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Another Step in Uniting Islam for a Religious Cause!

February 21, 2006

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As I pointed out in the previous Blog, in World War II it was the United States vs. Germany, Italy, and Japan, but in the current conflict it is the United States vs.

Islam. I realize that it was the Allied forces vs.

Japan, Italy, and Germany, but to make a point, as it applies

to our national interest, I have made us the singular force versus the Axis Powers. And, I also realize that religious beliefs have always played some part in wars over the centuries, but we are facing a situation we have never faced before, we are involved in a conflict with a belief that stretches around the globe, and which will not go away, no matter which course of action we choose to take. I know of no other faith that is as universally drilled into its offspring from the cradle to the grave as is the Islamic

faith. It is more than a country or countries, it is a deeply ingrained belief that Allah is God, and Muhammad is his Prophet.

It is more than a belief to Muslims, it is a way of life, something they must live by and die by!

I assure you that if we, or Israel, attack the nuclear facilities scattered across Iran, and are successful in completely destroying them, it will, in time, unite the forces of Islam even more in a common hatred for the United States and its allies, just as it did when Islamic forces rallied to drive out the crusaders in the ancient religious war under Saladin. To the billion plus Muslims living on this planet, we are the modern day crusaders, trespassing on the soil given to them in the Middle East by Allah.

Quite frankly, the die is cast, and regardless of whether we attack Iran or let them get their nuclear weapon, the spirit of Jihad is going to grow more fervent with the passage of time, and eventually it will reach such a pitch it will unite 10 Middle East Muslim nations in a consolidated effort to “wipe Israel off the map.” They will have only one mind, the mind of Islam, and the ten rulers of these Islamic nations will give their power and strength to a single leader to “wipe Israel off the map.”

Revelation 17:12,13 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

[13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

Their leader will be successful in driving Israel into the Negev for a time, and times and the dividing of time (3 and ½ years). But at the end of that time, at the battle of Armageddon, Christ will return at his Second Advent to take away their leader’s dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. Christ will then establish his kingdom over all the earth.

Daniel 7:25-27 – And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

[26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. [27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

The following article by the Associated Press, Jerusalem Post, is another catalyst to draw more Muslims to financially support Hamas in a great Islamic cause of righteousness, which they believe is the righteous cause

of having their land restored to them.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

Iran’s Leader Calls for Financial Help for Hamas-led Gov’t

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

February 20, 2006

Iran’s supreme leader called on Muslim nations Monday to provide annual financial aid to a Hamas-led Palestinian government and supported the radical group’s refusal to recognize Israel.

Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal and other officials were in Iran – a top backer of Hamas – in the latest stop of a tour of Arab and Islamic nations aimed at drumming up support as Israel and the United States move to cut off money to the Palestinians.

“Annual financial assistance to Palestine is one way that Muslim nations can share the responsibility for Palestine,” Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in talks with Mashaal, according to state-run television.

Hamas won a landslide victory in Palestinian legislative elections last month and is now moving to form a government, rejecting Arab and international pressure to recognize Israel, renounce violence and abide by peace deals reached between the Palestinians and the Jewish state.

Khamenei urged Hamas to stick by its rejection and its insistence on the return of Palestinian refugees and the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

“Continuation of this stance and observing [these issues] as a red line is the only way for success,” said Khamenei, who has the final say in all state matters in Iran.

He said aid from Islamic nations to the Palestinians will send a significant sign to the world and improve relations among Muslims. He praised Hamas’ recent victory in the general elections as a “divine sweet surprise.”

Israel and the United States, which consider Hamas a terrorist group, accuse Iran of giving financial and material support to Hamas, though Teheran insists it only gives moral backing.

Mashaal, heading a Palestinian delegati on, arrived in Tehran

on Sunday for a two-day visit.

He is to meet Iranian leaders including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who provoked international condemnation last year by calling for “Israel to be wiped off the map.”

In December, during Mashaal’s last visit to Teheran, he supported Iran’s hard-line stance against Israel saying that Hamas and Iran formed a united front against Israel.

End Jerusalem Post Article

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The Sword of Allah is made of Exploded Metal and Flesh!

February 20, 2006

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World Wars I and II were wars started largely by nations seeking to expand their territories for geopolitical and economic purposes. In all wars religion has played some role in the conflict, but nothing like the war we are now fighting against Islamic terrorism. Although economic and geopolitical goals are certainly a part of this conflict in the Middle East, religion plays the major role. Unfortunately, the coming war in the Middle East will be a religious war, a holy war, an Islamic Jihad. We have never fought a war quite like this one. In World War II it was the United States vs. Germany, Italy, and Japan. In the current war it is the United States vs. Islam, which makes up about one-fifth of the world’s population, conveniently scattered around the world for what amounts to guerilla terrorist warfare. After our troops are withdrawn from Iraq it will be Islam vs. Judaism.

The following article in the Jerusalem Post by Joseph Flesh and Orly Halpern gives witness to the grim Islamic extremist we are facing in the growing provocation coming out of Iran toward the rest of the Western world and Israel.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

Students in Teheran Recruited for Suicide Bombings

Joseph Flesh and Orly Halpern, THE JERUSALEM POST

February 19, 2006

Israel television news showed images Sunday night of an auditorium filled with well-dressed students at the University of Teheran.

