VIDEO: ISIS Caliph, devout follower of Mohammed, and ‘savage monster’ Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died like ‘a dog and coward’ killing his own children

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Not since the massive slaughter carried out by the former Ottoman Empire have we seen anything like the brutality and butchering of Muslims, Christians and non-believers under the ISIS Caliphate lead by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Here is President Trump’s announcement and question and answer session on the killing of the world’s former leading terrorist:

Stephen Sorace from Fox News reported:

The Washington Post  published a gasp-inducing headline for the ages Sunday, describing ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar.”

The obituary, written by The [Washington] Post’s National Security reporter Joby Warrick, followed confirmation of al-Baghdadi’s death in a U.S. military operation in Syria on Saturday night. It detailed al-Baghdadi’s rise to the terrorist group’s shadow leader from what the paper described as his origins as a “religious scholar with wireframe glasses.”

In my column President Trump rejects the principal tenant of Islam — Martyrdom I wrote:

President Trump’s first major speech overseas was in the heart of Islam, Saudi Arabia. The speech was eloquent and presidential. While many will analyse the speech from various angles, I believe the most important sentence in the speech made by the President was:

If you choose the path of terror, your life will be empty, your life will be brief, and your soul will be condemned.

I truly believe what we saw in President Trump’s remarks verify that al-Baghdadi’s life was empty, brief and that his soul is condemned.

President Trump undermined that basic tenant of Islam before fifty leaders of the Arab world. This is the equivalent of going to Rome and denying that the death of Jesus on the cross gives mankind life everlasting.

What President Trump said was blasphemy in many Muslim majority countries.

President Trump’s words are more powerful than using the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.” For you see terrorists are a culture of death, as the President pointed out, and he single handily denied them paradise and their purpose for following Allah.

All I can say is that this operation was brilliant! President Trump called it correctly, al Baghdadi was a whimpering, crying coward who blew himself up, with three of his own children, in a desperate act of self-inflicted terrorism. A fitting end to a monster.

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Miracle in Poland: a Review of “Love and Mercy”

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Brad Miner on a new docudrama about St. Faustina, beloved of St. John Paul II, who canonized her, and the “founder” of Divine Mercy Sunday. The film premieres tonight.

It’s a remarkable thing that the visions of a 25-year-old Polish nun would, after years of suppression by the Vatican, become what is now a major feast day in the Catholic Church: Divine Mercy Sunday.

Sister Maria Faustyna Kowalska (born Helena Kowalska in 1905) was a nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Plock, Poland when she began receiving instructions from our Lord, including that she arrange for a painting of Him as she saw Him in her visions that would include the phrase “Jezu, ufam Tobie” (“Jesus, I trust in you”).

We might wish to know more about this woman, the feast she helped inspire (in 2020 it will fall on April 19), and the Divine Mercy chaplet and its promises. And now we can know, thanks to a new docudrama by director Michal Kondrat.

Love and Mercy is an odd but valuable film. I say this 90-minute movie is odd – that’s often true of docudramas (films that intermingle actors performing dramatic sequences with interviews of non-actor experts) – because the documentary scenes are unexceptional, although informative, and the dramatic reenactments of Faustina’s life are truly fine cinematic work.

The out-of-drama exposition, some of it by the estimable Fr. Joseph Roesch, has all the color of small-market TV news reading. The problem isn’t that the words are dull; it’s that, in contrast to the professional actors’ performances, the delivery of the expositors breaks the film’s dramatic spell.

But, please, see this film, because it explains why Divine Mercy Sunday and its chaplet are so important. Indeed, heaven is at stake.

Of St. Faustina’s story, this much you may already know: Helena Kowalska first entered a convent in Warsaw at age 20, was moved to Plock in 1930, and then northeast to Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1933.

It was in her room in Plock that Christ appeared to her on February 22, 1931. He said:

Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: “Jesus, I trust in You.” I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and then throughout the world. I promise that the soul who will venerate this image will not perish.

In Wilno, she met Fr. Michal Sopocko – now Blessed Sopocko – who became her confessor and spiritual director and who helped her work with a painter, Eugeniusz Kazimirowski, to create the now-famous Divine Mercy image Shown at the end of this column).

On that same February night in 1931, when our Lord asked Faustina to see to the creation of the painting, He also asked that the image be “solemnly blessed on the first Sunday after Easter; that Sunday is to be the Feast of Mercy.” Bl. Sopocko and St. Faustina were together at the first (unsanctioned) “celebration” of Divine Mercy Sunday in Wilno on April 28, 1935 at which Kazimirowski’s painting was displayed.

Soon after, illness caused Faustina to be sent back to Warsaw, where she died on October 5, 1938. She was just 33.

One might suppose that the ascendancy of Divine Mercy spirituality was at that point unstoppable, but it most definitely was not. Although devotion had spread throughout Poland after World War II (which catastrophe Faustina had predicted) and came to the United States with Polish immigrants, Faustina and Divine Mercy had powerful opponents in Rome, not least Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, head of the Holy Office, who succeeded in suppressing the devotion until 1978.

The ban was lifted in no small part by the efforts of Faustina’s countryman, Karol Wojtyla, who as Pope John Paul II canonized Faustina on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 30, 2000 – a day St. John Paul called the “happiest of my life.” The great pope died on the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday 2005, was beatified by Benedict XVI on Divine Mercy Sunday 2011 and then canonized by Pope Francis on Divine Mercy Sunday 2014.

Love and Mercy features a luminous performance by Kamila Kaminska as St. Faustina. Miss Kaminska radiates innocence and vulnerability, wisdom and determination. As Bl. Sopocko, Maciej Malysa (who might be taken for American actor Andrew Garfield’s older brother) is every bit the rock the Polish priest must have been to the young woman who came to him to explain what she had been called to accomplish and Who had called her.

“Jesus told me you will be my confessor,” she tells the priest.

“Who told you?” he asks.

“Jesus.”

“. . . Jesus,” he repeats. “Are you sure?”

Later on in the film, as Faustina lies dying, she asks Fr. Sopocko for his blessing, which he gives. Then he asks her to bless him, which she does. It’s a tender, moving scene, and when the priest steps unsteadily into the hospital corridor, director Kondrat and his cinematographers (two are listed on IMDB) blur the film, and it’s hard at first to know if it’s their technique or your own eyes tearing.

Although the filmmakers currently have no plans to make the film available to Catholic parishes, we must hope that will change. Love and Mercy will premiere tonight at theaters around the country in a special Fathom Events showing (another screening will happen on December 2nd). Tickets for both screenings are available at the Fathom website. The film’s trailer is available here.

The Divine Mercy chaplet should become a focus of that week after Easter, leading to Confession, and then the holy day itself. Let us be worthy of His promises!

Love and Mercy has no MPAA rating at this point, but let’s call it PG. There are additional fine performances by Janusz Chabior as painter Kazimirowski and Dariusz Jakubowski as the future St. John Paul II.

