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>> Fred Jackson: The so called legacy media, instead of just trying to give us the facts of a story, are trying to lead people to a conclusion that reflects a very secular liberal worldview.
>> Tim Wildmon: News director Fred Jackson.
>> Fred Jackson: I think the world right now needs to see what is going on in our world from a biblical perspective.
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>> Tim Wildmon: Welcome to Today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the issues of the day.
>> Frank Turek: here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. as the announcer told you, I'm Tim Wildmon. In studio with me is Fred Jackson. Good morning, Fred.
>> Fred Jackson: Good morning to you, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wesley Wellman.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Good morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: And in Florida is, Ray Pritchard. Good morning, Ray.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, Tim. How you doing today?
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm doing excellent day. and so far it's 10 o' clock central time. I don't know what the next 12 hours holds, but, So how are you doing, Ray? How's everything going?
>> Tim Wildmon: It's, it's beautiful. 79 degrees and sunny here in Florida.
>> Tim Wildmon: So you have a sunny, you have a sunny disposition, do you?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. You know what? I think spring in Florida is pretty good time of the year.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right?
>> Tim Wildmon: summer down here can be pretty brutal.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.
>> Tim Wildmon: With the heat and all that other stuff. But yeah, today's good. We're good.
>> Tim Wildmon: Give us a good word from the Bible, if you would.
Fred: What grade would you give yourself for your prayer life
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so I have been working in the book of Philippians because, next week here at the. Here at the Word of Life, Florida, I'm speaking, giving seven messages from the book of Philippians around the general theme. Joyful living in a grumpy world.
>> Fred Jackson: That's good.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. I'm early on here in this prayer of the apostle Paul in verses 9, 10, 11. And you know, let me just ask you guys and just theoretically, Wesley, him. M. Fred, the theory don't have to answer back. But what grade would you give yourself for your prayer life? You don't have to answer. Okay, you give yourself an A.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You mean out loud?
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't mean. I don't. I mean don't give me one out loud.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I guess it,
>> Tim Wildmon: But Wes, would you give us a, B, C, D, F or. I need some help. I think most of us Christians would go, I need some help. Because we all know, we all know we need to pray. We want to pray. And we feel whenever a preacher gets up to talk about prayer, the big problem is people already feel so guilty anyway. We feel like we don't pray as much as we ought to pray, or we don't know what to say. So let me just read Paul's prayer from Philippians 1, because I just, I've been noodling around with it this morning before the broadcast, and Paul says, this is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more. Cool. We all need more love in knowledge and depth of insight. It's really interesting. Paul joins love with knowledge and depth of insight because love is great, right? Faith, hope and love. Love is the highest virtue, but love alone is never enough. Because if you just follow love down the path and it's not guided by knowledge and insight from the Lord, you'll just get into one bad relationship after another, make one bad decision after another. We need love, abounding love, but it's got to be guided by knowledge and insight. And then Paul says in verse 10, so that you may be able to discern, and some translations say discriminate. And I, know in our, our day, discrimination is usually a negative term. But in the spiritual life, we are desperately in need of good discrimination. And Paul says to discern what is best. Just think of it this way, guys. There's the bad from the good, that we can know the bad from the good, that we could know the better from the good, and that we could know the best from the better. So here's a great prayer to pray. this is a prayer to pray for your kids and for your grandkids. Pray for your friends. Lord, give my friends, give my kids, give my grandkids the ability to make wise decisions under pressure. Because as we all know, if you have three days, you can usually figure it out. But that's not how life comes to us. So we ought to pray for ourselves and our loved ones that we might be able to discern what is best in the eyes of God. And here's the end of the prayer. Because when you do, you'll end up pure and blameless. You'll be a sunlight Christian, nothing hidden, because there's nothing to hide. You'll be filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. So you will live a blameless life, a fruitful life, and what I'm going to call a theodoxic life. Theo, meaning God, Theos, God, doxic, like doxology, life lived to the glory and praise of God. So to all of our radio listeners out there, if you don't know how to pray or what to pray, go to Philippians 1. Pray this prayer. One writer a century and a half ago called this prayer the life of God in the soul of man. If you don't know what to pray, pray that love might be guided by knowledge and discernment so that we might be able to know the good from the bad, the better from the good, and the best from the better. Oh, God, help us. Help us to live like that. Help us to pray like that so our lives may be blameless, fruitful, and lived for the glory of God.
>> Tim Wildmon: Amen.
>> Fred Jackson: Amen.
