We need to be praying for the Muslim world because we've got a real intensification of persecution of Christians. This is a couple of years ago. Some of this would be slightly out of date because Syria and Iraq will be pitch dark red now. The darker the map, the more the persecution. And you can see the worst places of persecution all in the 1040 window. All in the Muslim Middle East. With the exception being North Korea. That's just an outer edge and that's one of the worst countries in the world. Most of the persecution of Christians today is coming from jihad, Islamic persecution. It's a good thing they're peaceful and tolerant. Imagine if they were violent. We keep being told about how peaceful and tolerant Islam is, but Jihad is the reality that affects us all. The head of Australia's military, he's just retired, he has said, we are involved in a war against Islamic Jihad that will take us at least the rest of the century, it'll be at least a hundred years war, and he says, if there's any of us still left to fight it in a hundred years time, it'll probably carry on longer. Now this is This is an old chart again from 2010. I haven't seen anyone dare make a chart for how terrorism has escalated in the Middle East. But from 2003 to 2010 increased 309%. I would say it must be well over the 1000% right now. And one of the first places one should look at is Nigeria. In Nigeria The Christians are facing Islamic Jihad by Boko Haram. Boko Haram has killed over 2,000 civilians this year alone. In the last three and a half years they have carried out over 480 attacks on churches, many of them car bombs, suicide bombings, direct attacks at churches. These Muslims are well-equipped, well-trained. Boko Haram receives a vast amount of funding from Muslim Middle East and the car bombs are a reality so that churches now have to have concrete blocks keeping vehicles away from the church buildings and have to have security checks for people to go to church. This is just absolutely outrageous. Quite aside from the fact that We've had hundreds of Christian girls kidnapped, abducted by the Muslims as part of their jihad. And yet, how much outrage is there against us? The Christians in Egypt go back to the time of John Mark, who wrote Mark's Gospel. And yet the church in Egypt, after surviving 14 centuries of Islamic Jihad, are being persecuted severely. They have, since the Arab Spring of 2010, the persecutions increased, escalated horrifically, some of the most important churches in the country being targeted, and they abduct every year, an average of 700 Christian women are kidnapped in Egypt, forcibly converted to Islam, and forcibly married. And often they can be as young as 12 years old. And this is a total pattern, and the people in Egypt say that there is no doubt that there must be official collusion. The government, the police, the law enforcement must be involved, or they couldn't get away with it on such a huge scale. So it's worse than Nigeria. Nigeria, the whole world knows about these few hundred girls who've been kidnapped. But in Egypt, and in Pakistan, this is an ongoing regular pattern. the targeting of children. I've been told by Egyptians that if it's Ramadan the Christian kids don't take any food to school because they will be beaten up if they've got food during Ramadan. Even though it's known they're Christians. But the Muslims are on such a bad mood during Ramadan and if any Christian's got any food they will attack them. And so they've just got to adhere to the feast of Ramadan because they gorge themselves all night and they call it a fast and actually put on weights during the fast of Ramadan. But hundreds of churches have been destroyed. Just in one weekend last year, over 100 church buildings, schools and cultures were destroyed in one weekend, 13th to the 15th of September last year. Muslim Brotherhood went on the rampage, destroying some churches that have been standing for a thousand years. In one case a church had been standing for a thousand six hundred years, St Mary's. priceless manuscripts destroyed, ancient copies of the Bible, works of art, and the murder of Christians in Egypt just huge and colossal. These are just some of the martyrs who've been targeted in Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood, which American State Departments campaigned to get into power and called a force for peace and moderation, which the Egyptian government now calls a terrorist organization and has banned them. And so, beautiful churches now destroyed, but these people are standing by the cross. I've asked Christians in Sudan before, what does the cross mean to you? I'm wondering, is this some superstition? And they're saying, the cross means we must pay the price for being a Christian. Jesus said, follow me and I'll make you fish of men. Take up the cross, follow me. In Iraq, Christians have been targeted since 2003. They were being protected under Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein, the brutal dictator, gave more freedom to the Christians in Iraq than they've had since the Americans freed them and forced democracy on them. Many people think democracy is the solution to everything, but it doesn't work in the Muslim Middle East. You might think a dictatorship's bad and you wouldn't want to live under it, but there's worse things than a dictatorship. There's worse things than a secular or military dictatorship. For example, Islamic democracy seems to be one of them. There were 1.3 million Christians in Iraq before the Americans liberated. Now there's not even half a million. They've lost 800,000 Christians, fled the country, and these are from families that have endured 14 centuries of Islamic persecution. And now they flee. That's how bad it is. You've got to understand, to understand Islam, the split between the Shia and the Sunni. The Shiites are centered especially on Iran, But you can see the dark areas are where the Shiites have their support. Of course they're the Aicholas. I try to understand it this way, or explain it this way. The Shiites are like the Roman Catholics. Who cares about the book? The only thing that really matters is what the Aichola, what the Pope, the top guy says. So the Sunnis are like the Protestants. To them everything is the Quran, it's the book. Whereas the Shiites are more like the Catholics, they're more hierarchical, and it's just as, you know, don't think for yourself, follow orders, the Aichola knows what he's doing. And so this is the big split, and the Shiites and the Sunnis will kill one another enthusiastically. And this would make the wars of religion between the Protestants and Catholics look minor in comparison. And so the whole Muslim world is divided between Shiite and Sunni. Now, the Muslims might say all Muslims are the same, we're all united, there's only one in Islam, but that's a lot of nonsense. And we haven't mentioned the Sufis, which are smaller bunch but they're more like the charismatics, they're the sword-swallowing, fire-breathing, miracle-of-a-day crowd. And they may sound more peaceful but not necessarily. In Sudan, it was the Sufi Mahdi who massacred everybody in the Hole of Khartoum, which General Gordon stood up against. So the Sufis can also be violent but these days they're not the main problem, the main problem is the Shiites and the Sunnis. And in Iran you've got the Shiites in control. They are so radical that they make some Sunnis look fairly moderate. That's a lot of what's going on in the Arab Spring. Shiites, revolutions, overthrown Sunni governments. Now, how do we get the violence that we've just been hearing about from ISIS? Well, first of all, you've got to see how the children have been brought up in Islam. They are brought up to trample the flags of Israel and the United States, of course, and they're brought up to glorify murder and to glorify terrorism and throwing rocks. That's not a pebble, that's a rock! And face painting, practicing with weapons. If you haven't seen the New Barbarians DVD, then you should. It's got from their TV, getting the children to sing. They're like preschoolers. saying, you know, I want to be a martyr, I want to blow up for Allah, and I want to kill Jews and Christians, and this is what they're teaching on their kiddie programs. Having love on your hands, and you know, I want to grow up to be a martyr for Allah, and brainwashing the kids. Imagine the burning of the Israeli flag, just the hostility, the hatred. Teach, as Golda Meir once said very well, She said, we will only have peace in the Middle East when the Arabs learn to love their own children more than they hate us. Because right now, they don't mind breeding their children and bring them up just to be martyrs, as they call them. But of course, to us, a martyr is someone who dies for his faith. But for them, a martyr is someone who kills for his faith. They've got a total perversion of everything. The children are taught how to strip weapons, even blindfolded, how to fire, how to Now what are our kids learning? How to play video games. They are bringing up a generation to fight. And we may not like it and we may not want it, but they are bringing their kids up how to make petrol bombs, how to act under fire, how to fight. And this isn't just in the Muslim countries, it's in Britain. They head those insulters on, masquerade those insulters on. Europe, you will pay. UN 9-11 is on its way. Islam will dominate the world. Look at the hostility towards British policemen, practiced by people who are on the dole. 80% of the Muslims in Europe are on welfare and don't do a day's work in their life. 80% of the 50 million Muslims in Europe are just living on these foolish Christians and secularists who cheerfully pay for them to come and parasite off their country. while they scream blue murder. They live in a failed state that has never achieved anything or produced anything and they blame Israel and America. It's all their fault. But this is the most disturbing. Kids in public dressed up. This isn't exactly funny Halloween games. Dressed up as a suicide bomber. I regret that I have but five lives to give for my country. Could be the sort of attitude of many Muslims. Blasphemous cartoonists must be hung. They're not joking. They really mean it. This isn't just using some hyperbole. Throwing petrol bombs and rocks is just the beginning. Islam is using freedom and tolerance to destroy freedom and tolerance. If they ever get control over Britain or France or