A Canadian Muslim Gets It – JD Farag Gets It: But Most Are Missing It

In the past few days I have written two articles on President Trump’s visit and speech in Saudi Arabia.  There is now a firestorm of opposing views among Christians on how this president handled the subject of terrorism.

This morning a brother in Christ led me to an article from Canada.

From torontosun.com    by Tarek Fatah [1]

Trump’s Riyadh farce exposed in Manchester

U.S. President Donald Trump has accomplished the impossible.

After correctly diagnosing the ailment that afflicts the Muslim world, he has prescribed the wrong medicine as the cure, thus ensuring the epidemic will thrive.

Speaking Sunday at a summit of over 50 Sunni Muslim-majority countries in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, Trump correctly called for “confronting the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds.”

So far so good.

But then he laid the blame at the feet of Shia-Muslim Iran.

It didn’t take long for Trump’s prescription to be blown to smithereens.

Barely 24 hours after his speech, a 22-year-old Briton, whose family immigrated from Sunni-dominated Libya, not Shia-dominated Iran, blew himself up in Manchester, England, outside an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people, including children, and injuring dozens more.

Among those cheering the loudest were supporters of ISIS, the Sunni terrorist group.

Prior to the tragedy, addressing the dictators and monarchs who rule the Sunni Islamic world, Trump said, “no discussion of stamping out this threat (Islamic terror) would be complete without mentioning the government that gives terrorists … safe harbor, financial backing, and the social standing needed for recruitment. … I am speaking of course of Iran.”

I shook my head in disbelief. I could not imagine any Muslim who would not roll their eyes and scoff at Trump’s prepared remarks.

As Muslims, we may be grabbing at each other’s throats, but we can smell cow dung.

Few Muslims, Shia or Sunni, Iranian or Saudi, Baloch or Kurd, Afghan or Somali, would swallow the absurdity of linking Shia Iran with Islamic terrorism, when the far greater culprit is Saudi Arabia’s Sunni-controlled government.  (emphasis added)

Even one of the most prominent Muslim Republicans in America, retired U.S. Navy Lt.-Cmdr. Zuhdi Jasser, referred to the leaders of the Sunni-dominated Muslim-majority countries present in Riyadh as, “THE Islamist Mafia.”

Quoting from Trump’s speech, he rebuked the U.S. president in a tweet: “Trump: ‘Terrorists do not worship God they worship death’ — No they are invoking interpretations of THE Islamist mafia you are addressing.”  (emphasis added)

The Manchester slaughter took place on the fourth anniversary of the public execution of British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby, by adherents of the Islamism that has spread across the Sunni Islamic world, Europe and North America.

The Riyadh conference was a farce.

The leader of one of the few democracies in the Muslim world, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, a woman who has actively fought Islamic terrorism, was shut out from the front row of the group photographs.

She heads a nation of 150 million Muslims, but she’s not Arab and doesn’t buy billions of dollars in armaments to fight wars.

Half of the world’s Muslims live in the Indian sub-continent, a quarter live further east in Indonesia, yet India was not invited.

Nothing was said about the fact Saudi Arabia’s client state, Pakistan, is home to al-Qaida, Taliban, ISIS and scores of Islamic terrorists who raise and launder millions of dollars to fund international jihad.

The only winner at the Riyadh circus was America’s military-industrial complex, which can sell weapons of war to dictatorships who will not be able to stop another Manchester bombing, no matter how many billions worth of tanks and fighter jets they buy. [1]

Now the question is this:  Is Trump praising Saudi Arabia out of ignorance, or is this part of an agenda?   I cannot answer that – but this I know:  In the end, everything in this world comes down to money. Sending arms to Saudi Arabia is never a good idea. Our God only knows in whose hands these weapons will be placed. 

Please do not get me wrong – Iran is a terribly evil country as well; but to say that they are the culprit of world wide terrorism is just not true. The deal that BHO made with Iran is deplorable, but Iran does not stand alone as the only evil empire in the Middle East.

In Ezekiel 38, Saudi Arabia is absent from those countries who physically attack Israel. But who is to say that the Saudis will not send these weapons to the countries who will attack Israel in that war? The Saudis are not to be trusted.

Brethren, I know there are those who are upset with me for writing about President Trump.  I voted for him!  I rejoiced with the rest of Christians that Hillary Clinton did not prevail in that election.  But I did not delude myself into thinking that Trump would be infallible.  He is a man, and I believe that he is an unsaved man. You may disagree with that, but it’s what I believe.

President Trump needs people around him who know history – who know the atrocities committed by Saudi Arabia against innocents.  They need to know the barbaric punishments imposed by the government of Saudi Arabia. But mostly, they should understand that Saudi Arabia quietly funds horrific terrorist acts all over this planet.

