Lehigh Valley Conservative

My dear friend Dr. Steyko Alytheos has sent me part two of  “Do we know our enemy?”.  After listening to the talk show people over the last couple of weeks I can only say it is a timely article.  “Stay” and/or “Pull out” has taken on a new meaning  for me and has become much clearer.  With the president of Iran visiting us, Glenn Beck’s radio analysis of our schools vulnerability to possible terrorist attack.  The two questions that come to mind are; could that really happen? and “why”?  They deserve a depth of searching that is associated with the gravity and seriousness of the issue.  That searching must lead you to the only two books that can answer those troubling questions of “could it?” and “why”.

With that said, I give you part two of Do we know our enemy?.  Thank You Dr. Alytheos

The information appearing in this article has not made its way into the mainstream national media as far as I can tell.  Should it not be broadcasted on the evening news and published in newspapers?  Does the government have concerns about publishing such information?  Certainly, the content of this paper is available to any person who wishes to find it. 

It should be stated that it is not our desire that the Arabs and other people and nations in the mid-east be our enemy.  It has always been America’s desire to live peacefully with all men and nations. Our National Seal depicts an eagle facing a symbol of peace, an olive branch, clutched in its right talon, indicating the United States desires peace.  At the same time, however, the eagle is also clutching arrows in its left talon, meaning we are ready to defend ourselves if necessary. 

Some in the Arab world and in the Muslim world, and I repeat some, have declared war on the west and on the United States in particular.  After reading some of the verses from the Koran below, it appears they have declared war on the non-Muslim world.  Having recognized this fact, then, is it not prudent that we better educate ourselves?

In part one of “Do we know our enemy?” we read in Genesis 16:12 that the ancestor of the Arabs is Ishmael, the first-born son of Abram (Abraham) and Hagar,  Abram‘s wife Sarai’s (Sarah’s) maid.  It is imperative for us to understand that it is the LORD Himself who pronounced ahead of time what type of man Ishmael was to be. 
”And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren”(Genesis 16:12).
Let’s review these four characteristics which help to describe him:
 1.  “. . .he will be a wild man . . . .”
 2.  “. . .his hand will be against every man . . . .”
 3.  “. . .every man’s hand against him . . . .”
 4.  “. . .he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren . . . .”
It is immensely important that we understand the disposition of Ishmael and of some of the Arabs.  The Lord does not give us information unless He desires us to know it.  That is why it is written in Holy Scripture in Genesis 16:12.
Even though not everyone in the Arab or Muslim world fits the description of Ishmael in Genesis 16:12, some of those who do fit this description have made themselves known to the world.  The majority of the men who attacked the United States on 911 were Arabs.  It should not surprise us, therefore, when we learn the word Arab means ambush.  This is how they have operated and continue to operate in Iraq and in other parts of the world.  This is how they plan to attack the United States, by ambushing us.  The element of surprise, deception and cunning cannot be ignored.  We must come to think as they do.
 
In the process of educating ourselves regarding why some Muslims think, speak and act as they do, we should refer to the Koran among other writings.  Since Muslims believe the Koran is from Allah, then the order is from him, Allah, who they must obey and enforce obedience on each other.   
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 There are several striking teachings we will be looking at in the Koran the first of which is verse 101 from chapter 4  which avows this:

1.  Non-Muslims, “disbelievers“ or “unbelievers” are the Muslims’ “. . . open 
      enemy.” 

“4.101]” And when you journey in the earth, there is no blame on you if you shorten the prayer, if you fear that those who disbelieve will cause you distress, surely the unbelievers are your open enemy.

A second critical teaching found in chapter 9, verse 30 and in chapter 3 verse 12 is this:

2.  Non-Muslims are Allah’s enemies, and that they pray, “. . .may Allah destroy  
     them;” “You shall be vanquished, and driven together to hell; and evil is the
      resting-place.”

“9.30″: And the Jews say: Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah (Jesus) is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away! (Italics added.)

[3.12] Say to those who disbelieve: You shall be vanquished, and driven together
to hell; and evil is the resting-place.

A third doctrine found in chapter 3 is this:

3.  There is only one true religion, and that is Islam.

[3.19] Surely the (true) religion with Allah is Islam,

[3.85] And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted
from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers.
One similar teaching to number one above and two additional teachings derived from verse 51 of chapter 5 are as follows:

4.  All non-Muslims are “disbelievers”.

5.  Muslims are not “. . .to take the Jews and the Christians for friends;”

6.  Muslims who make friends with non-Muslims become “. . .one of them . . .”
     “ . . . unjust people” who  “. . .Allah does not guide . . . .”  One must assume,
     therefore, that Muslims who do make friends with Jews or Christians are also
     the  “. . . open enemy.”

