Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Religious materials --
including Qurans that were burned at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan,
sparking Afghan protests -- were removed from the library of a detainee
center "because of extremist inscriptions" on them, a military official
said Tuesday.
There was "an appearance that these documents were being used to facilitate extremist communications," a military official said.
While again in February 2012 Obama forces a dhimmitude upon the US Military to submit to Islam, because it burned terrorist communications written in defaced Qurans; and EXCUSED the Afghani Muslims Police and Troops who murdered US troops, while also demanding to punish more US troops by court martial as his further victims for the cause of Islam.
Meanwhile, for years, Muslims themselves defecate and urinate daily on their alleged "sacred books" and there are only a few who care, lamenting that there is no public outcry over the desecration of hundreds or even thousands of Qurans thrown in, flushed in, and used for toilet paper wadding and sent into the sewers of Lahore, Pakistan.
(Hat tip, Atlas Shrugs)
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/02/pakistan-thousands-of-qurans-dumped-in-raw-sewage-canal.html
Curiously, off and on for several years in the 1970s, Lahore Pakistan is where Obama's mother worked as a micro-banking manager while employed with the Ford Foundation, sent there while she was apparently still living in Indonesia and answering to a home office out of New York City. lahore Pakistan is also a city where Obama himself visited on at least two or more different occasions.
So here we have video of the Pakistanis of the Islamic State of Pakistan are tossing whole Qurans into the sewer, or using them piecemeal as toilet paper wadding and defecating on and flushing their alleged "holy books" by the thousands annually, and Obama is subjugating the US Military by any genuine or manufactured offense of Muslim perceived blasphemy, to the dereliction of all other faiths (especially Christianity); and will spend an extra amount of zeal persecuting and/or excluding Christians while calling himself a Christian?
My response: If there is ever a mountain of raw dried out sewage that becomes so geographically huge that it needs a name for its place on a map, Mount Obama will be the perfect fit for all that shit.
Obama and the Afghani Muslims are hypocrites of the highest order. There is no doubt that Obama uses any crisis he can to beat America down or to subjugate it for Islam.
The fruits of one who cannot help but denigrate the Bible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNCklX2wZy4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrJQ8_vGOuI&feature=related
and covers up the Cross and symbolism of Jesus Christ
immediately tells us that he is NOT a Christian in the sense of the word he deceives the masses to believe what he means it as, as a believer and promoter of Jesus Christ as GOD the Son and Savior of the World, the LORD of Mankind and its Creator -- but rather he pushes that of a Shia Muslim looking forward to the anointed one as his Christ (warped variant), to Shia Islam's 12th Imam or Mahdi, who will bathe the world in blood and kill all Christians and Jews, and all those who will not convert to Islam.
Isaiah 52:5
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my Name continually every day is blasphemed.
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my Name continually every day is blasphemed.
John 12:47-50
47And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48He
that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth
him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last
day.
49For I have
not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a
commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Christians are not to be ashamed of Christ Jesus the LORD or of his words, such as what Obama's entire religious mission of his usurpation of the Presidency does, that of pushing that alien book of the Quran with its alien anti-Christian prophet, being completely hostile to Jesus Christ and of those of true Conservative Christian belief systems.
True Christians are called to believe and trust into the words of Jesus, and believe the Holy Bible from cover to cover.
Obama proudly proclaims the Quran, a work of Satan as holy, and descerates and blasphemes the Holiness of the Bible.
Clearly, at the very least, Obama is ashamed of the Holy Bible, ashamed of Jesus Christ, and ashamed of the words of Christ. I believe that this is so because Obama is a deceiver, just as much as if he was a Carnival Huckster making slick work of a bunch of suckers he was fleecing, and gleefully enjoying it beyond what can be expressed in words to describe it.
Jesus said,
Mark 8:38
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Luke 9:26
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels
Examine Obama at his own policy of enactment of how he treats Christ and Christianity as a matter of policy in the Executive Branch of Government, and how he treats Islam. There is absolutely no doubt, it is a 100% lock that he is NOT a Christian, and is a Muslim Proselytizer who has rejected not only Jesus Christ, but GOD the Father also.
