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Obama Administration: We Support New Hamas Government – Will Continue to Fund (Another Illegal Move)
In 1995 Obama accused conservative Christians of "intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and false nostalgia."
In 1995 Obama accused conservative Christians of "intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and false nostalgia."
As a state senator, Obama sponsored Bill SR0110, which declared November 1, 1997 Islamic Community Center Day. It did not pass.
As a state senator, Obama sponsored Bill SR0110, which declared November 1, 1997 Islamic Community Center Day. It did not pass.
Satan's chosen people. the muslims
On his first foreign
trip as president, he didn't get very excited about meeting the queen of
England, but he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, who is the official
caretaker of Moslem holy places. Even the French didn't do that! In
another essay I proposed that the Saudis are Satan's chosen people.
*That Nimrod was the king in Shinar during the building of the Tower of
Babel, see Faber, Pag. Idol., vol. i, b. i, ch. i, p. 75. “The
ringleader in this rebellion was Nimrod: for the city,” writes Faber,
“which engaged in building, was called Babel or Babylon; and the
beginning of Nimrod’s kingdom is said to have been Babel and three
subordinate towns: their city also was built in the land of Shinar; and
Nimrod’s Babel is likewise said to have been situated in the land of
Shinar. There can be no doubt, therefore, that Nimrod’s Babel was the
identical Babel”.*
Vatican as the Harlot of Babylon: Debunked
Vatican as the Harlot of Babylon: Debunked
By Theodore Shoebat
Is the Vatican the Hatlot of Babylon? Where did this idea originate from? Most will be shocked to find that some of the greatest enemies of Christianity were the ones who developed or supported this idea: Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism; Muhammad, founder of Islam; John Huss, founder of the Hussites; and many of the most depraved heretics in Church history.
So why do many Evangelicals believe them? The shocking truth from history should help us rethink one of the most tainted ideas in Protestant theology. Many Protestant and Evangelicals think that it was first said by the Protestant Reformers, such as Luther or Zwingli. But this is false. This idea actually can be traced all the way back to the Middle Ages, from a gnostic sect in southern France called the Albigensians. These held a doctrine first contrived by one heretic from the third century, named Mani. He lived in Mesopotamia and started a cult called Manichaeism, which held–amongst numerous beliefs–that they were two gods, one of evil and one of good; that Christ never came in the flesh and that the crucifixion was a fantasy.
In other words, they were an antichrist, and so dangerous were they that St. John warned:
This antihuman doctrine spread to Armenia where its subscribers called themselves Paulicians, and then this sect made its way to the Balkans where it influenced a man in Bulgaria named Bogomil, who would start his own cult in his country. Though Bogomilism went underground, it continued to grow like bacteria growing stronger in static murky water in the summer heat. It spread to Italy and by the twelfth century it made its way to France where its followers would call themselves Cathars, from the Greek word “pure.”
In a council conducted in Toulouse in 1119, presided by pope Calixtus II, the Cathars were anathematized as heretics. By 1165 the Cathars had become so numerous that they began to preach in the open, with the Catholic bishops too fearful to protest. They soon commenced to form their own church separate from Roman Catholicism, establishing as their own bishop one Barthelemy in their city of Albi, where they built the Cathar community–the strongest in southern France. It was because of this community in Abli that these heretics were called Albigensians. (1)
It was these Albigensians who affirmed the belief that the Roman Church was the Harlot of Babylon spoken of in the Book of Revelation. Because of this belief, the Albigensians sought out ways to utterly uproot Christianity from Europe. But for the sake of brevity I cannot describe all of their crimes, so I will mention one of the most significant. The head of this heretical group, Raymond of Toulouse, wanted the Muslims to destroy all of Christendom, and so sent his emissaries to the king of Morocco to give this request. (2)
We have heard many a time that it was the Catholic Church who collaborated with Muhammad, but the reality is that it was the Catholics who combated Islam while the heretics worked with the Muslims.
Who else taught that the Harlot of Babylon is the Catholic Church? There was another sect that came about in Bohemia in the 15th century called the Hussites, or followers of John Huss.
The Hussites rejected the Catholic Church’s authority, denounced the
use of holy water, oils, the chalice, priestly vestments, all fasts, all
feast days accept Sunday, open confession, prayers to the saints,
reverence of holy images and all other Catholic rituals. (3)
These beliefs sound all well and good to the common Evangelical pastor, but lets look into their actions in order to see their intentions, for by their fruits you shall know them.
When Pope John XXIII issued a Bull declaring Huss a heretic, his followers seized it and placed it on the breast of a local prostitute and paraded her to represent her as the “whore of Babylon”, before casting it into the flames. (4)
A major faction within the Hussite heresy were the Taborites, who were founded when numerous Hussites ascended Mount Tabor to receive Communion. These shunned the Church Fathers, denied purgatory, prayers for the dead, and missals.
The Hussites established their own hegemony in Bohemia, where they would greatly persecute Catholics for not accepting the teachings of John Hus, their founder. Hussite professors in the University of Prague established a tyrannical council which would rule Bohemia; thus the university became the new Vatican. Hussite Lord Chenek of Wartenberg arrested the bishop Hermann of Prague and compelled him to appoint radical Hussites as priests. The archbishop Conrad condemned these actions and nullified the ordinations of these heretical priests. The committee of tyrants of the university more fervently connected themselves with Hussite doctrine and even imprisoned one of its own professors, Peter of Unichov, a sharp critique of Hussite thought. They tortured him and threatened him with death if he did not proclaim John Hus as a teacher of God.
The Hussites published their own manifesto in which it reads “that the faithful should repress all public sins.” It was a jurisprudence akin to Sharia, with anybody not agreeing with John Huss being deserving of punishment. A Taborite army under the command of John “the One Eyed,” captured the castle of Sedlec, killed its owner Ulrich and all of his retainers, and then cruelly told a group of six that if one of them wanted to be spared he had to decapitate the other five (and one of them did in fact comply).
The One Eyed was ruthless and pitiless; he captured priests and monks and burnt them alive, for he saw them as the ones who persecuted John Hus. Divisions broke out within the Hussites and the One Eyed saw to it that dissenters were also put to the flames. When Sigimund’s commanders executed four hundred Hussite prisoners, the Hussites responded by massacring one thousand four hundred Catholics. Twenty four priests were kidnapped and told that their lives would be spared if they accepted the Hussite manifesto, and no less than twenty one refused and were bunt alive. (5) A bloody war was fought between Catholic and Hussite, with the Catholics being the victors in the end.
Even the heathen Mongols wished to destroy Rome and all of Christendom. The emperor of the Mongols, Cuyuc Khan, had even wanted to war “against the Church of God and the Roman Empire, and against all the states of Christendom and the people of the west”. (6)
Moreover, a most damaging fact to the belief that the Catholic Church is the Harlot of Babylon, is that Joseph Smith–the founder of Mormonism–himself adopted this view.
The Book of Mormon directly attacks the Catholic Church, having the
“prophet” Nephi declare that the Catholic Church was founded by Satan
and was the mother of harlots:
Muhammad even prophesied that the Muslims would first conquer
Constantinople and then Rome. At the time of Muhammad, Christianity was
Catholicism, since Islam was founded centuries before the Reformation or
even before the Eastern Orthodox schism from the Roman Catholic Church.
The Quran, essentially, is a direct attack against the Catholic Church.
Surah V in the Quran actually misconstrues the Catholic doctrine of
Mary and accuses Catholics of worshipping Mary, a claim which
Evangelicals accept and Catholics deny:
When he first became pontificate he consecrated entire days to prayer
and religious processions to render hope unto the people and to kindle
the fire of Christian zeal after it had been blown away by the Islamic
barbarians. He had the city’s walls repaired; fifteen towers were built
or renewed, and an iron chain was drawn across the Tiber river to hinder
any enemy naval ships from sailing into Italy. Before the Muslims
returned to Rome Leo made a powerful prayer, that the God who had
protected Saint Peter and St. Paul on the confounding waves of the sea
would fortify the hands of his warriors who were about to fight the
enemies of Christ. The Muslims made their maddening prayer to Allah and
advanced for a naval attack. Strong winds came upon the seas and
merciless waves crashed right into their ships; Muslims were dashed to
pieces on rocks and those who survived shipwreck received no quarter
from the pursuing Italian Christians. The remaining survivors were
forced to labor for the repairs of the churches they vandalized, and
thirteen silver bows found amongst the Arabs were used to ornament the
altar of Christ. (10)
The Muslims till this day wish to destroy Rome, hence why in 2009 Yusuf Qaradaw–the most respected scholar in the Sunni Muslim world–stated:
Luther and his followers saw the Catholic Church as an institution of Satan that needed to be destroyed.
“Why,” said Luther, “if men hang the thief upon the gallows; or if they put the rogue to death,–why should not we, with all our strength, attack these Popes, and Cardinals, these dregs of the Romish Sodom? Why not wash our hands in their blood?” (11)
For this reason, Luther favored the Muslims and saw them as the tool of God to punish Europe for its sins, and hence the same reformer condemned crusading against Islam. John Foxe, a famous Protestant leader, claimed that he could not be certain as to whether the sultan of the Turks or the pope “hath been the more bloody and pernicious adversary to Christ.” (11.5)
The Protestant bishop of Salisbury John Jewel wrote this in 1571:
Zwingli, another major Protestant reformer, held the Turks as “Protestant allies.” (12.5)
England and other Protestant powers even provided the Turks with war material, specifically tin which was essential for the Turkish cannons.
In 1529, once Luther realized that his own life was on the line, since the Turks were approaching Vienna, he wrote that war needed to be done, but not by the Pope, (13) as though he was now to be dictating who should and who should not lead battles.
It is stated repeatedly that Babylon is the mother of all idolatry. But my research shows that the mother-land of idolatry is not today’s Iraq, but Arabia, and that therefore Islam, with its Arabian origin, is the antichrist system.
WHAT IS THEN THE ANTICHRIST SYSTEM?
In order to understand the antichrist system, one must comprehend the Tower of Babel, its religious system and its origins.
The Tower of Babel is known to have been built by Nimrod, (14) a son of Cush, the founder of Ethiopia.
Many have hastily identified Nimrod with a Sudanese or Ethiopian African, but my research shows that once Scripture and historical records are closely examined, Nimrod is found to be geographically a Southern Arabian. The most explicit biblical evidence for Arabia’s identity with Cush is Habakkuk 3:7:
Genesis 10:10 recounts that Nimrod founded a city in Mesopotamia called Akkad, which means that when Nimrod reigned in Mesopotamia there were Akkadians in existence in that region. In my whole research page I have shown how Akkadians, archeologically, have been found to be originally South Arabs, being related to the Sabaeans, a powerful South Arabian people.
Also in Sudan there were Sabaeans who affirmed that their place of origin was a region called Meroe (originally called Saba), and according to the ancient writer Juba, the entire Nile Valley from the city of Aswan in Egypt to Meroe was inhabited not by Ethiopians but by Arabians. This then helps shed light on the Arabian identity with Nimrod.
