MEMRI: Leading Egyptian Feminist Dr. Al-Sa'dawi: Islam Should be Removed from the Egyptian Constitution as the Official Religion
Her interview illustrates a sentiment that would seem to be a threat to Islam--and the vitriolic reaction of some Egyptian clerics speaks volumes about the so-called "religion of peace."::Submitted for your False Prophet [Revelation 13:8-18] and Mystery Babylon the Great [Revelation 17] files.

Flu Outbreak Blamed for 11 Kids' Deaths
AP reports, "As a nasty flu outbreak spreads across the country, schools are reporting more empty seats as parents keep children at home to recuperate or to protect them. The flu is now being blamed for the deaths of at least six children in Colorado, three in Texas and one each in Oklahoma and New Mexico." :: Submitted for your Pestilence (Luke 21:11) files.

The Golden Report - WE can't see the forest because of the trees.
Jerry Golden sees Europe becoming anti-Semitic--and suspects George W. Bush of treason--but in all this he sees prophecy unfolding. Specifically he sees the regathering of all the Jews back to Israel in preparation for the struggle over Jerusalem [Zechariah 12, 14].

MEMRI: Editor of Kuwaiti Daily: Syria's Secret Service is Behind the Iraqi Resistance
In other words, what we see as the Iraqi opposition is nothing more than the Syrian secret service operating hand-in-glove with Saddam Hussein. On the other hand, this editor doesn't have much respect for the Syrian operation. In fact, he says quite bluntly that it will fail, and that the Syrians will hurt no one but themselves.::Submitted for your war [Matthew 24:6] files.

White House: Geneva Accord May Be Useful
AP reports: The architects of a far-reaching proposed accord between Israel and the Palestinians campaigned for Washington's approval Wednesday, but the White House said President Bush's blueprint for a Mideast settlement still was the best formula. "The path forward to peace in the Middle East is the road map," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said, referring to the approach that has the endorsement of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia. :: Submitted for your Covenant With Many (Daniel 9:27) files on the search for Mideast peace.

MEMRI: Jewish Holy Books On Display at the Alexandria Library: The Torah & the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Everyone knows that the so-called Protocols are an elaborate fraud. Everyone, that is, with the apparent exception of the Arab press. This would be funny were the stakes not so high.::Submitted for your struggle for Jerusalem [Zechariah 14] and your wild man of the desert [Genesis 25] files.

World Leaders Back 'Geneva' Mideast Peace Plan
Reuterrs reports, "World leaders past and present voiced firm support Monday for an unofficial Middle East peace plan shaped by regional "doves" but denounced as treason by both Israeli officials and Palestinian militants." :: Submitted for your Covenant With Many (Daniel 9:27) files.

Weather Hampers Rescue in Quake-Hit China
AP reports, "Rescue squads battled thick snow, treacherous roads and numerous aftershocks as they struggled to help the victims of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 11 people in northwestern China, official media reported Tuesday.:: Submitted for your Quake (Matthew 24:7) files.

Hopes Pinned on New Drug Plan on World AIDS Day
Reuters reports, "A global plan to rush life-saving drugs to millions of people with AIDS was launched on Monday amid warnings on World AIDS Day that the war against the disease was being lost." :: Submitted for your pestilence (Luke 21:11) files.

Annaqed (English Section) - News and Comments - Mahathir's Speech Encouraged Ignorance Among Muslims
The word Annaqed means "the critic" in Arabic. This article came to my attention, of course, through the good offices of the Middle East Media Research Institute. It is the first time that an American Muslim has squarely rebutted a hateful speech by a militant fundamentalist Muslim. But is this the sort of thing that a Christian can support? This critic actually dares challenge Allah to give another revelation to "abrogate" all the hateful anti-Jewish things that we all know that the Koran contains. In a Christian we would roundly criticize this sort of thing as not only putting God into a box but also, and worse, adding to the Bible [Revelation 22:18]. Tragically, those Koran passages will not go away, and they can only provoke war [Matthew 24:6. But that war will be a three-cornered war--among Christians in one corner, Muslims in a second, and secularists and "cafeteria religionists" both Christian and Muslim, in the third.

MEMRI: Saudi Columnist: "We Have Bred Monsters ... We Are the Problem and Not America"
So says Muhammad Talal al-Rasheed, in protest against the assassination of Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Rasheed by Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria. The "monsters" of which Dr. Talal speaks are, of course, the very terrorists to whom the Saudi royal family has been paying remittances for all these many years.::Submitted for your war [Matthew 24:6] files.

Unofficial Mideast Accord Gains Momentum
AP reports, "An unofficial Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative to be signed the first of next month in Geneva is gaining momentum, with the likelihood that negotiators will take it to Washington, organizers said Wednesday...The Swiss-sponsored accord contains many of the same basic elements making up the U.S.-backed ``road map'' peace plan - including a Palestinian state and the removal of most Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories. The accord would give the Palestinians a state in 98 percent of the West Bank, all of the Gaza Strip and the Arab-populated areas of Jerusalem, as well as control over the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam's third-holiest site [aka The Temple Mount, Judaism's most holiest site, Ed.]." :: Submitted for your Covenant With Many (Daniel 9:27) files on the search for Mideast peace.

