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The President Doesn't Get Islam Either. Or Does He?

Posted by Paul Derengowski on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:00:00 AM
The other day I wrote about a local radio personality who didn't get it when it came to Islam, and yesterday our President spoke at the memorial in Fort Hood as if he doesn't get it either.

After doing a nice job paying tribute to the 13 who were massacred by Malik Nidal Hasan last week, Mr. Obama made the following comment, "no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor. And for what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice - in this world, and in the next."

Really, Mr. Obama? "No faith justifies these murderous and craven acts"? What about Islam, Mr. President? You know, the religion that Mr. Hasan subscribes to, who murdered those 13 servicemen and women in cold blood. You see, Mr. President, not only does Islam justify such "murderous and craven acts," it actually condones and encourages them, particularly if such barbarism advances the perverseness of the religion itself.

In Reliance of the Traveller, which is viewed in the Muslim community as an authoritative text representing the scholarly views of Islam and Sharia Law, it tells us the following, which is nothing more than a quote from the Qur'an (9:29) and an objective of Jihad:
The caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (N: provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya, def: o11.4)—which is the significance of their paying it, not the money itself—while remaining in their ancestral religions) (O:and the war continues) until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax (O: in accordance with the word of Allah Most High,
"Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Days and who forbid not what Allah and His messenger have forbidden—who do not practice the religion of truth, being of those who have been given a Book—until they pay the poll tax out of hand and are humbled" (Koran 9:29).
And how is the Muslim supposed to fight, Mr. President? Well, when Muhammad was doing it, he cut the infidels hands and feet off, leaving many to simply die in the hot Middle Eastern sun. Others he beheaded, personally, if he wasn't commanding his dupes to do the same. We know from history that Muhammad raided and plundered innocent caravans on the trade routes between Mecca and Egypt, Palestine, and the Middle East, oftentimes securing women, children, and property as "booty."

There is something very much amiss here, Mr. President. Because I really don't think you're a stupid man. You say that no faith warrants what Hasan did, but you were raised in a Muslim-like family, and you can't seem to remember any of the above in your upbringing? It leaves to wonder that amid all the honorable words you spoke about those who lost their lives if you weren't in one of three separate states of mind when you were speaking. You were either, and still are, in a state of ignorance, a state of denial, or a state of deceit.

Now, as I said, I don't think you're stupid, so pleading ignorance in your case just will not fly. You've known about Sharia Law and the Qur'anic declarations and Fatwas against those who fight against or resist Islamic advances from your childhood. So, what was quoted above has been etched in your memory banks from long ago, and is only novel to those unfamiliar with Islamic thought. So, let's just set that one aside.

If you were in a state of denial as you spoke, then you're a fool, and you continue to play everyone else for a fool by denying that the fundamental tenets and ideology behind Islam are what real Islam is all about. The "radicals" are the ones in rebellion against the murderous and craven acts, not those, like Hasan, who actively carry them out. And the longer you act like a fool, and play others to be fools, the greater the numbers we'll continue to add to the casualty list. Who knows, if you're not careful, one of these idiots just might take you out sometime and we'll add you to the list.

If you were in a state of deceit, Mr. President, then shame on you. You're supposed to uphold the Constitution of the United States when these kinds of ideologies threaten the welfare of our country. Yet, by continuously and covertly covering for Islam, you are actually undermining the Constitution and paving the way for those intent on destroying it. Moreover, the eulogies that you uttered were not only a mockery, but praises of victory done under your breath, in which case you're a traitor as well.

I'm sorry, Mr. President, but since you're not ignorant, then the only conclusion I can draw is that you were either denying the reality of Islam or you were attempting to deceive all of us about it yesterday. And in my book, that is not what we need in a leader to guide our country. We need someone who is a realist and has the guts to not only recognize the enemy for what it is, but then to do something substantive about it. Conversely, we don't need someone using his mouth to speak great swelling words one moment, while his heart is far, far away from us as he speaks.

I've said it before, so let me reiterate it again. True Islam is a threat. It is a threat to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or the very things that we, as Americans, hold near and dear. If we don't wake up to that reality, and we keep letting people like Barak Obama lull us into either his state of denial or deceit, then Muhammad's true disciples (like Malik Nidal Hasan) are eventually going to be a position of control, and America will die as we know it.

