You know how they stopped all of that crusade violence last time, don't
you?

Yeah.. they just got out of the middle east and went home.

Islam, Religion of Peace!?
November 2005 version
Revelation 17:5-6 "And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON
the GREAT, The MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. I saw
the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the
martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement."
(NKJV)


After Communism, the ideology that has killed the most Christians in the
20th century is Islam.


Jeremiah 8:11-12 "They dress the wound of my people as though it were not
serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace. Are they ashamed
of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; ."


The sword on the bottom of the flag of Saudi Arabia gives use a clue: Islam
is the World's Most Violent Religion Today.


Muslims Have Said Islam is a Religion of Peace - But Where?


In Nigeria? In 1987 churches were set on fire in Kaduna and Kafanchan and
Muslims killed hundreds of Christians.


In Algeria? Algerian Muslim students in the Houston admit that those who
convert from Islam are killed in their country.


In the Sudan? Muslim are enslaving and selling women and children of the
Dinka tribe according to the London Economist. The May 4, 1992 special ed.
of Newsweek on slavery also reported that Muslims are still enslaving blacks
as did the Austin American Statesman on 2/2/1996. Reader's Digest 3/1996
p.77-81 "Slavery's Shameful Return to Africa" is a heart-wrenching account
of oppression today. Also, mosques are being bombed by Muslims of different
groups.


In Egypt? A Muslim doctor was stabbed by a Muslim extremist. His crime? -
treating a Christian stabbed by a Muslim extremist.


In Iran? On 13/3/1990 Iranian Christian pastor Rev. Hussein Soodmand was
taken from his prison cell and executed because 21 years earlier he had
converted from Islam to Christianity. Besides Christians, Baha'is, Sufis,
and Zoroastrians have also been killed by government authorities.


In Afghanistan, the Sunni Taliban massacred about 3,000 Shi'ite Hazaris.
This was probably in revenge for Hazaris massacring about 2,000 Taliban
fighters earlier in the war.


In Tajikistan, there has been a brutal civil war that pitted Muslims against
Muslims.


In Pakistan, a teenage girl was executed for converting from Islam to
Christianity. Small Muslim sects, such as the Ahmaddiya, are by law
persecuted by the authorities in Pakistan.


In the Qur'an? "Kill them, and Allah will torment them by your hands. He
will humiliate them and give you victory over them." (Sura 9:14) "Fight
those who believe not. even if they be People of the book [Christians and
Jews] until they have willingly agreed to pay the Jizya tribute in
recognition of their submissive state." (Sura 9:29)


In Iraq, so far I have not heard of any persecution of Christians more than
any other groups. Perhaps Iraq today, that pristine paragon of peace, is
where Islam is most like a religion of peace.


Conclusion: Islam is the most warlike and violent major world religion
today.


Do Christians Worship the Same God as Allah?

When Muslims are trying to put a favorable "face" on Islam they say they are
the same? However, let's see what other Muslims say.


In Egypt Muslim extremists burned three churches in September 1991 and beat
a number of people, six in critical condition. They chanted "There is no God
but Allah and Copts [Coptic Christians] are the enemies of Allah" (Reach Out
to the Muslim World April 1992 p.18)


In Iran before his death, Khomeini wrote, "Any man or woman who denies the
existence of God, or believes in his partners (Trinity), or else does not
believe in his prophet Mohammed, is impure in the same way as are excrement,
urine, dog, and wine." (Sayings of the Ayatollah Khomeini p.51) (quoted from
Reach Out to the Muslim World April 1992 p.21)


In Malaysia they do not have violent persecution of Christians, though the
government destroyed a new Christian church in a mainly Christian village.
But they have a law that no literature (Christian or otherwise) can say that
the God of Christianity and Islam are the same. Malaysians are Sunni
Muslims.


Three Clues to Figure Out if Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God

When Muslims kill Christians because of their worship and beliefs.

When Muslims destroy houses of Christian worship, that [allegedly] provide
worship to the same God.

When Christians in Malaysia can only purchase Bibles through specialized
Christian centers, and only Bibles that do NOT use "Allah" as a word for God
are permitted.


