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It's not Islamophobia to call a jihadist, a jihadist - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 31 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • There is no doubt that such prejudice exists. But there is no doubt, too, that cries of “Islamophobia” are issued to suffocate argument, to deflect or deter analysis of some behaviour that is factually related to Islam. There is no doubt either that some Muslims have acted as terrorists, either singly, or in association with various Islamist groups. To point this out is not a phobia, but a simple respect for reality.
  • It’s not Islamophobia to call a jihadist, a jihadist
  • there also have been calls suggesting that any reference to the Islamist terrorist connections of the killer would be a species of Islamophobia. This is pure nonsense and folly.
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  • It is not Islamophobic to note the motives and background of the murderer. In fact, it is a form of cowardice and evasion not to do so.
  • If one decries Islamophobia, then one must condemn bin Laden as its Nile source. Bin Laden, more than any other person, has besmirched the practice and understanding of Islam and engendered suspicion of some of its adherents.
  • Horrors perpetrated in the name of fundamentalist Islam, such as attacks on young girls going to school, the internecine slaughters of various sects, the cruel penalties exacted by the Taliban’s repressive creed — stonings, amputations and executions for apostasy — also feed the angry atmosphere, and they are not phantoms of a prejudiced imagination.
  • Bin Laden’s declared purpose, his “war” on the West, and his overt linkage of his cause with a fundamentalist version of Islam, are the primary drivers of our non-phobic — which is to say, very rational — fear of, and hostility to, manifestations of Islamic fanaticism.
  • in Madrid, London or Bali — it was not Islamophobia when some immediately assumed these were al Qaeda, or Islamist-inspired. It was just a natural first response, the acknowledgement of a pattern. In most cases, that first response proved correct.
  • The too-energetic effort to fall outside the shadow of prejudice has served to distort the response of investigators. Looking for everybody else except the most “likely” suspects first, wastes time and resources.
  • Our most urgently served impulse should be to make common cause with the victims of violence — in this case, Jews
  • Gary Patton on 31 Mar 12
     
    Rex Murphy feels, and I agree that "...there is no doubt that [anti-Muslim] prejudice exists. But there is no doubt, too, that cries of "Islamophobia" are issued to suffocate argument, to deflect or deter analysis of some behaviour that is factually related to Islam." he states further and I also agree that: " There is no doubt either that some Muslims have acted as terrorists, either singly, or in association with various Islamist groups. To point this out is not a phobia, but a simple respect for reality." gfp (2012-03-12)
Gary Patton

"Why Jesus Came and Walked the Earth" - Bible Gateway - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 18 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • John 3:16-17
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      Gary Patton on 18 Dec 12
       
      In John 3:16-17, God, The Heavenly Father shares in a nutshell His "Gospel". Gospel is the English translation of the Greek meaning "Good News". The Good News is that about Jesus' gift to every person on earth and His coming to live in His Followers in the person of God the Holy Spirit! Jesus is the English translation used for God the Son's original Hebrew name, Yeshua. GaryFPatton (gfp '42™ 2011-09-08)
  • only begotten Son
  • He (B)gave His [a](C)only begotten Son
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      Gary Patton on 18 Dec 12
       
      The King James Version (KJV), the New American Standard Bible (NASB) and other modern translations of the Christian Bible use the older English word "begotten" in this verse. Begotten, the progressive tense of the verb "begat" would be better translated in all Bible versions as "one and only". Begotten in the context of this verse does NOT mean procreation by sexual intercourse as it does when referring to humans and animals. The latter is what the Islamic Qur'an argues in Surah 23:89-91. Because of the Islamic teaching about the meaning of begat, I like "The Message (MSG)" paraphrase of the Greek for "one and only" at http://diigo.com/0n225 . There the writer uses "one of a kind". I feel that "one of a kind" in lieu of "one and only" is a more modern and still accurate expression. It also is clearer in confirming the "oneness of Father, Son and Holy Spirit", the plurality within the Oneness of God. This is what Christians call "The Trinity of God" although that expression is not used in the Bible. God, obviously, does not have sex with humans. And no Christian believes that He does. A so-called, Christian contemporary of the Muslim Prophet, Muhammad, may have improperly explained the Gospel ("Good News") of Yeshua /Jesus to him. History documents that some of those calling themselves Christians in Arabia in the 7th Century were NOT truly Followers of Jesus. They had a poor understanding of the Christian Scriptures as nominal believers ...like some so-called Muslims, then and now. The cult to which some of these belonged and with whom Muhammad may have had contact or received reports about also believed that Jesus had sex with Mary, a Follower of His. These nominal Christians were really pagans with an incomplete understanding of what followership of Jesus entailed. If Muhammad had not received this misinformation about what Christians believed, He would not have recorded Qur'an 5:116, 6:101, 19:35, 19:88-91, 23:88-89 nor similar passages that deny Jesus
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  • that the world might be saved through Him
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      Gary Patton on 18 Dec 12
       
      "Saved" in this verse means "redeemed", "set free from" the judgement of separation from God and His presence after death...forever and without escape.
  • whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life
  • Gary Patton on 18 Dec 12
     
