This presentation was conducted back in 2017 but the information Father Michael Carl presents is timeless. Father Carl used Islamic writings and teaching to demonstrate that Sharia Law and the U.S. Constitution are diametrically opposite to each other, and any elected official who promotes Sharia Law cannot uphold his or her oath of office. Indeed, they are deliberately lying when they promise to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
The following is a news release from Liberty Council http://www.lc.org
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul forced businesses to close because of their Christian faith
Liberty Counsel is holding Hochul accountable to the U.S. Supreme Court.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul believes that she has the power to REVOKE the religious freedom rights enumerated in the U.S. Constitution and protected by federal law any time she wants.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul forced a Christian nursing home out of business, specifically because of the home’s Christian mission.
Liberty Counsel has teed up Hochul’s unlawful order to the U.S. Supreme Court. This coming Friday, the High Court will conference on this case again to determine if they will take up this case this term. This is the SEVENTH time the Justices have conferenced on this case, and I believe it to be a good sign that they will put this case on the calendar for oral arguments soon. We need your prayers and direct financial support to win!
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For 50 years, Pinecrest Home for Adults provided round-the-clock skilled medical care to the patients in their Christian nursing home. Patients and staff alike chose Pinecrest specifically for its Christian environment, and they became like family, daily serving and worshipping the Lord together.
If we lose this case, the consequences will be staggering — not just for New York, but for every American.
The Case: Does v. Hochul
Peter Hanan, a faithful Christian who ran a small senior living center in New York, was told he and his staff must violate their religious convictions or lose their jobs and business licenses. Despite clear federal protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, NY Gov. Hochul ordered employers like Pinecrest to deny ALL religious exemptions to the COVID shot — or face daily fines, license revocation, and forced closure.
She ran them out of business over their faith…
Peter and the Pinecrest board of directors refused to force their employees to violate their Christian convictions against taking an untested, abortion-linked, and now-proven-dangerous shot. Not only would such an action be in violation of federal Title VII religious freedom law, but it also went against everything this Christian business stood for over 50 years.
Don’t let woke governors run Christians out of business!
Pinecrest was facing fines of 1,000 dollars per day per employee for honoring their Christian convictions. Peter met with the board of directors for guidance. They could not afford to pay the fines. They could not violate clear federal law. Most of all, they could not violate their consciences and Christian beliefs.
Pinecrest was forced to close the nursing home and scramble to help families find places for their elderly parents and grandparents to live. Many of the patients were “memory care” patients, which made moving even more tragic.
Hochul’s actions were a direct violation of federal law, and it’s not just affecting Peter and Pinecrest employees. Thousands of health care workers were fired for refusing the shot on religious grounds. Hochul allowed medical exemptions — but unlawfully banned religious exemptions.
Another one of our plaintiffs in this case had received a religious exemption from vaccines, including COVID, for each of the last 10 years. But despite working remotely from home, his exemption was revoked during COVID and he lost his job, thanks to Hochul’s abuses.
Five years after the COVID crisis, New York Governor Kathy Hochul is still trampling religious freedom. She refuses to accept clear federal law and enumerated constitutional rights that guarantee religious freedom. This is not just about COVID anymore. It’s about whether any state can override federal law and force citizens to violate their deeply held religious beliefs.
If Hochul’s actions go unchecked, any state could revoke federal and constitutional religious freedom rights at will.
We cannot allow that to happen. Help us stop NY Gov. Kathy Hochul — and all other abusers of religious freedom — in their tracks.
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Have you ever wondered what goes on in those left-wing, politically correct “leadership
seminars” in which individuals learn how to become “leaders”? Who and what are they
trying to lead? According to Beverly Eakman, America’s best writer on the subject of
psychological warfare, these so-called leaders are professionally trained to manipulate
you in going along with a group that promotes an idea, or a program, or a policy which
you may at first not agree with, but in the end find yourself unable to resist.
