Don’t Listen to Atheists – God is Love

John R. Houk

© June 6, 2011

Some atheists go to great lengths to find snippets of the Bible or physical science to disprove the existence of God Almighty. I am one that believes that if the Old and New Testament are taken as a whole there is a harmonious explanation to be found. If one chooses to set to find disharmony they will find it easily. Believers seeking harmony will find harmony. Unbelievers seeking disharmony will find disharmony. Seek and you shall is the principle.

Here is a video that atheists like to show with the belief that the God of the Bible is not a God of love or perhaps does not exist at all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QduJ121DBXU

LOL I don't even have to watch the entire video to answer this. God is love because of the promise in Genesis 3: 14-15.

14 So the LORD God said to the serpent:
“ Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.

15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”

Adam fell and turned man into a fallen nature and the earth into a twisted nature because Adam’s stewardship was transferred to the prince of deception that old serpent Satan – aka the adversary.

What is the reason for suffering, natural disasters, and all matters of evil that God is wrongly accused of causing? It is the Fall of Adam.

What is the solution? The Redemptive act of Jesus Christ who emptied Himself of his Divine attributes to become a man not stained with the Adam’s Fall because a part of His DNA was God. Divine DNA trumps human DNA. The LOVE is in that God did not start all over by destroying the rebellious creation and starting over. Furthermore as the centuries passed on, man became more and more corrupt and the earth more and more twisted and awaiting for the promise of Genesis 3:15.

That promise is partially fulfilled in the death, burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ paying the penalty of Adam’s rebellious Fall. That which is Redeemed is the human spirit. The human mind, body and the Earth await Full Redemption that begins with Christ’s Parousia (i.e. 2^nd Coming). The end of the BOOK tells us that Full Redemption does not arrive until Satan has been secured after his last deception upon humanity after the 1,000 year reign of Christ on Earth. Then the ravaged old Earth is changed into the New Earth and the old Heaven is changed into the New Heaven and man and Earth discover FULL Redemption.

The suffering of the Old Testament is the result of Adam’s Fall and a Fallen nature. The promise of Genesis 3: 15 is the demarcation line that divides fallen humanity that results in the blood line that the last child of Promise would be born to begin the Redemption of Christ bruising the Old Serpents head with the Lord’s feet. That bruising began with the unseen battle between Jesus and Satan between the Lord’s death and the Lord’s Resurrection.

17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. (Ephesians 1: 17 – 23 NKJV)

1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. (Ephesians 2: 1 – 7; 19 – 22 NKJV)

11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. (Colossians 2: 11 – 15 NKJV)

1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, 3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore He says:

“ When He ascended on high,
He led captivity captive,
And gave gifts to men.”

9 (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4: 1 – 9; 17 – 24 NKJV)

These verses catch up with the reason evil things happen with a loving God. God is Love and that Love is evidenced of Him emptying the Divine attributes to suffer the same as a man by becoming man and then redeeming to be back on the path to union with God. All that is left is the future of Full Redemption.

1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. 2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. 4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”

5 Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”

 
6 And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. 7 He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. (Revelation 21: 1 – 7 NKJV)

I know the next criticism from unbelievers is that the Bible is a collection of old myths; However at this point that argument is irrelevant because the whole basis of this response is because of the YouTube video that enjoys utilizing Scriptures out of the context of the Plan of Redemption to prove the premise that God is not a loving God. Ergo, according to the video, God is either non-existent or a lying higher been that is actually evil. This short version of the Plan of Redemption shows the person behind the dialogue to be a deceiver or a deluded individual according the Scriptures chosen.

JRH 6/6/11  

2nd Jewish Temple just 'waiting to be unearthed'

Muslims, especially of the Arabs that like to call themselves Palestinians, have gone to great lengths to claim that two Jewish Temples never existed on the Temple to promote a lame excuse that the heritage of the Temple Mount has been Islamic in perpetuity. And in an effort to prove the Muslim assertion the Muslim custodians of two Mosques built on the most holiest real estate to Jews – the Waqf – has been feverishly making attempts to cover-up the Jewish presence. The method of cover-up has been digging underneath the Temple (SA HERE) to dredge as much Jewish antiquities as possible and throw it away as refuse to build Islamic junk like underground Mosques or a cavernous Mosque or both.

