We the People – A force to turn the Democrats out and turn the Republicans inside out! Showing up for the hard work and to restore America —to the glory God!
When one declares evil or a face of evil, a “decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires” a defense of such terms. It seems the only place to start this is—in the beginning:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. (Genesis 1:1-4, 21st Century King James Version)
Did you notice the unformed earth included darkness and its perfect Creator took immediate perfect corrective action; He created light! He saw the light. It was good. God divided the light (good) from darkness (evil). Barely into the first page of the Holy Bible we have been presented with good and evil. Let us press on to the fall of mankind from God’s perfection. Genesis 3:1-5:
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, “Yea, hath God said, ‘Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” And the woman said unto the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ‘Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.’” And the serpent said unto the woman, “Ye shall not surely die; for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
These verses are a serious dilemma for many as questions slip silently into each person’s mind. Questions like, “Is there any rational basis to believe this?” Or, “A snake—talking? Come on, get serious.” Or, “This is just silly. How can this affect me?” Many turn away from the Holy Bible at this point. Others reason that they can pick and choose among the passages of the Bible. This leads to rationalizing that there cannot be evil; a good God would never allow it. They are on the road to being “as gods” judging for themselves what is just. The prophet Isaiah puts his finger right on it:
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that count darkness as light, and light as darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! —Isaiah 5:20-21
That is what we face in our world and country in this present darkness. Governments, institutions and corporations are run by those who are self- righteously wise and prudent in their own eyes. You have already thought of examples. One example is killing little babies and calling it, “women’s rights.” Killing little babies is wrong. It is evil. Another example is perverting the institution of marriage which was established by God. Marrying two people of the same gender is not an equal “right,” it is wrong. It too is evil. We cannot even conceive the corrosion that has descended on our culture. Taking one persons property and redistributing it to others is not equity; it is stealing. This is evil.
In the past two generations, a pernicious and insidious false principle has been imposed on the American culture by those who are wise in their own eyes. It is Political Correctness. We must not let political correctness tie our hands and our tongues when we face evil that is labeled good. Commit this day to proclaim the goodness of God’s gifts and beginning this day to call evil by its name.
The Constitution belongs to We the People. We know God rules above any enterprise calling itself (or her/himself) sovereign. We know that God established His sovereignty on We the People in the English settled America. We can see who the Constitution for the United States is answerable to. Take a look:
“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Many, including me, believe our present United States government is not Constitutional. Rather than securing the God given rights of the People, this present America government is choking those rights. The Declaration of Independence addressed that possible event:
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
What to do? The Constitution for the United States of America is the oldest governing document in the History of the world. Is the proper course to abolish and replace the Constitution with something else?
Before answering that, let’s define the problem. The Constitution, under Article I, vested most power in the Congress. The Congress, throughout the past century, has relinquished most of that power to the Executive and Judicial branches.
The Judicial branch—including the Supreme Court—ignores the Constitution at will. In a recent example, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, Chief Justice Roberts actually rewrote part of the Affordable Care Act in order to rule that forcing Americans to buy something (health insurance) is a (Constitutional) tax.
The Executive, going back at least as far as President Franklin D. Roosevelt and arguably back to Woodrow Wilson, freely allocates resources at will without regard to the Congress or the People. The Executive Order has been used on an expanding basis to rule from the Oval Office. The present Executive, Barak H. Obama, has literally grabbed more power than the all the previous Presidents combined. The People have effectively been rendered powerless serfs.
The time has come. We the People must act. Following the Declaration we might at first glance determine to replace the Constitution as all others from France to Egypt have done. That would be a more egregious mistake than all the previous wrong turns combined. The Constitution is fine. It is the present UNCONSTITUTIONAL three branches that must be replaced.
