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>> Abraham Hamilton III: Darkness is not an affirmative force. It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
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>> Abraham Hamilton III: It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite, delivering people
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>> Abraham Hamilton III: Good evening everybody. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner. My name is Abraham Hamilton iii. Joined by the corner contingent. Right across from me is our friendly neighborhood with a holic perpetually in recovery. You ask him how he's doing, he might just say fairly. Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. That's what he might say. Mr. Bobby Rosa is not, is a little bit under the weather today. So we have Mr. Marty Sparks lighting up the dark from inside the studio this evening and in the screening room. Producer extraordinaire, often imitated, never duplicated, the real J. Mack. Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program. At this very moment many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. And as you do so I want to remind you to make this transition with intentionality. You know there terrorist attacks, attempts in NewSong York around Gracie Mansion and then you have the newly elected Islamist mayor who seems to condemn the people who would be victimized by the terrorist attack. Isn't that interesting?
John Doom: Republicans in the US Senate won't pass the Save America Now Act
We have and I'm going to need help processing this one but can anybody help me understand why the Republicans in the US Senate won't pass the Save America Now Act? Something as popular nationwide as voter id, that's something that is universally popular. Democrats supported independent supported Republican voters. I'm talking about Democrat voters supported independent voters supported Republicans. Republican voters support it. And I spoke at length about the absurdity and the chicanery and frankly the wickedness involved in Democrat senators opposing the Save America Now Act. But Republicans won't pass it. John Thew President Trump has said that he won't sign any bills until the senators passed the Save America Now Act. John Doom says well we're not doing anything about it. If the Republican Party will not cause the US Senators and let me be specific, it is the Republicans in the U.S. senate to pass the Save America now act, what good is the party? We can't do something that basic as a nation. It really it's really, really telling when you see things like that happening. And we have the Operation Epic Fury that's underway. Central Command has reported there's been a seventh US Soldier who's lost their lives. and that is contrasted with, the Iranian women's soccer team, who made it seem like it wouldn't be the most outrageous thing, but it was a bold, courageous thing for them to do when they refused to sing the national anthem at an international soccer match. And we have people, you know, like Megan Rapinoe here, they talk about everything under the sun, but they won't say, I haven't heard anything yet in support of these women who literally risking their lives. And the nation of Australia has extended, I should say, immigration receptivity to the entire team. but some of the girls were forced to. Some of the women were forced to board the bus to go back to areas. It's an amazing thing that's happening. The nation has declared the soccer team, the Iranian women's soccer team. Let me be specific. The terrorist, apocalyptic jihadist regime has declared the Iranian women's soccer team to be traitors. I think one of the most important things that has happened as a result of Operation Epic Fury that needs to transpire here in the United States of America is that there needs to be far more consistent and robust candid conversations. When we talk about, the rogue regime in Iran. We need to be more specific about what we're talking about. We're talking about zealous, demonically inspired
>> Bill Federer: murderers
>> Abraham Hamilton III: who use their religion as the impetus to bathe the world in blood. And they're running the country that Obama sent pallets of cash to. Remember that. Yeah. These events swirling internationally, very easy to consume our attention and focus. But I would submit to you, they underscore the necessity of parents taking the lead into discipling our children. They underscore the necessity of Christ followers in our nation executing our king's commission to make the disciples. The commission is not simply or exclusively to make converts. It is to make disciples. We must do this, guys. We must. To the word of God we go. Second Peter, chapter one. Second Peter, chapter one. And, and I'm saying this as I do regularly, because what goes on in your house is more important than what goes on in the White House. Those things are vitally important, guys, but they're not more important than what you and I are responsible for in our homes. Hospitality, is a great disciple making tool. Family life is a great disciple making context. Much of what has befallen Our nation is a direct result of a lack of disciples being made generationally. But now is the time to reverse that course. Second Peter, chapter one. The Apostle Peter is writing. And it's important to note that he's writing in an, in an environment and a context where persecution, is on the rise. In the Roman Empire, Christ followers, followers of the Way of Messiah are being murdered simply because they are followers of the Way. And it is in that context the Apostle Peter writes this. Second Peter, Chapter one, verse one. Simon Peter, a bond servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, seeing that his divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness through the true knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and excellence. For by these he has granted to us his precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the, the corruption that is in the world by lust. Now, for this very reason also applying all diligence in your faith supply moral excellence. And in your moral excellence, knowledge. And in your. And in your knowledge, self control. And in your self control, perseverance. And in your perseverance godliness. And in your godliness brotherly kindness. And in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.
