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Mike Scruggs
At President Obama’s September 25 address to the United Nations,
he made a statement, which without doubt, pleased the leaders of its
56 predominantly Muslim member nations. But it justified alarm
among Christians who are knowledgeable of both Islam’s doctrinal ideology
and their own Biblical faith. The President strongly asserted that:
"The future must not belong to those
who slander the Prophet of Islam."
This is a far more serious statement than many people realize. Any criticism,
slighting, or subordination of Muhammad or Islam is considered blasphemy
in Islamic doctrine and Sharia Law, even punishable by death. One of
the major tenets of Biblically based Christianity is that
salvation is through Christ Alone. John
14: 6 states, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes
to the Father except through me." (ESV) Christianity and Islam thereby stand in direct
contradiction. Quoting any Bible verse or stating any doctrine touching
salvation through Jesus is thus "slander" against Islam. In
fact, any failure to acknowledge and submit to Muhammad as Allah's Prophet
is considered slander
.
Obama then went on smoozing the UN and the U.S. press about tolerance
and free speech. However, if you are familiar with Obama's attempts to
take Christ and the Bible out of military hospitals, restrict military
chaplains from praying in Christ's name, and other actions marginalizing
Christianity and its symbols, you know this is pure hypocrisy. Since
last December, on Obama's behalf, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
has been working with the 56-member nation Organization for Islamic Cooperation
(OIC) on ways to enforce a United Nations resolution against "Islamophobia"
(proven by any criticism of Islam) in the United States and other Western
nations. Under this resolution, "Islamophobia" would be a
hate crime. So while Obama is smoozing everybody about free speech and
tolerance, behind the curtains, he is working on marginalizing Christianity
by making Christian speech a hate crime against Islam.
In his 2008 book
, The Audacity of Hope,
page 261, he states:
"I will stand with the Muslims should
the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Yet in the body of his speech, Obama refers to himself as a Christian:
"Like me, the majority of Americans are Christian." On this,
I can only quote Matthew 7:16:
"You will recognize them by their fruits.
Are grapes gathered from thorn bushes or figs from thistles?"
In a March 2012 article, David Barton lists 25 instances of Obama’s
hostility toward Biblical faith since 2008, of which 9 involve suppressing
Christianity in the military. He lists 17 Obama acts of hostility toward
Biblical values and 8 acts favoring Islam over Christianity since 2009.
One of the more flagrant demonstrations of
anti-Christian Obama policy was a new set of guidelines issued for
friends and family visiting sick and wounded soldiers at Walter Reed
Military Hospital in December 2011. Those Navy Department guidelines
stated, “No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading material, and/or
artifacts are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.”
Following sharp criticism from Republicans in Congress, the guidelines
are now being revised, but Christianity has continued to be under siege
by the Obama administration.
During his 2008 campaign, Obama described conservatives as "clinging
to guns or religion." More recently, there was the National Democrat
Party Convention. Not only did the delegates boo at the thought of
putting God back into their platform, they rejected the welcome gifts of
approximately 100 Charlotte area churches because those churches were
pro-life. Abortion on demand has become a litmus test of Democrat Party
ideology and loyalty. Only the impending election has slowed the Obama
administration from tightening the noose around Christianity and free
speech.
Seven times in his speech, Obama blamed Muslim unrest
and the recent murder of the American Ambassador to Libya and three
other American Embassy personnel on an amateur video critical of Muhammad
and Islam. Yet few people in any country had ever seen this video, and
it became immediately evident that the September 11 attack on the embassy
was a premeditated Islamic terrorist attack by Al Qaida agents, who
probably selected the attack date to coincide with the eleventh anniversary
of the 9-11. Having little regard for the real truth, however,
Obama tried to attribute the attacks to the broader issue of “Islamophobia,”
a propaganda term developed by the Muslim Brotherhood to suppress free
speech about the violence, persecution, and genocide perpetrated in
the name of Islam.
Obama’s foreign policy regarding Egypt has resulted
in Muslim Brotherhood control and a grave danger to Israel’s security.
Since then, the Coptic Christian minority—between 10 to 15 percent
of Egypt’s 81 million people—has come under violent persecution
and property confiscations resulting in widespread Christian exodus.
I do not believe Barack Obama is a full-fledged Muslim,
but he strongly favors Islam over any orthodox or solidly Biblical form
of Christianity. During the formative days of his youth, his worldview
was more strongly shaped by Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party
USA propagandist. Jeremiah Wright ‘s heretical Black Liberation Theology
is also thoroughly leftist. A central tenet of Communist and all Marxist
ideology is that the influence of Christianity must be removed before
an all-powerful socialist state can gain and retain power.
Obama’s religious agenda is a mixture of Marxist
and Islamic influence. Both are totalitarian and strongly anti-Christian
ideologies. His “transformational change” of American society includes
marginalizing Biblical teachings and worldviews. A tree is known by
its fruit.
In the Welsh patriotic anthem,
"Men
of Harlech," there is a verse that is appropriate here:
"Men of Harlech stop your dreaming.
Can't you see their spear points gleaming?"