First we must start, under God, with the Congress. To change the Congress, We the People must change the members of Congress. A super-majority of the Congress, committed to We the People under God—not vested interests, must act to reclaim its Constitutional role. That can be accomplished in the next two Congressional Elections. The executive is second. We the People under God must find and elect a President in 2016 that is equally committed to returning the greatest Nation of earth to Constitutional governance. Beginning in 2017, the Congress and Executive must establish immediate loyalty from the military (not easy). They must quickly get control of the firepower that’s in the hands of the several agencies that appear menacing and ominous. At this time identifying each of those agencies is not even possible.
We must not assume these three Federal branches are the only out of control power. In his new Thriller, Hidden Order, Brad Thor will inform us of very real and very sinister secret non-governmental powers at large in this present darkness.
Of course this total reversal in direction will be challenged in court every step of the way by the Marxist Progressives. Remember this, the Judiciary, the branch established under Article III, only has power at the pleasure of the other two branches. They (the other two) for example, could replace the entire Supreme Court! Remember Jefferson and Madison cut the Judiciary in half.
Our experience tells us the course of action outlined above is not possible. Surely such an effort would be crushed before it ever got off the ground. Senator Church warned as much. But we must pay attention to the formation of our force. This cannot be an uprising against entrenched power by the rag-tags that we are. This must be of God. This must only be God’s will and God’s way. We must seek only His outcome. To do only His will, we must clearly know good from evil and light from darkness. We must, at all times and in all circumstances, stand in the light and with the good. Let us commence.
A friend, Linda, was understandably and rightly distressed.She went to a 4th of July Party in a very affluent neighborhood—live band and all. She found the others, including the band, had no interest in honoring the birth of America. Linda came face to face with a challenge of our times; too many Americans don’t know and don’t care how and why America was born—why we celebrate.
There are many effective ways to explain this exceptional country. Power Line’s Scott Johnson found a profound and compelling argument. It is Abraham Lincoln’s. Scott offered it July 4th, 2004 and every July 4th since. To honor America, Abraham Lincoln and Scott Johnson, here is Scott’s post in its entirety:
On July 9, 1858, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas gave a campaign speech to a raucous throng from the balcony of the Tremont Hotel in Chicago. Abraham Lincoln was in the audience when Douglas prepared to speak. Douglas invited Lincoln to come join him on the balcony to watch the speech. In his speech Douglas rang the themes of the momentous campaign that Lincoln and Douglas waged that summer and fall for Douglas’s Senate seat.
Douglas paid tribute to Lincoln as a “kind, amiable, and intelligent gentleman, a good citizen and an honorable opponent,” but took issue with Lincoln’s June 16 speech to the Illinois Republican convention that had named him its candidate for Douglas’s seat. In that speech Lincoln had famously asserted that the nation could not exist “half slave and half free.” According to Douglas, Lincoln’s assertion was inconsistent with the “diversity” in domestic institutions that was “the great safeguard of our liberties.” Then as now, “diversity” was a shibboleth hiding an evil institution that could not be defended on its own terms.
Douglas responded to Lincoln’s condemnation of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision — a condemnation that was the centerpiece of Lincoln’s convention speech. “I am free to say to you,” Douglas said, “that in my opinion this government of ours is founded on the white basis. It was made by the white man, for the benefit of the white man, to be administered by white men, in such manner as they should determine.”
Lincoln invited Douglas’s audience to return the next evening for his reply to Douglas’s speech. Lincoln’s speech of July 10, 1858, is one of his many great speeches, but in one respect it is uniquely great. It concludes with an explanation of the meaning of this day to Americans with matchless eloquence and insight in words that remain as relevant now as then.
Now, it happens that we meet together once every year, sometime about the 4th of July, for some reason or other. These 4th of July gatherings I suppose have their uses. If you will indulge me, I will state what I suppose to be some of them.
