Islam, as both a people's religion and a way of life, is gaining unforeseen growth and influence across Europe and now America, despite the West's hostility after 9/11. The hatred of Israel and the West traces back to the ancient rivalry between Ishmael and Isaac and between Esau and Jacob (Genesis 16:11-12; 27:41; Exodus 17:16). Unchecked immigration has brought millions of Muslims into Europe, where mosques are replacing churches, nearly 900 enclaves exist, and no-go zones operate under Sharia law. Because Sharia, derived from the Quran and Hadith, governs every area of life and does not separate religious from civic realms, it stands in stark contrast to Western law founded on the Judeo-Christian ethic. It is also said to permit or encourage practices such as polygamy, forced child marriage, honor killings, and militant jihad. In America the trend is ominous though less advanced, with Muslims winning political offices, large Islamic developments rising in Texas, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, allegedly tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, promoting Islamic dominance. Its founder is quoted as saying Islam is in America to become dominant, not equal to other faiths. Islam is described as the fastest-growing religion in the U.S. and the world. Christians should watch closely, since Islam's intent to occupy and conquer Jerusalem will likely play a key role in events leading to Christ's triumphant return.

There is one quality of the Muslims that is significant and admirable, worthy of observation and reflection. Their unified zeal, often fanatical, stems from a belief in the dogmas of their holy book, the Koran, firing them with a determined zeal to obey every word as Allah's word. The term Islam, translated into English, means submission, underlining the responsibility each Muslim bears to Allah's word as given in the Koran. This creates a distinct zeitgeist, different from the average person in the Western world. However, the Koran teaches a narrow concept of justice, commanding the Muslim to kill the unbeliever, make slaves of others, treat women as property, and engage in jihad, meaning holy war or crusade against non-Islamic people. Jihad can be described as an evangelistic campaign that takes over areas, often with violence, leading to the imposition of Shariah law and forcing locals to move due to harassment. In Europe, 54 million Muslims reside, and projections suggest that in 12 years, 25% of Europe's population will be Muslim, with cities like Amsterdam, Marseille, and Malmo already at that percentage due to immigration policies and higher birth rates among Muslim women. In many European cities, the majority of the population under 18 is Muslim, indicating future demographic shifts. Muslims often do not assimilate with the surrounding majority, maintaining an abrasive, standoffish attitude driven by their unswerving belief in the Koran, rejecting efforts to blend. This disruptive presence is seen as a fulfillment of curses like those in Deuteronomy, where the enemy becomes the head and the local population the tail, bending governments to their will. Muslims are increasingly dominating local scenes, introducing Shariah law, which is already legal in parts of England, with potential to spread to national levels and influence seats of power.

For nearly a century, since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Islam has been a central issue in the nation's identity. Atatürk abolished the caliphate and removed Shari'a courts, aiming to create a secular state, with the Turkish military as its guarantor. However, with approximately 98% of Turkey's 74 million citizens identifying as Muslim, the debate over Islam's role in government and society has intensified in recent years. In Koranic Islam, there is no separation of mosque and state, making a secular Islamic state a contradiction to many, and a significant portion of the population desires a government aligned with Islamic law and ideals. Turkey's ruling Justice & Development Party (AKP), rooted in Islamist ideology, along with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, outwardly respects the country's secular tradition but is actively steering it away from secularism. Erdogan has publicly stated that one cannot be both secular and Muslim, expressing a vision that extends beyond Turkey to the world's 1.5 billion Muslims awaiting Turkish leadership. The AKP positions itself as a bridge between Western and Islamic worlds, finding greater success in expanding influence in the Muslim world, warming relations with nations like Syria and Iran, while distancing from historical ally Israel, as acceptance into the European Union remains elusive. The Gülen Movement, founded by Fethullah Gülen in the 1970s, further shapes this shift, aiming to reshape secular Turkey through its version of Islam. With a vast educational network influencing a significant portion of Turkey's youth, the movement promotes an anti-Atatürk vision, embedding Islamic instruction systematically. Gülen's approach appears philosophical and humanistic, yet his methods include deception as a means to achieve goals, with followers infiltrating high positions across Turkish society, including government and military roles. Islamists within the government are now challenging the military, the protector of secularism, through actions like the arrests of critics and military officers under conspiracy allegations since 2007. This momentum favors the Islamists, and a Turkey with an Islamist government would alter regional dynamics across Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, reflecting a historical Islamist vision that extends globally.

