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Mr. Graham's appearance at the Pentagon "sends entirely the wrong message to the Muslim community," said Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. No it doesn't. It may send a message to the leadership trained in the radicalized Madrasses funded by Saudi dollars, but Mister Graham will be delivering a message regarding The Prince of Peace.

I do have a problem with professing Christians who would paint all followers of Islam as blood-thirsty fanatics. We ought to be discerning enough to see that there is a very real schism between the radical Imams in many (albeit too many) Mosques. The rush to put Moslems to the sword because we believe their religion is from Satan only serves the intent of the evil one. Don't buy into it. If we can achieve peaceful coexistence with the vast majority of Moslems, The Prince of Peace can still reach their hearts. By our deeds they shall know US. Please, don't lose sight of that.

Islam is based on the writings in the book written by Mohammed. Mohammed was not a carpenter. He was a warrior. The book he wrote and I have read teaches about a god called allah who is not the same as the Heavenly Father the Lord Jesus Christ has taught us about. Graham is correct in drawing attention to the fact that the source of Islam is the pen of a warrior. The source of Christianity is the blood of a carpenter who claimed to be God in the flesh dying for the sins of sinners. Whereas Mohammed called upon his soldiers and followers to take up the sword to defend allah, the Lord Jesus called upon his followers to put away the sword with respect to defending Him. He does not need human beings to kill for Him and His command to us is to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute us. However, Mohammed wrote about a tax to be imposed upon non-Muslims called the jaziya - a tax of humiliation. I noticed that the many of the Shiites in Iraq are demanding Islamic law be the law of their new regime. If they do as the Taliban did in Afganistan and are faithful to the teaching of Mohammed in the Koran then the nature of this god allah will be manifested in the humiliation tax. Americans need to read the Koran. ONE READING of it will demonstrate to anyone that what Graham has said is the truth. "Moderate" Muslims are simply Muslims who either have not read the Koran or dismiss some of its teachings and are "liberal" in their views which means they want to be considered Muslims though they do not abide by the Koran in all its aspects.
IF ISLAM became the majority religion in America or any nation the Koran requires true believers to impose the jaziya tax. DO not believe this? Simply read the Koran.