God Is Separating The Apostates From The Saints As "Christians" Are Giving Away Their Church Buildings To The Muslims (Shoebat Sunday Special)

<p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/muslimsinachurch2.jpg"><img alt="muslimsinachurch2" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-106734" height="200" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/muslimsinachurch2-300x200.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/muslimsinachurch2-300x200.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/muslimsinachurch2.jpg 600w" width="300" /></a></p><p>Once upon a time, Christians fought to the death against Muslims to keep them from taking their churches. It is a sign of the times that today the Muslims do not even have to fight because Christians are giving their churches away to the Muslim, such as in this case as one of the oldest and historic Christian Churches in Bridgeport, CT is giving away its Church to a Muslim group:</p><blockquote><p>One of the oldest Christian congregations in this community said it would sell its historic church to a regional Islamic center.</p><p>The United Congregational Church said Monday it plans to sell its brick Georgian-Revival style church, built in the 1920s, to the Bridgeport Islamic Cultural Center for $1 million.</p><p>The two groups will also form a partnership to provide community programs including soup kitchen and a homeless shelter from the site of the current church.</p><p>In recent years, more Muslim communities across the U.S. have begun to engage in the types of fundraisers and social-service projects that Christian congregations and Jewish synagogues often host or organize, said David Grafton, professor of Islamic studies and Christian-Muslim relations at<strong> Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Conn</strong>.</p><p>“As the national landscape has become much more suspicious of Muslims, and as Islamophobia has become more common, Muslim communities have consciously engaged in the process to normalize—or become part of the religious landscape of organizing into voluntary associations that form the bedrock of American civil and religious life,” he said.</p><p>The lineage of the United Congregational Church dates back to colonial days. It was first established in 1695 and called the Ecclesiastical Society of Stratfield. It later merged in 1916 with another congregation to form the United Congregational Church. Rev. Sara Smith said the Bridgeport church had 3,000 members when the main structure was built, but the numbers have now dwindled to 300. She said it made financial sense for the congregation to look for a new home.</p><p>The United Congregational Church will be renting space in another part of Bridgeport till they find a new space to buy, Rev. Smith said. “We are not dying, we are just moving,” she said.</p><p>It has been a challenge for Muslim organizations to find real estate for mosques or other religious uses since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that challenge has become more difficult in recent years, said Reza Mansoor, president of the Islamic Association of Greater Hartford.</p><p>“The Muslim community has had to reach out to places of worship” to buy their properties in Connecticut towns and cities like East Hartford, Avon and New London,” Dr. Mansoor said.</p><p>Ahmed Ebrahim, the leader of the Bridgeport Islamic Cultural Center, said his organization bought the church because it had the space needed for prayers and was zoned for religious use. About 1,000 families in the greater Bridgeport region are expected to use the mosque. “It’s a perfect fit for our needs,” Dr. Ebrahim said.</p><p>The main sanctuary will be used as a prayer space, Dr. Ebrahim said. The congregation from the United Congregational Church will help prepare the space by removing a cross from the altar and modifying the stained-glass windows in the church.</p><p>Ellen Carter from Fairfield, Conn., says her family has been a member of the church for 11 generations.</p><p>“It’s sad” we are moving locations, Ms. Carter said. “On the other hand, it’s necessary, and we are happy it’s again going to be used as a house of worship.”</p><p>The closing of the sale is scheduled for May 1. The church was designed by Allen & Collens, the architectural firm that also designed the Cloisters Museum in Manhattan and the Central Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/historic-bridgeport-church-to-become-mosque-1480978434">source</a>)</p></blockquote><p><strong>No surprise to me.</strong></p><p>The Congregational Church, whose buildings are iconic to New England as they are <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregational_church">spiritual descendants of the Puritans who came to Massachusetts in the 17th century,</a> is dying. After years of heresy and reducing themselves to little more than an elevated platform for extreme leftist politics, like all heresies, they are running out of people to replace, and they will disappear.</p><p>But sell the church building to the Muslims?</p><p>Actually, <span style="text-decoration: underline">I expected this to happen</span>, and I expect to see this with more congregationalist churches. All of the Church denominations have done this in our times to some extent, but the congregationalists will do more.</p><p>Why do I say this?</p><p>Notice how I highlighted a place called <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hartsem.edu/">Hartford Seminary</a>.</p><p><strong>I went to Hartford Seminary</strong>. I received my M.A. in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim relations from them in 2010. Hartford Seminary used to be a seminary for training Congregational (United Church of Christ) ministers. In 1893, the Scotch Calvinist professor of Oriental Studies and missionary, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Black_MacDonald">Duncan Black Macdonald</a>, came to Hartford and convinced the seminary to set up a school devoted to missionary work to Muslims in the Middle East. His vision quickly grew into what at the time was the largest Protestant school for missions to the Muslim world in the USA. Their graduates became leading experts in Islamic studies such as the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Marinus_Zwemer">Rev. Samuel Marinus Zwemer</a>, and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://muhammadanism.org/Books/default.htm">their works are still available to read today</a>. Many students went to the Middle East and preached to Muslims. Some of the students were even martyred and the plaques commemorating their martyrdoms dot the walls of the Hartford Seminary library (although they are now tarnished and handing on the walls in the basement).</p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/zwemer.jpg"><img alt="zwemer" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-106729" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/zwemer-270x300.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/zwemer-270x300.jpg 270w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/zwemer.jpg 348w" width="270" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center">Rev. Samuel M. Zwemer. Although a Calvinist, Rev. Zwemer had an open and great respect for all Christians, especially the Catholics and the Orthodox, and he envisioned Christians working together to defeat Islam and Christianize the Muslims.</p><p>A major change happened around 1950, and this was a group of missionaries returned from the Middle East and they concluded that Muslims already "knew God" and therefore did not need to become Christians. Such a view is patently ridiculous as it is a declaration of apostasy, for as St. Paul notes, if Christ did not die for our sins, then our faith is pointless. That said, I saw that many of the "Christians" among my classmates had a highly intellecutalized and secularized "faith" that was as arrogant towards the cross and sterile as a hospital room. Their Christianity is more of Arianism, for Jesus is a superman without acknowledging His divinity or kingship, Christianity is a social faith made to do social good for others, and the cardinal sin was not disobedience to God but offending a Muslim's personal feelings.</p><p>You might ask yourself how men can allow themselves to descend into intellectual darkness, but St. Paul discusses this in Romans 1. It happens, and if left unchecked, it will lead to apostasy and a return to the evils that Christ came to clear away.</p><p>I actually met one of the last living people from that group while I was a student. He was very, very old, and it is strange that looking into his face was to see one of those who began leading what was once a great institution down a path to perdition.</p><p>Given the cultural zeitgeist and the changes that would take place in the 1960s, Hartford Seminary began disbanding their missionary program until around 1975 when the seminary fully secularized. They still retained their Congregational affiliations and still trained ministers for their congregations, but the focus of Islamic Studies became one of "interfaith" relations. They sold off their beautiful old buildings to the University of Connecticut (now part of UCONN Law School) and build a hideous "cube" for their new campus, got rid of a large part of their collections from their missionaries, and completely re-made their image.</p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartfordseminary1.jpg"><img alt="hartfordseminary1" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-106710" height="200" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartfordseminary1-300x200.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartfordseminary1-300x200.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartfordseminary1-768x513.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartfordseminary1.jpg 1024w" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center">Hartford Seminary main campus, or "The Cube"</p><p>During my time at Hartford Seminary, I witnessed yet another transition, and that was Hartford Seminary slowly moving from "interfaith" to "Islamic."</p><p>I enjoyed those years because I learned a lot, and I had some very interesting teachers. I experienced my first death threats from Muslim students from the Sunni Al-Fatah Islamic Institute of Syria while there. I had the experience of classes with several leading Muslim figures in contemporary Islam and experienced the unique distinction of, many times, being the only Christian in a class of all Muslims and (unspoken) intended for only Muslims. I could go on and on about my experiences.</p><p>One of those experiences, and one which I have never written about before, was about the "interfaith prayer room" at the Seminary:</p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartsem1.jpg"><img alt="hartsem1" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-106636" height="180" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartsem1-300x180.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartsem1-300x180.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartsem1.jpg 600w" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartsem2.jpg"><img alt="hartsem2" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-106637" height="225" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartsem2-300x225.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartsem2-300x225.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hartsem2.jpg 600w" width="300" /></a></p><p>First, notice how sterile the room is, and how a tiny and flimsy excuse for a cross is stuffed into a corner of the room, as thought it were a mere "thing" off to the side and in a corner.</p><p>Second, notice how the cross does not appear in the first photo but it does in the second. This is because that cross is moveable- it can be removed from its location and, as I remember from my experiences, <span style="text-decoration: underline">dumped onto the floor in a corner or under a pile of Muslim prayer rugs</span>. Tell me, if you believe that the cross is the symbol of salvation, would you put it under a doormat that not just other people but Muslims who hate the cross use to worship the false god Allah on?</p><p>Third, as I mentioned above, and you cannot see it from the angle here but if you were to turn around in the first photo 180 degrees you would find yourself veritably leaning (as I imagine the photographer was) against a <span style="text-decoration: underline">pile</span>- no exaggeration- of Moslem prayer rugs. That is because the "chapels" primary uses is as a mosque. Yes, they call it "interfaith", but really the only ones who actually use it for worship of any kind and five times a day are the Muslims.</p><p>I watch the news of my alma mater, and each year it takes a step closer to full Islamization. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hartsem.edu/macdonald-center/the-muslim-world-journal/">The Muslim World Journal</a>, started by Rev. Zwemer to convert Muslims to Christ, is now little more than a rag for Muslim sophistry run by the virulently anti-Christian convert to Islam Jean Michot (see bel0w). <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hartsem.edu/macdonald-center/">The Duncan Black MacDonald Center for Islamic Studies</a> is basically controlled by the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hartsem.edu/macdonald-center/islamic-chaplaincy/">Islamic Chaplaincy Program</a>. More Muslim scholars and students are brought in each year, and the understanding is that Hartford Seminary will become by its own conscious choice a Muslim majority school in only a matter of time. One can only wonder what they will do to the personal papers of Duncan Black MacDonald or his fellow students, which I had the pleasure of being able to study during my time at the Seminary.</p><p>The Islamization of Hartford Seminary must not be viewed as an isolated case, but as a future omen of Islamic Studies in American and really, global education, at least as far as the West is concerned. Hartford Seminary is a small school, but because of its historical presence in Islamic Studies its roots run deep in the academic system and are connected to many other schools including but not limited to Cambridge (UK), Emory, Exeter (UK), Georgetown, Harvard, and Yale Divinity School. Well-established and up-and-coming minds in Islamic Studies associate themselves with Islamic Studies, and many major Islamic groups and figures also have strong connections such as <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.icna.org/">ICNA</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.isna.net/">ISNA</a>, the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.iiit.org/">IIIT</a>, and the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/msanational/">MSA</a>.</p><p>Hartford Seminary is a leader in its field. However, once upon a time its goal was to lead men on the path of salvation through Christ. Now the Seminary is committed to lead men away from Christ and on the literal road to hell through promoting and ultimately, converting to Islam.</p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/michot-6-08.jpg"><img alt="michot-6-08" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-106730" height="283" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/michot-6-08.jpg" width="212" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahyah_Michot">Jean, a.k.a. "Yahya" Michot, one of my former professors at Hartford Seminary</a> and an emblem for what the Seminary has become. A brilliant man and one of, if not the top living expert on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Taymiyyah">Ibn Taymiyya</a>, he was kicked out of the university of Louvain in Belgium and later the university of Oxford for writing under the pen name "Nasreddin Lebatlier" in support of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_the_monks_of_Tibhirine">the 1996 massacre of seven Trappist Catholic monks in Algeria</a> that served as the basis for the 2010 award winning  film <span style="text-decoration: underline"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Gods_and_Men_(film)">Of Gods And Men</a></span> (see the trailer clip at the end of the article). Given his record (not to mention my experiences in his class, which are among the memorable ones from my time as a graduate student), it tells one something about the views that the Seminary is presenting to their students about Islam.</p><p>The great Catholic saints commented that Islam was the culmination of all Christian heresy, and heretical fits the Congregational Church at large, for Christ to them is little more than a social justice warrior for all of their own "ultra-liberal" causes they forcibly define to fit their own image and not God of the Bible. It really does not surprise me that the Congregational Church is selling one of its buildings to the Muslims to become a mosque, because from my experiences they are already well on the way to completing their heresy that began several centuries ago in England through formally converting to Islam.</p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lgbtchurch2.jpg"><img alt="lgbtchurch2" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-106731" height="203" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lgbtchurch2-300x203.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lgbtchurch2-300x203.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lgbtchurch2.jpg 640w" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center">Outside a Congregational Church (UCC) in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://cms.hucc.org/">Hillsborough, NC</a>. Indeed, heresy of the Puritans has finally come full circle, rejecting the Catholic Faith in favor of ultrapietism, then to outright paganism, and as it may be now, Islamization.</p><p>For most of Christian history, the Church building is as much a place of worship as it is a gift from the people to God. This is why among the Catholics and Orthodox no expense was spared on the Church buildings- because since God is all that we have, then God deserves the best that we have, all of the time and without exception. This important practice was blasphemed by the Protestant Revolutionaries, beginning in particular with Luther and then following with those of his ilk.</p><p><strong>Giving- not losing in the course of conflict and striving to get it back, but giving by choice- a Church to the Muslims is like making the altar into a toilet bowl and using pages of the Bible as toilet paper</strong>. I do not say this in a figurative, but in a literal way, for the entire Muslim religion is based upon the blasphemy of Christ's divinity. To give a sacred building used for such a sacred and holy place, where the priest would enter into the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to a religion so reprobate is to commit apostasy. That is why Christians fought so hard to win their Churches back from the Muslims, and why the Muslims were so intent on claiming possession very the church buildings to begin with.</p><p>This is a sign of the times that we live in. The apostasy will cross all Christian denominations and having began at the top is and will continue to trickle down to the laity. But as Christ Himself said, those who are faithful to the end will be saved, for we are living in a time of apostasy, where being a Christian becomes a choice and not an association.</p><p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/nhQzn2gVGjQ?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></span></p>

anonymous armageddon isis islam war God Is Separating The Apostates From The Saints As "Christians" Are Giving Away Their Church Buildings To The Muslims (Shoebat Sunday Special)

Once upon a time, Christians fought to the death against Muslims to keep them from taking their churches. It is a sign of the times that today the Muslims do not even have to fight because Christians are giving their churches away to the Muslim…

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Muslims Are Attacking Christian Churches So Viciously They Are Forced To Have Guards Now- Muslims Have Been Caught Urinating And Defecating In The Pews, Doing Obscene Sexual Acts During Services, Stealing, And Dumping Garbage

<p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/destroychurch.jpg"><img alt="destroychurch" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-106744" height="200" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/destroychurch-300x200.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/destroychurch-300x200.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/destroychurch.jpg 620w" width="300" /></a></p><p>If a Muslim so much as alleges that somebody may have done something to a mosque and with no proof, Muslims will exploded into rioting and violence, nations may pull their ambassadors, and they will attack non-Muslims near them in "revenge" for Islam. Yet here we have case after case of Muslims committing the foulest acts in European churches such as defecating and urinating in the pews, openly masturbating during services, stealing, and dumping garbage in them and nobody cares.</p><p>By the way, "new clientele" is doublespeech for "Muslim":</p><blockquote><p>Persons poop on the floor. Masturbating. Trying to take children from the priest or mother at the ongoing baptism. Serious incidents do to the Holy Trinity parish is forced to be the guardian of the church.</p><p>...</p><p>The events in recent years have become increasingly serious. During the ordinances of the Church so people can yell loudly and smashing liquor bottles on the floor. It happens that they both pee and poop in the church and outside. It has been climbed on the organ facade and reredos and they try to steal church silver. It has also happened that someone tried to take children from the priest or mother at the ongoing baptism, according Alvlands list.</p><p>It is found empty liquor bottles and used, bloody needles on the floor under the pews. Organs must be kept locked to the disturbing visitors do not play on them.</p><p>In addition, it has happened that people sat and masturbated in the pews.</p><p>- It was a lying and pulled his penis. He did not stop despite the fact that a female police officer asked him to do it, says Bengt Alvland.</p><p>In conjunction with the TV recording about a week ago (Saturday) drug addition, one of the people the power cord for power.</p><p>- There are no limits or inhibitions for these people. It makes the staff feel great concern.</p><p>It has gone so far now that the Assembly takes in Securitas officer at church services, christenings and marriages. The staff do not dare lock the church in the evenings. It makes Securitas, after they searched the church.</p><p>All staff have also received training on threats and violence, and a training on conflict management is being planned.</p><p>It's really strange that we have to train our staff in this stuff, but it is perhaps as the development looks like.</p><p>Which people is that disturbs know Bengt Alvland not. He says it is not the old homeless, which the staff feel, but a "new clientele".</p><p>- The fact that there are more security guards at the Town Hall and the railway station is the space for these people become less. Therefore, rather than using the church as a warming hut. The church has become the weakest link, says Bengt Alvland.</p><p>Therefore , Bengt Alvland now asked the police to the security guards patrolling the Galleria Boulevard, Town Hall Skåne and the railway station also get the church and the parish house as its operating range.</p><p>- Stewards have greater powers than the Securitas guards have and can intervene, explains Bengt Alvland. We do not want to discourage people from visiting the church. On the contrary. We want a peaceful and safe environment for our staff and get our visitors. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.kristianstadsbladet.se/kristianstad/tvingas-ha-vakter-vid-dop/">source</a>)</p></blockquote><p>If this happened to a mosque in any western nation, the Muslim world would pull their ambassadors and boycott all products from that nation, and that nation would veritably send their secret police to arrest and summarily try and dole out the harshest punishment possible to the offender. Yet when Muslims do it, the silence is deafening.</p><p>Western society has turned on itself and is allowing itself to be destroyed. This is just further proof of that.</p>

anonymous armageddon isis islam war Muslims Are Attacking Christian Churches So Viciously They Are Forced To Have Guards Now- Muslims Have Been Caught Urinating And Defecating In The Pews, Doing Obscene Sexual Acts During Services, Stealing, And Dumping Garbage

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Major Christian Leader Gives Out This Message To All Christians In The West: 'Millions Of Christians Have Been Wiped Out By Muslims, Muslim Terrorists Are Working To Destroy Christians From The Face Of The Earth.'

<p>A Christian leader, the Rev. Patrick Augustine, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, is warning the Christians of the West of how millions of Christians have been killed by Muslim terrorists, and how these killers want to destroy all Christians. According to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.christiansinpakistan.com/christianity-is-facing-extinction-from-its-biblical-homeland-says-a-pakistani-christian-minister/">one report:</a></p><blockquote><p>A Pakistani Christian Minister Reverend Patrick Augustine from La Crosse pastor strives to minister to the persecuted Christians. The Rev. Patrick Augustine, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, has been actively engaged in serving the believers persecuted for their faith. A large portion of Reverend Patrick Augustine had been reaching out to the suffering – including Christians and non-Christians.</p><p>Reverend Augustine is keenly eager to bring relief to the hurting and distressed people across the globe. He has been striving to uplift the down trodden and impart hope and encouragement to them. “It’s not trendy or fashionable to talk about the persecuted church,” he said.</p><p>Reverend Augustine is keenly eager to bring relief to the hurting and distressed people across the globe. He has been striving to uplift the down trodden and impart hope and encouragement to them. “It’s not trendy or fashionable to talk about the persecuted church,” he said.</p><p>For a fact, Christians around the world are facing genocide and extinction from its Biblical homeland. Statistics revealed that almost one-half to two-thirds of Christians in the Middle East have either fled from their homeland or have been killed in the past century. Details are that in 1948, over and above 22 million Christians once lived in the Middle East.</p><p>It has been now an established fact that Christianity is obviously facing extinction from its Biblical homeland, Reverend Augustine said. As a result of the persecution, less than 500,000. In this regard, Hungary has become the first ever country to take an initiative to save the persecuted Christians and form a special department to deal with the humanitarian crisis generated by the Christian refugee crisis.</p><p>Reverend Augustine stated with deep sorrow that in the Sudan, over 2 million Christians have been killed, “but in the halls of Congress, western media or college campuses, there has been no hue and cry about the killing and crushing of human rights.”</p><p>He also mentioned the tragic incident when two suicide bombers hit Peshawar’s All Saints Church. The attackers detonated their explosive vests killing more than 200 and injuring above 600 congregants. Reverend Augustine recalled the time when after six months he had an opportunity to preach to the traumatized congregants of the All Saints.</p><p>Reverend Augustine’s congregation at Christ Episcopal, and First Free of Onalaska, joined hands to raise funds in order to procure medical treatment for the injured in the blast. The funds were also used to bring financial relief to the grief-stricken Christians. Reverend Augustine reiterated that he is scheduled to visit All Saints Church again next year.</p><p>Seeing and acknowledging the valuable services offered by Reverend Augustine, the Archbishop of Canterbury honored him with the Cross of St. Augustine award. Cross of St. Augustine is the highest honor of the Anglican Communion and awarded him with the nickname, the “Voice for the Voiceless.” “Christians living in areas of persecution often carry a cross,” said Reverend Augustine.</p></blockquote><p> </p>

anonymous armageddon isis islam war Major Christian Leader Gives Out This Message To All Christians In The West: 'Millions Of Christians Have Been Wiped Out By Muslims, Muslim Terrorists Are Working To Destroy Christians From The Face Of The Earth.'