any other country that right now is nominally Christian, they will outlaw Christianity and freedom and they will bring in Sharia law, they've made that clear. What does Sharia law mean? It means stoning women to death if they dare to report that they were raped. It means you kill the victim. Like here, in Afghanistan and Kabul, a football match during the halftime takes a woman out and shoots her in the head. What was her crime? Not sure, but she probably reported that she was raped. Yes, in Islam, Sharia law, you hang or shoot the victim. Because the man's always in the right and the woman's always in the wrong and that is Sharia law. And there are people out there who think Sharia law is a good idea. This woman's husband cuts off her nose. That's perfectly sexual in Sharia law. But this is the reality of what we're dealing with. Cultural differences. Getting stoned in a Muslim sense and in a Western sense is different. Taking shots in a Muslim sense and a Western sense different. Gay guys hanging out is very different in Iran to what it is in the West. Islam is freedom, they say. How can this even be fun? To dress up a kid as a suicide bomber. How is this possibly appropriate? The grenade in one hand and the Quran in the other. In a mosque. They don't even have the courage to show their face being shown. And yet, We have, opening up in Berlin this month, a synagogue, church, and mosque combined. The first combined mosque-synagogue-church. And there are so-called Christians, including Kenneth Copeland and others, gathering together with the Muslims and happily interacting, and the Pope has got delegations gathering with the Muslims, and we've got Christians on a wide spectrum. Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, meeting together with Muslims, Brian McLaren had Ramadan celebrated in his church. Why? And Islam says for world peace Israel must be destroyed. And I don't think I can see the irony in this statement. I just love the spelling on this one. They only did phonics to help And then you get the American State Department Secretary of State saying to Benjamin Netanyahu, can't you at least meet him halfway? But Hamas's demand is death to all Jews, exterminate Israel, genocide, so can't you meet him halfway? I mean, be reasonable, just give 50%. And so that's at the background of what's going on in the Middle East. And the Middle East is aflame today because of Islam. And the worst group on the horizon right now is ISIS. I-S-I-S. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ISIS. Now who are ISIS? ISIS are the Syrian rebels, so-called, who come from all over the world, mind you, who are part of the civil war in Syria, who NATO and the CIA have been supplying with arms and training and This is who America was proposing to go to war for last year, to go and bomb Assad. And so, if you can remember back far enough, the American CIA trained Osama Bin Laden back in the 1980s and equipped him with stinger missiles and so on to fight the Russians, because the Russians had Afghanistan. Not seeing far enough ahead that communism will one day die, but Islam is going to be the biggest threat and bigger afterwards. You are training Islamic terrorists to fight a short-term enemy, and you're making for yourself a long-term enemy. ISIS is nothing other than the Syrian rebels whom America and Europe have been supplying with arms and finances and training. And now, they don't just want to overthrow Syria, they want to overthrow Iraq too. Which, thanks to the Americans having pulled out of, they've left a whole lot of nice vehicles behind, thank you, with the keys, and apparently enough fuel as well to run them. So they're able to drive American Humvees Thank you very much, American saxpayers, in their victory parades with their ISIS flags. And they are coming in and they are taking over dramatically. This is the face of ISIS. And they have already been responsible for the deaths of 160,000 people killed in Syria alone in the so-called civil war. And it's not a civil war. A civil war is when people of the same country fight for another. But ISIS consists of Mujahideen from Saudi Arabia, from Somalia, from Libya, from Pakistan. They come from all over the Muslim world. The Syrian army only comes from Syria. But ISIS comes from the entire Muslim world. ISIS has got people from America and Britain. They've got Brits from Birmingham in ISIS. ISIS is a totally multinational Muslim mercenary force. And of course destroying churches is what really excites them the most. This is what they put on their own websites, kicking down gravestones with crosses, smashing them, desecrating. This, in memory of a Royal Air Force officer killed in action, Royal Canadian Air Force. Here they are going through war cemeteries, smashing them in the Middle East. By the way, you know why there are war cemeteries in the Middle East. because the British and Commonwealth forces liberated the Middle East from the Ottoman Turkish Empire. They freed these countries. And this is how these people are grateful for them being freed from the Turks. Not even history is safe from these Cretans. Bulldozers to smash down monuments, tombs, shrines, including Now, we all know Muslims like suicide bombers, but did you know they went in for blowing up churches and monuments and tombs as well? They have gone in and they have demolished, of course, mosques that belong to the other side that they don't like. But even the tomb of the Prophet Jonah, Jonah who went to Nineveh, destroyed in Mosul. They went and they demolished this tomb which has stood for 2,500 years. Someone who is sacred to the memory of the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims. Jonah and Daniel's tomb demolished. It's just phenomenal to think, why would you do that? Why would you wage jihad against even the dead prophets? not that that can actually harm them, but what you're doing is harming civilization by taking away a place of history and heritage that people can visit and learn from. Smashing stones, smashing statues, memorials, blowing up... This is part of a caliphate. A caliphate is an Islamic military dictatorship where everyone is under Sharia law. And as you can see, this is some of the liberated area in Syria. This is their flag. And this is their map. ISIS wants to reclaim the caliphate as it was at its height, which includes of course Spain, it includes of course Austria, and Hungary, and Greece, and Romania, and Bulgaria, and Serbia, and a whole lot of other places that don't think they're Muslim. But you see under Islamic doctrine, if you ever were under Islam, you belong to them for perpetuity. And that is why the Caliphates must come back to Spain and Portugal and Austria. Remember they did try to take Vienna several times. And many people say history is not important. Who cares about history? Oh it's just dates and dead people. Well just take one very significant date. The most important date in the history of Serbia was the 28th of June, because back in the 14th century that was the Battle of Kosovo, when they had fought against the Turks. And so what was the date that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria chose to come into Sarajevo? 28th of June. That's the most holy day in the history of the Serbian people. And so the Serbian nationalist terrorist chose that date as that day. If his security chief had known his history, he wouldn't have chosen his visit on that day. What's significant about 9-11? Well September 11th in 1565 is when the siege of Malta was lifted and the Muslims lost that massive battle, the Great Siege of Malta. And September 11th in 1683 is when the Polish and German cavalry came and rescued the Austrians from the Second Great Siege of Vienna and That was the high water mark of the Turkish Empire, and they fled back. So, two massive defeats for the Muslims occurred on the 11th of September. It's not accidental that they chose September 11th to attack America. They know their history. Now, if we know our history, we'll be able to be better prepared. Dates are significant. This is their map. And this leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr, that's named after one of the Hanfiq caliphs or apostles of Muhammad Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi he was released by Obama from American custody in 2009 he now leads ISIS which is funded by Saudi Arabia and by America and totally armed it seems by America and here you see the purple is controlled by Islamic militants And the green is controlled by the Kurds. The Kurds are doing what they can to resist. But you can see ISIS is all over Iraq. All over. It's absolutely... Baghdad will fall if present trends continue. And they've got good weapons. Lots of them. And they're well funded, because the funding comes from Saudi Arabia, who benefits from all of our use of oil. and from the US State Department. So, they've got lots of vehicles, flags, uniforms, weapons, or oil, because they've got a whole lot of the oil fields too. And, I don't know what you see when you see those eyes, but I see a demon-possessed person. These people have sold their souls to the devil, they are violent as anything. And they are kidnapping vast amounts of women, and forcing them into the hijab and forcing them into conversion to Islam and forcing them to be married to Muslims, often twice, three times, four times their age. And of course there's also the chopping off of limbs, this is part of what you do in Sharia law, it's chopping off hands and limbs. Stoning people to death. This is on their sites. They take pictures of this and they portray it. They're all happily there, looking like a bunch of medieval savages, stoning somebody for whatever reason. And these are people who, for one reason or another, are going to get shot by the Muslims. This is what they put. Somebody who was an official in the Iraqi government being shot. And in public, all these people gathering around while they've got the speakers, and this is all set up for the camera, and they are filming it, and they are posting these things, getting people lying on the ground and shooting them in the back. These are pictures they have posted. These men were apparently members of the Iraqi army. So they're just murdering more. And this is, as I say, the life of a Christian child should bless me. In this case, this is Pakistan. But just to remind one, there's crucifixions taking place under ISIS. Absolutely hideous. There are crucifying