Introduction To America's Providential History And The Threat Of Islam
Stephen McDowell Welcome to America's Providential History podcast, where we talk about the real story of America and explore the hand of God in our history. Now here's your host, Steven McDowell. Hello. I'm glad you're joining us for this edition of America's Providential History. Last week I began to explore the threat of Islam to liberty and Christianity.
Comparing The Spread Of Christianity And Islam Through Force
And I want to pick up that story, today and continue on. Now, we began, last week by looking at just briefly, how the Christian faith has spread through supernatural transformation of man internally and man going out with a loving desire to love God and love his, neighbor, to declare the supernatural transforming work of Christ Jesus, who came to liberate man, set him free from the internal and external bondage of sin, and how it rapidly spread and transformed many, many lives. But this is in great contrast to Islam. When it began in the 600s with, Muhammad, it was, spread completely different by militant force, where, it rapidly spread in the Arabian and the many parts of the Mediterranean, Sea, and that it has been in conflict with the Christian faith ever since then. And so we began to look at some of the conflicts that had occurred in the late six hundreds and seven hundreds.
Charles Martel Stops Islam's Advance Into Europe And The Crusades
How732, Charles Martel, the ruler of Francia, stopped the continued spread of Islam into Europe because it had by this time spread up into the Iberian Peninsula and threatened all of Christendom. But, providentially, this, man used force, which is fine to do, and your defensive war and a just cause is sinless before God, to keep the spread of Islam. But Islam continued to push over in Asia Minor and other regions. Its rigid morality with no justice, much slavery, polygamy, low status of women, subjugating people, forcing people to submit or become, Islamic, become a Muslim or die. And then we looked at the Crusades, even though with their, their fault.
Rise Of The Ottoman Empire And The Fall Of Constantinople
God used to, stop the spread of Islam, for a time. And so after the Crusades, which occurred in the 11 and 1200s, we have the rise, beginning the 1300s, of what became known as the Ottoman Empire. It arose in Turkey after the ending of the Crusade, united Muslims under an Islamic Caliphate, or that is under an Islamic government. And so during the 1300s, into the 1400s and into the 1500s and 1600s, there began to be gradual expansion of physical territory where the Ottoman Empire, ah, grew. In 1453, Mammoth II, an Islamic leader captures Constantinople.
Constantinople's Fall To Ottomans And Renaming To Istanbul
Now, Constantinople was the, headquarters, if you will, of, the Christian faith now of Eastern Christianity, the Byzantine Empire, that earlier there's A split between Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity for centuries. Kind of the center place of the Christian faith really, ever since Constantinople. well, in the early centuries it was centered in Constantinople, named after Constantine because he was converted to the Christian faith and encouraged the spread of Christianity under his rule, under his, empire. But the, Constantinople fell to the Muslim Ottomans in 1453, and they were led by the Sultan Muhammad II. And it was then that they renamed the city Istanbul is which we know it today.
Ottoman Advance Into Italy And The Invasion Of Otranto
Now, Mamud continued to advance into the Balkans and other parts of Europe after he had taken Constantinople in 1480. He crossed the sea, landed at Otranto, which is a city in southeastern Italy, capturing that city. And his desire was to continue to march up the peninsula of what we now know as Italy and take Rome, which was the center of Western Christianity at this time. So the Muslim army killed thousands when they invaded Otranto and that southeastern part of Italy. They killed thousands, including many church leaders.
Brutal Ottoman Actions In Otranto And Its Impact On Europe
The surviving women and children went to the slave market. Male survivors were given the choice of converting or being beheaded over. About 800 had their heads cut off one by one because they would not convert. And it was the fall of a tranto, really more so than Constantinople. That constituted the 15th century Europe's, you might call it, the 911 moment.
Comparing Otranto's Fall To 9/11 And European Response
On 9 11, when those Muslim terrorists flew into the twin towers powers, it kind of shocked the America to see we're at war with radical Islam. And they will do anything necessary to try to defeat and kill what they consider to be the Great Satan. And ultimately they're really trying to defeat and kill the Christian faith and the great liberty that it brings. But when, the Muslims under the Sultan Mohammed II came into Otranto, that kind of shocked Europe to see, oh, our whole way of life and the Christian faith is in peril. So in 1481, the king of Naples.
Recapture Of Otranto And The End Of Muslim Domination In Spain
Naples is a territory region of what is now Italy. Italy was not the united nation that we know it today. It had a number of different little provinces. But the King of Naples, with the help from others, recaptured the city of Otranto and drove the Islamic Ottomans out of Italy for good. A few Years later, in 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Izabella in Spain ended Muslim domination in the Iberian Peninsula.
Centuries Of Muslim Presence In Spain And Their Expulsion
Because if you remember, the Muslims came up there in the. Around the 700s. Early 700s would have continued to march into Western Europe had they not been defeated at the Battle of Tours. But they remained in Spain, what is today Spain and Portugal, for hundreds and hundreds of years until finally in 1492, Ferdinand and Izabella, who, defeated them and pushed, them out. So Islam was driven out of Spain, but it continued to advance on the other side of Europe, pushing its way up from Greece up into the countries of, what is today Macedonia, the Balkans and Hungary.
Ottoman Expansion Into Europe And The Siege Of Vienna In 1529
And the Ottomans, under Sultan Selim and his son Suleiman, expanded up into those various areas through the 1400s, into the 1515, went really into the 1500s after they were pushed out of Spain. And in 1529, Suleiman, who was the leader of this Ottoman Muslim empire, besieged the city of Vienna. It was in that year that Sultan Suleiman made the remark. The infidels will at last bow in submission to Allah. The jihad has advanced its full course and the end is now in sight.
Suleiman's Goal To Eradicate Christianity And The Siege Of Vienna
The abomination of the Christian heresy shall be no more. So his old desire in spreading Islam taking over Vienna was to wipe out the Christian faith. He considered it a heresy, of course, he recognized it. It was a great threat to his vision of Islam and, the spread of Islam. And so the siege of Vienna took place in the year 1529.
Europe's Last Stand At Vienna And Its Providentious Salvation
And in a way, this was Europe's last stand. If Vienna fell and Islam under the sultan would rapidly spread to the west and would threaten, all of Christendom. But providentially, Christendom was saved due one to a valiant defense of Christian men and the help from God. Torrential rains crippled many of Suleiman's forces, and it got bogged down and their, camels were stuck in the mud and couldn't be used and other things. And after months of fighting, he retreated.
Ottoman Brutality During The Siege Of Vienna And Enslavement
But during this siege of, Vienna that the leaders there decided we're going to, they took 4,000 women, children and elderly men, said, you flee. The attack's coming. We want you to get out of here so that your life won't be threatened. Well, the Ottoman army captured them and killed just about every one of them, all except some of the women who they enslaved. This shows you something of their brutal nature that, when, wherever they went, we're not just going to fight against the men, against the military forces.
