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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

When Govt & Science LIES to YOU!

You’ve Heard “Trust but Verify” – WAKE-UP and Verify BEFORE YOU Trust!

John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© November 22, 2023

 

Bitchute VIDEO: RISE UP!

[Posted by SlantRight2

First Published November 22nd, 2023 20:36 UTC

 

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I’ve been a bit distracted with family with my 67th birthday on 11/20 (born 1956) and Thanksgiving arriving on 11/23/23. So what I’m about to share, I actually hope you’ve already seen.

 

A couple of things Speaker Mike Johnson has released most of the J6 video feeds exposing the Dems  and RINOs (and any Republican pretending to be a Conservative yet supported an Insurrection narrative) as the liars we Conservatives already knew they were. Any rioting that took place on January 6, 2021 was the result of Dem-Marxist/RINO planning and incitement of OTHERWISE peaceful Protestors of the Election Coup 2020. The videos I show are actually only a fraction of the videos released by Speaker Johnson.

 

And unrelated to exposing the Dem-Marxist/RINO J6 false narrative, when I was out and about I saw a big Billboard advertising the Documentary “Shot Dead” (Bitchute Version & Rumble Version) focusing on the mRNA Jabbed to death. Somebody forked out a chunk of change for the public to see that the mRNA definitely is NOT “Safe and Effective” with that Billboard. GOOD FOR WHOEVER THAT WAS! I’m sharing the Bitchute version I found.

 

JRH 11/22/23

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Blog Editor: The first half of this Redacted episode with Natali & Clayton Morris focuses on the J6 Lies told by Dem-Marxists and RINOs. The latter half is more news Dem-Marxists would rather you not know. This was originally a live episode and the feed began about 28-minutes before the broadcast. I encourage you to fast-forward to the broadcast beginning.

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Rumble VIDEO: So it was ALL a lie on Jan 6th and they knew it all along | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris

Posted by Redacted News

Streamed on Nov 20, 4:00 pm EST

 

The full batch of January 6th tapes are now available, more than 44,000 hours and boy do they show somethings Democrats wish were hidden. In this special live show we're going through the footage that completely alters the story we've been told.

 

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Blog Editor: I actually was pointed to this InfoWars post on Lara Logan exposing J6 Lies by Vigilant News. I’m posting this InfoWars piece because links to all three (thus far) of Lara Logan’s X/Twitter Truth in Media video posts looking at Ray Epps as a FBI Plant to incite peaceful protestors into rioting. I’ll use the X/Twitter links but I’m going to use a Bitchute version of the third video.

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Watch! Ray Epps Jan. 6 Investigation Part 3

November 20th 2023, 4:37 pm

Infowars.com

 

Jim Hoft & Lara Logan viewing J6 Videos - Image Credit:

truth in media – Screengrabbed from InfoWars

 

Truth In Media‘s Lara Logan released part three of a documentary-style series investigating suspected January 6th provocateur Ray Epps and other potential federal informants or agents.

 

In this video, Logan spoke with Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit about some of Epps’ actions that day and how other participants were handed harsh prison sentences compared to the slap on the wrist Epps is facing.

 

X/Twitter Truth in Media VIDEO post

 

Bitchute VIDEO: INSURRECTION VS FED-SURRECTION - PART 3 | LARA LOGAN [War Room Bitchute Version]

[Posted by Banned Youtube Videos - specializedtom

First Published November 21st, 2023 00:57 UTC

 

When Ray Epps urged people to trespass inside the Capitol, he knew it was a crime because he had an outstanding warrant for criminal trespass in Pennsylvania from 2015.

 

He wasn’t the only one removed from the FBI suspects list - so what really happened on J6?]

 

The investigation also looked into violence committed by Capitol Police officers and other individuals who may have been provocateurs in the crowd.

 

Footage captured by an undercover officer’s bodycam was also aired in the special.

 

Watch Part 1 and Part 2 of the Truth In Media series.

 

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Bitchute VIDEO: SHOT DEAD - MOVIE SHOWING YOU HOW THE COVID VACCINE HAS ALREADY KILLED TENS OF MILLIONS

Posted by wil paranormal

First Published November 13th, 2023 14:23 UTC

 

Shot Dead is an eye opener for those still refusing to believe that the covid vaccine is a deadly bio-weapon.


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MUSIC: FIGHT FOR YOU - By FIVE TIMES AUGUST


Saturday, November 18, 2023

Looking at Tyranny to Resist

John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© November 18, 2023

 

TODAY I’m posting a lot of videos I’ve either ran into on various Social Media Platforms, but primarily from Telegram surfing. If I was to label a theme, the line of thought is the government is tyranny-oriented and Medical Tyranny is a huge subset of government control. AND FOR THAT MATTER, I can toss in a large dash of Globalist Agenda New World Order.

 

The videos will be a combination of recent in date to borrowed from time and especially the Telegram shares will be those I uploaded to my Bitchute Channel. AND I am sharing in no particular chronological order, but more an order of my interest and convenience.  

 

Some videos will be lengthy and some short, so you might want to scroll through based on your interest.

 

THE POINT IS: There is a Tyranny to resist. YOU can RESIST as one or join a legit Patriotic group (avoid pretend-patriots who probably have their own tyrannical goals or agenda), BUT TAKE SOME ACTION. YOU DO NEED TO COMPLY. Even non-compliance means the tyrants throw contrived legal despotism in your path. (Think Trump, MAGA & J6 political persecution)

 

JRH 11/18/23

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Bitchute VIDEO: Italian and US intelligence testimony … 2020 U.S. Election was stolen from … Trump

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published November 17th, 2023 22:41 UTC

 

This video was downloaded from The General Telegram Channel (https://t.me/GeneralMCNews) on 11/10/23 (https://t.me/GeneralMCNews/6387). The description of the post is how I titled the video:

 

BREAKING: Italian and US intelligence testimony that the 2020 U.S. Election was stolen from President Donald Trump.”

 

I find it unfortunate The General does tell us who the lady testifying is or when or where the testimony took place. The video has a banner that the testimony is from Maria Zack. After a Duck-Duck-Go search of her name, here is a brief excerpt constitutionalcol.com from a post that was updated 11/10/22 (https://tinyurl.com/2p8s4bza):

 

Maria Zack Shares Update Since Her Shocking Revelations of the 2020 Election

 

his week, Larry Kaifesh sat down with Maria Zack, who shared pertinent updates since her shocking Kansas Senate Hearing Testimony on the 2020 elections.

 

Maria's breadth of knowledge and insight into what is taking place in America and the globe today is second to none. She has spent a lifetime solving problems and pushing truth and transparency. Her list of sources and contacts allow her to provide much needed light in a world of darkness. Maria's commitment to America is inspiring and will be invaluable in exposing the tyranny hiding in plain sight Watch The Interview Here (https://tinyurl.com/bd333jeh)

 

Maria Zack serves on the Board of Directors of Nations in Action, an organization devoted to spreading freedom globally and she is currently the CEO and founder Quantum Solutions Software which focuses on solution-oriented construction of a client's IT needs. Maria has extensive experience in influencing policy, acquiring capital and serving as an angel investor.

