American Minute with Bill Federer
United Nations began with "high ideals" but has seen "a growing disregard for the U.N. Charter"
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
coined the name
"United Nations"
for the
allied countries
fighting together to
preserve western Judeo-Christian civilization
against the
National Socialist Workers Party (Nazi)
and their totalitarian
axis powers.
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Franklin Roosevelt
stated May 10, 1940:
"Americans
might have to become the
guardian of Western culture,
the
protector of
Christian civilization."
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Roosevelt
stated on Labor Day, September 1, 1941:
"Preservation of these rights
is vitally important now, not only to us who enjoy them - but to the whole
future of Christian civilization."
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Roosevelt
stated September 2, 1940:
"If the spirit of God is not in us, and if we will not prepare to give all that we have and all that we are to
preserve Christian civilization
in our land, we shall go to destruction."
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Roosevelt
stated June 6, 1944:
"Almighty God,
Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic,
our religion, and our civilization."
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Speaking on Justice for War Crimes, March 24, 1944,
Franklin Roosevelt
explained the
original goal of the "United Nations"
involved
protecting the Jews:
"In one of the blackest crimes of all history -- begun by the
Nazis
... the wholesale
systematic murder of the Jews
of Europe goes on unabated ...
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... Hundreds of thousands of
Jews
... are now
threatened with annihilation
as
Hitler's forces descend
...
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... The
United Nations
have made it clear that they will pursue the guilty ... All who knowingly take part in the
deportation of Jews to their death
... are equally guilty with the executioner ...
The
United Nations
are fighting to
make a world in which tyranny and aggression cannot exist."
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On November 11, 1942,
President Roosevelt
complimented the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America:
"If the world to emerge from the war after a victory of the
United Nations
is to be a world of enduring peace and of freedom, that peace and that freedom must be
founded on renewed loyalty to the spiritual values
...
Enemies of mankind
who are arrayed in battle against us realized this, and therefore began their effort to subdue the world with
an assault on religious institutions
... which ... taught ... the
dignity and worth of human personality
...
In cooperation with
Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant
scholars ... it will in time, I trust, become an increasingly powerful instrument for enlightening men of all faiths."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
died April 12, 1945.
The day after his funeral,
President Harry S Truman
told Congress, April 16, 1945:
"Our forefathers came to our rugged shores in search of
religious tolerance
...
Within an hour after I took the oath of office, I announced that the
San Francisco (United Nations) Conference
would proceed ...
In the
memory of our fallen President
... I appeal to every American ... to support our efforts to build a strong and lasting
United Nations Organization
... with
Divine guidance,
and your help ...
I humbly pray
Almighty God,
in the words of
King Solomon:
'Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart.'"
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In April 25, 1945,
President Truman
addressed
United Nations
delegates at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco:
"At no time in history has there been a more important Conference than this one in
San Francisco
which you are opening today ...
This Conference owes its existence, in a large part, to the vision, foresight, and determination of
Franklin Roosevelt ...
We must work ... to guarantee justice -- for all ...
We must make certain ... that another war will be impossible.
We, who have lived through the torture and the tragedy of two world conflicts, must realize the magnitude of the problem before us ...
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... We must not continue to sacrifice the flower of our youth merely to check madmen, those who in every age plan world domination ...
Justice remains the greatest power on earth ...
As we are about to undertake our heavy duties,
we beseech our Almighty God
to guide us in the building of a permanent monument to those who gave their lives that this moment might come. May
He lead our steps
in His own righteous path of peace."
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The
United Nations Charter
was signed June 26, 1945, by 51 member nations.
The
United Nations
began with high hopes, as
President Harry S Truman
stated, March 6, 1946:
"We have just come though a decade in which
the forces of evil
in various parts of the world have been lined up in a bitter
fight to banish
from the face of the earth both
these ideals -- religion and democracy
...
founded on one basic principle, the
worth and dignity of the individual man and woman.
Dictatorship
... is founded on the doctrine that ...
men and women and children
were put on earth solely for the purpose of
serving the State
..."
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Truman
continued:
"The
Protestant Church,
the
Catholic Church,
and the
Jewish Synagogue
--
bound together in the American unity of brotherhood
-- must provide the shock forces to accomplish this
moral and spiritual awakening
...
Unless it is done, we are headed for the disaster we would deserve ...
We have tried to write into the Charter of the United Nations the essence of religion."
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One of the first acts of the
United Nations
was, on May 15, 1948, to
recognize the State of Israel.
