You can also watch/listen to this devotion on YouTube: Cain or Mamdani.
Today's devotion is longer than one minute, but I think it's very important that we recognize how Islam mocks our God, our faith, and humanity in general. And I think it's important that we clearly understand the vengeful Muslim attack on America on September 11, 2001.
When God confronted Cain for the murder of his brother, Cain whined about his punishment, saying, “My punishment is more than I can bear” (Genesis 4:6-14). He showed no sorrow for cruelly murdering his innocent, God-honoring brother Abel.
I was reminded of this attitude when New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani talked last year about Islamophobia (source). But before explaining what I mean, let me give you this background:
Mamdani took his oath of office on the Quran, the Muslim holy book, which says things such as this:
“Slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful” (Quran).
Allah's definition of forgiveness and mercy is not at all like the true God's definition. Jesus tells us to love our enemies; Allah tells his followers to kill them. And Allah's enemies are all non-Muslims, especially Christians and Jews. See Jesus Versus Muhammad.
Those who executed 9/11 twenty-five years ago were being faithful to Allah, as many Muslims have been throughout history.
So how did Mamdani resemble Cain when he spoke about Islamophobia last year? He brought up 9/11 without mentioning the 2,976 people brutally murdered by Muslims who were following Allah's commands in the Quran. Nor did he mention the thousands injured and the continuing deaths due to toxic chemicals in the dust that covered New York City for months afterwards. (source)
Nor did he admit that the terrorists were emulating the life of his prophet Muhammad. See Remembering the spirit behind 911.
Instead, he talked of his aunt after 9/11 getting a dirty look on the subway for wearing her hijab, and he acted as if Muslims are the most mistreated people on earth.
Mamdani appeared to be shedding tears about his aunt's dirty looks, and it was later revealed that he had no aunts living in America during 9/11. (source)
Mamdani is a practicing Muslim, a believer in the Muslim “holy book,” the Quran, which “is replete with explicit and implicit sanction and promotion of
armed conflict, violence, and bloodshed by Muslims” against non-Muslims (source). He chose to place his hand on the Quran when he was sworn into office as Mayor of New York City, an act which means his god is the ultimate witness of his truthfulness.
But here's the rub: according to the Quran, “Muslims who closely observe sharia law, which splits the world into two perpetually warring halves, will always have a ‘divinely sanctioned’ right to deceive, until ‘all chaos ceases, and all religion belongs to Allah’” (Quran 8:39). (source)
Deception is approved in Islam when dealing with non-Muslims.
The only reason logical people defend Islam is that “the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God” (2 Corinthians 4:4).
Islam is a religion inspired by hatred, and it also teaches abuse and inferiority of women.
Hatred of the Jews (which many Muslims support) is a far greater problem than Islamophobia:
According
to the FBI stats in 2016 regarding religiously inspired crimes, 54.4%
were against Jews and 24.5% were against Muslims. The
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reports that in the three months after Hamas started the war in October 2023, “antisemitic incidents in the U.S. skyrocketed by
361%” (source). Anti-Christian hatred is also on the rise coming from the radical left (source).
According to USA Facts, hate crimes doubled from 2015 to 2024. “Out
of 2,982 reported religion hate crimes, 2,080 were anti-Jewish — more
than double all other religiously motivated crimes combined. In ten
years, anti-Jewish hate crimes more than tripled. Anti-Islamic (or
Muslim) crimes were the second-most common religion-based hate crime,
accounting for 9% [268] of the total.”
Mamdani mentioned Islamophobia but failed to mention anti-Jewish violence, which is more than ten times worse!
Open Doors
works with the persecuted Christian church, and they have a list
showing the top ten countries with the worst persecution of Christians in the world. Islamic oppression is the cause of persecution in the majority of those countries.
And Islamic persecution is some of the cruelest. They not only kill Christians and confiscate their property, but they're known for torturing, mutilating, raping,
decapitating, and burning our Christian brothers and sisters to death.
There are peaceful Muslims, but they have put their faith in a religion that promotes evil and deception.
Let's pray for Mamdani and other Muslims that they will find Christ, and let's refuse Cain-like rhetoric that ignores cruelty and dwells on self-pity (1 John 3:12).
Islam is the enemy of the true and living
God. Let 9/11 remind us to pray for those deceived by Islam, the friends and families of those killed by Muslim violence on September 11, 2001, and our Christian brothers and sisters who are persecuted by Muslims all over the globe.
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✔ If you've heard the claims that Christianity is just as violent as Islam, see:
Were Old Testament Wars the Same as Muslim Jihad?
Half-Truths About the Crusades
When People Think They Can Judge God, but God Can't Judge Them
Genocide in the Bible?
Is Islam a Religion of Peace?
Open Doors: Top Ten Countries Responsible for Persecution and Killing of Christians 1 - North Korea - Communist and post-Communist oppression
2 - Somalia - Islamic oppression
3 - Yemen - Islamic oppression
4 - Sudan - Islamic oppression
5 - Eritrea - Dictatorial paranoia (a Muslim country) 6 - Syria - Dictatorial paranoia (a Muslim country) 9 - Libya - Islamic oppression 10 - Iran - Islamic oppression
The links on each country name lead to a page explaining the type of persecution and how you can pray for your brothers and sisters in Christ.
In New York City in 2023 (the latest stats I could find):
There were 477 anti-Jewish hate crimes and 37 anti-Muslim hate crimes. Yet we constantly hear that Muslims are being mistreated while hatred of Jews goes largely unnoticed. (NY State Comptroller)
Picture of Mamdani on my images: Dmitryshein
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