Posted on January 11, 2016

 

Pet.5:7-9

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

 

Cor.2:11

11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

 

THE ADMONITION BEING: DO NOT BE IGNORANT OF SATAN'S DEVICES, BE EDUCATED ABOUT HIS LIES, DECEPTION, STEALTH AND HIS CUNNING WAYS.

 

EPH.4:14

That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

 

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TOPICS OF DISCUSSION TONIGHT:

 

1. HOW DID ISLAM BEGIN?
2. WHAT DO MUSLIMS BELIEVE?
3. WHAT ARE SOME FUNDAMENTAL TEXTS THAT SUPPORT RADICALIZATION?
4. LET’S TALK ABOUT SHARIA LAW 
5. WHAT DOES THE QURAN SAY ABOUT WOMEN?
6. HOW MANY MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD TODAY AND WHAT PERCENT ARE RADICALIZED?
7. MUSLIM TAXICAB DRIVERS IN MINNEAPOLIS

 

How did Islam begin?

Islam is a monotheistic faith centered around belief in the one God (Allah). In this regard, it shares some beliefs with Judaism and Christianity by tracing its history back to the patriarch Abraham, and ultimately to the first prophet, Adam. All the prophets preached the same universal message of belief in one God and kindness to humanity. The last in the series of prophets, according to Muslims, was Muhammad. ACCORDING TO WRITTEN ACCOUNTS IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS, MUHAMMAD WAS A DECENDANT OF ABRAHAM WHOSE CONCUBINE WAS HAGAR WHO TOGETHER HAD A SON NAMED ischamel. muhammad is a decendant of ischamel

Muhammad was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia around 570 AD. he was an oprphan after age six and was raised by his uncle. He worked first as a shepherd and then as a merchant. Occasionally, he would retreat to a cave named Hira in the mountains for several nights of seclusion and prayer. YOU MIGHT ASK THE QUESTION WHO DID HE PRAY TO? TO ANSWER THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THE traditional African religions during that period of history. the Arabs before Muhammad regarded certain springs, trees and stones, as the abode of good or evil spirits. Their religious practice was directed towards gaining the protection and support of the good spirits and defending themselves from the misdeeds of the evil spirits. Some of the Arabs also STUDIED the stars. so there was a mix of pre-Islamic religions of polytheism, christianity, judaism. polytheism was the dominant religion IN MECCA. at that time they worshipped god and goddesses including Hubal and the goddess of allat. many of the pre-Islamist gods are traced to idols. muhammad most likely prayed to the idol, hubal

 

later, at age 40, he reported being visited by Gabriel in the cave of hira and received his first revelation from God. He was not happy with the people around him because of ALL THE superstitions and social and economic injusticeS. The people were worshipping many gods and had forgotten the message of THE prophet Abraham to worship one God. Muhammad loved to pray and meditate in the mountains. He continued to receive messages from God throughout his life and he began preaching to others what he had learned. His main message is that there was no other God but Allah, and muhammad was his prophet and that people should lead their lives in a way that was pleasing to Allah. Muhammad began to proclaim that the day of judgment was near, that each man must live justly and honestly in gratitude for the goodness of God; each must render an account of his life, and woe to him who does not prepare to meet his God.

 

MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT THE INNER MESSAGE of all the divine revelations given to Muhammad ARE essentially the same BUT there haD been a "gradual evolution toward a final, perfect revelation" and susequently includes the writings of the Hadith and the Sura. It is in this case that Muhammad's revelation excels the previous ones as Muhammad’s revelation is considered by the Muslims to be "the completion, THE culmination, and THE perfection of all the previous revelations".[133] Consequently, when the Quran declares that Muhammad is the final prophet after which there will be no future prophet (33:40), it is also meant that the Quran is the last revealed divine book, consisting of tHE Mecan Quran, Sura and the Hadith.