We are now a mighty nation, we are thirty—or about thirty millions of people, and we own and inhabit about one-fifteenth part of the dry land of the whole earth. We run our memory back over the pages of history for about eighty-two years and we discover that we were then a very small people in point of numbers, vastly inferior to what we are now, with a vastly less extent of country,—with vastly less of everything we deem desirable among men,—we look upon the change as exceedingly advantageous to us and to our posterity, and we fix upon something that happened away back, as in some way or other being connected with this rise of prosperity. We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers; they were iron men, they fought for the principle that they were contending for; and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity that we now enjoy has come to us. We hold this annual celebration to remind ourselves of all the good done in this process of time of how it was done and who did it, and how we are historically connected with it; and we go from these meetings in better humor with ourselves—we feel more attached the one to the other, and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit. In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live for these celebrations. But after we have done all this we have not yet reached the whole. There is something else connected with it. We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves backinto that glorious epoch andmake themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they
look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration [loud and long continued applause], and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world. [Apl]
Now, sirs, for the purpose of squaring things with this idea of “don’t care if slavery is voted up or voted down” [Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” position on the extension of slavery to the territories], for sustaining the Dred Scott decision [A voice—“Hit him again”], for holding that the Declaration of Independence did not mean anything at all, we have Judge Douglas giving his exposition of what the Declaration of Independence means, and we have him saying that the people of America are equal to the people of England. According to his construction, you Germans are not connected with it. Now I ask you in all soberness, if all these things, if indulged in, if ratified, if confirmed and endorsed, if taught to our children, and repeated to them, do not tend to rub out the sentiment of liberty in the country, and to transform this Government into a government of some other form. Those arguments that are made, that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as they are capable of enjoying; that as much is to be done for them as their condition will allow. What are these arguments? They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the arguments in favor of king-craft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden. That is their argument, and this argument of the Judge is the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it. Turn in whatever way you will—whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent, and I hold if that course of argumentation that is made for the purpose of convincing the public mind that we should not care about this, should be granted, it does not stop with the negro. I should like to know if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle and making exceptions to it where will it stop. If one man says it does not mean a negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? If that declaration is not the truth, let us get the Statute book, in which we find it and tear it out! Who is so bold as to do it! [Voices—“me” “no one,” &c.] If it is not true let us tear it out! [cries of “no, no,”] let us stick to it then [cheers], let us stand firmly by it then. [Applause.]
Thank you, Mr. Lincoln. Let us stick to it then. Let us stand firmly by it then. (Posted annually since 2004.)
And, thank you, Mr. Johnson (Re-posted annually since 2011.)
The newly adopted Declaration of Independence was printed and copies distributed as it was read to a crowd that filled the square at what was quickly named Independence Hall in Philadelphia. These images are from the HBO miniseries:
John Adams, commenting on the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, said profoundly and prophetically:
“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty; it ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”
Just three years ago the Douglas County (GA) Tea Party finished a summer rally with Herman Cain fielding questions and comments. Cain called on what he thought was the last questioner. What he got instead, from a Viet Nam era (unnamed) Marine , was the inspired and inspiring singing of the nearly forgotten verse four of our official American National Anthem, The Star Spangled Banner. As you pause in your own celebration of Independence Day this July 4, be inspired by this spontaneous singing of verse four. Go ahead be inspired now:
There is no better time to become familiar with all 4 powerful verses of our National Anthem. They are all official. They will build our resolve for the difficult work ahead.
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro’ the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
‘T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov’d homes and the war’s desolation;
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserv’d us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Fantastic! Yes, praise the Power that made and preserved this United States of America!
Here is a short history:
In 1814, about a week after the city of Washington had been badly burned, British troops moved up to the primary port at Baltimore Harbor in Maryland. Frances Scott Key visited the British fleet in the Harbor on September 13th to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes who had been captured during the Washington raid. The two were detained on the ship so as not to warn the Americans while the Royal Navy attempted to bombard Fort McHenry. At dawn on the 14th, Key noted that the huge American flag, which now hangs in the Smithsonian’s American History Museum, was still waving and had not been removed in defeat. The sight inspired him to write a poem entitled Defense of Fort McHenry; later the poem was set to music that had been previously composed by a Mr. Smith. The song was immediately noted as an inspiring song that should be the national anthem of the United States of America. It was accepted as such by public demand for the next century or so, but became even more accepted as the national anthem during the World Series of Baseball in 1917 when it was sung in honor of the brave armed forces fighting in the Great War. The World Series performance moved everyone in attendance, and after that it was repeated for every game. Finally, on March 3, 1931, the American Congress proclaimed it as the national anthem, 116 years after it was first written.
