Continuing Delusions of Islamist “Democracy”


 
Even in the wake of the Muslim Brotherhood’s victory in Egypt’s presidential election, the Obama administration and their sock puppets in the mainstream media still want Americans to buy the myth of emerging democracy in that country. Reality is not allowed to creep into the narrative. So we must pretend that what’s actually happening on the ground in Egypt… well… isn’t.
 
For instance, via Jihad Watch ~
Egypt: Muslims force Christians out of church during prayer, police advise priest to comply ~

Muslims in the village of Basra in Alexandria, Egypt, surrounded the local Coptic church, St. Lyons, during divine liturgy, “demanding that visiting Copts leave the church before the completion of prayers, and threatening to burn down the church if their demand was not met.”

 
Democracy in action? 😯
 
Nope. Just part of the bigger picture. From the Investigative Project on Terrorism, here are The Hood’s real goals~
 

Brotherhood Has Egyptian Caliphate Plans:
According to an Arabic-language report last Tuesday of a closed-door senior-level Brotherhood confab, the Islamist group intends to get rid of film and “artistic heritage,” replace police uniforms with “Islamic garb,” and make memorization of Islam’s holy book a pre-condition for advancement in school. These sweeping changes—dubbed the “Jazira Plan”—are to “be put into execution on the first day Dr. [Mohamed] Morsi assumes the presidency.”
 
The first step in the plan is to “replace the national anthem with the so-called anthem of the Islamic Caliphate,” soon after followed by “the abolition of the Ministry of Information and replacing it with an Islamic media organization” whose sole aim would be to “publish Islamic heritage only.”

 
Which only makes sense considering ~
 

Creed of the Muslim Brotherhood:
Allah is our objective
The Prophet is our leader
Qur’an is our law
Jihad is our way
Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope

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Of course the Brotherhood is as skilled at concealing their true ambitions as Barack Obama himself has been…

The [Jazira] plan speaks to the Brotherhood’s deep-seated, and oft-referenced, “dream” of reinstating the Caliphate. Yet, when pressed to expound upon its goals by an unfriendly audience or in the West, the group instead turns ambiguous, speaking in terms of Western concepts of freedom, dignity, and justice.

 

History teaches us that a certain degree of delusion – denial of reality – is required by those with totalitarian aims. News that doesn’t fit the desired narrative must be buried, shrugged off, or ignored entirely. Stories like this: Member of Egyptian Terror Group Goes to Washington.
 
Last week a group of Egyptian legislators were in D.C. to meet with senior Obama administration officials to apparently exchange ideas on the future of relations between the two countries.
Strangely enough, included in the delegation was one Hani Nour Eldin, newly elected member of the Egyptian parliament – and member of…

…the Gamaa Islamiya, or the Egyptian Islamic Group—a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. The group was banned under former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and is now a recognized Islamist political party. Its spiritual leader, Omar Abdel Rahman—also known as the “blind sheik”—was convicted in 1995 of plotting attacks on New York City landmarks and transportation centers, and is serving a life sentence in a North Carolina federal prison.

 
Well isn’t that special?
 
Hillary Clinton’s State Department arranged for the visit, according to a department spokesman. Yet by U.S. law, the very fact that Eldin is an avowed member of a terrorist organization means he would be denied a visa to enter the country.
 
But what the heck, Holder’s DOJ doesn’t let a silly thing like the rule of law get in their way, why should State?
 
So, no biggie, they just issued a visa to a terrorist.
A State Department spokesman said, “We have no information suggesting that he or anyone else in the delegation is a member of the Egyptian Islamic Group.”
 
Willful delusion – or willfully deluding?
 
Either way, it doesn’t change the reality of the inherent Evils of the Muslim Brotherhood nor what the presidential election means for Egypt’s future.
 
Related:
Reality check: Obama’s Muslim Connection
 

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Obama’s Audacious Dreams

I’m convinced that the titles of Barack Obama’s (probably ghost-written) books were intended to be arrogant nose-thumbs at the American people ~
 

Dreams from My Father
&
The Audacity of Hope

 
After 3 ½ years of empty rhetoric and progressive prevarication from our first post-racial president, it’s clear that both of these carefully-chosen phrases were a deliberate play on words, intended to mock anyone gullible enough to take him seriously.
 

