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HAMAS: CHRISTIAN CORPSES ‘POLLUTE THE EARTH’




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Muslim disdain for Christians is so macabre that the Hamas, for example, go to Christian graves along the Gaza strip. Then Muslims dig up the corpses. Why? To pitch them.


Why? Because Hamas tells the press that Christian dead bodies “pollute the earth.”


God forbid that the Christian deceased should dirty up the environs, considering that those same neighborhoods house parents teaching their children how to slay “pigs” and “monkeys.” Those are Muslim endearing terms for “Jews.”


God forbid that the Christian bodies should mess up the ground where a woman accused of adultery is to be earth-pitted up to her chin, then stoned till dead, village children watching.


With that as backdrop, note that in 2009, 165,000 reported Christian martyrs. Muslims did it. The cult killings are numbered largely in Muslim nations.


Does the global media report this? Hardly. Instead, we hear over and over about Islamophobia.


“It’s just another Christian story,” reporters tell one another frequently when the incident focuses on Christians being slain by Islamics.


Now to Iraq: Christians continue to exit due to fear of being dead in the morning.


Two brothers, Christians, just the other day were shot by Allah-devotees. They were in the line-up of levelings against Christians in towns around Mosul, per police reports.


“’In the face of these attacks,’ an observer reported, ‘Many Christians prefer to flee to safe areas where they can practice their rites and rituals with greater freedom.’”


Read more http://sheikyermami.com/2009/12/13/hamas-digs-up-the-bodies-of-christians-from-christian-burial-sites-in-the-gaza-strip-claiming-that-they-pollute-the-earth/




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ANGLICAN BISHOP: BE NICE TO TALIBAN




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


The bishop told media that if we were nicer to the Taliban, we could get somewhere with them.


We’ve got to stop this meanness. It’s simply got to stop—period. Otherwise, we are really going to stir them up even more.


“The Rt Rev Stephen Venner, the Church of England’s Bishop to the Forces, called for a more sympathetic approach to the Islamic fundamentalists that recognizes their humanity


“The Taliban can be admired for their conviction to their faith and their sense of loyalty to one another, the new bishop for the Armed Forces has claimed” per Jonathan Wynne-Jones and Duncan Gardham
of Telegraph.co.uk.


“. . .their conviction to their faith and their sense of loyalty to one another”. Get it?


Obviously the bishop has not read the Koran. (Read the Koran at
http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/12/koran.html ).


Nor does the bishop know how to deal with the demoniac who espouses slaughtering all non-Muslims worldwide in the name of Allah, the latter being Satan.


A pew-sitter would have hoped that a spiritual leader would have more Holy Spirit-directed discernment than religious bosh. It would be helpful to the Anglicans in particular if their clergy were in tune with the God of the Bible rather than New Age wanderings to and fro.


One wonders if the bishop is part of Islam World Rule like unto Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama. How many more power persons in open societies are connecting to assist Muslims capture the
globe?


“We’ve been too simplistic in our attitude towards the Taliban,” said Bishop Venner, who was recently commissioned in his new role by Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.


Rowan, a doctrinal airhead himself, would have done the sane world a favor by nixing Venner for the job. But then again how, in God’s name, would Rowan have had the wisdom to do what’s correct?


“’. . .too simplistic. . .’” So that’s it, is it, bishop?


There you have two space cadet religionists who don’t know their robes from their underwear. They represent exceptionally well the theological liberal who manufactures his own willy-nilly religion in the name of God.


Thank heaven the journalists providing the article retorted with this truth that should have been recognized by the bishop: “Besides their attacks on the armed forces, the Taliban have also been responsible for public beatings, amputations and executions and have launched bomb attacks on the civilian population in Afghanistan.”


Now who would a rational citizen choose as spokesperson for reality—the bishop (and like-unminded archbishop) or the journalists?


Did not Jesus say not to throw pearls before swine?


