“O magnify Yahweh with me, and let us exalt His Name together.” Psalm 34: 3
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Robert Spencer—Has Vatican newspaper converted to Islam?:
The Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano ran a piece with the subtitle, “Shooting in Texas at an exhibition of blasphemous cartoons.”
Blasphemous? They’re blasphemous according to Islamic law, because Islam asserts that Muhammad is a prophet. So is the Vatican now submitting to Islamic law? Merriam-Webster defines “blasphemy” as “great disrespect shown to God or to something holy.” So does the Vatican now think Muhammad is holy? Has L’Osservatore Romano converted to Islam? Is Muhammad now considered a prophet by the Catholic Church, like Isaiah or Jeremiah or Ezekiel? Will he get a feast day on the Roman Catholic calendar?
They could have used any other word — offensive, tasteless, odious, whatever. But using the word “blasphemous” sends a hugely misleading message.
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SnyderTalk Comment: The thing that amazes me most about the cartoon contest in Texas is that so many Muslims have tried to defend the radicals who took it upon themselves to become judge, jury, and executioner.
That’s illegal. It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks.
Then there are the liberal media elites in the U.S. who think that it is their right and their duty to tell others what they can and cannot say and what they can and cannot do without regard for what our law says.
They say that it is our fault that radical Islamists want to kill us because we have insulted their religion. That’s analogous to blaming women for being raped.
Radical Muslims do that, too. In predominantly Muslim countries, women are convicted and executed because they violated Sharia law by being raped. The stupidity is breathtaking. An immoral miscreant rapes a woman and then claims that she is at fault. To defend herself, the victim must produce four male witnesses who will testify for her.
That’s not justice. It’s gross immorality and injustice, and it’s Sharia law.
If Moses had listened to the advice of people who think like our liberal media elite, he would have ignored Yahweh, and he never would have approached pharaoh. David never would have killed Goliath. Elijah never would have confronted the prophets of Baal. There are many other examples in the Bible, but three are more than enough.
Our liberal media elites would have told all of them that they were provocateurs and that they were inviting trouble. Yahweh called them people of faith. The apostle Paul devoted chapter 11 in Hebrews to these and similar men and women.
History is clear: when evil is left unchecked and unchallenged, it flourishes. Confronting evil requires courage and conviction.
Our laws don’t prohibit confronting evil. In fact, our laws require us to do our part to defend our freedoms by speaking out against those who would try to take them away.
This is jurisprudence 101.
I’m reminded of the man in the movie Network who said, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” I know what our law says, and I know that I have a constitutional right to say and do things that might offend people. I have no right to take matters into my own hands and attack anyone, but I have a right to defend myself with deadly force if necessary. That, too, is a constitutional right.
I’ve had enough of this nonsense. I think it’s time for all believers to let their voices be heard. “We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take this anymore!”
Someone needs to explain to me why an “artist” can place a crucifix in a jar of urine, call it “Piss Christ”, and win a National Endowment for the Arts prize while others can’t hold a cartoon contest because the delicate sensibilities of radical Islamists might be offended.
It doesn’t make any sense.
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Giulio Meotti: Jews Go On the Offensive on the Temple Mount—A few days ago we published on Arutz Sheva an exposé about Unesco’s new policy regarding the Temple Mount, meant to strip the Jews of their historic, legal and natural rights over their most important holy city. The Sanhedrin and other Jewish groups then drafted a letter of protest to the UN’s cultural office. It showed the way the State of Israel should fire back at their enemies. A special court will also be formed at Mount Zion based on the Foundation of Sanhedrin to sue Unesco. The Jewish document “demands revocation of the declaration regarding Islam’s rights on the Temple Mount and replacing it with a truthful declaration or else face legal prosecution”. They charge Unesco of “acting like a tool of belligerent Islam”, which recklessly and maliciously “proclaimed that the entire mount with the Al Aqsa Mosque and all rights belong to the Muslims, include the surroundings of so called ancient Jerusalem as an Islamic heritage cite in the declaration publicized on April 28, 2015”.
SnyderTalk Comment: Do you see it? Progress seems slow, but it’s really not. Eventually, Yahweh’s people will stand up as a group.
