Posted by Terry Nelson on Sep 17th, 2007
That’s not very PC.
It is said the Nazi’s did it in WWII, and the North Vietnamese did it in the war for control over South Vietnam, and some believe it is happening in the West today. In the past, such beliefs led to internment camps for foreign nationals in various countries, an action which would be thought of as a violation of human rights today.
The following piece from Rod Dreher focuses on a Muslim Brotherhood document confiscated from the Virginia home of a suspected terrorist by the FBI in 1991. It reads rather like a Fifth Column movement to me.
This “explanatory memorandum,” as it’s titled, outlines the “strategic goal” for the North American operation of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan). Here’s the key paragraph:
The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a “Civilization-Jihadist” process with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack. - Dallas News
Of course, terrorist “sleeper cells” are believed to be in this country as well - maybe that is a more politically correct term to use.
Posted by Terry Nelson on Sep 17th, 2007
Today is the feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis. It is also the 30th anniversary of my profession in the Third Order of St. Francis. I was privileged to make my profession at the tomb of St. Francis in Assisi, after completing a week-long solitary retreat in the renovated apartments of St. Joseph of Cupertino at the Sacred Convent, which is attached to the basilica.
From the Life of St. Francis.
Two years before Francis, the faithful servant of Christ, gave his soul back to God, he was alone on the top of Mt. Alverna. There he had begun a fast of forty days in honor of the archangel Michael and was immersed more deeply than usual in the delights of heavenly contemplation. His soul became aglow with the ardor of fervent longing for heaven as he experienced within himself the operations of grace.
As he was drawn aloft through ardent longing for God one morning near the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, and was praying on the mountainside, he saw what appeared as a seraph with six bright wings gleaming like a fire descending from the heights of heaven. As this figure approached in swift flight and came near the man of God it appeared not only winged but also crucified. The sight of it amazed Francis and his soul experienced joy mingled with pain. He was delighted with the sight of Christ appearing to him so graciously and intimately and yet the awe-inspiring vision of Christ nailed to the cross aroused in his soul a joy of compassionate love.
When the vision vanished after a mysterious and intimate conversation it left Francis aglow with seraphic love in his soul. Externally, however, it left marks on his body like those of the Crucified as if the impression of a seal had been left on heated wag. The figures of the nails appeared immediately on his hands and feet. The heads of the nails were inside his hands but on top of his feet with their points extending through to the opposite side. His right side too showed a blood-red wound as if it had been pierced by a lance, and blood flowed frequently from it. - St. Bonaventure
