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ISRAEL 102

MUSLIM PERSPECTIVE OF CHRISTIANITY

As more immigrants come to America from all over the globe, you will notice your neighborhood and community are rapidly changing. To better understand their point of view, “Israel 102” will help.

From a Muslim’s view of America, it is believed that the country as a whole is Christian. Although America was founded and built upon Christian principles, we were not taught Christianity in school. There was no prayer and not even a mention of God in our daily classrooms.

For a Muslim, this is almost incomprehensible. From birth, a child learns that Islam is a way of life. There is no division of the practices of Islam and governmental law. A Muslim is taught to live, breath, think and speak Islamic tradition. Even in a normal conversation, the phrase “Thanks be to Allah” or “Allah be praised,” is casually used in every other sentence.

Daily prayer is practiced five times a day. It is not unusual to see a man in public get out his prayer rug and begin his ritualistic prayer routine. No one criticizes him, in fact no one even notices him.

In all Arab countries and communities throughout the world (including Dearborn, Michigan), a constant reminder to pray is heard over loud speakers coming from the mosque. The “Muslim Call to Prayer” can be heard at precise intervals throughout the day according to the position of the moon. It is not unusual to hear it at 2, 3 or 4’clock in the morning.

With these beliefs, it is no wonder that America is referred to as a “harlot” among Muslims. With rampant pornography and drugs, America and Christianity are seen as a weak and hypocritical nation. But there is a way to show the true love of Jesus as a sincere Christian.

After studying the Koran, the Muslim’s holy book, I have found that the Prophet Mohammad referred to Christians and Jews as being “the people of the Book.” While Mohammad highly criticizes some Jews of corrupting the Torah (Old Testament), he talks about some that are not alike.

Sura 3:10 “Among the people of the Book is an upright folk, who recite the signs of God in the night season, and adore (pray and worship). They believe in God and in the Latter Day, and enjoin justice, and forbid evil, and speed on in good works. These are of the righteous.”

In Sura 10:95 it says, “If you are in doubt as to what We have sent down to you, inquire of those who have read the Scriptures before you.” Again in Sura 3:195 “Among the people of the Book are those who believe in God, and in what He has sent down to you, and in what He hath sent down to them, humbling themselves before God.

The Apostle Paul was humbled and sincere when he wrote I Cor. 2:4 “My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.” Col. 4:5 “Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.”

My friends, we are the people of the Book. We are those, like Paul who are humble before God. Please use this information with prayerful thought when you share these things with your Muslim friends.

God bless, Kris


To Tell The Truth

This is a perfect way to understand, when you know the truth, it will set you free. A lie said long enough and loud enough can get a whole nation killing their own kids. The message this past Sunday was titled "Loving the unlovable" that is a very hard thing to do when someone hates you for no reasons. Pray for our nation and the people of this world, let their eyes be open to the truth, so we stop killing one another.
Remarks of Brigitte Gabriel, delivered at the Duke University Counter-Terrorism Speak-Out:

I'm proud and honored to stand here today, as a Lebanese speaking for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. As someone who was raised in an Arabic country, I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic world.

I was raised in Lebanon, where I was taught that the Jews were evil, Israel was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is when we kill all the Jews and drive them into the sea.

When the Moslems and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in 1975, they started massacring the Christians, city after city. I ended
up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17, without electricity, eating grass to live, and crawling under sniper bullets to
a spring to get water.

It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon . My mother was wounded by a Moslem's shell, and was taken into an Israeli hospital for treatment. When we entered the emergency room, I was shocked at what I saw. There were hundreds of people wounded, Moslems, Palestinians, Christians, Lebanese, and Israeli soldiers lying on the floor. The doctors treated everyone according to their injury. They treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying next to her. They didn't see religion, they didn't see political affiliation, they saw people in need and they helped.

For the first time in my life I experi enced a human quality that I know my culture would not have shown to their enemy. I experienced the
values of the Israelis, who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital. Those days changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television. I realized I was sold a fabricated lie by my
government, about the Jews and Israel, that was so far from reality. I knew for fact that, if I was a Jew standing in an Arab hospital, I
would be lynched and thrown over to the grounds, as shouts of joy of Allah Akbar, God is great, would echo through the hospital and the
surrounding streets.

I became friends with the families of the Israeli wounded soldiers: one in particular Rina, her only child was wounded in his eyes.

One day I was visiting with her, and the Israeli army band came to play national songs to lift the spirits of the wounded soldiers. As they
surrounded his bed playing a song about Jerusalem, Rina and I started crying. I felt out of place and started waking out of the room, and this mother holds my hand and pulls me back in without even looking at me. She holds me crying and says: "it is not your fault". We just stood there crying, holding each other's hands.

What a contrast between her, a mother looking at her deformed 19 year old only child, and still able to love me the enemy, and between a
Moslem mother who sends her son to blow himself up to smithereens just to kill a few Jews or Christians.

The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in values and character. It's barbarism verses civilization. It's democracy
verses dictatorship. It's goodness verses evil.

Once upon a time, there was a special place in the lowest depths of hell for anyone who would intentionally murder a child. Now, the intentional murder of Israeli children is legitimized as Palestinian "armed struggle."

However, once such behavior is legitimized against Israel, it is legitimized every where in the world, constrained by nothing more than
the subjective belief of people who would wrap themselves in dynamite and nails for the purpose of killing children in the name of God.

