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EDITOR'S COMMENT: All through the Bible Old Testament when the Hebrew people fell away from God they were enslaved by the descents of Ishmael. Is God planning to chastise the whole world in this manner?

"The battle, My child, will accelerate very shortly for there will not only be a great war of weapons of mankind, but it will be known soon throughout the world as a religious war." - Our Lady of the Roses August 21, 1974

Veronica - And I can see now Jesus and Our Lady are going high up into the sky, and there's forming directly over Our Lady's statue, high in the sky—it is a cross, a very large cross. The handle, though, of a . . . dagger—it looks like a dagger, a knife. It's a strange-looking dagger with a loop at the bottom, like. It's a symbol. And Jesus is nodding.
    Jesus - "You will understand, My child, soon."
    Veronica - Yes, it is a, like a saber. Gee, it, it's a very strange-looking, dagger-like saber, with a cross on a handle. Like—it's not the kind that you see—it looks almost like Arabian or something. I can't explain it—like a very strange-looking Arabic, or something. I don't know where I have seen that before, but it's a very odd-looking type of dagger-like sword, with a hook on the end of it, though. That's strange. Oh, now it's beginning to fade; I can't see it anymore. - December 24, 1979

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LifeSiteNews.com reported on February 24, 2020:

By William Kilpatrick

The other night, I caught an interview on PBS between Fareed Zakaria and Kim Ghattas, the author of Black Wave — an examination of the great cultural shift that occurred in the Middle East after 1979. Nineteen seventy-nine was the year of the Iranian Revolution, which brought the mullahs into power and, in the words of one reviewer of the book, “turned back decades of social liberalization in Iranian society.”

Nineteen seventy-nine was also the year that Saudi fundamentalists seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, leading the royal family to make significant concessions to the hardline Wahhabi religious establishment. As the New York Times review noted:

The Saudi authorities removed women from television newscasts, blotted out the faces of women in newspaper photographs[.] … Beach clubs and cinemas were closed. The religious police … [were] newly empowered.

The “black wave” that Ghattas refers to was the hasty adoption of dark hijabs, chadors, and abayas that swept through the Middle East in the years following 1979. In the 1960s, President Nasser of Egypt had joked before an appreciative audience about how a Muslim Brotherhood leader had demanded that he enforce the wearing of the hijab, but by the time Mohamed Morsi rose to power, the hijab was no longer a laughing matter in Egypt.

Indeed, after the Iranian Revolution, laughter itself became a risky business. The Ayatollah Khomeini famously proclaimed: “An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam.”

Ghattas, who grew up in Lebanon, recalls a “different world.” There is no doubt which world she prefers. Life in the Middle East was much better before the true believers gained control.

This brings up a question. Is Kim Ghattas an “Islamophobe”? Probably not. She was a journalist for the BBC for many years, and, as might be expected, she leans to the “progressive” side of many issues. And just as the politically correct thought world dictates that blacks can’t be racists, it also assures us that liberals can’t be Islamophobes.

Yet Ghattas paints a bleak picture of what has become of the Middle East now that Islam and sharia are back in the saddle. She speaks of the “intellectual and cultural darkness that slowly engulfed” the region as the effects of the Iranian Revolution rippled out. And she refers to the much revered Ayatollah Khomeini as an “irredeemable monster.”

If an orthodox Catholic with conservative cultural leanings — for example, yours truly — were to say that the resurgence of traditional Islam has made the Muslim world a worse place, he would surely be labeled an “Islamophobe” and a “hater.”

In fact, I have been so labeled many times. In a recent article entitled “A priest’s anti-Muslim comments reveal U.S. Catholics’ Islamophobia problem,” Jordan Denari Duffner of Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative upbraids me because my website “is exclusively dedicated to ‘educating Catholics and other Americans about the threat from Islam.’”

Miss Duffner, who wrote a book entitled Finding Jesus among Muslims: How Loving Islam Makes Me a Better Catholic, seems to assume there is no threat from Islam. Her article leads off with an attack on Fr. Nick VanDenBroeke, a Catholic priest in Minnesota, who called Islam “the greatest threat to Christianity and to America.” One suspects that if Fr. VanDenBroeke had labeled Islam as only the 15^th greatest threat to Christianity, Duffner would still have objected.

She should read Kim Ghattas’s book.

The question that propelled Ghattas’s research is, “What happened to us?” How, for example, could Iranians have “replaced the tyranny of monarchy with the even worse tyranny of religion”?