A Christian leader, the Rev. Patrick Augustine, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, is warning the Christians of the West of how millions of Christians have been killed by Muslim terrorists, and how these killers want to destroy all Christians. A…

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The Rise Of Antichrist And How Will Donald Trump Deal With Him According To Biblical Prophecies (Learn A Secret On How To Predict The Future)

<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/son_dakika_erdogan_la_trump_te.jpg"><img alt="son_dakika_erdogan_la_trump_te" class=" wp-image-106718 aligncenter" height="381" sizes="(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/son_dakika_erdogan_la_trump_te-300x165.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/son_dakika_erdogan_la_trump_te-300x165.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/son_dakika_erdogan_la_trump_te.jpg 640w" width="693" /></a></p><p><strong>By Walid Shoebat</strong></p><p>So how will the Donald deal with the Kurds (wanting a state), Russia (wanting to expand) and Turkey (wanting to revive an Islamic empire and is already encroaching into Syria and Iraq) and including but not limited to the Russian-Turkish alliance which some fear is the "Magog Alliance"?</p><p>These are some hefty issues for the Donald.</p><p>Enter "the secret" to our success in predicting the future where you can learn it too.</p><p>But before we tell you how to predict (I promise you I will, later on in this article), Trump's behavior is already seen and thank God, it is the opposite of what many of the huff-and-puff crowds desires.</p><p>While many expected him to drain the swamp and hire populist revolutionaries, as it turns out, Trump is more pragmatic. He will fix the <em>Abomination</em> by first uniting an <em>Obama divided nation</em>. He can only do this by going somewhat against the wishes of warmongers and the loudmouths.</p><p>Therefore, we predict that the United States will shine. Unlike what Trump said during his campaigns, he reversed much of the rhetoric already and we predict that he will <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>not</em></span> deploy multidivisional forces to the region to 'combat ISIS'.</p><p>ISIS is pretty much waining. We predict that Trump will befriend the man whom he never mentioned once during his campaign: Erdogan.</p><p>Always remember, expectations shift to face reality.</p><p><strong>EURASIA THE  MEGA-CONTINENT "RISING FORCE"</strong><br />Eurasia is the mega-continent “rising force” which is attracting more and more nation-states to its sphere. The Russian view today is that “Eurasia” consists of the land lying between Europe and Asia proper; namely, those made up of Western and Central Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, part of Caucasus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.</p><p>But can Russia accomplish this dream? No. At Fatima, Russia was declared to break up and turn more towards Christianity (and I already know some disagree with me on this). That, plus a humpty-dumpty dream never molds as planned. This dream is at a conflict with Turkey which wants the 'Stans'; Uzbeki<span style="text-decoration: underline;">stan</span>, Kazakh<span style="text-decoration: underline;">stan</span>, Tajiki<span style="text-decoration: underline;">stan</span>, and Kyrgyz<span style="text-decoration: underline;">stan.</span></p><p>Lets just say that "Stan" converted to Islam long ago and is why God got rid of them thanks to St. Mary, the Pope and Ronald Reagan.</p><p>While many concern themselves with the Eurasian dream, this does not mean that the US is not going to occupy a predominant position. While the U.S. position is certain to be less hegemonic than before (Trump is an isolationist), Trump, regardless of his friendly approach with Putin, he will still not cut any deals where Putin will be declared victor and Trump looking like he was dominated by Putin.</p><p>Unlike what Trump displayed in his speeches, he will not make deals with Putin that serves Russian interests without serving U.S. interests as well.</p><p>Trump has the edge, most Americans have the feel that the U.S. as a nation, when unlike Eurasia or Europe or the neo-Ottoman dream, it has 50 nation states; all speak the same language; all connected with no borders, and all will be extremely united under Trump with assets of at least $269.6 trillion dollars and it still leads the world which tries to unite to supersede it.</p><p>With Trump's victory, all the "America doom and gloom" false prophets-including but not limited to-all the "America will be no more since Antichrist needs to rise to rule the world" were completely silenced.</p><p>Stop listening to madmen.</p><p>Unravelling prophecy takes work, much work. Taking a look at the other competitors to the U.S., we find a current Turkish-Russian cooperation, the E.U, China ... and unlike the U.S., <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>they are all fragile</em></span>.</p><p><strong>THE TURKISH-RUSSIAN (EURASIAN) ALLIANCE </strong><br />Turkey is not and will not shift towards Russia and neither will Trump or the west fear this alliance. Turkey is becoming the magnet to many Muslim nations.</p><p>Behlul Ozkan, an assistant professor at Marmara University and the author of "From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan" <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.aina.org/news/20161208163756.htm">confirms</a> what we have been saying all along: Turkey is on the rise to reclaim its Ottoman hegemony. Ozkan adds in the mix the positions of Russia and the U.S.</p><p>On the one hand, as Ozkan points, Alexander Dugin, one of the Kremlin's chief ideologues and a key proponent of "Eurasianism," has been meeting with A.K.P. officials. This is not a total surprise given the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>parallels</em></span> between Russia and Turkey, with their ambivalence toward the West. Mr. Dugin hopes his country will lead an emerging anti-Western "Eurasian" alliance while Mr. Erdogan believes it is Turkey's historical destiny to champion a Muslim world bullied by the West.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/eurasia-2-001.jpg"><img alt="Eurasia 2" class=" wp-image-106714 aligncenter" height="269" sizes="(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/eurasia-2-001-300x128.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/eurasia-2-001-300x128.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/eurasia-2-001-768x329.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/eurasia-2-001.jpg 900w" width="630" /></a></p><p>But Turkey is still one of the biggest patrons of the Syrian rebels (something Trump hates), while Russia is Mr. Assad's staunchest backer (whom Trump likes).</p><p>And as Ozkan confirms "while Turkey is still a member of NATO, and remains intertwined with the European Union, albeit more for economic than for political reasons it cannot afford to align itself exclusively with authoritarian regimes [like Russia]".</p><p>Turkey can never completely reprise its Ottoman-era role in the Middle East and is why the future threat is a fragile; it will be broken down to ten entities, with partly clay and partly iron (Daniel 2).</p><p>This is a humpty-dumpty beast. What this beast has in common is that they are <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>all fragile and is why it stems from the regions we mentioned.</em></span></p><p>The coming threat to world humanity is not the '<em>strongest nations'</em> which God in Ezekiel 28 clearly says that the threat is destroyed by the "most terrible [powerful] of the nations". This would mean that Russia and the U.S. will eventually shift from Turkey.</p><p>Ezekiel 28 is God speaking not I. Therefore, Russia and the U.S. will eventually unite and distance themselves from Turkey.</p><p>So few (especially secular experts) focus on God. If they only focused in reverse of what they think, they will get it. In God's mind, when "peace and safety comes," "war is on the horizon," and when "rumors of wars" is on the horizon, no war is coming, and it is still "peace and safety" stupid.</p><p>War comes sudden and is unexpected.</p><p>Also, it is not the <em>strong nations</em> that we should worry about, but the <em>cornered nations</em> that becomes the major threat. A lion basks in the sun until a threat passes by from another lion, bear or a leopard.</p><p>It is when strong nations hurt that something has to realign. The more that Turkey, Europe or Russia are cornered, the more we should be concerned. Turkey's economy like Russia is already feeling the repercussions of Putin's and Erdogan's policies. As Ozkan points:</p><blockquote><p>"The Turkish currency has fallen by some <span style="text-decoration: underline;">20 percent</span> against the dollar over the past 11 months. The <span style="text-decoration: underline;">outlook is so grim</span> that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">foreign investment has begun to flee the country</span>. Even the deputy prime minister for economic affairs recently admitted that Turkey is going through "its <span style="text-decoration: underline;">toughest period since the end of the First World War</span>," when the Ottoman Empire collapsed."</p></blockquote><p>But it is this type of downfall that makes nations dangerous. Turkey is caught between a lion and a bear. It cannot mess with its relations with Europe. As Ozkan states:</p><blockquote><p>"[Turkey] sends around <span style="text-decoration: underline;">half its exports to the European Union</span>, and its <span style="text-decoration: underline;">economy is kept afloat by European investment</span>. Joining the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shanghai Cooperation Organization</span> would be paltry [<span style="text-decoration: underline;">meager] compensation</span> for what it <span style="text-decoration: underline;">would give up by spurning Europe</span>."</p></blockquote><p>Above all, we have consistently forecast the enduring power of the United States. This is not a forecast rooted in patriotism or jingoism; the United States is and will be the pre-eminent power, but by the end of this decade (2018-2023), Turkey will emerge as a major regional military power, and Turkish-Iranian alliance will increase as a result. This will not bode well with King Trump or with Czar Putin.</p><p>Ozkan confirms what we have said all along:</p><blockquote><p>"century after the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his supporters believe that they can <span style="text-decoration: underline;">restore the empire's former glory</span>. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stroll through the streets of any Turkish city</span> and you will see car windows emblazoned with the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">imperial seals of Ottoman sultans</span>, who are also commemorated in the names of new multibillion-dollar building projects."</p></blockquote><p>The mark of the Ottomans is already being accomplished. Erdogan is putting together the Ottoman Empire as Ozkan confirms:</p><blockquote><p>Mr. Erdogan, the country's leader for 14 years, is the one chiefly responsible for putting the Ottoman Empire at the center of Turkey's collective imagination. The Ottoman sultans doubled as the caliphs of the Muslim world, which is not lost on the supporters of Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P. The chairman of the A.K.P.'s youth wing recently declared Mr. Erdogan "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">president of all the world's Muslims</span>." Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a prominent Qatar-based cleric associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, similarly regards Turkey's president as "the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hope of all Muslims and of Islam</span>."</p></blockquote><p>Where were these 'experts' three decades ago? They, unfortunately did not read a Bible.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/turkey-kurds_.jpg"><img alt="Demonstrators wave Turkish flags as they shout nationalist slogans during a protest against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in central Istanbul, Turkey, August 16, 2015. A Turkish soldier and three Kurdish militants were killed in a clash in eastern Turkey on Sunday, security sources said. The fighting between Turkish special forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) took place in a rural area of Kars province, they said. One soldier was also wounded. The PKK has attacked military targets on a near-daily basis since the Turkish government launched air strikes on rebel camps in northern Iraq on July 25, wrecking a two-year-old ceasefire. REUTERS/Murad Sezer" class="wp-image-106715 aligncenter" height="380" sizes="(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/turkey-kurds_-300x200.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/turkey-kurds_-300x200.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/turkey-kurds_-768x512.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/turkey-kurds_-1024x683.jpg 1024w" width="570" /></a></p><p>Erdogan has his eyes set on Syria and Iraq:</p><blockquote><p>"These ambitions seem to have an especially pronounced effect on Turkey's Middle East policy. After Syria's civil war began in 2011, Ankara sought to replace the regime of President Bashar al-Assad with Islamist allies. To that end, it sponsored armed groups that would do its bidding in Syria, groups named for Ottoman rulers like the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sultan Murad Brigade</span> and the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror Brigade</span>."</p><p>In recent months, Mr. Erdogan has lamented that Mosul, a major hub in Ottoman times and now one of Iraq's most important cities, was left outside Turkey's borders when the Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923.</p><p>Turkey has a military presence in northern Iraq that dates back to the second half of the 1990s, when the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or P.K.K., with which the Turkish government has been at war for more than 30 years, established camps there. More recently, in anticipation of the fall of the Islamic State, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Turkish troops have set up a base near Mosul</span>. A.K.P.-supporting pundits have argued that in the post-Islamic State order, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">northern Iraq should be administered by Turkish-backed Sunni Arabs</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sunni Kurds</span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sunni Turkmens</span> -- not the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad.</p></blockquote><p>While the European Union will never return to its previous unity, it will still survive and operate in a fragmented way in the next few years. With Germany (like Turkey and Russia) to suffer severe economic reversals, while Poland to increase its regional power; this will make Russia, Turkey and Germany become cornered lions. Erdogan's attempt to "blackmail" Europe with the Russo-Turkish alliance is unlikely to bear fruit — Europeans en masse do not fear Russia, however, they do fear Turkey already, especially with the Muslim immigration issue.</p><p>For now, Turkey needs the U.S. for political and military reasons until 2023, when it declares its independence from military imports. Trump needs Erdogan in managing the Black Sea and Turkey's participation in the containment of Russia's expansions. This will continue and we will see initially Trump coalescing to Erdogan.</p><p><strong>WILL TRUMP COMBAT ISIS?</strong><br />Therefore, the United States, unlike what Trump said during his campaigns (he reversed much of the rhetoric already) he will not fulfill the masses dreams to "deploy multidivisional forces to the region to combat ISIS". ISIS is pretty much waining, but he will befriend the man whom he never mentioned once during his campaign: Erdogan. Trump is a fox and he knows to "keep your enemies closer".</p><p>By using the Bible we were able to accurately predict Erdogan's rise to Trump's rise by focusing on Daniel, Isaiah, Revelations and Jesus Who predicted Nationalism: "Nation will rise against Nation". This 'humpty-dumpty' beast is not a <em>global one world government</em> and the clock is going backwards.</p><p>For "Trump's war on ISIS," Syria and Turkey become key issues. Trump will use Ankara's ambitions and its ability to cope with Middle Eastern realities.</p><p>But this relationship we expect will deteriorate. Here is what Trump will be up against: the Kurdish issue.</p><p>The United States and the European Union consider the Kurds as a key ally in the fight against ISIS. In August, the Syrian Kurds, with American support, were poised to gain control of a long strip along the Turkish-Syrian border. Once this became clear, Turkey, together with its Syrian proxies, launched a military operation to push back both: the <em>Kurds</em> and <em>ISIS</em>. Turkey and its proxies gained control of an area that they used to create a buffer zone between two Syrian Kurdish-administered territories.</p><p>As Ozkan points: "Both Iran and Russia liked what Turkey did. They were happy to see the American-backed group's ambitions checked. Both Turkey and Iran fear the carving of swaths of land to create a Kurdistan while the U.S. desires a Kurdish independence. With American assistance, Moscow and Tehran fear they could be counted on to remain an American ally and perhaps even to host American military bases, threatening Iranian and Russian interests. Accordingly, by using Turkey to beat the Syrian Kurds, Moscow and Tehran hope to drive them away from the United States and into their own arms."</p><p>We already know from scripture that the bear rises on one side, that is Persia (Iran) without Media (Kurdistan). Always keep that in mind and the prudent can sift how prophecy will unravel.</p><p><em>Therefore, Turkey's toying with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a pact led by Russia and China that is meant to rival the European Union will fail.</em></p><p>Turkey is turning away from potential partners in the West since these value democracy and human rights. What is arising globally as Ozkan points out is "another world of autocrats, pseudo-monarchs and aspiring czars."</p><p>In other words, the clock is turning backwards to an era pre WWI in preparation for a WWIII as we have been declaring. Why did we predict this?</p><p>Simple: The world needs to get closest to that position the Bible predicted when the Ottomans collapsed. When Christ returns He stands where He left off. Christ will meet the very enemies who destroyed His Temple in Jerusalem, the very people (Legion X) which was comprised with Syrians, Arabs and Turks (Muslim). To God the world is a clock, He turns it forward when He pleases and He turns it backwards when He pleases and is why He said that "history repeats":</p><blockquote><p>"History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new." (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/1-9.htm">Ecclesiastes 1:9</a>)</p></blockquote><p>All we do is monitor from the Bible where these clock-turning moments are and where we are at that clock. There are a few years left before the end, so be patient and run with us on this marathon of destiny.</p><p>And so now you know the secret to our success in predicting the future. Its not rocket-science, its simple biblical wisdom, which all can have at their fingertips by contemplating each and every verse always praying and meditating and always considering that each verse is prophetic.</p><p>Eventually Trump by the time he reaches a second term (if he does) will end up in a fallout with Turkey. In the meanwhile, Christians should begin to play the symphony, in unison, as Christ leads the spiritual battle to victory:<br /><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/78KtEjdAszw?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&start=563&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></span></p>

anonymous armageddon isis islam war The Rise Of Antichrist And How Will Donald Trump Deal With Him According To Biblical Prophecies (Learn A Secret On How To Predict The Future)

By Walid ShoebatSo how will the Donald deal with the Kurds (wanting a state), Russia (wanting to expand) and Turkey (wanting to revive an Islamic empire and is already encroaching into Syria and Iraq) and including but not limited to the Russian…

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Major UK Muslim Leader Declares 'It's You White People Who Have To Integrate With Us Muslims Because We Are The Victims'

<p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/mversi.jpg"><img alt="mversi" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-106705" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/mversi-242x300.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/mversi-242x300.jpg 242w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/mversi-768x952.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/mversi-826x1024.jpg 826w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/mversi.jpg 1024w" width="242" /></a></p><p>Miqdaad Versi is a UK Muslim businessman an notable figure in UK Islamic circles. His <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://about.me/miqdaad.versi">resume</a> is impressive. However, in a recent article for the UK Guardian, he made the shocking claim that it is the job of 'white people' in the UK to integrate with Muslims while at the same time saying that Muslims cannot integrate properly because they are 'victims of structural inequality':</p><blockquote><p>Casey’s review is right to be frank and open about the challenges we face. Forced marriages, female genital mutilation, honour killings and other similar cultural practices have no place in modern Britain, and thousands of victims suffer from these horrific crimes – crimes that remain hugely under-reported. And the presence of misogyny, discrimination, homophobia and sectarianism within many socially conservative religious societies is an important challenge that cannot be ignored. Many of her robust recommendations, therefore, are important and timely: a new programme to help community cohesion including the promotion of English language and measures to tackle exclusion, inequality and segregation in schooling.</p><p>However, her focus is primarily on Muslims: she does not provide any solutions for African Caribbean, Roma or Traveller communities, with no acknowledgement of Scotland and Northern Ireland’s history of integration challenges – from which we must learn.</p><p>Worryingly, Casey often conflates Muslim with Asian communities, giving the false impression that all regressive cultural practices are based on the Islamic faith despite clear evidence to the contrary. While the report does recognise the huge levels of socio-economic deprivation, low educational attainment and discrimination some Muslims face, none of her recommendations tackle structural inequality. As the former chief constable of Greater Manchester Peter Fahy says: “We seem to find it much easier to blame cultural segregation than economic segregation and inequality.”</p><p>Most importantly, Casey seems to disagree with David Cameron, who said when he was leader of the opposition in 2007: “Integration is a two-way street.” While she mentions the “rich tradition of religion as a force for good in this country”, highlighting important examples such as Muslim charities supporting flood victims in Cumbria, this is almost an afterthought. Overall little consideration is given to the extensive and positive contribution of migrants: the primary narrative is one where the actions of migrant communities, and those of some Muslims in particular, are the real barriers to integration. This is in contrast to recent research papers from the Economic and Social Research Council: one that indicates that black and minority ethnic communities are not self-segregating, and another that shows Muslim communities are less concentrated in 2011 compared with 2001.</p><p>Why does Casey say so little on how to tackle the fact that white British and Irish ethnic groups “are least likely to have ethnically mixed social networks” – one of the key signs of integration. Given “sections of white working class Britain have become more isolated from the rest of the country and the rest of the white British population” with “real and persistent” educational underachievement, why is no action being considered? And why is there so little discussion about what to do about “white flight” from the inner cities as one of the drivers of further segregation.(<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/05/white-people-integration-louise-casey-review-muslims">source</a>)</p></blockquote><p><strong>Please, spare us all the calls for more "diversity" or "educational opportunities," the cries over "segregation" and "inqeuality," or using the hackneyed phrase "Islam is a religion of peace"</strong></p><p>The reason why non-Muslims don't want to live with large numbers of Muslims, generally speaking, is because (a) Muslims for the most part don't want to live with anybody else but Muslims because (b) they are very violent towards non-Muslims, who they consider "beneath" them by their religion's theology, and this does not even discuss how (c) Muslims are even more violent and abusive towards fellow Muslims.</p><p>Walk into any Muslim majority area in Europe, and what do you see but filth, violence, and misery? They do this because these are the fruits of Islam, and because Islam is a rotten tree, it will bear rotten fruit wherever it plants its rotten seed. If a little bit of yeast leavens the whole batch, what is to say about the fact that because of the importation of millions of Muslims, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2327147/british-towns-have-changed-beyond-recognition-as-mass-immigration-turns-communities-into-ghettos-as-report-raps-governments-for-failing-to-deal-with-crisis/">it has become publicly admitted by the UK itself fact that many parts have changed so much they are no longer able to be recognized from what they are and have literally become ghettos?</a></p><p>Exceptions exist in any group, but the fact is when you have tens of thousands of well-documented examples of violence, destruction, and downright anti-social and anti-human behavior all coming from people affiliated with the same religion, and these actions happen not only whether or not there are attempts to provide more "opportunities" or "integration," but also that they transcend race, culture, time, and place, and that this religion not just formally sanctifies but formally rewards such bad behavior, then you can safely conclude the problem is with their religion. That is why people do not like Islam.</p><p>If Islam had really come to live in Europe in peace, it would be much more accepted and its intentions would be make plain by its actions. However Islam has not come to do that but to do what it always does, and that is to kill, steal, and destroy as it has done for 1400 years and, in the words of St. Juan de Ribera, archbishop of Valencia, "will continue to do so until God eradicates the pestilence from the Earth."</p>

anonymous armageddon isis islam war Major UK Muslim Leader Declares 'It's You White People Who Have To Integrate With Us Muslims Because We Are The Victims'

Miqdaad Versi is a UK Muslim businessman an notable figure in UK Islamic circles. His resume is impressive. However, in a recent article for the UK Guardian, he made the shocking claim that it is the job of 'white people' in the UK to integrate …

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Muslims Attack Christian Couple And Murder The Husband, And The Father Of The Wife Suddenly Disappears And Is Nowhere To Be Found

<p>Muslims in Egypt attacked a Christian couple, murdering the husband; and the father of the wife has gone missing ever since. According to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.christiantoday.com/article/christians.from.egypt.seek.refuge.in.cyprus.after.experiencing.brutal.persecution/102746.htm">one report</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Three Christians from Egypt are currently seeking refuge in Cyprus after they fled their Muslim-dominated nation because of the brutal persecution they had experienced because of their faith.</p><p>Egyptian Coptic Christian Maher Elgohary, his daughter Dina and their friend, Rania, are appealing for protection and a safe home from the government of Cyprus after escaping years of persecution in their homeland, the Cyprus Mail reported.</p><p>"Please, (Cypriot authorities) we beg you for your protection and mercy," Maher was quoted in the report as saying. "We want to have a relaxed life, to start actually living and not to be persecuted for what we believe."</p><p>"We are asking that you keep us safe, that you don't let anyone harm us and that we can finally have a place to call home," he added.</p><p>The Coptic Christian man was subjected to physical abuse in Egypt for converting from Islam to Christianity some 20 years ago. He said he had to practice his faith in secret to avoid further persecution.</p><p>Just a month ago, three men broke into Maher's home and threatened the lives of his family if he did not follow their instruction. Maher was forced to hold up signs denouncing his Christian faith and saying he and his family had found Islam.</p><p>Dina, Maher's 22-year-old Christian daughter, said her father allowed himself to be subjected to this ordeal to protect her. This experience, she said, ultimately prompted them to leave their homeland.</p><p>"My father did this for me, he protected me, and he always does," Dina told Cyprus Mail.</p><p>The father and daughter's other companion, Rania, also experienced the same persecution in Egypt because of her faith. Her father, also a Coptic Christian, disappeared a year ago while her husband was killed by radical Muslims.</p><p>Just like the Elgoharys, Rania also experienced being forced to shun her Christian faith, but chose to stand by it despite living in a community completely surrounded by Muslims.</p><p>"They tried to make me convert to Islam, to change my religion and after my husband died, they are trying to make me marry a Muslim," Rania said.</p><p>The three Christian migrants are now seeking employment in Cyprus to support their new lives and the freedom to exercise their faith.</p></blockquote>

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Muslims in Egypt attacked a Christian couple, murdering the husband; and the father of the wife has gone missing ever since. According to one report:Three Christians from Egypt are currently seeking refuge in Cyprus after they fled their Muslim-…

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Is Donald Trump The Great Monarch Or A Cyrus As Predicted By So Many Prophecies? Is He One Of The Seven Shepherds Who Will Defeat The Antichrist?

