- President-elect Obama says he is willing to talk to any
international leader (including Ahmadinejad) if it will make Americans
safer. Such openness horrifies tens of millions of evangelicals who unquestioningly
accept Israel's "Don't talk. Attack!" mentality toward Iran.
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- Before Ahmadinejad's recent visit to the United Nations,
the International Christian Embassy (a prominent Jerusalem-based evangelical
organization) petitioned UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. It demanded
not only that the Iranian leader be denied freedom to speak to the UN but
also that he be indicted for incitement to genocide against Israel. More
than 55,000 people from 128 countries signed the petition. (See, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=
- 1221489063594 Evangelicals to UN: Indict Ahmadinejad")
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- Are some people so evil they should be denied freedom
to speak in the international arena? Almost every evangelical lover of
Israel says "Yes!" and believes Ahmadinejad is one of them.
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- But does God endorse their opinion? Christians, what
if we could ask God what He thinks of banning free speech, even for those
considered exceptionally evil?
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- God reveals His point of view in the Biblical book of
Job. There we find Satan in the presence of a holy God, free to express
any evil or malicious idea (short of reviling God to His face). In this
ancient inspired Scripture, God taunts Satan that He enjoys the complete
loyalty of a perfect man, Job. Satan audaciously boasts that he can make
Job curse his Creator. The wager is laid between God's power to redeem
and Satan's to destroy. Job is steadfast. God wins, despite staggering
demonic persecution of Job. Through one man's life, God created an eternal
testimony to those who trust in Him: although it may seem that He has forsaken
us, He is very near and will everlastingly reward.
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- Could God's faithfulness have been so established if
He had not first allowed free speech to Satan? It couldn't. Having created
us free will beings, God warns that the wages of sin is death. Yet He defers
judgment for periods short or long, respecting our freedom. He may be very
angry at what we say, still, He always allows free will and resultant free
speech.
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- Yet that's exactly what most evangelicals and Jews don't
want Ahmadinejad to have: freedom to speak to the world!
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- False Prophets Forbade Free Speech
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- Throughout the Bible, evil Jewish leaders and false prophets
routinely forbade free speech. Their actions anticipated modern "speech
crime" laws, also inspired by evil Jews (the Anti-Defamation League).
There was no grace period then, just as there is none under modern "hate
crime" bureaucracies. Both demanded immediate silence under threat
of harsh penalties. Like hate laws enforcers now, those evil rulers would
not be reasoned with. Truth was not allowed to be admitted as evidence
then or in hate crime tribunals at present. In times of Elijah, Jeremiah,
and John the Baptist, authorities feared the prophets would humiliate them
by publicly laying their sins bare. Nothing has changed today, as Jewish
supremacists attempt to suppress all criticism of matters Jewish.
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- With God it is different. From the dawn of creation He
allowed Satan free reign to articulately deceive Eve, and Eve, in turn
to persuade Adam to rebel. Except for incitement to extremely dangerous
or egregious sins such as idolatry, blasphemy, and reviling of parents,
the theocracy of the Old Testament never sanctioned laws and use of force
to end free speech. In such exceptions, God allowed free expression until
the moment He cut it off. King David, reviled and stoned by Shimei as
he fled the insurrection of David's son, Absalom, did not allow Shimei
to be silenced. (2 Samuel 16:11) Such indulgence of free speech only increased
in the New Testament age of grace.
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- The Bible's position could not be clearer: Let there
be free speech!
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- What Ahmadinejad Really Says
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- Let's take a closer look at what Ahmadinejad actually
says. He alleges that Jewish supremacy represents a primary nexus of evil
in the world, particularly through domination of media, finance, and government
in Western society. He also says Zionist Israel cruelly oppresses the
Palestinians. He views the state of Israel as a tyranny which came into
existence through terrorizing 800,000 Palestinians into fleeing their ancestral
homeland in 1948. Israel, he says, continues such oppressions by incarcerating
Palestinians in hellholes of Zionist concentration camps and IDF-occupied
territories. (See, http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/israelsfoundingmiraclelandgrab.htm
- Israel's Founding: Miracle or Land Grab?) All this is
true.
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- Ahmadinejad advocates the violent overthrow of this political
and military system, including warfare against Israelis who defend it.
The larger context of his speeches and writings, however, proves he doesn't
invite genocide (extermination) of the Jewish inhabitants of Israel. Yet,
falsely, this is the primary accusation made by Christian Embassy and many
Christians and Jews today.
