Anti-Israel Ads OK’d to Run in Boston Subways

Boston Strong is not supposed to refer to smell

Boston's north subway station

BOSTON (JTA) – The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority approved the display of an anti-Israel ad it had previously rejected.

The poster, which features a large photograph of a child and the word “violence” in large, bold letters, accuses Israel’s military of using US tax dollars to kill 2,000 Palestinian children since September 2000, and calls for the end of US military aid to Israel.

I have no idea how accurate these numbers are, but I do know the inferences here are dishonest, deceitful propaganda. Most of the Palestinian children who died in the summer of 2014, did so because Hamas deliberately fired rockets from school grounds, hospitals, and housing complexes. They did this knowing that the IDF would return fire to those locations. 

Their purpose was to create as many civilian casualties as possible, because that would cause gullible, undiscerning people to condemn Israel as deliberately targeting women and children. Hamas has to win the propaganda war because it cannot win the military war, and MBTA is helping them. Hamas is responsible for the deaths of most of those children.
These accusations were documented by Amnesty International.

From a previous blog post: Palestinian armed groups, including Hamas’s military wing, fired thousands of rockets and mortars indiscriminately toward civilian areas in Israel, according to Amnesty International, and also endangered Palestinian civilians by reportedly launching rockets from within civilian facilities, including schools and a hospital in Gaza.

It is one of three ads that was initially approved by the MBTA in June 2014, but later removed. At the time, the governing body of the state’s public transportation system said the ads violated its policy against language that demeans or disparages individuals or groups.

The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the rejection on behalf of the Palestinian rights organization, Palestine Advocacy Project. The group, formerly called Ads Against Apartheid, asserts that the poster is a form of protected First Amendment speech and should be allowed in a public space. The agency’s decision to approve came after the ACLU persuaded it that the ad does not violate the MBTA’s policy against demeaning ads, according to Sarah Wunsch, deputy legal director of the ACLU’s Massachusetts branch.

In a statement to JTA, a spokesman for the MBTA said these advertisements comply with its guidelines, that it described as “viewpoint neutral standards for all advertising displayed on MBTA property.”
Astonishing!

“To reduce unnecessary litigation which can arise from issue-based ads of this nature, the MBTA is currently considering whether to amend its advertising guidelines and in the future will not accept ads concerning political issues or matters of public debate,” the statement continued.

Jeremy Burton, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston said in a statement provided to JTA: “We do not believe that the MBTA nor any other government authority should regularly be in the business of banning speech. However, spreading distortions and inaccuracies about a complex political situation will achieve no positive benefit in the search for a lasting end to the conflict in the region, a cause to which we and all reasonable people are committed.”

Israel Bans Islamist Group, Saying it’s Inciting Violence

Islamic Movement also funds banned Mourabitun, whose protests against Jewish visitors at Temple Mount have occasionally turned violent

Police descend on offices of Islamic Movement’s northern branch,
which has accused Israel of ‘endangering’ Temple Mount

Raoul Wootliff, The Times of Israel

Israel has banned the radical northern branch of the Islamic Movement, charging it with links to terrorist groups and inciting the recent wave of violence, the cabinet announced early Tuesday.

“Any person who belongs to this organization or who provides services to it or who acts within its framework is henceforth committing a criminal offense punishable by a prison sentence,” a cabinet statement said. The move also allows for the confiscation of all property belonging to the group.

The northern branch of the Islamic Movement rejects the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians and boycotts national elections on the grounds that they give legitimacy to the institutions of the Jewish state.

In other words, they are living in 'LaLa Land' and don't want to be confused by facts.

The government accused the group of stoking a wave of violence across Israel and the West Bank that has left 12 Israelis dead since October 1. Eighty-two Palestinians have been killed, including dozens who were targeted while carrying out attacks.

After the security cabinet declared the movement illegal in a meeting late Monday night, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon signed an edict banning any activity connected to the group.

Israeli security forces then carried out a series of overnight raids on the organization’s offices, seizing computers, documents and cash in regional branches across the country, the Israel Police and Shin Bet security agency said. Police also froze bank accounts linked to the organization and a number of NGOs working alongside it.

In total, 17 regional branches were ordered closed, including offices in Umm al-Fahm, Jaffa, Nazareth, Kfar Kana, Turan, Beersheba and Rahat.