<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CyrusTrumpSmall.jpg"><img alt="cyrustrumpsmall" class=" wp-image-106680 aligncenter" height="387" sizes="(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CyrusTrumpSmall-300x184.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CyrusTrumpSmall-300x184.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CyrusTrumpSmall-768x470.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CyrusTrumpSmall-1024x627.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CyrusTrumpSmall.jpg 1080w" width="631" /></a></p><p><strong>By Walid Shoebat (A Shoebat Christmas Special)</strong></p><p>So is Donald Trump the Great Monarch, the Cyrus of our times <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.esvbible.org/Isaiah%2045/" target="_blank">(Isaiah 45:1,2)</a> who was ordained in this hour to be a blessing to the nations?</p><p>There has been much fascination over the rise the "great monarch," a Christian King who is foretold to set up a new social order upon the ruins of socialism. He is to usher the arrival of the “eagles” spoken of in the Bible which speaks of "seven shepherds" in Micah 5 who will arise to defeat "the Assyrian" (Antichrist). He is to squash the Islamic threat, the New World Order and all enemies of Christianity. To many, Trump seems to fit the bill, since some of these prophecies speak of a monarch of German descent and the Donald fit this criteria:</p><p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0IfEoQvAoYk" width="660" height="415" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p><p>Protestants in Germany as well as Catholics throughout Europe speak of the West to be ruled in the spirit of Charlemagne, the Franks after all were the first barbaric tribe to embrace Christianity who (like Trump) were mostly of Germanic origin. Catholics speak of the "Great Monarch" accompanied by an "Angelic Pope" who helps to restore Christendom to its rightful state after a period of apostasy.</p><p>Some of these prophecies say that this great monarch will possess Jerusalem establishing what they term "an era of peace" which comes <em>before</em> the arrival of the Antichrist. Trump recently has increased his church attendance which is noted by many Christians.</p><div class="column"><p>So is Trump the man?</p><p>Let us examine. But first heed this advise: always keep in mind the most crucial point in the Christian walk is <em>doctrine</em>. Lest you have the wrong prophetic interpretation, you should solely rely on <em>doctrine,</em> which ranks higher than <em>prophecy.</em> For it is by <em>doctrine</em> you will spot the Christ, the true Christian from the false Christian, as well as the Antichrists. This is crucial, since if you later get disappointed, you can easily correct your faulty prophetic interpretations, while your doctrine remains firm, then repent of your error, tie your shoelaces and "continue running the marathon".</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/someone-figured-out-the-purpose-of-the-extra-shoelace-hole-on-your-running-shoes-and-it-will-blow-your-mind.jpg"><img alt="someone-figured-out-the-purpose-of-the-extra-shoelace-hole-on-your-running-shoes-and-it-will-blow-your-mind" class="size-medium wp-image-106691 aligncenter" height="225" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/someone-figured-out-the-purpose-of-the-extra-shoelace-hole-on-your-running-shoes-and-it-will-blow-your-mind-300x225.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/someone-figured-out-the-purpose-of-the-extra-shoelace-hole-on-your-running-shoes-and-it-will-blow-your-mind-300x225.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/someone-figured-out-the-purpose-of-the-extra-shoelace-hole-on-your-running-shoes-and-it-will-blow-your-mind-768x576.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/someone-figured-out-the-purpose-of-the-extra-shoelace-hole-on-your-running-shoes-and-it-will-blow-your-mind-1024x768.jpg 1024w" width="300" /></a></p><p>So lets delve and seriously and thoroughly examine some of these prophecies in light of certain prophetic scale accepted by both Catholics and Protestants and in light of the Bible itself. One prediction states:</p><blockquote><p><i>"He [the great monarch] shall <span style="text-decoration: underline;">reign over the House of Agar</span>, and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shall possess Jerusalem</span>."</i> (Isidore of Seville, 7th Century)</p></blockquote></div><p>So far so good, until we read one prophecy collector, Yves Dupont interprets:</p><blockquote><p>"<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Jews will be converted</span> and, after <span style="text-decoration: underline;">a short period</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">probably a few years</span>, Christ will come down again and judge the nations".</p></blockquote><p>This, they predict, will usher in what is termed as "<em>an era of peace"</em> and only then, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>after that era of peace is over</em></span>, that the Antichrist will finally appear to be destroyed by Christ's coming.</p><p>While there is no doubt that God will raise "seven shepherds" (Micah 5) who will combat the "Assyrian" (Antichrist) and these will redeem many in Israel, but to think there is an "<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>era of peace</em></span> prior to the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>advent of Antichrist</em></span>" should be questioned in light of crucial factors well etched and established in both scripture and by many other saints.</p><p>First of all, we do not find <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>anywhere</em></span> in the <em>whole of Scripture</em> anything remotely close to "an era of peace" <em>preceding the coming of Antichrist,</em> where <em>Israel is restored</em>.</p><p>This idea which states that Israel is restored by a monarch needs to be examines in light of scripture which clearly states:</p><blockquote><p>And so <span style="text-decoration: underline;">all Israel should be saved</span>, as it is written: There shall <span style="text-decoration: underline;">come out of Sion</span>, he that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shall deliver</span> [Israel], and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">[he Christ] shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob</span>. (Romans 11:26)</p></blockquote><p>We find no monarch here, "All Israel should be saved" by Christ and this is preceded by the Church's ultimate trial after "a religious deception" and "the falling away come first" which seems within sight more than "an era of peace".</p><p>Perhaps one might write-off this critique we just made here, but lest someone objects, it is not only the Bible which states this, but the Catechism of the Catholic Church itself does. <em>Both agree</em>, that only "<em>Christ as king</em>" is to be manifested in "the last days" and his recognition is by "all Israel".</p><p>Even St. Augustine confirms: "the Jews shall believe in the true Christ, that is, our Christ, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">thanks to this great and admirable prophet Elias</span> ..." St. Augustine confirms scripture which does not say what Dupont says.</p><p>Also, we cannot, and should not, completely and strictly rely on everything we read on the internet and in ill-sourced books. It is this crucial problem that I see amongst many Christians, especially today. With many of these predictions, it is nearly impossible to even verify the authenticity of some quotes that are supposed to be about the 'Great Monarch'. Many of the quotes mentioned in books and on websites about him do not give original sources.</p><p>Even <span class="a">“Prophecy for Today” which many use as a source for these prophecies </span><span class="a">by Catholic Edward Connor, he agrees with my warning: </span></p><blockquote><p><span class="a">"Public prophecy ceased </span><span class="a">with the death of St. John the Apostle. Private prophecy, even if received from God, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">is </span></span><span class="a"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">not reliable</span> because the prophet is fallible. He can forget, misunderstand or </span><span class="a">misinterpret. Even when he does not err, those who hear him and who transmit the </span><span class="a">message <span style="text-decoration: underline;">can err</span>"</span></p></blockquote><div class="page" title="Page 17"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">Not only can interpreters err, but Conner himself erred. One could find a multitude of unverifiable quotes in his book. For example:</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">"The Great French Monarch, who shall subject all the East, shall come around the end of the world.... " - St. Hyppolitus (235 AD) </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">Not only that France as a nation did not exist in the 3rd Century AD, but Conner simply gives no source. </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">Go ahead, try to hunt down this quote and you will never find it written in any historic reference. Many of the Great Monarch prophecies originate from a book titled "<em>From Hell with Love</em>" By Zak Portelli and even he failed to provide sources for some of these supposed 'original quotes'. </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">For another example "He shall inherit the Crown of the Fleur-de-Lis (Bishop Ageda, 12th Century)" is a quote which one cannot find a source from any credible reference.</span></p><p>One needs to wisely sift. Indeed, the Jews will return in unbelief and while some Catholics object about establishing Israel, while Protestants claim that the popes have always been anti-Israel, this is not true. Popes unanimously agree Israel's return is of God. For example, Pope Benedict XV (died 1922) and before Israel was established he correctly interpreted and predicted:</p><blockquote><p>"The <span style="text-decoration: underline;">return of the Jews to Palestine</span> is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the will of God</span>, hence they will have to leave many countries."</p></blockquote><div class="page" title="Page 17"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><blockquote><p>"The Jews shall return to Palestine and become Christians toward the end of the world." (Anne Catherine Emmerich, died 1824)</p></blockquote></div></div></div><p>The papacy always had a certain care for the Jewish people and Catholic history debunks the notion that the Catholic Church was anti-Semitic. We also do not find popes saying that we will have an "era of true peace" just before Antichrist comes. The Vatican's position is clear on this issue.</p><p>The impossible to answer Jesus-style question to many who solely focus on such prophecies is this:</p><blockquote><p>Which of the prophecies is true, the ones who say that the "Great Monarch" is French, German, Roman, Spanish, Bourbon, of the House of Habsburg, a descendant of Constantine, Charlemagne or King Louis IX, especially that these bloodlines are not the same?</p></blockquote><p>These rulers all belonged to different ethnicities, different races, different families, different countries, and possess different lineages.</p><p>Whenever one find die speculation, one sees multitudes filled with a false hope.</p></div></div></div><p>Always keep in mind that the bulk of these prophecies stem from when the claim was made by Saint Remigius, <i id="z56"></i>bishop of Reims and apostle of the <i id="z57"></i>Franks in 496 "vision" of the last monarch to descend from France. This prophecy was related through <i id="z67"></i>Hincmar (806-882), <i id="z68"></i>archbishop of Reims, and <i id="z69"></i>Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (780-856) <i id="z70"></i>O.S.B., <i id="z71"></i>archbishop of Mainz.</p><p>However that may be, Marie-Julie Jahenny (1850-1941), also known as the "Breton" stigmatist, prophesied that Henry V, the Count of Chambord, was the chosen King. Yet despite his death, one of her predictions dated 1890 declares he is yet "reserved for the great epochs" (the end of time). So here we have a factor of human error.</p><p>We must always keep a balance. For example, I have poured much effort in evaluating the works of Valtorta and wrote two articles <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2016/04/17/the-amazing-story-of-a-woman-who-saw-jesus-and-was-taken-in-a-time-tunnel-to-biblical-times-to-witness-christs-life-story-in-great-detail/">one in favor</a> and another <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2016/04/24/do-christians-really-hear-messages-from-jesus/">in critique</a> where I show how some of her 'amazing finds' can easily be obtained from other sources. While there are claims that Pope Pius XII approved Valtorta's writings, this is questionable. Therefore, we should not take a dogmatic approach to certain seer or prophecies or interpreters or nuns lest we err in interpreting them or someone else erred in transmitting their predictions. Collectors err tremendously. For example, Dupont (who collects these prophecies) includes other serious contradictions to scripture. For example, he gives a supposed quote by <em>Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser</em>:</p><blockquote><p>God will <span style="text-decoration: underline;">bind Satan for a number of years</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">until the days of the Son of Perdition</span>…there will be an ecumenical council which will be the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">greatest of all councils</span>.  By the grace of God, by the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">power of the Great Monarch</span>, and by the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">authority of the Holy Pontiff</span> [Angelic Pope], and by the union of the most devout princes, atheism and every <span style="text-decoration: underline;">heresy will be banished from the earth</span>.  The Council will define the true sense of Holy Scripture, and this will be believed and accepted by everyone (Dupont, p. 40).</p></blockquote><p class="style4">Contrary to this private prophecy, that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">satan is bound <em>before</em> all heresy is eliminated</span>, in scripture Satan is never bound <em>before</em> the <em>Son of Perdition</em> come but strictly <em>after</em>. We find absolutely nothing (not a single verse) in scripture to support this conclusion.</p><p class="style4">On the contrary, St. Bellarmine who did an <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/315843305/Antichrist-de-Controversiis-St-Robert-Bellarmine-S-J">entire essay on Antichrist</a>, he <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2016/11/13/prepare-for-antichrist-turkey-declares-war-on-christianity-all-of-turkish-schools-are-training-muslims-on-how-to-murder-christians-muslims-in-turkey-are-now-beheading-pastors-while-protected-by-the/">correctly instructs</a> never to proclaim such things. He refers to Second Thessalonians where God instructs:</p><blockquote><p>And <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>then</em></span> [after the falling away happens] that <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">wicked one</span></em> [Antichrist] shall be revealed whom the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Lord Jesus</em></span> shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">his coming</span>, him, Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all <span style="text-decoration: underline;">power</span>, and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">signs</span>, and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">lying wonders</span> … (2 Thess 2:8-9)</p></blockquote><p>“And <em>then</em> that wicked one shall be revealed”? This “<em>then</em>” comes right immediately after the great <em>apostasy</em> and there is no <em>epoch of peace</em>. It is strictly a falling away <em>first</em> and then <em>immediately</em> the Antichrist appears.</p><p>Lets again examine:</p><blockquote><p>"God will <span style="text-decoration: underline;">bind Satan</span> for a number of years <span style="text-decoration: underline;">until</span> the days of the Son of Perdition"</p></blockquote><p>This goes contrary to Scripture which clearly states the devil is bound way after the Antichrist appears and is captured (see Apocalypse, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.drbo.org/chapter/73019.htm">19:20-21</a>; <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.drbo.org/chapter/73020.htm">20:1-2</a>).</p><p>We do not have <em>two separate bindings</em> of Lucifer. This alone puts a dent in all of these claims of an "era of peace" that supposedly comes <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>before</em></span> Antichrist shows up.</p><p>And here is another danger. Such reliance on "an era of peace" would lax the saints to roam and be worry free like the virgin without oil to only be caught when the Bridegroom comes and be left out. This is a very serious issue to consider.</p><p>Other problems can be found. It was the <em>Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius,</em> which shaped and influenced the bulk of these prophecies. St. Methodius was from the fourth century. So the prophecies would sound amazing especially that they mention a monarch (king) combating the Muslim world. Islam only appeared in the seventh century after <em>Pseudo-Methodius </em>was written. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodius_of_Olympus">St. Methodius of Olympus</a> of the fourth century never wrote the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Pseudo-Methodius">Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodiu</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Pseudo-Methodius">s</a></span> which became heavily accessed by some seers.</p><p>This takes the thunder of the miraculous factor of predicting Islam in many of these prophecies. Dupont for example whom I have poured much time into his works, I found grave errors. He <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://archive.org/stream/CatholicProphecy/CatholicProphecy_djvu.txt">naively credits prophecies</a> to the fourth-century theologian <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodius_of_Olympus">St. Methodius of Olympus</a> when in fact it was from the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Pseudo-Methodius"><em>Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius </em></a>(7th century). He wrote:</p><blockquote><pre><span style="text-decoration: underline;">St. Methodius</span>. "A day will come when the enemies of Christ will boast of having conquered the whole world. They will say: 'Christians cannot escape now!' But <span style="text-decoration: underline;">a Great King will arise</span> to fight the enemies of God. He will defeat them, and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">peace will be given to the world</span>, and the Church will be freed from her anxieties."</pre></blockquote><p>So this would be another source where this "era of peace" was deduced: "peace will be given to the world".</p><p>But this was <em>never</em> uttered by St. Methodius. Pseudepigrapha are falsely-attributed works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past.</p><p>Such mistakes are not only done by Catholics. Many pre-tribulation evangelical Protestants who use <em>Pseudo-Ephraem</em> which also relies upon the Pseudo-Methodius to prove a 'pre-tribulation rapture' when in reality neither Methodius or Pseudo-Ephraem <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bible.ca/rapture-pseudo-ephraem-latin-syraic-texts.htm">ever mention </a>anything about a pre-tribulation rapture. Yet so many books are written on the subject and people consume them to no end believing they will vanish before WWIII erupts.</p><p>Scripture clearly speaks of a false peace (not an era of peace) which is established after some turmoil by Antichrist, not a monarch. Therefore, be careful lest you fall for the Antichrist believing he is the monarch.</p><p>We ought to ask: isn't the world today calling for peace between Shiite and Sunni? Isn't Erdogan of Turkey approaching the Jews and just made a deal with them on cooperation becoming the defender of Gaza and for benefits from the Mediterranean he already made a pact with Israel? Isn't the world tired of ISIS and here comes Erdogan promising to restore peace? Isn't the world crying for peace and the end of bloodshed? Doesn't scripture tell us that when the world says "peace and safety" is when "sudden destruction comes"? Therefore, this "era of peace" is dangerous for it is built on false hope.</p><p>Another danger is this: imagine if a nationalist arises in Europe (altra-nationalists are already arising in Europe) and alongside stands a bad pope. A multitude of Catholics would gladly follow them believing them to be the 'great monarch' and the 'angelic pope'. After all, Antichrist comes <em>after</em> (not before) the great monarch. So we still have time to be merry. But as it turns out, these (as Paul warned in 2 Thess 2) are agents of Antichrist or are even "the beast" and "the false prophet," who will lead these souls to hell, while the true Christ who later comes to combat them is viewed as the <em>Antichrist</em>.</p><p>This is why <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>doctrine</em></span> is the <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">scale</span></em> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>not</em></span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>prophecy</em></span>. The Catholic Church today is not the same as it was during Pope Pius XII during Hitler. God forbid in the future the Vatican embraces more Protestantism to accept a Protestant tyrant from Germany and then we have a German Antichrist whom we think is the "great monarch". Catholics and Protestants should remain miles apart when it comes to the mixing of what each considers essential theology.</p><p>Remember Christ said to be like the five wise virgins, to be prepared and be ready for <em>His coming</em> and not the coming of <em>another </em>(unless they are the two witnesses). So then here comes Christ to find the five slumbering virgins instead are standing on the wrong side of the fence and then He shuts the door.</p><div id="attachment_106692" style="width: 587px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/virgins9.jpg"><img alt="virgins9" class="wp-image-106692" height="333" sizes="(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/virgins9-300x173.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/virgins9-300x173.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/virgins9.jpg 521w" width="577" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Left: Bad Virgins. Right: Good Virgins. Choose your virgins wisely</p></div><p>Christ warned of this. Keep in mind, the two witnesses will come and be martyred teaching true doctrine. These two do not come in an "era of peace" but turmoil. Scripture also speaks of seven shepherds and eight principled men. There is no doubt that we will have a "monarch" or even perhaps "seven" or "eight" leaders who will devastate the Antichrist, but this will occur <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>after</em></span>, not <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">before</span></em>, the falling away, and during when the man of sin is revealed immediately. Few of these prophecy books focus on Micah 5:5 which is clear as to when this peace happens:</p><blockquote><p>And <span style="text-decoration: underline;">this man</span> [Messiah] <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">shall be our peace</span></strong>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">when</span> <u>the Assyrian</u> [Antichrist] shall come into our land, and when he shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall raise against him <u>seven shepherds</u>, and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">eight principal men</span>.</p></blockquote><p>The "peace" will only and strictly occur <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">after</span></em> the seven shepherds are led by Christ Himself. It is only then will they defeat the Antichrist in Israel. It is only then "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">this man</span> [Messiah] <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">shall be our peace</span></strong>".</p><p>This is not established by a monarch who brings a pre-peace.</p><p>It is crucial to also keep in mind, that while these saints are approved saints by the Vatican, this is not the issue here. The issue is that Catholics should not put stock in all the claims and quotes made in the name of such saints, many of which collections are not verified or are approved by Rome or might have been wrongly interpreted.</p><p>Always keep in mind the most crucial point in the Christian walk is <em>doctrine</em>. Lest you have the wrong prophetic interpretation, you should solely rely on <em>doctrine</em> which ranks higher than <em>prophecy</em> for it is by <em>doctrine</em> you will spot the true Christ from the false Christ. This is crucial since if you later get disappointed with Trump not fulfilling your hopes, you can easily correct your faulty prophetic interpretations, tie your shoelaces and continue "running the marathon".</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: In my next critique (of the same thread since some complained of my long articles) I will include further misunderstandings when examining these prophecies in light of scripture. There are some human errors. However, the errors are matters of misunderstanding the timing of the epochs. Nevertheless, the conclusions of some of these prophecies are quite remarkable and we should not ignore them. As I have poured into the works of Yves Dupont but thought to share this time a few articles presented from my critical lens. Perhaps someday I will write articles critiquing myself, from my own "critical lens" since I too erred. I perhaps will end up plucking out my own eyeballs for penance lest I sin again.</p><p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/bmernq46E-8?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></span></p>

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By Walid Shoebat (A Shoebat Christmas Special)So is Donald Trump the Great Monarch, the Cyrus of our times (Isaiah 45:1,2) who was ordained in this hour to be a blessing to the nations?There has been much fascination over the rise the "great mon…

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<p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/muslimkick1.jpg"><img alt="muslimkick1" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-106694" height="260" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/muslimkick1-300x260.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/muslimkick1-300x260.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/muslimkick1.jpg 314w" width="300" /></a></p><p>In a shocking new video, Muslim men kick a German girl down the stairs and severely injure her just because they can for fun:</p><p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/zrVNODxm_Tg?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></span></p><p>This is an excellent video, for as we have pointed out before, this is how many of the Muslims really feel about non-Muslim people, that they can do what they want because they will not be held accountable for their actions no matter what they are, even if it means going on sprees of murder, rape, or urinating on others just because they can.</p><p>However, there is one small point to be noted here, and that is the use of the word "migrant."</p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline">While most of the time this correctly refers to Muslims</span>, we here at Shoebat.com have been consistently pointing out that it can and has been used in the discussion about the Muslim invasion today to mean anybody who is not a native European, including non-Muslims. I say this in light of the still strongly anti-Christian views across Europe in combination with the rise of a natural call for justice for what is happening.</p><p>As we have been repeatedly emphasizing, this "crisis" was not an accident, but intentionally engineered by the same people who promised to protect Europe. It is being done in order that some people, upon creating massive chaos, would use it as an opportunity to "present" their "solution" to the "problem" which they created.</p><p><strong>Muslims as well as the many non-Muslim criminal invaders cannot be excused of their crimes.</strong> Likewise, the governments of Western Europe must be held accountable for letting these people do this because as we are trying to make plainly clear, <em>this was orchestrated in order that the government might present socialism in combination with eugenics to the people and the people would accept it as they would feel they had no other option</em>.</p><p>St. Paul writes that even if an angel from heaven should deliver a different doctrine than that which Christ has given, it must be rejected. Naturally, Islam must be rejected, but so too must also be the equally heinous sins of eugenics and socialism.</p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/kick2.jpg"><img alt="kick2" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-106695" height="267" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/kick2.jpg" width="233" /></a></p>

anonymous armageddon isis islam war CCTV Catches Group Of Muslims Kicking Random German Girl Down The Subway Stairs Just For Fun

In a shocking new video, Muslim men kick a German girl down the stairs and severely injure her just because they can for fun:This is an excellent video, for as we have pointed out before, this is how many of the Muslims really feel about non-Mus…

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Wikileaks Releases 57,000 Emails From Turkish President Erdogan's Son-In-Law And Minister Of Oil To ISIS Terrorists Showing His Support And How Turkey Was Involved In Funding Their Smuggling Operations

<p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/albayrak1.jpg"><img alt="albayrak1" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-106674" height="166" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/albayrak1-300x166.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/albayrak1-300x166.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/albayrak1.jpg 620w" width="300" /></a></p><p>In a scandal as large as Pizzagate and the Spirit Cooking rituals in the USA, Wikileaks has just released 57,000 emails from Turkish President Erdogan's son-in-law and Minister of Oil, Barat Albayrak, showing how he worked directly with ISIS terrorists to smuggle oil from the terrorists into Turkey:</p><blockquote><p>WikiLeaks has released a tranche of more than 57,000 personal emails from the account of Turkey's Minister of Oil Berat Albayrak.</p><p>Albayrak is the son-in-law of the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<br />The emails span a six-year period from 2000 to 2016 and allegedly reveal his level of influence in the country's political scene.</p><p>The emails appear to have been obtained by Turkish hacktivist group Redhack, and which threatened to make his communications public back in September.</p><p>The emails, which allegedly contain details of exchanges between Albayrak and the Turkish 'ruling elite' were briefly published earlier this year, before being taken down following a crackdown by the Turkish government.</p><p>WikiLeaks alleges that the emails reveal 'Albayrak's involvement in organisations such as Powertrans, the company implicated in Isis oil imports'.</p><p>The company has been implicated in oil imports from ISIS-controlled oil fields. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4006568/WikiLeaks-reveals-57-000-emails-son-law-President-Erdogan-proving-connection-ISIS-operation-smuggling-oil-Turkey.html">source</a>)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://wikileaks.org/berats-box/">***If you want to read the emails, here is the link to "Berat's Box"***</a></strong></p><p style="text-align: left">The question is now, will Berat "disappear?" Ottoman rulers of the past are known to be very tempermental and act with deadly outrage if they feel "offended"</p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/erdoganalbayrak.jpg"><img alt="erdoganalbayrak" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-106673" height="186" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/erdoganalbayrak-300x186.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/erdoganalbayrak-300x186.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/erdoganalbayrak.jpg 614w" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center">Erdogan (l) and Albayrak (r)</p>

anonymous armageddon isis islam war Wikileaks Releases 57,000 Emails From Turkish President Erdogan's Son-In-Law And Minister Of Oil To ISIS Terrorists Showing His Support And How Turkey Was Involved In Funding Their Smuggling Operations

