Sunday, November 16, 2014
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OVERRUNS NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IN DC
From Watcher's Lamp
100 years ago today, the last Caliph, or emperor of Islam,
declared the last Jihad against the infidel-- and today is the first
time ever that the National Cathedral in the nation's capital will host
Muslim prayers.
Most American's will have no idea that, as part of World War I, the
then-Caliph of the Ottoman empire declared a Holy War against infidels,
as was his right within sharia law and Islamic theology. You can read
the full fatwa here (ignore the date of 1915 which is an original typo).
That statement by the last sitting head of what was the theocratic empire of Islam was the catalyst which led to religiously-fueled genocide against Christian Armenians and Assyrians.
The Episcopal church leaders who agreed to the host Muslim prayers
inside the Washington cathedral probably have no idea what happened a
century ago in Asia Minor, or that there even was a Caliph in office at
the beginning of the 20th century.
However, we can rest assured that the co-organizers do, for they include
the Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR), The Islamic Society
of North America (ISNA), The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and
the All-Dulles Area Muslims Society (ADAMS) Center.
Both CAIR and ISNA will be fully aware of the significance of November
14th, seeing as both organizations were declared by a federal court to
be unindicted co-conspirators of Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood terror
group, in the largest terrorist financing trial in US history.
Those muslims who have a supremacist understanding of their religion,
such as members of Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood - which was
recently declared an illegal terrorist
organization in the country of its founding, Egypt - have a special regard for historic dates and anniversaries.
It is, of course, no accident that the 9/11 attacks, the worst terror
attacks in world history, occurred exactly to the day in 1683 when the
Islamic Ottoman forces were defeated outside the city walls of Vienna,
the deepest the Islamic Caliphate's forces made it into the heart of the
Christian West.
There is nothing inherently wrong about interfaith initiatives as long
as they start from the same place: a mutual respect for the belief
system of the other, and their inherent dignity as humans created by
God. When one party acts in bad faith based upon its ideological
commitment to see other faiths destroyed or subjected, then the event
runs the risk of becoming a propaganda coup for the extremists and their
followers.
The fact that this event is occurring just as ancient Christian communities are being destroyed in the Middle East and "non-believers" are being actually crucified by ISIS jihadists makes it all the more egregious.
We know that the Episcopal church is in trouble with more conservative believers leaving in great numbers and
the remaining adherents not exactly outdoing their Catholic cousins in
terms of reproducing the next generation of believers. But I doubt they
also understand the finer points of jihadist doctrine, one of which is
that if a place of worship is used by Muslims for their prayers, that
territory subsequently becomes part of Dar al Islam, sacred muslim land.
Forever.
Sebastian Gorka PhD is the Major General Matthew C. Horner Distinguished Chair of
Military
Theory at the Marine Corps University, and national security and
foreign affairs editor at Breitbart.com. You can follow him on Twitter
at: @SebGorka
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