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Communism was once the big hope. The Islamic countries are dictatorships, led by
Communist revolution in Russia was financed ruthless murderers and international terrorists
to a large extent by some of the wealthiest and such as Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Lybia's Kad-
most powerful men in America. Praising its en- dafi and Hafez Assad of Syria. In the name of
forced atheism, John Dewey wrote in The New Allah they imprison, torture and kill tens of
Republic in 1928 that communism would thousands of their own citizens and train and
"counteract and transform...the influence of finance worldwide terrorism. In PLO territo-
home and Church" and ultimately would fulfill ries taken over from Israel, as in every Muslim
the goals set forth in The Humanist Manifesto. country, there is no freedom of conscience,
speech, religion, election or the media.
It sounded so good: equality for all. But
those who enforced this "equality" were tyrants Israel is the only democracy in the Middle
looking out for their own selfish interests, who East and she has the problems which democ-
oppressed and stole from the people under racy breeds. The Holy Land is plagued with
them. Corruption flourished in the Soviet Union drugs, pornography, prostitution, youth rebel-
and China and still does in every communist lion, rape, robbery and murder. Selfishness
nation. pits Israeli against Israeli. More than 200,000
Israeli women are victims of domestic vio-
The same has always been true of Islam. lence each year. The savagery in Israeli
Muhammad imposed Islam with the sword. As schools rivals that of the United States. Violent
soon as he died, much of Arabia tried to aban- crime among Israeli youth more than doubled
don Islam, but was forced back into submission from 1993 to 1998. There is hostility between
in the Wars of Apostasy in which tens of thou- religious and secular Israelis and increasing
sands were killed. Nor did that bring peace. disillusionment with Judaism, especially
Muhammad's closest companions and relatives among youth.
fought savage wars for leadership, slaughtering
one another for Allah and their dead prophet. If Jeremiah were alive today, he would
Thousands of Muhammad's followers were warn Israel once again of coming judgment for
butchered by one rival faction or another. its sin. Israel needs to repent to the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But what if she
Islam hasn't changed. Between 1948 and were to do so? The rabbis have no forgiveness
1973, there were 80 revolutions in the Arab to offer repentant sinners. They've had neither
world, 30 of them successful, including the temple nor sacrifices for sin for 1,900 years --
murder of 22 heads of state. Sunnites, the larg- exactly as foretold (Hosea 3:4; Luke
est Islamic sect, and Shi'ites, the next largest, 21:20-24)!
still fight one another. In the eight-year war
between Iran and Iraq, 1,000 tons of poison gas Why would God prophesy and allow this
were used and there were more deaths than in condition? Only if Jesus is the Messiah who, as
World War I. Islam can't even bring peace the Lamb of God, died for the sins of Jew and
among Muslims. Yet British Prime Minister Gentile alike. If His sacrifice on the tree ful-
Tony Blair has said that Islam is synonymous filled all the Old Testament sacrifices, they are
with "peace, tolerance and a force for good." no longer needed. That is the only explanation
Incredibly, the Crystal Cathedral houses a joint for God having left Israel without temple and
"Christian and Muslim Institute for peace." sacrifice all these years.
Peace?

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