-East and in Mediterranean, from the ex Canaanite peoples or Phoenicians who exported it over the sea) and 25% of R (which is majoritarily of European peoples).
    Yet, there is no haplogroup Q, which is of Asian/Mesopotamian origin, which
    would have been the Y-DNA haplogroup of a person like Abraham (who was from Ur in Chaldea) and of his son Ishmael.

    There was also a Jewish tribe in Arabia called the Qurayza who had settled in Medina. It may be possible that, in earliest times, the Arab Quraysh and the Jewish Qurayza formed one single entity, with the Quraysh splitting from their Jewish ancestry and adopting paganism at some point of time of their History. This would explain the similarity between the two names of tribes, one Arab and the other Jewish.

    Contemporary witness accounts record Muhammad’s striking physical complexion:

    [He] was neither tall nor lanky nor short and stocky, but of medium height. His hair was neither crispy curled nor straight but moderately wavy. He was not overweight and his face was not plump. He had a round face. His complexion was white tinged with redness. He had big black eyes with long lashes. His brows were heavy and his shoulders broad. He had soft skin, with fine hair covering the line from mid chest to navel. The palms of his hands and the soles of his feet were firmly padded. He walked with a firm gait, as if striding downhill.

    — Bayrak, Tosun, The Name & the Named: The Divine Attributes of God, 2000,
    citing Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad

    It is striking to read about the whiteness of his skin and redness, which is barely a typical Arab feature. This may induce people to believe that his ancestry was of mixed Arab descent. Or more appropriately we could say that there is some mystery about the origin of Muhammad, if the descriptions such as the above one have been correct.

    • trapper

      Harry, are you crazy?

      • http://raycaruso.com/ Ray Caruso

        That’s a big 10-4, buddy.

      • Harry

        Barry Chamish

        Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:51 PM

        To: chamish

        http://www.barrychamish.com

        ISIS, THE US AND ISRAEL

        by Barry Chamish

        It has been almost a year since, relying on sources I trusted,I reported that US Special Forces were running a camp in the northern Jordanian town of Iswafa, to train, fund and equip forces to supposedly bring down the Assad regime in Syria,
        with covert Israeli military co-ordination and obvious Jordanian co-operation. These troops made their way from Syria
        to Turkey and in a miracle of military tactical genius, were transformed into ISIS, which in a mere three years captured half of Syria and Iraq.

        And even better, with some well publicized decapitations,
        brought the US back to the Middle East to fight the beheading beasts. In short, the US, with Israeli help, created their own worst enemies. And Russia now agrees.

        ***Mossad transferring ‘spying experience’ to the leadership
        of ISIS, as Israeli military advisers assist the terrorists, claims the aide.

        http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188359#.VIWp8zGUd8E

        A senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has
        accused Israel’s Mossad of training Islamic State (aka ISIS) terrorists operating in Iraq and Syria, Iran’s Press TV reports.

        Alexander Prokhanov told the state-controlled news outlet
        that Mossad is also likely to have transferred some of its “spying experience” to the leadership of ISIS, even as Israeli
        military advisers assisted the terrorists in other ways.

        Prokhanov said ISIS is a byproduct of US policies in the Middle East.

        “ISIS is a tool at the hands of the United States. They tell the Europeans that if we (the Americans) do not intervene, ISIS will cause you harm,” he said.

        In fact, however, he added, Iran and Russia are the main
        targets of ISIS terror.

        “They launched their first terror attack against us just a few days back in Chechnya,” he said, stressing that the ISIS ideology has got nothing to do with the Islam practiced in Iran and some other Muslim countries in the Middle East
        region.

        Prokhanov said the United States and Israel are one and the same when it comes to supporting a terror organization like the ISIS.***

        Clearly, it’s not good for one’s long-term survival to reveal what Putin indubitably has come to accept as truth. An Israeli
        intelligence source, Debka, opened the ugly lid a few months ago and suddenly were shut down to “update” their website for a three weeks. The upgrading was extended and now Debka is, at best, a touch and go operation.

        http://www.debka.com/article/24223/

        ***This appeared to contradict a fact which Israel has kept
        very dark:

        The Syrian rebel offensive to wrest Quneitra would have
        stood no chance without

        Israel’s aid – not just in medical care for their injured, but also in limited supplies of arms, intelligence and food. Israel acted as a member, along with the US and Jordan, of a supportsystem for rebel groups fighting in southern Syria.

        Their efforts are coordinated through a war-room which the
        Pentagon established last year near Amman.
        The US, Jordanian and Israeli officers manning the facility determine

        in consultation which rebel factions are provided with
        reinforcements from the special training camps run for Syrian rebels in Jordan, and which will receive arms.***

        To those “rational” minds who insist their Jewish leaders would never assist in the formation of the bloodthirsty foes dedicated
        to their final demise…no matter how much it pains you, recall the connivance between the Nazis and the Labor Zionist founders of Israel:

        ***We now jump to 1933. Less than 1% of the German Jews support Zionism. Many tried to escape from Naziism by boat to Latin and North American ports but the International diplomatic order was to turn them back.

        Any German Jew who rejected Palestine as his shelter would be shipped back to his death.

        By 1934, the majority of German Jews got the message and
        turned to the only Jewish organization allowed by the Nazis, the Labour Zionists. For confirmation of the conspiracy between them and Hitler’s thugs read The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black, Perfidy by Ben Hecht or The Scared And The Doomed by Jacob Nurenberger.

