Three Christians Slain In Turkey

This incident happened on April 19, and was reported by many secular wrold media.
CNN
Foxnews

An Imam In America Calls for the Murder of A Dissenting Dutch Muslim Woman

This link will take you to the page which contains text and a short radio
interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former member of the Dutch parliament and
the target of the verbal threat for assassination:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/04/25/audio-ayaan-hirsi-ali-defends-the-imam-who-says-she-must-be-killed/

All Non-Islamic Believers Are "Losers" According to African State Leader

Update: The link published in this post will no longer take you to the artilce. It is the publisher of the web site's responsibility what they do with their material. You will be asked to pay to see this article, now placed in their archives. My recommendation is that you don't waste your money.

Old post:

Follow this link to read an article reporting on the progressive views of Lybian leader Gaddaffi. Freedom of religion, or any free thought are doomed to extinction in the realm of secular and religous authority of this arrogant and ignorant man.

Added a new post, from July 25, 2007

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin No. 439 Wed 25 Jul 2007
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AFGHANISTAN: ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS CONTROL THROUGH TERROR -----------------------------------------------------------
One day Jesus was teaching and healing, and as he looked outover the crowds he felt great compassion for the harassed,helpless and directionless masses. So he instructed hisdisciples to ask the Lord to send out more workers/ servants(see Matthew 9:35-38).
Up to 17,000 Korean Christians serve the Lord abroad in this way,most in war-torn, volatile, hostile and 'restricted access'nations. There are around 100 South Korean Christians from adozen humanitarian organisations and churches presently engagedin voluntary work in war-torn Afghanistan. Since 2002, some 400-500 South Koreans have visited Afghanistan every year in responseto the Lord's sending. They do voluntary work in health,education, agriculture, information technology and other fieldsfor the benefit of the people.
In early August 2006, Korean Christian professionals with theInstitute of Asian Culture and Development (IACD <http://www/.iacd.or.kr>, a Seoul-based Christian humanitarian-aid group thathas run medical clinics in Afghanistan since January 2002) weresuddenly deported. The IACD had organised a three-day 'PeaceFestival' to celebrate five years of Korean aid work inAfghanistan. The festival was to include a medical conference,a round-table on reconstruction and two soccer games at Kabul'sOlympic Stadium between Afghanistan's national team and aKorean team. The group's director, Kang Sung Han, said the aimof the festival was to give ordinary Koreans and Afghanis theopportunity to interact and have fun. But when Muslim clericsprotested, the festival was cancelled and the Koreans weredeported, citing security concerns. According to Radio FreeEurope/ Radio Liberty, while the clerics complained that theKoreans were actively proselytising, a spokesman for the chiefof the Afghan National Police said there was absolutely noevidence to support that, adding that if there had been anyevidence then the police would have 'put them in jail accordingto the law'. In order to maintain their hold over the people,the clerics are depriving the people of a future.
On Thursday 19 July 2007, Taliban militants in Ghazni Provincekidnapped 23 South Korean Christians who were in Afghanistandoing medical and humanitarian volunteer work. The Koreans,most of whom are nurses, are members of the Presbyterian'Saemmul Church' in Bundang near Seoul. They were en route tovisit a kindergarten in Kandahar which serves some 100destitute children and war orphans when they were ambushed andkidnapped. The Taliban is threatening to kill the hostagesunless South Korea withdraws its forces (which are non-combatant,engaged only in reconstruction) and the Afghan governmentreleases the 23 Taliban prisoners held in Ghazni Province. Thisis the largest contingent the Taliban has ever captured.Because the group is so large the Taliban might drag thenegotiations along, releasing one hostage (bargaining chip) ata time. They might also feel that because there are so many,they can afford to kill a few to increase the pressure on thetwo governments. On 24 July, Afghani villagers in Ghaznidemonstrated peacefully in the streets for the release of theKorean hostages. Once again, Islamic fundamentalists arerobbing the people and exerting control through repression andterror.
South Korea has now banned its citizens from travelling toAfghanistan, one of the neediest places on earth.
PLEASE PRAY SPECIFICALLY FOR:
* God to give the Korean Christian hostages all the grace,strength, endurance, courage and wisdom they need to bringblessings to Afghanis and honour and glory to the Lord in theirnew circumstances, which are doubtless exceedingly unpleasant.
* God to protect all those who have left home and family, andsacrificed security and comfort to go into Afghanistan in orderto help and serve traumatised, needy Afghanis; and may the Lordin his mercy deliver the Korean believers to safety.
* the Holy Spirit of God to draw into humble dependent (or evenjust desperate) prayerfulness, all those who are in Afghanistanto further freedom and civilisation for the benefit of the people(God's creation). May they learn dependence, and rejoice in thefaithfulness of the Lord our deliverer. (Prayer - Psalm 140:6-8).
* the Taliban, al Qaeda, and all other enemies of civilisation inAfghanistan to be profoundly defeated. Pray that the 'sword ofGod will strike them'. (Isaiah 31:8 NLT)
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AFGHANISTAN: ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS CONTROL THROUGH TERROR
Islamic fundamentalists exert control through threats and terror. If Afghanis are to have a future that includes health, education, progress, prosperity, liberty and joy, then these Islamic fundamentalists must be profoundly defeated. The Taliban are holding 23 Korean Christian volunteer workers as hostages in Ghazni Province, and are threatening to kill them if their demands are not met. Because they have so many 'bargaining chips', the Taliban might draw out the negotiations and release the hostages slowly; they also might kill a few to increase the pressure. The Koreans, who come from the Presbyterian 'Saemmul Church' in Bundang near Seoul, are in a desperate situation. May God have mercy on them, and may 'the sword of the Lord' deliver them, and Afghanistan, from the grip of Islamic fundamentalists.
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Why Protect Dissimination of Perversion as Free Speech?

