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	<title>Comments on: A review of Islam: The House I Left Behind. By Daniel Shayesteh.</title>
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		<title>By: Aaron Powell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Aaron Powell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 17:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello I have being reading the info on your web site, it is alarming concerning thing that are happening now. And our Government in the west don’t not know what these people are trying to do. We have to pray and proclaimed Jesus Christ to them. That they will know the truth.
Keep up the good work and that the Lord will open way that you can make the truth known.
Aaron Powell</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello I have being reading the info on your web site, it is alarming concerning thing that are happening now. And our Government in the west don’t not know what these people are trying to do. We have to pray and proclaimed Jesus Christ to them. That they will know the truth.<br />
Keep up the good work and that the Lord will open way that you can make the truth known.<br />
Aaron Powell</p>
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		<title>By: Trevor Faggotter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Trevor Faggotter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am glad to see that his important story is now in print. Together with his DVD testimony, it will be a great help to many, and a wake-up call, to be alert to the type of global situation we are currently living in. Daniel is a gift to the church in our day, and a joyful witness to Christ. May the book find its way into many homes and hearts.
Trevor Faggotter</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am glad to see that his important story is now in print. Together with his DVD testimony, it will be a great help to many, and a wake-up call, to be alert to the type of global situation we are currently living in. Daniel is a gift to the church in our day, and a joyful witness to Christ. May the book find its way into many homes and hearts.<br />
Trevor Faggotter</p>
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		<title>By: Leon Brooks</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leon Brooks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you, Michelle, for your recommendation.

I&#039;ve signed up now, despite probably being in the &#039;States for most of July. Hello from Forrestfield, normally Albany.

Thank you, Bill, for starting the entire discussion.

It&#039;s more important than most people would believe to take the &quot;full speed ahead, #### the torpedoes&quot; approach of Admiral Farragut when dealing with misunderstood issues. Too much information is far easier to deal with than too little.

Leon Brooks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Michelle, for your recommendation.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve signed up now, despite probably being in the &#8216;States for most of July. Hello from Forrestfield, normally Albany.</p>
<p>Thank you, Bill, for starting the entire discussion.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s more important than most people would believe to take the &#8220;full speed ahead, #### the torpedoes&#8221; approach of Admiral Farragut when dealing with misunderstood issues. Too much information is far easier to deal with than too little.</p>
<p>Leon Brooks</p>
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		<title>By: michelle shave</title>
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		<dc:creator>michelle shave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bill, thanks so much for your cogent review of Daniel Shayesteh&#039;s book which I believe has just been published but I haven&#039;t read as yet. I met Daniel on a couple of occasions when he was doing seminars in Perth and was greatly impressed by his breadth of knowledge as a teacher of comparative religions and a minister of the Gospel, and his humility and great love for Jesus. He is truly a man who God has raised up &#039;for such a time as this&#039;. I&#039;ve been receiving his bi-monthly e-letters from efd@exodusfromdarkness.org.au for several years and would like to encourage any who have an interest in understanding the true nature of Islam and how to better understand and reach out to Muslim people, to get his emails; they include a regular teaching segment relating to Islam/Muslims. There is a great and urgent need for Westerners to have a comprehensive understanding of what Islam is really all about in order to effectively protect ourselves and our way of life while at the same time reaching out with sensitivity and compassion to these dear people who are trapped in this oppressive religious/political system, where the threat of death can be a very real deterrent  to them leaving or converting, as attested to by Daniel.