COLUMN BY

Brad Miner

Brad Miner is senior editor of The Catholic Thing, senior fellow of the Faith & Reason Institute, and Board Secretary of Aid to the Church In Need USA. He is a former Literary Editor of National Review. His most recent book, Sons of St. Patrick, written with George J. Marlin, is now on sale. His The Compleat Gentleman is available on audio.

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VIDEO: The Vortex — Catholic Commandos Attack!!

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Before we begin today, please say a prayer for the repose of my dear father’s soul; today would have been his 90th birthday.

And now to a topic he would have applauded, as well as found quite amusing: the Catholic Commandos and their pitching of Pachamama into the Tiber. Poor ole gal — oh well.

The hypocritical, hysterical response from the usual suspects in and around Rome is really a competition between hypocrisy and hysteria. We’ll let you weigh in on which is greater.

First, the hypocrisy: Seriously, the Vatican calling the police to report theft of some wooden statue idols of pagan goddesses clipped from a Church? Do the folks behind the giant anti-immigration walls understand how that looks?

They get all hepped up about that theft but don’t call the police about an actual theft of more than half a billion euros from their own accounts by corrupt cardinals and prelates?

The only way the world knows about the half-billion-dollar heist from Peter’s Pence by corrupt cardinals is that a private Vatican security notice was leaked to the Italian media, a story that Church Militant was first to report on in the English-speaking world.

So, for the record, “stealing,” not really pagan idols — quick, call the cops, create an international incident — have all the usual dissidents and liberals spread the word far and wide that this is more hate of indigenous people.

But stay as closed-mouth as possible, and certainly do not call the cops about your own prelates actually stealing hundreds of millions. The hypocrisy is revolting.

Now, the hysteria: Evil Jimmy Martin couldn’t wait to jump on social media and break a nail or two pounding away about hating “the other” — blah, blah.

The usual cast of characters pretending to be objective journalists — like Christopher Lamb and Austen Ivereigh — likewise took to social media denouncing the shameful action — which was exactly what again, guys? Oh yeah, pitching pagan idols into the Tiber, idols that should never have been inside a Catholic Church.

The weak-kneed establishment media, alongside the liberal, pretending to be objective Catholic media, have never done stories on the real theft that has been going on for decades.

Where are all your stories about the theft of the patrimony of the Church, the theft of the liturgy, replaced with near-Protestant ritual?

How about the theft of billions of dollars from Catholic parents — like mine, for example — who paid for their children to receive a Catholic education only to turn around and see their grown-up children leave the Faith and embrace atheism?

Where are your stories on the theft of hundreds of millions given for the education of priests as seminarians when what was really going on was the ordination of tens of thousands of gay men, over decades — some of whom abused teenage boys — who neither believed the Faith nor promoted it, and lied to parishioners by the millions?

What about the theft of all that money they took for advanced degrees and travel back and forth to Rome and paying for gay hook-ups? Don’t see all your moral outrage and indignation over those actual cases of theft.

And while we are on the subject of morality among the supposed objective journalists on the Vatican beat, where is the moral outrage among them for a very well-known colleague of theirs who dumped his wife and took up with another woman and shows no shame about it whatsoever?

Purely for the sake of charity, we aren’t going to say his name, but loads of prelates all over Rome and the reporters in that room and pro-gay priests here in the United States know who he is.

So, please, all of you, stop with your fake, virtue-signaling moral outrage over the cleansing of a Church desecrated by pagan idols.

You care nothing for the truth, and certainly have no regard for authentic Catholicism. If you did, you would have been reporting what’s been happening to the Church for the past half-century.

Hats off to the Catholic Commandos who forced the issue by pitching Pachamama into the Tiber. It has had the unintended effect of unmasking all of you as well.

Is there a way to submit an application for the process of sainthood while the Catholic Commandos are still alive?

Oh wait, the prelate in charge of the saint-declaring office is the same prelate who got bumped up to cardinal by Pope Francis after the half-billion was stolen on his watch.

My goodness. what a mess; but, then again, Pope Francis did tell everyone to make a mess, and that, presumably, includes the Catholic Commandos.

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VIDEO: President Trump secures permanent ceasefire in northeast Syria

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In a major address today, President Donald J. Trump said that Turkey has agreed to turn their recent ceasefire along the Syrian border into a permanent agreement. As a result, the U.S. Treasury has lifted all of its recently imposed sanctions on Turkey.

President Trump: 8 years after failed regime change, it’s time to come home.

The agreement achieved by the Trump Administration, including the original 5-day ceasefire negotiated last week, has helped save lives and allow the Kurds to safely leave affected areas. These actions will help secure a more peaceful and stable border between Turkey and Syria. Ultimately, however, responsibility rests with those countries.

“How many Americans must die in the Middle East in the midst of these ancient sectarian and tribal conflicts?” President Trump asked. “After all of the precious blood and treasure America has poured into the deserts of the Middle East, I am committed to pursuing a different course—one that leads to victory for America.”

The United States expects Turkey to honor its commitments in the efforts to counter ISIS. We have defeated the Islamic State caliphate, and now it’s time for others in the region to step up and ensure ISIS does not regain territory.

“Should Turkey fail to honor its obligations—including the protection of religious and ethnic minorities—we reserve the right to re-impose crippling sanctions, including substantially increased tariffs on steel and all other products coming out of Turkey,” President Trump said.

Tough diplomacy, backed by American economic power and strength, saves lives. It also avoids the worst instincts of the Washington foreign policy establishment. “We have avoided another costly military intervention that could’ve led to disastrous, far-reaching consequences. Many thousands of people could’ve been killed,” the President said.

Bottom line: President Trump will not send tens of thousands of American troops into never-ending conflict in Syria. He is not going to continue the disastrous policies of the previous Administration in the Middle East. And, most important, he is not going to get America into another endless war that costs us countless lives and resources.

President Trump: 30 days turned into 10 years of war.

VIDEO: Why CAIR Doesn’t Represent American Muslims

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In its effort to be piggyback on the intersectional Leftist crowd, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) espouses a lot of ideas that cater that many American Muslims (especially those who are religiously conservative) do not align with.

As counter-terrorism analyst Oz Sultan explains, the American Muslim diaspora comes from 77 diverse Muslim countries. There’s no standard bearer organization that can say they represent all of us, least of all CAIR.

Listen to Oz explain why CAIR cannot possibly represent American Muslims. Also discover why his participation in the Park 51 project laid the foundation to shape a more integrated program that can address some of the critical issues American Muslims face around faith and identity.

Oz Sultan is founder of Our House NYC. He’s also a Big Data and counterterrorism analyst who helps break down complex problems, including coining the term “jillennial” (jihadi millennial). Sultan was part of the original Park 51 project and had the chance to observe the collaboration and communication breakdowns of leadership of prior generations in Muslim communities, and he’s shaping the next generation of dialogue models with Our House NYC. Our House NYC is envisioned to be the TEDx of religion.

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Why You Shouldn’t Ask an ISIS Woman to Take Off Her Bra

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ISIS’s latest ploy to kill coalition forces at checkpoints in a bra bomb.

