Never trust a Jesuit.
Posted on 10/28/2014 7:04:35 AM PDT by xzins
Reverend Franklin Graham, son of world renowned evangelical pastor Billy Graham, said that President Barack Obama was “fundamentally mistaken” about radical Islam; questioned why peaceful Muslims do not collectively condemn jihadist terrorism; and argued that Islam “is a false religion” and that “it is impossible for a false religion to be a true religion of peace.”
Rev. Franklin Graham also cited examples from a speech he recently gave outside the White House, decrying the actions of followers of a “peaceful religion” who practice “female circumcision,” hijacking, kidnapping, “honor” killings, and decapitation.
Rev. Graham commended President Obama for sending some U.S. troops to fight the Islamic State but, citing Obama’s Sept. 24 speech at the United Nations where the president said “Islam teaches peace,” the reverend said, “I also believe our president is completely and fundamentally mistaken about the intolerant and violent nature of hardened Islamic followers.”
"For Muslims, peace comes only through submission to Islam,” said Rev. Graham in his November commentary for Decision magazine, published by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. “When they speak of peace, they mean submission to their religion. Worldwide, tens of thousands of men, women and children have been slaughtered in the name of Allah, under the bloody flag of Islam.”
Rev. Graham noted the case of Pastor Saeed Abedeni, an Iranian American who is in prison in Iran “simply because of his Christian faith, beaten and tortured for the sake of Christ by the hostile Islamic regime.”
He then quoted from his speech on Sept. 25 in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, to raise awareness about the persecution of Pastor Abedeni and about radical Islam.
“Mr. President, followers of a peaceful religion do not cut off the heads of innocent people in the barbaric fashion the world has watched recently,” Rev. Graham had said over the loudspeakers, addressing the president and the White House.
“Mr. President, believers in a peaceful religion do not kidnap 300 young schoolgirls as Boko Haram did in northeastern Nigeria in April and reportedly [sell] them to men to be sex slaves,” he said. “Mr. President, no peaceful religion would tolerate, let alone practice, female circumcision, require a woman to have her husband’s permission to leave her home and take up employment, and restrict her ability to receive justice in the case of sex crimes.”
Rev. Graham continued, “Mr. President, a peaceful religion would not condone and allow a father to drown a daughter in a swimming pool in front of the family in the name of family honor because she might have stayed out late in the evening with her boyfriend. Mr. President, why haven’t the 3.5 million Muslims in North America rejected this gross, barbaric and despicable behavior by their fellow Muslims on American soil?”
Rev. Graham went on to note that the “terrible acts” he cited had not been carried out by “peaceful Muslims, but by radical extremists,” but he questioned why many, “if not most” of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world have not condemned these violent acts. If a so-called Christian commits an act of terrorism, mainstream Christians “quickly and unanimously rise together to condemn it,” he said.
Noting that President Obama said radicals such as Al Qaida and Boko Haram were guided by an “ideology” that will wither and die when exposed to the public, Rev. Graham said, “That simply is not the case. Islam is not a simple ideology or philosophy.”
“It is a false religion,” he said. “While it may contain some elements of human moralism, it is nonetheless guided and characterized by treacherous deceit.”
The reverend, who also heads the international relief group Samaritan’s Purse, said, “The blinding lies of Satan himself are the dark and sinister force ultimately behind any false religion. … It is impossible for a false religion to be a true religion of peace, since it can never reconcile a holy God and sinful man, and it can never bring lasting peace between men or nations.”
Franklin Graham is married, has five children, and lives in Boone, N.C. His father, Rev. Billy Graham, 95, is in poor health and lives at home in Montreat, N.C. Over the years, Billy Graham preached to more than 215 million people in 185 different countries, and he wrote 31 books. For more than 50 years he has regularly been ranked among one of the most admired people in the world. He will be 96 on Nov. 7.
Whoa! That’s a big statement! But then again, we did not have so much mooslime atrocities in the news back then.
The Graham organization has always been admirably free of corruption and the usual varieties of failing. Impeccable men of honor who choose to speak the truth. Some just cannot tolerate what even their eyes see.
I hope that organization can somehow survive an encroaching all powerful federal government.
He may as well have said the rest;that Barack Obama has been “fundamentally mistaken” every time his lips moved. It is a kinder way of expressing the truth than many might use.
Never trust a Jesuit.
RE: Rev. Graham: Obama’s Wrong, Islam ‘Is a False Religion’
The father would never be as straightforward as the son, but hey, someone’s gotta tell the truth.
The only problem is this — how’s this going to affect his organization’s work in Muslim countries?
“The only place I would disagree with the good Rev. Graham is that I’m not even sure that radical Islam is a religion.”
This is the discussion that needs to begin in America as it has begun and advanced in Europe.
Islam is a system of government. It’s not a religion.
One of the most important elements of a religion is that it is voluntary. Islam has a death penalty.
In the US, we agreed upon and adhere to (more or less) a justice system based on a documented legal process that uses laws that were ultimately voted on and agreed to by its citizens.
