State Of California Bows To Islamic Shariah Law And Becomes The First State To Recognize A Third Gender- Islam Loves The LGBT And Those Who Would Say Otherwise Is Either Ignorant Or Lying

<p>The state of California just became the first nation in the union to formally recognize a third gender according to a recent report:</p><blockquote><p>California just became the first state in the union to officially recognize a third gender option, paving the way for "non-gender binary" to be included on most official state documents.</p><p>Governor Jerry Brown signed SB179, the Gender Recognition Act, as part of a wave of legislation that passed through his office on Sunday. The act allows California residents to select an "option x" or "non-binary" option on drivers licenses, birth certificates, marriage licenses, and other-state issued documents.</p><p>Democratic state senator Scott Wiener introduced the bill, and took to Twitter Monday to show his appreciation to Governor Brown for passing the bill into law, claiming the legislation now allows California residents to "be who they are."</p><p>The bill will also make it easier for transgender individuals to select a gender option while they transition from one end of the gender binary to the other.</p><p>It also paves the way for non-binary individuals to replace existing documentation to reflect their current gender status (for example, they can now switch the gender marked on their birth certificate and receive a new document with "non-binary" selected), and removes a somewhat archaic provision in California law that requires transgender individuals to undergo a physical evaluation, and obtain a doctor's written permission before receiving documents that reflect their new gender.</p><p>The law is one of several controversial gender-related provisions working their way through the California legislature.</p><p>California's LGBT Senior Bill of Rights would make it a crime to knowingly and repeatedly mis-gender an individual in senior housing or in a nursing care facility — a law opponents believe will lead to strict criminal punishments for mis-gendering in general. The Modernizing California HIV Criminalization Laws would reduce the punishment for failing to alert blood donation centers and blood collection agencies that your blood may be HIV-positive, from a felony to a misdemeanor. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/22375/california-now-first-state-legally-recognize-third-emily-zanotti">source</a>)</p></blockquote><p>The prevailing 'social wisdom' is that ISLAM HATES THE LGBT. This is nothing less than an absolute falsehood either spoken out of ignorance or malice. Islam LOVES the LGBT because the religion is pro-homosexual going back to Mohammed himself and has been attested to throughout its history. Islam's persecution of the LGBT, when it happens, is not because of any belief that homosexuality is wrong, but because the way in which the homosexual act was carried out was not in compliance with Islamic law.</p><p>People in the West are confused when we say that Islam can be both pro-sodomite and anti-sodomite at the same time, such as when ISIS soldiers will round up and murder homosexuals yet at the same time ISIS fighters routinely dress up as women and engage in homosexual activity with themselves and with each other and are backed up by Islamic scholars for doing such. The answer is not difficult, because as Islam is a religion from the devil, who is the father of deceit, confusion, and all lies, Islam does not operate on consistent principles revealed that are a reflection of divine truth, but is defines situation truths as divinely revealed truths without regard to consistency at all, which is another sign of the evil nature of the religion and its evil founder Mohammed. It is the same reason why as I have pointed out for years, Islam will use Trinitarian theology to describe the relationship between Allah and the Koran (that the Koran is the uncreated and eternal word of Allah, which is exactly what Jesus is- the uncreated and eternal word of the Father) yet will say that the Christian Trinity is evil and pagan while refusing to acknowledge the have the same belief except about a physical book instead of a person. Islam is masterful at deceit, and one should not expect to encounter anything less regardless of the matter being discussed.</p><p>The issue of homosexuality was addressed by Mohammed during his lifetime. While not discussed in the Koran, there are passages in Islamic sacred scripture which speak of Mohammed's dealings with <em>mukhannathun</em>, a group men who <strong>exhibit all of the tendencies of women, dress as women, and for all intensive purposes are women while remaining men in terms of their gender but not function</strong>:</p><p style="text-align: center">حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَةُ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ زَيْنَبَ ابْنَةِ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم كَانَ عِنْدَهَا وَفِي الْبَيْتِ مُخَنَّثٌ، فَقَالَ الْمُخَنَّثُ لأَخِي أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَ إِنْ فَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمُ الطَّائِفَ غَدًا أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى ابْنَةِ غَيْلاَنَ، فَإِنَّهَا تُقْبِلُ بِأَرْبَعٍ وَتُدْبِرُ بِثَمَانٍ‏.‏ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ "‏ لاَ يَدْخُلَنَّ هَذَا عَلَيْكُنَّ</p><p style="text-align: center">Othman bin Abi Shaybah told us, from Abi Hisham ibn Erwa, from his father, from Zaynab, the daughter of Umm Salamah, that Umm Salamah said that the Prophet was with her, there was an effeminate man in the house. The effeminate man said to Um Salama's brother, `Abdullah bin Abi Umaiyya, "If Allah should make you conquer Ta'if tomorrow, I recommend that you take the daughter of Ghailan (in marriage) for (she is so fat) that she shows four folds of flesh when facing you and eight when she turns her back." Thereupon the Prophet said (to us), "This (effeminate man) should not enter upon you (anymore).  (Bukhari Book 67, Hadith 5290)</p><p>...</p><p style="text-align: center">حَدَّثَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ، أَنَّ أَبَا أُسَامَةَ، أَخْبَرَهُمْ عَنْ مُفَضَّلِ بْنِ يُونُسَ، عَنِ الأَوْزَاعِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي يَسَارٍ الْقُرَشِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أُتِيَ بِمُخَنَّثٍ قَدْ خَضَبَ يَدَيْهِ وَرِجْلَيْهِ بِالْحِنَّاءِ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏"‏ مَا بَالُ هَذَا ‏"‏ ‏.‏ فَقِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ يَتَشَبَّهُ بِالنِّسَاءِ ‏.‏ فَأُمِرَ بِهِ فَنُفِيَ إِلَى النَّقِيعِ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَلاَ نَقْتُلُهُ فَقَالَ ‏"‏ إِنِّي نُهِيتُ عَنْ قَتْلِ الْمُصَلِّينَ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو أُسَامَةَ وَالنَّقِيعُ نَاحِيَةٌ عَنِ الْمَدِينَةِ وَلَيْسَ بِالْبَقِيعِ‏</p><p style="text-align: center">Narrated by Abi Yassar al-Qurashi from Abu Hashim from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came with an effeminate man who had adorned his hands and legs with henna. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "What is wrong with this?" He said: "O Messenger of Allaah, be like women." Kill him, he said: "I have been forbidden for the killing of worshipers." (Dawud Book 43, Hadith 4928)</p><p>As one can see from this tradition, Mohammed separated these effeminate men from the women, but as he also noted, he did not harm them. They were allowed to continue to exist in society, albeit separated from being bound to women, which indicated that based on their dispositions, they were men who were taking up relations with men.</p><p>There are several traditions which explicitly communicate that homosexuals must be executed or otherwise banned for society. However, as the traditions themselves note, they are formally classified as <em>da'if</em> ("weak") by the Muslims themselves. Two are listed below:</p><blockquote><p>دَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو السَّوَّاقُ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبِي عَمْرٍو، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏"‏ مَنْ وَجَدْتُمُوهُ يَعْمَلُ عَمَلَ قَوْمِ لُوطٍ فَاقْتُلُوا الْفَاعِلَ وَالْمَفْعُولَ بِهِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ وَأَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَإِنَّمَا يُعْرَفُ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ وَرَوَى مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبِي عَمْرٍو فَقَالَ ‏"‏ مَلْعُونٌ مَنْ عَمِلَ عَمَلَ قَوْمِ لُوطٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ فِيهِ الْقَتْلَ وَذَكَرَ فِيهِ مَلْعُونٌ مَنْ أَتَى بَهِيمَةً ‏.