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Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Welcome Sharia Law to America - Thanks Minneapolis and Target
Check this one out. I am written here before that we do have freedom of religion but we don't have freedom of law. Well the danger of this 'tolerance' going on is front and center in this news report ... watch it and reap and vote accordingly ... you have two weeks. And by the way, think about Target next time you go shopping. What BS that they bow to the pressure.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Worth reading from www.RenewAmerica.com - The War Within
Islam Is Not A Religion, It Is Foreign Law
By JR Dieckmann Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The time has come to question if Islam is protected under our First Amendment rights to freedom of religion. Yes, everyone in America has the right to freedom of religion, but Islam is not a religion. Religious faith is only a part of Islam. The rest is a socially engineered society with its own laws and customs that seriously conflict with American law.
Is Great Britain a religion because they have the Church of England? Of course not. Britain has an established charter, civil and criminal laws, and a society that respects those laws. Islam has the Qur'an that provides the governing charter, complete with laws, punishment, and social behavior for its people in addition to its religious teachings. If Islam is a religion, then Britain is also.
We must recognize that religion is only one aspect of Islam's Qur'an. The rest of this charter advances ideas, social behavior, and laws that are in direct conflict with American and western laws and values. Teddy Roosevelt once said that to live in America, immigrants must have undivided loyalty to America and to no one else. How is that possible for Muslims who swear loyalty to Islam where their governing laws are found in the Qur'an?
What legitimate religion would demand that its members either kill or convert people of other faiths? What legitimate religion is intent on imposing its own laws on the rest of the entire world? If Islam were just about praying to Allah and worshiping Mohammed and nothing more, we would not be having a problem with Islamism and Islamic terrorists. Islam has a global mission to take over and run the world according to Islamic Shariah law. How can we call that a religion?
What legitimate religion in this country comes with its own civil laws that take precedence over national, state, and local laws? No, Islam is not a religion. It is a governing doctrine that not only dictates religious beliefs, but also social behavior that includes laws, penalties and punishments, not by God, but by people if the laws are not obeyed. Islam is a form of government, not a religion. It does not belong here. We already have government under our Constitution (sort of).
As Muslims build their mega-Mosques in our nation - financed by Saudi Arabia - they laugh at the stupid Americans who are selling out their fellow citizens by allowing Islam to take over our country a little bit at a time. It is the same method used over decades by the Marxist Progressives who now have control of our government - take away our liberties one little piece at a time until full control and submission is achieved.
We are extending a welcoming hand to the enemy of our country and western
culture under the pretense of religious freedom
Islamists know they cannot destroy us militarily, but they also know that they can do it with political correctness and insisting that we respect their freedom of religion, even though they have no respect for ours. We are extending a welcoming hand to the enemy of our country and western culture under the pretense of religious freedom.
What religion recruits killers and terrorists in their place of worship, then sends them off to foreign training grounds to become proficient at mass murder? I know of only one. They are taught to kill in the name of God, but this is not the law of God who commanded "thou shall not kill" - it is the law of Mohammed who commanded "kill them all who will not convert."
The Qur'an blurs the lines between religion and government and teaches that Islamic government is God's law. It certainly is not. Why do we tolerate this abomination in America where our laws maintain a separation between church and state? To accept Islam in America is to accept Islamic law as well.
Are we out of our minds? Did anyone notice that we are at war with these people? Terrorists feed on the same rule book as other Muslims who have so far remained peaceful. Will they be making the same decision that Barack Obama made when he wrote in "Dreams Of My Father" - "When the political winds shift in an ugly direction, I will side with the Muslims?" It is always nice to know that our president is on our side when America goes to war. Too bad this one is not.
Muslim worship is protected under the First Amendment, Islamic law is not.
Until Muslims - and our own government - can accept that, then Islam cannot be considered a religion and Islamic culture does not belong here in North America.
