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Thursday, August 17, 2017

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       This summer, as part of her visit to the UK, Shira was interviewed on Revelation TV's The Middle East Report.

       On the program, Shira shared about her personal life - how she accepted Yeshua, moved to Israel, met Ari - and how together they started Maoz Israel Ministries.  She also spoke about what is happening in Israel as related to the Gospel being preached, and the challenges the Messianic community faces in the Land.

       In addition, Shira addressed Israel's place on the international scene, and answered questions about Israel as it relates to the nations - including the U.S. and the UK.
   

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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

TRUMP, GOD AND ISRAEL - MAOZ ISRAEL

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Donald Trump on the campaign trail with his family. Left front: Son-in-law and daughter, Jared and Ivanka Kushner.
Jared comes from an observant Jewish family. Ivanka converted to Judaism. Right: Wife Melania Trump.

TRUMP, GOD AND ISRAEL

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By Shira Sorko-Ram

I remember sitting with a group of about 12 Israeli Messianic leaders in Jerusalem at the invitation of CBN’s Pat Robertson in 2003.

Pat had invited us to give him our perspective concerning the state of the Messianic Jewish body in Israel - its progress and challenges in that still nascent stage of bringing the Good News to our Israeli people.

Afterward, Pat asked us our opinion of George W. Bush’s presidency. We answered in general terms that we were happy to have a U.S. president who professed to be a Christian and who seemed to have some understanding of the importance and needs of the Jewish state.

Pat responded that he felt Bush was in for a great fall because he was the first president to advocate a division of the Land of Israel with the Arabs.

I remember I was stunned. True, the Book of Joel says that God will enter in judgment “on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel” with those who “have divided up My land.” (Joel 3:2) And everybody who reads the Bible knows God promised the land of Israel to the people of Israel multiple times. That’s why both the people and the land are called Israel in the Bible.

But, on June 25, 2002, President George W. Bush declared “…the United States of America will support the creation of a Palestinian state…”

There is no doubt in my mind that when God said, “I will bless those who bless you” (i.e., Abraham and his descendants), He meant it. It is clear to me that one of the principle reasons America is still the number one superpower in the world and is a nation where people all over the world dream of living, is the American people’s unique relationship with the people of Israel. And the backbone of this alliance has been the Bible-believing Christians together with the Jewish American community.

But as today’s younger generation becomes ever more secular (pagan), the love for the people who gave the world the Bible is weakening. Furthermore, as American Jews become more secular, their love for the state of Israel is also waning.

There is no other nation in the world that could take America’s place in its support for Israel emotionally and financially. If America’s support dwindles, Israel will still survive because the Bible says so. But at what cost? The Israeli media continually discusses the threat of Hezbollah’s 100,000 missiles trained on this tiny nation. Israeli military leaders are all preparing for the next war against Iran via Hezbollah.

And all Israel is waiting with baited breath to see what the new President Donald Trump will do.


Friday, October 21, 2016

Why Believers Must Face the Subject of Islam Head On - SHIRA SORKO-RAM CHARISMA NEWS

Islam is not only a religion, it is a political regime. (Flickr )