 

Maria's unique and extensive background in politics, technology and strategy has allowed her to provide some of the most earth shattering testimony on what happened during the 2020 elections. Watch Maria Zack's Kansas Senate Hearing Testimony Here (link below)”

 

At the top of the above quoted post is a Rumble video of the interview between Larry Kaifesh & Maria Zack which is 1:33:34-hours in length (https://tinyurl.com/bd333jeh).  The video from The General is 24:55 in length however on Rumble I found 55:38-minutes of the March 2022 testimony before the Kansas State Senate: https://rumble.com/vxil0v-maria-zacks-earth-shattering-testimony-kansas-senate-hearing.html.

 

AND here is the Nations In Action page associated with Maria Zack: https://nationsinaction.org/

 

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Bitchute VIDEO: Jesse Watters - EXCLUSIVE  on Secret Service FOIA on WH Cocaine Investigation (X-Twitter Video)

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published November 16th, 2023 18:06 UTC

 

This clip is taken from a Jesse Watters X/Twitter post (https://tinyurl.com/u4xr7jnv)  which I originally found on The Gateway Pundit (https://tinyurl.com/mr4b67nd) which you should read for greater detail posted there on 11/15/23.

 

AND YET MORE CONFIRMATION the U.S. Government has been Dem-Marxist/RINO Coup-Corrupted and ergo NOT trustworthy to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

 

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Youtube VIDEO: Biden FBI Caught TARGETING Catholics!

Posted by Judicial Watch

Posted on Nov 14, 2023

 

READ: https://www.judicialwatch.org/fbi-targeting-of-catholics/

Judicial Watch announced today that it, along with CatholicVote Civic Action, received 131 heavily redacted pages of records from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) showing top officials rushing to craft a public response to the leaked FBI intelligence memo that revealed its targeting of Catholics who adhere to traditional beliefs on church issues.

 

Judicial Watch received the records in response to an April 2023 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit it filed along with CatholicVoteCivic Action against the FBI and the Department of Justice after their failure to respond to March 2023 requests for records about an FBI intelligence memo targeting “radical traditionalist” Catholics (CatholicVote Civic Action and Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Investigations and Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01166)).

 

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Attorney Accuses the CIA and DoD of Being Deeply Involved With COVID-19

A whistleblower shared military records with Attorney Tom Renz, showing a soldier receiving COVID-19 immunization back in 2014.

 

By The Vigilant Fox

November 16, 2023

Vigilant News

 

Attorney Tom Renz leveled serious allegations against the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a fiery testimony Monday during the “Injuries Caused by COVID-19 Vaccines” hearing, claiming their deep involvement in the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Rumble VIDEO: Attorney Accuses the CIA and DoD of Being Deeply Involved With COVID-19

[Posted by The Vigilant Fox

Published November 14, 2023

 

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First, Attorney Renz highlighted an overlooked aspect of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution process:

 

He said, “When someone got this [COVID] shot. They didn’t get it from Pfizer or Moderna. They got it from the DoD. The DoD distributed this. The contract with our federal government requires it to distribute this; the DoD had to ensure that there was absolute immunity. If you want to sue someone right now, you’re going to have to sue the DOD. Good luck!”

 

Next, Attorney Renz raised questions about EcoHealth Alliance’s role in creating SARS-CoV-2, in which he developed a legal case against the organization:

 

“That case alleges that EcoHealth Alliance worked with the CCP and Wuhan lab and created, well, this nightmare that we’ve had. Let me ask you something. Does anybody in this room believe that we could transfer the technology necessary to do that sort of genetic engineering, that sort of bio-weapon development … without an okay from the DoD or CIA? I’ve got news for you. They knew exactly what was going on. We have a ton of evidence on this.”

 

Attorney Renz then presented evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was developed in the mid-2010s, not 2020, as commonly thought:

 

“There was a study. Dr. Malone could probably comment on this better than I can. But that study showed that there was a 12 nucleotide sequence that they found in a Moderna patent, which was a perfect reverse match (one in a billion chance) to what we have in SARS-CoV-2. That patent was filed in 2016. Thanks, David Martin, for a lot of his patent research. But the thing that I want to tell you about, according to our case and the data and the evidence that we’ve submitted, we believe that this disease was actually developed in the mid-2010s.”

 

Most alarming, a whistleblower shared military records with Attorney Renz, showing a soldier receiving COVID-19 immunization back in 2014:

 

Testimony-Redacted Docs & MORE – Vigilant News Photo

 

“That blacked-out page, which we had to black out because of the fact that it was personally identifiable medical information and also would have put the person at risk … and following this page, you’ll see five different instances where this person’s medical record, you see at the very top, 2014, at Irwin ACH (Army Community Hospital), Fort Riley, Kansas. COVID-19 immunization by Moderna. Now, I’m not suggesting — well, I guess I am suggesting that maybe we should ask why it is that this soldier was apparently seen five times in 2014 for a COVID-19 immunization. Now, I’m not going to go out and tell you that this proves that this was built 5 [to] 10 years ago or that the timeline was entirely fraud. I’m going to tell you that we ought to look into it.”

 

“Our DOD and CIA were involved with this,” concluded Attorney Renz.

 

Tom Renz Testifying MTG Committee – Vigilant News Photo

 

“This was created in a lab in one of the greatest enemies to the United States of America. I’ll let you fill in some blanks on the legal implications here. I can’t FOIA the DoD. I can’t FOIA the CIA. I’m not going to get anywhere with that. It’s a really interesting thing that the same DoD, who I have these records from, and who seemed to be implicated in numerous other aspects of this — and who are willing to take the blame and sign the contracts would have had to sign off on the technology transfers necessary to do this with Communist China. I want to ask the question, what’s the real history of COVID?

 

Conclusion

 

Renz’s assertions about the DoD’s role in vaccine distribution, the involvement of EcoHealth Alliance in the creation of SARS-CoV-2, and the startling revelation of a 2014 COVID-19 immunization recorded in military documents all point towards a complex and potentially disturbing narrative. These claims, while yet to be substantiated in a court of law, demand rigorous investigation and transparent scrutiny. As the world continues to grapple with the pandemic and its aftermath, Renz’s allegations, if proven, could significantly alter our understanding of COVID-19’s origins and the responsibilities of global powers in its spread and management.

 

The full “Injuries Caused by COVID-19 Vaccines” hearing is available to watch via the video below:

 

Youtube VIDEO: Congresswoman MTG Holds Hearing on Injuries Caused by COVID-19 Vaccines with Special Witnesses


 

[Posted by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene 

Posted on Nov 13, 2023

 

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Bitchute Channel: Jab Injuries & Death Clips

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published November 18th, 2023 15:51 UTC

 

I found this video on the Telegram Channel The Rabbit Hole (Private Channel – Will need permission to join) posted on 11/18/23 (https://t.me/c/1718752459/122).