In an update to the insidious actions of the Waqf the respected archaeologist Dr. Eliat Mazar has proven that more antiquities are being destroyed to hide the Jewish heritage of the Temple Mount.

This utter destruction of Jewish heritage is important because President Barack Hussein Obama, the EU, the UN and Russia is doing everything possible to rob Jews of not only their heritage in Judea and Samaria (also called the West Bank by those who claim Israel is occupying the land) from the Jewish State of Israel. This robbery includes the City of David, the Jerusalem in which the Jewish Temple and the Presence of God Almighty resides on a location also known as Mount Moriah. Moriah is the location by which God Almighty tested Abraham’s faith and stopped the sacrifice of his son Isaac the son of Promise.

JRH 6/6/11

Opportunity Missed, Opportunity Made

The Leslie J. Sacks organization sent an article by Mark Y. Rosenberg that is critical of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas hook-up because Hamas is overtly for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews.

Where I disagree with Rosenberg is his assertion that Israel should abandon the “West Bank” to allow a Palestinian State to come into existence because that is the only way for peace between Israel and the Arab world. Also Rosenberg believes that Israeli control of “occupied” West Bank is not a sustainable situation for Israel. Rosenberg does not enter the debate of borders such as Israel drawing to 1967 borders including the eastern half of Jerusalem. I would have been interested on his take on the borders and if the Jewish heritage of Jerusalem should be turned over to Jew-hating Muslims.

Finally noticed I placed quotes over “West Bank” and “occupied”. The reason for this is that I am a Christian Zionist. The so-called West Bank is part of the Land of Israel known as Judea and Samaria. Israel did not occupy it their land, they retrieved from Jordanian occupation. Since Israel retook Judea and Samaria they did not occupy it, rather Israel liberated from hostile Muslims that defaced and committed acts of sacrilege against Jewish holy places, relics and ancient possessions such as Synagogues and cemeteries.

Other than that Rosenberg’s article is good.

JRH 6/4/11

Islamic Terrorists and MDCs in Cooperation

John R. Houk

© June 3, 2011

If you watch any news at all you are aware that Mexican drug cartels along the Mexican/American border are carving out little cartel fiefdoms that crosses the border. Although quite evil the Mexican drug lords have carved out a brilliant plan for their illicit business which includes drugs, sex slavery, labor slavery, risky to Mexicans Coyote services and arms dealing to criminal associates on the American side of the border.

The cash is flowing into the drug cartel treasuries. Money means power. On the Mexican side power translates into bribery of law enforcement and terrorism toward the Mexican citizens to forces compliance to cartel fiefdom agendas.

On the American side of the border power means terrorist intimidation of American citizens that might be in the path of a cartel operation. The American side is also the cash cow for Mexican drug lords. This means cartels use paramilitary methods to secure their illicit business operations which I have stated already is far more than drugs.

Another thing to consider is the suppliers of Mexican drug cartels. Certainly the cartels produce a certain amount of their own product as in drugs and humans; however I am guessing there is an international black market trade of product that includes drugs, humans and arms. That international black market trading inevitably establishes partnerships on some level.

In case you were not aware of it, Islamic terrorist organizations use illicit drugs to keep their treasuries full in order to purchase the weaponry they need to terrorize in their homelands and abroad such as in America. Narco-Islam has led to the Mexican Drug Cartels (MDC) to be on a friendly basis with Muslim terrorists. Thus there has been cooperation that allows Islamic Terrorists to be smuggled across the border ala MDC aid. If MDC is smuggling Islamic terrorists you can bet terrorist weapons are going with them on to American soil.

With that in mind it is time to realize just how brutal the Mexican/American border is. The MDCs get the credit for much of the brutality; however I am certain that has become a strategic opportunity for Islamic terrorists to waltz across the border. If indeed the Islamic terrorists are waltzing across the border that there are Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that can easily slip across the border as well.

