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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

In Brief... Consequences of an Indian-Pakistani Nuclear Exchange

An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/ about a potential war. This follows this post about Easter. This follows this post about former Muslims in America. For a free magazine subscription or to get the books recommended for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886- 8632.

In Brief... Consequences of an Indian-Pakistani Nuclear Exchange

by Cecil Maranville Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

What would happen if a nuclear weapon such as those in the arsenals of India and Pakistan were detonated? Perhaps 122,000 people would die per detonation. So if the two nations exchanged only one weapon each, nearly a quarter of a million casualties would result immediately.
Additionally, anyone within 100 miles who looks at the detonation would be instantly blinded. Of course, radiation continues to kill beyond those destroyed in the initial blast. The “kill zone” of the type of nuclear weapons these nations have is 2,500 square miles. That's why Britain and the United States warned their citizens to leave both countries at the height of the tension. Clearly, some military personnel who are fighting the War on Terror would be in the kill zone of radiation fallout.
How far would the radiation fallout extend? According to Dr. Garner, it would definitely reach the U.S. mainland. How damaging it would be at that point is anyone's guess and might be difficult to measure. Consequences would present themselves in increased cancer rates—something that might be difficult to attribute to a single cause.
Back to India and Pakistan, there is an additional and frightening result of radiation poisoning beyond the kill zone. Radiation is known to lower the immune system of those exposed to it. People outside of the kill zone would suffer enough radiation poisoning to seriously lower their immune system, resulting in the eruption of diseases that haven't been serious problems for decades. And new diseases will arise.
Regardless of what radiation fallout does in other parts of the world, the diseases that spring from radiation poisoning in the war theater will spread around the world, warned Dr. Garner. He cited how difficult it is to contain disease in this world of regular international travel.
Thankfully, it appears that India and Pakistan have moved back from the brink of a nuclear exchange. But the rhetoric between these long-time antagonists leaves one with little confidence that the threat has disappeared.
Jesus warned that as mankind approaches the end of this age, we would hear of “wars and rumors of wars” (Matthew 24:6). Modern technology has raised the ante in this no-win game, so that “rumors of wars” are exceedingly disturbing. Christ went on to encourage His followers to remain calm, assuring them that this bad news is necessary just before the close of the darkest time of human history. And, with the close of this evil age will come the dawning of the wonderful world of peace under the management of God's Kingdom.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Ethiopian woman tells of sex slavery in Saudi Arabia

A very interesting post from www.jihadwatch.org about sex slavery in Saudi Arabia. This follows this post about Saudi Arabia taunting the U.S. about Hurricane Sandy. This follows this article about American energy independence and preventing money from going to hostile countries such as Iran . For more about what is happening in the U.S. now click here and you can read a very interesting book HERE.

Ethiopian woman tells of sex slavery in Saudi Arabia

The Qur’an forbids Muslim men to have sexual relations with “wedded women, save what your right hands own.” (4:4) “Prosperous are the believers who in their prayers are humble and from idle talk turn away and at almsgiving are active and guard their private parts save from their wives and what their right hands own then being not blameworthy.” (23:1-6)

Those whom their “right hands own” are slaves, and inextricable from the concept of Islamic slavery as a whole is the concept of sex slavery, which is rooted in Islam’s devaluation of the lives of non-Muslims. The Qur’an stipulates that a man may take four wives as well as hold slave girls as sex slaves. These women are captured in wartime and are considered the spoils of war. Islam avoids the appearance of impropriety, declaring that the taking of these sex slaves does not constitute adultery if the women are already married, for their marriages are ended at the moment of their capture. A manual of Islamic law directs: “When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman’s previous marriage is immediately annulled” (Reliance of the Traveller, o9.13).

This is by no means an eccentric or unorthodox view in Islam. The Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni declared in May 2011 that “we are in the era of jihad,” and that as they waged jihad warfare against infidels, Muslims would take slaves. He clarified what he meant in a subsequent interview:

...Jihad is only between Muslims and infidels….Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholars--there is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. The prisoners and spoils are distributed among the fighters, which includes men, women, children, wealth, and so on.

When a slave market is erected, which is a market in which are sold slaves and sex-slaves, which are called in the Qur’an by the name milk al-yamin, “that which your right hands possess” [Qur’an 4:24]. This is a verse from the Qur’an which is still in force, and has not been abrogated. The milk al-yamin are the sex-slaves. You go to the market, look at the sex-slave, and buy her. She becomes like your wife, (but) she doesn’t need a (marriage) contract or a divorce like a free woman, nor does she need a wali. All scholars agree on this point--there is no disagreement from any of them. [...] When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.

Right around the same time, on May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti activist and politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, also spoke out in favor of the Islamic practice of sexual slavery of non-Muslim women, emphasizing that the practice accorded with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality.

...A merchant told me that he would like to have a sex slave. He said he would not be negligent with her, and that Islam permitted this sort of thing. He was speaking the truth….I brought up (this man’s) situation to the muftis in Mecca. I told them that I had a question, since they were men who specialized in what was halal, and what was good, and who loved women. I said, “What is the law of sex slaves?”

The mufti said, “With the law of sex slaves, there must be a Muslim nation at war with a Christian nation, or a nation which is not of the religion, not of the religion of Islam. And there must be prisoners of war.”

“Is this forbidden by Islam?,” I asked.

