EGYPT - The "House of Fatwa" issued ruling: 'It is legitimate for Christians to build churches in an Islamic State'.

EGYPT - The "House of Fatwa" issued ruling: 'It is legitimate for Christians to build churches in an Islamic State'. (Fides).

The "House of Fatwa" (Dar al Ifta al Misryah), the Egyptian body presided by the Grand Mufti of Egypt and responsible for disseminating guidance pronouncements and dissolve doubts and disputes regarding the application of the precepts of the Koran, has issued a ruling to confirm that it is absolutely legitimate to allow Christians to build churches in an Islamic nation, with due observance of the State laws. 

In the pronouncement it also states that Islam supports civil laws based on the principle of equality among citizens, and that the Prophet Mohammad was in favor of the principle of "reciprocity" among States with different religious identities.

The pronouncement of the "House of Fatwa" follows the announcement made by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi during his participation in the Christmas Mass in the Orthodox Coptic Cathedral, when the Head of State announced plans to open by 2018, the largest Coptic church of Egypt, to be built by the engineering department of the armed Forces within an area of more than 16 thousand square meters, in the new capital which is being built on the edge of Cairo's metropolis.

The House of Fatwa, in view of Christmas, had also issued a pronouncement to reiterate that a Muslim should not have any hesitation to extend his congratulations to friends and Christian acquaintances on the occasion of their festivities and liturgical solemnities.

The Body, through its interventions, aims to confirm the initiatives of the official institutions of the Egyptian Sunni Islam – starting from the University of Al Azhar - often called by the President al Sisi to counter the spread of extremist doctrines and manipulation of the Koran.  Hmmm..... 'with due observance of the State laws. '

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Video - Hidden camera experiment in the Shiite holy city Karbala. A Christian man asks another about a church.

Watch to find out.
Absolutely amazing Hidden camera experiment in the Shia holy city #Karbala. A Christian man asks another way to a church. pic.twitter.com/6mPPpnFpnt

— Iraqi Day 🇮🇶 (@iraqi_day) December 30, 2016

Hidden camera experiment in the Shia holy city #Karbala. Part 2 pic.twitter.com/tQIZrwP88b

— Iraqi Day 🇮🇶 (@iraqi_day) December 30, 2016

I leave it up to the reader to decide if these 'experiments' are staged or not?

Toronto city council agrees to hear appeal from group banned from city square for singing about Jesus.

Toronto city council agrees to hear appeal from group banned from city square for singing about Jesus. (LifesiteNews).

The City of Toronto has agreed to hear an appeal from a Christian group after it was banned last month from using a prominent downtown square for its annual musical festival on account of musicians singing about Jesus.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, the legal group representing Voices of the Nations, will make the appeal to the square’s Board of Management December 10 at Toronto City Hall.

Wynna Brown, manager of media relations and issues management for the City of Toronto, told LifeSiteNews that the appeal process exists for “applicants that do not meet the guidelines, or disagree with permit decisions.”

“Upon written request, the Board of Management will review and consider such matters at one of its regularly scheduled meetings,” she said.

It was almost a month ago when the Christian group was told that it would not be given a permit for its annual event in the City’s downtown Yonge-Dundas Square, where the group had been celebrating Christianity through a live music and dance event without issue for the past five years.

On October 22, Natalie Belman, the manager of events for Yonge-Dundas Square told the group it had violated the City’s policy against “proselytizing” by signing the name of Jesus.

“If you’re praising Jesus, ‘praise the Lord,’ and ‘there’s no God like Jehovah,’ that type of thing, that’s proselytizing,” she told the group in a recording of a phone conversation obtained by LifeSiteNews.

On November 3, the Justice Centre issued a legal warning letter on behalf of the Christian group to the City of Toronto, demanding that the group’s application be approved by Tuesday, November 10, or the City would face “court action.”

On November 9, one day before the deadline, Voices of the Nations delivered petitions with over 40,000 signatures — 30,000 collected by LifeSiteNews and the remainder by TheRebel.media — to Mayor John Tory’s office demanding that the City reverse the decision.

But the City failed to meet the November 10 deadline to reverse the ban, which prompted the Christian group to ramp up preparations for a rally, taking place yesterday Saturday, in support of Christian expression in the public square.

 Hmmmmm.........Apparently the city has no problem with the police services celebration Islamic heritage month in December.....while it is in October that this celebration is sheduled for Canada.

