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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I am amazed at the degree of fear that has gripped the free, democratic nations and even the Christian Church, since 11 Sept..2001. Although there are many Christians who associate that tragic event with Islam, few want to refer to it publically as "religious" violence. However, some do relate it to Islam but to the "extremist" or "fundamentalist" type.
Many sincere, loving Christians are afraid to comment, lest they be accused of involvement in a hate campaign, so they remain silent - victims of "political correctness" - and speak of "Terrorism" rather than "Islamic Terrorism" which it is, being inspired by the "holy" Koran, much to our shame and embarrassment.
May I say that, as one who has spent 31 years living in a Muslim society in India and Bangladesh, what we have been viewing on our T.V. screens is not the barbarity of some "fundamentalist" or "extremist" variety of our religion, but the work of sincere, devout brethren who take our Koranic religion to heart, carrying out the dictates of our god as they are meant to - to the Letter of the Law.
We claim to be adherents of a "Religion of Peace", but that "peace" is offered only to those who embrace the god Allah. For those on the outside of Islam, already, they have been sentenced to death and, as Fakirs or "Infidels", are on the hard-liners' "hit-list" of all those who take their Christian belief seriously. This has nothing to do with "interpretation".
I have many loving, "moderate" Muslim friends (non-fundamentalists) whom I love sincerely, but, they understand little of the Koran, having no knowledge of Arabic, and our power-hungry Mullahs and Imams inform us that all translations of the Koran / Hadith are false. This is somewhat similar to the manner in which Catholic clergy in the Middle-Ages kept their Biblical Scriptures confined to the Latin Vulgate translation. Our clerics imagine that Allah's language is Arabic and he has no other linguistic interests ! If many Muslims were to read and believe the more-than-100 passages of the Koran / Hadith which specifically instruct them to KILL the "Unbelievers" (in Allah), they would not have me as their friend.
Following the Inquisition - the Religious "Terrorism" of the Middle Ages - Christianity had its "Reformation Movement " and that is what Islam needs, to infuse our Faith with what we lack - the moral component of Love and Grace. There are thousands of "Moderate" Muslims who believe that Jesus is more than a Minor Prophet, and some even dare to believe that, in terms of Quality of Life, Jesus is on a much higher moral and spiritual level than the "prophet" Mohammed himself. Of course, that is a dangerous belief that could qualify them for the death sentence under our Shariah Law against Apostasy.
The time has come for us to break-silence and courageously stand-by our broad-minded Muslim brothers and sisters who want to elevate Jesus from the position of Minor Prophet to One of Supreme rank - our Chief Leader. If they knew that, within the Church, there are those willing and brave enough to embrace them in Love, they would find the Strength to "Come out in the Open".
Osama bin Laden is a fanatical, zealous Saul of Tarsus type and it should be remembered that Saul saw the Crucified and Risen Christ in the Life of Stephen as he was being stoned to death - (Acts 7: 58 -60 ). Even Osama is not beyond redemption.
Just as the U.N.'s response to the "Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction" crisis may test the credibility of its Security Council, in like manner, the Christian Church is being put to the test, perhaps its most severe testing since Penticost. Unless Christians relate to Muslims with "Agape" Love, it could well mean the end of the Church as the Body of Christ here on Planet Earth.
Please encourage us as we launch our Islamic Reformation Movement, inviting those "Secret Disciples" in Islam to join the ranks of the Faithful (in Jesus) .
If you are challenged by this concept, be courageous enough to kindly spread the word amongst all your friends until our Jesus-centered "moderate" Muslim friends get the Message that they are not alone and that -
JESUS CARES.
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QUESTIONS RAISED
Fear, on which Islam thrives, has motivated questions from both sides. Many Christians, while being deeply sympathetic with “Secret Disciples” trapped within the Islamic system, are afraid to get involved, fearing reprisals from militant Islamists if they welcome into the fellowship of the church those who desire a change of Islamic Prophetic Leadership.
No Problems ! There is no need, at this stage, of us separating from Islam. Rather, it is advised that we remain within the Ummah to give our prime allegiance to the Jesus we already have, although the character of the Latter would need to be “upgraded”. Because the Koran does not portrait the full nature of The One who should replace Mohommed whose behavior has failed him as our role model, all we need to do is elevate the “Minor” Prophet Jesus, to the position of “The Major”. It is as simple as all that !
The ethical stance of Jesus, full of Love and Grace, will outweigh those questionable passages in the Koran and Hadith which are presenting to the world a judgmental religion of fear, violence and retribution. Eventually, through a revision of the Koran, the unethical verses of Scripture will be deleted.
