Turkish Government Preventing Smithsonian Institution From Showing The Truth

The Turks refuse to allow others to acknowledge history while they’re busy trying to rewrite it for them. Islam and truth. It’s like oil and water. They just won’t mix …

“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers …” – Islamic poem quoted by Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan

AINA – “Turkey has reportedly pressured the Obama Administration into forcing the Smithsonian Institution to cancel an official display of the historic Genocide-era ‘Armenian Orphan Rug.’ The ANCA is deeply troubled that foreign interference, from Ankara, appears to be preventing the Smithsonian from displaying this historic Genocide-era artwork.

‘We hope and expect that our government will, as a matter of principle, reject foreign efforts to censor how Americans view a truly pivotal chapter in the history of America’s emergence in the early 20th Century – notably during the Armenian Genocide – as an international humanitarian power,’ said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. ‘Any barriers to the display of the Armenian Orphan Rug should be removed, and this important piece of artwork made available to the American public.’

In an article in The Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Philip Kennicott says: ‘If you can read a carpet’s cues, the plants and animals depicted on the rug may represent the Garden of Eden, which is about as far removed as possible from the rug’s origins in the horrific events of 1915, when the fracturing and senescent Ottoman Empire began a murderous campaign against its Armenian population. Between 1 million and 1.5 million people were killed or died of starvation, and others were uprooted from their homes in what has been termed the first modern and systematic genocide. Many were left orphans, including the more than 100,000 children who were assisted by the U.S.-sponsored Near East Relief organization, which helped relocate and protect the girls who wove the ‘orphan rug.’ It was made in the town of Ghazir, now in Lebanon, as thanks for the United States’ assistance during the genocide.’

‘There was hope that the carpet, which has been in storage for almost 20 years, might be displayed Dec. 16 as part of a Smithsonian event that would include a book launch for Hagop Martin Deranian’s ‘President Calvin Coolidge and the Armenian Orphan Rug.’ But on Sept. 12, the Smithsonian scholar who helped organize the event canceled it, citing the White House’s decision not to loan the carpet. In a letter to two Armenian American organizations, Paul Michael Taylor, director of the institution’s Asian cultural history program, had no explanation for the White House’s refusal to allow the rug to be seen and said that efforts by the U.S. ambassador to Armenia, John A. Heffern, to intervene had also been unavailing,’ Kennicott says in the article titled ‘Armenian ‘Orphan Rug’ is in White House Storage, as Unseen as Genocide is Neglected.'” Read more.

Flashback: France: French Senators Pass Law Criminalizing Armenian Genocide Denial, Turkey Rages at ‘Satan Sarkozy’ and Threatens Retaliation – “Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan attacked the French parliament on Tuesday for passing a ‘discriminatory and racist’ bill which makes it illegal to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide… Some Turkish newspapers listed possible measures that Ankara might take against France.” Read more.

Flashback: Canada: Turkish Muslim Groups Celebrate Genocide Of Armenian Christians – “The annual Armenian Genocide Memorial Day protest in front of the Turkish embassy was met with 50 Turkish-Canadian counter-protesters denying the well-established actuality of the Armenian Genocide. The group quickly turned to singing and jubilant chanting at the face of the Armenians.” Read more.

Flashback: Turkey, Key US Ally, Added to List of Worst Religious Freedom Offenders – “Yes, you’ve read that right. The country that has become ‘a useful model for new Arab regimes’ has now been added to the list of worst religious freedom offenders in the world … this is a nation that the Obama Administration is now actively arming, a nation that now makes verbal attacks against Israel ‘a central feature’ of its political discourse …” Read more.

UK Terror Suspect Wrote Poem To Bin Laden: ‘We Are Left To Continue What You Started … To Instill Terror’

Hadith, Bukhari 2977, “I have been made victorious with terror” – The ‘Prophet’ Of Islam, Mohammed

Qur’an Sura 33:21, “Indeed in Allah’s Messenger (Mohammad) you have an excellent example to follow for him who hopes in (meeting with) Allah and the Last Day …”

Qur’an Sura 8:12b, “… terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Qur’an.”

Death lover raised sons to seek death for “Allah”

The Mirror – “White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite wrote a love poem to Osama Bin Laden during her time on the run, it emerged today.

Police discovered the ‘Ode to Osama’ on a computer during a search of the British terror suspect’s apartment in Kenya.

