The World’s War on Christendom – Latest Dispatch from the Front

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How did America go from a nation inarguably founded and grounded in Christian principles, to one in which a significant portion of the media is openly hostile to the faith? ~ Rage at Rubio’s Bible Tweets: More Evidence of Troubling Bias Against Christians ~

… Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post, and a number of other journalists, have apparently taken Gob Bluth (who heckled a harmless student from India, with “Go home, you terrorist!”) as a role model. They’ve responded with shock and outrage to the following: Yesterday morning Catholic U.S. Senator Marco Rubio posted some phrases from the Bible on Twitter.

 
Variously described as “creepy,” “unsettling” and “terrifying” in a flurry of atheist hyperbole, Catholic Senator Rubio merely tweeted out the scripture readings from Tuesday’s mass. Gasp!

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I mean it doesn’t get much more terrifying than this does it?
 
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Dr. Michael Brown puts these bullies’ noxious behavior in perspective ~

For centuries, American Christians were a vast and highly tolerant majority. Now the tenor of culture and laws has changed so drastically, that we are becoming an unpopular minority. Perhaps one not to be tolerated […]
 
There’s no group that’s easier to get away with hating than one that was once quite powerful, which loses its grip. Think of the fate of noblemen in France after 1789, priests in Russia after 1917, or once-elite Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.
 
In cases like those, people in the newly powerful group can indulge in open hatred for members of the now-dethroned minority. They can hide it behind past “abuses” (real or imagined). They can target innocent people, whip up resentment, encourage discrimination, even get the government to persecute helpless people — whose crime is that they belong to the group that fell from power.

 
It’s easy to mock the over-reactive, outrageous Left. But this rabid intolerance should concern every American Christian; it doesn’t bode well for the future.
 
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Good to see the Florida senator isn’t easily intimidated by the anti-God bigots. This tweet was from earlier today 🙂


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Updated: 5-22-17 ~
Real Christian Persecution: Are We Near the Tipping Point? ~ Tom Gilson at The Stream elaborates on this disturbing anti-Christian trend; time to wake up!

(T)oo many American Christians are still doing church as usual, as if none of this were going on. We’re not preparing our people with focused prayer. We’re not equipping them with apologetics, giving them reasons to hold firm to their faith while under pressure. We’re not building nearly enough community to keep each other strong.

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Life before cellphones

When we focused on more creative endeavors…
 
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Hard to believe people actually used to make productive use of their free time 🙂

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Unesco still living in a parallel universe

UNESCO, the UN agency that pretends to promote peace, social justice, human rights and international security through international cooperation on educational, science and cultural programs, will continue to deny reality as long as the rest of the world allows them to indulge their anti-Semitic fantasy. Earlier this month, in an insulting move deliberately timed to coincide with Israel’s Independence Day on May 2nd, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization denied the Jewish State’s rights on its ancient capital ~

The Steering Committee of UNESCO voted Tuesday to adopt an Arab-sponsored resolution that declared null and void “all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which have altered or purport to alter the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and in particular the ‘basic law’ on Jerusalem.”

 
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Initially, the Trump Administration renounced the ridiculous UNESCO proclamation ~

The United States was among the only ten countries that voted against the resolution while 22 nations voted in favor and 23 others abstained. […]
 
Laurie Cardoza-Moore, the Special United Nations Envoy for the World Council of Independent Christian Churches, was the only dignitary who condemned UNESCO for issuing what she called “a blatant anti-Semitic statement.”
 

“UNESCO’s vote to deny the Jewish people’s sovereignty over Jerusalem on Israel’s Independence Day is not a coincidence. It is a blatant anti-Semitic statement,” Cardoza-Moore wrote in a statement.
 
“It is also an outrageous attack on millions of Jews and Bible-believing Christians worldwide who recognize that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel and the Jewish people and has been for over 3,000 years,” she added while calling upon “the UN Secretary General to condemn this absurd vote in the highest of terms.”

 
However, just as the president prepares for a visit to Israel, the official position is suddenly annoyingly vague – as evidenced by this White House briefing on Tuesday

National Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster declined to answer whether President Donald Trump considered the Western Wall in Jerusalem part of Israel. “That sounds like a policy decision,” he said, laughing.

