Paul Carrington's presentation, 'Mohammad and Islam Through the Ages,' aims to equip listeners with a clear understanding of Islam's historical and current influence, especially in the West. The talk is structured into three sessions: Muhammad's life and the development of Islam over the centuries, an exploration of the Quran and other Islamic writings, and strategies for engaging with Muslims. Carrington emphasizes the challenges posed by Islam's political ideology, which demands submission and promotes jihad as a means of spreading influence. He warns of the crisis in Europe, where Islamic migration has led to societal changes, and he urges America to learn from these developments. The historical narrative follows Muhammad's transformation from a businessman to a religious and political leader, emphasizing the aggressive spread of Islam through jihad. Carrington also discusses the post-war consensus in Europe, which he believes has facilitated Islamic migration by exploiting Western empathy. He concludes with a call to action for Christians to remain vigilant and proactive, invoking the biblical mandate to spread Christianity while acknowledging the challenges posed by Islam.

Okay, well today we're going to do something a little bit different. I wouldn't classify this perhaps as a sermon, but we're going to be dealing with matters of Islam. So I'm going to be walking us through really today the life of Muhammad and then Islam down through the ages. There's a handout that's being passed out that will give you just some idea of where we're going to be going. I'm going to have some slides to help us as well.

And hopefully just really the idea here, the elders are hoping that the church will be equipped with an understanding of exactly what we are facing as it pertains to Islam and some of these other dominant world views that we're confronting here in 2025 in America. So the first session, we're gonna do three sessions, the first session is as I mentioned about Muhammad and the outflow of his life, Islam through the ages. But then we're also gonna be looking at the Quran and other writings next time. And then finally, personally engaging with Muslims. And you'll notice on the bottom of your handout, there are some questions that you might wanna consider as you meet with and perhaps just confront Muslims, individual Muslims along the way.

So those are going to hopefully be things that we'll address throughout the course of our time here. And so I want to I want to be very very clear one of the things I'm not going to be doing is pulling any punches today. We're going to be confronting Islam head-on. It's not going to be very flattering. You know, at the moment, what we find ourselves in is a point of crisis.

If you gaze across the Atlantic and you take a look at Europe, you see a continent really in big, big trouble. Just earlier this month, the US released its national security strategy and specific to Western Europe they described it as on the cusp of facing civilizational erasure. Like an eraser where you just go and wipe it out. That's kind of the idea. And really this is a suicidal path of decline that has been incited by these European Union leaders in Brussels.

So not necessarily the average European, but those unelected bureaucrats that are there in Brussels, which is where the European Union is based there in Belgium. And rather than wake up at the strategic strategy release of the US, many of these leaders they got offended and decided to double down. This is just happening in December, the month of December. And so what happens when milk and water liberalism meets Islam? Well, what we're finding is that in Europe you've got entire Muslim neighborhoods in countries like France, in countries like Sweden, that the police refuse to enter.

They just won't even go there. And then of course you've got different Western countries at the moment that are currently vying for the unenviable position of being the rape capital of Europe. UK just bypassed Sweden of all places just in the last little while, but it's directly correlated to the number of young Muslim men that they've taken in. It's devastating. England now has about 4 million Muslims and as of 2023, Mohammed became the most common baby name there in that nation.

By the way, this past week, Toronto was acknowledged for the first time in its history, Toronto and Canada, that Mohammed is now the most popular name there in that city of about four to six million people depending how you measure it. Just speaking of Mohammed, recently there was a member of Parliament there in England, Iqbal Mohammed, and he tried to make the case for first cousin marriage in the UK, trying to overturn 1, 000 years of tradition. Because this is what happens in the Muslim world, first cousin marriage. So how do we really account for things is what I want to really look at. You know I remember years ago, this is probably in around 2017, I read a book by an author his name was Douglas Murray, he's not a believer, but when it first came out I was really curious, I read a review and then I bought the book.

And the title of the book was The Strange Death of Europe. And one of the statements he makes in this book is this. He says, only Europeans and their descendants remember guilt. So only Europeans and their descendants have to continuously atone for it. He's not advocating that.

