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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SIGNS HISTORIC TAX CUT BILL INTO LAW
Friday, December 22, 2017: Watch live as President Donald Trump signs
the biggest ever tax cut and reform bill into law. He will also sign a
missile defense bill. The ceremony will take place in the Oval Office at
the White House.
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Ramin Azimi (left) with his victim (right)
Girl raped and burned alive by migrant.
A 17-year-old girl from Pori, Finland, was raped and then burned
alive by her boyfriend. The boyfriend, Ramin Azimi, a migrant with a
Middle Eastern background, refused his girlfriend’s wish to break up.
According to the court’s statement, Ramin Azimi repeatedly “first
raped the girl in a nightclub in Ulvila. The he transported her to the
town of Kokemäki by car, moved her to a wooden house, doused her in
gasoline and burned her alive.”
The man has been sentenced to life in prison, according to the newspaper.
Via 10news.one Also read: Germany: Afghan Refugee Drowns Trying to Kill Girlfriend Also read: Europeans should be allowed to carry weapons to defend themselves Also read: Sweden’s Islamic Rape Epidemic: Almost Half of Victims are CHILDREN __________________________________________________
The man raped and burned his former girlfriend alive – the Supreme Court did not grant an appeal
The life sentence of the jailbreaking murder of the Pori teenager remains in force.
THE life sentence of the jailbreaking
murder of the teenager from Pori remains in force. The Supreme Court
announced on Thursday that it would not grant an appeal to the sentenced
person.
Vaasa Court of Appeal in August convicted Ramin Azimi for murder to life imprisonment. A 17-year-old jogging girl from Pori died in January 2015 as a victim of a homicide.
Azimi was also sentenced for gross rape. THE INCIDENT was about the girl’s
desire to end her relationship with the man. According to the Court of
Appeals, the former boyfriend Azimi had repeatedly tried to get the girl
to continue the relationship. According to the statement, Ramin Azimi first raped the girl in the
nightclub at Ulvila. The man then transported the still alive girl to
Kokemäki by car, moved her to a wooden storehouse, poured gasoline on
her and burned her alive. ___________________________________________________ SEE ALSO: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/01/afghan-migrant-brutally-raped-burnt-death-young-european-wanted-break/ EXCERPTS:
The 17-year-old Finnish girl had only dated Ramin Azimi for a month
before she tried to end their relationship. The court heard how she had
wanted to see another man, but Mr. Azimi demanded marriage and children
of her. When she wouldn’t cooperate, Mr. Azimi attacked the young woman
while she was out jogging.
Equipped with spare clothing, rope and gasoline, the Afghan asylum
seeker raped his former lover in revenge for leaving him. Having
completed this act, Mr. Azimi then tied the girl to a chair in an
abandoned shed, poured petrol over her, and set her alight. Showing a flair for sensitivity and good timing, just days after the
rape and murder judgement was passed on asylum seeker Mr. Azimi,
Finland’s immigration service made an announcement stating that neither
murdering nor raping in Finland would block a migrant’s chances of being
granted asylum.
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[Note from Robert Spencer: It is unconscionable that Christine
Douglass-Williams has been dismissed from the Canadian Race Relations
Foundation for calling attention to the reality of jihad terror. Whether
the Canadian government likes it or not, and however it stigmatizes and
attempts to marginalize honest discussion of these issues, jihad terror
is a grim reality and they will not be able to avoid it or deny it
forever. Canada, by dismissing Ms. Douglass-Williams for writing for
Jihad Watch, is buying into the notion that it is offensive and wrong to
track, publicize, and oppose jihad terror and Sharia supremacist
activity. Once we are all silenced, the jihad will be able to advance
unopposed and unimpeded. Apparently that is what Mr. Trudeau and Ms.
