VATICAN-Benedict XVI in Zagreb: the Christian family is "called to give a specific and irreplaceable contribution to evangelization"

Zagreb (Agenzia Fides) - "Christian families are a decisive resource for education in the faith, for the up-building of the Church as a communion and for her missionary presence in the most diverse situations in life" the Pope underlined during the Holy Mass presided on Sunday, June 5 at the Hippodrome in Zagreb, Croatia, on the occasion of the National Day of Catholic families in Croatia. After having expressed his appreciation for the attention and commitment to the family, the Pope urged the Pastors to “remain dedicated to this important pastoral commitment”, and he continued: “Everyone knows that the Christian family is a special sign of the presence and love of Christ and that it is called to give a specific and irreplaceable contribution to evangelization… The Christian family has always been the first way of transmitting the faith and still today retains great possibilities for evangelization in many areas”. Faced with the spread, especially in Europe, of a secularization that leads to the exclusion of God from life and to an increasing family breakdown, Benedict XVI noted that " by the grace of God, many Christian families today are acquiring an ever deeper awareness of their missionary vocation, and are devoting themselves seriously to bearing witness to Christ the Lord. Finally he concluded his homily with an exhortation: " hear yourselves called to evangelize with the whole of your life; hear the powerful word of the Lord: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations”
The 19th apostolic visit of Pope Benedict XVI began on Saturday, June 4. During the welcoming ceremony at the airport of Zagreb, the pope recalled the three pastoral visits to Croatia made by Blessed Pope John Paul II and "the long history of faithfulness that has linked the Country to the Holy See for over thirteen centuries. " Twenty years after the declaration of independence and on the eve of Croatia’s full integration into the European Union-recalled the Pope- this country’s remote and recent history can stimulate reflection on the part of all the other peoples of the Continent, helping them, individually and collectively, to preserve and to inject new life into that priceless common heritage of human and Christian values”.
During the meeting with representatives of the civil society and the political, cultural and business world, Diplomatic Corps and religious Leaders, held at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, the Holy Father emphasized inter alia that " religion is not a separate area marked off from society. Rather, it is a natural element within society, constantly recalling the vertical dimension: attentive listening to God as the condition for seeking the common good, for seeking justice and reconciliation in the truth. Religion places man in relation with God, the Creator and Father of all, and must therefore be a force for peace. Religions need always to be purified according to their true essence in order to correspond to their true mission". Focusing on the theme of consciousness, the Pope noted that if, " according to the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse in on itself. If, on the other hand, conscience is rediscovered as the place in which to listen to truth and good, the place of responsibility before God and before fellow human beings – in other words, the bulwark against all forms of tyranny – then there is hope for the future".
Addressing the young people gathered in del Bano Josip Jelacic Square for a prayer vigil on the evening of June 4, the Holy Father said: "Jesus speaks to you today, through the Gospel and the Holy Spirit. He is your contemporary! He seeks you even before you seek him! While fully respecting your freedom, he approaches each one of you and offers himself as the authentic and decisive response to the longing deep within your hearts, to your desire for a life worth living. Let him take you by the hand! Let him become more and more your friend and companion along life’s journey. Put your trust in him and he will never disappoint you!
On the afternoon of Sunday, June 5, before returning to Rome, the Pope presided at the celebration of the Vespers in the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Stephen's, attended by Bishops, priests, religious and seminarians, and paid homage at the tomb of Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, who " in his life, he always had his gaze fixed on Jesus, to whom he was always conformed, to the point of becoming a living image of Christ, and of Christ suffering - said Benedict XVI -. Precisely because of his strong Christian conscience, he knew how to resist every form of totalitarianism, becoming, in a time of Nazi and Fascist dictatorship, a defender of the Jews, the Orthodox and of all the persecuted, and then, in the age of communism, an ‘advocate’ for his own faithful, especially for the many persecuted and murdered priests. Yes, he became an advocate for God on this earth, since he tenaciously defended the truth and man’s right to live with God”.( SL) (Agenzia Fides 06/06/2011)

20 dead as Israeli troops open fire in Golan

Israeli troops on Sunday battled hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to burst across Syria's frontier with the Golan Heights, killing a reported 20 people and wounding scores more in the second outbreak of deadly violence in the border area in less than a month.

The clashes, marking the anniversary of the Arab defeat in the 1967 Mideast war, drew Israeli accusations that Syria was orchestrating the violence to shift attention away from a bloody crackdown on opposition protests at home. The marchers, who had organised on Facebook, passed by Syrian and UN outposts on their way to the front lines.

