Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Islamic Terrorism - A Christian Perspective - Part 1
Hard to believe? Here are some of Muhammad's mandates in the Quran:
Fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them... (Surah 9.5) [Surah means Chapter].
Those who reject Islam must be killed... (Surah 4.89).
Seize them and put them to death wherever you find them, seek out the enemies of Islam relentlessly (Surah 4.90). Fight them until Islam reigns supreme (Surah 2.193). Cut off their heads and cut off the tips of their fingers (Surah 8.12).
Anyone who fights against Allah or renounces Islam in favor of another religion shall be put to death or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides (Surah 5.34).
Al-Qaeda in Iraq recently issued this death threat:
You infidels and despots, we will continue our jihad and never stop until God avails us to chop your necks and raise the fluttering banner of monotheism when God's [Allah's] rule is established governing all people and nations...and the west are doomed...We will break up the cross...then the only acceptable is a conversion [to Islam] or [being killed by] the sword.
It is my religious duty to use nuclear weapons if I can get them. - Osama bin Laden
Note: It is speculated that Islamic jihadists have successfully smuggled nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction into the United States over our essentially wide-open, undefended Mexican border.
Islam is now considered the fastest growing religion in the world. There are 50 countries in which Muslims (adherants to the Quran) constitute the majority of the population, 70% to 100%. France, England, India, China, Russia and the United States have smaller but increasing percentages of Muslims. There are 1 billion Muslims in the world, of which an estimated 10%, that is, 100 million, are fanatical and determined to destroy the West [Judeo-Christian civilization]
Why are our leaders telling us that Islam is essentially a religion of peace, and that 9/11 and today's threats to America are due only to a handful of fundamentalist Islamic extremists (estimated to be 100 million-strong)? And, why are the clergy, except for a few, mute about the Islamic fundamentalist threat to our God-given liberties? The essence of the conflict is Christ vs anti-Christ. Thus Christians, empowered and driven by the Holy Spirit, constitute the only force capable of defeating our Islamic enemy. Note: The entire book, America - A Call To Greatness, is about the action-based Christian faith of the Founding Fathers, the Christian roots of the Declaration and U.S. Constitution.
But the church, with few exceptions, has been and is essentially mute in the face of the fast-increasing deadly Muslim terrorist threat to our liberties. Is it because it is expedient and profitable in these times for the clergy to ignore the realities of the "fallen nature" of man and the horrors to which he is capable of sinking; to focus on the "positive" and on "victorious personal living", that is, on "feel good theology"? Is it because the Christian clergy have chosen to ignore our Lord's mission statement: The Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8) , thus abdicating their God-given mandates to be watchmen on the wall (Ezekiel 33:6); and denying His roll call, Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity (Ps 94:16)? America - A Call To Greatness, ch 5 p55 The Decline Begins; & Appendix pp 209-212 The Christian in Action
Have the clergy, for expediency, turned the other cheek to the Christian founding of our country, and therefore to their sacred duty as leaders and shepards in these peilous times?
Bear in mind that America was born in the pulpits. An awareness of God's mandates for eternal vigilance in the defense of our God-given freedoms was dominent in the minds of America's Christian founders and must become equally dominent today.
Driven by their deep action-based Christian faith, the Founding Fathers believed God in Jeremiah 17:9 when he said that The heart of man [fallen] is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; and his description to us in Romans 3:15-18 of the evil, the enemies of freedom confronting us: Their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.
Muhammad's Allah is not the life-giving Creator and Author of liberty of the Old and New Testaments. How can people claim that Christians, Jews and Muslims worship the same God when so much of God's and Allah's words are polar opposites!?
MORE TO COME

