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The Quran calls Allah "The Best Deceiver". It makes sense why so many of its followers would throw bombs into groups of innocent people, like what happened in NYC. On the other hand, it is impossible for the God of the Bible to lie. We are different.
Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day. We bring it to the Bible so you can walk away with some peace and perspective. There are new headlines every single day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here for the true story. Today's episode, we're going to talk about scoundrels, the terrorist attack in New York city.
We'll go deeper into this word. It's in the Bible, a scoundrel. Quick programming note. This is not my normal background. Uh, we just started recording these for YouTube. youtube .
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actual scoundrels. So what happened the other day? Check out this headline. It's from the New York Times. Smoking jars of metal and fuses thrown at protest near mayor's house. New York Times, smoking jars of metal and fuses.
ABC New York called it a smoke generating suspicious device. Ah, yes. your run -of -the -mill smoke generating suspicious devices well what is that over there well that's a smoke generating suspicious device of course the lengths that the media will go to not call it a bomb or even the euphemism of IED improvised explosive device no no jars of metal and fuses New York City and New York multiple arrests made after suspicious devices found outside Gracie Mansion, home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, during anti -Islam rally and counter -protest. Now, a couple things about that headline. First, the bombs weren't found, they were thrown. Second, the headline makes it seem like it was the anti -Islam people who were behind the bombs.
But no, no, it was two Muslim guys who threw the bombs. CBS News was maybe the closest, but still not telling the full story at all. Suspicious devices ignited. during protests near Manhattan's Gracie Mansion. That's like the best. But none of the headlines make it clear that it was the Muslims who threw the bombs.
So what happened was there was an anti -Islam rally near the mayor's house. And then there were, alright so you're with me on the first group anti -Islam. Then there were counter -protesters, so pro -Islam people who were there. In that group, the Muslim group, there was an 18 and a 19 year old who were told were inspired by ISIS who threw these bombs. They're on video. doing it.
They're on video throwing it and then running away or trying to run away. They didn't make it very far. And then the mayor comes in and says, yesterday, this is what he wrote, yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no place in New York City. It's an affront to our city's values and the unity that defines who we are. What followed was even more disturbing.
Violence at a protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it's reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are. " Now you're saying, well, he called him out.
Okay.
Very quick though to name Jake Lang. Never heard of this guy in my life, but quick to name him, white supremacist, Jake Lang. So we have the name and motivation. No mention of Amir Balat and Ibrahim Niq and how they shouted Allahu Akbar when they threw the bomb. New York state Senator Liz Krueger, she was even more obscene. She said, New York is no place for anti -Muslim hate or any other kind of prejudice.
We don't need out -of -state provocateurs sowing fear, division, and violence in our city. I don't even know if that is any reference at all to the people who actually threw the bombs in the crowd. If it is, then the first group of people are anti -Muslim haters. And the second group, the people who threw the bombs, they're any other kind of prejudice. So just to be clear, a Muslim, too, threw a bomb full of shrapnel into the middle of a peaceful protest, and the problem is anti -Muslim hate. That's how they're spinning that.
The Babylon Bee, who are wonderful, satire of course, but not really, their fake headline is, Mamdani condemns New Yorkers for making Muslims throw bombs at them. That's right. That's, that's the gist of all these headlines. We know a little bit more about these two. According to the New York Post, um, these two guys traveled to Turkey and other terror training hotspots.
Bilat spent more than three months in Istanbul last year. Ibrahim flew to Istanbul and Saudi Arabia in 2024 and made a trip to Melbourne, Australia in 2019. Crazy that a trip to Melbourne is on a list of terror hotspots. The bombs are filled with something called TATP. This is, it has a name, it's called the mother of Satan, this chemical. It's so volatile apparently that it doesn't even need a fuse to go off and it can be made with just household chemicals.
So it's cheap to produce. And this was the type of bomb that was used by terrorist attacks in France, England, Belgium, and New Delhi over the last 10 years. So it's been around for a while. It is, the point of it is to kill people. It's a miracle that they didn't go off. Two of them.
Neither of them went off. These two need to be charged with maximum federal charges. They need to be charged as if they did go off. I hate how we do this with our justice system where like murder is terrible. Murder, you get a lot of prison. Attempted murder, no big deal.
You tried, but it didn't work. But like, no, no, no. Same thing. These two, well, if it went off, we'd give them life. But it didn't go off. So, you know, let's just give them probation.
Like, no, no, they need to be treated as if they went off. And whatever mosque they go to needs to be investigated. And anyone who they've been in contact with, who's not a citizen, needs to be deported. There's no reason for anyone who's a part of this in any way to remain in this country whatsoever. The FBI also raided the homes of these guys in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. I used to live there, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
I saw a video of this. of their houses. It's a huge house. It's a giant, beautiful house. Do not believe the lie. And this lie started around 2003, maybe a little later after that.
That terrorism, it's more of Obama, maybe 2008. The terrorism is fueled by poverty, right? And this is one of the excuses for why we need to give a lot of money to these Islamic countries because they're just so poor. And if we make them rich and they won't, nope, not true. It's never been true. We could, you know, Today's gonna be a longer episode, so I'll save it for another day.