Joly want.] I have been terminated from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation,
four months after a threatening letter by Heritage Minister Melanie Joly
about my writings on Islam at Jihad Watch. Joly made good on her threats. The Privy Council has terminated my
appointment, despite my years of dedicated commitment to the Foundation,
on which I also served as Chair of the Investment Committee, and as a
member of the Human Resource and Executive Committees. Why? Because I
dared to criticize political Islam on Jihad Watch, and because of My Personal Warning to Icelanders,
in which I warned about the deceptive works of Muslim Brotherhood
operatives in their infiltration of the West. Their tactics are well
documented.
I personally make a distinction between those who choose to practice
Islam in peace and harmony with others, and those with an agenda to
subvert democratic constitutions, demand special privileges over other
creeds, and attack innocent people as a supremacist entitlement. It is
odd to be removed from a race relations foundation for my private work
in criticizing Islam, which is not a race.
This is the message I received from the Liberal government:
Dear Ms. Douglass-Williams,
Please find attached an Order in Council terminating your appointment
as a director of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Race Relations
Foundation, effective December 19, 2017. The Order in Council will be
posted on the Privy Council Office website in the next several days.
Sincerely,
Janine Sherman
Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet / Sous-secrétaire du Cabinet
Senior Personnel and Public Service Renewal /
Personnel supérieur et renouvellement de la fonction publique
Privy Council Office / Bureau du Conseil privé
Government of Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
Despite the many letters that were sent to the Heritage Department on my behalf and a petition
attesting to my deep regard for human rights, the Liberal government
decided that my criticism of human rights abuses committed in the name
of Islam was “racist.”
A logical article was written in a Canadian National newspaper about the attack against me by John Robson, entitled: “If you want to accuse someone of prejudice, use the right word,” in which he writes:
Consider Monday’s National Post story that, “A board member with the
Canadian Race Relations Foundation, an arm’s-length federal government
agency with a mandate to combat racial discrimination, is in jeopardy of
losing her post over her writings on the controversial website Jihad
Watch.” And her situation is far from unique. To raise questions about
militant Islam, or the extent to which fundamentalism is inherent in
Muslim scriptures and doctrines, is to invite accusations of racism.
And that I have done! I have raised the ire of the “anti-Islamophobia
department,” once known as Canada’s Heritage Department for all
Canadians.
I have given countless hours — many pro bono — at the CRRF and I have
shared great times with fellow board members (and some of the staff),
as we strove toward doing work to unite humanity. In fact, it was I that
came up with the term “Our Canada” to reflect the National Anthem “Oh
Canada,” as a means to remind everyone equally that Canada belongs to no
one group of specially privileged folk.
Yet my work against supremacism did not start with the Canadian Race
Relations Foundation, although I was most happy serving in that role,
and it certainly will not end there. I will continue to stand against
all practices that violate the dignity of human life and human rights,
and against supremacism of all kinds, the worst of which is Islamic
supremacism today.
Proponents of no other religion at this time have proliferated so
forcefully into foreign countries, demanding special privileges, or have
pursued calculated and organized efforts to shut down free speech and
silence dissenting views about its religiously sanctioned abuses.
Indeed, there are those Muslims who seek modernization and warn about
Islamic supremacists, and they pay a heavy price. Muslims have murdered at least 12 million fellow Muslims since 1948
for being of the “wrong” sect and/or “not being Muslim enough.”
I fight against anti-Muslim bigotry as I do against all bigotry, but
this was not enough to keep me serving with the Foundation. This assault
upon my human rights and rights as a Canadian citizen by the current
government because I write and warn about the worst kind of Muslims and
promote equality for all is scary, as it represents an indictment
against anyone who criticizes Islam, and is another victory for Islamic
supremacists as they further their efforts to subvert our prized
democracy. Influential to Canada being lead down this path of shariah intrusion
is CAIR-CAN, renamed the National Council of Canadian Muslims. This
group is an offshoot of CAIR, designated as a terrorist organization by
the United Arab Emirates, and an unindicted co-conspirator in America’s
largest terrorism funding trial The Holy Land Foundation trial.
