June 25, 2010 - Washington, DC

Report on RFC mission to the Middle East / The other Barack - Elena Kagan's hero / Freedom of worship to replace freedom of religion? / Kagan Senate hearings and Sharia / Israel space launch
 
NEW JUNE 23, 2010 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT NOW ONLINE- The June 23, 2010 Chairman's Report is now available online. This issue contains: a full report on the June mission trip to the Middle East organized by the Religious Freedom Coalition. Features include visits to the Ortiz family ministry in Ariel, Samaria and their bombed apartment; Visits to school and ministry supported in the "West Bank;" the ministries and summer camp supported in Jordan, and other important updates. Click here for PDF version
 
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MISSION REPORT - For those following my recent mission to the Middle East, a full report is available in PDF version. Click here
 

THE PRESIDENCY

THE OTHER BARACK - Several months ago President Barack Obama appointed Elena Kagan to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court. At that time he said she had "openness to a broad array of viewpoints." It turns out that "broad array of viewpoints" includes a view that appointed judges should be able to change the laws written by elected officials. A new video has surfaced of Kagan calling an Israeli extremist judge, Ahron Barak, her "judicial hero." Judge Barak admits his views may not work in "some democracies." Watch video of Kagan's astonishing endorsement. FREEDOM OF WORSHIP? - Freedom of worship is not the same as freedom of religion. Christians in Morocco and Jordan have freedom of worship, but they do not have freedom of religion. While they can attend their church and worship, they may not promote their faith openly, and converts from Islam to Christianity can be severely punished. In Saudi Arabia "apostasy" carries the death penalty. Now President Barack Obama and his Administration have abandoned the phrase "freedom of religion" and replaced it with "freedom to worship." Is this yet another surrender to Sharia? Read comments at Christianity Today.

CONGRESS

KAGAN SENATE HEARINGS - From a State Department document: "Under Shariah, as interpreted in [Saudi Arabia], sexual activity between two persons of the same gender is punishable by death or flogging." Yet, Frank Gaffney of Family Security Matters wrote: "Ms. Kagan was perfectly willing to obstruct the military, which has liberated countless Muslims from the hate and tyranny of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, but it seems she was willing to sit on the sidelines as Harvard created a center funded by - and dedicated to - foreign leaders presiding over a legal system that would violate what would appear to be her position." In other words while she promoted homosexual behavior in the military, she accepted funds from a nation that hangs homosexuals. Why? Kagan is for anything which is anti-Christian, even Sharia law. Read Gaffney's expose.

INTERNATIONAL

ISRAELI SPACE LAUNCH - During the time I was in Israel, that nation launched a spy satellite from its Palmachim air force base located south of Tel Aviv. The Ofek 9 spy satellite joins other satellites that are used to watch the nuclear and other military preparations of Iran. Israel has a population of about seven million, but has a huge technological advantage over backward Islamic nations who repress freedom of thought and democracy. Freedom works, Sharia does not.
 

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June 18, 2010 - Washington, DC and Amman Jordan

Moderate Muslims chastise Obama / Conversion in Jordan still against the law / Our Jordan mission details - sort of / Ambassador nominee Cook "is a total joke" / Left wing media hits Obama on oil spill / Congressional hearings on Morocco / Congressmen defend Israel / Caliphate gathering in Chicago to destroy democracy / Homeland Security to deport anti-terror hero
 
NEW May 27, 2010 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT NOW ONLINE- The May 27, 2010 Chairman's Report is now available online. This issue contains: Obama's Morocco problem / Frank Wolf demands action as Christians deported from Morocco / Can anyone in the Obama Administration read? / Democrat congressmen stand and applaud foreign president who attacks a US state / Parental rights laws to be handed down by UN? / ACLU hate speech and the Mojave cross desecration View PDF Version
 

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MODERATE ISLAM CHASTISES OBAMA- This week I am in Jordan, one of the more "moderate" Islamic nations. Poll results on global opinion were released here today showing Barack Obama with a 26% approval rating in Jordan. Only 15% of Jordanians support his international policies. The vast majority of Jordanians, 81%, believe that NATO troops should be withdrawn from Afghanistan. On the subject of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, 34% had a positive view and 20% view suicide bombings as justifiable -- which is actually down from ten years ago. NOTE: In neighboring Lebanon, Obama had a 35 percent approval rating, and an astounding 39 percent support suicide bombings. Maybe Barack Obama should give another "Cairo speech" endorsing Islam to boost his ratings here. 

