FROM THE HAMMER TO THE SICKLE
ISLAM COMES TO THE WEST – A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING
Gina Detwiler
Thirty-five years ago, I began writing my first novel, The Hammer of God, which tells the story of Charles Martel, the man who stopped a massive Islamic invasion of Gaul in the early 8th century.
Not really a normal subject for a 28-year-old (at the time) woman to write about. I had been searching for a medieval event as a theme for a novel when I discovered Charles and his remarkable victory—his story led me down a rabbit hole into the origins and spread of Islam throughout history.
The Battle of Tours took place in 732 AD, one hundred years after the death of Muhammad. I believed this date was significant—that the Islamic invaders chose that year to sweep through all of Europe. They had already conquered the Holy Land, Asia Minor, North Africa, and Spain in pursuit of Muhammad’s vision to bring the entire world under the submission of Islam, a word that itself means “submission.”
But Charles stopped that onslaught. And while Islam continued to conquer, eventually taking over the eastern Christian capital Constantinople, it could not penetrate the Christian West – Europe and America.
Until now.
As Western nations have entered the post-Christian era, Islam has made significant progress in achieving Muhammad’s dream of world domination. Not with guns and swords. But with much more subtle weapons: immigration and politics.
One member of the Muslim Brotherhood put it bluntly: “700 years of our trial to conquer Europe by force failed… This is the soft Islamic conquest of the West. What we couldn’t do in the last 20 years, the West is doing for us for free, and they are paying for it.”
For the last several decades, Muslims have settled in Western countries, produced lots of babies, and, for the most part, lived off the largess of the State, which provides them with financial aid, housing, medical care, and even jobs. Their population has grown exponentially as the native Western populations continue to decline.
Yet these Muslim communities have no interest in assimilating into American culture. Instead, they now demand that American culture assimilate to them.
The Minneapolis City Council has four Muslim members, yet the council voted unanimously to change the noise ordinance to allow the Muslim call to prayer at 5 AM. The Quran has been used for swearing-in ceremonies.
At a recent town hall meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, the first majority Muslim city in the country, a citizen questioned why a street was renamed after a terrorist sympathizer. The Muslim mayor told him he was not welcome in the city, and the day he moved, the mayor would have a parade to celebrate. Dearborn also changed its noise ordinance laws to allow the Muslim call to prayer at 5 AM.
Ilhan Omar, a Somali immigrant and congresswoman from Minnesota, has stated that her first loyalty is to Somalia, not to the United States. “I am here to protect the interests of Somalia,” she said. This is a woman who has benefited greatly from the American system and yet disparages it at every turn. She endorsed the “Somalia-first” communist candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, Omar Fateh.
In the UK, ten major cities, including London, have had Muslim mayors. There are about 30-100 Sharia courts and nearly 3,000 mosques in the UK. 78% of Muslim women and 35% of Muslim men don’t work and are on government assistance.
The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have dozens of front groups that infiltrate government at all levels, lobbying for Muslim-friendly concessions and financing radical student organizations in support of Hamas and other terrorist organizations. They finance the education of radical Muslim college students in order to infiltrate law firms and influential political groups.
Former President Joe Biden included CAIR in his administration’s efforts to combat anti-Semitism, which is a bit like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.
80% of convicted criminals in prison who convert to a religion choose Islam.
Instead of praying in their mosques, Muslims organize large street prayers in places like Times Square and Trump Tower to interfere with the daily lives of Americans.
The European Union is considering making polygamy legal to accommodate Muslims.
Muslim grooming gangs terrorize many European cities, raping thousands of young women while the government does nothing to stop them. The residents establish “No-Go” zones where police rarely venture, and Sharia is the only law enforced.
Massive immigration from Muslim countries has led to a huge spike in violent crime in London. Yet, the police are more interested in arresting people who post anti-Muslim rhetoric on social media.
This is not peaceful coexistence. It’s a hostile takeover. There is no way that Islam can exist within the confines of America, because Islam is incompatible with Western, Judeo-Christian values of freedom and individual rights. Islam can only exist in an authoritarian state. It is not just a religion—it is a system of power and control.
Islam is not a religion of peace
Islam is not a religion of peace, as many people like to say. It is a religion of violent revolution.
Quran 2: 191 “Kill them wherever you come upon them and drive them out of the places from which they have driven you out.