An Israeli police officer participates in a raid on offices of the Islamic
Movement's northern branch overnight Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 (Israel Police)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision was made “following a series of in-depth discussions with all relevant legal and security elements.

“The goal is to stop the dangerous incitement at home and prevent harm to innocent life. My government will continue to act as necessary against incitement and terrorism,” he said.

It will be interesting to see if this actually reduces the random attacks on Israelis or inflames the situation. I wouldn't give odd on either.

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said the decision gave law-enforcement officials more tools to counter incitement.

“It is time that we use all the apparatuses at the state’s disposal to combat terrorism and those who incite it,” Erdan said. He described the move as representative of global efforts to stem Islamic terrorism, particularly in the wake of a wave of attacks in Paris on Friday that left 129 dead.

“The State of Israel must set an example and spearhead the fight against radical Islam, whose emissaries we saw slaughtering innocents in Paris, New York, Madrid and Israel,” he said. “The Islamic Movement, Hamas, the Islamic State and other [Islamist] organizations have a common ideological platform that is the cause for terrorist attacks around the world and the wave of terror in this country.”

Ya’alon, the defense minister, also accused the group of responsibility for the latest wave of violence.

“The Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement is endangering the security of the State of Israel and collaborating, according to intelligence we have collected, with Palestinian terror organizations, including Hamas, in order to inflame the current situation and encourage violence,” he said.

Founded in the 1970s, the Islamic Movement is a political organization, religious outreach group and social service provider rolled into one. Sounds like the Muslim Brotherhood. The movement’s overarching goal is to make Israeli Muslims more religious and owes much of its popularity to providing services often lacking in Israel’s Arab communities. Today the group runs kindergartens, colleges, health clinics, mosques and even a sports league – sometimes under the same roof.

The movement split two decades ago. The more moderate southern branch began fielding candidates for Israel’s Knesset in 1996 and is now part of the Joint List, an alliance of several Arab-Israeli political parties. Three of the Joint List’s 13 current Knesset members are part of the movement. The more hardline northern branch rejects any legitimization of Israel’s government and has called on its adherents to boycott elections.

Palestinian Muslim women from the Murabitun group shout slogans and hold
 the Koran during a protest against Israel policemen preventing them from
entering the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City
on September 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90 )

The movement also funds a group called the Mourabitun, whose protests against Jewish visitors at the Temple Mount have occasionally turned violent. On September 9, Israel banned the group from the Mount, stoking tensions shortly before the current wave of attacks broke out.

In October, Netanyahu ordered the state prosecution and security agencies to gather evidence and prepare the case for declaring the northern branch of the Islamic Movement an illegal organization.

Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, in Jerusalem,
March 26, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Days earlier, the group’s firebrand leader, Sheikh Raed Salah, said his organization intends to respond to what he called “continued Israeli escalation” on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

“We have a package of plans ready to be unleashed immediately,” Salah said during a sermon. “May the streets of Jerusalem be purified with the blood of the innocent, who shed it in order to separate from their souls the soldiers of the Israel occupation, also in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

On Tuesday, Salah rejected the decision to ban the northern branch, saying he would remain in charge of the group and “continue to defend Al-Aqsa from Israel.”

Salah was sentenced earlier this year to 11 months in prison for incitement to violence and racism over an inflammatory sermon he delivered in 2007 in Jerusalem. He has previously served terms for similar offenses.

The Zionist Union, which leads Israel’s opposition, praised the decision to ban the group, but said it was overdue.

“Outlawing the Islamic movement is an appropriate move that the Zionist Union demanded more than a month ago, and it’s a shame it took [Netanyahu] so long to take this necessary step,” the party said in a statement.

Crazies in the News - From Tragic to Hilarious

Low IQ teen who used student loan to fund journey to Islamic State jailed for 5 yrs

© Yaser Al-Khodor / Reuters

A teenager who used his student loan money to travel to the Middle East in a bid join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) earlier this year has been sentenced to five years behind bars.

Yahya Rashid, 19, of north London, used forged papers to gain acceptance to Middlesex University. The teen, who has an IQ of between 65 and 70, then used the grant and loan money accorded to him to transport himself and four friends to the Turkey-Syria border in February. 

Rashid’s friends continued on to Syria, while he changed his mind and returned first to Istanbul and eventually to the UK after numerous appeals from his family, the court heard. He was detained at Luton Airport in March while attempting to reenter Britain.