The brutal terror group is wiring plastic explosives in bras, hoping that troops at checkpoints will only check a woman’s midriff and not further up, reported the Mirror.

The devices are lightweight and small but can contain enough explosives to kill everything within a 10-yard radius.

Meanwhile, America’s retreat from northern Syria to facilitate Turkey’s invasion of the area has resulted in a redistribution of Kurdish forces and a resurgence of ISIS.

Kurdish forces previously guarding ISIS prison camps have now been put in the position of fighting for their lives or retreating from the Turkish forces and Turkish-backed militias.

The Turkish invasion began on October 9. By October 11, five jihadis escaped a separate holding facility. Two days later, Belgium confirmed that two ISIS fighters from Belgium had escaped from a Kurdish prison.

On October 13, Kurdish forces announced 800 ISIS families had escaped the Ain Isa displaced persons camp following Turkish airstrikes. While some of them returned to the camp, the families of three French women who were among the escapees confirmed that they reached ISIS fighters and are being sheltered by them.

On October 17, ISIS announced that the group liberated a number of their women that were being held by Kurdish fighters after attacking a holding facility in the village of Mahmudli, west of Raqqa. Six Kurdish soldiers were killed in the operation.

Besides the bra bomb, ISIS continually looks for new ways of killing people with explosives. The terror group recently wired two cows with bombs and used remote detonators to explode them in the center of a village in eastern Iraq.

Meanwhile, Iran’s latest weapon appears to be suicide robots that double as mini all-terrain vehicle’s able to burrow under tanks and blow them up. The new weapon can coordinated with drones, which can feed the robot information.

Apparently responding to President Trump’s latest threats against the Islamic Republic, Iran released the following video showing the capabilities of the robots.

Watch:

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The Vortex — Sacrilege and Mystery: Non-stop questions. And the continued lack of clear answers.

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Instead of becoming more clear, the mystery surrounding the identity of the wooden statue of an omnipresent nude pregnant woman just grows deeper.

The Vatican has now been asked directly, twice, about the identity of the statue which first appeared at the Vatican Gardens tree-planting, Mother Earth-worshipping ceremony at the opening of the synod back on Oct. 4.

So scandalized were Catholics all over the world at the goings-on of a female shaman and her troupe bowing down to this figure on a blanket representing the earth, that social media lit up with questions about the identity of the statue.

And when the statue was presented to Pope Francis and carried into St. Peter’s Basilica the next day in a canoe, the highly warranted speculation that some pagan event was going on intensified, because, well, that sure is what it looked like.

Who is the statue supposed to be? Traditional-minded Catholics saw some pagan goddess type figure.

Papal apologists like the liberal British reporter Austen Ivereigh claimed on social media that it and a second nearly identical statue were Mary and Elizabeth — both pregnant.

The social media war then erupted between Ivereigh and actual Catholics, with orthodox Catholics pointing out that first, they didn’t believe it as supposed to be Our Lady, and if it were, it would be highly disrespectful and offensive to present her in the nude.

Ivereigh took the opportunity at the following day’s Vatican press conference to try and embarrass faithful Catholics, but he is the one who wound up with egg on his face.

When called on, he took a swipe at what he termed “some American media” for interpreting the wooden figure as a “pagan symbol of fertility” and asked the panel to clarify.

The response he got back was not what he wanted to hear. One of the Amazonian bishops responded:

We all have our own interpretations — the Virgin Mary, Mother Earth. Probably those who used this symbol wish to refer to fertility, to women, to life … the life present in the Amazonian peoples.

I don’t think we need to create any connections with the Virgin Mary or with a pagan element.

Well, whatever that meant, it did make clear it was absolutely not the Virgin Mary.

This week, the matter came up again, and this time, the Vatican punted on the question of just who the statue is or what it represents.

Paolo Ruffini, prefect for Communications said, “It represents life through a woman.”

But then he quickly backpedaled, saying that was just his personal opinion and as a matter of fact, for the record, he didn’t have the slightest idea what the controversial figure was or who it represents.

Reporters were told to check it out with the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM) as well as the Catholic Movement for Climate, the groups that organized the tree-planting ceremony and the statue’s presence in Rome.

Both groups strongly embrace liberation theology.

So, the statue is, at the very least, a symbol of fertility, which in pagan worship is always identified with a deity. Catholics don’t worship, or even have symbols specifically celebrating fertility, per se — which is why the dominance and high-profile this statue has received at the synod is so troubling.

At this very moment, the Mother Earth blanket and the statue, along with other little figurines, are covering a side altar just down the via from St. Peter’s at the well-known Santa Maria in Traspontina, as our Church Militant video clearly shows here.

Organizers stand by the displays handing out literature and so forth promoting the Amazonian culture and life and keeping guard over the sacrilegious display.

And yes, it is sacrilegious because of the intent behind it. It doesn’t matter if it looks confusing or raising questions to the observer. What matters is the intent behind those organizing it.

That Mother Earth blanket was laid out in the Vatican garden and bowed down over by the Amazonians. Prayers were offered to something by the female shaman.

Unless papal apologists, having failed in their attempt to make all this out to be little else than Catholicism, Amazonian style, now want to suggest that bowing down, chanting and gestures of praying don’t really mean you are bowing down, chanting and praying, then what else does it mean?

Of course that’s what it is. What else would it be? Those types of actions are universally recognized everywhere, in every culture, Christian as well as pagan, as having religious significance; which brings up the very serious issue: Why are these pagan — because the Vatican has already told us they aren’t Christian — why are these pagan worship symbols adorning nearly every side altar in this Church dedicated to Our Lady?

Who suggested it? Who approved it? Why?

And how is it that the Vatican itself can’t even provide a straight answer. These Mother Earth blankets and canoes and goddess, fertility, life symbols with their elastic interpretations are at the very foot of the dias in the synod conference hall each day.

They sit right there, sprawled out right in front of the successor of St. Peter, and not a soul in the Vatican seems to want to go on record saying exactly what, or more precisely who these things represent.

In paganism, Mother Earth is seen as a goddess, oftentimes referred to by the name Pachamama. Fertility is the domain of another personal goddess.

Both those symbols are the headliners in Rome right now, and we are supposed to believe that this is no big deal and, adding insult to injury, that no one really knows what they represent.

It may not be an Amazonian or pagan expression, but here in America, we have an expression for this. If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck and looks like a duck, it’s a duck.

This pagan garbage has no place in Rome — period.

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Site Unseen: DOJ Crushes Global Porn Network

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“Do not upload adult porn.” That was the stomach-turning warning from one of the most heinous child pornography sites on the dark web. Thanks to the Department of Justice, that horrible corner of cyberspace was just the target of an international takedown — a victory months in the making.

“According to the indictment we’re unsealing today,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu announced Wednesday, “the site hosted more than a quarter million videos, and users downloaded more than one million files.” Files, she explained that included children, toddlers, and even infants in “sexually explicit conduct.” “As a parent,” Liu said, “this horrifies me. And it should horrify everyone.”