Because the Palestinians have been enco uraged to believe that murdering innocent Israeli civilians is a legitimate tactic for advancing their
cause, the whole world now suffers from a plague of terrorism, from Nairobi to New York, from Moscow to Madrid, from Bali to Beslan.

They blame suicide bombing on "desperation of occupation". Let me tell you the truth. The first major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the Jewish state occurred ten weeks before Israel even became independent.

On Sunday morning, February 22, 1948 , in anticipation of Israel 's independence, a triple truck bomb was detonated by Arab terrorists on
Ben Yehuda Street , in what was then the Jewish section of Jerusalem. Fifty-four people were killed, and hundreds were wounded. Thus, it is obvious that Arab terr orism is caused not by the "desperation" of "occupation", but by the VERY THOUGHT of a Jewish state.

So many times in history in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and defeated communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance. It's time to all stand up, and support and defend the state of Israel , which is the front line of the war against terrorism.


Date: May 6, 2010
Submitted by: Tish Ramirez

Prayer Request for:
America, and it's health care system


My sister who is in the Medical Field in the state of Missouri forward this on to me and she is a bill coder.

A bill coder works on getting your insurance company to pay for your visitations to the doctor’s office, hospital, etc…

Let’s also keep our Doctors in prayer and all the seniors out there as well as those on Medicare in our prayers.

Pray also for that congress and the President do the right thing.

Thank you.
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What Health Law Didn't Fix: Medicare Doc Pay
by Julie Rovner

May 6, 2010

Call it Medicare's version of Groundhog Day.

For the third time this year, Congress has just days to avert a scheduled 21 percent cut in pay to doctors who treat seniors and others on the Medicare program. And while just about everyone agrees a cut of that magnitude would be devastating for Medicare and the patients it serves, no one seems to be able to figure out how to solve the problem in anything except a stopgap way.

How It Began

The trouble actually dates back to 1997, when Congress passed a balanced budget law that put the current formula in place determining how doctors will be paid. The idea was that if doctors as a group cost Medicare too much, their pay would be docked to make up the difference in future years.

But James Rohack, president of the American Medical Association, says it was clear from the start that the "sustainable growth rate" would be anything but.

"We want to keep people healthy, and this formula penalizes [doctors] for doing the quality care you want," Rohack says.

For example, he says, "by keeping people's blood sugars under control, or helping them stay out of the hospital when they have heart failure," doctors may save Medicare money overall, but run up overall physician spending that then triggers future physician pay cuts.

Finding Physicians Who Take Medicare

And if those cuts get big enough, people worry that over time there will be more patients like Janice Jessup, a Medicare beneficiary in Virginia Beach, Va.

The last time Jessup needed to find a new primary care doctor a couple of years ago, she says she called as many as 40 doctors all over town. And what did they tell her?

"They weren't taking Medicare patients anymore," she says.

Jessup, who had severely cut her leg and ended up needing substantial follow-up care, eventually went to a walk-in clinic where she did get the care she needed. But it wasn't the care she wanted.

"It isn't the full medical attention you need with a primary physician. No lab tests or anything," she says.

'Chaos' For Doctors

From the doctors' point of view, however, it's not hard to see why they're getting more reluctant to take on new Medicare patients.

"We haven't had a raise in seven years," says Joseph Stubbs, the immediate past president of the American College of Physicians, which represents more than 100,000 internists.

Stubbs says as professionals, doctors feel a strong sense of duty to continue to care for their Medicare patients, even when profits erode. But at some point the balance will tip, he says, including for his own group of nine doctors in Georgia.

"We're having to face, well, if those cuts go into effect, we need to cut personnel," he says. "It will cost us, instead of reimburse us, to take care of Medicare beneficiaries."

And Congress has now made matters even worse, Stubbs says, by delaying the cuts not a year at a time, but — because of complicated federal budget rules — only by a month or two.

That's because making the cuts disappear entirely would add to the federal deficit at eye-popping amounts. An estimate issued last week by the Congressional Budget Office said merely canceling projected cuts in Medicare pay for doctors over the next decade — without giving them any increases — could cost $276 billion over the next decade.

But the short-term fixes have left physicians wondering what their income might be, and what to tell patients.

"It is absolute chaos for us as business people," Stubbs says. "What business could deal with not knowing whether your price is going to be up in the next month, or the same, or be cut by 21 percent? It's no way to be able to plan."

Searching For A New System Isn't Easy

Groups representing patients want to ensure that there are enough doctors to serve Medicare beneficiaries. But they're wary about the doctors' prescription for fixing the problem, which calls for repealing the current formula in its entirety.

"We don't just want to just remove all limits on what doctors can charge. That's a good way to get to bankruptcy," says John Rother of the senior group AARP.

Still, Rother agrees with the physician groups that Congress has not been fair about its handling of their Medicare payments.

"No one would defend a month at a time. Even a year at a time is problematic. So we certainly believe if it can't be permanent, it ought to be a multiyear fix," he says.

Physicians, not surprisingly, are a bit more emphatic about what they want from Congress, particularly after the issue got punted from the recently enacted health overhaul bill because of its price tag.

"From a fiscal standpoint, when they say they, 'Well gee, we can't do it because it will add to the deficit,' well, the reality is every one of these temporary patches has grown the deficit," says Rohack. "They could have fixed this three years ago for less than $50 billion."

Now the number is rapidly approaching $300 billion.

So the search continues for a new system that would pay doctors on Medicare fairly, but neither too much nor too little. That search has, so far, been elusive.

And the latest delay in the cut expires on May 31.





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