For too long we have conflated Church familiarity with disciple making and discipleship
Guys, I present this text with, with a, sobriety in my heart. With a solemnness in my heart. Because for too long, far too long, our, in our country and, and I'm going to say this, that there is a distinction between Churchianity and Christianity. Christianity. For far too long we have conflated Church familiarity with disciple making and discipleship. And those things are not the same. Here the Apostle Peter is writing to the Church in an environment where overt physical, hostile persecution is ascending. And he is challenging the body of Christ with the reality that you can be born again. You and I may very well be born again. But the possibility exists for you to be as verse 8 says in the text. If you're watching the show, you can see it on the screen. Look at verse eight. It says, for if these qualities are yours and they are increasing. If these qualities are yours and they are increasing, they Render you neither useless or unfruitful. We need to invite the Spirit of God to examine us and to assess, as we may profess, being followers of Yeshua, the Messiah. We need to be honest about whether we are useless and unfruitful in our knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. I know it's a stinging concept to confront. It's a stinging reality to consider. It is, but it is a reality nonetheless. Other translation translations render that same phrasing as being barren and unproductive in our, knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters, are you useless in your knowledge of Christ? Are you unfruitful in your knowledge of Christ? Well, Abe, what do you mean when you say unfruitful? Very simply, does your Christ following impact anybody beyond yourself? And when I say impact, I don't mean generalized ideas of goodness and kindness and neighborliness. Those things are absolutely necessary. We are commanded by the Lord to do good to all people, but especially the household of faith. But what I'm asking. What I'm asking is a more pointed question. Because notice the apostle Peter combines, or should I say pairs, uselessness and fruitfulness, or say it better, uselessness and unfruitfulness. He pairs them together. Why does he do that? Because the assessment of fruitfulness, or should I say usefulness as the Spirit of God is moving the apostle Peter to articulate the usefulness in our knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ is demonstrable by our fruitfulness. Are we outposts for others to come to know Jesus Christ? Are we vehicles through which and through whom? Others, as Matthew 28 says, others come to obey Jesus and everything he commands us. One of the things that has fallen by the wayside in our understandings of being Christ followers is that we have a responsibility to help others to think Christ's thoughts after him. To where, we welcome the lordship of our Messiah to supersede and to pervade, to permeate and penetrate every aspect of who we are? Jesus said, we are to worship our Lord with our hearts, our souls and our minds. And our minds. But for far too long, we've allowed the world, and I'm going to be more specific, we've allowed Antichrist forces to have a monopoly on the cultivation of the mind. So when it comes to the most professing believers in America, most professing Christ followers, if, we are to be honest about it, we think in worldly terms, we allow the ways of the world to govern what we think. What we think is worthwhile, what is important, what is worth celebrating what is applause worthy? What is worth investing our lives in? For too many of us, those things are determined by a godless environment. And what we don't realize that that is the feature, frankly, of disobedience, we must be reminded as to the believer. The Lord says through the Apostle Paul to the church at Rome, don't be conformed to the ways of this world, but be transformed. But what's happened? The people who God has ordained to be peculiar, we have found safety and comfort and being normal, the way the world defines normality. And the whole notion of being weird weirds us out when God calls us to be peculiar. And the sum total of that, the cumulative effect of that is what the Apostle Peter diagnoses right here. That profession to be in Christ, but being useless and unfruitful in our knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Guys, now is the time to reverse that. Now, now it should jolt us that while we have in God we Trust in our Federal Reserve notes, we simultaneously have the largest generation of unbelieving young people in our nation. Our nation has ever seen
>> Bill Federer: a discipleship
>> Joseph Parker: minute with Joseph Parker, the great servant of the Lord, John Wesley. His word for spiritual habits was a means of grace. Your prayer life is a means of grace. Your time in the Word of God is a means of grace. Your obedience is a means of grace. Your praise and worship and thanksgiving, those are, means of grace. Those are tools you and I can put to work in our lives that can appropriate or help us to get ahold of and use effectively grace that's available to each and every one of us. And the fact is, God has an ocean of grace available to us all, but we have to reach up and grab it. Spiritual habits help us to reach up and draw from that wonderful ocean of God's grace. Your prayer time, your time in the Word, your obedience, all of them help you to appropriate grace in your life and to funnel more grace to pour into your life in greater measure. It's important that we take advantage of these wonderful blessings and opportunities God gives to each and every one of us.
