Randall Terry Says Islam is Religion of the Sword from Its Conception until Today

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Randall Terry Says Islam is Religion of the Sword from Its Conception until Today; Terry Available for Comment

3/18/2004 5:18:00 PM

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To: Assignment Desk

Contact: Gary McCullough, 202-546-0054 or 904-819-9450, for the Society for Truth and Justice, Web site: http://www.societyfortruthandjustice.com

News Advisory:

Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry tells a radio audience, "Islam dictates followers use killing and terror to convert Western infidels." Comedy bits by Randall Terry (Saturday-Night- Live style) accentuate this point. The entire audio tract is available online at http://www.randallterrylive.org/demo.htm

Randall Terry is available for comment regarding today's statements calling Islam a "religion of the sword."

The basis for today's radio show is the book Crescent Terror, written by Randall Terry and is available to read online at http://www.randallterrylive.org/feedback.htm

Randall Terry, president of the Society for Truth and Justice, has made the following statements:

"Muhammad converted the Arabian Peninsula by murder, force, terror, and threats. Is it any wonder that Muhammad's most devout followers become terrorists as well?"

"The most devout followers of Christ become missionaries, nuns, pastors, and priests-bearing the message of Christ's love and redemption. The most devoted followers of Allah become murderers and terrorists-seeking to "convert" the world through terror. This has been the history of Islam since its inception."

"North Africa, Byzantium, and portions of the East were all "converted" to Islam by unjust war, bloodshed, terror, and threats."

To interview Randall Terry call 202-546-0054 or 904-819-9450.

[KarlInOhio]

But I thought it was a Religion of Peace. < /sarcasm>

[rageaholic]

And I thought it was the Religion of Poop

[2banana]

The Crusades.

I know it is hard to believe, but at one point in history, the countries of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey and Iraq had large populations of Christians. These countries were peacefully converted to Christianity by word of mouth.

They were conquered by Muslim armies (along with all of North Africa and Spain) and forcibly converted to Islam by the sword (conversion or death). There were even Muslim raiding parties penetrating deep into France. The spread of Islam was an invasion.

What were the people of Europe to do? Wait to be fully conquered? The Crusades were a reaction to an invasion and defensive in nature. Yes, there were horrific events perpetrated by both sides but the cause and effect need to be put into perspective. It would be like trying to understand the American-Japanese conflict in WWII by only reading about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[MegaSilver]

One of my good friends (on average, slightly conservative, but a bit liberal on a few issues) told me that she heard a boy in her class give a speech on The Merits of the Crusades and declared, "You know what? I've decided that the Crusades were good. Yeah, they did some bad things, and yeah, they were poorly organized, but the intent was good and they should have kept them up."

[antiRepublicrat]

I don't think Christians should publicize this Christian who more than most shows thinking along the lines of some of the worst things about Islam.

Quote Falwell, quote Graham, but try to keep this maniac under wraps for the good of your own religion's image.

[Just another Joe]

I don't think Christians should publicize this Christian who more than most shows thinking along the lines of some of the worst things about Islam.

Can you refute any of what he says about Islam?

[antiRepublicrat]

What were the people of Europe to do? Wait to be fully conquered? The Crusades were a reaction to an invasion and defensive in nature.

The first Crusade was over 350 years after Charles Martel stopped the Muslims at Tours. That is generally considered to be the end of Muslim expansion in Europe and the beginning of their retreat. By the time of the first Crusade, the Muslims only barely had a foothold in present-day Spain and would soon be completely out of Europe.

A Crusade to the East had nothing to do with self-defense.

[antiRepublicrat]

Can you refute any of what he says about Islam?

He can put on whatever spin he wants to make Islam look as bad as Islam as practiced by the fundamentalists today. The one clear factual thing I can say is that in going through Africa, Muslims were sometimes welcomed by the Christian population because those populations were considered heretics for their beliefs and under threat of death by the Catholic Church. They weren't full citizens under Islam, but at least they were alive.

But that's not my point. Right or wrong on a particular subject, you do not want someone like Terry being the spokesman for Christianity just like I'm sure you didn't want Clinton being the spokesman for America -- just not a good thing to do given the men they are.

[Little Ray]

Gee, I seem to recall the Muslim (OK, Turks) laying siege to Vienna in 1683 and only the intervention of the Poles under King John III Sobieski lifted this siege.

