tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39161082941980587962024-02-08T13:58:16.359+08:00Blackman reads......and writes down his thoughtsBlackmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01706245962648816648noreply@blogger.comBlogger266125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916108294198058796.post-2670979014196168782021-08-22T19:22:00.002+08:002021-08-22T19:33:32.389+08:00<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> The Great Game in Afghanistan: Fraudulent Beginning - Fateful End</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. An extremely important thread on the Geopolitical Landscape: a Magnitude 10 Earthquake whose epicenter was in Kabul. One that has sent shockwaves across entire planet; in every Capital - challenging & threatening the New World Order & the Global Reset: Agenda 2030 up in smokes. Yes!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">2. When the US Forces invaded Afghanistan - also romantically known as The Heart of Asia; in the year 2001, America had multiple Grand Strategic Objectives...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">• Defense of Israel</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">• Direct Control of Strategic Global Resources </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">• Destruction of Political Islam. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">• De-Nuclearization of Pakistan: leading to the defense of Israel.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">• Encirclement of Russia. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">• Containment of China. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">• Control of global Trading Routes & Sea Lanes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">3. Around 1998, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) had written a Strategic Report aimed at creating strategies to maintain global dominance of the US in the 21st century. The report was called: "Project for the New American Century (PNAC)" - which had outlined measures that would ensure for the US to maintain its dominant role in the 21st century.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Accordingly events of 9/11 were conceptualized, articulated & executed as the perfect "pearl harbor" - the US needed to launch this (so called) war-on-terror: to accomplish its Grand Strategic Objectives. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">4. So, US was NOT in Afghanistan to catch Bin Laden - period... </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A established base in the "Heart of Asia" served to fortify all those grand strategic objectives.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">After the British Empire destroyed the Ottoman Caliphate (now Turkey) in 1923, they had vowed; never to allow rise of Political Islam again...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Accordingly rise of Talibans in Afghanistan posed a direct threat to their Project for the 21st Century. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">5. Philosopher & Poet (of the East) Dr. Muhammad Iqbal had the farsighted vision to write in 1920, when Communism was on the rise in the East as a direct threat to Capitalist Order in the West (this was presented as such for next 70 years). However, (Iqbal wrote) for the Western Civilization, real threat will always come from the Islamic Civilization - from Political Islam & NOT Communism.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">He was right!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">6. Invasion of Afghanistan - using the fraudulent events of 9/11 as pretext and after dealing with the "threat" of Political Islam, the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">CIA/MI6/Mossad got to work immediately - initially on their own, later they subcontracted RAW/NDS/Saudi/Egyptian/UAE Intelligence Services on a singular Project: to destabilize Nuclear Armed Pakistan with the objective that by 2015 Pakistan will cease to exist as a single established State...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">7. America's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), British MI6, Israel's Mossad & India's RAW, after establishing their</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">occupation in Afghanistan; created the deadliest terror outfits: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Afghanistan & launched this group and others as well, like BLA & BNA; against Pakistan. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Over the next few years nearly 100 - 200,000 Pakistanis lost their lives - while countless others were maimed or wounded besides more than 150 billion USD were lost in Pakistan's economy due to this secret CIA/MI6/Mossad/NDS/RAW sponsored terror attacks on Pakistan.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">8. US presence in Afghanistan had removed the "threat" of Political Islam & they were now well on their way to dismember & dismantle Pakistan - as per their own timeline: 2015. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Simultaneously, presence of US Forces in Afghanistan had blocked Russian access to the "Heart of Asia" & were well poised to block any Chinese adventure towards: One-Belt-One-Road(OBOR) projects and the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) type trade routes across Asia.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">9. Indians & Israelis were having a dream ride under the US umbrella removal of their common mortal enemy: Pakistan - the Only Nuclear Armed Islamic state on the planet.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The grand strategy of invading & establishing an operational base in "the Heart of Asia" Afghanistan: seemed to work very well for a while - especially as Pakistan bled profusely under the secret, sustained often ferocious onslaughts of multiple terror outfits created, funded, trained and launched from across Pakistan's western borders. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">10. Despite the broad perception around the world - primarily created by the malicious disinformation and propaganda campaigns against Pakistan; the established fact is that Pakistan did NOT support the Afghan Taliban...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Quite the contrary,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Pakistan remained the strongest frontline Non-NATO Ally of the US led occupation force in Afghanistan, formally allowing nearly a million containers of weapons, logistics & other heavy military supplies through its ports, its lands & its air bridges in support of the US & NATO forces in Afghanistan while suffering deep divisions among its own populace & the destruction beyond repair of the country's infrastructure.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">11. By the year 2007, Pakistan was surely and steadily on it's way towards dismemberment. Gen Musharraf, the then President of Pakistan was removed through a Pentagon sponsored, CIA/MI6/Mossad orchestrated regime change movement & a CIA asset Asif Zardari was installed as the President & another CIA asset Hussain Haqqani was installed as Pakistan's Ambassador to the US in Washington DC.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">12. Pakistan and Pakistan's mighty Armed Forces was effectively losing the secret war against CIA/MI6/Mossad/NDS/RAW backed terror outfits created, funded, trained and launched from Afghanistan. Even a serving Lieutenant General was killed right outside the gates of the well protected & fortified Army GHQ in Rawalpindi - in a suicide bombing attack. Headquarters of the globally acclaimed Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) all over the country were bombed. Army GHQ itself was attacked & almost taken over...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Those were very bad days for Pakistan...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">13. By 2008, the then DG ISI General Shuja Pasha had figured out the CIA/MI6/Mossad/RAW/NDS game plan and had begun conceptualizing & building the counter strategy and thus the push back began in earnest by mid-2008.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Every echelon of the Pakistan Armed Forces began its historically most large scale high intensity military operations both within the major cities of Pakistan and across the country to reclaim lost territory.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">14. It was a long, gruesome 4-year blooby battle: by 2012 Pakistan's Armed Forces had successfully reclaimed all the lost territory from CIA/MI6/Mossad/RAW/NDS backed terrorists assets; who were by then fully operational from US & NATO controlled Afghanistan. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Even so this brutal, and bloody war-of- terror could not be stopped till today as the paid & trained assets & mercenaries were protected in Afghan sanctuaries by CIA/MI6/Mossad/NDS/RAW.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">15. Once the security situation in Pakistan began to improve, China swiftly moved in to counter the US & NATO's strategic objectives & launched its own Economic & Trade Corridors through Pakistan which US & NATO were trying to scuttle. OBOR & CPEC Projects were launched in Pakistan. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">By this time, it was clear that the CIA/MI6/Mossad's 2015 plan to dismember Pakistan & dismantle Pakistan nuclear weapons program had failed miserably. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">16. By the end of 2015, Afghan Taliban had also emerged as a strong, very disciplined, more potent & with more capacity for strategic resistance to the US & NATO occupation forces in Afghanistan. US by now was also suffering from deep "imperial overstretch" - exhausted; having taken both economic & human losses in the now well known graveyard of the empires.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The tide had turned in favor of "Haq against Baatil"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">17. Pakistan's Armed Forces fought gallantly - sometimes suffering heavy losses; ONLY to protect itself within its own borders against terrorists: created, funded, trained and launched by its OWN allies who were occupying Afghanistan.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Ironic yet a factual narrative!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Afghan Taliban did NOT receive a single container of weapons, armaments or supplies from Pakistan in the last 20 years. They ambushed, snatched and also received weapons and armaments from ANA/US/NATO/India/Iran/Russia and fought a tactically brilliant guerrilla warfare and strategically patient battle on all fronts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">18. In the end, it was the Afghan Taliban who won the war in an honorable & fair fight against the combined might of 57 flags: US, Britain, NATO and all the other nameless allied forces.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Talibans were NOT helped by any other country in this long-drawn strategic battle for independence from foreign occupation forces.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">US President Biden squarely blamed the defeat on the collapse of the Afghan National Army (ANA) - whom they created, they funded, they equipped & they trained. A defeated President Biden while acknowledging the defeat of the US & NATO forces in Afghanistan did not lay the blame on Pakistan or on any other country.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">19. Now what? why is the world screaming & demonizing a band of resoundingly brave & viciously free people who led a truly genuine freedom fight to liberate their own land- locked poorest country on this planet against foreign occupation? Why are they such a threat to the big global powers?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For any reflective & critically thinking reader; this is the crucial next phase of the jigsaw puzzle to understand & grasp.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">20. Surely, the Global Powers are not screaming in pain & fear for their concern for human rights in Afghanistan or the rights of the Afghan women... That's a big hogwash to say the least...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Taliban victory in Afghanistan is a direct & existential threat to the Zionist's plans towards Globalization and the New world order - the Global Reset (Agenda 2030); </span><span style="font-family: arial;">which they are unfolding right now under the false flag cover of Covid-19 Global Plan-demic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">21. The idea of Political Islam is reborn: an idea the Western Civilization had hoped would stay in the Museums of history. Political Islam now has a country and an operating base of its own. The ultimate nightmare for the Globalists have come true. More so; when these people (the Talibans of Afghanistan) have (historically) defeated the British Colonists, the Communist Ideology & now Capitalist Order: their power centers politically ravaged in the last 4 decades. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This is simply a geopolitical and geostrategic miracle. Nothing else can justify this victory accept by reference to a Gift from the Divine </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">22. Imagine this...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is NOT going to follow the Covid protocols. It will show the world that Covid is not only a fraud but that its no threat at all. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">No masks, no social distancing, no quarantines, no lockdowns, no vaccinations...& still NO Covid.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">These guys will destroy the entire COVID propaganda campaign of the Globalist cabal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">23. Once a truly Independent Islamic Government is formed anywhere in the world, it becomes a magnet for other Muslim countries in the region & movements around the world to attempt to copy the Taliban model. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Afghan Jihad of the 80's triggered the Intifadas of Kashmir, Palestine, Chechnya & Algeria. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Same may happen again from this Taliban victory. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">24. One may understand the resistance, pushback & attacks by US, EU, India & Israel but the most severe resistance & animosity to this poor Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan will come from Saudi Arabia, the UAE & Egypt...the three most petrified countries - terrified by the idea of Political Islam taking over power as a model & getting a foothold. under the current Global Order. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">25. And just to let one ponder a bit more...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Afghan Jihad of the 80's & the Taliban resistance & ultimate victory of today in Afghanistan: are the only Muslim Resistance Movements in the last 200 years that have actually succeeded in driving out foreign occupation forces: returning victorious from the battlefield.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Truly a romantic moment in human history!!</span></p>Blackmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01706245962648816648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916108294198058796.post-40097615059995075942018-07-08T22:37:00.002+08:002018-07-08T22:37:14.157+08:00The United States "New York Times" shocked the contrast, causing a sensation in the White House high-rise!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thomas Friedman, a famous columnist of the New York Times, wrote an article titled "The Seven Years of China and the United States". It was published in The New York Times and shocked the White House!<br />
He wrote: "When I sat in the seat of a Chinese stadium and enjoyed the magical performances of thousands of Chinese dancers, drummers, singers, and acrobats on stilts, I could not but recall the past seven years. Different experiences in the United States and China: China has been busy with various infrastructure projects, and we are busy dealing with al-Qaeda (terrorists); they have been building better stadiums, subways, airports, roads and parks, and we have been In the construction of better metal detectors, Hummer military vehicles and drones...<br />
Differences have begun to show. You can compare the dirty old LaGuardia Airport in New York and the beautifully shaped international airport in Shanghai. When you drive to Manhattan, you will find out how dilapidated the infrastructure is along the way. Experience Shanghai's maglev train at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour. It uses electromagnetic propulsion instead of ordinary steel wheels and tracks. You have already arrived in Shanghai. Then ask yourself: Who is living in a third world country?<br />
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I think: As a modern country, China has accepted the main concepts of modern national sovereignty and human rights. However, the various qualities of Chinese civilization make it unique. One of the characteristics of China's development model is that the scale effect of learning + innovation + huge population = affects China and the world. Many foreign companies investing in China have a slogan. If they can achieve the first in China, they will be able to achieve the world's best.<br />
With the rise of China, this trend is beginning to expand into more and more areas such as tourism, aviation, film and television, sports, education, new energy, modernization models, and high-speed rail.<br />
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Some of us are more envious of the lives of small countries and small people, in fact, the difficulties of small and small countries. Small countries can't afford storms, while big countries face waves and have much more room for maneuver.<br />
Chile is a comparatively more developed developing country. However, in a major earthquake in 2010, GDP fell a large chunk, and the entire economy may not breathe for two years. Even if China encounters such a large-scale natural disaster as the Wenchuan earthquake, the entire The country’s economy remains immobile.<br />
For most countries, industrial upgrading often means that the industry migrates to foreign countries, and China can carry out large-scale industrial gradient transfer within itself, which extends the life cycle of Chinese manufacturing.<br />
Culture - The collision of Chinese and Western cultures over the past thirty years has not caused most Chinese people to lose their cultural confidence. The Chinese people today, Confucius's heat, Lao Tzu's heat, reciting hot, calligraphy and painting fever, tea ceremony heat, old house heat, cultural relics, Chinese medicine fever, and heat of health, all reflect the revival of Chinese traditional culture.<br />
The food culture, health culture, and leisure culture derived from Chinese culture are also incomparable to other cultures. Street restaurants in any part of China can make 30 to 40 dishes. In the vast majority of American restaurants, there are only hamburgers and potato chips. There are three or four dishes that are good. European restaurants have more dishes but rarely more than seven or eight varieties.<br />
Some of us are always worried that Chinese people lack religious feelings. In fact, anyone who is a little familiar with the history of the world knows that religious conflicts in human history have led to countless wars. The conflict between various Christian denominations and between Christianity and Islam has had a history of thousands of years, resulting in human tragedies in which countless lives were brutally murdered. Therefore, our people do not have to believe in religion.<br />
Economics--China's traditional economics, strictly speaking, is not "market economics" but "humanistic economics." In the long history of China, if a government fails to develop its economy and improve people's livelihood, it cannot handle disasters and disasters. It will lose support from the people and lose its "destiny" and will eventually be overthrown by the people.<br />
Today's political party in China is a continuation of the historically unified Confucian ruling group tradition, rather than a Western party that competes on behalf of different interest groups. Many people in the West only agree with the legitimacy of the regime resulting from multi-party competition. This is a very shallow political concept.<br />
I once met an American scholar who questioned the legitimacy of the Chinese regime. I asked him why he did not first question the legitimacy of his own country: You took the land of others and passed colonial, immigration, extermination of Indians, and formed the United States today. . I asked him to explain to me where the legitimacy and legitimacy of such a country are. In the end, he can only tell me that this is history.<br />
Can we doubt the source of the legitimacy of Western regimes by using the concept of “selecting and selecting talents” in China? Xiaobush’s rule brought an economic downturn to the United States in eight years and brought disaster to Iraq. Bringing financial tsunami is an example.<br />
The most important feature of China’s historical legitimacy is the “political tradition of selecting the able and capable people and governing the country with the support of the people”.<br />
In the political culture of China, the concept of "one game at a time", "hardship on one side, support from all sides", and other cultures cannot be produced. I once discussed the Chinese model with Indian scholars. They said that on the face of it, China is centralized, but every reform in China actually has strong local characteristics. They compete and complement each other. Therefore, the Chinese system is better than India’s. The system is more dynamic.<br />
They have studied the West and have established a powerful modern government system. At the same time, they have their own unique political and cultural resources. The combination of the two makes it easier for us to overcome the populism, short-sightedness, and legalism that plagued Western democracy today. And other issues.<br />
At the political level, many people in the West also take it for granted that China will accept the political model of confrontation with the West as the Chinese middle class grows. However, they also discovered today that the Chinese middle class today seems to value China’s political stability more than any other class. They understand that the “democratization” of the West has brought chaos and turmoil to many countries. Understanding their hard-earned wealth accumulation has actually benefited from more than 30 years of political stability in China.<br />
Frankly speaking, what China has demonstrated today is definitely not an oversimplified or even simple concept of "advanced" and "backwardness," "democracy," "autocracy," "high human rights," and "low human rights." ”<br />
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This is the article written by Thomas Friedman, an American columnist, "Seven Years of China and the United States." It is very worthwhile for every Chinese to take a serious look and have a patriotic family! Please applaud our leaders! After reading this article, if you think it is a good article, please forward it!</div>
Blackmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01706245962648816648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916108294198058796.post-21839824695378987582018-04-27T22:18:00.000+08:002018-04-27T22:26:40.252+08:00The Ancient Subterranean City of Nushabad: Why Were People Living Underground?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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(known also as Ouyi) is a city located in Isfahan, a province in the center of
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">On </span><a href="https://www.seat61.com/belgrade-to-bar-railway.htm" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration-line: none;">Belgrade
to Bar</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">, riders experience 254 tunnels and 435 bridges on a 296-mile
trip from </span><a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/europe/serbia/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration-line: none;">Serbia’s</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;"> capital to the shores
of the Adriatic, at a bargain price.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">Rooms on the<b> </b></span><a href="https://www.belmond.com/grand-hibernian-train/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration-line: none;">Belmond
Grand Hibernian</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;"> look like Georgian-era hotel suites, while cushy
observation cars are ideal for viewing green fields and sheep on the way to
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">The overnight </span><a href="http://www.bluetrain.co.za/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration-line: none;">Blue Train</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Pretoria to Cape
Town showcases </span><a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/africa/south-africa/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration-line: none;">South African</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;"> scenery and includes a
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">Depart from London in the evening on the </span><a href="https://www.sleeper.scot/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration-line: none;">Caledonian
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to a cabin, and awaken to the mountains and lochs of the Scottish Highlands,
arriving midmorning in Fort William.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">Rolling from the Windy City to </span><a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/north-america/united-states/california/san-francisco/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration-line: none;">San Francisco</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">, the </span><a href="https://www.amtrak.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=am/AM_Snippet_C/IBRoutes&Route=California%20Zephyr" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration-line: none;">California Zephyr</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;"> climbs both the
Rockies and the Sierra Nevada before descending to the Pacific coast on its
2,447-mile traverse across the heartland of </span><a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/north-america/united-states/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration-line: none;">America</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on the </span><a href="https://www.raileurope.com/european-trains/william-tell-express/how-to-book.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: .5pt;">Gotthard Panorama Express</span></a><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: .5pt;"> begin with a steamship crossing of Lake Lucerne;
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<i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foreword</span></i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">: This post
is long. It is long because Christian Zionism is based on a <i>multitude of lies</i>.