‏ وَقَدْ رُوِيَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ عُمَرَ عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏"‏ اقْتُلُوا الْفَاعِلَ وَالْمَفْعُولَ بِهِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ فِي إِسْنَادِهِ مَقَالٌ وَلاَ نَعْرِفُ أَحَدًا رَوَاهُ عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ غَيْرَ عَاصِمِ بْنِ عُمَرَ الْعُمَرِيِّ ‏.‏ وَعَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ يُضَعَّفُ فِي الْحَدِيثِ مِنْ قِبَلِ حِفْظِهِ ‏.‏ وَاخْتَلَفَ أَهْلُ الْعِلْمِ فِي حَدِّ اللُّوطِيِّ فَرَأَى بَعْضُهُمْ أَنَّ عَلَيْهِ الرَّجْمَ أَحْصَنَ أَوْ لَمْ يُحْصِنْ وَهَذَا قَوْلُ مَالِكٍ وَالشَّافِعِيِّ وَأَحْمَدَ وَإِسْحَاقَ ‏.‏ وَقَالَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ فُقَهَاءِ التَّابِعِينَ مِنْهُمُ الْحَسَنُ الْبَصْرِيُّ وَإِبْرَاهِيمُ النَّخَعِيُّ وَعَطَاءُ بْنُ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ وَغَيْرُهُمْ قَالُوا حَدُّ اللُّوطِيِّ حَدُّ الزَّانِي وَهُوَ قَوْلُ الثَّوْرِيِّ وَأَهْلِ الْكُوفَةِ</p><p>The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "If you find him to do the work of the people of Lot, then kill the offender and the effect on him." Narrated by 'Abd-al-'Aziz ibn Muhammad, He said in the section on Jabir and Abu Huraira said Abu Issa, but knows this talk about Ibn Abbas from the Prophet peace be upon him from this face and narrated Muhammad ibn Ishaq This hadeeth narrated from 'Asim ibn Umar from Suhail ibn Abi Salih on the authority of' Umar ibn Abi 'Umar, Abu Huraira narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Kill the offender and kill him." Abu Issa said this in his hadeeth, and he did not know anyone who narrated it from Suhail ibn Abi Salih Ghi Asim ibn Omar narrated that it is weak in the hadeeth before it was memorized, and the scholars differed concerning the extent of the kaafir, and some of them saw that stoning was stoned or not. This is the view of Malik, al-Shaafa'i, Ahmad, and Ishaaq. Al-Hasan al-Basri, Ibrahim al-Nakha'i, 'Ata' ibn Abi Rabah, and others said: And the people of Kufa. (Source: Tirmidhi's <span style="text-decoration: underline">Jami'</span>, Book 17, Hadith 1456)(</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center">and</p><blockquote><p>حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ رَاهَوَيْهِ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ خُثَيْمٍ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ، وَمُجَاهِدًا، يُحَدِّثَانِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، فِي الْبِكْرِ يُوجَدُ عَلَى اللُّوطِيَّةِ قَالَ يُرْجَمُ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ حَدِيثُ عَاصِمٍ يُضَعِّفُ حَدِيثَ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبِي عَمْرٍو</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: If a man who is not married is seized committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death. Abu Dawud said: The tradition of 'Asim proved the tradition of 'Amir b. Abi 'Amr as weak. (Source: Abu Dawud, Book 40, Hadith 4463)</p></blockquote><p>This means that while they can be used in understanding and applying Islamic law and theology, they are questionable and not to be taken as absolute statement of truth, but rather something to be debated and even contradicted. This compares with traditions classified as <em>sahih</em> ("sound", meaning absolutely true) or <em>muhsan</em> ("good," meaning highly reliable). The only classification beneath <em>da'if </em>is <em>maudu'</em>, which means "forged" and is to be ignored.</p><p> </p><p>So from looking at these statements in Islamic sacred tradition itself, we can see that Islam does not speak with the same license that the modern "west" does about homosexuality. It does not say that one should give oneself wholly over to libertine passions and that the society should bend over to whatever desire the LGBT wants at the current time. It even floats the idea that one may execute sodomites, but that very idea is itself admitted by Muslims to be controversial and a weak argument. What Islam does say is that based on the example of Mohammed, these men are not to simply mix with other men yet they are allowed to live in society as they please among their own communities as a class of their own. The actions of Mohammed establish the acknowledgement of a third gender, of men who live as women as conduct themselves as women and are protected under Islam as a distinct social class regarded with equal piety and dignity as fellow Muslims. Their homosexuality does not impede their piety before Allah, meaning it is not regarded as a sin. Indeed, in Islamic eyes it is still a worse sin to embrace Christ as one's savior than it is to be a sodomite who makes his daily prayers to Allah and lives in accordance with the prescriptions for the third gender established by Mohammed.</p><p>This third gender- the Mukhannath- is the reason why the concept of sodomy as a serious sin before God and a crime against society was never a serious legal issue in the Muslim world ever, including today because it was seen as a natural division in society that had to be distinguished yet protected in the example of Mohammed. As Wikipedia notes:</p><blockquote><p>Homosexuality was a key symbolic issue throughout the <a title="Middle Ages" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</a> in [Islamic] <a class="mw-redirect" title="Iberia" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberia">Iberia</a>. As was customary everywhere until the nineteenth century, homosexuality was not viewed as a congenital disposition or ‘identity’; the focus was on nonprocreative sexual practices, of which sodomy was the most controversial.” For example, in “<a title="Al-Andalus" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus">al-Andalus</a> homosexual pleasures were much indulged by the intellectual and political elite. Evidence includes the behavior of rulers . . . who kept male harems.”<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam#cite_note-84">[84]</a></sup> Although early islamic writings such as the Quran expressed a mildly negative attitude towards homosexuality, most muslim societies treated the subject with indifference, if not admiration. Few literary works displayed hostility towards non-heterosexuality, apart from partisan statements and literary debates about types of love (which also occurred in heterosexual contexts).<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam#cite_note-85">[85]</a></sup> Khaled el-Rouayheb even maintain that "much if not most of the extant love poetry of the period [16th to 18th century] is pederastic in tone, portraying an adult male poet's passionate love for a teenage boy".<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam#cite_note-86">[86]</a></sup></p><p>El-Rouayheb suggest that even though religious scholars considered sodomy as an abhorrent sin, most of them did not genuinely believe that it was illicit to fall in love with a boy or expressing this love via poetry.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam#cite_note-87">[87]</a></sup> But in the secular society, a male’s “desire to penetrate desirable youth was seen as perfectly normal”, even if not lawful.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam#cite_note-88">[88]</a></sup> On the other hand, men adopting the passive role were more subjected to stigma. The medical term <i>ubnah</i>qualified the pathological desire of a male to exclusively and continually be on the receiving end of anal intercourse. Various physician theorized on this condition, including <a title="Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Zakariya_al-Razi">Rhazes</a> who thought it was correlated with small genitals and that a treatment was possible provided that the subject was deemed to be not too effeminate and the behavior not "prolonged".<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam#cite_note-89">[89]</a></sup><a title="Dawud al-Antaki" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawud_al-Antaki">Dawud al-Antaki</a> advanced that it could be caused by an acidic substance embed in the veins of the anus causing itchiness and thus the need to seek relief.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam#cite_note-90">[90]  </a></sup>(<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam">source</a>)</p></blockquote><p>As Wikipedia notes, the emphasis in Islam is not so much on the sodomizer but on the one being sodomized, and this is because if a man is going to be sodomized, he needs to be a <em>mukhannath, </em>for otherwise would be a grave violation of Islamic law and could subject a man to punishment, including death for unlawful sexual activity. However, so long as the one being sodomized is a <em>mukhannath</em> and there are no other possible issues, he may be sodomized as much as he pleases without incurring the penalty of sin.