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dymockhgf-blog · 4 years

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This last week has certainly left us with a large number

The President's trip abroad which yielded very little by means of support for many of America's endeavors, shootings at home which supposedly were in some part a strange defense of gun rights, North Korea firing off its intercontinental ballistic missile on Saturday (4/4/09). Everything appears to be positioned in the same old place as ingramer always regarding America's relationships with other nations abroad. In spite of our very popular President and first lady, we still are failing to inspire the Europeans with our foreign policy position, which seems far removed from anything good or perfect.

Perhaps, could it be that the Europeans know something that we Americans don't know and really don't seem to want to know? Can it possibly be that we Americans have gotten so out of touch with the things that really do matter, and can't bring ourselves to actually start caring about? Have we gotten so smug, complacent, and arrogant in our own secret knowledge, our "new light" on things, which by the way, the rest of the world refuses to accept. But do we really care, because we are so much better, and smarter, than everyone else? Aren't we?

Laura Ingram said this morning on the Today Show that "We need Europeans to sacrifice!" (Wed. 4/8/09)

President Obama told the world in Turkey that , "We are not at war with Islam." (Mon. 4/6/09)

Nonetheless, we are at war, and it is very costly business, the last time I looked. Which raises some other serious questions that we would do far better to start asking ourselves, if we can stop patting our own selves on the back long enough to perform this important soul searching project.

It's really very important for Americans to take some important time out from all their business of "running to and fro" to endless mega-church and other meetings, etc., to participate in an awful lot of dead end stuff that takes them nowhere else except continuing to fall over the edge of the cliff into an ignominious end! We must get control of ourselves instead of letting a mindless church and state continue to lead us by the nose down the yellow brick road where we have ceased to be any inspiration to the rest of the world at all. We need to start taking charge of our own conscience, and stand up for what is right instead of what is actually so very wrong, indeed, the very most "wrong" thing that any nation on the earth could support, and is supporting without any qualms whatsoever.

We also claim our "constitutional rights" today more than ever, especially since Barack Obama came into office. But such rights were made for an actually godly people, not the kind of people who continually love to ignore God's right and wrong things, which we seem to be most comfortable doing today!

We say we are "pro" this nation, and not another. We are clearly not a pro Christian nation any longer, in case you haven't noticed recently. Instead we are all pro-Judaism in our "51st state of Israel" that we give $7 million a day to! See how wonderful we are?

We see at Isaiah 5:20 that "Destruction is certain for those who say that evil is good and good is evil; that dark is light and light is dark; that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter." (NLT)

I don't see us as at all wonderful! And I don't think that God does either! We are ignorant, and we are so very proud of ourselves in our ignorance to say the least! We need to start doing our own homework in Christianity. We need to start reading a good book that will once again set our values on the right track. If we cannot even do this, then we are no better nor no better off than those who don't even know how to read! We are now on the fast track to destruction. Isaiah 5:20 is taking place about us right before our very eyes, but we have gotten so blind and brainwashed that we just can't see it! Nor do we want to face reality and see it!

We say and sing "God bless America", while all the time we care nothing for God's ways regarding right and wrong. We pride ourselves on sacrificing, just like people like Laura Ingram want to see throughout Europe, but display only an interest in our own kinds of sacrifices that are not acceptable to God. At every turn we display our fatal flaw that other nations observe in us but which we ourselves are too blind and too brainwashed to see!

We indulge our senses in all our fancy and sophisticated titles for what we are doing overseas, like our latest "overseas contingency operation" title! Wow! We are so proud and special, aren't we! We just can't bring ourselves to do the simple, homey little things, though, like sitting down with a very good and important book that would make us a far wiser people and nation! For God forbid that we would actually exert ourselves enough today to even try to make any small effort to actually see if there really are any good and perfect gifts (Jas. 1:17) from God that we are not aware of and that would help us to practice a far better way in our relationships with other nations on the face of the earth!

Our only answers now, America, seem to be more celebrities and war for the rest of the world, since we have run out of better, more decent and uplifting ideas, completely! How low America has now fallen in its current state of degeneracy!

There is no end in sight, as we continue to wallow in our ignorant, degenerate ways. If not so, feel free to prove me wrong! Surprise me if you so choose, though I bet you won't! Because maybe, just maybe, America is simply too far gone to try to reason with or to save from its reprobate self any longer!

