Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).
The newest edition of an ISIS online propaganda magazine says that despite the claims of Muslim leaders around the world that Islam is a “religion of peace” that Islam is really a “religion of the sword.”
“There is a slogan repeated continuously by apologetic ‘du’at’ [callers for Islam] when flirting with the West and that is their statement: ‘Islam is the religion of peace,’ and they mean pacifism by the word peace,” reads the ISIS article, which was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
“How far is their claim from the truth, for Allah has revealed Islam to be the religion of the sword, and the evidence for this is so profuse that only a zindiq (heretic) would argue otherwise.”
The propaganda article from the group quotes passages in the Quran that ISIS claims tells Muslims to cut the heads of anyone who is not a follower of their faith.
“His Messenger … also described the sword as the salvation from evil and fitnah [strife]. [He] also described the sword as being the key to Jannah [paradise],” the article asserts. “He also declared that his worldly provision was placed for him in the shade of his spear and that the best livelihood for the Muslim in the future is what he takes with his sword from the kafir [unbelieving] enemy.”
A leading expert on ISIS theology quoted in the Christian Post says that many western Muslims have a “cotton-candy view” of Islam and they overlook what their holy book says is required of them to be a true follower.
“People want to absolve Islam,” Bernard Haykel of Princeton University says in an interview with The Atlantic. “It’s this ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ mantra. As if there is such a thing as ‘Islam’! It’s what Muslims do, and how they interpret their texts.”
Haykel says it’s wrong to say ISIS is un-Islamic because their tactics are barbaric.
“The only principled ground that the Islamic State’s opponents could take is to say that certain core texts and traditional teachings of Islam are no longer valid,” he continues. “What’s striking about them is not just the literalism, but also the seriousness with which they read these texts. … There is an assiduous, obsessive seriousness that Muslims don’t normally have.”
At least they are admitting it is what it is, unlike our government. Franklin Graham is warning that it will come to us if we continue to treat it like a benign religion.