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Persian Warriors: Dedicated to President Bush
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Posted on 05/13/2007 5:00:34 PM PDT by freedom44

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To: Star Traveler
And they are also the ones who will fund and finance the same types of attacks on the U.S. and its interests (either in this country or overseas) continuously — that we’ve already seen in the form of 9/11 and the WTC — until they achieve their aims of controlling all the world for Islam (as they have very well made clear).

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It was Saudis who funded and led the attacks in 2001, not iran. It is Saudis who are financing madrassas around the world still. It is the Saudis who finance the mosques in America and Britian that teach hate. When do we invade Saudi Arabia?

The French, Dutch, Poles, Greeks all led underground warfare against the Nazis. The Filipinos did the same against the Japanese. Both of those were more repressive and violent than anything on the planet today and the various resistance movements paid dearly for their actions. What is preventing the iranians?

41 posted on 05/14/2007 9:46:55 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: wtc911

You said — “It was Saudis who funded and led the attacks in 2001, not iran. It is Saudis who are financing madrassas around the world still. It is the Saudis who finance the mosques in America and Britian that teach hate. When do we invade Saudi Arabia?”

Note that I said — “... they are also the ones who will fund and finance the same types of attacks on the U.S. and its interests (either in this country or overseas) continuously — that we’ve already seen in the form of 9/11 and the WTC ...”

You have to read English a bit better than you are... “will fund” — “same types of attacks” — “that we’ve already seen in the form of 9/11”

I hope you’re reading a bit better now...

In terms of what nationalities are funding various jihadists of the “religio-fanatical-governmental idealogy” of Islam — you’ll find a whole list of them. And that includes Pakistan who is supposed to be our ally in this WOT. However, at the very moment that we are fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Pakistan is funding the Taliban (this very day) to go back into Afghanistan and take over the country again, while giving the same group, the Taliban, shelter in Pakistan.

So, you’re going to find a whole bunch of countries doing the very same thing. Thus, you take the biggest ones out first and the most pressing ones out first. Iran is the most pressing one since we’ve already gone into Iraq. It’s clear that the U.S. is not about to let the Iranians get a nuclear weapon to use to threaten its neighbors, and to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and turn it into a witches cauldron of more “religio-fanatical-governmental idealogy” promoting Islam as the government to take over the world.

Saudi Arabia is definitely on the list of those promoting that kind of fascist idealogy for overthrowing other governments in the world. But, they’re much later on the list, if they continue doing what they’re doing.... Iran is the next one to take out, on the list, in order to stop this religio-fanatical-governmental idealogy called Islam from trying to take over the Western world and nations...

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You said — “The French, Dutch, Poles, Greeks all led underground warfare against the Nazis. The Filipinos did the same against the Japanese. Both of those were more repressive and violent than anything on the planet today and the various resistance movements paid dearly for their actions. What is preventing the iranians?”

Okay, that’s a good example. We declared war on them (the Europeans did first and then we did later, after we were attacked). So, it’s about time to declare war on Iran then, and fund their opposition groups and go to war with them.

It’s like you said, about these groups, which were fighting during wartime. So, let’s get it on and go to war with them. You see..., those other groups *knew* we were committed at that time. They knew we were *in it for the long haul*. And that’s why they did what they did. It’s time that the Iranians *know* we’re also in it for the long haul, just like those groups in World War II knew, too.

As soon as we “get in it for the long haul” and take out those religio-fanatical-governmental idealogists who call themselves Islamists — then we’ll have those same types of groups.

But, as long was we just sit around doing nothing (which we didn’t do in World War II; we got right in there and starting *going for them* against our enemies) — as long we continue to do nothing, you won’t get what you got during World War II. You’ve got to be *fighting the war* just like we were in World War II — and then you’ll get those groups, just like you said...

So, let’s get it on....


42 posted on 05/14/2007 10:08:42 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler

Yeah WTC911 just sent me a private message telling me he is going to confront us ‘SHAHIs’

Re: Persian Warriors: Dedicated to President Bush
From wtc911 | 05/14/2007 6:37:29 AM PDT read

You’re breaking my heart Sally. I’ll see you around, every time you post your lies.


43 posted on 05/14/2007 12:01:07 PM PDT by freedom44
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To: wtc911

I’m going to revisit this part once more. I already answered part of it, but I left out another part that I should address...

