Posted on 07/01/2007 8:15:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
“Allahu Akhbar” --- God is (the) greatest! was shouted by a man as he swung his fists at an innocent bystander in Glasgow, Scotland. The screamer was involved in a botched attack on that city’s airport. He and his accomplice planned to kill or maim enough UK citizens to release a fresh wave of fear over the nation.
What he lacked in skill he made up for in zeal, and, to a certain extent, he succeeded. After all, he made the front page of most newspapers and was the lead story on most radio and television news programs.
Unholy acts of torture, suicide bombings, and beheadings have become choice methods of religious expression for some Islamic radicals. There have been too many incidents to dismiss these attacks as isolated outbreaks. Only the naïve believe that the flare up of radical Islam is a temporary response to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We ask, “How is it that a tolerant, politically correct society like Britain provokes people to respond to the nation in such a manner?” This is an inappropriate question that presupposes that the West is creating an atmosphere of conflict. A more appropriate query is, “Why is Islam trying to dominate the world again?”
We are observing an age old pattern of Islamic imperialism. This is not the result of U.S. and British foreign policy glitches, alone. These are the pervasive and dangerous manifestations of an ancient ideological war. Traditional-minded Islamic families and mosques are raising a new generation of terrorists as intolerant advocates of jihad. While I would be the first to say not all Muslims are evil, I would be very quick to add that we cannot separate the political aims of Islam from its spiritual goals. Unfortunately, in the name of religious tolerance, western cultures may actually be emboldening a terrorist element in their society.
This past week, terrorism was on the mind of every American traveling overseas. My wife and I were in Greece during the tumult. Modern day Greeks are painfully aware of the nearly 400 years of domination their ancestors suffered under Turkish Muslims. Churches and historic buildings were desecrated during the Muslim occupation of the land. The Greek light of democracy and freedom was snuffed out during a long night of national fear. One of the greatest civilizations in human history lay ravaged and imprisoned by a backward, brutish occupation force that only understood the politics of the sword.
Further, religious intolerance was practiced in Greece just as it is every nation in which Islam has the upper hand. For example, “non believers” paid higher taxes, had no say in the government, and were not free to evangelize others. In some modern nations non-Muslims cannot even enroll in school until they change their Christian names to Muslim names.
Greece was set free because they mobilized a religious revival along with military/political action in 1822. God’s grace helped them overcome horrific odds and turn their nation around. Many people died during Greece’s 400 years of occupation, but until Greek apathy died they were unable to turn things around.
Just one day after Gordon Brown became UK’s prime minister, he had to deal with one of the major threats of the next decade – terrorism and Islamic fascism. It was almost as though his enemies said, “We want the new government to know that they have to deal with us.”
How should the UK and other European countries respond to modern Islamic imperialism? They should be totally intolerant to any immigrant violating their national laws, even in the name of cultural pluralism. Next, countries applying to the European Union, such as Turkey, should demonstrate internal religious liberty and a willingness to accept non-Muslim citizens. Finally, terrorist violence should be punished quickly and fiercely.
Sometimes westerners are so concerned about giving other religions “absolute religious freedom” that they allow these groups to undermine everyone else’s freedom. I have seen video tapes of the kindest looking little Muslim children vowing to kill Americans, Christians, and Jews.
Christians are being jailed internationally for preaching against sexual sins and the gay lifestyle. Conversely, western governments are starting to look the other way as Islamic groups incite terrorism and attempt to set up Sharia law (which violates their nation’s internal laws). Islamic radicals do not feel that our concessions are olive branches of peace; they believe that western governments are so depraved that they should honor the “superiority” of Islam. The west is so afraid of making Muslims mad or appearing racist that they violate basic principles of domestic justice.
