ISLAMIC TERRORISM: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AND WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

 
 A real eye-opener for those unfamiliar with Islamic teachings

 
IslamReview.com

By Pastor Jim Croft

Post the 9/11/01 Islamic terrorist attacks on America the major television
networks began filling the airwaves with interviews with consultants that
specialize in Islamic issues.  The majority of them have been less than
candid about the role of Islam in spawning international terrorism.  They
present the traditions and Holy books of Islam as those that promote peace,
tolerance, and truth.  The experts neglect to inform you of the overriding
aspects of Muslim traditions and writings that encourage hostility,
intolerance, and lying as a policy, particularly to non-Muslims.  In
reality, if the teachings of Mohammed and Muslim clerics were extracted from
the hearts and minds of the 19 hijackers of 9/11, 3,000 Americans would
still be living members of their families.  The points related in this
report have been gleaned from years of investigating Islam and
correspondence with Arabic-speaking ex-Muslims that have chosen to put their
faith in Jesus Christ.

7 Things the Islamic experts won’t tell you!

1.  About Islam’s worldview – The Muslims of Islamic states, and many within
the USA, have the tradition of a worldview that divides humanity into two
opposing halves.  Dar al-Islam, House of Islam, is the zone where Islam
rules.  The other side is the war zone that is called, Dar el Harb, House of
War.  This worldview dictates that war will continue between these two
sections of humanity until the supremacy of Islam is fully established
throughout the earth.

2.  About deceptive revisions of the Koran – There has been a great effort
among Muslim translators to enhance Islam’s appeal and reputation among
people of other faiths.  To accomplish this they have adopted a slanted,
freestyle method of translating certain sections of the Koran.  This is done
to veil the truth about their religion’s primitive barbarism and contempt
for Christians and Jews that is revealed in the original Arabic texts.  Here
is an example from the new French translation of the Koran in regard to the
Jews.  It reads, “The people of Israel will be twice destroyed as an
innocent victim, and God will reward them by elevating them to great
heights.”  The original translation reads just the opposite.  “The people of
Israel, after sowing corruption twice on earth for the purpose of dominating
other people, will push themselves up into a position of extreme power
before being punished by God.”

3.  About the Koran’s violent verses – The Koran was written in two major
stages.  These have been integrated and arranged by chapter length as
opposed to the chronological order in which they were initially written.
The first part was penned in the early years of the Islamic movement while
Mohammed was living in Mecca, Arabia.  The experts boast the verses from
these chapters as proof that Islam is a bastion of peace, love, and
tolerance.  They avoid references to verses from the second and largest
portion of the Koran.  It was written after the movement relocated its
headquarters to Medina, Arabia, and increased in strength.  These verses
often reflect religious intolerance and encourage cruel hostility towards
non-Muslims.  Here are two examples that were aimed at Jews, Christians, and
Arabs that clung to traditional tribal polytheistic beliefs.  – So when the
sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters, wherever you find them, and
take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every
ambush….  (Koran 9:5)  The only punishment of those that wage war against
Allah and His Messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is that they
should be murdered, or crucified, or their hands and their feet should be
cut-off on opposite sides, or they should be imprisoned….  (Koran 5:33)

4.  About the stage of weakness/the stage of strength strategy – The stark
differences in the tone of the verses that were written in Mecca and those
written in Medina exposes a tactic that has been characteristic of Islam
throughout its history.  Traditionally, Muslims determine the strength of
the religion in various settings as being in one of two states; the stage of
weakness and the stage of strength.  When Muslims are in the minority and
perceive that they are vulnerable, it is their custom to agree to most
anything and to be conciliatory towards other religious groups.  The moment
that they sense superiority in numbers and influence, a form of ruthlessness
sets in.  They begin to oppress minority religious groups and to demonstrate
a blatant disregard for the agreements that they made during the stage of
weakness.

