Preying On Paris Thanks To Political Correctness

Here's what I wrote several years ago that has become all too common and relevant...

Simply put, there is nothing "peaceful" about Islam. These are the A, B, C's of Islam I'm afraid, or the A, B, C's of the so-called "Religion of Peace" where the following is this harsh reality -- "A" for "Attacks," "B" for "Beheadings," and "C" for "Crucifixions" -- all in the name of "Allah" and the "Prophet Muhammad" we're told.

By now, it should be crystal clear if it wasn't already -- Islam is not the so-called "Religion of Peace" as is often asserted.

Furthermore, those who are waging war with bombs and bullets against those they consider to be "infidels" (and they don't discriminate either!) are actually the more faithful Muslims, according the the Qur'an.

Those Muslims who are not torturing, maiming, and killing non-Muslims are actually the apostates of their religion (or "Muslims-In-Name-Only"), because the passages of the text that instructs its believers to do such things is entirely prescriptive instead of descriptive.

And yet, because the West continues to worship at the Altar of Political Correctness, we continue to see our leaders and government bodies that are supposed to protect us by enforcing law and order doing such absurd and offensive things like how the State Department preparing to rule that ISIS genocide victims do not include Christians or U.S. President Barack Obama saying just hours before last nights attacks that ISIS is not getting stronger and that we have contained them.

Seriously? The world woke up to more disturbing details about the barbaric terrorist attacks last night in Paris, France and the collective response is always the same time after time.

The Talking Heads are all dumbfounded and asking over and over ad nauseam, "How could this have happened undetected? Why did this even happen in the first place?" The answer's simple, really. As Political Columnist, Mark Steyn, wrote, "The barbarians are inside, and there are no gates." 
Indeed.

Folks, the terrorists tell us repeatedly what they're going to do to us and our allies over and over again, but we never seem to want to take them at their word or do anything about it either.

The knee-jerk reaction by Christians is to say that we are to simply "love your enemies" (Luke 6:35) and do nothing despite the fact that our enemies love everything that is evil in this world since their father is Satan.We should know that our common enemy "the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour" (1 Peter 5:8). Still we do absolutely nothing.

Sure, we all fall in line and make sure we quickly tweet #PrayForParis though I wonder how many of us who typed that actually did stop and say a prayer for the people of Paris.

With every one of these barbaric massacres the responses, however sincerely meant, seem a little more trite, and it all feels like a habit.

— Mike Schopp (@Schopptalk) November 14, 2015

I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but only trying to point out that we need to start taking this threat much more seriously than we do at the moment.

No, we'll never entirely eradicate terrorism as evidenced by history, but that shouldn't mean we just throw up our hands and do nothing about it.

Isaiah 5:20 (ESV) Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

I, for one, will not succumb to such vile actions in the name of "Political Correctness" or some twisted interpretation of Christianity, because there is hope to be found in Jesus Christ and in His Word and His Sacraments.

Yes, it's even available to our Muslim enemies since "the Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance" (2 Peter 3:9) and we now know that "the times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead" (Acts 17:30-31).

Let's not ignore the fact that evil exists, that Satan is real, and that he has inflamed the sinful passions of fallen man to the point where all they want to see is the red blood spilling from our non-Muslim bodies as opposed to the red blood that was shed and spilled for the forgiveness of sins for all men, women, and children upon the cross at Calvary thousands of years ago.

Our own Augsburg Confession even says, "Islam is the most atrocious and ancient hereditary enemy of the Christian name and religion." That's why Martin Luther himself once wrote...

Islamization: Martin Luther On Islam, Muslims, And Jihad 

In the early 16th century, nearly a hundred years after the conquest of Constantinople by the Turkish Sultan, the Turks had overrun much of the Balkans and recently subdued Hungary. The Germanic principalities in Central Europe were threatened by the Turkish advance, but their customary fractiousness — and the advent of the Protestant Reformation — had made it that much harder for Christendom to unite and repel the invaders. In 1528, Martin Luther had no way of knowing that a century and half later the Christian states of Europe would unite long enough to drive the Turks back from the Gates of Vienna. In his day, Europe was up for grabs. Here are some excerpts from what Luther had to say about Islam, and the necessity for a robust military defense of Christendom, from Vom Kriege wider die Türken (On War Against the Turk): 

