Topshop being more progressive than thou at London Gay Pride this weekend.
Topshop being more progressive than thou at London Gay Pride this weekend.
Businesses and politicians fell over each other to support the London Gay Pride parade at the weekend.
The BBC reported: ‘With almost 50 official partners, ranging from airlines to mobile networks, and a list of over 60 supporters, companies are signing up to try to stamp out prejudice.’
Well, no, they are not trying to ‘stamp out prejudice’, BBC, they are simply trying to sell product. To do that, a bit of good old ‘virtue signalling’ will do the trick.
The inverted commas indicate that we have come to a strange place when supporting a group defined by vice is ‘virtue signalling’ in the first place. But clothing retailers such as Topshop are definitely adopting a ‘more progressive than thou’ stance.
London Gay Pride sponsored by Barclays and the Mayor
London Underground getting in on the act at Oxford Circus.
Costa coffee also went rainbow coloured. In addition to the opportunists on the street, the ‘Pride in London’ website indeed lists around fifty corporate sponsors of one kind and another.
London Underground is a sponsor, putting the six-coloured rainbow up at Oxford Circus with a slogan: ‘#LoveisLove’. Or five minutes in the bushes on Hampstead Heath.
Barclays Bank was joint ‘headline’ sponsor with the Mayor of London.
That’s devout Muslim Mr Khan. There is obviously a time and a place for Islam in a politician’s life.
Politicians other than the mayor of London jumped on the bandwagon. The London Evening Standard gleefully reported that the Houses of Parliament were lit up in rainbow colours. Well, after a fashion.
“The rainbow illumination of Parliament is our signal of support for sodomy,” said John Bercow, the Commons Speaker. Sorry to misquote him. Actually, he said: ‘.. of support for equality’.
Moreover, the Prime Minister flew the rainbow flag over 10 Downing Street. Thersa May put every true Christian, Othodox Jew, Muslim and for that matter every decent person in the realm, firmly in their place.
From protest to fashionable
Gay Pride has moved from protest to fashionable in forty years. However, not everyone in the gay sub-culture is happy. Peter Tatchell complained in the Guardian: ‘What began in 1972 as a protest for gay rights has now morphed into a commercialised, bureaucratic and rule-bound event, which too often reflects the wishes of the city authorities, not the LGBT community.’
The veteran campaigner went on to observe ‘a mere 26,500 people will be permitted to march. This is a fraction of the number who would march if it were a free and open event’.
Many might think 26,500 is more than enough dysfunctional people parading through our capital city. But when Gay Pride becomes as much a part of the calendar as Christmas, we need to take notice and start praying very hard for our nation to repent. And keep our passports up to date just in case the mind of God is for judgment on the UK, rather than for mercy.
Conversion therapy ‘abusive’, says Jayne
Jayne Ozanne, enmeshed in defending the indefensible
Meanwhile, one Jayne Ozanne, speaking at a weekend event in York, condemned so-called conversion therapy. This is where people who wish to be free of same-sex attraction seek psychiatric help. She said:
“Conversion therapy is condemned by professionals as being harmful to LGBT people as it is based on a misguided belief that being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender is wrong. This leads to increased mental health problems for LGBT community due to stigmatization.”
No, that’s not a ‘misguided belief’, Jayne, that is the plain teaching of scripture:
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Mar 10:6 (Jesus said) But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
And being ‘one flesh’, in that full wonderful God-given spiritual, emotional and physical sense, is something a pair of gays, or two lesbians, can never do. Moreover, the ‘increased mental health problems’ are from gays and lesbians knowing what they are doing is plain wrong. If it were from ‘stigmatization’, mental health problems for LGBT’s would be diminishing with greater media-driven acceptance. They aren’t. It isn’t.
Postscript
Just why is transgenderism an even greater assault on the Gospel than homosexuality? Click here to read about the Canadian baby whose mother (sorry, ‘parent’) insists she (sorry, ‘they’) has no gender.
Theresa May getting on a bit too well with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef
Tom Wilson names Saudi Arabia as a major funder of extremist ideology in the UK in today’s Henry Jackson Society report
Saudi Arabia is the leading overseas nation funding Muslim extremist ideology, a think-tank has claimed.
The Henry Jackson Society is named after the late anticommunist US Democrat hawk. It has investigated links between a number of Gulf States and British mosques.
Its report, linked here, is published at a critical time. The UK Government refuse to release their own report on foreign funding of Islamic extremism. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have ganged up on Qatar, accusing it of sponsoring terrorism. That charge now looks hypocritical. Qatar, of course, is home to the TV news station Al Jazeera.
Saudi Arabia ‘Foremost’
The report’s author is one Tom Wilson. He writes: ‘The foreign funding for Islamist extremism in Britain primarily comes from governments and government linked foundations based in the Gulf, as well as Iran. Foremost among these has been Saudi Arabia,’ he writes. He discovered that since the 1960s the Arabian state ‘has sponsored a multimillion dollar effort to export Wahhabi Islam across the Islamic world’. Naturally, the ‘Islamic world’ includes ‘Muslim communities in the West’.
‘In the UK this funding has primarily taken the form of endowments to mosques and Islamic educational institutions, which have in turn played host to extremist preachers and the distribution of extremist literature. Influence has also been exerted through the training of British Muslim religious leaders in Saudi Arabia, as well as the use of Saudi textbooks in a number of the UK’s independent Islamic schools.
‘A number of Britain’s most serious Islamist hate preachers sit within the Salafi-Wahhabi ideology and are linked to extremism sponsored from overseas, either by having studied in Saudi Arabia as part of scholarship programmes, or by having been provided with extreme literature and material within the UK itself.’
UK Wahhabist mosques increased 60%
The think-tank says the money pouring out of Saudi Arabia has increased in recent years. This has in turn increased the number of mosques in the UK promoting Islamic extremism. Giving references, the report says:
‘In 2007 Saudi Arabia was estimated to be spending at least $2 billion annually on promoting Wahhabism worldwide. By 2015 that figure was believed to have doubled. The impact of this increased spending may well have been felt in Britain. In 2007, estimates put the number of mosques in Britain adhering to Salafism and Wahhabism at 68. Seven years later, the number of British mosques identified with Wahhabism had risen to 110.’ That is a 62% increase.
Reaction of politicians
Theresa May getting on a bit too well with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef
Politicians have reacted in various ways to the report. Labour’s Dan Jarvis, once suggested as a leadership possibility, endorsed the report.
According to the BBC, ‘Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for the immediate suspension of UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia because of its human rights record and involvement in military action in Yemen.’
Meanwhile, Theresa May insisted the UK’s historic relationship with the desert kingdom is important for British security and trade. She visited Saudi Arabia in April, and gained yet more arms deals.
The Independent reports recent UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia are worth a whopping £3.3 billion.
Extremism funding report ‘may never be published’
Tom Wilson says: ‘In June 2017 the UK government pledged to establish a commission for countering extremism.’ Accordingly, his report calls for this new body to prioritise the issue of foreign funding for Islamist extremism. It also deplores the Government’s refusal so far to publish a report on the matter. In January 2016, Prime Minister David Cameron told the Extremism Analysis Unit to investigate, as the Observer reported. Theresa May was then Home Secretary, responsible for the Unit.
But the Guardian said in May: ’18 months later, the Home Office confirmed the report had not yet been completed and said it would not necessarily be published, calling the contents “very sensitive”.
‘A decision would be taken “after the election by the next government” about the future of the investigation, a Home Office spokesman said.’
MPs must take notice
Well, that’s now. So where is the announcement of publication? Could it be the Home Office report fingers Saudi Arabia, our main ‘Gulf Ally’ and armaments market? The press has widely reported, for example here in the Indy, that Saudi Arabia and Turkey support and finance Sunni Salafist jihadist groups in Syria. This report in The Atlantic highlights the importance of Salafist ideology in the terrorist mindset. Muslim muhajideen fighting against US forces in Afghanistan or Israel in the Holy land are encouraged and too often funded by Saudi Arabia. But what if the Saudi-funded extremists were a bit closer to home?
We need to know. The UK Government must publish its report. But until then, the Henry Jackson Society have done a good service in this instance. They have shone a light into some very murky places. We can only pray our MPs take notice. The Governments’ first duty is to keep us safe. They must take action now to stop the flow of money from this repressive, barbaric, Islamist regime.
Christian ethics would also demand an end to arms sales to the Saudis (as a start) In a complete rethink of our foreign policy:
2Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
An eight-month old baby has been given a Canadian health card with no gender marker. The media claim it is the first case in the world.
A health card seems to be a little like a British NHS card. It is not a registration of birth. A Canadian court will hear arguments over the latter.
The child’s mother, whom the mainstream media, such as the BBC and the Independent, ludicrously insist on calling ‘the parent’, does not want to admit her baby is either a girl or a boy.
Transgender pronoun nonsense
Therefore, the Province has issued the health card with a ‘U’ in the space for ‘sex’, which could be for ‘undetermined’ or ‘unassigned’. Essentially, this is a case of a grown-up forcing her own prejudices on an infant.
Naturally, it was left to the Daily Caller, the thinking man’s Huffington Post, to reveal the Canadian tot is actually a girl.
The BBC says: ‘Parent Kori Doty – a non-binary transgender person who identifies as neither male nor female – aims to allow the child to discover their own gender.’ She has hired a lawyer to fight to omit the child’s gender from her birth certificate.
The BBC totally goes along with the fiction and the transgender pronoun nonsense. Its website says: ‘The parent gave birth to Searyl Atli in November at a friend’s home in British Columbia. Kori Doty, who prefers to use the pronoun they, argues that a visual inspection at birth is unable to determine what gender that person will have or identify with later in life. They want to keep Searyl’s sex off all official records.’
Kori Doty is transgender
The Sun absurdly refers to Hayden Cross as a ‘pregnant man’
Naturally, Searyl Atli is a ‘they’ as well.
The Independent chips in: ‘Doty claims a medical examination at birth cannot determine a child’s true gender because a baby might be intersex or grow up to identify with a gender that is different to their biological sex.
“When I was born, doctors looked at my genitals and made assumptions about who I would be, and those assignments followed me and followed my identification throughout my life,” they said. “Those assumptions were incorrect, and I ended up having to do a lot of adjustments since then”.’
Those ‘adjustments’ appear to be Kori Doty taking just enough male hormone tablets to sport a scraggy beard.
Clearly, charlatan surgeons have not yet adjusted anything ‘down below’ or in the nursing department to reflect the gender Kori thinks she is.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation first ran the story about Kori Doti’s daughter. Naturally, CBC is just as politically correct. It quotes Kori Doty as saying: ‘I’m raising Searyl in in such a way that until they have the sense of self and command of vocabulary to tell me who they are, I’m recognising them as a baby and trying to give them all the love and support to be the most whole person that they can be outside of the restrictions that come with the boy box and the girl box.’
The Province of British Columbia refuses to issue Searyl a birth certificate with no gender on it. They only issued the health card so the child could access medical services.
Doty’s lawyer is one barbara findlay. That’s right, she objects to capital letters. Moreover, Ontario and Alberta are currently reviewing their policies to include a third, non-binary gender option on birth certificates. Doty herself is inevitably a member of the ‘Gender-Free ID Coalition’.
What will her daughter make of this nonsense when she is old enough to make decisions? Has her mother already cursed her with transgenderism? Or will she reject her mother’s words and her fantasy land? This daughter stands in the need of prayer.
Change coming to British Passports
Campaigners in the UK have already called for British passports to be allowed to include a third gender for people who do not identify as male or female.
UK Passport could be changed
The Government said earlier this year that it is reviewing rules on how gender is registered on official documents.
