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On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “First Move,” Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry reacted to groups like Just Stop Oil blocking traffic or vandalizing artwork by stating, “that militancy will grow if people in positions of responsibility do not take action. But I would also say that you’re not going to help win any converts by destroying a great work of art or making it very difficult for people to get to work, and so forth.” And “I admire people who are willing to put themselves on the line, even in civil disobedience. But you understand that when...

The work begins with history. History as subtext should be noted. Not only is this about the history of totalitarianism, notably Marxist and Maoist communism, but it is also about remembering national history, about dismissing those myths which detract from our history, dismissing the myths that today’s neo-totalitarians present as fact, and replacing myth with honest history, with strong relationships, with strong teach, with strong commitments to truth, and more. This is not simply a Roman Catholic treatise, though that bell rings loudly, it is honest enough to cover Baptist and other protestant responses to the problem. Richard Wurmbrand, Alexander...

Yesterday, while praying for peace and unity in our city and the protection of the Saint Louis statue, Black Lives Matter protesters started to harass, berate, and assault the Catholics that were peacefully praying. We did nothing in retaliation (Thread with documentation) 1/8 We allowed them to spit on us, call us names, put their fingers in our faces, push us, and antagonize, but we did not retaliate. We continued to peacefully pray. At that moment someone in the crowd poured an unidentified liquid on the older man, pictured below protecting his head, and was then attacked by a violent...

The human sex drive is the third most powerful force that exists in human beings, after thirst and hunger. Human beings need to quench their thirst and quell their hunger, in order to sustain human life. God gave human beings a very powerful sex drive, so that it may be used to bring new life into this world. But the devil can pervert this wonderful drive that God gave humans to enable them to bring beautiful babies into this world, and use it to destroy human life and human culture. Radical Muslims are willing to strap bombs to themselves and...

US seeks China's help to quell militancy in Pak: Report 26 May 2009, 0900 hrs IST, IANS WASHINGTON: The US administration has urged China to provide training and military equipment to help Pakistan counter a growing threat of terrorism in the country, a media report said. The proposal is part of a broad US push to enlist key allies of Pakistan in an effort to stabilise the country, the Boston Globe said on Monday. The US is seeking to persuade Pakistan to step up its efforts against militants, while supporting the fragile civilian government and its tottering economy. Richard Holbrooke,...

NEW YORK – With a landscape that evoked Afghanistan, a rural town in Oregon seemed in James Ujaama's mind to be the perfect setting for a militant jihad training camp to teach Muslim fighters survival and combat skills. The terrorist camp Ujaama envisioned to produce fighters against the Taliban's enemies in Afghanistan never came to fruition, and he no longer supports terrorist causes, he told a jury during a terrorism trial Wednesday in Manhattan federal court. "I sympathized and I have supported terrorists in the past, which was foolish. I was not thinking at that time and I wish I...

Men have been much more disposed to vex and oppress one another than to cooperate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts."—James Madison, Federalist Papers Can we be honest, FRiends? Hannity has a point; many FReepers do pride themselves on chewing up and spitting out others. We do "eat our own." Couldn't we all profit from applying more often Stephen Covey's aphorism: "first understand,...

ENSAAF today released its report, Punjab Police: Fabricating Terrorism through Illegal Detention and Torture (June 2005 to August 2005) (http://www.ensaaf.org/ft-report.html). This report details human rights violations committed by Indian security forces in recent militancy-related arrests. From June 2005 to August 2005, Indian police claim to have arrested several dozen individuals intent on reviving or supporting militancy in Punjab. These arrests center around the apprehension of Jagtar Singh Hawara, the main accused in the 1995 assassination of Punjab’s chief minister. In August and September 2005, ENSAAF documented 28 cases of detention of Punjabis accused of militancy-related activities. Its study reveals that,...

Jihad is the ‘evil ideology’ that is driving terrorism. Muslims should take the lead in rooting out this barbarism. Early reports indicate that there were no fatalities from four coordinated explosions that again targeted Londons’ transit system yesterday, July 21, 2005, exactly two weeks after the Islamikaze carnage of July 7, 2005 that killed over 50 persons. Perhaps we will also be spared the surreal drama that is enacted each time there is a major Islamikaze terrorist attack: politicians and various other “experts”—non-Muslim and Muslim alike—start praising Islam. They tell us that Islam is a noble religion that stands for...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The torrent of intelligence that led to dozens of arrests in Pakistan and Britain and a terror warning in the United States began with a hunt for those behind an audacious ambush in June on a Pakistani commander as his motorcade tried to cross Karachi's Clifton Bridge. The trail has led from the teeming streets of that southern port city, to the dusty tribal village of Shakai along the Pakistan-Afghan border, to seemingly placid suburban London, to the world's financial headquarters in New York and to Washington, D.C. The arrests of several senior al-Qaida figures in...

November 22, 2003 at 18:24:22 PST Another Saudi Cleric Renounces Militancy By ADNAN MALIK ASSOCIATED PRESS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A second prominent Saudi cleric has renounced Islamic militancy and attacks against innocent people during an interview aired on state-run TV Saturday. Nasser al-Fahd made his remarks four days after cleric Ali al-Khudair also reversed his fatwas - or religious edicts - promoting violence. The statements come as Saudi authorities crack down on militants believed responsible for a string of attacks inside Saudi Arabia, birthplace of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 hijackers from the...

THERE'S something about Islam... Half declaration, half question, that remark is heard often these days. Confronted with rampaging Muslims who burn down churches, Muslims who commit mass murder, and Muslims who insist that a woman who cries rape must produce four male eyewitnesses, the temptation is to find in their common denominator - the religion of Islam - the root cause of such senseless behaviour. Well-meaning persons, Muslim and non-Muslim, try to assure the world that that is not so; that Islam forbids violence, that Islam means peace. Those who resort to terror are wrong; they are not good Muslims;...

I was perusing another thread, a survey of Hamas's leadership and how its members live, and noticed several posts to the effect that Islam itself is the greatest recognizable threat to world peace. Needless to say, this is a flat contradiction to the image Islamic loyalists are trying to purvey. Though I tend to agree with the assessment, I find myself wondering how a religion -- a system of belief pertaining to Man's relations with the Divine -- could possibly have produced so perverse and secular a thing as a supranational military movement that targets peaceable civilians of other faiths....