I do that and people like you and wwjd and someone nobody has seen before comes breathing down my neck accusing me of hate mongering and bigotry! The hypocrisy is astounding!!! You have further accused me of having a spirit of fear! I ask you Angela in all decency, please retract that statement. Me not being as ignorant as others of the perils and teachings of Islam does not mean I live in fear and/or terror because I wish people to be educated and informed.
I have been showing how Islam is a problem BUT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT. Please make up your mind Angela, you cannot have it both ways.
The problem with this thread, and you in particular, is the angry rhetoric and half truths. You are full of hate, which perhaps I wrongly assumed comes out of fear, in the case of the Europeans. Sorry if it seems like I was saying that about you, although, methinks, thou dost protesteth too much!
If you just presented your story, I would be happy. If you even presented facts, that would be fine, although I would certainly look deeper at your sources. Instead, you post these extremists videos, which no one cares to watch. And not one or two, but many! If that isn't coming from fear, I don't know what is.
And the PROBLEM with Islam, in the end, which I believe I have stated in this thread, is that THEY DO NOT KNOW CHRIST! And the only answer is not hating them, posting half-cocked facts and videos, but working together to bring the truth of the gospel to Muslims in our own countries. The point of that being, these people have better access to their former countries. They can then take the gospel back to their countries with them. That is really reaching the world.
Your posts have been totally exclusionary, and yes, based on fear, and its result, hate mongering. I'm sorry if you think I am being hypocritical, when I try and be a minister of reconciliation of the gospel. Your viewpoint is so worldly, and not what I would have expected of you when you first came into this forum.
"So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Cor. 5:16-21
Magenta, you are usually the one posting Scriptures, which I have always admired you for doing, and being so consistent at it. But not this thread. You are hysterical, and you do sound like either someone who has been threatened by radical Islam, (I hope not, but then I understand!) or you have spent too much time in the News Forum, and become Americanized in your view of other cultures and religions. Certainly, we are not a mosaic in Canada, but God has opened doors for people from other cultures and religions into Canada, and we are not taking advantage of it. I am as guilty as you, I cannot lie, but at least mine lack of reaching the lost is not because of this incredible hate you are displaying.
I guess we will have to disagree on your defintion of "educating" Christians. I would call it "creating further animosity." Do you know how many non-Christians read these threads? Many! I am surprised that no Muslims had pop up notices this forum about Islam and they are reading this thread right now. Do you think you have shown them God's love? Have you shown them that we are all sinners and Christ died on the cross?
Be objective and go back and read what you wrote and posted! I personally think "hate-mongering" is a little weak for what you have done. We won't even get into attacking an honest seeker of God, because he posted something that wasn't to your liking! I shouldn't say this, but that is narrow minded to the nth degree.