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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth, where we invite you to think through an important issue of life and

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faith. And today, I want to continue to challenge you to think seriously about Christianity and

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Islam. This issue is in our culture and in our headlines and in our foreign policy and

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in our homeland in a very real and personal way. So, I would like to challenge you to think

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seriously about Christianity and Islam. In our first week, we examined some introductory ideas

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which covered Islam's origins and its five main tenets or pillars, including the less acknowledged

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shadow pillar, which is jihad. We further saw how jihad is broken down into four types of struggle,

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including the inevitable element of armed conflict and propagation of the faith by means of conquest

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and subjugation. And we contrasted this with Christianity's principles of propagation of

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the faith by means of word and sacrament. And we demonstrated that from the Bible. Also last week,

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we looked at one of the little-known features of Islam, which makes it a direct threat to all that

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we hold dear in the West, and that is the Quranic idea of all-encompassing law, or Sharia. We saw how it

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is incumbent upon all good Muslims to impose the strict code of Islamic law wherever possible,

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without distinction between church and state. Now, Sharia is one of the basic tenets of Islam,

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which make it a religion that's not just another harmless religion among many, but one which has been

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at war with all other religions since its inception. And today, we hope to do some more comparison

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and contrast between Islam and Christianity. And again, you will hear some things that have been

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deliberately overlooked and played down in discussing our current struggle with radical militant Islam.

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Now, these things are important, for until we understand the nature of the religion that makes

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Islam tick, no matter how much of their culture and psychology we may understand, we will always be

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slightly mystified by the ferocious commitment that drives them to throw their lives away in order to

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destroy us and all for which we stand. What is it about Islam that creates such fanaticism? Well,

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one of the features is the simple division of the world into two camps. Two camps. Number one,

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there is the Dar al-Islam. Dar al-Islam, which is the house of Islam, inclusive of all Muslims. Now,

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technically, it spans all races and nationalities and borders, although Arabs have prided place.

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They're a little more equal than the rest. And also, nationalities and race still make for bitter

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conflict. For example, Iran versus Iraq during the 80s, when millions were slaughtered and Saddam Hussein

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used chemical warfare against Iranians. Well, nevertheless, it is there in principle,

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the Dar al-Islam, the one house of Islam. And it's often appealed to, especially in conflict

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with the infidel, as did Nasser of Egypt, who strove for a pan-Arab state in the Middle East in the 50s

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and in the 60s. Well, then there is also the Dar al-Harb. There's the Dar al-Islam. And then there

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is the Dar al-Harb. That is the house of war, composed of everyone else. The vast mass of

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unbelievers, the non-Muslim, the infidel, the Dar al-Harb, the house of war. It is these with whom

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Islam is in a perpetual state of war, both figuratively and literally. Figuratively, in that

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Islam as a religion and way of life is always struggling against infidel religions, and then

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literally at war as well, in that, when necessary or opportune, Islam imposes itself by the sword.

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Now, while there are two simple divisions of mankind, the goal is to establish the Ummah,

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that is the Islamic State and Society, to extend the house of Islam over the entire world and either

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convert, eliminate, or dominate the infidel. This has been consistent in the history of Islam

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and the peoples, excuse me, over whom it has held sway. For example, in Surah number eight of the

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Koran, ostensibly, then Allah tells the Prophet Muhammad, O Prophet, urge on the believers to

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fight. If there be twenty of you patient men, they will overcome two hundred. If there be a hundred of

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you, they will overcome a thousand infidels, for they are a people who understand not. Unquote.

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This has been the pattern throughout history, dear listener. Fueled by the religious zeal of jihad,

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the Arab Muslims swept over the Middle East after Muhammad's death in A.D. 632. Damascus fell in 635.