 

The video is 2:11-minutes of mini-public clips of mRNA-Jab Injuries & Deaths which if you are not brainwashed should make you realize there is NOTHING “Safe & Effective” about the Jab.

 

The Rabbit Hole Description:

 

Before vaccinations where on earth did we ever seen this before? All this is done is the name of safety, protection, what is it protecting? COVID? Because it’s not doing any such thing. Yet none of this is on the news. When will people wake up to reality? [Blog Editor: Last edited sentence edited from original for emphasis.]

 

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Bitchute VIDEO: Big Pharma Jab Injured

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published November 16th, 2023 19:45 UTC

 

I found this video on the Telegram Channel  ACD Hot Topics (If you Telegram, you may have to search to find) posted by Patriot Rose the owner on 11/15/23 (https://t.me/c/1321018538/5204).

 

I am unsure of the original title so I provided one based on content. Per the video, I discovered the website where those are loads of Jab Injury testimonies contradicting the Big Pharma/Govt. Science LIE of “Safe and Effective”. That website is REAL NOT RARE: https://www.realnotrare.com/

 

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Bitchute VIDEO: THE SEQUEL TO THE FALL OF THE CABAL PART 26 - Wrapping Up Genocide

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published November 16th, 2023 19:00 UTC

 

I found this video on The X-Files Telegram Channel (a by invitation or request to join Channel) posted there on 11/16/23 (https://t.me/c/1912609224/89). Briefly: Episode 26 is a kind of “Died Suddenly” episode with graphic clips of mRNA Jab Injuries and ending with exposing some genocide predictions from Deagle.com which curiously have been removed by that website.

 

The video is actually from a series of Documentaries originally put out by Janet Ossebaard & Cyntha Koeter which you can located on the website The Fall of the Cabal (https://www.fallcabal.com/).

 

With a little Duck-Duck-Go searching I found a Rumble post of Episode 27 ‘The World Economic Forum - The End of Homo Sapiens’ (https://tinyurl.com/45hjapeh). The awesome aspect about this Rumble Episode 27 post is that the Channel (EXPOSE the PEDOS end of the CABAL) has Rumble links to ALL Documentaries which you can look at by clicking the Episode 27 tinyurl in parentheses. Documentary Series Titles:

 

§  THE FALL OF THE CABAL Parts 1 – 10

 

§  THE SEQUEL TO THE FALL OF THE CABAL Parts 1 – 27 [If there are more parts, you get to do your own looking]

 

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Bitchute VIDEO: Learn the True History of Medical Tyranny in America

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published November 17th, 2023 21:00 UTC

 

The Telegram Truth Seekers Channel (Ask to join) shared a 44:36-minute copy of the Banned.video post from 10/14/21 of the Kate Dalley Show (https://tinyurl.com/mukrun38). The Truth Seekers video was posted 11/17/23 (https://t.me/c/1873527959/77) with no description other than the title. I’m sharing it on my Bitchute Channel because We-The-People must be vigilant and remember to resist Crooked Government and that entails resisting Medical Tyranny. And yes, you get to endure the InfoWars Ads.

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Bitchute VIDEO: The Internet of Bodies

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published November 17th, 2023 21:35 UTC

 

This 56-second clip is from the Telegram Truth Seekers Channel (Ask to join). It was posted on 11/16/23 (https://t.me/c/1873527959/76).

 

The World Economic Forum Globalist-Elite minority want to control your life. They have an Internet plan. If the clip alerts you, then YOU should educate yourself on the Internet of Bodies (IoB) WEF details. A great place to begin is a A Lily Bit (Substack) post from 7/26/22 entitled, “The “Internet of Bodies” — The WEF’s Proposal to Control Human Behavior Through Authoritarian Surveillance: The central theme of the Great Reset agenda is the manipulation of human nature to advance globalist corporate-state power-merging and the erosion of individual rights and liberties-oriented policies.” -- https://tinyurl.com/bddtp5z9

 

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Bitchute VIDEO: Dr. Flanagan: HAARP 1998 – Holes in Heaven - The Warning

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published November 17th, 2023 23:37 UTC

 

This is a 1998 Documentary that the Telegram Channel Sound of Freedom – Redpilling (https://t.me/Sound0fFreedom) shared on 11/3/23 (https://t.me/Sound0fFreedom/732).

 

After a little Duck-Duck-Going, I found this Documentary has been shared often and I’m joining the fray:

 

Daily Motion 2/15/14: https://tinyurl.com/yke93v36

Youtube 6/16/19: https://tinyurl.com/mtbc5tyw

 

AND DocumentaryTube.com did a 2/23/23 (https://tinyurl.com/2s379y7n) write-up on the Documentary featuring a 4/20/10 Youtube video of the Documentary. HERE’S AN EXCERPT:

 

“‘Holes in Heaven’ is produced by Paula Randol-Smith and Emmy-winning director Wendy Robbins, and narrated by Martin Sheen. The history, implications and dangers of HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is thoroughly investigated in this documentary.

 

This documentary tries to shake us out of our apathy by challenging our presumptions and posing a question about Environmental degradation by asking whether we are making Holes in heaven?!

 

The U.S. Navy/Air Force and Phillip Laboratories in remote Gakona, Alaska are using HAARP, a controversial high frequency radio transmitter, or “ionospheric heater,” which can be used by military to focus a billion-watt pulsed radio beam into our upper atmosphere, presumably for MORE TO READ

 

Here we are 25 years later than 1998. I am certain this Documentary was ridiculed as Conspiracy Theory in its day, but watch and see if you can catch any plausible nuances TODAY in this present time.

 

Sound of Freedom of Freedom Description:

 

“Dr Flanagan: "HAARP Can Be Used To Control The Human Mind"- HOLES IN HEAVEN? (1998)”


Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Inherent HATE in Islam DOES NOT Produce Innocence

By John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© November 15, 2023

 

Upfront – just to provoke all those Jew-Haters out there – here is a stand that will probably enflame many especially in our current Woke-Culture:

 

o   I believe Islam is an Antichrist-spirit theopolitical religion.

 

o   I am Pro-Israel

 

o   I consider myself a Christian Zionist but I separate myself from Covenant-Breaking Leftist Jewish Zionists who appear to me to have more an affinity to Socialist (God-help-them even Marxist) ideology more than the Almighty’s Covenant of Promise to the lineage of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It’s my opinion: Being a Leftist Jew is an oxymoron. Clinging to a Jewish heritage yet separating from the precepts of Covenant is a sure recipe for a damnation descent rather than a Heavenly ascent. AND I realize the Jewish concept of Heaven and Hell (views HERE, HERE & HERE) is not the same as it is for a Christian. WHICH probably goes a long way to explain the existence of Jews clinging to their Jewishness yet living Leftist lives. And perhaps one reason Religiously Observant Jews who look for a Messiah have not recognized the son of Mary married to Joseph as THE Messiah (other than the historical Christian horrific persecution of Jews – Perspectives: HERE, HERE & HERE) – Jesus the Son of God.

