History gives us some amazing insights into what today is being called radical Islam. Gregory Palamas (1296-1359), a Greek monk and theologian, said, “..they live by the bow, the sword, and debauchery, finding pleasure in taking slaves, devoting themselves to murder, pillage, spoil... and not only do they commit these crimes, but even—what an aberration—they believe that God approves of them.” Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), said, “Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.” John Wesley (1703-1791) said, “Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it... have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of those destroyers of human kind.” The third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) recorded that he was told by Tripoli’s envoy to London, “...that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.” Our sixth president, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) said, “…he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind…The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.” The twenty-sixth President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) said, “Christianity is not the creed of Asia and Africa at this moment solely because the seventh century Christians of Asia and Africa had trained themselves not to fight, whereas the Moslems were trained to fight. Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought. If the peoples of Europe in the seventh and eighth centuries, an on up to and including the seventeenth century, had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at this moment be Mohammedan and the Christian religion would be exterminated. Wherever the Mohammedans have had complete sway, wherever the Christians have been unable to resist them by the sword, Christianity has ultimately disappeared. From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact that it was able to show that it could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor...”
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:02:07 +0000
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