Truman
commented at a Press Conference
(New York Times,
August 17, 1945):
"The American view on Palestine is that
we want to let as many of the Jews into Palestine as it is possible."
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The
1948 Democrat Party Platform
stated:
"President Truman,
by granting immediate
recognition to Israel,
led the world in extending friendship and welcome to
a people
who have long sought and
justly deserve freedom and independence.
We pledge full recognition to the State of Israel.
We affirm our pride that the United States under the leadership of
President Truman
played
a leading role
in the adoption of the resolution of November 29, 1947, by the
United Nations General Assembly
for
the creation of a Jewish State."
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In 1953,
President Eisenhower
addressed the
United Nations:
"The whole book of history reveals
mankind's never-ending quest for peace
and
mankind's God-given capacity to build."
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The President of the
United Nations' General Assembly,
13th Session, was Lebanese diplomat
Charles Habib Malik,
who helped
Eleanor Roosevelt
and others write the
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Charles Habib Malik
stated in 1958:
"The good (in the
United States)
would never have come into being without
the blessing and power of Jesus Christ ...
Whoever tries to conceive the
American
word without taking full account of the
suffering and love and salvation of Christ
is only dreaming.
I know how embarrassing this matter is to politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen and cynics; but, whatever these honored men think,
the irrefutable truth is
that the
soul of America is at its best and highest, Christian."
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In subsequent years, the mission of the
United Nations
has become unclear.
President Dwight Eisenhower
confided to the National Junior Chamber of Commerce, June 10, 1963:
"The
United Nations
has seemed to be
two distinct things
to the two worlds divided by the iron curtain ...
To the
free world
it has seemed that it should be a
constructive forum
...
To the
Communist world
it has been
a convenient sounding board for their propaganda,
a
weapon to be exploited
in
spreading disunity and confusion."
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Former President
Herbert Clark Hoover
told the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1950:
"I suggest that the
United Nations
should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it.
If that is impractical, then a definite
New United Front
should be organized of
those peoples who disavow communism,
who stand for
morals and religion,
and who
love freedom
..."
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Hoover
continued:
"What the world needs today is a definite,
spiritual mobilization
of the
nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism.
It needs a moral mobilization
against the hideous ideas
of the
police state and human slavery
...
It is a proposal to
redeem the concept of the United Nations
to the high purpose for which it was created ...
It is a proposal for
moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations
... in
rejecting an atheistic other world."
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Eisenhower's delegate to the
United Nations
was
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.,
who sent a letter to every member state, December 30, 1955:
"I propose that
God should be openly and audibly invoked
at the
United Nations
...
I do so in the conviction that
we cannot make
the
United Nations
into a successful
instrument of God's peace without God's help
-- and that with His help we cannot fail.
To this end I propose that we ask for that help."
The
United Nations
has
never acted
on
Lodge's proposal
to open with
prayer.
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The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
was adopted by the United Nations' General Assembly, December 10, 1948.
Making
no acknowledgement of God or reference
to
rights being endowed by a Creator,
as the United States Declaration of Independence does, the
U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
considered the consent of member nations as the source of human rights.
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Rights included:
- Freedom of opinion and expression;
- Freedom to change religions;
- Right to education;
- No slavery;
- No forced marriages;
- No torture; and
- No inhumane punishment.
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Though
Franklin Roosevelt
expressly desired to
"preserve Christian civilization,"
the
United Nations
has lent its powerful influence to promoting an anti-Christian sexual agenda and the killing of unborn children.
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In 1969, the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation, OIC,
was formed by leaders of
57 Islamic countries.
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In 1990, the
OIC
rejected the
U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights
by passing their own
"Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam,"
which affirmed
Shariah law as supreme,
including:
- the death penalty for those leaving Islam;
- punishing women who are victims of rape;
- allowing men to be polygamous;
- permitting wife beating; and
- censoring speech insulting Islam.
As
OIC nations
wield immense financial and political power, they have influenced other nations to effectively abandon the
U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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On June 17, 1982,
President Reagan
warned the
U.N. General Assembly:
"Eleanor Roosevelt,
one of our first ambassadors to this body, reminded us that the
high-sounding words of tyrants
stand in
bleak contradiction to their deeds.
'Their promises,'
she said, 'are in
deep contrast to their performances ...'"
Reagan
continued:
"In these times when more and more
lawless acts are going unpunished
... some members of this very body show
a growing disregard for the U.N. Charter."
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President Eisenhower
stated February 20, 1957:
"No one deplores more than I the fact that the
Soviet Union ignores the resolutions of the United Nations."
