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Father, God

Give me patience as you reveal your plan for my life to me.

Help me to follow in the footsteps of where you are leading me to go.

Help my eyes, cause they are weak.

Give me strength Lord to defend your children.

In your name I pray Amen.

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Takfiri

A takfiri (Arabic: تكفيري‎ takfīrī) is a Sunni Muslim who accuses another Muslim (or an adherent of another Abrahamic faith) ofapostasy.[1] The accusation itself is called takfir, derived from the word kafir (unbeliever), and is described as when “one who is, or claims to be, a Muslim is declared impure.”[2] The act of accusing other Muslims of being takfiri has become a sectarian slur, particularly since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011.[3][4][5]

In principle the only group authorised to declare a member of an Abrahamic religion a kafir (unbeliever) is the ulema, and this is only done once all the prescribed legal precautions have been taken.[2] However, a growing number of splinter Wahhabist/Salafistgroups, classified by some scholars as Salafi-Takfiris,[6] have split from the orthodox method of establishing takfir through the processes of the Sharia law. They have reserved the right to declare apostasy against any Muslim, in addition to non-Muslims.

Classification

Takfiris have been classified by some commentators as violent offshoots of the Salafi movement, yet while Salafism is seen as a form of ‘fundamentalist Islam’, it is not an inherently violent movement that condones terrorism.[7] Takfiris, on the other hand, condone acts of violence as legitimate methods of achieving religious or political goals. Middle East expert Robert Baer has written that

“takfiri generally refers to a Sunni Muslim who looks at the world in black-and-white; there are true believers and then there are nonbelievers, with no shades in between. A takfiri’s mission is to re-create the Caliphate according to a literal interpretation of the Qur'an.”[8]

Beliefs

Takfiris believe in Islam strictly according to their interpretation of Muhammad’s and his companions’ actions and statements, and do not accept any deviation from their path; they reject any reform or change to their interpretation of religion as it was revealed in the time of the prophet. Those who change their religion from Islam to any other way of life, or deny any of the fundamental foundations of Islam, or who worship, follow or obey anything other than Islam, become those upon whom the takfiris declare the “takfir”, calling them apostates from Islam and so no longer Muslim.

According to at least one source (Trevor Stanley), the precedent “for the declaration of takfir against a leader” came from Medieval Islamic scholar Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyyah, who issued a famous fatwa declaring jihad against invading Mongols. This was not because they were invading but because they were apostates, apostasy from Islam being punishable by death. Though the Mongols had converted to Islam, Ibn Taymiyyah reasoned that since they followed their traditional Yassa law rather than Islamic Sharia law, they were not really Muslims and were thus apostates.[9] More recently 18th-century Islamic Revivalist Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and 20th-century Muslim authors Maulana Maududi and Sayyid Qutb, referred to Ibn Taymiyyah in condemning self-proclaimed Muslims as not really Muslims. Al-Wahhab condemned practices of Shia, Sufi and other Muslims as bid'a (innovation of the religion), and al-Wahhab’s followers slew many Muslims for allegedly pagan (kufr) practices. In his influential book Milestones, Sayyid Qutbargued not that some Muslims should not be considered Muslims, but that the failure of the world Muslim community to obey Shariah law meant, “the Muslim community has been extinct for a few centuries,” having fallen back into a state of pagan ignorance (jahiliyyah).[10][11]

Elie Podeh distinguishes between conservative Islamists, “jihadi” Muslims, and takfiri groups. Like jihadis, takfiri groups advocate armed struggle against the secular regime, invoking the concepts of jahiliyya, al-hakimiyya (God’s sovereignty), and al-takfir (branding as apostate). However, takfiri groups are more extreme, regarding the whole of Egyptian society as kafir, for instance, and therefore completely disengaging from it. Also unlike jihadis, takfiri groups (according to Podeh) make no distinction between the regime and the ordinary population when employing violence.[12]

Takfiris also reject the traditional Muslim duty to obey one’s legitimate rulers in all manners that do not contradict Sharia, as sedition is viewed as a great danger to a nation. However, Takfiris consider all political authority that does not abide by their interpretation of Islam as illegitimate and apostate; this view closely mirrors Qutb’s views on jahiliyyah.[13] As such, violence against such regimes is considered legitimate.

