Al-Qur'an Combats Europe's Spreading Islamophobia Disease

Before reading The Nation magazine of 5/9/11 on my first day after arriving in Amman Jordan, I was already concerned about the almost incurable disease of contagious Islamophobia. But after reading the Berlin resident, Paul Hockeness' Ominous article, “Europe's Rising Islamophobia” I was truly frightened for the future of Europe as well for the future of European Muslims.

Before reading his penetrating article, I had no comprehension of how deeply this contagious disease was affecting both Muslims and non Muslims in most countries in especially Western Europe. I could then see how deep the resentment and fear by so many influential Europeans is of the precious to GOD people of Islam.

Virtually 100% of Muslim haters in Europe seem to have some Christian heritage. Yet, they are 100% unaware, as are most Christians, that Islam has definite roots in the Judeo- Christian heritage. That is, the Genesis book of the Bible reveals identical statements from GOD to both the Hebrew Patriarch Abraham and to his second wife, Hagar, who was the proud mother of Abraham's first son Ishmael. The name Ishmael, which was given by GOD to the still unborn child, literally means GOD Hears. And the identical statements from GOD at different times to both Ishmael's mom and to his dad were that GOD Himself would make Ishmael a Great Nation.

The Great Nation whom GOD told Dad-Hebrew Abraham, and Mom-Egyptian- North African- Hagar, that their son who was a mixture of one half Hebrew and one half North African-Egyptian, would eventually become the great and undeniably influential Nation of Islam. And even today that great nation's remnants still exist from that de facto great nation, although today it is greatly dispersed since it reached its apex in about the Twelfth Century A.D.

Please see Genesis 12:20 for when GOD initially spoke to Father Abraham about Ishmael's descendents when Abraham was pleading with GOD about his first son Ishmael's future.

“And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him…and I will make him into a great nation.”

Later, in Genesis 21:18, four to five years after GOD had clearly spoken to his Dad, Abraham, and had solemnly promised to make his mixed ethnicity son, (like U.S. President Barack Obama is of mixed ethnicity, being half African and half Caucasian American) into a great nation. Then the One Almighty GOD made the same identical spoken verbal promise to half North African Ishmael's Egyptian Mom that He would make the son of she and Dad, Abraham, into a great nation using the identical words that ALLAH had verbally spoken to her husband, Hebrew Abraham, about five years before. This historical conversation was about one year before Abraham's full Hebrew son Isaac was born to he and his still living first wife, Sarah. Yet, due to her deep resentment of both Ishmael and Hagar, Sarah soon bitterly complained to Abraham sufficiently that he regretfully kicked his own beloved mixed first son Ishmael, who was even under the important covenant of circumcision, out of their home. Then mother and son wandered in the blistering heat of the desert until GOD compassionately rescued them when they were near death from thirst and exposure to the blazing desert sun. He mercifully directed them to where they found water in order to preserve their previous lives so that GOD could faithfully fulfill his sacred promise to Abraham and Hagar about Ishmael's future. And even the famous Martin Luther in his own writing made reference to the significant role that GOD had in the life of the young Ishmael. GOD's Genesis 21:18's exact words to the Egyptian Hagar were “…for I will make him into a great nation.”

Significantly, a careful search of recorded history reveals that the only close fulfillment of Ishmael's becoming the great nation which the Biblical GOD promised to both Abraham and Hagar involving their mutual son Ishmael, involves the Prophet Muhammad. This foundational scenario occurred when Ishmael's own Arab descendent, the Prophet Muhammad many, many centuries later, led some of his own Arab people who lived in what is now the Kingdom of Saud, AKA Saudi Arabia, to leave their own idol worship and polytheism to become submitted to the only one GOD/ALLAH.

And that submission is called in Arabic, Islam (Islam literally means submission.)

Then the new religion of Islam, long after Abraham's death, long after Hagar's death, long after Ishmael's death, grew into the great Muslim Nation that was at its apex in about the twelfth century A.D.