CAIR-CAN/NCCM has foisted upon Canada its “Islamophobia” agenda, which
is heavily pushed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in order to
shut down any criticism of Islam. CAIR-CAN/NCCM has been involved in:
the establishment of “anti-Islamophobia” Charters in six major cities, an “Islamophobia” snitch line,
and now Canadian leaders are further undermining Canada’s rights and
freedoms with Islamophobia Motion M-103, which passed in parliament last
year. Canada’s anti-Islamophobia Motion is described in detail here, along with the questionable players in Canada who are behind it who are openly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. In a statement, CAIR-CAN/NCCM spokesperson Amira Elghawaby said this about me: “For a federal appointee to be writing for hateful websites, denying
the existence of Islamophobia and calling for the violation of
fundamental rights and freedoms of a minority community is contrary to
everything the Canada Race Relations Foundation stands for and to the
values enshrined in the charter,” Now that the government has listened to the advice of Elhawaby et al,
it remains to be seen just how far Canada intends to continue bending
backwards for Islamic supremacists, or to sink in subjugation to them.
The Trudeau government has so far removed the condemning of “Barbaric Cultural Practices” (such as honor violence and FGM) from the Citizenship Test; and recently passed a bill
to also remove mention of “barbaric cultural practices” from a
Conservative-era law that outlawed forced marriage. Justin Trudeau also
plans on giving returning Islamic State jihadis – whom he prefers to
call “traumatized foreign terrorist travelers” — reintegration support, a
silly venture that has been proven futile. Trudeau was badly humiliated by the opposition
in Parliament for putting Canadians at risk. Trudeau also infamously
paid out 10.5 million dollars to Omar Khadr and apologized for his rough
treatment at Guantanamo, despite him murdering a young medic and
blinding another soldier.
I am investigating some avenues concerning this ruthless and
agenda-driven decision to dismiss me from the Canadian Race Relations
Foundation.
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RIGHT WING, SUSPICIOUS, RACIST CANADIANS ARE A PROBLEM FOR THEM!:
APOLOGIST/PROPAGANDIST/PRO-SHARIA
NCCM Reps. discusses reported increase
in anti-Muslim hate crimes
June 13, 2017 | NCCM spokesperson Amira Elghawaby discusses on the
reported increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes by Stats Canada. For
further information, read the news release from today's announcement: https://www.nccm.ca/communities-urge-...
June 13, 2017 | NCCM Vice Chair Khalid Elgazzar, LL.B. and
Communications Director Amira Elghawaby on CBC's Power & Politics
discussing the latest Statistics Canada report on hate crimes in Canada
and the documented rise of anti-Muslim hate crimes. For further
information, read the news release from today's announcement: https://www.nccm.ca/communities-urge-...
Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer spoke at the David Horowitz Freedom
Center's Restoration Weekend on November 16, 2017, about the fantasy of
"Islamophobia" victimhood posturing versus the reality of jihad
terrorism.
PRESIDENT TRUMP & GOP FULL VICTORY SPEECH AT WHITE HOUSE AFTER TAX BILL
PASSES HOUSE & SENATE
Death Blow To Globalism As Trump Delivers Historic Tax Cuts
Trump's Corporate Tax Cuts Will Bring Companies Back To The US And Create Jobs
The Secrets Of Trump's Corporate Tax Cuts Revealed, And Why The Left Hates It
Dr. Ed Group joins Alex Jones live in studio to break down how Trump's
tax plan will cut corporate taxes so much that companies will return to
the US and American employees will benefit the most.
President Trump Holds a Cabinet Meeting
Slams the Tax Raising Democrats
Who Are Constantly Complaining,
Disrupting Conservative Agenda
Dems: "Tax Cuts Are Theft!"
YOU’RE THEIR SLAVE
Pelosi says the tax cuts are theft, that tax cuts fly against the
principles of the Founding Fathers. Schumer says GOP will “rue the day”
they passed this. Bernie says the Treasury has been looted. What do
they all have in common? They think YOU and YOUR LABOR belong to them.
Kellyanne Conway on President Trump's tax win
How To Defeat Liberal Talking Points
On Tax Reform
Only Liberals can turn keeping more of your own money into a bad thing.
And only YOU can explain to them why they are wrong.