You said — “The French, Dutch, Poles, Greeks all led underground warfare against the Nazis. The Filipinos did the same against the Japanese. Both of those were more repressive and violent than anything on the planet today and the various resistance movements paid dearly for their actions. What is preventing the iranians?”

Now, when you listen to the people “who know” describing what this religio-fanatical-governmental oppressive idealogy of Islam is all about, you’ll find that it’s actually *much worse* than these other two from World War II.

I’ve listened to a lot of speakers who have talked around the U.S. about this fascist idealogy of Islam (and done reading from others) — those who came from “within” that environment. So, they speak from experience. In fact, there is a group of ex-terrorists who have been speaking out in the United States. One of that group is Walid Shoebat. You can find his web site by googling it.

He points out that there are similarities with the Nazism of World War II, with which idealogy and country (and peoples) we engaged in *all out war*. But, Walid Shoebat points out that this present idealogy of this false religio-governmental system of Islam is much worse — in that it has the “religious twist” (his words). It’s not just the “Fuhrer” saying to do these things (as Hitler did during World War II), but with this evil and despical religio-governmental idealogy, it’s supposedly *God* Himself telling these people to do those things, as outlined in the Koran and spoken by Mohammed, Allah’s supreme prohpet.

I mean, it may be one thing to follow an earthly leader and go into battle — but — with this — you’re “following God” — to set up *his form of government* over all the world.

Thus, this makes it *much worse* of an idealogy than anything we ever saw out of World War II. Any “earthly consequences” makes no difference, and therefore *anything goes* with these crazy-fanatical world-domination types from Islam. And since people are totally expendable, they can afford to keep going and going and and not run out of their people until we run out of our people.

And no, those others of World War II were not much more repressive and/or violent than what we have coming out of the religio-fanatical-governmental oppressive idealogy of Islam. Nothing trumps that, from what I can see...

This is also borne out (the fact that it’s worse than anything else the world has ever brought about), by those many other speakers on the subject of Islam and how we are at war with that evil and false idealogy, from Allah (supposedly a “god” but we see is actually Satan of the Bible), who commands his form of “government” over all the world and all the nations of the world — plus the fact of commanding that every last single Jew in the world be killed.

Yeah..., sure..., if you can find a worse and more evil idealogy that is actually *working itself out* — in the *actual nations* of the world (like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and a list of others that are being slowly taken over, as we speak), today — I would be interested to know what that worse and more evil idealogy is...


44 posted on 05/14/2007 12:27:33 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: freedom44; Star Traveler
Yeah WTC911 just sent me a private message telling me he is going to confront us ‘SHAHIs’ Re: Persian Warriors: Dedicated to President Bush From wtc911 | 05/14/2007 6:37:29 AM PDT read You’re breaking my heart Sally. I’ll see you around, every time you post your lies.

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Gee, you forgot to mention that my mail to you was a reply to your message..."You are a worthless anti-American PIECE OF SHIT! You hate America you worth scum!"

Kind of a different thing, isn't it?

And yes, I will be here with the documented facts every time I see you persians using this American forum fot propoganda.

Of course you and your brethren can get rid of me simply by providing even one post of mine that supports your lies. We know you can't.

45 posted on 05/14/2007 2:05:28 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Star Traveler
And no, those others of World War II were not much more repressive and/or violent than what we have coming out of the religio-fanatical-governmental oppressive idealogy of Islam. Nothing trumps that, from what I can see...

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Gee, the survivors of the Bataan Death March or the Rape of Nanking or any one of the dozens of Nazi death camps might disagree with you just a bit on that, but hey...what's 13,000,000 murdered compared to a few beheadings, right?

46 posted on 05/14/2007 2:08:31 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: wtc911

You said — “Gee, the survivors of the Bataan Death March or the Rape of Nanking or any one of the dozens of Nazi death camps might disagree with you just a bit on that, but hey...what’s 13,000,000 murdered compared to a few beheadings, right?”

You’re talking about a war that is over and done with (i.e., World War II). This war is just beginning. We’ve been going at it for a number of years, so far and haven’t dented the religio-fanatical-governmental idealogy of Islam one iota. It’s still going strong and it’s still producing jihadists and it’s still supported by a large majority of their 1.2 billion people (or more by now...).

World War II was over in a few years. This one is like the 100-years-war and will be at least that long if not longer. So, the “counting” has just begun...

