I have spent over four years studying Islam. I attempted to not be "politically correct" and have perceived ideas, but always be non-biased and open to new ideas – to let God’s Holy Spirit be my guide. I picked what I considered the best written, reviewed, and researched books available on different topics about Islam.    What I learned is very disturbing!   I will try to summarize some important issues I learned. Originally my reason in writing was just to identify the “actual truth” about Islam. Is there a connection between the Biblical End Times and Islam? Thus, overtime my reason has developed into a connection between Satan, Islam, Christianity, Terrorism, and End-Time Tribulation. "Islam is not" one of the Worlds' Great Religions! 

 

Truth can be a relative issue depending upon whom it will benefit. Ultimately, we all create our own set of truths.

There is some truth in most everything, but not everything is true. However, truth has other synonyms, such as accuracy, actuality, and authenticity. These highlight discernment which claims of truth correspond to the real facts of our existence. Truth stands out clearly against error! God has given us the ability to seek out truth using only our respect for God and His promises as a basis for belief but also logic and reasoning. Humans are unique from all other creation in the way we gather information, process it, make conclusions about it, and finally transmit it to others. Our reasoning abilities are not threats to the truth; instead, it confirms it. If God created within man a mind that could reason, God would use logic to support His own word and claims.

 

Truth is a threat to those who attempt to hide behind lies - thus, truth is a threat to Islam.  Western political and religious leaders assist Muslims in their deceit and cover-up. Satan is an enemy of truth as well as unity. In the Bible, John 8:32 states “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Thus, the purpose of this paper is an attempt to summarize (after filtering by the Bible) the thirty-one books on Islam I have researched in order to reach conclusions of truth about Islam. Both Western Christians and church leaders don’t seem to realize and understand the gravity of the situation of approaching Islamic control of civilization!

 

Today, there are more than 13,000 mosques in North America! Does your church have either a Muslim mosque, academy, etc. within a 5 mile radius? If it does you are already probably affected by Islam’s influence even if you don’t realize it! Thus, your church needs to organize a "Muslim Witness Training" program in order to be successful in carrying out Christ's Great Commission to the more than 9,000,000 Muslims in North America!    One of the most important revelations about Islam is the myth of moderate, peaceful Muslims. Those moderate Muslims just represent the early stages of Islamifization. I don’t think that you can just skim read the following information and understand the gravity of the situation – I feel that you have to read and study it in detail. In trying to understand Islam, you must suspend all rationally and reason. There is no radical Islam. There is no moderate Islam. Islam is Islam! I pray that your eyes will be opened and you will understand the eminent danger of radical Islam.

 

Instead of being politically correct, choose to be truthful – conclude radical (fundamental) Islam is “VERY EVIL.” For example, by the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is estimated Islam's Muslims had already killed 270 million people across the globe (many millions where other Muslims). By evil, I mean a force which stands in opposition to God and righteousness – this evil force originates with Satan. Satan cannot do evil except through a human body. In fact, the only power that Satan has is through human belief in lies. I know no more accurate epithet for Satan than the “Father of Lies.” Satan can use any human sin or weakness - for example, greed and pride - but his principal weapon is fear. I found that the Qur’an is probably the most evil book ever written by man! Because of the disturbing evil information about Islam, I encourage you to spend time in prayer. Ask God to protect you from negative feelings, fears, or prejudices that the human heart is prone to, and instead, to touch your heart with His heart’s love for Muslims ("Jesus' "Love Principle Parable" of the Good Samaritan, Luke 10:30-36). Muslims are not the enemy – Satan and Islam is! Remember, the vast majority of Muslims are not bad people.

 

This paper probably contains the most compact and concentrated information and resource material about Islamic Truth of any paper or book written so far. In order to get a quick understanding of this paper, I suggest that you now watch at least some of the selected "*" videos in "Additional Islamic Truth Videos Links" of the paper, then read Appendix I: Summary of Islamic Truth before reading the rest of the paper. I am underlining sentences in the paper used in Appendix I. You will be able to read through the underlined sentences for a good summary of the paper. Most sentences in this paper are written almost entirely from information in the thirty-one reference books (the Qur'an and the Bible) included at the end of the paper. I changed one or more words in the sentences. Thus, I did not use the normal footnotes and Bibliography.

 

I have written a companion paper titled "Muslim Witness Training (Telling Muslims About Jesus)." The church (assembly of Christian believers) must wake up to its privilege and responsibility as bearer of Christ's good news especially to Muslims in Western nations. Muslims are probably the hardest people group in the world to witness to. Western Christians probably will not be successful to any degree in witnessing to Muslims unless through an organized church "Muslim Witness Training" program. You can request a free copy of the paper by clicking oren.boyd@yahoo.com. You can also take the next step in establishing a "Muslim Witness Training" program in your church by clicking www.crescentproject.org/index.cfm/pageID/1616/index.html. There you can obtain their Bridges Leader and Small Group Kits - these are professional training materials that cover how Christians should connect with Muslims!

 

 

A Christian can reasonably assume (by connecting the dots) that Muhammad’s angel that revealed Islam’s Qur’an (Holy Book) was actually “Satan (or one of his demons), the angel of light” on earth (2 Cor. 11:14). Muhammad was probably dominated and controlled by Satan, especially beginning in 622 A.D. when he moved to Medina! God never used an angel to reveal even one of the 66 Biblical books – He used the Holy Spirit to inspire around 40 writers over a period of about 1,500 years! Christians understand that even though God inspired the authors of Scripture to convey His thoughts and words, each individual author brought to the Scriptures his own individual human style and personality.

 

Muslim tradition records that an angel named “Seraphel” originally visited Muhammad, and was replaced by “Gabriel” after three years. This angel was given the title of deity 'the Holy Spirit' and commissioned to dispatch a host of angels down to earth commencing the advent of Islam and the new revelations of the Qur'an (Qur'an 16:102). During the angel’s first visit, it strangled Muhammad three times and demanded that he recite instead of being the usual Biblical angelic encounter saying the comforting phrase “Do not be afraid” (Gen. 15:1, 26:24, 46:3; Dan. 8:15-19, 10:12, 19, etc.). History is clear that Muhammad was not sure whether he had gone insane, been possessed by a demon or actually had received divine revelation. Muhammad wondered if he had been demonically possessed and even contemplated suicide.

 

Evidently the charge that Muhammad was mad was made repeatedly, because the Qur'an answers it numerous times (21:5, 23:70, 37:36). The Qur'an assures that he is no soothsayer and is not possessed (52:29; 68:2). Many of Muhammad's contemporaries also believed that his revelatory experiences were demonically inspired. He began receiving revelations under circumstances so strange and terrifying that he feared he was being deceived by Satan. Only once in the Qur’an is Gabriel named as the medium of revelations. Other references are general: the “faithful spirit,” “one terrible in power,” andmost often just as an “angel.” Biblical prophets never questioned the source of their revelations. After comments made regarding Muhammad by his contemporaries, many scholars are convinced that Muhammad was either epileptic or demon possessed or both. The experience of Muhammad was direct, a state of being in a trance, and dark – it was far more similar to a spiritist or someone who channels spirits rather than a Biblical prophet. How can you trust Muhammad’s revelations and visions when he expressed doubt that they were revelations and sometimes thought himself to be demon-possessed?

Muhammad oscillated between revelations from Satan and Allah. The most famous of these visions resulted in the so-called “Satanic Verses.” The question remains: If Muhammad confidently reported as revelation from Allah (=Satan) something that turned out to be a perversion from Satan, how can you be certain that there are not other perversions that were not caught or corrected? Throughout the Bible Satan tempted man by changing the context and/or meaning of God’s Word (Scripture). Muhammad claims the Old and New Testaments were from God; however, you find that 1,400 years ago the Islamic prophet drastically redefined fundamental tenets, including the very concept of God.

 

The Qur’an was revealed entirely by this angel (=Satan) - is full of stories from the Bible and Biblical prophets, though it alters many Biblical facts and timelines. For example, not even once in 27 telling of the Exodus story did Muhammad include the most important component: the Passover! The focus of the Qur'an's suras often moves from subject to subject, with various historical incidents recounted only in fragments. In the longer suras, stories are told, laws are given, and warnings to unbelievers are issued with no evident regard for logical sequence. The text moves from topic to topic with scant regard for any conventional notion of continuity. Thus, Islam made the Qur'an the final book from Allah by synthesizing it from the various existing holy books and by incorporating all those folklores, stories, and Arabian myths. Because the Qur'an is without doubt, and because it is entirely Allah's word, without any human element whatsoever, and because he guarantees its preservation, it cannot be questioned.

 

The Allah of the Qur’an claimed to be the same God worshipped by Jews and Christians. However, Muhammad claimed that they had distorted Allah’s message and falsified their scriptures – over time Jews and Christians had preferred to follow the whisperings of the devil and polluted the truth with errors. This doctrine did not appear until years after Muhammad’s death. This raises a question: If Allah was so careful to protect the transmission of his truth through Muhammad into final form in the Qur’an, why would he not have been equally careful to protect the truth through previous prophets?