‘The UK already has strong laws in place to protect transgender people and we are committed to delivering further positive changes for them,’ a spokesperson said in April.
‘That is why we have committed to reviewing the Gender Recognition Act to look at ways of streamlining and de-medicalising the process for changing a person’s legal gender, as well as reviewing gender markers in official documents.’
The homosexual rebellion
The Queen enacted the Sexual Offences Act 1967 fifity years ago this month. The Act started the relentless promotion of sodomy and all things homosexual. Many of our readers might be tempted to say homosexual practice is just another sexual sin. However, it goes much further than that.
We object to all things sodomite on the grounds that homosexuality rebels against God’s natural order, that its activists clearly intended to destroy the family, that it brought appalling consequences of ill health on its practitioners and costs on the taxpayer, that those caught up in it would start recruiting the young, destroying lives along the way. Furthermore, we said the homosexual values of hedonism, crassness, self-absorption coupled with a disregard for self, others and the future would negatively impact on society as a whole. All that has come true.
At its root, homosexuality rebels against God’s institution of the family, found in Genesis chapter two:
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
The transgender rebellion
Caster Semenya comes first, as expected, in the women’s 800m semi-final at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
But transgenderism goes back a step. It rebels against God’s created order itself:
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
She/he was born with the external manifestation of female genitalia, but with internal testes. Real women athletes understandably object to racing against the testosterone factory that is Caster. They simply cannot compete with someone awash with male hormones and built like a brick outhouse.
But we do not hear Kori Doti’s daughter has been diagnosed with intersexualism. God evidently made her, like Doti, genetically a girl. It is just Doti’s self-centred lunacy which is causing the problem.
Perversion of medicine
Frank Godwin’s representation of Treasure Island’s Long John Silver
It is sheer idiocy for society to just go along with someone who decides his or her God-given gender is not satisfactory. Such people need psychological, emotional and indeed spiritual assistance to accept their God-given gender.
What they do not need is doctors prescribing powerful hormone drugs to stop the onset of puberty. That is child abuse. Nor do they need ‘reconstructive surgery. That is a perversion of medicine.
It is like me deciding I am Long John Silver and expecting you to fund my operation to remove my leg and buy me a parrot.
In no other area of life would we accept such a life-shattering decision to be made on the say-so of an individual. If I said someone had hit me, I should be expected to provide witnesses to prove my case in court. In other words, the court would require some evidence.
Here there is none. Indeed, any sensible society would say: ‘your own genetics witness against you.’
But we now allow an individual to play God with their own body. The UK’s Gender Recognition Act 2004 started the rot, allowing people to go back and falsify their birth certificates. Now we are at the stage of a Canadian mother imposing transgenderism on own daughter.
Welcome, again, to the post-truth world.
Isaiah 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Michael Overd (l) and Michael Stockwell were acquitted at Bristol Crown Court
Preachers Michael Overd (l) and Michael Stockwell were acquitted at Bristol Crown Court
Two street preachers convicted by lay magistrates won their appeal in Bristol Crown Court yesterday.
Michael Overd and Michael Stockwell had fines and costs totalling over £2,000 each set aside.
Judge Martin Picton watched a video which Mr Overd took to safeguard himself from malicious prosecution.
Moreover, His Honour took that as the prosecution case and heard only one witness.
After the evidence of Mr Overd and Mr Stockwell, the trial concluded with brief legal arguments. Barristers Paul Diamond and Michael Phillips set out the case law on behalf of the preachers.
Preachers convicted by Freemason magistrate
Magistrate Robert Stacey, a leading Freemason, convicted the preachers in February 2017
Despite the video, the Crown Prosecution Service brought charges last year against the two evangelists and two other preachers. In February of this year, the CPS dropped all charges against Don Kahns, an American missionary. The magistrates court decided the prosecution had made no case against another man, Adrian Clark.
But, as Christian Voice reported at the time, the bench found Messrs Overd and Stockwell guilty of disorderly conduct, religiously aggravated. Afterwards, we discovered the chairman of the magistrates was a high-ranking Freemason. We posted a further report into Freemasonry and its ‘secrets’. In that report we named magistrate Robert Stacey as ‘Provincial Grand Scribe Ezra’ in the Royal Arch Provincial Grand Chapter of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.
Christianity and the claims of Jesus Christ stand against all the occultism and secrecy of Freemasonry.
The retired laboratory manager and his colleagues, Mr Gerry McDermot and Mrs Josephine Ramsden, thought an offence was ‘religiously aggravated’ if defendants took exception to a religion, Islam in this case. The law says the defendant must display hatred towards its adherents or suspected adherents.
Appeal allowed
Michael Phillips represented Michael Overd
Accordingly, Judge Picton dismissed the aggravated nature of the convictions early in the hearing. Nor did His Honour have any problem with the preachers using the language of the King James Bible.
The court heard from barrister Paul Diamond, representing Michael Stockwell. Mr Diamond said religions are competitive and the truth each claims to hold is incompatible to another. Referring to a restless element in the crowd, he told the judge, ‘A lawful act cannot be made unlawful by the acts of third parties.’
Michael Phillips, representing Michael Overd, told the court the case was almost exactly the same as that of Alison Redmond-Bate. She was convicted of obstructing a police officer when she refused to stop preaching in the face of a hostile crowd on the steps of Wakefield Cathedral in 1998. In a famous judgment, Sir Stephen Sedley quashed her conviction.
Free speech includes the unwelcome
Paul Diamond (l) chats to this journalist after the case
Freedom to speak the inoffensive, said Lord Justice Sedley, was not worth having. Free speech encompassed ‘the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and provocative,’ he said. The only proviso on ‘provocative’ was: ‘provided it did not tend to provoke violence’.
is clear His Lordship meant the person speaking must not whip up his hearers to violence against third parties. Prosecutors will try to argue a preacher would be outside the law if a listener was moved to violence against him himself. But as Mr Diamond said, hecklers cannot have a veto which is expressed through the threat of violence. And Sir Stephen said: ‘A police officer has no right to call upon a citizen to desist from lawful conduct.’
Indeed, Judge Picton said the court, ‘Should not focus on reactions. Some became aggravated, but we ask ourselves if the behaviour itself was disorderly.’
In the event, the court held it was not. His Honour found for the preachers. He allowed the appeal to the delight of around twenty supporters gathered in the public gallery.
John Wesley’s chapel in Bristol’s Broadmead – that’s the man of God on his horse.
Earlier, in his evidence, Michael Stockwell said, ‘Jesus commands me in Mark and Matthew to go out and preach the Gospel to every creature’. He told the court there would often be people on the fringes listening, even if a trouble-maker had come to the front. ‘Most of these people never go to church,’ he said, ‘They will hear the word but maybe later at home they will think and cry to God for mercy.’
After the verdict, a small group of us went back to the place in Broadmead where the alleged offences had occurred. The site is right outside John Wesley’s chapel in Bristol. An evangelist called Daniel climbed on a stump to preach while we stood and helped to gather a crowd. Around fifty people were listening by the time Daniel came down and we all started to engage the crowd in twos and threes.
It was shocking how many younger people have bought into the homosexual narrative and are even supporting transsexualism. Truth has fallen in the street. But preachers do what they can. Above all we had good conversations. Who knows if he is planting a seed or merely turning over the ground for another to plant.
Scriptures:
Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Matthew 13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
The Lord used Christian Voice as four children wrongly taken into care by the London Borough of Bexley finally went home.
Four children wrongly taken into care by the London Borough of Bexley have finally gone home.
Four children from a family rent apart by false allegations two years ago have finally gone home.
In early March 2017 Judge Diane Redgrave approved an agreement worked out between counsel for the parents, Hilary Pollock, and the London Borough of Bexley. Bexley returned the children to their parents on 29th March.
The Lord’s hand at work
The Lord’s hand was all over the case. He arranged for Christian solicitor Michael Phillips to instruct Miss Pollock. That proved inspired (of course) as the experienced family court barrister gained the agreement of Bexley to everything beneficial to the parents.
But after the March hearing, Miss Pollock shared with this author that Bexley never expected the parents to get through the process. Nor did they expect overnight stays in the family home organised for the children at Christmas 2016 and New Year 2017 to go as well as they did.
Accordingly, from the threat of a contested hearing, where Bexley would have continued to oppose the children going home, the council changed their mind a week before the date. Behind the scenes, the setting up of a new ‘Back Together Team’ in the Borough in late 2016 possibly had something to do with that.
Bexley took children into care after false allegation
The family’s nightmare started in June 2015. Their eldest boy, in his mid-teens, ran off after being caught out in a lie about his whereabouts.
Upon being picked up by the police, he reported his parents for child cruelty. All four children were instantly taken into care. The parents were charged and sent to the Crown Court. The only corroborating evidence was that of a doctor who saw a photo of a mark on the eldest boy’s body.
Her Honour Judge Diane Redgrave
He thought it could have been made by a metal implement. However, he never examined the boy himself, and none of the other children made any similar accusation. Moreover, the police found nothing resembling such an alleged item in the family’s home.
Bexley social worker Judy Simon even contacted the mother’s place of work, a care home. The call resulted in her being laid off. Secondly, Miss Simon accused the father to his employers, British Transport Police. He was dismissed last year in another miscarriage of justice. He is currently appealing that dismissal.
Judge Redgrave gave the astonishing advice to the parents to plead guilty in the Crown Court. She said this would help them have their children returned. That may have been correct. If so, it raises yet more questions about the system. Nevertheless, father and mother stuck to their guns and maintained their innocence. On the eve of the Crown Court case their eldest son confirmed he had made it all up.
Despite that, the video is still there and has had over 96,000 views to date.
It must be said, in March this year Judge Redgrave could not have been more constructive. Discharging the Care Order, she congratulated the parents, saying they had ‘worked very hard’. She also suggested activities to keep the eldest son occupied. He was ‘Not the only teenager in the world’ to get into trouble, she said.
Prayer answered
Christian Voice members prayed hard for this family and against the injustice they suffered. The father says: ‘Every day I see the smile and joy on my children’s faces I pray for those that helped me be a complete family man again. My children too pray for them when we all have our family prayers together. Help me to say a big thank you to them all.’
If you prayed into this case, consider yourself thanked!
Canterbury Civil Court heard the case of contempt of court against Uegene Lukjanenko
Canterbury Civil Court heard the case of contempt of court against Eugene Lukjanenko
A father in dispute with Medway Council narrowly escaped jail for contempt of court in Canterbury County Court last week for the second time in six months.
Eugene Lukjanenko was charged with five breaches of an order made on 30th September 2015. The Order prohibited him from naming employees or ex-employees of the Council online.
To his credit, said Judge Richard Scarratt, he freely admitted the breaches. But His Honour rejected Mr Lukjanenko’s argument that his conduct was reasonable. Judge Scarratt sentenced him to 56 days in prison, suspended for a year.
The judge said: ‘The local authority may feel that is soft’. Nevertheless, His Honour had taken into account that if he imposed an immediate custodial term, Mr Lukjanenko ‘will be a martyr to his cause, a cause which in my judgment has no substance whatever’.
Previous contempt of court sentence ‘stemmed the flow’
In January, the same judge imposed the same sentence on the same defendant for naming his son online in breach of a High Court Reporting Restrictions Order. But yesterday, he said that had ‘stemmed the flow’ of the prohibited information. He said he hoped the same would happen this time.
His Honour Judge Richard Scarratt
The Order, made in the family court, forbad Eugene Lukjanenko from displaying the Names, Contact Details or photographs of any Medway Council employee any where.