EU Fears ‘Unfair’ U.S. Tax Bill Will Incentivise Companies to Move to America
They go on to lament the tax bill will unfairly put “America First, again.”
EXCERPTS: "Last week, the finance ministers of Europe’s five biggest economies —
Germany, France, the UK, Spain and Italy — wrote an anxious letter to
their American colleague, US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, and
copied it to all senior Republican politicians in the Congress and
Senate.
The letter’s thrust: The draft US tax bill, if passed as written a
week ago, would represent a break with global fair-taxation rules as
applied to corporations, and represent a thinly disguised form of trade
war."
Alex Jones Breaks Down Historic Tax Cuts
That Globalists Fear
Alex Jones breaks down Trump's historic Tax Cuts and exposes why the
Globalist forces across the world fear a strong, vibrant economy
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“What we have witnessed here in the Security Council is an
insult. It won’t be forgotten,” said Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, in response to the decision of the UN Security
Council to force a vote on a resolution that challenged the decision of
the United States to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. All 15 members of the UN Security Council, except for the United
States, voted in favor of a resolution put forward by Egypt on Monday
that expressed “deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of
Jerusalem.” The Egyptian-drafted resolution said “that any decisions
and actions which purport to have altered the character, status or
demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal
effect, are null and void and must be rescinded in compliance with relevant resolutions of the Security Council.” (Emphasis added).
Haley took issue with the attempt by the Security Council to order
the United States to comply with a resolution that would dictate to
America where it placed its embassy in another country. “The fact that
this veto is being done in defense of American sovereignty and in
defense of America’s role in the Middle East peace process is not a
source of embarrassment for us; it should be an embarrassment to the
remainder of the Security Council.”
The Security Council is the most powerful part of the UN because it
is the group that can actually direct action to be taken in the name of
the UN. However, when the UN was formed in 1945, the charter of the UN
stipulated that any one of the five “permanent” members of the Security
Council — the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France,
and China — could veto any resolutions passed by the Council. This was
the first time in six years that the United States has exercised its
veto power.
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign
pledge with his decision to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem,
which Israel has long considered its capital. Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu went on his Facebook page to thank Trump and Haley
for the veto.
When Trump announced his intention to move the embassy from Tel Aviv
to Jerusalem, his decision was met with opposition from many world
leaders. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, was
particularly incensed because he has been hopeful that East Jerusalem
would be the capital of Palestinian state. He told Trump that the move
will have “dangerous consequences.”
The UN’s Middle East peace envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, cited some of
those “dangerous consequences” just before the vote on the resolution.
“The situation has become more tense with an increase in incidents,
notably rockets fired from Gaza and clashes between Palestinians and
Israeli security forces.”
Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 until that empire
was on the losing side of World War I. Beginning in the 1800s, Jews
began purchasing land in Palestine, and joining with the small number of
Jews still living there. Since about 1890, Jews became the majority in
Jerusalem. When the Turks lost the First World War, European nations
took some of the Ottoman Empire, with the British obtaining a mandate in
what was known as Palestine.
In 1948, Israel declared its independence, precipitating the first of
several wars with its Arab neighbors. In 1967, as a result of the
Six-Day War, Israel took over the eastern part of Jerusalem. In 1980,
Israel declared the city its capital. The U.S. Congress later passed a
law recognizing Jerusalem as its capital, but gave presidents the
authority to waive that recognition, declaring the waiver every six
months. Trump finally announced in early December that he would move our
embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which Israel has controlled for 50
years.
Numerous resolutions of the UN General Assembly have denounced
Israel’s move to make Jerusalem its capital, though Jerusalem first
became the capital of Israel about 1,000 years before Christ, and it is
unlikely that Israel would ever give it up voluntarily. Thus, the
stalemate between Israel and its Arab neighbors over the issue is most
likely unresolvable.
During his 2012 campaign for president, Ron Paul stressed the issue
of national sovereignty when he was asked about the “Jerusalem
Question.” Paul replied, “The real issue here is not what America wants,
but what does Israel want. If Israel wants their capital to be
Jerusalem, then the United States should honor that.”