He's just saying this is the reality. That because of the European mindset, because of Christianity and so on, There's this guilt that has been leveraged by these leaders of the European Union to make the people open their doors to things that they would not otherwise open their doors for. And so what I wanna do right now, before we get into Muhammad, is just I wanna talk about something that I think is critical to understanding and framing everything. And I would probably classify this as what we call the post-war consensus. And what happened is that after the Second World War, so that ended in 1945, you've got shell-shocked Europeans that they actually fell into this trap set by their elites.

The idea was to get rid of nationalism, get rid of it altogether. Western culture should not be sustained any longer. After all, it caused World War II. Do away with any strong and visible religion. And in its place, globalism is the new solution.

Your new religion is just to be nice. No culture is superior to any other culture. Be polite and open your doors to mass migration. That was really the message in post-World War II. Elon Musk, who's not a believer by any stretch, but he describes this suicidal impulse foisted upon Europe by their elites as exploiting the bug that is Western empathy.

Because there's this innate feeling as a Christian culture to do good, to be kind, to take care of those who are distressed, and that's what's been exploited to the tune of millions and millions of migrants coming across the border. So while the average European now seems to hate what has happened, this civilizational erasure, let me close this off here. Now the fruit of all of this is visible. You've got Muslims, Muslim enclaves in historic cities, you've got rape gangs, you've got stabbings, you've got all these types of things, intimidation, and all the while their leaders are doubling down, right? This is what you've got in terms of a problem here.

You know, just a quote by King Charles, he said it like this, "'The Islamic world is the custodian "'of one of the greatest treasuries of accumulated wisdom "'and spiritual knowledge available to humanity.'" What a statement. This is the elites of Europe. But guess what? America better wake up because America also has a problem. There's 4.5 million Muslims here in the US.

Now that's not as much as the 45 million over in Europe, but what so many fail to realize is that we're not simply dealing with a religion. We're not simply dealing with something like Hinduism, for example, but what we have in Islam is a political ideology that demands submission wherever it spreads. This is what most people, when you're just talking to people on the street, even many Muslims might not even get this. And of course we're told, relax, only 10% of Muslims are radicals. But take 10% of 4.5 million and you've got how many?

450, 000 jihadists. And that's just here in the U.S. If you want to look at it from that perspective. You know Dearborn, that often makes the news or we saw the recent election with Mom Donnie. You're all hearing about the industrial scales fraud that has taken place in Minnesota with the Somalis and so on.

But just speaking, here we are in North Carolina. Guess how many mosques we have here in North Carolina? 103. In America, in the American South, Texas has the greatest concentration, the largest concentration of Muslims, and in the last two years alone there's been about 48 to 80 mosques opening up there in Texas. So that's at minimum two mosques opening up every single month.

Just to give you a sense of the pace here and here in Wake Forest by the way right some question whether Hasib Fatmi the guy who just got elected here in Wake Forest as the new town commissioner whether he's a Muslim but if he's not a Muslim then why is he congratulated by the Council of American Islamic Relations on their website? And by the way, this past November, that same election, guess what happened? There were 38 Muslim election winners. So every election, 38 across the country, new people put into play that are Muslims that are going to be advocating for Islamic interests and so there's a clear strategy. I've worded it like this.

I would call it the strategy of migrate multiply and then dominate and what's happened? I mentioned the post-war consensus. Because in that period of time, there's been this kind of, I would call it, a collective Western amnesia. People just forgot what Islam actually is, what everyone knew for about 1400 years, all of a sudden, poof, gone. And Islam has shape shifted itself into the religion of peace.

I remember after September 11th, you could probably go back in your memory as well, but I remember American leaders calming everyone down saying that Islam is one of the three great Abrahamic faiths and so on and so forth. New words like Islamophobia were coined and created and why not it work for homophobia and so why not have it for Islamophobia? But the big question I have is, is America gonna follow Europe's path? Is it gonna welcome an incompatible ideology and reap the consequences like Europe is right now. Speaking of the US, there is a little known fact.