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By JR Dieckmann Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The time has come to question if Islam is protected under our First Amendment rights to freedom of religion. Yes, everyone in America has the right to freedom of religion, but Islam is not a religion. Religious faith is only a part of Islam. The rest is a socially engineered society with its own laws and customs that seriously conflict with American law.
Is Great Britain a religion because they have the Church of England? Of course not. Britain has an established charter, civil and criminal laws, and a society that respects those laws. Islam has the Qur'an that provides the governing charter, complete with laws, punishment, and social behavior for its people in addition to its religious teachings. If Islam is a religion, then Britain is also.
We must recognize that religion is only one aspect of Islam's Qur'an. The rest of this charter advances ideas, social behavior, and laws that are in direct conflict with American and western laws and values. Teddy Roosevelt once said that to live in America, immigrants must have undivided loyalty to America and to no one else. How is that possible for Muslims who swear loyalty to Islam where their governing laws are found in the Qur'an?
What legitimate religion would demand that its members either kill or convert people of other faiths? What legitimate religion is intent on imposing its own laws on the rest of the entire world? If Islam were just about praying to Allah and worshiping Mohammed and nothing more, we would not be having a problem with Islamism and Islamic terrorists. Islam has a global mission to take over and run the world according to Islamic Shariah law. How can we call that a religion?
What legitimate religion in this country comes with its own civil laws that take precedence over national, state, and local laws? No, Islam is not a religion. It is a governing doctrine that not only dictates religious beliefs, but also social behavior that includes laws, penalties and punishments, not by God, but by people if the laws are not obeyed. Islam is a form of government, not a religion. It does not belong here. We already have government under our Constitution (sort of).
As Muslims build their mega-Mosques in our nation - financed by Saudi Arabia - they laugh at the stupid Americans who are selling out their fellow citizens by allowing Islam to take over our country a little bit at a time. It is the same method used over decades by the Marxist Progressives who now have control of our government - take away our liberties one little piece at a time until full control and submission is achieved.
We are extending a welcoming hand to the enemy of our country and western
culture under the pretense of religious freedom
Islamists know they cannot destroy us militarily, but they also know that they can do it with political correctness and insisting that we respect their freedom of religion, even though they have no respect for ours. We are extending a welcoming hand to the enemy of our country and western culture under the pretense of religious freedom.
What religion recruits killers and terrorists in their place of worship, then sends them off to foreign training grounds to become proficient at mass murder? I know of only one. They are taught to kill in the name of God, but this is not the law of God who commanded "thou shall not kill" - it is the law of Mohammed who commanded "kill them all who will not convert."
The Qur'an blurs the lines between religion and government and teaches that Islamic government is God's law. It certainly is not. Why do we tolerate this abomination in America where our laws maintain a separation between church and state? To accept Islam in America is to accept Islamic law as well.
Are we out of our minds? Did anyone notice that we are at war with these people? Terrorists feed on the same rule book as other Muslims who have so far remained peaceful. Will they be making the same decision that Barack Obama made when he wrote in "Dreams Of My Father" - "When the political winds shift in an ugly direction, I will side with the Muslims?" It is always nice to know that our president is on our side when America goes to war. Too bad this one is not.
Muslim worship is protected under the First Amendment, Islamic law is not.
Until Muslims - and our own government - can accept that, then Islam cannot be considered a religion and Islamic culture does not belong here in North America.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The Real Reasons for the Ground Zero Mosque
If you think that we should be nice and the Muslims just want to build this nice big Mosque at the site of Ground Zero ... think again as you watch this short clip. We are being duped or the victims of government sleight of hand. Either way write you Congressman and Senators and tell them no way! We are under attack using out laws, ignorance and kindness against us. Wake up America!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Airline Insecurity - How on Earth?
We've all read enough about the Christmas eve debacle on Northwest with the guy setting his pants on fire in flight. That is so sad and serious and yet everyone in DC is dancing circles around the elephant in the kitchen. I was going to write something detailing how I feel but then I got on to this article by Ann Coulter. I'm not an Ann Coulter fan personally but she hit the proverbial nail square on the head on this one ...