Working with law enforcement in South Korea, the U.K. and Germany, U.S. officials have arrested 337 people connected to the ring — including 53 pedophiles in America. “The sexual exploitation of children,” Liu insisted, “is one of the worst forms of evil imaginable. Indeed, these crimes are so heinous, they are difficult even to speak about… Our message for those who produce, distribute, and receive child pornography is clear: You may try to hide behind technology, but we will find you, and we will arrest and prosecute you.”

Thanks to the DOJ’s hard work, 23 kids were rescued from their abusers in countries from Spain to England. Now, because of the U.S.’s involvement, the leader of the world’s “largest dark web child porn marketplace” — Jong Woo Son — can finally be held accountable.

Unfortunately, liberals are too busy shaming Attorney General William Barr’s faith to stop and consider all he’s doing in defense of children. Led by leaders like him, America is saving hundreds of tiny victims from the horrors and violence of trafficking. Maybe if we had more religion, as Barr said, there wouldn’t be a need for crusades like DOJ’s. Maybe if there were more “moral education,” fewer people would fall into the trap of sexual addiction. In the meantime, we can all be grateful that there is a man at the helm who takes the world’s problems seriously — and who understands that the real solution is more of God, not less.

Tony Perkins’s Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.

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VIDEO: The Vortex — We ARE Winning . . .

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I’m Michael Voris coming to you from Rome where we are wrapping up our on-the-ground coverage of the Amazon Synod, which goes on for another week and a half.

We will obviously continue to monitor and report from Detroit on events here in Rome thanks to contacts on the ground and inside the Vatican.

In the meantime, we wanted to leave all of you with an upbeat so-called “good news” episode.

The good news: Do not despair. Do not be discouraged. Do not be afraid. Be in the fight — spiritually and temporally. All of this is absolutely worth fighting for because ultimately, we are all fighting for the sake of Heaven and salvation.

And that means you, us, all of us and our angels are fighting the demons. And here is the good news: We are winning. 

In eternity, of course, the battle is over and already won. Our Lady has already crushed his head.

But, understandably, since we are all also still in time, in the temporal universe, it can get depressing and so forth watching what always looks like the demon winning and advancing.

In time, it certainly appears that way, but we have to tell you, it’s not always as it appears.

If the battle is about winning souls, being used by Our Blessed Lord to win souls, then the news is we are winning. One of the things sitting at home you don’t get to see is what goes on behind the scenes when Church Militant is on the road.

Wherever we go, the amount of people who come up to us and say they converted because of Church Militant or came back to the Faith because of Church Militant is both humbling and a cause for great joy and peace.

From priests who stop us on the streets, even here in Rome, especially here in Rome and say thank you for bolstering their priesthood, for giving them a needed shot in the arm — or laypeople who pull us aside privately and tell us of their great peace ay having come to or back to the Church because of our efforts.

We talk to all kinds of people on our road trips; seminarians who personally and clandestinely say they went into seminary because of watching Church Militant, to priests again who say they refer to Church Militant or our topics even in their homilies to youth group leaders and so forth.

This fight, and it is a fight, the mother of all battles because this is for keeps — eternal keeps — it is a great honor and blessing to be called to participate in.

Never forget that, even though it’s understandable at times. We are, after all, only fallen humans.

The financial, doctrinal, moral, catechetical, liturgical corruption and so forth, all of it free-ranging all over the Church can and sometimes does have the effect of sapping our strength.

Not to worry. Our Lord even had the Apostles take a break every now and then; but the battle never stops.

Every one of these souls that Church Militant has been used by Heaven to reach, help, uplift, strengthen, covert, revert — every one of them is a win, a victory over the forces of evil.

We have never kept actual count in any formal fashion — never occurred to us actually to do so — and besides, it seems a little crass to do so.

But we can say, there must be at least thousands judging from the comments and emails and phone calls and personal contact on the road — all of it. And to all of it, we say, blessed be God.

In addition to sharing our enthusiasm about all of this with you, we want you to realize that first, that your support for us, spiritual, financial, whatever, keeps us in a position to do this.

But also, we want to encourage you, in your circumstances, to do the same.

Don’t be afraid, never be afraid, of saying the truth, for you are announcing Jesus Christ, He who was and is the God-Man, always divine from the moment of His incarnation in the womb of Our Blessed Mother.

You are announcing Him, His Church, His mystical body, His bride. You have been given the great grace, the honor, to bring His message of salvation to whoever comes your way.

Are you going to get blowback? Well, of course you are. That’s why its called spiritual warfare.

But who cares? So what? As my mom used to say — God rest her soul — who cares? You just get more jewels in your crown in Heaven.

Not entirely sure of that precise theological language, but hey, the underlying point is true. Fight the devil and increase in sanctity. And the world says “Catholics have no joy.” Are you insane?

This is the greatest adventure any human being can live. You get to wake up every morning and slay dragons.

Fight! Never give up! Fight being discouraged and depressed. Got it, but fight it. Lift yourself up and pick up your sword again.

Never forget, we are winning. It may be just one soul at a time. It may not be evidenced as fast as we would like.

But every single soul has infinite value to Almighty God and Jesus Christ — He who was fully human and fully divine always, from the first moment of His existence in Our Blessed Mother’s womb, and remains so today.

All glory, praise and honor be to Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.

Wrapping up from Rome, this time.

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U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Resolve Public Schools’ Double Standard in Promoting Islam while Disparaging Christianity

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ANN ARBOR, MI—The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to review the case of Caleigh Wood, a Christian eleventh-grade public high school student in Maryland who, despite threats of receiving a failing grade, refused to deny her faith by making a written profession of the Muslim conversion prayer known as the Shahada—“There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”

She was also forced to view a series of pro-Islamic PowerPoint slides, including one that stated, “Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.” The high school’s content specialist, Jack Tuttle, testified that use of such comparative statement was inappropriate and that he would have advised the teacher not to use it.  Nevertheless, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals opined that the teaching did not violate the Establishment Clause.

The Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”), a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, represented Caleigh Wood in the federal lawsuit against LaPlata High School. Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Law Center, commented on the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case:

“I’m not aware of any public school which has forced a Muslim student to write the Lord’s Prayer or John 3:16: ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’”

Thompson continued,

“Yet, under the pretext of teaching history or social studies, public schools across America are promoting the religion of Islam in ways that would never be tolerated for Christianity or any other religion. It’s disappointing that the Supreme Court did not take this opportunity to clarify the test which lower courts should use when ruling on establishment clause and free speech challenges to public school classes on religion.”

The legal question at stake was whether La Plata High School violated the First Amendment’s Establishment and Free Speech Clauses when it gave Caleigh Wood an assignment she was unable to complete without violating her religious conscience as a Christian.

She believes it is a sin to profess the existence of any other god but the Christian God. She stood firm in her Christian beliefs and was punished for it. School officials refused her father’s request that she be allowed to opt-out or be given an alternative assignment. She refused to complete her anti-Christian assignment and consequently received a failing grade.