Did you know why we formed our US Navy in 1794? Barbary pirates. Exactly. At the dawn of our nation's founding, our first war, our first war was actually an unprovoked defensive war against Muslim jihadist pirates from North Africa. That's where Barbary is, 1801 to 1805.

And the reason was is because our young nation, it had just, now we don't have naval protection from Britain, and so these pirates started attacking U.S. Merchant ships and started enslaving the passengers and the crew. And of course this is a new thing now that America's facing so Jefferson and Adams you know they have a conversation and they asked the ambassador of Tripoli Tripoli's Libya which is part of Barbary back in the day. By what right are your pirates preying upon American ships? And they were informed like this.

This is what Jefferson writes. He says this. It was written in the Quran that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make slaves of all who they could take as prisoners, and that every Muslim who should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise." This is America's first interaction with Islam but of course long forgotten by the vast majority of people here in this country today. And so what's my objective today? Well, my objective today is really to heal this kind of collective amnesia and to recall to mind what was simple common knowledge about Islam until we lost our minds following the Second World War.

And so I want to get into this here and talk about Muhammad. What's fascinating to me is that there's so many debates, so many discussions about Islam, Islam Christianity going back and forth, but what's fascinating to me is how many of these debates and discussions skip right over the founder of Islam itself and his actual life. But when you read the Quran, 91 times, in a book that's two-thirds the size of the New Testament, 91 times the Quran says that his words and actions are to be considered the divine pattern for humanity. In other words, he's the ideal man. And so Islam is born out of this reflection on who Muhammad is.

And What is the natural outflow, this is the question, what is the natural outflow of pursuing his life as your ultimate example? What will you reap, what will be the fruit of that? There's a man by the name of Nabil Qureshi, he's now deceased, He was a man who left Islam. He became a Christian and an apologist and he knew Islam inside and out. He was actually, I would say, an evangelist of some sort for Islam before he became a Christian.

But listen to what he says in this very short quote that captures it all. Quote, I left Islam by studying Mohammed. I saw the truth, the light, and the life by studying Jesus. The more he got acquainted with Muhammad was the more persuaded that he was this could not be something I can follow any longer. And so I really want us here to grapple with this here and understand that you're not going to get what Islam actually is unless you actually come face to face with Muhammad.

And so everything I'm going to share with you, all the sources today are going to be Islamic sources themselves. We're going to break his life into three chapters. I think this is probably the best way to get this in your mind. First, you know, he was a businessman. The early years, he was born in about 570 AD and I'm gonna capture this first part, kind of this first 40 years of his life.

And they were fairly unremarkable years. You know, he was born in a small town by the name of Mecca, and it was a polytheistic city or town in modern-day Saudi Arabia. And At the time, Allah was the god, the high god of this town. It was worshiped by the Qureshi tribe. And he becomes orphaned at a young age.

His dad dies before he's born, and then his mother dies. And he becomes orphaned, and he's taken in by his uncle. And his uncle takes him under his wing as a camel driver. And so he would go throughout the whole Middle East. At that time, by the way, as he was going throughout areas like Syria, this was an advanced and sophisticated Christian land.

You think of Syria, you don't think of Christianity. But that's what it was back in those days. And so he worked with his uncle, and by the time he was 24, he became the manager of a wealthy woman's business. Her name was Khadijah, and he was managing this very lucrative trade caravan for her. And at 25 years old, after one particularly successful trip where he doubled her profits and her investment, she actually initiated a marriage proposal to him.

She's 40, he's 25, and they end up getting married. And so he's 40 years old, fast forward a little bit, and we get to chapter 2 of his life being the false prophet. I would call these the demonic beginnings, and I see if you agree with me here. He starts leaving home for prolonged periods of time. He's going on these kind of religious retreats to be alone and to pray.

And in one of these occasions, an angelic being, entity, appears to him while he's in this cave. And the figure squeezes him so hard three times that he thinks he's going to die. This is how bad it is, he's sweating profusely. And his first impressions are that he's possessed. This must be demonic.

That's what he thinks. And later on the entity claims to be Gabriel. But he's not really persuaded of that. Things are so bad that he leaves the cave and he decides he's gonna kill himself by throwing himself off of a cliff. But the figure stops him and tells him no, that he's a prophet of God.