“Absolutely not. Sex slaves are not forbidden by Islam. On the contrary, sex slaves are under a different law than the free woman. The free woman must be completely covered except for her face and hands. But the sex slave can be naked from the waist up. She differs a lot from the free woman. While the free woman requires a marriage contract, the sex slave does not--she only needs to be purchased by her husband, and that’s it. Therefore the sex slave is different than the free woman.”

While the savage exploitation of girls and young women is an unfortunately cross-cultural phenomenon, only in Islamic law does it carry anything approaching divine sanction. Here is yet another human rights scandal occasioned by Islamic law that the international human rights community cravenly ignores.

"Ethiopia woman tells of sex slavery in Saudi Arabia," by Mohammad Awad for Bikya Masr, November 11 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

ADDIS ABABA: An Ethiopia woman revealed that she was the victim of sex slavery after she attempted to find work as a domestic worker in Saudi Arabia.

For H, who asked that her identity remain anonymous, her ordeal began after she took a boat to Yemen, where after two months she was able to cross into Saudi Arabia and was hired by what she told Bikyamasr.com was a “nice couple” for a “decent salary.”

But that is when her horrific experience began. She continues to look down at her hands, ever moving, as she retells what she was forced to endure at the hands of her Saudi bosses.

“I don’t think the wife knew anything that was going on,” she is quick to point out. “But if she did hear my screams and did nothing, I hope she doesn’t sleep well.”

After three weeks of relative calm, H was finding life in southern Saudi Arabia comfortable and she was hoping that much of her first paycheck would be sent back to her family in Addis Ababa. Instead, no money came.

“When the fourth week came around, I was excited because I was being treated well and was doing my job I thought very good,” she continued.

But the day she asked when she would receive money, the husband, who she described as a construction manager, began grabbing her and forced her to the wall. She said she was screaming, but knew that nobody would come to her aid because the wife was out shopping and the two children were at school.

“He ripped my dress off and forced himself onto me. He raped me. This was just the beginning,” she said, tears beginning to form in her eyes.

“He would find me almost daily and rape me. He would force me to work naked in his office if nobody was home. He would tie me up and repeatedly force himself onto me over and over for hours if the wife was out of the house. I can’t imagine that I experienced this,” she added.

After four months of constant rape and sexual violence, H was able to escape late in the night after she found her door was unusually unlocked. She met up with three other Ethiopians and they fled back across the border into Yemen, where they were flown out of the country this fall as part of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) flights.

Her story is not unusual, she says, revealing that at least three other Ethiopian women were raped while working in Saudi Arabia.

“I would never wish any woman to work in Saudi Arabia, the stories I hear are horrific and I know how we are treated. We are slaves to whatever they want,” she added....

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Monday, September 24, 2012

In Brief...World News Review India Moving Toward China?

An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/ about India and China. This follows this post about items such as Vampire books. For a free magazine subscription or to get this book for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

In Brief...World News Review India Moving Toward China?

article by World News & Trends staff

While the rise of China as an economic power is beginning to be noticed in the West, another rapidly emerging power, India, has been quietly making moves toward a constructive partnership with its old enemy Beijing.

While the rise of China as an economic power is beginning to be noticed in the West, another rapidly emerging power, India, has been quietly making moves toward a constructive partnership with its old enemy Beijing.

Could an alliance between these two "Nuclear Club" nations become a lasting reality? What would be the economic and military results of such an alliance?

What makes this such an astonishing development is that China and India have had a recent history of military conflicts, starting in 1962 and 1967, with numerous skirmishes into the 1990s over ownership of the borderland.

China's armament of Pakistan (which India believes gave Pakistan its nuclear weapons capability) as well as India becoming a military client of the old Soviet Union (a rival of China) were great sources of distrust and fear between the two nations. China had also backed Pakistan during India's wars with Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir territory, while India allowed the Tibetan government-in-exile to exist there, much to China's consternation.

But in 1999 China declared itself neutral in the Kashmir dispute, making an important gesture to India. And since 2003 India has reciprocated by turning over new Tibetan refuge seekers and escapees to the Chinese government.

These and other diplomatic efforts have allowed India and China to become important business partners.

"It is in this context that the interactions between India and China have resulted in increasing mutual trust making India the largest trading partner of China from South Asia since 1993," said Indian political commentator, Dr. Swaran Singh (www.in.rediff.com/news/2002/oct/28chin.htm).

Both India and China supply cheap labor to U.S. companies seeking to outsource their production and customer service. An economic alliance could have powerful effects on the markets. China, in particular, is flooding the United States with inexpensive goods, much to the long-term detriment of the U.S. economy.

Militarily, China has the largest active-duty army in the world. The United States is second, but India is third, and also has the world's seventh-largest navy. An Indian alliance with China would make them the undisputed superpower in Asia!

One reason for this shift in alliances can be attributed to the post-9/11 world and the radical Islamic revolution. Both countries have large Muslim minorities. Another is that China has as its goal to overtake the United States as the world's superpower, and cooperation with India would further that objective.

Bible prophecy warns of a future great army of 200 million (Revelation 9:13-16 [13] And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

[14] Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

[15] And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

[16] And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

See All...). Could this be the beginning of that enormous military buildup?

Sources: www.Rediff.com (Mumbai, India); Asia Times Online (Hong Kong).

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016