Victory At Vienna And The Context Of The Protestant Reformation
We'll kill everybody. We'll kill women, children, old people. It doesn't matter to us if they don't, convert and submit. And so because of the victory of the Christian forces at Vienna, when I say Christian forces, it doesn't necessarily mean everybody who fought in the battle was a regenerated believer. Because the 1500s, as we've discussed in Past podcasts were where God was at work bringing about a, ah, Protestant Reformation, getting the Bible in the hands of the individual.
Cultural Christians Fighting Radical Islam Amidst Reformation
So these were certainly cultural Christians and the history for hundreds of years, for centuries, and Western Europe was based upon the Christian faith. God knows the heart of the people. But God also knew that these Christian people needed an enlightenment, a reformation, and he sent a reformation. But these, historically and culturally Christian people fought and stood up against the radical Islam and its attempt to expand and take over all of Christendom at this time. So when you get around the year 1680, so here it was, they were defeated in 1529, but they didn't, Islam didn't stop.
Continued Ottoman Expansion And The Second Siege Of Vienna In 1683
They continued, it thwarted them for a while and they continued to press and expand north and back, east in different directions. But again, by the time, 150 years later in 1683, there is another attempt, to take over, Vienna. And so this 1683, this was the start of the 15 year long great Turkish War. Well, the Ottomans, Turks were defeated in this other 15 year long great Turkish War. And after they were defeated, it, these Turks, these Muslims ceased to be a menace to the Christian world as they had been, at least for a time.
Ottoman Defeat And Their Shift To Waiting For New Opportunities
They were pushed back and said, okay, we'll sit back here and we're going to wait until we see an opportune time to continue to advance. Because remember, for thousand years Islam had advanced through, through force to new territories. To show you something of the worldview of the Muslims between the, remember, they killed a lot of people, they enslaved a lot of people. Between the 8th and 19th centuries, 10 to 18 million people were bought by Arab slave traders and taken from Africa. So these Muslims were the ones who facilitated African slavery for centuries and centuries before the Europeans really got involved, in that because, if they, the people they didn't kill, they would enslave and force them to pay tribute to support what they were doing.
Muslim Facilitation Of African Slavery And European Enslavement
It wasn't just African slaves. Over 1 million white European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 17, which by the way, that was twice the number of African slaves imported to what became the United States. from about 1650 to 1850. Over that 200 year period, about a half a million were imported. But from same kind of time frame, there's a million white European Christians enslaved by Muslims.
Ottoman Empire's Extent And The US War Against Muslim Terrorists
And in addition to that, there is millions and millions of Africans that were enslaved by Muslims as well. And so by the time we get to the birth of the United States of America, you know, around 1800, late, 1700s, the Ottoman Empire had, its extent was northern Africa, most all of the Middle East, Asia Minor was today Turkey up into Greece, and that whole area was part of the Ottoman Empire. And so, when the United States of America won our war of independence and became free, we found ourselves in a war not of our making. And that war was with Muslim terrorists, as we will see, because for centuries, these Islamic, terrorists, these Muslims who had advance their cause by the use of force. Over the centuries, as we get into the 1700s, the typical, business of many of them is that when European powers sailed up into the Mediterranean Sea to conduct business or do trade, that a lot of these Muslims who lived on the Barbary coast, that was what North Africa was called at the time, they would sail out and that they would, capture these ships and they would demand, in order for you to conduct trade and business here, you got to pay us tribute.
Barbary Pirates Demanding Tribute From European Powers And England
If you don't pay us tribute, we're going to fight you capture ships, enslave you, steal your property and other things. So the European powers had come to the conclusion that, well, it's going to be easier to pay tribute than to fight them. And England had been doing that since about the mid-1600s. And so, of course, before independence, any trade that the United States did, we were British colonies, we sailed under the British flag. And so any of our ships that sailed into Mediterranean, these Barbary pirates, that's what they were called.
Barbary Pirates Terrorizing American Ships After Independence
Another way to look at them as Muslim terrorists, that's what they were, because that's what they would do, terrorize people that they saw the British flag and knew that the British paid tribute, so they would let them go on and carry on their affairs. but with the birth of the United States, when we became a free nation, we began to sail under a new flag, the United States of America. And when we began to sail up into the Mediterranean and part anywhere near where these Muslim terrorists hung out, they would sail out and say, hey, we don't recognize who you are and you've got to pay us tribute or we're going to fight and capture and kill and imprison you. And that's what was happening with some of the American ships and interests that they. A lot of the American people had been, captured and imprisoned.
Thomas Jefferson's Stance On War Versus Tribute With Barbary Pirates
and so we had to deal with this situation. Now, early on, Thomas Jefferson, when he was presented with this conflict, because he was ambassador, to France at this time, he made the remark that I very early thought it would Be best to effect a peace through the medium of war. So the Europeans had decided, we're going to have peace by just paying the tribute. Thomas Jefferson, in his principled, understanding, decided it'd be a lot better, to fight against these terrorists who are abusing our property and our citizens. Well, as this conflict continued in May 1786, Thomas Jefferson and Jon Adams, they were the ambassadors to France and England respectively.
US Government Investigates Barbary Pirate Hostility Towards America
They were given the commission from the US Government to go and find out, why are these Barbary pirates, these Muslims, attacking us and imprisoning our citizens and stealing their property. And so Jefferson and Adams met with the Tripoltan ambassador. Now, Tripoli was, one of the regions of these Barbary pirates. There is Tripoli, and Algiers, Morocco, Tunis. These were, some were cities, but they were really whole territories, kind of whole provinces or states on North Africa that were controlled by, these Muslims.
Barbary Ambassador Explains Hostility Based On Quranic Law
And so they met with the tribal ambassador in London, Sidi Hajj Abdul Rahman Ajah. And they asked him, asked this ambassador, why are the Muslims so hostile to America? We haven't done anything to provoke you at all. Well, the ambassador responded that the hostility was founded on the laws of their prophet, that it was written in their Quran. The Quran was their holy book that that Muhammad had given them, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners.
Jefferson's Investigation Into Quranic Teachings On Hostility
And that every Muslim who should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise. And so here is the response of the Muslim ambassador. This is what our religion, teaches that we're to do. Now, Jefferson thought, that's the strangest religion I've ever heard of. Is that really what Islam teaches?
Jefferson Confirms Quranic Doctrines Of Oppression And Force
And so Jefferson went to his extensive library. He had thousands of books, and he had a Quran. And he said, all right, I'm going to find out if really is. So he read the Quran and found out that this is true, that it did teach this strange, oppressive, doctrine. Now I find it ironic and interesting that there's, the first Muslim representative elected to the United States Congress was, from.
