There must not only be a call for an ISLAMIC REVOLUTION but there must be an ISLAMIC REVOLUTION. With compelling new evidence that one key verse in the Quran actually does authoritatively reveal and proclaim that ALLAH’s MESSIAH did not deceive the forefathers of today’s Zionism but instead totally defeated them, this stands all current and even past Islamic theory of revolution on its head and renders it obsolete. If the Umma (The Universal Islamic Community) is to be a people of faith without being involved in radical hypocrisy, they are compelled to factor in to the foundation of their faith and belief a whole new dynamic reality. That is, the Umma has an accountability to ALLAH, which now includes the firm knowledge that it is His Will that His strong, courageous and wise Messiah has more authority than all of the Kings and Presidents and Islamic theorists of this world combined. When the nations of this world unite and call themselves the “United Nations,” their combined authority is as dust on the scales compared to the authority the ALMIGHTY has bestowed on His Triumphant, Risen Messiah. As the previous Scriptures which the Quran emphatically confirms emphatically state:

“He is King of kings.”

(A note of caution my brothers and sisters. Please do not allow those outside of Islam or those inside of Islam to divert your attention away from the significant authority ALLAH has given His Risen Messiah. Some sincere individuals may try to take you down a crooked path of theological debates concerning words about what you should call ALLAH’s Loving, Living, Triumphant, Risen Messiah. Some from outside Islam will say that if you do not recognize him as the son of ALLAH you are a hypocrite. Others from within Islam will say that if you do recognize him as the son of ALLAH you are a hypocrite.

Please encourage persons who want to argue about such issues to go into a locked, soundproof small room together and argue among themselves after they have been eating tons of garlic. Please do not let your new recognition of what ALLAH has accomplished through His Messiah and the authority He has given to him become a matter to argue about.)

Do be aware that because of the Messiah’s integrity, ALLAH has anointed him as His Authority to Judge the Nations about all things on which they differ. He will also judge individuals and nations according to how they have treated him, which will be measured by the compassion they have either shown or not shown to suffering, oppressed people. Because in a mysterious way, when people suffer, the Messiah suffers with them. Consequently, when we treat suffering people with kindness, we treat ALLAH’s Messiah with kindness. Conversely, when we ill-treat the suffering, we ill-treat the Messiah and ALLAH is watching. This is irrespective of these peoples’ religion, their nationalities or their economic status. For the Messiah emphatically taught that when we show our mercy to the suffering we are showing our mercy to him.

In light of the strong evidence that ALLAH has given His Messiah much more authority than the vast majority of Islam now acknowledges, Islam is forced to choose between being a community of faith and fidelity or a community of hypocrisy. For the Messiah of the Quran who is the Messiah of the previous scriptures is not a deceptive Messiah who was involved in a mind game conspiracy where people thought they saw him when they did not see him. Rather, he is a victorious Messiah who defeated a cruel Roman cross, defeated death, defeated the forefathers of the current Zionists, and defeated representatives of the world’s most mighty empire as well as defeating a sealed tomb. Also He will most certainly defeat the current militarism of the arrogant, self-assured U.S. at the time of His choosing.

If the evidence for these facts being true is much stronger than the evidence for them not being true, then Osama Bin Laden and every other Muslim must choose between being an absolute hypocrite or a person of faith and fidelity. They will be hypocrites and guilty before ALLAH of gross hypocrisy if they do not realign their lives, their minds, their hearts, their values and their goals to the reality of their accountability to ALLAH based on the dynamic and relevant authority He has given to His Risen Messiah.

Incidentally, sincere Muslims might want to also throw in a sincere apology to ALLAH for the radical way that they have devalued His gift to them of a worthy, valuable Messiah. Regretfully, up to now they have thought that the Quran is teaching them that ALLAH gave them a cheap imitation of a Messiah who relied on deception to save his skin.

