Posted on 10/24/2013 11:51:26 PM PDT by Zakeet
Four Iranian Christians were reportedly sentenced to 80 lashes for drinking wine for communion, a shocking punishment meted out even as a new United Nations report blasted the Islamic republic for its systematic persecution of non-Muslims.
The four men were sentenced Oct. 6 after being arrested in a house church last December and charged with consuming alcohol in violation of the theocracy's strict laws, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide. They were among several Christians punished for their faith in a nation where converting from Islam to Christianity can bring the death penalty. According to a new October UN report by Ahmed Shaheed, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, such persecution is common, despite new President Hasan Rouhani's pledge to be a moderate.
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We are a peaceful and tolerant people ... and we will be even more so in a few weeks when we finish developing our atomic bomb.
Islam is a war plan.
In ‘friendly’ Saudi Arabia they could have beheaded them.
They are truly the walking dead, the Zombie of Ishmael. Doomed by their sickening habits of inbreeding to bring death to all...
Islam is a perpetual war machine. Born by the blade, it will die by the blade.
Coming to America under Obama and Holder.
I’ve watched videos of these monsters cutting off heads with a butcher knife. To listen to their chuckles when their victim cries out for mercy reveals the perverse evil effects Islam has on the human mind. This is no longer a question of humanity. It is a question of a psychological state of mind.
Islam is a cult of detachment. It is one that leaves human beings detached from their fellow human beings. It detaches the woman from her husband by dehumanizing her and renders children as non entities to be sexually molested. This is a tragic system of dehumanization that works on the human mind until it is sickened. The most tragic of this system is the spiritual detachment from the love of Almighty God. God is not a loving being. For them, God is vengeful, unloving and has no mercy. Man is sinful and has no redeeming value. The way they see God is the way they see each other and all life.
The muzzlem people who live a few houses from us have a pile of Coors bottles in their recycling bin each week.
Of course, they are only pretending to drink it. When they establish Sharia, those bottles will go away. /s
Was watching The Patriot last night, and currently reading The Glorious Cause about the American Revolution. It struck me that we, common Americans are like the colonials, and the government is like the British Parliament and our President is King George. Our Army is like the Red Coats.
Throw into the mix, Islam, and you get the keen feeling that we are in a repeat of what led to our American Revolution. But, it will take something...something that hits us all in the belly to wake us up.
I pray for a great leader to bring us all out of the mud of this corruption.
Jonrick, that is a brilliant way of putting it. A lot of people don't realize that Islam is not only false, but false in a very damaging way, because its idea of God is a sort of moloch-like angry being who, in addition to hating the world, is not even committed to keeping it in existence.
Pope BXVI pointed out that the Islamic conception of a God who is so remote from us that he might at any moment choose to make everything run in reverse, say, or to do whatever willful thing he fancies, and whose supposed creation shows no signs of him and is utterly detached from him, not only creates a cruel religion, but makes human knowledge impossible. Reason requires stability in its subject and a trust that what it sees is indeed established as creation and that the visible world is not random but reflects its own nature which, of course, reflects God's nature, since he created it and its laws.
In Islam, however, nothing is predictable, the angry force of Allah might simply decide to change things just to show how powerful he is, and therefore, nothing is knowable and relationships between human beings are, in a sense, not worth the effort. It's all for naught, and the only hope is to follow the cruel "revealed" laws (as opposed to natural law) that make up sharia, which is essentially nothing but a system of repression and dehumanization that expresses Allah's contempt for creation. Muslims are even proud of this, and in many countries, carry out campaigns against education and learning.
It's small wonder that Islam's effect on human life wherever it goes is so disastrous.
How ironic, during the 70’s, under the Shah Pahlavi, I enjoyed many nights of Russian vodka and Persian caviar while in Tehran, Sari and Zanjan and a few cities in the north. And wine...lots of very good wine.
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt’s Generals:
‘How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?’
Foreign Policy | 15 Aug 2013 | John Hudson
Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055253/posts
Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt’s military — even as Cairo’s security forces massacre anti-government activists.
[by “anti-government activists” is meant church-burning jihadists]
Here's the passage at issue:In the 1980s, the war caucus in Congress armed bin Laden and the mujaheddin in their fight with the Soviet Union. In fact, it was the official position of the State Department to support radical jihad against the Soviets. We all know how well that worked out.Let's leave aside for now the insulting, utterly asinine, sickening, inexcusable use of the phrase "war caucus" to describe those (including Reagan!) who supported the mujaheddin against the Soviets. That word choice alone is almost entirely disqualifying for its purveyor to ever be president.
Instead, let's just look at a little history here -- because the ignorance evident in this paragraph is truly astonishing. One would be hard pressed to find even a single historian, whether right, left, or center, who would argue anything other than that the Soviet failure in Afghanistan was not just a huge factor, but probably an essential one, in the Soviets' ultimate loss of the Cold War. [Rand Pauls Really Ignorant Paragraph | 7 Feb 2013]
Iran may be one month from nuclear bomb
Haaretz | Oct. 25, 2013 | 5:50 AM | (Haaretz and Reuters)
Posted on 10/26/2013 10:02:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3083947/posts
Thanks Zakeet.
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