COULD WAR BE ON THE HORIZON AS THE HEAT RISES IN THE RUSSIA AND TURKEY DEBATE WHERE NOW "ALL CO-OPERATION CHANNELS" HAVE BEEN SEVERED??

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Russia Cuts All Military And Diplomatic Ties With Turkey As War Looms by Geoffrey Grider All military contacts with Turkey have been cut following the downing of Russia's Su-24 military jet, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday "Today, in accordance with a previously made decision, all cooperation channels have been cut between the Russian Defense Ministry and the Turkish Armed Forces," ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov told reporters. "This concerns all ties, not just the so-called hotline that was launched in order to avoid possible air incidents during the destruction of terrorist infrastructure in Syria," he added. The decision has been made after Turkish fighter jets on Tuesday had shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber, which had been taking part in Russia's anti-terror campaign in Syria. Ankara claims it downed the Russian plane because it violated Turkish airspace. Contrary to Turkey’s allegations, the Russian General Staff and the Syrian Air Defense Command confirmed that the Su-24 never crossed into Turkish airspace, citing precise objective control data. Russian President Vladimir Putin described the incident as a "stab in the back, carried out against us by accomplices of terrorists." Following the downing of the Su-24 bomber, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the incident would negatively affect all aspects of relations between Moscow and Ankara and recommended Russians to refrain from visiting Turkey. Cooperation in the tourism industry between Moscow and Ankara may be stopped, the Russian Federal Tourism Agency said. Russia may also restrict or even ban Turkish vessels and aircraft from entering Russian ports and airspace, according to Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev. source

PUTIN AND RUSSIA WARN OF "SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES" AFTER A NATO COUNTRY DOWNS A RUSSIAN MILITARY JET FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1953!!!

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Turkey Wants To Start A War And Putin Is Going To Give Them One by Geoffrey Grider Russia warns of 'serious consequences' after Nato country downs Russian military jet for first time since 1953 "The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap." Isaiah 17:1 (KJV) EDITOR'S NOTE: It is obvious that Turkey illegally shot down the Russian jet today in order to get NATO to fight against Russia. This attack was nothing more than a provocation to war. But the Turks have picked a fight with the wrong country, Putin is not an all-talk sissy boy like Barack Obama is. Make no mistake, Putin will issue a response, and it's going to be a hard one to swallow. The Russian bear is awake, Magog doesn't take prisoners. Just ask Ezekiel... A 'monstrous' new crisis has begun after Turkey shot down a Russian military plane, sparking fears of a war. Vladimir Putin  has accused the Turks of a 'stab in the back', branding them 'accomplices of terrorists'. Russia warned the incident – the first time a Nato country has downed a Russian military jet since 1953 – would have 'serious consequences'. And a leading Moscow military analyst said war was 'most likely'. Putin has broken off any military contact with Turkey in the fight against ISIS and is deploying a warship, with an air defence system, to the Mediterranean Sea. The cruiser will destroy 'any targets representing a potential danger' to Russian forces in Syria. Turkey in meetings to get NATO to fight Putin Its defence ministry also said that Russian bombers carrying out airstrikes in Syria will now be escorted by jet fighters. Britain has already declared that military back-up is on standby to support Turkey in any revenge attack by Putin's forces. President Barack Obama also pledged America's support for Turkey following a phone call with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. Two Russian pilots were shot dead by Syrian rebels as they parachuted from their burning warplane, it was claimed yesterday. A third was killed during a mission to rescue the pair as another rebel group shot a helicopter with an anti-tank missile. Disturbing footage shows a dead pilot covered in blood on the ground as anti-government fighters gather chanting 'Allahu Akbar' – Arabic for 'God is great'. Another video appeared to show forces shooting at the pilots with machine guns after they had ejected from the Sukhoi Su-24, which had been blasted by two Turkish F-16 jets for violating the country's airspace. Gunfire can be heard as one of the rebels cries: 'Don't shoot, let's capture them as hostages.' The rebels – ethnic Turks backed by Turkey and fighting dictator Bashar al-Assad, who has been supported by Russia – said the pilots were killed as they parachuted over north-west Syria. Last night Russia confirmed the death of only one of the pilots and the crew member killed during the rescue mission. Footage also emerged of rebels firing the anti-tank missile at one of the two helicopters sent to rescue the pilots. source

GREETINGS FROM AMERICA, AND SOME EARLY REMINDERS FOR YOUR DIARIES FOR THE NEW YEAR!

