20 posts tagged “religion”

As a society, we value education.   Enough so that we have made education available to everybody completely apart from financial costs.  I believe this has resulted in a devaluation of education among the recipients.  Had schools been a privelege to me and my generation rather than a given, we would have taken the opportunities we were afforded much more seriously.  As it was, I felt I was being force fed.  My parents disaggreed, largely because they did not get complete education.  The more I learn about the application of agenda into our educational programs, the more I believe we are being force fed misinformation.  This is one of the myriad reasons I advocate vouchers or school choice.  If this school is doing a lousy job, I get to choose a better school just like I get to choose a better hamburger joint or auto mechanic.

I am a religious man but I have avoided arguing politics and judgment from a religious perspective simply because of the current bias against Christianity in the Western cultures.  On this topic, I believe this is not possible because there simply is no better source for wisdom than faith in God.  There is only one path to wisdom.  There is only one path to understanding the benefits and consequences of world views.  The rest are condemned to continuously circling around false assumptions because; all men reason in a circle, or begin by assumptions. Their knowledge and wisdom depend on their assumptions. The God-rejecter begins by assuming his ideas and those of the fools before him are intelligent and rational. He begins by assuming he has made great advances in the twenty years since he was in diapers. The righteous man begins by assuming faith in an infinitely wise God, Who has revealed truth and wisdom in Scripture. He begins by thinking he knows nothing at all and needs the help of Another. 

The other you choose should be based on their fruit.  I'll come back to this thought in a moment but I wanted to point out the carnal mind and its motivation.  The reason the carnal person tears down the reputation of the good and builds up or covers up the reputation of the evil is they are biased by their desires for their own particular brand of evil and align with other brands of evil to overcome the majority's good judgment to protect their access to their favored brand of evil.  Ergo, the Liberal elite college professor who denies the existence of God aligns with the Hezbollah terrorist who targets and kills innocents in the name of Allah.  Its insane and the professor denies it, but his deeds reveal him.  His fruit is supportive of Hezbollah and destructive to his own country and ideology.  Carried out to its logical conclusion, his course would end in submission to Islam and Allah as described in the Qu'ran.

Back to the fruit of faith.  If the fruit of belief in God is the Taliban, Hezbollah, Fatah, and the hundreds of other mainstream organizations which openly and proudly present their blood lust and domineering control of the population as the will of Allah, you might want to consider the consequence to you personally and those you love if their ideology is employed everywhere.  If the fruit of faith is an environment which welcomes other ideologies and fights for equal opportunity for all, even for countries other than its own, then you might want to consider the Source of such an ideology.  Perhaps someone can recall a civilization and ideology which welcomes other cultures to enter their arena of ideas, not just for purposes of debate, but always looking for the better to employ in their own society, but I can't recall one.  Perhaps someone can recall a society in history which bleeds for other cultures without expectation of payment or profit, but I can't recall one.  Certainly, it isn't Islam.  Islam has been imperialist, expansionist, and violently militant from its inception and continues to be today in 44 nations around the world so they can bless the people with 'morality' by chopping off the heads of anyone who refuses to submit to their authority.  Pardon me, but that isn't religion, that is a theopolitical movement to advance a government and the power of its leaders.  Come to think of it, wasn't it the U.S. (a predominantly Christian culture) which went to war in Bosnia to protect Muslims from the Christians engaging in ethnic cleansing?

As for the faith of non-faith, what is its fruit in recent history?  Nazism, Communism, Maouist, Taoist, etc., have all been the sources of the greatest bloodletting in history, even more than all three major religions combined.  All of them stem from the Marxist ideology of eliminating faith in God.  More than 100 million lives lost in the last century alone.  The thing that sets Christianity apart from all the rest is its self correcting nature.  It was the Christian which drove the anti-slave movement.  It was the Christian which corrected the witch trials and the inquisition.  You name the ill in Christianity from history and just know that it was Christians which corrected the wrongs.  Not only that, but in the last century it was predominantly the Christian cultures which corrected the ills of the anti-God regimes of Nazism, Communism, Taoists and eventually pressured the Maouists to some degree of morality and value for human life and self will.  This continues even today and it is predominantly the Christian culture which is exerting some control on the bloodlust of the Islamists.

Let God be true.

This is a crucial proverb, for the rest are wasted without fearing the LORD. Solomon put it first! The basic foundation for learning is to fear God (9:10); but fools reject wisdom and instruction, for they are proud and selfish without regard for God. They love their own opinions (26:12). Rather than search for truth, fools simply want to promote their own thoughts (18:1-2). But you cannot even start learning without the true fear of God.

Who is the LORD? He is Jehovah of the Bible, the great I AM THAT I AM (Ex 3:14; 6:3). He created the heavens, earth, seas, and everything in them in six twenty-four hour days. When He came as a man 2000 years ago, He was named Jesus (Is 7:14; 9:6; Matt 1:21-23; John 1:1,14). Jesus Christ is Jehovah! And He is coming soon with His mighty angels in flaming fire to destroy His enemies (II Thess 1:7-11; I Tim 6:13-16).

The fear of God is an affectionate reverence for Him and humble submission to His word. Fearing God is loving His commandments and hating evil (8:13; 16:6; Ps 111:10; 112:1). Fearing God recognizes Him as the First Cause and Last End of all things (16:4; Rev 4:11)! It knows His forgiveness and seeks to please Him (Ps 130:3-4). A man fearing God trembles humbly at His word (Is 66:2). It is the whole duty of man (Eccl 12:13-14).

Natural men, who do not fear God, are fools (Ps 14:1; 36:1; 58:1). Their reasoning processes are perverse, for they reason in a circle from their own conceited ideas (Rom 1:20-23; I Tim 6:3-5,20-21). Spiritual men, who do fear God, are wise and reasonable, because their thoughts begin with faith in a Creator God (II Thess 3:2; Heb 11:3,6). The fool begins his thinking with thoughts of other fools, the believer with the words of God!

All men reason in a circle, or begin by assumptions. Their knowledge and wisdom depend on their assumptions. The God-rejecter begins by assuming his ideas and those of the fools before him are intelligent and rational. He begins by assuming he has made great advances in the twenty years since he was in diapers. The righteous man begins by assuming faith in an infinitely wise God, Who has revealed truth and wisdom in Scripture. He begins by thinking he knows nothing at all and needs the help of Another.

The fool cannot prove his theories. He calls hallucinations like evolution to be science, but he has never observed evolution, duplicated it in a laboratory, or adequately defined it. He is a fool! And his so-called science is merely a fable (I Tim 6:20-21). The believer knows the Bible is absolutely true internally and externally: but he cannot and will not prove it to the fool, because the fool is missing the essential factor - faith (II Thes 3:1-2).

Consider faith closely. The fool has faith - belief and trust - in himself and his other fellow fools. It takes more faith to believe man came from chaotic gases and baboons than it does to believe man came from an intelligent Creator. The fool has faith, but it is faith in man's hallucinations! The fool has faith in lies, which is self-deception! The believer has faith in God and His word (Heb 11:1-6), which is self-instruction (15:33)!

How did man originate? The fool says a big bang of chaotic gases formed order, design, beauty, life, and the ability and laws to reproduce and preserve them. The man who fears God knows the fool is a fool, because only an idiot could imagine such nonsense, and only the insane would say it! As a humble child trusting God, he cries, "The Emperor has no clothes!" He knows God made man from dust and breathed into him the breath of life.

Evolution is the result of God-hating and sin-loving minds given over to the devil, and it is God Himself Who blinds these fools to worship baboons as their ancestors (Is 44:9-20; Rom 1:20-23). Their "think tanks" today are to smoke hallucinogenic substances and see who can win the day by coming up with the most outlandish explanation for a thing! Do you doubt this accusation? How do you think they say the big bang was 14 billion years ago? They do not even know what men were doing on earth 4 thousand years ago!

The blessed God blinds men who are not thankful to Him for what they are and have (Rom 1:20-23). When they give more glory to the creature than to the Creator, He gives them over to a reprobate mind to do very inconvenient things like sodomy, abortion, child rebellion, rap, bestiality, Picasso, and same-sex marriages (Rom 1:24-32). Jehovah, the LORD, has committed Himself to destroy such men (I Cor 1:19-20; 3:19-20).

How did the seven-day week originate? Did Neanderthal man decide he was tired after working six days and needed the seventh for rest? The movements of the sun give us seasons and years and days, and the moon gives us months, just as God declared (Gen 1:14-19). Where did the week originate? By God's revelation (Gen 2:1-3; Ex 20:8-11)!

How did morality originate? Is adultery wrong? If not, why is polygamy wrong? If not, why is prostitution wrong? If not, why is pornography wrong? If not, why is bestiality wrong? If not, why is pedophilia wrong? How do you reason, fool? Did the caveman of your theories want to protect the woman and give her a loving and secure life in a monogamous relationship of two adults? Or did the blessed God ordain marriage?

Consider how an evolutionist reasons. He laughs at sexual abstinence and virginity, while pulling very small infants apart limb by limb with a suction abortion. He sues farmers for housing chickens in safe cages with constant food, water, and vitamins; but he viciously defends the so-called right to rip an unborn child to pieces! And they call this knowledge!

Fearing God is the beginning of knowledge ... about religion! If it were not for God and His Bible, men would still be sacrificing their wives and children in fire to make peace with their idols, as is still done in India today! They would still be cutting and painting themselves to make peace with the Great Spirit and go to the Happy Hunting Ground.

Fearing God is the beginning of knowledge ... about government! If it were not for God and His Bible, men would still worship their emperor as god, like the Egyptians of old and the Japanese of yesterday. Benevolent government was ordained in the Bible, and it is only widely enjoyed in nations that have been havens for Bible preaching. In all other nations, the peasants are used to satisfy the appetite for luxury of the ruler.