And so he's gone a while and his wife gets worried and so sends some men out to go and find him. They find him And this is what he says, quote, as he was coming back, as I was coming back, I heard the trees and the stones saying, peace be to you, messenger of God. And when he gets back, he confesses to his wife that he thinks he's gone insane, He thinks he's possessed. This is his initial impressions. And I just want to stop for a moment, compare this now with what you see of Gabriel meeting different people in our scriptures.

Fear not, Zacharias. Fear not, Mary. Ask yourself, did any prophet in our scriptures who encountered an angel immediately try to run off a cliff and kill himself? Or was he in a state of despair thinking that he was possessed by a demon or some other demonic force. But of course the the impulse to suicide it doesn't just stop with that one it continues numerous times but each time he's about to kill himself this is what happens and this is another quote Gabriel would appear to him before and say, oh Muhammad, you are indeed Allah's messenger in truth.

Whereupon his heart would become quiet and he would calm down and would return home. So he's constantly battling, this must be demonic, this must be demonic. He still has doubts, but his wife assures him. And so she becomes his first convert. And so a new religion is founded.

It's called Islam, and it means submission. And those who follow Islam, those who submit are called Muslims. And so this is the second chapter now, his life in Mecca. He now becomes a preacher and a prophet in air quotes. And of course the first converts are his family, his close friends, and a small gathering really starts to kind of coalesce around him.

They meet on the outskirts of the town. But then he began to preach more publicly. Remember what I said earlier, it was a very polytheistic city that he was living in and so he would preach this monotheism and try to persuade the people and then he began to condemn them and so on and things were getting to such a head that the elders of the town went to his uncle, remember the one I mentioned earlier that raised him, and asked you need to do something about your nephew because he's dividing the town, he's causing all sorts of havoc here where we live, but his uncle was very sympathetic to him, doesn't really do anything, and so the town is devolving into all sorts of quarrels and so on and so forth. Finally his uncle dies and his uncle is his kind of protector and so what happens is that there's a face a failed assassination attempt. The town tries to, people in the town try to kill him.

Muhammad and his followers are forced to leave. And so they leave Mecca and there's about 150 of them. So after 10 years of preaching, he has about 150 followers, you know. And then he leaves and he goes to this other part of Saudi Arabia about eight days journey. It's called the Hijra and this is important because he makes his way from Mecca to Medina.

Now why do I say that's important? Because this is, if you look at the Islamic calendar this is year one. Just like how we mark our calendar you know from the birth of Christ this is year one to them this eight day journey that begins their calendar. He's now 52 years old He's gonna live for another 10 years, but these are 10 years that are gonna forever change the course of human history. And here he becomes more than a prophet.

Here he becomes a political leader. He becomes a general. And I would say his single greatest innovation would be the word jihad that's born here. And this is the idea of a devotion to violence or holy war in the cause of advancing Islam. And where persuasion didn't work in Mecca, right, he tried to preach, he did all this, you know, kind of in-your-face, open-air preaching, all that kind of thing.

Now he's gonna start to make proselytes by sword and by fire. And jihad is something that you need to really get your head around. It's this multi-tentacled ideal or view where you do fight with the sword, but you also fight with writing. You also fight with money. You also fight with speech and women.

You even fight with the womb. The more children you have and raised for Allah the better. And the idea is this that Allah sacrifices or sanctifies violence for complete domination because Islamic law must cover the globe. Remember what I said it's not just a religion but it's a political ideology and so some of his activities you could go down the line I would run out of time explaining what goes on in these 10 years. It's unbelievable.

You've got mass executions. You've got assassinations. You've got raids, camel raids and all sorts of other raids. You've got enslavements, rapes without number. You couldn't even imagine.

One particular account describes an old woman being tied to two camels and split apart after her capture in a raid and all this is all divinely sanctioned by Allah. Well if all this isn't enough for this paragon of virtue as Islam likes to claim, he graduates from a false prophet and a bloodthirsty warlord to becoming a pedophile as well. He's 53 years old now and he consummates his marriage with Aisha, his wife of nine years old. 53 and she's nine. Actually they had already been married for three years, but he waits until she's nine.