Mark Steyn: Stay Quiet and You’ll Be Okay— …If the American press were not so lazy and parochial, they would understand that this was the third Islamic attack on free speech this year – first, Charlie Hebdo in Paris; second, the Lars Vilks event in Copenhagen; and now Texas. The difference in the corpse count is easily explained by a look at the video of the Paris gunmen, or the bullet holes they put in the police car. The French and Texan attackers supposedly had the same kind of weapons, although one should always treat American media reports with a high degree of skepticism when it comes to early identification of “assault weapons” and “AK47s”. Nonetheless, from this reconstruction, it seems clear that the key distinction between the two attacks is that in Paris they knew how to use their guns and in Garland they didn’t. So a very cool 60-year-old local cop with nothing but his service pistol advanced under fire and took down two guys whose heavier firepower managed only to put a bullet in an unarmed security guard’s foot.
Ruth Sherlock and Carol Malouf: Assad’s Spy Chief Arrested over Syria Coup Plot—The Assad regime has placed its intelligence chief under house arrest after suspecting he was plotting a coup. Ali Mamlouk, the head of the country’s National Security Bureau, was accused of holding secret talks with Turkish intelligence and Rifaat al-Assad, President Bashar Assad’s uncle, who has lived abroad in exile since he was accused of seeking to mount a coup in Syria in the 1980s. Even before Mamlouk’s arrest, two other intelligence officials were killed or removed. The role being played in the country’s civil war by Iran is said to be a cause of tension, with some of Assad’s inner circle afraid that Iranian officials now have more power than they do. “Most of the advisers at the presidential palace are now Iranian,” said a source close to the palace. “Mamlouk hated that Syria was giving her sovereignty up to Iran. He thought there needed to be a change.” Charles Lister, a Syria expert with the Brookings Institution, said, “Iran appears to be calling the shots now” in Syria.
Doyle McManus: What the Persian Gulf States Want: Iran Kept at Bay—This week, President Obama will gather kings, emirs and sheiks from the oil-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf at Camp David for a summit aimed at bolstering the U.S. alliance with their Sunni Muslim governments. These alliances have been fraying, mostly because of diverging views on Iran, the Arab states’ historic rival, ruled by Shiite Muslims. In recent months, as the Obama administration has neared an agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear programs, the Saudis and their allies have reacted with near-panic. They don’t want an equilibrium that grants Iran big-power status; they want Iran kept at bay. They think Iran is irrevocably bent on expanding its influence. And they aren’t sure that the U.S. can be counted on to regulate the regional balance. “If you talk to most of the [Persian Gulf] countries, they will tell you that they are more concerned about Iran’s behavior than they are about whether it’s 5,000 or 7,000 centrifuges,” Youssef al-Otaiba, the UAE ambassador in Washington, said last week.
Arieh Dan Spitzen: Iran Funneling Money to West Bank to Buy Influence with PA—Evidence suggests that Iran has been funneling money to the Palestinian Authority through its Shari’a courts and buying influence with the Palestinian public in the West Bank. One of the key channels of Iranian influence is the Al-Ansar Charitable Society, based in Gaza, which has been transferring Iranian funds to the families of Palestinian “martyrs” (including many terrorists) on behalf of the Iranian-funded Martyrs Foundation in Lebanon. According to its website, on July 23, 2012, the Al-Ansar Charitable Society distributed $1,650,000 from the Iranian Martyrs Foundation to families of “martyrs” killed in the West Bank. Iranian financial support was facilitated by the PA postal services, where families of “martyrs” were instructed to go in order to collect their benefits. The writer formerly served as head of the Israel Ministry of Defense’s Palestinian Affairs Department in the office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.
