ISLAM'S AGENDAProf. Moshe Sharon, who teaches Islamic history at Hebrew University, wrote the following assessment of Islam."There is no fundamental Islam. There is only Islam full stop. The question is how the Koran is interpreted. All of a sudden we see the greatest interpreters of Islam are politicians in the [West]. They know better than all the speakers in mosques, all those who deliver terrible sermons against anything that is either Christian or Jewish. These western politicians know there is good Islam and bad Islam. They know even how to differentiate between the two, except that none of them know how to read a word of Arabic."Prof. Sharon says that by using "politically correct language," we cover the truth with lies. “For example, when we speak about Islam in the west, we try to use our own language and terminology ... We cannot use for one culture or civilization language of another. For Islam, you've got to use the language of Islam."The basic principles of Islam. "A Moslem has to acknowledge the fact that there is one God [Allah] and Mohammed is his prophet ... But beyond that, Islam is a civilization. It is a religion that gave first and foremost a wide and unique legal system that engulfs the individual, the society and nations with rules of behaviour. If you are Moslem, you have to behave according to the rules of Islam...[found] in the Koran which are very different than the teachings of the Bible."The Bible vs. the Koran. "The Bible is the creation of the spirit of a nation over a very, very long period, if we talk from the point of view of the scholar ... But there is one thing that is important in the Bible. It leads to salvation ... in two ways."In Judaism, it leads to national salvation not just a nation that wants to have a state, but a nation that wants to serve God. That's the idea behind the Hebrew text of the Bible. The New Testament ... moves us toward personal salvation. So we have these two kinds of salvation ... But the key word is salvation. Personal salvation means each individual is looked after by God, Himself, who leads a person through His word to salvation. This is the idea in the Bible, whether we are talking about the Old or New. All of the laws in the Bible, even to the minutest ones, are, in fact directed toward this fact of salvation."Secondly, there is another point in the Bible, which is highly important. This is the idea that man was created in the image of God. Therefore, you don't just walk around and obliterate the image of God. Many people, of course, used Biblical rules and turned them upside down. History has seen a lot of massacres in the name of God and in the name of Jesus. But as religions, both Judaism and Christianity in their fundamentals speak about honoring the image of God and the hope of salvation. These are the two basic fundamentals."What is Islam's worldview? "Islam was born with the idea that it should rule the world. Let's look, then, at the difference between these three religions. Judaism speaks about national salvation namely that at the end of the story, when the world becomes a better place, Israel will be in its own land, ruled by its own king and serving God. Christianity speaks about the idea that every single person in the world can be saved from his sins, while Islam speaks about ruling the world...'Allah sent Mohammed with the true religion so that it should rule over all the religions.' The idea, then, is not that the whole world become a Moslem world ... but that the whole world be subdued under the rule of Islam."When the Islamic empire was established in 634 AD ... Jews and Christians could live under Islam provided they paid the poll tax and accepted Islamic superiority. Of course, they had to be humiliated. Jews and Christians living under Islarn are humiliated to this very day."Mohammed declared all biblical prophets were Moslems. "Abraham was a Moslem. In fact, Adam was the first Moslem. Isaac, Jacob, David, Solomon, Moses and Jesus were all Moslems, and all had writings similar to the Koran. Therefore, world history is Islamic history because all the heroes of history were Moslems. Furthermore, Moslems accept that each of these prophets brought ... some kind of a revelation..."Why then is the Bible not similar to the Koran? Mohammed explains that Jews and Christians forged their books. Had they not ... they would have been identical to the Koran."If Jews and Christians choose to not live under Islam, then Islam must fight them. "Jihad means a war against people who don't want to accept the Islamic superior rule..”The Koran views the nations as either in "Dar al Islam (the house of Islam) ... where Islam rules and the other part is called Dar al Harb (the house of war) ... It is this house of war which has to be, at the end of time, conquered..."The Islamic view of territory. "Any territory that comes under Islamic rule cannot be de Islamized. Even if ..[a non-Moslem] enemy takes over the territory that was under Islamic rule, it is considered to be perpetually Islamic. This is why whenever you hear about the Arab/Israeli conflict, you hear territory, territory, territory. There are other aspects to the conflict, but territory is highly important.Christianity is an obstacle to Islamic rule. "Christian civilization has not only been seen as a religious opponent, but as a dam stopping Islam from achieving its final goal for which it was created. Islam was created to be the army ... of Allah. Every single Moslem is a soldier ... Every single Moslem that dies fighting for the spread of Islam is a shaheed (martyr) no matter how he dies, because and this is very important this is an eternal war between two civilizations. It's not a war that stops. This war is there because it was created by Allah. Islam must be the ruler...The Islamic meaning of "peace". "Peace in Islam can exist only within the Islamic world; peace can only be between Moslem and Moslem. With the non Moslem world ... there can be only one solution a cease fire until Moslems gain more power. It is an eternal war until the end of days. Peace can only come if the Islamic side wins. Two civilizations can only have periods of cease fires... which Arafat referred to when he spoke in Johannesburg after he signed the Oslo agreement with Israel."Shortly after Oslo was signed, Arafat in a mosque in Johannesburg, South Africa, said, "Do you think 1 signed something with the Jews which is contrary to [Islam?] ... I'm doing exactly what the prophet Mohammed did.'Mohammed, the