How such an obvious infringement of his Article 10 right to Freedom of Expression came to be made was never explained at the hearing. The judge was solely concerned with Medway’s heavy-handed application to commit Mr Lukjanenko to prison.
Moreover, we are going to commend Judge Scarratt for his patience. He was dealing with an understandably upset father. The father’s first language is Russian. He continually wanted to raise what he sees as previous unjust treatment in the family courts and by Medway. He may have a point. There is little evidence the Council tried to keep this family together. And that is what we all think social workers should be doing, except in the most extreme cases of abuse or neglect.
Did he breach the Order?
The Crown Prosecution Service looked at the case under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 and decided there was no case. That should raise a question about double jeopardy. In a convoluted bit of reasoning, barrister Edward Elliott, appearing for the Council, submitted that the CPS only considered one aspect of the case. Moreover, since they took no action, there was no double jeopardy in any case. This court could try the case, a point which Judge Scarratt was happy to accept.
Mr Elliott said: ‘This is not the criminal court’. So it was not about whether the conduct actually amounted to harassment. All the mattered was ‘did he breach the order?’
And of that there was little doubt. Mr Lukjanenko put the names of three social workers with their contact details (where those were in the pubic domain) on his Facebook timeline quite a while ago.
No compromise
The defendant before a similar case in January. Face obscured
The court heard that over the lunch break Mr Lukjanenko discussed the possibility of a compromise with Medway. This fell down when the Council refused to increase contact with his son. Nor would they bring forward a meeting scheduled for September to reconsider the frequency of contact. That seems mean-minded.
But the judge said the two issues, contact and the breaches of the order, could not be linked. Judge Scarratt actually heard the case in the family court. But this was not now the family court, he said. This was a civil court hearing for contempt of court in public.
However, in an extraordinary development, the court heard that Mr Lukjanenko produced a letter in the interval.
In the letter, signed by his son, the son said he wanted to come home. Mr Lukjanenko drafted it and gave it to his son to read and sign in his last meeting at the local authority contact centre. Although these were not family court proceedings, the judge was aghast. ‘Was not the contact supervised? How did that happen?’ he demanded.
Contact centres are intended to be heavily policed by social workers. Parents are not even supposed to tell their children they love them or that they are fighting to get them home. They may certainly not pass pieces of paper to them.
Reporting Restrictions
At the end of the hearing, this author drew Judge Scarratt’s attention to a Reporting Restrictions Order in the family court which forbids the media from naming the father or the son in any report on the case. However, ours is not a jurisdiction that quietly locks people up. If someone faces prison, the hearing must be advertised and the person named. Court Practice Direction, CCR (County Court Rules) 29 on Committal Applications applies. Rule 29.9 says:
9. A committal application should normally be heard in public (see CPR rule 39.2), but if it is heard in private and the court finds the respondent guilty of contempt of court, the judge shall, when next sitting in public, state –
(1) the name of the respondent;
(2) in general terms the nature of the contempt or contempts found proved; and
(3) the penalty (if any) imposed.
Edward Elliott is involved in another contempt of court case brought by Medway Council
Judge Scarratt had to comply with the end of rule 29.9 as he was already sitting in open court. His Honour accordingly ruled we could identify the father by his full name. We are actually reluctant to do so, but the interests of justice require it. The onus is on a local authority pursuing a parent to prison to be aware they are enabling the identification of parents. They normally strive very hard to avoid that. We can only hope this does not lead to identification of the child in the case.
Medway Council pursuing another parent
Eugene Lukjanenko is not the only parent Medway Council are pursuing. We understand they are after a mother, who at the moment we shall refer to as SR. SR has published details about her case on social media. She sees a miscarriage of justice towards her and her children who are now, as we understand it, of majority age anyway.
Curiously, Edward Elliott, Medway’s barrister, boasts on his chambers page about his involvement in committal proceedings against SR for contempt of court. The mother’s case will be heard in July and we shall be there, God willing, to report on the case.
Grenfell Tower was gutted by the fire, which appears to have spread through external cladding
Grenfell Tower was gutted by the fire, which appears to have spread through external cladding
Even as we pray for those involved in the disaster, the horrific blaze and loss of life and property at Grenfell Tower in West London will raise many questions. Fire safety, fire escapes and the flammability of construction materials will be among them.
Public safety is duty of government
Jeremy Corbyn has immediately pointed the finger at Government ministers. He is right to do so.
The Bible makes clear that public safety from men of violence is the first duty of the state. The Apostle Peter lays this out clearly:
1Peter 2:14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Meanwhile, the Apostle Paul says that is why we pay taxes:
Romans 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. … 6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
Law given to Moses contains building control
But public safety does not end there. The law-books of Moses contain building regulations. These may be little known. Nevertheless, they came from the mouth of God and are universally applicable. One of them in particular has public safety in construction very much in mind:
Deuteronomy 22:8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Flat roofs are notorious for danger at the edge. The continuation of the wall past the roof for a distance of around three feet provides safety. We can take out from this that any building must be safe. Moreover, this is not a mere personal duty. The use of the singular shows it applies to the whole nation. The judges would take to task anyone who cut corners.
In any event, if a building fell and killed or injured people or property, the general rules of equity would kick in and restituion would be made. In the event of a death, that restitution would be made with the life of someone culpable. That is clear from the scripture.
Grenfell Tower refurb met regulations
Last year a building firm completed a two-year £10m refurbishment. Rydon Construction replaced windows and put in a communal heating system. Crucially, they installed new exterior cladding. The insulation in this instance may turn out to have been inflammable. Astonishingly, many modern rigid foam insulation products can catch and spread, as this report graphically shows. They include the popular polystyrene, polyurethane and polyisocyanurate. The latter, with the brand name of ‘Celotex’ was used on Grenfell Tower. Only last year, safety experts warned the Government about cladding buildings in plastic foam like Celotex. And it has emerged that a fire-resistant version of the cladding would have cost just £5,000 more at Grenfell Tower. Just how ‘fire-resistant’ it is has not been revealed. Many materials take a while to catch fire, but once they do the effect is terrifying.
According to the BBC, the firm said it was “shocked to hear of the devastating fire”. They said the work “met all required building control, fire regulation and health and safety standards”.
If that is true, and local Building Control must have signed the work off, then the regulations must be looked at again.
But be very sure. This is not a matter where the government may legitimately blame some agency. If these is avoidable loss of life in the realm, ministers must shoulder the blame.
This protest at Edward Timpson's home in May, led to a manifesto commitment on reform of the family courts
This protest at Edward Timpson’s home in May led to a manifesto commitment on reform of the family courts
The Conservative Party promised reform of the family courts in their manifesto following a rooftop protest.
It is of course open to argument whether the manifesto commitment was a response to the protest at the home of Edward Timpson. Mr Timpson was Minister of State for Vulnerable Children and Familiesin the previous government. It follows he had responsibility for social services, child protection and to some extent the operation of the family courts.
Protest
The protest, on 8th May, was carried out by an aggrieved father who has fought a long campaign to be reunited with his son.
Medway Council asked a court to jail ‘EL’ for contempt after he posted a picture of his in-care son online. Instead circuit Judge Richard Scarratt imposed a suspended sentence.
HIs Honour instructed this author that we may only refer to the father as ‘EL’ and the son as ‘J’.
That is because of secrecy rules the family court employs to protect the reputation of the courts and local authorities.
Theresa May published her manifesto ten days after the protest, on 18th May. In it, she said:
‘Protecting vulnerable children and families’.
‘Placing a child under the oversight of social services and taking a child into care are amongst the most serious duties the state may discharge.’
‘We will demand all local authorities be commissioners of the highest-quality family support and child protection services, removing these responsibilities from the weakest councils and placing them in trust.
‘Finally, we shall explore ways to improve the family justice system. The family courts need to do more to support families, valuing the roles of mothers and fathers, while ensuring parents face up to their responsibilities.’
Moreover, the Tories were the only party to commit to any such reform. That in itself lends support to the view that the commitment was a direct result of EL’s rooftop protest.
Laura Smith is the new Labour MP for Crewe and Nantwich, winning by just 48 votes
Mrs Smith overturned a 3,620 majority. She won the seat by 48 votes.
Court appearances
The police placed the father involved on police bail pending a court charge in September. However, Medway Council are taking him to court again this Thursday 15th.
A judge will hear the case at Canterbury County Court. The Council seek to commit the father to prison for contempt of court this time after he named a social worker online. As it happens, he is perfectly entitled to do so under the law.
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Theresa May’s gamble has resulted in a hung parliament
After all the sound and fury, we have a hung parliament following yesterday’s General Election. You can check the results on the BBC website here. It looks very like the Conservatives will govern with the support of Ulster’s Democratic Unionist Party. The figures add up.
With one seat to declare, the Tories have 318 seats and Labour 261. The DUP had a good night, gaining two seats to go up to ten. The two parties, with 328 seats, would have a Commons majority.
We must pray the DUP will keep the Tories honest and a bit more moral on social issues. The transgender assault on schools springs to mind as something any government should oppose. And if Mrs May’s Easter message was not plain hypocrisy, sacking Christians for talking about their faith in the workplace must stop. We must have security and in foreign policy, the warmongering must stop. But its the impact on Brexit of a hung parliament which is looming large in the media this morning.
Proverbs 16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness. (KJV)
What went wrong?
Prov 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Firstly, they refused to rule out National Health Insurance increases. That followed an attempted raid on the self-employed in the March Budget. So they told the self-employed they were going for them. That’s four million people and their families.
Secondly, they alienated the elderly and their families. They abandoned the so-called ‘Triple-Lock’ on pensions. They proposed to take away the rule that pensions would rise by a minimum of 2.5%. It may have been right to do, but it contrasted badly with Labour assurances to keep the Triple Lock.
Mrs May forsook the counsel of the Cabinet
The care cost floor, dubbed the ‘Dementia Tax’, was a hasty policy. It was neither thought out nor trailed beforehand. There was no Cabinet consensus or even discussion. The policy was inserted in the Tory manifesto after a battle between advisers in No 10. The outcry was predictable. Ditching it after just four days made Theresa May look, not ‘Strong and Stable’, but ‘Weak and Wobbly’.
Prov 24:6 For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Mrs May’s director of communications until the election was announced, Katie Perrior, told the BBC she “needed to broaden her circle of advisers and have a few grey hairs in there who been around a bit and could say ‘don’t do that'”.
2Chr 10:8 But he (King Rehoboam) forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.
Who can be trusted to keep us secure?
Thirdly, the two terror attacks, on Manchester and London Bridge, focused attention on the relationship between security and foreign policy. People were able to see how the British attack on Libya in 2011 has put us all at risk. Mrs May, as Home Secretary, encouraged known Muslim extremists to go to Libya. Not only that, she allowed them to return here as trained jihadists. Mrs May made Jeremy Corbyn look strong on security.
Fourthly, voters liked the Labour Manifesto. I am not talking about extending the Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, recognising a state of Palestine and encouraging gay rights and transgenderism. I mean nationalising the railways and spending more on public services. These things chimed with voters. In addition, doing away with student fees brought out the younger vote.
Fifthly, Jeremy Corbyn came across as affable and genuinely interested in people on the campaign stump. Theresa May looked wooden and distant. Voters warmed to Mr Corbyn. They were somewhat put off by Mrs May and what they saw as a negative personal campaign against Mr Corbyn.
Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Effect on Brexit of hung parliament
As I write, the mainstream media are pretending the hung parliament result is a rejection by voters of a clean (or ‘hard’) Brexit. The BBC quoted former Chancellor George Osborne who told ITV: ‘Hard Brexit went into the rubbish bin tonight.’ But Brexit and the form of it was hardly mentioned in the campaign.
