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THE "CONCEPT" OF BABEL IN OMAHA TRIES TO REACH GOD WITHOUT JESUS CHRIST
GENESIS 11:1-9-
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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OMAHA, Neb. —A groundbreaking was recently held as part of a Nebraska
building project that will erect a church, synagogue and mosque side by side on
the same property.
Temple Israel, the American Muslim Institute and Countryside
Christian Church claim that they are being led by God to create the
multi-faith location in Omaha. “We believe that we are being led by our God to continue the
journey started by Abraham and that we are all called to be a blessing
to each other and our community,” the FAQ section of the Tri-Faith Initiative website outlines. It says that the effort combines the three because of their shared
Abrahamic faith and their belief that they all worship the same God.
“Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share a monotheistic
belief system,” the page explains. “Our traditions have many names for
God and use several languages for our sacred texts, but we share a
belief in the God of Abraham.”
The “Tri-Faith Initiative” has been in motion since 2006,
with Countryside Christian Church being the last to break ground. It
held its ceremony on June 5.
“We’ve been waiting for this moment since entering into the
Tri-Faith dialogue back in October 2013. It was a true leap of faith for
the congregation to vote in support of relocation back then,” leader
Eric Elnes told KMTV. “To see this day come is a dream coming together.
Temple Israel opened its new $21 million dollar facility in
2013, and the American Muslim Institute completed its $7 million
mosque in the spring, opening this month. A tri-faith center is also
expected to be completed in 2019, and will be used for interfaith
activities.
“Tri-Faith Initiative is already sponsoring activities
including speaking engagements, a children’s program, shared holidays
between congregations, an annual picnic, and others,” its website
outlines.
“Our mission is not about compromising anybody’s faith,”
Imam Mohamad Jamal Daoudi told CNN. “We are here to learn about each
other and to live as neighbors with each other.”
While Countryside Christian Church, part of the United
Church of Christ, already has a building 15 minutes away from the
location, it said it wanted to join the effort because it liked the
concept. Elnes said that the majority of his congregation voted for the
move, while some reports state that the matter divided the assembly.
“We are moving simply because we fell in love with the vision of Tri-Faith,” he said.
While some laud the initiative as a peacemaking move, others
have expressed concern. The Global Faith Institute, led by Dr. Mark
Christian, a former Muslim turned Christian, has several posts on its
website about the matter.
“The fundamental schism in Islam between Sunni and Shia is
irreconcilable and has resulted in centuries of strife and violence
within Islam. The idea that a mosque exists, that is open to both sects
equally; in close physical proximity and partnership with Jews and
Christians, makes this project a very appealing target for extremists of
all stripes who might wish to make a statement using violence,” he
opined.
The daughter of billionaire investor Warren Buffet, Susie
Buffet, is stated to be one of the financiers of the project, according
to the Kansas City Star. Buffet is a member of Countryside Christian Church.
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Over 40 pro-family groups recently signed a letter to the charity database site
GuideStar after it labeled dozens of organizations as “hate groups” based on a
list compiled by the controversial Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
“The ‘hate group’ list is nothing more than a political
weapon targeting people it deems to be its political enemies. The list
is ad hoc, partisan, and agenda-driven,” the correspondence read.
GuideStar added a banner atop the info pages of 46
nonprofits, which reads, “This organization was flagged as a hate group
by the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
Among those tagged as “hate groups” include Family Research Council, the
American Family Association, Liberty Counsel, the American Freedom
Defense Initiative, the Immigration Reform Law Institute, the Jewish
Institute for Global Awareness and the American College of
Pediatricians.
Guidestar CEO, Jacob Harold, told the Associated Press that
the company decided to add the warnings as a response to the increase of
“hateful rhetoric” among Americans. He said that the organization
decided to utilize SPLC’s list and trust their determinations.
“[W]e are making a judgment to trust that third party,” Harold outlined. “We feel that’s quite defensible.”
However, he said that the company was also considering
moving the warning to a not-so-prominent location on each page, as
GuideStar can’t personally state with certainty that every organization
labeled is indeed motivated by hate.