 

The Qur'an is probably the most evil book ever written in human history! The Qur'an is not a holy book but a book of war. A book of genocide. Allah is a god of war. The Qur'an is a declaration of war against the kafirs. This war is permanent until all kafirs have converted to Islam, or are in dhimmitude (institutionalized discrimination akin to second class slavery status) or have been murdered or enslaved. It is the prime directive of Islam to conquer the nations of the world for Allah by whatever means necessary. Again, the Qur'an is a declaration of open-ended war against the kafirs. Islam  teaches that the Qur’an is the final words of Allah (God=actually Satan) to man. It was reputed to be revealed to His final prophet Muhammad by His Archangel Gabriel. The term “Allah” was used in pre-Islamic Arabia to designate the “Creator and supreme Provider” among the many gods and goddesses (Allah was recognized as the chief of the "Kaaba idols." He was the official god of Muhammad's tribe for centuries before he was born) . The Qur'an  tells us that disputing Muhammad/Allah are more criminal than the deed of murder. Killing a critic of Islam is a good deed, since it restores the honor of Allah/Muhammad and removes the threat of fitna from the community. In relation to the evil infidels, fitna means tempting, enticing or luring another to disagree with Muhammad. Fitna paints Islamic countries into a philosophical comer where dictatorship is the only government system possible.

 

Islamic orthodoxy teaches that the Qur’an has resided in Heaven with Allah since before the creation of the universe, and that it is perfect, unchanging, and incorruptible for all time. According to Islamic teaching, the Qur’an came down from Heaven as a series of revelations from Allah through the angel Gabriel to Muhammad (who could not read or write), who then dictated it to his followers. Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. Muhammad received timely revelations from Allah whenever he needed them, often for his own personal benefit. Muhammad at times corrected some of his earlier revelations after discovering that he had somehow “gotten it wrong.” This occurred in two ways: He revealed material at times that contradicted earlier revelations. The second and more troubling correction: Muhammad at times unwillingly mixed truth and falsehood together as Allah’s revelations. He defended these missteps and admitted that even though he unintentionally fell into error, Allah would not allow him to remain in error but would always send another revelation to correct faulty understanding. Thus, Muslim doctrine allows Allah (actually Satan through Muhammad) to affirm something positive and then abrogate it with something negative. This is what makes it impossible for us to trust any good verse; any apologists ever quoted from the Qur’an.

 

Concerning Allah and Muhammad, one wonders which was the servant and which was the master? Suras 33 of the Qur’an has seven warnings against insolence, blame, speaking ill, and scandal-mongering being levied against Muhammad. Also, a number of statements and facts in the Qur’an simply do not match well with other statements. His companions memorized fragments of the Qur’an and wrote them down on whatever was at hand. Some of the Qur'an had been written down; other portions were preserved only in the memories of various Muslims. Accordingly, some revelations were forgotten, as the Qur'an itself acknowledges (2:106). Other sections of the Qur'an, some mandating stringent punishments for unbelievers and other violators of Islamic law, failed to make it into the final canon. Some passages did not survive because they were deliberately replaced (16:101). Other Qur'anic verses disappeared with replacement (sura 98). Some years after Muhammad’s death, these fragments were compiled into book form. Islamic scholars had to determine which verses to follow in case of contradiction. The principle of abrogation directs that verses revealed later in Muhammad’s career cancel or replace earlier ones whose instructions they contradict. For example, some Islamic theologians have asserted that the "Verse of the Sword" (9.5) abrogates no fewer than 124 more peaceful and tolerant verses of the Qur'an. 

 

To confuse matters further, although the Qur’an was revealed to Muhammad over some twenty-three years - it was not compiled in chronological order. The suras (chapters) of the Qur'an are not arranged chronologically, but according to length. Islamic theology divides the Qur'an into "Meccan" and "Medinian" suras. The Meccan ones come from the first segment of Muhammad's career as a prophet, when he simply called Meccans to Islam. The Medinian suras are less poetic and generally much longer than those from Mecca; they're also filled with matters of law and ritual - and exhortations to jihad warfare against unbelievers. Because of the Islamic doctrine of abrogation, Allah can change or cancel what he tells Muslims. When the Qur’an was finally collated into book form, the suras were ordered from longest to shortest with no connection to the order in which they were revealed or to their content. The oral traditions of 7th Century Arabia allowed for the tinkering of the final written message of the Qur'an after Muhammad's death. How can you believe revelations from Allah when Muhammad himself either changed or modified them? 

 

There ended up being twenty four variants of the Qur’an. Allan, the Third Caliph, standardized the Qur'an by burning all rival copies over protests of those still alive who remembered different verses that were missing (they were all destroyed – except one). The final choice of a “cannon” seemed to have little to do with its authenticity! However, the Qur’an’s language has become the mark of elegant Arabic and is widely believed to be unmatchable by any human author (Satan is able to spin a false web of beauty to entrap the unsuspecting)! There are no examples of the Qur’an with full influence becoming the standardized text of Islam until more than two hundred years after the death of Muhammad. This admission deals a death blow to the popular Muslim claim that the Qur’an came straight from the mouth of Allah to Muhammad and was recorded perfectly and transmitted to the world without error. The reason why the oldest Qur'anic manuscripts cannot face the same kind of critical examination that the most ancient Biblical manuscripts have endured for centuries is because numerous aberrations from the standard Qur'anic text are found in all of the older manuscripts. This causes a person to question the foundation of Islam. The unreliability of the text, from the struggle over standardization of core material in the earliest days after Muhammad’s death, deals a mortal blow to Islam’s faith claims. The fact is a fifth of the Qur’an is incomprehensible. If the Qur’an cannot even be understood in Arabic, then it’s not translatable. However, Muslims do not consider any translation of the Qur'an to be the Qur'an at all; it is only Allah's word when it is transmitted in Arabic.

 

Although the Ten Commandments do not appear in the Qur'an, its seventeenth chapter has a moral code (17:22-39) including: 1 - Worship Allah alone; 2 - Be kind to your parents; 3 - Provide for your relatives, the needy, and travelers, and not be wasteful; 4 - Not kill your children for fear of poverty; 5 - Not commit adultery; 6 - Not take life - which Allah has made sacred - except for just cause; 7 - Not seize the wealth of orphans; 8 - Give full measure when ye measure, and weigh with a balance that is straight; 9 - Pursue not that of which thou hast no knowledge; and 10 - Not walk on the earth with insolence. Islam simply does not uphold the Law of General Beneficence: One is not to be charitable except to fellow believers. The unpleasant fact is that Islam simply does not teach the Golden Rule.

 

Far from mandating equality, the Qur'an portrays women as essentially possessions of men (verse 2:223). The Qur'an decrees women's subordination to men in numerous verses: 1 - It declares that a women's legal testimony is worth half that of a man (verse 2:282); 2 - It allows men to marry up to four wives, and also to have sex with slave girls (verse 4:3); 3 - It rules that a son's inheritance should be twice the size of that of a daughter (verse 4:11); 4 - It allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated (verse 65:4); 5 - It allowed Muhammad to use verse 2:282 to argue that women were deficient in intelligence as well as in religious faith; 6 - A Muslim man may divorce his wife simply by saying "I divorce you" (verse ???), but unsurprising, women may not divorce their husbands in this way; and 7 - It tells men to beat their disobedient wives after first warning them and then sending them to sleep in separate beds (verse 4:34); Four reasons that a man may beat his wife include: if she refuses to beautify herself for him; if she refuses sex when he asks for it; if she refuses to pray or perform ritual ablutions; and if she goes out of the house without a valid excuse; and 8 - Men can commit rape with impunity: As long as they deny the charge and there are no witnesses, they will get off scot free, because the victim's testimony is inadmissible. Even worse, if a woman accuses a man of rape, she may end up incriminating herself. In cases of sexual misbehavior, four male witnesses are required. Islam places the burden of avoiding sexual encounters of any sort on the women.

 

As long as Muslim men read and believe the Qur'an, women will be despised, second-class citizens, subject to the heartbreak and dehumanization of polygamy, the threat of an easy and capricious divorce, and beatings, false accusations, and the loss of virtually all of the most basic human freedoms. The concept of wife abuse does not exist in Islam. Because these Qur'anic teachings are eternal, this repression and degradation of both Muslim and kafir women will continue forever. Therefore, a Muslim man may do to his woman whatever he wishes, including ending her life.

 

The Qur'an denies the very heart of Christianity, including the deity of Christ, His death on the Cross for our sins, His resurrection, His indwelling life in the believer, His coming again in power and glory to reign over the world from David's Jewish throne, and more. The three doctrines that are most severely and most often attacked and mocked by Muslims are the doctrines of the trinity, the divine incarnation, and the atoning sacrifice/crucifixion of Jesus. The Qur’an does not just deny these doctrines, but actually expresses utter disdain for them. It also curses people who believe these things, accusing them of gross blasphemy. Allah (=Satan) is the god revealed in the Qur’an and is not a loving father. Satan says he will spend his time tempting the Muslims away from the straight path of Islam (7:16-17; 15:39). He vows to lead astray all of mankind except Allah's single-minded slaves (38:83; 15:40). The Qur’an says that he desires to lead people astray (Sura 6:39, 126). It also says he does not help those who are lead astray by him (Sura 30:29) and desires to use them to populate hell (Sura 32:13). In the Bible Satan’s ultimate goal was always to get all of God’s creation of angels and man to only worship him. He even attempted to get Jesus Christ to worship him in the desert. The Bible and the Qur’an cannot both be the Word of God, because God does not teach different and contradictory things at different times in history. Either God has revealed Himself fully through Jesus Christ and the Bible or God has revealed Himself fully through the Qur’an.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Allah of hate, terror, fear, and murder is displayed by 61% of the Qur'an talking ill of unbelievers or calls for their violet conquest and subjugation. There are almost 4,000 Qur'anic verses that are filled with hate, murder, and evil - analyzing the Qur'an another way, some 65 % of the Qur'anic verses are teachings of hate, terror, murder, etc. Only two point six percent of it (4,018 words in the verses of some 153,207 words in the Qur'an - this varies upon which translation) talks about the overall good of humanity. Thus, a total of 245 verses in the Qur'an that seems to say something good about humanity as a whole. However, there are only six verses if you go through and count verses that do not have violence later in the chapter. So there are only 101 words that does not condemn kafirs in the same chapter. However, these 101 words written in Mecca are later abrogated or denied in the Medina Qur'an. Suffering and violence are promised to 100 % of those who do not believe Muhammad.

