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Lois Lerner Asks Judge Hearing Class Action Suit To Seal Records – Protect Her From Americans

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Rick Wells in Politics // 1 Comment

Lois Lerner is one of the small circle of people who knows the full scope of her politically motivated crimes and she, the deep state and the Democrats wants to keep it that way. Evidently she was doing some pretty awful stuff to innocent people targeted for not being part of her anti-American Democrat party. Why else would she be asking for protection from the public, for the records of her upcoming testimony to be kept secret and sealed forever.

The former IRS senior executive told a federal court this week that she is fearful of potential death threats if her role in the tea party targeting becomes public. She shouldn’t be worried about the threats, they’re harmless. It’s when someone follows through on their threats or attempts to make good on them that she would have a potentially a serious problem. Perhaps she’s got a point, but she’s too arrogant and cocky for most of us to be inclined to give a rip about her safety or mental wellbeing. She didn’t care about anyone else in her House testimony or when she was making other Americans’ lives a living hell.

Many would take the position that she deserves every bit of discomfort she encounters. Just because she’s an elitist who did favors for Hussein Obama should not entitle her to privileges not enjoyed by the common folks. People who commit crimes are tried in public thousands of times every day. Unless they’re juveniles, the entire proceeding is open to the public. Lerner is certainly not a juvenile and not special in any regard. The separate and unequal secondary justice system she”s benefited from thus far left office in January.

It’s not only Lerner but her partner in crime, Holly Paz, who also participated in the discrimination against Tea Party associated patriots in the abuse of power, who is asking for special protections from the American people. The judge is Michael Barrett, who, unbelievably, is a Bush 43, not an Obama appointee and didn’t attend Yale or Harvard but the University of Cincinnati. Paz and Lerner told him that that they’ve already experienced “harassment and death threats” the last go ’round and they’re afraid it would happen again if their crimes are exposed in trial. They contend that by testifying they could be putting “their lives in serious jeopardy.”

Their attorney argued, “Mss. Lerner and Paz have demonstrated that the public dissemination of their deposition testimony would expose them and their families to harassment and a credible risk of violence and physical harm.” They provided the judge with supporting evidence of the supposed threats. They claim that the threats they’ve already received contained “graphic, profane and disturbing language” that they said has caused them embarrassment. Lerner and Pazy caused the nation embarrassment and considerable harm to their victims. It’s exactly what they deserve, for starters. Maybe for once a judge will rule intelligently and deny their request to hide underneath his robe. The victims are doing their best to nudge the judge in that direction.

Turkey Is Investigating Chuck Schumer, Ex-CIA Director John Brennan In Probe Of US-Based Muslim Cleric

Democrats: Party of Treason

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Donald Trump has given the U.S. military significantly more leeway to use whatever means necessary to fight Islamic terrorism

U.S. military commanders are stepping up their fight against Islamic terrorism as Donald Trump’s administration urges them to make more battlefield decisions on their own.

Daily Caller  President Trump’s new approach is perhaps best demonstrated in the U.S. decision to drop the largest non-nuclear device in the military’s arsenal — “the mother of all bombs” — on the Islamic State in Afghanistan Thursday. The blast ignited a media sensation, and killed nearly 100 ISIS fighters.

“It’s not the same as it was, you don’t have to ask us before you drop a MOAB,” a senior military official told TheWSJ, using the acronym for the large bomb. “Technically there’s no piece of paper that says you have to ask the president to drop a MOAB. But last year this time, the way [things were] meant, ‘I’m going to drop a MOAB, better let the White House know.’”

Top U.S. General in Afghanistan Gen. John Nicholson emphasized to reporters that he is the one of made the decision to drop the MOAB. “It was the right time to use it tactically against the right target on the battlefield,” Nicholson insisted.

Trump himself told reporters Thursday that he has given the military “total authorization.” Trump has also removed White House reviews of U.S. strikes in countries like Yemen and Somalia. Trump designated Yemen and Somalia as an “active areas of hostilities” in March, which allows the Pentagon to aggressively target al-Qaeda without White House approval.