John the Baptist said, in John 3:31-37
31He [Christ Jesus] that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
32And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
33He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
34For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
35The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
36He
that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth
not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Jesus said in Matthew 7:18-20
18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
24Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me,
hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is
passed from death unto life.
25Verily,
verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead
shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
26For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
27And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
28Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29And
shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of
life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Revelation 19:11-15
11And I saw a great
white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the
heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12And
I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were
opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the
dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books,
according to their works.
13And
the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered
up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man
according to their works.
14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
GOD is the GOD of Israel, whom gave the Jews their language and operated in their language to them and from them to the world.
GOD established Israel as the apple of his eye, and gave them the Holy Words of both the Old and New Testament to be his message to mankind for its redemption by faith. By mistreating Israel as a nation and as a people and being hostile to them on ingrained principle (rather than being upset about this or that erroneous doctrine that strays them from Christ Jesus their true Messiah), by seeking their hurt rather than their redemption, by refusing to reason for them as their advocate personally and politically before all and if need be against all other nations -- (for GOD chose them to be the carriers of His expression to the world through their Leviticus 23 Feasts and the Bible) -- there is no doubt in my mind that Barack Hussein Obama II is NOT written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and is NOT destined for the New Jerusalem (a Heavenly Jewish City that will be given true believers of the GOD of Israel in mankind, from both before and after the Cross, as a Gift from GOD in the life and world to come). There is an absolute consistency of Barack's bad fruits, of his chronic propensity to exalt abomination, such as Muslim holy days and Muslim anti-Christian writings as sacred to the denial of all things Christian, while denigrating GOD the Son and GOD the Father who sent Him. Warming a pew means nothing...in Barack's case, it is an outward appearance for the illiterate and those wanting to be deceived to be deceived by.
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Included below is a relevant article from Imprimis:
Blasphemy and Free Speech -- by Paul Marshall
“Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.”
PAUL MARSHALL is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for
Religious Freedom. He has published widely in newspapers and magazines,
including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, First Things, The New Republic, and The Weekly Standard. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books on religion and politics, including Their Blood Cries Out, Religious Freedom in the World, and Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion. Most recently he is the co-author, with Nina Shea, of Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide.
The following is adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale
College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and
Citizenship in Washington, D.C., on February 3, 2012.
A growing threat to our freedom of speech is the attempt to stifle religious discussion in the name of preventing “defamation of” or “insults to” religion, especially Islam. Resulting restrictions represent, in effect, a revival of blasphemy laws.
Few in the West were concerned with such laws 20 years ago. Even if
still on some statute books, they were only of historical interest. That
began to change in 1989, when the late Ayatollah Khomeini, then Iran’s
Supreme Leader, declared it the duty of every Muslim to kill
British-based writer Salman Rushdie on the grounds that his novel, The Satanic Verses,
was blasphemous. Rushdie has survived by living his life in hiding.
Others connected with the book were not so fortunate: its Japanese
translator was assassinated, its Italian translator was stabbed, its
Norwegian publisher was shot, and 35 guests at a hotel hosting its
Turkish publisher were burned to death in an arson attack.
More recently, we have seen eruptions of violence in reaction to Theo van Gogh’s and Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s film Submission,
Danish and Swedish cartoons depicting Mohammed, the speech at
Regensburg by Pope Benedict XVI on the topic of faith, reason, and
religious violence, Geert Wilders’ film Fitna, and a false Newsweek
report that the U.S. military had desecrated Korans at Guantanamo. A
declaration by Terry Jones—a deservedly obscure Florida pastor with a
congregation of less than 50—that he would burn a Koran on September 11,
2010, achieved a perfect media storm, combining American
publicity-seeking, Muslim outrage, and the demands of 24 hour news
coverage. It even drew the attention of President Obama and senior U.S.
military leaders. Dozens of people were murdered as a result.
Such violence in response to purported religious insults is not
simply spontaneous. It is also stoked and channeled by governments for
political purposes. And the objects and victims of accusations of
religious insults are not usually Westerners, but minorities and
dissidents in the Muslim world. As Nina Shea and I show in our recent
book Silenced, accusations of blasphemy or insulting Islam are
used systematically in much of that world to send individuals to jail or
to bring about intimidation through threats, beatings, and killings.
