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Friday, August 19, 2016

ABOMINATION: CATHOLICS BELIEVE THERE IS "POWER IN THE BLOOD"~BUT NOT EVER CHRIST'S!~THIRD CLASS RELICS BEING MARKETED TO THE GULLIBLE

FREE CATHOLIC RELIC: A CARD SWIPED AGAINST
DROP OF BLOOD FROM DEAD POPE (FIRST CLASS); YOU ONLY GET THIRD CLASS, WHICH MAY ONLY GET YOU A VERY LITTLE TIME OFF IN PURGATORY
CATHOLICS BELIEVE THERE IS 
"POWER IN THE BLOOD",
BUT NOT EVER CHRIST'S!
FREE THIRD CLASS RELIC OFFERS INDULGENCE? THEY'RE NOT SAYING

Pro-Life Group Offering Free Prayer Cards With Dead Pope’s Blood

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BY JEFF MAPLES
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/08/18/get-your-pope-blood-here-to-help-your-pro-life-movement/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

You think this is a joke? I honestly wish it were. But “Father” Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life is offering you some third class relics that you can use to enhance your pro-life ministry? “What is this third class relic?” Glad you asked…This relic, in which they have “tens of thousands of” are prayer cards that have been touched to a “first class relic,” a vial of Pope John Paul II’s blood. This makes it a “third class relic.” It’s not quite as powerful as the real deal, but, hey, beggars can’t be choosers, right? After all, the power is in the blood, right?
Want one? You can go to fill out the form to get yours today.
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"AMERICAN" CHRISTIANITY“: WHEN RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PERMITS YOU TO PROTEST ONE ATROCITY IN ORDER TO DEFEND ANOTHER