But if we're not so far gone as I suspect we are today, then here's what you need to do to help yourself and your country. You need to go to Amazon.com. There you can purchase a very inexpensive book that will open your eyes and cause you to see many good and perfect things and gifts from God, that if taken most seriously, would place us and our nation back on track with God and with the rest of the world. Its title is There Is A Kingdom, by me, Anita Whalley, and it is, indeed, a huge bargain for all it offers at the amazing low price of $15.99 (in the Christian books department).

I have to say I went to a great deal of trouble and personal expense over the past 12 years to write and make this book available so that America might become better enlightened and find a much needed course correction in her churches, her government, her society, her deficient foreign policy relations and her general lackluster behavior and character before many, including Europe and the God of creation who will some day judge her in her depraved standards and ways. I have done the good and right thing, here, for God and country, while far too many others have been so very busy about all of their own personal benefits and pursuits.

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Éric Alliez & Maurizio Lazzarato’s Wars and Capital

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The book is examining Wars and Capital, with State in between as an important element to constitute the notion of politics (in a Schmittian & Greek sense). I came across the book in an exhibition titled Crossings in Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen this Christmas. The cover description of the book says: “A critique of capital through the lens of war, and a critique of war through the lens of the revolution of 1968.” I have read some of the works of Lazzarato before on notion of sovereignty, which made me interested to read this one.

The book is drawing heavily from the Nazi racist political scientist Carl Schmitt (who was going as far as demanding that all publications by Jewish scientists should henceforth be marked with a small symbol) and at the same time political works of Foucault and Deleuze. Unsurprisingly, Foucault has been criticized for being too liberal, specifically in chapter 7: “The Limits of the Liberalism of Foucault”. That’s also probably, the reason that Schmitt’s Naziism has not been mentioned throughout the whole book. Schmitt has been cited more than 35 times and one chapter is dedicated to him alongside Lenin. (Chapter 8: The Primacy of Capture, Between Schmitt and Lenin)

Alliez and Lazzarato seem to fully agree with Wallerstein’s world-system theory. Creation of the term "War of subjectivity” (which is also another fancy word for identity-politics) is a big part of the concept. Since today everyone has recognized that mostly white-boys are complaining about identity politics (for obvious reasons), writers have become creative in coming up with this new term “War of subjectivity”. However, the essence of the book is pushing for the same good-old critiques: fascism is not so different from Capitalism / Anthropocene is Capitalocene / poor White workers in England suffered as much as slaves in America (page 115, 374) / Postmodernism is bad, class-consciousness is needed… etc. etc.

“During colonization, entire peoples, after having been expropriated from their ‘life as savages,’ let themselves die off rather than fall into a slavery that could include the option of ‘free labor.’ ‘Free labor’ that the practice of working to death in workshops and manufactures brings so close to slavery itself that the Morning Star—the organ of the English free-traders—could exclaim: ‘Our white slaves, who are toiled into the grave, for the most part silently pine and die.’”

The centrality of the debt-economy concept is always present in the background of the book. Also, neoliberalism is defined as the “Global Civil War”. At some point, I questioned myself if he’s just adding the word WAR at the end of anything that capital is to blame for? War here is referred to as “the most deterritorial form of sovereignty”. “War of Subjectivity”, “War of Race, class, gender, sex, etc..”. This is also not a new strategy, orthodox white-boy Marxists have been presenting all sorts of privileges (especially “white-privilege” and “male privilege”) as a divider and a sidetrack for class wars. Borrowing from Giovanni Arrighi, they inserted a passage that clearly shows how they think about colonialism. They blame almost everything aside from the most important element: “racism”.

“The synergy between capitalism, industrialism, and militarism, driven by interstate competition, did indeed engender a virtuous circle of enrichment and empowerment for the peoples of European descent and a corresponding vicious circle of impoverishment and disempowerment for most other peoples.”

Methodologically, the book almost never steps out of Europe. Although there are some great historical references to wars and interventions in developing countries, which are also the intersection of capitalism and colonialism -examples such as Haiti’s slave rebellion of Saint-Domingue. The strength of the book is in identifying all different modes of governmental industrial militarism, or “military Keynesianism”, which enabled colonial power to quite down internal civil war during the process of colonialism. The example of Nazi Germany’s full population employment due to war was very aligned with these analyses. In section 9.6 of the book, the writers argue how post-war welfare states were able to erase the differences between war-time and peace-time, which was part of the larger debate on how “warfare states” transferred to “welfare states”. This is also the same reason I kept reading all the 430 pages of the book.

