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The Failure of Obamanomics

2010-08-06T13:49:00.000-07:00

Failure of the Economic Stimulus Package
(Reprint July 2009)

The data is in. Here’s what happened:
1. Household personal income (inflation adjusted) rose but every penny - and then some - went into savings or paying down debts. Consumer spending, on which Obama is betting to stimulate the economy, actually fell. None of the stimulus money was sent. None.
2. Meanwhile, to pay for this stimulus spending that didn’t stimulate, Obama had to borrow so much money that long term interest rates have almost doubled since he took office, forcing postponement of abandonment of business expansion and hiring across the board.

What a record!

Here are the details. In April, personal household, inflation-adjusted income rose by $122 billion. Of that increase, one-third or $44 billion came from the government’s stimulus program.

But while personal income was rising, household savings (which includes paying down credit card balances, mortgages, student loans, car loans, etc) rose by $132 billion — $10 billion more than the rise in income. So personal consumption dropped 0.1%.

The stimulus package was a total and complete failure. As predicted, as happened with Bush’s 2008 tax cut, as happened with the Japanese stimulus packages of the 90s, fearful consumers sat on their money and wouldn’t spend it. Keynesian economics didn’t work. Again.

But the debt sure piled up. The deficit quadrupled and is sending interest rates soaring as the government elbows aside businesses and consumers at the loan window, all in a desperate effort to borrow enough money to spend enough money to stimulate the economy which isn’t happening.

Keynesian economics doesn’t work.
Consumers are not idiots.

They know that when their paycheck is fatter - either because of tax cuts or government spending - that it is not the beginning of nirvana but just a short term, one shot respite from hard times. They know the difference between standing in front on an electric fan and a windy day.

Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect!

Is Obama a failure? Not by his lights. His goal was never to stimulate the economy. His goal was to expand government spending and he used the recession as an excuse to do so.

And, by this standard, he is a raging success. With the stimulus spending, the government proportion of GDP will rise from about 35% to about 40% and with health care “reform” it will go soaring into the mid-forties, bringing us to parity with Germany en route to France!

The results are in: None of Obama’s spending
is doing anything to help the economy.

Of course, the process of household savings, designed to pay down debt, is very healthy. Economists call it de-leveraging. By the start of the recession, the debt American households owe had risen from 70% of their annual income in 1995 to 140% (excluding mortgages).

Now it is on its way back down again. And, eventually, that will lead to a real recovery — If Obama doesn’t wreck the currency and bring on mega-inflation before then.

Reference
*Failure of Obamanomics

New money created on the strength of a flood of new debt, is tantamount to pouring gasoline on the fire, making prices fall and the economy contract even more.

The Obama administration has missed its historic opportunity to stop the deflation and depression inherited from the Bush administration because it entrusted the same people with the task of damage-control who had caused the disaster in the first place: the Keynesian and Friedmanite money doctors in the Fed and the Treasury.

Watching the wrong ratio

The key to understanding the problem is the marginal productivity of debt , a concept curiously missing from the vocabulary of mainstream economics. Keynesians take comfort in the fact that total debt as a percentage of total GDP is safely below 100 in the United States while it is 100 and perhaps even more in some other countries.

However, the significant ratio to watch is additional debt to additional GDP , or the amount of GDP contributed by the creation of $1 in new debt. It is this ratio that determines the quality of debt .

Indeed, the higher the ratio, the more successful entrepreneurs are in increasing productivity, which is the only valid justification for going into debt in the first place.

Conversely, a serious fall in that ratio is a danger sign that the quality of debt is deteriorating, and contracting additional debt has no economic justification.

The volume of debt is rising faster than national income, and capital supporting production is eroding fast.

If, as in the worst-case scenario, the ratio falls into negative territory, the message is that the economy is on a collision course and crash in imminent.

Not only does more debt add nothing to the GDP, in fact, it causes economic contraction, including greater unemployment.

The country is eating the seed corn with the result that accumulated capital may be gone before you know it.

Immediate action is absolutely necessary to stop the hemorrhage, or the patient will bleed to death.

Keynesians are watching the wrong ratio, that of debt-to-GDP. No wonder they constantly go astray as they miss one danger signal after another. They are sailing in the dark with the aid of the wrong navigational equipment. They are administering the wrong medicine. Their ambulance is unable to diagnose internal hemorrhage that must be stopped lest the patient be dead upon arrival.

Early warning

In the 1950’s when the dollar was still redeemable in the sense that foreign governments and central banks could convert their short-term dollar balances into gold at the fixed statutory rate of $35 per ounce, the marginal productivity of debt was 3 or higher, meaning that the addition of $1 in new debt caused the GDP to increase by at least $3.

By August, 1971, when Nixon defaulted on the international gold obligations of the United States (following in the footsteps of F.D. Roosevelt who had defaulted on its domestic gold obligations 35 years earlier) the marginal productivity of debt has fallen below the crucial level 1. When marginal productivity fell below $1 but was still positive, it meant that total debt (always ‘net’) was rising faster than GDP.

For example, if the marginal productivity of debt was ½, then $2 in debt had to be incurred in order to increase the nation’s output of goods and services by $1. An increase in total debt by $1 could no longer reproduce its cost in the form of an equivalent increase in the GDP. Debt lost whatever economic justification it may have once had.

The decline in the marginal productivity of debt has continued without interruption thereafter. Nobody took action, in fact, the Keynesian managers of the monetary system and the economy stone-walled this information, keeping the public in the dark.

Nor did Keynesian and Friedmanite economists at the universities pay attention to the danger sign. Cheerleaders kept chanting: “Gimme more credit!”

I learned about the importance of the marginal productivity of debt from the circulated Bulletin of Hungarian-born Chicago economist Melchior Palyi in 1969.

(There were altogether 640 issues of the Bulletin; they are available in the University of Chicago Library). Palyi warned that the tendency of this most important indicator was down and something should be done about it before the debt-behemoth devoured the economy. Palyi died a few years later and did not live to see the devastation that he so astutely predicted.

Others have come to the same conclusion - Peter Warburton in his book Debt and Delusion: Central Bank Follies That Threaten Economic Disaster (see references below) envisages the same outcome, although without the benefit of the concept of the marginal productivity of debt.

The watershed year of 2006

As long debt was constrained by the centripetal force of gold in the system, tenuous though this constraint may have been, deterioration in the quality of debt was relatively slow.

Quality caved in, and quantity took a flight to the stratosphere, when the centripetal force was cut and gold, the only ultimate extinguisher of debt there is, was exiled from the monetary system.

Still, it took 35 years before the capital of society was eroded and consumed through a steadily deteriorating marginal productivity of debt.

The year 2006 was the watershed. Late in that year the marginal productivity of debt dropped to zero and went negative for the first time ever, switching on the red alert sign to warn of an imminent economic catastrophe. Indeed, in February, 2007, the risk of debt default as measured by the skyrocketing cost of CDS (credit default swaps) exploded and, as the saying goes, the rest is history.

Negative marginal productivity

Why is a negative marginal productivity of debt a sign of an imminent economic catastrophe? Because it indicates that any further increase in indebtedness would necessarily cause economic contraction. Capital is gone; further production is no longer supported by the prerequisite quantity and quality of tools and equipment. The economy is literally devouring itself through debt.

The message, namely that unbridled breeding of debt through the serial cutting of the rate of interest to zero was destroying society’s capital, has been ignored. The budding financial crisis was explained away through ad hoc reasoning, such as blaming it on loose credit standards, subprime mortgages, and the like.

Nothing was done to stop the real cause of the disaster, the fast-breeder of debt. On the contrary, debt-breeding was further accelerated through bailouts and stimulus packages.

In view of the fact that the marginal productivity of debt is now negative we can see that the damage-control measures of the Obama administration, which are financed through creating unprecedented amounts of new debt, are counter-productive. Nay, they are the direct cause of further economic contraction of an already prostrate economy, including unemployment.

The head of the European Union and Czech prime minister Mirek Topolanek has publicly characterized president Obama’s plan to spend nearly $2 trillion to push the U.S. economy out of recession as “road to hell”. There is absolutely no reason to castigate Mr. Topolanek for this characterization.

True, it would have been more polite and diplomatic if he had couched his comments in words to the effect that “the Obama plan was made in blissful ignorance of the marginal productivity of debt which was now negative and falling. In consequence more spending on stimulus packages would only stimulate deflation and economic contraction.”

Reference
*Stimulus Package Doomed To Failure

The Videos

#1 Grab all the cash you can & make workers pay.#2 Obama Says Stimulus Vital to Avoid 'Catastrophe'

#3 President Obama Signs Economic Stimulus Bill Stimulus Plan; Net Job Loss. None #4 Stimulus Bill is Bad for America; Pork and Earmarks

#5 Why Obama's stimulus plan will not work #6 Failure of Bailouts, Stimulus Packages, and Government Economic Planning

#7 Obama, Inflation, the Stimulus and the Great Depression

The Shock Doctrine

2010-07-30T05:29:00.001-07:00

Neocons profit from disasters - unnatural ones like the war in Iraq, and natural ones like the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. They use governments and multinational corporations to take advantage of these people's shock and capitalize on their suffering and loss.

The Shock Doctrine exposes the Bush administration and the generations of Neocons who've chosen profits over people in war and disaster. Watch these videos and see it all ....

Disaster Capitalism

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 1 of 6

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 2 of 6

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 3 of 6

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 4 of 6

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 5 of 6

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 6 of 6

7 Million Americans In Prison (or Parole)

2010-07-04T11:08:00.001-07:00

One in every 32 adults in the United States was behind bars or on probation or parole by the end of 2001, according to a government report that found a record 6.6 million people in the nation's correctional system.
(last statistics available)

Growing at a rate of about 900 inmates each week between mid-2003 and mid-2004, the nation's prisons and jails held 2.1 million people, or one in every 138 U.S. residents.

Hundreds of new laws are being passed every year by city, county, state, and federal governmental institutions and we are told that ignorance of these laws is no excuse.

references ...
*In the System Video
*Martial Law:Rise of the Police State
(radio stream)
*the NEW AMERICAN
*THE JAILHOUSE LAWYER

The Bureau of Justice Statistics has projected that if current trends continue, one out of every three African American men born in 2001 will go to prison at some point during their lifetime.

Prison spending has increased five times as fast as education spending. Nearly 2 million voters are disenfranchised because they have felony records.

In 2001, nearly 6.6 million people were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole at year end. That number represents 3.1% of all U.S. adult residents or one in every 32 adults.

reference ...
*Prisons in America

A black male born in 1991 has an almost 1/3 chance of going to prison. Arrest rates for minorities went from under 600 per 100,000 in 1980 to over 1500 in 1990 while for whites they remained essentially the same.

reference ...
*the New American Apartheid
*American Prisons

The Failure of Obamanomics

2010-06-19T04:27:00.001-07:00

Failure of the Economic Stimulus Package

What a record!

Here are the details. In April, personal household, inflation-adjusted income rose by $122 billion. Of that increase, one-third or $44 billion came from the government’s stimulus program.

Keynesian economics doesn’t work.
Consumers are not idiots.

Is Obama a failure? Not by his lights. His goal was never to stimulate the economy. His goal was to expand government spending and he used the recession as an excuse to do so.

The results are in: None of Obama’s spending
is doing anything to help the economy.

Now it is on its way back down again. And, eventually, that will lead to a real recovery — If Obama doesn’t wreck the currency and bring on mega-inflation before then.

Reference
*Failure of Obamanomics

New money created on the strength of a flood of new debt, is tantamount to pouring gasoline on the fire, making prices fall and the economy contract even more.

Watching the wrong ratio

Conversely, a serious fall in that ratio is a danger sign that the quality of debt is deteriorating, and contracting additional debt has no economic justification.

The volume of debt is rising faster than national income, and capital supporting production is eroding fast.

If, as in the worst-case scenario, the ratio falls into negative territory, the message is that the economy is on a collision course and crash in imminent.

Immediate action is absolutely necessary to stop the hemorrhage, or the patient will bleed to death.

Early warning

Nor did Keynesian and Friedmanite economists at the universities pay attention to the danger sign. Cheerleaders kept chanting: “Gimme more credit!”

I learned about the importance of the marginal productivity of debt from the circulated Bulletin of Hungarian-born Chicago economist Melchior Palyi in 1969.

The watershed year of 2006

As long debt was constrained by the centripetal force of gold in the system, tenuous though this constraint may have been, deterioration in the quality of debt was relatively slow.

Quality caved in, and quantity took a flight to the stratosphere, when the centripetal force was cut and gold, the only ultimate extinguisher of debt there is, was exiled from the monetary system.

Still, it took 35 years before the capital of society was eroded and consumed through a steadily deteriorating marginal productivity of debt.

Negative marginal productivity

Reference
*Stimulus Package Doomed To Failure

The Videos

#1 Grab all the cash you can & make workers pay.#2 Obama Says Stimulus Vital to Avoid 'Catastrophe'

#3 President Obama Signs Economic Stimulus Bill Stimulus Plan; Net Job Loss. None #4 Stimulus Bill is Bad for America; Pork and Earmarks

#5 Why Obama's stimulus plan will not work #6 Failure of Bailouts, Stimulus Packages, and Government Economic Planning

#7 Obama, Inflation, the Stimulus and the Great Depression

The Federal Reserve Power Game

2010-06-09T23:33:00.001-07:00

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Who Controls the Money?

The Federal Reserve is neither Federal nor a Reserve.
Owned by a corrupt group of International Bankers.
It is a privately owned monopoly.

ZIONIST JEWS CONTROL THE MONEY in America. They own & run the Federal Reserve Bank that the US government continually borrows from and is in debt to.

“When a government is dependent for money upon the bankers, they and not the government leaders control the nation. This is because the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Financiers are without patriotism and without decency.” - Napoleon

The Federal Reserve Bank is a consortium of 9 Jew-owned & associated banks with the Rothschilds at the head:

$1. Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin
$2. Lazard Brothers Banks of Paris
$3. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
$4. Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam
$5. Lehman Brothers of NY
$6. Kuhn, Loeb Bank of NY (Now Shearson American Express)
$7. Goldman, Sachs of NY
$8. National Bank of Commerce NY/Morgan Guaranty Trust (J. P. Morgan Bank - Equitable Life - Levi P. Morton are principal shareholders)
$9. Hanover Trust of NY (William and David Rockefeller & Chase National Bank NY are principal shareholders). See *Chart of who "owns" the Federal Reserve

The Truth Behind the Financial Crisis Videos

- America It's Time To Panic (8.18 min) - Who owns the Federal Reserve? (1.24 min) - The Federal Reserve (2.56 min) -

- Federal Reserve Caused Economic Crisis (9.19 min) - Federal Reserve Notes VS. United States Notes (8.20 min) - Understanding the Financial Crisis (7.53 min) -

Despite the apparent swift U.S. military success in Iraq, the U.S. dollar has yet to benefit as safe haven currency. This is an unexpected development, as many currency traders had expected the dollar to strengthen on the news of a U.S. win. Capital is flowing out of the dollar, largely into the Euro.

Many are beginning to ask whether the objective situation of the U.S. economy is far worse than the stock market would suggest. The future of the dollar is far from a minor issue of interest only to banks or currency traders. It stands at the heart of Pax Americana, or as it is called, The American Century, the system of arrangements on which America's role in the world rests.

Yet, even as the dollar is steadily dropping against the Euro after the end of fighting in Iraq, Washington appears to be deliberately worsening the dollar fall in public comments. What is taking place is a power game of the highest geopolitical significance, the most fateful perhaps, since the emergence of the United States in 1945 as the world's leading economic power.

The coalition of interests which converged on war against Iraq as a strategic necessity for the United States, included not only the vocal and highly visible neo-conservative hawks around Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz.

It also included powerful permanent interests, on whose global role American economic influence depends, such as the influential energy sector around Halliburton, Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco and other giant multinationals. It also included the huge American defense industry interests around Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon, Northrup-Grumman and others.

The issue for these giant defense and energy conglomerates is not a few fat contracts from the Pentagon to rebuild Iraqi oil facilities and line the pockets of Dick Cheney or others. It is a game for the very continuance of American power in the coming decades of the new century. That is not to say that profits are made in the process, but it is purely a byproduct of the global strategic issue.

In this power game, least understood is the role of preserving the dollar as the world reserve currency, as a major driving factor contributing to Washington's power power play over Iraq.

American domination in the world ultimately rests on two pillars; its overwhelming military superiority, especially on the seas; and its control of world economic flows through the role of the dollar as the world's reserve currency. More and more it is clear that the Iraq war was more about preserving the second pillar - the dollar role more than the first - the military. In the dollar role, oil is a strategic factor.

American Century: The Three Phases

If we look back over the period since the end of World War II, we can identify several distinct phases of evolution of the American role in the world. The first phase, which began in the immediate postwar period 1945-1948 and the onset of Cold War, could be called the Bretton Woods Gold Exchange system.

Under the Bretton Woods system in the immediate aftermath of the World War, the order was relatively tranquil. The United States had emerged from the War clearly as the one sole superpower, with a strong industrial base and the largest gold reserves of any nation. The initial task was to rebuild Western Europe and to create a NATO Atlantic alliance against the Soviet Union.

The role of the dollar was directly tied to that of gold. So long as America enjoyed the largest gold reserves, and the U.S. economy was far the most productive and efficient producer, the entire Bretton Woods currency structure from French Franc to British Pound Sterling and German Mark was stable.

Dollar credits were extended along with Marshall Plan assistance and credits to finance the rebuilding of war-torn Europe. American companies, among them oil multinationals, gained nicely from dominating the trade at the onset of the 1950's.

Washington even encouraged creation of the Treaty of Rome in 1958 in order to boost European economic stability and create larger U.S. export markets in the bargain. For the most part, this initial phase of what Time magazine publisher Henry Luce called The American Century, in terms of economic gains, was relatively profitable for both the U.S. and Europe. The United States still had the economic flexibility to move.

This was the era of American liberal foreign policy. The United States was the hegemonic power in the Western community of nations. As it commanded overwhelming gold and economic resources compared with Western Europe or Japan and South Korea, the United States could well afford to be open in its trade relations to European and Japanese exports.

The trade off was European and Japanese support for the role of the United Sates during the Cold War. American leadership was based during the 1950's and early 1960's less on direct coercion and more on arriving at consensus, whether in GATT trade rounds or other issues. Organizations of elites, such as the Bilderberg meetings, were organized to share the evolving consensus between Europe and the United States.

This first, more benign phase of the American Century came to an end by the early 1970's.

The Bretton Woods Gold Exchange began to break down, as Europe got on its feet economically and began to become a strong exporter by the mid-1960's. This growing economic strength in Western Europe coincided with soaring U.S. public deficits as Johnson escalated the tragic war in Vietnam.

All during the 1960's, France's De Gaulle began to take its dollar export earnings and demand gold from the U.S. Federal Reserve, legal under Bretton Woods at that time. By November 1967 the drain of gold from U.S. and Bank of England vaults had become critical. The weak link in the Bretton Woods Gold Exchange arrangement was Britain, the sick man of Europeí.

The link broke as Sterling was devalued in 1967. That merely accelerated the pressure on the U.S. dollar, as French and other central banks increased their call for U.S. gold in exchange for their dollar reserves. They calculated with the soaring war deficits from Vietnam, it was only a matter of months before the United States itself would be forced to devalue against gold, so better to get their gold out at a high price.

By May 1971 the drain of U.S. Federal Reserve gold had become alarming, and even the Bank of England joined the French in demanding U.S. gold for their dollars. That was the point where rather than risk a collapse of the gold reserves of the United States, the Nixon Administration opted to abandon gold entirely, going to a system of floating currencies in August 1971.

The break with gold opened the door to an entirely new phase of the American Century. In this new phase, control over monetary policy was, in effect, privatized, with large international banks such as Citibank, Chase Manhattan or Barclays Bank assuming the role that central banks had in a gold system, but entirely without gold. Market forces now could determine the dollar. And they did with a vengeance.

The free floating of the dollar, combined with the 1973 rise in OPEC oil prices by 400% after the Yom Kippur War, created the basis for a second phase of the American Century, the Petrodollar phase.