Rashid was obviously manipulated by one or more of his friends in order to raise the money to get to Syria. One can't help feeling sorry for him, but on the other hand, he showed no remorse for fraudulently gaining entrance to university or using student loan money to further terrorism.

Man in Joker mask threatens to kill ‘1 Arab a week’ in Canada, gets arrested

© The Real Strategy / YouTube

A man wearing a mask of Batman's arch enemy the Joker was arrested in Montreal, Canada, after threatening to kill one Muslim every week in an online video. Canada has seen an escalation of anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.

Const. André Leclerc said the man, who was arrested in the borough of Montreal North on Tuesday night, is in custody and meeting with investigators, CBC News reported.

It is not yet clear what charges may be brought against him.

The video was posted Tuesday on YouTube, but has since been taken down. In it a man speaking in a Quebecois-sounding accent said that starting next week he would kill an Arab or a Muslim each week all across the province.


He was brandishing what appeared to be a handgun and said he had like-minded people on board who would help him to carry out the threat, reported the National Post.

British woman behind 400k petition to ‘close UK borders’… lives in Spain

The British woman who started a popular petition to stop all immigration and close UK borders is currently residing in Spain, she revealed during an interview with RT.

After the interview with RT UK on Tuesday, in which a caption showed her location as Jaen, Spain, Reeves confirmed she divides her time between the UK and Spain in a series of tweets with HuffPoUK.

Twitter users were quick to point out the irony of Reeve’s petition, when she herself spends half of her time in Spain as an immigrant.

Her petition to ‘stop all immigration and close UK borders’ until Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) is defeated has amassed more than 400,000 signatures.

‘Enslaved’: S. Carolina employer sued over treatment of mentally-handicapped black man

Conway, South Carolina. © Wikipedia

South Carolina restaurant owners are being sued for practically enslaving a mentally-handicapped black employee for years, with regular beatings, almost no pay and sub-human living conditions. The lawsuit follows charges that are still pending.

Last year brought to light the harrowing ordeal of the restaurant worker, beaten, abused and underpaid for years by the two white owners. The victim’s attorneys have just filed a new federal lawsuit.

The defendants are two brothers in Horry County, South Carolina.

They are accused of holding the mentally-handicapped worker in conditions of “slavery,” with a particularly hideous period lasting from 2010 to 2014. In all that time the victim would not have been able to put up much resistance.

Christopher Smith had been working at J&J Cafeteria in Conway from a young age.

The lawsuit filed by Smith’s attorneys with the US District Court lists 14 charges against brothers Ernest J. and Bobby Paul Edwards, including false imprisonment, exploitative labor practices and discrimination, according to the Post and Courier.

It wasn’t until last October that social workers got an anonymous tip and rescued Smith from the pair. Although the victim had worked at the café for 23 years, it was when Bobby Edwards became manager in 2010 that things got much worse. Everything from casual racist slurs to battery, bodily harm with belt buckles, frying pans and hot tongs. Smith was also allegedly working 18 hours a day, six days a week, and a further 11 hours on Sunday. Authorities estimated his total wages in a year to be a miserable $2,842.

He was living in a ramshackle, cockroach-infested apartment owned by the restaurant, in conditions described by his attorneys as “subhuman.”

In November 2014, Bobby Edwards was arrested, but charges of second-degree assault and battery are still pending.

When social services investigated the complaints and coordinated with Conway police, they found scars on Smith’s back. Asked later why he never reported the clearly slave-like treatment, Smith said he had been afraid for his safety and life.

It is no secret that South Carolina is dealing with a reputation of one of the most racist states in the US. There is no shortage of anti-black sentiment, which includes both routine abuse, as well as trouble with the police force.

Late October saw a white officer under investigation for an extremely physical incident at a high school. A black female student had allegedly refused to leave the classroom when instructed to do so, which resulted in the officer grabbing the girl by the neck, flipping her desk with her behind it, tossing her to the floor backwards, then forwards before handcuffing her. The officer has since been suspended without pay.

Wet your whistle: Hardy Yorkshire drinkers defy rising floodwaters to enjoy pint

Two barmy Brits refused to let the stormy weather battering the north of England stop them from enjoying a civilized pint of beer at their usual haunt… even if it meant sitting waist deep in rising floodwaters.

The beer garden, which sits a few meters from the scenic River Aire in the South Yorkshire city of Leeds, was inundated when heavy rain hit the area on Sunday.

