Planning for Jihad on U.S. Soil

By Doug Hagmann

The call for jihad and seditious takeover of the United States by Islam was made loud and clear yesterday in Chicago. The fundamentalist Islamic political party known as Hizb ut-Tahrir (America), or HTA, hosted a conference at the Hilton Hotel in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn yesterday. The attendees, dressed in traditional Muslim attire, were segregated by gender according to the oppressive tenets of fundamentalist Islam. The women in attendance were covered from head to toe in fundamentalist Islamic attire, sat away from the men during the presentations.

While a small flurry of protesters gathered outside and across from the hotel and TV news crews gained only limited access to this threat to democracy and American values, a covert operative of the Northeast Intelligence Network successfully secured entry into this politically charged conference. According to this group’s leadership base in the U.S., present and speaking at the conference,

“the time is right to advance the goals and objectives [of HTA] across America.”

Those goals include the establishment of a worldwide Islamic state governed under Sharia law with a Muslim ruler. And, according to the group’s U.S. leaders as stated yesterday - information secured through surveillance conducted by the Northeast Intelligence Network, the political climate in the U.S. is ripe to actively and openly solicit the support of Muslims in the U.S. in the advancement of these global objectives.

The operative at the conference stated that the tenor of the meeting was...

“one continuous incendiary attack against capitalism, democracy, and Western values.”

Capitalism and democracy were described as evil, and Western values, Christianity, Judaism, and other non-Islamic beliefs as the antithesis of true Islam that must be “dealt with” in order to establish an Islamic Caliphate.

One unidentified event organizer stated that soldiers and supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir have made significant progress in gaining political clout within the U.S. - an interesting claim considering that the group’s leadership had urged its members to sit out last year’s elections. It has been suggested by counter-terrorism researchers that Hizb ut-Tahrir is now entering the second or more public stage of their three-part strategy (Article link HERE).

Although the conference spokesman, Mohammed Malkawi, denied that his organization has or had any ties to terrorists or terror groups (calling the claims “absolutely baseless”) , it is well known that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zarqawi, and countless other Muslim terrorists were members of Hizb ut-Tahrir and promoted their doctrine. This group has been covertly developing a broad base of support in the U.S. and Canada for at least the last three decades. They have acted as the recruiting and indoctrination arm for al Qaeda, and are considered by some to be the visible political arm of al Qaeda and their ideology.

The presentations made at the conference were virulently anti-American and anti-Israel, with presenters criticizing the continuing U.S. and Israel alliance and U.S. involvement in Muslim countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. It was stressed that Jihad is “the duty of every Muslim” to achieve complete domination and the implementation of a pure Muslim global state.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir met with U.S. protests - United Press International
Reactionary Muslims Declare Jihad in Chicago - EuropeNews
Muslim group's economic session draws opponents - Chicago Sun-Times
Protesters Gather Outside Islamic Conference Near Chicago - FOX News

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On the 40th Anniversary of Man's First Ever Walking on the Moon, the Astronauts Who Did That Are Calling for a Manned Mission to Mars

By Jimmy DeYoung

As the three American astronauts of Apollo 11, the manned spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969 and then had two of its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin, walk on the moon's surface, as these space explorers gathered to remember that one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind, they all have called for a manned mission to Mars in the not too distant future.

Buzz Aldrin, the Apollo 11 veteran and the second man to set foot on the moon after Neil Armstrong, Aldrin says that America could facilitate its international partners in exploring the moon and at the same time, the United States could develop systems for even more ambitious missions in space.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

The 40th anniversary of man landing on the moon and then walking on the moon's surface should remind us of the glory of the Lord and His direction in history and prophecy - the future.

One of the greatest achievements in science, if not the greatest ever, man walking on the moon, is or should be a reminder that God created the heavens and the Earth and all that is in them and then gave man intelligence to explore His creation. It was on the 4th day of creation, a 24 hour day, that God created the moon (Genesis 1:16) and that same verse reveals that the Lord also created the Sun and the stars also. However, these space explorations have been a search to discover the origins of man and to see if there is any other intelligent beings in outer space.