If you are challenged by this Reformation concept, please contact as many of your Islamic friends as possible to “keep the ball rolling” until the “Hard-Liners” under whose dominance our thoughts and devotions are stifled, come to naught.
Please email me at the following address :-
hamidfarookali@hotmail.com
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and I shall put you in touch with other Brothers and Sisters who are in the Movement.
Sincerely,
Hamid Farook Ali
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ISLAMIC TERRORISM
On the morning of February 26, 1993, Yigal Carmon, then counterterrorism adviser to prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, warned the Pentagon that radical Islam was an imminent threat to America. At the end of his briefing, he was told by smirking critics that they did not consider a religion to be a threat to national security.
Later that morning Carmon flew on to New York, where, while having lunch, a huge explosion took place nearby: Islamic terrorists had attempted to blow up the World Trade Center, killing six people and wounding 1,000.
Last September 11, Islamic terrorists finished the job. No one wants to admit why Americans were attacked just by whom. But Osama bin Laden is only the vanguard of a religious hatred that originates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and seeks to impose the will of radical Wahabi Islam throughout the world. The terrorist threat that bin Laden demonstrated on September 11 was just the opening salvo in the first world religious war of the 21st century.
An earlier campaign in the same war began in Israel in 1987, called the intifada. From mostly stonethrowing, this violence has escalated into the horrific suicide bombing that has come to characterize the so-called "al-Aksa intifada."
From scenes of Palestinians dancing on West Bank rooftops during Iraqi Scud attacks of the Gulf War, we are now witness to Palestinian mothers celebrating and handing out sweets upon hearing that their sons have blown themselves up killing innocent Israeli bus passengers. In this grotesque dance of death, Islamic zealots who are murderers are revered as religious martyrs.
On December 9, 1987, the Muslim Brotherhood met and issued a communique calling for the intensification of the Palestinian uprising. It was signed by representatives of the Islamic Resistance movement. Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden's mentor, developed the theme: "There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except jihad." The goal was simply to export Ayatollah Khomeini's "Islamic revolution" via the Hamas movement, and thereby Islamicize the Palestinian national struggle. Just as Islam had defeated the strongly pro-Western shah of Iran and shamed America, and just as Islam had defeated the communists in Afghanistan and led to the collapse of the Russian empire, so would the "Zionist entity" be slowly bled to death -- and so would the Great Satan, America.
There were no expressions of outrage from leading Muslim clerics on September 12 -- a silence as deafening as that regarding Jews who are slaughtered weekly in Israel by the same type of Islamic terrorists. This same silence has greeted the deaths of Palestinians themselves, who were branded as collaborators and summarily executed for allegedly working for Israel. Just a couple of weeks ago, Ikhlas Yasin, 39, the mother of seven children, was shot and killed by executioners of Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades in the main square of Tulkarm. An intolerant, radical Islam is striving to become the vocabulary of everyday life, reshaping the language of politics, culture, and traditions and taking no prisoners.
WHY HAS America not succeeded in numerous attempts to implement a peace process between Israelis and Palestinians not in Madrid, not at Camp David, not in dozens of public and secret peace initiatives? The simple reason is that radical Islam does not negotiate with infidels; and if not with the Great Satan, then surely not with the Little Satan.
US President George W. Bush has stated that he found it "strangely coincidental" that every time the US attempted to move toward peace there was a massive terrorist attack in Israel. But there is nothing coincidental in such attacks, for they are aimed both at murdering Israelis and at the same time humiliating the Great Satan. The only thing American brokering has done is weaken its greatest ally in the Middle East and open the floodgates to an ever more aggressive Islamic terrorism. When you reward Islamic terrorists with political or economic concessions, they can only assume that you fear them and that crime pays.
The last thing that corrupt and shaky Arab dictators want is peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Their regimes are sustained by military power and they know they cannot justify having an army without an enemy. Without the Jews to blame for their poverty, illiteracy, and lack of democratic freedoms, their populations would turn on them, as did those of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Rev. Franklin Graham, who prayed at Bush's inauguration and at the September 14 memorial service in Washington, said in his book, The Name: "The United States is engaged in a war against terrorism. But this war has a unique twist for Americans. We are not fighting to stop Hitler or godless Communism...Those who have attacked America invoke their God's name, Allah."
Radical Islam has given birth to a weapon that truly cheapens human life: the suicide bomber. But this will be as nothing compared to the weapons of mass destruction under preparation in Iraq and other radical Islamist states; weapons whose targets may begin with Israel but ultimately are aimed at the world's greatest democracy.
Corrie Ten Boom Fellowship - 9/13/2002
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