Well, he’s got my attention.

Yes, I know. He’s got a picture of himself giving ‘the finger’. And, there’s an ad for Adult FriendFinder. And… some of his writing will never be confused with anything Christian. (You weren’t expecting a Baptist, right?) So, you might have to hold your nose a bit to support him.

The problem is that the guy is going to die at the hands of the current Egyptian regime, unless something isn’t done soon.

I picked this up recently from the Jerusalem Post:

‘Pro-Israel’ Egyptian blogger becomes a cause celebre

By THE MEDIA LINE 10/31/2011 20:42

Previously shunned for views on Israel, activists adopt prisoner of conscience after authorities send him to psychiatric hospital.

He was Egypt’s first prisoner of conscience after the fall of Husni Mubarak in February.

Until recently, however, the story of Maikel Nabil was largely ignored by activists who were offended by his views on Israel. Now, inspired by his long hunger strike and angered by the authorities’ decision to commit him to a psychiatric hospital last week, Egyptian activists have catapulted the young man into the spotlight.

Activists and observers say that by dispatching Nabil to a psychiatric institution, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Egypt’s interim military government, is using a tactic borrowed from the Mubarak era in dealing with the opposition or others officials who want to keep out of the public eye by avoiding a trial: declare them insane.

Basma Abdel Aziz, the director of media for Egypt’s General Secretariat of Mental Health, said Nabil ‘s transfer to a psychiatric  institution is “a dangerous and unacceptable affair.” She and others contend that the military is attempting to avoid responsibility for his death, if it happens, by moving him out of prison.

Read the rest of the article here.

Of course, he knew something like this was going to happen. In April, the Huffington Post published this story:

The Story Of Maikel Nabil Sanad: The Egyptian Blogger Jailed For Taking On The Military

Just three days after Hosni Mubarak stepped down, while the rest of Egypt celebrated, a 25-year-old blogger made a grim prediction: “I’m a dead man.”

An unemployed veterinarian with the telltale stooped posture of an Internet junkie, Maikel Nabil Sanad has had a knack for predictions. Back in the fall, when no one could have imagined that a revolution would bring down the government, he’d been arrested for standing up to the regime and refusing to serve in the military.

In early February, he was arrested again, this time while on his way to a protest in Tahir Square. A few days later, in an online article bristling with exclamation points and outrage, he accused the military officers who detained him of beating and sexually harassing him and his fellow prisoners. “I’m writing this time not to take revenge,” he wrote, “but to let people know what would happen to them if this revolution failed.”

Now that the revolution appeared to have triumphed, you might think Nabil would have looked down the road and seen freedom. Instead he saw doom. Mubarak was gone, yes, but Nabil’s beef had never really been with Mubarak. His “biggest enemy,” as he put it in his blog, was the one institution the people trusted, the military.

Read the rest of the story here.

If you have a moment, spare a prayer for this guy. He’s being jailed and his life is in danger because he supports Israel.

Well, the Dennis Prager Show is good. If I was a regular listener of talk radio, I’d probably would have said that it’s great. It doesn’t have the bombast and desk thumping of Rush. It’s not the show-biz of Beck. It’s just good old talk radio, straight up.

Not only that, but Dennis Prager gets it right. He really does, and I just stumbled over one excellent example right here:

Dennis Prager – Is Israel an Apartheid State?

THAT was awesome.

To get more of that kind of awesomeness, listen to the Dennis Prager Show and go check out Prager University.

I am impressed.

It is good to see Glenn back on TV with content that we’ve come to expect from him, and more. It’s hard to know where he ends up from here, but I believe that he’s made an impressive start.

Over the next two weeks you can see Glenn for free, and I encourage you to do so. It’s not every day that you get to watch a new network take off, and GBTV is the ONLY way that you are going to see the Glenn Beck Show.

Check it out today.

You would think that the biggest brake of all would be the United States, and you’d be right. But, they’ve done almost nothing to stop the Iranians. Yes, they did increase funding for Voice of America and help the Israelis create the Stuxnet virus, but that’s pretty much it.

Worse, the United States has blocked Israel from doing anything on its own. They have denied Israel the right to fly over Iraq, and that was under George W Bush! I would even go as far as to bet you that the US has stymied Israeli intelligence operations in Iran – as they have done in the past, in other places.

The irony is that when the United States went into Iraq, some of us thought that Iraq would become a staging ground for operations in Iran – to take out Iran’s nuclear capability. That was the only reason that I could see for going into Iraq in the first place. I even wondered if it was a clever gambit by the Bush administration.

Well, it wasn’t a clever gambit, and all that the invasion accomplished was to hand Iraq to Iran via its Shia majority and create an air defense system that could deny Israel the ability to overfly Iraq. (Saddam Hussein’s air defenses were pathetic.)

Who would have thought that the US would be so instrumental in helping Iran achieve its nuclear ambitions?

Idiots.

Anyway, what got me back to thinking about this was a video by Erick Staklebeck that was followed by an interview with Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin by Pat Robertson. (Pat is REALLY looking old in this video.)

After watching this, I find myself impressed with General Boykin, and I think that you will be too.

I like this guy!

You can find General Boykin’s website here: Kingdom Warriors

His books can be found here: Kingdom Warriors/Store

You can also buy them on Amazon:

Never Surrender: A Soldier’s Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom

Danger Close: A Novel

Kiloton Threat: A Novel (sequel to Danger Close)

He is selling his books at his Kingdom Warriors store for more than they are sold on Amazon. I suspect that this is a way for him to raise funds to continue his work. If you order his books from Amazon, think about making a donation.

This guy helped create Delta Force. Anything that he says on the subject of special operations is worth its weight in gold. (Even at today’s prices.)

Oh, and the guy is a Christian who loves Israel.

I don’t claim to understand Glenn Beck, but he has truly drawn a line in the sand – a line that was drawn by God, thousands of years ago and redrawn today. If you stand for life and Christ and Israel and the Jewish people… then you also stand for truth and goodness and God Himself.

Glenn Beck ‘gets it’, and he has driven the point home to the rest of us who don’t.

Over the last few years, all pretense of a ‘middle ground’ has disappeared. All that is left is one question.

Are you for us, or are you against us?

Where you stand at the end of time will, in part, be defined by how you have answered this question.

Again, I don’t begin to understand Glenn Beck, but for what he has done today, may God bless him and keep him. May the Lord’s face shine upon him and be gracious to him. May the Lord’s face turn toward him and give him peace.

Amen.