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By John Rosenstern
On November 5, 2009, at the Ft. Hood Military base in Texas, our nation suffered another devastating Islamic terrorist attack. Major Nidal Malik Hasan premeditatedly prepared and executed a plan of Jihad to intentionally kill as many American GI’s as possible. His blazing pistols began whaling after the famous Islamic call of Jihad was heard from his voice, “Allahu Akbar.” Thirteen were dead and 30 were wounded before Hasan was stopped by the merciful bullets of police.
The “Lame Stream Media” in conjunction with our military leaders and White House officials, including President Barack Hussein Obama, offered politically correct coverage of this insidious terrorist attack in order to not offend Muslims.
RADICAL?
Attorney General Eric Holder decided to try the 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheik Muhammad, and four co-conspirators, in a civil American court in New York City; to add insult to the victims’ families. Notwithstanding, Attorney General Holder’s law firm, Covington and Burling, has represented 17 Gitmo detainees and has provided these terrorists 3,000 hours of free legal advice.
Are there really only a handful of radicals that have hijacked the religion of Islam? or, is it that the religion itself is radical and hijacks the people? The Qur’an makes it clear that Muslims have a duty to fight for the cause of Islam, and its god, Allah. In the Qur’an, Sura (chapter) 9, Ayat (verse) 44:
“Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day ask for no exemption from fighting with their goods and persons. And Allah knows well those who do their duty.”
The call and duty is for Islamic followers to fight with their goods and their bodies. Who are they to fight? The Qur’an tells its adherents in Sura 9:29:
“Fight those who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which has been forbidden by Allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of truth, even if they are people of the book, until they pay Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”
The next question we should ask is where should Muslims fight what they call unbelievers? In Sura 9:5:
“. . . Fight and slay the Pagans wherever you find them, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war. . . .”
How long should Muslims fight and carry out the mandate of jihad? In Sura 8:39:
“And fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere. . . .”
THE GOAL
There should be no doubt that the goal of the Islamic religion is to subdue all peoples of the world to the submission of Islam. The Umma (community) of Islam is to prevail “everywhere.” The world is to be made, Dar al Islam (The Land is Islam), according to the teachings of Allah, as given to his Prophet Muhammad. Every good Muslim will participate with their “goods” or “person” to accomplish this goal.
AMERICA
America has always struggled against the barbaric religion of Islam from our origins as a nation. Our leaders in politics, education, and religion recognized the archaic ways of Islam; and the need to fight against the Barbary Pirates with power and force, with one goal in mind afterwards, to open the door for the Gospel to be preached! On the other hand, many felt compelled to destroy the followers of Muhammad.
George Washington felt “the highest disgrace” in seeing America “become tributary to such banditti who might for half the sum that is paid them be exterminated from the earth.” Washington said to his former comrade-in-arms, Lafayette, “would to Heaven we had a navy to reform those enemies of mankind, or crush them into nonexistence.”
Thomas Jefferson was dismayed with Islam and its kidnapping of our mercantilists and asking for ransom costing our new country 1/5 of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP is a calculation of everything we produce) that in December 1790 he recommended America to go to war. Instead, the then Secretary of State was instrumental to pay the ransom instead of considering the call to war.
Early American religious tolerance did not extend itself to Islam. It was scarcely considered a religion at all by prominent colonial theologians such as Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards, who regularly denounced Islam as a false and morally degenerate faith. Muhammad, according to Harvard president Samuel Langdon, was a counterfeit prophet, and worse, “an emissary of Satan.”
KORAN!
Early translations of the Qur’an, and descriptive books, were written about Islam with one goal in mind, as George Sales summed up after completing his 1734 version of the Qur’an, “to attack the Koran with success” and hoped that “for them . . . Providence has reserved the glory of its overthrow.” Alcoran of Alexander Ross, published in 1649, set out to expose the “contradictions, blasphemies, obscene speeches, and ridiculous fables” in the book, so that the Christian Protestants “so viewing thine enemies in their full body . . . maist the better . . . overcome them.” Increase Mather, Harvard’s first president, called for the destruction of the Ottoman Empire to make way for the Jews return.
Today our prestigious Universities are manipulated by gifts from Saudi Princes to subvert Americans with a revised historical past that glorifies Islam instead of detailing its grotesque past. The cry for “seek common ground” is the mantra of so-called Christian leaders like Rick Warren; who spoke at a meeting of the Islamic Society of North America, an organization that supports Islamic terrorists like the Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood.
Yes, we need to pray for Muslims. They are the biggest victims of Islam. But we must believe God to open a door for their ears to hear the Gospel instead of the call from the Minaret for prayers to Allah. Next month I will address what the war on Terrorism really should be called, “The War against Islam.”