Why Believers Must Face the Subject of Islam Head On

SHIRA SORKO-RAM  CHARISMA NEWS
Standing With Israel
Information about Islam is not easy for Americans to digest. The names are long and unfamiliar and many Arabic words are not easily translated into English.
Islamists have an incredible number of organizations with names that are long and similar to each other. Often, authors use initials and this makes it doubly hard for the English reader to remember what both the name and the initials stand for.
Many Islamist documents are written in Arabic, with little incentive for Islamists to translate them into English, especially when they contain strategies to conquer non-Muslim nations and place them under Sharia law.
So for most Americans, the Islamic lifestyle, laws and culture are in the "unknown" category. Besides, who doesn't know there are many wonderful, good Muslims who accept the values of the Western countries they live in? So the whole thing is confusing. How can a person know what is good and what is evil?
The answer is, we must face the subject of Islam head on. A Muslim person may be an entirely model citizen. But the religion of Islam, and those who study and adhere to its laws (sharia) must be analyzed and understood. Sharia is the law of true Islam.
For Western democracies, Islam is the perfect storm. Because Islam is a religion, it is untouchable in the West. In a democracy, adherents of a religion are free to practice their religion. It is guaranteed by the American Constitution. That means it is not to be suppressed, or harassed or even critiqued in polite society. (At least that is the theory. As we know, the rights to practice a Bible-based faith are now being encroached upon on every side.)
But here's the catch. Islam, as presented by the Quran and Muhammad, is not only a religion. It is also a political regime. More than that, it is a way of life that is absolute.
But that's not all. Islam is an ideology with arrow-sharp goals. The mission that Muhammad left to his followers is to conquer the world and force Islam on every human being. The methods may be different. ISIS, al-Qaida, the Ayatollahs of Iran, the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia—they are bent on conquering the world through brute force. There are other movements though (notably the Muslim Brotherhood) that believe they can and will conquer the world through the political process.
Both violent and the non-violent Islamists have exactly the same goals. Different methods. Same goals. They are convinced that Islam will conquer the world and the entire human race will become Muslim. Islamic scholars proclaim that one day Jesus will return and He Himself will oversee the job of converting Christians and those of all religions to Islam.
It is true that for some centuries, Islam slept. Its warriors did not really pursue the conquest of the world. But note this: Since the Jewish people began to return to their own land promised on oath by the God of Israel, Islam has awoken. Its warriors have now become a worldwide movement. For all members of the religions of the world—except Christianity and Judaism—you die or become a Muslim. However, according to Islam, if you are a Christian or Jew, theoretically you can pay a tax to Islam which will buy your life. Practically speaking, however, many jihadis kill anyone who is not a Muslim.
Today, Islam has found a new weapon which has become extremely successful. This weapon is seemingly invincible. Because of wars introduced by Muslims against Muslims, and because of the poverty endemic in almost all Islamic states, refugees and migrants are invading Europe and the Western nations. Note that the oil-rich Arab nations are not accepting one single Muslim refugee, although they have the same culture, similar diets, the same language and certainly the same religion. Not one. Other autocratic governments are also not allowing this invading army of refugees to cross their borders.
But democracies have little defense against this human invasion. The remarkable phenomenon is that the Muslim masses are willing to risk their lives to escape the horrors of Islamic wars and poverty. But when their feet touch the promised lands of the democratic West, they do not want, for the most part, to integrate into Western society.
It's too restrictive.
Only one wife? It's against the law to beat their women? After all, in Muslim lands, it is a man's world. So after they arrive in the new world, they begin to duplicate and spread their religious-political ideology in the West—and turn their new land into a duplication of the very cultural civilization from which they fled.
Obviously there is a strong spiritual element to these massive changes taking place in Western civilization. Here's just one piece to the puzzle: For century upon century, England and Europe exiled and murdered the Jewish people. Through the last two millennia, anti-Semitism became a huge, organic part of European Christianity's DNA.
This was primarily due to replacement theology, which teaches that God has rejected the Jews because of their sins, and therefore Jews as God's Chosen People have been replaced by Christians. Today, only a small remnant of Jews is to be found in any of these now post-Christian European nations. Instead, 60 million Muslims, many of them militants, have taken their place.
Over the last few decades, the American government and institutions of higher learning have also turned their back on their Judeo-Christian moorings. Government officials and judges, along with university professors and scholars are aggressively fighting God's standards as revealed in the Bible.
Now Islam is taking root—seen and unseen—in America's government, universities and businesses. Because Islamists use vociferous pushback to any challenge of their goals to overthrow the Western way of life, both the ordinary citizen and intellectual elites are petrified to open their mouths about suspicious Islamic activities for fear of being called Islamophobic. Islam is spreading in America without challenge.
One last note: Don't ever let anyone fool you into believing that Allah and the God of the Bible are the same God. Here's how you can know for sure. Allah hates the God of Israel. Allah hates the Jews. Allah hates even the word "Zion"—the name that the God of the Bible promised will be His eternal resting place on Earth. Allah has told his followers to destroy Israel.
The God of Israel has promised that in the last days His Chosen People will come back to their own land which God promised the Jewish people with an oath. He has chosen the name "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" (whose name God changed to Israel).
There are countless other differences, but the people who understand God's plan for Israel, for its people to return to land of Israel and the God of Israel (not return to "religion"), will not be deceived by Allah—who is literally an anti-God.
In early 2015, I began to write about Islam's growth in the United States in the monthly Maoz Israel Report. Since then, Islam's expansion and influence have exploded, especially in government. So I have taken those articles I wrote, plus the latest developments and put them into my book, The Islamic Strategy to Conquer America.
As I watch events unfold from my home in Israel, I am convinced there has never, ever been a time as serious as this for America's God-fearing citizens to be aware of what is happening. The disintegration of Biblical values and principles has left an enormous spiritual vacuum, giving way to the ever-encroaching influence of Islam in this nation.
Be aware. Be in prayer. Be pro-active. 
Excerpted from Shira Sorko-Ram's book, The Islamic Strategy to Conquer America, 2016.
Along with her husband, Ari, Shira Sorko-Ram is a pioneer of the Messianic Jewish Movement in israel and the founder of Tiferet Yeshua in downtown Tel Aviv. They are also the founders and directors of Maoz Israel Ministries.                                                                           
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Thursday, October 6, 2016

AIDE TO HILLARY CLINTON HUMA ABEDIN'S OTHER LIFE - Maoz Israel Ministries



AIDE TO HILLARY CLINTON

- HUMA ABEDIN'S OTHER LIFE
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By Shira Sorko-Ram

(Excerpts from The Islamic Strategy to Conquer America)

There are titanic shifts taking place in Washington D.C. Under the watch of President Barack Obama, a flock of Muslim aides and advisors have been welcomed into the White House. They have surely had a strong influence in the Muslim-leaning policies the president has initiated in the last eight years. One might hope the next president, whoever that may be, would not have this heavy bent toward Islam.