The landscape of religion is shifting, with present trends indicating that adherents of Islam will soon outnumber professing Christians, potentially within twenty years. Islam is growing at a rate four times faster than nominal Christianity, not only in the Third World but also in the U.S., where it increases by 4-8% annually. Over 80% of American converts to Islam were raised in Christian churches, with as many as 60,000 converting each year. English translations of the Koran are now appearing on American bestseller lists. The Koran serves as the foundational source for the religion, culture, and government of Islam, believed by Muslims to have been received word-for-word by Muhammad from Allah while sleeping in the Cave of Hira, facilitated by a supernatural being claiming the name of Gabriel. The clash of cultures between Islam and the West highlights the bitterness of this spring, and subjugation and strangling will likely persist until God intervenes.

An Arabic man, believed to be a British citizen, was interviewed on the radio and is the author of the website InTheNameOfAllah.org. His purpose is to expose Islamic lies primarily to Arabic people who are part of Muslimism, aiming to help them understand their religion more deeply. Though not aimed at non-Arabic peoples, others can also learn from his content. His website approaches Muslims in a knowledgeable way, pointing out fallacies in the Koran without being an alarmist. The site acknowledges that it may seem offensive, untruthful, and hate-mongering to those who profess Islam, but urges readers to persevere with intellectual inquisitiveness, using God-given abilities to think, evaluate, and compare. It highlights that beliefs, including those of Muslims, are often the result of upbringing and relentless programming, making it difficult to question core beliefs objectively. The website offers a challenge to Arabic Muslims, providing a reward of 10,000 pounds sterling for every verse in the Koran that can be proven to represent a new, practical, spiritual, or intellectual concept superior to or equal to anything it has allegedly plagiarized from the Bible, the New Testament, Zoroastrianism, pagan Arabian religions, and their traditions. The author asserts that the entire Koran is plagiarized from other religions, lacking any divine inspiration, and he stands by this controversial claim despite the potential danger it poses to his safety.

President Barack Hussein Obama, in his inaugural address, expressed a desire for a new way forward with the Muslim world, grounded in mutual interest and mutual respect. He aimed to rebuild bridges and improve America's image among Muslims. Within a week of his inauguration, Obama gave his first foreign Presidential interview to the Saudi-owned satellite channel, al-Arabiya. In March, he sent a message to the people of Iran for their New Year. In April, he addressed the Turkish parliament to strengthen ties with Islam's largest economy and resurgent power. On June 4, Obama delivered a significant speech in Cairo, speaking not only to Egypt but to the broader Muslim world, covering topics such as Islam's place in America, Islamic extremism, and various regional issues. By focusing on the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Obama sought to demonstrate to the Muslim world that, despite Israel being a U.S. ally, he is prepared to push for concessions from the Jewish state. This approach was intended to show that the U.S. is attentive to Muslim concerns, potentially gaining support that could be leveraged to form a coalition against Iran.

Islamic incursions occurred during the Reformation period in Western Europe. Islamic fundamentalism claims a friendly allegiance with Christianity on the surface. Islamic fundamentalism reveals a horrific anti-Christian fervor that wishes to eliminate all vestiges of the Judeo-Christian ethic wherever it exists. Islamic fundamentalists govern nine of the top ten nations where Christians faced the greatest persecution. Left-wing liberal activists express solidarity with radical Islam due to their shared hatred and disdain for Christians. Islamists are committed to the eventual destruction of liberals.