The rain fell so fast there wasn’t even time to protect the garden from the rapidly rising river. When the banks burst, the garden was completely submerged.

Rather than sit in the warm and dry of the Kirkstall Bridge Inn, however, the defiant manager and pub owner decided to brave the muddy waters together and enjoy their drinks outside.

Manager John Kelly told the BBC of his failed efforts to stop the rising waters.

“I stood and shouted at the water but it didn’t seem to do much,” he said.

Unable to turn the tide and accepting their fate, Kelly and pub owner Steve Holt embraced their new water feature. They poured themselves a pint and settled down at a table completely submerged by the water.

“It was remarkably cold. The first 15 minutes were a little bit uncomfortable but once we settled down it was surprisingly therapeutic, to sit not just by the river but in the river,” Kelly said.

Mongolian trade unionist burns himself alive in a shocking act of protest 

© SCAUSETER / YouTube

Shocking footage shows a trade union leader setting himself alight to protest the looming sale of Mongolian coal mines to Chinese companies. The act of defiance took place at a press conference called to describe the hardships faced by the country’s miners.

In the footage posted by the Daily Mail, the union leader is seen taking a seat and at the press conference surrounded by fellow union members. He then makes a short public statement: “The government no longer supports our company, families of the workers are forced to starve, this is why I will burn myself for the people of Mongolia and our children.”

A split second later, the speaker appears to burst into flame. In the terrifying moment that follows, screams can be heard as his companions rip off their jackets and immediately start beating the engulfing flames from the man, who has fallen, agonizing, to the floor. The blaze was finally suppressed with a fire extinguisher.

Unfortunately the article doesn't tell us whether he survived the self-immolation.

15yo boy charged over airline bomb hoaxes, cyber-attacks

© Benoit Tessier / Reuters

A teenage boy has been charged with offences relating to cyber-attacks and bomb hoaxes on airlines in the UK and US, it has emerged.

The 15-year-old suspect from Plymouth, UK has been charged with three offences under Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act.

The attacks are believed to have been carried out on websites in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

The youth was charged following an investigation by officers from the regional cybercrime unit.
Devon and Cornwall Police said the alleged offender was charged with two offences under the Criminal Law Act.

“This relates to bomb hoaxes placed with airlines in North America via social media,” a spokesperson for the force said in a statement. The offences were allegedly committed within the past 12 months, they added.

The youngster has been released on police bail. He will appear before Plymouth Youth Court on December 18.

Boko Haram Blast Kills 32 While Presidential Adviser Steals $2 Billion

Boko Haram believed behind blast in Nigeria that killed 32

Adviser to former president accused of stealing $2B meant to battle rebels

Thomson Reuters 

Police officers inspect the site of a suicide bombing claimed by Boko Haram militants at a market in Maiduguri , Nigeria, on June 2. The militants are believed behind the bombing in Yola on Tuesday that killed at least 32 people. ( Jossy Ola/Associated Press)

Boko Haram assault kills dozens in northeastern Nigeria

A blast struck a market in a  northeastern Nigerian city on Tuesday evening, killing at least 32 people and wounding 80 others, according to both the Red Cross and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

The explosion occurred at a fruit and vegetable market beside a main road in the Jimeta area of Adamawa's state capital, Yola,  around 8 p.m. local time.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the blast bore the hallmarks of militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which has killed thousands over the last six years in its bid to create a state adhering to strict Shariah law in the northeast.

"Thirty-two people were killed and 80 have been injured," said a Red Cross official who asked not to be named. NEMA regional spokesman Alhaji Sa'ad Bello later gave the same casualty figures.

Suspected Boko Haram militants have carried out attacks in neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon in recent weeks, but have not struck northeastern Nigeria since late October when bombings in Yola and Maiduguri left at least 37 people dead.

"The ground near my shop was covered with dead bodies. I helped to load 32 dead bodies into five vehicles," said another witness, Alhaji Ahmed, who owns a shop in the market.

Tuesday night's blast breaks a three-week hiatus in bombings after a string of suicide attacks culminated in twin explosions in mosques in two northeastern cities that killed 42 people and wounded more than 100 on Oct. 23.

City filled with refugees

One of the mosques attacked was in Yola, where the insurgents struck again Tuesday. It was the third suicide bombing in as many months in a city overflowing with some of the 2.3 million refugees driven from their homes by the Islamic uprising.

