Posts tagged Islam
The Crescent or the Cross?
Dec 2nd
Islam in America, Part 6
By Dr. Richard Booker
In his excellent booklet, The Shadow of the Crescent, Robert Peck explains that the first great influx of Muslims to the US happened during the times of African slave trade to America. The next major immigration of Muslims to the US came in the 1860s when large numbers of Muslims fled Syria and Lebanon to avoid military service in the Turkish army. In the 1940s another wave of immigrants came to the shores of the US to escape the civil war between Pakistan and India. Further immigration to the US came later when Muslims were fleeing political and economic troubles in Turkey.
According to Peck, most of the Muslims who were early migrants to the US were only marginally observant. They were cultural Muslims who could embrace our nation’s ideas and values. However, in the last thirty years, Muslim immigrants to the US are much more observant and idealistic in their beliefs and practices. They have a religious, evangelistic fervor to establish Islamic influence in America.
Peck explains that the Muslim population and influence in America is growing because of an increase in immigration, a high birth rate among Muslims, intermarriage of Muslim men with non-Muslim American women and conversion.
In his outstanding book, America Alone, Mark Steyn, reports the frightening birthrate statistics of European countries compared to Islamic nations. He says that for a nation to sustain itself, it must have a fertility rate of 2.1 live births per woman. He points out that any country that drops below this rate for an extended period of time will not survive. He then gives the following alarming birth statistics: America, 2.1; Canada, 1.48; Japan, 1.32; Russia, 1.14; Greece, 1.3; Spain 1.1; Italy, 1.2, and Europe as a whole 1.38. From these statistics, America is the only country “holding its own.” The only reason this is true is due to the high birthrate of illegal immigrants in America.
Mark Steyn goes on to observe that “much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive the twenty-first century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most European countries. Mark believes that Europe will be semi-Islamic in its politico-cultural character within a generation.
It doesn’t take a statistician to understand the significance of these facts. Christians and Jews must learn as much as possible about Islam and stand together against radical Islamic terrorists who want to destroy our way of life. Europe, including Britain, is already referred to as Eurabia. It is a post-Christian Europe. Unless there is a last minute cultural and spiritual awakening, Europe will fall internally to Islam.
Ron Peck asks the question, “Will the crescent replace the Cross in America?” Will America go the way of Europe? Will Christians and Jews in America awaken to this threat before it is too late or remain ignorant and indifferent? We live the good life in America. Why should we even care? I think the answer will be obvious when you understand the basic teachings and practices of Islam and the goal of radical Islamists to subject all nations to Islamic rule and law.
The information presented in these past six articles should certainly awaken Christians and Jews to the radical Islamic threat to America and our way of life. Only God knows if the American government and people will have the moral clarity and will to stand against this invasion. But one thing we can know for sure, the One True God of heaven does have the moral clarity and will to establish His kingdom on the earth. When all is said and done, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will execute judgment on His enemies. He will rule over the nations and His people with a righteous government that will bring peace to the earth.
As the Hebrew prophet said, “He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people, they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore” (Isaiah 2:4).
Dr. Richard Booker is a bestselling author and speaker and the Founder of Sounds of the Trumpet and the Institute for Hebraic-Christian Studies. He is a contribution editor for the Jerusalem Connection. To learn more of his work, see his web site at: www.rbooker.com. This is the second of six articles on the Islamic Invasion of America. The articles are excerpts from Dr. Booker’s new book, “Radical Islam’s War Against Israel, Christianity and the West.” To get the full text, order this book directly from Dr. Booker’s web site at www.rbooker.com.
The Islamic Infiltration of America
Nov 1st
Islam in America, Part 5
By Dr. Richard Booker
In his startling book, Inflitration, investigative journalist Paul Sperry, provides shocking facts about the radical Muslim agenda to destroy our way of life. He quotes Donald Lavey who is an FBI counterterrorism veteran who also served as counterterrorism chief for Interpol:
“Muslim subversives have managed to build an impressing infrastructure of support for the bad guys like al-Qaida terrorist. Muslim subversives have been working clandestinely to undermine America’s constitutional government and the Judeo-Christianity on which it was built. Their goal is to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Koran and turn America into an Islamic state. Their strategy is to exploit the very rights and freedoms they intend to banish, while counting on the ever-trusting American people to remain blind to their true intentions.”