Celebrate America with this all time most popular singing of our National Anthem by the late Whitney Houston.
Those looking for a secular Declaration of Independence are about to have their world and their worldview shattered. By the end of this Post you will know the powerful truth about the Christian character of the Declaration of Independence and of the men who adopted it.
Benjamin F. Morris wrote his 1060 page book, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States in 1864. The Second Continental Congress is a prime example. The Declaration is informed by the Holy Bible, Natural Law and the political philosophy of John Locke.
You will be thrilled as you see the Declaration in its three sections and understand its 9 key concepts. Don’t be surprised if you watch a second time.
July 2, 1776 The Declaration of Independence Was Adopted by the 13 “States.” This American Declaration of Independence Was and Still Remains the Foundation of the United States of America
June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress selected Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York to draft a declaration of independence. As they discussed their task, Adams asked Jefferson to write the document.
As he was completing what is now known as the first draft, Jefferson counseled with Franklin and Adams. Jefferson had written, “. . . that among these [rights] are Life, Liberty and the [individual] ownership of property. Adams strongly urged that the pursuit of virtue be added. Jefferson, knowing that something special was on his parchment, adamantly insisted the enumerated rights must be the three—in that order. Franklin, demonstrating his value to our emerging nation, counseled they could accomplish both goals by simply covering virtue and property with the phrase, pursuit of happiness. It was agreed. Jefferson then presented his first draft to the full committee. One charge against the tyrant was struck from the document (that of condemning him for introducing the slave trade into the colonies).
Jefferson’s final draft was presented to the Congress for action. It was read and adopted July 2, 1776. Here is the dramatization of the adoption from the HBO miniseries, John Adams.
The adopted Declaration of Independence was printed and distributed at a public reading July 4, 1776 with much fanfare. The signing of the original document was completed August 2, 1776.
Today, as part of the continuing determined effort to “fundamentally transform” America, the Declaration of Independence is alternately ignored, attacked and denigrated. We must be equipped and motivated to successfully defend this gift to the entire world but especially to America. Tomorrow, July 3, 2012, we will fill that need here at The Patriot’s Trumpet.
The American patriots of the fourth quarter of the eighteenth are called founders in history and
in common parlance today. But Lincoln saw another dimension. Hear him as He begins the Gettysburg Address:
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty . . .”
Did you hear him? Listen! Did you hear? These “fathers” were not founders, they were mid-wives! Notice it is not, “conceived inliberty;” it is, “conceived in Liberty!” Liberty is from God. Actually, it is more than that. Liberty is a quality of God. That capitalization is not used casually. Liberty was born from above!
A clear reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for the United States of America shows that, from the beginning, Americans have acted with confidence that We the People have a sovereignty under God and the government together with the officers of that government (at any level) are subject to We the People. That American reality is under attack today by the secular forces at large, by the President and his top executives, by millions of federal, state and local bureaucrats, by a near controlling entrenched congressional contingent, by Federal and many state courts and, too often, from Christian pastors and leaders.
You and I, like the American revolutionaries know rights are gifts from our Sovereign God. Government cannot give what it does not have. Governments can only take.
On the other hand, for the French revolutionaries, and, in our time, the progressive left, rights are made up by an all-powerful government. Rights are parceled out to the supplicants. What they always do, however, is impose restrictions and penalties and taxes and regulations that choke and smother Liberty.
