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“The release of these photographs allegedly showing Iran Air’s
illegal activity comes as top U.S. air carrier manufacturer Boeing moves
forward with a multi-billion dollar deal to sell Iran Air a new modern
fleet.”
If the Trump administration still has the will to do something about
the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, which is by no means clear, there are
powerful moneyed interests determined to make sure it is not able to
act.
“Iran Caught Shipping Soldiers to Syria on Commercial Flights in Violation of Nuclear Deal,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, August 23, 2017:
New photographs obtained by congressional leaders show
Iran shipping militant soldiers to Syria on commercial airline flights, a
move that violates the landmark nuclear agreement and has sparked calls
from U.S. lawmakers for a formal investigation by the Trump
administration, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Photographs published by a Washington, D.C., think-tank and provided
to Congress show Iran using its flagship commercial carrier, Iran Air,
to ferry militants to Syria, where they have joined the fight against
U.S. forces in the region. The newphotographicevidence
has roiled congressional leaders, who accuse Iran of violating the
nuclear deal, which prohibits it from using commercial air carriers for
military purposes. These lawmakers are demanding the Trump
administration investigate the matter and consider imposing new
sanctions on Iran. The release of these photographs allegedly showing Iran Air’s illegal
activity comes as top U.S. air carrier manufacturer Boeing moves
forward with a multi-billion dollar deal to sell Iran Air a new modern
fleet. Many in Congress have opposed the deal due to Iran’s longstanding use of commercial aircraft for military purposes,
such as transporting weapons and troops to regional hotspots such as
Syria and elsewhere. It remains unclear the extent to which the former
Obama administration was aware of this activity, which came in part
while it was promoting Western airline sales to Tehran.
Iran Air’s central role in the illicit transportation of militant
forces to Syria could complicate Boeing’s efforts to move forward with
the sale, which still requires approval from the Trump administration’s
Treasury Department.
Congressional leaders are now calling for a suspension of all
licenses permitting these sales in light of the new evidence, according
to a letter obtained by the Free Beacon.
“Iran’s use of commercial aircraft for military purposes violates
international agreements as well as Iranian commitments under the
JCPOA,” or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, according to the
delegation of lawmakers pushing for an investigation. “We believe these
photos mandate a thorough investigation of these practices and a
comprehensive review of Iran’s illicit use of commercial aircraft.”
“During this investigation, the United States should suspend current
and future licenses for aircraft sales to Iran,” the letter goes on to
say.
Those calling for an investigation include Reps. Peter Roskam (R.,
Ill.), Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.), Andy Barr (R., Ken.), and David Reichert
(R., Wash.).
“Iran Air has engaged in Iran’s illicit transport of military goods
and personnel to Syria since implementation of the” nuclear deal, the
lawmakers write.
The Treasury Department has vowed in the past to consider and
investigate any new evidence revealing Iran’s illicit use of commercial
aircraft. The lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to make good
on this promise….