Wrong. There is a strong chance there will even be greater Islamic influence impacting the White House with the next administration. Why? Because although the New York Times doesn’t know this, nor does CNN, ABC or NBC, Islamists have a single ultimate goal, an all-consuming and focused mission to the world - to conquer all nations for Allah and to establish his Sharia law.

Devout Muslims deeply believe they will bring world peace to the globe by converting the entire human race to Islam. Their explicit mission can be found in thousands, no hundreds of thousands of documents. In countless video clips you can witness Islamic clerics, authors and scholars preaching their gospel. From the mouths of multiplied hundreds of Jihadist militias, gangs and armies, they promise terror and death to the infidels - all who refuse to convert to Islam.

Terrorism is, of course, one of the main Islamic tools to bring their "peace" to the world. But terrorism is certainly not the only weapon of choice. The Muslim Brotherhood prefers to use diplomacy, money, education, persuasion and elections to conquer the Western world. At least in the beginning. They look for weak spots to replace the democratic fabric with their Sharia worldview.

Their methods? Use education. Indoctrinate naïve students. Give scholarships to educate future professors. Donate large sums of money to universities. Use intimidation to keep the media scared and silent. Repeat endlessly that Islam is a religion of peace. Use lawyers and lobbyists to threaten legal action against critics of their religion. Shout "Islamophobia!" Repeat endlessly that Muslims are the victims of Western abuse and hatred. Contribute large sums to charities of people with influence. Mosques? Build! Build! Build! And always remember: few weapons are more potent than deception.

There are a thousand ways to promote the Islamic agenda. And its leaders are using them with great proficiency.

A FAITHFUL AIDE TO HILLARY CLINTON

So let’s talk about a very special case. Huma Abedin.

Huma Abedin has been the inseparable assistant to Hillary Clinton for 20 years. If Clinton becomes the next president, then undoubtedly this 40 year-old aide will enjoy one of the most influential positions in the United States. But who is Huma?

The Abedins moved to Saudi Arabia when Huma was two years old. All her formative years were spent in a world more extreme in its Islamic expression than any other nation in the world. Neither she, nor her sister or even her mother would have been able to drive a car in that country. Huma would not have been allowed to leave the house without a family member.

Her Indian-born father and Pakistaniborn mother were themselves steeped in “Wahabbi” Islamic theology, and therefore jumped at the invitation to use their talents to spread Islamic doctrine. Huma’s parents were Islamic scholars. Until today Huma’s mother works tirelessly in many different organizations to spread Sharia throughout the world, especially in Western countries. (www.discoverthenetworks.org; link: goo.gl/dUS3zS)

At 18 years old, the Saudi-raised young woman came back to the U.S. and enrolled in George Washington University in 1994, which had a very active Muslim Students Association (MSA). By 1997, she was on the MSA Executive Board as the Head of Social Committee.


Muslim Students Association’s Executive Board of 1997 lists Huma Abedin as head of Social Committee.
Huma served from 1997-1999, while at the same time working for Hillary Clinton.




WHAT IS THE MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION?

Trustee report of the Islamic Trust of the pro-sharia
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in Britain lists
Dr. Abdullah Omar Naseef as Chairman of the Board.
Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi was also a Board trustee until 2006.
Huma’s brother, Hassan Abedin is listed as fellow of the Board.


So what’s the problem? There’s a huge problem. Most groups affiliated with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood actually grew out of MSA.

Even more disturbing, in 2001 the Muslim chaplain of the George Washington Muslim Students Association chapter in which Huma Abedin previously served on its executive board was none other than Anwar al-Awlaki, the now notorious al- Qaeda figure who was mentoring some of the 9/11 hijackers.(www.jpost.com; lnk: goo.gl/gYhsx8)

The plain facts reveal the Muslim Students Association has played a key role in the Muslim Brotherhood-led Islamic Movement in North America. So if there are lengthy and well-documented investigative reports with original sources so easily available for all to see, why doesn’t the mainstream media take the time to make even a cursory search? Answer: Islamists know how to fight back. And fight they do. When anyone questions Islamic goals or methods, they simply cry “religious persecution” or “Islamophobia!” That is enough to keep virtually all the liberal press at bay.

WHO WILL FACE THE FACTS?