Trump has also considered changing the way the U.S. targets terrorists in drone strikes. The new rules would instead target terrorists under military protocols which allow for some civilian casualties, as long as they weighed proportionally by the commander responsible for approving the operation. 

The loosening of drone strike protocol couples with broader counter-terrorism policy changes by the administration, including a change in rules of engagement in the fight against ISIS, more leeway for Pentagon commanders considering ground raids, and increased willingness to use military force.

Florida: Muslim professor who told students Jesus was never crucified resigns

Source: Muslim professor at center of Christ-hoax controversy resigns – The College Fix

The Muslim professor who was accused by one of her students of asserting that Jesus’ crucifixion never took place and that Christ’s disciples did not believe he was God has resigned from Rollins College.

Rollins College President Grant Cornwell told the Orlando Sentinel that Professor Areej Zufari “resigned this semester because of the hateful threats and emails and phones messages she was getting. I think it’s a terrible injustice, but I do respect her decision.”

Zufari was at the center of a national controversy over the suspension of student Marshall Polston, 20, a Christian student in her class who challenged her claims — so much so that she took to accusing him of harassment. She filed a police report against him and told officials he made her feel unsafe, after which Polston was suspended.

According to the March 24 suspension letter, handed down right after Zufari’s police report was filed, Polston’s unspecified “actions have constituted a threat of disruption within the operations of the College and jeopardize the safety and well-being of members of the College community and yourself.”

Campus officials then reviewed Polston’s case after a weeklong battle over what Polston called “unfounded allegations” and he was reinstated. Polston’s lawyer said at the time the college should investigate wherever Zufari should remain at the school, given her “malicious assassination” of his client’s character.

Zufari remains a full professor at Valencia College, the Sentinel reports. Her past connections with radical Islam, meanwhile, have become a point of concern among some watchdog groups.

As for Polston, now President Cornwell tells the Orlando Sentinel that Polston’s suspension had to do with some unrelated “vulgar” and “mean-spirited” social media comments he made to a fellow student.

Polston balked at that assertion, writing on Facebook the same morning the Sentinel published its story: “The Orlando Slantinel is FAKE NEWS and full of lies!”

The young man’s attorney, Kenneth Lewis, also rejected the college’s reasoning, telling the Sentinel the Facebook post was “nothing” and “a total joke” and the classroom dispute was the real reason for the suspension.

Ms. Zufari’s Faculty FrontDoor profile picture titled “Arab Spring”. Graphic courtesy of Ms. Zufari and Valencia College. Source

Valencia College’s contact page here http://valenciacollege.edu/contact/.

Creeping Sharia

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Thea watchman on the wall sounding the ALARM

UK: Primary school took pupils to meet an ‘extremist’ imam at the mosque where Lee Rigby’s killers worshiped

( Muslims do not assimilate, they infiltrate )

April 16, 2017 10:21 am By Robert Spencer 1 Comment

“Mr Begg even praised the children for their keenness to learn about the faith during the visit.”

When do Islamic schools in Britain take their students to churches to learn about Christianity? That’s right: never.

How do British authorities think all this is going to play out? What do they think Britain will look like in five years? Ten? All this appeasement of jihad preachers such as Shakeel Begg, and demonization of foes of jihad terror, can only lead to surrender and submission, and/or civil war. When that war breaks out, Britons can thank Blair, Cameron, and May.

“Primary school took pupils to meet an ‘extremist’ imam at the mosque where Lee Rigby’s killers worshipped,” by Katie French, Mailonline, April 16, 2017:

Primary school children were taken to meet an Islamic preacher described as ‘extremist’ at the mosque where Lee Rigby’s murderers worshipped.

The trip saw pupils from Kilmorie Primary School in Lewisham, London, meet controversial preacher Shakeel Begg, who the High Court said ‘promoted and encouraged religious violence’.