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Note that the National Catholic Reporter’s Ra’fat Al-Dajani
uncritically repeats the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic
Relations’ claims about “anti-Muslim hate crimes,” without mentioning
how often these “hate crimes” turn out to have been perpetrated by Muslims themselves (scroll down at that link to find many examples). Ra’fat Al-Dajani also leaves out a few passages of the Qur’an which
hapless National Catholic Reporter readers might find illuminating as
they search for common ground with Islam. These include:
Jesus is not the Son of God and belief in the Trinity is “excess”: “O
People of the Book! Do not exaggerate in your religion nor utter
anything concerning Allah save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of
Mary, was only a messenger of Allah, and his word which he conveyed to
Mary, and a spirit from him. So believe in Allah and His messengers, and
do not say ‘Three.’ Cease! It is better for you! Allah is only One
Allah. It is far removed from his transcendent majesty that he should
have a son. His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the
earth. And Allah is sufficient as Defender.” — Qur’an 4:171
And: “It is not befitting to Allah that he should beget a son. Glory
be to him! When He determines a matter, he only says to it, ‘Be,’ and it
is.” — Qur’an 19:35
Jesus was not crucified: “And because of their saying: We killed the
Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah’s messenger – they did not kill him or
crucify him, but it appeared so to them; and those who disagree
concerning it are in doubt about it; they have no knowledge of it except
pursuit of a conjecture; they did not kill him for certain.” — Qur’an
4:157
Those who believe in the divinity of Christ are unbelievers: “They
have certainly disbelieved who say that Allah is Christ, the son of
Mary.” — Qur’an 5:17 (cf. 5:72)
Christians have forgotten part of the divine revelations they
received: “From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a
covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent
them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and
the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will Allah show them what it
is they have done.” — Qur’an 5:14
Those who believe that Jesus is God’s Son are accursed: “The Jews
call Ezra a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of
Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; they but imitate what the
unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are
deluded away from the Truth! ” — Qur’an 9:30
Christians who do not accepted Muhammad and the Qur’an are the most
vile of created beings: “Nor did those who were given the Scripture
become divided until after there had come to them clear evidence. And
they were not commanded except to worship Allah, sincere to Him in
religion, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and to give zakah.
And that is the correct religion. Indeed, they who disbelieved among
the People of the Book and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell,
abiding eternally therein. Those are the most vile of created beings.” —
Qur’an 98:6
Muslims must fight against and subjugate Christians: “Fight those who
believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden what has
been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion
of Truth, of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with
willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” — Qur’an 9:29
Also, a hadith has Muhammad predicting that Jesus will return at the
end of the world and break the cross, as it is an insult to Allah’s
power to say that he would have allowed one of his prophets to be
crucified:
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s 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 nobody will accept charitable gifts. (Bukhari
3.34.425)
Muslims have sometimes taken this to mean not just that crosses will
be destroyed in the end time,s but that they should be now. In Spain in 2015, Muslims broke into a church, spray-painted “Allah” on wall, and destroyed the crucifix. In Pakistan in 2014, Muslims destroyed a church that was under construction, and desecrated the cross. When the Islamic State occupied Mosul, it made destruction of all crosses in the city a top priority.
And here’s my favorite New Testament verse, this time referring to
the National Catholic Reporter and Ra’fat Al-Dajani: “Leave them; they
are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall
into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“The Muslim Jesus provides common ground for Christianity, Islam,” by Ra’fat Al-Dajani, National Catholic Reporter, August 25, 2017:
As the country sits transfixed with one of the strangest,
divisive and most unpredictable presidencies in the history of the
United States, lost in the madness has been the increase in Islamophobia
since Donald Trump was elected president.
Islamophobia, defined as
“unfounded hostility towards Muslims and therefore fear or dislike of
all or most Muslims” has become frighteningly commonplace in the U.S.
and this hatred and misinformation has found fertile soil in the past
eight months of the Trump presidency.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has documented
451 incidents that stemmed from anti-Muslim bias between April 1 and
June 30, 2017, 15 percent of which were acts of violence against
Muslims. This represents a 91 percent increase in anti-Muslim hate
crimes during that time compared to the same time period in 2016….
The irony here is that most Americans really have no idea what is in
the Quran, the Muslim equivalent of the Bible, beyond the mostly
negative and out of context soundbites they hear on talk radio, cable TV
or the internet. They have no idea that the three monotheistic
religions that follow the same Abrahamic tradition, namely that Abraham was the first prophet of God, are Judaism, Christianity and yes, the third sibling, Islam….
The Quran specifically protects Jews and Christians as Peoples of the
Book, the “Book” meaning revelations from God to Jews and Christians
which gives them a spiritual connection to Islam.
As such, Islam recognizes as prophets many of the figures revered by
Jews and Christians, including Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. For Muslims,
Muhammad is not a divine being. Instead he is a prophet through whom God
delivered his message and an example of piety to emulate. Muhammad is
not the equivalent of Jesus in the Islamic tradition, rather it is the
Quran that occupies the same central position in Islam as Jesus does in
Christianity.