    "Why Jesus Came and Walked the Earth" In John 3:16-17, God, The Heavenly Father shares in a nutshell His "Gospel". Gospel is the English translation of the Greek meaning "Good News". The Good News is that about Jesus' gift to every person on earth and His coming to live in His Followers in the person of God the Holy Spirit! Jesus is the English translation used for God the Son's original Hebrew name, Yeshua. GaryFPatton (gfp '42™ 2011-09-08 & 2012-05-12 2012-10-08)
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The Decline of Violence - Reason Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 18 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Neuroscientist Steven Pinker on the triumph of peace and prosperity over death and destruction
  • Why is ideology so deadly?
  • There are two features of a lot of ideologies that make them deadly. One of them is demonizing.
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  • The other is if your ideology promotes some utopia
  • radical religions, millennial religions, radical Islam, radical forms of Christianity, that say that there’s some irredeemably evil group standing between the world and perfection: the crusaders, the infidels, the Jews, the polytheists, the nonbelievers, and so on.
  • The age of ideology coined the term genocide. You’ve pointed out that just because we recently invented the term doesn’t mean it didn’t happen before.
  • What it means is we started caring about it.
  • What is the “rights revolution”?
  • The rights revolutions are the various social changes [that are] directed largely at violence on smaller scales.
  • against racial minorities
  • women’s rights
  • children’s rights
  • gay rights
  • Gary Patton on 18 Jan 12
     
    This article by author, Steven Pinker, outlines data regarding human behaviour that offers some hope for the future of Third World countries, especially violent, Muslim-dominated ones like "the stans" in the Middle East and others in Africa. gfp (2012-01-14)
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Arab development: Self-doomed to failure | The Economist - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 31 Jul 12 - No Cached
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  • Gary Patton on 31 Jul 12
     
    "An unsparing new report by Arab scholars explains why their region lags behind so much of the world. "
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Moses Prophesied About Jesus ...Not Muhammad - Bible Gateway - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 02 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your [a]countrymen, you shall listen to him.
  • I will raise up a prophet from among their [c]countrymen like you, and (D)I will put My words in his mouth, and (E)he shall speak to them all that I command him.
  • It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.
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  • You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’ 22 (I)When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it (J)presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
  • Gary Patton on 02 Dec 11
     
    Some Muslims argue that Deuteronomy 18:18 in the context of 15-22, refers to Mahummad ...not Jesus, the Son of God. This seems to me to be hard to maintain, let alone prove, in light of the reality of:
  • Gary Patton on 02 Dec 11
     
    Here's a de-bunking of one piece of mythic, Muslim propaganda.
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The Enemy of America Is My Friend, No Matter What by Tarek Fatah - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 06 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Gary Patton on 06 Jan 12
     
    Mr. Fatah, a Toronto Canada broadcaster & Muslim makes a point that concerns many in Canada & elsewhere. Does the Muslim street understand whom their enemy really is? gfp
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"Why Zombies Should Matter" - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 08 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Why Zombies Should Matter to Christians
  • Zombies now are featured in top-rated cable TV shows, and in apocalyptic novels and survival guides.
  • The zombie myth is rooted in something quite real, and quite terrifying. The zombie stories emerged in a Caribbean context of brutal slavery. The zombie’s horror is that he is, she writes, a slave forever. After all, if even death cannot free you, you can never be free.
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  • That’s exactly the point, and here’s why it should matter to Christians.
  • They are horrifying because they represent what ought to repulse us: the rotting decay of death. But they still walk. And, beyond that, they still crave. In their search for human brains, they are driven along by their appetites, though always under the sway of a slavemaster’s will.
  • That’s our story
  • The biblical story of the Fall of humanity is one of a humanity that comes under the sway of death by obeying the appetite.
  • He sentences us to the curse of death so that, ultimately, we can be redeemed.
  • The Gospel tells us that, apart from Christ, we were walking in the flesh, that is slavishly obeying our biological impulses and appetites without the direction of the Spirit. As such, we were “dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1).
  • This walking death, the Apostle Paul writes, was driven along as we “carried out the desires of the body and the mind” (Ephesians 2:3).
  • Caribbean people could resonate with the horror of zombies because they knew what it was like to be enslaved by evil people, with no hope of escape.
  • The Gospel doesn’t just extend our lives forever into eternity. That’s what we, left to ourselves, think we want.
  • Jesus points out that he wants to eternalize his present state rather than to be hidden in the life of Jesus Himself. That’s a zombie walk, and Jesus loves us too much for that.
  • Jesus offers instead life, and that abundantly, as we eat of His flesh, drink of His blood, share in His triumph over the accusing slavemaster.
  • Gary Patton on 08 Dec 12
     
    "Why Zombies Should Matter" This article would better be titled: "Why Zombies Should Matter to All Those Who Don't Now Follow Jesus!" Read on to discover why this is true and what one can do to avoid a horrible coming reality!
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Video re Similarities between Nazi & Islamist Propaganda- YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
     
    Beware: The video from Palestinian TV libelously depicting Jews using human blood to make matzo is VERY graphic and disturbing. gfp (2011-11-09)
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