Christians in Syria. There are crucifying Christians in Iraq. And look at all the people gathering around and taking the pictures. And because of a passage in the Qur'an which says that they will make the rivers flow with blood, they discovered that the blood congeals too quickly so it doesn't flow properly into the river, so they had to have water flowing behind to make the river flow with blood. They've worked this out now, how to make the rivers flow with blood, and they're quoting the Qur'an on their website saying we are fulfilling the prophecy of Muhammad because we're making the river flow with the blood of the infidel. This man, with these lovely demonized eyes, was a doctor. He decided to become a suicide bomber and blew himself and a whole lot of other people up. And this is some of the pictures that he and others posted to celebrate his wonderful deed that instead of saving lives he's going to take them. Now they march in western cities, in this case in America, saying, Behead those who assault the Prophet. So I must point out to you that this is the symbol that they are putting on homes of Christians to mark them for destruction. It's the N in Arabic and it symbolizes the Nazarene. Nazarene is how they describe Christians. Now anyone who's going to be upset by horrible pictures please don't look for the next seven slides because I've got some horrible and I haven't chosen the worst I've chosen the least worst. But people being buried alive. People being hung in the streets. Children being hung. People being beheaded. Literally holding up heads of people beheaded. This child beheaded. This is an Australian Muslim son who he posted the picture of his son holding up a Christian's head. This is an Australian Muslim and his kid. Children deliberately targeted and murdered. Hideous. OK, that's the end of the most graphic, horrible pictures I've got here, just to prove the point. But let me tell you, there's a lot worse out there. I'll try to find the least gory, gruesome, horrible of them. And we don't have to look for these. They're on their own sites. The Muslims are... This is not someone trying to expose them. This is what they're putting out there to us. Look what they're doing. It's so disgusting. What What will it take for the world to wake up and see that in Iraq we are seeing genocide, that they are trying to annihilate the church? And as the Bishop of Baghdad said, it seems the West is more interested in football than the extermination of the church in Iraq. What will it take to get the Christians to gather together and recognize we are facing Islamic Jihad and nothing less than a Christian crusade will do to respond to it? It's about time that all the Christian nations united and just realised. In fact, I think even the Hindus and the Buddhists and others would join us in this one because everybody in the world is not a Muslim, is targeted by these people. They're the biggest threats on earth. ISIS murdered over 5,500. In fact, they killed 5,500 in one day. And they filmed it. Boko Haram has killed at least 12,000 people, tripled 8,000. And what does the BBC and CNN and Reuters say about it? And what does CNN, the Christian News Network, have to say about this? They repaint reality. And this is what the Muslims want to do. We are talking about one quarter of all the Christians in Iraq have fled their homes, have lost their homes. One quarter. And so You can see, in fact, my daughter Andrea posted a whole lot of clips on Western journalism, where she's writing for, of one of the other video clips of a bomber saying, I ended the war in Iraq, I've pulled the troops out of Iraq, I promised you I'd get the soldiers out of Iraq, I've finished the task, I've done what I promised, I've got all the American soldiers out of Iraq, we've left Iraq, and on and on and on. When he's been asked about all this, he says, we know leaving Iraq was never my idea. How blatant a lie can that be? So, as of August this year, Obama's ordering the military to conduct humanitarian attacks in a country I already said we don't need to be in, against an enemy I already said we are defeated, in a war I already said we won. As I say, making George Bush look better and better ever since 2008. If anyone ever had anything to complain about George Bush, it's got to look pretty trivial compared to what this jihadist in the White House has managed to achieve. And Secretary of State Kerry, you could imagine him meeting with a Saudi saying, I want to discuss how we could stop the terrorists from both armies. And that's the fact. The American State Department and CIA have been funding and arming ISIS from the beginning. Of course, not under the name ISIS, they're called the Syrian rebels, but they're the same people. And, of course, Saudi Arabia is the biggest funders. The Saudis, who are doing quite well, thank you, because we're all still using petrol. America warns Russia against meddling in the affairs of another country. Something America's never done. In fact, as Putin's points announced, every country America's meddled in is voice-over. In fact, I'd go back a hundred years on that one, but certainly just look at recent years. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt. Is there any country America's meddled in that's better off today? That absolute curse and the blight on the world, they are the evil empire today. The American government is deliberately undermining and subverting social structure everywhere. Somehow Christians end up on the worst side of everyone and end up getting slaughtered. It is treachery on a high order. Henry Kissinger said control oil and you control nations. Control food and you control people. Do you see attempts to control oil and alternatives to oil? And why is it that some of the greatest agricultural economies in the world have been so subverted? The Rhodesian farmers used to export food and feed their people. It was a very efficient agricultural economy, but Mugabe, who still gets aid from all over the world to keep his dictatorship in place, 35 years later, after Jimmy Carter brought him to power. Jimmy Carter's legacy is not only seen in Ayatollah in Iran, but also in Mugabe in Zimbabwe. But South Africa, in 1994, we had 70,000 commercial farmers who fed 100 million people in Africa. 100 million people fed. Today we've got less than 30,000 commercial farmers, and we're feeding less than 40 million people. But 50 million live in South Africa. So we're having to import food. And who's feeding the people that we used to feed in the Congo and Zambia and everywhere else? So that's just two countries we're intimately related with that are no longer food exporting. In fact, both food importing. Is there a reason why countries that used to be agriculturally self-sufficient are not anymore? Ethiopia used to export food. It used to be called a breadbasket. then the Communists took over and became basket cats. Who runs the world? Well here's somebody's list and he's put a whole lot of interesting ones which the Bilderbergers and the Illuminati and the Central Banks and so on definitely are part of it. But there's something evil going on. There's a lot of conspiracy theories but there's no doubt whatsoever that there are unseen hands behind and we may argue and discuss over who's there, but there's no doubt Satan's at the top of it, controlling through these different groups. And the banksters are part of it. And the UN is definitely one of their tools. And Islam must be the most effective tool of Satan ever devised for slaughtering Christians and persecuting God's people. A liberal is someone who thinks the American Republicans are waging a war on women. But the Muslim world isn't. This is what goes on in Indonesia. Women being publicly whipped for what? Maybe they spoke back to their husband or maybe they didn't wear their hijab or maybe some strand of hair was sticking out. So what's a real war on women? Forced child marriage? Female infanticide? Female kidnapping? Genital mutilation? Torture? Rape? flogging, amputations, on it, murders? Is that not the worn woman? And yet the liberals don't want to see anything wrong with Islam but they want to just get upset over Christians saying things like, well, yes, abortion's illegal and men should be leaders in the home and men should be leaders in the church and that's a worn woman but some of this isn't a worn woman. Notice Islam's got a door for enter but they've got no door for exit. It's easy to be a Muslim but you're not allowed to leave once you're in. Never take your freedoms for granted. Which is why one of the leaflets we distribute at the National Women's Day is the Christian Liberation of Women. It's so important that people realise that every single freedom that any woman has comes from the teachings of Jesus Christ and his examples in the work of the Church and can all be lost if we go back to paganism or Islam. Is it beginning to sink in yet, what we are facing? The Muslims have killed 80 million Hindus, 10 million Buddhists and 60 million Christians. Conservative estates. Pictures of Muslims at work, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Sydney, New York City, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Nigeria. Is there a pattern? Well, the main pattern is their peaceful intolerance. Now, if Islam is peaceful and tolerant, what do we call the Amish? Or the Mennonites? Now, Liberal Logic 101, when a white Democrat criticizes a black Republican, it's all about the issues. But if a white Republican criticizes a black Democrat, then it's racism. We've seen this work over here too. You might support Kenneth Neshew, and you're a racist. Or you might speak out against Zuma, and you're a racist. Does this make sense? How liberals view religion. A Christian handing out Bibles or gospel tracts is forcing his religion on someone else, but a Muslim peacefully correcting his religion by whipping a woman in public, that's peaceful. Charles Spurgeon says, I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if you only have lukewarm preachers and lukewarm people in them. And what we've got is we've lost the martial spirit. Islam is declaring war on Christians, war on the West, war on civilization, And we're pretending that they're not, and we think if we pretend that they're not, and we keep saying they're peaceful and tolerant, it will be so. We can speak into existence, but just repeat the lie often enough. Repeat often, Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion. Say