Let us commit to turn our country back to her birthright and her promise. As we mark the 150 anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg and prepare for Independence Day, reflect with me on the 266 words of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us–that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion–that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
President Obama is not a Muslim. You can find dozens of images of Obama dancing. No Quran believing Muslim would be caught dead dancing or they are destined to have molten lead poured into their ears (Spring Fever, p 36). But he is always available, on behalf of the United States, to sell Islam, a declared enemy of our United States, as a partner in peace. Do not be mistaken, this is calling good evil and evil good pure and simple. Here again, through word and deed, Obama offers his face to the evil that is Islam. This is a full discussion of the matter.
The morning after the al Qaeda linked terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, September 12, 2012, President Obama declared, “Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.”
This is false! At our founding, we were being hijacked by the jihadists of the day in the Mediterranean. President Jefferson was the first President (perhaps first American) to own a Quran. He called it “The Book of Jihad.” America fought its first war against the evil that is Islam. Obama did not stop there. He proceeded for five and a half minutes to lay the entire false foundation for the Benghazi cover-up. Then he flew off to campaign in Las Vegas while the bodies of the dead Americans were still warm.
Watch the full statement:
The next day, September 13, 2012, Secretary Clinton, knowing it was false, blamed a “disgusting and reprehensible” video. It denigrates “a great religion,” she lied.
Obama spoke these lies among many in his speech in Cairo, 2009
I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. …
I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. Watch more here:
Under “Empowering women to live healthier lives,” Kathleen Sebelius’ Dept of HHS gives you a “Female Genital Cutting Fact sheet” where they falsely state, “Although many people believe that FGC is associated with Islam, it is not.”
Yes, it is associated with Islam. It is not universal in Islam but, where it is practiced, it is an evil vicious part of Islamic misogyny. It is anything but, “principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”
Here is Andrew C. McCarthy with a correct view of Islamic evil, October 25, 2012:
Much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, al Qaeda did not make up sharia law. Islam did. And in the West, it is a key tenet of due process that law is imposed literally — ambiguous laws violate the principle that people of ordinary intelligence must be on fair notice of what is prohibited. There’s nothing “gratuitous” about applying as it is written.
We can keep our heads tucked snug in the sand, or we can recognize the source of the problem. As I detail in Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, the literalist construction of sharia that al Qaeda’s local franchise is enforcing in Mali is “literal” because it comes from Islamic scripture, not from some purportedly “extremist” fabrication of Islam. Moreover, while it seems only militant jihadists proudly urge this construction in practice, it is enthusiastically endorsed in principle by two of the most influential institutions in the Islamic Middle East: al Azhar University and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Don’t just take my word for it. Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law is not some al Qaeda pamphlet. It is a renowned explication of sharia’s provisions and their undeniable roots in Muslim scripture. In the English translation, before you get to chapter and verse, there are formal endorsements from the International Institute of Islamic Thought — a U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood think-tank begun in the early eighties (and to which American administrations of both parties have resorted as an exemplar of “moderation”) — and from the Islamic Research Academy at al Azhar University, the ancient seat of Sunni learning to which President Obama famously turned to co-sponsor hiscloyingly deceptive 2009 speech on relations between Islam and the West (“We certify,” the famed scholars wrote, that the “translation corresponds to the Arabic original and conforms to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni Community…. There is no objection to printing it and circulating it…. May Allah give you success in serving Sacred Knowledge and the religion.” There could be no more coveted stamp of scholarly approval in Islam.).
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Reliance is also endorsed by Islamic authorities in Jordan (leading influences on a largely Palestinian population that may well overthrow the pro-Western monarchy) and Syria (leading influences on the “rebels” on whose side interventionists — including both presidential candidates — would have us jump to abet the Muslim Brotherhood’s ongoing campaign to oust the minority Alawite Assad regime).
Here, as I summarize in Spring Fever – quoted verbatim and supported by citations — is what Reliance has to say about the arts:
It is forbidden to make pictures of “animate life,” for doing so “imitates the creative act of Allah Most High”; “Whoever makes a picture, Allah shall torture him with it on the Day of Judgment until he can breathe life into it, and he will never be able to.” (Reliance w50.0 & ff.)
