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The Race Bomb
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vivvwuivi wi look, we see ethnic division and racial hatred accom-
panied by gruesome acts of violence and war. And it is i1isivvic!
It seems as if we are reminded daily that mans never-ending attempt
to solve the problems of this worldapart from God and His immutable
lawshas U11iviv v.iiiu! Te solutions men propose only incite more
violenceand more hatred. Soon, these underlying tensions, passions
and hatreds will noii oviv into full-scale race wars! God has warned
about all of this well in advance of it actually happening, which is why we
follow these disturbing trends so closely.
Te March edition of the Trumpet magazine, for example, featured an
article on the race bomb recently ignited by Attorney General Eric Holder
over the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal. At least ,oo Mexicans
and one federal agent have been killed with Fast and Furious weap-
ons. But according to Mr. Holder, those searching for facts about
the ill-intentioned operation and the disgraceful cover-up that
followed are motivated more by racism than they are by getting
to the bottom of the scandal. Tis isnt the rst time the Obama
administration has used the race card to shield itself against
criticismand it probably wont be the last.
Tis same race card is also frequently used as a weapon. Tis
week, for example, the Department of Justice hopped into the
middle of a raging controversy over the fatal shooting of Tray-
von Martin, a black teenager, in Sanford, Florida. Te facts in
the case havent yet been fully revealed, but the lef-wing me-
dia and race-baiting civil rights groups have already rendered
a guilty verdict. Te black victim was unarmed, on his way
back from buying candy at a convenience store, when the white
perpetrator shot him in cold bloodbecause he was black.
In fact, the shooter was a Hispanic man named George Zim-
merman. He was a Neighborhood Watch volunteer patrolling
a gated community where there had been a recent spate of break-
ins and robberies. Afer seeing the black youth, Zimmerman dialed
:: and told the dispatcher that Martin looked suspiciousa call you
wouldnt expect a cold-blooded killer to make.
At some point afer he telephoned the police, Zimmerman and Martin
got into a stght, which then led to Zimmerman drawing his gun and ring
the fatal shot. He strenuously maintains that he red in self-defense, which, if he is
telling the truth, is lawful according to Floridas stand your ground lawa provi-
sion that allows people to use deadly force if they are in a
life-threatening altercation. see RACE page 12
BY STEPHEN FLURRY
Destroy All the Churches 2
Iran Carried Out Surveillance of NYC 3
A German President? 4
Student Debt Reaches $1 Trillion 7
Americas Shrinking Global Power 9
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m.cii iv Pat Robertson called for the demolition of all
the mosques in America. It would be front-page news. It
would be on every network and cable-news program. Tere
would be a demand for Christians to denounce him, and
denounce him they wouldin the harshest terms. Te
president of the United States and other world leaders
would weigh in, too. Rightly so.
So why is it that when Abdulaziz ibn Abdullah Al al-
Sheikh, the grand mufi of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
declares that it is necessary to destroy all the churches in the
Arabian Peninsula, the major media do not see this as even
worth reporting: And no one, to the best of my knowledge,
has noted that he said this to the members of a terrorist group.
Here are the facts: Some members of the Kuwaiti parlia-
ment have been seeking to demolish churches or at least
prohibit the construction of new ones within that countrys
borders. So the question arose: What does sharia, Islamic
law, have to say about this issue:
A delegation from Kuwait asked the Saudi grand mufi
for guidance. He replied that Kuwait is part of the Arabian
Peninsulaand that any churches on the Arabian Penin-
sula should indeed be destroyed, because the alternative
would be to approve of them. Te grand mufi explained:
Te prophet (peace be upon him) commanded us, Two
religions shall not coexist in the Arabian Peninsula, so
building [churches] in the rst place is not valid because
this peninsula must be free from [any other religion]. In
Saudi Arabia, of course, non-Islamic houses of worship
were banned long ago, and non-Muslims are prohibited
from setting foot in Mecca and Medina.
Teres more: Te inquiring Kuwaitis were from the
Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (vius). Tat sounds in-
nocent enough, but a little digging revealed that :o years
ago the vius branches in Afghanistan and Pakistan were
designated by the United Nations as associates ofand
providers of funds and weapons toal Qaeda, Osama bin
Laden or the Taliban.
Te U.S. government has gone farther, also designating
vius headquarters in Kuwait as providing nancial and
material support to al Qaeda and al Qaeda aliates. Tis
should be emphasized: Al al-Sheikh is not the Arabian equiva-
lent of some backwoods Florida pastor. He is the highest reli-
gious authority in Saudi Arabia, where there is no separation
of mosque and state, and the state religion is the ultra-ortho-
dox/fundamentalist reading of Islam known as Wahhabism.
He also is a member of the countrys leading religious family.
In other words, his pronouncements represent the o-
cial position of Saudi Arabiaa country that, we have been
told time and again, changed course afer /:: and is now
our ally and solidly in the anti-terrorism camp.
Why are the reporters covering the State Department
and the White House not asking administration ocials
whether they are troubled by Saudi Arabias senior religious
authority meeting with supporters of al Qaeda and telling
them that, yes, Christian churches should be demolished:
How about the centers for Islamic-Christian understand-
ing that have been establishedwith Saudi moneyat
such universities as Harvard and Georgetown: Do they
suppose there is nothing here to understandno need for
any academic scrutiny of the Saudi/Wahhabi perspective
on church-burning and relations with terrorist groups:
My guess is that all of the above have persuaded them-
selves that there are more pressing issues to worry about,
such as the worldwide epidemic of Islamophobia .
Destroy All the Churches
CLIFFORD D. MAY, NATIONAL REVIEW | March 22
Laying the
Groundwork for the
Toulouse Massacre
MELANIE PHILIPS | March 21
W
ui 1ui Toulouse school mas-
sacre happened, the media rushed
to say that the perpetrator was a white
far-right racist. Te lone gunman had
mown down at close range a rabbi
and three children at a Jewish school,
wounding several others. He was
thought to be the same killer who a
few days earlier had murdered three
black French paratroopers in two
separate attacks. A killer who targeted
Jews and blacksmust be a far-right
white racist, right:
Wrong. Te suspect who the French
police have now cornered turns out to
be a jihadi Islamic terrorist with self-
declared links to al Qaeda, who has
made trips to Afghanistan and Paki-
stan in the past. Well, theres a surprise.
Jews throughout the world are all
potential targets for attack in a terrify-
ing manifestation of global incitement
to murder. Islamists regularly declare
their intention to kill Jews wherever
they can nd them. Hundreds of rock-
ets red from Gaza at southern Israel
over the past couple of weeks bear out
daily the frenzied attempt to murder
as many Jews as possible. Tere
have been repeated Islamic terrorist
attempts on Jewish targets around
the world. Ohand Islamists have
been murdering black people in Libya
because they are black.
