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July 2007 Stats for The Big Picture.
(Note: the first part of this post repeats introductory information from this previous post on Dr. Hamid).
Dr. Tawfik Hamid addresses an audience at Pepperdine University
Last week at Pepperdine University, a panel event was held to focus on the work Dr. Tawfik Hamid. Panelists included Frank Gaffney, former Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy; Robert G. Kaufman, Professor of Foreign Policy, Pepperdine University and former instructor at the Naval War College; and Larry Greenfield, a former Naval Intelligence serviceperson and now California Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Hamid grew up in Cairo. He reports from his own personal experience how he, as a child, was radicalized - how, in his own words:
The love in my heart had changed into hatred. Not because of American foreign policy. It is because of the teaching that they gave me when I was child.
Dr. Hamid has written an article detailing the astonishing way in which this is done to many Islamic children, as he personally experienced it:
When I was nine years old, I learned the following Quranic verse during one of our Arabic lessons:
But do not think of those that have been slain in God's cause as dead. Nay, they are alive! With their Sustainer have they their sustenance. They are very happy with the reward they received from Allah (for dying as a shaheed) and they rejoice for the sake of those who have not joined them (i.e., have not yet died for Allah). (Quran 3:169-70)1
It was the first time I was exposed to the concept of shaheed (martyr), and naturally, I began to dream of becoming one. The thought of entering paradise very much appealed to me. There I could eat all the lollypops and chocolates I wanted, or play all day without anyone telling me to study. What made the concept of shaheed even more attractive was its power to quell the fear I experienced as a young boy-for we were taught that if we were not good Muslims (especially if we did not pray five times per day), a "bald snake" would attack us in the grave. The idea of dying as a martyr provided a perfect escape from the frightening anguish of eternal punishment. Dying as a shaheed, in fact, was the only deed that fully guaranteed paradise after death.
Dr. Hamid spoke about the true cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict:
...going to war against ideology, or against any problem, we need to understand the true causes of the problem. If I have a car now, and the car is not working, and someone said to me the problem is not in the battery, it is in the engine. And the problem _was_ in the battery. I can spend all my life trying to fix the car, and never be able to fix it, because the problem is in the battery.
Some people would say that the problem in Islamic terrorism and jihad is caused by the Arab-Israeli conflict, for example. I say to them, it's illogical for me, it's difficult to convince me, that killing hundreds of thousands of Algerians, innocent Algerians, by the hands of the jihadists, have anything to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict. When someone says to me, it is poverty and lack of education and socio-economic circumstances that are the true cause of terror, I say to them, if this was the situation, why Christians who live in the Middle East, under the same circumstances, socio-economic or political or whatever, lack of democracy - do not contribute terrorism as their Muslim counterparts there. So why is it specific to a specific group of people? If the socio-economic circumstances were the true cause of terrorism, we will expect Christians who live under the same socio-economic circumstances, to contribute to terrorism. But this is not happening. In the Middle East we see selective involvement of a specific group of people who follow a certain ideology.
So the true cause as I witnessed it, when I was a child, my real dream was to serve the almighty, to serve the devine, to serve god. I loved him from the bottom of my heart. I really didn't want to kill anybody. But, all this energy, toward god, was just directed to certain forms of religious teaching. It was _only_ the religious teaching. I was from a relatively wealthy family. I was highly educated. Yet, I was totally captivated by their teaching. And my brain was totally washed, and I became ready to die and kill. The love in my heart had changed into hatred. Not because of American foreign policy. It is because of the teaching that they gave me when I was child. (APPLAUSE).
At the end when people say it is American foreign policy. Let us just think logically for a moment. Can this convince me that, why Sunnis are killing Shias in such barbaric manner? They slaughter innocents with no mercy. They mutilate their dead bodies after killing them. Just because they are Shias. Can anyone convince a sane person that this has anything to do with American foreign policy? (laughter). How come I kill my fellow Muslim in such barbaric manner - how come this can change, or be related to, American foreign policy? There is something wrong in the way we analyze these things, because I do believe political correctness has reached the level to be a sort of hypocrisy. Honesty is the only solution, to solve this problem. (APPLAUSE).
The true cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the hatred taught to many Muslims when they are impressionable children -- unable to defend themselves from having their lives poisoned with such beliefs.
This is the testimony of someone who witnessed it -- and who experienced it -- personally.
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#2Anyone with an I.Q. above room temperature can see the truth about Islam. Ralph Peters ( Columnist New York Post ) aptly refers to it (Islam) as a “Junk Yard Dog Religion”. Hamid shows Peters’ assessment to be true.
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#3The big question I have is why do so many people convert to Islam?
If these convertions stopped, Islam would not exist. I fail to understand how any sane person can accept such violent teachings within our western world?
