This is Part 2 of our interview with Usama Dakdok of the Straight Way of Grace Ministry. See Part 1 here.

In this part, we explore what Americans may not know about today’s terrorism:

Q: Is there any element of unconditional love and forgiveness in Islam?
A: There are 350 verses in the Quran teaching hate; 37 teach to perform jihad – holy war; 79 verses say to kill. Muslims are taught to hate Jews and Christians. Allah is angry at the Jewish people and Christians are called lost (Quran 1:6, some versions 1:7).

Q: Has “extreme Islamic terrorism” (as Americans call it) departed from Mohammed’s original ideals?
A: No. Mohammed denied the deity of Christ and taught that believers in Jesus as a deity were infidels. According to the Haddith (sayings of Mohammed) C9B1N31, he commanded his people to fight with infidels until they testify there is no god, only Allah, and to believe he was the messenger sent by Allah.

Q: Why do we need to fear widespread extreme Islamic terrorism?
A: These terrorists do not want peace. Quran 47:35 says “Do not be weak. Do not call for peace when you have the upper hand.” What we need to fear most is Americans who are being indoctrinated into Islam and used as terrorists. Foreigners are too obvious to be used most of the time anymore.

Western countries should also fear the extent to which our political correctness has gone. For the sake of “being tolerant,” America is being naïve. It is like loading bullets into our own guns to kill our own children.

Q: Are there really such things as terrorist “sleeper cells” in America?
A: There are sleeper cells in every walk of American life from the poorest to the highest. There are people with government titles [I could name] already working within the American government, under false names and pretenses, to influence us toward Shariah Law.

Q: Why don’t we know about them?
A: They (those in sleeper cells or undercover positions) can pretend to be good law abiding citizens when they actually have terrorist mentality. This is a lawful way of lying, according to the Quran 16:106 and 2:25. They can falsely deny their true Islamic faith, as long as they don’t actually “open their heart (chest)” to another faith.

Quran 2:106 says: “Nothing of our revelation (even a single verse) do we abrogate or cause be forgotten, but we bring (in place) one better or the like thereof. Allah is able to do all things.”

Q: What can bring peace between Israel, Jews, Christians and the Arab/Middle Eastern nations?
A: Only Jesus’ return as Messiah will bring true peace.

Q: So how can American Christians be good witnesses to Muslims and share the love of Christ?
A: Christians should know about Mohammed and should learn the Quran. I use the Quran itself in speaking to Muslims, showing them how the love of Christ is more desirable.

Dakdok’s Web site shares articles instructing how to testify to Muslims, and also informs us that the Muslim faith does not include the concept of original sin or free grace.

The views expressed in this interview do not necessarily reflect the views of The Underground.

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An extreme terrorist training camp for children was recently discovered by the Pakistani military within their country’s borders.

According to a January 6, 2010 CNN report, the media in Pakistan were first to break the news some time in the past month.

Spokespeople for the Pakistani military told CNN the compound, found in the former Taliban stronghold of Nawoz Kot, was apparently used to brainwash Pakistani children and youth between the ages of 12 and 18 into a suicide-bomber mentality.

There was enough room for more than 200 children at a time; children whose parents thought they were sending them to a school for better education and free food. But pamphlets were found which explained how to prepare suicide jackets, handle weapons and perform ambushes.

An expert in Taliban tactics described for CNN that the compound was painted with elaborate artwork of a glorious afterlife for suicide bombers; that there was information promising that death was better than life, and other possible distortions of the Islamic faith.

The expert, Zahid Hussein, reported that over 90 percent of suicide bombers are within that age group.

The Taliban has denied that the compound at Nawoz Kot was theirs (it was bombed over the summer).

Recent examples of suicide attacks remind us that the extreme terrorist mindset is widespread beyond one group or country. A Nigerian is suspected of being responsible for the attempted airplane bombing over Christmas. A Jordanian suicide bomber is assumed to have committed the attack that recently killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan. But the Associated Press reports that both al-Qaida and the Taliban are claiming responsibility for the CIA attack.

