Bible 1Jo BBE

1Jo 1:1  That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

1Jo 1:2  (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);

1Jo 1:3  We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

1Jo 1:4  And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.

1Jo 1:5  This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

1Jo 1:6  If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

1Jo 1:7  But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

1Jo 1:8  If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

1Jo 1:9  If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

1Jo 1:10  If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

1Jo 2:1  My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:

1Jo 2:2  He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.

1Jo 2:3  And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

1Jo 2:4  The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

1Jo 2:5  But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

1Jo 2:6  He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

1Jo 2:7  My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

1Jo 2:8  Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

1Jo 2:9  He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

1Jo 2:10  He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.

1Jo 2:11  But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

1Jo 2:12  I am writing to you, my children, because you have forgiveness of sins through his name.

1Jo 2:13  I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.

1Jo 2:14  I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.

1Jo 2:15  Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1Jo 2:16  Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

1Jo 2:17  And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

1Jo 2:18  Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour.

1Jo 2:19  They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

1Jo 2:20  And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

1Jo 2:21  I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

1Jo 2:22  Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son.

1Jo 2:23  He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.

1Jo 2:24  But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

1Jo 2:25  And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.

1Jo 2:26  I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

1Jo 2:27  As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

1Jo 2:28  And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.

1Jo 2:29  If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

1Jo 3:1  See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

1Jo 3:2  My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

1Jo 3:3  And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

1Jo 3:4  Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

1Jo 3:5  And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.

1Jo 3:6  Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

1Jo 3:7  My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

1Jo 3:8  The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

1Jo 3:9  Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

1Jo 3:10  In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

1Jo 3:11  Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

1Jo 3:12  Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

1Jo 3:13  Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.

1Jo 3:14  We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

1Jo 3:15  Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

1Jo 3:16  In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

1Jo 3:17  But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

1Jo 3:18  My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

1Jo 3:19  In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

1Jo 3:20  When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

1Jo 3:21  My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

1Jo 3:22  And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.

1Jo 3:23  And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

1Jo 3:24  He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

1Jo 4:1  My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

1Jo 4:2  By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

1Jo 4:3  And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now.

1Jo 4:4  You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1Jo 4:5  They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them.

1Jo 4:6  We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

1Jo 4:7  My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

1Jo 4:8  He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

1Jo 4:9  And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

1Jo 4:10  And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

1Jo 4:11  My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

1Jo 4:12  No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

1Jo 4:13  And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

1Jo 4:14  And we have seen and give witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

1Jo 4:15  Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

1Jo 4:16  And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

1Jo 4:17  In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

1Jo 4:18  There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

1Jo 4:19  We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

1Jo 4:20  If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

1Jo 4:21  And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

1Jo 5:1  Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

1Jo 5:2  In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

1Jo 5:3  For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

1Jo 5:4  Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

1Jo 5:5  Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

1Jo 5:6  This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.

1Jo 5:7  And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.

1Jo 5:8  There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.

1Jo 5:9  If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

1Jo 5:10  He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

1Jo 5:11  And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

1Jo 5:12  He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

1Jo 5:13  I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

1Jo 5:14  And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:

1Jo 5:15  And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

1Jo 5:16  If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

1Jo 5:17  All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

1Jo 5:18  We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

1Jo 5:19  We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

1Jo 5:20  And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

1Jo 5:21  My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.

2Sa15v1 GOP Myth

2Sa 15:1 KJV  And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

Heroic is as heroic does.

One Cheer for Gen. Petraeus  http://j.mp/0GOPMyth or http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/01/12/one-cheer-for-gen-petraeus/ PJMedia David P. Goldman (Spengler) January 12th, 2015 - 2:34 pm

The Obama administration is still deciding whether to bring felony charges against former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus, according to Attorney General Eric Holder. As a senior DOJ official in the Clinton administration, Holder arranged a presidential pardon for fugitive tax cheat Marc Rich. As attorney general, he ignored the unconscionable use of the IRS against conservative-leaning organizations seeking tax-exempt status.

This is a political prosecution. Petraeus’ supposed crime, leaking classified information to a girlfriend, is the sort of victimless infraction that never has been brought to the point of criminal prosecution at any time in the past. Petraeus’ offense, rather, is political: He is credited with the 2006-2007 surge that in Republican mythology won the Iraq War before President Obama snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. One risks being run out of the Republican Party on a rail for questioning this mythology, but someone has to say that the emperor has no clothes.