Recycling petrodollars

Beginning the mid-1970's the American Century system of global economic dominance underwent a dramatic change. An Anglo-American oil shock suddenly created enormous demand for the floating dollar.

Oil importing countries from Germany to Argentina to Japan, all were faced with how to export in dollars to pay their expensive new oil import bills. OPEC oil countries were flooded with new oil dollars. A major share of these oil dollars came to London and New York banks where a new process was instituted.

Henry Kissinger termed it, recycling petrodollars. The recycling strategy was discussed already in May 1971 at the Bilderberger meeting in Saltsjoebaden, Sweden.

OPEC suddenly was choking on dollars it could not use. U.S. and UK banks took the OPEC dollars and relent them as Eurodollar bonds or loans, to countries of the Third World desperate to borrow dollars to finance oil imports. The buildup of these petrodollar debts by the late 1970's, laid the basis for the Third World debt crisis in the 1980's. Hundreds of billions of dollars were recycled between OPEC, the London and New York banks and back to Third World borrowing countries.

By August 1982 the chain finally broke and Mexico announced it would likely default on repaying Eurodollar loans. The Third World debt crisis began when Paul Volcker and the U.S. Federal Reserve had unilaterally hiked U.S. interest rates in late 1979 to try to save the failing dollar.

After three years of record high U.S. interest rates, the dollar was saved, but the entire developing sector was choking economically under usurious U.S. interest rates on their petrodollar loans. To enforce debt repayment to the London and New York banks, the banks brought the IMF in to act as debt policeman. Public spending for health, education, welfare was slashed on IMF orders to ensure the banks got timely debt service on their petrodollars.

The Petrodollar hegemony phase was an attempt by the United States establishment to slow down its geopolitical decline as the hegemonic center of the postwar system.

The IMF Washington Consensus was developed to enforce draconian debt collection on Third World countries, to force them to repay dollar debts, prevent any economic independence from the nations of the South, and keep the U.S. banks and the dollar afloat.

The Trilateral Commission was created by David Rockefeller and others in 1973 in order to take account of the recent emergence of Japan as an industrial giant and try to bring Japan into the system. Japan, as a major industrial nation, was a major importer of oil. Japanese trade surpluses from export of cars and other goods was used to buy oil in dollars.

The remaining surplus was invested in U.S. Treasury bonds to earn interest. The G-7 was founded to keep Japan and Western Europe inside the U.S. dollar system. From time to time into the 1980's various voices in Japan would call for three currencies the dollar, German mark and yen to share the world reserve role. It never happened. The dollar remained dominant.

From a narrow standpoint, the Petrodollar phase of hegemony seemed to work. Underneath, it was based on ever-worsening economic decline in living standards across the world, as IMF policies destroyed national economic growth and broke open markets for globalizing multinationals seeking cheap production outsourcing in the 1980's and especially into the 1990's.

Yet, even in the Petrodollar phase, American foreign economic policy and military policy was dominated by the voices of the traditional liberal consensus. American power depended on negotiating periodic new arrangements in trade or other issues with its allies in Europe, Japan and East Asia.

A Petro-euro rival?

The end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new Single Europe and the European Monetary Union in the early 1990's, began to present an entirely new challenge to the American Century. It took some years, more than a decade after the 1991 Gulf War, for this new challenge to emerge full-blown. The present Iraq war is only intelligible, as a major battle in the new, third phase of securing American dominance. This phase has already been called, democratic imperialism, a favorite term of Max Boot and other neo-conservatives. As Iraq events suggest, it is not likely to be very democratic, but definitely likely to be imperialist.

Unlike the earlier periods after 1945, in the new era, the U.S. freedom to grant concessions to other members of the G-7 is gone. Now raw power is the only vehicle to maintain American long-term dominance. The best expression of this argument comes from the neo-conservative hawks around Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, William Kristol and others.

The point to stress, however, is that the neo-conservatives enjoy such influence since September 11 because a majority in the U.S. power establishment finds their views useful to advance a new aggressive U.S. role in the world.

Rather than work out areas of agreement with European partners, Washington increasingly sees Euroland as the major strategic threat to American hegemony, especially Old Europe of Germany and France. Just as Britain in decline after 1870 resorted to increasingly desperate imperial wars in South Africa and elsewhere, so the United States is using its military might to try to advance what it no longer can by economic means. Here the dollar is the achilles heel.

With creation of the Euro over the past five years, an entirely new element has been added to the global system, one which defines what we can call a third phase of the American Century. This phase, in which the latest Iraq war plays a major role, threatens to bring a new, malignant or imperial phase to replace the earlier phases of American hegemony. The neo-conservatives are open about their imperial agenda, while more traditional U.S. policy voices try to deny it. The economic reality faced by the dollar at the start of the new Century, defines this new phase in an ominous way.

There is a qualitative difference emerging between the two initial phases of the American Century - that of 1945-1973, and of 1973-1999, and the new emerging phase of continued domination in the wake of the 911 attacks and the Iraq War.

Post-1945 American power before now, was predominately dominant. The USA was the dominant power, with an unequal distribution of power, its power is not generated by coercion alone, but also by consent among its allied powers.

This is because the USA is compelled to perform certain services to the allies such as military security or regulating world markets for the benefit of the larger group, itself included. An imperial power has no such obligations to allies, and not the freedom for such, only the raw dictates of how to hold on to its declining power; what some call imperial overstretching. This is the world which neo-conservative hawks around Rumsfeld and Cheney are suggesting America has to dominate, with a policy of pre-emptive war.

A hidden war between the dollar and the new Euro currency for global hegemony is at the heart of this new phase.

To understand the importance of this unspoken battle for currency hegemony, we first must understand that since the emergence of the United States as the dominant global superpower after 1945, U.S. hegemony has rested on two un-challengeable pillars. First, the overwhelming U.S. military superiority over all other rivals.

The United States today spends on defense more than three times the total for the entire European Union, some $600 billion versus $118 billion last year, and more than the next 15 largest nations combined. Washington plans an added $2.1 trillion over the coming five years on defense. No nation or group of nations can come close in defense spending. China is at least 30 years away from becoming a serious military threat. No one is serious about taking on U.S. military might.

The second pillar of American dominance in the world is the dominant role of the U.S. dollar as reserve currency. Until the advent of the Euro in late 1999, there was no potential challenge to this dollar hegemony in world trade. The Petrodollar has been at the heart of the dollar hegemony since the 1970's. The dollar hegemony is strategic to the future of American global pre-dominance, in many respects as important if not more so, than the overwhelming military power.

Dollar fiat money

The crucial shift took place when Nixon took the dollar off a fixed gold reserve to float against other currencies. This removed the restraints on printing new dollars. The limit was only how many dollars the rest of the world would take.

By their firm agreement with Saudi Arabia, as the largest OPEC oil producer,Washington guaranteed that the worlds largest commodity, oil, the essential for every nation's economy, the basis of all transport and much of the industrial economy, that oil could only be purchased in world markets in dollars.

The deal had been fixed in June 1974 by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, establishing the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation. The U.S. Treasury and the New York Federal Reserve would allow the Saudi central bank, SAMA, to buy U.S. Treasury bonds with Saudi petrodollars. In 1975 OPEC officially agreed to sell its oil only for dollars. A secret U.S. military agreement to arm Saudi Arabia was the quid pro quo.

Until November 2000, no OPEC country dared violate the dollar price rule. So long as the dollar was the strongest currency, there was little reason to as well. But November was when French and other Euroland members finally convinced Saddam Hussein to defy the United States by selling Iraq's oil-for-food not in dollars, the enemy currency as Iraq named it, but only in euros. The euros were on deposit in a special UN account of the leading French bank, BNP Paribas. Radio Liberty of the U.S. State Department ran a short wire on the news and the story was quickly hushed.

This little-noted Iraq move to defy the dollar in favor of the euro, in itself, was insignificant. Yet, if it were to spread, especially at a point the dollar was already weakening, it could create a panic selloff of dollars by foreign central banks and OPEC oil producers.

In the months before the latest Iraq war, hints in this direction were heard from Russia, Iran, Indonesia and even Venezuela. An Iranian OPEC official, Javad Yarjani, delivered a detailed analysis of how OPEC at some future point might sell its oil to the EU for euros not dollars. He spoke in April, 2002 in Oviedo Spain at the invitation of the EU. All indications are that the Iraq war was seized on as the easiest way to deliver a deadly pre-emptive warning to OPEC and others, not to flirt with abandoning the Petro-dollar system in favor of one based on the euro.

Informed banking circles in the City of London and elsewhere in Europe privately confirm the significance of that little-noted Iraq move from petro-dollar to petro-euro. The Iraq move was a declaration of war against the dollar, one senior London banker told me recently. As soon as it was clear that Britain and the U.S. had taken Iraq, a great sigh of relief was heard in London City banks. They said privately, we don't have to worry about that damn euro threat.

Why would something so small be such a strategic threat to London and New York, or to the United States that an American President would apparently risk fifty years of alliance relations globally, and more to make a military attack whose justification could not even be proved to the world?

The answer is the unique role of the petro-dollar to underpin American economic hegemony.

How Does It Work?

So long as almost 70% of world trade is done in dollars, the dollar is the currency which central banks accumulate as reserves. But central banks, whether China or Japan or Brazil or Russia, do not simply stack dollars in their vaults. Currencies have one advantage over gold. A central bank can use it to buy the state bonds of the issuer, the United States.

Most countries around the world are forced to control trade deficits or face currency collapse. Not the United States. This is because of the dollar reserve currency role. And the underpinning of the reserve role is the petrodollar. Every nation needs to get dollars to import oil, some more than others. This means their trade targets dollar countries, above all the U.S.

Because oil is an essential commodity for every nation, the Petrodollar system, which exists to the present, demands the buildup of huge trade surpluses in order to accumulate dollar surpluses. This is the case for every country but one ó the United States which controls the dollar and prints it at will or fiat.

Because today the majority of all international trade is done in dollars, countries must go abroad to get the means of payment they cannot themselves issue. The entire global trade structure today works around this dynamic, from Russia to China, from Brazil to South Korea and Japan. Everyone aims to maximize dollar surpluses from their export trade.

To keep this process going, the United States has agreed to be importer of last resortí because its entire monetary hegemony depends on this dollar recycling.

The central banks of Japan, China, South Korea, Russia and the rest all buy U.S. Treasury securities with their dollars. That in turn allows the United States to have a stable dollar, far lower interest rates, and run a $500 billion annual balance of payments deficit with the rest of the world. The Federal Reserve controls the dollar printing presses, and the world needs its dollars. It is as simple as that.

Reference *William Bowles

The Big Lie of the Federal Reserve Gangsters

2010-05-31T16:57:00.001-07:00

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The Federal Reserve is neither Federal nor a Reserve.
Owned by a corrupt group of International Bankers.
It is a privately owned monopoly.

The Federal Reserve Bank is a consortium of twelve private banks
which are not part of the United States Government.

The Federal Reserve Scam (2.00 min)

The Federal Reserve Bank Racket

The Federal Reserve is neither Federal nor a Reserve. Owned by a corrupt group of International Bankers, it is a privately owned monopoly, largely responsible for creating America's National Debt. It is also a parasitic and unnecessary entity that literally creates American currency out of nothing and then collects interest on the backs of taxpayers for doing so.

The Federal Reserve Bank is a consortium of twelve private banks which are not part of the United States Government.

These private banks purchase paper notes from the U.S. mint for printing cost or simply enter digital money into their computer then lend back the money plus interest to the people through member banks. The profits go into the share holders of the bank's pocket's, the U.S. public receives no benefit.

Who owns the Federal Reserve? (1.24 min)

The Primary Owners of the Federal Reserve Bank Are:
1. Rothschild's of London and Berlin
2. Lazard Brothers of Paris
3. Israel Moses Seaf of Italy
4. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of Germany and New York
5. Warburg & Company of Hamburg, Germany
6. Lehman Brothers of New York
7. Goldman, Sachs of New York
8. Rockefeller Brothers of New York

Private Ownership of the US Dollar
Greatest Crime of the Century

All the primary owners of the Federal Reserve are international bankers that are branches of European establishments. These Foreigners are almost entirely Jewish Zionists, and they control the United States Money supply. They literally own exclusive rights to the dollar and simply enter dollars into their banks books to make money which they then lend back to us at a profit, and use these profits to fund the State of Israel.

The Zionist Political Movement

Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported the re-establishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine. The aim of Zionism was to set up a secular state in the vicinity of the Biblical Land of Israel. Zionism, or the idea of a restored national homeland and common identity for the Jews, had already started to take shape by the mid-1800s, with Jewish thinkers arguing for the Jews to settle in Palestine as a means of settling the national question.

The difference Between Zionist Jews and Jewish Judaism

For them money does not grow on trees, it is simply a data entry into their account. Clearly the private ownership of the U.S. Dollar is by far The Greatest Crime of the Century. The owners of this bank have been responsible for instigating all the major wars and depressions in the last 100 years.

They own the bank, they own the dollar and they own all the major media channels, the military industrial complex and most politicians, judges and cops.

Sometimes the bank pays an arbitrary 'franchise fee' to the U.S. government to keep the politicians paid off.

The Federal Reserve is actually an illegal entity functioning within the Federal Government! The cost of this system to the U.S. public is hundreds of billions of dollars every year while holding the nation and people in a constant state of debt.

There have been assassination attempts on every President who attempted to eliminate these private National Banks. The privately held Federal Reserve Bank has not once been audited and never pays any income tax on their astonishing income.

The bank is supposed to bring stability to the economy, however, almost every major market crash and war can be attributed to the Federal Reserve Bank, including the Great Depression, WW I, WW II, the Gulf War etc.

Watch These Important Videos - The Corrupt Federal Reserve

Video 1 - Corrupt Federal Reserve - Robbing Americans Since 1913 part 1 (9.26min)

Video 2 - Corrupt Federal Reserve - Robbing Americans Since 1913 part 2 (10.0 min)

Video 3 - Corrupt Federal Reserve - Robbing Americans Since 1913 part 3 (10.58 min)

In 1913 in exchange for paying for his Presidential campaign, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act handing over the U.S. currency to twelve regional private banks.

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*In 1933 Roosevelt confiscated citizens gold and handed it to these private banks.

The question is not WILL the crash come, but what will you do when it does? What will you protect?

A huge percentage of the debt issued by Freddie and Fannie - about $1.5 trillion worth - is held by foreign central banks. Paulson is proposing to bail out the Chinese and Japanese governments with our tax money! Paulson SAYS he will "protect the taxpayer." THE BILL ALLOWS HIM TO SCREW YOU WITH ABSOLUTELY NO RECOURSE.

The U.S. government treats its financial problems in the same way doctors treat patients with health problems: Mask the symptoms and ignore the cause.

This $1 trillion rescue plan is like chemotherapy for the U.S. economy. Sure, it might visibly shrink some tumors, but the patient will soon find himself vomiting, losing hair and dropping body weight to dangerous levels.

The real problem with the U.S. financial system is not that it has too many losses, it's that the entire money supply is run by crooks at the Fed who have stolen control of the money supply from the People.

US Economy On Chemotherapy! (3.37 min)

Henry Paulson is about to be given an $800 BILLION dollar blank check in the form of an increased Federal Debt Ceiling which he can spend on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac IN ANY WAY HE CHOOSES, INCLUDING BUYING THE CRAPPIEST LOANS THEY HAVE AND STICKING A ONE HUNDRED PERCENT LOSS, $800 BILLION WORTH, ON YOUR TAX BILL.

If you look into this bailout clearly you know what is going on. Taxpayers and the strength of our currency are being sold out to save the banking industry

You're Being Lied To! (10.19 min)

Dollar Collapse and Banking Bailout (5.06 min)

Ben Shalom Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve -
He is the dedicated Zionist Jew behind the $85 billion taxpayer-funded
bailout of Maurice Greenberg's criminal enterprise, A.I.G.

Watch FIAT EMPIRE - Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution

FIAT EMPIRE -
Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution (58.53 min)

Prelude to Catastrophe Movie

One Nation Under Siege (1 hour 21 min)

Globalization & Alienation

2010-05-27T11:16:00.001-07:00

Globalization

There has never been another time in history in which the United States’ influence on the rest of the world has been as great as it is today — or its understanding of it less sufficient.

Global integration is the major story of our time, but vast numbers of Americans — particularly young Americans — know very little about the outside world.

*Active Links ...

*Lausanne (Protestors wearing *G8 heads of state masks, said the G8 were ignoring the plight of the world's poor, lead a demonstration rejecting the policies of the G8, and the very nature of a body which claims to be the world's board of directors.

*Edinburgh an estimated 225,000 protesters marched as part of the Make Poverty History campaign as musicians performed in Live 8 concerts around the globe.

The Struggle Continues!*Anti G8 Videos

*San Francisco Anti-Capitalist Convergence and March takes to the Streets and Resists the Capitalist War Machine! Call for the West Coast anti-war and anti-capitalist mass convergence, in San Francisco, in solidarity with the mobilization against the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Scotland.

"One euro a day, that's what one third of humanity, or two billion people, are living on! Three euros a day, that's the contribution of each American citizen towards the US military budget.")

*Hong Kong An estimated 10,000 protesters were present during the G8 meeting. The areas around the convention center, where the meetings took place, were barricaded. During the last days of the summit, the police arrested more than 1000 people, many of whom reported police brutality and ill-treatment of prisoners.

*Genoa - G8 confrontation 100,000 seek justice - US Mainstream media ignore it ...

(Situation is EXTREMELY tense and violent. There are sirens to be heard all the time, and helicopters are flying over the scene continuosly. Our reporters inside the building are shocked by the violence of police. No deal is better than a bad deal and social movements are uniting for protest against the WTO in Hong Kong and many cities around the world.)

Other G8 protests and confrontations ...
*Canadian G8 Confrontations
*Genoa G8 Reports
*Global Action Database

America Breakup 2050

2010-05-27T11:14:00.001-07:00

Year of Reckoning

2050 is the year of reckoning for White Americans. It is the year we are scheduled to become a minority in the country our fathers founded. America will be a "majority minority" nation - people of color will make up more of the population than white people.

The nation’s Hispanic and Asian populations will triple over the next half century and non-Hispanic whites would represent about one-half of the total population by 2050, according to interim population projections released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Reference ...
*U.S. Census Bureau Release

Demographics

By 2050, the U.S. population will grow to over 420 million, a 40 percent increase over current levels. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, this growth will be concentrated in 8-10 emerging "mega-regions" - large, connected networks of metropolitan areas - in which 70 percent of nation's population growth and 80 percent of its employment growth is expected to occur.

Together, the increased population and the emergence of a new urban form will demand major infrastructure investments and planning strategies to support the prosperity, equity and sustainability of our nation and its competitiveness in a global economy.

Multicultural Regime

The United States is no longer a modern society, but a postmodern one… it no longer resembles a nation-state, but rather a multicultural regime …

Post-modern society, and especially American society, is not characterized by standardized schools engaged in mass education in a national, often high culture. Rather, post-modern society is characterized by an organized media engaged in mass entertainment…. Post-modern society is not characterized by efficient industries engaged in mass production, principally for a national market.

Rather, it is characterized by financial enterprises and industrial management engaged in multinational operations within a global market.

Current Population Trend

America's population is projected to hit 300-million in October, making it the world's largest after China and India. But some analysts say America's population growth, largely fueled by immigration, could change the face of the nation.

The average birth rate for the non-Hispanic white population is around two births per woman, compared to nearly three per woman among Hispanic whites. These trends will lead to major demographic shifts.

Recent projections released by the Census Bureau show that ethnic minorities now account for one-third of America's population, and will make up 40 percent of the U.S. population in the next decade. Whites are now a minority in Hawaii, New Mexico, Texas, California and the District of Columbia.

America's immigration outstrips Europe's and its immigrant population is reproducing faster than native-born Americans. America's population will soon be getting younger.

If this proves correct, Europe's population in 2050 would be 360m and falling, America's would be over 550m and rising. Half a billion people: in other words, America would be twice the size it is now. Europe would be smaller.

Reference ...
*Half a billion Americans?

