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Though I've stated this frequently in the past, I think that it needs to be stated yet again: Islam isn't--nor has it ever been--a peaceful religion.
Islam is a religion that has historically used mayhem and violence to maintain and propagate itself. Its holy book the Qu'ran contains over 100 war verses that encourage its adherents to go out and wage jihad against all unbelievers in the name of Allah.
Here's an example: Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them."
And here's another example: Quran (9:73) - "O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination."
And here's yet one more: Quran (17:16) - "And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction."
That last Koranic verse motivated Al Qaeda to launch a brutal attack against the United States on September 11, 2001. That attack resulted in the deaths of over 3,000 Americans. And that verse has motivated jihadists throughout the centuries to commit murder and mayhem in the name of Allah.
We are repeatedly told by those who seek to find a moral equivalent between Islam and Christianity that professing Christians have also committed murder and mayhem throughout history in the name of Jesus Christ. And that's true. Two of the darkest periods in the Church's history were the Crusades and the Inquisitions.
But those atrocities were committed by false Christians who defied the teachings of Christ. Unlike Islam's prophet Muhammad, Christ never commanded his followers to spread Christianity by the sword and murder those who refused to convert.
I challenge anyone to find even a single scripture quote by Christ that commands His followers to use violence to proselytize the world. You won't find it in the Bible because it doesn't exist.
Therefore, Muslims who commit murder and violence do so in obedience to the teachings of their religion. That's not radical Islam--that's fundamental Islam.
And fundamentalism is what motivates the Islamic world to seek Israel's destruction. Here's what the Sunna (Teachings of Muhammad) says regarding the Jews: "The last hour will not come until the Muslims fight against the Jews and the Muslims will kill them until the Jews hide themselves behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say; Muslim, the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him. (Sahih Muslim, 5203)
The Islamic world believes that the Imam Mahdi (Islamic Messiah) cannot appear on earth until all the Jews have been eradicated. Therefore, Muslims believe that there will never be peace on earth until the Jews are gone and everyone else has either been forcibly converted to Islam or has been murdered for rejecting Islam.
And so, the current battle going on in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has nothing to do with "occupied territories" or Israel's so-called treatment of the Palestinians. Rather, it's all about the Islamic world's passionate desire to annihilate the Jewish state and drive the Jews out of the Middle East.
The Palestinians themselves are a synthetic people that are being used by the Islamic world to destroy Israel. They consist of several different tribes that include Persians, Assyrians, Turks, Egyptians, Arabs, Hashemites and Bedouins. But no such Palestinian nation, tribe, creed or people has ever existed throughout the history of human civilization.
"Palestine" was created in 130 A.D. by Roman Emperor Hadrian after he crushed the Bar Kochba rebellion. Hadrian then changed Israel's name to Syria Palaestina or Palestine. That name was borrowed from ancient Philistine, a nation that once existed near Israel along the southwest coast of the Great Sea.
Though the Philistines were an ancient enemy of Israel, they weren't the ancestors of those who call themselves Palestinians. The Philistines were a non-Semitic nation of light-skinned people. So the Palestinians have no right to call themselves their modern descendants.
In the next installment, Israel's prophetic troubles in the last days.
That last Koranic verse motivated Al Qaeda to launch a brutal attack against the United States on September 11, 2001. That attack resulted in the deaths of over 3,000 Americans. And that verse has motivated jihadists throughout the centuries to commit murder and mayhem in the name of Allah.
We are repeatedly told by those who seek to find a moral equivalent between Islam and Christianity that professing Christians have also committed murder and mayhem throughout history in the name of Jesus Christ. And that's true. Two of the darkest periods in the Church's history were the Crusades and the Inquisitions.
But those atrocities were committed by false Christians who defied the teachings of Christ. Unlike Islam's prophet Muhammad, Christ never commanded his followers to spread Christianity by the sword and murder those who refused to convert.
I challenge anyone to find even a single scripture quote by Christ that commands His followers to use violence to proselytize the world. You won't find it in the Bible because it doesn't exist.
Therefore, Muslims who commit murder and violence do so in obedience to the teachings of their religion. That's not radical Islam--that's fundamental Islam.
And fundamentalism is what motivates the Islamic world to seek Israel's destruction. Here's what the Sunna (Teachings of Muhammad) says regarding the Jews: "The last hour will not come until the Muslims fight against the Jews and the Muslims will kill them until the Jews hide themselves behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say; Muslim, the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him. (Sahih Muslim, 5203)
The Islamic world believes that the Imam Mahdi (Islamic Messiah) cannot appear on earth until all the Jews have been eradicated. Therefore, Muslims believe that there will never be peace on earth until the Jews are gone and everyone else has either been forcibly converted to Islam or has been murdered for rejecting Islam.
And so, the current battle going on in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has nothing to do with "occupied territories" or Israel's so-called treatment of the Palestinians. Rather, it's all about the Islamic world's passionate desire to annihilate the Jewish state and drive the Jews out of the Middle East.
The Palestinians themselves are a synthetic people that are being used by the Islamic world to destroy Israel. They consist of several different tribes that include Persians, Assyrians, Turks, Egyptians, Arabs, Hashemites and Bedouins. But no such Palestinian nation, tribe, creed or people has ever existed throughout the history of human civilization.
"Palestine" was created in 130 A.D. by Roman Emperor Hadrian after he crushed the Bar Kochba rebellion. Hadrian then changed Israel's name to Syria Palaestina or Palestine. That name was borrowed from ancient Philistine, a nation that once existed near Israel along the southwest coast of the Great Sea.
Though the Philistines were an ancient enemy of Israel, they weren't the ancestors of those who call themselves Palestinians. The Philistines were a non-Semitic nation of light-skinned people. So the Palestinians have no right to call themselves their modern descendants.
In the next installment, Israel's prophetic troubles in the last days.
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