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Christians Detained in Libya for Proselytizing Could Face the Death Penalty

Feb. 19, 2013 10:00pm Billy Hallowell

Christians Detained in Benghazi for Proselytizing Could Face the Death Penalty

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Four foreigners were detained last week in Benghazi, Libya, on charges of printing and distributing materials that promote Christianity. The embattled missionaries are from South Africa, South Korea, Egypt and Sweden, with the latter individual also holding U.S. citizenship. Despite a revolution just two years ago, it is still illegal to share any faith other than Islam, with the death penalty serving as a potential ramification.

According to Hussein Bin Hmeid, a security official in Libya, the missionaries’ actions are viewed as a national security concern. The four individuals in question were, thus, detained last Tuesday on charges that they printed thousands of Christian books. Police claim that 45,000 texts were found in their possession, with 25,000 having already been handed out.

“They were arrested on Tuesday at a publishing house where they were printing thousands of books that called for conversion to Christianity,” Hmeid told Reuters. “Proselytizing is forbidden in Libya.”

As of Saturday, officials that are part of Libya’s Preventative Security team, a body created during the 2011 war, were still interrogating the alleged missionaries. And the Guardian reported the following on Sunday:

All four remain in custody in Benghazi, and local reports say they may appear in court next week.

It is reported that the foreigners, who have received consulate assistance from their embassies, have been in Libya for some time and had contracted a local printer to produce pamphlets explaining Christianity. Security officials have focused on those pamphlets said to have already been distributed.

Benghazi lawyer and human rights activist Bilal Bettamer said Libya was a wholly Muslim country and Christians should not be trying to spread their faith. “It is disrespectful. If we had Christianity we could have dialogue, but you can’t just spread Christianity,” he said. “The maximum penalty is the death penalty. It’s a dangerous thing to do.”

There is no known Christian minority in Libya, showcasing just how foreign Christian ideals are in the North African country. This is the first known arrest for proselytizing since the revolution.

(H/T: Christianity Today)

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universalphilos
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:47pm
Is this message spoken by spiritual messengers of God not in greater respect? September 5, 1971: “Therefore, we should say these words unto thee. For as before, of the God of Moses, of the God of [Isaiah], of the God of Abraham, and of your God of Jesus Christ, we say unto thee these words. For the same God is the God of Buddha, the same God is the God of Mohammed, as the same God is the God of Ishmael. For as the spirit of God should flow as in the brook, it should flow into many lands of many tongues. And as the tongues should be different, yet the Gods be the same, for ‘There shall be no other God before our God, and there shall be no other God after our God.’” [See Exodus 20:2, Deuteronomy 5:7-11, Mark 12:28-31.]
“Thy may call of Him many names; this means very little difference. But as man should pray, one unto another, unto their God, thy should respect of the same. For remember, as we have said before, our Father has many mansions. And as the one known as Jesus Christ did go before thee to prepare a way, so should you go before others to prepare a way. But each of you should go in his own way unto our Father, and there give praise unto Him, that He may love thee and you may love Him.” [See John 13:31-36, 14:1-29, 15:7-17, 16:6-30 and chapter 17.]
http://www.angelfire.com/in4/aup_messiah/1971September05.audio.html

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ellietoo
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:51pm
I’m sure we can believe everything the Libyan officials say. Who is the “official” government in Libya? We haven’t heard a dang thing about the place since their revolution except when they slaughtered our ambassador and CIA agents. Who wrote their constitution? Who was elected president? I’m sure these criminal Christians were carrying something as dangerous as their bibles. Yeah, that sure deserves death! What would we expect from another one of Obama’s allies? Oh, and it’s your tax dollars that are going into Libya by the millions.

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todd147
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:08pm
God be with you four. My prayers are with you and anyone here who is a Christian should do the same. Let’s be clear. Jesus died for the muslim. That’s why these people are there handing out Bibles and other literature. It’s an extremely powerful book. Islam realizes that and it’s why they ban it. Islam is fighting for one thing and one thing only. That is the destruction of Israel and to take over. Everything else going on around the middle east is just delaying what they believe is there birth right. Starting with Isaac and Ismael and leading up to Jacob and Esau, and what we have today. There is no humanity in what we are seeing unfold before our eyes. When Russia, Iran, Turkey, Libya, Sudan and others lead an attack on Israel, they loose in a big way. Untold millions will die in an instant. We need to be praying for this part of the world. God loves them as much as he loves us.