 

THE Hadith are a compilation of little stories OR PARABLES that muhammad taught AND THE SURAH WAS A 800 PAGE BIOGRAPHY OF THE LIFE OF MOHAMMAD. THE SURAH WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THE QURAN YOU NEEDED TO KNOW EVERY DETAIL OF MUHAMMAD'S LIFE BECAUSE YOU WERE COMMANDED TO "DO AS MOHAMMAD DID." THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE HE WAS THE FIRST RADICAL MUSLIM WHO EVOLVED INTO A POLTICIAN AND A WARLORD AND WAS MORE OF A GENERAL THAN A GURU WHO WENT ON 26 MILITARY CAMPAIGNS TO PROMOTE HIS RELIGION. MUHAMMAD WAS THE FIRST MUSLIM TO PRACTICED MUCH OF THE VIOLECE ASSOCIATED WITH RADICALS TODAY. SO IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE QURAN, READ IT AND DO AS MUHAMMAD DID. THE QURAN IS 18% ABOUT ALLAH AND 80% ABOUT MUHAMMAD. Ibee-na-Ti-Hema says that in order to be a true and faithful Muslim you must read the book and follow exactly what the man did.

 

WHILE MUHAMMAD WAS IN MECCA FOR 13 YEARS HE PREACHED A MESSAGE OF NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION. THE ACTUAL WORD ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION AND PEACE or submission by peace AND THAT'S WHY MOST PEOPLE THINK THAT ISLAM IS A PEACEFUL RELIGION. AFTER 13 YEARS THE RELIGION OF ISLAM BECAME RADICAL AND A NEW RULE FOR INTERPRETATION OF THE QURAN WAS ESTABLISHED. THAT RULE WAS KNOWN AS ABROGATION. THIS RULE STATED THAN ANY NEW REVELATION THAT MUHAMMAD RECEIVED WOULD MAKE NULL AND VOID ANY PREVIOUS REVELATION AND THAT IS THE BASIS FOR RADICALIZATION THEN AND NOW.

 

What do muslims believe?

Muslims have six major beliefs.

• Belief in one God (Allah).
• Belief in the Angels.
• Belief in the holy books sent to all the prophets including the Torah that was revealed to the prophet Moses, and the Bible that was revealed to the prophet Jesus, and the Qur'an (Koran) that was revealed to the prophet Muhammad.
• Belief in all the prophets sent by God including Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. Although Muslims believe in Isa or Jesus they don't think of Jesus as the Son of God the way Christians do.
• Belief in the Day of Judgment and life after death. The best reward for performing good deeds is getting closer to God.
• Belief in divine decree. This means that God is all-powerful and nothing can happen without His permission, however, he has given human beings freedom to choose whether to be good or bad. In the end, everyone will be questioned about how they lived in this life.

 

HERE ARE SOME FUNDAMENTAL TEXT IN THE QURAN THAT SUPPORTS RADICALIZATION:

 

Quran (5:33) – “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement.”

Quran (4:95) – “Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward.”

Quran (2:191-193) – “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief] is worse than killing…but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more UNBELIEF AND IDOL WORSHIP, and worship is for Allah alone. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun (the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)”

Quran (2:216) – “Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.” Not only does this verse establish that violence can be virtuous, but it also contradicts the myth that fighting is intended only in self-defense, since the audience was obviously not under attack at the time. From the Hadith, we know that this verse was narrated at a time that Muhammad was actually trying to motivate his people into raiding merchant caravans for loot.

Quran (4:74) – “Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.”

Quran (4:76) – “Those who believe, fight in the cause of Allah…

IV. LET'S TALK ABOUT SHARIA LAW. SHARIA IS THE BASIC ISLAMIC LEGAL SYSTEM DERIVED FROM THE RELIGIOUS PRECEPTS OF ISLAM, PARTICULARLY THE QURAN, SURRAH AND THE HADITH. THE TERM SHARIA FROM THE ARABIC LANGUAGE WORD MEANS A BODY OF MORAL AND RELIGIOUS LAW DERIVED FROM RELIGIOUS PROPHESY AS OPPOSED TO HUMAN LEGISLATION.

Sharia deals with many topics, including crime, politics, marriage contracts, trade regulations, religious prescriptions, and economics, as well as personal matters such as sexual intercourse, hygiene, diet, prayer, everyday etiquette and fasting. HISTORICALLY, Adherence to sharia has served as one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Muslim faith. In its strictest definition, sharia is considered in Islam as the infallible law of God.

LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE SPECIFIC SHARIA FUNDAMENTAL LAWS TONIGHT:

FUNDAMENTALLY ALL MUSLIMS ARE COMMANDED TO KEEP the "five pillars of Islam," they are the shahada, which is an affirmation that there is no deity except Allah and that Muhammad is his prophet AND his messenger. That constitutes the first pillar, or fundamental.

The second is prayer, salat, and then the fasting, according to some, which is sawm, or the fast of Ramadan; and the payment of what I call a social tax, which is called zakat. Others call it charity; I call it a social tax. It is 2.5 percent of what one has earned, what one has owned of certain kinds of wealth for a period of one year.

The fifth is the pilgrimage, the hajj. The pilgrimage to the Kaaba -- not to Mecca per se -- but to the Kaaba, which is in Mecca. Those are the five pillars or the five fundamental SHARIA LAWS.

THERE IS NOT ONE SET OF SHARIA LAWS THAT ARE UNIVERSALLY OBSERVED BY ALL MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE. FOR INSTANCE HOMOSEXUALITY IS ACCEPTED IN 5 MUSLIM NATIONS BUT THE REST HAVE VERY STRICT LAWS AND PUNSIHMENT FOR OFFENDERS INCLUDING FLOGGINGS, BEATINGS AND DEATH. IN THOSE NATIONS Islam is clear in its prohibition of homosexual acts. Islamic scholars cite these reasons for condemning homosexuality, based on teachings of the Qur'an and Sunnah:

It clashes with the "natural" order in which God created human beings

It brings destruction of the family and the institutions of marriage

It leads people to ignore God's guidance in other areas of life

In Islamic terminology, homosexuality is alternatively called al-fahsha' (an obscene act), shudhudh (abnormality), or 'amal qawm Lut(behavior of the People of Lut OR LOT IN SODOM AND GOHMORAH).

WHAT DOES THE QURAN AND THE HADITH HAVE TO SAY ABOUT WOMEN THAT IS ENFORCED BY SHARIA LAW?

We are often told that Islam in its purest form honorS and elevates women. But does it? Let's look at some texts.

1. Sura 2:223 says Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you like in other words a husband can have sex with his wife, as a plow goes into a field. If a man invites his wife to sleep with him and she refuses to come to him, then the angels send their curses on her till morning.
2. Sura 2:228 Wives have the same rights as the husband in accordance with the generally known principles of islam. Of course men are a degree above them in status.
3. Hadith: The Prophet said, 'I looked at Paradise and found poor people forming the majority of its inhabitants; and I looked at Hell and saw that the majority of its inhabitants were women who refused to obey their husbands and are harsh and rude to their husbands.

 

I heard the Prophet saying. Evil is in three things, the horse, the woman and the house. The Hadith says that women are part of an evil omen.

 

The Quran in Sura 4:11 says: The share of the male shall be twice that of a female . . . . A male gets a double share of the inheritance over that of a female.

The Quran in Sura 2:282 says: And let two men from among you bear witness to all such documents [contracts of loans without interest]. But if two men be not available, there should be one man and two women to bear witness so that if one of the women forgets (anything), the other may remind her. A woman's testimony counts half of a man's testimony. The foundational reason for having two women witnesses is that one of the women may 'forget' something. This verse goes to the nature of womankind, and implies that a woman's mind is weak.

This hadith removes any ambiguity about women's abilities in Sura 2:282: The Prophet said, 'Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?' The women said, 'Yes.' He said, 'This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind.'

The Quran in Sura 4:24 says: And forbidden to you are wedded wives of other people except those who have fallen in your hands [as prisoners of war. Slave—girls are sexual property for their male owners. Islam allows deep immorality with women who are in their most helpless condition. This crime is reprehensible, but Allah wills it nonetheless.

 

The Quran in Sura 4:3 says: And if you be apprehensive that you will not be able to do justice to the orphans, you may marry two or three or four women whom you choose. But if you apprehend that you might not be able to do justice to them, then marry only one wife, or marry those who have fallen in your possession. A man may be polygamous with up to four wives.

