In light of the fact that Homeland Security agents in Toledo,
Ohio have arrested and indicted three local Arab Muslims this
past week on terrorism charges, making international news, this
letter originally published October 1, 2001 in The Press (Millbury,
Ohio) takes on even greater meaning:
Reality & peace
To the editor: I applaud Gov. Bob Taft for his efforts to dispel
misguided animosity against every Arab or Muslims because of the
vile terrorist acts of some who share their faith.
However, I would hope that many would take this opportunity to
learn what Islam believes. We must face reality and not try and
bury our heads in the sands of political correctness. In
America, for the most part, it is still possible to agree to
disagree on politics and religion without getting abused or
killed.
I wonder if Gov. Taft realized that those same Muslims he was
reassuring would not welcome him in their holiest city of Mecca
in Saudi Arabia.
As a Christian, Gov. Taft would be forbidden to even enter the
city! I wonder if those sincere Christians who recently circled
the mosque in Perrysburg Township, praying for its protection,
realize they would be second class citizens in Muslim countries,
where their non-Muslim status, along with Jews, is known as
dhimmi. Hindus and other "idolater" status is lower and is known
as as kaffir/infidels.
I wonder if Gov. Taft has ever visited the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem, the site of Solomon and Zerubbabel's temples and
where Jesus and his disciples taught and prayed, where, as a
Christian, the governor would violently be forbidden to pray or
read the Bible because of the Muslims who occupy Judaism's
holiest site.
I wonder if those concerned Christians realize that the
so-called Mosque of Omar, the Dome of the Rock, has quotes from
the Koran mocking Christians for believing that Jesus is divine.
Christians and Jews are forced to pay an entrance fee to the
Muslims (to upkeep the beautiful abomination) if they want to
see where our father Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his son,
Isaac.
I'm also reminded of the time when I lived in Perrysburg
Township and had "Palestinian" neighbors (from Kuwait, Lebanon
and Jordan) and we were like family, since we were in each
others' apartments all the time. Every time relatives came from
overseas they would have me go with them to the country to find
a lamb to buy and slaughter for a feast (and I was to keep quiet
about their American girlfriends and hold their liquor for
them). We even had a caravan of three carloads going to see the
Sear's Tower in Chicago, and I was the only blond American male
amongst them wearing a Jewish star.
One day they purposely showed me a newsletter from the Islamic
Center in Perrysburg that had a story from the Haddith -- saying
attributed to Mohammad -- that spoke of a war in the last days
between Jews and Muslims, and how Jews would hide behind trees
and the trees would say, "There's a Jew behind me, kill him!"
except for one tree that would shelter the Jews.
The next month the singles' club of the Worldwide Church of God
went to the mosque for a dinner-tour, followed by a question and
answer session with the Egyptian imam/religious leader (who
recently died and was praised as one who supposedly sought peace
between different religions). I repeated the "spiritual lesson"
to the imam and asked him if the Muslims had any such saying.
He replied that the Jews create such spurious sayings in order
to discredit Islam and Arabs. I then shocked him, and the
audience, when I asked: "If that's not a Muslim story, and is
spurious and created by the Jews, then why would you, as leader
of this Islamic community permit that very story to be published
in your newsletter last month?"
He was speechless. So I know, firsthand, how many people can
profess that their religion is "peaceful" to a Western audience
and whistle a totally different tune to their own masses. I've
also lived in predominately Arab East Jerusalem, just outside
the Damascus Gate, working for my great American-Israeli Jewish
manager under our Muslim boss (who was exceptionally gracious).
I know from a grassroots level what a farce the lying "peace"
process is, and how such a false peace is based upon lies and
delusions and is destined to crash and burn.
All this is not popular to say, nevertheless it is the plain
truth. Time will surely reveal that peace is possible between
Israel and Ishmael, Christians, Jews and Muslims -- as the
Jerusalem-based Root and
Branch Islam-Israel Fellowship reveals -- but it must be
based upon the Bible and reality, not lying visions of false
prophets of an empty peace.
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