        The deal cut worked like this.

        The German Jews would first be indoctrinated into Bolshevism
        in Labour Zionism camps and then, with British approval, transferred to Palestine. Most were there by the time the British issued the White Paper banning further Jewish
        immigration. The Labour Zionists got the Jews they wanted, and let the millions of religious Jews and other non-Frankists perish in Europe without any struggle for their survival.***

        end

        ***

        ABU BAKR AL BAGHDADI WAS TRAINED BY MOSSAD
        2014-07

        The former NSA and CIA agent Edward Snowden revealed that the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi was trained in Israel.

        ABU BAKR AL BAGHDADI

        Snowden added that the American CIA and the British Intelligence collaborated with the Israeli Mossad to create a terrorist organization that is able to attract all extremists of
        the world to one place, using a strategy called “the hornet’s nest”.

        The “Hornet’s nest’’ strategy aims to bring all the major threats to one place in order to track them, and mostly to shake the stability of the Arab countries. The NSA agent revealed that the ISIS “Calif”, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi went through intense military training by the Israeli intelligence “Mossad”.

        Besides military training, Al Baghdadi studied communication and public speaking skills in order to attract “terrorists” from all the corners of the world.

        The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), an independent non-profit organization in the province
        of Quebec, Canada, which focuses on research and media, relayed a story about this as well, adding that “three countries created a terrorist organisation that is able to attract all extremists of the world to one place,” using the aforementioned “the hornet’s nest” strategy.

        “The only solution for the protection of the Jewish state is to create an enemy near its borders,” Snowden was reported to say.

        July 6, 2014

        First Appearance of ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi

        ISIS emir and newly, self-appointed Caliph for all Muslims blesses mankind with his first public appearance in a video recorded at a mosque in Mosul. In his first appearance, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi enlightens misguided Muslims and informs them that he too is, in fact, imperfect.

        Excerpts from his speech were translated exclusively for Monitor Mideast.

        Al Baghdadi’s first lecture consists of interpretations he gave to Quranic verses, whilst some other quotes were plagiarized from the first speech held by the first Sunni Caliph, Abu Bakr.

        Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, emerged from the shadows to lead Friday prayers at Mosul’s Great Mosque, calling on the world’s Muslims to “obey” him as the head of the caliphate declared by the Sunni jihadist group.

        The notoriously secretive jihadi, who has never before been seen in public, chose the first Friday prayer service of Ramadan to make an audacious display of power in the city that Salafist Islamists have now controlled for three weeks.

        Speaking from the balcony in his new incarnation as
        self-anointed “Caliph Ibrahim”, al-Baghdadi announced himself as “the leader who presides over you”, urging Muslims to join him and “make jihad” for the sake of Allah.

        Under his direction, the Islamic world would be returned to “dignity, might, rights and leadership”, he said.

        “I am the wali (leader) who presides over you, though I am not the best of you, so if you see that I am right, assist me,” he said, dressed in a black turban and robe reminiscent of the last caliphs to rule from Baghdad.

        What did Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi say?

        “O Muslims everywhere, glad tidings to you and expect good. Raise your head high, for today – by Allah’s grace – you have a state and khilāfah, which will return your dignity, might, rights, and leadership. It is a state where the Arab and
        non-Arab, the white man and black man, the easterner and westerner are all brothers. It is a khilāfah that has gathered the Caucasian, Indian, Chinese, Shāmī, Iraqi, Yemeni, Egyptian, Maghribī (North African), American, French, German, and Australian. Allah brought their hearts together, and thus, they became brothers by His grace, loving each other for the sake of Allah, standing in a single trench, defending and guarding each other, and sacrificing themselves for one another. Their blood mixed and became
        one, under a single flag and goal, in one pavilion, enjoying this blessing, the blessing of faithful brotherhood. If kings were to taste this blessing, they would abandon their kingdoms and fight over this grace. So all praise and thanks are due to Allah.”

    • http://raycaruso.com/ Ray Caruso

      I thought it was the Jesuits that created Islam.

      Seriously, what a load of bull. Muslims never persecute Jews? Actually, they always persecute Jews and the persecution started with Muhammad himself. No wonder since their “holy” book says, “Thou wilt find the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe (to be) the Jews and the idolaters.” (Koran 5:82)

      Get some medication. Now they have ones that don’t make your hair fall out.

    • nightspore

      Is there no idea, however bizarre, that someone can’t be found who will support it?

      Harry, I think you’ve just answered the question.

    • UCSPanther

      I recommend seeing a shrink…

  • http://www.GodAuthoredBible.com geneww1938

    You must visit and bookmark http://www.barenakedislam.com/ to understand the facts of what we are dealing with. Islam is the most wicked and viel organization of Satan that exist.

    • Harry

      DO YOU WANT TO SEE SATAN?

      At the bewitching hour, light 2 candles and place them each
      side of a large mirror and open your Bible to Jeremiah 17:9 and read it.

      Then stare into the mirror and YOU will see Satan looking back at you!

      Do YOU want to know where EVIL comes from?

      Open your Bible to James 1:12-27 and read, then YOU will see where EVIL comes from.

      JEREMIAH 17:9

      The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately evil; who can understand it?

      JAMES 1:12-22.

