Radical - Radical Deception and the Cultures of Death
(Part 5.2) - The Advance of Islam and a Warning to the "West"
Yes, the dear Lord said:
... You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. - Matthew 16:3
We Know that Islam Is, but What Is It?
In every great nation or empire, there comes a time when its power is threatened by forces from outside or within, and like all things, its time simply ends. The nations of the "Western world," primarily of Europe, North and South America, and Australia are threatened in just such a way. Although there have always been strong differences of opinion on many issues, the general Judeo-Christian worldview and its values were held by most but not all. In the past, even members of opposing political parties held the same worldview, but now that has changed.
It didn't happen overnight, but incrementally, generation by generation, "Progressives" sought to "progress" society towards socialism without openly declaring that aim. Nevertheless, every major achievement of the "Progressives" has been to implement one or another aspect of socialist society. Now, America and many other nations are radically transformed from what they were decades ago. Leaders from even fifty years ago would not believe what so many in our society today accept as normal, "good," or what the "Progressives" are proposing today!
For at least one hundred years, educators like John Dewey and other liberals1 have promoted a form of "democratic socialism" that has been adopted by increasingly larger percentages of the public, generation after generation.
The Soviet Union's KGB had plans to affect the United States, but even without that influence, the Communist Party of the USA has steadfastly exerted its influence in many ways and never stopped working to have its policy agenda implemented by members of Congress, the courts, and the Presidents of the United States.
The culture of life naturally centers religion solely around God whose nature is described in part as infinitely pure love, eternal existence and being itself, pure light, wisdom, power, and justice - all beyond our comprehension - while the cultures of death make a religion of their ideology, their laws, their expression, their expansion of worldly power, and their own many ways of finding pleasure in imposing terrible evils upon others (1 John 4:8; Matthew 7:7-12).2 These perverse and evil atrocities were carried out in the communist nations comprising the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (The Soviet Union with all of its satellite nations), communist China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, and others.
With that in mind, humbly standing before Him, we can only revere Him and serve and protect the lives before us. This is what He calls us to do, but there are enemies of life. They are adherents to the cultures of death who will argue, ridicule, ban, and seek to silence those who speak the truth through intimidation while they go about fundamentally changing a society. Those fanatics who terrorize others and act to subvert a peaceful society do so to seize power, shape the changes to come in that society, and force the people to submit to their rule.
The revolutions that established communist China, the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Vietnam, Nazi Germany, or Cuba all started with idealistic but naive people who thought they were going to create a man-made paradise on Earth! However, what they started ended in vicious, ruthless extermination or decades-long imprisonment for all those who disagreed in the slightest degree with - or offended - the elites who then seized power.
Every effort was made to assure submission to "The Party" or The Army that was seizing control or invading to subjugate the people. That "Party" may be the socialists - the Democrat Party now in the United States - or the communist Party, but it can also be any other Party that embraces a culture of death. The socialists, communists, and Islamists all seek to force the people to submit to their ever-expanding body of laws.
Be warned: political correctness is just a first step toward mandatory submission to the elite authorities who seek to control what is said, thought, and done. In communist and socialist nations, like other nations governed by those who belong to extreme cults, those who disobey are shunned, punished, and sometimes killed. Whatever you know about cults, be sure to understand that socialism is a cult. History has demonstrated this time and time again.
In the West, the rise of Islam has manifested itself in speech codes that forbid anyone from speaking the truth about historical Islam and its authoritative texts, the current practices of Islam, and the societies it produces.
Laws have been passed that designate certain crimes against people as "hate crimes." Harming Black, Hispanic, or Jewish individuals simply because of their ethnicity is considered a hate crime. These hate crime laws are not needed and create special classes of people that have special rights, when any harm done to a black, white, or other could and should be punished thoroughly for whatever that crime is. Murder should be punished as murder; battery as battery; theft as theft. Hate crime laws are being used to stifle honest discussion and accurate information about Islam. In addition to hate crimes, now there are laws against "hate speech."
