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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:16:26 GMT--><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"><rss:channel rdf:about="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/"><rss:title>Michael's Blogs</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/</rss:link><rss:description></rss:description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><dc:date>2012-02-23T09:16:26Z</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</admin:generatorAgent><rss:items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/is-newsweek-redeeming-itself-or-is-it-just-an-aberration.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/america-the-impotent.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/president-obama-and-the-bible.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/the-tale-of-two-men.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/the-european-union-and-the-united-states-sign-a-suicide-pact.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/mayor-bloomberg-read-history.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/when-ignorance-is-not-bliss.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/merry-christ-mas-mr-president-an-open-letter-to-president-ob.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/islamophilia.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/arab-winter.html"/></rdf:Seq></rss:items></rss:channel><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/is-newsweek-redeeming-itself-or-is-it-just-an-aberration.html"><rss:title>Is Newsweek Redeeming Itself or Is It Just an Aberration?</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/is-newsweek-redeeming-itself-or-is-it-just-an-aberration.html</rss:link><dc:creator>MY</dc:creator><dc:date>2012-02-14T13:45:03Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="full-image-float-right ssNonEditable"><span><img style="width: 250px;" src="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/storage/Newsweek.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1329227547536" alt="" /></span></span>Newsweek has been at the vanguard of the liberal mainstream media. Often these media outlets compete to see who is more anti-Christian. Through the years, many of them have led with sensational [yet historically questionable] headlines regarding Christ and Christianity. These headlines range from the denial of the resurrection of Jesus to the denial of the virgin birth, all the way to the denial of Jesus&rsquo; existence.</p>
<p>That is why some faithful, Bible-believing, intellectual Christians have been pleasantly surprised by Newsweek&rsquo;s headline in the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/02/05/ayaan-hirsi-ali-the-global-war-on-christians-in-the-muslim-world.html">February 13, 2012 issue, &ldquo;The War on Christians.&rdquo;</a> Wow! Someone woke up and is finally beginning to see the truth.</p>
<p>What was even more pleasantly surprising was the writer&rsquo;s absolute candor, not only in exposing the widespread persecution and killing of Christians from Nigeria to Egypt to Pakistan to Indonesia, but in exposing the deliberate closing of the eyes on the part of her fellow mainline Western media.</p>
<p>In this masterpiece by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, she exposed how Islamists led by Saudi Arabia and the Council on American-Islamic Relations [CAIR] &ldquo;over the past decade...have been remarkably successful in persuading leading public figures and journalists in the West to think of each and every example of perceived anti-Muslim discrimination as an expression of a systematic and sinister derangement called &lsquo;Islamophobia&rsquo; &ndash; a term that is meant to elicit the same moral disapproval as xenophobia or homophobia.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Truth-seeking Christians have been screaming from the top of their lungs, hoping that someone would listen and examine this propaganda by CAIR as being nothing short of mind control. While examples of Islamophobia are reported repeatedly, the killing and beheading of Christians in the Muslim world brings nary a peep out of them.</p>
<p>Speaking of mind control, CAIR has single-handedly derailed Christian speakers from appearing in military Christian functions. From the denial of General Boykin speaking at the West Point prayer breakfast to Franklin Graham being denied a speaking opportunity at the Pentagon, CAIR now exerts great power on the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Newsweek&rsquo;s expose, while indeed a welcome breath of fresh air in an Islamist fog choking Western media culture, only touches the tip of the iceberg of what is going on in the war of Islamists on Christians.</p>
<p>May it be that the truth is now beginning to seep out, and may it be that other mainstream media outlets begin to open their blind eyes and see the truth clearly.</p>
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From the time you declared your candidacy for president of the United States and announced under your breath that you are a Christian, many true, Bible-believing Christians immediately had doubts about your muffled profession of faith. After all, for 20 years you drank deeply from the well of Rev. Jeremiah Wright — who, in spite of the clerical garb he wears, preaches a Universalist gospel. It is not the true gospel that Jesus proclaimed, which clearly states that He and He alone is the only way to heaven and the Father. That claim was for all people of the earth.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/islamophilia.html"><rss:title>Islamophilia</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/islamophilia.html</rss:link><dc:creator>MY</dc:creator><dc:date>2011-12-01T22:18:53Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[True Democracy can no more take hold in Islamic soil than a rose can grow in a glass vase…no matter how much water it contains. This is a true statement and many Islamists know that this is a true statement.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/arab-winter.html"><rss:title>Arab Winter</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.michaelyoussef.com/michaels-blogs/arab-winter.html</rss:link><dc:creator>MY</dc:creator><dc:date>2011-11-23T22:05:59Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[After making numerous phone calls and speaking to many Christian leaders in Egypt this week, I have learned that what is really happening on the ground is far removed from the television reporters’ happy endorsement of democracy seekers. To describe what is really going on around the country as “barbaric” would be an understatement. While some of the protestors may be true democracy lovers, the widespread terrorism on display defies all human decency.]]></content:encoded></rss:item></rdf:RDF>