Fearing God is the beginning of knowledge ... about history! Most historians today write history to further a social agenda, and those that write honestly have little data anyway. As foolish man discovers that the Bible accounts of ancient civilizations are true, the same men outlaw the Bible in schools, lest the children have truth at their disposal. Consider the recent discovery of the Hittites that the Bible had described for 3,000 years.

The Bible has all the answers from the origin of the universe to what to do with your foolish child, from the origin of death to the cure for it, from perfect rules for marriage to the eternal state of the wicked. Fearing God means that you believe and trust His word, which gives you insight and answers for all the questions of life, while the evolutionist fool can only speculate about new ideas on the age of the big bang.

Fearing God means you do not fear man, which brings pressure to compromise (29:25; Jer 1:8,17). Peer pressure of elementary school students or academicians in your professional field cause men to accept traditional ideas or politically correct theories. It is time for the child to cry again, "But the Emperor has no clothes!" The fear of God saves a man from this bondage, for such a man despises all human opinions (Ps 119:98-100,128).

Where does wisdom originate? In the fear of the Lord! God opens men's eyes, ears, and hearts to truth and wisdom (I Kgs 3:5-15; Jas 1:5). God opens their eyes to His word (Ps 119:18). God shows them His secrets (3:32; Ps 25:14). And they fear no man (Heb 13:6). Wisdom cannot be found anywhere in the universe, but in the fear of God (Job 28:12-28)!

As I sit here on this anniversary of the resurrection of our Savior, I'm contemplating how the world got into this condition.  In nearly 2000 years since Jesus paid the price for our sin before a just God, we are still reaping the consequences of our choices to rebel against authority and the ultimate authority is the Holy God.  How can this be?  If we are no longer condemned by God and God is an unconditionally loving God, then why are we still and ever more rebelling against Him?  The answers are not all that difficult.  First, an entire army of anti-God actors are working to distort His image in the eyes of men.  One third of the host of heaven rebelled against God and were thrown down and are now acting in any way they can to hurt God.  Since they can't reach God to hurt Him directly, they are attacking those God loves with deceit and corruption using God's promise to man of a free will to cause men to rebel against Him.  Second, men have lusts and appetites which are set against their own will.  In this way, we are tested whether we will serve Him through adversity.  You know, there is no trial of the spirit and character if all our appetites and desires are in total agreement with Him.  Third, we have terrible witnesses proclaiming God disapproves of good things.  There is no greater witness against God than to have those who claim to follow Him walk around miserable, condemning all things joyous.  God does not want His people to be miserable.  Who would want to join a group who live in misery by choice?  Fourth, we are given a concerted message by rebellious persons who've decided to feed their appetites, that God (if He exists) is to blame for all the evil we know.  This is patently untrue and here's why:

One of the most common defenses people use to justify their behavior is; "God made me this way."  God made me gay, God made me with a big appetite for sex, God made me moody, God made me forgetful, God made me fat, God made me an alcoholic, et al ad nauseum.  In this way, we take the responsibility for our behavior off our own shoulders and place it on God.  People, this is blaspheming against the character of God.  This is slander and defaming His good name.  You are attributing to God your own faults to justify your actions in wrong.  Yes, you were given appetites, but some are good, some are bad.  Generally, all are good in only certain circumstances and bad in other circumstances.  All appetites can be over endulged.  We've been given a set of standards to know them as right from wrong and our conscience bears witness, which is wrong and which is right.  If God made you that way, be it violent, gay, envious, etc., then why do anything to change?  Afterall, you would be going against God's will since He made you that way, He must want you to be evil.  This is what I mean when I say people don't think through their positions.  God would not be just in rejecting people's rebellion if they didn't have a choice in how they behave.

One extreme of this mindset is found in the deaf community.  Deaf parents of deaf children often argue that God made their children that way and therefor should not have the Cochlear implant to enable them to hear.  (No, I did not make that up) Really?  and if they were born with a disfiguring cleft palate, should they be prevented from getting reconstructive surgery because God made them that way?  If this is going against God's will, why did Jesus heal the blind, deaf, and the lame?  Was He going against His Father's will?  It does not take a great deal of thought to shatter these ridiculous arguments. 

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Another extreme example is in the violent and the amoral.  So the students who killed all those people at Columbine or Stanley 'Tookie' Williams who tortured and killed an entire family and the many examples like them aren't responsible for killing and torturing because God made them with a propensity toward violence.  Therefor the death penalty is murder and abuse of the mentally ill.  NO!!!  People must be judged by their behavior.  Stop trying to judge the heart.  That's not your responsibility, that's God's responsibility because God can know the heart while we cannot.  People are responsible to overcome their propensity toward sin, violence, sexual aggression, envy, laziness, etc.,  We are born with sinful natures and must fight those natures.  If the excuse "God made me this way" is justification for any behavior, then it is justification for all behavior.  To those who might claim there is no god, by what standard do you set political and societal moores and our responsiblity to deal with those who ignore or specifically set out to destroy them?  Is a person's nature an excuse for their violence or their theivery or any other social crime so that we should not judge and enact social vengeance on them?  Is there nature a reason to redefine our standards of behavior to accomodate their appetites and perversions?

That's another thing.  Punitive action is in its essence a form of vengeance, not a form of mental health care.  Mental health care is a separate issue.  As a society we want to provide access to mental health care before crimes are committed, ideally but before or after, we do want to provide access to all forms of health care.  Mental health does have behavioral benefits and can preclude criminal behavior, but this is a relatively new science and is riddled with political agenda promoting advocates who use the authority of their positions to fight against the societal responsibility of fighting vengeful 'feelings based' reactions to criminal behavior.  What justice to the family and loved ones of a murder victim or the maimed victim of a murder attempt or a torturer or a rapist, or a pedaphile if there is no punitive action, only mental health treatment?  This is why our justice system is failing our society.  This is why people take the law into their own hands and go exact the price they 'feel' is appropriate.  This reliance on feelings is why we need laws and the justice system populated by people not directly victimized by the perpetrators.  There must be cool heads to mete out justice lest fuedal wars become common again.  Each 'feeling motivated' reaction is an escalation of criminal behaviors instead of a jury and judge who will consider the crimes and a fair response to them.  Cold blooded murder deserves a reciprocal reaction to end the life of the murderer.  Accidental death, deserves a recipricol recompense to the family, but not the death penalty.  When anti-death penalty advocates invade and take over the justice system, justice is destroyed.

Getting back to God's will; you may ask, "Bob, what about dwarfism and deformities?  Are these not God's will?"

My answer as I understand God is, "No."  Now, I have no problem with people coming to an acceptance of their condition as from God, but do you imagine that God wants one child to suffer with disabilities.  If you assume God grants one super abilities and another disabilities, what god do you know?  I believe abilities and disabilities are a direct result of the lifestyle choices our forebears made in their own lives or in the environment they lived in which is also suffering from our sin.  So, again this is a result of our sin nature rather than God's purpose.  I had the good fortune to be born with all my physical attributes in good proportion, and in the wealthiest nation on the face of the earth, but I was also born to abusive parents who neither understand nor command wealth.  I, like most of us have tended to focus on the bad hand I've been dealt, but when I sit down and count out my blessings, they far outweigh the difficulties.  While I was focused on the difficulties, I felt justified in foisting my evil desires on the rest of society.  When I went to church and was helped along in learning how to count my blessings, I began to focus on the benefits I've known and now find no excuse for doing evil.  In fact, I can use the experiences with the difficulties in life to motivate me to fighting the evil tendencies.  I know the cost of others' sin foisted on my life and can thus relate what my sin can cost those around me.  I can also use these experiences to identify with those who struggle against their tendencies toward sin and I can minister to them ways to overcome these tendencies.  I can lay out a logical motivation for right behavior, thanks in part to this knowledge of the sin nature.  God does not get the blame for putting me with parents of a broken nature because all parents are human and falable sinners, and He certainly does not deserve the blame for my broken nature, but He does get the credit for leading me out of my own broken nature and teaching me to use the knowledge of that nature to help others know Him the way I know Him.  I am not suggesting I am perfect at all.  I am suggesting that I am walking out of brokenness, step by step and I recognize I have far, far to go.

You can't legitimately blame God for sending the terrorists to you.  You can't blame God for sending the pornographers to you or the gangs, or the fiancial meltdown, or the incredible debt on the national economy.  These are choices the representatives we elected are making.  If we have the will, we can overcome the terrorists, gangs, financial difficulties, debt, drugs, and all the rest, but it takes discipline, it takes the guidance of a strict set of standards and the best example of these is found in the New Testament of the Bible.  Not because they are in the Bible either, but because they make the most sense if you are willing to think them through.  There are plenty of reasons to believe these standards were set by a miraculous God, but now that we have them, we can reason them out and come to the same conclusions.  The final solution to all our problems is; stop blaming God and start listening to His direction.

You may now be thinking, "But Bob, what about natural disasters?  That's evil, yet that must be God's domain." 

