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“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse,” Osama bin Laden said at the beginning of his talk taking credit for the 9/11 attacks.
The line launched a thousand geopolitical analyses, was quoted by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times and was pored over endlessly by experts who completely missed the point.
Osama bin Laden was not talking about great powers or nations, he was talking about Islam.
“There is only one goaL,” Bin Laden continued, the supremacy of Islam. He followed that up with a quote from a Hadith that is known to virtually every Muslim, but to all too few non-Muslims. “I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Muhammad.”
The 9/11 attacks, Bin Laden went on to explain, brought many non-Muslims to convert to Islam. “Some of them said that in Holland, at one of the centers, the number of people who accepted Islam during the days that followed the operations were more than the people who accepted Islam in the last eleven years. I heard someone on Islamic radio who owns a school in America say: ‘We don’t have time to keep up with the demands of those who are asking about Islamic books to learn about Islam.'” Looking at conversion rates, there’s no doubt that he was right.
Conversions to Islam rose sharply after major Islamic terrorist attacks from 9/11 to Oct 7. This runs counter to everything we would like to believe about religion and morality, but it’s reality.
Bin Laden’s ‘Strong Horse’ wasn’t about who would win a military campaign between America and Al Qaeda, as some foreign policy experts insisted on arguing in major publications, it was about who would win the religious and cultural war between Islam and the West. Terrorist attacks were battles for the ‘hearts and minds’ of the rest of the world. 9/11 and other attacks would show the world the religious superiority of Islam by showing it was the ‘Strong Horse’.
America and its allies wasted decades trying to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of Muslims from Afghanistan to Iraq to Gaza with billions in aid and democratic elections. The West welcomed mass Muslim migration to show how generous and tolerant we were. And no matter what we did, Muslim terrorist attacks became a regular feature of our lives because we insisted that being the liberal ‘Weak Horse’ made us morally superior to the men relentlessly killing us.
A generation later, more Americans are converting to Islam and joining the ‘Strong Horse’ than Muslims are converting to the democracy and liberalism of the ‘Weak Horse’. Secularism is on the decline in the Muslim world while Hamas and Hezbollah banners are waved on Ivy League campuses. Osama bin Laden had said that the “deeds” of the 9/11 hijackers had “overshadowed all other speeches made everywhere else in the world.” Terrorism is how Islam speaks and its message is that its followers believe so strongly that Islam is the only acceptable way of life that they are willing to die and kill to force everyone else to believe it too.
Our political and religious leaders can protest up and down that killing people is not how a religion wins the battle of ideas. “When people kill in the name of religion, they are not killing in the name of their god. They are killing for their own beliefs,” an op-ed after the Chanukah massacre in Australia argued. Islam has over 1,000 years of history that says otherwise.
Osama bin Laden did not originate the concept of the weak and strong horse. Islam did not expand around the world by winning a war of ideas, but by winning wars. Being the ‘Strong Horse’ is Islam’s only real compelling contribution to international theology. Judaism and Christianity may have abandoned holy wars as backwards, but Islam has gone on fighting them.
The Islamic civilizational mission, as in the Hadith that Bin Laden quoted, is simple and straightforward. “Fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Muhammad.” The ‘Strong Horse’ is not the religion with the vital moral message, but the one that has the most power. When Muslim terrorists shout ‘Allahu Akbar’ before terrorist attacks, as their prophet did before battles, they use the attack to show the supremacy of their deity.
Popes, archbishops, and rabbis may argue that it doesn’t work that way, but in a world where the presence of the Creator is hidden in His works, where believers grapple over the mysteries of theodicy, and the inner journey of the human soul is the defining paradigm, Islam cuts viciously through the Gordian Knot of faith to claim that all that matters is earthly power.
Why believe in something you can’t see, when you can see the works of Islam in every bomb blast, beheading and totalitarian state brandishing rockets and marching terror forces? There is nothing intangible about Islam. Even its 72 virgins are merely the supernatural substitutes offered to dead Jihadis for the infidel women and girls they enslaved and raped on earth.
Martyrs in Christianity and Judaism die for their faith, while martyrs in Islam kill for theirs.