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Jerusalem fell in 638. And on and on it went. Alexandria, Carthage, so that by the end of the

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7th century, all of North Africa and across the Straits of Gibraltar into Spain were in Muslim

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hands by power of the sword. And soon after, all of Asia Minor would fall to them by military

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conquest as well. What were all of these lands before they were brutally overrun? Oh, they were

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Christian, dear listener. Like the parable of the mustard seed, the church had started out

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as a small, humble faith in the shadow of the Roman Empire and had grown into a mighty tree

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extending from the Straits of Gibraltar to India and beyond. How was this accomplished, I ask? By the

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sword? No. As we've seen over the last two weeks, word and sacrament. In fact, the sword had been used

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against the church by Rome to stamp it out. But that tactic by Rome had only served to spread the

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very faith it attempted to destroy. As St. Cyprian said, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the

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church. A very famous saying that still holds true today. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the

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church. So, let this be understood. Islam is not a victim religion. No. Despite the talking heads

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and the radical Muslim apologists who are using our very freedoms and our tolerance to destroy us,

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no. Islam is not a peace-loving, tolerant, and diverse religion. It uses the sword to propagate its

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faith. It tolerates no other religion than Islam. It punishes diversity with prison, banishment,

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fines, and death. Where would those, oh, many, many Christians in Syria be? For example, if not for

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the glare of public scrutiny, propagation of any other faith than Islam is punishable by death or

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imprisonment under the Taliban in Afghanistan, for example, this is why its policy in state after

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state all over the world this very day, this was its policy in state after state that it established

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as it swept across the Mediterranean in the 8th and 9th centuries as well. As the historian Sir Stephen

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Runciman says, and I quote him, unlike Christianity, which preached a peace it was never quite able to

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fully achieve, Islam unashamedly came with a sword, unquote. Islam unashamedly comes with a sword.

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So effective was this policy that, with a few notable exceptions, including the Coptic Church of

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Egypt, the church all but disappeared from North Africa. Gone were the great church fathers of North

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Africa. Augustine of Hippo, Cyril of Alexandria, and Tertullian and San Cyprian, and on and on we could

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go. Often, where Islam could not entirely convert or destroy Christians and their churches, they

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practiced a system of taxation and relegation of Christians to a second-class status that all but

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strangled their survival. One of these agreements, which is now called the Pact of Umar. Now, Umar was

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the second caliph after Abu Bakr. After the death of Muhammad, there was first the succeeding caliph

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Abu Bakr, and after Abu Bakr was the second caliph, the great Umar. And he developed a system of

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oppression of the infidel, which is now called the Pact of Umar. And some of its provisions are, for

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example, number one, no new churches built or repairs made to existing ones. Second provision,

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the Christian was forced to promise we shall not manifest our religion publicly or convert anyone

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to it. The third provision that we highlight here is that no Christian could bear arms either. Oh, there

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was no second amendment in Muslim lands for Christians. And fourthly, there was no intermarriage

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of Christians with Muslims, though Muslims could marry Christian girls. And the final highlight we have

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here for you from the Pact of Umar is that Christians must pay a steep poll tax. So what do you think the

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net effect of this policy of toleration, quote, unquote? As one author has put it, these measures,

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and I quote, achieved exactly what they were supposed to achieve. Islam won the region, unquote.

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So, dear listener, do not be fooled. Willing dupes in the West and Islamic apologists will try and extol

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the virtues of Islamic tolerance. This is what they mean by tolerance, though. And it's been borne out

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in history. Regarding the Pact of Umar, one author notes, Alicia Kaufman notes this about the Pact of

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Umar, and I quote, unfortunately, seventh century Christians failed to see the deeper threat of

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Umar's bargain. Modern apologists for Islamic tolerance generally make the same mistake.

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Protected status really means second or third class status with strictures guaranteed to erode

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all religions but Islam, unquote. Very succinctly put. And there are several other historical bubbles,

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if you will, which must be Pact, too. Number one, well, some people say, you say Islam is not a victim

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religion. What about the Crusades? Didn't the Christian West violate the Muslims during that whole

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period? Oh, the old canard of the Crusades. Well, thinking about the Crusades, then, we must note,

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first, the Turks themselves who were conquered converts to Islam, the Turks now dominated the

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Islamic world and had conquered Jerusalem from the Arabic Muslims, which was called the Saracen

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dynasty. But the Turks had conquered the Arabic Muslims in 1076. And the Turks began a vicious

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persecution of Christians in all of Palestine. That helped to set the stage for the Crusades.

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And the Greek emperor, Michael VIII, made a direct and poignant appeal to the West for assistance

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against the Turks, who were moving on Constantinople. And there was also, thirdly, a sincere desire in

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both the Eastern and Western Church to heal the breach that had been developing over the centuries

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and had manifest itself in an open split between the Eastern and the Western Church in AD 1054. And then

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finally, the nations of Europe knew that it was only a matter of time before the Turks threatened them

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and how right they were. It would take almost 600 years, but the Turks would eventually push their way

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to the very gates of Vienna. Oh, now just briefly, I have a whole series on the Crusades that I'd like

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to go over with you. But just briefly right now, a note about the Crusades. There were four major

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Crusades. There was one begun in 1095 called by Pope Urban II. There was another Crusade launched in AD 1146

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by St. Bernard, who preached the Second Crusade. The Third Crusade was launched in 1187 by Pope Clement III.

