Mormon Missionaries go online seeking new converts

The Mormon Church has recently added a new technique to its efforts of converting new people to the Mormon religion. The church now is making some of its missionaries available for online chatting via its www.mormon.org website.

On the website, curious people can chat with Mormon missionaries in real time and ask them pertinent questions to Mormon beliefs like: Is Mormonism Christian? , What is baptism for the dead?, Was Joseph Smith a true prophet of God?, and Why have there been over 4,000 changes made to the Book of Mormon?

Ahmadinejad's election points to war with Israel?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected to another term as President of Iran on Friday, but the Islamic Republic has been busy beating down an uprising from those who supported Ahmadinejad's opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi.

According to an AP report on Yahoo! News Ahmadinejad said that the violent uprising was, "not important from my point of view. Some believed they would win, and then they got angry. It has no legal credibility. It is like the passions after a football match. The margin between my votes and the others is too much and no one can question it."

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, today delivered a much anticipated speech in which according to The Jerusalem Post he called for "the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside Israel, but only if the Palestinians recognize Israel's nature as a Jewish state." The piece also points out that Netanyahu also "embraced President Barack Obama's vision, adding, however, that the Holocaust was not the reason for the establishment of the Jewish state."

Joel Rosenberg, author of Epicenter, commenting on the Iranian elections said on his blog, "The Supreme Leader of Iran has spoken. It’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by a 'landslide.' Now all eyes in the region shift to Israel, where Prime Minister Netanyahu will deliver a major policy address on Sunday. The battle lines are clear. It’s Netanyahu vs. Ahmadinejad….Bibi vs. Mahmoud. The big question is: Who will strike first?"

That question, however, has arguably already been answered as we have noted on this blog. The real question is who will make the next most decisive and aggressive strike?

Rev. Jeremiah Wright now backtracking on "Them Jews" comment

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is now backtracking on the anti-Semitic comments he made recently. According to The Washington Post, Rev. Wright said this on the "Make It Plain" show with Mark Thompson broadcast on Sirius Satellite Radio,

"Let me say like Hillary, I misspoke. Let me just say: Zionists. I was walking from a worship service to my car, trying to talk rapidly, trying to explain, answer this guy and trying to get him off the Barack Obama kick."

The Washington Post piece also notes that Rev. Wright released this statement in all capital letters after his "Them Jews" comment in which he said he is, "EXTREMELY DISTURBED AND DEEPLY SADDENED THAT ONCE AGAIN MY COMMENTS HAVE RESURFACED THIS DIVISIVE DEBATE ABOUT MY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MYSELF AND PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, WHOM I LOVE AS MY SON AND SUPPORT AND HONOR AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATED OF AMERICA. I APOLOGIZE FOR THE WAY I FRAMED MY COMMENTS. I MIS-SPOKE AND I SINCERELY MEANT NO HARM OR ILL-WILL TO THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY OR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION."

Rev. Jeremiah Wright: "Them Jews" won't let Obama talk to him

Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Barack Obama's long-time pastor in Chicago, is in the news again. He said this in a recent interview with the Virginia Daily Press, "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. They will not let him ... talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is."

Rev. Wright also went on to say, "Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing of the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don't want Barack talking like that because that's anti-Israel."

Rev. Wright's anti-Semitic statements are reminiscent of another Chicago preacher, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. Minister Farrakhan has many noteworthy anti-Semitic statements, but this one from a speech he gave in Baltimore on February 19, 1994 certainly stands out and has the same use of the "them Jews" phrase employed by Rev. Wright, "I called them [Jews] bloodsuckers. I'm not going to change that. Our lessons talk about the bloodsuckers of the poor in the Supreme Wisdom of the Nation of Islam. It's that old no-good Jew, that old imposter Jew, that old hooked-nose, bagel-eating, lox-eating, Johnny-come-lately perpetrating a fraud, just crawled out of the caves and hills of Europe, so-called damn Jew. . . and I feel everything I'm saying up here is kosher."

Newsweek editor: Obama is "sort of God"

Multi-colored frog worshiped in India

A frog that changes colors is being worshiped as a god in India. The frog referred to as a rainbow frog constantly changes colors, which apparently convinces people that it is divine. According to the UK's Sun, "hundreds" of people are making a pilgrimage to see the frog to ask it for miracles.

The owner of the frog, Reji Kumar, said of the frog, “By night the frog was dark yellow, and then it became transparent so you could see its internal organs. It seemed like a miracle to me that this frog had so many different coats. So now people come to see him and pray to him.”

IAEA: Iran will have nuclear bomb by end of this year

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) distributed its newest report on Iran to the IAEA Board of Governors on June 5 in Vienna and will convene again on June 15 to discuss the report.

Debkafile reports that according to the IAEA's newest report, "Iran will be able to produce one nuclear bomb by the end of this year, doubling that figure in 2010. DEBKAfile's military sources note that these estimates only apply to uranium enrichment at Natanz. They do not factor in the product of Iran's clandestine enrichment plants. Friday night, June 5, officials in Vienna disclosed that Iran was found to have accumulated quantities of low-enriched uranium (1,339 kilos produced since November 2008 plus 839 kilos in stock) - enough to convert into the amount of high-enriched uranium needed for making a single nuclear bomb. More than 7,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges were installed at Natanz, adding an extra 2,000 from February, the agency has found. At this rate, 10,000 centrifuges will be spinning at Natanz with a capacity to enrich enough uranium for 2 bombs by the end of the year, double the IAEA's modest estimate by its own figures."

Obama's Muslim roots discussed by deputy National Security Adviser

ABC News today is reporting that the deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications, Denis McDonough, mentioned Obama's Islamic "experience" during a conference call with the media ahead of President Obama's trip to Cairo to address the Muslim world.

McDonough said, "the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to -- or before he's been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world -- you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father -- obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago."

The ABC News report concluded with these statements, "Since the election, however, with the threat of the rumors at least somewhat abated, the White House has been increasingly forthcoming about the president's roots. Especially when reaching out to the Muslim world. In his April 6 address to the Turkish Parliament, President Obama referenced how many 'Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim majority country. I know, because I am one of them.'"

Muslim convert kills 1 soldier, wounds another in Little Rock

The Associated Press reports that Muslim convert, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad also known as Carlos Bledsoe was taken into custody yesterday after the shooting of one soldier and the wounding of another soldier at a Little Rock Army Navy recruiting center.

According to KATV in Little Rock, authorities say Muhammad will face one charge of capital murder and 15 counts of terroristic acts. Authorities also said that they found an assault rifle in Muhammad's vehicle and he is believed to be acting out of "political and religious motives." The authorities also believe Muhammad was acting alone and was not a part of a broader terroristic group. One has to wonder if Muhammad will also be charged with hate crimes.