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https://aifdemocracy.org/our-work/our-team/dr-jasser/Dear Dr. Jasser,
I watched your debate with Robert Spencer with interest, but suffered the usual frustration that comes from having the spiritual nature of matters largely overlooked, which is really all that matters. I realize this may be difficult reading, but if you feel compelled to turn away please first ask yourself if it is because what you have read is untrue, or rather that it makes you uncomfortable.
I follow my great God Yahweh through all of His prophets and witnesses, as revealed in His 1600 year record of revelation to mankind, whose people have followed Him through two covenants for 3500 years. That record is supported by physical geography and historical record as well as a wealth of archaeological evidence in the Holy Land of the prophets and patriarchs and elsewhere.
According to that record, after Jesus was resurrected from the dead, He even made reference to the Old Testament prophesies of his crucifixion.
Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
The whole subject of the Gospel - and not a stretch to suggest the whole Bible considering Old Testament prophecy - is remission of sin through faith in the shed blood of the sacrifice of the Lamb of God. The whole reason the Messiah was made manifest to the world and His whole purpose. The Hebrew name Yeshua meaning Yahweh saves, rescues or delivers.
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Yet Muhammad denied the crucifixion of Christ through his stand-alone, heavily abrogated, 23-year, 7th century record.
Surah 4:157 That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus.....but they killed him not, nor crucified him.....for of a surety they killed him not
As a result 1.5 billion people in the world today must deny the blood of the Lamb of God that was shed for us all for remission of sin. Thus Muhammad’s followers must put their faith in what to DISbelieve, reject and deny, as articles of their faith in Muhammad alone.
Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
So on one hand we have the whole subject of the Gospel/Bible and the new covenant fulfillment of the old covenant as revealed through all of God’s prophets and witnesses, while on the other hand we have a specific denial of the whole subject of the Gospel, by a man that himself believed he met a demon in a cave, until Khadijah talked him out of it.
So if one believes that the Bible is from the one true God, then it would necessarily follow that a denial of its whole subject would have to come from Satan himself, the “father of lies†and opposer of Jesus Christ. Put another way, if Muhammad’s stand-alone, heavily abrogated, 23-year 7th century record were true, then the prophets and witnesses as revealed in the 1600 year record of Yahweh to mankind would be false - Jesus Christ being chief among them for having prophesied His own crucifixion, death and resurrection.
Matthew 20:17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, 18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, 19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify [him]: and the third day he shall rise again.
Additionally, Muhammad’s followers teach that to confess that Jesus is the Son of God or even to pray in Jesus name, would be to commit the single most “heinous†and only unforgivable sin of “shirkâ€, according to Islam. This would suggest that each and every Christian, over a period of the last nearly 2,000 years, has lived and died in a state of committing Muhammad’s only unforgivable sin. We pray in Jesus’ name, of course, because of the hundreds of verses in the Gospel that proclaim God the Father and His Son.
Mat 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
We do so because once a person is “born again†and given a new heart, we are filled with the Comforter, the Holy Spirit. We are in God and He is in us.
1John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
So not surprisingly, the opposer of the Son of God proclaimed through Muhammad:
Surah 19:88 They say: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a son!" 89 Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!
While according to the holy scriptures:
1 John 2:22 ..... He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father.....
John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Not only does it seem Muhammad’s “Allah†suffered from so much confusion over the short span of just 23 years, that earlier more peaceful “revelations†had to be annulled and replaced by the later more violent ones, but at the same time there is not a shred of historical or archaeological evidence that suggests that Mecca ever existed prior to about the 4th century AD when migrants from Yemen initially settled the area and built their kaaba in the 6th century for pagan Arabian moon, sun, star and jinn-devil worship.
Let alone the geographical and demographic impossibility of Abraham, Hagar or Ishmael ever having been within 1,000 kilometers of where Mecca was eventually settled over 2,000 years after they roamed the earth, which further demonstrates Islamic so-called “tradition†regarding Mecca prior to the 4th century AD, to be pure fiction that was all created and put to the pen in the 7th to 10th centuries AD without reference to any actual historical record that preceded the 5th century AD, even as it pretends to detail over 4500 years worth of a pre-4th century Mecca. Even Ibn Ishak recognized the geographical impossibility of Abraham being associated with both Hebron and Mecca, so he made up the suggestion that Abraham commuted back and forth between Mecca and Hebron on a flying donkey-mule, like the one Muhammad claimed he rode on one night.
You call out and defame people like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller for advancing apparent and undeniable truth about Islam, under the preposterously upside down claim that they are helping the Islamists - who are the true, fundamental, orthodox followers of Muhammad that do as Muhammad did and commanded his people to do - when in fact it is people that pretend Islam is something that it is not, that give the false prophet Muhammad’s false religion currency as if it had any standing under God or legitimacy whatsoever, that are the "useful idiots of the global Islamist establishment" as you accused. Those "useful idiots" who must reject the prophets and witnesses as revealed in the 1600 year record of God to mankind to believe that Muhammad alone, who denied, rejected and blasphemed their record, could somehow be other than a false prophet.
From a Christian perspective Islam is necessarily from the opposer of God and straight out of the pit of hell, which continues to be made increasingly apparent by the behavior of true, fundamental, orthodox followers of Muhammad armed with beheading knives in one hand while being well supported by the Quran and Hadith in their other hand, as wishful western peacenicks and self-proclaimed "reformers" stand naked and alone in their own empty words. Your argument isn’t with westerners, but with fundamental Islamic scholars like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and those at the largest and most prestigious Islamic university al-Azhar. Why aren't you taking your case to them?
Muhammad’s followers are commanded:
Bukhari, V1 B2 #24 Narrated Ibn 'Umar: Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle....
Of course it would be pure blasphemy for a Christian or Jew to testify to that, which is why so many are slaughtered around the world for refusing to do so. So it should be no surprise that Islam is the very antithesis of our our God-given rights to freedom, liberty and self-determination, with nine Islamic nation States in the cradle of Muhammad’s religion that provide the death penalty by State statute for leaving Islam. Candid Imams readily admit, that if it hadn’t been for the threat of death for leaving Islam, it would not exist today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKoZiD4V86wWhich further shows that outside of those being actively persecuted and slaughtered around the world by Muhammad’s followers, no group has more reason to be “islamophobic†than the followers of Muhammad themselves, that risk being murdered by State statute for leaving Islam. Which helps to illustrate the preposterously false nature of the ridiculous Muslim Brotherhood popularized term “islamophobiaâ€.
The greatest commandments of the God of love of the scriptures are:
Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment. 31 And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. 32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
Just imagine if everyone in the world today took those two most important commandments to heart! Loving our neighbor as ourselves as opposed to believing it is their job to “fight against the people†until they testify to Muhammad’s blasphemy.
I’m desperate for you my friend. You could die this very day, as a DISbeliever in the crucifixion of Christ, an antichrist denier of the Son of God, as well as a rejecter and blasphemer of the blood He shed that would save you.
My great God gave us all the free will to choose life or death. Our choice, our fate.
1John 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Sincerely,
Your friend and could-become brother in Christ Jesus,
Pete
