Toledo, Islam and the terrorists
In light of the fact that Homeland Security agents in Toledo, Ohio, arrested and charged three local Arab Muslims last week on terrorism charges, making international news, this letter was originally published on October 1, 2001. on The press (Millbury, Ohio) takes on an even greater meaning:
Reality and peace
To the editor: I applaud the governor. Bob Taft for his efforts to dispel misguided animosity against all Arabs or Muslims due to the vile acts of terrorism by some who share his faith.
However, I hope that many will take this opportunity to learn what Islam believes. We must face reality and not try to 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 being abused or murdered.
I wonder if Governor Taft realized that those same Muslims he was reassuring would not receive him in his holiest city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
As a Christian, the governor. Taft would be forbidden even to enter the city! I wonder if those sincere Christians who recently surrounded the mosque in Perrysburg Township, praying for its protection, realize that they would be second-class citizens in Muslim countries, where their non-Muslim status, along with that of Jews, it is known as dhimmi. The status of Hindus and other “idolaters” is lower and is known as kaffir / infidels.
I wonder if Governor Taft has ever visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of the temples of Solomon and Zerubbabel and where Jesus and his disciples taught and prayed, where, as a Christian, the governor would be violently prohibited from praying or reading. the Bible because of Muslims who occupy the holiest place in Judaism.
I wonder if concerned Christians realize that the so-called Mosque of Omar, the Dome of the Rock, has quotes from the Qur’an that mock Christians for believing that Jesus is divine. Christians and Jews are forced to pay an entrance fee to Muslims (to maintain the beautiful abomination) if they want to see where our father Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his son, Isaac.
I also remember the time when I lived in Perrysburg Township and had “Palestinian” neighbors (from Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan) and we were like a family as we were in each other’s apartments all the time. Every time a relative came from abroad, they asked me to 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 keep their liquor). We even had a three-car caravan to see Sear’s Tower in Chicago, and I was the only blond American man among them to wear a Jewish star.
One day I was intentionally shown a bulletin from the Islamic Center in Perrysburg that had a story from the Haddith – a saying attributed to Mohammad – that told of a war in the last days between Jews and Muslims, and how the Jews would hide behind the trees and the The trees would say: “There is a Jew behind me, kill him!” Except for a tree that would house the Jews.
The following month, the Worldwide Church of God singles club 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 someone who supposedly I was looking for peace between different religions). I repeated the “spiritual lesson” to the imam and asked him if the Muslims had such a saying.
He replied that Jews create false sayings to discredit Islam and Arabs. Then I surprised him, and the public, when I asked: “If that is not a Muslim story, and it is false and created by the Jews, then why, as the leader of this Islamic community, would you allow that same 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 have also lived in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem, just outside the Damascus Gate, working for my great Jewish American-Israeli manager under our Muslim boss (who was exceptionally kind). I know from the grassroots level what a sham the lying “peace” process is, and how that false peace is based on lies and deception and is bound to collapse and burn.
It is not popular to say all this, however 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 organization claims. Root and branch The Islam-Israel Fellowship reveals, but it must be based on the Bible and reality, not on lying visions of false prophets of an empty peace.
(I appreciate The press publishing my article despite our large Muslim population).