Ms. Eakman’s enlightening book, How to Counter Group Manipulation Tactics, is a must
read for those who will be involved in such group meetings. When you become aware of
the unethical techniques used by these consensus-building community leaders, you
become immune to their methods and your individualism reasserts itself.
As an employee in a federal agency, Ms. Eakman was required to attend a sexual
harassment-AIDS awareness workshop in order to adopt the politically correct mindset
regarding such ideas as “homophobia” or “intolerance.” It was a not-so-subtle form of
values clarification, a form of Psych-War.
She writes: “Today, be it the workplace, a community forum, airport security, or the
PTA, team spirit (the old Marxists called it “collective spirit”) is valued above individual
conscience and over unique ideas. … Schoolchildren … can encounter similar problems
in the classroom. It’s all Marxist tactics, just dressed differently.”
It’s all based on the psychologically known fact that “it‘s easier to control a group than it
is to control a single individual.” That is why leftists prefer to deal with groups than
individuals.
If a community organizer, like Barack Obama, “can generate a mob
mentality, and get it to work for him, control of the agenda is usually assured.”
That’s what Obama learned as a provocateur and community organizer in Chicago, how
to manipulate a group of citizens to adopt his left-wing, pro-socialist agenda.
Ms. Eakman delves into Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, the handbook which Obama
read in order to apply these manipulative techniques to his work at a community
organizer and later as a political candidate. His ability to speak before huge crowds of
adoring supporters permitted him to stroke their fragile egos “to make them believe they
were more ‘aware’ than they really were.” Such techniques have been used by every
demagogue in history.
But the danger of such a dishonest strategy is that when some of those individuals wake
up and discover that they’ve been manipulated by a clever liar, you cannot fool them
again. Of course, we are reminded of Abraham Lincoln’s famous saying, “You can fool
all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time,
but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
But apparently, there are enough Obama fans who can be fooled all of the time.
Ms. Eakman goes into great detail exposing the Delphi Technique which is used in
groups to achieve a deceptive consensus on a controversial topic. She writes: “A
consensus is essentially a collective opinion that isn’t necessarily reflective of anybody’s
private view. Manipulators get away with this because the collective good (or “team”)
trumps the individual–a socialist concept.”
She writes further: “Provocateurs, or agitators, often call themselves ’facilitators’ because
that sounds neutral. But what these pros really do is to work the group over to ensure a
predetermined outcome which they call a ’consensus.’”
If you work in a company or profession where you are required to attend such consensus
building meetings, you may want to use some of the techniques Eakman herself has
developed to trump the facilitator. She teaches you how to take apart the arguments of
the politically correct robots. Of course, you will become known as a resister, whom they
will try to ridicule and ostracize. But that’s the price we all must pay when we go
against the politically correct consensus. But you will also attract those in the group who
secretly agree with you.
In this valuable book you will learn to understand the principles of psych-war, how to
turn the tables on the facilitators, master the art of argument, and control the environment
of thought. A very useful manual on how to maintain your sanity and individuality in a
climate of cultural confusion and chaos.
The Blumenfeld Archives
The above article came from the Sam Blumenfeld Archive: https://campconstitution.net/sam-blumenfeld-archive/
Wind turbines are environmentally destructive, causing serious problems to people and wildlife alike. And for what? A tiny amount of expensive power that only generates energy when the wind blows in a narrow range. With the climate scare finally dying, it is time to take down these useless machines!
Tom Harris is the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, Canada. His website: https://www.icsc-canada.com/
On Thursday November 27, millions of Americans will have a hearty meal with family members and friends. Some, but not most, will begin the meal with a prayer. Some will dig right into the food hoping to finish the meal before kickoff. However, members of the American Left, especially those of the self-loathing Caucasian persuasion, not only won’t celebrate the day but will lecture us about how the Pilgrims were evil exploiters of the Indigenous Peoples. But our Leftists friends would be wrong
Back in October 2021, Dr. Paul Jehyle of the Plymouth Rock Foundation hosted a two day event in Plymouth, MA which culminated in a “If My People” Rally at the Forefathers Monument. (The name comes from 2 Chronicles 7:14.) Speakers at the rally including several Indians-that’s right Indians not Native American- chiefs. These Indians are devout Christians who have a keen appreciated of the Pilgrims because they brought the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the region. At the conclusion of the rally, Indians and Mayflower descendants held hands and prayed for our nation.