Think about this: The only groups of people who are truly aware of the dangers of Islam’s theology are born-again Christians, Messianic Jews and Israelis. The first two understand that Islam is an evil false religion that would willingly slaughter, if possible, every person who refuses to convert to Islam. The Israeli people understand the deadly goals of this religion because Islamic leaders remind Israelis daily of their determination to destroy the Jewish state.

But what about Americans in general? With each passing year, Christianity and Judaism have become less important to a majority of its citizens. Without that Biblical compass, Americans are being blind-sided by the ambitions of Islam.

However, those of us who do care must face the facts - the Muslim Students Association with hundreds of chapters across America is the most effective tool for da’wah - Islamic proselytizing (or evangelism if you will) to Islam - within the American Muslim Brotherhood movement.(www.investigativeproject.org; link: goo.gl/3vylgy)

MSA has gained legitimacy on American campuses as a benevolent collegiate faith club; through conferences and events, publications, website and other activities, MSA has disseminated and promoted militant Islamic ideologies on college and universities throughout America. (Ibid.)

One of Islam’s oft-repeated and most current strategies is to use all of the many Islamic institutions in the U.S. for its most immediate goal: to prevent Muslims in the United States from assimilating into American culture. The MSA is the vanguard organization for this task.

Terrorism expert Patrick Poole told CBN News his investigation of the organization reveals that the Muslim Students Association has been a virtual terror factory. "Time after time after time again,” said Poole, “we see these terrorists - and not just fringe members: these are MSA leaders, MSA presidents, MSA national presidents - who've been implicated, charged and convicted in terrorist plots."(www.cbn.com; link: goo.gl/HngcPQ)

In 2008, the New York Times was still brave enough to describe a bit of the origins of the Muslim Students Association in the 1960s and 70s, describing their chapters as “basically little slices of Saudi Arabia.” Saudi rulers’ main condition for their donations to MSA: Don’t criticize Saudi Arabia. (www.nytimes.com; link: goo.gl/8emveP)

Their goals have not changed. But now a more polished, gentler version has been created for a wider 21st century audience.

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GROWING UP IN SAUDI ARABIA
HUMA'S FAMILY BUSINESS

By Shira Sorko-Ram
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Hillary Clinton visits Dar El-Hekma Womens College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Huma Abedin’s mother,
Saleha Mahmoud Abedin,(wearing glasses) in hijab is the Co-Founder and now the Assistant Dean of the College.

Living under Sharia law was completely natural for Huma. Her family moved to Saudi Arabia in 1978, after her father, Dr. Syed Zainul Abedin, was recruited by Abdullah Omar Naseef, a wealthy Saudi and his long-time colleague. Naseef commissioned Dr. Abedin to co-found with him a new outreach called the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). Its focus would be to countries where Muslims were a minority, i.e. the West.

Months later, Dr. Abedin launched the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA), again under the patronage of Naseef. The Journal became a family affair. When Dr. Abedin died in 1993, Huma’s mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin (aka Saleha Mahmood) became the editor of the JMMA.

One of Dr. Syed Abedin’s works was a publication titled Muslim Minorities in the West. Here is a sample reading from that book:

Islam is the religion of the whole world; sent by Allah through Muhammad to both races, the Jinn (demons) and Ins (mankind). It is a religion for all humanity as commanded by the Holy Quran and the Prophet’s correct path. This promise was confirmed since Islam did spread throughout the earth and multitudes streamed to it.(www.shoebat.com; link: goo.gl/N3hmsK)

BACK TO THE U.S.A.

A year after Dr. Abedin’s death, Saleha and family returned to the U.S. and Saleha continued her work as the new editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. Within two years of living in the U.S., Huma received the chance of a lifetime: to serve First Lady Hillary Clinton in the White House. With two years under her belt at George Washington University, she was hired as an intern at 19 years old.

The Clintons, having spent much time enlisting donors from oil-rich Saudi Arabia for their Clinton Foundation and with many friends and connections there, most likely felt very comfortable and even fortunate to find a young lady, born in the U.S. and yet who had spent almost all of her young life in Saudi Arabia. She was a great candidate to serve Hillary Clinton.

In 1996, the same year Huma went to work for Clinton, she became the assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs of which her mother was now editor-in-chief.

From that time through at least 2008, the Abedin family - Huma, her brother Hassan, and sister Heba A. Khalid - were responsible for editorial production of what can only be called a pro-Jihadist journal.

HER INFLUENCE CONTINUES

Huma worked for at least twelve years serving on the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA) editorial board together with her father’s benefactor, Abdullah Omar Naseef. The time coincided with the years Huma was also serving as a White House intern, and then as assistant during and after Clinton's Senate campaigns, and finally as Clinton's traveling chief of staff during her 2008 presidential campaign.

NASEEF/ABEDIN PARTNERSHIP

A short background check: During his long career, Naseef is best known for being the President of the Muslim World Congress (MWC). He was also Vice President of the Saudi Shura Council - an advisory board to the Monarchy - and President of King Abdul Azziz University, at which Osama bin-Laden studied in the late 1970’s.