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Abraham Hamilton welcomes Bill Federer back to the Hamilton Corner
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton iii here. I am just elated to have on the program with me, my friend, my brother, a man who I believe is a national treasure who must be protected at all costs, who I believe God has really, really, ordained for the moment that we're facing currently. He's, been on the program before. I was excited to have to welcome him Back on the show, I'm speaking of none other than our brother, Bill Federer. Bill, thank you for coming on the Hamilton Corner once again.
>> Bill Federer: Well, Abraham, great to be with you.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Oh, man, the pleasure is mine, absolutely.
Thomas Potter: Iran had a long history pre Islam
I was listening to you discuss, really, the history of Iran. And really was global history broader than just Iran, but it was building toward the point of where we are currently when there've been lots of people, like, frankly, I wasn't born, when the Shah was overthrown in 1979 in Iran. So you see Marty's eyes. You weren't born? No, Marty, I was not born then. And so there are a lot of people who don't know a lot of the details. And as you shared some of the details, like one particular fact, I don't want to, take any thunder from you, but mentioning the Cadillac Seville and where it was produced, and I didn't know that. I thought it was imperative for our audience here in the Hamilton Corner to kind of. To glean from your, historical wisdom. What don't we know that we should know concerning the events that precipitated the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, and how do they contribute to where we are now?
>> Bill Federer: Yeah, well, Iran had a long history pre Islam. And so, Abraham's, Or, excuse me, Noah's grandson through Shem is Elam. And Elam is another name for persia. around 1900 BC, Abraham fought a war with the king of Elam, Chedu Laraimar, right? And chased down got lot back. and then Cyrus of Persia, which is Iran, he conquered Babylon and Assyria. And, he's the one who lets the Jews go back and rebuild their temple. And, in his court is Daniel. and then when Persia, is taken over by Darius, Daniel's working for Darius, and Darius is the one who invaded Greece. And, you have the battle of Marathon. And when the Greeks won, 490 BC, somebody ran 26.2 miles back to tell Athens that. So we call it the marathon race. and then Xerxes, Darius's son in 490 BC, excuse me, 480 BC, he invades Greece. And, he wins a couple of battles and then loses and then goes back and spends time with his harem. And lo and behold, that's when he had this big party and Vashti didn't come out, and he says he'll never see her again. So that's when the story of Esther comes about. Right, that's in Persia. Persia is then conquered by Alexander the great around 333 BC and then you had the, the Seleucid general that controlled Persia and he's the one that wanted to wipe out the Jews. And the Jews fought back and we call it Hanukkah. Right. And and then 63 B.C. the Romans are encroaching into that area. and Pompey is the Roman general and he more or less conquers Judea and then gets into a war with Persia. And there's a seven century war, 700 years of war between Persia and Rome. Even after Rome becomes Christian it's still fighting Persia all the way up. And they beat each other up so bad it leaves a power vacuum. And into that power vacuum, vacuum comes Islam. And so Muhammad is born in 570 A.D. I get into his whole story in my book, what every American needs to know about the Quran. he went from being a religious leader to a political leader to a military leader. at first he was in Mecca and you look at all the religions that were in there pre Muhammad. There were the Zoroastrians in Persia that believed paradise was filled full of virgins that would fulfill all the guys desires. And Muhammad hears that and then there's the pagan faith. And In Mecca there's 360 different pagan gods. The most popular was Hubal, the moon God. And they had their calendars start with the first sight of the crescent moon over the desert and they had a glass impact rock where a meteor hit the hot desert sand and melted it into this brown glass. And the pagans kissed it and walked around it and Muhammad kissed that rock and it got incorporated into his belief system. He originally had his followers bowing toward Jerusalem. and then there's Encyclopedia Britannica says the Gospel was made known to Muhammad through apocryphal and heretical sources. So he thought the Trinity was the father marrying Jesus. Nobody