Thompson added:

“Many public schools have become hot beds of Islamic propaganda. Teaching Islam in schools has gone far beyond a basic history lesson. Prompted by zealous Islamic activism and emboldened by confusing court decisions, schools are now bending over backwards to promote Islam while at the same time denigrating Christianity.”

“Although the Supreme Court passed up an opportunity to provide clearer constitutional guidance on this important issue, there will be other chances as this issue isn’t going away anytime soon,” he said.

Many schools have become willing instruments of Islamic indoctrination. And in Caleigh Wood’s case, the weapon of choice was the PowerPoint presentation, which included the following statements:

  • “Most Muslim’s faith is stronger than the average Christian.”
  • “Islam at heart is a peaceful religion.”
  • Jihad is a “personal struggle in devotion to Islam, especially involving spiritual discipline.”
  • “To Muslims, Allah is the same God that is worshiped in Christianity and Judaism.”
  • “Men are the managers of the affairs of women” and “Righteous women are therefore obedient.”

Read TMLC’s Petition for Certiorari here.

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VIDEO: The Vortex — How About a Simple Yes or No? That’s all anyone is asking.

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TRANSCRIPT

I’m Michael Voris coming to you from Vatican City, where trying to get a straight answer from the right people is nearly as difficult as getting to Heaven.

Archbishop Viganò himself is now publicly stating that the Pope must personally deny the reports of Eugenio Scalfari claiming the Pope said Jesus was not divine when He was on earth.

The Vatican Press Office has denied it in a roundabout way when its earlier statement was seen as insufficient — forcing the follow-up.

So now, it’s come down to a question of: Who do you believe, the Vatican or Scalfari?

Since Rome has a very deft way of never allowing clarifying follow-up questions or getting specific and detailed, that latest statement raises another question.

How does the Vatican Press Office know Pope Francis didn’t say what Scalfari said he said?

To have any certitude in making any such formal declaration — certitude, which, granted, is in short supply in Rome these days, one would presume they went straight to the horse’s mouth.

Any good journalist worth his weight in experience would immediately ask, did the Holy Father tell you that personally and directly?

If he did, then why aren’t you screaming that from the rooftops? The statement should not be, “The Pope never said those things.”

The statement should be, “The Holy Father himself, personally and directly denies he ever made any such claims. And His Holiness re-affirms he believes that Jesus is now God and was God when he was present here on earth 2,000 years ago. Jesus has been at all times fully human and fully divine.”

And it is the Pope himself who should make it, and the cries for him to make that statement are increasing on social media.

That statement puts this whole episode to rest immediately. So why not just issue that statement? There’s only two reasons; One, it wouldn’t be true; or two, it is true, but they just don’t want to say it in such stark terms because the knock-on effect for the precious ecumenism agenda would be disastrous.

While the underlying supposition of everyone who covers the Vatican is that Rome believes Jesus is God, it’s actually something that just plays ever so quietly in the background.

It’s like the wallpaper. No one notices. No one draws attention to it. But this entire apparatus — the building, St. Peter’s, the Curia, the bureaucracy — rests entirely in that single truth, that Jesus Christ is divine and always was.

That’s why the refusal to just come out and say that, while denying what Scalfari insists the Pope said is just so mysterious.

But imagine a press statement read aloud in the press office saying the Pope declares that Jesus Christ is fully human and fully divine and has been at all times.

The next question would be, well, may I ask how that impacts relations with Islam, which denies that?

Or, the ticking bomb of all questions, well, if that’s true, wouldn’t that mean that the Catholic Church was founded by God Himself and is, therefore, the only legitimate religion?

Those kinds of discussions simply cannot be allowed to break out in Rome because they would cause panic across the world as leaders scrambled to respond.

The New York Times would have in giant font, “Catholic Church Claims Itself Only Legit Religion.”

That truth of the Faith, as well as Jesus being God, is something various members of the hierarchy have been trying to hush up for decades.

That’s why everyone in Rome reaches for their antacid pills whenever the bothersome issue of the actual Faith comes up here.

Want to ramble on about integral-ecumenical-ecclesiological-eco-theology? The floor is all yours. But the Faith itself? Nope, too hot to handle.

In 2000, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith — the CDF — under Cdl. Joseph Ratzinger issued the declaration Dominus Jesus, a strong assertion about the identity of Our Lord and the Catholic Church.

While largely aimed at non-Christians, it had the effect of angering not only non-Christians but also Protestants and liberal Catholics because of its clear language re-asserting Catholic truth.

The CDF considered the document was necessary to put straight certain misperceptions arising from the world, that all religions were pretty much the same.

That the modernist Catholic crowd was all upset with the document says all you need to know. “Catholic Exceptionalism” is not high on their list. In fact, they don’t believe it at all.

And given the trajectory of this papacy, the Vatican bureaucracy finds itself in a bind, trying to navigate between a faithful crowd growing larger and more vocal about the need to reassert orthodox Catholicism and a papacy trying to steer clear of it.

It’s interesting watching the assembled journalists in the Holy See press hall. Some of them are little else than sheer apologists for Pope Francis, steering clear of asking pressing questions.

Imagine if President Trump was reported to have made some incredible claim about an urgent constitutional matter?

The White House press corps would be peppering a thousand questions about why He Himself does not come out and deny the spurious claims.

But here in Rome, as long as some reporters feel Pope Francis is on their ideological wavelength, they cover for him.

And, the overriding issue, doesn’t the Vatican or specifically the Holy Father feel a duty to the sheep, his sons and daughters to simply jettison all doubt in their minds about what he believes?

He speaks freely for hours on his plane trips with reporters. Can he not spare 30 seconds for his hurting children?

One clear, precise statement; that’s all anyone is asking.

Coming to you from Vatican City.

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VIDEO: Trevor Loudon — Exposing The Enemies Within The Church

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Author and film producer Trevor Loudon speaks about the enemies within the church. This presentation is groundbreaking in that he exposes who Pope Francis really is and why he is doing what he is doing.

Michael Voris reported on the Pope Francis-Eugenio Scalfari interview about whether Jesus was, in fact, divine — God.

Watch this important video:

ABOUT TREVOR LOUDON

Trevor Loudon is a New Zealander, internationally known blogger, writer, and researcher exposing communists within our own government. His writings have been cited by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Paul Kengor, Aaron Klein, and Jerome Corsi. He is the author of Barack Obama and Enemies Within. He has also produced the documentaries ” America Under Siege: Soviet Islam”, “The Enemies Within”, and “America Under Siege: Antifa”.

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PODCAST: Turning Generation Z Into Faith-Filled Leaders

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Culture is constantly changing ,but there are principles of truth that never change. It is those principles which the Imago Dei Leadership Forum seeks to empower young people with so they can be leaders who influence culture.