Oh..., and wait for the next big attack on the U.S., like the one that the authorities say is coming *for sure*. According to what officials have said over the last few years, it’s not a question of “if” but simply “when” the next big attack will be coming. And this one might be the one in which a nuclear weapon gets set off. Then we’ll be upping the count pretty quick....

And that won’t even be the end of it all. There’s a lot more counting to come... so get ready...


47 posted on 05/14/2007 2:14:12 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: wtc911

Oh, as a followup, I thought I should include just *one* stated goal of the religio-fanatical-governmental idealogy of Islam — for a comparison in “numbers” for you.

The *one* stated goal that these fascists and evil murderers have stated is a goal (and is included in their own core materials that all Muslims must follow, that is from Mohammed and the Koran) — is to kill all the Jews worldwide.

Now, the figure that I’ve picked up for the Jewish population of the world is about 13.3 million (give or take).

So, in answer to your point of “what’s 13,000,000 murdered compared to a few beheadings...” — the answer is that just *one* goal states — 13,000,000 alone — for all the killing that they intend to do. That’s not even beginning to address all the others that will be done from other groups that come under the other heading of “infidel” (the Jews have their *own special category* of “apes and pigs” you see...).

Their own stated goals and the figures that you will arrive at with what they intend to do, will probably drive the figure up to 30,000,000 or more, worldwide, in accomplishing their goals (figuring in all the other groups they are going to do away with). And keep in mind, IRAN (one of the prime culprits here) is getting nuclear weapons to help *facilitate* this goal of killing — not only Jews, but all the other infidels that resist that religio-fanatical-governmental oppressive idealogy of Islam...


48 posted on 05/14/2007 2:22:27 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: wtc911
The iranians found the courage to die to get rid of the shah. When they’ve had enough of the mullahs they will do it again.

Very well put.

We could motivate them by leveling their ports, oil production and nuke ambitions. Less money might make them less comfortable.

49 posted on 05/14/2007 2:28:25 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: wtc911
Here is an article from Daniel Pipes, one of several experts on these religio-fanatical-governmental oppressive idealogists of the Islamic system of government. It points out why IRAN and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is such a threat. However, Adhmadinejad would not be able to do anything like this — at all — if it weren't for that evil and despicable idealogy of Islam and all the clerics who back him up, plus the millions and millions of adherents who also back up the Koran and the revered prophet Mohammed (PBUH - PissBeUponHim ).

 


 

From www.danielpipes.org | Original article available at: www.danielpipes.org/article/3258

The Mystical Menace of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

by Daniel Pipes
January 10, 2006

Thanks to the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a new word has entered the political vocabulary: mahdaviat.

Not surprisingly, it's a technical religious term. Mahdaviat derives from mahdi, Arabic for "rightly-guided one," a major figure in Islamic eschatology. He is, explains the Encyclopaedia of Islam, "the restorer of religion and justice who will rule before the end of the world." The concept originated in the earliest years of Islam and, over time, became particularly identified with the Shi?ite branch. Whereas "it never became an essential part of Sunni religious doctrine," continues the encyclopedia, "Belief in the coming of the Mahdi of the Family of the Prophet became a central aspect of the faith in radical Shi?ism," where it is also known as the return of the Twelfth Imam.

Mahdaviat means "belief in and efforts to prepare for the Mahdi."

In a fine piece of reporting, Scott Peterson of the Christian Science Monitor shows the centrality of mahdaviat in Mr. Ahmadinejad's outlook and explores its implications for his policies.

As mayor of Tehran, for example, Mr. Ahmadinejad appears to have in 2004 secretly instructed the city council to build a grand avenue to prepare for the Mahdi. A year later, as president, he allocated $17 million for a blue-tiled mosque closely associated with mahdaviat in Jamkaran, south of the capital. He has instigated the building of a direct Tehran-Jamkaran railroad line. He had a list of his proposed cabinet members dropped into a well adjacent to the Jamkaran mosque, it is said, to benefit from its purported divine connection.

He often raises the topic, and not just to Muslims. When addressing the United Nations in September, Mr. Ahmadinejad flummoxed his audience of world political leaders by concluding his address with a prayer for the Mahdi's appearance: "O mighty Lord, I pray to you to hasten the emergence of your last repository, the Promised One, that perfect and pure human being, the one that will fill this world with justice and peace."