This is the issue that has been largely ignored by the American media
and many American politicians. Now, the UN is not only threatening the
sovereignty of Israel, with its attempted Security Council resolution.
It also attempted to order the United States to waive its national
sovereignty to decide whether our country can place our embassy where we
wish it to be.
When the UN charter was adopted, one of its provisions was that it
would not interfere in the domestic politics of its member nations. Yet,
that is exactly what the UN is attempting to do to both Israel and the
United States. It is a good thing that Trump’s UN ambassador raised the
issue of national sovereignty in vetoing the Security Council
resolution, which attempted to order the United States to change its
policy.
An even better move would be for the Trump administration and
Congress to withdraw our ambassador from the UN, withdraw our nation
from the United Nations, and tell the UN to move its headquarters off
our soil.
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TRUMP THREATENS TO CUT AID TO U.N. MEMBERS OVER JERUSALEM VOTE
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The outcry over this tonight is predictable and immense.
“International bullying,” tweeted Linda Sarsour. Yes, but Trump is the
one who is standing up to it. The idea that the U.S. should subsidize
its enemies and ideological foes is a hallmark of the failed foreign
policy establishment that needs to be thoroughly repudiated.
“Trump threatens to cut aid to U.N. members over Jerusalem vote,” by Roberta Rampton and Michelle Nichols, Reuters, December 20, 2017:
WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President
Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to cut off financial aid to
countries that vote in favor of a draft United Nations resolution
calling for the United States to withdraw its decision to recognize
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of
dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those
votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” Trump
told reporters at the White House. The 193-member U.N. General Assembly will hold a rare emergency
special session on Thursday – at the request of Arab and Muslim
countries – to vote on a draft resolution, which the United States
vetoed on Monday in the 15-member U.N. Security Council. The remaining 14 Security Council members voted in favor of the
Egyptian-drafted resolution, which did not specifically mention the
United States or Trump but which expressed “deep regret at recent
decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem.” U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, in a letter to dozens of U.N. states on
Tuesday seen by Reuters, warned that Trump had asked her to “report back
on those countries who voted against us.” She bluntly echoed that call in a Twitter post: “The U.S. will be taking names.” Several senior diplomats said Haley’s warning was unlikely to change
many votes in the General Assembly, where such direct, public threats
are rare. Some diplomats brushed off the warning as more likely aimed at
impressing U.S. voters.
According to figures from the U.S. government’s aid agency USAID, in
2016 the United States provided some $13 billion in economic and
military assistance to countries in sub-Saharan Africa and $1.6 billion
to states in East Asia and Oceania….
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The International Organization for Migration has launched
‘MigApp’ – a mobile phone app developed to “engage” and “empower”
migrants and help them “migrate safely.”
Big ambitions for an app! Any serious-minded migrant will work with
authorities on settling and integrating, while jihadists and entitled
Islamic supremacists who are out to subjugate the House of War will
merely mock this silly app, in which:
One button directs users to the IOM’s Assisted Voluntary
Return and Reintegration service based across Europe….Another directs
migrants to hundreds of organisations across the world where they can
report people trafficking and “modern slavery” via its “Global Counter
Trafficking Hotlines”.
This app does not really appear to be aimed at migrants at all, but
to capture the minds of more bleeding-heart Westerners through
propaganda. This app will appeal to those who continue to be completely
oblivious to the news from countries in Europe that have experienced a
barrage of Muslim migrants. Those countries have had their foundations
shaken as they experience expanding lawlessness and no-go zones. Their
basic principles have been challenged by their leaders’ acceptance of
barbaric practices in the name of “diversity” and “tolerance.” Their
economies have been weakened due to high levels of sustained
unemployment among Muslim refugees, many (if not most) of whom are not
even seeking employment.
“UN Launches App to ‘Empower’ Migrants, Encourage Them to ‘Migrate Safely’”, by Victoria Friedman, Breitbart, December 19, 2017:
The International Organization for Migration has launched
‘MigApp’ – a mobile phone app developed to “engage” and “empower”
migrants and help them “migrate safely”.
