Franklin Graham's Imitation of a Seven Year Old Girl

The little girl was racing toward the goal, expertly controlling the football (soccer ball). It was almost certain that she would score a goal! But suddenly there was another seven year old who could run even faster. With great skill the second girl took the ball away from her own teammate and scored the goal herself.

I could have been embarrassed that my then seven year old granddaughter showed such immature sportsmanship. But now as a much more mature nine year old, she demonstrates tremendous growth in her maturity level.

But what is the observing world to think when one of the supposedly mature Christian leaders of the U.S., Franklin Graham, appears to publicly practice his Christianity similarly to the insensitive manner that my now lovely nine year old granddaughter once played soccer/football when she was only seven.

This paper is obviously not a scholarly thesis. Nevertheless, I believe its insights contain a spiritually accurate approximation of GOD's perspective and view of His now Risen Messiah that will be helpful to both sincere Muslims and equally sincere Christians.

Hopefully, it will aid each group to compassionately focus on ALLAH's perception of how truth about His now Risen Messiah contained in both the Holy Qur'an and the Injeel/New Testament relate to both Muslims and Christians doing ALLAH's Will as we seek to enter the gate of Paradise.

The original impetus for this paper came from a mid-May 2010 Newsweek interview with Mr. Graham when he appeared offended by being abruptly uninvited from the, more or less Christian, Presidential Prayer Breakfast, strangely being held this year at the U.S. Pentagon military headquarters.

The interviewer, Mr. Jon Meecham of Newsweek, appeared to find difficulty being sympathetic to Mr. Graham's potentially rigid Christian views.

Mr. Graham leaves no doubt that in his view Muhammad offers absolutely no hope for Muslims ever reaching their desired final destination of Paradise. Sadly, he holds this dogmatic view despite his apparent limited knowledge of the full teaching of the entire Qur'an.

For instance, at this point in time there is very limited awareness among both Muslim and Christian scholars of an exciting breakthrough in understanding of the Qur'an's teaching about its own Risen Messiah. That is, a quite demonstrable case can be made from the very pages of the present existing Holy Qur'an that the Qur'an repeatedly exalts and highly honors ALLAH's Risen Messiah far beyond the often repeated phrase by some somewhat defensive Muslims that the Qur'an's Messiah is no more than one prophet among many prophets.

Yet the Qur'an even affirms the Messiah's temporary death that occurred before he was raised up by ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and His Eternal Might. But it is only one verse out of thousands of verses in the entire Qur'an which initially appears to deny his death. But even when the understanding of that particular verse is allowed to break loose from a superficial, simplistic, quite literal understanding of the verse's wording. It too will be definitely understood to confirm the Messiah's death with the following verse strongly affirming his being raised by ALLAH after having temporarily died.

Significantly, this following resurrection verse emphasized that it was by means of ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and His Eternal Might that ALLAH raised His Messiah to Himself (An-Nisa 4:157,158).

The eye catching title of the Newsweek interview was an ominous eternal warning to our Muslim friends about their own revered leader, the Prophet Muhammad, which abruptly stated in all capital letters in vivid red and black print:

"MUHAMMAD ONLY LEADS TO THE GRAVE"

There could be little question from his replies to the interviewer that Mr. Graham appeared to have a personal distaste for the founder of Islam. Yet, this Prophet is revered by virtually each member of the entire world-wide Islamic Community. Nevertheless, despite this Prophet's great respect among Muslims, very few Muslims or Christians are actually aware that the Qur'an's Al-Imran succinctly confirms the often disputed fact that the Qur'an's Messiah definitely died and was just as definitely raised by ALLAH to new life.

"And when ALLAH said, 'O Isa/Jesus I will cause you to die (mutawafiik) and raise you to Myself…'" Al-Imran 3:55

So this powerful declaration by ALLAH Himself not only confirms and emphasizes that the Holy Qur'an itself teaches the death and resurrection of the Holy Qur'an's Messiah. But this one vitally important verse also accomplishes something else that is of great significance.

It establishes once and for all that when the Qur'an's controversial combination of An-Nisa 4:157 and 158, which Muslims everywhere use to unanimously and destructively deny both ALLAH's Messiah's death and world impacting resurrection, that double denial is not what these two profound verses actually do when they are understood at a non-superficial level. Therefore, it also axiomatically follows that ALLAH's now living Messiah's Spiritual presence is now among Muslims for each Muslim to enjoy the benefits of having meaningful fellowship with him that it is ALLAH's will that each Muslim enjoy.