Nightmare Scenario

The scenario of USA 2050 is a colored Congress presenting as yet un-thought of repressive laws against Whites, a colored Leviathan eager to avenge historical wrongs that have been entrenched by multicultural education. With non-whites increasing political force, Euro-white extinction is inevitable.

With submission of whites and full-scale racial intermarriage and interbreeding, complete removal of a pure-white genetic strain from America will happen within about a century. This could be done by a "final solution" for Whites imposed by the forces of color he believes.

It is too late to chip-away at anti-White laws within the system or to roll back anti-White laws. Secession of the States is the only remaining option. After all if the USA considers it good enough for the old Soviet empire, championing the principle of national self-determination , then it is good enough for the USA.

If Oregon threatened secession the USA would reconstruct a Lincoln-like massacre of a State such as Oregon. Americans should not be naïve about the level of violence that their beloved nation commits or could commit if pushed.

Reference ...
*AMERICA'S DECAY: SECESSIONISM AND ETHNIC SEPARATION

The decaying American Republic will be divided up in the following way:
The most sensible, peaceful and democratic solution would be the division of the country into an Hispanic state in the Southwest, a Cuban state in south Florida, a Black state somewhere in the rural South, and a series of independent Jewish, Black and Asian enclaves in the cities and close-in suburbs where these groups comprise sizable elements of the population.

In respect to White, non-Jewish ethnostates, the United States has no provinces or city states on the historical European model. It does, however, have regions with historical and cultural traditions - the Deep South, Appalachia, Texas Conce (an independent republic), New England, the Farm Belt and the Northwest.

Both geography and demography would qualify such areas for ethnostatehood. Where the population has become a welter of different ethnic factions in large metropolitan areas, neighborhoods could be the loci for political, economic and social groupings. Though too small to qualify as ethnostates, they would be accorded as much independence as reasonably possible.

Modern America is already a mish-mash of tribes or neo-tribes arising, Michel Maffesoli proposes from the break-up of mass culture. Neo-tribes or tribus have an "underground centrality," "self-consciousness" and a stability which the larger State lacks.

As the nation-state seems to be doomed for ecological reasons alone, the tribe will once again be resurgent. It is time for the Nordic people to re-tribalize - but this time without the fratricidal brothers' wars that have been used by our traditional enemies to neuter us.

The New America will be one in which White Gentile Americans will no longer be strangers in their own land. This new land, based on ethnic separatism will arise after America comes to a sticky end through imperial overreach and ultimate economic collapse.

America will fall apart and a great slab of it will become Mexican, the new Hispanic Aztlan. A New Africa and New Israel will arise. Whites will found a New America, while with no American protection, the Chinese conquest of Australia and New Zealand will be complete.

Destiny

Demography is destiny. In 1960 people of European stock comprised one-quarter of the world population. Today white people make up one-sixth of the world population. By 2050 people of European descent will comprise only one-tenth of the world population.

Whites currently account for 74 percent of the population, blacks 12 percent, Hispanics 10 percent and Asians 3 percent. Yet according to data and predictions generated by the U.S. Census Bureau and social scientists poring over the numbers, Hispanics will likely surpass blacks early in the next century.

And by the year 2050, demographers predict, Hispanics will account for 25 percent of the population (By 2050, the Census Bureau estimates 102 million Hispanics will live in America, heavily concentrated in the Southwest. The ethnic, linguistic and cultural reconquest of the American Southwest by Mexico is well advanced.) blacks 14 percent, Asians 8 percent, with whites hovering somewhere around 53 percent.

Reference ...
*America's Racial and Ethnic Divides

Family Reunification

What triggered this great transformation was a change to immigration law in 1965, when Congress made family reunification the primary criteria for admittance. That new policy, a response to charges that the law favored white Europeans, allowed immigrants already in the United States to bring over their relatives, who in turn could bring over more relatives.

As a result, America has been absorbing as many as 1 million newcomers a year, to the point that now almost 1 in every 10 residents is foreign born.

The Ozzies and Harriets of the 1990s are skipping the suburbs of the big cities and moving to more homogeneous, mostly white smaller towns and smaller cities and rural areas.

They're headed to Atlanta, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, Denver, Austin and Orlando, as well as smaller cities in Nevada, Idaho, Colorado and Washington. Frey and other demographers believe the domestic migrants - black and white - are being "pushed" out, at least in part, by competition with immigrants for jobs and neighborhoods, political clout and lifestyle.

The emergence of separate Americas, one white and middle-aged, less urban and another intensely urban, young, multicultural and multiethnic. One America will care deeply about English as the official language and about preserving Social Security. The other will care about things like retaining affirmative action and bilingual education.

Though there are calls to revive efforts to encourage "Americanization" of the newcomers, many researchers now express doubt that the old assimilation model works. For one thing, there is less of a dominant mainstream to enter. Instead, there are a dozen streams, despite the best efforts by the dominant white society to lump groups together by ethnicity.

The tens of millions coming endlessly from countries, cultures and civilizations whose peoples have never before been assimilated into a First World nation may spell the end of America as one nation and one people by mid-century.

Americans are largely unaware, but Cultural Marxism reigns in our universities and public schools. The old Marxists blamed capitalists and the economic system for oppression and exploitation. The new Marxists blame the white race and western civilization itself. With the white race looked at as being the cancer of human history.

In the U.S. native-born whites already are second-class citizens in their own country. Unconstitutional group privileges have arisen based on race, gender, and disability. White males no longer have equal rights. As the current chairwoman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission says, "Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them."

The protections in our legal system that make law a shield of the people, not a weapon in the hands of government, have largely been eroded.

President Clinton 1998 Portland State University Address
(Excerpts)

By 2050 whites would be a minority in America. No other nation in history, has gone through demographic change of this magnitude in so short a time.

THE PRESIDENT:

"What I want to talk to all of you about, particularly the graduates, is the America of your future. We all know that at the edge of a new century and a new millennium, America is changing at breathtaking speed. We know that most of these changes have been good. We're grateful as a nation to have the lowest unemployment rate in 28 years, the lowest crime rate in 25 years, the lowest welfare rolls in 29 years the first balanced budget and surplus in 29 years, the highest home ownership in history. We feel gratitude. We know that none of us alone is responsible for these things, but all of us together have come to terms with the challenges of the modern world and its opportunities and we're moving America in a good direction.

This spring I have talked about three things. At the Naval Academy I talked about defending our nation against the new security threats of the 21st century, including terrorism, biological and chemical weapons, and global environmental degradation. At MIT, not very long ago, I talked about the challenges of the information age and the importance of bringing those opportunities to all Americans, bringing the Internet into every classroom, ensuring that every young student is computer-literate. Maybe I should have given that speech here.

Today, I want to talk to you about what may be the most important subject of all how we can strengthen the bonds of our national community as we grow more racially and ethnically diverse.

The driving force behind our increasing diversity is a new, large wave of immigration. It is changing the face of America. And while most of the changes are good, they do present challenges which demand more both from new immigrants and from our citizens. Citizens share a responsibility to welcome new immigrants, to ensure that they strengthen our nation, to give them their chance at the brass ring.

In turn, new immigrants have a responsibility to learn, to work, to contribute to America. If both citizens and immigrants do their part, we will grow ever stronger in the new global information economy.

More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each generation, they have proved to be the most restless, the most adventurous, the most innovative, the most industrious of people. Bearing different memories, honoring different heritages, they have strengthened our economy, enriched our culture, renewed our promise of freedom and opportunity for all.

Of course, the path has not always run smooth. Some Americans have met each group of newcomers with suspicion and violence and discrimination. So great was the hatred of Irish immigrants 150 years ago that they were greeted with signs that read, "No Dogs Or Irish." So profound was the fear of Chinese in the 1880s that they were barred from entering the country. So deep was the distrust of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe at the beginning of this century that they were forced to take literacy tests specifically designed to keep them out of America.

Eventually, the guarantees of our Constitution and the better angels of our nature prevailed over ignorance and insecurity, over prejudice and fear.

But now we are being tested again -- by a new wave of immigration larger than any in a century, far more diverse than any in our history. Each year, nearly a million people come legally to America.

Today, nearly one in ten people in America was born in another country; one in five schoolchildren are from immigrant families. Today, largely because of immigration, there is no majority race in Hawaii or Houston or New York City. Within five years there will be no majority race in our largest state, California.

In a little more than 50 years there will be no majority race in the United States. No other nation in history has gone through demographic change of this magnitude in so short a time.

What do the changes mean? They can either strengthen and unite us, or they can weaken and divide us. We must decide.

Let me state my view unequivocally. I believe new immigrants are good for America. They are revitalizing our cities. They are building our new economy. They are strengthening our ties to the global economy, just as earlier waves of immigrants settled the new frontier and powered the Industrial Revolution. They are energizing our culture and broadening our vision of the world. They are renewing our most basic values and reminding us all of what it truly means to be an American.

It means working hard, like a teenager from Vietnam who does his homework as he watches the cash register at his family's grocery store. It means making a better life for your children, like a father from Russia who works two jobs and still finds time to take his daughter to the public library to practice her reading. It means dreaming big dreams, passing them on to your children.

You have a lot of stories like that here at Portland State. Just this morning I met one of your graduates -- or two, to be specific. Mago Gilson, an immigrant from Mexico who came here without a high school education. Twelve years later she is receiving her Masters Degree in education, on her way to realizing her dream of becoming a teacher.

She is joined in this graduating class by her son Eddi, who had dreams of his own and worked full-time for seven years to put himself through school. Today he receives a Bachelor's Degree in business administration. And soon there's more. Soon her son, Oscar, whom I also met, will receive his own Master's Degree in education. I'd like to ask the Gilsons and their family members who are here to rise and be recognized. There she is. Give them a hand.

In the Gilson family and countless like them, we see the spirit that built America -- the drive to succeed, the commitment to family, to education, to work, the hope for a better life. In their stories we see a reflection of our own parents' and grandparents' journey a powerful reminder that our America is not so much a place as a promise; not a guarantee but a chance; not a particular race, but an embrace of our common humanity.

Now, some Americans don't see it that way. When they hear new accents or see new faces, they feel unsettled. They worry that new immigrants come not to work hard, but to live off our largesse. They're afraid the America they know and love is becoming a foreign land.

This reaction may be understandable, but it's wrong. It's especially wrong when anxiety and fear give rise to policies and ballot propositions to exclude immigrants from our civic life. I believe it's wrong to deny law-abiding immigrants benefits available to everyone else; wrong to ignore them as people not worthy of being counted in the census. It's not only wrong, it's un-American.

Let me be clear: I also think it's wrong to condone illegal immigration that flouts our laws, strains our tolerance, taxes our resources. Even a nation of immigrants must have rules and conditions and limits, and when they are disregarded, public support for immigration erodes in ways that are destructive to those who are newly arrived and those who are still waiting patiently to come.

We must remember, however, that the vast majority of immigrants are here legally. In every measurable way, they give more to our society than they take. Consider this: On average, immigrants pay $1,800 more in taxes every year than they cost our system in benefits. Immigrants are paying into Social Security at record rates. Most of them are young, and they will help to balance the budget when we baby boomers retire and put strains on it.

New immigrants also benefit the nation in ways not so easily measured, but very important. We should be honored that America, whether it's called the City on a Hill, or the Old Gold Mountain, or El Norte, is still seen around the world as the land of new beginnings. We should all be proud that people living in isolated villages in far corners of the world actually recognize the Statue of Liberty. We should rejoice that children the world over study our Declaration of Independence and embrace its creed.

My fellow Americans, we descendants of those who passed through the portals of Ellis Island must not lock the door behind us. Americans who parents were denied the rights of citizenship simply because of the color of their skin must not deny those rights to others because of the country of their birth or the nature of their faith.

We should treat new immigrants as we would have wanted our own grandparents to be treated. We should share our country with them, not shun them or shut them out. But mark my words, unless we handle this well, immigration of this sweep and scope could threaten the bonds of our union.

Around the world we see what can happen when people who live on the same land put race and ethnicity before country and humanity. If America is to remain the world's most diverse democracy, if immigration is to strengthen America as it has throughout our history, then we must say to one another: whether your ancestors came here in slave ships or on the Mayflower, whether they landed on Ellis Island or at Los Angeles International Airport, or have been here for thousands of years, if you believe in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, if you accept the responsibilities as well as the rights embedded in them, then you are an American.

Only that belief can keep us one America in the 21st century. So I say, as President, to all our immigrants, you are welcome here. But you must honor laws, embrace our culture, learn our language, know our history; and when the time comes, you should become citizens. And I say to all Americans, we have responsibilities as well to welcome our newest immigrants, to vigorously enforce laws against discrimination. And I'm very proud that our nation's top civil rights enforcer is Bill Lam Lee, the son of Chinese immigrants who grew up in Harlem.

We must protect immigrants' rights and ensure their access to education, health care, and housing and help them to become successful, productive citizens. When immigrants take responsibility to become citizens and have met all the requirements to do so, they should be promptly evaluated and accepted.

The present delays in the citizenship process are unacceptable and indefensible. And together, immigrants and citizens alike, let me say we must recommit ourselves to the general duties of citizenship. Not just immigrants, but every American should know what's in our Constitution and understand our shared history.

Not just immigrants, but every American should participate in our democracy by voting, by volunteering and by running for office. Not just immigrants, but every American, on our campuses and in our communities, should serve -- community service reads good citizenship. And not just immigrants, but every American should reject identity politics that seeks to separate us, not bring us together.

Ethnic pride is a very good thing. America is one of the places which most reveres the distinctive ethnic, racial, religious heritage of our various peoples. The days when immigrants felt compelled to Anglicize their last name or deny their heritage are, thankfully, gone. But pride in one's ethnic and racial heritage must never become an excuse to withdraw from the larger American community. That does not honor diversity; it breeds divisiveness. And that could weaken America.

Not just immigrants, but every American should recognize that our public schools must be more than places where our children learn to read, they must also learn to be good citizens. They must all be able to make America's heroes, from Washington to Lincoln to Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez, their own.

Today, too many Americans, and far too many immigrant children attended crowded, often crumbling inner city schools. Too many drop out of school altogether. And with more children from immigrant families entering our country and our schools than at any time since the turn of the century, we must renew our efforts to rebuild our schools and make them the best in the world. They must have better facilities; they must have smaller classes; they must have properly trained teachers; they must have access to technology; they must be the best in the world.

All of us, immigrants and citizens alike, must ensure that our new group of children learn our language, and we should find a way to do this together instead of launching another round of divisive political fights.

In the schools within the White House in the schools within just a few miles of the White House, across the Potomac River, we have the most diverse school district in America, where there are children from 180 different racial and ethnic groups, speaking as native tongues about 100 languages.

Now, it's all very well for someone to say, everyone of them should learn English immediately. But we don't at this time necessarily have people who are trained to teach them English in all those languages. So I say to you, it is important for children to retain their native language. But unless they also learn English, they will never reach their full potential in the United States.

Of course, English is learned at different rates, and, of course, children have individual needs. But that cannot be an excuse for making sure that when children come into our school system, we do whatever it takes with whatever resources are at hand to make sure they learn as quickly as they can the language that will be dominant language of this country's commerce and citizenship in the future.

We owe it to these children to do that. And we should not either delay behind excuses or look for ways to turn what is essentially a human issue of basic decency and citizenship and opportunity into a divisive political debate. We have a stake together in getting together and moving forward on this.

Let me say, I applaud the students here at Portland State who are tutoring immigrant children to speak and read English. You are setting the kind of example I want our country to follow.

One hundred and forty years ago, in the First Lady's hometown of Chicago, immigrants outnumbered native Americans. Addressing a crowd there in 1858, Abraham Lincoln asked what connection those immigrants could possibly feel to people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who founded our nation.

Here was his answer: If they, the immigrants, look back through this history to trace their connection to those days by blood, they will find they have none. But our founders proclaimed that we are all created equal in the eyes of God. And that, Lincoln said, is the electric cord in that declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving people everywhere.

Well, that electric cord, the conviction that we are all created equal in the eyes of God, still links every graduate here with every new immigrant coming to our shores and every American who ever came before us. If you carry it with conscience and courage into the new century, it will light our way to America's greatest days your days."

References ...
*PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT 1998
*Migration Dialogue

Immigration Videos ...
*Immigration
*Minutemen:The Immigration Debate
*Protesters Rally Against Illegal Immigration Bill
*Illegal Immigrants in the USA
*Immigration Gumballs
*Minutemen - Film Open Border

Will American Global Dominance End In 2020?

2010-05-27T11:08:00.001-07:00

Culture rather than technology will determine which countries will have the cutting edge. Manufacturing will no longer be the key to economic success. China will become the world's largest economy. The US must overcome its law-and-order problems to survive. Japan's rise will peak.

The environment, the role of government, technology and natural resources, as well as the costs of social disintegration, will contribute to this new competitive landscape.

The likely emergence of China and India as new major global players—similar to the advent of a united Germany in the 19th century and a powerful United States in the early 20th century, will transform the geopolitical landscape with impacts potentially as dramatic as those in the previous two centuries.

India and China will increasingly flex powerful political and economic muscles as major new global players by 2020, an in-house CIA think tank has said, likening the rise of the two countries to the emergence of the United States as a world power, a century ago.

The two nuclear-armed Asian giants—one a vibrant democracy, the other a one-party state—will ‘‘transform the geopolitical landscape’’ because of their robust economic growth, expanding military capabilities and large populations, the National Intelligence Council (NIC) predicted.

The United States will remain "an important shaper of the international order, "probably the single most powerful country, but its "relative power position" will have "eroded."

The new "arriviste powers," not only China and India, but also Brazil, Indonesia, and perhaps others, will accelerate this erosion by pursuing "strategies designed to exclude or isolate the United States" in order to "force or cajole" us into playing by their rules.

India and China soon plans to form a trade coalition in Asia and that is projected to boast 65% of world trade by tear 2020. Both the countries India and China are determined to achieve that and create a huge impact on world economic bodies.

- Economic growth is expected to remain robust over the next 15 years with the United States, China and India accounting for more than 50 percent of all new growth. Overall, global gross domestic product (GDP) will grow at an annualized rate of 3.5 percent.

- The US, which will account for 16 percent of the world's economic growth, will continue to outpace other major developed economies between now and 2020. U.S. growth will be driven by its ability to continue to add knowledge workers to its workforce that are strong in skills such as collaboration, communication, decision-making and leadership. In addition, the US will benefit from interaction-based productivity from continued investment and use of information technologies.

- By 2020, China's economy measured at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates will be on par with the United States and Asia's overall share of the global economy will rise to 43 percent from 35 percent currently. During this growth period, China is set to have the second largest consumer market and will have the largest tech sector.

America's current foreign policy is encouraging this trend, the NIC (National Intelligence Council) concluded, "U.S. preoccupation with the war on terrorism is largely irrelevant to the security concerns of most Asians."

A "key question" for the future of America's power and influence is whether U.S. policy-makers "can offer Asian states an appealing vision of regional security and order that will rival and perhaps exceed that offered by China."

If not, "U.S. disengagement from what matters to U.S. Asian allies would increase the likelihood that they will climb on Beijing's bandwagon and allow China to create its own regional security that excludes the United States."

To the extent that these new powers seek others to emulate, they may look to the European Union, not the United States, as "a model of global and regional governance."

Not a day goes by without another story about how we're mortgaging our future to the central banks of China and Japan. The U.S. budget deficit, approaching a half-trillion dollars, is financed by their purchase of Treasury notes.

The U.S. trade deficit, much of it amassed by the purchase of Chinese-made goods, now exceeds $3 trillion. Meanwhile, China is displacing the United States all across Asia, in trade, investment, education, culture, and tourism. It's also cutting into the trade markets of Latin America.

World Energy Consumption Today
Country % of Energy Consumed % of World Population
United States
25% - 4.6%
China
9.9% - 21.2%
Russia
7.0% - 2.5%
Japan
5.8% - 2.1%
Germany
3.9% - 1.3%
India
3.1% - 16.6%
France
2.9% - .9%
U.K.
2.6 % - 1%
Canada
2.5% - .5%
Korea
1.9 % - .7%

The United States, with 5% of the world's population, daily consumes 20.5 million barrels (862 million gallons) - - or 26% of world consumption. U.S. consumption is at a record high

while U.S. oil production is at a 50-year low and declining, covering just 30% of our consumption needs - - a 70% gap, and reserves are declining.

