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FREEREPUBLIC.com: "WHAT DID WE LEARN?" -Commentary by Cindy (August 26, 2006)
What Did We Learn?
What did we learn from the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001?
OPINION: I have learned that more Americans love America than
the lame-stream media will ever let on.
I have learned that America's military is the finest in the world.
I have learned that many leos and alphabet agencies are doing
their utmost to stop terrorist attacks.
I have learned that our borders need to be secured now.
I have learned that more people hate Americans, Christians and Jews
than I could have ever guessed before 9/11.
I have learned that political correctness ranges from being a nuisance
to being dangerous and interferes with the war on terror.
I know that prayer is powerful.
Thank You God.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
Well, that is what I have learned and that is what I know. -Cindy
http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html
http://www.truthusa.com/911news2.html
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html
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And now, let's go a step further past my brief commetnary.
I am a born-again, Bible believing, conservative Christian.
I stand with Israel.
I believe that Israel has a right to exist.
Enough about me.
Today is September 10, 2006.
Please explore the links and articles I compiled below.
Doing so may give you more insight to September 11, 2001.
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http://www.memri.org
http://www.memritv.org
http://www.memrifilms.org/
THE MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE PRESENTS:
"THE ARAB AND IRANIAN REACTION TO 911
Five Years Later"
Watch the full version (43 minutes long) or watch it in 3 parts
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http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=71844
"MEMRI Capitol Hill Briefing, Release of New Documentary: 'The Arab & Iranian Reaction to 9-11: Five Years Later'"
9/6/2006 3:07:00 PM
SNIPPET: "Immediately following the attack of 9/11, conspiracy theories took hold in the Middle East by prominent journalists, members of academia and leading religious figures. Furthermore, Arab government officials were responsible in part for creating and spreading conspiracies about what "really" happened.
Notable conspiracy theories from the Arab world and Iran between 2001 and 2006 which appeared on TV put the blame for the attacks on the U.S. government, Jews, Zionists, Christian Zionists, born again Christians, the Vatican, Mossad, the CIA, the National Security Council, white supremacist groups, Britain, President Bush, Vice President Cheney and many others.
The documentary will also highlight how following the attacks of 9-11, the Arab Reformist Movement was born -- with many brave individuals speaking out against "the culture of hatred" which produced Al-Qaeda. As the former Kuwaiti Education Minister, Dr. Ahmad Al-Ruba'i, said on Sept. 11, 2004, "Our goal, as intellectuals, is to confront this widespread movement even if it makes people angry... First, to fly a civilian airplane and crash into a building is not a great deed. A great deed is to manufacture an airplane and build a trade center, as they are doing now in New York. The Arabs must replace the mentality that glorifies destruction with a mentality that glorifies construction... The truth is that the Arab mind is blinded by conspiracy theories.""
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http://www.cnsnews.com
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September 10, 2006
Note: The following text is a quote:
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Jeremy Reynalds
P O Box 27693
Alb., NM 87125-7693
Tel: (505) 400-7145
www.joyjunction.org
Arab Church Leaders Reject Christian Zionism As 'False Teaching'
Following the recent Israeli-Hizballah war in Lebanon, four Arab church leaders based in Jerusalem have issued a blistering attack on Christians who actively support the Jewish state, indirectly including President George W. Bush.
The Cybercast News Service (CNS News.com) reported that in a statement published just one week after a United Nations cease fire went into effect on Aug.14, Nazareth-born Roman Catholic Patriarch Michel Sabbah was joined by two Arab Protestant bishops and one Arab Orthodox archbishop, in charging that “the Christian Zionist program provides a worldview where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism.
“We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as false teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation,” CNS reported the statement said.
Signed by Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Swerios Malki Mourad, along with Sabah and the Episcopal and Evangelical Lutheran bishops of Jerusalem, CNS reported the joint statement indirectly denounces President Bush for declaring his support last May for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plan to hold onto some Jewish settlements in the disputed West Bank after unilaterally withdrawing from many others.
“We further reject the contemporary alliance of Christian Zionist leaders and organizations with elements in the governments of Israel and the United States that are presently imposing their unilateral pre-emptive borders and domination over Palestine.”
CNS reported that the statement, titled “The Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism,” alleges that “Christian Zionism advances racial exclusivity and perpetual war rather than the Gospel of universal love, redemption and reconciliation taught by Jesus Christ.”
(Zionism refers to the modern movement for a Jewish national homeland, which started in the 1800's.)
The church leaders’ statement also mentioned the Arab-Christian contention that international Christians who actively support Israel desire to bring on the Apocalypse and the Second Coming of Jesus.