If this is an excuse for behaving as you choose, it is evidence that you first choose to behave as you want then make or search for excuses and evidence that either there is no God or the God that would do these things is no god of yours.  Going back to a quote I've used on earlier posts, "Contempt before investigation cannot help but prevent knowledge." William Paley 1780  So let us open our minds and consider things from another perspective.  As men, we see events as they relate to us personally.  Whatever we feel is bad is evil to us.  Now using our imaginations to shed that perspective and take on one of a Designer and One involved in every intimate detail of our lives, suppose you were the God with all knowledge and an observer of every minute detail of the unfolding events of a plan laid out before you initiated the first step.  You are one who can see and has already experienced the end result of this work.  How would you reach your children?  How would you work to convince the greatest number of them that they should believe in you though they've never personally met you and know practically nothing about you except what your enemies have told them?  Would an occasional devastating storm or famine help focus people's attention on your existence?  War is the choice of men, so don't lay that on God, but drought and flood and earthquake or meteors.  These are the domain of God.  Thousands may die, even hundreds of thousands, but how many billions of people spend eternity in exile from the only Source of life (hell) due to their ignorant rebellion if these things never happen?  If all our lives were pleasant and devoid of suffering, how many would consider God at all?  Even with all these things, look at all the voices who proclaim there is no god.  In the face of miracles, in the face of all the evidence, even the evidence of God visiting us in the form of the Christ, yet men deny Him.  The stories in the Bible are just fables.  The meteors and all are just nature.  The miracles are just the imagination of people.  The witnesses of God's hand in their lives are just the realm of self delusion.  Mass witnesses to great miracles are group hipnotism.  Any excuse will do, if you don't want to believe in a God who will one day judge us all according to our behavior and according to the abilities we have and according to what we did with the evidence He has provided.

Most people who visit this page will do so because the title will send them into orbit in offense against this volitile language of racism and bigotry and well they should feel offense, yet the vast majority of those same people will often defend and equate Islam and Muslims to Judaism and Christianity and the cultures which grew out of them.  The reason I titled this article as I have is because this is literally the exact language the Qu'ran and it's adherents are using toward Christians and Jews.  This hipycrisy is fueling most of the conflict in the Middle East and the conflicts between radical Muslims and every other culture in 44 countries experiencing Islamic aggression around the world right now.  In my last article I linked a video of Brigitte Gabrielle, author of "Because They Hate" and "They Must Be Stopped."  Today, I'm going to provide a complete transcript of that lecture and the question and answer period following.  This issue is too important to miss.  This is the fourth article in a series of Lying Without Lies and provides much of the information the media has been withholding from us and misleading us with.  Hear it from one who lived it throughout her life in Lebanon, Israel, and now here in America.  A testimony of personal cost in blood, wealth and freedom.  Everywhere Islam is, there is danger.  Here now is Brigitte Gabrielle at the Heritage Foundation just after the release of her second book about six months ago.

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Good afternoon, welcome to the Heritage Foundation.  I'm John Hilbalt, director of lectures and seminars.  Its my privilege to welcome you to our Lehrman auditorium and of course, to welcome those joining us via the internet at our Heritage.org website.  We always remind our internet viewers that questions can be submitted simply by addressing an email to speaker@heritage.org.  speaker@heritage.org  and for those in house, you have that last minute duty to check that cell phones and pagers have been turned off, if you've not already done so, to avoid any interference here in the room. 

Heritage Foundation is interested in maintaining basic principals, the rule of law, private enterprise, limited government, and individual freedom.  The challenges we face in the world today are great for all of those principals.  We're pleased to have with us today, one individual who has had first hand experience with some of the political challenges we do face around the world.  Our featured speaker this morning is Brigitte Gabrielle.  A journalist and news producer, Mrs. Gabrielle began her career as the news anchor for World News, the evening news broadcast for Middle East television, seen weeknights throughout Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Cypress, and Lebanon.  She reported on the Israeli security zone in Lebanon and the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank as they unfolded.  She is a former production coordinator for ARD, that's German television, in South Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank.  She is also the former satelite video distribution coordinator for World Wide Television News studios in London.  After relocating to the United States in 1989, she founded and entertainment company providing services to national and international media clients.  Then in 2002, she founded the American Congress for Truth, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supplying information about the ongoing Middle East conflict.  She appears often on news and information television shows and talk radio programs.  She is fluent in four languages, Arabic, French, English, and Hebrew.  Hers is a personal story, one I look forward to hearing, and one from which we can better understand the threats faced by the free world today.  Brigitte, welcome to Heritage.  (aplause)

Thank you.  Thank you.  I'm honored and delighted to be here today, and I thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to come here and hear me speak about the Middle East conflict from my own personal experience.  When people hear about the Middle East, they think all the countries in the Middle East are Muslim countries.  This was not the case 30 years ago.  Lebanon was the only majority Christian country in the Middle East.  Lebanon was the most westernized modern country in the Middle East.  When we got our independence from France in the early '40s, the majority of the population were Christian, the Muslims were the minority.  We prospered, we built the country, we are the descendants of the Phoniecians, we were good in commerce, and in a very short time, Lebanon became Paris of the Middle East.  The baking capitol of the Middle East.  We had the best universities in the Middle East, the best education centers, the best schools, the best theaters, we exported the theater and the art to the rest of the Arabic world.  That's why a lot of Arabic countries understand the Lebanese dialect, through our culture while we do not understand many of theirs.  We had open borders, we were a very multi-cultural society.  We allowed people to come into our country freely and study in our country.    They usually graduated and stayed there, because our country offered them the best economic prospect for a job in the Middle East, even though we didn't have any oil. 

That was Lebanon.  The situation began to change gradually, as the Muslims started growing and becoming more than 50% of society.  We the Christians do not multiply as much while the Muslims- not many but a lot of them are allowed to marry up to four wives at a time.  This is how they multiply.  We started shrinking, they started growing.  The most famous Muslim in the world today, is Osama bin Laden.  Osama bin Laden is one out of 53 children.  He, himself has 27 children.  Between father and son, they have produced 80 children.  How many people do you know, my dear friends sitting in this room, have produced 80 children?  If you're willing to confess.  and we're not talking about his other 52 brothers and sisters.  This is what tipped the scale, in the Middle East over the years.  We always had our problem controlled with the Muslims until the influx of the Palestinians out of Jordan- when King Hussein kicked them out of Jordan in Black September and actually, King Hussein killed more Palestinians in Black September than
the state of Israel has killed in all it's existence. 

Lebanon, not surprisingly being a country based on Judeo-Christian values with open borders and multi-cultural attitude, took the Palestinians in.  We were the only country in the Middle East who took the Palestinians in for the third wave of refugees in 1970.  Once they came in, they put their heads together with the radical Islamists in our country, and declared holy war on the Christians.   Yasser Arafat tried to establish with Lebanon a base from which to attack Israel, something he tried to do in Jordan and failed because of the Jordanian dictatorship by the king, yet he was able to do it in Lebanon using our laws, our multi-culturalism, our tolerance, and out open mindedness against us. 

The problem worsened by 1974.  Christians became prisoners to their homes and towns.  We stopped traveling.  I would ask my parents, "How come we're not going to Beruit this year for Christmas?"  Because the rest of my family lived in Beruit.  and my father would give me an excuse, "Well we decided to stay home this year."  which wasn't fun for a 10 year old child.  and you have to understand, I'm an only child to my parents.  My parents were married for over 20 years they could not have any children.  My mother was 55 years old and my father was 60 when I was born, so staying home with two elderly parents on Christmas, wasn't that exciting.  (laughter)  The reason why we stopped traveling is because the Muslims and the Palestinians would set up check points and would stop cars driving.  And they would look at the people's ID's, and in Lebanon as throughout the Middle East, our religion is identified on our ID.  Your are either a Christian, a Muslim or a Jew.  So when the Palestinians and the Muslims would stop the car and see that this family is a Christian family, they would get them out of the car and shoot them in cold blood.  It was called identity killing at that time.  We stopped traveling, that's why we became prisoners. 

By 1975, the Palestinians and the Muslims formed an army called (I have no idea how to spell it, but it sounded like) Jay'sheble'lemprobilon'omy.    The Arabic Lebanese Army.  They started taking over the military bases and destroying the Lebonese infrastructure and attacking the Lebonese government institutions.  The army base up above my house, was the last army base left in the country in the hands of the Lebanese army.    This was in 1975.  They grouped their people together, and in trying to take over the military base in my town, they bombed my home, bringing it down and burying me under the rubble.  This was in 1975.  I was wounded, I ended up in a hospital for 2 1/2 months and undergone surguries.  And I would ask my parents, "Why did they do this to us?"   and my father would tell me, "Because we are Christians, the Muslims consider us infidels."  So I learned at a very young age, at age 10 years old, that I am wanted dead simply because I was born into the Christian faith. 

I left the hospital and I came home and the home was no longer the home I left.  I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground with no electricity, no water and very little food.  To get some water, we would crawl to a nearby spring under snipers' bullets, my mother and I, in a ditch, and we would get to the spring, and my mother would have to use a stocking on top of the bottle to catch all the worms and all the rocks and all the maggots so we can drink the water.  And then we would crawl back to the bomb shelter.  Before we left, everytime we would say our last goodbyes, because we did not know if we were going to come back alive or dead.  We didn't have any food.  My mother finally crawled up to our storage place and brought down white rice and white lentils and white chickpeas and she would soak them overnight so we could eat, and this was the food we lived on.  The only greenery we had to eat was the grass that grew around our bomb shelter.  I would crawl out under the bombs, and I would dig grass out, and I learned how to peel the thorn so I could eat the stalk with my ripe hands of 12 years old, so I could eat the green stalk inside the thorn.  That was the only greenery we ate.  We had no heat, we would freeze.  We are in the mountains, we are next to the border of Israel.  My father had to break twigs from trees and pour kerosene and benzyne on them in the bomb shelter, our 8 by 10 room where we lived under ground.  And many times we cuddled around the fire and many times we would fall asleep and we had an agreement.  Whoever woke up first would drag the other two outside and slap them on their face to wake up because of carbon monoxide poisoning, we would pass out. 