 

 According to the analysis of the Qur'an, the Sira (Muhammad's biography), and the Hadith, only 17 % of the Islamic trilogy deals with the words of Allah - the remaining 83 % refers to the words and deeds of Muhammad! Most of the Qur'an (61 %) is about unbelievers (kafirs), while only 39 % is about Muslims. About 20 % of the Hadith and 98 % of the Sira was about kafirs.   Muhammad seemed fixated on kafirs and annihilated every kafir by violence, exile or conversion.   Muslims know that the Qur'anic argument for violence against the Infidels takes up 2/3 of the Qur'an and they further know that the Qur'anic argument cannot be wrong, for it comes directly from Allah and Allah is not a liar. There are over 320,000 commandments and derogatory statements in Islamic scriptures to humiliate, terrorize, torture, kill, and subjugate non-Muslims.

 

The generally accepted interpretations and ordinary applications of the Qur'an are collected in a body of writings called the Hadith. The Sunna reflects directly on the actions of Muhammad during his life. If the "Golden Rule" was applied to Islam removing hate and violent teachings directed against the kafir - and the hate directed against Muslim women, about 61 % of the Qur'an would vanish, 75 % of the Sira and 20 % of the Hadith would also go away. You can assert that Islam's (doctrinal) outlook toward unbelievers is definitely not one of peace. The majority of the doctrine is political, and it is all violent. Only 10 % of Islam has anything to do with religion - the other 90 % is political/military!

 

There are over 300 references in the Qur'an to Allah and fear, but there are only 49 references to love. Of the love references, 39 are negative such as the 14 negative references to love of money, status, power and other gods. Three verses command humanity to love Allah, and two verses are about how Allah loves a believer. However, there are 25 verses about how Allah does not love unbelievers (kafirs). This leaves five verses about love. Of these, three are about loving kin or a Muslim brother, and one verse commands a Muslim to give for the love of Allah. This leaves only one quasi-universal verse about love: give what you love to charity and even this is contaminated since Muslim charity only goes to other Muslims. There are over 400 teachings of hate of all unbelievers: Christians, Jews, Idolaters, and other Kafirs! There are more than 600 references to punishment, torment, torture, cure, retribution, scourge, terror, fight, attack, ambush and war in the Qur'an. There are 14 verses in the Qur'an that teach that a Muslim is not the friend of a kafir.

 

Hell is mentioned 146 times in the Qur'an. Only nine references are for moral failings - lack of charity, greed, love of worldly success, and murder. The other 137 references to Hell involve eternal torture for not agreeing that Muhammad is right - thus, 94 % of the references to Hell are as a political prison for dissenters of Muhammad! About 67 % of the Mecca Qur'an deals with punishing unbelievers for merely disagreeing with Muhammad. On the other hand, the Qur'an warns that we as infidels and even many Muslims are going to hell in 783 verses! Of all the references to "hell" in the Islamic trilogy, six percent are for moral failings, while 94 % are for the transgressions of disagreeing with Muhammad.

 

Statistical analysis of the trilogy revealed that 97 % of references to "jihad" relate to war and only three percent to the concept of "inner struggle." Some 60 % of the Qur'anic verses talk about jihad. There are 164 unholy war jihad verses that are the most important collection of Qur'anicverses in Islam. Actually, the Qur'an contains over 100 violent jihad passages along with 109 passages urging war in the name of Islam.   Some claim that Allah on 480 occasions in the Qur'an extols Muslims to wage jihad. Over 50 % of the Medina Qur'an deals with hypocrites and jihad against unbelievers. Nearly 75 % of the Sira deals with jihad, while about 20 % of the Bukhari Hadith is about jihad and external politics. The Qur'an  is nearly 30 % dedicated to the criticism of other religions and to the subsequent horrors that are reserved for those who do not convert to Islam.

 

In the teachings of the Qur'an regarding Muslim women, 91 % of the cases says they were inferior, five percent equal, and only four percent superior. However, there is a catch - the only way that Muslim women are equal is after death on judgment day, when women and men will be judged on how well they followed the Qur'an and the Sunna. And guess what? - the only way to follow the Qur'an and Sunna is to obey men. Equality means obeying men. So in reality the Muslim women are subordinate to men in 100 % of the Qur'an, Sira, and the Hadith.

 

The Medina Qur'an is 10.6 % about Jew hatred. It should be noted as a reference that six point eight percent of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is about Jewish hatred. In the Sira, five point three percent of the Medina text relates to the destruction of the Jews - executions, assassinations, rapes, torture, and exile. There are also many other pages that are verbal violence against the Jews. If you add the verbal violence to the physical violence, the Medina Sira is eight point six percent Jew hatred. Conclusion: Muhammad's biography contains a greater percentage of Jew hatred than Hitler's Mein Kampf.

 

Since the Qur'an and the New Testament are about the same size in the number of words, a comparative word analysis is also informative. First, there is a emphasis on what Muslims are not to be like - writings that are specific to someone else's faith. The Qur'an is 30 % dedicated to criticism of other religions and to the horrors that are that are reserved for those who do not convert to Islam. The word love appears 675 % more in the N.T. than in the Qur'an ( about 270 compared to 40 references, respectively). The words for those who don't believe in the Qur'an's message (unbelievers, wrongdoers, evildoers, transgressors, idolaters and infidels) appear 1,500 % more times than for the same individuals in the N.T. - 700 compared to 44 references, respectively. There is a lot of discussion in the Qur'an as to inevitable and terrible fates for those who are wrong. Words such as punish(ment), torment, torture, retribution, scourge, wrath, wrath of God, fear, fear of God, hell, and losers appear in the Qur'an about 640 % more times than in the N.T. (1,000+ compared to 157 references, respectively. The Qur'an provides more of a fear-and-dread based message, while the N.T. provides more of a love-and-salvation based message.

 

Secondly, the Qur'an tends to be more militant than the New Testament. The words terror, war, fight, attack, and ambush appear 600 % more in the Qur'an than in the N.T. (120 in the Qur'an verses only 18 references in the N.T.). In contrast, the words heal, cure, save, joy, and hope appear 500 % more times in the N.T. than in the Qur'an (300 in the N.T. to about 60 references in the Qur'an). Interesting, the words mercy (merciful), forgive, and bless, appear over 200 % more in the Qur'an than in the N.T. (nearly 500 in the Qur'an to about 200 in the N.T.). It appears that the Qur'an favors an earthly militancy against those who are in spiritual error, while the N.T. leans towards a healing or saving of those who are in similar error.     

 

Based upon a detailed analysis, there is no nonviolence toward or good for kafirs in the Qur'an. Finally, if every story or statement that is repeated were given only once, the Qur'an would slim down to about 40 % of its length. Critical analysis and statistics allow a understanding of Islam that does not use apologetics of political correctness and multiculturalism. We must look at the "big picture" and connect the dots. We need a systemic macro-analysis that examines the entire document. All micro-analysis, verses picking, is a form of critical analysis that is in error since it fails to take into account the context of the verses.      

 

Ishmael’s descendents probability resented the fact that Isaac received something he did not have to work for. Another friction point was that Isaac’s descendents became the custodians of the “everlasting covenant” (Gen. 17:19) – this denied Ishmael his culturally recognized birthright. God became known as the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” – but never Ishmael. Self-help was made inferior to grace! This is a bitter pill to swallow for anyone coming from a performance-based religion, such as Judaism or Islam. The core of the Gospel is grace which is a key reason for the negative reaction of many Muslims.

 

Since Islam’s beginning, it has attempted to show the supremacy of Islam over Judaism and Christianity. A repeated theme in Islamic teaching is that the believer is superior – superior in faith, in his understanding and concept of the nature of the world, in his values and standards, in conscience and understanding, and in law and life. Peaceful coexistence as equals in a pluralistic society is not an option for a non-Muslim. In no country anywhere in the Islamic world do non-Muslims enjoy full equality of rights with Muslims. Arab culture in Muhammad’s time was known for being extreme in everything – hate, love, and no tolerance of others who were different from them. Islam embraced many of the core characteristics of this Arabic culture. As a result, Islamic history is full of bloodshed.

 

Raping women, killing warriors, destroying fortresses, burning, and pillaging everything constitute not war-crimes indictments but a list of accomplishments and a source of pride for Islamic jihad. Muhammad taught four stages of jihad: 1 - Peaceful persuasion – Most Muslims regard this as the proper approach for the Muslim community any time it finds itself the minority in an unreceptive host culture; 2 - Warding off aggression – Fighting was permissible only to ward off aggression and reclaim goods and property confiscated by infidels; 3 - From defensive to offensive – Those who sacrificed their lives in battle for the cause of Allah would be guaranteed admission to the highest level heaven. Muhammad decreed that all booty collected in conquest should be distributed among the mujahidin; and 4 - Expansionist jihad – When commanded by a recognized Muslim leader, military attack against non-Muslims was deemed appropriate in any season and on any land not yet surrendered to the armies of Islam. Remember, sexual enticements play an integral element in recruiting Jihadists. 