it 10,000 times, and maybe it'll happen. But Islam is telling you all the time, we're going to kill you all. You either convert or we kill you. The Bible speaks about the meek will inherit the earth. Many people think meek means weak, but it doesn't. This lighthouse is meek. Meek is not weak. Meek is strong. The Lord was meek but not mild. This gentle Jesus, meek and mild, is a false doctrine. He came into the temple with a whip. He chased people out of it. Make no mistake, God is not a weakling. But meek means you can endure all the assaults of the world and you can still stand firm and shine the light. And I think the Christians in the Middle East are like this, lighthouse here. The Christians in the Middle East, no matter what's going on, until hell freezes over, they're going to stand firm and they're going to shine their light for Christ. Because all of the darkness cannot put out the smallest light. And now you can see progress. made by, for example, in this case this is in China, a Christian church that's been demolished. They are demolishing churches that cost millions of dollars to build, decades to build, demolished, because, communist Chinese say, it breaks our building code, because the spires on the cross are desecrating our skyline. Restrictions on religious freedom. The darker the hell on the map, the more You can see something here immediately. The Muslim and the communist world is where Christians are under the worst persecution. But I want you to notice how dark it looks in England right now. Why? Because even though it's a nominally Christian country, England's gotten so secular, they're now locking up people for preaching the gospel or for offending a Muslim or for bed-and-breakfast people not wanting to have some homo perverts come into their home. You would have thought right of access is the right of the owner to decide, but no. There's a whole lot of nonsense going on. Canada actually should be a lot darker than that in terms of the restrictions they're putting on Christians, but they've just got so few challenging the laws that it doesn't look as bad as it actually is. But there's a lot of persecution going on in the world today. And Christians are in the middle of it in the Middle East. People need to remember there are 13 million Christians in the Muslim Middle East. And remember the Middle East is the birthplace of the Christian Church. That is where Christians began. Damascus in Syria used to be a great Christian center. Antioch which sent out the first missionaries to Europe at 13 in what today is Syria. The Christians who are suffering right now in Pakistan, ten major church buildings and properties, hospitals and schools have been confiscated by the state, in the state of Punjab, just like that. They're called the Great Mafia, Muslim Mafia Land Grab. Many of the Chaldean and Assyrian Christians, they date back to the first century. These are our brothers and sisters in Christ, and they are being targeted, and they're standing firm, And most of them don't want to go. They don't want to leave their country. And why should they? They've been planted there like the parable of the sower sowing the good seed for the sons of the kingdom and them bearing fruit where they are planted. There's two parables of the sower in Matthew 13. The one is where we are the sowers and the seed is the word of God and the field is the hearts of men. But the other parable says where God is the sower, we the sons of a kingdom are the seed, and the field is the world. So God sows us to be fruitful where we are planted, just as we sow seed in people's hearts, which is the gospel. These people have been so... must the Middle East be depopulated of Christians? The Western governments have been so anti-Christian. If a Muslim's feelings are hurt, they will move heaven and earth. But Christians can be annihilated and they do nothing except to help the persecutors. We have got evil people in power in the United States of America and in 10 Downing Street and in the EU and Brussels that don't care about the Christians being told convert, flee or die. It is genocide. To think that most of the Iraqi Christians have already fled 800,000 have already fled their homes and now just in the last month a further quarter of them have left. There's one pastor in Baghdad, Canon Andrew White, Church of England. He said of his congregation of 6,000, he knows 1,200 have been murdered in the last 10 years. His church, St. George's Church in downtown Baghdad, has been bombed five times in the last three years. Friends of mine in Egypt sent this postcard. they may destroy our churches but they cannot destroy our faith. Now I spoke on persecution of Christians on a radio program in America and I was horrified that somebody phoned in and said, who cares about the Christians in Egypt? I mean, they aren't evangelicals are they? They are Orthodox, they're Cots, they're Assyrian Orthodox, they're Chalcedon Orthodox, they are a variety of Coptic churches, but these are people who stood firm for Christ for 1,400 years under Islamic persecution. These are people who suffered for Christ, who could get all kinds of benefits if they converted to Islam, who could leave the country, for that matter, and live on welfare somewhere in the West. But these are people who are suffering a lot more for their faith than you are. I said, I'll question your salvation before I question theirs. Richard Wormald said when he ended up in the same cell Romanian concentration camp cell as an Orthodox priest. He learned that that Orthodox priest, while he had a different way of expressing his faith, he was still a real Christian. He said, when you're suffering for Christ, it doesn't really matter what denomination you came from. And to me, I'm a strong Christian. I've got no time for icons and so on. In fact, an Egyptian Coptic priest friend of mine, John Banuk, he offered me a big icon, I mean a big icon of Christ, and I said, Pastor John, I can't accept that. He said, but why not? I said, I'm a Protestant, you don't use icons, I could put up a picture of Christ. So he gave me a little icon of Saint Mark, which we've got in the last cabinet. He said, Saint Mark, well that's okay. we can put up with that and you know he gave me a lovely big cross to wear as well and I wear it when I'm preaching in the Egyptian Coptic Church and they invite me to preach at St Mark's in Lusaka for example. Egyptian missionaries being sent out from Egypt say if I got sick in Lusaka I'd go to St Mark's Because I know I've got Egyptian, Coptic medical people there. I think it's the best medical care I'll get in all of Lusaka, if not Zambia. They're good people. These people preach an evangelistic message. They want us to come in and preach the gospel. They're full of amens for what we preach, and I'm preaching a reformational message. We can't just look at them on the outside and say, oh, well, they use some incense, and they're fancy dressing. It's not our style. It's not the way we express it. They've been under Islamic persecution for centuries and the fact that they've stood firm and this is part of their identity and they will not give it up. And I think, well, praise God for them and let's stand firm with them. But what a horrible attitude that some people say, well, they're not part of our tradition, they're not part of my denomination, so why should I care? Well, Jesus said, whatever he did unto one of the least of these, my brethren, he did unto me. We're one body. One body. If one part of the body is hurt, all the part of the body suffers. You can't stub your toe or hit your thumb or have a toothache or migraine and the other parts of the body say, well it doesn't affect us. One part of your body saw your ulcers, your kidney, your whole body is very involved and sympathetic and it knows all about it. And so it should be just like when just your mouth is taking the ice cream, the whole body enjoys it. So we should rejoice with any part of the body of Christ that's winning a victory and we should grieve and feel with any part for the suffering. And just like if you hit your thumb, the rest of your fingers come around to try and take some of the pain away. So we should be coming around the brethren who are under attack. And that's why we produced already four editions of Slavery, Terrorism and Islam. for people to understand the historical roots and contemporary threats of the biggest threat and challenge, the largest persecuted church that there is in the world today. We must understand Islam and we must evangelize Muslims. And we must pray for the Middle East. There were, in 2010, there were 15 million Christians in the Middle East. 15 million. Today there's less than 13 million. It's the only part of the world where the number of Christians is going down, and a percentage. And it's not for lack of trying on their side. You can see the growth of Christianity depicted from the 1st century to the 20th. The yellow is Christianity, the green is Islam. You can see how we suffered at their expense, but you can see how the world wars knocked us down. We were on a sharp increase in the 19th century, and 20th century we dipped, because we were so efficient at killing one another in the First and Second World War. And now Islam is climbing and we are not growing fast enough to take place. Christians must get back to big families and teaching the next generation how to fight. We are going to fight. We are going to be involved in a life or to death struggle against Islam. These are the breakdowns of the population of Islam. They've got the Sunnis, they've got the Shiites, and they've got the others, which is mostly the Sufis. So the Sunnis are the biggest bunch, as I call them, they're Protestants, and the Shiites, they're Catholics, so to speak. They say not all Muslims are radicals. Well, according to the best statistic, only about 15 or so percent of Muslims are radicals. OK, so if you've got almost 2 billion Muslims, how many radicals does that make? It's just exciting to say there's only 300 million radicals. And you can see in the countries where we have got the worst, well wherever the Muslims are, from the largest percentage down just how many problems there are. At any rate, you can see the green represent the Muslim areas. Percentage of the population. In the year 1900 Muslims were 12% of the world's population. Now they are 27%. That is bad. And part of this is birth control and abortion