Yet all this is ignored by the main-
stream media. Desperate to sanitize
Muslim genocidal terrorism the
media simply did not entertain the
possibility that the perpetrator of the
French killings might have been a
Muslim. So a range of likely perpetra-
tors was canvassedbut they were all
variations on white racists.
And even when the perpetrator
turned out to be an Islamic terrorist
the media were still trying to spin it
away . Te terrorist who carried
out the French killings may now have
been caught. But those in the West
who provide an echo chamber for the
diabolical discourse that incubates
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Usvic1s iixiu to Iran have been spotted allegedly pos-
ing as tourists in order to stake out potential terror targets
in New York City. A senior New York police ocial disclosed
that at least :, suspects with ties to the Iranian government
had been questioned by authorities in the last seven years afer
conducting surveillance of possible attack sites.
Mitchell Silber, the New York Police Departments direc-
tor of intelligence analysis, said the citys large Jewish popu-
lation and international signicance as a terror target made
it ripe for a strike by either Iran or Hezbollah, the Lebanon-
based militant group it sometimes uses as a proxy.
Testifying before the House of Representatives Home-
land Security Committee, he said the suspects included
six people on a sightseeing cruise who were taking photo-
graphs and lm of well-known New York landmarks such
as the Brooklyn Bridge in :oo,. And in September :o:o,
federal air marshals detained four people taking pictures
and lms at a heliport in the city.
During questioning, all :, people admitted that they
were associated with the Iranian government, but they were
ultimately released without charge.
Congress is examining the threat from Iranian-linked
terrorism as tensions between Washington, D.C., and Tehran
have escalated in recent weeks. Last year, Iran was accused
of plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United
States, and ocials have long feared that Hezbollah opera-
tives could be deployed to carry out attacks in America.
Last month, in an editorial for the Wall Street Journal,
Mr. Silber warned that Iran currently posed the greatest
terror threat to New York. He said: Iran is the subject of
the vast majority of our discussions right now. Tis, right
now, is a front-burner issue. I hesitate to say its number
one, because we dont want to ignore the other threats, but
right now, its essentially number one.
Te vvu must remain vigilant in attempting to detect
and disrupt any attack by Iran or its proxies. Anything less
would be abdicating our duty to protect New York City and
its residents.
Iran Carried Out Surveillance of New York City TELEGRAPH | March 22
genocide have yet to be brought to
account.
Egypts Brotherhood
Mulling Run for
President
ASSOCIATED PRESS | March 21
T
ui MUsiim Brotherhood, Egypts
most powerful political group, said
Wednesday it is considering running
its own candidate in upcoming presi-
dential elections, dropping its previ-
ous decision to avoid direct participa-
tion in the race.
Te group appears to be playing
one of its last cards in a power strug-
gle against the ruling military council,
afer it failed to force the military to
replace its cabinet with a new one
appointed by the Islamist-dominated
parliament.
If a Brotherhood elds a candidate
and wins the presidency, the group
would control the two main branches
of power. In parliamentary elections,
the rst since a popular uprising un-
seated President Hosni Mubarak last
year, it won nearly half the seats.
Since then, the Brotherhood has
sought to allay fears of local liberals as
well as Egypts Western allies about an
Islamist takeover by saying it would
not eld its own candidate for presi-
dent. Elections are set for May :,-:.
Iranians Are Now
Running the Show in
Syria to Protect Assad
GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT | March 21
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is1iv i1iiiicici sources
said Irans Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps has signicantly ex-
panded its presence in Syria over the
last two months. Tey said ivcc sent
at least another :,ooo ocers in Syria
in :o:: to help quell the Sunni revolt.
Tey are working with the Syrian
Army and security forces on all major
operations and control the intelligence
apparatus, an intelligence source said.
Te sources said ivcc was playing a
major role in protecting the regime of
President Bashar Assad and planned
the massive assault on Homs and
Rastan. Tey said ivcc was facilitat-
ing operations, supplying intelligence,
selecting units and weapons as well as
deploying special forces.
Te Iranians are now running the
show and using Syrian repower in an
eective manner, the source said.
ivcc was also deploying ghters
from the Lebanese-based Hezbol-
lah for operations, particularly in
southwestern Syria. Te sources said
Hezbollah troops were used in combat
to avoid charges of direct Iranian
intervention in the Assad war on
the Sunni rebels. Iran is resupply-
ing Syria, just as it has supplied Syria
for some time and through Syria has
supplied weapons to Hezbollah, U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State Tomas
Countryman said on February :,.
Te sources said ivcc was training
Syrian units on intelligence, electronic
warfare and reconnaissance, par-
ticularly in urban warfare. Tey said
ivcc was also recruiting members
of Iranian-sponsored Shiite militias
in Iraq. ivcc has been in Syria for
more than :o years. But over the last
few years, the elite Iranian military,
particularly its Quds Force, has under-
gone signicant expansion and was
assigned the protection of Syrian mis-
sile and weapons of mass destruction
facilities.
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n Israel, Gaza Strip in violence
Cross-border violence erupted be-
tween Israel and Palestinians in the
Gaza Strip afer Israel killed a top
Palestinian militant leader on March .
Over the following few days, Palestin-
ians in Gaza shot more than :o rock-
ets at Israel, according to the Israeli
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government. Te Israel Defense Forces
responded with air attacks against
rocket-launching sites and a weapons
storage facility. A truce between Israel
and Islamic Jihad, which was respon-
sible for most of the rocket attacks,
came into eect on March :,. Con-
tinue to watch the Israeli-Palestinian
conict. Tis ongoing clashalong
with the equally dangerous peace
processwill ultimately lead to an
explosion of war that will engulf Israel
and spark another world war.
n Hamas moving to align with
Muslim Brotherhood
It appears Hamas has stayed out of
the recent clashes in the Gaza Strip for
fear of provoking Israeli retaliation.
Tis is not to say Hamas is becoming
more moderate, however. As Cour-
cys Intelligence Brief points out, In
fact what has happened is that in re-
sponse to the triumph in Egypt of the
Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Hamas is
tacking back towards its own Muslim
Brotherhood roots, not out of modera-
tion but because MB-controlled Egypt
can provide the Palestinians with
long-term support (March :).
Egypt is becoming increasingly hostile
toward the West, and it appears U.S.
aid will only restrain it for so long.
On March , for example, Egyptian
Foreign Minister Muhammad Kamel
Amr said that U.S. aid to Egypt was
not eternal and that it distorts the
nature of bilateral relations between
the two countries. Te Trumpet has
long explained that Bible prophecy
indicates Egypt will align itself with
Iran and its radical Islamist proxies.