Make no mistake about it, O European Muslim haters, Qur'an haters and Islam haters. Though Islam has had cruelty in its history, so has Christianity, and so has Catholicism. And Judaism also has been guilty of much oppression, exploitation and cruelty.

The multitude of Europeans who hate Islam must also acknowledge that there were numerous time in Islam's fragile beginnings under Muhammad's leadership, when it would have been a very small matter for the Almighty GOD to have caused Islam to totally disappear from this earth if it had not been GOD's Will for Islam to have continued. If Islam had disappeared, both the Prophet Muhammad and Islam would now be but a little noticed historical foodnote. But it has not been GOD's Will to remove Islam. But here is what is now definitely GOD's Will for Islam. It is His will that the risen living Messiah, Jesus, who is called Messiah eleven times in the Qur'an and in the Qur'an is known as Isa-al-Messiah, for that Risen Messiah of the Qur'an to become the living focus of virtually every mosque throughout the entire world when he is soon welcomed into Mosques. This soon to be involvement by thousands of Mosques throughout the world with the Risen Messiah of the Qur'an will partially compensate for the tens of thousands of formerly vibrant Christian Churches in both Europe and in the West which have virtually kicked out the Risen Messiah and have adopted aggressive secularism and pro-militarism. These many churches have replaced him with the idol of capitalism and with service to and worship of the lethal and lucrative weapons' industry. Neither have these former somewhat Christian cultures sufficiently resisted war, exploitation and colonialism as a way of accomplishing their nations' goals.

Significantly, the Messiah predicted while on earth that a time would come when the last will be the first and the first will be last. Judaism came first and has mostly rejected the Messiah whom GOD/ALLAH (ALLAH is the Arabic translation of the English word GOD) supernaturally raised from death. But the vast majority of the Jews have rejected his resurrection as being GOD's supernatural sign of the present authority of His Messiah. Therefore, throughout the over Twenty Centuries from Jesus' birth until now the Jews and the present Israeli Nation have continued to relentlessly reject the authority of GOD's Messiah. But the Jews don't dictate to GOD what is truth. So the Jewish rejection of ALLAH's Risen Messiah has not diminished his authority one inch.

Then almost worldwide Christianity which broadly includes Catholicism, came second. But Christianity has increasingly discredited its own credibility through such serious crimes as the Crusades, corruption and more recently sexual child abuse especially as practiced in the recent Catholic Church. And through secularism and materialism as well as through militarism especially in the current U.S. Christian Protestant Church the status of Christianity has been severely diminished.

And the third and last has been the coming of Islam which up until the present time has sort of half followed Judaism's lead in totally rejecting GOD's raising His Messiah from death. This confusion about the Qur'an's Messiah's death and subsequently being supernaturally raised by ALLAH from death has been mainly due to confusion about what only one out of the multitude of verses in the Qur'an is actually intended to mean. Yet, Muslim leaders could totally solve the problem about what An-Nisa 4:157 and 158 are truly intended to teach if they would take one strategic and reasonable step which so far they have unreasonably refused to take. If they will believe one clear statement made by the Almighty ALLAH Himself in Al-Imr'an 3:55 of the Qur'an, this step of belief in ALLAH's own promise to His Messiah Isa would solve forever what 4:157 in An-Nisa is truly intended to teach; that the Qur'an's Messiah did truly die for a period of time and was raised to new life by ALLAH on the third day. That is why An-Nisa 4:157 states that the Messiah was not killed and was not crucified. The verse is only intended to mean that due to the supernatural intervention of ALLAH through His own eternal Wisdom combined with the intervention of His Might, as the next verse clarifies, the Messiah was neither permanently killed nor was he permanently crucified. That is definitely the true intention, because both of the two words killed and crucified definitely imply permanence. Therefore Isa was neither permanently killed nor was he permanently crucified. Because, as the next verse triumphantly states, ALLAH used His great eternal Wisdom and His great Might to interrupt the natural process of permanent death by crucifixion in order to raise him up alive. After his death, therefore, it was entirely in order for the Qur'an's An-Nisa 4:157 to strongly state that the miraculously born son of the virgin Maryam was never truly permanently killed nor had he been truly permanently crucified. This is totally true, because both of the words killed and crucified imply permanence. Therefore, because ALLAH's Wisdom and Might raised him up alive as the next verse emphatically proclaims, there was no permanence to his death. Thus, in the truest sense of what death and crucified mean, he most definitely was not killed or crucified in the true meaning of these two words.

