shoebat--2020-07-22--Planned Parenthood Removes Name “Margaret Sanger” For Her Racism And Eugenic Beliefs

We are seeing some consistency in the wave of Left-wing iconoclasm , as the New York chapter of Planned Parenthood has decided to remove the name of Margaret Sanger due to her racist and eugenist past .
As we read in the Hill : Planned Parenthood of Greater New York ( PPGNY ) announced Tuesday that it will remove the name of Margaret Sanger , who founded the national organization , because of her racist legacy and her connections to the eugenics movement .
Planned Parenthood ’ s Manhattan Margaret Sanger Health Center will be renamed , and city officials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sanger Square .
The organization said the new name would be announced soon .
Sanger , who was a nurse , established the first birth control clinic in the U.S. , which would eventually become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America .
PPGNY said the decision came out of “ a public commitment to reckon with its founder ’ s harmful connections to the eugenics movement.
” Eugenics is a discredited , racist theory that states the human race can be “ improved ” through selective breeding of those with “ desirable ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people , people of color , those with disabilities and other marginalized groups .
With this , I would like to take the opportunity to address the reality that while the Left does have eugenics , let us be weary of the eugenic movement within Right-wing circles… In the world of the anti-immigration industry , there are two sides : the ones that profit and the ones that influence .
On one part of the spectrum you have the private prison industry that profits off of illegal immigration and actually wants non-violent aliens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( as opposed to being deported ) so as to get funds from the government .
And then on the other side of the coin you have the immigration fixated think-tanks like Federation for American Immigration Reform ( FAIR ) and the Center for Security Policy .
The biggest private prison company that is profiting greatly out of illegal immigration is CoreCivic , and what is fascinating is that one of its biggest shareholders is the Bank of New York Mellon , founded by the wealthy Mellon family .
The principle heir of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Richard Mellon Scaife who is the financial father for numerous Right-wing organizations like the Center for Security Policy which is tied to the former CIA head , William Casey , who was instrumental behind the arming of Islamists to fight off the Soviets .
In the circle of the anti-immigration industry one finds the profiteers and the instigators .
The instigators influence the masses to focus on the propaganda that states that America is getting “ invaded ” by immigrants and migrants .
Meanwhile , you have the profiteers who make hundreds of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of detaining migrants .
While the undocumented are kept in detention , the masses cheer at such a sight — thinking that their country is being protected , even if the detainees are non-violent — while the private prison system fills their pockets .
You have the instigators who will exaggerate the situation of immigration and make it as though it is an “ invasion.
” The one who exaggerates national security issues for the purpose of pushing an agenda is of the spirit of antichrist .
How did they crucify Christ ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ issue .
The Jews told Pilate : “ If you let this Man go , you are not Caesar ’ s friend .
Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.
” ( John 19:12 ) They presented Jesus as a terrorist , an enemy of the state .
They presented Christ as a national security issue , and innocent blood was shed .
This spirit of instigation thrives off of exaggerations .
For example , when the lobbyist for war were pushing for the invasion of Iraq , they made the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Weizman Shiry said : “ If the Americans do not do this now [ remove Saddam ] , it will be harder to do it in the future .
In a year or two , Saddam Hussein will be further along in developing weapons of mass destruction.
” However , eventually , the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Israeli Knesset released separate statements admitting that the “ intelligence ” coming from both Israel and the United States was false ( see Mearsheimer , the Israeli Lobby , pp @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The pushers of exaggerations for the purpose of propaganda had their way .
They exaggerated a national security issue , and countless lives were lost on account of US policy in Iraq .
You see this spirit in the discourse occurring on immigration .
Are there problems ?
Yes .
Are there dangers coming from narcos and gangs ?
Absolutely .
But is this an invasion ?
No .
Is the person who comes here and works in labors that most Americans do not want to do an invader ?
No .
What @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wants undocumented migrants in detention centers , and does not even want them to be deported but to remain in the United States so to maintain the flow of exorbitant government funds .
California had 1,300 inmates in the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility , which is ran by major private prison industry , CoreCivic .
In 2018 , the state of California decided to pull these inmates out of Tallahatchie as part of its effort to end its use of out-of-state prisons .
CoreCivic needed inmates to fill in the empty cells , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ICE to obtain east replacements : the undocumented .
If CoreCivic loses inmates , it needs replacements and the undocumented make for easy fillings into their institutions .
A good example of this is what took place in 2009 in the states of Georgia and Alabama .
In Irwin County in Georgia , the privately ran prison , Irwin Detention Center — which was the county ’ s top employer — was dealing with a dwindling prison population and needed more inmates .
The county collaborated with the Irwin Detention Center and contacted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Georgia to be detained .
As a report from the Nation stated : “ even as Georgia and Alabama passed harsh new immigration laws last year designed to keep out undocumented immigrants … politicians from both states were lobbying hard to bring immigrant detainees in .
ICE succumbed to the pressure , sending hundreds of detainees to the financially unstable facility in Georgia that promised to detain immigrants cheaply.
” In fact , Immigration and Customs Enforcement ’ s ( ICE ) Detention and Removal Operations ( DRO ) has a quota for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ want to stay in the country as detainees .
In early 2010 , James Chaparro , director of ICE Detention and Removal Operations , produced an internal memo ( which was later obtained by the Washington Post ) , remarking that too many non-criminal aliens were being sent back and not enough — that is , not within the desired quota — were being made to stay in detention facilities .
Chaparro wrote : So , they actually want these undocumented people in these detention centers .
Chaparro pushed field agents to boost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ facilities to 32,600 and [ i ] ncrease the number of Tier One Non-Criminal Fugitive alien arrests along with Tier Two arrests .
Re-entry/Reinstatement in every field office.
” Chaparro also suggested that each office go through thirty to sixty noncriminal cases per day in a “ surge ” to meet deportation quotas .
So there is a quota for detentions and deportations for noncriminal aliens .
This explains why ICE — in five ICE field offices in Detroit , El Paso , Los Angeles , Newark and Philadelphia — was detaining people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that have been ruled against by a federal judge , James Boasberg , as we reads in NPR : They want people , even people who aren ’ t violent , to be detained , and ICE makes deals with private prisons to fill their cells with undocumented migrants because it means big profits .
According to a Daily Beast investigation , for-profit immigration detention was a nearly $ 1 billion industry in the year 2018 alone .
GEO Group , another major private prison industry , is expecting to make $ 2.3 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ estimated $ 807 million in fiscal year 2018 to 19 privately owned or operated detention centers .
In November of 2017 , 71 % of all detainees were held in 33 private prisons .
Money contracts being dealt between the government and the for-profit prison companies are kept in the realm of the unknown .
Mary Small of the Detention Watch Network remarks : The two largest private prison systems , CoreCivic and Geo Group , enjoyed an increase in the value of their shares in 2018 after ICE announced that it would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump administration ’ s decision to detain migrant families .
It is no wonder that Trump ’ s campaign was bankrolled by both CivicCore and Geo Group , as we read in a report published by the Hill : According to the Daily Beast , GEO gave $ 281,360 to Trump ’ s campaign .
Between 2002 and 2012 , private prison companies spent $ 45 million for lobbyists to back them up , and for campaigns for politicians that they wanted to advance .
The Corrections Corporation of America admitted that their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state .
As the Corrections Corporation of America told its shareholders : “ Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to develop and manage new correctional and detention facilities … any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested , convicted , and sentenced , thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them.
” What is fascinating is the financial relation between CoreCivic and the Bank of New York Mellon Corp , which is a major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ started by the very wealthy Mellon family a principle heir of whom was Richard Mellon Scaife , the financial father of many Right-wing think-tanks and outlets who was a close supporter of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood .
According to a recent financial report : A principle heir to the Mellon banking , oil , and aluminum fortune was Richard Mellon Scaife , a financial father of numerous right wing organizations and one of the patriarchs of the Counter-Jihad movement which has , for years , been using the subject of immigration as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eugenics .
Mellon Scaife bankrolled the Sarah Scaife Foundation , which has been backing both the Counter-Jihad and eugenic ideas .
Robert Spencer ’ s Jihad Watch is ran by the David Horowitz Freedom Center , led by David Horowitz .
There is a financial report that shows that the David Horowitz Freedom Center received over a quarter of a million dollars from the eugenist organization , the Sarah Scaife Foundation .
Scaife also served as the vice-chairman for the Heritage Foundation where Robert Spencer began his career as a counter-jihadist .
Scaife @ @ @ @ @ @ @ donated millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion organizations .
What this proves is that a eugenist Nazi was the financier behind these think-tanks , and by this , behind the institutions that would direct the formation of the Counterjihad .
In 2011 , Scaife wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal entitled : “ Why Conservatives Should Oppose Efforts To Defund Planned Parenthood ” , in which he recounts how he met Margaret Sanger , a major eugenist and anti-Catholic who founded Planned Parenthood to slaughter Blacks , Italians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Scaife wrote : Scaife was a major donor to Project Prevention , an American organization that pays drug addicts to get sterilized .
According to a 2010 report , which reveals that Scaife was a major donor to this eugenist organization , 3,500 Americans agreed to be sterilized in exchange for money .