And listen to this quote. This is from Aisha herself. This is recorded. Listen to this. My girlfriends and I would play with dolls while in Mohammed's presence.

They would try to hide when he entered, but he always would call them back to play with me. Playing with dolls or anything with a human image was forbidden, but because I was so young, not yet having reached puberty, it was allowed. This is an evil, evil man. And he's the ideal man lauded in Islam. Well, in this place of Medina, he's constantly now accruing and building up this political clout.

And he becomes more and more violent. He actually develops this idea, this concept of the kuffer that's in your outline as well. And this word is more than just someone who's simply an unbeliever, but it's someone who's an actual denier, meaning you've heard now that Muhammad is the true prophet, But you said no, he's not. You're now categorized as a cuffer, which is you're someone who's resisting Islam. You've become an offense to Allah, and therefore you need to be dealt with.

You can be killed, you can be raped, anything can be taken from you, that's kind of the idea. And so he's gained this following in Medina, but guess what? He hasn't forgotten Mecca. So he decides he's going to go back to Mecca in what I would call a mostly peaceful conquest in our modern parlance. He goes on a vengeance tour.

And you remember how shamefully he was treated, right? He got chased out. They tried to kill him. Well, now he goes back and he takes vengeance on those who stood against him. He kills a number of people.

He wins the victory, but not only that, town after town now begins to fall to Islam. And after all these victories, some of the Muslims in that day said that the fighting, hey, now that the fighting is over, let us lay down our arms. But Muhammad, he forbade this, and he says this, quote, "'There shall not cease from the midst of my people "'a party engaged in fighting for the truth "'until the Antichrist appears.'" And so, Jihad has now become this embedded way of life in Islam. It's the responsibility of every single Muslim to engage. And what's interesting, you break down this last 10 years of his life, mathematically he was involved in one armed violent conflict every six weeks, if you average it out.

That's Islam for you, just summarized in a very short way. So why do you think I started with this biographical sketch of Muhammad? Well, it's because his life and his teachings, they perfectly set up what his followers are going to do down through the following centuries. But I also want to just really lay it down something in your heart. Remember what I said earlier at the very beginning.

I compared Europe and also I referred to America And I think this is important for us to really grasp here for a minute. You know, Islam, it manifests itself according to circumstances. Always remember that. And so you had the Meccan Muhammad, the Muhammad that lived in Mecca, right? And I would relate that maybe to modern-day America in a sense.

And what I mean by that is that when Islam is weak, in this case, he left with 150 followers, jihad really consisted of persuasion and conversion. He was trying to persuade people through preaching. Right? But once he gained steam, the Medinan Muhammad is entirely different. What you see over in Europe, I would say, has more correlation to the Muhammad that we see in Medina than the one in Mecca.

And when Islam is strong, what do you see? You see that jihad uses violence and sharia. You see mass immigration just continuing and continuing and more and more people coming. And the only legitimate time to pause jihad according to Islam is when Islam needs to gather strength. Take a breath, gather strength, and then begin again.

So keep those things in mind here as we go through because now we're going to be looking at Islam as it develops through the ages. And so here's another thing I just you know again we've talked about a man, Muhammad, of which most people are ignorant of. Even many Muslims you'll meet might not know or might try to put down and limit some of his evils and say, well, he was a man of his times, and hey, therefore he can be excused. But post-Muhammad, there's this common knowledge of Islam and Christendom that people really don't have no idea. Everything kind of starts with the Crusades, if you ask the average person.

And the idea is that, hey, there were 500 years of peaceful coexistence, and all of a sudden, these Western knights show up on horseback, and they're slashing and trying to destroy all these innocent Muslims that were just sitting there doing nothing but living peacefully. But that's really not the idea here at all. I mentioned Muhammad, he lived, he died at about 62 years of age, so he dies at about 632 AD. But within 100 years, this is fascinating, you have Muslims moving up around through North Africa up into Spain and almost into France, killing, abducting, raping, destroying churches as they go until finally in 732 they meet with Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours and he by the grace of God is able to push them back and halt their northward expansion into Europe. And just keep this in mind that at the dawn of Islam, so in around 570, North Africa is actually more Christian than Europe.

