This may very well be coming soon to your neighborhood!
PARIS – Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force. This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene. It shows that even though some in the French government want to get tough with Muslims and ban the burqa, other parts of the French government continue to give Islam a privileged status. An ordinary French citizen who has been watching the Islamization of Paris decided that the world needed to see what was happening to his city. He used a hidden camera to start posting videos on YouTube. His life has been threatened and so he uses the alias of “Maxime Lepante. ” Lepante’s View His camera shows that Muslims “are blocking the streets with barriers. They are praying on the ground. And the inhabitants of this district cannot leave their homes, nor go into their homes during those prayers.” “The Muslims taking over those streets do not have any authorization. They do not go to the police headquarters, so it’s completely illegal,” he says. The Muslims in the street have been granted unofficial rights that no Christian group is likely to get under France’s Laicite’, or secularism law. “It says people have the right to share any belief they want, any religion,” Lepante explained. “But they have to practice at home or in the mosque, synagogues, churches and so on.” Some say Muslims must pray in the street because they need a larger mosque. But Lepante has observed cars coming from other parts of Paris, and he believes it is a weekly display of growing Muslim power. “They are coming there to show that they can take over some French streets to show that they can conquer a part of the French territory,” he said. France’s Islamic Future? If France faces an Islamic future, a Russian author has already written about it. The novel is called “The Mosque of Notre Dame, 2048,” a bestseller in Russia, not in France. French publisher Jean Robin said the French media ignored the book because it was politically incorrect. “Islam is seen as the religion of the poor people, so you can’t say to the poor people, ‘You’re wrong,’ otherwise, you’re a fascist,” Robin explained. The book lays out a dark future when France has become a Muslim nation, and the famous cathedral has been turned into a mosque. Whether that plot is farfetched depends on whom you ask. Muslims are said to be no more than 10 percent of the French population, although no one knows for sure because French law prohibits population counts by religion. But the Muslim birthrate is significantly higher than for the native French. Some Muslim men practice polygamy, with each extra wife having children and collecting a welfare check. “The problem of Islam is more than a problem of numbers,” said French philosopher Radu Stoenescu, an Islamic expert who debates Muslim leaders on French TV. “The problem is one of principles. It’s an open question. Is Islam an ideology or just a creed?” “It doesn’t matter how many there are,” he aded. “The problem is the people who follow Islam; they’re somehow in a political party, which has a political agenda, which means basically implementing Sharia and building an Islamic state.” In Denial or Fed Up From the 1980s until recently, criticizing or opposing Islam was considered a social taboo, and so the government and media effectively helped Islam spread throughout France. “We were expecting Islam to adapt to France and it is France adapting to Islam,” Robin said. About the burqa controversy, one French Muslim man told a reporter that Europeans should respect Muslim dress. One Parisian woman wearing a headscarf said “the veil is in the Koran” and “we only submit to God and nobody else.” But even if many government elites are in France are in denial over Islam, the people in the streets increasingly are not. Some have become fed up with what they see as the growing Islamization of France. They’ve started staging pork and wine “aperitifs,” or cocktail parties in the street. They’re patriotic demonstrations meant to strike back against Islam. Another national demonstration is planned for Saturday, Sept. 4. A Warning to the West The French parliament is expected to debate the burqa law in September. Jean-Francois Cope, president of the Union for a Popular Movement political party, has a warning for the West and for America. “We cannot accept the development of such practice because it’s not compatible with the life in a modern society, you see,” he said. “And this question is not only a French question. You will all have to face this challenge. ” http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/August/Islamization-of-Paris-a-Warning-to-the-West/ |
Do you think I’m kidding about the threat of Islam in America?
That is but one threat that we face today; the other is the undermining of our U.S. Constitution and the permanent annihilation of our Republic, by those within our own government!
Both are very serious, and both are going to require a miracle of God to upset the enemy’s plans… and I have no doubt, but that God will do just that!
In the natural things are not looking so good right now, however.
