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Added: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 4:29 (BST)
Hail Gayle!
Saint Gayle!
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!" Rev 12:10-12.
Amen.
ong siong kai, Jakarta, Indonesia
Added: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 22:40 (BST)
People will say that this is the action of one small aberrant fanatical group of Muslims, who have an 'extreme' view of Islam, a so-called religion of 'peace'. Let's have a little look at that, as demonstrated over the last 60 years;
1946 - State of Israel established and sanctioned by the UN
1948-1975 - Six Arab nations attack, to push Israel into the sea
- Six Day War - Arab loss
- Palestinian - Israeli war, from 1960 to present, various raids
and incidents against Israel - Arab setbacks and losses
- Six-Day War - Arab loss
- War of Attrition - Arab loss
- Yom Kippur (Ramadan) War - Sneak attack by Arab nations-
they lose
- Various raids, incursions and conflicts by Israel in retaliation
to Arabic provocations, and intifadas (1987-1993)
- 1984-200 - Israeli Ocupation of South Lebanon, due to
Hezbollah and other Arabic militia provocations
1991 - Second Persian War, Iraq launches Scud missiles against
Israel after Saddam, losing against The Allies, calls for Jihad -
Saddam loses
2000- 2007- The "Al-Aqsa" Intifada, via Hamas and similar groups against
Israel, also, the Second Lebanon War, reaction against
random and frequent rocket and suicide bomb attacks against
innocent Israel and Arab non-combatant civilians, the
kidnapping and deaths of Iraeli soldiers, and, in Iraq, the
same against Western 'Christians', and one Jew, Daniel
Pearl, with public beheadings on YouTube - Arab losses and
setbacks.
The list could go on, and Arabic/Muslim apologists will, no doubt, cite a number of Israel/Western atrocities that provoke Muslims and Islam. Yasser Arafat deliberately kept Palestinian Arabs in penury, all the while accepting Western aid and salting off much of the money into his private Swiss bank accounts - this is on the records, folks!
Perhaps. But, Israel has won ALL of the major offensive against them, in miraculous ways, and continuse to be a successful and prosperous nation. This is because God is kept His promises to Israel, and continues to do so. This in the face of Amadinjead's present rhetoric against Israel - incidentally, his country (Iran) is collapsing economically violently, worse than in the West, but little reported by the International Media, and cosying up to Russia (Gog) - about utterly destroying them, and killing every Jew, and inferring the same against Christians!
This latest incident in Afghanistan was just an exercise in terror, against a defenseless white woman, an aid worker for a charity that helps disabled Muslims, a Christian woman who demonstrated the love of Jesus in practical ways, not proslytising openly, as she was told not to (but obviously being honest in answers to questions), being killed for her ORGANISATION, SERVE Afghanistan, (Taliban Spokesman) preaching Christianity openly, in a safe area of Afghanistan! And then justifying their actions through Islam. The Taliban is controlled by demons, and we battle against spiritual powers, and not just flesh and blood. They won't be beaten until the spiritual strongholds come down!
However, why are Christian charities, and Western governments, sending aid to Muslim countries?
Two reasons:
1) Islam teaches that they should help the poor, the needy, the sick, widows, orphans, ect., but, in practice, leaves them to it, even punishes them for the slightest infraction, especially women!
2) Islamic nations, even the oil-rich ones, manipulate the guilt-ridden West for aid whenever anything catastrophic happens to them, as they don't want to help their own people, even if they are the 'right' sort of Muslims, as it is the 'will of Al-lah'!! (This last goes for the above reason, in spades!!)
All Muslims are taught from birth to hate Jews and Christians and they are also taught to feign 'affection' towards them, until they can convert them,either by persuasion or by force, usually the latter. It is in their history, and in the Qu'ran and Hadith. Ex- Muslim Christians have given witness to this, and have fatwahs against them for being apostate, but they know the deep assurance of true salvation, and are desperate for their fellow Muslims to know the truth of that! Check ourt arabsfor israel.com, or anything by Walid Shoebat.
Christians need to wake up to the truth abut the Islamic system and pray against the demonic forces that run it, and the satanic lies of PC-ness and accusations of instituionalised racism that comes from speaking that truth out!
Chris Maguire, Ventnor, IOW, UK
Added: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 12:35 (BST)
I am thankful for Gayle Williams, 34, dead from Taliban bullets. Why did they have to kill her, who loved and served the disabled?
I am not thankful she is dead. I am thankful she kept loving likeJesus Christ loved, who died on the cross for every Taliban fighter.
May God touch many Taliban youth, now training to kill again. The Apostle Paul was changed by God's love.
We need to read the Koran and study Taliban history to know how to talk to them. The Bible tells us Jesus loved his enemies
and we should love like Gayle Williams loved the Afghan special needs people. Bob Durham, October 21, 2008 USA
Bob Durham, Abington PA USA
