Denying the Truth 11-1-09
Twenty-three-year-old James Gadiel died in the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center. His father Peter Gadiel is now fighting with his town’s officials to have a plaque with the words “murdered by Muslim terrorists” erected in memorial. The town isn’t resisting the erection of the memorial plaque, but rather the controversial statement laying the blame for James Gadiel’s death at the feet of Muslim terrorists. The fear is that Muslims would be offended.
At the same time, the fatal shooting of Imam Abdullah El-Amin by the FBI has stirred up anger in the Muslim community. Why? Because this Imam was an innocent scholar or clergyman? No, he was a bloodthirsty domestic terrorist who trained his followers to kill cops and had goals of tearing down the fabric of America. Some in the Muslim community simply do not like any resistance to Islamic activity, even when that activity is illegal and evil.
So, we have two examples (out of many possible ones) of a general need by Muslims to suppress the truth about Islam: it is a brutal, oppressive, and sinister force creeping through the fabric of our country, with the aim of so totally infiltrating our society that it is impossible to resist an Islamic takeover. Does this sound paranoid? Look at Western Europe. In the last fifty years they have seen this infiltration take place, with the result that they now have large groups of their populations that seek to replace their constitutions with Islamic religious law.
Our nation seems to be terrified to offend Muslims, but has no problem embracing the forces dedicated to wiping out Christian influences! Crosses in jars of urine is protected free speech, but a monument of the Ten Commandments is offensive. Textbooks still contain the fraudulent (and sometimes even racist) evolutionary theories that mankind evolved from animals, but even to mention that the universe appears to be designed by an intelligence is offensive. A Christian seventeen-year-old girl who runs away from a Muslim family was sent back despite fears of violent reprisals. I wonder if a girl from a Christian family ran away and converted to Islam, would she be returned to her family?
Our nation is gripped by a need to deny, at any cost, the truth that God is alive, Jesus is his son, the Bible is his word, and without him man is lost in his sins. But denying the truth has never changed it. Muslim terrorists DID murder thousands, including James Gadiel. Imam Abdullah El-Amin WAS a criminal who died because he fired on FBI agents. Those things are fact. But more important is that the truth-deniers will have to face the truth one day.
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11 NIV)
Amen.
-Charles Peterson