It would surprise many to know that the Prophet Muhammad is only
mentioned a total of four times in the Quran while Jesus, the son of
Mary, is mentioned 25 times and Moses 136 times. The Quran dedicates a
whole chapter to Mary, who is the only woman mentioned by name in the
sacred text.
The Islamic version of the Jesus story especially, is quite similar to the Christian version. Jesus is variously referred to as
“Spirit from God, “Word from/of God”), “Prophet-Messenger of God,” and
the “Messiah” who will come back on the Day of Judgment to destroy the
Antichrist.
Beginning with his birth, Muslims believe that Jesus was born of the
Virgin Mary in a miraculous birth ordained by God. The Quranic verse
says:
“Relate in the Book the story of Mary, when she withdrew
from her family, to a place in the East. She screened herself from them;
then We sent to her Our spirit (angel Gabriel) and he appeared before
her as a man in all respects. She said: ‘I seek refuge from you in God
Most Gracious (come not near) if you do fear God.’ He said: ‘Nay, I am
only a Messenger from your Lord, to announce to you the gift of a pure
son.’ She said: ‘How shall I have a son, when no man has ever touched
me, and I am not unchaste?’ He said: ‘So it will be, your Lord says:
‘That is easy for Me; and We wish to appoint him as a sign unto men and a
Mercy from Us: It was a matter so decreed.’ ” (Quran 19:16-21).
The Quran also relays how Jesus spoke in the cradle: “Then she (Mary)
pointed to him. They said: ‘How can we talk to one who is a child in
the cradle?’ He (Jesus) said: ‘Verily! I am a slave of God, He has given
me the Scripture and made me a Prophet.” (Quran 19:29-30).
The miracles performed by Jesus were not limited to his cradle
according to the Quran. Muslims believe Jesus performed miracles
throughout his life: “Then will God say: ‘O Jesus the son of Mary!
Recount My favor to you and to your mother. Behold! I strengthened you
with the Holy Spirit (the angel Gabriel) so that you did speak to the
people in childhood and in maturity. Behold! I taught you the Book and
Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel. And behold: you make out of clay, as it
were, the figure of a bird, by My leave, and you breathe into it, and it
becomes a bird by My leave, and you heal those born blind, and the
lepers by My leave. And behold! you bring forth the dead by My leave.’ ”
(Quran 5:110).
Naturally there are theological differences between Muslims and
Christians regarding Jesus but there are far more similarities and these
similarities are what should be emphasized in order to show the common
ground between these two faiths, which together represent 4.1 billion followers worldwide and 55.3 percent of the world’s population….
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Barriers and police and army vehicles have been placed around St.
Peter's Basilica to make it harder for a vehicle to gather speed
in an attack such as the one last week in Barcelona, which killed
13 people.
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“Barriers and police and army vehicles have been placed around St.
Peter’s Basilica to make it harder for a vehicle to gather speed in an
attack such as the one last week in Barcelona, which killed 13 people.”
What? This is unconscionable and Islamophobic! Pope Francis has declared: “Authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” And that the rights of Muslim migrants override national security concerns. And that every foreigner who knocks on our door is an opportunity to meet Jesus Christ,
So why the high security at the Vatican? The Pope should welcome the
jihadis as an opportunity to meet Jesus Christ. Send those police and
army vehicles home. Tear down those barriers. It’s a religion of peace!
What are Vatican authorities so nervous about?
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Vatican prepared for Barcelona-style terror attack – Swiss Guard,” Times of Malta, August 25, 2017:
It is perhaps “only a matter of time” before Rome is hit
by a Barcelona-style attack but security forces are ready in case the
Vatican is targeted, the head the Swiss Guard has said….
Barriers and police and army vehicles have been placed around St.
Peter’s Basilica to make it harder for a vehicle to gather speed in an
attack such as the one last week in Barcelona, which killed 13 people.