Then why does the bishop counsel the free world to throw our precious pearls before Islamic swine out to slay us? It’s all the result of being a theological liberal who doesn’t care a scripture verse for his own cultic brand of “faith.”


Read “Taliban can be admired for their faith and loyalty, says bishop” at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6804155/Taliban-can-be-admired-for-their-faith-and-loyalty-says-bishop.html


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SOMALIA: MUSLIMS STONE ONE MAN, SHOOT ANOTHER




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Justice was served Sunday, per AP, that is, according to Islamic sentencing.


One Muslim male was put in a pit, dirt up to his chin, then stoned in the head till dead. Stone sizes are stipulated by the Koran—not too big as to bring quick end. Allah be praised.


A second Muslim male was shot to death. Allah be praised.


The first had committed adultery, according to his accusers.


The second had committed murder, according to his accusers.


Justice is not always thoroughly investigated in Somalia or other Muslim environs. But once the verdict is pronounced—no matter the errors—the sentence is carried out.


Who watches these deaths?


The public—including children of all ages—is urged to watch a human stoned in the head till dead.


The public—including children of all ages—is urged to watch a human shot dead. All of this public exhibition is to teach the public to behave according to the Koran and sharia—Islamic “legal and justice system.”


All of this visualization is to honor Islamic law the Somalian way—swift and often.


“Islamic courts run by radical clerics have ordered executions, floggings and amputations.


“In some areas militants have also banned movies, musical telephone ringtones, dancing at weddings and playing or watching soccer.


“Somalia has been ravaged by violence since warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, then turned on each other” per the Mogadishu news release dated Sunday, December 13.

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WILL AMERICA SPIKE A SOCIAL REVOLUTION?




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


What is going to happen when civil citizens are hauled off to jail because they don’t meet the Obamangst “healthcare” dictatorship?


What is going to sweep the country when elderly lose their benefits and are told to ‘sacrifice for the good of all’?


What will law-respectful people do when government steps in to dictate health care and medications rather than permit the doctor-patient tie to remain intact?


What is going to occur when Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama’s present ‘safe schools’ porno pusher continues to indoctrinate students in obscene lifestyles?


How is America could to respond when chaffing under the despotism of Obama-Pelosi-Reid and a demented Dem Congress?


How will God react to being governmentally stomped upon rather than honored in the Republic’s traditional Christian heritage?


Right now, citizenry is caught up in the month’s festivities, as these people should be.


However, when that is over and out, winter settling in, will ruined Americans spike the avenues, streets, boulevards, school houses, and state legislatures to press for a return to democracy?


Obamangst continues to twist and turn citizens’ heads so that they hardly know what to expect the next month let alone the next week.


Liberal media feeds in daily to the socialist-Islamic Obama take-over.


Conservative newsfeeds are threatened by Obama’s shadow government czars.


RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) betray their voting public. Maine, where I live, is slapped around all the time by two Senators who are geared into Dem liberalism at every turn. They are not worth the title “Republican.”


Evils are lauded by the Oval Office. Decency is trashed by the Oval Office. And his colleagues are damning the country via his latest directive.


Will there be a social revolution to throw out those who have undercut America?


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IDEOLOGICAL MEANS ‘SOCIALIST MUSLIM’




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


I heard Bill O’Reilly and Richard Morris sizing up a political matter. They were talking specifically about Barack Hussein Obama.


At the close O’Reilly looked at Morris with a question. He asked what Morris thought was the drive behind the situation.


Morris replied that it was an ideological one.


Ideological?


The words they did not want to verbalize were “socialistic” and “Muslim” or “Islamic.”


Does knowledgeable America know by now that Obama is driven by making the nation socialistic and Islamic? His shadow government and czars work for the same goal.


That means scrapping democracy and Chrsitian heritage.


One of these days, perhaps conservative news will report something socialist as being “socialist.” And something that is Muslim as being “Muslim.”


In the meantime, the code language has it.