Lewthwaite is the world’s most wanted woman following last month’s horrific terror attack in a Nairobi shopping mall, which killed more than 70 people, including five Brits, by Islamic extremists al-Shabaab.

In the 34-line ballad, revealed by Sky News, the mum-of-four says her love for the dead terror chief is ‘like no other’ and vows to ‘revive what he started’.

She warns that al-Qaeda is ‘stronger and fiercer than ever’ and calls on other Muslims to ‘seek the victory until be are martyred.’

The last line sends a chilling warning to US President Barack Obama, who declared a victory against al-Qaeda following Bin Laden’s death.

It reads: ‘Their was no victory for you Mr Obama, the honour is his on martyred Osama!’

The Daily Mirror also uncovered a diary which reveals Lewthwaite’s horrific ambition for her sons, Abdullah, nine and Abdur-Rahman, to become suicide bombers.

The nine-page manuscript tells of grooming sessions encouraging them to follow the barbaric example of her first husband, 7/7 terrorist Germaine Lindsay.

Lewthwaite, from Aylesbury, Bucks, wrote that tales of holy war make the best bedtime reading for her little ones, gave advice on being the wife of a ‘mujahid’ (Islamic holy warrior), and attempted to ‘incite’ others to fight against ‘non-believers’.

She planned to write six chapters, including: ‘Guidance to Jihad/Islam’ and ‘Your reasons for fighting and leaving all you love behind’.

She proudly told how she is blessed to have had a holy warrior husband who ‘gave his all to Allah’ and ‘lived a life of terrorising the disbelievers’.” Read more.

Anti-Christian Violence And The Silence Of ‘Moderate’ Muslims

Why should “moderate Muslims” do anything but remain silent about Islamic terror when, according to so many Western leaders, Islamic terrorism has absolutely nothing to do with Islam? …

Qur’an Sura 24:35, “Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth… Allah doth guide whom He will to His light…”

2 Corinthians 11:14-15, “… for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.”

By Piero Gheddo, AsiaNews – “An Italian man, who recently came back from the Philippines, told me that on the big island of Mindanao, hundreds of extremists came at night from the island’s interior and from smaller islands to attack a suburb of the city of Zamboanga, looting and burning houses and huts. They retreated taking dozens of hostages, leaving behind dead and wounded victims. The Italian said that targeted killings and kidnappings are frequent, but perhaps this is the first time that such a large-scale attack on Christians was carried out. Fear of new attacks has spread and nothing will be as before. The government is bound to send in the army and more fighting, revenge attacks and destruction are to be expected. Those who can have fled to other parts of the country, as people’s lives and the economy are on hold. From Gulf countries, money is being sent to ulemas, mosques and Qur’anic schools to train young people to fight and accept to become ‘martyrs for Islam’ against the Christian state. Salafists want an autonomous region for the Muslim minority on the island of Mindanao, which would join Malaya and Malaysian Borneo to form a single Islamic state.

All this does not make its way into front-page news, and yet there is more. Three days ago, an attack was carried out against a Christian wedding in Giza, in southern Cairo, that left four people dead and 18 wounded according to the latest report.

In Bangladesh, people have always adhered to a moderate form of Islam. At present, foreign missionaries and nuns are still allowed in, but in recent years, a number of Islamist movements and groups have stirred people up. They have called on the government to make the Sharia (Islamic law) the law of the land, holding up the country for days with non-stop strikes and demonstrations that often result in unnecessary violence (travellers and workers are stopped, beaten, stabbed and killed sometimes). The small Christian, Hindu and Buddhist minorities are under pressure and have to endure every day specious sentences, acts of injustice, and violence. As Bangladesh’s upcoming general election draws near, many fear the worse.

The Central African Republic is ‘one of the most destabilised states in the continent’ because of foreign Muslim gangs (from Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Sudan) who seized power in the capital Bangui, ousting President Bozizé. As Mondo e Missione (October 2013) reported, ‘during the offensive by Seleka forces (the ruling Islamists), hospitals and health centres were looted and medical staff fled. The health situation is dramatic. […] Christians are being targeted by Islamic soldiers,’ a Protestant clergyman said, ‘tied, beaten and forced to hand over money to save their life …. Seleka rebels have ravaged and plundered places of worship, killing and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee, targeting especially Christians.’ In four dioceses in Central Africa, at least half of all Church assets have been heavily looted, destroyed or taken away. ‘Everywhere, people are leaving,’ Mgr Juan José Aguirre, bishop of Bangassou, said. ‘Civilians are killed and girls raped. They stole everything they could in the dioceses: cars, motorcycles, even refrigerators, television sets, blankets. They destroyed everything: from educational centres to children’s facilities.’ And ‘In Bohong, foreign Seleka soldiers did not spare a single hut belonging to non-Muslims residents,’ a report issued by the Diocese of Bohong said. ‘Throughout the city, except on the Muslim side, the same scene can be seen: roofless, empty homes and blackened walls ….'” Read more.