Despite threats from Islamic State, Rome and other Italian cities
have so far been spared the kind of vehicle attacks that have also hit
Nice, London, and Berlin.
“It could perhaps be just a matter of time before there is such an
attack in Rome, but we are prepared,” Christoph Graf, the commandant of
the Swiss Guard, was quoted as telling the Swiss Catholic website
Cath.ch….
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“Remember this, you kuffar [non-Muslims] – we will be in Rome, we
will be in Rome, inshallah [god willing]….After all their efforts, it
would be the religion of the cross that would be broken.”
Yep, it’s an opportunity to meet Jesus Christ, all right. Remember: Pope Francis has said that the rights of Muslim migrants override security concerns.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“ISIS threatens Pope Francis and Catholic Church in new video,” Catholic Herald, August 25, 2017:
ISIS has released a video showing its fighters ripping up photographs of Pope Francis and threatening to come to Rome.
Filmed in the Philippines, where the terrorists have been fighting
the government for control of the city of Marawi, the video also shows
the destruction the group have wreaked on a Catholic church.
The jihadists brag about how they have freed inmates from a local
jail, with one addressing the camera saying: “Remember this, you kuffar
[non-Muslims] – we will be in Rome, we will be in Rome, inshallah [god
willing].”
The video also shows them destroying a crucifix and a statue of the
Virgin Mary. It finishes with the church in flames, and one of the
terrorists explaining: “After all their efforts, it would be the
religion of the cross that would be broken.”
“The crusaders’ enmity toward the Muslims only served to embolden a generation of youth,” he adds….
I
sat down recently with Robert Spencer, author of The Complete Infidel's
Guide to ISIS, to discuss the terror group's plan for Rome. While the
idea of ISIS conquering Rome may sound ridiculous, Quranic Muslims --not
just in ISIS-- believe the fall of Rome must take place before the
final battle against the infidel armies at Dabiq, Syria and the return
of the Mahdi, the Muslim "messiah." Oh, and ISIS also plans to behead the Pope.
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Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton slammed Infowars.com
Thursday over a video in which Alex Jones questioned former First Lady
Michelle Obama’s sexuality.
“Michelle Obama is everything this site will never be-honorable,
brave, beloved, beautiful,” the daughter of two-time failed Democrat
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wrote on Twitter, referring to
Infowars.
.@MichelleObama is everything this site will never be-honorable, brave, beloved, beautiful. Don't need to watch an awful video to know that. https://t.co/0L8tyUiw0k
Chelsea
was responding to a critical message from a Daily Beast editor, who
tweeted an image of Infowars’ Thursday evening splash page, stating
enviously, “The president reads this website.”
This is leading InfoWars right now. The video is even worse than you think it is. The president reads this website. pic.twitter.com/cbjqePW0Ec
On
Thursday, Alex Jones published a report asking why Youtube was deleting
a video purportedly proving that Michelle Obama is actually a man.
Deceased
comedian Joan Rivers once claimed Obama was the first gay president,
and that “everyone knows” Michelle Obama is a “tranny” and a
“transgender.” She died two months later.
Watch Alex’s report triggering liberals across the web: Is This Final Proof Michelle Obama Is A Man? #1 Video On The Web
MICHELLE OBAMA TRANNY SCANDAL EXPLODES IN CONTROVERSY AS CHELSEA CLINTON ATTACKS INFOWARS
Published on Aug 27, 2017
In
an attack against Alex Jones, Chelsea Clinton claimed Michelle Obama
was “honorable, brave, beloved and beautiful,” which is almost exactly
the same praise given to Caitlyn Jenner after her transformation. https://www.infowars.com/update-chels...
White
House chief of staff General John Kelly has instituted a new system to
control the flow of information that means President Trump will not be
handed stories from Infowars or other non-mainstream outlets.
If
at first you don’t secede…try, try again. People in California are
looking at ways to increase local sovereignty or even secede — and it
can be done peacefully. Marcus Ruiz Evans of YesCalifornia explains
why, and how a Constitutional Convention is now in sight to create a
formal process for states to secede as the EU has Article 50 being used
for BREXIT.
