Quite so. And their beliefs are in a false god and false prophet.
Our primary response to Islam as Orthodox Christians is to truly live our faith 100%, to provide a vigorous, inspiring alternative to Muslims who likewise reject the secular apostasy and decadence they see all around. We know and worship the True God. Let us strive to incarnate Him in our lives!
I have quoted the following in my book, and repeatedly here on the blog, because it is true. Islam's global ascendancy, the age of jihad, and the new age of Christian martyrdom under the sword of Islam is one of the primary signs of the "age of absurdity" which Fr. Seraphim speaks of:
"Christian compromise in thought and word and negligence in deed have opened the way to the triumph of the forces of the absurd, of Satan, of Antichrist. The present age of absurdity is the just reward of Christians who have failed to be Christians.
"It is futile, in fact it is precisely absurd, to speak of reforming society, of changing the path of history, of emerging into an age beyond absurdity, if we have not Christ in our hearts; and if we do have Christ in our hearts, nothing else matters.
"Now one cannot be a half-hearted Christian, but only entirely or not at all."
This is an excellent article, which analyzes the deeper motivations behind Muslims who choose to follow Islam and Muhammad 100%.
Integration is Not the Answer to Muslim Terrorism
by Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Magazine, April 1, 2016:
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| Anjem Coudary. |
There is a famous photo of Anjem Choudary, the head of multiple banned organizations calling for imposing Sharia law on the UK whose follower was responsible for the Lee Rigby beheading, getting drunk as a young law student. Friends recall "Andy" smoking pot and taking LSD, sleeping around and partying all the time. Andy was really well integrated, but he still turned back into Anjem.
While the proliferation of segregated Muslim areas, no-go zones in which English, French or Dutch is the foreign language, is a major problem, it is a mistake to think that "integration" solves Islamic terrorism.
It doesn't.
The Tsarnaev brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings seemed integrated. Nobody noticed anything wrong with Syed Rizwan Farook, the San Bernardino shooter, or Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber. They weren't lurking in a no-go zone. They had American friends, an education and career options if they wanted them. They didn't want them. And that's the point.
Bilal Abdullah was a British-born doctor who tried to carry out a terrorist attack at Glasgow International Airport. He wasn't marginalized, jobless or desperate. He had a cause.
"Islamic terrorists have not been alienated by our rejection. They champion an alien creed that rejects us."
Quite a few converts have become Muslim terrorists. If integration were the issue, white converts to Islam wouldn't be running off to join ISIS or plotting terrorist attacks like Don Stewart-Whyte, who converted to Islam and planned to blow up planes headed from the UK to the US. Along with his friend Oliver Savant, the son of a secular Iranian father and British mother, they are the reason why you can't carry liquids onto a plane.
Muslim terrorism is not caused by failed integration, but by a conscious disintegration. What is often described as "radicalization" is really a choice by "integrated" Muslims to become religious and to act on their beliefs. Muslim men who formerly dressed casually begin growing beards and wearing Salafist garb. They consciously reject what Western society has to offer because they have chosen Islam instead.
Islamic terrorists have not been alienated by our rejection. They champion an alien creed that rejects us.