Sperry says that radical Islamists have infiltrated every level of American life and cites the following alarming examples.
1. A senior White House official of Persian origin has been put in charge of government contracting and outsourcing, even though congressional lobbying records show he once lobbied on behalf of a Muslim activist who is now a confessed terrorist.
2. The same official prior to 9/11 lobbied Congress and federal agencies to make it harder for federal law enforcement to deport Middle Eastern immigrants with suspected terror links.
3. An Islamic activist obtained a sensitive intelligence post at the Department of Homeland Security even though he failed to disclose his past association with the same confessed terrorist.
4. In their rush to recruit Arabic translators after 9/11, both the FBI and the Pentagon cut corners on background checks and hired Muslim translators in spite of their ties to various foreign military and intelligence agencies in Syria, Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey. Of course the translators can tell the FBI anything they want and the FBI would not be the wiser. At the same time, none of the 60 Arab-speaking Jews who applied were accepted because the Muslims would not work with them.
5. Laptops with classified intelligence about al-Qaida investigations have gone missing from the translation unit in the Washington field office of the FBI.
6. The FBI hired the daughter of a former senior Pakistani intelligent officer to translate the intercepts of Pakistani targets. About 6 months later, a secret FBI code was compromised, falling into the hands of the Pakistani government.
7. A Muslim FBI agent refused to wear a wire to secretly record a Muslim target of counterterrorism investigation because he was a friend of the person being investigated.
8. A Palestinian activist, who sponsors an orphaned child of a Palestinian suicide bomber, has free access to the White House through Karl Rove, the President’s friend and political advisor.
9. President Bush struck a deal with Muslim-rights groups to avoid describing terrorism as “Islamic.”
10. CAIR (the Council of American-Islamic Relations) is considered one of the most respectable and influential mainstream Islamic organizations in America with an open door to Washington’s elite. Yet, it has donated money to known terrorist organizations and three of its former top officials have been arrested for terrorist-related activities.
11. CAIR receives large sums of money from Islamic groups in the Middle-East with ties to terrorists.
12. CAIR has successfully won more than two hundred cases against U.S. companies for alleged discrimination against Muslims.
13. A Muslim social studies teacher who was on the Saudi government payroll is educating your children about Islam in public schools through sugar-coated textbooks and role-playing exercises in which kids “pretend to be Muslims” for weeks. Furthermore, the Saudi’s are giving millions of dollars to schools to fund their pro-Muslim propaganda through textbooks, teachers, and professors and establishing pro-Islamic Studies Department in major universities.
14. Saudi Arabia is also financing, with money from Islamic radicals, thousands of synagogues around the country with an Islamic fundamentalist message.
15. A large influential Mosque in Washington D.C. was the “home synagogue” of two of the Saudi hijackers who attacked the Pentagon buildings. The Mosque is owned and controlled by Saudi Islamic fundamentalist. At least four of the leaders of the Mosque have now been investigated for terrorist ties.
16. There are an estimated 200,000 Muslim inmates in our prison system. Most are African-American converts, and many are eligible for parole. Their Islamic chaplains are preparing them for their new life of freedom as radical Muslims who hate white people and the white people’s Judeo-Christian racist religion that enslaves them.
17. Finally, U.S. intelligence tells us that al-Qaida has trained approximately 120,000 terrorist. Thank to our “open door policies” for immigrants and people who sneak across our borders, it is estimated that we have about 5,000 of these terrorists in the U.S.
Dr. Richard Booker is a bestselling author and speaker and the Founder of Sounds of the Trumpet and the Institute for Hebraic-Christian Studies. He is a contribution editor for the Jerusalem Connection. To learn more of his work, see his web site at: www.rbooker.com. This is the second of six articles on the Islamic Invasion of America. The articles are excerpts from Dr. Booker’s new book, “Radical Islam’s War Against Israel, Christianity and the West.” To get the full text, order this book directly from Dr. Booker’s web site at www.rbooker.com.
