Dakota Beacon

The bad news is that our civilization is under a very direct, serious and imminent threat.  Our country, as many other Western nations, is being ever more greatly impacted by massive numbers of immigrants.  Some are here on a mission - jihad, hijrah, while others are here as opportunists. We can easily understand the latter.  Most of our ancestors were here to take advantage of opportunity. Some, also came to escape persecution. It may sound ironic, but many of our German ancestors were escaping persecution by the Imperialist and later Communist Russian governments.  (Bet you didn’t think you’d hear that.)

Right now, Christians are being persecuted and slaughtered in Pakistan, Iraq, the Far East, Africa.  I have read that there is not a single Christian church left in Afghanistan (after 20 years of our involvement there).  These people need our help if they are to survive.  Christians, of course, are not the only ones persecuted.  Jews, as well, are being driven out - not only from the  Middle East but also from Europe(does this seem like deja vu?  We could be on the verge of witnessing the return of the Holocaust). 

This jihad might be manifest as it was recently in Pensacola, or earlier in San Bernardino (where the jihadist’s mother is now suing for life insurance on her son).  It is sometimes spectacular as it was on 9/11; it might be more subtle. This might appear as school lunch menus being overhauled to provide for halal demands, foot baths in public facilities, prayer rooms, special daily schedules in the workplace to accommodate regular prayer times, and increasingly, a demand that we give up our First Amendment right to freedom of expression.  

Our government and often our churches are complicit in this king of jihad.  Hijrah is the migration into non-Muslim areas by Muslims with the intention of conquest.  It is usually accomplished as it is now, with a passive people conquered. When they discover they have been overwhelmed they will also discover that it is too late.  

The good news is that we don’t need to have this happen to us.  We can very nicely just say no to hijrah, to non-refugees claiming the status of “refugee” for the purpose of taking advantage of our charity.  We can rather focus on helping those to survive who have been persecuted by Islamic peoples, customs, laws and governments. One of the high-profile cases was Asia Bibi, who was convicted of blasphemy for simply being Christian in Islamic Pakistan.  But most of these people suffer and die silently, unknown to us, forgotten by us. It is time for us to wake up to the value of these people. They can help us as much or more than we can help them. They can bear witness to truth. They can teach us, as the Jewish refugees taught us in the 1930’s and 1940’s.  They can show us the truth that has largely been hidden from us. They are a basic part of our shared Western civilization. Some are even a part of Asian civilization - Hindus and Buddhists.  

We can benefit as much from giving asylum and support to these minorities as they can benefit from our humanity.  Here is a compelling interview with John Rhys-Davies and Larry King.  There are also some things we can do.  There is a petition here that you can sign.  Please sign it and share it with everyone.  Finally, the intrepid Rebel Media reporter, Sheila Gunn Reid, went to Iraq to see first-hand the truth of the attack on Christians in that region.  She has initiated a fund drive to help these people to survive.  Please share this and contribute if you can.

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