Read more ...
*USA Energy Consumption

Energy Sources

Natural gas is projected to be the fastest growing primary energy source worldwide, maintaining growth of 3.2 percent annually over the 1999-2020 period, more than twice as high as the rate for coal. Natural gas consumption is projected to rise from 84 trillion cubic feet to 162 trillion cubic feet in 2020, primarily for electricity generation.

Gas is increasingly seen as the desired alternative for electric power, given the efficiency of combined-cycle gas turbines relative to coal- or oil-fired generation, and because it burns more cleanly than either coal or oil, making it a more attractive choice for countries interested in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Coal use worldwide is projected to increase by 1.7 billion short tons (36 percent) between 1999 and 2020. Substantial declines in coal use are projected for Western Europe and the EE/FSU countries where natural gas is increasingly being used to replace coal, to fuel new growth in electric power generation, and for other industrial and building sector uses .

In the developing world, however, even larger increases in coal use are expected. The largest increases are projected for China and India, where coal supplies are plentiful. Together these two countries account for more than 90 percent of the projected rise in coal use in the developing world over.

America At War: Islam A Critical Review

2010-03-24T15:15:00.000-07:00

I have read the Koran three times now. The first time was as a youth searching for a divine nugget. It struck me as disappointingly uninspiring. The second time was in 1998 to look for prophecy and found only a repetitive message akin to brainwashing. The third time, I admit to being leery of it, and found it to have been written with help that is far from divine.
The translation I used of the Koran seems virulent but probably not the most so, as many are available. It is just chance that I currently have access to one translated in 1930 by Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall, and printed by the government of Mir Osman Ali Khan, the late nizam of Hyderabad-Deccan.

I have cross referenced some of the verses in other Korans and found them sometimes slightly differing in meaning and verse numbers. So the verses I refer to can sometimes be off numerically in other translations so any passage I refer to could be the verse above or below it, if not immediately obvious.

There are claims that the Koran is similar to Sanskrit and Tamil texts as evidenced by the Koran not conforming to Arabic grammar. Over 100 aberrations were noted by Mahmud-oz-zamakshari and he stated the Koran was not miraculous.
There are parts imitative of a pre-Islamic Syrian poet and Ali Dashti in his book 23 Years: A study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammed (published 1985) draws attention to these probable sources. Mohammed also seems to have borrowed from Al-Ukdal-Fareed, the 25 chapters called Jaw-hara (the Pearl) from which to pillage verses for his surahs. This was written by Ibn Abd Rabbi hil Andalusi who was born in 246AD and died in 327AD.

So if the Koran is based on cribbed together writings and dubious other religious texts, this really casts doubt on the divine source. Some people (yes, anti-Muslims) have suggested that Mohammed had epileptic fits, and his own mother had declared him possessed by a devil. Regardless of these claims, it seems highly suspect to find castigation of an enemy uncle and a confirmation that an adopted son should divorce his wife so that Mo can marry her in its suras.
This seems way too convenient to just happen to fit in with Mos mindset, for surely if God really wanted such a thing, he could have just willed it?
Consider something like sura 33:36 which states, when allah and his messenger have decided an affair, and goes on to say you should not question it. Well how convenient for him that god has Mo for a partner to help decide things!
There are other reasons to suspect that the claimed divine revelation is actually from a satanic source, if not simply from Mos fevered brow, but I will get more into that later.

The Muslim world has generated suicide bombers and terrorists galore. The Koran stokes these fires of hatred. There are numerous promises of paradise for the slain and booty for the alive. A typical one is sura 4:74, Whoso fighteth in the way of allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him we shall bestow a vast reward.
Suicide has its roots as a tradition starting with Mohammeds attempts. This may be another indication of his epileptic type fits, as no true messenger of God has ever wanted to kill himself. However in the Bakhari hadith, Book 9, volume 87, verse 111, we read this: But after a few days Waraqa died and the Divine Inspiration was also paused for a while and the Prophet became so sad as we have heard that he intended several times to throw himself from the tops of high mountains and every time he went up the top of a mountain in order to throw himself down, Gabriel would appear before him and say, O Muhammad! You are indeed Allah's Apostle in truth whereupon his heart would become quiet and he would calm down and would return home.
Hmmm, would God really give you a message and then you commit suicide? This whole entwining of Islam with death is part and parcel of its message. The assassins developed as a group of killers from Islamic culture that believed their reward lay in paradise, of which they would had a drugged foretaste. This killing for a reward message is continued today and is encouraged by Muslim clerics, but stop and ask yourself whether God really wants his creation to be used this way.

A lack of regard for human life and barbarity is usually indicative of Godless people.
Sura 5:33 threatens death, crucifixion or hands and feet cut off for those that strive against allah. Christians and non-Muslims beware! Anyone that is not a follower of Islam is classed as causing corruption to the earth and is therefore to be killed. The two suras just mentioned are only two of many, many such threats and intimidations. Read sura 9:5 that says to slay the unbelievers wherever you find them, etc.
Islamaniacs trumpet that Islam is the fastest growing religion and must therefore be right, but surely it has all the hallmarks of a cult that offers certainty not understanding. Fascism and communism were ideologies that encompassed a billion people but today are discounted as having any worth.

The majority are often wrong and that is why inspired leaders exist that have a better dream, and also the Bible tells that the road to destruction is broad and wide (Matthew 7:13).
The Muslim apologists claim that Islam is a religion of peace and that the terrorists are not real Muslims. This reminds me of when the Soviet Union had its communist grip on Eastern Europe. When one pointed out that it was a crap system with food shortages, queues for everything and nothing working properly, the red propagandists would claim that the real communists were not in charge.

Today we have a similar situation with Islamic propagandists saying the terrorists are not representative, despite all the bombers and hijackers claiming action for allah.

Unfortunately, the whole tenor of the Koran is one that dwells on slaughter and the doom of unbelievers. The Hadiths are even worse and talk of violence against Jews especially. One says that even the trees and bushes will shout out that there are Jews hiding behind them, and they should then be killed.
Now the koranicists tell me that I am taking passages about annihilating towns after warning them, out of context. The threats and promised destruction of surah 17:16 towards a town is supposedly a general warning from allah. But if I do not see it that way, then why should an uneducated Muslim? He could well think the verses saying we will destroy them and slaughter them where we find them are general exhortations for the cause. Certainly the well educated terrorists seem to interpret it that way.
And if such passages are so ambiguous, then why would God choose to express himself in such an imprecise language. Did God really send Jesus to tell us plainly to love our enemy and turn the other cheek, yet then send Mohammed to tell us to revel in their destruction?

Now the Muslims say that they only fight those that started it first, those who cause trouble are apparently fair game for slaughter. The Koran says persecution is worse than slaughter (2:191). Quite a different message from turning the other cheek. However, some Muslims seem persecuted by the mere presence of non-Muslims. This was the reasoning behind attacks on the USS Cole, that they did not like Americans in their waters or based on the soil of Saudi Arabia, whether invited or not. Yet these people that feel so persecuted will tell you of how merciful and big hearted Mohammed was to Jews, and claim Christians cried when Muslims removed their presence from them in Syria or someplace.
This is clearly propaganda and nonsense to claim that non-Muslims felt protected by Muslims when the Koran tells them to be compassionate to Muslims but to show harshness to others. The Jews fled the Romans and settled all over Arabia, becoming a majority in Yathrib. They took Mohammed in when he needed a base, and their eventual reward was to be expelled or worse from their own city, which was then renamed Medina.

If Mohammed was so kind, then how come there are no Jews in Mecca today? Come to think of it, only Muslims are allowed there, period. Would any such apartheid be tolerated in the West? Why are Mecca and Medina such a closed cities?

Muslims will tell you that there is no compulsion in their religion. Yet why insist on making the Haj, a pilgrimage to Mecca? They will tell you that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerant of people like Jews and Christians. Yet these people are required to pay the jizrah, a special tax on non-Muslims that has no fixed amount but used to be a gold dinar in one district. Imagine having to hand over a piece of gold just because you are not a Muslim. It sounds like a severe arm twisting not a lack of compulsion.
Just exactly how benevolent this is can surely be seen for the added burden it was. Who would want to pay a form of protection money to an unfriendly gang? Just how popular this tax would have been, can be gauged from the American reaction to a tax on tea imposed by their British protectors.
Can you imagine if the West made religious minorities pay a special tax, what a cry about equal rights there would be? Or suppose Philadelphia or Rome was made off limits to non-Christians?
We have reciprocal agreements with countries, but we should also consider the golden rule to apply to philosophy and religion. We do not tolerate political fascism so neither should we accept religious fascism.

I do not think the Koran has anything nice or admirable to say about anyone not one of them. The Muslims make a big deal of being tolerant but when they conquered a place, they enslaved the men, built a mosque on the local peoples most revered sites (e.g. they tried to build one in the Acropolis in Greece but got expelled first), and taxed the remaining wretched survivors something like 50% of everything for their supposed protection. The hadith in volume 3, book 39, number 524 talks of giving the Jews a valley to farm and of taking half of everything from them.

If , as the Koran constantly claims, allah is so merciful, then how come its always going on about hellfire and making snide remarks about just about everyone who is not part of the Muslim cult? If Islam is so tolerant of other religions and peaceful, where are the Jewish communities that used to exist throughout Arabia? What about the grand old tradition of issuing fatwas? We do not see Christian bishops and clerics calling for people to be murdered. Muslims do not seem to acknowledge that mullahs issuing death sentences on people that offend them is inconsistent with claims of Islam being peaceful.

The existence of death dealing militant Muslim terror groups in every area of the world shows me that there is something not really peaceful about them or their message. By their fruits, we should know them. And lets face it, until the recent pressure from America, the Muslim countries of the world have not really made efforts to extirpate these nests of vipers.

I challenge any apologist to tell me a true nation of Islam, a devout pursuer of peace that could not or would not in some future eventuality fracture into hateful angry people.
The cry of the Muslim at prayer starts off by saying there is no God but allah. Some linguists have said that allah can be a general word for everything. On this model, millions of unwitting Muslims could be saying, There is no God, just everything. Now who could benefit the most from such a deception? Possibly the great deceiver himself who is apparently able to deceive the very elect.
So much of the Bibles teaching are perverted in the Koran, that you can imagine the great deceiver laughing like Usama bin laden in that video at the misbelief of others. The greatest prophet of the Old Testament, Zechariah in sura 3:38 has him praying for bounty. Even Jesus and the disciples are portrayed as asking for non spiritual gifts. Satan must laugh his head off at how many people buy into this revised history.
The real message of Gods prophets and Jesus that you will suffer for believing in his name is never mentioned in the Koran. Only reward for the followers of allah, either the wine in heaven or spoils and bounty on earth. I ask that you consider carefully which prophet offers redemption, offers a spiritual truth and which prophet offers fulfillment of earthly desires.

For arguments sake, let us assume that allah is a name. Yet allah is not a name we see in the Bible. Mecca is not mentioned in the Bible either. Yet it says in the Bible in many places, that those who call in the Lords name will be saved. So you would expect that getting Gods name right is crucial. Essential for the salvation of your soul, and to fulfill requirements that are asked of you.
Gods name is given by those that do not really understand what the name is as anything from Adonai or Elohim which mean Lord. But in fact, in Psalms 83:18 it explicitly says, whose name alone is JEHOVAH.
In Exodus 3:13-15, God tells Moses that his name is I AM and says that this is my name forever.

JAH is also given as Gods name in Psalms 68:4. Nowhere does it say the name that the Muslim world prefers to use, and there is even a controversy from the Sufis that says Allah is a concept for everything, so that what the Muslims could actually be saying is that there is no God. This is all indicative of some great deceiver that would have people say many things that are contrary to what is actually said in the Bible, and a blasphemy against the true God.
It is very important to get Gods name correct. If your name is Susan or Rasheed and someone is calling you Fred, would you even answer? Not only might you not respond, but you could be insulted by being addressed by another name. Especially when you have already spelled out how you ought to be called. Would you even turn around if someone shouted out a name that you did not especially like or wish to be called?

The Koran has contradictions and inaccuracies about Ishmael, about the earth being created in eight or two days (41:9), stuff about yellow cows instead of the red heifer. Within its own Koranic pages, it has differences about the number of gardens in paradise (one, 39:73 4:30 57:21 or many 18:31 22:23 35:33 78:32). It also has divergent claims about where evil comes from (Allah 4:78 or Satan 38:41), about man created from water (lots) or a blood clot (96:1-2), dust or earth (11:61), or fluid (16:4) or from nothing (19:67).
It says that none but allah protects (2:107 29:22) yet also says the angels do it (82:10 41:31). It says Aaron was guilty of the golden calf in 7:151 but that he was not in 20:85-90.
It says that the verses can not be changed in 2:106, 16:101 22:52, but then implies that they can in 6:34 6:115 and 10:65. Then there is the whole satanic verses controversy about Mohammed having decided some verses had been from Satan so he changed them. A reference to Satan putting his spin on verses can be found at 22:52 amongst other places. Verses 53:19-20 are the controversial so called satanic verses that many scholars admit have been changed.

When I have talked with some Muslim scholars, they told me that unlike the Bible, the Koran had no ambiguities or contradictions, but clearly it does and it is very lazy of them not to have investigated their own claims. These inconsistencies could well be the work of the great deceiver that wants us to believe a contrary and different set of truths to the ones given by God.
Now there are contradictions and ambiguities in the Bible, though I would say this to be expected when there are many authors or eyewitnesses. The Koran is supposedly all from one source so cannot claim this reasoning for its contradictions.

Indeed, I would say that biblical discrepancies are an indication of veracity rather than indicative of conspiracy to get all their stories absolutely perfect. Islamaniacs take this as proof of some major problem, but I take it as proof of honesty because if the Bible was simple propaganda, then the accounts would have been made to match. This is ironically the Bible's strength and not a weakness.
The Koran says in 4:82 that had it been from other than allah, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy. Well, there are discrepancies with regard to whether angels talk or whether the verses can be changed and all kinds of nit picking details, some of which I have noted above. So again, I would say that it is hoist by its own petard. At least the Bible can claim multiple authors as a reason for some variance.

Some propagandists such as those that attempt to rebuff the many criticisms on the answering-islam.org website, have pages and pages of why black is white. I ask you that if I wrote that the sky is red and you produced reasons that the sky is actually blue, and then I wrote thousands of words arguing my case, would it still not be a discrepancy? Yet this is what fractious Islamic do.
When you point out a contradiction or someplace where it says one thing and another place another thing, they then write the equivalent of a book trying to explain away how you must be mistaken. Their frequent excuse when they are stuck for an adequate explanation is to blame it on you not understanding Arabic. Yet there are numerous Christian Arabs that can refute this apologetic guff. And if the translations are so wildly inaccurate and contradictory, then that speaks volumes about the inadequacy of their so-called scholarship.

Despite the differing accounts or personal claims of Paul in the New Testament, I do not find the message of Jesus undimmed. His parables have a spiritual truth that transcends the detail of who was where. The incidentals of place were possibly written down third hand, so can reasonably be expected to vary, just like when children play that remembering game where one whispers something to another to pass on. Also, rather like the theologians debating how many angels can fit on a pinhead, such issues seem irrelevant to the real meaning of Christs message.
Regardless of the Bible or the Moslem book having some seeming contradictions, the inner spiritual truth should shine through. It is a bit like being hungry for the truth and nit-picking the minor details. Let us say you were hungry for a pizza, but instead of being happy with the contents, you niggled about the packaging. Noticing that one side of the box was not symmetrical with another side. Never mind the packing, the truth should be able to be got at and fully sensed.
The body of Jesus is not what is to be exalted or worshipped but the spiritual message that he brought. Although he did say that no-one comes to the father except through him. When we understand his teaching, we should not be overly concerned about how the truth of it was delivered. It is natural to be interested in the life of Jesus, but whether a parable was delivered in the morning or evening or up a mountain or at a table is incidental to the meat of the message. Similarly we should not be concentrating on whether the body has a blemish or whether one finger is exactly the same as another if we are taking in the meaning of what is being delivered to us.
I have debated Jesus with Muslims and they have a couple of points they bring up regularly. They say Christ was inconsistent with his message of peace by saying he himself claimed to bring a fire on earth or a sword and to set fathers against children and brother against brother.

Now, I do not see this as inconsistent because he was not advocating his followers go out and start trouble, but he was telling what would be the natural consequences of his message.
Another thing mentioned as showing Christ to be a warmonger is when he tells his disciples to sell their clothes for swords before he is captured. As he then says that two swords would be enough, it is clear that he wants them to have some defence rather than be completely without.
This could be interpreted as showing that he did not want them all to be taken and arrested along with him, and to be free to go forth and spread the gospel. He certainly did not tell them all to be armed and attack the temple guards coming to arrest him.

When Peter strikes off an ear, he tells him to stop it, as you would expect for a man that has preached to turn the other cheek.
When Jesus tells his flock that he has come to bring a sword (Matthew 10:34), the antichrists bay that this is clearly not peaceful. However, he was not exhorting his followers to take up arms, but instead telling them that a sword would come against them. His message would and did provoke trouble.
Another accusation is one of racism as when he ignores a Canaanite woman asking him to do a miracle for her daughter. He uses the analogy of a dog eating the childrens food, and this seems to imply that Jesus is racist. However, as Mark 7 says, he was trying to get peace and quiet for one thing, and in Matthew 15:22, he ignored her because she called him son of David.

Matthew 22:41 showed that he did not think being called son of David was appropriate, so much so that they durst not ask him any other questions again. The analogy of dogs at a masters table is well answered by the woman and so he does as she asked. Since one of his disciples (Simon the zealot) was a Canaanite, it seems unlikely that he was discriminating on racial grounds, especially when his teachings are for all people.
When he met the Samaritan woman (John 4:7) at the well, and correctly told her about her five husbands, she brought other Samaritans to listen to his teachings and this also shows he did not have a narrow group of people to preach unto.
About the only inconsistency I can find with Christs teaching is when he calls people fools, and in another passage tells people those that call others fools, that they are in danger of the judgment. This is a case of Do as I say, not as I do, which is familiar in most parent child relationships, but not mutually exclusive.
Muslims complain that when Jesus says that he and the father are one, or that all power is given to him; yet then says God works through him or the power to decide who sits on his right hand is not his to give, it is contradictory. Well I agree that it is a difficult concept to grasp but not impossible.
A weak analogy might be that of Siamese twins linked by the spirit but one being stronger than the other. Or consider someone that is born powerful, but is clearly unable to choose their own parents, or change that which has already been destined.

Surely it is commendable of Jesus to acknowledge his limitations rather than boast of being able to do whatever is asked or to promise places in paradise at his side for everyone that asks? Yet this is what Mohammed tells his followers.
Who is really being more truthful; the man that does not point out any possible problems or the one that says he can not guarantee it?
The concept of the trinity, the father, the son and the holy ghost seems very problematic for Muslims. St. Patrick used a three leafed shamrock to demonstrate how three could be one. But regardless of whether this trinity is an interpretation imposed by the church or not, it is irrelevant to the spiritual message.
It is like the theologians that debate how many angels can fit on the head of a pin. It is not an answer that is necessary to understand the spiritual truth, the bread and water of life. How God works is said to be a mystery and that his ways are not our ways, so claiming that understanding how God works is not a prerequisite to understanding his message. Furthermore, the flat out denial by Islam that God could have a son seems to contradict and go against the usual claim that God can do anything.
Also, the Muslims pervert the real meaning of the trinity. There is one God in three forms, the father, the son and the holy ghost. The moslemaniacs put wrong words into the mouths of Christians and claim they are somehow worshipping three gods.

