ANSAmed, October 2 (thanks to Insubria) Salman Rushdie usually demonstrates that he doesn't really have any clue about why he is under an ongoing death fatwa, but in this he…
Dear friends and family in Christ, For your ongoing prayerful interest in changing the terrible abortion laws in Victoria and across Australia, we’re forwarding the following email from Salt Shakers…
Dear family & friends in Christ,
1) The weekend gone by was one of so much activity at Catch the Fire Ministries and Rise Up Australia for the Kingdom of God!
Starting on Friday night, with only 24 hours’ notice, a bunch of faithful prayer warriors gathered at the steps of the Victorian State Parliament to pray and light candles in remembrance of those who lost their loved ones 10 years ago in Bali.
It was raining as we were driving to the Victorian State Parliament in Melbourne city. We started praying and the rain stopped just 15 min before the meeting started! We thank God that we were able to pray for our city of Melbourne and nation of Australia, right on the steps of Parliament. Many passing by tooted their horns in support, while others put their windows down and gave us the thumbs up. Some even joined the service.
Many were greatly impacted as they read the signs we held and saw us waving Australian flags and praying for our nation. We also prayed for the culture of violence to stop in our cities, for protection over our nation and for God’s peace to prevail. One police officer on duty commented, “It is so nice to see a group genuinely caring for our nation and praying for us.”
2) The first AGM of Rise Up Australia Party was held in Melbourne on Saturday the 13 of Oct. The RUA Party National Executive was very encouraged with the number of people who
turned up for the meeting. The meeting went very well with RUAP members attending from across the country.
The National President Daniel Nalliah addressed the gathering and challenged the people to rise up to take a stand to protect Australia and ‘Keep it Australian’. He also re-enforced the vision, emphasising that the task ahead of us is very challenging, but by God’s grace Rise Up Australia Party will fight to ‘Keep Australia Australian!’
He spoke very passionately and boldly about the importance of protecting our Judeo-Christian Heritage, and ‘Keeping Australia Australian’ for generations to come, so that our sons & daughters can enjoy the freedoms we have. He also spoke out very strongly against Islamic Sharia Law and Multiculturalism. His speech was received with much applause and shouts of support by those present.
Following the National President’s speech, the four State Presidents for Vic, WA, Tas & QLD addressed the gathering. They too spoke with great passion and love for Australia, re-enforcing their commitment to ‘Keep Australia Australian!’
Posted by Daniel Greenfield Bio ? on Sep 27th, 2012
According to the Victorial Police Commissioner...
Sudanese and Somali-born Victorians are about five times more likely to commit crimes than the wider community, a trend that must be addressed to prevent Cronulla-style social unrest, police warn. The most common crimes committed by Somali and Sudanese-born Victorians are assault and robbery illustrating the trend towards increasingly violent robberies by disaffected African youths.
Are they mugging Australians because they are “disaffected” or because they make money that way?
‘Property is one of the issues, so they’re stealing iPhones or money or things of value,” Mr Cartwright said.
Dear Family and Friends in Christ, 1) This Sunday 7th October and also next Sunday 14th October Pr Daniel will be ministering at both the 9.30am & 6.30pm services at…
By Robert Spencer – PJ Media
In PJ Media this morning I discuss how Obama is now enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws on American troops:
A bipartisan group of six senators recently wrote to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, asking that he free Rimsha Masih, the eleven-year-old girl who was being held on blasphemy charges and is still under serious threat of mob violence and resumed prosecution even though she has been released on bail. The letter is a welcome indication that the world is finally noticing Pakistan’s blasphemy laws — but working at cross purposes with those who are trying to get Pakistan to scrap these laws is none other than Barack Obama, who is now doing nothing less than effectively enforcing them upon the U.S. military. The senators wrote to the wrong President.