Al-Im'ran 3:55 Is the Qur'ans Wonderful Wow!

In the case a person will not accept this reasoning which I consider to be both logical and reasonable, I will now reveal how it is ALLAH Himself who definitely first proclaimed about the Messiah's death and his being raised alive long before Tom, (abu Toma) – Griffith used this reasoning. Therefore, I have only borrowed my reasoning and my explanation about An-Nisa 4:157 and 158 about the Messiah's death and resurrection from ALLAH Himself which He clearly stated in Al-Im'ran 3:55.

“And when ALLAH said: O Isa (Jesus)! I will Mutawafiik you (Mutawafiik in Arabic means to cause to die) and raise you to myself.”

Significantly, in early Islam when Islam was only gaining momentum and was still quite vulnerable, the aggressive established Arab Catholic Church had the theological bad habit which that Church still does, of calling Mary (Maryam) the Mother of GOD or the Mother of ALLAH. But since the Prophet Muhammad absolutely knew that ALLAH is One and definitely has no mother, he decided that the Catholics' custom of calling Mary the Mother of GOD was an extremely dangerous theology. So this Catholic practice of assuming that since Jesus was the Son of GOD, this automatically made Mary the mother to the Messiah who they addressed as the Son of GOD, making her the Mother of GOD was a faulty theology that he wanted to keep Muslims far separated from. Why? Because this theology was way too close to polytheism where there were multiple gods or families of gods. Therefore, the Prophet pragmatically reasoned that it made more practical sense to allow the new vulnerable Muslims to temporarily believe that the Qur'an taught that Isa did not die and that he did not rise from death. So his difficult decision to temporarily delay knowledge of the Quran's Messiah's death and resurrection would temporarily guarantee that the new Muslims would stay very separated from strong Catholic belief in his death and resurrection, thus protecting Muslims from the Mother of GOD nearness to polytheism. So he reasoned that his temporary plan would preserve Muslims' important theological faithfulness to GOD being One and not expose them too soon to the Catholics near Polytheism.

But the Prophet gave his followers too much credit for he wrongly assumed that relatively soon after his own death, that wise Muslim leaders would realize that the Qur'an actually taught that Jesus did die and triumphantly was raised by ALLAH from death due to the clear teachings of both the formerly quoted Al-Im'ran 3:55 and also Maryam 19:33 and 19:34 which verses clearly proclaim his death and resurrection.

“Peace on me the day I was born and the day I die and the day I shall be raised alive 19:33.”

This is a statement of the truth concerning which they doubt 19:34.

Yes, there was a somewhat similar statement in another verse about Yahya-John the Baptist, as is in the 19:33 verse. But significantly the somewhat similar Yahya verse had no additional verse attached to it stating that the previous verse was a statement of the truth about which they doubt. Why? Because there was absolutely no doubting about Yahya's death and no doubt about his not yet being resurrected. But in contrast to the certainty of the death and no resurrection event in the Yahya verse, there was considerable dispute about the events of the Qur'an's own Messiah's death and resurrection. Therefore, the Qur'an wisely added verse 34 to 33 in order to once and for all put an end to all the doubt about whether the two events of Isa's death and resurrection had actually occurred.