Most victims were vendors and passers-by, said Deputy Superintendent Othman Abubakar, the police spokesman for Adamawa state.

Nigeria's military has reported foiling several suicide bombers recently, and killing and capturing insurgents as it destroys Boko Haram camps in air raids and ground attacks.

"The enemies of humanity will never win. Hand in hand, we will rid our land of terrorism," President Muhammadu Buhari said in a tweet.

Nigeria Arms Scandal
In a related development, Buhari  accused the former president's national security adviser of stealing more than $2 billion US meant to purchase weapons for the military to fight Boko Haram.

Nigeria's former national security adviser Sambo Dasuki (right) attends a hearing to face charges of possessing weapons illegally, at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria. Dasuki is now accused of stealing more than $2 billion US meant to purchase weapons for the military to fight Boko Haram rebels. (Associated Press)

'Phantom contracts'

Femi Adesina, an adviser to Buhari, says thousands of lives could have been saved if the money had been properly spent. His statement Tuesday accused Sambo Dasuki, a key adviser to former president Goodluck Jonathan, of awarding "phantom contracts" to buy 12 helicopters, four fighter jets and munitions that were never supplied.

The State Security Service had said Dasuki was refusing to answer questions about the arms deal. Dasuki has been under house arrest for more than a week despite a court order allowing him to travel abroad for medical care.

Adesina says Buhari has also ordered the arrest of several others linked to the scandal.

Suspected members of Boko Haram have killed an estimated 1,000 people since Buhari took office in May, vowing to crush the militant group. Since losing most of the territory it took over earlier this year to the Nigerian army, the militants have focused attacks on markets, bus stations and places of worship, as well as hit-and-run attacks on villages.

Pharmaceuticals are Becoming the ISIS of International Health Care!

Another Pharmaceutical Co. Joins List of Soulless Supergreeds

2,000% price hike for infant seizure drug called 'absurd'

Price goes from $33.05 per vial to $680

CBC News 

Mia Brooks worries about the treatment costs of a medication
to treat infantile spasms. (CBC)

The price of drug prescribed to infants in Canada with a rare and potentially dangerous form of epilepsy has jumped by 2,000 per cent practically overnight, upsetting specialists and parents.

Infantile spasms, also called West syndrome, is a catastrophic and rare form of epilepsy. It's diagnosed in babies with seizures that show abnormal bursts in the brain's electrical activity on an electroencephalogram or EEG.

Mia Brooks of Salmon Arm, B.C., noticed the seizures in her son more than a month ago.

"When he woke up he started to startle reflex," Brooks recalled. "You see babies do this all the time. Their hands and legs shake. I thought it was odd because he was doing it repetitively every 10 seconds or so and he did it for a couple of minutes."

At Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, infantile spasm is treated as an emergency, said neurologist Dr. Carter Snead. Rapid treatment is critical. He's angry about the price increase.

"This was just dropped like a bombshell," Snead said about the way the price increase was communicated to provinces and hospitals.

The treatment protocol starts with one drug. But about half don't respond to it. So doctors then turn to Synacthen Depot, a long-acting form of the drug that is injected into muscle. The drug is long off patent. Snead said it works 90 per cent of the time.

"The price of Synacthen Depot increased by more than 2,000 per cent from $33.05 per vial to $680 per vial," said Carolyn Ziegler, a spokeswoman for Alberta Health.

The price was so high that Alberta delisted it in July, Ziegler said, meaning it's no longer automatically paid for by the province. The drug may still be provided on a case-by-case basis

Health officials in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Ontario reported similar increases.

"They just bought it and jacked up the price," Snead said.

Mia Brooks calls the price increase "absurd." She's worried that she will eventually be asked to pay for some of that increase.

"There's no way we can access that amount of money," she said.

Novartis sold the international rights
for Synacthen Depot in 2013. (CBC)

The global pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt owns the rights to Synacthen Depot in Canada.  Mallinckrodt says it increased the price because of a change of manufacturing. The company did not respond to requests for details about where it manufacturers the drug and why the change in manufacturing justifies the price increase.

"When Mallinckrodt acquired Questcor in 2014, Synacthen Depot was one of the products in the portfolio. It was losing money then and still is.  Moreover, in the spring of 2014, Mallinckrodt was told by the existing supplier of the product that they would cease production in early 2016," a Mallinckrodt spokesman said in an email to CBC News.