</p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Tuhfet_Ul-Mulk.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-114530" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Tuhfet_Ul-Mulk-196x300.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Tuhfet_Ul-Mulk-196x300.jpg 196w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Tuhfet_Ul-Mulk.jpg 288w" width="196" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center">The cover of the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuhfet_Ul-Mulk.jpg">Tuhfet Ul-Mulk</a>, a book published in 1773 in Ottoman Turkey showing a group of Muslims sodomizing each other. While homosexuality was formally decriminalized in 1858, this cover is another indication of the tolerance this behavior was shown in society.</p><p style="text-align: center">Sodomy was never regarded as a sin in Islam that is an intrinsically disordered act. Indeed, one faced more danger being a Christian in a Muslim society than being a sodomite and a Muslim. It is utterly lacking in understanding or is outright dishonest to propagate the idea that Islam hates the LGBT, because nothing could be further from the truth.</p><p>This is the reason why there are still in Afghanistan, a country that is veritably 100% Muslim, a huge number of men who dress and live as women, called <em>bacha bazi</em> boys. It is the reason why in spite of Turkish President Erdogan's crackdown on LGBT rights, Erdogan and his wife will have dinner with Bulent Ersoy, one of the most popular singers in Turkey who is also Turkey's most famous <em>mukhannath</em>. It is why Pakistan issues passports with a third gender listed on them, and the reason why Pakistan's legalization of "transgenderism" has become a contested <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07-29/pakistans-traditional-third-gender-isnt-happy-trans-movement">issue </a>that was raised by the <em>mukhannatun</em> themselves and why homosexuality is at the same time a crime punishable by death in Pakistan, because the idea of "transgenderism" is a western concept of the <em>mukhannath</em> that might, from a religious perspective, be in contradiction to the rules established under Islam.</p><p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/645x344-1466415693225.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-114529" height="160" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/645x344-1466415693225-300x160.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/645x344-1466415693225-300x160.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/645x344-1466415693225.jpg 645w" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center">Why would President Erdogan (here with his wife Emine, in the blue hijab), who has actively persecuted the LGBT, go to dinner with Bulent Ersoy (on the left), who is clearly a man dressed as a woman?</p><p style="text-align: center">The answer is above. He is part of the <em>mukhannath</em> class that is a part of Islam. Indeed, the opposition to the LGBT in Muslim nations today is not based on an intrinsic opposition to homosexuality as a moral issue due to the act of sodomy itself, but as a violation of Islamic law on how one goes about carrying out the sin.</p><p>Recently, Jihad Watch reported that the central Asian nation of Tajikistan, which is majority Muslim, came out and was going to "purge" gays:</p><blockquote><p>As humiliating as this move is for the gay population in the Sunni Islamic nation of Tajikistan, of greater concern is the persecution that threatens to follow this “Purge” and “Morality” registry.</p><p>The degradation and threats to the gay population is unceasing in Islamic countries and under the Sharia. Many Islamic preachers in the West have also called for the killing of gays, or have openly taught about Allah’s cursing of gays.</p><p>Recently, Ali Kadri, spokesperson for the Islamic Council of Queensland in Australia, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/muslim-leader-on-gays-we-are-afraid-if-we-come-out-with-our-opinion-then-the-left-may-abandon-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated about gays</a>: “We are afraid if we come out with our opinion then the left may abandon us.”</p><p>Despite the social, systemic and physical persecution of gays by Islamic supremacists, Westerners are largely silent on the subject, as are Western gay lobbies. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/10/islamic-tajikistan-draws-up-purge-and-morality-register-for-gays">source</a>, main article cited <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tajikstan-gay-citizens-register-civil-rights-homophobia-lgbt-central-asia-a8008821.html">here</a>)</p></blockquote><p>However, they also failed to mention that sodomy is completely legal in Tajikistan. Yet as I mentioned in the above discussion, this should not be a surprise at all what Tajikistan is doing. Far from the idea that ISLAM IS PERSECUTING GAYS that comes through in the article, the reality is still simple, just with a little more details. It does not appear that Tajikistan is not just 'purging gays,' and this is because sodomy is legal and (at least from what I have seen) there are no attempts to stop this, and as we have pointed out, sodomy laws in all nations are specifically directed at curbing homosexual behavior. This would lead one to conclude that what is happening here is that per Islamic teachings as we noted earlier, they are actually following in the words of Mohammed by purging the segment of gays who act in ways that are inconsistent with the teachings of Islam on homosexuality. They are not attempting to ban homosexuality as that would actually be anti-Islamic- they are seeking to ban the execution of homosexual activity in ways that oppose Islamic teachings, thus actually preserving the LGBT in their society per their historically protected status.</p><p>The difference between the LGBT as practiced in the West and in the Muslim world is the difference between the communists and the national socialists, or between the feminized homosexuals versus the masculinized homosexuals. All of these opposing groups accept the fundamental philosophies and thus are actually intellectual cousins. The fighting between them is how to execute the beliefs which they already accept. For Socialists, it is whether to use economics (international socialists/communists) or race (national socialists) as the point around which to cause revolution to create a perfect society. For the homosexuals in the West, the argument is between whether homosexuality should have a feminized approach, or whether it should have a masculinized approach. In the case of Islam, it is whether or not the Muslim world should accept the libertine western ideas about homosexuality, or to persists in the practice of homosexuality as theologically and historically taught by Islam. There is no conflict to essence of the matter being discussed, just how to carry out the already agreed upon beliefs.</p><p>Hence is the situation with California. The state did not accept Shariah Law in the literal sense. However, their acceptance of the idea of a third gender is in reality the acceptance of an Islamic idea deeply rooted into the religion yet seldom discussed. There is no choice between Islam and the LGBT, and since both are evil, the only choice a Christian has is to walk away and choose neither.</p><p>The Bible makes very clear that homosexuality is one of four sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance alongside willful murder of the innocent, oppressing the widow and orphan, and depriving a working man of his justly earned wages. The serious nature of homosexual activity cannot be understand just as the threat which Islam poses to Western society cannot be either, for both are evil, and if one is going to call oneself a Christian, one must fight all evils, not just the ones considered socially acceptable because, as the relationship between Islam and the LGBT shows, all evil has the same source of perversion. One cannot opposed one form of perversion without calling out other forms, because the nature of the perversity and the source which it comes from is of the same essence, which is sin, and as the Bible states, the wage of sin is death. If we are to seek and desire eternal life, one must be ready to, echoing the words of St. Paul, put to death all that which would oppose. This means to oppose both homosexuality and Islam because they are both evil as they share a common source of perversity.</p>

