Page 364 - Christians Must Heed Jesus

Christians Must Heed
Jesus

ter-faith alliance to be friends with an evangelical because anyone who
wants friendship is suspected of being the antichrist, while anyone
who does not want friendship is an enemy. This wrongheaded logic
literally prohibits people from being virtuous.
That way of thinking is by itself enough to inflict tragedy on the
world. Under it, there would be no more peace in the world, no com-
passion and no forgiveness. World peace and people coming together
in love would be impossible under such a perspective, because 23% of
the world's population are believed to be the antichrist. Since it is im-
possible to forge an alliance with the supporters of the antichrist, then
the false conclusion from this is that Muslims must always be avoid-
ed, that one must not be deceived by their calls for peace, and that if
they speak of brotherhood, friendship, union and unity, one must not
believe them; this is the highly dangerous and perverse logic that
evangelicals put out and cause thousands of people to believe.
One important example of this is the perverse allegations that

some radicals who portray themselves as Muslims make against Jews.
They have also tried to have the perverse perspective described above
applied against Jews by Muslims. They indoc-
trinate people with the idea that Jews must
be hated and one must never be their
friends. Although the radicals in ques-
tion are working very hard on this, we,
as true believers who abide by the Ko-
ran, are perfectly well aware that Mus-
lims must never adopt such an atti-
tude toward the Jews. We believe
Jews who obey the profound
commands of the Torah when
they say, "We want to bring

peace to the world, and this is

362