This was no ordinary lecture. Upon signing up for the course, students were asked to choose against whom they would most like to carry out a suicide bombing.

Among the choices were Israel, Americans in Iraq, and Salman Rushdie, who has an Iranian death sentence on his head for the publication of his book The Satanic Verses.

The students were shown videos as incitement, including a mob burning a Danish flag, Palestinians clashing with the IDF, and footage from the war in Iraq.

On the stage was a sign in English, Hebrew and Persian. The text in all languages said the same thing: “Israel must be wiped off the map.”

A student leader of the organization that set up the recruitment event said that they currently have 1,000 loyal and trained suicide bombers, with another 5,000 on a waiting list.

End of Jerusalem Post Article

Why Are Some Willing to Be Martyred for Allah?

Because they truly believe the following promises directly quoted from the Koran:

BEGIN QUOTES FROM KORAN

“Believers, do not follow the example of the infidels, which say of their brothers when they meet death abroad or in battle: ‘Had they stayed with us they would not have died nor would they have been killed.’ Allah will cause them to regret their words.

It is Allah who ordains life and death.

He has knowledge of all your actions.

If you should die or be slain in the cause of Allah,

His forgiveness and His mercy would surely be better than all the riches they amass. If you should die or be slain, before Him you shall all be gathered.”

“You must not think that those who were slain in the cause of Allah are dead.

They are alive, and well provided for by their Lord; pleased with His gifts and rejoicing that those whom they left behind have nothing to fear or to regret; rejoicing in Allah’s grace and bounty. Allah will not deny the faithful their reward.”

“As for those who are slain in the cause of Allah, He will not allow their works to perish. He will vouchsafe their guidance and ennoble their state; He will admit them to the Paradise He has made known to them.”

What follows are the promises of Allah to anyone who is martyred in war, a Jihad, or an Intifada.

The ones who blow themselves up for Allah actually believe they will immediately be ushered into Paradise and be given the promises found in the following verses quoted directly from the Koran:

“Allah will deliver them from the evil of that day and make their faces shine with joy. He will reward them for their steadfastness with robes of silk and the delights of Paradise. Reclining there on soft couches, they shall feel neither the scorching heat nor the biting cold.

Trees will spread their shade around them, and fruits will hang in clusters over them.

They shall be served with silver dishes, and beakers as large as goblets; silver goblets that they themselves shall measure: and cups brim-full with ginger flavored water from the Fount of Selsabil. They shall be attended by boys graced with eternal youth, who to the beholder’s eyes will seem like sprinkled pearls. When you gaze upon that scene you will behold a kingdom blissful and glorious. They shall be arrayed in garments of fine green silk and rich brocade, and adorned with bracelets of silver. Their Lord will give them pure beverage to drink. Thus will you be rewarded; your high endeavors are gratifying to Allah.”

“They shall recline on couches lined with thick brocade, and within their reach will hang the fruit of the two gardens.”

“They shall dwell with bashful virgins whom neither man nor jinnee will have touched before.”

“ But the true servants of Allah shall be well provided for, feasting on fruit, and honored in the gardens of delight.

Reclining face to face upon soft couches, they shall be served with a large goblet filled at a gushing fountain, white, and delicious to those who drink it.

It will neither dull their senses nor befuddle them. They shall sit with bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches.”

END QUOTES FROM KORAN

The question is not whether you believe these promises – The question is DO THEY BELIEVE THEM? The answer is YES!

I do feel obligated to tell you that the promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven for the faithful did not come from the Koran, just in case you were surprised not to find it in the Koran quotes. But it has been used at times to incite the terrorist bombers to blast off to glory by the claim it could be traced back to unrecorded sayings of Muhammad.

Nothing in the Koran specifically states that the faithful are allotted 72 virgins apiece.

For this elaboration we turn to the hadith, traditional sayings traced with varying degrees of credibility to Muhammad. Hadith number 2,562 in the collection known as the Sunan al-Tirmidhi says, “The least [reward] for the people of Heaven is 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome of pearls, aquamarine and ruby.”

To be faithful to the martyrs death is the ultimate sacrifice of one’s life for the cause of Allah.

The Islamic Clerics are able to get about 2 or 3 percent of the believers so pumped up on these promises, that they go to their martyrdom for Allah, fully expecting to be receiving them a split second after their soul leaves the body.

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Separation of Palestinians and Jews Idea is almost 4000 years Old!

February 19, 2006

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Abraham and Sarah were wrong to not wait for the Promised Seed to come from the barren womb of Sarah, but they were right to separate the descendants of the Promised Seed from Abraham’s seed through Hagar and Keturah. It is the only way they can ever be at peace until the Promised Seed through Abraham’s grandson Jacob, the man God renamed Israel, comes to establish it in the person of Jesus Christ. The Patriarch Abraham did not have to build a wall to separate them in his day – he just sent them into a different zone of the Middle East.