The 1st Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and it would not be necessary if everyone spoke sweetly so that all others were pleased. It was added to the Constitution so people had freedom to disagree and say things that might be offensive to some, but pleasing to others. When the government decides what is "hate speech," there no longer is any freedom of speech.
In Canada, for example, quoting Bible verses that condemn homosexuality has been considered a hate speech crime since 2003, and people have been arrested for quoting the Bible there.3 Other nations such as Sweden have also enacted similar laws. The LGBTQ movement is not simply an effort to secure equal rights for lesbians, "gay," bi-sexual, transgender, or "queer" individuals! It is all about silencing Christian speech so that all society is required to not only accept them, but to celebrate them and their sexual practices.
It is very clear that efforts are being made to enact laws that would make it a crime to criticize or question what they do in any way at all, or to use the courts to rule the same way. In other words, expression of Judeo-Christian morality would be forbidden and persecution of Christian and Jewish individuals would ensue which would include government agents arresting them for such "hate speech!" We are very swiftly approaching this situation because the union of two homosexuals has been legalized by the Supreme Court in the United States and been labeled "marriage."
You may ask, "Are these pro-life issues?" Well, if you are forbidden to share pro-life materials and accurate science, forbidden to share your religion, forbidden to say anything that contradicts what is dictated by the elites in power, it certainly is. If euthanasia is imposed upon any who do not adhere to the Party line - as the Nazis and socialists did - it absolutely is a pro-life concern! If life is not recognized to begin at its scientifically-established biological beginning - when sperm and oocyte join and begin the developing new individual embryonic human being just like the one you were at your beginning - or when such an embryonic human being begins through asexual reproduction - then it certainly is a pro-life concern.
These are pro-life issues. You might be work as a baker, a florist, a bridal shop owner, or in any other career, and find that because you subscribe to pro-life, Jewish or Christian views, you are being sued and forced by the courts to either celebrate what is wrong, or go out of business. In other words, if you do not embrace the culture of death, the government agencies and courts will either imprison you or fine you to such a degree that you are financially destroyed and put out of business.4
If marriage is no longer considered to be primarily about uniting with another - exclusively a man and a woman in marriage - to have and raise children in a family), then the culture of life is directly threatened in every way because the family is the basic foundation of such a culture that reveres life and God. The family is where children learn first about God and to revere Him and all life.5 The communists - being atheists - despise(d) the parents who raise their children to believe in God.
But as we have seen, secular utilitarian humanism and socialism are not the only threats to the culture of life. The Islamic world's agenda is to spread Islam to every part of the world and "invite" others to join it, or they will impose it. Co-existence with others is not part of that agenda. Islamization of the world has implications for every aspect of our society.
For example, Muslims believe that "... the human embryo is considered to become human at 40-42 days." Not before that! The embryonic human being is considered to be just a "thing," an embryo but not a human life. Well, in the process that creates new human life, the embryos are living beings, and they are not bird embryos or embryos of any other kind; they are human embryos!6
Nevertheless, with all the scientific proof that has existed for many decades, Islam still does not recognize life as beginning at its biological beginning. It never will, because it is unchanging. You ask, "Why can't it change?" The answer is that anyone who suggests changing it is considered an apostate and worthy of execution! Many Muslims have tried to reform Islam in the past, but those who cling to the original teachings kill them.
In fact, Islamic scholars emphatically deny what has been scientifically-established throughout the rest of the world. In Islamic societies, anyone who challenges that teaching is punished. So, few if any at all dare to speak up. They are terrified at the thought of what would happen to them and their families if they did. What goes for "science" in an Islamic society is only allowed when it repeats what Islam teaches. No new knowledge is tolerated if it contradicts what is taught and has been taught for 14 centuries!
In Judeo-Christian thought, reason is a gift that helps man explore and understand the world. Reason is expected to be consistent with religious principles in the Bible, for example, because God created us with the ability to reason. Therefore, reason is God's gift to us that is a great blessing to all mankind when properly applied. When used correctly, using valid logic, and based upon empirical evidence from the world around us, reason applied in scientific discovery helps us to better understand the world, increase the collective human knowledge, and improve conditions for all.
