Interfaith Meetings in the USA.... Not Good.

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Dear  Friends and Readers"
   I am blessed and happy to have a small inner circle of trusted Christians friends who like to keep me more informed of every day matters and big matters.  Today I am sharing a post/ article from a friend named Ruth Hammon, a smart, Christian, friend of mine who lives far from me.   Here is a serious subject of Interfaith movement --- but the KJV Bible says this is not something that Christians ever want to do,  no matter what some goofy, non-biblical 'clergy/ leaders' say !   'You cannot eat from the table of God Yahweh, and also the table of demons !'   If you want book, chapter and verse,  I can easily put that in my blog post, too.


Warm Regards,
Tommy  Schuckman

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I believe these interfaith meetings are one sided and the muslims do not listen or take the Word of Christianity

at all....they are for the spreading of Islam and the destruction of Christianity!!

I am shocked that Presbyterians and other denominations are so blind  about this topic and cannot see that it is

like inviting satan to come and be with them in church!  God protect Christians in the evil of this world.  We must

stand up against the turning of those from the truth to satans ways.

If you feel inclined to, write to the head of the Presbyterians and remind them of the truth and that Islam is VERY

far from that!  Islam and muslims goal is for us to change to Islam, not the other way around!!  And for us to be 

accepting of  them as okay even though they want to destroy the truth and Christianity-- their goal of ruling the

world with Islam....that cannot happen!

 