That is, these two verses, when understood properly, definitely confirm ALLAH's proclamation in Al-Imran 3:55—that the Messiah definitely died and was definitely also raised up by ALLAH.

So we can bury Mr. Graham and other Christian spokespersons' negative absolutism that the Prophet Muhammad is only "leading Muslims to the grave". Because according to the Qur'an that is in millions and millions of homes, Mosques, office buildings, and hotels, that the Qur'an, especially when read in Arabic, definitely reveals a Risen, accessible Messiah who desires to embrace Muslims and welcome them into Paradise.

However, at this present time, amazingly and tragically the vast majority of both Muslims and Christians are not aware of the Holy Qur'an's wonderful confirmation of these three (4:157, 158 and 3:55) verses that reveal two history impacting, very relevant watershed events. They explicitly reveal that the Qur'an's Messiah's death and resurrection are absolute facts in the Holy Qur'an.

Even more bizarre and sad is the fact that both Muslim and Christian thinkers and leaders are not concerned about connecting the society and world impacting dots from the Qur'an's teaching that will allow the compassionate Risen Messiah to enter the hearts, homes, and Mosques of ALLAH's beloved Muslims.

Leaders of both the two main monotheistic religions of Islam and Christianity don't sense the obvious value in a partial reconciliation between these two great religions. In their apparent limited view, U.S. leaders think of the upheaval it could introduce to the already fragile U.S. economy if there were a less pressing need for the momentum that war provides for supporting our pervasive militarized society and its massive Military Industrial Complex.

Fewer tensions between the two religions could also mean less income and less employment for the now still rapidly expanding Military Terror Complex quietly discussed in a 2009 interview with General Colin Powell which was much later publicly referred to by Keith Olberman of MSNBC.

Regarding Mr. Graham's apparent conviction that he now knows all he needs to know about the Qur'an and Islam in order to justify his dogmatism, I will remind each of us of this truism that may relate to Mr. Graham, "A certain person may appear to be a fool. But when he opens his mouth he removes all doubt."

I personally am convinced that you, Mr. Graham, are sincerely dedicated to your Risen Messiah who is thoroughly revealed in the New Testament/Injeel. But you apparently have no clue about what the Sovereign Creator of heaven and earth has quietly revealed in the Qur'an. He has made certain that His only Messiah can be read about in many languages in the Qur'an throughout many, many nations of the world. And to an amazing extent the Messiah's amazing power can be read about in the Qur'ans pages.

But sadly, you possess an unwavering commitment to discredit anything remotely positive that is related to the Prophet Muhammad, such as his having led tens of thousands of Arabs from polytheism to the belief in and worship of One GOD.

Al-Qur'an's Amazing Account of ALLAH's Mighty Isa Al-Masiah

Additionally, your negative and even hostile attitude about the Qur'an and Islam is disheartening. It appears, that due to your highly negative mind set you could read and reread, and even study the positive paper on this website (www.ALQASAS.net) entitled: "Al-Qur'an's Amazing Account of ALLAH's Mighty Isa Al-Masiah," and still only find fault and see nothing to praise GOD about in the Qur'an's many enlightening verses about the Messiah. Most probably Mr. Graham, you would only be preoccupied with counterproductive, obstructionist ways to minimize and find fault with all the Messiah glorifying verses in the Qur'an that truly point to ALLAH's only Messiah. But you would have only potential disdain for it's not being so explicit as the statement of John the Baptist/Yahya when he states, "Behold the Lamb of GOD who takes away the sin of the world." But the Qur'an does come amazingly close to such a statement, but probably not close enough for your rigid lens.

Yes, it is obvious that you prefer not to share breakfast with Muslims at a leadership Christian prayer breakfast in the cherished Pentagon. But it also regretfully appears that you would only be willing to share GOD's Messiah with Muslims only if you could share with them on your terms using your approved vocabulary.

But I will add to these considerations this observation: It appears to be mainly due to resistant Muslim leaders unyielding commitment to refuse to reconsider what I am 100% convinced is the wrong understanding of the true meaning of the two profound Qur'an verses that are thought to cancel five other verses about the Messiah's death and his resurrection from death: An-Nisa 4:157 and 4:158.