However, the Islamic understanding is completely different. Obedience to the religious authorities in spite of one's own reason is demanded, and independent thought that seriously challenges that authority is forbidden. The authoritative texts are written in Arabic and many of the adherents do not speak, write, or read Arabic, so the religious authorities tell the people what the teaching is and they are not to question any bit of it.
Reason is only used as a tool to confirm the teachings already given. The Islamic use of reason according to Sharia law is explained in this way by the Muslim authorities:
... the good of the acts of those morally responsible is what the Lawgiver [the founder of the movement] has indicated is good by permitting it or asking it be done. And the bad is what the Lawgiver has indicated is bad by asking it not be done.
The good is not what reason considers good, nor the bad what reason considers bad. The measure of good and bad, according to this school of thought, is the Sacred Law [Sharia law], not reason (Reliance of the Traveller, Bk. a 1.4 - The Superiority of Sacred Knowledge over Devotions) [Emphasis added].
If there ever was a legalistic religion, Islam is it. Not only is every thing a man or woman can do in life already decreed before one is born, what you are to think about anything in the world is decreed as well! When we consider all these striking differences between what we in "the West" think of when we hear the word, "reason," "good," "bad," or "religion," and the political movement that is called Islam, many questions and concerns arise. Reliance of the Traveller sharia law handbook The understanding we have of many words is completely different in Islam. The differences between the worldviews are increasingly more obvious to anyone who is paying attention as the Islamic world advances into, and seeks to crush our Western world. Some adherents openly advertise this goal yet others loudly deny it while pursuing the same goal!
It is true that the leaders of Jewish and Christian, as well as Hindu, and other religious communities have been intolerant and done terrible, terrible things in the past. But Judaism and Christianity have evolved over the centuries. Over millennia. The Biblical teachings encourage the use of reason and constant improvement in how man lives in this world.
The seeds of Christianity's evolution arise directly out of the Old Testament, and were reinforced by the very words Jesus used. It has just taken a long, long time for people to see a better way. Even when they see a better way, because of our imperfections and faults, it's hard to make it happen in the real world. As a nation, America has been about trying to manifest that vision in the real world, and now some wish to throw it all away, because they never understood or never have been taught what it has been about.
In Western nations, people are no longer being stoned to death or executed for what are considered sins. The dear Lord told those ready to stone a woman who was "caught in the act of adultery": "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her" and He then said to the woman, "Go and sin no more." He recognized what was sinful and condemned it, but He also taught everyone to understand that they, too, had sinned and should have compassion for those who have gone astray (John 8:1-11).
But Islam has not evolved and forbids itself to evolve! Today, in Islamic nations there are people being stoned to death, hung, or executed in other ways for various sins. Islam does not teach forgiveness or compassion for all. While some will tell us that it does, and that Islam never coerces anyone to believe - quoting the Qur'an 2:256 "... There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion...." However, in practice, go to any fully Islamic nation and see if you can stand on the corner waving a Bible and preach Christianity to the public. Not only can you not do that, you will be arrested, imprisoned, and very likely tortured! The same thing happened and still happens in communist nations.
Many Islamic scholars and religious teachers believe that the previous verse about "no compulsion" has been abrogated or nullified by later verses such as, "O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them.... (Qur'an 9:73)" or "O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you.... (Qur'an 9:123)."
It can be confusing, but there have definitely been Muslim invasions of regions all around the world with the intent to advance Islam by what they call "invitation," or by force. Why don't the people speak up about their concerns about these differences and how it will affect our society? While many may speak about it in the privacy of their own homes, they are afraid to say anything in public!
Decades have been spent working to eliminate all expression of especially Christian religious faith and values in public while that was absolutely not the intention of the founders of our nation. We're not completely at that point yet in the United States, but it is not an exaggeration to understand that we are swiftly moving in that direction. Leftist intolerance and hatred for Christians is now widespread, and hundreds of incidences occur annually where someone - who is pro-life, Christian, conservative Jewish, or even secular but holding traditional values - is physically attacked, yelled at, falsely accused and arrested, or defamed in public.