Jamie Dettmer: Power Struggle Erupts after Islamic State Leader Seriously Wounded—Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State’s leader, sustained serious shrapnel wounds two months ago that left his spine damaged and his left leg immobile, jihadist defectors say. He is said to be mentally alert and able to issue orders, but the Islamic State’s governing Shura Council is to decide on a temporary leader from among three IS leaders, two Iraqis and a Syrian. Abu Ala al-Afri is one of the nominees. A second Iraqi contender is Abu Ali al-Anbari, a former major general in the Iraqi army who has been in charge of overseeing Islamic State territory in Syria. The third nominee is a Syrian, the current IS governor of Raqqa, Ali Moussa al-Hawikh. Activist Ahmad Abdulkader, who debriefed the defectors, said there has been a dramatic decrease in foreign recruits to the Islamic State. “There used to be each week 100 to 200 foreign recruits arriving in Raqqa [in Syria]; now there are five or six every week. The foreigners inside are communicating to their friends back home not to come and they’re explaining the reality of what life is really like inside.”
Alan Baker: Draft International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Anti-Semitism—Clearly, and sadly, the issue of anti-Semitism has always been and remains a major recurring aspect in the international arena and narrative. While the phenomenon is universally researched, addressed, and condemned by international and regional organizations, various NGOs, Jewish community bodies throughout the world, and even marginally and in a limited manner in some UN resolutions and declarations, and has been criminalized by certain states in their domestic legislation, the international community has never considered criminalizing anti-Semitism as an international crime, in a manner similar to the criminalization of genocide, racism, piracy, hostage-taking, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and terror. With the plethora of material dealing with anti-Semitism, and in light of the horrific tragedies that it has wrought on humanity for thousands of years, and in light of the recent re-awakening of anti-Semitism, one might have expected that some effort would have been made by the international community to criminalize anti-Semitism and declare it to be an international crime – this with a view to ensuring that perpetrators, inciters, and all those involved in it would be dealt with as international criminals and not enjoy impunity.
Amelia Katzen: ‘Catch the Jew!’ Replete With Diverse People in an Ideological Minefield— Alan Dershowitz is fond of pointing out that, were a Martian to land in the middle of the United Nations, he would think that Israel was the worst place on the earth, which is otherwise perfect. In the recently published Catch the Jew! Tuvia Tenenbom is a German journalist playing the role of that Martian, but he lands in middle of the state of Israel. His publisher has given him the assignment of writing about Israel by interviewing its inhabitants over the course of seven months. He arrives in Israel more or less a tabula rasa, a blank slate, with no political agenda or expectations. What does he find? People of all sorts, who are surprising, predictable, infuriating, self-serving, dedicated, funny, sad, uplifting, depressing, and enlightening. There’s something for everyone.
Uzay Bulut: Iran’s Political Weapons: Rape and Torture— The rape and torture of Kurdish and dissidents in Iran — both women and men — is now widespread and systematic. Most recently, on May 4, Farinaz Khosrawani, 25, a Kurdish woman employed at the Hotel Tara in Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan, plunged from a fourth-floor window of the Tara Hotel, Kurdish news media reported. Khosrawani allegedly jumped to her death to avoid being raped by an Iranian government security agent; the circumstances surrounding her death have not yet been confirmed. Apparently furious over Khosrawani’s unexplained death, thousands of Kurds took to the streets, torching the hotel where she had worked. Police officers, according to news accounts, used tear gas to disperse the crowds.
SnyderTalk Comment: This is the real Iran.
Amir Tibon: Avigdor Lieberman’s Failed Plan To Topple Netanyahu—Avigdor Lieberman has done it once again. Israel’s most mysterious and unpredictable politician created a political firestorm last Monday by announcing that he has decided to stay out of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government—despite having won only six seats in the recent Knesset elections, which threatened to consign him to political oblivion. His announcement put Netanyahu’s status as prime minister in real danger for two days and eventually caused him to capitulate to demands from junior coalition members, whom only a few days earlier he was planning to politely brush off. Lieberman stated many reasons for his surprising decision, which seemed to come out of nowhere. He attacked Netanyahu from the right for not toppling Hamas in Gaza during the last war, and accused him of caving in to the ultra-Orthodox parties by erasing pluralistic legislation on Jewish conversions, which was passed by the last government. He described Netanyahu’s new coalition as “purely opportunistic” and boasted that his party was offered sufficient government portfolios (including the foreign ministry for himself) but “chose values over seats.”
