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My first article is a cry for help and a cry for prayer. That’s what got Miriam Ibrahim released from a Sudanese prison a few months ago in a situation that seemed absolutely hopeless.This time the country is Pakistan, a country that receives millions of dollars each year from America.
Hello America. Hello world.
From the headquarters of reachmorenow.com in Fort Worth, Texas, this is Ray Mossholder and this is the news:
Asia Bibi
My first article is a cry for help and a cry for prayer. That’s what got Miriam Ibrahim released from a Sudanese prison a few months ago in a situation that seemed absolutely hopeless. This time the country is Pakistan, a country that receives millions of dollars each year from America. If President Obama would tell the government of Pakistan that it would lose this money from now on if any harm comes to their prisoner, Asia Bibi, a Christian, her scheduled hanging would almost certainly be forgotten about and she would be released.
What is Asia Bibi’s crime that has caused a death sentence? In 2010, Asia was imprisoned for speaking a derogatory word against the Islamic prophet Mohammed during a heated discussion with some Islamic women over a pot of water.
In 2011, the Governor of Punjab, Salmon Taseer, and minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti, were both murdered because they dared to protest Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and Asia’s trial proceeded without them.
The American Center for Law and Justice says the BBC did a great job in bringing about the release of Meriam Ibrahim. Now they are hoping to do the same for Asia Bibi. The BBC gave these following details of what happened before Asia was arrested:
Asia Bibi’s troubles began in June 2009 in her village of Ittan Wali, a patchwork of lush fields and dusty streets. Hers was the only Christian family living there.
She was picking berries along with a group of Muslim women when an argument developed over sharing the water.
Several days later, this same group of Muslim women declared that Asia had insulted the Prophet Mohammed. At that point, a mob of Islamists went to Asia’s home, she ran out the door and they chased her. When they caught her, they put a noose around her neck so that they could kill her. Instead she rescued but thrown in prison and is the first woman sentenced to hang in Pakistan under its Shariah blasphemy laws. Her case has now come before Pakistan’s Supreme Court, who will render the final decision.
Asia Bibi is the mother of five children. She absolutely denies ever having spoken any insult at all against Mohammed. But for the past two years, she has sat alone in a prison cell while her husband and children have been harassed by the entire town. Several times Muslims have threatened them.
Jay Sekulow, head of the American Center for Law and Justice, said “We’ve been fighting through our international affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice and its partner in Pakistan. Jay said “These blasphemy laws in Pakistan are despicable and Shariah law has been a part of this country for many years. We have had a number of these outrageous charges thrown out of court. The violent attack on this Christian wife and mother cannot stand. Like the case of Meriam, who is now free, for whom the world stood together as one voice, they need to do it again to condemn Pakistan’s barbaric violation of Asia Bibi’s human rights. She has done nothing wrong and the trumped up charges are merely because she is a Christian. She must not be executed for her faith in Christ.
The ACLJ will have a petition on the Internet to be signed by you and asking for Asia Bibi to be released. Please do sign it. It will matter. Use the social media to rally the troops into action to save Asia Bibi’s life and to sign the petition too.
No, Mr. President, Islam and Christianity are not at all the same in hardly any way. It’s time for you to pick up your telephone and call Pakistan and stand up for for Asia Bibi. And while you’re at it, phone Mexico’s president too and demand the release of Marine Sergeant hero Andrew Tahmooressie. Do you have the moral fortitude to make those two phone calls as the president of the United States?
It’s been 6 months since Boko Haram kidnapped 300 Nigerian high school girls, most of them Christian, and no one knows in the outside world what has happened individually to each one of them or corporately as a group. They are considered fair game by the radical Muslims. Suddenly hope has risen, but it is a cautious hope. Friday the Nigerian government and Boko Haram made a cease-fire agreement. At the same time, the release of all the missing girls was also negotiated. Everyone in Chibok Province is holding their breath and the Christian parents are praying.
The country of Chad has been negotiating the cease-fire between Nigeria and Boko Haram and the girls are headed for there. The question now is whether Boko Haram can be trusted to keep their word on this. If so, they have promised to return the girls on Tuesday.
And the second question would be what convinced them they should cease their killing? Boko Haram has massacred the people in many Nigerian villages. If they walk free after the peace agreement, does it mean they will then stop their savage brutality? Will any justice be served for what they’ve done? I will keep you up-to-date as this story develops.