But despite this assurance, instead of certain Muslim leaders' decision to not later allow the Al-Im'ran 3:55 and Maryam 19:33 and 34 verses to clear up all the doubt, these Muslim leaders have continued doing something that has been extremely hurtful to ALLAH Himself and damaging to the people of Islam. These short sighted Muslim leaders have unanimously agreed to foolishly throw out the 3:55 clear proclamation by ALLAH in the Qur'an about the Messiah's death and resurrection in Al-Im'ran, right into the drainage ditch. Then, after they had successfully hidden or minimized ALLAH's own 3:55 proclamation, they ignorantly added to their crime. They deceptively replaced ALLAH's own sacred promise to His Messiah to raise him alive after his death, and have cleverly manipulated Muslims to believe a bizarre man-made myth based on a wrong and illogical understanding of the Arab verb phrase, shubbiha lahum- which actually means- it appeared so unto them. But shuubiiha lahum absolutely does not mean that a substitute look-a-like suddenly appeared who took the place of Jesus on the cross. But this false, entrenched myth has brough shame on Islam. Because the Austrian wall paper hanger, Adolph, who started bloody World War II proved that when a lie is repeated often enough, in peoples' vulnerable minds the lie becomes the truth..

This phrase shuubiiha lahum means “it appeared so unto them.” Thus, it simply means that it appeared to the Jews that they had accomplished their sinister purpose of ending the Messiah's life forever. The Jews reached this wrong conclusion at the time that they witnessed him temporarily die on the wicked Roman execution instrument. But that death was not a permanent death. Rather it was only a temporary death. Because as the next verse states so emphatically, ALLAH used His own eternal Wisdom and Might to raise His own Messiah from death, which the previous Scriptures confirm and which the Qur'an confirms. And these earlier Scriptures many times stated that he would be raised from death and was raised from death.

Therefore, for the leaders of Islam to reject what ALLAH Himself proclaimed in the Qur'an's Al-Im'ran 3:55 and for them to also reject all of the additional evidence in Maryam 19:33, 34 and then to disgustingly exchange all of that evidence from both ALLAH and from the Qur'an for a ridiculous man-made look-a-like myth, is an amazingly great crime against ALLAH and against the Qur'an.

Furthermore, these virtually blind, incoherent leaders added to their already great crime an even much greater crime. They themselves risk an awful eternal Judgment because they molded for themselves a man made idol like Moses High Priest brother Aaron, molded a man made calf/idol of a grass chewing calf in order to worship their idol/calf in the desert. And for the Jews blatant invention of their calf crime, many were punished by death for their ugly innovative substitution of an animal for GOD. These Muslim leaders awful idol that they have molded out of their imaginations was a creative substitution lie that is not taught in the Qur'an. In the Qur'an there is not even half a hint that there was a substitute look-alike-man that was made to appear to be the Messiah who was not the Messiah, but who was executed instead of ALLAH's and the Qur'an's and the Injeel's Messiah. But this substitution myth crime has become a horrible crime against ALLAH Himself. They have created it in order for them to be able to convince themselves that their man made ridiculous myth deserves to be served and worshipped as an idol instead of worshipping the GOD who sent His Messiah, of whom God actually said that He Himself had caused him to die. (Mutawafiik in Al-Im'ran 3:55) And ALLAH who also said that he would raise him to now life. But instead of embracing ALLAH's written truth in the Qur'an 3:55, these self deceived Muslim leaders have themselves foolishly decided that it is okay with ALLAH for them to take the sacred words in the Qur'an spoken by ALLAH Himself about sovereignly causing His own Messiah to die and His own raising him up to new life, and virtually throwing even ALLAH's own precious words quoted in the Qur'an into the garbage.

Are you able to even imagine a greater crime than flagrantly treating ALLAH's own words as if they were useless garbage while treating a lying man-made myth as something trustworthy. Yes, Muslim leaders shamefully continue to replace ALLAH's own words of Al-Im'ran 3:55 about His Messiah dying and being raised, with the true rotten garbage of a man-made ferry tale. And this made-up lie portrays a look-a-like being executed instead of the Qrur'an's true Messiah. Yet, the true Messiah did actually endure a torturous death, but Muslims continue to callously deny that he suffered.