Related:   Toronto police services hold Islamic Heritage month in December (Islamic heritage month in Canada takes place in OCTOBER).

Video - The 'Stop Bullying Christians Now' rally will be held on Nov. 21 Th. at Toronto's Dundas Square

The 'Stop Bullying Christians Now' rally will be held on Nov. 21 Th. at Toronto's Dundas Square.(Stopbullyingchristians). (Christianophobie).

The ban by the City of Toronto to 'Voices of the Nations', a Christian musical group, to hold its usual festival in this city (see here), caused an outcry of Christians throughout Canada and responsiveness of good quality. 

A petition of over 40,000 individuals was delivered to the municipality ... who ignored this petition.

Voices of the Nations is now considering legal action against the City of Toronto, but will be supported by a large gathering which is convened Saturday 21 November.

The "battle for the rights and freedoms" of Christians has started in Canada. The event will be held on the theme: "Stop anti-Christian bullying now! ". A pugnacious and effective video has just been put online, along with a dedicated website. We will follow all this very carefully .

Related?

Toronto police services hold Islamic Heritage month in December (Islamic heritage month in Canada takes place in OCTOBER).

I'm confused. I thought October was Canada's Islamic History Month. Since when is there an "Islamic Heritage Month" (I could find nothing about it online)? And since when is it held in the same month as Christmas?

Video - 'Blood for Blood' - SANG POUR SANG - French singers Against the persecution of Christians

Le collectif des Enflammés en association avec l'organisme Portes Ouvertes chante pour la cause de nos frères et soeurs chrétiens persécutés. Visitez la page des Enflammés sur http://sangpoursang.portesouvertes.fr/


The collective of inflamed in association with Open doors sings for the cause of our brothers and sisters persecuted Christians . Visit the page on http://sangpoursang.portesouvertes.fr/ Fired

Indian Urdu Daily Advocates Murdering Apostates After Extremist Hindu Groups Convert Muslims.

Indian Urdu Daily Advocates Murdering Apostates After Extremist Hindu Groups Convert Muslims: 'The First Interpreter Of The Koran, Prophet Muhammad, Has Clearly Ordered The Killing Of A Person Becoming Apostate' HT: Memri.

In recent months, and especially after the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power following the 2014 parliamentary elections in India, extremist Hindu organizations allied with Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have conducted several programs to convert Muslims and Christians back to Hinduism. 

Such programs, often described as ghar wapsi (or "returning home"), have been led by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its affiliated organizations, which argue that the Muslims and Christians are originally Hindus.

The RSS's conversion - or re-conversion - programs have been widely criticized by Muslims and secular Hindu groups and politicians, though media outrage has not been seen in India when Islamic clerics and Christian missionaries convert Hindus. 

Under the Indian constitution, religious freedom is guaranteed, which means that people are allowed to profess, propagate, and convert others to their religious beliefs. The converts to either Hinduism or Islam and Christianity are generally impoverished.

In a recent article, the leading Indian Urdu daily Urdu Times published an article, written by Muhammad Najeeb Qasmi Sanbhali, who quoted verses of the Koran, hadiths (sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad), as well as sayings and practices of the Righteous Caliphs (the first four caliphs of Islam: Abu Bakr, Umar ibn Khattab, Usman ibn Affan, and Ali ibn Abi Talib) to justify that the apostates, i.e. Muslims being converted to Hinduism, are justified to be killed.

Following are excerpts from the article, titled "The Punishment For An Apostate In The Light Of The Koran And Hadiths" Read the full story here.

'The war on Christmas' - Say goodbye to Christmas lights – Regulating them out of existence.

'The war on Christmas' - Say goodbye to Christmas lights – Regulating them out of existence. (IAN).

Is this is part of the Obama administration’s effort to reduce our use of electricity, or is it something else?

“The feds are rushing to save Americans from mass holiday displays,” says this article by Ernest Istook.

“Christmas lights have become so affordable that even the humblest of homes often are lit like the Star of Bethlehem,” says Istook. “Federal bureaucrats are working to end this. They claim it will make us safer, but the facts don’t back them up.”

“The Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) has created an example of regulate first and explain why later. In October they proposed new regulations to outlaw strings of bulbs, lighted lawn figures and similar items that would be declared as hazardous. The red tape deals with certifying wire sizes, fuses, and tensile strength of all “seasonal decorative lighting products.”