CONVERSION STILL AGAINST THE LAW - Here in Jordan converting from Islam to any other religion is still against the law. Those who aid or "proselytize" converting from Islam to Christianity can face long prison sentences. Birth certificates indicate if a child is born into a Christian or Muslim home and while the national ID card can be changed from Christian to Muslim, it cannot be changed from Muslim to Christian.
 
REALLY CAN'T TALK ABOUT IT - The Religious Freedom Coalition is here in Jordan to inspect and assist ministries we support in Jordan. Unfortunately I cannot go into many details or show photos on the Internet. I can say that the new water system in the camp facility we installed for the summer is working well and that we participated in a large Christian Youth gathering. We also inspected relief operations for Iraqi Christian refugees.

THE PRESIDENCY

IRF APPOINTEE A TOTAL JOKE - That is what one congressional staff member e-mailed me when the "reverend" Susan Johnson Cook was appointed as the Ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom. Cook is a typical "whites, Jews and the establishment hold down the black people" preacher from Brooklyn, New York. While her rhetoric is not as harsh at that of Jeremiah Wright, they believe the same garbage. As a female ordained minister she will not be accepted by most Christians in the nations where repression against them is the worst. Muslims will have as much respect for her as they do for Hillary Clinton, which is no respect at all. Cook has no international experience and has no concept at all of the persecution facing Christians. In her new role, I will bet just about any amount of money that in her first major speech she attacks Israel. So why was she picked by Obama? Hillary Clinton demanded that Cook be the nominee. Cook was a major fund raiser and supporter of Hillary Clinton's when she ran for Senate and then for President. Cook was also a member of President Bill Clinton's Domestic Policy Council. In short the office of Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom is now a dead zone. 

THE OIL SPILL - Although in the Middle East, I have been watching in just total awe as President Obama fumbles the oil spill in the Gulf. From day one Obama has used his bully pulpit to attack and cast blame for the spill rather than to take action. While he may think that stopping all drilling in the Gulf is action, the people realize it does nothing to clean up the current mess. The problem is Obama's total lack of executive job experience. His background is all academic in nature, where the job is to analyze and blame, not to take action. Even the liberals attacked his latest speech this week, The left leaning Los Angeles Times wrote about Obama's speech, "There's a pipe spewing a gazillion gobs of oil into the gulf, so let's build more windmills," and far left Keith Olbermann on MSNBC said, "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days". Obama just doesn't get it. As the chief executive it is his job to fix problems not cast blame at others.

CONGRESS

CONGRESS AND MOROCCO - On June 17th, Congressional hearings were held on the continuing persecution and expulsion of Christians from the "moderate Islamic" nation of Morocco. I wanted to be there, but I had commitments in the Middle East and just could not return to Washington. I have written in several updates about the sudden shift of policy against Christians in Morocco. Three of my best friends in Congress, Senator Inhofe and Congressmen Frank Wolf and Trent Franks, testified at the hearings. They hit hard at Morocco, and Senator Inhofe displayed letters he had written to the King on the repression and the expulsions. The King responded to the Senator saying that Morocco had "religious freedom," but that the more than 120 Christians expelled were "criminals" because they sought to convert the "vulnerable" from Islam.

Three Christian "leaders" who have personal interests and special privileges in Morocco, held a news conference trying to spread the tale that yes, those who operate orphanages are criminals and Morocco is a great place for foreign Christians. These "leaders" were: Rev. Rob Schenck, president, the National Clergy Council; Rev. Kenneth Barney, senior pastor, New Antioch Baptist Church, Randallstown, Maryland; and "Rev." Harry Thomas, president, Come Alive Ministries International and producer of Friendship Fest, Marrakech, Morocco. 

CONGRESSMEN DEFEND ISRAEL - The Congressional Israel Allies Caucus held a press conference on June 16th to respond to those, including the Obama Administration, that are calling for investigations and sanctions against Israel. The caucus was represented by co-chairmen, Congressmen Elliot Engel (D-NY) and Mike Pence (R-IN) who were joined by Congressmen Ted Poe (R-TX), Minority Whip Eric Cantor (VA), Shelley Berkley (D-NV) and Pete King (R-NY). About 40 members of the media were in attendance. Republican Whip Eric Cantor said, "Any reports that I have heard over the last 24 hours that indicate that our administration is somehow complicit in an effort to push out a UN resolution calling for and international investigation of the flotilla headed for Gaza is an outrage. We're here not only to urge this administration to veto any such resolution but to stand up, speak out in opposition to such right now." See Cantor statement.  