There are several ways to circumvent the threat (I like what the Aussies have done by placing all the mosques under surveillance and then deporting the troublemakers), but sitting on our politically correct butts and opining about the wonders of multi-cuturalism and religious diversity will only lead to our demise. The choice is ours. What are you going to do about it?
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Obama: Prince of World Peace or Prelude to World War

Posted by Paul Derengowski on Friday, October 09, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Okay, let me see if I can get this straight. Last night I go to bed and the U.S. military needs an additional 40,000 troops in Afghanistan to fight the Islamic thugs, but the U.S. president can't make up his mind whether he wants to believe his general on the ground. The U.S. health care system is under assault by extreme left-wing socialists, also led by the same U.S. president, with a majority of the American populace sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to have the screws put to them. And finally, as already noted previously, youth violence is on the rise, and we have a U.S. president that is "committed" to ensuring that all the gang bangers and drug pushers receive a "powerful message" to make them quit it, otherwise he's going to tell on them.

Now, this morning, I wake up and this same U.S president, who has shown great prowess in campaigning and speech-making, but little to nothing of positive substance to actually do anything to be a leader, is a Nobel Peace Prize winner. What? Why? From one news source the U.S. president wins the grand booby prize for three reasons: "encourage his nascent initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and replace unilateral American action with international diplomacy and cooperation." So, what does this really mean?

Encourage his nascent initiatives to reduce nuclear arms really means nothing more than weaken the U.S. resolve when socialist regimes want to indiscriminately throw their weight around. That way we can all be one big happy world, with one big world government, while we all exalt the big wonderful world ruler. Who knows? maybe the Nobel Prize winner will be nominated for that too!

Ease tensions with the Muslim world merely means to kow-tow to Muslim demands. One doesn't want to make the militant Jihadist angry, because when he gets angry, he starts blowing things up. And we, in our ever-growing civilized, rational, and sensitive society of humanists and rationalists can't stoop to the level of actually meeting anger with strength. We must bow to the Jihadist wishes by holding a "dialogue" with him to try and understand him, and he us, as if the past 14 centuries of Islamic history, conquest, and tyranny haven't given anyone in their right mind a crystal clear picture of just exactly what the Muslim goal and mindset are all about.

Finally, "replace unilateral American action with international diplomacy and cooperation" simply means, we want you to forget 9-11, and quit acting on your own. Again, you're not a sovereign nation anymore. And just because the U.S. was attacked on its own soil that tragic day, and lost over 3,000 citizens through the attack, doesn't mean that the U.S. should defend itself without world permission. We realize that as an international community, we don't have the guts to really get involved and solve anything, but that doesn't mean the the U.S. should even try on its own either.

This whole Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Barack Obama is a joke, is meaningless, and is typical of the blithering nonsense that has become a part of modern-day parlance. In fact, I would say it is indicative of the intellectual, moral, and spiritual vacuity that has become characteristic of the human soul that has gone seriously awry. Humanity has become so desperate to find meaning and answers to an otherwise meaningless existence that it will prop up any idol and then bow down to it, regardless of who it is. One has to wonder just how much more desperate the world will become before it starts to laud the savior Obama, not just as U.S president, nor as the Prince of Peace, but as Almighty God himself.

Clearly we are living in dangerous times. Not just because a few one-world elitists want to honor an empty suit with a meaningless award; not because the Muslims wants to dominate the world through militant Jihad; and certainly not because a bunch of socialist ideologues want to strip the U.S. of its sovereign identity. We're living in dangerous times because many know what is right, but don't have the mental acumen, spiritual conviction, or moral backbone to stand up and defend what is right. Shame on us for we are getting exactly what our ignorance, shallowness, and cowardice have bought us. We have sown the wind, and now we're reaping the whirlwind. With Obama now seen as the exalted man of world peace, one has to wonder if we're not on the precipice of world war. But, then maybe that will be the not-so-surprising surprise that I'll wake up to tomorrow morning.
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Political Non-Response Reflects "American Problem"

Posted by Paul Derengowski on Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Okay, so one day after the hubbub over the angry students in America, which started by spotlighting the death of the Chicago High School student last week, comes to the stage a couple of Washington politicians to give us their two cents worth on how much the government cares.  All of the sudden I'm feeling so much better.  But, isn't that what liberal government is all about?  Making one feel better, even though the feeling lacks in substance?  Taming our children by those who are a contributing factor to their anger in the first place just makes sense, doesn't it?  Hardly.

