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 from 2001 on the press (Millbury, Ohio) takes on even greater meaning:
Reality and Peace
To the editor: I applaud the Governor. Bob Taft for his efforts to dispel the misguided animosity against all Arabs or Muslims due to vile terrorist acts 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 about politics and religion without being abused or killed.
I wonder if Governor Taft realized that those same Muslims he was assuring would not welcome him to their holiest city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
As a Christian, Governor Taft would even be banned from entering 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 the Jews, 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 the Muslims who occupy the holy place of Judaism.
I wonder if concerned Christians realize that the so-called Mosque of Omar, the Dome of the Rock, has quotes from the Koran that mock Christians for believing that Jesus is divine. Christians and Jews are obliged to pay a fee to Muslims (to keep 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. Whenever relatives came from abroad, they made me 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 save their liquor). We even had a three-car motorcade going to see the Sear Tower in Chicago, and I was the only blond American male among them to wear a Jewish star.
One day I was pointedly shown a bulletin from the Islamic Center in Perrysburg that had a story from the Haddith, said attributed to Muhammad, that spoke of a war in the last days between Jews and Muslims, and how the Jews would hide behind trees. and the trees said: “There is a Jew behind me, kill him!” except for a tree that would give shelter to 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 if the Muslims had such a saying.
He replied that the Jews create false sayings to discredit Islam and the Arabs. So I shocked him and the audience when I asked him, “If that is not a Muslim story, and it is false and created by the Jews, then why would you, as the leader of this Islamic community, allow that same story to be published?” in your newsletter last month?”
He was speechless. So I know, firsthand, how many people can profess their religion to be “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 Damascus Gate, working for my great American-Israeli Jewish manager under our Muslim boss (who was exceptionally nice). I know from the ground up what a farce the lying “peace” process is, and how that false peace is based on lies and deceit and is destined to crash and burn.
All of this is not popular saying, however, it is the plain truth. Time will surely reveal that peace is possible between Israel and Ishmael, Christians, Jews and Muslims, as Jerusalem-based Root and Branch Islam-Israel Fellowship reveals, but it must be based on the Bible and reality, not lying visions of false prophets of all empty peace.
(I appreciate The Press publishing my article despite our large Muslim population.)