Posted on 03/13/2016 6:37:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
CNN’s “Silver Fox,” Anderson Cooper, went fishing with his best “gotcha” lure in his recent interview with Donald Trump, only to have his lure bitten off the line and tossed back on shore without bait, or fish.
“I think Islam hates us,” was Trump’s response to Cooper’s rather clumsy attempt to get “The Donald” to lump all Muslims together into some jingoistic, bigoted meatloaf on which the media and the DNC could feast.
Trump ignored the bait and countered by suggesting the media do their job (gasp!) and determine the difference between radical and moderate Islam for themselves, rather than trying to bait candidates based on preconceived notions of bigotry.
The failure of his lure notwithstanding, Cooper nonetheless characterized Trump’s answer as inadequately worshipful toward the altar of “non-Islamic Islamic terrorism,” by describing Trump’s answer as “drawing little distinction between the religion and radical Islamic terrorism.”
In fact, Trump’s answer is accurate in general terms – the 30,000-foot view, if you will – but would do well with an explanation as to why.
The concept of “radical Islam” as our enemy is an egregious misnomer. A far more appropriate (and accurate) appellation would be “devout Islamist,” which is more reflective of the motivations of those who seek to place the entire earth under the heel of Shariah.
Jihad is waged for the purpose of creating Allah’s kingdom on earth, which requires the submission of the earth and all in it to Islam. In and of itself, this is not a problem to society at large, until you add in the religious duty of all Muslims to exercise any and all means to achieve this goal – including extreme violence against innocents.
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Dr. Mark Christian is the president and executive director of the Global Faith Institute. A former Islamic imam who converted from Islam to Christianity, he has dedicated his life and work to the proposition that “the first victims of Islam are the Muslims themselves.”
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He said there is “tremendous hatred” for us. That is probably an accurate statement.
Dr. Mark Christian was born and raised in an upscale Cairo suburb known as “Heliopolis.” His father was a Lieutenant General in the Egyptian military and the personal family physician of then-President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. From a very young age Mark was the constant companion of his father, growing up to become his closest confidante as well.Following in his footsteps, Mark too became a physician – an Obstetrician and Gynecologist – but his emulation of his father didn’t end there. Dr. Christian’s father was a very well-known religious leader and Imam, and Mark longed to travel that path. Mark was teaching in the Masjid by the age of thirteen.
Dr. Christian was a very devout Muslim. He learned Islamic theology and tradition at an unusually young age, devoting himself to memorizing and learning the Quran, ultimately serving at mosques in the role of an Imam.
However, after years of extensive theological and historical study, Dr. Christian began to question some of the fundamental tenets of Islam. He began to search for the underlying truth of the Islamic religion, the foundation upon which his life, and the lives of millions of others had been built, and all too often, also lost.
This search, this inner struggle to find solid ground beneath his spiritual feet was vehemently opposed by… well, everyone around him.
His original quest was to solidify the foundation of his faith, to discover the immutable truths that would inexorably lead him to forever follow Allah and his Prophet. Instead, where spiritual bedrock should’ve been, Dr. Christian found only sand.
He searched through history to find others like himself – those who had questioned their Islamic faith, and discovered the answers that laid their questions to rest.
He found no one. Anyone who had sought confirmation, anyone who questioned the “why” of Islam found the razors edge of a sword as their answer.
Mark had discovered the truth behind the Islamic myth, and walked away from Islam.
Later, after nearly 10 years of “spiritual wandering,” he would come to discover Jesus Christ and commit his life to Him. Still in Egypt, he struggled to worship secretly for a long time, always fearing the knock on the door, wondering when he would be found out and beheaded as an apostate.
Mark had diverted destiny and ditched Islam for good, undergoing a conversion which would ignite a murderous hatred from his own father and family. He lives under that threat even today.
Mark came to America in 2005, and soon discovered the shocking extent of Islamic infiltration in his adopted country. To Mark, a man steeped in both religious and political Islam, a man who grew up amidst the planning and scheming of the Muslim Brotherhood, the recognition of their agenda at work in the United States was almost immediate. Mark had grown up watching his father and uncle as they, with their Brotherhood associates, had planned it all some three decades earlier.
Recognizing the urgency of this grim threat and informed by his unique upbringing, he responded with the formation of the Global Faith Institute as a way to protect his cherished American freedoms from the sickness he thought he had left behind in Egypt.
Dr. Christian’s great-uncle is one of the founders of the original Muslim Brotherhood, and Mark’s father, (who became a member in his teens) remains a highly-respected advisor for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to this day.
