Jihad & Terrorism
Jihad in short is a Muslim expression of spiritual struggle against the forces of evil. Jihad comes from the Arabic verb Jahada that is to exert. To be perfectly fair to all Muslims, Jihad is different to different people. Many among the Muslim community disagree as to the true way to partake in Jihad. Just like we of the Christian community have varied interpretations on the rapture, works, and prophecy. It is up to us to understand that it is the fundamentalists Muslim that will go to the length of killing themselves in the cause of Allah.
We are called fundamentalist Christians as opposed to moderate or liberal mainstream Christianity. It is the fundamentals of the bible that we cling to. I personally believe every word of the bible to be true and the very word of God. This is the claim that a fundamentalist Muslim can make. They believe that as we have stated that the Qur’an is the very words of Allah. Not to be argued or reasoned, but simply to submit to the will of Allah. So where do they get the idea of Jihad…and its present form found in terrorist activity today?
Let’s look to the Qur’an itself. Space provided I would make only a few references. While Muhammad was in Medina at the beginning of his call to be a prophet of Allah, he thought that the Jews and Christians would receive him as a prophet of God. After a couple of years people began to distance themselves from the preaching and testimony that Muhammad was a prophet of God. Failing the test of a prophet as set forth in the Old Testament. Muhammad’s later revelations which where once favorable to the “people of the book” turned bitter. It cannot be underestimated the importance that a Muslim puts on the Qur’an and the lifestyle of the prophet himself. Muhammad took up the sword and set ambushes, made false peace, and spread Islam with the sword not the word. The Saudi flag has the verse “There is no God but Allah, and His prophet Muhammad” with a sword under it in Arabic on a green flag. Saudi Arabia is where Mecca and Medina the two holiest sites to Muslims are and is considered a moderate Islamic nation today.
The five pillars of Islam are a works based religion to obtain salvation by performing. The reciting of the confession found on the Saudi flag above, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and pilgrimage to Mecca. It is a growing sentiment that Jihad is the sixth pillar, but is not recognized by all Muslims. Muhammad’s early raids on caravans in the early days did not provide much booty and with the revelation of “Then fight in the cause of God, and know that God heareth and knoweth all things: Surah 2; 244 and it seems that because of the unwillingness of some believers to fight, the Qur’an introduced some new incentives to those who do (as opposed to “those who sit at home and receive no hurt”) such as “special rewards” and entrance to Paradise (4:95-96; 3:194-195) The new incentive revelations worked and are the foundation for the modern Muslim who seeks to fight against what is perceived as the growing threat from the Western influence of Movies, and culture. It was the Ayatollah Khomeni that preached that the Muslim was languishing because of their backsliding from Allah and the Qur’an. The Iranian revolution was a revival of 7th century Arabia with the theocracy of the Qur’an as its guide. He called the birth of Israel and the Western influence in their region as signs from Allah as “judgment”.
It should be said here that Muslims in general have a fatalistic belief in that God has ordained all things. In the sense that good and evil all come from Allah and we simply are playing it out. Quite sad to think it’s almost robotic in its essence. This is a stark contradiction of “free will” that we a Christians understand and that evil is a result of the fall of man (original sin) that they also deny
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Muhammad as the example believed in Jihad (holy wars). By divine revelations the prophet put forward these verses that today’s terrorist follow religiously.
“Fight in the cause of God” (2:244). “Fight and slay Pagans wherever ye find them” (9:5). “When ye meet The Unbelievers (in fight) Smite at their necks” (47:4). “Fight those who believe not in God (Allah) nor the Last Day” (9:29). As we noted above is the reward for those who wanted to stay at home and not get hurt. See also (2:190-193, 2:216, 2:224, 3:157-158, 3:169, 3:195, 4:101, 4:74-75, 4:89, 4:95, 5:36, 5:54, 8:12-17, 8:59-60, 8:65, 9:5, 9:14, 9:29, 47:4 & 61:4) Outlined in (2:217) and “God has already ordained for you, (O men), The dissolution of your oaths (In some cases)” (66:2) for lying to obtain the goals set forth by Allah. This is where Yassir Arafat gets the notion and maybe the Antichrist to make a false peace with Israel. Muhammad did it with his own tribe of the Quarish in his home of Mecca to gain a tactical advantage. I ask is that the God of the bible whom they claim is Allah? God repeatedly asked people in the Old Testament to battle by marching around silent for six days, watched as God closed the Red Sea on Pharaohs army, called Gideon to cause confusion, Sampson by himself killing over 3000 in his death, and other battles that where orchestrated to take glory away from Israel and place it with the Lord God. In my estimation it shows remarkably little faith in God and places a great deal of dependence on treachery.
Finally the following verses outline today’s tactics, which are in contrast of “The battle is the Lords”. “Truly God (Allah) loves those who fight in His cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure.” (61:4) Jihad according to Muslim apologists is, “Actual armed Jihad is permissible under two conditions alone: one is for self-defense, and the other is for fighting against oppression.” This is the ground for which the PLO and Arab nations are in frenzy over the very existence of Israel. They at the heart see Israel as an oppressive enemy, which is occupying the land of Palestine. Strange since the Qur’an echoes that Israel is the people of the book and the promises given including the original borders that she never obtained reach into Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Islam is at its heart an antichrist religion that feeds on hate and violence since its very inception…the only peace for Islam is total submission to Allah and His prophet Muhammad.
Consider the news and what the true prophet Zechariah spoke 2500 years ago in what was a desolate wasteland of little global interest then or until the birth of Israel in 1948. Jerusalem has become a cup of trembling as God said she would.
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth gathered against it.” Zechariah (12:2-3). Since the end of World War II the UN has spent most of it’s time resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel only accounts for 1/6 of 1% of all the Arab land, yet has become a “very heavy stone”. God will use this tiny nation to show himself God and that He is not done with the Jewish people.
Pray for the peace of Israel.
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