Students at the school, aged eight and nine, were taken to the Lewisham Islamic Centre to take part in a discussion with the imam….

Photographs of the visit were posted to the mosque’s website which shows children sitting attentively on the floor as the imam addressed them.

Mr Begg even praised the children for their keenness to learn about the faith during the visit….

Mr Begg, chief imam at Lewisham Islamic Centre, was described in a High Court judgment at the end of October as a ‘Jekyll and Hyde character’.

Mr Justice Haddon-Cave also warned that Mr Begg’s role as imam put him in a position to ‘plant the seed of Islamic extremism in a young mind’.

The imam brought a libel case against the BBC after Andrew Neil, the presenter of the Sunday Politics programme, had accused him of promoting extremism on air.

But a judge ruled against him in the High Court and said he ‘had recently promoted and encouraged religious violence’….

Jihad Watvh

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Watchman on the wall sounding the ALARM.

MT 28:1-10

After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning,
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
And behold, there was a great earthquake;
for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven,
approached, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it.
His appearance was like lightning
and his clothing was white as snow.
The guards were shaken with fear of him
and became like dead men.
Then the angel said to the women in reply,
“Do not be afraid!
I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified.
He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said.
Come and see the place where he lay.
Then go quickly and tell his disciples,
‘He has been raised from the dead,
and he is going before you to Galilee;
there you will see him.’
Behold, I have told you.”
Then they went away quickly from the tomb,
fearful yet overjoyed,
and ran to announce this to his disciples.
And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them.
They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage.
Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid.
Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee,
and there they will see me.”

Frank Wagner, Virginia Commonwealth Governor's Race, at Black Americans for A Better Future, "Continuing the Dream"     

Raynard Jackson, Chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF.org), Is Host of this Major Event   

BAFBF Virginia GOP Governor's Forum     

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Saturday, April 15, 2017   

BLACK AMERICANS FOR A BETTER FUTURE (BAFBF) IS A 527 “SUPER PAC.”

We are the first and only 527 created to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party.  Our immediate focus is on the Black entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs are the leaders of our community—not the Jesse Jacksons and the Al Sharptons.  We are not aligned with any of the presidential campaigns.  Our goal is to work NOW to be able to deliver at least 15% of the Black vote to our eventual nominee next year.

Republicans average 9% of the Black vote during presidential elections even if we do nothing (Romney got 6%, but that was an anomaly).

As founder and chairman of BAFABF, I have traveled the country to meet with some of the top Black businessmen in America—Republican, Democrat, and Independent.

Without exception, they have all agreed to find ways to support our mission, both financially and otherwise.

Through BAFABF, we will be the conduit for these highly successful Black businessmen to begin cultivating a mutually beneficial relationship with our congressional and party leadership at the highest levels.

Based on my extensive conversations with these entrepreneurs, their top priorities have become very clear.  They want to discuss with party leaders issues that impact their ability to grow and create more jobs for their community.  Issues like:

*Access to capital

*More transparency and fairness in federal government procurement for small business

*Accelerated depreciation

*Abolition or reduction of the capital gains tax

*Reducing government regulations

*School choice/vouchers and its impact on the business climate

These entrepreneurs understand the value of relationships and are seeking to forge relationships within the Republican Party where their opinions, experiences, and successes are valued and are welcomed.

If you are interested in learning more about our mission or want to support us financially, please click this link to leave your contact details and we will follow-up with you.

Thanks,  

Raynard Jackson  

Founder & Chairman  

Senator Tom Cotton and Representative French Hill are conducting a town hall meeting Monday 17 April 2017 in Little Rock, at the Embassy Suites Financial Center at 2:00 PM. I am calling on all Tea Party Members who can to be there to come and support Tom and French. The liberals are planning to disrupt the meeting as they did a few weeks ago in Northwest Arkansas. Lets be the majority this time and show the liberals that we support conservative values and leaders who want to make America Great Again!