As early as December :, Mr. Flurry
wrote in the Trumpet: Te radical
Islamic movement, led by Iran, is very
strong in Egypt. Tis religion will
probably take control very soon.
Mr. Flurry was even stronger in :oo:,
writing: Islamic extremism is gaining
power at a frightening pace in Egypt
. Daniel :::: indicatesEgypt will
be allied with [Iran]. I believe this
prophecy indicates we are to see a
radical change in Egyptian politics!
n Egyptian parliament says Israel
is number one enemy
Revolutionary Egypt will never be a
friend, partner or ally of the Zionist
entity, which we consider to be the
number one enemy of Egypt and the
Arab nation, says a text approved by
Egypts lower house of parliament on
March ::. Te text also calls for Israels
ambassador to be expelled, gas exports
to be stopped and for Egypt to estab-
lish its own nuclear program. Parlia-
ment doesnt have the power, yet, to
enforce this declaration, so it is mostly
symbolic. But it shows where Egypts
new leaders want to take the country.
Egypt will deal with that entity as an
enemy, and the Egyptian government
is hereby called upon to review all its
relations and accords with that enemy,
says the motion. Te declaration was
quickly supported by Iran. Radical
Islamists are in the majority in both
houses of parliament in Egypt. Tey
control the countrys future.

n Iran pumping aid into Syria
Forty tons of Iranian aid supplies
arrived in Damascus the morning of
March :,. Te shipment was the rst
of four planeloads that Iran plans to
send to its most important regional
ally. Irans ambassador to Syria, Raouf
Sheibani, said the supplies included
medicine, medical equipment, tents,
blankets, food and ambulances. He
said the aid shows Irans support
for Syrias current government. Iran
maintains the aid package was free of
any weaponry. However, the Wash-
ington Post quoted an unnamed U.S.
intelligence authority who said that the
increasing aid from Iran is increas-
ingly focused on lethal assistance. Te
last thing Iran wants is to see a regime
change in one of its staunchest region-
al allies. Although the Trumpet has
emphasized that Iran is becoming king
of the region, Syria is one battle proph-
ecy indicates the Iranians will lose.
n Irans elections consolidate
Ayatollah Khameneis power
Iranian parliamentary elections held
March : consolidated the power of
Irans hard-liners, and shifed the
country away from democracy toward
full-out totalitarianism. Since the
last election in :oo, the regime has
worked to unify its key institutions
and lay the groundwork for cementing
its power. For this election, a body of
clerics and jurists vetted all candidates
for their loyalty to the Islamic estab-
lishment before they were allowed to
run. Leading reformist groups (those
that didnt eliminate themselves by
voluntarily boycotting the election)
were banned. Still, voter turnout was
impressive: o percent. And whom
did Iranian voters empower: Te
staunchest anti-Western political
camp in the country, reported To-
days Zaman (March ::). Of the parlia-
ments :o seats, loyalists of Ayatol-
lah Khamenei took control of three
fourths. Te net outcome of the latest
elections is simple: Irans theocratic
nature will become more pronounced,
wrote the Gulf News. Khamenei can
now turn Iran into a full-edged
theocracy with undisputed clerical
powers vested in him (March :o).
A German President?
PRESSEUROP | March 19
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iii 1ui German nance minister
be the next Eurogroup president:
Tat is the question that has Ger-
many abuzz since the Financial Times
Deutschland revealed on Friday that
the German chancellor is backing her
minister, Wolfgang Schuble, to re-
place Jean-Claude Juncker in the post.
Sddeutsche Zeitung, on Monday,
expresses its surprise: A German
nance minister is not the born
candidate to preside the Eurogroup.
Arithmetic and the balance of power
in Europe are against it. In normal
times, it would simply be excluded
that a representative of the country
that is already the strongest mem-
berand which wants, in addition, to
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T
ui .mi Berlin Club evokes im-
ages of a secretive organization, one
in which wealthy old aristocrats gather
together to drink scotch and plot to
conquer the world. Time will tell, but
that impression might not be too far
from reality.
Created and led by Germany, the
Berlin Club met for the rst time on March :o in Berlin.
Heres what we know about Europes latest club of elitists.
Its the brainchild of German Foreign Minister Guido West-
erwelle, it is comprised of Europes most pro-unication
states, and it exists to reinvigorate the unication of Europe.
Germany is joined in the club by Poland, Belgium, Italy,
the Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg, Spain,
Denmark and France. Yesterday, Presseurop translated
an article from the Spanish .nc newspaper reporting that
:o countries have formed the Berlin Club to revive the
European project. According to the .nc article, Berlins
goal is to create a kind of club committed to developing
formulas that, in these times of crisis, will revive the iui.i
ov . Ui1iu iUvovi (emphasis added throughout).
In a separate but apparently related development,
Westerwelle stated in a March meeting with EU foreign
ministers that the EU needs a new constitution. Following
the German foreign ministers statement, Reuters reported
March :o that nine EU nations had agreed to gather in Ber-
lin on March :o to discuss creating a new EU constitution.
While the leaders involved have been characteristi-
cally vague, it appears Tuesdays meeting in Berlin about a
new constitution was in fact the same one the .nc article
identied as the rst gathering of the Berlin Club. If so, then
it appears the rst priority of the :o-member German-led
Berlin Club is the creation of a new European constitution.
So much for the opinions of the EUs other :, member
states. So much for European integration being a collab-
orative process that involves consensus, compromise and
transparency. So much for democracy!
It seems Germany, together with nine or ten other states
loyal to the supreme goal of unication, is determined to
make the dream of a United States of Europe a reality. Bible
prophecy demands we watch Germany, and especially the
Berlin Club, closely. In Mystery of the Ages, the late Herbert
Armstrong explained how the prophecies in Revelation :,
and :, foretell the resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire.
He wrote, Daniel ,, and Revelation :, and :,, is referring
to the new United States of Europe that is now forming, out
of the European Common Market, before your very eyes!
Notice what Mr. Armstrong forecast next: Revelation
:,::: makes plain the detail that it shall be a union of :o
kings or kingdoms that (Revelation :,:8) shall resurrect the
old Roman Empire.
Te Trumpet has continued Mr. Armstrongs forecast and
explained repeatedly that a closely integrated group of :o na-
tions, or groups of nations, would emerge out of the :,-mem-
ber EU behemoth that exists today. We dont know for certain
if the Berlin Club constitutes this group, but its possible.
What is certain is that despite Europes perilous nancial
state and the immense political uncertainty, the creation of
ventures like the Berlin Club prove that Germany and a few
select allies u.vi o1 abandoned the dream of creating a
United States of Europe!