TO UNDERSTAND ISLAM, READ THE KORAN! TO UNDERSTAND NAZISM, READ "MEIN KAMPF".   – Fight against those to whom the Scriptures [i.e. Jews and Christians] were given… until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued. Koran 9:2  – In blasphemy indeed are those who say God is Christ the son of Mary. Koran 5:17  – The Jews call Ezra a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah … Allah’s curse be on them.  Koran 9:30 Home End Times Great Apostasy Presbyterian Church USA Prays to Allah, Calls Muhammad a Prophet     Presbyterian Church USA Prays to Allah, Calls Muhammad a Prophet Posted By: External Sourceon: July 01, 2016In: Great Apostasy, U.S. Print Email “Allah bless us and bless our families and bless our Lord. Lead us on the straight path—the path of all prophets: Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad.” These were the words that rang out over the congregation at The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, USA meeting in Portland, Oregon. Wajidi Said, co-founder of the Muslim Education Trust, led the attendees in the prayer to the Islamic deity—a move arranged by the Ecumenical and Interfaith ministry staff at the assembly.   The prayer was part of the “first order of business” during the meeting’s opening session, a time dedicated to praying for those affected by the Orlando shooting that occurred just weeks before. “In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful, let us praise the Lord … Peace be upon them and peace be upon Allah,” Said prayed. He also prayed peace on the “bigots” and “Islamaphobes.” Later, at the conclusion of the session, Rev. Gradye Parsons offered an apology to anyone who was offended by the prayer. He assured the congregation that mistakes can be made, but the prayer was not an intentional one. “It was never the intention to offend anyone, and we offer an apology to those who were offended,” Rev. Parsons said. But the Presbyterian church still affirms that it will advocate for “positive relationships with people of other religious traditions” and is committed to fighting “the rise in Islamophobia.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/bds-occupies-the-national-cathedral Jihad Watch Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts BDS Occupies the National Cathedral May 11, 2017 3:49 am By Andrew Harrod “Watching this film is a holy task,” prayed Rabbi Joseph Berman from Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) on March 5 while introducing the anti-Israel movie The Occupation of the American Mind at Washington, DC’s National Cathedral. Far from the sacred, this screening and the rest of the 2017 Voices from the Holy Land film series used a national landmark as a venue for radical groups to incite Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. As earlier during the series in the cathedral’s Perry Auditorium, film discussion moderator and former Foreign Service Officer Bud Hensgen noted his successes lobbying against anti-BDS legislation in his home state of Virginia. His BDS colleague from Maryland, Washington, DC Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA) coordinator Paul Verduin, discussed his similar efforts with Freedom2Boycott in Maryland, an organization listed in film series flyers. A veiled Muslim woman in the audience from Maryland praised Allah, “hamdullah,” for her successful participation in this Maryland activism. The earlier February 26 screening of Where Should the Birds Fly gave insight into the film series’ presenters and audience. Previously reviewed by this author, this propaganda film presents an illusion of a seemingly defenseless Gaza Strip enduring senseless Israeli airstrikes during the 2008-2009 Israeli Cast Lead operation against Hamas jihadists. Imam Johari Abdul-Malik from northern Virginia’s terror-tied Dar al-Hijrah mosque began the film discussion with a prayer for God “to soothe the pain of our viewing of this horror story” of “atrocities.” Introduced by Abdul-Malik, United Palestinian Appeal Executive Director Saleem F. Zaru continued the film’s suspension of disbelief. Asked by this author about the film being devoid of any reference to Hamas’ dictatorship and significant arsenal in Gaza, Zaru responded with laughable doubletalk. “Gaza is a demilitarized zone. Whatever Hamas gets of weapons or any kind of arsenal is probably homemade” and Hamas’ military presence is “underground and it is very insignificant.” Zaru’s audience offered no countervailing grasp of reality, as one questioner spoke of Israel’s “U.S.-made weapons of destruction raining down on a helpless people with hardly any military response.” Delinda C. Hanley, news editor of the “virulently anti-Israel” and anti-Semitic Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, stated that “you have seen this film; you have ammunition to say this isn’t [Israel’s] protection, this is horror.” Another audience member who identified himself as Palestinian received applause when he stated that the “whole idea behind what they [Israelis] do is to break the Palestinian people.” Audience responses to the film were correspondingly strident, as one woman stated that American aid to Israel meant that “blood is on our hands.” She receives Democratic Party fundraising mailings, “and I keep the envelopes to send them back to say we will not give money as long as you are continuing to support the killing of the Palestinian people.” The audience applauded again when a self-identified American Jew (Bob Gris?) asked about trying to screen the film at Washington, DC’s United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). The “day after we achieve that, this problem will be solved,” he absurdly stated. The Perry Auditorium’s political atmosphere remained the same during the April 2 screening of The Living of the Pigeons and six short films produced jointly by The Guardian and the radical Israeli group B’Tselem. Susan Wilder, former associate minister of Springfield, Virginia’s Grace Presbyterian Church, a film series sponsor, gave a welcome address. This BDS supporter is a member of the Presbyterian Church USA’s radically anti-Israel and anti-Semitic Israel/Palestine Mission Network (IPMN), to which Verduin also belongs. Tom Getman, an advisory board member of the anti-Israel FOSNA, (where Verduin is an activist) and a founder of Capitol Hill’s St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Middle East Working Group, a film series supporter, introduced himself to this author. The former World Vision executive Getman played a significant role in developing this Christian aid organization’s anti-Israel bias. Similarly, the post-film panel featured Takoma