Such actions are not done to truly fight drug addiction : its to desensitize us to the idea of sterilization .
Cordelia Scaife May , Richard Mellon Scaife ’ s sister , inherited her brother ’ s fortunes and continued @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1983 and 1989 , Cordelia donated $ 5,800,000 to Federation for American Immigration Reform ( FAIR ) ( See Juan F. Perea , Immigrants Out !
, p.123 ) a major eugenist organization founded and ran by the anti-immigration Darwinist John Tanton , who is also a big supporter of Planned Parenthood and even founded a Planned Parenthood chapter .
In 1997 , Tanton told the press that “ the United States should make greater efforts to encourage population control.
” According to the AP , Mellon Scaife was “ the billionaire heir @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” .
Mellon Scaife also financially backed the founding of major neoconservative groups like the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Security Policy .
The entire Counterjihad movement and the neoconservative network has its root — to some extent or another — in Richard Mellon Scaife .
So central was Mellon Scaife ’ s financial role in the creation of these groups , that Frank Gaffney , the head of the Center for Security Policy , once wrote : The Center for Security Policy is also linked with the former CIA director @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a new branch of the Center for Security Policy called the William J. Casey Institute , was established .
In an article on the institute , Frank Gaffney writes that it “ was formally launched on 13 March 1996 with the mission of exploring the nexus between international financial , energy , trade and technology flows and traditional U.S. national security policy concerns.
” Gaffney goes on to write that the “ national stature ” of the William Casey Institute “ has been achieved in no small measure thanks to the Institute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Roger W. Robinson , Jr. ” Gaffney further recounts that Robinson was “ Senior Director of International Economic Affairs at the National Security Council , where he worked closely with Bill Casey in formulating the policies that helped destroy the Soviet Union.
” Gaffney then writes about how , “ Prior to his government service , Mr. Robinson was a Vice President in the International Department of the Chase Manhattan Bank with responsibility for the Bank ’ s loan portfolios in the former Soviet Union , Eastern and Central Europe and Yugoslavia.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There are dozens of pieces of correspondence between Roger Robinson and the CIA that been opened for the public to read .
The communications pertain to a range of issues , from restraining Soviet Banks in the US to Japanese commerce .
In one piece of communication from 1986 , the director of the CIA at the time , William J. Casey , received a note from his secretary , saying : The attachment contained an article written by Robinson and published by the Washington Post , pushing for the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US .
This correspondence was made in 1986 , a time when Operation Gladio was still being conducted , before it was supposedly disbanded in 1990 .
In 1986 Roger Robinson and Norman A. Bailey wrote a letter to the Director of the CIA , William Casey , asking for support to form an organization called “ Center for the Study of Economic Security ” as a means to combat Soviet advancements in Western economies .
In one part of the letter it says : The Acting Director of the CIA , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ letter back to Robinson and Bailey , stating that while the Intelligence Agency was sought “ to counter Soviet subversive inroads ” , the CIA could not directly fund their operations until the center was established : Robinson and Bailey wrote a reply affirming that they never asked for direct funds , rather , they were asking for funds through a third party , someone who could finance their operations without any obvious indications of CIA interests .
In one part of the letter it says : The Director of the CIA at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worked directly with Roger Robinson to form the William J. Casey Institute branch of the Center for Security Policy .
In accordance to the initial plan discussed in the correspondence between Robinson and the CIA , the Center for Security Policy and its William J. Casey branch was to be focused on the economic advancements of the Soviet Union .
Gaffney wrote in a report : Gaffney , later in the report , wrote on the collaboration between CIA Director Casey and Roger Robinson : This was the same Casey who pushed for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroy the Soviet Union.
” When following the policy desired by Zbigniew Brzezinski and his ilk , the Americans used a major bank in Pakistan , BCCI ( Bank of Credit and Commerce International ) , as a conduit to funnel money to the Afghan Mujahideen .
One New York Times report states that the former head of the CIA , William Casey , “ found the bank quite handy in supplying the Afghan rebels with weapons at a time when American involvement had to be kept sub rosa.
” In 1991 two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wrote an article for TIME entitled , B.C.C.I : The Dirtiest Bank of All , in which they reported on “ a clandestine division of the bank called the ‘ black network , ’ which functions as a global intelligence operation and a mafia-like enforcement squad.
” The two journalists also wrote on how “ Casey began to use the outside — the Saudis , the Pakistanis , BCCI — to run what they couldn ’ t get through Congress.
” Just like in Operation Gladio — in which the CIA worked with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ force — , the CIA and other US operatives backed and armed Islamic Mujahideen fighters to destabilize the Soviet Union .
William Casey did not want to keep Mujahideen fighters limited to Afghanistan , but wanted to spread them right into the Soviet Union itself .
As journalist Steve Cole wrote : “ Casey startled his Pakistani hosts by proposing that they take the Afghan war into enemy territory — into the Soviet Union itself .
…Pakistani intelligence officers — partly inspired by Casey — began independently to train Afghans and funnel CIA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , factories and storage depots within Soviet territory.
” Casey and secret service operatives wanted to intensify violent Islamization within Muslim regions of the Soviet Union .
As Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid writes : “ In 1986 the secret services of the United States , Great Britain , and Pakistan agreed on a plan to launch guerrilla attacks into Tajikistan and Uzbekistan .
Afghan Mujahideen units crossed the Amu Darya River in March 1987 and launched rocket attacks against villages in Tajikistan .
Meanwhile , hundreds of Uzbek and Tajiik Muslims clandestinely travelled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in madrassahs or to train as guerrilla fighters so that they could join the Mujahedeen .
This was part of a wider U.S. , Pakistani , and Saudi plan to recruit radical Muslims from around the world to fight with the Afghans .
Between 1982 and 1992 thirty-five thousand Muslim radicals from forty-three Islamic countries fought for the Mujahedeen.
” Under the guidance of William Casey , the CIA began to print and distribute Qurans translated to the Uzbek language , with the hopes of sparking jihadist frenzy against the Soviet Union .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Black Banners , p. 28 ) So the movement of the “ Counterjihad ” — the movement that presents itself as a bulwark against Islamization — is linked with the CIA which was backing the very Islamists who the Counterjihad claim to be fighting .
These layers of movements and activities , with think-tanks and operations , work in a sinister collaboration , with operations backing the Muslims , and deception being done to the masses to have them think that they are ‘ serving their country ’ by fixating on the very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Its a circle moving from governmental entities creating a monster and then making propaganda to get the masses to fixate on the monster and put their trust on the very machine that made the monster .
Mellon Scaife , by his financial support for the Center Security Policy , was part of this circle .
The man who inherited the wealth of the Mellon banking empire was also the financial patriarch of much of the neoconservative and immigration fixated movement .
This fixation on immigration for eugenist ideas is reflected in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ praised a modern day American nazi , Jared Taylor , and although he boasts about being “ pro-Israel , ” he acted as the sycophant that he is for this agent of the very eugenist beliefs under which the Jews were slaughtered .
On his radio show , Frank Gaffney introduced Talyor by praising his website , American Renaissance , which is filled with the promotion of eugenics and racism .
Gaffney said : This is the same Jared Taylor who advocates for “ embryo selection , ” which is the process of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on its genetic makeup ) over numerous others , and destroying the rest .
Jared Taylor advocates for this process in his belief that it would produce a superior race , saying : What is revealing is that Frank Gaffney works directly with Federation for American Immigration Reform ( FAIR ) , broadcasting his radio show from their building .
FAIR is interconnected with the eugenist Population Council .
On the official website for FAIR it lists one Sarah G. Epstein as one of its Board of Directors and describes her resume as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigration focused organizations in the United States , is connected with Planned Parenthood through Sarah Epstein and its founder John Tanton .
According to one report , Tanton “ organized the Planned Parenthood chapter in Petoskey , Michigan.
” Tanton ’ s organization , NumbersUSA , is funded by Peter Thiel , the German Silicon Valley billionaire who is a huge eugenist and is revered by big American Right-wing media outlets from PJ Media to Frontpage Magazine to Breitbart .
Looking at the whole movement that is viciously focused on immigration , one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ situation of the border to back eugenics and Darwinist thought .
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By Theodore Shoebat
We are seeing some consistency in the wave of Left-wing iconoclasm, as the New York chapter of Planned Parenthood has decided to remove the name of Margaret Sanger due to her racist and eugenist past. As we read in the Hill:
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) announced Tuesday that it will remove the name of Margaret Sanger, who founded the national organization, because of her racist legacy and her connections to the eugenics movement. Planned Parenthood’s Manhattan Margaret Sanger Health Center will be renamed, and city officials are working to rename the nearby Margaret Sanger Square. The organization said the new name would be announced soon. Sanger, who was a nurse, established the first birth control clinic in the U.S., which would eventually become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. PPGNY said the decision came out of “a public commitment to reckon with its founder’s harmful connections to the eugenics movement.” Eugenics is a discredited, racist theory that states the human race can be “improved” through selective breeding of those with “desirable” traits. The theory often targeted poor people, people of color, those with disabilities and other marginalized groups.
