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10 Things Every Christian Should Know About Islam
The Gospel Coalition ^ | 7/4/13 | Zane Pratt, Christian missionary in Muslim majority nation for 20 years

Posted on 04/28/2019 5:00:46 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

1. “Muslim” and “Arab” are not the same thing. “Muslim” is a religious term....

2. The word “Islam” means submission....

3. There are two major denominations of Muslims....Sunni and Shi’a. Sunnis are the vast majority, at 85 percent of all Muslims....

4. Islamic theology could be summarized as belief in one God, his prophets, his books, his angels, his decrees, and the final judgment....

5. Islam teaches that Jesus was a great prophet. Islam affirms that Jesus was born of a virgin, that he lived a sinless life, that he performed mighty miracles, and that he will come again at the end of history.... However, it explicitly denies the deity of Christ and repudiates the title “Son of God” as blasphemous. It also (according to the majority view) denies he died on the cross...

6. Islamic practice can be summarized by the Five Pillars of Islam....

7. The vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists. In fact, normal Islamic religious law forbids the intentional killing of non-combatants in battle. It also forbids suicide. It’s a small minority view that allows these things, and it’s a small minority who engage in terrorist activities...

8. Muslims can be some of the friendliest, most hospitable people on earth. They make great neighbors and great friends. No Christian should be afraid to build a relationship with a Muslim....

9. Muslims need salvation through Jesus Christ. They are lost exactly like any other non-Christian—neither more nor less than anyone else. Furthermore, Muslims do come to faith in Jesus Christ. It usually takes time, and extended exposure to the Word of God and the lives of Christians, but more Muslims are coming to faith today than at any other point in history...

10. God loves Muslims, and so should we—even those few who are our enemies.....

(Excerpt) Read more at thegospelcoalition.org ...


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Yes we MUST be careful regarding who comes into this nation.

We MUST NOT allow lawlessness or terrorism.

And the power of God to save extends to even followers of Islam.

1 posted on 04/28/2019 5:00:46 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

All muslims are not terrorists but all radical terrorists are muslims. Muslims are like pit bulls: You never know when they will be triggered to go into attack mode


2 posted on 04/28/2019 5:04:28 PM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan was a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Nice history lesson. Meanwhile, be watchful for any out of control 18 wheeler Ice Cream trucks you see riding up on the sidewalks.


3 posted on 04/28/2019 5:06:41 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SoFloFreeper

And...

islam’s goal is to rule the world.

And...

Allah is Greater according to Musloids

And...

Conversion away from islam is punished by death.

Thus islam must be destroyed.


4 posted on 04/28/2019 5:08:08 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: slapshot

I will only believe that not all muslims are terrorists when they ALL denounce terrorism.


5 posted on 04/28/2019 5:08:16 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

UUUUGGGH.

Here we go again.

What does the Quoran say?

The muslim you meet today is going to be the nicest person you’ver ever met, until they are in the majority.


6 posted on 04/28/2019 5:10:50 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: SoFloFreeper

I don’t see how other religions could see Jesus as a “prophet” and not a blasphemer since he claimed to be the Son of God.

Seems if one thinks he lied when he said that, it would kinda knock him out of prophet territory.


7 posted on 04/28/2019 5:12:04 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Zane Pratt, A Christian missionary in a Muslim majority nation

for 20 years wrote this article.....


8 posted on 04/28/2019 5:13:16 PM PDT by caww
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To: SoFloFreeper

Within 5 years this guy will have converted.

I grew up in a country that’s about 50% muslim. Our minister saw this sort of ‘sympathy’ many times. It was usually just before outright conversion to islam.


9 posted on 04/28/2019 5:14:17 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: SoFloFreeper

There is the erroneous assertion that Radical Islam is not connected with mainstream (moderate) Islam in any way, that the religion of Islam has been “hijacked by a few extremists” that the vast majority of Muslims do not agree with the Islamofascists. Such thinking is a terrible error and a grave threat to America’s national security, especially in this age of nuclear terrorism.

So what is Radical Islam and what should it be properly named? Radical Islam is actually the Islamic Military. The so-called radicals are not a fringe element; they are fully supported by the worldwide Islamic community (Ummah). If they were a fringe element, they would have been defeated long ago. The fight rages on because of strong support from the moderates both covertly and overtly. This means the Islamic Military (wrongly labeled radicals) is intimately connected with moderate Muslims who we have mistakenly labeled as innocent bystanders.

Moderate Muslims are not innocent bystanders. Moderate Muslims provide the base of operations which makes it possible for the Islamic Military to continue their terrorist operations. Hate America, demands to replace constitution with the Koran, and outbursts for Sharia law are preached openly from nearly every Mosque in America under the guise of freedom of speech and religion. Freedom of speech and religion has morphed into a weaponized tool of Islamic psychological warfare which is defeating America’s will to protect her national security. Any American who says Islam is less than perfect may become the victim of an unfair lawsuit by a “moderate” Muslim organization.

Why can one be so certain about this fact? The answer is the Koran. The Koran fuses together both moderates and their military. No Muslim dares to contradict the Koran because the penalty is — death and loss of personal salvation. The moderate Muslims of every nation, including those in America fully support their Islamic military because worldwide conquest is the primary religious duty of all Muslims. Fellow Americans if you believe that your local Muslims are not secretly harboring in their hearts an agenda for the conquest of America by Islam then you are dead wrong, and understand nothing about the Koran.