Keep in mind that a clandestine WMD can be both nuclear in nature and chemical in nature. And the WMD does not have to high tech and large to be effective. With symbol of Islamic terrorism being found and shot hiding behind a girl, the probability of innovative plans are in the works to attack American citizens.

With that porous nature of our border with Mexico as a known fact let’s examine some data sent to me by Tony Newbill that serves as the visual reality of a possible attack.

Let’s begin with this link that demonstrates the graphic brutality of MDCs on their side of the border:

Graphic photos of Mexican Drug Cartel Terrorism on U.S. Border:

The fighting along the border has intensified. The brutality and gruesome nature of the murders is a sign of the viciousness of the fight with the bodies being decapitated and showing signs of torture and abuse.

WARNING: THE PHOTOS BELOW ARE EXTREMELY GRAPHIC

Headless body wrapped and left as a message to others. The brutality of the murders is intended to send a strong message to everyone not to cooperate with police.

5 severed heads left on a disco dance floor.

Bodies, often showing signs of torture and abuse are sometimes found stuffed into barrels. It is the brutality of the murders that continue to shock and send the message that you don’t cross drug gangs.

With unsecured Borders and Confirmed terrorists coming into the USA this way, how do we not know they are not getting ready to detonate Suit case Nuke bombs? [A scenario might be like] around our Nuke Power Plants to create a catastrophic wipe out of the USA. The last thing we the people need is Obama campaigning to leave the Border Unsecured just to win the Latino Vote don't ya think?

Just How Secure is our Southern Border?

If you listen to Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, you would think the southern border is secure. This could not be further from the truth. A recent trip to the Port of Naco and surrounding area was an eye opening experience proving just how much of a national security threat our southern border really is. (Read the rest and see photos Coyote violence against humans)

Lost Nuclear Bombs! You Gotta Be Kidding?

The above link goes to an article about aged Hydrogen Bombs lost by the U.S. Military. I can’t vouch for the authenticity but is a scary thought. The article claims the lost nukes have never been found.

The next link is a YouTube video on Russian suit case nukes. Hello! MDC helping Islamic terrorists to cross the border to nuke a city or some vital infrastructure.

This next link is a YouTube video of the CIA chasing someone with a suit case nuke.

Friends this is not Conspiracy Theory stuff. This is proof of what could easily happen on American soil.

What are going to do about?

JRH 6/3/11

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The last part of this post was a mix of the email Tony Newbill sent to me and some of my thoughts.

Hector Aleem Blasphemy Charges Dismissed

John R. Houk

© June 2, 2011

Hector Aleem is a person of interest to me. Some time ago he was accused of breaking Pakistan’s infamous Blasphemy Laws by some Imam. The charges were bogus because there was another agenda of gaining some Christian Church property and Hector Aleem as a Pakistani-Christian, acted as a human rights advocate for the Church. Frankly I have no idea what happened to that Church but I suspect it was not a pleasant outcome. Hector is one of many Pakistani-Christians who have been persecuted for their faith in Pakistan. Most Pakistani-Christians do not have a favorable outcome to their persecution and end up dead often times even before a trial is completed or even begins.

Hector went was arrested in front of his family and was beaten by the local police to get a confession. Hector did not submit to the torture which led to an arduous journey which I am pleased to announce the Muslim Judge has dismissed ALL of the blasphemy charges against Hector.

Below is the celebratory notice from Simon Yaqoob which ecstatically tells all that Hector was exonerated from Blasphemy charges. Personally I suspect Hector has to jump through more hoops because Simon did not actually say Hector was released from jail. Simon only says the charges against Hector are dismissed.

JRH 6/2/11

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[Free Hector Aleem] HALLELUJAH!!!!!

Sent by Simon Yaqoob

Jun 2, 2011 at 9:03 AM

Sent to: Members of Free Hector Aleem

HALLELUJAH!!!!!