With this, I would like to take the opportunity to address the reality that while the Left does have eugenics, let us be weary of the eugenic movement within Right-wing circles…
In the world of the anti-immigration industry, there are two sides: the ones that profit and the ones that influence. On one part of the spectrum you have the private prison industry that profits off of illegal immigration and actually wants non-violent aliens to be detained and remain in detention (as opposed to being deported) so as to get funds from the government. And then on the other side of the coin you have the immigration fixated think-tanks like Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the Center for Security Policy.
The biggest private prison company that is profiting greatly out of illegal immigration is CoreCivic, and what is fascinating is that one of its biggest shareholders is the Bank of New York Mellon, founded by the wealthy Mellon family. The principle heir of the Mellon family wealth was major eugenist Richard Mellon Scaife who is the financial father for numerous Right-wing organizations like the Center for Security Policy which is tied to the former CIA head, William Casey, who was instrumental behind the arming of Islamists to fight off the Soviets. In the circle of the anti-immigration industry one finds the profiteers and the instigators. The instigators influence the masses to focus on the propaganda that states that America is getting “invaded” by immigrants and migrants. Meanwhile, you have the profiteers who make hundreds of millions (and even billions) out of detaining migrants. While the undocumented are kept in detention, the masses cheer at such a sight — thinking that their country is being protected, even if the detainees are non-violent — while the private prison system fills their pockets.
You have the instigators who will exaggerate the situation of immigration and make it as though it is an “invasion.” The one who exaggerates national security issues for the purpose of pushing an agenda is of the spirit of antichrist. How did they crucify Christ? They made Christ into a national security issue. The Jews told Pilate: “If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar’s friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.” (John 19:12) They presented Jesus as a terrorist, an enemy of the state. They presented Christ as a national security issue, and innocent blood was shed. This spirit of instigation thrives off of exaggerations.
For example, when the lobbyist for war were pushing for the invasion of Iraq, they made the country look like the next Third Reich. The Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Weizman Shiry said: “If the Americans do not do this now [remove Saddam], it will be harder to do it in the future. In a year or two, Saddam Hussein will be further along in developing weapons of mass destruction.” However, eventually, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Israeli Knesset released separate statements admitting that the “intelligence” coming from both Israel and the United States was false (see Mearsheimer, the Israeli Lobby, pp. 235-236, brackets mine).
The pushers of exaggerations for the purpose of propaganda had their way. They exaggerated a national security issue, and countless lives were lost on account of US policy in Iraq.
You see this spirit in the discourse occurring on immigration. Are there problems? Yes. Are there dangers coming from narcos and gangs? Absolutely. But is this an invasion? No. Is the person who comes here and works in labors that most Americans do not want to do an invader? No.
What you do have is an industry that wants undocumented migrants in detention centers, and does not even want them to be deported but to remain in the United States so to maintain the flow of exorbitant government funds.
THE PRIVATE PRISON SYSTEM
California had 1,300 inmates in the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, which is ran by major private prison industry, CoreCivic. In 2018, the state of California decided to pull these inmates out of Tallahatchie as part of its effort to end its use of out-of-state prisons. CoreCivic needed inmates to fill in the empty cells, and in June of 2018 turned to ICE to obtain east replacements: the undocumented. If CoreCivic loses inmates, it needs replacements and the undocumented make for easy fillings into their institutions.
A good example of this is what took place in 2009 in the states of Georgia and Alabama. In Irwin County in Georgia, the privately ran prison, Irwin Detention Center — which was the county’s top employer — was dealing with a dwindling prison population and needed more inmates. The county collaborated with the Irwin Detention Center and contacted ICE asking them to send illegals to Georgia to be detained. As a report from the Nation stated: “even as Georgia and Alabama passed harsh new immigration laws last year designed to keep out undocumented immigrants … politicians from both states were lobbying hard to bring immigrant detainees in. ICE succumbed to the pressure, sending hundreds of detainees to the financially unstable facility in Georgia that promised to detain immigrants cheaply.”
In fact, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) has a quota for how many “non-criminal aliens” they want to stay in the country as detainees. In early 2010, James Chaparro, director of ICE Detention and Removal Operations, produced an internal memo (which was later obtained by the Washington Post), remarking that too many non-criminal aliens were being sent back and not enough — that is, not within the desired quota — were being made to stay in detention facilities. Chaparro wrote:
“As of February 15, 2010, DRO removed or returned 60,397 non-criminal aliens which is an average of 437 removals/returns per day. The current non-criminal removal rate projections will result in 159,740 removals at the close of the fiscal year. Coupling this with the projections in criminal removals only gives us a total of just over 310,000 overall removals — well under the agency’s goal of 400,000.”
So, they actually want these undocumented people in these detention centers. Chaparro pushed field agents to boost the average daily population of ICE detention facilities to 32,600 and [i]ncrease the number of Tier One Non-Criminal Fugitive alien arrests along with Tier Two arrests. Re-entry/Reinstatement in every field office.” Chaparro also suggested that each office go through thirty to sixty noncriminal cases per day in a “surge” to meet deportation quotas. So there is a quota for detentions and deportations for noncriminal aliens. This explains why ICE — in five ICE field offices in Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Newark and Philadelphia — was detaining people even after they claimed asylum, actions that have been ruled against by a federal judge, James Boasberg, as we reads in NPR:
In a legal setback for the Trump administration’s immigration policies, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that the government may not arbitrarily detain people seeking asylum. The ruling comes in a case challenging the administration’s policy of detaining people even after they have passed a credible fear interview and await a hearing on their asylum claim. … As a result, Judge Boasberg ordered the government to conduct case-by-case reviews of more than a thousand other asylum-seekers who have been denied release by those five ICE field offices.”
They want people, even people who aren’t violent, to be detained, and ICE makes deals with private prisons to fill their cells with undocumented migrants because it means big profits. According to a Daily Beast investigation, for-profit immigration detention was a nearly $1 billion industry in the year 2018 alone. GEO Group, another major private prison industry, is expecting to make $2.3 billion in 2019. ICE paid an estimated $807 million in fiscal year 2018 to 19 privately owned or operated detention centers. In November of 2017, 71% of all detainees were held in 33 private prisons. Money contracts being dealt between the government and the for-profit prison companies are kept in the realm of the unknown. Mary Small of the Detention Watch Network remarks:
“Even though billions of taxpayer dollars are being obligated to private prison companies, the contracts between them and the federal government aren’t publicly available, so we don’t know how much these companies are being paid, how many people they’re holding or how long their contracts last … This culture of secrecy—bolstered by revolving door politics and political contributions—have paved the way for a rapid and reckless expansion of the detention system.”
The two largest private prison systems, CoreCivic and Geo Group, enjoyed an increase in the value of their shares in 2018 after ICE announced that it would have 15,000 new beds subsequent to the Trump administration’s decision to detain migrant families. It is no wonder that Trump’s campaign was bankrolled by both CivicCore and Geo Group, as we read in a report published by the Hill:
“President Trump’s plan to establish more detention centers for undocumented immigrants will give a boost to private prison companies that backed Trump’s presidential campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. CoreCivic and Geo Group both saw their shares spike last month after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it will likely add 15,000 new beds for families after Trump’s executive order to detain undocumented immigrant families together, according to the newspaper. … Both companies have relied on ICE for a significant chuck of their revenue in recent years, according to the Journal, which reported that the agency made up a quarter of CoreCivic’s revenue last year, up from 13 percent a decade earlier. Geo Group experienced a similar rise, with ICE making up 24 percent of its recent from 10 percent in 2007. Each of the companies donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration, and Geo Group last year held a leadership conference at one of Trump’s golf resorts in Florida.”
According to the Daily Beast, GEO gave $281,360 to Trump’s campaign. Between 2002 and 2012, private prison companies spent $45 million for lobbyists to back them up, and for campaigns for politicians that they wanted to advance. The Corrections Corporation of America admitted that their existence is dependent on contracts with the state. As the Corrections Corporation of America told its shareholders: “Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to develop and manage new correctional and detention facilities … any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted, and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them.”
THE ANTI-IMMIGRATION MOVEMENT
What is fascinating is the financial relation between CoreCivic and the Bank of New York Mellon Corp, which is a major shareholder of the private prison and was started by the very wealthy Mellon family a principle heir of whom was Richard Mellon Scaife, the financial father of many Right-wing think-tanks and outlets who was a close supporter of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood. According to a recent financial report:
“Bank of New York Mellon Corp raised its stake in Corecivic Inc (NYSE:CXW) by 3.2% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 3,628,022 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 113,046 shares during the period. Bank of New York Mellon Corp owned approximately 3.06% of Corecivic worth $88,269,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.”
A principle heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune was Richard Mellon Scaife, a financial father of numerous right wing organizations and one of the patriarchs of the Counter-Jihad movement which has, for years, been using the subject of immigration as a way to promote nationalism and even eugenics. Mellon Scaife bankrolled the Sarah Scaife Foundation, which has been backing both the Counter-Jihad and eugenic ideas. Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch is ran by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, led by David Horowitz. There is a financial report that shows that the David Horowitz Freedom Center received over a quarter of a million dollars from the eugenist organization, the Sarah Scaife Foundation.
