John R. Houk
© April 17, 2018
It’s time to address phobias – again. Here is the Merriam-Webster definition of phobia:
an exaggerated usually
inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation
Apparently, i.e. listening to the Left, Social
Conservatives, Conservatives understanding Islamic revered writings and
Counterjihadists all over the political spectrum are peopled filled with “inexplicable
and illogical fear.”
People that believe the Word of God (i.e. the Holy Bible)
and condemn the homosexual lifestyle because God calls the practice an
abomination in the Old Testament and deserving
death unless the homosexual lifestyle is repented by looking up to Jesus the
Redeemer in the New Testament are vilified
as homophobes. The problem I have with the epithet “homophobe,” is that
Biblical Christians DO NOT have an inexplicable and illogical fear of those who
practice a homosexual lifestyle.
Rather the view of a Biblical Christian is lining up with
God in loathing the practice which as an unrepentant action separates one from
the Presence of God. Incidentally, a spiritual state restored by believing in
the price paid in death of Jesus Christ and enabling eternal life in the
Presence of God participating by faith in the Resurrection to glorified Life by
the man-God (both natures in one) Jesus Christ.
Christians (AND any non-Christian not a Muslim) must
understand the revered writings of Islam deal in exacting death to anyone who
does not submit to the authority of Islam. This especially the case in a region
where Islam is the basis for the rule of law. In non-Muslim dominated areas,
the Muslim is entreated to tolerate the inferior infidels until such a time
Islam is the dominant theo-political reality.
It is at this point that a Leftist and Muslim apologist will
scream my assertion is a lie and thus I must be a racist hater Islamophobe (expressing
hatred out of an “inexplicable and illogical fear” of all things Islam).
Let me be clear! As a Christian I have zero fear of Muslims
or of the theo-political ideology of Islam. Rather I loath the doctrine because
in its essence the theo-political Islamic revered writings promote all things
that separate humanity from God by denying the death, burial and Resurrection
of Jesus Christ. FURTHMORE, Islamic revered writings deny that God Almighty emptied His Divine prerogatives
to be born a human to be the perfect sinless man enabling His life to be the price that Redeems
humanity from the inherited fallen-sin nature bequeathed by the first man Adam
who switched allegiance to Satan by disobeying
God.
As opposed to the Truth of the Holy Bible I linked to above,
Islamic revered writings deny it all claiming Muhammad’s lying words (or if
Mo heard from a spiritual being, Muhammad’s gullible allegiance to
a devil disguised as an angel of light)
are superior to Holy Spirit (3rd Person of the ONE True God)
inspired Holy Scripture.
Most egregious example – Quran 23:
91 - various translations:
Sahih International: Allah
has not taken any son, nor has there ever been with Him any deity. [If there
had been], then each deity would have taken what it created, and some of them
would have sought to overcome others. Exalted is Allah above what they describe
[concerning Him].
Yusuf Ali: No son did Allah
beget, nor is there any god along with Him: (if there were many gods), behold,
each god would have taken away what he had created, and some would have lorded
it over others! Glory to Allah! (He is free) from the (sort of) things they
attribute to Him!
Muhammad Sarwar: God has
never given birth to a son and there is no other god besides Him. If there
were, each god would have taken away his creatures and claimed superiority over
the others. God is too exalted to be as they believe Him to be.
Mohsin Khan: No son (or
offspring or children) did Allah beget, nor is there any ilah (god) along with
Him; (if there had been many gods), behold, each god would have taken away what
he had created, and some would have tried to overcome others! Glorified be
Allah above all that they attribute to Him!
This Quranic Surah is only a small example of Islam’s
specific antipathy of the Christian faith.
More treatment of non-Muslims that decide submission is
oppression at the hands of Muslims – Quran 9:12-14 (QuranBrowser.org – under Yusuf Ali):
9:12
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But if they violate their oaths after their covenant, and
taunt you for your Faith,- fight ye the chiefs of Unfaith: for their oaths
are nothing to them: that thus they may be restrained.
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9:13
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Will ye not fight people who violated their oaths, plotted
to expel the Apostle, and took the aggressive by being the first (to assault)
you? Do ye fear them? Nay, it is God Whom ye should more justly fear, if ye
believe!
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9:14
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Fight them, and God will punish them by your hands, cover
them with shame, help you (to victory) over them, heal the breasts of
Believers,
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Quran 9: 28-33 (QuranBrowser.org – under Shakir):
9:28
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O you who believe! the idolaters are nothing but unclean,
so they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year; and if you fear
poverty then Allah will enrich you out of His grace if He please; surely
Allah is Knowing Wise.
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9:29
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Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter
day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor
follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book,
until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a
state of subjection.
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9:30
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And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the
Christians say: The Messiah 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!
