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AS 'NEW WORLD ORDER' SHAPES UP, FEAR IS THAT AN ANTI-CHRIST SPIRIT WILL CONTROL IT
Those who have long awaited a new world order and a personage of evil who might take control of such an order (especially if that order is under a global government) can be excused for special attention to recent events. Even Newsweek (albeit skeptically) is looking at the issue of anti-christ.
In a remarkably and even astonishingly short time, talk of reorganizing the international scene has permeated the mainstream press as an answer to global financial disarray, terrorism, environmental issues (which know no border), and other issues.
Moreover, the definition between sides is growing increasingly apparent, just as famed Archbishop Fulton Sheen predicted decades ago, when he said:
"The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not; whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not; whether blood will have to be shed we know not; whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose."
The concern, of course, is that a new order would be controlled by the forces of anti-religion (and specifically anti-Christianity).
In the UK, Prime Minister Gordon Brown went so far last week as to urge President-elect Barack Obama to become a "globalized" leader -- something that Senator Obama is in a unique position to do, considering tremendous international appeal (nations around the world, and across races, religions, and ethnic groups, loudly cheered his victory). "We can seize the moment and in doing so build a truly global society," intoned the leader of England.
Brown called for the election of Obama to be the starting point of a "truly global society" where nations will work together rather than being "frozen by events" such as the current financial crisis. President George W. Bush and his father also looked to a new world order.
Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley -- where computer money played such a huge role in the presidential election -- executives from companies such as Google have proposed a globalized "religion." One can be excused for concern here too -- in that Google, Microsoft, and many other "tech" companies are less than warm toward traditional Christianity.
As a result of such, so widespread is concern that there were even stories across the internet on how the winning lottery number in Illinois the day after the election was "666" and how President-elect Obama's zip code in the Chicago area was 60606. We can go a bit haywire with this, and we can also be unfair. Many were those who claimed Ronald Wilson Reagan (count the letters) had an ominous name. We all struggle to discern (not discounting coincidence).
"Is Barack Obama the 'promised warrior' coming to help the Hidden Imam of Shiite Muslims conquer the world?" asked columnist The question has made the rounds in Iran since last month, when a pro-government website published a Hadith (or tradition) from a Shiite text of the 17th century. The tradition comes from Bahar al-Anvar (meaning Oceans of Light) by Mullah Majlisi, a magnum opus in 132 volumes and the basis of modern Shiite Islam.
"According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet's cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a 'tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West.' Commanding 'the strongest army on earth,' the new ruler in the West will carry 'a clear sign' from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: 'Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us.'
"In a curious coincidence Obama's first and second names -- Barack Hussein -- mean 'the blessing of Hussein' in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means 'he is with us,' the magic formula in Majlisi's tradition. Mystical reasons aside, the Khomeinist establishment sees Obama's rise as another sign of the West's decline and the triumph of Islam."
Here we get to the crux and our question of the week: Will Islam eventually reconcile with Christianity (as Pope Benedict XVI is earnestly seeking) or play a part in coming world dominance?
What we are more likely seeing rise on all sides than the anti-christ is the spirit of anti-christ, which will serve -- set the stage -- as a forerunner. In all likelihood, the anti-christ, when he comes, or if he is here, is too clever to be identified. It is improbable that we will know the anti-christ in advance. "Hardly anyone will notice the extent of his influence until afterwards," said an alleged prophecy we have often quoted (read this from Tower of Light). "He will not be of tremendous visibility until he is accomplished. That is to say, he will not rule, control, and be at all obvious to the world at the peak of his influence. He will not be unlike a figure such as Marx, except his ideas will be more immediate."
That sounds more like someone from, for example, the tech-financial sector.
There are many scenarios for who or what faction might control a world governance. There are the secularists, atheists, and "humanists" -- advertising an affinity for humans and glorifying Man as the ultimate: These tend to be radical liberals who are in harmony with abortion and gay-rights activists. Would this be the alliance (with much of science) that would grasp the reins of power? And would they unite liberal factions of Christianity as well as other religions such as Islam?
One would posit that as a possibility -- but for the fact that Muslims, at least from the Middle East, are stridently against homosexuality as well as illicit sex, the lust of our media, and abortion.