Ivana Trump Escorted Off Plane: Napolitano Declares 'The System Worked'
by Ann Coulter
Posted 12/30/2009 ET
In response to a Nigerian Muslim trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, the government will now prohibit international travelers from going to the bathroom in the last hour before the plane lands.
Terrorists who plan to bomb planes during the first seven hours of the eight-hour flight, however, should face no difficulties, provided they wait until after the complimentary beverage service has been concluded.
How do they know Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab didn't wait until the end of the flight to try to detonate explosives because he heard the stewardess announce that the food service was over and seats would have to be placed in their upright position? I can't finish my snack? This plane is going down!
Also prohibited in the last hour of international flights will be: blankets, pillows, computers and in-flight entertainment. Another triumph in Janet Napolitano's "Let's stay one step behind the terrorists" policy!
For the past eight years, approximately 2 million Americans a day have been subjected to humiliating searches at airport security checkpoints, forced to remove their shoes and jackets, to open their computers, and to remove all liquids from their carry-on bags, except minuscule amounts in marked 3-ounce containers placed in Ziploc plastic bags -- folding sandwich bags are verboten -- among other indignities.
This, allegedly, was the price we had to pay for safe airplanes. The one security precaution the government refused to consider was to require extra screening for passengers who looked like the last three-dozen terrorists to attack airplanes.
Since Muslims took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie , Scotland , in 1988, every attack on a commercial airliner has been committed by foreign-born Muslim men with the same hair color, eye color and skin color. Half of them have been named Mohammed.
An alien from the planet "Not Politically Correct" would have surveyed the situation after 9/11 and said: "You are at war with an enemy without uniforms, without morals, without a country and without a leader -- but the one advantage you have is they all look alike. ... What? ... What did I say?"
The only advantage we have in a war with stateless terrorists was ruled out of order ab initio by political correctness.
And so, despite 5 trillion Americans opening laptops, surrendering lip gloss and drinking breast milk in airports day after day for the past eight years, the government still couldn't stop a Nigerian Muslim from nearly blowing up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day.
The "warning signs" exhibited by this particular passenger included the following:
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
He's Nigerian.
He's a Muslim.
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
He boarded a plane in Lagos , Nigeria .
He paid nearly $3,000 in cash for his ticket.
He had no luggage.
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Two months ago, his father warned the U.S. that he was a radical Muslim and possibly dangerous.
If our security procedures can't stop this guy, can't we just dispense with those procedures altogether? What's the point exactly?
(To be fair, the father's warning might have been taken more seriously if he had not simultaneously asked for the U.S. Embassy's Social Security number and bank routing number in order to convey a $28 million inheritance that was trapped in a Nigerian bank account.)
The warning from Abdulmutallab's father put his son on some list, but not the "no fly" list. Apparently, it's tougher to get on the "no fly" list than it was to get into Studio 54 in the '70s. Currently, the only people on the "no fly" list" are the Blind Sheik and Sean Penn.
The government is like the drunk looking for his keys under a lamppost. Someone stops to help, and asks, "Is this where you lost them?" No, the drunk answers, but the light's better here.
The government refuses to perform the only possibly effective security check -- search Muslims -- so instead it harasses infinitely compliant Americans. Will that help avert a terrorist attack? No, but the Americans don't complain.
The only reason Abdulmutallab didn't succeed in bringing down an airplane with 278 passengers was that: (1) A brave Dutchman leapt from his seat and extinguished the smoldering Nigerian; and (2) the Nigerian apparently didn't have enough detonating fluid to cause a powerful explosion.
In addition to the no blanket, no computer, no bathroom rule, perhaps the airlines could add this to their preflight announcement about seat belts and emergency exits: "Should a passenger sitting near you attempt to detonate an explosive device, you may be called upon to render emergency assistance. Would you be willing to do so under those circumstances? If not we will assign you another seat ...."