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9:31
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They have taken their doctors of law and their monks for
lords besides Allah, and (also) the Messiah son of Marium and they were
enjoined that they should serve one God only, there is no god but He; far
from His glory be what they set up (with Him).
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9:32
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They desire to put out the light of Allah with their
mouths, and Allah will not consent save to perfect His light, though the
unbelievers are averse.
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9:33
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He it is Who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion
of truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions, though the
polytheists may be averse.
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The Quran, Hadith and Sira are full of this hatred and
oppression at non-Muslims. Although the early suras instructed Muslims to
respect the People of the Book (i.e. Jews and Christians) the later suras in
date (NOT chronologically) reflects Mo’s disappointment in Jews and Christians
rejecting Muhammad as a false prophet. Ergo, respect degenerated into
oppression followed by destruction if there was any refusal to submit to allah as
a convert or a subhuman existence. Sounds more like human emotional directives
rather than divine prophecy.
The Word’s of Jesus in false prophets:
13 “Enter by
the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the
way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.14 Because[a] narrow is the
gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there
are few who find it.
15 “Beware
of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are
ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their
fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?17 Even
so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A
good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good
fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit
is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore
by their fruits you will know them. - Matthew 7: 13-20 NKJV
And this God-Breathed Word found in 1 John:
2 18 Little
children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the[a]Antichrist
is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the
last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were
not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us;
but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none
of them were of us.
4 1 Beloved,
do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God;
because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By
this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ
has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit
that does not confess that[a] Jesus
Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of
the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the
world. – 1 John 2: 18-19; 4: 1-3 NKJV
Do I have an inexplicable and illogical fear of Islam? NOPE!
I have a very explicable and logical loathing of Islam. The
very tenets of Islam are aggressively antipathetical not only against
Christians, but against ALL people who want nothing to do with the Islamic
despotic totalitarian theo-political ideology.
You may wonder what motivated me to clarify my thoughts on
how “phobia” is a sadly misused application to stalwart Biblical Christians.
The motivation is derived from an email I received from Brigitte Gabriel of ACT
for America expressing displeasure with Senator Cory Booker’s grilling of Mike
Pompeo during the Senate nomination hearing for becoming Secretary of State. In
the course of the grilling Booker equated Brigitte Gabriel and Pompeo as
Islamophobes.
In response to Booker’s grilling, Gabriel penned a response
explaining her contempt for being wrongly called an Islamophobe.
Just as a side thought. Gabriel is in the camp that only
Radical Muslims need be exposed. That is a fair point as an American supporting
the 1st Amendment of Religious Freedom.
Unfortunately, Gabriel and others in her camp are failing to
see the big picture pertaining to Islam and the theo-political religion’s
history of overt conquest and stealth eradication of cultures and faiths that
are contrary to Islamic tenets. The more accepted Islamic tenets are become,
the greater the potential that Islamic domination occurs ending the very
Constitutional Rights guaranteed as inalienable.
With that minor divergence of thought between and Brigitte
Gabriel, below is here Townhall article written on 4/14/18.
Here is the email intro from Brigitte Gabriel dated 4/16/2018
11:30 AM:
Dear John,
Last week, during the Secretary
of State Nomination Hearings, Senator Cory Booker decided to use his
time as a way to advance his own political career. I lived in an 8x10
bomb shelter for almost a decade because of Islamic terrorism. Yet, Cory Booker
and the fake news media had the audacity to call me an Islamophobe and a Hate
Monger on the Senate floor.
These shameful, baseless lies
will not slow me down. As someone who has lived through terrorism, and
experienced it firsthand - I will not be silenced by these leftist scare
tactics. Over the weekend I published an op-ed on Townhall.com to give my
perspective on what happened.
Thank you for support. I hope
you enjoy my article!
Un-apologetically Patriotic,
Brigitte Gabriel
JRH 4/17/18
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Apr 14, 2018 12:01 AM
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Senators grilling CIA Director and Secretary of State
nominee Mike Pompeo threw out a number of charged words in an attempt to taint
his reputation. Senator Cory Booker used words like “anti-Islam,”
“Islamaphobe,” and the other absurd and completely unfounded clichés to
describe myself, my organization, ACT for America, and anyone else whose
beliefs do not conform to their politically correct fantasyland that have
worked with patriots like Mr. Pompeo to expose terrorist activities both within
the United States and abroad.
For the last fifteen years I’ve been traveling the world,
exercising freedom of speech, as is my human right, in an effort to educate
others about the threat of terrorism and radical Islam. I expose the truth
behind a warped ideology that legitimizes decapitation, stonings, rape,
domestic violence, female genital mutilation, and a number of other abhorrent
human rights atrocities. All of these appalling acts are frequent in one
particular part of the world, the Islamic world. Radical Islamists will openly
cry out “Allahu Akhbar,” before committing a terrorist attack, or any of the
other human rights violations aforementioned, as if their God would be pleased
with their barbaric actions. I’ve got news for these politically correct
senators trying to score cheap political points by slandering both myself, and
patriotic officials like Mr. Pompeo; this is not a partisan issue, it’s a human
issue.