I can empathize with a company that is making a product that is losing money. One wonders why a company would buy the rights to such a product, but, nevertheless, the product should, at least, pay for itself. But surely a doubling or tripling of the price would be sufficient to be able to pay the manufacturer enough to motivate him to keep producing it, and still make a profit for the pharmaceutical company.

It is immoral and unethical for companies to increase drug prices in a spectacular manner. I would like to see laws passed that would make such blatant acts of greed a criminal offence punishable with prison terms. It's disgraceful that they would expect to make a significant profit from such a limited distribution, critical drug, by pricing it beyond the ability of people, or even drug plans, to afford.

Health Canada said it knows where the drug is made but says it considers the information proprietary.

Mike Bartenhagen of Omaha, Neb., joined an infantile spasm support group after his son, Broc, was diagnosed in 2002.

Bartenhagen disputes the company's reason for increasing the drug's price.

"My opinion is that Questcor and Mallinckrodt's opinion on this is 'Hey, good news, we are not screwing you [parents]. We are screwing somebody else,'" such as insurance companies and public health plans.

Snead thinks governments should demand their money back, saying he's dismayed at the thought of children not getting treated.

"If the seizures aren't treated, the child will not regain any milestones," such as being able to roll over, Snead said.  The seizures can evolve into other kinds of epilepsy, which are not controllable by medication.

Brief history of Synacthen Depot

Synacthen Depot, or tetracosactide, is a synthetic version of a hormone secreted by the pituitary gland.

Novartis sold the international rights  for Synacthen Depot to Questcor on June 11, 2013, the same day former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli's former company, Retrophin, was about to sign a deal for the rights, according to documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and anti-trust court filings.   

Newly Arrived Migrants Delighted at Sweden's Border Closure

Even newly arrived migrants realized Sweden was incapable of caring for so many newcomers

Sweden Border Closure Getty

by OLIVER LANE
Breitbart
In a spectacular example of pulling the ladder up, migrants interviewed last night said they were delighted by the introduction of border controls in Sweden.

Despite having been in the country for less than 24-hours, the newly-arrived asylum seekers were already complaining there are too many migrants in Sweden. Speaking to high circulation left-wing daily Afton Bladet, one young man said: “Close the border. We are far too many who have come. They can not take care of all of us”.

He complained the Swedish staff receiving migrants were stressed, and there wasn’t enough bedding to go around.

One Syrian migrant told the paper: “I’m surprised how it is here in Sweden. if they can’t take care of us properly, they should not take so many”.

Surely these people must be far-right extremists to say such things? Huh?

The Swedish minister for interior affairs announced the temporary suspension of the Schengen zone agreement at the southern borders of the nation with Germany and Denmark yesterday evening. The move has surprised many, as only days before the prime minister moved to condemn others who had suggested introducing limited border checks.

Perhaps none were more surprised by yesterday’s announcement than Swedish police, who have been called upon to actually enforce the border checks. A police spokesman said just like the rest of Sweden, they only learnt of the plan as the interior minister made the announcement public, and they spent much of the evening and early morning finding at least an extra 300 officers to man the borders.

The deteriorating level of care for migrants in Sweden may go some way to vindicate the Sweden Democrats, who have come under fire from the left-wing establishment in the country this week over their warnings to migrants that the country was not the utopia they hoped for. Sending volunteers to the Greek islands to hand out leaflets to migrants, the literature warned Sweden was running out of beds and many migrants would be sent home.

Although many media pundits and politicians accused the Sweden Democrats of pushing lies to migrants, the government decision to close the borders today because of overcrowding has gone some way to prove their point.

The question now is, did they do it for sane reasons, or for political expedience? Feeling a little cynical today!

Why Islam is so Evil - One Weird Theory

Previously posted as: Why Islam is so Violent and Murderous

As the horrors of Paris sink in to a shocked and dismayed world, it behooves some people to think such evil is possible in the 21st century. Yet, the violence in Europe is increasing in tempo, in intensity, and in extent, and there is no reason to believe that it will not continue to get worse. Why is it happening? I believe I have put it into context below. Beware, this is not politically correct!

Grief pours out for the 129+ murdered by Muslims

Satan has been attempting to, and often succeeding in destroying anything that is godly. He’s done a pretty effective job having seduced Adam and Eve into sinning resulting in every human being ever born to be born with a sin nature; every human except Jesus.