In his books Risālah Aslu Dīn Al-Islām wa Qā’idatuhu

 and

Kashf ush-Shubuhaat

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Clarification Of The Doubts

), Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhāb makes an explicit takfir of people who invoke or implore for help to dead people (such as the prophet and his family) or in other words, intercede for themselves with God by seeking intercession to the prophet and his family.

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Suicide

Takfiri views on suicide also differ significantly from those of orthodox Islam. Takfiris believe that one who deliberately kills himself whilst attempting to kill enemies is a martyr(shahid) and therefore goes straight to heaven. As such all sin is absolved when a person is martyred, allowing carte blanche for the indiscriminate killing of non-combatants, for example.[15] An example of such a takfiri terrorist group is the Caucasus Emirate.[16]

Views within Islam

Opponents of the takfiris often view them as modern-day analogues of the Khawarij, a seventh-century offshoot Islamic sect which waged war against the Caliphate.[17]

In mainstream media

The term takfiri was brought to a more public prominence by the BBC investigative journalist Peter Taylor, in his 2005 BBC television series The New Al Qaeda.[18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takfiri

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Catholic secret operations unit.

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In this home atop the Katskhi Pillar in the central Imereti region of the Republic of Georgia, monk Maxime Qavtaradze lives his life according to the teachings of the Stylites (a Byzantine religious order), who believe that living up high removes them from temptations and allows for plenty of prayer. The only way to reach the house is via a 131-foot ladder, which is a 20-minute climb. Brother Maxime is the first Stylite to live on the Katskhi Pillar in 600 years.

The Katskhi Pillar has been considered a sacred place since pre-Christian times, though it’s been uninhabited since around the 1400s. When climbers ascended for the first time in centuries in 1944, they found the ruins of a church and the bones of the last Stylite who lived there.

Brother Maxime took monastic vows in 1993. With the help of local villagers and contributions from donors, he has been working to rebuild the 1,200-year-old monastery complex, chapel, and hermitage for the last fifteen years. At the pillar’s base lies a chapel named after St. Simeon, considered the first Stylite. Though isolated, Brother Maxime is not a total hermit, coming down once or twice a week to counsel the troubled young men who come to the monastery at the base of the pillar (last photo) for his guidance.

The crypt under the chapel holds the bones of the previous unknown  Stylite who made his home there (photo #6). Once Brother Maxime is too frail to use the ladder, he intends to remain at the top until his death, with his remains to be placed in the same crypt when his time comes.

Check The Stylite film documentary page and this Huffington Post article  for more about Qavtaradze.

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Bicycle kiss in the 1930s.  

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44th Annual March for Life - Washington D. C. 2017

“I’m sure that a lot of people who are in favour of abortion, thought well this group is just going to die off and age out and it’s gotten younger and younger and bigger and bigger.” - Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley

Photos: DailyPress

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French Royalists commemorate the anniversary of the murder of King Louis XVI.

On January 21, 1793, after 5 months imprisonment at the hands of anti-Catholic Jacobin revolutionaries, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine.

The Jacobins, heavily influenced by freemasonry and Enlightenment philosophy, led the charge against the ancien régime of Throne and Altar. After the murder of King Louis XVI, the Jacobins began what became known as the Reign of Terror. Over a 1 year period, they enforced bloody persecution against priests, monks, nuns, and lay Catholics.

They cast God out of France and enthroned “reason”. This was to be a new era of humanism and Enlightenment. An era marked by terrible bloodshed.

The France of 2017, with it’s moral decline, social and cultural decay, racial tension, gender war, and so on, is the legacy of the French revolution.

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Love it, God bless us all

Tradition is the Future.

Though man has strayed from the path, Truth calls out to him from the core of his being. The Eternal principles of Tradition are imprinted on our hearts by the Creator. No amount of rebellion can overthrow our nature. We are children of God.

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