Apparently Obama and friends could not resist the temptation to let everyone know that youth violence was an "American Problem," and not just a Chicago problem.  As if that is really some kind of profound revelation, given that since the federal government kicked God out of the schools years ago and introduced its own religious ideals based on secular humanistic values.  Of course violence among youth is an "American Problem."  What is one to expect?  Besides, if we keep on traversing the same self-refuting humanistic trek, it will be another country's problem, because there will not be an America left.  Nevertheless, I digress.

Eric Holder, one of Obama's henchmen (U.S. Attorney General) told everyone at a cameo gathering, the president is "firmly committed to this issue."  That there will be a "sustained national effort" to address youth violence.  Great!  Excellent!  Wonderful!  And what exactly does that mean in the real world?  Absolutely nothing.  Why?  Because for any kind of resolution to take place involves a self-admittance that federal government was wrong in its policies to begin with which helped to foster a climate of youth violence.  

It was wrong to secularize our schools, while denying the religious heritage upon which they were founded.  It was wrong to bow to the self-refuting minority who whined about having their juvenile delinquents spanked in school.  It was wrong to revise curriculum which robbed students of the opportunity to develop not only intellectual acuity, but practical vocational skills to be used in the workforce.  The list is virtually endless of what the "caring" government and liberally-minded elite will have to admit to, if they are "firmly committed" to resolving youth violence.  Yet, admission, confession, and repentance are not in those types of people's vocabulary, so we may rest assure that more children will be taking out their aggression on whoever happens to get in the way at any given moment.

"Their presence here today sends a very powerful message to the gang bangers and dope dealers that we will not tolerate their violent way of life,” said Chicago mayor, Richard Daly. “We look forward to working more closely with the federal government to protect all of our children."  And just what "very power message" was sent to the gang bangers and dope dealers?  "Now, little Johnny, put down that board.  Just because you're an animal, and we've taught you that you're life amounts to zero, it doesn't mean that you have to kill that ________ (you fill in the blank: teacher, school administrator, fellow student, police officer, parent, etc.)."  And when little Johnny asks why not?, and the best response is, "Because Obama is committed," then the victim's relatives can start searching for a casket to bury their loved one, while the gang banger offers a "very powerful" laugh at Mr. Daly's and Mr. Obama's "very powerful message."

As noted before, until America returns to a biblically based worldview, where there is an objective reason to educate the youth to be better humans, challenge the youth to strive for excellence, and assure the youth that there is more life than merely repeating the same pointless repetitions that their parents and many adults have adopted to rationalize their otherwise empty selves, then the Obamas, Holders, and Dalys can pontificate all they want about just how much they're committed or how much they care, and the youth are going to keep right on doing drugs, having illicit sex, and killing each other.  

In the words, the children are going to keep on living out the contradictory, vacuous, and meaningless words and intentions of those who say they care, but don't have the guts to really admit that they don't, nor have an objective reason to.  Who knows?  Maybe by this same time next year we'll have 75% of our kids assaulted, molested, or murdered, instead of just 60%.
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Overcoming Obama

Posted by Paul Derengowski on Sunday, March 29, 2009 4:23:00 PM

Recently someone asked me to do some digging around on Barak Obama, and then provide a possible solution to "stop" not only him, but also those who are under his leadership. The more I thought about the request, the more I came to the conclusion that Barak Obama is not the problem, nor are his sycophant drones. The problem is the U.S. mentality toward the truth, and Barak Obama and company are merely the symptoms of what is truly wrong with us. In other words, the United States has spent so many years thumbing its nose at God, that now God is giving her the fruit of her ingratitude in the form of guys like Barak Obama, George Bush, and Bill Clinton. And until that hard-heartedness changes, we will continue to see a continuous self-destruction of the country. "The wicked will be turned into Hell, even all the nations who forget God" (Ps. 9:17), and we're seeing the reality of that with each passing day.