“This includes Christmas tree lights, lighted wreaths, menorahs, outdoor strands, lawn figures of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, or Santa or Rudolph or Frosty the Snowman. Yes, Kwanzaa, too.

The agency estimates that their proposed regulations will impact 100 million items per year with a market value of $500 million.

“CPSC would never admit it, but we’re free to speculate on the true motive: That this is part of the Obama administration’s effort to reduce our use of electricity, lest global warming set the Earth on fire.(Or not to offend other 'peaceful' religions)

“CPSC’s comment period closes on Dec. 30th and its proposed regulations could become effective a month later. So enjoy everybody’s Christmas lights this holiday season, while you can.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/24/ernest-istook-federal-regulators-say-bah-humbug-ch/


Comment here: http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketBrowser;rpp=25;po=0;dct=PS;D=CPSC-2014-0024

Video - Religious freedom fight hits YouTube.

Video - Religious freedom fight hits YouTube.(TOI).

Video filmed at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital puts positive spin on opposition to pending Charter of Values.

Ari Grunzeweig says that although he is not a very political person, he does know right from wrong. For him, the right thing to do was to make a video opposing Bill 60, the proposed “Charter of Values” that would ban the wearing of religious symbols by public employees in the Canadian province of Quebec.

Grunzeweig, a professional video producer, knew he had to disseminate the video before hearings on the bill began in Quebec’s National Assembly on January 14. He made it just under the wire, posting “Quebecers Care” on January 13. To date, it has received over 15,000 views on YouTube, and traditional media has begun to pick it up, as well.

The minute-and-a-half-long video shows healthcare providers in a hospital setting — many of them wearing religious symbols and clothing items — going about their regular business caring for patients.

“When the charter was first put out there, I decided I had to take action against it,” Grunzeweig, 32, a lifelong Montrealer, told The Times of Israel.

He knew he would make a video, but he wasn’t sure at first exactly what it would be about. Then last November Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital issued a statement that it did not intend to comply with the proposed legislation. As soon as Grunzeweig learned of the hospital’s position, he knew what he wanted to do.Read the full story here.

Christians 'face extinction' amid sectarian terror, minister warns.

Christians 'face extinction' amid sectarian terror, minister warns.(Telegraph).

Christianity is in danger of becoming extinct in its ancient homelands because of a rising tide of sectarian attacks, a senior minister will warn on Friday.

Violence against Christian worshippers and other religious minorities by fanatics has become a “global crisis” and is the gravest challenge facing the world this century, Baroness Warsi will say.

“A mass exodus is taking place, on a Biblical scale. In some places, there is a real danger that Christianity will become extinct,” she will say at a speech at Georgetown University in Washington.

In the new year, Lady Warsi, the Minister for Faith who sits in the Cabinet, will host an international summit to draw up a plan to end the violence against Christians - particularly in the countries where the faith was born.

Writing for Telegraph.co.uk, Lady Warsi highlights the bombing of All Saints Church in Pakistan, killing 85 congregants, in September and the gun attack on a Coptic wedding party in Egypt as the latest outrages by militants who have turned “religion upon religion, sect upon sect”.

 “There are parts of the world today where to be a Christian is to put your life in danger,” she writes. “From continent to continent, Christians are facing discrimination, ostracism, torture, even murder, simply for the faith they follow.

“Christian populations are plummeting and the religion is being driven out of some of its historic heartlands. In Iraq, the Christian community has fallen from 1.2m in 1990 to 200,000 today. In Syria, the horrific bloodshed has masked the haemorrhaging of its Christian population,” she says.
Terrorists are subjecting Christians in the Middle East to “collective punishment” for American foreign policy. Worshippers are now regarded as newcomers and agents of the West, despite having lived there for centuries.
The attacks come against a diverse background of political upheaval, local turf wars and social unrest – but they share the common trait of Christians becoming a “scapegoat” for extremists who are insecure in their own religious identity, she will say.
It is the same mindset that motivated the Nazis to persecute the Jews and the Communists to suppress the Russian church, she says.
Lady Warsi is the first senior British politician to draw attention to the plight of Christians in the Arab world, and will call on other Muslims to defend Christians, citing the example of Christians who defended praying Muslims in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian uprising.
“A bomb going off in a Pakistani church shouldn’t just reverberate through Christian communities; it should stir the world,” she says.
The response must be a co-ordinated international effort similar to the campaign against Apartheid and for Civil Rights in the United States, Lady Warsi will argue. Extremists must be prevented from “twisting history” by claiming co-existence is not possible. She will hold up the example of her daughter, a Muslim who attends a convent school.
Her intervention comes as church leaders become increasingly alarmed at the rising numbers of sectarian attacks on churches in the Islamic world.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has described the victims of bombings in Pakistan as “martyrs”. “They have been attacked because they were testifying to their faith in Jesus Christ by going to church,” he said. Lord Sacks, the former chief rabbi, has described the continuous wave of attacks on Iraqi Christians by Al-Qaeda as “the religious equivalent of ethnic cleansing”.