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US-Arab alignment shows strains before Camp David summit
Netanyahu may push government’s formation to next week
‘Israeli aid to Nepal was cover for baby trafficking’
Report claims thorough deception from White House on bin Laden raid
Once untouchable, Egypt’s Sisi faces media attacks
Israel says unauthorized boats will be denied entry as Gaza flotillas begin again
Iran rejects UN criticism of upsurge in executions
Ya’alon warns German defense minister of Iran’s Middle East meddling
Netanyahu vows to ‘broaden government’ as Herzog plans to bring him down
British scientist may have exposed ancient Egyptian mummy scandal
19-year-old stabbed in West Bank in suspected terrorist attack
Race to balance freedom and security for future of European Jewry
Report: Anti-Semitic vandalism spiked in Ukraine in 2014
Is the regional water crisis a bigger problem than Islamic State?
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Report: Hezbollah Apparently Already Has Chlorine Gas
British Ex-MP: Anti-Semitism Cost Me My Seat
Yaalon: We’ll ‘Stretch Out Our Hand’ to Palestinians
PA Crackdown on Hamas-Aligned Students
Israel Welcomes Christian Version of ‘Birthright’
Rivlin in Germany: No Country Immune to Anti-Semitism
Liberman: I Deceived Voters? Netanyahu Did!
Herzog Vows to Cripple Netanyahu’s Coalition
Netanyahu: I’ll Keep Trying to Widen Government
Disabled Young Adults to Study Jobs in Dentistry
Rearrested Terrorist to Serve 20 Years in Prison
PA Towns Surrounded by Jews Enjoy 0% Unemployment
Hamas Jails Gaza Man for ‘Spying for Israel’
Bloodbath as Rebels Storm Regime-Held Hospital
Rajoub Vows to Push Ahead with Israel Ban
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In blow to Obama, Saudi king and other leaders to skip Gulf summit
Iran Kurds riot after foul play suspected in woman’s death
Hezbollah leads fight in strategic Syrian mountains
Opposition readies to filibuster cabinet expansion bill
Israel and Germany sign deal for ships to guard gas rigs
Ethiopian-Israelis demand ministerial committees to help community
After election debacle, UK Labour rues its choice of the wrong Miliband brother
New deputy defense minister called Palestinians ‘animals’
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Arab Stabs Israeli Hitchhiker near Jerusalem
Hizbullah Boosts Presence in Assad Stronghold in Syria
Denying Reports of Heavy Losses, Hezbollah Claims Seizure of Syria Border Zone
IDF Commander: Hamas Transformed the Gazan Civilian Sector Into War Zone
Analysis: As Abbas Era Hits 10 Years, Palestinians Mired in Political and Economic Muck
Security increased for Ayelet Shaked following threats to her life
Bennett: “Today we have a hand on the steering wheel”
High Court rejects bid to block cabinet expansion bill
Report accuses Obama of lying about bin Laden killing
Refugee quotas proposed by European Commission
Syria rebels storm besieged government hospital, says monitor
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SnyderTalk Comment: This sunset picture is really interesting because it’s sunset on Mars.
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Saudi King canceled meeting with Obama
SnyderTalk Comment: As I have said before, Obama is as irrelevant on the world stage as a U.S. president can be. “The Saudi Foreign Minister announced that King Salman won’t attend a summit for Arab countries in Washington, DC, despite US President Obama’s expectation to meet with him face to face.”
See
Iran: Inspection of Military Sites Impossible Under Any Deal
China Seeking Military Base in Djibouti, East Africa
What Do Syrian Chemical Weapons Violations Mean for Iran Deal? Also see “Weapons Inspectors Find Undeclared Sarin and VX Traces in Syria”.
Interest rate cut puts China banks’ profits on the line
Kerry to meet Putin in first visit to Russia since start of Ukraine crisis
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Exodus 9
27 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time; Yahweh is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones. 28 Make supplication to Yahweh, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.” 29 Moses said to him, “As soon as I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh; the thunder will cease and there will be hail no longer, that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s. 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear Yahweh God.” 31 (Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they ripen late.) 33 So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and rain no longer poured on the earth. 34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35 Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not let the sons of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.
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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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.