But millions upon millions of Muslims will soon straighten out the costly mistake that they have made that has hurt so many so much. Then every Mosque will soon welcome and embrace the Qur'an's true Risen Messiah . Then Muslims will leap past so many Jews and Christians and will be viewed as first by GOD. But many secular, materialistic and now militaristic Christians will become last because most have lost their devotion.

When this wonderful transition for Muslims from rejection of ALLAH's and the Qur'an's Risen Messiah, and instead the embracing of him begins to occur for European Muslims, they will experience a blessing. As they fully embrace him it will provide reasons for European rabid Islamophobes to radically change their perspectives about the qualities of ALLAH's own Muslims.

The Rotten Figs Islamophobia of Multitudes of Europeans against Muslim Victims

The following is my understanding of only some examples of Europe's Islamophobia as presented by Paul Hockeness in The Nation's 5/9/'11 magazine.

1. Europe's Islamophobia disease is so lethal because it has such broad appeal from the far left to the far right.
2. Even though there have been many photos on TV of the democratic uprisings in several Mid-East Muslim nations, Europe's Islamophobic politicians still swear that Islam is totalitarian to its core.
3. Despite the evidence of democratic uprisings in Muslim Nations, “Islamophobes like France's right-wing National Front and the anti-EU True Finn Party racked up their best numbers ever.”
4. “France's ridiculous burqa-ban went into effect with overwhelming popular support.”
5. European Islamophobia is so lethal because of its broad appeal all across the political spectrum from far left to far right irrespective of class or educational level.
6. Never before have so many fiercely committed Islamophobics been so close to the levers of power in so many Western European Nations.
7. Islamophobia is solidly mainstream because there is no politically correct taboo against it as there is with overt racism or other strains of xenophobia.
8. European Islamophobia serves the purpose of those who have long sought to slow immigration, keep Muslim Turkey out of the European Union and secure a luke warm White Christian Europe.
9. Fortunately for Muslims not every European country has anti-Mulsim parties as successful as Islamophobia's Dutch Freedom Party and the Danish People's Party which put the clash of cultures and the Islamic menace at the center of their programs.
10. Various polls indicate that Germany has a 59% negative opinion of Muslims.
11. Geert Wilder leads the Dutch Freedom Party which doubled its numbers last year to 16% of the electorate. His party pledges to stop the Islamization of the Netherlands, and tax women wearing head scarves.
12. The Danish People's Party (DPP) has one leading M.P. who likens the Muslim Women's hijab head scarf to the Nazi Swastika.
13. This DDP is the third largest party in Denmark and its guiding light is Pia Kjorsgaard who has stated that Danish towns will be populated by people who are at a lower stage of Civilization.
14. Centrist Parties in both Denmark and the Netherlands perpetuate prejudice and state that forced marriage is the rule in Muslim European families which is not true.
15. Even in EU countries that do not have growing anti-Muslim parties, Islamophobic sentiment is potent.
16. “In Germany…one survey after another attests the widening hostility directed at the Muslim population and Islam in general.”
17. “One recent study showed 58% of Germans in favor of restricting religious freedom for Muslims.”
18. 75% of those in East Germany where the Muslim population is negligible, favor restricting religious freedom for women.
19. Surveys show that attitudes against Muslims have become more pronounced in middle and upper classes and among Germans with higher education.
20. Surveys reveal that anti-Muslim feelings are far stronger than homophobia, classic racism, sexism or anti-Semitism.
21. The mainstreaming of Islamophobia would have been inconceivable without the post 9/11 anti-Muslim discourse in European media.
22. Alarmingly, ubiquitous Islamophobic websites like Germany's Bergerbewegung Pax Europea and Politically Incorrect have tens of thousands of visitors a day.
23. A large number of the leaders who have prepared the way in the anti-Muslim movement have roots in progressive politics.
24. The late Italian writer of best-selling books, Oriana Fallaci, was hugely influential. Her books insisted that Islam is a thoroughly violent screed striving for world domination. “This former antifascist partisan and left wing journalist once likened the Qur'an to Hitler's Mein Kamph.”
25. The French writer and activist Bernard-Henri Levy stated that the veil is an invitation to rape.
26. Other influential fervently anti-Islamic thinkers are British novelist and former New Statement editor, Martin Amis, Dutch intellectual and labor party member, Paul Scheffer, and in Germany such figures as Ralph Giordano, Necla Kelek, Alice Scwarzar and Henryk Broder.
27. Broder is the mother of Germany's feminist movement. She denounces Islam as misogynistic and misanthropic, accusing it- and those who defend it- of betraying the universality of human rights.
28. It was not right-wingers who passed the two burqa bans in Belgium but it was liberal and mainstream conservatives backed by the left.
29. Thilo Sarrazin, a mainstream German politician published his book “Germany Does Away with itself.” The book argues that because of the higher birth rate of Muslim immigrants they will soon outnumber indigenous Germans. “His book” explicitly mixes race into the blend, arguing that “Muslim genes are somehow inferior to German ones.” (This is somewhat similar to what the American Christian, Franklin Graham does.)
30. Though Islamophobia has prominent representatives who are hostile to Islam there are also those who speak out for tolerance.
31. “Austria's Freedom Party, the Flemish Vleams Blok and France's National Front have renewed their fortunes by adopting Isalmophobia.”
32. “Of all the specters haunting Europe, none are as potent- or potentially disruptive to Democracy as Islamphobia.”

