“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Uzay Bulut—The West’s Dangerous Enchantment with Islam: Muslim Women Thrown “Under the Bus”:
There are no women’s rights in Islam; there are no women’s rights in most Muslim countries. And there is no freedom of expression in these countries; people have become virtually voiceless.
To make a positive change in Muslim countries, we need to be able to speak openly, without putting one’s life at risk, and tell the (too-often criminalized) truth about what Islamic teachings and traditions actually contain.
If one is called “racist” or “Islamophobe,” the answer is that these are the accusations bullies always use to silence those who disagree with them. The real Islamophobes are those who degrade, abuse and kill their fellow Muslims.
If oppression of women is rooted in the culture, shouldn’t one be asking, ‘what makes a culture that misogynous?’
There is a situation even more frightening. It now seems to be difficult to speak openly about fundamentalist Islam even in Western countries. The worst thing any Western progressive or feminist can do is to stay silent.
The loudest voices in the West now seem to come from many progressives who say that criticizing of Islam is racist, intolerant, bigoted and Islamophobic. Injustices, they claim, take place all around the world, not just among Muslims or in Muslim countries. The criticism, they go on, comes from wrong interpretations of Islamic teachings. They say that Islam respects women, and that there are good and bad Muslims, just as there are good and bad people in all religions.
In just seven years, however, between 2002 and 2009, the rate of murdered women in Turkey has increased by 1400 percent.
There are also more than 181,000 child brides in Turkey.
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SnyderTalk Comment: “Dangerous enchantment”? Yes. Foolish fascination? You bet. Stupid? There is no doubt about it.
I’m reminded of Yahweh’s question to Jeremiah: “Can man make gods for himself?” (Jeremiah 16: 20)
The answer is “yes”. Then Yahweh said, “But they are not gods!”
Humans have been manufacturing gods for themselves since the beginning, and all of them have one thing in common. They are not Yahweh.
There is only One real Elohim, and His Name is Yahweh. He is stands for love and peace, but He also stands for justice.
Yahweh concluded His conversation with Jeremiah by telling him something about the End of Days: “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
The history of Islam proves that it is not unlike other man-made religions dating back eons, and it is not a peaceful religion. Far from it. Islam is a religion of war, conquest, and subjugation. Women, in particular, are victimized by Islam and Islamists—both Muslim and non-Muslim women. The god of Islam is the exact opposite of Yahweh.
It’s regrettable that people who are enchanted with Islam today don’t know history. If Islamists took over the world, they would quickly turn on each other. That’s part of their history, too. They hate everybody.
When people including President Obama parrot Islamic propaganda, I cringe. I wonder if they have any sense at all. Some of them are ignorant. Others are stupid. And some of them are evil. Yahweh knows for sure what they are.
Many Muslims are beginning to realize that they are affiliated with the wrong faith, and they are turning to Christianity. Since Christianity is entirely Jewish, they are turning to the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—Yahweh. He’s happy to receive them, and so am I.
I used to be blind, but now I see. They are going through the same process. It’s called salvation.
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Gav Cohn: My Grandfather and Kristallnacht— Kristallnacht marks the beginning of the end, leading to the destruction of European Jewry. It was a nation-wide pogrom of looting and beatings in which synagogues were destroyed and cemeteries desecrated. It was an event that shattered the hopes of a future for Jews in Germany and Austria, those who could then fled. It was a lot more than crystal that was shattered on that night. I would like to share my family’s story with you. My grandfather was born in Berlin in 1925, and named Norbert, or Natan. His father was a textile merchant, and his mother a housewife. They lived in a suburb of Berlin in an apartment opposite the Grunewald synagogue. In September 1939 he celebrated his Bar Mitzvah there. The warden of the synagogue, Isidore, whose daughter would go on to marry Norbert, had donated the Torah scroll that he read from.
Soeren Kern: Germany: Hooligans Declare War on Islamic Radicals— A group of nearly 5,000 football hooligans from across Germany gathered in the western city of Cologne on October 26 to protest the spread of radical Islam in the country. The watershed march was organized by a new initiative called “Hooligans against Salafists,” better known by its German abbreviation, HoGeSa, short for Hooligans gegen Salafisten. HoGeSa is a burgeoning alliance between hooligans from rival football clubs who have temporarily set aside their mutual hatred for each other in order to unite against a common enemy: radical Salafists who want to replace Germany’s democratic order with Islamic Sharia law. The alliance has its roots in a hidden Internet forum called GnuHoonters (homophone of “New Hunters”) formed in 2012 between 17 different hooligan groups from across Germany. GnuHoonters was established primarily to fight anarchists, Marxist-Leninists and other left-wing extremists in the country.