Petraeus improved the optics of the Iraq mess at the end of the second Bush administration, to be sure, but he also helped set in motion the catastrophe that has now engulfed the Levant.

The story already has been told in depth by Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Daniel Bolger, whose memoir Why We Lost appeared last year. I reviewed it in Asia Times Online after observing that not one of the mainstream media reviews mentioned the most important assertions in Gen. Bolger’s excellent book: First, that American success in imposing majority rule on Iraq in 2006 set in motion the Sunni insurgency, and second, that America’s sponsorship of the Sunnis in 2007-2008 (the “Sunni Awakening” built with American funds as part of the “surge”) made the insurgency intractable.

Below is an extract from my Nov. 21, 2014 review:

Proof that America has set out to destabilize the Persian Gulf region, a well-regarded Chinese specialist argued recently before a Beijing foreign-policy seminar, is that the Islamic State is led by Sunni officers armed and funded by General David Petraeus, the US commander during the 2007-2008 “surge”. The observation is correct, to be sure: ISIS shows impressive leadership capacity and mastery of large-unit tactics involving sophisticated equipment, and it learned much of this from the Americans. But the Americans acted out of short-term political expediency rather than medium-term malevolence.

America did not have to choose the wrong mission, Bolger argues:

Bush’s war began narrowly, knocking out al-Qaeda and its Taliban backers in Afghanistan. Within weeks of 9/11, the basic goals were fulfilled, not perfectly, not completely, but probably close enough. Had we stopped there and reverted to the long, slow Clinton-era squeeze of terror cells and Islamist supporters , it might have done the job. … Again, as after the fall of Kabul, the swift seizure of Baghdad offered another opportunity to close out the conventional military phase and go back to the slow, steady, daily pressures of global containment of Islamist threats. That moment passed. Instead … with minimal domestic debate – and, notably, no known military objection – the administration backed into two lengthy, indecisive counterinsurgency campaigns.Careful what you wish for: by 2006, the US had sponsored national elections in Iraq and brought to power the Shi’ite leader Nouri al-Maliki, who promptly purged Iraqi’s security forces of Sunnis. Fearful of Shi’ite vengeance, Iraq’s Sunnis revolted and Iraq dissolved into violence. In response, junior officers operating in Sunni-dominated Anbar province devised the stratagem that lay at the heart of the “surge”. The commitment of 20,000 additional combat troops helped suppress the Sunni insurgency, but paying the Sunnis not to fight for the time being was more effective. As Bolger reports,

The Anbar tribes had always helped AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq]. … When individual tribal sheikhs objected, the elders lost their heads. Families were attacked. Houses were demolished and cars burned. The AQI men began to impose Wahhabi discipline – no gambling on horses, no drinking alcohol, and no smoking. The AQI leaders had crossed the line at last. The Persian-influenced sheruggis in Baghdad were far away from Anbar Province. The Americans were right there, and they had little interest in what sheikhs did with their tribes. Forced to choose between the AQI boot on their necks and the US military, [tribal leaders] decided to try the Americans.That did the trick. Petraeus, lobbying for the Iraq command from his post at the staff college in Leavenworth, Kansas, took careful note of the junior officers’ proposals. Bolger has no patience for Petraeus’ politicking. “Junior soldiers wondered about his real motivations. Service or self? With Petraeus, you never knew for sure, but you often suspected the latter, and it meant trouble.”

With the whole of the senior Army staff opposing the surge, president Bush looked for an officer who would improve the optics in Iraq, and Petraeus was his man. Bolger adds:

“Combined with the troop surge in Baghdad, the Sunni Awakening effectively ended the sectarian bloodshed by the summer of 2007. It split the Sunni resistance, and they stayed fragmented during the remainder of the U.S. campaign. It was not a victory, not by any of the criteria the optimistic Americans set for themselves back in 2003, seemingly in another lifetime. But it was something like progress.

“… The Sunni Awakening expanded rapidly … Ever conscious of marketing, [Iraq commander Gen David] Petraeus and his inner circle settled on a more inspirational name. With the approval of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Sunni became the Sons of Iraq.