Muslim Congressman Sworn In On Jefferson's Quran
I think he's from Minnesota or Michigan or Minnesota. Represented Ellison in the late 1990s, I believe it was. But, he was a Muslim and he decided, hey, I want to be sworn in on Jefferson's Quran. And so he got Jefferson's Quran. Which, by the way, Thomas Jefferson, after the War of 1812, the British marched in and burnt the capitol in Washington D.C. and, and when they burnt the Capitol, they burnt the Library of Congress.
Jefferson Sells Personal Library To US Government After Capitol Fire
The Congress had, built up a library to use books as a resource to help them. So Thomas Jefferson offered to sell his personal library to the US government. So his about 6,000 books were sold to the government for about $25,000 to form the nucleus of now by far the largest library in the world. You can go there today and see Jefferson's original library. A lot of it's the original book, some are the same edition, of the book that weren't personally his.
Jefferson's Quran Confirms Islam's Oppressive Doctrines And Use Of Force
And they're still collecting them. And so Ellison could get Jefferson's Koran. And he probably thought, hey, I'm going to show how Jefferson, he even had a Quran. But what he didn't know is that Jefferson used the Quran to confirm that your religion is strange and oppressive and, and teaches this concept of use of force and making people convert through use of force. And because of that, Jefferson from the very beginning said, we don't need to appease these people, we need to use the force of civil government.
Biblical Purpose Of Civil Government To Punish Evildoers
This is the biblical purpose of civil government. According to Paul In Romans 13, the government yields the sword to protect the righteous and punish evildoers. And so the righteous men, Americans who were, being oppressed, they needed to be punished by civil government. And so this is what he thought ought to be done from the beginning. And when George Washington was elected, selected the first President of the United States, he also was against paying tribute, but, but he had no recourse.
Washington's Opposition To Tribute Due To Lack Of A Navy
Why? Because we had no navy. We had no way to get forces over to fight these Muslim terrorists and to protect American interests. So it irked him. But Washington said, well, we're going to just have to pay this tribute.
Tribute Payments To Muslim Terrorists And Authorization Of Navy Building
And at one point, the amount of the tribute was so much, it equaled about 20% of the federal budget. The budget the national government spent at one point, about up to near 20% of the money we spent was to these Muslim terrorists. But Washington couldn't send the army because we had no way to get them there. But what he could do is he authorized the building of a navy. And so they began to build the navy.
USS Constitution And The Development Of Naval Strength
One of those original six ships was the USS Constitution, which is still commissioned today. You can go to Boston and you can see the USS Constitution. It was one of those first ships. And so they began to build the navy. And by the time our second president, Jon Adams, assumed office and toward the end of his term, our navy had sufficient strength that we could have gone and forced These Muslim terrorists, these Barbary pirates, to keep them from attacking American interests.
Jefferson's Decision To Fight Barbary Pirates
But Jon Adams thought, well, I don't think the American people are ready for war in a far off place. So he didn't do anything. But when Thomas Jefferson was elected President, 1800, he assumed office in 1801, he said, I've had enough. And so he sent the Navy, the Marines, to fight against the Barbary powers, these Barbary pirates, these Muslim terrorists. And really, the first war we fought as a new nation was against Muslim terrorists.
The First War Of The United States Against Muslim Terrorists
From 1801 to 1805, we fought this war on land and on the sea. And, part of the battle took place in, at the city and in the territory of Tripoli. Now, if you remember the Marine The Core hymn, it's from the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli. What's the Shores of Tripoli? That's where the Marines, fought a battle.
Marine Corps Hymn And The War Against Barbary Pirates
And the Marines, by the way, have fought in every one of our conflicts from the American Revolution all the way to current conflicts in the Middle East. And from the Halls of Montezuma, speaking of the Mexican American war, in 1830s to the shores of Tripoli. So this Marine The Core hymn is a testimony to the first war that we fought, which was against Muslim terrorists, and we defeated them, where he said, we're not paying tribute. You're not going to attack our interest or we will use force to, keep that from happening to defeat you. Now, for a brief time, by the way, in 1815, during the War of 1812, one of the leaders of these, Barbary pirates decided, hey, the Americans are involved in a conflict with Britain, so we think we can once again attack American interests.
Defeating Barbary Pirates And Pope Pius VII's Statement
So they did. But we sent, sent a troops, sent ships to, defeat them. And so ever since then, we've responded to this terrorist activity of these Muslims by the use of force, by government doing what it's supposed to do to protect the life, liberty and property of its citizens. and so this Barbary Powers war is a testimony of the conflict that Western nations have had with Islam since its beginning in the late 600s and the expansion of Islam through force. By the way, with the victory of the Americans, Pope Pius VII said that the Americans have done more for Christendom against the pirates of Africa than all the powers of Europe.
European Powers' Inaction Versus American Principles Against Pirates
United States. So here it was, these European powers, which were much more powerful than the United States at this time. They didn't do anything, said, well, we'll just pay tribute. We don't want to rise up and deal with these terrorists and fight. But the Americans said no, based upon principle.
American Leadership In Fighting Terrorist And Oppressive Forces
Our responsibility is to protect the interest of the American people and we will do it. So we led the way and showing what you need to do to fight against, terrorist, oppressive forces. This is why God commissioned civil government, to use force. So the Ottoman Empire was pushed back in the 1800s because of the action of the Americans. But Muslim atrocities, ah, continued, to occur in different places in the 1800s.
Armenian Massacres By Muslim Turks In The Ottoman Empire
In the end of the 1800s, there is an uprising by Muslim Turks against, Christian communities, in particular the Christian Armenians. Armenia is a territory, that at this time in the 1800s was within the Ottoman Empire. And there was a massacre that occurred by these Islamic Turks toward these Christian Armenians. There was probably one and a half million of these Christian Armenians and others that were killed and massacred during this, time period in the late eight hundreds. And it continued on into the early nineteen hundreds as well.
The Coining Of The Term Genocide And Reporting On Armenian Massacres
And it was so bad that the term genocide was coined as there was reporting done on this conflict, and destruction of the Armenians. And so you can go and search out newspaper articles and read about massacres by Turks and, Caucasus towns. Armenians led out into the streets and shot or drowned. Old friends not spared are some of the headlines. And there's pictures that you can find of hundreds and hundreds of skulls stacked up by those that were killed and bodies killed during this massacre of Christian Armenians by the Turks.
Islam's Historical Nature And Its Continued Expression In The 1900s
So the nature of Islam had been spreading since its inception, continued to express itself as we move up into, the 19, hundreds. And so it's not new. We look today and see the atrocities of Islam, its attempt to destroy America through events like 9, 11, its destruction in many other parts of the world, its uprising in Paris and other cities in Europe and places in Europe. It's not, this is not new. This has been, typical of how Islam has advanced by using force.