In a scandal as large as Pizzagate and the Spirit Cooking rituals in the USA, Wikileaks has just released 57,000 emails from Turkish President Erdogan's son-in-law and Minister of Oil, Barat Albayrak, showing how he worked directly with ISIS ter…

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Today Is The Seventy-Five Year Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor, Remember That Japan Is Still An Enemy And Is Not Our Friend. The War Is Not Over

<p>Today is the seventy five anniversary of Pearl Harbor. I did this video as a reminder that Japan is still an enemy, not a friend:</p><p><iframe src="http://shoebattube.com/player/embed_player.php?vid=1312&width=660&height=440&autoplay=no" width="660" height="440" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">In 1959, the infamous soldier of the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara, visited Japan with the objective of making trade deals for Cuban sugar. In a meeting, Che told Japan’s foreign trade minister that Japan could purchase sugar above the current quota in yen, and that the money would remain in Japan and would be spent on Japanese products. The foreign minister utterly refused such a deal, and said that Japan could not purchase sugar in amounts above the limit that was already set. “You’re under pressure from the fair haired Northerners, aren’t you?” asked Che. “Its true,” said the Japanese foreign minister. (See John Lee Anderson, Che, part 3, ch. 21, p. 411)</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The significance of the story could be interpreted in numerous ways, but one thing that it shows that is certain is: the Japanese have always wanted to be independent of American control. This has been the case ever since the end of the Pacific War. Ever since the end of the war, Japan has been militarily restricted, and has had to rely on the US for military support.As I wrote in 2014,<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2014/08/27/japan-will-building-fighter-jet-become-militarily-independent-america/"> Japan will be working on creating its own jet fighter</a> in order to be militarily independent from </span><span class="s1">American military provisions. </span></p><div id="attachment_102240" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap.jpg"><img alt="Mitsubishi F-2, the first post-war jet fighter in Japan " class="size-full wp-image-102240" height="455" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap.jpg 640w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap-300x213.jpg 300w" width="640" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mitsubishi F-2, the first post-war jet fighter in Japan</p></div><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Japanese, while acting as though they prefer to remain pacifist while depending on the Americans for protection, have been quite agitated by these restrictions. Such a pacifistic and dependent obligation agitates the proud spirit of the Japanese. But, it appears that now Japan will soon get the liberation that it seeks.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">What restricts Japan is the US imposed Article 9 within the constitution, which states:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“(1) Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">(2) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p1"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cartoon-for-Japan-story.jpg"><img alt="cartoon for Japan story" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-102241" height="460" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cartoon-for-Japan-story.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cartoon-for-Japan-story.jpg 640w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cartoon-for-Japan-story-300x216.jpg 300w" width="640" /></a></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Regardless of these restrictions, the Japanese have the most powerful military in East Asia, and they are striving to further break the chains of the constitution and get rid of the rules of Article 9 and to, eventually, go nuclear. In order to change the constitution, Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, needs two-thirds of both the lower house and upper house of parliament, to be on his side. Just last month Japan had its parliamentary elections for the upper house, and Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition, alongside those who agree with his ideologies, won in a landslide victory.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Over two-thirds of both the lower-house and upper house now agree with Abe’s reactionary ideology of reviving a militaristic Japan. This is going to help pave the way towards a revived militaristic Japan. The result of the election not only shows the ideological nature of government elites, but also reveals the feelings of the Japanese people: many of them want a change in constitution that would enable Japan to partake in war.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The revival of imperial Japan is going to be very similar to the revival of the Islamic Ottoman Empire. We are already seeing how both the Turkish government and the Japanese government look up to Hitler as a role model. For example, when Erdogan was asked how executive presidential system would be done while maintaining the unitary structure of the state, he <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-a-tures/its-no-surprise-that-turk_b_8903734.html"><span class="s2">said</span></a>:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“There are already examples in the world. You can see it when you look at Hitler’s Germany. There are later examples in various other countries”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Similarly, Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister, Taro Aso, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/taro-aso-nazis-japan_n_3682801.html"><span class="s2">urged</span></a> that the government look to the Nazis to learn about replacing the constitution:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“First, mass media started to make noises (about Japan’s proposed reforms), and then China and South Korea followed suit …The German Weimar constitution changed, without being noticed, to the Nazi German constitution. Why don’t we learn from their tactics?”</span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102242" style="width: 604px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/JapanNewPrimeMinisterAnnouncesCabinet9wxRoNP5uFql.jpg"><img alt="Taro Aso " class="size-full wp-image-102242" height="436" sizes="(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/JapanNewPrimeMinisterAnnouncesCabinet9wxRoNP5uFql.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/JapanNewPrimeMinisterAnnouncesCabinet9wxRoNP5uFql.jpg 594w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/JapanNewPrimeMinisterAnnouncesCabinet9wxRoNP5uFql-300x220.jpg 300w" width="594" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Taro Aso</p></div><p class="p1"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-abeerdogan-a-20151115-870x489.jpg"><img alt="n-abeerdogan-a-20151115-870x489" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-102243" height="489" sizes="(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-abeerdogan-a-20151115-870x489.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-abeerdogan-a-20151115-870x489.jpg 870w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-abeerdogan-a-20151115-870x489-300x169.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-abeerdogan-a-20151115-870x489-768x432.jpg 768w" width="870" /></a></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">On account of fears about Russia, China and North Korea, the Americans will break the chains imposed on Japan and thus enable them to revive their military strength. This is reflected in recent statements by Donald Trump in regards to fears about North Korea. Donald Trump, who is very likely to be the next president of the United States, has suggested that Japan be allowed to have nuclear weapons in order to keep the North Koreans in check. The United States, according to an agreement made with Japan, is suppose to be the aid of Japan in the case of any military conflict that would put the Japanese in danger. Donald Trump does not want to follow the initial plan, but rather it appears that he will allow Japan to fight out any conflicts on its own. Donald Trump stated:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">"Unfortunately, we have a nuclear world now… Would I rather have North Korea have [nuclear weapons] with Japan sitting there having them also? You may very well be better off if that's the case. … If they're attacked… we have to come totally to their defense. And that is a — that's a real problem.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">He also stated: “Here’s the thing with Japan… They have to pay us or we have to let them protect themselves.”</span></p><p class="p1"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/103470542-Untitled-1.1910x1000.jpg"><img alt="103470542-Untitled-1.1910x1000" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-102244" height="536" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/103470542-Untitled-1.1910x1000-1024x536.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/103470542-Untitled-1.1910x1000-1024x536.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/103470542-Untitled-1.1910x1000-300x157.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/103470542-Untitled-1.1910x1000-768x402.jpg 768w" width="1024" /></a></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Both of these statements are quite significant. For one, this plan of isolationism is exactly what the Japanese want, and have wanted for decades. If Trump wins (and it looks like that he will), and his plan for Asia is put forth, it will reset Asia to an environment very much paralleled to how it was before erupting into the Second World War.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Trump’s plan of having Japan no longer dependent on the US for military support, will give Japan the excuse it needs to rearm and to restrengthen its former martial strength, and to further revive the imperial religion that it once maintained and that enflamed its aggressions towards the rest of East Asia. Secondly, Trump’s plan to push Japan to purchase American vehicles and to pay the US would further be used by the Japanese to prove American hostilities and to justify aggression against the United States.</span></p><p class="p1">Trump’s policy for East Asia would break the barriers that are keeping, by a hair, the former conflicts of the recent past from resuming, the conflicts that lie between Japan, its Asian neighbors, Russia and the United States. For over seventy years, US policy on Japan has worked as a mask, covering up the immense hatred that exists between Japan and its Asian neighbors, specifically China and the Koreas. But with the policies that the US is undertaking, and will be enacting, in regards to Japan, that mask is soon to be removed.</p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">A senior official in the government of Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, said in regards to Trump’s words: “If what he says actually comes to pass, it’s going to be transforming for Japan. It would be a critical blow.” It truly would be transforming, not because it has to be transforming, but because Japan will use such a policy as a justification for violent and fanatical nationalism.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Japan has been looking for any excuse to make itself more and more militarily independent from the USA. After ISIS beheaded the two Japanese hostages, Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, Japan’s elites rushed to make the call for military autonomy. Kunihiko Miyake, an adviser for Shinzo Abe, said in an interview:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“This is 9/11 for Japan … It is time for Japan to stop daydreaming that its good will and noble intentions would be enough to shield it from the dangerous world out there. Americans have faced this harsh reality, the French have faced it, and now we are, too.”</span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102245" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/maxresdefault.jpg"><img alt="Kunihiko Miyake" class="size-large wp-image-102245" height="576" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w" width="1024" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Kunihiko Miyake</p></div><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/isjapan.jpg"><img alt="isjapan" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-102246" height="576" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/isjapan-1024x576.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/isjapan-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/isjapan-300x169.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/isjapan-768x432.jpg 768w" width="1024" /></a></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Shinzo Abe vowed to “make terrorists pay the price,” and used the executions to justify his desire to remove Article 9 of the US designed Japanese constitution — which forbids Japan from doing anything with military activity. Abe used the executions of the two Japanese to justify also his desire to establish a national security council, and to increase military spending. “No country is completely safe from terrorism,” Abe told Parliament the week before Goto’s execution. “How do we cut the influence of ISIL, and put a stop to extremism? Japan must play its part in achieving this.” What Shinzo Abe really did with the executions of the two Japanese hostages, was to show his people that the Americans do not care about them; that if they were attacked, the US would not come to their defense, and that the only ones can truly defend Japan, are the Japanese.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Did Shinzo Abe really do anything against ISIS? No. He simply used the killings to advance his agenda, an agenda that has been ongoing since the end of the Second World War. Shinzo Abe is advancing the agenda that his grandfather, Nobusuke Kishe, was working for when he was prime minister of Japan. Kishe was central in the founding of the Liberal Democratic Party, the same party that Abe is a member of. And like his grandson, Kishe was very active in trying to do away with the current pacifist constitution of Japan.</span></p><div id="attachment_102247" style="width: 969px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/BN-FX407_ABEKIS_J_20141208044055.jpg"><img alt="Nabosuke Kishe, with a young Shinzo Abe" class="size-full wp-image-102247" height="639" sizes="(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/BN-FX407_ABEKIS_J_20141208044055.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/BN-FX407_ABEKIS_J_20141208044055.jpg 959w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/BN-FX407_ABEKIS_J_20141208044055-300x200.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/BN-FX407_ABEKIS_J_20141208044055-768x512.jpg 768w" width="959" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Nabosuke Kishe, with a young Shinzo Abe</p></div><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Shinzo-Abe.jpg"><img alt="Shinzo-Abe" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-102248" height="500" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Shinzo-Abe.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Shinzo-Abe.jpg 800w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Shinzo-Abe-300x188.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Shinzo-Abe-768x480.jpg 768w" width="800" /></a></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">It was in October of 1958 when Nobusuke Kishe told American television viewers that the time had come for Japan to reject and abandon the pacifist, war-renouncing Article 9 of its constitution. This was the main objective of Kishe, and now Abe, his grandson, sees it has his duty to complete the mission. In the same interview, Kishe admitted that it would take a long time before the Japanese constitution is changed. Now it seems that that time is about to come. Takashi Ito, a Tokyo University emeritus history professor and a prominent expert on Nabosuke Kishi, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/for-japans-shinzo-abe-unfinished-family-business-1418354470">said</a> in regards to the similarities between Abe and Kishe:</span></p><blockquote><p>“A lot of what they say is the same. They both want constitutional revision and they both want rearmament of Japan"</p></blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Kishe was a convicted war criminal whose “crimes pile up to the heavens; he is truly evil,” to use <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/for-japans-shinzo-abe-unfinished-family-business-1418354470">the words</a> of Wang Qingxiang, a researcher of social science at the Jilin Academy of Social Sciences, and one of China’s most prolific writers on Japan’s occupation of Manchuria. Abe continues to strive to emulate his grandfather, both in his policies, and quite prospectively, his imperialism and brutality.</span></p><p class="p1">In 2007, Abe praised his grandfather for pressing “forward no matter how many people were opposed, because his was the only path.” Hence Mr. Abe’s slogan: “This is the only path.” Hiroshige Seko, deputy chief cabinet secretary and a close aide to Mr. Abe, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/for-japans-shinzo-abe-unfinished-family-business-1418354470">explained</a> these words as such:</p><blockquote><p>“It is the expression of the prime minister’s resolve that he will push ahead on the path that he believes in, not just on economic recovery but also in areas like changing national security policy and education reform ...<strong>I think the prime minister wants to be a leader like that in the end</strong>"</p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102249" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CTgiRnEUwAEYrLD.png"><img alt="Hiroshige Seko" class="size-full wp-image-102249" height="421" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CTgiRnEUwAEYrLD.png" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CTgiRnEUwAEYrLD.png 600w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CTgiRnEUwAEYrLD-300x211.png 300w" width="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hiroshige Seko</p></div><p>Shinzo Abe uses very clever argumentation to justify his agenda of remilitarizing Japan and for military autonomy. He will use the threat of Islamic terrorism, China and North Korea, as the reason as to why the US should give Japan military independence. His grandfather, Kishe, likewise used very similar argumentation to give credence to his objective. In one statement Kishe said that if Japan were to become a "respectable member (of) the community of nations it would first have to revise its constitution and rearm: If Japan is alone in renouncing war ... she will not be able to prevent others from invading her land. If, on the other hand, Japan could defend herself, there would be no further need of keeping United States garrison forces in Japan. ... Japan should be strong enough to defend herself.”</p><div id="attachment_102250" style="width: 510px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tumblr_inline_nr8oq9vMXB1sq7u0d_500.jpg"><img alt="tumblr_inline_nr8oq9vMXB1sq7u0d_500" class="wp-image-102250 size-full" height="347" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tumblr_inline_nr8oq9vMXB1sq7u0d_500.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tumblr_inline_nr8oq9vMXB1sq7u0d_500.jpg 500w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tumblr_inline_nr8oq9vMXB1sq7u0d_500-300x208.jpg 300w" width="500" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shinzo Abe's grandfather, Nabusuke Kishe, a notorious war criminal</p></div><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Kishe, like the rest of the post-war elites of Japan, considered the US drafted constitution to be simply a tool of American policy, and that the Allied occupation was merely a means by which to neutralize Japanese patriotism. One must say that such an observation is accurate: the constitution and the occupation of Japan were established and conducted to keep Japan in check. But now, current Western policy is enabling Japan to return to its old ways. This is why it is essential to study the men who ruled and influenced Japan before, during and after the Second World War, and observe how they ideologically and politically parallel each other.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Just like his grandfather Kishe, Shinzo Abe sees the constitution as something of a fetter that needs to be broken; that it was created by the US for the purpose of emasculating the Japanese people. In the year 2000, while he was just a second-term Lower House member of parliament, Abe stated:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“It is clear to everyone that the Constitution was drawn up under significant compulsion… I think this has had bad effects on the minds of Japanese people …. It is crucially important for us to make a new Constitution by ourselves.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p1"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/140515-shinzo-abe-1036_e6e3d99f1f298509e2fae5b63cb33baf.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg"><img alt="140515-shinzo-abe-1036_e6e3d99f1f298509e2fae5b63cb33baf.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-102251" height="691" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/140515-shinzo-abe-1036_e6e3d99f1f298509e2fae5b63cb33baf.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000-1024x691.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/140515-shinzo-abe-1036_e6e3d99f1f298509e2fae5b63cb33baf.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000-1024x691.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/140515-shinzo-abe-1036_e6e3d99f1f298509e2fae5b63cb33baf.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000-300x202.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/140515-shinzo-abe-1036_e6e3d99f1f298509e2fae5b63cb33baf.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000-768x518.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/140515-shinzo-abe-1036_e6e3d99f1f298509e2fae5b63cb33baf.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg 1482w" width="1024" /></a></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Shinzo Abe, in striving to accomplish his grandfather’s mission, removed Japan’s self-imposed ban on collective self-defense in July of 2014. Now what is happening in Japan is Japanese politicians in the Diet making national security bills to give this measure substance. You might think, ‘Oh, its just self-defense, there is nothing wrong with that.’ But to think in this way ignores the nature of evil. Evil never immediately reveals  itself completely, but always works in increments. The move to allow Japan collective self-defense will soon be given additions, more freedoms and enabling. One day they will have collective self-defense, and soon it’ll be the right to make preemptive strikes, and ultimately we will see an imperialistic Japan. We will all eventually realize that Japan never changed its true self, but rather covered it; our eyes will be opened to a revived imperialistic nation with its imperial religion, and only then will most of the world realize the evils of Zen Buddhism.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The incrementalist strategy of Japan was mentioned in one Japanese report, in which it was <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/22/national/politics-diplomacy/analyzing-abes-fixation-constitution/#.V09q35MrJUM"><span class="s2">stated</span></a>: </span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Abe seems to believe that the reinterpretation [of the Constitution], which only allows the limited use of collective self-defense, is not enough. Looking ahead, he probably envisions a constitutional amendment to enable the country to conduct collective self-defense without restraint.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">From one policy Japan will move to a subsequent policy more dangerous. The true evil aspirations and intentions of Japan have been hidden for quite some time, by the US government and Japanese elites. Even in a small amount of time after WW2, the Japanese made it clear to the Americans that they desired to have nuclear weapons.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Takashi Shinobu, a professor at Nihon University, unearthed documents at the U.S. National Archives in Washington, The documents reveal that on September 9th, 1958, Douglas MacArthur II told state and defense department officials that Nobusuke Kishe “believed it was essential that Japan have (a) nuclear” arsenal, and that the Japanese constitution “did not prohibit Japan from having any kind of weapons,” revealing a sinister desire by the Japanese to obtain nuclear weapons. MacArthur was not disturbed at all by this, but rather he said that Tokyo’s recognition of “the desirability of defensive nuclear weapons is extremely interesting and encouraging.” In a telegraph from June 20th, 1958, MacArthur informed the U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, that the Japanese Vice Foreign Minister, Hisanari Yamada, that Foreign Ministry officials discussed whether or not Japan should examine and agree on a decision on obtaining nuclear weapons.</span></p><div id="attachment_102252" style="width: 696px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HITH-10-things-you-may-not-know-about-douglas-macarthur-3227244-E.jpeg"><img alt="General Douglas MacArthur " class="size-full wp-image-102252" height="385" sizes="(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HITH-10-things-you-may-not-know-about-douglas-macarthur-3227244-E.jpeg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HITH-10-things-you-may-not-know-about-douglas-macarthur-3227244-E.jpeg 686w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HITH-10-things-you-may-not-know-about-douglas-macarthur-3227244-E-300x168.jpeg 300w" width="686" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">General Douglas MacArthur</p></div><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The reason why the US was not trepidatious over Japan obtaining nuclear weapons was because the Americans believed that a nuclear Japan could deter Russia through the possession of nukes. Japanese ministry officials even talked about the utilization of nuclear warheads designed to fire from the ground to the air, in order to deter the Russians from entering Japanese airspace. In light of this, Yamada told MacArthur that the ministry officials believed that it did “not make too much sense for Japan not to have modern defensive weapons — including nuclear weapons — when potential aggressors were armed with (such) weapons.” President Eisenhower was relatively tolerant about Japan owning nuclear weapons, and there wasn’t any international laws prohibiting Japan from doing so.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">What made the Japanese hesitant about going through with the nuclear plan was the remembrance of what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the same telegram, MacArthur stated that Yamada told him that the atomic bombings of the two cities “raised obvious and serious emotional and psychological problems in terms of Japanese public opinion, and perhaps opinion had not evolved to point where there could be any change in present Japanese policy.” MacArthur was not opposed to Japan having nuclear weapons in its possession, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.apple.com"><span class="s2">but he did</span></a> suggest in a telegram addressed to secretary of state John Foster Dulles, that the biggest hinderance to this reality was public opinion in Japan.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Nonetheless, what MacArthur revealed indicates a parallel between the Japan of then and the Japan of now. Kishe used the argument of self-defense against Russia to justify the acquiring of nuclear weapons, and today Japan is using the “threat” of North Korea and China as a pretext for developing nuclear weapons. From the beginning of this year the US has been exhorting South Korea to place a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system to defend against a possible nuclear attack from North Korea, but China strongly objected to this proposal, arguing that such an installation would be a threat to its national sovereignty.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">In response, on June of this year, vice-president Biden, in a conversation with Chinese president, Xi Jingping, said that Japan “could tomorrow” go nuclear in order to fight against North Korea. Biden’s recounting of the conversation in an interview <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rt.com/news/348416-pyongyang-threat-japan-nuclear/"><span class="s2">goes as follows:</span></a></span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“When I tell President Xi, you have to understand we got a guy up there in North Korea who is talking about building weapons that can strike, nuclear weapons strike the United States and not only Hawaii and Alaska, but… the mainland of the United States… And I say, so we’re going to move up our defense system, and he says no, no, no, wait a minute, my military thinks you’re going to try to circle us. …What would you do? Do you think we should stand back? …What happens if we don't work out something together on North Korea? What happens if Japan, who could tomorrow, could go nuclear tomorrow?”</span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102253" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/joe-b-copy.jpg"><img alt="joe b copy" class="wp-image-102253 size-large" height="612" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/joe-b-copy-1024x612.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/joe-b-copy-1024x612.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/joe-b-copy-300x179.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/joe-b-copy-768x459.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/joe-b-copy.jpg 1318w" width="1024" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Biden and President Xi Jinping</p></div><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Japan has a very efficient and proficient ability and means to create nuclear weapons. This is true, regardless of Japan being currently under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which was agreed to by Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, another maternal grandfather of the current prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe. Sato, in the leading up to the agreement, outlined certain principles under which Japan could not develop or house nuclear weapons. The principles, properly known as <em>the Three Non-Nuclear Principles,</em> were explained by Sato in his 1974 Noble Lecture in which he said:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“It has often been pointed out that, with the rise in the level of economic activity and the great strides made in science and technology, <b>Japan has the capacity to produce nuclear arms.</b> However, it is, in spite of Japan's potential, or precisely for that reason, that our people have, on their own initiative, made the firm choice not to be armed with nuclear weapons. This is also the firm policy of the Japanese Government. I wish to take this opportunity to declare this again unequivocally, and beg that my distinguished audience will bear this fact in mind.  ...</span></p><p class="p1">I established three non-nuclear principles as a policy of the Japanese Government after deep reflection on the course Japan should take as a country which will not possess nuclear arms. This policy states that we shall not manufacture nuclear weapons, that we shall not possess them and that we shall not bring them into our country. This was later reaffirmed by a resolution of our Diet.<b> I have no doubt that this policy will be pursued by all future governments.”