why?

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 (full disclsure time:) I
was one of them.
so .. What accounts for
this trend?

and What does it mean

about being an
... huge numbers of americans american? have those of
have turned ed to Islam. Some us who have turned to
estimates now put the figure islam become
at 70,000 per year. And... unpatriotic?

i've met people who asked...

why are you all

doing this?
don't you realize
these people
attacked our
country?

... 70,000 people a year to

accept the very faith that
the media has been telling
them has yielded the
single biggest threat
to the american way of
life?
first and foremost....

that people are drawn to

the "islam" practiced by the 9/11
attackers is flatly refuted by the
qu'ran .... and (speaking personally
here) the qur'an is what pulled me
like a magnet to this faith.
true islam because there is
something authentically
american about it?

Klik

consider the
before you dismiss
that idea as following...
absurd...
for most of our I'm 45. when i was
country's growing up in the
history... sixties and seventies,
gambling was las vegas was the
seen as something only place a grownup
scandalous and could legally engage
shameful. in serious gambling.

we associate nineteeth-century gamblers

with riverboats because gamblers were
frequently murdered by vigilante groups
if they dared to gamble on dry ground. things have changed a bit since then.

most state legislatures have now

changed course. they've made casinos
profitable mainstream businesses,
sanctioned online gambling, and turned
convenience stores into casinos in all
but name.

try visiting a convenience store for

an HOUR ... count how many people
are in line to buy lottery tickets
or scratch cards...
with millions of
compulsive
gamblers standing
in line, How much
shame do we as a
nation display
toward gambling
today?

...and count how

many people get
back in line so

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they can gamble
again!
for the first hair can carry a strong sexual signal.
century or so of not so very long ago,, a woman's
our history... unobscured hair represented a conscious
women covered signal of intimacy between a man and a
their heads in woman.It was that way in america for a
public. long time.

and
nobody
got
mad at
them.

(people praising my
sister's beautiful
hair trhoughout
her life. the pain
and trauma she abigail adams refused to be painted
endured from bareheaded for her official white house
about age eleven portrait.
onwards.)
and As late as the 1950s or early 1960s,
women in american churches usually wore
some kind of head covering.

we search out the social views of our

founding fathers ... but lose sight of the
fact that our founding mothers
considered it improper to go about
without using something to cover their
hair. it attracted unwelcome attention.

"times
change."

i know.

all the
same...
for as long as anyone can remember, The
amish and the mennonites have held
this custom to be divinely ordained ...
.. and that didn't make them unamerican!
new york city officials cut major crime by
pursuing (seemingly) minor initiatives like
stopping tolljumpers and erasing graffiti.
changing the Visual signals to reflect
Respect for community stopped would-
be criminals from concluding they were in
the kind of place where crime was "ok."
so.
what visual signals about respect for
women does contemporary american
society send? what behavior results?

6 now... let's shift gears.

for most of our Now, we hear a lot of self-flattering
country's talk about "relationships" before and
history... divorce outside of marriage.
was seen as
something
shameful. So was
sex outside of
marriage.

people drown in
them.

"relationships" may come and they may

go. the resulting children have a way of
sticking around.

how much respect

do we as a nation
accord marriage
today?

they listen from behind the door as their

parents betray them. they grow up alone,
wounded, confused, angry, and ill-equipped
to function as parents... or adults. the
cycle continues.

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for most of our In 1836, the US had a total population of
country's about fifteen million people. one and
history... alcohol a half million of those people were
was considered a active members of the american
tool of Satan. temperance society!

as the adult child that means ten

of a career percent of the
alcholic, i speak population had
from personal taken a pledge
experience when i (usually in church)
tell you i agree to abstain from
with that drinking alcohol.
assessment.

the US constitution was amended to

prohibit the use or sale of alcohol in 1920.
the ban lasted for thirteen years.

it's now estimated* that three

million american teenagers are
"out-and-out alcoholics." a couple of
million more have drinking problems
they "can't manage on their own. "

the leading causes of death among

fifteen-to-twenty-four year-olds in
this country are automobile crashes,
homicides, and suicides. alcohol plays a
leading role in all three. (drugs play a
role too.)

satan has been busy in our country.

when the ban was repealed, many people

believed that Satan had undermined it, and
the country. again, as someone with first- *www.focusas.org

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hand experience of what alcohol does to a
family... i have to agree.
for most of our country's history...
civility in publications set certain limits
on crudeness AND sensationalism, in
large part because we wanted to
protect our children.

when i was ten years old, a direct

reference to the specifics of
human sexuality on tv or in the
newspaper was pretty much
unthinkable. it had always been
that way.

kids simply were not exposed to

off-color material through the
mainstream media

our values did not permit

lewdness (or even now OUR CHILDREN ARE WATCHING THE
suggestiveness) when kids might CORRUPTED, exploitative pseudo-CULTURE
be affected. THAT IS gushing OUT OF OUR TELEVISION
SETS, computers, AND OTHER MEDIA.

clearly,something is wrong. where are we

going with all
this, brothers and
sisters?

towards america?

or away from it?

Not long ago i had the disturbing

experience of listening as a six-year old
acciurately explained the sexually explicit
lyrics of a hip-hop tune. I'd asked her if
she understood the CD her brother was
playing for her. (she certainly did.)

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it wasn't because we liked our country's enemies. We
were called BY SOMETHING DEEP INSIDE, SOMETHING very
FAMILIAR. Something that rejected....

gambling I heard
an interview this week
with a woman who had
lost $50,000 in three
weeks to online islam is a coherent
casinos. she put it all system of thought and
on credit cards living ...

...one utterly in keeping

exploitation of with the historic
human sexuality american values that
as in women using their
hair, their bodies, or reject these practices.
anything else to sell
stuff.or men doing it. it worships one God and
it's on your tv. right demands obedience to Him.
now.
we believe nothing is
extramarital sex worthy of worship but god
and casual almighty.
divorce..half of
american marriages end we turned to islam when we
in divorice. One out of could no longer ignore
every three babies is what wasn't working in
born to an unwed our own lives.
mother.
islam works.
Drug and
Alcohol Abuse
between fifteen and
twenty percent of all
US teens have
addiction/substance
abuse problems,
serious depression,
post-traumatic stress
disorder, or a
combination of all
three.

toxic culture
culture that
endangers children
and disrespects
women; culture that
glorifies cheap
sensationalism,
violence, drug use,
and excess.

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[19.59] But there came after them an evil generation, who neglected prayers and
followed sensual desires, so they will meet perdition,
[19.60] Except such as repent and believe and do good, these shall enter the
garden, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly in any way:
[19.61] The gardens of perpetuity which the Beneficent God has promised to His
servants while unseen; surely His promise shall come to pass.
[19.62] They shall not hear therein any vain discourse, but only: Peace, and they
shall have their sustenance therein morning and evening.