Judaism and Christianity believe in the sanctity of life, while Islam believes just as devoutly in the sanctity of taking life. To kill is to assert the power of Allah on earth and to bring the Caliphate, the Islamic kingdom of heaven on earth closer by an act almost anyone can do. Even the weakest Muslim is at least capable of being a suicide bomber to kill a few infidels.
Rather than confront this theology for what it is, most religions evade it, insisting that this is not real Islam, but the fringe beliefs of a tiny aberrant group, who are not truly acting in the name of their religion or “killing in the name of their god” but “are killing for their own beliefs.” The idea that such abstractions make any kind of difference is the ultimate ‘Weak Horse’ behavior.
Traditional Christian and Jewish martyrs who fell to Islam did not deny what it was. Their strength lay in their willingness to sacrifice their lives for their faith despite knowing what their oppressors were capable of. There are still men and women of such a caliber of faith in the rural churches of Nigeria and the Judean settlements of Israel, but much of the political and religious leadership of Christianity and Judaism make themselves the ‘Weak Horse’ not just physically, but spiritually, by denying why their own people are dying and what it is that’s killing them.
There is dignity in being a martyr, but none in attending an interfaith memorial service to our modern martyrs at which none dare name what killed the men, women and children being mourned except diffuse postmodern pathologies like ‘divisiveness’, ‘extremism’ and ‘hatred’ and the imam who groomed the killers rises to caution about the dangers of ‘Islamophobia’.
Islam’s ‘Strong Horse’ theology views the world as a battlefield, the ‘Dar al-Harb’ its religion has been sent to pacify, our ‘Weak Horse’ worldview lacks even the ability to process what it is the enemy believes, let alone to lay out an opposing doctrine that appeals to anyone except diplomats and the heads of NGOs prattling about ‘multilateralism’ and ‘international law’.
What the ‘Strong Horse’ approach lacks in morality, spirituality and humanity, it more than makes up for in operational ruthlessness. Islam isn’t winning the religious and culture war because it has good points to make, but because it’s fighting it as an actual war.
Islam intends to subjugate or destroy every major religion on earth as it has been doing for over 1,000 years. The world’s religions will need a better comeback than a ‘COEXIST’ sticker.
“Dar al Islam”… which means “House of Islam”
Islam teaches… any territory, once under Islamic control that falls into infidel/disbelievers hands, is and will always be part and belong to Dar al Islam (House of Islam). This includes many parts of Europe… and most certainly Israel.<<< [With this understanding, we can see why Israel has the problems with their neighbors as they do.]
See… It is the religious duty of Muslims/Islamists to work towards the recovery of lost territory and returning it to Muslim/Islamic control, regardless of how long it takes. While at the same time… causing the entire world to come under submission to Islam through conquest.
Dar al Harb and Dar al-Islam
Areas under muslim control are known as Dar al-Islam. Areas under Harbi control are known as Dar al Harb – the domain of war. The Quran commands muslims to wage perpetual war (Jihad) against Dar al Harb until the entire world is Dar al-Islam. <<<[Read that again and let it sink in.]
These attacks are ordained by allah and are non-negotiable in the long term, though the practice of taqiyya (holy deception) which allows temporary treacherous peace agreements (’Hudna’) to be made if the forces of Islam are too weak to attack the Harbis successfully.
Excellent post.
The entire Bush family and several dozen activist judges disagree.
Well, not entirely disagree, as evidenced by the fact they never buy real-estate in islam heavy areas, nor do they ever dump islamists in their own gated palisades.
This is very well put.
Yes, it is EXCELLENT. Mr. Greenfield is exceptional.
Christians by definition are not capable of the atrocities committed by Islam. We won’t convert one person by the sword. Christianity is the actual religion of peace.
Then when they slit your throat, you can take solace in the fact that you had peace and decency on your side. For all the good it did.
Non sequitur.
The flaw in the logic
is believing we have to commit atrocities to defeat Islam.
We only have to fight back.
And the first thing we could do – if we wanted to do it –
– is to stop funding Islam.