Of course, if the majority of the assertions I have made in this essay and in the other papers on my web site are not credible, I am to be pitied as a misguided revolutionary theorists and all of my writing should be totally ignored. If the majority of my thoughts are not valid, perhaps I should even be eliminated from this earth for making such strong assertions that Muslims must change their minds about the authority ALLAH has given His Messiah.

You know, I even stand by how wrong I think my own President Bush has been in his decisions, his biases and his values. However, I am perfectly willing for the future to reveal that I am wrong or that I have exaggerated concerning the evil potential of the person of who I view as the poisonous thorn Bush.

But, regarding my assertions concerning the fact that Isa did die and did rise and that An Nisa 4:156 and 157, should be interpreted so as to confirm that he did die and did rise, I would gladly give my life. In fact, I would consider it my duty to volunteer to go to what is known by Westerners as “Chop, Chop Square” in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. There I would and have a sincere Muslim publicly separate my head from the rest of my body with a sharp sword. This is what I would willingly do if it were proven to my satisfaction that my assertion about the Messiah having died and then risen, is not true.

So Muslims, individually and collectively, I plead with you not to be hypocrites. Rather, as soon as possible choose to be part of a peaceful, wonderful, exciting, fulfilling, dynamic, meaningful but potentially dangerous revolution which recognizes ALLAH’s Messiah as the Risen Messiah whom we can trust, and to whom we all will one day give account. So please recognize the vital importance of the following reality. The U.S. military is NOT the Risen Messiah who ALLAH so strongly desires all Muslims to embrace.

May ALLAH bless each and every Muslim. May you all remain true Muslims by being submitted to ALLAH. And as you walk in the Straight Path to which the Prophet Muhammad, (Peace be upon him) originally directed you, may you know your Risen Messiah is with you. May you also know that he has thought for many long years a thought similar to the following:

“I know that someday in ALLAH’s perfect time that it will be His Will that the wonderful Umma will recognize the true authority ALLAH has given to me as His Risen Messiah.”

This is where I planned to stop writing but my thoughts would not stop.

I have strongly suggested in my writing thus far, that sincere Muslims have greatly deviated from ALLAH’s plan for them. However, millions upon millions of Muslims can now correct this serious deviation by making one serious choice. Each Muslim can now choose to emulate the Prophet Muhammad by choosing to honor in his/her heart what the Prophet honored in his own heart but chose not to preach to others. I am personally convinced that there are exceptionally valid reasons why the Prophet did not consider it to be ALLAH’s Will that he should preach or share with others his own conviction about the true teaching of An Nisa 4:156 and 157. He knew that these important verses, when properly understood, emphatically teach that the Messiah did defeat the plans of the forefathers of Zionism and also did defeat death and also did defeat official representatives of the mighty Roman Empire.

The reason that he did not openly teach these truths was because he had valid reasons to not trust many of the Christians who lived near or among the new Muslims who were just beginning to gain momentum in their new belief in the Oneness of ALLAH. So if these Muslims began to believe something that was a main belief of the surrounding Christian Community, it would nullify the Muslims distinctiveness and multiply their chances of being wrongly influenced by a few wrong beliefs of the nearby Christians who were either misguided or ill instructed.

For instance, the unity of ALLAH was and is a vital truth which Islam emphasizes. Yet, there were thousands of Christian believers who were almost worshipping Isa’s mother Maryam mistakenly referring to her with the honored title of Mother of God or Mother of ALLAH. That may sound very harmless to the Western ear, accustomed as we are to hearing Catholic Christians using this venerable title today. But to the mind of the Prophet who had dedicated his life to persuading Muslims to worship the only ALLAH who has no partners and most certainly had no mother, this calling Maryam ALLAH’s mother represented a mortal danger to the new Islamic Community.