Ivana Trump Escorted Off Plane: Napolitano Declares 'The System Worked'
by Ann Coulter
Posted 12/30/2009 ET
In response to a Nigerian Muslim trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, the government will now prohibit international travelers from going to the bathroom in the last hour before the plane lands.
Terrorists who plan to bomb planes during the first seven hours of the eight-hour flight, however, should face no difficulties, provided they wait until after the complimentary beverage service has been concluded.
How do they know Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab didn't wait until the end of the flight to try to detonate explosives because he heard the stewardess announce that the food service was over and seats would have to be placed in their upright position? I can't finish my snack? This plane is going down!
Also prohibited in the last hour of international flights will be: blankets, pillows, computers and in-flight entertainment. Another triumph in Janet Napolitano's "Let's stay one step behind the terrorists" policy!
For the past eight years, approximately 2 million Americans a day have been subjected to humiliating searches at airport security checkpoints, forced to remove their shoes and jackets, to open their computers, and to remove all liquids from their carry-on bags, except minuscule amounts in marked 3-ounce containers placed in Ziploc plastic bags -- folding sandwich bags are verboten -- among other indignities.
This, allegedly, was the price we had to pay for safe airplanes. The one security precaution the government refused to consider was to require extra screening for passengers who looked like the last three-dozen terrorists to attack airplanes.
Since Muslims took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie , Scotland , in 1988, every attack on a commercial airliner has been committed by foreign-born Muslim men with the same hair color, eye color and skin color. Half of them have been named Mohammed.
An alien from the planet "Not Politically Correct" would have surveyed the situation after 9/11 and said: "You are at war with an enemy without uniforms, without morals, without a country and without a leader -- but the one advantage you have is they all look alike. ... What? ... What did I say?"
The only advantage we have in a war with stateless terrorists was ruled out of order ab initio by political correctness.
And so, despite 5 trillion Americans opening laptops, surrendering lip gloss and drinking breast milk in airports day after day for the past eight years, the government still couldn't stop a Nigerian Muslim from nearly blowing up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day.
The "warning signs" exhibited by this particular passenger included the following:
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
He's Nigerian.
He's a Muslim.
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
He boarded a plane in Lagos , Nigeria .
He paid nearly $3,000 in cash for his ticket.
He had no luggage.
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Two months ago, his father warned the U.S. that he was a radical Muslim and possibly dangerous.
If our security procedures can't stop this guy, can't we just dispense with those procedures altogether? What's the point exactly?
(To be fair, the father's warning might have been taken more seriously if he had not simultaneously asked for the U.S. Embassy's Social Security number and bank routing number in order to convey a $28 million inheritance that was trapped in a Nigerian bank account.)
The warning from Abdulmutallab's father put his son on some list, but not the "no fly" list. Apparently, it's tougher to get on the "no fly" list than it was to get into Studio 54 in the '70s. Currently, the only people on the "no fly" list" are the Blind Sheik and Sean Penn.
The government is like the drunk looking for his keys under a lamppost. Someone stops to help, and asks, "Is this where you lost them?" No, the drunk answers, but the light's better here.
The government refuses to perform the only possibly effective security check -- search Muslims -- so instead it harasses infinitely compliant Americans. Will that help avert a terrorist attack? No, but the Americans don't complain.
The only reason Abdulmutallab didn't succeed in bringing down an airplane with 278 passengers was that: (1) A brave Dutchman leapt from his seat and extinguished the smoldering Nigerian; and (2) the Nigerian apparently didn't have enough detonating fluid to cause a powerful explosion.
In addition to the no blanket, no computer, no bathroom rule, perhaps the airlines could add this to their preflight announcement about seat belts and emergency exits: "Should a passenger sitting near you attempt to detonate an explosive device, you may be called upon to render emergency assistance. Would you be willing to do so under those circumstances? If not we will assign you another seat ...."
Sunday, June 14, 2009
One Thing We Can Do - Walk Our Talk
Here is a short poem sent to me by a friend that seems right on this morning ...