All of Islam’s power today comes from the West. Whether it is NGO money, oil money, or direct assistance to Muslims to kill and rape Jews in Israel – or Christians in Nigeria –
almost all of the funds came from us.
If we stopped giving them billions of dollars a week,
Leftists would call it an atrocity and a genocide,
but we would just call it prudence.
And it would be a big step to ending Islam.
You forgot kicking them the hell out of Minnesota…
True. Because Muslims create nothing, make nothing, and grow nothing. They are a parasitic bunch of people who can only steal to attain what they need or want, and have been such for 1400 years.
Nope. Christianity is inherently peaceful, yes. However, Christians have the God-given right to defend themselves and their people.
Jan Sobieski at the Gates of Vienna and Charles ‘The Hammer’ Martel at the Battle at Tours say differently. Christians need to take up their banner and fight Islam, ridding their countries of this plague or suffer the results.
If you don’t drive EVIL OUT, it will drive you out. So stay strong & defend your nation before
it is lost forever to SATAN.
Nope what? I said nothing against defending yourself. We just aren’t ever going to be similar in any way to Islam, because Christianity is different.
I think he was alluding to “we won’t start violence; but, we will end it”
“Queers for Palestine!” is a group which your post more embodies.
You say as the sword takes off your head.
Not to convert people or obtain Supremacy, However to remain alive/protect your own, & keep your whole thing alive there may come a time Not to turn the other cheek on Their sword.
They have the right(Under the 1st Amendment)to practice their form of Religion(Islam)but they shouldn’t be trying to force the whole nation to abide by Sharia Law
Not in USA under OUR constituion. Not when their ‘religion’ (warlord movement) seeks to destroy the Constitution and cause great harm to humanity. Their word ‘religion’ is just a shield to hide behind same as they use their women,children,elderly as shiels in war….but call them holy and that their death is wonderful.
Sure, anyone can practice their own religion in America – as long as such practices do not violate our laws, such as:
buying or selling slaves,
bigamy,
marrying underage girls,
“honor killings”,
using children for sexual pleasure,
or generally trying to harm or subdue people not belonging to their group.
You seem to be assuming that Islam is a religion. It is not, at least in the sense that Christianity and Judaism are religions. These latter (or in fact earlier, historically) faiths deal with man’s relationship with the Almighty and teach him how to live decently and die in the assurance of Heavenly mercy and love. And that aspect of love, which flows in both directions from Heaven to Earth, is preeminent in these religions. It is absent in Islam.
Hey – Judaism and Christianity are the strongest.
We “just” have to stop being influenced by secularism and the spirit of today.
When the sons of Israel were godly, they had peace and were invincible.
When they bowed down, the blessings disappeared.
Isaiah 59,17
He [the Lord] put on righteousness as his breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on the garments of vengeance and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.
(better read the whole chapter 🙂
Christians can read Ephesians 6,10-17, about putting on the full armor of God.
We have lots of power, it is just to “get down on our knees and fight like a man”.
We. Not rely on politicians, analysts, pundits, the pope, the neighbor.
Just get down, and fight. And worship.
God the Creator (that is not allah) has faith in man. And His frequency is – faith.
Not analysis, PhDs, meanings, dialogue.
Faith.
2 Chron 7,17
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face
and turn from their wicked ways,
then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Do we believe or not? Do we act on our believes or not?
Do we believe we can trust in the one and only Lord Almighty, El Shaddai?
We should have spent the last 25 years reducing every islamic state in the world to the same situation Germany and Japan were in at the end of WWII.
All their infrastructure destroyed and every city and major town reduced to rubble.
And people from there banned from entering the civilized world.
The only refugees that should ever by accepted from the muslim world are non muslims who are actually fleeing for their lives.
The difference is that Germany and Japan were not religions but fascist ideologies so it was easy for entire populations of Christian and Jews to fight them because right side and wrong side were crystal clear. But the enemy now is islam and it’s a major world religion recognized as such by the entire planet regardless of how monstrous it actually is. Christians and Jews had no trouble going to war against fascism. But they seem incapable of fighting against another religion — even one that murders them and openly wants them dead. For every Christian and Jew who raises the battle cry, there are dozens more who weep and wail about peace and love and ecumenical co-existence and brotherhood at all costs. This is the problem. This paradoxical paralysis is known and exploited by islam. Fighting islam cannot simply be a “religious” war. There must be other compelling reasons to defeat islam. What are they?