 
Ha-ha. Sorry General, the humor eludes me.
Trump wasn’t very ambiguous on the campaign trail when he promised to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Now it looks like he’s shamefully reneging on yet another campaign promise…

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Too bad we didn’t elect this guy ➡ Cruz: Western Wall ‘part of Israel’ & Jerusalem Israel’s capital ~

“The Western Wall is part of Israel,” Cruz tells Conservative Review, “and Jerusalem is the eternal and undivided capital of Israel.” […]
 
Cruz has long pushed for the president and the past administration to make good on promises to move the American embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In January, he introduced (along with Sens. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla.) the Jerusalem Embassy and Recognition Act, which called for the relocation of the embassy.

 
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Related:
UNESCO detaches itself from historical reality
Temple Mount Geography Confounds New York Times
Trump Inauguration Rabbi Slams Administration’s Jerusalem Confusion, But Confident President Will Recognize City as Israel’s Capital During Visit ~ Wish I shared that confidence
Russia Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital. Why Can’t the U.S.? ~ Wall Street Journal opinion piece (full article is subscription-only)
International kangaroo court mocks God

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Profits take a backseat to progressive propaganda

I’m not much of a television viewer; so few shows are worth bothering with anymore. The “news” is either depressing, one-sided or downright phony. And what passes for “entertainment” these days is even worse.
 
Other than reruns of oldies, I’ll admit there are a handful of current series that aren’t horrible; NCIS (all three versions), Bull, Elementary, some of the History Channel stuff… at least if there’s nothing better to do, and I have to file my nails, or fold laundry.
 
My sporadic viewing habit explains why I hadn’t seen – or even heard of – Tim Allen’s latest sit-com, Last Man Standing, until news of its cancellation popped up this week ~ Despite High Ratings, ABC Cancels Trump-Friendly Sitcom ‘Last Man Standing.’
 
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Although it may not have been my cup of tea, the show apparently has a decidedly conservative slant – at least compared to the rest of the crap on TV – and many on the right are calling B.S. on the ABC’s decision to axe it. Here’s John Nolte at The Daily Signal, first explaining what a money-maker the show has been ~

Even though it had been dumped on Friday nights, the Tim Allen sitcom Last Man Standing enjoyed ratings that Deadline describes as “very respectable for any night and especially Friday[.]” Every week, the half-hour comedy, one of the very few aimed to appeal to America’s heartland, won its time-slot in the all-important demo, including 6.4 million overall same-day viewers […]
 
Last Man Standing was ABC’s Friday anchor, meaning a show that could not only be counted on to win the night but one that kept viewers tuned in to whatever shows came after. Anchors are also crucially important when it comes to launching new shows […]
 
The real money in the sitcom business comes from syndication rights, selling the reruns on a per episode basis to other networks. Last Man Standing is not only a syndication smash, a virtual cash cow, per Deadline it is the “rare off-network ratings success story these days.”

 
So why in the world would ABC ditch the show? Nolte’s theory is as good as any ~

The real reason ABC canceled “Last Man Standing” was almost certainly due to politics. Allen’s character is, as described by Deadline, a …

… political conservative and devout Christian adhering to traditional American values, the blue-collar comedy appeals to viewers in the Heartland, a constituency that helped elect Donald Trump as president and has been energized post-election as evidenced by the ratings success of new USA drama Shooter.

 
Through his character, the politically conservative Allen has poked fun at Hillary Clinton, political correctness, and the Left at large. Worse still, he has created a popular, sympathetic and likable television personality who holds the beliefs and values our entertainment and media elites want to tell us can only belong to Nazis.

 
Ultimately? The power-brokers in Hollywood are just plain evil. Promoting their leftist, anti-God ideology is even more important to them than pursuing the almighty dollar ~

No one better understands the power of popular culture than those who work in it. They know that if even one is allowed to get through, a Path to 9/11, a Last Man Standing, a Duck Dynasty, a Passion of the Christ, a 13 Hours, a Fox News, that it must be crushed, toxified, or memory-holed out of the fear that those brainwashed by popular culture might discover another side to the story. And then there is the intolerable risk that a success might breed more of them.
 
No matter the financial cost, this cannot be allowed.

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If you’re so inclined, here’s an online petition that a staunch Last Man Standing fan started to urge ABC not to cancel ~

Last Man Standing is one of the only shows on broadcast television, and the only sitcom, that is not constantly shoving liberal ideals down the throats of the viewers. And sadly, that is likely the real reason the show has been cancelled.
 
The intent of this petition/boycott is to attempt to get ABC to renew the show. With that in mind, I will no longer be watching any ABC shows. I have cancelled the DVR settings for the other ABC shows that I regularly watch. If you want to help try to save Last Man Standing, I encourage you to do the same. Even if you are not willing to boycott the network, but still want to save the show, please sign this petition and share it. If you do plan to boycott ABC, please say so when you sign. Let them hear our voices.