One historical misconception is that the Pilgrims came here for religious freedom. They already had it in Holland. We know that the main goal of the Pilgrams coming to what is now The United States was to promote the Gospel of Christ because they said so in the Mayflower Compact which read in part:
“Having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian Faith, and honor of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the Northern parts of Virginia…”
Nearly half of the 102 passengers of the Mayflower died during the first winter-1620-1621. In April of 1621, the Mayflower returned to England. The ship’s captain, Christopher Jones, offered passage for anyone that wanted it. There were no takers.
The Pilgrims had a good relationship with the Indians. After an encounter with the Nauset Indians which attacked a party of Pilgrims without any casualties, an Indian, Samoset paid the Pilgrims a visit. Speaking broken English, Samoset told them of another Indian who been to England and spoke the language better than he. That Indian was Squanto who had been captured years earlier by Thomas Hunt. Hunt planned to sell him into slavery in Spain. Squanto escaped to England and eventually made his way back to his homeland only to discover that his tribe was wiped out by a plague.
Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn and fish. Governor Bradford believed that Squanto was “a special instrument send of God…” Squanto facilitated a treaty with the Wampanoag Indians and its great chief Massasoit that was signed in March of 1621. Massasoit was regarded as the “preserver and protector” of the Pilgrims. This treaty lasted fifty years and, gave legitimacy to the land the Pilgrims were living on. Squanto lived among the Pilgrims until his death.
The First Thanksgiving in Plymouth
Today, many children in government schools are taught that Thanksgiving was a day the Pilgrims set aside to thank the Indians for their help. That is untrue. While the Pilgrims were grateful for the help rendered to them by the Indians, Thanksgiving was a feast to thank God The actual date of the first Thanksgiving is unknown. It was most likely late September 1621. Edward Winslow gave an account of it in a letter to a friend:
“Our harvest being gotten our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much foul, as with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king, Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted: and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation, and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.”
In March of 1622, the Pilgrims got word that Massasoit was seriously ill. Governor Bradford sent a party led by Winslow armed with medicinal herbs to help Massasoit. Along the way, an Indian told the group that the great chief was already dead. They went along anyway, finding an extremely sick Massasoit. The Pilgrims with their medicinal herbs, and prayers were successful. Massasoit made a quick recovery and remarked “I see the English are my friends and love me., and whilst I live, I will never forget tis kindness they have showed me.
On October 3, 1789, President George Washington issued a proclamation recommending a day of Thanksgiving. It began with:
“Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be…”
On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation making November 26 a day of thanksgiving. In 1941, Congress-a Democrat controlled at that-passed a law making Thanksgiving a national holiday to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.
Have a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving. I would like to offer a PDF of an article “The Pilgrims Weren’t Socialists” written by my late friend, and mentor Andy Lane. If interested, E-mail me at campconstitution1@gmail.com
It can be said that education tells us a good deal about the faith of a nation or the lack of
it.
Theoretically, education is what the past generation wants the future generation to
know, believe in, and do. That was the sort of education I got back in the 1930s in the
public schools of New York City. At assembly our principal read the 23r d Psalm, so we
all knew that God existed as concretely as the magnificent city around us. He was there
to protect us, and He certainly protected me during my time in the Army in World War II.
In those days faith and education were clearly inseparable. Life without God, education
without the acknowledgment of God, were simply unheard of. Yes, there were atheists
and humanists and communists among the public educators, but the culture itself strongly
adhered to biblical faith, and most of the school personnel were believers. There may
have been talk of the separation of church and state among the progressive elite. But, as
everyone knew, the public school’s exhibition of faith had nothing to do with a federal
establishment of religion. It was a faith that came down to us through history, through
tradition, through the Bible, and was considered an indispensable component in the
raising of the next generation.