The vast majority of Muslims do not yet realize a fact that is of overwhelming importance to all Muslims and especially to the welfare of Muslim women and girls. What is also of extreme relevance is the fact that the vast majority of Christian theological and political leaders are virtually unanimously disinterested in whether the Qur'an actually exalts the Risen Messiah of the New Testament to the extent that the Qur'an definitely does. They seem to think this fact is irrelevant which I have found that it definitely is not. After studying this issue for 33 years, I have come to this shocking but relevant conclusion:

There is a quite legitimate alternate explanation for understanding the meaning of these two verses which are constantly used by all Muslims to deny the death and resurrection of GOD's Messiah. And quite possibly this alternative more reasonable explanation is more expedient and necessary in order to bring peace and more stability to the predominantly Muslim Middle East as is a resolution to the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict and debacle.

Even though I am convinced that understanding these two verses more logically allows the most potential for long term healing of Middle East instability, I am possibly the only person in addition to GOD who sees the potential solution in this way. But, silly as it sounds, GOD plus one is an absolute majority.

Also, I am quite possibly the only person in the world who has isolated these two profound, key verses and has given their relevance the daily prayer and consideration their relevance deserves.

Additionally, I am virtually certain that I am the only Christian for whom GOD went to a great amount of trouble in order to make special arrangements for me to discuss the significance of these two strategic verses with five to seven retired Generals in Saudi Arabia. These special meetings occurred over a four to five week period in Riyadh. But I have been an absolute failure up to this point in time to influence any VIP Saudi or VIP American official to connect the dots and see this missing link. Because understanding these key Qur'anic verses correctly directly relates to the potential future peace in the M.E. and also is a key to stopping the U.S. Government from being so heavily biased in favor of Israel over Muslims.

According to Muslim and Christian VIP's the lack of acceptance by Islam of the Risen Messiah's death and of ALLAH subsequently raising him up alive, has no particular significance or relevance to anything but is only an irrelevant theological perspective.

I will remind students of history that one key man coming to a decisive conclusion about the credibility of Christ's death and resurrection gave him an inner motivation that was the deciding turning point in the recalcitrant's British government's money making slave trade. They were finally persuaded by this one courageous, persistent, spiritual man, William Wilberforce, to finally halt the economically entrenched, despicable, inhumane but politically powerful, evil British slave trade.

But the regrettable reality in the U.S. is that no individual without connections is able to get any VIPs attention unless he is attempting something destructive, not something constructive. The major current exception seems to be the now famous author of "Three Cups of Tea." This popular book is about building badly needed schools for young girls in Afghanistan. So this author was definitely effective in getting a multitude of the right peoples' attention to help modify the military emphasis in Afghanistan. But usually it takes some kind of bomber or murderer or some type of intoxicated celebrity or financial criminal to get the public's attention.

Few Christians realize this very strategic and relevant fact. That there is overwhelming evidence that these two verses and other of the Qur'an's verses that point to the fact that ALLAH's Messiah was raised from temporary death to new life by the Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might of ALLAH (An-Nisa 4:157 and 158).

(Significantly, ALLAH is the word which is used for GOD in the current Arabic language Bible. Consequently, in my writing, I use the Arabic word ALLAH and the English word GOD interchangeably as well as using the English name Jesus and the Qur'an's term Isa interchangeably.)

Many who may be skeptical of my assertion that many of the Holy Qur'an's own verses offer a consistent testimony to the temporary death and then being raised alive of ALLAH's own Messiah. For his portrayal in the Qur'an, I refer you to my own documentation of these wonderful verses contained in my previously mentioned Website paper entitled: "AL –Qur'an's Own Amazing Account of ALLAH's Mighty Isa al-Masiah."

I also find it of no small significance that the title Messiah, the title Christ and the verb anointed each have essentially the same meaning and the same strong force. And that meaning and force is that ALLAH/GOD Himself anointed Isa/Jesus to be His only Messiah who would ultimately preside over His Eternal Kingdom.

To confirm the supreme significance of the Qur'an giving to Isa, GOD's only Messiah, His only Christ, the Qur'an awards the honored title of Messiah/Masiah to Isa eleven (11) separate times.