Around a third of Syria’s Christian population are believed to have fled during the civil war, after being lumped together as “pro-Assad” by Islamist rebels. Earlier this month 45 Christian civilians were reported to have been killed and their churches desecrated in a massacre in Sadad, near Damascus, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. 

"In God We Trust" - Proposal would allow state religion in North Carolina.

"In God We Trust" - Proposal would allow state religion in North Carolina.(WRAL). By Laura Leslie.Raleigh, N.C. — A bill filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify any federal ruling against Christian prayer by public bodies statewide.

The legislation grew out of a dispute between the American Civil Liberties Union against the Rowan County Board of Commissioners. In a federal lawsuit filed last month, the ACLU says the board has opened 97 percent of its meetings since 2007 with explicitly Christian prayers.

Overtly Christian prayers at government meetings are not rare in North Carolina. Since the Republican takeover in 2011, the state Senate chaplain has offered an explicitly Christian invocation virtually every day of session, despite the fact that some senators are not Christian.

House Bill 494, a resolution filed by Republican Rowan County Reps. Harry Warren and Carl Ford, would refuse to acknowledge the force of any judicial ruling on prayer in North Carolina – or indeed on any Constitutional topic:

"The Constitution of the United States does not grant the federal government and does not grant the federal courts the power to determine what is or is not constitutional; therefore, by virtue of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the power to determine constitutionality and the proper interpretation and proper application of the Constitution is reserved to the states and to the people," the bill states. "Each state in the union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion." Read the full story here.

Video: Christians rounded up in Benghazi for preaching the Gospel.

HT: WalidShoebat.(JawaReport).Walid has analyzed and confirmed that this video is what it purports to be. Essentially, Christians were proselytizing in Benghazi before being rounded up by objecting Islamists.

"My Jihad" - Saudi Religious Police Storm Prayer Meeting, Arrest Dozens of Ethiopian Christians.

"My Jihad" - Saudi Religious Police Storm Prayer Meeting, Arrest Dozens of Ethiopian Christians.HT: AnsweringMuslims.

Meanwhile, CAIR is complaining about Islamophobia and trying to convince Westerners that Jihad means "making friends across the aisle." But what do we find when we open the Muslim sources?

Sahih Muslim 4366—The Messenger of Allah said: "I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims."

Fortunately, as all Western politicians and reporters know, Muhammad doesn't speak for Islam. The only people who speak for Islam are Westernized Muslims who have absolutely no clue what Islam teaches.

Saudi Arabia (FoxNews)—Saudi Arabia’s notorious religious police, known as the mutawa, swooped in on a private gathering of at least 53 Ethiopian Christians this month, shutting down their private prayer, and arresting the peaceful group of foreign workers for merely practicing their faith, FoxNews.com has learned.

The mixed group of men and women was seized in a private residence in the city of Dammam, the capital of the wealthy oil province in Eastern Arabia, and Saudi authorities charged three Christian leaders with seeking to convert Muslims to Christianity. The latest crackdown on Christianity in the ultra-fundamental Islamic country comes on the heels of a brutal 2011/2012 incarceration and torture of 36 Ethiopian Christians, and drew a sharp rebuke from a U.S. lawmaker.

"Nations that wish to be a part of the responsible nations of the world must see the protection of religious freedom and the principles of reason as an essential part of the duty of the state," Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., who sits on the Caucus on Religious Minorities in the Middle East, told FoxNews.com.

During Advent in 2011, Saudi authorities stormed a prayer meeting at the private home of one of the Ethiopian workers in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. The Saudi mutawa imprisoned 29 women and six men for more than seven months in barbaric prison conditions, where the men faced severe beatings and the women were subjected to sexually intrusive torture methods. After Christian organizations and human rights groups, as well as the United States government, complained, the Saudis deported the 35 Christian Ethiopian workers in August 2012.