 
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Related:
ABC Cancels Tim Allen’s Successful Comedy Last Man Standing and It Looks Like It Was Because of His Conservative Beliefs

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Pomp and protest

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The silly season of commencement speakers is here again and Republicans need not apply, as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos discovered last Wednesday ~

Betsy DeVos was heavily booed while she was delivering a commencement address on Wednesday at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college in Florida.
 
Students jeered DeVos and turned their backs to her, BuzzFeed reports.

 

Obviously the students learned nothing about respectful dissent in a civil society during their four years of study. Nor, apparently, do they support school choice ~

As DeVos met further opposition, she urged the crowd to see reason, stressing that education works best when people with opposing views converse with one another. “Let’s choose to hear one another out,” she said.

 
Maybe they just don’t like white women ~

One student was escorted out to cheers after giving a “black power symbol.”

 

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Unlike his progressive predecessor (beloved at reality-free, anti-American universities across the land) Donald Trump hasn’t exactly been in high demand for commencement addresses, although he was welcomed warmly at the college that officially endorsed his candidacy last year, Liberty University ~

This was Trump’s first commencement address as President. For generations now, the tradition has been for a new President to deliver his first commencement at Notre Dame.* But once again Trump bucked tradition, choosing instead to speak at the large evangelical university in Lynchburg, Va.

 
Also unlike his predecessor, Trump seems to understand and appreciate what made America great, and he doesn’t mock “bitter clingers” ~

“America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers. When the pilgrims landed at Plymouth they prayed. When the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they invoked our creator four times, because in America we don’t worship government we worship God. That is why our elected officials put their hands on the Bible and say, ‘So help me God,’ as they take the oath of office. It is why our currency proudly declares, ‘In God we trust,’ and it’s why we proudly proclaim that we are one nation under God every time we say the pledge of allegiance.
 
“America is better off when people put their faith in action,” he said, urging students to carry out their Christian work whether in ministry or business.
 
“As long as you remember what you learned here at Liberty, as long as you have pride in your beliefs, courage in your convictions and faith in your God, you will not fail.”

 
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Almost Reaganesque 🙂

 
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*Trump seemingly shunned by universities as commencement season nears ~

Obama was the sixth president to speak at Notre Dame’s commencement ceremonies and the ninth commander-in-chief awarded an honorary degree. Yet the prestigious Catholic university will sidestep its presidential tradition this spring.
 
Vice President Mike Pence will instead address the 2017 graduates. Notre Dame President John Jenkins said it was fitting for the university to recognize “a native son who served our state and now the nation with quiet earnestness, moral conviction and a dedication to the common good characteristic of true statesmen.”

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God Bless all you Moms!

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Saturday Shorts – 5-13-17

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

 
Holder Furious That Sessions is Fighting Crime Again ~ The former attorney general spitefully decided to pass judgement on his principled predecessor ~

Eric “Nation of Cowards” Holder was the worst Attorney General in American history and that’s saying something. And he’s mad as hell that AG Sessions is turning law enforcement back to fighting crime instead of freeing drug dealers and starting race riots.

 
Here’s another stellar O’Ministration stooge ~ Former Obama DHS Official on ISIS Slaughtering Egyptian Christians: ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’ ~ Can someone please tell me when it became acceptable in our diversity-embracing society to praise the slaughter of innocent human beings simply because they don’t embrace your worldview?

 
No one wants to name their baby ‘Caitlyn’ anymore ~ Hmmm, I wonder why?

A year after Caitlyn Jenner announced her new name and gender, the popularity of the name Caitlyn plummeted more than any other baby name, according to Social Security’s annual list of the most popular baby names.
 
(Laura Wattenberg, founder of BabynameWizard.com.) said it would be wrong to blame Caitlyn’s drop in popularity solely to a wave of homophobia. In general, she said, parents don’t want to give their children names that might attract controversy.

“Wave of homophobia”?! How about a wave of stop-trying-to-make-us-crazy-by-pretending-the-world-is-flat-and-men-are-women?

 
Keith Olbermann Pleads with Spy Agencies Around the World to Help Him Take Down Trump ~ Will someone please get this man the help he so desperately needs? Or arrest him for possible treason?

 
The Fake News of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ ~ This new Netflix series is a dystopian, anti-Christian nightmare, but it’s apparently how progressives view our faith, while true evil in the real world is brushed aside ~

(T)o the left, the Republic of Gilead is “incredibly relevant,” while actual videotapes of Planned Parenthood doctors (selling fetal body parts) are denounced as irrelevant fiction.