An excerpt from my previous article:

“Saudi Arabia is the largest funder of Islamist Terrorism on the planet. Did you know that most people (including President Trump) believe that the Saudis were behind 9/11?

With all of their riches and uninhabited property – including tents which have electricity and running water (they house up to 1 million people) which are only used during the yearly Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca; do you think that Saudi Arabia offered to take any Muslim refugees?  Nary a one.  And their excuse?  The government claims that their contribution to the migrant crisis is to build mosques in all of the “host” countries. I gather that they pay the salaries of imams in these mosques to insure radicalization of the migrants.

Very well thought out, don’t you think?”  [2]

Pastor JD Farag 

This godly man has been condemned and abandoned by people who have watched his Prophecy Update every Sunday night for years.  Why?  Because he called a spade a spade.  He was not condemning President Trump – he was drawing attention to our president’s lack of discernment and lack of the knowledge of history.  I believe that many owe Pastor JD an apology.

Don’t place your trust in any man, no matter how important he may be on the world stage.  There is One in whom we trust, and His name is Jesus Christ. His Word is the Bible and the Words of Life are contained within it.

As Christians we know that globalism will eventually prevail. But does that mean that we turn a blind eye to it?  I refuse to do that.  It is EVIL, and I will die saying so.

Does it mean that we cheer on Donald Trump when he is blatantly wrong?

I refuse to do that.

MARANATHA!

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[1]  http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/23/trumps-riyadh-farce-exposed-in-manchester

[2]  https://grandmageri422.me/2017/05/23/you-want-to-see-the-real-saudi-arabia/

Dancing With the Devil In Saudi Arabia: Our Presidents Will Never Learn

The same man (Edmund Burke) who wrote “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing” also wrote this:

“Those who don’t know history, are doomed to repeat it.”

I believe that our president is not a student of history.  I also believe that Trump does not understand the culture of Saudi Arabia nor does he know anything about the Qur’an.

Saudi Arabia and the United States of America are world’s apart as far as our culture and our history.  But Trump made a speech to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, that was so appalling to me – This is a president who is hastening Bible prophecy and is being used by God (our God – the ONLY God) to usher in the end of days.

Islam IS the problem

President Trump made statements in his speech which inferred that we worship the same God as do the Muslims.  He knows nothing about our God, and it is so apparent from words spoken by him. He obviously has never read from the Qur’an (there is an English translation available to all).  If he had read, he would have seen the jihadi verses. Much like Bush, our president is speaking lies to the world about Islam. He is presenting them as “victims” and the rest of us should be ashamed.

This is hog wash.

Trump literally danced with the devil in Saudi Arabia

Our president took part in a ritual “Sword Dance” with the Saudis.  I believe that Allah is actually Satan. I have stated this for years in my articles.  This shocked and saddened me, but it is clear that God is using this man (Trump) to bring in the events of the last days.  So as I am appalled, I am also excited that the return of our King – the Creator of the Universe, will be coming soon to gather up his bride and take us to our real home in heaven.

What is the sword dance?

From answers@yahoo.com  [1]

“It is not a dance, but rather a military chant to the glory of the fighters going to battle, until today it is done as a celebration to the royal family and to the nation.  It is called Ardha in arabic and you will see one in any big exhibition about saudi culture, in royal weddings, festivals etc etc.”  (emphasis mine)

Saudi Arabia and the U.S. at the end of WWII

Trump also knows nothing of the history of our relationship with Saudi Arabia. Perhaps many do not know what transpired between FDR and the King of Saudi Arabia. FDR was well known as a an anti-Semite. He rejected  a ship with over 800 Jews who were frantically attempting to escape death in Hitler’s camps. Over half of those Jews who had to return to Europe, perished in the camps. But as you will read in this piece, FDR was not finished with his evilness towards the Jewish people.

From articles.baltimoresun.com    (from 2002)

Saudis remember FDR’s broken promise

September 01, 2002|By G. Jefferson Price III | G. Jefferson Price III,PERSPECTIVE EDITOR

PRESIDENT BUSH and his closest advisers would hardly be surprised at the strain that’s developed between the United States and Saudi Arabia if they were students of the relationship between the two countries.

The fact that prominent individuals in that entourage, including the president, are oilmen makes it even more surprising that they are surprised.

Oil is about the only thing that Saudi Arabia and America have in common. America consumes a lot of it, and Saudi Arabia produces a lot of it. Culturally, socially, politically and religiously, America and Saudi Arabia are poles apart, no matter how many people in America are Muslims and no matter how many Saudis come to America to be educated.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the first president of the United States to meet a king of Saudi Arabia, certainly noticed this. But he made a promise to the Saudi that would be broken within a couple of years by his successor. And the king of Saudi Arabia and his successors never fully recovered.