Dear Friends,

Further to my notice of yesterday, there has been a slight change of plan, and I will now be speaking at "The Fellowship Of Truth And Life" in Newark on May 21st, and not February 20th as previously advertised. 

My subject for the two sessions will be "WAITING - STILL WAITING", and there is the possibility that I will be speaking at the local Baptist church in Newark on the Sunday morning as well, but this is still to be confirmed.

On the Saturday, there will be two meetings from 2pm to 5pm with a break in the middle for light refreshments. The address of the venue is:

The Bridge Community Centre,

Lincoln Road,

Newark,

Notts,

NG24 2DQ.

Further information from Brian Capes on 07799 651594 or email at  briancapes@talktalk.net

I am away in America at the moment visiting family and friends, and also celebrating Gilly's sixtieth birthday here with our close family. I will be returning on the 10th December, having been in the USA since 4th November.

Please bear in mind these dates, if anyone wants to get in touch with me, or is wondering why I have not been replying to emails as quickly as I normally do? The internet access over here is variable as I move from place to place, and sometimes I only have "cranky old steam age computers" to work with!

There are several new meetings and projects lined up for the New Year, so please bear in mind the NEWARK meeting above, and also our Early Spring Holiday Retreat lined up for Bournemouth (see details above). There will also be other meetings to advertise soon.

Hope to see you all again soon on my return to the United Kingdom.

Maranatha Blessings,

Brian.

A METHODIST VIEW OF THE RECENT AND ON-GOING PARIS CRISIS!!

PARIS CRISIS - A METHODIST VIEW

Yes, CRISIS (Greek for 'judgement'), the only word for recent events...

Accordingly, never did the UK's religious establishment appear more cowed and inept than in Sunday's 'Songs of Praise'. Apart from the Catholic Cardinal's gasp that the Paris butchery was 'a blasphemy against God', nothing of substance was said. The programme drowned in a sea of pious 'candle-lit' sentimentality and political correctness. The clergymen should have issued calls to repentance, as Christ would have done (see Luke 13: 1-5). In answer to the question, "Where was God?" the Anglican Archbishop should have said, "He was there in judgement." Not to ignore Christ's point that the victims were not worse sinners than the rest of us, the band at the Bataclan theatre was performing satanic songs just as the audience was sprayed with bullets. The Cardinal should also have said that Islam itself is a blasphemy against God and humanity. Inspired by violent jihadism predating the medieval Crusader response, its infidel ideology inspired the atrocity. Furthermore, as faithful Old Testament prophets would say, since God raised up the pagan Babylonians to punish decadent Israel, so - as John Wesley would say (see below) - God is using evil Islam (eventually to be destroyed as the Babylonians were) as the scourge of the decadent West. 

O that we had leaders like John Wesley (probably disowned by today's Methodists), who correctly diagnosed the threat we face while pointing to the only remedy that can save us. READ ON...

WESLEY ON ISLAM

Dr Alan C. Clifford

Throughout his long and effective ministry, John Wesley (1703-91) frequently lamented the damaging impact of nominal Christianity.  Truthless, faithless, loveless and lifeless Christians provide the best excuse for others to reject the claims of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  What Paul said of the Jews has often sadly been true of Christians: 'The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you' (Romans 2: 24).  How often have modern Muslims taunted so-called 'western Christians' for the moral decadence of their affluent and immoral lifestyle! This is not a new or exclusively Muslim criticism either.  Regarding the corruption of the early Eastern Church just before the 7th century rise of Islam, John Wesley remarked that ‘Surely Mahometanism was let loose to reform the Christians!’ (Journal for 5 August 1754).  If God permitted the rise of Islam to bring judgement on corrupt Christian civilization, the current Muslim menace may be viewed in the same way.