John Murray, founder and president of Imago Dei Leadership Forum, joins The Daily Signal podcast to offer advice on how we can bridge cultural divides in our nation and train the next generation to be thoughtful leaders who live out their faith. Read the lightly edited transcript, posted below, or listen on the podcast:

Virginia Allen: I am joined by John Murray, author, speaker, and the founder and president of the Imago Dei Leadership Forum, an organization that is changing the lives of young people by empowering them to be thoughtful leaders who live out their faith.

John, thank you so much for joining me.

John Murray: Thank you for having me, Virginia. It’s great to be here.

Allen: The mission of the Imago Dei Leadership Forum is to raise up a generation of young people that view themselves and others as leaders who are image-bearers of God. 

John, you all seek to accomplish this mission through a fellowship program for eighth-grade students and a powerful curriculum that can be used by schools, churches, or family, as well as through lectures and other resources. And we will talk a bit more about that in a moment but I want to begin by asking you to explain more about the mission of the organization and why you founded Imago Dei.

Murray: That’s a great question. Well, I had been teaching a leadership class at my school in the D.C. area for a couple of years, as our graduates left eighth grade and went out into different schools in the D.C. area, both public and private. And I developed a leadership retreat where we went down into D.C., and stayed in D.C., and met with different leaders, both in politics and the media and civil rights.

Then we also did an end-of-the-year retreat before the students graduated in Gettysburg, just to talk through the challenges and fears and excitements they were going to face as they went into high school the next year.

Fast forward to July 2014, I came to St. Louis and brought my family to lead a multiracial school, a K through sixth grade, one night before Ferguson.

So after Ferguson happened and all the events began to unfold, I realized that I had a lot to learn to lead a school that was one-third African Americans.

One of the lessons I quickly learned from friends of mine in St. Louis was just the need to better facilitate personal relationships between the white and black parents in our school community so they could understand and learn from each other’s perspectives, especially just for a lot of our white parents to understand the racism that a number of our African American parents had faced in St. Louis for many years.

After seeing the power of these relationships and conversations at the parent level, I decided to develop a leadership forum for our alumni and other students in the community to affirm both their identity and faith in Jesus, and learn more of the importance of loving others different from themselves as image-bearers of God, both in history and today.

So that was kind of the genesis of my program when I came here and implemented it to reach a racially, socioeconomically, and denominationally diverse group of students.

Allen: That is so critical, and obviously such a need in our current culture.

What is the advice that you give to parents, young people, and educators who come to you and want to know how do we engage in those conversations with people that are of different backgrounds, look different than us, and maybe live out their faith differently?

Murray: That’s great. And that’s really what I try to model just in my leadership forum is I talk about this with other school communities and parents.

[The] first group that I led had 20 students, and I choose eighth grade because I feel like this is a really pivotal age as they’re preparing to go into high school, as they start to own their faith and are still going from concrete thinking to critical thinking, and their emotional and social development, they’re still open to engaging.

So we met for 10 nights on Sunday nights over the course of a spring semester, for 10 weeks, I should say, culminated with a weeklong combined trip to Gettysburg and D.C.

What was so neat as I walked them through the curriculum that I had put together on “Who am I?”—asking a lot of questions, it was very question-based, you know, “How does the media influence me? What is my identity? Where did I come from? Where does my creativity come from? How should I view others? How should I not view others?”

Bringing diverse kids together and hearing their perspectives on going through these questions was just really powerful for kids to understand how people may think about things differently than they do, or how things may impact them differently than they do, whether it’s in the mediaor the books they read and so forth.

So, to me, that is what’s so powerful is talking about the challenging issues of our day in a racially diverse group to understand one another, so they can treat each other well, even if they may not always agree with one another. I think this is preparing them to be leaders in their schools, particularly in just such a hyper-partisan, polarized country that we find ourselves in now.

Allen: John, this has been an exciting season for you all. Can you explain what the Imago Dei Leadership Forum has been working on in regards to your new curriculum?

Murray: I’ve … gone full time with this. This past year I got my 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, and through the help of a grant from the Maclellan Foundation, I produced a curriculum that has research that was done by the Barna Group just on the questions I was asking Gen Z students, students ages 13 to 18 at this point, as well as I produce 40 videos that go along with the e-textbook that kids can click on and watch.

So my goal is to get this curriculum into Christian schools all over the country so they can engage in these issues and just see diverse perspectives on how do we engage the culture, but all bringing it back to a biblical worldview of what it means to be an image-bearer of God, and how we should approach one another.

My vision is for schools to emulate what I’m doing, whether it’s in the classroom, an eighth grade classroom, or starting their own leadership group within their school, or maybe partnering with an urban school and bringing together leaders that they would walk through something outside of school so that it would be a resource that can be used in schools across the country.

Obviously, I’m available to train faculty, and come in and lead sessions or speak to students. So the genesis is here in St. Louis, and I do a local leadership group each year, and this is going to be our sixth year. I’m also providing materials to enable schools around the country to do this as well.

Allen: That is so critical, and it’s so practical to have a curriculum that families can take and use, that schools can use in their classrooms. And that’s called “In Whose Image?” Correct?

Murray: Yes.

Allen: OK, great. John, I want to ask, we live in a culture that is constantly changing, and it’s honestly really hard to keep up with sometimes. At Imago Dei, how are you all ensuring that the resources like “In Whose Image?” are staying up to date with the challenges that parents and educators are facing?

Murray: That’s a great question, and that was one of the reasons when I did my grant proposal, was to do this as an e-textbook. There is no hard copy because when I have six, seven videos per chapter, I’m asking questions such as, “Do you know what it means to be an image-bearer of God?” Or, “Do you know what it means how to define you and your life and bring meaning to your life?”

I’m using, a lot of times, movie clips or TV commercials or pop culture to speak into these issues, and teach critical thinking and discernment. But I have the ability, since these are linked to my website, to go in and update these, or there’s a new issue that comes up that I feel like we really need to speak into, then I can do that so it can remain current.

Allen: That’s great. And I think that so many parents today, and even young adults like myself who want to have a family one day, really wrestle with this question of, “How do we raise men and women of integrity when we live in a culture that sometimes undermines traditional values?” What advice do you give to those parents?

Murray: Well, it’s a great challenge, and I think that’s honestly one of the great fears of many parents in our country. What I think is that, obviously, [keep things] age appropriate as you raise your children, just to engage them in things that you feel like they can handle, whether it’s current events or media that’s coming out, whether it’s a Disney movie or a song on the radio that you start engaging them and teaching them critical thinking skills and media discernment.

So you’re not making them fearful to culture or fearful of the media, but really helping them discern what is right and what is wrong. Because that is still like, there’s too much out there, there’s no way we can shield our kids from everything. And if they go over to other friends’ houses, they may be exposed to things, or even in their schools. So it’s just equipping them as they grow up, and they’re ready to take on different issues, just how to speak in these issues. And from my perspective, being a Christian educator, [that] would be from a biblical worldview.

Allen: Yeah, absolutely. And why the name Imago Dei?

