Islam
is a religio-political doctrine, thus the policies of the State are
only half of the intellectual arsenal needed to address its cold war
with the West. For our civil society to survive the advance of
Islam, we must confront it head on to block its efforts to subjugate
all forms of government to Shariah law and to destroy all other forms
of faith. We must use both political and religious strategies to
successfully defeat Islamic supremacism.
In
the domain of politics, there exists an unfortunate failure of
imagination by our government elite to confront Islam ideologically.
There are a few brave Western politicians who have acknowledged the
fundamental threat posed by political Islam, but the large body of
our elected officials has, to its discredit, refused to accept the
fact that Islam’s codified doctrines promote an incessant march
toward world hegemony.
In
a similar manner, it is tragic that the Christian Church has neither
fully recognized nor embraced its role as the spiritual defender
of Western Civilization. In many ways the Church has actually aided
and abetted our enemies through its unwillingness to stand up for its
own values in the name of the dubiously noble ideals of diversity,
tolerance, and inter-faith dialogue. Now is the time for the
Christian Church to stop its dance with the devil, and she must don
her spiritual armor to prepare for a confrontation of ideas with
Islam.
If
not thwarted, Islam will do to the West what many other tyrannical
ideologies have attempted and at times succeeded in doing: Crush
all other systems of belief and dominate the culture at large. By its
own admission, Islam wishes to conquer the world, at least in part,
through the destruction of all other belief systems:
Qur'an
8:39 "And fight with them (ie--the unbelievers) until there is
no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah."
This
passage should serve as a warning to all of us. The Qur'an,
which Islam regards as the perfect, immutable words of Allah,
literally teaches Muslims to fight unbelievers indefinitely until
theirreligion reigns supreme. If the Church has any true
conviction that its heritage is worth protecting, it must pick up its
intellectual and spiritual arms and stand in the gap like the Mighty
Men of David. The Church must embrace the fact that Western
Civilization was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic, and that Islam
is dedicated to destroying that ethic. If the Church truly
believes that God did indeed endow all people with the rights of
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, she will defend Western
Civilization against Islam's anti-freedom manifesto.
Our
Founding Fathers recognized precisely that the government of the
United States of America would only be suitable, as John Adams put
it, to rule over a “moral and religious people” and it was
Biblical morals in large measure that gave men like Adams, Jefferson,
and Madison the ideological firepower to fight for our divine and
inalienable rights. The Church, then, must with great conviction
counteract the advance of Islam by asserting the goodness of its own
values and decrying the Islamic values that are incompatible with our
society. The Church simply cannot sit by silently ignoring that
Islamic doctrine treats violence, oppression, and hatred by Muslims
toward the rest of the world as holy behaviors.
Let us take a moment to look at the
example of history. In the first three centuries after the time
of Christ, the two most significant threats to the Christian
community were 1) physical persecution by the pagan state of Rome and
2) the ideological poison of heretical doctrine propagated by false
teachers. The ultimate objective of these persecutors was the
destruction of the Church and the culture it was promoting. The
pagan persecution meant suffering and death by the sword, with the
intent to drive the Church into submission to the state. The
purveyors of religious heresy concurrently sought to destroy the
Church by drawing believers into unorthodox belief systems. It
was up to the pastors of the Early Church to protect their
congregations from these persecutions and topromote the values of
Judeo-Christianity in the culture at large.
The
Early Church Fathers, to their credit and unlike today’s
politically correct elites in both religious and secular circles, did
not shrink back from taking strong positions to defend their faith
and the culture that it was creating. These martyrs were unashamed
and were emboldened to advance their faith even when facing violent
opposition. They actively chose to contradict false doctrines thrown
at the Church, because they believed wholeheartedly in their own. The
modern Church would do well to follow the example of her religious
forbears in this regard.
In the
confrontation with modern paganism, embodied by various forms of
collectivism, the contemporary Church is indeed fighting back against
the destructive by-products of those ideologies. When it comes to
religious threats, however, the modern Church has lost its spine. The
strength that the early Christians had in fighting toxic religious
doctrine has largely disappeared. It is rare to find a Christian who
can articulate why his religious values are so effective and why
those of Islam are not. As such, the Church must reach into its
history and learn a lesson or two, in order to battle Islam as the
heresy it is.
The
Church must stand up for its values because it is within societies
based on Biblical traditions that freedom in all its forms has
flourished. The Church needs to boldly tell the world that it
stands for liberty for all people, because freedom is a divinely
ordained right of mankind. The Church must repudiate Islam, which
defines Allah with the worst qualities of man’s image, complete
with a nature of deception, violence, hatred, and so forth, as a
heretical doctrine that undermines the tenets of liberty.
The
Christian community must acknowledge the threat of Islam—with its
holy calls to kill unbelievers wherever they are found (Qur’an
9:5), its oppression of women (Qur’an 4:32-34), and its
dehumanization of unbelievers (Qur’an 98:6). The Church must go
head-to-head with Islam on the religious front, call out its false
doctrines, and diminish its power of persuasion in the marketplace of
ideas. As an active and unapologetic Christian, I am calling my
spiritual brethren to action. It is time for the Christian
devout to engage Islam much like the primitive Church did in
confronting the dangerous heresies that threatened its existence and
seek to win a victory for its ideals – those that form the basis of
Western Civilization.
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