Update: July 31, 2007.
Yahoo! news have "killed" this link. The article is no longer available to the public at the likn pointed to in here. To find the article you can still use the link but it will take you to their "search" page, where you'll have to search their database to get to the piece. Good luck. BTW, I strongly disapprove of this policy but did not want to remove the post for those who might want to search for the article linked here.

Does the "freedom" to commit and show perverse acts upon children qualify as free speech? The ACLU and other so called "liberal" organizations will want you to think that. Freedom to be perverse in your own limited circle is one thing. However, to be involved in the "free speech" of dissimenating rape, incest, vile behavior on children is criminal by law, ciriminal by conscience. Shame on the ACLU and on the judge who upheld the right to be a child-molester and a pervert. Free speech is about freedom to live a decent, reasonable life. Freedom of speech has never been about condoning the low instincts of the human race. That's not freedom but the spread of tyranny. Irresponsible, despicable and criminal speech must not be protected but prosecuted.

Here is more details in the article

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070322/ap_on_hi_te/internet_blocking

ISLAMIC IMPERIALISM: SOMALIA, BOSNIA, KOSOVO

This article proves that totalitarian systems (Islam, Nazism, communism) do not only oppose each other to vie for power but also coopearte with each other in their oppressive purposes.

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February 5, 2007

4. RL TREND - ISLAMIC IMPERIALISM: SOMALIA, BOSNIA, KOSOVO
**World Evangleical Alliance Religious Liberty News & Analysis**

Principal Researcher and Writer, Elizabeth Kendal

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines imperialism as: "The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisitionor by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over othernations."

Islam is an imperialistic political system that employs a religiouscomponent for political and imperialistic gain. It is natural therefore thatIslamic reformation and revival should result in renewed zeal for Islamicimperialism. While Muslims as human beings are extremely varied, holdingbeliefs ranging from irreligious to indifference to secular to moderate toextremist and from liberal to fundamentalist, the agenda of orthodox,Quranic Islam is absolutely radical and imperialistic.

Islamic imperialism is advanced in myriad ways: through jihad and pro-Sharia Islamist political movements; economically and culturally through theOrganisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), the Arab League, the IslamicDevelopment Bank (IsDB), and vast oil profits. These profits are used strategically to disseminate Islamic ideology and advance Islamic politicsand culture, as well as to transform free nations (such as numerous Christian-majority African nations) and institutions (such as numerous Western universities) into submissive debtors.

For this annual trends posting I will focus on two regions where Islamic imperialist zeal and rhetoric rose to dangerous levels through 2006: the Horn of Africa, and the Balkans.

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View the full article here.

Bill O'Reilly and Tim Hardaway's Remarks

Here is a letter I wrote to Bill O'Reilly of the "The O'Reilly Factor" on the FOX News channel. It has to do with the way this otherwise staunch defender of freedom of expression budges to the liberal-progressive agenda. Mr. O'Reilly and a guest of his implied in the Factor that former pro basketball star Tim Hardaway had a sickness-type condition of thinking homophobic thoughts.

Unfortunately, Mr. Hardaway is not the best representative of the freedom of thought camp either. He heartily offered his apology for his anti-homosexual remarks (link takes you only to the search results in Google, so you don't have to visit a homosexual perversion web site unless you choose to.) However, the fact that Hardaway is a push-over only reveals that there is no true freedom of thought and speech in the US on certain issues. If one is to express their honest opinion of disapproval of the homosexual agenda they are threatened with left-wing and pro-homosexual paranoid propaganda. It would have been acutally quite amazing if Hardaway had stuck with his right to freedom of speech.

> Dear Mr. O’Reilly,

I appreciate your show and it indeed is a no spin zone. You do not let leftist and socialist agenda get by without making a point of their bigoted manner of approaching an argument or an opponent. I have respect for your moral and intellectual bravery to stand up to the mainstream “progressive liberalism” in this country. Their nonsense should be exposed for what it is – nonsense. And you do that well.

However, I think you made a serious mistake last night (Thursday, 2-15-2007). Your report and commentary, alongside that of the gentleman from the group that studies “hate and extremism,” regarding Mr. Hardaway’s remark on gays was off.