On returning to Iran from New York, Mr. Ahmadinejad recalled the effect of his U.N. speech:

one of our group told me that when I started to say "In the name of God the almighty and merciful," he saw a light around me, and I was placed inside this aura. I felt it myself. I felt the atmosphere suddenly change, and for those 27 or 28 minutes, the leaders of the world did not blink. ? And they were rapt. It seemed as if a hand was holding them there and had opened their eyes to receive the message from the Islamic republic.

What Mr. Peterson calls the "presidential obsession" with mahdaviat leads Mr. Ahmadinejad to "a certitude that leaves little room for compromise. From redressing the gulf between rich and poor in Iran, to challenging America and Israel and enhancing Iran's power with nuclear programs, every issue is designed to lay the foundation for the Mahdi's return."

"Mahdaviat is a code for [Iran's Islamic] revolution, and is the spirit of the revolution," says the head of an institute dedicated to studying and speeding the Mahdi's appearance. "This kind of mentality makes you very strong," the political editor of Resalat newspaper, Amir Mohebian, observed. "If I think the Mahdi will come in two, three, or four years, why should I be soft? Now is the time to stand strong, to be hard." Some Iranians, reports PBS, "worry that their new president has no fear of international turmoil, may think it's just a sign from God."

Mahdaviat has direct and ominous implications for the U.S.-Iran confrontation, says an Ahmadinejad supporter, Hamidreza Taraghi of Iran's hard-line Islamic Coalition Society. It implies seeing Washington as the rival to Tehran and even as a false Mahdi. For Mr. Ahmadinejad, the top priority is to challenge America, and specifically to create a powerful model state based on "Islamic democracy" by which to oppose it. Mr. Taraghi predicts trouble ahead unless Americans fundamentally change their ways.

I'd reverse that formulation. The most dangerous leaders in modern history are those (such as Hitler) equipped with a totalitarian ideology and a mystical belief in their own mission. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fulfills both these criteria, as revealed by his U.N. comments. That combined with his expected nuclear arsenal make him an adversary who must be stopped, and urgently.

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Jan. 14, 2006 update: Anton La Guardia concludes in a similar article in London's Daily Telegraph, "'Divine mission' driving Iran's new leader," the sneaking suspicion among Western officials that "Iran's president actually relishes a clash with the West in the conviction that it would rekindle the spirit of the Islamic revolution and - who knows - speed up the arrival of the Hidden Imam." (In Twelver Shi'ite doctrine, the Hidden Imam returns just before the appearance of the mahdi.)

May 11, 2006 update: Jackson Diehl provides more information on this topic in "In Iran, Apocalypse vs. Reform," which I excerpt below:

QOM, Iran?In a dusty brown village outside this Shiite holy city, a once-humble yellow-brick mosque is undergoing a furious expansion. Cranes hover over two soaring concrete minarets and the pointed arches of a vast new enclosure. Buses pour into a freshly asphalted parking lot to deliver waves of pilgrims.

The expansion is driven by an apocalyptic vision: that Shiite Islam's long-hidden 12th Imam, or Mahdi, will soon emerge?possibly at the mosque of Jamkaran?to inaugurate the end of the world. The man who provided $20 million to prepare the shrine for that moment, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has reportedly told his cabinet that he expects the Mahdi to arrive within the next two years. Mehdi Karrubi, a rival cleric, has reported that Ahmadinejad ordered that his government's platform be deposited in a well at Jamkaran where the faithful leave messages for the hidden imam.

Such gestures are one reason some Iranian clerics quietly say they are worried about a leader who has become the foremost public advocate of Iran's nuclear program. "Some of us can understand why you in the West would be concerned," a young mullah here told me last week. "We, too, wonder about the intentions of those who are controlling this nuclear work."

Qom is a place where the possible ends of Iran's slowly crumbling Islamic regime can be glimpsed?both the catastrophic and the potentially benign. There is the rising, officially nurtured last-days cult at Jamkaran, and the extremist rants of Ahmadinejad's own spiritual adviser, Ayatollah Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, who recently suggested that future elections were superfluous because a true Islamic government had arisen.

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From www.danielpipes.org | Original article available at: www.danielpipes.org/article/3258


Regards,

Star Traveler


50 posted on 05/14/2007 2:53:53 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler

Perhaps you should check my profile and posting history before you start teaching me about the global threat from islam.