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Prophecy Is Taking Shape As Iran Is Now Conquering Northern Iraq And Forming Its Shiite Crescent

<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ia.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-114517" height="599" sizes="(max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ia-300x197.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ia-300x197.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ia-768x503.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ia-1024x671.jpg 1024w" width="912" /></a></p><p><strong>By Walid Shoebat</strong></p><p>We have been saying it all along, that whenever ISIS is defeated in Iraq, Iran will move in. While the media says that "Iraqi forces took over Kirkuk this week", reality is it was Iran and not Iraq that took Kirkuk. The military operation of today and yesterday was carried out under the banner of the Iraqi military, sure, but the ground forces were Iranian-backed Shiite militias which even included the aid from Al-Quds Force which was lead by Qassem Soleimani who bribed certain elements of U.S allied Kurdish factions to cut and run abandoning their positions. This opened the runway for the Iranian backed Shiites to take over Kirkuk.</p><p>The Kurds of Kirkuk (biblical Medes) read the writing on the wall that Babylon is now in the hands of the Persians and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2017/10/19/مصادر-كردية-100-ألف-كردي-فروا-من-كركوك">one hundred thousand Kurds</a> fled Kirkuk. With the return of Kirkuk to Iran's puppet, the balance of power appears to have shifted between the ethnic communities in the Kurdish-majority city to the delight of its Turkmen residents. We have always maintained that the issue is not Sunni versus Shiite, the Turkmen (ethnic Turks) allied to Turkey are Sunni and the Iraqi forces that took over Kirkuk are Shiites.</p><p>And besides Iran's interests, Turkey has interest in Kirkuk's Turkmen and Iran now has control over the richest oil spot in the region (40% of Iraq's oil). Iran, the biblical bear, is eating its share of flesh to soon devour all three ribs that make up Iraq, the biblical lion, which had its wings plucked by the U.S after it ousted Saddam out of power.</p><div style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img alt="" class="img-responsive article-img" height="380" src="http://img.dotmsr.com/2017/10/large-d_2699292925692666590.jpg" title="التركمان.. ورقة تركيا في أزمة كركوك وكردستان" width="640" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Turkmen</p></div><p>Kurdistan (biblical Media) is defeated and has no power in the unfolding event since the bear (Medo-Persia) rises only on one side; <em>Persia</em> without <em>Media.</em> The latter is defeated and its hope to form a state is shattered.</p><div style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a class="js-lightbox lightbox_link vilynx_listened" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2017_41/2187601/171012-quds-commander-qassem-soleimani-ac-508p_edcd6ea29c868c2dbe33b725535163d6.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg"><img alt="Image: Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani" class="img-responsive img_inline" height="368" src="https://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2017_41/2187601/171012-quds-commander-qassem-soleimani-ac-508p_edcd6ea29c868c2dbe33b725535163d6.nbcnews-ux-600-480.jpg" title="Image: Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani" width="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani</p></div><p>Its always the case in warfare, the smaller dog, in this case the Kurds who defeated ISIS simply cleared the runway for the bigger dog: Iran to control northern Iraq, and Turkey to control northern Syria. Both will swallow much territory in the coming future and the U.S. can do very little for the Kurds. When it comes to nations there is no such thing as permanent allies.</p><p>And it should be to no surprise that Turkey, a Sunni rival to Iran came out to confirm its support for Iran's backed Shiites to enter into Kirkuk. Kirkuk's Turkmen (Sunnis) welcomed Iran's militia. Last August, a spokesman for the Turkish presidency, Ibrahim Kalan, said of the city: "Yes, the Kurds and the Arabs, but the basic identity of Kirkuk is a Turkmen city."</p><p>Turkey has a historic interest in Kirkuk since Ottoman times. Last month, a slogan by Turkish President Erdogan was written in the Ottoman script on the walls of Kirkuk: "Recep Tayyip Erdogan 'we may come suddenly one night'". Erdogan promised that one day he will enter northern Iraq, suddenly and by surprise. It seems that Iran beat him to the punch or else they combined efforts to divide the region to form their two crescents: Shiite and Sunni, but this time united.</p><p><img class="progressiveMedia-image js-progressiveMedia-image" data-src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*7-7tz0AdjCs6u9Jp.jpg" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*7-7tz0AdjCs6u9Jp.jpg" /></p><p>The U.S. concern and meddling in the Middle East should teach us a lesson: throw out one tyrant (Saddam) from Iraq and you will get ISIS; drive ISIS out of Iraq and you will get Iran; get rid of Iran and Turkey will move in; get rid of Turkey and the Middle East will finally be at rest. At least this is what happened when the Ottoman Empire was finally bruised. Will westerners learn from the lesson's that Jesus gave: get rid of one demon and a host of other demons will enter. Never fight one evil. All evils must be equally fought.</p><p>It is all about regional interests. In fact, the U.S. knew about Iran's intents. Haider al-Abadi <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/world/middleeast/iraq-kurds-kirkuk-iran.html">stated</a> “At a minimum, the U.S. knew that the attack was coming.”</p><p>Iran's entering Kirkuk is for a reason. Years ago we <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2015/03/04/netanyahus-warning-to-u-s-regarding-irans-nuclear-deal-falls-on-deaf-ears-iran-will-gain-the-nuke-and-is-already-making-its-way-to-gulp-up-iraq/">stated</a>:</p><blockquote><p>The U.S. is gazing away from the encroaching Iranian forces taking up forward positions in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, where they are busy fashioning a Shiite Crescent that encircles Sunni Arab states as well as Israel ... They key to advancing these agendas is ISIS. While we rejoice when we see ISIS lose battles, <strong>what many fail to see, is that ISIS is the chip used to make all the moves to bolster two tyrannies, Iran and Turkey.</strong></p></blockquote><p>We were correct because we try to study scriptures to correct our errors. Today ISIS is pretty much gone, Turkey (the biblical Leopard) is flexing its muscles and Iran (the bear) is already consuming.</p><p>Back in 2015 we <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2015/03/04/netanyahus-warning-to-u-s-regarding-irans-nuclear-deal-falls-on-deaf-ears-iran-will-gain-the-nuke-and-is-already-making-its-way-to-gulp-up-iraq/">predicted</a>:</p><blockquote><p>"the <strong>US will allow Iran to reach the status</strong> of a pre-nuclear power and regional hegemon, while Tehran, in return, <strong>will send “boots on the ground” to fight in Iraq</strong>, Syria and even Afghanistan, allowing “<strong>the bear to eat much flesh</strong>” (Daniel 7:5). <strong>Iran through Iraq</strong>, <strong>we have always maintained</strong>, <strong>will prove the linchpin in an area of Iranian influence among predominantly Shiite governments and organizations that stretched across Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip</strong>. This zone has been variously described as an Iranian or <strong>Shiite “Arc of Influence” or the Shiite Crescent."</strong></p></blockquote><p>These days prophecy is being fulfilled faster than ever. Kirkuk is strategic. Not only does it have vast oil resources, Iran's takeover eliminates any possibility for an independent Kurdish state to emerge from the Kurdish Regional Government area in northern Iraq. We have been saying this for a while now since the "bear" (Medo-Persia) will arise on one side. This is Iran's rise (Persia) without the Medes (the Kurds).