Political Islam is Islam's ideology about unbelievers, kafirs.
August
Islam has two views of Christians (duality again). The first view is that Christianity and Islam are brother religions. The second view is that Christians must change their religion to meet the demands of Islam. Modern Christians want to believe that there is a bridge between Islam and Christianity. But the history of Islam shows that Islam first deceives and then annihilates Christianity. For 1400 years Islam has destroyed Christian lands.
The Christians do not play a pivotal role like the Jews did in the formation of Islam. That is, the Koran does not have a lot to say about Christians. Nor does the Sira, the life of Mohammed, have much to say about Christians. But Islam's attitude towards the Christians can be seen in some of the final days of Mohammed's life when he sent out troops against the Christians in the North of Syria. So it was Mohammed's intent to attack the Christians. Soon after he died that's what happened. The Christians played a very important role in historical Islam and that reason is this. All the Middle East, North Africa, and what we now call Turkey was Christian.
Since these areas are Islamic today, there is a history there but let's take a look at Islam through a much more modern eye. Two days after 9/11, the phone calls started going out to all of the churches. Let us send a Muslim to your church and he will tell you about Islam, the peaceful religion. Well one church decided to go that one better. They invited a group of imams ( the imams are Muslim religious leaders) and they also invited several Christian ministers. The Christians arrived that night in ones and twos. Then about the time the meeting was to start, in came all the Muslims. The imams came in as a group onto the stage and the Muslim men filed in next. They surrounded the Christians in their seats. And then the Muslim women came in all dressed in black from head to toe, and they sat in the back of the room. As Muslim women, they knew what their place was in public gatherings.
The first thing that happened was an imam walked up to the lectern and placed a very large Koran on top and opened it up about half way. This was a symbolic act that was indicative of the entire night. The Christians didn't think anything about it one way or the other, but for the Muslims, it was a mark of who they were.
You see, Islam is a word that means submission. This word submission has several meanings. For the Muslim it means to submit to the Koran, the will of Allah and the sunnah of Mohammed. And, all Muslims are to make all others who are not Muslims submit to them. They were there to dominate. What the Muslims did was to place the Koran as the focal point of dominance because this is where normally the Bible would have been. This act of dominance was symbolic of the night.
One of the imams got up and started to give his talk. He first said that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Well that seemed like a good foot to get started on. Of course this is not true but since the Christians did not know anything about the god Allah that seemed fine to them. The imam went ahead and said they too honor Jesus because Jesus was a prophet of Allah and that Jesus was a Muslim. He also explained that Jesus was not the son of God. He was merely a Muslim Prophet. And for that matter, the apostles were also Muslims. This came perhaps as surprise to the ministers but they didn't say anything. The imam then went ahead to say that Jesus was not crucified, therefore was not resurrected.
The next thing he told the Christians was that the concept of the Trinity was a great affront to Allah. There was no such thing as the Trinity and that it made the Christians polytheist. The fact that the Christians are viewed as polytheist explains something that happened at the beginning when the minister first said let us pray together. There was almost a panicked response from the imams at this. "No," they said, "no! We do not pray with others." This was quite puzzling to the Christian minister but since the Christians were there as hosts and they were there to be kind and polite, he didn't say anything. But not knowing anything about Islam, you can tell from the puzzled look on the minister's face, why would they object to praying together? The reason is that the Christians are viewed as polytheists. To pray with them is a terrible sin, so terrible that it has a special name, shirk. The Koran says that if they had prayed with the Christians, they would definitely go to hell. Praying with the Christians would have been a sin worse than mass murder.
Again the Christians did not understand anything about Islam or they would have never made the invitation to prayer. Or they would have simply prayed with Muslims setting there. The Muslims dominated on this point. Inside of the Christian Church, there would be no prayers with the Christians.
Another thing that the imam said in his talk was that the New Testament was a corrupt document and was in error. Not only was the New Testament in error so was the Old Testament. But in particular, the reason that the New Testament was wrong was that the prophet of Allah, Jesus' chief prophecy was that after him would come the final prophet and his name would be Ahmed. (Ahmed and Mohammed is like Bill and William) The imam said Christians had removed these prophecies from the New Testament. This was one of the many reasons that the New Testament was a document which was simply wrong. If Christians wanted to learn the real story of Jesus what they would have to do is to read the Koran because the Koran contains the exact truth about Isa, the Arabic word for Jesus.
Imagine if the Christian minister had stood up and made these assertions - that Mohammed was not a prophet of any sort, that the Koran was a derivative work, that is it was just a book in which things were copied from the Jews and Christians, Zorastrians and the old Arabic religions, that Allah was simply the tribal moon god of the Korash tribe. That is equivalent to what the Muslim minister said but Christians didn't do that for two reasons. One, they were the host and they were going to be polite. The other reason was they had no idea that the Koran was a derivative work. In response to questions from the audience, none of the Christians had read the Koran nor had they read the traditions of Mohammed, the hadith. Nor did they know anything about Mohammed's life. But, the imams had read the New Testament and the Old Testament. So they knew the Christians and Christians knew nothing of them. This was the way the entire night went. The Christians were asked questions by the Muslims and the questions that they asked were 1400 years old. These were stock questions but the ministers were caught flat-footed. They had never thought about these kinds of questions before. Again the Moslems came prepared and the Christians were not prepared.