5.  About sanctioned lying – Unlike Christianity and Judaism, Islam does not
simply make a provision for forgiveness if one tells a lie; it actually
encourages lying in certain situations.  This is evident in both the Koran
and the Hadith.  The latter is a collection of Mohammed’s sayings and deeds
according to his wives, relatives, and companions.  Next to the Koran, it is
the most important part of Islamic law.  In the Hadith, Mohammed was quoted
as saying, “The sons of Adam are accountable for all lies with the exception
of those spoken to reconcile two men that are quarreling, for a man to
appease his wife, and in war, because war necessitates deception.”  This is
what often makes life such a nightmare for non-Muslim women that marry
Muslim men.  Without the pangs of conscience, men are licensed to appease
their wives with promises which they have no intention of keeping.  In
addition, within Islam there is the principle of “Al Takeyya.”  The term
means, “prevention”.  This principle permits Muslims to lie at their
discretion whenever they interpret that it is expedient for the influence of
Islam or their personal protection and well-being.  They justify lying by
using the following verse as a springboard for expanded applications of Al
Takeyya.  “Let not the believers take the disbelievers for friends rather
than believers.  And whoever does this has no connection with Allah unless
it is done to guard (Takeyya) yourselves against them, guarding carefully.
And Allah cautions you against His retribution.  And to Allah is the
eventual coming.”  (Koran 3:27)  The principle of Al Takeyya is precisely
what makes negotiations with Islamic statesmen such a frustrating endeavor
for the naïve diplomats of Christianized nations.  It is imperative that
diplomatic envoys learn that when dealing with Muslims, what Muslim
statesmen say is not the issue.  The real issue is, what do they mean and
actually intend to do in their hearts.

6.  About the depth of hatred for the West – The pro-Islam experts endlessly
reiterate that only a small number of Muslims would qualify as
West-hating-radicals.  The claim is that the majority are peace-loving
moderates.  This may be true of the majority of Muslims that have immigrated
to America in pursuit of economic opportunity.  For most of these, strict
compliance with the dictates of clerics in relation to the teachings of
Islam is secondary to their thirst for prosperity and political freedom.
However, their sentiments are not indicative of the majority of the world’s
1.2 billion Muslims.  The facts are as follows:

a.  Polls indicate that high percentages of our supposed allies in Pakistan
and Saudi Arabia support Osama Bin Laden.

b.  Post 9/11, his first name, Osama, has attained a favored name status for
newborn male children in a dozen or more Muslim nations.  (In some nations 7
out of 10 baby boys are the namesakes of the terrorist).

c.  Numerous Mosques in Islamic states exhibit the photo of Bin Laden as a
hero of the faith.

d.  The abbreviated list of nations wherein Muslims mob the streets
gleefully chanting “Allah Akbar” (Allah is greater) every time America or
Israel suffers from Islamic terrorist activities includes Israel,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Libya, Iran, Iraq,
Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Philippines.  In America, Muslims have been
observed doing the same in many convenience marts and mosques.  (It may be
true that Christianity has a miniscule number of violent radicals; however,
you don’t find pictures of IRA terrorists hanging in the vestibules of
Christian sanctuaries around the globe or hordes of America’s Catholics
streaming to the aid of their oppressed brethren in Northern Ireland.)  The
experts can claim that most of the world’s Muslims are peace-loving
moderates, but the stats reveal that it is the radicals that have the power
to influence the hearts and minds of the Muslim masses.

7.  About envy of the West – There are two interrelated spiritual factors
for the radical Muslim’s hatred for our way of life.

a. Islamic clerics and political leaders espouse inflammatory anti-Semitic
and anti-Christian rhetoric based on the writings and sayings of Mohammed.

b. The prosperity and technology of nations that are based on
Judeo-Christian values embarrasses the Islamic claim of spiritual/cultural
superiority and provokes them to virulent jealousy.  The premise for Islam’s
exaggerated sense of spiritual/cultural superiority is built on the widely
held Muslim view that they led the world in advances in math, literature and
the sciences from 700AD until 1200AD.  Many scholars contend that the
advances were actually a continuum of the momentum that had been attained,
prior to the arrival of the Muslims, by the Persians, Jews, and Christians.
A comparison of Islamic nations and other nations gives ample evidence that
Islam stifles rather than inspires innovations.  No other nations, other
than under Muslim rule, that have claimed a history of being fountainheads
of cultural advances have ceased to continue as such.  Two atomic bombs have
not stopped the Japanese.  Politically torn South Korea, without oil, has a
gross national product of $600 billion.  Oil rich Saudi Arabia’s GNP is a
mere $186 billion.  Each year since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded
to people that have been distinguished for notable endeavors for world peace
and in literature, and for outstanding accomplishments in the sciences.
During the history of the Nobel there have been 139 Jewish recipients and
well over 200 Christians, but only 6 recipients from Islamic nations.  There
is nothing lacking in the mental capacities of Muslim people, because they
flourish in technology and the sciences when living in Westernized
democracies.  The objective evidence is that it is the rule of Islam that is
the culprit that smothers creativity.