The Danish cartoons of Mohammed were published in Denmark’s largest newspaper, Jyllands-Posten,
in September 2005. Some were reproduced by newspapers in Muslim
countries in order to criticize them. There was no violent response.
Violence only erupted after a December 2005 summit in Saudi Arabia of
the Organization of the Islamic Conference—now the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The summit was convened to discuss sectarian
violence and terrorism, but seized on the cartoons and urged its member
states to rouse opposition. It was only in February 2006—five months
after the cartoons were published—that Muslims across Africa, Asia, and
the Mideast set out from Friday prayers for often violent
demonstrations, killing over 200 people.
The highly controlled media in Egypt and Jordan raised the cartoon
issue so persistently that an astonishing 98 percent of Egyptians and 99
percent of Jordanians—knowing little else of Denmark—had heard of them.
Saudi Arabia and Egypt urged boycotts of Danish products. Iran and
Syria manipulated riots partly to deflect attention from their nuclear
projects. Turkey used the cartoons as bargaining chips in negotiations
with the U.S. over appointments to NATO. Editors in Algeria, Jordan,
India, and Yemen were arrested—and in Syria, journalist Adel Mahfouz was
charged with “insulting public religious sentiment”—for suggesting a
peaceful response to the controversy. Lars Vilks’ later and more
offensive 2007 Swedish cartoons and Geert Wilders’ 2008 film Fitna led to comparatively little outcry, demonstrating further that public reactions are government-driven.
Repression based on charges of blasphemy and apostasy, of course,
goes far beyond the stories typically covered in our media. Currently,
millions of Baha’is and Ahmadis—followers of religions or
interpretations that arose after Islam—are condemned en masse as
insulters of Islam, and are subject to discriminatory laws and attacks
by mobs, vigilantes, and terrorists. The Baha’i leadership in Iran is in
prison, and there is no penalty in Iran for killing a Baha’i. In
Somalia, al Shebaab, an Islamist group that controls much of that
country, is systematically hunting down and killing Christians. In 2009,
after allegations that a Koran had been torn, a 1,000-strong mob with
Taliban links rampaged through Christian neighborhoods in Punjab,
Pakistan’s largest province, killing seven people, six of whom,
including two children, were burned alive. Pakistani police did not
intervene.
Throughout the Muslim world, Sunni, Shia, and Sufi Muslims may be
persecuted for differing from the version of Islam promulgated by
locally hegemonic religious authorities. Saudi Arabia represses Shiites,
especially Ismailis. Iran represses Sunnis and Sufis. In Egypt, Shia
leaders have been imprisoned and tortured.
In Afghanistan, Shia scholar Ali Mohaqeq Nasab, editor of
Haqooq-i-Zen magazine, was imprisoned by the government for publishing
“un-Islamic” articles that criticized stoning as a punishment for
adultery. Saudi democracy activists Ali al-Demaini, Abdullah al-Hamed,
and Matruk al-Faleh were imprisoned for using “un-Islamic terminology,”
such as “democracy” and “human rights,” when calling for a written
constitution. Saudi teacher Mohammed al-Harbi was sentenced to 40 months
in jail and 750 lashes for “mocking religion” after discussing the
Bible in class and making pro-Jewish remarks. Egyptian Nobel prize
winner in literature Naguib Mahfouz reluctantly abandoned his lifelong
resistance to censorship and sought permission from the clerics of
Al-Azhar University to publish his novel Children of Gebelawi,
hitherto banned for blasphemy. Mahfouz subsequently lived under constant
protection after being stabbed by a young Islamist, leaving him partly
paralyzed.
After Mohammed Younas Shaikh, a member of Pakistan’s Human Rights
Commission, raised questions about Pakistan’s policies in Kashmir, he
was charged with having blasphemed in one of his classes. In Bangladesh,
Salahuddin Choudhury was imprisoned for hurting “religious feelings” by
advocating peaceful relations with Israel. In Iran, Ayatollah
Boroujerdi was imprisoned for arguing that “political leadership by
clergy” was contrary to Islam, and cleric Mohsen Kadivar was imprisoned
for “publishing untruths and disturbing public minds” after writing Theories of the State in Shiite Jurisprudence,
which questioned the legal basis of Ayatollah Khomeini’s view of
government. Other charges brought against Iranians include “fighting
against God,” “dissension from religious dogma,” “insulting Islam,”
“propagation of spiritual liberalism,” “promoting pluralism,” and, my
favorite, “creating anxiety in the minds of … Iranian officials.”