This was my life, meanwhile we were surrounded by the Palestinians and the Muslims who want to slaughter us.  And we knew what our fate was going to be, becuase we knew what they were doing to the Christian towns in Lebanon as they were overtaking the country.  People that had fled from the rest of Lebanon, who came to our area would tell us what they were doing in the other parts of Lebanon.  One of the main things-massacres is the massacre of Demor.  They massacred many Christians.  They would walk into a bomb shelter, meaning the Islamists and the Palestinians, they would find a family hiding in a bomb shelter, they would find a mother and a father with a little baby.  They would take the baby, tie one leg of the baby to the mother and the one leg to the father and pull the parents apart splitting the child in half.  They would walk into our churches, urinate and deficate on the alter using the Bibles as toilet paper.  The last lady that worked for me was completely mentally disturbed.  I hired her so I could take care of her and her family.  They tied her to a chair, they tied her 16 year old son on her lap, held the knife to her hand and made her behead him before they raped her two daughters in front of her. 

I think the biggest disservice the American media did to the American public is not show them the beheading of Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg.   I think we in America as a civilization, need to understand the barbaric nature of the enemy we are facing that's heading our way.  Few people from our town, knowing what our fate was going to be, went to Israel- who was supposedly the enemy at the time, Israel was supposedly Lebanon's enemy according to the government controlled media.  But we as Christians, our back was to the Jews/Israel, our front was to the Palestinians and the Muslims, and we knew of the two evils, of the two devils, the Jews are not going to slaughter us, because we had more shared values with them than we had with the radical Islamists and the Palestinians.  Few people from my town went to Israel and begged for help.  And Israel started coming in, in the middle of the night from 1976 to 1978 bringing food for the children, bringing bomb shelters for the people who didn't have a bomb shelter, bringing blankets to the family, bringing medication, bringing food for the military, bringing ammunition to the Christians and teaching them how to fight, taking them into Israel to be trained because the Christian Lebonese had college degrees, had education, they were not street gangs.  And you can have all the college degrees on your wall behind you, your doctorates, your law degrees, and everything else, it doesn't do you squat when you are faced with an enemy who believes that beheading you is an order from Allah. 

And this is how we stayed alive for another two years until 1978.  One day one of our militia members, the Christian militia in the South, came to us and he said, "I just want to let you know that tonight we are going to be attacked and we may die because we've lost so many people, I don't think we can fight, and I just want to wish you a merciful death."   And I remember dressing in my burial clothes at age 13 because I did not want to look ugly when I am dead because I wanted to look pretty.   And I remember putting on my Easter dress that my mother had made for me.  And we had a two hour cease fire.  And my mother was combing my long hair and tying a white ribbon in it that matched the white flowers on my dress.  And I stood there looking at the little mirror in the bomb shelter, crying begging her, I don't want to die, I'm only 13 years old.  The only reason I didn't die that night is because that night is when Israel came physically into Lebanon and pushed the Palestinians and the Muslims away from our area.  That was Operation Laytanni.  We've been hearing a lot about the Laytanni for the last month or two because of what's been happening with Hezbollah.  And Israel set up check points around our areas.  And this is what kept us alive for another four years until Israel invaded Lebanon all the way to Beruit in 1982.  And the reason why Israel entered Lebanon in 1982, because Israel was working with the Christians in Lebanon to liberate Lebanon from the radical Islamic element, supported by Syria, protected by Iran, financed by the petro-dollars pouring in from all around the Arabic countries, to help Yasser Arafat create a base to terrorize Israel.  They wanted to destroy the only Arabic democracy that existed in the Middle East.  The Christian Lebanese were working with Israel, the Christian Lebanese from Beruit were being trained in Israel and in Tel Aviv just as well as the Christians in South Lebanon.   Israel came in and the only reason Israel came in was because Syria who was financing the radical Islamists and supporting them and protecting them and supplying them with weaponry were shelling the Northern towns of Israel to the point the Northern towns of Israel, their lives ceased to exist, they lived in bomb shelters just like us.  And this didn't go on for a month or two, this went on for a year before Israel invaded Lebanon.  And Israel entered all the way to Beruit to push the Syrian cannons and the artillery and the machine guns so their guns would not reach Northern Israel.  And they were working with the Christians hopefully to expel Yasser Arafat and the PLO out of Lebanon and control the radical element that had taken hold of the country.

Nobody in the world understood what was happening because the Palestinian propaganda machine and the Muslim radical propaganda machine which was well financed and oiled by petro-dollars was well at work while the West was asleep.   During that time, my mother became wounded and we had to take her to an Israeli hospital for treatment because Israel was our only lifeline.  She was wounded by Islamic shells falling in front of our bomb shelter as the Muslims were retreating when Israel was advancing into Lebanon.  And I'm going to tell you a little story that changed my outlook and changed my life.  Before we left the bomb shelter to take my mother to the hospital, my father handed $60. He said, "Here's $60 in case you need it since you're going to be taking your mother to Israel.  And I remember touching money for the first time in my life, because when you live in a bomb shelter, you don't go shopping.  And I took the money and we went up to the Lebonese hospital that Israel has fixed, Israel had fixed up the room, put Israeli soldier on duty and two Israeli nurses who give my mother first aid.  They give her first aid, put her in an Israeli donated ambulance, drove us to the border which was a ten minute drive.  The driver was a Lebonese driver, actually an acquintance of the family.  We got to the border, they took my mother out of the ambulance in Lebanon and put her inside Israel into another ambulance to drive us an hour.  The Lebonese driver walks around to me and asks me if I had any money for the fee for the ambulance.    And like an innocent teenager I pulled the money out of my pocket and I hand it to him and I said, "How much do I owe you?"  And he looks at it and he said, "Give me $30" which was half the money I had.  So I handed him $30 and I thanked him very much.   And I sat in the Israeli ambulance which was inside Israel which was to drive us to the hospital which was an hour away.  The Israeli driver treated me like his own daughter.  He could see a teenager who was uncertain of what was going to happen.  My mother was laid unconcious on the back stretcher of that ambulance.  He treated me like his own daughter with such respect and such compassion.  We got to the emergency room at the Israeli hospital Oveetz Phaht.  We got out of the ambulance and I remember taking the money out of my pocket and handing it to the Israeli driver thinking to myself, "My God, if the ten minute drive cost me $30, I'm sure this is not going to be enough."  And I handed him my money.  And he looked at the money and he said, "What is this for?"  and I said, "This is for the hospital-for the ambulance ride."  And he said, "No, this is a free service from us to you.  Keep your money and take care of your mother, I wish her a speedy recovery."  And I could not believe my eyes and ears.  I thought to myself, "What an ethical man.  What an honest man.  This man could have taken my money and partied all night and I would not have known the difference."  Yet, he didn't.  And I became very angry because I realized the Lebonese driver basicly robbed me, he stole my money.  And he was an acquaintance of the family. 

That was my first lesson in the difference in culture and values between the Arabic culture and the Israeli culture.  We got into the hospital and there were hundreds of people wounded on the floor.  There were Lebanese broughti in from Lebanon, there were Palestinian wounded militia brought in from Lebanon.  There were Lebonese Christians brought in, Lebonese Muslims brought in, Israeli soldiers brought in.  And I could not believe my eyes.  The doctors treated everyone according to their injury.  They did not see religion, they did not see political affiliation, they did not see nationality, they saw people in need and they helped.  I could not believe my eyes, the doctor treated my mother before he treated the Israeli soldier laying next to her.  They took my mother to the fourth floor of the hospital where two other Muslim ladies were brought in earlier that morning.   And we were not in the room but maybe five minutes when I heard all this commotion outside our window, outside our balcony.  And people were running through our room, out to the balcony to see what was happening.  And I walked out to look what was happening.  And two Israeli helicopters had just landed, taking out Israeli wounded soldiers brought in from Lebanon.. And I stood at that balcony feeling sick to my stomach.  I felt ashamed, I felt humiliated.  Afterall, these people are wounded becuase of the war with my country.  I didn't know how the people standing next to me are going to react to me.  I didn't make eye contact with anyone.  And then I felt this tap on my shoulder.  And I looked to my side and there was an Israeli nurse standing next to me.  And she said, "You are new here, aren't you?"  And I said, "Yes I am, as a matter of fact, they just brought in my mother to this room."  And she put her arm around me and she said, "Don't worry, we'll take good care of her, everything will be just fine."  And I started crying.  I started sobbing, because for the first time in my life, I experienced compassion.  I experienced a human quality that I knew my culture would not be able to show their enemy in their time of need.  I knew if I was a Jew standing on the fourth floor or any hospital in the Middle East, I would be lynched and thrown down to my death, as shouts of joy of Allahu ackbar would echo through the hospital and down the surrounding streets.  I spent 22 days in the hospital in Israel.  Those days changed my life, changed the way I believe information, changed the way I listen to the radio.  I learned I was sold a lie by my government about the Israeli people and the Jewish people that was so far from reality.  It was amazing.  One of the Muslim ladies in the same room,  she was there for over ten days.  And when the Israeli soldiers would come and take care of her wound and change her wound in the morning, the minute they would leave, she would look at them and she would say, "I wish you were all dead, I hate you."   And if you could see evil, I saw evil.  Because when you hate so deep that you are unable to be grateful to people that save your life, you have crossed a fine line between humanity and something very ugly on the other side. 

I vowed that one day I would return to Israel because these were the type of people I want to live amongst.  This was the type of culture I want to adopt.  A culture of cvilized people who respect all others, who shows compassion to others.  You want to know real people?  The time you know the true face of a person is when they are in a trajedy.  That's when their true colors shine.  And the colors of the Israelis were respect, compassion, and love.  While all the Israelis from Israel heard that there were Lebanese people living in the Israeli hospitals and came to visit bringing in chocolates, bringing in baklava, telling people, "Our homes are your homes if you need any help, just come let us help you out."    It was an amazing scene.  And all you heard the Lebanese television, "The barbaric Israeli enemy invading Lebanon and torturing Lebanon and destroying the Lebanese infrastructure."  Nobody destroyed the Lebanese infrastructure but the radical Islamists and the PLO who ravaged Lebanon and this is exactly what we're seeing today.