SERMONS WE SEE
I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day.
I’d rather one should walk with me than merely show the way
The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing, but example’s always clear;
And the best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds
For to see the good in action is what everybody needs.
I can soon learn how to do it if you’ll let me see it done.
I can watch your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run.
And the lectures you deliver may be very wise and true;
But I’d rather get my lesson by observing what you do,
For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give,
But there’s no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
--Edgar Guest
SERMONS WE SEE
I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day.
I’d rather one should walk with me than merely show the way
The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing, but example’s always clear;
And the best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds
For to see the good in action is what everybody needs.
I can soon learn how to do it if you’ll let me see it done.
I can watch your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run.
And the lectures you deliver may be very wise and true;
But I’d rather get my lesson by observing what you do,
For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give,
But there’s no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
--Edgar Guest
Let's have a great day in spite of whatever challenges come our way, and leave a good example along the way.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Finish Strong, no Whining
I remember my first patrol in Nam. I was blessed to be a sniper assigned to Force Recon. I skimped on taking C-rats, too heavy. When the chopper was coming to get us ... it didnt. Weather or priorities or whatever. Three days later it came in. When the team lead for Force Recon saw I didnt have enough rations he said, quietly but firmly of course - "No Whining". It was a long three days ... but I did it.
Watch this video the next time you feel like whining. I've been here moving my house around from room to room as they carpeted thinking it was pretty tough. Then a friend of mine sent me this out of the blue ... or was it. Thanks Greg!
Watch this video the next time you feel like whining. I've been here moving my house around from room to room as they carpeted thinking it was pretty tough. Then a friend of mine sent me this out of the blue ... or was it. Thanks Greg!
Something to think about when we feel we've got it tough.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
It's Sunday, Heading North to Montana
Well we made it through the late storm in Wyoming and dropped the daughter and grandkids off at home in Utah. We had a great trip together and to my surprise the little ones were outstanding on a long drive. It was fun and we got to know them, ages two and five and a half, a lot better. It was a blessing to have them along for a couple weeks.
It's Sunday and as we all search for direction amidst the leadership or lack thereof in our country, this thought came to mind. ""For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one spirit." That is from I Corinthians 12:12.
It goes on to say how the body is one with different parts, all necessary. We live in a time where all of us are different people, with varying interests and opinions. But we are all necessary and we live in a time when we all need to remember we are of one spirit and need to come together for good, the good of our Country and way of life. It is being attacked and from the inside right now and it is serious.
Have a great week ahead and remember ... what we do everyday is what we believe, all the rest is just talk. Lets go and 'do good'.
It's Sunday and as we all search for direction amidst the leadership or lack thereof in our country, this thought came to mind. ""For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one spirit." That is from I Corinthians 12:12.
It goes on to say how the body is one with different parts, all necessary. We live in a time where all of us are different people, with varying interests and opinions. But we are all necessary and we live in a time when we all need to remember we are of one spirit and need to come together for good, the good of our Country and way of life. It is being attacked and from the inside right now and it is serious.
Have a great week ahead and remember ... what we do everyday is what we believe, all the rest is just talk. Lets go and 'do good'.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
My Most Memorable Easter
Traveling takes it out of you. Some how I thought yesterday was Easter. I was thinking as I was walking around this morning about Easter years ago, my most memorable Easter. I grew up in a small (75 people) town in north central Ohio. It was called Lock Seventeen. Reportedly the seventeenth lock on the old Ohio and Erie Canal. I know I skated on the old canal as a kid and there were remnants of a cement structure there, presumably the lock?
There was a great man who lived down the street, a truck driver, who always was there for anything anyone needed. His name was Virgil Lindon. As a kid, Virg would do anything for us from fixing our bikes, to helping our parents with whatever might be wrong at home and needed fixing. I always loved to stop by Virgil's house because he was always working on something mechanical and that suited the kid of eight or nine, maybe ten I was at the time I'm relating.