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- Laymen
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:43pm
  I with you todd147, thinking Hebrews 13:1 here.
  
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- lapitup
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:24pm
  If they are put to death, so be it. These people knew their laws and chose to break them. There is a time and place for everything, (I am sure that the time has past for conversion) we have had centuries to convert as well as they. I don’t feel sorry for stupid, If these people want to be remembered let them be remembered as the idiots they are.
  
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UNALIEN
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:39am
Islam is INTOLERANT, you can’t tolerate intolerance. ISLAM is not a religion, it is a totalitarian STATE ideology…. It consumes all cultures that is gets into…

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- JGraham III
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:57am
  Islam is a religion, and sadly a very great example of all the extreme excesses many ‘anti-Christian’ posters love to level at believers. Islam is the quintessential example of the saying “for every revolution there is a counter revolution” as it is the very opposite of all biblical Christianity stands for. It also is a prime example of the fallacy that man can pull himself up by his bootstraps all the way to Heaven.
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:21am
  JGRAHAM III
  
  Islam is NOT a religion, it is a political and Governance system.. a borderless State ideology,, if you think if it as a religion it will deceive you… it is a cult
  
  The objectives of Islam is the global Khalifah or global Islamic State…
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:48am
  Video of IMAM in english explaining the political Islam, the complete submission to Allah, the sovereign, the supreme law, the ruler of the Political State.. In Islam there is no separation of church and State…. IMO, it is a cult for the “Islamic” elites to empower themselves and control the masses, FASCISM
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xMpi5Rq_X58#t=310s
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:46pm
  It has a faith system (religion) that is attached to the socio-politio-legal system. It is not tolerant of any other ways of organizing community, law codes, or faith systems other than its own.
  
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altops
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:27am
Wow what a privilege to die for the cause of Christ. I wouldnt fight it, bring it.

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WalterProutPhoenix56317
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:21am
IGNORANCE, of the law is no excuse !

I, would think that fits quite well in this situation here !

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:47am
  These idiots are in THEIR COUNTRY and subject to THEIR LAWS…..y’A BREAK THEM–Y’A SUFFER CONSEQUENCES……unless y’a from the U.S.A. and your a COMMIE/LIB which makes you an automatic-victim!!
  
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vaman
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:49am
The radical christian has the unmitigated arrogance to think they can preach anything they want, anywhere they want. This should be a lesson learned. Not everyone in the world wants to be incorporated into your cult. You should not constantly feel compelled to spread your disease to all parts of the world. Be content to keep your beliefs in your home and church. If we could get all hostile religions to do the same thing, the world would be a far better place for all humanity.

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- JGraham III
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:45am
  As a “radical Christian” I must take exception to many of the ‘extreme’ points you make. First a truly radical Christian would have the good sense to realize that a blatantly in-your-face style of presenting the Gospel would have exactly the very response Libya has made. So, I guess I actually agree with you on that one point. The rest of your diatribe against believers simply shows your ignorance of the scriptures in general and Jesus Christ in particular. A pity really because the message of salvation isn’t hard to understand nor difficult to receive.
  
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- amerbur
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:56am
  I believe freedom of speech and freedom of religion is a God give right and you sir have no right to keep any infomation from any man, anywhere on earth. But you want only your perspective shared – you are the enemy of freedom of thought.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:52pm
  Wow, Vaman. If it were non-Christians proselytizing in a Christian nation who were arrested and faced the death penalty, you’d be shrieking how Christian intolerance endangers lives. You wouldn’t be implying how the non-Christians are getting what they deserve for spreading their “disease”.
  
  So much for attacking all religions equally.
  
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:32pm
  @ VAMAN:
  
  Interesting to note here the common thread linking Militant Atheism & Islam. You agree with the throat cutting, homicidal maniacs of Al Queida & the Taliban that the message of Christianity ought to be silenced.
  
  You agree MORE with them, than with the Founding Fathers who understood that Freedom of Speech is a God-given right to be enjoyed by every human being.
  