Dignity and Fairness Matter for Every Child in the Locker Room

The American Civil Liberties Union recently noted in a blog post that “the burden of confronting and remedying injustice falls on the shoulders of the oppressed.”

There is some truth to this: The oppressed are powerful voices in any battle for justice. But when it comes to defending the most vulnerable among us—our children—it is chiefly the responsibility of parents, teachers, school administrators, and lawmakers to defend their rights.

Yet the ACLU, rather than seeking justice, fairness, and privacy for every child, has chosen to privilege a select few while utterly disregarding the privacy rights of millions of other young students across the country.

In the growing conversation taking place about what privacy means in intimate facilities, and whether one’s biological sex is a relevant factor to consider in boys’ and girls’ athletics, we’ve heard a lot from certain students who are working through very sensitive issues pertaining to their sex and gender identity.

And that is a good thing. Their voices matter in this conversation.

But substantially missing from this national conversation are the indispensable voices of the vast majority of children, and particularly girls. Ignoring their voices results in a failure to advance true equality and justice and violates children’s fundamental rights. Indeed, not one child’s privacy should be compromised.

And yet, young girls across the country—including in Illinois and Ohio, as just two examples—have been subjected to anxiety and humiliation when their school administrators secretly decided to open the schools’ locker rooms, restrooms, or showers to the opposite sex.

In Texas, 10-year-old Shiloh Satterfield recently described to the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee how uncomfortable and anxious she feels now that her school has changed its policies to let boys into the school’s intimate facilities.

Her parents join thousands of other parents understandably concerned about what this means—not only for their children when changing clothes for gym class or showering after a swim meet, but also for overnight school trips where their daughters could be forced to share a bed with a biological boy (or vice versa).

And take the young boy in Pennsylvania who is not even able to change for the school’s mandatory gym class because the school is forcing boys and girls to undress together and to try “to act as natural as possible” while doing so. The boy is receiving a failing grade for each class he is unable to change for.

Young girls and boys across the country are trying to be heard—to share their discomfort and embarrassment at the thought of having to undress with a member of the opposite sex, or their frustration that they will no longer be able to compete in a fair environment if their sports teams allow boys and girls to play together.

These voices are not coming from a place of fear or social dislike. I’ve witnessed the love these students have for their friends who consider themselves transgender, while simultaneously pleading for their own rights, dignity, and privacy to be protected.

Just last week, a 15-year-old boy who identifies as a girl competed in a Connecticut high school girls’ track meet and won the 100- and 200-meter dashes.

Even a quick glance at the pictures from the meet reveal that this young man, who now identifies as a woman, is still very much built as a male and is already significantly larger than his female peers.

As a woman who loved playing sports in high school, it’s obvious to me and many others that allowing biological males to compete with females is fundamentally unfair to girls who are physically different than high school boys.

Allowing boys, regardless of how they identify, to play on girls’ sports teams creates an unequal playing field for girls to compete and deprives them of a fair chance to qualify for—let alone win—athletic competitions.

Before the Civil Rights Act of 1972, women did not have the same athletic opportunities as men. In this emerging conversation, we cannot forget the ground women have gained for equal opportunities.

Permitting the definition of sex to be changed or ignored would undermine the very essence of what it means to be male and female, which is a particularly relevant factor when it comes to athletics.

This understanding of biological differences is precisely what led to the passage of federal laws that help ensure a fair playing field for women. And now, some in our society, ironically in the name of equality, are running roughshod over what women fought so hard to obtain.

Many would like to paint this as a one-sided story about one victim: the boy who thinks he’s a girl, or the girl who thinks she’s a boy. And these children absolutely deserve love, attention, and support.

But supporting and caring for them does not mean we should inflict injustice on other children. We owe every young person in America a better response—a compassionate and fair solution that ensures protection for every student’s privacy and well-being, such as the policy that Alliance Defending Freedom has recommended to schools since 2014.