Rimsha reportedly has Down syndrome, yet was charged with blasphemy for allegedly burning some pages of the Qur’an among some trash she had collected. Even worse, a Muslim cleric has now been accused of planting the pages of the Qur’an among the remnants of the papers she burned, so as to ensure her conviction. According to Pakistan’s Dawn, a witness “said he tried to stop the cleric from tampering with the evidence, but he insisted it would strengthen the case and lead to eviction of the girl’s family from the locality.”
Posted by Daniel Greenfield Bio ? on Sep 12th, 2012
Brotherhood secretary-general Mahmoud Hussein called for a “peaceful protest to condemn insults to religious convictions and insults to the Prophet”, adding it would start after noon prayers on Friday in front of main mosques across Egypt.
Right… peaceful. Morsi did not condemn the attacks and his government failed to provide proper protection even though a similar attack had been launched against the Israeli embassy.
The Egyptian media has been stoking the flames of this conflict and Morsi recently took control of the media and appointed Muslim Brotherhood loyalists to head state-owned media outlets. That means there is a high probability that the Muslim Brotherhood directed this attack or at the very least used propaganda to set it in motion.
Obama is handing a cool billion to Morsi, but the Muslim Brotherhood is still conducting protests against America. The Arabic Muslim Brotherhood site contains a call from the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood calls for “official and popular levels of action to stop this crime against Islam.” While the English Ikhwan site has put up a condemnation of the Benghazi attack, no such condemnation exists on the Arabic Ikhwan site.
AAP • 17/09/2012
The same-sex marriage debate has a personal dimension for Labor Senator Louise Pratt, who has a transgender partner.
An emotional Senator Pratt has told the Senate the law as it stands discriminates against her relationship and those of many other Australians.
“I am one of those hundreds of thousands of Australian citizens who knows that the laws of our nation hold our capacity for love and for commitment to be lesser because of the gender of our partner,” she said on Monday.
“One of hundreds of thousands of Australian citizens who knows that the laws of our nation say we are less deserving of rights, respect and recognition.
“We know that those ideas are not true and that the laws that reinforce them are not right.
“This debate has a personal impact for me.”
Published by Christian Concern – September 17th, 2012
A District Judge, sitting at Brighton Magistrates’ Court announced today that all charges were being dismissed against Christian pro-life campaigner Andy Stephenson. The case against his fellow campaigner, Kathryn Sloane, was dismissed on Thursday of last week (13 Sep) during the same trial.
All charges against both campaigners have therefore now been dismissed. District Judge Nicholson’s reasoning in the case is expected at 2pm tomorrow (18 Sep).
Andy and Kathryn were supported by the Christian Legal Centre and were represented in Court by human rights barrister Paul Diamond and Mr Michael Phillips.
Andy and Kathryn, members of the campaign group Abort67, were arrested in June 2011, whilst demonstrating silently in the vicinity of Wistons Clinic, operated by leading abortion provider BPAS, in Brighton. As part of its public education project, the group, which has held peaceful protests outside the establishment for 5 years, displays images of aborted babies but does so silently and without harassment.
Charisma News 9/17/2012- David Brody /CBN News Chief Political Correspondent
GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says the Obama administration’s actions toward Israel border on “contempt.”
It was just one of several criticisms the Wisconsin representative had regarding President Obama’s foreign policy record.
The minute Ryan came onto the scene, conservatives couldn’t get enough of him, heaping praise on their fresh, 42-year-old idea man.
All the energy and rave reviews, however, have not translated into a lead in the polls against the president—at least not yet.
“Why do you think he’s still leading at the polls at this point?” CBN News’s David Brody asked Ryan.
By Alex Murashko , Christian Post Reporter – September 8, 2012
Political analysts tracking the mood of minority groups such as African Americans and Latinos, especially those within the church community, say the Democrats did themselves no favor when it came to matters of faith during the national convention.
Black and Latino Christians have been put in a difficult position over the DNC platform, according to several stories posted at BCNN1.com, an online site “dedicated to reporting breaking news from a black, Christian perspective for the glory of God.”
The news site, also found online at blackchristiannews.com has pooled news from other media showing that some Christian leaders in minority communities are not too happy with the apparent “progressive shift” to a more secular Democratic Party.