I ended up moving to Israel when I was 20 years old to become news anchor for World News in the Middle East where I covered world event and reported on world news.    And I saw the same pattern being repeated.  What I used to think was original problem between radical Islamists and Christian Lebanese, was becoming a world problem.  The Ahkiginlabro, the Pan Am flight, TWA flight, the killing the hihacking.   It was the same Muslims names perpetrating it, Achmed, Hussein, Muhammad, Ali.  The same of the victims, Terry Anderson, Terry Waite, Gerald Higgins, all American Western names, Jews or Christians.  

And now I am in the United States.  And people today have such misinformation in our country, it is mind boggling.  I realized that the same enemy that Israel has been fighting for over 50 years are the same enmey today who are fighting Western civilization.  No one paid attention then, but now we better pay attention.  Great example is Hamas, the terrorist organization Hamas.  When people hear Hamas, they think Hamas is an 8,000 miles away problem.  Hamas is an Israel problem.  Hamas is here in the United States.  Hamas of all the terrorist organizations in America, that have set up shop in America, and the top three are al Qaida, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas.  Hamas has the largest infrastructure on American soil.  Hamas has cells in over 40 states in the United States.  They have cells in - I'm only going to name you a few cities that might interest you - Boston Massechussetts, New York New York, Laurelle Maryland, Potomac Maryland, Washington DC, Henrington Virginia, Springfield Virginia, Rally North Carolina, Boca Roton Florida, Fort Lauderdale Florida, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Cleveland Ohio, Charmin North Carolina, Orlando Florida, Tampa Florida, Seattle Washington, San Francisco California, Santa Clara California - You get the idea.  In over 40 states.  This is the problem we're facing today. 

Many people who turned a blind eye and did not pay attention to what was happening are now paying the price.  In the Hamas charter, article 22 of the Hamas charter which was published and made public in 1988, states the organizations of the enemy.  I'll quote you verbatim.  Article 22, quote, "With their money, they created secret organizations" -talking about the enemy- "  that spread around the world in order to destroy societies and carry out Zionist interests.  Such organizations are the Free Masons, Rotary clubs, Lions clubs, Negbriks and the likes.  All of them are destructive espionage organizations to be destroyed.  You tell me my fellow Americans, and those of you watching on television, how many of you know Lions club members, Rotary club members, Free Masons, who get up early in the morning in their communities to raise money and better their communities?  No, they are mentioned as enemies of Hamas' organization, the terrorist organization that has the largest infrastructure on American soil.  We need to take political correctness and throw it in the garbage where it belongs and start educating our people.   (aplause) Thank you.

Not only we have a problem with Hamas, we have a problem with radical Islam being spread here through the mosques in the United States, financed by so called, our ally Saudi Arabia.  Thank God for private organizations which can go under cover into these mosques.  One of these great organizations, are Freedom House, the Center for Religious Studies.  They went under cover into the top mosques in the United States, and collected over two hundred books and publications from Islamic institutions and mosques and some of the most prominent mosques are in Dallas, in Houston, in Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Oakland.   And they took a sample of all these books and translated them.   And these books are supplied directly by the government of Saudi Arabia and its to teach Muslims living in infidel lands, like our land - not Islamic land - how to live and how to deal with non-Muslims.  In relations with all non-Muslims, these Saudi books and publications repeatedly exhort Muslims to, quote "Hate them for their religion" - meaning us and you and everybody else watching - "to hate for Allah's sake.  Always oppose them in every way.  Maintain a wall of resentment against them."  They say that democracy is responsible for all the horrible wars of the 20th century and that attractive names like democracy, justice, freedom, brotherhood, and equality cause all of the world's problems.   This is what's being taught right here in American mosques.  they say that all religions but Islam are false and that it is the religious duty of every Muslim to impose, quote "functionally Islamic goverment on every country in the world."  This religious duty is binding in principal, in law, in self defense, in community, and as a sacred obligation of jihad, in order to fill the sacred obligation of jihad they must, quote "invade its Western heartland and struggle to overcome it until all the world shouts by the name of the prophet Muhammad and the teachings of Islam spread throughout the world.   Only then will Muslim achive their fundamental goal, all religion will be exclusively for Allah.  This is what Muslims young and old are learning in American mosques in the United States today.   And if I may add, they are teaching in Islamic madrassas in the United States as you and I are meeting in this room.  They are teaching young American Muslim students that Christians and Jews are apes and pigs because we are cursed by Allah.  This is what they're learning.  Now you tell me my fellow Americans, can we dare say this type of verbage against - let's say blacks are monkeys and gays are pigs?  This type of education is not permissable.  This type of verbage is not allowed to be taught against any group of people in any religion in any color.  This is hate education.  We have seen the result of this kind of hate education in the Palestinian territiories, the unleashing of suicide bombing into Israel.  And this is what's being prepared right now in America today unless we wake up and identify the problem. 

A few days ago, we had a report come out that said that our being in Iraq just increased a little bit the terrorist attack, that its because we are there that they are angry with us.  Well I've got a little piece of news for everyone.  Under the banner of lai e lai elahulah Muhammad suru Allah, "There is no god greater than Allah and Muhammad is his prophet."  they killed Jewish children in Israel, they massacred Christians in Lebanon - meaning the Muslims - they killed Hindus in India, Copts in Egypt, Assyrians in Syria, Armenians in Turkey, and expelled over 900,000 Jews out of Arab land.   That has nothing to do with us being in Iraq, being in Afghanistan, and has absolutely nothing to do with America.  This is the time America needs to wake up and realize what is coming her way.  And I'm going to end on this note before I open it for questions.  So many times over the last 100 years, people have stood by and done nothing allowing evil to prevail.  As America stood up against and defeated communism, this is the time when America needs to come together and defend our Western democracy and defeat Islamo-Fascism and radicalism because in our country and in our freedom, we do not stand and do not agree with religious hatred, bigotry and intolerance.    And I urge you to act today and wake up.  I thank you.  (Aplause)

John- For some reason I suspect there are few questions from the audience.  And I'll start here on the back, just wait for the microphone and please do us the favor of giving your name and affiliation. 

Hi; my name is Brian Beary, I'm a journalist for Europolitics Magazine.  Just when you were talking about  the Muslims, you seemed to sort of imply there was a monolith with everybody holding these radical views.  Do you not think there's a large majority of Muslims that are much more moderate and that the challenge is to work with them to pursuade, to force them, the moderates to achieve victory over the radicals?

Brigitte-  Exactly, this is exactly what we need, we need to challenge the moderate Muslims all throughout the world.  You know there are  1.2 billion Muslims in the world today.  Not all of them are radicals, but in the intelligence community, we estimate there are between 15 to 25% who have been radicalized.  That translate to 180 to 300 million people.  That's almost as big as the population of the United States.  So we do have Muslims living in the United States.  Where are their voices?  This is the only country in the world where Muslims can demonstrate, where Muslims can march in the streets, where Muslims can speak without being intimidated by the radicals.  I can understand why they cannot do it in Libya, in Saudi Arabia, in Aman, in Jordan, in Syria, in Lebanon, but there is no excuse why the Muslims in the United States  cannot take to the streets and rally and send a message to the radicals in the Middle East that we are Americans first, you kill one of us, you kill all of us, we condemn Hamas, we condemn al Qaida, we condemn Jama Islamiya, we condemn Hezbollah.  We haven't heard a blurb.  Talk is cheap.  Having had talking on television screens is empty verbage, hot air just coming out.  Actions speak louder than words.  This is the time we need to challenge our Islamic community to take to the streets.  Of all the Mullahs in the United States, of all the members of mosques in the United States, since September 11, have you seen a million man march on the Capitol?  Have you seen people come to the streets with the same passion as the radicals have and have taken to the streets in any other street in any other country?  Let's talk about the passion of the Hezbollah supporters in Deerbornistan, Michigan right here in our country.  They were free to demonstrate in support of Hezbollah, in the United States of America, yet we haven't seen this passion and these numbers coming out to the streets to defend America?  Just last month, two reporters in the United States, Fox News reporters, Sentanni and Wigg were forced at gunpoint in Gaza to convert to Islam and that was the only way they were able to survive.  Now, a lot of Muslims tell us, this is not what Islam stands for.  If this is not what Islam stands for and the whole world went up against the Pope, have we seen condemnation and demonstrations in the streets on any street USA, condemning this barbaric behavior, 7th century behavior?  Actions, my friends, speak louder than words.  Our civilization is at stake and this is the time.  We need to see people act, not talk.   (aplause)

Alan Nichols, Washington Diplomat Magazine.  We've got to get to the media because you mentioned media and they are the problem.   The Left wing media in this country.  They're almost against everything that we stand for in this country.  I can't understand the Liberal media.  How are you going to get through your message- we can do our part as individuals.  How do you reach the news organizations to change the tenor and the content of the news that's coming out? 