ever explained to Muhammad the Holy Spirit. An apocryphal what's that? It's the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, written several centuries after Jesus by somebody who knew nothing of Jewish life. It's still full of so many errors that no scholar takes it serious. But these stories were floating around the desert right in the sixth century. Muhammad heard them. They're like Harry Potter type stories that Jesus was a little boy, made clay birds and clapped and they flew away and raised a playmate from the dead. There's no other place in ancient history these stories appear other than this infancy gospel that nobody takes serious. But Muhammad heard them. Those Stories now they're in Islam. And, so Muhammad, goes out to a cave. There's a movement sweeping through Christianity, called monasticism, where if you really become a Christian, you should give away your money and live in a cave as a hermit. They call them desert fathers. And so Muhammad goes out to a cave, and the spirit appears to him and squeezes him, commands him to read. He said, I cannot read. It happens three times. And then he begins to recite. And the word Quran means recitation. It's oral because Muhammad was illiterate and all his followers were illiterate. And you say, how can somebody that's illiterate memorize these verses? Well, in Arabic they had a little rhyme to them, a little beat, very similar to rap music. Anyway, so he goes back to his wife Khadijah. She's 40, he's 25, she's wealthy. And he tells her that he thinks he's demon possessed. And so she decides to have him sit on her right thigh and says, can you see this, the visitant? And he says, yes, over there. She has him sit, on her left thigh. Can you see him? Yes, over there. And then she begins to take off her veils. And, when she takes off enough, she says, can you see him? And he says no. And she said, well, it must have been from God because it was embarrassed to look upon me without all my veils on. That was the test. Right. First John 4 says the test is every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is the Christ is of Antichrist. But Muhammad was illiterate, so he could never read the NewSong Testament. anyway, he goes into, Mecca and he feels like there's something in his faith for everybody. Zoroastrians, and Jews and Christians and pagans, but nobody likes it. And so he gets confrontational and they chase him out of town. And he goes to Medina, which was a Jewish city. Three Jewish clans controlled it. And, they're nice.
Islam spreads the fast ways with the sword: through immigration and politics
They let him in as the first ever Muslim immigrant. He goes into the minority neighborhoods and he begins to organize a following. His following gets bigger, he gets involved in politics and now he's a political leader. When his followers get confrontational, they get chased out of Mecca. Now you have lots of Muslim immigrants coming into Medina and Muhammad allows them to rob the caravans headed to Mecca in retaliation for the Meccans chasing them out of town. this victimhood thing, we're the victims. They were intolerant of us, so we're justified in attacking their caravans. Little different Than Jesus who said, if they take your coat, give them your shirt. So Muhammad gets verses from his Allah that he gets a fifth of the booty from robbing caravans. One verse says, allah has given you the slave girls as your booty. He tells his men they can have four wives plus as many extra women as the right hand possesses. Slave wives, concubines. And so the Meccans send soldiers to protect their caravan. Muhammad defeats them, and then he goes back into the city of Medina and the three Jewish clans, he gets offended at the smallest one confiscates their property, chases them out of town. And the other two sort of stand down, say, well he's not noticing us. Now there's only two Jewish clans he gets offended at. The smaller one confiscates her property, chases them out and the big ones just standing down saying, well at least he's not noticing, picking on us. And, and now there's only one Jewish clan. And he surrounds them for 28 days, brings them into the market, chops off their heads and then sells the women and children into slavery. So within five years of Muhammad coming as an immigrant into the Jewish city of Medina, there's not a Jew left in the city of Medina. so when Mandami said in NewSong York last month, oh, my religion began with Muhammad being an immigrant to the city of Medina, it's like, yeah, five years later there wasn't a Jew left. and so it's a three step process.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: He left that part out.