Rafael Medoff: Reexamining FDR’s Response to Kristallnacht— As the 76th anniversary of Kristallnacht is marked with solemn ceremonies at synagogues around the country this week, a new film and book are hailing President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response to the pogrom as forceful and impressive. But a long-forgotten diary entry by a Roosevelt cabinet member tells a different story. On the night of November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a nationwide pogrom against Germany’s Jews. Hundreds of synagogues were torched, the windows of thousands of Jewish businesses were smashed, 100 Jews were murdered, and 30,000 more were dragged off to concentration camps. The recent Ken Burns PBS documentary The Roosevelts (and its coffee-table companion book) emphasizes that President Roosevelt sharply condemned the pogrom, “ordered the visas of 15,000 German and Austrian resident aliens extended,” and “recalled his ambassador from Berlin, something neither Britain nor France dared do.” Likewise Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman, in their recent book FDR and the Jews, praised the president’s “humanitarian impulse” in “acting on his own inclinations with little support from his foreign policy team.”
Maxim Biller: A German-Jewish Zionist Explains Why Anti-Semitism Is All the Same— Nothing is as boring as anti-Semitism, at least for Jews. You rule the world, they have heard non-Jews telling them for the last 2,000 years, even if none of you has yet made it to the status of a Roman emperor or a U.S. president. Your religion gets on our nerves, they are told, because you won’t share it with anyone. Although most of you are not observant, you are aware of your Jewish identity all the same, and what the hell does that mean? You’re better than us in bed, and you steal our women. You manage money as well as we wish we could manage it ourselves. You’re so damn clever because you have none of you been illiterate for a hundred generations, which gives you such a head-start on us in life that we can never catch up. And you never get drunk—can that be why you always have everything under control?
Victor Sharpe: Is Israel Missing an Opportunity?— It is passing strange that Israel is pressed endlessly by friends and foes alike to negotiate a so-called peace agreement with the Palestinian Arabs, even though the self-proclaimed Palestinian Authority consists of two brutal terrorist organizations – Hamas and Fatah. After all, both terror entities are obliged by their charters to wipe Israel off the face of the map and, in the case of Hamas, to exterminate Jews worldwide. Hamas would do it immediately: Fatah would just take a little longer. That being the case, have Israeli leaders rammed home to the likes of Secretary of State John Kerry, what Israel’s so-called “peace partners” have in store for the embattled Jewish state? If so, then how can Kerrycontinue to demand that Israel negotiate with such genocidal organizations?
Alan M. Dershowitz: How Amnesty International Suppresses Free Speech— Last month the Columbia University chapter of Amnesty International invited me to deliver a talk on human rights in the Middle East. I accepted the invitation, anxious to present a balanced view on human rights, focusing on the Israeli-Arab-Palestinian issue. As a supporter of the two-state solution and an opponent of many of Israel’s settlement decisions, I regard myself as a moderate on these issues. That was apparently too much for the national office of Amnesty International to tolerate. They demanded that the Columbia chapter of Amnesty International disinvite me. They did not want their members to hear my perspective on human rights. The excuse they provided were two old and out-of-context quotes suggesting that I favored torture and collective punishment. The truth is that I am adamantly opposed to both. I have written nuanced academic articles on the subject of torture warrants as a way of minimizing the evils of torture, and I have written vehemently against the use of collective punishment of innocent people — whether it be by means of the boycott movement against all Israelis or the use of collective punishment against Palestinians. I do favor holding those who facilitate terrorism responsible for their own actions.
Zvi Magen: Between Crises: If and When Russia Fights ISIS— Russia has not (yet) joined the US-led coalition against ISIS, and its official spokespersons have not spared their criticism of the coalition’s management of the struggle. What are the roots of Russia’s policy? The war against ISIS is Russia’s current bargaining chip. Moscow is apparently increasingly aware that it should try to achieve an understanding with the Western powers that will lift the sanctions regime and implement an arrangement in Ukraine – in exchange for Russian participation in the struggle against ISIS. Whether a move in the direction of a tradeoff between Russia and the West is taking shape beyond the public discussion of the matter will soon become apparent. In any case, it seems that the Middle East, with the complex challenges it presents, is presenting Russia with opportunities as well as risks.
Ben Cohen: Can the Political Left Tackle Anti-Semitism?— While I’ve never been a big fan of celebrity interventions in politics, I will concede that, on occasion, a big-screen actor or a rock star will achieve the kind of impact that mere mortals can only dream about. Case in point: Maureen Lipman, a much-loved British Jewish actress whom American audiences will recognize from her role in Roman Polanski’s 2002 film about the Holocaust, “The Pianist,” in which she played the mother of the film’s main protagonist, Wladyslaw Szpilman. Last week, Lipman wrote an article for Standpoint, a British political magazine, entitled “Labour has Lost Me.” (She’s referring to the current opposition party in a country where they spell ‘labor’ with a ‘u.’) In that piece, she did two things.
Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and Times of Israel staff: Adelson: Palestinians an invented people out to destroy Israel— The Palestinians are an invented people,” said Jewish-American billionaire and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, adding that “the purpose of the existence of Palestinians is to destroy Israel. Adelson was speaking at the Israeli American Council in Washington Sunday, in a debate with Haim Saban, the Israeli-American media mogul and Democrat funder. The event began on Friday, marking the first-ever national gathering of Israelis living in America. Organizers said that the event sold out weeks in advance, noting that the entire Israeli-American community is currently estimated at over 600,000. “So Israel won’t be a democratic state, so what?” said Adelson, rejecting the feasibility of a two-state solution in response to a comment made by Saban on “securing the future of a democratic Israel.” “You are committing demographic suicide,” Adelson argued.