 

o   The Arabs who call themselves Palestinians are a made up people who are just as much recent immigrants to the Jewish Homeland as the European Jews who immigrated back to their Homeland (circa pre-WWI through circa post WWII) with the hope of escaping pogroms and persecutions. The irony being Arab immigration was the result of European Jews creating employment situations by making the land usable again for farming. The people living in the Jewish Homeland before Arab and European Jewish immigration were a combination of Sephardic Jews who lived there at least from the Babylonian Captivity Return (and by extension earlier prior to the first Diaspora) and a peasant-class (fellah) tenant farmers who were lived nearly like old feudal serfs to absentee wealthy Arab land owners. Another irony being prior to Arabs seeking employment immigration, the primarily urban Sephardic Jews outnumbered the tenant-farmer rural fellah Muslims.

 

o   ALSO the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians under the control of the Palestine Authority (The PA is roughly the PLO legitimized by World Powers fabricating a Palestinian people) in traditional Judea-Samaria (the area the brainwashed call the West Bank) and under control of Hamas in the Gaza Strip are severely propagandized with revisionist historical lies then brainwashed from birth with hate-education and hate training from birth to the grave to hate and when possible kill Jews. (non-Jewish Westerners are next on the hate-list – ESPECIALLY non-Muslim Americans).

 

o   IT IS the brainwashing aspect of Arab-Pretend-Palestinians that leads me to conclude  - certainly to be ridiculed by Leftists, Pro-Palestinians, Unwitting Conservative Condemners of Israel’s reprisals, et alThere are NO INNOCENT PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS. Indeed with a little digging, you’ll discover so-called civilians are willing HUMAN SHIELDS protecting their active Hamas terrorists and Hamas weaponry. AND WORSE, these so-called innocent HUMAN SHIELDS willingly sacrifice their children by making them HUMAN SHIELDS for the glory of Allah.

 

This where this post becomes lengthy. From here I embark to cross post information the Mockingbird Media and the supporters of Hamas Terrorism would rather say, “Believe our propaganda, not what you see and read.”

 

AND a bit of caveat that might irritate a few Pro-Israel supporters: Both the U.S. Government and the Israeli Government are inundated with Left-Wing-Globalists who would love to see any pretense for a global war to usher in a New World Order leading up to and including a ONE-World Government. The American Taxpayer can no longer afford foreign interventionism with an Obamanized/Bidenized military complex ran by weenies and military-Patriots purged from service or leadership. THE ONLY THING I’M WILLING TO GIVE ISRAEL IS MILITARY HARDWARE – NOT EVEN MONEY. But I will not condemn Israel for finally moving the terrorist capabilities and abilities of Islamic Terrorist pseudo-Palestinians FAR AWAY from killing their Jewish citizens. Even if idiot HUMAN SHIELDS willingly sacrifice themselves and their very children rather than take actual peace offers of UNDESERVED nationhood from Israel! I am now an Isolationist – NO MORE FOREVER WARS AND NO MORE AMERICAN BLOOD for useless Globalist wars!

 

In Case YOU Want to KNOW about Actual Islamic Ideology:

 

§  Discover The NetworksSearch ‘Islam’

 

§  Answering Islam

 

§  Anti-CAIR

 

§  Dhimmitude: Archive

 

§  Dr. Andrew Bostom

 

§  Investigative Project on Terrorism

 

§  Palestine Media Watch

 

§  The Religion of Peace

 

That’s only a sampling – Do some research separate from Globalist and Islamic Propagandists.

 

JRH 11/15/23

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Children as Young as 10 Took Part in Hamas's Oct. 7 Terror Attack, Survivors Say

Gazan children plunder Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. (Via Eyal Barad) – Washington Free Beacon Photo

 

By Andrew Tobin

November 14, 2023

Washington Free Beacon

 

EILAT, Israel—Eran Smilansky, a 28-year-old potato farmer, watched Gazan children go from house to house in his kibbutz on Oct. 7. Hamas terrorists followed. The boys laughed as the gunmen shot or dragged away Israeli families.

 

"They were like young, young kids," said Smilansky, who defended his home from terrorists for more than six hours that day. "They were going in front of the terrorists, laughing with their friends and looking very calm. I remember thinking, What the fuck?"

 

Smilansky was one of a dozen survivors of the Nir Oz massacre who told the Washington Free Beacon they witnessed boys or women from the Gaza Strip looting the kibbutz, helping the armed terrorists, and apparently enjoying themselves. The youngest children were around 10 years old, according to several of the survivors, one of whom provided photographs of some of the women and children he saw. The survivors spoke at a hotel in Eilat, Israel's Red Sea resort town, where most of them have been temporarily relocated.

 

While the involvement of Gazan children and women in Hamas's terrorist attack is not widely understood, evidence exists in the public domain. An online video of a 12-year-old Israeli boy's abduction from Nir Oz, Israel, appears to show a Gazan boy of about the same age accompanying the kidnappers. Boys were among the mob of Gazans recorded crossing into Israel after Hamas terrorists breached the border. And a Hamas-linked Associated Press stringer photographed a Gazan boy entering Kfar Aza, a kibbutz about 15 miles north of Nir Oz.

 

Hamas has used its nearly two decades of rule over Gaza to weaponize a generation of Palestinians against the Jewish state, according to analysts. In addition to the children, hundreds of ordinary Gazans, including teenagers, joined in Hamas's bloody rampage across southern Israeli communities, the Free Beacon reported.

 

"Hamas directed the education system, the media, and the religious institutions to brainwash children, who make up half of Gaza's 2.2-million-person population," Michael Milshtein, the head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Moshe Dayan Center of Tel Aviv University, told the Free Beacon. "Israelis got their first up-close look at this Palestinian Gen Z on Oct. 7."

Kibbutz Nir Oz (via Eran Smilansky) - WFB Photo

 

Like most of the Nir Oz survivors, Eyal Barad and his family hid in the safe room of their house from about 6:30 a.m. until the Israeli military evacuated them 12 or so hours later. But Barad, an engineer, had a rare view of the outside world thanks to a speed camera he had recently set up to bust his neighbors for driving on the sidewalk.

 

On the camera's livestream, Barad watched three types of Gazans pass by his house: uniformed Hamas commandos carrying automatic weapons, RPGs, and grenades; casually dressed gunmen; and ordinary-looking men, women, and children. Barad said the ordinary Gazans vastly outnumbered the armed terrorists. He estimated that he saw at least a dozen children, who were between the ages of 10 and 15, and 30 women from Gaza.

 

The armed terrorists were in charge, Barad recalled. They gave orders to the ordinary Gazans, like sending the children to loot specific homes. At one point, Barad saw a woman run up to an armed terrorist and point him toward a house.

 

"I'm guessing she saw people she wanted him to go kill or kidnap or I don't know what," Barad said. "But I can say with 100 percent certainty that [the women and kids] were not just innocent bystanders or looters. They were part of the massacre. They were part of the horrors that we endured that day."