Liberal reasons fall flat because they can be rationalized away by liberalism itself. Conservative reasons fall flat because fighting islam is not a war of territory and resources. Globalists want an islamic takeover as a ready made serf population that’s easy to control by elite rulers who will pretend to convert to retain their power and wealth. Other than as a religious war of one god against another which is antithetical to centuries of Western history and repellent apparently to most or many Christians and Jews — what other reasons are there for making war against islam? Without these other reasons there can be no consensus around which to rally a large enough army that is unified in purpose, mission, will and morale to triumph. My reason to fight islam is because it’s totalitarianism, but most people think that’s conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, time ticks away as islam’s horse tramples the West under its hooves. What a mess! I thank the stars I’m old.
I thank the stars — or more accurately, their Creator — that I am old, to0. But my children are not old, and their children are quite young. If we don’t deal with this mess or convince our politicians to do so, our children and theirs will be left with a worse mess. Is that the kind of legacy we ought to leave our posterity?
Eisenhower called WWII “The Great Crusade.” FDR & Churchill literally sang “Onward Christian Soldiers” as they pursued unconditional surrender. For some reason there is a different attitude towards Islamic Terrorists among Western leaders, which nobody has satisfactorily explained to date.
I’ve wondered that myself. Could the basis of this be summed up in one word – OIL?
Very good comment. Spot on, in my judgment. Greenfield’s points are well taken, too. Our weakness “which nobody has explained to date” is eerily reminicsent of too many German Jews in the 1930s who dismissed Hitler, and were later led to their slaughter, embracing the conviction that Germany was too civilized to allow Hitler’s anti-semitic notions to bear any results at all. History shows the consequences of weakness. In the 1930s weakness prevailed amongst the Jews in Germany and today weakness is expressed in the West amongst the so-called leaders who dub Islam the “religion of peace.”
Do you think that some or many of our leaders have been bought? I often wonder.
Christians cannot just preach the gospel and feel all will be well. Christians must call out jihadi pedophiles for being, well, “jihadi pedophiles”. October 7th proves this point and the “liberating” jihadis should wear it always. And don’t stop there, call the jihadis out for all of their crimes against humans. Get vocal and tell the truth. Get the islamic prayer rugs out of the churches, for God’s sake!!!
What a perfect deal for the Islamist on his Strong Horse. Killing the non-believer in the name of Allah while the non-believer refuses to blame you, instead blaming his own “bigotry”. And, to top it off, (while he is alive) even extracting funding for your pathology from him. A cult of death in which the kafir is an eager participant.
In all the history of Islamic conquest, it could never have been thus.
In this case, the “Co-exist’ bumper sticker might just as well read “Submit.”
We believe in Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
They believe in Death, Submission and Misery.
And their goal is to make everyone as miserable as they are.
Islam is nothing but the systemic genocide of all non-muslims.
genocide and enslavement
Hi Daniel, I like your article, but I was not quite sure how much the text quoted Osama bin Laden and which part of the text was you giving your thoughts on how Muslims think.
Could you help me out.
with thanks, Loek
It’s too bad the twits with the Coexist sticker on their car do not understand the first symbol does not want to coexist with the others.
“To kill is to assert the power of Allah on earth”
Does Allah come across just a tiny bit weak?
Well, yes. The true G0d of the West is the creator of everyone and everything, and wants to see everyone and everything thrive. His desire is for us to be happy. These points are obviously too subtle for Muslims and their Western fans to understand.
Something far better than the general and vague idea of any religion being used to counter Islam is the specific way of using the to expose the doctrinal errors and falsehoods of Islam
Therefore, it should be made clear that the way for a person to discover the truth concerning the nature of Jesus is found in the Bible verse Isaiah 8:20. This instructs “To the law of the testimony. If they do not speak according to the word, it is because there is no light in them.” [N.K.J.V.]
