Well-known Internet evangelist Bill Keller says he's receiving death threats from Muslims after placing a controversial film on his website.
Bill Keller is founder of
LivePrayer.com, a website that offers prayer for people worldwide and also features news and topics from a Christian perspective. Last week, Keller placed the 16-minute movie
Fitna on his website. The film, produced by a Dutch politician, takes a realistic look at Islam and the Koran, says Keller. Immediately after posting the film, Keller says he began receiving death threats from Muslims.
Keller says Christians in America must understand that Islam is not a peaceful religion. "This myth of good Muslim versus bad Muslim, moderate Muslim versus radical Muslim is just that -- it's a myth," he says, "because the bottom line is, they're all reading the same book, they're all following the same teaching. And the biggest problem we've got now is the apathy, especially in this nation, of the real threat that Islam is."
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Many in the United States and around the world believe the lie above - that Islam is a peaceful religion that a radical few have perverted for their own causes. Sadly, this is not true. Islam is a religion of war and bloodshed, and is, indeed, a false religion that turns people away from Jesus Christ. In fact, Scripture fortells that in the last days many will follow strange religions: "
For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will accumulate teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new. They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths." 2 Timothy 4:3-4 (HCSB).
The objective of Islam is World Domination. In his article entitled "
The Quiet Revolution: Islam's Search for World Dominance", William Wagner points out the insidious strategy of radical Islam:
- University students. One group they specialize in is foreign students going to school in the United States. They see them as being future leaders in their countries of origin and since many daai's are also foreign students it gives them a natural bridge for contacts. An important part of their strategy is to work with the foreign students studying in America. They send students here to study and also as act as missionaries to their fellow foreign students. They have had much success. Another strategy is to build large expensive buildings for a University’s department of religion. Once the building is finished they retain control of the program by insisting that the head of the department be a Muslim.
- Prisoners. They have an active Da'wah work in many prisons in America. It has been estimated that they win about 30,000 prisoners every year to Islam. Often those they win are the more aggressive types thus they are easy recruits in the future for Islamic terrorist organizations. In a recent book written about this entitled Islam in the Big House by Stephen Schwartz, the author states that there is a real danger that our prisons in America are becoming training centers for Wahhabi extremism.
- American Indians. Islam feels that the Native American religions have much in common with Islam. They even claim that many early Indians converted to Islam via slaves that came to the United States. In Gallup, New Mexico, the so-called Indian Capital of America you will find a large new Mosque on the main street. One of their main training centers for the West is located in the Indian populated area of Northern New Mexico. Their Mosque and training center is in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
- Hispanics. Not only in the U.S.A. are they active but also in Central and South America. Since Spain at one time was Muslim they feel that this could convince many Hispanics that their natural religion is really Islam. In a recent article it was estimated that between 40,000 and 70,000 illegal Latin Americans had converted to Islam in the USA. Again they are having success with this group.
- Public schools. Muslim speakers bureaus offering to come and give free cross-cultural lessons to their students have contacted most schools in America. They claim that all students need to know more about other cultures. In California they have been successful in that many schools have invited Muslim teachers to come to the school and teach the basics of Islam. In some cases young people take Muslim names put on Muslim clothing and practice some Muslim religious procedures such as prayers, Ramadan and the pilgrimage. In a textbook used in the California schools dealing with world history for seventh graders, there were 74 pages dedicated to Islam and only two pages for Christianity and most of this was for the Roman Catholic Church. Their infiltration into the schools is not accidental but a well-planned strategy. Of course it would be forbidden for Christians to do the same.
Do not be fooled into thinking that Islam is peaceful and will eventually go away. Arm yourself with the truth. The North American Mission Board (SBC)'s web site
www.4truth.net is an excellent place for resources.
Here is the link for resources concerning Islam. The International Mission Board (SBC) also has a web site dealing with sharing Christ with Muslims that provides some great stories and resources. It is called
Beyond the Wall: Sharing the Love of God with Muslims. Go
here on their site for more information about Islam.
A new study from Lifeway Research confirms what evangelistic pastors and churches have known all along - evangelism must begin beyond the sanctuary. Imagine that! In a culture that is unchurched and uncaring, and flatly denies absolute truth (verified in this study) we must get out of the church walls and take the gospel to the streets. There are some who think this archaic methodology belongs to the era of the Apostle Paul. And it does! It surely worked for him. And it will work for us as well.
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