I have a friend, a Catholic lady of Italian background, who over 12 years ago, applied to teach in an Islamic school  in order to help the children integrate into our way of life, as she herself had had to do as a child.  After nearly 3 years, she resigned, exasperated and outraged at what she witnessed without being able to have her concerns heard or addressed. Allegations of children being physically and sexually abused and malnourished and incidents of female circumcision were largely ignored and  reporting of such was discouraged; Further allegations of indoctrination, children being  discouraged from integrating with non-Muslims and instructed that it&#039;s OK to lie to infidels, steal from them and rape and kill them because they&#039;re infidels; Incidents of fraud, where class numbers were artificially inflated and excessive funds were claimed, allocated and misappropriated (This case is still going through the courts but little is reported on it with the  papers &#039;going quiet&#039;. Why should it have to be so?). There was even a bombing at this school which it is alleged, was carried out by an aggrieved parent of a young girl who was raped by the school bus driver. The school refused to dismiss the driver and in retribution the father bombed the school. But the report that came out was that  local non Muslim residents had carried out the bombing because of their dislike of Muslims - Taqiyya - (w)&#039;holy deception&#039; - allowed/encouraged in the cause of promoting Islam - Jihad by stealth! Such incidents  and allegations are going largely un reported and un addressed while we continue to see an increase in Australia and other Western countries, allowing for the establishment and government funding  of such schools that despise, deny and decry our way of life while all the way accessing its advantages for their own.

While we know not all Muslims adhere to the extremes of Islam, it&#039;s not the moderates that are the problem, just as it was not the moderate majority of the German people who oversaw and enforced the holocaust, but the extremist Nazis who, like the radical Islamist Clerics, gain control through stealth and rule with an iron fist, as we&#039;re currently witnessing in Iran. Unfortunately ignoring a storm will not stop a storm or mitigate its damage. So ignoring the radical Islamists and denying their goal of world domination will not prevent their determined progress and we do so to our own demise as have many other lands before us witnessed by history.  We need to know! The West needs to know! The world needs to know! Please be encouraged to read Daniel&#039;s book, enlist on his web site and forward this article and Exodus From Darknness  emails along with CultureWatch.  God gives us a solemn warning in Hosea 4:6: &quot;My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have  rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you  have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget  your children.&quot;  But He also promises us in Revelations 12:11: &quot;And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.&quot;  Praise God for the living testimony of men such a Daniel, that we can in turn share his testimony with others, in order that together we can overcome and help to set the captives free, knowing that &quot;we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places&quot; Ephesians 6:12.

Michelle Shave</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bill, thanks so much for your cogent review of Daniel Shayesteh&#8217;s book which I believe has just been published but I haven&#8217;t read as yet. I met Daniel on a couple of occasions when he was doing seminars in Perth and was greatly impressed by his breadth of knowledge as a teacher of comparative religions and a minister of the Gospel, and his humility and great love for Jesus. He is truly a man who God has raised up &#8216;for such a time as this&#8217;. I&#8217;ve been receiving his bi-monthly e-letters from <a href="mailto:efd@exodusfromdarkness.org.au">efd@exodusfromdarkness.org.au</a> for several years and would like to encourage any who have an interest in understanding the true nature of Islam and how to better understand and reach out to Muslim people, to get his emails; they include a regular teaching segment relating to Islam/Muslims. There is a great and urgent need for Westerners to have a comprehensive understanding of what Islam is really all about in order to effectively protect ourselves and our way of life while at the same time reaching out with sensitivity and compassion to these dear people who are trapped in this oppressive religious/political system, where the threat of death can be a very real deterrent  to them leaving or converting, as attested to by Daniel.</p>
<p>I have a friend, a Catholic lady of Italian background, who over 12 years ago, applied to teach in an Islamic school  in order to help the children integrate into our way of life, as she herself had had to do as a child.  After nearly 3 years, she resigned, exasperated and outraged at what she witnessed without being able to have her concerns heard or addressed. Allegations of children being physically and sexually abused and malnourished and incidents of female circumcision were largely ignored and  reporting of such was discouraged; Further allegations of indoctrination, children being  discouraged from integrating with non-Muslims and instructed that it&#8217;s OK to lie to infidels, steal from them and rape and kill them because they&#8217;re infidels; Incidents of fraud, where class numbers were artificially inflated and excessive funds were claimed, allocated and misappropriated (This case is still going through the courts but little is reported on it with the  papers &#8216;going quiet&#8217;. Why should it have to be so?). There was even a bombing at this school which it is alleged, was carried out by an aggrieved parent of a young girl who was raped by the school bus driver. The school refused to dismiss the driver and in retribution the father bombed the school. But the report that came out was that  local non Muslim residents had carried out the bombing because of their dislike of Muslims &#8211; Taqiyya &#8211; (w)&#8217;holy deception&#8217; &#8211; allowed/encouraged in the cause of promoting Islam &#8211; Jihad by stealth! Such incidents  and allegations are going largely un reported and un addressed while we continue to see an increase in Australia and other Western countries, allowing for the establishment and government funding  of such schools that despise, deny and decry our way of life while all the way accessing its advantages for their own.</p>
<p>While we know not all Muslims adhere to the extremes of Islam, it&#8217;s not the moderates that are the problem, just as it was not the moderate majority of the German people who oversaw and enforced the holocaust, but the extremist Nazis who, like the radical Islamist Clerics, gain control through stealth and rule with an iron fist, as we&#8217;re currently witnessing in Iran. Unfortunately ignoring a storm will not stop a storm or mitigate its damage. So ignoring the radical Islamists and denying their goal of world domination will not prevent their determined progress and we do so to our own demise as have many other lands before us witnessed by history.  We need to know! The West needs to know! The world needs to know! Please be encouraged to read Daniel&#8217;s book, enlist on his web site and forward this article and Exodus From Darknness  emails along with CultureWatch.  God gives us a solemn warning in Hosea 4:6: &#8220;My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have  rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you  have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget  your children.&#8221;  But He also promises us in Revelations 12:11: &#8220;And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.&#8221;  Praise God for the living testimony of men such a Daniel, that we can in turn share his testimony with others, in order that together we can overcome and help to set the captives free, knowing that &#8220;we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places&#8221; Ephesians 6:12.</p>
<p>Michelle Shave</p>
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		<title>By: Bill Muehlenberg</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill Muehlenberg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Michael

