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Never Forget: Senate Voted Unanimously to Rebuke Anti-Christian Remarks by Kamala Harris and Support Religious Freedom in US

By Jim Hoft 
Published August 12, 2020 at 

White biggoted anarcho-terrorists in Portland....a city that is all of 6% black and 77% white.

Protesters burn Bibles and American flags in Portland

'This is who they are'

Image via Twitter @stillgray screenshot

 PAUL SACCA

Protests and riots have been waged in Portland for over two months since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May. During Friday night's protests, demonstrators exhibited their rage by burning Bibles and American flags in the street outside of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse.

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Video shows demonstrators create a bonfire in the street, and protesters with Black Lives Matter signs toss Bibles into the inferno.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) retweeted the Bible-burning video with the caption, "This is who they are."

Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, commented on the video of Bibles being set on fire. 

"Now we move to the book burning phase," he wrote on Twitter. "I'm pretty sure ANTIFA doesn't actually stand for what they say it stands for. Maybe just remove the anti part of them name and it's perfect."

Conservative activist Mindy Robinson said, "They've finally gone full Gestapo, never go full Gestapo."

Besides burning Bibles, the demonstrators also set American flags on fire, some demonstrators chant: "F*** Trump!"

Protesters dumped garbage in front of the Justice Center and battered the garage door of the courthouse to agitate federal officers. Rioters also set large fires around downtown Portland. 

One rioter nearly burned his own face after igniting a firework. 

There was a shooting in Portland on Friday night where more than 150 rounds were fired, one hitting a woman. 

"East Precinct officers have secured the crime scene and determined that more that 150 rounds were fired outside of an apartment building," the Portland Police Bureau stated. "One round struck an adult female victim in an arm. Responding officers applied a tourniquet and she was transported to the hospital by ambulance with what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries. No other injuries have been reported to police, however bullets struck at least 8 occupied apartments and 7 vehicles (unknown if occupied)."

During Thursday night's demonstrations, agitators set fire to a severed pig's head that was wearing a police officer hat outside the Justice Center in downtown Portland.

Last weekend, the violence was much more intense, and the Portland Police Department declared a riot by early Sunday morning. Rioters tore down the fence outside of the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse. "The violent conduct of people downtown is creating grave risk of public alarm," the Portland Police Department stated.

Fox News reporter William La Jeunesse was embedded with federal officers in Portland for 12 hours this week. He witnessed officers get attacked with lasers and fireworks. 

"It's really loud and very disconcerting when you're on the inside," he said. "And these things, when they burn up in front of you, they burn agents' legs and arms and neck, stuff like that. They've got to go in for treatment."

Facebook biases

Facebook allegedly told a Christian org that a man's death threats were ‘not a policy violation.’ Now, he has been sentenced to prison.

Seems like a violation of some kind

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After a Florida man posted his intentions to "kill every single person" at a Christian organization on Facebook last year, the social media giant allegedly told the organization that the threats did not constitute a policy violation.

What are the details?

According to a press release from the American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Mississippi, 21-year-old Chase Davis of Pompano Beach, Florida, sent the threats in a Facebook message to the organization last summer announcing his disdain for the religious organization and his desire to murder every member.
"I am coming to tupelo unexpected with a group of people and we are going to kill every single person who runs your group," Davis wrote on Facebook Messenger in the first of two messages.
"You are the most disgusting people in america. i have put together a group to have you pieces of s**t obliterated into dust. yes, i literally mean killing all of you. you people are nothing but disgusting, warn out, and old excuses of human life," he added.

In the press release, the AFA said that it immediately reported the threats to Facebook upon receiving them but were "told that the threat was not a policy violation."
"AFA appealed the decision to no avail," the press release added.

Law enforcement felt differently

At the same time that the AFA reported the threats to Facebook, the group also reported them to the United States attorney's office, which, conversely, took the threats seriously and launched an investigation leading to a grand jury indictment.
The Department of Justice announced in a news release last week that Davis had been ordered to serve time in federal prison for "making threats against individuals at the American Family Association in Tupelo, Mississippi."
Judge Sheri Polster Chappell, United States Judge for the Middle District of Florida, sentenced Davis to six months' incarceration followed by three years' court supervision.
Davis was also ordered to "participate in drug and mental health treatment and perform 400 hours of community service in lieu of a fine," the release noted.

Anything else?

Facebook claims to protect users against "hate speech, credible threats or direct attacks on an individual or group" as a part of its Community Standards, but appears to have failed to do so in this case.
TheBlaze reached out to Facebook for comment, but the company did not respond in time for publication.
In response to the ruling, AFA President Buddy Smith said that the "AFA is grateful for the protective services provided by our federal law enforcement and court system over this threat to the employees of our organization" and that the "AFA will continue to affirm that all persons are individuals of sacred worth and are created by God in His image."
U.S. attorney William C. Lamar said: "It is important to protect free speech, but when it crosses the line and becomes threats to harm others on the basis of race, religious beliefs, political affiliations or other protected reasons, we will use Federal laws to hold those individuals accountable for their actions."
(H/T: NewsBusters)

China orders Christians to replace crosses and images of Jesus Christ with portraits of communist leaders

Another example of religious oppression in communist China

Photo: Jonathan Saruk/Getty Images 

 CARLOS GARCIA

The communist Chinese government is ordering some Christians to take down religious symbols, including crosses, crucifixes, and images of Jesus Christ, and to replace them with communist leaders, according to a new report.