>> Wesley Wildmon: There's a lot of very, very clear and, practical, teachings in the NewSong Testament that are very helpful. I know that if you, you're really close to the Bible verse that I use often with our, with the team that I coach. And it says in Philippians chapter two, do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but rather in humility. Consider others more important than yourself. Not look into your own interests, but to the interests of others. and so just reminding us where, where we stand in light of being a good example to others by putting others first as well. M. And that's just one chapter over. So, yeah, reading the Bible and there's. Do, you have any idea off the top of your head how many prayers are in the Bible? Written prayers. I, have to look that up, but that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, okay. Are we going to count the Psalms? Yes, because. Right, because the Psalms are prayers.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: At 150 of them. Right, right there. Then you got prayers of Moses, prayers of, let's see, prayer of Nehemiah, prayer of Daniel.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Jabez.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, the prayer of Jabez. And you got these prayers of Paul in the NewSong Testament. And folks, if you want to do a fun Bible study, just read the prayers of Paul recorded in his epistles. It'll jump start your prayer life.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Amen.
>> Tim Wildmon: Amen.
Fred Kaplan: Secretary of War Pete Hexith gave morning briefing yesterday
speaking of prayers. Yes, we got one. that was ushered yesterday by Secretary of War Pete Hexith. It was yesterday or this morning, Fred.
>> Fred Jackson: Particularly this morning. Our Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has been given morning giving morning briefings and he gave the latest. He says today is going to be the most intense day, day 10, the intense day of the battle so far. He gave that briefing. But towards the end of his formal presentation, before he took questions from reporters, Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of War said, I want to read From Scripture for you. Well, I was just blown away by this. And he read from Psalm 144. Cut number two.
>> Frank Turek: I'll close with Scripture, drawing strength from Psalm 144. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle. He is my loving God, and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge. May the Lord grant unyielding strength and refuge to our, warriors, unbreakable protection to them in our homeland, and total victory over those who seek to harm them. And Amen.
>> Fred Jackson: I was just blown away by that. I cannot remember a Secretary of Defense, Secretary of War, at a formal briefing like this in the midst of battle, stopping to read scripture and to give a prayer.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He has these in the right context,
>> Fred Jackson: liberal left wing reporters in front of him. he knows millions of people are watching him. But what a testimony this morning from our Secretary of War, Pete Hexseth.
>> Tim Wildmon: Amen. Absolutely. I think the scripture he quoted and the prayer he gave were perfect, perfect. Perfect timing. You know, we are about to enter. By we, I mean the United States and Israel. A, the. Most of the military targets have been hit in, Iran from what I understand. But now Pete Hexa said that the Iranians, are now moving their, mobile missile launchers to hospitals and to schools and to places where the United States and Israel, cannot reach without the risk of a lot of casualties. A lot of casualties. And turning the Iranian people against them rather than still be for them. From what I can gather, the majority of the Iranian people that are not in with the regime. Okay. Just the average citizens out there, they are actually in favor of what's going on here.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: and they were about a month ago.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, yes, they were. And because of the brutality that the regime has, executed on the general population, I mean, we're talking 20, 30,000 people that were killed by the,
>> Wesley Wildmon: those just recently.
>> Tim Wildmon: The henchmen of the.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Not to mention the history.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. That's right. So. But what I'm saying is it's going to get more difficult now. The decisions that will have to be made. Seems to me, I'm not a military expert, but. But, seems like to me there's a risk for civilian deaths. It's about to go up if the Americans, Israelis are going to continue to bomb.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. And maybe the IDF has plans to do some type of, special op missions that will help on that front as well.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is Frank on yet? Frank Turek. Frank Turek will be with us at the bottom of the hour.
Israel struck a hotel room in Beirut yesterday, reportedly targeting Iranian leaders
did you guys see this military strike by ISRA Israel in Beirut, yesterday? Okay, so let me remind folks, Israel is, is also at, at war sort with the Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. They've been around forever. They operate out of Lebanon. Lebanon, being on the northern border of Israel now, most of the time it's quiet. But then the Lebanon, excuse me. But then Hezbollah starts firing a few rockets here and there and so, and so forth and so on. The Israelis have to sometimes go into Lebanon territory to fight Hezbollah to keep them off the northern border. But the Israel, the, the Iranians. This is where I read the story. The Iranians, some of the Iranian leaders were meeting in Beirut and they were gathered in a hotel room. And, the Israelis found out about it. They found out about everything, don't they? I mean, the eyes and ears of the Assad and the IDF are just, incredible. So they sent a, some kind of a weapon right into the hotel room window. Didn't destroy the hotel, didn't bring down the hotel, didn't set the hotel on fire. Look it up. Just Israelis fire in the hotel room in Beirut. And they went like, went into the window. It was, what I'm saying, Ray, is
>> Tim Wildmon: these, it's like they're on. So let's say on the 14th floor, they're in room 1423. It didn't hit 1422.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: It didn't hit 1424. It hit the exact room where the bad guys were.