Yes, we are supposed to be tolerant, and we tolerate a lot. We are supposed to be non-judgmental, but that is a deception! We were told, "Do not judge or you too will be judged" (Matthew 7:1) but that does not mean we are not to discern what is right or wrong! We were also told, "Repent" (Matthew 4:17; i.e., Stop committing sin!). We cannot stop committing sin if we don't discern right from wrong and judge rightly what to do and not do in this world.
Those who have no reverence for God use Biblical verses out of context to mislead the gullible and naive and then have them support the various cultures of death agendas (Matthew 23:27). However, if we dare to express Biblical values, those who yell, "Do not judge!" ferociously judge us! More and more of us can see that our "world" is being turned upside down!
If you even mention the word, "sin," they look at you as if you come from another planet. Sin does not even cross their minds as they live their lives. They don't think about God or what He would think about what they do. For those of us who were once lost into that secular mindset, sin is the last thing one is concerned about, and that is why we have been or are truly lost!
This same type of intolerance towards Christians and Jews who remain faithful to Biblical values is expressed throughout our society now when someone says that they "love all, but do not accept lesbian or homosexual relationships" or "do not accept the idea that homosexual marriage is valid or acceptable to God." Speak out in that way on almost every campus in America and you will be shunned, labeled a hater, punished by being stripped of any positions you have on campus, and possibly thrown off campus as someone who does not "share our values." We are regularly now being told "that is un-American." "Those are not our values!" Yet, the values being condemned are the values shared by most Americans for over 200 years, and others for thousands of years!
What values are they affirming? Must we celebrate the killing of partially-born or even newborn babies? Does horrific perversion need to be celebrated? Cite the diseases caused by homosexual activity, or that both lesbians and homosexual men die decades earlier than heterosexuals, and you will be labeled a hater even if everything you say is scientifically-established and replicated medical research done for decades and also clearly known thousands of years ago (Romans 1:26-32).
You will be labeled a hater, even if you also say that other sins should be avoided. Some of these include "greed, gluttony, laziness, lying, stealing, committing fraud of any kind, failing to honor God on the Sabbath (and all other times), cursing, complaining, hating others, murder, being unfaithful to one's wife or husband, not loving God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, tempting God, disobedience, being a lover of self, or idolizing anything or anyone other than God." Isn't our society filled with people who choose to do many or almost all of these sinful acts? Don't we see these ways of behaving portrayed every night in various television programs?7
So, in the current secular culture of death, we are condemned for trying to live lives pleasing to God or encouraging others to do so as well. We are also condemned for pointing out the evils that threaten life itself. It is no accident that professors and other employees who openly espouse conservative Jewish or Christian views are more likely to be terminated for employment while those who express liberal socialist views are more likely to be welcomed and encouraged to continue to do so.
Those who witnessed what happened to those individuals who spoke out against the abuses carried out by the government officials in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, any of several totalitarian nations, and in many Islamic nations today, became even more terrified and were completely silenced. For example, didn't you learn that on June 4, 1989 in Tiananmen Square, more than a thousand spoke up against the communist regime and were literally crushed by tanks or shot.
No, you didn't hear about it at first, because the truth was censored by the Communist Chinese! Some were led to believe maybe one or two protesters were killed, but no, it was more than a thousand! What was the result? Even more Chinese were filled with fear and the communists who run the Chinese government still completely censor the truth of the massacre in the books, news, or even online articles that are available to Chinese citizens!
What communist China's society has proved is that improving the people's financial well-being alone does not guarantee freedom of the people. Improving the people's financial well-being alone does not assure the people will adopt a worldview that promotes reverence for God and respect for the rights of the individual.
Contrary to socialism or Islam, the Judeo-Christian worldview recognizes that each individual is worthy of great respect because they are created by God. Our freedoms of speech, assembly, the press, and right to life are recognized as being given to us by God, not by the government, not by the socialist committee of elites in government, or by any Islamic panel of leaders. In totalitarian states - whether communist, monarchic, oligarchic, Islamic, or other - any "rights" that exist are actually permissions given by totalitarian government leaders and may be taken away at any time.