      12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”, for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each person is tempted when he is
      lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

      16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.[a] 18 Of
      his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

      Hearing and Doing the Word

      19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

      22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

      • BenZacharia

        Just go away and worship your god Zeus and leave the rational conversation to adults.

        • Harry

          “THE TALMUD IS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD”!

          The official unabridged Soncino Edition of the Talmud
          published in 1935 was “Translated into English with Notes, Glossary and Indices” by such eminent Talmudic scholars as Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein, Rabbi Dr. Samuel Daiches, Rabbi Dr. Israel W. Slotki, M.A., Litt.D., The Reverend Dr. A. Cohen, M.A.’, Ph.D., Maurice Simon, M.A., and the Very Reverend The Chief Rabbi Dr. J.H. Hertz wrote the “Foreword” for the Soncino Edition
          of the Talmud. The Very Reverend Rabbi Hertz was at the time the Chief Rabbi of England.

          The world’s leading authorities on the Talmud confirm that the official unabridged Soncino Edition of the Talmud translated into English follows the original texts with great exactness. It is almost a word-for-word
          translation of the original texts. In his famous classic “The History of the Talmud,” Michael Rodkinson, the leading authority on the Talmud, in collaboration with the celebrated Reverend Dr. Isaac M. Wise states:

          “THE TALMUD IS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD. During the twenty centuries of its existence…IT SURVIVED IN ITS ENTIRETY, and not only has the
          power of its foes FAILED TO DESTROY EVEN A SINGLE LINE, but it has not even been able materially to weaken its influence for any length of time. IT STILL DOMINATES THE MINDS OF A WHOLE PEOPLE, WHO VENERATE ITS CONTENTS AS DIVINE TRUTH…”

          SANHEDRIN, 55b-55a: “What is meant by this? – Rab said: Pederasty with a child below nine years of age is
          not deemed as pederasty with a child above that. Samuel said: Pederasty with a child below three years is
          not treated as with a child above that (2) What is the basis of their dispute? – Rab maintains that only he who is able to engage in sexual intercourse, may, as the passive subject of pederasty throw guilt (upon the
          actual offender); whilst he who is unable to engage in sexual intercourse cannot be a passive subject of pederasty (in that respect) (3). But Samuel maintains:
          Scriptures writes, (And thou shalt not lie with mankind) as with the lyings of a woman (4). It has been taught in accordance with Rab: Pederasty at the age of
          nine years and a day; (55a) (he) who commits bestiality, whether naturally or unnaturally: or a woman who causes herself to be bestiality abused, whether naturally or unnaturally, is liable to punishment (5).”

          This “divine truth” which “a whole people venerate” of
          which “not a single letter of it is missing” and today “is
          flourishing to such a degree as cannot be found in its history” is illustrated by the additional verbatim quotations which follow:

          SANHEDRIN, 55b: “A maiden three years and a day may be acquired in marriage by coition, and if her deceased husband’s brother cohabits with her, she becomes his. The penalty of adultery may be incurred through her; (if a niddah) she defiles him who has connection with her, so that he in turn defiles that upon which he lies, as a
          garment which has lain upon (a person afflicted with gonorrhea).”

          (footnotes) “(2) His wife derives no pleasure from this, and hence there is no cleaving. (3) A variant reading of this passage is: Is there anything permitted to a Jew which is forbidden to a heathen. Unnatural connection is permitted to a Jew. (4) By taking the two in conjunction,
          the latter as illustrating the former, we learn that the guilt of violating the injunction `to his wife but not to his neighbor’s wife’ is incurred only for natural but not for unnatural intercourse.”

          SANHEDRIN, 69b “Our rabbis taught: If a woman sported lewdly with her young son (a minor), and he committed the first stage of cohabitation with her, -Beth Shammai says, he thereby renders her unfit for the priesthood (1). Beth Hillel declares her fit…All agree that the connection of a boy nine years and a day is a real connection; whilst that of one less than eight years is not (2); their dispute refers only to one who is eight years old.

          KETHUBOTH, 11a-11b. “Rabba said, It means (5) this: When a grown up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl is less than this (6), it is as if one puts the finger in the eye (7), but when a small boy has intercourse with a grown up woman, he makes her as `a girl who is injured by a piece of wood’ “.

          (footnotes) “(5). Lit., `says’. (6) Lit., `here’, that is, less than three years old. (7) Tears come to the eyes again and again, so does virginity come back to the little girl under three years.”

          KETHUBOTH, 11a-11b. “Rab Judah said that Rab said: A small boy who has intercourse with a grown up woman makes her (as though she were ) injured by a piece of wood (1). Although the intercourse of a small boy is
          not regarded as a sexual act, nevertheless the woman is injured by it as by a piece of wood.”

          (footnotes) “(1) Although the intercourse of a small boy is not regarded as a sexual act, nevertheless the woman is injured by it as by a piece of wood.”

          ABODAH ZARAH, 36b-37a. “R. Naham b. Isaac said: They decreed in connection with a heathen child that it
          would cause defilement by seminal emission (2) so that an Israelite child should not become accustomed to commit pederasty with it…From what age does a heathen child cause defilement by seminal emission? From the age of nine years and one day.
          (37a) for inasmuch as he is then capable of the sexual act he likewise defiles by emission. Rabina said: It is therefore to be concluded that a heathen girl
          (communicates defilement) from the age of three years and one day, for inasmuch as she is then capable of the sexual act she likewise defiles by a flux.