>> Tim Wildmon: It went right, like, right in the window. It was, it was remarkable, the precision, in which they, Yes, you see the story.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Look for an image.
>> Tim Wildmon: you're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim Wesley, Fred. And And Ray, what are you going to say?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I didn't get to listen yesterday. Have y' all made a prediction about how long this, you think this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, what have you heard, Fred? What is President Trump or Pete Hexa said about how long we're going to be over there?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, the next level of targeting, according to the Secretary of War, is going after the facilities in Iran that manufacture the missiles. They feel they've done a pretty good job, both Israel and the United States, of going after missile launching sites, you know, the sites that are on the back of the trucks, et cetera, et cetera. We've all seen this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Mobile missile launchers.
>> Fred Jackson: Mobile missile launchers. Now they're going to go after the Places where the Iranians used to make these missiles and to make these drones. The, the aim is, and this was kind of interesting, that when this campaign is over, Iran will not be a threat to the rest of the world for years.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.
>> Fred Jackson: that is the aim, short of
>> Tim Wildmon: having a regime change, which. Who knows whether that's going to happen or not. Just to demons. Demiller.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Demilitize.
>> Tim Wildmon: Did you say it right?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I don't think so.
>> Tim Wildmon: You had a better idea?
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. That's what I was. I didn't want to say militarized.
>> Tim Wildmon: There. Go. I got it out.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: D. Miller eyes.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's a hard word to say.
>> Tim Wildmon: it is, isn't it? Demilitarize the, the country of Iran. That is so that they're not a threat to anybody because they don't have any weapons. That's.
>> Tim Wildmon: That.
>> Tim Wildmon: That would be the goal. Now, again, again, the ideal situation would be for the ayatollah and the mullahs to be replaced by anything else. Somebody, somebody who's peaceful and who wants free elections and what's the, a normal life for the people of the country. Ray. That would be the best case scenario, but who knows whether that's going to happen or not.
>> Tim Wildmon: Did you guys see President Trump's press conference yesterday when he was taking questions on this very point? And Mr. Trump, when he is on his game, he is an amazing. Is amazing to watch him do his thing. And he had, you know, the Washington Post people there and liberals and conservatives. And as a pure side note, Joe, Biden could not have faced the press the way Donald Trump did. Took questions from all comers and he said, you know, we could end it right now. If I wanted to, we could end it. It's going to be over real soon. He kept saying that.
>> Tim Wildmon: He did say that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, yes, but Fred, he didn't give a date, he didn't give a time.
>> Fred Jackson: No. As you say, he was asked. We can play a little bit of what Ray is talking about here.
You said it would be over soon on Iran. Are you thinking this week it will be over
Cut number three on Iran.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You called it an excursion.
>> Tim Wildmon: You said it would be over soon. Are you thinking this week it will be over?
>> Frank Turek: No talk days?
>> Fred Jackson: I think so.
>> Frank Turek: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: And with respect to very soon, look,
>> Fred Jackson: everything they have is gone, including their leadership. In fact, there are two levels of leadership and even, actually, as it turns out, more than that. But two levels of leadership are gone. Most people have never even heard about the leaders that they're talking about. So. So, it's obviously been very, very powerful, very effective.
>> Tim Wildmon: Go ahead.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, I think you know, they have to deal with the leadership at some point. Now, they told us initially this is not about regime change. What they're hoping for is that they can get the military campaign to the point where there is no point for these Islamic leaders to hang on because they've got nothing to lead and that somebody is going to come up from the ranks of their citizens. There's 19 million people in that country that will come up through those ranks that will have the support of Israel and the United States. I think that is the hope.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And if I could, this is just my personal. You know, we all vote a lot of, you know, we voted for President Trump and he won. And so as a voter constituent, I would say that I, I would think maybe two months at the longest, because you like to be, you know, be even quicker. But if the more, the more you hear about what all is they're trying to accomplish from a missional standpoint, then you also have to set your expectations around that as well. In addition to just wanting, you know, not to be caught up over there for years and years and all that. You know, we've talked about the worst case scenario that's happened in years past. So I don't think that's gonna happen. But at the same time, I do think it's gonna be longer than some of us, MAGA, or people like myself want it to be. But at the same time, you set your parameters around the mission, too.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, well, we will see. anything more on what's going on there in the war effort?
Fred: Markets calmed down overnight on Brent crude prices, Ray
>> Fred Jackson: Well, we did talk yesterday on the program about the impact on the price of oil. Well, I guess the markets were really nervous yesterday and they calmed down overnight. we had prices.
>> Tim Wildmon: Calmed them down.
>> Fred Jackson: You calmed them down?
>> Tim Wildmon: I calmed them down. They were getting out of control.