>> Bill Federer: Yeah. So immigrate, increase, eliminate immigrate as a religious refugee, increase the number of your followers and get involved in politics. And then you have random outbreaks of violence, crime, usually by the young men, knives, acid attacks, rapes. And the previous inhabitants of the neighborhood no longer feel safe and move out and you take over the neighborhood. And so there's two ways. Islam, spreads the fast ways with the sword. The slow way is through immigration. And so it's a, there's freedom for all religions in America. But Islam's not just a religion because Muhammad was not just a religious leader, he was also a political and a military leader. It's no different than if the MS.13 gang simply started calling themselves a religion. Like, oh, you're a religion now. Yeah, yeah, well I guess we can let you take over the neighborhood and practice your own vigilante law and sex traffic. Nine year old girls. Right. Because Muhammad's youngest wife was nine years old and, and you can let people join, but if they leave the gang, you kill them like In Islam you're free to join, but if you leave, they kill you. Right? I mean it's in. That's basically what it is. And so, Muhammad promised booty in the next life. So the Muslim warriors conquer Egypt, which had been Christian for six centuries, evangelized by Mark that wrote the Gospel. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. And, and then the leader in, in the year 1000 Al, Hakim cut out the tongues of anybody caught speaking the Coptic language. So they eradicated the Egyptian language. And then they conquered North Africa in 10 years because the Christians had withdrawn that monasticism of their version of separation of church and state. And then they conquered Jerusalem, which had been a Byzantine Christian city. And the bishop Sophronius brokers a deal. Instead of it being two choices, convert or die, there's a third choice that the Christians will pay taxes to their new Muslim conquerors, an annual tribute called the Jizya tax. And and so they have no problem in coming into a Christian area and letting the Christian welfare program support them. All right? And then they conquer Syria in 648 AD. People forget Syria had been Christian for six centuries, evangelized by Paul that wrote the Gospel. The name Christian was first in Syria. And then they invaded Spain, held it for 700 years. They're stopped outside of Paris at the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, just 100 years after the death of Muhammad in 632 AD. And then they conquer, into Armenia and into Turkey. So all seven churches mentioned in the book of Revelation were conquered by the Muslim Turks. The Christians beg the Catholic west for help. They send help. It's called the Crusades. When the Crusades end, they Conquer Constantinople in 1453, the largest Christian city in Europe. When that happens, it cuts off the land routes to India. Marco Polo, remember? And so that's when Columbus said looking for a sea route, but persia, Iran. In 632, the Muslim leader Khalid Ibn Al Waleed called the drawn sword of Allah because he was undefeated in 100 battles. He conquers Persia. And that's when you see, Persia was civilized. It had thousands of years of culture, right? Cyrus of Persia, the Arabs were illiterate, they were desert raiders. But after the Muslims, the, the Persians were beat up with that 7th century war with the, with the Roman Christian Empire, right? That, that war. And so but we see in the next century Islam, becoming more moderate as it takes in this Persian culture. And so it's called the Islamic Golden Age. And you had Al Rashid and he was so tolerant. He was sending presents to Charlemagne, and he was. They were reading Greek classics and you had a Muslim scholar named Al Farab and Averroes and Avicenna, and they're studying Plato and Aristotle and, and they're writing about astronomy and music and physics. And if you would have snapped a picture of the world, you would have thought that Islam's about to experience the Renaissance. But it all gets slapped down by a Muslim scholar named Ghazali. And he said, stop reading Greek stuff, even Greek geometry, because it'll lead you into great philosophy that'll pull you away from Islam. So don't read anything except the Quran. So we see a closing of the Islamic mind. And then the Mongols invade Genghis Khan and they basically wipe out the Persian capital of Baghdad and kill hundreds of thousands. And and then one of the Mongolian stock type people groups is called the Turks. They were nomadic steps, you know, horsemen, and they conquer what is today Turkey. And and so Iran is now, pretty well, conquered. but then the, the Mongols end up, some of them convert, to Islam and then some of them retreat and. But then we have another phase, is the 1500s, and you have the Muslim leader that causes Iran or Persia to become Shiite. So this is another little explanation.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, because the majority of the world's Muslims are Sunni and Shiites are a minority, but they diverge in significant ways. But go ahead, go ahead. Right, so, but they didn't start that way. But go ahead.
>> Bill Federer: Yeah.
