“The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”1
In addressing the challenges the world is facing today caused by radical Muslims, we continue yesterday’s message by the unknown author who reminds us that: “It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the ‘peaceful majority’ the ‘silent majority’ is cowed and extraneous.
“Communist Russia comprised Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.
“China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
“The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the Systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet.
“And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving’?
“History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
“Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awake one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
“Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up, take action, until it was too late.
“As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
“Lastly, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, can contribute to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand.
“So, please extend yourself and send this article on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands [even millions]—world wide—will read this message, think about it, and send it on. Actions speak!”2
Suggested prayer: “Dear God, as Jesus instructed us, help us to love our enemies and even those who want to kill us. But also help us to be very much aware of their evil devices and be prepared and ‘arm’ ourselves appropriately. Give us the wisdom to know what we need to do and the courage to do it. And help us to reach every Muslim and every non-Christian worldwide with your saving gospel message, and grant that multitudes will turn from darkness to the glorious light of your truth. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully in Jesus’ name, amen.”
For a comparison grid between what Christians and Muslims believe go to:
http://www.carm.org/islam/grid.htm
1. 2 Corinthians 4:4 (NIV).
2. Author unknown. Submitted by Frank Feracco.
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