CULTURE AND RELIGION

REPLACING THE CONSTITUTION WITH A CALIPHATE - Hizb ut-Tahrir America, a radical Islamist group with links to the Muslim Brotherhood and perhaps Al Qaeda, will hold its second annual anti-American recruiting event in Chicago on July 11, 2010. Their first conference in 2009 was called "Fall of Capitalism & Rise of Islam" and had over 500 in attendance. This year's conference is titled, "Emerging World Order: How the Khilafah Will Shape the World." The event will be held in the Chicago Marriott Oak Brook. Obama has the FBI working to track down Christian "militias" so probably the FBI has no interest in a group that openly recruits people to replace our Constitution with a dictatorship of one man called a Caliph.
 

INTERNATIONAL 

NY BOMBER OK BUT HERO TO BE DEPORTED - Masab Hassan Yousef, the son of a leader in the terrorist HAMAS, who became a Christian, is facing a deportation hearing on June 30th. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security views him as "a threat to America's national security," even though he worked as an operative for Israeli intelligence to stop terrorist attacks on Israel and the United States. Yousef, 32, wrote Son of HAMAS a book about his life and conversion to Christianity. The book details how he worked as a secret agent for the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet for over a decade to halt terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, Homeland Security saw no problem with would be Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad whose education was paid for by taxpayers. While obtaining US citizenship he was planning to kill American civilians. Each week dozens of Muslims are put in the front of the line ahead of Christians, Hindus and others for immigration to the United States so President Obama can prove to the world that American is not "Islamophobic." 

OUR JUNE MISSION TO JORDAN - I am currently in the Middle East as part of a Religious Freedom Coalition mission to Iraqi Christian refugees. Funds are still needed for the medical portion of our mission as additional drugs are being shipped next Wednesday to this area. ALL FUNDS RECEIVED AT THIS INTERNET SITE THIS WEEK WILL BE USED FOR THE JUNE MISSION. DONATE HERE
 

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June 11, 2010 - Washington, DC

Worshiping Moloch - Killing the innocent to be prosperous / How can dead children pay our bills? / Congressman Pence asks Turkey, "Whose side are you on?" / A changing Israel / Palestinian Authority brutality / Moderate Jordan sends terrorist to Russia / Afghan crackdown on Christians 

NEW May 27, 2010 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT NOW ONLINE- The May 27, 2010 Chairman's Report is now available online. This issue contains: Obama's Morocco problem / Frank Wolf demands action as Christians deported from Morocco / Can anyone in the Obama Administration read? / Democrat congressmen stand and applaud foreign president who attacks a US state / Parental rights laws to be handed down by UN? / ACLU hate speech and the Mojave cross desecration View PDF Version
 
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WORSHIPING MOLOCH - Currently I am in Samaria, my first stop on a mission trip to the Middle East. The Western media and leaders call this area the".West Bank," while tens of thousands of Israelis call it home. I am staying in the home of a Messianic Jewish couple whose son was severely injured in a bombing at their Ariel apartment in 2008. A few miles away, there is a newly found sacrificial alter to the god Moloch which was carved from rock about the time Solomon became involved with pagan gods.

Moloch was one of the gods worshiped by means of human sacrifice. Pagans who worshiped Moloch often sacrificed one of their own children, who was ritually murdered and then placed in an alter of fire. Some followed the Canaanite practice of placing the bones that remained under the front doorstep of the family as a blessing to provide prosperity. In short, a child was murdered for the financial reward and convenience of the the family. Sounds barbaric, until it is realized that since the Roe v Wade decision, 40 million babies have been murdered legally in the United States for the convenience or prosperity of the mothers and other family members. There are some differences. one being that the pagans actually buried their dead children whereas in the United States, bodies are flushed down toilets, tossed in dumpsters or used in medical experiments.

President Barack Obama, who is half black, has stated publicly that abortion has helped black American women raise themselves out of poverty. MOLOCH AND THE DEBT - As I looked at the four horned sacrificial alter where children were murdered to make the family "prosperous" I thought of the four gilded edges of the bonds issued by the US Treasury. At a rate of $1.2 million per minute our government borrows money which our children and grandchildren will have to pay back "someday." At the same time children are being aborted for the sake of family prosperity, the government is borrowing money it expects today's children to pay back in the future. Killing those who we assume will pay back our loans for us does not sound like smart economic policy. The last five Administrations, both Democrat and Republican, have raised the national debt from less than $1 trillion to over $13 trillion. Barack Obama, in just his first year in office, accounted for $3 trillion. Who pays the bill, kids that will never be born?