 

"How can a parent send a kid to do that?" added Barad, who has three young children. "I want to shelter my kids as much as I can. I want to try to prevent them from seeing and meeting the horrible things that this world can do. And they send their kids into the most horrible situation in the world to go and steal stuff?"

 

Barad's neighbor was abducted and the houses next to his were looted and burned. His father-in-law was killed nearby. But for reasons Barad does not understand, no one came into his house.

 

While Barad's speed camera lacked the capability to save the livestream footage, it did snap photos 155 of moving objects between about 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Barad shared the images with the Free Beacon. At least five Gazan boys and two Gazan women can be seen riding stolen bicycles.

 

Youtube VIDEO: Kibbutz Nir Oz Security Footage


 

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Amotz Bazer, a 52-year-old farm worker from Nir Oz, was hiding in his safe room with his wife and three daughters when his kitchen window was shot out. He heard the gunmen push two young boys through the window. The boys then opened the front door for the armed terrorists.

 

"They were not older than 10," said Bazer, who understands some Arabic after decades of working alongside Arabs in the fields. "I heard their voices, and I have kids, so I know."

 

Several waves of looters ransacked the house, but Bazer and his family were not discovered. Bazer had dragged a cabinet in front of the safe room before squeezing through the door that morning.

 

Natali Yohanan, a 38-year-old English teacher, said she thinks every day about what she would say if she met the young Gazan woman who took over her house. As Yohanan huddled in the safe room with her husband and two young children, the woman sang and danced, heated up leftovers, and watched TV on the couch.

 

"She turned on Netflix and changed it to Arabic. And she stayed in my house for hours, for hours and hours," Yohanan said. "It was very, very, very humiliating for us to know that this young woman was in our house, coming and taking whatever she wanted. She wasn't even afraid. That's what was very hard for us."

 

Yohanan said the woman was accompanied by a group of armed terrorists. She served the men drinks and told them which items she wanted them to loot for her. They took Yohanan's jewelry, makeup, designer underwear, shoes, sunglasses, and passport, as well as her children's clothing and toys.

 

"I think she's a young mother. I'm a young mother," said Yohanan, whose father and dog were killed in the kibbutz on Oct. 7. "And it's very hard for me as a mother to think about a woman who came to my home and saw the pictures of my kids and still came to steal and to terrify my kids."

 

As for what she would say to the woman, Yohanan said: "I would tell her that she's a thief. That's all she is. I think she believes there's honor in stealing, being part of the thing they did to us. But there's no honor in that."

 

Raziel Tamir (Andrew Tobin) – WFB Photo

 

Raziel Tamil, 26, was hiding in a citrus grove a few miles north of Nir Oz on the morning of Oct. 7. Tamil, a restaurant worker from Kiryat Ono, had fled the Nova music festival in Re'im, Israel, after terrorists showed up and began massacring at least 260 of his fellow partygoers.

 

When Tamil looked back toward the festival grounds, several hundred feet away, he said he saw Hamas commandos holding a group of Israelis at gunpoint. Several children, ages about 6 to 10, then emerged from a pickup truck wearing Hamas outfits, he said.


"You could see the people on their knees and like begging for their life," Tamir said. "I heard the screaming."

 

According to Tamir, the commandos gave some of the children rifles and directed them to execute hostages, which they did. The terrorists shot more of the hostages and loaded the survivors into the truck, he said.

 

At that point, Tamil said, he ran further into the citrus grove, where he met up with his friend Alex Kalinin, a 27-year-old sales manager from Yehud, Israel. They eventually located Israeli troops, who evacuated them to safety.

 

Kalinin said Tamil had told him about witnessing the execution. But Kalinin was already too deep in the citrus grove to have seen it himself, the men agreed. The Free Beacon could not confirm that Gazan children were at the Nova music festival let alone that they killed Israelis on orders from Hamas terrorists.

 

Milshtein, who before joining Tel Aviv University was the head of the Department for Palestinian Affairs in the Israel Military Intelligence Directorate, said it was plausible that Hamas had used children to execute Israelis on Oct. 7. He noted that Hamas teaches children to celebrate violence against the Jewish state starting in preschool and runs summer camps that provide military training and anti-Israel education to some 100,000 children and teenagers each summer.

 

"This has always been the Palestinians' culture," Milshtein said. "What changes is their capability to act against Israel."

 

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Watch Brigitte Gabriel’s Urgent Message for America!

The War Between Civilization and Savagery

 

Brigitte Gabriel

November 14, 2023

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[Blog Editor: This Substack post has lots of informative links pointing to ACT For America actions and news. I’m just posting the video which I uploaded to my Bitchute Channel for sharing purposes.]

 

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I found this roughly 28-minute video on  the ACT For America Substack Page (https://tinyurl.com/3yckt9rh). The video is a combination of Brigitte Gabriel clips on the evil of Islam and a promotion of her book “Because They Hate” (Amazon - https://tinyurl.com/2nd4x94x)  and an ask to support ACT For America’s Pro-USA, Conservative-Education, Expose-Islam Agenda. All of which I do.]

 

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The Anti-Freedom Movements Aren’t So Different

 

Mosque & Marx [Represents Islam-Communist Alliance]

 

[Author not listed but Frank Salvato operates Underground USA Substack]

November 12, 2023

Underground USA

 

As misinformed and indoctrinated college students continue to fall prey to the poison of Islamic totalitarian propaganda regarding the victim status that has been bestowed on Hamas, it would be prudent to push back against the false narratives flooding out of the mainstream media. As the facts present, Hamas is the aggressor – a totalitarian aggressor – which has more in common with Marxism than those who value individualism and freedom – the true ideology of the Western World.

 

Islamism and Marxism, at different times and in various regions, have exhibited totalitarian tendencies; and authoritarian appropriation through the use of oppression and violence at times tallying the slaughter of tens of millions in their quest for control, albeit for different reasons.

 

While their ideological underpinnings may seem fundamentally unique, there are notable and significant similarities in how they have manifested as forms of authoritarian governance. In the end, Islamic, Socialist, and Communist rule is – in every circumstance throughout history – oppressive and antithetical to freedom, choice, self-determination, and liberty.

 

A Cursory Historical Context

 

To understand the oppressively totalitarian similarities between Islamism and Marxism, it's crucial to consider the historical context in which these ideologies emerged and gained power.

 

Islamism, a relatively contemporary political ideology circa 610 A.D., is based on a strict and fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. Devout Islamists consider the Quran as the literal word of Allah (words not open to interpretation), and the Hadith (mandated Muhammadian traditions for all Muslims). This stands in stark contrast to the Christian Bible and the Hebrew Torah, which are all interpretive records of individuals – Holy and otherwise – and historical accounts sans, the Ten Commandments.