          SOTAH, 26b. “R. Papa said: It excludes an animal, because there is not adultery in connection with an animal (4). Raba of Parazika (5) asked R. Ashi,
          Whence is the statement which the Rabbis made that there is no adultery in connection with an animal? Because it is written, Thou shalt not bring the hire
          of a harlot or the wages of a dog etc.; (6) and it has been taught: The hire of a dog (7) and the wages of a harlot (8) are permissible, as it is said, Even both
          of these (9) – the two (specified texts are abominations) but not four (10)…As lying with mankind. (12) But, said Raba, it excludes the case where he warned her against contact of the bodies (13). Abaye said to him, That is merely an obscene act (and not adultery), and did the All-Merciful prohibit (a wife to her husband) for an obscene act?”

          Of the “sacred” Talmudic teachings of the “Sages,” preserved since 500 A.D. and taught more widely today than ever before in Talmud-Torah schools in the U.S.A., perhaps nothing better illustrates “fools” with
          “reprobate minds” than the teaching in the Talmud book of Yebamoth that spittle on the top of the bed curtain proves that a wife has been guilty of adultery, as only lying down face upwards could she have spit up on it.
          Spitting several feet straight up! The Talmud states:

          “When a peddler leaves a house and the woman within is fastening her sinnar [breech-cloth] … . If spittle is found on the upper part of the curtained bed she must, said Rabbi, go.” Footnote: “Even if there were no witnesses that misconduct took place.” Further footnote:
          “Only the woman lying face upwards could have spat on the spot. Intercourse may, there fore, be suspected.”

      • UCSPanther

        Another day, another mentally ill antisemite…

    • Sam Pyeatte

      Islamists that strike under the cover of darkness are sniveling cowards. We need to start a national effort to send them all back from which they came. Resist vigorously, all attempts to infiltrate our education system with the Islamic rot.

    • pfbonney

      “Harry” still hasn’t dis-proven you. Islam could well be serving as a tool of the devil, serving his ends.

      For all Harry says is that he (Harry) is the devil.

  • mollysdad

    The correct response to these threats is to remind all who are willing to listen that Muhammad was a camel p**s drinker and his mother was a whore.

    • Harry

      MUHAMMAD’S MOTHER WAS A JEW!
      HIS FIRST WIFE, KADIJAH, WAS A JEW!
      HIS FAVORITE WIFE, AISHA, WAS A JEW!
      ISLAM’S FIRST CALIPH, ABU BAKR, WAS A JEW!
      MUHAMMAD WAS A JEW!

      WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM?

      • mollysdad

        My problem is that Muslims in large numbers tend to be dangerous to human life, public order, national security, and property.

      • BenZacharia

        Yeshua, “Jesus”, IS a Jew. Now go away and continue to worship Zeus.

        • Harry

          WRONG GOD – WRONG BABY

          “Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel.” – Isaiah 7.14. (Young’s Literal Translation)

          CHRISTMASS A DIVINE COCKUP:

          WRONG GOD, WRONG BABY

          ARE YAHWEH & EL THE SAME GOD OR DIFFERENT GODS?

          (GENESIS 14:22, 17:1, 21:33; EXODUS 6:2-3; PSALM 82:1 vs DEUTERONOMY 32:8-9; PSALM 29:1, 89:6-8)

          Recent archaeological, biblical, and extra-biblical research has led scholars working in the area of the origins of Israelite religion to assert rather boldly and
          confidently that the original god of Israel was in fact the Canaanite deity El.1 Just exactly how has this come about you ask?

          First, the name IsraEL is not a Yahwistic name. El is the name of the deity invoked in the name Israel, which translates:

          “May El persevere.”2

          This suggests that El was seen as the chief god in the formative years of Israel’s religious practices. In fact, the etiological story explaining the origin of the name Israel
          occurs in Genesis 35:9-15, where Jacob obtains this name through the blessing of El Shaddai, that is “El of the Mountain.”

          Second, there exist numerous parallels and similarities between descriptions and cultic terminology used for El in the Canaanite texts and those used for Yahweh
          in the biblical sources (see below). At some point, it is ascertained, the cultic worship of Yahweh must have absorbed that of El, through which means Yahweh assimilated both the imagery and epithets once used of El.

          Finally, there is strong confirmation of this assimilation in the biblical record itself. In the oldest literary traditions of the Pentateuch, it is El who regularly appears and not Yahweh, or Yahweh as El! The patriarchal narratives
          identify El as the deity to whom many of the early patriarchal shrines and altars were built. For example, we are informed in Genesis 33:20 that Jacob builds an altar in the old cultic center of the north, Shechem, and dedicates it to “El, god of Israel” (’el ’elohe yišra’el ). There is no ambiguity in the Hebrew here: ’el must be translated as a proper name, El.3

          Who was El? And why is he even mentioned in the Bible in the first place, let alone as the god of Israel in the older literary traditions of Genesis?