In 1957 the Nazi Carl Schmitt invited Kojeve to give a lecture addressing representatives of “Rhine capitalism” at an exclusive club in Düsseldorf. The title of the talk was "Colonialism from a European Perspective". Alexandre Kojeve, a right-wing Hegelian bureaucrat, dissected colonialism into two categories of “giving colonialism” and “taking colonialism”. He says: “Thus one must really ask the question today: how can colonialism be economically reconstructed in a "Fordist" way, so to speak? On the face of it, there are three conceivable methods, and all three have already been suggested.” Lazzarato probably turned on by this distinction, references Kojeve alongside Schmitt and replaces the word “colonialism” with “capitalism” to flatten all ambiguities that colonialism is the same as capitalism. Following the reminder that the Capitalist mode of production is simultaneously a mode of destruction.

The biggest problem that I have with the book, is that it equalizes the poor white workers of the 17-19th century in Europe to the slaves in Africa and the Americas. I call this act “theoretical colonization”. While race-blindness remains an issue in the book, it’s another problem to reduce the suffering of racial slavery in order to equalize them with Western white workers.

It’s very comical that in one instant they called Foucault’s theory “Eurocentric” and also “British-centric”!? Showing that they actually have no clue what these terms mean or where it's coming from. I agree with Spivak that to some extend Foucault’s work is slightly Eurocentric, but to hear this from a conservative white boy like Lazzarato is admittedly a bit humorous.

What came to my mind during reading Wars and Capital was the film “Lincoln (2012)”. By attacking 19th-century-liberals, the film made all the right-wing people happy (including those radicals who hated Obama and later in 2016, voted for Trump). In the background of this recollection is also the most racist film of all times "The Birth of a Nation (1925)” by D. W. Griffith, which depicted the abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens very negatively.

The writers attack the liberalism of John Locke and his support of slavery. By using this 17th-century example, they are constructing a case that centrism (the equivalent of today’s conflicts of subjectivity, which for them falls under the bigger umbrella of liberalism) is the secret motor of liberal governmentality. What Lazzarato is neglecting is not class consciousness but the fact that what constitutes an abolitionist position in the West, is not the race-blindness of homo oeconomicus but is a consciousness of race, culture, and colonialism.

Expectedly and appropriately, there is no actual examination of what racism is in the book. Similar to other orthodox leftists, writers refuse to get into any analysis of racism. They hijack the notion of racism when it intersects with wage-gab, or harsh working conditions in Europe. The only race that exists is the race of workers, problem solved! Classic! In most cases, they use the word racism as a supplement to show the intensity of a particular concept (environmental racism, anti-labor racism, war-racism, eugenics of labor force). The ultimate aim is to reduce racism solely to market-violence. In other words, all sorts of social inequalities are a side-effect of the world’s economic system and therefore fall under the same category of social reproduction.

Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato are so orthodox that for them the radical white kids from ’60s are heterodox.

They are so orthodox when mentioning Korea, they don’t put south or north before it.

They are so orthodox that for them talking about “Black Power” is the same as talking about “White Power” because it is talking about race!

What Marxism needs is not another corps of the orthodoxy wrapped in the cutting-edge hip and fancy vocabulary, but a fresh inclusive, race-conscious framework that acknowledges people’s differences and culture prior to the call for unification of the workers. That’s the only way it can come out of the dark archaic place where it is now. Similar to Carl Schmitt critique of liberalism in the “The Concept of Political”, today, the same critique comes from people such as Bolsonaro, Trump, Putin, Erdogan, and the rest.

Here is a selection on Griffith’s work, from Sergei Eisenstein in the collection of essays, titled: Dickens Griffith and the Film Today (1944). The critique of liberalism seems to do nothing but to direct attention to the position of the writer. This passage precedes a description of a video made in mockery of Menshevik addressing in the Second Congress of Soviets.

“The role of Griffith is enormous, but our cinema is neither a poor relative nor an insolvent debtor of his. It was natural that the spirit and content of our country itself, in themes and subjects, would stride far ahead of Griffith's ideals as well their reflection in artistic images. In social attitudes Griffith was always a liberal, never departing far from the slightly sentimental humanism of the good old gentlemen and sweet old ladies of Victorian England, just as Dickens loved to picture them. His tender-hearted morals go no higher than a level of Christian accusation of human injustice and nowhere in his films is there sounded a protest against social injustice.”