The bigger the onion, the more the layers we are forced to peel off. I should
also note that my paternal ancestors were Russian Jews (see photo below, taken
about 1900). My great-grandfather’s name was Abraham Perlovsky. People who
criticize Zionism are frequently accused of being motivated by <i>anti-Semitism</i>.
As I’m half-Jewish myself, <i>let me be clear that no</i> <i>such
feelings impel me</i>.<i>I am unequivocally opposed to racism in any form</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://jamesperloff.com/2015/11/07/the-war-on-christianity-part-1/">Part 1</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> of this series explored how the Rockefellers
were instrumental in orchestrating the Modernist movement, assaulting every
fundamental doctrine of Christianity, for the long-range ecumenical purpose of
absorbing it into a one-world religion. The Fundamentalist movement rejected
Modernism, intending to stand by the faith’s original tenets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Unfortunately, as we will now see, Fundamentalism
was <i>itself</i> infiltrated and hijacked, consistent with the
Rothschild strategy of funding both sides of wars. Fundamentalist churches were
targeted to enlist their support for the Zionist agenda. The two principal
agents in this scheme were John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) and Cyrus Scofield
(1843-1921). What Darby planted, Scofield watered and disseminated. The
theology they developed served the agenda by making several claims:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">• God wanted the Jews to return to, and take over,
Palestine.<br />
• God has <i>two </i>plans of salvation—one through the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, the other a guarantee reserved for Jews, his “Chosen People.”<br />
• Christians should not involve themselves in politics, education, business or
the arts, as these are “worldly” matters that should be left in the hands of
“worldly” people. (The consequences of this doctrine are very visible in
American culture today.)<br />
• God deals with mankind differently during different historical time frames or
“dispensations,” of which there are seven. The current one, “Grace” under Jesus
Christ, is merely the sixth of the seven dispensations.<br />
• The Christian Church is doomed to inevitable failure, which will bring the
Dispensation of Grace to a close.<br />
• The end of this dispensational age will be marked by the
Tribulation—worldwide persecution under the Antichrist for a period of seven
years; however, Christians need not concern themselves with this, since Jesus
will “Rapture” believers off the Earth and they won’t be around to experience
it.<br />
• Earth will then experience a Jewish era; Jewish ritualistic animal sacrifices
will be reinstituted; Jesus will reign for a thousand years from Solomon’s
rebuilt temple in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">These doctrines, whose main outcome was “Christian
Zionism,” might seem boring to atheists and agnostics, but they are nonetheless
exceedingly relevant to the state of the world. They are espoused by
celebrity-status theologians like Hal Lindsey, Pat Robertson and John Hagee, in
the best-selling <i>Left Behind</i> book series, and are prevailing
views in many conservative evangelical churches. Without these ideas being
sweepingly disseminated, there might have been no Israeli state created in
1948, no 9/11, and no Middle East wars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Context<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Before proceeding, I’m aware that some readers may
be visiting this website for the first time, so I’ll take a moment to “begin at
the beginning.” The United States, and much of the world itself, is run by an
incalculably wealthy oligarchy known as, among other names, the <i>Illuminati</i>.
The trappings of “democracy” are an illusion; the oligarchy operates behind the
scenes, choosing presidents and prime ministers long before the public goes to
the polls. It owns and controls the central banks, most of the ”Fortune 500”
corporations, and the mainstream media (CNN, Fox, BBC, etc.), the latter being
crucial to keeping the agenda, and the oligarchy itself, concealed from public
awareness. It coordinates its global policies through international
organizations such as the Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission, and an upper,
exclusive level of Freemasonry. The cabal’s highest identifiable human center
is the Rothschild banking dynasty. But the oligarchy is not only about
materialistic matters such as money and power; like the universe itself, it
possesses a spiritual dimension: its outlook is <i>satanic</i>, which
largely accounts for Western culture’s rapid moral descent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I cannot document and prove these claims in one
paragraph, but I can in a book, which is why I wrote </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Lonely-Warrior-James-Perloff/dp/0966816021/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414189028&sr=1-1&keywords=truth+is+a+lonely+warrior"><i><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Truth Is a Lonely Warrior</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. The ultimate goal of the Illuminati is a world
government. Regional blocs like the European Union and NAFTA (intended to
become a North American Union) are stepping stones toward this end. The world
government will be ruled by a dark figure whom the Bible calls the “beast” or
“Antichrist.” The book of Revelation says he will have “authority over every
tribe, people, language and nation.” <i>The capital of this evil world
government will be Jerusalem</i>, a city revered by Christians, Muslims and
Jews alike, to be centered in </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Greater Israel</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. It was for this purpose that:</span></div>
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• the Rothschilds committed their fortune to the Zionist movement,
beginning </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/1829-newspaper-rothschilds-have-purchased-jerusalem/"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">no later than 1829</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">;<br />
• Theodor Herzl began hosting the World Zionist congresses in Basle,
Switzerland in 1897;<br />
• the British government was persuaded to issue the Balfour Declaration to Lord
Walter Rothschild in 1917, promising the Zionists “establishment in Palestine
of a national home for the Jewish people” in exchange for the Zionists bringing
America into World War I on Britain’s side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">However, Zionist seizure of Palestine could not have
occurred <i>without the</i> <i>consent and cooperation of the world’s
Christian community</i>. Given the centuries-old conflict between Jews and
Christians, it was necessary to remold Christian theology to accommodate the
Rothschild plan. Cyrus Scofield and his reference Bible came on the scene for
this express purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Before examining Scofield’s life, we should note a
little about John Nelson Darby, the principle figure from whom Scofield
borrowed his Biblical analysis. Darby was a Satanist, Freemason and agent of
the Rothschild-owned British East India Company,</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the latter
being the most powerful multinational corporation of its day and the supplier
that turned millions of Chinese into opium addicts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Darby became a leader of a Christian sect called
the Plymouth Brethren (named for Plymouth, England, where its most popular
gatherings were held). He is generally credited with originating the “Secret
Rapture” doctrine and made several trips to America to spread his ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Darby used many terms in common with occult
Theosophists—he referred to Jesus as <i>“</i>the coming one” (same term
New Agers use for the Antichrist); referred to God as the “architect” (same
phrase employed by Freemasons, meaning “God” for the uninitiated, “Lucifer” to
true adepts); and many other occult phrases, as summarized in this </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.libertytothecaptives.net/darby_writings_occult.html"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">article</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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Bible. The Illuminati have always known they could not perform a wholesale
transformation of the Bible, because it would be recognized as such and
rejected. Therefore the approach through the centuries has been to whittle it
away: a word here, a phrase there—the universal strategy of <i>boiling the
frog</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Darby slyly introduced satanic wording into the
Biblical text. For example, in t</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">he King James rendering of John 6:69, Peter
told Jesus: “And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of
the living God.” Darby rendered this: “And we have believed and known that thou
art the holy one of God.” “Holy one of God” is a title used for Jesus <i>only
by demons</i> in the King James. For a comprehensive review of Darby’s
satanic mistranslations, see the article </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.libertytothecaptives.net/darby_doctrinal_changes.html"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Nelson Darby
Version: Doctrinal Changes to the Holy Bible</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ad1c00; font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Scofield
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1897, Theodore Herzl began hosting the
Rothschild-backed Zionist congresses in Switzerland, developing the plan for
Zionist takeover of Palestine. Knowing this scheme would require Christian approval;
in 1904 Herzl approached Pope Pius X, who very politely told him what he could
do with his plan. After Catholic rejection, the Rothschilds knew Protestant
support would be essential. But this could only be achieved by tampering with
the Bible to make it appear God himself had ordained that Jews retake Palestine.
Such a Bible would have to come from a non-Jew, someone with credentials as a
theologian. Thus emerged Cyrus Scofield and his reference Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield started out as a crooked Kansas lawyer and
politician, working under the auspices of John J. Ingalls, a major figure in
corrupt Kansas politics. In 1881, the<i> Atchison Globe</i> reported:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">C. I. Schofield [sic], who was appointed United
States District Attorney for Kansas in 1873, and who turned out worse than any
other Kansas official, is now a Campbellite preacher in Missouri. His wife and
two children live in Atchison. He contributes nothing to their support except
good advice.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That same year, the Topeka<i> Daily
Capital </i>picked up the story:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Cyrus I. Schofield, formerly of Kansas, late
lawyer, politician and shyster generally, has come to the surface again, and
promises once more to gather around himself that halo of notoriety that has
made him so prominent in the past. The last personal knowledge that Kansans
have had of this peer among scalawags, was when about four years ago, after a
series of forgeries and confidence games he left the state and a destitute
family and took refuge in Canada. For a time he kept undercover, nothing being
heard of him until within the past two years when he turned up in St. Louis,
where he had a wealthy widowed sister living who has generally come to the
front and squared up Cyrus’ little follies and foibles by paying good round
sums of money. Within the past year, however, Cyrus committed a series of St.
Louis forgeries that could not be settled so easily, and the erratic young
gentleman was compelled to linger in the St. Louis jail for a period of six
months.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">However, court cases against Scofield were
inexplicably dropped. As Joseph M. Canfield, who is probably Scofield’s most
thorough biographer, notes: “The very sudden dropping of the criminal charges
without proper adjudication suggests that Scofield’s career was in the hands of
someone who had clout . . .”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to Scofield, his conversion to Christ
occurred in 1879 in his “St. Louis law office.” However, he was not a member of
Missouri’s bar, and no record exists of his practicing law in that state</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">5</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">—in fact, he
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield began immersing himself in Darby’s
teachings. He was mentored by Rev. James H. Brookes, whose very pulpit Darby
had preached from.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">6</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He
made rapid ecclesiastical progress: by 1881 he was already a pastor in St.
Louis, despite having no seminary training or other formal religious education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1882, Scofield moved to Dallas and began an
extended term as pastor of the First Congregational Church. Possibly this move
was necessitated because his criminal past and familial irresponsibility were
too well-known in the Kansas-Missouri region. As Rev. John S. Torell writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">There were a number of wealthy and political power
brokers in the membership of the First Congregational Church in Dallas. . . I
do know that most churches in the United States are heavily infested with
Freemasons. George Bannerman Dealey was a member of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church in the later part of his life. But he was also heavily
involved in the occult, majoring in the Scottish Rite of Masonry with a 33rd
degree and active as a Shriner, and was also a member of the Red Cross of
Constantine. Most likely he had a hand in getting Cyrus into Masonic circles
and particularly the Lotos Club in New York.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">7</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ad1c00; font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Post-Conversion
Issues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am well aware that a person redeemed by Christ
receives forgiveness of sins. I am also aware that those born again remain
flawed individuals. Nevertheless, a high standard is held for pastors and
elders of churches. In 1883, back in Kansas, Reverend Scofield’s wife Leontine
was granted a divorce on the grounds that he had long since abandoned her and
their two daughters, Abigail and Helene. The court ruled that Scofield “was not
a fit person to have custody of the children.”</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">8</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Within
six months of the divorce, Scofield married a new wife, Hettie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here is what the Bible says (1 Timothy 5:8): “But
if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he
hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” Scofield’s fans give him
a free pass on this teaching, and not surprisingly, the Scofield Reference
Bible makes no commentary on this verse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield’s defenders have argued that he had to
divorce his wife because she was Catholic, but there is no Biblical grounds for
that, and Scofield had deserted his family long before his professed conversion
to Christ. However, if handlers were prepping him to fulfill the role of
Zionist messenger to Protestant churches, it may well be that having a Catholic
wife was deemed unsuitable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Although Scofield became quite wealthy from his
reference Bible, there is no evidence that he ever shared his riches with his
abandoned family, or ever made restitution to people whom he had defrauded in
Kansas and Missouri.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Truthfulness is another characteristic of genuine
conversion. Here is how Scofield later described his military service in
his <i>Who’s Who in America</i> entry:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Pvt. Co. H. 7th Tenn. Inf. May 1861 to close of
Civil War; served in Army of Northern Va. under Gen. Lee, and awarded Cross of
Honor for valor at battle of Antietam.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">9</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Although Scofield was in the 7th Tennessee, this
little entry is full of falsehoods. Scofield did not serve until “the close of
the war.” He successfully begged out of the service in 1862 on grounds that he
was a Northerner (he was Michigan-born). Also, Scofield was not decorated for
valor at the battle of Antietam. Decorations were a frill the Confederate army
could not afford. The </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_of_Honor"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cross of Honor</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a postwar decoration bestowed by the
United Daughters of the Confederacy, beginning in 1900, to <i>any</i> veteran
who had provided “loyal, honorable service to the South.” As to having served
“under Gen. Lee“—as Canfield notes, this was only in the same sense that “GIs
in WW2 were under Eisenhower.”</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">10</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Perhaps more egregiously, by 1892 Cyrus began using
the title “Dr. Scofield.” In the Scofield Reference Bible, he is “Rev. C. I.