Park, Maryland, JVP member Liana Smith and her fellow Marylander Marvin Silver, a pastor from the pro-BDS United Church of Christ (UCC). Smith praised JVP’s “fairly courageous stand” of having “answered what is considered the full call for BDS” as well as JVP’s support for Black Lives Matter statement on Israel, an “incredible document.” “Jewish Voice for Peace strongly supported every single word in that platform,” she stated, even while noting the controversy over the platform’s slander of an Israeli “genocide taking place against the Palestinian people.” The BDS supporter Silver recalled his visit to the Holy Land and stated that “my mind just could not stop making the comparison between the struggles of the Palestinians and the struggle of Africans here in the U.S.” for centuries. The audience continued such demonization of Israel as Gris again received applause when he asked why the film series did not screen at the USHMM, where “it really could make a major impact on the Jewish community in seeing parallels.” He inquired about no synagogues supporting the film series; a series organizer who noted his Palestinian flag lapel pin responded that he “got nowhere” when soliciting about a half dozen synagogues. The synagogues’ reaction is not surprising, given the audience attendance of the northern Virginia anti-Semite and Holocaust denier Ken Meyercord along with his Palestinian wife. He stated that the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act under consideration in the Senate “rather severely curtails criticism of Israel” on American university campuses. Maryn Goodson from Westmoreland Congregational UCC in Washington, DC’s Maryland suburbs and vice-chair of the UCC’s Palestine-Israel Network (UCC PIN) also noted Jewish hostility to the film series’ BDS supporters. She stated that a local rabbi stopped speaking with Westmoreland’s pastor Timothy Tutt after the UCC in 2015 adopted a BDS resolution, for which UCC PIN was a key supporter. He would moderate discussion of the film series’ last screening on April 23, which only one synagogue, Washington, DC’s Temple Emanuel, had agreed to sponsor. This lack of Jewish support appeared logical given the screening of Out of Cordoba with its director Jacob Bender, the only Jewish director of a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) chapter (Philadelphia). This leftist noted during the post-film discussion that “groups like the ADL [Anti-Defamation League] pretty much put a fatwa on my head and said that no Jewish organization should meet with me or with CAIR.” While most Jews rightfully reject relations with the Hamas-derived and radical CAIR, he noted that “wonderful groups like J Street and Jewish Voice for Peace” have ignored this appeal. Bender’s film, funded in part by Saudi Arabia’s Alwaleed bin Talal Foundation, focused on Spain’s Islamic past, often mythologized as a period of interreligious tolerance, yet did not leave out criticizing Israel. His film narration noted that “I had increasingly despaired at the direction of the Jewish state.” In the film’s concluding segment he meets with Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of the Israeli leftist group Rabbis for Human Rights to discuss Jewish settlements in the “occupied Palestinian territories.” By contrast, Bender’s film narration glosses over the flight of Egypt’s Jewish community from antisemitism following Israel’s 1948 establishment, stating that the “reasons for its disappearance are many.” Bender noted his refusal of frequent requests from synagogues to show Out of Cordoba without its last controversial 12 minutes, and this screening similarly did not proceed without criticism. Largely unique for the film series, his film provoked critical inquiries from two Jewish audience members. One Temple Emanuel congregant noted the Palestinian olive oil on sale in the auditorium and asked for Bender’s “thoughts about having both Israeli and Palestinian products offered here.” The other Jew criticized the lack of explanatory context for Israel’s separation barrier shown in the film, built after hundreds of Israeli deaths in Palestinian terrorist attacks. Bender responded that the “separation wall so-called or the apartheid wall or the barrier in dozens and dozens of places deviates from the boundary between Israel and Palestine.” Given his false understanding of an international border between Israel and what are, in fact, territories disputed between Israelis and Palestinians, he decried the “continual process of colonization and taking Palestinian land.” Andrea Barron from the Washington Area Jews for Jewish-Muslim Understanding meanwhile approved of Bender’s film treatment of the “occupied territories.” She probably also had no objection to his CAIR position. Her group namely hosted CAIR’s director Nihad Awad to a 2015 Seder. Another female audience member exhibited similar naiveté while noting that she, from a mixed Muslim-Druze Lebanese background, now worships with Quakers and is active in JVP. “In Lebanon the three religions did coexist and do coexist, and so did they in Iraq,” she stated as if Middle East religious minorities had not suffered from jihad and Islamic supremacism. “They just live and love each other and can work with each other just like we do in here the United States. It’s when the politics get in the way, when the military complex wants to sell more arms, they basically start dividing people among religions.” The Voices of the Holy Land film series indicates the sad state of the National Cathedral, where once President George W. Bush rallied America in response to Al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001, attacks. Now the National Cathedral plays host to the enemies of Israel, a country also targeted by Islamic jihadists, all with the sponsorship of the Jerusalem Companion Diocese Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC. While the Episcopal Church itself has rejected BDS, the committee’s chair Tom Johnson and National Cathedral Dean Randy Hollerith each had no problems introducing respectively the April 2 and March 26 (Open Bethlehem) screenings. The National Cathedral’s willingness to countenance BDS is part of the cathedral’s ever more progressive agenda within a wider Episcopal Church, clearing ever more pews with leftist ideology. The cathedral’s rainbow agenda includes pro-Islam events such as Muslim prayer services, transgendered priests, same-sex “marriages,” and the proposed removal of stained glass windows honoring Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. In response, Americans should boycott not Israel, but the National Cathedral, and find another national house of worship.

