JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion)
to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500
million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the
beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1
Hear the word of the LORD, ye chil dren of Israel: for the LORD hath a
controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth,
nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.2 By swearing, and lying,
and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and
blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one
that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and
with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be
taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee
with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and
with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with
mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
AS OF OCTOBER 02,20-THERE ARE 1,025,183 DEATHS OF THE 34,438,827 COVID-19 CASES WORLDWIDE.
White
House: Trump to work from hospital presidential suite-Trump being
hospitalized for a ‘few days,’ given experimental antibody
cocktail-President ‘fatigued’ but in good spirits after contracting
COVID-19; decision to move to Walter Reed military hospital taken on
expert advice ‘out of an abundance of caution’-By Jill Colvin and Zeke
Miller-OCT 2,20-Today, 11:28 pm Today, 11:28 pm 2
WASHINGTON
(AP) —US President Donald Trump will spend a “few days” at a military
hospital after contracting COVID-19, the White House said Friday, as the
virus that has killed more than 205,000 Americans spread to the highest
reaches of the US government. Trump “remains fatigued,” his doctor
said.Trump was to depart the White House by helicopter late Friday for
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The White House said the
visit was precautionary and that he would work from the hospital’s
presidential suite, which is equipped to allow him to continue his
official duties.“President Trump remains in good spirits, has mild
symptoms, and has been working throughout the day,” said press secretary
Kayleigh McEnany. “Out of an abundance of caution, and at the
recommendation of his physician and medical experts, the president will
be working from the presidential offices at Walter Reed for the next few
days.”arlier Friday the White House said Trump had been injected with
an experimental antibody cocktail by the White House physician.Just a
month before the presidential election, the revelation came in a Trump
tweet about 1 a.m. after he had returned from an afternoon political
fundraiser. He had gone ahead, saying nothing to the crowd though
knowing he had been exposed to an aide with the disease that has
infected millions in America and killed more than a million people
worldwide.Members of the U.S. Secret Service stand outside Walter Reed
National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md., before President
Donald Trump arrives Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, after he tested positive for
COVID-19. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)-First lady Melania Trump also
tested positive, the president said, and several others in the White
House have, too, prompting concern that the White House or even Trump
himself might have spread the virus further.Trump has spent much of the
year downplaying the threat of the virus, rarely wearing a protective
mask and urging states and cities to “reopen” and reduce or eliminate
shutdown rules.The president’s physician said in a memo late Friday that
Trump received a dose of an experimental antibody cocktail by Regeneron
that is in clinical trials. Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley said Trump
“remains fatigued but in good spirits” and that a team of experts was
evaluating both the president and first lady in regard to next steps.The
first lady, who is 50, has a “mild cough and headache,” Conley
reported, and the remainder of the first family, including the Trumps’
son Barron, who lives at the White House, tested negative.Both
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala
Harris have tested negative, their campaign said. Vice President Mike
Pence tested negative for the virus Friday morning and “remains in good
health,” his spokesman said.S President Donald Trump throws hats to
supporters after speaking at a campaign rally at Duluth International
Airport, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Duluth, Minn. (AP Photo/Alex
Brandon)-Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who was
with him and many others on Saturday and has been on Capitol Hill
meeting with lawmakers, also tested negative, the White House
said.Trump’s diagnosis was sure to have a destabilizing effect in
Washington and around the world, raising questions about how far the
virus has spread through the highest levels of the US government. Hours
before Trump announced he had contracted the virus, the White House said
a top aide who had traveled with him during the week had tested
positive.“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will
begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately,” Trump tweeted
just before 1 a.m. “We will get through this TOGETHER!”While House chief
of staff Mark Meadows on Friday tried to assure the public that Trump
was conducting business as usual, even as he confirmed that the White
House knew Hope Hicks, the aide, had tested positive before Trump
attended a Thursday fundraiser in New Jersey.“I can tell you in terms of
Hope Hicks, we discovered that right as Marine One was taking off
yesterday,” said Meadows. Several staffers were pulled from the trip,
but Trump did not cancel and there was no direct evidence that her
illness was connected to his.Counselor to the President Hope Hicks,
left, with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, walk from Marine
One to accompany US President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One as he
departs Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP
Photo/Alex Brandon)-Many White House and senior administration officials
were undergoing tests Friday, but the full scale of the outbreak around
the president may not be known for some time as it can take days for an
infection to be detectable by a test. Officials with the White House
Medical Unit were tracing the president’s contacts.Trump’s reelection
campaign said it was putting on hold all events featuring Trump and
members of his family but that Pence would resume campaigning since he
tested negative.Trump was last seen by reporters returning to the White
House on Thursday evening and did not appear ill. He is 74 years old and
clinically obese, putting him at higher risk of serious complications
from a virus that has infected more than 7 million people
nationwide.Trump has been trying all year to convince the American
public that the worst of the pandemic is behind them. In the best of
cases, if he develops few symptoms, which can include fever, cough and
breathing trouble, it will likely force him off the campaign trail and
puts his participation in the second presidential debate, scheduled for
Oct. 15 in Miami, into doubt.US President Donald Trump gives the
thumbs-up as he walks from Marine One to the White House in Washington,
Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, as he returns from Bedminster, N.J. (AP
Photo/Carolyn Kaster)-Trump’s handling of the pandemic has already been a
major flashpoint in his race against Biden, who spent much of the
summer off the campaign trail and at his home in Delaware citing concern
about the virus. Biden has since resumed a more active campaign
schedule, but with small, socially distanced crowds. He also regularly
wears a mask in public, something Trump mocked him for at Tuesday
night’s debate.“I don’t wear masks like him,” Trump said of Biden.