Germany Hasnt Given Up on a United States of Europe
BRAD MACDONALD
impose its national culture of austerity
throughout Europealso be respon-
sible for monetary issues.
In the absence of other candidates,
Italys Mario Monti and the Finn Jyrki
Katainen are out of the running be-
cause their compatriots already occupy
key EU positions (Mario Draghi at the
European Central Bank and Olli Rehn,
the EU commissioner for nancial and
economic aairs), Schuble at least has
the required stature, the Munich daily
says. Juncker, whose mandate ends in
June, has already said he will not stand
again. Schuble, himself, said the next
president must come from a country
rated triple-A by the rating agencies,
thus limiting the choice to Germany,
Finland or the Netherlands. In the
meantime, he will have to wait until
June for backing from Franceafer
the presidential and legislative elections.
Berlins European
Recession
GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY | March 16
T
ui .Us1ivi1v dictate imposed by
Berlin and Brussels is driving nearly
all indebted southern European coun-
tries deeper into the recession, as shown
by new data on the economic develop-
ments of Spain, Italy, Portugal and
Greece. According to this data Portu-
gals economy, for example, declined by
:., percent in the last quarter of :o:: and
could shrink by up to o percent this year.
Industrial production in Italy
registered a sharp decline. Retail sales
in Spainan indicator of private
consumptiondeclined by almost
a quarter in comparison to :oo,.
Greece is approaching the economic
level of countries in Latin America or
Southeast Asia, which, up to now, had
clearly lagged behind European stan-
dards. In the longer run, the recession
could have a backlash on Germany
because the massive slump is also
aecting German exports. Tis could
have serious repercussions.
Pimco Expects Second
Greece in Portugal
TELEGRAPH | March 18
T
ui ci.1 bond fund Pimco said Eu-
rope has not yet tamed its debt crisis
and will soon face a second Greece
in Portugal as the countrys economy
spirals downwards. Mohamed El-
Erian, Pimcos chief executive, said
Portugal will need a second rescue
as the original package of ,8 billion
(co, billion) falls short, setting o a
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political storm over EU rescue costs.
Unfortunately, that is how it will be. It
will make the nancial markets ner-
vous because they are worried about a
participation of the private sector, he
told Der Spiegel over the weekend.
German Finance Minister Wolf-
gang Schuble insists that Greece is
a completely unique case and that
there will be no further haircuts for
banks, insurers and pension funds
holding eurozone sovereign bonds.
However, the EU authorities broke
their pledges so many times during the
Greek saga that market faith has been
shattered. Even Norways sovereign
wealth fund has expressed disgust,
signaling that it will give Club Med
debt a wide bearth from now on. It has
already sold half its Spanish bonds.
If the Greek haircut formula is
ultimately extended to Portugal,
private creditors can expect to lose
everything. Te EU and the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund already own
most of the debt, reducing everybody
else to cannon fodder status. Mr. El-
Erian said EU leaders are deluding
themselves if they think they have
solved Greeces problems. Te Greek
package is going to fall apart quickly.
Bridges built to go nowhere can col-
lapse at any time, he said.
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n Four killed at Jewish school
Four people, including three children,
were murdered at a Jewish school
in southwest France on March :. A
gunman on motorcycle opened re in
front of the school and killed a father,
his two sons, and one other child. Te
attack happened just before classes
started at the Ozar Hatorah school in
the city of Toulouse. Law enforcement
is investigating the shooting and
looking into a possible connection to
another shooting: an attack at a bank
last Tursday that lef two paratroop-
ers dead. TeTrumpethas tracked the
trend of growing anti-Semitism in
Europe for years. A new survey by the
Anti-Defamation League (.ui) found
that almost a third of Europeans hold
what the .ui called pernicious anti-
Semitic beliefs. Te European Jewish
Congress released a statement in :o:o
warning of an increase in anti-Semitism
on the Continent and said that certain
Jewish communities are in grave dan-
ger. Tese tragic murders are another
sign of increasing anti-Semitism, which
theTrumpetbelieves will get exponen-
tially worse before it gets better.
n Le Pen: France must wage war
on Islamist groups
It is time to wage war on these funda-
mentalist political religious groups who
are killing our children, said far right
French Presidential candidate Marine
le Pen. She warned that Islamists had
ourished thanks to a degree of lax-
ity. She said that she wanted to begin a
debate about re-introducing the death
penalty. Le Pens popularity has already
forced French President Nicolas Sarkozy
to shif to the right. Europe is very toler-
ant of its Muslims right now, but this
will soon change. As Iran and Islamic
terror both become more disruptive, ex-
pect Europe to shif in Le Pens direction.
A prophecy in Daniel :::o plainly
reveals a violent animosity between
radical Islam and Catholic Europe
at the time of the end. Daniels
prophecy says that this animosity will
eventually result in a massive clash be-
tween these two powerhouses. Based
on this prophecy, the Trumpet forecast
in June :oo8:
Continue to watch for a progressive
swing to the right within both the
electorate and key political parties
in Europe. Watch for the Euro-
pean Union to more willingly accept
Americas request to take on a greater
share of the burden of security
within Eurasia and, in particular, the
Middle East. As you watch, know
that there is coming a mighty clash
between the German-dominated
European Union and the increas-
ingly Iranian-led Islamic powers.
Make no mistake, Islam will soon be
routed from Europe,by force!
n German defense minister
discourages Israeli Strike
Against Iran
German Defense Minister Tomas de
Maiziere said that military escalation
between Israel and Iran over Irans
disputed nuclear program would not
be for the good of Israel. Te German
minister met with his Israeli counter-
part, Ehud Barak, in Berlin on March
:o. Tey discussed the growing tension
in the Middle East over Irans nuclear
program. To just accept a nuclear Iran
would be inconceivable I believe and
unacceptable to the whole world, said
Barak at a joint press conference. Mai-
ziere said that Iran is obviously seeking
nuclear weapons capability and that it
must be deterred from doing so. But he
also urged restraint and said a military
escalation will carry unforeseeable
risks for Israel, for the region and for
others. While Berlin currently appears
to be showing restraint in this issue,
Bible prophecy says that Germany will
soon opt for an overwhelming military
strike against Iran and obliterate its
regional hegemony. For more infor-
mation on this prophecy, read our
bookletTe King of the South.
ASIA
n India surpasses China as worlds
largest arms importer
India has overtaken China to be-
come the worlds biggest importer of
weapons, a new report says. Between
:oo, and :o::, India accounted for
:o percent of demand in global arms
markets, more than any other nation,
according to data from the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute
(sivvi). sivvi Analyst Siemon Weze-
man said Indias military spending
reects its regional security concerns.
