ISIS Is Islamic By Hal Lindsey Recently, President Barack Obama spoke of the Islamic State, variously known as ISIS or ISIL. He said, ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents. And the vast majority of ISILs victims have been Muslim. The President apparently means its not Islamic in some vague spiritual sense, but its simply not true. Its wishful thinking. In every measurable way, ISIS is Islamic. It consistently reflects the hard, fundamental teachings of the Koran, the Hadith, and the severe example of Mohammeds own life. The I in ISIS or ISIL really does stand for Islam. Will they let Christians and Jews join the organization? Of course not. They force them to convert or face death. When they take over a community, do they set up secular systems of laws? No. They immediately impose Sharia law. In responding to the recent video of the ISIS beheading of British aid worker David Haines, Prime Minister David Cameron said, Islam is a religion of peace. They (ISIS) are not Muslims, they are monsters. Yes, Mr. Prime Minister, theyre monsters, but theyre also Muslims. President Obama says that they cant possibly be Islamic because the majority of their victims are Muslims. Jack the Rippers victims were all British. Does that mean he wasnt British? Killers kill whatever victim they find at hand. Gary Bauer of the Campaign for Working Families said, The reason the overwhelming majority of victims have been Muslim is a matter of geography - ISIL operates in a predominately Muslim region... for now. If ISIL, Hamas and Hezbollah ever get to Israel, the great majority of their victims will be Jews. Also, their killing of fellow Muslims fits in with teaching from the Koran and Hadith. They kill those that they consider apostates, just as their religion dictates. Millions of Muslims believe that theirs is a religion of peace because, like some Christians, they havent really looked closely at their own founding documents of their faith. I dont expect Presidents to be as plainspoken about Islam as someone like myself, a Christian minister. Part of my job is to contrast other belief systems with that of the Gospel and show, as much as I can, the infinite superiority of Jesus and His Word. But I do expect them to be realistic in their assessment of Islam. Its not their job to contrast Islam and Christianity, but neither is it their job to conflate the two. The world wants to put a smiley face on religion. It teaches that all religion is basically good. The sugarcoated world of political correctness is not always the real world at all, and when a governments policy is based on PC instead of facts, that government - and its people - are in real trouble. The President appears to be building his new strategy for dealing with ISIS on the idea of arming the moderate rebels to help us fight ISIS in Syria. The day after his announcement, the moderate rebels in whom President Obama had just publicly placed his faith, agreed to a non-aggression pact with ISIS. In essence, they publicly declared that they will not fight or oppose ISIS. That agreement may or may not hold, but it shows the shaky ground on which we walk. We might as well build our ISIS policy on Peter Pan and Tinker Bell. The moderates were looking for just dont exist. In the past, I have applauded President Obama for not giving in to pressure from those who believe this myth. Thats all changed now. In his September 10 speech, he made not only their existence, but also their reliability a cornerstone of his ISIS strategy. By saying that we can trust them now, hes admitting to a fundamental error in judgment then. If the rebels really were the good-guy alternatives to Assad and ISIS, then he could have armed them two years ago and today we wouldnt be dealing with Assad or ISIS. But the moderates were an illusion then, and theyre still an illusion today. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is undoubtedly an evil and vicious man, but he is not ISIS. And he is the head of a state that needs to maintain some sort of acceptance among the nations of the world, unlike ISIS, who believes that the more brutal and barbaric it behaves, the more it pleases Allah. Its an understatement to say that events and developments in the Middle East and around the world are disturbing and frightening. Its also understating the issue to say that most of our leaders have no clue about what to do because they refuse to identify the enemy and act based on that assessment, not on what is politically acceptable. That makes whats happening in the world even more frightening. And theres no doubt that hatred of Christians and Jews is exploding around the world. Unbelievably, in our civilized world, beheadings and crucifixions are now in the headlines. Jesus Himself warned that in the last days we would be hated for His names sake. As Ive said many times, I think physical persecution of Christians is coming soon to America. Will you be ready to stand strong in those days? For many of our brothers and sisters in other nations, those days are here. This week, Im also going to discuss how you can prepare yourself emotionally and spiritually for the time you will have to decide whether to deny Christ or risk your job, your friends, your comfort, or maybe your life to remain faithful to Him. hallindsey
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:07:44 +0000
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