The Quran in Sura 4:129 says: It is not within your power to be perfectly equitable in your treatment with all your wives, even if you wish to be so; therefore, [in order to satisfy the dictates of Divine Law] do not lean towards one wife so as to leave the other in a state of suspense. A husband may simply get rid of one of his undesirable wives.

 

The Quran in Sura 4:34 says 4:34 . . . If you fear highhandedness from your wives, remind them [of the teaching of God], then ignore them when you go to bed, then hit them. If they obey you, you have no right to act against them. God is most high and great. Husbands may hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their wives (quite apart from whether they actually are highhanded).

The Quran in Sura 65:1, 4 says: 65:1 O Prophet, when you [and the believers] divorce women, divorce them for their prescribed waiting—period and count the waiting—period accurately . . . 4 And if you are in doubt about those of your women who have despaired of menstruation, (you should know that) their waiting period is three months, and the same applies to those who have not menstruated as yet. As for pregnant women, their period ends when they have delivered their burden.

Mature men are allowed to marry prepubescent girls and they still do today as seen in this slide. The hadith says:. . . after muhammad's first wife died he married aishah when she was 6 years old. then 3 years later he consumated the marrige wheh aishah was 9 years old.

HOW MANY MUSLIMS are in the world today AND what PERCENT ARE RADICALIZED

 

WE ARE LIVING IN A DAY WHEN BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT IS VERY IMPORTANT. WHENEVER I BRING UP THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE QURAN OR RADICAL ISLAM I AM ALWAYS COUNTERED BY SOMEONE WHO SAYS THAT MUSLIMS AND THEIR RELIGION OF ISLAM IS REALLY JUST ABOUT PEACE. MOST MUSLIM'S YOU MEET ARE VERY POLITE, WELL MANNERED AND PEACEFUL. THESE ARE WELL MEANING PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY IGNORANT ABOUT WHAT THE QURAN REALLY TEACHES ABOUT VIOLENT EXTREEMISM. BILL MAER WAS HAVING SUCH A CONVERSATION ON TV AND HE MADE the STATEMENT THAT JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER page IN THE QURAN WAS ABOUT VIOLENCE IN ONE FORm OR ANOTHER. SO THAT GOT ME ASKING SOME QUESTIONS LIKE WHAT PERCENT OF THE WORLD's population is muslim and what percent of muslims practice RADICAL ISLAM? tO BEGIN WITH i WANT TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. THESE STATISTICS WERE DERIVED FROM A MESSAGE BY DR. MICHAEL BROWN AT THE WEBSITE: askdrbrown.org

 

WE ARE TOLD ALMOST EVERY DAY THAT ISLAMIc TERRORISM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH the real ISLAM. HILLARY CLINTON HAS SAID, abd i quote "THAT MUSLIMS ARE PEACEFUL AND TOLERANT PEOPLE AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TERRORISM." president obama better know by republicans as PRESIDENT OBUMMER HAS SAID "THAT ALQUEDA's CAUSE IS NOT ISLAM AND ISIL IS NOT ISLAMIC AND THAT THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF MUSLIMS REJECT THAT radical INTERPRETATION OF ISLAM. SO ITS VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO ALIGN OURSELVES WITH THE 99.9% OF MUSLIMS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR THE SAME THING WE ARE LOOKING FOR."

 

WE NEED TO ASK THE QUESTION, IS IT TRUe THAT 99.9% OF MUSLIMS ARE NOT RADICAL AND DO NOT SHARE THESES EXTREME VALUES AND IN FACT REPUDIATE THEM. THAT WAS THE SAME GENERAL STATEMENT MADE BY THE CLERIC FROM CAIR (COUNCIL ON AMRICAN-ISLAMISC RELATIONS) AT THE SAN BERNIDINO MASSACARE. HERE'S WHAT HE SAID, " WE HAVE TO PUT THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE, aTHERE'S 1.6 BILLION MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD AND THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT JOIN GROUPS LIKE ISIS OR ALQUEDA IS A FRACTION OF A FRACTION OF A FRACTION OF THAT WHOLE NUMBER. WHEN WE ALLOW THEM TO HIJACK THE NAME OF ISLAM TO DO HORRIFIC ACTS WE ARE DOING AN INJUSTICE TO ISLAM AND THE OTHER MUSLIMS WHO REJECT THAT KIND OF BEHAVIOR AND WE'RE ALLOWing THESE EXTREEMISTS TO CLAIM THEY ARE MUSLIM WHEN THEY ARE NOT."

