Islam Overtaking Catholicism in France, Hindu Extremists Beat, Harass & Intimidate Indian Christians

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Islamic mosques are being built more often in France than Roman Catholic churches, and there now are more practising Muslims in the country than practising Catholics.
Nearly 150 new mosques currently are under construction in France, home to the biggest Muslim community in Europe. The mosque-building projects are at various stages of completion, according to Mohammed Moussaoui, the president of the Muslim Council of France (CFCM), who provided the data in an August 2 interview with the French radio station RTL.
The total number of mosques in France has already doubled to more than 2,000 during just the past ten years, according to a research report "Constructing Mosques: The Governance of Islam in France and the Netherlands." France's most prominent Muslim leader, Dalil Boubakeur, who is rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, recently called for the number of mosques in the country to be doubled again – to 4,000 – to meet growing demand.
By contrast, the Roman Catholic Church in France has built only 20 new churches during the past decade, and has formally closed more than 60 churches, many of which are destined to become mosques, according to research conducted by La Croix, a Roman Catholic daily newspaper based in Paris.
Although 64% of the French population (or 41.6 million of France's 65 million inhabitants) identifies itself as Roman Catholic, only 4.5% (or 1.9 million) of those actually are practising Catholics, according to the French Institute of Public Opinion (or Ifop, as it is usually called).
By way of comparison, 75% (or 4.5 million) of the estimated 6 million mostly ethnic North African and sub-Saharan Muslims in France identify themselves as "believers" and 41% (or 2.5 million) say they are "practising" Muslims, according to an in-depth research report on Islam in France published by Ifop on August 1. The report also says that more than 70% of the Muslims in France say they will be observing the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in 2011.
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India Briefs: Recent Incidents of Persecution Hindu Extremists Beat, Harass & Intimidate Indian Christians
Chhattisgarh, India, August 17 (CDN) — After receiving a letter from Hindu extremists demanding the closure of Grace Church in Dhamtari, district government officials on Aug. 6 stopped the church’s worship service, warning those present that they could be attacked if they continued to hold services in the area. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that the officials warned that if there is anymore Christian worship at Grace Church, the Christians would be responsible for any subsequent rioting. The church, led by Pastor Rohit Sahu, discontinued meeting, but area Christian leaders are taking steps to solve the matter.

Andhra Pradesh – In Ramagundam, Karimnagar, police on Aug. 3 arrested a pastor, five of his evangelistic team members and a local bystander after Hindu extremists filed a complaint against them of forceful conversion. All India Christian Council representative Moses Vattipalli told Compass that the Christian team was on an evangelistic outreach that included scrawling Bible verses on the rocks of a hill near a Hindu temple when the extremists appeared and began verbally abusing them, took their cell phones and beat them. The assailants forced the Christians to erase the Scripture verses and manhandled an onlooker who had been reading them, according to Vattipalli. Six Christians and the bystander were charged with promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and were sent to the district sub-jail of Karimnagar, he said, adding that they were released on bail after two days.
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Matthew 24
⁹Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
 ¹⁰And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
 ¹¹And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
 ¹²And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
 ¹³But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
 ¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

And more here.

Muslim terrorists put chokehold on food to Christians

http://todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com/2011/08/muslim-terrorists-put-chokehold-on-food.html

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Obama's Interpol Executive Order

Image via WikipediaI want to take a little time to make a reminder about what our current Obama Administration started taking away one of the most important freedoms we have in the United States. As many remember what happened here. I'm positive most Americans don't realize what this means. Interpol is an international Police Force, Our own President allowed Foreign police to do as they please on American Citizens. A violation of our Constitution and our rights in so many ways.
Last year they announced it. But we never saw anything on the news about it. First learn more about Interpol.

INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 188 member countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime.
INTERPOL aims to facilitate international police co-operation even where diplomatic relations do not exist between particular countries. Action is taken within the limits of existing laws in different countries and in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. INTERPOL’s constitution prohibits ‘any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character.’
http://www.interpol.int/public/icpo/default.asp

I don't know how many actually remember this last year but, I want to refresh this in the peoples minds to understand how serious this actually is.