The bottom line - and a most troubling issue for the Abedin family - is the well documented fact that Abdullah Omar Naseef is a senior Muslim Brotherhood leadership figure and Saudi royal family insider with direct connections to financial entities implicated in pre-9/11 funding of al-Qaeda.

So here we have Naseef, for many years the patron and close associate of all the Abedin family, while Chairman of the Muslim World Congress and also General Secretary of the Muslim World League. On its own website, the Muslim World League declares it “is engaged in propagating the religion of Islam…employs all means that are not at variance with the Sharia (Islamic law) to further its aims.” (www.themwl.org; link: goo.gl/YTwP3F)

Although it describes itself a non-government organization, the Muslim World League is an effective arm of the Saudi Arabian government. (www.breitbart.com; link: goo.gl/iIY7wE)

And it is no secret that despite years of promises, U.S. officials say Saudi Arabia continues to look the other way at wealthy individuals identified as quietly sending millions of dollars to al-Qaeda.
“If I could somehow snap my fingers and cut off the funding from one country, it would be Saudi Arabia,” Stuart Levey, the under secretary of the Treasury in charge of tracking terror financing, told ABC News. (Ibid.)

Naseef also founded the Rabita Trust in 1988. The United States State Department designated Rabita Trust as an al-Qaeda terrorist-financing front on September 23, 2001. (www.Gatestoneinstitute.org; link: goo.gl/7wdzsc)

In a U.S. information report on efforts to address “Islamic Extremism,” U.S. officials testified that the Muslim World League has been linked to supporting Islamic terrorist organizations globally and the organization has a long history of anti-Semitism.(www.gao.gov; link: goo.gl/iXRVtV)

And Naseef was top man at the MWL, while working with the Abedins!

What does the American government think about all these Islamic organizations and their activities? The U.S. admits there is a dissemination of “outreach materials” which promote the growth of religious extremism globally. However, the U.S. continues, “It is difficult to determine the extent to which donors are aware of the ultimate disposition of the funds provided.”(Ibid.)

Can you see how helpless the U.S. government is in facing the extremist Islamic machine?
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Editorial Board of Journal Of Muslim Minority Affairs. This Volume 16 from 1996 lists Huma Abedin
as Assistant Editor on the pro-Sharia Journal. 1996 is the year that she also began working
for Hillary Clinton. Her mother, Saleha S. Mahmoud (Abedin) is editor and her brother Hassan Abedin
is a book review editor. Abdullah Omar Naseem is on the Advisory Editorial Board. Huma served on the journal from 1996-2008.


MURUNA - THE ART OF DECEIT

One question will certainly arise in the minds of many readers concerning Huma Abedin: If she is a devout Muslim, believing the Islamic theology that she and her Islamic parents distribute, how could she have married a non-Muslim, in fact a Jew, Anthony Weiner?

How could she have traveled to Saudi Arabia with Hillary Clinton to visit her mother’s college, while living a completely different lifestyle? How could Huma who had been the assistant editor of the extreme pro-Sharia Journal escape the chagrin and indignation of her family and their associates?

Huma’s lifestyle would normally humiliate a devout Islamic family. Yet her mother has never said one critical word against her daughter’s behavior. She was received at the Islamic Dar el- Hekma Women’s college in Saudi Arabia where her mother is assistant dean, with decorum and honor. How can this be?

In a nutshell, Sharia permits deceit when it promotes and expands Islam.

Walid Shoebat explains that few Westerners are familiar with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood revival of the doctrine of Muruna, which literally means “stealth” or “flexibility.” Muruna allows Muslims to sow division and confusion in the Western world.

Muruna is accomplished by permitting behavior normally so shunned by Sharia that Westerners logically assume that they are seeing a more moderate version of Islam when such prohibitions are suddenly permitted. Westerners' eyes are, in fact, deceiving them.

Muruna theology goes like this:

When evil and harm conflict as necessities demand, we must then choose the least of the two evils or harms. This is what the experts in jurisprudence decided … if interests and harms/evils conflict, or benefits conflict with evils, what is then to be decided is to review each benefit and each harm and its consequences, so the minor evils are forgiven for the sake of the greater long-term benefit. The evil is also accepted even if that evil is extreme and normally considered deplorable. (https://pjmedia.com; link: goo.gl/kyNYF7)

Of course, all of her lifestyle “evil” is forgiven if Huma is practicing Muruna for the sake of expanding influence of Islam in America.
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Current Board Of Institute Of Muslim Minority Affairs Lists Huma’s Mother
Saleha S. Mahmoud (Abedin) As Editor, Her Brother Hassan Abedin As Associate Editor And Her Sister
Heba A. Khalid As Assistant Editor.