“Although the troop surge made the news in America, in country, the Sunni Awakening delivered the real and lasting difference in the rate of attrition. … The Sons of Iraq proved overwhelmingly loyal. Nearly a hundred thousand strong, half of that number in and near Baghdad, the Sahwa movement allowed the Sunni to carry weapons lawfully and get paid, effectively removing much of the incentive for the “honorable resistance.” It was by far the most successful and widespread jobs program in Iraq … The Sahwa, however, paid tens of thousands of Sunni Arabs to kill each other, not Americans. Cynical it might seem, but you couldn’t argue with the results. The Sons of Iraq fielded some six times as many Sunni with firearms as the highest estimate of enemy strength. It showed the potential depth and resiliency of the Sunni insurgency.”One might put the matter even more forcefully: by funding and training the “Sons of Iraq”, Petraeus and his team assembled the elements of the new Sunni insurgency now using the name of Islamic State (also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). Andrew McGully’s 2007 report in Agence France-Pressedescribes the first meeting of Sunni tribes near Baghdad with Petraeus and his team.

“Tell me how I can help you,” asks Major-General Rick Lynch, commander of US-led forces in central Iraq … One [tribal leader] mentions weapons, but the general insists: “I can give you money to work in terms of improving the area. What I cannot do – this is very important – is give you weapons.”

The gravity of the war council in a tent at the US forward operating base at Camp Assassin is suspended for a few moments as one of the local Iraqi leaders says jokingly but knowingly: “Don’t worry! Weapons are cheap in Iraq.”

“That’s right, that’s exactly right,” laughs Lynch in reply.”Having armed all sides of the conflict and kept them apart by the threat of arms,” I wrote in a 2010 essay on Asia Times Online, titled “Gen Petraeus’ Thirty Years’ War”, “the United States now expects to depart leaving in place governments of national reconciliation that will persuade well-armed and well-organized militias to play by the rules. It is perhaps the silliest thing an imperial power ever has done. The British played at divide and conquer, whereas the Americans propose to divide and disappear. At some point the whole sorry structure will collapse, and no-one knows it better than Petraeus.”

Petraeus doesn’t deserve criminal charges. But he shouldn’t occupy a pedestal in the Republican pantheon, either.

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Deu23v3v7to8 Reject aliens

Deu 23:3 KJV  An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:

Deu 23:7-8 KJV  Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.  (8)  The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

Every society has an existential duty to itself.  In order to preserve itself and its identity, ruthlessness may be necessary.

Don't mourn - neutralize http://j.mp/0RejectAliens or http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-090115.html Asia Times Online By Spengler

Along with journalists and writers everywhere I mourn our murdered colleagues at Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly that had the courage to poke fun at Islam and paid a horrendous price.

Asia Times Online has had to bury its own dead: our Pakistan Bureau Chief, the distinguished journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, was murdered in May 2011. His body, dumped into a canal in northeast Pakistan, showed signs of torture. Human Rights Watch accused Pakistan's intelligence services; a Pakistan judicial commission attributed the murder to "various belligerents

in the war on terror which included the Pakistani state and non-state actors such as the Taliban and al-Qaeda".

We will never forget Saleem, one of the bravest and best journalists of his generation. We will not forget the dead of Charlie Hebdo.

This is a new and terrible step on the part of the terrorists: they have threatened individual journalists for years and forced a few into hiding or witness protection. Paul Berman in his 2010 book The Flight of the Intellectuals claimed that European journalists tread lightly on the subject of Islamism out of fear for their lives. But the assault on the premises of a news organization and the massacre of its staff by non-state actors is an entirely new thing. We have never seen anything like this before in the sorry history of terrorism.

How will the civilized world respond? Armed guards at editorial offices are not enough, even if enough money could be found. Terrorists with assault rifles make easy work of lightly armed security guards. We face the distinct possibility that civil society in some parts of the world simply may cease to function. The cancer has spread so far that any cure will be almost as painful as the disease.

Nonetheless, it must be cured, if civilization is to prevail over barbarism. The American trade unionist Joe Hill, executed on a murder charge that the left considered a frame-up, told his friends: "Don't mourn - organize." Our task is to consider what might be required to neutralize the threat to news organizations everywhere.

France now faces an existential dilemma. By most independent estimates France now has a Muslim population of 6 million, or almost 10% of its 65 million people. If we assume that just 1% of this population are radicalized to the point of engaging in or providing support for terrorist activities, that is a pool of 60,000 individuals.

