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The Muslim invasion made in amerika
theintercept.com by Glenn Greenwald
Barack Obama, in his post-election press conference yesterday, announced that he would seek an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) from the new Congress, one that would authorize Obama’s bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria—the one he began three months ago . If one were being generous, one could say that seeking congressional authorization for a war that commenced months ago is at least better than fighting a war even after Congress explicitly rejected its authorization, as Obama lawlessly did in the now-collapsed country of Libya.
When Obama began bombing targets inside Syria in September, I noted that it was the seventh predominantly Muslim country that had been bombed by the U.S. during his presidency (that did not count Obama’s bombing of the Muslim minority in the Philippines ). I also previously noted that this new bombing campaign meant that Obama had become the fourth consecutive U.S. President to order bombs dropped on Iraq. Standing alone, those are both amazingly revealing facts. American violence is so ongoing and continuous that we barely notice it any more. Just this week, a U.S. drone launched a missile that killed 10 people in Yemen , and the dead were promptly labeled “suspected militants” (which actually just means they are “military-age males”); those killings received almost no discussion.
To get a full scope of American violence in the world, it is worth asking a broader question: how many countries in the Islamic world has the U.S. bombed or occupied since 1980? That answer was provided in a recent Washington Post op-ed by the military historian and former U.S. Army Col. Andrew Bacevich:
As America’s efforts to “degrade and ultimately destroy” Islamic State militants extent into Syria, Iraq War III has seamlessly morphed into Greater Middle East Battlefield XIV. That is, Syria has become at least the 14th country in the Islamic world that U.S. forces have invaded or occupied or bombed, and in which American soldiers have killed or been killed. And that’s just since 1980.
Let’s tick them off: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-), Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria. Whew.
Bacevich’s count excludes the bombing and occupation of still other predominantly Muslim countries by key U.S. allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia, carried out with crucial American support. It excludes coups against democratically elected governments, torture, and imprisonment of people with no charges. It also, of course, excludes all the other bombing and invading and occupying that the U.S. has carried out during this time period in other parts of the world, including in Central America and the Caribbean , as well as various proxy wars in Africa.
There is an awful lot to be said about the factions in the west which devote huge amounts of their time and attention to preaching against the supreme primitiveness and violence of Muslims. There are no gay bars in Gaza, the obsessively anti-Islam polemicists proclaim —as though that (rather than levels of violence and aggression unleashed against the world) is the most important metric for judging a society. Reflecting their single-minded obsession with demonizing Muslims (at exactly the same time, coincidentally, their governments wage a never-ending war on Muslim countries and their societies marginalize Muslims ), they notably neglect to note thriving gay communities in places like Beirut and Istanbul , or the lack of them in Christian Uganda . Employing the defining tactic of bigotry, they love to highlight the worst behavior of individual Muslims as a means of attributing it to the group as a whole, while ignoring (often expressly ) the worst behavior of individual Jews and/or their own groups (they similarly cite the most extreme precepts of Islam while ignoring similarly extreme ones from Judaism). That’s because, as Rula Jebreal told Bill Maher last week , if these oh-so-brave rationality warriors said about Jews what they say about Muslims, they’d be fired.
But of all the various points to make about this group, this is always the most astounding: those same people, who love to denounce the violence of Islam as some sort of ultimate threat, live in countries whose governments unleash far more violence, bombing, invasions, and occupations than anyone else by far. That is just a fact.
Those who sit around in the U.S. or the U.K. endlessly inveighing against the evil of Islam, depicting it as the root of violence and evil (the “mother lode of bad ideas “), while spending very little time on their own societies’ addictions to violence and aggression, or their own religious and nationalistic drives, have reached the peak of self-blinding tribalism. They really are akin to having a neighbor down the street who constantly murders, steals and pillages, and then spends his spare time flamboyantly denouncing people who live thousands of miles away for their bad acts. Such a person would be regarded as pathologically self-deluded, a term that also describes those political and intellectual factions which replicate that behavior.
The sheer casualness with which Obama yesterday called for a new AUMF is reflective of how central, how commonplace, violence and militarism are in the U.S.’s imperial management of the world. That some citizens of that same country devote themselves primarily if not exclusively to denouncing the violence and savagery of others is a testament to how powerful and self-blinding tribalism is as a human drive.
END OF Glenn Greenwald ARTICLE
IN LIGHT OF THE ABOVE ARTICLE The question Christ might pose to all of mankind is, how is it that you do not discern the Sign of The Times.
If any man loves this present dark world run by Satan, including the things in it, the love of Christ is not with that individual.
We are to set our affections or desires on Heavenly Blessings (1 John 2:15; Col 3:2).
