December 16, 2015

The Congress of the United States of America

Washington D.C.

Honored Members of Congress ~

With all respect, you are not called to niceness but to wisdom and kindness to protect and respect the lives of America citizens. That is your job. Let’s admit the truth. We are called to cultural flourishing and wherever Islam under jihad takes root, cultures and human beings suffer.

We have had far too much debt, demoralization and death under the Obama administration. It is now time to adopt the common sense of the American people you are appointed to represent.
Given the Bible’s clear teachings about migration and citizenship, we ask you to suspend and defund refugee and immigration programs in the omnibus.

Other “evangelicals” who are well-funded by ‘progressives’ (eg. the NIF whose largest donor is George Soros) are useful to Islamic and liberal interests, but The Bible does not teach open and undiscerning welcome, but only wise welcome. We are to embrace the lawful and well-meaning foreigner, who, like a convert, comes as blessing (e.g. book of Ruth). Elsewhere we find the building of walls to protect from harmful foreigners (e.g. Nehemiah). The breaking down of borders and culture is not a commandment in Scripture, it is a curse.

Further, the Center for Immigration Studies has found that, for less money, we can help more refugees stay in their home region. That is a win / win. We suggest collaboration with Christian agencies overseas, including Open Doors and Samaritan’s Purse, who give practical aid to many thousands of people whom God dearly loves.

You should know that the Islamic doctrine of “Hijrah,” (pron: Hish-ra), commands Muslims to migrate to spread Islam and its dehumanizing Sharia law and banking. We have 1,400 years of history from which to learn that this is bad news for human dignity and freedom.

Kindness stewards the garden of culture (Genesis 1-3). Kindness considers the interests of America and the world. Kindness solves the root problem — in this case Islamic ideology. It does not root the problem in hundreds of our own communities at the expense of citizens and its nation’s future.

Thank you for your wise leadership,

Kelly M. Kullberg on behalf of Evangelicals for Biblical Immigration

(an ad hoc group of 2,000+ concerned Christians including Eric Metaxas, Carol Swain, Sandy Rios, Kris Kobach, Mark Tooley and more)

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I’m not sure how this works, but you’re welcome to sell my book. Thanks for checking! Philip. Write further questions to pyasst@aol.com

Amen to what Dale Albertson wrote

This may not be the ideal way to mention it, but I’d like to offer “Where Is God When It Hurts” as A Fair Trade Book. (If readers buy it from me, 10% of the cost of a Fair Trade Book goes to the author or a charity of the author’s choice.) Authors’ comments are always welcome. A review of the book is scheduled for Sunday, 12/27/15.

I was concerned about some of the statements Phillip was saying and you have answered all of my concerns extremely well. All of your comment was really well thought out and written. Thankyou . I hope you don’t mind if my comment is to read yours?

Just a few quick thoughts on your Paris and Beyond article. I believe that you mean well with this article, and want to foster a moderate, loving, yet informed perspective rather than going to either extreme as is so often the case. I do applaud that approach. In fact, there are a lot of really good suggestions and questions being asked here. However, your apparent lack of knowledge concerning Islam has resulted in a few comments and assumptions that are simply wrong, and if taken as truth, potentially dangerous as well.

For example, you say that Muslims and Christian share similar values such as a disciplined life and charity to the poor. While it may look that way from the outside, in reality it’s not true. These are Christian values to be sure, but in Islam they are considered duty, not values. Muslims must work to earn salvation, while Christians demonstrate their salvation by their work. There are no values in Islam, only submission and obedience – which is not a subtle distinction at all. Muslims are driven by submission to Allah, and informed by the Imams and Mullahs.

You also mention Jesus in the Q’uran as a coming messiah. But you don’t say that the Jesus of Islam is a Muslim, and that when he returns, he slays all non-Muslims, proves that the Christians are wrong, then marries, has children and dies. In fact, the Islamic Jesus fits into an eschatology that makes him the anti-Christ of Revelation. I suggest you read Joel Richardson’s work on this topic.

