"Throw the switch! Throw the switch!"
Posted on 12/06/2006 10:21:49 AM PST by batter
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days.
Shops, tea houses and other public places in Bulo Burto, about 124 miles northeast of the capital, Mogadishu, should be closed during prayer time and no one should be on the streets, said Sheik Hussein Barre Rage, the chairman of the town's Islamic court. His court is part of a network backed by armed militiamen that has taken control of much of southern Somalia in recent months, bringing a strict interpretation of Islam that is alien to many Somalis.
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In the meantime the State Dept. keeps issuing refugee visas for Somalis entering the US.
And what was that about Somali mullahs in Minneapolis a few days ago ...? and it goes on...
http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_6039.shtml
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Sans the beheading, strict observance of prayer has been going on elsewhere in the middle east for a long time. A guy who used to work with my husband spent a decent amount of time in Saudi Arabia and during prayer times, the religious police would make rounds of homes and businesses to enforce it, with beatings and arrests if necessary. Non-Muslim businesses were instructed to lock their doors. One time they forgot, the police entered, saw them not praying and went after them with clubs.
The beheadings seem like a very short step up from what is already going on. And, I might add, a direct reference to Rev 20.
And this govt is our "friend." Funny how we got so incensed over the repressive Taliban when they were just imitating their Wahhabi neighbors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutaween
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1874471.stm
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44545
"Throw the switch! Throw the switch!"
Such a peaceful and benevolent religion! They should be allowed to pray in airports and on jet bridges! Let them have prayer time in public schools! Allah is merciful!
LOL oh lord...
"Never take a scimitar to a gunfight." -- a t-shirt idea for a certain Somalian town
please explain the racism in this case. There are many, many, many terrible things going on here, but racism isn't one of them.
Yes, I can't imagine why State would accept refugees fleeing the threat of beheading. Funny, I thought you styled yourself an opponent of "Islamo-fascism".
I'm an opponent of Islam period. Islam = Fascism.
1300 years of it has demonstrated this fact for all who are interested enough to learn about it.
As for racism and islam----it is also sexist.
That's why you don't want no Somalis around here, isn't it? Or do you just prefer that they get their heads chopped off or shot up by machine guns?
"And he had power to ... cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." Revelation 13:15.
More like a harbinger of the coming terror of the worldwide rule of the Antichrist.
I used to be pre-trib, but that's a whole other discussion.
Remember, the Great Tribulation is God's judgment and wrath upon sin and the world, not upon his people. "God has not appointed us to wrath."I Thessalonians 5:9. Remember in Matthew, Jesus said that his coming would be as both the days of Noah and the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. He said that because in both cases, God saved his people from the wrath of water (Noah's ark) and fire (angels leading Lot out of Sodom). Judgment did not begin (actually could not begin, the Bible says) until his people were out of the way and safe. Jesus is also coming soon to safely take us to himself before his day of judgment.
We need to warn and compel as many as we can to come to Jesus so they too can also escape these thing that are coming.
The Great Tribulation is just that - tribulation. We are told that "in this world you will have tribulation" - we're not excluded from suffering. God's wrath comes after said tribulation.
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
A careful and prayerful reading of God's word tells us that during this horrific seven-year period God pours out his wrath upon the whole earth and almost everyone in the world dies through a series of almost unbelievable catastrophic events. Throughout the New Testament, scripture declares this wrath is not intended for us his children.
This is not the same discipline and suffering our loving Father brings "...for our profit that we might be partakers of his holiness." We are to welcome the sorrows and suffering of this life as the gateway to his holiness, but this is not to be confused with "...being counted worthy to escape the wrath to come and counted worthy to stand before the son of man."
There are many Christians who seem to want to go through this coming time, why, I don't know, but they'll never get through it because all Christians will be killed during this time, except for a remnant of Jewish Christians.
Again, back to original point, the religious murder we see happening now is but a foretaste of the widespread slaughter to come.
Sorry if I've been too wordy, but I'm hoping this helped.
Who WANTS to go through it? Not I. But I doubt that Chinese Christians and African Christians and Indonesian Christians want to suffer the way that they do either.
For years I believed what you apparently do, that the entire seventieth week was the outpouring of God's wrath, and it was only through "careful and prayerful reading of the scriptures," as you say, that I was led to believe otherwise, that God's wrath is poured out at the end.
I realize that the pretribulation rapture view has been the popular one for some time now, but I just don't find it in scripture.
With specific regard to the Olivet Discourse, you claim that the great tribulation of which Jesus speaks is an "horrific seven-year period' - when in reality, the event He had just described takes place in the middle of that 7 years. To assign "great tribulation" to the entire thing is to distort the text.
Not only that, but every single time "tribulation" is found in the New Testament, the very same Greek word is used. Yet you say that
'This is not the same discipline and suffering our loving Father brings "...for our profit that we might be partakers of his holiness." We are to welcome the sorrows and suffering of this life as the gateway to his holiness, but this is not to be confused with "...being counted worthy to escape the wrath to come and counted worthy to stand before the son of man."'
Again, the same Greek word for tribulation is used every single time. There is no difference between the tribulation Paul described and the tribulation Jesus described, except by degree and intensity.
Of course we'll escape God's wrath. The main crux of our disagreement lies in one simple question - where/when does God's wrath begin? Obviously I place it differently than you do.
My desire at this time is not to convert anyone to my point of view; however I do believe we need to keep our minds and hearts open to the possibility that things might not go just as most of western evangelical Christianity believes it will.
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