We knew of the faith of the founding fathers. We read of faith in the works of English
poets. We read of faith in the biographies of great men. We learned of faith in dissecting
a frog in the biology lab. Darwin had not quite erased faith from the bio lab. (I had
watched my mother “dissect” a chicken in preparation for the Sabbath dinner.)
We sat in orderly rows behind desks bolted to the floor. Learning required order and
silence, and the mind responded by absorbing knowledge, honing skills, observing the
world, developing an independent mind with independent intelligence.
One of the most salient points that John Taylor Gatto makes in his remarkable book, The
Underground History of American Education, is how today’s schools do everything in
their power to make and keep the students childish, indeed, so childish that they cannot
engage in an adult conversation with anyone.
Jay Leno, the TV comedian, provides enormously entertaining interviews with today’s
youth, some of whom are in college. Their ignorance is so appalling that it is really more
tragic than comic. “Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?” gets responses so absurd as to
make one wonder. A high-schooler was asked, “Who wrote Handel’s Messiah?” and he
answered, “I don’t read books.” He didn’t even know that Handel’s Messiah was a piece
of music, not a book.
But the simple truth is that most young people today don’t read books. They don’t read
because either they can’t or that it is simply too difficult, too much work, too painful.
And the schools have done that to these poor victims of progressive mis-education. And
yet we spend more money on education than ever, the students spend more time in school
than ever, and teachers are supposedly more professional than ever. But Dr. Rushdoony
explained what happened in his masterful study, The Messianic Character of American
Education. The humanists took over the schools and replaced Christianity with their
atheist religion.
Thus, faith in God has been replaced by a nihilism that Satan uses to destroy minds and
souls. Faith has been removed. God has been removed, and thus we no longer have
education, we have the mutilation of the mind, the retarding of growth, the spread of
ignorance, the enslavement ofthe soul. We have barbarians living in a hi-tech
civilization. And all of the hi-tech toys are used to provide more awesome spectacles of
fiery destruction than the human race has witnessed since the Creation.
When I was growing up, it was assumed that the future generation would know more than
the previous generation. They would be better informed, wiser, more skillful more
talented. And indeed some of the young in our time have been able to achieve some
wonderful things. But they are a small minority in a nation of over 270,000,000 people.
Without faith our education system has become a destructive, nihilist force.
Faith is the backbone of true education, for you cannot understand the world or the nature
of man until you know the nature of God. John Calvin wrote in The Institutes of the
Christian Religion, “Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid
wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.”
And today’s public schools deny both. Thus we get ignorant atheists.
But even so, some of these ignorant nihilists and atheists find their way to God, for as
Calvin observed, man is by nature deistic. He wrote: “That there exists in the human
mind, and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity, we hold to be beyond dispute,
since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men
with some idea of his Godhead, the memory of which he constantly renews and
occasionally enlarges, that all to a man, being aware that there is a God, and that he is
their Maker, may be condemned by their own conscience when they neither worship him
nor consecrate their lives to his service.”
But faithless education has given us so many crippled minds and souls that one is
saddened by the prospect that so many of them will spend their lives wandering in an
empty landscape with no hope of redemption, for they cannot read and are trapped in a
web of emotion, superstition and ignorance.
The tragedy for them is beyond calculation. If faith is for all of life, then it must begin in
the womb, and grow within us in the various stages of life. For we are all programmed to
go through these stages.
In modem America, schooling has become a twelve-year prison
sentence in which the individual is manipulated, twisted, bored, propagandized, and
reduced to animal status in order to fulfill an evil progressive agenda sustained by billions
of dollars in taxes. The public has been persuaded by politicians and the education
establishment that what goes on in the schools is worthy of their support. And the
majority of our citizens not only send their children to these schools, but actually believe
that they are being “educated.”