India procures arms in relation to its
tense relationship with Pakistan and
increasingly sees China as a potential
threat, Wezeman said. Meanwhile,
Chinas relative decline as a weapons
importer comes as Beijing is increas-
ing its overall military budget. China
is developing more sophisticated
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means of producing arms domestical-
ly, which equates to reduced number
of imported arms.
n China refuses to sanction Iran
Chinas Foreign Ministry slammed
Americas attempt to constrain Irans
oil industry on Wednesday. A spokes-
man has said that the measure would
include sanctioning Chinese banks
that help Iran, and said that China
will not comply. Te spokesman was
responding to a statement by U.S. Sec-
retary of State Hillary Clinton. Clin-
ton said on March :: that Washington
will temporarily exempt :: countries
from its hard-hitting new sanctions
against Iran, because these nations
have signicantly cut Iranian oil
imports. China was not on the list,
which means it has until the end of
July to reduce oil imports from Iran or
else face U.S. sanctions. In :o::, China
bought more than ,,,,ooo barrels of
Iranian crude every day, making it
one of the Islamic Republics largest
customers. Chinas large volumes of
trade with Iran mean that Beijings
deance will dramatically dull the
point of Americas diplomatic attack.
Te Trumpet continues to forecast that
sanctions will not neutralize Irans
nuclear threat. With uncooperative
and increasingly powerful countries
like China defying Washington, that
reality becomes clearer all the time.
LATIN AMERICA/AFRICA
ANGLO-AMERICA
n Ethiopia attacks Eritrea
Ethiopian military forces entered into
Eritrea last Tursday and carried out
an attack on Eritrean military posts.
Ethiopian government spokesman
Shimeles Kemal said Ethiopia waged
the assault because Eritrea was training
subversive groups, which have carried
out attacks inside Ethiopia. Analysts
believe these unnamed subversive
groups are radical Islamist terrorist
outts, and say Ethiopias decision to
strike at them suggests that the threat
they pose is serious. Last year, as the
West was endorsing the democratic
uprisings sweeping through North Af-
rica and the Middle East,Trumpetedi-
tor in chiefGerald Flurrywarned that
Iran and radical Islam would emerge
the victors. In April, he predicted
that Libya and Ethiopia would be the
victims of radical Islam. Why would
Iran be so interested in getting some
measure of control over Libya and
Ethiopia: Tey are on the two seas that
comprise the most important trade
route in the world! Watch Libya
and Ethiopia. Tey are about to fall
under the heavy inuence or control of
Iran, the king of the south. Ethiopias
decision last week to attack Eritreas
terrorist training posts shows that, de-
spite UN sanctions, the radical Islamist
problem in Eritrea is growing.
n Sudans Christians forced to flee
An estimated ,oo,ooo Sudanese, most
of them Christian, must leave the
country for South Sudan by April
under a law passed by the north afer
South Sudan voted to secede. Te law
states that any deemed ethnically South
Sundanese must leave the north or ap-
ply for alien residency. Tis is despite
the fact that manysome studies even
say mostof these people have lived
their whole lives in north Sudan. Hu-
man Rights Watch warns: Statements
and actions of Sudanese government
ocials indicate that they are reading
these laws to mean that anyone living
in Sudan with even one great-grand-
parent born in South Sudan will lose
their Sudanese citizenship, irrespective
of whether they have acquiredor
want to acquireSouth Sudanese
citizenship. Tis is just one example of
persecution of Christians by Sudans Is-
lamic government. Back in :o:o, Suda-
nese President Omar al-Bashir warned:
If South Sudan secedes, we will change
the constitution and at that time there
will be no time to speak of diversity
of culture and ethnicity. Sharia and
Islam will be the main source for the
constitution, Islam the ocial religion
and Arabic the ocial language, he
said. Across the Middle East and North
Africa, Christians are under attack.
Expect this kind of persecution to lead
to a violent clash between radical Islam
and Roman Catholicism.
Student-Loan Debt
Reaches $1 Trillion
BLOOMBERG | March 22
U
.S. s1Uui1-io. debt reached the
s: trillion mark, as young borrow-
ers struggle to keep up with soaring
tuition costs, according to the initial
ndings of a government study. Te
gure, which is higher than the coun-
trys credit-card debt, was probably
reached several months ago, Rohit
Chopra of the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau said in a posting
yesterday, excerpted from a speech he
made at the Consumer Bankers Asso-
ciation meeting in Austin, Texas.
More students are taking out loans
to pay for college as tuition increases.
Undergraduates are limited by the
amount they can borrow in federally
backed loans. Students also take out
private loans, which lack the income-
based repayment and deferment
options of federal ones, Chopra said.
Excessive student debt could slow
the recovery of the housing market, as
young people repay money for their
education rather than buying homes,
said Chopra, who called the results
sobering. Federal student-loan debt
isnt growing just with new origina-
tions, he said. With so many bor-
rowers unable to keep up with interest
payments, debt is growing even for
many who have lef school.
MARCH 24, 2012
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V
iuio c.mis are a forcefuleven
dominantpart of American cul-
ture. Tey are Americas new national
pastime. Yet most people are totally
unaware of how prevalent and inuen-
tial video games are in society.
As the Christian Science Monitor
brings out, :8, million Americans
play video games at least an hour a day. Virtually all
Americans (, percent) ages :: to :, play video games. And
almost , million Americans play at least o hours a week
the equivalent of a full-time job.
Millions of people live, breath and play in virtual worlds.
It is not only young people either. Today, one quarter of all
gamers are over the age of ,o.
By the time the average American youth turns ::, he will
on average have spent :o,ooo hours playing video games
over the course of more than a decade.
Consider that number. In his book Outliers, Malcolm
Gladwell talks about the :o,ooo-hour rule. To achieve
mastery in any eld of expertise, he explains, takes about
:o,ooo hours of practice over the course of about :o years.
Experts become experts because they abide by this rule.
Practice isnt the thing you do once youre good, Gladwell
writes. Its the thing you do that makes you good.
Imagine what those , million Americans who spend
o hours a week playing video games could accomplish if
they instead devoted that much work to something useful.
In just ve years, this country would have , million more
master designers, crafsmen, engineers, pilots, scientists,
builders, artists, architects, painters, geologists, farmers,
inventors, poets, screenplay writers, opera singers, tuba
playersthe list goes on and on. Imagine how dierent
America could be if the :8, million Americans who spend
at least one hour a day playing video games did the same
thing.
And now imagine the world we might live in if all these
people took just a portion of that time and spent it with
their families and taught their children how to become
experts themselves.