Scofield, D. D.” (Doctor of Divinity). Conveying this landmark book as a
scholar’s work was, of course, vital. However, there is no evidence Scofield
ever received a doctorate. He never attended a college or seminary. Some
suggest he could have received an <i>honorary</i> doctorate, but even
this seems improbable: no institution has ever claimed credit for awarding it,
Scofield made no allusion to the degree’s source in his <i>Who’s Who</i> biography,
and since Dispensationalism was still viewed as highly unorthodox in 1892, no
Christian institution would have likely bestowed such an honorary degree on
Scofield.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield met the distinguished theologian D. L.
Moody during one of the latter’s evangelical campaigns. In 1886, Moody spoke in
Dallas at Scofield’s invitation. A loose association continued between them,
and in 1896 Scofield moved to New England, becoming pastor of Trinitarian Congregational,
Moody’s home church. It is unclear if this occurred at Moody’s request, but
association with Moody gave Scofield another credential that advanced his
theologian resumé. In December 1899, Moody died at 62 from an undiagnosed
illness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1901, Scofield became a member of New York’s
exclusive, invitation-only Lotos Club, a hangout for the financial and literary
elite. Members have included Mark Twain, <i>New York Times</i> owner
Arthur Hay Sulzberger, the atheist industrialist Andrew Carnegie, and sexual
revolution advocate Margaret Mead. The Lotos Club was the sort a place a
Fundamentalist preacher would ordinarily be ridiculed, yet somehow Scofield
joined its rolls, even though the membership fee alone equaled one-fifth of his
salary as a pastor.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">11</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He
remained a member until his death in 1921.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield’s Lotos Club admission was approved by the
ultra-Zionist attorney on the club’s Literary Committee, Samuel Untermyer.
During his lifetime, Untermyer served as President of </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/keren.html"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Keren Hayesod</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Zionism’s chief financial angel), played a
major role in drafting the Federal Reserve Act, was notorious for </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";">Wilson into</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> appointing Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court,
and </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://rense.com/general84/declare.htm"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">spearheaded the Jewish “declaration
of war” boycott</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> against
Germany in 1933. Is it surprising that someone who might be called America’s
leading Zionist would sponsor, at the Lotos Club, the theologian who
produced <i>the book which</i> <i>birthed “Christian Zionism</i>”?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to some sources (e.g., </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://proliberty.com/observer/20090507.htm"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">this article</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">), Untermyer introduced Scofield to other leading
Zionist financiers, such as Jacob Schiff and Bernard Baruch. This is credible,
since Untermyer was close to these individuals, and Scofield’s finances took a
turn for the better—he was suddenly able to afford extended trips to Europe in
pursuit of producing his reference Bible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield and his wife Hettie traveled to England in
1904. According to Charles Trumbull’s official, laudatory biography of
Scofield, he told a London acquaintance, Robert Scott, that he planned writing
a reference Bible, but had no idea who might publish it. As luck would have it,
Scott was able to introduce him to Henry Frowde, head of Oxford University
Press. Quoting Trumbull:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Mr. Frowde was interested. He said he would consult
Mr. Armstrong, then head of the American branch of the Oxford University Press.
Mr. Armstrong was immediately enthusiastic at the suggestion that this new
Reference Bible be brought out by the Oxford Press, and a preliminary
understanding was quickly reached. Mr. Frowde assured Dr. Scofield that, if he
finally decided to place the Bible with them, they could readily arrange a
proper contract for the publication, in the interests of each party. And so the
publishing question was settled . . . . </span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">12</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This story is as preposterous as Scofield’s Lotos
Club admission. Major publishing houses don’t assure publication of manuscripts
they haven’t even seen yet, unless the author has a proven track record of
bestsellers (e.g., a Stephen King). Scofield had never written a book before,
with the exception of <i>Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth </i>(which
was actually self-described as a “pamphlet”). He had no academic background
qualifying him to edit a reference Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Furthermore, Oxford University Press was owned by
Zionist Jews and run by Fabian Socialists. It was primarily devoted to
publishing literary and scholarly books<i>, not Bibles</i>, and like the Lotos
Club, was a venue normally hostile to evangelical Fundamentalists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is rather apparent that Scofield’s Zionist
connections, who got him into the Lotos Club and provided travel funding, also
arranged for Oxford’s up-front publication agreement. Is it only coincidence
that Scofield’s trip to England came on the heels of the Pope’s rejection
(January 26, 1904) of Herzl’s plea to support a Zionist state in Palestine?
With the Catholics out, rallying Protestants had become imperative. Oxford
University Press, with offices on both sides of the Atlantic, could ensure
Scofield’s work would receive the publicity and distribution the Zionists
desired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When the Scofields left England, they moved to
Switzerland, where, according to Trumbull, Scofield did nine months of “solid
work” on his reference Bible. But why <i>Switzerland</i>? Although John
Calvin’s library was there, it was not a very logical place to research and
write a reference Bible. It was, however, a center of Freemasonic and covert
banking activities, and, perhaps most importantly, where Theodor Herzl hosted
the early Zionist congresses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield came back to America in 1905. In 1906 he
returned to England (and according to some sources, Switzerland again). In
1907, Scofield signed his publishing contract at the New York City office of
Oxford University Press, and his reference Bible was first published in January
1909.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One immediately notices the volume was produced
with astonishing swiftness. For most men, a reference Bible would have required
a lifetime’s work. All the more remarkable: Scofield had no seminary or
university training, and was not formally schooled in the languages that
ancient Biblical texts are written in—Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ad1c00; font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">The
Scofield Bible’s Strategy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Were, then, some of Scofield’s notes dictated to
him by other parties? Even if not, reviewing the Bible makes it evident that
Scofield borrowed heavily from John Nelson Darby, James Brookes, and other
early proponents of Plymouth Brethren-Dispensational theology. Scofield would
undoubtedly have preferred to use Darby’s satanic Bible version, or a </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://av1611.com/kjbp/charts/themagicmarker.html"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hort-Westcott</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> modernized translation. But since the
Zionists wanted to reach the largest cross-section of Fundamentalists, the King
James was employed. As James Whisler notes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Cyrus wanted to use the bible of his heroes,
Westcott and Hort, for this project. However, he knew that due to the
prominence of the KJV and the meager results of the Revised Version sales, that
his dispensationalist teachings would never get anywhere if coupled with the
R.V. So he used the KJV, but he subtly showed his contempt for it and his
reverence for the Revised Version. This is how he did it. Everywhere that the
King James disagreed with the Revised Version in an area of doctrinal
importance, Cyrus inserted a footnote stating the KJV was incorrect and he
always offered a “more correct” rendering which was almost always identical to
the RV.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">13</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Although his reference Bible was first published in
1909, that edition is virtually impossible to find today. It was the revised
1917 edition that was hyper-marketed, with limitless advertising, by Oxford
University Press, selling millions of copies. Is it only coincidence that 1917
was also the year of the </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p389_John.html"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Balfour Declaration</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, by which Britain’s government pledged to Lord
Walter Rothschild and the Zionist Federation to establish a “national home” for
the Jews in Palestine? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The simultaneous mass-marketing of Scofield’s Bible
would make it appear that God himself had co-signed the Declaration, and
“prophecy was being fulfilled” before believers’ eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why was Scofield’s work so effectual at changing
people’s understanding of the Bible? Before this, most commentaries were
published separately from the Scriptures themselves. Earlier expositors had
regarded the Bible as the sacred Word of God, and that its text should not be
adulterated by their unworthy human words. Scofield scorned this tradition,
placing his comments right on the Bible’s pages. While this was done under the
pretext of reader convenience, its subliminal impact was to give Scofield’s
views status competing with the Scriptures. When a reader recalled a specific
Bible verse, he was apt to remember Scofield’s words along with it, or even in
its place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some were not fooled. As </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.schoettlepublishing.com/biographies/pmauro.htm"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Philip Mauro</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> commented in 1927:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">It is a matter of grief to me that a book should
exist wherein the corrupt words of mortal man are printed on the same page with
the holy Words of the living God; this mixture of the precious and the vile
being made an article of sale, entitled a “Bible,” and distinguished by a man’s
name. . . . For the fact is that dispensationalism is modernism. It is
modernism, moreover, of a very pernicious sort, such that it must have a
“Bible” of its own for the propagation of its peculiar doctrines, since they
are not in the Word of God.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">14</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With Oxford’s intense marketing, people who simply
wanted a Bible often found themselves holding a Scofield Bible, and thus became
unwitting recipients of “Scofieldism.” To help ensure the Bible sold well,
Oxford produced it in beautifully printed cloth and leather editions. To the
unsuspecting, this appeared “God-honoring.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ad1c00; font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">How
Scofield Twisted the Bible to Accommodate Zionism<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I know some will argue that Scofield’s notes
include many theologically sound remarks. Of course they do, because lies are
far more effective when mingled with truths. The Bible warns us that “A little
yeast works through the whole batch of dough” (Galatians 5:9) and to “Beware of
the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!” (Matthew 16:6). Scofield’s foremost
mission was to harmonize his Bible with Zionism. Central to this was distorting
the promises God had made to Abraham (the ancestor of both the ancient Hebrews
and Arabs) in Genesis 12:1-3:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of
thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land
that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless
thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless
them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all
families of the earth be blessed.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Although the word “thee” is <i>singular</i> in
the Hebrew, Scofield pulled a fast one, made it plural, and applied the
blessing to modern Jews. He wrote in his notes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">“And curse him that curseth thee.” Wonderfully
fulfilled in the history of the dispersion. It has invariably fared ill with
the people who have persecuted the Jew—well with those who have protected him.
The future will still more remarkably prove this principle.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Scofield Reference Bible was copyrighted by
Oxford University Press, <i>not </i>Scofield. This gave the publishing
house license to change his words in subsequent printings. Oxford issued a
revised edition in 1967 (coinciding with the Six Day War and Israel’s seizure
of Jerusalem). That version put Scofield’s Zionism on steroids, adding, for
example, this phrase to the above words: “For a nation to commit the sin of
anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgement.” The Bible, of course, never refers
to “the sin of anti-Semitism.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In Genesis 15:18, God described the land He was
giving Abraham and his seed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">In the same day the Lord made a covenant with
Abram, saying, unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt
unto the great river, the river Euphrates.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At Herzl’s Zionist congresses, plans were made to
claim all land from the Nile to the Euphrates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This demarks “Greater Israel”; the Euphrates and
Nile rivers are the two blue stripes displayed on the Israeli flag. They
enclose a star traditionally used in Satanism, with six points, six triangles,
and a hexagon (six-sided) in the middle—666.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To convince Christians that Zionists remained
entitled to this land, Scofield made God’s promise “unconditional.” He wrote:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">For Abraham and his descendants it is evident that
the Abrahamic Covenant made a great change. They became distinctively the heirs
of promise. That covenant is wholly gracious and unconditional. The descendants
of Abraham had but to abide in their own land to inherit every blessing.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">17</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But as any Bible student knows—or should know—God’s
promises to the Hebrews were <i>always </i>conditional upon their
faith. When Moses brought the Hebrews out of Egypt, God did not even permit
them to <i>enter </i>the land due to lack of faith. Instead, they
were compelled to first wander in the wilderness for forty years. Do you think
today’s “Israelites” are more faithful to God than those of Moses’ days?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 115%;">T</span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">el
Aviv’s 2016 Gay Pride Parade. Tel Aviv has been voted </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088319/Tel-Aviv-trumps-New-York-named-worlds-best-gay-city.html"><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration: none;">the
world’s number
one gay city</span></a></span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">. Look like Biblical
holiness?</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anyone who believes God’s promises to Israel were
“unconditional” should read Deuteronomy 28, which clearly enumerates blessings
for obedience, counterbalanced by curses for disobedience. What did John the
Baptist think about claims of “unconditional” heritage? He told the Pharisees:
“And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I
tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.”
(Matthew 3:9). Jesus said: “Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall
be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”
(Matthew 21:43)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield also made it appear that the Bible <i>prophesied</i> a
future return of the Jews to Palestine, in order to give the Balfour
Declaration, and Israel’s eventual statehood, the illusion of “fulfilled
prophecies.” His notes proclaimed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The gift of the land is modified by prophecies of
three dispossessions and restorations . . . . Two dispossessions and
restorations have been accomplished. Israel is now in the third dispersion,
from which she will be restored at the return of the Lord as King under the
Davidic Covenant.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">18</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield’s claim of three restorations is
unscriptural. The Bible prophesies only two restorations: the Hebrews’ original
journey from Egypt to the Promised Land under Moses; and the return from the
exile in Babylon described in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. To support his
claim, Scofield used verses referring to the Ezra-Nehemiah return, or to the
coming of Christ, but <i>nowhere</i> does the Bible forecast a third
return of the Jews to Palestine, unless ones uses (as Scofield did) imaginative
leaps of logic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A cardinal rule of Scofield Dispensationalism:
claim that if any Biblical prophecy was not fulfilled in the past, it still
awaits future fulfilment. Of God’s promise to give Abraham’s seed the land from
the Nile to the Euphrates, Scofield wrote: “It is important to see that the
nation has never as yet taken the land under the unconditional Abrahamic
Covenant, nor has it ever possessed the whole land.”</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">19</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Important,” Scofield? Important to whom? Only to
your Zionist masters. Although it is claimed that the conquests described in
the book of Joshua did not give the Hebrews the <i>whole</i> land,
and thus left God’s promise to Abraham “unfulfilled” until the future, a
careful reading of the Bible disproves this. Joshua 21:43-45 declares:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he
sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. And
the Lord gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their
fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the Lord
delivered all their enemies into their hand. There failed not ought of any good
thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kings 4:21 testifies that the Israelites ruled the
entire area Herzl envisioned as “Greater Israel”:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the
Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
These countries brought tribute and were Solomon’s subjects all his life.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thus the Bible itself refutes Scofield’s claim that
the promise was never fulfilled, allegedly justifying the modern Zionist
takeover of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ad1c00; font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Scofield’s
Legacy: The Damage that Has Been Done<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield’s Bible birthed “Christian Zionism,” and
with it, untold sorrows over the past century:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">• <i>Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine</i>. In the
1948 <i>Nakba</i>, the Zionists murderously drove 750,000 Palestinians
from their homes at gunpoint. Quoting <i>If Americans Knew</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Zionist forces committed 33 massacres and destroyed
531 Palestinian towns. Author Norman Finkelstein [himself Jewish} states:
“According to the former director of the Israeli army archives, ‘in almost
every village occupied by us during the War… acts were committed which are
defined as war crimes, such as murders, massacres, and rapes’…Uri Milstein, the
authoritative Israeli military historian of the 1948 war, goes one step
further, maintaining that ‘every skirmish ended in a massacre of Arabs.’”<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f7f7f;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Victims of 1948 Deir Yassin Massacre</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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somehow still justifies this, I wish to point out that the Canaanites whom
Joshua and the Hebrews fought against were<i> giants; satanically trans
humanized beings and worshippers of Satan.</i> (See my article “</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://jamesperloff.com/2015/04/28/making-sense-of-the-supernatural/"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Making Sense of the
Supernatural</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.”) Today’s Palestinians <i>do not equate to</i> <i>the
ancient Canaanites</i>, and contrary to what “Christian Zionists” typically
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Christian Zionists have bought into the myth that
Israel is only “defending its right to exist” and that Palestinians are
“terrorists.” The Israelis have over 4,000 tanks and over 400 combat aircraft,
thanks to a steady flow of about $3 billion annually from American taxpayers.