Deuteronomy 6 tells us what is entailed in education. Faith can only be passed on by
faithful parents to their children in need of the knowledge of God. It cannot be passed on
by faithless schools or by the U.S. government. In a rational society, the knowledge of
God would be the first and foremost reality that children would be confronted with. In
fact, that is the way it was in the early days of this country when children were taught the
alphabet by such statements as: A-In Adam’s Fall We sinned all; B-Heaven to find,
The Bible Mind; C-Christ crucify’d For sinners dy’d; D-The Deluge drown’d The
earth around; E-Elijah hid By ravens fed; F-The judgment made Felix afraid; etc. In
fact, the entire Primer was a simple, straightforward catechism in the Christian religion.
That Primer contained instruction in the Ten Commandments and such verses for
children as:
Though I am young a little one
If! can speak and go alone,
Then I must learn to know the Lord,
And learn to read his holy word.
Today, Christian schools and Christian homeschoolers are the only ones in America who
make it a point to catechize their children. They may use modern, watered down texts,
but at least the children are taught that they were made in the image of God and have a
duty to live up to God’s estimation of them. Life is a gift that must be cherished, and that
it is God who gives our lives meaning and purpose.
The public school nihilist has no idea why he or she is alive. Their soul has been
removed and replaced with nothing. Materialist fulfillment and sensual satisfaction
become their only purpose. The nihilist is a digestive tract on legs with an inner yen for
self-destruction. There is no intellect, no love of life, no appreciation of beauty. Several
years ago the subways of Montreal were plagued by gangs of nihilistic youths with much
time on their hands. The city officials came up with an ingenious way of getting rid of
them: they played classical and operatic music through the subway’s speaker system, and
before you knew it, the gangs were gone. They simply could not tolerate beauty. The
music these nihilists enjoy is totally barbaric and satanic.
The deliberate effort of the public schools to destroy religious faith in their students must
be considered the most destructive aspect of our culture. A culture without faith can only
lead to madness. But there is a growing underground of Godly sentiment that has risen in
America since the terrible events of September 11, 2001. More and more Americans are
beginning to realize how dependent we are on God’s mercy and forgiveness for our well
being. God has made us the strongest and richest nation in history because of our
original faith in Him. That was our beginning, and it must be renewed in the next
generation if we are to survive as a nation blessed by Him.
The Blumenfeld Archives; http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
Five years ago, during the height of the unconstitutional Covid lockdown, Camp Constitution Media travelled to Provincetown, Massachusetts to video and participate in the 400th Anniversary of the Signing of the Mayflower Compact.
Camp Constitution Instructor and historian Richard Howell along with re-enactors Stan Wollman, Michael Heenan, Al Rubega, and Jae Dunn celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact in Provincetown, MA . Saturday November 21, 2020
A link to a PDF version of the Mayflower Compact: https://campconstitution.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Mayflower_Compact.pdf
We are looking forward to our 18th annual family camp which will run from Sunday July 12th to Friday July 17 at Singing Hills Christian Camp in Plainfield. We have several promotional flyers as well as a tri-fold pamphlet. They can be downloaded here:
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Because we live in such a highly secularized society, we cannot believe that America could ever become
involved in a religious war in this day and age. Yet ferocious religious wars have been going on all over the
place: in Northern Ireland, in Israel, in the Balkans, in Sudan, in India, in Kashmir, and in Russia. But
history is a very harsh taskmaster and refuses to let us Americans escape into our secular fantasies and
liberal hot houses for long. Thus, it is vitally important for us to reconnect with the human race’s never
ending history of religious struggle. That a group of Islamic terrorists, trained in a remote war-torn, famine
ridden, hell-hole in Asia, could organize the kind of mind-boggling attack against America that took place on
September 11, 2001, means that America is not only not exempt from history, but has been dragged
kicking and screaming back into the middle of it.