There was no Koran on the Mayflower
Sep 2nd
Islam in America, Part 3
By Dr. Richard Booker
In spite of some who want to revise American history, our country was founded by godly Christians fleeing Britain for the purpose of religious freedom. This is not just my opinion. Anyone can learn this by simply reading books by and about the Pilgrims and Puritans who came to America.
Of the many good books available, one of the most interesting is entitled, Of Plymouth Plantation published by The Vision Forum, San Antonio, Texas in association with Mantle Ministries, Bulverde, Texas. This fascinating book traces the history of the New Plymouth Settlement from its inception on British soil in 1608, to its sojourn in the Netherlands, and finally to its establishment on American shores. It is actually the diary of William Bradford’s history of the Plymouth Settlement from 1608-1650. Bradford served as governor of the new colony and faithfully recorded his first-hand account of life at Plymouth.
The founders of our country had a strong connection to the Hebrew Bible (what Christians call the Old Testament). They studied the Hebrew language and knew well the biblical Hebraic-Jewish roots of Christianity. They had a strong Judeo-Christian heritage. They came with a Bible in one hand and faith in the other hand.
I am grateful that our founding fathers brought religious freedom to America. But with all due respect to the first elected Muslim congressman from Minnesota, there was no Koran on the Mayflower. My point is that America was founded on the basis of a Judeo-Christian heritage. Historically Americans were raised with the Bible. Since there is nothing about Islam in the Bible, the American people know little or nothing about the life of Mohammed and the teachings of Islam. Let’s begin with some startling facts about the modern revival of Islam.
Islam on the Move
Islam is one of the world’s fastest-growing religions, gaining converts in every country through an aggressive missionary program. The worldwide Islamic population has now reached one billion. This means that one in every five persons is now a Muslim. Most Muslims are peaceful folk who just want to have a good life and raise their children to be normal, healthy human beings. But if only twenty percent are radical Islamists, that means that two hundred million Muslims would kill Jews and Christians if they had a chance.
The majority of the populations of eleven of the twenty-five, fastest-growing nations in the world are Muslim. It is even more frightening to realize that these predominately Muslim populations are growing at a staggering rate. The birthrate in Muslim countries is 42 per 1,000 compared to 13 per 1,000 in the West.
Islam dominates thirty-eight countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa and is spreading rapidly in the West. For example, in England, the birthplace of John Wesley, there are more Muslims than Methodists. There are thousands of Mosques in England and the number continues to grow. This is also true of every European country.
In the United States, Islam claims to be the fourth largest religion. Muslims are outnumbered only by Southern Baptist, Roman Catholics and those who practice Judaism. There are more Muslims in the United States than Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, etc. In the near future, there will be more Muslims than Jews in the United States. As one Muslim leader in the U.S. has said, “Most of our urban centers will be predominantly Muslim by 2020.” Think about that!
The number of Mosques being built in America is growing daily. Saudi money finances the building of these Mosques. The problem is not the building of Mosques because America has freedom of religion. The problem is that these Mosques represent the radical Wahhabi brand of Islam practiced by the founders of Saudi Arabia including Osama bin Ladin.
In addition, the Saudis give millions of dollars every year to American Universities to fund Islamic Studies Departments with the stipulation that the universities would hire Islamic professors to chair the department and teach the courses. Islamic professors at universities across America are teaching something other than a Judeo-Christian tradition and heritage to their students.
Our founding fathers were clear in their beliefs that our form of government would only work with moral citizens who make decisions based on Judeo-Christian values. We are a self-governing people. As our nation removes these values from public life, our beloved America will continue to crumble. The agenda of radical Islam is to hasten the day when America will not have the moral clarity and strength to stand against their onslaught on our culture. Our democracy will give way to anarchy unless the American people return to our Judeo-Christian heritage.
