2,500 Innocent People
Might Be Slaughtered In Cold Blood
Might Be Slaughtered In Cold Blood
Robert Spencer, Director of Jihad Watch — In Islamic theology, the People of the Book — those who have received prior revelations from Allah which they subsequently altered, to their disgrace and shame — must be warred against until they either convert to Islam or submit to Islamic hegemony and pay the jizya, a poll tax, to the Islamic state. The People of the Book include primarily Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians. (This is all based upon Qur’an 9:29). Groups that are not People of the Book, however, do not have the choice to submit. For them, it is convert or die.“Crucified by the Caliphate monsters: Iraq descends into apocalypse as Islamic State fanatics seize towns and tell terrified Yazidi ‘Become Muslims by noon today… or we kill all of you,’” by Ian Birrell, Daily Mail, August 9, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller): They arrived bristling with heavy weapons and waving black flags from about a dozen Humvees, seized from the Iraqi army and supplied originally by the United States.
When the terrified residents looked out of their windows, they saw that Kosho, their traditional walled village in the mountains of northern Iraq, had been surrounded by jihadists. More than 200 bearded militants had besieged the village.
Then their leader – a local man from Mosul rather than the foreigners who make up more than a third of the ranks of the group now known as Islamic State – offered them a chance to save their lives.
‘He told us that either we become Muslims or they would kill us all,’ said Falah, mayor of the village made up mainly of members of the ancient Yazidi sect. ‘We offered money but they would not accept it.’
The deadline the people of Kosho have to meet is midday today. Since the residents refuse to betray their faith, it is feared an entire village of about 2,500 innocent people might be slaughtered in cold blood.
‘If we did not have families, we would try to escape,’ the stoical Falah told me yesterday. ‘But we have lots of women here and many children, along with all the old men and women of the village. How could we leave them?’…
ROBERT SPENCER is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of twelve books, including two New York Times bestsellers. Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community. » Read full bio
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Teaching children savagery and hatred. Meanwhile, in the West the intelligentsia teach children that war can always be prevented by negotiation and accommodation, that it is always wrong to fight, and so on. How will the children of the West who have been taught that it is wrong to defend their homes and families stand up to people...GAYS ARE 1 IN 50, NOT 1 IN 4
Breaking News. Spiritual Perspective.
Americans have been fooled: The majority believe 25 percent of the population is gay,
while the reality is that less than 2 percent of the population is gay.
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while the reality is that less than 2 percent of the population is gay.
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With The New Survey Out,
It’s Time To Expose The Lies
It’s Time To Expose The Lies
Dr. Michael Brown, In The Line Of Fire, Charisma News —According to a 2011 Gallup poll, Americans thought that 25 percent of the population was gay (meaning one out of every four people), while those aged 18-29 put the figure at closer to 30 percent (meaning almost one in every three people). The reality is that less than 2 percent of the population is gay (meaning fewer than one in 50 people), and many gay leaders know this is true.
People of America, you have been duped.
For many years, we were told that "one in every 10 Americans" was gay, a figure based on the massively flawed 1948 study of Alfred Kinsey. (Kinsey actually relied on data from male prisoners to come up with his statistics.)
Even though gay activists knew the figure was inflated, they used it as a convenient lie, since, as two leading gay strategists noted in the late 1980s, "there is strength in numbers." (For details, go here.) As expressed by a gay leader a few days ago, "The truth is, numbers matter, and political influence matters."
In other words, if Americans realized that less than 2 percent of the population was gay rather 10 percent (let alone 25 percent), they would have a very different view of “gay rights.”
To be sure, it is wrong to bully or oppress or mistreat anyone based on gender or ethnicity or romantic attractions, so that is not the question. And whether gays are 1 percent of the population or 90 percent, they should not be mistreated.
But you don't overhaul the legal system to the point of attacking freedoms of speech, conscience, and religion based on the sexual and romantic desires of a tiny percentage of the population, nor do you engage in a massive social experiment, like redefining marriage, because of a statistically tiny group of people.
Back in 2003, in their official brief in the landmark Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court decision, a major coalition of 31 gay and pro-gay organizations used the figures of 2.8 percent of the male population and 1.4 percent of the female population as identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
This means that these activist organizations were fully aware that the 10 percent figure was completely bogus and yet they never protested when that figure was used to advance their cause. Why expose such a useful lie?
In 2011, UCLA law school's Williams Institute released a study done by Dr. Gary J. Gates, who serves as the Williams Distinguished Scholar at the Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy. His official bio also states that, "Dr. Gates co-authored The Gay and Lesbian Atlas and is a recognized expert on the geography and demography of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population. ... Many national and international media outlets regularly feature his work."
According to Dr. Gates, just 1.7 percent of the population identifies as gay, with about the same figure identifying as bisexual.
Contrast this with an informal poll I conducted while speaking at a Christian youth conference last month, asking these committed young people what percentage of the population was gay. (Some of these kids were home schooled and most seemed less aware of the more notorious cable TV shows, so they were less worldly wise than your average young people.) The first teen answered, "Thirty percent." The second said, "Forty percent."
