The Cross Against the Crescent

The Cross Against the Crescent

1.1 As I considered the impending celebrations and protests around 9/11/2011, the tenth anniversary of the most devastating Islamic terrorist attack on my nation, I suddenly saw a new and strange image. In the South, I had worshiped at several churches, and visited many more. Every one of them had an American flag, either on a flagpole outside or set on the left side of the auditorium stage. I have not visited a New England church yet, but expect to see the same display of loyalty to the United States and our Constitution. Such were the pictures in my mind.

1.2 Yet at that moment, I realized that of all the mosques I had seen, whether in person or in images, I had never seen our flag displayed. I went online, and assiduously studied images of mosques all around the US. The Stars and Stripes were nowhere to be found, not on a pole, neither inside, not anywhere. The mosques stood boldly, squarely, set like fortresses, minarets towering above their surroundings. There was not a US flag among them.

1.3 The implication rang like a bell. Even if a church, or a Jewish temple, had no US flag on its property, it would not sound an alarm. Neither Christianity nor Judaism was involved in attacking this nation on 9/11. The assault was intrinsically Islamic, complete with the takfir, “Allahu akbar!” Since then, we have seen numerous Islamic attacks in America.

1.4 We have witnessed the massacre of 13 people and the wounding of 29 others at Fort Hood, Texas, by one Major Nidal Hasan. Like the 9/11 Islamokaze killers, Hasan shouted, “Allahu akbar!" We have witnessed too many (when even one would be too many) women and girls killed for an inherently abusive sense of “honor” (which somehow applies only to females).

1.5 This heartbreaking list includes Amina and Sarah Said, whose father, Yaser Said, molested them when they were young. When as teens they showed interest in non-Muslim life and non-Muslim boys, Said brutally shot them both to death. 1/1/2008. Then after this crime against womanhood, like a true soldier of Allah, he ran away into hiding. As of this writing, Yaser Said is still at large.

1.6 Compared to people who practice such barbarity, neither Christian nor Jew needs to display outward signs of loyalty. Neither Christian nor Jew is inclined to execute his daughters, much less for the sake of “honor”. Such behavior is extremely unwelcome in any civilized nation, and must be met with steely resistance.

1.7 Now concerning loyalty: the US was and is a Christian nation [1]; and Israel, nation of the Jews, is both our ally and the light of the Middle East. Neither Christians nor Jews need to show the American flag on their houses of worship to prove adherence to civilized standards of behavior or national identity, although the display of colors is always welcome.

1.8 Muslims are another story. Although they have been in America, often in small or dispersed populations, since at least the 17th century, they have as a group never assimilated to American values or customs. Indeed, as their numbers have grown in the last century (due to immigration, reproduction, and conversion), Muslims have grown farther apart from the spirit and practice of being American. The outrage of “honor” killings and domestic terrorism are only two of many evidences that Islam seeks to separate itself from Western society.

1.9 Muslim separation arises from the Qur’an as well as the Hadith and Sunna, which teach a world view as opposed to ours, as the barren surface of the moon is to the lush richness of Earth. It is indeed as though the majority of Muslims came from another planet, or at least another age.

2.0 Americans and Europeans who cling to utopian multicultural ideology, are aggravating this separation. They encourage Muslims, or people of other nationalities, simply to remain as they came off the boat; or even to remake America in their own image. For example, today’s Boston Globe had a front-page article about Muslims in America. An image of smiling young women with colorful hijabs wrapped around their heads led into the article, which said under its title,

“It was hard to be a Muslim child after 9/11, and it stayed hard for a while. But edges softened and the children have grown up, defining for themselves an American way.”
(By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff, 9/8/11; italics mine, JEB)

2.1 Those last six words stuck out at me like the flag-less fortress of a mosque. “Defining for themselves an American way”? At first I thought it was a stylistic error, but in context with the celebration of 9/11, in which Americans ought to unite for our nation and against especially Islamic terrorism, the meaning was unmistakable: followers of Mohammed do not need to assimilate to American values; they can define America for themselves.

2.2  I beg to differ. As an observer of the agonies of Europe with their “immigrants” or “Asians”, I am acutely aware that Muslim immigrants, as a group and with some exceptions, intend not only to avoid assimilation to our values, but instead to assimilate us to theirs. Whereas other immigrants from the Jews to the Japanese have learned to accept American or European ways (while keeping their own customs in “Germantowns” and “Little Italies”), Mohammedans will have no such peaceful entry to civilized society. In fact, they strive for a universal caliphate, in which all nations submit to Allah and obey shari’a law: quite simply, they want to take over the world.

2.3 Since its inception, Islam has been waging jihad, holy war, on other cultures. From the conquest of Mecca in 630; to over a thousand years of medieval aggression against the Byzantine Empire in the West, as well as against China in the East; to the Siege of Vienna in 1683, to the ancient racial hatred and continued war and atrocities in Sudan; to the mass destruction of the World Trade Center almost ten years ago; to the massacre of school children in Beslan in 2004; to the 7/7/05 bombings in London, and to this very day in the news:

“Berlin police on Thursday searched a mosque in the capital after arresting two suspects on charges of acquiring chemicals for a bomb attack in a raid in Kreuzberg and Neukoelln districts.” (Freedom Current, 9/8/11).

From its first moments to this moment, for almost 1400 years, Islam has waged war against the civilized world.

2.4 I know too well that Christianity has also perpetrated foul crimes; indeed some of them have been as barbaric as any Islamic jihad. I know also that other religions and ideologies have caused bloodshed and grief. I am sure that somewhere, sometime, even the peaceful followers of Buddha have waged war against someone. But with Islam there are three differences.