NORTH CAROLINA MAN ABUSED BY FASCIST CROWD IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
Published on Aug 16, 2017
Tension
in Charlottesville continued Tuesday morning as a North Carolina man
carrying a Confederate flag and with a semi-automatic rifle slung over
his shoulder stood vigil at the foot of the Robert E. Lee statue at
Emancipation Park, drawing an angry crowd.
The statue — and the
effort to remove it — has been the focal point of increasing unrest that
came to a head Saturday when a car crashed into a crowd and killed a
woman following clashes between white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups
and protesters. Allen Armentrout said he came to Charlottesville to
honor and defend the Confederate general, but said he completely
disagrees with the views expressed at the weekend’s Unite the Right
rally and condemned the events that resulted in the death of 32-year-old
Charlottesville resident Heather Heyer.
Once word got out that
Armentrout was standing in Emancipation Park with a Confederate flag and
a gun just two days after Heyer’s death, several people rushed to
confront him.
As the crowd grew, so did the anger and frustration.
Signs with Heyer’s name rested at the foot of the statue as residents shouted at Armentrout, standing just feet away.
“I
couldn’t believe he was here,” said Kate Fraliegh, a city resident who
showed up at the park on Tuesday. “After all that’s gone on in the city,
how insulting, how rude, how dangerous, how incompetent, how foolish
for him to come here and show a flag that was treasonous in its time
supporting slavery. People in those days may have thought it was
patriotic, but it certainly isn’t patriotic anymore.”
Several
people stood in front of Armentrout chanting “Racist go home,”
“terrorist go home,” and “tear it down” in reference to the statue.
Charlottesville
City Council approved removing the statue from Emancipation Park, then
known as Lee Park, with a 3-2 vote in April. A lawsuit was filed the
next month to prevent the removal of the Lee statue.
Some
confronted Armentrout directly, giving him the finger as he occasionally
saluted the statue and looked straight ahead. Some told him Heyer’s
blood is on his hands for supporting the Confederate symbols, and that
his presence was unwanted as they tried to mourn her loss.
A few
Charlottesville police officers responded as the crowd continued to
grow, monitoring the situation until they asked Armentrout if he would
like leave. He agreed and was escorted back to his vehicle, Lt. Steve
Upman said in an email.
Before the crowd arrived, Armentrout said
he came to Charlottesville to let people know there are people who are
not white supremacists who support the Confederacy and Lee. Many
Confederate flags were visible Saturday in Emancipation Park before an
unlawful assembly was declared, as well as during the July 8 Ku Klux
Klan rally.
“It hurts my heart that people come out here and
misappropriate Robert E. Lee and the Confederate flag for their personal
agendas,” he said. “I’m out here to honor my ancestors and honor the
men who died under the command of Robert E. Lee, and I think me being
out here shows that I hope to accomplish the fact that the world can see
that there’s non-racist pro-Confederate people out there that love
freedom and independence.” Armentrout said he was ashamed of what he saw
unfold in Charlottesville on Saturday, and hopes James Alex Fields Jr.,
the man charged with ramming his car into a crowd of people that killed
Heyer and injured 19 others, serves time.
One of the very first
people to directly confront Armentrout was city resident Peter Norton,
who for several minutes talked with him.
“I don’t like people
walking around in parks in my town with automatic weapons,” he said.
“I’m also, though, a person who doesn’t think we solve problems with
angry attacks, so I thought I’d begin by listening at least.”
After
the two finished talking and Norton walked away, he said he believes
it’s worth talking to those with whom you disagree in order to
understand them.
“[Martin Luther] King [Jr.] demonstrated the
power of nonviolence, the possibility of reconciliation, the possibility
of redemption, and I think deep underneath the warped, mentally
afflicted perverted views that we’ve seen expressed here this weekend,
somewhere under that mud there’s a decent human being, and I don’t think
we’ll reach them unless we try listening,” he said.
