What is Islam? What Do Muslims Believe?
An overview of the Islamic religion
***PREFACE***
At the outset of this article, I want to acknowledge that there are many Muslims in Muslim countries who would love to be saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. They want to know the peace and love of Christ. They live in the midst of terror, the terror of Sharia law. Many of them have heard the whispers of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and want to know more, but it is hard to find information and one certainly does not ask around. Some are being saved, praise the Lord, by the blood of Jesus. But their salvation has come at a tremendous cost to themselves, sometimes their very lives. May God help the Muslim people and may God's people pray for them and care about them. If any Muslims viewing this page want to know how to have eternal life, please visit our How to Get to Heaven page or index page where there is a letter for you. Time is short, hell is real and today is the day of salvation--we are not promised tomorrow.
This page is a work in progress. In creating this page on Islam some years ago, at that time I drew very heavily from Robert Morey's book on this subject, "The Islamic Invasion: Confronting the World's Fastest Growing Religion" (published by Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, OR, 1992). I gleaned other information from my dealings with Muslims and from the internet. I am now revisiting this page and updating it at convenient seasons with titles, relative links, content, etc....
Strange, strange tenets Muhammad versus Jesus Black Muslim Movement The Quran vs. the Bible
Marriage and Women Allah vs. God Militant and murderous aspects The Genies
***A DOUBLE STANDARD***
Muslims strongly critize Christians and say that the Lord Jesus Christ is not the Son of God (in this they do greatly err, for the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Saviour of the world, and the ONLY means by which a man can be saved), YET they take personal offense at any criticism of Islam. They have tracts and apologetics against "Christianity," but they do not want anyone to examine their beliefs. In Muslim countries, any criticism of Muhammad or the Quran is viewed as a criminal offense punishable by death. Christians are considered infidels according to the Islamic religion. The Quran teaches that infidels convert to Islam or die. Read the section on this page entitled, "Why Muslims are so violent" for more information.
Mosques are popping up all over America, but how many churches are popping up in Muslim countries? How many Christians in the Sudan were killed at the hands of Muslims? How about in other parts of the world where Islam prevails? A search on the term, "Islam" at Voice of the Martyrs (
www.persecution.com ) will give a sampling of stories illustrating the treatment of Christians in Muslim countries. Why are they freely allowed in "western countries" and allowed to build mosques and preach overthrow? Treasonous politicians (American and otherwise) have sold their peoples down the river and opened their borders to their nation's enemies (not just Islam). See, "Islam: What the West Needs to Know." (
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-871902797772997781#) [Aside: Why have the governments of the world (not just America) turned on their own people? One needs to know THE MOTHER in order to understand what is happening. But she is a mystery (MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH, Rev 17:5), she has to be discovered to the Christian. None of the wicked shall understand (Dan 12:10). Our Deception Series, written for Christians, gives insight into what is happening into the world today.]
***SHARIA LAW***
Islam can have different faces. Islam in America is ostensibly much different from Islam in the Middle East. You may hear, "they are quiet, hard working people". That may be true; however, they are also in the minority and we still have police, guns, the national guard, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, and nuclear weapons. So yes, they may seem quiet enough, but they are not in power and are unable to establish their Muslim Sharia law. Do an internet search on "horrors of Sharia law" and see what you get. Excerpt #1--
Desperate stakes for women under Sharia
Examiner Editorial
August 10, 2010
The cover of the Aug. 9 issue of Time Magazine shows a photo of Aisha, an 18-year-old Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off in 2009 under orders from a local Taliban commander as punishment for fleeing her husband's home. (Jodi Bieber, Institute for Time Magaizne/AP)
It is impossible to view Time magazine's cover photograph of Aisha, an 18-year-old Afghan girl whose nose and ears were severed by her husband and brother-in-law on the order of a Taliban commander, without shuddering in recoil. Her "crime" was nothing more than fleeing the...home of in-laws who had beaten and enslaved her. That Aisha's only recourse in the face of such abuse was to run and hide is testimony to the reality that, in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world that Sharia law prevails, women are at best second-class citizens. Sharia is the vehicle by which the most oppressive tenets of extreme Islamic religion become the civil law of any society on which it is imposed. In many such places, daily life for women and girls remains today much as it was a millennium ago -- the unrelieved tedium, oppression and drudgery of chattel...
I once read that in one Muslim prison, 70% of the women in the prison were actually rape victims--under Sharia law, a rape victim is often considered an adultress. Excerpt #2--
On October 30, 2008, the United Nations condemned the stoning to death of Aisha Duhulowa, a 13-year-old girl who had been gang-raped and then sentenced to death by a Sharia court for fornication (Zina). She was screaming and begging for mercy, but when some family members attempted to intervene, shots were fired by the Islamic militia and a baby was killed.
Local Sharia courts in Bangladesh regularly punish raped minor girls and women by flogging and beating them with shoes.[1] Similar cases of punishing raped women are Mina v. the State, Bibi v. the State and Bahadur v. the State.[2] Sharia courts in Pakistan have punished thousands of raped women by long term imprisonment.[3] You might think that such horrific barbarity cannot be the real Sharia law; that it is a misapplication of the law by ignorant clergy. Sadly, neither is true...
[Aside: Unfortunately, the visible church is America (and much of the world) is fallen, worldly, materialistic, unholy, and apostate (I do not know of one good church). I believe that some Americans convert to Islam because they think that it is peaceful. People who are seeking peace and truth are looking in all sorts of directions in order to find it, but there is only one truth. Every religion is not right--they all contradict each other. There may be thousands of religions but there is only one true God. Those that want to know God may wish to see our article, "How to Get to Heaven".]
tob
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