Of course, secular prosperity tends to encourage the cancer of religious nominalism and indifference.  Christ's parable of the Rich Fool says it all (see Luke 12: 13-21).  Affluence easily robs believers of spiritual sincerity and vitality, and even morality.  But what has been true of Jews and Christians, is also true of Muslims.  They too have been seduced and 'softened' by the material comforts available in the West and can be just as charming and cultured - and corrupt - as some nominal Christians.  They often distance themselves from the past and present violence of Islam in the same breath as reminding Christians of their equally violent past.  

However, there is a problem.  While the Bible condemns the selfish materialism and persecuting tendencies of Christians (chiefly Roman Catholics but sometimes Protestants too), the Qur'an [Koran] urges physical violence in the name of Allah and the spread of Islam.  While so-called moderate Muslims in the West seem to pose little physical threat to their non-Muslim neighbours, they are not consistent with the profile of a good Muslim according to the Qur'an.  The terrible truth is that what happened in the USA on September 11, 2001 and all subsequent atrocities is fully consistent with Qur'anic teaching.  Thus, the nominally Christian and secularized, sodomized West faces two challenges.  First, the spiritual and moral debilitation of its own decadent and hypocritical Christianity (creating a void which many uninformed and cynical westerners fill with Islam); and second, the full and frightful consequences of Islamic revival and progress, boosted by the 'swarming' migrants to Europe.  Despite the disclaimers of many ‘moderate’ Muslims following the horrors of 9/11, Paris and Mali, John Wesley would remind us today of the true character of Islam.  We ignore his words at our peril:

Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth!  Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind.

The Doctrine of Original Sin, Works (1841), ix. 205.

How far and wide has this miserable delusion spread over the face of the earth!  Insomuch that [Muslims] are considerably more in number (as six to five) than Christians.  And by all accounts, ... these are also, in general, as utter strangers to all true religion as their four-footed brethren; as void of mercy as lions and tigers; as much given up to brutal lusts as bulls or goats: so that they are in truth a disgrace to human nature.

The General Spread of the Gospel, Works, vi. 261.

These facts dictate that the Islamic religion should be fearlessly and fervently opposed.  John Wesley’s brother Charles even composed a hymn on the subject.  Perhaps not one of his best, and long since deleted from Methodist hymn books, a strong case may be made for its revival.  Its ‘non PC' poetry is refreshingly direct and timelessly true: 

For the Mahometans

Sun of unclouded righteousness,

With healing in thy wings arise,

A sad benighted world to bless,

Which now in sin and error lies,

Wrapt in Egyptian night profound;

With chains of hellish darkness bound.

2  The smoke of the infernal cave,

Which half the Christian world o’er-spread,

Disperse, thou heavenly Light, and save

The souls by that Imposter led,

That Arab thief, as Satan bold,

Who quite destroy’d thy Asian fold.

3  O might the blood of sprinkling cry

For those who spurn the sprinkled blood!

Assert thy glorious Deity,

Stretch out thine arm, thou triune God!

The Unitarian fiend expel,

And chase his doctrine back to hell.

4  Come, Father, Son and Holy Ghost,

Thou Three in One, and One in Three!

Resume thy own, for ages lost,

Finish the dire apostasy;

Thy universal claim maintain,

And Lord of the creation reign! 

Charles Wesley 

Hymns for the People called Methodists (1874), 443

We may well surmise what John Wesley would say about the recent brutal activities of ISIL: it would surely be: "I told you so!"  Doubtless he would add that unless the spineless and spiritless West truly turns to Christ with head and heart, lip and life, talk and walk, then what has happened elsewhere will continue happening.  May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon us!