This policy allows schools to respect student privacy by continuing to designate separate boys’ and girls’ showers, locker rooms, and restrooms while providing other facilities for any student uncomfortable with using areas that correspond to his or her biological sex.

Justice requires that we protect the privacy and dignity of every child. We as a society should pause before we tell some children that their voices and their privacy rights don’t matter. (For more from the author of “Dignity and Fairness Matter for Every Child in the Locker Room” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/04/dignity-fairness-matter-every-child-locker-room/

Another Obama Judge Poised To Tell Trump “No” – This Time On Sanctuary Cities

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Rick Wells in Domestic Issues, President Donald Trump // 6 Commen

Once again the leftists appear to have found themselves a “so-called judge” willing to play pretend president and usurp the authority of the executive branch. It’s not surprising and until and unless President Trump puts his foot down it’s going to continue to happen. The president will enforce the law and the outlaws of the opposition will simply find an Obama judge to wag his finger, nullifying the office of the President.

President Trump’s executive order blocking federal funding for “sanctuary cities” was subject to review in federal court Friday, in proceedings that had the ominous tone of a foregone conclusion in favor of the illegals and their enablers. The army of activist “so-called” judges is ready to advance and their next infantryman has taken his firing position. He’s U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick, a California liberal appointed by Hussein Obama, who began hearing arguments in the Northern District of California on Friday.

The lawsuit was filed by Santa Clara County and the City of San Francisco. The next step we’ve seen in this entirely predictable soap opera will be for a temporary restraining order to be issued followed by a temporary injunction and an overreaching declaration that it applies nationally to any sanctuary anything, anywhere in the country.  The dice will then be thrown in the 9th Circuit Court Casino.

Are Trump Supporters, Angry Americans, Supposed To Once Again Suck It Up And Accept Submissive Defeat?

The plaintiffs argued that they’ll be harmed by the executive order, with Orrick agreeing. That’s kind of the point, isn’t it, geniuses, to make them choose between financial hardship and compliance with the law? What’s the value of a penalty without hardship? Obama Boy Orrick, as if we needed an indicator of how this scripted charade was going to play out, then ruled that they do have the right to try to block the order. That means he sees himself as having a right to block it.

Asst. Attorney General Chad Readler told Orrick that DHS and Department of Justice would only withhold “certain” law enforcement grants to the cities and counties that don’t comply. He also stated, “We don’t know yet exactly how the policy is going to be applied. We don’t know whether there will be any enforcement action and what it will look like.”

Clearly no action has yet taken place, which means there is no injury and thus no standing for the plaintiffs. They’ll go the injunction or restraining order route in anticipation of “irreparable harm” which was more than enough for the libtards before him.

Reader repeated the government’s view that Trump’s order merely tries to enforce laws that are already on the books and threaten potential sanctions that were already in place before the new administration took office.

Why Go Looking For An Unnecessary Fight The Dems Are Positioned To Win By Involving The Judiciary?

Orrick then made an excellent point, asking, “What is this executive order about, then?” He’s right. Why not just withhold the funds using the existing laws and then let the municipalities sue to be included and challenge the laws of Congress instead of an executive order? Why go looking for trouble, to be denied “permission to do the job of the president?” Why do they insist on setting themselves up for failure? 

President Trump opposed the flood of refugees but they’re sure pouring in now, at higher than Obama levels. He folded his tent a little too quickly for a bulldog who “hates to lose.” We hate to lose too, Mr. President – and we’re counting on you to help us save our country. Be creative and less direct or obvious. Many things can be changed in the course of normal daily activities without announcing to them to the world. Your recent action in Syria, in theory, could be grounds to claim concerns over an increased terror threat from a particular faction or Syrian nationalists. The possibilities are limitless. 

The visa and refugee vetting standards could have been and still could be raised without issuing an executive order which provided the mechanism for the legal challenges to be advanced. So could the law have simply been enforced and those not in compliance been left to figure out on their own afterwards the reasons why they were excluded from the money distribution. As a real estate guy, Trump should be very familiar with the term “the checks in the mail.”