You see, we have become a nation of liars and cheats, as is evidenced by the mortgage debacle and paying $4.00+ a gallon for gasoline. We have lost our moral conscience when it comes to doing what is right, and instead we do what is expedient, as is evidenced by the number of abortions and out-of-wedlock pregnancies produced every year. We've become convinced that ours colleges and universities are the panaceas of our intellectual and skill-related problems, when the reality is they are infested with self-refuting atheist-type thinkers that are training our children to be as godless, self-centered, and irrational as they are. Many of us do not have a clue who our neighbor is, let alone do we love them, so we shirk our responsibility to care for one another by passing them off to "the government" should they ever have a need. Our families are in shambles because moms and dads would rather be their children's best "friends," rather than responsible guardians and parents of their welfare that can offer sound judgment, even if that means saying "No,"  in times of decision. The list is virtually endless as to just how morally backward our country has become.

Spiritually speaking the idea of being a Christian has been rendered meaningless, not by the secular world, but by both the Christians and so-called "Christians." Many of the former have lost their courage to stand up and "say so" from a biblical perspective (Ps. 107:2), and instead have become reliant on the "social conservatives" like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mike Gallagher, et cetera, to do their thinking and speaking for them, when those same "conservatives" have probably not darkened the door of a real Christian church in years, if ever. Political idolatry has replaced any resemblance of a Christian apologetic as the representative of "Christian thought," so instead of providing solid, irrefutable solutions that convict the sinner and glorify God, we get tenuous, and often self-refuting, additions to the problem that glorify the talking head, while he plays the petty profiteering pitchman selling his next bottle of elixir to help pay his fare.

The latter (so-called Christians) act like non-Christians, they talk like non-Christians, they think like non-Christians, but they sure like wearing the label of being a "Christian," since it makes them "feel" good. In actuality, though, they're "spiritual" atheists, as they make up their own eclectic blend of paganistic practice and faulty beliefs, and then because they're so "tolerant" and "loving," they believe that must be what Christianity is all about, since Jesus was nothing but tolerant and loving too. Little do they realize that Jesus made the "intolerant" statement that he was the way, the truth, and the life, and that no man could go to the Father except through him (Jn. 14:6). But, with a so-called "Christian," who cares what Jesus said? Remember, feelings trump revelation, and surely God never said what he really did. Did he (cf. Gen. 3:1)?

Therefore, there is really no need to even worry about Obama given our present mindset. In fact, it would be totally contradictory to both biblical principle and our nation's current worldview, which is rooted in relativistic thought, to complain about anything. Romans 13:1-5 tells us that everyone should be subject to the government, since the government is of God. Daniel 2:21 also reminds us that God is the one who sets up and takes down kings.  Besides, we asked for Obama by our lackadaisical thinking and actions, and God gave him to us. And to fight against that is to not only fight against God; it is to want our cake and eat it too.

Now, if in the future we want to see a return to righteous living and thinking, where people accept personal responsibility for their actions, then we're going to have to repent. Christians are going to have to start doing what they're supposed to be doing, and not just piddling around with whatever the latest entertainment fad is at any given moment that titillates their emotions, and they want to call it "worship." They're going to have to quit lying to each other, as well as about each other, which is tantamount to slander. They're going to have to get back to the Bible as the ultimate source of comprehending knowledge, and quit letting the frauds, phonies, and flakes hoodwink them into thinking otherwise. They're going to have to take back the educational systems, and root out the self-centered, irrational idiots who might be able to teach our children that 2+2=4, but have no clue as to why it is ultimately so. Above all, Christians are going to have to give up their political idolatries, and quit letting misguided, hypocritical talk-show nerds pollute their minds with godless analysis and advice that is no better than what they would receive from those that the nerds are attacking in the first place on a daily basis. Then, and only then, will the Obama's be "overcome," and our country return to a greatness that only God Almighty could have created—or the same God we've chosen to shamefully forget, as we selfishly gripe and complain about how terrible things have become amid our ignorance of the truth.

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