"AMERICAN" CHRISTIANITY“: 
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WHEN RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PERMITS YOU TO PROTEST ONE ATROCITY IN ORDER TO 
DEFEND ANOTHER 
BY BUD AHLHEIM
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/08/19/american-christianity-religious-liberty/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Yet another ecumenical march took place on American shores by devotees of various “faiths” on Tuesday, August 16.  A Christian Post article entitled “Over 1,000 Christians Protest Against Satanic Black Mass In Oklahoma City” says this:
Faith-based Christian groups such as the Family Policy Institute of Oklahoma, the Archdiocese of Oklahoma and The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property held prayer rallies and a unity walk as a way of standing up for God while the local satanic church, called the Church of Ahriman, held a black mass ritual to show the community part of what goes on during their services. (Source)
Noted in The Tablet, The International Catholic News Weekly, the ecumenical prayer walk and service included leadership and adherents from a variety of denominational flavors.
More than 1,000 Christians joined an ecumenical prayer walk and prayer service in response to the black mass. Leaders from various faith groups – Catholic, Southern Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, Lutheran and others – walked arm-in-arm at the head of the march. (Source)
We can quickly gloss over the obvious doctrinal denial that brought such dissonances of faith together. After all, an apostate band of self-proclaimed Lutherans just effectively reversed the mighty work of the Word of God accomplished during the Reformation by re-aligning – for the sake of unity – in agreement with the apostate Roman Catholic Church. Southern Baptists, who increasingly worship at the Baal-like altar of “American” Christianity so laud the doctrine of religious liberty that they’ve even joined hands with perhaps the greatest face of evil on the planet to help get a mosque built in New Jersey.
(For helpful reference, see this: Why We Don’t Consider Catholics To Be Christians)
That being said, let’s get the summary statement out of the way regarding this whole ecumenical “unity” endeavor – it is diabolical in its source, unbiblical in its claims, and Christ-denying in its ambitions. Unity, just like the “we must build the church” endeavors, is something not commanded to us by Christ, but something assured to us by Him. Read John 17. It’s laid out pretty clear there.
Now, back to the Satan worshippers and those protesting them.
One thing Christians often forget is the clear Biblical acknowledgment that the God of Scripture is not presently the direct purveyor of power on the planet. While God is absolutely sovereign over all things – make that your fundamental, go-to doctrine, folks – this world is currently, most directly under the control of the enemy those “condemned already” (John 3:18) souls were worshipping in that Oklahoma City public building. Satan is, by the sovereign will of God, the current “god” of this world.
Paul points out in 2 Corinthians the deceptive power of this enemy in the world.
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 2 Corinthians 4:4
Perhaps the disciple “whom Jesus loved” (John 13:23) gives the point a bit more directly.
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 1 John 5:19
Now, the efforts of those doctrinally-deceived marchers to protest the power and presence of Satanic worship in their city is laudable enough, if not an expression of two fundamental misunderstandings. It’s also evidence of the grossest form of Biblical illiteracy.
First, it seems they don’t realize that Satan is, in fact, being worshipped, whether implicitly or explicitly, daily, hourly, moment-by-moment across the world. The obvious disgust a formal ceremony to him has does not betray the truth that his worship goes on unfettered by billions of souls who have denied the Christ of Scripture and the evident God of creation. (Romans 1:18) So, as distasteful, as woeful, as detestable as Satan worship is, it’s frankly no surprise. Turn on the tube and you’ll see it readily broadcast in high def.
Second, though, these protestors of the “American” Christianity flavor fail to see the obvious hypocrisy of their own complaint, as righteously-invoked though it may seem to be.
The highly exalted doctrine of American religious liberty does not restrict such a gross display of unholiness. Religious liberty demands tolerance, especially in this post-modern age where tolerance has effectively become the pseudonymous moniker for Satan himself.
Religious liberty in America precisely means that Satanists can defile the evident truth of God by holding a black mass in a public building. Religious liberty requires that mosques be permitted, that temples to Hindu gods be allowed, that cults of any and every bizarre, sick, and blasphemous behavior be tolerated. “Soul freedom,” as its often called, means that, in America, you can do almost anything you want in the name of religion as you worship the “god” of your choosing.   (Of course, any “god” other than the God of Holy Scripture is, we know, merely an idol.)
The cognitive dissonance of Christians protesting Satanic worship in an American culture that screams for religious liberty, for unfettered, unquestioned tolerance is, itself, a sad testimony to their own un-apprehended understanding of religious liberty. But the cognitive dissonance of a Baptist holding hands with a Roman Catholic to do it in this case is evidence of Biblical, doctrinal ignorance.
Why?
Because holding hands with Catholics protesting this black mass is effectively announcing the defense of a teaching that no Biblically-informed believer, perhaps especially a Southern Baptist, would ever espouse. The Tribute article includes the following concise summary from a representative advocate of the Roman apostasy.
The Archbishop of Oklahoma City, Paul Coakley, described the black mass – a parody or inversion of the Catholic Mass for the purpose of mocking God – as a “purposeful assault on our faith” and said it was especially hurtful because it coincided with the annual liturgical feast of the Assumption of Mary, a holy day in the Catholic calendar.  (Source)
The Catholic mass is itself a grotesque perversion in which the attendant priest effectively re-crucifies the Lord in each observation.  Claiming the wafers and wine to mysteriously become, at the word of the priest, the actual body and blood of Christ, the mass is nothing short of the centerpiece of a false sacrificial system in which the single atoning work of Christ on the cross is seen as insufficient. It must be repeated, over and over again, in a ritual in which Christ is re-crucified over and over again.
 In the practice of the mass, the Roman Catholic Church has reinstituted an unbiblical system of repeated sacrifices, blaspheming Christ and perverting His work on the cross.
How important is the mass to Catholicism? The Catechism of the Catholic Church refers to it as “the source and summit of the Christian life.” That is to say, it is the origin and the high point of the Catholic faith. It’s not peripheral—it’s the heart and soul of the entire system.   John MacArthur (Source)
The Assumption of Mary is equally a blasphemous teaching of the Roman Catholic faith that the sinless “mother of God” was, like Christ Himself, ascended into heaven.   Mary did not die. God exalted her by assumption into heaven. (Quick, somebody flip to that page in the Baptist Faith and Message! I musta missed it.)
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In fact, the chief false apostle on the planet, Pope Francis has recently reaffirmed this diabolical, twisted teaching of the church.
“She was the first to believe in the Son of God and is the first to have been assumed into heaven body and soul.”  (Source)
(Umm, sorry, Frankie. You wanna point that out in Scripture, please? Chapter and verse would be mighty helpful.)
So, there you go.
You have Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists and others joining hands with Roman Catholics to protest a Satanic ritual that is a mockery of a Catholic ritual that itself is an abomination to the teaching of Scripture. It’s rather woefully jocular that Baptists would effectively be helping Catholics defend their unbiblical, damning teaching by protesting against another group with unbiblical, damning teaching.
But, it’s what you get when Christians don’t “abide in my Word,” (John 8:31) and when pulpits become not much more than public service announcements for the false god of “it’s all about you” theology. Outrage at one obvious offense can quickly acquiesce into uninformed support of yet another, equally defiling one … courtesy, of course, of Biblical illiteracy delivered, in this case, via the exercise of American religious liberty.
For the record, while I detest the increasing presence of the open, proclaimed worship of the enemy of our Lord, we live in a nation that requires its permission.   But the blasphemy of those black mass participants is no less eternally damnable than that represented by the white-frocked vicar of apostasy on the edge of the Tiber. And, just to be clear … yeah, if your faith is “American” first and Christian second, that too is equally unbiblical.   “Examine yourself.” (2 Corinthians 13:5)
If you’re going to stand for something, make it Scripturally-informed, honoring the Christ of Scripture, and proclaiming, unreservedly, the only truth that will save Catholics or Satanists or adherents of “American” Christianity … the gospel of Jesus Christ … and that is found in His Word.
For the time being, at least, American religious liberty permits us to proclaim that Truth.