The way the Ebola virus has been treated in America would be laughable if it wasn’t a matter of life and death. Behind the scenes, President Obama is reportedly highly frustrated with the response of the Center of Disease and Control, and it’s leader, Tom Frieden. However, before the cameras, our president has continued to say that he is confident of Frieden and the CDC.
There is no doubt that the news media is hyping an Ebola epidemic as if it were all but certain. This is one of the terrible things about the news industry as a whole. They know one truth – bad news sells. Television news stations use the word Ebola over and over again, 24 hours a day, and nothing could please their million-dollar sponsors more.
It is true that the Ebola virus could spread nationwide. It is also true that it is more than likely going to be contained with a very few victims, hopefully only one. Every death from this terrible disease is tragic. But as the Ebola virus threatens to kill more than a million people in West Africa, it does not appear to be doing the same in America. And except for one tragic death of a Liberian man in Dallas, Thomas Eric Duncan, other Ebola cases that are in quarantine now in America are reportedly recovering.
President Obama did add to the tragi-comedy by appointing a political “Ebola Czar” rather than one with any medical knowledge or who could very deeply understand the situation and how to coordinate any more discoveries of the disease. Once again, the president seems to be throwing things at the wall and hoping something will stick.
It is also true that President Obama promised America that it would stay Ebola free. But that’s obviously not the case. The man who died had flown from Liberia to Dallas. And such flights obviously bring the danger of still more Ebola cases. Yet President Obama has so far refused to stop airplanes to and from West Africa. Perhaps he is thinking about the fact that since our borders are wide open, Ebola carriers can enter America whether or not they do it by plane.
Were several major mistakes made at the Dallas hospital and made also by the CDC? Absolutely. Have nurses been exposed to the virus unnecessarily? Absolutely. Have people flown when they shouldn’t because they were showing signs of Ebola? Absolutely. But though this story is not over, there is more positive news than negative about those suffering in America from the disease right now.
Why would West Africa be so besieged by the epidemic and America not be? First, the sanitation problems in West Africa from intimate burial rites to hiding diseased people rather than getting them to the hospital, is rampant. Now, the World Health Organization is owning up to its own botched attempt at stopping the disease. Though the UN’s WHO refuses to explicitly explain the details they have written in a draft document because that would more than embarrass them, they do admit they botched things time and time again because of an incompetent staff, bureaucracy, and a lack of reliable information.
WHO said nearly everyone is to be blamed for the plague that has now killed 4,546 people including more than three hundred doctors, nurses, and health workers, out of 9,191 cases.
In April, Doctors Without Borders were in disagreement with WHO on social media. WHO argued that the Ebola epidemic was contained. WHO now agrees their arguments were only to cover themselves from blame. They do promise that once the Ebola virus epidemic ends they will share all of the hidden information in a report.
Meanwhile, the government of Canada will begin shipping 800 vials of an experimental Ebola vaccine to WHO on Monday.
In Dallas, tonight (Sunday) at midnight, the 21 day quarantine of the four family members of the deceased Tom Duncan will be over. None of them show any symptoms of Ebola. Neither do the other 44 people who were being held in quarantine until now.
As a side note, I’m sure you’ll be glad to know that President Obama returned to his golf game today. He had missed playing for the past three days which was like a starvation diet for him. To make up for it, he stayed on the course for five hours.
America’s stock market has been like a limbo dancer this past week, dropping lower and lower by more than a thousand points. Meanwhile, Europe is financially shaking like Jell-O and their stock markets are dropping heavily too. It’s been a long time since Wall Street used what they call it’s “fear index” but that index is clanging its loud alarm now. According to the fear index, we ain’t seen nothing yet. How far the stock market will drop is anyone’s guess. But many people are losing their life’s savings and several millionaires both here and abroad aren’t millionaires anymore.
JJ Kinahan, the chief strategist for TD Ameritrade, said “We’ve gone from the S&P 500 hitting all-time highs to losing all its gains
in just a month and a half. There has been a sea change in how people are viewing the market.”
The financial roller coaster ride that people take when they invest in the stock market still means the market can take off again and most people would then recover their losses. But right now in both America and Europe, the gloomy prediction is that the stock markets will be down for the count when the final closing bell sounds.
Wedding vows have been spoken in a mass ceremony in Palestine between men in their mid-20’s or above to girls 10 years old or younger.
