An Early Warning Service – Ezekiel 33:6

The 1991 Explanatory Memorandum

In a 1991 memorandum,  Mohamad Adlouni, on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood, referenced a “long-term plan” to enable Islam in America. He said “the process of settlement is a ‘cvilization-jihadist process,’” with the goal of infiltrating American culture.

“The Ikhwan [The Muslim brotherhood] believe that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the western civilization from within and want to sabotage its miserable house by their hands until it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

The memorandum outlines a five-phase plan:

“Phase One: Phase of discreet and secret establishment of leadership.

“Phase Two: Phase of gradual appearance on the public scene and exercising and utilizing various public activities (It greatly succeeded in implementing this stage). It also succeeded in achieving a great deal of its important goals, such as infiltrating various sectors of the Government. Gaining religious institutions and embracing senior scholars. Gaining public support and sympathy. Establishing a shadow government (secret) within the Government.

“Phase Three: Escalation phase, prior to conflict and confrontation with the rulers, through utilizing mass media. Currently in progress.

“Phase Four: Open public confrontation with the Government through exercising the political pressure approach. It is aggressively implementing the above-mentioned approach. Training on the use of weapons domestically and overseas in anticipation of zero-hour. It has noticeable activities in this regard.

“Phase Five: Seizing power to establish their Islamic Nation under which all parties and Islamic groups are united.”

Women

Extreme Islam has given birth to new phrases. One new phrase is “honor killing.” Honor killings take place when a woman, wife, or daughter is disobedient. Women in Islam have no sexual rights. They belong to the family, tribe, and religion. This teaching from the Koran can be found in Sura 4:34:

“Men are the maintainers of women as Allah created one superior to the other. Good women are obedient. If your women are not obedient, berate them and ban them to beds apart.”

Reports are coming from the Islamic states that captive women being raped. The Hadith says:

“It is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a captive woman after she is purified. In the case she has a husband, her marriage is abrogated after she becomes captive. And all married women [are forbidden unto you] save those captives whom your right hand possesses.”

Koran Sur 4:24.

What is Happening with Islam?

It seems difficult to understand what is happening within Islam. There is help available for those who want to really understand.  It’s in the book you likely don’t have in your library – The Holy Book called the Koran. According to Islam, the Book was given directly to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel. Also given were the equally important writing called the Hadith. Both were written down following the death of Mohammed. If you want more insight, consult your Bible or join a Bible study group

The problems the western world has experienced with Islam didn’t begin with the first bombing of the World Trade Center or the attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut on October 23rd, 1983, where 241 Marines and 58 French paratroopers were killed. The enmity with the west and the United States began during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. The president spent most of his time in office building the U.S. Navy to defend merchant ships from attacks led by Muslim pirates of the Barbary States.

The pirates had been looting American merchant ships and taking thousand of white slaves. In 1785, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, America’s ambassadors to France, asked Tripoli’s ambassador to London how they had the right to attack American ships. Ambassador Abd  Al-Rahman quoted out of the Koran that all nations that have not recognized Islam’s authority were sinners and it was their duty to make war upon them, take slaves as prisoners, and that every Muslim who is slain in battle would go directly to paradise.

In 2013 there were over 12,000 terrorist attracts in the world and most of them involved Muslims. Most of the victims of these attacks were other Muslims. Sectarian violence is raging in Syria and Iraq and also involving Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, the Emirates, and the Kurds. Recent attacks in Tunisia, Turkey, Paris, San Bernardino, and Belgium are only the beginning. Our enemies are prepared and planning for a long war.

These radical branches of Islam are all franchisees of the Muslim Brotherhood. No one really knows what percentage of Muslims belong to Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or The Islamic State. What we do know is that most Muslims are peace loving good people who want to live a good and peaceful life.

Envy of the Jews

By almost every measure, the Jewish people have a disproportionate level of wealth and success. Jews, who account for only 2% of the U.S. population, have won almost a third of the Nobel Prizes. Worldwide, Jews account for .02% of the population but have won 20% of the Nobel Prizes. Jewish people are more charitable, have lower rates of alcohol abuse and divorce, and have more young people graduate from college. One of the reasons for this is that Jews, known as the “people of the book,” value education and embrace learning for young people at an early age — book learning, yes, but also learning about “righteousness,” doing the right thing, giving to the poor, visiting the sick, honoring one’s body and one’s family. “Teach your children talking with them when you sit down and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up,” [Deuteronomy 11:19]. The envy shown by other people towards the Jews is an unmistakable cause for antisemitism.