Even Glen tried to tell people about it.

Being that not many people ever listen to Alex, He did try to warn everyone about this as well way back in 2009


Alex Jones covers some recent aspects of diplomatic immunity, as extended to Interpol and other foreign agencies, by way of President Obama's Executive Order 12425. They, along with foreign troops & assets have been increasingly used throughout the United States to for 'Homeland' control over the populace.

Check these links for more info:

Obama Extends Diplomatic Immunity to Interpol by Executive Order
http://www.infowars.com/obama-extends-diplomatic-immunity-to-interpol-by-exec...

Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law?
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGY3MTI4YTRjZmYwMGU1ZjZhOGJmNmQ0NmJi...

FEMA: National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE 09)
http://www.fema.gov/media/fact_sheets/nle09.shtm

IDF, US National Guard to share defense ideas
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261244345649&pagename=JPost%2...

Army Dispatched in Response to End the Fed Protests
http://www.infowars.com/army-dispatched-in-response-to-end-the-fed-protests/

The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.
http://www.progressive.org/wx081209b.html

Secret State Police Report: Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, Libertarians are Terrorists
http://www.infowars.com/secret-state-police-report-ron-paul-bob-barr-chuck-ba...

The Modern Militia Movement-Missouri MIAC Strategic Report 20Feb09
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13290698/The-Modern-Militia-MovementMissouri-MIAC-S...
So What are they doing today?

• INTERPOL issues Red Notice for Jessica Tata
  
  WASHINGTON – INTERPOL has issued a Red Notice for Jessica Tata, the accused operator of a Houston home day care center who was charged with reckless injury to a child and has fled to Nigeria. She is charged in connection with the death of a 3-year-old child.
• Former Boxer Gabriel Sarmiento Cueva arrested March 4 in California
  
  WASHINGTON – Gabriel Sarmiento Cueva was arrested the night of March 4 by officials from the U.S. Marshals Service on criminal assault charges and is wanted in Spain for aggravated battery. He is currently being held in Los Angeles pending extradition to Spain. INTERPOL Washington, INTERPOL Madrid, Office of International Affairs and the U.S. Marshals Service collaborated during the investigation.
• OIG Launches Most Wanted Health Care Fugitives List
  
  Washington, DC – The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health & Human Services today launched its Most Wanted Fugitives List—the first-ever list of individuals sought by authorities on charges of health care fraud and abuse—to focus public attention on its most-wanted fugitives. To read more.
  
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• One of America's Most Wanted Child Sex Offenders Extradited from Poland

  
  WASHINGTON – John Hamilton, one of the most wanted child sex offenders in the country and abroad, is back on U.S. soil to face the sentencing he fled the country to avoid in 2009.

• U.S. recovers stolen Degas masterpiece set to be sold at auction

  
  “The return of this masterpiece to the French government reflects our commitment to ensure the return of stolen artwork and cultural patrimony,” stated United States Attorney Lynch. Ms. Lynch expressed her grateful appreciation to INTERPOL France and Washington for their cooperation and assistance in this matter.

• ICE arrests 20 criminals in international INTERPOL operation

• INTERPOL Washington leads multi-international effort to locate criminals in the United States

We The People need to wake up to the Reality.. We now have a Global Police Force. Who is actually immune to the very laws of the United State of America. And, Its Obama that signed away our freedom.
Anyone that knows anything about the Bible. Knows exactly what all this means. May God help us all.

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The Bitter Americans: America: For Sale

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http://www.thebitteramericans.com/2011/05/america-for-sale.html


Our country is being put up for auction, and due to the corrupted and disfigured state of our Republic, we the people are losing our power to do anything about it. I believe there are two major internal issues which are contributing to the degradation of control U.S. citizens should have over the fate our own country.