In other words, if a prophet or a religious teacher has teaching that are in contradiction to the Word, the Bible, then that prophet teachers or teacher who is a false prophet or false teachers because he teaches false doctrines. The Muslim clerics, as the imam and mullahs, teach and speak doctrines about God from the Qur ‘an .
As the Qur’ an in 112 teaches “He is God alone: God is the eternal begetteth not…” Likewise, this religious book which is the entire foundation of and for Islam further teaches in 19:35. “It is not befitting to God that He should beget a son.” In great contrast the Bible teaches in John 1:14. “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory , the glory of the only begotten of the Father ,full of grace and truth.” Likewise John 3:16 teaches “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son… Then just a little further in verse 18 it is written about Jesus Who is “the only begotten Son of God. “ Other places in the Bible further teach that Jesus is the Son of God as in Matthew 16:15:16. Luke 1:35. John 3:36. First John 4:14. 15. 5:14,15.
Moreover to be even more clear the Bible teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, Who is God the Father. As found in Matthew 3:16,17. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. Of course , it ,very much, needs to made even more specific . The Bible teaches that Jesus is also God the Son. As seen in Hebrew 1:8 and First John 5:20.
In conclusion ,with the above instruction of the way to find doctrinal truth in Isaiah 8:20 and in the light of the Bible verse provided it may be clearly seen, by all those who are willing to see, that Islam is in terrible doctrinal error and it is therefore a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6.
To whom does the LORD speak in Psalm 2? Verse 7:
“I will proclaim the decree
spoken to Me by the LORD:
“You are My Son;
today I have become Your Father…”
and verse 12:
“Kiss the Son, lest He be angry
and you perish in your rebellion,
when His wrath ignites in an instant.
Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.”
And what about Psalm 89? Especially vv. 26 – 29:
“He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father,
My God, and the rock of my salvation.’
27 I also shall make him My firstborn,
The highest of the kings of the earth.
28 My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever,
And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.
29 So I will set up his seed to endure forever
And his throne as the days of heaven.”
And Proverbs 30:4:
“Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son—surely you know!”
And Isaiah 9: 6-7:
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. / Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.”
Who does David call “Lord” in Psalm 110:1?
“A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: ‘Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.’ “
And who is the Servant whose life is given in Psalm 53?
“1 Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
2 For He grew up before Him like a tender [†]shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should desire Him.
3 He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our peace fell upon Him,
And by His wounds we are healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But Yahweh has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off out of the land of the living,
That for the transgression of my people, striking was due to Him?
9 So His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10 But Yahweh was pleased
To crush Him, putting Him to grief;
If You would place His soul as a guilt offering,
He will see His seed,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of Yahweh will succeed in His hand.
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore, I will divide for Him a portion with the many,
And He will divide the spoil with the strong;
Because He poured out His soul to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.”
The Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus may, very much, apply to this subject countering the advancement of Islam when viewing Islam as a tree and the many For Jesus taught, “You do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bears forth good fruit; but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.” After saying, this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit you will know them.” Matthew 7:16, 17, 18,.20. [N.K.J.V.]
In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13,20.
As revised, better and more clear version this my above post is what fool lows below.
The Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus may, very much, apply to this subject countering the advancement of Islam in the West , with its violent and deadly terrorism . Therefore, when viewing Islam as a tree and the many of its brutal cruel violence of death inflecting Islamic terror/murder entities,as ISIS, al Qaeda Hamas , Hezbollah and so forth .
To this the Wisdom of Jesus does very much apply. For Jesus taught, “You do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bears forth good fruit; but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.” After saying, this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit you will know them.” Matthew 7:16, 17, 18,.20. [N.K.J.V.]
In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13,20.
Many false religions, including Islam, deny that Jesus is God. In spite of that denial the Bible clearly reveals that Jesus is God. As found in John 1 ;1-5. 20:28. Romans 9:5.