 

Some sixty percent of the Qur’anic verses talk about jihad. Muhammad taught his followers that there was nothing better or holier than jihad warfare. Muhammad told his men to offer non-Muslims only three choices: conversion, subjugation, or death. These teachings are not marginal doctrines or historical relics - they are still taught in mainstream Islam. The choices for unbelievers are: 1 - Accept Islam; 2 - Pay the jizya, the poll-tax on non-Muslims system of humiliating that institutionalize inferior status for non-Muslims in Islamic law; or 3 - War with Muslims. Therefore, the primary definition of jihad will always have the obligation to offer one’s material resources in the cause of Allah and strive militarily against the unbelieving world until it surrenders willingly to the rule of Allah. This is expressed both religiously and politically in Islamic law. Islam has not reformed or changed its traditional doctrines of jihad warfare. Modern-day jihad groups are working to restore the caliphate as a means to further their war with the West. All Islamic struggles since 1924 are part of one organized effort to bring back the caliphate. A large number of Muslims in the world today see jihad as not only permissible but necessary in order to create a worldwide ummah. The Qur'an describes Paradise in terms that make it clear that it is a place merely to indulge one's physical appetites - Paradise is guaranteed only to those who slay and are slain for Allah. Why did Muhammad create a Paradise of virgins that conveniently excluded Muslim wives? In order to get men to die for you, there must be either riches or sex offered to the stupid male believer. It made fighting in jihads a win-win proposition: If a Muslim warrior was victorious, he enjoyed booty on earth - if he was killed, he enjoyed virtually identical rewards in the afterlife on a much grander scale.

 

There is a whole chapter (Surah) with divine guidance relative to the proper management of the booty gathered from killing raids and warfare. It seems strange that the power of infinite goodness would give directions on how to split up the goodies stolen and plundered from murdered innocents. Many Muslims believe that jihad (holy war) is completed only when the entire world is placed under submission to Allah and when his laws reign supreme. Jihad is definitely commanded for all Muslims in the Qur’an. Those who do not participate in jihad are threatened with hell fire (Sura 9:81). Slaughter of non-Muslims is driven by the belief that jihad is the highest calling of every Muslim and that committing suicide in the process of destroying as many pagans as possible is the surest way to the Muslim Paradise promised by Muhammad. The jihad martyr believes that his blood pays for his sins, even though in his death he sent others the hell. His blood will testify to Allah that he is worthy of entering Paradise because he sacrificed his life to kill others. The greater the number of innocent people the bomber kills, the greater the reward from Allah. Also, the martyr can be an intercessor for 70 members of his/her family (who would have otherwise gone to hell). Committing suicide in the process of jihad was never considered honorable until fairly recently. Thus, jihad is an essential part of the Islamic faith! The fact of the matter is that the Qur’an contains over a hundred violent jihad passages along with a hundred and nine passages urging war in the name of Islam. In the Middle East, jihad is always taught as a war against the entire non-Muslim world.

 

Islam is not a religion of peace – a central tenet of Islam is engaging in violence against non-Muslims. It is Satan’s ingenious political/military power cloaked in religion! An example cannot be given where Islam has ever brought peace anywhere to any people! Islam seeks the total destruction of all other religions until they disappear from the earth. It gives this evil entity the religious cover to destroy Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. - religions that seek to ascend to heaven through peace and love, mercy and kindness, respect and good works. The bottom line is that Islam is a militant religion that demands violence and it is clearly illustrated through the very words of their own God. Muslims have initiated almost all wars with the exception of the Crusades mainly due to the philosophy of jihad. The sura that most Muslim scholars believe to have been the last one revealed – and hence the portion of the Qur’anthat takes precedence over any contradictory passage revealed earlier – is sura 9. It commands Muslims to wage war against the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) until they either convert to Islam or are subdued as second-class dhimmis (A conquered Jew or Christian who lives under Islamic rule). The Islamic umma (community) must exist in a state of perpetual war with the non-Muslim world, punctuated only by temporary truces. The command to make war against unbelievers is open-ended and universal. 

 

The Qur'an does not teach peace. There is no call to carry the Qur'an and preach door to door throughout the nations of the world and convince non-believers peacefully to convert. Islam does not bring peace - it never has and it never will. If Islam is a peaceful religion : why has every Muslim army in every campaign fought throughout history, slaughtered men, women, and children who did not bow their knees to the lordship of Islam?; why are there so many verses in the Qur’an about killing the infidels and those who resist Islam; why isn’t there even one Muslim nation that will allow freedom of religion and speech?; and who is imparting this awful violence to hundreds of Islamic groups throughout the world who kill innocent people in the name of Allah? Muhammad said that killing infidels is actually good for Muslims (Qur'an 2: 216). Radical (fundamental) Islam claims authorization from the Qur’an to oppose not only Jews and Christians but also everyone who does not accept Muhammad as a prophet, the Qur’an as divinely inspired, Islam as the ultimate religion and jihad as every Muslim’s sacred duty. Muhammad’s 109 war verses has aroused Muslims to compel the conversion of non-Muslim to Islam. Failing their conversion, Muhammad ordained that non-Muslims be killed, enslaved or be (provided Islam is in full political control) heavily taxed for the advancement of Islam. In the end it is the will of Allah that Islam will triumph over all other religions. There can never be peace until Islam has subjected the entire world to Allah. It is only when we understand Islam’s explicit commands to commit violence (the requirement of the Muslim world to wage war against the non-Muslim world and the encouragement of individual Muslims to commit personal deeds of violence) that the myriad of instances of Muslim violence come into focus.

 

Following the battle with the "Banu Qurayza Jewish Tribe" of Medina in 627 AD, multiple Muslim sources describe Muhammad himself presiding over the beheading of at least 500 Jewish men. Others sources place the number of men slain as high as 900. It appears in the historical accounts that Muhammad personally led 27 of the 86 Muslim raids. Beheading was ordained and even commanded for all the faithful in Islam (Sura 33:21). It is the heritage of Islam, carried out in Allah's name, and is exactly what the Bible warned us of (Rev. 20:4). No other world religion or empire systematically practiced beheading like Islam. The twisted logic how “Islam is called a religion of peace” by Muslims is: Any person who is not a Muslim is assumed to be rejecting Islam. Rejecting Islam equates to attacking Islam, Muhammad, and even Allah. Attacking Islam makes a person its enemy. Thus war against any non-Muslim under any feasible circumstance qualifies as self-defense and is condoned in both the Qur’an and hadiths. War to destroy infidel populations by extermination or enslavement is condoned.

 

We must not rely on Muslims themselves to tell us truths. The Qur'an does not call upon the Muslim to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. A Muslim is considered honorable to lie to non-Muslims in order to promote or defend his faith. It's unfortunate, but true: Islam is the only major religion with a developed doctrine of deception. The Qur'an advises Muslims not to take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Due to the state of war between the House of Islam and the House of War, systematic lying to the enemy infidel (non-Muslim) is part and parcel of Islamic tactics. Lying and deceit are part of the Islamic mind-set. It is the “any end justifies the means” approach to life and religion that Muhammad displayed. Muslim (fundamental) radicals today look at deceit as an art of war. Radicals use deception in communication to recruit new members, buy weapons, and in negotiations for cease-fire. As long as the goal is to further the cause of Muhammad or Islam it is permissible and it overrides the initial prohibition against lying. Islam as a religious system permits and even encourages lying and deceit as a specific aspect of its religious life. Muhammad constantly taught Muslims followers that loyalty to Islam overrode all other bonds including human bonds (Qur’an 9: 23-24, 58: 22-23). Also, the appeasement lesson teaches Muslims that there is no need to compromise with the West (concessions will come from our side).

 

 It is clear that in Islam, religion and deception mutually support one another. It is not hard to see that the implications essentially render negotiated settlement – and all communication between Muslims and non-Muslims impossible. The "treaty of Hudaybiyya" enunciated the principle that truces were to be concluded for no longer than ten years and only entered into for the purpose of allowing weaken Muslims forces to gain strength. The "Hudna document" established Islam's law of war and peace and set the precedent for future Islamic policy that remains to this day. No Muslim leader has the authority to go over Muhammad's head to make genuine peace. Muslim groups will use peace talks or agreements to buy time so they can gain concessions, regroup, rearm, and re-attack at the appropriate time.

 

In the Islamic worldview, Islamic (sharia) law (which comprises the commandments of the Qur’an and the precedents and teachings of Muhammad) is the only legitimate means of organizing society. Islam does not allow any distinction between religion and state. It is not merely a personal belief (faith), but also a system of government and expansion. It must rule not only in the mosque but in daily life and commerce, in the legal system, courts, and government. The whole of Islamic law comprises of two major sections: one dealing with human interrelationships and the other with devine-human regulations. Each of these sections is further divided into two categories: laws involving communal relationships, public issues (criminal law), and laws dealing with personal, individual behaviors and concerns. The fact is that Islam is the only religion in the world that has a set of detailed legal directives for the ordering of societies. Islamic law robs societies of freedom of speech, dress, and behavior. This culture has touched every aspect of an individual Muslim’s life and part in society. The community recognizes an adult from the age of puberty, and pro-actively encourages them to adhere to Islam’s prescribed social duties. Fundamental Muslims consider Western culture as destructive to Islamic traditions and beliefs. In the mind of many Muslims, immoral Western culture and Christianity are often linked as one and the same. There is no doubt that the laws Muhammad laid down for women have given them numerous disadvantages in Islamic societies to this day. Islam teaches that women are inherently inferior to men. Thus, a woman has fewer rights and privileges in Muslim society. Muhammad’s distributed girls and women he captured on raids to be sex slaves for his male followers. Polygamy is a curse for both women and men. 