The party most defined by opposition to Brexit was the Liberal Democrats. Tim Farron’s crew gained a few seats but their popular vote declined. They took two seats off the SNP in Scotland but lost their only one one in Wales to Plaid Cymru. Their idea of a second referendum was shot down by the voters. The Scottish Nationalist Party, and their IndyRef coupled with flat opposition to Brexit, went backwards.
UKIP voters appear to have thought ‘Job Done’. If so, they thought wrongly. But in any event, most have returned to the Conservatives and Labour whence they came.
DUP did not mention the Single Market
Labour’s position was to accept the referendum result and try to maintain access to the Single Market, not necessarily by being in it. The Conservatives said they want to take the UK right out of the Single Market and the EU Customs Union.
The DUP stated their position as follows: ‘The DUP will work to get the best deal for Northern Ireland as the UK leaves the European Union.’ The DUP manifesto, which everyone is studying this morning, did not mention the Single Market or the Customs Union. They obviously want a ‘frictionless border’ with the Republic of Ireland. (Maybe the Republic will follow us out of the EU.) The DUP say they want a ‘Comprehensive free trade and customs agreement with the European Union’. As a party which never wanted to join the EU in the first place, they should support a clean Brexit.
Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Should Mrs May resign?
The DUP’s Chief Whip and Defence spokesman Sir Jeffrey Donaldson will have a big role in negotiations with the Tories and in the new hung parliament
The Remoaner Anna Soubry MP (Con) and Bilderberg insider and globalist Ken Clarke can safely be ignored. As long as the UK maintains EU-style protections for working people, there will be enough Labour votes to secure a clean break from the European Union in a hung parliament.
The media love a story and if there isn’t one they invent one. So apart from Brexit, their other topic of conversation is whether Theresa May should resign.
The view here is that although she dropped the ball during the campaign, she still won the election. No-one else would have any kind of a mandate. She should stay on and clear up the mess. She must sack her foolish advisers and listen to her Cabinet. In addition, Mrs May has some tough questions to answer on her record at the Home Office and her ability under pressure.
Set up a church meeting about Brexit
So those of you who were praying for some sort of Con-DUP coalition have your prayers answered. We now need to be praying for those in authority even more. And the Brexit debate is back on the agenda. In that regard, I am more than happy to come to your church or fellowship and share what I learnt about the EU and its revived Roman Empire on my travels last year. All the Brexit videos are in this link.
Just ring or email to arrange a time.
Malachi 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
Prayer and the LBGT dimension
Pray for the Lord to extend mercy over this United Kingdom. In particular, pray for a godly government to be formed. Pray in particular for the negotiations between the DUP and Conservatives. Also pray for righteousness and wisdom from on high to penetrate and wash over the corridors of power.
Lesbian Ruth Davidson is the Tories’ leader in Scotland. She is about to get gay-married to her ‘partner’ Jen Wilson. She is very worried about the DUP and their staunch opposition to sodomy. Miss Davidson told the BBC LBGT rights means more to her than her Party. Mrs May has told her ‘gay rights’ will not be eroded in Great Britain. Furthermore, Mrs May will try to advance ‘gay rights’ in Ulster. We need to pray to the contrary. In addition, pray that DUP influence will mean the UK will stop promoting sodomy abroad.
Job 22:22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Prayer and Brexit
Keep praying for Brexit, for security, for an end to political corrrectness, for the rights of Christians in the workplace and especially for Christians in Parliament, of whom not a few are in the DUP, as it happens. Indeed, the media are now attacking the DUP. Their opposition to gay rights, mentioned above, and abortion are well known. But one or two of them are sceptical about climate change and evolution. They need our prayer as a group.
1Tim 2:1I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Ahmadi boy holds a poster in a vigil which directs to the Ahmadiyya website, next to their main slogan of ‘Love for All, Hatred for None’
Many will have been cheered by images of Muslims at vigils for the recent victims of terror.
The mainstream media have been quick to promote the idea of Muslims standing in solidarity with society. After all, it bolsters the establishment proposition that Islam is a ‘religion of peace’.
Nevertheless, after a bit of analysis, it appears virtually all the Muslims we saw at the recent vigils have been from the Ahmadiyya sect.
The sect has been prominent in the aftermath of the London Bridge and Borough Market attacks. Their women were lined up on Westminster Bridge, as the Independent reported. A minute’s silence on the Bridge, reported in the Metro, also saw Ahmadiyya slogans prominent.
The Muslim women on Westminster Bridge were all Ahmadi
Love for all
It is nice to remember that not all Muslims want to kill and maim kaffir, or unbelievers. All the same, to claim these peaceful Muslims as representative of majority Islam is a bit of a stretch.
The Ahmadi use slogans such as ‘Love for all, hatred for none’. Indeed, that becomes their website name. In addition, they believe the Muslim Messiah has come.
Ahmadiyya is named after its founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian in 1889. Ahmad claimed he was the awaited Messiah and Mahdi prophesied by ‘Prophet’ Muhammad and foretold by the Qur’an.
Ahmadiyya HQ in Morden, Surrey
The Ahmadiyya have mosques all over Britain with eight in Greater London alone. The largest mosque in Western Europe is their international headquarters in Morden, Surrey. The Baitul Futuh Mosque (English: House of Victories), was completed in 2003. It cost approximately £15 million, which came entirely from donations given by the 30,000 Ahmadi Muslims in the UK. So the sect is not poor or small.
Ahmadi slogans – but is this the ‘True Islam’ fallacy?
Nevertheless, alongside majority Islam those numbers are tiny. The 2011 census showed 2.8 million Muslims in the UK.
Islam has 1.8 billion adherents worldwide, of whom something over ten million are Ahmadis.
Ahmadayyi started In the Punjab but the sect is now persecuted in Pakistani. By a law passed in 1974, no Pakistani Ahmadi may call himself a Muslim.
Canon Giles Fraser, writing in the Guardian, says: ‘Even the application form for a Pakistani passport has a section requiring all Muslims to condemn the founder of their community, making Pakistani citizenship all but impossible for Ahmadis.’
That is why the sect is now headquartered in Surrey.
Regarded as heretics
The Ahmadiyya practice the first five Sunni Muslim pillars of Islam. That’s the Shahadah, Prayers, Fasting, Alms and the Hajj. They omit the Sixth Pillar of Jihad, unsurprisingly. But despite the similarities, Sunni Muslims, the Muslim majority worldwide, regard them as heretics or unbelievers. So do the Shia minority like them?
Ahmadayya slogans are at the fore in the minute’s silence on Westminster Bridge
No. Because the Ahmadi spun off from the Sunni, they are nine-carat heretics to the Shia.
So let us not be fooled by images of ‘Muslims’ standing in solidarity with the fallen. These are sadly not Sunni Muslims renouncing the Jihad. We might applaud the peaceful
ways of the Ahmadiyya. However, they may have the effect of convincing the unaware that Islam as a whole is peaceful. Regretfully, it is not.
Secondly, the followers of Ahmad may convince themselves that they have found the world’s Messiah. Again, they have not. There is only Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
American and European top politicians, industrialists and bankers met last weekend to decide how the world will be run. The Bilderberg Group gathered at Chantilly, Virginia, USA from 2nd to 4th June 2017.
You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to be concerned about it.
Firstly, these wealthy individuals rather than politicians we elect are going to determine what should be done in the world.
Secondly, whatever they decide, be sure it will benefit these ‘kings of the earth’ first, and the rest of us a long way behind.
Lastly, the Bible teaches conspiracy not as theory but as fact:
Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, …
Overlapping membership with world elite
Kenneth Clarke was on the Bilderberg steering group for years.
Bilderberg is named after the Dutch hotel where the group first met in 1954. It is highly secretive and had to be pushed and shamed a few years ago even into having a website. Naturally, the website does the minimum, publishing a list of those attending and an agenda. Up until ten or so years ago journalists had to find out the annual guest list from staff at the latest venue.
Leading members have included Dennis Healey, Kenneth Clarke, Peter Lord Carrington, the Irishman Peter Sutherland and Henry Kissinger. Bilderberg has strong links by personnel to other groups of the world’s elite. Both the US and the European Council on Foreign Relations are part of the same network. The Trilateral Commission, founded by David Rockefeller, includes in addition the elite of the Far East. The TC membership linked off their website here overlaps with Bilderberg. The World Bank and IMF, Davos, the globalist Club of Rome and numerous think-tanks such as the Aspen Institute are also in the loop.
The Trump Administration: A progress report
Trans-Atlantic relations: options and scenarios
The Trans-Atlantic defence alliance: bullets, bytes and bucks
The direction of the EU
Can globalisation be slowed down?
Jobs, income and unrealised expectations
The war on information
Why is populism growing?
Russia in the international order
The Near East
Nuclear proliferation
China
Current events
Bilderberg clearly don’t like populism. It might upset their apple cart. They also talked about China and Russia. How many Russians do you think were there? Precisely none. And how many Chinese? Just the one, that nation’s ambassador to the US. There was no-one from Asia and no-one from South America. Naturally, no-one was invited from Africa or from Eastern Europe. Sorry, there was one Polish guy there, but only because he is a professor at Harvard. Furthermore, there was no delegate from Israel. However, five industrialists and economists came from Turkey. Apart from that, there was no-one from the Middle East. That’s because Bilderberg was ‘designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America’.
Charlie Skelton has been lampooning Bilderberg for years in the Guardian. Accordingly, here is his take on the inclusion of the agenda item on globalisation: ‘You think that the assembled heads of Google, AT&T, Bayer, Airbus, Deutsche Bank, Ryanair, Fiat Chrysler, and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange want to see a brake on globalisation? It’s the air that they breathe.’
Prospects and high-flyers
Bilderberg liked Tony Blair four years before he became Prime Minister
But make no mistake, Bilderberg is the primary concentrated gathering of those who see themselves as the world’s elite. The official 2017 guest list reveals the meeting was chaired by Henri de Castries, boss of AXA insurance. The king of the Netherlands rubbed shoulders with Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary.
Ultra-hawkish US Senators Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham were there. In the past, Bilderberg has been good at identifying future Prime Minsters and Presidents. It is where Tony Blair was anointed in 1993 before he won the 1997 election.
Another website says: ‘Arkansas governor Bill Clinton, for example, who attended in 1991. “There, David Rockefeller told (him) why the North American Free Trade Agreement….was a Bilderberg priority and that the group needed him to support it. The next year, Clinton was elected president.” On January 1, 1994 NAFTA took effect.’
Of course, existing high-flyers are also in evidence. Sometimes they will be insiders, thinking along the same liines. At other times they will be those whom the inner circle wish to influence. Accordingly, this year, Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster, attended alongside David Petraeus, former CIA Director. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s Secretary General, pitched up. William J. Burns, President of the Carnegie Endowment was there. So was Christopher Liddell, Who is an Assistant to Donald Trump, and Director of Strategic Initiatives in the White House.
UK Guest list
The UK Guest list was a little light this year, maybe because of the General Election. Nevertheless, these eight made it:
Andrew Adonis, Chair, National Infrastructure Commission
Marcus Agius, Chairman, PA Consulting Group
General Sir John Nicholas Reynolds, Former Chief of the Defence Staff
George Osborne, Editor, London Evening Standard
Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, The Financial Times
John Sawers, Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners
Sharon White, Chief Executive, Ofcom
Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
The annual meetings take place under what is known as the ‘Chatham House rule’ which was invented by London’s Royal Institute of International Affairs. Consequently, ‘Participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.’
So don’t expect any report to come out. Of course, all the journalists present are sworn to secrecy. The website says of its meetings: ‘There is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written. Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.’