Hello Dear Friends and avid Readers:
    I am happy and grateful to have a double handful of close, trusted, Christian, Friends and Email buddies.   One of them is,  Ruth H., who is a smart, intelligent, good Patriot and lover of Liberty and Freedom !   I am posting a great,  eye opening, article that she sent me.   Honest Lovers of the Bible,  and studied Christians who really know the KJV Bible from years of serious study [me included], KNOW that the Lord, Father God Yahweh strictly FORBID any mixing of our Christian, Biblical Faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior !   Period.   That is a sin !   It is said in His Word the KJV Bible, that Yahweh [or the Latinized  version:  JEHOVAH], is a jealous God.    Satan tried/ wanted to have humans worship him, an angel,  but Yahweh put him in his place.   Satan, after 6000 years of damage, knows that his 'time is short' and he will eventually be throw into an abyss of darkness and punishment for 1000 years, after Armageddon {Revelation 16: 16} ---- but for now, Satan and his bad angels are still trying to sway humans to follow him and persecute all Christians.  
     I know that it takes time, effort, and discipline to sit down, turn off the TV, and put down your hand held cell phones/ toys that honestly hurt your eyes.   But the fruit of hard but fun, reading and study of the Bible are well worth your efforts, dear Friends !   As I have always pounded on my humble Blog,  start with the Gospels and Romans, first.   Then read the New Testament, and then go back and read the entire Bible.    You will be a much better, well rounded human being who now knows the TRUTH that can set you free --- even in a Satanic world.   If you want more Scriptural proof,  just email me:   tschuckman@aol.com