 

The conquest-oriented nature of Islamism goes back to its genesis in the 7th Century which resulted in the establishment of authoritative caliphates, including:

 

·       Umayyad Caliphate: 661–750

 

·       Rashidun Caliphate: 632–661

 

·       Abbasid Caliphate: 750–1258

 

·       Samanid Dynasty: 819–999

 

·       Saffarid Dynasty: 861–1003

 

·       Fatimid Caliphate: 909–1171

 

·       Ghaznavid Empire: 977–1186

 

·       Seljuk Empire: 1037–1194

 

·       Delhi Sultanate: 1206–1526

 

·       Abbasid Caliphate: 1261–1517

 

·       Ilkhanate: 1295–1335

 

·       Ottoman Empire: 1299–1922

 

·       Golden Horde: 1313–1502

 

·       Chagatai Khanate: 1347–1660

 

·       Timurid Empire: 1370–1507

 

·       Safavid Empire: 1501–1736

 

·       Mughal Empire: 1526–1857

 

More contemporarily, the 1979 Iranian Revolution, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, marked a turning point in the spread of political Islam. It demonstrated the potential for a religious movement to seize control of a state and establish an Islamic theocracy. Since then, various Islamist groups and regimes have emerged across the Muslim world, including the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hamas in Gaza, and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

 

Marxism, on the other hand, originated in the 19th century with the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It evolved into various forms – including socialism, with communism being the most prominent.

 

The October Revolution in 1917 brought the Bolshevik Party to power in Russia, establishing the first communist regime. The 20th century witnessed the often violent spread of communism across Eastern Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa. It led to oppressive totalitarian regimes in countries like the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea, each of which came at the price of human purges – pogroms – that resulted in the mass slaughter of millions of people.

 

While the historical contexts of Islamism and Marxism differ in terms of geography, time, and ideological foundations (addressed later), both ideologies emerged in opposition to established political orders based on individualism and liberty and sought to establish new, elitist, authoritarian systems of governance.

 

The False Promise of Utopian Ideological Foundations

 

While Islamism and Marxism have distinct ideological foundations, there are noteworthy similarities in how each defines their respective “utopian societies.”

 

Islamism is rooted in a strict fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, aiming to establish a society governed by Islamic law or Sharia law. Its vision of a utopian society is deeply Muhammadian, emphasizing the “moral” and “ethical” values in their exclusive accordance with the Quran and Hadith, which have been proven to be authoritarian texts. In the Islamist view, a “just” and “virtuous” society can only be achieved through the application of Islamic jurisprudence.

 

This jurisprudence includes a woman to provide 4 male witnesses to any accusation of rape. If the woman claims rape and doesn’t provide 4 males willing to testify on her behalf, the woman is essentially admitting to having engaged in adultery, a “moral” crime punishable by death by stoning.

 

Marxism, in contrast, is a secular ideology that focuses on class struggle and the abolition of private property. The utopian vision of Marxism is a classless society based on equity where the means of production are collectively owned. It envisions any government based on the idea of individualism, liberty, and the will of the people eventually withering away, resulting in a society where resources are distributed according to the principle “from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.”

 

Of course, even in a Marxian utopia, there would need to be a class (read: privileged and elite) that assures the acquiescence of the people to the “will of the collective” and defined by that elevated class, obliterating the “classless society” immediately in its use of an elite class of overseers.

 

Despite these foundational differences, both ideologies share a common aspiration to create an “ideal society.” They view the existing order as corrupt, oppressive, and in need of radical transformation. This shared vision of a utopian society is a critical similarity between Islamism and Marxism, as it motivates their followers to pursue authoritarian – and often lawless and violent – means to achieve their goals.

 

The Consolidation Of Power = Suppressing The Opposition

 

Totalitarian regimes, whether Islamist or Marxist, employ a range of methods to consolidate power and suppress opposition. These methods demonstrate striking similarities:

 

·       Suppression of Dissent: Both Islamism and Marxism rely on the suppression of dissent to maintain control. In Islamic theocracies like Iran, criticism of religious authorities or deviation from religious orthodoxy can lead to severe punishment or even execution. In Marxist states like the former Soviet Union and China, dissent against the ruling party’s ideology often resulted in imprisonment, forced labor, or execution.

 

·       Propaganda & Indoctrination: Both dogmas emphasize the importance of ideological purity, the propagation of their worldviews, and their dogma’s eventual global domination. In Islamist regimes, religious indoctrination is a mandatory central aspect of education and media. In Marxist regimes, the state controls information and promotes communist ideology through propaganda, censorship, and state-controlled media.

 

·       Cult of Personality: Totalitarian regimes, such as Islamism and Marxism are, often cultivate a cult of personality around their leaders. In Islamism, figures like Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, Mullah Omar in Afghanistan, and the now-dispatched Osama bin Laden have been elevated to near-mythical status. In Marxism, leaders like Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong – almost in ignorance of the tens of millions they both killed in their quests for revolutionary power – became iconic symbols of their respective regimes, with their images adorning public spaces and their thoughts enshrined as dogma.

 

·       Surveillance & Control: Both Islamism and Marxism have used extensive, pervasive, and limitless surveillance and control mechanisms to monitor and suppress opposition (a critical debate on the use of these actions is currently underway in the Western Culture). This includes the use of secret police and informants to maintain social order. In both cases, citizens may live in fear of being reported for deviating from the official ideology.

 

·       Violence & Repression: Violence and repression are common features of totalitarian regimes. Islamist groups have engaged in acts of terrorism and violence to achieve their political goals. In Iran, for example, the LGBTQ community is marked for immediate execution, while “immodest” women are often “disappeared.” Similarly, Marxist regimes have been responsible for mass purges, forced labor camps, and political repression on a massive scale. One need only consider the Soviet Gulags or the Uygher “re-education” camps in communist China.

 

The Threat To Global Stability By These Dogmas

 

The totalitarian similarities – the oppression, manipulation, coercion, and violence – between Islamism and Marxism have significant implications for political, social, and global stability:

 

·       Human Rights Violations: Both ideologies, when implemented in a totalitarian fashion (as they most often are), have a track record of severe human rights violations. The suppression of individual freedoms, freedom of speech, and religious liberties is widespread in Islamist and Marxist regimes. Citizens may face persecution and violence for expressing dissenting views or practicing their religion. Nowhere is this more evident than in communist China where Yughars [Blog Editor: Wikipedia alternate spellings: Uyghurs, Uighurs, Uygurs & Uigurs] and Tibetans are indentured, or historically in the Soviet Union where Jews were subject to pogroms and detention in the gulags.

 

·       Destabilization: Totalitarian regimes based on Islamism or Marxism often contribute to regional and global instability. Today’s spread of radical Islamist groups like ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas – as well as the expansionist ambitions of Marxist regimes both today and during the Cold War, have disrupted international relations and contributed by way of aggressive destabilization as the catalyst in several global and large regional conflicts, including World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and today’s War in Israel where the Israelis are being forced to defend themselves against Islamofascist aggression emanating from Hamas, al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and Hezbollah, the former and the latter controlled by the Islamist mullahs of Iran.