The depiction of abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens in the racist film “The Birth of a Nation 1915” by D. W. Griffith.

The depiction of Thaddeus Stevens in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln (2012)″

The depiction of “The Birth of a Nation 1915” in Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman (2018)″

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De Vries, Erik. 2001. “Alexandre Kojeve, ’Colonialism from a European Perspective’ 29 (1):”, no. 29 (1) (January), 115-30. Eisenstein, Sergei. 2014. Film Form. HMH. Koonz, Claudia. 2003. The Nazi Conscience. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Schmitt, Carl. 2008. The Concept of the Political. University of Chicago Press.

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Bluetooth phone tracing might help fight the coronavirus pandemic

The novel coronavirus stands out at spreading due to the fact that it’s infectious when there are couple of or no signs.

That’s why federal governments are resorting to lockdowns, travel bans, and other economy-crippling constraints.

A team of 130 volunteer researchers just rolled out a technology framework that intends to help individuals go back to work using an epidemiological concept called contact tracing.

Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing would use Bluetooth low-energy (which nearly all smart devices have) to anonymously discover close encounters with infected users and warn those who were exposed.

The group states it developed the framework with privacy and privacy as a cardinal rule.

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She does not observe that he’s come within 6 feet, and she does not hear him cough into his elbow.

However days later on, a complimentary app on Dana’s smart device alerts her to news she had actually been dreading since installing it: She was likely exposed to someone with COVID-19

Dana got the alert due to the fact that the man on the bus saw a doctor, evaluated favorable, and was provided a special code to type into the exact same free app.

The task scientists believe their initiative can get individuals back to work with decreased risk by using smartphone-to-smartphone cordless signals to find who has been exposed to someone with COVID-19 and alert them. PEPP-PT counts on Bluetooth low energy, or BLE– a typical mobile cordless technology– to perform what epidemiologists call “contact tracing.” The process involves finding out who came into contact with a sick individual, then advising those people to quarantine themselves.

” We all live in an international world, or we utilized to live in an international world, and we require to get back there if we don’t wish to break our income completely,” Hans-Christian Boos, an artificial-intelligence and computer-science scientist who helped organize the effort, informed Business Expert.

PEPP-PT’s groups focused on building a confidential, easy-to-implement, globally scalable, and essentially totally free phone-based method that would not compromise privacy in the exact same method as other tracing initiatives used in nations like China, Israel, Singapore, and South Korea

” We stated, ‘We require to do something, but we can’t do it the manner in which China has done it.’ Due to the fact that if we did, we would at the very same time just discard liberty,” Boos stated.

Why confidential digital contact tracing may help combat the pandemic

Healthcare employees wheel the body of deceased individual from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center throughout the break out of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Brooklyn, New York City, New York City, April 2,2020

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The coronavirus can spread prior to contaminated people show any symptoms at all.

” The very first SARS infection, from 2000 to 2003, didn’t have that, which is why it was simple to contain– ‘easy’ in quotes– due to the fact that it was adequate to just separate people who got sick,” Salathe informed Company Expert.

Asymptomatic spread also makes standard contact tracing, in which epidemiologists manually track down contaminated people to backtrack their steps, insufficient, according to a recent study in the journal Science

That is the core idea behind PEPP-PT.

Boos said PEPP-PT as a company (pending contributions) is prepared to build and offer servers for free to states, nations, and other large-scale companies. If those entities pass validation by PEPP-PT– and don’t “inject something nasty” into the source code to, say, funnel off private information, Boos stated– they can join an information exchange.

A group in Germany– led by Ulf Buermeyer, a lawyer and information-technology professional who co-founded the country’s Society for Civil Liberty— just recently described a similar model in a post at Netzpolitik.org

Buermeyer informed Business Expert the PEPP-PT framework appears to be “a privacy-compatible way of tracking individuals by Bluetooth,” though he emphasized the group has yet to roll out its open-source code for the world to scrutinize.

” There are people who question that it is possible at all. I would state that it is possible,” he stated. “It’s a technique that has strong benefits and I hope its implementation achieves success.”