Scripture
Psalm 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
As you pray into this, for the Lord to bring their plans to naught, be sure he will have the final word:
READ: Psalm 2:1-4, 48:7, 64, 76:12, 149; Isaiah 24::21; Luke 8:17; John 15:18; 2Cor 10:3-5; Rev 19:19-20.
Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane were two of the three London Bridge attackers
Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane were two of the three London Bridge attackers
Saturday night’s attack at London Bridge has been followed this morning by a statement from Theresa May. But yet again, despite her ‘enough is enough’, her response is inadequate.
Mrs May is now vulnerable to Labour on security. Mr Corbyn’s denunciation of 20,000 police cuts, and his call for no more foreign interventions are striking chords with voters. But it is the Prime Minister’s inability to recognise obvious truths after the London Bridge terrorism which is causing concern for us.
‘First, while the recent attacks are not connected by common networks, they are connected in one important sense. They are bound together by the single evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, sows division and promotes sectarianism.’
But then: ‘It is an ideology that claims our Western values of freedom, democracy and human rights are incompatible with the religion of Islam. It is an ideology that is a perversion of Islam and a perversion of the truth.’
Mrs May is no Islamic theologian. It follows that her claim that Islamic violence is a ‘perversion’ rather than a fulfillment of Islam is just a bit of spin. Furthermore, of course our Western values are incompatible with Islam. Firstly, they notice homosexuals parading through our cities. That, they reckon, is our version of ‘freedom’. Secondly, they see us using ‘democracy’ as an excuse to trample over Islamic lands in order to impose it. Thirdly, they find us turning ‘human rights’ into a carte blanche for every kind of destructive behaviour
British military intervention
The Prime Minister went on: ‘Defeating this ideology is one of the great challenges of our time, but it cannot be defeated by military intervention alone.’ Indeed it is British military intervention which has fueled and empowered it. If Mrs May cannot recognise that, we are in deep trouble.
Then she said: ‘It will not be defeated by the maintenance of a permanent defensive counter-terrorism operation, however skillful its leaders and practitioners.’ That is why we need national repentance. We need the Lord to keep the United Kingdom and bless our security services with success:
Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Mrs May continued: ‘It will only be defeated when we turn people’s minds away from this violence and make them understand that our values – pluralistic British values – are superior to anything offered by the preachers and supporters of hate.’ Muslims are people whose whole lives are defined by their religion. She seriously wants them to ‘understand’ that gay marriage, transgenderism, pornography, abortion on demand, drunkenness and a popular music culture defined by indecency and sexualised lyrics is superior to their Islamic values? Our Prime Minister just does not grasp the nature of the enemy at all.
Archbishop of Canterbury gets it
Most Rev Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby gets the religious aspect perfectly. As reported in the Independent, he said there was a type of theology behind the attacks at London Bridge, Westminster and Manchester
The Archbishop of Canterbury went on to say religious scriptures have ‘been twisted and misused’ throughout history. He included Christianity in that. He went on: ‘We have got to say that if something happens within our own faith tradition we need to take responsibility for countering that’. But the problem in Islam, he said, is that there is no central authority to speak to.
He criticised politicians (like Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham) who say ‘this is nothing to do with Islam’. Archbishop Welby also lambasted those who ‘focus on the security or political aspects of it’ and cannot see ‘it is also an ideological problem’.
Theresa May does see Islamic terror as ideological. Nevertheless, she and Jeremy Corbyn, in Justin Welby’s words, do not seem to understand ‘the basic tenets of the faith they are dealing with’.
Unable to understand
The Archbishop explained: ‘They are often people who are unable to put themselves in the shoes of religious believers and understand a way of looking at the world that says that this defines your whole life, every single aspect of who you are and what you are’.
I get that. Most Rev Justin gets it, which is rather good in an archbishop. I hope you, dear reader, are also someone whose faith defines your whole life. Preferably a Christian. If so, you too will understand.
‘If we treat religiously motivated violence solely as a security issue, or a political issue, then it will be incredibly difficult – probably impossible – to overcome it’, Justin Welby said.
His Most Reverence called on the whole of Europe to look to the ‘Judeo-Christian roots’ of their culture. There, he said, they will ‘find solutions to the mass disenchantment’ which he says has led to the rise of extremism. I hope that means massive evangelism. In truth, Jesus is the only way to address disenchantment and find a better way for oneself and for society.
‘Was that really the best Theresa May could do? It was the same old tosh about “values” and “democracy” and “evil ideology”, without the slightest reference to the nation to whom she fawns – Saudi Arabia, whose Wahhabist “ideology” has seeped into the bloodstream of Isis, al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
‘Tony Blair used the same garbage language when he claimed – untruthfully, of course – that the 7/7 London bombings had nothing to do with Iraq. He, too, like George Bush, claimed that they were perpetrated because the bombers hated our values and our democracy, even though Isis would have no idea what these values were if they woke up in bed next to them.’
Well, we are going to suggest this is not an ‘either/or’ zero-sum game. Mr Fisk is right that our foreign incursions have made us all less safe. Salman Abedi’s sister said the Manchester Arena bomber wanted revenge for children killed by the US in Syria.
Furthermore, Abedi travelled to destabilised Libya for training and encouragement. So in two ways, Western intervention was at least partly to blame for the 22 deaths in Manchester. Jeremy Corbyn, too, understands that at least. He voted ‘No’ to military action against Libya in 2011. He was one of only thirteen MPs in the House of Commons to do so.
Western values at odds with Islam
But going back to ‘our values’, they are completely at odds with Islam. Some of them, such as the rule of law, the right to a fair trial, derived from Christianity. But too many of them are now completely at odds with the faith.
One of the more obvious is the absence of a robust family structure in most of Britain. It is odd that Robert Fisk should talk about Islamists waking ‘up in bed next to’ our values. In Rochdale, Rotherham and now Keithley, Muslim men have raped indigenous girls precisely because our society’s values made them available.
Then there is our drinking culture. Alcohol is forbidden in Islam. The sight of Westerners drinking is a sure sign of decadence for Muslims. They cannot have failed to notice the drunkenness into which our city centres descend on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday night. Again, family breakdown and the absence of fathers in children’s lives is at the root of much of it. But letting families break up and telling teachers to encourage teenagers into illicit sex has been government policy for a generation.
Also, In the 1960’s, Parliament abolished the death penalty and passed the Abortion Act. Our politicians took away the death penalty from the guilty, by the state, where it belongs, and imposed it on the innocent within in the family, where it does not. The womb should be the safest place on God’s earth. In the UK it is now the most dangerous. In that way we devalued innocent human life, and the Bible says mankind is made in the image of God.
Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind:
The ‘politics of division’
Muslims think Westerners are depraved. They also believe our culture is Christian. But that just makes it worse. They see Christians as polytheists because Mohammed didn’t understand the doctrine of the Trinity. He thought it included Mary, didn’t get Jesus as divine and said we were infidels with three gods.
Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan, in an opinion piece in the Guardian, warns against ‘stigmatising’ Muslims in Britain. He says the ‘root causes’ of the terrorism at London Bridge lie in British foreign policy. He is right that our foreign adventures are part of what turns Muslims into terrorists against the UK. But he is wrong to say there is nothing more. Indeed, it is offensive for him to to use the opportunity provided by recent terrorist acts to go on the rampage about British wars in the Middle East. We can say that, but not him.
Tariq Ramadan is professor, no less, of ‘Contemporary Islamic Studies’ at Oxford University. Interestingly, he warns against ‘division’, ‘ divisive rhetoric,’ and ‘the politics of division.’ A young woman in Muslim dress was stressing the importance of togetherness after the Manchester Arena bombing. But irritatingly for Prof Tariq and for her, it is Muslims themselves who practice division with their enclaves. Parts of Oldham, Rochdale, Cardiff Bay and Birmingham’s Alum Rock are virtually no-go areas for infidels. That said, we held an amazing outreach in Alum Rock in 2008. It was reported here in the Birmingham Mail and on the Christian Voice website. Muslims are hungry to hear to Gospel, or the Injil, of Isa (that’s Jesus in Arabic).
Difficult conversations
So can we draw any lessons after the London Bridge atrocity about what needs to be done?
Robert Fisk says: ‘May needs to talk to us about the “difficult conversations” she must have with the Saudis and their Gulf allies, not to Muslim British citizens. But she is too gutless, too cowardly, to deal with the Gulf Arab autocrats to whom she sells weapons, whose principal Arabian dictator, the head-chopper-in-chief, is so worthy of our mourning that May’s predecessor lowered the British flag to half-mast on his death.
‘Yes, to confront this Salafist-Wahhabi state and Gulf citizens’ financial contributions to Isis would be a “difficult conversation” indeed for Theresa May. Instead, she’s going to have her “embarrassing conversations” with Britain’s Muslims who have no power to switch off the “evil ideology” which Wahhabism represents.
‘She does have that power. But she won’t use it.’
According to the Guardian, both Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron are urging Theresa May to complete and release a report into the finding of UK Jihadist groups. They both believe it will name a Gulf state or two funding extremists in the UK. It is literally vital to dry up the money trail. Mrs May must promise that if re-elected she will get the report out fast.
Are the police using their intelligence?
One cannot quite get over how quickly the police start to round up all the associates of Muslim terrorists as soon as they commit an act of violence. They have a dozen people in custody within minutes. They must already have intelligence on them all. Why do they not round them all up together with the potential perpetrator before an atrocity is committed? Someone with operation police experience please tell us why in a comment.
Mrs May also went on in the wake of the London Bridge attack about the Internet. How to balance security against personal freedom will be difficult to get right. But important as the internet is to the radicalisation process, two researchers reported by the BBC have stressed the value of the personal touch:
‘However, our research suggests that the decisive factor in moving people from being extremists in terms of their thoughts and beliefs to becoming terrorists is not online propaganda but offline social networks.
‘It now seems likely that at least one of the attackers had been part of the extremist network al-Muhajiroun – based around the notorious British extremist Anjem Choudary…’ Choudary also radicalised the killers of Lee Rigby.
Prison provides many opportunities for ‘offline social networks’. At last the Government has begun to place Islamic radicals in separate units, but they are still leaving those Muslims they decide are non-radical in prison with everyone else. That leaves disaffected non-Muslims open to conversion. We know newly-converted Muslims are even easier to radicalise than those born into that religion.
First duty of government
The first duty of government is to keep the people safe. The Apostle Paul makes it clear they raise taxes to maintain peace and security in a realm:
Rom 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. … 4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. … 6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
We are not starting from a good place. Khuram Butt was one of 3,000 men on the MI5 central watchlist. Salman Abedi and Khalid Masood, the Westminster attacker, were on a list of a further 20,000. These are known to security but are not considered a danger. Let us pray that whoever is elected on Thursday is prepared to be honest with us and do what is needed. Political correctness, financial resources and foreign trade appear to be the enemies of security just now.
The General Election is in the hands of Almighty God. Plead with him to have mercy on our land and grant humility and repentance in the hearts of our leaders.
Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
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The singer Ariana Grande wished fans would die, according to 2014 report in the respected New York Daily News.
The paper reports: ‘While visiting a Manhattan radio station this summer (2014), the 21-year-old “Better Left Unsaid” singer should’ve left her thoughts unsaid.
‘I hope they all f—ing die’
‘“She did autographs and pics and was all smiles until she got into the elevator,” a stunned industry insider tells us. “And as soon as the doors shut she said, ‘I hope they all f—ing die.’ ”’
On 22nd May 2017, her death wish came true. IS-motivated Muslim bomber Salman Abedi took 22 innocent lives as he blew himself up at her ‘Dangerous Woman’ concert at Manchester Arena.
