Truth about Islam from Christian Leaders

Franklin Graham is the son of Billy Graham — arguably the best known Evangelical Christian leader in the U.S.

2001-NOV-16: According to MSNBC, Franklin Graham appeared on the NBC Nightly News, commenting on Islam. He allegedly said: “We’re not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. He’s not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It’s a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion.” This statement is confusing because he seems to imply that Jews believe that Jesus is the son of God — a belief that is contrary to historical Jewish belief. He continued: “I don’t believe this is a wonderful, peaceful religion. When you read the Koran and you read the verses from the Koran, it instructs the killing of the infidel, for those that are non-Muslim.” When asked by NBC News to clarify his statement, Graham repeated his charge that Islam, as a whole, is an evil. “It wasn’t Methodists flying into those buildings, it wasn’t Lutherans. It was an attack on this country by people of the Islamic faith.”

In his book: “The Name”, he wrote that: “Islam — unlike Christianity — has among its basic teachings a deep intolerance for those who follow other faiths.”

2002-SEP: During an interview with Beliefnet.com, he said that after the terrorist attacks: “there was this hoo-rah around Islam being a peaceful religion — but then you start having suicide bombers, and people start saying, ‘Wait a minute, something doesn’t add up here.’ ”

2002-OCT-28: ABCNEWS.com commented that the “Virginia-based Family Policy Network, encouraged members to ‘thank Franklin Graham for his faithfulness to Christ in the face of criticism.’ ”

Benny Hinn

Benny Hinn proclaimed to thousands of Christians at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX that “We are on God’s side. This is not a war between Arabs and Jews. It’s a war between God and the devil.” Several conservative Christian ministers from the Dallas area, who shared the podium, clapped and nodded their approval. Later, a few of them said that the line between Christians and Muslims is the difference between good and evil.

J. Don George, senior pastor of Calvary Temple in Irving, TX, accompanied Hinn on stage. He said: “Our faith is in Jesus Christ, and the Muslim community does not accept Jesus and God, and therefore we’re at odds with Muslims….Any religion or ideology that refuses to acknowledge the lordship of Jesus Christ could be typified as a war against Satan.”

Paul Mills, pastor of Arlington Faith Chapel, said that Muslims would find Hinn’s statement inappropriate. However, their complaints would be irrelevant because Jesus is the only way to heaven. He said: “The religion [of Islam] is a false religion as far as we believe.”

Brent Arterbury, pastor of Life Church in Haltom City, said that he agrees that Christians are engaged in a spiritual war. He said: “From a biblical standpoint, I have to agree that there is good and there is evil. From that standpoint, I believe what he said is in line with what the Scriptures say.” He added that Islam “is a very destructive type of faith….They’re a revengeful people….We as Christians don’t despise the Muslims. We love them. We just don’t like what they stand for.”

Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson broadcast a message during his Christian Broadcasting Network news program on 2002-NOV-11. According to the media: “In his remarks, Christian preacher and conservative commentator Pat Robertson said Muslims were bent on exterminating Jews…” 8 Robertson is reported as saying: “Somehow I wish the Jews in America would wake up, open their eyes and read what is being said about them…This is worse than the Nazis…Adolf Hitler was bad, but what the Muslims want to do to the Jews is worse.” In an apparent reaction to both Jewish and Muslim anti-hate groups, he said that those who had criticized him in the past — people whom he called “so called doves” — did not understand the situation. He continued: “If I say something that Islam is, you know, an erroneous religion, then I get criticized by the Anti-Defamation League. You just want to say: ‘When are you going to open your eyes and see who your enemy is.’ Those people want to destroy Jews.’ ”

Jerry Falwell

“Jerry Fallwell called the founder and revered prophet of Islam, Muhammed, a ‘terrorist’ on CBS’s ’60 Minutes’ on Sunday, October 6, 2002.

Jimmy Swaggart

At about 39 minutes into a 2002-NOV-10 broadcast, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart referred to the Prophet Muhammad as a “sex deviant,” “pervert,” and “pedophile.”

Chuck Baldwin

On a 2002-DEC-13 religious commentator Chuck Baldwin wrote (in part): “President Bush has repeatedly demonstrated colossal ignorance of Biblical truth. The latest example of this ineptness occurred just recently as Bush gushed over the Muslim religion during Ramadan.”

“While worshiping at the Islamic Center of Washington, Bush remarked, ‘Islam traces its origins back to God’s call on Abraham. And Ramadan commemorates the revelation of God’s word in the Holy Koran to the prophet Mohammed.’ ”

“Does Mr. Bush not realize that the Holy Bible, not the Koran, is the one and only written revelation of God to man? Is he that ignorant of Christian teaching? Or, was he deliberately denying Christian doctrine in order to curry favor with his Muslim hosts?…”

“Even more disturbing is the manner in which Christian ministers have accepted Bush’s apostasy. At the national level, only Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham seem willing to correctly identify the Muslim religion for what it is: a religion of violence and hatred….”