Introduced on Monday to coincide with International Migrants Day by
the Geneva-based United Nations Migration Agency, MigApp is sold as a
“one-stop-shop” app for migrants and “migrants-to-be” to find “services
relevant to their specific migration process”.
The app descriptor boasts it gives information on migrant rights,
risks, visa regulations, and intends to further the “IOM’s commitment to
the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and
society”, the UN agency hoping that one million migrants will be using
the app by the end of 2018.
The app was launched prominently on the IOM’s website, with press
releases heralding its arrival linking to posters and printable bumper
stickers with a QR code to advertise the service.
Pitched nominally at legal migrants by prompting users to have valid
passports and providing information on visas and immigration processes,
the app is also angled towards non-legal and asylum-seeking migrants.
One button directs users to the IOM’s Assisted Voluntary Return and
Reintegration service based across Europe as a means of returning failed
asylum seekers and illegal immigrants to their home country, aiding
them to “avoid the stigma of deportation and its negative repercussions”.
Another directs migrants to hundreds of organisations across the
world where they can report people trafficking and “modern slavery” via
its “Global Counter Trafficking Hotlines”.
Aiming to “provide a platform for migrants to share their
experiences” and “connect migrants”, another feature is the “I am a
Migrant” button where users can read stories of legal migrants and
asylum seekers and share their own.
“‘I am a migrant’ is the UN Migration Agency’s campaign to promote
diversity and inclusion of migrants in society. The campaign uses the
testimonials of migrants to connect people with the human stories of
resilience and courage,” the agency explains…..
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: CHRISTIANS FACE DISCRIMINATION~ALEX NEWMAN & DR. DUKE PESTA EXPOSE PERSECUTION & CENSORSHIP
Administration officials at the University of Iowa sparked a national
scandal and a lawsuit after being caught blatantly discriminating
against Christians. The university's bigotry was so extreme that school
officials even demanded that a Christian organization revise its
religious beliefs to be allowed on campus. Obviously, the Christians
refused.
The student group in question, Business Leaders in Christ, also known as
BLinC, does accept anyone as members in the organization. However, the
organization also asks that leaders embrace the Christian faith and
abstain from all forms of sexual immorality, which the Bible defines as
everything from fornication and adultery to homosexual acts and sodomy.
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Facebook has slapped a user with a 7 day account suspension
for a post in which the individual called for European governments to
follow “sensible migration policies”.
The full post reads; “A reminder that the EU, while drowning in their
own mess, threatens to punish Poland for failing to meet their “refugee
quota”.
“It is time for sensible migration policies that work for the people.
It’s not ok to use your own population as a tool for signalling to your
peers how virtuous and caring you are.”
The post violated Facebook’s Community Standards on the basis that it
attacked someone based on their “race, ethnicity or national origin”
and the user was banned for 7 days. Further violations result in
permanent account terminations.
While Silicon Valley giants have decried the FCC’s vote to scrap
Obama-era rules on net neutrality, such companies continue to enforce
their own draconian censorship policies with wanton abandon.
Facebook has developed a reputation for aggressively pursuing critics of mass immigration. Back in 2015 we reported
on how the social media giant was working with an organization led by
an ex-Stasi agent to oversee a program to identify “xenophobic” posts
made on the social networking website and punish people who make them
with fines and jail sentences.
In some European countries, people who post criticism of Islam or the migrant influx receive home visits from the police and are given warnings about their conduct.
Earlier this year, a German woman was raided by police and ordered to pay 1300 euro fine for sharing an anti-migrant meme on Facebook.
Following the murder of a 19-year-old woman by an Afghan migrant in Germany, Facebook responded by banning a German woman for “hate speech” because she posted a picture of the murderer.
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Thousands of U.K. residents have signed on to a Change.org petition
seeking to ban evangelist Franklin Graham from entering the United
Kingdom for a scheduled September 2018 Christian gospel crusade in
Blackpool, in northwest England. More than 7,000 people have signed the petition so far, joining
members of the British parliament in demanding that Graham, the son of
iconic American evangelist Billy Graham and head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,
be banned from the U.K. because of comments he has made calling
homosexuality sinful and Islam a potentially dangerous religious faith.