How to track coronavirus exposure without sacrificing user personal privacy

Individuals take a trip in a city train during a partial lockdown enforced to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Moscow, Russia, April 2,2020

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Some countries are currently utilizing technology-based contact-tracing systems. But they sacrifice significant quantities of their residents’ personal privacy to do so: Those apps evaluate credit-card purchases, GPS area data, monitoring camera monitoring, and other details to follow the infected and alert the exposed.

Such methods do appear to be working to suppress the virus’ spread, though. South Korea, for instance, dropped from a peak of 909 brand-new COVID-19 cases reported on February 29 to just 74 brand-new cases reported on March 16.

” What might seem anathema to the US in normal situations now seems more bearable in these remarkable times,” Sarah Kreps, who studies security and cybersecurity at Cornell University, said in a recent news release. “On the one hand, quiting some privacy to save lives and restore some flexibility of movement, commerce, and expression looks like a straight-forward calculation. On the other, historic experience suggests that when governments get extra powers, they are loath to give them up, which might have long lasting, negative implications for civil liberties.”

Boos states he fears greasing the wheels for an Orwellian future, but is convinced Drastic privacy-killing procedures aren’t really required.

Bluetooth low-energy, or BLE, is already exceptionally popular– it’s a primary method we connect our smartphones to wireless headphones, speakers, watches, Televisions, and more. And it currently provides a distance noticing or “electronic leash” ability: it can transmit a “hey there” signal while also listening for such beacons from other gadgets.

By logging the strength of those wireless signals, ranges between devices can be approximated determined. This is the foundation upon which PEPP-PT constructed its structure.

When two individuals’s phones save the other’s random numbers, they do so in an encrypted log that not even a phone’s owner can access.

Logging encounters does not require web service.

” You don’t want the trolls to publish that they’re contaminated if they aren’t,” Boos said.

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To guarantee just positive-test users can report an infection, a doctor or laboratory would offer an unique gain access to code that allows an individual to submit their contact history. The server will reply to many of them, hopefully, ‘absolutely nothing occurred’ in encrypted form,” stated Wiegand, who’s also executive director of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute.

In this way, the privacy of contaminated individuals would remain secured, as would that of anybody they had a close encounter with.

” It’s an entirely closed system, meaning that we can’t read the input and output. It’s entirely anonymous,” Wiegand said.

Buermeyer stated that from his assessment, the app tries to lessen how much data is collected.

” What is gathered is basically anonymous IDs. Data that you do not get and save can’t be hacked,” he said. “It’s likewise the most appealing method from a technical perspective– BLE allows you to scan for close contact. That is what it puts it way ahead of GPS or satellite.”

Completion result is that days or weeks of human epidemiologist work on a single case might be come down to a number of hours, triggering exposed people to self-quarantine sooner.

PEPP-PT would need to be as popular as WhatsApp to be reliable

A guy goes into the 23 rd Street train as New York City attempts to slow the spread of coronavirus through social distancing on April 1,2020

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However, it remains to be seen how many individuals would in fact use such apps.

In a perfect world, the project’s creators say, a minimum of 60%of an offered population would have capable gadgets with a PEPP-PT app set up and Bluetooth turned on. That number is what Salathe says would adequately reduce the illness’s R0, or R-naught– a procedure of the number of individuals, usually, one infected person spreads out the disease to. The coronavirus up until now has an average worldwide R0 of between 2 and 2.5.

If an R0 dips listed below one, the disease loses steam and– eventually– disappears. Brute-force methods like lockdowns work in lowering the spread, but badly damage economies. PEPP-PT may have the ability to achieve a similar impact without keeping most workers house.

” If you caught a contact prior to they can then spread it to the next round of people, that’s how you in fact really stop the entire thing,” Salathe said. “That’s where this 60%number comes from. If 60%takes part, then that step by itself ought to suffice to bring the recreation number listed below one.”

There’s no concern that Bluetooth is popular and pervasive: In 2019, more than 2 billion phones, tablets, and PCs with the requirement were shipped, according to a 2019 market report by Bluetooth SIG, which developed the core innovation.

” BLE was introduced in 2013 and has been utilized by Apple because iOS 7 and on the iPhone FOUR,” Steve Shepperson-Smith, a representative for Vodafone, informed Service Expert in an e-mail. “Vodafone Germany data shows that more than 95%of Android gadgets in Europe use BLE.”

An employee sanitizes the Piazza dei Miracoli near to the Tower of Pisa in Pisa, Italy, on March 172020

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Still, Europe is an appealing place to begin, according to Avi Greengart, a market expert who investigates device and innovation adoption.