Quran 5:33 – The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land.
Quran 8:12 - ˹Remember, O Prophet,˺ when your Lord revealed to the angels, “I am with you. So make the believers stand firm. I will cast horror into the hearts of the disbelievers. So strike their necks and strike their fingertips.”
Quran 8:60 - Prepare against them what you ˹believers˺ can of ˹military˺ power and cavalry to deter Allah’s enemies and your enemies as well as other enemies unknown to you but known to Allah. Whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be paid to you in full and you will not be wronged.
Quran 8:65 - O Prophet! Motivate the believers to fight. If there are twenty steadfast among you, they will overcome two hundred. And if there are one hundred of you, they will overcome one thousand of the disbelievers, for they are a people who do not comprehend.
Quran 9:123 - “O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who are the righteous.”
Sharia in the US
Many Muslims are very open about wanting to bring the West under Sharia.
In a recent poll, more than half of U.S. Muslims believe they should have the option of being judged under Sharia. Only 39% said that Muslims should be judged in American courts. A quarter believe that violence is appropriate to punish anyone who insults Islam.
Imagine if a quarter of Christians said such a thing.
Let’s not forget that Sharia punishments include lashing, beheading, and stoning (particularly of women). Gay people could be put to death just for being gay. Women can be stoned to death for even an accusation of adultery. In Sharia, a woman’s testimony is worth half of a man’s.
Twenty percent of Muslims believe that violence is justified to make Sharia the law of the land in the United States.
If you think that twenty percent is a low number, remember that only ten percent of Germans were Nazis during World War Two, while only thirty percent supported Nazism.
For more information on the institution of Sharia Law in America, read this article.
Terror continues
Of course, the terrorists haven’t stopped either, with 2024 seeing a sharp rise in reports of Islamic plots and attacks against American civilians, according to the ADL.
Globally, there were over 50,000 terrorist attacks in the past ten years. Christians in Nigeria continue to suffer brutal ethnic cleansing by the Islamist Boko Haram regime, with the government doing nothing to stop it. Here in the U.S., a radical jihadist plowed through a crowd of revelers on New Year’s Day in New Orleans, killing fourteen people and injuring fifty-seven.
And let’s not forget 9/11.
Wait, it seems we’ve already forgotten.
Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City, seemed to come out of nowhere with his wide smile, clean-cut suits, and snappy one-liners. He has no experience in public service and has never held a real job, unless you count his brief stint as a rapper. He lived off his wealthy parents until recently.
Mamdani hides his jihadist, anti-Semitic agenda behind a chirpy, socialist “everything for free” message, which always resonates in a political campaign.
But what is the truth behind that friendly smile?
Here are just a few facts about him.
He is a citizen of Uganda, and only obtained US citizenship a few years ago in order to run for public office
He calls himself a “democratic socialist” (a contradiction in terms) and believes in “seizing the means of production,” straight out of the Marxist playbook.
His own mother says he is not an American
He is funded by billionaires like George Soros and Roy Singham, known for funding communist candidates
His own assistant says electing him is part of jihad
One of his rap songs praises the Holy Land Five, a group that supported terrorism and funneled millions of dollars to Hamas.
He favors Muslims over other Americans and wants to remake New York City in the image of “his people”
He seems to think Muslims were the real victims of 9/11
He’s been elevated to prominence by radical Jihadists like Linda Sarsour and Imam Siraj Wahaj, a known funder of terrorist activities.
He established a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter in college
He refuses to condemn the phrase “Globalize the Intifada,” which calls for the destruction of Israel and the West.
In his acceptance speech, he lauded many ethnic groups but never talked about Americans, and claimed it was immigrants who built the city and immigrants who will now be in charge.
Islam and Communism
Mamdani, like most Muslim political leaders in the West, calls himself a “democratic socialist” — a euphemism for communism. Islam and communism seem like strange bedfellows: communism is inherently atheistic, while Islam is the most extreme repressive religion on the planet.
It’s a mistake to think communism is not a religion. It is a religion, with government as god. It demands strict adherence to its precepts, and those who disobey are violently punished. It does not allow for freedom of expression and preaches hatred toward all outsiders.
Sounds just like Islam.
Both are about power, first and foremost. Complete and total domination of every aspect of life.
Mamdani said in his acceptance speech, “There is no problem too large for the government to solve.” He comes from Uganda, after all, an essentially one-party Marxist country that operates under the guise of a republic.