  You agree MORE with those who beat their wives & make them wear burqas, who force little girls into marriages with old men, who plotted 9/11, than with the American soldier – who took an oath to defend Liberties (such as Freedom of Speech) and puts his life on the line daily to ensure its continued existence on this jacked-up planet.
  
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:41pm
  @ VAMAN
  
  Interesting that both Islam & Atheism have a violently negative reaction to the message of Christianity. (That Jesus the Son of God was crucified, and rose from the dead three days later. That His death was an act of atonement for the sins of the world. That He offers an exchange to every person – all our sins for all His righteousness. That “it is finished” – the work of pleasing God has been accomplished by Jesus)
  
  This message is a threat to all who seek totalitarian power. The Founders of America understood that the message of Christianity was foundational to American-style Limited government. It is repeated many times in their writings.
  
  The direct link between Christianity, and political freedom (self-governance) is lost to atheists like you, VAMAN. Read about it here (if you dare) http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Freedom-Seven-Tipping-Points/dp/160641951X
  
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:49pm
  @ VAMAN
  
  In case you weren’t aware, Jesus makes a demand of all who trust in Him to openly talk about Him. (Mark 16:15) He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.”
  
  When faced with mockery, or worse, totalitarian laws, threats, persecutions, beatings, torture & death for simply talking about Jesus – His followers have but 2 options: (1) ignore and disobey the command of their God & Savior, or (2) obey it, and face the consequences with resolve (perhaps even joy).
  
  The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.” Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings! The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead—whom you killed by hanging him on a cross. God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins. We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.” (from Acts chapter 5)
  
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- SirMonticus
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 3:09am
  So you’re saying that we should leave Christianity to ourselves. That is about the most selfish thing we could do. Why? We want all the world to be saved. We share this world with about 7 Billion other people. We want to give other people the chance to be saved. We want them to be able to see Jesus like we can and be able to bask in his grace and unending love. Jesus said to love your neighbor. Everyone in this world are our neighbors. We love them and want them to be able to love Jesus.
  
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- galicant wiseword
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:05am
  Vaman is not an atheist. He knows God is real.
  
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zoro51
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:28am
MURDErING MUSLUMS PLAIN N SIMPLE in a man made cult of hate n death careing NOT for A life let alone ANY LIFE.. still worshipiong a STONE IDOL called baal giused as allah…

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SquidVetOhio
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:26am
” If we had Christianity we could have dialogue, but you can’t just spread Christianity”

Because Christianity is apparently a genetic side effect? This genius is a lawyer? Really?

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- Free_Thought
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:04am
  Its more of a disease.
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:29am
  Yo “Free thought”
  
  So you are ALL for free though while you back those who would MURDER others for there freedom of thought, chioce of what or whom to believe.
  You are the lead and the eraser … you write, and then erease your self … congradulations for the empty page. Please tell me I misunderstood you !
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:13pm
  Free Thought – You may not like us Christians and what we believe. However, withOUT Christianity, you would have no free thought or rights to speak what you believe. Christianity fostered the Enlightenment and Renaissance in Europe. Christianity fostered hospitals, universities, and scientific inquiry.
  
  Islam does not believe in science since what Allah wants, Allah gets capriciously.
  
  Confucian traditions believe the best is behind us, and our best chance is to duplicate what was then.
  
  Buddhism is interested in dealing with life’s woes and pains by negating them into Nirvana (non-existence).
  
  Only Christianity and its Jewish background offer the slightest hope for the future!
  
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The-Monk
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:27am
With friends like this who needs enemies?

How much money do we send them anyways?

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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:29am
  We had to get rid of that awful Gaddafi so freedom could flourish in Libya Monk.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:24am
  ” Benghazi lawyer and human rights activist…” – With human rights activists like these, who needs murderous jihadi terrorists? What a joke.
  
  “There are no Christians in Libya” – yea, because it really behooves them to come out in the open huh?
  
  Another daily reminder of the “Religion of Peace” abroad.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:11am
  This is what you must know:
  
  Don’t worry. God will protect them. Hey, did you hear? Sarah Palin is gonna be a t CPAC?!??! Move along.
  
