“Arab
Spring” is the popular name given to the democratic wave of civil unrest in the
Arab world that began in December 2010 and lasted through mid-2012. It turns
out the revolutionary movement created an ideal environment for terrorism to
grow and thrive. “Terrorists realized they could exploit the confusion and
vacuum in power created by the uprisings,” says a U.S. intelligence officer
stationed in Libya during the Arab Spring movement. He says terrorists used
social media to stoke civil unrest and take advantage of the chaos. In the Arab
Spring’s wake, Egypt and Tunisia disbanded the security structures that had
helped keep jihadists in check, and freed many Islamist and jihadist political
prisoners. In Libya, parts of the country fell entirely outside government
control, providing openings for violent terrorist movements. “Many of the
regimes weakened or deposed by the Arab Spring were among Washington’s most
effective counterterrorism partners,” noted Juan Zarate in an analysis written
in June 2011. A senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Zarate said the political upheaval created “new space” for al-Qaeda
and associated terrorist movements to operate where none existed before. Read
complete article at -- http://dailysignal.com/2015/03/12/arab-spring-opened-door-terrorisms-ugly-march/
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 what he
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