 

SO IS IT TRUE? LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE FIGURES THAT RI-AL RAJAH WITH THE CLARION PROJECT HAS PUT OUT BY THE NUMBERS THAT BREAKS THIS DOWN:

 

RADICAL ISLAMIST: TO INCLUDE ISIS AND ALQUAEDA, BOKERAHARAN THAT SLAUGHTER INNOCENT PEOPLE AND BEHEADING PEOPLE AND FLYING INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTERS EQUAL TENS OF THOUSANDS BUT PERHAPS SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDs.

 

1. THE ISLAMIST: LIKE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD THAT ARE LEADING IN EGYPT AND HAVE THE SAME GOALS OF SHARIA LAW AND ENFORCING THESE THINGS. ANOTHER GROUP WOULD BE LIKE CAir IN SAN BERNIDINO AND NOW YOU'RE TALKING IN THE TENS OF MILLIONS TO INCLUDE IRAN, AFGANISTAN, SAUDUA ARABIA.
2. FUNDAMENTALIST MUSLIMS: THAT CERTAINLY NUMBER SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLION. THERE WAS A MAJOR SURVEY DONE BY the PEW FORUM WHERE THEY INTERVIEWed MUSLIMS IN SOUTHERn EASTERn EUROPE, IN CENTRAL ASIA AND SOUTH EAST ASIA, IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA COUNTRIES LIKE AFGANASTAN, EGYPT, BANGLEDESH, MALASIA AND COUNTRIES LIKE PAKISTAN, IRAQ, ALBANIA, KOSOVOL AND TURKEY. THEY ASKED ABOUT THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS THAT BELIEVED IN SHARIA LAW AND THAT 79-86 PERCENT BELIEVED THAT APOSTATES SHOULD BE EXECUTED.

 

WESTERN MUSLIMS AGE 18-29 WERE POLLED IN FRANCE, BRITTAN AN AMERICA SAID THEY BELIEVED THAt SUICIDE BOMBINGS AGAINST CIVILIANS CAN BE JUSTIFIED AND FRENCH MUSLIMS BY THEMSELVES IS 42% OR 4 OUT OF 10 muslims BELIEVE THAT ABOUT SUICIDE BOMBINGS. I THOUGHT PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID 99.9% OF MUSLIMS WORLD WIDE DO NOT SHARE THE VIEW OF RADICAL ISLAM, and the iman from care said its JUST A FRACTION OF A FRACTION OF A FRACTION.

 

35% OF BRITTISH MUSLIMS are radical AND 26% OF AMRICAN MUSLIMS AGES 18-29 think THAT SUICIDE BOMBS AGAINST CILILIANS CAN BE ACCEPTABLE. THAT'S 1,820,000 MUSLIMS IN AMRICA TODAY.

 

HERE'S ANOTHER SURVEY OF MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE. THOSE WHO WANT SHARIA LAW TO BE THE LAW OF THE LAND IS 53% OF THEM. 52% OF MUSLIMS AGE 18-29 worldwide FAVOR CORPERAL PUNISHMENT LIKE CUTTING OFF YOUR HAND IF YOU HABITUALUALLY STEAL OR TO CUT OF A HAND ON ONE SIDE OF THE BODY AND TO CUT OFF A FOOT ON THE OTHER SIDE IF YOU APOSTICIZE FROM THE FAITH AND OTHER STONNINGS FOR ADULTERERS AND FLOGGING PENALTIES

 

OVER 281 MILLION MUSSLIMS FAVOR WHIPPINGS AND APUTATIONS AND 345 MILLION MUSSLIMS ACCEPT HONOR KILLINGS FOR A YOUNGER SISTER WHO HAS SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE.