 
“Dreams from My Father” in particular is turning out to be more fiction than fact. Since none of the elite media types actually bothered to vet the president before the ’08 election, it’s been left to internet journalists to do most of the heavy lifting and discover the truth.
 
Turns out “Dreams” mostly was. Obama’s “autobiography” is mainly a collection of distortions, “composites” and totally fabricated episodes made up purely for political window-dressing.
 
Mark Steyn, in a wonderfully sarcastic article at National Review Online, reviews “Obama’s Great American Novel,” and the make-up-your-memoirs trend that seems to catching on with the rarified-air crowd:

Courtesy of David Maraniss’s new book, we now know that yet another key prop of Barack Obama’s identity is false: His Kenyan grandfather was not brutally tortured or even non-brutally detained by his British colonial masters. The composite gram’pa joins an ever-swelling cast of characters from Barack’s “memoir” who, to put it discreetly, differ somewhat in reality from their bit parts in the grand Obama narrative.
 
The best friend at school portrayed in Obama’s autobiography as “a symbol of young blackness” was, in fact, half Japanese, and not a close friend.
 
The white girlfriend he took to an off-Broadway play that prompted an angry post-show exchange about race never saw the play, dated Obama in an entirely different time zone, and had no such world-historically significant conversation with him.
 
His Indonesian step-grandfather supposedly killed by Dutch soldiers during his people’s valiant struggle against colonialism met his actual demise when he “fell off a chair at his home while trying to hang drapes.”

 
Read the whole piece – it’s a hoot!
Apparently America has now entered its Post-Reality Period – where “we’re too busy inventing ourselves to be interested in the truth.”
 

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These People Vote?!

Former Bush Administration Senior Adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was the target of a clearly astroturfed march in Washington D.C. last week. The protest was organized in opposition to Rove’s non-profit, Crossroads GPS, which supports conservative causes.
 
“Astroturf” seems a particularly apt label because many of the participants had no clue who Rove was, or what he had done that was worthy of protest.
 
In this video from The Blaze, protestors were asked “Who is Karl Rove?” ~
 

CONTENT WARNING: Offensive language

 
Oddly enough several of the marchers were under the impression Rove was running for president. Hmmmm…
 
My favorite line: “I never seen anybody lie their way to the White House.”
 
Yikes! 😯
 

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Reality Forces One-World-Government Elitists to Re-Boot

Sounds like the whole global climate change scam may have finally crashed. Well, at least its usefulness as a propaganda tool for the utopians is fading fast.
 
Conspicuously absent from last week’s United Nations’ Rio+20 conference was the environmental alarmism so evident at previous gatherings. Seems the elites have finally figured out that the world-wide rabble just isn’t buying their Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming crappola.
 
One of the welcome voices of common sense from across the Atlantic, Lord Christopher Monckton, attended the conference in Rio De Janeiro and reported on this promising development. Monckton, a British politician, public speaker and former newspaper editor, spoke with The New American last Saturday:
 

“This whole conference right from the start has had the stink of death upon it,” he observed. “The environment is no longer cool. It’s no longer green. It’s no longer fashionable.”
 
He added:”They realized they could no longer bring forward the climate as an excuse, and you barely heard climate change mentioned here.”

 
That’s not to say that the AGW scam has been totally abandoned. “It’s still there, but it’s no longer the number one issue.”
 
And certainly the One-World-Government agenda is still in place, but now the champagne and caviar crowd needs a new manipulation strategy. So their re-boot message has become:
the world’s most serious problem is poverty – and socialism is the solution.
 
The New American article continues:

Ironically though, global socialism is exactly what the would-be managers of the world are offering as the means to end poverty. Of course, global socialism would result in more poverty, not less; and it would also result in the loss of freedom. At Rio+20, Monckton noted, “They were still effectively talking about a mechanization for setting up a global government so that they could shut down the West, shut down democracy, and bring freedom to an end worldwide.”
 