in the West and polygamy of course in the Muslim world. But the Christian world has been killing itself by going for small families and subsidising the Muslims. evangelizing of the Muslim world. These are just to see where the Muslims are spread, where you can see them, percentage of population and distribution by country. They're still concentrated mostly in the Muslim Middle East. But here, you see the size of the countries in terms of the size of the population. Yes, Libya is quite a big country, but it's a small Muslim population. Indonesia's got one of the largest groups of Muslims. Pakistan's got a huge amount. There's even a vast amount of Muslims in India. A huge amount. So this gives you a better perspective. Salaf has got very few Muslims but boy can it cause a lot of trouble. It's just under 2% of the population. This is a shocker. Here you can see the percentage of immigrants in these countries that are Muslim. Absolutely startling. As Obama said, if you looked in the terms of the number of Muslims in America, you'd have to recognise America is one of the biggest Muslim countries in the world. And this is what you call the 10-40 window. Between the 10th degree and the 40th degree latitude in the Northern Hemisphere, North Africa, Middle East, South Central Asia. This is the final mission's frontier. Over 3 billion non-Christians in that area. And most of the wars, most of the persecution, most of the terrorism world comes from the 1040 window. And that's where the least amount of Christians are and where the least amount of missionaries are. And the shocker is that more than 90% of all missionaries in the world go outside the 1040 window. So where Christians are needed the most, the church does the least. Where are most of the world's Mishmis today? Mexico. The Philippines. Kenya. In fact, more than half all American Mishmis in Africa are in Kenya. There are 55 countries in Africa, but most Mishmis are in Kenya. Why? Born free, out of Africa, nice infrastructure. This just gives you a bit of an idea of the problems we've got. But Muslims can be one to Christ and they are Muslims being one to Christ. This is the battlefield in Africa. This shows from the percentage, the green being Muslim, the yellow being Christian, the blue being animist. Our Lord Jesus said the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord the harvest therefore to send out workers into his harvest field. And a lot of that harvest field is the Muslim Middle East, which includes what we've been talking about tonight, mainly Syria and Iraq, but also Egypt, Iran, Turkey. We mustn't forget these areas. We may not go there, but we can focus our prayers on them at this time in particular. Any questions or comments? It's very difficult to witness in the Muslim nations, because the minute you say something, they move you out of the country. They just take you straight to the airport, get out, and you're gone. So it's a very difficult strategy for a long-term missionary to stay in a place like that because usually they just think of it as a chance to talk to anybody. But I think our strategy should be, is that when they come out of that country, we should like here, you've got the Somalians here in our area, we've got, when they're here, we should reach them. You know, and that's what we should maybe do is change our strategy of reaching these guys. When they're outside the nation, like when we're in Amman, we could speak to the Pakistani workforces and we want many to come. Now they're going back to Pakistan. They've got to try and do that in Pakistan and see what happens. Correct. You know what I mean? So we've got to change our strategy. And even here in Cape Town we've got an ideal opportunity now of foreigners. Immense amount of foreigners here. You know, and we should change our strategy and be going into the areas of the Somalias. Correct. You put your finger on it. There are several ways you can evangelise Muslims without risking your life in a Muslim country. The most obvious is all the Muslims who come to our areas. In fact, I know Life Challenge Africa, they had a strategy, I don't know if they're doing it right now, but a few years ago, they were daily having people at the airport, waiting to go to the airport, as feet come in, they can see where people are coming in from Muslim areas, and they're looking. Inevitably the people who come in from Muslim area, first time Salafi, and whoever is meant to pick them up isn't there. And they want to go up, can I help you? And helping a person, and often they need transport, sometimes accommodation, and this is how the Christians have been able to use French evangelism to make contacts with Muslims who are absolutely helpless in a strange country. That's one thing. Then there's Muslim students. A lot of them in the university campuses. We can reach out to them. We can get them in homes. We can go to their homes, door to door. All kinds of manuals available. Lending them DVDs. The film More Than Dreams is a very effective film for learning to Muslims. The Jesus film, The Passion of the Christ. They're fascinated with Jesus. They will watch films. They're interested in reading a New Testament, giving them a Bible, putting it in their hands. That does help. Then there's Satellite 7. Satellite 7 is a Christian TV satellite program. They're based in Cyprus, which is an island that's mostly Christian, in the Middle East, and they're broadcasting not only into the whole Arabic world, but even into Farsi, for the Persians, the Iranians, and into Turkish. So they're getting the main... Those are the two Middle Eastern countries that don't use Arabic. Turkey and Iran. but they've got those three main languages covered 24 hours a day. And it's brilliant, outstanding. But I think there's some other strategy we've got to seriously consider, along with of course internet, literature, what you can do through social media. But the Christians already in the Middle East, now only 13 million, helping them survive thrive and training and equipping them, because how can any of our missionaries possibly compete with people who know the language, who know the country, whose roots go back for centuries? There was a mission called MECO, they're not as busy now as they were, Middle East Christian Outreach, who I think had the most phenomenally important strategy, and they've been working for about a century, based in Cyprus as well, going in, and they haven't had enough support lately to do all that they used to do, but MECO was providing Bible college lecturers, theological lecturers going into the Coptic colleges and so on and they would come in with their own support base and they would be providing outstanding evangelical training who were competent in Hebrew, Greek, Theology, Church history and so on and so they were strengthening the local Coptic and Orthodox churches by providing leadership training first, then literature Of course, lots and lots. In fact, Calvin's Institute is now in Arabic and so on. Just providing all kinds of great books in their languages. And helping them with Bibles, helping them with everything they can. Because helping the local people who are already there is good strategy. That's very wise use of time and resources. But what I fear is that today a lot of the strategy of the West is how to help these people relocate to Canada or America or Britain or something. That's not helping us to fill the Great Commission. We need to get our governments to provide protection for these people's safety because if we're going to give foreign aid to these countries, their minimum requirement should be you don't murder Christians in your country. That should be an absolute don't even think about it. And we should be able to put enough pressure on our governments to add strings to all the aid that's coming from the EU and US and so on. Even South Africa, we've got a voice diplomatically that will be heard in the Middle East. surely we can have people speaking up about it. I was complaining to some of our parliamentarians that when did you last speak up for the Christians being persecuted in the Middle East and I've seen several press statements just this week going out and it shows that lighting a fire under our representatives can help. So there's a range of things. Notice on here we've got some of our books, videos. I think this Islam Rising is one of the best to expose, to alert people to what Islam is. The Muslim Vanishing Workshop manual, also very helpful. Bear in mind, there's a lot of scriptures to encourage us that we will fulfil the Great Commission amongst the Muslims. The Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. The earth will be as filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord. His name will be the only name. There will be a time when Allah and Muhammad will be extinct. So, we've got newsletters around, including at the back of this latest FANTA news that's got on the table there, there is a testimony of Muslims coming to Christ in the Middle East, which is the result of a phenomenal amount of investigation by missiologists, that there's a lot more going on in the Muslim world than we're aware of. And I think that's one reason why the Muslims are fighting back so viciously, is they're losing ground. They're losing a lot of their own people, which is why they're lashing out. So these are some of the resources we've produced. The Muslim Vanishing Workshop Manual now has 20 different audios on MP3. Sudan's a great example of a country that used to be totally Islamic, and now a third of it's broken free. These DVDs, Terrorism, Persecution, Islam Rising, are excellent to alert Christians to the threat of Islam, but More Than Dreams is, I think, one of the best that you can put in their hands. This is five testimonies of Muslims who were converted to Christ, and it's from a wide range of them, very effective. and that's of course part of our training manual as well. Any more comments, questions concerning Muslim evangelism? One thing I wanted to say about the Islam whole movement, it's so interesting as you said in the beginning the infighting amongst themselves and what we see happening in the Middle East right now. I did a little bit of own research out of curiosity. You have got the Shiites and the Sunnis But I don't know if two of you have had a look and I think there's something we can just do on the Wahadis who are also otherwise known as the Salafis. It's the most orthodox... But they are a subset of the Sunni. The Wahabians and the Salafis, they are still part of the Sunni generally. I don't think they themselves will regard themselves as such. Because they are broken away. When the last Operation World War was done they were included under Sunnis, so if they've more recently... If they choose who they would support, I think they would support the Sunnis above the Shiite. But if you go onto the Wikipedia and then follow on for all the sites that they then quote, you get some interesting information. And there isn't one nation in this world that is majority Salafi or Wahadis, but the biggest majority of them are concentrated in Saudi Arabia and in Qatar. It's interesting how Qatar is the one that's giving the most shelter to the Hamas at the moment. In fact Qatar is paying for a lot of mosques in Europe including the mosque in Marseille, a mega mosque. And you could call the Wahhabis the most orthodox of all the Islam. They're the ones that you must take it. Have the black, not only white, Islam women with this little slip. And women are not allowed to drive cars, not allowed to get motor car licenses. There are a whole string of things I've just mentioned too. so it's quite interesting to see that they also all the Al-Qaeda and what's the latest one come all out of the Wahhadi Salafi faction of the Islam. Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, Al-Sabaab, I think they're all part of them. Boko Haram what you call it? Boko Haram. Many names. So do you know what that means? Something the West? I've just slipped my mind. Haram means the West and Boko... No, Boko Haram is the Bible is forbidden. Haram is the opposite of Halal. Halal is permitted. Halal food. Haram is forbidden. anything that is haram, that is forbidden. So, Boko is only the book, meaning the Bible. In the Quran, the people of the book are the Christians. The Bible is the book. So, I know the media wants to say Boko Haram means the Western education is forbidden, or sacrilege. That's nonsense. The plain etymology in Arabic, Boko Haram, the Bible is forbidden. It's the only meaning it can possibly be. It's just two words, Boko Haram. Boko can only be the Bible. So I think it's been deliberately mistranslated throughout. Similarly, you'll see that a lot of people when they translate these Muslims, when they translate, say Allah Akbar. They say God is great. No, it's Allah. Allah is not God. And it's wrong for us to translate Allah as God. And those Christians and Muslims who have done so have done violence to the text because for us to confuse their Allah with our God Allah is not Jehovah In contrary if you read the history I have one very good book about the history Allah is the name of the God which Muhammad's parents and forefathers He just made Allah to be a single God whereas before Allah was just one of many Islams They had hundreds of idols in the Kaaba in Mecca that people did pilgrimage to. He got rid of all the other idols but he just left the black rock which they believed to be a piece of the moon. It's a meteorite. A piece of rock that fell from the sky. So they believe it's part of the moon. And so the moon, the crescent moon, it's part of everything that Islam decides, the whole calendar and everything else. So Allah is at the moon god. And effectively what they're doing is bowing down to a rock in a box in Mecca. There is something that actually has a statue of a man with a swan and a sickle and a star. It was the Lilliput. That actually came from the Lilliput. Yes. They have got the idol in the British Museum in London which plainly it's called Allah and it's a statue with a crescent moon on his lap. Yes. So there's a lot of evidence which Robert Morey who's written the Islamic invasion and many other books on it, he's one of the top authorities on the hadith, he says that Allah is nothing other than the pre-Islamic deity, the moon god. Yes? That's very interesting and that about Boko Haram, I did not know that, you just assume they give you a literal translation. I wanted to talk about Russia and America. because you brought up Putin and Obama in your talk and I recently read your article in the Journal of Medicine about Putin and those statistics actually surprised me about Russia building churches and America building mosques I recently read that in the last few days that Obama said in his speech that he, America or his government does not recognize Russia as a superpower but rather a regional power. So that is dismissing Putin and I don't think we can do that when you take the statistics that I read in your article it's completely contrary to that. Well, I mean just bluntly, key points, America owes more than it's worth. America's gross domestic product is less than its debt. Its national debt is 110% officially. Now it's 114% of its GDP, which means they owe more than they're worth. Russia owes only 8% of their GDP, which is actually very healthy. America, we don't even know when they last did an audit of their Port Knox. We don't even know if there's any gold in Port Knox. In fact Germany's been trying to get their gold back from them and America's not giving it and I don't think they can give it because I think they sold it all to China a long time ago. There's a lot of skepticism in America that America's even got any gold in Fort Knox. Whereas Russia's just added 500 metric tons of gold in recent years to their reserves. Russia, if you think of how their economy has increased 800% since the year 2000, that's pretty good, and how they have halved the percentage of the population in the poverty category, and have increased the middle class from 8 million to 50 million. That's not exactly communism, that's more like capitalism. There's a move towards free enterprise in Russia, there's a move towards socialism in America. Some have shown that Putin's warning America about the dangers of socialism and godlessness, which seems like a joke. the tables could have turned so much from the days of Ronald Reagan. Now, obviously, Vladimir Putin's a politician, but nevertheless, an important part of his support base is the Russian Orthodox Church, which he is plainly lining up behind. And it's unquestionable that Obama has not attended any church service, any congregational church service, since he became president. whereas Priton is in church every Sunday and there's no doubt whatsoever he's there on Easter and Good Friday and he's recognised as a dedicated Christian by the Russian Orthodox Patriarch. So by their definitions he's considered a faithful Christian. Whether he's born again or not, who knows his heart. But he does have a credible testimony. If you click on a YouTube link and ask for Vladimir Priton's testimony He'll speak about how dedicated a Christian his mother was and who got him secretly baptised because his father was a hardline communist and therefore wouldn't have tolerated it and how he always wears this gold cross around his neck that his mother gave him. I don't know, does that make him a Christian? He speaks about his faith in Christ and you can see him plainly recognising his sinfulness before the Lord in the liturgy of the Orthodox Church and in tears in the services Is this genuine? I don't know. But there's no doubt whatsoever he's more Christian than Obama. And there's no question. So I look at it and I say, I'm not saying everything in Russia is right. But compared to America, they're going in the right direction. America's going in the wrong direction. I would ask, if I could ask Obama a question, I would ask him, which region would that be? Because it's the world's largest country. Is that Europe? Is it Asia? Is it both? The old American principle of the Monroe Doctrine was Europe stay out of the Western Hemisphere. Don't interfere in the Americas. So much so that they in fact started wars against Spain to get Spain cleared out of Cuba and the Philippines and so on. Well the Philippines is not exactly the American hemisphere either. So they were willing to go to war with the European power. They as late as the 1890s threatened war against Britain over border dispute with British Ghana. So the Americans were saber-rattling back at that stage and the British seriously considered they could get more with America in the late 1800s. And that's when they started changing policies to align themselves more with America. But here's America who says you're not allowed to interfere in our backyard. But America can have CIA agents stirring up trouble in Ukraine which used to be part of Russia and Christian demobbed Crimea and Crimea is more Russian than Hawaii or Alaska is American because the Russians liberated Crimea from the Ottoman Turks back in the 1780s and Crimea was always part of Russia it wasn't part of the Ukraine until the 1950s when a Ukrainian president of Russia which is a Khrushchev arbitrarily without any due process or any kind of referendum handed Crimea under the judicial administration of Ukraine. And so when Russia said, well, if Ukraine's going to join NATO and the EU, then we want Crimea back. That wasn't unreasonable. Anyway, it's had their warm water port. So this business of demonizing Putin... I haven't been to Russia. I've been all over Eastern Europe, but Russia's the one part of Eastern Europe I haven't been to. My father-in-law, Bill Baskin, spent a lot of time ministering in Russia too. But as I look at it as someone who's fought the Russians and spent most of my life regarding them as our enemies, I find myself in a strange position of defending the Russians against what I think is unfair Western propaganda right now. And I think they are demonising Putin in the most insane way. And I don't think any of these Western governments are a leg to stand on because they're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. I don't trust any of them. I'd like to see Putin and Obama sort this out in a ring. I'd pay money to do that. You might have to handcuff Putin before he gets swollen. Is there a lot of Muslim influence in the former Soviet Union? Well, of course they've got the Chechen rebels and they've had terror attacks such as the attack on the school and they had a bombing of a parking block in Moscow and so they've had some high-profile Muslim terrorist threats on Russia. Of course Russia went in and pulverised the Living Daylights I think and they used some very brutal tactics to put down the Islamic terrorism and there's not been much of a repeat so Russia knows how to be