PTL,  our weather is finally starting to warm up and melt the snow and ice !  
     About a month ago,  I was trying to get inside my cool Dodge Ram pick up truck that is a little higher off the ground than a car.... lol, and there was thick ice all around the truck, and I slipped and fell on my back, and reinjured my poor, broken, fractured back !   Ouch!   I later had my entire back X-rayed at the local Iron Mountain, MI., VAMC [Veterans' Hospital],  but they said that I had a bad condition of lumbar spine deterioration with very thin 'disks',  but I also had a serious motorcycle accident in 1997, that fracture 6-12 ribs on my right side that never really healed.   Doctors many years ago used to "wrap the fractured ribs,"  but they found out that wrapping ribs led to getting pneumonia,  so they stopped doing that procedure.   So now days, unless the fractured bones are sticking out of your skin/ body,  the doctors just allow the ribs to heal in place.   But we have to be careful on ice in the Winter time,  because we can "re-injure" our old injuries !!   And when we grow old,  pain is a reality of life.   I think that older people wish and pray for heaven.   I do, right now.   But I also am preparing my good wife to learn how to survive and I also invest $$$  to make  sure she will be OK.   I am so thankful that I took the chance in working and studying Financial 'vehicles' that work for you, in investing and getting a good return for our efforts !   At least I know what NOT top invest in --- all the scams that clean you out and fail.   Beware of "Whole Life" insurance !   You are better off with Term Life Insurance and invest the money in "Metals" like silver, gold, etc., canned, stored food and water, and the right "Hardware" to protect against rioting people who never worked in their life, and illegal aliens.   Pray hard, all the time.   Study the BOOK.
Secret.... shhhhhh !


I hope you all have a very nice, safe day.   I am very happy with my wife, and what ever we have,  besides love and respect.