In Islam, there’s sharia law, which is the only system of jurisprudence recognized by Muslims. Islam doesn’t recognize or adhere to any other system of governance or jurisprudence than the one established by Islam.
And there is no ‘radical’ Islam. Just Islam. After 9/11, Aaron Sorkin tried to educate people on this point in one of the West Wing episodes, equating jihadists to the KKK.
The comparison was pretty weak at best, but at the time nobody questioned it and most bought it because the shock of what had happened was overwhelming enough. To contemplate a system of governance that threatened to compete with our Constitutional form of government wasn’t anything anybody was prepared to do.
The Fort Hood ‘Workplace Violence’ charade will probably be considered the ultimate piece of purposeful apology for something that is actually identical to, and more committed to in the long term, anything that Hitler had hoped to achieve.
Both movements blamed the Jews for the conditions both had brought upon themselves. Both sought the annihilation of NOT JUST the Jews, but anyone outside the movement.
I’ve seen schoolkids ask, “What in the world were people thinking in the 30’s and 40’s while all of this was being perpetrated by essentially one man at a podium?”
They will be asking the same thing of us, only Islam has so many more people running interference for it at so many different podiums. I submit that the world’s pre-eminent apologist for Islam in the world today is the President of the United States. He’s the face of modern Islam in the world. He spends more time explaining and apologizing for their actions and inactions. He obfuscates the obvious, such as implying that ISIL has nothing to do with Islam, though the first two words of the acronym is ‘Islamic State’.
In the US, I believe that the only way to begin a rational and peaceful resistance to the Islamic hegemony is for the courts to begin to rule that Islam is a competing system of governance and laws, and as such no longer enjoys the protections of the 1st Amendment. The irony, of course, is that so many wouldn’t hesitate to strip the Tea Party’s 1st Amendment rights, but would have real trouble - agnostic or atheist though they be - stripping Islam of their 1A rights.
All of that hinges on the two aspects of Islam that render it a government:
1. Believers have no right to quit the faith. Quitters are killed.
2. Islam sees the world in terms of its adherents, and those people who’s only options are 1) Convert, 2) Die, or 3) Defend themselves.
We may lament the retreat of family and Christian values from our society, but at least people chose that path freely. Nobody held a knife at their throat and said, “Accept Mohammed or I will cut your head off.”
Whore of Babylon?
700 years after Jesus Christ walked this earth , and after all remnants of his church, priesthood authority and fullness of his word was taken from God’s earth Satan posessed Mohammed and invented islam. Satan calling himself allah put himself at the head of this perversion and called it religion. Satan is allah.Submission to allah is evil and wrong.
Christ said He’d build His church and that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. Therefore, all manner of restorationist theology and restorationist denominations from the late 1700’s and early 1800’s is premised on something Christ said wouldn’t happen.
Barry is a false president.
Not much more than a year later, he took out those full page adds backing the GOP without mentioning Romney or any other GOP candidate by name. It was sadly clear that he felt this was the last exit the country could take off on the highway to hell.
I hope he wasn't right. But if we have too many election surprises (especially in evangelical majority states such as Louisiana, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa or Kansas especially) and/or too much cooperation in the lame-duck session, then it will be pretty clear that he was.
Excellent summary.
Was viewing part of a discussion of the Islamic terrorist threat and a muslim woman stood up to decry that there aren’t any muslims on the panel and how it is an ideology that is being challenged, that bombs won’t defeat it.
She rattled off the statistic that there are 1,8billion muslims in the world.
Funny how the terrorists are never REAL muslims but they are always quick to count them as muslims when they need to boost the numbers up.
” questioned why peaceful Muslims do not collectively condemn jihadist terrorism”
Simple....they quietly sympathize with them. Muslims are a scourge on the entire world.
That’s been my point all along. Islam is much less a religion, altho strict adherents make it one in the same sense that a cult might be, than it is a form of tribal governance. The koran makes it clear that it wants to control all aspects of community life, not just a means to personal salvation. The simple fact that mooslimes want God referred to as allah means , first , that they want everybody speaking arabic. That’s not religion. Thats a cult. Worse, rather than codifying a set of civil laws to govern themselves, they want the ability to make it up as they go such that leadership can adjust the rules as needed to keep themselves in power. And it works as long as the oil money holds out. But as long as they’re focused on killing each other I’m just saying “you go, muckmood.”
In addition, I have a lot in common morally with Evangelicals as compared to denominations with women bishops, gay bishops, and who approve abortion. While I think that the (orthodox) Catholic approach is the "correct" one (or anti-Prot as you call it), I have a lot of respect for the integrity of Christians who have similar moral beliefs.
Is that a newsflash for you?
I would say your respective camps have the strongest claims out there, but would also include the true nondenominational (as opposed to those who just call themselves nondenominational) into that mix.
I would define the true nondenominational as the theological followers of Jan Hus, the first reformationist.
I have not read that but if Benedict referred to Islam as “revealed” then it most certainly is resistive to reformation ... It would seem that the God of Islam is real and supernatural as well. We are truly engaged in both a physical and supernatural battle.
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