In fully Islamic nations, fear of violating the rules pervades society! Yes! Submission to Islamic, communist, or Nazi Party leaders based upon fear pervades such totalitarian societies. Bullying those who do not adhere to politically correct speech in Western nations is a conscious strategy used to increasingly stifle free speech, coerce us into submission to "the agenda," and marginalize any who question the startling changes that are being made.
Ironically, this bullying is made by those who are promoting "anti-bullying" campaigns around the country. They call Christians bullies for not accepting homosexuality, socialism, or secularism. In restaurants and other facilities, they loudly tell us and post Democrat Party (socialist)-inspired signs that say that there is "No room for hate" there, which especially signifies no room for Christians with Biblical values or any who are not Democrats. So much for "inclusivity" or the appreciation of "diversity."
In totalitarian societies, all the people are enlisted as individual "spies" who can report their neighbors for violations of the totalitarian government's regulations, laws, or philosophy. In Islam, it's sharia law. Wives or husbands may betray each other, children may betray their parents, neighbors may betray their neighbors, and State-sanctioned "church" leaders may betray those in their parishes. This is what happened in Nazi Germany, in the Soviet Union, and what happens in communist and Islamic nations today. This type of intolerance for independent thought or action is what is being spread on the campuses of many colleges and universities today! Peer pressure enforces conformity.
In the Soviet Union and its satellite nations, secret microphones were placed to listen in on people who were suspected of opposing the regimes. Now, with the National Security Administration collecting every citizen's emails, access to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media posts, and other electronic communications, there is little that the government bureaucrats would not know. Some have purchased computerized "smart" listening devices like Amazon's Alexa that record what people are saying in their own homes and answer questions and are capable of interacting with the other devices in the home.
All of these devices can be hacked into just as our cell phones can be. Unless we "unplug" and completely give up electronic communications and go "off the grid," government agencies and police at every level can listen in. Privacy as it was experienced just a few decades ago has been extinguished.
In the totalitarian state, fear pulses through the people like an evil thread binding them all in mutual suffering! What a hell they create in their deluded quest for a man-made utopia that can only arise when His Spirit fills everyone's heart with love and forgiveness, inspires their thoughts, and guides their actions (Matthew 7:24-27). Coerced mechanical submission to the authorities is the antithesis of surrender to the God of Love who loves all yet desires our un-coerced devotion.
The word "Islam" does mean submission or surrender. It does not mean "peace!" Those who tell us it literally means other things like "peace" are lying. "Submission" or "surrender" is the literal translation from the root word "al-silm."8 But what is one to surrender to? It is said one must surrender to the "will of Allah" as explained in the Qur'an and the other authoritative sources of Islam. We will see what the will of Allah is said to be. Though all people have the capacity for faith in the God who is, what is expressed as "Allah's will" definitely is not the same as the will of God expressed in the Bible!
What has been the Islamic theme practiced for centuries? "Convert or die!" Do you wish to convert? Do you want your children and grandchildren forced to be observant Muslims? If you are a woman, do you wish to wear a burqa covering your whole body, or a veil covering your face? Do you wish to be controlled by the men in your family? If not, you had better speak up now before you are utterly silenced.
But you are already afraid, aren't you? See? Intimidation has already begun! What will it be like in 10 or 20 years? For example, women in Austria have begun wearing veils so they do not appear to be "Western" women who are non-Muslim. Why? So, they are not raped. Why should they be raped? Because the Islamic teachings tell the men they can rape any non-Muslim woman!9
The silencing of those who would warn the public has already happened in much of Europe and has certainly happened in the cyber-realms of Twitter and Facebook where your words will be blocked as "Islamophobic" should you write what is factual about Islam's teaching and its history. Police in Europe are now arresting people for explaining Islamic history or stating what crimes Muslims are committing against non-Muslims (who they are taught to view as inferior).
If you may, please look in the mirror and ask yourself, "Have I spoken up for what is true?" "Have I given of my time and made efforts to protect the lives of the vulnerable?" "Have I spoken out about the threats to life and freedom including these cultures of death that are advancing right before our eyes today?"