Those included on SPLC’s list state that the designation is defamatory.
“The SPLC’s primary goal is to achieve the political
submission of its opponents, but its practice of sustained demonization
in one’s community—which is what a ‘hate map’ is all about—inflames
passions of hatred and animus against its targets,” Wednesday’s letter
read.
It noted that SPLC’s hate map had been cited in 2012 when gunman Floyd Corkins went to Family Research Council’s headquarters with the intent to kill. Corkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
“In 2012, a shooter entered the Family Research Council
headquarters in Washington, D.C., to ‘kill as many as possible’ because
SPLC had identified FRC as a ‘hate group,’ and the killer-to-be relied
on SPLC’s website to identify targets, according to his sworn
testimony,” the correspondence outlined. “The SPLC continues to list on its website people such as
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise who was recently shot by James T.
Hodgkinson who ‘liked’ SPLC’s Facebook page,” it continued. “Does it not
concern you that within the past five years, the SPLC has been linked
to gunmen who carried out two terrorist shootings in the DC area?”
GuideStar now says that it will remove the labels, but only
out of its claim that staff had received threats from those upset about
the designations.
“Dismayingly, a significant amount of the feedback we’ve
received in recent days has shifted from constructive criticism to
harassment and threats directed at our staff and leadership,” it
remarked in a statement. “We acknowledge there is a deep, nuanced
conversation to be had with Americans of all political, cultural, and
religious backgrounds regarding how we address—and identify—hate
groups.”
The banners are expected to be removed this week, although
GuideStar says it will still provide the information if there is an
inquiry.
“If anyone’s guilty of hate, it’s the organization defining
it!” said FRC’s Tony Perkins in a blog post on the matter. “SPLC’s own
Mark Potok made no bones about the group’s ultimate agenda, saying,
‘Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate crimes and so
on. … I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these
groups, to completely destroy them.'” “And they think Christians are the threat?” he asked.
“What’s worse, SPLC is quite open about the fact that their labels are
completely arbitrary [as the group once said], ‘Our criteria for a ‘hate
group,’ first of all, have nothing to do with criminality or violence…
It’s strictly ideological.'” ____________________________________________________
A triumph! GuideStar has removed the “hate
group” label smeared on many of us by the hard left, pro-jihad hate
machine, the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center).
WaPo: GuideStar announced its decision to remove the labels last week, two days after being sent a complaint letter
signed by 41 people, largely representing conservative organizations,
including Pamela Geller of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, whom
the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as “one of America’s most
notorious Islamophobes,” and Tim Wildmon of the American Family
Association, a group the SPLC says is staunchly anti-LGBT.
“The ‘hate group’ list is nothing more than a political weapon
targeting people it deems to be its political enemies,” the letter said.
“The list is ad hoc, partisan, and agenda-driven.”
Threats? None of our followers and members have ever killed
or plotted violence against anyone, but members of SPLC, the very group
whose defamation GuideStar cites, have killed and attempted to
assassinate any number of us.
Last week, a coalition of conservative groups and organizations working in defense of freedom submitted a letter calling
out America’s leading source of information on U.S. charities,
GuideStar, on its use flagrant use of the SPLC’s hate labels in smearing
conservative organizations.
Earlier this month, GuideStar, the world’s largest
source for information about charities, added a new feature to its
website: warning labels flagging would-be donors to nearly four dozen
nonprofits accused of spreading hate. The outcry was immediate and most
vehement from conservative groups, including Christians who said they’d
been targeted as hateful for opposing same-sex marriage.
The complaints prompted GuideStar to reverse its course. The company said it’s removing the labels “for the time being”
beginning Monday, in part because of concerns raised about their
objectivity but also because of the threats against employees.
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals,
write to express our strong disagreement with Guidestar’s newly
implemented policy that labels 46 American organizations as “hate
groups.” Your designations are based on determinations made by the
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a hard-left activist organization.