God promised Abraham a Seed would come from the barren womb of his wife Sarah, but Sarah conceived a plan whereby she could produce a seed for Abraham from the womb of her handmaid Hagar, and Hagar bore Abraham a seed, Ishmael.

This was not in accordance with God’s plan of redemption for mankind.

Genesis 17:18-21 – And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

[19] And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. [20] And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. [21] But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

Genesis 21:1-3, 9-14, 12,13, 20,21 – And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto

Sarah as he had spoken. [2] For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. [3] And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

[9] And Sarah saw the son of

Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

[10] Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. [11] And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son. [12] And GOD SAID unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. [13] And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. [14] And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. [20] And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. [21] And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Late in life, after Sarah’s death, Abraham had six more sons through Keturah, and once again he sent them away from Isaac to a different zone of the earth.

Genesis 25:1,2,5,6 – Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. [2] And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. [5] And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. [6] But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

The descendants of the 12 sons of Ishmael and the six sons of Keturah have long mingled among themselves, and with the descendants of Ham, Shem and Japheth, who were already scattered across the Middle East long before Abraham had his sons by Hagar and Keturah.

They are a “mingled” people. The Hebrew word for “mingled” is “arab.” The descendants of Jacob, the man Israel, have been much more diligent to keep their blood line from intermarriage with others not in their blood line from Jacob. The coming time of what the Bible identifies as “The Time of Jacob’s Trouble,” will be a Holy War between the “mingled” descendants of Hagar and Keturah

and the line of Jacob.

The “mingled” people of the ten toes of the statue in Daniel 2:43 are Ar

ab nations that will attack Israel in a Jihad. They are the “mingled” peoples that represent the descendants of Hagar and Keturah, who intermarried with the people already in the land when the offspring of Abraham were born.

They are also the 10 horns of Daniel 7. They will initially be successful in driving Israel into the Negev, where Israel will remain for some three and one half years, or for “a time, and times, and the dividing of time.” After the final battle of Armageddon, at the end of the time (1Yr) and times (2Yrs) and the dividing of time (1/2 Yr), the Lord will establish his Millennial Kingdom on this earth,

Daniel 2:42-44 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall MINGLE themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Daniel 7:24-27 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be GIVEN INTO HIS HAND UNTIL A TIME AND TIMES AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME.

[26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. [27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

The ingredients necessary for the latter day fulfillment of Daniel 7:25 are finally slipping into place in the Middle East, where the sons of Abraham started the situation that has now come to fruition in the same area.

Separation Before the Final Separation!

February 18, 2006

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Several previous Blogs involved the Israeli plan to finish the security barrier in 2007, which will separate the Palestinians from the Israelis.

The following report from DEBKAfile is a pre-separation separation to provide security before the final security barrier is completed.

The report by DEBKAfile entails a series of recommendations by national security and military branches to maintain security after the Hamas delegates took their seats in the Palestinian legislature on Saturday. The key word in all this is SEPARATION.

As I have mentioned in previous Blogs, the three key words in the Israeli Peace Plan are UNILATERAL WITHDRAWAL and SEPARATION.

Begin DEBKAfile Report

Israel’s Defense Chiefs Recommend Administrative Steps to Separate Hamas-governed Palestinian Areas

February 16, 2006, 5:24 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile reports: Thursday, Feb. 16, defense minister Shaul Mofaz and top officials of the national security and military branches assembled a package of recommendations for acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to put into effect.

They advised the following steps to be enforced when Hamas deputies took their seats in the new Palestinian legislative council Saturday, Feb. 18:

1. To annul existing customs accords between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel’s customs authorities will henceforth treat Palestinian imports and exports like any other foreign goods transiting state borders according to tariffs determined in Jerusalem.

This will also eliminate any future transfers to the Palestinian Authority.

2. Palestinian workers will no longer be allowed to work in Israel. Tens of thousands will be stopped at the borders as

of Sunday.

3. Israel will cancel all the VIP permits issued to high Palestinian functionaries.

The effect of 2. and 3. will be to bring to a standstill the entry of Palestinians into Israel.

4. Palestinian travel between the Gaza Strip and West Bank across Israeli territory will be banned.

These steps are recommendations.

It is up to the prime minister to decide whether to adopt them.

End DEBKAfile Report

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Hamas may Offer an Extended Truce (Hudna) to Israel!

February 18, 2006

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The Palestinian Parliament was sworn in today with Hamas as majority party, having 74 elected seats as compared

to 45 for Fatah.

According to an article by Wafa Amr in a Reuter’s press release, Hamas said it would present its own new peace proposal to Israel that would include a long-term truce with Israel if the Jewish state fulfilled

its demands, such as giving back all the West Bank land it seized in 1967.

I took my last tour group to Israel in 1999.

I immediately s topped when the Intifada began in 2000, and have been waiting for six years for a situation

to arise where I could again take a group without concern of a possible danger to them.

I believe that time has arrived.

Ham as needs time to establish itself

as a government, in other words, to take a break from terror attacks, a time of quiet, which they refer to as a hudna.

So I am t

aking a tour group to Israel in July.

According to Umdat as-Salik, hudnas with a non-Muslim enemy should be limited to 10 years: “if Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud” (‘Umdat as-Salik, o9.16).