The unarmed Palestinians have not one tank or plane; they fight their illegal
occupiers primarily with stones.</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003 on the pretext
that it was avoiding UN inspections of weapons of mass destruction (which, it
turned out, didn’t even exist). Israel, on the other hand, has hundreds of
nuclear weapons which it refuses to let the UN inspect; the United States
grants it a free pass, and has even </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-helped-israel-with-h-bomb-1980s-report-declassified/5431271"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">given Israel the
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<i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">• False-flag Terrorism and War for the Rest of the
World. </span></i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Contrary to the Zionist media’s spin, Israel has
been the world’s number-one sponsor of terrorism, implemented “by way of
deception”—the motto of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. This has
included, for example, the 1946 </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">King David Hotel
bombing</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, the 1954 </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lavon Affair</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, the vicious 1967 </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://jamesperloff.com/2014/08/13/remember-the-liberty/"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">attack on the</span><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;"> <i>USS Liberty</i></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, the 1986 “</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://jamesperloff.com/2015/01/15/did-cold-war-end-so-that-the-war-on-terror-could-begin/"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trojan” deception
that led Reagan to bomb Libya (scroll down a little if clicking link)</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, and of course, the mother of them all, 9/11,</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;"> </span><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">covered
with Zionist-Israeli fingerprints</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. 9/11 led
to the countless and unnecessary Middle East wars which were </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">already foreknown in 2001</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. Those wars in turn produced the refugee crisis
ravaging Europe today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">• <i>Provoking Hostility of Muslims toward
Christianity</i>. Christian Aid is a leading Christian charity and missionary
organization, founded in 1945. Here is an informative 2003 quote from Bob
Finley, Christian Aid’s founder and CEO:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Christian support for the Zionist movement began in
England a century ago when a few Bible teachers began to interpret certain Old
Testament prophecies regarding the ancient Hebrews as being applicable to the
present day Jewish people. Apparently those teachers did not know that
(according to the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia) the Ashkenazi, or Yiddish,
majority of Jewish people originally came from the empire of Khazaria in
Southern Russia and are not biologically related to Abraham. So when a few
Ashkenazi Zionists began trying to take over parts of Palestine through acts of
terrorism about 70 years ago, some Christians started saying it signified the
fulfillment of some obscure Old Testament prophecies.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Christians today fail to realize how such
statements have had a destructive effect on our fellow believers in many parts
of the world, so Christian Aid has begun to call attention to these facts.
Since 1940 the Zionists have killed, driven out or displaced over two million
of the original residents of Palestine. Their lands, houses and businesses have
all been stolen, and most of their personal property as well. Hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians fled to refugee camps in surrounding countries over a
20-year period. Yet all the while, unbelievably, some Christians in America
were cheering for the Zionists, and proclaiming their atrocities as being
blessed of God. . . . Our thoughtless expressions of approval have been
destructive in three ways.</span></div>
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<i style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;">What we have
done to our fellow Christians in Islamic Lands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">When Americans speak favorably about Zionist
aggression in Palestine, we bring needless persecution on multiplied thousands
of our fellow believers now living in Islamic countries. Christian citizens of
those countries are suspected of being in agreement with what the Americans are
saying, though not one in a thousand of them are. When Muslims hear of Baptists
in America praising Zionist atrocities, what are they to think of the Baptist
churches in their countries? Or the Pentecostals? Or Presbyterians? How can we
expect them not to retaliate against those who favor killing their fellow
Muslims?</span></div>
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<i style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;">What we have
done to missionary work among the Muslims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Fifty years ago millions of Muslims were open
to the gospel. There was a great missionary opportunity for reaching them for
Christ. Muslims make up the largest segment of unreached peoples on earth, and
they were very open until American Christians began to praise Zionist conquests
in Palestine. Since most of the violence has been against Muslims, it is to be
expected that Muslims in other countries would be sympathetic toward the
victims and resentful toward the Christians who support Zionist expansion. This
political development has served to cut off millions of Muslims from their
previous receptivity to the gospel. . . . Our missionary opportunity among them
has been ruined.</span></div>
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</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;">What Zionism
has done to our churches? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Until 50 years ago most Christians accepted events
recorded in the book of Joshua as something special for that particular time.
We believed that the coming of the Saviour brought a New Covenant under which
we no longer resort to violence to advance the kingdom of God. But when the
Zionist movement began in Palestine around 1920, some Christians started to
disregard New Testament principles. We would say it’s wrong for us to kill our
neighbor and steal his property, but if Jewish people did it in Palestine, then
it was O.K. First it was thousands, then tens of thousands, and eventually
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were driven from their homes. All of
their property was stolen by the Zionists. Forty percent of the victims were
professing Christians, many of whom were born again believers. Yet, to our
everlasting shame, many Christians in America have stood on the sidelines and
cheered for the murderers. It’s all O.K., we say, because Zionism is a
fulfillment of prophecy. It is hard to imagine how any Bible believer with
reasonable intelligence could endorse such things, particularly when so many
thousands of conscientious Jews the world over have objected strenuously to
Zionist aggression in Palestine.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Some of our faithful friends in Christ have told us
that if we dare to say anything about the tragedies that have resulted from
Christians endorsing Zionist atrocities we may lose some financial support as a
result. That doesn’t bother me. My Bible says, “We must obey God rather
than men.” (Acts 5:29)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Faithfully yours in Him,<i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Bob Finley<i><br />
</i>Chairman and CEO</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">21</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I do wish to point out: the great majority of
Christian Zionists have endorsed Zionism without <i>conscious</i> <i>knowledge</i> of
the atrocities in Palestine, which the U.S. media has suppressed. Most American
evangelicals and dispensationalists are good-hearted people, who have
unfortunately been led astray about Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ad1c00; font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Why So
Many Christians Buy the Nonsense<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Besides Scofield’s distortion of the Abrahamic
covenant to mean an “unconditional” real-estate promise to the Jews, and his
invention of a third prophesied homecoming, the following reasons stand out:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">• The “chosen people” myth</span></i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. In keeping with Zionist preferences, Scofield
ignored the New Testament’s clear explanation: “There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are
all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s
seed, and heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians 3:28-29). Scofield
instead reverted the promise to an Old Testament context, a misinterpreted one
at that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Moreover, we now know that most people identifying
as Jews are probably (as Finley noted above) not descendants of Abraham, but of
the </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Khazars</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, a Turkic people who made Judaism their state
religion in the eighth century AD. Jewish author Arthur Koestler pioneered
historical evidence for this in his 1976 book </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thirteenth-Tribe-Arthur-Koestler/dp/0945001428/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1471653261&sr=8-2&keywords=arthur+koestler+the+thirteenth+tribe"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Thirteenth
Tribe</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, research since affirmed by </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Science-Jewish-Bloodline-Texe-Marrs/dp/1930004818/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1471653456&sr=8-4&keywords=texe+marrs"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">DNA evidence</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. The significance? If most “Jewish” occupiers of
Palestine aren’t Abraham’s descendants, then they are <i>not his seed</i>,
and thus not entitled to the land, even under the terms of Scofield’s twisted
theology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">• The</span></i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <i>“Judeo-Christian”
myth.</i> Most evangelical Christians harbor the illusion that religious
Jews today are adherents of the Old Testament. They believe they as Christians
live in “Judeo-Christian” harmony with Jews who share the same essential
values.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of course, one cannot stereotype Jews, many of whom
(like my late father) are non-religious, have no interest in Zionism, and
assimilate into other cultures. However, when referring to organized Judaism,
it is important to understand that religious Jews follow the <i>Talmud</i>,
which rabbis consider senior to the <i>Tanakh</i> (Old Testament of
the Christian Bible). Jesus consistently directed his most severe censures
against the Pharisees, the teachers of the <i>oral law</i>, which they
used to nullify the laws of God. After the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD,
dispersed Jews continued teaching the oral law, eventually written down as the
Talmud. Over the centuries it evolved, becoming many times more evil than in
Jesus’s day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Talmud decrees that:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">— Jesus is in hell, being boiled in faeces; Gittin
57a.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">22<br />
</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">— Jesus’s mother Mary was a whore; Babylonian
Talmud (BT), Sanhedrin 106a.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">23</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
— Gentiles are donkeys; BT Berakoth 58a.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">24<br />
</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">— All gentile children are animals; Yebamoth 98a.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">25<br />
</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">— If a gentile hits a Jew, the gentile must be
killed; BT Sanhedrin 58b.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">26<br />
</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">— Gentiles who study the Law deserve death; BT
Sanhedrin 59a.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">27</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
— A Jew may lie to a gentile; Tractate Baba Kamma 113a.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">28<br />
</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">— A Jew need not pay a gentile wages owed for work;
BT Sanhedrin 57A.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">29</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <b><br />
</b>— It is permissible to cheat a gentile in court; BT Baba Kamma.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">30<br />
</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">— If a Jew finds an object lost by a gentile, it
does not have to be returned; BT Bab Kamma
113b.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">31<br />
</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">— When the Messiah comes, he will destroy the
Christians; BT Sanhedrin 99a.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">32</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is not just ancient texts that disdain non-Jews,
but modern rabbis as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">—Rabbi Kook the Elder, first Ashkenazi chief rabbi
of the British Mandatory Palestine, said: “The difference between a Jewish soul
and the souls of non-Jews—all of them in all different levels—is greater and
deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.”</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">33</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">—Israeli Rabbi Yaacov Perrin said in 1994: “One
million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.”</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">34</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">—In his 2003 book <i>Jewish Superiority and
the Question of Exile</i>, Rabbi Saadya Grama of Beth Medrash Govoha wrote:
“The Jew by his source and his very essence is entirely good. The goy, by his
source and in his very essence, is completely evil. This is not simply a matter
of religious distinction, but rather of two completely different species.”</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">35</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">—Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said
in a 2010 sermon:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that,
they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel. Why are
gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit
like an effendi and eat. . . . With gentiles, it will be like any person: They
need to die, but God will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey
would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant. That’s why he gets a
long life, to work well for this Jew.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">36</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Talmudic Judaism is <i>inherently racist</i>,
not rooted in Biblical values. The <i>behavior</i> of Jews, not some
sort of universal “anti-Semitism,” caused them to be </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/expelled.htm"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">expelled from more than 100 countries</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> over the past two millennia. Martin Luther,
well aware of their views and activities, </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">denounced them</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Judaism regards non-Jews as animals. This is why
Israel’s heavily-armed IDF soldiers regularly abuse Palestinians as though they
were not humans. A booklet, written by the IDF’s chief rabbi and published by
its Central Regional Command, indoctrinated soldiers with Talmudic outlook in
proclaiming:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">When our forces come across civilians during a war
or in hot pursuit or in a raid, so long as there is no certainty that those
civilians are incapable of harming our forces, then according to the Halakhah
[Jewish law] they may and even should be killed.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">37</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The IDF’s new chief rabbi, Eyal Karim, has even
said IDF soldiers </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/New_IDF_Chief_Rabbi_Says_Soldiers_Can_Rape_Arab_Women_During_Wartime_to_Boost_Morale/52614/0/38/38/Y/M.html"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">may rape Arab women</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> to boost their morale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Judaism regards Christians with contempt, and only
tolerates them for the time being because they represent a powerful pro-Israel
voting bloc. The <i>Jerusalem Post</i>observed in 1983:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The real Zionists in the U.S. are not the American
Jews but the Christian evangelicals since these Christians feel that we are
coming closer to a critical period in history and they want the Jews to fulfill
prophecies and thus hasten the Second Coming of the Messiah. The evangelicals
affect 20 million people a day in America. They are a great asset and <i>must
be used as such</i>.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">38</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> [emphasis
added]<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Many Christians are duped into the illusion of
“Judeo-Christianity” because Israel permits American church groups to visit
ancient holy sites in Israel. But as Jack Bernstein, an American Jew who lived
in Israel, wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Tourism is one of Israel’s main sources of income.
The largest group of visitors are American Jews. But, there are also many
American Christians who want to visit the holy shrines and to see the land of
“God’s Chosen People.” These Christians come away very impressed and filled
with religious fervor.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">While in Israel, Jews and Gentiles alike are
carefully watched so that they do not stray and happen to see the sordid side
of Israel—the true Israel. Like in Soviet Russia and other communist countries,
visitors to Israel are taken on carefully planned guided tours. They are shown
the religious sites, the universities, the lush orchards, the technical
accomplishments, the arts, and to stir sympathy, they are taken to visit the
Holocaust Museum.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">But, kept from the eyes of the tourists are the
ghettos, the prisons where political prisoners, mostly Arabs and Sephardic
Jews, are subjected to the most inhumane forms of torture. The tourists do not
see the widespread crime activities and the corruption and cooperation between
organized crime bosses and government and police officials. The tourists do not
learn of the true inner workings of Israel’s Marxist/Fascist government; nor do
they see Israel’s racism. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">I met one American tourist who couldn’t help telling
me about the wonderful religious feeling she had from being in Israel—the Holy
Land. I remarked to her, “Just try giving a Bible to a local Jew and you will
see how much religion and religious freedom there is in Israel. If seen by the
police, you will be arrested.”<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Zionism Degenerates into Complete Idiocy</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Today’s Christian Zionists do not just fail to
discern the Luciferian nature of Judaism; they treat Jews and Israel with
veneration bordering on idolatry. Texe Marrs highlights an example caught on
film:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">[F]ive or six young Christians, some eighteen to
twenty years of age, attending a national evangelical youth conference were
asked, “How many of you love Israel?” All of their hands shot straight up. “How
many of you would fight and die for the nation of Israel?,” they were asked.
Again, every hand quickly went up. “And if Israel got into a war with the
United States, how many would choose to go and fight with Israel against your
home country, the United States?” Once again, all (except one) raised their
hand, though not with quite so much enthusiasm.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">40</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A church I once attended invited a “Messianic Jew”
to deliver a Sunday sermon. He told us it was very important for our church to
show solidarity with the Jewish community. He announced that, to express this
solidarity, we would pretend we were a synagogue today, and celebrate Purim
(the holiday on which Jews celebrate being saved from their enemies—and <i>slaughtering </i>them).
He distributed noisemakers to the congregation. As the rest of the church
played along, noisily acting out Purim, I stood in silence. I looked across the
aisle at another parishioner who felt as I did, and we shook our heads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At the time, I was not yet schooled in Christian
Zionism’s deplorable history. But I knew from the Bible’s clear instructions
(book of Hebrews) that we, as Christians, are not to engage in Jewish
ceremonies. Furthermore, the alleged purpose of the “pretend we’re a synagogue”
service—to show solidarity to the Jewish community—made no sense, as no
synagogue Jews were present to witness the event. In retrospect, I believe the
“Messianic Jew” was simply trying to Judaize Christians, and for I all know,
was snickering under his breath at the sight of us observing Purim; for given
the Talmud’s remarks about Christians, the church was ghoulishly celebrating
what was tantamount to its own funeral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/zionget"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Brother Nathanael</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Kapner, who was Jewish-born-and-raised, and
is now an Orthodox Christian, says this about Christian Zionists:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">While some of Brother Nathanael’s remarks may bore
agnostics, and anger Christians with differing theological views, his comments
on the Rapture and “Messianic age” bring us to Zionism’s ultimate deception:</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ad1c00; font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">The Final
Insult: Persuading Christians to Worship the Antichrist<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There is nothing the Rothschilds would savor more
than seeing the Christian church bow down and worship the beast, or Antichrist,
whom they wish to rule their coming world government. This necessitates that
when the Antichrist appears, he initially presents himself as the Second Coming
of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When I was a young Christian, I was struck by a
particular distinction in Bible translations. Older versions, such as the King
James and Geneva Bibles, always said Jesus would return at the end of the
“world” (e.g., Matthew 24:3). But modern versions (NIV, West-Horcott, Darby,
etc.) said He would return at the end of the “age.” In the Scofield Reference
Bible, Scofield begrudgingly used the King James Version, but always added
notes clarifying that “world” was <i>properly </i>translated “age.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This may seem only a nuance, but is vital to the
Zionists. Dispensationalism says history divides into seven “ages,” and that we
are currently only in the sixth. (These ages are artificial constructs; for a
refutation, see this </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.thebiblicalworldview.org/folly-of-dispensationalism/"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">post</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> by a former dispensational minister.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">By claiming Jesus shall return at <i>the end
of</i> <i>the current age</i>, instead of <i>the end of the world</i>,
Scofield and his cohorts created a scenario by which the Antichrist <i>could
proclaim himself Christ</i>, then rule the Earth during the next “age,”
through the very world government the Illuminati have been building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield wrote in his reference Bible: “Upon His
return the King will restore the Davidic monarchy in His own person, re-gather
dispersed Israel, establish His power over all the earth, and reign one
thousand years.”</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">41</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But could Lucifer really arrive in a way that would
persuade Christians he was Jesus? Certainly. The apostle Paul, when describing
false apostles, wrote: “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an
angel of light.” (2 Corinthians 11:14). Can he appear to do miracles? The Bible
says, “Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders.” (2 Thessalonians 2:9). This would be especially easy
with the high tech now available, such as the capacity to project holograms,
which can fashioned in the image of angels as easily as anything else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">This Scofield teaching is concerned with a literal
Jewish kingdom to last for a millennium. . . . The Bible does not teach it . .