No religious or ethnic group has created more jobs and opportunities per capita than Jewish people have. Home Depot, Starbucks, Costco, and the Gap stores alone employ 772,000 people. Jewish philosophy considers providing employment for people a mitzvah, a “good deed.” Philanthropy is seen not as an option, but as a duty — a duty to God and one’s community. It is forbidden to avert one’s eyes from someone in need.

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Antisemitism, the Everlasting Hatred

The gold medal for antisemitism and racial hatred must belong to militant Jihadist Islam for calling for the ethnocide of the Jewish people wherever they are.  This hatred is so deep and so virulent that it calls for the death of an entire group of people — the Jewish people.  This hatred was fueled and discipled by Adolph Hitler.

The next Holocaust is predicted in Mohammed’s own words written in the Hadith: “ The hour will not take place until the Muslims fight and the Muslims kill the Jews, and the tree will say, Oh Muslim servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”

The seed of hatred was planted by the Prophet Mohammed in 627 AD when he beheaded 700 – 900 Jewish men and members of the Banu Quarayza tribe in Medina.  The massacre began early in the day, ending in torchlight. Those who escaped death were taken captive and sold at slave markets.

Their crime was that they refused to accept Mohammed as a prophet.

The Qur’an refers to this incident in Surah 33:

“And He brought those of the People of the Scripture who supported them down from their strongholds, and cast panic into their hearts. Some ye slew and ye made captive some. And He caused you to inherit their land and their houses and their wealth, and land ye have not trodden. Allah is Able to do all things.”

Qur’an 33:26-27

Islamic antisemitism is perpetrated by a host of fanatical groups who are all “franchisees” of the Muslim Brotherhood. The proper word is anti-shem-itism, as the Jews and neighboring Arab people are descendants of Noah’s son Shem. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by Hassan al Bana. These Brotherhood offshoot groups operate around the world, from the Philippines to the Iron Triangle in South America. In other words, the problem isn’t just in the Middle East and central Asia. Their goals are simple: first, the destruction of the State of Israel and death to all Jews wherever they are; second, a worldwide Caliphate (political-religious Muslim state) for the honor of Allah. The roots of this hatred come from two sources: the Holy Book called the Koran along with the sayings of Muhammad, known as the Hadith. The second source is the refusal of the Jewish people, living in Mecca and Medina in the 6th century AD, to accept Muhammad as a prophet and follow his religion.

The Greatest Commandment

Mark 12: 28 – 31 :

“One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”

“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is One.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’  There is no commandment greater than these.”

In Mark 12:29, Jesus quotes the Shema, the single most important prayer of Judaism. In the Jewish faith, it is said every morning and every night, and at every service; it is supposed to be the last words ever uttered. That is why on an airplane — if it gets terribly bumpy — you may see Jewish people praying the Shema!

In Mark 12:30, Jesus quotes the V’havta from Deuteronomy, prayed after the Shema in a Jewish service:

“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
And these words that I command you today shall be in your heart.
And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall speak of them when you sit at home, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.
And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”

Deuteronomy 6:4-5

The Shema and the V’havta are also inside every mezuzah, the small case affixed to the doorpost of a Jewish home, as a reminder to “love the Lord your God” on the way in and on the way out, “when you sit at home, and when you walk along the way.”

In Mark 12:31, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” Jesus was quoting from the Old Testament:

Leviticus 19:18: Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD.

Jesus summarized the entire bible by quoting these three verses of Torah. (Deuteronomy 6:4-5 and Leviticus 19:18)

In contrast, the Koran says, “O believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Whoso of you makes them his friends is one of them. God guides not the people of the evildoers.” (Surah 5:51) Note: it is impossible to understand what is going on today without reading Koran and the Bible.