51 posted on 05/14/2007 3:27:14 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: wtc911
Here is an example of the type of stuff that the religio-fanatical-governmental idealogy of Islam not only intends to do to Jews, but also to Christians in the world. And there are a lot more Christians than the 13,000,000 Jews, whom Islam wants to totally exterminate. The following, below, is an actual example of what happened to some Christians, for being simply Christians.

Tilman was stabbed 156 times, Necati 99 times and Ugur’s stabs were too numerous to count. They were disemboweled, and their intestines sliced up in front of their eyes. They were emasculated and watched as those body parts were destroyed. Fingers were chopped off, their noses and mouths and anuses were sliced open. Possibly the worst part was watching as their brothers were likewise tortured. Finally, their throats were sliced from ear to ear, heads practically decapitated.

See the rest of the report, below...

 


 

Reported by Darlene N. Bocek (24 April 2007)

Dear friends,

This past week has been filled with much sorrow. Many of you have heard by now of our devastating loss here in an event that took place in Malatya, a Turkish province 300 miles northeast of Antioch, the city where believers were first called Christians (Acts 11:26).

On Wednesday morning, April 18, 2007, 46 year old German missionary and father of three Tilman Geske prepared to go to his office, kissing his wife goodbye taking a moment to hug his son and give him the priceless memory, “Goodbye, son. I love you.” Tilman rented an office space from Zirve Publishing where he was preparing notes for the new Turkish Study Bible. Zirve was also the location of the Malatya Evangelist Church office. A ministry of the church, Zirve prints and distributes Christian literature to Malatya and nearby cities in Eastern Turkey. In another area of town, 35 year old Pastor Necati Aydin, father of two, said goodbye to his wife, leaving for the office as well. They had a morning Bible Study and prayer meeting that some other believers in town would also be attending. Ugur Yuksel likewise made his way to the Bible study. None of these three men knew that what awaited them at the Bible study was the ultimate testing and application of their faith, which would conclude with their entrance into glory to receive their crown of righteousness from Christ and honor from all the saints awaiting them in the Lord’s presence.

On the other side of town, ten young men all under 20 years old put into place final arrangements for their ultimate act of faith, living out their love for Allah and hatred of infidels who they felt undermined Islam. On Resurrection Sunday, five of these men had been to a by-invitation-only evangelistic service that Pastor Necati and his men had arranged at a hotel conference room in the city. The men were known to the believers as “seekers.” No one knows what happened in the hearts of those men as they listened to the gospel. Were they touched by the Holy Spirit? Were they convicted of sin? Did they hear the gospel in their heart of hearts? Today we only have the beginning of their story.

These young men, one of whom is the son of a mayor in the Province of Malatya, are part of a tarikat, or a group of “faithful believers” in Islam.

Tarikat membership is highly respected here; it’s like a fraternity membership. In fact, it is said that no one can get into public office without membership in a tarikat. These young men all lived in the same dorm, all preparing for university entrance exams.

The young men got guns, bread knives, ropes and towels ready for their final act of service to Allah. They knew there would be a lot of blood. They arrived in time for the Bible Study, around 10 o’clock.

They arrived, and apparently the Bible Study began. Reportedly, after Necati read a chapter from the Bible the assault began. The boys tied Ugur, Necati, and Tilman’s hands and feet to chairs and as they videoed their work on their cell phones, they tortured our brothers for almost three hours*

[Details of the torture—

Tilman was stabbed 156 times, Necati 99 times and Ugur’s stabs were too numerous to count. They were disemboweled, and their intestines sliced up in front of their eyes. They were emasculated and watched as those body parts were destroyed. Fingers were chopped off, their noses and mouths and anuses were sliced open. Possibly the worst part was watching as their brothers were likewise tortured. Finally, their throats were sliced from ear to ear, heads practically decapitated.]

Neighbors in workplaces near the print house said later they had heard yelling, but assumed the owners were having a domestic argument so they did not respond.