</b></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102254" style="width: 996px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img alt="jap copy" class="wp-image-102254 size-full" height="852" sizes="(max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap-copy.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap-copy.jpg 986w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap-copy-300x259.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap-copy-768x664.jpg 768w" width="986" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Eisaku Sato</p></div><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Well, it turns out that not all future governments would rid itself of nuclear weapons or nuclear abilities. Japan itself, while demanding that other nations give up nuclear weapons, did not want to throw away its means to becoming a nuclear nation, and nor does it plan to be absent of nuclear weapons. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2015/02/02/japanese-government-turkey-currently-using-isis-order-revive-empires-preparation-world-war-iii/"><span class="s2">As I wrote last year</span></a>, Japan has enough plutonium to build 50 nukes and possesses 44.3 tons of plutonium, 9.3 tons of which are kept within the country, while 35 tons are kept abroad in countries like the United Kingdom and France.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">This is enough plutonium to create more than 5000 nuclear bombs. According to Yin Xiaoliang, a researcher with the Institute of Japan Studies at Nankai University, “This even exceeds the 38 tons of weapons-grade plutonium the US previously claimed to hold.” Not only this, but Japan is capable of make a nuclear weapon in six months. The United States understands this reality, with one US official <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/fukushima-anniversary/japan-has-nuclear-bomb-basement-china-isnt-happy-n48976"><span class="s2">stating</span></a> that the six-month estimate “was not out of the ballpark”. And, regardless of the polite anti-nuclear speech of Eisaku Sato in 1974, Japan, in April of 2013, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2014/03/25/war-japan-inevitable/">refused</a> to sign a joint-statement on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, in Geneva and Switzerland.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The United States knows of Japan’s nuclear abilities and its itchy desires to have nuclear weapons, that is why Biden warned China about how Japan “could tomorrow” go nuclear if it hinders South Korea from defending against North Korea. The cumulous thought of a peaceful Japan is now dissipating to the reality of the eastern mind: never forget what your enemies have done to you, and always get back at them, even if it takes a millennium to do it. Thus is the eastern mentality, and such is the mentality of Japan, no matter how much people try to cover it with modern smiles and suits. As pagan Japanese nationalist, Yukio Mishima, said, "After the war, our brutal side was completely hidden, but I believe it is just hidden" </span></p><p class="p1">The fact that Japan agreed to not possessing nuclear weapons does not prove a Japan that has converted from its ways. A major reason why Eisaku Sato conceded to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons was because he wanted repossession of Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyu Islands and to take them away from US occupation.</p><div id="attachment_102263" style="width: 746px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/c36a3e18c79ccb65ef51d3bfc36ad67e.jpg"><img alt="American soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa. One soldier lies on a stretcher, praying " class="size-full wp-image-102263" height="488" sizes="(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/c36a3e18c79ccb65ef51d3bfc36ad67e.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/c36a3e18c79ccb65ef51d3bfc36ad67e.jpg 736w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/c36a3e18c79ccb65ef51d3bfc36ad67e-300x199.jpg 300w" width="736" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">American soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa. One soldier lies on a stretcher, praying</p></div><p class="p1">It is said that Sato was forced by the Americans to declare that Japan would never produce, possess or permit the introduction of nuclear weapons. Japan capitulated simply because it wanted Okinawa back. It is also said that between 1968 and 1970 a vicious debate was raging amongst Japanese bureaucrats on whether or not Japan should own nuclear weapons, since at that point China owned nuclear weapons. Japan never wanted to make an emphatic and absolute agreement that it would never produce or use nuclear weapons. In fact, when the Japanese signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1970, it <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.academia.edu/8168201/Japan_s_Nuclear_Posture_A_Wolf_In_Sheep_s_Clothing_A_Critical_Assessment_Of_Japan_s_Nuclear_Policy?auto=download"><span class="s2">attached</span></a> to its signature that “Each Party[…] have the right to withdraw from the Treaty if it decides that extraordinary events […] have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country.”</p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">In our own time, Japan is getting close to developing nuclear weapons under the connivance<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>of the Western eye, and it is nearing its objective through crafty diplomacy. Japan is not under the same scrutiny as Turkey or other Islamic powers. The sanguinary bent of the Muslims is made conspicuous by their decapitations, perversities and multitude of inhumanities. But with the Japanese it is different; they abide by guidelines enforced upon them by the American victors, while implicitly suggesting violent aspirations under the guise of self-defense. But in their militaristic implications, is found an explicit conspiracy to revive imperial rule and brutality all behind the mask of appearing pursuant. This plan has not been being developed in immediate recent times, but has been being carried out incrementally, step by step, calculatedly done until trust is gained and the one who gives the trust is open to be warred against. In 1969, while Japan was promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy, it was already discussing the conversion of nuclear technology into nuclear weapons.</span></p><p class="p1"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1433_JAPAN.jpg"><img alt="1433_JAPAN" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-102255" height="450" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1433_JAPAN.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1433_JAPAN.jpg 800w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1433_JAPAN-300x169.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1433_JAPAN-768x432.jpg 768w" width="800" /></a></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Sato was the first Japanese prime minister to visit Okinawa after the war. When he did arrive in the island of Okinawa in 1965, he was scheduled to give several speeches. Before he said his speeches, the United States ordered that they be edited so that they may stress on American actions done in Okinawa for the purpose of peace and stability in the region. Sato was to give two speeches upon his arrival at the Naha airport and another speech at a local airport.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The US wanted him to revise all of his speeches to emphasize American importance, and Sato agreed to change the theatre speech but refused to amend the first speeches that he was to say upon his coming to the island. The US complained that his written speech was “disparaging” to the American administration in Okinawa, and one American diplomat even said that his speech could affect the path to US-Japanese cooperation in Okinawa. The Americans inserted into the text of his speech the words, “The Ryukyu Islands are playing a very important role for peace and security of the Far East,” and also, “Japan allied with the United States by the Mutual Cooperation and Security Treaty . . . has cooperative relations with her as a partner.”</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Americans desired for more friendlier words toward the US that would emphasize on how the United States played a role with Japan towards the objective of peace. But Sato did not want this. While he did read the added words just quoted, Sato, defying the Americans, said in the speech words that were not in the original text and that were not agreed to be added into it: “Until Okinawa is returned, Japan will not have completely emerged from her postwar period.”</span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s1">According to Masaaki Gabe, a professor at the University of the Ryukyus, “Mr. Sato felt the need to raise his own political performance toward the reversion (of Okinawa to Japan)”, and thus he defied the US and made it known that Japan wanted those islands back into its hands. In his 1974 Nobel lecture, Sato elucidated and elaborated more at to what he meant by his words, stating that he did not want the Japanese people living in Okinawa to be under a foreign power, and that until the islands were returned back to Japan, peace in the Far East would not be promised. It was as though he was elusively threatening the United States. Here are his words from his Nobel lecture:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p5"><span class="s1">“It was a clearly anomalous situation for one million Japanese people to be still under foreign domination more than twenty years after the termination of hostilities. The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.</span></p><p class="p5"><span class="s1">By that time, Okinawa had come to occupy a key strategic position in Asia in the framework of the Cold War. Nevertheless I declared soon after my assumption of office as Prime Minister my conviction that: "Until Okinawa is returned, Japan will not have completely emerged from her post-war period". For I had came to the conviction that to leave Okinawa in such an anomalous state would create greater tension in Asia because of the very important position of this group of islands and that to realize the reversion of Okinawa would contribute to a stable peace in the Western Pacific.”</span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102256" style="width: 634px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nob-copy.jpg"><img alt="nob copy" class="wp-image-102256 size-full" height="722" sizes="(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nob-copy.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nob-copy.jpg 624w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nob-copy-259x300.jpg 259w" width="624" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Eisaku Sato</p></div><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Japanese did not want to be under American occupation, or as Sato called it, “foreign domination,” and thus they desired to pursue their objective of an independent Japan for the cause of national pride. This national pride of the Japanese will be the death of many, as it was the death of millions just over seventy years ago. Shinzo Abe, wanting to advance this fanatical and bloodthirsty nationalism to reign supreme, is bent on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.academia.edu/8168201/Japan_s_Nuclear_Posture_A_Wolf_In_Sheep_s_Clothing_A_Critical_Assessment_Of_Japan_s_Nuclear_Policy?auto=download"><span class="s2">making</span></a> “a Japan […] bolstered by military prowess and the international respect he sees as his nation’s due.”</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">According to political analysts, the Americans wanted Sato to say the words that they added in, in order to legitimize the US bases placed in Okinawa during the occupation. When the US gave over Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty in 1972, it reduced the number of its<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/15/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-pressed-sato-soften-1965-okinawa-speech-praise-troops-role/?utm_source=feedburner&%3Butm_medium=rss&%3Butm_campaign=u-s-pressed-sato-soften-1965-okinawa-speech-praise-troops-role&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes_news+%28The+Japan+Times+-+News+%26+Business%29#.V5Eqdry9pUM"><span class="s2"> bases by 19 percent,</span></a> but the Japanese wanted the bases reduced by 30 percent, a demand the US refused to concede to. Repossessing Okinawa was something that the Japanese were fixated upon. Every post-war Japanese prime minister made efforts to retake Okinawa, until Sato completed the mission. Gaining back Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyu islands was the objective and Japan was willing to say anything to regain them, and that is why they stated and agreed that they would not produce or possess nuclear weapons. </span></p><p class="p5"><span class="s1">If Japan was truly intent on being a peaceful nation at this time, then why would they need Okinawa, an island whose people they brutally slaughtered and tormented when they invaded and occupied it? Another question that comes to mind is, why would the United States agree to return Okinawa and the other islands solely under the stipulation that they would not have any nuclear weapons?</span></p><p class="p5"><span class="s1">In 1969, president Nixon and Sato agreed that Okinawa would be returned to Japan only under the “particular sentiment of the Japanese people against nuclear weapons and the police of the Japanese Government reflecting this sentiment” (See Woodall, Growing Democracy in Japan). We must ask ourselves as to why the return of Okinawa to Japanese hands was done only if Japan agreed to not produce or have nuclear weapons. Its obvious the United States knew and understood that a nuclear Japan would be a major threat, and thus the Americans comprehended that the Japanese were still indeed a dangerous and evil country that needed to be reined in.  </span></p><div id="attachment_102300" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/AI-AY243_JSECRE_G_20091022123351-copy.jpg"><img alt="President Nixon with Nobusuke Kishe, Shinzo Abe's grandfather " class="size-full wp-image-102300" height="427" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/AI-AY243_JSECRE_G_20091022123351-copy.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/AI-AY243_JSECRE_G_20091022123351-copy.jpg 640w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/AI-AY243_JSECRE_G_20091022123351-copy-300x200.jpg 300w" width="640" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">President Nixon with Nobusuke Kishe, Shinzo Abe's grandfather</p></div><p class="p5"><span class="s1">Prime Minister Sato, in his Noble lecture of 1974, pushed for all nations, specifically the United States and Russia, to get rid of its nuclear weapons:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p5"><span class="s1">“It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished. If I may, however, be allowed to put this in more realistic, if more modest, terms, the nuclear Powers, with the United States and the USSR taking the lead, should, at least, cease their quantitative and qualitative nuclear arms race, and sincerely explore effective and practical means for the gradual reduction and international control of nuclear arms.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Why did Sato want the US to get rid of its nuclear weapons? I believe that Japan wanted, and still wants, the United States to empty out its nuclear arsenal because it is still furious about what happened at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and thus it wants the US to disarm itself so that it can become an easy target, and furthermore, it wants to strike back at the US and resume from where it was stopped in its imperial conquests and genocides in which the Japanese slaughtered millions of its Asian neighbors.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">While Sato wanted the US to get rid of its nuclear weapons, he himself wanted Japan to possess nuclear weapons. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.chinausfocus.com/peace-security/us-should-be-mindful-of-japans-ambition-for-nuclear-weapons/"><span class="s2">Sato discussed this objective in the late 1960s</span></a>, and spoke of Japan possessing nuclear weapons in a “highly secret” way. This idea that Sato was a man of peace plays only well to the public, while the reality shows that he was really forced to concede to this policy, just as Shinzo Abe, his grandson, will say that he is a man of peace while at the same time pushing for militaristic revival.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Lets not forget, that it was Nobusuke Kishi, Shinzo Abe’s grandfather, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/19/world/fg-abe19"><span class="s2">who signed the declaration of war</span></a> against the United States in the Second World War. Now his grandson is in power and people want us to think that Japan is a friendly nation. The Japanese elites are a very reticent people; they will hide their true feelings and thoughts, going by the rules until they gain one’s trust, and at that point, they will strike. Shinzo Abe desires to continue his grandfather’s objective of a Japanese universal empire. This is why Shinzo Abe recently stated that the Japanese constitution does not prohibit Japan from having nuclear weapons. </span></p><p class="p1">In a report published by the Japanese publication, Asahi Shimbun, it states:</p><blockquote><p class="p1">“The Abe Cabinet has decided that war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution <strong>does not necessarily ban Japan from possessing and using nuclear weapons.</strong>”</p></blockquote><p class="p1">In a statement issued by the Abe Cabinet it says:</p><blockquote><p class="p1"><strong>“Even if it involves nuclear weapons, the Constitution does not necessarily ban the possession of them</strong> as long as they are restricted to such a minimum necessary level”.</p></blockquote><p class="p1">Yusuke Yokobatake, director-general of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau, in an address made at the Upper House Budget Committee on March 18, said that he does not believe that the Japanese constitution prohibits the use of any nuclear weapon. “We don’t think that the use of all kinds of nuclear weapons is prohibited under the Constitution,” he said.</p><div id="attachment_102301" style="width: 467px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p1-w2-komatsu-a-20140517.jpg"><img alt="p1-w2-komatsu-a-20140517" class="wp-image-102301 size-full" height="657" sizes="(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p1-w2-komatsu-a-20140517.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p1-w2-komatsu-a-20140517.jpg 457w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p1-w2-komatsu-a-20140517-209x300.jpg 209w" width="457" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Yusuke Yokobatake</p></div><p class="p1">In 1955, Japan signed the <em>Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of Japan Concerning Peaceful Uses Of Nuclear Energy</em>. This agreement allowed for Japan to own enriched uranium, but only for the peaceful purpose of nuclear energy. By 2018, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-von-hippel/nuclear-race-asia_b_9609116.html"><span class="s2">Japan will be given the chance to terminate </span></a>its agreement, and I believe that it is likely that Japan will do so, given the country’s urge to have nuclear weapons.</p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">We keep talking about how Japan has a right to be afraid of China, when the conversation should be shifted: China has a right to fear Japan. Was it not Japan who invaded China and slaughtered millions of Chinese people just over seventy years ago? And it is this very same Japan that is making all sorts of aggressive and ideological gestures towards China. Japan owns enough tons of plutonium to produce thousands of nukes, and this reality is making China very concerned about Japan. One Chinese report <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-04/01/c_135243368.htm"><span class="s2">states</span></a>:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Japan's massive nuclear material stockpiles, enough to produce thousands of nuclear bombs, pose a threat to the world given the growing danger of nuclear terrorism. … Also alarming than the ecological and environmental consequences is Japan's rightist tendency. For example, Yusuke Yokobatake, director-general of the Japanese Cabinet Legislation Bureau, allegedly said that Japan's Constitution does not necessarily ban the use of nuclear weapons. Such remarks have no doubt deepened the world's skepticism over the stance of Japan, which had vowed not to produce, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons. Its nuclear ambition would add uncertainty and pose a huge threat to the already tense situation in Northeast Asia. As its nuclear material stockpiles would do good to none, it is advisable that Japan, which clearly understands the horrible consequences of nuclear proliferation, cut its storage as soon as possible.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Japanese wanted nuclear weapons during the Second World War, and the desire continued<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>on at the end of the war to now. A declassified August 1957 document from the U.S. State Department report revealed:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Contrary to the impression conveyed by the overwhelming popular sentiment in Japan against any association with nuclear weapons, there is mounting evidence that the conservative government in Tokyo secretly contemplates the eventual manufacture of such weapons, unless international agreements intervene,”.</span></p></blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">This was said back in 1957, just two years after it agreed to only use nuclear material for energy utilization. And to this day the Japanese are adamant about remilitarizing their country. In the 1970s, the same decade in which the former prime minister, Eisaku Sato, promised that Japan would never have nuclear weapons, Japan inquired seriously on how to reprocess spent conventional fuel, which could, prospectively, be used as materials for weapons. In February of 1977, the US vice president, Walter Mondale, had a meeting with the Japanese prime minister, Takeo Fukuda, on a plan to build a reprocessing plant in Japan. In a declassified memorandum, the US revealed its true consternation over Japan going nuclear. It stated that</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Reprocessing facilities which could produce weapons-grade material <strong>are simply bomb factories”</strong></span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102302" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/takeo-copy.jpg"><img alt="takeo copy" class="wp-image-102302 size-full" height="341" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/takeo-copy.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/takeo-copy.jpg 640w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/takeo-copy-300x160.jpg 300w" width="640" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">US vice president, Walter Mondale with Takeo Fukuda</p></div><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The nuclear waste reprocessing center, located in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, has still not been used yet. But, Japan is already planning on commencing operations, and this very Rokkasho plant could reprocess<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/07/asia-pacific/plutonium-stocks-soar-east-asia-experts-says-japanese-reprocessing-plant-tempts-china-south-korea-follow/#.V6Lz9JMrLUZ"> enough spent reactor fuel to make as many as 1,000 nuclear bombs a year. </a> Japan claims that the plutonium in the Rokkasho plant will only be used for electricity. But Japan already has tons of plutonium and does not use them for electricity. Once the plant goes into operation, it will set alarms in both China and the Koreas, and nuclear production will significantly increase due to this. Two of Japan's nuclear reactors at the Sendai nuclear plant <span class="s2"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201607060033.html">are already in operation.</a></span> <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2014/12/07/muslim-antichrist-will-unite-japan-will-create-powerful-greatest-threat-america-christian-civilization-will-ever-face/"><span class="s2">As I wrote in December of 2014,</span></a> Shinzo Abe did away with Japan’s sixty year long policy that it will never use its nuclear plants and it has begun restarting them.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The desire that Japan has to make nuclear weapons is evidenced by the fact that the Japanese have had the capabilities to make nuclear weapons since the 1980s when they launched a plutonium breeder reactor and a uranium enrichment plant. One Japanese government official, who is significantly involved in Japan’s nuclear energy program, stated: “Japan already has the technical capability, and has had it since the 1980s,” and that once Japan obtained more than five to ten kilograms of plutonium, the amount required to produce one nuclear weapon, it had “already gone over the threshold,” and had a nuclear deterrent.</span></p><p class="p5"><span class="s1">Japan’s ownership of nuclear energy was allowed and enabled by the United States. In 1955 Japan and the United States signed the atomic energy agreement, at which point the US agreed to lend to Japan six kilograms of uranium-235, a nuclear material. After this, in 1956, Japan established the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute in Tokai, to be a place to house the uranium given by the US. In the late 60s to the mid-70s, Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited began building a uranium plant in Ningyo-Toge, and the United States then allowed Japan to put the plant in full operation in 1977. The plant was then launched in 1982. Now Japan owns heavy supplies of both uranium and plutonium.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">While Japan possesses nine tons of plutonium in its own country, and thirty five tones more in France and the UK, it also has 1.2 tons of enriched uranium. Many experts <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203658804576638392537430156"><span class="s2">say</span></a> that, on account of a nuclear-fuel reprocessing program that produces enriched uranium and plutonium, Japan can create nuclear weapons in the form of government-subsidized commercial rockets, which are said to be technically no different from ballistic missiles. According to physicist Richard Garwin, in a 1998 paper written for the Council of Foreign Relations, all that Japan needs to make one thousand nuclear weapons is 10 tons of civilian-grade plutonium. In Japan, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-04/japan-s-25-billion-nuclear-recycling-quest-enters-28th-year"><span class="s2">currently</span></a> there are about three thousand tons of used nuclear fuel stored up in the Rokkasho plant. In the whole country of Japan alone, there are about seventeen thousand metric tons of used nuclear fuel.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">On June 2010, the Japanese conducted the Hayabusa government test in which they sent a satellite into space to land upon an asteroid. The test was a success and it brought the Japanese people to much international pride, with three motion pictures being done about the Hayabusa program. While people were discussing it as a great accomplishment for Japanese technological advancement, what was going on behind the scenes was something very sinister. The technology used for the project was the same type needed to guide ballistic missiles. It was done purposefully to show that Japan had the capabilities to build and use ballistic missiles. "That's the behind-the-scenes reason Japan decided to develop Hayabusa," <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.apple.com"><span class="s2">says</span></a> Toshiyuki Shikata, a former lieutenant general in Japan's military and currently a Teikyo University professor and Tokyo Metropolitan Government adviser. "It sent a quiet message that Japan's ballistic missile capability is credible." </span></p><div id="attachment_102303" style="width: 649px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/31.jpg"><img alt="Junichiro Kawaguchi, Hayabusha project manager " class="size-full wp-image-102303" height="480" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/31.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/31.jpg 639w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/31-300x225.jpg 300w" width="639" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Junichiro Kawaguchi, Hayabusha project manager</p></div><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The politicians and elites in Japan, like Shinzo Abe and his ilk, just love the idea of Japan having nuclear weapons. “The hawks love nuclear weapons, so they like the nuclear power program as the best they can do,” said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Non-Proliferation Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. “They don’t want to give up the idea they have, to use it as a deterrent.”</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Why do the Japanese want nuclear weapons, I thought they were a nation of peace? In what way do they want to use the nukes to “defend” themselves? As <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2014-02/20/content_17326888.htm">one Chinese source</a> said, if a country "hoards far more nuclear materials than it needs, including a massive amount of weapons grade plutonium, the world has good reason to ask why.” Or as one Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/japan-and-chinas-dispute-goes-nuclear/"><span class="s2">said</span></a>:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Has Japan kept an excessive amount of sensitive nuclear material that is beyond its actual needs? Does one need so much sensitive nuclear material for peaceful use? Should one keep excessive weapons-grade nuclear material? … More importantly, does Japan have higher-enriched and weapons-grade uranium, and how much does it have? What are those used for? How can Japan ensure a balance between the demand and supply of nuclear materials? These are the real concerns and questions of the international community.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">For the last past four or five years, Chinese defense white papers have referred to Japan’s plutonium stockpiles as a threat. Yet the Americans pay no attention to the warnings of China, a nation that allied with the US to fight the Japanese imperial forces in the Second World War. The tensions between China and Japan, I believe, will implode into war. The Koreans will join the Chinese in fighting the Japanese. There is no one that the North Koreans hate more than the Japanese, and I believe that it is possible that what will unite North and South Korea will be a struggle against the Japanese. The North Koreans have their Nagong missile system, which is in range to fire at any place in Japan. Leonard Spector, deputy director of the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies in Monterey, said that "Nodong is a Japan weapon”. Japan is using North Korea’s ballistic missile system to justify its nuclear capabilities against China. Political scientist, Kenneth Neal Waltz, states:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">“The threat of ballistic missile attacks by North Korea serves as an excuse, albeit a flimsy one, to build defenses that the administration hopes will be useful against China.” </span></p></blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Americans may think that war in the Far-East will not transpire, but the Chinese certainly do. In October of 2014, state-ran media in China declared that "a war looms following Japan's radical provocation,” after Japan threatened to shoot down Chinese drones.