 

·       Resistance & Opposition: Totalitarian regimes also face resistance and opposition, whether from domestic dissidents, external actors, or regional alliances. Opposition to these regimes can take various forms, including armed conflict, civil disobedience, and diplomatic pressure. Two very good examples of this come in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the free world’s opposition and push back against the Marxist-based “woke” movement.

 

·       Ideological Appeal Via Indoctrination: Despite their grotesque flaws, authoritarian tendencies, and quests for world domination, Islamism and Marxism continue to appeal to weaker, less educated, and intellectually stunted segments of the population. Today, the purveyors of the totalitarian dogmas disingenuously position themselves as champions of justice, equality, and sometimes religious righteousness. They attempt to achieve transitional chaos through the Balkanization of populations using the strategy of divide et impera – divide and conquer, commonly attributed to Niccolò Machiavelli but first conceptualized by  Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great.

 

In The End…

 

While Islamism and Marxism have unique and separate ideological foundations and historical contexts, they share significant and dangerous totalitarian similarities in their methods of control and the consequences of their governance. Both ideologies claim to want to establish utopian societies but in reality want to assume the position of elite and privileged overseers to the whole of those utopian societies, thus proving the lie of the utopian concept.

 

In the end, both Islamists and Marxists are willing to employ deceptive, manipulative, oppressive, and deadly authoritarian means to achieve their goals. The implications of these similarities and these chosen tactics are profound, as they manifest in unspeakable human rights violations, contributing to regional and global instability.

 

Understanding these factual parallels is essential for elected officials and their subordinate policymakers – as well as those in academia, advocacy, and individuals seeking to address the dangers posed by authoritarian ideologies, not only in their impact on societies and global affairs but to the very existence of individualism and freedom in the world.

 

Sadly, today the Marxist ideology holds significant sway through a corrupted media and through a network of fascist elites who give short shrift to the sanctity of individual freedom in their quest for privilege and control.

 

So, the next time you see the ignorant masses of the Western university undergraduate community chanting catchphrases and screeching hate towards Israel at pro-Hamas protests; the next time you see demonstrations hawking social justice or diversity, equity, and inclusion; the next time you see con-artists like Ibrahim X. Kendi, Klaus Schwab, Robin DeAngelo, George Soros, Nicole Hanah-Jones, Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama pontificating about the need for “change,” please identify what their core belief systems are and realize that they are not liberators or even supporting the continued existence of freedom. They are the power-greedy elites who seek to rule over their fake utopias; utopias that in and of themselves are lies.

 

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[Blog Editor: Whew, a lot of reading. YET, if you are awakening to the emerging tyranny much of which is associated with Islam, Marxism and the odd combinations of Globalist Totalitarian ideologies; READING is a good KNOW YOUR ENEMY moment.

 

SO, I got one more. If you made it this far, I share this post about and written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali because she was an important source and inspiration to me in my early Counterjihad education days. This gal left Islam and the land of her birth and moved to the Netherlands and actually became an elected politician there while criticizing Islam and embracing atheism. ALL dangerous to life & limb under threat from Muslims believing such actions are worthy of death. According to Britannica.com she became U.S. citizen in 2013, but I know she is under constant threat from Muslims since she dares to criticize Islam. Frankly, for her safety I have know idea where she currently resides. AND NOW Ayaan Hirsi Ali has abandoned atheism and has embraced Christianity. I am guessing now she has completed the cycle of reasons to watch her back from threats from WOKE-Lefties and demon-influenced Muslims. For those who don’t about A.H. Ali, here is a brief excerpt from her website ABOUT PAGE:

 

“Ayaan is a Somali-born classical liberal. A free speech advocate. An activist for the rights of women and girls. A public intellectual with a powerful voice. A woman that does not back down when she sees a problem.

 

Previously a Member of the Dutch Parliament (2003-2006), she regularly called for furthering the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society, and defending the rights of Muslim women.

 

Now, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and Founder of the AHA Foundation, she regularly comments on today's issues and offers a platform to exchange perspectives that lead to real solutions.

 

She has written several books including Infidel (2007); Nomad (2010); Heretic (2015); and The Challenge of Dawa (2017). Her newest book Prey is available now.” 

 

AND NOW, to add to your potential lengthy reading, BELOW is the post Ayaan Hirsi Ali claims she is a Christian – well my impression is she learning to be a Christian. May the Almighty send her a modern Priscilla and Aquila to explain the Gospel more accurately.]

 

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Why I am now a Christian

Atheism can't equip us for civilisational war

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Webcapture of Photo attributed to Christian Marquardt/Getty Images

 

By AYAAN HIRSI ALI

November 11, 2023

UnHerd [H/T Chuck Nellis on MeWe]

 

In 2002, I discovered a 1927 lecture by Bertrand Russell entitled “Why I am Not a Christian”. It did not cross my mind, as I read it, that one day, nearly a century after he delivered it to the South London branch of the National Secular Society, I would be compelled to write an essay with precisely the opposite title.

 

The year before, I had publicly condemned the terrorist attacks of the 19 men who had hijacked passenger jets and crashed them into the twin towers in New York. They had done it in the name of my religion, Islam. I was a Muslim then, although not a practising one. If I truly condemned their actions, then where did that leave me? The underlying principle that justified the attacks was religious, after all: the idea of Jihad or Holy War against the infidels. Was it possible for me, as for many members of the Muslim community, simply to distance myself from the action and its horrific results?

 

At the time, there were many eminent leaders in the West — politicians, scholars, journalists, and other experts — who insisted that the terrorists were motivated by reasons other than the ones they and their leader Osama Bin Laden had articulated so clearly. So Islam had an alibi.

 

This excuse-making was not only condescending towards Muslims. It also gave many Westerners a chance to retreat into denial. Blaming the errors of US foreign policy was easier than contemplating the possibility that we were confronted with a religious war. We have seen a similar tendency in the past five weeks, as millions of people sympathetic to the plight of Gazans seek to rationalise the October 7 terrorist attacks as a justified response to the policies of the Israeli government.

 

When I read Russell’s lecture, I found my cognitive dissonance easing. It was a relief to adopt an attitude of scepticism towards religious doctrine, discard my faith in God and declare that no such entity existed. Best of all, I could reject the existence of hell and the danger of everlasting punishment.

 

Russell’s assertion that religion is based primarily on fear resonated with me. I had lived for too long in terror of all the gruesome punishments that awaited me. While I had abandoned all the rational reasons for believing in God, that irrational fear of hellfire still lingered. Russell’s conclusion thus came as something of a relief: “When I die, I shall rot.”

 

To understand why I became an atheist 20 years ago, you first need to understand the kind of Muslim I had been. I was a teenager when the Muslim Brotherhood penetrated my community in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985. I don’t think I had even understood religious practice before the coming of the Brotherhood. I had endured the rituals of ablutions, prayers and fasting as tedious and pointless.

 

The preachers of the Muslim Brotherhood changed this. They articulated a direction: the straight path. A purpose: to work towards admission into Allah’s paradise after death. A method: the Prophet’s instruction manual of do’s and don’ts — the halal and the haram. As a detailed supplement to the Qur’an, the hadeeth spelled out how to put into practice the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, God and the devil.