Meanwhile, another believer Gokhan and his wife had a leisurely morning. He slept in till 10, ate a long breakfast and finally around 12:30 he and his wife arrived at the office. The door was locked from the inside, and his key would not work. He phoned and though it had connection on his end he did not hear the phone ringing inside. He called cell phones of his brothers and finally Ugur answered his phone. “We are not at the office. Go to the hotel meeting. We are there. We will come there,” he said cryptically. As Ugur spoke Gokhan heard in the telephone’s background weeping and a strange snarling sound. He phoned the police, and the nearest officer arrived in about five minutes. He pounded on the door, “Police, open up!” Initially the officer thought it was a domestic disturbance. At that point they heard another snarl and a gurgling moan. The police understood that sound as human suffering, prepared the clip in his gun and tried over and over again to burst through the door. One of the frightened assailants unlocked the door for the policeman, who entered to find a grisly scene.

Tilman and Necati had been slaughtered, practically decapitated with their necks slit from ear to ear. Ugur’s throat was likewise slit and he was barely alive. Three assailants in front of the policeman dropped their weapons. Meanwhile Gokhan heard a sound of yelling in the street. Someone had fallen from their third story office. Running down, he found a man on the ground, whom he later recognized, named Emre Gunaydin. He had massive head trauma and, strangely, was snarling. He had tried to climb down the drainpipe to escape, and losing his balance had plummeted to the ground. It seems that he was the main leader of the attackers. Another assailant was found hiding on a lower balcony.

To untangle the web we need to back up six years. In April 2001, the National Security Council of Turkey (Milli Guvenlik Kurulu) began to consider Evangelical Christians as a threat to national security, on equal footing as Al Quaida and PKK terrorism. Statements made in the press by political leaders, columnists and commentators have fueled a hatred against missionaries who they claim bribe young people to change their religion. After that decision in 2001, attacks and threats on churches, pastors and Christians began.

Bombings, physical attacks, verbal and written abuse are only some of the ways Christians are being targetted. Most significant is the use of media propaganda. From December 2005, after having a long meeting regarding the Christian threat, the wife of Former Prime Minister Ecevit, historian Ilber Ortayli, Professor Hasan Unsal, Politician Ahmet Tan and writer/propagandist Aytunc Altindal, each in their own profession began a campaign to bring the public’s attention to the looming threat of Christians who sought to “buy their children’s souls”. Hidden cameras in churches have taken church service footage and used it sensationally to promote fear and antagonism toward Christianity.

In an official televised response from Ankara, the Interior Minister of Turkey smirked as he spoke of the attacks on our brothers. Amid public outrage and protests against the event and in favor of freedom of religion and freedom of thought, media and official comments ring with the same message, “We hope you have learned your lesson. We do not want Christians here.” It appears that this was an organized attack initiated by an unknown adult tarikat leader.

As in the Hrant Dink murder in January 2007, and a Catholic priest Andrea Santoro in February 2006, minors are being used to commit religious murders because public sympathy for youth is strong and they face lower penalties than an adult convicted of the same crime. Even the parents of these children are in favor of the acts. The mother of the 16 year old boy who killed the Catholic priest Andrea Santoro looked at the cameras as her son was going to prison and said, “he will serve time for Allah.” The young men involved in the killing are currently in custody. Today news reported that they would be tried as terrorists, so their age would not affect the strict penalty. Assailant Emre Gunaydin is still in intensive care. The investigation centers around him and his contacts and they say will fall apart if he does not recover.


The Church in Turkey responded in a way that honored God as hundreds of believers and dozens of pastors flew in as fast as they could to stand by the small church of Malatya and encourage the believers, take care of legal issues, and represent Christians to the media. When Susanne Tilman expressed her wish to bury her husband in Malatya, the Governor tried to stop it, and when he realized he could not stop it, a rumor was spread that “it is a sin to dig a grave for a Christian.” In the end, in an undertaking that should be remembered in Christian history forever, the men from the church in Adana (near Tarsus), grabbed shovels and dug a grave for their slain brother in an un-tended hundred year old Armenian graveyard. Ugur was buried by his family in an Alevi Muslim ceremony in his hometown of Elazig, his believing fiance watching from the shadows as his family and friends refused to accept in death the faith Ugur had so long professed and died for.

Necati’s funeral took place in his hometown of Izmir, the city where he came to faith. The darkness does not understand the light. Though the churches expressed their forgiveness for the event, Christians were not to be trusted. Before they would load the coffin onto the plane from Malatya, it went through two separate xray exams to make sure it was not loaded with explosives. This is not a usual procedure for Muslim coffins. Necati’s funeral was a beautiful event. Like a glimpse of heaven, thousands of Turkish Christians and missionaries came to show their love for Christ, and their honor for this man chosen to die for Christ. Necati’s wife Shemsa told the world, “His death was full of meaning, because he died for Christ and he lived for Christ… Necati was a gift from God. I feel honored that he was in my life, I feel crowned with honor. I want to be worthy of that honor.” Boldly the believers took their stand at Necati’s funeral, facing the risks of being seen publicly and likewise becoming targets. As expected, the anti-terror police attended and videotaped everyone attending the funeral for their future use.