Here were Christians appearing to present ALLAH as a family affair, teaching that the only ALLAH has a mother. No! No! No! said the heart and mind of the Prophet Muhammad. There is no way I am going to preach a truth about the Messiah’s death and resurrection at this point in time which would expose these precious Muslims to what I consider to be polytheism. There is no way that Maryam, no matter how precious ALLAH considers her to be, is the mother of ALLAH. She is the mother of the Messiah who these sincere Christians consider to be the Spiritual son of ALLAH. But no matter what you believe about this, Maryam is not the mother of ALLAH. Therefore, this is not the time to emphasize this reality which is so important to Christians, that the Messiah Isa defeated the plans of certain Jews and even death itself.

Even though ALLAH’s Messiah accomplished theses wonderful victories, the Prophet did not consider that those truths had priority over the Oneness of ALLAH. The death and resurrection of the Messiah would be revealed at a later time. But then was not the time that he thought that ALLAH wanted this to be revealed. So the complex way that ALLAH had willed that the Quran had expressed these truths made certain that they would not be understood properly until ALLAH also willed that it was the right time. After all, even the Messiah himself had told his disciples that he had something important to tell them. But he quickly explained to them that they were not ready at that time for what he had to share, so he would tell them later.

So the Prophet decided not to even emphasize the eminence of the Messiah because he considered that there was enough evidence of his eminence and authority in the Quran and the Injeel, so that ALLAH would also emphasize this truth in His time. But there was virtually no chance at all that the Prophet did not realize that the verses before and the one verse after the verse about Isa not being killed, all indicate that this statement was symbolic. He knew that this verse was written the way it was for probably four reasons.

It was written in this complex way so that the new Islamic Community would not then understand its true meaning so that they would be protected from compromising the Oneness of ALLAH by too close a contact with those who did compromise that Oneness.

The verse was meant to psychological punish and ridicule the Jews for the shameful way that had maligned the character of the Messiah’s precious mother by implying that she was promiscuous.

The verse was meant to psychologically punish the Jews for the way they had blasphemously boasted about having murdered ALLAH’s own Anointed Messiah.

The verse was intended to humiliate and ridicule the Jews for miserably failing to accomplish their goals of permanently ending the Messiah’s life.

ALLAH knows all. In His Wisdom, at the proper time, He would reveal to all Muslims the vital and now very relevant truth of the Messiah’s death and resurrection and the exceptional authority he has received from ALLAH. Oh Muslims, now is that time for this revelation of the Messiah’s victory and his authority to be fully understood. With the idol of Western secularism, the idol of Western Materialism and especially the idol of U.S. Militarism each seriously threatening to absorb Muslims into a dangerous but subtle new type of polytheism, the Risen Messiah’s Authority and Leadership is desperately required. For the new polytheism of ALLAH, combined with the idol of godless secularism, greedy materialism, and destructive killer militarism, is most certainly polytheism. If the Prophet were living today, he would warn against this new polytheism and would struggle mightily to expose it and to destroy it.

Never before in the history of Islam has it been more important for Muslims to put aside difference and unite against this potentially lethal attack by Polytheism. So what is the first significant and most powerful step which Muslims must take to defeat this attack? Each Muslims must emulate that wonderful knowledge which was in the heart of the Prophet Muhammad but not strong on his lips because of the circumstances, that the Risen Messiah was and is more eminent than Muslims either realized then or now realize. But the Prophet did not reveal this wonderful information because of his great love for and overwhelming dedication to the Umma, the universal Islamic Community, which was his first priority. He simply refused to allow his prime purpose of preserving the Unity of ALLAH from those that could have and would have threatened that precious unity, to be diverted and ALLAH’s Oneness to be polluted.