. We must ask ourselves if Jesus ever offered or announced himself as an
earthly King or claimed David’s throne? Had he ever in any way suggested he was
going to set up an earthly kingdom? He said to Pilate, “My kingdom is not of
this world, if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight,
that I should not be delivered to the Jews, but now is my kingdom not from
hence.”</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">42</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Israelites of Jesus’s day wanted a <i>political </i>Messiah,
a king who would liberate them from Rome. Jesus rejected it:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come
and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain
himself alone. (John 6:15)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scofield and “Christian Zionists” reject both the
character of Jesus and the Bible’s clear teaching by anticipating Him as
an <i>earthly</i> king. They repeat the exact same error people in
Israel made two thousand years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Most Christians today believe that when they die,
they will dwell in heaven with Jesus forever. But if Jesus is to rule on<i> Earth </i>for
a thousand years, while they were in heaven they would be <i>separated </i>from
their Savior all that time. Yes, Scofieldism=confusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Many churches today affirm, in their “what we
believe” statements, that Jesus will return to rule Earth for a millennium. Yet
only one passage in the entire Bible refers to Jesus reigning a thousand years:
Revelation 20:1-6. I think it dangerous for any church to base a core doctrine
on a single scripture passage, especially given the general consensus that the
book of Revelation contains considerable symbolic language. As this post is
already very long, I won’t elaborate here on Revelation 20, but I refer the
reader to Appendix IV, “The Millennium,” of my book </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Lonely-Warrior-James-Perloff/dp/0966816021/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472224438&sr=8-1&keywords=truth+is+a+lonely+warrior+james+perloff"><i><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Truth Is a Lonely
Warrior</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trick<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For a number of years, I attended a fundamentalist
church. One day, the associate pastor was teaching from the Old-Testament book
of Ezekiel (in which God gave the prophet Ezekiel instructions on the building
of a temple). The teacher told us that, since Ezekiel’s temple was never built,
it must be constructed <i>in the future</i>, and that Jewish animal
sacrifices would be restored. He said that after Jesus returned, he would reign
from this temple for 1,000 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was amazed at this teaching, because the New
Testament unequivocally declares that the Cross of Christ did away with the
temple and sacrifices. Much of the book of Hebrews is devoted to this point,
telling us that “Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant,” and that
“Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after
day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed
for their sins once for all when he offered himself.” (Hebrews 7:22, 27)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Book of Ezekiel, however, prescribed animal
sacrifices:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of
two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for
the grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement
for the people, declares the sovereign Lord. (Ezekiel 45:15)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus will not require us to make such offerings;
the Cross eliminated them. The Book of Ezekiel further proclaims:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">This is what the Sovereign Lord says: No foreigner
uncircumcised in heart and flesh is to enter my sanctuary, not even the
foreigners who live among the Israelites. (Ezekiel 44:9)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Would Jesus exclude foreigners? The Bible says the
Gospel is for all peoples. Would he reinstitute the Jewish custom of physical
circumcision? The Apostle Paul said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let
yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. Again I
declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to
obey the whole law. You who are trying to be justified by the law have been
alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. (Galatians 5:2-4)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">How had my church’s teacher become so blind to the
Bible’s clear message? I later found the answer when he proudly displayed his
Scofield Reference Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Although Christian Zionists say the Jewish temple
must be rebuilt, Jesus prophesied only its <i>destruction</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">“Do you see all these great buildings?” replied
Jesus. “Not one stone here will be left on another; everyone will be thrown
down.” (Mark 13:2)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Never </span></i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">did Jesus
ordain the Temple’s rebuilding, or state that He would rule from it. Here is
what Jesus said about His return:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">So if anyone tells you, “There he is, </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">out in the
desert,” do not go out; or, “Here he is, in the inner rooms,” do not believe
it. For as lightning that comes from east is visible in the west, so will be
the coming of the Son of Man. (Matthew 24:26-27) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who <i>will</i> rule from a temple in
Jerusalem? The Antichrist. Jesus warned the End Times would occur “when you see
the standing in the holy temple the abomination that causes desolation, spoken
of through the prophet Daniel.” (Matt 24:15). Paul, speaking of the End Times,
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that
day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is
revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and exalt himself over
everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in
God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. (2 Thess 2:3-4)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thus, Christian Zionists teach the<i> opposite </i>of
Scripture and prepare their congregations to worship the Antichrist himself.
And make no mistake, </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/04/10/israeli-institute-prepares-priests-for-jerusalems-third-temple"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Israel is preparing
to rebuild the Temple</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, and to pay
the costs gullible Christian congregations are being milked for donations, by
some estimates up to $100 million annually.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">43</span></sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ad1c00; font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Why the
Rapture Had to Be Taught<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I now broach a subject guaranteed to incite fury,
because it is so widely believed among evangelical churches. Darby and Scofield
expounded that Christians would not face the Antichrist’s persecution
because <i>the Rapture</i> would remove them from the planet. They
thus asserted that Jesus would return <i>twice</i>: once for the Rapture,
and later again for His Second Coming. Here is the verse dispensationalists
most heavily rely on for Rapture doctrine:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with
a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet
of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are
left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in
the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">There are three problems with claiming this passage
refers to the Rapture. First, neither it nor the entire book of 1
Thessalonians mentions Christ returning two more times, or makes any reference
to such a distinction. Second, dispensationalists believe the Rapture will be a
secret and silent event, yet this passage describes a very loud and public
event. This is all the more problematic because dispensationalists insist that
they interpret Scripture “plainly” and “literally,” allowing for symbolism only
when such is the obvious intent of the author. Finally, dispensationalists
teach that all other New Testament references to Christ coming in the clouds
(Matthew 24:30 and 26:64; Mark 14:62; Revelation 1:7) refer to His Second
Coming but inexplicably deny that that is the case here.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">44</span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Furthermore, Scripture plainly teaches that
believers will <i>not</i> be “gathered unto the Lord” until <i>after </i>the
Antichrist has been revealed (excuse the following redundant quotation):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and
our being gathered to him . . . . Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for
that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is
revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and exalt himself over
everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in
God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. (2 Thess 2:1-4)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">By believing they will be spared persecution,
Christians are preparing themselves for disappointment and even shattered
faith. Fritz Springmeier relates:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Chinese believers in China prior to the Mao’s Red
Chinese takeover were told that they would be raptured before they suffered any
tribulation. The communists took over and tortured and martyred millions of
Chinese Christians who mistakenly thought the Bible taught that they would be
raptured before any suffering. The Bible was widely discredited, because it had
been mistaught.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">45 </span></sup><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why did the Illuminati want the Rapture doctrine
introduced? It emasculated the church as an opponent of the New World Order.
Why fight something you won’t be around to experience?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Today, many Christians are perplexed as to why
their congregations are shrinking. The reasons, of course, are
multidimensional, and include numerous factors outside the church itself, such
as inculcation of </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://jamesperloff.com/why-the-creation-evolution-debate-matters/"><span style="color: #688f89; font-size: 12.0pt;">Darwinism</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> in public schools, and Hollywood’s
stereotyping of Christians as repugnant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But much of the problem lies within the churches.
Today, many truths about world events are freely available through alternative
media. When informed newcomers come to a Sunday service, and see that a pastor,
whose brain is hardwired to mainstream media, knows less about geopolitical
truths than they do, will they trust that pastor to edify them about <i>eternal</i> truths?
When they hear a pastor praising Israel despite decades of atrocities, and that
the pastor thus excuses murder and theft, <i>unable to distinguish</i> <i>fundamental
right from wrong</i>, will they trust this pastor to lead them toward
righteousness? And when see that a pastor cannot understand clear Bible
lessons, but instead teaches their <i>opposite</i>, based on regurgitation
of Scofield’s Orwellian Scripture-twisting, will they want to return for
another sermon?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I think not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;">1. John Coleman, How Conspirators Misuse Christian Fundamentalists (white paper)
(Carson City, Nev.: World in Review, 2003), 4.<br />
2. As quoted, “C. I. Scofield: Scoundrel, Shyster, and Scalawag,” Heresy in the Heartland, January 13,
2014,<a href="http://heresyintheheartland.blogspot.com/2014/01/c-i-scofield-scoundrel-shyster-and.html"><span style="color: #688f89;">http://heresyintheheartland.blogspot.com/2014/01/c-i-scofield-scoundrel-shyster-and.html</span></a>.<br />
3. “Cyrus I. Schofield in the Role of a Congregational Minister,” Topeka Daily Capital, August 27, 1881, as
quoted, Joseph M. Canfield, The
Incredible Scofield and His Book (Vallecito, Calif.: Ross House
Books, 2004), 99-100.<br />
4. Canfield, 80.<br />
5. Ibid., 83.<br />
6. Ibid., 94.<br />
7. John S. Torell, “Dancing around the Golden Calf, Part 5,” European-American Evangelistic Crusades,
January-March 2007,<a href="http://www.eaec.org/newsletters/2007/Jan-Mar/NL2007Jan-Mar2.htm"><span style="color: #688f89;">http://www.eaec.org/newsletters/2007/Jan-Mar/NL2007Jan-Mar2.htm</span></a>.<br />
8. Canfield, 114.<br />
9. Who’s Who in America (1912-1913),
1856, as quoted in Canfield, 290.<br />
10. Canfield, 290.<br />
11. Ibid., 218.<br />
12. Charles Trumbull, The
Life Story of C. I. Scofield (New York: Oxford University Press,
1920), 89-90.<br />
13. James Whisler, “Dispensationalism Timeline,”</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://poweredbychrist.homestead.com/files/history/Timeline.htm"><span style="color: #688f89; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">http://poweredbychrist.homestead.com/files/history/Timeline.htm</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;">.<br />
14. Philip Mauro, The Gospel of
the Kingdom (1927),<a href="http://www.preteristarchive.com/Books/1927_mauro_gospel-kingdom.html"><span style="color: #688f89;">http://www.preteristarchive.com/Books/1927_mauro_gospel-kingdom.html</span></a>.<br />
15. Thomas Williamson, “Zionism Verses the Bible,” </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Doctrines/Zionism/zionism.htm"><span style="color: #688f89; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Doctrines/Zionism/zionism.htm</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;">.<br />
16. C. I. Scofield, ed., The
Scofield Reference Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 1917),
25.<br />
17. Ibid., 20.<br />
18. Ibid., 25.<br />
19. Ibid., 250.<br />
20. “The Catastrophe, Al Nakba: How Palestine Became Israel,“ If Americans Knew(April
2013), </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-nakba.html"><span style="color: #688f89; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-nakba.html</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;">.<br />
21. Bob Finley, “Why Christian Aid Is Speaking Out about Zionism and Islam,”Christian News, May 5, 2003, 13.<br />
22. Michael Hoffman, “Jesus and the Talmud,” The Hoffman Wire (2003),<a href="http://www.revisionisthistory.org/wire1.html"><span style="color: #688f89;">http://www.revisionisthistory.org/wire1.html</span></a>.<br />
23. Michael Hoffman, Judaism’s
Strange Gods (Coeur d’Alene, Idaho: Independent History and
Research, 2011), 240.<br />
24. Ibid., 184.<br />
25. Ibid., 196.<br />
26. Ibid., 182.<br />
27. Ibid., 185.<br />
28. Hoffman, “Jesus and the Talmud.”<br />
29. Hoffman, Judaism’s Strange
Gods, 182.<br />
30. Ibid., 185.<br />
31. Ibid.<br />
32. Ibid., 239.<br />
33. Ibid., 189-90.<br />
34. Clyde Haberman, “West Bank Massacre,” New York Times, Feb. 28, 1994,<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/28/world/west-bank-massacre-israel-orders-tough-measures-against-militant-settlers.html?pagewanted=all"><span style="color: #688f89;">http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/28/world/west-bank-massacre-israel-orders-tough-measures-against-militant-settlers.html?pagewanted=all</span></a>.<br />
35. Hoffman, Judaism’s Strange
Gods, 188.<br />
36. Marcy Oster, “Sephardi Leader Yosef: Non-Jews Exist to Serve Jews,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, October
18, 2010, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jta.org/2010/10/18/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/sephardi-leader-yosef-non-jews-exist-to-serve-jews"><span style="color: #688f89; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">http://www.jta.org/2010/10/18/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/sephardi-leader-yosef-non-jews-exist-to-serve-jews</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;">.<br />
37. Israel Shahak, Jewish
History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (London:
Pluto Press, 1994), 76.<br />
38. Jerusalem Post, March
6, 1983, as quoted in Coleman, How
Conspirators Misuse Christian Fundamentalists, 7.<br />
39. Jack Bernstein, The Life of
an American Jew in Racist Marxist Israel (1985) (online
edition), </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/israel.htm"><span style="color: #688f89; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/israel.htm</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;">.<br />
40. Texe Marrs, DNA Science and
the Jewish Bloodline (Austin, Texas: RiverCrest Publishing, 2015),
165-66.<br />
41. Scofield, 1227.<br />
42. Emma Moore Weston, “Origin of Scofield Heresies,” Analyzing Scofield,<a href="http://www.gospeltruth.net/scofield.htm"><span style="color: #688f89;">http://www.gospeltruth.net/scofield.htm</span></a>.<br />
43. Stephen Sizer, “Will the Jewish Temple Be Rebuilt?” (February 27, 2014),<a href="http://stephensizer.com/2014/02/will-the-jewish-temple-be-rebuilt/#more-4966"><span style="color: #688f89;">http://stephensizer.com/2014/02/will-the-jewish-temple-be-rebuilt/#more-4966</span></a>.<br />
44. Carl E. Olson, “Five Myths about the Rapture,” November 2003,<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041217140003/http:/www.originaldissent.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-11538.html"><span style="color: #688f89;">http://web.archive.org/web/20041217140003/http:/www.originaldissent.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-11538.html</span></a>.<br />
45. Fritz Springmeier,” The Armageddon Plot,”</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/armageddon_plot.htm"><span style="color: #688f89; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/armageddon_plot.htm</span></a></span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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Blackmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01706245962648816648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916108294198058796.post-76008238244143790662016-12-25T00:02:00.000+08:002016-12-25T00:08:38.216+08:00Deleting The Truth - Will Zionist Jews Kill Mike James? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">As a personal friend of the writer Michael James,
who is one of the few people I know taking a stand against the Zionists in
Germany, I wish to express my fears that his life could be in danger
following his recent defiance and defeat of the Central Council of Jews in
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Last week, Mike made legal history in Germany,
and yet very few people know about it. His victory against international
Zionist Jewry was astonishing. He set a precedent which is a threat to the
Zionist World Order and the emerging Bolshevik European Union, but you only
read about it on the Net, and that article has been expunged from the Google
cache. Totally deleted within 48 hours. And no mainstream coverage. Nothing.</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have published many of Mike's brave and
outspoken articles on my own website, http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com,
the last being the main article in question, "Jews Run Scared of Mike
James, German State Attorney Cites Insanity":</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Each time I publish one of his articles, I notice
a huge spike in interest from folks with military and Israeli ISP addresses
and I sometimes get blasted for publishing him, including Denial of Service
attacks and abusive e-mails. This time I received a very threatening letter
disparaging Mike and a number of strange e-mails from Jews that made no sense
but were quite sinister.</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Jews are going to attack this guy with a
fury. I'll tell you why, and I'll tell you why I think we should pray for
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mike knows his history and he knows the law, but
the position he takes is one the Jews can't handle. It's not classically
revisionist. His view is that all history is subjectively written and
therefore justifiably questionable. Furthermore, he maintains that it is not
possible to verify anything one hasn't personally witnessed or experienced
oneself and hold it to be the "truth."</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">As he said himself:</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"No policeman would ever ask someone born in
1959 to stand in the dock before a judge and swear on the Bible that he had
witnessed a crime that allegedly took place twenty years before he was born.