The Debt

The escalating national debt is forcing us to borrow more and more money from whoever will lend it to us. We borrow money through selling Treasury Bonds to investors, with a promised percentage return on investment. Since the end of World War II, ownership of debt is no longer peddled to the citizens of the United States. Most Americans have lost the kind of patriotism and loyalty which fueled the success of the bond buying programs in the 1940’s, and probably with good reason. We are taxed too much and we all have seen how badly the government wastes our money as it is, both of which contribute the lack of faith we have in government.

We’ve all heard that China is buying up a lot of our debt. As of October, 2010, China alone possessed nearly $1 trillion ($907 billion) in US Treasury Bonds. Japan, the UK, and Oil Exporters (then next top owners of our debt) possessed nearly another $1.5 trillion together.

Let’s roll back to the late 1950’s for a little history lesson. In 1956 there was a little conflict called the Suez Canal Crisis (or Tripartite Aggression). Essentially, the Suez Crisis was an offensive war fought by France, Britain, and Israel against Egypt to gain Western control of the Suez Canal, a coveted waterway which connected the Mediterranean and Red Seas. The US desired a diplomatic solution to the conflict and condemned the actions of its typical allies. At the time, the US still possessed a significant amount of debt from Britain and France in the form of Treasury Bonds as a result of both countries’ need to borrow during and after World War II. In order to force the withdrawal of French and British forces from the conflict, the United States threatened to sell off its bond holdings – which would have essentially crippled the value of their currency.

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France24 - Bin Laden says France will pay a high price for its policies in Afghanistan

http://www.france24.com/en/20110121-bin-laden-warns-france-hostages-pay-policies-muslim-lands-sarkozy-afghanistan-niger

Bin Laden says France will pay a 'high price' for its policies in Afghanistan

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In a purported audio tape aired on Al Jazeera television on Friday, al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden warned French President Nicolas Sarkozy that his refusal to withdraw troops from Afghanistan was a "green light" to kill French hostages.

By Elena CASAS (video)
FRANCE 24 (text)

Who are al Qaeda’s French hostages? Intelligence agent Denis Allex (probably not his real name), was captured on 14 July 2009 in Somalia, possibly Mogadishu, by al Qaeda-linked militant group al Shabaab. Five French nationals, a Togolese and a Malagasy – most of them employees of energy group Areva – have been held hostage since 16 September 2010, when they were kidnapped at a uranium enrichment site in Arlit, north Niger. They’re being held somewhere in the Sahel, possibly in Mali, by the al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb movement (AQIM).

n a message specifically targeting France, al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden warned that Paris would pay a “high price” for its policies and that the fate of French hostages would depend on the pullout of French troops from “Muslim lands”, in a purported audiotape broadcast on Arabic news network Al Jazeera on Friday. “We repeat the same message to you: The release of your prisoners in the hands of our brothers is linked to the withdrawal of your soldiers from our country," bin Laden said. "The refusal of your president [Nicolas Sarkozy] to withdraw from Afghanistan is the result of his obedience of America an

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BBC News - Australia's Queensland faces 'biblical' flood

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12102126

Aerial footage shows the extent of the damage

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A senior official has described the flooding in Queensland, Australia, as a disaster of "biblical proportions".

State Treasurer Andrew Fraser said the economic impact would be severe, with huge costs compounded by lost income from mining, farming and tourism.
Rockhampton, where 77,000 people live, is the latest city bracing for impact, amid warnings of 30ft (9m) floodwaters.
More than 20 other towns have already been left cut off or flooded across an area larger than France and Germany.
The crisis has been triggered by Australia's wettest spring on record. At least six river systems across Queensland have broken their banks. The floods have affected about 200,000 people, and many have been evacuated.
"We're still directly battling floodwaters, we haven't seen the peak of the flood yet at centres like Rockhampton," said Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who toured the stricken areas.
'Huge cost'
There are concerns that damage could cost billions of Australian dollars to repair.

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Mr Fraser has had to delay a fiscal and economic review in order to account for the costs of the floods.

"In many ways, it is a disaster of biblical proportions," he told journalists in the flood-hit town of Bundaberg.