UNBORN BABIES FOUND AT SOUTH CAROLINA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

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UNBORN BABIES FOUND AT SOUTH CAROLINA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT 
BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/08/18/unborn-babies-found-at-south-carolina-wastewater-treatment-plant/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two unborn babies were found at a wastewater treatment plant in South Carolina last Monday, prompting an investigation by law enforcement.
According to reports, workers at the Plum Island Wastewater Treatment Plant found the dead babies in the water on Aug. 8. as they were cleaning out the filter screens at the plant. They spotted a small hand, then the rest of the infant’s body—then another baby. Neither child was fully intact.
Police were called to the scene, and were taken to the pump station to be shown the preterm babies.
The babies had been found in the headworks, where the wastewater flows in. Officials state that the infants could have only entered the system by either being flushed down the toilet or placed in a manhole. The bodies were turned over by police to the Charleston County Coroner’s Office for further review.
Coroner Rae Wooten told the Post and Courier that while the gestational age of the babies is not known, they appear to be in the second trimester. It is also unknown as to how long the babies had been in the water.
“We don’t have anywhere to start,” Wooten told the outlet in regard to identifying where the babies had been disposed. “It is probably a very isolated situation.”
The facility serves over 54,000 homes and businesses in Charleston, West Ashley, and James Island.
In January, a baby was also reported to have been found at the Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facility in East Providence, Rhode Island. The medical examiner’s office concluded that the child was a male 19 to 20 weeks in gestation.
Police sought out the mother of the child, but no new information has been released about the matter.
“We’re hoping an appeal to the public may lead us to the mother,” East Providence Police Capt. Richard Frazier told reporters. “We’re hoping to get some tips from the public.”
The plant serves the cities of East Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Smithfield, Cumberland and Lincoln.
“It’s very sad to see that a life couldn’t continue and become the person that they were supposed to be. Very, very sad,” neighbor Betty DeCrescenzo told WPRI-TV.