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">In 2011, Shigeru Ishiba, a former defense minister, said in an interview with Sapio, a reactionary magazine:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">"I don't think Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons, but it's important to maintain our commercial reactors because it would allow us to produce a nuclear warhead in a short amount of time”</span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102305" style="width: 572px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap2-copy.jpg"><img alt="jap2 copy" class="wp-image-102305" height="684" sizes="(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap2-copy-841x1024.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap2-copy-841x1024.jpg 841w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap2-copy-246x300.jpg 246w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap2-copy-768x935.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap2-copy.jpg 946w" width="562" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shigeru Ishiba</p></div><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Ishiba’s words did not spark protest from the Japanese media, but rather, it pushed people to express further support for nuclear utilization. The Yomiuri, the newspaper in Japan said to have the highest circulation in the world, urged Japan to stick to having nuclear technology in order to produce nuclear weapons:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p1"><span class="s1">"As Japan has worked to strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty regime through the peaceful use of nuclear power, the nation is permitted to use plutonium that can be used as material for nuclear weapons. In fact, this also functions diplomatically as a potential nuclear deterrent.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Saadia Pekkanen, an adjunct professor at the University of Washington, who co-authored a 2010 book on Japanese defense technology, has <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203658804576638392537430156"><span class="s3">said</span></a> that we should be taking Japan’s nuclear capabilities seriously:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“The Japanese government has also hedged a great deal on the issue of nuclear weapons, which is what raises concerns abroad …Japan is credible as a latent nuclear power, and should be taken seriously as such by its rivals in the region”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">From the later 1950s to now, the Japanese have been using nuclear energy in two different ways: for industrial use while at the same time maintaining and owning its usage for the production of nuclear weapons through amassing nuclear-fuel recycling technologies. As Feng Zhaouki, who works for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, simply put it:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“Since the late 1950s, however, Japan has been developing its nuclear energy industry with “dual purposes” — nuclear power reactors for commercial use and its capabilities in nuclear weapons through the accumulation of nuclear-fuel recycling technologies.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">As I said before, Japan works in increments, getting more and more advanced weaponry as long as the US gives it leeway to do so. Japan, a nation supposedly forced into pacifism, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.academia.edu/8168201/Japan_s_Nuclear_Posture_A_Wolf_In_Sheep_s_Clothing_A_Critical_Assessment_Of_Japan_s_Nuclear_Policy?auto=download"><span class="s3">has acquired</span></a> spy satellites, Hyuga-class helicopter carriers and Soru-class submarines, military technology that in the past would have been seen as inappropriate for Japan to own. Since Japan has been enabled and allowed to obtain military technology, and to develop the most powerful military in the Far-East, it is not far-fetched to say that they will one day have nuclear weapons, given the fact that it has very efficient capabilities to make that happen. </span></p><div id="attachment_102307" style="width: 796px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/japan_military_flag_getty.jpg"><img alt="A soldier holds a Rising Sun flag during the military review at the Ground Self-Defence Force's Asaka training ground on October 27, 2013. Around 3,900 personnel, 240 armoured vehicles and 50 aircrafts took part in the inspection parade. AFP PHOTO / Toru YAMANAKA (Photo credit should read TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images)" class=" wp-image-102307" height="534" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/japan_military_flag_getty.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/japan_military_flag_getty.jpg 640w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/japan_military_flag_getty-300x204.jpg 300w" width="786" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A soldier holds a Rising Sun flag during the military review at the Ground Self-Defence Force's Asaka training ground on October 27, 2013. Around 3,900 personnel, 240 armoured vehicles and 50 aircrafts took part in the inspection parade. AFP PHOTO / Toru YAMANAKA (Photo credit should read TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images)</p></div><div id="attachment_102308" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/maxresdefault-1.jpg"><img alt="Japanese navy ships " class="size-large wp-image-102308" height="576" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/maxresdefault-1-1024x576.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/maxresdefault-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/maxresdefault-1-300x169.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/maxresdefault-1-768x432.jpg 768w" width="1024" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Japanese navy ships</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">But there are those who will argue that the people of Japan would not want such a militaristically bent government. But I believe the reality is quite dark once it is brought forth from the cumulous of delusions of a repentant, peaceful Japan. Amongst whom is Abe the most popular? It is not the elderly who, after tasting the bitter herb of war do not want history to repeat itself. It is the young. According to one poll, fifty percent of young voters, ages 18 to 19, support Shinzo Abe and his governing coalition.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">If Shinzo Abe is so unpopular, then why has he won the elections? The masses in Japan support him because they, for the most part, believe that he is going to make a better economy. How many millions of lives have been lost for the sake of the masses who desire great economy? The masses are indifferent to Abe’s fanatical and tyrannical goals because they see his economic policies as being of the supreme goal. While people will think that Abe is not doing anything to foment the outbreak of war in the Far-East, Shinzo Abe and his regime are controlling the media, preventing official secrets from being known to the public.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">What agenda is Abe conspiring that he does not want the world to know? The answer may lie in a leaked conversation that took place in 2012, between Shinzo Abe and the former governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, in which Ishihara told Abe that the constitution doesn’t need to be revised to enable Japan to use its military, but completely destroyed, and that a new constitution needs to be rewritten from scratch. Ishihara <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/23/national/media-national/dark-age-dawns-politics-japan/#.V5PHAZMrJUN"><span class="s3">told</span></a> Abe:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“Abe-san! Let’s not revise the Constitution piecemeal. The current Constitution was foisted on us by the (American-led postwar) Occupation … It needs to be thrown out and rewritten from scratch.”<span class="Apple-converted-space">   </span></span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102309" style="width: 795px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/628x-1.jpg"><img alt="Shintaro Ishihara" class=" wp-image-102309" height="600" sizes="(max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/628x-1.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/628x-1.jpg 628w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/628x-1-300x229.jpg 300w" width="785" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shintaro Ishihara</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">This hatred towards the American occupation goes along the same lines as what Eisaku Sato said when he referred to the American occupation of Okinawa as “foreign domination”. It all goes back to that fanatical nationalist pride that the Japanese have harbored and still harbor. </span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The signs are there that there is going to be war in the Far-East, between Japan on one side, and China and her allies on the other. The question is, what will be the catalyst that will spark war? It seems that tensions will implode into war over the most important meat product in the Far-East: fish. Half of the world’s captured fish production comes from Asian fisheries, and six of the top ten producers of maritime products are Asian (that is, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam). Right now, the ocean’s fish is what is guaranteeing China’s economic security and regional dominance. So great is this need that China is rapidly depleting the fish populations of its own seas, so much so that it is entering disputed water territory in the East China Sea, which the Chinese believe belongs to them.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">In 1978, the Chinese government set out to accomplish a plan of self-sufficiency in obtaining fish for its nation. In 1985, close to 90% of China’s fish was caught inshore. But this changed in 2002, when only 65% of China’s fish was caught inshore. In 2015, China set up a goal to catch 73 million tons of fish a year by 2020 and 77 million tons by 2024. In order for China to reach this goal, it cannot rely on its own waters, but must go into waters which other nations believe to be under their jurisdiction and not China’s. China has already been doing this. For example, in 2012 the Chinese government made an <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/fish-overlooked-destabilizer-south-china-sea"><span class="s3">assessment</span></a> that its main fishing areas are the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the East China and South China Seas. In the survey, the Chinese determined that fish populations had declined significantly in the Bohai and Yellow Seas, and needed to be left alone so that they could replenish. It then began to expand its fish capturing around the much disputed Spratly Islands, over which Malaysia, the Philippines, China, Brunei, Taiwan and Vietnam lay claim. Here is where Japan comes into the picture: China is firmly committed to its belief that the waters of the Senkaku Islands and the East China Sea belong to it, and these are the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/fish-overlooked-destabilizer-south-china-sea"><span class="s3">very territories over which Japan claims</span></a> to be the rightful owners. China expanding its fishing activities into these territories is infuriating and will be continuing to enrage the Japanese. <span class="Apple-converted-space">   </span></span></p><div id="attachment_102310" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/new-south-china-sea-maritime-disputes.jpg"><img alt="Image thanks to Stratfor " class="size-full wp-image-102310" height="1004" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/new-south-china-sea-maritime-disputes.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/new-south-china-sea-maritime-disputes.jpg 640w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/new-south-china-sea-maritime-disputes-191x300.jpg 191w" width="640" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Image thanks to Stratfor</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">China is even utilizing a nationalistic militant measure in enforcing its convictions that the great part of the East China Sea belongs to it: maritime militias. China is encouraging its fishermen to venture out into disputed waters to take its fish. While carrying out the work necessary for fishing, these patriotic fishermen conduct surveillance missions for the Chinese government, and are also armed with weapons monitoring equipment, being ready to fulfill the demands of their leaders. They have three goals, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stratfor.com/image/fishermen-beijings-front-line-south-china-sea"><span class="s3">according to one report</span></a>:<i> to encourage fishermen to exploit all of China's claimed waters, to further the "national will" to establish maritime control, and to protect fellow fishermen in those pursuits.</i></span></p><div id="attachment_102312" style="width: 701px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OB-UP773_0918is_G_20120917224816.jpg"><img alt="OB-UP773_0918is_G_20120917224816" class="wp-image-102312" height="461" sizes="(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OB-UP773_0918is_G_20120917224816.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OB-UP773_0918is_G_20120917224816.jpg 553w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OB-UP773_0918is_G_20120917224816-300x200.jpg 300w" width="691" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Chinese fishing boats set off to fish near the Japan-controlled Senkaku islands. (Image thanks to the Wall Street Journal)</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Its not just Chinese fishermen patrolling the waters with arms and fishing on disputed territory, but also the Japanese air force using aggressive gestures against the Chinese air force. Just this month, two Japanese fighter jets intercepted a pair of Chinese Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets and locked their weapons radar right on the Chinese planes, right over the East China Sea, near the disputed Senkaku Islands. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://news.usni.org/2016/07/05/chinese-japanese-fighters-clash-east-china-sea">According to one Chinese military report:</a></span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“The Japanese fighter jets approached and warned the Chinese military aircraft, while the Chinese military aircraft did not leave. During the flight, the Japanese fighter jets came face to face with the Chinese military aircraft for many times. To avoid risks, the Japanese fighter jets released infrared jamming shells and then flew out of that airspace … They even used fire-control radars to lock on the Chinese fighter jet.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">While the Japanese government is denying the provocation, Japanese Self-Defence Force chief Admiral Katsutoshi Kjawano said: “It appears that Chinese activity is escalating at sea and in the air”. In regards to the Japanese fighter jets locking onto the Chinese planes with fire control radar, the US Navy <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://news.usni.org/2016/07/05/chinese-japanese-fighters-clash-east-china-sea"><span class="s3">said</span></a>:<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>“Locking onto another fighter with fire control radar is one of the most provocative actions an adversary can take short of firing weapons.”</span></p><p class="p9"><span class="s2"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/07/hague-ruling-spark-china-japan-row-160710063808577.html">Last month,</a></span><span class="s1"> China sent one of their spy vessels through disputed waters near Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture, an unprecedented move that has not been done since the end of the Second World War. China is also planning to construct two “meg-ships” for its coastguard, with each one weighing 10,000 metric tons, making them the largest of such vessels in the world. The construction of these ships, alongside China’s navy maneuvering their ships through disputed waters, are all moves to force Japan to cease their claim over the East China Sea. All of these activities are signs that the tensions will implode into war between China and Japan. </span></p><div id="attachment_102313" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/China-navy-in-Pakistan.jpg"><img alt="Chinese navy " class="size-large wp-image-102313" height="696" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/China-navy-in-Pakistan-1024x696.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/China-navy-in-Pakistan-1024x696.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/China-navy-in-Pakistan-300x204.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/China-navy-in-Pakistan-768x522.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/China-navy-in-Pakistan.jpg 1600w" width="1024" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Chinese navy</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">While territory will most definitely be a political catalyst that will provoke nationalistic responses, geopolitics will provide both pretenses and means to ideological supremacy. In war, geopolitics and ideology are inseparable.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">In the late 19th century, Japan wanted control over territory on the South China Sea—specifically the Pescadores Islands—, and on the </span><span class="s1">the East China Sea—in particular the coasts of Tientsin Shanghai, and Canton, and the Yangtze River, the largest river in China and the third largest river in the world. The desire to control maritime territory and islands imploded into violence, with Japan declaring war on China in 1894. (See Bix, Hirohito, intro, p. 8) Japan would go on to invade China for the purpose of controlling Korea. Japan today still wants to control Korea, and will use the aggression of North Korea to validate its ostentatious bolstering of military strength, and its own confronting of other Asian countries. What is most worthy of our observation is the historical parallels. Japan wanted to control Chinese maritime territories and islands, and today Japan wants to dominate the East China Sea, and the Senkaku islands. Today, Japan wants to dominate the waters East Asia, it wants to retake the Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands from Russia, and it is using military aggression to scare China away from pursuing its claim over the Senkaku Islands. The territorial conflict in history ended in war, and what will the current conflict in the Far East — with its military encroachments and fanatical gestures — lead to? History will tell us: war. <span class="Apple-converted-space">   </span></span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">People argue that Japan will not revive its old militarism because it has become pacifistic. But this line of thinking — developed by modern stupidity —<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>is brought to nought by the history of the Meiji dynasty. In the Meiji era Japan uprooted its Samurai feudalism, and the people, drenched in Western comforts, became habituated in antimilitarism, looking at the Samurai with fear and suspicion. One could have said in those times that Japan would not be a threat because it had adopted Western conveniences. But in 1895, Japan attacked China, and this measure reawakened the Samurai ideology, and also stimulated a sense of racial superiority over the Chinese and Koreans. (Bix, Hirohito, intro, pp. 8-9)</span></p><div id="attachment_102314" style="width: 756px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pyong.jpg"><img alt="Battle of Pyongyang, in the First Sino-Japanese War " class=" wp-image-102314" height="381" sizes="(max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pyong.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pyong.jpg 595w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pyong-300x153.jpg 300w" width="746" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Battle of Pyongyang, in the First Sino-Japanese War</p></div><div id="attachment_102315" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sino_Japanese_war_1894.jpg"><img alt="Japanese troops in the First Sino-Japanese War " class="size-large wp-image-102315" height="698" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sino_Japanese_war_1894-1024x698.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sino_Japanese_war_1894-1024x698.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sino_Japanese_war_1894-300x205.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sino_Japanese_war_1894-768x524.jpg 768w" width="1024" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Japanese troops in the First Sino-Japanese War</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">After Japan invaded China, the Russians intervened. Alongside Germany and France, the Russians were able to defeat the Japanese and establish its influence over Korea, keeping Japan in check. Russia also acquired leasehold rights in the Liaotung Peninsula and moved right into Manchuria in 1898. In 1901 a revolution broke out in China, called the Boxer Rebellion. It was very anti-Christian, anti-Western, and violent. Influenced by Taoist teachings, the Boxers went into a blood rage, inflicting a reign of terror against British and Japanese diplomats and Chinese Christians. 10,000 Muslims, called the Kansu Braves, joined the revolution and heavily took part in the bloodbath. In one disturbing instance, the Muslims beheaded the Japanese chancellor, Sugiyama Akira. This provoked the Japanese, because of the danger posed against its diplomats and citizens, to sign the Boxer Protocol, which enabled them to join the Western forces in fighting the Chinese rebels, and most importantly, to permanently place stations of troops in designated Chinese cities to protect Japanese nationals and diplomats.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The Japanese used the threat of the Islamic and Taoist rebellion as a way to justify deploying troops into China. There is an eery reminiscence here to our own times. Shinzo Abe used the beheading of a Japanese journalist as a way to subtly validate militarism. It is quite plausible to say that Japan will use future murders, either done by Muslim terrorists or Chinese or Korean nationalists, to restore its past military robustness in the region. Just this month, a Korean nationalist named Jeon Chang-Han was sentenced to four years in prison for <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korean-man-gets-prison-sentence-for-yasukuni-shrine-blast-1468913372"><span class="s3">bombing the Yasukuni Shrine</span></a>, a militaristically ideological temple where Japanese war criminals, who orchestrated the mass slaughter and rape of the Korean people in the 20th century, are deified and worshipped as gods. The incident may be used by Japan’s elites to foment hatred for Koreans and other foreigners, like the Chinese.</span></p><div id="attachment_102316" style="width: 735px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jeon-chang-han-afp_650x400_41449667722.jpg"><img alt="Jeon Chang-Han " class=" wp-image-102316" height="446" sizes="(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jeon-chang-han-afp_650x400_41449667722.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jeon-chang-han-afp_650x400_41449667722.jpg 650w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jeon-chang-han-afp_650x400_41449667722-300x185.jpg 300w" width="725" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jeon Chang-Han</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Three years after Japan placed its troops in China to supposedly protect Japanese nationals from Muslim and Boxer terrorists, in 1904 it made a surprise attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. The Japanese attacked the Russians because it knew that the only way it would become the superpower over Asia was to vanquish and crush Russia. The surprise attack commenced the Russo-Japanese War, which lasted from 1904 to 1905, and which led to the deaths of 110,000 Japanese and countless more Russian lives. Notwithstanding its heavy losses, the Japanese took the victory, gaining the leasehold rights over the Liaotung Peninsula, a seven-hundred mile long railway running through southern Manchuria, and the southern part of the Sakhalin Island on the Sea of Okhotsk. (See Bix, Hirohito, intro, p. 9) Today, Japan wants to take the Kuril Islands and the Sakhalin from Russia, and it appears that war will break between the countries, and the dispute over territory will be a catalyst leading to it. </span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">In WW2, the Russians retook the whole of Sakhalin and cast out all of its Japanese inhabitants. Till this day the Japanese want that island, and they will resume this conflict to retake it. </span><span class="s1">In both WW2 and the earlier Japanese wars against Russia and China, spiritual ideology was at the center of Japan’s holy war and bent on supremacy. As it was then, so it will be in our own epoch.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Buddhist ideology, regardless of how people keep referring to Japan as an irreligious nation, is still deep seated in political philosophy, nationalist pride and imperial ideas. Japanese prime ministers have even spoken of going through spiritual experiences in Buddhist temples.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Take for example Yasuhiro Nakosone, who served as Japan’s prime minister from 1982 to 1987. He wrote a book called, <em>The Making of the New Japan,</em> in which he talks about politics and Buddhism. In one part of the book he writes of a spiritual experience that he had in a Buddhist temple:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“Once when the chief priest rang the bell for the end of one hour of meditation, my whole seemed to disintegrate, to collapse without warning, and I was plunged into an abyss of contrition. My sense of self disappeared and everything seemed to glow with warmth. Perhaps it was an hallucination. According to the priest there are thousands of stages, great, and small, in the process of enlightenment.” (p. 230)</span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102317" style="width: 722px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nakosone-copy.jpg"><img alt="nakosone copy" class="wp-image-102317" height="672" sizes="(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nakosone-copy-1024x967.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nakosone-copy-1024x967.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nakosone-copy-300x283.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nakosone-copy-768x725.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nakosone-copy.jpg 1288w" width="712" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Yasuhiro Nakosone</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">In another part of the book, Nakasone recounts how during the Second World War he would immerse himself in the Buddhist scriptures and offer intercession for the souls of the Japanese soldiers who died in battle, that is, terrorist invaders who raped and mass slaughtered entire nations, and killed and tortured American and allied soldiers:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“At night I would sit there and copy out the Sansuikyo sutras of Dogen or be absorbed in reading the Buddhist scriptures or struggling with haiku. And of course I lit incense and prayed for the souls of those who had died in the war.” (p. 39)</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The Sansuikyos that Nakasone is referring to a is the “Mountains and Water” sutra, written by the prestigious Japanese Buddhist authority, Dogen. By reading this book, one can learn something about the relationship between Buddhism and government within Buddhist society in the context of Japanese imperial religion. In one section of the sutra, it speaks of how the emperor receives wisdom from the Buddhist monks:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“For the imperial authority has no authority over the mountain sage, and [the emperors] knew that the mountains are beyond the mundane world. In ancient times we have [the cases of] Kongtong and the Hua Guard: when the Yellow Emperor [Huang-ti] made his visit, he went on his knees, prostrated himself, and begged instruction.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Nakasone believes in this structure, and in another writing <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2014/12/07/muslim-antichrist-will-unite-japan-will-create-powerful-greatest-threat-america-christian-civilization-will-ever-face/"><span class="s3">he made mention</span></a> on how in the modern era Japanese politicians still go to Buddhist monks to seek their wisdom, and how he, in emulation of this, partook in Zen mediation:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“In the past, some politicians made a point of meeting regularly for dinner with philosophers and Zen priests in order to listen to their views. They would pay heed, for example, to what was said by Zen master Seki Bokuo or by Hashimoto Gyoin the chief priest of Nara temple, or by Yasuoka Seitoku. Politicians from Confucian backgrounds had a desire to find the truth and I tried to emulate this through Zen meditation.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Nakasone still reveres the emperor as the spiritual head of the Japanese nation, since, in a work published in 2002, he wrote:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“Japan today lacks a new, functional, pragmatic political authority that can replace the authority of the emperor system of the pre-war period. The position of the prime minister must be stabilized and made into a firm, fixed point in politics by turning it into an authority with a base among the people and directly connected to them. The use of a system of direct election of the prime minister will make that possible for the first time. … The emperor is the symbol of the spiritual and historical unity of the people and a public presence that embraces the country as a whole. …The emperor and the directly elected prime minister will together ensure the unity of the people but, since the directly elected prime minister is only partially responsible for functional unity under the emperor, his role will not violate the emperor system.” (Nakasone, </span>Japan-a State Strategy for the Twenty-first Century,<span class="s1"> p. 12, ellipses mine) </span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">When the BBC was planning on making a documentary about the Emperor Hirohito in 2011, they asked Nakasone’s secretary if the former prime minister could be in the film, and the secretary rejected their invitation before even consulting Nakasone, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/1483310/BBCs-ugly-portrayal-of-Hirohito-angers-Japan.html"><span class="s3">stating</span></a>: "The contents were so clearly intended to make a villain of the emperor”. The anger indicates a continuous glorification and veneration of the emperor. </span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">In the same book quoted above, Nakasone pushes for changing Article 9 of the constitution, which imposes pacifism on Japan, writing:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“It is time to take action either to amend Article 9 or to define how it should be interpreted, and to do so on the basis of national understanding and consent” (p. 48)</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Bringing Japan back to militarism goes hand in hand with the spiritual foundation of the nation. This is why Shinzo Abe, in May of this year, brought the leaders of the G-7 to what is considered by the Japanese to be the holiest Shinto temple Japan, the Ise Shrine. Conveying the leaders of the G-7 to the shrine was motivated by a political agenda. According to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, the visit to the shrine was a presentation of "leadership in guiding the world by showing the best path forward for peace and prosperity”. And this path is what? a Shinto shrine? Yasuhisa Kawamura said that "Ise is the place to present the beauty of nature and the richness of our culture and long tradition.” The temple is dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami, mythical ancestress of the emperor, whose name means “Heaven-Illuminating Great Deity.”