God's War on Terror: Islam, Prophecy and the Bible

by Walid Shoebat

  The Bible is right: “by peace he will destroy many.” But, how can peace destroy? Especially since destruction is the opposite of peace! Islam is truly an alternate universe where peace is used to destroy—exactly what the Antichrist will do. Islam’s reversalist mentality is described precisely by the prophet Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20)

  It’s not only the perverse logic that plagues Muslim jurisprudence, but a double-standard by Sharia that differs little between the Sunni and its Shi’ite strain. The Tabandeh Tract for example, which became the core ideological work upon which the Iranian government based its non-Muslim policy today states that, “Thus if a Muslim commits adultery his punishment is 100 lashes, the shaving of his head, and one year of banishment. But if the man is not a Muslim and commits adultery with a Muslim woman his penalty is execution…similarly if a Muslim deliberately murders another Muslim he falls under the law of retaliation and must by law be put to death by the next of kin. But if a non-Muslim who dies at the hand of a Muslim, has by lifelong habit been a non-Muslim, the penalty of death is not valid. Instead the Muslim murderer must pay a fine and be punished with the lash.”103

  This type of double standard encompasses all aspects of Islamic legal code. Thousands of cases-in-point can be found in Islam’s Sharia: “Because Islam regards non-Muslims as on a lower level of belief and conviction, if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim…then his punishment must not be the retaliatory death, since the faith and conviction he possesses is loftier than that of the man slain…Again, the penalties of a non-Muslim guilty of fornication with a Muslim woman are augmented because, in addition to the crime against morality, social duty and religion, he has committed sacrilege, in that he has disgraced a Muslim and thereby cast scorn upon the Muslims in general, and so must be executed.”104 “Islam and its peoples must be above the infidels, and never permit non-Muslims to acquire lordship over them. Since the marriage of a Muslim woman to an infidel husband (in accordance with the verse quoted: ‘Men are guardians over women’) means her subordination is to an infidel, that fact makes the marriage void, because it does not obey the conditions laid down to make a contract valid. As the Qur’an says: “Turn them not back to infidels: for they are not lawful unto infidels nor are infidels lawful unto them (i.e., in wedlock).” (Qur’an 60:10)105

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  Both Break Treaties

  According to Islam, the Mahdi will usher in the last seven years before judgment which will be the Seven Years of Peace Islam promises to establish, yet in Islamic Eschatology, he also kills all the Jewish men everywhere in the world. How is this peace?

  These seven years of peace must then be broken.

  This is already forewarned in the Bible: “He (The Antichrist) will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven’ [years] In the middle of the ‘seven’ [years] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.” (Daniel 9:27)

  How could it be that Islam’s unholy intent is already predicted in the Bible? Why was Islam the only cult to copy Bible prophecy and become the antithesis to Christianity? Had Islam died, then none of these things written in the Bible would have come true. Islam is unique, though, and prophecies about it must be in the Bible. In fact, no other religion or cult has as many documented prophecies about itself as does Islam.

  Antichrist will confirm a covenant that was previously stalled or broken. In the middle of the seven years, the Antichrist will violate the terms of this treaty and set up what the Bible calls an “abomination that causes desolation” on the Temple Mount. Of that treaty Isaiah also prophesied: “In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of the house of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel. A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.” (Isaiah 10:20-21)

  The message is clear, by making treaties with nations and peoples who are in reality committed to their destruction, the Jewish people deceive themselves with the fanciful notion that they will achieve “peace and security” and thus escape the murderous plans of the surrounding peoples. Reality is that Israel’s policies of appeasement have repeatedly resulted in agreements founded on mere wishful thinking that produced the exact opposite of what they had hoped for. Whenever the enemy finds it in their favor to do so, they break their agreements. This pattern has proven to be true with the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Syrians, the Romans, and more recently with the Muslims. One might argue that the PLO was a secular organization. This is only partially true. The PLO wore a cloak of secularism, but in fact was Muslim. There is not a single Muslim country void of Sharia law.

  TREATIES ARE NEVER KEPT

  The Bible says repeatedly that this embrace of hollow feel-good agreements will ultimately result in Israel’s near destruction. The message that Isaiah the prophet trumpeted to his people was that there was only one person they could truly “rely on” and this was the Messiah. He alone could be trusted and He alone would deal justly with Zion’s cause.