Murray: Imago Dei is Latin for Image of God. And when I thought about this leadership forum, and I look at all the challenges that we’re facing currently in this generation—training up Generation Z, whether it’s, like I said, in the media, or with our identity, whether it’s our race, or our gender, where we come from, this goes back to the Declaration of Independence, that we are all created equal, that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights.

This is a belief that [has] taken many, many years for different groups to be realized in American history. But as one, if you go back and look at when civil rights were fought—for women, for African Americans, for Native Americans, for the disabled, for [the] mentally ill—the leaders on the forefront of these movements were many a times quoting not only the declaration, but the Bible where it talks about [how] God created us in his image, male and female. Galatians 3:28 talks about whether male, female, basically rich or poor, slave or free, that we are all one in Christ.

So this idea of how we treat one another as image-bearers, and how we view ourselves, because with social media it’s so easy to just have this fear of what other people think of us and having low self-esteem, just helping students understand where their self-worth ultimately comes from.

All these things are why I think it’s so important to this—what it means to bear God’s image, not only just in our country’s history, but just in the history of the faith, but in how we should view ourselves and others is hugely important given all of the challenges facing this generation.

Allen: It’s an exciting time for you all. There’s no shortage of issues to engage on. What are your hopes for Imago Dei, let’s say over the course of the next year?

Murray: Well, again, my prayer would be that this could be a resource that would help schools that would want to implement this, whether it’s a Christian school or even a public school that might be instituting a faith-based curriculum to work with their students after school. Again, just looking at these issues of how to view others and ourselves in a healthy way.

Also, this is a great resource, I think, for homeschool families that they can go through with their eighth- or ninth-grader, as well as church youth groups. This is obviously a curriculum that would work well in a Sunday school class or in a Bible study just because it does weave in a biblical worldview as I look at it through all these.

But I also really write this from a perspective that a nonbeliever would hopefully be able to engage with the material because I am quoting a lot of research and statistics. A lot of brain research is just on the impact of [the] heavy media diet on us, and ultraviolet media, or pornographic media, that it does have negative impact, and there are brain differences that we need to know about between boys and girls. You know, just these types of things, but to what a healthy screen life looks like, and a healthy way of treating others.

So again, in looking at part two of my book, which I’m getting ready to launch, it’s called “Hollywood Needs the Apostles’ Creed,” which looks at how the faith is portrayed in the media both positively and unbiblically just to help kids own their faith and understand their faith from a biblical perspective. Then part three is looking at how this belief in image-bearer of God has impacted history, particularly American history.

If you ask me a year from now what I think this would look [like], we’d see people using this curriculum, whether it’s in their schools, or home, or church at youth group, but also preparing for part two and three to come to also speak into these other issues.

It’s looking at, again, affirming a student’s identity, their faith in Christ, and learning the importance of loving others as image-bearers, both in history and today. So it’s kind of multifaceted as I go forward.

Allen: For any young people or parents who might be interested, how can they find out more and apply for the fellowship, or attain some of those resources, the curriculum and so forth?

Murray: Yeah. If you go to my website IDleadershipforum.org, you’ll see just the curriculum resources that we have, as well as opportunities [for] the different topics that I can come speak on, whether it’s a student assembly, or a parent meeting, or a youth or faculty meeting. As well as if they wanted to model a leadership forum in their community after what we’re doing with our forum here in St. Louis, they could do that as well, and I would be happy to equip them with what we do on our leadership retreat and so forth.

Which, going back to one of your original questions of how we’re helping students, speaking to this, is taking them away and really allowing them to bond with one another, and see each other outside of their school environments is huge, and just being a community.

Then hearing from these speakers who are very inspirational, and just hearing their stories of how they’ve faced adversity, whether white or black, male or female, and just how God has used them to glorify him in their areas, whether it’s, like I said, the media or politics or in civil rights has been very powerful.

One of the really neat things we do is we actually get a permit from the National Park Service, and they come and set up a podium and a sound system on the very spot where Dr. King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and we all take turns reading from that speech with everyone around at the Lincoln Memorial. It’s just so powerful.

We’ve done that the last two years now, and just to be able to read that speech together, and on the very spot where he did that, is very meaningful. So it’s just creating those experiences that I think they’ll never forget.

We read the Gettysburg Address on the very site on the cemetery where Lincoln gave it. And you know, he hearkens back to this idea of all being created equal, as we’ve been fighting for these rights in our country for many years.

So I just think that’s part of what … is so important, is just bringing kids together around, ultimately, in our case, the common bond of Christ and learning from each other’s perspectives, but also just learning from history and how we can go back in our schools and be leaders.

Allen: Wow. Well, John, thank you for what you’re doing through Imago Dei to train up young people that are leaders and that are seeking to bridge those cultural divides, and bring unity. And we thank you so much for your time, as well.

Murray: Thank you so much, Virginia. Thanks for giving me [the] opportunity to share about what we’re doing here, and hopefully to really help parents in raising Generation Z, which I think is a fantastic group of students, just to glorify God in all they do.

Allen: Our pleasure.

COLUMN BY

Virginia Allen

Virginia Allen is a contributor to The Daily Signal. Twitter: @Virginia_Allen5.

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VIDEO: Tom Trento — The Death of Israel, The Death of the West.

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Tom Trento, Director, The United West presents, The Death of Israel, the Death of the West at the Sarasota, Florida America the Truth Conference, September 21, 2019.

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Inside Mosques: Islamic Centers in Nashville, Tennessee

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INSIDE MOSQUES

INVESTIGATING AND EVALUATING THREAT LEVELS

INTRODUCTION:

Dave Gaubatz is a former U.S. Federal Agent with Top Secret/SCI clearance, expert in counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism on national security issues, highly trained in Islamic ideology and tactics, Arab linguist, author of Muslim Mafia, has investigated over 300 mosques/Islamic Centers in the USA and 150 outside USA, and after leaving his position in the government continued this work as a Civilian Agent. Using firsthand investigation, he then evaluates Risk/Threat Levels based on multiple factors including Materials on Premises and What They Advocate, Ties to Muslim Terrorists, and Sharia Adherence. Mr. Gaubatz estimates that 80% of mosques in America recruit and train in jihad (violent & civilization). Finally, he makes Recommendations to protect America, our citizens, our children. He asks about each mosque: Would ISIS be proud?

NOTE: Several Reports/Affidavits will be published. When you read one from earlier dates, note that Dave Gaubatz issued Risk/Danger warnings ahead, but in some cases, violence occurred later from a member of one of those reported mosques (ex: Trolley Square, Salt Lake City, Utah shooting; child abuse Nashville, TN). When you read a report that came after an attack (Ex: Report 2017, Boston Marathon Bombing by the Tsarnaev brothers in 2013), note that violence had already occurred, Mr. Gaubatz reported continued Risk/Danger years later from the same mosques terrorists had attended.  Reading professionally investigated and evaluated Reports/Affidavits from various years is important so the American public is aware of new or continuing Risk/Danger and can demand protection from all levels of government officials and law enforcement that they are sworn to provide.