The UK experienced God’s grace and divine protection this past week. These attempted attacks should be seen as warnings. Ironically, on the day of these foiled attacks, I stood on the very spot where the apostle Paul brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to Athens. He preached to them about an “unknown God” that had been worshipped in Athens – but not fully understood (Acts 17:23). Perhaps God is telling all of Europe to stop following humanistic and atheistic philosophies. The greatest hope for civil peace in the region, once considered the cradle of Christianity, is to stop acting as though the God of Christianity is unknown to them.
But he said, “Allah”.
Not “God”.
And don’t tell me “Allah” means “God”. Don’t want to hear it.
Amen!
Good post. It is a message for Europe and the US. Will we listen? Will we have the courage to stand up and make this case despite the lefts attempt to marginalize us?
I am tired of being bullied and I have had enough. The message MUST go forth!
Well said.
Amen. In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1), and "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made (John 1:1-3). And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (John 1:14).
Thus, the Bible states that Jesus is God!
They are already pissed at us, let's give em something to be pissed about.
But because there were objections from Muslims about using the word ‘infinite’, we changed it.
That was the day we gave in to political correctness, and we’ve never recovered.
Exactly how it must be....but, it won't. Therefore, history will repeat itself, right here in the U.S.A., along with the invasion ongoing. The America that we have known and grown up with is already gone; what remains will be in shreads.
shreads = shreds
Now, now, how can you offend the religion of pieces like that? :)
Offend them? That’s all it takes? : )
Allah is the Desert Moon God of the ancient Arabs.
Allah sends his minions to kill for him and imprison the earth.
Yahweh (Iehovah, in Latin) came to Earth as Yahshua (Iesous in Greek, Iesus in Latin) to die for us and set us free from the penalty of sin and death.
Very different gods, eh?
If I remember correctly, “Yahweh” is a tense/mood of the Hebrew “I am”, and “Yahshua” means “Yah’s Salvation”.
As an aside, the letter “J” was originally a decorated “I” with a tail, used when the “I” was the first letter of a word. About 300 years ago, it was given its own sound, I think by the French.
I agree the reasoning you attack is not very good. Folks often see the hand of providence randomly.
But in response to what I think was the thrust of your post, if there is a God and those are His rules, what you think about it and whether it makes you spit doesn't really make much of a difference. That's the difference between God and man.
This is just a passionate version of the: "I could never accept a God who . . ." argument. If there is a God, it really doesn't matter whether you accept Him or not. Whether He accepts you is much more to the point.
Of course, if you are right and there is no God, I guess you win the best, correct, angry athiest of the day award. Not worth much. Because if there's no God, there is no meaning and no reason to choose one course of action over another aside from how you feel. ANY decision you make is as good as any other. If there is no personal God, Camus and the existentialists were right. We are Sysiphus carrying rocks up the hill, only to have them roll down again so we can carry them up again. So even if you are right, my FRiend, being an angry athiest spitting in God's eye is an utterly empty gesture, no more or less meaningful than blowing up the WTC. There's no reason to do, or not to do, either of them.
I'm a recovered angry athiest. Every word you write is something I could have written. But I assure you, He's out there knocking. All you have to do is open the door. Just because some of his followers get overzealous in thinking they understand His will doesn't change that one little bit.
Thank you. I couldn’t have said it better. :)
Don’t just guess, go back and read what he said, and think about it. Then come back and talk to us.
You missed several things he said, or ignored them. One of those is that people have free will, and can choose to do evil. Or to do good. He seems, to me, to be asking us to choose to do good. There is a way to fight radical Islam without oppressing moderate Islam. We have to find out what it is, and do it. It won’t be easy, but it needs to be done.
Nowhere, btw, did he say your cousin or any of the others deserved to die. That is the Westboro Baptist attitude. I’ll join you in spitting in their direction.
How to Think About the CRUSADES
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434913/posts
Maybe Brian Williams can get a bunch of misled grade school kids to write letters to the Mullahs of Iran and ask why do Islamists want to kill innocent women and childrem.
Brian? You listening bud?
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