If the change in emphasis from environmental issues to poverty sounds surprising, it is not, once it is realized that the crusade to save the Earth from environmental destruction really was not about saving the environment. Monckton noted that the modern-day environmental movement has been co-opted by what he terms “the traffic light tendency — the greens too yellow to admit they’re really Reds.”

 
So the crusade for One World Government has now shifted the front, but their assault on individual liberty marches on.

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As an aside to the Rio+20 circus, the enviro-wacko crowd tried to co-opt Jesus for their nefarious utopian agenda. They actually painted Rio’s iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer green.
 

 
Fortunately, God has His own agenda. The weather for the week was rainy and overcast, rendering the green statue mostly invisible.
 
Message to the mis-guided:
Our true heaven is not going to be found through man’s puny efforts here on earth.

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Related:
Alex Jones @ InfoWars interviewed Lord Monckton as United Nations’ Rio+20 was winding down ~ Video HERE.
 
Rio+20 The UN Sustainable Development Scam Fails ~ The duplicitous Green NGOs like WWF, Greenpeace and FoE are outraged at the Earth Summit failure.
 
Science & Public Policy Institute and SPPI blog. Monckton is the Chief Policy Adviser for this organization ~ Science-based policy for a better world.
 

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Founding Wisdom [Flouted by the Foolish]

“The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating (extinguishing) Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools…
 
… We err, not only in human affairs, but in religion likewise, only because we do not ‘know the Scriptures…’”

 
~ Benjamin Rush ~
 

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Saturday Shorts – 6-23-12

Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
How Obama Bureaucrats Fueled Western Wildfires ~ by Michelle Malkin. Federal ineptitude exacerbates the disaster due to ill-considered budget cuts.
 
Monkey-Wrenching America ~ A fairly new site that Malkin mentions in the above article, they’re all about “Confronting the Green threat to our economy, property and freedoms.” Looks like a great place to get the truth about the enviro-nuts’ destructive agenda.
 
And speaking of the Green Agenda; Issa Uncovers the Truth About Green Jobs. Not only is Rep. Darrell Issa tenaciously attempting to get to the bottom of Fast & Furious, he’s also helping to expose the Bureau of Labor & Statistics’ leftist agenda by pointing out their ridiculous “green job” definitions. Salvation Army store employees, school bus drivers, even oil lobbyists all have “green jobs.” Who knew?!
 
United Way Sent $1.9 Million to Planned Parenthood in 2008 ~ If you’ve heard their vacuous “Live United!” radios spots, you’re probably already suspicious of United Way, but here’s a more concrete reason to avoid supporting them.
“(T)he main United Way website (www.LiveUnited.org) also directs volunteers toward Planned Parenthood.” Wonder what they “volunteer” to do? Assist with an abortion?
 
Google reports ‘alarming’ rise in government censorship requests ~

In the last half of 2011, U.S. agencies asked Google to remove 6,192 individual pieces of content from its search results, blog posts or archives of online videos, according to the report. That’s up 718% compared with the 757 such items that U.S. agencies asked Google to remove in the six months prior.

 
Not to worry, I’m sure none of this content was in any way critical or derogatory of the Obama Administration…
 

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North Dakota’s Fracking Phenomenon

Here’s a welcome success story from northwest North Dakota, illustrating what actually works – when it comes to creating jobs, growing the economy and improving the lives of regular Americans. [As opposed to the Obama Administration’s policies – which clearly have the opposite effect.] ~
 

 

SIMPLE FORMULA:

Reasonable state regulations + drilling on private lands + fracking =
homegrown energy & booming economy

 
Related:
A Fracking Miracle: North Dakota’s Bakken Boom and North Dakota’s Oil Boom in Pictures ~ Both at Heritage Network’s “The Foundry” blog.
 

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Athiest Blogger Recalibrates Moral Compass

Ask an atheist where their “moral compass” comes from and they will eventually have to admit it’s self-determined. Oh, they’ve probably considered the consensus of various worldviews and agreed that the “Golden Rule” (Do unto others…) is a good starting point. But beyond that, it mostly boils down to what feels right for me.
 
It takes an intellectually honest non-believer to think that position through to its inevitable conclusion: if right and wrong are ultimately subjective, then each individual moral compass is effectively set to nothing.
 