THE BLASPHEMY CHARGES FROM DADDY DROPPED TODAY, HIS BLASPHEMY CASE IS NOW FINISHED!!!! PRAISE THE LORD....HE DID EVERYTHING!!!!!

 
HAHAHAHA AM SO HAPPY TODAY.....THE JUDGE GAVE HIS FINAL DECISION TODAY AND HE SAID THAT AN IMMEDIATE ACTION ON THE INVESTIGATION OFFICER MUST BE TAKEN!!!!!

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR PRAYERS AND MORAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT!

It is Time for the West to Clash with Islamic Culture

John R. Houk

© June 1, 2011

Bill Warner of Political Islam and Center for the Study of Political Islam gave a 14 minute speech at the same Church in Nashville that Geert Wilders gave his key note speech on the same day.

Warner carefully avoids the word “Crusade” because Muslims have successfully turned that word into a symbol Christian butchery. It is true the Crusaders did embark on some blood thirsty undertakings that had nothing to do with the mandate to win back the Promised Land from conquering Muslim armies. The Crusaders committed ungodly acts of slaughter of Jews particularly in Jerusalem.

There was and is no justification for the Crusaders to exact such bloodshed on Christians that were in the path of military advancement to the Holy Land and toward the Jews already resident in Jerusalem. In fact I argue the Crusaders were acting outside the new creation Scriptures of the New Testament!

On the other hand you have to know there was a greater underlying reason for the Crusaders to embark on a deliverance of the Holy Land so that Christian Pilgrims could visit without Muslim marauders coming to raid potential wealth and killing Christians considered non-Muslim unbelievers called kafir.

Since the death of Mohammed in 632 AD - Muslims ravaged the planet east, west and north of the Arabian Peninsula. Muslims deny the sword converted the non-Muslims; however their own chronicles show something quite different. Each invasion led to bloody population management which in turn led to the conversion of most of the populace with the promise of leading freer cultural life as long as it was into submission of Islam. Actually the Indian Subcontinent experienced even more brutality than the Christian Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe.

Bill Warner in his speech in Nashville says there is an ideological war the West must fight to counter the maliciousness of Islamic culture. I agree with Warner as to a beginning; however a successful ideological war will only show fruit inside of Western Nations. To stop Islam ultimately a modern Crusade will have to emerge not necessarily based on the Christian faith; rather a new Crusade will have to emerge that is ruthless in defense of Western Culture regardless of faith, creed or political ideology. For the West to survive there will be one common goal: Defeat Islam as ruthlessly as those medieval Islamic armies slaughtered Christian and Hindu armies. In essence a cultural conquest with the intent of either obliterating the practice of Mohammed’s Islam or the revising of the tenets of Islam to eliminate all forms of violent Islamic Supremacism.

JRH 6/1/11

Free Speech Comes to Dearbornistan

John R. Houk

© June 1, 2011

Dearborn, MI was once a powerhouse of automobile and machine building plants in America. I know we call Detroit the Motorcity but a lot of the workers either worked in Detroit suburbs or lived in Detroit suburbs. Auto magnate Henry Ford brought car mass production to Dearborn. Indeed Dearborn is the city Henry Ford died in.

Dearborn is quickly becoming known as a place of growing radical Islamic population. Hence many bloggers including myself have referred to the city as Dearbornistan rather than Dearborn. The Muslim population for Dearborn is immense as this pro-Dearbornistan Muslim article does show.

Recently a Christian from Sudan – George Saieg – was arrested for distributing Christian tracks on the public sidewalks of Dearborn. He sued Dearborn for violating his Free Speech Rights. Saieg lost the suit in Federal Court. The Good News though is this: Saieg won a 2-1 split decision from the Sixth Appellate Court.

Finally, Stealth Jihad via creeping Sharia Law has taken a hit in the Federal Judicial System. The corrupt City Hall and Chief of Police of Dearborn have been validating a nose-thumbing at the U.S. Constitution First Amendment guaranteeing religious freedom and freedom of speech for some time to allow the intolerance of Sharia Law to be practiced.