CONCLUSION

When Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and four conservative congressmen wrote to the State Department in June 2012, warning that the Muslim Brotherhood had infiltrated the highest levels of the Obama administration, she included research on Huma Abedin. But virtually all political figures and mainstream media went into high gear against Bachmann’s claims. Even high-profile Republicans berated Bachmann for her “unwarranted and unfounded attack” on Abedin.

Bachmann took her documented information to congressmen, senators and the intelligence agencies. To no avail. Because of the extreme negative media coverage, she bowed out of the 2014 elections. (www.wnd.com; link: goo.gl/b9naEL)

But over two hundred thousand people signed a petition to the White House demanding it declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Here is the exact response to “We the People Petition” from the White House.

We have not seen credible evidence that the Muslim Brotherhood has renounced its decades-long commitment to non-violence.” (www.maozisrael.org; link: goo.gl/GGLQXa)

So, in the United States, the Muslim Brotherhood is not designated as a terrorist organization. Britain, Israel, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and for now, Saudi Arabia are among the nations that have declared the Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

But in typical Islamic pushback for American consumption, Shadi Hamid, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution responds, "The Brotherhood is not, factually speaking, a terrorist group." Said Hamid, "The fact that some, especially in Congress, would suggest otherwise is evidence of the low quality of our foreign policy discourse." (www.usnews.com; link: goo.gl/N1cZJs)

So Muslim Brotherhood members are free to come and go in the U.S., and many have actually become government advisors.

The result is that in the Middle East, the United States is clearly seen as a fading power with little influence over current events. Ironically, the Arab nations in the Middle East are so concerned over Iran’s rising power and soon-to-be nuclear power through the help and guidance of the U.S, that several Muslim nations are moving closer to military cooperation with Israel than ever before. Russia and Iran are filling the hole that the U.S. has left.

Michelle Bachmann’s warnings were loud and clear: “During Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, and while Abedin was Clinton’s closest aide, U.S. policy shifted to active support of the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt (which was ultimately overturned by the Egyptian public and the army), including billions of dollars in military equipment and cash to fund the Brotherhood takeover,” she declared.

Bachmann pointed out that the Saudis also have given $25 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation over the years.

“It is reasonable to ask what level of influence Huma Abedin had on Hillary Clinton to bring about that policy pivot,” Bachmann said. (www.wnd.com; link: goo.gl/M4BcBQ)

There is most definitely a veil over America’s eyes. If the mainstream media were honest, they could simply go to the primary sources easily available and debate or discount them. All large media enterprises have Arabic translators who could confirm or deny these Islamic documents. Yet we are all witnesses that there is virtually 100% silence.

Think of it. If just one of these connections were true and could be proven, the public should know about it. But the press is systematically suppressing the information by threatening to tar and feather whoever dares to expose this information nationally.

Huma Abedin is Clinton’s longest serving and, by all accounts, most loyal aide. The contradictions are hard to reconcile. Until recently these articles in the Journal of Muslim Minorities Association which Huma Abedin as assistant editor to her mother, helped choose, edit and publish, have remained under wraps. And even now, few Americans are aware of Huma’s “other jobs.”

But ignoring Islam puts the United States at great peril. In Andrew McCarthy’s book The Grand Jihad, he repeats what every citizen who wants to live free must know: The mission of Islam is “to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.

“This is to be accomplished by infiltration, education, appointments and elections. They plan to supplant the American Constitutional Democracy by Islamic Law. Their plan is sabotage, to gradually eat away from within, abrading both the system and the will to preserve it.” (www.jpost.com; link: goo.gl/yaQzmo)

Gatestone Institute asks: “Being that for decades, Huma and members of her immediate family have been closely associated with individuals among the top ranks of Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda financial support organizations, and the Saudi royal family, how is it that they have given Huma Abedin security clearance and responsibilities to advise the Secretary on Middle East policy and politics? These affiliations must raise serious questions about her suitability to be so near the Seat of Power in the United States.” (www.gatestoneinstitute.org; link: goo.gl/7wdzsc)

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Maoz: Celebrating 40 Years of Messianic Ministry in Israel - SHIRA SORKO-RAM CHARISMA NEWS

Maoz: Celebrating 40 Years of Messianic Ministry in Israel

Ari and Shira Sorko-Ram
Ari and Shira Sorko-Ram (maozisrael.org.)