We ran a previous post asking why parents were actually taking their daughters (mainly) along to hear the potty-mouthed popstrel’s sexualised lyrics. A lesbian-themed launderette video still defiles her website home page.
But the new allegations must leave anyone with any sanity wondering why this young woman is still successful. If the reports are true, she despises her fan-base. Why do they turn out for her? Why do parents pay for tickets for her concerts? Don’t they even investigate her lyrics of lifestyle? A simple internet search and parents can easily explain to their children that she is nasty piece of work. Why don’t they love their children enough to do that and protect them from her influence?
The New York Times allegations are based, they say, on two separate witnesses. They are fueled by the singer’s reaction to the story. That fell far short of a denial.
According to the Daily Mail, Ariana Grande “said she had been ‘laughing out loud’ following the shock claims, in which it is said she blasted naive supporters in New York as soon as their backs were turned following a seemingly joyful encounter.”
Greedy
The Mail often runs stories which are not true, or are slanted, but here they quoted the NY Daily News and printed a copy of a tweet from the Ariana Grande twitter account. And indeed it said: ‘man some of these rumors which have been coming out about me lately have me laughing out loud – really can’t take ’em seriously’. That folks, is not a denial.
Also ‘coming out’ are reports that she charges fans $495 to have their picture taken with her. Such an amount is not out of the ordinary. But every other pop star has their picture taken with you alone. Ariana Grande has hers taken with up to six of her adoring fans together. That’s nudging three grand of dollars a shot.
New York Daily News reports: ‘Grande further dissed fans Monday by offering a $495 photo op for fans during her upcoming “Honeymoon Tour,” but stipulated that shoots are for groups of four to six people, not individuals.
‘“Really?” exclaimed one media industry tipster. “Bieber, Miley, Britney, Katy Perry all did individual pics when they sold these packages.”’
The ‘Love Manchester’ gig on Sunday 4th June should by rights be termed the ‘Exploit Manchester’. Ariana Grande is receiving exposure and virtue-signalling all in one. And making a few quid along the way, despite the charity emphasis.
But the character and nature of the centre of attention must focus attention on our civilisation. We have someone here who is crass, graceless, destructive, avaricious, self-centred, ill-mannered, foul-mouthed, indecent and got up like a prostitute. Far from telling her to repent and be saved by the blood of Jesus, the public and mainstream media fawn over Ariana Grande.
Parents encourage their daughters to watch her, to listen to her and to regard her as a role model. Then they will be surprised when their child comes out with foul language, insults them, dresses like a slag, turns lesbian or gets pregnant. Depraved, dissolute and disgusting hardly covers this culture. We are in decline, friends. We are just treading water at best, waiting for a stronger, militant people to destroy and supplant us. Now what could that militant culture be?
Ezek 39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Luke 13:4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Andy Burnham, currently Mayor of Manchester, is now standing in Makerfield.
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Manchester, claims Salman Abedi is not a Muslim.
Just after the Manchester Arena bombing, the Mayor of Manchester, Labour’s Andy Burnham, spoke on LBC Radio.
Andy Burnham: Abedi ‘not a Muslim’
Accrding to LBC, Mr Burnham said: “The message that I would want to get over – and this is how the vast majority of people feel – this man was a terrorist, not a Muslim.
“He does not represent the Muslim community. We’ve got to keep that distinction in mind all the time. This was an unspeakable act. The worst thing that can happen is that people use this to blame an entire community, the Muslim community.
“In my view, the man who committed this atrocity no more represents the Muslim community than the individual who murdered my friend Jo Cox represents the white, Christian community.”
Now of course that is propaganda. It is even more than Mr Burnham’s personal opinion. It is the constant mantra of the political class and the mainstream media. And it is merely their hope, not a polled fact, that ‘this is how the vast majority of people feel’.
Jeremy Corbyn says foreign wars have put us at risk.
Foreign wars have put us at risk
Today, Jeremy Corbyn said British military adventures in the Middle East have put us all at greater risk than we would have been without them. On Newsnight last night, Charles Clarke, not a Corbyn fan, said it all started long ago. He specifically mentioned the 7/11 attack. Indeed, that was the most dramatic example of a festering grievance between Islam and the West.
Both Mr Corbyn and Mr Clarke are clearly right. The attacks put us at risk firstly by fueling hatred of ‘crusaders’ or infidels trampling over Muslim land such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Secondly our politicians have endangered us by destabilising the entire Middle East. Jeremy Corbyn was one of only thirteen MPs who voted against bombing Libya on 21st March 2011. Those ‘Noes’ have been proved right. Andy Burnham voted in favour.
Ben Wallace, the Conservative security minister, said the timing of the comments was ‘crass.’ No, the timing is just embarrassing for those supposed to be keeping the people secure. And it highlights the urgent need for politicians such as Messrs Corbyn, Clarke and Wallace actually to tell us what they are going to do – starting from the uncomfortable place we are in.
‘Tell a tree by its fruit’ is from a Christian world-view
Salman Abedi – devout, and, actually, Muslim
But let us return to Mr Burnham. Firstly because his comment about Thomas Mair is truly crass. There is no evidence that Jo Cox’s murderer was or is a Christian. Not one report about his murky associations with US white supremacists mentions the possibility that he ever darkened the doors of a church, let alone gave his life to Christ. So leave us Christians, whatever colour we are, out of discussions about the murder of Jo Cox, will you, Mr Burnham?
Secondly, Mr Burnham’s musing that Salman Abedi’s terrorism somehow disqualifies him from being regarded as a Muslim is based, paradoxically, on a Christian world-view. In that view, you can tell a tree by its fruit. Christians are supposed to do good works. They are not allowed by their religion to sin. So if you see a unrepentant rapist or a thief or a murderer that person is not a Christian. Is Islam like that?
‘You ain’t no Muslim, bruv’
The stabbing at Leytonstone led to the ‘You’re no Muslim, bruv’ meme.
The man, a security guard called ‘John’, said he was upset by generalisations linking Muslims to extremism. He said: “People look at Muslims, and look at Isis, and think they’re all the same. But obviously they’re not.
“Isis should be wiped out, because they’re not Muslims, because Muslims don’t do that. For people to be like that, they’ve obviously got stone hearts, they don’t care about society. They don’t care about anyone. They’re evil, pure evil.”
‘John’ of course is not a Muslim. Nor does he actually know what a Muslim is. No Muslim would ever say what ‘John’ said. In fact, local Muslim leaders condemned the actions, but did not once claim the perpetrator, Muhaydin Mire, was not a Muslim. All one of them managed was the ‘he had no links to the local mosque’.
Security Guard ‘John’ was making the same mistake as Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham. He too believes the commission of deeds which he thinks are evil stop the perpetrator from enjoying, if that is the right expression, the designation ‘Muslim’.
‘Becoming a Muslim is a simple and easy process. All that a person has to do is to say a sentence called the Testimony of Faith (Shahada).’
The same website goes on: ‘To be a Muslim, one should also believe that the Holy Quran is the literal word of God, revealed by Him and that the Judgment Day (Resurrection Day) is true and will come. Believe in the prophets that God sent and the books He revealed, and in His angels, accept Islam as his/her religion.’ Finally, ‘Not worship anything nor anyone except God.’
It concludes: ‘It is that easy! ‘
Five – or six – pillars of Islam
Muslims at prayer – in the street
Indeed it is. You become a Muslim just like that. Having become a Muslim, the convert must observe the five pillars of Islam. These are obligatory for Muslims and regarded as the core of pious Islamic life.
The Five Pillars are the Shahada, the five daily prayers (Salat), fasting during Ramadan (Sawm), giving 2.5% of one’s savings to the poor (Zakat) and doing a pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj).
The sixth pillar of ‘jihad’ is often added. Jihad can be either an inner conflict to live a better life of the external conflict with the kaffir (unbelievers). Studying the Quran is pretty much obligatory as well.
Whenever Muslims are discussing whether someone is a good Muslim of not, these are the things they mention. It follows one can be a drug-dealer, or run a prostitution ring or an election fraud and still be a good, observant Muslim. Muslim gangs in prisons are not repenting, they are radicalising.
Repentance in Islam
None of Islam is based on repentance. Muslims believe that when someone becomes a Muslim, all his past bad deeds are forgiven. But there is no act of repentance as there would be prior to a Christian baptism.
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Repentance only applies to life as a Muslim. In future, when the believer does something contrary to Islam, ‘he/she can always repent to God who forgives the sins of those who repent to Him sincerely’.
But equally, good deeds can cancel out bad deeds in Islam, unlike in Christianity. No saviour is necessary. So to think that Islam is even a bit like Christianity is severely to misunderstand it. And the Andy Burnham’s of this world do not understand it, how can they defend us against it? (Or do they just trot out the ‘religion of peace’ stuff for the masses and think and speak differently in their Cobra meetings and conferences with the police?)
The Pitcher Plant – once inside, there is no escape
The Pitcher Plant of religions
It is important to note that although Muslims are expected by their faith to do good works as we should uSnderstand them, these are not obligatory works of Islam in the say way as the daily prayers, for example. Moreover, some Muslims, jihadists, might regard blowing up 22 infidels as a good deed.
There is actually nothing which anyone can do which will stop him being a Muslim. You can be expelled from a mosque, but you can never be expelled from Islam. In fact, leaving Islam is apostasy, which is punishable by death.
Not only can no-one be ex-communicated from Islam, no-one is ever even allowed to leave.
Islam is the Pitcher Plant of religions. Once someone is enticed in (or born in), there is no escape.
Proverbs 14:12 (& 16:25) There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
A mosque and Islamic Centre south of Manchester are linked to the Manchester Arena bombing.
The bomber, identified in a leak from US security as Salman Ramadan Abedi, was a regular worshiper at Didsbury Mosque. His father is a leading player in the mosque. Abu Ismail Abedi regularly calls the men to prayer.
Didsbury mosque is in Burton Road, Didsbury, not far from Junction 5 of the M60. The mosque adjoins Manchester Islamic Centre. The building was originally Albert Park Methodist Chapel. Sadly the 19th-century chapel closed in 1962 and was later converted into a mosque. Didsbury Mosque has an attendance of around 1,000 people. The Manchester Islamic Centre is a registered charity.
The Guardian reported: ‘Abedi was known to the security services but was not part of any active investigation or regarded as a high risk. He was viewed as a peripheral figure in much the same way as the Westminster attacker, Khalid Masood.
Abedi ‘quiet’ and ‘devout’
The paper found several people at the mosque willing to speak to them. One member of Manchester’s Libyan community told the Guardian about Salman Abedi. ‘He was such a quiet boy, always very respectful towards me.’ Of course he was. That is just Middle-Eastern culture. Defending Abedi’s father, equally devout, the man said: ‘his boys learned the Qur’an by heart.’ There are no surprises there. The father is thought to be in Tripoli, and his sons had travelled there as well.
Salman Abedi – devout
The interviewee went on to say, ‘Abu Ismail will be terribly distraught. He was always very confrontational with jihadi ideology, and this Isis thing isn’t even jihad, it’s criminality. The family will be devastated.’
Didsbury Mosque sermon problem
Others recalled very differently. Mohammed Saeed is a senior figure in Didsbury Mosque and Islamic Centre. He was born in Libya and came to the UK in 1980.
Saeed said he gave a strong sermon against terrorism and about the sanctity of life in 2015. He said 2,000 members of the mosque were with him; a small number were not; and a few signed a petition criticising him. ‘Salman showed me a face of hate after that sermon,’ he said. ‘He was showing me hatred.’
A trustee of Didsbury Mosque lied to the Financial Times about Salman Abedi: ‘We don’t know who he is. We’ve never seen him’.
