When all hope seems lost, it becomes easy to retreat. We are tempted to give up.
While God is always in control of the results, He calls us into action. He invites us to allow Him to use us to accomplish His sovereign plan in our churches, homes, and communities.
When we vote, we are granted the opportunity to participate in directing our nation along His path. Take the opportunity to be used for His glory as you trust in His control.
Before I left Islam, I was debating a Sudanese Christian who challenged me to name one good thing about Muhammad. Just one.
I thought: easy. We Muslims practically worship Muhammad as the greatest man who ever lived.
So I tried to recall good qualities, honesty, compassion, mercy, love, anything, any single story, and I couldn’t remember one.
So I went to Google and typed: “the qualities of the Prophet.”
Islamic websites came up, and I thought, good, now I’ll have plenty of examples for this guy.
I opened them and was stunned: even the Islamic websites offered no good qualities in the sense he’d challenged me to find.
They praised his courage in spreading Islam, his fighting of Allah’s enemies, his physical strength, and his strictness.
Not one of the qualities the man had asked for.
Even the famous mercy at Mecca, sparing the people who had supposedly persecuted him, turned out to be for strategic reasons.
And when I started digging into the Quran and the sira for myself, I found that he married a child, he took Safiyya, a Jewish woman, the same day he killed her father, her brother, and her husband, trading his companion Dihya seven other captives for her, and posting a guard by the tent in case she tried to avenge them while raping her.
He had the men of the Jewish tribe beheaded, down to boys checked for pubic hair.
He raided trade caravans and took other tribes’ treasures.
He lied and broke truces he asked for.
He slept with all of his 9 wives the same night.
He killed anyone who mocked him.
He recruited raiders with the promise of other cities’ women.
And when his own fighters hesitated to touch married captives, because their husbands were alive and watching, Muhammad told them it was fine because allah said so.
Even the pagans of Arabia had higher morality than he did.
Every one of these acts was stamped with Allah’s approval.
He even married his adopted son’s wife by divine decree.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
I left Islam when I met this disgusting man, a man who turned his qualities into a religion, transmitted it to every generation of Muslims since, and made himself the ceiling of their morality.
This is the man Mamdani wants you to learn from.
I was 17 years old the first and only time I said the F word in front of my mother. Didn’t know my Dad had just walked in from a long day’s work and was behind the kitchen door listening to my rebellious wanna be alpha male address my mother in such a horrible way. I never knew he could run that fast. I never knew my body could leave an imprint in the drywall like that. I didn’t know I could levitate. My Dad was on me like white on rice. He told me “You will not speak to my bride like that ever again.”
After the immense fear had subsided (😂) and I was thanking God I was alive and well (my dad is no small man) I realized that she wasn’t first and foremost my mother, she was first and foremost his bride. I never stopped seeing her that way. And with that, as things are often caught not taught, I strive to make sure my kids know my wife is first my bride before she is their mother. There is absolutely no relationship on earth more sacred than the one between husband & wife. Cherish it, protect it, fight for it.
Trump is President-elect for two days:
- Stock market hits record high
- Migrant caravan at our border dissolves
- Hamas calls for end to war
- Bitcoin hits record high
- Putin ready to end Ukraine war
- Qatar kicks out Hamas leaders
- EU will buy U.S. gas not Russian gas
- Putin will sell oil in U.S. dollars
- Zelenskyy phones Trump & Elon
- NYC Mayor ends vouchers for illegals
- Mexico to stop migrants at U.S. border
- China wants to work peacefully with us
- Big U.S. company to move out of China
I repeat: Trump has been President-elect for two days.