On Muslims, now a whole new threat has presented itself which calls for the exact opposite solution of protecting Muslims from too much knowledge of the Messiah, which was required at the Prophet’s time. With America having been led into serious apostasy by its leaders, out nation enthusiastically but knowingly replaces ALLAH and His Risen Messiah with especially the idol of militarism which we so strongly want to worship on Middle Eastern soil, shoulder to shoulder with Muslims there. This shocking reality is blasphemous enough. However, the U.S. shamelessly prays to the idol of militarism that it will enable us with the assistance of Muslims to quickly kill and destroy certain of their Muslim brothers rather than to encourage Muslims to mediate with their deviating brothers. Our Idol of Militarism arrogantly insists that killing is a more enlightened form of communication than is reasoning with a brother in a dialogue where mutual respect is shown. But when we mention dialogue and mutual respect, our Militarism idol angrily stamps its feet and shouts at us that these words are only euphemisms for appeasement. Then the idol repeats once again that destruction and regime change and the killing by the stronger of the weaker is the only sure way to solve differences.

A superficial approach of seeing their concept of Democracy as the answer to all national ills has also became an idol to American leaders. So they blatantly attempt to manipulate Middle Eastern nations to also worship this idol against their will. These U.S. leaders are so simplistic and have such tunnel vision that they arrogantly think they have all the answers. Their motto appears to be: “Do not confuse us with facts because our mind is made up!” Consequently, they refuse to realize that premature democracy can definitely cause more problems for particular nations than it is able to solve.

Also, how can all Middle Eastern nations be so sold on democracy when the supposedly Democratic Israel is blatantly apartheid, exalts racism, openly practices injustice and has elected two recent psycho-tyrants, B.N., and A.S. to lead their nation. To give a strong lie to the false idol that Democracy is always superior under all circumstances, why did the people of Israel overwhelmingly choose the late King Hussein of Jordan as the most respected statesman in the World, when a poll asked them to name the statesmen they most respected. The Jordanian King soundly defeated all of Israel’s democratically elected leaders in this popularity poll taken in Israel.

Please hear my words, Oh Muslims of the Middle East. Time cannot be wasted. ALLAH has a plan that must be heeded. His Will is that His Risen Messiah who is now alive in ALLAH’s majestic presence must be unitedly embraced and honored by Muslims in an enthusiastic way that he has not been before and in a way that many no longer honor him in the West. Especially do our leaders not honor his words: “Those who live by the sword will die by the Sword.” Yes, now is the time for a serious and powerful Islamic Revolution. When the Revolution occurs it will be ALLAH’s way of saying:

“I am now using faithful Muslims to teach the arrogant U.S. leaders that My Messiah is precious and cannot be replaced with inhumane weapons. Therefore, I will severely abase those who seek to insult my sovereignty by trying to ignore the one whom I have given great eminence both in this world and in the next.

As for the sincere but misdirected Osama Bin Laden, because of his not realizing the authority ALLAH gave His Messiah, he also tries to force solutions without the Messiah’s wise guidance. Therefore, he has inadvertently created the very problems which he was trying to solve. That is, he and other Islamic Revolutionary Theorists have made some serious misjudgments in their Jihad against Polytheism, Apostasy, the Infidels, the iniquitous crusader movement, Zionism, and the Munafiqun (Hypocrites) who would all pollute this world. Especially do these entities pollute the Middle East with their idolatry. These Muslim idealistic theorists possessed a sincere desire to protect Islam and to fight these enemies of Islam and to bring all Arabs back to their Monotheistic Birthright. But, because of their lack of knowledge of the truth about the authority of the Risen Messiah, and because they viewed themselves as the ones to protect Islam, they inadvertently reshaped the straight Path of Islam into the curved Path of Islam. Then they used their new revised Islam as a pretext which supposedly made it necessary to kill several thousand innocent people at several different locations. But their killing of several thousand has aroused the Western Militarism idol to now be ready to kill tens of thousands of Muslims if not millions.

In his zeal to prevent human legislation form attempting to replace ALLAH’s legislation embodied in His Law, the Shari’a, Mr. Bin Laden and others inadvertently exalted ALLAH’s LAW above ALLAH. Thus, he took something as wonderful and glorious as the law and without realizing what he was actually doing, idolized the Shari’a thus turning the Shari’a, into an idol. Then, by worshipping the idol that he and others created, they became Munafiqun (Hypocrites) themselves. They were guilty of hypocrisy when they did not realize that by the idol they had created out of the Shari’a, they had reintroduced polytheism. Without realizing it, they had made the law, a partner to ALLAH. Worse yet, they compelled other Muslims who sincerely wanted to defeat all infidels, to join them in worshipping their perspective of ALLAH’s Law in addition to worshipping ALLAH.