Roosevelt spelled out this promise in a letter to King Abdel Aziz Ibn Saud on April 5, 1945:

“Your Majesty will recall that on previous occasions I communicated to you the attitude of the American Government toward Palestine and made clear our desire that no decision be taken with respect to the basic situation in that country without full consultation with both Arabs and Jews. … [During our recent conversation I assured you that I would take no action, in my capacity as Chief of the Executive Branch of this Government, which might prove hostile to the Arab people.”

That promise was soon to be broken.

The earlier meeting Roosevelt referred to may have been one of the most bizarre of his presidency. Oil was the concern, Saudi Arabia’s untapped potential was the attraction. The Roosevelt administration and the American oil interests working to establish American primacy in Saudi Arabia over the British had been heaping money on Ibn Saud.

The meeting took place in February 1945 aboard the USS Quincy, a destroyer, in the Great Bitter Lake of the Suez Canal, where Roosevelt stopped on his way home from the Yalta Conference with Churchill and Stalin.

Ibn Saud was brought to the rendezvous aboard the USS Murphy, a cruiser, along with an extraordinary cargo, though not nearly as strange as it might have been if the king had had his way. Ibn Saud had arrived at the dock with an entourage of about 200 men, plus quite a few women from his harem.

The captain of the Murphy was appalled. He warned the king’s entourage of problems that might arise with women aboard a naval vessel manned by a crew that had been at sea and at war for a long time. The women were left behind. The king brought a retinue of 48, including coffee servers, cooks and six huge Nubians with swords.

Why the cooks? Muslim tradition calls for all meat to be fresh. The Saudis would not eat Navy food, so they brought their own sheep to slaughter on board. King Ibn Saud was 6 feet 6 inches tall. He would not sleep in a ship’s cabin, so he and his entourage slept on deck, on carpets.

The Roosevelt administration, before and during World War II, had been doing everything it could – usually in secret and sometimes close to illegally – to help advance American interests in the Saudi Arabian oil development.

Saudi Arabia was not central to America’s war effort, but in 1943, Roosevelt was persuaded that paying Ibn Saud was essential, even if a lot of the money was going to pay for his wives, slaves and concubines. So he ordered Lend-Lease money diverted to Saudi Arabia, asserting that, “I find the defense of Saudi Arabia is vital to the defense of the United States.”

Oil – or its potential – was the only thing Saudi Arabia had to offer, and it was not in danger of being occupied by the Axis powers. Had Roosevelt been interested, he might have learned that the regime in Saudi Arabia – “vital to the defense of the United States” – was not much different than the Taliban regime knocked off recently by the United States in Afghanistan.

Ibn Saud had conquered most of the Arabian peninsula and consolidated it into one kingdom with the help of the fanatically religious Wahhabi Bedouins, who believed, among other things, that dying in battle was a ticket to paradise, that all images, from pictures to statues, had to be destroyed, that drinking and smoking and singing and dancing were sins punishable by whipping, and so forth.

Sound familiar? Many of the rules are still in effect in Saudi Arabia. Some speculate that Osama bin Laden is a Wahhabist.

Ibn Saud had been a great and fierce warrior. He loved to sit around talking of great battles he had won and how he had personally killed his enemies. Possibly most important to him after his devotion to God was his honor and his belief that a man’s word was his honor.

So when Roosevelt made this promise about Palestine, it never occurred to Ibn Saud that another president could come along and break that promise.

But Roosevelt died a week after sending the letter to Ibn Saud.

Harry S. Truman, Roosevelt’s successor, came to office suddenly and unexpectedly.

Truman placed the United States forcefully and decisively in support of the partition of Palestine and the creation of a Jewish state in 1948. The sentiments of the king of Saudi Arabia were not considered important.

“I’m sorry, gentlemen,” Truman explained to worried Arabists. “But I have to answer to hundreds of thousands of people who are anxious for the success of Zionism. I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents.”  [2]

Brethren, we are seeing the signs of the times rapidly increase since Trump was elected.  Take solace in the fact that this was God’s will for the world. Don’t forget that God is in full control – even when it seems that evil is overtaking us – it is simply the Lord allowing events to happen that He foreknew before the foundations of the earth were laid.

Keep your eyes on Jesus – our Blessed Hope!

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!

Grandmageri422@gmail.com

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[1] https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090511193228AAXXEBp

[2]  articles.baltimoresun.com/…/0208310033_1_saudi-arabia-ibn-saud-king-of-saudi