Scaife also served as the vice-chairman for the Heritage Foundation where Robert Spencer began his career as a counter-jihadist. Scaife, while supporting the Heritage Foundation, donated millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion organizations. What this proves is that a eugenist Nazi was the financier behind these think-tanks, and by this, behind the institutions that would direct the formation of the Counterjihad.
In 2011, Scaife wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal entitled: “Why Conservatives Should Oppose Efforts To Defund Planned Parenthood”, in which he recounts how he met Margaret Sanger, a major eugenist and anti-Catholic who founded Planned Parenthood to slaughter Blacks, Italians and other non-Anglo races through abortion. Scaife wrote:
“I met Sanger several times before her death in 1966 and was impressed by her intellect and her commitment to many issues, not the least of which was enabling every woman to be ‘the absolute mistress of her own body,’ as she put it.”
Scaife was a major donor to Project Prevention, an American organization that pays drug addicts to get sterilized. According to a 2010 report, which reveals that Scaife was a major donor to this eugenist organization, 3,500 Americans agreed to be sterilized in exchange for money. Such actions are not done to truly fight drug addiction: its to desensitize us to the idea of sterilization.
Cordelia Scaife May, Richard Mellon Scaife’s sister, inherited her brother’s fortunes and continued funding the eugenist cause. In between 1983 and 1989, Cordelia donated $5,800,000 to Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) (See Juan F. Perea, Immigrants Out!, p.123) a major eugenist organization founded and ran by the anti-immigration Darwinist John Tanton, who is also a big supporter of Planned Parenthood and even founded a Planned Parenthood chapter. In 1997, Tanton told the press that “the United States should make greater efforts to encourage population control.” According to the AP, Mellon Scaife was “the billionaire heir to the Mellon banking and oil fortune”.
Mellon Scaife also financially backed the founding of major neoconservative groups like the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Security Policy. The entire Counterjihad movement and the neoconservative network has its root — to some extent or another — in Richard Mellon Scaife. So central was Mellon Scaife’s financial role in the creation of these groups, that Frank Gaffney, the head of the Center for Security Policy, once wrote:
“Those policy research organizations – including the Heritage Foundation, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the American Enterprise Institute, and my own Center for Security Policy – would almost certainly not have come into being, let alone made the sort of contribution they have to public policy, had it not been for the visionary and sustained support of Scaife-sponsored foundations. … Over the past twenty-six years, I had the privilege of interacting with Dick Scaife on a number of occasions. There was nothing he enjoyed more than “blue-sky” conversations, in which the exchange of ideas and the development of initiatives to operationalize them would be discussed. He and his dedicated foundation staff would then set about helping to actualize such plans. The rest, as they say, is history.”
The Center for Security Policy is also linked with the former CIA director, William Casey.
In the 1990s, a new branch of the Center for Security Policy called the William J. Casey Institute, was established. In an article on the institute, Frank Gaffney writes that it “was formally launched on 13 March 1996 with the mission of exploring the nexus between international financial, energy, trade and technology flows and traditional U.S. national security policy concerns.”
Gaffney goes on to write that the “national stature” of the William Casey Institute “has been achieved in no small measure thanks to the Institute’s former Chairman, Hon. Roger W. Robinson, Jr.” Gaffney further recounts that Robinson was “Senior Director of International Economic Affairs at the National Security Council, where he worked closely with Bill Casey in formulating the policies that helped destroy the Soviet Union.” Gaffney then writes about how, “Prior to his government service, Mr. Robinson was a Vice President in the International Department of the Chase Manhattan Bank with responsibility for the Bank’s loan portfolios in the former Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe and Yugoslavia.”
Robinson was in deep with the CIA. There are dozens of pieces of correspondence between Roger Robinson and the CIA that been opened for the public to read. The communications pertain to a range of issues, from restraining Soviet Banks in the US to Japanese commerce. In one piece of communication from 1986, the director of the CIA at the time, William J. Casey, received a note from his secretary, saying:
“Roger Robinson called, just back from two weeks in Japan. He wanted to be sure you saw his article in the 22 June WASHINGTON POST which is attached, and the reaction to it from today’s WASHINGTON POST.”
The attachment contained an article written by Robinson and published by the Washington Post, pushing for the United States to set impediments on Soviet banks in the US.
This correspondence was made in 1986, a time when Operation Gladio was still being conducted, before it was supposedly disbanded in 1990. In 1986 Roger Robinson and Norman A. Bailey wrote a letter to the Director of the CIA, William Casey, asking for support to form an organization called “Center for the Study of Economic Security” as a means to combat Soviet advancements in Western economies. In one part of the letter it says:
“We believe that in order to perpetuate this work and consolidate progress, it would be advisable to consider the establishment of a prestigious institute or center outside of government dedicated to the study of international economic security. This new field is in its infancy but already includes such crucial issues as the Soviet strategy to dominate West European gas markets, the security dimensions of the international debt crisis, and the strategy implications of East-West finance.”
The Acting Director of the CIA, Robert M. Bates, wrote a response letter back to Robinson and Bailey, stating that while the Intelligence Agency was sought “to counter Soviet subversive inroads”, the CIA could not directly fund their operations until the center was established:
“While the Director heartily endorses the ideas behind the creation of a Center for the Study of Economic Security, he feels that it would be inappropriate for Agency officials to get personally involved. As for Agency funding of your proposed Center, such financial involvement is precluded by Agency policy based on the Katzenbach Commission Report. Once the Center is operational, of course, we would be pleased to discuss the possibility of funding individual research projects or papers.”
Robinson and Bailey wrote a reply affirming that they never asked for direct funds, rather, they were asking for funds through a third party, someone who could finance their operations without any obvious indications of CIA interests. In one part of the letter it says:
“We rather had in mind talking informally and unofficially with Bill about his personal idea concerning possibly private sector contacts with a potential interest in participating in the funding of such an undertaking. In addition, we wanted to extend an invitation to Bill to assume any role he might deem indicated in such an organization, should it materialize — but only after the conclusion of his distinguished government service.”
The Director of the CIA at this time, William J. Casey, worked directly with Roger Robinson to form the William J. Casey Institute branch of the Center for Security Policy.
In accordance to the initial plan discussed in the correspondence between Robinson and the CIA, the Center for Security Policy and its William J. Casey branch was to be focused on the economic advancements of the Soviet Union. Gaffney wrote in a report:
“The William J. Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy was formally launched on 13 March 1996 with the mission of exploring the nexus between international financial, energy, trade and technology flows and traditional U.S. national security policy concerns. … In his capacity as CIA Director, in particular, Mr. Casey was at the forefront of constructing a more security-minded U.S. policy with regard to economic, financial and energy relations with potential adversaries like the former Soviet Union and China.”
Gaffney, later in the report, wrote on the collaboration between CIA Director Casey and Roger Robinson:
“Within four years of its inception the Casey Institute had become an influential voice in the public policy community. This national stature has been achieved in no small measure thanks to the Institute’s former Chairman, Hon. Roger W. Robinson, Jr. Mr. Robinson’s background was ideally suited to establishing the Institute: During the Reagan Administration he served as Senior Director of International Economic Affairs at the National Security Council, where he worked closely with Bill Casey in formulating the policies that helped destroy the Soviet Union.”
This was the same Casey who pushed for the arming of Islamic terrorists to “destroy the Soviet Union.” When following the policy desired by Zbigniew Brzezinski and his ilk, the Americans used a major bank in Pakistan, BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International), as a conduit to funnel money to the Afghan Mujahideen. One New York Times report states that the former head of the CIA, William Casey, “found the bank quite handy in supplying the Afghan rebels with weapons at a time when American involvement had to be kept sub rosa.” In 1991 two journalists, Jonathan Beaty and SC Gwynne wrote an article for TIME entitled, B.C.C.I: The Dirtiest Bank of All, in which they reported on “a clandestine division of the bank called the ‘black network,’ which functions as a global intelligence operation and a mafia-like enforcement squad.” The two journalists also wrote on how “Casey began to use the outside — the Saudis, the Pakistanis, BCCI — to run what they couldn’t get through Congress.”
Just like in Operation Gladio — in which the CIA worked with European Nazis to create an anti-Soviet paramilitary force —, the CIA and other US operatives backed and armed Islamic Mujahideen fighters to destabilize the Soviet Union. William Casey did not want to keep Mujahideen fighters limited to Afghanistan, but wanted to spread them right into the Soviet Union itself. As journalist Steve Cole wrote: “Casey startled his Pakistani hosts by proposing that they take the Afghan war into enemy territory — into the Soviet Union itself. …Pakistani intelligence officers — partly inspired by Casey — began independently to train Afghans and funnel CIA supplies for scattered strikes against military installations, factories and storage depots within Soviet territory.”