In my research I show that because of the south Arabian identity of both the Akkadians and Nimrod, it is conclusive that the pagan religion of ancient Arabia was followed in Shinar, where Nimrod’s kingdom was founded. Therefore the religion on which the Tower of Babel was based, had to have been Arabian. Who were then the deities of this religion?
We know that in both the Akkadian pantheon and language there is reference to a deity named “Alla”. I was the first point out that in the Atrahasis epic, which was written in Akkadian, there is mention of the god Alla, and that this god had to be equal to the Islamic Allah.
When the Akkadians traveled from south Arabia to Mesopotamia, they brought along with them their gods Athtar (Venus) and Shamash (the sun), both deities native to south Arabia. ‘Athtar is really a south Arabian equivalent to Allah, and the image of Allah–the Blackstone in Mecca–originally was dedicated to Allat or Athtar (Venus). Allat, in pagan religion, was both male and female, and thus equal to Allah.
With all of this said, we can now bring the connection between Allah and the Tower of Babel. In my research I show that several assyriologists–such as Budge, G. Rawlinson, and Stephan Langdon–have written on a certain tower discovered in Iraq called the House of the Seven Lights of the Earth, which has been identified with the Tower of Babel since after Nebuchadnezzar repaired it he wrote:
Thus when Isaiah speaks about the destruction of Babylon, he describes it geographically as Arabia, citing areas such as Seir, Teman, Dedanim, and Kedar:
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REFERENCES
(1) *Carroll, A History of Christendom, vol. iii, ch. v, pp. 164-165; Moczar, Seven Lies about Catholic History, ch. iv, p. 89-91*
(2) *Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay, History of the Albigensian Crusade, 12, 394, trans. W.A. Sibly and M.D. Sibly*
(3) *See Carroll, A History of Christendom, vol. iii, ch. xii*
(4) *Garvie, The Christian Preacher, p. 120*
(5) *See Carroll, A History of Christendom, vol. iii, ch. xii, pp. 508-511*
(6) *Carpini, The Story of the Mongols Whom We Call The Tatars, ch. 8, p. 86, trans. Erik Hildinger*
(7) *That this verse is directed against the Catholic Church, see Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History, ch. iv, p. 60*
(8) *Remarks by President George A. Smith, Reported by David W. Evans, Journal of Discourses, 13*
(9) *See Gibbon, Decline and Fall, vol. v, ch. lii, p. 973*
(10) Gibbon, Decline and Fall, vol. v, ch. lii, pp. 973-975*
(11) *See the Rev. John Fletcher, notes to the fourth letter of Maistre on the Spanish Inquisition*
(11.5) *See Jonathan Harris, The Ottoman Threat, in Thomas F. Madden, The Crusades, ch. viii, p. 193*
(12) *Bishop Jewel to H. Bullinger, in Hastings Robinson, The Zurich Letters*
(12.5) Scott H. Hendrix, Recultivating the Vineyard, p. 165, 2004
(13) *See Jonathan Harris, The Ottoman Threat, in Thomas F. Madden, The Crusades, ch. viii, p. 193*
(14) *That Nimrod was the king in Shinar during the building of the Tower of Babel, see Faber, Pag. Idol., vol. i, b. i, ch. i, p. 75. “The ringleader in this rebellion was Nimrod: for the city,” writes Faber, “which engaged in building, was called Babel or Babylon; and the beginning of Nimrod’s kingdom is said to have been Babel and three subordinate towns: their city also was built in the land of Shinar; and Nimrod’s Babel is likewise said to have been situated in the land of Shinar. There can be no doubt, therefore, that Nimrod’s Babel was the identical Babel”.*
(15) *See R. Jamieson’s commentary on Habakkuk 3:7*
(16) *Quoted in Philip Smith, Ancie. Hist., ch. x, pp. 200-201. Brackets and ellipses mine.*
(17) *See G. Rawlinson, The Religions of the Ancient World, ch. ii, p. 71.*
(18) *Strabo, Geography, 16.1.7*
(19) *See Javier Teixidor, The Pantheon of Palmyra, ch. iii, pp. 61-63.*
Is the Vatican the Hatlot of Babylon? Where did this idea originate from? Most will be shocked to find that some of the greatest enemies of Christianity were the ones who developed or supported this idea: Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism; Muhammad, founder of Islam; John Huss, founder of the Hussites; and many of the most depraved heretics in Church history.
So why do many Evangelicals believe them? The shocking truth from history should help us rethink one of the most tainted ideas in Protestant theology. Many Protestant and Evangelicals think that it was first said by the Protestant Reformers, such as Luther or Zwingli. But this is false. This idea actually can be traced all the way back to the Middle Ages, from a gnostic sect in southern France called the Albigensians. These held a doctrine first contrived by one heretic from the third century, named Mani. He lived in Mesopotamia and started a cult called Manichaeism, which held–amongst numerous beliefs–that they were two gods, one of evil and one of good; that Christ never came in the flesh and that the crucifixion was a fantasy.
In other words, they were an antichrist, and so dangerous were they that St. John warned:
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. (I John 4:3)They also believed that the Incarnation of Christ never occurred; the sufferings of Christ and the Eucharist were an illusion, and even life itself was considered by Mani to be an abomination from which all of humanity should seek to be free.
This antihuman doctrine spread to Armenia where its subscribers called themselves Paulicians, and then this sect made its way to the Balkans where it influenced a man in Bulgaria named Bogomil, who would start his own cult in his country. Though Bogomilism went underground, it continued to grow like bacteria growing stronger in static murky water in the summer heat. It spread to Italy and by the twelfth century it made its way to France where its followers would call themselves Cathars, from the Greek word “pure.”
In a council conducted in Toulouse in 1119, presided by pope Calixtus II, the Cathars were anathematized as heretics. By 1165 the Cathars had become so numerous that they began to preach in the open, with the Catholic bishops too fearful to protest. They soon commenced to form their own church separate from Roman Catholicism, establishing as their own bishop one Barthelemy in their city of Albi, where they built the Cathar community–the strongest in southern France. It was because of this community in Abli that these heretics were called Albigensians. (1)
It was these Albigensians who affirmed the belief that the Roman Church was the Harlot of Babylon spoken of in the Book of Revelation. Because of this belief, the Albigensians sought out ways to utterly uproot Christianity from Europe. But for the sake of brevity I cannot describe all of their crimes, so I will mention one of the most significant. The head of this heretical group, Raymond of Toulouse, wanted the Muslims to destroy all of Christendom, and so sent his emissaries to the king of Morocco to give this request. (2)
We have heard many a time that it was the Catholic Church who collaborated with Muhammad, but the reality is that it was the Catholics who combated Islam while the heretics worked with the Muslims.
Who else taught that the Harlot of Babylon is the Catholic Church? There was another sect that came about in Bohemia in the 15th century called the Hussites, or followers of John Huss.
John Huss
These beliefs sound all well and good to the common Evangelical pastor, but lets look into their actions in order to see their intentions, for by their fruits you shall know them.
When Pope John XXIII issued a Bull declaring Huss a heretic, his followers seized it and placed it on the breast of a local prostitute and paraded her to represent her as the “whore of Babylon”, before casting it into the flames. (4)
A major faction within the Hussite heresy were the Taborites, who were founded when numerous Hussites ascended Mount Tabor to receive Communion. These shunned the Church Fathers, denied purgatory, prayers for the dead, and missals.
The Hussites established their own hegemony in Bohemia, where they would greatly persecute Catholics for not accepting the teachings of John Hus, their founder. Hussite professors in the University of Prague established a tyrannical council which would rule Bohemia; thus the university became the new Vatican. Hussite Lord Chenek of Wartenberg arrested the bishop Hermann of Prague and compelled him to appoint radical Hussites as priests. The archbishop Conrad condemned these actions and nullified the ordinations of these heretical priests. The committee of tyrants of the university more fervently connected themselves with Hussite doctrine and even imprisoned one of its own professors, Peter of Unichov, a sharp critique of Hussite thought. They tortured him and threatened him with death if he did not proclaim John Hus as a teacher of God.
The Hussites published their own manifesto in which it reads “that the faithful should repress all public sins.” It was a jurisprudence akin to Sharia, with anybody not agreeing with John Huss being deserving of punishment. A Taborite army under the command of John “the One Eyed,” captured the castle of Sedlec, killed its owner Ulrich and all of his retainers, and then cruelly told a group of six that if one of them wanted to be spared he had to decapitate the other five (and one of them did in fact comply).
The One Eyed was ruthless and pitiless; he captured priests and monks and burnt them alive, for he saw them as the ones who persecuted John Hus. Divisions broke out within the Hussites and the One Eyed saw to it that dissenters were also put to the flames. When Sigimund’s commanders executed four hundred Hussite prisoners, the Hussites responded by massacring one thousand four hundred Catholics. Twenty four priests were kidnapped and told that their lives would be spared if they accepted the Hussite manifesto, and no less than twenty one refused and were bunt alive. (5) A bloody war was fought between Catholic and Hussite, with the Catholics being the victors in the end.
Even the heathen Mongols wished to destroy Rome and all of Christendom. The emperor of the Mongols, Cuyuc Khan, had even wanted to war “against the Church of God and the Roman Empire, and against all the states of Christendom and the people of the west”. (6)
Moreover, a most damaging fact to the belief that the Catholic Church is the Harlot of Babylon, is that Joseph Smith–the founder of Mormonism–himself adopted this view.
Joseph Smith
And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of God, yea, and tortureth them and bindeth them down, and yoketh them with a yoke of iron, and bringeth them down into captivity. And it came to pass that I beheld this great and abominable church; and I saw the devil that he was the founder of it. And I also saw gold, and silver, and silks, and scarlets, and fine-twined linen, and all manner of precious clothing; and I saw many harlots. …that abominable church, which is the mother of harlots (I Nephi 13: 5-7, 34) (7)Latter Day Saints president, George A. Smith, promulgated this belief in 1870:
If you talk with the various Protestant denominations about these points they will tell you that the Catholic Church had degenerated, that it had gone into darkness, was anti-Christ, and all this sort of thing, which doubtless was correct; and according to modern revelation this must be true; and being true, we are urged to the conclusions that all the sects and parties of the religious world are wandering into darkness. (8)The Albigensians and the Hussites agreed that the Catholic Church was the whore of Babylon, and before you begin to have a liking for these groups because of this belief, there is another heretic that you should know about who also saw the Catholic Church as the archenemy: Muhammad himself.
Muhammad
And [beware the Day] when Allah will say, “O Jesus, Son of Mary, did you say to the people, ‘Take me and my mother as deities besides Allah ?’” He will say, “Exalted are You! It was not for me to say that to which I have no right. If I had said it, You would have known it. You know what is within myself, and I do not know what is within Yourself. Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen.This is why in 846 the Muslims made invaded Rome. It was in this glorious city where Saint Peter and Saint Paul preached, and it was now here where the Muslims sacked their sepulchers. They saw such profound monuments as idols, and when they entered the tomb of Peter they stripped away a silver altar, and overran Saint Peter’s church in the name of Allah and for their hatred of the Gospel. (9) They were not going to leave; they did not come for a vacation to Rome on cruise ships and decided to leave after a comfortable tour to the Vatican for Palermo–they were sticking around and a leader was needed to crush them. Pope Leo IV arose as the defender of the city.