There is no place in the Koran where Muslims are told to love anyone outside of Islam. Instead:

“The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement.” (Surah 5.33)

Christian antisemitism began between the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., when the Church ceased to be Jewish. This is what is known as Replacement Theology, which is the teaching that the Christian church has replaced Israel regarding the plan, purpose, and promises of God. It teaches that because the Jews did not recognize their Messiah, the promises that had been made to the Jews were passed on to the Christian Church, thereby deeming the Jews no better than any other people. Replacement Theology Churches are generally members of the World Counsel of Churches. Replacement theology is also known as fulfillment theology, which means that the Christian church has superseded Israel in God’s plan. This is a false teaching. The diligent Bible student can avoid this error with a careful study of the Old Testament. Israel, the Church, and the Nations all have different and separate destinies.

Note: the Jews did not kill Jesus (John 10:18). The Jews, other than the religious elite, loved Jesus. Two of the greatest anti-Semites were Martin Luther and the early Catholic Church, especially in Spain. Today we are seeing the fulfillment of Old Testament prophesies, as God gathers His chosen people to the land known as Israel (Ezekiel 39:27-29 and Amos 9-14).

The Jews

The words Jew and Judea (as the land was known) were both derived from Judah, one of the twelve sons of Jacob the Patriarch (whose name was changed to Israel 3,500 years ago). Judah is included in the Messianic line and can be found in Genesis 49:10-11. After leaving Egypt, the Jewish people entered into the land that God had promised them. They lived in this land until 70 CE, when the Romans destroyed the Second Temple and drove them from the land. However, there has never been a time when a remnant of the Jewish people did not live in the land.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and all of its Arab citizens enjoy all of the rights of full citizenship. Israel is the source of many inventions that have benefited the entire world: the USB flash drive; Instant Messaging; the laser keyboard; rooftop solar hot water systems; the Pillcam, used to visualize and detect disorders of the GI tract; drip irrigation; cherry tomatoes; the electric car grid; the world’s smallest video camera, which fits in an endoscope; ReWalk, robotic exoskeleton for paraplegics; the Sambucol flu treatment; Copaxone for multiple sclerosis; EndoPat, fingertip test for cardiac health; WatchPat, miniature fingertip sleep lab; Nanowires, strands of silver 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, Babysense, a no-touch, no-radiation device to prevent crib death; and more.

Today, many leaders in the most successful segments of commerce, entertainment, hospitality, math, medicine, music, retail, sports, and technology are Jews. Jewish entrepreneurs founded Costco, Dell Computer, Google, Facebook, the Four Seasons, Intel, Oracle, DreamWorks, Microsoft, MGM , and Wynn Resorts. Jews were in the forefront of the garment industry with companies like Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Levi Strauss, and Ralph Lauren. Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, the May Company, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue were all launched by Jews; as were Baskin Robbins, the Gap stores (Old Navy, Banana Republic, Piperlime, Athleta), Häagen-Dazs, and Home Depot.

The canon of the Hebrew Bible is known as the Tanakh, or Masoretic Text, in which every word and every letter of the Hebrew and Aramaic writings were carefully counted and noted so that correct and authentic pronunciation would be ensured by future generations. The name Tanakh is anacronymof the first Hebrew letter of each of the Masoretic Text’s three traditional subdivisions: Torah(“Teaching”, also known as the Five Books of Moses), Nevi’im(“Prophets”) and Ketuvim (“Writings”)—hence TaNaKh. The Hebrew word mesorah refers to the transmission of a tradition. As the original Torah Scriptures were written without vowels or accents, the Masoretes created a system of precise letter-text, vocalization, and accentuation between the 7th and 10th centuries CE. In recent years, the Dead Sea Scrolls have shown the Masoretic Text to be nearly identical to some of the texts of the Tanakh.

Even before the Masoretic Text was the Septuagint (meaning “seventy, the approximate number of translators) the first and most ancient translation of the Old Testament, made into popular Greek before the Christian Era. Ptolemy IIPhiladelphus, King of Egypt from 287-47 BCE, had a magnificent library; he sent his librarian to Jerusalem to get a copy of their Law and the librarian returned with 72 learned Israelites (6 from each tribe). They proceeded—in 72 days—to translate their laws into Greek for the King’s library. This became the official text in the Greek Orthodox Church, the Latin Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Coptic Church, the Ethiopic Church, the Armenian Church, and the Slavonic Church. Early Christians relied on the Septuagint translation for most of their understanding of the Old Testament, as did the writers of the New Testament.