This perversion and deception is rarely answered properly even by Christians, but like I said, the knowledge of how God is, is something not crucial for understanding Gods message. All three aspects of God are in the Bible many times over and occasionally all at once such as Acts 7:56-57 or 1 John 5:7.
The trinity concept which obsess the Muslims are just a diversion to shake Christian faith. They realised that indeed most Christians are unable to adequately describe God as indeed so are most people especially the Muslims when you push their own conceptions back to their premises. Allah is described as being as close to their jugular vein but also in several heavens and quite distant.
You may be familiar with Rumis story about the blind men feeling the elephant where one describes it as a thin tail and another describes a hard pointy tusk, and yet another says it is rough and big. Though Rumi is claimed as an Islamic poet, this example actually buttresses the argument for different aspects of God. Any object can be experienced as having different qualities or an upside, a downside, a left or right or a north side and a south side. And how many more aspects can we say God could have?

The trinity questions of Muslims are only a hollow construct. It is as if I said the supposed 99 names of allah are akin to worshipping 99 gods. It is an empty construct because you could then construct a new trinity such as Jesus the man, the son of God and God and demand an explanation for that.
If the Muslims really sought understanding, perhaps they could explain why none of the pearls of wisdom in the form of parables given by Jesus were included into the Koran.
Jesus was an aspect of God that became crucified though he was not dead in heaven. I can use a couple of analogies to help clarify the aspects of God to closed minded people that say God has no aspects. Think of ourselves as having a strong right arm and a left arm. They are both aspects of the same self. Or when Jesus said that no man comes to the father except through him (John 14:6), another bodily analogy may help.

Think of God as strong teeth and Jesus as a mouth. You can not get to one except through the mouth. Or think of God as a castle. To get to the strong inner keep, you have to pass through a gate. You can not just walk through the walls, yet the keep, the walls and the gate are all aspects of the same castle.
Now think of Gods message as someone yelling that a fire is coming towards us. Now suppose that person yells that message from a helicopter. We do not have to understand how the helicopter works to understand the message do we?
We have to make the attempt to understand God but as his ways are not our ways, we are not commanded to understand the whole mystery of God. The arrogance of Muslims that insist God may have to operate to some rules they have decided for him is incredible. Can God not do anything or does he have to consult some Muslim to operate? I personally have no problem with Jesus as the word of God and the Holy Ghost as the spirit of understanding as aspects of God. Muslims prefer the simplistic version that makes it easy to think one understands god.
God is more complicated than that simple version and he wants us to make an effort to understand him. Not to understand him exactly...but to make the effort and it says so lots of places. Look under wisdom or understanding in a concordance.
To me, this difficulty is part of why Christianity is more sincere and a superior message to the pat answers of Islam. It is also the stumbling block that will separate the wheat from the chaff. This is why the parables of Jesus are a superior spiritual teaching. They allow everyone to mature spiritually into understanding.

Most all other cults or religions simplistically just say this is bad, forbidden and this is okay, bang your head on the floor whatever.
The parables by being little stories also avoid translation difficulties because it does not matter about getting a few words wrong. The gist of the story is retained, and subsumes any errors of translation. Now the Koran has no little stories like this teaching, not even the ones that Jesus taught. When it mentions Jesus, it doesn't say anything about what he taught just perversions of what he did like asking for himself to be made a god or making a bird from clay.
And when it comes to preaching Gods message and letting the truth set you free, this is something that is not found in the Koran. Instead it harps on about slavery. The spiritual truth shining through to the inner heart and a deep understanding of God, seems inconsistent with the Muslim approach.
It says the message is one that has to be unquestioningly submitted to, yet in the Bible there are numerous questions asked of God by his chosen prophets and the like. Even Jesus had questions, and in the old testament there are people setting tests for God to fulfill (e.g. the test about dew on a bush but not on the ground then the other way round or the fire on the altar test against the heathen).
All these points should not be swept under the carpet. I am all in favour of open discussion rather than handed down dogma. Personally I think God expects us to disagree on the finer points and anything that moves along our understanding of him, is I believe blessed. The Sabbath is set aside especially as a day for enquiry.

For those that find different aspects of God contradictory, they are themselves saying a contradiction. They say God is all powerful and can do anything. So if he wants a son, he can do anything. The deniers just want to denigrate God and say he can only operate according to their rules. Where it says in Isaiah that his ways are not our ways, is something they choose to ignore and insist that God operates to their understanding.
The Koran portrays Jesus not doing miracles for others. It has him making a bird from clay. Yet even the Muslims that accept this perverse version of a miracle do not think he could have given life back to himself. They prefer to believe he did not die on the cross and went to Kashmir or someplace. They also cite the blood and water that came from his speared side as evidence. They claim that fluid cannot come from a dead man, but go to any autopsy room with its draining pans and you will realise that all blood does not clot immediately.
They use Gnostic sources and heretics to give accounts that Jesus did not die on the cross. Iraneaus for instance thought Jesus lived to be a hundred because he could not imagine the wisdom of a spiritual master coming from a man so young as Jesus. Ah, but if Jesus was the embodiment of the word of God, how old was that then?
Personally, I believe Jesus took his body with him since he did not want to leave it anyplace for reverence. Hands of saints and all those kind of relics show what could have happened to the body of Jesus, or imagine if the Muslims had access to it. Quite possibly he took it with him as we would a coat when we planned on going out again.
Yet another point that Islamics think shows some failure on the part of Jesus is the sign of Jonah, referred to in Matthew 12:39 and Luke 11:29. In it, the son of man rebukes that evil generation that looks for a sign and says that no sign will be given for three days. Now this was applied to the crucifixion where no sign was given.

There was no riding to the rescue from Gods cavalry at the last minute so the Muslims say that unlike Jonah, Jesus was not saved. Jonah had been in the belly of the whale but was ultimately rescued so the Muslims mock Jesus as not being rescued. However, Christians understand that after three days, Jesus was resurrected and raised to heaven and thereby given a sign from God in that sense.
Perversely, the Muslims choose to misunderstand how Jesus gave a sign after three days as promised. Just as they choose to pretend God, the word and the Holy Ghost are three gods instead of just one.
Another area of Muslim rationale that makes debate fractious more than productive is that they defend by accusation. So it is that if I point out all the mosques full of hate or the killing clubs like Hamas, Al- eda, Abu-Sayef, Islamic Jihad, Jammu, etc., etc., as a hateful fruit of Islam, they respond not by answering the accusation but by something like fastening on the Crusades. They reach back a thousand years to dredge up something entirely unrelated as if to justify their own homicidal mania.
If someone said to me how come all your brothers are killers of women and children and revel in it, would I answer by telling the questioner that he might have a great, great (say fifty times) grandfather who killed someone? Yet this is what the Muslims do to deflect criticism from Islamic crimes.
Another accusation myth they are fond of using is that the nazis were Christians and just look at their example. Whilst Hitler was raised as a nominal catholic, this is another crass argument.

Papers used at the Nuremberg trials show that Christians and regular churchgoers were not allowed to join the nazi party. Though Muslims such as those from Bosnia were acceptable. Hitler replaced Christian festivals and holidays with Aryan pan-Germanic festivals that featured Nordic gods. And SS troops frequently shot the priests of conquered territory first.
More revisionist history comes from Islamic propagandists about the nature of Islamic rule as peaceful. It simply is not true yet as we are far away from these times, many Western so-called scholars accept the Muslim version of events. I mean what actually started the crusades in the first place? It was the accounts of atrocities and depredations from the Muslims and pleas for help from the besieged Christians and killings of pilgrims that made the heads of Europe mad enough to intervene.
There are examples of the rapaciousness and brutality of the Moslems in every pilgrims account from these times but the revisionists have succeeded in drowning out these colourful and individual accounts of the terror.
Another Moslem counterclaim is that there is racism in Christianity but none amongst Muslims. Yeah right. I personally witnessed a violent and unprovoked attack by a Muslim on a poor Hindu woman who had been calmly eating her lunch in Sri Lanka. I constantly met virulently hostile Moslem men agitated about some minor and exaggerated perceived slight to themselves. Usually it was the mere presence of an unbeliever.
Typical of Muslim racism are the recorded massacres of history:
On December 30, 1066, Joseph HaNagid, the Jewish vizier of Granada, Spain, was crucified by an Arab mob that proceeded to raze the Jewish quarter of the city and slaughter its 5,000 inhabitants. The riot was apparently incited by Muslim preachers that had angrily objected to what they saw as inordinate Jewish political power.

Similarly, in 1465, Arab mobs in Fez slaughtered thousands of Jews, leaving only 11 alive, after a Jewish deputy vizier treated a Muslim woman in "an offensive manner." The killings touched off a wave of similar massacres throughout Morocco.
Other mass murders of Jews in Arab lands occurred in Morocco in the 8th century, where whole communities were wiped out by Muslim ruler Idris I; North Africa in the 12th century, where the Almohads either forcibly converted or decimated several communities; Libya in 1785, where Ali Burzi Pasha murdered hundreds of Jews; Algiers, where Jews were massacred in 1805, 1815 and 1830 and Marrakesh, Morocco, where more than 300 hundred Jews were murdered between 1864 and 1880.
Decrees ordering the destruction of synagogues were enacted in Egypt and Syria (1014, 1293-4, 1301-2), Iraq (854859, 1344) and Yemen (1676). Despite the Koran's prohibition, Jews were forced to convert to Islam or face death in Yemen (1165 and 1678, Morocco (1275, 1465 and 1790-92) and Baghdad (1333 and 1344). (List from us-israel.org website)
Racism has been part of Islam since its inception. If it was remotely not racist, there would be Jews alive in Yathrib (Medina today). I mean even the supposed genocidal pogroms against American Indians and Australian aborigines were admitted and stopped well short of total annihilation.
Yet the Jews of Arabia were completely wiped out. I have debated this with Islamic revisionists and they claim they were killed because they demanded to be beheaded by their own laws. They were asking for it, is their apologetic rubbish propaganda. I mean that is like the Nazis claiming they wanted to get warm in the ovens. Like Goebbels said, the bigger the lie, the more easier it is for others to believe it.

The Islamic revisionists like Islamaniacs everywhere have practiced genocide. Their fetish for beheading bound captives is truly evil. The only beheading in the Bible I found was the one about John the Baptist, yet I have heard islamaniacs claim that the Jews demanded it as per their own law. Not true in the slightest, but they were beheaded because that fount of evil, who was proclaimed by his own mother as being possessed by a jinn, wanted it.
This fetish of Mo is evident from the real facts of history.
627 C.E. The Jewish tribe of Qurayza was raided by Muhammad. Some 700 men were beheaded. Edward Gibbon, in his classic history, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire described the aftermath of the assault:
"Seven hundred Jews were dragged in chains to the market-place of the city; they descended alive into the grave prepared for their execution and burial and the apostle beheld with an inflexible eye the slaughter of his helpless victims. Their sheep and camels were inherited by the Musulmans: three hundred cuirasses, five hundred pikes, a thousand lances, composed the most useful portion of the spoil."
Gibbon was a respected historian and not some Zionist. But even the Arabs own historians make no pretensions about their military conquests. There was no benevolence or spreading enlightenment as a motivation. It was all about rape and plunder. The History of Al-Tabari, written in the 10th century clearly outlines (pg 166, 175) the slaughter and pillaging and rapacious motivations of these forces.
Even in recent history, the Arab tribes under the direction of Lawrence of Arabia were not motivated to attack the Turks for anything other than simple plunder and gold.
There are also accounts of the Arab genocide of the Jews that use historical accounts that are all over the Internet on Jewish and Israeli websites like hebrewhistory.org.

Now of course these are biased towards the Jewish version of events, but since Jewish histories are not usually shy about stating their victories when they used deception or some subterfuge, the lack of such tactics mentioned relating to Mo suggests that he was motivated by greed and hatred and had indeed attacked them for no or minor provocation.
The Koran dwells constantly upon the doom of unbelievers and positively gloats on their demise. I find this not divine, but if anything, an attribute of the Devil that likes to dwell on the fires of hell. Its verses are repetitive and derivative, as if some great deceiver has tried to fashion a teaching that mimics the work of the Bible.
The fact that EVERYTHING is different in the Koran from the Bible (Gods name, what the prophets said and did, accounts of Jesus) shows that they can not both be true. The Bible has history, archaeology, testimony and the dead sea scrolls on its side amongst a wealth of evidence.
The Koran is a perversion of every truth the Bible has. Ask who could possibly want everyone to believe the opposite of truth. Ask who would gloat, as Osama did on the video tape at those who did not know the whole picture.
Ask why muhamhead would tell his soldiers a wrong thing (so as not to discourage them), and why modern negotiators sometimes flat out lie for deceptive advantage? Note how muhamhead boasts of preparing and presenting hell (18:101, 103). Ask why it says nothing of Gods love in the Koran yet it does mention allah as a beguiler (4:142) and the best of all plotters (8:30). Just ask who would want to deceive even the very elect?

The Koran claims that nothing so beautiful can be created. In 10:38, you find the usual braggadocio saying the Koran could not be invented. Indeed, the whole tone of the book is one of braggarty triumph calling itself glorious and saying that nobody could write something comparable. This is nonsense. It is the philosophical equivalent to saying my wife is the most beautiful woman in the world. No-one can show me a woman as beautiful as this.
A real test, as in science is when you can also show what is needed to disprove something. Simply by saying you can not paint a painting as good as this, is entirely subjective. And when I have pointed out the similarity of pre-Islamic verses to those in the Koran, the islamicists say it is a forgery, a work of the devil to weaken their faith.
So what they are really saying is, show me something like it, and I’ll deny it. This lack of scientific rationality or testing as we understand it, is endemic in the Muslim world and this is why progress and advanced technology have come entirely from the West.
If it was not for Western development, cars, tarmac, satellites and oil drilling, the Muslims would still be beating their heavily laden beasts and finding it difficult to even develop a better camel saddle.
Furthermore this test about the beauty of the Koran is capped by believers claiming that no-one has yet been able to do so. Both non-Muslims and Muslims do not even try because it would be a blasphemy, but putting together a string of lines about people being warned, then shackled and then slaughtered and adding how merciful allah can be does not seem difficult in the slightest.
Romans 11:18 warns, Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

The truth that nothing can be like it is clearly disproved by the Muslims own acknowledgment of the so-called Satanic verses. Tradition has it that the verses around 53:19 were changed. They acknowledge three goddesses (originally the three daughters of allah) and originally Mo had recognised them as such to cement an alliance with the Quarashi tribe in Mecca.
The Meccans derived great revenues from people coming to worship these three female deities and would not accept that these daughters were no longer on a par with allah. So Mo compromised to gain their allegiance. As these suras were an oral tradition, it is not clear when Mo ordered them to be changed, but probably it was when he had consolidated his power to the extent he could dictate anything he wanted. He explained the change to his followers as the original verses as having come from Satan.
Now, assumedly he could not tell the difference for some time which kind of shows how easy his verses were able to be duplicated. If the prophet himself is so easily fooled into what was and was not a divine verse, then it makes a mockery of such divine claims. Of course the more prosaic explanation is that Mo was a cunning liar that chose whatever was expedient to him to say had been revealed.
Another apologist response to criticism of the Koran is to say that you can only understand it properly and appreciate its beauty in Arabic.
Well if this is the case, how come God did not choose to reveal his message in a more common language or at least one less accessible to ambiguity. Does this mean, this religion is one only for the Arabs? There is no doubt that Mo was a chauvinist and encouraged the pagan traditions of haj, etc. to continue under his redirection. The apologists suggest that we all ought to learn Arabic to better appreciate its beauty.
Of course the irony is that Arabic is a phlegmatic language that makes anything sound harsh and sickly to other ears.

Unlike the inspirational verses of Isaiah or the advanced rationality of Jesus parables, the Koran only offers rote learning. To invest so much time in memorising such lines makes it unlikely for you then to question them.
The little children taught to memorise the Koran instead of multiplication tables at the madrassahs (religious schools) have no spiritual maturity that would allow them to form alternative questions. At least the little children learning the parables of Jesus are advancing their understanding of how metaphors and analogies can be used to illustrate deeper spiritual truths.
God has urged us to seek understanding above all else. In Psalms 14:2-3, this is equated with doing good. Hosea 6:6 says Jehovah desires the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings, and Zephaniah, chapter 1:46 says he will cut off…..those that have not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him.
Consider too, Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Proverbs is full of such messages. And consider how Solomon pleased God by choosing wisdom over other gifts.
I am convinced that one of the reasons that we are urged to keep the Sabbath is so that we have a time to reflect upon God and indeed reflect upon our own morals and enquire into the mysteries that are posed for us. The Sabbath gives us no excuse for not having done so.
We need Sabbath time to consider God, morals and our own goals and destiny. Thinking and reading was never a bad thing. We have free will to consider and choose our path, our life. We can never expect proof of God.

There is evidence that we can consider and there may well be the inner heart that can experience or sense God, but proof is ever elusive. Otherwise we would all be agreed and not have to make any effort at all. I am convinced that this effort to understand is considered a high form of good. Romans 3:10-12 spells this out.
Whilst God has provided guidance via the commandments and teaching through the parables, it is important for each of us to understand and recognise what is good and what is evil on a case by case basis. Simply saying something is bad or something is good rarely works as a blanket application, and simplistic orders are something a robot can do.
Mind you, it is the nature of cults to produce these robotic types. They memorise texts without understanding, they regulate every aspect of life, insist on frequent brainwashing techniques of ceremony and prayer and do not accept reasoning or criticism.

This is why Islam is a cult and not a true religion. It offers certainty about Gods nature rather than the path of understanding a complex nature offered by most religions. But then once you have seen a picture of allah, then this god is indeed simple to comprehend.
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Like a traveler that roams the world, I have quested in foreign philosophies. Always trying to glean wisdom and insights abroad, I dismissed the Bible scriptures as too uptight. Because I found no jokes in it, no sense of humor, I suspected a lack of divinity also. But like the return of the prodigal I have not found anything better elsewhere. Like the returned traveler, I now see the beauties and benefits of my own hometown.
The stories of Christian converts from mahommedianism show just how false is their claim of there being no compulsion in their religion. Egyptians hounded from their village or non-believing wives forced to convert are just tips of an iceberg.

Yes there are hell and damnation evangelicals in Christianity but they do not threaten death for not accepting their message. About the least compulsive group I have ever seen are the Anglicans. The genteel invitation to tea with the vicar is about as far removed as possible from religious policing. The Anglicans do not even seem to insist on anything really, and are merely glad to see you show up at all.
In my maturity, the wondrously broad canvas of human nature that you find in the Bible now strikes me as marvelously insightful. Unlike the hectoring and badgering of the Koran, the Bible has all the pearls of wisdom that can help you mature spiritually.
For those not yet able to transcend their daily grind and who prefer entertainment to a quest for truth, then the Bible can offer as grand a cast of dramatic lives and events as you could find in a Hollywood film. It tells stories for the reader to glean insights from, and encourages one to learn to read between the lines.

All manner of human nature is in there, even incest, even a excrement sandwich (Ezekiel 4:12), but all this indicates the grand scope of the Bible. The parables especially are for people that have had experience of life and so are able to extrapolate the real meaning of these stories.
This life experience is what enables Western minds to see the hypocrisy in Muslim life. When usury or interest on loans is disallowed by the Koran, the Muslim lenders simply charge a facilitation fee. Same thing. There is hypocrisy in the outcry over Palestinian deaths and the stony silence on Jewish deaths. There is hypocrisy in regimes that berate democracies yet have all manner of human rights abuses in their own dictatorships.
When slavery is cited as a blot on human affairs in the new world, they conveniently forget to mention the slave routes and markets established by Muslim traders particularly in Africa. Europeans did not just jump off a ship and run off into the jungle rounding people up. They bought them. Even Mohammed kept, bought and sold slaves. If a Muslim kills another Muslim, then he suggests freeing a believing slave as a punishment. The fact that he suggests freeing a believing slave, shows the lie to the apologists that converted slaves were set free just for conversion.