That’s all right for those who can decipher the real meaning behind the code language. But for those who just don’t get it, it keeps socialism and Islam protected by the very ones who, according to their philosophies, should be speaking clearly.


Maybe the day will come when clearly is clearly. But time is running out.


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HOPE FOR HEROIN ADDICTS




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


"Are you on heroin?" I asked Dane, a Lakes Region teen friend of mine.


"Yes."


"And your girl friend?"


"Yes."


"What about her parents?"


"They are, too."


The four each morning drive to a methadone clinic for dosing. That is, they get a prescribed amount of liquid methadone to drink that transfers cravings for heroin to a legal drug lifestyle. How long they will be on methadone is anyone's guess--maybe life, maybe not. On weekends, they get dosings for those two days to prevent relapse. A clinician oversees their swallowing the doses. Clients pay a set amount weekly to the clinic.


There are hundreds who see through this ritual.


When a substance abuse counselor, I prayed for wisdom to help heroin addicts-turned-to-methadone. Some had just completed intake; others had been on methadone for varying lengths of time.


Getting off heroin onto methadone is extremely uncomfortable--cramping, sweating, nausea, confusion. However, gradually a new lifestyle develops--dependency on methadone but no more heroine use. With that, instead of stealing for the heroin habit, a person can hold a job, raise a family and find some peace of soul.


Sadly there are some who misuse methadone by selling weekend doses on the street. Some mix methadone with heroin. That is why periodic urine tests are necessary. Further, some relapse.


"I prayed for a Christian counselor," Lisa said. "And here you are! My prayers have been answered. You can broadcast this to the world. I give you permission!"


That was our first session together--counselor with counselee.


"You are a believer?" I inquired.


"Yes. I pray all the time. ‘Thank you, Jesus.’ I read the Bible. I carry it with me everywhere."


"How is this?"


"Because of my praying mother," Lisa explained. "She would not let go of me. When I was at my worst, she kept praying. She read me the Bible. She has seen me through a lot of rough times. I would be dead if it had not been for her," Lisa explained.


I was impressed with her intelligence. So it was not a surprise to me when some time later I saw an interview with her published in our city newspaper.


"My mother and I want to move to California. We can start over there. We have friends there," she hoped aloud.


"Had you ever thought of speaking to groups about what you have been through--your addiction, your methadone connection and your faith in Christ?" I asked.


"Not really."


"I think you would be quite good at it. Your honesty and sincerity come through powerfully. You articulate well your experiences and feelings. You have a real-life faith story to tell. It would encourage others to kick the habit," I offered.


So it went--day in, day out. How many precious humans did I talk matters out with, trying to decipher the next move? A lot. And of that number, there were believers.


The debate regarding methadone will continue. It should. That is healthy.


For one, I know that not all is perfect at the clinics. I am aware that some clients are getting short-changed at some clinics. These matters need to be faced and rectified immediately.


Nevertheless, realizing that we live in an imperfect world, I believe the lesser of the two evils is methadone--a legal alternative to heroin. Further, the less heroin use, the safer are our communities from thieves. Heroin habits are outlandishly expensive; often addicts have to rob or sell their bodies in order to get a fix.


In the meantime, I continue to pray for my friends who are seeking a heroin-free life. Would you join me?



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CHRISTMAS: MOST CHURCHES ARE LAZY




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Ok. Not all. But many are.


Now let me get specific since I’ve got your enraged attention.


Most churches are lazy when it comes to Christmastide. That’s why I’m posting this ten months ahead of time. Fair warning.


Most churches do not position on their properties in prime location a nativity scene — lighted.


Yet biblical Christians each season contest for “Christ in Christmas.” They write letters. They smash the ACLU. They appeal to town officials for town center’s nativity scenes. And so forth.


All the while, as an ardent Christian believer, I drive by one church building after another over decades to see blank front lawns during December. There is the usual church sign. Yes. But where is the nativity scene?


When I do spy the scene, I’m overjoyed to think that clergy and laity actually spoke with their faith on the church lawn throughout those Christmas weeks.