Brigitte-  You know, a lot of people in the liberal press say, "I already have my mind made up, don't confuse me with the facts."  This is the problem we are facing, but we are seeing a decline in the mass media and we are seeing a lot of people are using alternative media sources, such as the internet, such as publications on the internet, such as talk radio, which we have seen an incredible increase on talk radio.  And this is how we get the message out.  Every individual can get involved.  I founded an organization in 2002 called American Congress for Truth.com because I'm sick and tired of political officials who make it to Washington DC, get up there and forget the voices of the people who elected them.  But lining their pockets with money becomes more important than protecting our borders, tightening our immigration, screening students who want to come and study in our country from hostile countries.  So we started an organization, we have thousands of members in all 50 states in the United States and countries outside of America, people who want to know what they can do to make a difference.  There's a lot of things, we send action alerts on a daily basis, I encourage everyone to sign up to our website.  American Congress for Truth dot Org or dot Com.  And sign up to receive our emails.   And we give people tips.  For example, if you live in Smalltown USA, you notice the mosque being built and you notice radical behavior, people dressed more radically, behaving more radically, keeping to themselves, your antenae go up.  Go down, take an afternoon and go to city hall, find out who owns the deed to that mosque.  That's public information.  Is it a Saudi Foundation?  Is it some Muslims from foreign countries who's name is on the deed?  Write those names down, come back to your home, call your local FBI office.  Turn [in] the names to them.  We are the eyes and ears of our government.  Our government is not in every Smalltown USA, but we are and we can open our eyes and we can play a part in protecting our nation.  I also tell people, you can call your elected officials.  Every phone call represents 1000 voters.    And I talk to the officials and I say, "How manypeople do you need to hear from on a national level in order for you to make an issue an issue?"   And they say, "All we need to hear from is 40 to 50 people."  That's it!  The average American thinks, "What's my voice going to do?  They need to hear from a 100,000 people."  But here's the reason behind the numbers, if one person calls, he or she is representing 1000 voters because he is willing to get up and make the phone call and he represents 1000 couch potatoes who may think the same way but are too lazy to make the phone call even though they do vote on election day.  That translates to 40 to 50,000 voters on election day.  Stop buying the mass media, the New York Times, stop buying the L.A. Times, stop buying the newspapers that are spreading lies.  Start supporting organizations that support the truth and gets this type of truth, this politically incorrect truth to you and to the American public.  And this is how the mass people, mass Americans can make a difference.

Another question, I'm going to take this lady first, she raised her hand first.

Lady- Two quick questions, one is; Why are the Muslims, the moderates not speaking out? and secondly, What is your opinion of the president of Palestine saying he would be able to go with two individual states? and what is your opinion on those things?

Brigitte- Well, I'm going to start with the moderates in this country who are not speaking out.  We have very few moderates who are speaking out and I can count them on less than five fingers.  One of them is a colleague of mine, Kamelle Lueje, the president of Free Coalition of Muslims Against Terrorism.  Kamelle tried to organize a rally in Washington DC by the Free Coalition Against Terrorism to show their support to America against terrorism.  The top three Muslim organizations in America not only boycotted the rally, not only put down the rally, refused to advertise the rally,  but went on the attack against Kamelle Lueje, saying that he does not represent the voice of the main stream Muslim community.  Fifty people showed up to Kamelle Lueje's Free Coalition Against Terrorism rally, most of them were Christians and Jews.  Actions speak louder than words and we need to start listening and watching what's happening in our country and translate what they are telling us, not what we are processing in our mind and hoping they would be saying.  Reality is reality.

Another question.

Abe Powers is my name.  You had mentioned something like 15% or so of the 1.2 billion Muslims in the world have potentially been radicalized.  In this country, I would suspect that percentage is far lower and that the potential is still for many thousands to be radicalized.  The concern that I have in taking on the campaign that your talking about, even though I think there is a lot of merit to it, is possible over-reaction in this country to a minority population.  Just a half century ago, during WWII, we locked up hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans because we feared they were in cahouts with the enemy.  How do you prevent something like this from happening in this country, to the overwhelming majority of law abiding American citizens?

Brigitte-  Absolutely, and we are never going to allow to happen what happened back in WWII.  But we can be wise in the way we conduct our intelligence.  For example, our governemnt wanted to monitor certain mosques last year, for radio active material.    Radio active matieral, now you tell me how many temples and churches that you heard of that we are intereste in monitoring them for radio active material?   And why should CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, oppose us to monitoring something, where we know there are radio active material, to protect ourselves and our country?  There are certain laws where we can put pressure on our elected officials to do where we're not endangering the majority of the Muslims.  Obviously, we are not closing the mosques, obviously, we are not locking them up, obviously, we're letting the terrorists play in our ground.  Look at September 11, the biggest joke on America.  The biggest terrorist act to ever happen on American soil, happened by Muslims living in America, came to America either legally or illegally, holding American ID's, using American money, going to American flight schools, training in American flight schools to fly American airliners into American buildings to kill Americans.   the whole job was done from within, not outside.  So you do not need to lock [up] the 3 to 6 million Muslims that live in this country, but you can certainly encourage our government to eavesdrop, there's been a lot of terrorist attacks that have been foiled since September 11 because of the eavesdropping program.  Just because you don't hear about it, or because it doesn't materialize into a big terrorist act doesn't mean that these programs are not working.  The Patriot Act- you know I come from a Lebanese heritage.  I have no problem if the FBI wants to monitor any conversation I have.  All they [will] get is [a] few laughs.  I have no problem, they want to search my house, give me five minutes, I'll have my teenagers pick up their bedrooms and there you go.  And anybody that doesn't sound the way I do, you better watch out.  We are fighting a war for our survival, and this is the time the Islamic community needs to be challenged to turn the radicals within it, into us and start working with our government.  When you see one individual committing a terrorist act, like the 19 hijackers who like any terrorists-  A terrorist doesn't work independantly.  A terrorist is part of a community.  He is protected by a community, financed by a community, supported by a community, defended by a commmunity, hidden in a community, nurtured in a mosque in the community.  There is no vacuum in Middle East communities throughout the United States.  I come from the Middle East.  Middle Eastern communities who come here basically just change geography, change territories.  Everybody knows everybody's business.  Walk into any neighborhood USA, walk into the Arabic grocery store, tell them "Mohammad Ali, do you know where he lives?" they can tell you where he lives, how old he is, when was his birthday, if his mother is visiting in town, what business he has opened since he came to the United States, any details that Americans would be stunned to know.  An American Islamic communities need to be challenged to turn [in] the terrorists within it and needs to be more active and needs to voice their opinion like Kamelle Lueje, like the few people who I know who are speaking out.  Those voices need to come forward, they are already forward, we just need the rest of the Islamic community to stand behind them against those who are wishing to do us harm.

Hi, my name is Ernie Rosenblum but I'm here in my own private capacity.  Two things, one is; Even with the minimul things that we've done, the ineffective and inadequate things we've done, in Europe, the U.S. and Israel are considered more of a threat to peace than the Islamists and if we were to pursue a course like yours, how do we avoid being completely isolated?    That's the first question, the second is;  I keep hearing about the overwhelming majority of peaceful Muslims.  And my question is; Where's the evidence that they exist? 

Brigitte-   What a great question!  Thank yo so much.  I love the way you put that answer in your question. If they exist, this is a call to all Muslims living in the United States, if those of you moderates exist, and I'm talking directly to the camera,  we want to see you in the streets of America demonstrating, sending a very clear message to the radical barbarians that live in the third world countries in the Middle East, to condemn the barbaric acts that have been done in the name of Islam, your religion that has been supposedly, hijacked.   Because in our beliefs, if something has been stolen or hijacked, we would scream to high heaven that it has been stolen.  And we need to hear your voices if you're really upset that your religion has been stolen.  Thank you.  (aplause)  Oh, the U.S. and Israel.  Yes, the U.S. and Israel are considered the Great Satan [and the Little Satan.]  And many people do not realize, let me tell you, America is the Great Satan, Israel is just the Little Satan tagging along with America.  Keep that in mind.  Whatever happens to Israel, happens to us.  There is a saying in Arabic, "al wenyet isebbit, wah babah edhalud."   "First comes Saturday, then comes Sunday."  "First we kill the Jews, then we come to the Christians."  You ask anyone in the Middle East that saying, they'll know exactly what you're talking about.  The Muslims have been raised with it, we the Christians, have been raised with it.  So, do we care what Europe thinks?  Europe right now, is Eurabia.  It is no longer Europe.  [The Europe we used to know] has died or its on its dying bed. You go down the streets of the Jeans se LeSie in Paris, and what do you see?  You see women in Burkha, you see more men dressed in turbans than dressed in Christian djour attire and cotiere.  You walk in London, I mean, unbelivable, in Denmark, in the year 2000, before 2001, the mullahs in Denmark were declaring from their mosques, that by the year 2050, they will declare Denmark an Islamic state.  That was 2000, before the cartoon bruhauhau.  We were not paying attention, and we better start paying attention.  And people better pay attention to people who are likely, who came to this country, who escaped Islamic persecution who are speaking up, and saying, "Wake up America!  Wake up the West!"  We're going to be the next Eurabia unless we act now and defend our civilization.    We're fighting Islamic totalitarianism. 

I'm going to let you ask that question.  Did you ask a question yet?

My name's Kevin Rooney, I'm a reporter with Cypercast News Service.  I have a question about the controversy with the Pope.  Is there anything the news media hasn't reported in that controversy that you would like to see get a little more air time, a little more play?

Brigitte-  Oh, the news and the Pope, and by the way, the Pope was quoting a 17th century Byzantine Emperor, taking about a 7th century religion, Islam, about violence in Islam and Islam being spread through the sword and through violence.  And what do the Muslims do?  Burning churches, killing the nun.  What the Pope was talking about is what we sit around the dinner table and talk about what we watch on the news and the evening new, its what we hear on the new all day long, not only in America, but all throughout the world.  And I mentioned earlier, Santanni and Wigg, the perfect example of the two Fox reporters.  This forced conversion just happened last month.  This is the 21st century.  Nothing has changed.  Except now, they have sophisticated Western technology called guns, instead of the swords.  Swords!  My husband told me, "You need to say swords instead of sWords." (laughter)

Hello; my name is Madelin and I am an American.  And my question is; I've heard a lot about a documentary called 'Obsession.'    What is your opinion of that?