Pope Leo IV
The Muslims till this day wish to destroy Rome, hence why in 2009 Yusuf Qaradaw–the most respected scholar in the Sunni Muslim world–stated:
So Constantinople has been conquered and now the second part of the prophecy remains, which is the conquest of Rome.This hatred for Rome as an institution of the devil, was agreeable to the Protestant Reformers. The Muslims–under the Ottomans–still aspired to take Rome and destroy the Catholic Church in the days of Luther, and it was he and his followers who were willing to help.
Luther and his followers saw the Catholic Church as an institution of Satan that needed to be destroyed.
“Why,” said Luther, “if men hang the thief upon the gallows; or if they put the rogue to death,–why should not we, with all our strength, attack these Popes, and Cardinals, these dregs of the Romish Sodom? Why not wash our hands in their blood?” (11)
For this reason, Luther favored the Muslims and saw them as the tool of God to punish Europe for its sins, and hence the same reformer condemned crusading against Islam. John Foxe, a famous Protestant leader, claimed that he could not be certain as to whether the sultan of the Turks or the pope “hath been the more bloody and pernicious adversary to Christ.” (11.5)
The Protestant bishop of Salisbury John Jewel wrote this in 1571:
The Turk, they say, is now hovering upon Italy. He will at least bridle the ferocity of antichrist [the pope]. (12)
John Jewel
England and other Protestant powers even provided the Turks with war material, specifically tin which was essential for the Turkish cannons.
In 1529, once Luther realized that his own life was on the line, since the Turks were approaching Vienna, he wrote that war needed to be done, but not by the Pope, (13) as though he was now to be dictating who should and who should not lead battles.
It is stated repeatedly that Babylon is the mother of all idolatry. But my research shows that the mother-land of idolatry is not today’s Iraq, but Arabia, and that therefore Islam, with its Arabian origin, is the antichrist system.
WHAT IS THEN THE ANTICHRIST SYSTEM?
In order to understand the antichrist system, one must comprehend the Tower of Babel, its religious system and its origins.
The Tower of Babel is known to have been built by Nimrod, (14) a son of Cush, the founder of Ethiopia.
Many have hastily identified Nimrod with a Sudanese or Ethiopian African, but my research shows that once Scripture and historical records are closely examined, Nimrod is found to be geographically a Southern Arabian. The most explicit biblical evidence for Arabia’s identity with Cush is Habakkuk 3:7:
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.Cushan, or Ethiopia, is clearly identified here as Midian, or a part of Arabia. (15)
Genesis 10:10 recounts that Nimrod founded a city in Mesopotamia called Akkad, which means that when Nimrod reigned in Mesopotamia there were Akkadians in existence in that region. In my whole research page I have shown how Akkadians, archeologically, have been found to be originally South Arabs, being related to the Sabaeans, a powerful South Arabian people.
Also in Sudan there were Sabaeans who affirmed that their place of origin was a region called Meroe (originally called Saba), and according to the ancient writer Juba, the entire Nile Valley from the city of Aswan in Egypt to Meroe was inhabited not by Ethiopians but by Arabians. This then helps shed light on the Arabian identity with Nimrod.
In my research I show that because of the south Arabian identity of both the Akkadians and Nimrod, it is conclusive that the pagan religion of ancient Arabia was followed in Shinar, where Nimrod’s kingdom was founded. Therefore the religion on which the Tower of Babel was based, had to have been Arabian. Who were then the deities of this religion?
We know that in both the Akkadian pantheon and language there is reference to a deity named “Alla”. I was the first point out that in the Atrahasis epic, which was written in Akkadian, there is mention of the god Alla, and that this god had to be equal to the Islamic Allah.
When the Akkadians traveled from south Arabia to Mesopotamia, they brought along with them their gods Athtar (Venus) and Shamash (the sun), both deities native to south Arabia. ‘Athtar is really a south Arabian equivalent to Allah, and the image of Allah–the Blackstone in Mecca–originally was dedicated to Allat or Athtar (Venus). Allat, in pagan religion, was both male and female, and thus equal to Allah.
With all of this said, we can now bring the connection between Allah and the Tower of Babel. In my research I show that several assyriologists–such as Budge, G. Rawlinson, and Stephan Langdon–have written on a certain tower discovered in Iraq called the House of the Seven Lights of the Earth, which has been identified with the Tower of Babel since after Nebuchadnezzar repaired it he wrote:
…[T]his edifice, the House of the Seven Lights of the Earth, the most ancient monument of Borsippa:–a former king built it (they reckon 42 ages), but he did not complete its head. Since a remote time people had abandoned it without order expressing their words. Since that time the earthquake and the thunder had dispersed its sun-dried clay; the bricks of the casing had been split; and the earth of the interior had been scattered in heaps. (16)The “Seven Lights” refer to the tower’s seven stages, each of which was dedicated to a particular planet or deity. For this summary article, we will only focus on the fifth stage which pertains to the subject at hand, because it was dedicated to Venus or Ishtar or ‘Athtar. (17) According to Strabo Borsippa was dedicated to Artemis, (18) which would have been this very goddess, who was worshipped as Allat since a Greek engraving from 6 B.C. reads “Allat who is Artemis”. (19) This has a direct connection with Allah since he was the same as Allat, thus bridging the gap between the Islamic Allah and the Tower of Babel.
Thus when Isaiah speaks about the destruction of Babylon, he describes it geographically as Arabia, citing areas such as Seir, Teman, Dedanim, and Kedar:
And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it]. (Isaiah 21:9-17)Theodore Shoebat is the author of the book, For God or For Tyranny
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(1) *Carroll, A History of Christendom, vol. iii, ch. v, pp. 164-165; Moczar, Seven Lies about Catholic History, ch. iv, p. 89-91*
(2) *Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay, History of the Albigensian Crusade, 12, 394, trans. W.A. Sibly and M.D. Sibly*
(3) *See Carroll, A History of Christendom, vol. iii, ch. xii*
(4) *Garvie, The Christian Preacher, p. 120*
(5) *See Carroll, A History of Christendom, vol. iii, ch. xii, pp. 508-511*
(6) *Carpini, The Story of the Mongols Whom We Call The Tatars, ch. 8, p. 86, trans. Erik Hildinger*
(7) *That this verse is directed against the Catholic Church, see Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History, ch. iv, p. 60*
(8) *Remarks by President George A. Smith, Reported by David W. Evans, Journal of Discourses, 13*
(9) *See Gibbon, Decline and Fall, vol. v, ch. lii, p. 973*
(10) Gibbon, Decline and Fall, vol. v, ch. lii, pp. 973-975*
(11) *See the Rev. John Fletcher, notes to the fourth letter of Maistre on the Spanish Inquisition*
(11.5) *See Jonathan Harris, The Ottoman Threat, in Thomas F. Madden, The Crusades, ch. viii, p. 193*
(12) *Bishop Jewel to H. Bullinger, in Hastings Robinson, The Zurich Letters*
(12.5) Scott H. Hendrix, Recultivating the Vineyard, p. 165, 2004
(13) *See Jonathan Harris, The Ottoman Threat, in Thomas F. Madden, The Crusades, ch. viii, p. 193*
(14) *That Nimrod was the king in Shinar during the building of the Tower of Babel, see Faber, Pag. Idol., vol. i, b. i, ch. i, p. 75. “The ringleader in this rebellion was Nimrod: for the city,” writes Faber, “which engaged in building, was called Babel or Babylon; and the beginning of Nimrod’s kingdom is said to have been Babel and three subordinate towns: their city also was built in the land of Shinar; and Nimrod’s Babel is likewise said to have been situated in the land of Shinar. There can be no doubt, therefore, that Nimrod’s Babel was the identical Babel”.*
(15) *See R. Jamieson’s commentary on Habakkuk 3:7*
(16) *Quoted in Philip Smith, Ancie. Hist., ch. x, pp. 200-201. Brackets and ellipses mine.*
(17) *See G. Rawlinson, The Religions of the Ancient World, ch. ii, p. 71.*
(18) *Strabo, Geography, 16.1.7*
(19) *See Javier Teixidor, The Pantheon of Palmyra, ch. iii, pp. 61-63.*
Saudi Arabia–Terrified of its Coming Destruction
Saudi Arabia–Terrified of its Coming Destruction
Saudi Arabia believes it is under attack as never before, say analysts with close ties to the kingdom’s elite, and sees Syria’s civil war and Egypt’s political crisis as posing a domestic threat. Responding to these perceived threats, Saudi Arabia has passed a set of laws that banned citizens from fighting abroad, donating money to any faction in Syria or sympathizing with militant ideologies.
Islamists from the kingdom’s conservative Sunni majority are the main focus of government unease, most clearly via a decree that branded the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
Amplifying Saudi worries about Syria and Egypt, the kingdom’s rulers feel surrounded by chaos: Iraq is still torn by sectarian violence while political turmoil casts a shadow over two of the kingdom’s other neighbors.
The problem with the Muslim Brotherhood could complicate their policy in Egypt, that besides their most important Arab ally against a common main rival, Shi’ite Iran.
After all it was Arabia—which Islam emanates from and its harlot religion is spread throughout the entire region. It was Arabia which produced Muhammad, Arabia’s prophet.
From a prophetic perspective, we see the impending destruction of Saudi Arabia. The kings stagger in their vomit as a drunkard not knowing what to do. Shoebat.com takes the position that Revelation 17 referenced Arabia as a prostitute “Whore of Babylon”. Arabia after all stems from ancient Babylon. This is no coincidence: “And the woman (whore) was arrayed in purple and scarlet color” (v. 17) resembles the near copulating with the Kaaba’s Black Stone, which historically was dedicated to Aphrodite the prostitute goddess that was called “Aphrodite Porne” (Aphrodite the Prostitute), “the goddess adorned in purple”, similar to the depictions given in Revelation 17:4.
Many in the West believe that such a harlot was depicting Rome.
But such analysis is impossible. Arabia links to the founder of the Islamic religion, which according to John 2:22 “denies Father and Son”. Rome still declares both Father and Son. People find seeming resemblance between Rome and Revelation (i.e scarlet robes, seven hills of Rome), but when examining all the differences, such findings run into trouble. From religion, to geographic references and literal names of locations, Rome fails the test. John was taken to a desert and Arabia is mentioned clearly with reference to Babylon (Isaiah 21).
It was Muhammad, from Arabia, and not the popes of Rome who claimed to have ascended to heaven, to the most high as Antichrist claimed in Isaiah 14, “For you have said in your heart: I will ascend into heaven …” It was Arabia and not Rome that “No Arab will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flocks there” (Isaiah 13:20).