Warm Regards,
Thomas G Schuckman

I believe these interfaith meetings are one sided and the muslims do not listen or take the Word of Christianity

at all....they are for the spreading of Islam and the destruction of Christianity!!

I am shocked that Presbyterians and other denominations are so blind  about this topic and cannot see that it is

like inviting satan to come and be with them in church!  God protect Christians in the evil of this world.  We must

stand up against the turning of those from the truth to satans ways.

If you feel inclined to, write to the head of the Presbyterians and remind them of the truth and that Islam is VERY

far from that!  Islam and muslims goal is for us to change to Islam, not the other way around!!  And for us to be 

accepting of  them as okay even though they want to destroy the truth and Christianity-- their goal of ruling the

world with Islam....that cannot happen!

 

TO UNDERSTAND ISLAM, READ THE KORAN! TO UNDERSTAND NAZISM, READ "MEIN KAMPF".   – Fight against those to whom the Scriptures [i.e. Jews and Christians] were given… until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued. Koran 9:2  – In blasphemy indeed are those who say God is Christ the son of Mary. Koran 5:17  – The Jews call Ezra a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah … Allah’s curse be on them.  Koran 9:30 Home End Times Great Apostasy Presbyterian Church USA Prays to Allah, Calls Muhammad a Prophet     Presbyterian Church USA Prays to Allah, Calls Muhammad a Prophet Posted By: External Sourceon: July 01, 2016In: Great Apostasy, U.S. Print Email “Allah bless us and bless our families and bless our Lord. Lead us on the straight path—the path of all prophets: Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad.” These were the words that rang out over the congregation at The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, USA meeting in Portland, Oregon. Wajidi Said, co-founder of the Muslim Education Trust, led the attendees in the prayer to the Islamic deity—a move arranged by the Ecumenical and Interfaith ministry staff at the assembly.   The prayer was part of the “first order of business” during the meeting’s opening session, a time dedicated to praying for those affected by the Orlando shooting that occurred just weeks before. “In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful, let us praise the Lord … Peace be upon them and peace be upon Allah,” Said prayed. He also prayed peace on the “bigots” and “Islamaphobes.” Later, at the conclusion of the session, Rev. Gradye Parsons offered an apology to anyone who was offended by the prayer. He assured the congregation that mistakes can be made, but the prayer was not an intentional one. “It was never the intention to offend anyone, and we offer an apology to those who were offended,” Rev. Parsons said. But the Presbyterian church still affirms that it will advocate for “positive relationships with people of other religious traditions” and is committed to fighting “the rise in Islamophobia.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/bds-occupies-the-national-cathedral Jihad Watch Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts BDS Occupies the National Cathedral May 11, 2017 3:49 am By Andrew Harrod “Watching this film is a holy task,” prayed Rabbi Joseph Berman from Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) on March 5 while introducing the anti-Israel movie The Occupation of the American Mind at Washington, DC’s National Cathedral. Far from the sacred, this screening and the rest of the 2017 Voices from the Holy Land film series used a national landmark as a venue for radical groups to incite Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. As earlier during the series in the cathedral’s Perry Auditorium, film discussion moderator and former Foreign Service Officer Bud Hensgen noted his successes lobbying against anti-BDS legislation in his home state of Virginia. His BDS colleague from Maryland, Washington, DC Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA) coordinator Paul Verduin, discussed his similar efforts with Freedom2Boycott in Maryland, an organization listed in film series flyers. A veiled Muslim woman in the audience from Maryland praised Allah, “hamdullah,” for her successful participation in this Maryland activism. The earlier February 26 screening of Where Should the Birds Fly gave insight into the film series’ presenters and audience. Previously reviewed by this author, this propaganda film presents an illusion of a seemingly defenseless Gaza Strip enduring senseless Israeli airstrikes during the 2008-2009 Israeli Cast Lead operation against Hamas jihadists. Imam Johari Abdul-Malik from northern Virginia’s terror-tied Dar al-Hijrah mosque began the film discussion with a prayer for God “to soothe the pain of our viewing of this horror story” of “atrocities.” Introduced by Abdul-Malik, United Palestinian Appeal Executive Director Saleem F. Zaru continued the film’s suspension of disbelief. Asked by this author about the film being devoid of any reference to Hamas’ dictatorship and significant arsenal in Gaza, Zaru responded with laughable doubletalk. “Gaza is a demilitarized zone. Whatever Hamas gets of weapons or any kind of arsenal is probably homemade” and Hamas’ military presence is “underground and it is very insignificant.” Zaru’s audience offered no countervailing grasp of reality, as one questioner spoke of Israel’s “U.S.-made weapons of destruction raining down on a helpless people with hardly any military response.” Delinda C. Hanley, news editor of the “virulently anti-Israel” and anti-Semitic Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, stated that “you have seen this film; you have ammunition to say this isn’t [Israel’s] protection, this is horror.” Another audience member who identified himself as Palestinian received applause when he stated that the “whole idea behind what they [Israelis] do is to break the Palestinian people.” Audience responses to the film were correspondingly strident, as one woman stated that American aid to Israel meant that “blood is on our hands.” She receives Democratic Party fundraising mailings, “and I keep the envelopes to send them back to say we will not give money as long as you are continuing to support the killing of the Palestinian people.” The audience applauded again when a self-identified American Jew (Bob Gris?) asked about trying to screen the film at Washington, DC’s United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). The “day after we achieve that, this problem will be solved,” he absurdly stated. The Perry Auditorium’s political atmosphere remained the same during the April 2 screening of The Living of the Pigeons and six short films produced jointly by The Guardian and the radical Israeli group B’Tselem. Susan Wilder, former associate minister of Springfield, Virginia’s Grace Presbyterian Church, a film series sponsor, gave a welcome address. This BDS supporter is a member of the Presbyterian Church USA’s radically anti-Israel and anti-Semitic Israel/Palestine Mission Network (IPMN), to which Verduin also