Maoz: Celebrating 40 Years of Messianic Ministry in Israel

SHIRA SORKO-RAM  CHARISMA NEWS
Standing With Israel
I arrived in Israel, just for a visit, in October 1967—four months after the prophetically shocking Six-Day War.
But His Land captured my heart, and for nine years I lived in Israel as a single girl. Yet at times, I wondered what I was doing here. Except for isolated believers such as the Smadja and Haimoff families, there were very few believing Israeli Jews in the Land.
I did what little I knew to do: pray, witness to whoever would listen, travel from time to time to the U.S. looking for born-again Jewish believers who were willing to immigrate to Israel to help get a Jewish Messianic core group established in the Tel Aviv area.
It was on a trip to the U.S. in 1976 that Ari and I met—with the help of Pastor Jack Hayford! Within three months, Ari left his successful film-acting career and moved to Israel. Even before we were married, Maoz was established and provided us a structure to begin to work together as a couple when we married in February 1977.
And now—we've made it for 40 years and feel we have yet more years of strength to conquer new horizons. When I think about the cardinal essentials that have given me the strength to overcome the strategic attacks we endured—as have all the Messianic pioneers in Israel—I believe my foundational understanding of faith for miracles and breakthrough came through the ministry of Kenneth Hagin Sr. Although some people practice their faith to acquire material goods, that had little interest to me. But I did want to use this God-given faith to see many Israelis come to know their God through Yeshua, King of the Jews.
The other most important pillar in my life (influenced, I'm sure, by my mother) has been to read the Bible through every year. I have found there is no substitute to being able to understand world events around us. Nor is there any other way to be anchored in clearly hearing the voice of God.
There is nothing that gives me a passion to keep my eyes on eternal values than the Bible, which constantly reminds me that there is a heaven for those whose hearts cling to the God of Israel, and a hell waiting for those whom Satan deceives into believing his is the truth.
Most importantly, I hope from this anniversary issue of the Maoz Israel Report you will clearly discern that the pioneers here in Israel who have written these (way-over-the-top) gracious notes, are huge heroes themselves! Every one of them! They have gone through the same fires of testing—different issues, but the same need to stand against the black clouds that would overcome them. And stand they have!
And our friends from abroad who have stood with us—without their prayer and financial backing, we would never have been able to do these things by ourselves. We always remember that "our generosity" is really their generosity and yours. We are simply a conduit—and we pray and strive to be wise stewards of what has been entrusted to us.
Ours is the privilege and His is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Top 10 Reasons Why I'm Still in Israel Ministering
By Ari Sorko-Ram
1. In the mid-1970s, I found myself falling in love with Shira and, at the same time, began falling in love with my people and the nation of Israel.
2. I soon began to love teaching and equipping young Israelis.
3. I had a passion to see them come to faith in Yeshua.
4. It wasn't long after that I began to love pastoring this new fledgling group of new believers.
5. I love having spiritual children and grandchildren.
6. I love seeing the body of believers grow and expand throughout the country.
7. I love being a part of developing leaders for this and the next generation.
8. I love helping the needy and giving them hope and a future.
9. I love helping others in the body see their dreams and visions become a reality.
10. If I can help those in the body of believers reach their destiny, I have fulfilled a great part of my destiny.
That is why I am here and I'm still in love. 
Ari and Shira Sorko-Ram are the co-founders of Maoz Israel Ministries, a Messianic Jewish nonprofit organization founded in 1976 and whose ministry headquarters is based in Tel-Aviv.
For the original article, visit maozisrael.org.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

WHEN ISLAM DOESN'T FULFILL THE NEED A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS - Shira Sorko-Ram Maoz Israel



WHEN ISLAM DOESN'T FULFILL THE NEED
A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS

Monthly Report: August 2016
Tammuz - Av 5776
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0816 - Mohammed Baptized
Mohammed prepares to be baptized in water after giving his life to Jesus, the Son of God.
A new Kurdish believer, he found the way, the truth and the life as a Syrian refugee in Turkey.
A great number of Kurds are coming to faith in Europe.


As told to Shira Sorko-Ram

Hussein grew up in Afrin, Syria, a city of 900,000 Kurds, with another 360 Kurdish villages surrounding Afrin. The region is located near the ancient city of Aleppo. 

You’ve probably seen pictures of the hellish destruction of Aleppo, which actually lays claim to being the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the world.

Hussein was raised in a very devout Muslim family that obeyed the strict rules of Sharia which his father had taught him along with his four brothers. For many years, he thought that the God of Islam is the one true God.

Their lives were simple. Hussein married, had children, and he and his brother Mohammed made their livelihood by leading a band of musicians and themselves playing the traditional drums for Kurdish weddings.

0816 - Mohammed's Wife Jehan
Mohammed's wife Jehan follows her husband in his newfound faith in Jesus.
0816 - Family Rejoices
The family rejoices as all three children receive Jesus and are baptized.

They also had a shoe-shine kiosk. Hussein’s oldest son went to school, and the small girls looked forward to when they, too, would start their education. To the Kurdish people, education is essential. But most importantly, they always had enough to eat, thanking Allah with all their hearts.

But, as the war in Syria crept towards this Kurdish region, a number of villages were overtaken by ISIS, which hates the Kurds. Turmoil and disorder interrupted their lives. No jobs, no money, no security.