The service took place outside at Buca Baptist church, and he was buried in a small Christian graveyard in the outskirts of Izmir. Two assistant Governors of Izmir were there solemnly watching the event from the front row. Dozens of news agencies were there documenting the events with live news and photographs. Who knows the impact the funeral had on those watching? This is the beginning of their story as well. Pray for them. In an act that hit front pages in the largest newspapers in Turkey, Susanne Tilman in a television interview expressed her forgiveness. She did not want revenge, she told reporters. “Oh God, forgive them for they know not what they do,” she said, wholeheartedly agreeing with the words of Christ on Calvary (Luke 23:34).

In a country where blood-for-blood revenge is as normal as breathing, many many reports have come to the attention of the church of how this comment of Susanne Tilman has changed lives. One columnist wrote of her comment, “She said in one sentence what 1000 missionaries in 1000 years could never do.” The missionaries in Malatya will most likely move out, as their families and children have become publicly identified as targets to the hostile city. The remaining 10 believers are in hiding. What will happen to this church, this light in the darkness? Most likely it will go underground. Pray for wisdom, that Turkish brothers from other cities will go to lead the leaderless church. Should we not be concerned for that great city of Malatya, a city that does not know what it is doing? (Jonah 4:11)

When our Pastor Fikret Bocek went with a brother to give a statement to the Security Directorate on Monday they were ushered into the Anti-Terror Department. On the wall was a huge chart covering the whole wall listing all the terrorist cells in Izmir, categorized. In one prominent column were listed all the evangelical churches in Izmir. The darkness does not understand the light. “These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also.” (Acts17:6)

Please pray for the Church in Turkey. “Don’t pray against persecution, pray for perseverence,” urges Pastor Fikret Bocek. The Church is better having lost our brothers; the fruit in our lives, the renewed faith, the burning desire to spread the gospel to quench more darkness in Malatya …all these are not to be regretted. Pray that we stand strong against external opposition and especially pray that we stand strong against internal struggles with sin, our true debilitating weakness.

This we know. Christ Jesus was there when our brothers were giving their lives for Him. He was there, like He was when Stephen was being stoned in the sight of Saul of Tarsus. Someday the video of the deaths of our brothers may reveal more to us about the strength that we know Christ gave them to endure their last cross, about the peace the Spirit of God endowed them with to suffer for their beloved Savior. But we know He did not leave their side. We know their minds were full of Scripture strengthening them to endure, as darkness tried to subdue the unsubduable Light of the Gospel. We know, in whatever way they were able, with a look or a word, they encouraged one another to stand strong. We know they knew they would soon be with Christ. We don’t know the details. We don’t know the kind of justice that will or will not be served on this earth. But we pray-- and urge you to pray-- that someday at least one of those five boys will come to faith because of the testimony in death of Tilman Geske, who gave his life as a missionary to his beloved Turks, and the testimonies in death of Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, the first martyrs for Christ out of the Turkish Church.

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About Jerry Golden: Thank you for looking in on the Jerry Golden "Report". I hope that you will find it both informative and a blessing.

Jerry and Connie Golden are Messianic Believers in Yeshua Hamashiah (Jesus Christ); and dual Citizens of both the United States and Israel. Jerry has served in both armed forces. And Connie and Jerry have been married for 30 years. They have lived in Israel for many years and have raised their three youngest children in Jerusalem. Both of their daughters are married and living in the States, and their youngest son Joel is now serving in the IDF Special Forces.


 

The above f rom Slantright Blog

 

Regards,

Star Traveler


52 posted on 05/14/2007 3:30:05 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: wtc911
"wtc911" said —

Perhaps you should check my profile and posting history before you start teaching me about the global threat from islam...

 

Already saw it a long time ago, long before the first or second post. Obviously you don't see any further than the New York shoreline, and certainly not over into Iran where the major threat of this religio-fanatical-governmental oppressive idealogy of Islam is (one of the places, anyway) posing a major threat which needs to be totally eliminated.