Brigitte-  Well, what can I say?  I'm in the documentary, so I love the documentary.  Obsession is an incredible documentary.  Its a wake up call about the threat of radical Islam to the Western civilization.  And I urge everyone to get that documentary and get it, see it, feature it in your community.

John- Watch for a future program at Heritage, we're working on that.

Brigitte- That's right, and its a great documentary and we need the support of people like you, of concerned Americans who are going to support production of documentaries like these.  Speaking engagements for people like me to go out and spread the word.  We need to come together and work together to expose the truth.  Not many people are willing to do that, sadly.  And that's why our work is most important.  Yes.

I'm Faith McDonnell from the Institute of Religion and Democracy.  Thank you so much.  One thing, I recently saw Obsession and something that I felt was left out, was the connection with Sudan and I know you mentioned Sudan in your book.    I think we need to connect the dots all around the world.  And I just wondered if you had any contact with Southern Sudanese or Sudanese from the Nuba Mountains?    The Muslims in the Nuba Mountains are the kind of Muslims you're talking about.  They're the peaceful ones and they want a secular democracy, but they would be a good contact for you and for all of us to want to work on stopping this.

Brigitte-  Yes, we are working with different groups and that's a great point and I mentioned it in my book.  Sudan, Indonesia, all around the world-  Right now as I'm speaking to you, there are conflicts in 44 counrtries around the world between Muslims and non-Muslims.  Where is the voice of the moderates?  We are not hearing it.  All we are hearing about is the terrible acts committed in the name of Islam, but you don't hear the voices of the moderate.  And the moderates are being silent just like in Lebanon with this last war with Hezbollah and Israel.  The Sunnis and the Christians are adamant against Hezbollah.  They want the same old Lebanon back.  Prime Minister Saniora, who is a Sunni, who absolutely hate Sheik Nazrallah, who's out of Hezbollah, in the first two days of the war, Prime Minister Saniora said, "How dare Hezbollah start a war without consulting the Lebanese government, they had no right to abduct Israeli soldiers."  Within [a] few days, you saw the Prime Minister change his song and dance.  The reason why?  Because Hezbollah sent death threats to members of Lebanese parliament that if you say anything against Hezbollah, that makes Hezbollah look bad, you will face the same fate like Prime Minister Hariri.  You will be killed.  And this is why you started seeing more people in the Lebanese government be intimidated and talk about, "Israel is the enemy, Hezbollah is our hero." and by them appeasing the enemy and talking like this, look what Nazrallah did with Lebanon [a] few days ago, with the rally they held in Lebanon.   We're going to overthrow the government of Lebanon and we're going to make the government.  Appeasement doesn't work.  Its like feeding the crocodile hoping you will be the last person to be eaten.  And you will be the last person to be eaten.  You've got to kill that crocodile in order to ensure your survival.  And this is what we're seeing all around the world today, and it needs to stop.

One more question.

Frederick Peterson, US Freedom Foundation.  I have first a brief comment and then a question for you.  The comment is in response to the question previously given in concern for internment camps and dramatic response to the threat within.  Perhaps the primary question that must be answered for all of those who worry about excessive response is, are we or are we not at war?  And the answer to that question will elicit the correct response, presuming we have a correct answer.  Secondly, I'm concerned with Iran and Ahmadenijad.   And I would like your comment and observation of what degree of credibility do you give to him, how much is act and how much is reality?  And what would be the threat of a nuclear armed Iran and the consequences of that to us?  Thank you.

Brigitte-  Iran is the biggest danger we are facing right now.   Ahmandenijad is credible, credible, credible.  Listen to every word he is saying, he is going to follow through on every word he is uttering.  The minute Iran finishes their nuclear reactor or nuclear bomb, they will use it against Israel and wipe Israel off the map.  And that doesn't only stop with Israel, their eyes are going to be next on the United States.  The same thing happened to Hitler.  When Hitler even wrote a book called Mein Kampf, "My Struggle."  That's what, you know,  Mein Kampf means.  And he said exactly how much he hated the Jews and what he wants to do with the Jews.  People said "Oh, this guy is a lunatic, this guy is a mad man."  Well guess what?  Listen to what the mad man in saying, because he is going to follow through on his threat.  While we are wasting time, beating around the bush, you know, talking about U.N. sanctions-  Sanctions, smanctions.  I mean, these people could care less about sanctions.  Face reality, you can have sanctions from now until the sun comes down, it doesn't affect them one bit.  Remember, these people are used to living in poverty.  They can very easily live on a bowl of rice.  They do not need to go furniture shopping or clothes shopping.  They can survive.  Don't look at their standards and compare to the standards of the United States.  Sactions are not going to affect them.  Not to mention, we're going to have our enemies helping them, smuggling to them whatever we cut off from them.  So, he will follow through, he is not going to respect anything that you have to say, because look what happened with Saddam Hussein.  So, what's going to change.  He's got another 12 years to go.  Only in two years, he's going to finish his nuclear bomb.  And this is why it is so important to act.  And we need to realize that Ahmadenijad is driven by an ideology of bringing back the 12th Imam, the hidden 12th Imam.  What makes Ahmadenijad much more dangerous than Hitler is that Ahmadenijad believes that the 12th Imam who disappeared in a well, the only way he is going to come back is by creating chaos and catastrophe to bring about the Mahadee where Islam's going to bring about the Supreme.  Even though Christians and Jews believe in the coming of the Messiah, the Jews believe that Messiah's going to come and then we're going to have peace on earth, the Christians believe that Jesus is going to return and that we're going to have peace on earth, but as Christians and Jews there is nothing we can do as people to ensure what time or how we can bring them back.  In Islam, especially in the Shiite religion with the 12th Imam, the Bandi, you can actually participate as a believer in bringing about this catastrophe to bring in the savior and this is where Iran is heading.  And one of the Homeinis was speaking to high school students two months ago, and addressing the conflict with Israel he said, "Even when we bomb Israel" -he didn't say 'if' he said-" 'when' we bomb Israel and wipe Israel off the map, its a win-win victory for us, because not only have we killed all the Jews according to Allah, but even if they bomb us back and even if we lose millions, we will die as martyrs and go straight to heaven sit on the right arm of God.  So its a win-win situation for us no matter what happens."  See, this is an ideolog of death, that we as a civilized nation have no point of reference to.  We cannot relate, but we need to understand.  We don't have to relate or have a point of reference with what he is talking about.  But we need to understand as civilized educated people, where he is coming from and where he wants to go.  And just be prepared, and fight to stop him before he gets there.  I thank you, my book is Because They Hate, A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America.  And I urge everyone to visit my website at americancongressfortruth.org or americancongressfortruth.com   Sign up to receive our action alerts and emails and join us in defending America.  Thank you.  (aplause)

John-  And we do have copies of the book here if you would like to spend a little time with Brigitte or have them autographed.  I'm sure  you can also find it on Amazon.com at your leisure, unsigned of course.  Thank you for coming to see us.  Thank you for your kind attention.

I wouldn't have expected this message from a Kennedy, but I'm sure glad to have heard it.  

Here we are on this rock, floating around the cosmos trying desperately to kill one another before 'they' kill us.  In the meantime, our little rock is being circled by another rock which if knocked out of its orbit could destroy us.  Our system is constantly being bombarded with other rocks.  As we circle our personal fireball which in turn circles the hub of our personal galaxy, that Hubble image I was looking at showed literally millions of galaxies floating around in a chaotic fashion.  The commentary on that video said their collisions are fairly frequent.  What happens when galaxies collide?  They are destroyed, they birth new galaxies, the peel off their opponents solar systems, or they are scattered as galaxial debris shooting off in all directions.

Going back to my discussion with the liberal being worried about meteors striking the earth, he has reason to be

I believe we won't have to.  God promised to come and get us.  I realize that sounds illogical on its face, but if you would actually examine the evidence, there is far more there for God's existence and His care for us, than there is from the secularists who prefer not to believe in God, but will believe the disproved theory of evolution.  The case has been made that we have a religious need.  If you choose not to worship God, you don't avoid faith, you just place your faith in other illogical beliefs.  A secularist rather fight second hand smoke, carbon emissions, or even rocks from space than Maoism, communism, Nazism or radical Islam.  Which is the more immediate danger?  Which is the more immediate need?  Will we destroy ourselves with nuclear arms or will we destroy ourselves with second hand smoke?  Will we be destroyed by a space rock or a colliding galaxy or will we be destroyed by world domination by radical Islam?  What can we do about pollution and space rocks if we are all once again living in a stone age?

If you believe in God, Merry Christmas.  If you believe in humanism, merry capitalmas.  If you believe in Darwinism, I'm sorry, but please, feel free to celebrate our holidays.  We're happy to share our joy with you. If you've joined the church of the Global Climate change, I'm sorry, we are human, which means we consume and leave a carbon footprint.  You're free to join the celebration if you want, but I'm sure all that consumerism just puts you in a spin with concern for our planet.

I keep trying to post on the massive lying campaign of the Liberal Faith Church.  Global warming was covered a couple of articles back.  My friend over at Liberty Pen has posted another fantastic video on YouTube.  Michael Crichton explains how Liberalism is a faith.  In the environmental view, there used to be this Eden and when people came they destroyed Eden.  It is based entirely upon guilt and their version of sin.  There Bible is constantly being rewritten with authoritative studies from paid sources.  It precisely maps other religions in that it defines whats good action, what's bad action, if you recycle then you're good and if you drive SUV's then you're bad and no dissent is accepted.  He then goes on to give several examples of the Liberal Faith Movement.  ie., second hand smoke-no statistical support that it causes cancer.  They lie to promote their faith movement and they scare our children with these lies.  The climate change lie is the corker for me because I was taught in school that we were headed into the next ice age, now they are teaching our kids that we are causing the climate to warm, that the ice caps are melting due to our co2 carbon emissions.  The evidence shows that the engine that drives climate change is the sun and that co2 follows the climate rather than driving the climate.

