Speaker at Tea Party event
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Dr. Bill Warner, a university professor with a PhD in physics and math and an applied physicist, said at a Chattanooga Tea Party-sponsored meeting Monday night that America and Christianity "are losing the war to Islam."
Dr. Warner, who is also billed as a national and international expert on the subject of Islam, spoke to a crowd of over 400 people at Stuart Heights Baptist Church.
It was billed as a discouse "on the recent Chattanooga terror attack. Why did it happen and what can we do about it?" However, the speaker did not mention the July 16 slaying of five military personnel in his talk except to say the billing was apparently what prompted so many to attend.
His lecture explained the need for Americans to be educated about what is happening around them related to Islam and to talk about it.
He began by defining two words: Islam, which is an ideology and Muslim, which is people. He told the audience that he would not discuss Muslims except for how they follow the doctrine of Islam.
He said in Islam, there is no god but Allah, and Mohammed who is his prophet. There are two parts of the Koran, Mecca, the earliest portion and Medina that was written later, and they are very different he said, and contradictory in nature. The Medina version is 24 percent about jihad, he said and the Mecca portion has no mention of jihad or no anti-Jew text. In this religion, Mohammed is the perfect human being and provides a pattern of life. Whoever follows him will go to paradise and those that do not will go to hell.
Is the Koran about peace?, he asked. Yes was the answer. Is it opposed to peace? he asked next. Yes was the answer. Both praising or hating Jews and exercising tolerance or opposing it is addressed in the Koran, and it advocates for all of these things. He defined this as dualism—it always has two versions.
Dr. Warner said he is only concerned with “political Islam,” not the religion associated with it, because that is what has an effect on him directly. Examples of his statement that Islam is winning the conflict include the fact that he has been forbidden by Governor Bill Haslam to speak to law enforcement about Islam. He also described new textbooks being used in Tennessee that teach about Islam with nothing in the book to teach about Christianity.
“We need to discuss the entire truth,” he told the audience. He said schools need to teach the Koran and the Sira, which tells the life of Mohammed. They need to teach about the annihilation of Christianity that he believes is taking place, so history will not be repeated, he said. “Winning consists of learning,” he said. He encouraged teenagers to read the Sira that serves as a guide for life, telling how to do everything. He guaranteed that no girl who reads it would want to marry a Muslim or no boy would wish to convert. Americans are endorsing it, he said by not saying anything.
The greatest human rights violation today is the persecution of religious minorities, and Christians are the largest number by far, the speaker said. Persecution should be made an issue. He believes that Americans are too concerned with being nice to talk about what is happening, but it is a moral duty to speak about this.
In history, every nation that has opened the door to Muslim refugees, he said, now has primarily a Muslim majority. This happens on a time line measured in centuries. Islam is base on dominance and submission, he said, adding that, "We’re in a civilization war."
“I’m not going to defeat Islam,” said Dr. Warner, “it takes an organization.” He encouraged people to step up and save Tennessee and assume an attitude that this is an important issue.
A question asked from the audience was since the killer in the military shootings was addicted to drugs and alcohol and about to file for bankruptcy, why do you call him a jihadist? And the speaker was asked if he held a degree in theology or psychology. No, he answered, “I am a scientist who can read. I’m capable of teaching myself. I am using the duck theory: If it smells walks and sounds like a duck, then call it a duck.”
Another in the audience asked the difference in a peaceful and a radical Muslim. A radical Muslim follows the Medina Koran that includes so much about jihad, he answered. A peaceful Muslim follows the Mecca version that is all about religion. Muslims are not the problem, he said, Islam is.
Bassam Issa, president of the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, spoke saying that the night before the shooting in Chattanooga, the killer went to a bar and drank and hired a prostitute. He asked, "Based on your theory about Muslim jihadist, would it not be better to notify bartenders to call police if a Muslim comes to drink at their bar, and leave other Muslims alone?"
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