Muslims know they have Allah’s blessing on these kinds of weddings because Mohammed married a 6-year-old. But being a patient prophet, he waited until she was 9 to consummate their marriage. In an evolution through the centuries, Muslim males believe they have no need to wait so terribly long. But ten-year-old girls are more than ready for the consummation.
Many Muslim officials were at the mass wedding to celebrate with the happy couples. Among them was Hamas leader Mahmud Zahar. At the carefully staged event, Mahmud, speaking to the grooms, said “We are saying to the world and to America that you cannot deny us joy and happiness.”
Local Hamas strongman Ibrahim Salaf said in a toast, “We are presenting this wedding as a gift to our people who stood firm in the face of the siege and the war,” The grooms were dressed in identical black suits and are from the Jabalia refugee camp. Hamas gave each groom a gift of $500.
The little girls were dressed in white gowns and wore garish makeup. They each received a bridal bouquet. It is doubtful they knew what would come after the ceremony.
In other news………
The Denver Police Department is warning parents nationwide to avoid taking their children trick-or-treating at houses where they don’t know who lives inside. That’s because today drugs are so easily hidden in candy or other sweets. They point out that supposed “treats” this Halloween will undoubtedly include homes giving out marijuana-laced goodies and far worse. The newest innovation is mass-produced candy that is sprayed with hashish. There isn’t any way to identify it from normal candy without eating it.
A couple in Couer d’Alene, Idaho who have been married for 47 years – Donald and Evelyn Knapp – own a wedding chapel called The Hitching Post. They’ve been performing marriages there since 1989. But now they are being threatened with fines and jail time because they refuse to marry a gay couple who asked the Knapps to marry them there.
Couer d’Alene has a nondiscrimination law that includes sexual orientation and gender rights. The city plans to use these statutes to force the Knapps to marry a gay couple or impose stiff fines and two cells at the city jail.
Ryan Anderson of The Heritage Foundation wrote about this on their website The Daily Signal: “Protecting religious liberty and the rights of conscience does not infringe on anyone’s sexual freedoms. No one has a right to have the government force a particular minister to marry them. Some citizens may conclude that they cannot in good conscience participate in same-sex ceremonies, from priests and pastors to bakers and florists. They should not be forced to choose between strongly held religious beliefs and their livelihood. It is unclear how the city could claim that forcing the Knapps to perform a same-sex wedding is a compelling government interest being pursued in the least restrictive way. There are numerous other venues where a same-sex couple could get married. Indeed, there is a county clerks office directly across the street from the chapel.”
Anderson also wrote that states must protect these rights so people aren’t coerced to act against their beliefs.
The Alliance Defending Freedom filed a motion on behalf of the Knapps arguing their First and 14th Amendment rights are being violated – pointing out that not only were the Knapps freedom of religion and free speech rights violated, but also the right to due process and equal protection.
President Obama experienced today (Sunday) what every public speaker most fears: the Democrats at a campaign rally in Upper Marlboro Maryland, walked out as he spoke. Reuters, in fact, said they “streamed out.” They also say the president “repeated over and over again “You’ve GOT TO vote.” The Telegraph “half the crowd walked out.”
The rally was on behalf of Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown who is running for governor of Maryland. The crowd’s reaction probably won’t matter much. Brown has an eleven point lead in the polls over his Republican opponent.
The president has mainly steered clear of campaigns mostly because the Democrat candidates don’t want to be seen with him. He has gathered many millions of dollars for the campaigners at dozens of fundraisers in spite of their desire not to stand next to him while they are running.
Tonight (Sunday) President Obama spoke at a second campaign rally – this one for Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois, who is running for reelection. There has been no response yet from the reporters on how the crowd reacted to Mr. Obama this evening.
Today’s Gallup poll results show our president at an all-time low with 40% approving of his actions and 55% disapproving. With that, he is fully aware that the midterm election is 16 days from now.
Finally, Mayor Annise Parker of Houston has backed completely down from her demand for the city’s pastor’s sermons and conversations on the gay rights movement. The mayor and City Attorney David Feldman said in a joint statement that the requests were made by an outside group. However, they did not say what group. They claimed they were unaware that the pastors had been subpoenaed. Feldman said “It’s unfortunate that the subpoena effort has been construed as some effort to infringe upon religious beliefs.”
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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