Furthermore, by comparing John 5:22 with Romans 14:12. a person can see the Jesus is God. Second Peter 1:.1. First John 5:20.Likewise by comparing the Old and New Testament books together that Jesus is God may be discovered , As by comparing Psalm 89:8,9 with Matthew 8:23-27. Also in comparing Isaiah 46:22,23 with Philippians 2: 5-11 shows Jesus to be God.
The Bible instructs that the way for a person to discover if a doctrine or teaching is true or false to compare it to what is already written in the scripture. So if that teaching or doctrine is in contradiction what is in the Word of God, the Bible then that doctrine or teaching is false.
As Isaiah 8:20 reads “To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” [N.K.J.V.]
You wrote: “Many false religions, including Islam, deny that Jesus is God.”
Does this imply that Judaism, the religion into which Jesus was born and raised and which he practiced all his life, practiced a false religion? And if so, where does that leave you?
The subject of great importance is that Jesus is God and therefore Islam is in major Biblical doctrinal error concerning nature of Jesus and is therefore a false religion.
In the Old Testament of Isaiah in 45:22,23.” starting at the second sentence it reads ” I am God and there is no other…That to Me every knee shall bow . Every tongue shall taken an oath. He shall say ‘Surely in the Lord I have righteousness and strength…” [N.K.J.V.]
Moving on to the New Testament and comparing those above Isaiah verse with Philippians 2:10,11 the reader is informed that “That at the name of Jesus every shall bow , of those in heaven and of those on the under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory God the Father.”
So in those Old Testament reveal that to God “every knee shall bow..” and likewise those New Testament verses reveal that to Jesus “every knee shall bow…” This clearly shows that Jesus is God.
In Psalm 89:8,9. it reads “O Lord of host, Who is mighty like you , O Lord ? … You rule the raging of the sea ; when it’s waves rise you still them.” In Matthew 8:23-27 a terrible sea storm occurred and then rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great clam. So the men marveled, saying ‘Who can this be , that even the winds and the sea obey him. ” By comparing what happened with those verses from that just quoted Psalm, the answer to the question asked by the disciples of Jesus is that He is God.
Furthermore the Bible in First Kings 8:39 teaches that “Only God Knows that thoughts of men” in the Gospel of Mark 2: 8 reveals that Jesus knows the thoughts of men.”
In conclusion the Bible does reveal to that Jesus is God and that exposes Islam’s false teaching about Jesus and therefore Islam is a false religion of demonic darkness.
As Isaiah 8:20 reads ” To the law and to the Testimony ! If they do not speak according to the word, it is because there is no light in them.”
A bit weak! Observe the failed states, all Arabic, all autocratic, all Islamic. Must be withholding the blessings until later..
A radical Muslim wants to kill you.
A moderate Muslim wants a radical Muslim to kill you.
Children learn that standing up for themselves is a necessary skill in notifying bullies that their aggression will not be tolerated. Then liberalism crept into schools where perpetrators became victims and self-defense became “use your words”. In doing so, the immediacy of cause and effect was kicked down the road and the perpetrators were freed from immediate consequences.
Islamists learned this quickly about the liberal-left and fashioned the duplicity of diplomacy to lull into sleep any recognition of their always-predatory machinations.
Islam has standards according to their Quran and Hadiths that are non-negotiable with exacting punishments to those who defy them. They quickly learned both Jews and Christian’s in their reformations have significantly weakened their standards providing evidence of Islam’s superiority over the two other monotheistic religions.
The G-d of Israel, in the Torah and throughout the whole of the Jewish Tenach, provides countless examples of immediate punishments and also the longer- term impact of operating from fear and weakness instead of strength and resolve and faith. There are also immediate consequences from G-d following acts of defiance, regardless of supposed intent. I cannot answer for Christianity except to say that many liberal values continue to infiltrate the churches of those identifying as Christians, often providing acceptability for all kinds of deviant behavior without consequence.
Islam shrewdly capitalizes on this as weakness (never mind their list of horrific abominations) instilling fear and terror.
Their “strong horse” is the violent jihad ever present to both their followers as well as to their victims and the knowledge that punishments will be swift for all.