Then, they also elevated the concept of Jihad which can be a noble duty in the right circumstances, to a level with ALLAH. So Jihad also became an idol to worship. Thus they created the subtle Trinity of ALLAH, The Shari’a and Jihad.

So those who so sincerely preach against idol worship subtly practice idol worship and even worship a Trinity. So they have reintroduced polytheism in the very land where the Prophet worked so faithfully to drive it out.

So those who accuse others of becoming apostate are themselves committing apostasy.

So those who represent themselves as trusted guardians of the faith are themselves committing infidelity by creating partners for ALLAH.

So those who claim to fight polytheism have themselves become polytheists.

None of this is to say that many of the issues these sincere Muslim Revolutionary Theorists and Revolutionary Idealists raise about the iniquitous nature of much of Western civilization is all without validity. However, ALLAH is One. To substitute something as significant as the Shari’a or as historical as Jihad, and to join them with ALLAH even under the exalted banner of emulating the Prophet or walking in the Path of the Prophet, is to subvert Islam. So it becomes a subtle but real attack on what it truly means to worship only ALLAH and to be submitted to only Him. To exalt the Shari’a and Jihad to the degree that certain extremists do is to renounce what Islam is: submission to ALLAH alone. A prayer similar to the following may be helpful for Muslims to sincerely pray.

Oh MERCIFUL, Oh ALMIGHTY ALLAH. We call on You to help us to allow Your Anointed, Risen Messiah to help lead us once again to Your Straight Path of Submission to only You. And please oh ALLAH! May we not even cling to the idols which some sincere Muslim brothers mistakenly create out of the Shari’a or create out of Jihad. But especially ALMIGHTY ALLAH, give us Your courage to free ourselves form the presumptuous Idol of militarism which seeks to kill and destroy Your people.

Summary – The Call From Above the Minaret

Islam is under threat! Muslims are under threat! The Umma is under threat! But the threat is not only from what has been labeled by Mr. Bin Laden as “the Hubal of this age, the U.S.” Rather, there is just as dangerous a threat from those who presumptuously label themselves as the true, True Believers of Islam.

It is vital to realize that a threat from within is much more difficult to detect than a threat from without. It is obvious that values and priorities streaming forth from the U.S. are a threat to Islam. But a threat from within Islam by those who present themselves as the true, True Believers and as the ones who are more sincerely walking in the Straight Path that the Prophet walked, is much more difficult to detect. In fact, a self proclaimed angel of light from within Islam can attract the reverence and esteem of multitudes without their realizing that they are honoring what is not considered honorable by the Prophet, or by Islam or by ALLAH.

Therefore, there are five great calls coming from ALALH Himself to the Umma to set aside every distraction and to struggle unitedly to defeat these five insidious threats to the Umma.

To expel the disproportionate influence on the Middle East from the idol of pervasive U.S. Militarism.

To recognize and unitedly struggle against the insidious threat from within Islam that is presented by those who would re-introduce polytheism to the Arab Peninsula by exalting Jihad and the Shari’a to the exalted level of Deity.

To unite together and open united eyes to realize that the powerful force of Islam is virtually standing idly by except for those Muslims who are randomly and counter productively murdering innocent people. This virtual idleness by Muslim leaders leaves the ominous task to the UN and the U.S. to decide how much destruction they will visit upon the predominantly Arab Muslim Middle East in order to eliminate potential weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It is ludicrous the Umma would by its inaction and complacency trust such a vital task of eliminating potential weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to those outsiders whose commitment to ALLAH is questionable. It is Saddam Hussein himself who is the obvious person to detect and to get rid of his own potential weapons of mass destruction.