THE CONGRESS

MIKE PENCE: TURKEY MUST DECIDE - This week Congressman Mike Pence, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, gave a passionate floor speech telling the nation of Turkey that it must decide about its future relations with the United States. His strong words came after Turkey assisted in launching the "relief" flotilla to Gaza which resulted in the deaths of nine people. Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan is an Islamist who has turned the nation away from a secular path and who has now threatened to send the Turkish navy to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. See Mike Pence statement at Youtube. Oddly, if war erupted between Israel and Turkey, the United States is bound by the NATO agreement to defend Turkey. The solution is simple: As Turkey has abandoned a secular path and is now an Islamist nation akin to Iran it should be kicked out of NATO.
 

CULTURE AND RELIGION

A CHANGING ISRAEL - Hundreds of thousands of Americans have immigrated to Israel. Often men and women killed in terror attacks here hold both an Israeli and a U.S. passport. In addition there are thousands of gentiles who love Israel who have unofficially immigrated to Israel, many of whom live in and around Jerusalem. Unable to become citizens they rent and sometimes even own homes, but are forced to leave the nation every six months to have their "tourist" status renewed. Many are retired and their purpose is to share Jesus with those who live in or visit Jerusalem.

On the other hand, the day I arrived in Israel there was a "gay pride" parade in Tel Aviv. Homosexuals from around the world traveled to Israel to march in weird costumes or semi-nude in the sweltering heat.Their leaders proclaimed that they want Jerusalem to be the gay capital of the world. I wonder how this will sell in "Arab East Jerusalem" and with the Mullahs there that teach that homosexuals should be hung in public. 
AN UNCHANGING P.A. - On our second night in Samaria a Messianic Jewish friend and I sat in a car outside a Palestinian village waiting for a believer to sneak out of the village to join us. He came for prayer because this Sunday the Palestinian Authority will formally charge him with leaving Islam unless he denies his faith in Jesus. If charged, he will be jailed. He was told by Palestinian policemen that he would be convicted of something, even other criminal offenses, unless he returned to Islam. He sat in our car crying as he told us that he had told his wife not to wait for his return. I have met other Palestinian believers in the past who were hung by their arms from the walls of Palestinian jails for weeks to force them to denounce the Lord. Note: Palestinian police can be paid to ignore the order of a judge, but in this believer's case he was told "no exceptions," (meaning no bribes would work). Please pray for this young man. After we prayed for him we watched him walk back to his village to face certain imprisonment for publicly proclaiming Christ.

This is the government of "President Abbas," the man trusted by Barack Obama, the man to whom Obama just recently gave $400 million dollars to support police and other activities. The Palestinian Muslim community is as corrupt as ever. Since taking over authority over parts of the West Bank from Israel, the corruption has gotten worse and the persecution of Christians has just continued.

INTERNATIONAL

MODERATE JORDANIAN TERRORIST - The Jordanian Islamist newspaper Al-Sabil reported last week on the death of Anaa Al-Khadr, a Jordanian citizen who had joined the mujahideen in Chechnya. According to his obituary, Al-Khadr, was interested in a number of Jihadist battle grounds, but decided to fight the Russians rather than the Americans ... Note to Russia's PM Vladimir Putin: Are you sure you want to sell nuclear reactors and missiles to Iran? While the West paints the governments of Morocco, Egypt, Turkey and Jordan as "moderate," the mullahs in those nations continue to teach hatred and Jihad against the West. 
AFGHAN CRACKDOWN ON CHRISTIANS - Just before leaving for the Middle East, I received a call from a representative of an aid group that works in Afghanistan. He was seeking help because of my connections to congressmen and Senators on Capitol Hill. The contact told me of a new crackdown on Christians and Christian aid groups in Afghanistan promoted by President Karzai. I already knew that the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and the U.S. based Church World Service (CWS) had been accused of "proselytism" which under the Afghan constitution that the US approved under President Bush, carries the death penalty. Individual Christians and church groups are also being purged by the Afghan government. While news of these events has appeared in the European and even Asian press, there has been virtually no mention in the American media.

