Walid Shoebat
In the Understanding Islam session, Walid Shoebat, a convert from Islam to Christianity and an ex-terrorist, brought awareness of what our role should be in understanding Islam.

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Frank Gaffney
Frank is the founder and president of the think tank Center for Security Policy, as well as a contributor, contributing editor, and columnist for a number of publications.

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Bill Federer
Bill is the author of the best-selling book, What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur’an-A History of Islam & the United States.

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“Our Time is Come” – Muslim Gathering at U.S. Capitol
William J. Federer

With the unprecedented gathering of a few hundred Muslims in Washington, D.C., to bow toward Mecca under the theme “Our Time Has Come,” Americans are beginning wonder what is the agenda of the followers of Mohammed.
As these Muslim pray to be better Muslims, one must ask, WHO was the best Muslim?
Obviously, Mohammed was.
Then Mohammed’s life provides a blueprint of the agenda of his followers.
Mohammed was a religious leader, but he was also a political and military leader.

RELIGIOUS LEADER
From 610 to 622AD, Mohammed was a religious leader in the pagan city of Mecca and only made around 100 converts.
In 622AD, the pagans in Mecca felt Mohammed had become too confrontational and argumentative, so they plotted to kill him.
Claiming the victim, Mohammed fled from Mecca to Medina, a city 210 miles to the north.
This is called the Flight or Hegira, and is ìYear Oneî in the Muslim calendar.

POLITICAL LEADER
Medina consisted of three Jewish tribes who never got along, plus some pagans who suffered discrimination, were disorganized and had no voice in the city’s government.
The Jews generously allowed Mohammed to immigrate to Medina for protection, but when he explained his faith to them, they rejected it.
Mohammed then went among the pagans in Medina to make converts and effectively became a community organizer.
Mohammed noticed that the three Jewish tribes that controlled Medina never got along, having had generations of bitter rivalries.
After gaining a following, Mohammed approached the city leaders as a candidate of change, explaining how he was in a unique position to be objective and fair in their disputes as he was an outsider to Medina’s heated politics.
The Jewish tribes made a treaty with Mohammed and he became a full-fledged political leader in Medina.

MILITARY LEADER
Shortly thereafter, some of Mohammed’s followers back in pagan Mecca had their houses confiscated and were chased out of the city.
These Muslims fled to Medina, where Mohammed was a political leader, arriving destitute as their livelihood and property had been stolen by the Meccans.
Mohammed permitted his followers to rob the caravans headed to Mecca in retaliation for the Meccans taking their houses.
This is different from Jesus, who taught if someone takes your shirt, give them your coat also.
Mohammed had an entire chapter of the Qur’an, chapter (sura) 8, revealed to him on how to distribute booty from robbing caravans.
In 624AD, the Meccans sent 1000 soldiers to protect their caravans, and Mohammed, with just 300 warriors, defeated them at the Battle of Badr.
Outnumbered 3 to 1, this great victory convinced Mohammed that Allah wanted him to be a military leader.
He fought in 66 battles and raids in the next 8 years before he died.
Mohammed even used the catapult when he attacked cities, like al-Taif.
When he was told the catapult was killing innocent women and children, his response was “They are among them.”
That is why today’s fundamental Muslim suicide bombers think it is permissible to kill innocent women and children to advance Islam.

RPM ñ RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL, MILITARY

Mohammed’s life is called the Sunna, which means the Way, or the Example.
As Mohammed was not just a religious leader, but also a political and military leader, fundamental followers of Mohammed tend to imitate his example religiously, then politically, then militarily.
Islam, therefore, is not just a religion, but also a political and military system.
The effort to split the political/military side of Islam away from the religious side is, in effect, an effort to split Mohammed, as he was a leader in all three areas.
As faithful Christians want to imitate Jesus, highlighted by the popular acronym WWJD-”What Would Jesus Do,” in the same way fundamental Muslims want to imitate the example of Mohammed, as he was the perfect Muslim.
A Muslim prayer meeting at the U.S. Capitol bowing toward Mecca is therefore not just a religious bowing.
It is the equivalent of a political/military pledging allegiance to another Capitol.
It is perceived by fundamental Muslims as an act of conquest.

NOW OR LATER?
The word Islam means submission, subjugation, surrender to the will of Allah.
The word Islam literally means the opposite to the words freedom and liberty.
Islamic Law, called Sharia, governs every aspect of human life, such as dress, eating, drinking, praying, believing, how many wives one can have, how a government is run, what pets you can have, even how one goes to the bathroom!
A faithful Muslim believes there will be world peace when the whole world submits to the will of Allah.
In other words, world peace means world Islam.
Moderate Muslims think the world will submit to Allah LATER, maybe at the end of the world, or maybe just figuratively.
Moderate Muslims can live comfortably in a free, civilized, and democratic society.
Fundamental Muslims, on the other hand, think the world is submitting to Allah NOW, and they are very excited to help make it happen.