“Musical instruments of all types are unlawful.” Singing is generally prohibited (for “song makes hypocrisy grow in the heart as water does herbage), and “[o]n the Day of Resurrection Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress.”
However, if unaccompanied by musical instruments, song and poetry drawn from Islamic scripture and encouraging obedience to Allah are permissible. Ironically, although music is generally forbidden, dancing is permissible “unless it is languid, like the movements of the effeminate.” (Reliance r40.0 &ff.)
Those sharia provisions are complemented by these — again, endorsed by al-Azhar, the Muslim Brotherhood, and our “moderate” “allies” in the region:
Apostasy from Islam is “the ugliest form of unbelief” for which the penalty is death (“When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed”). (Reliance o8.0 & ff.)
Apostasy occurs not only when a Muslim renounces Islam but also, among other things, when a Muslim appears to worship an idol, when he is heard “to speak words that imply unbelief,” when he makes statements that appear to deny or revile Allah or the prophet Mohammed, when he is heard “to deny the obligatory character of something which by consensus of Muslims is part of Islam,” and when he is heard “to be sarcastic about any ruling of the Sacred Law.” (Reliance o8.7; see also p9.0 & ff.)
[Note: These latter prohibitions against denying or reviling any aspect of Islam, Allah or the prophet are the basis for imposing death for blasphemy. The call to kill apostates for such offenses obviously applies with equal or greater force to non-Muslims, who are pervasively treated worse than Muslims by sharia (see, e.g., Sura 9:29:
“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold forbidden which had been forbidden by Allah and his Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, from among the people of the book [i.e., Christians and Jews], until they pay the jizya [the poll tax imposed on non-believers for the privilege of living in the Islamic state] and feel themselves subdued.”)]
“Jihad means to war against non-Muslims.” (Reliance o9.0.)
It is an annual requirement to donate a portion of one’s income to the betterment of the ummah (an obligation called zakat, which is usually, and inaccurately, translated as “charity” –zakat can only be given to Muslims and is designed strictly to fortify the Muslim community, not benefit the less fortunate generally); of this annual donation, one-eighth must be given to “those fighting for Allah, meaning people engaged in Islamic military operations for whom no salary has been allotted in the army roster…. They are given enough to suffice them for the operation even if they are affluent; of weapons, mounts, clothing and expenses.” (Reliance, h8.1-17.)
Non-Muslims are permitted to live in an Islamic state only if they follow the rules of Islam, pay the non-Muslim poll tax, and comply with various adhesive conditions designed to remind them that they have been subdued, such as wearing distinctive clothing, keeping to one side of the street, not being greeted with “Peace be with you” (“as-Salamu alaykum”), not being permitted to build as high as or higher than Muslims, and being forbidden to build new churches, recite prayers aloud, “or make public displays of their funerals or feast-days.” (Reliance o11.0 & ff.)
Offenses committed against Muslims, including murder, are more serious than offenses committed against non-Muslims. (Reliance o1.0 & ff; p2.0-1.)
The penalty for spying against Muslims is death. (Reliancep50.0 & ff; p.74.0& ff.)
The penalty for fornication is to be stoned to death, unless one is without the “capacity to remain chaste,” in which case the penalty is “being scourged one hundred stripes and banished to a distance of at least 81 km./50mi. for one year.” (Relianceo12.0 & ff.)
The penalty for homosexual activity (“sodomy and lesbianism”) is death. (Reliance p17.0 & ff.)
A Muslim woman may only marry a Muslim man; a Muslim man may marry up to four women, who may be Muslim, Christian, or Jewish (but no apostates from Islam). (Reliance m6.0 & ff. – Marriage.)
A woman is required to be obedient to her husband and is prohibited from leaving the marital home without permission; if permitted to go out, she must conceal her figure or alter it “to a form unlikely to draw looks from men or attract them.” (Reliancep42.0 & ff.)
A non-Muslim may not be awarded custody of a Muslim child. (Reliance m13.2-3.)
