The Worldview War

July 16, 2011
By Brad Hughes

The conjunction of humanist and Islamic worldviews will threaten to destroy America from within throughout the 21^st century.  Indeed, there is a war of worldviews raging in America, with secular humanism and Islam as co-belligerents on one side and Judeo-Christian America on the other. 

The worldview war

The worldview war is spiritual in origin.  The Bible states in Ephesians 6:12 that "our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."  Worldviews incorporate theology and therefore reflect spiritual beliefs.  Life in America as we know it is at stake in this war.

A worldview is a comprehensive framework of ideas and beliefs from which an individual interprets his surroundings and circumstances.  It is this view of reality that consequently directs the decisions and actions of the individual, and also of nations.  According to Dr. David Noebel, worldview expert, worldviews are composed of ten different disciplines: theology, politics, economics, philosophy, biology, history, ethics, law, sociology, and psychology.

There are primarily six worldviews contending for the 6.9 billion people on Earth, with Islam, secular humanism, and Christianity chief among them.

The Islamic threat to America has historically been primarily a war of words, as characterized by S.A.A. Maududi in 1939, when he said, "Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam. Islam requires the earth - not just a portion, but the whole planet."  Maududi influenced Sayyid Qutb, the leading theologian of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and '60s and author of Social Justice in Islam.  Qutb had a significant influence on bin Laden and Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

The rise of secular humanism

Secular humanism increasingly supports the Islamists' position in the battle against the Judeo-Christian worldview.  Secular humanists currently dominate the government, education, the media, and the legal institutions in the United States.

Secular humanism may be the fastest-growing worldview in America.  It has also been declared a religion by the U.S. Supreme Court; the American Humanist Association has been given an IRS religious tax exemptionⁱ_.

Why are humanists and Islamists united in their opposition to the Judeo-Christian worldview?

• Humanists and Islamists share the primary goal of removing Christianity from public life so that their worldview can gain power.

• They both seek government solutions to accomplish utopia on earth.  The humanists desire a one-world government that perfects man on earth (via the United Nations, EU, etc.), while Islam seeks a one-world caliphate and a sharia legal system that perfects man on earth.

• Both use each other in attacking the Constitution.  The Muslim uses humanist doctrine (separation of church and state) in attacking the Constitution through judges, etc. to open the door for Sharia, food regulation, sanctioned prayer, and state suppression of Christian expression.  The humanist uses the Islamists to counter Christian "oppression" and attack the Constitution.

• Both use each other in a "termite strategy."  Termites destroy a house slowly and then suddenly.  By the time you see them, it may be too late.

The history of Islamists joining efforts with humanists is longstanding.  The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem allied with Hitler's Germany to annihilate the Jews.  The Ayatollah Khomeini aligned with Russia against Christian America shortly after taking power in Iran^iv_.

Islamic and Humanist totalitarianism cause religious persecution.

Estimates of Christians persecuted worldwide have reached 200 million.  Seventy-five percent of worldwide religious persecution is perpetrated against Christians, yet Christianity represents only approximately 30% of the world's population.  According to Open Doors International, the top ten oppressors are Islamic or humanist countries.  North Korea (humanist) is the most religiously oppressive country, followed by the Islamic countries of Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Maldives, Yemen, Iraq, Uzbekistan, and (humanist) Laos.

If Islam is peaceful, what about jihad?

Many Muslims and Humanists will assert that Islam is peaceful and that jihad is only an internal struggle to find peace with God.  A textual analysis of the Bukari Hadith indicates that 97% of jihad references are to physical (combat) jihad, and only 3% to spiritual jihadⁱⁱ.  Further, the Islamic doctrines of taqiyya (deception) and hudna (breaking treaties when circumstances are favorable to Islamic objectives) clearly illustrate a strategy to deceive the ignorant and credulous.

Jihad is a successful strategy.

Muhammad had approximately 150 converts to Islam after ten years of his efforts in Mecca.  However, after journeying to Medina and becoming a physical (combat) jihadist, he acquired 100,000 converts over the next ten yearsⁱⁱⁱ.  Moreover, the first hundred years after Mohammed's death gave rise to the physical jihad of his disciples, who destroyed or converted approximately 3,200 churches via plunder and conquest until Islam was defeated at the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D.

Effects of worldview.

Detroit used to be an all-American city with the highest per capita income in the 1950s.  However, the advance of unions (private and public), growing corruption of secular interests, and significant growth in the Arab-Islamic population have resulted in the collapse of a once-great city.

Great Britain is the best international example of humanist-Islamic cooperation.  Great Britain was the leading empire in the 19^th century, and the British pound was the world's reserve currency.  But Great Britain is now a shadow of its former self.  Will America follow the secular humanist model of Great Britain and experience a similar decline?

Samuel Huntington summarized the problem in his classic tome, titled The Clash of Civilizations, when he said, "Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power."

There are evil, incompetent, and indifferent combatants in this worldview war.  Evil combatants (radical Islamists and secular humanists) do bad things on purpose.  Incompetent combatants (secular Christians) do bad things by accident.  Indifferent combatants (majority of Americans) don't care whether others do good or bad as long as their personal peace and prosperity is not disturbed.  The evil combatants use the incompetent and indifferent to accomplish their goals for society.

What, then, should we do?

Judeo-Christian believers must educate themselves (and others) and engage the culture (schools, churches, synagogues, families, government, and communities) to reverse secular humanism and slow the progress of Islamic cultural and physical jihad in the U.S.  We must focus our efforts on the incompetent and indifferent population within the U.S. if we are to defeat those who are evil combatants.

Notes
ⁱ U.S. Supreme Court Torcaso v Watkins (1961) p. 495
ⁱⁱ Bill Warner. E-mail correspondence 6-6-11 (www.politicalislam.com).
ⁱⁱⁱ Bill Warner.  E-mail correspondence 6-6-11 (www.politicalislam.com)

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