Back in 1588, Christopher Marlowe, master of historical drama, wrote his famous Tamburlaine 2. In it there
is a fascinating scene in which the Christian King Sigismund of Hungary and Orcanes, the Muslim King of
Natolia, both former enemies, decide to establish peace between them in order to join forces to defeat
Tamberlaine the Great, the cruel, pagan conqueror of Asia.
Both men confirm their commitment with an oath. King Sigismund vows:
By Him that made the world and sav’d my soul,
The Son of God and issue of a maid,
Sweet Jesus Christ, I solemnly protest
And vow to keep this peace inviolable!
King Orcanes vows:
By sacred Mohamet, the friend of God,
Whose holy Alcoran remains with us,
Whose Glorious body, when he left the world,
Clos’d in a coffin mounted up the air,
And hung on stately Mecca’s temple-roof,
I swear to keep this truce inviolable!
But as the story goes, it was King Sigismund who later broke the truce and was defeated and killed by the
Muslims.
While the history of the struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of Europe was for a time
settled after the Muslims were expelled from Spain in 1492, and driven back from the gates of Vienna to
Asia and Africa, the Islamic enclaves that remained in the Balkans led to the recent wars in Bosnia and
Kosovo. The Serbs had considered themselves as the Christian bulwark against further Islamic incursions
in Europe, and therefore could not understand why they were being bombed by fellow Europeans and
Americans.
You had to know history to understand what Bosnia and Kosovo were all about and what bin Laden’s men
were doing in the Balkans. That conflict proved that the war between Christianity and Islam has never
ended. Over the ages, it simply took on different forms. The rise of European power put a lid on Islamic
ambitions and the Muslim world became the backwater of history until the discovery of oil in the twentieth
century. But in the nineteenth century, the Islamic Barbary states of North Africa could still make trouble for
the Infidel. They took possession of American and European commercial vessels, held their crews for
ransom, and enslaved other Christians. Our first war after independence was fought during the Jefferson
administration against the Muslim pirates and kidnappers of Tripolitania. It is known in the history books as
the Barbary War, in which U.S. Marines staged their first invasion of foreign soil. Hence, the Marine
anthem: “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”
In order to finally put an end to the piracy and barbarism coming out of North Africa, France decided to take
over Algeria. During the 1830s and 1840s, the French imposed their rule over the territory, encouraging
Europeans to settle there. The result was a flourishing French colony and an end to Barbary piracy. France
maintained order in North Africa until the end of World War II, when the anti-colonialist movement got
underway. Both liberals and communists joined in forcing the European powers to give up their colonies.
In Algeria, however, over a million Europeans had settled in the territory and the coastal departements
were considered an integral part of France. However, when Charles de Gaulle gained power at the height
of the Algerian uprising, he decided that France should quit Algeria because the Moslems could never
become true Frenchmen. And so France abandoned Algeria, and a million Europeans took to the boats.
Today, the invasion has been reversed. Five million Muslims, mostly Algerians, live in France. They make
up ten percent of the population and are part of the resurgent Islamic power in Europe. Christianity is now
so weak in France that one wonders if it is capable of resisting the assumption of Islamic power.
We have been told by our leaders and the media that we are not at war against the Islamic religion. We
are at war against terrorism. But what they all prefer not to recognize is that the spiritual power behind that
terrorism, the power that drives otherwise intelligent human beings to undertake suicidal missions against
the infidel is the religion of Islam. Of course, there are millions of Muslims who just want to lead normal
lives. Unfortunately, after September 11, 2001, nothing is “normal” anymore.
In an alarming article in the November issue of Commentary magazine, Daniel Pipes contends that
Islamist militants are serious about their plan to conquer America. He writes:
“The first missionaries for militant Islam, or Islamism, who arrived here from abroad in the
1920’s, unblushingly declared, “Our plan is, we are going to conquer America.” The
audacity of such statements hardly went unnoticed at the time, including by Christians who
cherished their own missionizing hopes. As a 1922 newspaper commentary put it:
To the millions of American Christians who have so long looked eagerly
forward to the time the cross shall be supreme in every land and the people
of the whole world shall have become the followers of Christ, the plan to win
the continent to the path of the “infidel Turk” will seem a thing unbelievable.