Regards,
Star Traveler

 

53 posted on 05/14/2007 3:39:14 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler

Thank you for your time.


54 posted on 05/14/2007 3:40:48 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: TomasUSMC

Agreed but no land troops.


55 posted on 05/14/2007 5:44:30 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: wtc911
See why Iran has to be taken out by our troops, besides all the machinations of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The FReeper thread -- Contingencies for nuclear terrorist attack

IRAN will be getting nuclear weapons soon, unless we do something about it beforehand...

Regards,
Star Traveler

56 posted on 05/14/2007 11:26:08 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: humint
"...the Iranian diaspora has a responsibility to the nations in which they reside. They must tame their homeland before it is consumed in the crucible of war."

??

Those I've met consider the current Iranian government only a nuisance.
They travel back and forth, buy and sell property, and enjoy life here - but I don't see them calling for resistance 'back home'.

Like most folks from that region, political (tribal) turmoil is what they expect and what they are conditioned to deal with.

It would possibly help if they referred to themselves as Iranian rather than as Persian or Armenian.

[It might also help if they could manage to be just a bit less obvious in their attitude toward Jews.]

Just some thoughts.

57 posted on 05/14/2007 11:48:40 PM PDT by norton
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To: Star Traveler
See why Iran has to be taken out by our troops,

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OK, please tell me how many Infantry and Armored Divisions this would take and, given the fact that every one that we have is committed somewhere in the world either deployed or re-fitting to be deployed again, where will the estimated 250,000 (minimum) troops come from?

And please don't give me the tired response that 'we have the best military ever, they can do anything'. I work closely with the Army in a few areas and I know how good they are, how dedicated they are and what they can do. One thing the best military ever cannot do is train the troops be in two places at once.

58 posted on 05/15/2007 4:41:38 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: FARS; Star Traveler
Posted by FARS to Star Traveler On News/Activism 05/13/2007 9:16:34 PM PDT · 24 of 58

Freedom 44 is absolutely right about WTC911....

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Freedom44 is banned or suspended.

And I'm still waiting for you to accept my challenge and prove your lies...

59 posted on 05/15/2007 4:46:29 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: norton
Those I've met consider the current Iranian government only a nuisance. They travel back and forth, buy and sell property, and enjoy life here - but I don't see them calling for resistance 'back home'. Like most folks from that region, political (tribal) turmoil is what they expect and what they are conditioned to deal with. It would possibly help if they referred to themselves as Iranian rather than as Persian or Armenian. [It might also help if they could manage to be just a bit less obvious in their attitude toward Jews.] Just some thoughts.

Thank you for your thoughts. Your observations are legitimate and to the best of my knowledge, accurate. However, the individuals you are referring to have a responsibility to themselves, their families, their countrymen and the world to confront reality; their belligerent government supports terrorism and is systematically developing the means to acquire nuclear weapons. Every time the West turns to these willfully ignorant souls as signs Iran not so bad, or is opening up, the West is burned. By who? By true believers in Tehran. Why? Because the people you are talking about aren't willing to stand up for themselves, much less democracy, much less security...

Never forget that the Iranian people are politically irrelevant to a regime that survives and thrives on petroleum revenue. The economics are clear. The problems stalling positive change in Iran isn't that the people whom you have met only consider the Iranian government a nuisance. The fact that the Government of Iran considers Iranians only a nuisance is the problem! Petroleum revenue disconnects the Iranian government from responsibility to its citizenry. That's why Khomenei's political illusion can thrive with successors in an environment like Iran and Iraq, but only by proxy in Lebanon, and other places...

The signs that Iran is thawing to the West will come from policies the Islamic Republic of Iran implement and allow to function for a reasonable amount of time. That isn't happening. Indeed the opposite is occurring. The IRI has broken and will continue to break every promise it makes to its people and the International community unless it is compelled by force of arms to live up to their promises. The U.S. military presence in the region has softened some inside Iran but hardened others. Think in terms of evolution my friend. When a protectorate retreats, the hard devourer the soft. A positive U.S. influence in Iraq and Afghanistan must be cemented to prevent Tehran's irresponsible government from destroying the lives of millions, including your willfully ignorant friends.

60 posted on 05/15/2007 6:47:38 AM PDT by humint (...err the least and endure! VDH)
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