“My message is this could cost us our election,” said Fernando Cabrera, a New York pastor and a city council member from the Bronx. “I see myself as a reformer, and I’m hoping that we can put enough pressure (on the party).
And as you know one of the biggest issues is gay marriage.”
Dear family & friends in Christ,God moved mightily at every service and many were powerfully touched as they opened their hearts to the Holy Spirit, and hundreds of people gathered at the meetings. On sunday morning the church was packed, and then following the service was a wedding in the church, in which many people who normally do not go to church, were mightily impacted by the Word and presence of God. Pr Daniel prayed for many people who received a powerful touch from our mighty King Jesus.’
Pr Daniel also spoke about Rise Up Australia Party and challenged the people to stand up for their nation, and keep Australia Australian. The people responded with much excitment and many signed up to join the party membership. Some were also willing to stand as candidates in the Newcastle area in the next federal election.Pr Daniel stated, ” I am so hapy to see the response from the people. Particularly on Sunday morning many who normally do not go to church were at the service and many of them too signed up and took membership. This was very encouraging”.
Posted by Joseph Klein Bio ? on Aug 28th, 2012
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon succumbed to pressure from Iran and its anti-American allies by deciding to attend a summit meeting in Tehran later this week of the 120-member “Non-Aligned Movement.” Iran is heralding Ban Ki-moon’s visit to Tehran as proof positive of its unbowed diplomatic prowess. Israel and the United States tried to dissuade Ban Ki-moon from attending, but to no avail.
“The extraordinary effort that the Iranian leaders have put into the summit is intended to showcase Iran’s global role and offer concrete evidence that the U.S. policy of isolating Iran has failed,” said Farideh Farhi, an independent Iranian scholar at the University of Hawaii, as quoted by the New York Times.
In an extraordinary display of naiveté, Ban believes that he can use his visit to persuade Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to heed the international community’s concerns about Iran’s behavior in a number of key areas. The Secretary General’s spokesman Martin Nesirky said that Ban expects “meaningful and fruitful discussions” during which he intends to raise directly with his hosts the issues of Iran’s nuclear program, its support for Syrian President Assad’s crackdown, its own human rights violations and its repeated calls for the destruction of Israel. Ban is “fully aware of the sensitivities” of the visit, the spokesman claimed, but not going “would be a missed opportunity.”
Telegraph.co.uk 04 Sep 2012 By Rob Crilly, Islamabad
Pakistan’s only Christian Cabinet member has urged a rethink of how the country deals with blasphemy cases to prevent a repeat of the scandal involving a young girl with learning difficulties.
Paul Bhatti gave up a comfortable life as a surgeon in Italy to join the government earlier this year following the assassination of his brother, Shahbaz, who campaigned for reform of the controversial law.
Today he heads the Ministry of National Harmony, one of the most dangerous jobs in the country as he navigates Pakistan’s religious and ethnic divides.
Choosing his words carefully, for fear they could be twisted to present him as an opponent of Islam, he said the case of Rimsha Masih, an 11-year-old girl who has spent two weeks on remand, showed the law was being abused.
“I don’t think we have to reform the law itself,” he told The Daily Telegraph in his heavily guarded office. “But we have to stop its misuse. (more…)
Nine MSN News 20/09/12
One of the key organisers of an Islamic rally to be held in Melbourne on Sunday has cancelled the protest amid police concerns it will be overrun by violent activists.
Swaybah Javed, who had helped invite more than 1800 people through social networking to a rally outside the city’s State Library, says she’s been forced to scrap the event.
“I am calling off the protest as I do not want more violence on the streets, as Islam does not promote violence,” she told AAP on Thursday.
“It is a shameful day for Australia when Islamophobia has boiled over to the point where it is impossible to carry out a peaceful protest.”
Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Tim Cartwright had already started planning for the worst on Sunday, putting mounted police and heavily armed police on alert and warning that those planning the rally were not representatives of the Islamic community.