 

Islamic law’s governance of every aspect of religious, political, and personal action has far more in common with Nazi Socialist’s totalitarianism than with the tenets of Christianity or Judaism. In Islam, Muhammad set up a totalitarian ideology in which every aspect of his Muslim follower's life was dictated and controlled. In every totalitarian system, control of the human mind by the dictator and complete submission and slavery to the totalitarian ideology is demanded of all. Any questioning of the ideology, any denigrating of the dictator means immediate imprisonment and execution. To ensure there is a totalitarian system future after the death of the dictator, indoctrination of children is paramount. In a dictatorship, every citizen must watch and spy on every other citizen - their friends, relatives, wives, brothers, sisters, parents on their children and children on their parents. The Qur'an and Sharia Law are Islamic totalitarianism. Many people have sacrificed their lives because they had a different opinion than that of fundamentalists. There is no freedom of religion in Islam – religious persecution is commanded in the Qur’an.

 

Islamic law mandates second-class status for Jews, Christians, and other non-Muslims in Islamic societies. These laws have never been abrogated or revised by any Islamic authority. Islam is a religion of war - it is also a religion of intolerance. The Qur'an calls Jews and Christians People of the Book, and Islamic law calls them dhimmis which means protected or guilty people. They are guilty because they have not only rejected Muhammad as a prophet, but have also distorted the legitimate revelations they received from Allah. The laws of the dhimma always remained on the books, able to be enforced by any Muslim ruler. Islamic law historically also affected dhimmis including: the testimony of a dhimmi was not recognized in litigation with a Muslim . . . the Muslim always got off scot-free; dhimmis were forced to bribe their way out of a trial . . . if the victim was a dhimmis, any fine imposed upon a Muslim was halved . . . accusations of blasphemy against dhimmis were frequent and the penalty was a death sentence . . . in practice, a dhimmi would often be sentenced to death if he raised his hand against a Muslim, even in self-defense (In Islamic jurisprudence, only Muslims are innocent . . . all non-Muslims are rebel criminals against Allah). An entire dhimmi community could be condemned to death or exiled even for an accidental killing of a Muslim. Islamic law forced dhimmis to promise to honor regulations such as the following: We will not build any new churches, monasteries, temples, or synagogues. We will not restore any churches that are located in a Muslim quarter or have fallen into ruin. (They were also forbidden from ringing church bells or blowing the shofar to begin services). We will provide three days lodging and food to any Muslims who passes our way. We will not proselytize or hold public religious ceremonies. On the other hand, we will not prevent any of our kin from accepting Islam if they so desire. If Muslims wish to be seated, we shall offer our seats. We will not carry weapons of any kind. We will not build our homes taller than the homes of Muslims.

 

Islam’s advance out of Arabia was unopposed, yet Muslim armies slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Christians, Jews, and pagans who simply resisted conversion to Islam. What is known today as the Islamic world was created by a series of brutal conquests of non-Muslim lands. These were wars of religious imperialism, not self-defense. Four of Christendom's five principal cities - Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem - lay within striking distance of Arabia. Antioch, where the disciples of Jesus were first called Christians fell in 636. It was Jerusalem's turn in 638. In 642, Alexandria fell and virtually all of Egypt was in Muslim hands. Finally, Constantinople fell in 1453. Christians are a target in the goal of world conquest because they resist conversion – this is not just implied; it is explicitly stated. By the end of Islam’s first century, it stretched to the western borders of China and the southern borders of France (including Jerusalem and the Holy Land). The “Dome of the Rock” (Mosque of Omar) would soon be built as a challenge to the Jews (on the site of the second temple) and Christians (on an inside wall was inscribed a Qur’anic verse ‘For be it from God to have a son’). North Africa had been completely dominated. In 732 AD, the Battle of Tours in France stopped Islam’s advance across Europe. Later, fewer Christians and Jews were forced to convert to Islam, because those left unconverted could be subjected to the jizya tax. Today, many Muslims hotly deny that Islam spread by force, and point out that forced conversion is forbidden in Islam - that is absolutely true: What spread by force was the political and social hegemony of the Islamic law system. Conversions to Islam followed the imposition of that system as the dhimmis began to feel their misery.

 

The much-ballyhooed Golden Age of Islamic culture was largely inspired by non-Muslims. Core elements of Islamic belief militated against scientific and cultural advancement - only Judaism and Christianity, not Islam, provide a viable basis for scientific inquiry. Key reason why science developed in the Christian world rather than the Muslim world: Christians believed in a coherent and consistent governed by a good God; Muslims believed in a universe governed by a God whose will was so absolute as to preclude coherence and consistency. Jews and Christians believe that God is good, and that His goodness is consisted. Therefore, He created the universe according to rational laws that can be discovered, making scientific investigation worthwhile. There was a time when Islamic culture was more advanced than that of Europeans, but the superiority corresponds exactly to the period when Muslims were able to draw on and advance the achievements of Byzantine and other civilizations. There is a prevailing assumption that the Qur'an is the perfect book, and no other book is needed. With the Qur'an the perfect book and Islamic society the perfect civilization, too many Muslims didn't think they needed knowledge that came from any other source - certainly not from infidels.

 

The Crusades (1095-1291) happened because Christians adopted the Islamic doctrine of jihad, that is, holy war. The Crusades were not acts of unprovoked aggression by Europe against the Islamic world, but were a delayed response to centuries of Muslim aggression. These were wars for the recapture of Christian lands and the defense of Christians, not religious imperialism. The Crusaders established their states in order to provide permanent protection for Christians in the Holy Land. A crusade to recapture the treasured sites of the Holy Land occurred since it might help reunite Rome and Constantinople and secure a safe destination for Christian pilgrims. They were insulated for the most part, with a few truly minor setbacks from the Crusaders (who never occupied more than 5 % of their empire). Muslims won the vast majority of battles over the two centuries of wars. Christianity became weakened while Islam was strengthened. Christianity was destroyed in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. The cultures and historical memory of these countries were totally destroyed.

 

For most Muslims, the Crusades have never ended while for many Christians, they have become the past that haunted the future. The Crusaders slaughter of Jews and Muslims was in violation of the teachings of the Bible and of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, proving they were not true Christians. However, what Muslims did in slaughtering millions in spreading Islam, and what terrorists do now, is in obedience to the Qur'an and the life and teachings of Muhammad. The PC dogma that the Crusades were unprovoked, imperialist actions against a peaceful, indigenous Muslim population is simply historically inaccurate and reflects distaste for Western civilization rather than genuine historical research. Although the Crusades failed in their primary objective, they played a key role in staving off the jihad conquest of Europe. The Crusades brought Europe time - time that might have meant the difference between her demise and dhimmitude and her rise and return to glory. The peoples who lived in the tolerant pluralistic Islamic societies of old dwindled down to tiny, harassed, despised minorities. Islamic distaste for unbelievers is a constant of Islamic history and persists today.

 

In 1453 AD, the Islamic Ottoman-Turks defeated the Christian (Eastern Roman) Byzantine Empire in Constantinople and expanded into the Balkan Peninsula. Ferdinand and Isabella ended Muslim domination in Spain and reestablished Roman Christianity in 1492 AD – all of Western Europe was finally again part of Christendom. The Ottoman-Turk Empire at its height stretched to Poland in the north, to Baghdad in the east, to the tip of the Arabian Peninsula in the south, and to Morocco in the west. The Ottoman-Turk wave of jihad reached its farthest extent at the failed sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683 AD. The Ottomans were driven back down through the Balkans, though they were never ejected from the European continent itself.

 

The early spread of Islam is usually presented in benign or even positive terms, since many textbooks attempt to whitewash violence from Islam. Islam spread through the Middle East when the native populations in the conquered areas were enslaved as dhimmis. Textbooks describe Islam in glowing language, but they portray Christianity harshly - Christians wage wars of aggression and kill Jews, while Islam is featured as a model of interfaith tolerance. Muslim groups are referred to as building an empire when they attack Christian peoples, kill them, and take their lands. War is not just a sidebar of history for Islam – it has been and still is the main vehicle for religious expansion. It is the duty of Muslims to bring world peace via the sword. Allah commanded Muhammad to enforce killing rather than taking prisoners (Sura 8:67). Estimates vary, but at least one million five hundred thousand Armenians were slaughtered in the first genocide of the twentieth century. The United States is sadly one of the few democratic countries that has not formally recognized the Armenian Genocide. Turkey only admitted to this disaster for a few short years after the events, then they began a formal international policy of denial.

 

By the beginning of the twenty first century, it is estimated Islam’s Muslims had already killed 270 million people across the globe - 80 million Hindus, 60 million Christians/Jews/Others, 10 million Buddhists, and 120 million Africans (many millions of people killed where other Muslims)! If the Christian West has anything to apologize for in the Crusades, Islam has a great deal more to apologize for in the jihad wars that began centuries before the Crusades and still have not ended! Islam has been responsible for the slaughter and subjugation of far more people than any other evil empire. There have been more assassinations, revolutions, and terrorist acts in Muslim countries (Muslim against Muslim) than in all the rest of the world combined. Muslims are the greatest killers of Muslims. Civil wars, although specifically prohibited in the Qur'an, have haunted the Islamic world through the centuries to this very day. For the purist Wahhabi Muslims feel that Sunni majority are woeful slackers, the Sunni's feel that the Shi'ites are misguided heretics and the Shi'ites and the Wahhabi's both feel that the Sufi's are completely unorthodox. The fact is that most terrorist acts are by Muslims against Muslims.