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Muslims Take over France from Plancks Constant

Image via WikipediaThe more I get sent News from all over the World each day from various people. I can't help but to wonder. Do Americans and the rest of the World want to see Women totally covered up like this? To hide how much they are beat? Maybe it's Mid-eastern guy thing where they just can resist from beating on women.

To believe in a book that is so violent, just makes a person wonder. Why in God's name do so many people feel that their allah is so mean that they feel they have to be under so much burden for their entire lives?

Just as the Ottoman Empire did so much to try to take over the world back in the day. We can really see that none of the wars as ever changed their minds. WWI and WW2 Over Millions trying so hard to wipe out little tiny Israel.

After loosing so many wars in this effort you would think they would actually learn that their allah is not even a god. Defeat after defeat. Burdens upon more burdens. They continue to beat on Women. Stone them to death, and even men for turning away from such an angry belief system. Women have no rights. Only to what the Koran says. Which means. NO RIGHTS.

I really think that Americans should start taking the time and paying attention to what is happening around the World Right Now. This is no different from when they invaded Rome, Israel so many other times, and parts of the World all though out History.

I really think that Women need to wake up as Well. If Sharia Law comes in just like it has in several cities around the U.S. Already. It will eventually become Law for you all women to have to dress like this in America. Think it can't happen? Take a look at France today in the video below. They thought the same thing.

I urge Americans and others around the World to Wake Up.

http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2010/01/muslims_take_over_france.html

The Islamization of France is more advanced than that of America. Watch this video from Weasel Zippers and see what we have to look forward to if we continue down this path of kowtowing to Islamists:
Video: Paris Streets Being Illegally Blocked off by Private Security Guards For Friday Prayers, Police Shown Doing Nothing…
"The Muslim man who took this undercover video says his co-religionists are doing this as a show of power over the state, to 'show they can conquer French territory'…
See more at the link above.
Be sure to watch this video. Imaging your home town looking like this? The more We The People decide not to do anything. This will become our reality as well. Are you ready for it?

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French Police filmed dragging African women & taking their babies during protest

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The reality of the video really helps a person understand why we need to not just defend our rights here in America, but to help understand to never allow our Freedom to be taken from us.
Note this video may disturb people but it is reality.
Don't take your freedom for granted.

clipped from www.youtube.com In France, rights groups plan to file a complaint about police brutality, after a video surfaced showing officers using excessive force to evict African immigrants from a Paris suburb. The footage shows police dragging away women with their babies as well as young children. The group of 60 people had been living in the streets since being evicted from their council homes earlier this month. The group of mostly women and children had been ordered to move to make way for a new housing project. The footage shows a screaming woman with a baby wrapped to her back being dragged along the pavement. Another scene shows a pregnant woman lying on her back on the street. Most of the immigrants are from the Ivory Coast. Some of them had been living in France for ten years and were not illegal immigrants. Reuploaded from RoroLeVagabond's channel- http://www.youtube.com/user/RoroLeVag...

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Syria bans face veils at universities

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  DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria has banned the face-covering Islamic veil from the country's universities to prevent what it sees as a threat to its secular identity, as similar moves in Europe spark cries of discrimination against Muslims.
  The Education Ministry issued the ban Sunday, according to a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly.
  The ban, which affects public and private universities, is only against the niqab — a full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman's eyes — not headscarves, which are far more commonly worn by Syrian women.
  The billowing black robe known as a niqab is not widespread in Syria, although it has become more common recently — a move that has not gone unnoticed in a country governed by a secular, authoritarian regime.
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  Syria is the latest country to weigh in on the veil, perhaps the most visible hallmark of conservative Islam. The wearing of veils has spread in other secular-leaning Arab countries such as Jordan and Lebanon, as well, with Jordan's government trying to discourage it by playing up reports of robbers who wear veils as masks.
  Turkey also bans Muslim headscarves in universities, with many saying attempts to allow them in schools amount to an attack on modern Turkey's secular laws.
  European countries including France, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands are considering bans on the grounds that the veils are degrading to women.
  France's lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a ban on wearing burqa-style Islamic veils on July 13 in an effort to define and protect French values, a move that angered many in the country's large Muslim community.
  Opponents say such bans violate freedom of religion and will stigmatize all Muslims.