Last March, Abdulaziz ibn Abdullah Al al-Sheikh, the grand mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, declared it is “necessary to destroy all the churches in the Arabian Peninsula.” 

Read the full story here.

Video - Answering the critics of freedom.

Turkey - Urfa Jews’ their Jewish cemetery demand disapproved

Turkey - Urfa Jews’ their Jewish cemetery demand disapproved.(HD).“There are about 53 families who are hiding their Jewish identity in Şanlıurfa. [To date my family has] also hidden [its Jewish identity]. Our dead are buried in a Muslim cemetery. We cannot perform our religious rituals in this cemetery, because we are afraid. We cannot use any symbol of our religion. We want to bury our dead in our own cemetery from now on. But I have received negative responses to the appeals I made, although I wasn’t expecting that. In Şanlıurfa, which is home to many different religions and cultures, we Jews do not even have a cemetery of our own,” Badem said. The Jewish community could consider purchasing land for the establishment of a Jewish cemetery if necessary, Badem said. “When we have our own cemetery, we will be able to perform our religious rituals and use our own symbols on our gravestones. We cannot do that in a Muslim cemetery,” Badem said.Şanlıurfa Municipality has rejected an appeal from a Jewish citizen requesting a cemetery for Jews in the city. “No proceedings have started based on the current appeal,” the Prime Minister’s Office said. Eyüp Badem, a Jewish citizen living in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, appealed to Şanlıurfa Municipality for the creation a separate cemetery for the city’s Jewish community, Daily Taraf reported yesterday. The municipality, however, rejected the demand, saying that “allocating a separate cemetery for Jewish citizens is not possible.” Following the municipality’s decision, Badem wrote a letter to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan about the issue. The letter he received in response, dated Jan. 24, 2012 and signed by the Prime Minister’s Office’s Public Relations Department Chair A. İhsan Sarıkoca, also rejected his appeal. “Upon examining your request, it was found that you had made this request previously and the relevant authorities gave their answer. Consequently new proceedings have not been started for your current appeal,” the letter read..Read the full story here.

Canada - Nova Scotia - Grade 12 student suspended for wearing T-shirt that says 'Life is wasted without Jesus'.

Canada - Nova Scotia - Grade 12 student suspended for wearing T-shirt that says 'Life is wasted without Jesus'.(Yahoo).A Grade 12 student in Nova Scotia has been suspended for wearing a T-shirt publicizing his religious beliefs. The South Shore Regional School Board suspended William Swinimer from Forest Heights Community School in Chester Basin for five days for wearing a shirt emblazoned with the words, "Life is wasted without Jesus." School board Supt. Nancy Pynch-Worthylake said the wording on the shirt is problematic because it is directed at the beliefs of others. "If I have an expression that says 'My life is enhanced with Jesus,' then there's no issue with that, everybody is able to quickly understand that that's my opinion about my own belief," she said. "If the shirt were to say 'Without Jesus, your life is a complete waste,' then that's clear that it is an opinion aimed at somebody else's belief." Pynch-Worthylake said the school has spoken with Swinimer a number of times about the shirt, asking him not to wear it again. Swinimer was unavailable for comment. Varrick Day, the pastor at Swinimer's Pentecostal church, said the young man feels that his religious freedom is being restricted at the school. "His reaction is that he is being bullied by the school itself, not the students, when it comes to his freedom of speech within the school and his freedom of sharing his faith," Day said from Bridgewater, where he preaches at Jesus the Good Shepherd Church. Day said Swinimer was told that at least one student at the school complained about the shirt. Pynch-Worthylake said the school tried mediation with Swinimer before suspending him. A spokesman for provincial Education Minister Ramona Jennex said the minister believes the issue should be handled by the school board.Hmmmm......."The War on Christianity".Read the full story here.

Video - Ezra Levant :"Freedom In Canada: Then & Now."

Bishop Daniel R. Jenky: "President Obama seems intent on following a similar path of Hitler and Stalin".