What a dierent, more prosperous, more inspiring, more
beautiful world we would live in. How would your life be
dierent: Are you willing to change the course of your
childs life:
The New American Pastime
ROBERT MORLEY
TW
I N B R I E F
n Three in 10 young adults live
with parents
Te weak American economy has
driven as many as three in :o young
adults back into their parents house-
hold, according to a Pew Research
Center report released Tursday.
Tis means that America now has
the highest percentage of young
adults living in multigenerational
households since the :,os. Tese
statistics show that the recession has
exacerbated a trend that was already
under way since the :8os living
at home longer and boomeranging
back more frequently, says Barbara
Ray, coauthor of Not Quite Adults:
Why -Somethings Are Choosing a
Slower Path to Adulthood and Why
Its Good for Everyone. By breaking
the laws God outlines in the Bible, the
people of America have wrecked their
economy and emasculated a genera-
tion of would-be-leaders.
n I was sacked for Intelligent
Design, says NASA scientist
Former team leader of the Cassini
mission to Saturn, David Coppedge,
claims he was demoted and eventually
lost his job because he preached intel-
ligent design to his co-workers, ac-
cording to a court case in Los Angeles
Superior Court. Opening statements
were held on Monday of last week. Its
part of a pattern. Tere is basically
a war on anyone who dissents from
Darwin, and weve seen that for sev-
eral years, said John West from the
Discovery Institute, who is supporting
Coppedges case. Tis anti-creation
bias is so deeply rooted within the
scientic community that many scien-
tists may not even realize its pres-
ence. Yet, the illogical and otherwise
unexplainable vivacity with which
evolution is now being promoted can
only be explained by understanding
mankinds natural hostility to God.
n Lone U.S. soldier kills Afghan
villagers
A U.S. soldier murdered :o Afghan vil-
lagers on Sunday of last week, accord-
ing to numerous reports. Te veteran
army sta sergeant lef his base in
southern Afghanistan and walked to
a village where he methodically shot
Afghan civilians, including women
and children. He appears to have
made no attempt to conceal his ac-
tions. President Obama called Afghan
President Hamid Karzai to express
his condolences, and .1o ocials
have apologized for the shootings. Te
relationship between the United States
and Afghanistan is already shaky. Last
month, six U.S. soldiers were mur-
dered by Afghan soldiers who were
supposedly their allies. Te killings
were apparently a retaliation against
Americans burning copies of the
Koran at Bagram Air Field on Febru-
ary :o. Tis latest round of violence
has damaged Americas international
image, and it will likely hasten an
early U.S. withdrawal in :o:,. On the
other end of the spectrum, Germanys
international prestige is on the rise.
Watch for Berlin to continue lling
the leadership vacuum that America is
leaving behind.
n Severe drought threatens Texas
agriculture
Texas farmers are anticipating small
yields this year due to an ongoing
severe drought, the Associated Press
reported on Tuesday of last week.
Te drought began in October :o:o,
parching hundreds of thousands of
acres and causing the worst one-year
dry spell in Texas history. Since then,
at one time or another, more than ,,
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M
iui. coviv.ci of President Barack Obamas high-
prole visit to Australia and plan to boost U.S. pres-
ence in Asia may mask Americas shrinking global foot-
print. Te combination of concern over China and the U.S.
debt crisis could set Washington on a course to becoming a
mere regional power in the Asia Pacic.
Last November, the Hawaiian-born Obama announced
what his administration is calling a pivot towards Asia,
representing a signicant shif in policy since he took
oce. Te change is driven by changing perceptions of
Chinese power, but its also partly a result of diminishing
U.S. nancial clout. Although Washington insists it will
retain military superiority, the pivot could well mark the
beginning of a geopolitical shif that ends up with the
U.S. being predominantly a regional power in the Asia-
Pacic.
In the early days of his administration, Obama went out
of his way to avoid oending China. Ten in July :o:o,
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton challenged Chinas
territorial claims to the South China Sea, stating that the
U.S. had a national interest in freedom of navigation there
and calling for a regional code of conduct, even though
Beijing prefers to deal bilaterally with its neighbors in
such territorial disputes. In November last year Clinton
formalized the policy shif in an essay for Foreign Policy,
stating that the U.S. would pivot towards Asia. Follow-
ing Clintons article was Obamas visit to Australia and his
announcement that :,,oo U.S. marines would be deployed
to a new base near Darwin.
But this new focus on Asia and promise to reinforce
U.S. military forces in the region are planned at the same
time as growing debt mandates steep reductions in the
Pentagons spending, equipment and manpower. Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta has proposed reducing personnel by
:oo,ooo, cutting new spy planes and transport aircraf, and
slowing spending on the new Joint Strike Fighter.
So, it seems inevitable the pivot will mean reduced mili-
tary commitment in Europe and other parts of the world.
In the U.S., too, the Pentagon cuts have been presented
as a necessity to help reduce the huge budget decit, and
there is no guarantee cuts in overall defense spending will
be temporary. If Washington fails to bring down its decit
substantially in the next few years, future presidents may
have to cut defense spending further.
Washington could well be on a course to becoming a de
facto regional power in the Asia-Pacic simply because it
cannot aord to contain a growing China and maintain a
global military presence.
Americas Shrinking Global Power
REAL CLEAR WORLD | March 22
percent of the state has experienced
exceptional droughtthe most
severe classication. At the end of the
:o:: summer, a global drought map
created by the University College
London showed Texas at the epicenter
of the largest, most severe drought
on the planet. Agricultural losses are
estimated at more than s, billion so far,
with this years crop damage yet to be
tabulated. God promises the modern-
day nations of Israel that if they will
obey His commandments, He will
bless them with rain in due season.
We can see this instruction in Leviti-
cus :o, among other biblical passages:
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep
my commandments, and do them;
Ten I will give you rain in due
season, and the land shall yield her
increase, and the trees of the eld
shall yield their fruit.
Leviticus :o:,-
God also makes it plain in the same
chapter that disobedience would bring
curses:
But if ye will not hearken unto me,
and will not do all these command-
ments; I will break the pride of
your power; and I will make your
heaven as iron, and your earth as
brass: and your strength shall be
spent in vain: for your land shall
not yield her increase, neither shall
the trees of the land yield their
fruits. Leviticus :o: :, :-:o
n Mini-tornado strikes Australian
city
A mini-tornado ripped through the
Australian city of Townsville on
Tuesday. Tirteen people were injured,
and parts of the city were declared
disaster areas. Meteorologists said that
the freak storm could not ocially
be labeled a tornado since there was
no funnel, but the storm pummeled
buildings with winds blowing at up
to o miles per hour. Queensland
State Premier Anna Bligh visited
Townsville in the afermath and said
she was shocked by the destruction.
