Bill Warner
If you are even slightly awake about the world news today, it is no
surprise that Christians are being killed, raped and brutalized
throughout the Islamic world. However, there is a place where you can go
and escape the dreadful and relentless details of Christian
annihilation by Islam. You can just go to church. For example, this week
in Nigeria Christians were killed. Nothing out of the ordinary, indeed in the world of Christian persecution, this is routine.
And so the response to the murder of Christians is found in nearly
every church is …wait for it…, complete silence—not a mention or
reference to it or the brutality against Christians that happens almost
every day in the Islamic world. This is not a passive silence, because
if you try to change it, you will fail. The silence is an active,
working conspiracy that goes throughout nearly all of Christendom.
Take a simple example: prayer for the persecuted. From a Christian
perspective, this falls under the heading of obvious. Try taking the
idea of prayer for the routinely murdered Christians in Nigeria or Egypt
to ministers, boards and any part of the structure of the church and
see how far you will get. You will get rejection with a myriad of lame
and evasive excuses, since they fear to recognize the suffering of
Christians around the world. If you acknowledge the suffering, you might
ask the question: why are these Christians suffering? Ah, there is the
rub. The suffering is caused by Muslim jihadists who are following the
Islamic doctrine of jihad against the Christian as found in Koran, Sira
and Hadith. Islam is the cause of suffering of Christians, as well as
Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and atheists.
STOP!!! We cannot say those things! Facts are the new hate speech, so
we cannot speak about the jihad against Christians. Therefore, we get
no prayers for the persecuted, because it would lead to talk about why
the murder of Christians keeps happening. And that truth would lead to
being called an Islamophobe, so we are not going there. Result: silence.
It is ironic that the Wall Street Journal, a FINANCIAL newspaper, has run an article
about the silence in the pulpit concerning the suffering of Christians.
We live in a time of moral inversion when Christian leaders are
chastised for their moral bankruptcy by money men. It is supposed to be
the other way around.
Actually, there are few religious leaders left in America. Instead we
have chief-executive-officers who manage a 501 c 3 institution that has
meetings on Sunday. In too many cases, Christianity has devolved into
an hour’s meeting that is supposed to make you feel good for a week.
This 501 c 3 corporate mentality is another one of the roots of the
denial of the Christian suffering. If you are willing to see the
doctrinal roots of the ongoing murder of Christians by Muslims, then you
might have to speak about it from the pulpit and that could be seen as
political speech. In spite of the fact that there has never been a 501 c
3 revoked because of political speech by a minister, the imagined loss
silences ministers. Hmmm, if a minister is worried about the IRS
revoking his 501 c 3 then who is the minster serving? Caesar or Christ?
Now you may not be a Christian, and so it might seem that there is
nothing here for you. But in reality we all have pulpits. Are we using
the suffering of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, women, gays, and
intellectuals caused by Islam as a topic of conversation with those
around us? Who is is comfortable with bringing up anything negative
about Islam? To tell those facts about Islam is a social crime and you
will be accused of being a hater/Islamophobe. So most of us remain
silent about the evils of political Islam, and we are just like the
ministers—silent in our own pulpits. Christians and non-Christians share
the fear of being insulted as bigots and Islamophobes.
It turns out that all of those who oppose any social evil will be
hated. Think about it. It takes a massive amount of power to put into
place any societal doctrine, such as multi-culturalism and political
correctness. The government, universities, many churches, synagogues and
the media have become enforcers of multi-culturalism and political
correctness. They are very powerful and believe that their dogma rules
all peoples.
They are also full throated apologists for Islam. Now it turns out
that their actual knowledge about the doctrine and history of political
Islam is close to zero and Muslim-brotherhood-approved, but that is no
problem. The Establishment just says that those who find fault with
Islam are bigots and they hate us.
The silence of the pulpits is the greatest aider and abettor of Islam
in the US. No one serves and advances Islam better than the silent
ministers. They have abandoned their duty of courage in the face of
persecution, but the rest of the flock still looks for moral leadership
from them. Islam triumphs when Christian leaders do not condemn the
murderous evil of political Islam.
Even worse than the silent ministers are those who go to “interfaith
dialogs” and smile while the Muslims assert religious and political
dominance over them. The nice, oh so nice, Christians and Jews show up
to tie, while the Muslims are there to win, and they do.
Christians need to follow the example of Jesus and willingly suffer
the condemnation by the Establishment and fight against the political
Islam that murders Christians. Said another way, Christians should
demonstrate courage and sacrifice to support their cruelly murdered
brothers and sisters.
We cannot defeat political Islam until we get Christian boots on the
ground. Do the math. The pulpits must become a source of courage and
knowledge and stand up for Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and all
others who suffer under Islam’s persecution today and for the last 1400
years.
It isn’t just about religion; it is about the survival of our civilization.
Bill Warner, Director, Center for the Study of Political Islam
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