Mr. Hardaway has the right to freedom of thought and freedom of speech. He has the right to be homophobic and to not like gays. Even more so he has the right to think so and say so in public. This is a fundamental constitutional right in this country.

Mr. Hardaway finds gay behavior an imposing presence, were it in society and/or in his more private circles, and perhaps he has a reason. In the quote from him you showed, he clearly said that he does not like to have gay people in his locker room. He is absolutely right. Would you be comfortable with women staring at you while you’re changing your underwear? Why should gay men, of the conviction that other men are a sexual object to their “sexual preference,” should be allowed in the same locker room as those who are just athletes looking to change and relax in the privacy of the facility, and not to engage in flirtations or a more heated exchange? I find this concern of Mr. Hardaway’s very reasonable.

You and your guest went further in your denial of Mr. Hardaway’s right to his opinion. You even said something to the effect that he not only said this bad thing about gays and that he hates gays, but that he thinks that (the anti-homosexual attitude), that he carries it with him. What are you implying here? That he has no freedom of thought? That Mr. Hardaway is obliged to think only along the gay-rights agenda and to take a perversion and agree to it without being able to allow himself to entertain a different opinion? This type of self-censorship due to fear of law suits or of just plain becoming a target of the militant gay activism has already done substantial damage to the free thought in the US.

This suggestion of yours is scary because it proves the point of how far the leftist propaganda and bigotry have gone in this nation in changing the way people think, or are allowed to think. You are the no spin icon for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans. If you agree with your guest who studies hate, that freedom of thought and freedom of speech are a “disorder” which has to be “treated,” the establishment of tyranny is only months away in the US. Shall we expect that free speech and dissent from the mainstream beliefs should be treated as a sickness to society and such people should be locked up in hospitals, until they are “healed” from their different world view?

I am sure you know that this is what the Nazis and the communists did to all who disagreed with their propaganda. In Russia and Eastern Europe people used to be locked in psychiatric wards for religious beliefs which were not “scientific” and out of line with the “party line” and the “socialist realism.” We will obviously soon see thought police established in America in order to tell us what we are not to hate and what we are to like if the ACLU and the gay-lobbyists and the socialist left have their way.

To forcefully impose acceptance of homosexuality as a standard that should be promoted and accepted uncritically is beyond what I imagined you would agree to. But obviously you have. At least to some extent. I understand that you come under a lot of pressure. But your lumping Mr. Hardaway with extremists and terrorists, implicit by your remarks and those of your guest, is reprehensible. Tim Hardaway has the right to express his personal and moral outrage with homosexuals and their behavior. This right is given him by the Constitution of the United States. And, obviously, by his own conscience.

It would be a prudent act for you to offer Mr. Hardaway your apologies for infringing on his right to freedom of thought, opinion and speech by comparing him with terrorists and extremists and by strongly implying that he must not be allowed to think the way he does.

Yet this is up to you to decide. I will not stop watching your show, because on many other issues I think you are right on. I’m sure this brings you a littlecomfort. I perceive you to be a man who stands for freedom and for what is right in the culture clash in the US. I encourage you to not change that.

Kind regards,
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Pro-homosexual Legislature in US Congress Will Threaten Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion

I have posted the opening paragraphs of the article, the whole article is available here.

If this legislature passes the possiblities of banning free religious speech in America are paramount. If you would like to preach and teach that homosexuality and corss-dressing is a peversion which God hates you may be violating laws that protect homosexuals from hate-crimes. This legislature shows how the evangelical church is failing to affect the secular government in the United States, regardless of the significant involvement of the Christian Right in politics. Freedom must achieved in the spiritual realm in order to affect change on government. Free speech in America has already been threatened by self-censorship when the right of homosexuals to be overtly homosexual are in question. It has become publically unacceptable to even think of "same gender sexual attraction" as perversion, not to even speak of saying it publically. See my letter to Bill O'Reilly above.

Gay rights advances likely in Congress
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer2 hours, 45 minutes ago (Feb. 24,
2007)

Anti-gay bias has flared up in Hollywood and pro basketball recently, and soon the topic will be thrust dramatically into a new forum — a reshaped Congress likely to pass the first major federal gay-rights bills.

Wary conservative leaders, as well as gay-rights advocates, share a belief that at least two measures will win approval this year: a hate-crimes bill that would cover offenses motivated by anti-gay bias, and a measure that would outlaw workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Also on the table — although with more doubtful prospects — will be a measure to be introduced Wednesday seeking repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bans openly gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the military.

All three measures surfaced in previous sessions of Congress, at times winning significant bipartisan backing but always falling short of final passage. This year, with Democrats now in control and many Republicans likely to join in support, the hate-crimes and workplace bills are widely expected to prevail.

"With liberals in control, there's a good possibility they'll both pass," said Matt Barber, a policy director with the conservative group Concerned Women for America. "They're both dangerous to freedom of conscience, to religious liberties, to free speech."

If approved by Congress, the bills would head to the White House. Activists on both the left and right are unsure whether President Bush would sign or veto them.