ISRAEL UPDATE

March 19, 2006 – “Praise Allah, pass the bombs…with the Koran and Jihad, we will gain our homes back, hey, hey, hey!  The agony of death is precious killing Jews…  Death to Jews is precious…So Hamas, hit them with the shoe bottoms of Islam and Hamas.”

These lyrics first reported on February 13, 2006 were sung to the applause of an Arab American audience, where, at a fundraiser for Hamas in the United States!  Then at rallies in Oklahoma and New Jersey this same band chanted, “With holy war we regain the land.  No giving in!  The blood of martyrs will fall like the water of rain…to Jerusalem, let’s go.  The sacrifice is calling.”

In light of the protests and rioting during the past month over the caricature of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb coming from his head, one cannot help but wonder why the anger and rage where people sing such songs with enthusiasm.

The key words here, Koran, the Islamic holy scriptures, Jihad, holy war, Islam (to surrender) and Hamas, whose name means Islamic Resistance, obviously to any peaceful co-existence between the Islamic and Jewish states.

Undoubtedly the terror group controlling the majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament is far away from the reality that utopian minded religious and political leaders were hoping for, and once again peace is very far away.

 

March 19, 2006 – As we see the world moving more and more toward a unified concept of religion, one of the main aspects promoted is the idea of similarities between religions.

We have especially seen this trend as many people have tried to say that the Judeo-Christian G-d is the same god of Islam.  In reality Allah was actually one of three hundred and sixty stone gods worshipped by the regional tribes.  Mohammed declared that to worship more than one god was idolatry and pagan worship and only one god was to be served.

Of course, the one true living G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob chose his followers the opposite of Mohammed choosing Allah.

So there is one similarity between the concept of worship between Islam and the Judea-Christian concept, both worship one god.

This however, is where the similarities end as we read from Exodus 20:1-3, “And G-d spoke all these words saying, I am the L-rd thy G-d that brought thee out of the land of Egypt and the house of bondage.  Thou shalt have no others gods before me.”

In an age where similarities are used as the rationale for ecumenicity, it is not similarity but in reality compatibility and in the case outlined in this article the Judeo-Christian G-d and that of Islam are not the same nor are they compatible.

  

To be continued…