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“Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills
you will think that he offers God service” (John 16:2).
The Time Has Come
By de Andréa, Opinion Editorialist
for ‘THE BOTTOM LINE’:
Published September 25, 2015
What is it about the
Christian cross that makes some Muslims react so violently?
The fact is, Islamic
hostility to the cross is an unwavering fact of life — one that crosses
continents and centuries; one that is very much indicative of Islam’s innate
hostility to Christianity. But it’s more
than that.
Any cult or ideology
that identifies with Satan or satanic and demonic beliefs such as Communistis,
Nazism and Islam are repulsed by the Cross.
Last May in Italy, a
Muslim boy of African origin beat a 12-year-old girl during school because she
was wearing a crucifix around her neck. The African schoolboy, who had
only started to attend the school approximately three weeks earlier, began to
bully the Christian girl — “insulting her and picking on her in other ways all
because she was wearing the crucifix” — before he finally
punched the girl violently in the back.
It starts with doctrine and history
Because the Christian cross is
the quintessential symbol of Christianity — for all denominations, including
most forms of otherwise iconoclastic Protestantism — it has been a despised
symbol in Islam.
According to the
Conditions of Omar — a medieval text which lays out
the many humiliating stipulations conquered Christians must embrace to preserve
their lives and which Islamic history attributes to the second “righteous
caliph,” Omar al-Khattab — Christians are
“not
to display a cross [on churches]… and “not to produce a cross or [Christian]
book in the markets of the Muslims.”
The reason for this
animosity is not only that the cross symbolizes the fundamental disagreement
between Christians and Muslims, but it is also a spiritual repulsion. Just as one might cross fingers in the face
of a perceived demonic episode.
According to Dr.
Sidney Griffith, author of
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque, “The cross and the icons publicly declared those very points of
Christian faith which the Koran, in the Muslim view, explicitly denied: that
Christ was the Son of God and that he died on the cross.” Thus
“the Christian practice of
venerating the cross and the icons of Christ and the saints often aroused the
disdain of Muslims,” so that there was an ongoing
“campaign to erase the public
symbols of Christianity, especially the previously ubiquitous sign of the
cross.”
Islam’s hostility to
the cross, like all of Islam’s hostilities, begins with the Muslim prophet
Muhammad. He reportedly “had such a
repugnance to the form of the cross that he
broke everything brought into his house with its figure upon it” and once
ordered someone wearing a cross to (written in Arabic)
“take off that piece of
idolatry.” Moreover, Muhammad claimed that at the end times Jesus
himself would make it a point to
“break the cross” — an assertion the
Islamic State regularly makes. This is
caused by the demonic spiritual reaction of Islam to the Cross of Jesus Christ
the Son of God.
Islamic history ever
since Muhammad is riddled with anecdotes of Muslims cursing and breaking crosses.
Prior to the Battle of Yarmuk in 636, which pitted the earliest invading Muslim
armies against the existing Byzantine Empire, Khalid bin al-Walid, the savage “
Sword of Allah,” told the Christians that if
they wanted peace they must
“break the cross” and embrace Islam,
or pay the Jizya tribute and live in subjugation —
just as his Islamic State successors are doing today in direct emulation. The
Byzantines opted for war.
In Egypt, Saladin (d.
1193) — regularly touted in the West for his “magnanimity” — ordered “the removal of every cross from
atop the dome of every church in the provinces of Egypt,” in the words of The History of the Patriarchate of
the Coptic Egyptian Church.
Continuity
Centuries later, not much has changed concerning Islam’s
position towards the cross, though much has changed in Western perceptions.
Europe: Growing Violence against the Cross
In other words, an African boy
punching a Christian girl in Italy for her crucifix is part of a long continuum
of Islamic demonic hostility for the cross. Perhaps he learned this
hatred in mosque — the same European mosques where Islamic State
representatives call Muslims to jihad?
The More that a Muslim is drawn to reach the satanic core of Islam the
more demonic he becomes and the more repulsive and hostel toward the truth of
the Cross he becomes
. From
so-called moderate Islam to Islamic -Jihad.
In America the
crosses at the Georgetown University a Catholic College in Washington D.C. are
being removed or covered because Saudi Arabia is a major financial supporter of
the University.
Isn’t it fair and logical to say that before we put
a show of unity and acceptance with Muslims, let’s have them begin by
respecting our civilization and our culture? We shouldn’t minimize the
importance of certain signals; we must wake up now or our children will suffer
the consequences of this dangerous and demonic Islamic invasion.
Nor is Italy the only
European nation experiencing this phenomenon. In neighboring
France, a “young Muslim” committed major acts of vandalism at two
churches. Along with twisting a massive bronze cross, he overturned and
broke two altars, the candelabras and lecterns, destroyed statues, tore down a
tabernacle, smashed in a sacristy door and even broke some stained-glass
windows. (
Click for images.)
And in Germany, a
Turkish man who checked himself into a hospital for treatment went into a
sudden frenzy because there were “
too many crosses on the wall.” He called the nurse a
“bitch” and “fascist” and became physically aggressive.
Of course, other times Europeans willingly capitulate to
Islamic hostility for the cross. Real Madrid, a professional football (soccer) team in Spain,
stripped the traditional Christian cross from its club crest as part of a deal with the National Bank of Abu Dhabi — “so
as not to offend Muslim sensibilities in the United Arab Emirates.”