Muslim reformers cannot escape being attacked even in the West. In
2006, a group called Al-Munasirun li Rasul al Allah emailed over 30
prominent reformers in the West, threatening to kill them unless they
repented. Among its targets was Egyptian Saad Eddin Ibrahim, perhaps the
best known human rights activist in the Arab world. Another was Ahmad
Subhy Mansour, an imam who was imprisoned and had to flee Egypt, in part
for his arguments against the death penalty for apostasy. The targets
were pronounced “guilty of apostasy, unbelief, and denial of the Islamic
established facts” and given three days to “announce their repentance.”
The message included their addresses and the names of their spouses and
children.
Mimount Bousakla, a Belgian senator and daughter of Moroccan
immigrants, was forced into hiding by threats of “ritual slaughter” for
her criticism of the treatment of women in Muslim communities and of
fundamentalist influences in Belgian mosques. Turkish-born Ekin Deligoz,
the first Muslim member of Germany’s Parliament, received death threats
and was placed under police protection after she called for Muslim
women to “take off the head scarf.”
But the story gets worse. Western governments have begun to give in
to demands from the Saudi-based OIC and others for controls on speech.
In Austria, for instance, Elisabeth Sabbaditsch-Wolf has been convicted
of “denigrating religious beliefs” for her comments about Mohammed
during a seminar on radical Islam. Canada’s grossly misnamed “human
rights commissions” have hauled writers—including Mark Steyn, who
teaches as a distinguished fellow in journalism at Hillsdale
College—before tribunals to interrogate them about their writings on
Islam. And in Holland and Finland, respectively, politicians Geert
Wilders and Jussi Halla-aho have been prosecuted for their comments on
Islam in political speeches.
In America, the First Amendment still protects against the
criminalization of criticizing Islam. But we face at least two threats
still. The first is extra-legal intimidation of a kind already endemic
in the Muslim world and increasing in Europe. In 2009, Yale University
Press, in consultation with Yale University, removed all illustrations
of Mohammed from its book by Jytte Klausen on the Danish cartoon crisis.
It also removed Gustave DorĂ©’s 19th-century illustration of Mohammed in
hell from Dante’s Inferno. Yale’s formal press statement
stressed the earlier refusal by American media outlets to show the
cartoons, and noted that their “republication…has repeatedly resulted in
violence around the world.”
Another publisher, Random House, rejected at the last minute a historical romance novel about Mohammed’s wife, Jewel of Medina,
by American writer Sherry Jones. They did so to protect “the safety of
the author, employees of Random House, booksellers and anyone else who
would be involved in distribution and sale of the novel.”
The comedy show South Park refused to show an image of
Mohammed in a bear suit, although it mocked figures from other
religions. In response, Molly Norris, a cartoonist for the Seattle Weekly,
suggested an “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.” She quickly withdrew the
suggestion and implied that she had been joking. But after several death
threats, including from Al-Qaeda, the FBI advised her that she should
go into hiding—which she has now done under a new name.
In 2010, Zachary Chesser, a young convert to Islam, pleaded guilty to threatening the creators of South Park.
And on October 3, 2011, approximately 800 newspapers refused to run a
“Non Sequitur” cartoon drawn by Wiley Miller that merely contained a
bucolic scene with the caption “Where’s Muhammad?”
Many in our media claim to be self-censoring out of sensitivity to
religious feelings, but that claim is repeatedly undercut by their
willingness to mock and criticize religions other than Islam. As British
comedian Ben Elton observed: “The BBC will let vicar gags pass, but
they would not let imam gags pass. They might pretend that it’s, you
know, something to do with their moral sensibilities, but it isn’t. It’s
because they’re scared.”