          Our knowledge of El predominantly comes from an invaluable corpus of tablets discovered in 1929 in the ancient city of Ugarit, a major city-state of the second millennium BC located on the northern coast of Syria, modern day Ras Shamra.4
          The Ugaritic tablets are the best available witness to Canaanite religion and religious practices, and thus also “to the background from which the religion of Israel
          emerged, and to the Canaanite beliefs that it shared, adopted, compromised with, and sometimes rejected.”5
          The Ugaritic literature depicts El as the sovereign deity of the Canaanite pantheon. He is frequently referred to as “Father of the gods,” “the eternal King,” and “Creator of all living beings.” El’s other epithets include: “El the
          Kind, the Compassionate,” “the Bull,” “the Ageless One,” and “the Father of Years.” He is depicted as bearded, and residing in a tent or a tabernacle, whose throne rests on Cherubim. He is the god of blessings and of covenants.

          Many of these epithets and images later become assimilated to Yahweh. For example, Yahweh is often depicted as bearded, as King of the gods, as Compassionate, and as residing in a tent, whose throne, like that of El, rests on Cherubim. There are, in addition to this, numerous El epithets in various strains of biblical
          tradition—epithets that through a process of assimilation and adoption later become associated with Yahweh. We have already encountered El Shaddai, “El of the Mountain.” Like Yahweh who is associated with the mountain of Sinai and later in eschatological traditions with Zion, so too El resides on a mountain. Other patriarchal narratives attest the use of El Olam, “El the Eternal” to whom Abraham plants and worships a tree at
          Beersheba, El Elyon, “El the Most High,” the god of Melchizedek (Gen 14:18-24), and El Roi, “El who sees” (Genesis 16:13).

          These various El epithets are associated with different shrines: El Shaddai with Bethel, El the Most High, the creator of the heavens and the earth, with Jerusalem, El the Eternal with Beersheba, El who sees with Beerlahai-roi, and El the god of Israel with Shechem.6
          Many of these shrines and altars to El were established by the patriarchs themselves (e.g., Gen 21:33, 28:18, 33:20, 35:14). It has also been suggested
          that the name Yahweh might have originally been a cultic epithet of El! The etymology of Yahweh, yhwh, is still unclear, but one proposal is to see it as the causitive imperfect of the Canaanite-Proto-Hebrew verb hwy, “to be.”5

          It is propable therefore, as many commentators have contended, that the early Israelites actually worshiped El through his epithet ‘Yahweh.’ This process of assimilation is usually presented the other way around in the biblical literature: Yahweh is worshiped through the epithets of El: Shaddai, Olam, and Elyon.

          Contrary to these biblical traditions that suggest assimilation between Yahweh and El, there are other passages that seem to indicate that Yahweh was a separate and independent deity within El’s council. Deuteronomy 32:8-9 is one of those rare biblical passages that seemingly preserves a vestige of an earlier period in proto-Israelite religion where El and Yahweh were still depicted as separate deities: Yahweh was merely one of the gods of El’s council! This tradition
          undeniably comes from older Canaanite lore.

          When the Most High (’elyôn) gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated humanity, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of divine beings. For Yahweh’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.

          There are two points to take away from this passage. First, the passage presents an apparently older mythic theme that describes when the divine beings, that is
          each deity in the divine counsel, were assigned and allotted their own nation. Israel was the nation that Yahweh received.

          Second, Yahweh received his divine portion, Israel, through an action initiated by the god El, here identifiable through his epithet “the Most High.” In other words, the passage depicts two gods: one, the Most High (El), is seen as assigning nations to the divine beings or gods (the Hebrew word is elohim, plural “gods”) in his council; the other, Yahweh, is depicted as receiving from the first god, the Most High, his particular allotment, namely the people of Israel. Similarly, in another older tradition now preserved in Numbers 21:29,
          the god Chemosh is assigned to the people of Moab.

          Other biblical passages reaffirm this archaic view of Yahweh as a god in El’s council. Psalm 82:1 speaks of the “assembly of El,” Psalm 29:1 enjoins “the sons of El” to worship Yahweh, and Psalm 89:6-7 lists Yahweh among El’s divine council.

          Thus there seems to be ample evidence in the biblical record to support the claim that as Yahweh became the supreme national deity of the Israelites, he began to usurp the imagery, epithets, and old cultic centers of the god El. This process of assimilation even morphed the linguistic meaning of the name El, which later came to mean simply “god,” so that Yahweh was then directly identified as ’el—thus Joshua 22:22: “the god of gods is Yahweh” (’el ’elohim yhwh).

          Noteworthy also is the fact that unlike the god Baal, there is no polemic in the Bible against El, and all the old cultic centers of El, those in Jerusalem, Shechem, and Beersheba, were later accredited to Yahweh. Since the large majority of patriarchal narratives that speak of shrines and altars to El are found in the northern
          kingdom, such as Bethel and Shechem, and, on the other hand, many biblical texts seem to accredit Yahweh’s origin to the southern Negeb, the current
          scholarly hypothesis is that the worship of El in the north and of Yahweh in the south eventually merged. This thesis finds further support in the incident of Jeroboam, who may have acted to reestablish the cult of Yahweh-El at Dan and Bethel via his “golden bulls” (#155). In sum, the biblical literature, spanning as it does hundreds of centuries of cultural and cultic traditions, preserves
          divergent views, portraits, theologies, and origins of its god Yahweh. We will come across others.