  Every treaty that Israel has committed to, from ancient times to modern day Oslo, Sharm el-Sheikh, and Wye, has had disappointing or even terrible results. Some may argue that Camp-David was a success—a deal in which Israel gave the entire Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt after Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War—despite the fact that Israel gained this land legitimately after having been attacked by Egypt whose only requirement in exchange for regaining all of her lost land was a simple piece of paper with a promise not to attack Israel. But what do we find today? What has Israel gained from this agreement? Tunnels are dug daily from Egypt into Israel to smuggle weapons into Gaza so that the Palestinians can continue to kill Jewish civilians. During Mohammed’s day, the Jews of Medina made an agreement to offer Mohammed asylum. What was the result at that time? In just a few short years, Mohammed had slaughtered thousands of Jews and destroyed entire Jewish communities. Times have not changed, nor has the Muslim practice of breaking treaties.

  Even far before Mohammed’s day, when the Hebrews left Egypt and approached the Promised Land, God issued them a command never to make a treaty with the various peoples that lived in and around what would come to be the Land of Israel “Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you…Do not worship any other god, for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land.” (Exodus 34:12-17) Later, even after the Jews had defeated the various tribes that lived in the land, they were still not allowed to make treaties with them. Instead God said, “You must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.” (Deuteronomy 7:2-4)

  THE UNFAIR JEHOVAH

  Modern ears have difficulty with this. The poison of moral relativity has made it difficult to understand why God would have been so intolerant of other peoples. However, the simple fact of the matter is that the peoples that settled there were bent on Israel’s destruction, while God for a thousand years offered them repentance and return. I always get asked everywhere I go, “What about Joshua who massacred the Canaanites?”

  Yet, this is exactly what the U.S. did in Japan and Germany to end wars. It’s a choice between preservation and suicide. The peoples that surrounded the Israelites wanted to destroy them and stop the plan of Israel. The Jewish people had an important and unique purpose in God’s unfolding plan of redemption for the entire world. The job of the Jewish people was to become a holy people that could provide a holy womb that would bring forth the Messiah into the world. Through the Messiah, not only the Jewish people, but also the entire world would come to know Jehovah—the One True Supreme God.

  But the peoples who lived in the land worshipped gods who were in reality demons. These demo
n-gods demanded such things as the sacrifice of the first-born child to be literally burned alive. But the situation is not different from the Canaanites or the Mayans who sacrificed humans to Satan. Would Westerners prefer to see ancient Mayan culture reinstated? Talk about Satanic cults and human offerings to evil, yet on a mass scale. If anything, no descendants of the Mayans want to go back to these days. The Spanish Inquisitions, with all their errors and greed seem to have done some good.

  Satanic sacrifices never ended. In Palestine today, many Muslim parents willingly sacrifice their children to become human bombs for the sake of killing Jews. The people who lived in the Promised Land were spiritually sick just as we see the Palestinians behave. Plain and simple, God did not want their wicked ways to spread to the Jewish people. It was with good reason then that God commanded the Jewish people to refrain from ever making covenants or treaties with the various peoples of the land who worshipped false gods and demons—and they still do to this very day.

  Unfortunately the Jewish people rarely obeyed God’s command regarding their relationships with other nations. This theme is addressed in the “covenant with death” prophecy by Isaiah for the Last-Days: “Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. You boast, ‘We have entered into a covenant with death, with the grave we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.’ So this is what the Sovereign Jehovah says: ‘See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.’” (Isaiah 28:14-16) This passage ends with a call not to trust in the covenant offered by Antichrist, but rather in the “tested and precious cornerstone”—Jesus the Messiah.

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  Both Love War For Booty

  One cannot enter the world of Islam without being accustomed to Nasheed; a rhythmic poetry that is sung without musical instruments, which are totally prohibited in Islam. You would never hear musical instruments played in a mosque. Mohammed proclaimed musicians to be of the people dwelling in hell. Nasheed is much different than anything the Judeo-Christian world is accustomed to. To give a taste, perhaps I can share one of the most popular Islamic Nasheed songs:

  We are those who built our forts

  Out of the skulls

  Which we brought from the land of the tyrant

  By force and on top of the booty

  Our Messenger is the one who made us

  Noble builders of glory

  Our Messenger is the sun of truth

  Who lit the face of the world.

  Does that sound like anything that you have ever sung in Church? Much history is rarely discussed regarding Muslims literally building mounds (forts) out of human skulls. If in doubt, study the memoirs of Baburnama of the Mughal Empire in which tens of millions were killed during Islam’s invasions of India and decapitated heads were piled as trophies.