You wouldn't think that today, because now it's almost entirely vanished. All those countries, right? Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, you go down the list. All of these countries were all previously Christian until the scourge of Islam, until jihad showed its face and really started to decimate and destroy. And this is what you need to really kind of grasp here.

I have it on your outline, but the way that Muslims look at the world, it's really kind of broken out into two things. You've got Dar al-Islam, which is those areas of the globe that are already conquered, that are already submitted to Islam. And then you have Dar al-Hard, which is those, like America or other parts of Europe that have yet to become Islamic, yet, but they will be according to their doctrine. You know, one day a man walked up to Muhammad, and again, I'm using all Islamic sources. A man said to Muhammad, tell me what act is rewarded as much as jihad.

Muhammad replied, I do not know of any. And so jihad has become probably the most I would say powerful incentive because if you win the battle on that day you get wealth, you get women, you get land, you get slaves and so on. And if you lose you go to paradise. So it's a win-win from the perspective of the guy fighting for the cause of Islam. And so this is really the danger that we have facing Europe at this particular time, is that it's now this aggressive, I would say cancerous scourge that's coursing through, destroying pretty much everything as it goes across 500 years.

And then finally, you do come to the point of the Crusades in about 1095. And I would just like to say, you know, there's a built-in, I would call it a Protestant disdain for the Crusades. You know, modern education, Hollywood even, depicts these men as just greedy, land grabbing knights that were just slashing and burning, as I said, on their way to Jerusalem, right? The senseless killing of slaughter of all these innocent people. But the reality is this, that by the time the first crusade finally got underway, two-thirds of Christendom had been conquered in less than 500 years.

This is what's happening in this part of the world. And finally in 1094, 1095, you've got the emperor Alexius, the Byzantine emperor who's in Constantinople. He's seeing all of this happening. Turkey's just being eaten up. At that time, it wasn't Turkey.

It's being eaten up by the Muslim hordes as they're moving further west. And he makes this desperate call to Western Christendom for help to stop these Seljuk Turks from continuing their expansion into Anatolia. And so They've lost, as I mentioned, huge amounts of territory. There was a big battle in 1071 called the Battle of Manzigert. And that was kind of the thing that broke the camel's back and just basically paved the way for these hordes to continue making their way west.

Well, the first crusade, it was the most successful crusade. And it was followed by a number of poorly led, you know, I would say clumsy, poorly executed attempts to retake Muslim, retake the Holy Land from the Muslims and that's what people normally point to, kind of the ones that weren't as executed as well. But the last crusade that takes place in about 1291, when the Templars, the Hospitallers, the Teutonic Knights were forced to leave the Middle East, it was a battle of Acre. And they left there and went to Cyprus and that's where they set up shop. And so this battle from these basically 1095 to 1291 is this attempt to reclaim the lands that were stolen and taken by the Muslims for hundreds of years.

But it doesn't stop there. They basically, they expelled the Westerners from the Holy Land. In the 1300s now, you've got the Ottoman Empire now on the scene. They're in Turkey, kind of headquarters out of Constantinople. Well, not out of Constantinople, they're kind of surrounding Constantinople.

They're kind of coming up along Anatolia and then they also come up into the Balkan area. And so really the only part now left is Constantinople. And that's really seen as the the prize and so in 1453 the unthinkable happened. This is like the most strategic place you can think of in the world. It's also not just strategic but it's spiritual right this this idea of Constantinople.

This is where Constantine moved his capital a thousand years earlier and this was like this symbolic prize that now they wanted to take. Well it fell in 1453 and Constantinople becomes Istanbul. It had been impenetrable for 1, 100 years, but now it had fallen. And I'll spare you the details of what took place once the Muslims made their way and breached the walls, but it's an unbelievable war that took place. But now they weren't satisfied with Constantinople.

