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A
Religion of
Peace
"It is not in fact
possible for there to be any peace or coexistence between 'the Islamic
Religion' and non-Islamic social and political institutions" [Alija
Izetbegovic, Bosnian Muslim leader, Le Manifeste Islamique, p81,
quoted at hirhome.com/islam/culture01.htm].
"Muslims
are always saying that Islam is a religion of peace. But many Christians
in the Muslim world know differently. For them, Islam has been and
remains a religion which metes out violence. Otherwise, why should
Islam's followers attack and destroy them so often? Muslims must have
the courage now to address this part of their faith and stop these
attacks on Christians" [Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director,
The Barnabas Fund].
"Our politically correct
leaders often tell us that Islam means peace. Actually it does
not. Islam means submission. If you submit you get peace, if not you
get jihad. In fundamentalist Islam, the area of the world where Islam
rules is called the 'Dar al Islam' (House of Islam). The rest of the
world is called the 'Dar al Harb' (House of the Enemy). The ultimate
goal of the jihad is the conversion of the Dar al Harb into the Dar al
Islam" [Tony Pearce, Israel and the Media Debate, 14 Sept 2006].
A Religion of Death
"A Hamas representative in
the PA legislative council this year expressed pride in the fact that
women and children are used as human shields in fighting Israel. He
described it as part of a 'death industry' at which Palestinians excel,
and explained that the Palestinians 'desire death' with the same
intensity that Israelis 'desire life'. The following is the full text of
the comments by Hamas representative Fathi Hamad: 'For the Palestinian
people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all
people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and
the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of
women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist
bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire
death as you desire life' (Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas) Feb. 29, 2008) [PMW, 29
Dec 08].
"[The goal
of radical Islamism] is not to exalt its people -
Palestinians or Muslims, as such - but to implement
God’s will. God is above the people. And the deity must
be served no matter how many of the people, even
Muslims, die or suffer. Thus we see the massive
bloodshed in the Algerian civil war and the terrorist
attacks against other Muslims in places like Saudi
Arabia and Egypt. Even an anti-Israel demonstration in
Iraq was hit by a suicide bomber recently. Thus, there
is this tireless emphasis on martyrdom, and people can
be martyred even if they don’t choose that for
themselves. What is startling - and like so many
significant facts gone unnoticed in much of the world -
is that Hamas never had any program for social
development, quality education, improved health, or
anything else but warfare for the Gaza Strip. Its only
concern was to wage a war of extermination on Israel, no
matter how much time and how many lives it cost" [Barry
Rubin, The Rules of War and the Rules of Logic, 4
Jan 2009].
"We
can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive
them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace
with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us"
[Golda Meir].
A Muslim World
"We have 50 million
Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory
in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50
million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a
few decades. Europe is in a predicament, and so is America. They should
agree to become Islamic in the course of time, or else declare war on
the Muslims. ... All people must be Muslims" [Libyan leader Moammar
Gadhafi, speaking on Arab satellite network Al Jazeera, [no date] quoted
at http://www.lightforthelastdays.co.uk/view_page.asp?page_id=336&menu_id=228].
"Islam wishes to destroy all states and
governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the
ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the nation
which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis
of its own ideology and program … the objective of Islamic jihad is to
eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish instead an
Islamic system of state rule. Islam does not intend to confine this
revolution to a single state or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to
bring about a universal revolution" [Sheikh Maolana Maududi, no date].
"There is no escape
from a new civilization ... The Western world is not capable of
fulfilling this role ... There is only one nation capable of discharging
this task and that is our nation [Islam]. ... This religion [Islam] will
defeat all other religions and it will be disseminated, by Allah's will,
through the Muslim Jihad fighters" [Passage from a text book used
in schools run by the Palestinian Authority, quoted at http://www.lightforthelastdays.co.uk/view_page.asp?page_id=264&menu_id=228].
"We are convinced
that this Hadith [a saying not in the Quran, but given equal weight in
Islamic teaching] heralds the spread of Islam and its rule over all the
land. Oh beloved, look to the East of the earth, find Japan and the
ocean; look to the West of the earth, find some country and the ocean.
Be assured that these will be owned by the Muslim nation, as the Hadith
says, 'from the ocean to the ocean'" [Sheikh Ibrahim Mahdi, sermon
given from the main mosque in Gaza 12 April 2002, broadcast by
Palestinian TV, quoted at http://www.lightforthelastdays.co.uk/view_page.asp?page_id=264&menu_id=228].
"When you find that the continent of Europe,
which isn't replacing itself [through the birth rate], is beginning to
implode and be overtaken by immigrants, most of which are Muslim, and
they're building their own communities, refusing to inculcate the
culture, refusing to embrace the language and insist upon changing the
entire facade of western Europe, no wonder you have this gentleman in
the Netherlands, this politician who [argues that] the Islamization of
the Netherlands is something that is upon us, and if we want to save our
culture, we'd better do something about it" [Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis
(USA-Ret.), .
"Europe's greatest cities are turning into the Middle
East. And this should surprise no one at all. Once upon a time,
Alexandria, Damascus, Constantinople and Jerusalem were cosmopolitan
centers of culture and learning. Today only West Jerusalem amounts to
anything, precisely because it is the only one
of them not under the boot of Islam. Islam destroyed the Middle East.
And now it has its sights set on Europe and the rest of the world. While
First World politicians may preach diversity, the flood of Islamic
migrants washing up on their shore are not interested in diversity,
their culture, law and religion is Islam. They want no others... and
more importantly they will tolerate no other. ... [Europe] will come to
look exactly like the Middle East ... made of equal parts rubble, dirt
and hate. A region where the literacy rate is lower than Sub-Saharan
Africa. Where women are property. Where there is no constitution or law,
only the will of an Imam or a tyrant. That is the Europe that the
advocates of diversity and multiculturalism are speedily bringing about.
That is the Europe, the America, the Australia and the Canada that their
grandchildren will have to live in. It will not be a diverse place,
except in the diverse numbers of slaves. There will be no culture, no
freedom, no knowledge and no truth" [http://www.rightsidenews.com/201003088962/culture-wars/islam-is-incompatible-with-diversity.html].
~~~~~~~~~~ The burden
which Habakkuk the prophet did see:
The righteous cry out for God's punishment of the injustice in their
lands:
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto
thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for
spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife
and contention.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the
wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment
proceedeth.
The Lord God's answer:
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I
will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be
told you.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which
shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling
places that are not theirs.
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall
proceed of themselves.
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce
than the evening wolves:
And their horsemen shall spread themselves, and
their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east
wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto
them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and
take it.
Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing
this his power unto his god.
The dismay of the
righteous at God's answer:
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall
not die.
O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty
God, thou hast established them for correction.
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on
iniquity:
Wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and
holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more
righteous than he?
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net,
and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their
drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay
the nations?
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to
see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am
reproved.
God's reassurance to
the righteous:
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain
upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall
speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely
come, it will not tarry.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just
shall live by his faith
[Habakkuk 1:1-2:4].
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