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The Face of Terrorism

(2001): Militant Islamic Fundamentalism

Since the September 11th 2001 attack on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the destruction of the World Trade Centre in New York City, with the loss of thousands of lives, it has been difficult to talk about terrorism as simply an IRA bomber in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a right wing militia bomber at Oklahoma City, or a Palestinian youth blowing himself up in a crowded Jerusalem shopping centre, without addressing Militant Islamic Fundamentalism, as expressed by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network.

"The God of my Rock; in Him will I trust: He is my Shield, and the Horn of my Salvation, my High Tower, and my Refuge, my Saviour; Thou savest me from violence" (2Samuel 22:3). Americans are particularly dumbfounded at the depths of virulent hatred that bin Laden's Militant Islamic Fundamentalism has showered upon them, making them wonder why they have been given such special attention. "O LORD, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against Thee" (Daniel 9:8).

Would ceasing to economically and militarily back Israel, pulling troops out of Saudi Arabia (the land of Islam's holy places of Mecca and Medina) and the Persian Gulf, ceasing to monitor the No-Fly Zones of Iraq, terminating military actions in Afghanistan against bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network and its Taliban hosts, be sufficient to appease bin Laden's demands of American non-interference with Islamic affairs?

"Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go" (Proverbs 22:24). In answer, though Muslims differ in their interpretation of the Koran (also, Quran), the seeds of terrorism are planted deep in Islamic theology, and will germinate and grow when Islam is challenged. Read the following quotation from the Koran, where Mohammed taught the Muslim faithful to oppress and kill Christians and Jews, who refused to pay the Jizya (an extortion tax), i.e., the Christians or Jews were required to convert to Islam... or pay the Jizya with submission (when given that option)... or die.

"Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, [which is Islam that abolishes all other religions] of the people of the Book, [meaning the Jews and the Christians] until they pay the Jizya [the tax imposed upon them] with willing submission and feel themselves subdued [with humiliation and submission to the government of Islam]" (9:29) (text from the Koran, with a commentary in brackets from the Tafsir Al-Jalalein, i.e., Al-Jalalein Interpretation of the Koran.)

"Yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service" (John 16:2).

On the other hand, True Christianity teaches the Saints to live peacefully with all men. "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men" (Romans 12:18). "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of Faith" (Galatians 6:10). "See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men" (1Thessalonians 5:15). Conversion to Christ can never be anything but a voluntary belief and acceptance of Jesus Christ to save us from our sins, i.e.,

"Believe on the LORD Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be Saved, and thy house" (Acts 16:31 The wars conducted by the so-called Christian Crusaders of the 11th to 13th Centuries against the Muslim people of the Middle East were fostered by the wicked and calculated attempts of the Church of Rome to enthrone itself in Jerusalem in the name of recovering Christian holy places from the infidel. "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God" (2Thessalonians 2:4). Is it any wonder that Osama bin Laden repeatedly refers to his American enemies as Crusaders?

The Koran teaches the Muslim faithful to kill idolatrous pagans, unless they repent and convert to Islam. "When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. If they repent and take to prayer and render the alms levy, allow them to go their way. God is forgiving and merciful" (Sura 9:5). "The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel" (Proverbs 12:10). Cruel is the word that best describes the Islamic application of such Koranic teachings, requiring the slaying of idolatrous pagans.

"An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger [Hebrew, malak, i.e., angel] shall be sent against him" (Proverbs 17:11). The very idea of converting by the sword horrifies every true teaching of Christ that demands fidelity to God with "ALL thy heart... ALL thy soul, and ... ALL thy mind" (Matthew 22:37) as True Religion, "6 not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the Will of God from the heart; 7 with good will doing service, as to the LORD, and not to men" (Ephesians 6:6-7).

The Christian Scriptures, as opposed to the Koran, emphasize the necessity of an uncoerced heart confession of Jesus Christ as Saviour and LORD, realizing that anything less is a false profession of Christ, i.e., "And why call ye Me, LORD, LORD, and do not the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46). "9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be Saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto Righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto Salvation" (Romans 10:9-10).

Not only are Christians, Jews, and pagan idolaters targeted for death by the Koran-- if they do not convert-- but, those Muslims who leave their Islamic faith (apostatize), are to be killed by the Muslim faithful. "Surely THOU wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men" (Psalm 139:19). "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn" (Proverbs 29:2).

"And [Jesus] said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God" (Luke 16:15). Read the following quotes from Bukhari's Hadith, which is the second most important writing in Islam, following the Koran, to see how cruel the tender mercies of Islam are toward Apostate Muslims, i.e., those who depart from Islam.

"Narrated Ikrima, Some atheists were brought to Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn Abbas who said, 'If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah's messenger forbade it, saying, Do not punish anybody with Allah's punishment [fire]. I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah's Messenger, Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him'" (Bukhari Volume 9, #57).

"Narrated Ali, 'Whenever I tell you a narration from Allah's messenger, by Allah, I would rather fall down from the sky, then ascribe a false statement to him, but if I tell you something between me and you, [not a Hadith], then it was indeed a trick. No doubt I heard Allah's messenger saying, During the last days there will appear some young foolish people, who will say the best words, but their faith will not go beyond their throats and will go out from their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, wherever you find them, kill them, for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection'" (Bukhari Volume 9, #64).

Concerning Islamic terrorism, Militant Islamic Fundamentalism only takes the Koran's statements literally, putting Moderate Muslims in the position of not being Islam enough."But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived" (2Timothy 3:13). Thus, the first victims of Militant Islamic Fundamentalists are generally Moderate Muslims.

"But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another" (Galatians 5:15). Though Islamic Fundamentalists correctly identify the decadence of the West, and particularly Professed Christianity's toleration of the "lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes" (1John 2:16), as demonstrated by the proliferation of sex and perversion in the West's movies and music; like the hypocrisy of the Pharisees of Christ's day, Islamic Fundamentalists, e.g., Afghanistan's Taliban, cloak their disregard for their women without a husband to care for them (not allowing these women to work outside of their homes, thus forcing them and their children into poverty, destitution, and starvation) by policing their populace for "vice and virtue".

"But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" (1John 3:17). "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves" (Matthew 7:15). "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness" (Matthew 23:27).


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