>> Fred Jackson: Hey, we need you in important places.
>> Tim Wildmon: I do my part.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, but yesterday we were talking about 110 bucks a barrel. 120 in some places. this morning on the Brent crude level, down below 90 bucks. so things are calming down.
>> Tim Wildmon: No $5 gasoline. No $5 gallon gasoline may take a few days.
>> Fred Jackson: We know, we know how this works.
>> Tim Wildmon: To get to $5 or to come. Bring it back down.
>> Fred Jackson: Bring it back down. We know how gas prices go up real fast.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: A little bit slow coming down.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So, what about that, Ray? You heard anything about that Strait of her. Is it called Straight or Straits of Hormuz, which is borders, Iran, that people are worried about, all the merchant ships and all the oil ships that come through there? 20% of the America. Go ahead.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, it's very interesting. Again, back to Mr. Trump. Yesterday. He made some comment, I'm thinking about taking over the Straits of Hormuz. You just kind of said it. He's amazing. Just throw it. I'm thinking about doing that. Right. And then there's that island. Is it called Kharg? Kharg Island?
>> Tim Wildmon: That's part of Iran. Right.
>> Fred Jackson: About 15 miles off.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. And he said, I'm thinking about maybe we should take that island as well. So we've just never had a president.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. So we didn't get Greenland. We're going to settle for.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. The Straits of Hormuz, a small island and the island.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. Actually the Energy Secretary, this morning said that already an American destroyer has escorted a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz. So that operation.
>> Tim Wildmon: The worry. The worry is people don't understand. A lot of people don't understand. We're talking about a part of the sea there. What's the sea? Is that the Arabian or is that the,
>> Fred Jackson: From the Arabian Sea into the Persian
>> Tim Wildmon: Gulf, is that, that's where this straight. It's called a strait because it's like 20 miles across from Iran to wherever whatever the other that country is. So ships that come through there would be very vulnerable to, to, weapons being fired from Iran. To blow them up out in that strait, they have to go through there.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's a choke point.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, yes, a choke point. So that's the worry. But now you're saying, Fred, that the American military, the navy, our navy is escorting at least one. An American merchant ship or somebody else, a tanker.
>> Fred Jackson: That's all it was identified, a merchant
>> Tim Wildmon: ship, an oil tanker. There's all kind of, ships. I saw a graphic of that. It's just amazing how many ships go through there. you know, from, you know.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Is this where y' all talking about? I'm looking at the map right there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's right. I guess it's Saudi Arabia and Iran. That border between where that strait goes, goes by, but it's very, very narrow. So it's, The ships that go through there are very vulnerable to Iranian fire. But that's not happening now because the American, The Americans are there to sort of police that. Police that.
>> Fred Jackson: They had to basically underwrite the insurance companies that insure these ships because the insurance companies were pulling the policy.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You're serious? Oh, I thought you were. Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Fred Jackson: No, no. The insurance companies were saying to the owners of these tankers, we're going to pull our insurance if you guys go through the straight at home moves. And so what President Trump has said, we'll underwrite you, basically, if you keep sending your ships through the street.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, China's been kind of quiet in all this, haven't they, Ray? Have you, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, interesting you say that because President Trump said, by doing this, by protecting those tankers.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
We're helping our friends in China. Because China gets a lot of their oil from that area
>> Fred Jackson: We're helping our friends in China.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: Because China gets a lot of their oil from that. From that area.
>> Tim Wildmon: That area, yeah. Well, okay, well, let's take a break right here and we'll come back. our good friend Dr. Frank Turek will be with us, after the break. Frank's always got something interesting, exciting, informative to share. I'm sure he will this time. And then Wesley's got, an announcement, too. So that's coming up right after this short timeout.
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Dr. Frank Turek joins us from North Carolina this morning
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim, Wesley, Fred, and now, Dr. Frank Turek joins us from North Carolina. Good morning, Frank.
>> Frank Turek: How is everyone?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I thought you were traveling. you traveling this week or.
>> Frank Turek: No, I am. I'm going to be at Christopher Newport University up In Newport News, Virginia. Tomorrow night, 7pm all the details on our website, cross examine dot org.
>> Tim Wildmon: What's the school and what town is it in?
>> Frank Turek: That's in Newport News, up in near Virginia Beach.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, Newport area. Yeah, I know where that is.
>> Frank Turek: Yeah, Christopher Newport is. Christopher, Newport was a patriot who helped the pilgrims way back in the 1600s. And so there's a university named after him.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, alright. Well, wonderful.
Frank: History of Iran, Persia, Elam is important topic
Well, so Frank, you had on a guest, William Federer, who's a friend of ours as well, on your show last week. I Don't have enough Faith to be an Atheist. It's the name of Frank's show that airs on the American Family Radio Network on Saturday mornings at 9 o' clock Central time. and the topic was the history of, I guess Iran, right?