You can watch an example of the Dearborn Storm Troopers violating the First Amendment HERE.

ACT for America sent a copy of an Andrew Bostom article writing about Saieg’s judicial victory in Appellate Court.

JRH 6/1/11

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Victory over sharia in Dearborn, MI

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Sent: 5/31/2011 1:19 PM

Andrew Bostom, one of the featured speakers at our upcoming national conference, posted some great news over the weekend (see below).

Thanks to the efforts of our friends at the Thomas More Law Center, a judge ruled the free speech rights of a Christian evangelist trumped the efforts of Dearborn, Michigan to, in effect, impose sharia law’s suppression of free speech.

Note especially the highlighted portion below regarding attitudes among Detroit-area Muslims regarding the imposition of sharia law.

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First Amendment Trumps Sharia in Dearborn

By Andrew Bostom

May 29th, 2011 by Andrew Bostom

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A seminal, if ominous report released May 17, 2011 by the Center for Security Policy described fifty appellate court cases from 23 states which involve conflicts between Islamic law—Sharia—and American state law. Nothwithstanding the delusive mindslaughter on display across America’s political spectrum which denies Sharia encroachment in the US, the CSP analysis revealed that,

Sharia has been applied or formally recognized in state court decisions, in conflict with the Constitution and state public policy.

But the grim, seemingly inexorable, progressive acceptance of Sharia-based mores in the US—despite this totalitarian religio-political “law” being antithetical to American law—was at least temporarily reversed late last week, in of all places, Dearborn, Michigan. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2:1 on Thursday May 26, 2011 (in GEORGE SAIEG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF DEARBORN; RONALD HADDAD, Dearborn Chief of Police ) that Dearborn, and its police department, violated the free-speech rights of a Christian evangelist by barring him from handing out leaflets at an Arab-American street festival last year. The court’s two judge majority opinion concluded,

On the free speech claim, we REVERSE the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendants and its denial of summary judgment to the plaintiffs. We thereby invalidate the leafleting restriction within both the inner and outer perimeters of the Festival.1 The restriction on the sidewalks that are directly adjacent to the Festival attractions does not serve a substantial government interest. The City keeps those same sidewalks open for public traffic and permits sidewalk vendors, whose activity is more obstructive to sidewalk traffic flow than pedestrian leafleting is. Moreover, the prohibition of pedestrian leafleting in the outer perimeter is not narrowly tailored to the goal of isolating inner areas from vehicular traffic. The City can be held liable because the Chief of Police, who instituted the leafleting restriction, created official municipal policy.

Elaborating on the issue of Dearborn’s liability for depriving George Saieg, an American Christian pastor of Sudanese descent, of his first amendment rights, the judges opined,

The City may be held liable for the restriction of Saieg’s free speech rights that the leafleting restriction caused. A municipality is liable if a constitutional injury results from a policy or custom “made by its lawmakers or by those whose edicts or acts may fairly be said to represent official policy.” Monell v. Dep’t of Soc. Servs., 436 U.S. 658, 694–95 (1978). In this case, the City approved the Festival “subject to . . . the rules and regulations of the Police Department.” R. 47-13 (Ex. M: Council Resolution)…Chief Haddad described the leafleting policy as his department’s policy, subject only to the approval of the city council and the mayor. R. 47-11 (Ex. K: Haddad Dep. at 95–96) (stating that “the police department will supply the standards that must be met,” such as the “prohibition of individuals handing out . . . materials on the public sidewalk”). The police department’s leafleting policy, made with the authority that the City Council delegated to it, fairly represents official City policy. Therefore, Saieg may hold the City liable for violating his First Amendment right to free speech.

Most remarkably, the majority opinion of Justices Moore and Clay included a salient observation revealing how these judges understood the Sharia-based objections to non-Muslim proselytization which motivated Dearborn’s attempt to abrogate Pastor Saeig’s freedom of speech—mainstream Islam’s continued rejection of freedom of conscience:

Saieg also faces a more basic problem with booth-based evangelism: “[t]he penalty of leaving Islam according to Islamic books is death,” which makes Muslims reluctant to approach a booth that is publicly “labeled as . . . Christian.” R. 48 (Ex. A: Saieg Dep. at 75). Saieg believes that evangelism is more effective when he can roam the Festival and speak to Muslims more discreetly.