Nowhere in the Koran is there a suggestion that we are free to think for ourselves. On the contrary, it claims we are only slaves not able to question. It offers certainty and prescriptions for living for those too lazy or poor in spirit to really enquire. This is the absolute certainty that has allowed Islam to spread amongst people that want only answers instead of understanding. Like the American Taliban who had to ask whether he should pray soft or loudly. It offers the answers to those that can not be bothered enquiring of God themselves.
Prophets of old (e.g. Habakkuk) were not afraid to ask God some insightful questions, and even Jesus seemed to need reassurance that he was doing the right thing. It is not a sin to approach God and ask for an explanation. In fact, he seems to prefer it.
However the Koran does not anywhere encourage this personal approach. It constantly exhorts the Muslim to be a slave, a repetitive theme that has no echo in the Bible. We have a God given free will to choose for ourselves.
In the Bible there are no references to us being Gods slaves. Just look in any concordance. It actually says the opposite. In Jeremiah 2:14, it poses the question Is Israel a homeborn slave? meaning of course we are not slaves. We are allowed and probably expected to waver, to choose wrongly and hopefully repent.
Slavery in the Koran is a theme that is very different to the biblical message, and another indication that the Koran and the Bible are about different Gods. Sura 9:111 even says that allah has bought the believers, just like you would buy any commodity. Very different indeed.
Jesus suggests that some people will work in his name but will be rebuked. Nowhere does Mohammed offer this rationality, only the naive certainty of being rewarded in a garden full of virgins, wearing gold and silks and drinking wine from silver goblets. This is just pandering to base lusts. The Moslem paradise is all about material and sexual benefits for the men.

If wine drinking is so bad on earth, how come it is promised in paradise? Also, the women must have some other garden of paradise away from their men and their houris. Since sura 4:34 asserts that Men are in charge of women, and if ye fear rebellion, to scourge them, then the women are probably happy to be apart from the scourgers.
Nowhere is there an explication of the spirituality of heaven. Half the Koran is taken up with the doom of the unbelievers and their tortures and the well-watered paradise of chaste maidens, silk robes and crystal goblets. This is a naive childlike picture and the spiritual truths that you find in the parables or the inspired writings of Isaiah simply are not in the book of Moslems. Despite claiming subtlety, it is so straightforward that there are only pedantic points of general acceptance, unlike the sudden deeper meanings of revelation that can come from familiar biblical passages.
This is another area that makes the Christian message superior and all the more so for being harder to understand. You have to expend some effort to make sense of it and this effort is what God really wants.
The slavery that allah wants is just religious fascism that negates the free will of mankind and denigrates those that will not submit. The Koran is full of threats and menaces with an undercurrent of hostility that is a long way from Jesus radical message of loving your neighbour and even your enemy.
The Koran claims slaughter is better than persecution (2:191) and also advises not to take captives until slaughter has been done (8:67). Not surprisingly, Islam has been spread at the point of a scimitar and through military conquest rather than the spirit of God, which even managed to overcome the Roman Empire.

Almost every surah has its menaces and bullying tone, but typical would be 56:60 promising to mete out death among you or 17:16 about annihilating towns that will not convert. In the 8th surah, Mohammed attacks an unarmed caravan that had sent a camel ahead to try and get help. It boasts of destroying many townships (22:45), is overly gleeful at others destruction (25:36) and implies that Muslims can outstrip anyone in doing evil deeds (29:4).
Surah 69, around verse 46 clearly states that they would seize and kill anyone they suspected of lying which is hardly a model of religious tolerance and the Muslims also take pride in having with them heavy fetters (73:12) and food which choketh (73:13). Sounds like Satans army on the march to me.
Surah 2 has menacing undercurrents and constant hostility against the Jews and the Christians. Hitler would have been proud. Not surprising then that some Moslem battalions fought for Hitler in WWII.
It seems odd that the Koran claims Jesus made a bird out of clay (5:110) and gave it life yet no mention of this is in the Bible. It also claims his disciples demanded a table of food (5:112) and that Jesus asked for Himself and His mother to be as gods (5:116). Most Christians would consider this blasphemy and lies, but in the interests of peace and tolerance, they never raise the issue. Basically the Koran gives a false and different version of everything. Could this be the stumbling block that deceives even the very elect? About the only entity that I can think of that would like to lead us astray is Satan himself.
Here are some more references that illustrate the true nature of this tawdry work.
Take not Jews and Christians for friends (5:51)

Jews forbidden cattle and sheep (6:147)
Persecution is worse than slaughter (2:191)
Fight disbelievers near to you. Let them find harshness in you (9:29)
Accursed will be seized wherever found and slain with a fierce slaughter (33:61)
Apologists for the Muslim cause claim it is all taken out of context and refers only to those that start trouble. But come on, this is the worst kind of deception. Sura 9:29 clearly says, Fight against such as those who hath been given the scripture as believe not in allah until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low. This goes on for pages including 9:73, Strive against the disbelievers. Be harsh with them.
And if you think that is bad, it is nothing compared to the evil cruelty found in the hadith which are reputed sayings and deeds of their prophet. A hell of a difference from the message of Jesus.
Even if you acknowledge that some of the hadith are unsubstantiated, the fact is that most Muslims consider them to be glorifying Islam and worthy. They range from the fairly innocuous to implying the children of unbelievers to be killed (Vol.8, book 77, number597) which talks of children were they to live.
Even some of the fairly innocuous hadith such as asking Muslims to dye their hair and beards is commanded as part of a general admonishment to do the opposite of everything the Jews and Christians do.
Some of the astonishing cruelties done to Jews are related as everyday incidents. For example, a Jew was in chains for apparently having converted to Islam and then reverting to Judaism. In vol9 book8 number 58, it relates how Muadh would not sit down until the Jew had been killed. His host graciously obliges and then they piously discuss the evening prayers.
Another incident glorifies how Mo sentenced two Jews to be stoned to death for illegal intercourse, and the witness relaying this incident says how the Jew sheltered the Jewess which has the sad ring of truth. Another example of life that is stamped on with death by the supposedly merciful and non-compulsive mohamhead.

How anyone can claim that this diabolical catalogue is wisdom or of peaceful import is absolutely denying the words on the page. They are only showing that they have chosen to delude themselves.
Note the feverish fanaticism of militant Islamic. Notice also the counterclockwise processions around the Qaba. This is akin to the widdershins direction of Satanists. Note also the backward contrariwise arrangement of the Koran where the earliest surahs are last and the latter ones mostly at the front.
Note also the special reverence for stones that the Islamicists have. They revere the one in Jerusalem at the Dome of the Rock and especially the black stone embedded in the Qaba. This does not seem radically different from the idolatrous Arabs of before that worshipped stones.
In fact kissing the black stone at the Qaba was in existence before Mohammed when it was called Beit-Allah known as the house of allah. Pre-Islamic literature says allah was the special god of Mohammeds tribe, the Quarish but only one of 360 other deities worshipped there. Allah corresponded to the Babylonian god called Baal, and was known as the Moon god, which is why the crescent moon is such a prevalent symbol. All Mohammed was really doing was asserting his own deity over and above the other ones.
Mohammed, a leader of raiding war parties claimed revelations over a period of 23 years. The prophets of the Bible had rare meetings with God that changed them. Angels conveyed messages swiftly and God never seemed to need a long time to make a revelation. So it seems most peculiar that Mohammed required years of laborious ongoing contact. His method of stopping, starting, changing (the satanic verses) and then starting again seems more indicative of headaches than divine wisdom.

The surah that mentions Mohammeds uncle by name is more a private plea than any divine revelation. And can we really say that wallowing in retribution and constant threats and wheedling for slavish followers are divine? They seem more to be from an angry Lucifer that can not control his base emotions and there are more than a few ambiguous verses in the Koran and surahs (the cloaked one, the enfolded one) that could well be indicators of the true source.
Even if we accept that Mohammed did not just cobble it all together from other texts and his own prejudices, and that an angel dictated the Koran to him, we must acknowledge what it says in Galatians. In chapter 1, verse 7-8, it clearly warns but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we or an ANGEL from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
The parables are rich stories to derive understanding from. Mohammed does not give any parables, he uses some metaphors and analogy. One that is given about a spiders house is an analogy not a parable and not an especially good one. It baldly states that if you do not have allah, then your house is flimsy like a spiders web house. It ignores the remarkable tensile strength of spiders cobwebs. If you was the same size of a spider, I doubt that you would agree to its flimsy nature.
The parables are a remarkable teaching tool, a way to develop spiritual understanding. They are little stories about men hiding their light under a bushel or of tares in a field showing that bad grow alongside the good wheat. It circumvents the potential errors of translation because moral tales do not depend on just a few words or turn of phrase to convey their message.
If you read the parables yourself, and derive the spiritual understanding therein, then you are making the effort to seek God. This is what he wants. No church or religious institution can do this for you. Yes, they can help disseminate the message and provide a social setting that can help you understand some things, but the ultimate link that counts is you and your personal understanding of God.

Many are lazy and prefer to have the message part digested for them and handed to them on a plate, but Jesus message is for anyone that takes the trouble to read. This accepting of anothers pre-digested spiritual food is what is meant in Revelation when it rails against the lukewarm as being spewed out of the mouth.
Remember that Jesus warned that many would claim to have worked in his name but he will say, I did not know you. These are likely to be the Christians that have taken someone elses interpretation of what it is all about.
Personally I feel the Catholics have unnecessarily embellished the message and have unreasonably elevated Mary the mother of Jesus. I comprehend that such veneration of Mary the mother ensures many mothers in attendance and keeps the congregation and its collection plate filling. But Mary did not exactly say anything of a spiritual nature, or though I suppose she conveyed the word of God by birthing.
Many of the modern translations of the Bible are poor. Often, translators in the modern age dumb everything down in an attempt to reach a wider audience. Others have a political message such as homosexual marriages and female priests to propagate, so they fund a translation that perverts the KJV into a manifesto for their own sinister agendas. At least the KJV had scores of scholars working to bring the best translation forth.
As people then were much more fluent in the Greek of the new testament and Latin and undoubtedly more aware of the subtleties of nuance and meaning in the scriptural texts, it makes a mockery of modernizers that think they can compete.
I understand the desire of some well-meaning people to dispense with the archaic forms of address such as thee or thou, but they then start on words denoting complex concepts that they do not fully comprehend. A thesaurus does not a scholar make.

A common claim of the islamicists is to try and present a heretical or faked up gospel like those of Thomas or the Gospel of Barnabbas as supporting their cause. Since these have good evidence of much later origination than the accepted books of the new testament, they are rightly suspect and were generally manufactured to pervert some area of Jesus teaching.
Another place the heathen trawl in are the Aramaic bibles. These originated as a rough synopses of the original gospels and were written renditions of spoken sermons from the pulpit. They are the equivalent of a preacher having his sermon rendered in pidgin English for a distant tribe, yet I occasionally see them trotted out as evidence for people unaware of their origination.
Islamics love the Unitarians or the Gnostics and all the people that have an axe to grind as to what was supposedly mistranslated and somehow showing the contradictions of the message. All it really means is that each of us has to come to our own conclusions and not rely on scholars to do it for us. Did not Jesus teach that we should be as little children? We each of us are capable of approaching God and making some effort to understand his message. This is a kind of stumbling block for the spiritually lazy, but reading and thinking is all that is needed.
Those that simply accept the word of God as pre-digested pap from others (the lukewarm) will likely be rebuked by Jesus when they claim to have been Christians.
Furthermore, the vows of celibacy and of silence taken by monastic orders are a misinterpretation of the message. Remember Jesus himself said that the kingdom of heaven is within us. As 2 Corinthians 5:1 says, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands.
Far too many churches gloss over the admonition from Matthew 6:7 to pray unseen within our closet. They hope that their sermonisers are closer to God and have a clearer interpretation of the gospel, but take it from me, no-one can do it for you. Now it does say that Jesus is amongst them when two or three gather in his name (Matthew 18:20), but consider that two or three does not necessarily mean twenty or thirty.

Acts 7:49 and Isaiah 66:1-2 has God scoffing what house will ye build me? so to think that the builders of churches and mosques are somehow doing Gods will is actually breaking the commandment of taking Gods name in vain.
Consider too, Hebrews 9:24. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands. In Psalms 4:4, it says to commune with God upon our own beds.
Jesus taught in parables so that his teaching could be circulated in many languages without controversy as to the real meaning. A code of law or prescription for living is ever open to interpretation. But by couching the message in a story, understanding the story is possible, no matter what language delivers it.
In this way, the parables are like a Hollywood film dubbed into many languages. No matter what phrases or words are substituted, the basic story is not changeable. So the parables are translatable into any language but the deeper meaning has to be sought out by the recipient.
The parables are the most subtle and sublime spiritual teaching you are ever likely to encounter. Their strength is that they usually don't mean very much when you first hear them. Many Christians never really understand them, and it is only later that you suddenly see how they apply to other situations and stuff like understanding god or are about good and evil. For instance the parable of the ten pounds in Luke chapter 19 is about increase and loss. Now what it is really about is spiritual understanding and wisdom. So it is that those that increase theirs, then more shall be added to it. But those that do nothing with the understanding that they already have, then what little they have will also be taken away. Get it? Okay then, but some simply see it as meaning something along the lines of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

Matthew 13 onwards has Jesus expounding on why he talks in parables. He explains the benefits of doing so, whilst echoing the vision of Isaiah 6:8-9. In another place he suggests that we must not cast pearls before swine, because in Matthew he clearly tells of those that will see but not perceive. If you make a sincere effort, you will be able to fully comprehend these parables, but if you can not be bothered then truly you will never understand. Like the parable of the master and his three servants, those that hath this understanding will be given more, and those that have not increased theirs, then what little they hath will be taken away.
If you look in a Bible concordance, look under words like understanding, seek and knowledge. They are numerous references like the ones in Psalms 14:2-3 or in Romans that equate seeking understanding or knowledge of God as the highest good. Think on how pleased God was at Solomon asking for wisdom over long life or riches. Look in a Koranic index, and you will not see any focus on understanding or wisdom.
Jesus made prophecies that came true, such as the one about not one stone remaining on top of another at the temple. Mohammed did not. For someone labeled as the last prophet, Mohammed did not really say any specific prophecies just bald statements.
In fact, if you think about other mystics and real prophets that foretold future events, they make a mockery of the Muslim claim that Mo was the last prophet. Gods ongoing revelations through Malachi of Ireland or perhaps the prophecies at Fatima, show that others since seventh century Arabia have had attested, witnessed and undoubted messages.
Now Mohammeds followers asked him why there were no portents or prophecies from him via God. The Koran alludes to this in several places such as 29:50, but he just shrugged it off saying he was a plain warner. Deuteronomy 18:22 plainly tells what the test of a prophet should be. I suppose after Mo wrongly predicted he was going to win a battle against the Meccans and had to flee to Medina, he decided to tread softly in the prediction business.

What are usually passed off as prophecies in the Koran are ambiguous general statements about the heavens being rolled back or camels heavy with young being abandoned. Like the quatrains of Nostradamus or indeed the visions of John in Revelation, these rather general open to interpretation statements are too broad and have been used by every generation to point to something in their own time.
Now the Bible also has its share of general prophecies (e.g.Daniel 12:4, many shall run to and fro, and knowledge will be increased) that are open to the when question, but it has stacks of very precise indications. Certain prophecies in the Bible are very specific about temples or cities and tribes and what will befall them.
The messiah is mentioned specifically as the one who is pierced or the one riding a donkey or born of a virgin or sold for thirty pieces of silver. These are very apt prophecies for the messiah. Nowhere are there predictions about a merchant of Mecca, unless you count the stuff about antichrist and the false prophet. Nowhere in the Koran is a real prophecy about a specific place or people unless you count the belief in military victory that was smashed by Mohammed losing a couple of battles.
Why then do Muslims persist in calling him a great prophet? Propagandists claim that talking hips (taken to mean beepers) and talking sandals which are not even in the Koran or hadiths are some sort of Moslem prophecy. Yet Mohammed said several times that he could not predict anything. In Sura 46:9, he could not even say what would happen to him or if he was going to heaven. The only way to God is given by Jesus in John 14:6 (no man cometh to the father, but by me).
Some of Mos other human failings are apparent in sura 33:36-37. This is when he told his adopted son to divorce his wife so that he could have her and add her to his bed. The lustful prophet claimed allah had condoned it in this sura. Not to have a magic child, which is usually the excuse of latter day cult leaders but simply for his own randy pleasure.
In fact, 33:36 baldly states that allah and his messenger have decided an affair, clearly a refutation of the argument that the Koran is all revelation from on high.

There are numerous hadith about muhamhead having sex with his wives when they are on their period, and consider his lust was not stemmed by anything. Just type menses into a hadith search engine to see the many references to him doing this. Also there are several references to him having sex with his nine year old wife. He was 52 at the time.
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64 is an unambiguous testimony to this. Its strange but I never hear Islamic scholars falling over themselves to publicise this as Islamic practice. Whatever Mohamhead did is usually touted as worthy of doing.
Sura 33:50 says that the prophet can apparently have the daughters of his uncles and aunts if he feels like it in addition to those allah has given him as the spoils of war. Incest and forced sex with female prisoners is the message here. It claims that its all right for Mo to do this with no reproach. Well I reproach you.
Consider the strange exhortation of Mohammed to have his followers bow towards Jerusalem. This was done early on in his career to hopefully influence the Jews to follow him. When they rebuffed him, as did many of his own relatives, he changed the order to no longer bow towards Jerusalem but instead to the Kaba in Mecca. This is another instance of inconsistency that hardly jibes with divine immutability.
Even bowing towards Mecca has some curious paradoxes. Consider a mosque on the other side of the planet from Mecca. Does the Muslim face north, south, east or west or simply stare at the floor since that is the true direction of Mecca?
Consider too the denials of falsehood. Sura 53:11 is the equivalent of Mohammed saying he is not a crook. Saying that he is not making things up reminds you of the angry child that stamps his foot and says he did not do it. There are a couple of other places where this oddity of protesting his innocence seems unlikely of a true prophet. Ironically of course, he did not really make any prophecies at all.

Islam seems but an attempt by Mohammed (and his helper) to copy that which the Christians and Jews had. To copy or mimic the strength of having one God. When others denied the truth of his assertions, he sought revenge thru naked and veiled threats against them and started lumping them together with idolators. As he grew in military strength, so he became more vocal with his threats towards the Jews and Christians.
Surah 96:15 has a passage about grabbing someone by the forelock to stop them praying. As the Jews are the most obvious group with forelocks, this is assumedly written with them in mind.
Saudi Arabia is perhaps the most obvious Islamic country. It is a place where the religious police beat (and worse) Christians. Immigrant workers, particularly Filipinos have been killed for having Bibles and trying to follow their Christian beliefs. Not surprising then, that most of the September 11th hijackers were Saudis. Their religious police attempt conversions to Islam at the point of torture.
What is the matter with them that they can not coexist with Christianity? Is not Islam strong enough to take criticism? As the calls for death (fatwas) from mullahs demonstrate, it can not abide questions or insightful enquiries. It is as the Inquisition in its intolerance, a similarly bleak outlook once practised by the Catholic church, before a welcome reformation.
The fanatical Islamicist has to wheedle and threaten because he is incapable of letting any truth illuminate an issue. Judge not lest ye be judged has no meaning for a fascist bully that demands obedience or else.
The halal method of slaughtering animals for food has much cruelty too. Unlike the methods in the West that has evolved stunning as a humane way to do it, Islam insists on full consciousness for an animal before cutting its throat and letting it slowly and consciously bleed to death. I once saw chickens screeching as they were denuded of their feathers by being held against a grindstone, and then being tossed into a bloody heap still alive. The concept of cruelty to animals has no meaning in Islamic countries, where overburdened animals being jabbed with sharp sticks or whipped along is not unusual.