HILLARY'S CRIPPLING HEALTH CONDITION NOT A BARRIER TO STEALING THE ELECTION

HILLARY'S CRIPPLING HEALTH CONDITION NOT A BARRIER TO STEALING THE ELECTION
Clinton Campaign Cites Fake Documents to Claim Hillary Health Questions Are "Debunked"\
DR. LISA BARDACK, HILLARY CLINTON'S PHYSICIAN

CLINTON CAMPAIGN CITES FAKE DOCUMENTS TO CLAIM HILLARY HEALTH QUESTIONS ARE “DEBUNKED”

Classic straw man hoax designed to distract attention 

from the real evidence

BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
SEE: http://www.infowars.com/clinton-campaign-cites-fake-documents-to-claim-hillary-health-questions-are-debunked/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Hillary’s Clinton’s campaign is citing fake documents to assert that questions surrounding her ill health are “debunked” conspiracy theories.
The problem with that narrative is that no serious commentator who raised questions about Hillary’s health ever used the fake documents as evidence.
As the Washington Post reports, Hillary’s campaign sent reporters an article from FactCheck.org entitled “Fake Clinton Medical Records” which debunks the authenticity of a “leaked” document circulated on Twitter that claims to be from Lisa Bardack, Hillary’s personal physician.
The document claims that Hillary suffers from a number of ailments, including “blacking out,” “uncontrollable twitching” and “memory loss”.
The Fact Check article then implies that Fox News’ Sean Hannity began questioning Hillary’s health because of the information contained in the fake documents.
This is objectively false.
Not a single prominent individual who has discussed the issues surrounding Hillary’s health has used the fake documents as proof.
– Sean Hannity never cited the documents.
– Mike Cernovich never cited the documents.
– Dr. Drew never cited the documents.
– I never cited the documents.
In citing the fake documents as evidence that the claims have been“debunked,” the Clinton campaign is building a classic strawman argument.
A straw man is defined as, “a weak or imaginary argument or opponent that is set up to be easily defeated.”
By claiming that the fake documents are the only evidence offered that Hillary has major health problems, her campaign is hoping to deflect attention away from the real questions, which include the following;
– Why does Hillary have to rely on a “leaning stool” to be provided virtually every single speech she gives?
– Why does Hillary have to be propped up by pillows at virtually every single public appearance she makes?
– Why does Hillary keep having brain freezes where she loses her train of thought?
– Why does Hillary keep having bizarre seizure-like episodes?
– Why does Hillary keep having coughing fits?
– Why is Hillary on 1960’s-era medication that has side-effects which include “severe dizziness” and “tiredness”?
– Why is Hillary being medically aided by a strange Secret Service handler who now appears to have disappeared since we drew attention to him?
– Why are Secret Service whistle blowers telling us that Hillary has major health problems if all this is just a conspiracy theory?
– Why is the media, which obsessed about John McCain’s health in 2008, dismissing the entire issue as a “conspiracy theory” when 59% of Americans want to see Hillary’s medical records, according to a Rasmussen poll?
The Clinton campaign cannot answer any of these questions, which is why they will continue to create fake media hoaxes to draw attention away from the real issues.
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THIS DEVASTATING PHOTO PROVES HILLARY CLINTON'S CRIPPLING HEALTH CONDITION

"DETERIORATING RAPIDLY"
Published on Aug 12, 2016
Sub for more: http://nnn.is/the_new_media | Kristinn Taylor for the Gateway Pundit reports A photo from April shows now-Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton being firmly held up by a man on her right side to keep her from falling over as she addressed an overflow crowd during a campaign stop in Los Angeles, while a man on her left side is seen urgently extending his arm to aid in propping up Clinton.

