Black slavery and White guilt

So apparently only 400,000 slaves went to North American, out of a total 15 million that sailed West and twice that much went east to Arab slave trades.  Apparently the 7-year bonded servitude that the Irish for example had to endure was about as bad as the American slave trade, with only a 50% survival rate over the seven years.

Rebel Media interviews Jim Goad, check it out here.

Hamas breaks truce within hours

"Out of a tunnel access point or several, terrorists came out of the ground. At least one was a suicide terrorist who detonated himself. There was an exchange of fire," said Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, a military spokesman. Two of the soldiers were killed."

What is clear is that Hamas are intent on further actions to terrorise, delegetimize and attack Israel.  If Israel opens the Gaza borders, Hamas will use it as opportunity to bolster its arms and seige Israel. Israel only "blockades" the borders to stop weapons coming into Gaza. If Gaza de-militarized, there would be not need to police Gazan imports.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/10340726/Gaza-truce-over-Israel-soldier-captured

Take the Pledge: Read the Quran

Why Take This Pledge?

Because:

• Some people speak confidently about Islam without any real knowledge of it.
• Some who know a lot about Islam have an agenda and don't speak honestly about it.
• There is an Islamic principle called taqiyya that seeks to hide the true nature of Islam to us.

The only way to know for sure what's true about Islam is to read the Quran yourself.

Once enough of us read the Quran, we will know enough to vote into office representatives who understand Islam and will propose and endorse informed policy decisions.

Please join with us and take the pledge to read the Quran. And please convince everyone you know to take the pledge.

An exceptional version of the Quran is now available. It is 203 pages, written in modern English. It contains all the information in the Quran without any repetition. And it gives you enough background information to understand what each passage is about. Perhaps most importantly, it is written in chronological order (this is important because of the principle of abrogation).

(From http://www.takethepledgereadthequran.com/)

Palestinian Historical Revisionism

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/12/26/why-do-christians-tolerate-palestinian-historical-revisionism/

Just how far will left leaning Christians go to appease Palestine.   Israel existed in the region 2000 years before the Arabs.  What right does Palestine have to the land? Israel is so small, only trying to survive, and the deaths in clashes are a drop in the bucket to the religiously motivated killings that occur in the Islamic world. The  complaints of the Palestinian state is 1% truth and 99% propaganda.

Shi'ite versus Sunni - a Hallmark of Islam

Another bombing in the Middle East, this time in Lebanon.  Iran supports its fellow Shi'ites in Syria along with Hezbollah.  Many people dead and many more severely injured as Sunnis avenge the military campaigns of Hezbollah in Syria.

Let this example be a testament for those who believe Islam is a religion of peace.  Islam means "submission".  Islam will not rest until all are in submission to Allah.  Unfortunately for Muslims, there are two large branches of Islam, whose theologies are set against each other.  Both sides regard the other to be heretics.  Some  regarding them as halal or kaffir and thence rightfully killed.

In the West, we hear a story of an Islam that is not true.  We hear that the proponents of suicide bombings and attacks are extremists, that they are only a tiny proportion of the population and that they do not represent the real Islam.  This story is largely fictitious.  It may be compatible with the practice of many Muslims living in West.  Yet it does not match the reality of Islam.  You can see the reality by how Sunni and Shi'ite treat each other in the Middle East.

The peaceful verses in the Quran, such as "there is no compulsion in religion", stem from the words of Mohammed made early in his life.  They are abrogated or superseded by statements made later in his life to subjugate the unbeliever, as has been clearly explained by this Muslim blogger here.  Here he quotes the words of Muhammad 

"I have been ordered to fight people until they profess that there is no god but Allah" Sahih Muslim 1:30, Sahih Bukhari 1:2:25, Quran 9:5

One of the key concepts in Islam is Jihad.  Jihad is the unofficial sixth pillar of Islam and duty of every Muslim.  With Shi'ite and Sunni set against each other, Islam will never be strong.  As Jesus said:

"A house divided itself cannot stand." Matthew 12:25

The Egyptian Military - Oppressive Leaders or Preservers of Freedom for Minorities?

The Egyptian military get a bad wrap in the media.  It is said, that only a tyrant is strong enough to stand up to Islamic extremism in the Middle East.  The Muslim Brotherhood elected leader is now gone, and the military is in; Morsi's followers should get use to this idea.  You see, the Egyptian military may be violent and oppressive, but no less violent and oppressive than the Muslim brotherhood, and especially not for the 10% Christian minority.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/9461820/Anti-government-demonstrations-broken-up-in-Egypt

The Christians I expect will be very happy about the reversal of Article 2, which the Muslim Brotherhood strengthened to institute a more strict form of Shariah law.  The Christians are now an oppressed minority in Egypt, and have never been so badly oppressed than since Mohammed Morsi came to power.  Forced conversions, the looting and burning of shops, kidnapping children and offences of rape of women are only some of the treatment endured by the Christians, under a regime where as Dhimmi, these people have little or no rights under the law.

"Meanwhile, Muslim residents of a village in southern Minya province attacked Christian homes, burning 10 houses and wounding 15 Christians, including a 15 year-old girl thrown from the third floor of a building, according to Ezzat Ibrahim, an activist who monitors minority rights.   Ibrahim said the attack was instigated by rumors of a love affair between a local Christian man and a Muslim woman - a factor that can often spark sectarian clashes."

This is but one example.  Persecution occurs on a daily basis in Islamist countries.  It is only a measure of months since the Coptic Pope's own church was under attack.  The Coptic church, one of the oldest groups of Christians with traditions stemming back to nearly the birth of Jesus, is now in danger of total elimination.

Persecution in the Central African Republic

Astounded that in a country which is 75% Christian can be overtaken by Islamists, who then proceed to pillage from and kill in Christian areas.

http://www.aina.org/news/20131127122830.htm

Of course Western media continues portray such stories not for what they are, as a genocide with a Christian backlash movement, but as a "sectarian conflict".

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/9460163/Central-African-Republic-needs-peacekeepers

It is relatively rare for Christians to fight back towards Islamist genocides and pogroms.  And when they do, guaranteed there is media coverage.  But when Moslems do their standard driving out and terrorising of Christians and other religious minorities in majority Islam countries, there is no mainstream media coverage.  For example, Buddhists in Myanmar were recently reported as laying out an offensive toward Muslims, but the wide scale persecution of Christians typically goes unreported.

The example of Central African Republic also shows just how precarious the peace in a mixed Muslim - Christian country can be.  What may be a peaceful union of two peoples can quickly degenerate to a situation of mistrust, which is likely responsible for the reactionary and indiscriminate killing of Muslims in response to the Islamist take-over in this country.