This
week the US, France and a few Arab countries started bombing ISIS targets in
Syria, in addition to the attacks on ISIS in Iraq. In response, ISIS spokesman
Abu Muhammad AL-Adnani released a statement Monday urging Islamist militants to
kill American and French citizens around the world. But is ISIS really the
biggest Islamic-jihad danger to the US? After all, the Obama administration has
repeatedly said that ISIS does not present an “immediate threat” to America.
And they could be right. Intelligence officials say the U.S. needs to be on the
alert for terror threats from a militant group in Syria -- and it's not ISIS. Last weekend
several US media outlets reported on “Khorasan” an Al Qaeda affiliated
terrorist organization based in Syria, that most analysts say is far more
dangerous to the US and Western countries than ISIS. Read the complete report
by Gil Elan at -- http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/1825091/5193c7d9a6/591947869/c8aec7c0be/
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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