As the country broke up into different fighting factions and the Syrian air force bombed whenever and wherever, they saw their country disintegrating with hundreds of thousands dying and injured. One day Hussein and his wife and children boarded a bus and fled toward the Turkish border. That was four years ago—when the border was still open. He and his family eventually made their way to Istanbul.

After arriving in this huge city of 14,000,000 people, he found himself and his family in a desperate situation. In Turkey he learned there wasn’t even any possibility of sending his children to school! (For four years now, his children are without school.) He found a job as a night watchman, and with that they eat.

In his misery he began to think the unthinkable. Why were Muslims always fighting each other? Could it possibly be that something is wrong with his religion? Could it mean that Islam is not the true religion?

He began watching the well-known Egyptian Christian, Father Zakaria Botros, who for years has had a regular television program from America where he skillfully and with great anointing, exposes Islam for what it is.

But as Hussein began to question his faith, he simply could not come to the conclusion that the religion he had followed all his life, the faith of his father and grandfathers and ancestors, could be wrong.

Then one day he watched on TV as ISIS executed the 21 Egyptian Christian Copts in Libya. Hussein became furious.

He began to shout at Allah saying, “Why did you allow these innocent people to be murdered? If you allowed this to happen, does this mean that you are a God of Murder? Are you the true God?”

At 43 years of age, Hussein was deeply confused and bewildered as he mulled over this terrible act of terror perpetrated by Muslims on those Egyptian Christians.

Three days later, in March 2015, while he was asleep, Jesus appeared to him in a dream and said, “Hussein! I am the True God that you have been searching for!” Hussein got out of bed and said to Jesus, “I believe in you as my Lord and my God.”

Hussein told his family of his encounter with Jesus. He encouraged his four children to follow Jesus and leave the religion of Islam. It took only one month, and all four of his children gave their lives to the God of the Bible.

In June 2015, Yusef (pen name) an Israeli Arab evangelist (with whom Maoz partners) travelled from Israel with a team to Istanbul for meetings to evangelize Muslims and mentor new Muslim Background Believers (MBBs). He baptized one of Hussein’s children, Assad (meaning lion). What an emotional event that was when Hussein boldly declared to him, “Son, just as I led you to become a follower of Jesus, my wish and will for you, is that in the future when you marry, you will do the same with your family.”

Amina, Hussein’s wife, has not yet received Jesus as Lord. Let’s pray for Amina to have a revelation of the true God and His only begotten Son, her true Savior Jesus!

REACHING OUT TO MOHAMMED

Shortly after his encounter with Jesus, Hussein began to share his faith with his older brother Mohammed, who was also a devout Muslim and had practiced Islam since childhood. Even Mohammed’s dream of making a pilgrimage (Haj) to Mecca while he still lived in Syria had finally been realized when he was able to take his two wives and children with him.

Now, as a helpless refugee in Istanbul, Mohammed, 55, also became skeptical of Islam as he watched the horrific bombings of ISIS in Istanbul. He began to listen and learn about the Christian faith from Hussein, and, as he compared it to Islam, he knew that Jesus was the True Way. Sadly, his Arab wife, Samira, from a very fanatical Islamic family, could not accept what was happening to her husband, and abandoned him and their children and went back to Syria to her parents.

His Kurdish wife, Jehan, is now taking care of the children, but, of course, they are very heavy-hearted to have lost their mother. Nevertheless, Jehan not only remained with Mohammed but she and the three children said they were ready to follow the true God and His Son Jesus.

Arriving from Israel, Yusef prepared to baptize all five of them. But first he shared the basics of the Gospel again just to make sure they understood completely what they were about to do. He pointedly asked Mohammed and his family, “Now, are you sure you want to leave Islam and follow Jesus regardless of the 
consequences?” Mohammed said, “Yes, and all my family wants to follow Jesus, too.”

As they prayed together that day with their eyes closed, Mohammed cried out that he saw a great light and angels surrounding him, and when he opened his eyes, he was crying.

Through his tears he said, “I feel sorry for all the years of my life I wasted being a Muslim. I have Jesus now and I have great joy! I regret all the years I have lived my life with that name Mohammed! I have decided to change my name!” Then he looked at his family and said, “From now on, my name will be Saeed (for security reasons, this is not the real name he chose) because my hope is in Jesus.”

On July 10, 2016 Saeed, his wife and three children gave their testimony before the church of former Muslims, and then all five were baptized in water.
It is no accident that when 21 Christians were martyred, and their last words heard on the ISIS video were “Oh Lord Jesus!” the heavens were opened for Yeshua to appear to Muslims who are genuinely seeking the truth. Through the blood of Martyrs His growing church of MBBs (Muslim Background Believers) is expanding in the camps and hovels of displaced persons throughout Europe.

0816 - Family Members who Received JesusJesus
Part of 13 family members who just received Jesus as their Lord and Savior.