Of course, a greater judgement than Islam could ever inflict on the world is coming.  We await the return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who will judge the world in righteousness.  Then Muslims, merely nominal Christians and others who have rejected Christ as God, Lord and Saviour will tremble in dread and despair.  Still, in this eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute, mercy is available for everyone - including penitent Muslims, as John Wesley eloquently reminds us:

He willeth not that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance; by repentance, to faith in a bleeding Lord; by faith, to spotless love, to the full image of God renewed in the heart, and producing all holiness of conversation.  Can you doubt this, when you remember, the Judge of all is likewise the Saviour of all?  Hath he not bought you with his own blood, that ye might not perish, but have everlasting life?  O make proof of his mercy, rather than his justice; of his love, rather than the thunder of his power!  He is not far from every one of us; and he is now come, not to condemn, but to save the world.  He standeth in the midst!  Sinner, doth he not now, even now, knock at the door of thy heart?  O that thou mayest know, at least in this thy day, the things that belong unto thy peace!  O that ye may now give yourselves to Him who gave himself for you, in humble faith, in holy, active, patient love!  So shall ye rejoice with exceeding joy in his day, when he cometh in the clouds of heaven.

The Great Assize, Works, v. 173.

Dr Alan C. Clifford

NORWICH REFORMED CHURCH

www.nrchurch.co.nr

HERE IS A RARITY - AN ARAB LEADER SUPPORTING ISRAEL!! THE SAUDI PRINCE AL WALEED BIN TALAL STANDS BY THE DEMOCRATIC JEWISH STATE!!!

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Saudi Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Makes Jaw-Dropping Statement About Israel by Geoffrey Grider In a startling statement, Saudi prince al Waleed bin Talal has said that he would side with Israel in case of a Palestinian uprising and that he would attempt to break any Arab initiatives set to condemn the Jewish nation. “I will side with the Jewish nation and its democratic aspirations in case of outbreak of a Palestinian Intifada (uprising),” bin Talal was quoted as saying by Kuwaiti Al Qabas daily. “I shall exert all my influence to break any ominous Arab initiatives set to condemn Tel Aviv, because I deem the Arab-Israeli entente and futurefriendship necessary to impede the Iranian dangerous encroachment,” he added. According to the Kuwaiti daily, the prince and entrepreneur urged the Saudi Kingdom to devise a new strategy to combat Iran’s increasing influence in Gulf States by forging a defense pact with Tel Aviv to deter any possible Iranian moves in the light of unfolding developments in Syria and Moscow’s military intervention. The Saudi prince is on a regional tour, visiting the other Gulf Arab littoral states–Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman–to muster support for Saudi-backed rebels in Syria, reported the daily. “The whole Middle East dispute is tantamount to matter of life and death for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from my vantage point, and I know that Iranians seek to unseat the Saudi regime by playing the Palestinian card, hence to foil their plots Saudi Arabia and Israel must bolster their relations and form a united front to stymie Tehran’s ambitious agenda,” Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) reported him as saying on Tuesday. The Saudi prince maintained that Iran sought to bolster its presence in the Mediterranean by supporting the Assad regime in Syria. He added that Russia had become a real co-belligerent force in Syria’s four-year-old civil war by attacking CIA-trained rebels which was why there was a need for a Saudi-Israeli nexus to frustrate Russia-Iran-Hezbollah axis. Further, he said that Riyadh and Tel Aviv must achieve a modus vivendi, for Saudi policy in regard to Arab-Israeli crisis was no longer tenable. Bin Talal also spoke about Saudi Arabia’s military presence in Bahrain to stifle the 2011 pro-deaconry movement. Further, he said that Riyadh and Tel Aviv must achieve a modus vivendi, for Saudi policy in regard to Arab-Israeli crisis was no longer tenable. Bin Talal also spoke about Saudi Arabia’s military presence in Bahrain to stifle the 2011 pro-deaconry movement. “…You know the union with Bahrain doesn’t explicitly mean to annex our dear neighbours, but in fact we are wary about the future of Bahrain, its people security and well-being. Bahrain is the home to US fifth fleet which its presence is of vital interest for Saudi Arabia, thus we cannot permit Iran to wreak havoc in our back yard.” source

RABBI YITZHAK KADURI'S REVELATION IN HIS BOOK IS SHOCKING THE JEWS IN ISRAEL!!

