Why do they smear us?

Recently, a Muslim propagandist wrote another smear piece to try to guilt Americans and the west into trusting the Islamists who are hell-bent on conquering the world for Allah.

Entitled, “Why do they fear us?“, Ph.D. candidate Zahid Mehmood Zahid blathered his way through several straw men arguments, forgetting that the real reason why the Islamist cannot be, nor should be, trusted is simply because of people just like him.

Rather than deal with specific Koranic references that demand that the Muslims murder all infidels or oppress certain “People of the Book” with taxation until they convert to Islam, Zahid shifts the blame to western greed as the real cause for its “Islamophobia.”

Forget Surah 9:5, which instructs the “radical” Muslim, “But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practice charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is oft-forgiving, most merciful.”

Forget Surah 9:29, which instructs the “radical” Muslim to “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of truth, from among the People of the Book, until they pay the jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”

Forget 1,400 years of diabolically inspired murder committed by Muslim jihadists, as they rampaged their way across the Middle East, raping women and pillaging one village, town, or city after another, under the guises that Islam is a “religion of peace” or a religion where there is no “compulsion.”

Forget the fact that Islam is anti-christian to the max, whereby Jesus is denied his sonship, his crucifixion and resurrection, or any real reason for living in the first place, and you have a much clearer reason why those in the west, who adhere to a Christian worldview, have zero respect for Muhammad’s imposture.

Of course, I am only scratching the surface, as volumes have been written on the subject, including one that I recently finished myself, that describe in much more coherent detail than anything Mr. Zahid complains about, why Islam should be opposed at every step, none of which have anything to do with oil reserves in Iran, Iraq, or Afghanistan.

But, Mr. Zahid and others stupid enough to buy into his rhetoric will forget or ignore history, and real biblical doctrine, and continue to perpetuate the smear campaign of shame that they assume should serve as viable alternatives to the truth or something that Islam and Muslims are completely devoid of and its non-Muslim academics and equally anti-christian critics are unwilling or unable to acknowledge or elaborate upon.

And in that respect, no amount of so-called “interaction” or “inter-faith dialogue” will do anything other than continue the smear campaign and perpetuate the ruse that the informed are in fear, when it is the “radical” Muslims, such as Zahid Mehmood Zahid, who are in fear of the truth.

About the Author

Paul Derengowski, Ph.D.
Founder of the Christian Apologetics Project PhD, Theology with Dogmatics, North-West University (2018); MA Apologetics with Honors, BIOLA University (2007); ThM, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (2003); MDiv, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (2000); BA Pastoral Ministry & Bible, Baptist Bible College (1992)