This cannot be attributed to any other area since Arabs must pitch their tents in Arabia. The ultimate fulfillment of this verse is the destruction of the Last-Days Babylon. We know this because the passage speaks about: “the day of the Lord” (v. 9) with the “heavens not giving light” (v. 10). This is not historical, but End-Times related.
Mecca
Muhammad also claimed to be Khalifat-u-Allah (Vicar of God) (2) adapting the title of Vicar.
And lest we think that such ascension to heaven is strictly Lucifer, the Bible shows that such manifestation is regarding Antichrist, the Bible adds, “Is this the man who made the earth tremble?” (v. 16) This angel has manifested in a man. Antichrist claims to have ascended to heaven; “you have said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven” (v. 13).
In Islam, the Mahdi would have Muhamma’d spirit.
Lucifer is cast down to earth to possess this man of sin who stems from the seat of Antichrist, Pergamum, which is in Turkey (Revelation 2:12-13), not Rome.
The Antichrist kingdom will eventually destroy Saudi Arabia. Iran “feet of the bear” (see Revelation 13) will destroy it (See Isaiah 21) and the heavens will rejoice avenging the blood of the saints.
Even in Islam, the Hadith speaks of the destruction of the Kaaba by Muslims when the construction buildings in it would reach the hight of the mountains. This is how the Muslim enemies of Saudi Arabia views the buildings and the Tower which is one of the most grandure highest tower in the world. Shoebat.com obtained their views from their own most reputable sources:
“I was taking reins Abdullah bin Amr’s animal when he said: “How will it be when you [Muslims] will tear down the house and not let one stone remain on another?” They asked: Will this be while we are still Muslim? He said: “Indeed, while you are Muslim,” Then what? He said: “Then it would be rebuilt better than it was before and when you see Mecca digging underground channels and constructing buildings above the tops of the mountains , know that it is near.” (3)
The Arabic for digging the channels, is Bu’ijat Kathaim, which is interpreted as “wells dug in the ground in a patterm in which some of these tunnels interconnect with each other and the water is gathered to its end to spill on the surface of the earth. It is also said to be irrigation.” (4)
Such declarations already circulate the Muslim world, that Muslims themselves will destroy Mecca as declared by the Islamic Hadith.
The lavish construction by the Royal family of Saudi Arabia is only infuriating Muslims globally. Saudi luxury has caused Muslims to turn on the Royal family.
As we have seen reported countless times, Saudi Arabia fears Iran’s nuclear buildup. We find no such situation leveled at Rome. For the Harlot to be Rome, the beast (Europe) must burn her. While we see the impending danger on Arabia, we see no impending danger on Rome, except of course, from what Islam threatens to invade it in the future. For that read what we have written [here].
If the destruction of Rome by Muslims is the view of many in church circles, will these then praise Islam for destroying Rome by the sycophants of Arabia’s Islam? Do these think that Islam will spare them in the end?
We each have to make a choice. Choose wisely.
REFERENCES
(1) see Al-Tabari, in interpreting Al-Ahqaf, 26.30. Al-Shami Muhammad bin Yusuf Al-Salihi, Section 32, 2/443, 444 on “The Islamization of the Jinn (Demons). Muhammad ordered his followers to accept invitations by demons and he himself accepted a demon messenger and went with him, See Hadith by Muslim, 1 / 332 (150 – 450), also Tabari, 21/26 and Ahmad 1/416 and Ibin Katheer 7/275. Also see Umm Al-Qura University, the top Islamic university founded by Muhammad Abdul Wahhab, founder of Wahhabism https://uqu.edu.sa/lib/ar/148574
(2) Al-Ahkam Al-Sharia Al-Kubra 4/527
(3) Hadit, also see Weblink 36531 [Here] [here] and [here]
(4) In The End, Strange Talk and Impact, The Glory of The Holy Religion by Abu Saadat bin Mohammed (son of Athir), Scientific Library, Section Four. Also see link [here]
Muslims Rebuild The Tower of Babel (Shocking Research!)
Muslims Rebuild The Tower of Babel (Shocking Research!)
If one would ask a westerner “Where is Mount Babel?” They would probably think the question is regarding a biblical or an archeological site in Iraq. But if one asks an Arab today, “where is Mount Babel?” They would tell you that its in Mecca and it has 7 massive buildings on top of it called “The Towers Of The House” that overlooks the Ka’ba, Islam’s holiest place.
You read it right.
There is no place on earth today where stands the largest structure in the world, used for a religious purpose, all worshipping in one tongue regardless of their mother tongue, and is holy to more than 1.5 billion people on earth that is called Mount Babel, except the one in Mecca overlooking the Ka’ba.
Mecca, it is both a “city” and a “tower”:
“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4)
The photo above shows the massive structure the Arabs call “Al-Burj”, literally “the tower” and it sits on mount Babel overlooking the Ka’ba.
Al-Sharq Al-Awasat, the prominent Middle East Newspaper, even names it as such “Mount Babel,”: this to say about the massive project that was completed in Mecca:
“The project Towers Of The House is the first project in Mecca … which carry seven towers … “Towers Of The House” is on the area of Mount Babel in Ajyad. The site overlooks directly on the Haram al-Sharif (Holy House [Ka’ba]).”Just to illustrate how massive is this structure in comparison to the largest buildings in the world, see the pie-chart below:
“is also the largest tower in the world in terms of area. Contractor Bin Laden Group, Saudi Arabia … Classified as the largest building urban in terms of the total area on the face of the globe, where excess space land for the project 1.4 million square meters and consists of 7 towers”.
The 1.4 million square meters 7 tower structure (7th from left to right) is 3 times larger than the tallest building in the world, the other “Burj” in Dubai.
Instead of waiting to see how the biblical verses regarding “Mystery Babylon” is fulfilled, many ill-informed westerners for centuries attributed the prophetic verses to the Vatican.
Our latest finding here is infinitesimal. We have gathered much to shed a new light to show the differences between Vatican and Mecca; the evidence is overwhelming, Mecca fits biblical Babylon and Vatican doesn’t. For example (out of hundreds), where in Vatican do we have “Mount Babel” which is also an observatory to monitor the movement of the moon and is called “Seven Towers of the House” reminiscent to the ancient name of Babel, which was called “The house of the seven lights of the earth”?
Where in the Vatican did they erect the largest tower on earth topped with a crescent and has observatories to monitor the planets and the moon? Where on Vatican hill, do they have an edifice decked with gold and silver, littered with statements that are biblically considered blasphemous, treated as if it was a woman, and has a massive gate made of pure gold that is literally called Bab-Illah (Babel) “The Gate to God”?
There is no place on earth that matches such requirements than Mecca.
Bab-Illah (The Gate of Allah) is the Gate to the Ka’ba (made of pure gold)
“… the Kaaba is the house of God and God’s sanctuary is Bab-Illah (the gate to God), so when they went there, they stood by the door in supplication …”Babel, the English pronunciation, and Bab-Illah are identical in meaning. The difference is simply in the accent.
This Bab-Illah (Babel) is also depicted as a woman in Islam, exactly as John stated in Revelation 17:3. One Muslim writes a poem depicting as if the Ka’ba is a lover and is literally Bab-Illah (Babel) “the Gate to Allah”. He titles it “Look at my lover and your lover as she changes her dress”:
“I tremble in Thy beauty
Yearning to Thy black silk
Thy excellent belt a verse included
From the Quran a splendid writ
Granting Thee from Allah’s throne a high esteem
Which should suffice
He named Thee His Gate
He even loosened from Thy splendid robe pride
To dress Thee in splendor and majesty”
*http://www.startimes.com/?t=32625937 translated by Walid Shoebat*
Another Muslim describes a Turkish pilgrim’s experience in the Hajj:
“Ahmed says that he had an eerie feeling when he saw the Kaaba in Mecca at first glance: “This is the house of Allah!”, These words were on his mind as he looked to the Black Stone and beside it was the door of the house of Allah: “Is there any door besides Bab-Illah (Gate to God)”The most famous of Muhammadan poetry by Al-Bosayri in the eleventh century and then the most prominent poet in Arab history, Ahmad Shawqi, who is considered the Prince of poetry, describes Muhammad as “owning the key to Bab-Illah (the gate of Allah)”.
Muslim scholar Muhammad Said Ramadan Al-Buti, prior to his assassination by the Free Syrian Army explained the Hajj Pilgrimage as following:
“You go around the house of Allah, and you are in His hospitality. You are standing at His door, floating around on the doorstep. You are not on the door of the king, nor a great man. You are at the door of the Lord of kings. You are standing before the door of the creation in humiliation and indignity. You stand at Bab-Illah (the door of Allah’s) pride and His dignity. Weep since weeping is joyful there, but you do not cry, beg to creature, nor weep in humiliation in front of a creature. It’s difficult for the man that cringes to a brother or to anyone else. But on Bab-Illa (the door of Allah) what is the most enjoyable is to seclude myself and drench my forehead on the cusp of Allah Almighty, because my soul in his hand, and my whole self is his and my breath is in his hand and I’m on His doorstep, I tour around his home saying: “There is no god but Allah alone …”For years, I had to endure listening to lectures on why Rome is the Harlot since it sits on seven hills, when truth is that Vatican City—the city where the Catholic Church is headquartered—is not built on seven hills, but on a hill separate from the seven hills of Rome: Vatican Hill, which is not even one of the seven upon which ancient Rome was built. Those hills are on the east side of the Tiber river; Vatican Hill is on the west.
Other cities are known for having been built on seven hills as well. Istanbul is known as the City on the Seven Hills, which – consciously following the model of Rome – was built on seven hills too. There are about seventy cities that claim to be on seven hills, some of which are Jerusalem, Amman, Tehran, Brussels, Kiev, Moscow and Madrid.
Yet none of these (including Rome) were destined for destruction in the Bible, yet Arabia is (Isaiah 21).
The Bible is also precise and pinpoints a geographic location for this “Babylon” as was predicted in Jeremiah 49:21, literally, “the Red Sea” which confirms Arabia’s destruction. This is also confirmed in Revelation 18 regarding the harlot city:
“And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning” (Revelation 18:9). “And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What [city is] like unto this great city!” (Revelation 18:18).And once one studies Isaiah 34, there should be no doubt. In nearly identical language concerning Mystery Babylon in Revelation 17, 18:
“Its streams shall be turned into pitch and its dust into brimstone; its land shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night or day; its smoke shall ascend forever” (Isaiah 34:8-10).Incredibly, almost three millennia before the discovery of fuel oil, Isaiah predicted the burning of the very thing that was used in Babel to build a name for the rebellious ones – the pitch. Pitch is bitumen and tar, which technically is simply crude oil.
This judgment is not against Rome but “Edom” which extends from Teman to Dedan:
“Thus Says the Lord GOD; ‘Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them. ‘Therefore thus Says the Lord GOD; ‘I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cutt off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword’” (Ezekiel 25:12-13).The Lord vindicates Rome. He has made the geographical location of Mystery Babylon quite clear for anyone who would seek it out.