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June 4, 2010 - Washington,DC

Obama and Israel / Obama and the "relief flotilla" / We can't defend Israel / House and Senate in recess / Comedy Central's new attack on Jesus / Video of pastor arrested for calling a sin a sin / International - the Muslim view of the flotilla "mujahideen"

 

NEW May 27, 2010 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT NOW ONLINE- The May 27, 2010 Chairman's Report is now available online. This issue contains: Obama's Morocco problem / Frank Wolf demands action as Christians deported from Morocco / Can anyone in the Obama Administration read? / Democrat congressmen stand and applaud foreign president who attacks a US state / Parental rights laws to be handed down by UN? / ACLU hate speech and the Mojave cross desecration View PDF Version

 

THE PRESIDENCY

OBAMA AND ISRAEL - President Barack Obama has no understanding of the Biblical importance of Israel. Indeed, he has very little understanding of the Bible at all. He did not attend church while at Harvard, and only joined a church in Chicago for political reasons. The pastor of that church, Jeremiah Wright, was an anti-Semite who blamed the Jews for the problems of blacks from the pulpit --- that is, when he wasn't firing off racist hate against whites. Obama is also under pressure from the far left to "free" the Palestinians, which is code for the destruction of Israel. The far left today, particularly media outlets such as the Huffington Post, are anti-Semitic. They want someone to blame for the problems of the world, and the capitalists and the Jews are handy targets for the left to hate.  

OBAMA AND THE RELIEF FLOTILLA - The boats of the so called "relief flotilla" which were boarded by Israeli Commandos this week as the boats were attempting to enter Gaza, carried hundreds of "activists," some of whom were associated with Al-qaeda, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations. The US voted in the UN right along with nations that support terror, to condemn Israel for the raid on the ships. Remember that the UN never comdemned HAMAS for firing over 2,000 rockets from Gaza at civilian targets in Israel. During the attacks on Israeli civilian targets, world leaders demanded that Israel "respond with restraint."
NO DEFENSE FOR ISRAEL - If Obama wanted to defend Israel, which he doesn't, the Arab nations would stop him cold. How? The United States is a deadbeat debtor nation. We can't pay back the loans we have and we have to borrow money from Muslim nations and the Chinese, just to pay the interest we owe them on loans we already have. If we made "too much" of an effort to defend Israel, the Muslim nations could stop lending us money -- or even worse -- call the debt we already owe them. Deadbeat, broke nations can't give many orders to anyone. This is the reality the American people need to understand. Sacrifices must be made to restore American leadership in the world. We must pay back our loans, and that means giving up entitlements.
 

THE CONGRESS
 

HOUSE AND SENATE IN RECESS - Both Houses are in recess and no votes are scheduled in the House until after 6:30 PM on Tuesday, June the 8th, although some members will return on June 7th for committee meetings. As a result, the nation is safe from further moral decay and excessive spending until next week.
 

CULTURE AND RELIGION
 

COMEDY CENTRAL ATTACK ON JESUS - Mohammad is off limits to any criticism on American TV. Comedy Central learned quickly that even a covered image of "the Prophet" could mean not laughs, but death to the producers. Jesus Christ, however, can safely be mocked and vilified in the American media. Comedy Central has announced a new show called "JC." This is a half-hour "adult cartoon" show about Jesus living in New York City to escape his "apathetic father." In the show God ingores His son while playing video games. American pulpits are so far oddly silent about this blasphemy. (See MRC story) A coalition of organizations, including the Religious Freedom Coalition, has drafted a letter to be sent to companies that plan to advertise on JC. (See letter). As it gets closer to the premier of the show we will post the names of the sponsors for you to contact as well.  

PASTOR ARRESTED FOR CALLING A SIN A "SIN" - I will not elaborate ... the video of a a pastor being arrested in England for publicly stating that homosexuality is a sin speaks for itself. Freedom of speech is gone in most of Europe. What can still be said in the Untied States can get you arrested in Europe and Canada. The speech restrictions have begun in the United States and will continue to get worse. Eventually only those who hate God will have freedom of speech. See Youtube Clip
 

INTERNATIONAL

MUSLIM VIEW OF THE RELIEF FLOTILLA - Let's start with a mullah on Youtube who says: "I salute those mujahideen, who met their death in support of the Palestinian people. I wish that I could have been among them. I wish I were among their martyrs today. See clip
 

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