Fat Tom gets a Fatwaaaaaaa???????
(On the penguin meter this post is probably a zero. If you don't have kids, you may not have seen The Wild so you may not recognize the reference. I know most of you prefer the "cute and cuddly" posts, but...)
"God is great" isn't exactly something that should send you scrambling for cover. In fact, when said in English, it might even get a resounding, "Amen!" If said in Arabic, it sounds like this: "Allahu Akbar" and can be found in many different places. For example, it is written 22 times on the flag of Iran. It might mean you are going to have a really fresh lunch as it is said before animals are slaughtered. Heck, it could even mean you just witnessed childbirth because those are the first words whispered into the ears of a Muslim's baby. However, If you ever do hear these words, I'd suggest being safe and hitting the deck because it was the last words 13 people in Fort Hood heard, as well as the last words many of the victims on the planes on 9/11 heard, and the last words the victim of the London Tube bombing heard. Allahu Akbar! Gesundheit!
I was reading my local newspaper the day after the Fort Hood tragedy last week, and noticed something peculiarly absent. It wrote all about the good Muslim that did what many of the Imams (equivalent to a pastor in Christianity) have praised since the attack, but it left out one minor detail: the fact that he was a Muslim. Why rush to judgment? I'm sure his religion had nothing to do with it. We have a really strange reaction to Islam in the United States: we are either afraid of it, ignore it in hopes that it will go away, or are so concerned about being politically correct that we cannot call it what it is. Islam is an ideology that is going to destroy us while we sit around waiting for the next celebrity gossip magazine to tell us who is now sleeping with who.
What's to be afraid of right? So they want to kill people if they don't like their cartoons, big deal right? So you could get a fatwa issued on your life? Heck, you could go hang with Salman Rushdie at that point. This was apparently enough to stop the director of the new movie 2012 from including the destruction of the Kaaba which is one of Islam's holy sites. Sure in that same movie the statue of Jesus was destroyed, the Vatican obliterated, even some Buddhist monks are killed, and nobody rioted or threatened the director's life. However, mess with the very "peaceful" religion of Islam, and pay with your life. Allahu Akbar!
We are fighting a war on terror abroad. Yet when the terrorists can join our military, get trained in our flight schools, and live right next door to us, it gets a little tough to win. Apparently our security is getting tighter these days though as the awareness increases. I sure hope so. Did you know that one of the terrorists that flew a plane into the Twin Towers was granted his green card. The scary part about this is that it was physically mailed to his address six months after 9/11.
Did you know that this past Sunday was the International day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church? You may or may not have known that because your church may or may not have talked about it. Even if it did, if you are a Christian in the US, you may or may not have even gone to church because ______ (insert lame excuse here: it was too sunny, too wet, too long, too boring, etc.). Well, thank God, the rest of the world isn't so humdrum about their salvation. In fact, if it was an average Sunday, over 1000 Christians were killed because of their faith in Jesus while we skipped the service we take for granted in the U.S. In the past twelve months, more Christians were killed because of their faith than any other time in history. Today, being a Christian means persecution including the threat of death in 60 different countries. Not surprisingly, Islam is the main religion of choice in most of those countries. I know this is being published after the International day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, but it isn't too late to pray. Please do it now...okay...well at least do it after you find out who Paris Hilton is sleeping with.
"God is great" isn't exactly something that should send you scrambling for cover. In fact, when said in English, it might even get a resounding, "Amen!" If said in Arabic, it sounds like this: "Allahu Akbar" and can be found in many different places. For example, it is written 22 times on the flag of Iran. It might mean you are going to have a really fresh lunch as it is said before animals are slaughtered. Heck, it could even mean you just witnessed childbirth because those are the first words whispered into the ears of a Muslim's baby. However, If you ever do hear these words, I'd suggest being safe and hitting the deck because it was the last words 13 people in Fort Hood heard, as well as the last words many of the victims on the planes on 9/11 heard, and the last words the victim of the London Tube bombing heard. Allahu Akbar! Gesundheit!
I was reading my local newspaper the day after the Fort Hood tragedy last week, and noticed something peculiarly absent. It wrote all about the good Muslim that did what many of the Imams (equivalent to a pastor in Christianity) have praised since the attack, but it left out one minor detail: the fact that he was a Muslim. Why rush to judgment? I'm sure his religion had nothing to do with it. We have a really strange reaction to Islam in the United States: we are either afraid of it, ignore it in hopes that it will go away, or are so concerned about being politically correct that we cannot call it what it is. Islam is an ideology that is going to destroy us while we sit around waiting for the next celebrity gossip magazine to tell us who is now sleeping with who.
What's to be afraid of right? So they want to kill people if they don't like their cartoons, big deal right? So you could get a fatwa issued on your life? Heck, you could go hang with Salman Rushdie at that point. This was apparently enough to stop the director of the new movie 2012 from including the destruction of the Kaaba which is one of Islam's holy sites. Sure in that same movie the statue of Jesus was destroyed, the Vatican obliterated, even some Buddhist monks are killed, and nobody rioted or threatened the director's life. However, mess with the very "peaceful" religion of Islam, and pay with your life. Allahu Akbar!
We are fighting a war on terror abroad. Yet when the terrorists can join our military, get trained in our flight schools, and live right next door to us, it gets a little tough to win. Apparently our security is getting tighter these days though as the awareness increases. I sure hope so. Did you know that one of the terrorists that flew a plane into the Twin Towers was granted his green card. The scary part about this is that it was physically mailed to his address six months after 9/11.
Did you know that this past Sunday was the International day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church? You may or may not have known that because your church may or may not have talked about it. Even if it did, if you are a Christian in the US, you may or may not have even gone to church because ______ (insert lame excuse here: it was too sunny, too wet, too long, too boring, etc.). Well, thank God, the rest of the world isn't so humdrum about their salvation. In fact, if it was an average Sunday, over 1000 Christians were killed because of their faith in Jesus while we skipped the service we take for granted in the U.S. In the past twelve months, more Christians were killed because of their faith than any other time in history. Today, being a Christian means persecution including the threat of death in 60 different countries. Not surprisingly, Islam is the main religion of choice in most of those countries. I know this is being published after the International day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, but it isn't too late to pray. Please do it now...okay...well at least do it after you find out who Paris Hilton is sleeping with.
Posted by Fat Tom at 11/9/2009 8:10 PM 
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Tags: Islam Allahu Akbar International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church Fatwaa
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: Islam Allahu Akbar International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church Fatwaa
God makes kings and He destroys kings. I am praying that he has allowed our present king so America will wake up, pray, and remember. Thank you for stirring my prayers and thoughts.
Rhonda
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I was talking to my husband about my frustrations with the reporting of the Ft. Hood tragedy. Everyone is so quick to rush to judgement, not of the crazy that committed the crime, but "how could we have missed this?" We didn't miss it...he was investigated for "research" he was doing, but the investigators concluded that his research was justified based on his job. I would guess that conclusion was arrived at because the investigators didn't want to judge this person based on his religious beliefs, because that would not be the politically correct thing to do.
The same people who holler and scream at the top of their lungs that we must not stereotype people and judge them for their religion stand in judgment after the fact because they just can't understand how we could have missed something so obvious. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS!
I think the reason GW was so reviled is that he took a stand and said, look, some people hate us because of who we are and what we stand for. I will not tolerate that.
Everyone in the US really enjoys our freedom, safety and security. But I think we fail to realize those things come at a price. That price may be that we take a harder look at people and groups we know for a fact hate us.
I for one am tired of the price being unwitting victims right here on our own soil.
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