[agrace]

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

[Jim W N]

"And he had power to ... cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." Revelation 13:15.
A foretaste of things to come after the Lord's return for his own. Whoever does not know the Lord, come to him now, so you too can "be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."