For the Imam of every mosque in the world to not stir the faithful in their Mosque to beseech ALLAH to wake up Saddam Hussein to the great danger he is bringing to Islam with his apparent weapons program is a horrible crime of omission.

Muslim leaders of every type must urgently use every spiritual means, every psychological means, every conceivable plea, coercion, argument and manipulation to prevent this proud, apparently, unreasonable leader from virtually throwing open the doors of the entire mostly Muslim Middle East to mass destruction from the outside. Wake up United Umma and realize the mighty power you have! Beseech ALLAH day and night to lead you toward both united and individual action to communicate with Iraq and with Al Qaeda in every conceivable way to act immediately to prevent a potential cataclysmic disaster. Iraq and Al Qaeda must immediately stop taunting and baiting the U.S. to bring cataclysmic destruction to Islam in the Middle East.

Islam is called to unitedly wake up and use similar overwhelming pressure on those Palestinian radicals who open wide the door to Israel and the U.S. to slowly destroy Palestinians and to slowly expand Israel by their indiscriminate killing of Israeli civilians. But the pressure must also be accompanied by more practical coercion and pressure on the U.S. to stop our empowering of Israel by licking the blood covered shoes of Ariel Sharon and empowering him to manipulate and slaughter Palestinians whenever he decides that certain immoral actions will help accomplish his goal of a greater Israel.

Islam is being implored by ALLAH to wake up immediately and stop minimizing the power The ALMIGHTY has given His Risen Messiah. ALLAH’s Will is that all Muslims immediately stop denying that ALLAH empowered His Anointed Messiah to defeat Israeli leaders, to defeat representatives of the Mighty Roman Empire and to defeat death itself. You need ALLAH’s Risen, victorious Messiah oh Muslims! So now is the time that you must immediately stop telling ALLAH that you do not need the only Messiah He has provided. Do not and I repeat, do not miss this opportunity!

Respectfully, Tom Griffith (Abu Toma)

P.S.

Whether or not you have yet trusted ALLAH’s Risen Messiah, here is another horrible situation that must be given immediate thoughtful and spiritual attention by a united and alarmed Umma. As unlikely as this may seem, this situation has reached potential apocalyptic proportions by the unintended and unlikely cooperation of six influential and powerful leaders:

George W. Bush
Osama Bin Laden
Dick Cheney
Saddam Hussein
Condoleeza Rice and
Ariel Sharon.

If it were not for the fact that oil and land are limited, of course the unintentional cooperation between these six persons would not be causing the potential catastrophe that they are causing.

Tragically, if it were not for the reality that Ariel Sharon has such a great influence on President Bush regarding his own personal disdain for the humanity of Palestinians, there could be a much more even handed approach to finding a solution for the Israeli problem. (This is usually called the Palestinian problem but the Palestinians did not have a problem before the Israelis were given land by intrusive outsiders, while that land was being lived on by Palestinians. So it is an Israel problem more than a Palestinian problem.) But the Butcher has conveniently convinced the Bush that much of the Israeli problem will be solved when the Bush’s weapons and potential sacrificial lambs called U.S. soldiers solve the “Iraqi problem.”

Then, there is the reality that though it is well known that the two main leaders of America are both oil men at heart and want to make certain that there is an increasing supply of oil available for the steadily growing needs of the U.S. economy, it is not as well known that the third person in American power is also up to her chin in her commitment to America’s major oil needs. Not only is National security Advisory, Condoleeza Rice, not neutral regarding America’s oil needs, but according to the October 16, 02, Christian Science Monitor, she not only served on Chevron’s board but had an oil tanker named after her. (Isn’t it somewhat possible that she received this dubious honor because of her significant support of the U.S. oil industry?)