But the fact that I’ve dared to call out these terrorists,
and spoke the truth about the roots of their radical rage, has placed me, and
those who associate with me, in the crosshairs of political smear merchants.
Cliché accusations of “Islamophobia” thrown at myself and my organization,
still seem to be the only defense for far-left frauds.
The term “hate group,” is another term the radical left has
used to attempt to delegitimize others. The definition of this term includes
“intolerance or aversion for” the object of the phobia. Am I
intolerant of mass murder, justified and glorified in the name of Allah? Yes.
Do I have an aversion to subway and train bombings? Yes. Do any of these
locations ring a bell? Fort Hood, Texas (Nidal Hasan - NOV, 2009); the Boston
Marathon bombing (APR, 2013); Charlie Hebdo massacre, Paris (JAN, 2015); the
multiple restaurant and Bataclan concert massacres, Paris (NOV, 2015); the San
Bernardino Christmas Party massacre (DEC, 2015); the Brussels simultaneous
airport and subway attacks (MAR, 2016); the Pulse Nightclub massacre, Orlando,
FL (JUN, 2016) ; Nice, France, Bastille Day truck massacre (JUL, 2016). They
are all places where horrendous terrorist atrocities were committed by radical
Islamists, with scores of civilian fatalities and hundreds maimed.
Senator, if my intolerance of mass murder and my aversion to
human rights atrocities makes me an “Islamophobe,” then I submit that I, and everyone
else with any common sense or moral compass, would fall into this category.
I am not, however, fearful of moderate, Western loving
Muslims, and consequently, I’ve worked with them, and continue to do so.
Most Muslims are as concerned as I am about the radicalized element of
Islam, and how terrorists all over the world are perverting their hope of
living in peace. ACT for America has more than a million members from all
walks of life. We work with moderate Muslims, members of the LGBTQ+ community,
Republicans, Democrats, and anyone willing to stand for what is right in the
face of evil, and the enabling of it by the regressive left.
We defend the defenseless, those who have been terrorized
for being “infidels.” Our organization works to protect women, children,
homosexuals, and anyone else endangered by the radical elements that threaten
their very dignity and existence in the name of their religion.
As for the moniker, “hate group,” let’s be clear, there is
nothing hateful about patriotism. There is nothing hateful about defending the
defenseless. There is nothing about opposing hatred, only enabling it the way
that an appalling number of senators on Capitol Hill, in conjunction with the
media, and anti-American political organizations do so continuously.
For years, true hate enablers, like the outrageously biased
Southern Poverty Law Center, have recklessly labeled dozens of mainstream
conservative organizations as “hate groups,” which has led to violent and
dangerous attacks on such organizations. In fact, the SPLC has been named in
court as the cause of an act of domestic terrorism, when one of their loyal
followers, who soaked up their dangerous propaganda like a sponge, shot up the
Family Research Council headquarters in Washington, D.C. Yet, the mainstream
media still uses this disgraced organization as a neutral arbiter of hate?
On what authority do they make these proclamations?
Another group which frequently traffics in false accusations
such as “hate group” is the Council on American Islamic Relations. CAIR is an
organization whose spokespersons
have been linked to terrorist groups Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and who
have been designated as a terrorist organization in Islamic countries such as
the United Arab Emirates, which itself abides by Islamic law. Let me guess,
the United Arab Emirates is also “Islamophobic?”
Apparently, a Muslim brotherhood front-group like CAIR can
throw out accusations such as “hate group,” but accurately calling them a
terrorist organization, and stating facts about their leadership and members is
a bridge too far. Give me a break.
This week, in an ironic twist, the American Defamation
League sent
a letter to senators, yet again making this false claim about
myself, and ACT for America. These days, I suppose facts are considered the new
hate speech. Should anyone be surprised? The only ammunition these anti-free
speech bullies have is to cry bigotry whenever facts contradict their feelings.
I’ve been defamed many times over the years, and had my life and that of my family’s
threatened, with public figures like the media’s favorite jihadist Linda
Sarsour calling for the mutilation of my, and FGM survivor Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s,
body.
We’re living in a
dangerous time more akin to the Twilight Zone than reality. A time when the
aggresors are the victims, and opposition to hate is considered hateful.
For the record, ACT
for America is a grassroots national security grassroots
advocacy organization focused on protecting our nation’s security, western
democratic values, and basic human rights. ACT for America has never, and will
never, tolerate any bias, discrimination, or violence against anyone, based on
their religion, gender, race, or political persuasion.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again-political
correctness must die so that freedom and truth can live.
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Are you Falsely Accused of
Inexplicable/Illogical Fear?
John R. Houk
© April 17, 2018
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