Those leading the petition drive charge that the comments violate U.K.
hate speech laws. Initially launched by the Reverend Nina Parker, a female pastor in Blackpool, the Change.org petition
charges that “Franklin Graham supports a ban on all Muslims from
entering the United States while advocating that Muslims already in
living in the United States should be interned.”
Additionally, the petition alleges that Graham “has said that Russian
President Vladimir Putin 'is right' in his crackdown against LGBT
rights in his country where gay people are subject to severe human
rights abuses. Atrocities and executions of gay people continue to go on
in the Russian republic of Chechyna with no intervention from the
Russian authorities. Franklin Graham has stated that gay children and
gay people are dangerous and should not be allowed into churches or
Christian homes.”
The virulently worded petition goes on to charge that, unlike his
famous father, “Franklin Graham engages in outspoken bigotry targeting
refugees, Muslims, and LGBT people. His father promoted unity and
respect in communities, but Franklin Graham’s extreme views promote
prejudice and division.”
Noting that religious leaders in Norway and Canada are protesting
Graham's scheduled speaking engagements in their countries, the petition
insists that speech “likely to promote prejudice and hatred is grounds
for the government to refuse a visa. Help us stop this man getting a
visa to come here to spread his hatred.” Commenting on her motivation for the petition drive, Parker told the online Huffington Post
that allowing Graham into the U.K. for his Christian gospel event “will
give oxygen to those who hate, as they will be aware of hatred being
expressed by a man of high status in the Church. It will portray a Trump
style, hard line, hate filled version of Christianity devoid of
understanding of and acceptance of ordinary people. It will destroy the
reputation of Christianity in this region as it will be assumed that
this man speaks for all. It will bring Christians into disrepute.”
Gordon Marsden, a member of Parliament who is part of the petition
drive, said in an interview in November that “as a Christian, I have my
own views on people who claim the authority of God and Jesus and then
advocate attitudes which appear to be poles apart from what we’re told
about in the Gospel.”
He added that “as a member of Parliament ... I have to be concerned
about where extreme fundamentalism and where speech or opinions that
might stir up hatred against groups of people goes. I think frankly the
evidence is piling up that his visit to the UK, and certainly to
Blackpool and Lancashire, would not be a good thing and not probably, in
my view, a very a Christian thing.”
In response to the petition drive and efforts to stop the
organization's Blackpool Christian event, the Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association released a statement emphasizing that the scheduled crusade
“will be a positive and encouraging event with music and also a message
from Franklin Graham about the hope that can be found through a
relationship with Jesus Christ. It will be free and everyone is invited
to attend.”
LifeSiteNews.com noted that the efforts to ban Franklin Graham from
the U.K. “contrasts sharply with the welcome his father Billy Graham
received when he arrived in the UK in 1954. Between 1.5 and 2 million
people in total turned out to the mass gatherings of the elder Graham’s
'London Crusade.'” Contrasting the effort to ban Graham, supporters of the evangelist and global Christian humanitarian have launched their own Change.org petition drive, asking individuals to help ensure that the Franklin Graham evangelistic event goes forward as planned in Blackpool.
“Franklin Graham ... is due to come to England to preach,” reads the
petition. “He's following in his fathers footsteps in preaching the
whole gospel in a clear way, sticking to biblical truths. Let's stop the
tide opposing him from coming here!”
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Prophecy News Watch 12/27
British Christian publications have been wondering if we are
witnessing the “extinction of Christianity in Egypt”, where the
Christian faithful have suffered persecution and terror attacks at the
hands of Islamic fundamentalists. Christian leaders also seem to be
wondering if Christianity will be “extinct within a generation” in the
UK, where religious people enjoy total freedom of worship and faith.
Last year, the Church of England began to formulate a religious
revolution. Its canonical laws require that British churches hold their
functions every Sunday. The dramatic crisis of Christianity in the UK,
however, is pushing the Anglican church to rewrite those rules, in order
not to officiate in empty and abandoned churches.