</p><div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>Iran had an edge over Turkey in Iraq for several reasons. Iran’s skilful use of Shia militias gives it an edge over Turkey’s direct military intervention, which is unwelcomed by the Iraqi government in Baghdad. Also, the Iraqi government officials (Shiites) have been very critical of the ‘illegal’ Turkish military presence in Northern Iraq so Turkey's incursions will not gain Iraqi government support. For Iran, Iraq is strategically more important than any other Arab country since it shares more than 1400 km of its borders with Iraq. After Saddam's fall, Iran played a significant role in shaping Iraq’s new political system and is why it is often described as an 'Iranian puppet government'.</p></div></div></div><p>The next to be taken over is Sinjar city, close to the border with Syria and with that Iran can begin its long awaited program we spoke about: to form the Iranian Crescent.</p><p>These two crescents, the Iranian 'Shiite-Crescent' and the 'Sunni Crescent' led by Turkey will eventually form the pincer around Jerusalem.</p><div id="attachment_95429" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><div id="attachment_95429" style="width: 680px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/sc.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-95429"><img alt="" class="wp-image-95429" height="449" sizes="(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/sc.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/sc.jpg 545w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/sc-300x201.jpg 300w" width="670" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shiite Crescent</p></div></div><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sc.gif"><img alt="" class=" wp-image-114518 aligncenter" height="476" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sc-300x296.gif" width="482" /></a></p><p>Indeed, it is Iran (not Iraq or Turkey) that is taking over the richest land (Kirkuk). Besides Iran's Al-Quds Force, in Iraq the main military militia force is Asaib Ahl al-Haq (League of the Righteous) that is backed by Iran. Besides <em>Asaib</em> <em>Ahl</em> <em>al</em>–<em>Haq</em>, there are the <em>Badr </em><em>Brigades</em>, formed in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War, and the younger and more secretive <em>Kataib</em> <em>Hezbollah, </em>which is regarded as a terrorist organization by the State Department. The three militias have been instrumental in battling ISIS, the rival Wahhabist Sunni sect. These militias are the three small Iraqi Shi’ite armies, all backed by Iran, which together have become the most powerful military force in Iraq since the collapse of the national army and are key to Iran’s power and influence inside neighboring Iraq.</p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>While experts foresee a historical Ottoman-Persian rivalry in Mesopotamia we see it differently. What we see is a unity between the two since Turkey is Sufi and has kinship to Shiites sine the religious apparatus of Iran are Azeri Turks. Secondly, the neo-Ottoman Turks are warming its relations and increasing economic and energy ties with Iran and its other Muslim neighbors. Turkey's economy is growing, and Iran is the only land corridor for Turkey to reach Asia and Iran's needs are similar. With the Eurasian and E.U dealings Turkey will soon play a significant part to form an economic superpower with Germany and Northern Europe to lead the global economy. Germany and Turkey have been allies since 1871 when Germany was founded as a nation.</p><p>Turkey is treading very carefully not to be seen as, effectively, a Sunni power grouped with the Arab states’ agenda in Iraq or the Wahhabists agenda of Saudi Arabia. Prophetically speaking this will be the case since Persia and Turkey will unite against Jerusalem while Arabia (Sheba and Dedan) condemn this coalition and stand on the sidelines.</p><div class="page" title="Page 9"></div></div></div></div><p>In conclusion, the Middle East is not that complex to understand. The problem is the oversimplification by westerners who want simplified answers. The problem with most people is that they always think that there is only one demon.  When the U.S. overthrew Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist government it resulted in the emergence of a Shia dominated government in Baghdad replacing it with an Iraqi Shiite government friendly to Tehran. Today no one can argue that this decision eliminated Iraqi Sunnis from the equation. These have been an existential threat to the Islamic Republic of Iran and had tipped the local balance of power significantly in Tehran’s favor. As a result of NATO's supposed exorcizing one demon they simply brought in other demons like ISIS and now Iran and Turkey. So everyone said that we need to eliminate ISIS. We said this does not make a single bit of difference and in fact ridding the world from ISIS will be worse. We <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2015/03/04/netanyahus-warning-to-u-s-regarding-irans-nuclear-deal-falls-on-deaf-ears-iran-will-gain-the-nuke-and-is-already-making-its-way-to-gulp-up-iraq/">stated</a> years ago that:</p><blockquote><p>"once Iran cleans the ISIS mess in Iraq, we will all rejoice. Iran will be happy, the U.S. will be happy, while all we’ve done is chase out ISIS while Iran’s Shiite militias are already running amok in Iraq. All that, while Israel awaits the outcome, that when Sunni and Shiite want to put aside their differences in efforts to stabilize the region will begin by uniting both the Shiite and Sunni crescents, the two horns, the pincer if you will, by focusing and switching their energy towards Jerusalem ... The West will be happy to get rid of ISIS out of Iraq, while Iran will be happy to camp in Iraq permanently."</p></blockquote><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ghods-www.ranjnameh.blog_.ir_.jpg"><img alt="ghods-www.ranjnameh.blog.ir" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-74255" height="477" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ghods-www.ranjnameh.blog_.ir_.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ghods-www.ranjnameh.blog_.ir_.jpg 720w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ghods-www.ranjnameh.blog_.ir_-300x199.jpg 300w" width="720" /></a></p><p>It takes years later for the foolish masses to understand that what excites them and tickles their ears today will depress them tomorrow when they only find out their folly after its too late. These always try to cast out a single demon. Fools will always scorn the watchman who warns of the multitude of demons. Christianity is not about fighting ISIS or Islam exclusively; it is about combating all evil.</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/videoseries?list=PLXcRXeIdIAWdqKPbyXm1w94HdmX2EGLTW&hl=en_US' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></span></p>

anonymous armageddon isis islam war Prophecy Is Taking Shape As Iran Is Now Conquering Northern Iraq And Forming Its Shiite Crescent

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Russian Christian Man Is Arrested And Faces Jail Time For 'Hate Crimes' For Writing Poem Calling Atheists 'Despicable' And Hoping For A Return Of The Inquisition

<p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Abandoned-Orthodox-Church.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-114508" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Abandoned-Orthodox-Church-200x300.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Abandoned-Orthodox-Church-200x300.jpg 200w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Abandoned-Orthodox-Church-768x1152.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Abandoned-Orthodox-Church-683x1024.jpg 683w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Abandoned-Orthodox-Church.jpg 800w" width="200" /></a></p><p>A Russian orthodox Christian man was arrested and is facing possible jail time under a hate crimes law in which he called atheists 'despicable' and hoped for a return of the Holy Inquisition according to a recent report:</p><blockquote><p>A Russian poet is facing criminal prosecution for hate speech after calling atheists 'despicable' in a poem published online, and inciting violence against the group.</p><p>Amateur poet Maksim Drozdov, of Russia's southern Krasnodar Region, said he hoped for a return to the Holy Inquisition – the medieval Catholic practice associated with the torture of heretics – in poems published on social media in May, that have since been removed.</p><p>Drozdov's defence lawyer Aleksy Avanesyan said Drozdov, who was charged earlier this month, faces charges under article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code, which prohibits disseminating hatred, strife or insulting the dignity of representatives of any social group, according to Newsline.</p><p>In a statement on Wednesday, the regional directorate of the Investigative Committee – Russia's main federal investigating authority – said: 'According to investigators, in May this year the man posted a poem on a social-media network that was extreme in its content.</p><p>'Linguistic research concluded that the published text contained some negative statements about a group of citizens who are united in their attitude to religion, and it calls for hostile action towards these citizens.'</p><p>Drozdov had told investigators that his poem was not intended as an insult to anyone, only as a work of satire, according to Avanesyan. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.christiantoday.com/article/russian.poet.faces.criminal.charges.for.calling.atheists.despicable.in.alleged.hate.speech/116442.htm">source</a>)</p></blockquote>