>> Frank Turek: That's right, yeah. History of Iran, Persia, Elam. In the Bible sometimes called media. In the Bible, Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: Alright, tell us what we need to know about that. Give us a. Oh wow. Give us, give us five minutes on that.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Three bullet points.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that most Americans don't know.
>> Frank Turek: Well, in the Bible this area we call now Iran is, was called Persia. Sometimes it was called Elam, sometimes it's called media. Cyrus the Great, came from Persia. Esther, the whole story of Esther takes place in Persia. Abraham fights somebody from Persia early on in biblical history. And when you get into the modern age, you learn that in say the 20th century that Iran itself was a constitutional monarchy. And the word shah just means king. There were several shahs in the 20th century, one of whom was the Shah that was deposed by ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. And those of us who are old enough remember this, because when that occurred In February of 1979, not long after that, our embassy was raided and a number of American hostages were taken, embassy workers. And they were held for 444 days until January 20, 1981 when President Ronald Reagan was sworn in. Iran decided they didn't. They could deal with Carter, but they probably couldn't deal with Reagan. And so they let those hostages go and they came back to the United States. Those you also are old enough. Remember that President Carter tried to rescue them and it was a botched mission where some aircraft collided in the desert and they had to abort the whole mission. So the ironic thing about all this is that the President that really gave the green light to the Ayatollah was Jimmy Carter. And we haven't even discussed that on the program. Yet, Bill Federer and I actually recorded two programs last week. The first one aired on the American Family Radio Network, this weekend. The second one is going to come out on our podcast, tomorrow, no, wait, today, this afternoon. and it's part two where we're going to get into the 20th century. So if they look for the I don't have Enough Faith to be an atheist podcast, they can see that. What happened with Jimmy Carter and why did he green light the Ayatollah to come back? Why did he tell the Shah to leave and all this? It was really Jimmy Carter that gave us the, or green lighted the Ayatollah and allowed him to take over.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Frank Turek: And we all saw how that worked out.
Fred Rothenberg: Why does Iran hate Israel so much
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, let me ask you this question because, I have brought this topic up many times over the years. that is the Iranian hatred for Israel. Not all the Iranian people. I'm talking about the regime, the mullahs, the Ayatollah Khomeini. okay, so, and I've mentioned this before. In world history, wars have been fought mainly over land. Okay. Secondly, they've been fought over maybe ethnicity or tribal hatred or disagreements.
>> Frank Turek: And oil.
>> Tim Wildmon: And oil, but land probably, number one. And, with again, tribal rivalries having to do basically with land. So. But when you talk about Iran and Israel, you're talking about, countries that are not border countries and that are separated by maybe 1200 miles, something like that. There's two countries between Iran and Israel. There's Iraq, there's Jordan, there's Syria over there. So why the obsession by the, by the Ayatollah Khomeini and the mullahs and the religious leaders, Iran for Israel, little Israel over there, you know, on the shores of the Mediterranean, 1200 miles away. And of course there's great hatred for the Great Satan to the little Satan's Israel, the Great Satan's. Maybe I've answered my own question here. Maybe it's just straight up religion, the religious ideology, the reason for it. But explain, to me why the Ayatollah, Khomeini and the Mullahs get up every morning going, you know, we need to take out the Zionists and the Jews and we need to kill the Americans. somebody send me some coffee down my way. Why is that their attitude?
>> Frank Turek: I think you did answer your own question. Because they're Shia Muslims, which is a, minority sect of Islam. And, they come from the line of Allie. And all that's explained on the podcast. The Sunnis are about 85% of Muslims. The Shia are about 15%. And Iran is sh. they also support, as you know, Hamas. They support all, the H's, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen. All the. Much of the money that those organizations get come from Iran, and thanks to President Obama, who dropped I don't know how many millions in cash to them when he was president.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I forgot about that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, he sent the plane with unmarked, Bill. Unmarked. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But why do they. Do they just hate them because they're Jews? and I mean, why, as you
>> Frank Turek: know, in the Quran and mostly even more in the Hadith and the biography of Muhammad, Muhammad, said, kill any Jew that comes under your power. that was in the biography of Muhammad. they believe in jihad. You know, Islam means submission. That's what the word means. And they believe that the, entire world must be submitted to Islam. That includes Sharia law. And Sharia, law is something that I guess a lot of people here in America don't seem to understand. Because if you look at what Sharia law is, there's no freedoms, there's no religious freedom. Women can't even walk the streets alone. They have to be covered up. And if they're not, they can be. Tragically, they can't even be accosted and raped. you can't convert to Christianity. That's a death penalty. You can't proselytize. You don't have the freedom you have here in America, in Iran, because of Sharia law. And it amazes to me that there are people here on the left that align with them, at least from some sort of, justice. Cause when they don't realize that if the Iranian, viewpoint took over, the jihadist viewpoint took over, the first people that would be executed would be the liberals. I mean, gays for Gaza, as Benjamin Netanyahu said, is kind of like chickens for kfc. It makes absolutely zero sense logically that you would align yourself with a group that wants to execute you. But that's what goes on. And here in America, we don't seem to understand that when people say they want to kill you, they mean it. We go, oh, no, you can't. You can't think that. That's just not right. That's the way some of these folks think, and it's been proven for 1400 years. So people just need to wake up.
>> Fred Jackson: It's Fred here. We're starting to see, even here in the United States, groups of Muslims kneeling Down in public streets and praying. Now, some people may say, well, that's just innocent, but there's more to it. That goes to, we're marking this land for us.
Texas governor is fighting proposed all-Muslim city near Dallas
your thoughts on that?
>> Frank Turek: I think it is a call to dominance. They want to submit NewSong York City, Dearborn, Michigan, anywhere they can to Islam, to Sharia law. They state this openly. And why do they have calls for prayer in Dearborn? Why did they have calls for prayer in Times Square?
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Frank Turek: You don't need, a loudspeaker to tell you when to pray in the age of the cell phone. Right?
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Frank Turek: I mean, you could just sign up for an alert on your cell phone. You don't need to tell the whole neighborhood you're doing it. Oh, we're gonna tell the whole neighborhood we're doing it because we're gonna one day own this neighborhood.
>> Fred Jackson: So governor, Abbott in Texas is right to be fighting this proposed epic. I, think it's called the city that they want to set up there. Near Dallas.
>> Frank Turek: Well, yes, and he's fighting it, I think. I don't know all the details of this, but I think he's fighting it on civil rights grounds because they want to exclude people who are not Muslims from the community.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean build an all. Yeah, build a. Build an.
>> Frank Turek: As I understand it.
>> Tim Wildmon: As I understand it, an all Muslim city. An enclave. Yeah, yeah. And they sort of, no go zone, if you will. So they're supposed to operate. Well, that ain't working out very well in Great Britain right now or Paris or other parts of Europe.
>> Frank Turek: no, it's not. And, we Christians have to wake up.
>> Tim Wildmon: But let me just say this, too, about this whole situation, just to boil it down here, because you're right, most Americans. Ray, I'll let you comment after this. you know, we want to be fair minded. We believe in freedom. We believe in liberty. We believe and let people have their own, religious beliefs and practices. I mean, that's it. That's what America's history has been. but Islam, if you look. If you look where Islam is dominant and this. This is not. I'm not saying anything disparaging about Islam. I'm just telling the truth. I'm just telling a fact. If you look at Sharia, you look at places where Muslims are the dominant religion, then they cut off freedom for other religions. They imposed laws even in Saudi Arabia, which many Americans travel to, or Dubai. in the United Arab Emirates, I think that's. Which have some semblance of westernization. Still, they have, the imposition of, Sharia law. They. They are not going to allow. Remember when our soldiers were after nine, 11 that were over there in Saudi Arabia, and they told him, you can't celebrate Christmas over here. Now, you understand that, right? So anyway, right? Anywhere you go in the work, the point is when people are saying, well, you. You people are just anti, Muslim, you're Islamophobic here. You just don't want these people to have their own town and their own culture in America. You're. You just hate Muslims, don't you? And you're going like, well, wait a minute. No. If you look at where they dominate around the world, they impose their religious beliefs on the rest of society. Go ahead.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, Tim, the old saying, when people tell you who they are, believe them. Okay? It's not just in Saudi Arabia. It's not just in the uae, Abu Dhabi, places like that, or Iran. Look what's happened in Germany. Look what's happened in the Netherlands. Look what's happened in France. Look what's happened in England. As they have allowed almost unlimited Muslim immigration into those countries, it's, a pretty simple fact that, What's this fellow's name? Starmer? Is he the. Yeah, basically, he didn't want. He wanted to stay. He wanted to stay out of. Stay, out of this fight between the US Israel and Iran because he's afraid of antagonizing the Muslim immigrant population in England.
Frank Bruni: Could there be regime change in Iran?
You know, Frank, I want to ask you a question about the situation inside Iran today. Two questions. Number one, these people are so bad, they're so evil. They. The government has been so bloodthirsty. Two questions. Question one. How have they managed to stay in power for all these years? And number two, given the bloodthirsty nature and the crazed ideology, how will there ever be. However, could there be regime change in Iran?
>> Frank Turek: Well, you only need a small group of people to keep the rest of the people in terror, to not say or do anything. I think that's what's happened in Iran. I mean, Stalin did the same thing, right? He had a group of henchmen that just kept that dictatorship going. Iran, though, is a little bit different than Iraq. Iran was westernized under the Shah. Under the Shah, women could vote. Women could wear Western clothes. Women could, go to college. They were even making, Cadillacs in Iran when the Shah was over there. so it was a westernized country. they have a better infrastructure than Iraq. You know, Persia goes back millennia. Iraq was created essentially, by Winston Churchill after World War I, as well as what was known then as Transjordan. Those countries were drawn by Winston Churchill after World War I, and they were more tribal than Persia was. So there is a possibility that Persia, Iran could go back to a constitutional monarchy, because they have a history of it. what the Shah or the new person would have to do would have to ensure that the radical Muslims, didn't execute him. That's why the Shah, by the way, had secret police, because he was always concerned he would be executed by the more radical Muslims within his country. That's always problem. In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood, which came into existence in 1928 after it looked like Islam was going to modernize, tried to reverse all that by making assassin squads to take out leaders who would not toe the fundamentalist line. And this is what Bill Federer unpacks in our podcast, which people can see on our YouTube channel, the Cross examine YouTube channel if they want, wherever they get podcasts or at the American Family Radio Network. but the new one that comes out today will just be on the I Don't have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist podcast. So Iran has a different history than Iraq, and so there is hope that they could get some, at least a less oppressive regime than they currently have.
Tomorrow night we're going to Christopher Newport University where Charlie was murdered
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Dr. Frank Turek has been with us. Frank, so tomorrow night, for those. We have a lot of listeners in the Richmond area. That's why not far from Richmond. Yeah, yeah. What are you, an hour and a half or two hours probably? Yeah, yeah, something like that. What's it. What's the school?
>> Frank Turek: It's Christopher Newport University. It's on our website, crossexamine.org and then a couple of weeks after that, we're going to be out at Colorado Mesa University. And then we're going back to the university where Charlie was murdered. That's Utah Valley University on the 26th of March. I don't know how I'm going to react to being there again. But we, we can't let Satan win. We have to plant a flag there. And as you know, that's heavily Mormon up in that area. Mormons, as you know, don't completely comprehend grace. so we're going to be talking a lot about if God, why evil and grace that night.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. All right, Frank, thanks so much. Appreciate it.
>> Frank Turek: God Bless you guys.
>> Tim Wildmon: Dr. Frank Turek. Wesley, you got an announcement, like a church bulletin announcement here where everybody pays attention.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's exactly what it is.
>> Tim Wildmon: Listen up, people.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Go ahead, pay Attention. Get your, pin out, notes out.
American Family Radio is looking for listener story testimony for Share a Thon
All right, so April 7th and 9th, we have our Share a Thon, our spring share a thon, April 7th and 9th. And what we like to do, 7th through the 9th. And what I'd like to do, or what we like to do here at AFR is hear from you about how AFR has impacted you, how God's used AFR in your life. And each, about a month before our Sheraton, it gives us plenty of time to, get your testimony. So you can call in and leave a listener story testimony at 877-876-8893. The phone number again is 877-876-88 93. And we like to ask that you keep it to about one minute, two at the max. But between one or two minutes, we would love to hear from you. And many of y' all know, y' all get to hear these testimonies during our Sheraton and leading up to it, pre Share a Thon. And they, they're just. They really do reset your perspective on what we're able to accomplish through the radio network because of your giving. I mean, I don't know how much more clear to say it than that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, that's right. So to reiterate what Wesley's saying, we're looking for you. If you are a listener and you've been impacted by American Family Radio, we want to play your testimony during our Share a Thon coming up in about a month. A listener testimony. So you say, okay, my name is, Sam from Lexington, Kentucky. And then you say what AFR has done in your life.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And the more specific, the better. I mean, if there's a there. If there was one radio program on Saturday at midnight or whatever it was, just let us know. Call in at 8. 7.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wesley, go ahead and get the phone number. This is the phone number. You call and leave the recording. Go ahead.
>> Wesley Wildmon: 8778-7688-9387-7876-8893.
>> Fred Jackson: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You got an email the other day, didn't you, from a listener?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you know, Tim, last Thursday, I gave my email address out and said, you know, people could write me. And so I got four or five very interesting, emails, people with questions about the issues of life. None of it was, quote, political. It was just things they were dealing, with. And I thank the listeners for their emails. But one of them, and this one, Tim, was not. Was not signed. So I don't know exactly who sent it in. But a Nice. A nice note saying that, AFR you were talking about, AFR you were the angels that led, me to Jesus. one of the clearest, one of the clearest statements of how listening to AFR our broadcast, everything showed them their need for Christ and led them to living, saving faith in Jesus Christ. I thought it was, I sent along to you, Tim, because I thought it was so moving.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I don't have it in front of me. Maybe I'll bring it on Thursday and read it when you're here. of course, there's no name attached to it. so we don't read emails on here unless somebody gives us permission. If we do so, we do so and leave it anonymous. So maybe I'll bring that in on Thursday. Fred.
Australian government offers asylum to Iranian girls who refused to sing national anthem
we got this story about the Iranian girls soccer team. Tell us about it.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, the Iranian girls soccer team. They've been involved with a tournament in Australia. And, during one of the ceremonies down there before the game, you know, like other countries, they sing the national anthem. And so initially these Iranian girls refused to sing the national anthem. Drew a lot of attention.
>> Tim Wildmon: Of their own country.
>> Fred Jackson: Of their own country. And some of them were signaling what they say was an SOS sign. In other words, save us from that regime.
>> Fred Jackson: So here's what's happened in the last, day 24 hours or so. the Australian government first, actually President Trump got in contact with the Australian Prime Minister and said, australia, if you don't grant these girls asylum because they're scared to death, literally, we will take them here in the United States. Well, Australia now has responded and they are giving asylum to five of these girls. Now. They offered it to all the girls on the team.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know how many there are? Maybe 12, 15, 21. Oh, 21. yes, 21 girls said, we'll take
>> Fred Jackson: the asylum, we'll take the asylum. Now the feeling is that the other girls didn't want to necessarily go home, but they were scared if they don't go home. And their bus left this morning, from Australia to go to the airport. They're afraid if they didn't go home, the regime there would kill their family members. So, here's a little bit from the announcement from Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese this morning on this situation. Cut number seven.
>> Tim Wildmon: Australians have been moved by the plight
>> Tim Wildmon: of these brave women. They're safe here and they should feel at home here.
>> Frank Turek: We're willing to provide assistance to other
>> Tim Wildmon: women in the team.
>> Tim Wildmon: Noting that this is a very delicate situation.
>> Tim Wildmon: And it is up to them. But we say to them, if you
>> Frank Turek: want our help, help is here and
>> Tim Wildmon: we will provide that.
>> Fred Jackson: There was a very moving video this morning of the bus carrying these girls, bus headed out to the airport. And there were, pro Iranian free people who live in Australia getting in front of the bus, trying to stop it, pleading to those girls on the buses, don't go home, don't go home. And some of the girls apparently were again giving the S.O.S.
>> Tim Wildmon: you know, what age these girls were?
>> Fred Jackson: I just. Maybe late teens, early 20s.
>> Tim Wildmon: In that very, very scary situation then, because. Oh, yeah, they're thinking, they probably, you know, they're between, adolescent. They're between teenage years and adulthood and they're wondering if I go home, what will become of me then? Because I, didn't maybe salute, sing the national anthem on the Internet when all the cameras were on me. in other words, I wasn't supportive. The regime.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: but they're going back to, Iran. But five of them said, no, we're going to stay in Australia.
>> Fred Jackson: Going to stay here.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, do you see this, Ray?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And I was just thinking about our discussion that we just had. This is a regime that very well might do what those, soccer players fear, that if they stay in Australia, their family would be arrested and perhaps even be put to death. Those. The first of all, kudos. Kudos to all of them who did not want to sing the national anthem of their own country. It just shows what a desperate situation it is over there. And, m. I mean, Fred, can you imagine, you want to stay in freedom, but your family's hanging in the balance. What do you do?
>> Fred Jackson: What a demonstration of what life is like there for fear of your life all the time. Now, the girls in subsequent games did sing their Iranian national anthem, but we are told they got word from the regime back in Tehran. You better start singing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, the threat.
>> Fred Jackson: Living under that threat all the time.
>> Tim Wildmon: The good news is we know that the, feminists, the American lefties, who will champion the cause of these young girls, don't you think so, Wesley? We'll Hear from Ellen DeGeneres and yeah, that's Rosie O' Donnell and all the, all the Nancy Pelosi and all of them.
>> Wesley Wildmon: If I had not been around the block a few times, logically I would say probably so, but I know better. That's not going to happen. Hey, so. So did they. So the five got asylum for the far off the country. And Trump said he would take them if Australia didn't. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And, asylum was offered to all 21 of them. Yeah, 21 of them.
>> Wesley Wildmon: But the spread of the. Their families back home, too. I mean, it's a bad situation.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, we're going to take a short time out right here. Yes. You know, speaking of prayers, say a prayer for these, women, these young ladies. They're teenagers, most of them, and they're faced with. This decision will affect their lives forever. All right, we'll be back momentarily. Stay with us.
>> Frank Turek: The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