Moreover, Muslim extremists -- at least al Qaeda -- showed this week that they will be no friends of Obama; the terrorists' second-in-command insulted the president-elect Tuesday, apparently concerned that Obama is a Christian.
Meanwhile, the president-elect has been seen as moving toward the political center (at least for now) and has chosen a strongly pro-Israeli Jew, Rahm Emanuel, as his chief of staff.
But one has to scrutinize Muslim connections for the plain fact is that Muslims are now more than a billion strong and by 2012 are expected to compose 25 percent of Europe's populace, which may explain why the Pope is rushing to consolidate with them.
As Rome indicates, we should seek common ground with Islam because they believe in one deity, but there remains the issue of what kind of "voice" Mohammed (whose teachings inspire such violence) heard and the fact that Islam denies the divinity of Jesus -- precisely the definition in Scripture of "anti-christ."
Will moderate Muslims take the reins of Islam? Or will it be the truculently anti-infidels (anti-Christians and anti-Jewish)? Some surveys show that Muslims are trending toward moderate views, and even a positive opinion of democracy. How much of an affinity does Obama have for Muslims, and particularly the radical ones?
This is the current prayer need, for soon (see below) Islam may dominate Europe, and do so -- if we do not now pray, and do not now reconcile -- in a way that could leave the United States standing alone.
[resources: Tower of Light and The Final Hour]
[see also: Global president-elect 'inspires world', Obama and an old prophecy, Debunking lottery link to anti-christ, and Islam according to Gallup]
[We are reproducing below a lengthy warning on Islam. It is a very opinionated perspective -- just one view (for another see Islam according to Gallup) -- but one we have decided to give air to. It is lengthy; you may want to print it as one perspective. It is a speech given recently under the sponsorship of an archconservative group by Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem:
"Dear friends,
thank you very much for inviting me.
Great to be at the Four Seasons. I come from a country that has one season only:
a rainy season that starts January 1st and ends December 31st. When we have
three sunny days in a row, the government declares a national emergency. So Four
Seasons, that's new to me.
"It's great to be in New York. When I see
the skyscrapers and office buildings, I think of what Ayn Rand said: 'The sky
over New York and the will of man made visible.' Of course. Without the Dutch
you would have been nowhere, still figuring out how to buy this island from the
Indians. But we are glad we did it for you.. And, frankly, you did a far better
job than we possibly could have done.
"I come to America with a mission. All is
not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very
difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization
of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe
itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The danger
I see looming is the scenario of America as the last man standing. The United
States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe. In
a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe? Patriots from
around Europe risk their lives every day to prevent precisely this scenario form
becoming a reality.
"My short lecture consists of 4 parts.
"First I will describe the situation on
the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. Thirdly, if you
are still here, I will talk a little bit about the movie you just saw. To close
I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.
"The Europe you know is changing. You
have probably seen the landmarks. The Eiffel Tower and Trafalgar Square and
Rome's ancient buildings and maybe the canals of Amsterdam. They are still
there. And they still look very much the same as they did a hundred years ago.
"But in all of these cities, sometimes a
few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world, a world
very few visitors see �
and one that does not appear in your tourist
guidebook. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim
mass-migration. All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim
neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if
they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world
of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby
strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you
prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops
have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic
activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are
Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe.
These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger
portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by
city.
"There are now thousands of mosques
throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in
every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every
church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.
"Many European cities are already
one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many
cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now
surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name
among boys in many cities. In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can
no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and
that would be an insult to Muslims. Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark
only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten
up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore,
whore'. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations
in the country of origin. In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors
deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is
increasingly true of Darwin. The history of the Holocaust can in many cases no
longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity. In England sharia courts are now
officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are
no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after
being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the
Ramadan. Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst
wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the
streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like
this. Stories about Islamization.
"A total of fifty-four million Muslims
now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering
25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now.
Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.
"Now these are just numbers. And the
numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to
assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported
that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their
loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks.
The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim
students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. A Dutch study reported that
half of Dutch Muslims admit they 'understand' the 9/11 attacks.
"Muslims demand what they call 'respect'.