"The Syrian government is trying to create a provocation," said Israel's chief military spokesman, Brig Gen Yoav Mordechai. "This border has been quiet for decades, but only now with all the unrest in Syrian towns is there an attempt to draw attention to the border."

Human rights groups say President Bashar Assad's forces killed at least 25 people in northern Syria over the weekend, and another 65 activists were killed in the central city of Hama on Friday, as anti-government protests spread through the country demanding his resignation.

There was no Syrian comment on why the protesters were allowed to storm the border, apparently undisturbed by authorities. But Syria's state-run media portrayed the event as a spontaneous uprising of Palestinian youths from a nearby refugee camp.

After nightfall Sunday, Syria's state TV said there would be an open-ended sit-in at the border, and thousands more protesters were on their way.

The protests began around 11 am with what appeared to be several dozen youths, brought in on buses. It gained strength through the day.

By evening, the crowd had swelled to more than 1,000 people, who milled about, prayed and chanted slogans in an uneasy standoff with Israeli troops in the distance. The army bolstered its positions, posting a dozen armored vehicles and jeeps along the border road.

A small group of youths managed to cut through a recently fortified coil of barbed-wire and took up positions in a trench inside a buffer zone about 20 yards (meters) from a final border fence. Israeli troops periodically opened fire at young activists jumping into the ditch, sending puffs of soil flying into the air.

As the standoff stretched into the evening, Israeli forces fired heavy barrages of tear gas to break up the crowds. Hundreds of people fled the area in panic, while some 20 people laying on the ground received treatment. It was not immediately clear whether the crowd would return to the front lines.

At nightfall, crowds of people fell to the ground in Muslim prayer, and several small groups lit bonfires, indicating the standoff would continue.

Israel had promised a tough response after being caught off guard in last month's demonstrations, when troops killed more than a dozen people in clashes along the Syrian and Lebanese borders. In Syria, hundreds of unarmed protesters managed to breach the border and entered the Israel-controlled Golan for several hours.

The May 15 unrest occurred on the anniversary of Israel's birth in 1948, a day the Palestinians refer to as the "nakba," or catastrophe.

Sunday's clashes marked the "naksa," or setback, the term the Palestinians use for the defeat in the 1967 Mideast war. During that war, Israel conquered the Golan Heights from Syria, the West Bank and east Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Gaza Strip and Sinai peninsula from Egypt in just six days of fighting.

Israel returned Sinai to Egypt under a 1979 peace accord, and withdrew from Gaza in 2005.

The Palestinians seek the West Bank and east Jerusalem, along with Gaza, for a future state, while Syria demands a return of the Golan, a strategic plateau overlooking northern Israel which Israel has annexed, as the price for peace.

Still, until last month, Syria has steadfastly kept its border with Israel quiet for nearly 40 years, fueling the Israeli accusations that Syria was trying to draw attention away from the months of protests that have left more than 1,200 Syrians dead.

Ahead of Sunday's unrest, the army said it would deploy large numbers of forces, along with anti-riot weaponry like tear gas and water cannons, to prevent a repeat of the May clashes.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered forces to show "maximum restraint," but also said Israel would prote.

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Malcolm X, Nation of Islam, & Shaykh Abdalqadir: supporting past Arab slave masters in their man made Mohammed

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi was born Ian Dallas in the United Kingdom and today thousands of converts have followed his thinking during Islamic dawah.  He fully understands that Muslim apostates in the Hadiths face death but like “any hypocrite” Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi will use the moderation of democratic nations in order to focus on stealth jihad.

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi is not a single individual who is somehow fusing anti-capitalist forces with Islam because it is clear that many “left-wing” organizations are turning a blind eye to reality.  Therefore, in order to understand how to defeat the stealth jihadists it is essential to understand the warped mindset and irrationality of their thinking.

Democratic societies have one major weakness and this is “toleration” and allowing enemies from within to spread ideologies which threaten the nation state.  Therefore, the religious and secular balance within many nations is being threatened by an Islamic missionary movement which desires the implementation of Islamic Sharia law in the long term.

Islamic kitman and stealth jihadists will use any means possible in order to Islamize nations and to change domestic laws.  The Malcolm X film sums up the blindness of America because this film, just like Malcolm X, was used by Islamists in order to garner in more Afro-American converts to Islam and followers from other ethnic groups.

Yet, the real Malcolm X espoused hatred on the basis of what he saw but what he could not see, then he followed blindly, and this is where stealth jihadists have a higher objective.