David Horovitz: Fed up with Netanyahu, some look to Liberman— Opinion polls consistently indicate that Israelis see no credible alternative to Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister. Already Israel’s longest-serving leader after David Ben-Gurion, the Likud party chief scored 24% in a Knesset Channel poll two weeks ago on who is most suitable for the post (double his closest challenger, Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett), and a whopping 38% in a similar survey published by Haaretz in September (when his nearest rival was Labor’s Isaac Herzog at a distant 7%). But if the Israeli public mainstream has yet to be persuaded of an alternative, some in the Israeli political mainstream might just be a few steps ahead. In the run-up to what many in government expect will be an election year in 2015, Netanyahu is losing ground within Likud, for his perceived shift to the center — as emblemized by his support in principle (and no matter the conditions, the wariness and the collapse of negotiations) for a two-state solution; his release of dozens of murderous Palestinian prisoners in support of the collapsed process in the past year; and his alleged silent freeze on any significant building over the pre-1967 lines outside the major settlement blocs and East Jerusalem. He is being openly attacked by his grandstanding hardline coalition “partner” Bennett, who spent the entire summer war publicly complaining that Israel was failing to take the necessary action to finish off Hamas, and now declares that a government that cannot provide security in its capital city “does not have a right to exist.”
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Jerusalem stocks up on self-defense weapons
Turkish PM: Nothing will prevent us from protecting Jerusalem
SnyderTalk Comment: He has no idea what he is saying or who he is up against. He’s cruising for a bruising.
Washington assumes a deal is coming with Iran
Netanyahu: Iran is America’s enemy, not its partner
German MEP: EU aid could fund Hamas terror tunnels
SnyderTalk Comment: Could? Try “will” fund terror tunnels.
Police expect indictments for 25 Kafr Kana rioters
‘ISIS and Hamas will take care of you,’ arrested Palestinian teen tells police
SnyderTalk Comment: He’s right about one thing: they will try to “take care of” us, but they will fail.
Poll: Majority of Israelis support responding to terror with peace talks
Netanyahu: Abbas not a partner in the effort to curb extremists
Lone Palestinian attackers are acting on incitement and false claims, Ya’alon says
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Iranian Nobel Laureate: Rouhani is Just as Bad As Ahmadinejad
PA Threatens to Sue Individual Israelis at Int’l Court
Regev: Don’t Let in Palestinian Workers if Terror Continues
Netanyahu: Iran is An Enemy and Should be Treated As One
SnyderTalk Comment: I wish Obama had enough sense to realize it.
Iran Unveils its Latest ‘Long-Range Radar System’
Expert: Poorer, Weaker Russia Dangerous to Israel
Terror Victims’ Organization: Prosecute Barghouti
40% of Jewish Israelis Want Prayer on Temple Mount
Samaria Man Claims ‘Geographical Discrimination’
Intense Protests at HUJI over Incitement
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Abbas: We won’t let Israeli extremists ‘contaminate’ Temple Mount; warns of global ‘religious war’
At a deceptively serene Temple Mount, in the eye of the storm
Liberman: Abbas is more dangerous than Arafat
Defense chief Ya’alon warns of further escalation of violence
Analysis: Is this Abbas’s intifada?
Analysis: As attacks spread, Israel sees the perfect scapegoat in Abbas
Shot Temple Mount activist awake, asking for chocolate mousse
‘Huge row’ as Shin Bet says it warned IDF months ahead of summer war
Abbas: Arafat’s remains to be moved to Jerusalem
Israeli group sues Abbas at ICC for Fatah rocket fire
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‘No one listened to Hitler, and no one is listening to Iran’
Analysis: Palestinians celebrate car jihad with vile cartoons
Palestinian activist convicted of immigration fraud
Map: The countries that recognize Palestine as a state
Vandals, Anti-Israel Protesters Assail Istanbul’s Largest Synagogue (VIDEO)
‘US, Iran hold secret talks on potential renewal of ties’
Ministers pass bill to apply all Israeli laws in Judea and Samaria
Fatah cancels Arafat memorial in Gaza over security
Harry Reid’s dilemma: Side with Republicans or Obama
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Genesis 37: 12-14
Then his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock in Shechem. Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “I will go.” Then he said to him, “Go now and see about the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
SnyderTalk Comment: Read His Name is Yahweh.
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback. It’s also available for free in PDF format.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
- Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)
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What about people who came to faith in Yahweh through the Name Jesus?
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Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now. There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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Other Books by Neil Snyder
- Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days. Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall. Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace. With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life? deals with a question that every Christian has to consider: what should I do with my life? Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide. It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided. They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make. As they say, forewarned is forearmed. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