The lack of preparations by the Christians could be shown when one minister started talking badly about the Crusades and apologized for them. This meant he knew nothing about the Crusades. Yes, mistakes were made in the Crusades, but overall, they were a great good. And why were they a great good? It was one of the few times the Christians in Europe recognized the intense suffering of the Christians in the Middle East. The reasons the Crusades were started were simple. They came as a response to a cry for help. And why did these Christians cry for help? Because they were being murdered, robbed and taxed to death by their Muslim overlords.
Now how did these Muslims become their overlords? Because originally that part of the world had been mostly Christian. It did not become Islamic because some imams showed up and started preaching in the marketplace. No. It was Islamic because the sword had been used to kill all those who would defend Christianity and to take over the government. The Crusaders arrived in response to a desperate cry for help.
Basically the minister with his comments said he didn't know anything about the history of Christianity and Islam. This is tragic, dreadfully tragic. For over 60 million Christians have been killed in the process of jihad. How did Turkey which is 99.7 percent Islamic go from a Greek culture, a country called Anatolia, how did that country go from being Christian to Islamic? The Christians on the stage didn't know how this process happened or know that 60 million Christians have died in jihad. They also didn't know that in the 20th century alone a million Armenians were killed in Turkey. Why didn't the ministers know these dreadful facts? Very simply, it's because they went to divinity school and no one ever mentioned these facts. They had never been taught the doctrine of Islam. They didn't know, for instance, that Islam is primarily a political ideology, not a religion.
Why don't they teach this at the universities and divinity schools? Nothing happens by accident. And in this case, the reason that Christians don't teach the history of Christianity and Islam is this. The history is so dreadful, it's so painful, it could even be called disgusting, the process where by the middle east and Turkey and North Africa all became Moslem was so tragic.
Islam has a political status for the Christians called being a Dhimmi. The Jews were the first Dhimmis but the Christians were the biggest Dhimmis of all for simple reason. There were far more of them. When the Muslims came in and took over the government and implemented Islamic law Sharia law, part of this was how Christians and Jews would be treated in public and how they would be treated in the courts of law. It was dreadful. A dhimmi has no civil rights. So this history of dhimmitude and special taxes that Christians had to pay was dreadfully humiliating.
It's a shameful history that includes the death of 60 million Christians. None of the Christians up on the stage knew what happened to the seven churches of Asia. In the book of Revelation in the New Testament, the 7 churches are addressed. The 7 churches were in Asia minor which was Anatolia or what we call Turkey today. They don't know what happened to those churches which is a real tragedy. Because in the destruction of those churches is the history of Islam that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
And Christians also had not studied enough about Islam to know that not only had 60 million Christians been killed in jihad but 80 million Hindus, 10 million Buddhists and 120 million Africans.
The Christians up on the stage that day didn't know enough to ask about slavery. Because you see, every slave that was sold to the white man on a wooden ship that brought them to America was bought from a Moslem wholesaler. The Christians didn't know enough to ask why is it that when you say the Arabic word African, abed, it's the same word that's used for a black slave. This night was a demonstration of two things, the knowledge and power of Islam and how the Christians have not done their homework.
Christian and all kafirs should know how to use the golden rule to attack the Koran. Christians and all kafirs should know the story of Mohammed?
All kafirs should know enough about the Koran that when a Muslim says Christians, Jews and Muslims worship the same God, that you offer arguments to show how that simply is not true? The knowledge is there. All kafirs should know how to argue with Islam on the issues raised in the church because everything that the Muslims said from the podium of the church is the same thing they say in real life.
All kafirs, not just Christians, should be need to be able to debate on the issue of political Islam, if not with a Muslim, then with someone at work or wherever else. What actual argument can anybody make for being ignorant about the history of political Islam? You really can't. You must face your fears because everybody has a fear about studying political Islam and that fear comes from a sense of unease about the history of political Islam. So there's a reason that you feels uneasy but these fears must be faced.
One of the reasons that the fears must be faced is that the dreadful history of Islam is moving through our world today. As an example, Iraq which used to be a majority Christian is now only 3% Christian, and yet of the refugees leaving Iraq, 30% of those leaving are Christian. Why is it that they're being persecuted? A 1400 history is happening today in Iraq. All kafirs should know about this? In Africa, Christian Africans are being killed and destroyed almost on a daily basis. How can these people be helped?
What is done to Christians is done to Hindus, Buddhists and atheists. Islam does not discriminate. All kafirs must submit.
If you're aware of the history of Islam, if you're aware of its political doctrine, then you can be more useful. And knowledge about Islam is not merely an ability to hold forth in public debate. Knowledge about Islam will sensitize you so that your politics change, so that you can see that not only has Islam killed 270 million kafirs in the past, but it's doing so today.
Kafir civilization is being destroyed on a daily basis by Islam. When a Christian is persecuted, a kafir is persecuted. The way to prevent this destruction is very simple. It is knowledge about Islam, knowledge about the Koran, and knowledge about Mohammed.
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