anonymous armageddon isis islam war Russian Christian Man Is Arrested And Faces Jail Time For 'Hate Crimes' For Writing Poem Calling Atheists 'Despicable' And Hoping For A Return Of The Inquisition

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Major Catholic Charity Admits 'ISIS Is Defeated But They Won The War- Christianity Is Gone From Iraq And All That Is Left Is To Help The Survivors'- We Warned You This Would Happen

<p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Iraq-Christian.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-114505" height="225" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Iraq-Christian-300x225.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Iraq-Christian-300x225.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Iraq-Christian-768x576.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Iraq-Christian.jpg 1024w" width="300" /></a></p><p>We don't take pride in being right in a situation like this, but we warned months ago that Christianity in Iraq was finished. Lots of people did not want to believe us, but based on our work in Muslim nations directly helping Christians escape persecution from Muslims, we said that there is veritably impossible for Christianity in Iraq to rebuild to any semblance from what it was before, and that even if it were to be rebuilt, the community would be in immediate danger of annihilation by Turkey as part of their quest to revive the Ottoman Empire. We warned that right now, the most charitable act is to help as many Christians as possible leave and find a new life before Turkey invades and does what ISIS did all over again to the survivors.</p><p>Aid To The Church In Need is a major Catholic charity that helps Christians around the world. In a recent story, they have noted that because of the huge decline in population, inability to rebuild, elderly ages of the survivors, and the unwillingness of those who fled to return, that barring a miracle, Christianity in Iraq is finished according to a recent report:</p><blockquote><p>Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need has warned that unless world leaders start taking action, the recent defeats suffered by the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria might not be enough to save the Christian population in the region from being eradicated.</p><p>"We have seen drastic reductions in the Christian populations in many nations in the Middle East. Iraq might very well have lost 80 percent of their native Christian people," Edward Clancy, ACNUSA director of outreach, told The Christian Post in an email interview on Wednesday. "Syria might have lost 50 percent. This is compounded by the fact that Christian families have not been secure enough to have many children. The loss of population and the very low birth rate will put great pressure on the Christian communities."</p><p>He warned that Christians will be "hard pressed to survive when they are 2 percent or 1 percent and become an aging population."</p><p>"If we do not help these ancient Christian communities, ISIS might very well have lost the battles but won the war."</p><p>Under a new U.S. strategy, IS has suffered heavy losses recently and has been driven out of a number of key cities it once held, most recently in Raqqa in Syria, which was the terror group's de facto capital.</p><p>As ACN's "Persecuted and Forgotten? 2015–'17" report released last week noted, the persecution of Christians has grown and reached its highest ever levels in the past couple of years, with the eradication of Christians in the Middle East highlighted as a major concern.</p><p>The report said that hope has risen with stories of Christian families returning to their homes in the Nineveh Plains as IS continues to be driven out of Iraq, but the future of the faithful in the region remains very much uncertain.</p><p>Clancy told CP: "Our solace is knowing that whenever Christians have faced terrible odds, great miracles have happened. Christianity has survived and endured, but we needn't wait for miracles. We can act. We can help. We should do both."</p><p>Some church leaders in the Middle East expressed in the report that they feel forgotten by the international community. ACNUSA's director of outreach argued that many in the West do take the Church and Christian communities for granted.</p><p>"Even when Christians are in the minority, they consistently show themselves to be a positive force in those communities. For example, throughout the Middle East and around the world, Christians provide opportunities for better education for Christians and non-Christians alike. This is because it is part of the witness of the Gospel," Clancy continued.</p><p>"Western leaders need to understand that these Christian communities are key for peaceful coexistence among Yazidi, Sunni, Shia and Kurds in Iraq and will be likewise in Syria among the different ethnic and religious groups."</p><p>He urged Western governments and world leaders to offer more help to families trying to resettle back in their homelands.</p><p>"They need our help. It is more than just guaranteeing property rights for returning families. The security of their communities is a major issue. It is about leaders not being afraid to say that these Christians belong in their ancestral towns and that they deserve to be supported and protected," he said.</p><p>"Aid to the Church in Need is committed to insisting on that vital message. We will continue to be a voice for the voiceless."</p><p>Clancy said he's also concerned that rising tensions between the U.S. and North Korea could lead to Christians suffering harsher punishments in that country.</p><p>Christians in North Korea are already some of the most persecuted people in the world, the ACN report noted, and Clancy said that fears for their well-being are growing as the U.N. increases sanctions against Kim Jong Un.</p><p>"The stories of abuse, imprisonment, and denial of freedoms for Christians are constant. The regime is one of the harshest in human history," he noted.</p><p>"While it is hard to believe it might get any worse, it could very well happen that Christians will be targeted even more severely because of their perceived allegiance to Western thinking." (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/isis-lost-battle-but-won-the-war-christians-cant-live-iraq-charity-warns-203574/">source</a>)</p></blockquote><p>We have been warning consistently that Christians in Iraq and the Middle East are in grave danger. There is no way around the uncomfortable facts of what have happened. However, one cannot change the events of the past, and it is not helpful to waste time thinking about what could have been or what might become "if" change happens at an undefined future point. The situation of today is shaped by the past, but the decisions of today are also that which makes the future, and the fact is that there is no future for Christian in the current situation in Iraq. There might be at a later point, but right now the concern of the Christians must be the survival of those who are left, especially in light of the situation with Turkey. The most merciful thing that can be done is to get the Christians who are left to a place of safety where they can survive, re-grow, and by God's grace once again bring the light of Faith back to their ancestral homelands.</p>

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Christian Pastor Kidnapped, Has His Hands Tied Behind His Back And His Body Burned Alive Beyond Recognition