 

 

Islam is a world religion that has a well-defined culture and a developed strategy for taking control of the world. Thus, "Islam is not" one of the Worlds' Great Religions! It is necessary to understand that the expansion of Islam has a three-pronged plan: jihad (holy war), Da’wah (missions), and mosques (presence). The imams, mullahs, and clerics who urge Muslims to take up the cause of jihad do so in absolutely strict terms, calling on devoted Muslims everywhere to lay down their very lives for Allah and the spread of Islam. Islam is alone among the major world religions in having a developed theology, doctrine, and legal system commanding warfare against and the enslavement of unbelievers. What makes Islam different from other religions is its call to kill and enslave all other faiths’ members. The imams and terrorists today in mosques throughout the world are calling for the death of millions of people around the world in the name of Islam. Of the forty foreign terrorist organizations named by the U. S. State Department, six of them are Communist, six nationist, one Jewish, and fully twenty-seven of them Islamic. Some analysts fear that if Western authorities begin to acknowledge that America's foe in the War on Terror is not a bunch of hijackers of Islam, but people who are working from core Islamic teachings, we will soon be embroiled in a war with the entire Islamic world.

 

Presently, Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion with an estimated 1.6 billion believers – it may overtake Christianity as the world’s largest religion in only 6 to 16 years! Islam has already surpassed Roman Catholicism as the largest single religion on earth. It is growing at a rate four times faster than Christianity not only in the world but also in the United States, Canada, and Europe. For every Muslim converted to Christianity two Christians converts to Islam.

 

It is estimated that there are more than nine million Muslims in North America and fifty-two million in Europe today! Half of global births will be Muslims by the year 2055 if present trends continue. Over 80% of American converts to Islam were raised in a Christian church. The main reasons that these trends have gone largely unnoticed are that most American Muslims are in larger metropolitan centers and 85% are African-American. Muslim prison chaplains have been trained by terrorist to recruit and radicalize inmates. Islamic imams are able to convert America’s prison felons because Islam appeals to the mentality of the aggressor. A rapist’s, a killer’s, or a child molester’s criminal appetites and resentment of the West are legitimized in one simple step. Muslims have tried to both understand and meet prisoners’ definite felt needs. Prison authorities say the return to crime and imprisonment is lower among Muslims than other groups. It must be stated that much of the reason for the faster growth of Islam is simply higher birth rates among Muslims – Muslims are just having far more children than Christians. As the trend is just beginning in America, it is time to become informed and prepared for what promises to be the church’s greatest challenge ever.

 

Later editions of most products are expected to be improved versions and usually are, benefiting from improved understanding and increased experience. Therefore, Islam has a natural self-assessment as the latest and best. By contrast, Christianity has an image of old and out of date by many. Islam is simple enough to be understood by everyone, and quickly explained to others. Its’ scriptures are uncomplicated – basically one really small book (a record of a man’s recitations). Islam’s theology is straight forward and soon grasped. Some people will conclude it is a simpler way of relating to the same God as Christianity without demanding such intellectual gymnastics. Islam has five pillars or basic rules to be kept by all devoted Muslims. The rules are within everybody’s capability. The beauty in such demands lies in their being so clear and specific – they are not only easy to do but easy to know when they have been done. Human nature prefers to be told exactly what to do rather than having the responsibility of finding out what is pleasing to the Lord by getting to know him. Islam is the easiest religion in the world to join – recite the one-sentence creed in the presence of a witness. However, it is the hardest to get out of – Islam calls it an apostasy (Muslim unbelief) treated as a crime, an act of treason carrying the death penalty. Anyone who denies any of the Islamic truth is an infidel. For example, if a child is born to Muslim parents, the Islamic religion considers him a Muslim. If he chooses to convert to Christianity later as a teenager or adult, he is considered an infidel (one who denies the existence of God) accused of apostasy, and his punishment is death under Islamic law. The Sunnah says, “He who changes his religion, kill him.” The fact that Muslims have always had to use the threat of death to enlist and keep converts proves that Islam has nothing to offer a person.

 

Ultimately the clash between the Islamic world and the Judeo-Christian West is between two fundamentally opposing visions for society: one based on sharia (Islamic law – a true totalitarian theocracy or Islamofascism) – and the other based on democratic freedom. The word freedom in the Islamic world means the freedom from foreign powers that have ruled it in modern times. Justice in the eyes of Muslims is the return of the Islamic caliphate to rule over the world uniting the Islamic ummad. The teachings of Islam and Christianity are clear and distinct, and those doctrines result in different views of culture, behavior, and reality. A fundamental Islamic radical believes secular society is hostile to him. There are fifty-seven nations in the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) – not one is yet an actual true democracy (Islam is incompatible with democracy).

 

Islam cannot thrive where there is true freedom. Muslims call personal freedom and human rights as advocated in the West the most repugnant and perilous threat facing the world. Muslims insist that the only true freedom comes through submission to Islam. The Islamic religion does not respect the sort of freedoms enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights. The freedoms we enjoy and could lose rest on principles common only to Western democracies: equality under the law, the rule of law, an independent judiciary that recognizes the sanctity of human life and has regard for the rights of others, the separation of church and state, and private property. Also, in the Muslims’ minds, once they conquer a land (ex. Israel), it will always belong to them – if they later lose it, they will fight passionately till they get it back. The Muslim world keeps proving itself unwilling or unable to grant true democratic freedoms. It was Christianity that gave the world the idea of separation of church and state and of equality of rights before the law. The ideas of human rights and representative government that prevail in the West are rooted in Judeo-Christian assumptions that are not shared by most Muslims. If truly fair elections were held in all Islamic nations, anti-American pro Islamic governments would be installed in nearly every case.  Muslims are born bonded to a well-defined system that has religious, political, legal, moral and social aspects.

 

Da’wah means the activity of Islam propagation with the end making conversions. It also involves the effort to bring those who have fallen away from Islam back to active involvement in the faith. Essentially, Da’wah means the responsibility to simply live quiet lives of Muslim reverence and charity with the hope that by example they can encourage wayward Muslims as well as others that Islam is the right and appropriate path to Allah. Their plan is to have a high enough percentage of Muslims in a democratic society to use the election process to establish an Islamic Republic. Thus, in a quiet but effective way, Islam is gaining both respect and converts.   It is clear that as long as Islam is accepted as a legitimate faith in the world, there will be the ever-present danger that those who claim its mantle will take its holy texts and the example of its Prophet seriously. When Islamic communities are weak, they are directed by their theology to bide their time; when they are strong enough, they are directed to take up arms and impose Islamic law. It is ironic that those from Islamic cultures want to come to the West because of the failure of their own system, yet at the same time seek to impose their failed system upon the West. According to a recent Gallop Poll, the majority of western Muslims (roughly sixty – five per cent) think that Islamic law would do a better job than a secular government.

 

As the mosque became the center of society in Islamic lands, the basic and foremost function was a house of prayer. Later it became a social center, a marketplace, and the political center of the local area. Mosques are the natural meeting place for Muslim communities throughout the week – more like a community center in the West. Muslims gathering at Mosques find a sense of identity, security and support as a minority community in a secular society. Mosques are often used to preach killing and hatred in the name of Allah, and are places, where militants can store ammunition, hide, and discuss war strategy. The preaching of violence from mosques shows a lot about a culture that permits it, encourages it, and endorses it. Mosque building in hundreds of cities in southern and sub-Saharan Africa has been underway for years. Now it is also happening almost everywhere in Australia and Latin America. The spread of Islam's mosques is allowed throughout the Western world even while Islam denies the same for other religions in territories it controls. Islam has the opportunity to rush in and begin replacing Christianity where it has weakened it. Muslim oil money is purchasing thousands of empty European, Canadian, and American churches and changing them to mosques. 80 percent of all mosques in the United States teach the radical “Wahabbis belief” of Islam – which includes imposing Islamic law. The physical presence represented by the mosque is important to those planning the strategies for Islam’s growth. Mosques' minarets are a political symbol of Islamic power. The burning of churches and the building of mosques go hand in hand within the Muslim strategy.

 

Events and movements from the 600s to 1800s AD produced the principles of jihad that are practiced today: 1 – Anyone who has conflict, disagrees or does not support Muhammad and his teachings should be killed; 2 – It is right to kill a government leader who is not in compliance with Islamic law; 3 – Deceit is acceptable if it helps achieve the goals of Islam; 4 – Fighting evil is a must and it does not matter if you win or die (If you win, you will be honored by victory; if you die, you will be honored by Allah); 5 – Muslims must resist, fight, and overturn any Islamic government that does not govern the land according to only Islamic law; and 6 – Muslims must enforce jihad on anybody whose beliefs differ from Islam, especially Jews and Christians. Muslims must continue the war until Allah's law prevails over the world, which implies a conflict without end - that's an open-ended declaration of war against every non-Muslim, in all times and in all places. Muslims would still regard this onslaught as essentially defensive - a defensive action against the aggressions of unbelief. The martial nature of the fighting to which Muslims are called is underscored also by Allah's calling upon his people to fearlessly face death in view of the rewards he offers afterward: guarantees Paradise to those who sacrifice their lives for him. A country is left alone as long as it passively acquiesces to its Islamization. But if it is perceived to be hindering the spread of Islam, then Muslims are obliged to wage jihad against it. In the Muslim mind, Islamic terrorists are obeying Allah, the Qur'an, and Muhammad and are not lawbreakers. If innocent women and children are murdered, according to man's laws, is of no concern.