Casey and secret service operatives wanted to intensify violent Islamization within Muslim regions of the Soviet Union. As Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid writes: “In 1986 the secret services of the United States, Great Britain, and Pakistan agreed on a plan to launch guerrilla attacks into Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Afghan Mujahideen units crossed the Amu Darya River in March 1987 and launched rocket attacks against villages in Tajikistan. Meanwhile, hundreds of Uzbek and Tajiik Muslims clandestinely travelled to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to study in madrassahs or to train as guerrilla fighters so that they could join the Mujahedeen. This was part of a wider U.S., Pakistani, and Saudi plan to recruit radical Muslims from around the world to fight with the Afghans. Between 1982 and 1992 thirty-five thousand Muslim radicals from forty-three Islamic countries fought for the Mujahedeen.” Under the guidance of William Casey, the CIA began to print and distribute Qurans translated to the Uzbek language, with the hopes of sparking jihadist frenzy against the Soviet Union. (See Soufan and Freedman, The Black Banners, p. 28)
So the movement of the “Counterjihad” — the movement that presents itself as a bulwark against Islamization — is linked with the CIA which was backing the very Islamists who the Counterjihad claim to be fighting. These layers of movements and activities, with think-tanks and operations, work in a sinister collaboration, with operations backing the Muslims, and deception being done to the masses to have them think that they are ‘serving their country’ by fixating on the very enemy that their country helped to create. Its a circle moving from governmental entities creating a monster and then making propaganda to get the masses to fixate on the monster and put their trust on the very machine that made the monster.
Mellon Scaife, by his financial support for the Center Security Policy, was part of this circle. The man who inherited the wealth of the Mellon banking empire was also the financial patriarch of much of the neoconservative and immigration fixated movement. This fixation on immigration for eugenist ideas is reflected in the actions of Frank Gaffney.
Frank Gaffney praised a modern day American nazi, Jared Taylor, and although he boasts about being “pro-Israel,” he acted as the sycophant that he is for this agent of the very eugenist beliefs under which the Jews were slaughtered. On his radio show, Frank Gaffney introduced Talyor by praising his website, American Renaissance, which is filled with the promotion of eugenics and racism. Gaffney said:
“Jared Taylor joins us, I believe, for the first time. I’m very pleased to have him with us. He is the editor of a very wonderful online publication, American Renaissance.”
This is the same Jared Taylor who advocates for “embryo selection,” which is the process of “selecting” one embryo (based on its genetic makeup) over numerous others, and destroying the rest. Jared Taylor advocates for this process in his belief that it would produce a superior race, saying:
“I believe that an enlightened European people will begin to think in terms of improving itself genetically. I think there are positive eugenic steps that could be taken, embryo selection is one”
What is revealing is that Frank Gaffney works directly with Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), broadcasting his radio show from their building.
FAIR is interconnected with the eugenist Population Council. On the official website for FAIR it lists one Sarah G. Epstein as one of its Board of Directors and describes her resume as:
“Ms. Epstein is an art lecturer and volunteer. She serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including Pathfinder International, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, Center for Development and Population Activities and The Population Institute.”
FAIR, one of the biggest immigration focused organizations in the United States, is connected with Planned Parenthood through Sarah Epstein and its founder John Tanton. According to one report, Tanton “organized the Planned Parenthood chapter in Petoskey, Michigan.” Tanton’s organization, NumbersUSA, is funded by Peter Thiel, the German Silicon Valley billionaire who is a huge eugenist and is revered by big American Right-wing media outlets from PJ Media to Frontpage Magazine to Breitbart.
Looking at the whole movement that is viciously focused on immigration, one can how its circles are using the situation of the border to back eugenics and Darwinist thought.
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shoebat--2020-07-22--October 2019 German Synagogue Shooter Goes On Trial

In October 2019 , a man in Halle , Saxony-Anhalt made a video of himself attacking a synagogue on Yom Kippur as well as shooting random people with no clear purpose in mind .
Shoebat.com documented the act and provided an analysis of the crimes , which you can read here .
It has now been nine months later and the person who is accused of the crime , Stephan Balliet , has been now charged in German courts according to France24 .
A German man went on trial Tuesday for a Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue that is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the country ’ s post-war history .
The trial comes at a time when anti-Semitic crimes have reached their highest level since Germany started tracking such crimes in 2001 , amid an overall increase in right-wing extremist criminality .
Stephan Balliet , 28 , is alleged to have posted an anti-Semitic screed before carrying out the October 9 attack in the eastern German city of Halle .
He broadcast the shooting live on a popular gaming site .
The attacker tried but failed repeatedly to force his way into the synagogue as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he then shot and killed a 40-year-old woman in the street outside and a 20-year-old man at a nearby kebab shop as an “ appropriate target ” with immigrant roots .
Balliet is charged with 13 crimes including murder and attempted murder , along with bodily harm , incitement and other charges .
Forty-three victims and relatives have joined the trial as co-plaintiffs , as allowed under German law .
The start of the Magdeburg state court trial was delayed for two hours due to the intense interest from dozens of national and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for hours in front of the court building to get through security .
The suspect , clad in all black , with a blue face mask and shaved head , was taken to the court room by special forces with bullet-proof vests and covered faces .
Balliet was handcuffed and his feet were shackled , the German news agency dpa reported .
Igor Matviyets , a member of Halle ’ s Jewish community , who stood vigil with dozens of others outside the court building , said he worried the assault would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not as an attack on the entire society .
“ That is something I ’ m trying to fight against , ” Matviyets told The Associated Press .
“ Because everyone could become a target of far-right crime , of far-right terrorists.
” During his attack , Balliet was armed with eight firearms , several explosive devices , a helmet and a protective vest , according to the indictment .
Prosecutors have said the weapons were apparently homemade .
Following the attack , the suspect fled the city , wounding another two people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he abandoned his car and stole a taxi .
Balliet was arrested about 1½ hours after the attack as he got out of the taxi , which had been in an accident .
( source )

In October 2019, a man in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt made a video of himself attacking a synagogue on Yom Kippur as well as shooting random people with no clear purpose in mind. Shoebat.com documented the act and provided an analysis of the crimes, which you can read here.
It has now been nine months later and the person who is accused of the crime, Stephan Balliet, has been now charged in German courts according to France24.
A German man went on trial Tuesday for a Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue that is considered one of the worst anti-Semitic assaults in the country’s post-war history.
The trial comes at a time when anti-Semitic crimes have reached their highest level since Germany started tracking such crimes in 2001, amid an overall increase in right-wing extremist criminality.
Stephan Balliet, 28, is alleged to have posted an anti-Semitic screed before carrying out the October 9 attack in the eastern German city of Halle. He broadcast the shooting live on a popular gaming site.
The attacker tried but failed repeatedly to force his way into the synagogue as 52 worshippers were inside. Prosecutors allege he then shot and killed a 40-year-old woman in the street outside and a 20-year-old man at a nearby kebab shop as an “appropriate target” with immigrant roots.
Balliet is charged with 13 crimes including murder and attempted murder, along with bodily harm, incitement and other charges. Forty-three victims and relatives have joined the trial as co-plaintiffs, as allowed under German law.
The start of the Magdeburg state court trial was delayed for two hours due to the intense interest from dozens of national and international reporters and others who lined up for hours in front of the court building to get through security.
The suspect, clad in all black, with a blue face mask and shaved head, was taken to the court room by special forces with bullet-proof vests and covered faces. Balliet was handcuffed and his feet were shackled, the German news agency dpa reported.
Igor Matviyets, a member of Halle’s Jewish community, who stood vigil with dozens of others outside the court building, said he worried the assault would be considered a crime against Jews only and not as an attack on the entire society.
“That is something I’m trying to fight against,” Matviyets told The Associated Press. “Because everyone could become a target of far-right crime, of far-right terrorists.”
During his attack, Balliet was armed with eight firearms, several explosive devices, a helmet and a protective vest, according to the indictment. Prosecutors have said the weapons were apparently homemade.
Following the attack, the suspect fled the city, wounding another two people in a small town near Halle where he abandoned his car and stole a taxi. Balliet was arrested about 1½ hours after the attack as he got out of the taxi, which had been in an accident. (source)


shoebat--2020-07-22--Poll: Most Americans Don’t Believe They Need To Believe In God In Order To Be Good

All good comes from God , and without God man can not do anything good .
This is true even for the secular person or those of other religions , for while they may not know God in the formal sense , their lack of knowledge does not exonerate anyone from His rules .
In American society , there has always been a strong duality between the people in that there are those who believe in something of Christianity ( really a form of nationalism mixed with Christianity ) , and people who do not believe in religion but rather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a “ good person ” is just enough and there is no need for God .
As I have explained in previous articles , this is largely a product of the Protestant movement from Europe , where religion is ultimately reduced to an arm of the state that one does not need to be a good citizen or good person .
With the decline of religion , and since nature abhors a vacuum , secularism replacing it , it is not a surprise that most people in America now do not believe they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A majority of Americans do not believe they need God to be moral or have good values , but most with politically conservative leanings still do , according to a global survey by the Pew Research Center .
The nonpartisan polling firm recently published a survey that measures the connection between people ’ s beliefs about God and morality .
The survey , conducted between late June and early October 2019 , is based on responses from 38,426 people in 34 countries .
Meanwhile , 44 % of American respondents said they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moral and have good values.
