Author: Pastor Jim Croft
Publication: Islam Review
Date:
URL: http://www.islamreview.com/articles/islamicterrorism.shtml
Post the 9/11/01 Islamic terrorist attacks
on America the major television networks began filling the airwaves with interviews
with consultants that specialize in Islamic issues. The majority of them have
been less than candid about the role of Islam in spawning international terrorism.
They present the traditions and Holy books of Islam as those that promote
peace, tolerance, and truth. The experts neglect to inform you of the overriding
aspects of Muslim traditions and writings that encourage hostility, intolerance,
and lying as a policy, particularly to non-Muslims. In reality, if the teachings
of Mohammed and Muslim clerics were extracted from the hearts and minds of
the 19 hijackers of 9/11, 3,000 Americans would still be living members of
their families. The points related in this report have been gleaned from years
of investigating Islam and correspondence with Arabic-speaking ex-Muslims
that have chosen to put their faith in Jesus Christ.
7 Things the Islamic experts won't tell you!
1. About Islam's worldview - The Muslims of Islamic states, and many within
the USA, have the tradition of a worldview that divides humanity into two
opposing halves. Dar al-Islam, House of Islam, is the zone where Islam rules.
The other side is the war zone that is called, Dar el Harb, House of War.
This worldview dictates that war will continue between these two sections
of humanity until the supremacy of Islam is fully established throughout the
earth.
2. About deceptive revisions of the Koran
- There has been a great effort among Muslim translators to enhance Islam's
appeal and reputation among people of other faiths. To accomplish this they
have adopted a slanted, freestyle method of translating certain sections of
the Koran. This is done to veil the truth about their religion's primitive
barbarism and contempt for Christians and Jews that is revealed in the original
Arabic texts. Here is an example from the new French translation of the Koran
in regard to the Jews. It reads, "The people of Israel will be twice
destroyed as an innocent victim, and God will reward them by elevating them
to great heights." The original translation reads just the opposite.
"The people of Israel, after sowing corruption twice on earth for the
purpose of dominating other people, will push themselves up into a position
of extreme power before being punished by God."
3. About the Koran's violent verses - The
Koran was written in two major stages. These have been integrated and arranged
by chapter length as opposed to the chronological order in which they were
initially written. The first part was penned in the early years of the Islamic
movement while Mohammed was living in Mecca, Arabia. The experts boast the
verses from these chapters as proof that Islam is a bastion of peace, love,
and tolerance. They avoid references to verses from the second and largest
portion of the Koran. It was written after the movement relocated its headquarters
to Medina, Arabia, and increased in strength. These verses often reflect religious
intolerance and encourage cruel hostility towards non-Muslims. Here are two
examples that were aimed at Jews, Christians, and Arabs that clung to traditional
tribal polytheistic beliefs. - So when the sacred months have passed, slay
the idolaters, wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them
and lie in wait for them in every ambush…. (Koran 9:5) The only punishment
of those that wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive to make
mischief in the land is that they should be murdered, or crucified, or their
hands and their feet should be cut-off on opposite sides, or they should be
imprisoned…. (Koran 5:33)
4. About the stage of weakness/the stage of
strength strategy - The stark differences in the tone of the verses that were
written in Mecca and those written in Medina exposes a tactic that has been
characteristic of Islam throughout its history. Traditionally, Muslims determine
the strength of the religion in various settings as being in one of two states;
the stage of weakness and the stage of strength. When Muslims are in the minority
and perceive that they are vulnerable, it is their custom to agree to most
anything and to be conciliatory towards other religious groups. The moment
that they sense superiority in numbers and influence, a form of ruthlessness
sets in. They begin to oppress minority religious groups and to demonstrate
a blatant disregard for the agreements that they made during the stage of
weakness.