What happened is that those who wanted to restore Islam to its original form won out over those who had grown content with the more relaxed form of Islam that had developed after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Ghattas sees this recent, more radical and puritanical iteration of Islam as a threat to the Muslim world. In particular, she sees it as a threat to freedom of thought and to cultural expression — to a life filled with “music, art, books, theater … cafés, bookshops, poetry, and so much more[.]” Ghattas mourns what has been lost in Middle Eastern culture, and though she is careful not to be too explicit, the obvious culprit is the revival of original Islam.

So should Jordan Duffner add Kim Ghattas to her list of “Islamophobes”? Ghattas presents a darker and more detailed description of what Islam can do to a society than does Fr. VanDenBroeke. If Islam can turn the vibrant culture of the Middle East into a cultural wasteland, why shouldn’t Fr. VanDenBroeke worry about what it might do to the rest of the world?

He calls Islam “the greatest threat to Christianity.” One might argue that China and North Korea are greater threats, but on what basis could one possibly argue that Islam is not a threat? Every day brings a new report of Christians being massacred by Muslims in Africa or of Christians being persecuted for their faith in Pakistan, Iran, or Indonesia.

Open Doors’ World Watch List 2020 ranks the 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted for their faith. Of the 50 nations composing the list, 38 either are Muslim-majority or have a large Muslim population. Seven of the top ten offenders are Muslim nations.

The World Watch List reports that “260 million Christians experience high levels of persecution” and that “Islamic oppression” is the chief source of persecution. Given this evidence and similar reports from other sources, how can one maintain that Islam is not a threat to Christianity? And why should someone who points out an obvious fact be accused of Islamophobia?

It’s one thing for a Saudi-funded institution such as the Bridge Initiative to go hunting for “Islamophobes,” but why should Church leaders feel compelled to do the same? Not long after Fr. VanDenBroeke delivered his sermon, he was forced by Archbishop Bernard Hebda to apologize for saying Islam is “the greatest threat in the world” to Christianity. “This,” as Robert Spencer noted, “is rather like making a man apologize for saying that water is wet.”

Uttered by anyone else, the term “Black Wave” would bring howls of outrage from the anti-Islamophobia crowd. Since Kim Ghattas is sympathetic to progressive causes, it probably won’t.

Interestingly, Ghattas does assign some blame to Iranian progressives for their role in bringing Khomeini to power. She blames them for being too naïve to see the writing on the wall. Like them, Khomeini talked the language of revolution, but unlike them, he envisioned a religious revolution. And the progressives — many of whom were to be exiled or put to death under Khomeini — failed to understand the power of religion.

Much the same can be said about today’s progressive Catholics who see nothing but blue skies on the Islamic horizon. They fail to see that Islam is a very different religion from Catholicism. And like the Iranian progressives of four decades ago, they are too naïve to see the writing on the wall — in this case, the persecution of millions of Christians in the name of Islam.

Although not intended as such, Black Wave should serve as a wake-up call to all those blue skies Catholics who worry more about the threat of “Islamophobia” than the reality of Christian genocide.

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EDITOR'S COMMENT:  Evil is accelerating and the Anti-Christ forces are gaining power in the world.  When the persecution starts, all Christian web sites on the internet will be forced to close.  Be sure to have in your possession all the following items: the Bayside Prophecy books, Bayside Medals, Douay-Rheims Bibles, the Home and Personal Protection Packets, Candles, Sacramentals, and Religious Books.  Purchase these items now while they are still available!  You will urgently need them in the days ahead.  Also, you can print out all PDF files for the Directives from Heaven and all of the Bayside Prophecies.  Copy Our Lady's messages and the Directives from Heaven now while they are still available!  Pray to the Holy Spirit for wisdom and guidance on how to prepare now and for the days ahead when the Antichrist is revealed.  Viva Cristo Rey!