<p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/A1_car_fire_t670.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-114495" height="182" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/A1_car_fire_t670-300x182.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/A1_car_fire_t670-300x182.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/A1_car_fire_t670.jpg 670w" width="300" /></a></p><p>Pastor Martin Beneke in South Africa was kidnapped and murdered in a horrible way. His hands were tied behind his back and his kidnappers set him on fire in his car, and his body was so badly burned that it was beyond recognizable according to a recent report:</p><blockquote><p>The body of a South African pastor has been found "burned beyond recognition" with his hands tied behind his back in a small farming town about 50 miles outside of Johannesburg.</p><p>The body of 45-year-old Martin Beneke, the senior pastor and founder of the Johannesburg-based Life in Christ Network, was discovered in Magaliesburg on Monday. The Life in Christ Network confirmed the pastor's death in a Facebook post Wednesday.</p><p>"It is with heavy sadness and sorrow that we have to inform everyone that the founder and head pastor of LICN, Pastor Martin, has passed away on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017," the statement reads. "There are still so many questions we have and answers we need but we trust the process. Thank you to each and everyone who are supporting his wife, two daughters and family. We appreciate it."</p><p>Police spokesperson Sergeant Mpho More told media that the discovery of Beneke's body was made by a local farmer who noticed smoke as he traveled a gravel road on his farm.</p><p>The Roodereport Record reports that when the farmer went to investigate the smoke, he found Beneke's Nissan pickup truck on fire and a body burned beyond recognition.</p><p>Gauteng police announced that Beneke's body was found with his hands tied behind his back and believe that he was kidnapped.</p><p>"He was kidnapped and found dead at a farm in Magaliesburg yesterday," Gauteng police spokesperson Kay Makhubela said in a statement, according to Times Live. "The man's hands were tied behind his back and his body was burnt beyond recognition. He and his car were found by a farmer in the area and his car was burning. The motive is unknown and at the moment no arrests have been made. He was reported missing on Monday this week by his family after he did not come back home that night."</p><p>Beneke was last seen on Monday at a gas station on 14th Avenue in Johannesburg with two unknown men, according to the Record.</p><p>"My son is now part of statistics — hacked and killed!" Beneke's mother, Elaine, wrote in a Facebook post, according to Times Live.</p><p>On Wednesday, the Northcliff Melville Times reported that Beneke's killers are still at-large as police search for a motive and have yet to arrest any suspects in connection with the pastor's murder.</p><p>Numerous people have taken to Facebook to voice their sorrow after hearing of Beneke's death and to comment on what kind of man he was.</p><p>"RIP Pastor Martin K. Beneke. You will be sadly missed by everyone you have touched and everyone's lives you changed in amazing ways and your inspiration you brought, especially mine, helping me with addiction," Daniel Meissenheimer wrote in a Facebook post. "[T]hanks for changing my life and showing me a new way of life with God by my side. You have left a lagecy [sic] rip forever missed." (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.christiantoday.com/article/church.shocked.and.grieving.after.beloved.pastor.is.found.burned.beyond.recognition/116352.htm">source</a>)</p></blockquote>

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Parents In The UK Persecute Christian School For Teaching About Sin And Hell At The Same Time Countless Numbers Of Brits Are Traveling To Serbia To Have Sex With Animals

<p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/article-2685928-1F7FD56000000578-690_964x659.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-114492" height="205" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/article-2685928-1F7FD56000000578-690_964x659-300x205.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/article-2685928-1F7FD56000000578-690_964x659-300x205.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/article-2685928-1F7FD56000000578-690_964x659-768x525.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/article-2685928-1F7FD56000000578-690_964x659.jpg 964w" width="300" /></a></p><p>The UK Mirror recently uncovered a highly disturbing story which found that large number of British people are regularly traveling to Serbia for the express purpose of having sex with animals. The problem is so large that local animal rights groups are trying to bring awareness to it so that it can be stopped, but so far there has been complete silence from the governments according to a recent report:</p><blockquote><p>Brits are among a growing number of sick tourists travelling to Serbia for sex at 'animal brothels', it has been claimed.</p><p>The capital Belgrade is said to be a hotspot for 'zoophiles' who enjoy sex with animals such as goats, sheep, donkeys, dogs, cats, geese and cows.</p><p>The eastern European city can be reached via a direct flight from London, but an animal rights group claims most groups come via organised 'bus tours'.</p><p>Online adverts offer animal sex from between 70 and 150 Euros (£60 to £135) with visitors paying an extra 50 Euros (£45) to film themselves, it is claimed.</p><p>An investigation into the horrifying trend was broadcast by TV channel RTL recently.</p><p>It included an image of a dog apparently wearing fish-net suspenders and high heels.</p><p>Pavle Bihal, who runs an anti-animal cruelty group called Leviathan, wants the clubs closed down.</p><p>He said: "We have information about a club, which is actually an apartment, where all this happens.</p><p>"We are currently waiting for the location to be confirmed so we can report all to the police."</p><p>The highest number of animal sex tourists come from Germany, Holland, Sweden and Great Britain, Bihal's group claims.</p><p>There are thought to be a number of specialised estates and stables in the countryside catering to their depraved tastes.</p><p>Farmers who run the 'brothels' don't see anything wrong with the setup, according to Leviathan. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sick-brits-travelling-serbia-sex-11360625">source</a>)</p></blockquote><p>While this story might seem to be an exaggeration, we can guarantee it is not because this has been written about before in Europe, and it is a major problem. There was an article which appeared in 2013 in Vice Magazine about a Ukrainian prostitute named Anna who talked about how in addition to saying that she participates in the vilest of sexual acts, often times hired out by Arabs living in Europe but also for many other clients in Europe. In addition, she works on “dog farms” in Germany, Belgium, Russia and Sweden where she trains dogs to have sex with humans solely for the entertainment of the viewers:</p><blockquote><p>What are your duties?<br />The average client of our club is a VIP, lots are from television. It’s fun to get to see what they are all worth. We have reckless four-hour, 16-people orgies. Sometimes I’m hired as a “bitch.” I have to stand on all fours and let dogs fuck me. I’m up for anything except for scat, which is just as well since my boss doesn’t let clients do that any more.</p><p>…</p><p>About the dogs, where do you get them from? Do they live in the club? Are they especially trained to have sex with people?<br />There are special dog farms in many countries that train dogs to do just that. I know at least two of the kind in Russia. I personally work as a trainer in such farms in Germany, Belgium, and Sweden. They employ me to help the dogs get used to the human female. After about half a year of concentrated effort, the dogs fuck like devils and I love it. Of course these special dogs aren’t cheap at all. I also have two dogs living in my cottage and they have never fucked with other dogs, only with humans. Often the clients will bring dogs of their own, these are of course trained dogs, too.</p><p>They bring the dogs to the brothel?<br />No, only talks and presentations take place in our club. The rest happens at the clients’. They all are well-heeled and have huge houses. There are dog enclosures and special basements for BDSM. They look like the basements Gestapo used to torture people in. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yv54e7/training-a-dog-to-have-sex-with-humans">source</a>)</p></blockquote><p>In the meantime this is happening, a Christian school in the UK is being persecuted by the parents who send their children there, calling the school "extremist" for teaching about the reality of sin and the existence of hell:</p><blockquote><p>A Christian group is defending itself against allegations that it's teaching students "extremist" views after being banned from a church-run primary school following complaints by parents who said their children were being "exposed to potentially damaging ideology."