Hillary's Health: What They're NOT Telling You

Published on Aug 18, 2016
Author Mike Cernovich blows wide open the media cover-up surrounding Hillary's health.
Visit Mike's website: http://dangerandplay.com

The Public Thinks Crooked Hillary Will Try To Steal The Election

Published on Aug 17, 2016
At another large rally in West Bend Wisconsin, hordes of Donald Trump supporters think the polls are totally false and made up and when you compare the Hillary crowds to Trumps you can see why
PROPPED UP BY SECRET SERVICE, PERSONAL ATTENDANTS, AND PILLOWS:

Hillary's Trail Of Death Protected By Mainstream Media

Published on Aug 17, 2016
Much ado about Hillary. Heat street reported, Hillary has been using pillows at every appearance to prop herself up. But its truly the media spin cycle of her scandalous path of deviation in the face of the Justice system that has propped up Hillary’s Presidential Aspirations. How so you ask? Because if Hillary’s true criminal modus operandi was examined by a legitimate investigative media, the dead bodies stuck in Hillary’s web would be front and center.

And that trail of the dead is a long one. Vincent Foster, Mary Mahoney, Judi Gibbs, Walter Scheib, Charles Ruff,Jim McDougal, Admiral Boorda, Barry Seal, Michael Hastings, Sandy Hume, Gareth Williams are just a few of the ghosts in the Clinton past.





GERMAN "ASYLUM SEEKERS" REFUSE TO WORK: "WE ARE MERKEL'S GUESTS" ON WELFARE~GERMANS TURNING AGAINST MERKEL & MIGRANTS

DEPORTATION

BECAUSE THE POPE WANTS IT THIS WAY, GERMANS MUST ATONE? THEY FAILED TO ATONE THIS MUCH FOR THE JEWS
JUST PRETEND ALL IS JUST SUPER!
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EVEN TIME FOR MIXING WITH JIHADISTS 
& TAKING "SELFIES" WITH FREE SMARTPHONE TOO!
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GERMAN "ASYLUM SEEKERS" REFUSE TO WORK: "WE ARE MERKEL'S GUESTS" 
BY CHRISTINE WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/08/german-asylum-seekers-refuse-to-work-we-are-merkels-guestsrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Decisions on Muslim migration made by leftist politicians have become a scourge on the German people and other European citizens, who have witnessed the slow metamorphosis of their peaceful communities while they pay with their tax dollars for the recklessness of their leaders such as Angela Merkel. Tens of thousands of crimes and assaults have been committed by Muslim migrants in Germany, but these are less of a concern to the politicians who walk with their security detail and their bank accounts intact.
Even in the midst of the Muslim migrant crisis in Germany, Mayor Bernd Pohlers of the eastern town of Saxony Waldenburg, where the asylum seekers refused to accept work, stated his concern about this latest piece of news playing “into the hands of those opposing the mass migration,” evincing yet again the all too familiar stench of political posturing and a cruel disregard for those who cast their votes in trust.
“German asylum seekers refuse to work insisting ‘We are Merkel’s GUESTS'”, by Siobhan McFadyen and Monika Pallenberg, UK Express, August 18, 2016:
ASYLUM seekers in Germany are refusing to undertake work to counteract boredom – using Chancellor Angela Merkel’s generous hospitality as an excuse.
According to mayor Bernd Pohlers of the eastern town of Saxony Waldenburg, the asylum seekers refused to accept the work that was offered to them after they arrived in the country.
The local council spent £600 arranging for the men to have uniforms but were stunned when they were told they would not complete it because they were “guests of Angela Merkel”.
While asylum seekers are not allowed to work under immigration rules within the EU, they are allowed to do voluntary work.
However officials in the district of Zwickau came up with a plan to help encourage those without employment to get back to work and to help them become more accepted within the local community.
In order to do this they created voluntary jobs which included a nominal payment of £18 for 20 hours work.
But all of the male residents of the local refugee accommodation who initially agreed to get involved in the charitable activities quit after discovering there was a minimum wage £7.30 (€8.50) in Germany.
The men had been picked up and offered transportation from their paid-for housing where they are also given food and then dropped home.
Mayor Pohlers said: “It was subsequently argued by these people that they are guests of Mrs. Merkel and guests do not have to work.
“Furthermore, they were of the opinion that there is a minimum wage (€8.50) in Germany, and that this had to be paid by the City Waldenburg.”
Despite attempts at mediation the asylum seekers refused to return to work.
Mayor Pohlers added: “In a specially convened meeting with an interpreter the authorities explained the rules again.
“Unfortunately, no agreement could be reached on the continuation of the measure.”
Now all seven of the jobs have been scrapped.
The mayor spoke out in a bid to highlight the issue of the asylum crisis in Germany.
He said he is aware his statements could play into the hands of those opposing the mass migration.
However after having raised money from the local community to help aid the asylum seeker’s transition into the community, he felt compelled to speak out…..
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Germans Turn Against Merkel Over Muslim Migrants