“Every time you see him, he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet
away from me, and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.”In a
tweet Friday morning, Biden said he and his wife “send our thoughts to
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a swift recovery. We
will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his
family.”World leaders offered the president and first family their best
wishes after their diagnosis, as governments used their case as a
reminder for their citizens to wear masks and practice social distancing
measures.Trump’s announcement came hours after he confirmed that Hicks,
one of his most trusted and longest-serving aides, had been diagnosed
with the virus Thursday. Hicks began feeling mild symptoms during the
plane ride home from a rally in Minnesota on Wednesday evening,
according to an administration official who spoke on condition of
anonymity to disclose private information. She was isolated from other
passengers aboard the plane, the person said.Hicks had been with Trump
and other senior staff aboard Marine One and Air Force One en route to
that rally and had accompanied the president to Tuesday’s presidential
debate in Cleveland, along with members of the Trump family. The Trump
contingent removed their masks during the debate, in violation of the
venue rules.Multiple White House staffers have previously tested
positive for the virus, including Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller,
national security adviser Robert O’Brien and one of the president’s
personal valets. An RNC official confirmed Friday that Chairwoman Ronna
McDaniel learned she had tested positive Wednesday afternoon. She has
been at her home in Michigan since last Saturday and did not attend the
debate.But Trump has consistently played down concerns about being
personally vulnerable. He has mostly refused to abide by basic public
health guidelines — including those issued by his own administration —
such as wearing face coverings in public and practicing social
distancing. Instead, he has continued to hold campaign rallies that draw
thousands of often maskless supporters.US President Donald Trump stands
in front of supporters against a backdrop of a logging truck at Duluth
International Airport on September 30, 2020, in Duluth, Minn. (AP
Photo/Jack Rendulich)“I felt no vulnerability whatsoever,” he told
reporters back in May.As for Trump’s attendance at Thursday’s
fundraiser, press secretary Kalleigh McEnany said, “He socially
distanced. It was an outdoor event, and it was deemed safe by White
House Operations for him to attend that event.”McEnany and Trump’s
social media director Dan Scavino, who were originally set to join him
on the trip, were replaced at the last minute by other aides. McEnany
briefed the press Thursday morning and made no mention of any suspected
illness, raising anew concern about White House transparency.It is
unclear where the Trumps or Hicks may have caught the virus, but in a
Fox interview, Trump seemed to suggest it may have been spread by
someone in the military or law enforcement in greetings.The White House
began instituting a daily testing regimen for the president’s senior
aides after earlier positive cases close to the president. Anyone in
close proximity to the president or vice president is also tested every
day, including reporters.Trump is far from the first world leader to
test positive for the virus, which previously infected Brazilian
President Jair Bolsonaro and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who
spent a week in the hospital, including three nights in intensive care.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalized last
month while fighting what he called a “hellish” case of COVID-19.