 

Radical fundamental Islam’s Osama bin Laden of the al-Qaeda group in August 1996 issued a “Declaration of War” and again in February 1998 issued a fatwa (a legal decree announced by an Islamic scholar) “Declaration of War against America.” Radical Islam destroyed the World Trade Center’s twin towers and attacked the Pentagon resulting in the loss of almost 3,000 American lives on September 11, 2001. It was a day that changed the world. Radical Islam demonstrated it was ready, willing and able to take on any city, culture, or country – even the most powerful nation in the world – until it alone would rise to be the master of all humanity. In 2002 bin Laden wrote a 4,000 word letter to America: The letter stated that al-Qaeda’s first goal was to call on the US to convert to Islam. Second, it wanted the US to submit to Islamic law. Finally, al-Qaeda called for political changes regarding specific issues. In May 2003 Islamic Saudi clerics issued “The Nuclear Fatwa” that grants al-Qaeda permission to kill ten million Americans with nuclear weapons for the sake of parity (making equal). In 2004 an al-Qaeda operative interrogation (collaborated by other intelligence) revealed that it was planning a spectacular attack on American soil – a nuclear 9/11 that will occur simultaneously in major metropolitan areas (Boston, New York, Washington DC, Miami, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles) throughout the country. Intelligence research has now verified that radical Islam has obtained atomic suitcase bombs! Also, the latest intelligence has shown that it has probably smuggled nuclear bombs across both the southern and northern US borders. Muslims are also being smuggled across both borders. Thus, “it is not a matter of if but when” radical (fundamental) Islam will set off its nuclear bombs in the United States! Holy war has been declared on America and the West, and it is a different kind of conflict from past wars. Our enemy does not owe allegiance to any particular country, does not wear a military uniform, and uses women and children as part of its collection of weapons. The reality is that far too many intelligence officials, military officers, bureaucrats, and elected officials do not or will not see the true nature of the threat we face. There is no substitute for victory in this war that has been declared on us – failure is not an opinion!   You are therefore urged to rise in defense of our freedoms, our democracy, and our way of life. 

 

Radical (fundamental) Islam is only saying and doing exactly what is already in Islam’s Qur’an, Hadith, and Islamic Law! The West must realize that the terrorist attacks are the purists form of what the Prophet Muhammad created – it’s not radical Islam, it’s what Islam is at its core! It has adopted a type of “Adolph Hitler’s Nazi fascist hatred” toward Israel and the United States. Radical Islam’s goal is to force civilization 500 years back in time to 1500 AD at the height of the Ottoman Empire with a caliph. It also wants to enforce Islamic law on the world developed in seventh century Arabia by a warlord-prophet! Radical Islam has gone to war using “jihad terrorism” to bring Islamic Law to every nation in the world. The Qur’an condemns Muslims who avoid the duty of jihad. Radical Islam will continue jihad until the “Day of Islam” when all of creation will bow before the throne of Allah to utter the shahada [“I testify that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet”].

 

Islam is the only religion whose basic principles pit it against the rest of the world, ensuring that war is the natural and obligatory state of affairs - this is why jihad must continue nonstop until the entire world is under Islamic rule (theocratic totalitarianism = Islamofascism). Christians need to recognize that the Gospel mandate is to reach the world with a message of good news about Jesus Christ – opposed to Islam’s mandate to conquer it. Also, the terrorists have declared that the greatest weakness of the West is that we love life, whereas they, Islamic Jihadists, love death (because of the guaranteed entrance to paradise when killed during jihad). To die as a martyr in jihad is the only way a Muslim may be certain of Paradise - this is the motive that drives today's suicide bombers. For example, Iran is different from other powers because mutually assured destruction means death to America and assured paradise for the martyred Iranian population. In Muslim culture, there is no higher calling than that of the suicide bomber.

 

In summary, radical Islam wants to change and transform not only our culture but also our entire “way of life” including religion. Iran and other fundamentalist Muslim nations will tell us anything that they think we want to hear. Then they will proceed to do exactly as they please. Remember, it is not a sin for a Muslim individual or Muslim nation to not tell truths to an unbelieving person or nation. Will the United States of America – the richest and most powerful nation on earth – lose a war against the hordes of Islamic fanatics, who promote genocide, murder civilians, and behead captives? The greatest danger we face is that a Muslim will smuggle a nuclear weapon into a major Western/Indian city and kill millions in the name of and to the greater glory of Allah. The second greatest danger we face is the drip, drip loss of our freedoms through this process of Islamic appeasement (Islamization). Our society is assimilating to Islam. Muslims are not assimilating to democracy and freedom. For the majority of Muslims (moderates) to denounce what jihadists do in the name of their religion would be denouncing the Prophet and the words of Allah who instructed Muslims to do exactly that – declare war on nonbelievers and fight them until they become subdued. Whenever radicals and moderates get into a debate about Islam, radicals always win because they can back their statements with “facts from the holy book" while moderate Muslims cannot.

 

 

The Muslim Brotherhood is a secretive society established over eighty years ago in Cairo, Egypt, that gave birth to all the radical jihad organizations. Radical Muslim immigrants began organizing in America and developing a criminal underworld that escaped federal law enforcement scrutiny forty years ago. Its secret writings call for conquering this nation through political infiltration and mass conversion, while it does not rule out violet jihad when the time is right and all its "infrastructure" is in place and strong. The Muslim Brotherhood is the key force behind the hidden jihad agenda who gets along just fine without violence and aims to establish Islamic law in the West. Jihad violence can temporarily be set aside for strategic reasons even though the true teachings of Islam include the mandate to wage jihad against unbelievers. Muslim organizations envision not only a Muslim president, but also that the United States constitution be replaced or amended so as to comply in all particulars with Islamic law.

Two detailed documents have been found that outline radical Islam’s hundred-year plan to infiltrate and dominate the West and establish an Islamic government over earth while the second outlines plans to establish an Islamic government in North America. The first document is a fourteen-page plan dated December 1982 where the Muslim Brotherhood detailed a twelve-point strategy to establish an Islamic government over earth. Many proposals and tactics have been implemented throughout the world since its creation. Some of the alarming actions outlined in the document are: incitement to hate and commit violent acts against Christians, Jewish, and other non-Muslim people; an agreement of jihad as a necessary force in establishing a world Islamic caliphate; establishing a harmony with Western countries until trust is won and Islam is established; and finally the implementation of Islamic law throughout the world. Thus, the document advises avoiding conformation with their opposition at the local and global level which could lead to attacks against Islamic proselytizing or its disciples.

 

The eighteen-page May, 1991, North American plan is also the Muslim Brotherhood American branch’s document entitled "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America" that charts the groundwork for implementation of Islamic (sharia) law. It was introduced into evidence by the U. S. Justice Department (uncovered by the FBI) at the Holy Land Foundation trial in Texas in 2007. The plan outlines behavior that works to systematically change the laws of the United States Constitution and the civil rights of its citizens through propaganda and economic control. The memorandum explains the Brotherhood's 1987 blueprint designed to bring about the "Enablement of Islam in North America" by means of a six-point plan: 1 - Establishing an effective and stable Islamic movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood; 2 - Adopting Muslims' causes both domestically and globally; 3 - Expanding the attentive Muslim base; 4 - Unifying and controlling Muslims' efforts; 5 - Presenting Islam as a civilization alternative; and 6 - Supporting the establishing of the global Islamic State. America could be Islamized and conquered through a slow and steady process of assimilation. That is, a kind of reverse absorption in which Muslim immigrants and converts in the U. S. gradually impose their values and their laws upon the larger population.

 

A Brotherhood memorandum includes a list of "our organizations" as some of the most prominent "moderate Muslim organizations" in the U.S. today including: the Islamic society of North America (ISNA); The North American Islamic Front (NAIF); the Muslim Students Association (MSA); the Muslim Arab Youth association (MAYA); the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT); the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA); the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IITT); the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP); out of which emerged the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) - the most prominent Muslim group in the U.S. Every major Muslim group in the United States is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood. There is a concerted effort in America by Islamic organizations to advance initiatives that are different in purposes and are advanced by different groups of people. However, they are all geared toward the goals to encourage Americans to downplay anti-terror initiatives, accommodate Muslim practices, and make special exceptions for Islamic law. All the violent and non-violent forms of jihad are directed toward the Islamization of the world and the imposition of Islamic law over unbelieving societies. The goal is not to force unbelievers to become Muslims. The jihad is rather fought in order to bring non-Muslims into the Islamic social order - paying the jizya with willing submission.

 

A shura council controls the U.S. movement - it's made up of the heads of the various crime centers. The council directs regional masuls or underbosses, who in turn give orders to capo-like figures known as naquibs. The naquibs control the front groups, and train ikhwans, or field commanders. Associates are recruited by the ikhwans - these foot soldiers provide the next generation of leadership and keep the organization growing. New members take an oath of loyalty to the Brotherhood, reciting its credo: "Allah is our goal; the Prophet is our guide; the Qur'an is our constitution; jihad is our way; and death for glory of Allah is our greatest ambition." The Muslim mafia's hideouts are religious sanctuaries - they also serve as recruiting centers. The Brothers invite prospects to come to the mosque and join a small prayer group where they evaluate their loyalty and commitment to the cause. The Brothers are trained to lie and deny when confronted with tough questions. They're told to say that while they're against "terrorism" if the topic of terrorism is raised, they believe jihad is among a Muslim's "divine legal rights" to be used to defend himself and his brothers and to spread Islam.   

 

The religious crime syndicate consists of four families or power centers: 1 - The Palestine committee is the Hamas wing that operates out of California, Illinois, Texas, and Washington DC, 2 - The Safa group is the Saudi wing made up of more than one hundred business and charitable front groups operating mainly out of Northern Virginia as well as Georgia, 3 - Islamic circle of North America is the Pakistani wing based out of New York, and 4 - Islamic society of North America is the founding "nucleus" for the movement in North America. The various families galvanize around five fundamental goals: 1 - Supporting Palestinian terrorists and seeking Israel's destruction; 2- Gutting U.S. anti-terrorism laws; 3 - Loosening Muslim immigration; 4 - Converting Americans to Islam, with a special focus on black inmates, soldiers and Hispanic immigrants; and 5 - Infiltrating the government and institutionalizing Shariah law in America. The Muslim Brotherhood's ultimate goal is to conquer the entire continent of North America for Allah, and fold its nations into a global Islamic nation, or caliphate.