I have also seen cruelties against defenceless animals like kittens with my own eyes, and from the Internet I got this account of what gets shown on Syrian TV,
Acts of animal torture have been publicly broadcast on television from Syria,..with President Assad of Syria smiling and applauding these horrific acts - male and particularly female Syrian soldiers biting the heads off of snakes and kittens to show what they will do to the Jews. When I saw this on only one news program, with Linda Ellerbee reporting it (completely shocked with it, herself), at around 2am, I wrote to every major news station. The replies I received were all the same: they didn't want to show it because they didn't think the American public could handle it, it was in bad taste or too violent.
Sadly, neither do the Western media like to show the Palestinians stringing up and butchering suspected collaborators in the streets either. This kind of bloodlust and public barbarity is why there are no voices of moderation in Muslim areas. Anyone that questions a regime or the Koran is humiliated and executed. So it is that Islam tends towards radicalisation and away from moderation and tolerance.
Turkey has made progress despite being an Islamic country, and it has done so by legislation against the islamaniacs. In government buildings for instance, the head shawl is not allowed. So those bagged up women have to take their uniform off if they want to enter a secular building. Whereas in the free West, we are assailed by muslimaniacs demanding everything from taking down our flags (the Egyptian LAX shooter at his apartment building after 9-11), to a Florida bag lady asking that her drivers license photo being a picture of her bag instead of her. Hardly surprising then that convicts convert to Islam, I can see the appeal for female bank robbers immediately!
But on a more serious note, islamaniacs constantly press for their intolerant nonsense. The inch given them encourages to ask for a yard, and given a yard they demand a mile until there is no room for anyone else. Look at all the vast Arab countries but the sliver of Israel is what annoys them. They say symbols offend them or that somesuch is an insult to Islam like the portrayal of mohamhead in hell in a medieval fresco and should be destroyed. Meanwhile, Christians are tortured and languish in jails in Islamaniac countries like Saudi Arabia. It is time to reciprocate against these individuals and legislate against their heathen excuse for a religion. To treat it as the fascist cult that it is.

Allowing cops or firemen or teachers to start wearing their Islamic garb is a step away from secular freedom and towards all kinds of problems. Imagine islamaniac fireman called to put out a fire at a synagogue. Suppose they refuse as a protest about Israel or a cop in a chador deciding to arrest someone with a Jewish name? The right to religious freedom extends to your home but insisting on religious adherence in regular society or at work is the thin end of a propaganda wedge. At least in the West, the separation of church and state is an accepted normalcy, whereas the muslimaniacs try to enforce their religious bigotry in all aspects of life.
Another thing that you no longer see openly practised in Western society is the segregation of men and women. But the segregation of Moslems and non-Muslims as in Saudi Arabia, is reminiscent of apartheid. It would not be tolerated in any modern country and certainly nothing like that could be sanctioned along racial lines.
The Koran says (6:11, 16:36 and many other places) to travel in the land and see the nature of the consequences for the rejecters. Hmmm, well on the one hand we have Moslem countries marked by poverty, flies and untidy wildernesses. And we have the milk and honey of the West where rich Arabs go shopping and have medical operations to repair their health. Which lands do you consider most blessed? It is typical of travel in Moslem lands that you are urged to agree what a fantastic country it is with one breath and then asked if you can help the speaker get to the West in the next breath. I consider the islamicists hoist by their own petard.
If you consider the above is overly pejorative, I suggest you look around Muslim districts in the West. The ones that I have seen are usually distinguished by a phenomenal amount of rubbish and litter, far in excess of the average area peopled by the native population. Lack of local environmental concern is just one more of the fruits of Islam that you can add to the other fruits of bombers and the fanatics. There is a tendency to ascribe a mess as the will of allah instead of asserting any personal responsibility.
The rich people from Muslim lands come West to indulge their depravity in the fleshpots of Western cities. Now Western consumerism is hardly a perfect thing, but it does allow the greatest freedom for the greatest number of people. We are all freer than a Roman emperor to travel the world and indulge ourselves with vices should we so choose. As with the parable of the Tares, the good and the bad coexist side by side. But this access to instant gratification and moral temptation is what allows most of us to mature spiritually and overcome our lusts. To reject those things of our own free will, to indulge and repent are our own rites of passage.

Bethlehem

The mullahs would have all things they consider bad, removed and banned from society. To cover up women so we can not be tempted, but all this does is really stoke the lusts and desires. So it is then that young suicide bombers can not wait to get to paradise and satiate their lusts on the 72 virgins promised to them by hypocritical clerics. The Sept 11th terrorists like others before them used money to have a few good times in strip clubs and wash down the whiskey at the first opportunity to do so.
It is in human nature that we can not create a completely perfect or lust free society. Making things forbidden only perverts the lusts into other areas. Furthermore what kind of childlike mind must a Muslim have that he can not see an unshrouded woman without being overwhelmed with lust? Like a child, they can not see something without wanting it.
So what kind of immature attitude is that? And clearly the idea of covering men up in a bag so that they are not inciting lust in the women is not a concern. You do not abolish lust and desire just by removing the object. All that happens is that you are cloaking it, but the base instinct is still there. It is better to have temptations out in the open and trust that each can confront their inner demons as it were, and choose wisely. I forget where I saw it, but I once read that living under Islamic law is like being in a prison run by children.
Individual atrocities by the religious police going round enforcing prayers to allah are rarely known about. A rare news item about their disgusting practices made it to a newspaper on March 15th 2002 about 15 schoolgirls burned to death in a school.
They could have lived but the religious police clubbed them back because they did not have on the proper headgear. Incidents like this only confirm for me that Islam is a religion that offers death more than it does life. I have long wondered at the Hajj where people are killed in stampedes around the Qaba and stoned to death regularly at the stoning of Satan ceremonies, albeit supposedly accidentally. Add to this, the regular explosions of cooking stoves and overcrowded buses crashing, it just seems like a festival of death.

Capernaum Synagogue

And read this from a Muslim account of the Hajj unintentionally pointing the finger: The pilgrims circle the black stone so that any radiation or other influence from it will And unite them. People who return from the hajj look like before the journey. You can see buses depart for Mecca, with the people joyful, excited and clapping their hands.
But when they return their faces are serious like a stone mask. A believing Brother who lives in Mecca wrote, We need your prayers especially during the Hajj. We who lives in Mecca feel as if devils are walking through the streets as the time of the pilgrimage. One can almost see and feel the presence of Satan (from a posting on the debate.org.uk site).
The constant threats, the gloating and hectoring about portents of doom in the Koran yet immediately claiming allah is merciful, but only to those who convert, is hardly a text full of grace. Typical is the verse at 48:29 that tells Muslims to be hard against the disbelievers but compassionate amongst ourselves. Surah 9:113 even commands Muslims not to pray for non-Muslims. It is not this book that has spread a message of common humanity. It teaches slavery and submission and death.
Muslims sometimes like to pal up with Christians and say we are all people of the book, but there is enough variance between them and the New Testament to show little in common with the queer one. Despite millions of adherents, Islam has all the hallmarks of a cult. The certainty it offers rather than enlightenment, the numerous prayers from dawn to dusk and its repetitions are well known brainwashing techniques. Matthew 6:7 warns us against repetitions and says, But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
When it suits their purposes, Muslims allow that we worship the same God and just call him by different names, but do we? When you hear Muslim scholars or read their arguments as to why the Bible is rubbish, it is clear that they have a different conception of God. A scholar like Ahmed Deedat is entertaining when he mocks the names in the Bible or questions how someone could slay hundreds with a jawbone or a goad, but his disdain for the bible shows that he rejects the deeper spiritual message therein.

Jerusalem Old City

On a videotaped debate I saw, Mr. Deedat used rhetoric to dismiss the Bibles claims and belittle his opponent whilst ignoring the wisdom of the parables or any of Gods teaching through his prophets. A bit like concentrating on the eggshell to deny the goodness of the egg within. His opponent, a Christian Arab, made many points but one of the most telling was that Mohammed brought no new revelation to the world.
The false prophet is warned about in the Bible in several places. Who do you think this could mean? The one hailed as a prophet by Muslims perhaps? It is all right there in Revelation and also in places like Hosea 9:8, where the prophet laying a snare and HIS god is clearly warned about.
Now, Islamicists would say Mohammed was clarifying the message. But to do that in the highly ambiguous language of Arabic that then lacked vowels seems more of a muddying. In fact, the numerous divisions and sects within Islam show that there is no one clear message anyway.
What could be more of a clarification than Jesus Sermon of the Mount where he spelled out his doctrine, a kind of hillside press conference? If Jesus was not the clarifier that fulfilled numerous prophecies, then how much less must Mohammed have been, that had no prophecies of his coming in the Old Testament?
The message of Jesus is different enough to anyone elses that this marks Him out as an especial and unique prophet. The message of Mohammed is at best a reversion, and at worst a devilish attempt to mimic a monotheistic religion. One where everything is different, and one that emphasizes a message of punishment and death rather than one of redemption and life. Would you not consider as I contend that the god of Islam and the God of Jesus are different? Which God is it that wants us to seek understanding and know God for ourselves?

Garden Gethsemane

Islam has retarded all aspects of progress because it exhorts slavish acceptance over the spirit of enquiry and understanding. Revisionists of history like to say Islam was the basis of a great civilization, but all it did was conquer already existing cultures like the Assyrians or the Nestorians, and stamp out their learning. What little of Babylonian or Chaldean mathematics and Astronomy that survived was then appropriated.
Another source of Mathematics that the Arabs claim credit for was when they translated Greek books into Arabic, and Europe did indeed rediscover some knowledge this way. What the Muslim revisionists of history do not mention is that all books of history etc. and centres of learning like monasteries were destroyed. About the only books that did survive were some mathematical books as there did not seem to be anything in them that could contradict the Koran. All religious books, history and political treatises did not make it. Anything potentially damaging to the curse of muhamhead was eradicated.
Galen (who did pioneer work on biology and embryos) and Pythagoras (geometry that formed the basis of Islamic patterns) are just two of the Greeks that were translated into Arabic centuries before Mohammed. These scientific Greeks were doing their research before Christ let alone before Islam, and their work along with many lesser known Greeks were distributed along trade routes.
Once Mo had established Islam and died, his followers destroyed anything that did not seem to jibe with it. They still do not like books very much today and a study I read said only 330 books were translated from the West into Arabic in 2001. Anyway the books that did survive and were rediscovered by European scholars were the innocuous looking ones that used scientific formulae or mathematics. Ptolemy had algebra in his book the Almagest, which was translated into Arabic, as were works of other great Greek mathematicians like Euclid and Pythagoras, who worked hundreds of years before Muslims were invented.
Muslim invaders were renowned for slaughtering monks and nuns, destroying their places and their libraries. In this century, Turks have destroyed churches and learning centres not only during the vast genocide against Armenians and Greeks, but also in North Cyprus. Today, Coptic churches and other Christian centres in Sudan and Egypt are targeted. A Muslim thinks nothing of destroying an old parchment if he thinks it is of Christian origin. Even the Bedouin that discovered the dead sea scrolls were using them as firepaper until they discovered they could sell them in the market.

Mount of Beatitudes

And surely you remember the hateful mobs burning the book by Salman Rushdie. The affinity with the public book burnings of the nazis is clear. Islamic culture glorifies the destruction of all that they disagree with. Truly it is a ravenous wolf in sheeps clothing.
Islam destroys a lot better than it creates. Name one tiny thing that we use in day to day life that was invented by a Muslim. You would think that with a fifth of the worlds population, they would be able to come up with something, but absolutely nothing useful has come from them.
Go down the list of Nobel prize winners and there are a couple of people who converted to Islam there but nothing much at all and although I am not Jewish, just look at all the medical, literary and scientific innovations made by Jews who are but a fraction of the worlds population. When those anti-Semites call for a boycott of Jewish goods, Sam Kinnison had a great retort for them asking them to boycott the Salk smallpox vaccine and cures for all kinds of diseases.
No Muslim has been able to tell me one teeny weeny thing that Muslims invented that we use in every day life. I keep asking for a thing, but they always try and fob me off with a word or an abstract concept. You would think that if necessity really was the mother of invention then the ignorant one fifth of the earths population might have needed to come up with something. This in itself shows the absolute bankruptcy of this culture.
The best that I am offered is an Arabic word that we have adopted into English such as algebra. Fair enough, we borrowed a word just as we did wadi, but we could have easily have got another language to borrow a word from. Just because the word arroyo might be used in America, it does not mean that the Spanish actually invented the dry gulch. Similarly Arabic was hardly crucial to our civilisation.

Nazareth

The Muslims claim that we got the notation for zero from the Arabs too. This is almost too funny a claim, as if they wish to say, We invented Nothing. The Hindus have evidence that Sanskrit texts used all the mathematical concepts ahead of the Arabs who simply plundered their learning. And of course the Greeks had a concept for nothing if not a notation for it. When Islamic propagandists claim such things as evidence of a grand civilisation, they are just grasping at straws. They have only ever been a brutal culture of the sand-dune.
Another over-rated example of Islamic culture are the Alhambra gardens in Spain. Now I have been there and they are quite nice but a few fountains and a pond hardly makes a culture worth getting wild about. Even the Romans did things with water such as underfloor heating and baths and irrigation and aqueducts. Europe had fountains and ponds before the Islamic Arabs made some using enslaved Spanish craftsmen so I do not believe them to be as fantastic as Islamic propagandists would have you say they are. Many of the revered Islamic buildings were in fact built using captured builders. Even today, the soaring structures of Kuwait or Malaysia are generally built using Western construction companies, and architects.
The revisionists will not mention that when the Sophia mosque (originally a Byzantine church), needed repair, they had to import Armenian Christian craftsmen to fix it. The revisionists do not like to mention the slaughter and destruction of anything that does not jibe with the mad mullahs opinions. This is why the Moslem lands did not come up with mobile phones or televisions or satellites or any great technology and scientific advance. Islam kills the advance of civilization. It literally beheads it.
Despite the lack of any tangible technology that Islam produced, the revisionists trot out unheard of names as mathematicians. They really have to scrape the barrel to come up with people in any other field, and when they do it is reminiscent of the crude communist propaganda. Instead of people like Edison or Einstein being accredited inventors, communist Russia used to substitute Russian scientists with Russian names as the inventors of things. Islamics do much the same thing.
The revisionists appropriate surviving elements of culture as if they fermented it, yet they are elements that flowered before Islam put its dead hand upon their bloom.

Last Supper (Upper Room)

The Koran is also inaccurate in the scientific claims that its propagandists claim. Although Islam is usually known as being vehemently opposed to progress in the Western sense, a few scholars claim that scientific truths can be found within it. They say passages about the mountains being the anchors or tent pegs of the Earth, such as during quakes shows knowledge of geology. When actually many mountain ranges are thrust upward by earthquakes and can shake more violently than anywhere. They claim that a foetus described as resembling a type of blob after 21 days is something only allah could have known.
Yet actually, the day count is out by ten days, and the whole thing was derived from Galens work on embryos. This Greek knowledge became dispersed along trade routes and Mohammed as a wealthy merchant could easily have gleaned such trivia from ordinary conversations. An obvious refutation of Koranic claims to divine knowledge is found at surah 2:222 where instead of a natural cycle, menstruation is declared to be an illness.
Other errors and inconsistencies abound, but are conveniently ignored by Islamic scholars making their scholarship laughable. They seize upon a passage in the Bible like the oft quoted one of Deuteronomy 18:15-19 where it mentions a prophet and brethren as indicating Mohammed. Yet it very clearly states that the prophet will be raised up from in the midst of thee, not somebody from Arabia. If they really want to use the Bible as an authoritative source then perhaps they would care to interpret the passages about the false prophet spoken of in Revelation (20:7-10).
Clearly, the only major prophet since the time of Jesus is reputedly Mohammed, so when it talks of a false prophet along with the Beast and Satan (Revelation 20:10), who else could be indicated ?
Mohammed is the false prophet because he denies Christ. Surah 18:4 says Warn those who say Allah hath chosen a son ….. they speak a lie. A similar claim is found at 19:35 and 17:111 (allah has not taken himself a son). Since allah is probably Satan, this is true.

Holy Land

The new testament warns of new gospels and spirits trying to pervert the message. 2Corinthians chapter 11-12 says that even Lucifer can transform himself into an angel of light, and a spirit may try and offer up a new jesus that the disciples have not preached. Galatians 1:8 warns that a man or even an angel may try to give a wrong message. Maybe Lucifer had a chat with Mohammed?
The irony is that musselmen say that America is the great Satan, yet there is more evil in their fingers of accusation than in the target. There is more poison in the handle than in the point of their sharp accusations. One thing that life has taught me, is that sometimes the accuser can be more guilty than the accused. A thief thinks of stealing so is ever quick with branding someone else a thief. A crazy person is quick to call others mad, and so on.
The hypocrisy of Moslem nations and Muslims in general abounds. They scream for justice when Palestinians are killed yet are silent when Israeli civilians are murdered. They claim persecution by a Jewish or Christian mere presence. They are quick to point accusing fingers at security forces seeking Islamic terrorists, yet never mention the occupation of Lebanon by Syrian troops. The fountains of blood of the Algerian people massacred by Islamicists or the Iran-Iraq war that killed millions are considered brotherly quarrels where it is unseemly to interfere. Yet any conflict involving the West or non-Muslims and they bay for blood.
This is hardly a religion of love. Passages of threats and slaughter and chains and doom for non-believers are always then ironically followed by praise for how merciful allah is. But clearly there is no mercy for non-Muslims. Do the Muslim countries ever go out of their way to help others not of their faith? Of course not, they scourge and issue fatwas of death and burn books in mobs but could not muster a group for charity. With all the oil money, the Saudis have spent it on building mosques and repression, never on feeding the hungry or helping others save as tokens to trumpet their munificence.
This is not a religion of peace, but one of loathing for others. It is the religion of the antichrist. They will not even admit that Jesus was crucified or share his spiritual parables, yet they revel in making up stories about him that are not in the Bible. Odd then that they will admit it is Jesus and not mohammad that returns at the end of time. They have sealed up the eastern gate to the temple mount because they fear his entrance through it to throw out the abominators there.

Holy Land

The antichrist mentioned in 1John 2:22 and 2 John 7, is very clear about who it is. It is the one that denies the son and the father, the one that denies Jesus is the Christ.
On the sermon of the mount, Jesus is also quite clear about how to pray. In Matthew 6:6-7, he says, But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, pray to thy Father which is in secret, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do.
Now even many Christian churches ignore the first part of this message, but the Moslem that likes to make a public show of his prayers and uses only repetitions is way off the mark of what Christ asks.
The Christian God and the one called allah by Muslims are not the same. The two religions are not just two paths to the same top of the mountain. If you accept that allah was one of many gods in the kabaa, then contrast what happened when the ark of the covenant was in the vicinity of other false gods. According to 1Samuel 5:1-12, the other idols were found smashed or on their face towards the ark. Now, how come there are not these kind of stories about allah amongst the other gods of the Arabic pantheon, the Qabaa?
Now there are undoubtedly good people of both faiths that are misguided in their belief, but unless each and every one of us takes a personal leap of understanding God, why should we expect God to meet us halfway without us taking a step. In Revelations 3, 16-19, we are warned about being lukewarm and that as many that are loved will be rebuked and chastened.

Ancient Jerusalem

My misguided Muslim acquaintances do not seem to enquire too much of the Koran. Most of them (yes like many religious people) uncritically accept the authority of a cleric telling them how it is. All religions have the problem of rogue teachers then wielding their power to incite but because we have not made our own investigations, we are classed by God to have been lukewarm. We accept the message of another, a regurgitated interpretation which is lukewarm and intellectually lazy.
The morality as well as the rationality of the Moslem is also flawed. If you talk to Muslims, they all basically believe that the means justify the ends. So if you are doing something for allah or for the greater good of Islam, it is accepted. You can see how this morality quickly leads to acceptable atrocities and other outrages.
Deception or flat out lying are acceptable stratagems for the Moslem to further their cause and this is one reason it has been furthered in this world. Contrast that with the common Christian message where actions themselves can be good or evil, and you have a root difference between the faiths.
Allowing the ends to justify the means is the philosophical plank that the suicide bombers and massacre makers stand upon. It allows lying and deception to have a rationale.
Allah is the god of deception. Just one of the pantheon of gods worshipped at the Qaba, but one that has risen high above the rest.