While most of us go through our daily lives without paying much attention to the big picture, we all do have an internal compass, a personal philosophy that undergirds our actions and activities.
 
Frequently it takes a life-threatening event to make us re-think our worldview; “there are no atheists in foxholes.” But sometimes those with curiosity and integrity are nudged out of their comfort zone and will sincerely question whether their belief-system actually matches reality. Less commonly, some will find the courage to acknowledge the Truth.
 
Leah Libresco recently become one such individual: Popular Atheist Blogger Announces Conversion to Catholicism.

According to her blog post from Monday, as an atheist she couldn’t fully explain where human’s obtained their understanding of moral law, despite the many non-theistic theories that are out there. The day before Palm Sunday, she says, she got into a discussion with a Christian friend, who asked her what she believed was the source of moral law.
 
After some thought, she realized that morality comes from neither evolution nor philosophy, but from God.
 
“I believed that the Moral Law wasn’t just a Platonic truth, abstract and distant,” she wrote. “It turns out I actually believed it was some kind of Person, as well as Truth. And there was one religion that seemed like the most promising way to reach back to that living Truth.

 
What Libresco discovered was that only the Word of God portrays a true picture of human nature, one that agrees with our real world experience. This being the case, it naturally follows that the Bible’s “compass” is absolutely the best one we can use to navigate our way through life.
 
Libresco is in good company. Not long ago a previous atheist, German sociologist and philosopher Professor Jürgen Habermas, finally concluded that:

“Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. To this day, we have no other options… We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter.”

 

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Spiritual Healing for Wounded Patriots

Samaritan’s Purse just announced what sounds like a wonderful new program for wounded members of the military and their spouses: Operation Heal Our Patriots.

With the war winding down, it’s easy to forget the sacrifice these young men and women have made. Most are in their early twenties. There are a number of organizations that work with wounded service members and they do a great job, but Operation Heal Our Patriots is the only one that focuses on couples and marriage.

 

The project offers a week-long retreat for couples which is centered on strengthening their marriage, deepening their spiritual walk, and giving them an opportunity to enjoy a beautiful wilderness setting.
 
A group of motorcyclists recently organized a “Warrior Ride” in support of the program ~
 

 

He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
He restores my soul…

~ Psalm 23:2-3 ~

 

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Truth, God’s Justice and the Original American Way

If you’re wondering why America is going off the rails, the answer can be found in this wise statement from our first president:
 

 “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.”
 
~ George Washington, 1st Inaugural Address, April 1789 ~
 
 
 
If I were to sum up the underlying philosophy behind this blog in one sentence, that would be it. The further our country retreats from the principles ordained by God, the closer we get to a civilizational train wreck.
 

Ann Barnhardt [Barnhardt.biz] sees this clearer than most, and has been fearlessly sounding a clarion call for years. She’s a totally righteous defender of America’s founding Christian principles, never afraid to speak the unvarnished truth. Inspiring the rest of us to stand for what’s RIGHT.
 
 
Here’s a great example – excerpted from Barnhardt’s June 8th post:
 

A cattleman at a school I just taught, during lunchtime conversation, shared a “mini lesson” that he teaches to children whenever he gets the chance. I think it is very wise, and worth sharing. It is simply this:
 
EVERYONE HAS A STORY. And, SATAN IS REAL.
 
Building on that, I suspect many people out there are thinking this, but are too afraid to say it because they think that people will look down upon them as rednecks or stupid or unintelligent. Let me go out front as a person who doesn’t give a crap what others think of me, and who is many things, but not stupid, and say it out loud to hopefully edify others to speak openly about it:
 
YES, THIS RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF NEAR-DAILY HIDEOUS, CANNIBALISTIC MURDERS AND UNFATHOMABLE SEX CRIMES IS A MANIFESTATION OF DEMONIC POSSESSION AND DEMONIC POWER RECLAIMING A FOOTHOLD IN FORMERLY CONSECRATED CHRISTIAN TERRITORY.
 