Such a policemen would soon find himself charged with corruption and the
witness would be incarcerated for perjury."</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mike once told me that the only lawyer he would
need in court is Socrates and he would make a laughing stock out of these
ridiculous "holocaust" denial laws using logic and reason. I believe
he would too, and do so knowing that the judge sitting before him is a
representative of an illegal state that ceased to exist in 1990. (This is a
well-known fact in Germany, but something most Germans are afraid to talk
about, but not Mike.)</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I got an e-mail from him yesterday and he told me
that he was astonished to see how his last article had disappeared from over
22 sites, various blogs and many forums in all the Google caches (he's
already been banned from Google Germany for the last three years).</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Then I got to thinking, well, a wounded Jew is a
very dangerous Jew. Although the State Attorney said he wasn't under
investigation, I know from my communications with Mike over the past few
months that he is being trailed, watched and monitored (which he takes for
granted with a big grin). He even had his phone disconnected for a week by
the government as punishment. </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now, anyone who knows Mike or has read any of his
articles is going to get the impression that he just doesn't give a shit and is
on a death wish, and I think that's true to some extent. If he was anyone
else, he'd already be in prison. You can call it brazen stupidity or plain
bravery, or both; but I know him well enough to say that once he finds
himself in a fight he can't stop until he's won because the one thing he
hates is bullies and tyrants, and lies and laws that make no sense. </span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">So last night I e-mailed him and we spoke about
the missing article, and then he said just what I thought he would say:
"Well, who gives a fuck? How long before all of my articles are
ethnically cleansed from the Google cache? And what would be the reason,
Holger? Before you kill a man, you destroy the paper trail, don't you?"</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Sure," he said, "If I have an
unusual accident or if I'm suicided and it's somewhere mentioned that I was a
shit-stirring old-time journalist critical of Zionism, International Jewry
and the Soviet European Union, what would most inquisitive people do? They
would Google my name. And all they would find is lots of stories about Mike
James the American basketball player. So ... that guy in Germany said nothing
really important. And the Jews win again. So put it on the record, Holger.
Make the fuckers sweat."</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Michael James did something amazing last week,
and it scared the crap out of the Zionist elites. He set a judicial precedent
and emphasized a valid defense: Blasphemy and Incitement to Bear False
Witness. Compliance with the holocaust laws therefore make perjurers, liars,
and idle guessers of all of us. By any legal or moral standards, all these
things, all these laws are unlawful, Bolshevistic nonsense.</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">This is why I felt compelled to write this
article and kindly ask you to publish it in the hope that nothing bad happens
to Michael James. That guy is doing it all by himself. He's a reclusive
self-employed, middle-income British guy with no affiliations or support.
Like he once said, he's a lone-ranger without Tonto, or even a horse. He does
this all by himself because his anger at the injustice and lies directed
against the German people is intense. He will always refuse help because he
is what the real American once used to be -- a true independent fighting for
his own.</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I know he has no time for all the revisionist
intellectuals writing books in exile. "Why write books about something
that can only be speculative to those who were not there to witness it?"
he asked. "As Napoleon said, 'All history is bunk', so just fuck
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I've asked Mike, as others have, if he needs some
extra help, and he won't take it. Not a dime. This is his war. It's a very
personal thing. Call it a vendetta. He won't say what his next move is going
to be, but it'll be a surprise.</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">For sure, the Jews made a mistake when they
picked a fight with this guy. If they kill him, they lose. If they don't,
they still lose.</span><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Let's hope someone, somewhere, blows the whistle,
and calls for a free and fair open debate. If the truth be known, can't we all
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'The Crusades: An Arab Perspective' explores the birth of the Muslim revival in
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Crusades: An Arab Perspective is a four-part documentary series telling the
dramatic story of the crusades seen through Arab eyes, from the seizing of
Jerusalem under Pope Urban II in 1099, to its recapture by Salah ad-Din (also
known as Saladin), Richard the Lionheart's efforts to regain the city, and the
end of the holy wars in 1291. <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/the-crusades-an-arab-perspective/2016/12/shock-crusade-conquest-jerusalem-161205081421743.html" target="_self"><span style="color: #2575bc; text-decoration: none;">Part one</span></a> looked at the First Crusade and the conquest of
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By the early 12th century, the crusades had successfully captured not only the holy city of Jerusalem but huge swaths of the Muslim Levant. Islam's third holiest site, the al-Aqsa Mosque, was in the hands of the crusaders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Muslim world, a mighty power for the previous four centuries, was shocked by
the Christian annexation of large parts of their empire.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt;">“Their entrance to the city [of Jerusalem] was horrifying. They started
with an infamous massacre. They killed people in the streets, in their houses
and in alleyways. Arab sources talk about a hundred thousand people slaughtered”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Antoine Domit, professor of
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With Jerusalem under their control,
the crusaders began to build a new system of rule in the lands they had
captured.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">They expelled many of its original
inhabitants, including Muslims, Jews, and eastern Christians, and began to fill
Jerusalem with settlers arriving from Western Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Those people were slaves and
vassals and had no rights at all in Europe. When they came to us, their whole
life changed when they became landowners. Their social status changed and so
did the demographic and social class structure," explains Afaf Sabra,
professor of history, Al-Azhar University.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Furthermore, the commanders of the
First Crusade, lesser knights from Europe, began to style themselves monarchs
in the lands they conquered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In July 1100, Baldwin of Boulogne,
one of the leaders of the First Crusade, was crowned Baldwin I, King of
Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"With the establishment of the
Kingdom of Jerusalem, the county of Edessa and the Principality of Antioch,
expansion into the Arab lands became easier. The new colonial leaders began
expanding their realm very easily," says Qassem Abdu Qassem, head of the
history department, Zaqaziq University.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Within a decade, most of the Levantine coast was in the crusaders'
hands. And the Christian enclaves in the east now numbered four, with the
addition of a new county in Tripoli.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The coastal area was for the
crusaders a very, very tactically significant area, both to supply provisions
and to bring pilgrims through the harbours. So securing the coastal areas was a
crucial part of crusaders' tactics," notes Jan Vandeburie, of the School
of History, at the University of Kent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The economics of the war soon began
to dominate the crusades and the Regent of Antioch, Tancred, marched his army
towards Aleppo, then the trade capital of the Levant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Aleppo's ruler, Radwan, who has been
described as spineless and servile, had a friendly relationship with the
crusaders. The story goes that he even put a cross on the mosque of Aleppo,
which provoked a strong reaction from the locals as they revolted against their
duplicitous ruler.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The uprising was irresistible and the
Muslim people forced the caliphate in Baghdad, weak though it was, to take
action. Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustazhir asked for help from his protector, the
Seljuk Sultan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The governor of Mosul, Mawdoud, was
ordered to gather his army and put an end to the crusader siege of Aleppo.
Mawdoud was successful in forcing the crusaders to lift the siege of Aleppo
because other crusader entities would not come to support them. But Aleppo's
ruler Radwan prevented Mawdoud's army from entering the city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"At the same time, Toghtekin
[the governor of Damascus] was being attacked by the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Mawdoud's forces came to help him resist the attack. Mawdoud met King Baldwin
in a battle near Tiberias known as the battle of As-Sannabra during which the
Muslims defeated the crusaders," says Sabra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Toghtekin welcomed Mawdoud gratefully
after his victory at As-Sannabra, but later had him assassinated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Imad Ed-Din Zengi and the Muslim
revival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The new governor of Mosul, Imad Ed-Din Zengi, seized control of Aleppo
in 1128. Bringing Mosul and Aleppo together "meant taking control of a
major gateway to the internal regions of the Levant and towards
Mesopotamia," says Ahmad Hetait, former dean at the Faculty of Arts at
Islamic University.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt;">“The Muslims' initial response had been inadequate but now it was time
for a revival. The revival arose from the people, not the rulers”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Afaf Sabra, </span></b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; padding: 0cm;">professor of
history, Al-Azhar University</span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In effect, cutting off trade and communication routes between Antioch
and Edessa, along with that of the county of Tripoli and the Kingdom of
Jerusalem, posed a major obstacle to the crusaders as they confronted the
Islamic world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The crusaders had relied on
dividing the Muslim fiefdoms to deal with them separately, thanks to their
insular rulers. Now a unified front was born," says Muhammad Moenes Awad,
professor of history at Sharjah University.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With Damascus protected by a truce
with the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Imad Ed-Din Zengi began to prepare for what
would be his greatest military achievement: On December 25, 1144, his army
attacked and captured the County of Edessa in a matter of hours. It had been
the first crusader state in the region but was now the first city to be
retrieved by Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"This is seen as a breakthrough, the real start, the revival of the
'jihad' in the Muslim Near East. It's the first big defeat for the crusaders
and it shows that they can actually be defeated and that the Muslim revival can
begin to gather some pace," says <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Jonathan Phillips, professor of
history at Royal Holloway, University of London.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Imad Ed-Din Zengi's victory in Edessa
was a turning point; it lifted the Muslims' morale and enthusiasm for the
fight. Two years later, however, Imad Ed-Din Zengi was killed by his own slave.
He was succeeded by his son, Nour Ed-Din.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the summer of 1147, the armies set
off towards the Holy Land and after almost a year, the German and French forces
finally arrived in Jerusalem.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The loss of Edessa was not taken lightly in Europe. In 1147, Pope Eugene
held a religious council calling for the Second Crusade, to be led by two
European kings, Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany. </span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Soon
after, they decided to launch an attack on Damascus, which ended in disaster.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;">"</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They retreated,
there wasn't a great battle. They weren't defeated in some epic struggle, they
just slunk away. And that's a real blow to the morale of the crusaders in the
west," says Phillips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The tragic failure of the Second
Crusade was by no means the last disaster to befall the Christians. Six years
later, Nour Ed-Din finally managed to annex Damascus, the very city they had
failed to capture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Qassem Abu Qassem describes <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Nour Ed-Din Zengi as a leader
who </span>"had devoted his whole life to the principle of
jihad", and says that by uniting Muslims under one banner, he enabled them
to recover occupied land and Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"It was here that an Islamic
revival was born. It had begun before but at this time it became more
organised, less random," concludes Afaf Sabra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #777777; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Crusades: An Arab Perspective<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> is a four-part
documentary series telling the dramatic story of the Crusades seen through Arab
eyes, from the seizing of Jerusalem under Pope Urban II in 1099, to its
recapture by Salah ad-Din (also known as Saladin), Richard the Lionheart's
efforts to regain the city, and the end of the holy wars in 1291. In part one,
we explore the history of the First Crusade and the conquest of Jerusalem.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Crusades are the epitome of "holy war". Yet the roots of
this 200-year conflict lay not just in religion, but also in the economic
condition of medieval Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Around the time of the Crusades,
Europe experienced several droughts which made people lose faith in
everything," says <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Antoine Domit, history
professor at the Lebanese University.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A struggle between church and state was taking place in Europe: Who
would rule over the people of Europe, the pope or the king?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After centuries of European domination, largely through the armies of
imperial Rome, the Mediterranean basin had fallen firmly under Muslim control.