That children should be trained to follow in these footsteps and commit such acts, including the possible taking of their own lives, is unthinkable to peaceful citizens of many countries and faiths. However, it would not be the first time that children were used recklessly in the past century to achieve extreme and violent goals.

Hitler was training Germany’s youth from age ten and up to accept nothing less than a perfect Aryan society (see Hitler-Jugend – Hitler’s Youth). The Viet Cong used children within their villages to lure and defeat American troops in Viet Nam.

It may seem overwhelming to think that a terrorist attack can happen anywhere, at any time.

Yet, “Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand” (Ephesians 6:12-13, NIV).

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The United Nations’ Second World Conference on Racism (April, 2009) claimed that it would focus on all forms of defamation of religion. 

When it became known that Iranian President Ahmadinejad would be speaking at the Conference, also known as the Durban Conference II, many countries withdrew (see EuropeNews report).

When Ahmadinejad spoke, he accused western nations of defending a form of Israeli Zionism which he considers racist. From that point on, the Conference focused on one thing—“Islamophobia.” Islamophobia implies fearfulness of the Islamic faith and hatred of all Muslims.

The word Islamophobia has been popularized since accusations began against terrorists from Muslim backgrounds after September 11, 2001. In the last couple of years, it has become more and more politically incorrect to denounce even the most radical Islamic terrorism. The term Islamophobia is now being stretched to mean that if you fear or speak out against extreme Islamic terrorism, or you express suspicions of it, then you hate all Muslims. This equation is unfair and untrue. 

Now, the United Nations (UN) is considering a ”Defamation of Religions” resolution by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the largest group of nations within the UN.  Ironically, the OIC itself is made up mostly of nations under dictatorship or tyrannical leadership; many formally recognizing Islam or an Eastern faith as their state religion, and are almost completely intolerant of other religions. Some OIC nations have appeared on the U.S. State Department’s list of “nations of concern” for human rights and religious rights violations. See this 2008 State Department list for example.

The OIC has pushed for this for nearly a decade (per a 2008 Washington Times article), and they have made much headway. Although continued anti-Semitism toward Jewish people and intimidation of Christians has been increasing in many countries which were formerly quite tolerant of various other faiths, the only faith people are afraid to offend today is Islam.

The UN Watch, a Geneva-based human rights group, has decried this latest OIC resolution
as an attempt to imply that defamation of religion makes the Islamic faith itself the real victim of 9/11 –not the 3,000 people who actually died in the attack.

The International Humanist and Ethical Union suggests that a resolution like this would make simple religious disagreement a crime of blasphemy as it already is in some Middle Eastern and Asian countries. This could be especially dangerous if the country considers blasphemy (or “apostasy”) a crime deserving of life imprisonment or death.

Forbidding hate speech against Muslims, and against Islam as a faith, is of course understandable. There are many good and decent Muslims around the world. However, we shouldn’t stop people from speaking out against past terrorism, or expressing warning signs of forthcoming acts of possible terrorism. Case in point: the now-known fact that no one reported the earlier suspicious remarks and activities of the Fort Hood attacker, who – if not a terrorist – was influenced to a certain extent by a jihadist mindset. Instead, the government and media are jumping through hoops to create other scenarios for him.

Another case: In 2007, a University of Florida student group was censored by school authorities from passing out information about a movie revealing the dangers of radical Islamic terrorism. By using the description “radical” before the word “Islamic” and then the word “terrorism” in the title, the flier bearers made it clear that they didn’t want to offend Muslims who disagree with radical Islamic terrorism. Still, according to the Tampa Tribune, the University censored the group’s fliers for not being in the best interest of diversity.  

We must be able to recognize and identify our enemies. True, there is home-grown American terrorism, like Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber. But  avoiding the real possibilities of “extreme Islamic terrorism” is a mistake. In the name of tolerance, events are escalating to desensitize us into our own demise. We are becoming an increasingly easier target.

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