Now that they had Constantinople, the Islamic Caliphate now continued its jihad on land, and then increasingly they started moving toward the sea. And what I want to just, again I said at the beginning, this collective amnesia that people just don't understand really what Islam was and how it was regarded. Well Europe at that time, they knew what they were facing when you mentioned Islam. And there was this one insane battle that was really to stop the Muslims from spreading north. I wish I had more time to get into it, but it's called the Battle of Lepanto.

And there was about 600 ships. Can you imagine, if you're young, think of 600 ships, enemy ships, Western ships, Christian ships, and they're all in this area. They're ramming each other. Arrows are flying. They're pounding each other with cannon, hand-to-hand combat, axes, maces.

Once you board the ship, it was absolutely brutal. But I want to introduce you to the caliber of men that were fighting on behalf of Christendom at that time, men who actually grasped the stakes that if we fall over now, all of Europe will be overrun. Listen to this account. In one ship, a Spanish knight, Federico Venusta, was below decks in a hammock. So the war is going on above deck.

He's below deck in a hammock. Why? Because he's fighting a high fever. When the Turks finally boarded the Doncella, his ship, he clambered on deck. So imagine now this feverish man getting on deck and he's there.

On the deck he had his hand mutilated by the explosion of his own grenade. He demanded a galley slave cut it off. Imagine this. When the man refused, he cut it off himself and then ran back down below deck to the cook's quarters, ordered them to tie a carcass of a chicken over the bleeding stump and returned to battle Shouting at his right hand to avenge his left Kind of men are these you know? It's unbelievable.

I I look at this and then I look at our testosterone depleted peppermint mocha frappuccino age and I say my Like this is these are men Who understood the stakes, You know, I would just like to suggest to us it's going to take more than clever tweets and memes to win the day. These men, they understood what it was to actually fight because they saw the stakes. I just say the stakes are high. And it was because of this battle that Islam was actually held back by sea. They couldn't come around and come around Italy and actually take it.

But they did continue the jihad by land. And So by 1683 now, we're just fast forwarding, I'm just picking up some key things. I just mentioned 1453, the fall of Constantinople. Well, in 1683, they continue that course up through Eastern Europe, and they're now at the gates of Vienna. Imagine how far, I've driven from Turkey to be, it's a long way.

I mean, it takes more than two days of driving to get there. And so they're traveling up there and it was only because of a Polish king that the Muslims are actually held back from conquering Vienna. And then who knows what would have happened if that were the case. And so the Ottoman Caliphate, by the time it conquered all the land that it conquered, it was larger than the Roman empire at its height. And not only did it seek to expand outwardly, so I'm talking about the outward expansion, but it continued atrocities within.

If you were a Christian in those lands that were once conquered, it was not an easy life for you. There was all sorts of genocides that took place. Many of you might have heard of the Armenian genocide that took place in the late 1800s, coming up into the 1900s. 1.5 million Armenians slaughtered. The Greeks also, 360, 000 Greeks were slaughtered.

Where we lived in Izmir, it's famous because everyone rejoices at the expulsion of the Greeks. You have restaurants and streets named after the day that they actually conquered and destroyed all the Greeks. But 360, 000 of them were slaughtered in this genocide. You had the Assyrians. 300, 000 of them were also killed.

These are Christians, by the way. Armenian Christians. You have Greek Christians and Assyrian Christians. These are Christians that have been taken out because of the cause of Islam. And finally when the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and I'll draw to an end here, but it was 1923 And we kind of come full circle.

It seems like Islam and the fear of Islam evaporated. So much was happening in the world. World War II had just ended. And the center of the world was now shifting steadily west. America was now really the center of the world after World War I.

And then of course we had our own problems. We had things like the Great Depression. And then of course right after that you do have World War II happening. Right after World War II you've got the Cold War. There were a lot of things taking attention away.

And Islam was regarded really as only a threat to the old world but here we are in the new day and so all guards were down. And when 9-11 happened the world really didn't have any categories to explain it. People were scrambling to understand it. But hopefully what you've learned today and what was common knowledge for the centuries that have been largely forgotten is a good refresher on things like what Islam actually is, who the founder actually is. And now here we are in the US after decades of fruitless war I would say trying to impose democracy on people who have no regard, who never wanted democracy, who have no category for democracy.