This should happen all across North America — including increasingly unbelieving Canada.


With secularism threatening our biblical, traditional faith, as secularism has taken over European, Christmas is THE time to advance the gospel message of Savior Christ arriving with salvation’s gift.


So, yes, it is fact.


Too many churches are lazy. They are handing the nativity scene witness over to the village library? I don’t think so. The school yard? Hardly. The mall? Why the mall?


Ten months to go.


Let’s do our homework, believing friends. Get that nativity scene shined up now for before long the fight for right will start all over again. At least in 2007 we don’t have to be hypocrites because we will have put our witness where our church lawn is.


Amen!


CHRIST: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.


John 3:16


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GOOD HEALTH TO YOU!




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


The apocryphal tale goes as follows: An older man saw his doc. He complained about his left knee. The frustrated physician said: "Do you not know that at your age, most people expect aches and pains like this?"


Answered the wise gent seated in the patient's chair: "Now look here, doctor, my right knee is just as old and it doesn't hurt!"


There you have it. Good health in one knee and an acting up in the other one.
Know what that is like?


However, the myth is that age equals bad health. Truth is just the opposite. Half of those 75 to 84 are free of health problems that require special care or that cut through their activities.


Sociologist Berniuce Neugarten of Northwestern University states: "Even in the very oldest group, those above 85, more than one-third report no limitation due to health."


Dr. Richard Besdine of the University of Connecticut says: "Aging doesn't necessarily mean a life that is sick, senile, sexless, spent or sessile."


Dr. John Rose, director of the division on aging at Harvard Medical School, says that "the new focus is not on life-span but on health-span."


More attention is given to being fit, staying healthy, being nutrition-conscious, exercising, having an enthusiastic outlook, taking vitamins, heeding the latest medical advice, sharing this information with others.


Of course, medical professionals have recommended that older people follow strong recommendations to stay fit: keep out of the sun, cut back on drinking and stop smoking. Further, it is never too late to start good health habits.


It is also wise to keep a sound diet: stay away from foods rich in cholesterol or saturated fat. Eat plenty of fish and chicken. Eat foods with lots of high-fiber, such as whole-grain cereals and many fruits. Eat foods rich in vitamins A and C.


Exercise is at the top of the list. Walking is best. Keeping the body moving is keeping heart and lungs healthy. It also reduces anxiety. Physiologist William Evans of the United States Department of Agriculture -- Tufts University center on aging says: "There is no group in our population that can benefit more from exercise than senior citizens. For a young person, exercise can increase physical function by perhaps l0%. But in an old person you can increase it by 50%."


That is good news!


Carole Mayhall warns against becoming a "pouch potato." She defines such a creature as "a couch potato with a paunch." Terrific terminology! Insightful language!


II Corinthians 4:16-18 encourages us: "We do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed, day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."


Such a passage helps the senior believer keep a reasonable balance between dealing with illness and thanking God for health and life itself. Every age has its drawbacks. Each year we live we are wrestling with something related to the physical body and the mind. However, in the consecrated life, God is at work through it all.


Therefore, the Christian understands that he is to be a good steward of the body temple God has provided. Having done that, he resigns all else to the Lord. There are divine designs at work that no eye can see -- not even the doctor's.



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‘THE ANOINTED ONE’ OBAMA EXTENDS MESSIANIC REIGN TO ISRAEL FOR MUSLIMS’ SAKE




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama has guaranteed his Isalmic compatriots in the Middle East that the Palestinian Authority will get what it wants, no matter what the Jews say.


Jewish dwellings in the West Bank will go. Period.


The Boy speaks and it is done. This continues to frighten Americans who daily see in the U.S. his dictatorship growing wider and wider. The Congressional demented Dems assist grandly.


Obama’s egocentricity swells as his shadow government czars threaten to control Americans’ health care, intervene between patient and doctor, dictate our medicines, all in cooperation with The Anointed One’s fellow despots Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid—a demonic threesome.