15 of Muslims are Shiite and they're mostly in Iran
15 of Muslims are Shiite and they're mostly in Iran. 85% are Sunni and they're scattered all around. You have a fraction that are called Sufi and they spin in circles. They're called whirling dervishes and they're less violent, but they don't know why. But anyway, but mostly it's Sunni and Shia. So Muhammad had a daughter, Fatima, married to Allie. And the followers of Allie are called Shi at Allie, the party of Allie. And so it's shortened to Shiite. And Muhammad had multiple wives and the youngest was Aisha, the six year old, consummated at nine. Her father is a boobacher and he fought with Muhammad in his different 66 battles, killing 3,000 people. And so he said he knew the way. And so the word for the way is Sunni in Arabic and so in Arabic.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: So yeah, I got to break in right here, Bill, because the disrespectful music has started. We're about to take a break, but when we come back from the break, we'll pick up right there with Abu Bakr and how the Shiite Sunni division transpired. And then we'll build from there to go toward, what precipitated the 1979 revolution in Iran. All right, all right, all right. Stay with us, folks. You see why I had to have Bill on, because this history many people in our country don't really even understand. And so if we don't understand what has happened, it could cloud our ability to assess what is happening. More with Bill Federer on the other side of this brick.
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>> Joseph Parker: with Iran this is David Wheaton, host of the Christian Worldview. President Trump delivered a speech to the nation outlining the justification for attacking Iran jointly with Israel, which centers around Iran's decades of attacks against US And Israel and their efforts to make nuclear weapons. This is ample justification, despite most all on the political left and some on the right opposing it. Prophetically, this is a war that involves Israel and Iran. Historically, Persia. The Bible says Iran will be part of a coalition that invades Israel before the return of Christ. We don't know when, but let's be ready because Jesus said you, redemption is drawing near. Hear our most recent program about the war with Iran at thechristianworldview.org and then tune in this weekend for another topic that will sharpen your worldview.
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Abraham Hamilton III discusses Shiite Sunni distinction with Bill Federer
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III here With Bill Federer before we went to the break, Bill, you were explaining the Shiite Sunni distinction and you left off with Abu Bakr. Would you mind picking up right there?
>> Bill Federer: Right, so, Abu means father, of, and IBN means son of. And so that's often used in Islamic names. But Abu Bakr, depending how it's pronounced, is the father of Aisha, the nine year old that Muhammad married. And since he fought with Muhammad in most of Muhammad's battles, he knew the way. And so the word for the way is Sunni. And now, Allie, and Fatima had a son named Hussein and he was at the battle of Karbala. And the Sunnis, kill him. And since he is a blood descendant of Muhammad, this was a big deal. And so it starts a blood feud between the Sunni and the Shia that goes on for 14 centuries. and and so the Shiites, will once a year have a festival called Ashura where they'll get together and they'll sort of do a negative pep rally. And they'll want to stir up hatred for the Sunnis and they'll even take knives and tap their foreheads and so the blood goes down their face. They do it to their little boys, right, because they want to stir up the hatred against the Sunnis for killing, Hussein. now, it was in the 1500s that you had the Shah of Iran convert to Shiite Islam. So for the longest time they were, they were different versions of Sunni, but now Iran is, is officially, Shia. And they they don't like each other. One of the, stories, throw it in, when the Mongols came through, there was a version of Muslims called Hashashins because they would smoke hashish. and then they would take somebody to a harem and they'd have a really good time. And then when, they were sobering up, they'd bring them to the front lines where they were fighting. And they said, if you die killing the Mongols, you'll go back to that party. And so they called them Hashashins or assassins. So the very word assassin, assassinate is a Muslim word where you sneak into Muslim, your enemy's camp and then kill them and then let them kill you so that you can go to this party. that was one group, and then another one is Tamerlane. he is a Sunni, and kills 17 million people. Has a Quran so big that I got to carry around in the wheelbarrow. But he sacks the Persian city of isfahan, kills 200,000 people and takes their heads and builds towers. Towers of skulls. and then one of Tamerlane's descendants is, is Baber, and he founds the Mughal Muslim dynasty of India. And why is that important? Because the British come in and begin to start the British East India Company and they're working together with the Mughals dynasty in India. and so the, the British come down, 1500s, they meet with Abbas the Great. He's one of the most famous of the, Shia Muslim, Shaws of Persia. And he starts trading with Britain. And, and they even take the, Strait of Hormuz away from the, the Portuguese. So the Portuguese control the Strait of Hormuz. That's in the news today. but it was taken away by Iran, Persia with the help of the British East India Company. but then you had Turkey. So the, the Persia Iran has the mug halls on the east and the Turks on the west. And so, the Turks, make a treaty with France. You have the King of France, Francis the First, and his enemy is Spain. they get into a war and so the king of France decides he's going to make a treaty with the Turks because they both hate Spain. And so the situation in Europe is you have Britain siding with Iran and the, the France, siding with the Turks. And for three centuries, France is giving the Turks the latest military weapons and so forth. Napoleon was going to go over there and help them up the grade, their artillery. And Napoleon said no, he wanted to make himself an emperor on his own. but then fast forward. oil, 1800s, oil came from Wales, but then it's discovered in 1859, the Drake oil well in Pennsylvania, then Oklahoma, then in Baghdad and then over in Iran. And Winston Churchill changed the British Navy from coal to oil, but there's really no oil in England. And so in 1908, Britain formed the Anglo Iranian Oil Company, better known as bp. Uh-huh.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Also known as bp.
