A Foundation Of Love
by Rebecca Bynum (Feb. 2009)
‘Since Islam regards non-Muslims as on a lower level of belief and conviction, if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim…then his punishment must not be the retaliatory death, since the faith and conviction he possesses is loftier than that of the man slain…’Islam and its peoples must be above the infidels, and never permit non-Muslims to acquire lordship over them.”[4]
“Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him [Jesus] a question, tempting him, and saying,
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [Deuteronomy 6:5]
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. [Leviticus 19:18]
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”[5]
Truly this is the kernel of Western religious thought. In order to know God, one must love God and when one loves God, one partakes of his nature and it becomes impossible for the God-knowing man not to love his brethren, the children of God, even as God himself loves them. Once a man discovers the kingdom of heaven within his heart, the world is transformed and all life is infused with new meaning and value. He cannot help but reject a view of God contrary to the loving spirit he knows by and through his own experience.
It is, however, all but impossible to oppose the twisted value system of Islam, by affirming there are no values except those of man-made consensus. One may point out the man-made nature of Islam, its essential materialism, its distortion of the scripture and the base character of its prophet, but one cannot effectively counter the God of Fear with a God of Nothing. The God of Fear can only be vanquished by a God of Love and to do this, love must be affirmed as the highest reality known to man. This cannot be done by an atheism that rejects the separation of matter and value, thus rejecting the reality of value, the reality of love, and the reality of the transcendent entirely. Religion can only be opposed by religion and it is to those God- knowing men who simply know that they know, who will most convincingly reject the Islamic characterization of God and its distorted world-view.
What we face is not only a clash of civilizations, or even a clash of religions, but a clash between levels of reality. Thus, we fight on the side of truth against error, goodness against evil, and life against death. The justice of our cause is self-evident: opposing evil is not evil. We stand upon a foundation of love in opposition to a foundation of fear and hatred. If we can hold the high ground, and deal with Islam firmly and with Muslims humanely, we will not lose.
Allah is already dead.
[1] London Times, “Muslim population rising ‘ten times faster than rest of society’” by Richard Kerbaj, Jan. 30, 2009.
[2] Weaver, Richard Ideas Have Consequences (The University of Chicago Press, 1948) pgs. 20-21
[3] The Bible, Psalm 111:10 (King James Version)
[4] Tabandeh, Sultanhussein A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1970
[5] The Bible, Matthew 22 35-40 (King James version)
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