Consequently, Satan had the world under his control, except for one small band of people – the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They were under God’s protection, they had the privilege of being able to sacrifice a lamb once a year to cover their sins for that year, and they had the Law.

Mosaic  law

The Mosaic Law made it obvious, even to the worst sinners, what was good and what was not. By so doing, it revealed Satan at every turn and completely stifled him and his plans. Nevertheless, he had a plan to turn the Law up-side-down; to turn what is good to evil and what is evil to good. But God completely crossed (no pun intended) him up by sending His Son, Jesus, to be the perfect and final sacrifice for sin. Because of Jesus, anyone, Jew, Greek, American, etc., could have their sins forgiven and their sin nature rendered impotent by Grace.

Grace

Satan has no answer for grace. He cannot overcome it. He can try and confuse people, lie to them, tempt them, but he has no real power over them. Consequently, Satan spent the next 600 years following the Cross in developing a new plan. All his hopes and ambitions had been predicated on the Law, so he found a way to reintroduce the Law to many of the peoples of the earth. 

His plan was implemented by his messenger, Mohammed.

Mohammed put the Arab world back under law. No grace in Islam, it is all legalism. The essential difference between grace and law is that grace works in the heart and will of man by the very presence of the Giver of grace, Jesus Christ. Satan cannot touch that.

The law works externally forcing people to try and do what they are completely incapable of doing – being righteous. Only the righteousness of Jesus Christ can save us from judgment; we are completely incapable of living a righteous life because of our sin nature – regardless of how weak it may be for some.

But in reestablishing the law, Satan was once again able to regain some considerable power over those who give themselves over to it. Not only that, but Satan was able to implement his plan to turn the law up-side-down right from its genesis; good became evil, and evil became good. Following the Jewish God, believing in His Son, became evil in Mohammed’s law and it became a virtue to murder such people and cleanse the earth of their ‘unrighteousness’. 

Not only did murder become a virtue, but slavery, rape and child rape were all touted as being good for both the victim and the perpetrator. But then, Mohammed, in his 50s, took his 9 year old wife off the playground to consummate their marriage. It was he who declared it lawful for a man to consummate a marriage as soon as a girl was capable of withstanding the assault. Such judgment was left up to the individual pedophile. And it was Mohammed who stated that it was lawful for a man to do whatever he wanted to a non-Muslim woman or girl in his power. ‘In his power’ means anyone he can grab and rape, anytime, anywhere. This definition is still practiced all over Europe today.

This is Islam! Evil from its core! Evil from its roots! Flat-out evil!

Islam has a certain appeal to people, but, amazingly, the more violent the version of Islam, the more appealing it is. The idea that a martyr, ie., suicide bomber (murderer of innocent women and children) should be rewarded by going straight to paradise where 72 virgins await him, is so moronic that it is amazing anyone actually falls for it, but many do. That’s part of the law, I guess, where ‘Allah’ appeals to the flesh rather than the spirit of man; God never appeals to the basest part of man. That a man should go to Heaven so he can have endless sex is utterly ludicrous. All those so-called 'martyrs' of Islam are burning in Hell right now and forever.

The God of Abraham

Muslims, Jews and Christians all claim Abraham as the father of their religion. Is this correct? The story of Abraham being tested in sacrificing his only son was written in the Old Testament several thousand years ago. Isaac was the son of Abraham through whom all Jews and Christians have their roots. This was also confirmed in the genealogy in the New Testament nearly 2000 years ago. 

Not Muslims! They decided about 1300 years ago that it was Ishmael who was the legitimate son of Abraham and it was he whom Abraham nearly sacrificed. The Old Testament makes it clear that Ishmael was born of ’the flesh’, of unbelief, to Sarah’s servant, therefore illegitimate. In fact, God told Abraham to take his ‘only’ son to be sacrificed - God, himself did not recognize Ishmael as legitimate. This is the lie at the very core of Islam.

One more problem, actually there are myriad problems with Islam, is that they believe that Allah is alone without a Son, without a Holy Spirit. Since the New Testament is all about Jesus Christ, and a good portion of the Old Testament points directly to Jesus Christ, a one-person God, rather than a triune God is also a departure from the truth. 

Allah is not the God of Abraham! 

Allah is Satan! 

And Mohammed is his messenger!