And when the term that means anointed is used in the Holy Qur'an eleven times, it denotes each time the same type of official anointing ceremony by ALLAH that officially occurs in any society when a king is officially anointed to be king over a kingdom. Therefore, it is reasonable to understand that the Qur'an reveals that ALLAH specifically anointed Isa to be His anointed Messiah, anointed Christ in Greek, in order to preside with ALLAH's blessing and authority over His spiritual Kingdom.

So my emphatic point is, no matter what one Franklin Graham would desire to prevent, or whether 10,000 Franklin Grahams would protest that this could not occur, it can and will occur. That is, when any Muslim will embrace from his heart ALLAH's only anointed Messiah and sincerely pledge to him his loyalty and to honor him as his Risen Messiah, even though his knowledge about his Risen Messiah is revealed less thoroughly in the Holy Qur'an than in the Injeel/New Testament, the Risen Messiah has ALLAH's authority to personally welcome that Muslim person into his eternal Kingdom. And that eternal Kingdom may be known as heaven, paradise, the Hereafter, or only the Kingdom or some other name like the Kingdom of the Risen Messiah or the Kingdom of the Risen Christ.

And this being welcomed into this afterlife remains the exciting reality whether or not the Pharisee, Franklin Graham, approves of that man or woman's welcome into GOD's eternal Kingdom or even if a seminary professor would attempt to chain the gate to prevent Muslims from entering that spiritual Kingdom and to erect a distasteful notice over the gate, "NO MUSLIMS ALLOWED". It it is definitely GOD who determines who enters His Anointed's Kingdom, and not Franklin Graham or theologians who make that determination even though the May 2010 Newsweek appears to report that it is Franklin Graham who has the unique authority to make that determination.

One Line Shocker for Dying Robber

Man exalts power and control and, in contrast, man often has no respect for principal or truth. ALLAH's now living Bethlehem man respects simplicity, humility, compassion, care for others, love, rescue and faithfulness vastly more than he values power. Therefore, he tenderly desires us to continue to hold on to him as he holds on to us. This is similar to how a vine nourishes a branch so that the branch will finally bear delicious fruit if it does not initiate breaking itself off from the vine.

Now we will have the privilege to observe a very personal encounter between the dying Messiah and the dying criminal being executed next to him. And the Messiah's tender compassion and authority may surprise us all as well as bring us renewed hope.

There were two criminals being executed on two Roman execution posts, one on each side of the now dying Messiah. For a while these two convicted criminals had both joined with the hostile priests in hurling malicious insults at GOD's only Messiah. They repeatedly both said quite ugly things about him like the priests were saying. (Please see Zabur/Psalm 22.)

Then, as the minutes and the hours slowly ticked away, and all three men were in terrible agony, one of the two criminals began to do some serious thinking. He said to himself as he hung there beside the Messiah with the large nails in his own hands and his feet causing him so much pain that he had difficulty thinking straight. But he was able to say to himself:

"Wait a damn minute!" calling himself by his own name, "Why am I being so damn stupid? Me and my robber buddy are both hanging up here because we are both guilty criminals and the Romans caught us, so they are making a damn example of us. But we were playing with fire and we got caught. So here we are dying for our own crimes. But this man dying next to us that the furious priests keep accusing him of thinking GOD has made him a king or Messiah or a special son of god, he hasn't done a damn thing wrong. Yet, he too is suffering and dying just like the two of us. So whether I'm a robber or not, I'm a good Jew and I'm not like one of these evil priests who believe there is not a GOD who right now is watching what these hateful, jealous priests have forced the Romans to do to this innocent man. And since these damn priests are so worried about him being a Messiah or a King, then damn it, he must be both.

So, since there is a GOD, and I damn well know there is, that GOD is going to somehow, some day show these damn, hate filled Priests that they murdered the wrong guy. So GOD is some way going to make it right for this Messiah-King and give him his own Kingdom. And when GOD does, I want him to remember that I died right beside him, and that I stopped being against him like these damn priests and like my hate filled criminal buddy still is. And I already told my partner in crime that he was damn wrong for giving this Messiah man such a hard time because he's damn well innocent. And I know he's innocent. My criminal buddy knows he's innocent. And even the damn priests know he's innocent. But I'm the only one who's got the guts to publicly admit that he's innocent. So right now I am going to stop being so damn stupid like my stupid self-righteous buddy and those hypocrite jealous priests.