The Bible tells us that God created the heavens and then He made the Earth to be inhabited by man. That is the only inhabited place in His creation (Isaiah 45:18). On this broadcast, I deal with current events that are setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled. If we do not take the account creation found in Genesis 1 as literal, then we have no basis to take God's prophetic word as literal either. Both the creation story and the prophetic passages of God's word can be taken literal and they are true. It is an absolute - Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.

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Walk on the Moon: 40th Anniversary - Washington Post
Honoring Apollo 11 - CBSNewsOnline
Obama: Americans still 'draw inspiration' from Apollo 11 crew - USA Today
Apollo 11 vets urge Mars mission - Register

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Why the "Epicenter" Could Shake the World Sooner Than You Think

By Jan Markell

There is a lot of speculation these days about Israel's recent missile class warships sailing through the Suez Canal. This was just shortly after an Israeli submarine was spotted, capable of launching a nuclear missile strike in preparation for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

All of this was confirmed by Israeli officials, and it was a clear signal that Israel is able to put its strike force within range of Iran on short notice.

Additionally, Israel has strengthened ties with Arab nations that also fear a nuclear-armed Iran. In particular, relations with Egypt have grown increasingly strong this year over the "shared mutual distrust of Iran." Israeli naval vessels would likely pass through the Suez Canal for an Iranian strike.

These exercises are a message to Iran that Israel is serious about defending herself. It is believed that Israel's missile-equipped submarines, and its fleet of advanced aircraft, could be used to strike at in excess of a dozen nuclear-related targets more than 800 miles from Israel.

Is this just saber rattling with little substance? No. Israel knows it must strike Iran's nuclear plants before Iran is capable of seriously launching nukes at Israel's main cities in retaliation. If Israel strikes now, Iran is not yet capable of retaliating with her own nukes. Yes, she would retaliate in other ways, but they wouldn't decimate Israel. The region could be spared devastation if Israel acted in the next few weeks to a few months. If Israel waits a year or more, Iran will have the nuclear capability to send the region - and world oil supply - into utter chaos.

The Jews ignored the warnings of the 1930s to get out of Europe. They could not comprehend that a mad man had come on the scene who was serious about exterminating all of European Jewry. The Pharaohs and Hamans of Bible times weren't enough of a signal that such evil abounds then and now. The "new Hitler," Ahmadinejad, is far more dangerous than the old Hitler. He did not have technology and nuclear weapons.

In 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, Israel was caught by surprise. Israel kept delaying the deployment of troops. Not until the morning of Yom Kippur (October 6), about six hours before the Arab offensive, were Israeli officials convinced that war was imminent, and a mobilization of the reserves ordered. By then it was almost too late. But Israeli action, even though delayed, was so stunning that the Soviet Union threatened direct military intervention. Again, the world could have been plunged into a global disaster all because Israel waited too long.

Israel's victory in this war cost 2,400 lives and an estimated $5 billion of which more than $1 billion was airlifted by the U.S. during a time in the war when Israel's outcome looked bleak. There actually could have been a military escalation between superpowers in 1973, all because Israel did not heed the proper warnings before October 1973.

She will not make these mistakes again! It's kill or be killed now.

Any kind of military strike in the Middle East will affect you directly. You need to take these issues seriously and be in prayer. The Middle East is called the "epicenter" for a reason. It is the center of the earth geographically, politically, and religiously.

It does not help to have America's president tell Jewish leaders, as he did last week, that they must engage in self-reflection. Obama says there is a narrow window of opportunity for advancing the peace process and that he plans to speak openly and honestly with Israel just as he did with the Arab nations in Cairo. But in Cairo, he primarily praised Islam, his own Islamic heritage, and bad-mouthed America. Obama ignored the rejectionism of the Arab world against Israel and the ongoing wars and waves of Arab terror directed against the Jewish state since the day of its creation. He also compared the Palestinians to the U.S. civil rights movement.

His "engagement" and benign relationship with corrupt and despotic Arab regimes contrasts starkly with the tough talk conveyed to Israel at a time in history when once again, without God's intervention, Israel is facing extinction if she doesn't act and act quickly. She knows America is no longer her trusted friend. And no, God would not allow her extinction.