          Footnotes

          For a comprehensive treatment of the subject see: F. M. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel (Harvard University Press 1973); M. Smith, The Early History of God: Yahweh and
          the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (Eerdmans 1990); and W. Dever, Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel (Eerdmans 2008).↵

          Other names formed with “el” include: Ishmael, Bethel, Penuel. As a further note, no name in Genesis contains the form of Yahweh, which later became the
          dominant pattern in Israel in the 1st millennium bc. The first and earliest appearance of the name “Israel”
          comes from the Merneptah stela—an Egyptian victory stela commemorating the Syro-Palestinain conquest of pharaoh Merneptah in 1208 BCE. In the stela Israel is listed among the peoples of the land of Canaan.↵

          The Hebrew ’el is often translated as “God.” Although like the Hebrew ’elohim, ’el can be translated as “god,” Hebraic philologists contend that a generic understanding of ’el as “god” is a rather late development in biblical Hebrew. More accurately, ’el without a definite article is to be rendered simply as “El,” the name of a pan-Canaanite (by this term I mean to include a proto-Israelite culture) deity—a remnant of an older Israelite/Canaanite tradition to which a few
          biblical passages still attest. Mention of El is also found in Genesis 17:1, 28:3, 35:10, 48:3, 49:25. In later literary sources, and after Yahweh had adsorbed El’s attributes, ’el came to be understood simply as “god.”↵

          Translations of the Ugaritic texts can be found in: C. Gordon, Ugaritic Literature: A Comprehensive Translation of the Poetic and Prose Texts (Pontifical
          Biblical Institute 1949); M. Coogan, ed., and tr., Stories from Ancient Canaan (Westminster
          1978).↵

          Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, 65.↵

          SOURSE: Dr. Steven DiMattei

    • pfbonney

      It is a fact, admitted as being correct by Muslims, that Muslims descended from a concubine, Hagar the Egyptian, which, serving sarai as a maid Sarai (later Sarah) gave to her husband, Abram (later Abraham) to function as a concubine.

      “I will make your descendants so numerous,” added the Lords Messenger, “that there will be too many to count.” Genesis 16:10 (“…Hagar bore him Ishmael.” – Genesis 16:15) (N.A.B.).

      Muslims seem to take great pride in that.

  • Lanna

    Its the voice of the martyrs who stand with Christ, the solid rock, foundation, and Cornerstone…..he is our savior and the only true God, he will avenge his people one day, Christians and Jews!

  • amongoose

    They have made the case, introduced the evidence, and convicted themselves.
    This “cult” needs to be shipped back, in it’s entirety to the “tolerant and peaceful” countries they came from.

    • Harry

      ISIS = CREATED BY ISRAEL; TRAINED BY AMERICA; AND FUNDED BY SAUDI ARABIA!

    • Cretien

      And also include in the shipping the traitors named, leftists, politic corrects, multiculturists, state enemy’s, etc.

  • steve b

    EVERY ONE OF THOSE MUSLIM BAST@@DS SHOULD BE KILLED ON SIGHT AND THEIR BODIES GROUND UP AS PIG FEED. ONE YEAR FROM NOW THERE SHOULD NOT BE ONE LIVING MUSLIM IN ANY WESTERN COUNTRY. LIKE ROACHES, YOU JUST DON’T KILL THE ONES WALKING ON YOUR FOOD.

    IF THEY DON’T DO THIS, IN 20 YEARS THEY WILL ALL BE MUSLIM COUNTRIES.

    • Harry

      55,000 ON THE WALL – 55,000,000 IN THE DUMPSTER

      93% OF JEWS ARE PRO-ABORTION

      THE CURIOUS CONSENSUS OF JEWS ON ABORTION

      by Roger Price

      February 1, 2013 | 11:09 am

      Note: Another version of this post
      was published previously at http://www.judaismandscience.com.

      55 MILLION INNOCENT VICTIMS SLAUGHTERED IN AMERICA, SINCE 1973

      WHAT IS A D&C ABORTION?

      The D&E method, used on unborn children 14 weeks or older, involves using a long steel tool to grasp and tear off, by brute force, the arms and legs of the developing human—after which the skull is crushed.

      Dr. Anthony Levatino, an obstetrician-gynecologist who has performed many D&E abortions, describes the procedure: “Picture yourself reaching in with the Sopher clamp and grasping anything you can…Once you have grasped something inside, squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard – really hard. You feel something let go and out pops a fully formed leg about six inches long. Reach in again and grasp whatever you can. Set the jaw and pull really hard
      once again and out pops an arm about the same length. Reach in again and again with that clamp and tear out the spine, intestines, heart and lungs.”

      DOCTOR DEATH

      Dr. Martin Haskell giving a presentation at the 16th Annual Meeting of the National Abortion Federation Conference in 1992 in San
      Diego. It was a gathering of abortionists — men and women who make their living by killing babies. Haskell was describing to his audience how to do a partial-birth abortion. Listen to his words about how this
      procedure takes place:

      “The surgeon then introduces large grasping forceps … through the vaginal and cervical canal … He moves the tip of the instrument carefully towards the fetal lower extremities — and pulls the extremity into the vagina …The surgeon then uses his fingers to deliver the opposite lower extremity, then the torso, the shoulders, and the
      upper extremities. The skull lodges in the internal os. The fetus is oriented … spine up … The surgeon then takes a pair of blunt curved Metzenbaum scissors in the right hand. … the surgeon then forces the scissors into the base of the skull–spreads the scissors to enlarge the opening. The surgeon–surgeon then introduces a suction catheter into this hole and evacuates the skull contents.”