Weakness never protects others from harms way. It is only strength that puts aggression in checkmate. Thus, our western cultures in Europe, America and Israel, have for multiple generations refused to study global history instead living in a deluded looking glass willfully obfuscating the truth in order to perpetuate an ideology of “inclusion” that is destroying multiple western cultures. In doing so, we have allowed the strong horse to wrap itself like an anaconda incrementally constricting our way of life in order to suffocate all elements of western civilization until it is gone across the globe: enter the Islamic Caliphate.
We don’t want their Sharia Laws forced upon us we still like the U.S. Constitution and if they don’t like it they can Leave
We can offer to help them pack and give them a ride to the airport. Americans are nothing if not cheerfully helpful.
Eternity matters.
Congrats Daniel for your amazing insight and for sharing it with us.
This behavior is also seen in many animals – for example, dogs who are known to attack other dogs that are injured and thus perceived to be weak.
So the jihadi types have learned well from (and act just like) dogs – rabid ones! Must be an honor for them especially because we know how much they love dogs, monkeys and pigs.
Many of the comments so far show why pisslam will win.
pisslam will win because the West is mostly made of pussyfied wimpoids that prefer to be raped and murdered than find their balls and kill their enemies.
pisslam has a very simple solution: wage unrestricted warfare against pisslims until we run out.
When there is not a single pisslim left alive on planet Earth all the problems with pisslam will have been solved.
Do you want proof that the West will not do that and pisslam will win?
The proof is that this comment will not survive the pussyfied censors.
Better carry some Vaseline. As things go you are going to need it.
christianity is as falsh as islam is, There is your problem
The real problem is the ignorance of this comment’s author who equates two totally opposite concepts.
In my humble opinion, President Trump already picked what he decided was the strong horse.He picked Islam for America. He abandoned what he thinks is the weak horse, Judaism, Israel, and all of the Jewish people. Jews are the weakest by their small numbers, yes. He overlooks all other qualities. I do not perceive any spirituality in him, little morality and scant American, Christian, or Jewish values in his choice.
If one has religious faith, or even a sense of history, or a respect for truth (Archeological finds in Israel do not lie) or human decency one would not pick a violently exclusionary, raping, mass murdering, women-oppressing and even dog hating political system/faith just because it is strong.
But I guess few people have human decency these days.
Or the energy to get off the couch, and off the phone, and fight.
When he accepted that plane and many other goodies from Quatar last year he clearly stated his position. It is most unsettling to see the best of our presidents descend to this level.
“The ‘Strong Horse’ is not the religion, but a totalitarian ideology aiming at forcibly asserving the many for the benefit of a few – as are all totalitarian ideologies. The only difference with this one is that it as been masquerading as a religion for 7 centuries, with the rest of the world falling into the trap. Wake up, still free world!
“Being a muslim really is not having a relationship with God, it’s a contract with the state. You are obliged to go to a mosque, to behave like a Moslem and to abide by the laws of sharia.” (Nonie Darwish)
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Send christians and jews to gun school because BANG, you’re done.
That so called ‘Strong Horse” produces Muslim migrants who have entered the different nations of Europe and commit many sex crimes and engage in riots, along with arson and vandalism that are part of those riots. As well as murderous actions of Islamic terrorism. Such deadly jihad affront reveals the jihad minded Islamic contempt .dishonor and reproach towards the people of the Netherlands as well as Muslim malice toward the people of all other Western nations who were kind yet foolish enough to allow them, those Muslim migrants to enter, invade, their home countries of Europe in the first place. This type of situation is reflected in the Bible .Which reads “When the wicked comes, contempt comes also; with dishonor comes reproach.” Proverbs 18:3. [N.K.J.]
Furthermore, those jihadist Muslims with their Islamic way of thinking by their well thought Islamic schemes for the action of involvement in their violent and sheath jihad for the advancement of Islam in the many different Western nations. Those sly scheming jihadists are, somewhat, of a reminder of the information reveled in the Bible in Proverbs 15:26. In which the reader is informed that even “The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord…”
The Crusades were a defensive action against three and a half centuries of Muslim aggression. Where is Vlad he Impaler when you need him?