It's time Obama tell the Arab/Muslim world - and not Israel - to engage in self-reflection! It's time he tell them that the world's economy, already in a free fall, could spin out of control if there is a war in the Middle East sparked by Iran's thirst for nuclear weapons as soon as possible! It's time he tell them to dismantle all suicide bombers whose target is innocent Israelis (and other victims such as those in Jakarta last week). It's time Obama leave Israel alone, quit telling her to dismantle settlements, and quit trying to divide Jerusalem.

Obama's policy can be summarized as "Israelis should give and Palestinians should take." It amounts to appeasing the Arabs, humiliating Israel and, in the process, undermining the security of the Jewish state, the entire Middle East, and the rest of the world. Right when Israel needs every friend she can get (although the Bible says just the opposite will be the case), when Iranian nukes are being designed to fly down smokestacks in Tel Aviv and Haifa, America's president is lecturing and scolding Israel and telling her to "engage in self-reflection"? I suggest President Obama exercise some of his own self-reflection! (Also see Ezekiel 38:22, 23 for more of God's miraculous intervention when no nations come to Israel's defense.)

American Jews who voted overwhelmingly to elect Obama should not remain silent. They are entitled to press him to adhere to his commitment and treat the Jewish state in an even-handed manner. Together with other friends of Israel, they should discourage Obama from offering Israel as a sacrificial lamb on the altar of Arab appeasement. In urging Obama not to abandon Israel, they would also be promoting the U.S. national interest. History cannot point to a single instance in which appeasement of jihadists or tyrants has ever borne fruit.

Yet appeasement seems to be Obama's middle name. John Lennon would be happy were he still alive. The world's superpower, America, just loves to give peace a chance in all the wrong places.

Keep your eyes on the epicenter. It could literally explode in the coming weeks or months. Israel must act quickly no matter what the cost.

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Netanyahu draws red line on settlement freeze - Christian Science Monitor
Middle East atomic conflict would kill tens of millions: report - National Post
U.S. defense secretary to visit Israel: officials - Washington Post
Israel condemns Iran-PA meeting - BBC News

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Antichrist - Legend or Looming, Lethal Reality?

By Terry James

Recently I interviewed with The History Channel for its documentary series that will be aired this fall. I have reported before that I was very kindly treated by the film company's crew. They are classy folks, and this commentary is in no way meant to cast aspersions their way.

That said, I'm under no delusion that the secular presenters will, in this History Channel presentation, come down on the side of the pre-trib view of Bible prophecy, much less on the side of my view in considering prophetic matters in the general sense. Their series, I believe, will invoke the sacred name — in secular thinking — of Nostradamus, the sixteenth-century French seer credited with predicting such things as the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Second World War. Nostradamus is always, it seems, right smack in the center of all documentaries on things to come.

This puts all such presentations into a somewhat adversarial role with what God's Word has to say about truth, when it comes to the foretelling of things to come:

"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to Him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And His voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with Him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost" (2 Peter 1:16-21).

Jesus Christ, you see, is the Word (John 1:1). He gave the prophecies to the Old and New Testament prophets. His is the only truth there is with regard to prophecy or anything else. He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life..." (John 14:6a). Jesus alone knows the end from the beginning, and has given us all we need to know. He IS the very Word of God.

So it is with annoyance that drives me to distraction that I've listened to (I must listen, because I'm blind) the many documentaries on prophecy coming across the TV cables in these trying although exciting times. The documentary, no matter which of any given series on prophecy, without fail presents short clips of those who champion the literal — and, in my view, true — perspective of things to come. Academic theologians of the non-literalist ilk then are placed to follow those who give the literal position. These always put off the Bible renderings of prophecy as symbolism, allegory, or as history already accomplished.

