'They Leave the Mosque With Hatred in Their Eyes'

Middle East expert explains that Ramadan is 'victory month' and is the wrong time for any gestures.

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By Benny Toker

First Publish: 6/30/2015, 11:14 PM

Dr. David Bokai

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Middle East expert Dr. David Bokai explained Tuesday on Arutz Sheva that Ramadan is traditionally a month of violence and is the wrong time to offer any kind of gestures to Muslims.
"Look at all of the terror attacks in Kuwait, France and here in Israel,” he explained. “They carry out terror attacks against all of the enemies of Islam. Ramadan is defined as the month of victory. All of the great victories of Mohammed and the expulsion of the Crusaders took place on that month. That is why Ramadan turns into a month of terror and violence worldwide.”
Dr. Bokai noted that Israel makes the same mistake every year, regarding Ramadan. “It's amazing that we don't learn, and we make gestures for Ramadan every year,” he said. “It drives me mad and makes me nauseous. This is not a month for making gestures, but for placing limitations. When you offer them gestures, you get terror and violence. In this month one should toughen and harden policy.”
The imam's sermons also inflame the spirits, the expert added. “You see people from the middle class upward who are influenced by the serrmons at the mosques during Ramadan. After a 20-minute Friday sermon, they leave with a will to slaughter and kill. That is what characterizes Islam – it's a religion of murder and not of peace. Its culture says that the entire world must be conquered.”

The US Has Spoken and So Has God

 "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable" (Leviticus 18:22)


"If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads" (Leviticus 20:13). 

Because the US as a nation,  has rejected the truth (God himself) God has given them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchange natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandon natural relations with women and are inflamed with lust for one another. Men commit indecent acts with other men, and receive in themselves the due penalty for their perversion" (Romans 1:26-27).

White House lights up with gay Pride colors following historic court ruling

Obama, the first sitting president to support gay marriage, hailed the ruling as a milestone in American justice that arrived "like a thunderbolt."

White House lights up after gay marriage ruling. (photo credit:REUTERS)

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the US Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement.

The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. With the landmark ruling, gay marriage becomes legal in all 50 states.

As night fell, the White House was lit in rainbow colors - a symbol of gay pride - to mark the high court's decision.

The ruling, the culmination of a long legal fight by gay rights advocates, follows steady gains in public approval in recent years for same-sex marriage. In 2004 Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage. But the decision may provoke fresh legal fights in some conservative, Republican-governed states.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing on behalf of the court, said the hope of gay people intending to marry "is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."

Immediately after the decision, same-sex couples in many of the states where gay marriage had been banned headed to county clerks' offices for marriage licenses as officials in several states said they would respect the ruling.

President Barack Obama, the first sitting president to support gay marriage, hailed the ruling as a milestone in American justice that arrived "like a thunderbolt."

Op-Ed: Not to Act Against Evil is to Act

Evil triumphs when good people do not stand against it. And we may be on the way to seeing a repeat of the good Europeans who disagree with Hitler - in their living rooms.

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Published: Thursday, June 18, 2015 10:26 PM

Prof. Phyllis Chesler

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Christians, Kurds, and Yazidis are being ethnically cleansed—massacred, exterminated--in Iraq and Syria and neither President Obama nor any stable, allegedly moderate Muslim regime (is there one?) has done anything to stop it.
ISIS and Boko Haram have been kidnapping, torturing, and turning Muslim, Christian, Kurdish, and Yazidi girls into sexual slaves and, despite his professed pro-Arab, pro-African, and pro-Muslim biases, the American President has not stopped this nor has he come up with a viable strategy to do so.

The Jihadists know they can keep going for a very long while. No one has stopped them.
At least five, if not ten, million refugees have fled the war-ravaged region of the Middle East’s “Arab Spring.” Many are trying to enter southern Europe and are dying in the process. Nevertheless, global leaders, the media, and the United Nations continue to focus on an artificially inflated number of Palestinian refugees--and are failing to confront or resolve the greatest and most complex refugee story of our times.
President Obama and his European allies are about to unleash the Iranian bomb, a fact which they are presenting to us, Orwell-style, as the only way to stop the Iranian bomb. As we know, Iran and the Iranian bomb are a direct and existential threat to Israel as well as to the entire civilized world.
Those who dare to say so are demonized as “racists” and “conservatives.” And, we are not allowed to speak the truth in universities, human rights organizations, or in the left mainstream media, at least not without police protection and a capacity to endure hostility, interruptions, and lies.
One pays a price for speaking out, yes. In Muslim countries, dissidents are forced into exile, or jailed, tortured and executed. In the West, one’s career as an academic or public intellectual is ruined. One is defamed, shunned, sued, censored, death-threatened, and may require round-the-clock police protection.
But, what is the cost of remaining silent? I asked this question in a previous column and now wish to expand upon it.
Evil always triumphs when good people do not oppose it. The failure to resist and overthrow barbarism always, always means more suffering, more deaths, more despair. Surviving victims are always more haunted by what the “good” people failed to do than by what the “bad” people did do. They cried out—no one rescued or believed them, few helped them bring their torturers to justice.
When good people do nothing to stop radical evil—a soul-eating despair enters the world as well as an enormous cynicism.
The Jihadists know they can keep going for a very long while. No one has stopped them. The Arab and Central Asian Christians being slaughtered in their beds and churches know that the Western Church will not save them. The three million or more Syrian refugees know that America does not have their back. The girls and women raped and impregnated by ISIS and Boko Haram know they are on their own.
Unlike Israel, and despite 9/11, 3/11, 7/7, I fear that the West has not yet paid the price for failing to stop far-off genocides. Today, we watch the Jihadist propaganda and, in viewing their death pornography, we become passive collaborators, complicit.  
Our President refuses to name or understand this evil that is coming our way--an evil  that is already here. Only incredible vigilance has stopped hundreds if not thousands of Jihad attacks.
Evil triumphs when good people do not stand against it. Like Europeans and Americans in the Nazi era—privately disagreeing with Hitler’s policies did not save eleven million people. One must resist—or the Devil wins. Covering up Stalin’s crimes—40 to 50 million died—is not resisting the Devil.
According to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “SILENCE in the face of evil is itself evil, God will not hold us guiltless, NOT to speak is to speak, NOT to act is to act.”