supreme example. "Whatever the prophet is supposed to have done becomes a precedent. What Arafat was saying was, 'Remember ... Hodaybiya.' The prophet had made an agreement there with the Kuraish tribe for 10 years. But then he trained 10,000 soldiers and within two years marched on their city of Mecca ... Thus, in Islamic jurisdiction, it became a legal precedent ... that you are only allowed to make peace for a maximum of 10 years. Secondly, at the first instance that you are able, you must renew the jihad [thus breaking the 'peace' agreement].Permanent peace with Islam is impossible. "In Israel, it has taken over 50 years ... for our people to understand they cannot speak about [permanent] peace with Moslems. It will take another 50 years for the western world to understand they have got a state of war with Islamic civilization that is virile and strong ... When we talk about war and peace, we are not talking in Belgium, French, English, or German terms. We are talking about war and peace in Islamic terms.The Islamic cease fire ploy. "What makes Islam accept a cease fire? Only one thing when the enemy is too strong. It is a tactical choice ... Now, since we face war and know we cannot get more than an impermanent cease fire, one has to ask himself what is the major component of an Israeli/Arab cease fire. It is that the Islamic side is weak and your side is strong. The relations between Israel and the Arab world in the last 50 years ... has been based only on this ... deterrent power.Islam's worldview always leads to war! "The reason we have what we have in Yugoslavia and other places is because Islam succeeded in entering these countries. Wherever you have Islam, you have war. It grows out of the attitude of Islamic civilization. What are the poor people in the Philippines being killed for? What's happening between Pakistan and India?'Furthermore ... The Islamic world has not only the attitude of open war, but there's also war by infiltration. One of the things the western world is not paying enough attention to is the tremendous growth of Islamic power in the [West]. What happened in America and the Twin Towers is not something that came from outside...The end days. “It is highly important to understand how a civilization sees the end of days. In Christianity and Judaism, we know exactly what is that vision ... In Judaism,, it is going to be as in Isaiah peace between ... all nations. People will not have any more need for weapons; nature will be changed a beautiful end of days and the kingdom of God on earth, Christianity goes as far as Revelation to see a day that Satan himself is obliterated. There are no more powers of evil. That's the vision."Islam's end time picture "sees a world that is totally Moslem, completely under the rule of Islam. Complete and final victory. Christians will not exist, because according to many Islamic traditions, Moslems who are in hell will have to be replaced by somebody and they'll be replaced by Christians.\t“Jews will no longer exist, because before the [end], there is going to be a war ... where all the Jews should be killed. I'm quoting from the heart of Islamic tradition, from books read by every child in school. The Jews will all be killed. They’ll be running away ... hiding behind trees and rocks, and on that day Allah will give mouths to the rocks and trees and they will say, 'Oh Moslem come here, there is a Jew behind me, kill him.' Without this, the end of days cannot come. This is a fundamental of Islam."\tIs it possible to end this war? "Not in the foreseeable future. What we can do is reach a situation where for a few years we may have relative quiet. But for Islam, the establishment of the state of Israel was a reverse of Islamic history. First, Islamic territory was taken away ... by the Jews ... This can never be accepted ... So everyone who thinks Tel Aviv is safe is making a grave mistake. Territory, which at one time was dominated by Islamic rule, now has become non Moslem. Non-Moslems are independent of Islamic rule; Jews have created their own independent state. It is anathema. And (this is the worst) Israel, a non Moslem state, is ruling over Moslems. [This] is unthinkable...Prof. Sharon concludes, "Israel finds itself on the front lines of this war. It needs the help of its sister civilization ... of America and Europe ... of the Christian world. One thing I am sure about, this help can be given by individual Christians who see this as the road to salvation." ( The Agenda Of Islam A War Between Civilizations," by Prof. Moshe Sharon, Women in Green, May 2004, www.womeningreen.org)To emphasis what Prof Sharon just said, here is what Will Cummins notes in a column in the UK's Daily Telegraph. The moderate," Dr. Z. Badawi, Egyptian director of the Muslim College in Ealing, wrote, 1slam endeavours to expand in Britain ... It hopes that one day [all] mankind will be one Muslim community."Cummins continues, “In 1999, the Vatican hosted a conference of Muslim and Christian leaders, attended by the Titular Archbishop of Smyrna. He reports that a Muslim participant was disarmingly frank about the purpose of Islamic settlers in pluralistic Western societies. Addressing Christian delegates from Europe, he allegedly said: 'Because of our religion, we will invade you; because of your democracy, we will destroy you.'"There were 23,000 Muslims in Britain in 1954. Today there are 100 times that many. In the next 50 years those 2.3 million Muslims will increase at an even swifter rate. Political implications of such an expansion are vast. The Muslim's kingdom is very much of this world. Our kingdom will therefore be very much of the Muslim's world." (“Tories must confront Islam instead of kowtowing to it," By Will Cummins, Telegraph Opinion, 18 July 2004)For those of us who trust in the LORD, the God of Israel and His Son Yeshua, our Messiah and King, there is no reason to panic or even fear if ultimately we are called to lay down our lives for Yeshua and the gospel. In fact, we should be doing that every day anyway.But we are called to stand in the gap with persistent cries of intercession for Moslems to be set free and for the Church in the West to open her eyes to the truth the truth about Islam and about Israel's restoration. After all, if the Church does not understand what God is doing here, with all His heart and soul, how will she be able to understand what Satan is doing in these days? 0 God, we ask that You open the eyes of Your Bride in Yeshua's name. Amen.