As for Israel, Obamangst smothers Jewish grassroots in that The Boy charges forth with covenants with the sword throwing PA, assuring that Muslims will ensconce themselves not only in the West Bank but eastern Jerusalem, excepting Ariel, Gush Etzion and Maale Adumim per Arutz Sheva.


Now these Muslims wedded to Obama include terrorists such as the one who just stabbed a young Jewish woman waiting at a Jerusalem corner crossing—Highway 60. The attacker’s sidekick ran off, his identity unknown.


Stabbed in the back late at night, she was rushed to the Jerusalem hospital. Police spread out their net.


“Defense Minister Ehud Barak, as part of the Netanyahu government’s ‘goodwill’ measures to bolster the standing of Palestinian Authority PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has removed the checkpoint at the intersection, and soldiers are only occasionally seen there.”


So much for Netanyahu building bridges of goodwill with the killing cult’s Abbas.


Obama stands just as bloody handed as any of the terrorists in being their high profile accomplice. Sadly for civil citizens, such devilment will increase as Obama’s conceit sprouts global.


He knows that the PA is deadly to civilization. Yet he links with these murderers and thieves, turning his back on Israel.


As with Israel, so alert Americans will wake up to his like strategy in using every means possible to behead the nation and thus further Islam World Rule.


Read the KORAN


http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/12/koran.html


Read TRUTH RE MOHAMMED: RAPE, MURDER, MOLESTATION, BEHEADING


http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4733940-truth-re-mohammed-rape-murder-molestation-beheading



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MUSLIM MOTHER SLAIN IF CAUGHT. CRIME? TURNED CHRISTIAN




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


The Sudanese mother dispensed with Islam for Christ per the dispatch from Nairobi, Kenya.


Now she has to hide in order to keep from being beheaded. Islamic relatives are hard at the search, knowing that is what Allah demands. She must be found and done away with.


The press does know that her name is Howida Ali.


They also know that her Allah-devotee brother and ex-husband are scouring Cairo. A relative months ago said Ali was spied in the huge metro.


While these two men scouted about to snatch the Christian, they let everyone know that they were hunting down her 10-year-old son as well. They have held watch at the school he attended.


“’I'm afraid of my brother finding us,’ said the 38-year-old Ali, who has moved to another area.


“‘Their aim is to take us back to Sudan, and there they will force us to return to the Islamic faith or sentence us to death according to Islamic law.’”


This is the “great religion” that Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama lifted high at this year’s Ramadan dinner at the White House.


The is the “religion of peace” that former President George W. Bush publicized to the world from his Oval Office.


The truth is that it is not a religion among world religions. No other religion states that all non-devotees must be slain under command from
deity.


Islam states that all are infidels if they are not Muslims; infidels must be slaughtered in order to establish Islam World Rule and thus praise Allah.


How long will Ali continue to survive with her son? As long as her hiding place is not pierced through with the Islamic sword intended for her neck.


Read the KORAN

http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/12/koran.html


Read TRUTH RE MOHAMMED: RAPE, MURDER, MOLESTATION, BEHEADING


http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4733940-truth-re-mohammed-rape-murder-molestation-beheading




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OBAMA LIES: ISLAM IS ‘A GREAT RELIGION’




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


This is such a lie that it is practically impossible to digest it as being said by an American who claims sanity.


President George W. Bush said that Islam a “religion of peace.” Of course, he was totally incorrect and biblically knowledgeable citizens worldwide knew that he spoke falsely. In other words, Bush punched them into a shock stupor.


Was Bush intentionally trying to reform Islam image so as to do whatever his head was trying to do? Only his head knows that. But it was not real. It was not nice to civil individuals. And it was not biblically aligned—at all.


As far as Bush’s facts are concerned, he was so utterly wrong. And now more and more democracies are realizing that Bush was so very wrong.