“5.51″: O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

We learned an American ally Sunni Sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Risha was murdered just ten days after he personally met with President George W. Bush who professes to be a Christian.  A photo of the Sheik shaking hands with the President appeared on page 30 of the September 24, 2007 issue of the U.S. News & World Report. Is not a handshake a sign of friendship?  Was this handshake the Sheik’s death warrant because he violated the order in chapter 5 of verse 51 and elsewhere in the Koran?   In verse 51 above we read
“ . . . whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them”.  Now, the Sheik is dead.  In addition, we recently learned in a video that Osama bin Laden declared war on the president of Pakistan, another American ally.

Do you suppose anybody in the government knows about chapter 5 verse 51?

Here are some other verses in the Koran concerning this edict regarding friendship with disbelievers:

“3.28″: Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends rather than believers; and whoever does this, he shall have nothing of (the guardianship of) Allah, but you should guard yourselves against them, guarding carefully; and Allah makes you cautious of (retribution from) Himself; and to Allah is the eventual coming.

“3.118″: O you who believe! do not take for intimate friends from among others than your own people;

“4.144″: O you who believe! do not take the unbelievers for friends rather than the believers;

“4.89” They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you
might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their
homes) in Allah’s way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever
you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.

Then in chapter 5, verse 17 and chapter 9, verse 30 we see one of the reasons why they will not be our friends.

“5.17” Certainly they disbelieve who say: Surely, Allah– He is the Messiah, son of Marium (Mary).

“9.30″: And the Jews say: Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah (Jesus) is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away! (Italics added.)

How can “disbelievers” who are Allah’s and the Muslim’s open enemy expect to negotiate with them?

Here is what they say about people who do not believe in the Koran and other Islamic writings:

[4.56] (As for) those who disbelieve in Our communications, We shall make them
enter fire; so oft as their skins are thoroughly burned, We will change them for other
skins, that they may taste the chastisement; surely Allah is Mighty, Wise.

Does not this sound like a “religious” war that we in the West are hesitant if not afraid to call it?

In verses 72 and 75 of chapter 5 we learn this:

7.  Muslims in denying that the son (Jesus) of Marium (Mary) is the Messiah, and
     in affirming that Jesus is “… but an apostle”,  attack one of the most important
     tenets of Christianity that Jesus Christ is who the Bible says He is, the very son of God, the Savior, the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world.

[5.72] Certainly they disbelieve who say: Surely Allah, He is the Messiah, son of Marium (Mary).

[5.75] The Messiah, son (Jesus) of Marium is but an apostle;

However, the Holy Scriptures affirm these truths:

“But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in
a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for
that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and
thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins”
(Matthew 1:20-21).

“And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we
may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God, and eternal life”(1 John 5:20).

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us
to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: “(1 Peter 3:18).

“For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily”(Colossians 2:9).
“Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more
dominion over him”(Romans 6:9).

Below, we read that the Koran denies that Jesus was crucified.  An imposter was crucified according to chapter 4, verse 157.

[4.157] And their saying: Surely we have killed the Messiah, Isa (Jesus) son of Marium, the apostle of Allah; and they did not kill him nor did they crucify him, but it appeared to them so (like Isa) and most surely those who differ therein are only in a doubt about it; they have no knowledge respecting it, but only follow a conjecture, and they killed him not for sure.

The Holy Scriptures declare the truth!

”Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you
by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye
yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom God hath
raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be
holden of it“(Acts 2:22-24).

Finally, when we read this unashamed flagrant assertion, what more do we need to alert us?

In an “Islamic-Christian dialogue meeting” we have “an authoritative Muslim spokesperson” declaring they, the Muslims will, “invade” us and “dominate” us.

This “spokesperson” states, in his opinion that our “democratic laws” allow them to “invade” us and that  by their “religious “ laws they will “dominate” us.

“The Archbishop of Izmir, His Exc. Giuseppe Germano Bernandini, summed up the political dilemma of the West in relation to Islam by quoting an authoritative Muslim spokesperson that he had encountered during an Islamic-Christian dialogue meeting. The man calmly stated with assurance, “Thanks to your democratic laws we will invade you; thanks to our religious laws we will dominate you.”“

The Scriptures saith, “But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in
what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his
house to be broken up“(Matthew 24:43).

Are we watching?