The book, The Rabbi Who Found Messiah,  

leads Jews to the Written Word of God

and to salvation.

Isaiah 61:1 -

"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,

Because the Lord has anointed me

To bring good news to the afflicted;

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

To proclaim liberty to captives

And freedom to prisoners."

Isaiah 9:2 -

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.

The coming of the Messiah was associated with renewal and redemption. Though this was to be understood primarily in spiritual terms, it would also be manifested in the physical world. Yeshua began His ministry with the announcement that the long-awaited Messianic Age had dawned. Reading from the scroll of Isaiah, He announced that this prophecy was now being fulfilled: "The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor" (Luke 4:18). From that time on, He went about performing miracles attesting to His messianic calling - restoring sight to the blind, opening the ears of the deaf, casting out demons and healing the lame. But these miraculous healings showed the pitiful spiritual condition and blindness of humanity as a whole, and our need for spiritual healing. The mission of the Messiah was to bring healing and restoration for all people who were stumbling in darkness, blinded by the god of this age and held captive by sin.

Many times when we share the Good News, people think it sounds Christian. The fact is it's in the Hebrew Tanach (Old Testament) and is one of the most Jewish messages ever. Isaiah 61:1 is the Good News of Yeshua the Messiah.

KADURI'S REVELATION

IS SHOCKING THE JEWS IN ISRAEL

All people are looking for something in life. Many are without hope and do not understand that without the Good News of Yeshua the Messiah, there can be no true and lasting hope.

We, at Messiah of Israel Ministries, were led by the Holy Spirit to proclaim the Good News to the people of Israel whoever are old and young, sick and crippled, and some appeared sad. After praying, we were guided to share Isaiah 61:1.

There were opportunities to share the wonderful Good News with all kinds of people and pray for them. The light of Yeshua was hovering over the dark place.

One man named Moti overheard Zev sharing God's love with a Bible and the book, The Rabbi Who Found Messiah. He approached  

and said: "Let me read the note. I know Kaduri's hand writing." Zev then read the book with Moti. After reading the note Rabbi Kaduri left that Yeshua is the Messiah, he was in shock. Moti said: "I can't believe it..." 

Moti shocked after reading Rabbi Kaduri's note that Yeshua is the Messiah

 

Zev knew it was time to go to the Written Word God. After reading many Bible verses, Zev shared God's love to Moti. Moti said: "Don't you read the newspapers? Don't you see the world is going crazy? What are you talking about? There is no hope anymore." Zev asked if they could sit down to talk. Moti told Zev that he usually never opens his heart to anyone, but he felt there was a special reason to share with Zev. They spent many hours in the Word. Moti said his life is a wreck and the world is also a wreck. Zev told Moti: "God loves you so much and He does not want you to be miserable. Our God wants you to be happy. Yes, there will always be troubles in this world, but through the wonderful love of God we can overcome." 

Moti in the Word. Praise Yeshua. 

  

 

Moti shared his experiences in the past few years. He has lost his wife who died of cancer and is lonely. He has three sons who are always busy, and Moti sees them only few times a year. Moti poured out his heart with tears flowing down his face: "I am all alone and you want to tell me there is hope. Where, when and how? Zev told Moti how sorry he was for his loss, and how God sending Zev to Holon that day, and Moti calling Zev over to talk, is not a coincidence. It's the hand of God. 

It was clear Moti was a very lonely man who so desperately needed our Lord Yeshua. After hearing about the love of God, Moti asked where in the Bible its says we have hope. Glory to Yeshua! Moti was hungry for the true WORD. Zev told him there is hope and wonderful Good News in the Tanach (Old Testament).  Zev then opened the Word to  

Isaiah 61:1 - 

 

"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, 

Because the Lord has anointed Me 

To bring good news to the afflicted; 

He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, 

To proclaim liberty to captives, 

And freedom to prisoners."   