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Can The European Welfare State Survive?

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  The generous social welfare system in Denmark and other members of the European Union generally provides free health care, long-term unemployment support, liberal vacation time, and solid maternity and child care benefits. But this pillar of the EU is under economic and demographic pressure.
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  The generous social welfare system in Denmark and other members of the European Union generally provides free health care, long-term unemployment support, liberal vacation time, and solid maternity and child care benefits. But this pillar of the EU is under economic and demographic pressure.
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  One of the defining ideals of the European Union has been its social support system, often referred to as the European welfare state. The shared belief among EU nations that the state has a responsibility to care for its citizens has become a kind of common culture, unifying 27 different nationalities.
  But the European welfare system — largely put in place during the high-growth years following World War II — is under economic and demographic pressure. And the recent debt crisis is shaking the foundations of the European Union's shared social vision.
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  Anders Dalsager and Margit Larsen are graduate students at the University of Copenhagen. Like all Danish students, they study for free and receive a monthly stipend equivalent to about $900 per person from the government.
  On a recent day, the married couple walked to pick up their 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Astrid, from the campus kindergarten.
  Dalsager and Larsen say they were able to afford having a child, even though they don't yet have jobs, because the government also gives them a child care subsidy.
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  "As a regular student, you get five years of support, and then if you have a child, you get extra support from the government — 12 months if it's the mother and six months if it's the father," Dalsager says.
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  Welfare Cuts Trigger Strong Protest
  Indeed, governments from Germany to Spain are enacting austerity plans and spending cuts to try to reduce national debts and rein in public spending. But these reforms are being met with resistance — and not just in Greece.
  Germans are angry about cuts in social spending. In France, hundreds of thousands of workers have taken to the streets in recent weeks to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.
  The French government says workers must stay on the job longer to keep the state pension system afloat. But protesters say there is plenty of money — if you tax the bankers and stockbrokers instead of bailing them out.
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  But the streets of Copenhagen bustle with well-off and happy-looking people. Denmark also has one of Europe's lowest unemployment rates — about 5 percent. That's largely because of a system called "flexicurity" that gives employers the freedom to hire and fire, while the state supports laid-off workers with generous benefits and retraining.
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European flooding

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clipped from www.boston.com Over the past month, heavy rainfall from different storms across parts of Europe has caused massive amounts of flooding - some water moving slowly across river plains and farmland, some moving swiftly through cities and villages. Dozens have lost their lives, many thousands evacuated their homes, some repeatedly - Poland in particular is suffering its worst flooding in decades. More recently, parts of Spain and France have experienced flash floods that have carried away people and vehicles. Collected here are some images of the flooding in Europe from the past several weeks. (42 photos total) 40 People walk by damaged cars in the aftermath of flooding in a western district of the French south eastern city of Draguignan on June 16, 2010. (STEPHANE DANNA/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Sarkozy to submit bill banning Islamic face veils

clipped from news.yahoo.com PARIS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered legislation that would ban women from wearing Islamic veils that hide the face in the street and other public places. In seeking to forbid the garment from public view, Sarkozy defied the advice of experts sought by the government who warned that such a broad ban risked contravening France's constitution. Such a measure would put France on the same track as Belgium, which is also moving toward a complete ban in a similar reaction as Islamic culture has come in conflict with native European values. Sarkozy has repeatedly said that such clothing oppresses women and is "not welcome" in France. Government spokesman Luc Chatel said after Wednesday's weekly Cabinet meeting that the president decided the government should submit a bill to parliament in May on an overall ban on burqa-like veils. "The ban on veils covering the whole face should be general, in every public space, because the dignity of women cannot be put in doubt

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