The Crusades were in defense of the Eastern Roman Empire, which was hard pressed. Unfortunately, the Crusaders were as like to loot the Byzantines, as they were the Turks.

I'd say their expansionism was just paused for a wee bit, that's all.

[Former Fetus]

try to keep this maniac under wraps

This country would be way better off, with lots of "maniacs" like him.

[rageaholic]

Yeah, everybody's already heard the Disneyland version of Islam, and everybody's heard the crap about "a few extremists" and "religion of peace."

This guy is basically only quoting the Koran with some commentary to deliver a proper counterpoint. NOw look even people on Freep want him to shut up!?

I like how he's put his name and address in the pamphlet. Say what you want about the man, but he's got balls.

[Fiddlstix]

[antiRepublicrat]

This country would be way better off, with lots of "maniacs" like him.

Let's see, hate is good and it's okay to murder someone because of your ideological beliefs (sounds very Muslim fundamentalist). That and he left his wife of almost 20 years for a younger woman, declared bankruptcy to avoid paying on lawsuits, left his ex-wife and kids high and dry, solicited donations to his cause, and used that money to buy an expensive house in Florida (where homes are exempt from bankruptcy proceedings).

Yeah, his example is very Christ-like and promotes a good family structure and personal responsibility in this country. You really think we need more like him?

[cicero's_son]

Agreed. The true purose of the Crusades was to liberate the Christian lands that had been conquered by the Arab-Islamic expansion of the preceding century.

While European kings squabbled and fought cabinet wars with one another, the Arabs were pushing into the very heart of Christendom, seizing holy sites, and forcibly converting or enslaving Christians.

The great tragedy of the Crusades is that they ultimately brought about the downfall of Byzantium, thereby ensuring the ruin of Eastern Christendom.

[ZULU]

You simply do not know what you are talkiing about.

The Muslims were not driven out of Spain until 1492. It took the native Christian Spanish well over 500 years to eradicate this menace. The First Crusade was launched sometime in the 1000's when most of Spain was still under the Muslim yoke and shortly after Sicily and southern Italy were finally cleaned of these fanatics.

Further, the end of Muslim expansion in Europe did NOT cease with the crusades. The Ottomans in the 1400's invaded the Balkans, conquered and enslaved the Christian population of Constantinople, and sent armies of conquest as far as Vienna which they actually besieged.

Muslim pirates raided and enslaved the populations of the entire northern Mediterranean until well into the 1800's, operating out of bases in Tripoli, and other north African ports. They depopulated entire Christian communites as far north as Ireland and England and were only checked with the advances made in European sea power.

I suggest you read up in the religion of peace. as we now speak, Islam is STILL enslaving black Christians and Animists in Subsaharan Africa, and trying to expand its lnfluence by force into the Indian subcontinent and western Europe.

This guy, whoever he is, is right on the mark.

[ZULU]

This guy's personal problems have no bearing on the subject of Islam as a continuing menace to western civilization and its past unrelevied history of oppression and violence.

[antiRepublicrat]

This guy's personal problems have no bearing on the subject of Islam

His various un-Christian activities have a lot of bearing on whether Christians should have him as a highly public front man. As I said, quote the same content from someone else, but not him.

[HamiltonJay]

Wow, someone actually telling the truth about Islam? Who'd have thunk it.

[ZULU]

"Muslims were sometimes welcomed by the Christian population because those populations were considered heretics for their beliefs and under threat of death by the Catholic Church."

True. This was back in the very beginnings of Islamic expanison in the 700's and 800's.

"They weren't full citizens under Islam, but at least they were alive."

Initially, they were probably better off. But as time went on more and more restrictions were heaped on them, and, although technically regarded as "People of the Book" and permitted to practise their religion in private, unlike other faiths which were given the alternative of death or conversion, Dhimmis suffered cruel discrimination. They couldn't participate in government, they were forbidden to carry arms, they couldn't testify against a Muslim, the could be enslaved while a Muslim could not, they could not make improvements on the exterior of their churches or synagogues, they had to wear a distinguishing badge marking them as Dhimmis, they couldn't practise their religion in public, they were forbidden under pain of death from converting or attempting to convert Muslims, and were subjugated to the same periodic pograms Jews in Europe enjoyed.

In today's Wahhabist Saudi Arabia, other religions, even other forms of Islam, are simply and totally forbidden. So things have hardly improved.

But I guess living life as a slave can be preferred to death if no hope of liberty exists.