Bishop Daniel R. Jenky: "President Obama seems intent on following a similar path of Hitler and Stalin".(WE).In a homily delivered Saturday, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois challenged President Obama's HHS mandate, suggesting that the president was following the same path as Hitler and Stalin. "Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and health care," Jenky said. "In clear violation of our First Amendment rights, Barack Obama – with his radical, pro abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path." Jenky added. Jenky reminded the men of the Catholic Church's history of surviving threats from Jihadi, Nazism and Communism and called them to stand up for their faith. Denouncing the "entrenched corruption and sheer incompetence" of the Illinois state government, Jenky also criticized Catholic politicians who "pretend to be Catholic." "May God have mercy on the souls of those politicians who pretend to be Catholic in church, but in their public lives, rather like Judas Iscariot, betray Jesus Christ by how they vote and how they willingly cooperate with intrinsic evil,""This is not a battle in which any believing Catholic can remain neutral" he said.Read the full story here.


 

Canada Christian College will place posters in Toronto subway.

Canada Christian College will place posters in Toronto subway.(TS).Toronto - A prominent Christian group will attempt to counter controversial Islamic posters currently placed in TTC stations by putting up its own religiously-charged advertisements. Canada Christian College director Charles McVety confirmed Monday that the college has been granted permission by the TTC to place as many as 50 posters in yet-to-be-determined stations.
The posters, which McVety plans to have up as of May 1, quote a Biblical passage of Jesus saying, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” The approval of the Christian posters comes after controversy generated by ads put up in some subway stations in January by a Toronto-based Islamic group. The ads — posted by Walk-in Islamic Infocentre — state: “There is no god but Allah.” The posters have drawn criticism from other religious groups which charge the posters promote intolerance. McVety had recently been in talks with both the Canadian Hindu Advocacy and the Jewish Defense League on how to collectively counter the message of the Islamic posters.McVedy called the approval of the Christian ads a “game changer” in his battle against the Islamic placards, and a victory for free speech. “My push was freedom of speech ... We (Christians) had not had freedom of speech,” McVedy said. “But we have tested that, and we’ve been approved.”
Meanwhile, the other two groups will continue to fight to have the Islamic posters removed from TTC property. Ron Banerjee, of the Canadian Hindu Advocacy, and Meir Weinstein, of the Canadian chapter of the JDL, confirmed they’ll work together to campaign against the posters, which Weinstein branded as “grossly offensive.”Last week, the Canadian Hindu Advocacy sent an e-mail to TTC chair Karen Stintz, requesting an “urgent meeting ... to discuss the issue.”Hmmmm......“Violence does not build up the kingdom of God, the kingdom of humanity. On the contrary, it is a favorite instrument of the Antichrist, however idealistic its religious motivation may be,” ~ Pope Benedict XVI .Read the full story here.

Video - Test of Fire: Election 2012 ~ “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.”Psalm 118:8.

 HT: GWP.

Rev. Terry Jones calls for worldwide Koran burning if imprisoned Iranian pastor isn't freed.

Rev. Terry Jones calls for worldwide Koran burning if imprisoned Iranian pastor isn't freed.(DN).With the twin spires of the Islamic Center of America in the background, the Rev. Terry Jones praised Christianity and condemned Islam, calling it “of the devil.” “Mohammad was a liar, a pedophile and a false prophet,” Jones said. “I believe that as a Christian.
But as an American who believes in the constitution I believe they have the right to practice their beliefs under the freedom of religion.” Jones — who is on his fourth trip to Dearborn to preach about the dangers of Islam and its agenda of imposing Sharia law on America — also called for a worldwide burning of the Koran on April 28 if an imprisoned pastor in Iran isn’t freed from a death sentence after converting from Islam to Christianity. “I’m asking the imam of the Islamic Center here in Dearborn to work with me to free Minister Youcef,” said Jones, of Youcef Nadarkhani, currently facing death for preaching Christianity in Iran. “If he isn’t freed, I will ask the world to burn the Koran in protest starting at 5 p.m. on April 28th in Gainesville, Fla.” 
At least 30 of Jones’ supporters — some of them openly carrying weapons on their belts as did Jones — shouted an occasional “amen” or “preach it” as Jones spoke. The controversial pastor denied accusations that he is a racist. “Not true,” he said. “Islam is a religion, not a race. I am not a racist.” Jones said that not all Muslims are radicals. “I believe the majority of the people who attend this mosque behind me believe in the constitution,” Jones said.There were no arrests made at the demonstration, according to Dearborn police. "I came back to Dearborn to say what I tried to say the first time I was here," Jones said. "I was banned for three years, but we won that case so now I'm back to talk about the First Amendment. To talk about the appeasement of Muslims by the states and by many universities. "If you look at any government that is under Islamic rule you find no freedom of speech, or religion or for freedom for women." Read the full story here.