 

Fundamental Muslims envision an America with features of Islamic law including: 1 - Eradicating all idolatry and all un-Islamic practices which would involve restrictions on non-Muslim religious practice; 2 - Permitting only Islamic-style graves that face Mecca; 3 - Enforcing a total ban on gambling and on the sale of alcohol; 4 - Forbidding the charging of interest in all business transactions; 5 - Ensure that women are modestly dressed according to Islamic standards when attending schools; 6 - Making musical instruments of all types unlawful; 7 - Banning wedding and other types of music at events; 8 - Forbidding women from visiting a doctor or hospital without being accompanied by a male relative; 9 - Husbands may forbid their wives from leaving the home; 10 - A sane person who has reached puberty who voluntarily converts from Islam deserves to be killed; 11 - Circumcision is obligatory for both men and females; and 12 - The caliph should make war upon Jews and Christians until they either become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax. In a society in which Islam reigns supreme non-Muslims should become and remain submissive and quiet about Islam.

 

A battle plan to defend Islam from criticism is part of an international agenda agreed upon at a March, 2008, meeting by the world's most powerful Islamic organization, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) - comprised of fifty-seven Muslim-majority state governments. The offensive would be perceived as criticism of Islam that the OIC would criminalize as a legal instrument. The goal is not to ban inaccurate criticism of Islam, but all criticism of Islam. There is now a movement in both the United Nations and the United States to criminalize any criticism of Islam as hate speech making it a very serious felony. The attempt to force Western nations to ban insults to Islam is picking up speed, and predicts ill for the ability of states to defend themselves against the global jihad. Islamic supremacists routinely characterize all investigation of the Islamic origin of the jihadists agenda as hate speech. The assumption is that Muslims may do whatever they wish; it is up to Western non-Muslims to adjust and adapt however they must up to and including abandoning freedom of speech, in order to placate them. U.S. political leaders fortunately have taken notice of this threat to free speech. In mid-2008, the House and Senate both introduced bills to prohibit the judgments in these kinds of foreign cases from being enforced in U.S. courts. Today's worldwide effort by jihadists and their allies to classify all critical examination of Islamic supremacism as hate speech only benefits Islamic supremacists. If this effort succeeds, Americans will be made mute and hence defenseless in the face of jihadist attack. American universities have become propaganda centers for hidden jihadists and their allies dedicated to lulling Americans into believing there is no jihadist threat.

 

The most effective tactic employed by Islamic jihadists all over the world is to intimidate their opponents into silence. They have also adopted a different strategy to silence critics of jihadist and Islamic supremacist by labeling them as bigots, hatemonger's, and Islamophobes. Hidden jihadists immediate goal is not to overpower America directly through combat, but rather to convince Americans that there is nothing at all to fear from Islamic theology. Anyone who argues otherwise is an Islamophobe motivated solely by hate. The UN has condemned Islamophobia while turning a blind eye to atrocities committed by jihadists. The charge of Islamophobia is used to intimidate and silence critics of violent jihad in Islam. Some groups are even trying to brand those who tell the truth about Islam and jihad as purveyors of hate speech. All this indicates that Islamophobia is virtually useless as an analytical tool. To adopt it is to accept the most virulent form of theological equivalence, and to affirm, against all the evidence, that every religious tradition is equally capable of inspiring violence. One Australian state has outlawed speaking the truth about Islam . . . and Great Britain and other countries are contemplating similar laws. Converts from Islam to Christianity must live in fear even in the United States. If it is inciting hatred against Muslims when non-Muslims simply explore what Islam and the Qur'an actually teach, then there cannot be a reasonable public discussion of Islam. Such legal protections actually make Muslims a separate class, beyond criticism. One of the prerequisites of peaceful coexistence of beliefs in a secular society is freedom of speech - particularly the freedom to question, to dissent, even to ridicule. Multiculturalism is heading toward contradiction: If one group is able to demand that its tenets remain above criticism, it is no longer equal, but has embarked on the path of hegemony. With the population lulled into complacency, jihadists can go about their work of forcing Western accommodations to Islamic practices.

 

When the Brotherhood is weak in the initial stages, the plan is to accumulate power here through peaceful means. Then, when the Brotherhood is strong, the plan is to coerce power (including violence if necessary) to take over the government and enforce discriminatory Shariah. The Brotherhood's plan to Islamize America consists of five phases: 1 - Establishment of an elite Muslim leadership, while raising Islamic consciousness or taqwa, in the Muslim community; 2 - Creation of Islamic institutions the leadership can control, along with the formation of autonomous Muslim enclaves; 3 - Islamization and infiltration of America's political, social, educational, and economic systems, forming a shadow state within the state. Religious conversions to Islam are escalated; 4 - Openly hostile public confrontation over U.S. policies, including rioting, and militant demands for accommodations and special rights for Muslims; and 5 - Final conflict and overthrow (jihad). The Brotherhood is now estimated to be in Phase 3, but patience is key to their strategy.

 

The Muslim Brotherhood is outlawed in other countries, but the U.S. has not yet designated the group a terrorist entity or foreign threat. The Brotherhood has however stated clearly that it supports violent jihad and is dedicated to replacing the U.S. Constitution with an Islamic theocracy. The Brotherhood's organizations now represent the entire Muslim establishment in America - few in Washington have the political will to dismantle it. Many counterterrorism experts warn that dismantling this infrastructure of support for terrorists remains an unfought battle in the war on terror. The reason is the syndicate that erected it is religious in nature and protected by political correctness.

 

America's greatest challenge in this ongoing national security threat is our reluctance to admit that our law enforcement agencies are some fifty years behind the intelligence gathering techniques of Islamic terrorist groups and their agents. Police chiefs, sheriffs, and FBI special agents in charge must refocus their efforts on self-study of the materials used by the enemy. They are available in virtually every U.S. mosque or Islamic bookstore. Time-tested methods rely on common sense, street smarts, and the most basic of equipment (pen and notebook), combined with the ability to handle stress in a hostile environment. Searching out clues to extremism and radical behavior should include: 1 - Muslims who follow the most violent aspects of Shariah law adhere to very specific habits, rituals, and styles of dress that to the untrained eye appear otherwise harmless; 2 - A Muslim beard should be a fistful in length, but the mustache should be trimmed because this would be opposite the style of the Christians and Jews; 3 - A Muslim man must wear a silver ring or watch on the right hand; 4 - Muslim men are not allowed to wear gold jewelry as their prophet Muhammad commanded; 5 - Muslims cannot wear silk neckties or other silk garments; and 6 - Muslim clerics are identified as Shariah compliant by their dress. U.S. law enforcement must take a proactive role investigating organizations and people linked to terrorism.

 

 

Islam(meaning literally submission) is the religion founded by Muhammad. Its beliefs are based on the Qur’an and the life of Muhammad. He is the prophet of Islam who lived from 570 to 632 AD. The Qur’an is the Holy Book of Islam – the words of Allah (God = actually Satan) revealed by Muhammad in seventh-century Arabia. The Qur’an is 114 suras (or surahs =chapters or sections) long – about the length of the Christian New Testament. Hadithis the record of Muhammad’s words and actions. This material was committed to memory for several generations and then collected and recorded by Muslim scholars.  Muslim means literally, “one who submits himself to the will of Allah (=Satan)”; a follower of the religion of Islam. Mosque is a place of Muslim worship. Da’wah is “call or invitation” summoning others to heed the call of Allah to Islam; propagation of the Islamic faith. Shahada is the profession of Islamic faith, a statement of fundamental belief – there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.

 

Jihadis the word for struggle. It need not be physical but could be - also used to mean sanctioned holy war. . A Muslim may choose to practice jihad peacefully through teaching and persuasion, or decide that the most effective jihad will be through force and violence. Mujahidin are Muslims engaged in jihad. Dhimmisis a conquered Jew or Christian who lives under Islamic law. Dhimmis are forced to pay the jizya poll tax that Muslims do not have to pay. Islamic law (sharia) is based first on the Qur’an (revelation from Allah = Satan), then on sunnah (The words and actions or example of the prophet Muhammad) and finally on ija’ah (the informed decision of a qualified group of Muslim scholars). A fatwa is a legal decree announced by an Islamic scholar. A Muslim who converts to Christianity is considered an infidel (one who rejects Islam teachings) accused of apostasy (Muslim who decides to leave Islam). Caliphateis the “office or dominion” of the caliph - an Arabic word that means “leader.” The term caliph specially refers to the successors of Muhammad who served as the political and spiritual heads of Islam until 1924.

 

A radical Muslim is a fundamental Muslim who practices all of the teachings of the Qur’an and hadith including jihad as a call to all Muslims to establish the worldwide caliphate and implement Islamic law. Ummad is the world Islamic community.    Dar al-Islam (The House of Islam) embraces territory where Islamic law is the law of the land, while dar al-harb (House of War) comprises the rest of the world. Islamic terrorism is forceful and violent jihad used by radical (fundamental) Muslims to establish the worldwide caliphate and implement Islamic law. Therefore, radical Islam is jihad terrorism. Finally, Radical Islam has been referred to as “Islamofascism” (Authoritarian and totalitarian). Islamofascisms’ leaders support the overthrow of democratic governments and law because this ideology respects no government or rule of law except the rule of strict Islamic Sharia law.

 

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