As such, SPLC’s aggressive political agenda pervades the construction of
its “hate group” listings. The SPLC has no bona fides to make such determinations. It is not
a governmental organization using a rigorous criteria to create its
lists, and it is not a scientifically oriented organization. The SPLC is
merely another “progressive” political organization. It gained
credibility attacking Klansmen, neo-Nazis, and skinheads – many of whom
were engaged in violence. The SPLC is now trying to export the same
tactics into areas of mainstream political discourse including debates
about immigration and sexual-identity politics. The “hate group” list is nothing more than a political weapon
targeting people it deems to be its political enemies. The list is ad
hoc, partisan, and agenda-driven.1 The SPLC doesn’t even pretend to
identify groups on the political left that engage in “hate.” Mosques or
Islamist groups that promote radical speech inciting anti-Semitism and
actual violence are not listed by the SPLC even though many have been
publicly identified after terrorist attacks. Radical, violent leftist
environmentalists or speech suppressing thugs – like the rioting
“antifa” movement – receive no mention from the SPLC. Despite its denials to the contrary, this highly refined method
of ostracism and dehumanization practiced by the SPLC isn’t just about
verbal debate – it can foreseeably lead to violence. The SPLC’s primary
goal is to achieve the political submission of its opponents, but its
practice of sustained demonization in one’s community – which is what a
“hate map” is all about – inflames passions of hatred and animus against
its targets……
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Earlier this month, GuideStar, the world’s largest source for
information about charities, added a new feature to its website: warning
labels flagging would-be donors to nearly four dozen nonprofits accused
of spreading hate.
The outcry was immediate and most vehement from conservative groups,
including Christians who said they’d been targeted as hateful for
opposing same-sex marriage.
The complaints prompted GuideStar to reverse its course. The company said it’s removing the labels “for the time being”
beginning Monday, in part because of concerns raised about their
objectivity but also because of the threats against employees.
“Dismayingly, a significant amount of the feedback we’ve received in
recent days has shifted from constructive criticism to harassment and
threats directed at our staff and leadership,” said a statement
posted to GuideStar’s website on Friday. “With this development in mind
— driven by both our commitment to objectivity and our concerns for our
staff’s wellbeing,” the labels are being removed.
The “hate group” designations used by GuideStar came from the
Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit watchdog organization that tracks such groups,
which it says includes the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white
nationalists. The “hate group” banners used on GuideStar’s website
linked to the law center’s website, according to the Associated Press.
The SPLC lists 52 “anti-LGBT”
organizations on its website, including several churches and nonprofit
Christian ministries, such as the Alliance Defending Freedom, which it
says “has supported the criminalization of gay sex and currently is
working to enact so-called ‘bathroom bills’ around the country to
prevent trans people from using public restrooms … in accordance with
their gender identities.”
“These groups are not listed on the basis of opposition to same-sex
marriage or the belief that the Bible describes homosexual activity as
sinful,” the SPLC’s website said.
But some conservative organizations complained that the center’s
lumping them together with violent racist groups wasn’t based on
objective research but on a political agenda. GuideStar’s usage of the
center’s designation, they said, undermined the website’s policy of
“neutrality.”
“One may or may not like the legal advocacy of the Alliance Defending
Freedom, but they’re not a bunch of hooded-sheet Klanners burning
crosses,” wrote Mark Kellner for the conservative-leaning “Get Religion” website, which focuses focused on religion coverage in the news media.
GuideStar announced its decision to remove the labels last week, two days after being sent a complaint letter
signed by 41 people, largely representing conservative organizations,
including Pamela Geller of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, whom
the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as “one of America’s most
notorious Islamophobes,” and Tim Wildmon of the American Family
Association, a group the SPLC says is staunchly anti-LGBT.
“The ‘hate group’ list is nothing more than a political weapon
targeting people it deems to be its political enemies,” the letter said.
“The list is ad hoc, partisan, and agenda-driven.”
The letter called the SPLC a “progressive political organization”
that had “gained credibility attacking Klansmen, neo-Nazis, and
skinheads — many of who were engaged in violence.” But now, the letter
stated, the center had expanded its “tactics” into debates about
immigration and “sexual-identity” politics.
