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Brothers Charged in Terror Plot Lived Illegally in U.S. for 23 Years
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Three brothers charged in the alleged Fort Dix terror plot have been living illegally in the U.S. for more than 23 years and were accepted as Americans by neighbors and friends who had no idea they would scheme to attack military bases and slaughter GIs.

A federal law enforcement source confirmed to FOX News that the three Dritan
"Anthony" or "Tony" Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, 23 also
accumulated 19 traffic citations, but because they operated in "sanctuary cites," where law enforcement does not routinely report illegal immigrants to homeland security, none of the tickets raised red flags...

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Yes, prayer needs to be returned to schools, and Ten Commandments publicly displayed. None were stoned, raped, hanged, beheaded, or dismembered by these displays and practices. None are forced or die according to these dispalys and practices.

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How many gay people have been beat up by white Christians because their teachings say it's wrong

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You just love it when we kill brown Muslims

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Why are you soooo racist? Were americans, we like killing everyone equally.

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Left Behind: Eternal Forces is causing a controversy among Christians who are for and against the game's relgious violence.

Left Behind: Eternal Forces is causing a controversy among Christians who are for and against the game's relgious violence.



"It's faith-based killing that teaches God wants people dead if they don't see Christ as you do," says the Rev. Tim Simpson, head of Christian Alliance for Progress, who has played the game. "Jesus would turn the other cheek."

Shooting back in self-defense, conservative Christians and the game's producers say the computer game battles are all between good and evil, with no explosive blood or gore. They say it takes spiritual weaponry, not firepower, to win.

"These groups don't attack other violent video games. Their real attack is on our theology," says Tim LaHaye, co-author of the novels, who endorsed the game.

SEE THE GAME: The 'Eternal Forces' website | CEO's statement on the controversy

And the game isn't about mindless violence, says Jeffrey Frichner, president and co-founder of Left Behind Games. True, he says, "Players can engage in battle, fire guns, even kill innocents in the game, but there will be severe consequences. In fact, you can win this game without ever firing a shot, using weapons of spiritual means, such as prayer and worship."

If a player increases his force's spiritual strength, angels will even come to his assistance. But it's the action, not the angels, that has put the game in 10,000 locations, including Wal-Mart and Circuit City, since its November release, he says.

Spokeswomen for both chains said Wednesday they have no plans to discontinue sales.

"It's selling like crazy here," says Brian Bridges, a clerk at the Manassas, Va., branch of Family Christian Stores, where a $59.99 collector's version includes a Bible.

The Campaign to Defend the Constitution, an alliance of groups including Simpson's, launched its attack on the game this week. Simpson calls Frichner's descriptions "weasel words."

Simpson says it's true that "once you do a kill, it causes your 'spiritual points' in the game to go down, but all you need to do is pray and you're good to go again , as if nothing else happened," says Simpson.

He adds that the bad guys are non-Christians and that a stand-in for the United Nations is portrayed as the army of the Anti-christ, the embodiment of evil.

Alliance co-founder Clark Stevens says they've rallied 26,000 e-mails so far to Wal-Mart, because the game "advocates intolerance toward other religions."

New Testament scholars have long objected to a literal reading of Revelation, the Bible's final book.

A violent video game for Jesus is ironic, says Craig Hill, professor of New Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. "Jesus saw the great enemy as evil, which is in all of us, not something at which we can fire bullets."

Ultimately, the battle over the game may be a win for both sides, "in the real war, the one for attention," says Nancy Ammerman, a sociologist of religion at Boston University. Now's the time of year, she says, when people try to score points for their religious views.

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Originally posted by polycarp:
AS long as GG thinks God wants people to do His killing for Him, you'll never convince her otherwise. Islamic Fundamentalists share the same thinking.

If God wanted someone to drop dead, they would drop dead. If someone thinks they have to do His killing, they are killing someone He didn't think should drop dead. Very simple. It's called murder.

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Yes, prayer needs to be returned to schools, and Ten Commandments publicly displayed. None were stoned, raped, hanged, beheaded, or dismembered by these displays and practices. None are forced or die according to these dispalys and practices.



That's "Sharia Law." Of course it's a different religion that wants these rules in the Arab world but you have to admit that it's the same thing.

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"It's faith-based killing that teaches God wants people dead if they don't see Christ as you do," says the Rev. Tim Simpson, head of Christian Alliance for Progress, who has played the game. "Jesus would turn the other cheek."

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Pope John Paul said this war "is immoral, illegal and unjustified".

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FAITH UNDER FIRE
Hindus force Christians to 'reconvert'
Attack is just a part of increasing worldwide antagonism

Hindus have confronted a group of Christian evangelists, forcing them into a nearby village temple to perform a ritual to "reconvert" them to the Hindu religion, according to a new report from the Voice of the Martyrs which is documenting some of the increasing persecution by Hindus around the world.

While this most recent physical attack was reported by VOM sources inside the Indian state of Orissa, other attacks – albeit verbal – also have reached into the United States.

WND recently reported that Hindus have been launching a series of attacks against Christian organizations dedicated to promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

A report from the Hindu American Foundation accused a long list of Christian organizations, including some providing aid in India, of promoting hatred.


"The proliferation of websites promoting religious hatred is an unfortunate consequence of the universality of access to the internet," said Vinay Vallabh, the lead author of the report.

Among those targeted verbally included the Southern Baptists' missions board, Gospel for Asia and the Minnesota-based Olive Tree Ministries, which aims its ministry at teaching Christians about their beliefs. ..

While the attacks in the United States have so far remained verbal, those within India almost always result in physical violence, according to VOM.

In Orissa, more than 15 Hindus stopped a small number of Christian evangelists on a village road, verbally abused them, and then forced them into the local temple for the ritual, the report said. link

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GG, the problem with Islam as it is ppracticed in fundamentalist countries like Iran is that Islam fell under the influence of people who mirror you in a lot of ways.