” Respondents on the ideological right were found to be significantly more likely to say it is necessary to believe in God to be a moral person and have good values compared to those on the political left in 15 of the 34 countries surveyed .
The largest gap between the ideological right and left exists in the United States .
While only 24 % of American respondents who identified themselves as leaning more to the left politically said it is necessary to believe in God to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % of centrists agreed .
But when it comes to respondents who lean to the right politically , more than twice the percentage of those on the left ( 63 % ) agreed that it is necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values .
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All good comes from God, and without God man cannot do anything good. This is true even for the secular person or those of other religions, for while they may not know God in the formal sense, their lack of knowledge does not exonerate anyone from His rules.
In American society, there has always been a strong duality between the people in that there are those who believe in something of Christianity (really a form of nationalism mixed with Christianity), and people who do not believe in religion but rather a secularism where they think that being a “good person” is just enough and there is no need for God. As I have explained in previous articles, this is largely a product of the Protestant movement from Europe, where religion is ultimately reduced to an arm of the state that one does not need to be a good citizen or good person.
With the decline of religion, and since nature abhors a vacuum, secularism replacing it, it is not a surprise that most people in America now do not believe they need God in order to be good.
A majority of Americans do not believe they need God to be moral or have good values, but most with politically conservative leanings still do, according to a global survey by the Pew Research Center. The nonpartisan polling firm recently published a survey that measures the connection between people’s beliefs about God and morality. The survey, conducted between late June and early October 2019, is based on responses from 38,426 people in 34 countries. Meanwhile, 44% of American respondents said they believe God is necessary to “be moral and have good values.” Respondents on the ideological right were found to be significantly more likely to say it is necessary to believe in God to be a moral person and have good values compared to those on the political left in 15 of the 34 countries surveyed. The largest gap between the ideological right and left exists in the United States. While only 24% of American respondents who identified themselves as leaning more to the left politically said it is necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values, 37% of centrists agreed. But when it comes to respondents who lean to the right politically, more than twice the percentage of those on the left (63%) agreed that it is necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values. (source)
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shoebat--2020-07-24--One In Ninety-Eight People In California Is Infected With COVID-19

One percent of anything when it comes to statistics about bad things , one percent of anything is usually very bad .
For example , 0.7 percent of the US population is currently incarcerated , which means about 2.3 million people .
In Russia , for example , 1 % of the population is infected with HIV– something that is very low one would think , but means approximately 1.4 million people have .
When we talk about small percentages , it can mean very big things .
Therefore , it is of great concern that The Sacramento Bee reports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one in ninety-eight people , or over 1 % of the state of California , is infected with COVID-19 .
More than 400,700 Californians — about 1 in 98 state residents — have been infected by the coronavirus .
Of those , 7,755 have died as of Tuesday morning .
And more Californians are currently in the hospital than at any other time during the pandemic : Nearly 7,100 people are in a hospital bed with COVID-19 , and about 28 % of those hospitalized patients are receiving intensive care , according to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Hospitals in Southern California and the Central Valley are starting to feel the pressure .
Other counties — like Sacramento , Placer and Yolo counties , which all have less than 20 % of their intensive care beds available — are on high alert .
California Gov .
Gavin Newsom announced sweeping shutdowns on businesses and schools last week to slow the record-breaking number of infections and hospitalizations .
It will be another week , if not longer , before local health officials see whether the closures have the intended effect .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ told The Sacramento Bee on Monday that business openings don ’ t appear to have contributed to virus transmission “ anywhere near as much ” as private gatherings are continuing to do .
Still , those reopenings may have given the false impression that the worst of the pandemic was over , county health officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye previously told the Bee .
Local and state officials continue to hammer the importance of mask-wearing and physically distancing from those not in the same household as simple but crucial ways to help slow the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last two weeks about 7.5 % of tests are returning positive .
That ’ s an increase from the 14-day average reported two weeks ago , when about 6.8 % of tests were returning positive .
The growth means the increase in cases can not be attributed to simply more testing being conducted .
California has too many COVID-19 cases to realistically investigate and trace each new infection , California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Tuesday .
“ At the level of transmission we ’ re seeing across the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ robust contact tracing team in every single county will have a hard time reaching out to every case , ” Ghaly said .
“ No one has anticipated building a program to contact trace the level of cases we ’ re seeing here.
” ( source ) There is so much talk about how COVID-19 is not a threat , and that people should not care about it , when the reality is that it clearly is a threat .
This is the nature of a pandemic , where a lot of people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people , and it has a lot of effects on how people work and live .
If one has not already , put the mask on , respect the distances between people , and try to use good sanitation procedures .
This is just basic courtesy at this point , and if you feel sick , please do not go out .
It is likely that at this point , most people would agree with the statement that pandemics are not fun an nobody likes them .
However , it is even less @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illness , because diseases do not discriminate on the basis of race , gender , or politics , but infect who they infect because they are able to .
Don ’ t let one ’ s own pride or perspective set the way for allowing oneself to be unintentionally infected .
Donate now to help support the work of this site .
When you donate , you are not donating to just any commentary group , but one that is endlessly observing the news , reading between the lines and separating hysteria and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we are working every day , tirelessly investigating global trends and providing data and analysis to tell you what lies for the future .
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One percent of anything when it comes to statistics about bad things, one percent of anything is usually very bad. For example, 0.7 percent of the US population is currently incarcerated, which means about 2.3 million people. In Russia, for example, 1% of the population is infected with HIV– something that is very low one would think, but means approximately 1.4 million people have.
When we talk about small percentages, it can mean very big things. Therefore, it is of great concern that The Sacramento Bee reports by way of Herald Mail Media that one in ninety-eight people, or over 1% of the state of California, is infected with COVID-19.
More than 400,700 Californians — about 1 in 98 state residents — have been infected by the coronavirus. Of those, 7,755 have died as of Tuesday morning. And more Californians are currently in the hospital than at any other time during the pandemic: Nearly 7,100 people are in a hospital bed with COVID-19, and about 28% of those hospitalized patients are receiving intensive care, according to state public health data released Tuesday morning. Hospitals in Southern California and the Central Valley are starting to feel the pressure. Other counties — like Sacramento, Placer and Yolo counties, which all have less than 20% of their intensive care beds available — are on high alert. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced sweeping shutdowns on businesses and schools last week to slow the record-breaking number of infections and hospitalizations. It will be another week, if not longer, before local health officials see whether the closures have the intended effect. Sacramento County health chief Dr. Peter Beilenson told The Sacramento Bee on Monday that business openings don’t appear to have contributed to virus transmission “anywhere near as much” as private gatherings are continuing to do. Still, those reopenings may have given the false impression that the worst of the pandemic was over, county health officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye previously told the Bee. Local and state officials continue to hammer the importance of mask-wearing and physically distancing from those not in the same household as simple but crucial ways to help slow the spread of the virus. Over the last two weeks about 7.5% of tests are returning positive. That’s an increase from the 14-day average reported two weeks ago, when about 6.8% of tests were returning positive. The growth means the increase in cases cannot be attributed to simply more testing being conducted. California has too many COVID-19 cases to realistically investigate and trace each new infection, California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Tuesday. “At the level of transmission we’re seeing across the state, even a very, very robust contact tracing team in every single county will have a hard time reaching out to every case,” Ghaly said. “No one has anticipated building a program to contact trace the level of cases we’re seeing here.” (source)
There is so much talk about how COVID-19 is not a threat, and that people should not care about it, when the reality is that it clearly is a threat. This is the nature of a pandemic, where a lot of people get very sick, it can kill people, and it has a lot of effects on how people work and live.
If one has not already, put the mask on, respect the distances between people, and try to use good sanitation procedures. This is just basic courtesy at this point, and if you feel sick, please do not go out. It is likely that at this point, most people would agree with the statement that pandemics are not fun an nobody likes them. However, it is even less fun to get sick with the same illness, because diseases do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or politics, but infect who they infect because they are able to.
Don’t let one’s own pride or perspective set the way for allowing oneself to be unintentionally infected.
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shoebat--2020-07-23--Thirteen Nuns Die After COVID-19 Spreads And Infects Michigan Convent

Thirteen nuns have died after over thirty at a Michigan convent were infected with COVID-19 according to CBS News .
Thirteen nuns at a Roman Catholic convent in Livonia , Michigan , have died of COVID-19 complications since the outbreak began , 22 % of residents , said a spokeswoman for the Felician Sisters of North America .
Seventeen nuns recovered , Suzanne Wilcox English said Tuesday .
The nuns — who ranged in age from 69 to 99 — included teachers , an author and a secretary in the Vatican Secretariat of State , according to the Global Sisters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Catholic Reporter publishing company .
The Global Sisters Report said the 13 deaths “ may be the worst loss of life to a community of women religious since the 1918 influenza pandemic.
” “ I first heard two aides had contracted the virus , ” Sister Andrew told Global Sisters Report .
“ We don ’ t know who they are , and we don ’ t want to know .
Then it hit sisters on the second floor , and it went through like wildfire.
” The outlet reported that at least @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complications in the U.S. as of July 16 .