I have some pieces of Mohammed’s Koran which might be called in German a book of sermons or doctrines of the kind that we call pope’s decretals. When I have time, I must put it into German so that every man may see what a foul and shameful book it is. In the first place, he praises Christ and Mary very much as those who alone were without sin, and yet he believes nothing more of Christ than that he is a holy prophet, like Jeremiah or Jonah, and denies that he is God’s Son and true God. Besides, he does not believe that Christ is the Savior of the world, Who died for our sins, but that He preached to His own time, and completed His work before His death, just like any other prophet. On the other hand, he praises and exalts himself highly and boasts that he has talked with God and the angels, and that since Christ’s office of prophet is now complete, it has been commanded to him to bring the world to his faith and if the world is not willing, to compel it or punish it with the sword; and there is much glorification of the sword in it. Therefore, the Turks think their Mohammed much higher and greater than Christ, for the office of Christ has ended and Mohammed’s office is still in force. From this anyone can easily observe that Mohammed is a destroyer of our Lord Christ and His kingdom, and if anyone denies concerning Christ, that He is God’s Son and has died for us, and still lives and reigns at the right hand of God, what has he left of Christ? Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Baptism, the Sacrament, Gospel, Faith and all Christian doctrine and life are gone, and there is left, instead of Christ, nothing more than Mohammed with his doctrine of works and especially of the sword. That is the chief doctrine of the Turkish faith in which all abominations, all errors, all devils are piled up in one heap.  

In the second place, the Turk’s Koran, or creed, teaches him to destroy not only the Christian faith, but also the whole temporal government. His Mohammed, as has been said, commands that ruling is to be done by the sword, and in his Koran the sword is the commonest and noblest work. Thus the Turk is, in truth, nothing but a murderer or highwayman, as his deeds show before men’s eyes. St. Augustine calls other kingdoms, too, great robbery; Psalm 76:4 also calls them “fastnesses of robbers,” because it is but seldom that an empire has come up except by robbery, force, and wrong; or at the very least, it is often seized and possessed by wicked people without any justice, so that the Scriptures, in Genesis 10:9, call the first prince upon earth, Nimrod, a mighty hunter. But never has any kingdom come up and become so mighty by murder and robbery as that of the Turk; and he murders and robs every day, for it is commanded in their law, as a good and divine work, that they shall rob and murder, devour and destroy more and more those that are round about them; and they do this, and think that they are doing God service. Their government, therefore, is not a regular rulership, like others, for the maintenance of peace, the protection of the good, and the punishment of the wicked, but a rod of anger and a punishment of God upon the unbelieving world, as has been said. The work of murdering and robbing pleases the flesh in any case, because it enables men to gain high place and subject everyone’s life and goods to themselves; how much more must the flesh be pleased when this is a commandment, as though God would have it so and it pleased Him well! Therefore among the Turks, too, they are held the best who are diligent to increase the Turkish kingdom and who are constantly murdering and robbing round about them. 

All fanatics, as a rule, when the spirit of lies has taken possession of them and led them away from the true faith, have been unable to stop there, but have followed the lie with murder and taken up the sword, as a sign that they were children of the father of all lies and murder. 

Summing up what has been said: Where the spirit of lies is, there is also the spirit of murder, though he may not get to work or may be hindered. If he is hindered, he still laughs and is jubilant when murder is done, and at least consents to it, for he holds it right. But good Christians do not rejoice over any murder, not even over the misfortunes of their enemies. Since, then, Mohammed’s Koran is such a great spirit of lies that it leaves almost nothing of Christian truth remaining, how could it have any other result than that it should become a great and mighty murderer, with both lies and murders under the show of truth and righteousness. As, therefore, lies destroy the spiritual order of faith and truth, so murder destroys all temporal order instituted by God; for where murder and robbery are practiced, it is impossible that there should be a fine, praiseworthy temporal government, since they cannot think more highly of peace than of war and murder, or attend to the pursuits of peace, as one can see in soldiers. Therefore, the Turks do not regard the work of agriculture highly. 

The third point is that Mohammed’s Koran thinks nothing of marriage, but permits everyone to take wives as he will. Therefore, it is customary among the Turks for one man to have ten or twenty wives and to desert or sell any of them that he will, when he will, so that in Turkey women are held immeasurably cheap and are despised; they are bought and sold like cattle. Although there may be some few who do not take advantage of this law, nevertheless this is the law and anyone can follow if he will. Such a way of living is not marriage and cannot be marriage, because none of them takes a wife or has a wife with the intention of staying with her forever, as though the two were one body, as God’s Word says, in Genesis 2:24, “The man shall cleave to his wife and they two be one body.” ... 

Now we have heard above what kind of man the Turk is, viz., a destroyer, enemy, and blasphemer of our Lord Jesus Christ, who instead of the Gospel and faith, sets up his shameful Mohammed and all kinds of lies, ruins all temporal government and home-life, or marriage, and, since his warfare is nothing but murder and bloodshed, is a tool of the devil himself. 