There have been only three political states in 3,000 years in Israel—and all have been Jewish. The first was established after the Exodus from Egypt; the second during the period of the Second Temple, from 516BCE until 70 CE, when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem; the third is the State of Israel today, established May 14th, 1948.

Palestinians

The plight of the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria is a sad one. They have been used by Hamas, Fatah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other militant Islamic groups to create chaos in Israel and surrounding Arab countries. The concept of Palestinians as related to Arabs did not exist prior to May 14th of 1948. All of the people called Palestinians were Jews. There was the Palestinian Symphony (all Jews);  the Palestinian Post Newspaper  is now the Jerusalem Post. There was also a Palestinian Brigade in WW II,  all of them Jews. The Arabs were called Arabs and were no different from the Arabs living in Jordan or Iraq. The land prior to World War I was controlled by the Ottoman Turks and was sometimes called Southern Syria. Following the end of WW I the British were given the mandate for the land from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Peninsula. The League of Nations voted to formalize the State of Israel at the San Remo Conference in 1922. Later, in violation of the articles to create the State of Israel,  the British gave Abdullah 75% of the land east of the Jordan River to create the state of Jordan. If you think the Palestinian Arab’s deserve their own land, they already have one its call Jordan. If this all seems confusing remember that in Islam it is permitted to lie if it is in the interest of Islam. The word taqiyya is worth remembering and understanding. Taqiyya means it is alright to lie in the interest of Islam.

The West Bank

The words and concept “West Bank” did not exist until 1948, when the Army of Jordan, together with five other Arab Muslim armies, attacked Israel on the very day Israel declared independence. Jordan continued to occupy the land for 19 years until the Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel regained the land once known as Judea and Samaria. The world has continued to call this land the West Bank, a political concept not found on any map. The West Bank is simply a myth created to somehow give legal title to land that correctly belongs to Israel.

Israel is a tiny country, so small that most people cannot identify it on the map. Israel is about 120 miles long by 20 miles wide—less than 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The 22 Arab states surrounding Israel have a population of more than 300 million as compared to just over 6 million Israelis. As part of this long ongoing dispute, Muslims claim East Jerusalem as their land…even though Muhammad never set foot in Jerusalem! In fact, Jerusalem is mentioned 669 times in the Jewish Bible yet not once in the Koran. King David—the very same David who as a teenager fought and slayed the fierce 6’9” Goliath—founded Jerusalem over 3,000 years ago, first calling it the City of David. King David was a Jew, revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike.

Phil’s Speaking Topics

“The Middle East and extreme Islam – What’s next”

“The proof text of the Bible through the creation and prophesy”

“Who are the real Palestinians”

“The Bible and Koran and the roots of everlasting hatred ”

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About Author

 Phil Thompson is a business executive and Christian Zionist, and is founder of the Watchman Forum. The Watchman Forum is an early warning service monitoring extreme Islam in the Middle East and throughout the World. Phil spent his entire business career working for a large family owned distribution business headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Phil served as CEO of Industrial Supply Company from 1982-2010. He currently serves as Chairman. Phil was a founding member and chairman of the Utah chapter of Young Presidents. Phil served as Chairman of the Economic Development Corporation of Utah from 2006-2008. EDCU is a private/public partnership focused on creating investment and jobs for the State of Utah. Phil also works for the Governor’s Office for Economic Development as a mentor in for the ”Mentor-Protégé” program to help minority owned business become 8-A certified. Phil served on the boards of Wells Fargo Bank, Ballet West, Ski Utah, the Shea Family Foundation, the Christian Center of Park City, YMCA, and the National a Ability Center. Phil was also a founding member of the “Governors Counsel for Physical Fitness.” In April 2016, Phil was inducted into the Park City Ski Team Hall of Fame. In March of 2000 Phil was appointed to serve as Venue Chairman for Deer Valley for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He also served on the board of the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation from 1998-2006. Phil was twice nominated as Entrepreneur of the Year in Utah Industrial Supply was also honored by its trade publication, Industrial Distribution Magazine as one of the four outstanding distributors of the last 100 years. Phil served as Chaplain for the University of Utah Football from 2003-2012. He is also a “Total Quality Expert” and “Lean Enterprise” advocate. Phil lives in Park City, Utah and is active in his Church and community.