Where Will The Destructive Islamophobia Disease In Europe End?

I have selected these hopefully representative observations from this Berlin writer for The Nation, Paul Hockonos, in order to make the point that Islamophobia in Europe has gathered destructive potential like a runaway freight train that is totally out of control. Though it is causing great damage to Muslims, yet numerous influential negative oriented European spokepersons are virtually breaking their own arms in order to frantically fan the flames of bigotry and racial hatred toward a Muslim people whom GOD loves.

Though I am one of the only persons exclusively focusing on this one solution of more of an emphasis in Islam on understanding al-Imran 3:55 so that Islam possesses the true Risen Messiah, I will continue to do so until my now thirteen year old cow heart valve gives out or I die on the operating table attempting to replace it with a new one.

Yes- One verse in the Qur'an, and only one verse in the Qur'an I say, and not in the Bible, is the main solution for rampant Islamophobia. This one verse can be like train brakes. When they suddenly are applied in the destructive runaway freight train the brakes will to be able to bring the runaway train under control.

Currently, all of Islam takes great pride in radically going against what this one verse, Al-Im'ran 3:55, actually reveals that ALLAH teaches. But Mid-East Arab Islam will progressively come to its senses and embrace the enlightened fact that ALLAH- The Creator of the Universe- speaks the truth in Al-Im'ran 3:55. He is truly not lying about the Messiah's dying and being raised alive by Himself. Then His Messiah's presence and the Qur'an's Risen Messiah's presence will soon be recognized as being in Mosque after Mosque throughout the entire world. When this joyously occurs, lethal Islamophia will be shot down in blazing defeat. But also the poisonous conspiracy of many Muslim leaders and even Rulers of Middle East Muslim nations to cancel and hide ALLAH's proclamation in Al-Im'ran 3:55 of Him raising His Messiah up alive to be present with Muslims, will emerge from darkness to wonderful radiant light. Why? Because the Qur'an's Risen Messiah will be dwelling with His Compassion in both the hearts of Muslims and in Muslim Mosques. When Muslims everywhere decisively embrace the Qur'an's own Risen Messiah revealed by ALLAH in Al-Im'ran 3:55, western Europe will be able to make a refreshing transition in the opposite destructive direction of its current lethal Islamophobia and even a future potential Civil War will be avoided.