The Order of the Phoenix is not "just fantasy!"
by Berit Kjos - 2007
"...it can't be much darker - or more dramatic - than the challenge the young wizard faces with the re-emergence of Lord Voldemort.... Claiming to have seen the mysterious Voldemort, Harry is met with disbelief and derision ... and the suspicion that he's a liar rapidly spreads through the school. More than ever before, the thing that makes Harry special also makes him an outcast."[1] Movie review
"Harry longed to bite the man... but he must master the impulse. He had more important work to do. But the man was stirring.... He had no choice.... He reared high from the floor and struck once, twice, three times, plunging his fangs deeply into the man’s flesh.... The man was yelling in pain... then he fell silent.... Blood was splattering onto the floor.... [Harry's] forehead hurt terribly."[2] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Parents who watch the Harry Potter movies may not always be aware of the dark occult world that empowers this series. Unlike the book, this dark movie doesn't explain the nightmarish scene above. Nor does it describe the murderous spells and curses that ...   more »

by Jeff Jacoby
Denial is a luxury we cannot afford.
Is radical Islam connected to terrorism? A number of notable British voices spoke out on that subject after Britain's recent terrorist near-misses -- the two unexploded car bombs packed with gas cylinders and nails in London's West End and the fiery SUV rammed by would-be suicide bombers into the main terminal at Glasgow's international airport.
Consider what four of those voices had to say:
One declared that the word "Muslim" must not be used in connection with terrorism, and insisted that even the phrase "war on terror" should be scrapped.
The second likewise cautioned against pointing a finger at Islam, contending that in London, "Muslims are . . . less likely to support the use of violence to achieve political ends than non-Muslims."
The third, asked whether Muslim extremists might be responsible for the attempted atrocities in London and Glasgow, counseled: "Let's avoid presumptions. . . It can be the work of Muslims, Christians, Jews, or Buddhists."
By contrast, the fourth noted the resemblance of the latest terror attempts to "other recent British Islamic extremist plots," pinpointed "Islamic theology" as "the real engine of our violence," and described British jihadists ...   more »

Is there not a cause?
~ David (c. 1040 B.C.)
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophize, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils ... nor, I think, will the human race.
~ Plato ("The Republic" 473c-d)
Bombs, bullets and soldiers alone will never stop al-Qaida, Hezbollah, radical Islam and their religious fanatical jihad against Judaism, Christianity and the West. Why? Because Islam is an idea, a belief, a philosophy, a worldview, a religion that over a billion and a half people follow and live their daily lives by.
Islam determines what Muslims think, hear, value, believe ... even die for. Islam is what a billion and a half Muslims have banked their eternal destiny on and more than not will gladly give their lives to assure a Muslim world, as painfully witnessed recently in the terrorist bomb plots at London's West End and Scotland's Glasgow Airport where so far six of the eight suspects detained are respected, upper-class Muslim medical doctors. ...   more »