Malcolm X on his travels to Africa negated to tell his supporters that the Islamic Arab invasions which began in the 7^th century and which is still enslaving Africans today in nations like Mauritania and Sudan; was all done in accordance with the teachings of Islam and the Hadiths which support the enslavement of non-Muslims during Islamic jihad.

Indeed, when Malcolm X visited Saudi Arabia he also forgot to tell his followers that slavery was in full flow in Saudi Arabia for much of the twentieth century.  More important, slavery in Saudi Arabia of Africans and others was a reality when he had converted to Islam.  Also, slavery only stopped in Saudi Arabia after non-Muslim nations put enormous pressure on this nation to stop this barbaric practice.

Despite this, elements within hip-hop and the myths of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam just keep on obtaining more and more converts.  Yet, many Christian churches appear to be lacking in thinking and instead of challenging these lies they appear to have accepted or turned insular.

If Afro-Americans are seen to be “Uncle Tom’s” if they don’t follow a recreated version of the slave owning Mohammed then what does that make Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam? 

It would appear to make Malcolm X “a Triple Mohammed” who not only betrayed the history and reality of Africa which had been enslaved long before a small minority of European nations got involved in the slave trade; but even worse, he turned to an individual called Mohammed who owned slaves, had sex with concubines and supported the enslavement of non-Muslims via Islamic jihad.

On this note, I will return to Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi who is fusing anti-capitalism alongside the myths of Mohammed and equality.  

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi in his article called The Collapse of the Terrorist Dialect states the following:

“The present world situation is marked by the pessimistic unity of all its commentators who confirm that a whole system once seriously flawed has now collapsed utterly. The dual pillars that upheld world trade and political order have fallen in on each other. With the disintegration of the financial system, its instruments and institutions, has come the disgrace of the despised political class.”

“The system had only one set of cards left to play – to distract the awakening billions of the world’s poor. Terror. The terror-event as instrument of removing civic freedoms (which can lead to protest and change of regime) and of enslaving the masses in obedience to the State, not seen as tyranny, which it is, but as the necessary protection of the endangered civic arena.”

“John Buchan wrote: “The Roman Empire fell in the end because of the pressure of the barbarians on its frontiers, and because of the ruin of the middle classes within by insensate burdens, and the degradation of the proletariat into a frivolous impoverished rabble.”

“The second half of the religion is following the Messenger in all trade and contracts with honour and without usury or increase inside the exchange, along with real-value instruments of exchange like gold and silver.”

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, just like Malcolm X, but based on completely different factors; is now fusing anti-capitalism and the tyranny of the democratic state and somehow coming up with the absurd notion that Mohammed supported equality or an economic system based on fair trade.

This reasoning is based on what?  Just like Malcolm X who was born an “Uncle Tom” according to the Afro-American Islamic missionary movement but somehow turned out to be “a Triple Mohammed;” we also have Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi making up a new Mohammed based on the image of liberty, equality, and liberalism.

However, if people desire to follow Mohammed it is their democratic right but of course in the lands of Mecca and Medina the same notion of religious liberty is not tolerated.  Instead, all apostates from Islam in Saudi Arabia face the death penalty.

Yet, the followers of Malcolm X, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, the Nation of Islam, and others, should be challenged by their false statements of reality. 

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi fully understands that Islamic Sharia law means dhimmitude and jizya and he mentioned in another article that Shia Muslims, Jews, and Christians, should pay jizya in Bahrain under the rule of Sunni Muslims.

Therefore, what happened to Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi’s equality?  What also happened to the ending of tyranny? 

Are the Western converts who follow him so naïve to believe that equality and peace can come from Islamic Sharia law?  After all, Islamic Sharia law supports killing apostates, stoning people to death for adultery, killing homosexuals, cross amputation for crimes, jizya, dhimmitude, and other draconian and barbaric laws.

Malcolm X followers and the Muslim hip-hop/rap brigade who are selling “a black Mohammed” and an Islam which is somehow African and anti-slavery; should also be challenged by the reality of history.  After all, the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, Mohammed Ali the legendary boxer, and the Muslim hip-hop/rap brigade, which have great influence within the Afro-American community; are selling an image which not only enslaved Africa for more than a thousand years in many parts of this continent but the African identity is being overshadowed by their Arab slave masters.

All the above mentioned individuals and the Muslim hip-hop/rap brigade have all propagated an Islam based on re-writing Mohammed and re-writing history.  Therefore, instead of turning to Africa and using African names you have the madness of Afro-Americans bypassing Africa and turning to their Arab slave masters who did so much damage to this continent and choosing Arabic names.