If not, then do no complain when all are required to submit to the Party, whether that is the Islamist Party or the Democrat Socialist Party, or an odd mixture of both that may arise. Do not complain when some are terminated from their employment and financially destroyed, sent to re-education camps, death camps, or shot on the spot.
When your children are no longer free, do not complain! Do not say a word.
Understand that if I or you have chosen to do nothing, we contributed to our free society's downfall.
Understand that by not speaking up and becoming an involved citizen, you and I have failed to protect our way of life.
This is not to "guilt trip" any of us, but to state the facts about what Islam is and what we must do to preserve our freedoms and Judeo-Christian society. However, when it comes to defining what Islam is and what threat it poses to Western Civilization or any other, our opinions do not matter at all!
My opinion or your opinion does not matter one bit! These are irrelevant! Islam defines itself within its own scriptural writings and its own authorities or teachers (within each of the sects of Islam). Yet, even then there are several major and minor sects of Islam with some significant differences. Not all Muslim sects are as prone to violence against those who disagree with them, though many are. Here we will review what Muslim authorities have to say about Islam, not what you or I think about it.
Whether you are a Muslim or not, most people do not actually know the actual teachings within the political movement and its religion. Many are utterly surprised when they learn what the actual teachings are. Many well-meaning Muslims deny what non-Muslims cite as Islamic teachings but sometimes they really do not know! Nevertheless, the teachings remain what they actually are.
What matters to "the West" is that those Muslims who are violent or politically motivated - whatever their number may actually be - actually do wish to end Western Civilization. They tell us this is their goal and we should realize that Western Civilization - like any before it - can be ended!
If you wish to understand how many different sects there are in Islam and how they are distributed around the world, an informative diagram is located at this diagram of the Islamic World from InformationIsBeautiful.net at: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/islamic-sects-schools-branches-movements/.
For those who tell us that in modern times, Islam has changed, we should recognize that Islam's scriptures never change and are not allowed to be changed! The interpretation of these scriptures is not allowed to be changed, because the scriptures and authoritative sources explicitly state what they mean. Therefore, what is written now has the same interpretation that was given 14 centuries ago, 10 centuries ago, or in the present day.
It doesn't matter how many tell us Islam is the religion of "peace" or that the violent Muslims of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas, Hizbullah, Al-Shabaab, Taliban, Abu Sayyaf, Muslim Brotherhood, Ansar al-Islam, Jabhat al-Nusra, and dozens of other Islamic terrorist organizations "do not represent Islam." They certainly believe they represent Islam!
Have you asked yourself, "If Islam is so peaceful, why are there hundreds of these Islamic terrorist groups using violence in so many nations to impose their form of Islam upon the people?" They don't think what they are doing is terrorism. They believe they are freeing the people to live properly as Muslims - as they believe all people in the world should do! The Iranian Constitution specifically requires these efforts - that we recognize as terrorism - to overthrow all non-Muslim nations and establish Islamic rule!
What do the members of these terrorist groups say Islam is? What do even "moderate" Muslims say Islam is, and why do they fear these observant Muslims who follow the Qur'an's teachings literally? They fear them because millions of Muslims have also been killed by other Muslims just like millions of communists were killed by other communists!
To repeat: those of us who are pro-life - who have faith in the dear Lord God - do not hate the communist, the secular humanist, the Muslim, or any individual person. We oppose all cultures of death that have their adherents kill innocent lives whether these are those not yet born, those who are elderly or disabled, or any one of us anywhere in the world. We are called to love all of them: all Muslims, communists, secular humanists, and those of other faiths - everyone. This doesn't mean we must be blind to the reality of their ideologies nor should we adopt ideologies that promote a culture of death-dealing.
The history of Islamic conquest, violence, and intolerance speak for themselves. Why is it that the National Socialist Party (the "Nazis") in Germany found ready, eager allies in the Muslim world? They have been taught to hate the Jewish people. The Muslims and Nazis agreed on the goal to kill Jews.
What do Muslims in Islamic nations around the world pledge to do? Kill Jews and Christians. Why do they hate Israel? It is the one place on the planet where Jewish people have found a refuge after being persecuted, thrown out of some nations, or been the victims of genocide in several nations around the world. From early childhood, Muslims are taught to hate the Jewish people.