>> Bill Federer: That's the, that's the Anglo Iranian Oil Company. Britain and Iran and then Germany does a treaty with, the Turks. It's Kaiser Wilhelm HM II and Abdul Hamid ii, for the Berlin Baghdad railroad and oil from Turkey. And World War I starts and the, the Germans lose. Well, their ally, the Turks lose. And so the Turkish Ottoman emperor Empire is divvied up and the British mandate is given to the Jews all the way from the Mediterranean to, the Euphrates and you know, Syria down to Egypt. and then Iraq is given to the, the son of the shah, the, the sharifa Mecca, fazel, and then Lebanon and Syria are protectors of France. But they almost get into another war with the Arabs. Lawrence of Arab Arabia is the guy that talked the Arabs into helping the British defeat the Turks. and then he did it by lying to him, telling them that they would get all the land in the Middle East. And so that laid the groundwork for the problem. Winston Churchill decides he's going to take 2/3 of the land he gave the Jews and create an Arab state, sort of a Palestinian state. And he names it Jordan. And he says that'll be the homeland. Right? It's, it's two, you know, two thirds of the land that he originally gave the Jews is now taken away to create this, Arab, state called Jordan. But back to Iran, back to Persia. After World War I, they get a secular leader named Reza Shah R E Z A and he wants to let women get educated and let them wear the latest fashions and want to have he m. Dresses in business suits and gets. Wants to separate himself from the Shiite Islam. Meanwhile, in Turkey, you have, Ataturk in Turkey. And he wants to secularize Turkey and get rid of the fezas and the burkas and the Arabic calls to prayer and everything. He says Turkey was a great nation before Islam came in. He said Mohammedism is nothing more than Arab politics. And then you begin to have secular leaders. And it looks like the Arab Persian world is going to be Pro west until 1928. The Muslim Brotherhood has started. And they decide the same way that Muhammad immigrated into Medina and then killed Jews there. the Muslim Brotherhood strategy is infiltrate countries and then do assassinations. And so they assassinated Abdullah the, the King of Jordan. They tried assassinating others. They did assassinate Anwar Sadat in Egypt because he made a treaty with the Jewish leader Monach and begin.
Britain and Soviet Union team up to overthrow Shah Reza in 1953
but what happened in Iran? Reza Shaw, secular leader after World War I. But when World War II starts, he did not drive out the Germans. And so Britain and the Soviet Union team up to do a coup to overthrow Shah Reza. And they help a guy named Mazadek become the prime minister of Iran. And he's okay for a while. But then in the 1950s, he begins to side with the Soviet Union and the Tudor Communist Party and anti Western. And so, you have, he nationalizes the oil in Iran. What does that mean? It means he takes control of all of BP's oil wells and the largest oil refinery in the world is in Iran and it was BP's and he takes it away. And so Britain suddenly has no oil. This pro communist Mazdaq took it. So Britain appeals to Eisenhower and he approves. In 1953, Operation Ajax, where our CIA and Theodore, Teddy Roosevelt's grandson named Kermit Roosevelt Jr. Goes over there and he organizes a coup, finds all the different groups, pits them against each other and they create a problem. And then they blame Mazdaq and put him under house arrest. And they help usher into power Reza, Pahlavi, the son of Shaw. Reza. And Reza Pahlavi loves America and he meets with Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and he's again building the Cadillac Seville over there. And if you see pictures of Iran in the 1970s, it's girls going to medical school and girls wearing dresses and discos and dances and it looks exactly like Southern California. And but the Soviets weren't going to go away. And so they go to these liberal college students and they start calling, the Shah pro Western capitalist and they want to push their socialism. And so they begin to organize protests against Reza Shah, Reza Pahlavi. And so now Jimmy Carter's the President. And Jimmy Carter is convinced that these socialist students and organizing these protests and riots are going to if throw out the Shah and put in a pro Soviet leader. And so rather than coming to the Shah's defense, Jimmy Carter starts talking with the Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, who's exiled in France for his radical Shiite trying to kill the Shah. He's kicked out of the country. And Ayatollah Khomeini tells Jimmy Carter that if, Carter will let him