The second threat we face is the specter of cooperation between our
government and the OIC to shape speech about Islam. A first indication
of this came in President Obama’s Cairo speech in 2009, when he declared
that he has a responsibility to “fight against negative stereotypes of
Islam whenever they appear.” Then in July of last year in Istanbul,
Secretary of State Clinton co-chaired—with the OIC—a “High-Level Meeting
on Combating Religious Intolerance.” There, Mrs. Clinton announced
another conference with the OIC, this one in Washington, to “exchange
ideas” and discuss “implementation” measures our government might take
to combat negative stereotyping of Islam. This would not restrict free
speech, she said. But the mere fact of U.S. government partnership with
the OIC is troublesome. Certainly it sends a dangerous signal, as
suggested by the OIC’s Secretary-General, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, when he
commented in Istanbul that the Obama administration stands “united” with
the OIC on speech issues.
The OIC’s charter commits it “to combat defamation of Islam.” Its
current action plan calls for “deterrent punishments” to counter
“Islamophobia.” In 2009, an official OIC organ, the “International
Islamic Fiqh [Jurisprudence] Academy,” issued fatwas calling for speech
bans, including “international legislation,” to protect “the interests
and values of [Islamic] society.” The OIC does not define what speech
should be outlawed, but the repressive practices of its leading member
states speak for themselves.
The conference Secretary Clinton announced in Istanbul was held in
Washington on December 12-14, 2011, and was closed to the public, with
the “Chatham House Rule” restricting the participants (this rule
prohibits the identification of who says what, although general content
is not confidential). Presentations reportedly focused on America’s
deficiencies in its treatment of Muslims and stressed that the U.S. has
something to learn in this regard from the other delegations—including
Saudi Arabia, despite its ban on Christian churches, its repression of
its Shiite population, its textbooks teaching that Jews should be
killed, and the fact that it beheaded a woman for sorcery on the opening
day of the conference.
* * *
The encroachment of de facto blasphemy restrictions in the West threatens free speech and the free exchange of ideas. Nor will it bring social peace and harmony. As comedian Rowan Atkinson warns, such laws produce “a veneer of tolerance concealing a snake pit of unaired and unchallenged views.” Norway’s far-reaching restrictions on “hate speech” did not prevent Anders Behring Breivik from slaughtering over 70 people because of his antipathy to Islam: indeed, his writings suggest that he engaged in violence because he believed that he could not otherwise be heard.
The encroachment of de facto blasphemy restrictions in the West threatens free speech and the free exchange of ideas. Nor will it bring social peace and harmony. As comedian Rowan Atkinson warns, such laws produce “a veneer of tolerance concealing a snake pit of unaired and unchallenged views.” Norway’s far-reaching restrictions on “hate speech” did not prevent Anders Behring Breivik from slaughtering over 70 people because of his antipathy to Islam: indeed, his writings suggest that he engaged in violence because he believed that he could not otherwise be heard.
In the Muslim world, such restrictions enable Islamists to crush
debate. After Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, was murdered early
last year by his bodyguards for opposing blasphemy laws, his daughter
Sara observed: “This is a message to every liberal to shut up or be
shot.” Or in the words of Nasr Abu-Zayd, a Muslim scholar driven out of
Egypt: “Charges of apostasy and blasphemy are key weapons in the
fundamentalists’ arsenal, strategically employed to prevent reform of
Muslim societies, and instead confine the world’s Muslim population to a
bleak, colourless prison of socio-cultural and political conformity.”
President Obama should put an end to discussion of speech with the
OIC. He should declare clearly that in free societies, all views and all
religions are subject to criticism and contradiction. As the late
Abdurrahman Wahid, former president of Indonesia, the world’s largest
Muslim country, and head of Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest Muslim
organization, wrote in his foreword to Silenced, blasphemy laws
. . . narrow the bounds of acceptable discourse. . . not only about
religion, but also about vast spheres of life, literature, science, and
culture in general. . . . Rather than legally stifle criticism and
debate—which will only encourage Muslim fundamentalists in their efforts
to impose a spiritually void, harsh, and monolithic understanding of
Islam upon all the world—Western authorities should instead firmly
defend freedom of expression. . . .
America’s Founders, who had broken with an old order that was rife with religious persecution and warfare, forbade laws impeding free exercise of religion, abridging freedom of speech, or infringing freedom of the press. We today must do likewise.
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