Just take a look at what happens every Friday afternoon in New York City:
Now mind you, as Christians we can’t even put a manger scene up in the public square at Christmas time, or have prayer in our public schools; but our liberal minded, progressive, anti-God government and our public education system is so anxious to show their tolerance of the Muslim ideology, and are so afraid of offending them, that they bend over backwards to allow them privileges that no other group in America is allowed to have.
For years now Christian prayer has been banned in public schools all over the U.S.; but now Muslims in the U.S. are demanding their prayer time and are getting it.
In 2000, Congress passed The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. This legislation demanded that accommodations were to be made on public property to allow for equal access on public property for religious activities, such as prayer, Christian clubs, and Bible Study, for religious groups, as it is allowed for other student groups and activities on campus.
And back in 1993, a federal court even mandated that a San Diego district allow its students to allow religious activities, like prayer, during lunchtime.
However, is spite of these court rulings, we are always hearing of teachers who are being censored or even fired for allowing silent reading of Scripture, by their students, during study hall; or for having any sort of display in their classroom that could be considered of a religious nature, even when such displays are historical, or of a literary nature, and are not religious at all.
Christian students are not even allowed to have student-led prayers at graduation; and students from parochial schools are denied open gym time at the local public schools in their district… even though these parents of Catholic children pay the same taxes as everyone else!
Now compare these unconstitutional and unfair restrictions that are put upon Christian groups, with what Muslims are allowed to get away with, in places like San Diego, CA; Dearborn, MI; Dallas, TX; and New York City, NY.
In these cities schools are today giving Islamic students separate breaks to pray during the school day; and in some places they are even installing foot washing facilities for Muslims; and some districts have even required non-Muslim students read the Koran.
In fact, the complaint has been made in San Diego that these extra breaks amounts to an extra recess for these Islamic students, just for the purpose to allow them to pray. This would never be done for any other group, and especially not for Christians!
Folks do you see a pattern here? I hope so; because there certainly has been a similar pattern established in every other country where Muslims have been allowed to come in and live; where eventually they just take over, through attrition; and eventually are always demanding more rights for themselves, at the expense of everyone else.
This pattern continues until there is a situation as is happening today in Lebanon, and mind you this is the goal in every country, where Sharia Law becomes the law of the land; and all other beliefs and faiths are not tolerated at all!
Now mind you, while all of this is going on in America, we also have a man in the White House today, that even though he says he’s a Christian, nevertheless, on several occasions he has sided against Christians, not wanting to offend Muslims; but apparently he could care less about offending the Christian population; and at the same time he has instead championed Islamic causes and the Islamic agenda… with the latest thing being his support of the construction of a Mosque at Ground Zero!
The trend seems to be that as the population density among the Muslims within Western nations increase; due to multiple wives and such, as their numbers increase, percentage wise, so does their political influence and leverage within the government.
Along with this increase in population and in density comes additional demands for special rights and privileges, over and above the rest of the population; and very often at everyone else’s expense… as is obvious in the above photos taken in New York City.
The lower the percent of population, the lesser their demands; but in time that always changes, as their numbers always increase, and their growth rate always eventually out strips that of the native people, in any one country… and at a certain point, they just take over!
On the Islamic front, that is the nature of the beast, and that is their agenda and strategy for world domination.
It is slow but sure, and it is only a matter of time… unless something happens to prevent it from happening.
Folks this is exact what happens when Christians allow atheists and unbelievers to take over; and then they and everyone else suffers and complains about how their society and culture is going to hell in a hand basket… but what else did they expect would happen, is my question? Go figure!
The road back for us Christians is to get off our duff; and fall to our knees; where we can repent and get right with God!
That’s the first order of business, as is outlined in 2 Chronicles 7:14; and then it is for us to be about our Father’s business, which is to reach out to this lost world for Christ’s sake, and to disciple both nations and individuals… and that also includes Muslims, by the way!
We are privilege to live in a country that allows us to do these things; but for us to continue, as before, as we have in the past, we can ill afford to allow these anti-God forces to rob us of the very rights and liberties that allows us to do these things; and to do them unrestricted and without hindrance… which is certainly what Satan would love to see happen!