( source ) It does not matter that the nuns were “ old ” , because while it is absolutely true that COVID-19 does tend to affect the elderly more ( although many younger people with no seeming health problems have died from the illness , as many other reports have noted ) , this report correctly points out that this loss may be the worse to affect a women ’ s religious community since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 .
Does this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 1918 were probably old too , so Spanish Flu was not a threat ” ?
No , because while most people survived , it still went on for years and killed a lot of people .
COVID-19 is similar- it has killed a lot of people , and it has gone all around the world .
As I have noted , diseases do not have any racial , ethnic , religious , gender , or political barriers to infection , since they affect all people and as long as one is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they can be infected with the virus as well .
Please be careful , and take proper safety precautions .
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Thirteen nuns have died after over thirty at a Michigan convent were infected with COVID-19 according to CBS News.
Thirteen nuns at a Roman Catholic convent in Livonia, Michigan, have died of COVID-19 complications since the outbreak began, 22% of residents, said a spokeswoman for the Felician Sisters of North America. Seventeen nuns recovered, Suzanne Wilcox English said Tuesday. The nuns — who ranged in age from 69 to 99 — included teachers, an author and a secretary in the Vatican Secretariat of State, according to the Global Sisters Report, an outlet of the National Catholic Reporter publishing company. The Global Sisters Report said the 13 deaths “may be the worst loss of life to a community of women religious since the 1918 influenza pandemic.” “I first heard two aides had contracted the virus,” Sister Andrew told Global Sisters Report. “We don’t know who they are, and we don’t want to know. Then it hit sisters on the second floor, and it went through like wildfire.” The outlet reported that at least 19 other nuns have died of COVID-related complications in the U.S. as of July 16. (source)
It does not matter that the nuns were “old”, because while it is absolutely true that COVID-19 does tend to affect the elderly more (although many younger people with no seeming health problems have died from the illness, as many other reports have noted), this report correctly points out that this loss may be the worse to affect a women’s religious community since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.
Does this mean that one says “the nuns in 1918 were probably old too, so Spanish Flu was not a threat”? No, because while most people survived, it still went on for years and killed a lot of people. COVID-19 is similar- it has killed a lot of people, and it has gone all around the world.
As I have noted, diseases do not have any racial, ethnic, religious, gender, or political barriers to infection, since they affect all people and as long as one is a human (which all men are), they can be infected with the virus as well.
Please be careful, and take proper safety precautions.
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shoebat--2020-07-23--Yelp Declares That 60% Of Temporary Restaurant Closures Are Now Permanent

Professional economic forecasters are known to lie because by lying about the state of the economy or a business , there is a belief that sales numbers can be bolstered and growth driven to make up for the declines , which can cause investor panic or a lack of confidence .
However , truth is not only always the best antidote , but it also can not be hidden forever , and one of the best indicators of truth are the words of people “ on the ground ” who are forced to interact with a business every day .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the review website for restaurants and other small businesses is also a guide for people as to where they can go for food or shopping .
According to the Yelp Economic Report , 60 % of restaurants and almost half of small businesses shuttered because of COVID-19 are not permanently shuttered .
While some industries have been able to slowly bounce back with fewer temporary closures , many are still enduring an increasing number of permanently closed businesses .
The restaurant industry now reflects the highest total business closures , recently surpassing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there have been 26,160 total restaurant closures , an increase of 2,179 since June 15 .
Of the all closed restaurants in July , 15,770 have permanently closed ( 60 % ) , accounting for 2,956 more permanent closures , a 23 % increase since June 15 .
Meanwhile , bars and nightlife , an industry 6X smaller than restaurants , have endured an especially high closure rate , with 5,454 total business closures , 2,429 ( 44 % ) of which are permanent closures .
Many retail businesses shifted their operating models @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ordering , unfortunately those measures aren ’ t always enough to sustain their business long term .
Shopping and retail businesses have endured 26,119 total business closures , of which 12,454 are permanent , representing 48 % of closed retail businesses on Yelp .
On June 15 , we reported 27,663 closed retail and shopping businesses , of which only 9,640 were permanently closed .
Since then we ’ ve seen 1,544 retail businesses reopen , however an even higher number have been forced to shut their doors permanently , accounting for 2,814 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ increase in permanent retail closures in the last month .
The beauty industry follows a similar trend as the retail industry with 13,609 total business closures , a decrease from 15,348 in June , as many businesses have been able to reopen their brick and mortar locations .
However , the industry has suffered from 1,213 new permanent closures since June 15 , totalling 4,897 permanent closures as of July 10 .
Similar to retail and beauty , though there are fewer temporarily closed businesses , the fitness industry has also suffered from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of July 10 , there have been 4,907 total fitness closures , a decrease of 682 closed businesses since June 15 .
However , of all closed fitness businesses 1,930 are permanently closed , representing 39 % of closed fitness businesses on Yelp – 504 more permanent closures than in June .
While some fitness businesses have been able to continue operating through virtual classes , many smaller brick and mortar studios have been forced to shut their doors permanently , as these small businesses battle affording high rent and operating expenses without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
( source ) This is just the FIRST WAVE of COVID-19 .
I have been continually warning per our observations of the markets at Shoebat.com that there is a strong chance there will be another wave of COVID-19 that will strike and cause even more economic devastation than what is currently taking place , and the reason for this will be because of the same reasons right now- lost revenue , lost time , and the inability of people to make enough money to service bills and debts versus real income .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is going out than what is coming in , and when this happens , closures are inevitable .
According to a recent conversation with a health care worker I spoke with in a state that has been severely affected by the virus ( more so than others ) , he said that he sees the current crisis as a “ marathon ” that could last a long as three years , but he hoped it would be shorters since he said that he ( being a healthcare worker and subject to extreme masking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the virus and wants things to return to “ normal ” .
This Christmas is when , I suspect , a lot of the harsh realities will be forcible exposed , because each year , people are going into more debt to pay for Christmas gifts , and with less ability to pay it back .
This virus is the “ breaking point ” since the virus is going to compel people to make a choice between gifts and essentials , and since essentials will in dire situations always come before gifts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ able to make enough money this season , and with approximately 25 % to 40 % of all retail store income deriving from the time after Thanksgiving up to Christmas , it is likely that many retail stores , large and small , will be forced to close .
Thus while people may want to think about “ sleigh rides ” , from a business point of view , it is going to be a Christmas “ slay ride ” as businesses are economically butchered and served at the table of economic reality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and his second wave of viral spread .
The average man must understand that life has fundamentally changed and it is going to get a lot worse .
Instead of waiting , he needs to prepare right now with food , provisions , and the tools he needs in order to survive .
Life has become much harder and is going to keep getting harder because of the effects of the virus , exposing the ugly economic realities about us , and forcing people to adjust to reality where scarcity is real and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ realities of inflation and hyperinflation will have to be confronted .
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Professional economic forecasters are known to lie because by lying about the state of the economy or a business, there is a belief that sales numbers can be bolstered and growth driven to make up for the declines, which can cause investor panic or a lack of confidence. However, truth is not only always the best antidote, but it also cannot be hidden forever, and one of the best indicators of truth are the words of people “on the ground” who are forced to interact with a business every day. Yelp is an example of such, for the review website for restaurants and other small businesses is also a guide for people as to where they can go for food or shopping. According to the Yelp Economic Report, 60% of restaurants and almost half of small businesses shuttered because of COVID-19 are not permanently shuttered.
While some industries have been able to slowly bounce back with fewer temporary closures, many are still enduring an increasing number of permanently closed businesses. The restaurant industry now reflects the highest total business closures, recently surpassing retail. As of July 10, there have been 26,160 total restaurant closures, an increase of 2,179 since June 15. Of the all closed restaurants in July, 15,770 have permanently closed (60%), accounting for 2,956 more permanent closures, a 23% increase since June 15. Meanwhile, bars and nightlife, an industry 6X smaller than restaurants, have endured an especially high closure rate, with 5,454 total business closures, 2,429 (44%) of which are permanent closures. Many retail businesses shifted their operating models and started offering curbside pickup and online ordering, unfortunately those measures aren’t always enough to sustain their business long term. Shopping and retail businesses have endured 26,119 total business closures, of which 12,454 are permanent, representing 48% of closed retail businesses on Yelp. On June 15, we reported 27,663 closed retail and shopping businesses, of which only 9,640 were permanently closed. Since then we’ve seen 1,544 retail businesses reopen, however an even higher number have been forced to shut their doors permanently, accounting for 2,814 new permanent closures, a 29% increase in permanent retail closures in the last month. The beauty industry follows a similar trend as the retail industry with 13,609 total business closures, a decrease from 15,348 in June, as many businesses have been able to reopen their brick and mortar locations. However, the industry has suffered from 1,213 new permanent closures since June 15, totalling 4,897 permanent closures as of July 10. Similar to retail and beauty, though there are fewer temporarily closed businesses, the fitness industry has also suffered from an increase in permanent closures. As of July 10, there have been 4,907 total fitness closures, a decrease of 682 closed businesses since June 15. However, of all closed fitness businesses 1,930 are permanently closed, representing 39% of closed fitness businesses on Yelp – 504 more permanent closures than in June. While some fitness businesses have been able to continue operating through virtual classes, many smaller brick and mortar studios have been forced to shut their doors permanently, as these small businesses battle affording high rent and operating expenses without being able to use their physical space. (source)
This is just the FIRST WAVE of COVID-19. I have been continually warning per our observations of the markets at Shoebat.com that there is a strong chance there will be another wave of COVID-19 that will strike and cause even more economic devastation than what is currently taking place, and the reason for this will be because of the same reasons right now- lost revenue, lost time, and the inability of people to make enough money to service bills and debts versus real income. It is simple math, that more is going out than what is coming in, and when this happens, closures are inevitable.