But we could go through all the terrorists, Bin Laden himself, all the way down to the people wearing suicide vests, who are not poor and who are not uneducated. Many are very wealthy and went to college. And same with these two, living a very upper middle -class life in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, living in a house that's, one of them at least, that's out of reach for most Americans, and still throwing bombs into crowds of people yelling Allahu Akbar. More about the family, Bill Belugin is reporting that, One of the guy's parents are from Turkey, both the parents are from Turkey, and were naturalized into U . S. citizens in 2017.
The other guy's parents are both from Afghanistan, and the mom naturalized in 2009, the dad in 2004. What in the world?
Naturalized?
Why?
Why? We have a major legal immigration problem in America. The Hart -Celler Act. We've gone over this before, I'll do it quick. From 1921 to 1965, immigration was limited to 2%. of the people who are already here from different countries based off the 1890 census.
So whatever number of people from, let's say, France were here in 1890, we would accept every year 2 % of that number. All of these people in America in 1890 were from Western European countries. From 1921 to 1965, this was the deal, which means very few immigrants came into the United States at all. 1965, we passed the Hart -Celler Act that eliminated this quota. And that's when we opened up America to third world immigration. People were told in 1965, this is what would happen.
Let me quote this. Ted Kennedy, who had became Senate floor leader on this legislation, chose to speak to what he said were false fears that the bill's opponents were fanning. He said, quote, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. And with Biden, it was four million, four or five million. Then Kennedy said under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same. Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset.
Contrary to the charges in some quarters, Senate Bill 500, the Hart -Seller Act, will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area or the most populated and economically deprived nations of Africa and Asia. And of course, that's exactly what happened. Some evidence of this happening, well, in New York City last week, the fire department, FDNY, The FDNY Islamist Society had a Iftar. This is the meal that breaks their Ramadan fast. And it was held in the FDNY headquarters. They set up prayer rugs in front of the wall that has the memorial plaques to the 343 firefighters who died on 9 -11.
Why there? I understand you have to lay the rug in such a way towards Mecca.
Okay.
Lots of rooms in the headquarters. Why right in front of the memorial plaques? But let's not even go that far. What are we doing? I've never read or heard more about Ramadan in my life than this last year. What is this FDNY Ramadan fast breaking?
What is going on here? Let's go to England. In UK, the Boy Scouts in UK, they have a new Islamophobia Awareness Month badge. To earn your badge, you can, here's a list, learn about Islam. and discover what Muslims do in practice every day. Find out how the values of Islam are similar to our values in scouts.
You could learn about the five pillars of Islam. Visit a mosque. Listen to the call of prayer. You could do an act of kindness. This is great. Islam promotes being caring and having compassion for others.
It also teaches Muslims to look out after our environment. The prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said removing a harmful thing from the path is a charitable act. So you could enlist all these things like planting a tree and picking up litter. Number three, explore Muslim role models. Learn about the impact, achievement, and contributions that Muslims have made in the world. Number four, learn about bias and discrimination.
Learn about common misconceptions and myths about Islams and Muslims. Invite a member of the Muslim community, such as a local sheik or imam, to visit your group. Explore the ways you might see Islamophobia in society. And then it says you should learn the five pillars of Islam. This is in England, totally conquered. Boy Scouts started as a Christian organization.
Now it is very much not. In England, all across the country, the soccer stadiums have been playing the call to prayer over the stadium loudspeakers. This doesn't happen in stadiums in Muslim countries. It's not a thing. They'll play the call to prayer from mosques, but not from soccer stadiums. This is a, but they do in England.
This is a humiliating thing. and it is a sign of dominance. Now we don't need to say across the pond in England, England's already gone. 40 % of New York city's foreign born. The mayor is now a foreigner born in Uganda who's Muslim. His response never mentioned the Muslim attackers.
Of course, why would it? The mayor's wife celebrated the October, October 7th attack against Israel. She liked Instagram posts that right after the attack, which killed, by the way, 1 ,200 people and took 251 hostages. She was celebrating it. One post showed people celebrating on top of an Israeli military vehicle with the words, free Palestine under it. And the post called this an act of self -defense and a human right for the people who live under occupation and all that she'd like to support all this stuff.
And the mayor's response to his wife's comments were she's a private citizen. We've talked about her before. The New York Sun wrote an article about her that she's really a stereotypical progressive in a lot of ways, that she was born in America, but she doesn't associate with being an American at all. The New York Times just yesterday called her a Syrian American. Her bio on her Twitter profile says that she's from Damascus. She was born in Houston.
She's from Texas. Her website says her illustrations examine the nuances of sisterhood and communal experiences with the global infitada. But she's, see the kids trying to be quiet outside the door. She's born in Houston, Texas, but she identifies as Syrian. And now she's the first lady of New York city celebrating the death of Jews.
Okay.
So that's the scene. That's what happened the other day. What's broken here. Where do we start? What do we pick? I'm going to go with deceit and then we'll break down the word scoundrel.