Presently we have a Marxist Muslim President Barack Hussein Obama stating nearly the same thing as Bush when he says at the White House Ramadan dinner that Islam is “a great religion.”


More and more the devilment increases. And for those brain dead, they believe these untruths. For the knowledgeable, they quake in realizing that if this lie spreads, Muslims grow nearer and nearer to Islam World Rule.


Islam cannot be a great religion for countless reasons—too many to number, all of which can be read by anyone who merely scans the Koran.


Read the KORAN


http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/12/koran.html


Read the TRUTH RE MOHAMMED: RAPE, MURDER, MOLESTATION, BEHEADING


http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4733940-truth-re-mohammed-rape-murder-molestation-beheading


The Koran’s Allah stipulates repeatedly that Muslims must slaughter all non-Muslims. Those who don’t join in the slaughtering are to be slain. Lying and only appearing friendly to non-Muslims is permitted in order to eliminate infidels. Is that a great religion? Is that a religion of peace? Not.


The Koran allows Muslim males to shoot a female Muslim in the head if males conclude she has disgraced the clan. This is known as “honor killing.” Is that a great religion? Is that a religion of peace? Not.


The Koran teaches Islamic youth to hate non-Muslims, particularly Jews who are labeled “monkeys.” Hamas TV cartoons teach Muslim children to despise Jews and kill them.


Read HAMAS CARTOONS: "Daddy, Beat Me. It Does Me Good." at http://faithfreedom.org/islam/hamas-cartoons-daddy-beat-me-it-does-me-good-0 Is that a great religion? Is that a religion of peace? Not.


What is particularly frightening to civil persons global is that Islam World Rule is the prime reason for aggressive Muslims to exist. That means they intend on wiping us all out. That’s taken most seriously by those who are willing to bomb themselves in order to establish a global dictatorship.


Read MUSLIM TIMELINE FOR WORLD RULE at http://www.michnews.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/228/9990


Books upon books have been written providing more detail than this short piece. But suffice just these few details to underline that Bush and Obama plus scores of university professors and political and theological liberals are so far out of the truth when they publicize that Islam is a great religion or a religion of peace.


It is a killing cult. Nothing less.


To the biblical scholar, Allah is Satan, the Koran was scribed by demons, Mohammed was a satanic prophet and imams are agents of the Pit.

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JESUS IS CHRISTMAS




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


No wonder Jesus said of himself, "I am the light of the world" (John 8:12). Without Him, all else is darkness.


One Sunday evening, while seated in church listening to the choir's rendition of a lovely Christmas cantata, I noticed one of the sopranos in the front row. This young lady spent most of the time trying to adjust the wick on an artificial candle that evidently wasn't connected with the battery and therefore wouldn't light.


She twisted and turned that tiny stub, then stroked it in hopes that a gentler touch would be more persuasive. I thought that in time she would give up, simply cup her hand over the tip of the candle, and pretend that all was well, but she never did. To the very end of the concert she kept poking at that little white stick.


As I left the building I felt sorry for the young lady. She was there the entire evening, had sung in the choir, but had missed the wonder of Christmas. She had not seen Jesus. All she had noticed was a defective flashlight.


In the second row of the same choir had been a middle-aged woman whose face was aglow. She was caught up with the beauty of the music and the message. I thought about the contrast between the two and concluded that the second woman was truly singing for Jesus, for her eyes were upon Him while participating in the evening's celebration.


No wonder the shepherds left Bethlehem praising and glorifying God! They had seen Jesus.


How was this so? Partly because they never doubted the message told them by the angels. They believed the unbelievable--that a peasant baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, laid in a cow's trough, and overseen by youthful parents was indeed the Messiah, the Son of God, the coming King. So strong was their faith that they dared to leave the barn and broadcast the exciting news to the world.


In a world of nuclear weapons, abuse of all sorts, and the disintegration of society, are we able to believe with a faith so simple that we can see Jesus? For those who will look into the manger with believing hearts, Jesus will surely be seen.