This destruction of Arabia is complete and fits the description made by several prophets whose prophecies correlate with Isaiah 34:
“Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her: death, mourning, and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her. When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her. Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry: ‘Woe! Woe, O great city, O Babylon, city of power! In one hour your doom has come! … Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off. When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, ‘Was there ever a city like this great city?’” (Revelation 18:8-10, 17-18).Apart from Sodom and Gomarrah, this type of utter destruction has never been seen in any other city, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “After her destruction, Babylon will merely be a home for demons, evil spirits, and scavenging desert creatures” (Revelation 18:1-2).
This is in line with the ancient Eastern perception that desolate desert wastelands were the dwelling place of demons and unclean spirits. The point being emphasized is that after Babylon is destroyed, there will be absolutely no human life ever found there again. Jeremiah agrees; he describes this:
So desert creatures and hyenas will live there, and there the owl will dwell. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation” (Jeremiah 50:39). Isaiah confirms a similar fate: “It shall be a habitation of jackals” (Isaiah 34:14).And again later, the destruction of Babylon is described as being absolute. Isaiah speaks of this event:
“For I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon its name and remnant, and offspring and prosperity, says the Lord … I will sweep it with the broom of destruction” (Isaiah 12:15).The broom of destruction! Anyone who has seen footage of a nuclear explosion has seen the fury and the power of the ominous cloud that sweeps up everything in its path. To read more on how Mecca is destroyed, please read:
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Shu’ab Al-Iman by Al-Bayhaqi, No. 4084, 3/684
http://www.annabaa.org/nbanews/39/070.htm
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http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=192169&page=7
http://depaj.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/الأثر-في-نبوءة-نسف-الكعبة-وهجران-مكة-2/
http://alqumaa.net/vb/showthread.php?t=46583
Father of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl reportedly retweets Taliban leader boasting about American deaths – Glenn Beck http://ln.is/www.glennbeck.com/20/4aTaC … … via @
OBAMAS SMILE MEANS WE WON HE NOW KNOWS THEY HAVE THE WHITE MEN WORKING ON THE SIDE OF ISALM Father of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl reportedly retweets Taliban leader boasting about American deaths – Glenn Beck http://ln.is/www.glennbeck.com/20/4aTaC … … via @
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America Muslim Suicide Bomber in Syria was Florida-born, raised in middle-class family
America Muslim Suicide Bomber in Syria was Florida-born, raised in middle-class family
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A school photograph taken in 2006, shows a handsome, smiling, all-American looking boy.Neighbors say he was a “normal boy.” Yes, until he became religious and pious, he was “normal.”
It’s not nationality, creed, color, or pant size — it’s the ideology and it trumps everything else.
Of course, Reuters asks Hamas-CAIR Florida’s Hasan Shibly for comment on this story — to further obfuscate and deceive the America people. Reuters should be contacting scholars on Islam like Robert Spencer or Ibn Warraq, not Hezb’allah supporters like Shibly. The enemedia must stop disarming the American people.
Neighbors Say The American Who Became A Suicide Bomber In Syria Was A ‘Normal Boy’ By Business Insider via Reuters, June 2, 2014
SEBASTIAN Fla. (Reuters) – The man believed to be the first American suicide bomber in Syria was born in Florida and loved to play basketball. He was an average student who grew up in a well-kept middle-class neighborhood about 90 minutes south of Orlando.
The family of Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, 22, on Saturday declined to comment or to open their door as a small group of reporters gathered outside their home in a gated community in Sebastian, on Florida’s east coast.
Neighbor Mark Hill, 46, said he knew little about the family across the street, who moved in around 2006 at the same time he did, but they seemed to be “very nice people, always pleasant.”
Hill described Abu-Salha as a “normal boy” who wore T-shirts and walked around the neighborhood with a basketball looking for someone to join him in a game.
He said the father wore a long white tunic, but no beard, and the mother wore a headscarf, showing only her face.
The family, who have owned a string of local Middle Eastern grocery stores, were a visible presence in the community and often left the garage doors open, Hill added.
The family are of Jordanian-Palestinian origin, according to people familiar with their grocery business.
The U.S. government was aware before the suicide bombing that Abu-Salha had traveled to Syria to join militants, and believe as many as 70 Americans have been to Syria to fight, U.S. officials say.
Using the nom de guerre Abu Hurayra al-Amriki, Abu-Salha carried out one of four bomb attacks on May 25 in Syria’s Idlib province on behalf of Jabhat al-Nusra, an al Qaeda affiliate fighting to oust the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
According to a birth certificate obtained by Reuters, “Moner Mohammad Abusalha” was born Oct. 28, 1991, in Palm Beach County.
In eighth grade he was an average student, failing two of his midterm exams while earning all Bs and Cs at the school year’s midpoint. Teachers said he was “easily distracted” but participated well in some classes and showed good effort.
A school photograph taken in 2006, shows a handsome, smiling, all-American looking boy.
Holly Gorman who managed the Indian River Warriors, the traveling basketball team Abu-Salha played for said he was well liked by coaches and teammates, who nicknamed him “Mo.”
Despite only playing in a handful of games and never scoring more than three or four points in the 2007 season, Abu-Salha was “a coachable kid” and “a diligent worker,” she said.
He wore the number 55 and was “short and stocky, built more like a football player,” Gorman said. “Everybody liked him and the coach kept him on the team because he was all heart. He was that kind of player.”
Photographs posted on social media sites show the bearded suicide bomber purportedly in Syria, smiling and cradling a cat.
The photos appear to match a Facebook profile for Abu-Salha, which portray him as an observant Muslim who liked video games, sports and Dunkin’ Donuts.
Hassan Shibly, director of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said he knew nothing about Abu-Sahla.
“It is sad to see any young American would choose to take his life in this manner. There’s no justification for this bombing. It’s unacceptable,” Shibly said.
(Additional reporting by David Adams, Barbara Liston, Mark Hosenball and Kevin Gray; Editing by David Adams and Gunna Dickson)
Obama Broke U.S. Law, Did Not Inform Congress Before Transferring Prisoners Off Gitmo In Bergdahl Trade
Obama Broke U.S. Law, Did Not Inform Congress Before Transferring Prisoners Off Gitmo In Bergdahl Trade
The discussion about trading for Bowe Bergdahl has been ongoing for some time. This of course is questionable, since the U.S. has always held the position that it will not negotiate with terrorists or trade terrorists for hostages. This the Obama regime has clearly broken today, the impact of which will yet be felt, as he has now painted a target on the back of every American.
Yet in any discussion of the question, the Obama regime has assured Congress that it would be advised.
Note this in August 2012 in an NBC article on Bowe Bergdahl:
U.S. officials stress that the transfer, if it occurs, will be done in accordance with U.S. law, which requires Congress to be notified before any detainees are moved from Guantanamo.But today, there was no notice given to Congress as required by law:
McKeon/Inhofe say Obama violated law by not notifying Congress of Gitmo transfers to secure #Bergdahl release.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 31, 2014
McKeon/Inhofe: Our joy at Sergeant #Berghdal’s release is tempered by the fact that President Obama chose to ignore the law..to achieve it
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 31, 2014
Hse Intel Cmte Chair Rogers: I am extremely troubled..that the (US) negotiated with terrorists..to swap 5 sr Taliban leaders.. #Bergdahl
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 31, 2014
McKeon/Inhofe on Bergdahl release: Our terrorist adversaries now have a strong incentive to capture Americans.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 31, 2014
Hse Intel Cmte Chair Rogers: I believe this decision will threaten the lives of American soldiers for years to come. #Bergdahl
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 31, 2014
So he knew it was the law, he said he would follow it and then he
broke it flagrantly in a way that threatens Americans for years to come.Devout Muslims Throw Gasoline Bombs at Christian Shops Just Before Trial of Coptic Christian Accused of Blasphemy Against Islam
Devout Muslims Throw Gasoline Bombs at Christian Shops Just Before Trial of Coptic Christian Accused of Blasphemy Against Islam
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The Muslims who did this are supporters of the Obama-backed Muslim
Brotherhood, which Obama tried to strong-arm the Egyptians into
returning to power. The wholesale persecution of non-Muslims in Muslim
societies on his watch, while he glad-handed the oppressors and said
nothing about the persecution, will go down in history as one of the
many, many blots on his feckless post-American presidency.
The official says the attack early Monday saw Islamists throw gasoline bombs at the shops in the village of el-Mahameed near Luxor. The official says authorities are investigating the attack.
The attack came hours before the start of a trial in Luxor for Kerolos Ghattas, a young Coptic Christian charged with contempt to Islam over a series of alleged Internet postings.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists.
Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s population.
“Islamists Torch Christians’ Shops in South Egypt,” Associated Press, June 2, 2014:A security official in Egypt says a mob of angry Islamists has burned shops owned by Coptic Christians near the ancient city of Luxor hours before a trial for a Coptic Christian accused of blasphemy.
The official says the attack early Monday saw Islamists throw gasoline bombs at the shops in the village of el-Mahameed near Luxor. The official says authorities are investigating the attack.
The attack came hours before the start of a trial in Luxor for Kerolos Ghattas, a young Coptic Christian charged with contempt to Islam over a series of alleged Internet postings.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists.
Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s population.
Exclusive: Emails raise questions about White House knowledge of Kathleen Sebelius' fundraising
Exclusive: Emails raise questions about White House knowledge of Kathleen Sebelius' fundraising
(Second in a series of stories on the Obama administration's outside fundraising efforts to promote Obamacare enrollment.)
Emails obtained by the Washington Examiner through a Freedom of Information Act request raise new questions about how much the White House knew about Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' fundraising for Obamacare and whether she solicited donations from entities she regulates.
White House officials have said they did not sign off on calls made by Sebelius to solicit donations from private entities for Enroll America, an outside nonprofit with close White House ties that promotes enrollment in the health law's insurance exchanges. Officials say they were only generally aware Sebelius would be seeking support from outside groups.
In late January, HHS's Freedom of Information Act office released 257 pages of emails in response to a June request from the Washington Examiner.
The documents are heavily redacted with 12 pages withheld in their entirety and another 179 pages of “responsive records” still “under review for consultation” before a decision is made on their release.
The emails show that White House Office of Public Engagement staffers participated in weekly conference calls with HHS and Enroll America. The emails also show that the agenda of these phone meetings included Sebelius' calls to outside entities, high-level operational planning and more focused outreach with private partners through senior White House aides.
In one email, dated May 6, 2013, Anton Gunn, then director of external affairs for HHS, said he believed two separate conference calls should be merged — one that involved Enroll America and HHS and another that included the White House. The email was sent to Anne Filipic, the president of Enroll America and former OPE deputy director, and other HHS and Enroll America staff.
“I believe the content of these calls has overlapped on more than one occasion, but I want to make sure HHS and Enroll America are clear that we agree that these calls should be permanently merged in to [sic] ONE call with White House staff and that call should happen Weekly? Or is it every other week?” Gunn asked.
Filipic responded that a weekly call “makes sense” and believed it should combine “WH/HHS/EA.”