That's in the Bible. I'm reminded of the story, I'm reminded of the story of, by the way, if this is them being quiet, you should hear them loud. I'm reminded of the story in first Kings 21. So the short of it is you have the Ahab, king of Samaria, and Naboth. Naboth had a piece of land that the king wanted. So the king asked Naboth for the land and he said, I'll give you a lot of money for it.
And it'll be great. And Naboth said, no, the Lord forbade that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you. That's in reference to a couple of different Old Testament scriptures. Numbers 36, seven is one says, so the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not change hands from tribe to tribe for every one of the children of Israel shall keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. So he obeyed God. Naboth did.
Good for him.
And the king went away very sad. He didn't eat any food. He was all depressed and whiny and mopey. But Jezebel, his wife came to him, most wicked woman who ever lived. He told her what happened. And the Bible says, Jezebel, his wife said to him, you now exercise authority over Israel.
Arise, eat food, like get ahold of yourself and let your heart be cheerful. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite. So she wrote letters in the King's name, sealed them with the King's seal and sent it to the elders and nobles. And the letter said, proclaim a fast. So give it a religious cover and seat Naboth with high honor among the people. and seat two men, scoundrels, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, You have blasphemed God and the king.
Then take him out and stone him, that he may die. And they did. And they accused him of a crime, and they stoned him. right there. Threw stones at him until he died. Alexander McLaren, a Bible scholar, late 1800s.
He said, there's three dangerous types of people in this scene right here. First, you have Ahab who was wicked and weak. Then you have Jezebel who was wicked and strong. And then you have the elders of Jezreel who were wicked and subservient. No one was good except Naboth who was following God's commands. Now, a lot has been said about the story about Ahab's greed, and that's true.
But I want to highlight a different part of the story, and that is the deceit and the contrast of Naboth. So Naboth had clear conviction based on God's word. We read it from Numbers and he said to the king, no, I will not sell this land. Compare that to the, to the deceit, the tyranny from Jezebel. First, pretending to be the king, sealing the letter with the king's seal, ordering the elders to lie, make false accusations against an innocent man. It's all lying and deceit.
And then using scoundrels. achieve her end. The Hebrew word for scoundrel means son of Belial or son of Satan. Now God had his justice in the end. Let me finish this verse here. Concerning Jezebel, the Lord also spoke saying the dog shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
The dog shall eat whoever belongs to Ahab and dies in the city and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field. Later, verse 25, but there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord because Jezebel, his wife, stirred him up. So they got their justice to tie into yesterday's episode. But again, I want to highlight the fruit. of the deceit and the lying and the fasting by using a religious act to cover their murderous actions and using sons of Satan to carry out their evil deeds. Just like the use of two young men from a nice neighborhood in Bucks County, Pennsylvania to inspire them with the words of ISIS to throw bombs and kill Americans.
Scoundrels. Sons of Satan. Now these two were believers in Islam. Okay. One of the names for Allah is best of deceivers. That's in the, in the Islam faith.
One of Allah's names is best of deceivers. The God of the Bible is never called a deceiver. Quick note to this. You'll hear a lot of pagan and whatever people say, Oh, we all worship the same God. No, we do not. Not even close.
The God of the Bible is never called a deceiver. The Bible says of all people. The real God in Titus 1 -2, God who never lies, but Allah in the Bible is called the best of deceivers. Jesus in the Bible, Allah in the Quran is called the best of deceivers. Jesus in the Bible is called the way, the truth, and the life. Just to drive home the deceit and how he's the best of deceivers, Allah.
The first follower of Muhammad didn't trust Allah's words. His name's Abu Bakr. He was the father -in -law of Muhammad, one of the closest friends of Muhammad. He's called the truthful. He was called the truthful by Muhammad himself. Sunni Muslims still refer to him as that today.
There was a book called Successors of the Messenger. It was written right after Muhammad died. About the four leaders right after Muhammad, Abu Bakr was the first. Abu Bakr said of Allah, he said, by Allah, I would not feel safe from the deception of Allah. That's the same word, same Arabic word, deception.
I would not feel safe from the deception of Allah, even if I had one foot in paradise. Abu Bakr himself said, are they then secure from Allah's schemes and deception? None deemeth himself secure from Allah's schemes, save folk that perish. " Yikes. No Muslim can trust the words of Allah because he's deceptive, unlike the real true God of the Bible, who is truthful. So back to 1 Kings 21.
Who's the good guy in the story? Naboth. Naboth believed God's promises. And in Hebrews 11, 37, after listing heroes of the faith by name, the writer then says, they were stoned. Naboth was. They were sown in two.
They were tempted. They were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins being destitute, afflicted, ill -treated, all of whom the world was not worthy. Wandering about in desert and mountains and in dens and caves of the earth. And all these though commended through their faith did not receive what was promised since God had promised something better for us that apart from us, they should not be made perfect. That something different is Jesus.
We know Jesus. We have all the reasons to be even more faithful than Naboth was. Because we follow a truthful God, not Allah. And we should do what we can to make sure that we always live in a country that follows God. youtube . com slash politicsbyfaith.
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