I have a friend with multiple sclerosis who is confined to a health-care center. Her husband has deserted her and is now an alcoholic. She has no children, and her parents are no longer living. The other night she phoned to say that her closest "friend"--with whom she shared a bank account--had taken her checkbook. "You don't need the money," this so-called friend had told the handicapped woman.


And if that wasn't enough, the social worker in charge of her case had turned on her and was not only unpleasant but just plain nasty. "I don't know how much more I can take," my unfortunate friend told me in tears as she bared her heart over the phone.


This lady is a believer and faithfully serves the Lord in spite of her disability. Although crushed by her friend's betrayal, she took the dilemma to God in prayer.


A week later she called my home again. "I have all my money back," she said, "and the social worker has been fired from the center because of excessive drinking." Her voice broke as she quietly sobbed. There was no need to say any more. Through the darkness of her despair she had found Jesus.


To see Jesus, the shepherds did something else many people refuse to do. They were willing to kneel.


To truly see inside the manger, we must kneel; we must bend in adoration. For a person who is reaching for status and trying to climb the ladder of worldly success, kneeling is not easy. But when we are in love with the Baby--the Christ child-we bow before Him.


During a cantata there were a number of tableaus to illustrate visually the message that was being sung.
I watched the children gather around the manger scene by the tree. Their faces were glowing and their eyes were shining, because lying in that crib was a baby. Kneeling, they were able to see the baby. No wonder Jesus admonished adults that if they were to be a part of His kingdom, they must become as little children.


This season, follow God's directive. Just as the shepherds were told by the angels to go and were helped in their quest with signs to keep them on track--the city of David, a Baby in swaddling clothes, a manger--so we, too, must go. When we are obedient to God, we will surely find Him.


Some people try to find God in their own way: through drugs, gurus, "trips," the occult, "psychic tickles," and "soul massages" of one sort or another. But these are not the means by which God has directed us to find Him.


When told by the angels to go to Bethlehem, the shepherds could have refused. They may have preferred to stay with their flocks or decided to go to Galilee instead of Bethlehem. They could have chosen dozens of other options. But they didn't. Instead, they followed God's leading. As a result, they found Jesus!


We can see Him today, even in our confused, sinful world with all that is going on to point us in the wrong direction. Listen to the angels--do as they say.


A few years ago a serious gas leak in India killed more than 2,500 persons. Mother Teresa never flinched but flew right into the horror. Gathered around her were swelling crowds. She turned and faced them, knowing that carcasses were being lifted from the ground to be burned in piles in the surrounding acreage.


She shared with the crowds that a beautiful thing was happening in spite of the pain and sorrow--the tragedy was bringing out the best in everybody. It was forcing those who would otherwise never become involved to serve the suffering. Love was overcoming suffering.


Meeting with 14,000 schoolchildren, Mother Teresa urged them not to have bitter feelings. She told them that this could have been an accident. Like a fire, it could have broken out anywhere. She pointed out that it consequently was important to forgive. Forgiveness offers a clean heart, and people are a hundred times better for doing it.


It is still possible today for people of faith to bend before the manger and see Jesus.


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ARAB TV CARTOONS: MUSLIMS HONEST, JEWS KILLERS




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


The cartoon begins with bait for Muslim youngsters to hate Jews because Jews are wretched:


TV character Nassour: “There won’t be any Jews or Zionists, Allah willing. They’ll be erased.


“We want to slaughter them so they will be expelled from our land, right?”


TV character Saraa: “Yes, that’s right”


Daily Arab children are indoctrinated via colorful TV cartoons that Jews are hateful as in “murderers” and “thieves.” It is a staple for boys and girls growing up in Muslim Middle East households particularly.


A real-life Arab boy TV actor, after a cartoon segment, summarizes the educational gist of that kiddy flick:


Arab boy TV actor states: “The Jews Teach Their Children To Slaughter, To Destroy, To Kill, and To Shoot, Whereas Our Children Are Taught Friendship [And] Loyalty.”