” The bigger issue is if you can encourage enough individuals to utilize the app, and that will differ by country.

He included: “federal government mandates might certainly exceed these issues.”

‘ It is useful even if just 1%of the population installs it’

Masked passengers ride a subway train in Nanjing in China’s Jiangsu province on February 19,2020 Guests are hired to scan QR codes of every train carriages and buses on a smart phone app so that when a brand-new COVID-19 patient is found, those who shared the exact same flights can get alerted.

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Still, the developers of PEPP-PT (and other professionals Service Expert talked to) state that even without the perfect adoption rates, the framework can still make a considerable damage in controlling the spread of coronavirus.

” Even if, state, 40%of individuals participate, it’s going to have quite a strong impact on the epidemic,” Salathe said.

Buermeyer was even more forgiving of low adoption: “It is useful even if just 1%of the population installs it, but it gets more beneficial as a larger percent of people install it,” he said.

” You will not record everything with a system like this, however what you handle to catch is probably the dominant path through droplets.

For PEPP-PT to work as an intermediate service, though, quick, affordable, and extensive tests are a should– otherwise users can’t notify the system to their infection.

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Defending The Faith: Does The West Have a Future Without Christianity?

We live in curious times. The oppression of Muslims in the West is purportedly a great shame on our societies- the dread word ‘Islamophobia’ is thrown around at the drop of a fez, proof that Europeans are little better than racist bigots. You may then be surprised to hear that Muslims are not the most persecuted religious group. You should be forgiven for having assumed so. The Liberal media has largely ignored this very real persecution happening all over the world; but it is not the Muslim who is being beheaded and crucified in the streets, it is Christians.

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While North Korea is considered to be the most unfriendly to Christians, outside of the grasp of Kim Jong-un, the persecution is taking place primarily in the Middle East; and you guessed it, predominantly at the hands of Muslims. The Christian minority in the Middle East face a sobering reality of their daily existence; they risk the penalty of death for the simple act of practicing their faith. The media occasionally acknowledges these exterminations, but turn a blind eye to the scale of persecution suffered by these minorities because it doesn't fit their globalist political narrative. Islamophobia and hate speech are worthy issues to pay attention to, not the slaughter of the Christian faithful at the hands of Muslims. Once again the press exposes themselves by virtue of omission; much like their denial of the genocide of white farmers in South Africa. In doing so they are proving their crusade to ‘fight the good fight’ is not really about standing up for the underdog but about pushing a political agenda. They love minorities, as long as they are not White. They love religion, as long as it’s not Christianity.

Meanwhile, False reports of hate crimes are on the rise in the West, From tall tales of hijabs attacks to fake reports of attacks from Trump supporters. Websites like FakeHateCrimes.org document these cases with new hoaxes occurring weekly. The left-wing media tells us to hate crimes against Muslims are on the rise if that's true then why do so many feel the need to fake them? Often these so-called hate crimes are reported as truth and then later retracted only when it’s too late, the story has already spread and the damage done.

When all the left can point to is microaggressions and mean words, they have to blow up fake hate crimes and make mountains out of molehills. They force reality to fit their narrative of "the evil White" who makes his fun persecuting the poor brown minorities. I’m sorry but asking someone where they are from is not a hate crime. A million raped British girls- that I do consider a hate crime.

Muslims are living it large in the freest countries in the world, able to openly practice their religion in their mosques and on the streets; even hate preachers are protected by the police and the state. Christians living in Muslim homelands are not so lucky.

Let's get into some simplified, brief history. In the pre-Islamic Middle East Christianity was one of may dominant religions along with a mix of Arab polytheism and Judaism. That was until the rise of Islam and its Jihad of terror marched across the land with a convert or die campaign. Oppressing every community into submission. So not much has changed in the last thousand years. Since Islam's inception it has been raging war on the unbelievers, yet, many people believe that Islamic terrorism has only existed since the West’s intervention into the Muslim countries. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The crusades of 1095 – 1291 were the first wars on terror. Implemented by Pope Urban II with his famous Deus Vult Speech, he launched the first fight back against Islamic occupation of the holy lands. The crusades themselves came at end of centuries of Islamic encroachment into Europe.

Islamic oppression of Christians has been going on for over a thousand years. Throughout history, more than 70 million Christians have been martyred for their faith- More than half of those were murders to place during the 20th century and around 100,000 to 160,000 murdered in the 21st century, so far. Not all were victims of Islam- though in contemporary times, the vast majority are.