2.5 First of all, jihad is an integral part of the Islamic ideological system. The example of Mohammed, who was essentially a glorified warlord, with the Qur’an and other scriptures, make it explicitly clear that Mohammedans are commanded to fight the infidel until “the only worship is Allah’s” [2].

2.6 Therefore the Islamic call to the infidel nations is now as it always has been: We are first offered a chance to convert to Islam; if not, we may pay the jizya or poll tax and become dhimmis,  second class citizens in an Islamicized nation; if we refuse this, we will face the howling hordes of Mohammed in battle.

2.7 The oft-heard apology that only a minority of Muslims are terrorists or “extremists” (whatever that means), would be laughable if it were not so deadly wrong. In fact, the “extremists” are the most faithful to the letter of the word of Allah. They are true disciples of their master, Mohammed, and they walk in all his bloody footsteps.

2.8 Imagine that a Bible-believing church, true disciples of Christ (Acts 11.26), had a mandate to take over the world not by the Gospel but by force. Their mission was not to “make disciples of all nations” (Matt 28.19), but to “bring all nations into submission to God”. Now imagine that the church had branches in practically every nation, and that many of the disciples were more than willing to die for their master. Add modern weapons, including in some cases nuclear arms, and you have Islam in the year 2011.  

2.9 The second difference with Islam is that, over the past 1400 years, the Islamic lust for land, loot, and other things has not abated. It is as though Islam, unlike Judaism or Christianity, became developmentally delayed in the Dark Ages. Again, obedience to the word of Allah and the example of the Prophet still drive the disciple of Mohammed. There are whispered voices of reform, of assimilation to civilized values, but as yet they are few and far between. Even as I write, the Mohammedan mountain of bloody bodies and ruined nations rises higher.

3.0 Third, and perhaps most disturbing: Islam wages war against every culture it contacts. I am not familiar with any race or religion within its reach that has not felt the bite of the scimitar. When they are not busy killing one another over religious issues, Mohammedans wage jihad against the infidels. “Allahu akbar!”, “God is great!” is less a word of praise than a cry of war.


3.1 Given that Europe, if it survives its current multicultural madness, will raise itself and fight mightily against the Islamic jihad; and given that resistance movements in that once-proud continent have the Cross of Christ as part of their symbols, it becomes ever clearer that the present war is a continuation of an ancient struggle: the Cross against the Crescent.

3.2 The nation with the highest percentage of Christians, particularly evangelical Protestants and other activist denominations, is the United States of America. According to the Pew Forum, in 2007, 79.4% of Americans self-identified as Christians, and of those, 26.3 % were evangelicals. Compared to these numbers, the entire Islamic population of the US, from nominal Muslims to fiery disciples of Mohammed, was only 0.6%.

3.3 Yet from this miniscule number have come the Hasans, the Somali gangsters, and the despicable “honor” killers. The civilized people of America, as well as of Europe, Australia, and of nations all over the world, have to face this threat with a will of steel.

3.4 The Cross of Christ is rising against the Crescent of Mohammed. All free people, whether Christian or Jew or Atheist (and yes, reformed Muslim also), must gather to drive out the army of Islam; for if the Crescent should prevail over the Cross, the unbeliever will die a worse death than the believer. Christians and Jews could at least live as dhimmis; no such provision exists for Atheists, nor for pagans, whom the Qur’an calls mushrikun. We must all put our differences aside to stop the juggernaut of jihad.

3.5 As I complete this writing, I again imagine the stark fortress of the mosque. The Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Erdogan, once said, “Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." (Daniel Pipes, re: BBC News, 2002) For the Mohammedan, the very house of worship is a symbol of war. For anyone still caught in the multicultural misconception that Islam is a “religion of peace," this declaration should awaken the soundest sleeper.

3.6 Personally, I wish the disciples of Mohammed were truly peaceful, or at least would confine themselves to hateful words like those of the Westboro Batpist Church. Even those who preach, “God hates (fill in the blank)”, at least do not bomb Gay bars or open fire at military funerals. Even though their message is false, because based entirely on the Old Testament law, with not a grain of the Gospel: still I would rather have millions of Westboro people around, than have American women gang-raped because they were “indecently dressed”.

3.7 I will stand shoulder to shoulder with anyone, of any persuasion, who opposes the Islamic jihad, shari’a law, and that world-class criminal, Mohammed. We can and will deal with our differences in civil debate, when the Cross has at last crushed the Crescent. We must ensure that we have remaining to us and to our children, a civilization which allows us the freedom to debate our heads off. For if we fail in this, the disciples of Mohammed will take off those heads.

John E. Billings
9/10/11

Notes:

[1] Yes (and despite what I once believed), the United States are a Christian nation. In the Declaration of Independence, the Founders said “..(people) are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights...”. Again, in the closing words, “...for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on Divine Providence...” These words would have been understood by any person then living as references to their common Christian heritage. Whether they were of one sect or another, whether Deist or, like Thomas Paine, freethinkers, our Founders understood that their new nation was firmly founded on Christian principles.

[2] Following are a few verses from the Qur‘an, permitting or commanding jihad against unbelievers:

9.005 So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

9.029 Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.

9.073 O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination.

25.052 So do not follow the unbelievers, and strive against them a mighty striving with it.

48.029 Mohammed is God's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another.

Coda:
If these verses do not prove that Mohammedans wage war against infidels according to the Qur’an, and the example of their prophet, what proof would be needed? Why do Mohammedan clerics quote these verses, and others like them, when inciting jihad? If these verses, and the behavior of Mohammedans in obedience to them, do not prove that Islam is at war with Western civilization, would another 9/11 (God forbid) make the point? May we led into all truth