You’re not imagining things. That’s exactly what it is. People have been “bad tripping” on drugs for decades without turning into demonic animals and eating people’s faces off of them alive. Just as Satan is very, very real, so are demons. The demonic legions are reclaiming and reasserting power in the Americas and Europe because these physical landmasses have lost their consecration to Christ by their apostasy, blasphemy and child sacrifice. It is going to get worse. We are basically going to turn into what the musloid Middle East has been for 1400 years. Civilization is going to lose cohesion and people are going to start doing things that have absolutely no rational explanation: gratuitously gruesome murders and bodily desecration, and rape variants involving children, animals and corpses that normal people cannot comprehend.
 
The main gateways for demonic possession are drugs, pornography and homosexual/deviant sex. The cannibals have all been drug users. The Canadian cannibal was also a gay porn star. The British couple who raped their own infant children (on camera) are child and bestiality porn merchants. These incidents will increase in frequency exponentially as the collective apostasy of this culture has now reached the point that the “shedding of God’s Grace” upon The Americas and Europe is now limited to individuals – and even then, God’s grace for the remnant may be within the context of their persecution, imprisonment and martyrdom.
 
I guess the best advice I can give is when everything goes to hell and you feel despairing, remember that WE DESERVE THIS. What you are seeing is God’s Justice, and an opportunity for you and others to draw closer to Him. And THANK HIM.

 
Much as we might hope to convince myself otherwise – it’s pretty clear that Barnhardt’s right. And like Ann, I plan to continue sounding the alarm.
 

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For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
 
~ Ephesians 6:12 ~

 

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Nanny-Statism Run Amok

So Mayor “No-More-Big-Gulps” Bloomberg has doubled-down on his government-knows-best position: Bloomberg fires back at “nanny” critics ~

“If government’s purpose isn’t to improve the health and longevity of its citizens, I don’t know what its purpose is.”

 
Seriously?! Someone needs to wake this loon up!
 
Try this Doomberg:

“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.”
~ James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791 ~

 
This petty dictator really needs to retire to one of his 11 homes 😯 – and stop harassing the good citizens of Gotham.
 

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China’s Seed “Pearls”

Here’s a wonderful story about how the Holy Spirit has been spreading God’s Word throughout China, via Open Doors:

One hundred-foot-long tugboat Michael lumbered along at the sleepy speed of three knots. It towed the semi-submersible barge, Gabriella, loaded with the million Chinese Bibles in 232 waterproof wrapped one-ton packages. By 9 p.m. on that historic night of June 18, 1981, Michael and its crew of twenty men weaved through a maze of anchored Chinese navy ships in the darkness near the port city of Shantou, southern China. Thousands of local Christians waited patiently in the darkness on the appointed beach.
 

 
The off-loaded floating packages were towed to shore by small rubber boats. Chinese believers came out in the water—some up to their neck. They pulled the blocks up onto the beach and cut them open with shears, handing the 45-pound cardboard boxes of Bibles to one another up the sand to the tree-line.
 
Two hours later, Michael and Gabriella and the crew left the scene with one million Bibles in the care of Chinese believers. They promised to circulate them across the entire country. In some cases, that process took as much as five years and many Chinese Christians paid dearly for it.
 
Over the past 30 years, Open Doors has received documented story after story—often from unusual places and situations—of the impact of those Bibles on the fast growing church in China. Project Pearl Bibles have been seen in virtually every province of the country.

 
A former colleague of mine from Singapore continues to minister in China. In the late 1990s, he met a large house church network of Christians in central China who still had no contact at all with foreigners from outside the country. They testified that it was the receiving of many Project Pearl Bibles that encouraged them and motivated them to share the gospel widely and thus grow to their current significant numbers.
 
One of those pocket-sized Bibles was received by a young Christian who had been praying for a Bible of his own for three years. After reading it through three times in three weeks, he felt God calling him to become one of the many itinerant evangelists preaching in China’s countryside. After fifteen years of ministry, he pastored a network of house churches that grew to over 400,000 members. His network of churches continues to need more than 20,000 Bibles a month just for new believers.

[Source: June 18th Daily Devotional from Open Doors: “Project Pearl”]

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Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness.
~ 2 Corinthians 9:10 ~

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Please pray for Christians today in a variety of situations who are still waiting for their first copy of God’s Word.
 

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