  It is so.
  
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HI_Don
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:12am
I blame this entirely on a video. SNL’s dJesus Uncrossed presented Christianity as a warring and confrontational religion and has the peaceful and loving members of Islam concerned for their safety against semi-automatic weapons. I believe Clinton, Rice, and Obama need to get out on the apology tour again before more lives are lost, and of course we will have to arrest and detain all the SNL writers and cast.

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betterpart
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:04am
Islam is no doubt a cult originating in hell, and where all devil-worshipping cults form. Moreover, they hold secret creeds and doctrines regarding the joys of perversion, degeneracy, pedophilia, nude women, beastiality, drug and alcohol use, pornography and numerous other vile acts meant for their twisted pleasures. They are not what they appear to be or what they preach, and fool few.

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- Will-db
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:10am
  What ‘secret creeds’?
  
  There’s enough to criticise in Islam without making stuff up.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:59am
Such Islamic hypocrisy. Muslims’ goal in life is to force the whole World to convert to Islam, but it’s illegal for Christians to convert Muslims to Christianity.

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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:54am
  @leadnot
  I hope you don’t mind if I give you a little constructive criticism on your comment…
  I like how you start off with, “these foreigners”. Very powerful and from the get go, I know where you are headed;) But you ruin it by using the word, “usually”. Have you no conviction? Would you say Nazis are intermittently evil or christians are good on the whole? The second sentence makes it clear that you mean all of them but by now I’m confused with which ones you mean…thus is the dilemma of grand generalizations. You say “they” (excellent pronoun for them) come to America to get a free education from tax-payers. But, are we talkin mexicans who are stupid and lazy, and therefore not prime candidates for education, or are we talkin muslims like the one in the article? Apparently, the muslims send their kids here to go to school by the droves but they pay full price for this privilege. Which brings me to my next point, when making slurs, it is helpful to stick to the facts. This is so your shred of truth will blend with your racist generalization and overcome the lack of veracity that generalizations inherently present when applied to entire groups. Anyway, you finish off great (that’s what she said) with your snarky jab that they come here “just cause trouble”. Few witticisms are as potent and effective as this one in establishing your audience (80+ yr olds and southerners) and dismissing all of your target groups activity as problematic.
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:06am
  Sorry, I just meant to refer to my previous post to you…from the other article’s comments. I just wanted to tell you how much improvement you are making! The only suggestion I would make would be to change “Muslims’ goal” to “their goal”. Also, I wouldn’t capitalize Muslim…Like you owe them respect, C’mon! Otherwise, super job with the small-minded bigotry.
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:34am
When is Islam going to be banned as a religion? It resembles no real religion on the Planet. Even Wiccan resembles a religion. Good grief- Even Atheism practices more like a religion. Islam is an outlaw culture that surely is illegal under OUR Constitution and freedom to practice RELIGION!

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:53am
  Murdering Thug Demons from hell. Islam is no religion. Islam is a cult. Islam is evil. Islam is from Satan. Look at the fruit ! God wins. Find out about GOD. Learn about Jesus. He is everything that
  Islam is not , thank God. In the year 1000, Constantine stopped Islam in it’s murdering tracks. The horrible Imams/tribal leaders of Islam had taken over much of the world by then. Thank GOD for Constantine. Those snakes stayed under their rocks until about 300 years ago. They have a 300 year plan…we are at the end of that 300 years. We will have another Constantine and they will be stopped forever. There is nothing about ISLAM that speaks of the GOD of ABRAHAM, ISAAC and JACOB. NOTHING. The only thing that has ever attracted people to Islam were the BIBLE verses stolen or “copied” from the traders passing through Arab villages in the 700th century. Those were the parts of Love thy Neighbor; God is love. Yet they hate God’s Chosen people. They mock and belittle the Jews. They think they are going to take over the world. Obama is Muslim. We all know it.
  They think they are winning. Wrong. The good news is that many of them who were duped into becoming Muslim have seen the light and are quietly turning to Jesus. Your best weapon against Islam? PRAYER and learning about our Savior Jesus. IF that sounds hoakie to you, that’s on you. You will soon have to make a choice.
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:29am
  I would love to see Muslims by the millions turn to Christ and abandon the murderer and father of lies. Those who want the truth will find it. As PATTY says, there are conversions to Christ every day, even in such dark places as Iran. One doesn’t take becoming a Christian lightly in that part of the world. Imagine the miracle that has to take place in a soul that knows if they follow Christ they will most likely be killed, perhaps even by a family member. When the Holy Spirit moves, there is no stopping him.
  