A quarter of the British rural parishes now have fewer than 10
regular members of the faithful on Sunday. There are no more children in
25% of the Church of England’s congregations, as new figures have just
shown. On average, nine children attended each church service across all
Anglican churches in 2016. Generally speaking, churchgoers have
dwindled in the UK by 34,000 in just one year.
“Should we care that Britain’s lost its religion?”, Daniel
Finkelstein asked in The Times. Yes. He suggests that nationalism might
take its place, but what if, instead, its place is taken by another
religion?
There is no need to be observant to understand the importance of a
country’s cultural affiliation. If there were no mass immigration from
countries with values antithetical to Western ones, the demise of
Christianity would not be as potentially calamitous; society might
simply become one of atheists and secularists.
Europe now, however, is experiencing a terminal decline for two
reasons that are linked: mass unvetted immigration coupled with a
shrinking confidence in its own legitimacy and beliefs. There seems to
be shame over Western colonialism, yet no thought at all seems to be
given to who are the real colonists: The Crusades were a reaction to a
Muslim colonization of the Christian Byzantine Empire, North Africa, the
Middle East, much of Eastern Europe, Northern Cyprus and Spain.
In Europe, the UK is now leading the same process. Britain is living
through “the biggest religious transition since the Reformation of the
16th Century”, according to Linda Woodhead, professor of the sociology
of religion at Lancaster University. In 2000, Anglicans were 30% of the
population.
Half of them have disappeared in just seventeen years. The number of
those who belong to the Church of England fell below 15%, including just
3% of English young people ages 18-24. Writing in the Spectator, Damian
Thompson wondered if “the Church of England is dying”. Churchgoing
dropped by 50% also in Scotland. Another report revealed that more than
half the British population has no religion at all.
According to internal documents from the Church of England,
Christianity is dying in Britain at such a pace that in the next three
decades, Anglican congregations will halve again. Christians in the UK
are on course to be in the minority by the middle of the century.
What defines Europe are its boundaries – not physical but cultural.
Without its culture, Europe could not be distinguished from the rest of
the world. And the pillar of this culture is based on the
Judeo-Christian heritage and values.
The journalist Melanie Phillips stated that the Church of England, by
embracing trendy ideological extravagances such as gender ideology, is
now culturally “sowing the seeds of its destruction.” The goal of all
this “inclusivity,” according to Phillips, is actually to “overthrow the
Christian basis of the West”.
Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has said that
“political correctness” is bullying and undermining Christianity in the
UK. “I cannot imagine any politician expressing concern that Britain
should remain a Christian country; that reticence is a scandal and a
disgrace to our history.”
According to a new poll, a total of 41% of British millennials, born
between 1980 and 2000, said that the UK has “no specific religious
identity”. As the progressive publication Prospect asked, “if we are no
longer a Christian country, what are we?”. Former archbishops of
Canterbury have warned that the UK will be soon unrecognizable. Rowan
Williams has said that the UK is already “post-Christian”.
The existential crisis of the Church of England does not involve only
the third Christian congregation in the world, represented by
Anglicans. The crisis is also going to tear apart a source of the
British landscape, politics and culture. Recently, The Spectator
featured “The end of British Christianity” on its cover, where one
elderly lady is seen as the only faithful in a cathedral.
“It’s often said,” the magazine continued, “that Britain’s church
congregations are shrinking, but that doesn’t come close to expressing
the scale of the disaster now facing Christianity in this country. If
that rate of decline continues, the mission of St Augustine to the
English, together with that of the Irish saints to the Scots, will come
to an end in 2067”.
The level of atrophy in the Church of England is so extensive that
Anglicanism is expected to collapse “for the next thirty years”. There
are also rumors that “half of England’s Anglican cathedrals could
close”.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor said recently that in the UK,
Christianity has been “nearly defeated”. If the Church of England
disappears, there will be a totally different UK. The British historian
Niall Ferguson has called it “the creeping Islamization of a decadent
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