For example, you might remember watching one of these programs in which a proponent of literal fulfillment presents the Antichrist as the most terrible tyrant who will ever rule on planet earth. Jesus himself said that the time of the beast's rule — the Great Tribulation — will be the worst time of human history (Matthew 24:21-22). Following the literalist view, immediately, is a theological professor from a major university or other high ecclesiastical chair saying with a tolerant smile that John, the writer of Revelation — whom, he pedantically asserts, was not John the apostle — was just speaking in language couched in coded verbiage. The warnings about the Antichrist, these debunkers of the literal view claim, is just meant to slam imperial Rome and its Caesar ruling at the time of John's 90-96 A.D. writing of the Revelation.

Revelation was given, these proclaim, only to give the persecuted Christians of the time hope of Christ's return to put an end to their suffering. Revelation, in this historical view, was not prophecy — in actuality was no more than an anti-Roman Empire political pamphlet. This constant effort to dispel any and all notions of Bible prophecy being any more than apocalyptic literature is proof positive, in this writer's view, that Lucifer, the angel of false light, is indeed the prince of the power of the air in these quickly fleeting end of days.

My prayerful hope is that those in the cutting rooms of documentary filmmakers will change the formula for once...that they will let the high-minded theoretical anti-literalist theologians be given their say first, and follow their — in my view - prevarication with the views of those who hold up God's Word, who is Jesus Christ, as saying what He means and meaning what He says.

Bible prophecy calls Antichrist “the Beast” for good reason. Revelation is the book of the unveiling of Jesus Christ in all of His power and glory, and of His literal return to this sin-fallen sphere. Chapter 13 of that book also unveils a literal coming world ruler — the most dastardly in history — who will force all to worship him or be murdered. We see today the setting up of his future kingdom in ways that are astonishing, considering the speed of their development.

Antichrist isn't a legend; he is a looming, lethal reality.

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The Biggest Threat to the U.S.A.

By Nathan Jones

Today many fear for the future of the United States of America, and rightly so. It appears America is being accosted on many levels.

In response to this well founded concern, the question of what threat would hold the most danger to the United States of America was put to the reader in May 2009's poll titled "Which is the biggest threat to the future of the U.S.A.?" The 986 respondents cast their vote from among a number of modern scenarios. The results shed a lot of light on where our readership believes the biggest dangers are to the welfare of the nation in this day and age. The results are as follows:

Global Threat

Global Warming — Not just a threat to the United States, what nation can possibly be safe when the planet itself has seemed to turn up the threat factor by turning up the temperature? Green house gasses from cars, factories and belching cows are supposedly baking the ionosphere, melting the polar ice caps in an attempt to flood Berkeley and the Bronx, and making summer suntans so difficult by pushing up the SPF level on the sun block. "The Earth is out to get us with Global Warming!," so warns Al Gore.

It would appear only 5 (0.5%) of the 986 respondents believe Global Warming is the biggest threat to the future of the United States. They are not convinced by the December 2008 U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference held in Poznan, Poland, where 650 Nobel prize and award winning scientists called Global Warming "a lie, a hoax and part of a new religion" (see Cooling Global Warming ).

International Threats

Third World Dictators — Will Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez cut off 25% of America's flow of oil? Will North Korea's Kim Jong-il blow his stack and attack. Will Castro ever die (he's like, what, 125 years old now)? Of the 986 respondents, 2 (0.2%) believe one of these third world nut jobs will clip the wings of the American eagle.

Russia — One day Russian presidents are banging their shoes on the table, the next they've bellied up to the BBQ pit and are looking deep into our eyes. Are the Russians friends of the United States, or are they not? Of the 986 respondents, 5 (0.5%) believe the former superpower is on the rise and as Gog will reveal itself to be that two-faced friend who made Caesar utter "Et tu, Brute?"

Nuclear Weapons — While President Obama is looking to reduce American and Russian nuclear weapons by a third so that they only have the means of blowing up the planet 30 times (each), madmen like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad all the way down to the island nation of Pokoponesia are looking to grab up some of that nuclear arsenal (peace be unto them). With most of the first world nations possessing a stockpile only SkyNet would be envious of, and small nations getting atomic bombs at wholesale, the possibility that one of the more unstable lot will eventually ignite World War 3 is a very real concern. Of the 986 respondents, 10 (1%) believe the United States is destined to become that Kevin Costner postman movie.