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And that was a crusade to free Jerusalem from Muslim Hans. And then the last crusade was called

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in AD 1202 by Pope Innocent III. So this does not excuse the excesses of the Crusades, that there were

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indeed four, at least four good reasons that the Crusades were launched. But that doesn't excuse the

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excesses. Many joined the Crusades for ulterior motives, and the Crusaders were guilty of savage

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sub-Christian behavior. There were slaughter of the innocents. There were non-combative civilians who

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were killed, both Jew and Muslim. These are the first things brought out by everyone else, though.

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You can find these anywhere. What you will not find are the three or four consistent, legitimate reasons

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for the Wests having gone to war against a foe that will not stop, that will not give quarter,

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and who neatly divide the world into two camps, the House of Islam and the House of War. So the

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upshot is, dear listener, Muslims were not victims of the Crusades. We cannot emphasize this strongly

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enough. Muslims were not victims of the Crusades. No. They had brutally acquired the Middle East

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and Constantinople, and they brutally held on to it. For example, the Muslim sultan Baibars, with his

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Turkish troops, called Mamaluks. Baibars was in the habit of slaughtering whole villages, men, women,

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and children, as one historian puts it. And I quote, in general, the Crusades reek with a stench of

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brutality and death. But the fall of Antioch, which was held by Christians at this time, just

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parenthetically, I go on to quote, the fall of Antioch to the Turks was laden with such horrors

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that even the Mamaluks themselves were sickened by the carnage which they caused or which they

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witnessed there, unquote. So make no mistake about this, dear listener. In the eyes of radical,

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militant Islam, you are a member of the house of war. And eventually, you will either be converted,

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killed, or controlled. This has been the pattern of militant Islam from the very beginning and

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continues to be the pattern. So do not be a naive Pollyanna, dear listener. Know what is in store

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for you as you are categorized in the house of war in the eyes of radical, militant Islam? Well,

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secondly, another objection that comes forward is, oh, pastor, you're just talking ancient history.

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Certainly, no Muslim takes all of those antiquated ambitions seriously anymore, do they? Now,

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this is a fallacy of modern, right-thinking America, which no longer has a historical memory

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that extends beyond last year's Super Bowl or the last episode of The View. No, to the Muslim mind,

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the Crusades were not last year's United Way fundraiser or last year's Billy Graham's

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evangelistic effort. No, the Islam, excuse me, Islam has an historical continuity with their past,

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and they long for the glory that once was Islam. The Muslim world has always been traumatized by the

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stagnation that set in after the high tide of Muslim advance was reached in A.D. 1683,

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when the Turkish Sultan Mohammed almost took the city of Vienna, Austria. Now, Mohammed had laid siege

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to Vienna in March of 1683, and he steadily wore away the defenders all through the spring and summer.

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In September, the Turks had all but overwhelmed the city at various points, but as one historian has

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noted, and I quote, the valor of the besieged Viennese baffled the assailants. Then, on September 10,

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1683, note that date, September 10 of 1683, a tremendous explosion from mines set under the walls of Vienna

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blew a hole so wide that, as one historian puts it, a battalion might have entered it side by side,

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unquote. The final blow was set to be delivered to Vienna on the very next day, September 11. But

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mysteriously, the attack did not come. The defenders of Vienna waited all that day, expecting some

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inevitable slaughter at the hands of the Turks, but it didn't come. Why? Well, some say the ferocity of the

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defenders in Vienna finally gave even the militant Turks pause. Others say it was confusion and hesitation

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amongst the sultan's generals that caused delay. Others attribute it to the hand of God. But, in any case,

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for whatever reason, September 11 was the furthest advance of Islam into the West. For, on September 15,

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the great Polish general, Stephen Sobieski had been raising an army, and he arrived that day with his

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army that delivered Vienna from the siege of the Muslim Turks. Stephen Sobieski, though he's not very

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well known here in America and in the West, Stephen Sobieski is one of the great heroes of history,