Moreover, Didsbury Mosque has been in the spotlight before. Worshipper Abdalraouf Abdallah, 24, was jailed for nine and a half years last year after being convicted of funding terrorism and preparing acts of terrorism. Abdallah helped a number of men to travel to Syria and fight in the civil war. A family friend told the Guardian Abedi and Abdallah knew each other: ‘All the Libyan lads in Manchester know each other’.
George Kasimeris – propaganda
News becomes propaganda
Meanwhile, news coverage of the atrocity in the mainstream media quickly moved into propaganda mode. Almost every segment on the BBC’s report on Tuesday night emphasised ‘coming together’. Political leaders especially said they were not allowing the bombing ‘to divide us’.
Likewise in the online mainstream print media. Professor George Kassimeris holds a chair in security studies at the University of Wolverhampton. He wrote on the changing face of terrorism in the Independent. ‘Yesterday’s terrorist attack in Manchester has traumatised all of us living in the UK’, he wrote. He was supposed to be contrasting the nature of Islamic terrorism with the old IRA and Red Brigades. And yet he concluded of the attack: ‘we must not allow it to poison and divide us.’ That is propaganda.
Meanwhile, the Mayor of Manchester, Labour’s Professor of Theology Andy Burnham, devalues political discourse by claiming bomber Abedi was ‘a terrorist not a Muslim’. That’s also propaganda. If he was not a Muslim, what was he? A Buddhist? If they can’t face the truth, how will this sort ever protect the public?
It is as if the Establishment are truly fearful of anyone joining up the dots. People might consequently criticise the multi-cultural paradigm. Broadcasters will therefore deny any link between Islam, Muslims, Mosques, the Quran and Terrorism. Ordinary voters must never make that connection. But, as the reports coming out of the mosque show all too well, Islam is a religion of works and those works include jihad. Moreover, Jihad, in the hands of a significant number of Muslims, means death to unbelievers.
Duty of the state to maintain peace
The state’s fundamental duty is to keep its people safe. That means firstly defending the realm from external attack. Thank God, that is not remotely our problem today. But secondly, the state’s duty is to maintain peace and security inside the realm. Here is where the problem lies
The Apostle Paul makes the duty of the state very clear in his letter to the church in Rome:
Rom 13:4b … he (the ruler) is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. … 6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
In his letter to Timothy, he makes a similar point, urging prayer for leaders and giving a reason:
1Tim 2:2 (pray) For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
And this is no more than what Jeremiah told the Jewish captives in Babylon:
Jer 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
What price security?
Dame Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5
Peace and security are good things and they are what the state is God-ordained to bring. Here we have a big problem. Too many Muslims in Britain are intent on terrorism.
In addition, the security services knew Salman Abedi and Westminster killer Khalid Masood. Nevertheless, they had neither as part of any active investigation. They did not regard either as ‘a high risk’. The ‘spooks’ viewed both as ‘peripheral figures’. MI5 also had Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale on the list, but allowed them to carry out the murder of Lee Rigby.
If peripheral figures can cause such mayhem, what can central figures achieve? Last year we learnt MI5 have 3,000 suspects on a terror watch list. It was previously 2,000. But MI5 need around 25 officers to keep tabs on every one of them round the clock.
Dame Stella Rimington told the BBC: ‘And if 2,000 people were to be followed like that, we’d be talking about 50,000 full-time spies doing nothing but following suspected terrorists. That’s more than 10 times the number of people employed by MI5. The numbers don’t add up.’
We want to be protected, not ‘reassured’
What are the alternatives? It appears a choice between internment and regular substantial loss of innocent life. What are our politicians going to suggest in this general election campaign, when it gets going again? Senior police officers have been on camera in the last few days. Deploying the Army on the streets is a good thing if it releases police officers for something more important. Soldiers will be more useful here than in Estonia anyway.
Some policemen and government ministers told the media deploying troops is about ‘reassuring the public’. It is not. Or if it is they have their priorities very wrong. We don’t desire to be ‘reassured’, thank you. We want to be protected.
Twenty-two people have died and fifty-nine are injured after a bomb attack at a concert given by one Ariana Grande.
The atrocity was carried out at Manchester Arena. It was a suicide attack. The attacker, thought to be a Muslim extremist, died in the attack.
Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected and their families.
Second most followed person on Instagram
We also need to focus on the nature of the concert. Eighteen months ago, in November 2015, gunmen struck at the Bataclan in Paris. A band called ‘Eagles of Death Metal’ were playing. I investigated the band, the genre and the lyrics and published a video at the time. Here it is.
The performance of Ariana Grande was not as dark and invoking quite so much pure evil as the Bataclan gig. Nevertheless, there are questions.
Ariana Grande, or Grande-Butera, is twenty-three and American. She appeals to a young audience, teens and younger. The youngest named victim to date was just eight years old. Wikipedia claims Grande ‘has a large following on social media’. I have to admit she is someone I never heard of before this morning. Nevertheless, it seems ‘she is the second most followed person on Instagram’.
Ariana Grande’s lesbian imagery
With a young audience comes the responsibility of setting a good example. Sadly, with Ariana Grande, that is lacking. The home page of her website at this time of writing has moving images of what appears to be lesbian activity in a launderette. That may be fashionable, but it does not help her young fans to grow up to express normal attractions.
In keeping with modern de mode lesbian chic, there are images and videos around of Ariana Grande doing other lesbian-style stuff. She has or has had boyfriends. Nevertheless, her shameless promotion of bi- or pan-sexuality is plain irresponsible and thoughtless. But then, it is slanted to earn accolades from the bien pensants.
In ‘Moonlight’, the man she is singing about ‘Makes me want to give him my body’. In ‘Dangerous Woman’, the boy ‘Makes me wanna do things that I shouldn’t’. ‘All girls wanna be like that,’ she sings, ‘Bad girls underneath, like that,’ And then: ‘All that you got, skin to skin, oh my God, Don’t ya stop, boy.’ ‘Into you’ has ‘A little less conversation and a little more “touch my body” Cause I’m so into you, into you, into you, oh yeah.’
‘Let me love you’ features singer Dwayne Carter. His contribution is: ‘I say, “Girl, you need a hot boy.” She say, “You need to stop f*****’ with them thots, boy.” I say, “You need a real nigga?” She said, “Yes”, Lord.’ Dwayne is a black guy so he can get away with the racist bits but, once more, do you really want your pre-teen daughter listening to that?
And Ariana can do potty mouth as well. In Bad Decisions: ‘Boy, you make me make bad decisions. Don’t you know I ain’t f****** with them good boys? Know you love me like ain’t nobody here, boy. If you want it, boy, you got it. Ain’t you ever seen a princess be a bad bitch?’
No mention of atrocity on website
It must also be said that a full thirty-six hours after the attack at her gig, there was still no mention of it, or any expression of condolence for the victims, anywhere on her website. That may well be an oversight and could have been rectified by the time you read this.
The BBC quotes Ariana Grande as being ‘broken’ by the attack. The Independent said she was suspending her ‘Dangerous Woman’ world tour. It now seems to be back on. But she wants to pay for the victims’ funerals. How weird an expression of empathy is that? Mind you, that story is in the Daily Mail so it might not be true.
Prayer and Action
Once more, we have to call on parents to be aware of those who are influencing your children and exercise some control. You are responsible for them:
Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
And please pray for our security services. They can only foil such attacks if things go well for them. I addressed some of these in this Brexit-themed video, ‘EU: Does the Lord Keep the City‘?
Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Does Manchester’s yearly gay pride parade make it the sort of city which will enjoy the Lord’s protection? As for Ariana Grande, does one really have to be an IS supporter to recognise debauchery in her work as well? Or do you just need a moral compass?
Nigel Shepherd, seen here at a 'Resolution' conference, is arguing for no-fault divorce
Nigel Shepherd, seen here at a ‘Resolution’ conference, is arguing for no-fault divorce
A group of lawyers wants the new Parliament to legislate for total no-fault divorce.
The idea was floated years ago, in John Major’s ill-fated Family Law Act 1996. Despite that, it was never implemented.
Divorce on ‘Irretrievable breakdown’
Many people do not know there is only one legal ground for divorce. It is that the marriage has ‘irretrievably broken down’.
The person who starts proceedings, (called the Petitioner) must prove that by establishing one of the following five facts. Only the first three involve fault:
Adultery
Unreasonable behaviour
Desertion
2 years separation with consent
5 years separation (no consent required)
Now family law solicitor Nigel Shepherd wants to eliminate fault altogether. He chairs a group of around 6,500 other lawyers called Resolution. It claims to be committed to the ‘constructive resolution of family disputes’ . Their Code of Practice ‘promotes a non-confrontational approach to family problems’.
Marriage reduced to boyfriend / girlfriend status
So Mr Shepherd has written to MPs urging his no-fault idea be placed in party manifestos. In his letter, Mr Shepherd says, ‘current divorce law does not encourage couples to divorce amicably’. He complains that ‘people often have to cite unreasonable behaviour or adultery on the divorce petition’.
He claims this situation leads to unnecessary conflict and makes an amicable separation less likely. It also reduces the chances of reaching agreement on children and financial issues, he says.
But there is a downside. The ‘Resolution’ idea reduces marriage to no more than a boyfriend / girlfriend relationship.
Of course, many would argue it’s there already. ‘Unreasonable behaviour’ is ‘no-fault’ in all but name. Virtually anything will do in an ‘unreasonable behaviour’ petition. no matter how subjective. Parties often agree such a petition together.
Moreover, it is pie in the sky to believe that just by taking the fault-based facts out everything will suddenly be decided ‘amicably’. Divorce hurts. People are bitter about it. That is the reality of breaking a covenant.
Will justice be done?
There is even another aspect to all this. Will the proposals help justice to be done? Indeed, is justice being done at the moment? Pleading for anyone righteous in Sodom, Abraham said to God:
Genesis 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Suppose a party has deserted the other, or committed adultery. Suppose they have withdrawn what the Bible calls ‘due benevolence’. Perhaps they have acted with cruelty, or otherwise by their conduct repudiated their marriage covenant. Is it right and just for there to be a ‘no-fault’ settlement of property and children in such a case?
And remember that ‘Resolution’ is talking about ‘conciliation’, not about ‘reconciliation’. More effort coupled with incentives should go into keeping people together. Let us say society accepts ‘no-fault’ divorce. In that case, can we not realise that divorce costs in parties’ mental health and achievement, in children’s outcomes and in additional pressures on our housing stock? Divorce should be prevented if possible. A serious attempt at reconciliation should at least be tried.
This probably won’t be addressed in party manifestos, but letting marriages be dissolved so easily as they are is a bigger problem facing society than Resolution would care to admit. And we hate to say it, but fewer divorces would mean fewer fees for lawyers
Prince Charles is Patron of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies which has invited extremist Vice-President Kalla to speak on 'Middle Path Islam' in Indonesia
Prince Charles is Patron of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies which has invited extremist Vice-President Kalla to speak on ‘Middle Path Islam’ in Indonesia
The Prince of Wales is embroiled in a row over the persecution of Christians by Muslims in Indonesia.
The invitation and topic are all the more risible because of Kalla’s involvement in the recent persecution of a Christian standing for election in Indonesia.
V-P Kalla’s ‘Middle Path Islam’ in the ‘Indonesian Experience’ can only be described as intolerant and vicious. And V-P Kalla himself is still struggling to shake off his student history of encouraging Muslims into acts of violence against Christians.