So the Muslims surrounded Europe, from Spain in the west to the eastern
Mediterranean in the east.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"For Europeans, the east is 'A Thousand and One Nights'. It
represents wealth, beautiful clothing, young concubines, thriving public life,
songs and culture," says Elias al-Kattar, history professor at the
Lebanese University.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While the Muslim east lived in prosperity, Europe had slipped into
relative poverty and conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you had the aristocracy in charge of a large amount of people that had no land
possessions," says Jan Vendeburie, of the School of History, University of
Kent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Ishaaq Abaid, history professor at Ain
Shams University, explains that "o</span><span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">nly one percent of people who had the titles of 'count', 'duke' or
'baron', owned all the agricultural lands. Ninety-nine percent of the European
population were called serfs and worked on these lands."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Most Europeans in the 11th century lived in poverty and were struggling
to survive, while war and conflict among knights were part of everyday life.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #10253f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0cm;">Pope
Gregory VII and the idea of a holy war</span></b><span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On the other side of the Mediterranean
lay relative prosperity and the cultural riches of the Muslims world, but the
glittering facade hid deep political and religious divisions. From the
mid-ninth century, the Abbasid Caliphate had gradually come under the control
of different dynasties. The caliphs, meant to be the universal leaders of
Islam, were no more than puppets in the hands of ministers, army commanders and
even servants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt;">“The crusaders didn't outnumber the population or have greater force
and fighting skills. Yet, they emerged victorious because of the Muslims'
demographic and political divisions”. </span><b><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Qassem Abdu Qassem, Head of the Hstory Department,
Zaqaziq University<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Muslim Seljuk Turks began expanding
their empire in every direction. The most significant and serious expansion was
in Asia Minor against the Christian Byzantine Empire. And after the Battle of
Manzikert in 1071, the Seljuks moved closer to Constantinople, the great
capital of the Byzantine Empire. They took Romanus Diogenes IV as a prisoner
and his successor, Emperor Alexios Komnenos, called for help from Western
Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Pope Gregory VII saw this as the
perfect opportunity to realise his dream of controlling the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre and of gathering all the armed forces under papal leadership in a
campaign he called, 'the Lord's Project'," says <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Qassem Abdu Qassem, head of the history department, Zaqaziq
University.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Zubeida Atta, a history professor at
Helwan University, says: "Pope Gregory has the idea of a holy war. </span><span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was he who came up with the idea of
sending a campaign to the east to recapture the tomb of Jesus Christ from the
hands of the Muslims, whom he believed had taken it by force." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When Pope Gregory died in 1085 before turning his project into reality,
his ambitious successor, Pope Urban II picked up the baton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"He was a fanatic and believed deeply in exporting Catholicism and
in the militarisation of Christianity," says Muhammad Moenes Awad,
history professor, Sharjah University. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The First Crusade was called in November
1095 by Pope Urban II at the French town of Clermont, where he held a Catholic
Church council. But what started as a religious gathering, took a dramatic turn
when Pope Urban made a speech that would be the starting point of two centuries
of bloodshed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He addressed the spiritual anxieties of the common man and promised
penance for those who would go and fight in the holy war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Fighting is your duty, you have to continue fighting to defend our
property, our lands. Our property that is yours. We have to combat these
non-believers and reclaim our holy land. It's God's will."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pope Urban II drew up a schedule for the first campaign which should set
out in the summer of 1096. But some ignored the holy command and found a
leader who would immediately guide them to the east: an old monk called Peter
the Hermit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">These first enthusiastic, but undisciplined, Christians to head towards
Jerusalem were crushed by the Muslim Seljuks in Asia Minor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But now, in the summer of 1096, much stronger, larger and more organised
forces were gathering and advancing eastwards. These armies forming the First
Crusade were commanded by figures of European nobility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The armies set off from Western Europe and headed towards the Holy
Land. Some went to defend their reputation, while others sought to acquire new
land and build an empire," says Abdu Qassem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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started arriving in the Byzantine capital, Constantinople.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">According to Professor Said al-Bishawy of the Open University of
Jerusalem, the crusaders swore allegiance to the Byzantine emperor, Alexios
Komnenos, and promised to return the lands taken by the Seljuk Turks. This
bargain was necessary for them to be granted permission to head east.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After crossing the Bosporus, the crusaders marched towards the Seljuk's
capital in Asia Minor, the city of Nicaea. True to the oath they had sworn to
the emperor, the city of Nicaea was returned to the Byzantines. But as the crusaders
continued their successful march in Asia Minor, their holy task of taking
Jerusalem was momentarily set aside some of their numbers made a detour to
the city of Edessa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One of the commanders, Baldwin of Boulogne, headed to Edessa which
became the first crusader state to be founded in the east.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The taking of Edessa shows that the crusaders weren't guided by
any religious dictates. Crusaders came under the pretence of freeing the Holy
Sepulchre from infidels and non-believers. But Edessa wasn't on the way to
Jerusalem, had no tomb of any of Jesus' disciples and is not a place of
pilgrimage," says Muhammad al-Makhzoumy, history professor at the Lebanese
University.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The main army, however, marched on to the walls of Antioch, a city
nicknamed "the cradle of Christianity" as the term
"Christian" first originated there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In June 1098, Antioch fell and was ruled by Bohemond the Norman, Prince
of Taranto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When the crusaders first arrived, they'd sworn their allegiance to the
Byzantine emperor. But when they took Antioch, they didn't return it to the
emperor as promised. They kept it for themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In July 1099, and after three years of a
long march, bloody battles, plagues and famines, the crusaders finally entered
Jerusalem.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"They released the pent-up tensions of three years on the march and
having finally achieved their spiritual goal. So really it's a situation where
the crusaders wished to purify the city and take it back for themselves,"
says Jonathan Phillips, history professor at Royal Holloway, University of
London.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;">According to Antoine Domit, t</span><span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">hey started "with an infamous
massacre. They killed people in the streets, in their houses and in
alleyways."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Venderburie explains that it was very difficult for the crusaders to distinguish
between local Christian, Muslim, and Jewish population because they all looked
the same to them, they all "looked like Arabs".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10253f; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The success of the First Crusade in conquering Jerusalem is
important not only because it realised a European dream, but also because it
punished the Muslims and Arabs for their divisions and infighting," says
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objective. But this initial success would not last, it was to be merely a
dramatic opening scene in a far longer struggle. And as the Muslim revival
began, so the ground was laid for another two centuries of the Crusades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sparked by Wikileaks' release of classified US military documents, this investigation uncovers how the Pentagon sent James Steele, a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America, to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from fighters.</div>
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Composed of violent Shia militias, these commandos evolved into death squads and eventually numbered over 17,000 men.</div>
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General David Petraeus is also implicated in the chain of command in this abuse of human rights. Colonel James Coffman, another special forces veteran drafted in to oversee the operation, describes himself as Petraeus' "eyes and ears out on the ground" in Iraq.</div>
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"They knew everything that was going on there, the most horrible kinds of torture," says General Muntadher al-Samari, speaking for the first time about the US role in the interrogation units. Ten years on from the invasion, the long-term effect this paramilitary force has unleashed is a deadly sectarian militia that has helped germinate a civil war claiming tens of thousands of lives.</div>
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By Maggie O'Kane</div>
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When the Wikileaks documents came out in November 2010, there was one leak in particular that caught my attention. It referenced "Frago 242", which was short for “Fragmentary Order 242” - a US military order instructing US soldiers to ignore Iraqi-on-Iraqi torture.<br />
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Along with the team I work with, I found that the term "Frago 242" appeared more than a thousand times in the documents we examined. Having spent a lot of time covering the war in Iraq, we naturally wondered why this order was issued and what the story behind it was. </div>
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Our investigation uncovered how a retired US Colonel, James Steele, was overseeing Pentagon-backed death squads that tortured detainees for information on the armed groups. There were also references in the Wikileaks files to a General Adnan Thabit, who was visiting the American embassy at the time.<br />
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We all sensed that there was a much deeper story to tell than the means by which the documents had been delivered, and resolved to explore the treasure trove we believed these documents to be. </div>
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For me, the most surprising aspect was the scale of the torture and just how well organised it was.<br />
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During the course of our investigation, I came to realise just how, as journalists, during the fog of war, we never really seem to report on what is happening in a way that people can fully comprehend. Sure, there were reports that torture was taking place, but it somehow never completely penetrated our consciousness and it was never fully acknowledged that this was part of how the war was being conducted.</div>
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This film taught me that, while we freely use terms such as "human intelligence" and "counterinsurgency", we do not necessarily appreciate what these imply in terms of systematic and brutal torture with severe repercussions for civilians.</div>
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The Iraq war is indicative of a very dysfunctional, brutal time. I hope this film will be a legacy that says: If you want to go to war, this is what war means. It means 14-year-old boys being hung up and tortured, it means men being turned on spits - that is your "counterinsurgency". I feel it is important that this information comes out and I am shocked that we want to forget it so quickly. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">On the 14th anniversary of 9/11, it’s important to
remind people that we still don’t know what happened that day. What is known
about 9/11 is that there are many incredible facts that continue to be ignored
by the government and the mainstream media. Here are fourteen.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;">An
outline of what was to become the <i>9/11 Commission Report</i> was
produced before the investigation began. The <b><a href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a0303outline#a0303outline"><span style="color: windowtext;">outline was kept secret</span></a> </b>from
the Commission’s staff and appears to have determined the outcome of the
investigation.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;">The
9/11 Commission claimed sixty-three (63) times in its <i>Report </i>that
it <b><a href="https://digwithin.net/2011/10/30/no-evidence/"><span style="color: windowtext;">could find “no evidence”</span></a> </b>related
to important aspects of the crimes.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;">One
person, <b><a href="http://www.historycommons.org/searchResults.jsp?searchtext=steinger&events=on&entities=on&articles=on&topics=on&timelines=on&projects=on&titles=on&descriptions=on&dosearch=on&search=Go"><span style="color: windowtext;">Shayna Steinger, issued 12 visas</span></a></b> to
the alleged hijackers in Saudi Arabia. Steinger issued some of the visas
without interviewing the applicants and fought with another employee at
the embassy who tried to prevent her lax approach.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Before
9/11, the nation’s leading counter-terrorism expert repeatedly notified
his friends in the United Arab Emirates of top-secret U.S. plans to
capture Osama bin Laden. These treasonous leaks <b><a href="https://digwithin.net/2014/02/02/real-clarke/"><span style="color: windowtext;">prevented Bin Laden’s capture</span></a></b> on
at least two separate occasions.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Former
National Security Advisor Sandy Berger was <b>documents from</b> the
National Archives that had been requested by the 9/11 Commission. The
Commission had previously been denied access to the documents but the
White House reluctantly agreed to turn them over just as Berger was trying
to steal them.<a name='more'></a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;">The
official story of the failed air defenses on 9/11 was changed several
times and, in the end, paradoxically exonerated the military by saying
that the military had lied many times about its response. The man who was
behind several of the changing accounts was a <b><a href="https://digwithin.net/2013/08/21/political-warfare/"><span style="color: windowtext;">specialist in political warfare</span></a></b> (i.e.
propaganda).</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="http://911proof.com/9.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">Military
exercises</span></a></span></b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;"> being
conducted on the day of 9/11 mimicked the attacks as they were occurring
and obstructed the response. NORAD commander <b><a href="https://digwithin.net/2013/01/12/eberhart/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Ralph
Eberhart sponsored</span></a></b> those exercises, failed to do his
job that day, and later lied to Congress about it (if the 9/11 Commission
account is true).</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;">A <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mamvq7LWqRU&feature=youtu.be"><span style="color: windowtext;">third skyscraper collapsed</span></a></b> late
in the afternoon on 9/11. This was WTC 7, a 47-story building that the
government’s final report says fell into its own footprint due to office
fires. The building’s tenants included U.S. intelligence agencies and a
company led in part by Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. <b><a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/donald-rumsfeld-demolition-wtc-7.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">Meetings were scheduled</span></a></b> there
to discuss terrorism and explosives on the morning of 9/11.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;">News
agencies, including BBC and CNN, announced the destruction of WTC 7 long
before it happened. One BBC reporter <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxFRigYD3s"><span style="color: windowtext;">announced the collapse</span></a></b> while viewers could
see the still-standing building right behind her in the video. Years
later, after claiming that it had lost the tapes and then found them
again, BBC’s answer to this astonishing report was that everything was
just “<b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/03/part_of_the_conspiracy_2.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">confusing and chaotic</span></a></b>” that day.
Of course, one problem with this is that the news agencies predicted the
exact building, of the many damaged in the area, that would collapse.
Another big problem is that no one could have possibly predicted the
collapse of WTC 7 given the unprecedented and unbelievable official
account for how that happened.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Construction
of the new, 52-story WTC 7 was completed two years before the government
knew what happened to the first WTC 7. In fact, when the new building was
completed in 2006, the spokesman for the government investigation said,
“We’ve had <b><a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/16464/index6.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">trouble getting a handle</span></a></b> on
building No. 7.” The construction of the new building, without regard for
how the first one was destroyed, indicates that building construction
professionals in New York City did not believe it could ever happen again.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Ultimately,
building construction <b><a href="http://www.ctbuh.org/News/GlobalTallNews/tabid/468/EntryId/4500/Are-Tall-Buildings-Safer-After-NIST-WTC-Report.aspx"><span style="color: windowtext;">codes were not changed</span></a> </b>as a
result of the root causes cited by the National Institute for Standards
and Technology for destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings.
This fact shows that the international building construction community
does not believe that the WTC buildings were destroyed as stated in the
official account.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0cm;">AMEC,
the company that <b><a href="https://digwithin.net/2012/01/01/a-small-world/"><span style="color: windowtext;">just finished rebuilding</span></a></b> the
exact spot where Flight 77 was said to hit, was put in charge of clean-up
at the WTC and the Pentagon. The man who ran the company, Peter Janson,
was a long-time business associate of Donald Rumsfeld.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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response of the U.S. Secret Service to the 9/11 attacks suggests
foreknowledge of the events in that the agency <b>president from</b>
the obvious danger posed by terrorists.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Commission notified the FBI of suspected 9/11 insider trading
transactions. That evidence was ignored and the suspects were <b><a href="http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/11/18/evidence-for-informed-trading-on-the-attacks-of-september-11/"><span style="color: windowtext;">not even questioned</span></a></b> by the
FBI or the 9/11 Commission.</span> </li>
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9/11 that continue to be ignored by authorities and much of the media. Let’s
hope that the next major terrorist attack results in legitimate reporting and
unified calls for truth before fourteen years have passed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Blackmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01706245962648816648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916108294198058796.post-66120942865540722192016-10-15T13:46:00.000+08:002016-10-21T16:34:11.929+08:00Why I Embraced Islam?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr.
Maurice Bucaille</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is a surgeon by profession. He is
also a renowned scholar. In order to be able to read Quran in its original text
and to study its meaning and purport through direct access to its early and
modern commentaries, he devoted himself to the learning of Arabic language at
the ripe age of fifty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thereafter,
he made a beginning by trying to reconcile proven scientific truths with
religious axioms. As a result of these studies, he wrote his famous book
"QURAN, BIBLE AND SCIENCE" in 1976, which caused a furor in high
academic circles - particularly in the Christian world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">After
a deeper study of Islam and the Quran, he has authored another book titled,
"THE ORIGIN OF MAN". It comprised Quranic explanations of some of the
queries raised much earlier than the period when those queries were logically
and satisfactorily resolved by scientific experimentation, to be fully in
conformity with the explanations provided by Quran about 1500 years before. The
Church acknowledged and accepted these researches of Dr. Bucaille to be a
valuable contribution to human knowledge and the author became famous all over
the world, like Cambridge, and Oxford Universities in U.K. & Yale and
Harvard in USA. He was invited to give Extension Lectures in their academic
institutions. By dint of his Quranic thought, and by virtue of his unprejudiced
and realistic approach to Quranic thought, and by virtue of his unprejudiced
and realistic discussion and research work, Dr. Bucaille has converted a number
of high ranking scholars to agree with him and to subscribe to his view that
the Quran is a Divine Book, not authored by any human being and actually a Book
of Revelations from Almighty God to His Last Prophet, Mohammed, Peace Be Upon
Him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">M.
Bucaille is of the view that his findings in this behalf are a cause of
consternation and chagrin to Western scholars because of their earlier exposure
to false and fictitious propaganda against Islam and its Prophet (S.A.W.), by
the Christian clergy and by biased Western writers and authors. This misguided
class of people could not believe that Quran was the only Scripture which had
remained sacrosanct and free from all additions, alterations and interpolations
and consequently it still retained the purity to guide mankind in all ages,
places and in every conceivable crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For
over 1400 years it has been the only treasure house of ecclesiastical and
cosmic knowledge about the universe and life itself. Mankind has not yet to
progress and proceed to a stage where it can fully be au fait with all the
pearls and gems of wisdom and truth, garnered in its bosom by this miracle of
literacy, excellence and academic purity which could not be matched even in one
small sentence by the literary giants of yore, in spite of an open challenge to
this effect.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
What urged you so forcefully to undertake a study of the Quran and other
scriptures, and why?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Like all other Frenchmen, I was
also initially of the view that Islam was a religion conceived and introduced
by a genius and a remarkable man of great intellect, known by the name of
Mohammed (S.A.W.). Fifty years ago, by the Grace of God, I became
professionally qualified to practice as a surgeon, and used to discuss and
compare (views on) Islam and Christianity with my patients who came to consult
me (and with my co-professionals). I was told by some of them that my knowledge
of Islam and about its discipline was to a great extent misconceived and
mistaken. In the beginning I was inclined to doubt them, but now and then some
people produced actual and original Quranic Verses in contradiction of my
references, and I was compelled to revise my conclusions. And, as a result of
this revision and review, I felt that they were right and I was wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
found that those who had been my teachers had a wrong approach to the problem
and had imparted incorrect information to me. My knowledge of Islam, until
then, had been restricted to Radio and T.V. reviews, articles published in
various magazines and reproduced in biased treatise books. But I was perplexed;
what should I do? How should I amend my position and rectify my understanding?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
When did this happen?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> After the 8th Vatican Conference
but before the birth of a tolerant attitude on the part of European scholars
gravitating to unbiased thought, i.e. before 1926, when the cleavage between
Muslims and Christian scholars was at its zenith and there was no prospect of a
direct dialogue between them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
How did you react to this situation?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> There was only one road open to
me then, that of learning Arabic language so that I could study the Holy Book,
Quran, in its original form and try to get at its meaning directly. I devoted
the next two years to this task when I had acquired enough knowledge of Arabic
(in language and literature) to be able to make a dependable study of the Quran
faithfully as well as academically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
And how did this benefit you?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I knew then that the Quran was
the "Work of Allah" and had not been authored by any human being. I
was also convinced that Mohammed (S.A.W.) was a true Prophet of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
The world is now celebrating the first centenary of Darwin, do you subscribe to
Darwinian theory or disagree with it?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> No Sir, I oppose it vehemently.
