HEIDI MUND THE BRAVE GERMAN WOMAN (NOVEMBER 10, 2013)

            On this date, November 10, 2013, a German woman named Heidi Mund, did something at the Memorial Church of the Reformation in the Rhineland city of Speyer, built to honor Martin Luther. She reminded me of Sophie Scholl and I will post information from several news sources to learn more.

                                                                                                                                            

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'Brave German Woman' Rebukes Islam's Lie

SPEYER, Germany -- Islam continues to grow in power and influence across Europe. But at a recent concert in Germany, one Christian woman decided to stand up to it. 

"The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace" by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins was supposed to be an interfaith event to bring Christianity and Islam together.

But when the Muslim imam began his call to prayer during the concert, he was interrupted by a small woman in the balcony proclaiming that "Jesus Christ alone is Lord of Germany," and shouting, "I break this curse." 

She also invoked the name of Martin Luther and warned the audience that what was happening was "a lie."  

The video went viral. 

'Brave German Woman'

The mysterious Christian lady became known on the Internet simply as the "brave German woman."
It happened on Nov. 10, 2013 at the Memorial Church of the Reformation in the Rhineland city of Speyer, built to honor Martin Luther.

It isn't just any church. It's a monument to the Protestant Reformation and a memorial to the spiritual transformation of Germany.

It was at this spiritual landmark that a Muslim imam was invited to give the call to prayer. When the brave German woman, whose real name is Heidi Mund, heard about the event, she prayed. 

"I was asking Jesus, 'Lord, shall I go there?' So, when I have to drive one and half hours, you know, I think, 'Is it worth it to go or can others go?' So, this is human laziness, yeah?" Mund recalled.

She grabbed her German flag emblazoned with the words "Jesus Christ is Lord" and headed for the concert, still not sure what she would do when she got there.

"Until the imam started with his shouting, I did not really know what to do. I was just prepared for what God wants me to do," she told CBN News.

Then the Muslim call to prayer began, and Heidi said she felt something rising up inside her.

A Holy Anger

"I would call it a holy anger," she recounted. "And then I rose with my flag and I was calling and proclaiming that Jesus Christ is Lord over Germany."

"My purpose was, I broke this curse because [Muslims] say, 'Only Allah is the Lord. He is God, the only God.' And I broke this curse in this church and I broke it over my country," she continued.

And she repeated the words of Martin Luther in 1521 after he refused to recant his faith in scripture alone: "Here I stand. I can do no other" and "Save the church of Martin Luther!"

Video shows another concert-goer trying to calm her by saying, "This is a concert for peace."

Mund can be heard responding in German, "No it's not! Allahu Akbar is what Muslims scream while murdering people! Don't be fooled! Don't be fooled! This is a lie!"

She was thrown out of the church. 

"They should have thrown the imam out and not me because I am a believer in Jesus Christ, but he serves another god. This Allah is not the same god. And this is not the truth."

"This 'allahu akbar,' they use it when they kill people," she argued. "This is, for me, worship to an idol, to their god. And when a Muslim calls 'allahu akbar' in a church, that means this church is not a church anymore, it's a mosque."

Church No Place for Imams?

With Mund at the concert was Kamel, who did not give his full name for safety reasons. Before coming to Germany he lived in the Muslim world. 

Kamel told CBN News that an imam has no place in a church.

"Islam is one of the reasons for persecution, Muslims have persecuted me. They don´t want me to tell others that Jesus Christ is my Savior."

Also with Mund was Marion, who has also asked that her last name not be included. She belongs to a group calling itself the White Rose, which took the same name as the World War II anti-Nazi resistance group shown in the film "Sophie Scholl: the Final Days."

"Islam is inhuman, the same as in the Nazi time. For me, personally, there is no difference. We want to show Germany and the world that we will not bow down to the slow Islamization of our country," Marion said.

Afraid of Muslims?
 
Mund said she knows that her first television interview could place her in danger. 

"Many people ask me, 'Are you afraid of the Muslims?' And I can only say, 'No, I'm not afraid of them,'" she told CBN News. "I know my God, the living God of the Bible can protect for me for as long as he wants. When my time is over I will go to him."

An evangelist by gifting, Mund grew up an atheist in communist East Germany. But now, as a believer, her burden and her ministry is for the spiritual rebirth of Germany. 

"I feel I have to protect my country and my people. I am only a little woman but I feel I have to protect them," she said.

Reviving a Dead Nation?

Some might associate Germany with the Nazis, but Germany was once a base for world missions, sending missionaries to Africa and Korea and to America.

Mund is trusting God for a miracle in what is a very wealthy and, some would say, spiritually dead nation. 

"I know nothing is impossible for my God. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing," she said.

"From a human point of view I feel our country is lost. It's already lost. It's done. Because I see so many changes in the country, in every area," she continued. "But I trust God that he has a 'Plan A' and that my country is not lost and that He will reach us and He will come and change the whole situation."

Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided. Yet time and time again one hears it said that since we have been put into a conflicting world, we have to adapt to it. Oddly, this completely unchristian idea is most often espoused by so-called Christians, of all people. How can we expect a righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?

- Sophie Scholl (May 9, 1921 to February 22, 1943)

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'Brave German Woman' Rebukes Islam's Lie

Published on Apr 24, 2014

Islam continues to grow in power and influence across Europe. But in Germany one Christian woman has decided to stand up and declare Christ alone as Lord over her country.

VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVozY8L14rs

 

Brave German Woman: Why Heidi Mund Rebuked Islam

Published on Mar 25, 2014

Heidi Mund, an atheist-turned-Christian, has gained global notoriety for standing up to Islam's creeping influence in her homeland, Germany. Now she's revealing why.

VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFKSRWQ54lk

ATHEISM ASIDE: PETER HITCHENS’ JOURNEY TO FAITH [DEVOTION OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY OCTOBER27, 2013 TO SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2013]

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Atheism Aside: Peter Hitchens' Journey to Faith

LONDON - One of Britain's most famous journalists and outspoken atheists Peter Hitchens has become a Christian.  

His new-found faith has led to a very public literary debate with his older brother Christopher, who does not share his brother's belief in God. 

Christopher, a very outspoken atheist and an American citizen, has written the book God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. 

In response, Peter, columnist for the London Mail on Sunday and a former atheist and Marxist revolutionary, has just written a book titled The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith.

 

The Battling Hitchens Brothers

The siblings, who've been dubbed "The Battling Hitchens brothers," came from a family with a Christian heritage. Their grandfather was a devout Baptist.

"He was a very strict Baptist," Peter told CBN News. "His wife, my paternal grandmother who I never knew, was an Anglican of a Protestant type. It was an extremely religiously conscious household."

Peter said relations between the two brothers are cool. This interview took place before it was announced that Christopher has developed cancer.   

"I think it's typical of quite a lot of younger older brother relations. We don't get on particularly well," Peter said, adding that he and Christopher fought often as children.

Peter has suggested that Christopher spends so much time debating and attacking religion that he is actually a "repressed seeker." Christopher, however, has denied the claim. 

For all their public dueling, Peter said the two haven't recently spoken privately about faith. 

"I don't think I could be bothered to discuss it with him in private, to be honest," Peter said. "I don't think I'd get anything different in private than I get in public."    

"I express the hope in the book that he'll stop assuming that religion poisons everything and that everyone who believes in God is stupid," Peter said. "I don't ask for any more."

"There's a difficulty: if you take a public position, a very public position, then you brick yourself up in a tower and it's got arrow slits instead of windows. You can chuck missiles out of it, but you can't get out yourself," Peter observed.

Life as an Atheist

Peter told CBN News that during his time as an atheist, he rarely had doubts about his unbelief.

"Not for a long time. No. We were armored against. We were full of our own righteousness," he explained. "We knew what was right. We knew we were right. We knew we were good. We defined our own goodness."

The former Marxist revolutionary wrote in his book that as an atheist, he didn't have any Christian friends - and didn't want any.

"I wouldn't have wanted any," he said. "I found the whole thing repellent."   

"There is a lot of scorn in revolutionary socialism," he explained. "There's a lot of scorn for the people who aren't up for it. There is a lot of scorn for the people who are opposed to it. There's a feeling that you are the vanguard and you know best, and everyone else is ignorant and stupid."

"You see that scorn in the new atheists, in the way they treat their opponents - not with any kind of respect at all," he continued. "They still act as if Christianity is a kind of stupid aberration that only an idiot could follow."     

Too Late for Britain?  

Although Peter has returned to Christ, Great Britain largely has not. Church attendance is low and atheists have conducted public campaigns against faith. Peter said it may be too late for a revival of Christianity in Britain.

"I'm not allowed to despair, but if I were allowed to, I would," he said. "It's gone a long way. Christianity has been very badly damaged here." 

"Huge numbers of people don't know anything about it at all, who don't know the Bible stories, who've never opened a Bible, who don't know the Bible, have never been inside a church, have no conception of what Christianity is or means," he said.   

So how does this man of faith feel about having led others to become atheists?   

"Obviously you look back on this and you think, 'Well, I've changed my mind, but the other people whom I have influenced have lives of their own and their thoughts have taken on a life of their own," he said. "But ultimately because I persuaded them, it's my fault. It's one of those things for which there is no real path back."   

Peter's Journey Back to Faith

In his book, Peter said his return to Christianity was a process over many years. He writes about a moment in his journey back to faith when, as an atheist, he genuinely feared God.

It was when he gazed on Rogier van der Weyden's painting "The Last Judgment," which shows the terror on the faces of those condemned to Hell.   

"They've obviously just heard the last trump," Peter said. "And one of them was actually vomiting with fright." 

"And it just came through that I might be judged. And I was scared. I still am," he revealed. "One of my reasons for my change is that I am scared. But then again, "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." 

Originally broadcast July 23, 2010.  

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