Five Hundred Jihad Battles And The Spread Of Islam Through Force
And so if you look at, from the beginning of Islam, from 1620 to 1920, there were over 500 jihad battles. We mentioned a few of those battles, but they would go and fight, and where there was opposition, they would conduct war, kill people, enslave people. And over 500 different battles of jihad, holy war, where we're going to advance Islam, destroy the infidel. Happened throughout the Mediterranean, area in, many parts of the Middle east in North Africa, especially Lazen in Spain and these other areas, some of which we have mentioned. So Muslims, what occurred for hundreds of years is still occurring today.
Muslims As The Source Of Modern Conflicts And Terror Attacks
Muslims are the Source of most recent conflicts in the world. From the Middle east to North Africa to Nigeria, the source of 95% of the terror attacks in the world have come from Muslims. Muslims attack and kill untold tens of thousands of Christians and others. We've just seen that in recent decades. And it's not just radicals like those that attacked on 911 and killed, you know, three or 4,000American citizens, but they've many different attacks that have taken place in Europe.
Attacks On Christians In Pakistan And Church Destruction In Nigeria
We've seen attacks not just recently in Paris, but around the time of 911 they attacked in Paris and killed many people. Then Muslims killed 84 and injured 146 attacking churches in Pakistan. In 20, 13,000 Christian churches were destroyed by Boko Haram in Nigeria. That's a Muslim terrorist organization. in 2014, 2053 Christians were killed and many were enslaved in Nigeria.
Muslim Terrorists Behind Enslavement And Violence By Groups Like ISIS
There's still lots of conflict in Nigeria today. And it's the Muslim terrorists who are behind most all of these things. Women, as many women have been enslaved by isis. Islamic radicals, burn individuals. And we've seen lots of that in recent, ah, decades.
Islam As A Demonic Religion That Steals Kills And Destroys
Burning a Jordanian pilot, you may remember in 2015, 21 Egyptian Christians were lined up on the beach and beheaded as the world looked. And so this religion of Islam is a demonic religion. See, the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy. Historically, that's what Islam has done. It's destroyed, it's killed, it suppresses liberty.
Numerous Terrorist Activities Perpetrated By Muslims
And most of these terrorist activities that have occurred here in this past generation have been Muslims. The shoe bomber was a Muslim. The Beltway snipers were Muslims. The Fort Hood shooter was a Muslim. The underwear bomber was a Muslim.
More Terrorist Attacks Carried Out By Muslims Globally
USS Cole bombers were Muslims. The Madrid train bombers were Muslims. The Buffy nightclub bombers were Muslims. The London subway bombers were Muslims. The Moscow theater attackers were Muslim.
Further Examples Of Muslim Perpetrated Terrorist Attacks
The Boston Marathon bombers were Muslims. The Pan American Flight 93 bombers were Muslims. The Air France and Tavi hijackers were Muslims. The Iranian embassy takeover was by Muslims. The Beirut U.S. embassy bombers were Muslims.
Continuing List Of Terrorist Activities Perpetrated By Muslims
the Libyan U.S. embassy attack was by Muslims. The Buenos Aires suicide bombers were Muslims. The Israeli Olympic Olympic team attackers were Muslims. The Kenyan U. S. Embassy bombers were Muslims. The Saudi Khabar tower bombers were Muslims.
Additional Terrorist Attacks Linked To Muslims Worldwide
The Beirut marine barracks bombers were Muslims. The Bissian Russian school attackers were Muslims. The first world trade center bombers were Muslims. The Bombay and Mumbai, India attackers were Muslims. The 10 US embassy bomb bombers were Muslims.
September 11th Attackers And Ongoing Terrorist Activities
The September 11, 2001 airline jackers were Muslims. Just to name a few of the terrorist activities that occurred, in decades leading up to the 9, 11 attackers. In the past 25 years these same kind of terrorist attacks have continued. Many nations in Africa, Nigeria especially been impacted by that and they continue to rise up, to foment, to destroy. And this, a lot of that is behind those who are involved in the recent Paris anarchist activity and the destruction of property and other things.
Islam's Historical Spread Through Force And Its Threat To Civilization
They might have been joined by other anarchists like communists and others who have their own desires to be carried out. But this is not unusual. This is not like a modern thing. This is historically how Islam has spread. So it's important that we have just this brief overview of the threat that Islam has been to civilized man and especially Christianity since its inception in, in the six hundreds by Muhammad.
False Religions Bring Oppression While Christianity Brings Blessing
And we need to understand that false religions do not bring life and blessing and flourishing but they bring ah, problems and, and lack and, and oppression. So that's because worldviews have consequences. That's because all religions are not the same. Some people say, well Islam is no different than Christianity. They believe in a God.
Christianity Produces Flourishing While Islam Produces Opposite Fruits
And you know, all the religions are the same. Some people think no they're not at all Christianity, where biblical Christianity is gone, where the principles of the Bible have been best applied in every sphere of life, it has produced flourishing and blessing and prosperity, order, peace, that's the fruit of the Christian faith. The fruit of Islam is opposite to that. And anywhere where Islam predominates today, certainly radical Islam, but even so called moderate Islamicist. And we'll discuss that in future podcast.
Lack Of Liberty And Freedom In Areas Predominated By Islam
this concept of moderate is Muslims. but even where they predominate there's no liberty and freedom for mankind.
The Threat Of Islam To Liberty And Christianity Book And Resources
There's not flourishing for all members of society. This is the fruit of Christianity, not the fruit of false religions. Well if you want to read more about this, I encourage you to get my book the Threat of Islam to Liberty and Christianity. You can get [email protected] providencefoundation.com you can also order it from Amazon so you can, can read and refresh what I've kind of giving you you an overview of in which and also things that I'll continue to cover in the next few podcasts so that we can understand that Islam has been and will be a threat to liberty and Christianity. But there's good news.
Good News: God's Supernatural Work Among Muslim People
I'm going to share the good news in future podcast. Because God moving among the Muslim people. Millions of Muslims have been converted to the Christian faith supernaturally in Islamic nations and other places because God has a plan. And when God moves supernaturally in the heart and mind of men. That is permanent transformation.
God Spreads Truth Through Internal Transformation Not External Force
God doesn't spread his truth by external force or fear. God spreads his truth by internally transforming the heart and mind of man. And he's doing that. And I'll give you some testimonies about that in future podcasts. I hope you can come back and join us next week, in the next couple of weeks as we continue to take a look at this subject of the threat of Islam to liberty and Christianity.
Conclusion And Invitation To Future Podcasts
Well, I hope you can join us then. God bless you. It.
Introduction To America's Providential History And The Threat Of Islam
Stephen McDowell Welcome to America's Providential History podcast, where we talk about the real story of America and explore the hand of God in our history. Now here's your host, Steven McDowell. Hello. I'm glad you're joining us for this edition of America's Providential History. Last week I began to explore the threat of Islam to liberty and Christianity.
