Muslims Take Christian Man With Heart Disease, Order Him To Convert To Islam, He Says No, They Then Beat Him And Torture Him To Death

A Christian man with heart disease named Salem Matty Georgis in the Syriac Christian town of Bartella was ordered by ISIS to convert to Islam, and when he refused, they beat and tortured him to death. He was one of the Christians who could not leave his town when ISIS commanded that all Christians leave, on account of his heart disease. He remained in his home for three weeks, but when he ran out of food, he had to leave his abode to search for something to eat. That is when the ISIS Muslims took him, and they eventually killed him. One of his relatives said:

The patrol arrests him and tried to force him to convert to Islam, but he completely refused. Thus, the militants beat him and tortured him until he died in their hands

The jihadists then dumped his body, and the corpse of this martyr was later found by a local and buried.

Editor's note: Holy Martyr Salem Matty Georgis, pray for us. 

Who is the False Prophet of the End Times?

By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

I was brought up in a Protestant church steered by dispensationalist theology.
The preachers loved to study the Biblical books of prophecy almost like fortune tellers to try to predict the future. They tried to read the Biblical books of prophecy in one hand and yesterday’s paper in the other.
That process never yields very good results because, while the prophetic books of the Bible do look forward to the future, they are also locked into the historic and cultural circumstances of the time in which they were written. The interesting thing about interpreting these books is that they are locked into the time and culture of their writers, but they also speak of universal themes and timeless scenarios. So, in the book of Revelation the great whore of Babylon is clearly the Roman Empire during the time of writing, but the decadent, demonic and deadly world empire symbolized by Babylon and meaning Rome, also stands for any world empire at any time that threatens the Kingdom of God with the Kingdom of Satan.
The anti Christ is not just one tyrant, but many down through history. It is also a spirit in the world–the spirit that tempted humanity ant the beginning, tempted Jesus in the desert and still attempts world domination today.
In Revelation the anti Christ is accompanied by a “false prophet.” The false prophet is described in Revelation 13:11-15. He is also referred to as the “second beast” (Revelation 16:13,19:20,20:10). Together with the Antichrist and Satan, who empowers both of them, the false prophet is the third party in the unholy trinity.

Read more at Patheos.com

You Can't Understand ISIS If You Don't Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia

BEIRUT -- The dramatic arrival of Da'ish (ISIS) on the stage of Iraq has shocked many in the West. Many have been perplexed -- and horrified -- by its violence and its evident magnetism for Sunni youth. But more than this, they find Saudi Arabia's ambivalence in the face of this manifestation both troubling and inexplicable, wondering, "Don't the Saudis understand that ISIS threatens them, too?"

It appears -- even now -- that Saudi Arabia's ruling elite is divided. Some applaud that ISIS is fighting Iranian Shiite "fire" with Sunni "fire"; that a new Sunni state is taking shape at the very heart of what they regard as a historical Sunni patrimony; and they are drawn by Da'ish's strict Salafist ideology.

Other Saudis are more fearful, and recall the history of the revolt against Abd-al Aziz by the Wahhabist Ikhwan (Disclaimer: this Ikhwan has nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood Ikhwan -- please note, all further references hereafter are to the Wahhabist Ikhwan, and not to the Muslim Brotherhood Ikhwan), but which nearly imploded Wahhabism and the al-Saud in the late 1920s.

Many Saudis are deeply disturbed by the radical doctrines of Da'ish (ISIS) -- and are beginning to question some aspects of Saudi Arabia's direction and discourse.

Read the rest at Huffington Post

Iraqi Christians Weigh Taking Up Arms Against the Islamic State

DAHUK, Iraq—Of all the many ancient peoples who once lived in the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates, Iraq's Assyrian Christians pride themselves on having persisted in their traditional homeland for millennia, even as other civilizations thrived then disappeared, as languages and cultures died out, as ethnic groups melted into the ways and genetic pools of their conquerors.
But today Iraq's Assyrians, and its Christians in general, fear that their place in this multiethnic, multisectarian mosaic society is shrinking, under severe threat from the ultraconservative Islamist group the Islamic State (IS).