</p><p>"Wherever possible we work in partnership with local churches and we reflect their teaching, always aiming to be sensitive to the local context, and recognizing that churches vary. We teach mainstream Christianity," Wayne Harris, national director of Christian charity Crossteach, said in a statement on Tuesday.</p><p>"In 16 years of Christian schools work no teacher has ever raised a concern that something has been said that could be interpreted as in any way 'hateful' or 'extremist' and we strongly refute this current parental allegation. On the contrary, schools have consistently expressed appreciation for the contribution that Crossteach has made and for the quality of the work," Harris added.</p><p>As The Telegraph reported, Dan Turvey, headmaster of St John's Church of England Primary School in Tunbridge Wells, said he had listened to parents' concerns and decided to no longer invite the group to lead assemblies or take lessons.</p><p>Some parents apparently complained that their children were being taught about sin, and were told that if they don't believe in God, "they would not go to a good place when they died."</p><p>Another parent who wasn't named said, "I do know some of the children have been upset by what they have heard. No one minds Nativity plays and Bible stories but considering most of the parents at the school aren't practicing Christians, I think the feeling is that it's all too much."</p><p>The parent added: "In Tunbridge Wells the vast majority of primary schools are affiliated with the Church, so it's not like you have a choice whether you expose your children to this. Personally I want my children to learn about all religions. If you want them to be raised as Christians there are plenty of Sunday schools."</p><p>Another statement from the parents provided by The Guardian read: "We recognize and respect the school's Christian values but think there is a brand of Christianity that is abusing that respect. The basis of [our] complaint relates purely to concerns over the welfare and safeguarding of children who we believe are being exposed to potentially damaging ideology."</p><p>Turvey summarized the complaints by stating that parents believe their children have been "exposed to extremist beliefs" and have been upset and emotionally disturbed.</p><p>The headmaster said that he is "deeply saddened" to be cutting ties with the group, however.</p><p>"I do not believe Crossteach has done anything wrong," Turvey added. "They do not deserve the tarnishing of their good name and allegations of extremism that have taken place over the last few months."</p><p>Although as a faith school St. Johns has leeway to promote the Church of England and Christianity, it's still under obligation to follow Department for Education guidelines when it comes to non-discrimination and respect and tolerance for other faiths, The Guardian noted. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-group-labeled-extremist-by-parents-teaching-children-sin-hell-203438/">source</a>)</p></blockquote><p>These two stories may not seem related to each other, but the fact is that they are indeed directly connected <strong>because the decline of Christianity correlates directly with the rise of serious forms of perversity and unnatural behavior.</strong></p><p>All of the great saints of the Church emphasize that because God is Love and all that is good comes from God, a man can do no good apart from God, for if God is perfect, anything less than that which is reflected from Him is a perversion of the good and is therefore evil. Man can create evil on his own not because he can engender it from his being, but because he must pervert the good which God has made. He cannot create good because only God is good, and it is merely for him to reflect He who created him.</p><p>God came to restore man to relationship with God after the sin of Eden, and as such my God entering into our humanity we would be able to be raised up to His divinity. The more a man binds himself to God, the more like God he becomes and as such, he and the world transforms in proportion to his devotion and actions. Likewise, the more a man separates himself from God, the more evil he will natural engender because apart from the source of all good man can only manipulate to perversion that which he contacts, and this is including himself. It is why sin and evil are a direct consequence of the rejection of God, for to reject God is to reject the good and to embrace evil.</p><p>Surely if the story about the 'beast brothels' was shared with the parents of the children who attend this school and protested the teaching about sin and hell, most would likely respond with some level of disgust. Such a reaction would be expected and natural, for is it intrinsically disordered to seek out unnatural relations. Yet what these parents are doing by their refusal to acknowledge the reality of sin and hell and instead focus on 'Christianity' as the popular idea of 'being nice' to all, emphasizing that 'nice' means 'accepting and abiding by the accepted sociocultural patterns of behavior for the current time, they are in fact reinforcing the ontological pathway that created the situation where British men are seeking out sex with animals.</p><p>Christianity is not about being 'nice' or 'tolerant.' Christ came to restore man to relationship with God, and as God is perfect love, Christ came to bring mercy to those who embraced Him and justice to those who rejected Him. Christ did not come to conform to the social and cultural patterns of the time He walked the Earth, or before that time, or after that time. Christ came to invite all men to follow in the path of salvation, and in order to do this He had to give the human race a choice. In order to unify, Christ had to divide, and by divide I speak not of creating division between men for power, but to rend asunder those who would follow in the ways of God to reflect the good of their creator from those who would reject God and embrace perversity fashioned by their own wills. Christianity is as much a faith of mercy and love as it is a feast of justice, for mercy cannot exist without justice.</p><p>There is no such thing as "tolerance" in Christianity because God does not tolerate evil or sin. While many people criticize the doctrine of Purgatory, aside from its scriptural foundations and evidence in sacred tradition, Purgatory is a reflection of the mercy of God because if nothing unclean can enter into Heaven, yet a man who desires God dies and has not yet made sufficient expiation for his sins, Purgatory is the shower room which God gives a man so that his sins can be washed away before entering into eternal rest. If God will not tolerate even the smallest of sin, because there is no tolerance for evil, then it is anything but gravely irresponsible to teach people they can "tolerate" beliefs, ideas, or concepts that are either spiritual realities or could lead a man into eternal damnation.</p><p>The reason these parents are protesting the school is, as the article note and as reflected by the majority of much of American and European society, they do no believe in Christ or even in God at all. They want the ideas and values of Christianity in their children, but they refuse to accept the divinely revealed foundation through which these beliefs were established as moral absolutes for all time. They desire a Christianity without a cross, and salvation without a savior, and rejection of the ways of the world without having to reject worldliness.</p><p>People wonder how such evils as men traveling across the world to engage in bestiality happen. They wonder why there are child molestations, murders, robberies, and all kinds of perversity that pollute their societies. Yet as the wonder about this, they refuse to accept divinely revealed truth and, considering themselves wiser that 'some old book' or 'some old dead guys,' they think they can define morality on their own terms apart from God and that all will be well, yet their attempts to create a heaven for themselves will always result in the creation of a hell because without God, that is all that man is capable of.</p><p>Thank God for His mercy, because without it there would only be justice, and as it is reflected in many tragic theatrical works, it is man who when left to his own devices will bring about his own demise.</p>

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