Holy Land

There are many things that link allah with Baal, the old moon god of the high places. One of the reasons Muslims hate the skyscrapers of the West, is that they want the high places dedicated to Baal or allah. This is why buildings in Muslim countries are usually kept low, below the level of the local mosques minarets. There are numerous biblical references to Baal in the old testament about his high places, and the call to prayer from a minaret is an echo of this.
This derives from the moon being the highest thing in the heavens, so the moon worshippers would get as high as possible from which to worship it. Mohamhead himself swears by the moon (84:18), and names a sura after it (54). Black stones throughout pagan Arabia were considered to have fallen from the moon and so were worshipped as a chip off the old block. Black stones were revered as being from the moon because of the moon being dark most of the time.
The Qaba in Mecca has a black stone embedded in the wall that the Muslims kiss. In 1 Kings 19:18, it talks about all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. Just another echo of the connective echoes between Baal and allah. There are other links such as with the Sumerian God known as Sin, also a moon god and from where Sinai may derive its name.
Ramadan is a festival that emphasises the crescent moon. Consider also that the Muslim year is based on the moon, and so is shorter than the calendar that the West uses, which is based on the solar year. This reverence for the ‘lesser light’ is an echo of Lucifer being elevated above that of God himself.
The enmity between God and Baal has a long history, and the wrong god seems to have always been Gods main rival for worship. Jeremiah 23:26-27 talks about false dreams in Gods name that cause Gods people to forget his name, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

Tower of David

Furthermore, there is a picture of Baal in the Schofield Reference Bible (opposite page 20 in the concordance) that is taken from a cylinder-seal in the British museum, Babylonian room, Case B. You only have to look at the distinctive cap, beard and long thin form holding his hand to the crescent moon and you will be immediately reminded of a recent terrorist leader.
More damming evidence for the message of Mohammed as being from an infernal source can be found in its own passages. In 31:16, it says allah is subtle, yet when this attribute is given in the Bible, it is given to the serpent.
Surah 86:15 says and I plot against them, yet surah 58:10 says Conspiracy is only of the devil.
Among the curses given to the serpent, there is a curious prophecy. In Genesis 3:15, it says and thou shalt bruise his heel. This could be a general statement or it could have a double meaning pertaining to the coming of the messiah. Mohammed coming on the heels of Jesus ministry could be the bruising alluded to.
Surah 48:29 boasts of the mark Muslims receive from prostrating themselves on the ground. Now is it conceivable that prostrating yourself on the ground puts a mark on the hand and forehead? I am afraid it is. An Islamic Q&A website describes a mark on the forehead as indicating the most pious.

Valley of Armageddon

This is very reminiscent of the reputed mark of the Beast. Unlike Gods chosen who will have his name sealed into their foreheads or a writer with an inkhorn that will write Gods name for them, the marks of prostration are touted as something other Muslims will recognise, not God. Now this can quickly lead into the prophecy that the mark of the Beast is something that only those bearing it will be allowed to buy and sell. In a way, since only Muslims are allowed into places like Mecca and Medina, this prophecy has been fulfilled.
This mark is also supposedly how angels will recognise the Muslims in hell and yank them out with hooks. This is explained in hadiths (I use the Bukhari ones as they seem most prevalent) Book 8, Vol 76, verse 577 and Book 9, Vol 93, verse 532. Since these passages make it clear that all Muslims will find themselves in hell being yanked around with hooks, I expect that they will then discover that there is no paradise for them and the angels have turned out to be Satans demons. Too late for them, will they then realise the deception.
One of the most diabolical aspects of Islam is that it denies the right of every human being to have a personal relationship with God. That apparently has not been possible since mohamhead. Islam would have us believe that God does not want to talk to us or make anything known to us. The Muslim is unable to have a vision or revelation or divine guidance, though they substitute that by talking of dreams they had. Just ask yourself, who it would most please for us to believe that there is no direct contact with God.
Atop most mosques are a horn like feature. Sometimes it can resemble a crescent moon, and sometimes it sits with the prongs pointing directly upwards. No matter which interpretation you put upon it, and whatever way you describe it, it has horns.
The moon has horns just like a beast, and the moon gods of old were frequently shown with beast like features. The picture of Baal that I referred to earlier, has him seated on a throne whose back legs are those of a cloven hoofed beast. There are definite echoes of Baal and the Sumerian god called Sin in allah. Kissing stones, bowing before them and crescent moons are just the most obvious. Regard 2 Thessalonians 2:3 that warns that the man of sin will be revealed. This is a prophecy with a double meaning.

Valley of Jezreel

In case you wonder who this man of sin could possibly be, regard surah 36, rendered in English as Ya sin. Some Moslems say this is an address to man but it is clearly an epithet, the title given to their most unholy prophet as is obvious by reading the first three verses.
If the Muslims are so enamoured of God, then let them explain why they fear the return of the Messiah? After they conquered Jerusalem, the prophecy that the Messiah would return from an eastern direction led them to seal up the Golden Gate, the eastern entrance to Temple Mount.
A hadith even admits Jesus would return, then how come it is Jesus coming and not Mo? You would think this would show Jesus superior status to the Moslems.
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 425:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allahs Apostle said, "By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, son of Mary (Jesus) will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims) as a just ruler and will break the Cross and kill the pig and abolish the Jizya (a tax taken from the non-Muslims, who are in the protection, of the Muslim government). Then there will be abundance of money and no-body will accept charitable gifts."

Valley of Zion

The return of Jesus may well be as an eagle not a dove. As a lion and not a lamb. By returning as a farmer to reap the harvest, the returned Messiah will also satisfy the understanding of the Jews and be recognised as the one they expected. The passages about separating the wheat from the chaff and burning the waste could well be fulfilled.
Perhaps the mosque is the synagogue of Satan talked about in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9. These passages also mention that those that say they are of Jews will worship there. In a way, this could portend the Arabs who claim descent from Ishmael. Ishmaels descendants were more likely to have been the Jews of Arabia that were eradicated by the Muslims. Todays Arabs are Semitic but may well be mistaken about their descent from Abraham.
So where is the actual temple of God?
The Qa’ba in Mecca is the very antithesis of what God commanded in Exodus 20:25, where he commanded an altar of unhewn stone. It’s rectangular walls are a house of pagan gods that existed before the false prophet.
The Old Testament and 99% of theologians would inform you that the temple of God was situated upon Temple Mount in Jerusalem. When the second temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD leaving “not one stone upon another”, the daily sacrifice of the Jews was ended. This is why Jews gather at the western wall of it, known as the ‘wailing wall’ where they lament the destruction of the temple.
There’s a few things in the Bible that I could say to you about abominations that desolate, but as these are sealed up until the end of time, it would be presumptuous of me to attempt to decipher them.

Wailing Wall

But consider 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 where the one sitteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. There’s only one temple of God and there’s only one thing that now sitteth there. It’s been sitting there for over 1300 years, and was built shortly after the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem. It is called the Dome of the Rock.
Zechariah in the Old Testament has several chapters about the second coming of the messiah. Descriptions that seem to meet a nuclear scenario. Today’s Palestinians are yesterday’s Canaanites, and they are the ones currently holding and debarring the Jews from worship at the Temple Mount. So it seems acutely prophetic that the very last verse of Zechariah (14:21) says in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
For some reason, the world’s media and the Arab world are outraged by Israeli’s defending themselves yet there is no outrage when a gunman shoots a 5 year old child in her bed. It acts as if this is an understandable rage by Islamic militants. Terrorists that target pregnant women then scream about unproven massacres. More women and children have been killed on the Israeli side but the hypocrites pretend it is the other way round. The world castigates a democratic and intellectual state and glorifies religious fascists and throwbacks to a more barbaric era. Nobody seems outraged when gunmen desecrate the church of the nativity yet these same people say it’s scandalous if Sharon sets a small foot on temple mount.
What about Islamic ambulances used to transport terrorists and bombs? There is an evil double standard at work. How can the world be more concerned for Arafat holed up with acknowledged murderers more than it is for targeted women and children?

Everyone mentions Arafat being an elected representative, and he is but in the same way that Mugabe wins by intimidating any opposition or Castro who eliminates any opposition.
Check this about so-called PA democracy. *Palestinian Atrocities
Just when was this election anyway? 1996 or something. It's hardly democratic if you only set elections when you know you'll win and never have another election. What we actually call democracies have elections every four years. Arafat didn't have one in 1999 or 2000 because he didn't want anything to crimp his planned terror.
The biography channel has a documentary on Arafat. It mentions his shennanigans with democracy from his student years in Egypt, like when he mobilised blind students to vote for him. Show me a Palestinian that has consistently opposed Arafat over the years and you will be showing me a true democracy. No-one can show this, because the hooded men with guns would immediately target any such viewpoint. Fascism is the correct term for such systems.
These evil people only protest the deaths of Muslims. You never hear them decrying the innocent blood of Israelis or even of people in other wars. They support the Bosnian, the Chechen the just about anyone who is nominally Muslim but they never protest the killing of anyone that is not. Consider how many suicide bombers have come from Christian groups. I can’t think of a single one because they have reverence for life. Contrast that with the thousands and millions prepared to kill for allah. This just shows that death is part of the Islamaniac. Consider again the two hundred thousand thousand mentioned in Revelation (Revelation 9:16) as marching on Jerusalem and it seems fairly evident that these could be the islamaniacs surrounding Israel that will fulfill this prophecy.

Well I'm sure it would surprise you to learn as it did me that more israeli children and women have been killed than Palestinian women and children since the Infantada began. The statistics are on the net someplace where I saw them and it was like 300 women and kids on the Israeli side compared to 130 Palestinian women and children which also includes the suicide bombers...the other Palestinian casualties ( a larger number of men), half were found holding warm guns.
Here’s another report from an earlier source that says much the same thing.
The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), at the prestigious Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, is a think tank developing public-policy solutions to international terrorism. "According to data from Palestinian sources, 55 percent of the Palestinian dead were combatants," said Don Radlauer, an ex-New Yorker, who is building a casualty database at ICT. "And we rated all kids under 13 as non-combatants, even if they were armed when they were killed." On the Israeli side, statistics show that only 25 percent of the dead were combatants. The data on the number of women killed is even more telling. Radlauer said the findings "were not what we were expecting." "Less than 5 percent of all Palestinian casualties to date were female," he said, "while 30 percent of Israeli casualties were women." "Among the non-combatants killed, and again relying on Palestinian reports, we found that 7 percent were Palestinian women," he said. "In contrast, 37 percent of the Israeli non-combatant dead were women." Looking at solid numbers, the Palestinians report a total of 66 women killed as of the end of April. In the same period, 135 Israeli women died, all but three non-combatants. "But if you only look at non-combatants, excluding female suicide bombers and women killed in bomb factory 'work accidents,' etc., the number drops to 40 Palestinian women killed," Radlauer said. "Do the math” 132 Israeli female civilians compared with 40 Palestinian women," he said. "That's more than three Israeli women killed for every one Palestinian." "Palestinian data on fatalities do not bear out the claim that Israel is attacking a civilian population in their homes," said Radlauer. "The Palestinian fatalities are an engineered tragedy," he added. "If I am angry at anything it is that the Palestinian leadership is willing to put so many of their own kids in harm's way just to gain propaganda points."

Suicide bombings are the Palestinians' weapon of choice, and they've staged well over 100 of them since the Intifada began in September 2000. The scene is almost always the same after some pathetic Palestinian kid is cajoled into blowing himself up in the biggest crowd of Israelis he can find. "The first thing that hits you is the strong smell. It's the smell of burning hair," said Achy Sheffer, 42, a volunteer medic.

Despite all the claims of massacres and killed priests from the Palestinian side, their staged funerals and unsupported evidence for a Jenin massacre show who is telling lies.
Just recently, another man bomber stood next to a teenage girl and blew himself up. Now c’mon, who is really committing atrocities?
Also, I see protest and activists in Israel on behalf of the Palestinians yet never a voice or demo against the suicide bombers from Palestinians? Why not? Is it because they know they'd get shot as collaborators? Some society they have huh?
Further hypocrisy comes from them about the right of return. Most so called Palestinians were Arabs imported from Jordan and Syria during the British mandate, not some farmers for generations. And if you want statistics, look also at the dwindling Christian population under PA rule. How come they have fled in droves? The Muslims claim they are fair and just, yet Christians have to flee where they take over.

Contrast that with the millions of Muslims that flock to Christian countries. Muslims love the Christian welfare systems of health and schools and all the other benefits of a secular society established by Christians and then can’t wait to establish a backward religious regime that has been proved to fail their own populations. Are they stupid? Not one of them would leave the Western paradise for Godforsaken Muslim lands.

I never hear the call for a right of return of Muslims to Muslim lands, which if it is so fantastic there, why not? How about the right of return for Arafat…back to Cairo where he was born? Also, if he is such a political leader then how come he is always in a military uniform? Kind of tells you what he is really about, doesn’t it?
I have other points to rebuff the propagandists claim that the Palestinian terror is derived from desperation. If so, how come it’s always some youth that straps on a bomb? A youth that is often at a university or in full time education. Hardly a life of unending toil? I would expect the parents of a dozen kids to feel more desperate, if desperation was a valid claim.

And that’s another thing, out of all the so-called oppressed people in the world, how come they can afford to raise such massive families? I can barely support myself let alone eight or nine kids. Does that make me even more oppressed? The truth is that grievances are magnified and fueled by hatred. The anti-Semitic Arab press would not be tolerated anywhere in the civilised world which has outlawed public race hatred and incitement to murder.
I often see these suicide bombers and teens saying how they wish to kill Israelis sitting in pleasant gardens or in spacious family rooms with books and new clothes. No-one ever seems to be starving. I would say that these people are much less desperate than many people in the world and have merely cultivated the sense of injustice to justify their race hate and evil intentions. How many other oppressed peoples can you think of have that have video cameras, gardens, as many fed children as they wish, cars and hospitals?

The Palestinians have kindergarten kids singing praises of killing and have children put fake blood on their hands etc., etc. The photo of a baby dressed as a suicide bomber was denounced by leading Palestinians as faked up propaganda until the uncle of the kid verified it’s authenticity.
The Palestinians claim descent from the Canaanites but they are also of Jordan where the Ammonites dwelt. These ammonites used to sacrifice their children to the god Molech by fire. Not much has changed then.
The desperation claimed by the Palestinians is just the Muslim way of claiming oppression and victimization to further their cause. An obvious signifier is that none of the shrinking Palestinian Christian population feel desperate enough to blow themselves up. All the killers are Muslims that glorify death.

Despite the moslemaniacs and mullahs promising their families money from Saudis and the bomber a reward of virgins in allahland, these kids still have to be sequestered beforehand to be fed a diet of propaganda (an obvious brainwashing technique) to make sure they don’t back out at the last minute. How come the Hamas leaders never actually blow themselves up? It’s an evil tactic that uses less sophisticated cannon-fodder to cause mayhem to people buying ice-cream or pizza and generally enjoying life.

It is typical of the Muslim fighter that he trains to shoot pregnant women or blow up buses unseen. How brave and noble of them to always pick the soft target and then claim it is they who are the victims. I can only hope that most people can see this clear hypocrisy and inversion of humanitarian feelings for the despicable evil that it is.
The biggest hypocrisy of the Islamic world is the lack of censure on the Islamic radicals operating in Algeria. Utter silence whilst preaching against Israel or American bombs goes on at scream level, yet ordinary people and children are regularly destroyed in Algeria.
Hundreds of thousands have died since 1992. Here is where the real massacres are, yet do we see millions in the streets demonstrating on their behalf? On July 5th 2002, Algeria celebrated it’s independence day and Muslim terrorists blew up a marketplace killing about 40 people. Did any of the media really report the atrocity or did any clerics in the Islamic world denounce this kind of thing? Nope, they were all busy reporting and denouncing civilian casualties in Afghanistan that were apparently celebrating a wedding at 2:30am by firing at US aircraft.
Meanwhile in Pakistan, a village that sentenced a woman to be gang-raped because her 11 year old brother had been in supposed ‘bad company’. Punishing someone for the sleight actions of another seem ludicrous to us in the civilised world, but such barbarity is usual in the muslimaniac lands. Women are claimed to be free by the propagandists yet have acid thrown in their faces for nothing. Filipino workers in Saudi are jailed and tortured for merely having a Bible in their possession.

The level of lies and hypocrisy of the Muslims is ridiculous. What are the political leaders of these lands doing or saying about Algeria? Nothing because they don’t want to be tagged as anti-Islamic so the terrorists bomb and shoot with funds provided by militant Islamic like the Wahabbis of Saudi.
Attempts at reconciliation by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika have come to no avail.
The news agency AFP reported the new head of the GIA restating his group's commitment to continuing the violence.
"Neither truce, nor dialogue, nor reconciliation, nor security, but blood, blood, destruction, destruction," he was reported to have said.
"We will continue to destroy their harvests, to take their goods, to rape their women, to decapitate them in the cities, the villages and the deserts" (Taken from BBC news, mid-east section June 15th 2002).
Even people appointed by Khomeni himself have realised that Islam is fascism. Here’s a BBC news report about the unhappiness and unrest in fundamental Iran and the resignation of a top Muslim, July 10th 2002.

By Jim Muir
BBC Tehran correspondent
A senior religious figure in Iran has resigned his post and issued a bitter condemnation of the way the country is being run.
Ayatollah Jalaluddin Taheri has held the post of Friday prayers speaker in the major city of Isfahan for the past 30 years, but he has increasingly been at odds with Iran's hardliners. All this threatens the existence of our country and our people said Ayatollah Taheri.
Ayatollah Taheri's resignation came as a bombshell in the clerical establishment that has controlled much of the power in Iran since the Islamic revolution, in which he himself played a significant role.
In his resignation statement, he delivered a blistering indictment of the country's rulers that was ignored by the official media here, although the full text was printed in reformist newspapers.
Ayatollah Taheri's resignation, in such a manner from a post conferred on him by Ayatollah Khomeini himself, is unprecedented in the 23 years of the Islamic republic.

Ayatollah Taheri said he could not close his eyes to tangible realities and witness the stifling pain and unbearable suffering of people who were seeing the flowers of virtue being trampled, values collapsing and spirituality being destroyed.
What must one do with this deviation and ignorance? The Shah and the United States no longer dominate this country so we cannot blame them for the difficulties and the breakdown.
He went on with a bitter litany of accusations against a system that he portrayed as deeply corrupt, self-serving, hypocritical and repressive.
In a clear reference to the hard line vigilantes who have sometimes interrupted his sermons in Isfahan, the Ayatollah spoke of louts and fascists who display a mixture of ignorance and madness but whose umbilical cord is connected to the centre of power and who are completely uncontrolled and beyond the law.
These examples of Islamic fascism from the news are encouraging only in that people in the West have started to recognise the evil in their midst. The recent terrorist attacks may well be the high water mark for this world’s biggest cult. It’s strikes against civilisation may have engineered it’s own downfall as people are now awake as to how Islam has operated unchecked and unchallenged. Since it seems unable or unwilling to have a reformation, there will be a refutation of it’s values.

Whilst most religions seek to increase understanding of God, Islam only offers slavish adherence to an unquestioning creed. The brainwashing techniques of frequent prayer and total control of your life have become recognised as the cultic signs they are. I once had a Muslim argue to me that the Koran tells you how to do everything, even how to keep your anus clean. Wow, they even need Mo’ to tell them that!
I feel that I’ve slammed Islam pretty good in this essay. My intention is not to foster racism but confront an evil ideology that goes too often unchallenged. To forge an implacable resistance to what I consider the beast. Jeremiah 31:27 tells that the seed of the beast will be sown amongst the houses of Israel and the seed of man, and the islamaniacs are they. You have to know your enemy and know what you are up against. Too many people fall prey to fuzzy multicultural thinking when it comes to Islam. Yes, everyone should be free to have their own beliefs but nurturing a creed that will enslave as soon as it has the opportunity to do so, is not the same as encouraging other cultural pursuits. Too many idiots mouth that Islam means peace when in fact it means submission. They confuse it with the similar word ‘salaam’.
By treating the islamaniacs as anything other than nazis is indulging their capacity for hatred, and allowing a venting of their satanic anger to destroy good people.

Yes, the constitution declares a freedom of religion, but does that mean a satanic death dealing cult has to be given the same rights?
The true path of righteousness is a narrow one. For myself, I hold that no-one comes to the Father without being a Christian first. Jesus said this (John 14:6) and is Himself the narrow gate to God. In a multicultural world, they teach that there are many paths leading to the top of the mountain, but there is only one that God wishes you to take. Standards have atrophied to the point where people are wary of saying one way is better than the others, but consider Matthew 7:15-20
... as the test of false prophets and that “wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them”.