Islam’s Challenge Political and Spiritual

Thanks to the policies of the US “president,” Islam may well be able to accomplish something it has been attempting for thousands of years–taking over the world. Islam’s last attempt ended with the shutting down of the Ottoman Empire caliphate in 1924, but not before it ruled over the Middle East, Northern Africa and much of Eastern Europe during a 625 year period. But now, thanks to an overreaching resettlement program in Europe and the United States, millions of Muslims are being relocated from the Middle East to Western nations. Among them are Sharia hardliners, terrorists, and also those who have been persecuted by their own religion. This poses both a spiritual and political challenge.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, “newly released Census Bureau data from the 2014 American Community Survey (ACS) shows that a record 63.2 million US residents five years of age and older speak a language other than English at home. The number is up 3.6 million since 2010. The largest percentage increases from 2010 to 2014 were for speakers of Arabic and Urdu (Pakistan’s national language). As a share of the population, more than one in five US residents now speaks a foreign language at home.” Since the US “president” has taken office, we have seen the fastest growth ever of Arab speaking people in the US, and many of them are very young and born in the US.

Missionary sources in Europe report that Muslims are coming in by the truckloads–a steady stream everyday. Some reports expect that they are arriving at a rate of approximately 3-to-3.5 million per year. This is an outright invasion of the Western world by Islam. It is accomplishing what the enemies of God’s people have been trying to do since the unification of Ishmael and Esau in the days of Abraham. From the Muslim Brotherhood’s perspective, it makes no difference whether they are Sunni or Shiite, that colonization should occur first and unification thereafter. So the question now becomes, what will happen to our nation governed by natural law as given by God?

The political question is will the West succumb and submit to Islam’s Sharia? We should be prepared to fight that battle with every elected politician because if we lose our rights to free speech and religious expression, true persecution will follow. Exodus 12:49 says, “One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the foreigner who sojourns among you.” That’s the political side. Jesus told us in Matthew 28:19-20, “Go ye therefore and teach all nations…to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” This is the spiritual side. He didn’t say, teach just the folks you enjoy being with. It may be against all our emotions, but we, as a church, need to create relationships with these Muslims and show them the love of the one true God and teach them His ways. Could the Lord be bringing them to us as we won’t go to them.