Islam's Doom

The remains of a Russian Airbus A321

Though the official cause has yet to be determined concerning the fate of a Kogalymavia-operated Airbus A321 that crashed in Egypt yesterday, all signs point to terrorism.

And why not? The Russian commercial airliner was judged to be in excellent mechanical condition when it left Sharm el Sheikh for St Petersburg. Immediately after news broke of the tragedy that resulted in the deaths of 224 people (207 adults and 17 children), the terror group ISIS claimed responsibility. 

The plane's pilots mentioned no mechanical problems while it cruised at 31,000 feet before it vanished from the radar screens of air traffic controllers. Though there were rumors that the pilots reported technical problems with the plane before it disappeared, those rumors haven't been confirmed. 

Ask anyone who's familiar with commercial jets and they'll tell you that even in the event of a mechanical emergency, the planes don't just simply fall out of the sky. They're designed to glide for several miles until the pilots can hopefully find a safe area to land them. 

The fact that the Airbus A321 abruptly vanished from the radar screens strongly points to terrorism. Though some terror experts are suggesting that a shoulder-fired missile may have struck the plane, it's more likely that a bomb inside the aircraft brought the plane down. And besides, 31,000 feet is well beyond the range of shoulder-fired missiles. 

Whether mechanical problems or ISIS, al Qaeda or any of the other Islamic terror groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah or Boko Haram were responsible for the tragedy remains to be seen. Time will hopefully tell us. But the tragedy seems very suspicious.

Air plane bombings are nothing new for Islamists. In 2006, Islamists plotted to blow up seven airliners headed from the United Kingdom to the U.S. and Canada before the plot was foiled. On December 22, 2001, a British Muslim named Richard Reid attempted to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami when explosives he had planted in his shoes failed to detonate. And on Christmas Day in 2009, a Nigerian Muslim named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up a Northwest Airlines jetliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit when explosives planted in his underwear failed to detonate.

And of course, in 1988, Libyan Islamists successfully blew up a Pan Am airliner with a suitcase bomb while the plane sat on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland waiting to take off for New York. That bombing killed 270 people including 259 passengers and 11 crew members. And so, it's a good possibility that the Russian airliner was blown out of the sky by a bomb. 

While Islamists commit terrorism to coerce people into Islam, all these acts do is convince political leaders in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia that either Islam goes or their cultures and civilizations will go--for good. Unlike the pansified west where weak political leaders such as Angela Merkel, David Cameron and Barack Obama believe that Islamists can be appeased, the leaders in the east such as Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping realize that the world will never realize peace until Islam is gone.

And that means gone completely from the world, not just gone from Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. How's that going to happen? Consider that both China and Russia are expanding their militaries and nuclear arsenals. While some experts believe the expansion is related to America's hegemony, the expansion is also related to the growing threat of Islamism in those regions and across the world. 

Putin has made no secret of his desire to drive Islam out of Russia and Eastern Europe. That's one of the reasons why he wants to expand Russia's influence in the eastern world into the Middle East and beyond. And one of the reasons why his forces are fighting in Syria is to keep ISIS from taking over that nation and moving toward Russia. 

Prophecy tells us that Russia is indeed going to build a massive military alliance that will dominate the eastern world and beyond. (Ezekiel 38-39) That means Islam is going to be driven out of the eastern world and Northern Africa. And China's going to continue building up its military until it drives Islam out of Asia.

Where will Islam retreat to? Western Europe and North America until Russia's long arm reaches across the Atlantic and drives that religion from those areas. While that could take several years, it's going to happen. Islam has no future in the end time world. It's going away. 

Unfortunately, it will be replaced by something far worse. That will be a counterfeit Christianity that will be combined with a world government. (Revelation 17) But until that happens, Islam will continue to plague the world until it vanishes.