The currently ongoing Islamic conquest, violence, and intolerance all over the world speak for themselves, just as Islam's written foundations prove that whoever says that Islam means peace is lying! Let any of those who accuse others of "Islamophobia" demonstrate that the warrior founder did not capture slaves in warfare and keep them as slaves, did not require his followers to advance Islam by invitation - or if refused - by execution, did not tell his followers that they could rape non-Muslim women they had grabbed, and did not himself actually kill those who refused to convert and join his movement.10
Ad hominem attacks that label anyone as an Islamophobe or racist or sexist have no logical validity. Each issue being raised must be judged on its own merits! Is there or is there not a threat to life within Islam? By its own defining documents, absolutely and without any doubt! Thousands of Islamic ministers all over the world have required followers to advance Islam's penetration into other nations and to kill non-Muslims when they can.
You don't believe this? What does Islam teach? Again, here are a few lines from the Qur'an. These are accepted by all sects of Islam and are quite clear and speak about Islamic jihad specifically:
Fighting (in self-defense or for restoration of peace and elimination of mischief and violence) is prescribed for you (Qur'an 2:216)
Slay them wherever you find them (Qur'an 4:89)
Those of the believers who are unhurt but sit behind are not equal to those who fight in Allah's path with their property and lives. Allah has preferred those who fight with their property and lives a whole degree above those who sit behind. And to each, Allah has promised great good. (Qur'an 4:95)
Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day and who forbid not what Allah and His messenger have forbidden - who do not practice the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book [the Jews or Christians] - until they pay the poll tax out of hand and are humbled (Qur'an 9:29)
Fight the idolators utterly" (Qur'an 9:36)
Do you find anything that is difficult to understand here? One cannot "fight with your property and lives" unless you are involved in physical, violent war. When "slay them" is the command given to Muslims, it is not even conceivable for any honest individual to misconstrue what is meant, and it is clear that any who question Islam, refuse to convert, or spread other religions are seen as "guilty" of disturbing the Islamic peace, or "making mischief" and therefore deserve death according to those who follow the letter of the sharia law.
Did we understand what is meant by those who have been given "the Book?" The founder of the political movement called Islam that seeks to impose a theocracy throughout the world was referring to and condemning all the Jewish and Christian people who did not accept Islam and clung to their Bibles and their own religion.
In the same way, the recent former non-Christian - but in America, self-described Christian - President also condemned those who follow Biblical values! That Muslim - in fact - President said that the Islamic call to prayer was the most beautiful sound in the world.11
Philip Haney, a whistleblower and former 15 year Dept of Homeland Security agent stated that the Obama administration ordered hundreds of records of Muslims with terror ties to be deleted. Would you do that if you were in charge? The Obama administration also ordered that references to Islam be removed from federal law enforcement terror training manuals. Why? The answer is staring us in the face. Perhaps his Chicago pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright has stated the answer.
Wright said that Obama "was steeped in Islam," and amazingly his pastor for 20 years said that "whether Obama ever actually converted to Christianity was never clear to him." It is clear to anyone who is objective that he did not convert from the Islam he was raised in in Indonesia. He had been adopted by a Muslim government official who married his mother Ann Dunham, and Obama was then known as Barry Soetoro there and back in America where he enrolled as a foreign student in Hawaii.
This may help us understand why all of Obama's high school and college transcripts and records have been ordered never to be released. This wil help us understsand why Obama ordered those hundreds of records of Muslims with terror ties to be deleted and regularly held meetings at the White House with Muslim Brotherhood representatives. The DHS whistleblower Philip Haney stated:
in early November 2009, I was ordered by my superiors at the Department of Homeland Security to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS).12
Should we be concerned? Will this affect pro-life issues? Policies that were more than sympathetic to Islam were put in place. Attitudes toward experimentation on new human lives at the embryonic and fetal stages are affected by false understandings of when life begins. Experimentation upon and the killing of those new human lives continues today. All cloning and genetic manipulations occur in these early stages of human life. There are many pro-life concerns that need to be addressed. We truly need to open our eyes to what is happening right in front of us.