I stopped down on what turned out to be Easter Sunday morning to get my bike fixed. Virgil was sitting on his front porch, smoking a sweet smelling pipe and dressed in a jet black suit. That was not something I'd seen him in before. He welcomed me up as always but as I asked about getting the chain on my bike fixed and some other things it needed he asked me to sit down.
For the next long while he related to me a story I could never forget. He said on Easter Sunday many years before he'd was serving on a submarine in the US Navy during World War II when it was hit on Good Friday by a Japanese torpedo. It was stuck beneath the sea and they had just three days worth of air supply. To a young kid hooked on things military anyway, Virgil's story entralled me as I sat in the early spring sun next to him on his front porch swing.
He and the rest of the crew worked around the clock and prayed continually for a fix that would allow them to surface. The damage was severe. On Easter Sunday, after what my good neighbor said was a harrowing three days, and with only a couple hours of air supply remaining, they got the sub fixed and surfaced, an answer to prayer from Almighty God according to Virgil.
To me Easter was a day for Easter eggs and candy. To Virgil, it was the day he promised the Lord he would always honor that day if his life and those of his shipmates were spared. As a young boy with no religious training. Virgil's tail was exciting and adventurous but I didnt know about God or the Lord or prayer as he didnt have a seat at our dinner table.
It would be years later, in my late twenties when I got to know the same God Virgil introduced me to so many years ago. I never forgot that story. He didnt fix my bike because he made a deal with God he wouldnt work on Easter Sunday, ever. And you know what? He kept his promise and taught a little boy about honor and prayer and God.
With all we have going on in the world today, well, just thought I'd share that as it came to mind this morning. I hope we all had a Virgil somewhere and I hope more that we can all be a Virgil in the future, for someone else along our journey.
Have a great week ...
There was a great man who lived down the street, a truck driver, who always was there for anything anyone needed. His name was Virgil Lindon. As a kid, Virg would do anything for us from fixing our bikes, to helping our parents with whatever might be wrong at home and needed fixing. I always loved to stop by Virgil's house because he was always working on something mechanical and that suited the kid of eight or nine, maybe ten I was at the time I'm relating.
I stopped down on what turned out to be Easter Sunday morning to get my bike fixed. Virgil was sitting on his front porch, smoking a sweet smelling pipe and dressed in a jet black suit. That was not something I'd seen him in before. He welcomed me up as always but as I asked about getting the chain on my bike fixed and some other things it needed he asked me to sit down.
For the next long while he related to me a story I could never forget. He said on Easter Sunday many years before he'd was serving on a submarine in the US Navy during World War II when it was hit on Good Friday by a Japanese torpedo. It was stuck beneath the sea and they had just three days worth of air supply. To a young kid hooked on things military anyway, Virgil's story entralled me as I sat in the early spring sun next to him on his front porch swing.
He and the rest of the crew worked around the clock and prayed continually for a fix that would allow them to surface. The damage was severe. On Easter Sunday, after what my good neighbor said was a harrowing three days, and with only a couple hours of air supply remaining, they got the sub fixed and surfaced, an answer to prayer from Almighty God according to Virgil.
To me Easter was a day for Easter eggs and candy. To Virgil, it was the day he promised the Lord he would always honor that day if his life and those of his shipmates were spared. As a young boy with no religious training. Virgil's tail was exciting and adventurous but I didnt know about God or the Lord or prayer as he didnt have a seat at our dinner table.
It would be years later, in my late twenties when I got to know the same God Virgil introduced me to so many years ago. I never forgot that story. He didnt fix my bike because he made a deal with God he wouldnt work on Easter Sunday, ever. And you know what? He kept his promise and taught a little boy about honor and prayer and God.
With all we have going on in the world today, well, just thought I'd share that as it came to mind this morning. I hope we all had a Virgil somewhere and I hope more that we can all be a Virgil in the future, for someone else along our journey.
Have a great week ...
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