“Now, to be
fair, if this had been one of those more outrageously Nazi, hate Jews
type thing, I wouldn’t have bothered because I know you can’t reach such
a person. But this guy seemed like he was willing to listen and be
listened to.”
No one was arrested or detained.
PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE DENIES STUDENT CIVIL RIGHTS, FREEDOM OF SPEECH & DUE PROCESS
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Pensacola Christian College will not allow a student who went to Charlottesville, Virginia carrying a Confederate Flag to complete his Senior year.
Allen Armentrout, a native of North Carolina, drove to
Charlottesville the week after the “Unite the Right” and related
counter-protests turned violent. Counter-protester Heather Heyer died
from her injuries after a car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians on a
Charlottesville street. Armentrout donned a replica 19th-century uniform,
strapped a rifle over his shoulder, and held a Confederate flag while
he saluted the statue of Robert E Lee that stands at the center of the
controversy in the college town. His actions quickly drew a crowd who
protested his actions. The crowd can be heard chanting “Terrorist go
home” and “Racist go home” while he stands at attention while saluting
the statue. One angry Charlottesville resident stood in front of him
with both middle fingers raised for half an hour.
Armentrout says that he is not a racist and made the trip because he
wanted people to know the “true history” of the Civil War. He said that
the men who fought for the confederacy were not racists and were not
fighting to preserve slavery.
He told a local news station of his removal from Pensacola Christian.
“I have been released from my school and will be unable to return to
college to finish my senior year. I’m processing this and making
adjustments to my life to compensate for this scrutiny.”
Pensacola Christian said they do not comment on cases involving
individual students, but did release a general statement. “Pensacola
Christian College recognizes the dignity and value of all people, and we
respect the history of America. We encourage individuals to exercise
discernment and seek to build reconciliation, especially during a time
of mourning like Charlottesville is experiencing.”
Armentrout disagrees with the school’s decision and believes they
should have stood up for him instead. “I believe a Christian institution
should support patriotic individuals who want to stand for American
tradition and beliefs. It really hurts me a lot when you try to do
what’s right and you get attacked.”
Publisher’s note: We should not be surprised as to what we see
coming out of this, so called, “Christian College”, that is more of the
“Puritanical” brand of Christianity, than the Fundamentalist brand that
they purport to be. How tragic that some of the finest of our Baptist
families, even Baptist pastors send their children there, thinking that they are keeping them separate from the world, when in reality they are making them, as Jesus said of the Pharisees, Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and
land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold
more the child of hell than yourselves.
We got a glimpse of this pharisaical spirit when the University
turned Kent Hovind and his wife in for tax evasion when they hadn’t even
been charged with tax evasion. Then Margaret Horton went in and
testified against him on the basis that she was being true to her religion. As the Pensacola News of Oct. 20, 2006 reported, “But Horton said whether Hovind works for God is irrelevant and the Bible does not exempt anyone from paying taxes.
“We know the Scriptures do not promote (tax evasion),” she said. “It’s against Scripture teaching.” Horton believed it was the college’s duty to report the
misleading doctrine. Administration called the Internal Revenue Service
and gave the tape to officials, she said.” This is exactly the same spirit that the Puritan Elders of
Salem exhibited when they banished Roger Williams to the wilderness.
Except they banished Allen Armentrout from his senior year. By the way this isn’t the first time they have done this. Now in our opinion, if the College had given a
directive that no students were to have gone to Charlottesville, then
they would have been justified, but to arbitrarily dismiss Allen
afterwards when he had no knowledge of what was going to happen there is
criminal. But listen to what the Lord Jesus said at Mat 10:36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
Should not Allen expect better of this from the “household of
faith?” Especially those that he has spent multiplied thousands of
dollars with.”