“Rather than condemn the world to the doom of Armageddon, we call upon everyone to liberate themselves from the ideologies of militarism and occupation,” CNS reported the statement read.
Three Jerusalem-based Christian Zionist leaders -- two Americans and one South African -- issued a joint rebuttal one week later. CNS reported they said that “certain church clerics” had used “inflammatory language to express views that are far from the truth.”
“Christian Zionism is not heretical. In fact, Christians from all traditional backgrounds have held such a view for two thousand years,” CNS reported the statement read.
It was signed by Malcolm Heading, who heads the 26-year-old International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, along with Ray Sanders, who leads the Christian Friends of Israel group, and Rebecca Brimmer of Bridges for Peace.
Together, the three Jerusalem-based Christian Zionist organizations have staffs of several hundred permanent and volunteer workers, and branches in dozens of countries worldwide.
The three prominent Christian leaders, who have each lived in Israel for many years, issued a six-point rebuttal of the Arab bishops' central charge that Christian Zionism is heretical.
Stating that such Christians believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible, CNS reported they pointed out that “replacement theology” (which teaches that the church has totally supplanted the Jewish people in God’s plans and purposes), has played “a pivotal role in the persecution of Jews through the centuries.”
Addressing the bishop’s “apocalypse” contention, CNS reported the three leaders wrote that “Christian Zionists do not base their theological positions on end-time prophecy, but on the faithful covenant promises of God given to Abraham some four thousand years ago.”
The counter-statement ended by noting that the four Jerusalem church officials had “totally ignored the jihadist goals of the Hamas government, and turned a blind eye to terrorism perpetrated by this regime.” It added that such a “one-sided unbalanced view of the conflict is in fact unhelpful to the peace process, and contributing to its failure.”
Christian Embassy spokesman David Parsons told CNS that it was not the first time that the four Arab church leaders had joined together to attack Christians who support Israel.
He pointed out that the bishops lead flocks “that are actually fairly small” in the Holy Land, even if they are “part of much larger international bodies, especially the Roman Catholic Church. There are far more Greek Orthodox, Greek Catholic and Armenian Orthodox Christians living in the land, but their leaders did not endorse the acerbic statement,” CNS reported Parsons stated.
Parsons added, “These four Arab bishops also don't represent the millions of Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans, including the Vatican itself, who recognize that the Biblical covenants made between God and the Jewish people remain in effect.”
The American-born Parsons, who also edits the Jerusalem Post International Christian Edition and has written extensively about Christian Zionism, noted, CNS reported, that the bishop's Aug. 22 statement borrowed heavily from a similar one issued at the end of a 2004 anti-Zionist church conference held in Jerusalem, attended and addressed by the same four clerics, among others.
Parsons said one of the four Arab church leaders, Nazareth-born Anglican Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal, is widely known for his outspoken Palestinian nationalism.
He added, CNS reported, that the local Episcopal leader “has publicly stated several times that Palestinian martyrs, including Muslim suicide terrorists, receive eternal life.” ~(This is the end of Dr. Reynalds' article.)
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51909
"Palestinians burn
West Bank YMCA
Follows Muslim warnings for Christian group
to leave Hamas-controlled town or see violence"
Posted: September 9, 2006
5:35 p.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49832
"YMCA warned to vacate Hamas town
After 6 years of operation, Christian organization being booted by terror group "
Posted: April 21, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48064
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
"Muslim grinches steal
Bethlehem Christmas
World leaders, media blame Israel for fleeing Christians"
Posted: December 25, 2005
3:36 p.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BETHLEHEM – With Christmas services here drawing far fewer tourists than in the 1990s and the town's Christian population now at an all-time low, many world leaders and hundreds of major media outlets this week blamed Israel for Bethlehem's decline – often citing false information – while a simple talk with the town's residents reveals a drastically different picture. They say Muslim persecution has been keeping Christians away.
"All this talk about Israel driving Christians out and causing pain is nonsense," a Bethlehem Christian community leader told WND. "You want to know what is at play here, just come throughout the year and see the intimidation from the Muslims. They have burned down our stores, built mosques in front of our churches, stole our real estate and took away our rights. Women have been raped and abducted. So don't tell me about Israel. It's the Muslims.""
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46738
"Hamas chief talks to WND
Wants to destroy all of Israel, says Bush 'endangering' U.S."
Posted: October 10, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WorldNetDaily conducted an exclusive interview with Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar, the most senior Hamas member in all of Israel and the Palestinian territories; second in power only to overall Hamas leader Khaled Meshal, who resides in Syria. The conversation has been translated from Arabic by Ali Waked."
By Aaron Klein
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com