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- Founding Fathers Weigh In
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- What about the authority of America's Founding Fathers
regarding the freedom of evil people to speak? If we could raise Patrick
Henry, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson from the dead, would they
join today's chorus of evangelicals and Jews attempting to take free speech
from Ahmadinejad? Or would they, like Ahmadinejad, sanction overthrow
of governments if they become tyrannical and oppressive? The Bill of Rights
maintains it is the right and duty of the people to overthrow despotism!
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government..."
The Founding Fathers' endorsement of revolution, if necessary, also implies
that whatever inflammatory speech is required to encourage such overthrow
should be allowed.
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- Would Founders Agree with Ahmadinejad?
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- Ahmadinejad and the Palestinians are accused of wanting
to "drive Israel into the sea." But did not America's Founding
Fathers attempt, through violence-inciting rhetoric and actual military
offensives, to do just that to the British? They tried to drive the British
into the sea for much smaller offenses than the Palestinians have suffered
under Israel for the last 60 years!
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- Is Ahmadinejad a new Hitler, or a Patrick Henry, to the
oppressed Palestinians? Concerning his right to free speech, it doesn't
matter. Both Biblical and Constitutional precedence affirm his right to
speak even to the point of advocating violence against what he perceives
as tyranny.
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- Of course, society must have laws that forbid speech
and expression that encourages harm to the innocent. Yet Ahmadinejad's
speech is not directed against the Jewish people in general, but against
a conspiratorial international Jewish elite and oppressive government and
military in Israel. Surely, Israel's cruel mistreatment of the Palestinians
constitutes "a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably
the same Object [which] evinces a design to reduce them [the Palestinians]
under absolute Despotism" I believe that if the framers of our Constitution
were to come on the scene today and be presented with an unbiased description
of the plight of the Palestinians under Israel's harsh dominion, they,
like Ahmadinejad, would cry out for an end to the political state of Israel.
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- Actually, the Bible prophesies that not Ahmadinejad but,
with poetic justice, Israel's own long-awaited false messiah, antichrist,
will turn upon the "great harlot" Israel, destroying her. Out
of ensuing "great tribulation," a remnant of repentant Jews will
believe on Christ at His second coming and, in obedience, at last have
scriptural right to occupy the land. (See, http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/prophecysimple.html
- Bible Prophecy Made Simple)
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- Conquest through Ideas, not Sword
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- Today Israel's status as fourth greatest military superpower,
buttressed by at least 200 nuclear missiles, renders futile any attempt
to militarily vanquish her. The Arab world has the right to defend itself
from Zionist/American colonization of the Middle East. But it should abandon
all terrorism, including suicide by bombings and rhetoric such as Ahmadinejad's
"Israel should be wiped off the map!" Violence against civilians
and incendiary language is the best PR Israel could imagine, uniting world
opinion against the Palestinians and Iran. It makes their legitimate cries
against Jewish supremacy and Zionist oppression vastly more difficult for
the world to accept.
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- Ultimately, the only feasible way to restrain Jewish
supremacy in Israel or anywhere else is not by the violent revolution America's
founders might recommend but by heeding the cautions of Christ: "all
they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." (Matthew 26:52)
The Bible indicates warfare against the "synagogue of Satan"
in all its manifestations is spiritual an ideological contest between
good and evil ideas. This battle is waged by the righteous through free
speech.
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- Most American Christians are already very used to limiting
their own free speech, having imposed on themselves and rigorously enforced
a century-old ban on criticism of Israel and matters Jewish. Now, they
further help destroy Biblically and Constitutionally authorized freedom
by joining with Jews to deprive Ahmadinejad of free speech in the international
forum. Although increasingly aware that Jewish-created hate laws threaten
their free speech, they hypocritically unite with those very Jewish supremacists
to deny free expression to one whom Jews declare "beneath representation."
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- The cycles of history have repeatedly demonstrated that
one era's politically correct become the outcasts of another era. If Christians
tear down the social and legal structures that have protected unpopular
speech for centuries, someday Christians will find themselves without legal
protection. Already, the Jewish supremacists with whom evangelicals have
joined-including the Anti-Defamation League-describe Christian evangelicals
as similar to Ahmadinejad, perpetuating "anti-Semitism," "genocide,"
"spiritual holocaust," "killing of Jewish souls."
How? Do Christians threaten Israel? No. Their crime is sharing the good
news of salvation with Jews! (See, http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/ntantisemitic.html
- ADL's Foxman: New Testament is Anti-Semitic)
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- With this kind of actual hate speech proceeding against
Christians from Jews in the highest echelons of media control and power,
it takes little imagination to see what's coming. The same Jewish media
that deprives Ahmadinejad of free speech today will as eagerly take it
from Christians tomorrow.
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