Endnotes:
1 David Fiorazo, "The NEA Agenda - How John Dewey & Socialism Influenced Public Education," Feb 21, 2013, BlottingOutGod.com
Staff, "The Socialization of Education," May 27, 2010, AmericanVision.org [Back]
2 Staff, "ISIS Encourages Attacks on US Hurricane Relief Centers," Sept 17, 2017, ClarionProject.org
Edvins Šnore, The Soviet Story, 2008 Labvakar Productions (Latvia); also available at Youtube at: The Soviet Story
Note: This "Soviet Story" is a video that everyone must watch to more fully understand the fruits of socialism
& totalitarianism! It contains information that most people truly have never seen before! [Back]
3 Albert Mohle, "The Bible as Hate Speech? Gays Win Big in Canada," Sept 19, 2003, ChristianHeadlines.com [Back]
4 Crystal Woodall, "'Not the End': What the Supreme Court Did in the Case of Christian Florist ,Fined Over Same-Sex Wedding," June 25, 2018 CBN News
Samuel Smith, "Bakers Fined $135,000 for Refusing to Make Gay Wedding Cake Appeal to Supreme Court," Oct 23, 2018, ChristianPost.com [Back]
5 Ron Panzer, Restoring the Culture of Life, 2013 Hospice Patients Alliance [Back]
6 Dianne N Irving, MA, PhD, "Iran, Abortion - and Islamic Embryology?," July 20, 2004 LifeIssues.net
When do human beings (normally) begin? "scientific" myths and scientific facts," Feb 1999 LifeIssues.net
Why Accurate Human Embryology Is Needed To Evaluate Current Trends In Research Involving Stem Cells, Genetic Engineering, Synthetic Biology and Nanotechnology," Nov 20, 2012 LifeIssues.net
Why Does Islam Push Fake "Embryology" in Reaching Out To "The Youth"?," Jan 2, 2018 LifeIssues.net [Back]
7 Jack Wellman, "A List of Sins from the Bible," Sept 8, 2014, Patheos.com
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8 Sam Shamoun, "Did Jesus Command His Followers to be Muslims?," Accessed 2019, Answering-Islam.org [Back]
9 Gerard Clarke, "Austrian MP claims women in Vienna are wearing veils to avoid sexual harassment from Muslim men," Feb 6, 2019, The Liberal (Ireland) [Back]
10 Megan G. Oprea, "In Europe, Muslim Extremists Turn To Sexual Terrorism; In the wake of the New Year's Eve mass sexual assaults in Cologne, it would be madness to ignore the persistent trend in the Muslim world of physical violence toward women.," Jan 11, 2016, TheFederalist.com
Tom Wyke and Jay Akbar, and Ulf Andersson in Sweden, and Nick Fagge and Sara Malm in Cologne, Germany, "Migrant rape fears spread across Europe: Women told not to go out at night alone after assaults carried out in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland amid warnings gangs are co-ordinating attacks," Jan 8, 2016 DailyMail.co.uk [Back]
11 Kevin Glass, "Flashback: Obama Calls Americans "Bitter Clingers" [to their Bibles!]," Sept 17, 2012, Townhall.com
George Neumayr, "Obama's 'Great Religion'," June 22, 2016 American Spectator
Ron Panzer, "Unmasking the Dragon," July 18, 2014 Hospice Patients Alliance
Note: To read what the Sharia law actually demands, see:
Ahmad Ibn Naqib al-Misri, translator: Nuh Ha Mim Keller, "Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law,"
July 1, 1997, Amana Corporation; Note: You can download an online pdf of this book at: www.emaanlibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/reliance2_complete.pdf or other sites. Search "Reliance of the Traveller".[Back]
12 Philip Haney, "DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties," Feb 5, 2016, TheHill.com
Kenneth Timmerman, "Obama Administration Pulls References to Islam from Terror Training Materials, Official Says," Oct 21, 2011, DailyCaller.com
Rami Dabbas, "Barack Obama's Support for the Muslim Brotherhood, Feb 8, 2019, CirCanada.com [Back]
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