(Its) quite a shocking and devastat-
ing storm, obviously. What appears to
have been a mini-tornado has torn its
way through these streets, and its torn
a path of devastation. Its heartbreak-
ing for the people in this suburb, here
in Vincent. [Last years cyclone] Yasi
did nothing like this in Townsville.
Teres going to be a lot of heartbreak
here, Bligh said. Surveying the wide-
spread devastation of their city, many
Townsville residents are asking why
this freak disaster happened. Severe
storms are caused by natural weather
phenomena, but is that the only
answer: And if there is a God who
can control weather patterns, why do
tragedies like this happen:
n How to win an election
in London: Appeal to Islam
Trying to pull ahead in aneck-and-
neckrace to become mayor of Britains
capital city, former mayor and Labor
Party candidateKen Livingstonehas
adopted a surprising tactic: appealing
to Islam. Speaking at the infamous
Finsbury Park Mosque on March:o,
Mr. Livingstone promised that if elect-
ed, he would make sure that every
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non-Muslim in London knows and
understands the words and message
of Mohammeds last sermon. He con-
tinued: Tat will help to cement our
city as a beacon that demonstrates the
meaning of the words of the prophet.
Until :oo,, Finsbury Park Mosque
was run by radical cleric Abu Hamza,
who promoted jihad and praised the
September :: suicide bombers, and
is now run by an association set up
by Muslim Brotherhood activists.
In:oo:, BritainsGuardianreported
that : million of Londons , million
inhabitants were Muslim. Seeing as Is-
lam is one of Britains fastest-growing
religions, the proportion of Muslims
has probably increased since then.
Livingstones promises could get him
elected. It shows how powerful Islam
is becoming in the UK if a candidate
with links to Islamic extremists can be
a serious contender.
n England: One in five historical
buildings hit by crime
Around ,o,ooo protected histori-
cal buildings in England have been
physically harmed by crime, accord-
ing to a report commissioned by
English Heritage, published March
:. Of these, ,o,ooo suered substan-
tial damage. Nearly : percent of all
listed buildings have been hit by crime,
with ,., percent targeted by metal
thieves. Metal thieves caused a urry
of headlines afer several war monu-
ments were stolen and sold as scrap.
Last November, theWar Memorials
Trustestimated that one monument
was vandalized each week. Damage
done to a listed building
or an archaeological
site can ofen not be
put right and centuries
of history will be lost
forever, warned the
chief executive of Eng-
lish Heritage, Dr. Simon
Turley. Tese places
have an obviously high
value to society. Te
survey sheds more light
on Britains high crime.
As theTrumpethas
long warned, Britains
disregard for its history is one of the
causes for its decline. Now, because
of that decline, that history is being
destroyed.
n Archbishop Rowan Williams to
step down
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan
Williams announced March :o that
he would stand down in December
to become the Master of Magdalene
College, Cambridge in :o:,. Williams
leaves a divided church, and knows
The Bible is specic about
events that will lead directly to
the return of Jesus Christ. Soon,
Russia and China will amass an
army of 200 million men. Does
that sound incredible? Your
Bible says it will happen!
Russia and China
in Prophecy
This week on television
Check local listings or visit
www.keyofdavid.com.
N
.1io ov Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been
among the vocal voices weighing in on calls for justice
for Trayvon Martin, an unarmed :,-year-old who was
gunned down last month while walking home in Sanford,
Florida. On Wednesday, a march was held in New York
City in support of the teens family, as federal and local au-
thorities launch investigations
into how the incident unfolded
and why the states stand your
ground law applied to the
shooter in this case.
On Twitter yesterday and
today, Farrakhan sent some
curious tweets regarding
peace, justice and retaliation
that could be interpreted as a
veiled threat. Where there is no
justice, there will be no peace. Soon the law of retaliation
may very well be applied, Farrakhan wrote, including the
hashtag -Trayvon to clarify the subject of his angst.
Te text of his justice and peace tweet raises eye-
brows. While one cannot know whether he is merely
commenting generally on social responses to injustice or
whether he is calling for the law of retaliation, the lack
of clarity in his messaging raises questions. In follow-up
tweets throughout the day on Wednesday and Tursday, he
had more to say regarding the tragedy and injustice more
generally: Te fruit of justice is peace. But justice is a prin-
ciple of fair dealing, he writes
in another tweet. When we fail
to do justice, we literally set up
conditions that destroy peace.
And in his most recent tweet,
Farrakhan writes, Tink.
Reect. Ten get up and do
something for self or suer the
consequences.
Additionally, he laments discriminatory actions against
African Americans and claims that black youths have not
been informed of the price that their forefathers paid to give
them their current lifestyles. Farrakhan uses the words the
enemy to describe those educating black youths and says
that African Americans have suered at the hands of a
wicked oppressor.
Farrakhan Tweets: Where There Is No Justice,
Law of Retaliation May Be Applied
THE BLAZE | March 22
As the economy gets worse and peoples emotions
become more heated, violent race riots are going to
burst on the scene in our large cities. [H]ATEFUL RACIST
STATEMENTS INEVITABLY LEAD TO VIOLENT RACIST ACTS! Will
we see some violent racial turmoil begin [before the
2012 presidential election]? I believe it is very likely!
GERALD FLURRY
TRUMPET, MARCH 2012
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his successor has a tough job. I think
that it is a job of immense demands
and I would hope that my succes-
sor has the constitution of an ox and
the skin of a rhinoceros, really, he
said. But the ght over his successor
could rip the church apart. A battle
over Williams successor threatens
to amplify the already deep divisions
within the church. Conservative An-
glicans around the world are rallying
behind the Archbishop of York, Dr.
John Sentamuthe favorite to suc-
ceed Williams. Liberals in the UK are
vigorously opposed to him. Expect the
Church of England to be weakened by
inghting while the Catholic Church
takes center stage.
OTHER NEWS AND NOTES
A
uUci, unmanned European cargo ship will launch
to the International Space Station in the wee hours of
Friday (March :,) on a mission to deliver a load of food and
supplies to the orbiting outpost.
Te European Space Agencys third Automated Transfer
Vehicle , (.1v-,) is scheduled to lif o from a launch pad
in South America at :::, a.m. iu1 (o: cm1) on Friday.
Te spacecraf will launch
atop Europes workhorse
Ariane , rocket from the
Guiana Space Center in
Kourou, French Guiana.
Te :o-ton cargo freight-
er is slated to arrive at
the space station on March
:8. It is the heaviest load of
cargo ever delivered to the
station by a robotic space-
craf, is. ocials said.
Te European .1vs are
the largest and heaviest
cargo vessels hauling sup-
plies to the International
Space Station, according to
is. ocials. Te cylindri-
cal spacecraf is ,, feet (:o.,
meters) long and :., feet
(., meters) wide. In fact, an
.1v is large enough to t a
double-decker bus inside.