And we've spent two decades and now after two decades, what are we doing? We're facilitating the migration of these people into our lands. This is really the reality. And we're back to where we started really today. I mentioned the strategy, today's strategy of migrate, multiply, and then dominate.

And so what Islam couldn't achieve in a thousand years of battering the doors of Christian Europe, they've now achieved through invitation and negligence. Think about that for a minute. Europe, Europe by the way by 2050 is gonna have 76 million Muslims. And I could say be thankful you're in the US, except listen to this gleeful quote by the founder of the Center for Global Muslim Life. Look what he says here.

And he's speaking about the Americas. So when I say Americas, that's North America and South America. But look what he says. By 2100 he's rejoicing. The Americas will host 35 to 50 million Muslims concentrated overwhelmingly in Canada and the United States.

This five to six times increase from today represents one of the most significant religious demographic shifts in hemispheric history. That's what's happening. We're making history even more in a sense than what's happened in Europe. And so I want to end by this. I want to introduce you to an Islamic term.

And this is central to understanding absolutely everything as it pertains to Islam. This idea, a key part of their conquest, it's the term Rabat. And this is really the idea, historically speaking, of a fortified Islamic settlement established by Muslims on borderlands. So imagine they're fighting, they're fighting, they're fighting, they get to a point where they can't penetrate anymore and they build a fortress and from that fortress even though they can't go any further they're going to launch out and do specific raids into the Christian areas and over time whittle it down and and make impact as much as they can. The idea is kind of like a dog marking a tree, is kind of the crude way to put it.

But right now, robot, think about this term. It's really the idea of forming enclaves wherever you go. Push, push, push, form an enclave. Push, push, push, form another enclave. Europe is already full of these enclaves today.

Towns like Malmo in Sweden where the police can't enter as I mentioned earlier or Marseille in France or London has parts as well maybe not where police won't enter but are have high high high concentrations of Muslims. When I was in Munich, you see it exactly there. You might think you're in the Middle East when you're in Munich, Germany. And so I would just like to say this, that when you begin to contemplate American cities in this context of Rabat, taking these enclaves, forming nucleases, and then from there, getting a footing from which you can now grow further, things become a little bit more alarming. Think of places like Dearborn, where you've got 60, 000 Muslims, or little Somalia now, or Texas, or New York City, which has the highest concentration of Muslims in the United States.

You've got these hundreds of rabbats in Europe, and now we've got dozens already here in the US. And so the difference is that these are no longer just towns on the outskirts, but major cities that are across the nation. And so I know it's not a cheery message at all to kind of come face to face with what's happened and what is happening. But today hopefully you've learned a little bit about Muhammad and also about the history of Islam, specifically Jihad. Next time we're going to be focused on the writings, the Quran and some of the other writings that are there in Islamic literature.

But I think I just want to remind us of the one thing that I think is most important and that's the final words of our Lord Jesus Christ before he left this earth where he said that all power has been given to me in heaven and in earth and he says on the basis of that we're not to be defensive but to be offensive Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all things that I have commanded. And then he ends with that most beautiful phrase, and lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the age. That's our great hope and our great confidence that we have a king as the King of Kings and he is the Lord of Lords. So let's keep that in mind even as we grapple with all of these things upon us here. I'll end us with prayer and then we'll be dismissed.

Heavenly Father, we do come to you here this afternoon, Lord, and I know it's an unusual time to spend talking about a false religion, but we thank you Lord that light has come into the world and that there is truth and that you are not hindered or hampered or constrained oh Lord but at the same time father we pray that you would equip us to grapple with the times, that we would know how to live, how to conduct ourselves, Lord, what to say, what to do, what actions to take. Lord, we pray that even our nation would not just fall prey as Europe has, but that we would, oh Lord, awaken as a nation and push back this evil demonic ideology. Lord, we pray that Christianity would prosper in this land, that you would be exalted, that you would grant repentance from top to bottom, and that men would turn to you as the God of truth, that we would not have to face the scourge, this judgment of Islam coming upon us, O Lord. So have mercy and guide us along the way, and teach us, Lord, as we go into the rest of our day.

In Jesus' holy name we pray, amen.