The Word of the LORD will overtake Islam.

Submitted by Ed Melik (United States), Oct 8, 2006 at 03:35

"Islam will be discarded as droves of former Muslims turn to the Gospel of Jesus Christ in mass. Islam's total defeat is an unconditional prophesy i.e. it will happen"

Your ignorance is so reminiscent to those who have for millennia spread the hate using the falsely made claims based on extreme views. Your thinking is no different than those of the extreme Muslims like Osama bin Ladin and the likes. I guess you belong to misguided zealots like the Pastor Becky Fisher who believe that the answer to the crazy extremists Arabs and their suicide bombers is to create an army of American Christian suicide bombers.

Your analysis and hate laced ignorance is responsible for centuries to cause deaths to the millions in the past. Christian history is full of such diabolic killings by the hate mongers and ignorant tyrants. Like the Jews and then the Christians and now Islam will eventually weather the storm and like before cool minds will prevail. Adversity tries a man, says the proverb. But not like prosperity. No man is really known until he possesses power, and the same may be said of religions. They should be tested, not by what they pretend in their weakness, but by what they do in their strength. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are historical religions and must be judged historically. One must trace its course along the stream of time and show its character and achievements. Without dwelling unnecessarily on individual cases of fanaticism and folly.

THE Crusades form one of the maddest episodes in history. Christianity hurled itself at Mohammedanism in expedition after expedition for nearly three centuries, until failure brought lassitude, and superstition itself was undermined by its own labors. Europe was drained of men and money, and threatened with social bankruptcy, if not with annihilation. Millions perished in battle, hunger, or disease; and every atrocity the imagination can conceive disgraced the warriors of the Cross. But there is a law of compensation in nature; good often comes of evil; and the Crusades broke up the night of the Dark Ages. The Christians were brought face to face with a civilization superior to their own; their eyes were dazzled by the light of Arabian learning; and the mental ferment which succeeded in Europe led to the cultivation of science and literature, the foundation of universities, the study of the immortal classics of Greece and Rome, the growth of philosophy and skepticism, the Renaissance in Italy, and the Reformation in Germany. And these movements, in turn, led to the French Revolution, which sounded the death-knell of Feudalism, and to the Free thought of Voltaire, which pierced the heart of Superstition.

Despite the Christian wars and killings of its own millions in Europe, Jerusalem had long been in possession of the Mohammedans. It was captured by Omar in A.D. 637. The great caliph entered without bloodshed, and conversed amicably as he rode along with the patriarch of the city, on its antiquities. He granted the Christians the use of their churches and the free practice of their religion. His laconic decree is worth preserving: "In the name of the most merciful God. From Omar Ebu Al Khattab, to the inhabitants of Aelia. They shall be protected and secured both in their lives and fortunes, and their churches shall neither be pulled down, nor made use of by any but themselves." [175:7] The dignity and humanity of Omar, and the graceful chivalry of Saladin, who captured Jerusalem from the Christians in a later age, form a vivid contrast to the rudeness and ferocity of the soldiers of Christ.

The Greeks, the Latins, the Nestorians and Jacobites, the Copts and Abyssinians, the Armenians and Georgians, maintained their respective chapels and clergy. The worship of God in so many various tongues would have been an edifying spectacle, but "the zeal of the Christian sects was embittered by hatred and revenge; and in the kingdom of a suffering Messiah, who had pardoned his enemies, they aspired to command and persecute their spiritual brethren." [175:8] The same spirit continues to the present age. The Greek and Latin Christians are equally allowed to worship in the church of the Holy Sepulcher, but it is found necessary to allot each sect a separate half of the edifice, and a guard of Turkish soldiers stands between them to maintain the peace.

If you study history of religions you will be shocked to find out how many crimes have been committed by so many zealot Christians that it would make Islam look like kindergarten play. So while you are jumping on the band wagon of demonizing a great religion, you are only following the footsteps of those century old dead horses who did not make it to its destinations. Helplessness and anger against a few extremist Arabs have resulted the creation of many Pastor Becky Fishers in the USA.

Claims like you have made "

Claims like and false prophecies like " "Then you will know that I, the LORD your God dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her." "The LORD dwells in Zion!" (Joel 3:14-21) The Word of the LORD in Ezekiel 38 and 39 will overtake the Muslim armies" have been around for centuries and will be around for centuries to come. Unfortunately, people like you will also be around to stir up the mischieves in the name of religion like the right wing Muslims, and this nonsense will continue to go on and on.

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