A woman has no right of custody of her child from a previous marriage when she remarries “because married life will occupy her with fulfilling the rights of her husband and prevent her from tending to the child.” (Reliance m13.4.)
The penalty for theft is amputation of the right hand. (Relianceo14.0.)
The penalty for drinking alcohol is “to be scourged forty stripes.” (Reliance o16.3; p.14.2.)
The penalty for accepting interest (“usurious gain”) is death (i.e., to be considered in a state of war against Allah). (Reliancep7.0 & ff.)
The testimony of a woman is worth half that of a man. (Relianceo24.7.)
If a case involves an allegation of fornication (including rape), “then it requires four male witnesses.” (Reliance o24.9.)
The establishment of a caliphate is obligatory, and the caliph must be Muslim and male. “The Prophet … said, “Men are already destroyed when they obey women.” (Reliance o25.0 & ff; see also p28.0, on Mohammed’s condemnation of “masculine women and effeminate men.”)
This is not al Qaeda doctrine. This is Shariah, authoritatively explained and endorsed. It is not the construction of Islam that many Muslims in the West wish to live under. But it is the mainstream supremacist Islam of the Middle East, which Islamic leaders — including those who come to the West to preach it — would not dream of discrediting, even if they are not as enthusiastic as al Qaeda where imposing it is concerned.
The State Department and the leading foreign policy voices of both major American political parties say sharia is perfectly compatible with “democracy” and the Western conception of human rights — of liberty and equality. Sure it is. And then you wonder why the Obama administration opens a consulate in Benghazi, one of the most perilous places in the world for Americans, refuses to safeguard it despite multiple pleas for beefed up security, and then fraudulently claims a pluperfectly predictable atrocity was caused by a video no one ever saw. If you’re going to live in a dreamworld, better get used to nightmare consequences.
We are surrounded by evil in this present darkness. That is the harsh reality in America for today’s devout Catholics, Bible believing Protestants and freedom loving Jews. None of us are ready for it. We have been so comfortable in our American Liberty we forgot its cost. The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance. We went far too long without that vigilance. As we pick up the burden that looms before us, we must clearly understand this evil is our enemy and we must know our enemy.
Let us this day put a face on this evil that envelops us. There are several identifiable candidates for this present evil’s face and certainly many unidentifiable faces lurking in the darkness. But one man (face) in word and deed has clearly stepped forward. This is tough to write and will be devastating to read. We must face it and, tough as it is, this will not be our toughest task.
For this time and this place, this is the face of evil: President Barak Obama.
In the next weeks as we head through the 237th anniversary of this “new nation conceived in Liberty,” we will build a case here for that declaration—that face. This post is a first example of how President Obama is using Islam, an evil sworn enemy of America, Israel, Liberty and God Himself, for his purposes. Obama has thrown America in with al Qaeda linked (Sunni) jihadists in Syria against another evil, the Shiah and Russian backed al-Assad regime. The following image is disturbing (but necessary). It is linked to a video showing a crowd of President Obama’s allies cheering “allahu akbar” as they behead what are apparently Sunni Supporters of al-Assad. I trust you are in prayer as you watch here.
The time has come for men and women of integrity, with an unwavering commitment to freedom and the Constitution in their hearts, to come together once again, en masse, to show the ruling class in DC that their long train of abuses has come to an end.
Speakers headlined by Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz
Include Glenn Beck, Senator Mike Lee, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Rand Paul, Jenny Beth Martin, Rep. Steve King, Rep. Dave Camp, Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Rep. Jim Bridenstine, Rep. John Fleming, Rep. Tom Graves, Rep. Tom Price, Rep. Mike Kelly, Rep. Matt Salmon, Tea Party Leaders, Dana Loesch, Steve Bannon, Sonnie Johnson, Jim Hoft, Niger Innis and Andrew Marcus.
Here is all the motivation and focus you’ll need in 150 seconds:
To do all I can each day for as long as I can to help ensure that my grandchildren’s children have the same opportunity and Liberty my generation has enjoyed, to the glory of God.
The Patriot's Trumpet 