The Scriptorium

The Bible prophecies a war of Gog and Magog that will involve several Islamic countries and Russia (before you e-mail me, I know there are other theories and they’re on our website). When ever I read an article on Russia transferring arms to Iran and other Islamic countries (this happens more often lately), I wonder if we’re getting closer to that war against Israel that will likely lead to a 7 year peace agreement and the tribulation.

Russia and Iran signed a deal Sunday that would deliver nuclear fuel to the Middle East country for the startup of its first reactor – a project the United States had for years pushed Moscow to drop, claiming Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb.

Iranian Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh and Russian Atomic Energy Agency chief Alexander Rumyantsev signed the agreement at the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The signing, which was delayed by a day, came after the two senior officials toured the $800 million complex.

“Today, a very important development occurred, and that was the protocol on returning nuclear fuel, which we signed together. In the next few weeks many Russian technicians will arrive in Bushehr” to finish the plant, Rumyantsev said after the signing.

Both officials refused to discuss the details of shipping the nuclear fuel to Iran and the spent fuel back to Russia, but insisted that the agreement conforms to international nuclear regulations. . . . .

If their following international nuclear regulations so carefully, then why not be open and transparent about the deal? I think we all know why.

On a related note, Pakistan, who has helped Iran gain nuclear technology in the past, pointed out today that, should the U.S. launch a war against Iran, Iran would be forced to surrender within weeks. Perhaps Pakistan is trying to talk some sense into their fellow Arabs. They don’t like the thought of a rather large parking lot next door.

Senator McCain may have a good idea for a change as well.

AP Article

Fox News Article

A commenter at Daniel Pipes website describes the Islamification of students in the public schools of Arizona. You probably haven’t heard about this because the left has no problem with prayer in school, or religious indoctrination as long as it’s not Christian. It’s amazing to me that schools are getting away with spending weeks on Islamic instruction, requiring students to learn how to use a Muslim prayer mat, and telling them to write papers on the teachings of Muhammad. Parents who speak up face an uphill battle, as liberals can never see their own hypocrisy, but we must speak up none the less. Can you immagine the uproar if teachers required students to write about Jesus, recite the Lord’s prayer, and dress up like Christians? You can read the commenter’s full post here.

My child is in the 7th grade in Scottsdale, Arizona. The school’s officially adopted social studies textbook is titled Across the Centuries and is published by Houghton Mifflin. However, Across the Centuries has been shelved and the school is piloting a brand new book from Teacher’s Curriculum Institute, aka TCI, titled History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond (this book is not permitted to go home). In my opinion, this book is highly biased towards Islam, historically incorrect and also includes fake history along with Islamic religious proselytizing and indoctrination techniques.

The school has spent approximately 5 weeks of the third quarter grading period teaching Islam to 12 and 13 year olds. The children had to write a full biography on the life of Muhammad, using the information from the textbook – an extremely indoctrinating exercise. This biography will be a large portion of their grade for the 8 week period. Michael H. Hart’s top 100 list of the most influential people in the history of the world was presented to teach that Muhammad was #1, Sir Isaac Newton was #2 and Jesus was #3. The school hosted two professional Muslim speakers, from the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Arizona, to speak to all 7th grade social studies classes. This took one whole day. The Muslim speakers brought prayer rugs and taught the children to pray the Muslim way. I also believe that there were recitations from the Koran and possibly an Islamic “fashion show”. . . . . .

Here’s an excellent article on the E.U.’s current path, it’s 511 page constitution, and it’s unsustainable immigration numbers. It’ll make you re-think any ideas you had about the E.U. becoming a super power just yet.

A week ago, the conventional wisdom was that George W. Bush had seen the error of his unilateral cowboy ways and was setting off to Europe to mend fences with America’s ”allies.”

I think not. Lester Pearson, the late Canadian prime minister, used to say that diplomacy is the art of letting the other fellow have your way. All week long President Bush offered a hilariously parodic reductio of Pearson’s bon mot, wandering from one European Union gabfest to another insisting how much he loves his good buddy Jacques and his good buddy Gerhard and how Europe and America share — what’s the standard formulation? — ”common values.” Care to pin down an actual specific value or two that we share? Well, you know, ”freedom,” that sort of thing, abstract nouns mostly. Love to list a few more common values, but gotta run. . . .

Sun Times Article

Germany is now experiencing the effects of mass Muslim immigration. How long before the U.S. starts seeing these kinds of mercy killings? We may already be seeing them, but the media will never report them as such. CAIR will make sure of that. This article is for all those who write us and tell us that Islam teaches respect for women (against the Qu’ran’s instruction – Surah 4:34).

Shortly before nine o’clock one Monday evening earlier this month, Hatin Sürücü left her five-year-old son asleep in their small apartment in the Tempelhof district of Berlin and made her way to a bus stop in the main Oberlandgarten Strasse.

Minutes later, a volley of pistol shots rang out but no one came to help Mrs Sürücü, 23, who was of Turkish origin. A bus driver discovered her body, with multiple wounds to the head and chest, about 40 minutes later and called the police.

Last week, Mrs Sürücü’s three brothers, aged 18 to 25, who were arrested six days after the attack, were formally charged with the murder. They have pleaded not guilty and were remanded in custody.

Police are investigating whether Mrs Sürücü was the victim of a so-called “honour killing” after she made the decision to leave the cousin with whom she had been forced into an arranged marriage eight years earlier.

The police said that Mrs Sürücü had frequently complained of being threatened by her brothers.

If they are found guilty, Mrs Sürücü’s murder will be the sixth “honour killing” within Berlin’s 200,000-strong Muslim community in four months. Shocking as that is, the reactions of some Turkish immigrant children at a school whose main gates are yards from the scene of the shooting has caused even graver concern.

Asked by teachers what they thought of the murder, several 13-year-old pupils are said to have implied that they thought Mrs Sürücü had “earned” her death. “Well, she lived like a German, didn’t she?” remarked one. Mrs Sürücü got married in Turkey at the age of 15 but returned with her son to her birthplace, Berlin, more than five years ago.

She broke with her family, refused to wear the Muslim headscarf and lived with her child in a hostel.

She had recently completed training as an electrical engineer and friends said that she simply “wanted to live her own life”.

The murder has shocked politicians, police and community leaders, and prompted criticism that successive German governments have ignored ritual injustices within immigrant communities for decades. “How many more women have to die before this society wakes up?” asked Necla Kelek, the author of a controversial book on arranged marriages. . . . .

London Telegraph Article