Comparing The Spread Of Christianity And Islam Through Force
And I want to pick up that story, today and continue on. Now, we began, last week by looking at just briefly, how the Christian faith has spread through supernatural transformation of man internally and man going out with a loving desire to love God and love his, neighbor, to declare the supernatural transforming work of Christ Jesus, who came to liberate man, set him free from the internal and external bondage of sin, and how it rapidly spread and transformed many, many lives. But this is in great contrast to Islam. When it began in the 600s with, Muhammad, it was, spread completely different by militant force, where, it rapidly spread in the Arabian and the many parts of the Mediterranean, Sea, and that it has been in conflict with the Christian faith ever since then. And so we began to look at some of the conflicts that had occurred in the late six hundreds and seven hundreds.
Charles Martel Stops Islam's Advance Into Europe And The Crusades
How732, Charles Martel, the ruler of Francia, stopped the continued spread of Islam into Europe because it had by this time spread up into the Iberian Peninsula and threatened all of Christendom. But, providentially, this, man used force, which is fine to do, and your defensive war and a just cause is sinless before God, to keep the spread of Islam. But Islam continued to push over in Asia Minor and other regions. Its rigid morality with no justice, much slavery, polygamy, low status of women, subjugating people, forcing people to submit or become, Islamic, become a Muslim or die. And then we looked at the Crusades, even though with their, their fault.
Rise Of The Ottoman Empire And The Fall Of Constantinople
God used to, stop the spread of Islam, for a time. And so after the Crusades, which occurred in the 11 and 1200s, we have the rise, beginning the 1300s, of what became known as the Ottoman Empire. It arose in Turkey after the ending of the Crusade, united Muslims under an Islamic Caliphate, or that is under an Islamic government. And so during the 1300s, into the 1400s and into the 1500s and 1600s, there began to be gradual expansion of physical territory where the Ottoman Empire, ah, grew. In 1453, Mammoth II, an Islamic leader captures Constantinople.
Constantinople's Fall To Ottomans And Renaming To Istanbul
Now, Constantinople was the, headquarters, if you will, of, the Christian faith now of Eastern Christianity, the Byzantine Empire, that earlier there's A split between Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity for centuries. Kind of the center place of the Christian faith really, ever since Constantinople. well, in the early centuries it was centered in Constantinople, named after Constantine because he was converted to the Christian faith and encouraged the spread of Christianity under his rule, under his, empire. But the, Constantinople fell to the Muslim Ottomans in 1453, and they were led by the Sultan Muhammad II. And it was then that they renamed the city Istanbul is which we know it today.
Ottoman Advance Into Italy And The Invasion Of Otranto
Now, Mamud continued to advance into the Balkans and other parts of Europe after he had taken Constantinople in 1480. He crossed the sea, landed at Otranto, which is a city in southeastern Italy, capturing that city. And his desire was to continue to march up the peninsula of what we now know as Italy and take Rome, which was the center of Western Christianity at this time. So the Muslim army killed thousands when they invaded Otranto and that southeastern part of Italy. They killed thousands, including many church leaders.
Brutal Ottoman Actions In Otranto And Its Impact On Europe
The surviving women and children went to the slave market. Male survivors were given the choice of converting or being beheaded over. About 800 had their heads cut off one by one because they would not convert. And it was the fall of a tranto, really more so than Constantinople. That constituted the 15th century Europe's, you might call it, the 911 moment.
Comparing Otranto's Fall To 9/11 And European Response
On 9 11, when those Muslim terrorists flew into the twin towers powers, it kind of shocked the America to see we're at war with radical Islam. And they will do anything necessary to try to defeat and kill what they consider to be the Great Satan. And ultimately they're really trying to defeat and kill the Christian faith and the great liberty that it brings. But when, the Muslims under the Sultan Mohammed II came into Otranto, that kind of shocked Europe to see, oh, our whole way of life and the Christian faith is in peril. So in 1481, the king of Naples.
Recapture Of Otranto And The End Of Muslim Domination In Spain
Naples is a territory region of what is now Italy. Italy was not the united nation that we know it today. It had a number of different little provinces. But the King of Naples, with the help from others, recaptured the city of Otranto and drove the Islamic Ottomans out of Italy for good. A few Years later, in 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Izabella in Spain ended Muslim domination in the Iberian Peninsula.
Centuries Of Muslim Presence In Spain And Their Expulsion
Because if you remember, the Muslims came up there in the. Around the 700s. Early 700s would have continued to march into Western Europe had they not been defeated at the Battle of Tours. But they remained in Spain, what is today Spain and Portugal, for hundreds and hundreds of years until finally in 1492, Ferdinand and Izabella, who, defeated them and pushed, them out. So Islam was driven out of Spain, but it continued to advance on the other side of Europe, pushing its way up from Greece up into the countries of, what is today Macedonia, the Balkans and Hungary.
Ottoman Expansion Into Europe And The Siege Of Vienna In 1529
And the Ottomans, under Sultan Selim and his son Suleiman, expanded up into those various areas through the 1400s, into the 1515, went really into the 1500s after they were pushed out of Spain. And in 1529, Suleiman, who was the leader of this Ottoman Muslim empire, besieged the city of Vienna. It was in that year that Sultan Suleiman made the remark. The infidels will at last bow in submission to Allah. The jihad has advanced its full course and the end is now in sight.
Suleiman's Goal To Eradicate Christianity And The Siege Of Vienna
The abomination of the Christian heresy shall be no more. So his old desire in spreading Islam taking over Vienna was to wipe out the Christian faith. He considered it a heresy, of course, he recognized it. It was a great threat to his vision of Islam and, the spread of Islam. And so the siege of Vienna took place in the year 1529.
Europe's Last Stand At Vienna And Its Providentious Salvation
And in a way, this was Europe's last stand. If Vienna fell and Islam under the sultan would rapidly spread to the west and would threaten, all of Christendom. But providentially, Christendom was saved due one to a valiant defense of Christian men and the help from God. Torrential rains crippled many of Suleiman's forces, and it got bogged down and their, camels were stuck in the mud and couldn't be used and other things. And after months of fighting, he retreated.
Ottoman Brutality During The Siege Of Vienna And Enslavement
But during this siege of, Vienna that the leaders there decided we're going to, they took 4,000 women, children and elderly men, said, you flee. The attack's coming. We want you to get out of here so that your life won't be threatened. Well, the Ottoman army captured them and killed just about every one of them, all except some of the women who they enslaved. This shows you something of their brutal nature that, when, wherever they went, we're not just going to fight against the men, against the military forces.
