Reflections on Islam (watch the video, read the text)
Reflections on the Ground Zero Mosque
Consider the following:Loosely edited from Dr. Peter Hammond’s Slavery, Terrorism and Islam
Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a contextual tapestry for all of the other components. Islamization begins when there are sufficient numbers of Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to reasoned Muslim requests for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.
Here’s how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book, 2007):
As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:
United States -- Muslim 0.6%
Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 1.8%
Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
Norway -- Muslim 1.8%
At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:
Denmark -- Muslim 2%
Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%
From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves—along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:
France -- Muslim 8%
Philippines -- 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections in:
Guyana -- Muslim 10%
India -- Muslim 13.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 15%
After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:
Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%
At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:
Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%
From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:
Albania -- Muslim 70%
Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:
Bangladesh — Muslim 83%
Egypt — Muslim 90%
Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
Iran — Muslim 98%
Iraq — Muslim 97%
Jordan — Muslim 92%
Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan — Muslim 97%
Palestine — Muslim 99%
Syria — Muslim 90%
Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%
100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace — there’s (supposed) to be peace because everybody is a Muslim: we know however that this isnt true is it...?
Afghanistan — Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia — Muslim 100%
Somalia — Muslim 100%
Yemen — Muslim 99.9%
Of course, that’s not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other over racial and theological differences.
What leaps out at business people—people who are fluently versed at reading trends from numbers no matter how unsettling—is the trend the statistics present. That said, if Islam’s goal is world domination and in the eyes of Moslem theology non-Moslems are infidels and because of the underlying determinist view of Moslem theology, might can and does make right, what should a reasoned response be and what would be the conditions to trigger such a response? Moreover, if Sharia Law conflicts with our Constitutional Law, what trumps what and when? I have some thoughts toward answering my questions but I’d enjoy hearing your thoughts as well.
My Response:
First thing I think we should all consider is the possiblity of coincidence. It strikes me that the more industrialized and wealthy a nation is, the more immune its citizens are to Muslim conversion. Most of the Muslim world was once pagans without any religion, without any hope. Islam gave them the only hope they had ever known and since man innately knows he needs a relationship with His Creator, many convert simply for that aspect of life alone....to give our lives meaning.
It is also no coincidence that the countries with the strongest Christian populations are also the wealthiest in the world. A stronge uptick in Christian evangelism would be a great place to start. Christians could easily be called to a world revival like we have never seen before, and begin extracting as many proseltyes to Christianity as possible (but that does NOT mean necessarily bringing them to America). I would think that Christian sects birthed of the Muslim world would send a message to Islam and Muslims that people need more hope than what Islam can give them, and more freedom than what Sharia Law provides them.
Aside from that, the thing we should NOT do is to demonize Islam or to stir up a lot of fear and hatred and anger with no action plan in place. Christ called us to preach the Good News of the Gospel...not the Good Noose. We need to preach that Christianity is a religion founded on love and power, and not anger and fear. By way of example, that's what the Tea Party has done with high taxes and immigration, but nobody in the Tea Party is actually presenting any solutions....they're just cheerleading opposition for the sake of opposition with no alternative solution. It will take more than that to convert Muslims to Christianity. We must do it by the Book...the Good Book....the Word of God.
Anyway, Eric, I haven't really had many interactions with you in my time here, but I want to say that I REALLY like that you ask the questions you did and the way you did.
1. What should a reasoned response be?
My answer:
Get the UN invovled.
Get NATO involved.
Get our allies abroad the strenghth they need to resist Sharia Law and curb terrorism (in all its motivations) in their own countries.
Get the facts out to the public with proof that the facts have been properly vetted, but don't let it become another "Damn Commies" campaign like America had against Russia during the Cold War. It would only bankrupt our finances trying to build more and more weapons for an attack that may never come.
Get the US Department of Homeland Security to become more vocal about American preparedness to respond.
In short, don't leave it up to a few trigger happy folks who like to get angry at anything and everything, and don't use this issue just to coalesce an uncoalesceable political group (like the Tea Party, for example). Making this issue a political football would be a mistake because it would negate the comments against Islam calling it a political system, cultural system, etc. In short, making this political would be to lower American Law to Sharia Law's level, and delete our own "might makes right" stance of (as George W. Bush says: Fine, change the eagle so it looks towards the olive branch (and peace) instead of the arrows (and war), but still make certain there are enough arrows in its talons to ensure peace. Worse yet, to make this issue political would be to lower Christianity's faith to Islam's level.
2. If Sharia Law conflicts with Constitutional Law, what trumps and when?
My Answer: The Constitution will trump Sharia law first, last, and always. Sharia law is a religious based legal system (if one can call it legal), and cannot interfere, compete or override the laws of the United States without risk of charges of treason and the National Guard being called out to quell rebellions.
Don't Panic, for God is with us. Pray for the Muslim world....they may be our brothers and sisters in Christ sooner rather than later.
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Having said all that, I'll go out on a limb here. I know a lot of folks are not comfortable with the idea, but hear me out.
Let the gays into the military. Many of us were expelled from the military, and oddly enough, the ones let go of in the most numbers were ARABIC TRANSLATORS....how dumb is that? Who better to speak with Muslims than someone who at least knows how to speak their language? It would also strengthen the number of new recruits into the army by 10% if gays really are 10% of the population. That would be a boon to our military might.
Further, begin encouraging Christians to continue to embrace gays into the Christian faith. Most of us in America come from Christian backgrounds, and most of us resist Christianity because of the attitudes toward us, not because of the teachings itself. This would be a boon not only to Christianity here at home, but as the gay marriage issue winds down and countries all over the world continue to embrace them, it will send a message to 10% of the Muslim world as well to convert to Christianity. Why?
Well, because the neat thing about the gay community is that our numbers as far as percentages of populations is relatively the same, regardless of geopolitical boundaries. If 10% of the world's population is indeed gay, that means 10% of all Iranians, Iraquis, Saudis, Pakistanis, Afghanistanis, and not just 10% of Americans.
The other neat thing is that means we are also 10% of every religion.
Can anyone here imagine if gays were to begin actually discerning the love and acceptance from Christians that God commands (hard as it may be for some to do so), but can you imagine what that would mean to proselytizing gays into Christianity not just from the Muslim faith, but Hindus, Budhists, Taosist, and even Atheists.
In short, gays make up one of the largest worldwide demographics on the planet. At 6 billion people, if 10% of the world's populaton is gay, that 650 million people worldwide.
If Islam is currently at 1 billion strong, a concerted, loving, kind and warm outreach to gays from the worldwide Christian community would mean a nearly instantaneous reduction of Muslim by 100 million proselytes.
What better way to win a religious war than to add as many members to the Christian faith as soon as possible and as quickly as possible and over as large a geographic area as possible?
What better way to strengthen our military presence by 10% around the world as soon as possible and as quickly as possible?
What better way to save 650 million souls for Christ than for Christians to begin showing the love of God abroad in our hearts.....
.....just like Jesus said to.
Anyway, ya'll think about it. Then think about the timing of the worldwide acceptance of gays in the secular world in regards to human, marriage, and equal rights.....at the same time that most of the world holds its breath trying to see what shoe drops next from the Muslim world.
I have been to LOTS of church services that says, "God is raising up an army."
Could it be they are right? And could it be that He is recruiting from the lost sheep of the fold, and calling them home to prepare for the battle and tribulation and persecution of Christians to come?
Well, I wouldn't be surprised.....Ya'll know how our Father in Heaven is......
And how timing is everything to Him.
....just sayin'......
