No. I am not ANTI-Mulsim. I am actually PRO-Muslim. I love Muslims. My love for Muslims is the driving force and motivation behind all of my efforts in the awareness campaign that the ministry which God has given to me runs regarding their religion.
It is important, when discussing this subject, that we make a distinction between MUSLIMS and ISLAM. This is absolutely necessary if you are going to understand the motive behind my message.
While I have a problem with, or even hate, the RELIGION of ISLAM, this does not automatically mean that I feel the same way about the MUSLIM PERSON who is trapped in it.
If your mother gets sick, let us say (God forbid) she gets diagnosed with terminal cancer, how do you feel about that cancer? You hate it. It disgusts you. You watch helplessly as it slowly kills her.
Imagine if somebody heard that you were on a walk-a-thon or something of the like in order to raise the funds necessary to both educate people about cancer, but to fight it and its effects. How would you feel if somebody decided to exalt themselves into a position in which they felt justified in labeling your efforts by saying, “He hates his mother”?
If your mother is dying of cancer and you attempt to fight cancer, are you anti-your-mother? Not at all. Such a characterization would not only be irrational and illogical, but also unfair.
The person accusing you of hating your mother based upon the fact that you want to rid the world of the cancer / disease that sucks the life out of her must either be (A.) extremely stupid, or (B.), extremely dishonest.
It is absolutely possible to rally around a cause to fight cancer while, at the exact same time, loving the victim that it is killing. Who’s dumb enough not to understand this?
So then I hit you with the question, regarding my own situation: Is it possible for me to hate the religion of Islam in which a person is trapped, while loving the person who is trapped in it, at the exact same time? Yes! Absolutely! I know because I do.
No one in Minneapolis love Muslims more than I do. No one goes into the predominately Muslim neighborhoods and housing projects fearlessly proclaiming the truth in this city in the same manner. I have put myself in harm’s way over and over again for the cause of evangelizing lost Muslims that are on their way to Hell. If this is not love, then what is it? Surely not hate!
Hate would be best expressed towards Muslims by the act of silence as they follow the false god, the false prophet, the false book, and the false religion straight to where it takes them in the end - Hell. Yet I do not do this.
I have and am giving my life (in a sense) towards the cause of liberating Muslims from the spiritual slavery of Islam, with the help of the LORD (YHWH) Jesus Christ, and per the election of God in eternity past. Through constant prayer, I am dependent upon His help alone in seeking out His elect among the lost Muslims.
I am not making any attempt to say that I in, of, by, or left to myself am anything at all. That is not what is being communicated here. I am simply pointing out the absurdity and foolishness of saying that someone is a hater because they have committed the crime of speaking the truth.
Would not telling / proclaiming lies (Islam) be more hateful? Would not speaking the truth be seen as an act of love? At least in the sight of most normal, sane people? This is all I am asking you to think about.
To look me in the eye and declare that my ministry in the Muslim community is an anti-Muslim act is so grossly dishonest and ignorant that it truly boggles the mind. Just because I am anti-ISLAM (the religion), does not mean that I am anti-MUSLIM (the people stuck in its spiritual chains).
Your love for the PEOPLE energizes and fuels your hatred for the INSTITUTION THAT HAS THEM BOUND. How hard is this to understand? Who fails to grasp this concept? Get them an I.Q. test! Quickly!
I’m no more a hater of Muslims than an abolitionist could rightly be labeled a hater of the slaves that they fight to free!
Brian James Shanley, D. Div.
Author of “MANHATTAN MASSACRE”
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
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