Dr. Richard Booker is a bestselling author and speaker and the Founder of Sounds of the Trumpet and the Institute for Hebraic-Christian Studies. He is a contribution editor for the Jerusalem Connection. To learn more of his work, see his web site at: www.rbooker.com. This is the second of six articles on the Islamic Invasion of America. The articles are excerpts from Dr. Booker’s new book, “Radical Islam’s War Against Israel, Christianity and the West.” To get the full text, order this book directly from Dr. Booker’s web site at www.rbooker.com.
Why Islamists Want to Destroy America
Aug 2nd
Islam in America, Part 2
By Dr. Richard Booker
Islam is clearly on the move. It is no longer the desert religion of the Middle East. Its tentacles have reached around the globe in an effort to achieve world domination through territorial conquest and the complete submission of all people to Allah. The modern revival of Islam, fueled by unrestrained nationalistic fervor, has become the most powerful and dangerous force in our world. Yet, the Western world knows so little about Islam and finds it hard to believe what we do learn.
While there are numerous militant Islamic terrorist groups, they all want to impose their extremist’s views on the nations of the world. Since Israel lives in the tough neighborhood that is surrounded by states that sponsor and protect these terrorists, Israel has suffered the brunt of their hatred.
For the Islamic fundamentalists, all nations must be converted to Islam. Christians and Jews may, however, retain their faith as “People of the Book” on conditions they submit to Muslim sovereignty. The notion that Muslims must live under non-Muslim governments, as in Israel or the USA, is totally unacceptable to these people.
Peace-loving Arab Muslims (and Christians) who do not share the hatred against the West, and who refuse to cooperate with the militants, are also threatened. So it is essential for Americans and Christians and Jews to understand that while most terrorists are Muslims, not all Arab Muslims are terrorists. Most Arabs are normal people trying to live their lives in peace with their neighbors. I want to make it clear that this is not an anti-Arab Muslim book. The One True God loves everyone the same. But He does not love nor does He condone evil.
Some who are hostile to Jews and hostile to Israel try to justify the heinous terrorist attacks in the U.S. by citing American support for Israel. But we must remember, that militant Islamic hatred of America would occur regardless of whether Israel existed or not. Islamic hatred of Christians and Jews is as old as Mohammed himself.
Islamic Hatred of America and Israel
Radical Islamic terrorists hold extreme anti-Semitic and anti-Christian views and wish to see the outbreak of a religious war. They see themselves as the “revengers” for the Crusades, which happened a thousand years ago, and the restorers of Islamic pride.
Furthermore, they despise America and the West because of their deep, abiding resentment of America’s religious freedom, political plurality, equality of the sexes, and America’s economic superiority. They feel this puts them in an unacceptable position of inferiority, which they seek to change by violence.
This is why Muslim terrorists chant, “Today we fight the Saturday people (Jews), tomorrow the Sunday people (Christians). The fight against the Saturday people has been going on in Israel for decades. The fight against the Sunday people was revealed to the whole world on September 11, 2001.
The first American led coalition against Iraq, with Christian solders based in Saudi Arabia, was a humiliating defeat and setback for the militant Islamic groups. This inflamed their hatred of the “Christian West” led by America. Since the Gulf War, they have planned and successfully carried out attacks against American interests overseas. The last American led coalition to disarm Iraq has certainly caused more hatred against America.
With years of “sleeper” cells planted in America, militant Islamic terrorists now believe they can demoralize and destroy America from within, thus removing the greatest obstacle to their dream of world conquest. While it will be a long, difficult, and painful struggle against terrorism, the ancient words of the Hebrew prophets give certain hope and comfort for the future for those who have a Judeo-Christian heritage:
“Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. Many shall come and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For out of Zion shall come forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more” (Isaiah 2:2-4).
Dr. Richard Booker is a bestselling author and speaker and the Founder of Sounds of the Trumpet and the Institute for Hebraic-Christian Studies. He is a contribution editor for the Jerusalem Connection. To learn more of his work, see his web site at: www.rbooker.com. This is the second of six articles on the Islamic Invasion of America. The articles are excerpts from Dr. Booker’s new book, “Radical Islam’s War Against Israel, Christianity and the West.” To get the full text, order this book directly from Dr. Booker’s web site at www.rbooker.com.