</span></p><div id="attachment_102318" style="width: 1010px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1037811120.jpg"><img alt="G-7 leaders at the Ise Shrine " class="size-full wp-image-102318" height="541" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1037811120.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1037811120.jpg 1000w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1037811120-300x162.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1037811120-768x415.jpg 768w" width="1000" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">G-7 leaders at the Ise Shrine</p></div><p class="p8">Part of the meeting with the G-7 was to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/05/25/g-7-in-sync-with-japanese-prime-minister-abe-own-agenda.html"><span class="s3">discuss</span></a> “concerns over China's expanding presence in disputed areas of the South China Sea”. So, religion and politics were brought together in the meeting, and in this case it was an elusive approach in favor of Japanese aggressions and constitutional revision with the objective of removing Article 9.</p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The ideologically Shinto nature behind the meeting is further revealed by the fact that in 2013 <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2015/04/28/japan-will-be-reviving-emperor-worship-and-is-going-to-be-reviving-its-imperial-empire-that-will-be-one-of-the-most-demonic-and-satanic-empires-that-christendom-will-ever-face/"><span class="s3">it was reported</span></a> that “Abe is the association’s secretary-general” for the the Shinto Political Alliance Diet Members’ Association, an organization that desires to bring back Japan to imperial religion in which the sun goddess Amaterasu and the emperor are worshipped. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2015/04/28/japan-will-be-reviving-emperor-worship-and-is-going-to-be-reviving-its-imperial-empire-that-will-be-one-of-the-most-demonic-and-satanic-empires-that-christendom-will-ever-face/"><span class="s3">As I have written before,</span></a> almost all of Abe’s cabinet belong to the Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership (SAS), which has firm backers of Abe and his agenda, especially in his work to cover up the genocide that Japan committed. The cult wants the Japanese government to have state sponsored worship of the souls of the Japanese war criminals of the Second World War, that would include those who conducted the massacres of millions of Asians and Allied Troops and the slaughter in Pearl Harbor. Could you imagine if politicians in Germany demanded a holiday for worshipping Hitler? This is just as evil, but for some strange reason Japan gets a free pass in holocaust denial and imperial religion. In fact, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/g7-japan-world-leaders-tour-shrine-cameron-obama-abe"><span class="s3">over three hundred Japanese members</span></a> of parliament belong to this political cult, the Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership.<br /></span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The power that this group has increased in recent years. In 1984, the group only had 44 MPs for members, by 2014, this would grow to 268, and now it is over 300. The only explanation for this is that followers of fanatic nationalist religion have grown bolder and more powerful. In the Japanese parliament, the majority of the MPs agree with changing the constitution and reviving Japanese militarism, and now you have hundreds of MPs believing that sun worship, emperor worship, and the worship of war criminals, should be the state religion.</span></p><div id="attachment_102319" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fl20131124x1b.jpg"><img alt="Shinto prie" class="size-large wp-image-102319" height="727" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fl20131124x1b-1024x727.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fl20131124x1b-1024x727.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fl20131124x1b-300x213.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fl20131124x1b-768x545.jpg 768w" width="1024" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shinto prie</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Another cult that Abe is a part of is Nippon Kaigi, a very powerful organization consisting of Japan’s elites.  This cult <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437950/japans-new-fascism">believes</a>  that </span>“Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia”, that the “Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate,” and that the rape of Nanking was either “exaggerated or fabricated.” In 2013, Shinzo Abe appointed eighteen new people to be members of his cabinet, fifteen of those were members of Nippon Kaigi. To celebrate the new appointments, Nippon Kaigai threw a party, in which they held aloft the old imperial "Rising Sun" flag of Japan, and declared to the emperor:</p><blockquote><p class="p8" style="text-align: center;">“May your reign Continue for a thousand, eight thousand generations,</p><p class="p8" style="text-align: center;">Until the pebbles grow into boulders</p><p class="p8" style="text-align: center;">Lush with moss.”</p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102320" style="width: 839px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WO-AN757_JHATE_P_20130514200450.jpg"><img alt="Japanese fanatics in Tokyo hold up the Rising Sun flag of Imperial Japan " class=" wp-image-102320" height="552" sizes="(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WO-AN757_JHATE_P_20130514200450.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WO-AN757_JHATE_P_20130514200450.jpg 749w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WO-AN757_JHATE_P_20130514200450-300x200.jpg 300w" width="829" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Japanese fanatics in Tokyo hold up the Rising Sun flag of Imperial Japan</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Nippon Kaigi also wants to restore Japan’s imperial religion, the cult of the emperor. One of the members of the cult is is Hideaki Kase, the son of the high ranking Foreign Ministry official during WW2, Toshikazu Kase<b>,</b> and the Chairman of the Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact. In other words, he is a propagandist for Japan. Kase worships the kamikazes as though they are divine. In one of his writings he praises the kamikazes and quotes the words of Lieutenant General Tominaga:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“The Kamikaze pilots had the pure hearts of heroes and the noble spirits of the gods. The dignity they exhibited had no equal.” (Sake, Why Do We Praise the Kamikaze?, p. 4)</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Kase praised the emperor, saying:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“He is a priest-king, the highest ranking Shintoist priest, half-god, half-man."</span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102322" style="width: 878px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kase-copy.jpg"><img alt="Hideaki Kase" class=" wp-image-102322" height="595" sizes="(max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kase-copy-1024x702.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kase-copy-1024x702.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kase-copy-300x206.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kase-copy-768x526.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kase-copy.jpg 1226w" width="868" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hideaki Kase</p></div><div id="attachment_102325" style="width: 424px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1086213608_850215_0000000000_sumario_normal.jpg"><img alt="Toshikazu Kase, high ranking Japanese official during WW2, the father of Hideki Kase " class=" wp-image-102325" height="589" sizes="(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1086213608_850215_0000000000_sumario_normal.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1086213608_850215_0000000000_sumario_normal.jpg 225w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1086213608_850215_0000000000_sumario_normal-211x300.jpg 211w" width="414" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Toshikazu Kase, high ranking Japanese official during WW2, the father of Hideki Kase</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">In 1986 <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1986/04/27/emperor-hirohito-as-demigod-and-living-history/e84d2fba-9d36-48e1-927c-4e04da941600/"><span class="s3">there was an article published</span></a> by the Washington Post that described how every year the Emperor Hirohito plants rice in the spring and harvests it in the autumn in a ceremony that represents the embodiment of all the fields of the nation. Kase said that "It symbolizes that the emperor eats with the gods, slumbers with the gods”.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">In March of 2006, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nipponkaigi.org/activity/archives/997"><span class="s3">10,000 Japanese people gathered together</span></a> in the Nippon Buddokan to rally in defense of the imperial cult of the emperor. Amongst the large crowd were eighty six members of the Japanese parliament, each of whom, according to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nipponkaigi.org/activity/archives/997"><span class="s3">a Japanese report,</span></a> had “their determination to defend the tradition of the imperial family.” Again, imperial religion and politics were intertwined in the event. One of the speakers of the event, Itaru Miyoshi, the Japan Conference Chairman, expressed anger about the Postdam Declaration, which was a statement that called for the utter surrender by Japan. “Now,” said Itaru, “we are reminded [of what occurred] sixty one years ago. When the 1945 Potsdam Declaration was accepted, Japan's national character since the dawn of history, has faced the most serious crisis.” He also said:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“In order to meet the majesty of trust, it is proposed that we want to continue to expand the activities to protect the way of the throne, which led to the tradition of the imperial family.”</span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102329" style="width: 893px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap33.jpg"><img alt="10,000 Japanese worshippers of the emperor rally together in support for their religion at the Nippon Budakon " class=" wp-image-102329" height="588" sizes="(max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap33.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap33.jpg 691w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap33-300x200.jpg 300w" width="883" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">10,000 Japanese worshippers of the emperor rally together in support for their religion at the Nippon Buddokon</p></div><div id="attachment_102330" style="width: 794px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap3.jpg"><img alt="jap3" class="wp-image-102330 " height="522" sizes="(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap3.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap3.jpg 601w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap3-300x200.jpg 300w" width="784" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Speaker at the event for the support of the imperial cult at the Nippon Buddokon</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The event also focused on the Emperor Jimmu, the very first emperor of Japan, who is believed to be a direct descendent of Amaterasu and who is portrayed in Japanese art with a long a beard and a face reminiscent to that of an Ainu native. Terumasa Nakanishi, one of the speakers at the pro imperial family event and a professor at Kyoto University, proposed that what must be done for Japanese society to maintain the imperial cult was to stress importance on the mythology behind the Emperor Jimmu, stating that it was the divine family that led “to the genealogy of the gods”.</span></p><div id="attachment_102332" style="width: 778px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kap44.jpg"><img alt="Terumasa Nakanishi" class=" wp-image-102332" height="566" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kap44-1024x755.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kap44-1024x755.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kap44-300x221.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kap44-768x566.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kap44.jpg 1126w" width="768" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Terumasa Nakanishi</p></div><div id="attachment_102333" style="width: 573px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Emperor_Jimmu.jpg"><img alt="Japanese art piece of the Emperor Jimmu, Japan's first emperor " class=" wp-image-102333" height="866" sizes="(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Emperor_Jimmu.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Emperor_Jimmu.jpg 438w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Emperor_Jimmu-195x300.jpg 195w" width="563" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Japanese art piece of the Emperor Jimmu, Japan's first emperor</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">This is reminiscent to what Michiko Hasegawa said in recent years. In 2014, Shinzo Abe chose Hasegawa to be on the management board of the public broadcaster NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). She would later go on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/05/japanese-broadcaster-praised-ritual-suicide-rightwinger-nhk-hasegawa">to praise</a> the emperor as a god and praise ritual suicide for the imperial cause, exalting Shusuke Nomura, a Japanese pagan nationalist who killed himself as a sacrifice to the emperor:</span></p><blockquote><p>It is only to God human beings can offer their own lives... If it is devoted in the truly right way, there could be no better offering. When Mr Shusuke Nomura committed suicide at the Asahi Shimbun headquarters 20 years ago, he … offered his death to God.</p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102334" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/o-MICHIKO-HASEGAWA-facebook.jpg"><img alt="Michiko Hasegawa, emperor worshipper and proponent of ritual suicide, or seppuko. She was appointed by Shinzo Abe as head of Japanese public television " class="size-large wp-image-102334" height="512" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/o-MICHIKO-HASEGAWA-facebook-1024x512.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/o-MICHIKO-HASEGAWA-facebook-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/o-MICHIKO-HASEGAWA-facebook-300x150.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/o-MICHIKO-HASEGAWA-facebook-768x384.jpg 768w" width="1024" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Michiko Hasegawa, emperor worshipper and proponent of ritual suicide, or seppuko. She was appointed by Shinzo Abe as head of Japanese public television</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">In the same rally at the Nippon Buddokon, praise for the imperial system did not just stay within a mythological worldview, but like all paganism, went into ethnocentric religion. Yoshiko Sakurai, the sun worshipper who adores Shinzo Abe, was another speaker at the event in which she said that the origin of the emperor is found in the Japanese pantheon of the gods, and that this origin is the same as that of the Japanese race. She said that the royal family “departs from the world of mythology” and that “the tradition of the imperial family” “is the story of our Japanese ethnic origins.”</span></p><div id="attachment_102335" style="width: 536px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/plt1409150009-p3.jpg"><img alt="Yoshiko Sakurai" class=" wp-image-102335" height="750" sizes="(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/plt1409150009-p3.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/plt1409150009-p3.jpg 421w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/plt1409150009-p3-211x300.jpg 211w" width="526" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Yoshiko Sakurai</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">T</span>akeo Hiranuma, another sun worshipper and member of the Japanese House of Representatives and of the Nippon Kaigai cult, was also a speaker at the rally for the imperial traditions. In his speech he stated, “We are the precious treasure of the Japanese race, it is the world of treasure.”</p><div id="attachment_102336" style="width: 720px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap44-copy.jpg"><img alt="Takeo Hiranuma" class=" wp-image-102336" height="714" sizes="(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap44-copy-1019x1024.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap44-copy-1019x1024.jpg 1019w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap44-copy-150x150.jpg 150w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap44-copy-768x772.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jap44-copy.jpg 1232w" width="710" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Takeo Hiranuma</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">It was this very ideology that would be the underpinning of Japanese imperialism during the Second World War. The exaltation of the Japanese race as being something divine was used by Harada Daiun Sogaku, a Buddhist monk who played a large role in spreading Buddhism in the West. Sogaku stated in 1934:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“The spirit of Japan is the Great Way of the [Shinto] gods. It is the substance of the universe, the essence of the Truth. The Japanese people are a chosen people whose mission is to control the world. The sword which kills is also the sword which gives life.” (Harada, Sanzen no Kaitei, p. 112, in Victoria, Zen At War, ch. 9, p. 137)</span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102337" style="width: 683px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HaradaSogaku2.jpg"><img alt="Harada Daiun Sogaku" class=" wp-image-102337" height="466" sizes="(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HaradaSogaku2.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HaradaSogaku2.jpg 400w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HaradaSogaku2-300x208.jpg 300w" width="673" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Harada Daiun Sogaku</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Such a belief in Japanese superiority is based on the Shinto scriptures. In the <i>Kojiki</i>, the Japanese "Record of Ancient Things,” it speaks of two deities, Izanagi and Izanami, who swirl the “bridge of heaven” in the ocean and raise it up. The liquid that drips off of it becomes an island on which they descend and create “a great column to the heavens”, something that sounds reminiscent to the Tower of Babel. The text goes on to say that the deities “mated and gave birth to the eight main islands of Japan and six minor islands.” Japan then, according to Shinto, is a land that bridges the heavens with the earth, much like how the builders of Babel believed that both their tower and their city was to "reach unto heaven" (Genesis 11:4). The Sumerians had a very similar system of belief. As the Japanese saw Japan as being made from the bridge between heaven and earth, the Sumerians saw their cities no differently. The city of Nippur, where Enlil was the chief deity, was addressed as follows: "Behold the 'bond of heaven and earth, the city,… behold Nippur, the city." (Kramer, Sumer. Myth., ch. ii, p. 43)</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">As the Japanese see Amaterasu as the mother of Japan and their race, the Mesopotamians saw the city of Erech as being created by the goddess Venus. The Arabian goddess Allat was called in Mesopotamia, Um-Uruk, or "the mother of the town of Erech," (See F. Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, ch. ix, p. 116) implying that the city had emanated from the planet Venus, which the goddess represented. Erech, or Uruk, was revered also because it had lodged the shrine of Anu, or the god of heaven. (See Hans Baumann, In the Land of Ur, The Creation of Paradise, p. 52) The true account of Erech's founding was that it was founded by Nimrod, but the Sumerians had subscribed to a more supernatural story of the city's genesis.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The Japanese text then continues on to say that the deities Izanagi and his sister, Amaterasu, “parented eight deities. Among these was the ancestor of Yamato family that ruled Japan, and two others were ancestors of nineteen of its highest families.” The religion of Shinto, then, declares that the Japanese race is divine, since it springs directly from the gods. The text specifically mentions the Yamato family, who are the dominant race in Japan, since the royal family is Yamato. The Yamatos were people who settled in Japan and dominated the entire region, and became preponderant over the native peoples of Japan, such as the Ainu. The divine origin that Shintoism gives the Yamato race, only signifies that the entire belief system is a racially supremacist ideology, designed to keep the Yamatos in the superior position, and to justify genocide over other peoples.<span class="Apple-converted-space">   </span></span></p><div id="attachment_102343" style="width: 723px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/izanagi-and-izanami.jpeg"><img alt="Izanagi and Izanami " class=" wp-image-102343" height="500" sizes="(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/izanagi-and-izanami.jpeg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/izanagi-and-izanami.jpeg 600w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/izanagi-and-izanami-300x211.jpeg 300w" width="713" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Izanagi and Izanami</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">It is beneficial for our study of Japanese religion and imperialism to look back to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, an era that marks the beginning of Japan’s rise to empire. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2014/07/14/buddhism-will-soon-just-dangerous-islam-will-threat-christian-world/"><span class="s3">As I wrote in 2014,</span></a> Shinzo Abe likened his new policy on allowing Japan to participate in war, to the Meiji Restoration. In 2014, in a speech for the Tokyo Today Annual Conference, he <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ibanet.org/Article/Detail.aspx?ArticleUid=e5e10c73-be2d-4d50-91af-88bb30f0c3af"><span class="s3">praised</span></a> the Meiji restoration:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“My hometown is in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a region that was home to many of the patriots of the Meiji era who guided Japan on its path to modernity.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">During the Meiji period there was a Shinto organization called Yoshida Shinto, which believed that the Japanese religion was the “origin of all world religions and called for spreading Japanese ethics to the world.” (See Radtke, The Making of Private and Public Space in Meiji Japan) In the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the position of the emperor as the head of the Japanese people was reinstated, the Emperor Meiji (after whose name this era was titled) was coronated, and there was a revitalization of the Shinto religion. The Emperor Meiji’s advisors established the Shinto religion as the state religion for Japan and they codified <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.pacificwar.org.au/JapWarCrimes/Explaining_JapWarCrimes.html"><span class="s3">three tenets</span></a> that all were to believe. The first was that the emperor was divine because he was the descendent of the sun goddess, Amaterasu; the second was that Japan was not just a populated geographic location, but a land and people whose origins come from Amaterasu, and thus they are a race highly favored by the gods; and the third tenet was that Japan had a sacred destiny to spread “enlightenment” to the other races of the world.</span></p><p class="p8"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Black_and_white_photo_of_emperor_Meiji_of_Japan.jpg"><img alt="Black_and_white_photo_of_emperor_Meiji_of_Japan" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-102344" height="788" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Black_and_white_photo_of_emperor_Meiji_of_Japan.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Black_and_white_photo_of_emperor_Meiji_of_Japan.jpg 580w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Black_and_white_photo_of_emperor_Meiji_of_Japan-221x300.jpg 221w" width="580" /></a></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">It was the Meiji Restoration that brought about modern Japanese imperialism, and the fact that Shinzo Abe wants to bring back the Meiji Restoration, alongside the pagan supremacist beliefs being propagated by Abe and his ilk, is a sign that Japan will go back to imperialistic ideological militarism. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/07/22/racism-and-inferiority-complex-in-japans-current-foreign-policy-towards-china/"><span class="s3">When you have</span></a> the Japanese government exploring new ways to teach in schools the denial of Japanese atrocities in order to make students “more patriotic” and to take pride in their imperial past, and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2014/02/19/must-watch-japan-study-end-times-2/"><span class="s3">when you have</span></a> major Japanese elites denying the mass rape of hundreds of thousands of women by Japanese soldiers, or calling it “normal,” the idea of Japan reviving its evil empire looks all the more realistic. </span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Shintoism directly teaches that the emperors of Japan are descendants of the sun goddess, Amaterasu, thus making the Japanese nation superior to all nations.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>As scholar S.C.M Paine writes:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“The Meiji reformers relied on the Shinto doctrine of divine imperial descent to justify the position of the emperor as being above the law and as the source of governmental authority and power. Because of his divine origin, the Japanese people owed unquestioning loyalty to his spokesmen and cabinet ministers.” (The Sino-Japanese War, pp. 87-88)</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The divine origins placed on the Japanese emperor and race is, I believe, the underpinning reason as to why there are people calling for the death of Koreans in Japan:</span></p><p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/udUVJJWPBT8?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Since the Japanese, in the eyes of their religion, are descendants of the gods, then those who die in the cause of the religion are in turn divine themselves, and all those who are under the divine race, are worthy of destruction and enslavement. There was an event to celebrate the twentieth anniversary for the ascension to the throne of the current emperor of Japan, Akihito, and in this event, Kuzonori Zamami, the Honorary Chairman for the Bereaved Family of Okinawa Prefecture War Dead Joint Association, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.houshuku.org/en/h201219/syosai.html"><span class="s3">praised</span></a> the current emperor for worshipping the souls of the dead soldiers who fought the Americans in the Japanese fight for Okinawa. “On April 23,” said Zamami, “their Majesties the Emperor and Empress headed for a battle site located in the south known as the bloodiest battlefield in Battle of Okinawa immediately after arriving at Naha Airport, and paid floral tribute and worshipped the victims at the National Okinawa War Dead Burial Park for the first time as his Majesty the Emperor. …<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I became strongly aware of feeling his Majesty the Emperor was conceiving that victims in Okinawa should be wholeheartedly worshipped.”</span></p><div id="attachment_102345" style="width: 484px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/news-h201219-syosai-img08.jpg"><img alt="Kuzonori Zamami" class=" wp-image-102345" height="600" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/news-h201219-syosai-img08.jpg" width="474" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Kuzonori Zamami</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The Japanese, being a people of the Altaic Turkic race, see the emperor as the shaman of the nation, just as the pagan Central Asians would have a shaman for a tribe. </span>Hideaki Kase <span style="line-height: 1.5;">even </span><a style="line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2363&context=lawreview"><span class="s3">referred</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5;"> to the emperor as “a shaman.” The shaman, to them, is a divine being with supernatural power. It is very difficult to extirpate this religion from a people who have deeply believed in it for thousands of years. Even to this day, this religion strongly resonates into the soul of the nation.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">And this brings us back to the G-7 meeting at the Ise Shrine. The prime minister of the most powerful nation of East Asia, Shinzo Abe, is a devout sun worshipper, and he brought the leaders of the G-7 to the most important temple of his religion, the Ise Shrine. The religious and political significances of this story cannot be missed or ignored. It is like an ancient king of pagandom having his enemies worship his gods. This was not just a meeting, but a show of religious superiority. Ise is not only the holiest place in the Shinto religion, but the holiest place in Japan. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/05/25/linked-to-emperor-ise-shrine-is-no-ordinary-shrine.html"><span class="s3">It is a cloister of 125 shrines, </span></a>and in the middle lies the Inner Shrine, or Naiku, which is considered the holiest spot in Japan, because it is believed to be the house of the sun goddess, Amaterasu. Abe's devotion to the emperor coincides with his worship of Amaterasu.</span></p><div id="attachment_102346" style="width: 810px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Naiku_04.jpg"><img alt="Ise Shrine " class="size-full wp-image-102346" height="533" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Naiku_04.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Naiku_04.jpg 800w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Naiku_04-300x200.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Naiku_04-768x512.jpg 768w" width="800" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ise Shrine</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Devotion towards Amaterasu most definitely means a worship towards the emperor. The two are interconnected by the same religion of Shintoism. When the emperor is initiated into the position of tribal sovereign, he undergoes a most bizarre ritual, one believed to be literally done with Amaterasu. It is called <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://articles.latimes.com/1993-06-06/magazine/tm-288_1_imperial-family/7"><span class="s3">the daijosai ceremony</span></a>, in which the new emperor “enters” the womb of the sun goddess and then is ‘reborn’ as the son of Amaterasu and as the divine king. The second part of the ritual is even more bizarre: the emperor “spends the night” with Amaterasu and simulates having sexual intercourse with her. In 1993, one million Japanese Christians protested against the ritual because it was state sponsored, and thereby, signified that the government was a favoring a particular religion.