Harbingers Of Disaster? Rare ‘Sea Serpents’ Are Washing Ashore Southern California Beaches

CBS Los Angeles – “Could the appearance of rare ‘sea serpents’ washing ashore beaches in Southern California portend disaster?

The question comes following the discovery of the carcass of a rare 18-foot-long oarfish off the coast of Catalina Island on Oct. 13, followed by another snakelike 14-foot-long oarfish found on Oct. 18 in Oceanside.

Fishermen in Japan reported a sharp uptick in oarfish sightings in March 2010 following the massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Chile that same month, which marked almost exactly one year before the country was devastated by its own magnitude-8.9 quake in northeast Japan.

Oarfish, which can grow to more than 50 feet in length, are considered the longest bony fish in the world. They typically dive more than 3,000 feet deep, which makes sightings rare and has fueled various serpent legends throughout history.

According to traditional Japanese lore, oarfish rise to the water’s surface and beach themselves to warn of an impending earthquake, a notion that some scientists have speculated could be supported by the bottom-dwelling fish being more sensitive to seismic shifts.

Known as the ‘Messenger from the Sea God’s Palace,’ over a dozen ‘ryugu no tsukai,’ or slender oarfish, either washed ashore or were caught in fishing nets in the Ishikawa, Toyama, Kyoto, Shimane and Nagasaki prefectures near the quake’s epicenter months before the 2011 quake hit, according to several reports.” Read more.

Christian Pastors In Kenya Gunned Down By ‘Well-Trained Hit-Men’

By Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post – “Two Christian pastors were murdered in separate attacks in Kenya on Sunday, officials shared, with one found with a Bible on his lap sitting in a chair, preparing for Sunday morning service.

‘We found him with blood oozing from the head,’ choir member Morris Ali said of Pastor Charles Matole, leader of Mombasa’s Vikwatani Redeemed Gospel Church, according to Sapa-AFP.

Ali added that Matole had received death threats by text message before the incident.

A police investigation has been launched into the case, with clues suggesting that the attackers were well-trained hit-men who could have followed the pastor from his home, AllAfrica.com reported. Matole was shot from behind, and a cartridge from a pistol was recovered from the scene, but nothing was reported to be stolen.

‘He had received threatening death messages from unknown people. It was reported to the police but it was later concluded that the threats were sent by fraudsters from inside prisons,’ added his wife, Claris Matole.

The other incident took place in the town of Kilifi, north of Mombasa, where pastor Ebrahim Kidata of the East African Pentecostal Churches was found murdered in a patch of bushes. Kilifi county deputy speaker Teddy Mwambire confirmed that the cleric, in his mid-fifties and appointed just a few weeks earlier, appeared to have been strangled. His motorcycle was also stolen.” Read more.

Flashback: ‘Rivers Of Blood Will Flow In Nairobi’: Islamists Vow To Turn Kenyan Cities Into Mass Graveyards – “Somalia’s Islamist group al-Shabaab threatened on Wednesday to increase militant action in Kenya, after the country refused to withdraw its troops from Somalia, reported Agence France-Presse… ‘We will strike Kenyans where it hurts the most, turn their cities into graveyards and rivers of blood will flow in Nairobi,’ al-Shabaab said in a recent statement.” Read more.

Flashback: Kenya: Al-Shabaab Claims Responsibility For Church Attacks, Will Continue To Kill Those Who Do Not Worship Allah – “Somalia militia group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for Sunday’s twin attacks on two churches in Garissa County that left 17 people dead. The latest development came even as muslim leaders in Kenya agreed to form self-defence groups to protect churches following the deadly attacks. In a tweet on Wednesday morning, the insurgents said they carried out the attacks in retaliation for Kenya Defence Forces (KDF)’s incursion in Somalia. An Al-Shabaab loyalist Sheikh Hassan Takar said that the militia killed people who did not profess allegiance to Allah.” Read more.