The conspiracy against the American People is every were! We the people need to clean house in our state, country, and communities

we the people need to put a end to this conspiracy!

Principles for a Free Society   

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 Bloomberg Targets Gun Rights Legislation 

Surprise, surprise — Michael Bloomberg is continuing his anti-Second Amendment crusade. The New York billionaire has announced that he will give $25 million in a targeted campaign to oppose the national reciprocity bill currently working its way through Congress. One of the anti-gun groups expected to receive most of the money is Everytown for Gun Safety — an ironic name given the fact that the group seeks to remove guns from law-abiding citizens, making them less able to defend themselves from violent criminals and therefore less safe.

          Everytown's president John Feinblatt said, "This is a line in the sand on this issue, there's no question about it." He continued, "The NRA wants to normalize carrying guns in public. It's not where the American public is. We're putting people on notice today that we're watching ... and that we expect to hold people accountable."

          Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), who introduced the bill, responded, "Common sense national concealed carry reciprocity is gaining traction across the country. Big city liberals like Bloomberg can spend all the money they want to create fear with emotion, but the truth and facts are on our side. Just like states recognizing other states' driver's licenses, national concealed carry reciprocity makes good sense."

          Bloomberg spends millions trying to convince people to believe fiction over fact. The truth is firearms don't cause or promote violent crime — in fact just the opposite, which has been proven time and again. The reality is that gangs and drugs are the leading factors for violent crime. Avoid those primary contributing associations and the chance of finding oneself a victim of a violent crime decrease significantly. If Bloomberg was so concerned about preventing violent crime, his money would be better spent on programs designed to combat the persistent problems of gangs and drugs, not a campaign to demonize gun ownership. 

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/digests/48519

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CIA Pompeo Targets WikiLeaks, Assange –

Cover, Prep For More Deep State Action?

by Rick Wells

{rickwells.us} ~ For those of us who didn’t know much about the current CIA Director, Mike Pompeo, his Thursday speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies should be enough to send shivers down the spines of freedom-loving Americans... This guy makes John Brennan look like Mr. Rogers or Captain Kangaroo. Pompeo attacked the organization that exposed not only large amounts of the corruption, much of it still un-investigated and ignored, within the liar-Clinton camp, but also the ability of the CIA to cloak their own domestic spying. That was how they deceived Congress into accepting their claims of various “foreign” sources of espionage acts and hacks. Put plainly, Assange revealed that the CIA can make any of their hacks look like the Russians or another country did it. Now they’re beating the war drum based upon that very Russian hacking claim, still not showing us the goods but repeating the assertions until they become accepted as “facts.” What seems to have Pompeo really upset is that Assange stole their plausible deniability and greatly diminishing their already limited credibility. We’re told liar-nObama didn’t spy on Americans, but those fake CIA Russians sure might have, eh boys?...Are we in for a big surprise?

http://rickwells.us/cia-director-pompeo-targets-wikileaks-assange-cover-prep-deep-state-action/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly0cveZuPN0

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Turkey's Vainglorious Referendum

by Daniel Pipes

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Japan Sends Warships With ‘Surprise’

For U.S. Fleet, Media Stunned

 

by theguardian.com

{theguardian.com} ~ Japanese destroyers are planning to rendezvous with the USS Carl Vinson and other American naval vessels on their way to the Korean Peninsula... signalling that Japan fully supports us in our effort to remove the despotic Kim Jong-un. There are no plans to engage with North Korea militarily, but the increased presence of warships surrounding their country is intended to dissuade North Korea from future nuclear or ballistic missile testing. President Trump is still expecting China to take the lead in eliminating the problem of North Korea...  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/12/japanese-warships-join-us-fleet-north-korea#img-1

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Will Christianity perish in its birthplace?
by Patrick J. Buchanan

{wnd.com} ~ “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)” Those are among Jesus’ last words on the Cross that first Good Friday.