5. About sanctioned lying - Unlike Christianity
and Judaism, Islam does not simply make a provision for forgiveness if one
tells a lie; it actually encourages lying in certain situations. This is evident
in both the Koran and the Hadith. The latter is a collection of Mohammed's
sayings and deeds according to his wives, relatives, and companions. Next
to the Koran, it is the most important part of Islamic law. In the Hadith,
Mohammed was quoted as saying, "The sons of Adam are accountable for
all lies with the exception of those spoken to reconcile two men that are
quarreling, for a man to appease his wife, and in war, because war necessitates
deception." This is what often makes life such a nightmare for non-Muslim
women that marry Muslim men. Without the pangs of conscience, men are licensed
to appease their wives with promises which they have no intention of keeping.
In addition, within Islam there is the principle of "Al Takeyya."
The term means, "prevention". This principle permits Muslims to
lie at their discretion whenever they interpret that it is expedient for the
influence of Islam or their personal protection and well-being. They justify
lying by using the following verse as a springboard for expanded applications
of Al Takeyya. "Let not the believers take the disbelievers for friends
rather than believers. And whoever does this has no connection with Allah
unless it is done to guard (Takeyya) yourselves against them, guarding carefully.
And Allah cautions you against His retribution. And to Allah is the eventual
coming." (Koran 3:27) The principle of Al Takeyya is precisely what makes
negotiations with Islamic statesmen such a frustrating endeavor for the naïve
diplomats of Christianized nations. It is imperative that diplomatic envoys
learn that when dealing with Muslims, what Muslim statesmen say is not the
issue. The real issue is, what do they mean and actually intend to do in their
hearts.
6. About the depth of hatred for the West
- The pro-Islam experts endlessly reiterate that only a small number of Muslims
would qualify as West-hating-radicals. The claim is that the majority are
peace-loving moderates. This may be true of the majority of Muslims that have
immigrated to America in pursuit of economic opportunity. For most of these,
strict compliance with the dictates of clerics in relation to the teachings
of Islam is secondary to their thirst for prosperity and political freedom.
However, their sentiments are not indicative of the majority of the world's
1.2 billion Muslims. The facts are as follows:
a. Polls indicate that high percentages of
our supposed allies in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia support Osama Bin Laden.
b. Post 9/11, his first name, Osama, has attained
a favored name status for newborn male children in a dozen or more Muslim
nations. (In some nations 7 out of 10 baby boys are the namesakes of the terrorist).
c. Numerous Mosques in Islamic states exhibit
the photo of Bin Laden as a hero of the faith.
d. The abbreviated list of nations wherein
Muslims mob the streets gleefully chanting "Allah Akbar" (Allah
is greater) every time America or Israel suffers from Islamic terrorist activities
includes Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Libya,
Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Philippines. In America, Muslims have
been observed doing the same in many convenience marts and mosques. (It may
be true that Christianity has a miniscule number of violent radicals; however,
you don't find pictures of IRA terrorists hanging in the vestibules of Christian
sanctuaries around the globe or hordes of America's Catholics streaming to
the aid of their oppressed brethren in Northern Ireland.) The experts can
claim that most of the world's Muslims are peace-loving moderates, but the
stats reveal that it is the radicals that have the power to influence the
hearts and minds of the Muslim masses.
7. About envy of the West - There are two
interrelated spiritual factors for the radical Muslim's hatred for our way
of life.
a. Islamic clerics and political leaders espouse
inflammatory anti-Semitic and anti-Christian rhetoric based on the writings
and sayings of Mohammed.