Muslims might ask, if "Christianity is more peaceful that Islam, what about
the Crusades?" That is a fair question, and there are three points in the
answer.

1. The so-called "Christian" Crusades were against the teaching of Jesus and
the New Testament. Crusades were even launched against genuine Christians,
such as the Waldenses!

2. Europeans learned about religious Crusades from the Muslims. They started
when Muslims harassed Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem.

3. The Crusades and Muslim Jihads were really not so different after all.
Muslims even slaughtered great numbers of fellow Muslims because of
religion.

4. We should not glorify those in history who participated in Jihads and
Crusades, and that includes Mohammed.


Crusades ("Christian" Jihads)

1096-1099 1st Crusade (~70K Crusaders)

1120 Turks and Isma'ilis defeat 25K (Muslim) Nusayris

1147-1149 2nd Crusade, British capture Lisbon, Portugal

1162 Frederick I razes Milan, Italy

1189-1192 3rd Crusade

1202-1204 4th Crusade

1212 5th (Children's Crusade) 100k kids killed/captured

1218-1221 5/6th Crusade

1228-1229 6/7th Crusade

1229/30-1279 Teutonic Knights conquer pagan Slavs

1240 At Novgorod, Russians defeat Swedish invaders

1248-c.1291 7/8th Crusade

1262-1492 Spanish recapture Spain from Moors


UnChrist-like Aspects of the Crusades

1096 Soldiers of the First Crusade kill Jews

1097 Crusaders kill Nusayris at Mt. Lebanon

1204 Crusaders sack Constantinople for unpaid debts

1244 Massacre of Cathari at Beziers, 20K killed

1244 Burning of Cathari at Minerve 140 killed

1444 At Varna on Black Sea Turks defeat Crusaders

1487-1488 Crusade against the Bible-believing Waldenses


Jihads (Muslim Crusades)

632-642 2nd Phase of Muslim Conquests, Syria, Persia, Egypt, Cyrene

642-661 3rd phase, Armenia, Anatolia, Cyprus, rest of Libya

661-750 4th phase of Muslim conquests, Khazars, Spain

750-945 5th phase of Muslim Conquests, Afghanistan, part of Italy

969 Fatimids defeat other Muslims to conquer Egypt

1000-1025 Mahmud of Ghazni (Afghanistan) raids India

1039-1194 Seljuk Turks conquer much of the Muslim world

1364-1405 Tamerlane (fought more Muslims than non-)

1280-1919 Ottoman Empire

1354 Turks overrun Balkans, win at Kosovo in 6/27-28/1389

1453 100K Turks conquer Constantinople


"Distinctives" Muslim Holy Wars

732 Abd-ar-Rahman sacks St. Hilaire monastery

1076-1077 Muslims raze Ghana's capital

1084 Muslim Ghazni sacks Somnath, India - 50K

1168 Saladin recaptures Cairo Egypt from Fatimids

1175 Mahmud of Ghazni fights in India

1235 Muslims capture Ujjain, Central India

1260-1518 Mamelukes of Egypt persecute Nusayris

1300's Mamelukes conquer Christian Maqurra kingdom

More Jihad "Distinctives"

1320 Muslims destroy 60 Coptic churches

1324 Sultan of Delhi conquers Kalinga on the East India coast

1357 Tamerlane has a hill of 70K skulls at Isfahan, Iran

1398 Invades India because the Muslim Sultans were "too tolerant" of their
Hindu subjects

1399 Tamerlane builds a great mosque in Samarkand

1401 Tamerlane sacks Baghdad, killing 20K


Wars in the Old Testament

Different under the Old Testament theocracy

Canaanite religion was horrible with infant sacrifice and ritual
prostitution

Christ never said to fight anybody

In loving others, we have a higher standard today (except that many Muslims
disagree)


Summary

A Muslim named Al-Mughirah bin Shu'ban said, ".We [all] entered his religion
[Islam] either out of conviction or by coercion." al-Tabari vol.12 p.137

".you should know that Paradise is under the shade of swords." Abu Dawud
vol.2:2625 p.727

Fighting is jihad. Abu Dawud vol.2:2503-2504 p.693