Moderate Muslims may not carry weapons and murder innocent people hands on, but they play the role of “wolves in sheep’s clothing”. Moderate Muslims use two primary strategies to make conquest for Islam. The first is dawa, which is influence peddling, “wining and dining” and manipulation. You make conquest by “pleasing” your opponent, “buttering them up” — bribery and back room dealings are common place. There is a “ton” of Muslim oil money buying preferential treatment for Islam in America. The second is taqiyya, which is outright deception and lying. Deception and lying to infidels as a strategy of conquest is one of Islam’s most valued “weapons”, a precedent set by the prophet Mohammed himself. Americans hear this deception everyday with proclamations that “Islam is a religion of peace.” This phrase is an excellent example of successful psychological warfare which has caused Americans to let down their guard, and made us very vulnerable to future terrorist attacks, even possible nuclear attacks as several experts have pointed out.

Recent history proves that the “so called peaceful Muslims” work as a team with their Islamic Military. They immigrate to a country touting what peaceful law abiding citizens they are, establish themselves, build mosques, increase their numbers and “bingo” terrorists acts start occurring in the host country. Do the attacks in Spain, England, France, Thailand, Bali, the Philippines, Holland, Sweden and the USA ring any bells here? All these attacks have been preceded by the establishment of moderate mosque communities which in turn became footholds from which the Islamic military could launch their terrorist attacks. The larger the percentage of Muslims that occupy a country the greater the havoc they wreak. The situation is directly proportional. Reducing the percentage of Muslims that dwell in the host country is the most effect way of stopping terrorism. Western governments must evaluate this fact very seriously if they wish to win the war against Islamofascism long term.

Have we Americans become gullible fools? As long as we fail to deal aggressively and comprehensively with the intimate Koranic connection between the moderate Muslims and their Islamic military we can never stop the terrorist attacks. Have you ever wondered why, so numerous the complaints worldwide, that Muslims are not assimilating into their host nation? It is because they are not there to assimilate — they are there to conquer the host country for Islam as their Koran requires. Fellow Americans please read the Koran for your self. Don’t take my word on it. You will learn first hand that anyone who tells you that Islam is a religion of peace is insulting your intelligence. The Penguin Classic edition, The Koran, translated by the Arab Scholar N. J. Dawood is a well respected version having sold over a million copies worldwide.

The best description of the symbiotic Koranic relationship between the moderates and their military comes from the Muslims themselves. They have a saying, “the poisonous fish swim in the sea”. The “poisonous fish” are the militants and the “sea” is the moderate mosque community. For example, for their 9/11 operation, the Islamic Military (poisonous fish) used the Al Farouq mosque in New York as the “sea” from which they “swam” to pulverize the trade towers. The next poisonous fish may be swimming from the sea of your local Mosque community with a nuclear explosion. Wake up Americans we are not fighting with bows and arrows anymore. We must take aggressive preventative measures to stop the Islamic military’s “euphoric” obsession to make a nuclear attack on American soil.

It is a great mistake to continue calling the Islamic military radicals because the term “radicals” has blinded us to think that the moderates are not in cahoots with their Islamic Military. In so doing we have violated the primary dictum of warfare which is to know and understand one’s enemy. Consequently, we have failed to understand that the Islam of Osama Bin Laden is main stream Islam – not a radical fringe. Osama Bin Laden is one of the generals of the Islamic military which is fully supported by the worldwide community of moderate Muslims, including American Muslims. Both moderate Muslims and their military have the same goal which is the Islamic conquest of the entire world — this is the primary religious duty of all Muslims as required by the Koran. Americans desperately need to understand this fact if they wish to protect their country from great harm.

by Martel Sobieskey


10 posted on 04/28/2019 5:14:36 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: slapshot

A person can have any religious identity and be an American. But in much of the Muslim world, the opposite is true. Islam is part of their ethnic identity. To be a Turk, or a Persian, or a Malay, or a host of other Islamic people groups, is to be a Muslim, and if you cease to be the latter you also cease to be the former. You don’t even have to be particularly observant as a Muslim, but you cannot leave Islam. To join another religion is to commit ethnic and cultural treason and to cut yourself off from the family and community ties that are foundational to your identity.


11 posted on 04/28/2019 5:14:42 PM PDT by caww
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To: SoFloFreeper

Later


12 posted on 04/28/2019 5:16:33 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: SoFloFreeper

islam is a war plan.


13 posted on 04/28/2019 5:17:14 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: dp0622

Islam does not separate religion, culture, and politics into different spheres, but regards them as unbreakably united.


14 posted on 04/28/2019 5:17:53 PM PDT by caww
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To: SoFloFreeper

Christians have no desire to share their lands with Islam.

No one is asking them their opinion.


15 posted on 04/28/2019 5:19:28 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: caww

Is that the Batman villain, Egghead?


16 posted on 04/28/2019 5:21:23 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: caww

Not sure how that address what I stated but it’s good information to know anyway.


17 posted on 04/28/2019 5:22:54 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: dp0622

Islam believes the Christian Bible contains inaccurate descriptions of Jesus’ life and teachings. They believe the same about Moses.


18 posted on 04/28/2019 5:24:19 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

muslims are bent on taking over the world through force and immigration

if it’s only 50 million we still have a big problem


19 posted on 04/28/2019 5:25:58 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: SoFloFreeper

7. The vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists.

But all muslims support islamic terrorism by giving money to their mosque and tacit support simply by being muslim.

Not everyone in an army is a trigger puller.

JoMa


20 posted on 04/28/2019 5:26:30 PM PDT by joma89
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