become the new leader of Iran, that he will not be friends with the Soviets and he'll leave relations with America the same as they are. And Jimmy Carter is so naive, he says okay. And so he pressures the Shah to leave the country. In 1979, he tells our military not to help their military. The Ayatollah lands his plane, gets off, and then gathers all the pro American generals, brings them to the top of a high school roof and kills them all and then hunts down all the pro, American people in Iran. And then all those college students, he kills them and they're like, oh, we helped you get in power. They go, yeah, now we're in power. We don't need you. And they kill him. So all those naive college students that are socialists, like, oh, we want to get rid of capitalism, they Just set the stage for totalitarian dictatorship. And so then the Ayatollah starts, Hezbollah in Lebanon. and what does Hezbollah do? Those people, they blow up the U.S. marine barracks, killing 241 U.S. marines. And Reagan's response was to, to leave Lebanon. and, and then they helped the Hamas that's attacking Israel, and they helped the Houthis in, in Yemen. And then they, within a month of the Ayatollah getting in, he, he broke every promise to Jimmy Carter and says death to America. that Israel's the little Satan, America's the big Satan. And I have to bring this part up. Up. He is not just a Shiite. There's a version of Shiite called Twelver.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
>> Bill Federer: What's that? So we mentioned Muhammad and his daughter Fatima, married to elite, and then a son named Hussein. Well, Hussein had a son before he, died. And there were 12 male descendants of Muhammad. They call them Sharifs, a blood descendant of Muhammad. And the last one disappears in the year 874 AD. and he was like 5 years old. Disappears while the Shiite, the Twelvers, think that this 12th male descendant of Muhammad is hiding in a cave for 1200 years. They call it oculation. They think he's hiding in a cave. And if the Ayatollah can create a world war, this 12th Mahdi is going to come out of the cave. And then their version of Christ, which is our version of the Antichrist, he'll come back and join together with his 12th Mahdi, and, kill all the Christians, kill all the Jews, kill the little Satan Israel, the big Satan, America, and set up a one world Islamic government called the Caliphate.
>> Bill Federer: And so where the communists have nuclear weapons, but they're not in a hurry to use them. The Ayatollah wants nuclear weapons because he wants to use them, because he thinks if he can use them, if he can create a world war, it will bring this 12th, imam out of the cave, bring back the Antichrist, and they can set up their one world Antichrist government called the Caliphate. And so that's why it was urgent that Trump get rid of their nuclear capability, because they literally want to use them.
Bill Bennett: There's not much conversation about apocalyptic theological notions driving Islamic regime
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes. I wanted to have you on to explain all that history, because you have post 911 George W. Bush saying Islam is a religion of peace. And you have really not much conversation about the reality of the apocalyptic theological notions driving the Islamic regime. And I think there needs to be more conversation about that. The American people need to be aware of that. So that we won't be repeatedly naive and repeat some of the things that we've seen in history happening once again. I mean, listening to you right now, I'm thinking about the reactions on college campuses to October 7th and how we had college students here doing kind of some of the same things that were happening prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979. And so I'll leave the last word to. You have about 30 seconds. What would you want to leave us with, Bill?
>> Bill Federer: Well, the word Islam means submission to the will of Allah. A Muslim is one who has submitted, and they think there will be world peace when the whole world submits to the will of Allah. So to them, world peace means world Islam. Our definition of peace is different groups getting along. Their definition of world peace is world Islam. A moderate Muslim thinks the world's going to submit later in the distant future, maybe even the end of the world. Maybe it's even figurative, and they just are happy to live their lives and be friends with you and me. The fundamental ones think that it's supposed to happen now. The problem is the fundamental ones are just as happy to kill a mob.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