Isn’t it convenient for the big three of oil, George, Dick, and Condoleeza, that Saddam and Osama have both cooperated with them so extensively and enthusiastically by providing a cover for them to bring their military forces to the land of Islam? While supposedly searching for weapons of mass destruction that may or may not be there, these three have a convenient opportunity to guarantee America’s oil supply when American troops occupy Iraq, which of course these three oil people had no previous intention of guaranteeing. Rather, they would have us believe that they were only attempting to find and destroy potential weapons of mass destruction with no interest in oil.

But the serious, serious problem which both Middle Eastern Muslims and the West must recognize is this. By the strenuous and effective efforts of Western oily hawks, they have created in the minds of Americans and a reluctant and manipulated number of American allies, that Iraq, by possible teaming with Osama’s Al Qaeda, are an imminent threat to the West. So, they have inadvertently goaded and challenged these two former enemies to become a much more serious threat to the West than they were before the big and little hawks worked so industriously to make certain that they have become the threats that they have now potentially become.

But there is a horrible potential price to pay for this unintentional goading, unless ALLAH Himself creates an effective intervention. If Saddam and Osama are goaded and inadvertently encouraged to become reluctant colleagues against the U.S. to bring more terror to this nation, the U.S., Muslim nations and Israel will each become the suffering victims of powerful people’s manipulations and will each pay and awful cost in human life. This will potentially occur if a bloody series of Israeli – Palestinian type mutual downward spiral of retributions are set in motion between the U.S. and Al Qaeda types in the Middle East

In the final analysis each of the involved manipulators has committed the ultimate sin. They have individually and or collectively attempted to replace ALLAH with futile thoughts, statements and plans from their own minds as to what is best for ALLAH’s World. For there is no more arrogant transgression beyond the transgression of attempting to be ALLAH. When any person or nation, no matter how much self-importance they have attained, attempts to be the ALMIGHTY, they inevitably create unimaginable tragedy.

It is very relevant to different statements made by these would-be world shapers that the Messiah emphatically taught that peoples careless words could cause tremendous damage and that a major part of our eternal judgment would be based upon our words. If this is true regarding a person’s words, how much more true it is for a nation’s words.

For example, President Bush’s public labeling of three nations as an “axis of evil,” virtually put these nations in a no-win situation. It appeared that he thought his metaphor was clever and would cause his listeners to clap their hands. He also seemed to expect that his words would make the three nations tremble with fear and work hard to clean up their naughtiness so that they could earn a condescending pat on the head by the U.S. and be told that they are now being nice. But the reality is that sovereign nations do not react positively to another sovereign nation attempting to be their mother. Consequently, the “axis of evil” label may turn out to be the most counter productive statement ever made by a U.S. President in our entire history. Those ill chosen, irresponsible words, rather than encouraging more positive policies, enraged those three nations and set many others nations against the arrogance of U.S. policy. This has created an exceptionally dangerous adversarial polarization in our world that may bring untold suffering to millions out.

Has it not become essential that we must all call out to ALLAH to rescue us from all want-to-be Messiahs as we each turn to ALLAH’s only true Messiah?. He only is the sure foundation stone which the builders rejected. Though unwisely rejected by his own people, he is both accepted and honored by ALLAH. Truly, he is the only Messiah worthy of being trusted and honored by each and every person upon whom ALLAH has bestowed the gift of life.

This is true even though he was decisively rejected by his own people to whom he first came. As the Scriptures so concisely state:

“He came to his own and his own did not receive Him.”

But I am certain that the Muslim people will at this particular stressful time in history make a much wiser choice than certain other people made almost two thousand years ago. The wisdom of this choice is made all the more obvious because of what has been discredited in the past. Extreme Arab nationalism has been tried and did not satisfy. Extreme destructive Islamism has been exposed as being effective at killing but hardly provides a foundation on which to build. Virulent anti Israel or Anti-West sentiment is not the answer. But, a transcendent, Risen Messiah who reigns under ALLAH’s direct authority, opens doors to potential peace and progress that realistically must be ALLAH’s merciful provision for those travelling on the Straight Path of Islam.