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history, and especially of the deliverance of Vienna and the keeping of the West from being under Muslim

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domination. History tells us that the furthest advance of Islam into the West peaked. It crested on September 10,

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1683, and the final blow failed to materialize on September 11, 9-11 of 1683, and Islam has been on the decline

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ever since. Now, we in the West, especially in America, we have become victims of deliberate

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historical amnesia. So many people are unaware of the things I have just disclosed to you from the

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history books, dear listener. History has been revised by the postmodern to try and cut us off from our

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Christian roots and thereby divest us of our racism and sexism and religious exclusivism and all the

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other isms that are seen to be evil in our day. Well, to study our Christian roots and our Christian

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foundations of the West is to repeat old and destructive ways as far as they're concerned that

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will only prevent us from becoming truly diverse and inclusive and tolerant. We may not take history

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seriously anymore, but radical, militant Islam certainly does. They remember their roots and

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their past. They learn it on their mother's knee. There is true historical continuity with their past.

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Islam is patient. They are in it for the long haul. The Quran in Surah number 22 puts it this way,

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from the Quran, I have repaid the infidels and I have seized them. Behold the horror of it. How many

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a city we have destroyed in its evildoing and how it has fallen upon its turrets? How many are ruined

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well a tall palace? The infidel demands that you show him your supposed chastisement, but Allah will

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not fail his promise. And surely a day with Allah is as a thousand years of your counting, unquote.

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The Muslim is urged to patience in exacting his revenge. It took them over a thousand years to get

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to the gates of Vienna. A little over 300 years later, they are in every major city of the West,

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including the great Babylon of the West New York City. They remember the motive force behind past

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Arab greatness. The historian Raphael Pattai puts it this way, and I quote,

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these past glorious victories of the Arabs were inspired by their Islamic faith. If the Arabs can

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regain their disciplined faith, they will, as did the early Muslims, defeat the great empires of the

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world, unquote. This is the appeal, dear listener, of radical militant Islam. It evokes the past

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glories of Islam. It calls all good Muslims back to the plain, simple, literal understanding of their book.

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Oh, you're just talking ancient history, pastor. Certainly no Muslim takes all those antiquated

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ambitions seriously anymore, do they? They do take their history seriously. Do you,

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O Christian? Unlike most of the major pagan world religions, Christianity is a historical religion.

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Historic, historical, excuse me. History is integral to our faith. God is the creator of time,

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linear time versus the cyclical time of Hinduism and the illusion of time in Buddhism. Peter says,

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for example, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The end of all things is

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near, right? There is a beginning in which God established first principles for his creation,

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a middle in which he works out the implications of those principles, and there's an end in which he

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brings those principles to full consummation. Adam and Eve, the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

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or Moses, Israel, King David. As Paul says in Galatians, when the fullness of time had come,

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that is at the precise God-given historical moment, God sent forth his son, born of a woman,

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born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive the adoption as

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sons. Oh, Christian, our salvation depends upon a Savior, God taking human nature in the person of

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Christ, who was born, lived, died, and was resurrected in time and space in actual history.

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Do not let our pagan culture sever you from your Christian roots and historical memory. You have a

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rich Christian heritage, which has transcended all nations and cultures and will outlast America,

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Iraq, Saudi Arabia, or any other earthly kingdom fashioned by the hand of man. As Daniel says,

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the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given

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to the people of the saints of the Most High. Their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom,

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and all dominions shall serve and obey them. Unquote. Oh, dear listener, when will this happen?

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When Christ returns in time and space, he will return in history. As Daniel says again,

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to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all peoples, nations, and languages should

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serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall never pass away, and his kingdom is

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one that shall not be destroyed. Oh, dear listener, whether America survives the onslaught of militant

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Islam is a question yet to be decided. God is sovereign over history. He will determine this

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nation's destiny. But you, oh Christian, remember your rich heritage in Christ. He has been faithful to

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this very day and will remain faithful to the end. He has manifest this faithfulness and his heritage

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throughout history. It is your task to repent of your sins, and as American Christians, to urge your

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fellow citizens to repent of their faithlessness in return to the God of their fathers. This has been

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Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a moment of truth. New Geneva meets for

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holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard, and we invite you to

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join us for our worship services. You will find a warm reception and welcome, and you can call us

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for a feedback to this message or for further information at area code 208-523-0196. That's area code 208-523-0196.