And this is how we give them respect. Our elites are willing to give in. To give
up. In my own country we have gone from calls by one cabinet member to turn
Muslim holidays into official state holidays, to statements by another cabinet
member, that Islam is part of Dutch culture, to an affirmation by the
Christian-Democratic attorney general that he is willing to accept sharia in the
Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with
passports from Morocco and Turkey.
"Muslim demands are supported by unlawful
behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against
ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its
uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. Some prefer to see these as
isolated incidents, but I call it a Muslim intifada. I call the perpetrators
'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into
our societies, they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam.
Therefore, they are settlers.
"Much of this street violence I mentioned
is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave
their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries.
"Politicians shy away from taking a stand against this creeping sharia. They believe in the equality of all cultures. Moreover, on a mundane level, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.
"Our many problems with Islam cannot be
explained by poverty, repression or the European colonial past, as the Left
claims. Nor does it have anything to do with Palestinians or American troops in
Iraq. The problem is Islam itself.
"Allow me to give you a brief Islam 101.
The first thing you need to know about Islam is the importance of the book of
the Quran. The Quran is Allah's personal word, revealed by an angel to Mohammed,
the prophet. This is where the trouble starts.. Every word in the Quran is
Allah's word and therefore not open to discussion or interpretation. It is valid
for every Muslim and for all times. Therefore, there is no such a thing as
moderate Islam. Sure, there are a lot of moderate Muslims. But a moderate Islam
is non-existent.
"The Quran calls for hatred, violence,
submission, murder, and terrorism. The Quran calls for Muslims to kill
non-Muslims, to terrorize non-Muslims and to fulfill their duty to wage war:
violent jihad. Jihad is a duty for every Muslim; Islam is to rule the world �
by the sword. The Quran is clearly
anti-Semitic, describing Jews as monkeys and pigs.
"The second thing you need to know is the
importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims
and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say
like Ghandi and Mother Teresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But
Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages �
at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us
how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners
of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza.
He advised on matters of slavery, but never advised to liberate slaves. Islam
has no other morality than the advancement of Islam. If it is good for Islam, it
is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad. There is no gray area or other side.
"Quran as Allah's own word and Mohammed
as the perfect man are the two most important facets of Islam. Let no one fool
you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72
virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that
lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants
to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not
compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If
you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or
national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.
"This is what you need to know about
Islam, in order to understand what is going on in Europe. For millions of
Muslims the Quran and the life of Mohammed are not 14 centuries old, but are an
everyday reality, an ideal, that guide every aspect of their lives. Now you know
why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and
why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran.
"Which brings me to my movie,
Fitna.
"I am a lawmaker, and not a movie maker.
But I felt I had the moral duty to educate about Islam. The duty to make clear
that the Quran stands at the heart of what some people call terrorism but is in
reality jihad. I wanted to show that the problems of Islam are at the core of
Islam, and do not belong to its fringes.
"Now, from the day the plan for my movie
was made public, it caused quite a stir, in the Netherlands and throughout
Europe. First, there was a political storm, with government leaders, across the
continent in sheer panic. The Netherlands was put under a heightened terror
alert, because of possible attacks or a revolt by our Muslim population. The
Dutch branch of the Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir declared that the
Netherlands was due for an attack. Internationally, there was a series of
incidents. The Taliban threatened to organize additional attacks against Dutch
troops in Afghanistan, and a website linked to Al Qaeda published the message
that I ought to be killed, while various muftis in the Middle East stated that I
would be responsible for all the bloodshed after the screening of the movie. In
Afghanistan and Pakistan the Dutch flag was burned on several occasions. Dolls
representing me were also burned. The Indonesian President announced that I will
never be admitted into Indonesia again, while the UN Secretary General and the
European Union issued cowardly statements in the same vein as those made by the
Dutch Government. I could go on and on. It was an absolute disgrace, a sell-out.
"A plethora of legal troubles also
followed, and have not ended yet. Currently the state of Jordan is litigating
against me. Only last week there were renewed security agency reports about a
heightened terror alert for the Netherlands because of Fitna.
"Now, I would like
to say a few things about Israel. Because, very soon, we will get together in
its capitol. The best way for a politician in Europe to loose votes is to say
something positive about Israel. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the
Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I, however, will
continue to speak up for Israel. I see defending Israel as a matter of
principle. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I
support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand
years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a
democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.