Some of the fuel being
delivered to the space sta-
tion will be used to boost
the space station higher in
its orbit so that it continues
to y roughly :o miles (,8okilometers) above Earth.
Te European .1vs are disposable spacecraf designed
to automatically dock to the Zvezda module on the Rus-
sian segment of the space station. Te cargo ships remain
attached to the outpost for up to six months before they are
packed with garbage and deliberately sent to burn up dur-
ing re-entry through Earths atmosphere.
Te .1vs are part of an international eet of disposable
robot cargo ships that are used to carry hardware and sup-
plies to the space station. Russias robotic Progress ships
and Japans H-: Transfer Vehicles (u1vs) also regularly
make trips to the orbiting complex.
is. routinely names the .1vs afer historical gures
that were inuential to astronomy or space exploration.
Te agencys rst .1v, named Jules Verne, made its maiden
voyage to the space station in :oo8. Te .1v-:, dubbed
Johannes Kepler, launched in :o::.
Te next two planned .1vs, named .1v- Albert
Einstein and .1v-, Georges Lemaitre, are scheduled to
launch to the International Space Station in :o:, and :o:,
respectively.
Europe Launching Heaviest Space Station Cargo Ship Ever
SPACE.COM | March 22
Ariane 5 and ATV Edoardo Amaldi on the launch pad, March 21, in Kourou, French Guiana.
ESA/S. CORVAJA
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According to the Sanford Chief of
Police Bill Lee, who temporarily resigned
yesterday under heavy pressure from civil
rights groups, the attack happened afer
Zimmerman had lost sight of the youth
and was returning to his sport utility
vehicle to meet with the police ocer who
had been dispatched to the scene. Zimmermans side of the story,
the police chief insists, was supported by physical evidence and
testimony.
None of these details, however, prevented big media and
the Department of Justice from adding fuel to the re of
racial hatred. In the uo,s case, it cant even prosecute Zim-
merman unless it can nd a racial element in the incident,
which would then make it a federal crime.
And so, the search begins for any shred of evidence
proving that Zimmerman was a racist.
In the case of Allen Coon, however, authorities still
dont know if racial hatred might have motivated two black
youths to set him on re afer dousing him with gasoline.
You get what you deserve, white boy, one of the attack-
ers said to Coon, while igniting the ames. Coon managed
to save his life by smothering his burning head with the
shirt he was wearing.
His mother told columnist Selwyn Duke that the vicious
attack was just the violent culmination of the incessant
racial harassment her son had been subjected to ever since
he enrolled in the predominantly black school on the east
side of Kansas City.
Even more damning, Duke wrote, is that multiple
educators were complicit in the harassment (emphasis
added throughout).
Outside of Kansas City, the media coverage of this politi-
cally incorrect hate crime has been sparse, to say the least.
Even in Kansas City, aside from a few outspoken voices, local
media outlets and law enforcement ocials have downplayed
the obvious racial component to this crime. Some even went
so far as to ignore the fact that the perpetrators were black.
During his interview with Coons mother, Duke got the
distinct impression that local law enforcement ocials
were steering clear of any hate-crime charges for fear of set-
ting o a powder keg.
But by not applying hate crime laws equally, big media
and law enforcement ocials are only adding more explo-
sives on top of the powder keg. Whites will only resent the
double standard and begin taking matters into their own
hands. And blacks will view themselves as the only ethnic
group in America that is routinely victimized by racism.
Tis is no light matter to pass over casually, Herbert
W. Armstrong wrote way back in October :o,. Race war
is coming! Racial tensions, passions and hatreds are being
deliberately stirred by organized planning. It will explode
into mass violence that will stagger the imagination! It will
be whipped into an accelerating crescendo until human
blood runs like rivers!
Yes, it is comingto a local neighborhood near you. And
its not just a local matter, Mr. Armstrong stressed. Its a
woviuwiui evil!
Look at Afghanistan. Remember the widespread anti-
American protests several weeks ago afer reports of a Ko-
ran burning on a U.S. military base: Tose protests sparked
several incidents of violence that lef ,o Afghans and six
U.S. service members dead. In one case, two U.S. service-
men were shot from behind by a supposed Afghan ally.
A few days later, a U.S. Army sta sergeant lef his post
in the Kandahar Province and went on a barbaric shooting
spree in nearby villages, murdering :o Afghanis, including
children. Tis random act of senseless brutality prompted
Afghanistans President Hamid Karzai to call on Afghanis
to pray for God to deliver his nation from the American
demons.
Afer more than :o years of ghting alongside Afghans
in the war against terrorism, tensions between Americans
and Afghanis could not be worse.
Ten theres the Toulouse massacre. On Monday, a gun-
man outside a Jewish school in southwest France gunned
down four Jewsthree of them little children. French au-
thorities quickly connected the attack to one that happened
a few days earlieranother shooting that lef three black
French paratroopers dead.
Media coverage of this appalling incident followed
an all too predictable path. Since the victims were Jews
and blacks, the perpetrator must have been a right-wing
Caucasian. Afer we then learned that the perpetrators
name was Mohammedand that he was a jihadist linked
to al QaedaWestern media outlets rushed to the defense
of Islam by parroting the very same deranged propaganda
you hear daily on Arab networks like Al Jazeerathat the
Israeli army deliberately targets Palestinian children.
And so the terrorist named Mohammed was somewhat
justied when he took aim at those three little Jewish chil-
dren. At least thats what were told by the ignorant apolo-
gists who control the ow of misinformation coming out of
most news organizations.
Tis diabolical discourse only .cciiiv.1is the cancer-
ous spread of racial hatred. Te Bible says it will ultimately
lead to the virtual annihilation of entire peoples. Study
Ezekiel ,::-::, Jeremiah :,:,o-,,, Isaiah :::-o, Matthew
::::-:: and Revelation :o and :8.
We are living in a tinderbox loaded with a lethal mixture
of hatred, violence and every imaginable evil.u i1s
.noU1 1o ixvioui i oUv v.cis!
Tis is why God mUs1 intervene supernaturally in the
aairs of mankinda prophesied reality that most people,
even in the religious world, simply refuse to believe. But it
is trueand it will happen.
Jesus Christ will soon intervene in world aairs and stop
mankind from committing suicide! Isnt it about time you
learned much more about why this world is the way it is
and how God intends to forcefully establish law-abiding
ovuiv in this chaotic, hate-lled world: If you want an-
swers to lifes most important questionsanswers retrieved
from the pages of your own Biblethen request your free
copy of Herbert W. Armstrongs eye-opening work, Mys-
tery of the Ages.
STEPHEN FLURRY
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