b. The prosperity and technology of nations
that are based on Judeo-Christian values embarrasses the Islamic claim of
spiritual/cultural superiority and provokes them to virulent jealousy. The
premise for Islam's exaggerated sense of spiritual/cultural superiority is
built on the widely held Muslim view that they led the world in advances in
math, literature and the sciences from 700AD until 1200AD. Many scholars contend
that the advances were actually a continuum of the momentum that had been
attained, prior to the arrival of the Muslims, by the Persians, Jews, and
Christians. A comparison of Islamic nations and other nations gives ample
evidence that Islam stifles rather than inspires innovations. No other nations,
other than under Muslim rule, that have claimed a history of being fountainheads
of cultural advances have ceased to continue as such. Two atomic bombs have
not stopped the Japanese. Politically torn South Korea, without oil, has a
gross national product of $600 billion. Oil rich Saudi Arabia's GNP is a mere
$186 billion. Each year since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to people
that have been distinguished for notable endeavors for world peace and in
literature, and for outstanding accomplishments in the sciences. During the
history of the Nobel there have been 139 Jewish recipients and well over 200
Christians, but only 6 recipients from Islamic nations. There is nothing lacking
in the mental capacities of Muslim people, because they flourish in technology
and the sciences when living in Westernized democracies. The objective evidence
is that it is the rule of Islam that is the culprit that smothers creativity.
5 Things that you can do to protect your family
and community!
1. Educate your kids - It is unbecoming for
Christians to relate to anyone, including Muslims, with uncharitable haughtiness.
Nonetheless, it is essential that parents educate their children about the
dangers of embracing Islam as the path of expression for their personal faith.
The points that have been made in this report can be modified and gently shared
with your youngsters. In reality, becoming a Muslim holds sure perils that
eclipse the remote potential of being harmed by Islamic terrorists. This is
particularly true of your daughters. Islamic law puts women in a position
that excludes them from many of the liberties that Western parents expect
their children to enjoy as adults. My book, The Muslim Masquerade, and Abdullah
Al-Araby's, Islam Unveiled, disclose many of the human rights violations that
Islam routinely permits Muslim men to perpetrate against women. Many young
women from Christian backgrounds have fallen prey to the intriguing appeal
of Islamic men. Countless numbers of these hapless women have reaped tragic
lives of heartache. Don't let it happen to your child. God honors the prayers
of parents that begin to regularly pray for the future spouses of their children
while they are still in diapers.
2. Pray that our national, state, and local
police investigative agencies will uncover the plots of the multitudes of
terror cell members and their supporters that are living amongst us. In faith,
rather than fear, intermittently ask the Lord to protect your children, family,
and friends from potential harm by homicide bombers.
3. Pray that our nation's Immigration and
Naturalization Service will have the wisdom to limit the number of visas granted
to persons under the age of 50 from Islamic backgrounds. Ask the Lord to help
the authorities locate those that have false documents and expired visas.
4. Become a profiler - The liberal establishment
insists that our nation's constitutional amendments limit the extent to which
ethnic and religious profiling can be utilized. Regardless of the politically
correct limitations, as an American citizen, you are free to choose not to
be politically correct. You can assist in the needed profiling. When profiling
do not hone in on people simply because they have Middle Eastern physical
features. Potential Islamic terrorists cover the entire spectrum of the nationalities
of those that adhere to Christianity. It is erroneous to suspect that everyone
with Arab physical features is a potential terrorist. Not all Arabs are Muslims
and not all Muslims are Arabs. Less than 25% of the followers of Islam are
of Arabic heritage. In America, 80% of the resident Arabs are actually Christian
in their religious affiliation. The identification of potential terrorists
should never be based solely on racial features. When it is, a Thai Buddhist
can easily be mistaken for an Islamic Indonesian. A group of Nigerian Muslims
could easily pass as African Baptists. Armenian Christians may look very similar
to Afghani Muslims. The key is to be observant of everyone's demeanor. Keep
a watchful eye on fellow travelers when using public transportation. Nervousness,
exaggerated clock-watching, over concern with carry-on luggage, and rude avoidance
of customary cordialness can all be indicators. If anyone or anything looks
suspicious, regardless of the nationality of those involved, report it to
the authorities. Subsequent to terrorist attacks monitor the responses of
people in venues where terrorism supporters might be expected to congregate:
mosques, convenience marts, university campuses, etc.; if anyone acts hostile
or overly jubilant, report it to the FBI.
5. Educate others - Put legs on your prayers
by sending this report to your friends, clergymen, and any civic representatives
that are responsible for the safety of the nation and our communities.