  When I read the Bible it taught me that this type of bloodthirstiness was the cause of my separation from God: “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue has muttered perversity. No one calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; they conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; he who eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made themselves crooked paths; whoever takes that way shall not know peace.” (Isaiah 59:2-8)

  Such verses matched my heart perfectly. I began to understand that “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” (Proverbs 1:7) This fool needed so much wisdom and instruction, not the instruction of evil: “‘Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause…We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil…’ My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path; for their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.” (Proverbs 1:11-16) Such was the advice of my new Lord when I accepted the truth of the real Scriptures.

  MOHAMMED AND BOOTY

  Muslims are fascinated with the stories of Mohammed’s conquests for land and booty. So important was the quest for booty that all Muslims were required to give a fifth of their treasure to Allah the war-god and his Nimrod Mohammed.

  But what do they do when they find themselves out of money? Easy, the Qur’an says that “whatever ye take as spoils of war, lo! A fifth thereof is for Allah and for the messenger…” (Qur’an 8:41)

  So if the Muslims were running low on Zakat, that was no problem, there was always more treasure from infidels to plunder. That is how Mohammed always handled being broke. Allah and Mohammed may have demanded one fifth, but they always paid their mercenaries well. When one reads the many Muslim traditions about this subject, it is quite apparent that Muslims truly ascribe to the proverb: “stolen bread is sweeter.” (Proverbs 9:17) As the story goes, “A horseman came [to Mohammed] and said: Apostle of Allah, I went before you and climbed a certain mountain where I saw the Hawazin tribe all together with their women, cattle, and sheep, having gathered at Hunayn… Mohammed smiled and said: That will be the booty of the Muslims tomorrow if Allah wills…”106 The great pirate of the desert sea smiled and did all that he could do to contain himself from yelling out “Booty Ahoy!”

  People often look down on career politicians for never having actually worked a real job their whole life, yet what was Mohammed’s job? He was a false prophet and a pirate—the greatest cult leader of ancient times, even modern times—Mohammed rules more people while dead than he did while alive.

  The Qur’an even contains an entire chapter entitled Al-Anfal, which translates as “the Booty” or “the Spoils of war.” It was there actually during the famous Battle of Badr that Mohammed allegedly received a revelation that his soldiers were allowed to keep all war booty for themselves, giving twenty percent to Mohammed and for the poor: “And know that out of all the booty that ye may acquire (in war), a fifth share is assigned to Allah, and to the Messenger, and to near relatives, orphans, the needy, and the wayfarer.” (Qur’an 8:41)

  From the book Al-Hidayah, arguably the most widely read book of Islamic jurisprudence in the Muslim world, and used as a primary text in Islamic schools and seminaries, we read about this revelation and its effect as a motivating factor in the call to jihad:

  “After the Battle of Badr, the verse dealing with the booties was first revealed. The verse introduced the rule for the first time that the spoils of war would be the property of the soldiers who actually take part in the battle…That is one of the reasons why the soldiers of Islam fought tooth and nail. They would get Paradise in case of death in a Holy War, and booty in the case of conquest. Jihad is therefore the best source of all acquisitions.”107

  Mohammed attacked numerous tribes, villages and cities in order to steal their wealth to give to his new followers, so also will the Mahdi imitate Mohammed. The Mahdi, during the seven years of peace proclaimed in Islam, will use the seized property and wealth of the nations that he defeats to distribute among his followers. One of the most popular traditions regarding the Mahdi is that “He will give away wealth profusely.”108 “In those years (the time of the Mahdi) my community will enjoy a time of happiness such as they have never experienced before. Heaven will send rain upon them in torrents, the earth will not withhold any of its plants, and we
alth will be available to all. A man will stand and say, ‘Give to me Mahdi!’ and he will say, ‘Take.’”109

  If money can’t buy you love, in the Muslim mindset, Jihad provides a certain bonus and can buy all the love you want, after all, if one risks their life, don’t they deserve some compensation?

  WHO TAKES BRIBES?

  Every time I speak in an audience with Muslims present, there is at least one who would heckle me with the words “what did the Zionists pay you?” As if no informed person would ever express support for the nation of Israel apart from being bribed with the “blood money of those evil Jews.” It’s the same old anti-Semitic conspiratorial worldview that has always existed among the wicked. These anti-Semitic morons only prove my case.