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Christian Embassy funding emergency projects to help children, elderly, soldiers under fire In recent weeks, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem has responded to the growing humanitarian needs of embattled communities in northern Israel by launching a number of aid projects aimed at bringing relief, particularly to children confined to bomb shelters. In one of the latest examples, on Tuesday the ICEJ sponsored a day excursion for three bus loads of children from the hard hit areas of Kiryat Shmona, Karmiel and Nahariya to visit the Shefayim recreational water park near Herzliya. The children also received some of our 500 "activity...

It's now open & 'official', Islamists call Christians 'animals' ISLAMOFASCISM! http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_3959579 2 US soldiers bodies found mutilated and tortured http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/20/soldiers.missing/index.html [Islamic website connected to Al Qaeda said:] "We announce the good news to our Islamic nation that we executed God's will and slaughtered the two crusader animals we had in captivity," said the claim, reportedly from the Mujahedeen Shura Council, a group linked to al Qaeda.

THE Crusaders, the Christian youth organisation, is having to change its identity after more than 100 years because of claims that its name is anti-Islamic, Marc Horne writes. The evangelical movement, with more than 20,000 members and championed by Sir Cliff Richard, will be known as the Urban Saints from January as schools and charities said its name might be offensive to Muslims. They claimed it was too closely associated with the crusades, the military campaigns in the 11th and 13th centuries to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims. “Our new identity is part of a recognition...

Reason rules the day for now, as a measure at my alma mater Northwest Nazarene University to drop its Crusader mascot name was defeated. But continued vigilance will be needed. The university's Board of Trustees - champions of political correctness that they are - now support finding a cuddly, soft definition of the crusades in step with our hip-hop modern times.

Did anybody see that vile piece on the Crusades Sunday Night? I had to turn it off. It was a politically pile of propagandist crap attacking the Crusades, the Christian Church and heroizing Ilsamic fanatics.

Since its founding, in 1997, the Jerusalem Open House (JOH) has operated as a missionary organization, actively promoting homosexuality among Arabs, Christians, and Jews in Israel and all over the world The JOH is no minor player among homosexual advocacy groups. It is well-funded by the New Israel Fund, a left-wing organization that promotes secularism in all areas of Israeli society and is affiliated with the multi-billion dollar Ford Foundation in the United States.

Kingdom of Heaven: Propaganda or History? by James F. Burke New Republican Archive After the anti-Christian Left was blind-sided by the popularity of Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, key influencers in the media complex were eager to promote the release of Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven. Indeed, one finds the loudest praise for the film coming from the pages of the most radical left-wing papers and journals here in the U.S. and, of course, in Europe. Why then is turnout so high here in the U.S.? Viewers hoping for a more positive (or at least less anti-Christian) take on...

“Kingdom of Heaven”: Bin Laden’s Slanted Crusade Movie May 5, 2005 By Debbie Schlussel Mark Twain said, “History tells us that the truth is not hard to kill, but a lie told well is immortal.” “Kingdom of Heaven,” Ridley Scott’s extremely boring movie version of the Crusades, is Twain’s words in action. Scott is serial killer of truth—giving immortality to 1,000 lies—in this propaganda film. The wannabe-epic is being panned for its lack of accuracy by a host of Islam experts, like Robert Spencer. Crusades expert Jonathan Riley-Smith says it’s basically “Osama bin Laden’s version of History.” But the folks...

Terri Schiavo has been suffering from fatal dehydration for the past week and liberal anti-life crusaders have been relishing in every moment of it. That is, of course, despite last-ditch efforts by President Bush and the Republican party-poopers in Congress to have Terri’s feeding tubes restored. Amid all the fuss, the left’s latest rationalization for starving poor little Terri to death is this: There may have been political motives behind the Republicans’ endeavor to save Terri’s life! President Bush signed a bill on March 21 that would transfer jurisdiction of the Terri Schiavo case to a U.S. district court. This...