 
Catholic Hospitals Killing Mental Patients (Belgium) ~ Belgium has long been in the vanguard of killing unwanted humans. Now the Brothers of Charity, a Catholic international religious congregation with a global presence in 30 countries, have even signed on the nefarious agenda ~

The board controlling the psychiatric institutions of the Brothers of Charity posted a statement on the order’s website Tuesday, saying it will allow euthanasia in their psychiatric hospitals.

 
Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Worsens: Too Much Power One Day, None the Next

During January of this year, wind and solar power output totally collapsed for days on end and pushed the German grid to the brink of collapse […]
 
From famine to feast and back again, Germany’s renewables rush has not only threatened to plunge the Country into the Dark Ages, the chaos being caused in the power market is sending power costs through the roof.

 
Mormon Church to Pull 130,000 Boys Out of Boy Scouts ~ More fallout from the scouts’ LGBT surrender

 
Colorado: Muslim who kept sex slave refuses to speak with female therapists, says doing so would be un-Islamic ~ How is civil society supposed to coexist with a belief system that’s antithetical to ours’?

The officials who tried him don’t know the first foggiest thing about Islam, and so they likely didn’t know to ask al-Turki whether he was denying that he had kept his housekeeper as a sex slave, or just denying that he abused her. This is a key distinction that they almost certainly didn’t think to make, because they don’t know that the Qur’an allows for the sexual enslavement of Infidel women […]
 
In light of that, Al-Turki likely thinks he has done nothing wrong while not denying the facts of the case. This is clear from the fact that at his sentencing, Al-Turki refused to apologize for “things I did not do and for crimes I did not commit.” He told the judge: “The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors. Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution.” He wants to be returned to Saudi Arabia because what he did isn’t a crime there. He wouldn’t serve any more time.

Sounds like that poor chap in Australia; they just can’t help being misogynists.
 

National Park Service: Research in Grand Canyon okay for geologists…but not Christian ones ~ Progressive narrative controllers: If there really was a world-wide flood, we don’t want to know about it ~

Dr. Andrew Snelling holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the internationally acclaimed University of Sydney. Dr. Snelling has conducted geological research in Australia and the United States, published works in peer-reviewed journals, and has substantial field and laboratory experience with both theoretical and practical geological research. Nonetheless, National Park Service officials denied his routine request to obtain a few fist-sized rock samples from the Grand Canyon after learning of his Christian views about the Earth’s beginnings. Despite the fact that Dr. Snelling had accomplished prior research in the Canyon, Park officials ran him through a gamut of red tape for more than three years.

Alliance Defending Freedom is suing on his behalf.
 
The Man Who Was Beheaded the Day He Became a Christian ~ Amazing story illustrates the transformative power of the gospel! ~

Most of us know the story of the 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt who held fast to their faith and were beheaded by ISIS in February, 2015. But did you know that only 20 of them were actually Copts from Egypt? Did you know that one of the martyrs was from Chad, and he had not been a Christian prior to the day of his beheading? […]
 
When the terrorists ordered the man from Chad to deny Jesus or die, he answered, “Their God is my God,” thereby sealing his fate. That’s how moved he was by the faith of these Christians. Their refusal to deny their Savior, even at the point of death — literally, at the point of a knife to their throats — moved him to make a profession of faith, one that would cost him his head as well. Can we grasp the intensity of this story? […]
 
This is why radical Islam will ultimately fall before the name of Jesus and why every other force that seeks to wipe out the Church will fail in the end. It’s also why we should stop feeling sorry for ourselves when things get a little rough. Are we not also more than conquerors through Him who loved us? (See Romans 8:37)

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Some sage advice for grads

Graduation season is upon us. And whether they’re leaving high school or college, as young people emerge from their safe spaces and step out into the harsh reality beyond campus life, here’s some critical knowledge of the world and its ways that their teachers may have neglected to instill ~
 

Video via Prager U

 
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Please do your part to “save the snowflakes”

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God’s TRUTH isn’t always warm and fuzzy

Dr. Michael Brown is applauding an insightful article from a surprising source – secular rapper Kendrick Lamar – which criticizes today’s churches for their sugar-coated approach to scripture. Lamar, apparently an infrequent visitor to church since his childhood, was unpleasantly surprised to find worship services still unfulfilling ~

… I’ve finally figured out why I left those services feeling spiritually unsatisfied as a child. I discovered more truth. But simple truth. Our God is a loving God. Yes. He’s a merciful God. Yes. But he’s even more so a God of DISCIPLE. OBEDIENCE. A JEALOUS God. …

 
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For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of
those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love
ME and keep My commandments.
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Perhaps in an attempt to fill their pews, these days far too many Christian churches neglect to mention the other side of God’s nature; omnipotent, infallible, righteous – and wrathful when necessary (see the Old Testament); He’s the Creator and ultimate judge of the entire universe. Maybe they’re afraid that the full story of the gospel might somehow be offensive. But by watering down the true message: we are all miserable, fallen sinners who justly deserve the sovereign wrath of God, we actually devalue the world-shaking significance of God’s awesome, redemptive love as manifested in His son Jesus Christ.