Earlier in the email, Gunn said the calls between Enroll America and HHS were “high level” and “focused on operational issues like “data/Legal Issues, KGS calls, Branding, etc.,” while the calls that included Enroll America, HHS and OPE seemed to be “detailed planning calls and more focused on Outreach/Engagement/Partnerships using the WH and WH Principals.”
In other emails provided to the Examiner, “KGS calls” refers to phone calls Sebelius made to private companies and nonprofits discussing Enroll America.
A later email shows that a scheduled separate White House conference call, coordinated by then-deputy director of public engagement Stephanie Valencia, had been canceled so that only one joint phone meeting between HHS, Enroll America and the White House would occur each week.
Two White House staffers from the OPE — Valencia and Ari Matusiak, the White House director of private sector engagement — were included in one series of heavily redacted emails with the subject line “Johnson & Johnson CEO – Meeting Request” — dated April 1, 2013.
An email was sent from Filipic to Anton Gunn, who was then head of HHS' external affairs, and Mandy Cohen, a senior adviser to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, as well as Valencia and Matusiak.
Neither the White House nor HHS responded to questions about why White House staffers were included on those emails or whether Sebelius asked for financial help during the meeting with Johnson & Johnson.
In later emails, with redacted sections, Filipic writes Gunn saying she is eager to hear how the “call” with Johnson & Johnson went.
The company confirmed the meeting to the Washington Examiner and said no donation had been made. But a Johnson & Johnson spokesman did not respond to questions about whether Sebelius asked for money.
In another set of emails, Sebelius received talking points from Enroll America that were also used by Nancy-Ann DeParle, a former head of the White House Office of Health Reform during the Congressional fight to pass Obamacare, who went on to become the president's deputy chief of staff for policy.
DeParle left after Obama's re-election, and served as a guest scholar last year at Brookings and serves on various health care company boards. She spent the last year asking insurers to donate to Enroll America, according to a report from Politico.
DeParle was regularly asking insurance companies to cut checks to promote Obamacare, but it is unclear whether the talking points she shared with Sebelius included a direct request for financial donations, contrary to Sebelius’ claim that she did not specifically request money from entities HHS regulates.
Emails show Sebelius used the talking points for phone calls with Kaiser Permanente's then-President George Halvorson, as well as with Ascension Health's then-President Tony Tersigni.
Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care organization in the country, and Ascension Health, a large Catholic nonprofit that operates a network of health facilities, are both regulated by HHS.
In one email Filipic sent to senior HHS and CMS aides, she provides a “call sheet” ahead of Sebelius’ phone call to Halvorson.
“It is worth reiterating that Nancy-Ann is scheduled to speak to George tomorrow morning,” she writes in an email dated March 21, 2013. “As you can imagine, her call sheet looks very similar!”
“I do think it's worthwhile for George to hear from a number of folks, but want to be clear about the multiple calls, so that we do not cross wires,” she continues.
Filipic then mentions that she will provide a call sheet for Sebelius' call to Tersigni the next day and says “Nancy-Ann is NOT currently schedule [sic] to call Tony.”
HHS did not respond to requests for a copy of the call sheet and the FOIA response did not include attachments to any of the emails provided.
Kaiser Permanente donated an unspecified amount to Enroll America. Halvorson also joined its board of directors, along with executives from Blue Shield of California and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, the largest manufacturer of generic drugs in the world. It is not known whether Ascension Health, a member of the group's Advisory Council, cut a check to Enroll America.
The White House did not respond to questions about what its aides knew about the fundraising or whether any White House staffers were directly involved in soliciting for Enroll America.
HHS has repeatedly declined to answer the Examiner's questions about the emails and has said all of its fundraising activity on behalf of Enroll America is legal and proper.
HHS spokeswoman Erin Shields acknowledged in a statement that officials "worked collaboratively across the administration to get the word out about enrollment through education and outreach efforts."
Shields defended the fundraising, pointing to a provision in the Public Health Service Act, which she said allows HHS to work with public and private partners “to advance public health.”
"The Secretary is authorized to support (and encourage others to support) programs and private non-profit entities working in programs related to health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care,” she continued.
Shields also cited the George W. Bush administration's "use of public-private partnerships to launch the Medicare prescription drug program and enroll children in the Children's Health Insurance Program.”
The disclosure that Sebelius sought private donations to help launch Obamacare has outraged Republicans. They charge that she is trying to circumvent Congress after lawmakers denied additional funding to promote the Affordable Care Act.
Two House committees launched investigations and Republicans asked the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, and the HHS inspector general to probe the extent to which Sebelius and her staff are coordinating with Enroll America and other organizations.
Sebelius has defended her actions as legal and proper and said officials made similar efforts under President George W. Bush to roll out Medicare Part D’s prescription drug program.
Sebelius said she only directly solicited two groups, both of which are not regulated by HHS: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and H&R Block. Sebelius said she called three groups HHS regulates — Kaiser Permanente, Johnson & Johnson and Ascension Health — but asked them only for general support and didn't specifically request money.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit focused on public health, last year said it had contributed $14 million to Enroll America. While Johnson & Johnson has not donated, the foundation owns more than $1 billion worth of company stock. The Food and Drug Administration, an HHS agency, also regulates Johnson & Johnson's drugs and medical devices.
H&R Block is the largest tax preparation company in the country, and stands to reap a windfall in new business under Obamacare as consumers seek tax subsidies under the law. Last year, the New York Times reported that H&R Block pledged $500,000 to Enroll America, but a company spokesman says the firm ultimately decided against donating.
Republicans contend that Sebelius' fundraising is different than what occurred under Bush because Congress specifically defunded additional money from being spent to promote Obamacare enrollment. They point to the Anti-Deficiency Act, which prohibits government agencies from accepting voluntary services or donations.
Watchdogs and ethics attorneys disagree over whether Sebelius' fundraising violated federal laws, but all say asking private companies to financially support Obamacare's rollout raises serious ethical questions. They also say the Public Health Service Act does not allow the White House or CMS to engage in such solicitation.
Craig Holman, an ethics expert at Public Citizen, a government watchdog organization, said he believes Sebelius' fundraising is legal, but full of “ethical landmines.”
“It has the appearance of the administration putting pressure on business that they want something from business — could be support for a change in the Obamacare law or another type of quid pro quo,” he said. “It is certainly worthy of investigating.”
Meredith McGehee, policy director for the Campaign Legal Center, said any investigation should focus on whether there was intimidation on behalf of HHS.
She said the Obama administration, ahead of the fundraising drive, should have set clear conflict-of-interest rules as they did when doling out $700 billion in taxpayer dollars from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
“I'm really puzzled why the White House hasn't set out clear rules,” she said.
“The way they've handled this – maybe because of the bad rollout – seems so ham-handed,” she continued. But she added that it is not too late for the White House to say “we’re going to set some rules.”
Emails obtained by the Washington Examiner through a Freedom of Information Act request raise new questions about how much the White House knew about Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' fundraising for Obamacare and whether she solicited donations from entities she regulates.
White House officials have said they did not sign off on calls made by Sebelius to solicit donations from private entities for Enroll America, an outside nonprofit with close White House ties that promotes enrollment in the health law's insurance exchanges. Officials say they were only generally aware Sebelius would be seeking support from outside groups.
In late January, HHS's Freedom of Information Act office released 257 pages of emails in response to a June request from the Washington Examiner.
The documents are heavily redacted with 12 pages withheld in their entirety and another 179 pages of “responsive records” still “under review for consultation” before a decision is made on their release.
The emails show that White House Office of Public Engagement staffers participated in weekly conference calls with HHS and Enroll America. The emails also show that the agenda of these phone meetings included Sebelius' calls to outside entities, high-level operational planning and more focused outreach with private partners through senior White House aides.
In one email, dated May 6, 2013, Anton Gunn, then director of external affairs for HHS, said he believed two separate conference calls should be merged — one that involved Enroll America and HHS and another that included the White House. The email was sent to Anne Filipic, the president of Enroll America and former OPE deputy director, and other HHS and Enroll America staff.
“I believe the content of these calls has overlapped on more than one occasion, but I want to make sure HHS and Enroll America are clear that we agree that these calls should be permanently merged in to [sic] ONE call with White House staff and that call should happen Weekly? Or is it every other week?” Gunn asked.
Filipic responded that a weekly call “makes sense” and believed it should combine “WH/HHS/EA.”
Earlier in the email, Gunn said the calls between Enroll America and HHS were “high level” and “focused on operational issues like “data/Legal Issues, KGS calls, Branding, etc.,” while the calls that included Enroll America, HHS and OPE seemed to be “detailed planning calls and more focused on Outreach/Engagement/Partnerships using the WH and WH Principals.”
In other emails provided to the Examiner, “KGS calls” refers to phone calls Sebelius made to private companies and nonprofits discussing Enroll America.
A later email shows that a scheduled separate White House conference call, coordinated by then-deputy director of public engagement Stephanie Valencia, had been canceled so that only one joint phone meeting between HHS, Enroll America and the White House would occur each week.
Two White House staffers from the OPE — Valencia and Ari Matusiak, the White House director of private sector engagement — were included in one series of heavily redacted emails with the subject line “Johnson & Johnson CEO – Meeting Request” — dated April 1, 2013.
An email was sent from Filipic to Anton Gunn, who was then head of HHS' external affairs, and Mandy Cohen, a senior adviser to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, as well as Valencia and Matusiak.
Neither the White House nor HHS responded to questions about why White House staffers were included on those emails or whether Sebelius asked for financial help during the meeting with Johnson & Johnson.
In later emails, with redacted sections, Filipic writes Gunn saying she is eager to hear how the “call” with Johnson & Johnson went.
The company confirmed the meeting to the Washington Examiner and said no donation had been made. But a Johnson & Johnson spokesman did not respond to questions about whether Sebelius asked for money.
In another set of emails, Sebelius received talking points from Enroll America that were also used by Nancy-Ann DeParle, a former head of the White House Office of Health Reform during the Congressional fight to pass Obamacare, who went on to become the president's deputy chief of staff for policy.
DeParle left after Obama's re-election, and served as a guest scholar last year at Brookings and serves on various health care company boards. She spent the last year asking insurers to donate to Enroll America, according to a report from Politico.
DeParle was regularly asking insurance companies to cut checks to promote Obamacare, but it is unclear whether the talking points she shared with Sebelius included a direct request for financial donations, contrary to Sebelius’ claim that she did not specifically request money from entities HHS regulates.
Emails show Sebelius used the talking points for phone calls with Kaiser Permanente's then-President George Halvorson, as well as with Ascension Health's then-President Tony Tersigni.
Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care organization in the country, and Ascension Health, a large Catholic nonprofit that operates a network of health facilities, are both regulated by HHS.
In one email Filipic sent to senior HHS and CMS aides, she provides a “call sheet” ahead of Sebelius’ phone call to Halvorson.
“It is worth reiterating that Nancy-Ann is scheduled to speak to George tomorrow morning,” she writes in an email dated March 21, 2013. “As you can imagine, her call sheet looks very similar!”