It was a cry of agony, but not despair. The dying Christ, to rise again in three days, was repeating the first words of the 22nd Psalm.

And today, in lands where Christ lived and taught and beyond where the Christian faith was born and nourished, the words echo. For it is in the birthplace of Christianity that Christians face the greatest of persecutions and martyrdoms since the time of Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin.

President Donald Trump, outraged by pictures of infants and children who had perished in the nerve gas attack in Syria, ordered missile strikes on the air base from which the war crime came.

Two days later, Palm Sunday, 44 Coptic Christians celebrating Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem were martyred in terrorist attacks in Egypt. The first bombing was at St. George’s Church in Tanta, the second at St. Mark’s in Alexandria, where the Coptic Pope Tawadros II was at Mass.

The pope was unhurt, but 100 Christians were injured in the attacks. At St. George’s, one witness described the scene after the bomb exploded near the altar: “I saw pieces of body parts. … There was so much blood everywhere. Some people had half of their bodies missing.”

The Islamic State group claims credit for the murders, and the pictures of dead children from those churches were surely as horrific as the pictures the president saw after the gas attack.

Copts are among the earliest Christians, dating to the first century A.D., when St. Mark, one of the Twelve Apostles, established the first church outside the Holy Land and became bishop of Alexandria.

The Copts make up 10 percent of Egypt’s population. They have been especially targeted for terrorist attacks since the 2013 overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi, who had been elected president after the ouster of longtime U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak.

In the subsequent struggle between Egypt’s Islamists, whose base is in Sinai, and the Cairo regime of Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who was welcomed to the White House in March, the Copts are seen as soft-target allies of Gen. el-Sissi’s and hated for their faith.

Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

In Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, Christians were left alone if they did not interfere in politics. Indeed, they prospered as doctors, lawyers, journalists, academics, engineers, businessmen. A Christian, Tariq Aziz, was Saddam’s foreign minister who negotiated with Secretary of State James Baker to try to prevent what became the Gulf War.

Before 2003, there were still 800,000 Christians in Iraq. But after a decade of church bombings and murders of priests, their numbers have plummeted. When the Islamic State seized a third of Iraq, Christians under the group’s rule had to convert to Islam and pay a tax or face beheading.

On Dec. 26, St. Stephen’s Day, which honors the first martyr, Pope Francis hailed the Iraqi Christians lately liberated from Islamic State rule, noting, “They are our martyrs of today, and there are so many we can say that they are more numerous than in the first centuries.”

In 2016, an estimated 90,000 more Christians worldwide died for their faith.

Under Syria’s dictator Hafez al-Assad and son Bashar, Christians have been 10 percent of the population and protected by the regime. They thus have sided with Assad against the terrorists of the Islamic State and al-Qaida, whose victory would mean their expulsion or death.

Of the 10 nations deemed by Christianity Today to be the most hateful and hostile toward Christianity, eight are majority-Muslim nations, with the Middle East being the site of the worst of today’s persecutions.

Afghanistan, which we “liberated” in 2001, is listed as the third-most hostile nation toward Christians. The punishment for baptism there is death. A decade ago, a Christian convert had to flee his country to avoid beheading.

Consider. Christianity, whose greatest feast day we celebrate Sunday, is the cradle faith of the culture and the civilization of the West. And in our secularized world, Christianity remains the predominant faith.

A millennium ago, Christendom mounted crusades to ensure that its pilgrims would not lose the right to visit the Holy Land in peace.

Now, a decade and a half after we launched invasions and occupations of the Muslim world in Afghanistan and then Iraq to bring the blessings of democracy, the people there who profess that Christian faith are being persecuted as horribly as they were under the Romans in Nero’s time.

Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan – to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

Truth be told, it is in part because of us that Christianity is on its way to being exterminated in its cradle.

Happy Easter!

 

http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/will-christianity-perish-in-its-birthplace/