BY CHRISTINE WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/08/germans-turn-against-merkel-over-muslim-migrantsrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

“Germany’s patience with migration is wearing thin in the wake of migrant sexual assaults and terror attacks, a devastating new poll has revealed,” turning her often-repeated phrase “we can do it” on its head.
The YouGov tracker poll shows that 66 percent of Germans no longer welcome migrants.
The inability of Germany to integrate the influx has also caused concern, with the shock revelation this week that the top 30 German companies had employed just 54 migrants.
More than one million arrived in Germany last year, and just yesterday it was revealed that some German asylum seekers refused to work, saying “We are Merkel’s guests.”
A revealing article also reported that EU officials have discovered “that most of the ‘refugees’ are not refugees. What a mess.”
“‘Refugees NOT welcome’ as 66% of Germans turn on Merkel over migrants”, by Paul Christian,UK Express, August 19, 2016:
In a nightmare scenario for German chancellor Angela Merkel, her oft-repeated phrase “we can do it”, in relation to absorbing hundreds of thousands of migrants, has been widely derided.
A YouGov tracker poll revealed how two out of three Germans don’t agree with the phrase, which now haunts Mrs Merkel, as the country creaks under the pressure of waves of newcomers.
Political opponents like the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD), have also thrown the soundbite back in her face and garnered huge numbers of new supporters in the process.
A YouGov poll showed how 66 per cent of those polled did not agree with Merkel’s boast, up from 51 percent last September.
The growing resentment towards the German leader could threaten her grip on power, with elections set for autumn next year.
As her authority ebbed away Mrs Merkel was even criticised from within her own Christian Democrats party, with MEP Karl-Georg Wellmann saying: “Many of our voters understand it as if we could, indefinitely, continue to take in more people.
“Chancellor Merkel might not even mean to say that, but this is how it’s being perceived — and that’s why people I meet in my constituency tell me that they are just sick of hearing that sentence.”
AfD deputy leader Alexander Gauland received a rapturous reception at a rally in August last year when he yelled: “We don’t want to do this, at all.”
At the time the party was polling at just three per cent, by June this year it had surged to 14 per cent.
The inability of Germany to integrate the influx has also caused concern, with the shock revelation this week that the top 30 German companies had employed just 54 migrants.
More than one million migrants arrived in Germany last year, with a third of them refugees from Syria.
Merkel has increasingly come under fire for her immigration policies which have seen around 16,000 refugees arrive in Germany every month.
She has faced a backlash and seen her popularity among voters nosedive, with many blaming her open door refugee policy for a spate of terror attacks in Germany…




LONDON'S MUSLIM MAYOR INTRODUCES THE THOUGHT POLICE

NO, HE'S NOT MR. BEAN, JUST A KILLER OF FREE SPEECH
Sadiq Khan MP at Westminster, London, Britain  - 11 Oct 2012
LONDON'S MUSLIM MAYOR INTRODUCES 
THE THOUGHT POLICE 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