However, the real prophet of Islam, Mohammed, not only had slaves and had sex with slaves but Mohammed also supported slavery during jihad and he also helped to enslave people who had been free during his lifetime.

Slavery was an institution in Islam and backed up within Islamic Sharia law and the Hadiths.  The Ottoman Empire, the Sokoto caliphate in modern day Nigeria and the Crimean Khanate were all slave based societies and the numbers of slaves were numerically high.  Indeed, it mattered not if the society was sedentary or nomadic because the institution of slavery was part and parcel of Islam and continued to be so in the late twentieth century in Mauritania and Sudan.

It is also factual that while an anti-slavery movement happened within mainly Christian nations which were in the forefront of abolition the same did not happen in the mainly Muslim world.  Therefore, it was non-Muslim societies which enforced the abolishment of slavery in many mainly Muslim societies.

This fact of history and reality is being swept under the carpet by Muslim converts within the Afro-American community and “tinted eyes within the West” share the same blindness.

The crushing of Buddhism, Hinduism, Orthodox Christianity, Zoroastrianism, African Traditional beliefs, and so forth; is all being taken out of the equation and this applies to the hundreds of millions of all the above who suffered at the hands of Islamic slavery, dhimmitude, pogroms, and forced conversions.

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi knows full well that Islam did not bring enlightenment and justice to the Buddhists and Hindus of “mother India” and Afghanistan. On the contrary, it brought slavery and the backwardness of a once powerful and rich culture which faced the sword of Islam and the slave markets of their new masters.

No equality! Just Islamic Sharia law, slavery, dhimmitude and jizya for some but of course for the Buddhists and Hindus of Afghanistan they were not even allowed this; instead it was the complete destruction of their culture and faith.

Answering Islam states the following about Mohammed and Islamic slavery:  

“Neither Muhammad nor his wives or companions were a good example in this regard. Sometimes, Muhammad used to talk about the merits of liberating a slave, yet he himself owned dozens of slaves and maid-slaves. However, we encounter a strange opinion spelled out by Muhammad’s wives and his friends in which he encourages them to retain their slaves. In Vol. 33, p. 61 Ibn Timiyya says,” 

“Anyone who says, `If I do so (such a thing), every slave I own will become free’ is not obligated by his oath and he can redeem his oath by any means and retain his slaves. (He can do that) by fasting a few days or by feeding some hungry people.” 

On the same page Ibn Timiyya stresses that this is what all Muhammad’s friends said (such as Ibn ‘Abbas and Ibn ‘Umar) as well as his wives (such as Zaynab, A’isha, and Um Salama). 

Is the liberation of slaves a bad thing so that it is possible for a man who swears he will liberate his slaves to renounce his oath and retain them? It should be said that whoever takes an oath to free his slaves if so and so happens, is obliged to fulfill his oath and liberate his slaves, but we see that Muhammad’s wives, his great companions and his relatives say something different according to the testimony of Ibn Timiyya. 

The Qur’an itself (in several places) approves of slavery and assures the Muslim the right to own dozens of male and female slaves either by purchasing them or as bounty of war. The Qur’an talks about the possession of slaves as “the possession of their necks” (Chapter 58:3, Surah Al-Mujadilah).

Slaves of Muhammad – Prophet of Freedom and Equality!

Muhammad himself owned numerous slaves after he proclaimed himself to be a prophet. I would like here to quote Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya who is one of the greatest scholars and chroniclers of Islam. In his book, “Zad al-Ma’ad” (Part I, p. 160), he says,

“Muhammad had many male and female slaves. He used to buy and sell them, but he purchased (more slaves) than he sold, especially after God empowered him by His message, as well as after his immigration from Mecca. He (once) sold one black slave for two. His name was Jacob al-Mudbir. His purchases of slaves were more (than he sold). He was used to renting out and hiring many slaves, but he hired more slaves than he rented out.

This trading used to take place in the slave market in the Arab Peninsula and in Mecca. Muhammad was accustomed to sell, purchase, hire, rent, and to exchange one slave for two. Thus, he had an increasing number of slaves, especially after he claimed to be a prophet, and after his immigration from Mecca to escape death at the hand of his tribe Quraysh. Also, the slaves of Muhammad and his followers were constantly increasing as the result of those who were captured in wars and not only by purchase….”

