By Pastor Reza Safa
Sep. 6, 2007
Next Tuesday, America will commemorate the anniversary of September 11, a day when the world took a new turn. September 11 has done two things spiritually about which we need to be concerned. First it expanded the political “correctness” to a new height and glory. Second it gave birth to an undercurrent fear of Islam in the hearts of politicians and news media moguls. That fear has created a utopia of compromise and deceit where the “goodies” become the “baddies” and the “baddies” become the “goodies!” And that is an ideal environment for the fermentation of evil and darkness. So in reality, not only did Islamic fundamentalism bring disaster upon this land, it also created an atmosphere for its ideology to grow and flourish. As a matter of fact, Islam has grown more in America since 9/11 than all the years prior to 9/11. In 1978 I lived in Houston, Texas as a radical Muslim. I was part of a very active Iranian Student Islamic group. At that time there was only one mosque in Houston. From 1978 to 1989, that mosque remained the only place of worship for Muslims in Houston. Today there are 90 mosques in that city. And now with 8,500 mosques and Islamic centers throughout the United States, Islam is grabbing America by the horn and leading the way. Wow, who could imagine that September 11 would be a blessing for the expansion of the Islamic ideology in America?
The opening of the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), the first publicly funded Muslim school in New York, is a great example of this fact. On September 4th the New York City Department of Education proudly opened the doors of its first Islamic public school. Another victorious day for the Islamic communities of North America!
The principal designee of the school is Ms. Dhabah Almontaser. She was born in Yemen and raised in the United States and has a long list of degrees and achievements to impress the NYC Department of Education. Ms. Almontaser is the founder of a group called "Brooklyn Bridges" which is working to devise a "September 11 Curriculum" to be taught in schools across the city. She has co-designed and developed a curriculum for Columbia University entitled "Re-Embracing Diversity in NYC Public Schools: Educational Outreach for Muslim Sensitivity" that engages students to develop interpersonal and intercultural understanding based on respect for ethnic and religious diversity. I think William A. Mayer & Beila Rabinowitz have recorded well her Islamic views at PipeLineNews.org. In her interview with a Norwegian newspaper, Ms. Almontaser stated:
“I would love to see a peace-loving country as Norway calling the USA to the carpet, telling that enough is enough. I would like to see Norway taking the risk demanding that USA stops the killings, spreading suffering, emergency and fear in countries as Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela and Sudan, she says. - I would like to see Norway show its guts in the Security Council and protest against unfair and racist policies. Stop the sanctions against Iraq; can’t you see that it is the civil population that suffers?" You can read more about Ms Dhabah Almontaser's view of the United States at the following website: http://www.pipelinenews.org/
Some may wonder, why all the noise? Let these Muslims study their religion in their language (Arabic). After all, this is a free country and people are entitled to their way of life and religion! This would be true about possibly every other religion and culture except Islam. Islam is not in America to coexist with other religions, as Omar Ahmad, chairman of the board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, (CAIR) one of the most fundamentalist Islamic organizations in America, spoke before a packed crowd at the Flamingo Palace banquet hall, urging Muslims not to shirk their duty of sharing the Islamic faith with those who are "on the wrong side." Muslim institutions, schools and economic power should be strengthened in America, he said. "If you choose to live here (in America) ... you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam. Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth,” he said. Federal prosecutors have listed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in an ongoing case against the Holy Land Foundation, which is alleged to have provided material support to foreign terrorists*. This is the organization that has bestowed an honor on Ms. Almontaser for her "numerous contributions" to the protection of civil liberties. And her school is funded by our tax money. Shouldn’t Christians have equal rights? If the premises upon which they stand are argued on the basis of language and the Arabic culture, we could easily teach our children Hebrew or Greek and the culture of the Bible! Someone is getting the short end of the stick! And I promise you it is not Islam.
Thank God for Thomas More Law Center that is raising up a standard. They will represent a group of citizens opposed to the Sept. 4 opening of Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA). The Law Center will act as co-counsel with attorney David Yerushalmi, who filed a Freedom of Information Act request on July 23, asking for more details about KGIA. The Law Center claims the school is nothing more than a thinly disguised incubator for Islamist radicalization. Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Law Center, said an NYPD Intelligence Report warned Americans of the same thing about two weeks ago. The school will immerse its students in Islamic culture and has three fundamentalist Islamist imams on its Board of Advisors, as well as other promoters with connections to militant Islamic organizations, the Law Center pointed out. “Rather than use the public school system to assimilate Muslims and other immigrants into American culture, New York City is doing everything it can to keep them isolated – a target rich environment for recruiting potential new homegrown terrorists and a recipe for a future 911 disaster, according to my read of the NYPD Report,” said Thompson*.
God created the world by the word of His power (Hebrews 11:3). He gave us the same authority with our words. We are to overcome all the forces of darkness by the word of our testimony (Revelation 12:11). How is it then, that so many Christians are quiet at this critical time? The future of this great nation is at risk. I promise you that if the inner-cities of America get ahold of the radical Islamic teachings, there is not a military force in America that can stop them. We will have a second civil war! God forbid.
Well as for me, I am blowing my horn waking up and warning all kinds of people. Yesterday I taught a big group of law enforcement officers again and in two weeks I will have a seminar for Infragard in Dallas. I am praying that God would open a greater and effective door for me before our government and even our President. On September 11, I will march for a mile with hundreds of other Christians declaring to the Islamic people that God is a God of love and not of hatred and warfare. Please join us if you are here in the Tulsa area.
By the way, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the largest Muslim organization in the United States, has challenged me to a national debate with one of their scholars in the city of Nashville. They will prove that Jesus is not the Son of God and that the Bible is not the true Word of God. They want me to defend Jesus. (That is the most foolish idea I have ever heard – defending Jesus!) I have, however, offered them another scenario: I will prove that Mohammad is not from God and that Allah is not a true God. I am turning the table on them! Take that, devil!!! I am awaiting their response. How many of you would come to Nashville for this debate? Also would your church support such an effort in Nashville? Here is the debate they had with Jimmy Swaggart: (very interesting)
http://video.google.com/
Again, thank you for standing with us.
In Christ,
Pastor Reza F. Safa
* Sources:
http://www.thomasmore.org/news.html?NewsID=746
http://www.thomasmore.org