"Samuel
Huntington writes it so aptly: 'Islam has bloody borders'. Israel is located
precisely on that border. This tiny country is situated on the fault line of
jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines
of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in
Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way
West-Berlin was during the Cold War.
"The war against Israel is not a war
against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply
receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no
Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy
and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children
to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well
and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.
"Many in Europe argue in favor of
abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities.
But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the
West. It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their
behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give
enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see
the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of
Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the
beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If
they can get Israel, they can get everything. Therefore, it is not that the West
has a stake in Israel. It is Israel.
"It is very difficult to be an optimist
in the face of the growing Islamization of Europe. All the tides are against us.
On all fronts we are losing. Demographically the momentum is with Islam. Muslim
immigration is even a source of pride within ruling liberal parties. Academia,
the arts, the media, trade unions, the churches, the business world, the entire
political establishment have all converted to the suicidal theory of
multiculturalism. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics
of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. The entire
establishment has sided with our enemy. Leftists, liberals and
Christian-Democrats are now all in bed with Islam.
"This is the most painful thing to see:
the betrayal by our elites. At this moment in Europe's history, our elites are
supposed to lead us. To stand up for centuries of civilization. To defend our
heritage. To honor our eternal Judeo-Christian values that made Europe what it
is today. But there are very few signs of hope to be seen at the governmental
level. Sarkozy, Merkel, Brown, Berlusconi; in private, they probably know how
grave the situation is. But when the little red light goes on, they stare into
the camera and tell us that Islam is a religion of peace, and we should all try
to get along nicely and sing Kumbaya. They willingly participate in, what
President Reagan so aptly called: 'the betrayal of our past, the squandering of
our freedom.'
"If there is hope in Europe, it comes
from the people, not from the elites. Change can only come from a grass-roots
level. It has to come from the citizens themselves. Yet these patriots will have
to take on the entire political, legal and media establishment.
"Over the past years there have been some
small, but encouraging, signs of a rebirth of the original European spirit.
Maybe the elites turn their backs on freedom, the public does not. In my
country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass
immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And
another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat to our national identity. I
don't think the public opinion in Holland is very different from other European
countries.
"Patriotic parties that oppose jihad are
growing, against all odds. My own party debuted two years ago, with five percent
of the vote. Now it stands at ten percent in the polls. The same is true of all
similarly-minded parties in Europe. They are fighting the liberal establishment,
and are gaining footholds on the political arena, one voter at the time.
"Now, for the first time, these patriotic
parties will come together and exchange experiences. It may be the start of
something big. Something that might change the map of Europe for decades to
come. It might also be Europe's last chance.
"This December a conference will take
place in Jerusalem. Thanks to Professor Aryeh Eldad, a member of Knesset, we
will be able to watch Fitna in the Knesset building and discuss the jihad. We
are organizing this event in Israel to emphasize the fact that we are all in the
same boat together, and that Israel is part of our common heritage. Those
attending will be a select audience. No racist organizations will be allowed.
And we will only admit parties that are solidly democratic.
"This conference will be the start of an
Alliance of European patriots. This Alliance will serve as the backbone for all
organizations and political parties that oppose jihad and Islamization. For this
Alliance I seek your support.
"This endeavor may be crucial to America
and to the West. America may hold fast to the dream that, thanks to its
location, it is safe from jihad and sharia. But seven years ago to the day,
there was still smoke rising from ground zero, following the attacks that
forever shattered that dream. Yet there is a danger even greater danger than
terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights
may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a
Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual
nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn
into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up
to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem.
"Dear friends, liberty is the most
precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was
offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives.
All throughout Europe American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never
made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this
freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won
liberty to Europe's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We
cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never
forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to
do so.
"This is not the first time our
civilization is under threat. We have seen dangers before. We have been betrayed
by our elites before. They have sided with our enemies before.. And yet, then,
freedom prevailed.
"These are not times in which to take
lessons from appeasement, capitulation, giving away, giving up or giving in.
These are not times in which to draw lessons from Mr. Chamberlain. These are
times calling us to draw lessons from Mr. Churchill and the words he spoke in
1942:
'Never give in, never, never, never,
never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to
convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the
apparently overwhelming might of the enemy'.