Victory At Vienna And The Context Of The Protestant Reformation
We'll kill everybody. We'll kill women, children, old people. It doesn't matter to us if they don't, convert and submit. And so because of the victory of the Christian forces at Vienna, when I say Christian forces, it doesn't necessarily mean everybody who fought in the battle was a regenerated believer. Because the 1500s, as we've discussed in Past podcasts were where God was at work bringing about a, ah, Protestant Reformation, getting the Bible in the hands of the individual.
Cultural Christians Fighting Radical Islam Amidst Reformation
So these were certainly cultural Christians and the history for hundreds of years, for centuries, and Western Europe was based upon the Christian faith. God knows the heart of the people. But God also knew that these Christian people needed an enlightenment, a reformation, and he sent a reformation. But these, historically and culturally Christian people fought and stood up against the radical Islam and its attempt to expand and take over all of Christendom at this time. So when you get around the year 1680, so here it was, they were defeated in 1529, but they didn't, Islam didn't stop.
Continued Ottoman Expansion And The Second Siege Of Vienna In 1683
They continued, it thwarted them for a while and they continued to press and expand north and back, east in different directions. But again, by the time, 150 years later in 1683, there is another attempt, to take over, Vienna. And so this 1683, this was the start of the 15 year long great Turkish War. Well, the Ottomans, Turks were defeated in this other 15 year long great Turkish War. And after they were defeated, it, these Turks, these Muslims ceased to be a menace to the Christian world as they had been, at least for a time.
Ottoman Defeat And Their Shift To Waiting For New Opportunities
They were pushed back and said, okay, we'll sit back here and we're going to wait until we see an opportune time to continue to advance. Because remember, for thousand years Islam had advanced through, through force to new territories. To show you something of the worldview of the Muslims between the, remember, they killed a lot of people, they enslaved a lot of people. Between the 8th and 19th centuries, 10 to 18 million people were bought by Arab slave traders and taken from Africa. So these Muslims were the ones who facilitated African slavery for centuries and centuries before the Europeans really got involved, in that because, if they, the people they didn't kill, they would enslave and force them to pay tribute to support what they were doing.
Muslim Facilitation Of African Slavery And European Enslavement
It wasn't just African slaves. Over 1 million white European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 17, which by the way, that was twice the number of African slaves imported to what became the United States. from about 1650 to 1850. Over that 200 year period, about a half a million were imported. But from same kind of time frame, there's a million white European Christians enslaved by Muslims.
Ottoman Empire's Extent And The US War Against Muslim Terrorists
And in addition to that, there is millions and millions of Africans that were enslaved by Muslims as well. And so by the time we get to the birth of the United States of America, you know, around 1800, late, 1700s, the Ottoman Empire had, its extent was northern Africa, most all of the Middle East, Asia Minor was today Turkey up into Greece, and that whole area was part of the Ottoman Empire. And so, when the United States of America won our war of independence and became free, we found ourselves in a war not of our making. And that war was with Muslim terrorists, as we will see, because for centuries, these Islamic, terrorists, these Muslims who had advance their cause by the use of force. Over the centuries, as we get into the 1700s, the typical, business of many of them is that when European powers sailed up into the Mediterranean Sea to conduct business or do trade, that a lot of these Muslims who lived on the Barbary coast, that was what North Africa was called at the time, they would sail out and that they would, capture these ships and they would demand, in order for you to conduct trade and business here, you got to pay us tribute.
Barbary Pirates Demanding Tribute From European Powers And England
If you don't pay us tribute, we're going to fight you capture ships, enslave you, steal your property and other things. So the European powers had come to the conclusion that, well, it's going to be easier to pay tribute than to fight them. And England had been doing that since about the mid-1600s. And so, of course, before independence, any trade that the United States did, we were British colonies, we sailed under the British flag. And so any of our ships that sailed into Mediterranean, these Barbary pirates, that's what they were called.
Barbary Pirates Terrorizing American Ships After Independence
Another way to look at them as Muslim terrorists, that's what they were, because that's what they would do, terrorize people that they saw the British flag and knew that the British paid tribute, so they would let them go on and carry on their affairs. but with the birth of the United States, when we became a free nation, we began to sail under a new flag, the United States of America. And when we began to sail up into the Mediterranean and part anywhere near where these Muslim terrorists hung out, they would sail out and say, hey, we don't recognize who you are and you've got to pay us tribute or we're going to fight and capture and kill and imprison you. And that's what was happening with some of the American ships and interests that they. A lot of the American people had been, captured and imprisoned.
Thomas Jefferson's Stance On War Versus Tribute With Barbary Pirates
and so we had to deal with this situation. Now, early on, Thomas Jefferson, when he was presented with this conflict, because he was ambassador, to France at this time, he made the remark that I very early thought it would Be best to effect a peace through the medium of war. So the Europeans had decided, we're going to have peace by just paying the tribute. Thomas Jefferson, in his principled, understanding, decided it'd be a lot better, to fight against these terrorists who are abusing our property and our citizens. Well, as this conflict continued in May 1786, Thomas Jefferson and Jon Adams, they were the ambassadors to France and England respectively.
US Government Investigates Barbary Pirate Hostility Towards America
They were given the commission from the US Government to go and find out, why are these Barbary pirates, these Muslims, attacking us and imprisoning our citizens and stealing their property. And so Jefferson and Adams met with the Tripoltan ambassador. Now, Tripoli was, one of the regions of these Barbary pirates. There is Tripoli, and Algiers, Morocco, Tunis. These were, some were cities, but they were really whole territories, kind of whole provinces or states on North Africa that were controlled by, these Muslims.
Barbary Ambassador Explains Hostility Based On Quranic Law
And so they met with the tribal ambassador in London, Sidi Hajj Abdul Rahman Ajah. And they asked him, asked this ambassador, why are the Muslims so hostile to America? We haven't done anything to provoke you at all. Well, the ambassador responded that the hostility was founded on the laws of their prophet, that it was written in their Quran. The Quran was their holy book that that Muhammad had given them, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners.
Jefferson's Investigation Into Quranic Teachings On Hostility
And that every Muslim who should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise. And so here is the response of the Muslim ambassador. This is what our religion, teaches that we're to do. Now, Jefferson thought, that's the strangest religion I've ever heard of. Is that really what Islam teaches?
Jefferson Confirms Quranic Doctrines Of Oppression And Force
And so Jefferson went to his extensive library. He had thousands of books, and he had a Quran. And he said, all right, I'm going to find out if really is. So he read the Quran and found out that this is true, that it did teach this strange, oppressive, doctrine. Now I find it ironic and interesting that there's, the first Muslim representative elected to the United States Congress was, from.
Muslim Congressman Sworn In On Jefferson's Quran
I think he's from Minnesota or Michigan or Minnesota. Represented Ellison in the late 1990s, I believe it was. But, he was a Muslim and he decided, hey, I want to be sworn in on Jefferson's Quran. And so he got Jefferson's Quran. Which, by the way, Thomas Jefferson, after the War of 1812, the British marched in and burnt the capitol in Washington D.C. and, and when they burnt the Capitol, they burnt the Library of Congress.