MEMRI: President Bush's Appointee to Commission on International Religious Freedom, Prof. Khaled Abou Al-Fadl, Warns Against Reelecting Bush
The professor is an Egyptian immigrant to the USA. His specific objection is very interesting:

Question: What is the truth about the connection between the Islamic organizations in America and the American government, today and in the recent past?
Prof. Abou Al-Fadl: Unfortunately, because of shortsightedness and ignorance, the Islamic organizations helped Bush reach the White House. I met with many leaders of these organizations and I told them that I have known Bush well since he was governor of Texas, where I live, and I am familiar with his bad policy, which does not bode well.
During the election campaign, Bush gave the Islamic leaders a certain status… They lost their equilibrium. They did not listen – not only to me, but also to someone like Ralph Nader, who was a presidential candidate of Arab origin. He met with them and all but pleaded with them not to vote for Bush. He all but kissed their hands so they wouldn't. We told them that he [Bush] is a Christian religious fundamentalist and that the group around him, of the likes of Paul Wolfowitz and others, hold the same beliefs that accompanied colonialism's entrance to the Muslim countries in the 19th century.

He continues to complain that "Bush makes continued American aid in the world contingent upon permitting missionary activity." Zounds! Spreading the Gospel of Christ? Horrors!::Submitted for your false teachers [Jude] and open door that no man can shut [Revelation 3:7] files.

MEMRI: The ‘Islamic Affairs Department’ of the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Americans wanting to learn about Islam from the country that includes Mecca and Medina really get an eyeful. In their own words they declare their hostility and intolerance towards all non-Muslims, in complete contradiction of every pronouncement they have ever made that Islam is a religion of peace or that Saudi Arabia wants peace.::Submitted for your war [Matthew 24:6] files.

Report: Asian AIDS Epidemic Is Worsening
AP reports, "HIV is spreading faster in Asia than in Africa, and the Asian AIDS epidemic is worsening because of complacent governments, inadequate health care and widespread prejudice, a new report has warned." :: Submitted for your Pestilence (Luke 21:11) files on the AIDS pandemic.

Israel, Palestinian Summit Is in Doubt
AP reports, "Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday he would not accept preconditions for a summit, and the dispute threatened hopes for a decisive effort to end three years of violence and jump-start stalled peace talks. Momentum had seemed to be building toward a renewal of talks on implementing the U.S.-backed 'road map' peace plan." :: Submitted for your Covenant With Many (Daniel 9:27) files on the search for Mideast peace.

The Golden Report - A sad State of affairs.
The article includes a picture of a new toy being stocked for Eid al-Fitr, or the end of Ramadan. It is a play-set that includes a bearded and turbaned doll holding a model of the Pentagon in his hand. Standing next to him is a model of the Twin Towers, with gouts of flame marking where the two planes hit each one.

In the same article, Golden sharply rounds on President George W. Bush for saying that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. For the benefit of any seekers reading this, that is utterly and categorically false. I submit this for your heterogospel that is not an allogospel [Galatians 1:6-7] files. The King James Version reads "another gospel, which is not another." The Greek for that transliterates as heteros...ouk allos. In ancient Greek, heteros means "radically different" while allos means "another of the same or similar kind". Paul was telling the Galatians that they were going so far off-track that they were no longer on the same road. Sadly, President Bush has done the same thing, although he probably doesn't have a clue.

Golden also points out that the anti-Semitism that boiled over so violently in Europe during WWII is getting hotter all over again. He cites Zechariah 14:2 and multiple verses from Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel to show that this, too, is prophesied: namely that God will regather His chosen ones to their Promised Land and that the nations of the world will do battle over Jerusalem.

MEMRI: Reactions in the Arab Press to President Bush's Address on Democracy in the Middle East
The reaction, unfortunately, is largely negative. Still, most of the criticisms are frankly silly. It would appear that they are all interested only in war [Matthew 24:6] with anyone and anything non-Arab.

Applied Digital Solutions' Announces Secure Solution for Payment & Transactions
Business Wire reports, "Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADSX) an advanced technology development company, announced that the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Scott R. Silverman, in his speech today at the ID World 2003 in Paris, France, revealed the Company's newest subdermal RFID solution called VeriPay(TM). VeriPay is intended to be a secure, subdermal RFID (radio frequency identification) payment technology for cash and credit transactions. About the size of a grain of rice, VeriChip(TM) is the world's first subdermal, radio frequency identification (RFID) microchip that can be used in a variety of security, financial, emergency identification and other applications." :: Submitted for your Mark of the Beast (Rev 13:16-18) files on identification verification technology and mobile commerce technology.

MEMRI: A Debate in the Saudi Press on Dialogue with Saudi Al-Qa'ida Members
That this issue would even be debatable in any body of news organs just goes to show how ambivalent (at best) the Arabs really are. This sort of "debate" could only take place in the context of a religion that explicitly directs its adherents to kill non-adherents. The sadly deluded practitioners of this false religion do not, of course, have any hope of the salvation of their eternal souls. After all, Jesus says, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the Father if not through Me." [John 14:6]

Now as it happens, the three sheikhs who called for this misguided dialogue have come in mostly for criticism in no uncertain terms. But no Christian cleric would ever call for "dialogue" with a group of mass murderers and insurrectionists. St. Paul tells us, "Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities." [Romans 13:1]::Submitted for your war [Matthew 24:6] files.