So right at that moment, with agonizing effort, the onetime criminal turned his face toward the innocent man who he now wanted to be his Lord, his Messiah and his King. And he wanted to follow him the remaining hours or minutes that he had to live. So he spoke this respectful request to him from his heart with the little energy that he had left, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom."

The compassionate reply that his sun scorched ears heard from this dying man were much more than he ever could have hoped for.

"Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise."

Now please observe some basic facts, Mr. Graham. May it sink into all of our hearts what our suffering Lord who was also the criminal's suffering Lord, replied to this humble criminal who only minutes before rebuked his own partner in crime for continuing to maliciously attack with his tongue the innocent Messiah. (And as we consider the Messiah's gracious reply to this criminal who called him Lord out of respect, we must remember that each of us in one way or another have ourselves acted criminally and also have broken GOD's law).

When the Messiah's reply to this criminal was: "Assuredly I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise," it blew the criminal's mind. The Messiah's loving reply was totally unexpected. So the following are a few relevant facts for dogmatists and absolutists about who does get into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Fact One: The robber entered the Kingdom of Heaven even though he had no knowledge about whether the Messiah was or was not the Son of God.

Fact Two: He entered the Kingdom of Heaven though he did not have the slightest idea about anything like a trinity.

Fact Three: He was not required to be baptized and probably would not have been baptized even if water had been available.

Fact Four: He had never heard of the Catholic Church or its infallible Pope and had no opportunity to take Holy Communion administered by an unmarried Catholic Priest before he died.

Fact Five: Though he had none of the prerequisites that some self-appointed authorities insist that a person must fulfill before being admitted to Paradise, the most tested, innocent person who has ever lived and who himself would be raised by ALLAH from the dead three days later, assured this humble robber that the two of them would soon be together in Paradise.

Therefore, since this unlikely robber was promised Paradise from the Messiah whom ALLAH would soon raise from death, how can you be so dogmatic, Mr. Graham, that nothing that is in the Qur'an could help a Muslim avoid an eternal grave and reach Paradise. So please, Mr. Graham, without knowing more facts about what the Qur'an reveals about GOD's only Risen Messiah, don't you dare condemn 1.5 Billion Muslims to an eternity without hope. Don't you dare think that you are the final authority to proclaim that there is not enough truth in the Qur'an about the Risen Messiah for a Muslim to embrace in order to have the Messiah welcome him to Paradise? Especially when many verses in the Qur'an are understood more correctly, there will be even more light for Muslims to respond to about the Messiah and the help that the now living Messiah will be to women so that the Qur'an itself will empower many, many, many Muslims to fiercely love ALLAH's only Messiah so much that they will assuredly be with him. This is similar to how the thief is already with him, as are many, many Messiah honoring Muslims who are also now with him.

Comparing Mr. Graham to a Speedy Seven Year Old

I believe it will now be enlightening to make additional comparisons between this supposedly mature Christian leader with my very speedy grand-daughter when she was only seven. When she played on her soccer/football team there was one main thing that she concentrated upon. She wanted to be the player who kicked the ball into the net. But at that young age she did not yet realize that she was supposed to be nice to her teammates.

It did not occur to her that when her teammate was running down the field controlling the ball and heading toward the net, that it was not right that she should use her superior speed to take the ball away from her teammate and score the goal herself. Also, she did not understand the basics of teamwork, and that there are times when you should even pass the ball.

Now we will move from one seven year olds' soccer game to a supposedly mature adult leader's Christianity. Yes, the eternal GOD must be pleased that Franklin Graham possesses such an unwavering commitment to His only Risen Messiah and boldly speaks about him constantly. So let's return to that one very foundational dark day outside Jerusalem that was such a profound day that it is difficult to fully explain what actually occurred.

For instance, why did the Almighty God allow his obviously totally innocent Messiah to be murdered by such obviously misguided religious leaders who had such venomous hate for him? So what did his death at their wicked hands have to do with man's forgiveness?

At least part of the reason God allowed His Messiah to be murdered by hateful men was to help us all recognize their political power but still see their need of forgiveness for hating him and murdering him. So we are all able to learn from his love for those who treated him as an enemy and from his forgiveness of them.

Thus, we realize that we all need GOD's forgiveness for the way that we both sin against God and also sin against each other. In one way or another, we all injure our fellow human being, our brother or sister so that we each are in need of forgiveness.