What Would Jesus do?
Christian churches all over the world have been duped into believing that Islam has roots in the Bible and that Abraham’s illegitimate son Ishmael was the “father” of Islam. There is no evidence for this claim, other than Muhammad’s own proclamations.
The Catholic Catechism (paragraph 841) claims that Muslims are “foremost” in God’s plan for salvation because they “hold the truth of Abraham” and worship the same God.
But Islam is not an Abrahamic faith. It did not stem from Judaism or Christianity, but from paganism. Mohammed adopted the common pagan customs of his time and fashioned them into a new religion, tying them to the Abrahamic faiths to legitimize his claim.
For a more detailed discussion on the pagan roots of Islam, check out this article.
Still, most Christian churches preach acceptance of all people with open arms, regardless of their belief system, because Jesus told us to love our neighbors. Didn’t he tell a story about a Samaritan coming to the aid of a Jewish man who had been robbed and left for dead?
First of all, the Samaritans were a race, not a religion. They were considered “half-breeds” by the Jews of the time, due to cross-breeding with Assyrians. But they did share the same fundamental beliefs about God and the Torah. Jesus’ teaching reminds us that people of all races are our neighbors. He also made the Samaritan, the outcast, the hero of the story as a lesson to the Pharisees who were listening.
It’s certainly true that Jesus preached love and compassion to all people, no matter their race or religious practice. He often went into non-Jewish areas to heal people and preach the gospel. He even revealed his true identity to a Samaritan woman who was an outcast in her own community.
But personal behavior is not the same thing as public policy. Did Jesus tell Gentiles to come to Judea and continue to practice their paganistic practices? Did he encourage people to disobey Jewish law?
Would Jesus call us to embrace radical Muslims who want to destroy Christianity itself?
Let’s see what Jesus and other biblical authors had to say about false religions:
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. Galatians 1:8
Mohammed thought an angel of light was speaking to him in a cave and revealed to him a “new path” to God. This is the fulfillment of Paul’s warning. He said that Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. (2 Cor 11:14)
Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men. You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”… Mark 7: 6-7
Paganism in all its forms, including Islam, is a man-made religion, born of man’s rules, not God’s. Mohammed was not a true prophet—he never did miracles or really prophesied anything. He was a caravan robber, a political leader, a pedophile, and a violent revolutionary.
For more information about who Muhammad really was, read Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Kareshi.
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ... Matthew 7:15-20
The fruit of Islam is fourteen hundred years of violence and bloodshed, of jihad, war against non-Muslims, sanctioned and encouraged by the Quran.
Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works. 2 John 1:9-11
John says those opposed to the teaching of Christ are not to be welcomed. We must not give ground to those whose faith allows them to kill you.
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 1 Timothy 4:1
Yes, Islam is a demonic religion. Even Muhammad thought so. For an interesting discussion on this subject, check out this article.
Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. John 16:2
This is exactly what Islam has historically taught its followers to do.
What Should Christians Do?
So what do we, as Christians, do about this situation?
First, we must be “as shrewd as serpents, and as innocent as doves.” (Matt 10:16). That means we have to be educated on the schemes of the enemy, including the motives of radical Islamists in our midst. We have to know what is going on and how we have been deceived. But we must not take violent action ourselves. We must remain innocent. We must not retaliate directly or take matters into our own hands.
Know what the Bible really says. Islam is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Imams continually preach that the Bible prophesied about Muhammad, and Christians who don’t know their own Bible believe it. But Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Period. (John 14:6)
We must love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. (Matt 5:44). Pray for their salvation or their defeat, according to God’s will. In fact, Paul tells us that kindness is a more effective weapon than hatred.
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12: 19-21
We must stand strong for our faith. Islam rises when Christianity falls. Muslims take their religion very seriously; Christians don’t. The recession of Christianity is the main reason Islam has grown so fast. Lack of Bible knowledge, the decline in church attendance, the dissolution of the nuclear family, the primacy of career over children, the rise of homosexuality, transgenderism, and abortion that have decimated Western populations all contribute to this downfall. The moral framework of our culture is now so fractured that any strong ideology with a rabid following will gain a foothold.
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Eph 6:13
Finally, we must remember what David said when he went out to fight Goliath:
…all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear.
For the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand." 1 Sam 17:47
The battle belongs to the Lord.