According to a recent conversation with a health care worker I spoke with in a state that has been severely affected by the virus (more so than others), he said that he sees the current crisis as a “marathon” that could last a long as three years, but he hoped it would be shorters since he said that he (being a healthcare worker and subject to extreme masking and shielding) is like many tired of the virus and wants things to return to “normal”.
This Christmas is when, I suspect, a lot of the harsh realities will be forcible exposed, because each year, people are going into more debt to pay for Christmas gifts, and with less ability to pay it back. This virus is the “breaking point” since the virus is going to compel people to make a choice between gifts and essentials, and since essentials will in dire situations always come before gifts, the stores will likely not be able to make enough money this season, and with approximately 25% to 40% of all retail store income deriving from the time after Thanksgiving up to Christmas, it is likely that many retail stores, large and small, will be forced to close. Thus while people may want to think about “sleigh rides”, from a business point of view, it is going to be a Christmas “slay ride” as businesses are economically butchered and served at the table of economic reality for dinner, carved up by COVID-19 and his second wave of viral spread.
The average man must understand that life has fundamentally changed and it is going to get a lot worse. Instead of waiting, he needs to prepare right now with food, provisions, and the tools he needs in order to survive. Life has become much harder and is going to keep getting harder because of the effects of the virus, exposing the ugly economic realities about us, and forcing people to adjust to reality where scarcity is real and after years of financial abuse, the realities of inflation and hyperinflation will have to be confronted.
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shoebat--2020-07-23--Muslims And Pagans Are Forcing Poor Christians Around To Choose Between Christ Or COVID-19 Aid

The US has been struck with great force by COVID-19 , much more so than the entire world .
However , the severity of the disease in the US does not mean that it is not affecting people in other nations , and likewise it does not mean that many other people are not being affected , and sometimes in far worse ways .
According to the Christian Post , there are reports coming in from all over the world , but especially in Asia , that Christians are being forced to choose between Christ and help for themselves and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are using the pandemic to try to force Christians into apostasy and if they refuse , to blame them for refusing to help their families .
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic , Christians in Southeast Asia and Sudan have been ordered by authorities to renounce their faith or risk losing emergency aid , according to numerous reports .
Jan Vermeer , Asia communications director at Open Doors International , told Premiere News the organization has been “ inundated with reports of Christians telling us their communities would only give them food @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faith.
” “ While some have returned to the dominant religion in their country , others have contemplated suicide.
” According to Open Doors , Christians from countries including Bangladesh , India , Sudan and Malaysia are being asked to renounce their faith in exchange for COVID-19 aid .
Pastor Sam , who coordinates Open Doors ’ work in Southeast Asia , said in rural Bangladesh , “ governments are giving assistance to a lot of people , but many Christians , especially those who come from a Muslim background or a Buddhist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when it goes to the villages.
” “ The village head normally discriminates against the Christians .
They say , ‘ Well , you ’ re Christian .
You became a Christian so you are not part of this support , ’ ” he said .
“ People may die or convert back to Islam if they don ’ t have the means to survive , ” Sam said , adding that without the support of Open Doors , which is providing coronavirus relief in the area , “ many Christians would certainly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decide that following Jesus is too hard.
” “ Many of these new believers only have a fragile faith and need to become stronger in the Lord , ” he said .
In Sudan , Christian converts face hunger and homelessness during the lockdown unless they reject their faith and return to Islam , according to Open Doors .
A local pastor explained : “ Believers from Muslim backgrounds have to be entirely self-reliant because they aren ’ t given any support from their family , tribes or community , because of their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Premiere .
“ But because people aren ’ t able to work in lockdown they don ’ t have money for food and are finding themselves being kicked out of their homes , unable to pay rent .
“ When Christian converts do ask for help from their Muslim community , they are told they have to give up Christianity if they want to be helped .
It is a tragedy.
” In East Malaysia , one group of Christian students were told by their local mosque that they would have to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ food aid from the community during the coronavirus lockdown .
An earlier report from Open Doors found that in Vietnam , the government denied food aid to more than 100 Christians , including children and the elderly .
“ You are Christians and your God shall take care of your family !
” authorities told 18 Christian families , comprising 107 people , in north Vietnam .
“ The government is not responsible for your families !
” A local partner of Open Doors , which was not identified due to security reasons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ put food on their tables , and they consume their rice little by little every day .
When they learned that the government ’ s support was coming to their district , they were so happy — only to find out that they were not on the list because they are Christians.
” Similarly , John Prabhudoss , Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations chairman , told The Christian Post that the organization has received “ several reports ” of religious minorities in India being mistreated during the pandemic .
“ Specifically , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ programs created to help the people during this crisis , ” he said .
“ Obviously , there are several systemic flaws in the Hindu nationalist government ’ s approach to the problem .
Because of those fundamentally flawed approaches , Christians and other religious minorities are suffering but they are not the only victims .
Various sections of economically vulnerable people are also suffering due to these fundamentally flawed attitudes of the Hindu nationalist government.
” ( source )

The US has been struck with great force by COVID-19, much more so than the entire world. However, the severity of the disease in the US does not mean that it is not affecting people in other nations, and likewise it does not mean that many other people are not being affected, and sometimes in far worse ways. According to the Christian Post, there are reports coming in from all over the world, but especially in Asia, that Christians are being forced to choose between Christ and help for themselves and their families with COVID-19, as governments are using the pandemic to try to force Christians into apostasy and if they refuse, to blame them for refusing to help their families.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, Christians in Southeast Asia and Sudan have been ordered by authorities to renounce their faith or risk losing emergency aid, according to numerous reports.
Jan Vermeer, Asia communications director at Open Doors International, told Premiere News the organization has been “inundated with reports of Christians telling us their communities would only give them food if they re-converted back to their original faith.”
“While some have returned to the dominant religion in their country, others have contemplated suicide.”
According to Open Doors, Christians from countries including Bangladesh, India, Sudan and Malaysia are being asked to renounce their faith in exchange for COVID-19 aid.
Pastor Sam, who coordinates Open Doors’ work in Southeast Asia, said in rural Bangladesh, “governments are giving assistance to a lot of people, but many Christians, especially those who come from a Muslim background or a Buddhist background, are not receiving the support when it goes to the villages.”
“The village head normally discriminates against the Christians. They say, ‘Well, you’re Christian. You became a Christian so you are not part of this support,’” he said.
“People may die or convert back to Islam if they don’t have the means to survive,” Sam said, adding that without the support of Open Doors, which is providing coronavirus relief in the area, “many Christians would certainly die of malnutrition and starvation, or decide that following Jesus is too hard.”
“Many of these new believers only have a fragile faith and need to become stronger in the Lord,” he said.
In Sudan, Christian converts face hunger and homelessness during the lockdown unless they reject their faith and return to Islam, according to Open Doors.
A local pastor explained: “Believers from Muslim backgrounds have to be entirely self-reliant because they aren’t given any support from their family, tribes or community, because of their faith,” he said, according to Premiere.
“But because people aren’t able to work in lockdown they don’t have money for food and are finding themselves being kicked out of their homes, unable to pay rent.
“When Christian converts do ask for help from their Muslim community, they are told they have to give up Christianity if they want to be helped. It is a tragedy.”
In East Malaysia, one group of Christian students were told by their local mosque that they would have to convert back to Islam to receive any food aid from the community during the coronavirus lockdown.
An earlier report from Open Doors found that in Vietnam, the government denied food aid to more than 100 Christians, including children and the elderly.
“You are Christians and your God shall take care of your family!” authorities told 18 Christian families, comprising 107 people, in north Vietnam. “The government is not responsible for your families!”
A local partner of Open Doors, which was not identified due to security reasons, said, “They strive to put food on their tables, and they consume their rice little by little every day. When they learned that the government’s support was coming to their district, they were so happy — only to find out that they were not on the list because they are Christians.”
Similarly, John Prabhudoss, Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations chairman, told The Christian Post that the organization has received “several reports” of religious minorities in India being mistreated during the pandemic.
“Specifically, many are being left out of the programs created to help the people during this crisis,” he said. “Obviously, there are several systemic flaws in the Hindu nationalist government’s approach to the problem. Because of those fundamentally flawed approaches, Christians and other religious minorities are suffering but they are not the only victims. Various sections of economically vulnerable people are also suffering due to these fundamentally flawed attitudes of the Hindu nationalist government.” (source)