We are not speaking of 60,000 potential bombers or shooters, but a support network that will allow a much smaller number of terrorists to blend into the broader population. In the "no-go" zones of France now effectively ruled by Muslim gangs, moreover, the terrorists can intimidate the Muslim population. France already has lost the capacity to police part of its territory, which means that it cannot conduct effective counter-terror operations.

To put that number in context, the whole prison population of France is less than 70,000, of whom 60% are Muslims. It only takes a few dozen trained terrorists with an effective support network to bringing ordinary life to a stop in a major city.

France has had the toughest enforcement policy against radical Islam among the major European nations, as Daniel Pipes has observed. But French security clearly has been overwhelmed. The use of assault rifles by highly skilled gunmen in the center of Paris is a statement of contempt towards the authorities on the part of the terrorists.

The means by which France, or any other nation, could defeat the terrorists are obvious: to compel the majority of French Muslims to turn against the terrorists, the French authorities would have to make them fear the French state more than they fear the terrorists.

That is a nasty business involving large numbers of deportations, revocation of French citizenship, and other threats that inevitably would affect many individuals with no direct connection to terrorism. In the short term it would lead to more radicalization. The whole project of integration as an antidote to radicalism would go down the drain. The effort would be costly, but ultimately it would succeed: most French Muslims simply want to stay in France and earn a living.

There is no good outcome here, but the worst outcome would be the degeneration of France into a hostage state. We refuse to be hostages.

Spengler is channeled by David P Goldman. He is Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Associate Fellow at the Middle East ForumHis book How Civilizations Die (and why Islam is Dying, Too) was published by Regnery Press in September 2011. A volume of his essays on culture, religion and economics, It's Not the End of the World - It's Just the End of You, also appeared that fall, from Van Praag Press.

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Rom13v4 al Sisi on Islam

Rom 13:4 KJV  For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Providence seems to have an able and rightly directed minister in Egypt.  I am reminded of Thabo Mbeki's principled resistance to the HIV hoax.

Egypt’s al-Sisi Makes Extraordinary Speech on Islam http://j.mp/0alSisiIslam or http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/01/03/egypts-al-sisi-makes-extraordinary-speech-on-islam/ PJMedia Roger L. Simon | January 3rd, 2015 - 10:20 pm

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made an extraordinary speech on New Year’s Day to Cairo’s Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry calling for a long overdue virtual ecclesiastical revolution in Islam.  This is something no Western leader has the had the courage to do, certainly not Barack Obama, despite his Muslim education.

Accusing the umma (world Islamic population) of encouraging the hostility of the entire world, al-Sisi’s speech is so dramatic and essentially revolutionary it brings to mind Khrushchev’s famous speech exposing Stalin. Many have called for a reformation of Islam, but for the leader of the largest Arab nation to do so has world-changing implications.

Here are the key parts as translated on Raymond Ibrahim’s blog:

"I am referring here to the religious clerics.   We have to think hard about what we are facing—and I have, in fact, addressed this topic a couple of times before.  It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world.  Impossible!

"That thinking—I am not saying “religion” but “thinking”—that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world.  It’s antagonizing the entire world!

"Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live? Impossible!

"I am saying these words here at Al Azhar, before this assembly of scholars and ulema—Allah Almighty be witness to your truth on Judgment Day concerning that which I’m talking about now.

"All this that I am telling you, you cannot feel it if you remain trapped within this mindset. You need to step outside of yourselves to be able to observe it and reflect on it from a more enlightened perspective.

"I say and repeat again that we are in need of a religious revolution. You, imams, are responsible before Allah. The entire world, I say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move… because this umma is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands." 

Al-Sisi is certainly correct.  The whole world has been waiting for a long time for the next move of these imams or for somebody, anybody that will modernize Islam as other religions have done..  Whether that will happen, of course, is another question, but what al-Sisi is saying here is in many ways more revolutionary than the “Arab Spring.”  People ask, where are the “moderate Muslims”?  Well, one of them may be the president of Egypt. The boys from Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Boko Haram, al Qaeda, etc., etc., are probably not too happy about what al-Sisi said.  Let’s hope he doesn’t suffer the fate of Anwar Sadat for his courage.

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