"Is there a global war on Christians?" he says. "That question is asked in this issue and judging from the number of deaths and torture in recent years, my conclusion is, yes – and the casualties are staggering.

"Sadly, the names of Christ's heroes and their inspired stories go largely unspoken today and their cause goes unreported in the popular press." ~ Michael Austin

The followers of Islam continue to persecute Christians living in Muslim lands. Every month around 322 Christians are murdered; 214 churches are vandalized and destroyed, and around 772 forms of violence such as kidnappings, rape, and beatings are committed against Christians, in more than 60 countries.

Egypt has the largest Christian population in the Middle East with a conservative estimate at around 10% of the general public, though that number is considered to be higher because many hide their faith in fear of the repercussions. According to Open Doors -a non-denominational, non-profit organization supporting persecuted Christians- Around 128 Christians were killed in Egypt last year. 49 of these deaths took place on Easter in the Palm Sunday church bombings where a suicide bomber blew himself up during mass. 28 more were killed in the Ascension Day bus attack, where a gunman opened fire on two buses traveling to the Coptic Feast of the Ascension. All of these attacks are religiously motivated, the Islamic State has made that much very clear, vowing to wipe out all Egyptian Christians.

In other areas of the Middle East, the story is not much different. Even though this region of the world is the birthplace of Christianity - since the death of Christ - Christians only make up around 5% of the population. That’s down 20% from the end of the last century. Iraq until 2011 was the largest Christian community until fear of persecution caused more than half of the country’s Christian population to flee resulting in numbers dropping from 150,000 to barely 35,000 by spring 2017 – a fall, of more than 75 percent. Some predicted that Christianity could cease to exist in Iraq by as early as 2020.

Interesting that most Syrian Christians are overwhelmingly against more US airstrikes in their country and believe they’ll prolong this horrific civil war.

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 10, 2018

Syrian Christians (also known as Saint Thomas Christians) are one of the oldest Christian communities on Earth. By 2013, more than 450,000 Syrian Christians have fled their homes as a result of Islamic state oppression. More recent data is simply unavailable, thanks to the on-going jihad. Many Syrian Christians are kidnapped and murdered. Now, following a clear false-flag attack in Syria designed to draw the West into regime change operations against Bashar al-Assad, there are fears that Christians living there are in even more danger. Tucker Carlson raised his concerns on his FOX show, Stating:

"Starting a new war overthrowing Assad's regime in Syria would result in chaos many thousands would die, in fact, we might likely see the genocide of one of the last remaining Christian communities in the Middle East."

I could go on listing events, murders and kidnappings resulting in Christians fleeing or facing persecution; I could list enough of these incidents to fill pages and pages of information, but that would be futile. What is happening is already horrific, I’m sure we can all agree. These atrocities are enough to turn anyone's stomach - but that’s not why I am writing this article. I’m writing this as a warning of things to come. At the moment we have a growing Muslim minority in the West that is getting larger by the day. The more that community grows, the more power and influence they have in our societies, and the more they become emboldened.

In what universe do Western governments think it was a good idea to import large numbers of a group who not only hate Christians and persecute them to near extinction in the Middle East, but also hate the West and its Christian roots? How long until the waterline overflows and tips the scales resulting in the kinds of persecution we see happening in the Middle East? When will this start pouring over into Western - Christian - countries? We live in representative democracies, theoretically run on majority rule. What do you think will happen when we no longer have the majority? Christianity is already becoming a minority religion in the West; power, even in the theological realm, abhors a vacuum, and Islam is stepping into that void. How long until the persecution starts? I’m not talking about the terrorist attacks- we are seeing now, they are bad enough as it is. We have already seen the fallout of the migrant crisis bringing rape, murder, and terror to Europe. I’m talking about nationwide attacks, Church burnings, beheadings in the streets, crucifixions and kidnappings. That may sound hyperbolic to you and I can understand that reaction, but remember, the Middle East was once Christian too.

I’m sure at one time - before Islam took hold - many people mocked the few warning of the coming danger. Eventually, the balance of power tipped, and Islamic rule reigns supreme resulting in the horror we see unfolding in the Middle East today.

Do you want your children or grandchildren to face a similar persecution to what people living in the Middle East have been and are facing now? Are you willing to stand by and let that happen to your country?

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