Another studio real-life youngster wraps up the cartoon’s message with the following:


“The Jews teach their children to slaughter, to destroy, to kill, and to shoot, whereas our children are taught friendship [and] loyalty, as well as the Islamic religion, and memorizing the Koran. Our children are taught not to steal and not to lie.”


The cartoon teaches children it is healthy for them to be beaten by parents for it helps them grow up more civilly.


The cartoon features a lad singing a song entitled: “My Father Beat Me… [He Beats Me] A Lot.”


Note this dialogue between the two TV studio adults, Nassur and Saraa Barhoum, and the TV boy child, Ghassan, after he has finished singing his macabre song:


Nassur: “Can you remember a day when you were sad and you cried?”


Saraa Barhoum: “For example, when somebody dear to you died.”


Ghassan: “When my father beat me.”


Saraa Barhoum (laughing): “Well, everybody… Obviously, your father wanted to teach you something.”


Nassur: “Did he beat you only once?”


Ghassan: “No, a lot.”


Saraa Barhoum: “Because he wanted to teach you manners and… If you made a mistake, you need to do better next time.” [...]


For more: “Animated Feature on Hamas TV Children’s Show ‘Pioneers of Tomorrow’: Jews Educate Children To Hate, Kill Arabs” at WINDS OF JIHAD site at http://sheikyermami.com/2009/12/11/animated-feature-on-hamas-tv-childrens-show-pioneers-of-tomorrow-jews-educate-children-to-hate-kill-arabs/





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SEX TRADE: ISLAMIC DADS ‘MARRY OFF’ DAUGHTERS




J. Grant Swank, Jr.


The report is entitled: "Trafficking and Forced Prostitution of Palestinian Women and Girls: Forms of Modern Day Slavery,"


Palestinian Muslim fathers provide their daughters for sex in multiple “marriages” per SAWA (All Women Together Today and Tomorrow).


This research has never before been conducted and published. Now SAWA is demanding that widespread publicity be given to their data.


The father offers his daughter to a man. A mock “wedding” takes place without any official documentation.


The same daughter is then available later for another “wedding” to another Muslim male. This is carrying on the custom of “back door” marriages. And so forth.


Money is collected as female children are misused as sexual commodities.


Investigations reveal that other women, many former prostitutes in their 40s and 50s, act as go-betweens for the sex trade. These women operate as owners of cleaning agencies, supplying their female employees for sex trafficking.


Some are apartment or hotel owners who make these employees available for the Muslim males’ pleasures.


The West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem are “hot spots” for this kind of practice.


Read “Flourishing Palestinian sex trade exposed in new report” at Haartz.com http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1133892.html



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BRIT NURSERY POLICE: TERRORISM TAUGHT 4-YEAR-OLDS


J. Grant Swank, Jr.


A police email warns: “Evidence suggests that radicalization can take place from the age of 4.”


Brit police inform nurseries to spy out terrorism indoctrination on 4 and 5-year-olds.


In other words, terrorism is taught little ones, adding to the already frightened non-Muslim public.


“Nursery-age children should be monitored for signs of brainwashing by Islamist extremists, according to a leaked police memo obtained by The Times” per TIMESONLINE  at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6952503.ece


The policeman reported that he had evidence that nursery age children “may draw pictures of bombs and say things like ‘all Christians are bad.’”


Brits are becoming increasing aware that the killing cult is not a religion among religions. Consequently, the admiration for multiculturalism has tarnished. How can multiculturalism invite a killing regime that is committed to wipe out all non-Muslims? No world religion makes that claim.


Of other concerns, Muslim Brits have been engaging in rape jihad. Women not garbed from head to foot are considered asking for rape and so they get it from extremist Muslims.


Read MUSLIMS’ BRIT RAPE JIHAD at http://mosquewatch.blogspot.com/2009/12/muslims-brit-rape-jihad.html



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