belongs. Tom Getman, an advisory board member of the anti-Israel FOSNA, (where Verduin is an activist) and a founder of Capitol Hill’s St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Middle East Working Group, a film series supporter, introduced himself to this author. The former World Vision executive Getman played a significant role in developing this Christian aid organization’s anti-Israel bias. Similarly, the post-film panel featured Takoma Park, Maryland, JVP member Liana Smith and her fellow Marylander Marvin Silver, a pastor from the pro-BDS United Church of Christ (UCC). Smith praised JVP’s “fairly courageous stand” of having “answered what is considered the full call for BDS” as well as JVP’s support for Black Lives Matter statement on Israel, an “incredible document.” “Jewish Voice for Peace strongly supported every single word in that platform,” she stated, even while noting the controversy over the platform’s slander of an Israeli “genocide taking place against the Palestinian people.” The BDS supporter Silver recalled his visit to the Holy Land and stated that “my mind just could not stop making the comparison between the struggles of the Palestinians and the struggle of Africans here in the U.S.” for centuries. The audience continued such demonization of Israel as Gris again received applause when he asked why the film series did not screen at the USHMM, where “it really could make a major impact on the Jewish community in seeing parallels.” He inquired about no synagogues supporting the film series; a series organizer who noted his Palestinian flag lapel pin responded that he “got nowhere” when soliciting about a half dozen synagogues. The synagogues’ reaction is not surprising, given the audience attendance of the northern Virginia anti-Semite and Holocaust denier Ken Meyercord along with his Palestinian wife. He stated that the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act under consideration in the Senate “rather severely curtails criticism of Israel” on American university campuses. Maryn Goodson from Westmoreland Congregational UCC in Washington, DC’s Maryland suburbs and vice-chair of the UCC’s Palestine-Israel Network (UCC PIN) also noted Jewish hostility to the film series’ BDS supporters. She stated that a local rabbi stopped speaking with Westmoreland’s pastor Timothy Tutt after the UCC in 2015 adopted a BDS resolution, for which UCC PIN was a key supporter. He would moderate discussion of the film series’ last screening on April 23, which only one synagogue, Washington, DC’s Temple Emanuel, had agreed to sponsor. This lack of Jewish support appeared logical given the screening of Out of Cordoba with its director Jacob Bender, the only Jewish director of a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) chapter (Philadelphia). This leftist noted during the post-film discussion that “groups like the ADL [Anti-Defamation League] pretty much put a fatwa on my head and said that no Jewish organization should meet with me or with CAIR.” While most Jews rightfully reject relations with the Hamas-derived and radical CAIR, he noted that “wonderful groups like J Street and Jewish Voice for Peace” have ignored this appeal. Bender’s film, funded in part by Saudi Arabia’s Alwaleed bin Talal Foundation, focused on Spain’s Islamic past, often mythologized as a period of interreligious tolerance, yet did not leave out criticizing Israel. His film narration noted that “I had increasingly despaired at the direction of the Jewish state.” In the film’s concluding segment he meets with Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of the Israeli leftist group Rabbis for Human Rights to discuss Jewish settlements in the “occupied Palestinian territories.” By contrast, Bender’s film narration glosses over the flight of Egypt’s Jewish community from antisemitism following Israel’s 1948 establishment, stating that the “reasons for its disappearance are many.” Bender noted his refusal of frequent requests from synagogues to show Out of Cordoba without its last controversial 12 minutes, and this screening similarly did not proceed without criticism. Largely unique for the film series, his film provoked critical inquiries from two Jewish audience members. One Temple Emanuel congregant noted the Palestinian olive oil on sale in the auditorium and asked for Bender’s “thoughts about having both Israeli and Palestinian products offered here.” The other Jew criticized the lack of explanatory context for Israel’s separation barrier shown in the film, built after hundreds of Israeli deaths in Palestinian terrorist attacks. Bender responded that the “separation wall so-called or the apartheid wall or the barrier in dozens and dozens of places deviates from the boundary between Israel and Palestine.” Given his false understanding of an international border between Israel and what are, in fact, territories disputed between Israelis and Palestinians, he decried the “continual process of colonization and taking Palestinian land.” Andrea Barron from the Washington Area Jews for Jewish-Muslim Understanding meanwhile approved of Bender’s film treatment of the “occupied territories.” She probably also had no objection to his CAIR position. Her group namely hosted CAIR’s director Nihad Awad to a 2015 Seder. Another female audience member exhibited similar naiveté while noting that she, from a mixed Muslim-Druze Lebanese background, now worships with Quakers and is active in JVP. “In Lebanon the three religions did coexist and do coexist, and so did they in Iraq,” she stated as if Middle East religious minorities had not suffered from jihad and Islamic supremacism. “They just live and love each other and can work with each other just like we do in here the United States. It’s when the politics get in the way, when the military complex wants to sell more arms, they basically start dividing people among religions.” The Voices of the Holy Land film series indicates the sad state of the National Cathedral, where once President George W. Bush rallied America in response to Al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001, attacks. Now the National Cathedral plays host to the enemies of Israel, a country also targeted by Islamic jihadists, all with the sponsorship of the Jerusalem Companion Diocese Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC. While the Episcopal Church itself has rejected BDS, the committee’s chair Tom Johnson and National Cathedral Dean Randy Hollerith each had no problems introducing respectively the April 2 and March 26 (Open Bethlehem) screenings. The National Cathedral’s willingness to countenance BDS is part of the cathedral’s ever more progressive agenda within a wider Episcopal Church, clearing ever more pews with leftist ideology. The cathedral’s rainbow agenda includes pro-Islam events such as Muslim prayer services, transgendered priests, same-sex “marriages,” and the proposed removal of stained glass windows honoring Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. In response, Americans should boycott not Israel, but the National Cathedral, and find another national house of worship.