But there is no doubt about its being pressed with all the fanatical zeal for
which the Mohammedans are noted.
Pipes writes further:
“As a teacher at an Islamic school in Jersey City, near New York, explains, the “short-term
goal is to introduce Islam. In the long term, we must save American society.” Step by step,
writes a Pakistan-born professor of economics, by offering “an alternative model” to
Americans, Muslims can transform what Ismail Al-Faruqi referred to as “the unfortunate
realities of North America” into something acceptable in God’s eyes.
The irony in all of this is stunning. For years the Christian right has been trying to get Americans to live
godly lives, but with very limited success. The fact that 85% of American parents put their children in pagan
public schools is an indication of how strong our liberal secular culture is. It controls the curriculum in our
schools and universities. It controls most of the print media, the electronic media, and most of what comes
out of Hollywood. And American schools are now teaching American children all about Islam. While the
Bible has been eliminated from the classroom, apparently the Koran hasn’t. How else can you teach about
Islam?
Recently, the Reverend Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian relief agency, called
Islam “wicked and violent.” He said, “I don’t believe this is a wonderful, peaceful religion. When you read
the Koran and you read the verses from the Koran, it instructs the killing of the infidel, for those that are
non-Muslim.”
As the son of Billy Graham, Franklin is the designated successor to his father’s longtime evangelical
ministry. He delivered the benediction at Bush’s inauguration. But now he’s in trouble with the White
House, which sponsored a Ramadan dinner for 50 ambassadors from Islamic countries with a traditional
meal and prayer. Also, the Muslim chaplain of Georgetown University recently officiated at the opening
prayers of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill.
The moral seems to be that if Islamist terrorists bomb the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and kill
5,000 Americans, other Islamists get invited to the White House for a special dinner prepared to their
specifications: no pork. Now that Americans are being invited to be kind to Muslims, where will all of this
lead?
Graham said, “It wasn’t Methodists flying into those buildings, it wasn’t Lutherans. It was an attack on this
country by people of the Islamic faith.” And that’s why the latter are now favored guests at the White
House! Of course, the President is doing this to keep the Islamic states in line while we war against the
terrorists which these states harbor.
But if we are being encouraged by our born-again President to be kind to our Muslim neighbors, shouldn’t
Christians see this as a missionary opportunity? Why not introduce Muslims to the loving grace of Jesus
Christ? One of the reasons why Americans find it difficult to become friendly with Muslims is because
sooner or later their rabid hatred of Israel will surface. Americans in general don’t like to hate anybody, and
they are uncomfortable with people who are haters.
Christianity preaches love. Islam preaches hate. That is why hatred of Israel fills the psyche of so many
Muslims. Abnormal, pathological hatred is not healthy. It requires constant energy to be sustained at the
level it exists among Muslims. And that is why life is so miserable in many Islamic countries. And that is
why Palestinian refugees have preferred to remain in refugee camps for 50 years rather than do something
constructive with their lives. They prefer to live with festering, enduring hatred, and teach it to their
children, rather than accept forgiveness and peace. No true Christian could ever waste his life that way.
Yet, the United Nations aid agency accepts these refugee camps as perfectly normal for the Arab Muslims.
After World War II, millions of displaced persons found new constructive lives in countries all over the
world. But in the Middle East, Palestinian hatred is used to torment the world about Israel.
It is to be hoped that one of the first things the new government of Afghanistan might do is recognize Israel
and establish diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. It would signal a dramatic change in the attitude of
Muslims toward Israel.
Indeed, let us be loving and concerned with the well being of our Muslim citizens, and let us convey to
them that Jesus will save them from their sickening hatred and grant them life renewed.
(This article came from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives: The Blumenfeld Archive
The Blumenfeld Archives