After many hours of Bible studying, Zev shared the full Gospel of Yeshua with Moti. Praise Yeshua. Moti said he felt different now, and he was so happy God sent Zev to him today. "Will we be able to meet again?" asked Moti. 

 

Once again the book, The Rabbi Who Found Messiah, opened the Word of God to Moti who is hungry for the truth. Please pray Moti will come to know the King of kings, Lord of Lords, Yeshua the Messiah. Amen.

Zev continued to share with many. It was a supernatural outreach. Praise the Lord Yeshua.

THE GERMAN TOWN OF ELLWANGEN IS TAKEN OVER BY MUSLIM MIGRANTS DEFECATING IN PEOPLE'S GARDENS, STEALING FROM LOCAL STORES, AND CAUSING RIOTS IN CHURCH BUILDINGS!!!

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Muslim Migrants In Germany Riot In Churches, Steal From Stores And Defecate In Gardens by Geoffrey Grider Residents in the German town of Ellwangen are reporting that thousands of Muslim migrants who recently arrived are defecating on people’s gardens, staging riots in church and stealing from local stores, while police in the area struggle to cope with the disorder. Ellwangen, which has a population of around 23,500 and a strong Catholic community, was recently inundated with 4,500 Muslim asylum seekers who are staying in the old army barracks on the edge of town. The original plan was to house just 500 immigrants, but this quickly ballooned to ten times that figure, at which point “serious mass brawls and conflicts” began, prompting the police to be called out routinely. The state government is set to fork out €5.1 million euros of taxpayer money to renovate and expand the barracks. A friend of a local reports that store owners are struggling to do any business since people are afraid to go into town because of the migrants. “I read about serious theft problems in stores where ‘refugees’ walk in, take what they want or need, and walk out again without paying,” writes the individual. “In the beginning, grocery stores called the police, but stopped doing so after they were told to write up the losses and contact someone at the local municipality to reimburse them. (I had a verbal confirmation from a wife of a German police officer).” Women are also afraid to walk into town alone, with reports of a woman being raped and a 10-year-old girl being sexually harassed. “The most disturbing news he informed me about, however, was that the so called refugees go into churches to disrupt service. They would simply walk in and start to riot. ‘These people want to destroy us’, is what he said, literally. He is a very well educated business man; not someone inciting hatred against refugees. Most of the people living in that town and neighboring villages are honest, hard working people, trying to do good and be good, and now are forced to watch how their town and livelihoods are destroyed by the decision of the government to take in people that are violently opposed and opposite to the German and Christian culture.” The report also states that residents have been forced to put up signs asking migrants not to defecate in their gardens, a common practice, and to use toilets instead. According to the individual, anyone who criticizes the behavior of the migrants is immediately labeled a “Nazi”. Locals are so enraged that a dead cat was placed on the doorstep of the Mayor. While Austrians are purchasing shotguns, the individual also adds that many Germans are buying pepper spray as a means of self-defense. Similar stories are also emerging from all over Germany as small villages and towns begin to feel the impact of the migrant influx. In the post below, a woman relates how rapes, theft, the killing of pets and drug dealing all shot up after the arrival of asylum seekers. source

SELL OUT CONFERENCE IN AUSTRALIA QUESTIONS THE ASSIMILATION OF RADICAL MUSLIMS!

Radical Islamic Group Questions Australian Assimilation, Sells Out Conference

By Tom Olago

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In virtually all countries, anyone wishing to immigrate or obtain residence status has to comply with a stringent and lengthy set of rules and requirements. Part of the application process involves a commitment by the applicants to conform to the laws, cultures and values of the nation they are immigrating to.

The process typically involves adopting patriotic gestures such as the singing of the country’s national anthem, honoring its flag and possibly some form of a pledge of allegiance.

And if anyone finds the host country rules unacceptable or inflexible, the action taken should be straightforward. Such applicants should instead look for other countries where their preferences can be accommodated.

Yet, a group of immigrants in Australia seem to be getting away with despising the norms and values of their adopted nation. They have complained that singing the Australian national anthem amounts to “forced assimilation” of the Muslim community.