Islam poses a far greater threat than the Mexican influx, because Israelitish nations share almost nothing culturally with it, and many of its fundamentalist adherents bear a consuming hatred of Western life. They love the wealth God has given the West, yet hate those who hold it. Muslims descend largely from Cush, Ishmael, Lot, and Joktan, and so from many of ancient Israel's enemies. Christian and Islamic nations technically worship the same God in the sense that Satan is the one being worshipped, and he has given each teaching that is often diametrically opposed, so that they clash. Because religion is the most powerful influence shaping a culture, no reconciliation is possible between the nominally Christian West and Islam as things stand, and relations can only worsen. Islam has been at war with the West for over a thousand years, once held territory larger than Rome's, and was pushed back as much by economics as by arms after the Reformation. Now, with oil money, it is rising again and flexing its economic, military, and political muscle. Radical fundamentalists, such as Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Hezbollah, know they cannot yet defeat the West head-on. Their short-range goal is to seize control of the moderate Arab states, and then to confront the King of the North, as in Daniel 11:40. Terrorism creates fear, instability, and paralysis in the West and wins favor among fence-sitting Muslims. The growing Islamic minority in America and Britain makes a pro-Israeli foreign policy hard through political correctness. God's people must remain separate and follow Him, since their citizenship is in heaven.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is vowing to return the kingdom to a moderate Islam open to the world and all religions. He says the country has not been normal for thirty years because rigid Islamic doctrines took hold in reaction to the Iranian revolution, which his predecessors did not know how to handle. With seventy percent of Saudis under thirty, he declares that the kingdom will not waste another thirty years combating extremist thought but will destroy it immediately, and those are fighting words to Islamic extremists everywhere. He has broken, in part, the long alliance between the hardline clerics and the House of Saud, aiming to separate church and state. He has also rescinded the ban on women driving and on women entering sports stadiums, and scaled back guardianship laws. He established an Islamic Center to certify the authentic sayings of the prophet Mohammed, since many apocryphal sayings ignite extremism. He allows concerts and has lifted the ban on movie theaters, reasoning that bored young people turn to extremism for excitement. Conservatives consider him a radical liberal, and the entrenched hardliners, religious and governmental, will likely counterpunch, perhaps through Islamic extremism and terrorism inside the kingdom.

Radical Muslims, led by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, carried out the September 11 attacks, and most of the blame rests squarely on them. Islamic terrorists have plagued U.S. assets, installations, and citizens for at least four decades, escalating their attacks whenever they can. They have also targeted America's allies around the globe, from Israel to Britain to Australia to Denmark. Guilt for these atrocities is not hard to place, and the Islamists who perpetrated 9/11 bear most of the blame. Yet their guilt does not remove America's own. God watches mankind and tests whether people measure up to His standards. He blesses the righteous and punishes the evil in various forms of destruction, as Sodom and Gomorrah show. American culture is far from righteous, so God is amply justified in chastising the country, and the open question is whether Americans have learned the lesson. The controversy arises not over who committed the attacks but over whether America's own decadence played a role in bringing them on.

Islam has its jihad, its version of a holy war, one of several religious systems that sanction killing in God's name. Alongside the Sikh declaration that "God is the sword and the sword is God," Shinto kamikaze doctrine, and violence between Catholics and Protestants, jihad shows how religion and politics become tragically confused. Modern holy war has been reinvented with pipe bombs instead of swords, carried out through hijackings, kidnappings, and bombings in public places that kill women, children, and passersby. Those who commit such acts are worse than nihilists. They are true believers so convinced of their own righteousness that they judge themselves above crime, even beyond sin, and hold their victims guilty of bringing about their own deaths. The West is not innocent of the same pattern. Its "sensible" wars also resort to the rhetoric of holy war, with phrases like "Evil Empire" and "antichrist," and Martin Luther himself called killing a work of love. Whatever the justification, the sixth commandment gives no one permission to justify deliberate killing. Not even love of country, let alone religious zeal, overrides God's command.