<span class="Apple-converted-space">   </span></span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The visit to the shrine was not just a mere visit to a religious site. Shintoism is not a universal religion that puts significance in any nation. It is specifically a governmental and imperialist religion whose focus is solely the power and greatness of Japan. For Abe to bring Western leaders to the shrine was a gesture of religious and political superiority. Professor Breen said that Abe choosing the Ise shrine was “very closely connected” to his revisionist ideology of bringing Japan back to militarism, “a perfect fit with his active involvement with the Shinto Seiji Renmei, and its aim of bringing Shinto into the heart of government”.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Koichi Nakano, a politics professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, made a very telling statement:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“Shinto is not a universal religion, and it’s inherently nationalistic… I already felt rather uncomfortable when Barack Obama was taken to Meiji Shrine last time he visited Japan, and it would be no less disturbing to see the G7 leaders being used to legitimise Shinto, given its reactionary and nationalistic positions on so many issues.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">What is this obsession with shrines? Abe and his ilk want the shrines to be elevated as gods and the highest authorities in Japan, with the emperor being the ultimate shrine. It is why Yutaka Yuzawa, the director of the Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership, of which Abe is the secretary general and almost all of his cabinet are members, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2015/04/28/japan-will-be-reviving-emperor-worship-and-is-going-to-be-reviving-its-imperial-empire-that-will-be-one-of-the-most-demonic-and-satanic-empires-that-christendom-will-ever-face/"><span class="s3">stated</span></a> that the Yasukuni Shrine — where Japanese war criminals are deified — is divine:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“It relates to our culture, history and tradition…<strong>To us, Yasukuni Shrine is a god.”</strong></span></p></blockquote><p class="p8">If you don't believe that there is Shinto fanaticism for the temples in Japan, watch this video of a Canadian being attacked by a group of Japanese Shintoists and then arrested by police for simply questioning the veneration for war criminals in the Yasukuni Shrine:</p><p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/zGQtiHBNWdw?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The Ise Shrine, through the eyes of imperialist Japanese society, is the symbol of authority and political superiority. One of Japan’s most prominent postwar political scientists, Masao Maruyama, specified that the three types of political entities involved in the process towards despotism, which “serv[ed] to formulate not only the fascist period but the entire political world of Imperial Japan”, were the “Shrine,” the “Official,” and the “Outlaw.” Maruyama wrote:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“The Shrine represents authority; the Official, power; and the Outlaw, violence. From the point of view of their position in the national hierarchy and their legal power, the Shrine ranks highest and the Outlaw lowest. The system, however, is so constituted that movement starts from the Outlaw and gradually works upwards. The Shrine is often a mere robot who affects other people by “doing nothing” … The force that “holds aloft” the Shrine and that wields the real power is the Official (civilian or military). His rule over the powerless people is based on the legitimacy that descends from the Shrine. He in his turn is being prodded from behind by the Outlaw.” (See Victoria, Zen War Stories, part 1, ch. 4)</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">In other words,  tyranny is founded in the masses. The minister is given legitimacy by the shrine, or the spiritual authority, and in turn, this governmental official upholds the religious jurisdiction over the people, while the political authority is supported by the masses (the “outlaw”). In the cases of Japan, the “outlaw” encompasses the fanatic nationalists and militarists in the Japanese population who are voting for Abe and his party. Abe, in turn, is holding aloft the shrine by promoting it to the people and the world as being rooted in Japanese tradition. This is why Abe will frequent the Yasukuni Shrine and the Ise Shrine; he is holding them up as divine powers over the nation. In fact, Abe believes that his political success is due to a spiritual experience that he had in a Buddhist holy site.<span class="Apple-converted-space">   </span></span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">After a failed political career in 2007, Abe was told by an associate that he should make a religious pilgrimage to the Shinto Buddhist site of Kumano Sanzan, which consists of three temples that together enshrine three revered mountains. The three shrines are associated by worshippers with the three buddhas, “Amida-nyorai”, “Yakushi-nyorai” and “Senju-kannon”.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It was in this pilgrimage site where Abe received ‘political rebirth.’ According to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-abe-specialreport-idUSBRE94N04020130524">a report:</a></span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Months after resigning in September 2007, Abe visited Kumano Shrine deep in the mountains of western Japan, known since ancient times as a place of healing and resurrection. Few thought then he would be politically reborn as one of the country’s most popular leaders.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">"It is said that if you make a pilgrimage there, you will be restored to life,” said one government source close to Abe. “I said, ‘Let’s go there and you will surely come back.’"</span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102347" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pD112172817.jpg"><img alt="The Kumano Sanzan temple" class="size-large wp-image-102347" height="768" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pD112172817-1024x768.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pD112172817-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pD112172817-300x225.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pD112172817-768x576.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pD112172817.jpg 1200w" width="1024" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Kumano Sanzan temple</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Abe’s conviction that his political “rebirth” was found in a shrine, is connected with what Maruyama wrote in his description of Japan’s descent to tyranny: the shrine gives the minister legitimacy; the minister upholds the shrine as the highest authority; the masses support the minister and thus will follow the shrine.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The Japanese military chaplain, Sato Gan’ei, wrote that the purpose of religion in Japan was “to be an instrument of the state and an instrument of the Imperial Household.” He also wrote that the government allowed Buddhism to influence society “to ensure that citizens fulfill their duties [to the state] while at the same time preserving social order and stability.” (See Victoria, Zen War Stories, part 2, ch. 8, p. 151) I believe you will see the Japanese government, in the future, using Buddhism and Shintoism in a single amalgamated ideology to promote militarism, imperialism and genocide.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Shinzo Abe’s coalition party, New Komeito, is a Buddhist political party about which I have written <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2014/07/14/buddhism-will-soon-just-dangerous-islam-will-threat-christian-world/"><span class="s3">in a previous article. </span></a> The New Komeito has been incessantly portrayed as a party of peace on account of their seeming resistance towards the militarism of Abe. But once Abe and his administration gave Japan the right to “collective self-defense,” New Komeito was all for it. The Komeito Party belongs to the Pure Land school of Mahayana Buddhism, and more specifically, they subscribe to the Nichiren sect, which was founded by the Buddhist monk of the same name, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2014/03/21/must-focus-buddhism-threat-america/">whose ideology was tyrannical and violent.</a></span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The Pure Land Buddhist monk, Sato Gan’ei, wrote:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“As a living bodhisattva filled with the Buddha’s compassion, you pitch camp; take up a sword overflowing with compassion in your compassionate hand; and together with Amitabha Buddha, thrust your sword home, dispatching both friend and foe to the Pure Land in the West.” (See Victoria, Zen War Stories, part 2, ch. 8, p. 152)</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Pure Land Buddhism emphasizes on the worship of Amitabha Buddha, a “celestial Buddha” of Mahayana Buddhism. Many of the Japanese believed that they were actually fighting for Amitabha when they were at war with Russia in 1905. Pure Land Buddhist priest, Osuga Shudo, in his 1905 book, <i>A General Survey of Evangelization during Wartime, </i>wrote:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“Reciting the name of Amida Buddha makes it possible to march onto the battlefield firm in the belief that death will bring rebirth in paradise. Being prepared for death, one can fight strenuously, knowing that it is a just fight, a fight employing the compassionate mind of the Buddha, the fight of a loyal subject. Truly, what could be more fortunate than knowing that, should you die, a welcome awaits in the Pure Land [of Amida Buddha]?” (See Victoria, Zen at War, ch. 2, pp.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>34-35)<i> </i></span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102348" style="width: 810px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ushiku-Daibutsu-Amitabha-Buddha-5-Biggest-Outdoor-Statues-In-The-World.jpg"><img alt="Giant statue of Amitabha Buddha in Japan" class="size-full wp-image-102348" height="532" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ushiku-Daibutsu-Amitabha-Buddha-5-Biggest-Outdoor-Statues-In-The-World.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ushiku-Daibutsu-Amitabha-Buddha-5-Biggest-Outdoor-Statues-In-The-World.jpg 800w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ushiku-Daibutsu-Amitabha-Buddha-5-Biggest-Outdoor-Statues-In-The-World-300x200.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ushiku-Daibutsu-Amitabha-Buddha-5-Biggest-Outdoor-Statues-In-The-World-768x511.jpg 768w" width="800" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Giant statue of Amitabha Buddha in Japan</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Both the Buddhist Komeito party and the Liberal Democratic Party, to which Abe belongs, believe in Buddhist militarism. In fact, Shinzo Abe already expressed his fanatic Buddhism when he went to the Yasukuni Shrine to worship the souls of Japanese soldiers and war criminals. The Buddhist authorities of WW2 Japan had the same ideology as Abe and taught that the souls of Japanese soldiers would become divine spirits. For example, the Soto Zen Buddhist scholar-priest, Yamada Reirin, wrote:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“The true form of the heroic spirits [of the dead] is the good karmic power that has resulted from their loyalty, bravery, and nobility of character. … The loyal, brave, noble, and heroic spirits of those officers and men who have died shouting, “May the emperor live for ten thousand years!” will be reborn right here in this country.” (See Victoria, Zen War Stories, part 2, p. 156) </span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Teaching the same ideology, Tomomatsu Entai, in his book, <em>Turning Illusion into Enlightenment,</em> wrote:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“Following their death in battle, your children or husbands are no longer ordinary human beings but have, at a single bound, become [Shinto] gods and Buddhas.” (Ibid)<span class="Apple-converted-space">   </span></span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Abe worships the souls of Japanese soldiers and war criminals as <i>kami </i>or deities. There was <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2015/04/28/japan-will-be-reviving-emperor-worship-and-is-going-to-be-reviving-its-imperial-empire-that-will-be-one-of-the-most-demonic-and-satanic-empires-that-christendom-will-ever-face/"><span class="s3">a religious activity done by Shinzo Abe in April of 2014,</span></a> in which he sent a message to the Koyasan Okuno-in Buddhist temple. In this temple there is a shrine which is believed to be a house of the souls of 1000 “Showa martyrs.”</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Showa is the name given to the Emperor Hirohito, who led Japan against America in WW2, and for whom the Japanese soldiers fought, killed, and died. Hirohito, or Showa, was worshipped as a literal god, and the souls of those who died for them — the Showa martyrs — are revered as ‘kami’ or gods who live in the shrine. A number of these “martyrs” were actually convicted of war crimes.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">In other words, Shinzo Abe sent a message to commend the souls of those who fought and killed Americans, and who he adulates as literal gods or divine beings. It is another evidence as to how much Buddhism and Shintoism still deeply resonates in Japanese society and politics.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The first emperor to establish a constitution for Japan and to unite the nation under Buddhism was the Emperor Shotoku, who lived in the sixth century. Shotoku was worshipped as heaven itself, and thus the earth stood as his footstool. As Shotoku would write in his constitution, in Article 17:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“If you receive an imperial command, it must be obeyed without fail. The sovereign is heaven, and imperial subjects are the earth. …Should the earth seek to overthrow heaven, there will only be destruction.” (See Victoria, ch. 10, p. 172)</span></p></blockquote><div id="attachment_102349" style="width: 520px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/prince-shotoku-7.jpg"><img alt="The Emperor Shotoku " class=" wp-image-102349" height="649" sizes="(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/prince-shotoku-7.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/prince-shotoku-7.jpg 377w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/prince-shotoku-7-236x300.jpg 236w" width="510" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Emperor Shotoku</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">It was within the Mahayana ideological framework of Japan that a great Buddhist emperor would be revered and worshipped. Through the emperor, Buddhism would inculcate and unite the society. As Inoue Enryo, the very reputable Meiji-period Buddhist scholar-priest, said:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“The reason that Buddhism is still in existence in our country today is due to the protection offered by the emperors down through the ages, starting with Prince Shotoku. Buddhism would not exist [in Japan] without the devotion of the imperial family. When looked at from this viewpoint, it is only natural for Buddhists to fight to the death in order to repay the debt of gratitude they owe to the Buddha and the emperor.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Shotoku wanted Japan to be a singular <i>sangha</i>, or Buddhist community. What the <i>umma</i> is to Islam, the <i>sangha</i> is to Buddhism. The Buddhist scholar, Benkyo, explained that for Shotoku, “building one great Sangha in this land was of the greatest importance.” Shotoku was inspired to accomplish what he envisioned because he saw the sangha as “a great harmonious body.” (See Vitoria, Zen at War, ch. 7, p. 81) Correlating with this principle, Shotoku also said, "Harmony is the basic principle to be respected”. To bring this harmony into society, Shotoku utilized Buddhism. This way of governance still influences Japanese leaders in the modern age. Eisaku Sato, in 1974, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1974/sato-lecture.html"><span class="s3">said</span></a>:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“Prince Shotoku who lived from the end of the 6th century to the 7th century was a distinguished political leader of ancient Japan, as well as a great religious leader of the period when Buddhism was introduced into Japan. Japan's first constitution established by Prince Shotoku begins with the declaration: <strong>"Harmony is the basic principle to be respected".</strong> This spirit is a national and popular ideal which has run throughout Japanese history.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">As for myself, I have expressed this spirit of harmony in the words "magnanimity and harmony", making it one of the guiding principles of my political life.”<span class="Apple-converted-space">       </span></span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Shinzo Abe, Sato’s grandson, also references Shotoku as his inspiration. He made <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ibanet.org/Article/Detail.aspx?ArticleUid=e5e10c73-be2d-4d50-91af-88bb30f0c3af"><span class="s3">mention</span></a> of Shotoku in 2014:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“Looking back on history,<strong> we can see that Buddhism was introduced to Japan in the sixth century and it was from this time that Japanese civilisation flourished and concepts concerning the law</strong>, he demolishes his own realm, just as an elephant destroys a lotus pond. Prince Shotoku, who was <strong>a devout believer in Buddhism</strong>, had, by the seventh century, already formulated Japan’s first constitution, consisting of 17 articles.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Abe is a very religious person. He has held New Year’s press conferences at the Ise Shrine, and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-23/abe-shines-spotlight-on-japan-s-shinto-shrines-in-grip-of-crisis"><span class="s3">In 2013</span></a>, Abe was the first prime minister since 1929 to participate in a rebuilding ceremony in the Ise temple. For this he even angered Japan’s Christians who argued that what Abe did breached the constitutional ban on politicians favoring a particular religion. It is not surprising that Taro Aso, the Deputy Prime Minister who urged that the Nazis be emulated in changing Japan’s constitution, attended Abe in the pagan ritual.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">According to John Breen, a history professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, “Abe is much more focused on Shinto than almost any other postwar prime minister… He is a key member of Shinto Seiji Renmei, a political association that has as its aim the location of Shinto at the heart of government”.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">According to one <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2014/12/03/abes-cabinet-reshuffle-reflects-growing-influence-of-the-religious-right/">2014 report:</a></span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“The extensive support for state sponsorship of Shinto in the Japanese Diet, and among members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet, indicates that elements of State Shinto are returning to the centre of nationalist politics in Japan.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The Japanese religion has a tremendous connection with the collective denial, by Japan’s elites of atrocities committed by the Japanese empire. As Turkey’s elites violently react towards any evidence of the Armenian Genocide, the Japanese will exhibit a tremendous vitriol for any presentation of evidence for Japan’s atrocities and genocidal expansionism, which it committed just a little over seventy years ago. Amongst all of the massacres orchestrated by Japan, one of the most known is the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Chinese people in the city of Nanking in 1937. Not only were such a great number of people brutally slaughtered, but tens of thousands of women were raped. In October of 2015, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), included in its Memory of the World list, documents from the massacre of Nanking. The Japanese were so furious that they threatened to deprive UNESCO of funds. Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“There is a big discrepancy of views between Japan and China, and the decision reflecting a unilateral view turns the issue into a political problem.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Tōru Toida, who is a member of Abe’s party, and currently serving in Japan’s House of Representatives, said:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“We are absolutely positive that there was no massacre in Nanking”</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Abe’s administration <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2014/02/19/must-watch-japan-study-end-times-2/"><span class="s3">wants to change the education system</span></a> so that it will indoctrinate children with a false view of imperial history, that it was honorable and righteous. The sanguinary actions of the nation are covered by propaganda. Students in Japan are not even taught about its nation’s atrocities. How can a nation that denies the evils it has committed, be expected not to commit them again? Those who deny holocausts, only do so because they wish to repeat them. This adamancy about denying Japan’s wickedness, is all rooted in it heathen religion.</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The sophistical religion of India, Buddhism, reached its way to Japan and further corrupted the people with its folly. The Buddhist doctrine of karma, which removes all moral accountability from evil actions, would play quite a significant role in desensitizing the Japanese body politic from their nations evils. Days after the Pearl Harbor attack, a book was published, entitled, <em>A Reader for Bereaved Families,</em> it was a written by a Buddhist priest named Tomomatsu Entai. Entai was a priest for the “Pure Land” Buddhist sect, the same sect that Abe’s coalition party, New Komeito, belongs to. In one section of the book, Entai addresses the wives whose husbands died in the war, writing:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“In those bereaved who have recovered their composure, one sees the realization that their husband’s death was due to the consistent working of karma. No one was to blame [for his death] nor was anyone in the wrong.” (See Victoria, Zen War Stories, part 2, ch. 8, p. 159)</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Notice what he says at the end, “nor was anyone in the wrong.” Therefore, in the Japanese Buddhist perspective, there was no moral wrong done by Japan, because it was simply the Karma of the Chinese, the Koreans, the Filipinos, and all the others who suffered under Japanese oppression, to be slaughtered and raped.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In a 2008 speech, Shinzo Abe’s Zen priest, Hirai, stated a point of Zen Buddhist doctrine that is, though brief, explicitly exemplary of this very destructive belief that most definitely is a part of Abe’s religious convictions:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">"In Buddhism, If one thinks it exists, then it exists; if one thinks it does not exist, then, it does not exist."</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Therefore, if the people being slaughtered are not really being slaughtered in the eye of the slaughterer, then there is no moral wrong done, and the deaths were simply the “karma” of the victims.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>This was the conclusion that both Buddhists and Hindus came to. The Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher, Takuan, wrote that when the samurai strikes, he does not really strike, and the one who is slaughtered is not really struck, nor is he killed, since both persons are of “emptiness”:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">“The man who is about to be struck down is also of emptiness, and so is the one who wields the sword. None of them are possessed of a mind that has any substantiality. As each of them is of emptiness and has no “mind”, the striking man is not a man, the sword in his hands is not a sword, and the “I” who is about to be struck down is like the splitting of the spring breeze in a flash of lightening.” (Quoted in Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture, 114, in Victoria, A Buddhological Critique of a “Soldier-Zen” in Wartime Japan, as part of Michael K. Jerryon and Mark Juergensmeyer, Buddhist Warfare, 5, p. 118)</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">This belief that killing is not killing finds its origins in Hinduism. In the Bhagavad Gita, Hinduism’s most important scripture, it reads:</span></p><blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity: he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond time gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies. When a man knows him as never-born, everlasting, never-changing, beyond all destruction, how can that man kill a man, or cause another to kill? (Gita, 2.19-21)</span></p></blockquote><p class="p8"><span class="s1">Yoshiko Sukurai, another sun worshipping member of the Nippon Kaigai cult, and the president of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals, praised Abe for his aspiration to change Article 9, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2971018"><span class="s3">stating</span></a> that for him to succeed in this mission would be to “reset the foundation of Japan”. She is correct. To enable Japan to go to war again would be to break the shackles placed on the country by the US, and naturally, to unite the nation under the native religion of the solar star and the imperial ruler. </span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">In choosing the Ise Shrine for the G-7 meeting, Shinzo Abe himself said: “I wanted to choose a place where world leaders could have a full taste and feel of Japan’s beautiful nature, bountiful culture, and traditions”. Lets look at some of the traditions behind the Ise Shrine. For one, the shrine is in the midst of a large cedar tree forest. Why the cedar tree? The Japanese pagans see the cedar tree as sacred. They call the tree, <i>sugi</i>, and believe that they lie in the presence of demons (tengu). Like their Turkic brethren, the Japanese believe that the trees are inhabited by divine beings. The cedar tree is, for the Japanese, <i>the </i>tree that is to surround shinto shrines. There is a Japanese verse that speaks of “trees encircled by a festoon where it is said tengu [demons] dance every night” (See Gill, Cherry Blossom Epiphany, p. 582, brackets mine). There is a popular samurai legend in which a samurai named Minamoto Yoshitsune would go into a cedar forest every day to summon the tengu demons so that they could give him knowledge on the art of swordsmanship. One day a demon appears in a large cedar tree and gives him the answers he seeks. (See Bennett, Kendo, p. 67)</span></p><div id="attachment_102352" style="width: 728px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/japanseceder7.jpg"><img alt="Japanese cedar trees" class=" wp-image-102352" height="527" sizes="(max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/japanseceder7.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/japanseceder7.jpg 601w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/japanseceder7-300x220.jpg 300w" width="718" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Japanese cedar trees</p></div><div id="attachment_102353" style="width: 917px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/KyosaiTenguBonze.jpg"><img alt="Tengu demon and a Buddhist monk" class="size-full wp-image-102353" height="671" sizes="(max-width: 907px) 100vw, 907px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/KyosaiTenguBonze.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/KyosaiTenguBonze.jpg 907w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/KyosaiTenguBonze-300x222.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/KyosaiTenguBonze-768x568.jpg 768w" width="907" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Tengu demon and a Buddhist monk</p></div><p class="p8"><span class="s1">There is a samurai text called Tengu-geijutsu-ron, or <em>Discourse on the Art of Mountain Demons</em>, which speaks of the samurai, Yoshitsune, traveling “deep into the mountainous country of Kurama where he met greater and lesser Tengu [demons].” (Kammer, Zen and Confucius in the Art of Swordsmanship, brackets mine)</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The Japanese veneration for the cedar tree and the spirits that abide in them reminds me of Sumerian religion, in particular the text of the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the epic, Gilgamesh journeys to<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>to reach the top of the Mountain of Cedar in Phoenicia, which was given divine status by the wizards of Sumer as a "seat of gods and goddess' throne”, (The Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet 5, lines 6-7, trans. Andrew George) and as "the secret abode of the gods" (The Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet 6, Ish 38', trans. Andrew George). Gilgamesh, or Bilgames, is praised as<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>having ascended to the mountain of cedar, or the place of the gods, and founded temples and monuments which made himself a name: "In the assembly, the place of [the gods'] ceremonial, [the lord] Bilgames [having] drawn [nigh,] they said to him, the lord [Bilgames, on his account:] 'Your matter -- having traveled each and every road, having fetched that unique cedar down from its mountain, having smitten Huwawa in his forest, having set up monuments for future days, having founded temples of the gods, you reached Ziusudra in his abode!" (The Death of Bilgames, M 49-57, trans. Andrew George)</span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1">The Sumerians held that the cedar trees on the mountains were sacred, and the Japanese see the cedar tree as the home for divine beings, and the mountains on which they stand, as magical or sacred. Both religions are satanic, and I believe they correspond with what the Scripture says in regards to the Antichrist: “Behold, the Assyrian was like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.” (Ezekiel 31:3)<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The G7 politicians participated in a satanic ritual when they partook in the Shinto tree planting ceremony at the Ise Shrine:</span></p><p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/4QdKiKpDe50?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></span></p><p>As politicians participated in this satanic ritual, so they will allow the satanic nation of this religion, Japan, to arise from the ruins and bring about destruction upon the earth.</p><p> </p><div class="h5ab-print-button-container"><div class="h5ab-print-button h5ab-print-button-left" style="cursor: pointer; color: #555"><i class="fa fa-print fa-2x"></i> <span>print</span></div></div><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing">

anonymous armageddon isis islam war Today Is The Seventy-Five Year Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor, Remember That Japan Is Still An Enemy And Is Not Our Friend. The War Is Not Over

Today is the seventy five anniversary of Pearl Harbor. I did this video as a reminder that Japan is still an enemy, not a friend:In 1959, the infamous soldier of the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara, visited Japan with the objective of making trade…

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