Where in the world did they get such ridiculous figures? You can thank the media for that, by which I mean the sitcoms, dramas and movies along with the major news outlets. (For an enlightening Pew Research survey, go here.)
But this is where things get very interesting. For years gay activists worked to get a sexual-orientation question on the CDC's National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), a document of major importance in both government policy and public perception.
That question was included in the 2013 survey, and the results, released last month, made for shocking story lines: "1.6 percent of adults self-identify as gay or lesbian, and 0.7 percent consider themselves bisexual."
These figures approximated the ones used by conservative leaders for years, because of which we were mocked as liars and vilified as haters. Now the government confirmed what we knew to be true.
Gay and lesbian leaders weren't happy with the results, with Dr. Scout, director of the nonprofit CenterLink's Network of LGBT Health Equity, stating, "If we really are 2 percent vs. 4 percent, it means people are going to say, 'OK, I'm only going to care half as much.'"
How about changing that to, "If we really are 2 percent vs. 25 percent, people are going to say, 'OK, I'm only going to care one-twelfth as much.'" And take note: Dr. Scout only claimed that 4 percent were gay.
Bisexual leaders were concerned as well, with Ellyn Ruthstrom, president of the Bisexual Resource Center in Boston, opining, "For such a respected survey as the NHIS to produce such a small number is a blow."
"It's just going to make it harder for us when we're going out and talking to people about the bisexual population," she said. "We have a real hard time already with people not taking the bisexual identity seriously."
But it gets more interesting still. An article in the Washington Post entitled, "Gay rights groups dispute federal survey's estimate of population," notes that the 2013 National Adult Tobacco Survey came up with results that "more resembled what gay-rights groups had expected. It found that 3.5 percent of Americans considered themselves gay, lesbian or bisexual, with 1.9 percent labeling themselves gay or lesbian, and 1.6 percent identifying as bisexual."
This means that gay-rights groups knew full well that, rather than being one in 10, their numbers were closer to one in 50, with fewer than one in 60 identifying as bisexual.
The truth is that America has been lied to and duped, and gay activists have been complicit in the deception, if not actively leading the way in the ruse. With the new survey out, it's time to expose the lies.
The reality is that fewer than one in 50 Americans identify themselves as gay, out of which only a minority wants to be "married."
How foolish, then, to redefine marriage, restrict freedoms of conscience, speech, and religion, and engage in a massive social experiment based on such a tiny percentage of the population.
We won't be duped again.
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MICHAEL L. BROWN is the founder and president of FIRE School of Ministry in Concord, North Carolina, Director of the Coalition of Conscience, and host of the daily, nationally, syndicated talk radio show, the Line of Fire, as well as the host of the Jewish-outreach, documentary TV series, Think It Thru, which airs internationally on the INI network. He became a believer in Jesus 1971 as a sixteen year-old, heroin-shooting, LSD-using Jewish rock drummer. Since then, he has preached throughout America and around the world, bringing a message of repentance, revival, reformation, and cultural revolution.
He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at Southern Evangelical Seminary, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Fuller Theological Seminary, Denver Theological Seminary, the King’s Seminary, and Regent University School of Divinity, and he has contributed numerous articles to scholarly publications, including the Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion and the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament.
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Obama ‘Dragged Kicking, Screaming’ To Act In Iraq
Former ambassador says president’s move ‘political, not governance’
Lead Story by Drew Zahn, WND EXCLUSIVE —
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told a radio host Sunday President Obama’s decision to launch airstrikes in Iraq was “clearly political,” a calculation based more on election campaigning than national security.
Bolton was speaking on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s AM 970 The Answer.
The former ambassador claimed Obama’s order to strike Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, forces advancing on the Kurdish capital of Erbil in Iraq is “too limited” and “far too late” and suggested it was only done now because of public pressure to do something with the 2014 midterm elections right around the corner.
“I think the decision is clearly political,” Bolton said. “I think virtually everything Obama does on national security is related to politics, not governance. And I think Obama had to be dragged kicking and screaming into this decision to use military force in Iraq. Whether it was the fate of the Yazidis or some other concern, perhaps that Erbil would fall to the ISIS forces, I think the president waited beyond the last reasonable minute.
“I mean, for example, when ISIS took Mosul two months ago, hundreds of thousands of Christians fled the area, and their fate is as bad or perhaps worse than the Yazidis,” Bolton said. “I don’t rate one as more important than the other. I rate all of these as humanitarian disasters occasioned by, at least in substantial part, the failure of American policy in Iraq.”
The former ambassador wondered aloud why Obama didn’t act months ago, when ISIS first went on the march or when it became clear Iraq was destabilizing in the wake of the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
“I think Obama, as usual, was simply not paying attention,” Bolton surmised. “The president simply does not pay adequate attention to U.S. national security.”
So why start the airstrikes now?
“I don’t have much doubt that what finally moved the president was political calculus,” Bolton concluded. “I don’t think we know exactly what it was, but maybe he felt he had to do something before he went on yet another vacation.”
The president left Washington, D.C., for a two-week vacation Saturday morning, after holding a press conference announcing the operations in Iraq would “take some time.”
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