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)
MATTHEW 18:6
6
But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which
believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were
hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the
sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)
EXODUS 21:12
cv12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)
REVELATION 9:20-21
20
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet
repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship
devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and
of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither
repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS)
nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their
thefts.(STEALING)
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with
sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE
DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18
By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE
17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS
KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE
BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND
DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in
that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN
WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4
billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto
them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered
together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against
Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten
by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE
SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE
CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH
IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)
IN
REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND
POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV
17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A
RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN
REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It
(AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the
smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it
shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD
shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land
of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The
mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have
remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women:
they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
031 One
post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to
shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32
And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D)
and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are
affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)
COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3
For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her,
which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they
shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a
snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou
wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast
striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE
ATTACK ON AMERICA)
Paris kosher restaurant torn apart, vandalized
with anti-Semitic graffiti-Phrases spray painted on walls of Mac Queen
include ‘Hitler was right,’ ‘Jews get out’ and ‘Free Palestine’By
JTA-oct 2,20-Today, 11:09 pm
Unidentified individuals ransacked a
kosher restaurant in Paris on Thursday night, destroying tables and
windows and painting swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on the walls.The
Union of Jewish Students of France, or UEJF, posted a video to Twitter
showing the damage on Friday.The phrases spray painted on the walls of
Mac Queen hamburger restaurant on Manin St. of the 19th district of
Paris included “Hitler was right,” “Jewish homos,” “Jews get out” and
“Free Palestine.”French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin quickly
denounced the incident, and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo wrote on Twitter:
“I condemn with the utmost firmness this hateful act of vandalism. The
Jewish community has my full support. We will not tolerate this.”Horreur
et indignation face au saccage antisémite d’un restaurant casher rue
Manin dans le 19e.« Hitler avait raison » sur les murs d’un restaurant
en France en 2020.5 ans après les attentats, l’insécurité des juifs de
France est à son paroxysme. pic.twitter.com/sGt5yr7nii-— UEJF (@uejf)
October 2, 2020-Earlier this year French officials said anti-Semitic
acts increased in last year by 27 percent, with 687 acts counted in
2019, compared to 541 the previous year.Speech comes after cleaver
attack, amid Charlie Hebdo trial.
Macron calls Islam a religion
‘in crisis,’ unveils plan to fight radicalism-Radicals have ‘swooped
in,’ says French leader; vows ‘no concessions’ in push to eradicate
extremism in schools and mosques; warns Islamist ‘separatism’ creating
counter-society-By Laurence Benhamou and Jérôme RIVET-OCT 2,20-Today,
11:49 pm 0
LES MUREAUX, France (AFP) — French President Emmanuel
Macron unveiled a plan Friday to defend France’s secular values against
radical Islam, announcing stricter oversight of schooling and better
control over foreign funding of mosques.Describing Islam as a religion
“in crisis” worldwide, Macron insisted that “no concessions” would be
made in a new drive to eradicate extremist religious teaching in schools
and mosques.At the same time, Macron said France must do more to offer
economic and social mobility to immigrant communities, adding radicals
had often filled the vacuum.His long-awaited address came 18 months
before presidential elections where Macron is set to face a challenge
from the right, as public concern grows over security in France.“Islam
is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today, we are not
just seeing this in our country,” Macron said in Les Mureaux, a town
outside Paris with a historically large immigrant population.French
President Emmanuel Macron wearing a protective face mask in Les Mureaux,
northwest of Paris on October 2, 2020. (Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)-He
said extremists were seeking to indoctrinate new converts across France,
which has one of the largest Muslim populations in Europe.He denounced a
trend of “Islamist separatism” that flouts French rules and seeks to
create a “counter-society” holding its own laws above all others.This
form of sectarianism often translates into children being kept out of
school, and the use of sporting, cultural and other community activities
as a “pretext to teach principles that do not conform to the laws of
the republic,” Macron said.He said the government would present a bill
in December that would strengthen the country’s bedrock 1905 law that
officially separated church and state.Macron’s gave his speech while a
trial is underway in Paris over the deadly January 2015 attacks on
satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket by
French-born Islamic extremists. Last week, a man from Pakistan stabbed
two people near Charlie Hebdo’s former offices in anger over its
publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Macron noted both
cases.France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe with up
to 5 million members, and Islam is the country’s No. 2 religion.The
proposed bill would require all children from the age of 3 to attend
French schools, and allow distance learning only for medical reasons.