Jefferson Sells Personal Library To US Government After Capitol Fire
The Congress had, built up a library to use books as a resource to help them. So Thomas Jefferson offered to sell his personal library to the US government. So his about 6,000 books were sold to the government for about $25,000 to form the nucleus of now by far the largest library in the world. You can go there today and see Jefferson's original library. A lot of it's the original book, some are the same edition, of the book that weren't personally his.
Jefferson's Quran Confirms Islam's Oppressive Doctrines And Use Of Force
And they're still collecting them. And so Ellison could get Jefferson's Koran. And he probably thought, hey, I'm going to show how Jefferson, he even had a Quran. But what he didn't know is that Jefferson used the Quran to confirm that your religion is strange and oppressive and, and teaches this concept of use of force and making people convert through use of force. And because of that, Jefferson from the very beginning said, we don't need to appease these people, we need to use the force of civil government.
Biblical Purpose Of Civil Government To Punish Evildoers
This is the biblical purpose of civil government. According to Paul In Romans 13, the government yields the sword to protect the righteous and punish evildoers. And so the righteous men, Americans who were, being oppressed, they needed to be punished by civil government. And so this is what he thought ought to be done from the beginning. And when George Washington was elected, selected the first President of the United States, he also was against paying tribute, but, but he had no recourse.
Washington's Opposition To Tribute Due To Lack Of A Navy
Why? Because we had no navy. We had no way to get forces over to fight these Muslim terrorists and to protect American interests. So it irked him. But Washington said, well, we're going to just have to pay this tribute.
Tribute Payments To Muslim Terrorists And Authorization Of Navy Building
And at one point, the amount of the tribute was so much, it equaled about 20% of the federal budget. The budget the national government spent at one point, about up to near 20% of the money we spent was to these Muslim terrorists. But Washington couldn't send the army because we had no way to get them there. But what he could do is he authorized the building of a navy. And so they began to build the navy.
USS Constitution And The Development Of Naval Strength
One of those original six ships was the USS Constitution, which is still commissioned today. You can go to Boston and you can see the USS Constitution. It was one of those first ships. And so they began to build the navy. And by the time our second president, Jon Adams, assumed office and toward the end of his term, our navy had sufficient strength that we could have gone and forced These Muslim terrorists, these Barbary pirates, to keep them from attacking American interests.
Jefferson's Decision To Fight Barbary Pirates
But Jon Adams thought, well, I don't think the American people are ready for war in a far off place. So he didn't do anything. But when Thomas Jefferson was elected President, 1800, he assumed office in 1801, he said, I've had enough. And so he sent the Navy, the Marines, to fight against the Barbary powers, these Barbary pirates, these Muslim terrorists. And really, the first war we fought as a new nation was against Muslim terrorists.
The First War Of The United States Against Muslim Terrorists
From 1801 to 1805, we fought this war on land and on the sea. And, part of the battle took place in, at the city and in the territory of Tripoli. Now, if you remember the Marine The Core hymn, it's from the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli. What's the Shores of Tripoli? That's where the Marines, fought a battle.
Marine Corps Hymn And The War Against Barbary Pirates
And the Marines, by the way, have fought in every one of our conflicts from the American Revolution all the way to current conflicts in the Middle East. And from the Halls of Montezuma, speaking of the Mexican American war, in 1830s to the shores of Tripoli. So this Marine The Core hymn is a testimony to the first war that we fought, which was against Muslim terrorists, and we defeated them, where he said, we're not paying tribute. You're not going to attack our interest or we will use force to, keep that from happening to defeat you. Now, for a brief time, by the way, in 1815, during the War of 1812, one of the leaders of these, Barbary pirates decided, hey, the Americans are involved in a conflict with Britain, so we think we can once again attack American interests.
Defeating Barbary Pirates And Pope Pius VII's Statement
So they did. But we sent, sent a troops, sent ships to, defeat them. And so ever since then, we've responded to this terrorist activity of these Muslims by the use of force, by government doing what it's supposed to do to protect the life, liberty and property of its citizens. and so this Barbary Powers war is a testimony of the conflict that Western nations have had with Islam since its beginning in the late 600s and the expansion of Islam through force. By the way, with the victory of the Americans, Pope Pius VII said that the Americans have done more for Christendom against the pirates of Africa than all the powers of Europe.
European Powers' Inaction Versus American Principles Against Pirates
United States. So here it was, these European powers, which were much more powerful than the United States at this time. They didn't do anything, said, well, we'll just pay tribute. We don't want to rise up and deal with these terrorists and fight. But the Americans said no, based upon principle.
American Leadership In Fighting Terrorist And Oppressive Forces
Our responsibility is to protect the interest of the American people and we will do it. So we led the way and showing what you need to do to fight against, terrorist, oppressive forces. This is why God commissioned civil government, to use force. So the Ottoman Empire was pushed back in the 1800s because of the action of the Americans. But Muslim atrocities, ah, continued, to occur in different places in the 1800s.
Armenian Massacres By Muslim Turks In The Ottoman Empire
In the end of the 1800s, there is an uprising by Muslim Turks against, Christian communities, in particular the Christian Armenians. Armenia is a territory, that at this time in the 1800s was within the Ottoman Empire. And there was a massacre that occurred by these Islamic Turks toward these Christian Armenians. There was probably one and a half million of these Christian Armenians and others that were killed and massacred during this, time period in the late eight hundreds. And it continued on into the early nineteen hundreds as well.
The Coining Of The Term Genocide And Reporting On Armenian Massacres
And it was so bad that the term genocide was coined as there was reporting done on this conflict, and destruction of the Armenians. And so you can go and search out newspaper articles and read about massacres by Turks and, Caucasus towns. Armenians led out into the streets and shot or drowned. Old friends not spared are some of the headlines. And there's pictures that you can find of hundreds and hundreds of skulls stacked up by those that were killed and bodies killed during this massacre of Christian Armenians by the Turks.
Islam's Historical Nature And Its Continued Expression In The 1900s
So the nature of Islam had been spreading since its inception, continued to express itself as we move up into, the 19, hundreds. And so it's not new. We look today and see the atrocities of Islam, its attempt to destroy America through events like 9, 11, its destruction in many other parts of the world, its uprising in Paris and other cities in Europe and places in Europe. It's not, this is not new. This has been, typical of how Islam has advanced by using force.