AFFIDAVIT ON ISLAMIC CENTERS, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

I, Paul David Gaubatz, declare under penalty of perjury that the following statements are true and correct and based on my own personal knowledge:

This sworn affidavit pertains to Islamic Centers operating within Nashville, Tennessee, and the local authorities who are in my professional opinion jeopardizing the lives of innocent Muslim children at Al Farooq Nashville, the citizens of Nashville, and our country.

1. Background: I was a U.S. Federal Agent with a top Secret/SCI clearance for approximately 15.5 years. This was during the time period 1988 – 2003.

2. In addition to my top secret/SCI clearance, I was also briefed into many programs known to the public as Black Projects. These projects pertained essentially to Counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism issues.

3. On 11 Sept. 2001. I was assigned as an (1811) civilian Federal Agent in Albuquerque, NM. I had primarily been assigned the duties of Technology Protection in regards to our countries highest classification of technologies used to defend our country.

4. After the attack on our country (11 Sept. 2011) I was assigned counter-terrorism duties on a full time basis and in late 2001 assigned to the Foreign Service Institute (U.S. State Department/Arlington, VA). My duties were to train full time in Arabic and counter-terrorism issues. The Arabic language was almost one complete year. During this time period I was sent to Jordan for a three week ‘immersion’ program to better understand the Arabic language the culture, and Islam.

5. In Jan 2003, before Operation Iraqi Freedom, I was requested to deploy as a U.S. civilian Federal Agent to ArAr Air Base. Saudi Arabia (within a few miles of Iraqi border). My full time duties were to collect intelligence involving potential attacks against U.S. Armed Forces personnel and to conduct counter-espionage against Saudi Arabian government/military, Iraqi and other people in the ArAr area, I led several counter-terrorism/counter-espionage expeditions.

6. From Apr – Jul 2003, I was assigned inside (Nasiriyah, Baghdad, Basrah, and other cities) Iraq and my primary duties were counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence.

7. While in Iraq I interviewed numerous Iraqis in regards to terrorism against the US, the Islamic ideology pertaining to violent Jihadists activity and the methodology of Islamic terrorists.

8. While in Iraq I had the opportunity to discuss the training and tactics used by Islamic Terrorist leaders and their supporters.

9. I have received training on the Islamic terrorist ideology/tactics from people who were former members of Islamic terrorist groups and from Muslims who were investigating these groups themselves. These people included military and police officers who served under Saddam Hussein (former Iraq President).

10. Since returning from Iraq in 2003. I have trained over 2500 U.S. law enforcement officers in counter-terrorism involving Islamic terrorist groups and their supporters.

11. I have discussed Islam and Sharia law with over 100 Imams and Islamic leaders in the U.S.

12. I have listened to over one thousand plus hours of lectures by Islamic scholars/leaders that have been trained in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and Iran.

13. I have read over 5000 different publications, books and brochures by Islamic scholars.

14. In 2005. I hired a senior Council on American-Islamic Relations leader to provide me training on the operation of this Islamic organization.

15. I have personally conducted first-hand research at over one hundred plus Islamic Centers in the U.S. The research involved speaking with the leaders, worshippers and reviewing the materials they use to educate their worshippers (men, women and children).

16. I have monitored several overseas based Islamic terrorist group internet sites.

17. I have received numerous U.S. Government awards pertaining to my work in protecting our country, our technology. and U.S. Armed Forces personnel.

18. I have worked jointly in counter-terrorism research and investigations with Muslims and non-Muslims.

19. My research is not biased. I credit the saving of my life and the saving of many U.S. military personnel lives with several Muslims who risked their lives to protect ours. These Muslims and I both realize there are Islamic groups, their supporters, and Islamic scholars based in the U.S. that do advocate violence against innocent men, women, children, and pose a ‘grave’ security risk to our country.

20. In March and April 2009, (last day of research was on 18 Apr 2009) I conducted first-hand research at the Al Farooq Islamic Center, 1421 4th Ave. South. Nashville. TN. and businesses in the Nashville area operated/supported by the leadership of Al Farooq and its worshippers. The research involved speaking with leaders. worshippers and reviewing the materials this Center and businesses use to educate their worshippers.

21. Based on my qualifications listed in numbers 1 through 19, it is my professional opinion the leadership of the Al Farooq Islamic Center, 1421 4th Ave South, Nashville, TN.

A: Does advocate violence against innocent Muslims and non-Muslims that do not adhere to and desire an Islamic Ummah (Nation) under Sharia Law in America.

B: Does advocate treason and sedition against the U.S. using violent and nonviolent tactics/methods as do such Islamic terrorist groups as Al Qaeda have and currently utilize.

C: Does pose a serious risk of educating innocent Muslim children into the violent aspects of Islamic terrorist groups and their violent activities directed against America.

D: This Islamic Center uses materials from convicted terrorist and supporters to educate their worshippers.

  1. Is not a religious institution, but more in line with a political/government system.

F: The leadership hit the children during study of the Quran and Sharia law and an audio/video was obtained as evidence.

G: The leadership is openly involved and advocates polygamous marriages, allegedly with children as young as 7 years old. A child at Al Farooq had mentioned her husband. This is also on audio/video.

H: Additionally, it is my professional opinion this Islamic Center has the support of personnel within the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department and/or Nashville Prosecutors Office.

I: I have been informed a Nashville Metropolitan Police officer fears lawsuits front CAIR and they are involved in ‘Interfaith’ meetings with Nashville Islamic scholars.

J: The Child Protective Officer who allegedly investigated the child abuse at Al Farooq conducted a poor job at best, and does not understand the Islamic ideology or Sharia law.

K: Recommendation to law enforcement: Conduct a thorough investigation of Al Farooq and its leadership (using federal or state authorities) due to the possible criminal violations by Metropolitan Police Personnel, Child Protective Services and the local Nashville Prosecutors office.

L: Remove Al Farooq IRS approved non-profit and tax exempt status as applicable.

M: My understanding is no formal investigation was conducted by law enforcement although more than sufficient probable cause evidence was provided by me to the authorities.

N: Somali owned businesses are involved in money laundering and support violence against innocent men, women and children who oppose an Islamic Ummah (Nation) under Sharia law within America.

22. Overall, I rate this Islamic Center and their related businesses located along Murfreesboro Pike, Nashville, TN as ‘High’ in regards to posing a threat to the security of the United States.

23. Overall, I rate the local authorities as a ‘High’ risk to the security of the innocent Muslim children at Al Farooq, to the citizens of Nashville and our country. This is based on my interaction/assessment of the local Nashville authorities. They are poorly trained in regards to understanding the mindset/ideology and tactics of Islamic terrorist groups and their supporters. The local authorities are intimidated by Islamic lenders/organizations. and are possibly illegally protecting the Islamic scholars from a thorough criminal investigation.

24. As stated above this assessment and professional advice are based on my qualifications as listed in numbers 1-19 above.

Executed this 24 day of April, 2009.

Paul David Gaubatz

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