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A paradoxical question is posed:
should freedom of speech and freedom of religion be granted to
groups whose ultimate goal is to abolish
freedom of speech and freedom of religion?
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During Islam's 1,400 years of expansion, wherever Muslims conquered, the subdued non-Muslim populations were restricted in their freedom of speech and freedom of religion, being relegated to live under Shariah law as second-class citizens called "dhimmi."
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Proclaiming of the Christian Gospel was forbidden, being considered "insulting" to Islam, as also the claim that Israel has a right to exist.
The U.S. Navy and Marines fought the Muslim Barbary Pirate Wars, 1801-1805 and 1815, freeing hundreds of American sailors held captive.
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Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in
Democracy in America,
1840, Vol. II, Book 1, Chapter V:
"Mohammed brought down from heaven and put into the Koran
not religious doctrines only,
but
political maxims, criminal
and
civil laws,
and scientific theories.
The Gospels, on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything.
That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in an age of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such age, as in all others."
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Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci
interviewed
Iran's
Ayatollah Khomeini
in 1979:
Oriana Fallaci:
"Women ... cannot study at the university with men, they cannot work with men, they cannot swim in the sea or in a swimming-pool with men. They have to do everything separately, wearing their 'chador.' By the way, how can you swim wearing a 'chador'?"
Ayatollah Khomeini:
"None of this concerns you, our customs do not concern you."
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Oriana Fallaci
wrote in
The Force of Reason
(2004):
"Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony. In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism."
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On July 15, 2011, the
OIC
received the support of
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
at a meeting in
Istanbul, Turkey,
for the purpose of passing
U.N. Resolution 16/18
denying freedom of speech
and
freedom of religion
to anyone who insults Islam, effectively subjecting
the whole world under dhimmi status.
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OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
commended:
"I particularly appreciate the kind personal interest of
Secretary Clinton
and the role played by the U.S. towards the consensual
adoption of the resolution."
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In 2005, the European Union hurriedly passed laws restricting the freedom of speech and freedom of religion of anyone who insults Islam, after Muslims riot from a Danish cartoon.
Throughout 2012, Hillary Clinton did not respond to requests for increased security personnel to protect the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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On September 11, 2012, a planned attack occurred on the Benghazi Consulate, which was being listened to in real time by U.S. intelligence as the terrorists were using U.S. cell phones.
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Six hours into the attack, Hillary Clinton spoke via telephone with the President and no attempt was made to rescue U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
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A few hours later, the administration blamed the attack on a video insulting Islam, produced by a filmmaker who has since been alleged to have had links with the U.S. Justice Department.
The next morning, Hillary Clinton's State Department contacted YouTube and Google requesting them to censor speech insulting Islam, coincidentally the same topic of her meeting with the
OIC.
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The administration began an intense campaign aimed at censoring speech insulting Islam, as President Obama told the United Nations, September 25, 2012:
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
Again, the same topic discussed at the
OIC
meeting.
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Later reports surfaced that the attack had nothing to do with a video, and that the
United States was, in fact, supplying weapons to terrorists to overthrow Libya's leaders.
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Afterwards, these
weapons
were being moved through the
port of Benghazi
to
arm terrorists
who were
attempting to overthrow Syria's leader.
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These
weapons
then found their way to
ISIS terrorists
to overthrow Iraq's leaders.
In response to this, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard introduced in 2016 the
"Stop Arming Terrorists Act."
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One of the Muslim Brotherhood goals is to re-establish the Ottoman empire as union of Shariah Muslim countries called a "Caliphate."
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Recent reports from Nigeria describe millions being persecuted and displaced by the Islamic Boko Haram, as well as growing Islamist presence in Latin and South American countries, such as Venezuela.
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Though
Truman
helped form the
United Nations
in part to
prevent future persecution of Jews,
the
United Nations
responds to attacks on
Israel
by ignoring or siding with the attackers.
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United Nations'
behavior belies that, though the organization began with high ideals, it has strayed.
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President Truman
had warned of this in his address to the
United Nations General Assembly
, April 25, 1945:
"Franklin D. Roosevelt
gave his life while trying to perpetuate these
high ideals
... We must work and live to guarantee justice--for all ...
We speak for people, who have endured the most savage and devastating war ever inflicted upon innocent men, women and children ...
If we should pay merely lip service to
inspiring ideals,
and later do violence to simple justice, we would draw down upon us
the bitter wrath of generations yet unborn."
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