The
letter also claimed the SPLC “has been linked to gunmen who carried out
two terrorist shootings” in the D.C. area, including a 2012 shooting at
the Family Research Council and the recent shooting of House Majority
Whip Steve Scalise at a baseball field in Alexandria.
In the first instance, the gunman said that he targeted Family
Research Council after seeing it was listed as “anti-gay” on Southern
Poverty Law Center’s website. In the second instance, the letter simply
stated the gunman “liked” the SPLC’s Facebook page.
The letter complained that the SPLC continued to “list” Scalise on
its website. A 2014 posting on the center’s website says Scalise gave a
speech to a “well-known group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis” years
ago in his home state of Louisiana. Scalise said he wasn’t aware of the
group’s views, a claim with which the SPLC took issue.
Conservative media outlets seized upon GuideStar’s warning labels and
the organization’s decision to remove them. A headline in the Daily Signal,
a news platform for the conservative Heritage Foundation, blared:
“Nonprofit tracker smears dozens of conservative organizations as ‘hate
groups.’” Breitbart News reported: “Institutional Left Loses Again: Nonprofit Tracker Withdraws Inaccurate Leftist-Driven Labels Hurting Conservative Groups.”
For its part, GuideStar said in its statement that designating “hate groups” is more complicated than it had realized when it first starting using the labels.
In the weeks and months since, we have
heard from both supporters and critics of this decision, many of whom
have presented reasonable disagreements with the way in which this
information was presented. We are always open and willing to have
conversations with our users and nonprofit groups and welcomed this
feedback. We acknowledge there is a deep, nuanced conversation to be had
with Americans of all political, cultural, and religious backgrounds
regarding how we address — and identify — hate groups.
GuideStar said it will continue to make the “hate groups” information available “on request.”
Family Research Council (who was the victim of a shooting by an SPLC member) said this:
The SPLC is a partisan, hard-Left profit-machine trafficking in labels that lead to violence.
GuideStar was right to disassociate from them, and joins the good
company of the FBI and the Army (under Sec. McHugh), who’ve done the
same. This establishes GuideStar as a truly neutral source for
non-profit data.
We disavow and condemn violence in any form, and encourage GuideStar to report any threats of violence to the authorities.
We will continue to monitor “neutral” charity sites for expressions of partisan politics.
BURGER KING'S SLOGAN "HAVE IT YOUR WAY" ADOPTED BY MCDONALDS WITH A WORSHIPFUL BOW
The McDonalds ad reads:
We renew our
allegiance and obedience for his royal highness, the servant of the two
holy mosques, King Salman the son of Abdul Aziz Al Saud. And we support
Amir Mohammed bin Salman, his son, to become Minister of Defence and
Prime Minister and to be nominated as successor. God give him wisdom and
equip him to rule his kingdom. With peace and prosperity, McDonald's.
MCDONALDS SAUDI ARABIA PLEDGES "LOYALTY & OBEDIENCE ON THE QURAN" TO CROWN PRINCE
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Was there a question of a Ronald McDonald-led insurrection? Or of Big Mac-driven
apostasy from Islam?
“McDonalds sent a very McRoyale tribute to Saudi’s crown prince,” by Leyal Khalife, StepFeed, June 23, 2017:
This week, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman appointed his son
and current defense minister – Mohammed bin Salman – as crown prince of
the kingdom.
The news was met with excitement from many – with several hashtags trending on Twitter in celebration of MBS’s new position.
Of course, it wasn’t just your ordinary Saudi nationals welcoming MBS via social media.
Burger franchise McDonalds joined in, sending its very own royal tribute to the crown prince.
McDonald KSA pledged allegiance to the crown prince via a tweet that
has since been making the rounds online, garnering over 650 re-tweets at
the time of writing. “We pay homage to his royal highness Mohammed bin Salman. We promise
loyalty and obedience on the Quran. We pray God safeguards our kingdom’s
security, stability and safety,” the tweet says….