And in the United Kingdom, offensive crucifixes are being removed from prisons
in order not to offend Muslim inmates (who are further provided with food baths
for Islamic rituals).
Muslim World: Christians Killed for the Cross
If
this is how some Muslims react to the Christian cross in Europe — where Muslims
are aware of their outnumbered, minority status — how do other Muslims react to
the cross in the Islamic world, where vastly outnumbered and ostracized
Christian “infidels” are easy prey?
The answer is
murderous — literally, Christians are being murdered by demonic Muslims
provoked at the sight of the cross.
Once
they [Brotherhood rioters] saw that she was a Christian [because of the cross
hanging on her rearview mirror], they jumped on top of the car, to the point
that the vehicle was no longer visible. The roof of the car collapsed in.
When they realized that she was starting to die, they pulled her out of the car
and started pounding on her and pulling her hair — to the point that portions
of her hair and scalp came off. They kept beating her, kicking her,
stabbing her with any object or weapon they could find…. Throughout [her
ordeal] she tried to protect her face, giving her back to the attackers, till
one of them came and stabbed her right in the back, near the heart, finishing
her off. Then another came and grabbed her by the hair, shaking her head,
and with the other hand slit her throat. Another pulled her pants off, to
the point that she was totally naked.
In response, the
Coptic Christian Church issued the following
statement: “Oh how lucky you are, Mary, you who are beloved of Christ.
They tore your body because of the Cross. Yet they offered you the
greatest service and gave you a name of honor as one who attained the crown of
martyrdom.” The statement also quoted Christ’s warning to believers:
“Yes,
the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God
service” (John 16:2).
In October 2011,
seventeen-year-old Ayman Nabil Labib, a Coptic student, was strangled and
beaten to death by his Muslim teacher and some fellow students — simply for
refusing to obey the teacher’s orders to remove his cross. Student eyewitnesses
present during the assault said that while Ayman was in the classroom he was
told to cover up his tattooed wrist cross, which many Copts wear. Not only did
he refuse, but he defiantly produced the pectoral cross he wore under his
shirt, which prompted the enraged Muslim teacher and students to beat the
Christian youth to death.
Christians ‘Killed’ Again for the Cross
If some Muslims kill the wearers of the cross, so do they disturb
the slumber of those already dead for having the cross on their tombstones. A
few of the many examples follow:
·
Libya, March 2012: A video of a
Muslim mob attacking a commonwealth cemetery near Benghazi appeared on the
internet. As the Muslims kicked down and destroyed headstones with
crosses on them, the man videotaping them urged them to “Break the cross of the
dogs!” while he and others cried “Allahu Akbar!” Towards the end of the
video, the mob congregated around the huge Cross of Sacrifice, the cemetery’s
cenotaph monument, and started to hammer at it, to more cries of “Allahu
Akbar.” Other
Christian cemeteries in post-“Arab
Spring” Libya have suffered similarly.
France, April 2015:
Christian crosses and gravestones in a cemetery were damaged and
desecrated by a Muslim. After being
apprehended, he was described as follows: “The man repeats Muslim prayers over
and over, he drools and cannot be communicated with: his condition has been
declared incompatible with preliminary detention.” He was hospitalized as
“mentally unbalanced.” (See his
handiwork.)
·
One can go on and on
with more recent examples of Islam’s hostility to the cross. On April 19
in “moderate” Malaysia
, a Muslim mob rioted against a
small Protestant church due to the visible cross atop the building of
worship. It was quickly removed.
From an African School Boy in Italy to ISIS
In light of the above, it should come as no surprise that
the Islamic State — “ISIS” — also exhibits violence to the Christian
cross. In its communiques to the West, hostile reference to the cross is often made: “We
will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the
permission of Allah…. [We will cast] fear into the hearts of the cross worshippers….
After
carving
the heads of Coptic Christians off in Libya, the lead executioner waved his
dagger at the camera and said, “Oh people, recently you have seen us on the
hills of as-Sham and Dabiq’s plain [Syrian regions], chopping off the heads
that have been carrying the cross for a long time. And today, we are on
the south of Rome, on the land of Islam, Libya, sending another message.”
He concluded by declaring: “We will fight you [Christians/Westerners]
until Christ descends, breaks the cross and kills the pig”
(all eschatological actions ascribed to the Muslim “Christ,” Isa).
THE BOTTOM LINE: The Islamic State has committed countless atrocities against
and because of the cross: it made and disseminated a video showing its
members
smashing crosses in and atop churches in territories under its sway;
it beheaded and
stabbed a man with his own crucifix after it exposed him as a
Christian; and it
published pictures of its members destroying Christian crosses and tombstones
in cemeteries under its jurisdiction – and quoted Islamic
scriptures justifying its actions.
Careful readers will
note the similar parallels here: destroying crosses in churches and cemeteries
and even killing Christian “infidels” for wearing them, as documented above, is
not limited to “ISIS” but is happening all around the Muslim world, and even in
Europe and will soon be happening in America as well.
In short, Islam’s
age-old hatred for the Christian cross — and what it represents — is not a
product of the Islamic State, but is inherent of the satanic ideology of Islam.
When the man in the audience
of a Trump campaign speech, said “America has a Muslim problem”, both he and
Trump were ridiculed by the press. Why?
Because it is the truth. Proof that the evil spirit of Islam controls the minds
of the ignorantly deceived West.
Unless we wake up to
this deception Freedom will soon be a lost memory of the past.
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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