America Under Attack
Jul 2nd
Islam in America, Part 1
By Dr. Richard Booker
This is the first of six articles on the Islamic Invasion of America. The articles are excerpts from Dr. Booker’s new book, “Radical Islam’s War Against Israel, Christianity and the West.” All Americans need to be aware of how radical Islamists plan to destroy Israel, subjugate Christianity, and turn the West (Europe and the United States) into Islamic countries. Christians and Jews must take action to preserve our Judeo-Christian heritage and way of life. You can start by educating yourself about this most important subject. To get the full text, order this book directly from Dr. Booker’s web site at www.rbooker.com.
Where Were You When?
Where were you when …? The World War II generation of Americans asked this question about a sneak attack against America. It was December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt said it was a “day that would live in infamy.” It was certainly a day that changed the world. My generation of Americans asked, “Where were you on November 22, 1963”? That was the day Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
Now the younger generation, and all Americans ask, “Where were you on 9/11”? We all know what they mean by this question, and most of us can tell where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news about radical Islamic terrorists hijacking planes and crashing them into the World Trade Center buildings. And while our government has made some changes regarding the security of our country, most Americans believe another attack is coming. It is not a matter of if, but when!
America Under Attack
The radical Islamic threat to Israel and the Middle East has finally come to America. On February 26, 1993, Islamic Palestinian militants associated with the Hamas terrorist organization first bombed the World Trade Center in New York. Five people were killed and more than 1,000 injured.
All of a sudden, the American public awakened to the terrorist threat that Israel faces daily. The relatives of those who perished in the 1993 bombing demanded blood. The American congress introduced a bill that would deny members of Hamas visas to enter the country as well as deporting known members of Hamas. How ironic that we have been so quick to condemn the Israelis in their humane treatment of terrorists for over forty years while we want to kill and expel the terrorists after a single incident.
The Hamas organization is not a fringe Islamic sect. Their charter and terrorism represent the mainstream of Islamic fundamentalist thinking that is threatening to overthrow Arab governments, annihilate Israel and humble the West. They have established an extensive support network in the United States to aid its reign of terror around the world.
The attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 was only a dress rehearsal for the horror that would come later. As the whole world knows, on September 11, 2001, radical Islamic fundamentalists hijacked four planes. Two of these planes were flown into the towering twin World Trade Center buildings, which represented the financial heart of America. Many thousands of innocent people were murdered, and the buildings were completely destroyed.
The terrorists hijacked a third plane and flew it into the Pentagon, the headquarters in Washington D.C. for the American military. Hundreds more were killed. If that was not enough shock for us all, the terrorists hijacked a fourth plane but failed to reach its target. The courageous passengers on the plane forced the plane to crash in the woods of Pennsylvania. Analysts have speculated that the hijackers wanted to crash the plane into the White House.
While Osama bin Laden is blamed for this horrific act of terrorism, there is no difference between any of these terrorist groups. No matter their name, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, Hezballah, Islamic Jihad, Al-Aksa Brigade, the Palestinian Authority, etc., they all have the same goal to destroy Israel and America. And while we should all sympathize for the desperate conditions of the self-proclaimed Palestinian Arabs, we must remember that they elected Hamas as their government.
I say self-proclaimed Palestinian Arabs because never in history has there even been a “Palestinian People.” By electing Hamas to represent them, they have voted a terrorist group to lead them in their fight against Israel. The only difference between Hamas and the so-called moderate Palestinian Authority courted by the U.S. Statement Department is how to best eliminate Israel.
The American government has declared this attack to be an act of war and has promised to destroy the bases and infrastructures of terrorists wherever they may be found. This is a just but difficult goal as we have discovered in our attempt to capture Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda terrorist group as well as in the war with Iraq. While only the Almighty knows the outcome of our war against terrorism, one thing we mortals can know for sure is that the world will never be the same.
Dr. Richard Booker is a bestselling author and speaker and the Founder of Sounds of the Trumpet and the Institute for Hebraic-Christian Studies. He is a contribution editor for the Jerusalem Connection. To learn more of his work, see his web site at: www.rbooker.com.