In 1965 the Egyptian government imprisoned a great many members of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of whom was Mark’s uncle, who shared his cell with Sayyid Qutb, the infamous ideological “godfather” of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Over the years, Mark’s father and uncle moved up in the organization, and through this high-level access Mark was afforded unparalleled exposure to the ideology and objectives of radical Islam, the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the stringent creed of Sharia law.
Though Dr. Christian was never a member himself, his daily interactions with the Muslim Brotherhood through his father and uncle gave him a direct view of their machinations and motivations.
Most instructively, his exposure was centered around their “re-grouping” period, beginning in the 1970’s. It was during this time that the Brotherhood made and launched their plans for their infiltration of the West.
Before Dr. Christian’s conversion to Christianity, he served as a military physician for several years at El-Maadi Military Medical Center in Cairo, a prestigious hospital providing exceptional medical care to VIP’s and other high-ranking military and government officials.
El-Maadi is to Egypt what Bethesda Naval Hospital, or Walter Reed Medical Center is to America. Former patients include former Egyptian leaders Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak.
It was during his tenure at El-Maadi that Dr. Christian met and came to know Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the current President of Egypt.
I heard someone say recently that there’s no such thing as radical islam. There’s islam. Any muslims who do not subscribe to the violence are not completely following islam. Simple as that.
The so-called peaceful muslims need to do some critical thinking about their religion. They actually need to say to themselves, “I can’t follow this. This is violent and horrible”, and then find another faith that is actually peaceful.
Oh, and by the way...islam was a colonial superpower and still is.
IIRC, the person who made that statement (one of them anyway) was the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
I heard it on Fox, awhile back. It was a hippie type guy who was a director or something. He had started to do a project and delved into islam for that purpose. He came out realizing that islam is as islam does - and it’s not radical, it’s islam.
Trump is right about Islam, but he should add the explanation for it and the explanation is easy to find in the Koran and the hadiths. Doesn’t he have any advisors or knowledge type people who will explain the factual basis for his fairly good instincts? He should get some.
Trump’s point (and I’m not a supporter of his) is better than calling them Islamists — it’s Islam period that is the problem.
IIRC, the person who made that statement (one of them anyway) was the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoan.
Pearl was Jewish and thus not the archetype American
Of course.
That is correct.
When Al Azhar University, founded in 972, which is the epitome of Sunni Islam, said that the ISIS terrorists were not apostates to Islam - then you realized it is the religion that is the problem.
When you study Islam, you will fear there will never be a solution until they themselves reform their religion. They must denounce Sharia, violence, anti-semitism, the destruction of other religions, the Jizya, sexual slavery, rape and not seek political control through Islam of nations in which they live. To do all of that would be a direct contradiction of Islam so don’t count on it happening.
The Muslim Brotherhood has burned 40 Christian churches to the ground in Egypt within the last few years, and Al-Sisi has not rebuilt them as promised.
Christian and Jewish populations are being driven away from Muslim nations, and that is deliberate, with total silence from the Obama Administration.
There will never be a two-state solution in Israel and anyone who advocates that really does not understand Islam. That was the first time in 1400 years that core Islamic lands were taken from “the Caliphate” and the Jews who are on it must be killed or driven off. That is true Islam, and that is the message of HAMAS and the rest of the worldwide terrorist network including the nation if Iran. Netanyahu knows this, and John Kerry doesn’t have an idea but thinks he is working with Muslims who want a 2-state solution. Those moderate Muslims will be overrun and slaughtered by the real Muslims in a matter of minutes.
Go to Jihad Watch for updates....
I have to agree. It’s like people who call themselves Christian, but they don’t believe Jesus was the son of God or rose again, they just think he was a really cool guy, a philosopher whose advice we should follow, that sort of thing. That’s not really a Christian. Thus it is with so-called peaceful Muslims: they aren’t really following the religion. They identify themselves with it by statement, but they don’t believe in its doctrines or obey many of them.
Islam is religious, military and political, most of their domain came from the end of a sword. They have a consistent 1400 year record.
The problem is our first amendment.
It states that Congress shall make no laws restricting the EXERCISE of religion. Part of exercising their religious is to kill non believers and subjugate women.
The Islamists are cleverly using the first amendment to impose their religion on us.
I’m sure the founders weren’t thinking of Islam when they wrote that amendment.
It needs to be revised.
Very interesting. Did he change his name to “Christian”?
Also see my post #19.
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