Roberta Aluffi Beck-Peccoz, Associate Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Turin, made this rather understated assessment of contemporary Islamdom’s strict opposition to the proselytization of Muslims by non-Muslims—rooted in the Sharia, and ultimately, the grave offense of “ridda,” or apostasy from Islam, deemed “treasonous” against the Muslim community, and punishable by death under Islamic Law—published in 2010:

Islamic States have always strongly opposed this specific freedom [i.e., freedom of conscience as per the first amendment of the US Bill of Rights, or more specifically article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights], claiming that it contravenes Islamic Law. [Note: It does, and that is why the 57 Muslim nation Organization of the Islamic Conference drafted and ratified the antithetical Cairo Declaration which insists upon having Sharia exert supremacy over all “manmade” law!]…Moreover they express fear that proselytism represents a kind of foreign interference in their internal affairs. Consistently, Islamic States do not favor proselytism; they sometimes tend to restrict it even in its lightest forms, such as the simple expression of one’s intimate beliefs…Proselytism is perceived as a major threat to the coherence and cohesion of the umma [i.e., the global Muslim community]: it can lead to ridda [apostasy from Islam] the paradigm of political treason, or fitna, the temptation, the civil war involving doctyrinal dissensions…

Even in moderate, pseudo-secular Arab Tunisia—prior to the “Jasmine revolution” which may have already empowered the formerly banned Tunisian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood under Rachid Ghannouchi—according to a 2010 US State Department report,

It was illegal to proselytize to Muslims as the government viewed such efforts as disturbing the public order.

Neighboring Morocco, also deemed “moderate,” aggressively deports Christians who dare proselytize to Muslims. The globally representative Sharia-based penal law (circa1982) of Comoros (the Muslim archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique), for example, defines the “criminal” proselytizer as one who, “…indulges, promotes, or teaches Muslims a religion other than Islam.”

The attempt by Dearborn’s large Muslim population to enforce Sharia-based injunctions against non-Muslim proselytism confirms local attitudes documented via polling data collected in 2003, and reported during 2004. “The Detroit Mosque Study: Muslim Views on Policy and Religion,” was conducted by Ihsan Bagby an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Kentucky and a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy Understanding—a Muslim organization. Data were gathered during the summer of 2003 and published online in 2004.

These alarming results were described on page 37 of the report:

Mosque participants were asked, whether they agree or disagree with the statement, “Shari’ah should be the law of the land in Muslim countries?”

Apply Islamic Law in Muslim Lands [Bold by SlantRight]

Strongly Agree — 59%
Somewhat Agree — 22%(i.e., collectively = 81%) [Yellow Emphasis ACT for America]

Somewhat Disagree — 8%
Strongly Disagree — 3%
Don’t Know — 8%

Such data supposedly reflected the Detroit area (read Dearborn) Muslims views of “Islamic countries,” only. But given the intrinsic, universally supremacist nature of Islam and the global umma (i.e., as stated in Koran 3:110, and the Orwellian-named Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, “Ye are the best community that hath been raised up for mankind. Ye enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency; and ye believe in Allah”), once an area has a Muslim majority it is assumed by Muslims that Islamic Law should prevail—hence the “enclave” phenomenon, now evident in the United States.

Following the issuance of the verdict, Pastor Saeig’s intrepid attorney, Robert Muise of the Thomas More Law Center, made these apposite remarks, which all who cherish our unique Western freedoms must heed, and support:

Everybody should be pleased. Dearborn is getting a pretty strong reputation as being the enemy of the First Amendment. As long as they keep passing these draconian restrictions that violate the rights of everyone, we’re going to challenge them.

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Free Speech Comes to Dearbornistan

John R. Houk

© June 1, 2011

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Victory over sharia in Dearborn, MI

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