brutal in dealing with internal threats like that. I think the Muslims know they're dealing with people who would not play the fool like the Americans do. So Vladimir Putin is a hardline man. If America wants a war with him, I don't see the Americans having the will to fight and take casualties. The Russians have the will. America's doubtless got better equipment, but equipment doesn't win wars on its own. as Vietnam proved. So I think that would be very stupid if they wanted to start a new war, even if it's just a Cold War with Russia. Because in the last Cold War they had some justice on their side. The West still stood for something in the days of Ronald Reagan. But right now I don't know what it stands for, aside from homosexuality. The West is a bunch of perverts right now. It's not just Obama. The Western leaders are weak. Weak-willed people. Wimpy, cowardly, spineless-like. The French are Holland. And Brian Cameron. Idiots. These guys are as useless as they come. I think the whole lot of them in the scales don't even weigh up to what Putin is. He's so much more of a leader than all of them. I don't think the West should be getting them as an enemy. I think they should be coming alongside Russia and getting Russia as their ally in the war against Islam. I mean, Russia and the West working together to fight Islam, that's a winning combination. But if we want to do something stupid like fighting Russia now, I think it would be as dumb as Britain and France getting on the side of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire in the Crimean War in the 1850s to support the Muslim terrorists against the Russian Christians back then, that was idiotic enough, or as stupid as Britain and France fighting Germany in the First and Second World War, which was why? For what possible purpose? In what way did this improve anything for anyone? And we squandered all of our energy fighting our friends and cousins for the Communists to benefit in the past and now for the Muslims to benefit. So if the West gets divided again, I think we've got to recognise that I look at Russia now as part of the West. Russia is more free enterprise and more Christian than most of Europe. They should be our allies right now. Did you see that Europe is heading for another recession? I didn't notice that. Germany as they're getting very worried about it. Well I'm not surprised because first of all when you've got tens of millions of Muslim parasites living off their welfare system which is a very generous welfare system that alone should cause some grief. In fact the cost of immigrants to Europe is just staggering. It's in the trillions of dollars for the cost of welfare, and of course if Europe only offered freedom of opportunity, not many people would come there. But because they're offering welfare, they're coming by the tens of millions, as is America. It's insane. I don't know if you noticed the ANC in one of the election campaigns of the last so-called elections we had, they said In 1994 there were only 2.4 million people in South Africa on receiving state welfare grants. And now it's over 20 million. And that's apparently an achievement. I would have thought that's a sign of failure. But this is what the London Times spoke about as an ineptocracy. And they said in 20 years the ANC has failed to improve their economy in this country at all. They inherited such a great country. Now consider for example Germany and Japan in 1945. Countries bombed into rubble. Everything destroyed. Infrastructure destroyed. Country crippled. Absolutely staggering losses. And yet in 20 years built themselves up into spectacular powerhouses that put to shame Britain and America. Now look at the ANC inherited absolutely immaculate infrastructure and economy and in 20 years has managed to run it into the ground. And the only solution is more of the same and more taking from the few productives and giving to the parasites instead of increasing productivity in the country, they've actually decreased productivity. And this is a British Financial Times editorial which I thought was very appropriate. It's a few cites in their top receipts. Get that article, very well written. So that's what Sadat has now got, an ineptocracy. A totally inept government that's incapable of doing anything useful. But just think about it, in 20 years, what have they achieved? They've increased the number of people on welfare tenfold. Yay! So, any other comments on... And you had that white flag with the anti-Nazarene, what was that? From the Muslim world? Oh, they are marking the homes of Christians with that. It's a symbol to mark that that's a Christian. It's basically the N in Arabic and you'll notice a lot of people now using this as their Facebook statuses and so on to say that I'm a Christian. Because the Muslims mark the Christians with a circle and then a squiggle inside which means they're Nazarene. and she works with women in the internet, and she said when she went in, she does not identify herself as a Christian, because they equate Christians with abortion, pornography, immorality, homosexuality, the like. So if you don't hear Christians, they automatically assume you support all of that. In other words, it's a typical Westerner, as seen on Hollywood. Yeah, so that's the question. She said they identified themselves with the murderer in the last season. That's what they say. And she says it's amazing because she'll go on the public transport and that's with women, because the women don't travel with the men, they travel separately. So she says that's fine, they were experienced, they could get on. And someone usually will ask her something and she'll answer that that's who she is. And she says immediately they're interested. And that's maybe what you said, there's a lot going on. So that's maybe why they're targeting them as a means. The real Christians. Because they're now starting to differentiate. Now in Romania, for example, they called the serious Christians, Repenters. You have the Christians, then you have the Repenters. Actually not a bad term for a real Christian. Any other comments or questions? see the pastor's son of age five was slashed in two? Yeah, Ken and White mentioned this child that he had baptised and he was named Andrew in Copenhagen. And this is just something else to bear in mind. The only government that I'm aware of that's made a strong stand for the Christians in the Middle East is the Russian government. Vladimir Putin came strongly in protection of the Christians in the Middle East, who by the way are almost all Orthodox. And so the Russian Orthodox Church feels and always has felt that they are part of the protectors of the Christians in the Middle East. And that's why in fact Britain and France went to war against Russia in the Crimean War in the 1850s was because Russia was moving against Ottoman Turkey for having allowed a massacre of Christians in their territory. And the British and the French took the side of the Muslim mass murderers and propped up this disgusting Ottoman Empire for another 60-70 years at the cost of another 2 million Christians murdered before the end of the Turkish Empire. So this business of we're always on the right side is absolute garbage. Take Syria. Russia supports Assad because the Christians had some form of protection under Assad. And now that the ICI... Wherever ISIS is, there is no protection. Exactly. So, in the case of Syria, I would have thought that Assad being a military dictator was a bad man but compared to Islamic radicals that want to overthrow him Assad begins to look almost saintly because he didn't persecute the Christians in fact he protected them and he kept the islamicists under which is roughly what Mubarak did in Egypt Mubarak kept the muslim brotherhood illegal and crushed him, which is what the government now is doing in Egypt since the military has taken over again. There's a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group. The Muslim Brotherhood murdered Sadat back in 1981, who was the first Egyptian president to make peace with Israel, which is why he got murdered by his own army, the Muslim Brotherhood. Americans brought the genie out of the bottle with this Muslim Brotherhood being brought to power and the whole Arab Spring which the Americans created. And you just look at each case. Gaddafi is terrible. But what's replaced Gaddafi is worse. Saddam Hussein, you can go to a friend of mine was a missionary to Iraq and he said in downtown Baghdad the Baptist Church has got on the massive beautiful organ gifts of His Excellency the President Saddam Hussein. In fact I was told that back in the 90s this missionary discovered that all the bodyguard of Saddam Hussein were Christians and all of his cooks were Christians because he knew Christians wouldn't assassinate. He could trust them but he couldn't trust the Muslims. A Muslim mind do a coup. So his entire bodyguard, all of his trust people around him were Christians because they knew they've got to keep him alive with their lives on danger. And so in attacking Saddam Hussein, look, we've got to get this mindset, we've got a general mindset in the West that dictatorship is bad, democracy is good. But I think we've experienced enough of democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa to realise democracy is meaningless if you don't have a well-educated, literate, Protestant population, democracy is absolutely meaningless because all it means is you vote tribe, or you vote theirs, or you vote what you're told to vote. And democracy amongst people who don't have a reformation base is absolutely worthless. And we've seen it in Zimbabwe. They break the people's arms for voting for the wrong party. Literally burn their houses, build those down the whole community. So this is democracy? A dictatorship is better if it's going to bring stability and in the Middle East I don't think you've got too many options. You either have a military dictatorship that keeps the radicals in place or you have Muslim democracy where they kill everyone. So, you know, now Assad and Saddam Hussein don't look so bad and Mubarak looks really good compared to what they're trying to put in their place. Do you think ISIS is going to the support that the West gives to Hamas? Interesting. I don't know if anything will get the West to stop supporting these radicals. What does it take them to wake up? It's scandalous. But just bear in mind, again, as we've been looking at the