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Confederate demonstrator kicked out of Pensacola Christian College
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NOTE: GRAPHIC GESTURES A crowd of protesters in Charlottesville
confronted a man holding a confederate flag on Tuesday at the site of
the Robert E. Lee statue where white supremacists rallied last weekend. AP
A Pensacola student who sparked
controversy Tuesday by wearing a Confederate uniform to the site of a
violent clash between white nationalists and counter protesters has been
kicked out of Pensacola Christian College, according to a North Carolina
media outlet.
WXII News 12 reported that
Allen Armentrout, who reportedly splits time living in Pensacola and
North Carolina, learned Thursday that PCC staff had decided to terminate
his enrollment.
"I have been released from my
school and will be unable to return to college to finish my senior
year," Armentrout told the TV station. "I'm processing this and making
adjustments to my life to compensate for this scrutiny."
Armentrout could not be reached for comment Friday.
In
a statement to the News Journal on Friday, Pensacola Christian College
wrote that to protect student privacy, the institution would not provide
any specific information related to any student's enrollment or history
at the college.
The statement continued,
"Pensacola Christian College recognizes the dignity and value of all
people, and we respect the history of America. We encourage individuals
to exercise discernment and seek to build reconciliation, especially
during a time of mourning like Charlottesville is experiencing."
Video
from Tuesday showed Armentrout — wearing a Confederate uniform and
carrying a Confederate flag — standing and saluting a statue of Gen.
Robert E. Lee at Charlottesville's Emancipation Park. He was surrounded
by a crowd that chanted "terrorist go home." Armentrout stood in a
motionless salute until he was peaceably escorted away from the scene by
police.
Armentrout later told the News Journal he
made the trip to Virginia because the KKK, Neo-Nazis and other groups
are destroying the history of his ancestors and he wants to share "the
true history" of the American South. He said Neo-Nazis have wrongly
"latched on" to Confederate history.
"I went up there to represent what I believe is right," he said.
Hundreds
of white nationalists gathered in Charlottesville over the weekend to
protest the removal of Lee's statue and were met by counterprotesters
who condemned their cause. Heather Heyer, a Charlottesville paralegal,
was killed when James Alex Fields Jr. allegedly drove a car into a crowd
of counter protesters.
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From FreedomProject Media:
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization, more commonly known as UNESCO, is under fire for
immorality and anti-Semitism. But in reality, that is only scratching
the surface of the problem.
In fact, UNESCO is a den of communism, globalism, and wickedness that
would shock even the most seasoned political observer. And it wants to
control what your children learn — and even their values and beliefs.
Writing last month for the borderline-neocon organization known as
the Gatestone Institute, University of Paris Professor Guy Millière
expressed outrage over UNESCO's hostility to the State of Israel. In
particular, Dr. Millière, author of more than two dozen books on France
and Europe, was furious at UNESCO's efforts to write Jews out of their
own history by designating key Jewish historical sites as “Palestinian.”
“UNESCO is an immoral, anti-Semitic organization,” fumed Millière. “Decent countries should leave.”
“Sadly, UNESCO has become simply an anti-Semitic fraud, governed by
fabrications rather than by facts,” he continued. “It betrays its
mission, falsifies history, and wages a campaign of raw racism against
the Jewish people and Judaism — and the world accepts that. UNESCO acts
as an instrument for propaganda seeking to annihilate the legitimacy of
the existence of Israel.”
While it is undoubtedly true that UNESCO has a bizarre obsession with
demonizing the tiny Jewish state, the problems with this self-styled
planetary “education” department go much deeper. To read the rest of the article, click here. ________________________________________________________ SEE ALSO: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10703/unesco-israel-antisemitism
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Citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the National Center for Life and Liberty of the D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) filed suit
against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday for
“trafficking in false or misleading descriptions of the services offered
under the ministry’s trademarked name; and for defamation pursuant to
Alabama common law arising from the publication and distribution of
information that libels the ministry’s reputation and subjects the
ministry to disgrace, ridicule, odium, and contempt in the estimation of
the public.” Frank Wright, the CEO of the ministries, explained why it is suing the SPLC:
We embarked today on a journey to right a
terrible wrong. Those who knowingly label Christian ministries as
“hate” groups solely for subscribing to the historic Christian faith,
are either woefully uninformed or willfully deceitful.