 
Lamar continues ~

“The wages of sin is Death” […]
As a community, we was taught to pray for our mishaps, and he’ll forgive you. Yes, this is true. But he will also reprimand us as well. As a child, I can’t recall hearing this in service. Maybe leaders of the church knew it will run off churchgoers? No one wants to hear about karma from the decisions they make. It’s a hard truth. We want to hear about hope, salvation, and redemption. Though his son died for our sins, our free will to make whatever choice we want, still allows him to judge us.

 
Rap theology? Who knew? The thing is, there’s more honest truth in what Kendrick Lamar says than you’ll hear in most churches today.

 

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom ~ Proverbs 9:10
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Jesus saves. But only those who realize they need saving. That’s Truth even a rapper can understand.
 
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Chart-Topping Rapper Kendrick Lamar Is Preaching More Spiritual Truth Than Most of the Dead Churches In America

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How to destroy (ant) society

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Working like a charm so far isn’t it?

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Scientific confirmation: boys aren’t girls – and feelings aren’t facts

Progressive forces of social transformation are trying to convince us that there are some 58 categories of gender (- or is it 71? Seems the number grows by the week.) Even Bill Nye, the pseudo-science guy has gotten in the act with his sophomoric promotion of gender-fluidity (and indiscriminate sex and STDs for all).
 
Real science however, actually confirms what we all learned by kindergarten ~
 
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Not only are there only two sexes, XY & XX (the unfortunate cases of babies born with indeterminate sex organs being extremely rare) -we now know there are some 6,500 genetic differences between them ~

Researchers have revealed a breakthrough in how the sexes really differ from each other.
 
A groundbreaking genetic study pinponted 6500 genes that differ between men and women […]
 
Researchers analyzed 20,000 different genes, sorting them by sex and for differences in expression in each body tissue […]

 
For example, they found that genes that were highly expressed in the skin of men compared to women were related to body hair growth.
 
Gene expression for muscle building was higher in men, and that for fat storage higher in women.

 
Experts say it could have a profound effect in the way we identify and treat everything from disease to fertility.

 
Quick, someone tell “The Science Guy.”

 
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Normalizing psychosis
Is crazy the new normal?

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Oz judge determines criminality is now culturally relative


 

In this week’s episode of “Disorder in the Court,”
we learn that an Australian court has decided sexual attacks are
all relative – when it comes to a certain “religion-of-peace” ~

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Equality under the law was one of America’s central founding tenets. Prince or pauper, male or female, Baptist or Buddhist – all are (theoretically at least) held to the same standards of accountability and consequences. I always assumed Australia had a similar approach to legal justice – but no longer. Apparently they now go in for the Krupke defense (see West Side Story) ~

 

(Muslim) Teenager avoids jail for sex attacks due to ‘cultural differences’

A teenager who immigrated to Australia from Afghanistan has escaped jail after a series of sex attacks because he grew up in a different culture.
 
The court heard the teenager, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty to assaulting eight women and girls on a Surfers Paradise beach in January 2016.
 
The judge accepted that seeing girls in bikinis is different to the environment in which he grew up.
 
The teen, who lives in Victoria, is now on two years probation with no conviction.

 
If Australian (western) culture is no longer the standard for Australian laws, presumably “honor killings” will now be considered misdemeanors and those responsible for them sentenced to 20 hours of community service.

 
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Australia: Muslim avoids jail for sex attacks on beach due to “cultural differences” ~

To what extent will Australian authorities be willing to set aside Australian law for these “cultural differences”? At what point is an immigrant expected to know and respect the laws and mores of his new country? Or would that be “Islamophobic”?

Do Women Wearing Bikinis Deserve to be Sexually Assaulted? ~

Ironically, if an Australian woman living in Afghanistan decided to dress as she did in her home country, she’d be lucky to escape a mob assault on the streets, let alone experience leniency from the court. Yet in Australia, a young man guilty of multiple sexual assaults is let off the hook because of his Muslim background.

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