Buddhism, Hinduism and Orthodox Christianity did not enslave Africa; on the contrary, all the above faced Islamic slavery in their own lands.  The institution of slavery is an Islamic reality and some Catholic and Protestant nations in Europe became involved in slavery but the principles of slavery during war can’t be found in the New Testament but it is justified in the Muslim Hadiths. 

Thousands of Islamic institutions are supporting stealth jihad in the West and in nations like India.  The terrorist threat is a minor issue because the vast majority of conversions are converted by kitman Muslims who are lying openly about the reality of history and the Hadiths and other Islamic texts.

Islam is an ideology which is not aimed at accommodation because at its core is the House of Islam and House of War. 

When the Nation of Islam began to first grow and Malcolm X was spreading the Muslim faith you had several realities.  This applies to Arab and Muslim slavery which still was ongoing in nations like Mauritania and Sudan.  Also, when Malcolm X visited Mecca then why did he remain silent about slavery and the history of slavery in Saudi Arabia?

After all, Malcolm X converted to Islam in the early 1950s which is somewhat ironic.

This applies to slavery still being allowed in the land of Mecca and Medina. Therefore, while Malcolm X was talking about Muslim liberation is fellow Arab Muslims were still buying African slaves until 1962 in Saudi Arabia.

What is militant about throwing of “the white master’s name and religion” and then picking “the Arab masters identity and adopting a religion which enslaved Africa?”

Yes, from Jesus who owned no slaves to Mohammed who owned and sold slaves and had sex with concubines. Is this radicalism or mass stupidity?

Therefore, Malcolm X is certainly “a Triple Mohammed” and Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi who is an anti-Shia bigot is also fusing freedom and liberty within a faith which does not support any notion of religious equality or freedom.

It is vital that Christian churches, Buddhist leaders, Hindu leaders, secularists, atheists, and all people who support democracy; challenge the lies of Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi and others who seek to enslave the free world by stealth jihad and Islamic kitman.

Of course, people have the right to follow any religion or disregard religion but it must happen on a level playing field. In nations like the United Kingdom the Islamic propaganda brigade has been given a free ride and conversions are gathering because of multiple factors.

It is time for the West and nations like India to wake up from the reality of what is happening.  The demographic reality is that Christianity is an increasing minority in the Middle East or on the verge of collapse in some nations. 

The Hindu faith is in freefall in Bangladesh, Kashmir and Pakistan; however, the Muslim faith in India is strong and vibrant.

It is time to either wake up or to throw in the towel.  At the moment, many appear to have thrown in the towel and others are being forced to remain quiet because of the fear of being deemed racist or anti-progressive. 

It is ironic because the Islamic faith is based on the concept of “the ruler” being the Muslim and the enslaved being the “dhimmis” who are non-Muslims.   

The religion of supremacy is called Islam and Islamic Sharia law even supports killing innocent non-Muslim men with the death penalty for marrying a Muslim female.  Yes, death for an act of love and a reality which Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi fully understands and this law still applies in modern day Saudi Arabia.

Obama vision' becomes basis for Mideast peace

US President Barack Obama's "vision" of pushing Israel back to it's 1967 borders has become the basis for international peace efforts in the Middle East.
Last week, France offered to host renewed peace talks based on the "Obama vision." Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the weekend accepted the French proposal, even though it would likely end his campaign to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state at the UN in September.
According to the Bethlehem-based Palestinian news agency Ma'an, Abbas and his advisers have realized that the UN statehood bid is a dead end, as the US will never allow the motion to pass in the Security Council.
But it appears just the threat of taking such unilateral action has paid off. A former adviser to US presidents on Middle East issues said that Obama's "1967 borders" policy speech was an astounding and unprecedented adoption of Arab positions regarding the peace process with Israel.
If Obama's stated conditions are to become the starting point for new negotiations, Abbas has gained far more than he would have at the UN.
However, Abbas will now have to contend with his new government partners in Hamas, who called his acceptance of the French proposal "hasty and misguided."
Hamas sees no point in negotiations with Israel based on the 1967 border, or otherwise, as the group remains dedicated to seeing a Palestinian state fully replace Israel.
Concerned about seeing Israel further isolated, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel, too, is positively examining the French proposal. Netanyahu did, however, raise reservations over Paris' plan to reach an agreement on borders before broaching the topic of "Palestinian refugees."
During his visit to Washington last month, Netanyahu was widely seen as schooling Obama after the latter pushed the idea of returning to the 1967 borders.
Netanyahu, like most Israelis, views the 1967 borders as indefensible, and is not prepared to uproot all Jewish life in Judea and Samaria (the so-called "West Bank") nor to sever the Jews' ancient claims to those lands.