“I do think it's worthwhile for George to hear from a number of folks, but want to be clear about the multiple calls, so that we do not cross wires,” she continues.
Filipic then mentions that she will provide a call sheet for Sebelius' call to Tersigni the next day and says “Nancy-Ann is NOT currently schedule [sic] to call Tony.”
HHS did not respond to requests for a copy of the call sheet and the FOIA response did not include attachments to any of the emails provided.
Kaiser Permanente donated an unspecified amount to Enroll America. Halvorson also joined its board of directors, along with executives from Blue Shield of California and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, the largest manufacturer of generic drugs in the world. It is not known whether Ascension Health, a member of the group's Advisory Council, cut a check to Enroll America.
The White House did not respond to questions about what its aides knew about the fundraising or whether any White House staffers were directly involved in soliciting for Enroll America.
HHS has repeatedly declined to answer the Examiner's questions about the emails and has said all of its fundraising activity on behalf of Enroll America is legal and proper.
HHS spokeswoman Erin Shields acknowledged in a statement that officials "worked collaboratively across the administration to get the word out about enrollment through education and outreach efforts."
Shields defended the fundraising, pointing to a provision in the Public Health Service Act, which she said allows HHS to work with public and private partners “to advance public health.”
"The Secretary is authorized to support (and encourage others to support) programs and private non-profit entities working in programs related to health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care,” she continued.
Shields also cited the George W. Bush administration's "use of public-private partnerships to launch the Medicare prescription drug program and enroll children in the Children's Health Insurance Program.”
The disclosure that Sebelius sought private donations to help launch Obamacare has outraged Republicans. They charge that she is trying to circumvent Congress after lawmakers denied additional funding to promote the Affordable Care Act.
Two House committees launched investigations and Republicans asked the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, and the HHS inspector general to probe the extent to which Sebelius and her staff are coordinating with Enroll America and other organizations.
Sebelius has defended her actions as legal and proper and said officials made similar efforts under President George W. Bush to roll out Medicare Part D’s prescription drug program.
Sebelius said she only directly solicited two groups, both of which are not regulated by HHS: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and H&R Block. Sebelius said she called three groups HHS regulates — Kaiser Permanente, Johnson & Johnson and Ascension Health — but asked them only for general support and didn't specifically request money.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit focused on public health, last year said it had contributed $14 million to Enroll America. While Johnson & Johnson has not donated, the foundation owns more than $1 billion worth of company stock. The Food and Drug Administration, an HHS agency, also regulates Johnson & Johnson's drugs and medical devices.
H&R Block is the largest tax preparation company in the country, and stands to reap a windfall in new business under Obamacare as consumers seek tax subsidies under the law. Last year, the New York Times reported that H&R Block pledged $500,000 to Enroll America, but a company spokesman says the firm ultimately decided against donating.
Republicans contend that Sebelius' fundraising is different than what occurred under Bush because Congress specifically defunded additional money from being spent to promote Obamacare enrollment. They point to the Anti-Deficiency Act, which prohibits government agencies from accepting voluntary services or donations.
Watchdogs and ethics attorneys disagree over whether Sebelius' fundraising violated federal laws, but all say asking private companies to financially support Obamacare's rollout raises serious ethical questions. They also say the Public Health Service Act does not allow the White House or CMS to engage in such solicitation.
Craig Holman, an ethics expert at Public Citizen, a government watchdog organization, said he believes Sebelius' fundraising is legal, but full of “ethical landmines.”
“It has the appearance of the administration putting pressure on business that they want something from business — could be support for a change in the Obamacare law or another type of quid pro quo,” he said. “It is certainly worthy of investigating.”
Meredith McGehee, policy director for the Campaign Legal Center, said any investigation should focus on whether there was intimidation on behalf of HHS.
She said the Obama administration, ahead of the fundraising drive, should have set clear conflict-of-interest rules as they did when doling out $700 billion in taxpayer dollars from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
“I'm really puzzled why the White House hasn't set out clear rules,” she said.
“The way they've handled this – maybe because of the bad rollout – seems so ham-handed,” she continued. But she added that it is not too late for the White House to say “we’re going to set some rules.”
Obama's strange dependence on Valerie Jarrett...
Obama's strange dependence on Valerie Jarrett...
(Karin McQuillan, American Thinker) -- President Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden three times before
saying yes, because he got cold feet about the possible political harm
to himself if the mission failed. Instead of listening to advisors from
the U.S. military, Defense, or even State, Obama was acting on the
advice of White House politico and close friend Valerie Jarrett. Valerie Jarrett?
This account comes from Richard Miniter's upcoming book Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors who Decide for Him. Miniter has written a half-dozen books on the war on terror. He is relying on an unnamed source within the U.S. military Joint Special Operations Command who was directly involved in the operation and planning of the Osama bin Laden kill mission.
Is the story credible? According to Edward Klein, a reporter once asked Obama if he ran every decision by Jarrett. Obama answered, "Yep. Absolutely."
Edward Klein, former foreign editor of Newsweek and editor of the New York Times Magazine for many years, describes Jarrett as "ground zero in the Obama operation, the first couple's friend and consigliere." Klein -- who claims he used a minimum of two sources for each assertion in his book on the Obama presidency, The Amateur -- writes in detail about Jarrett opposing the raid on bin Laden. She told Obama not to take the political risk. Klein thought Obama ignored Jarrett's advice. Miniter tells us he listened to her, three times telling Special Operations not to take the risk to go after bin Laden.
We need to understand the role Valerie Jarrett plays in Obama's private and political life.
"If it wasn't for Valerie Jarrett, there'd be no Barack Obama to complain about," starts Klein's chapter on Jarrett. He quotes Michelle Obama on Jarrett's influence over her husband: "She knows the buttons, the soft spots, the history, the context."
No one outside Michelle has the access or power over Obama's decision-making like Jarrett does. Here's an odd little fact that gives some insight into what kind of president Obama is: Michelle, Michelle's mother, and Valerie, and only a few others in Washington, are allowed to call Barack by his first name. After work, Jarrett joins Obama at night in the Family Quarters, where she dines often with the First Family. She goes on vacation with them.
Jarrett's title is the weird mouthful "Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs." She is the gatekeeper, but she is also much more than that. She occupies Karl Rove's and Hillary's old office and has an all-access pass to meetings. She shows up at the National Security Council, at meetings on the economy and budget. She stays behind to advise Obama on what to think and do. Obama uses her as his left-wing conscience. Klein's sources describe how at each pressing issue, Obama turns to ask her, "What do you think the right thing to do is?" As president, he likes to have her next to him "as the voice of authentic blackness in a White House that is staffed largely by whites."
A longtime friend told Klein that Jarrett is the "eyes, ears and nose" of the Obamas. She tells them whom to trust, who is saying what, whom to see at home and abroad. Michelle wants her there: "I told her ... it would give me a sense of comfort to know that (Barack) had somebody like her there by his side." As Obama told the New York Times, "Valerie is one of my oldest friends. ... I trust her completely."
To understand why Obama relies so heavily on Jarrett, we must remember the president's identity crisis as a black man, which is the main subject of his memoir, Dreams from My Father. Valerie Jarrett's adoption of the Obamas as her friends and protégés in Chicago's upper-crust black society was one of the greatest things that ever happened to Obama. Until becoming a community organizer, Obama tells us he felt himself to be an inauthentic American black. Nothing in his life helped him understand or fit into the American black community.
Within a few weeks of Obama's birth, conceived out of wedlock as he was, his mother moved away to a different college, leaving Obama's African birth father behind in Honolulu. There may have been a shotgun wedding or not -- in the memoir, Obama says he is not sure. The only time Barack set eyes on his father was a brief visit when he was ten. Our president lived with his white mother, then with her and her Indonesian husband in Indonesia from age six to ten. He was so unhappy that he chose to leave his mother and live with his white grandparents back in America. Obama's Americawas the tolerant, wealthy American world of Honolulu's top prep school.
His only black experience was his grandfather's creepy old friend, Frank Marshall Davis, a card-carrying Communist and self-disclosed pederast, who was Obama's voice of authentic blackness. One result of this lonely and unhappy childhood as a mixed-race child was Barack Obama's envy problem. The key to understanding Jarrett's power over the president is that Obama didn't just envy people with normal parents and loving, successful fathers. He envied American blacks, especially those who grew up in intact black families, knowing who they were, comfortable in their black skin.
Valerie Jarrett reflects Obama in many ways. Like himself, Valerie looks more white than black. Her mother had three white grandparents, and her father was black. Like Obama, she lived in the Muslim world for part of her childhood, when her father practiced medicine in Iran. Like Obama, she is a committed leftist. But there are crucial differences. Her father was not a drunk Kenyan polygamist like Obama's, but a famous pathologist and geneticist. Her mother was not a leftist expatriate like Obama's, but a distinguished psychologist. Valerie married into Chicago's black elite, the top rung of African-American society. She went to Stanford, got a law degree from Michigan, and became Mayor Richard Daley's deputy chief of staff, "the public black face" of his administration.
When Valerie Jarrett hired Michelle to work for Daley and befriended her, the Obamas gained access to the exclusive world of upper-class black Chicago politics. Valerie knew everyone whom it was important to know in black and Jewish money circles. She gave Barack entrée and legitimacy. She financed and promoted his ambitions for national office.
Obama finally belonged. Not that Jarrett's record in Chicago was anything to be proud of. Jarrett was known for her corruption and incompetence. Daley finally had to fire her after a scandal erupted over her role in misuse of public funds in the city's substandard public housing. She went on to become CEO of Habitat Executive Services, pulling down $300,000 in salary and $550,000 in deferred compensation. Again, she managed a housing complex that was seized by government inspectors for slum conditions. The scandal didn't matter to Obama. The sordid corruption was all part of Jarrett's Chicago success story.
Every insider in Chicago told Klein the same thing: Jarrett has no qualifications to be the principal advisor to the president of the United States. She doesn't understand how Washington works, how relations with Congress work, how the federal process works. She doesn't understand how the economy works, how the military works, how national security works. But she understands how Obama works.
The president turns to Valerie Jarrett for definitive advice on all these issues. She has given him terrible advice over and over, and still he turns to her.
Her true job is to make Obama feel proud of himself. When Obama looks at Jarrett, he sees himself as whole and good and real. He is no longer the fake black, the fatherless kid flailing around in a white world, tortured by the unfairness of it all. She fills the emptiness at the core of his identity. She admires and adores him. Jarrett told New Yorker editor David Remnick that the president is "just too talented to do what ordinary people do." And the icing on the cake -- she shares his left-wing politics that project unfairness out onto white America.
Obama relies on Jarrett to create the White House bubble he likes to live in, where his narcissism is stroked and his desire to do the big, left-wing thing is encouraged. Jarrett is the doorman. She runs access to the president. As Klein puts it, she guards him from meeting with "critics and complainers who might deflate his ego." No one gets past Jarrett who has an incompatible point of view.