Your suggestion that “only extreme groups like ISIS resort to violent means” when working towards conversion, ignores the fact that this has been the most common way of conversion for the entire 1400 years of Islam. Anyone can Google Islamic wars and see for themselves what carnage has been caused by Islam. In fact, if you follow the timeline of Lebanon from the 1950s until their Islamic revolution in the 1970s, you’ll see the way that Islamists work from being moderate to full on murder and mayhem in order to establish Sharia. And ISIS may not be a huge movement in and of itself, but when you consider all the other jihadist groups in the world, they dwarf the entire US military and make up a huge percentage of the Islamic world. It’s naïve to think of them as small, anomalous, or a minority. They are none of those things.

Then, comparing isolated Roman Catholic “conversion/expansionist” methods of medieval times, or the tactics of Catholic priests in the American West (which are clearly against the teaching of the Bible) to the fundamental Islamic practice of forced conversion (imperative commands in the Qu’ran and hadiths) is not only an equivalency without any basis in reality; it ignores the fact that the Roman Catholic Church as an institution is decidedly not Christian as the scriptures record it to be. It’s an earthly kingdom and always has been. The fact that a reformation occurred is testament to that. While I know some truly born again Catholics personally, they are the exception rather than the rule.

The most worrisome part of this article however is where you make the mistake of falling for taqyya, which everyone should not only be aware of, but investigate on their own. Just because there are Muslims who claim to denounce ISIS, the fact remains that Muslims are required not only by the Q’uran, but also the Sunnah and Hadiths (sayings and deeds of Muhammed) to deceive (taqyya) the infidels in order to advance Islam. Not all sects follow the Hadiths as puritanically as the Sunni Whabbists, but at the end of the day, all Muslims are required to submit to and advance Sharia, which is the total domination of Islam over the world. This is a compulsory duty of all Muslims.

Therefore, Islam is not a religion. It’s a totalitarian system of family, social, judicial and governmental control with a thin veneer of religiosity. It’s completely antithetical to freedom, liberty, democratic principles, human rights and the separation of church and state. In Islam, they are one and the same. Apostasy (as well as conversion to a different religion) is not allowed, and in Islamic republics, the penalty is usually death, as one commenter here already said. You hint at this, but fail to say it clearly.

Which of course explains why Muslims kill so many other Muslims. The reason is simple. Those being killed are considered apostate by the ones doing the killing. This is the command of Allah in Sura 4:88-89.

I could supply multiple suras, hadiths and Islamic commentaries to corroborate everything I’ve said here, but anyone who is interested can easily find everything online.

We certainly want to be careful and not be negatively prejudicial towards Muslims as people. However, we should make ourselves much more informed and aware of Islam the ideology and what the stages of jihad are. And we should challenge Islam the ideology whenever we’re able to do so. Far too many people in the general population have a completely skewed view of what Islam actually is.

As a bit of a backgrounder, I have quite a few Muslim friends and neighbors. Most of them refuse to talk about religion at all. Some are afraid of the “fundamentalists” and others are only cultural Muslims. When dealing with other cultures and religions, it’s important to understand how to interact with them without misunderstanding and crossing taboo boundaries. You simply can’t “witness” to Muslims the way you can to westerners, regardless of where they are on the Islamic continuum. But we can challenge Islam and open doors to talk about Jesus once we equip ourselves.

Reminds me that in Acts, a dedicated minority of zealots also disrupted the world, in another, better way.

Philip,

Thanks for these wise words and encouragement! Looking forward to reflecting more on this on my own and with my community.

I’m like Hannah, however, and can’t share this on social media because of the transgender comment. I understand how many may find the LGBTQ “movement” incomprehensible (as a cisgender individual, it was once confusing and difficult for me), but like other topics that may seem foreign, we have a responsibility to our neighbors to become more familiar with what’s most important to them, especially if they pertain to issues of identity. In this way we can show them love – by working hard to understand them.

Would you consider correcting “step-father” to “step-mother” in your post, to respect Caitlyn Jenner’s gender identity? This gesture may seem inconsequential, but for many LGBTQ folks speaking a gendered language, using their preferred pronoun (and other gendered words) demonstrates that you possess a level of understanding and care for their identity that many do not.

Thank you, and God bless you and your work.
Alayna

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