The startling report of religious oppression was reported in Bitter Winter, a religious liberty magazine.
"All impoverished households in the town were told to display Mao Zedong images," said a local pastor to Bitter Winter.
"The government is trying to eliminate our belief and wants to become God instead of Jesus," he added.
The order was made in April when communist party officials visited believers' homes in the city of Linfen, located in the northern province of Shanxi.
The officials said that those who were receiving financial assistance from the government would have to take down their religious symbols and replace them with portraits of Chairman Mao and President Xi Jinping. If they refused to do so, they could face the loss of their welfare benefits.

One villager recounted that officials tore down the Christian images in his home and replaced them with a portrait of Mao Zedong.
The believer quoted the official as saying, "Impoverished religious households can't receive money from the state for nothing — they must obey the Communist Party for the money they receive."
The report went on to document several instances where believers lost their support and benefits from the state merely for expressing religious sentiments or displaying religious symbols.

Muslims targeted also

The Communist Party of China has seen renewed criticism for its efforts at repressing the beliefs of the Uighur community, a Muslim sect, as well.
On Sunday, a Chinese ambassador denied the existence of detention camps despite drone footage that appeared to show hundreds of bound and blindfolded Uighur prisoners being led onto trains by armed soldiers in Xinjiang.
In June, President Donald Trump signed legislation condemning the Chinese government for the detainment of members of ethnic groups including the Uighurs. Some have been subjected to torture, forced labor and other deprivations in the camps. The bill passed overwhelmingly in both houses of Congress.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has made it clear that the U.S. is opposed to Chinese repression of religious liberty.
"In China, state-sponsored repression against all religions continues to intensify," Pompeo said, according to the Associated Press. "The Chinese Communist Party is now ordering religious organizations to obey CCP leadership and infuse communist dogma into their teachings and practice of their faith. The mass detentions of Uighurs in Xinjiang continues."

Here's more about religious persecution in China:

[H/T: Christian Post.]

The war on western civilization continues: Nantes: Arson suspected in fire at Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral

Nantes: Arson suspected in fire at Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral

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Media captionThe blaze destroyed stained glass windows and the grand organ

A fire at the cathedral in the French city of Nantes is believed to have been started deliberately, prosecutors say.

Three fires were started at the site and an investigation into suspected arson is under way, Prosecutor Pierre Sennes said.

The blaze destroyed stained glass windows and the grand organ at the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral, which dates from the 15th Century.

It comes a year after the devastating fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.

But the local fire chief said the fire in Nantes had been contained and was "not a Notre-Dame scenario".

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"The damage is concentrated on the organ, which appears to be completely destroyed. The platform it is situated on is very unstable and risks collapsing," Laurent Ferlay told reporters.

The cathedral roof had not been touched by the blaze, he said.

President Emmanuel Macron has reacted, tweeting: "After Notre-Dame, the St Peter and St. Paul Cathedral is in flames. Support to the firemen who are taking all the risks to save the Gothic jewel."

The French fire service tweeted footage of the blaze.

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Report

The fire began in the early morning, with massive flames visible from outside the building. More than 100 firefighters brought it under control after several hours.

Mr Sennes said the national police would be involved in the investigation and a fire expert was travelling to Nantes

"When we arrive at a place where a fire has taken place, when you see three separate fire outbreaks, it's a question of common sense, you open an investigation," he said.

Newsagent Jean-Yves Burban said he heard a bang at about 07:30 local time (05:30 GMT) and saw flames when he went out to see what was happening.

"I am shook up because I've been here eight years and I see the cathedral every morning and evening. It's our cathedral and I've got tears in my eyes," he told Reuters.

Image copyrightREUTERS

Image captionPeople gathered at the scene

This is not the first fire at the cathedral. It was damaged by Allied bombing in 1944, during World War Two, and then in 1972 its roof was largely destroyed. 

It was rebuilt 13 years later with a concrete structure replacing the wooden roof.

In 2015 a huge fire destroyed part of the 19th Century basilica of Saint-Donatien in Nantes.

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Image captionFirefighters urged people to avoid the area

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Bill de Blasio: Mass protests and religious gatherings are like 'apples and oranges'

Has he read the first amendment?

 PHIL SHIVER

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) recently defended his decision to support mass protests while limiting religious gatherings amid the COVID-19 pandemic — a move that a federal judge recently shot down — arguing the two are like "apples and oranges."

What are the details?

"The protests were an entirely different reality, a national phenomenon that was not something that the government could just say, go away," the mayor argued during an interview on CNN. As for religious gatherings, "it's really apples and oranges," he said.
He then claimed that New York's religious leaders were "the first to say it was not time to bring back services" to justify his point.

The mayor's line of defense raises the question: Has he ever read the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
It goes as follows:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (emphases mine)

Evidently, the Framers believed the right to protest and the right to exercise religion were closely related enough to warrant shared space in the Bill of Rights.

The "apples and oranges" comparison doesn't quite seem to fit.

What's the background?

Last week, a federal judge ruled that de Blasio, along with Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his attorney general, were wrong to limit religious gatherings during the pandemic while at the same time supporting protests against racial injustice.
U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe then issued a preliminary injunctionprohibiting the New York leaders from ordering arbitrary limits on religious gatherings, saying that to do so while supporting protests amounts to "preferential treatment."
Under New York's reopening plan, churches and synagogues were confined to 25% occupancy, while "nonessential" businesses were granted 50% occupancy and "essential" businesses 100% occupancy.
Then, as protests erupted following the death of George Floyd, Cuomo and de Blasio publicly announced their support.
"Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio could have just as easily discouraged protests, short of condemning their message, in the name of public health and exercised discretion to suspend enforcement for public safety reasons instead of encouraging what they knew was a flagrant disregard of the outdoor limits and social distancing rules," Sharpe wrote in the ruling. "They could have also been silent. But by acting as they did, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio sent a clear message that mass protests are deserving of preferential treatment."