The specific complaints were centered on requiring schoolchildren to sing the national anthem, and the citizenship pledge supporting democratic values.

According to a recent report published in The Australian, Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir reportedly complained, through spokesman Uthman Badar: “It’s not enough that you obey the law, no, you have to adopt our values,” later adding that: “If you don’t share those values, why should they be forced to sing it?” The comments were made at a conference entitled “Innocent Until Proven Muslim” that took place at Bankstown in Sydney’s west, attended by a sold out crowd of about 800 people.

Badar further told the conference the Australian government “claims to afford freedom, but seeks to impose values and beliefs” on Muslims, and that Muslims were expected to not just be gracious about Australian values, but publicly promote them. He expressed his disdain for the requirement for new citizens, who are required to pledge allegiance to Australia “whose democratic beliefs I share”. Also rejected was the national anthem, which he said “reflects a disputed view of history”.

Badar further alleged that the campaign by government and agencies against radicalization was actually a smokescreen to “make Muslims less Islamic, more Western, more secular”, and that it sought to be justified by exaggerated fear of a security threat. He concluded that overall, “the attempt to reform Islam is doomed to failure.”

The Australian reported that the trigger for Badar’s tirade was a backlash from many politicians and commentators to news the week before, that the principal of a Victorian primary school had excused Muslim students from singing ‘Advance Australia Fair’.

The conference also saw a number of members of the Muslim community deliver testimonials of what they claimed was oppressive behavior by officials against them as Muslims, at airports, in police raids, and in high-security prisons.

The comments made Badar on behalf of Hizb ut-Tahrir elicited outrage from authorities and non-Muslim citizens, who comprise the majority of Australia’s population. Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane labeled Hizb ut-Tahrir views 'absurd', adding that the Islamic group’s views on citizenship were a rejection of Australia’s liberal democratic values, a denial of Australian multiculturalism, and a confirmation of the group's extremist agenda.

Dr. Soutphommasane stated: "There's nothing oppressive about committing to our democracy, abiding by the law, and respecting the rights of others. Our multiculturalism means that everyone has a right to express their cultural heritage but also accepts the responsibilities of being an Australian citizen."

Federal Social Services Minister Christian Porter reportedly told Sky News that the Hizb ut-Tahrir comments were "unhelpful, divisive and fundamentally ill-informed…the recruitment process of radical organisations is to put in the mind of the people they seek to recruit that there is widespread prejudice amongst Australians against Muslim Australians. That level of prejudice simply does not exist in Australia."

Another aspect of the Hizb ut-Tahrir conference was perhaps even more directly revealing and sinister. According to another report, a booklet handed out to more than 800 attendees at the ‘Innocent Until Proven Muslim’ forum in Bankstown detailed the best way to deal with “entrapment” from Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) agents. The 36-page book of tips and information for the Muslim community detailed an eight-step plan to avoid and deal with Australian Security Intelligence Organisation agents.

The Hizb ut-Tahrir group seems intent on pushing legal boundaries to the limit, in its quest to drive its agenda. But who exactly are they, and where did they originate?

According to Wikipedia, Hizb ut-Tahrir or the ‘Party of Liberation’ is an international pan-Islamic political organization. They are commonly associated with the goal of all Muslim countries unifying as an Islamic state or caliphate ruled by Islamic law (sharia) and with a caliph head of state elected by Muslims.

The organization was founded in 1953 as a Sunni Muslim organization in Jerusalem by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, an Islamic scholar and appeals court judge from the Palestinian village of Ijzim. Since then, Hizb ut-Tahrir has spread to more than 50 countries and by one estimate has about one million members.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is very active in the West, particularly in the United Kingdom, and is also active in several Arab and Central Asian countries, despite being banned by some governments. The group also has a growing presence in North America, known as Hizb ut-Tahrir America, or HTA.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is also strongly anti-Zionist and calls for the State of Israel, which it calls an "illegal entity", to be dismantled.