Read the rest at National Geographic

The Muslims Will Invade The Vatican, And Try To Destroy The Roman Catholic Church

I remember a few years ago spending time with an Evangelical friend of mine. Within our conversation, somehow, the subject of the Crusades came up. Of course, I defended the Crusades, explaining that they were fighting off Islamic invaders in the Middle East. He, on the other hand, vehemently condemned the Crusaders as evil and barbarous people. I asked him, “Who would you rather win, the Muslims or the Crusaders?” He said, with a tone of vitriol, “It doesn’t matter, they are both the same! I would not care at all if the Muslims invaded the Vatican, the Catholics are just as evil.”

This is the predicament that we are in. While the Vatican is hated as the Harlot of Babylon, the Muslims are currently conspiring to take over and destroy Rome. And many would not have a problem with this.

The Muslims will invade Rome in the near future. Why would they try such a seemingly useless endeavor? Because when Muhammad founded his cult, there were two cities that he aspired for the Muslims to conquer: Rome and Constantinople.

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Bishop Sheen on Islam

Moslemism is the only great post-Christian religion of the world. Because it had its origin in the seventh century under Mohammed, it was possible to unite within it some elements of Christianity and of Judaism.

Moslemism takes the doctrine of the unity of God, His Majesty, and His Creative Power, and uses it as a basis for the repudiation of Christ, the Son of God.

Misunderstanding the notion of the Trinity, Mohammed made Christ a prophet only.

The Catholic Church throughout Northern Africa was virtually destroyed by Moslem power and at the present time (circa 1950), the Moslems are beginning to rise again.

If Moslemism is a heresy, as Hilaire Belloc believes it to be, it is the only heresy that has never declined, either in numbers, or in the devotion of its followers.

Read the rest at American Catholic

Editor's note: Belloc was not the first to call Islam a heresy.  In his "Fount of Knowledge", St. John of Damascus affirms Islam as a heresy, going so far as to call it a forerunner of Anti-christ.

Lepanto, ISIS, and America

by guest contributor, Harold Koenig

Sobieski's Hussars

In the battle before Lepanto, the Turks had captured the admiral of the European fleet. They flayed him alive (at least, he was alive when they started) and hoisted his skin, stuffed with straw, to the masthead.

This is important. There is the myth of Andalus, this urbane and tolerant Muslim society. But the reality of Islam as an aggressive fighting force trumps the myth.

One must not underestimate the effect of the Protestantism of England on the stories we tell ourselves. When Spain was Catholic AND the enemy and rival of England, it suited the needs of a great many to paint both Spain and Catholicism in the worst possible light. Thus "THE" Inquisition, as though there were only one, becomes an historical bogey to frighten children with, while hanging and drawing (eviscerating -- while alive) Catholic priests in England does not get much space in the legends of our culture.

So Lepanto and the Siege of Vienna are awkward, while Roland is quite forgotten. But the facts of the past are being thrown in our present faces, and our enemy flaunts his brutality while he sells our daughters to the seraglio of some unwashed thug. Had not Roland and Don Juan of Austria fought so well, had not Sobieski and the glorious Polish hussars come to the relief of Vienna, our history would have been sadder and more tawdry than it is.

Fools, and I do not throw that epithet lightly, thought that the momentary weakening of what was the USSR signaled the end of history. NOTHING in history yet has supported the belief that there would not be struggles between and among empires. And now the IS hurls defiance at the rest of the world. Stronger than anyone expected, they lay claim to a future of empire and imperial domination.

And the United States? In theory at least, we the people are sovereigns whose ministers make our government. But too many of the soi-disant wise tell us that these matters are too high for us, that we are common people beset by vengeful passions. And, they are not utterly wrong, because too few of us have cultivated either virtue or wisdom.

But currently in the face of the threats of a new Kara Mustafa, our government tells us this has nothing to do with Islam or with the United States. Yes, they killed one of our citizens -- with remarkable brutality, and in accordance with their scriptures. But, have no fear, our daughters are safe. And, on wouldn't want to be bigoted or, God (if there is one) forbid, blunt in the face of a highly multi-culti enemy.

They kill adults and children. They FILM the killing of children. But, wait, there's anew boutique brewery. Surely the Muslims will wait while I sample this exquisitely hopped ale.