Just so Mohammed treats the Gospel; he declares that it is indeed true, but has long since served its purpose; also that it is too hard to keep, especially on the points where Christ says that one is to leave all for His sake, love God with the whole heart, and the like. Therefore God has had to give another new law, one that is not so hard and that the world can keep, and this law is the Koran. But if anyone asks why he does no miracles to confirm this new law, he says that that is unnecessary and of no use, for people had many miracles before, when Moses’ law and the Gospel arose, and did not believe. Therefore his Koran did not need to be confirmed by wasted miracles, but by the sword, which is more effective than miracles. Thus it has been, and still is the case among the Turks, that everything is done with the sword, instead of with miracles.

Luther actually had quite a bit to say about the "Turks" (a.k.a. "Muslims") in his day-and-age that deserves our attention and prayerful consideration.

Something tells me that our US President, Mr. Barack Obama, would disagree entirely though since he infamously said, "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam..." on September 25th, 2012. Remember that one?

Reading the various responses to attacks like this unearthed this gem from someone in Sweden back in 2007...

"Very telling...This observation of the 'prophet' is frighteningly true. Not even Lutherans are preaching this sermon. Yet. The P.C. cowards of every infidel doctrine are too busy gelding themselves, their faith and their Civilization to learn the history of the pedophile warlord, and arm themselves with the hard truth. The sword will have to get nearer their necks before they wake. 9/11 was the first cut. It didn't sting enough. The religion of the Muslims hasn't changed since the days of Luther. Terrorism and criminality speaks for itself. However, the religion of the Lutherans has changed. Our bishops wouldn't dare to express themselves as frankly as Luther did. They are timid like everyone nowadays and not to be sued for persecution of an ethnic minority they have to weigh every word. For some reason, Islam here in Sweden is looked upon not only as a religion, but also an ethnic minority. That's what threats can bring about -- you cannot find faults with Islam, but you can freely make fun of Christianity and Christendom. I suspect the purpose is Islamization, quietly and silently. This idea that theological criticism of the Koran is out of bounds or, only taken on by lunatics, is most absurd, and examples such as this are nice reminders to all of us that it is just not the case. At the siege of Vienna in 1683, Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war."

Poignant for sure, isn't it? And to think Luther wrote his words some 500 years ago and these comments in response to them were written some 8 years ago now. Wow! Ecclesiastes 1:9 in plain sight I suppose.

By the way, speaking of Islam, Muslims, and attacks against the West, you might want to look through our Archive and read the series we did titled "9/11 Through Martin Luther's Eyes" for a more comprehensive view of what the good doctor had to say about the Christian perspective on evil, fighting, revenge, terrorism, Turks, violence, and war and peace.

Obviously, this is a major problem with spiritual roots as opposed to one that only began in the last several decades in response to various U.S. political policies and/or with the establishment of the Jewish State known as Israel.

I mean, my gosh, it was only 11 months ago when we last wrote about this subject following another demonic terrorist attack in France in the piece titled "'Je Suis En Colère!': The A, B, C's Of The 'Religion Of Peace'" that tried to set the record straight for any Christian who's still clinging to this false notion that "true diversity and unity" can be achieved with a culture that is bent on your annihilation.

At the same time, we must be mindful of the spiritual realities present. I'm reminded of a letter written by Franz Pieper in 1901 immediately following the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley with this powerful excerpt that condemns each and every one of us even if we're mere spectators of yesterday's atrocity...

"All people, but especially Christians, should recognize that the murderous spirit, which brought about this horrid murderous act, resides in every human heart and therefore must be acknowledged and fought. He who knows our heart described it this way (Mark 7:21-23): 'For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within.' So it is with every heart, also with every American heart. And it does not merely remain a matter of thought. The murderous spirit is so evident in word and deed that it is hard to comprehend."

So, while Martin Luther's words are just as relevant to us today as they were back then, and while some political commentators have accurately diagnosed the problem and identified some practical solutions we can take in the here and now to help minimize the threat, let's all keep in mind that it's only ever God's Word and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, that holds the cure for the sins of false religion, terrorism, violence, and war in this world.

We need to reject the so-called "Religion of Peace" and turn only to the Prince of Peace Himself (Isaiah 9:6) whenever we see such carnage and death by the hands of terrorists these days, because He is the Great Physician who can cure and heal the world unto salvation and eternal life.

The terrorists are preying on Paris thanks to political correctness and thanks to their father the devil who taught them how to prey on people (John 8:44; 1 Peter 5:8).

In a Lutheran layman's terms, let us pray for God's swift justice upon those who prey on others.



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