Posted on 03/15/2006 4:25:25 PM PST by Dark Skies
The Rev. Franklin Graham, who outraged Muslims in 2001 when he said that Islam "is a very evil and wicked religion," told an interviewer for Wednesday's edition of ABC News "Nightline" that he hasn't changed his mind about the faith.
Asked by ABC correspondent John Donvan whether Muslim groups had succeeded in altering his outlook about Islam, Graham said "No."
"Do they want to indoctrinate me? Yes. I know about Islam. I don't need an education from Islam," he said. "If people think Islam is such a wonderful religion, just go to Saudi Arabia and make it your home. Just live there. If you think Islam is such a wonderful religion, I mean, go and live under the Taliban somewhere. I mean, you're free to do that."
Franklin Graham is the successor to his father as head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, based in Charlotte, N.C. He was interviewed Sunday in New Orleans, where Franklin and Billy were leading an evangelistic festival.
The younger Graham angered Muslims following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when he told NBC News: "We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. He's not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It's a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion."
In a subsequent Wall Street Journal piece, Graham wrote that he doesn't think Muslim believers "are evil people because of their faith. But I decry the evil that has been done in the name of Islam, or any other faith -- including Christianity."
That article said "the persecution or elimination of non-Muslims has been a cornerstone of Islamic conquests and rule for centuries." Graham said the Quran "provides ample evidence that Islam encourages violence in order to win converts and to reach the ultimate goal of an Islamic world."
Some of Graham's fellow evangelicals subsequently expressed concern that his comments might endanger Christian missionaries working in Muslim countries, strain interfaith relations and make America's war on terrorism seem to be a Christian crusade against Islam.
Billy Graham has avoided such comments about Islam and President Bush has consistently depicted mainstream Islam as a religion of peace.
Another U.S. evangelist, the Rev. Pat Robertson, said of militant Muslims on his Monday telecast: "These people are crazed fanatics, and I want to say it now: I believe it's motivated by demonic power. It is satanic and it's time we recognize what we're dealing with."
"The goal of Islam, ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not, is world domination," he said.
People who choose a life of hatred and violence will always find a rationale, be it in the Bible, the Koran or the writings of L. Ron Hubbard.
Based on that verse, Jews are the antichrist as well.
Your statement reveals your ignorance of Islam. The goal of Islam is to establish Sharia (Islamic law) over the entire world. The Quran then gives infidels (that's us) one of three choices:
1. convert to Islam
2. Pay the Jizya (infidel tax)
3. Be killed.
The Quran promotes violence.
Amen Franklin!!! Don't back down. People need the truth... period.
All of the Moshiach's ancestors and their descendants are Jews. There is a special exception for the Jews. You can see it in them...they are the Chosen people...Jesus is a Jew. He is The Jew!
Those that love Yeshua are adopted children...we are Jews.
The last shoe hasn't fallen...yet.
"The Crusaders had it right."
I just finished reading, "The politically incorrect guide to Islam" by Robert Spencer. There he gives a history of the crusades and shows how the Crusaders "saved" Europe.
My apologies, I just wanted to make sure you weren't lumping all non-christians into the same pile.
That's pretty much what I've been trying to say, by the way.
Franklin Graham is absolutely correct. If indoctrination doesn't work, the "jihadists/islamofasicts" want to kill all the non-believers. Death to Americans, death to Israelis, death to all the infidels.
Lets kill them before they kill us.
Right, but how does that work? He explained the idea two hundred ways so if one didn't get it one way maybe it would come another. It is much clearer, IMHO, what one is to do from Mt 9:13.
Ohhhhh,,you're gonna burn. :-)
I've always liked Franklin Graham and now I have a new respect for him. It's about time someone said what those of us who don't have the public's ear are thinking. Franklin Graham and Ann Coulter are probably the only two I've ever heard speak the truth about Muslims.
One of my oldest friends works for Graham at "The Cove", he told me they have strong security because of the threat of Islam.
Somebody must have forgotten to tell him that Islam is the ONE SPECIAL RELIGION that must not be criticized (...'cause we could lose our heads ).
Bear in mind the context. In this passage you have a Jew addessing a Jew in a culture that loved hyperbole.
Any religion whose adherents are doomed to hell is surely evil and wicked.
It's a great weakness. Religion should have strength under it, not endless threats.
Awesome!
I'll try to view this tonight and see how it's edited.
Heh.
"The goal of Islam, ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not, is world domination," he said.
'And that's the truth.'
Indeed it is.
Not a "lust" thing like Jimmah mentioned - just curiously "hot". I think it is her "demeanor".
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