Question: "What was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah?"

Answer: The biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah is recorded in Genesis chapters 18-19. Genesis chapter 18 records the Lord and two angels coming to speak with Abraham. The Lord informed Abraham that "the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous." Verses 22-33 record Abraham pleading with the Lord to have mercy on Sodom and Gomorrah because Abraham's nephew, Lot, and his family lived in Sodom.

Genesis chapter 19 records the two angels, disguised as human men, visiting Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot met the angels in the city square and urged them to stay at his house. The angels agreed. The Bible then informs us, "Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom — both young and old — surrounded the house. They called to Lot, 'Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.'" The angels then proceed to blind all the men of Sodom and Gomorrah and urge Lot and his family to flee from the cities to escape the wrath that God was about to deliver. Lot and his family flee the city, and then "the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah — from the LORD out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities..."

In light of the passage, the most common response to the question "What was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah?" is that it was homosexuality. That is how the term "sodomy" came to be used to refer to anal sex between two men, whether consensual or forced. Clearly, homosexuality was part of why God destroyed the two cities. The men of Sodom and Gomorrah wanted to perform homosexual gang rape on the two angels (who were disguised as men). At the same time, it is not biblical to say that homosexuality was the exclusive reason why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were definitely not exclusive in terms of the sins in which they indulged.

Ezekiel 16:49-50 declares, "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me..." The Hebrew word translated "detestable" refers to something that is morally disgusting and is the exact same word used in Leviticus 18:22 that refers to homosexuality as an "abomination." Similarly, Jude 7 declares, "...Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion." So, again, while homosexuality was not the only sin in which the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah indulged, it does appear to be the primary reason for the destruction of the cities.

Those who attempt to explain away the biblical condemnations of homosexuality claim that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was inhospitality. The men of Sodom and Gomorrah were certainly being inhospitable. There is probably nothing more inhospitable than homosexual gang rape. But to say God completely destroyed two cities and all their inhabitants for being inhospitable clearly misses the point. While Sodom and Gomorrah were guilty of many other horrendous sins, homosexuality was the reason God poured fiery sulfur on the cities, completely destroying them and all of their inhabitants. To this day, the area where Sodom and Gomorrah were located remains a desolate wasteland. Sodom and Gomorrah serve as a powerful example of how God feels about sin in general, and homosexuality specifically.

Recommended Resources: Coming out of Homosexuality by Bob Davies and 101 Frequently Asked Questions About Homosexuality by Mike Haley and Logos Bible Software.

Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/Sodom-and-Gomorrah.html#ixzz3bzYKkdA9

Op-Ed: Israel's Worst Enemy? The United Nations

Did you know Israel is as bad as Boko Haram when it comes to harming youngsters? and worse than Saudi Arabia as far as women's rights go? Ask the UN.

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Published: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 11:45 PM

Giulio Meotti

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In which official document could the only army in the world with a clause providing for disobeying an inhumane order, Israel’s Defence Forces, be compared to bands of Islamic terrorists who crucify children, bury them alive and use them as suicide bombers?
That's a no-brainer. At the United Nations, of course.
The UN envoy for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, is sponsoring the inclusion of the Israeli army in the black list of countries and organizations that regularly harm children. In this list you can find al Qaeda, the Nigerian Boko Haram, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the Taliban, and countries such as Congo and the Central African Republic, infamous for their armies of young children who may never become older.
The Netanyahu government condemned this attempt to put Israel in the same list as “lepers' organizations and countries”. This is how the Jewish State, in the eyes of Western public opinion, is beginning to be perceived as an infanticide state. Thanks to the dossier of the UN, Israel’s biggest enemy.
Two other resolutions against Jerusalem have been approved at the UN in the last few weeks. The Commission on the Status of Women condemned Israel as the world’s worst violator of the rights of women. Not Syria, where government forces are using rape as a tactic of war or the Islamic State that enslaves women of religious minorities. Not Saudi Arabia, where women are physically punished if they do not wear orthodox clothing. Not Iran, where adultery is punishable by death by stoning.
There is more.  Israel was condemned, by a vote of 104 to 4 at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, as the only country in the world that violates health rights, although it is the only state in the world that heals its enemies (from the Golan to Gaza and Ramallah) and that sent aid to Nepal during the earthquake.
The United Nations 2014 Equator Prize has been awarded to the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees, which is closely affiliated to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the terrorist group which spawned the Fogel’s massacre.
In the Orwellian world of the United Nations, right becomes wrong and friends are treated as enemies.
If the UN would be asked to vote today and not in 1948, Israel have never been created.