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PERSECUTION WILL REIGN IN THE CHURCH
“Michael is the guardian of My Son's House. Michael will be entered into My Son's House, or your country will fall. The doors will shut. Persecution will reign in the House of My Son, and all that is rotten will fall.
     "Pray much, My child. Pray a constant vigilance of prayer, Rosaries of prayer throughout the world--link to link, bead to bead, soul to soul across your nation and the world. You are living now in the days of trial, and you will all be tested and receive your just reward from the Father." – Our Lady, May 22, 1974 

THE PERSECUTION WILL BE GREAT
"The persecution to all those who follow and defend My Son in truth, in the light, the persecution will be great. The masters of deceit, they are gathering like vultures to send into motion a conspiracy of evil that has been brought about because mankind has given himself to all manner of evil.
     "The time given by your prophets of old, the time of times is here. You will all, My children, wear your sacramentals in the battle, the days ahead. What was to happen in the future shall be now. Your world will be baptized by fire. Many will die in the great flame of the Ball of Redemption.” – Our Lady, May 26, 1976 

MANY SHALL REJECT OUR LADY’S MESSAGE
"We know the trial ahead for all who seek to bring the truth to mankind for My Mother. Many shall reject Her message, and many of Our children of the light will receive great persecution as they seek to bring the Message from Heaven to their brothers and sisters.
     "There will be many thorns among the roses, but at the end of your road, My children, there is a special crown waiting for you." – Jesus, June 5, 1975 

MANY GREAT SAINTS SHALL RISE
"Awaken now from your slumber and seek your return from your course of destruction by getting down upon your knees and praying in heartfelt, sincere prayer to the Eternal Father, to guide you back from your present road of destruction.
     "Your countrymen have sought to silence the voice of My Mother throughout your world. You will not continue to silence the voice-boxes throughout the world, for you are sowing the seeds of your own destruction!
     "Amen, amen, I say to you: unless mankind returns God the Eternal Father to his life, he will not have the years of two hands to count upon!
     "The present generation, My child, shall pass through this crucible of suffering. Many great saints shall rise from this persecution.” – Jesus, June 5, 1975 

THE CANDLES UPON EARTH
"As it was in the time of Noe, as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it be upon your earth. Man shall be permitted to fall fast into the abyss. Why? Because he has hardened his heart and closed his ears to the truth. He has given himself to all manners of pleasures of the flesh. Sin has become a way of life in your country and in the countries throughout your earth.
     "The children of God, the candles upon earth, My child, shall suffer much persecution from the agents of darkness.” – Jesus, December 31, 1975 

WASHED CLEAN
"The saints and those who were washed clean by the blood of martyrdom, they join all in Heaven crying for vengeance against deceitful mankind and the abominations that offend the Eternal Father--abominations in the House of God!" - St. Michael, September 13, 1974

IN THE FEW
"Many martyrs, My child, shall come in the days ahead, and defenders of the Faith. Carry your crosses, My children, for those who will be saved shall be in the few." - Jesus, November 20, 1975

IMMEDIATE ENTRANCE
"My children, are there so few who will suffer for the Faith? Are My children lost to the need for suffering and martyrdom for the Faith? Do you not understand, My children, that martyrdom means immediate entrance into Heaven. Is this not worth fighting for?" - Our Lady, November 20, 1978

MANY GREAT SAINTS SHALL RISE
"Awaken now from your slumber and seek your return from your course of destruction by getting down upon your knees and praying in heartfelt, sincere prayer to the Eternal Father, to guide you back from your present road of destruction.
     "Your countrymen have sought to silence the voice of My Mother throughout your world. You will not continue to silence the voice-boxes throughout the world, for you are sowing the seeds of your own destruction!
     "Amen, amen, I say to you: unless mankind returns God the Eternal Father to his life, he will not have the years of two hands to count upon!
     "The present generation, My child, shall pass through this crucible of suffering. Many great saints shall rise from this persecution.” – Jesus, June 5, 1975 

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EDITOR'S COMMENT:  Evil is accelerating and the Anti-Christ forces are gaining power in the world.  When the persecution starts, all Christian web sites on the internet will be forced to close.  Be sure to have in your possession all the following items: the Bayside Prophecy books, Bayside Medals, Douay-Rheims Bibles, the Protection Packets, Candles, Sacramentals, and Religious Books.  Purchase these items now while they are still available!  You will urgently need them in the days ahead.  Also, you can print out all PDF files for the Directives from Heaven and all of the Bayside Prophecies.  Copy Our Lady's messages and the Directives from Heaven now while they are still available!  Pray to the Holy Spirit for wisdom and guidance on how to prepare now and for the days ahead when the Antichrist is revealed.  Viva Cristo Rey!

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A great obligation to go forward... "It is not by accident that you are called by My Mother, for it is by merit and the prayers that have risen to Heaven for your salvation.  For those who have received the grace to hear the Message from Heaven, you have a great obligation to go forward and bring this Message to your brothers and sisters.  Do not expect a rest upon your earth, for you will have eternal rest very soon." - Jesus, June 12, 1976

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