So I expect, Mr. Graham, that you more than most, intellectually grasp the whole concept of forgiveness. And you must certainly, from all of your experience and study, understand forgiveness at a deeper level than the dying criminal did. Yet, wonderfully, he also received forgiveness from the Messiah just as you say that you have.

But remarkably, when he received his welcome to Paradise, we don't know that this convict had ever had the concept of forgiveness mentioned to him. But somehow this hardened criminal's heart grasped the forgiveness he had received the moment that he had been assured from the dying Messiah himself of the eternal fellowship of his presence that he would forever enjoy with the compassionate Messiah in His Kingdom.

Therefore, has anyone mentioned to you, Mr. Graham, that if you truly want Muslims to spend eternity in heaven like you say that you do, and are so certain that you will, have you thought of the possibility that there may be a more effective way to communicate your love and the Messiah's love to Muslims than the way you appear not to do?

Is aggressively and consistently slandering their courageous, revered Prophet, who consistently endangered his own life to lead thousands of Arabs [who at that time worshipped multiple gods] to change over and worship and serve the only One True ALLAH? Do you really think that GOD and His Risen Messiah actually approve of the way that you consistently slander their beloved Prophet whenever you think that they are not noticing what you are publicly saying about them and their Prophet? And they obviously are quite aware that you do not have a charitable or forgiving attitude toward him. But they are hearing you and are reading your negative press releases. And be assured that they are deeply resenting your words and your consistently superior attitude.

Hopefully they are dismissing your words as the words of a self-righteous, wild eyed, misinformed, unloving hypocrite. And hopefully, they realize that the Messiah that you want them to embrace is nothing like you.

But that is enough of comparing your lack of maturity with the maturity level of my super competitive seven year old granddaughter, who is now nine years old and much more mature. But I do hope that she now has the maturity to forgive her grandfather for making this comparison with your apparent reckless comments about the Prophet Muhammad and about Islam.

But just as earnestly, I hope that you, Mr. Graham, now realize this very significant reality. That you don't know nearly as much about either the Prophet Muhammad, Islam or the positive revelation of the Risen Messiah contained in the Holy Qur'an that you assume that you know so well.

So Mr. Graham, we will now return again to the perspective of the dying criminal to see what more we can learn from his intense experience. What was going on in this man's mind as he was observing firsthand the hateful rage being flung by the Jewish establishment at the man who had dared to challenge their spectacular callousness toward God and man?

Why had this thief made his sincere request to be remembered when this dying innocent man dying next to him received his Kingdom? First of all he knew from the deepest part of his inner being that this man in the middle was totally innocent, while he himself was guilty. Though he knew he was guilty of probably multiple robberies, he had not stopped being a thinker. As a thinker and an observer, he realized that there were unjust, blasphemous, and false accusations that were being shouted at the Messiah from jealous, hateful priests.

But the thief knew that this did not mean that those priests had the remotest idea about their charges against him. But the issue that the thief often heard them return to as they mercilessly taunted him was his receiving a Kingdom. And what was emphasized on the sign nailed above his head was the fact that he was a King. And it was his inevitable coming Kingdom that the dying robber could not get out of his head. For he observed that he truly carried himself with the bearing of a King.

In contrast, the priests down below carried themselves like enraged, irreligious, frightened, hateful men. In fact, they were acting quite similar to a wild pack of dogs (Please see Psalm 22:16) as they surrounded him. Significantly, is that the way, Mr. Graham, that Muslims see certain Christian leaders behaving as Christians hostilely surround Muslims like a pack of dogs?

Should we not desire Muslims to see uourselves possess the Messiah's tolerance, compassion, and love that he showed to those who were his temporary enemies? For truly, Mr. Graham, assuming that you will reach Paradise, you will be overwhelmed with the vast number of Muslims who will be there whom you had assumed would be rejected by the compassionate Messiah. And from knowing many Muslims, I believe that the Muslims you meet there will be very impressive in the way that they will forgive many Christians including yourself who have often been less than loving and forgiving towards both them and their beloved prophet.

And please, Mr. Graham, try not to tempt Muslims to avoid the Messiah's Kingdom because they may fear being in a place where you and judgmental people like you may be. May the Messiah bring his healing and forgiveness both to you and to me.