First World War so much, we looked at it just a month ago, our side went to war in the First World War to support Marxist terrorists murdering not just Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his pregnant wife Sophie but having assassinated a whole lot of people including the Empress of Austria and trying to assassinate the granddaughter of Queen Victoria who had married the King of Spain, King Alfonso of Spain, in the wedding procession pond. These terrorists in Serbia who were the radical terrorists of their day, exporting assassinations around Europe, they were our allies. Britain, America, France, Russia went to war to support assassins and Marxist terrorists against Austrians and Germans who were standing up against terrorism. So, so much for us being on the good side. But in the Crimean War it was even worse. They were blatantly on the side of the Ottoman Turks and this time As far as what's going on in the Middle East, Russia's supporting the side that protects the Christians and NATO and the CIA are supporting the very people who have become ISIS. It's absolutely hideous. You couldn't make up the script for a horror film or comedy. It's just, this is a mixture between a comedy and some science fiction novel. How on earth could anyone have imagined that our side He could have ended up on so many of the wrong sides, backing the enemies of the church. I see the fingers of Satan involved in a whole lot of this. To have used all the power of these Western governments to support evil in Islam, and even the fact that he's still using petrol. We should have gone long off petrol decades ago. Back in the 70s people were predicting by the 1990s you'd be having these flying cars and you'd be having this space travel and we'd have, you know, everything would be hydrogen, you'd be able to put in a little bit of anonysm, your engine to keep going for hundreds of kilometres, because nobody expected that you'd still be using fossil fuels in 21st century. And why? Because the oil companies have bought up all the patents for every other kind of alternative energy and we are stuck with a form of fuel that enriches these veterans in the desert who should go back to their camels and their tents. If we would just stop using this out-of-date technology, it's pathetic that we're still using petrol. And if you're paying so much for it, it's not worth that much. I remember my father pulling up to the petrol station at Eastern saying 50 cents please. That wasn't a joke. You could fill up a lot of oil for 50 cents. Right now we are, one out of every three barrels of oil from the Middle East is going for weapons. We are funding Islamic Jihad every time we fill up a tank. It makes me sick. The government is making money out of people. In fact, it's true. Inside of about half of what you're paying for fuel is actually taxed for the government. to swander. I'm sorry if I'm not doing anything good with it. And that ties in with what you were saying, when they destroy knowledge that we have and they're trying to stop advancements, that ties in with what you were saying about dictatorship and the best form of government. Aristotle viewed that thousands of years ago, he wrote that on politics, that a good dictator is better than a good democracy. He ranked the forms of governance and that was something the Greeks knew. As soon as it's common sense, if you see a committee, it's going to give you worse governance than one guy making good decisions. One guy making bad decisions like Mugabe is the worst kind of government. So you rank them... Well it's Marxism and it's racism and it's tribalism all mixed together with the worst ineptocracy as well. But it's the opposite of the groups who invented democracy are the ones who were huge critics of it and said well it's also can be, it will be abused. But the Greeks never expected every person to be able to vote because there was only a few of the people who actually could vote in their circle of democracy. It was still a qualified franchise very much and Britain had a qualified franchise till this last century. and Rhodesia was working a qualified franchise which actually worked quite well. And there was the tribal trust lands with the chiefs having power and you had the upper and lower house and we still had a check and balance interest. Qualified franchises are actually a minimum level of education or property ownership to qualify to vote. This business that everyone agrees can vote even though you know they're just going to vote triumph. party or whatever, even if the party does everything against them and impoverishes them, they'll vote for them five times in a row. Just to speak hypothetically. So it's an insane system. I believe the only good form of government really is in a really reformed Protestant society which has real spiritual insights for the people and discipleship in a church situation, that in that situation I believe democracy means something. Take, for example, Orange Free State under President Martina Steyn. You had to be a member of a reformed church, in good fellowship with your church, a member in good standing, and then you could vote. It wasn't just for anyone. You couldn't have a pagan voting on atheists or anything like that. There were standards, and the Orange Free State in Transvaal worked as countries with a qualified franchise. I think Rhodesia is a good example. I think a constitutional monarchy as they had in much of Europe before the First World War could work well. You had checks and balances, you had a house where they had read to rulers who didn't have to run for elections but who were dedicated to the country and had no political advantage. Then you had elected representatives and you had law and constitution. That worked better. But right now it's rabble-rousing nonsense and then you've got these bureaucrats in Brussels or New York who decide against your best interests anyway. So yes, something between a constitutional monarchy and a qualified franchise I think would be wise, but at the moment it's demon-crazy rather than democracy. Is Isis the name of an ancient Egyptian god? Yes it is. That's quite true. Not an accident I'm sure. I think the same demons are around. The people in Isis may not realise it but there's some funny connections there is there not. Satan's only got a few tricks up his sleeve and he keeps using the same ones over and over and if we don't study a history we will So let's pray, let's pray for the Christians in the Middle East, let's pray for the brethren in Iraq and Syria and particularly Egypt and Nigeria. Lord God we thank and praise you for the fact that you have all power and you can intervene and we know Lord God that in many ways we in the world are suffering the consequences of generations of foolishness and bad choices and we pray Lord God that you would grants a revival of repentance amongst your people that we may learn the lessons He wants us to learn and particularly that Western nations which have been in so many ways in the past great bastions of Christianity would come to repentance to realize from just how far we have fallen. That those in pulpits who are avoiding the issues or being compromising and cowardly would come to repentance and realise the need to sound the trumpet boldly and to call your people to prayer, to action, to repentance and to be prepared to fight if need be to protect our loved ones from this onslaught of evil. All of you know that our brethren in the Middle East have suffered so much over so many years and they've been disarmed and they've been in many ways taught to be passive in the face of this kind of persecution. they need champions to stand up on their behalf and to speak up for them and we do pray Lord God that you may graciously and mercifully raise up and we recognize that may even be Russia speaking up for them and that will be a great shame to those of us in the West that our nations that are meant to stand for freedom and justice will be eclipsed by a country that suffered so much under communism that they should seem to care more than we do is a disgrace to us and we pray Lord that you would continue to work in Russia, Lord, to strengthen your church and to bring people out of the pits that socialism and communism and atheism put them into, and may they continue to be a rebuke and a challenge to countries in the West that have forsaken their great Christian heritage. Lord, for the many Christians who are in the Middle East, we pray that you would raise up intercessors, supporters, champions on their behalf to speak out for them, to deliver aid that they need. And we do pray also Lord for the wicked that you would cause them to fight against one another, you'd cause these Muslims to be more divided, to squander their energy on fighting one another. And Lord that for your honour that you would bring a good amount of them to repentance through the testimonies of those that they have seen suffer for you. But Lord, those who refuse to repent, may you judge them Lord, may you deal with them in such a way that people can see that there's a God in heaven who answers prayer, who brings justice. We pray Lord God that you would intervene in the affairs of men because we can see that humans have made a terrible mess of this And we ask, Lord, that you'd be gracious to raise up those who would speak truth and who would call you people to take the Great Commission seriously and to recognise the threat of Islam. Help us, Lord God, to do our part. Guide us, Lord God, especially around Cape Town, that we may win these people who are our potential enemies to become brothers and allies in Christ. Thank you, Lord, for the transforming power of the Gospel. Thank you for the power of prayer. Thank you for the fact that your word never returns void. Thank you, Lord, for the people we could reach even on Saturday. May we continue to work through the balloons and literature that we distributed, through the people that we spoke to, the seeds that we planted. Thank you, Lord, for our opportunities on Radio Tygerburgh. May you bless this new edition as it goes out, even including some news of these events. And we ask, Lord God, that you may mercifully and graciously Raise up your church to once again be the church militant, the church that once inspired the crusaders, we pray, would inspire your people to action again. May you be our shield and our strength. May no weapon formed against us take effect. We pray it in Jesus' name. Amen.