In 1968 Kalla was leader of the HMI (the Islamic Student Association) of Makassar. An allegation of blasphemy was made against a Catholic. Kalla was recorded instructing all members of HMI and other Muslim organizations to come to nearby mosques at 8 pm. After the evening prayer (‘ishā’), the Muslims started attacking the Christian buildings. Meanwhile, the loud-speakers of the mosques were shouting out ‘Allahu Akbar, defend your religion, be a martyr!’ Page 39 of a dissertation records: ‘The Christian buildings attacked in the incidents were 9 Protestant churches, 4 Catholic churches, 1 nuns’ dormitory, 1 Academy of Theology, 1 office of the Catholic student organization, and 2 Catholic schools.’
Intolerance followed by blasphemy conviction
But it’s the latest example of Indonesian ‘Middle Path Islam’ which will embarrass Prince Charles. A Christian governor seeking re-election in Jakarta was convicted of blasphemy against the Koran. The Telegraph reports on the matter here.
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as ‘Ahok’, is a Christian who was standing for re-election in Jakarta
Basuki Cahaya Purnama, affectionately known as Ahok, lost his re-election as governor of Jakarta because of religious intolerance. He was then convicted and sentenced to two years in prison. The trial was held just a week ago, according to this report in the Guardian.
During the election, Muslim organisations close to Mr Kalla urged people to take to the streets against Ahok. V-P Kalla himself backed the hard-line Islamist Muslim candidate, his protégé, Anies Baswedan. This was despite an obligation that the Vice-President must remain neutral. Baswedan was supported by groups like Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia. HTI distributed a booklet, entitled: ‘Welcoming a Muslim Governor, Kick out the Kafir Governor, Forming a Sharia Jakarta.’
V-P Kalla’s Islamist friends reminded Muslims of a verse in the Qur’an. Al Madia 51 says: ‘O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.’ [Pickthall translation] Ahok’s enemies said this verse meant they could not be governed by a Christian. That in itself revealed the intolerance of Kalla’s Islam in Indonesia
Ahok’s claim they had misinterpreted the verse led to the charges of blasphemy. Furthermore, the Indonesian court upheld them.
Prince Charles speaks of ‘understanding’
Jusuf Kalla, Vice-President of Indonesia, is a hard-line Islamist
And now Vice-President Kalla has the nerve to give a lecture on how wonderful has been the Indonesian experience of ‘Middle Path Islam’.
Prince Charles has a quote on the Centre’s website. He says: ‘The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies has done so much to promote and improve our understanding of the Islamic world. That mission has great importance in our increasingly interdependent world. The relationships between Islam and the West matter more today than ever before.’
Dr Farhan Nizami, Director of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
We shall certainly understand a great deal about the Islamic World of the Oxford Centre should the lecture by Kalla go ahead. It will be a calculated insult to Indonesia’s minority Christians.
Moreover, the lecture will cast a shadow over the heir to the throne. Indeed, should it go ahead, his only course must be to resign as Patron.
Funding raises questions
The uncomfortable fact is Muslims can be as academic as they like. Nevertheless, they can never quite shake off the extremism, hatred, violence and sheer intolerance inherent in Islam.
The British Pakistani Christian Association and Christian Voice are joining Indonesian ex-pat Christians at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on 18th May in a witness against the lecture by Vice-President Kalla.
Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Admiral Mike Rogers is talking up Russian hacking despite there being no evidence of it.
Admiral Mike Rogers is talking up Russian hacking despite there being no evidence of it.
A Russian hacking scare is doing the rounds in our newspapers.
Just for a change, this time the imaginary target is the UK’s General Election.
However, it is not clear what they are supposed to be doing. Are they firing off tweets? Did they leak the Labour Manifesto? Are they planning to flood the count with agents? Then what?
‘Russian hacking’ of Macron was actually from the US
The Sun Newspaper reportsUS National Security Agency head Admiral Mike Rogers confirming his staff were in contact with Britain.
Mr Rogers told a Senate hearing in Washington: ‘We had become aware of Russian activity. We had talked to our French counterparts and gave them a heads-up. We are doing the same with our German counterparts and our British counterparts.’
He also claimed Russia was behind an attack on new French leader Emmanuel Macron’s team on the eve of the election.
The hacking attack on Macron’s campaign — a day ahead of the run-off vote that saw him elected — led to thousands of files being leaked online. Experts said it was a clumsy and amateurish effort. It had none of the hallmarks of a sophisticated attack, let alone involvement of a state agency.
Indeed, Andrew Rettman in EUObserver said: ‘The spread of stolen emails designed to harm Emmanuel Macron was linked to US-based neo-Nazis, according to a French investigation.’ Admiral Rogers was plain wrong. And he must have known he was giving the Senate misleading information.
Russians are capable
Boris Johnson chimed in, claiming there was ‘no question at all’ that President Putin hacked the Democratic National Convention. (Actually it was a Democrat insider who leaked the material to Wikileaks.)
In apparent response to a question about hacking our election, Mr Johnson said there was ‘plenty of evidence that the Russians are capable of doing that.’ Going further, he said there was ‘no doubt they had been up to all sorts of dirty tricks.’
No doubt any number of states have people capable of hacking into computers. But clever boys and girls out there can do the same. Moreover, the channel to Wikileaks is always open to whistle-blowing insiders.
Talking of Wikileaks, in March they released material from the US Central Intelligence Agency. It was leaked by an insider. Among the documents, WikiLeaks exposed the CIA’s ‘UMBRAGE’ group. These software engineers use malware to steal and replicate the digital ‘fingerprints’ of a foreign hacker. That allows the U.S. to blame the hack on a foreign enemy. And today, sadly, the US elite see Russia as an enemy. Stick in some ‘Russian script’ and it’s ‘job done’.
The false story will run because everyone in the mainstream media and every Establishment politician wants to believe ‘the Russians did it’.
US interference in elections
The Washington Post has led on the Russian hacking nonsense. It has even had its fingers burnt with posting fake news about the Vermont Utility in its eagerness to see the Russians everywhere.
He speaks of the USA’s ‘most infamous episodes’. These ‘include firstly the ousting of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953‘. Tharoor says his government ‘was replaced by an authoritarian monarchy favorable to Washington’. That will be the Shah. Secondly, there was the ‘removal and assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba in 1961’. Thirdly, Tharoor says the US did not care for socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende. He writes that his government ‘was swept aside in 1973 by a military coup led by the ruthless Gen. Augusto Pinochet’. And who backed Pinochet? The US gave him assistance.
But the US did not just oust left-wing governments in a cold-war fever. Tharoor says: ‘Sometimes that agenda also explicitly converged with the interests of U.S. business’. In 1954, he writes, ‘Washington unseated Guatemala’s left-wing president, Jacobo Arbenz’. Arbenz ‘had the temerity to challenge the vast control of the United Fruit Co., a U.S. corporation’. The President brought in agrarian laws that would be fairer to Guatemalan farmers. Writes Tharoor: ‘The CIA went on to install and back a series of right-wing dictatorships that brutalized the impoverished nation for almost half a century.’ The whole article is well worth a read.
Modern history of US / UK interference
And all of that is to neglect modern history. The US and UK together brought about the ruin of Iraq, the desolation of Libya and the destabilisation of Syria. The EU interfered in Ukraine, toppling a democratically-elected president because he was pro-Russian. And of course that man George Soros was ready with his ‘Open Society Foundation’ to enable a bit of violent street action in support. Recently, President Obama tried to interfere, albeit clumsily, in the UK’s Brexit referendum.
So let’s all try to be a little bit grown up, shall we? Of course states want to deal with those who are friendly to them. And of course they might try to influence things so that friendly people come to power. Or those to their advantage. And if they are not doing it, the bankers or other elites are doing it. Or even organised crime. The Mafia no doubt influence elections on Sicily and in cities like Rome and Turin. And we can be sure the very last thing armaments manufacturers want is nation states getting on well with each other and defeating terrorism. It follows they will do their best to interfere at election time everywhere.
During this general election, can we get around and ask for some evidence of the Russians hacking it? All the talk of Russian hacking might leave President Putin feeling flattered and amused. All the same, it degrades those who spout it and wastes everyone’s time. Is there no real news out there?
2Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God
The LGBT group designated Prince William as ‘straight ally of the year’. It appears the Prince was duped into supporting the homosexual activists’ Trojan horse of ‘anti-bullying’.
He has even appeared on the front cover of a homosexual magazine promoting the cause. Neither Prince William nor his advisors seem to have realised the anti-gay-bullying campaign is just another gay propaganda tool. The Bible says:
Proverbs 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Activists use anti-bullying in schools, to recruit vulnerable teenagers. Firstly they sucker schoolchildren into supporting the gay cause.
Secondly, if a child experiences any kind of homosexual attraction phase in adolescence, teachers and other authority figures encourage them to see themselves as possessing a ‘homosexual orientation’.
Sarah Garrett, promoter of the post-truth world
Sarah Garrett and twins with Linda Riley
Lesbian activist Sarah Garrett founded the British LGBT Awards through the Square Peg Media (SPM) group. She built up SPM from 2005 with her lesbian partner Linda Riley. Ms Riley remains as managing director.
Nevertheless, she nauseatingly refers to Ms Garrett as ‘my ex-wifey’. Sarah Garrett gave birth to twin daughters by a sperm donor in 2007, when she was ‘with’ Ms Riley. Two women can now be named on a birth certificate. Welcome to the post-truth world.
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
As well as the LGBT awards, SPM also started something called ‘Alternative Parenting Week’. Naturally, the Queen made Ms Garrett a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Years Honours List. We cannot be bothered to look it up, but the excuse was probably ‘Services to Diversity’. Sarah Garrett was no.36 on the Pride Power List at this time of writing. Linda Riley does not appear. Yes, Sir Ian McKellen is no.1 on the list and the ghastly God-hating Stephen Fry is no.2.
‘Progess on Equality’ means LGBT awards not needed
In a sign of the times, the National Westminster Bank is the major sponsor of the LGBT awards. The awards become the ‘NatWest British LGBT awards’. But if that makes you want to switch banks, Barclays and HSBC are also sponsors and Lloyds was slated for an award. The Independent newspaper is ‘media sponsor’.
Ruth Hunt of Stonewall
Psalm 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Sarah Garrett started up the LGBT Awards in 2015, when the Stonewall Awards closed down. Stonewall is the UK’s major sodomy-promoting pressure group. Their awards were notorious for including a ‘Bigot of the Year’ category. This author was nominated for that category but disappointingly lost out to Melanie Phillips in 2011.
Why did Stonewall end the awards? Stonewall Chief Executive Ruth Hunt cited society’s ‘progress on equality’ since the awards were first launched in 2005. So did Stonewall drop the awards and Sarah Garrett just pick up the loose ball? Did Stonewall possibly agree for Ms Garrett to take over? Or did she just muscle in? We shall probably never know.
SPM will have agreed the award with the Prince’s office before he was nominated. It was a bad decision to link up with those trying to destroy the Christian faith and promote sodomy to schoolchildren:
2Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
Given that, it was a good call to stay away from the actual event. The ex-athlete and Kardashian associate Bruce Jenner won an award called ‘Loud and Proud’. Of course he won this posing as ‘transgender women’ ‘Caitlin Jenner’.
The gay anti-bullying propaganda campaign now has royal sanction. Consequently, Pastors and parents will need to be on even greater alert. What are the schools teaching your children? You need to find out.
Meanwhile, we can only pray the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will keep Prince George well away from the gay scene itself. But all their mixing with the ‘luvvies’ of the entertainment world at a time when the whole Establishment is promoting an anti-life lifestyle of disease, death and degradation will make that hard to do. Moreover, if his parents have totally lost their moral compass, the infant prince will be in real spiritual danger.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Psalm 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
