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Abdul Aziz, 40, entered the Corinth Missionary Baptist Church in Bullard Texas
hours after the regular Sunday morning service and asked to see the pastor. As Aziz was shown into the conference
room, “Every hair on my neck just stood up,” said Rev. Johnson, 45. “It was
almost like you could just like feel the presence of just negative energy.” Aziz
was dressed in camouflage fatigue pants and boots, a black T-shirt and a
tactical vest. He was sweating heavily. As Johnson extended his hand, Aziz
began yelling about being a “man of Islam” and how his god said he was
authorized to take the lives of infidels. He specifically mentioned killing
Jews and Christians because their doctrine was contradictory to Islam. Read the
complete article at -- http://www.clarionproject.org/news/us-pastor-talks-down-islamist-gunmen-while-saving-parishers
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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