Darwin's theory is totally based on a misconception and is not at all the
outcome of such a scientific research as could prove that there exists the
slightest relation between man and the theory of evolution of species as
propounded by him. In fact his views are nothing but the misguided and
misconceived calculations of a purely materialistic mind. My latest book
(Origin of Man) contains a comprehensive "Rebuttal Article" on Darwin
and his views.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
Are you of the opinion that Darwin was aware of his error?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Yes, I think he knew the error he
committed. The scholars, who are fond of materialism, have propounded
innumerable theories, mostly incorrect, and the fun of it is that they are
aware of their fallacies. However, being materialist, they stick to their wrong
attitude. In my book I have criticized some of these scholars, several of whom
are Nobel Prize winners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
Do you think your writings have had direct repercussion on people outside
France?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Yes, Recently, only a few days
ago, I visited Northern and Western African countries, where I was repeatedly
called upon to address innumerable gatherings of educated persons including
scholars, on the Origin of Man and about my first book: the Quran, Bible and
Science. I was closely cross- examined about my views by some of the most
qualified, even hostile, elements. Following this, countless students and
scholars contacted and congratulated me. They declared that after listening to
me, they had, for the first time, been able to feel convinced of the truth of
the Quranic statements about the creation of universe and origin of man. Some
of them frankly admitted that my writings and lectures had restored in them a
firm certainty of belief and faith and converted them into True Muslims, who
actually felt solace and pleasure now in saying their "prayers". They
declared that the element of doubt and dilly-dalliance in faith was entirely
due to the misconceived theories of some of these so-called Western scholars
whose theories had been adopted as gospel truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
What is the verdict of Science on Man; and why this conflict between Science
and Religion on this score?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In my book, "Origin of
Man", I have endeavored to explain what is dubious and what is proved
according to scientific findings. I have also dealt with the theories formerly
supported by scholars, but now their very basis is being demolished and proved
to be without sound scientific footing. In 1851, Darwin published his first
book, "Origin of Species". In it he has pointed out that "All
animals can procreate amongst themselves", but he did not take the trouble
to demonstrate and prove scientifically his view that the "Genealogy of
Man" extends up to monkey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
Then who is responsible for propounding this frivolous theory?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The fact is that some other
people metamorphosing and without statements digesting his theories, assigned
wrong statements to Darwin, which comprised the assumption that "Man has
evolved from apes". Nevertheless, it is also true that Darwin did not care
to contradict such false notions assigned to him as it was in this connection
and on this topic that confrontation occurred between the supporters of Darwin
and the Clergy, where both the parties roundly abused and maligned each other.
That is why it is now essential that a line of demarcation should always be
drawn between the results of scientific investigations and arbitrary views of
scholars like Darwin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
By such scientific discourses, debates and discussions even Scriptures, are
exposed to scientific test resulting in exposing their errors and pin-pointing
their weaknesses. As such, may we inquire if you have some across any such
anomalies in the Quran, i.e. where its expositions and explanations are in
contrast to scientific findings?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The Scriptures of non-Muslims
have been copied and passed on from generation to generation and through
different personalities. The oldest document of this nature is
"Jehovah", which was written some time during 9th Century A.D. This
book, although not voluminous, is still the most comprehensive document of its
kind. The second book (Sacrodotal), although generally treated as Preface to
the Bible, came to light in 600 B.C. It deals with the creation of universe and
the appearance of Man on earth and the stories narrating the events following
it. The Bible comes thereafter, but the books of the "New Testament"
do not throw much light on the problem of Man. They repeat the statements of
the Old Testament as adopted by St. Luke. Quran made its appearance six hundred
years after Jesus and furnished valuable material on Man and his creation which
was (and still is) totally lacking in the Old as well as the New Testaments and
other Scriptures. What is more important is this context is that unlike the
Bible's Old and New Testaments, Quran is completely free from errors and
interpolations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
In your opinion, what are the main causes of such plentiful errors in other
Scriptures?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The compilers of the Holy
Scriptures, in their vanity, presumed to have compiled them on the basis of
heavenly revelations. But all their efforts were the echoes of their period
resounding the thoughts prevalent in that particular environment. They
presented the conception of Man and the phenomenon of his creation as if
enunciated by God Himself, though it merely reflected the traditions the rite
and the perceptions well known and prevalent at that time. This fact is
admitted unanimously by all the exegetes of the Bible, be they Roman Catholics
or Protestants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
Does the church also admit this fact and subscribe to this view?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Yes Sir. The church did accept
this truth which was incorporated in the proceedings on the occasion of the
second Vatican conference, which was held to declare the "Revolutionary
Nature of Old and New Testaments". They admitted that some parts of these
Bibles are defective and contradictory in purport.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
What are your views about the Quran in this behalf?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Now this is a matter of entirely
a different nature. All scholars of the Quran are unanimous that the Quran is
the "Word of God" as revealed to His Last Prophet Mohammed (S.A.W.)
through Gabriel (The Angel of Revelation). I have studied the Book (Quran) very
carefully and have not come across one single instance of scientific fallacy
any where in it. On the contrary, I have felt that the (higher) truths and
realities inherent in Quranic Text have been, throughout the history of 1400
years, beyond the comprehension of ordinary human beings which in itself, is
positive proof that the Quran is the Word of God and it is (at places) beyond
intellectual potential of mortal man; be he an excellent scholar or philosopher
of the highest caliber, who is not always able to explain the inherent
realities of nature as revealed in the Quran. What obviously conflicts with
scientific truth is the assumption of the Bible that although life erupted in
the form of various species, which have endured, there has been no evolution or
improvement in their functions. On the other hand according to the Quran, Man
has transgressed through gigantic changes in the course of the entire history
of humanity. I felt it very necessary to inform the Christians of the world of
this very serious discrepancy in the Bible. As it happen to be impartial,
truthful and very outspoken in my studies, I have been repeatedly called upon
from time to time to express my views regarding these matters before
distinguished gatherings. On all such occasions, I have always dealt with the
subject from the scientific point of view, ignoring the ecclesiastic or
theological context. Whatever has appeared to be dubious or fit for further
investigation, I have tried to put it on the touchstone of criticism and have
not allowed to pass it unchallenged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
Have you embraced Islam?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I wanted to make it quite clear
in the very beginning that even before I learnt the first letter of Bismillah,
I was convinced that God was unique and all- powerful and when God guided me to
undertake a study of the Quran, my inner soul cried out that Al- Quran was the
Word of God revealed to his Last Prophet Mohammed (S.A.W.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
my book "Quran, Bible and Science," I have mentioned these facts and
the book has met with instant success in the entire Christian world. In this
book I have devoted myself to discuss all problems from purely academic angle,
rather than that of faith or belief which would have revealed only my personal
convictions. This was because I desired to be treated by the world as an
academician rather than a theologian. About my faith and belief, God knows what
is in one's heart. I am convinced that if I identify myself with any creed,
people will invariably dub me as one belonging to such and such group and feel
that whatever I say or do, I do so from only the angle of such and such creed
group. I know my fellow beings very well and understand their mentality only
too well. I wanted to assure them that all my pronouncements are based on
scientific knowledge and not on any religious dogmas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
This is O.K., but since you have referred to God's complete awareness with what
is in one's heart, may we ask what is your opinion about human heart?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Heart is not an apparent and
perceptible organ of the body. It is the abode of faith and source of eternal
light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q:
What are your views on Islamic mission and its future in the west?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A:</span></b><span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The best method is to approach
the people through in their own language. I am using the world language in its
broadest sense, i.e. comprehensive of all the factors which go to make any
language complete and expressive of peoples' views and beliefs. The principles
and the regulations towards which you are inviting their attention, should be
presented in the style with which you are familiar and which is popular among
them. In my book "Quran Bible and Science", I have adopted a new
style to acquaint the readers with Quranic truths and to understand the
intrinsic value of al-Quran. This unprejudiced and impartial viewpoint of mine
gave an impetus to the wide circulation in my books. Firstly, I tried to find
out the central point of attention of the Christians and the style that appeals
to their common sense. Thereafter I achieved this success. After the
publication of these books I received a number of letters from great
academicians and research scholars as well as commoners in which they expressed
their interest in my study of Al-Quran and appreciated it. They felt satisfied
with my views about the Bible and confirmed the fallacies pointed out by me. I
once entertained some Christians at home, in which they expressed their
astonishment over the literature I produced regarding Islam and inquired the
names of exegesis to acquire correct information about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What are your activities now?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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film on "Science, the Quran and the Origin of Man" as a matter of
fact I have deep friendly relations with Malaysia. The provincial branch of
"Dawa-Islamia" has passed a resolution to produce a film on the Quran
and the director of the producing company visited Paris to prepare a plan for
it. This film is to be in Technicolor. The duration of its presentation is
fifty-five minutes being devoted to the Quran and the history of the facts
related to it, the verses of the Quran are depicted in this film. Thus it is of
great importance. Six hundred thousand dollars have been collected to produce
this film. The preparation of this film has already been started. To begin with
it will be produced in five languages, and then it will be extended up to ten.
The first print will be in English, then Arabic and French, and thereafter in
other languages. It will be circulated throughout the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Also
watch the video <a href="http://www.islamicbulletin.org/videos/book_of_signs/book_of_signs.mp4" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Book of Signs</span></a>, which is
based on Dr. Maurice Bucaille: "The Bible, The Quran and Science" and
"What is the Origin of Man."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Filippeios Krini (Philip’s Fountain) is a 2,300-year-old fountain that was
commissioned by King Philip II of Macedonia. It has </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">miraculously</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> survived in
working order to the present day, making it the oldest still-in-use hydraulic
work in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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King Philip II of Macedonia established a military camp at Nestani in order to
attack Amfissa, located across the Gulf of Corinth from Nestani. Although by
this time the King’s influence was waning due to unsuccessful sieges on
Perinthus in 340 BC and Byzantium in 339 BC, the King could not allow the
residents of Amfissa to continue farming on the Crisaian plain – land that
rightfully belonged to Delphi, the oracle of Apollo. The Macedonians camped in
Nestani for many weeks. In order to provide his troops with enough water, the
King ordered a fountain be built, Filippeios Krini (Philip’s Fountain). In what
has come to be known as the Fourth Sacred War, King Phillip II soundly defeated
Amfissa and expelled its citizens from the region. The King’s reputation was
restored but he was assassinated two years later by one of his own bodyguards.
It was an ignoble end to a King with a mixed legacy. However, his memory will
continue to live on in the Filippeios Krini.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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technology of waterpower systems is known as hydraulics, which comes from the
Greek words for “water pipes”. Beginning around 2000 BC, the Minoans and then
the Mycenaeans developed incredibly advanced techniques for water supply, water
transportation, drainage, storm water and sewage removal, flood protection, and
irrigation. By the Hellenistic era, the Greeks had invented easy-to-use devices
like the water wheel and the force pump – an instrument that enabled the user
to raise water from the ground and was used by Rome’s fire brigades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pumps were brilliantly simple instruments that worked by “rotating an inclined
cylinder bearing helical blades around its axis whose bottom is immersed in the
water to be pumped. As the screw turns, water is trapped between the helical
blades and the walls, and thus rises up to the length of the screw and drains
out at the top” (Koutsoyiannis and Angelakis, 2003). The device is sometimes referred
to as Archimedes’ screw pump. Force pumps are still used today for a wide range
of functions including pumping well water, removing bilge water from boats,
pumping out flooded basements, extinguishing fires, and for water jets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Greek named Anaxagoras (c. 510 – c. 428 BC) who clearly articulated the
hydrologic cycle: “the sun raises water from the sea into the atmosphere, from
where it falls as rain; then it is collected underground and feeds the flow of
rivers” (Koutsoyiannis and Angelakis, 2003). The philosopher’s later work on
the origins of thunder (i.e. explaining that the phenomenon did not come from
Zeus) contributed to his imprisonment for impiety and his subsequent forced
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time of King Philip II, installing a fountain to provide fresh groundwater for
soldiers and horses was routine. The Filippeios Krini was not intended to last
2,350+ years, however, it’s simple mechanics and solid masonry have enabled it
to continue (with periodic repairs) to provide water to the residents of
Nestani.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hilltop Greek village is also the site of another famous Greek fountain: the
pipelines that draw water from the naturally occurring sinkhole Dini (sometimes
called Pausanias). This sinkhole is believed to mark the birthplace of
Poseidon. According to the Greek myth, Poseidon was the child of Cronus and
Rhea. Cronus was the youngest Titan and had usurped his father Uranus (the Sky)
for the rule of the universe. He was thus understandably worried about a son of
his seeking to overthrow him and so decided to eat all of his children at
birth, beginning with the first, Hades. His consort, Rhea was displeased with
this practice and so sought to save her second son, Poseidon. Shortly after he
was born, Rhea left him near the sinkhole amidst a flock of lambs. When Cronus
came looking for the baby, Rhea said that she had given birth to a horse and
presented the King God with a colt. Interestingly, this did not strike Cronus
as suspicious and he promptly ate the horse. Poseidon survived and became the
god of horses, a title he maintained even after he took up the role of God of
the Sea when he and his brothers divvied up ruling the world. In ancient days,
residents of Nestani would sacrifice horses to Poseidon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sullivan<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #211b14; font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Angelakis,
A. N., and Demetris Koutsoyiannis. "Ancient Greece."Encyclopedia of
Water Science (2003): 415-17. Web.<a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=45852ABC9051C2FF0E2CD2717CB94427?doi=10.1.1.579.854&rep=rep1&type=pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #a7691b; padding: 0cm;">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=45852ABC9051C2FF0E2CD2717CB94427?doi=10.1.1.579.854&rep=rep1&type=pdf</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #211b14; font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Hondos.
"Filippeios Krini." Hondos Classic Hotel & Spa. Hondos Hotel
& Spa, 22 June 2013. Web. 11 Oct. 2016. <a href="http://www.hondoshotel.gr/en/filippeios-krini" target="_blank"><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #a7691b; padding: 0cm;">http://www.hondoshotel.gr/en/filippeios-krini</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #211b14; font-family: "franklin gothic book" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lekakis,
George. "An Ancient Hydraulic Work That Keeps Functioning for 2350
Years." ΔΕΛΤΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ ΦΡΥΚΤΩΡΙΕΣ (2016): n. pag. Web.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A 15-year-old ginger cat, Artful Dodger, is more than living up to his name.
Last month’s <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/pets/8958012/Owner-surprised-to-find-cat-regularly-catches-bus.html" target="_blank">Telegraph</a> reports that Dodger has been taking rides on the
bus, after boarding at a bus stop near his home. Sometimes he sits on
passengers’ laps; he also likes to sit on seats that have been recently vacated,
apparently for their warmth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dodger’s owner, Fee Jeanes, says that he initially started to frequent the
bus stop as people gave him scraps food. But then the bus itself became the
attraction; like greenhouses, they are sunny and warm, says Jeanes in the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/pets/8958012/Owner-surprised-to-find-cat-regularly-catches-bus.html" target="_blank">Telegraph</a>. Dodger has gone on ten mile round-trips. Jeanes
says that her daughter’s friends had indeed seem him on the bus that far
away:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I couldn’t believe it and panicked. I got into my
car to go off and look for him and then at that moment the bus pulled up near
our house and low and behold he got off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“He had fallen asleep on board and nobody knew
about it. When the driver realised he knew who Dodger was and where he lived and
kept him on board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“That afternoon I saw Dodger climb on board
another bus and I rushed to tell the driver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I was shocked when she told me Dodger was always
on there…”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bus company, First, spoke in welcoming tones about Dodger riding the bus
and have only asked the drivers not to feed him, out of concern that Dodger
might prefer the bus over home for food and shelter. A company spokesman did say
that “in principle we do not have a problem with it being around the bus
station,” even adding that</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Given this cat is elderly we suspect it would be
eligible for free travel, perhaps a bus puss, if such a thing existed.”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dodger seems to have made himself quite a fixture on the bus, sometimes even
waiting in the middle of the road for the bus to stop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pity that more people (at least here in the US) don’t see the benefits of
public transportation as much as the Artful Dodger
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Blackmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01706245962648816648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916108294198058796.post-88622652301839318232013-11-23T21:22:00.003+08:002013-11-23T21:22:47.207+08:00The solemnize of my only daughter's matrimony... <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The wedding held on 14 September 2013 at Dewan Datuk Haji Maideen in Taman Bukti Setia, Ampangan, Seremban.</div>
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