One analyst, however, quotes the work of Hizb ut-Tahrir founder Taqiuddin al-Nabhani to suggest that once Hizb ut-Tahrir has succeeded in creating a unified, transnational Islamic state it should press on to expand the state into non-Muslim areas.

The Wikipedia record also outlines the groups preferred infiltration strategy in three stages: "First they convert new members. Secondly, they establish a network of secret cells, and finally, they try to infiltrate the government to work to legalize their party and its aims."

In the wake of the Bankstown Hizb ut-Tahrir conference, it remains to be seen whether a firmer stance will be taken by the Australian authorities. However, indications so far are that they will at least need to remain on high alert given the background and agenda of the group, not to mention the well-known intolerance of such groups for other faiths wherever they happen to control territory.

The recent examples of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s brazenly unpatriotic attitudes, demonstrated publicly in Australia in the name of defending religious freedoms, are clearly at the expense of compliance with citizenship requirements that were originally signed up for without complaint. Those selective actions speak for themselves and would be perilous to ignore.

IRAN HAS STOPPED DISMANTLING CENTRIFUGES IN TWO URANIUM ENRICHMENT PLANTS!!

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Iran No Longer Dismantling Centrifuges In Two Uranium Enrichment Plants by Geoffrey Grider Iran has stopped dismantling centrifuges in two uranium enrichment plants, state media reported on Tuesday, days after conservative lawmakers complained to President Hassan Rouhani that the process was too rushed. Last week, Iran announced it had begun shutting down inactive centrifuges at the Natanz and Fordow plants under the terms of a deal struck with world powers in July that limits its nuclear program in exchange for easing sanctions. Iran's hardliners continue to resist and undermine the nuclear deal, which was forged by moderates they oppose and which they see as a capitulation to the West. "The dismantling process stopped with a warning," Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the National Security Council, was quoted as saying by the ISNA student news agency. Only decommissioned centrifuges were being dismantled to begin with, of which there were about 10,000 at Natanz and Fordow, the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran has said. Shamkhani did not specify what he meant by "warning", but the head of parliament's nuclear deal commission, Alireza Zakani, told Mehr news agency that the dismantling had stopped in Fordow because of the lawmakers' letter to Rouhani. Zakani, who was not one of the signatories of the letter, did not mention activities at Natanz. A group of 20 hardline parliamentarians wrote to the president last week complaining that the deactivation of centrifuges contradicted the directives of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei has said that the deal should only be implemented once allegations of past military dimensions (PMD) of Iran's nuclear program had been settled. The International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to announce its conclusions on PMD by Dec. 15. Centrifuges spin at supersonic speed to increase the ratio of the fissile isotope in uranium. Low-enriched uranium is used to fuel nuclear power plants, Iran's stated goal, but can also provide material for bombs if refined much further. Iran denied Western suspicions it was aiming to build a nuclear bomb. source

RUSSIA WOULD ANNIHILATE AMERICA IN A HEAD-TO-HEAD BATTLE, WARNS A LEGENDARY USA ARMY COMMANDER!!!

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"Legendary US Army Commander Says Russia Would “Annihilate” US In Head-To-Head Battle" by John McTernan.  Russia continues to prepare for war as World War 3 still is building with no letup. There is nothing we can do now because the events are locked into this war. We can be a part of God's end time plan through prayer and standing with Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu is meeting with Obama on Monday, and it will be interesting to see the results of this meeting. The public talk is that Obama has given up trying to restart the "peace talks", but I don't believe him. He might try and work with the United Nations against Israel. World War 3 Legendary US Army Commander Says Russia Would "Annihilate" US In Head-To-Head Battle 11/08/15 If you have followed me for a while, you know that I've been saying that God has raised up Russia as a "rod-of-judgment" against the West and America. I believe this more than ever. America is now like Sodom with sin and will not stop the slaughter of the babies in the womb. I also believe that Obama, a man-of-sin, does not intend to stop interfering with the dividing of Jerusalem. Full article at: http://propheticwitnessmovementnewportbranch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/russia-would-annihilate-america-is-head.html