Illegal Immigration — Rome fell for a number of reasons, one being they ran out of people and animals to kill in the games. But, the biggest reason was the mass immigration of the barbarians south into Roman lands. When a whole country of people moves into another country, that accepting country is no longer their own, erm, country. As the United States absorbs millions of illegals looking for WIC stamps, 2 (0.2%) believe the United States of America will become the United States of Mexico. ¿Alguien aquí habla Inglés?

Religious Threats

Islam — The Religion of the Sword is waging jihad on the free world, claiming big chunks in the name of Allah and burkas for all women. Any American want to have to learn Arabic in order to read the Koran and live under Seventh Century sharia law? No, not like England! Of the 986 respondents, 88 (8%) believe Americans will give up their infidel status and become a card-carrying member of the Islamic religion. Then, every child can be named "Mohammed."

Terrorism — Probably not the same terrorists that battle over whether to wear green or orange, the flavor of the day is Islamic terrorism. That "peaceful religion" is Paradise-bent on blowing up as many planes and trains as they can in order to guarantee their tickets get punched for the 70 virgin deal. Will the "enemy combatants" who are now called "persons whom the President has the authority to detain" bring America down to the prayer rug? Of the 986 respondents, 7 (0.7%) believe terrorism is the biggest threat to the future of the United States.

Internal Threats

Socialism — "And the la-a-and of the fre-ee, and the ho-ome of the bra-ave." Well, that was so yesterday's style. Today's pumps are socialism. Have the government pay for all your needs while the rich get milked? "Stick it to them!" is the chant of the current administration. Forget that the rich create jobs and that socialism means everyone gets to be poor. Of the 986 respondents, 37 (3%) believe America faces the threat of becoming... France!

Huge Federal Government — It doesn't take a village to raise a child, now it takes the entire United States government to do it. And to accomplish the task of controlling a person from birth to euthanized death, the government's gotta get bigger. Of the 986 respondents, 29 (2%) feel that Big Brother is on the horizon and that the only freedom left in the United States will mean getting to choose which color of soylent is for dinner. I wouldn't recommend the green.

Economic Problems — The world has been rocked by a global recession. Companies are going under. The unemployment rate has hit 10% of the U.S. population. America parties hearty not realizing their credit cards have been cut and that the foreign creditors are beginning to think their collection of 50 state quarters won't buy squat in the upcoming years of hyperinflation. Of the 986 respondents, 15 (1%) are thinking we're very near to running our foreheads over the grocery checkout scanner.

Personal Threats

Adam Sandler Movies — Of the 986 respondents, 13 (1%) puckish people voted that this "comedian's" movies are the biggest threat to the future of the good 'ole U.S. of A. I just don't get why people find this guy funny. Put this choice down as a subpoint under the category "Moral Decay" (see below). Still, his movies are not worth seeing again and again.

Stance on Israel — This threat is our own personal position over Israel, considered by our voters to be the second gravest threat to the future of the United States. Is the reestablished nation of Israel a historic abnormality whose destruction will ensure peace in the Middle East and a steady flow of the black gold. Or, is Israel the fulfillment of Bible prophecy (Isa. 66:7-8: Ezek. 37:21-22; Zech. 8:4-8) and the "apple of his [God's] eye" (Zech.2:8)? Of the 986 respondents, a whopping 384 (38%) believe messing with God's plan for Israel is a really, really bad thing for the United States. They couldn't be more right!

Moral Decay — The threat most voted on (though by a slim margin) was the moral decay eroding every foundation of American and even world society. Of the 986 respondents, 389 (39%) believe we are living in the morally rotten days of Noah, just as Jesus prophesied those days would return (Matt. 24:37).

Does today sound a lot like this?:

"people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God — having a form of godliness but denying its power" (2 Tim. 3:2-5)

If it does to you as much as it does to these perceptive 389 voters, then you know America has become its own worst threat. And, you recognize the signs of the end times and realize Jesus Christ is coming back very, very soon to deal with all this mess.

How will Jesus find you (Matt. 24:45-51)?

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