Associations, which receive state funding, would be made accountable for
their spending, their sometimes invisible leaders and be forced to
reimburse misused funds.Macron called France’s schools “the heart of
secularism (where) children become citizens.”Authorities contend that
the vector for inculcating Muslims with an extremist ideology was once
the mosque but, today, the main vector is schools.The proposed measures
nevertheless address mosques, which Macron said are sometimes subject to
hostile takeovers, as well as imams to keep houses of prayer and
preachers out of the control of people who use religion for their own
ends.“In a few days, you can see radical Islamists…take control of
associations (running mosques) and all their finances. That won’t happen
again,” the French president said.“We’re going to install an
anti-putsch system, very robust, in the law,” Macron said without
elaborating.The bill, which is to be sent to religious leaders for
review this month, also includes putting a gradual end to the
long-standing practice of importing imams from elsewhere, notably
Turkey, Algeria and Morocco, and instead training imams in France to
assure there are enough. A Muslim organization that serves as an
official conduit to French leaders is to take part in the project.French
President Emmanuel Macron (C-L) speaks with Les Mureaux’s mayor
Francois Garay (C) during his visit in Les Mureaux, northwest of Paris
on October 2, 2020. (Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)-Liberate’ French
Islam-Among the new law’s provisions, there will be closer scrutiny of
the curriculum at private schools and stricter limits on home-schooling
for reasons other than a child’s health problems.Community associations
that receive state subsidies will have to sign a contract avowing their
commitment to secularism and the values of France.There will be closer
scrutiny of such organizations, and the law will make it easier to
shutter those breaking anti-indoctrination rules.The new measures will
also include a ban on the wearing of religious symbols for employees of
subcontractors providing public services, such as transport
operators.The rule already applies to public servants.A policeman stands
guard on January 21, 2015, in front the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket
where jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed four Jewish men on January
9, 2015 in Paris. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)-Macron said there had been
increased reports of abuses by sub-contracting staff, including bus
drivers refusing women entry for wearing clothing considered too
revealing.He emphasized that it was necessary to “liberate Islam in
France from foreign influences,” naming countries such as Saudi Arabia,
Qatar and Turkey.To this end, the government will step up checks on
foreign financing of mosques and clamp down on letting imams go abroad
for training, or on hosting foreign preachers on French
soil.‘Ghettoization’Macron stressed that the measures did not seek to
stigmatize or alienate France’s Muslims but to bolster “our ability to
live together.”He urged better understanding of Islam and said the
problem of radicalization was partly a product of the “ghettoization” of
French cities and towns where “we constructed our own separatism.”This
picture taken on June 14, 2018 shows part of a new steel fence set
around the Eiffel tower in Paris as an anti-terrorism measure. (AFP
PHOTO / Philippe LOPEZ)-“We have concentrated populations based on their
origins, we have not sufficiently created diversity, or ensured
economic and social mobility” in segregated areas, he said.Radical
Islamists have swooped in, taking advantage of “our withdrawal, our
cowardice,” he added.France has in recent years been forced to take a
hard look at its core republican values, perceived by many to be
threatened by Islam in the wake of several terror attacks since 2015
targeting secular liberties such as freedom of expression.Macron was
speaking one week after a man wounded two people with a meat cleaver
outside the former Paris offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly,
which the government denounced as “Islamist terrorism.”Police officers
gather in the area of a knife attack near the former offices of
satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, September 25, 2020 in Paris. (AP
Photo/Thibault Camus)-Staff at Charlie Hebdo were massacred in January
2015 by Islamist gunmen seeking to avenge its publication of caricatures
of the Prophet Mohammed.In January, a renewed debate about freedom of
expression erupted when a teenager received death threats for attacking
Islam in an expletive-laden Instagram rant.And earlier this month,
divisions were highlighted when MPs walked out when a university student
entered parliament in a headscarf.AP contributed to this report.
Lebanon
requests arrests of Russian owner and captain of Beirut blast ship-The
Rhosus, a cargo ship sailing from Georgia and bound for Mozambique, is
widely understood to have brought ammonium nitrate to Beirut in 2013-By
AFP and TOI staff-OCT 2,20-Today, 11:32 pm
BEIRUT — Lebanon
Thursday requested international arrest warrants for the owner and
captain of a vessel that contained a shipment of fertilizer behind
Beirut’s massive port blast, a judicial source said.The explosion of
hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate on August 4 killed more than 190
people, wounded thousands and ravaged large parts of the capital.The
Rhosus, a Moldovan-flagged cargo ship sailing from Georgia and bound for
Mozambique, is widely understood to have brought the material to Beirut
in 2013.The judge leading Lebanon’s probe into the case, Fadi Sawan,
“issued two absentee arrest warrants for the owner of the Rhosus… as
well as the ship’s captain,” the judicial source said.The ship’s captain
has been widely named as Boris Prokoshev, a Russian national.Cypriot
police in August questioned Igor Grechushkin, a Russian national
initially described as the owner of the ship, but an investigation by
the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project named the ultimate
owner as Charalambos Manoli, a Cypriot shipping magnate — a claim denied
by Manoli.A partial view of the devastated Beirut port is pictured from
the nearby neighborhood of Mar Mikaehl on August 6, 2020, two days
after a massive blast there shook the Lebanese capital. (Patrick BAZ /
AFP)-The judge passed names “on to the public prosecution, who referred
them on to Interpol and asked it to issue an international notice for
their arrests,” the judicial source said.It was not immediately clear
why Lebanon sees the two individuals as liable for events that occurred
long years after they last had contact with the ship and its cargo.The
call came after a Lebanese judicial and security delegation last month
visited Cyprus to question the ship owner at his residence, the source
added.After it arrived in Lebanon, the Rhosus faced “technical
problems,” and security officials said it was impounded after a Lebanese
company filed a lawsuit against its owner.Port authorities unloaded the
ammonium nitrate and stored it in a run-down port warehouse with cracks
in its walls, the officials said.The Rhosus sank in Beirut port several
years after it arrived.Lebanon has rejected an international
investigation into the country’s worst peace-time disaster, but its
probe is being aided by foreign experts, including from the FBI and
France.It has so far arrested 25 people as part of the ongoing probe,
including top port and customs officials.
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