It is available from the author. See his web site for contact details: http://www.exodusfromdarkness.org.au/ 

Also hopefully Koorong Books in Australia will also soon stock it, as well as amazon.com 

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Michael</p>
<p>It is available from the author. See his web site for contact details: <a href="http://www.exodusfromdarkness.org.au/" rel="nofollow">www.exodusfromdarkness.org.au/</a> </p>
<p>Also hopefully Koorong Books in Australia will also soon stock it, as well as <a href="http://amazon.com" class="autohyperlink" title="http://amazon.com" target="_blank">amazon.com</a> </p>
<p>Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Wager</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Wager</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sounds like a good book Bill. I did a quick search on the net and yet couldn&#039;t find it, do you know where could I get a hold of it?
Michael Wager</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sounds like a good book Bill. I did a quick search on the net and yet couldn&#8217;t find it, do you know where could I get a hold of it?<br />
Michael Wager</p>
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		<title>By: Jonathan Foster</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jonathan Foster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m an Australian and taught English in a fundamentally Islamic country for 12 years. Incidentally, like Daniel I found Christ in Islamic territory. My experience was not a dream but a Damascus like encounter with  Our Sovereign God outside a mosgue. The most overwhelming impression of my work teaching preadolescents in this country was their inability to think freely and analytically. Much of my time was spent encouraging students to explore and discover the truth of their reality. The religious schools thwarted many of my efforts by reinvigorating their own indoctrinating, repetitive koranic lessons in Religious School for each half day plus fulltime on Fridays. I look forward to visiting your website Daniel and contributing.
Jonathan Foster</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m an Australian and taught English in a fundamentally Islamic country for 12 years. Incidentally, like Daniel I found Christ in Islamic territory. My experience was not a dream but a Damascus like encounter with  Our Sovereign God outside a mosgue. The most overwhelming impression of my work teaching preadolescents in this country was their inability to think freely and analytically. Much of my time was spent encouraging students to explore and discover the truth of their reality. The religious schools thwarted many of my efforts by reinvigorating their own indoctrinating, repetitive koranic lessons in Religious School for each half day plus fulltime on Fridays. I look forward to visiting your website Daniel and contributing.<br />
Jonathan Foster</p>
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