5 Things that you can do to protect your family and community!

1.  Educate your kids – It is unbecoming for Christians to relate to anyone,
including Muslims, with uncharitable haughtiness.  Nonetheless, it is
essential that parents educate their children about the dangers of embracing
Islam as the path of expression for their personal faith.  The points that
have been made in this report can be modified and gently shared with your
youngsters.  In reality, becoming a Muslim holds sure perils that eclipse
the remote potential of being harmed by Islamic terrorists.  This is
particularly true of your daughters.  Islamic law puts women in a position
that excludes them from many of the liberties that Western parents expect
their children to enjoy as adults.  My book, The Muslim Masquerade, and
Abdullah Al-Araby’s, Islam Unveiled, disclose many of the human rights
violations that Islam routinely permits Muslim men to perpetrate against
women.  Many young women from Christian backgrounds have fallen prey to the
intriguing appeal of Islamic men.  Countless numbers of these hapless women
have reaped tragic lives of heartache.  Don’t let it happen to your child.
God honors the prayers of parents that begin to regularly pray for the
future spouses of their children while they are still in diapers.

2.  Pray that our national, state, and local police investigative agencies
will uncover the plots of the multitudes of terror cell members and their
supporters that are living amongst us.  In faith, rather than fear,
intermittently ask the Lord to protect your children, family, and friends
from potential harm by homicide bombers.

3.  Pray that our nation’s Immigration and Naturalization Service will have
the wisdom to limit the number of visas granted to persons under the age of
50 from Islamic backgrounds.  Ask the Lord to help the authorities locate
those that have false documents and expired visas.

4.  Become a profiler – The liberal establishment insists that our nation’s
constitutional amendments limit the extent to which ethnic and religious
profiling can be utilized.  Regardless of the politically correct
limitations, as an American citizen, you are free to choose not to be
politically correct.  You can assist in the needed profiling.  When
profiling do not hone in on people simply because they have Middle Eastern
physical features.  Potential Islamic terrorists cover the entire spectrum
of the nationalities of those that adhere to Christianity.  It is erroneous
to suspect that everyone with Arab physical features is a potential
terrorist.  Not all Arabs are Muslims and not all Muslims are Arabs.  Less
than 25% of the followers of Islam are of Arabic heritage.  In America, 80%
of the resident Arabs are actually Christian in their religious affiliation.
The identification of potential terrorists should never be based solely on
racial features.  When it is, a Thai Buddhist can easily be mistaken for an
Islamic Indonesian.  A group of Nigerian Muslims could easily pass as
African Baptists.  Armenian Christians may look very similar to Afghani
Muslims.  The key is to be observant of everyone’s demeanor.  Keep a
watchful eye on fellow travelers when using public transportation.
Nervousness, exaggerated clock-watching, over concern with carry-on luggage,
and rude avoidance of customary cordialness can all be indicators.  If
anyone or anything looks suspicious, regardless of the nationality of those
involved, report it to the authorities.  Subsequent to terrorist attacks
monitor the responses of people in venues where terrorism supporters might
be expected to congregate: mosques, convenience marts, university campuses,
etc.; if anyone acts hostile or overly jubilant, report it to the FBI.

5.  Educate others – Put legs on your prayers by sending this report to your
friends, clergymen, and any civic representatives that are responsible for
the safety of the nation and our communities.

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Jim Croft’s book, The Muslim Masquerade, and his teaching newsletter, In
Search of Truth, may be obtained by contacting him via e-mail:

jcroft8942@adelphia.net
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