Jarrett pushed ObamaCare. At the beginning of Obama's presidency, there was pressure on Obama to focus on the economic crisis. Rahm Emanuel advised a small, bipartisan health care reform with popular items such as coverage for young adults -- to get it passed quickly and focus on the country's money problems. Jarrett urged the president to be true to his left-wing agenda. She was all for having Reid-Pelosi create the ObamaCare assault on the American health system and ramming it through on a one-party vote, using Chicago-style politics, while Obama crossed the country doing what he does best: make speeches. Obama liked Jarrett's idea. Emanuel is now out of the White House.
Jarrett pushed the Solyndra fiasco. Jarrett promoted Solyndra because one of her richest Chicago connections, billionaire George Kaiser, a top Obama bundler, had a 35% share in Solyndra. Kaiser visited the White House sixteen times.
Larry Summers, the director of the president's National Economic Council, warned Obama that the federal government should not get involved in venture capital of any sort. Summers understood that crony capitalism sabotages economic growth. Huge government funding distorts and destroys whatever market segment it touches, replacing economic decisions with political ones.
A member of Obama's finance committee warned the president that Solyndra was going bankrupt. But it is Obama and Valerie who see eye to eye, and they saw the value to Obama of rewarding his political cronies. It worked fine in Chicago. Larry Summers is now out of the White House.
Jarrett pushed Obama to take on the Catholic Church over contraception, arguing that it would appeal to single women (she was right) and that religious freedom isn't important (she was wrong). Bill Daley, who had replaced Rahm Emmanuel as chief of staff, argued against Obama pushing contraception on the Church and invited Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan of New York to meet with a displeased Obama, who didn't appreciate hearing from the Church. Daley is now out of the White House.
Valerie Jarrett is the most powerful woman in Washington. She has guided the president's decisions on health care, the budget, the stimulus, the deficit, foreign affairs.
So when Jarrett told Obama that the mission to kill bin Laden was too politically risky, and to play it safe, it is entirely plausible to believe that the president listened to her. It is consistent with everything we know about Obama's dependence on her. According to Miniter's source in the U.S. Military Joint Special Operations Command, Obama listened to her for four months, dithering and deciding no the first three times the military told him that the time to get bin Laden was now.
This account comes from Richard Miniter's upcoming book Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors who Decide for Him. Miniter has written a half-dozen books on the war on terror. He is relying on an unnamed source within the U.S. military Joint Special Operations Command who was directly involved in the operation and planning of the Osama bin Laden kill mission.
Is the story credible? According to Edward Klein, a reporter once asked Obama if he ran every decision by Jarrett. Obama answered, "Yep. Absolutely."
Edward Klein, former foreign editor of Newsweek and editor of the New York Times Magazine for many years, describes Jarrett as "ground zero in the Obama operation, the first couple's friend and consigliere." Klein -- who claims he used a minimum of two sources for each assertion in his book on the Obama presidency, The Amateur -- writes in detail about Jarrett opposing the raid on bin Laden. She told Obama not to take the political risk. Klein thought Obama ignored Jarrett's advice. Miniter tells us he listened to her, three times telling Special Operations not to take the risk to go after bin Laden.
We need to understand the role Valerie Jarrett plays in Obama's private and political life.
"If it wasn't for Valerie Jarrett, there'd be no Barack Obama to complain about," starts Klein's chapter on Jarrett. He quotes Michelle Obama on Jarrett's influence over her husband: "She knows the buttons, the soft spots, the history, the context."
No one outside Michelle has the access or power over Obama's decision-making like Jarrett does. Here's an odd little fact that gives some insight into what kind of president Obama is: Michelle, Michelle's mother, and Valerie, and only a few others in Washington, are allowed to call Barack by his first name. After work, Jarrett joins Obama at night in the Family Quarters, where she dines often with the First Family. She goes on vacation with them.
Jarrett's title is the weird mouthful "Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs." She is the gatekeeper, but she is also much more than that. She occupies Karl Rove's and Hillary's old office and has an all-access pass to meetings. She shows up at the National Security Council, at meetings on the economy and budget. She stays behind to advise Obama on what to think and do. Obama uses her as his left-wing conscience. Klein's sources describe how at each pressing issue, Obama turns to ask her, "What do you think the right thing to do is?" As president, he likes to have her next to him "as the voice of authentic blackness in a White House that is staffed largely by whites."
A longtime friend told Klein that Jarrett is the "eyes, ears and nose" of the Obamas. She tells them whom to trust, who is saying what, whom to see at home and abroad. Michelle wants her there: "I told her ... it would give me a sense of comfort to know that (Barack) had somebody like her there by his side." As Obama told the New York Times, "Valerie is one of my oldest friends. ... I trust her completely."
To understand why Obama relies so heavily on Jarrett, we must remember the president's identity crisis as a black man, which is the main subject of his memoir, Dreams from My Father. Valerie Jarrett's adoption of the Obamas as her friends and protégés in Chicago's upper-crust black society was one of the greatest things that ever happened to Obama. Until becoming a community organizer, Obama tells us he felt himself to be an inauthentic American black. Nothing in his life helped him understand or fit into the American black community.
Within a few weeks of Obama's birth, conceived out of wedlock as he was, his mother moved away to a different college, leaving Obama's African birth father behind in Honolulu. There may have been a shotgun wedding or not -- in the memoir, Obama says he is not sure. The only time Barack set eyes on his father was a brief visit when he was ten. Our president lived with his white mother, then with her and her Indonesian husband in Indonesia from age six to ten. He was so unhappy that he chose to leave his mother and live with his white grandparents back in America. Obama's Americawas the tolerant, wealthy American world of Honolulu's top prep school.
His only black experience was his grandfather's creepy old friend, Frank Marshall Davis, a card-carrying Communist and self-disclosed pederast, who was Obama's voice of authentic blackness. One result of this lonely and unhappy childhood as a mixed-race child was Barack Obama's envy problem. The key to understanding Jarrett's power over the president is that Obama didn't just envy people with normal parents and loving, successful fathers. He envied American blacks, especially those who grew up in intact black families, knowing who they were, comfortable in their black skin.
Valerie Jarrett reflects Obama in many ways. Like himself, Valerie looks more white than black. Her mother had three white grandparents, and her father was black. Like Obama, she lived in the Muslim world for part of her childhood, when her father practiced medicine in Iran. Like Obama, she is a committed leftist. But there are crucial differences. Her father was not a drunk Kenyan polygamist like Obama's, but a famous pathologist and geneticist. Her mother was not a leftist expatriate like Obama's, but a distinguished psychologist. Valerie married into Chicago's black elite, the top rung of African-American society. She went to Stanford, got a law degree from Michigan, and became Mayor Richard Daley's deputy chief of staff, "the public black face" of his administration.
When Valerie Jarrett hired Michelle to work for Daley and befriended her, the Obamas gained access to the exclusive world of upper-class black Chicago politics. Valerie knew everyone whom it was important to know in black and Jewish money circles. She gave Barack entrée and legitimacy. She financed and promoted his ambitions for national office.
Obama finally belonged. Not that Jarrett's record in Chicago was anything to be proud of. Jarrett was known for her corruption and incompetence. Daley finally had to fire her after a scandal erupted over her role in misuse of public funds in the city's substandard public housing. She went on to become CEO of Habitat Executive Services, pulling down $300,000 in salary and $550,000 in deferred compensation. Again, she managed a housing complex that was seized by government inspectors for slum conditions. The scandal didn't matter to Obama. The sordid corruption was all part of Jarrett's Chicago success story.
Every insider in Chicago told Klein the same thing: Jarrett has no qualifications to be the principal advisor to the president of the United States. She doesn't understand how Washington works, how relations with Congress work, how the federal process works. She doesn't understand how the economy works, how the military works, how national security works. But she understands how Obama works.
The president turns to Valerie Jarrett for definitive advice on all these issues. She has given him terrible advice over and over, and still he turns to her.
Her true job is to make Obama feel proud of himself. When Obama looks at Jarrett, he sees himself as whole and good and real. He is no longer the fake black, the fatherless kid flailing around in a white world, tortured by the unfairness of it all. She fills the emptiness at the core of his identity. She admires and adores him. Jarrett told New Yorker editor David Remnick that the president is "just too talented to do what ordinary people do." And the icing on the cake -- she shares his left-wing politics that project unfairness out onto white America.
Obama relies on Jarrett to create the White House bubble he likes to live in, where his narcissism is stroked and his desire to do the big, left-wing thing is encouraged. Jarrett is the doorman. She runs access to the president. As Klein puts it, she guards him from meeting with "critics and complainers who might deflate his ego." No one gets past Jarrett who has an incompatible point of view.
Jarrett pushed ObamaCare. At the beginning of Obama's presidency, there was pressure on Obama to focus on the economic crisis. Rahm Emanuel advised a small, bipartisan health care reform with popular items such as coverage for young adults -- to get it passed quickly and focus on the country's money problems. Jarrett urged the president to be true to his left-wing agenda. She was all for having Reid-Pelosi create the ObamaCare assault on the American health system and ramming it through on a one-party vote, using Chicago-style politics, while Obama crossed the country doing what he does best: make speeches. Obama liked Jarrett's idea. Emanuel is now out of the White House.
Jarrett pushed the Solyndra fiasco. Jarrett promoted Solyndra because one of her richest Chicago connections, billionaire George Kaiser, a top Obama bundler, had a 35% share in Solyndra. Kaiser visited the White House sixteen times.
Larry Summers, the director of the president's National Economic Council, warned Obama that the federal government should not get involved in venture capital of any sort. Summers understood that crony capitalism sabotages economic growth. Huge government funding distorts and destroys whatever market segment it touches, replacing economic decisions with political ones.
A member of Obama's finance committee warned the president that Solyndra was going bankrupt. But it is Obama and Valerie who see eye to eye, and they saw the value to Obama of rewarding his political cronies. It worked fine in Chicago. Larry Summers is now out of the White House.
Jarrett pushed Obama to take on the Catholic Church over contraception, arguing that it would appeal to single women (she was right) and that religious freedom isn't important (she was wrong). Bill Daley, who had replaced Rahm Emmanuel as chief of staff, argued against Obama pushing contraception on the Church and invited Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan of New York to meet with a displeased Obama, who didn't appreciate hearing from the Church. Daley is now out of the White House.
Valerie Jarrett is the most powerful woman in Washington. She has guided the president's decisions on health care, the budget, the stimulus, the deficit, foreign affairs.
So when Jarrett told Obama that the mission to kill bin Laden was too politically risky, and to play it safe, it is entirely plausible to believe that the president listened to her. It is consistent with everything we know about Obama's dependence on her. According to Miniter's source in the U.S. Military Joint Special Operations Command, Obama listened to her for four months, dithering and deciding no the first three times the military told him that the time to get bin Laden was now.
In The Amateur,
Klein reports that another worry won out. Obama was even more scared
of the political fallout if voters learned he'd passed up the chance to
get bin Laden. What decided him wasn't the national interest, but
politics. For once, the president disagreed with Valerie Jarrett. Read more at American Thinker...
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