MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Even Walid Shoebat, himself a former Muslim, has described Islam as a ‘Christian cult’.  The Judeo-Christian origins of Islam are undeniable.  This Beast, which has its roots within the ‘ekklesia’ of God, has subsequently positioned itself not only against the Christ of the Bible, but also in place of Christ and the true ‘ekklesia’ of YHWH.  It effectually stands itself up and positions itself as the true spiritual Temple of God, when in reality it is its antithesis.  And now some ‘churches’ are beginning to take this apostasy to a whole new level …

By Ibn Warraq Part 1 – “As Patricia Crone once put it, ‘new religions do not spring fully fledged from the heads of prophets, old civilizations are not conjured away.’ Islam did not somehow emerge fully developed, as the Islamic traditional accounts would have us believe, but slowly, over a long period of time, as the Arab conquerors came into contact with the far older cultures and civilizations, which pushed the Arabs to question and forge their own religious and cultural identity. Ever since the Nineteenth Century, when Western scholars, especially German, but also Italian, French, Hungarian, and British, began to examine Islam and the Koran in the same manner that they had begun examining the Old and New Testament, the debate has been as to determine whether it was Judaism or Christianity that contributed most to the creation of Islam. As Richard Bell, in his The Origin of Islam in Its Christian Environment [Edinburgh, 1925], expressed it, ‘That both Judaism and Christianity played a part in forming the doctrine of Islam and in preparing the spiritual soil of Arabia for its reception has long been recognised. How much influence is to be attributed to the one, and how much to the other, is difficult to decide. For much is common to both, and we have to remember that there were many forms of Christianity intermediate between the orthodox Church of the seventh century and the Judaism out of which it sprang, and it was in the East, on the confines of Arabia, that we know these Judaistic forms of Christianity to have longest maintained themselves. Some things in the Qur’an and in Islam which appear specially Jewish, may really have come through nominally Christian channels. But even with that allowance there is no doubt about the large influence exercised by Judaism.'” Read more.

Jihad Watch links: Part 1 here; part 2 here; part 3 here; part 4 here; part 5 here; part 6 here; part 7 here; part 8 here; part 9 here; part 10 here.