An example of the falsehood of their religion is found in the parks.  The parks were set aside to be preserved and yet the management by the environmentalists of these parks has been a tragedy.  They don't and won't admit this but raw sewage is seeping out of Yellowstone Park. 

Doomsayer ME?

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Wafa Sultan is a psychologist.  An Arab born and raised woman who has rejected Allah and has come into the knowledge of his prophet's murderous ways.  Its all well and good that you come to know the truth about people in your life, but it is known as backbiting and gossip to go discussing those faults with anyone other than the person with whom you have found fault.

Dr. Sultan goes on al-Jezeera TV and makes her case with the religious authorities of the land.  Her criticism is against their religion, their government, and their proponents.  I have transcribed the entire video for your perusal.  

Quote:  When I examined the Koran, the hadiths, and the Islamic books under my microscope, I came to the absolute conviction that it is impossible - impossible! - for any human being to read the biography of Muhammad and believe in it, and yet emerge a psychologically and mentally healthy person.  Do you remember the way that (the prophet Muhammad) killed 'Asmaa bint Marwan?  His followers tore her body apart limb from limb, while she was breastfeeding her child.  When they returned to him shouting "Allah Akbar," he said; "No two goats would lock horns over her."  As you know, goats lock horns over the most inconsequential thing.  For Muhammad, however, the killing of a woman while breastfeeding was too trivial an incident for goats "to lock horns over."  Is this a prophet of God?  It makes me very sad that al-Jazeera TV allows an insane and terroristic creature like al-Qaradhawi to use it as a medium for the spreading of his poisons, his terroristic fatwas, and his babbling.  The words he used against me incited many young Muslims who have been brainwashed and blindfolded and who have programmed to hate, to rain curses and threats upon me, right after the show in which he discussed my appearance on al-Jazeera TV.  When Islam considers women to be deficient in reason, and I refute this assertion - in that case Islam attacks me, and I am merely attacking back.  When Islam calls to kill whoever does not believe in it and I refute this, in that case Islam attacks me, and I am merely attacking back.    I do not attack Islam, I criticize it, but unfortunately, we the victims of Islamic upbringing, view any criticism as an attack.  I always focus on the language - the language of Islam.  The language of Islam is a negative, dead language, replete with violence, anger, hatred and racism.    Man is the product of language, the outcome of the negative and positive language to which he is exposed in his lifetime.  If his life is dominated by negative language, he will emerge as a negative, reckless, and non-productive person, who rejects everything.  On the other hand, if positive language dominates his life, he will emerge as a positive, happy, and productive person.  This is why the negative language of Islam has failed.  It has failed to produce people with a spontanious and positive outlook.  It has produced negative people.  If we take a look at Islamic societies, we see what that negative man did.  I do not view Islam as a religion - according to my notion of religion.  Islam is a political doctrine, which imposes itself by force.  Any doctrine whatsoever that calls to kill those who do not believe in it is not a religion.  It is a totalitarian doctrine that imposes itself by force.  When I read, for example, the verse:  "The adulterer and the adulteress - flog each of them with a hundred stripes, and do not let compassion for them move you."  I do not discern any spirituality in this verse.  When a certain faith manages to strip its believers of their last grain of compassion, it strips them of their spirituality as well.  Jesus Christ is the symbol of peace.  He did not carry a sword, chop off heads, or accuse anyone of heresy.  The problem in Islam is that if we were to act similarly to the Christians of the Middle ages, and were to model our lives after the life, actions, and words of Muhammad, we would find ourselves in an even bigger mess than the one we are in, and we would end up with Osama bin Laden and his ilk.  Read about the life of Muhammad.  What do you find there?  Nothing but his raids and his wives, in addition to his hadiths, some of which make you shudder.  I shudder when I hear the hadith:  "A woman's paradise is under her husband's foot."  The Islamic teachings have become dreadful in the skulls of the Muslims.  I see no alternative but to open up these skulls, and to clean the life-threatening cancerous cells in these brains.  When the Syrian people swarmed the Danish embassy and burned it down, it burned my heart too.  Why?  The Syrian people is dying of hunger.  The Syrians, despite their (ancient) civilization, chase after their daily bread.  Why don't they swarm the palace of their president, who has 40 billion dollars in European bank accounts, and burn down the palace, along with its occupant?  They swarmed the Danish embassy giving the West the wrong image of the moral and civilized Syrian people.  Therefore, I describe their conduct as barbaric and backward.  The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a religious conflict.  I support the Palestinian cause.  I support the Palestinian children.  I lose sleep over the suffering of Palestinian women.  I cannot even step on an ant, so how could I possibly be against them?  This is inconceivable.  This is a political conflict, and they should ask their leaders about what they have done to resolve this problem.  But the problem is rooted in religion.  A week or two ago, I read a short story in an Islamic book, according to which Muhammad was walking with some of his followers when they heard a commotion.  They asked him:  "What is this, Messenger of Allah?"  He said:  "These are the Jews being tormented in the grave."   Regardless of the conflicts Muhammad had with the Jews back then, this statement indicates that the graves of their ancestors were in Saudi Arabia, correct?  -Yes.  They are people of this region as is evident from the Islamic books and the Koran itself.  The problem with the Muslims is that they do not distinguish between their prophet and their own noses.  When you criticize Muhammad, his actions, and his life, it is as if you chopped off their noses. 

Dr. Sultan is risking her life to speak the truth to the very people she is criticizing.  So it should be with you, if you are an honorable person, that you would take your criticism to the person you have complaint against.  If you they will not listen, the Bible says that you should then bring a brother, that is to say somebody you both trust and respect.  If they still will not listen, then you are to take the matter to the elders in your church and hopefully your pastor will come with you to speak your complaint.  In a secular format, this advice still applies.  You find somebody you can both respect and have them come with you to speak to this person and if they still will not listen, then who do you go to?  The police?  Maybe you can go on TV?  Again, there is real value in having a religious group with whom you can appeal your case.

You know how sometimes you don't know if you should accept a suggestion?  You aren't sure if that course of action is wise or not, but when you hear somebody make a clear and concise argument with examples for yes or no, you recognize truth.  In fact you think you must be an ignoramus for not having drawn the obvious conclusion for yourself.  You recognize wisdom but you can't develop it, let alone express it to others.  This is the reason I study three people and now may be adding a fourth.  To the best of my knowledge these people have had four advantages over most of us.

1.  They were raised in very religious homes.
2.  They were introduced to and began to study the Lord, in their respective religions, early in life.
3.  They have sought the best educational opportunities available.
4.  They have learned to discipline themselves to study life with extreme interest in morality.

Beginning in the order I have come to know about them and have studied them,

Jack Hayford has authored over 40 books and is the General Editor of the Spirit-Filled Life publications produced by Thomas Nelson Publishers. That project organization included hundreds of pastors and researchers which tells me Dr. Hayford is highly respected among ministers and scholars.  He has composed over 500 hymns, songs, and choruses, the most noted of which is the classic “Majesty.” Over the 50+ years of his ministry, he has served in youth ministry, pastoral ministry, as president of the Four Square training school, LIFE Bible College (now Life Pacific College), and now as the Four Square president.

Quotes:  I want to assert as strongly as anything I have to say today that I don't believe that any human being has the right to judge if a person is going to or has gone to hell.  Jack Hayford

              Don't ever make the mistake dear ones, please don't ever make this mistake, of thinking, of supposing for a moment, there is even one iota of unity in the invisible realm of darkness.  There is no unity in the realm of darkness.  Jack Hayford

             There's never existed the person to whatever degree, small or great, that bondage has been in their life, that there still was not enough power of Jesus in them to minister to somebody else.  Oh listen!  Greater is He that is in you than everything else that's around.  Hallejujah  Jack Hayford.

Dennis Prager is currently an acclaimed talk show host on the Salem Radio Network broadcasting from KABC's 870AM based in Los Angeles, Ca.  He has been named one of America's 5 most important speakers by Toastmasters.  He has authored 4 short but very important books including Think a Second Time, Why the Jews, The 9 Most Common Questions People Ask About Judaism, and Happiness is a Serious Problem.  New York's Jewish Week described him as "one of the three most interesting minds in American Jewish Life."  He makes regular appearances on the most watched news talk shows as well as speaking at churches, synagogues, colleges, and social clubs.

Quote:  If you never compromise, you may never have the opportunity to acheive a much greater good.  Dennis Prager

          Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of rich and poor.  Dennis Prager

          How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive.  That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.  Dennis Prager

         If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.  Dennis Prager

David Barton is a historian.  Historians tend to be conservative because historians observe actions and consequence in history.  That's why the older you get the more likely you are to become conservative.  In your lifetime you begin to see a correlation between your own actions and their consequences.  It isn't too difficult to relate that correlation to bigger issues and so you begin to compare events, actions, and consequences on the national, state and local levels.  So, let's look at what a historian has to say about American politics in the most recent elections and see if we can't apply a little wisdom to this election cycle.

I tried to add some helpful commentary.  These videos stand on their own.  Anything I would have added could only have taken away from their impact.  Do watch these, because they demonstrate the country's need for your participation in the process of electing our leaders.  They demonstrate the need for your influence on the leaders of this country.  They demonstrate the need for your influence in the press.  They demonstrate the need for your participation in public discourse.  They demonstrate the damage our natural tendency to withdraw from the crazies has had in the invasion of our media, our government, and our courts.