In the case of the Southern Poverty Law Center, our lawsuit alleges the latter.
At issue is the SPLC’s inclusion of Wright’s ministries in its “hate”
map along with the KKK and various Nazi groups. Thanks to the
unblinking and uncritical acceptance of that “hate map” as legitimate by
various members of the media, it has damaged the ministries. That’s why
included in the lawsuit is Amazon and the charity guidance group
GuideStar. Each has taken SPLC’s designation of DLKM seriously and
blocked it from listing it at AmazonSmile and removed it from
Guidestar’s list of approved ministries.
Wright said:
These false and illegal characterizations
have a chilling effect on the free exercise of religion and on
religious speech for all people of faith. After having given the SPLC an
opportunity to retract, we have undertaken legal action, seeking a
trial by a jury of our peers, to preserve our own rights under the law
and to defend the religious free speech rights of all Americans.
Wright expressed his frustration with the SPLC’s designation and the
uncritical acceptance of it by people who should know better. This has
nothing to do with “hate,” said Wright:
This is about everything that stands in
opposition to the hard left liberal agenda. If you favor sanctity of
human life, you’re a hater. [If you’re opposed to illegal] immigration,
you’re a hater. [If you’re in] favor of immigration reform, [you’re a
hater].
The one thing that, quite frankly, is
infuriating is that apparently you can fly fuel-laden airplanes into
tall buildings and not be considered a hater [by the SPLC]. You can make
Christians kneel on the beach and slice their heads off and not be a
hater.
But if you say anything against the violence of Islam, [you’re a hater].
The lawsuit states, “It is the SPLC’s intent that the people who
receive the information that SPLC publishes about the ministry will rely
on SPLC’s information as fact and will base their charitable giving
decisions on that information.” The lawsuit includes GuideStar for
“knowingly accept[ing] defamatory information from the SPLC regarding
the ministry and knowingly, intentionally, and purposefully
republish[ing] that defamatory information with the intent that the
people who receive the republished SPLC information from GuideStar will
rely on that information as fact for the purpose of making their
charitable giving decisions.”
Although the instant cause of SPLC’s inclusion of DJKM in its “hate”
map is due to its position on LGBT issues, the matter reflects a much
greater issue: the First Amendment right to worship as citizens see fit.
From the lawsuit:
Because the ministry’s position on ‘LGBT’
issues is inextricably intertwined and connected to the ministry’s
religious theology, and because SPLC and GuideStar have declared the
ministry to be a hate group due to the ministry’s stand on LGBT issues,
what occurred here is that SPLC and GuideStar have discriminated against
the ministry because of its theology and its religious beliefs.
It’s even deeper than that, according to Judge Roy Moore. Moore was
recently interviewed by Jerry Newcombe of DJKM, and Moore made it clear
what the foundational issue really is:
The Southern Poverty Law Center has had
Ben Carson on their hate list. They’ve had Tony Perkins [of the Family
Research Council] on their hate list.
The truth is: they’re the ones that hate. They hate God, and they hate the acknowledgement of God.
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D. James Kennedy Ministries files defamation lawsuit against Southern Poverty Law Center
At last, some pushback. For years, the Southern Poverty Law Center
has been defaming not just Christian groups, as this lawsuit correctly
states, but also counter-jihad groups and other legitimate and worthy
organizations as “hate groups.” This has resulted in the wholesale
stigmatization, demonization, and marginalization of these groups,
including Jihad Watch, and now, after Charlottesville, the large-scale
attempt to deny us any access to the means of communication.
All freedom-loving people should applaud this suit and aid it in any way possible.
“‘Righting A Terrible Wrong’: D. James Kennedy Ministries Files Defamation Suit Against Southern Poverty Law Center,” D. James Kennedy Ministries, August 25, 2017:
