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It does seem strange that the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) has canned another excellent, timely, and warning-sounding program, "Zola Levitt Presents."

Their reason is that Levitt's programming was not Arab/Muslim-friendly. This is the second time they have done this in a year as they scrapped Hal Lindsey's truth-telling last January, then recanted if they would be allowed to censor his program. Hal was told he was too pro-Israel and anti-Arab. He moved on--a wise choice.

I understand that TBN wants to get the gospel to the Muslim. I get it that Hal and Zola tell it like it is but in this post 9/11 world that is what is needed! The jihadists are engaged in a world war. Ask the victims in Beslan, Bombay, the U.K., Madrid, Bali, America, Israel, and a lot more. There is a bomb or terror threat daily in the last several weeks. Don't you get it TBN? They want us dead or brought back to 7th century Sharia Law.

This is the generation where we need the truth-tellers even if the truth hurts. Even if the truth offends. Even if the truth makes enemies and causes the loss of friends. Instead, we are in an appeasement mode.

Zola's staff said they were trying to "appease TBN's program director," but I have to wonder if TBN is just doing what the rest of the world is doing: Appeasing Islam. Everyone today needs a "straight talk" message like both Levitt did when alive, and now his successors. Only straight talk, to-the-point messages are going to turn people around from their sin and evil behavior.

I have to ask, "What is TBN up to?" Is this political correctness, bad judgment, ignorance, or worse?" These two ministries were told to be more Arab-friendly. Wait a minute. Ninety five per cent of the world is Arab/Muslim-friendly: The media, the United Nations, the European Union, the U.S. State Department, the World and National Council of Churches, the Vatican, the Communist world, and more. Few of them can see truth. They want to make brutal enemies their friends.

The Islamo-fascists are determined to destroy the infidel--us. Having Christian television lean in a positive way towards Islam means nothing but that they have won another "appeasement victory." And they have won many of them! The world caves to Islam, but must the church and Christian media do so as well?

Did evangelicals (a word today that has little meaning anymore) appease Hitler? OK, there was little Christian media during WWII. But we did not tell the enemy nice things and shield them from being offended even for the sake of the gospel. TBN, however, has now booted some ministries out the door right at a time when Islam needs to hear the brutal truth, but not in a brutal way. Neither Levitt nor Lindsey presented that truth in a way that should have warranted this response.

Islam has not lost its resolve. There is no room in their ideology for peaceful co-existence with infidels. They are willing to sacrifice anything for their goals to be furthered.

Pulling truth-telling ministries off of Christian networks is beyond comprehension to most but is now a habit to some. When will America stop pussyfooting around Islam? Lindsey and Levitt didn’t do that. They were “watchmen on the walls” using the airwaves of the Trinity Broadcasting Network to wake up a frightfully sleeping generation even of believers.

With the “messianic menace” in Iran, Osama on the loose, and Islamic cells waiting for a call, now more than ever Americans need to be forewarned and forearmed for the battle at hand. Silencing the “watchmen” is being done at great peril to America.

(Jan Markell is founder/director of Olive Tree Ministries and a contributing editor to The Omega Letter. For more information, her free print newsletter, or e-alerts, visit her Web site, www.olivetreeviews.org.)

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