      Haskell, having described these brutal details, shows his audience a video of himself doing one of these procedures. And at the end of the video, after the sound of the suction machine taking the brains out of the baby’s head, the audience applauds.

      “DR. MENGELE’S STILL DRUMMING”

      See that baby in the corner?

      Her life might not be so good!

      I can tell she’ll be a problem….

      That much, ma’am, is understood!

      She’s not really quite a “person”;.

      Yes, we’re sure she’s unaware.

      Her life may not be worth living….

      Let’s “abort” and show we care.

      She’s just not what we’d call “human”…

      She’s not really at that stage.

      “Cute” enough, but just not “with it”…

      Unaware and disengaged.

      She has no real moral standing….

      Not just yet, and that’s the glitch!

      She’s no diff’rent from a tomcat,

      Or some tiny mongrel!@#$%.

      We’ll decide for you what’s “human”…

      When a “what” becomes a “who”!

      On these shifting sands of reason,

      Moral Law we may undo.

      These things change, ma’am. Please don’t worry!

      We know best about these things;.

      We’ve been schooled in Bio-Ethics,

      Singing songs that Singer sings!

      That’s the song of Peter Singer….

      (Margaret Sanger sang it, too).

      If that melody’s familiar,

      Maybe you should ask the Jew.

      That’s the downbeat of Eugenics,

      Euthanasia’s Rhythm Band.

      Dr. Mengele’s still drumming.

      Out there on that shifting sand.

      THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST.

      • steve b

        OK, SO WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH WHAT I WROTE? NOT KIDDING, JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND THE CONNECTION?

        • Harry

          YO HOMER,
          MOHAMMEDANS ARE “SAINTS” COMPARED TO THE AMERICANS WHO ALLOW ABORTION CONCENTRATION CLINICS, TO SLAUGHTER 55,000,000 AMERICANS:

          BLACKS & ABORTION

          “Several years ago, when 17,000 aborted babies were found in a dumpster outside a pathology laboratory in Los, Angeles, California, some 12-15,000 were observed to be black.”

          –Erma Clardy Craven (deceased)

          Social Worker and Civil Rights Leader

          APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF BLACK AMERICAN DEATHS SINCE 1973

          AIDS = 203695

          VIOLENT CRIMES = 306313

          ACCIDENTS = 370723

          CANCER = 1,638350

          HEART DISEASE = 2,266789

          ABORTION=30,000,000

          All figures are based on cumulative statistics provided by the U.S. Center for Disease Control

          COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION

          Minority women constitute only about 13% of the female population (age 15-44) in the United States, but they underwent approximately 36% of the abortions.

          According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, Black women are more than 5 times as likely as white women to have an abortion

          On average, 1,876 black babies are aborted every day in the United States.

          This incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 16 million abortions. Michael Novak had calculated “Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 36 million, the missing 16 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America’s Black community would now number 52 million persons. It would be 36 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member.”

          A highly significant 1993 Howard University study showed that African American women over age 50 were 4.7 times more likely to get breast cancer if they had had any abortions compared to women who had not had any abortions.

          55,000 ON THE WALL – 55,000,000 IN THE DUMPSTER

          • steve b

            OK, YOU ARE ANTI-ABORTION. I GET IT. BUT WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH WHAT I WROTE ABOUT ISLAMISTS TAKING OVER WESTERN COUNTRIES? AND DON’T SEND ANOTHER ABORTION RANT, PLEASE.

          • Harry

            OBAMA’S PUPPETEERS

            DON’T BLAME THE MONKEY FOR THE TUNE HE DANCES TO, BLAME THE ORGAN-GRINDERS!

            ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI (HENRY KISSINGER, GEORGE SOROS & THE TALMUDIC BANKSTERS)

            EVIL SPIRIT OF 5 PRESIDENTS & THE BIGGEST THREAT TO WORLD PEACE

            There is a man who is more dangerous to mankind than any other living person today. His name is Zbigniew Brzezinski, a CFR-member , Arch-Trilateral Commissionist, Bilderberger. He has been the evil spirit behind 5 US presidents, including Obama – and he is obsessed with but one thought: The US is to
            dominate a communist one world state.

            For that purpose, he sees Eurasia as his grand
            chessboard, where the battle is to be won. Like any chess player, he starts by occupying the centre of the chessboard, Central Asia.

            He wants peace there, friendly arrangements, in particular with China, if possible, so that he can pursue the goal of his obsession, i.e. the purpose of the Trilateral Commission created by him and David Rockefeller: To create a world state by fusing a coming North American Union, at which he is working through
            the CSIS, the Union for the Mediterranean – and a Far East block which is now being created.

            His aim is a communist one world state where Russia, which he hates, is subdued by being split into 3 republics in a loose confederation – and if that is not possible – then ultimately even by WW III. He and David Rockefeller are behind the fusion of world religions for peace in the world state. In stead he collaborates with Al Gore and Gorbachev to promote the environmental Gaia religion.

            In the Agenda 21 state people in the technetronic era will be totally controlled and via artificial intelligence (brain chipping) become post-human robots.

            He has worked on,

            Selling US infrastructure like harbours

            Outsourcing US jobs

            Giving the Panama Canal to the Chinese

            Selling illegal weapons to the Soviet, Iran, Iraq, Libya

            He nurtured the Taliban and Al Qaida and ignored Islamic fundamentalism.