WHAT IS A MODERATE TO THINK?
The question is, what is the Moderate Muslim supposed to think when he sees the West do unprecedented things to tolerate Islam, such as:
*U.S. Post Office issuing Islamic postage stamps (Sep. 2001; Oct. 2002)
*U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi putting on Muslim veil during a trip to Syria (Apr. 2007)
*Two Muslims swearing into Congress upon a Qur’an, Keith Ellison (2006) and Andre Carson (2008)
*President Bush put a Qur’an in the Presidential Library (Oct. 2005)
*President Bush removes shoes and visits Mosque (Dec. 5, 2002; July 27, 2007)
*President Bush celebrates Ramadan for the first time (Oct. 18, 2005)
*President Bush has Muslim, Zalmay Kalizad, be U.S. Ambassador to United Nations (Apr. 17, 2007)
*President Obama elected, whose middle name is Mohammed’s grandson, Hussein (2008)
*President Obama mistakenly says in George Stephanopoulos interview ìMy Muslim faithî (Sep. 7, 2008)
*President Obama recites Muslim prayer in Arabic saying it as ìone of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunsetî(NY TIMES, Nicholas Kristof, reporter, Feb. 27, 2007)
*President bows to Saudi King (Apr. 1, 2009)
*President Obama says America is not a Christian nation (Apr. 6, 2009)
*President Obama says America is one of the largest Muslim countries (Jun. 3, 2009)
*President Obama does not publicly recognize traditional National Day of Prayer (May 6, 2009)
*President Obama broadcasts Ramadan message to Muslims of the World (Aug. 22, 2009)
*President Obama has Ramadan Dinner in White House (September 1, 2009)
*Hundreds of Muslims gather in the U.S. Capitol to bow toward Mecca (Sep. 25 2009)
Again, the question is, what is a Moderate Muslim supposed to think when they see these unprecedented acts of acceptance of Islam in a nation where 78 percent of the population identify themselves as Christian (Pew Religious Landscape Survey, 2008)
Clearly, these actions greatly enthuse Moderate Muslims and many are subsequently persuaded that the world is submitting to Allah NOW rather than LATER.
Thus the dilemma for Western Civilization is, the more the West bends over backwards in unprecedented acts to tolerate Islam, the more moderate Muslims begin to think the world is submitting to Allah NOW rather than LATER!
They gravitate from the Moderate LATER peaceful camp into the fundamental NOW violent camp.
As a result, America can expect more fundamental Muslims, more terrorist threats and more violence.

POLITICAL AND MILITARY ISLAM
For the sake of examination, set aside the Religious aspect of Islam for a moment and just examine Islam for its Political and Military implications.
From a strictly Political/Military point of view, Islam has a global conquest aspect to it and wherever it takes over, non-Muslims and women are not treated with equality to Muslim men.
The question is, what other Political/Military systems has America had to face in the last 60 years that had a global conquest aspect to them, and where ever they took over, non-adherents were not treated with equality to adherents?
Anyone remember Nazis?
In the 1930′s, Americans had to come to the place where they said – We love the German, but we have to identify and stand against the Political/Military system of Nazism.
Why? Because it has a global conquest aspect to it and where ever it took over, non-Nazis, like Jews, were not equal.
Americans had to say – We love the Japanese, but we have to identify and stand against the Political/Military system of Japanese Imperialism, and We love the Italians, but we have to identify and stand against the Political/Military system of Mussolini’s Fascism.
During the Cold War, Americans had to say – We love the Russian and the Chinese, but we have to identify and stand against the Political/Military system of Communism.
Why because it has a global conquest aspect to it and where ever it takes over, non-Communists are not treated with equality to Communists.
Today, Americans love the Arabs, Indonesians, Turks, and Egyptians, but Americans have to identify and stand against the Political/Military system of Islam.
Why?
Because it has a global conquest aspect to it and where Islam takes over, non-Muslims are not treated with equality with Muslims.
The difficulty lies in the fact that it is virtually impossible to split the Political/Military aspect of Islam away from the Religious aspect, as no one in the Islamic world has the authority to split Mohammed.

EQUALITY
The advancement of Political Islam foreshadows the end of America’s Political system which is based on equality.
As Islam is not ìjust another Religionî but is also a Political/Military system, many are growing concerned, such as Italian Equal Opportunities minister, Mara Carfagna, who commented on the murder of Sanaa, the 18-year-old Moroccan girl from Pordenone who wanted to live with her Christian boyfriend. (AGI, Rome, Sept. 18, 2009): “Everyone in Italy must have the right to practice their own faith, but this country can only accept this if it respects human rights, including women’s rights, and the laws of the state.”
A rule of thumb could be, only religions that believe the words Thomas Jefferson penned in the Declaration of Independence ìall men are created EQUAL should be allowed EQUAL liberty.
Dwight Eisenhower put it this way in the TIME Magazine article, Eisenhower on Communism, October 13, 1952:
The Bill of Rights contains no grant of privilege for a group of people to destroy the Bill of Rights. A group – like the Communist conspiracy – dedicated to the ultimate destruction of all civil liberties, cannot be allowed to claim civil liberties as its privileged sanctuary from which to carry on subversion of the Government.
Since one of America’s founding pillars is that everyone is equal before the law, should America grant freedom to those who, under the pretext of religion, desire to enact an unequal legal system, where Jews are untermenschen or called apes and pigs, or where women are beaten or stoned, or where men can have multiple wives, or where daughters can be honored killed, or where apostates are murdered?
Should those not believing Declaration, all men are created EQUAL be granted EQUAL liberties?
Should those teaching inequality be granted equality?
Should individuals be allowed, under the guise of religion, to pursue an agenda to politically and militarily overthrow America.
There have been 1400 years of Islamic conquest of non-Muslim countries to serve as a warning.
Theodore Roosevelt warned in his book, Fear God and Take Your Own Part (NY: George H. Doran Company, 1916), dedicated to Julia Ward Howe:
If the peoples of Europe in the seventh and eighth centuries, and on up to and including the seventeenth century, had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at this moment be Mohammedan and the Christian religion would be exterminated.
Wherever the Mohammedans have had complete sway, wherever the Christians have been unable to resist them by the sword, Christianity has ultimately disappeared…
The civilization of Europe, America and Australia exists today only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because of victories stretching through the centuries from Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century…
Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any ‘social values’ whatever.
To make a statement that all religions are the same is as naive as saying that all political parties are the same.
Some religions and belief systems give a higher value to each human life and some religions and belief systems give a lower value.
As generations of Americans past, Our time has come to defend the beliefs and values that made this nation great, such as equality before the law.