 

The Brotherhood preachers left nothing to the imagination. They gave us a choice. Strive to live by the Prophet’s manual and reap the glorious rewards in the hereafter. On this earth, meanwhile, the greatest achievement possible was to die as a martyr for the sake of Allah.

 

The alternative, indulging in the pleasures of the world, was to earn Allah’s wrath and be condemned to an eternal life in hellfire. Some of the “worldly pleasures” they were decrying included reading novels, listening to music, dancing, and going to the cinema — all of which I was ashamed to admit that I adored.

 

The most striking quality of the Muslim Brotherhood was their ability to transform me and my fellow teenagers from passive believers into activists, almost overnight. We didn’t just say things or pray for things: we did things. As girls we donned the burka and swore off Western fashion and make-up. The boys cultivated their facial hair to the greatest extent possible. They wore the white dress-like tawb worn in Arab countries or had their trousers shortened above their ankle bones. We operated in groups and volunteered our services in charity to the poor, the old, the disabled and the weak. We urged fellow Muslims to pray and demanded that non-Muslims convert to Islam.

 

During Islamic study sessions, we shared with the preacher in charge of the session our worries. For instance, what should we do about the friends we loved and felt loyal to but who refused to accept our dawa (invitation to the faith)? In response, we were reminded repeatedly about the clarity of the Prophet’s instructions. We were told in no uncertain terms that we could not be loyal to Allah and Muhammad while also maintaining friendships and loyalty towards the unbelievers. If they explicitly rejected our summons to Islam, we were to hate and curse them.

 

Here, a special hatred was reserved for one subset of unbeliever: the Jew. We cursed the Jews multiple times a day and expressed horror, disgust and anger at the litany of offences he had allegedly committed. The Jew had betrayed our Prophet. He had occupied the Holy Mosque in Jerusalem. He continued to spread corruption of the heart, mind and soul.

 

You can see why, to someone who had been through such a religious schooling, atheism seemed so appealing. Bertrand Russell offered a simple, zero-cost escape from an unbearable life of self-denial and harassment of other people. For him, there was no credible case for the existence of God. Religion, Russell argued, was rooted in fear: “Fear is the basis of the whole thing — fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death.”

 

As an atheist, I thought I would lose that fear. I also found an entirely new circle of friends, as different from the preachers of the Muslim Brotherhood as one could imagine. The more time I spent with them — people such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins — the more confident I felt that I had made the right choice. For the atheists were clever. They were also a great deal of fun.

 

So, what changed? Why do I call myself a Christian now?

 

Part of the answer is global. Western civilisation is under threat from three different but related forces: the resurgence of great-power authoritarianism and expansionism in the forms of the Chinese Communist Party and Vladimir Putin’s Russia; the rise of global Islamism, which threatens to mobilise a vast population against the West; and the viral spread of woke ideology, which is eating into the moral fibre of the next generation. [Blog Editor Bold Text Emphasis]

 

We endeavour to fend off these threats with modern, secular tools: military, economic, diplomatic and technological efforts to defeat, bribe, persuade, appease or surveil. And yet, with every round of conflict, we find ourselves losing ground. We are either running out of money, with our national debt in the tens of trillions of dollars, or we are losing our lead in the technological race with China.

 

But we can’t fight off these formidable forces unless we can answer the question: what is it that unites us? The response that “God is dead!” seems insufficient. So, too, does the attempt to find solace in “the rules-based liberal international order”. The only credible answer, I believe, lies in our desire to uphold the legacy of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

 

That legacy consists of an elaborate set of ideas and institutions designed to safeguard human life, freedom and dignity — from the nation state and the rule of law to the institutions of science, health and learning. As Tom Holland has shown in his marvellous book Dominion, all sorts of apparently secular freedoms — of the market, of conscience and of the press — find their roots in Christianity.

 

And so I have come to realise that Russell and my atheist friends failed to see the wood for the trees. The wood is the civilisation built on the Judeo-Christian tradition; it is the story of the West, warts and all. Russell’s critique of those contradictions in Christian doctrine is serious, but it is also too narrow in scope.

 

For instance, he gave his lecture in a room full of (former or at least doubting) Christians in a Christian country. Think about how unique that was nearly a century ago, and how rare it still is in non-Western civilisations. Could a Muslim philosopher stand before any audience in a Muslim country — then or now — and deliver a lecture with the title “Why I am not a Muslim”? In fact, a book with that title exists, written by an ex-Muslim. But the author published it in America under the pseudonym Ibn Warraq. It would have been too dangerous to do otherwise.

 

To me, this freedom of conscience and speech is perhaps the greatest benefit of Western civilisation. It does not come naturally to man. It is the product of centuries of debate within Jewish and Christian communities. It was these debates that advanced science and reason, diminished cruelty, suppressed superstitions, and built institutions to order and protect life, while guaranteeing freedom to as many people as possible. Unlike Islam, Christianity outgrew its dogmatic stage. It became increasingly clear that Christ’s teaching implied not only a circumscribed role for religion as something separate from politics. It also implied compassion for the sinner and humility for the believer.

 

Yet I would not be truthful if I attributed my embrace of Christianity solely to the realisation that atheism is too weak and divisive a doctrine to fortify us against our menacing foes. I have also turned to Christianity because I ultimately found life without any spiritual solace unendurable — indeed very nearly self-destructive. Atheism failed to answer a simple question: what is the meaning and purpose of life?

 

Russell and other activist atheists believed that with the rejection of God we would enter an age of reason and intelligent humanism. But the “God hole” — the void left by the retreat of the church — has merely been filled by a jumble of irrational quasi-religious dogma. The result is a world where modern cults prey on the dislocated masses, offering them spurious reasons for being and action — mostly by engaging in virtue-signalling theatre on behalf of a victimised minority or our supposedly doomed planet. The line often attributed to G.K. Chesterton has turned into a prophecy: “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” [Blog Editor Bold Text Emphasis]

 

In this nihilistic vacuum, the challenge before us becomes civilisational. We can’t withstand China, Russia and Iran if we can’t explain to our populations why it matters that we do. We can’t fight woke ideology if we can’t defend the civilisation that it is determined to destroy. And we can’t counter Islamism with purely secular tools. To win the hearts and minds of Muslims here in the West, we have to offer them something more than videos on TikTok.

 

The lesson I learned from my years with the Muslim Brotherhood was the power of a unifying story, embedded in the foundational texts of Islam, to attract, engage and mobilise the Muslim masses. Unless we offer something as meaningful, I fear the erosion of our civilisation will continue. And fortunately, there is no need to look for some new-age concoction of medication and mindfulness. Christianity has it all.

 

That is why I no longer consider myself a Muslim apostate, but a lapsed atheist. Of course, I still have a great deal to learn about Christianity. I discover a little more at church each Sunday. But I have recognised, in my own long journey through a wilderness of fear and self-doubt, that there is a better way to manage the challenges of existence than either Islam or unbelief had to offer.

 

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