 

1. SO WE NEED TO ASK MUSLIMS LEADERS TODAY HOW THEY CAN TELL US THAT ONLY A FRACTION OF a fraction of MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE ARE EXTREMISTS WHEN IT CAN BE PROVED THAT A SIZEABLE MINIORTY ARE RADICALIZED TRANSLATING TO A LEAST SERVEral MILLION FUNDALMENTALISTS MUSLIMS WORLD WIDE.
2. IF THERE IS NO TOLERANCE FOR VIOLENCE IN ISLAM WHY DO SO MANY MUSLIM LEADERS TODAY EMPAHSIZE JIHAD?
3. WHY DON'T GROUPS LIKE CAIR TRULY REPUDIATE RADICAL ISLAM. WHERE IS THE public CATEGORICAL CONDEMNATION OF TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS LIKE HAMAS, isis and alqIEda?
4. HOW DO AMERICAN MUSLIMS FEEL ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY FOR MUSLIMS WHO CONVERT TO OTHER RELIGIONS WHEN THIS IS THE LAW IN 20 ISLAMIC COUNTRIES TODAY?

Islamic taxi drivers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are refusing passengers carrying alcohol and blind folks with seeing-eye dogs because the animals' saliva is sacrilege according to Sharia law. THESE Muslims have stranded 100 passengers a month during the past year, sometimes for more than an hour, according to the Metropolitan Airports Commission, since three-fourths of the 900 taxi drivers servicing the airport are Somali Muslims who have decided to participate in the new discipline.

To make matters worse, a local outreach director of the ever-obliging Council on American-Islamic Relations, Damon Drake, dismissed the issue, saying, "Now that the Muslims are here, they need to be accommodated."

What if Islamic drivers deny the right of transportation to women wearing short skirts, robed priests and rabbis, or homosexual couples, as indeed has happened in Minneapolis?

And what to do should conductors, pilots, and stewards on trains and planes insist they should not transport unveiled women or serve alcohol. How far off is the day when emboldened imams in neighborhoods where American Muslims are in the majority, such Dearborn, Mich., demand the broadcasting of the calls to prayer over loudspeakers at dawn and at other times. Farfetched? Not at all. A few months ago, a naturalized Australian imam, Sheikh Taj Din al-Hilali, who came from Egypt, raised a storm when he likened unveiled Australian women to "uncovered meat that draws predators."

These are neither polemic nor frivolous questions given a cultural process that accepts that Islamic taxi drivers possess "religious rights" overriding public service codes and America's separation of church and state.

Indeed, in the past decade, Muslims in America, Europe, and Australia have become caught up in a proselytizing frenzy, attempting to force the very Western societies to which they migrated for better pay and greater freedom into new social covenants. What they overlook is that much of the West spent much blood and sweat to construct models of personal freedom and secular space that should not be abandoned by Westerners for some Saudi-style Islamic kingdom of darkness.

In that respect, it is useful to recall comments by Prime Minister Howard of Australia, who on the 10th anniversary of retaining his elected function last February, told Australian Muslims: "All migrants have to integrate, and that means speaking English as quickly as possible. It means embracing Australian values, and it also means making sure that no matter what the culture of the country from which they come might have been, Australia requires women to be treated fairly and equally and in the same fashion as men. If any migrants that come into this country have a different view, they better get rid of that view very quickly."

This is not a matter of the American way or the highway. It is not about booze, dogs, veils, or social norms. It is about the sum total of civilized societies and the rule of secular laws. Intrusions upon these systems in the name of God, Sharia law, or Islamic jurisprudence is a very big deal indeed and must be handled as such. This is why the matter of taxi drivers imposing their Islamic religious fatwas is nothing less than a continuation of that thing we call the "war of civilizations."

TO SUMMERIZE THE NUMBER OF MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE IS 1.6 BILLION AND THERE ARE CLOSE TO 8 MILLION MUSLIMS IN AMERICA TODAY. AFTER STUDYING THIS INFORMATION AND PRESENTING IT TO YOU, YOU MUST DETERMINE THE THREAT LEVEL IN OUR COUNTRY AND TAKE THE NECESSARY STEPS TO ENSURE YOUR SAFETY AND THAT BEGINS BY BEING EDUCATED