The present Spiritual condition of the earth is dismal at best. Far too many people walk in darkness while pretending to be in the light. They do not care to know the true state of affairs and basically see what they want to see.
When the majority of your time, treasures and talents are invested in this present evil world, it is impossible to say that you live for Christ. You can’t claim to want to be delivered from evil, while participating in self delusion in order to protect and justify your own selfish desires, which is evil.
God is not partner to those who are apathetic towards iniquity.
You do not discern the Sign of The Times
Below we list just a snippet of the wickedness that so often is ignored as a result of a carnal mind which is enmity against God.
If you are too fearful to engage in individual thought, you do not discern the Sign of The Times.
Group-think is completely irrational albeit a popular alternative mindset that does provide the deluded person with a false sense of security and community. However it leads to dysfunctional life decisions, as opposing viewpoints are suppressed at all costs. This mental dysfunction is carried out in order to try and justify a desired set of beliefs, no matter how ungrounded they may be.
Wars are controlled by a handful of demonic elites for their own personal gain, at the expense of the rest of this planet, and yet people support the military even though millions are murdered and tortured in the name of freedom, democracy and truth.
If you tolerate a terrorist regime, in order to maintain a materialistic life style at the expense of others, you do not discern the Sign of The Times.
Our so-called civilization is largely populated by unwitting slaves. They have been programmed and brainwashed through television, governments, central bankers, and most learning institutions. These are all controlled by this same demonic elite class. Incredibly their lies are accepted as the truth, and wrong is perceived as right in a world gone mad.
Our food and water supplies are poisoned with deadly additives, pesticides, radiation, chemical contamination and neurotoxins. When you are oblivious to the intentional destruction of this planet, you do not discern the Sign of The Times.
Our currency is fictitious without any real store of value and is diluted to the point that it will soon completely collapse, and become worth less. When you believe your stocks, bonds and bank account balances represent real wealth, you do not discern the Sign of The Times.
When you ignorantly accept a medical system that robs you while it is killing you, you do not discern the Sign of The Times.
Our medical system kills thousands and maims countless more with deadly drugs. The pharmaceutical whores even tell the users of the life threatening possible side effects including death, and yet their products still are taken by countless thousands.
Multitudes are diagnosed with depression anxiety and the like and are heavily sedated walking around in a zombie like stupor.
Millions take or are forced to take vaccines, most of which are either unnecessary, unproven to be effective, or totally unsafe. Far too often they contain mercury or aluminum adjuvants that are known to be neurotoxins and related to autism and other serious mental disorders.
We have taxation without representation, and massive corruption at every level of government. And because of the 501c3 hoax we are quiet, not wanting to jeopardize our tax write offs.
You do not discern the Sign of The Times – It Is High time To Wake Up
A textbook example of the blindness and corresponding manipulation of the masses is the 9-11 tragedy. This horrific and obvious murder of innocent citizens was approved by and subsequently covered up by their appointed wicked and unaccountable leaders.
This obvious inside job had clearly defined goals including a much needed excuse to usher in a police state. The pretense in which to fight terror was actually an unlawfully sanctioned rape, pillage and plunder of the resources of many countries.
The true terrorists are now able to murder at home and abroad, all done in the name of freedom and democracy.
You can’t make this stuff up. When you accept and even applaud pure evil, you do not discern the Sign of The Times.
Simply unbelievable is the madness in this so called civilized world.
The above worldly conditions are presented to exhibit an interesting correlation.
Those who typically accept the pre-tribulation rapture or pre-salvation theory as fact, usually are also oblivious to most of the wickedness and deception that surrounds them.
If you cannot comprehend the obvious that you can see, how then can you discern spiritual things? You do not discern the Sign of The Times, only because the spirit of Christ is not within you.
Do you love this world with all of its wickedness?
How can you accept as being good or partake in a system that murders, steals and practices lies at home and abroad with impunity?
You believe in and practice lies if you follow cunning fables that make you feel good, trust in riches, or are blind to suffering and evil. When you do not have the word of truth, you do not discern the Sign of The Times.
This is iniquity, and the practice and participation in it has deadly consequences.
1 Pet 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
We are not to partake in this darkness, but rather expose it for what it is. Our duty is to shine the light of Jesus so that others may come to this light.
Does the world see you as peculiar or set apart, or do you blend in well like a chameleon changing with every situation.
Mark 13:22 For a false Christ and a false prophet shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even (the chosen or) the elect.
The satanic deception during this period will be so great and with such lying wonders that if it were possible even God’s own would be deceived. If Christians are taken away before the tribulation, then is it even remotely possible that the deceived ungodly masses could be referred to as the elect?