Five Hundred Jihad Battles And The Spread Of Islam Through Force
And so if you look at, from the beginning of Islam, from 1620 to 1920, there were over 500 jihad battles. We mentioned a few of those battles, but they would go and fight, and where there was opposition, they would conduct war, kill people, enslave people. And over 500 different battles of jihad, holy war, where we're going to advance Islam, destroy the infidel. Happened throughout the Mediterranean, area in, many parts of the Middle east in North Africa, especially Lazen in Spain and these other areas, some of which we have mentioned. So Muslims, what occurred for hundreds of years is still occurring today.
Muslims As The Source Of Modern Conflicts And Terror Attacks
Muslims are the Source of most recent conflicts in the world. From the Middle east to North Africa to Nigeria, the source of 95% of the terror attacks in the world have come from Muslims. Muslims attack and kill untold tens of thousands of Christians and others. We've just seen that in recent decades. And it's not just radicals like those that attacked on 911 and killed, you know, three or 4,000American citizens, but they've many different attacks that have taken place in Europe.
Attacks On Christians In Pakistan And Church Destruction In Nigeria
We've seen attacks not just recently in Paris, but around the time of 911 they attacked in Paris and killed many people. Then Muslims killed 84 and injured 146 attacking churches in Pakistan. In 20, 13,000 Christian churches were destroyed by Boko Haram in Nigeria. That's a Muslim terrorist organization. in 2014, 2053 Christians were killed and many were enslaved in Nigeria.
Muslim Terrorists Behind Enslavement And Violence By Groups Like ISIS
There's still lots of conflict in Nigeria today. And it's the Muslim terrorists who are behind most all of these things. Women, as many women have been enslaved by isis. Islamic radicals, burn individuals. And we've seen lots of that in recent, ah, decades.
Islam As A Demonic Religion That Steals Kills And Destroys
Burning a Jordanian pilot, you may remember in 2015, 21 Egyptian Christians were lined up on the beach and beheaded as the world looked. And so this religion of Islam is a demonic religion. See, the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy. Historically, that's what Islam has done. It's destroyed, it's killed, it suppresses liberty.
Numerous Terrorist Activities Perpetrated By Muslims
And most of these terrorist activities that have occurred here in this past generation have been Muslims. The shoe bomber was a Muslim. The Beltway snipers were Muslims. The Fort Hood shooter was a Muslim. The underwear bomber was a Muslim.
More Terrorist Attacks Carried Out By Muslims Globally
USS Cole bombers were Muslims. The Madrid train bombers were Muslims. The Buffy nightclub bombers were Muslims. The London subway bombers were Muslims. The Moscow theater attackers were Muslim.
Further Examples Of Muslim Perpetrated Terrorist Attacks
The Boston Marathon bombers were Muslims. The Pan American Flight 93 bombers were Muslims. The Air France and Tavi hijackers were Muslims. The Iranian embassy takeover was by Muslims. The Beirut U.S. embassy bombers were Muslims.
Continuing List Of Terrorist Activities Perpetrated By Muslims
the Libyan U.S. embassy attack was by Muslims. The Buenos Aires suicide bombers were Muslims. The Israeli Olympic Olympic team attackers were Muslims. The Kenyan U. S. Embassy bombers were Muslims. The Saudi Khabar tower bombers were Muslims.
Additional Terrorist Attacks Linked To Muslims Worldwide
The Beirut marine barracks bombers were Muslims. The Bissian Russian school attackers were Muslims. The first world trade center bombers were Muslims. The Bombay and Mumbai, India attackers were Muslims. The 10 US embassy bomb bombers were Muslims.
September 11th Attackers And Ongoing Terrorist Activities
The September 11, 2001 airline jackers were Muslims. Just to name a few of the terrorist activities that occurred, in decades leading up to the 9, 11 attackers. In the past 25 years these same kind of terrorist attacks have continued. Many nations in Africa, Nigeria especially been impacted by that and they continue to rise up, to foment, to destroy. And this, a lot of that is behind those who are involved in the recent Paris anarchist activity and the destruction of property and other things.
Islam's Historical Spread Through Force And Its Threat To Civilization
They might have been joined by other anarchists like communists and others who have their own desires to be carried out. But this is not unusual. This is not like a modern thing. This is historically how Islam has spread. So it's important that we have just this brief overview of the threat that Islam has been to civilized man and especially Christianity since its inception in, in the six hundreds by Muhammad.
False Religions Bring Oppression While Christianity Brings Blessing
And we need to understand that false religions do not bring life and blessing and flourishing but they bring ah, problems and, and lack and, and oppression. So that's because worldviews have consequences. That's because all religions are not the same. Some people say, well Islam is no different than Christianity. They believe in a God.
Christianity Produces Flourishing While Islam Produces Opposite Fruits
And you know, all the religions are the same. Some people think no they're not at all Christianity, where biblical Christianity is gone, where the principles of the Bible have been best applied in every sphere of life, it has produced flourishing and blessing and prosperity, order, peace, that's the fruit of the Christian faith. The fruit of Islam is opposite to that. And anywhere where Islam predominates today, certainly radical Islam, but even so called moderate Islamicist. And we'll discuss that in future podcast.
Lack Of Liberty And Freedom In Areas Predominated By Islam
this concept of moderate is Muslims. but even where they predominate there's no liberty and freedom for mankind.
The Threat Of Islam To Liberty And Christianity Book And Resources
There's not flourishing for all members of society. This is the fruit of Christianity, not the fruit of false religions. Well if you want to read more about this, I encourage you to get my book the Threat of Islam to Liberty and Christianity. You can get [email protected] providencefoundation.com you can also order it from Amazon so you can, can read and refresh what I've kind of giving you you an overview of in which and also things that I'll continue to cover in the next few podcasts so that we can understand that Islam has been and will be a threat to liberty and Christianity. But there's good news.
Good News: God's Supernatural Work Among Muslim People
I'm going to share the good news in future podcast. Because God moving among the Muslim people. Millions of Muslims have been converted to the Christian faith supernaturally in Islamic nations and other places because God has a plan. And when God moves supernaturally in the heart and mind of men. That is permanent transformation.
God Spreads Truth Through Internal Transformation Not External Force
God doesn't spread his truth by external force or fear. God spreads his truth by internally transforming the heart and mind of man. And he's doing that. And I'll give you some testimonies about that in future podcasts. I hope you can come back and join us next week, in the next couple of weeks as we continue to take a look at this subject of the threat of Islam to liberty and Christianity.
Conclusion And Invitation To Future Podcasts
Well, I hope you can join us then. God bless you. It.
In this episode, we delve into the historical conflicts between Islam and Christianity, exploring the spread of Islam from its inception in the 600s to its impact on liberty and the Christian faith throughout history. Host Stephen McDowell discusses key events such as the Crusades, the rise of the Ottoman Empire, and the Barbara Wars, illustrating how these conflicts have shaped the relationship between Islam and Western civilization. Join us as we examine the ongoing challenges and the providential hand of God in these tumultuous times.
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