  Uh, where are all the Christian baters and haters that usually haunt articles like this? Must be out buying their tickets to Libya.
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:33am
  It is a religion, and even if it wasn’t, it would still be unconstitutional to ban it, because this is a free country and we don’t ban ideas or beliefs of any kind.
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:49am
  @xylliab
  I don’t know if you are a christ hating troll or a constitution loving patriot. I’m sure the people of the blaze hate you but the semantic reasoning for it is nuanced.
  
  I figured it out. the blaze readers shall hate you for pointing out their hypocrisy. You have dared to expose the 4th hypocritical law of far right extremism: When thou does it, it is pure evil. When we doth do it, it is justified. You may have also broken the first law: There shall be only one god, the creator and for the english speaking, I am the way; but if you are muslim and speak arabic, then I am the opposite of the way. Just an FYI, the second law is Rich liberals stole or cheated their immoral way to the top, Rich conservatives earned every cent that wasn’t confiscated by the evil the government. 3rd law: Poor people are the salt of the earth if they are white conservatives, otherwise they are a lazy burden with no self-discipline. 5th law: If a christian knowingly commits a sin, they are saved by giving that sin to jesus; if it is a big sin that is against the law and makes christians look like hypocrites, they must not have been a christian to begin with; if a person has legal and consensual sex with the same gender they are likely a pedophile, but if a christian has sex with a child he is a child of god, unless he is an unrepentant gay. There are 350 more, most are easily recognizable within these comments.
  
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- bigdaddyt46
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:39am
  patty i have alot of respect for you, and what you say is what is happening at a faster pace then islamists can stand. i would encourage you and others(if you already haven’t) to read a god who hates. i read it, and then gave it to my mom to read. WHAT A BOOK.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:30pm
  Patty – I think you mean Charles Martel. Constantine predates Mohammad by roughly 300 yrs. Martel turned back the muslim jihadi/crusaders just outside Tours, France. Had he not turned them back, the invaders would have taken France and probably the rest of Central Europe fm there.
  
  Vlad (the impaler) Dracul also kept the muslim Turks at bay through his extraordinary cruel approach to dealing with his enemies.
  
  Islam can also be thought of as cultural aggression by Arabs fm the 7th century on the Hejaz. Islam mandates the learning of an extinct dialect of Arabic. Christianity and Judaism will happily translate our Holy Scriptures to help you understand who our God is, how He thinks and interacts with us. The God of Jews and Christians loves all of His creation while Allah detests all but a few humans who model their lives after Mohammad.
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:07pm
  @Elena
  You seem like a dangerous zealot. My guess is that you have read a book that wasn’t the bible but you read it literally like you do the bible.just sayin, your view of the enlightenment is almost funny if it wasn’t so strange. Have you read the baron d’holbach?
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:31am
In 1980, William Safire wrote a column devoted to “Billygate”, the scandal involving allegations that President Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy, was working as a business agent on behalf of the Libyan Government?

End quote:
Reference: James Bamford, ISBN 0-385-49907-8

Every dime sent to an Islamic state, supports the religion of Islam, and violates the 1st amendment rights of US taxpayers?

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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:41am
  The trouble with that unique legal theory is that if you define an “Islamic state” as not just states run by clerical authorities, but as any state with a legal system rooted in religious law, then it would be equally unconstitutional to give aid to Israel, and this would make American conservatives go nuts, both those sincerely admire the Jewish people and support the existence of Israel for its own sake and those who need Israel to remain in existence so they continue to pretend that Bible prophecies refer to stuff that might still happen rather than things that were supposed to have happened a long time ago.
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:48am
  Well speak of the devil.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:57pm
I imagine Obama is dancing across the Oval office at this news. He probably had lawyers examining all aspects of Sharia law for when it is imposed here in America.

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