            Advised by Zbigniew and his son, Ian, Obama is now encircling Russia and China, which has not been so cooperative as wanted by Zbigniew, with anti-ballistic missiles which can also be used to inactivate Russian and Chinese satellites, so as to hinder retaliation after a US first strike against the nuclear arsenals of those countries.

            Russia knows and is preparing for the possibility of having to deliver a preemptive attack – according to the chief of the Russian Joint Staff, Yuri Baluyevsky. These
            considerations are probably being accentuated by the fact that Russia can hardly afford a fresh weapons race.

            However, Brzezinski does not believe in Russia’s
            capacity to strike!

            Who is Zbigniew Brzezinski?

            Brzezinski was the national security advisor for President Carter from 1977 to 1981. In 1988 he endorsed HW Bush for President and was Co-Chair of the HW Bush national security advisory task force. From 1987 to 1989 he also served on the HW Bush’s
            Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Clinton Secretary of State Madeline Albright was a student of Brzezinski’s.

            GW Bush Secretary of State, Condi Rice (also a former national security advisor), who studied under Albright’s father, shares many of the same world government views with Brzezinski and Albright.

            Zbigniew Brzezinski is an advocate of socialist world government, a goal he has promoted as a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to “guide policy makers” and as a speaker at former Soviet Premier and Communist Mikhail Gorbachev’s first World Forum.

            This State of the World Forum had interesting partners. Brzezinski is an architect of creating regions of global governance from independent nations to achieve world government. The CSIS issues the North American Integration Monitor, which hopes for a North American Union (NAU).

            The proposals for global taxes by Obama have come with the recommendations of Zbigniew Brzezinski to pay for globalization and world government. Obama has proposed a global poverty tax in a US Senate bill.

            The Climate Change Control Bill strongly supported by Obama calls for an international governing regime to monitor and regulate carbon dioxide and “carbon footprints” from discovery, to production, to consumption at a cost of $50 trillion globally and at a cost of $8 trillion for US taxpayers, all to be paid for by a global tax, whose monies will be used to establish a world government body.

            The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973
            by David Rockefeller with Zbigniew Brzezinski as executive director, after Brzezinski published Between Two Ages, which became the blueprint for the TC. David read and appreciated his ideas, which included,

            “Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.”

            “Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man’s universal vision. Marxism is simultaneously a victory of the external man over
            the inner, passive man and a victory of reason over belief.”

            “Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific know-how. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior
            and keeping society under close surveillance and control.”

            “The Soviet Union could have emerged as the standard-bearer of this century’s most influential system of thought and as the social model for
            resolving the key dilemmas facing modern man.” 33

            1973 founding members of the Trilateral Commission also included Jimmy Carter, who chose Zbigniew Brzezinski as his National Security Adviser during his presidency. Brzezinski, also a member of the CFR, wrote in his Power & Principle: Memoirs of the
            National Security Advisor, 1977-1981, on page 49,

            “The new President’s specific views on foreign affairs–going beyond his desire for a foreign policy governed by humane and moral concerns–had been formed during his time with the Trilateral Commission. Contrary to the myth, the Trilateral Commission is not a conspiracy designed to dominate the world but genuinely strives to engage Americans, Western Europeans and Japanese in a common endeavor to shape a more cooperative world…”

            On page 289, he wrote,

            ‘”Moreover, all the key foreign policy decision-makers of the Carter Administration had previously served in the Trilateral Commission….”

            Zbigniew Brzezinski is a CSIS Trustee and Trustee Counselor, Center for Strategic and International
            Studies; and Professor of American Foreign Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. He is also Honorary Chairman of the AmeriCares Foundation;
            Member of the Board of Trustees of Freedom House; Trustee of the Trilateral Commission; Member of the Board of Directors of the Polish-American Enterprise Fund; Chairman of the American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee…”

          • pfbonney

            Is all you can write, rants?

          • Harry

            U speka d inglis?

          • pfbonney

            That’s about what I’d expect.

          • UCSPanther

            Asking our “friend” to write anything other than all-caps rants about “how Jews are bad” is asking too much…

          • pfbonney

            So I see.

  • SoCalMike

    Wage war on jihadi Islam and supremacist Muslims but also on their Leftist enablers and allies.
    This is a 2 front war.
    If you are not anti-jihad, then you are on their side and that includes Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and Barack Obama Leftists.
    This war has 2 fronts.

    • Harry

      YO HOMER,

      YOU NEED TO GOOGLE:

      McClure’s Magazine.

      July, 1905.

      John D. Rockefeller

      A character study

      by

      Ida M. Tarbell

      Author of: The History of the Standard Oil Co., Life of Lincoln, A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Madame Roland: A Biographical Study etc., etc.

      NOW HERE’S A MASTER TERRORIST

  • Space Cowboy

    None of this stuff is isolated or happens just occasionally at the hands of a few extremists. Instead, it always happens and it also happens wherever Muslims can get away with it.

    In the infidel West, Muslims settle for waging jihad by stealth non-violently, because to wage jihad violently in the West would result in their quick defeat and the mass expulsion of Muslims. However, in the Islamic totalitarian world where there is little to no resistance, the Muslims always wage jihad violently and always kill and oppress the infidels.

  • http://batman-news.com King of Mediocrity

    I call for a ten million Christian march on Washington DC May I suggest March 28th?