Sometimes evil pops up in the most unlikely of places. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is named for a victim who died in 1978, at age 36. Before Susan died, her sister Nancy promised to do all that she could to eradicate the horrible disease, and to that end she founded the organization in 1982. Since then, the Komen Foundation, with over 100 local affiliates in the U.S.A. alone, has raised $740 million for this worthy cause, funding innovative research grants, public awareness campaigns, and community-based outreach programs. Every year more than one million people worldwide participate in...

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As demonstrations go, it was decidedly low-key: a lone man standing silently against a utility pole, occasionally holding up hand-scribbled poster boards. Fans at the Camp Hill-Bishop McDevitt field hockey game yesterday afternoon paid little attention to the slight, bespectacled protester as he stood between two sets of bleachers at Camp Hill's Fiala Field. But Carl H. Silverman insisted his one-man campaign against Bishop McDevitt High School's team nickname -- the Crusaders -- was a success. Shop Central PA "It gets my point across," said Silverman, who occasionally cheered for his daughter Sara and her Camp Hill teammates. Silverman's point,...

Sudan leaflets vow revenge on foreign troops By David Blair, Africa Correspondent and Nicola Smith in Brussels (Filed: 27/07/2004) The prospect of western troops being sent to Sudan provoked dire warnings of revenge yesterday. Leaflets were distributed at mosques in the capital, Khartoum, urging Muslims to fight any "crusader" forces. Men gather around a radio in the Farchana refugee camp The message, from a previously unknown group calling itself the Army of Mohammed, read: "We have seen and heard of American and British interference in Darfur and there is no doubt that this is a crusader war that bears no...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Official Threatens Suicide Operations: 'Our Missiles Are Ready to Strike at Anglo-Saxon Culture... There Are 29 Sensitive Sites in the U.S. and the West...' The London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that "an Iranian intelligence unit has established a center called The Brigades of the Shahids of the Global Islamic Awakening to replace the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Department of Liberation and Revolutionary Movements, which had been in charge of helping and training revolutionary forces across the world." [1] The article went on to report a speech given by an official of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, threatening the...

Herman Cain's Pledge to Protect the Unborn Our Nation's founders stated that we have an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We can pursue happiness as long as we do not infringe on another's liberty. We can have liberty as long as we do not take another's life. And life begins at conception. The Supreme Court's decision that the most innocent of human life - the life of an unborn child - can be ended for the sake of convenience, began the moral decline of our society. No great nation can prosper when life is not...

Dear Osama, We have noted that you like to refer to America and Great Britain as "Crusader states," and you have referred to just about everybody you don't like as Crusaders. We doubt that you really believe there are any Crusaders left, as we doubt that you really believe in God. You would not taunt Crusaders if you really believed in them, because you are a craven coward who cherishes his own flesh while admonishing your followers to blow themselves up. You are an infidel, because no one who truly believes in God would sanction the killing of innocent men,...

Liberty-minded individuals are so used to criticizing the totalitarianism that emanates from governments that they forget one other source of constant oppression that needs to be dealt with: the tyranny of the masses.The mass of totalitarians, these days, is composed of hordes of petty, self-elected Führers running around trying to dictate everyone else’s choices and lifestyles to suit their own preferences and comfort levels. The totalitarian impulses that resonate from these individuals are alarming. Americans, on the whole, are ripe for lording it over everyone else, and they have no problem making arbitrary judgments about the needs of others while...

President Jacques Chirac sent a team of investigators to Yemen last night to determine the cause of an explosion that ripped through the French supertanker Limberg. M Chirac faced the strong possibility that the vessel, which was still in flames last night, was the target of a daring attack by al-Qa'eda.Got with the programme now, Jacques? Appeasement doesn't work. It never will. - Ivan Osama bin Laden's network has a strong presence in Yemen and the United States Navy had given warning only weeks ago of such an attack. Ali Abdallah Saleh, the Yemeni president, assured M Chirac that local...