Our president and administration say that ISIS/ISIL is not Islamic. Really? Americans need to start questioning the comments made by those who govern us and create laws we must follow.

An article on CBN.com (Sept 28, 2014) “Former Muslims: ISIS Not Islamic? We Beg to Differ” paints a different picture with the words of former Muslims. Here is part of that article.

“They (ISIS/ISIL) are following Islam’s Prophet Muhammad’s in every detail. They imitate him by growing their beards, shaving their mustaches and in the way they dress,” Brother Rachid, a former Muslim who grew up in Morocco, said.

Rachid, who hosts the television show “Daring Questions,” gave the following response to Obama’s claim.

“I can speak with confidence that ISIL speaks for Islam,” he said. “Allow me to correct you Mr. President. ISIL is a Muslim organization. Its name stands for Islamic State so even the name suggests that it is an Islamic movement.”

“Their leader, Abu Bakr Al Bagdadi, holds a Ph. D. in Islamic studies,” he noted. “I doubt you know Islam better than he does.”

“You think that ISIL does not speak for Islam because they beheaded an American and they killed whom those they consider infidels,” Rachid continued. “In the same way Islam’s Prophet Mohammad beheaded in one day between 600 and 900 adult males in a Jewish tribe.”

“In fact, beheading is commanded in the Koran in Sura 47, the 4th verse. It says when you meet the unbelievers and fight; smite at their necks,” he quoted the Koran.

And former Muslim Nonie Darwish says it all leads toward the ultimate goal stated in the Koran. “This idea that what ISIS is doing is un-Islamic is not true at all. It’s pure Islamic,” she told CBN News. “The goals of the Islamic State is to empower itself to control the whole of the Middle East and expand to achieve the goals of Islam of converting the whole world into one Islamic state forcing Islam on the rest of the world.”

Mark Gabriel is a former Muslim. Gabriel has a PH.D. in Islamic history, was professor in Cairo, Egypt and was also an Imam … so I think Gabriel knows this subject. In his book “Islam and Terrorism” in Chapter 11 he talks of the 3 stages of Jihad. About the Jihad Stage he says, “At this stage every Muslim’s duty is to actively fight the enemy, overturning the system of the non-Muslim country and establishing Islamic authority.”

So there you have a present Muslim Abu Bakr Al Bagdadi, Ph.D., and Mark Gabriel, Ph.D., a former Muslim and Imam, both contradicting President Barack Obama.

Tom Jacobson

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