#4Why can’t it be a combination of american foreign policy AND brainwashing? The families of innocents killed at the hands of American Policy in the middle east are likely to lean towards terrorist ideals thereafter are they not?
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yes, why are so many people are converting to islam ?, may be what is this man saying isn’t the truth?.
#6According to NBC, 20,000 Americans convert to Islam every year. According to an interview conducted on Al Jazeera, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity every single day:
Perhaps it is best to listen to the truth coming from the mouth of the horse. The Internet site aljazeera.net published an interview with Ahmad Al Qataani, an important Islamic cleric who said: “In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity."
#7big question-why do so many people convert to Islam? how any sane person can accept such violent teachings within our western world?
What does the west have to offer?
Do you see many young people interested in spiritlality - <font size="1">spiritual quality: the quality or condition of being spiritual -Most churches are locked bolted tight all week long, except for their few hours on a Sunday morning - concerned about their—church property or revenue: the property or revenue belonging to a church or church official
Our youth play kill games. Murder and killing and war games all day and night long.
So when something exciting comes along, they jump on it.
They have no spiritiality because momma is dancing and smoking dope and jumping rope and Pop is an airhead dead drunk and druged out each evening.
People are bored and searching for more then this Christian nation that has produced empty churches and corrupt preachers and teachers. They are hungry for solid food and their plates are empty.
So if women and men want to continue teaching object theology instead of THOUGHT THEOLOGY, <font size="1">Chaos - disorder: a state of complete disorder and confusion is here to stay.
This writer has been in and out of so many churches that he cannot remember the # or where they were -west coast to east coast and from Florida to Canada, and in almost every instance he asked the leader and congregation if they had a bible study. And in almost ever case they said NO NO NO.
We are not teaching! No education on ancient history. No Enlightenment!!!
Feeding people old out dated and boring material about some guy or women or organization will not cut the mustard. Nay!
People want action-------
<font size="1">Speaking of the Master and our measurement - Yahushúo / Jesus - </font></font></font><font size="1"><font size="1"><font size="1">So how then did Christianity come to consider the Law relatively unimportant for knowledge and study? As noted in church history, there was a time when the church sought to cut itself off from the root’s of the Torah Teúwrah and graft it’s budding tree to the root’s of Hellenism and Mithraism. Documentation of Samuel Sandmel [The Genius of Paul] tells of the church father’s rewriting Rabbi Shaul’s [the Apostle Paul] writing’s to establish the abolition of the Teúwrah/Torah. [Now, do ya still want to stay with the CHURCH FATHER’S BIBLE’S]? For now is the time for us to awaken to the ever-abiding truth of the Teúwrah/Torah within YOURSELVES and to feel the pulse of Moses’ pen anew upon the tablet’s of our heart’s. Should it not be so? Yahushúo say’s that Moses wrote concerning [him]-----the consciousness of Wisdom and Under standing that lies at the end’s of all thing’s/mind’s. In fact, Yahushúo is [his] the only subject or the Teúwrah/ Torah, for every word has within it Wisdom and Understanding whereby it never passes away!
The church seeks for their fulfillment in Christ, to which are the shadow’s and symbol’s of the black-text Torah Teúwrah. The White Text reveals to us the very object’s that the shadowed text point’s to and provides an understanding of those symbol’s of the Teúwrah/Torah that lead’s us to Full Measurement of Adam to the Tree of Life within Messiah hamaShiach. While the Light speaks to us in various manner’s, AL / YHWH speaks LOVE affirming to us via shadow’s and symbol’s that lead us to understand the source of the shadow’s and to discern the living nature of the symbol’s. The ministry of the White Text will fulfill the promise: ‘And I will remove unprincipledness from Yaoquv /Jacob, and their sin’s will not be recalled’ [Isaiah 59: 20-21 Romans 11: 26-27].The Word’s of the Paleo Teúwrah/Torah are spoken beyond and above the realm of mortality. Revealation from the Ancient Paleo Hebrew Torah Light Principles of AL / YHWH
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We have a lot to study and learn.
TV should be banned from living rooms across the globe.
Scripture studies are needed. Does your church have an ancient history study?
Where everyone in the house gets to speak!
Have a nice life.
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#86 millioms per year? you mean , from 1998 till now , 60 millions of africans converted to chistianity from Islam? , entire muslim countries converted in those 10 years? I think Al Qataani just made a mistake. . And , even if this is true , with all the respect , many africans are not well educated , even ignorants ,and it is not very difficult , under those conditions, to convert people , if you took under cosideration that there are many well-funded missoinaries who are worknig day and night in this continenet. which is not the case in USA where no muslims missionaries are working, where people are well educated and , portraying Islam as an evil and violent religion is almost a policy.
I don’t see how christianity is related to this , the topic is about Islam
Kudos to him for speaking the truth!