Wake up America; wake up Christians… that is all I can say!
Right now the score appears to be in Satan’s favor; but we are not to look at our circumstances; and nor are we to pay attention to feelings; but we are only to look to our faith, that is based on God’s Word alone, and the faithfulness of God to always do the impossible, when all hope seems to be lost!
God specializes in doing the impossible, as a matter of fact!
They are called miracles… and we could use a few of them in our country right now; and many of us could use one or two in our individual lives about now as well.
Let’s not give up folks, and let us not give up on our hope and faith in God either… as our God still rules!
Besides, I’ve read the back of the Book (the Bible) and we win!!!
Shalom,
Skip Barland
SB SALT AND LIGHT MINISTRIES 
This is frightening, Skip. However, the threat is very real. That is true. England has also warned the west of this very real threat. It seems to be falling on deaf ears, as our administration, national and in some cases local, seem to be aiding and abetting. NO more PC! I say we need a major overhaul in Washington, State & local governments and a whole lot of prayer to only ONE who can save us!.
Hi Pat,
Yes it is frightening; but there are several lessons, I believe, that can be learned here.
First, in the same way nature will not long tolerate a vacuum, this is equally true in the spirit.
So when Christians abdicated their place in the culture, as we have done here in American, the enemy was quick to come in and fill the void; and the results of this can be seen in our government and in all areas of our society and culture today.
Second, the downside of our having grown up in a such an affluent and prosperous society and culture, as we here in America have done (compared to most of the rest of the world), is that the people typically don’t appreciate what they have; and nor do they appreciate the cost that was paid to afford them their liberty and freedom, that accompanies our prosperity.
We have been so spoiled here in America, and in the same way we have taken our blessings for granted, we have also taken God for granted too.
This presumptuous and condescending attitude that is so common today among our spiritually ignorant and educated population is the very reason why I believe that God will first have to humble us, before he can rebuild us; just as we see He did many time with the children of Israel.
The failure and ignorance of these godless and liberal mindsed people, in their way of thinking would be comical, if it weren’t so costly and pathetic.
As an example, they just naturally assume that everyone else, in every other culture, thinks as they do.
This is not only very naive and obtuse, but it is just plain wrong!
As a matter of fact, this has been made so obvious in the diplomatic efforts of so many of our politicians of late, in people such as Pelosi, Hillary, and Obama, when they have had dealings with people in the Middle East.
They seem to think that by strutting in like a peacock, with their entourage; and by their attempts at appeasement and the use of flattering words, that they can gain some advantage, and thereby gain certain concessions; and it just doesn’t work that way.
This attitude is Neville Chamberlain all over again; and it has the exact opposite effect upon our enemies, especially in the Islamic culture, as they see such diplomacy as a sign of weakness and fear.
In their culture it is perfectly acceptable to lie, if by doing so they gain the advantage over their opponent or enemy.
Gee, I mean you would think that if anyone understood that sort of morality, it would be Nancy, Hillary, and Obama; because all three of them have built their entire political careers upon nothing but lying, where the ends always justifies the means.
What they don’t seem to realize is that these Islamic nations have been doing this a lot longer, and they are more experienced; and are much better at BS-ing their opponents, then even these guys are.
The truth of the matter is, and the bottom line in all of this is, no bully will respect what it does not also fear; and unless these people know that our words are backed up with a BIG stick, and that we are not at all afraid to use it, then they will play our little talking games for as far and as long as we will let them.
I do believe that we are ALL in for some serious testing, Pat, in the not too distant future… that I believe will test the true mettle of our faith, right down to our foundation!
I believe also that the revival and spiritual awakening that we have all been praying for is in fact coming; but I don’t think it will happen before we are put into the fire, as a nation.
It is possible that we could do this on our own, without the stick, as Nineveh did; but human nature being what it is; and the fact that I don’t even believe the U.S. has the fear of the Lord that Nineveh obviously had, all of that means in my view that God will have to do it the hard way with us, and will have to humble us first.
What do you think?
Skip