In FrontPage today I show how Sadiq Khan’s new initiative against “hate speech” demonstrates how the Left serves the Islamic supremacist agenda:
London’s new Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, is allocating over two million dollars (£1,730,726) to an “online hate crime hub” enabling police to track and arrest “trolls” who “target…individuals and communities.” There can be no doubt, given the nature of the British political establishment today, which “trolls” these new Thought Police will be going after, and which “communities” will be protected from “hate speech.” “Islamophobia,” which David Horowitz and I termed “the thought crime of the totalitarian future,” is now going to bring down upon the hapless “trolls” the wrath of London’s Metropolitan police force — and this totalitarian new initiative shows yet again how easily the Leftist and Islamic supremacist agendas coincide and aid each other.
“The Metropolitan police service,” said a police spokesman, “is committed to working with our partners, including the mayor, to tackle all types of hate crime including offences committed online.” Given the fact that Khan, in a 2009 interview, dismissed moderate Muslims as “Uncle Toms” and has numerous questionable ties to Islamic supremacists, it is unlikely that he will be particularly concerned about “hate speech” by jihad preachers (several of whom were just recently welcomed into a Britain that has banned foes of jihad, including me).
And the “partners” of the London police are likely to include Tell Mama UK, which says on its website: “we work with Central Government to raise the issues of anti-Muslim hatred at a policy level and our work helps to shape and inform policy makers, whilst ensuring that an insight is brought into this area of work through the systematic recording and reporting of anti-Muslim hate incidents and crimes.” Tell Mama UK has previously been caught classifying as “anti-Muslim hate incidents and crimes” speech on Facebook and Twitter that it disliked. Now it will have the help of the London police to do that.
“The purpose of this programme,” we’re told, “is to strengthen the police and community response to this growing crime type.” This “crime type” is only “growing” because Britain has discarded the principle of the freedom of speech, and is committing itself increasingly to the idea that “hate speech” is objectively identifiable, and should be restricted by government and law enforcement action. Section 127 of the Communications Act of 2003 criminalizes “using [a] public electronic communications network in order to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety,” and no groups are better at manifesting public annoyance than Islamic advocacy groups. A pastor in Northern Ireland, James McConnell, ran afoul of this law in 2014 when he dared to criticize Islam in a sermon; he was acquitted after an 18-month investigation and a trial, but the Metropolitan police will not want to be seen as wasting their new “hate speech” money; others will not be as fortunate as McConnell.
Behind the push for “hate speech” laws is, of course, the increasingly authoritarian Left. Increasingly unwilling (and doubtless unable) to engage its foes in rational discussion and debate, the Left is resorting more and more to the Alinskyite tactic of responding to conservatives only with ridicule and attempts to rule conservative views out of the realm of acceptable discourse. That coincides perfectly with the ongoing initiative of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to intimidate the West into criminalizing criticism of Islam.
This is not the first time that a Sharia imperative and a Leftist one coincided during the relatively brief (so far) mayoral tenure of Sadiq Khan. The London Evening Standard reported on June 13 that “adverts which put Londoners under pressure over body image are to be banned from the Tube and bus network.” This was because “Sadiq Khan announced that Transport for London would no longer run ads which could cause body confidence issues, particularly among young people.”
Said Khan: “As the father of two teenage girls, I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies. Nobody should feel pressured, while they travel on the Tube or bus, into unrealistic expectations surrounding their bodies and I want to send a clear message to the advertising industry about this.”
And so no more ads featuring women in bikinis on London buses. People often puzzle about how the hard Left and Islamic supremacists can make common cause, when they have such differing ideas of morality; Khan’s ad ban showed how. The Left’s concern with “body-shaming” and not putting people “under pressure over body image” meshed perfectly with the Sharia imperative to force women to cover themselves in order to remove occasions of temptation for men.
What next? Will London women be forced to cover everything except their face and hands (as per Muhammad’s command) so as not to put others “under pressure over body image”? And if they are, will anyone who dares to complain about what is happening to their green and pleasant land be locked up for “hate speech” by London’s new Thought Police?
Welcome to Sadiq Khan’s London. Shut up and put on your hijab.