Islam has always been the same. Unfortunately, Christendom has been quite fickle and faithless. That’s the real problem.

Let us assume for a minute that we are completely faithful Orthodox Christians thinking about the matter at hand. We know that Christ is the God-man. We know that Muhammad appeared some 600 years after the Resurrection with a message from a being he alleged to be the angel Gabriel. We know that this message explicitly and specifically contradicts the Gospel in its particulars: the book “revealed” to Muhammad denies the Incarnation, Crucifixion and Resurrection of the God-Man, Jesus Christ. It posits alternative explanations, making theosis impossible for the followers of Muhammad.

Perhaps it was an angel, but not Gabriel. More likely Lucifer.

And so the history is one of persecution of God’s Church practically from the moment of its inception. Dhimmitude, or worse.

Subjection apparently is no longer good enough for ISIS. They behead even “people of the book”.

They are Amalek.

And the podvig, the great deed before Christians, is to annihilate this enemy. Containment, conversion and warfare are the means to accomplish this. The Muslim carries a disease and its name is “Islam”.

Muslims have a widespread presence in the West and this is going to become increasingly problematic as matters heat up – and heat up they will.

Islam is a closed system wherein jihad is an obligation, almost a sixth pillar of the faith. Sometimes it is dormant, sometimes not. But the impetus of jihad is to attack in all directions until everyone is under Islam, under shariah. So there is a Dar ul-Islam (the House of Submission; i.e., the Islamic world) and the Dar ul-Harb (the House of Warfare/Conflict; i.e., areas wherein Islam has not yet prevailed). A third possibility, the House of Treaty, was also devised in Classical Islam. But treaty is always temporary.

Islam is by its very nature a violent Borg. It is programmed that way. It acts upon its adherents in such a manner that their devotion is channeled, sooner or later, to the end of jihad.

And the answer to that is podvig. The Feat. Absolute warfare by any and every means, spiritual, material, psychological, physical, civil, militant, etc. – from spiritual warfare in prayer and fasting all the way up to and including the type of warfare that God commanded to the Israelites against other pernicious offenders – Amalek: Herem. If need be.

I look at the parallels between the Book of Ezekiel and the Apocalypse of St. John and wonder if this is not all part of God’s plan.

Lie of lies.

They really don’t want sameness. It is the Neitzchean vision of the herd ruled by the Ubermenchen. “creative” chaos and the destruction of all rules and morals. The true master race.

It is demonic fury but oh so reasonable.

No. They believe in their anthropology so they believe that religious people will come around to their point of view (through a combination of encouragement and limitations).

Here is the deal, rather than proclaiming the truth our “leaders” (i.e. the institutional Church: the bishops and their educated advisers) also go along with the secular vision:

http://byztex.blogspot.com/2017/01/fifth-european-catholic-orthodox-forum.html

“With tears in His eyes, Christ says: ‘Behold now I am leaving, but you will see. You have left God’s road and you are following Satan’s. Blessings and happiness have been taken away from you. Your life is in My hands, because I was crucified for you. And yet in spite of all this I will not punish you, but your own sins and your apostasy from Me your Savior, shall punish you. I revealed the love of My Father to everyone, and with love I wanted to save all of you.’

“Europe then says: ‘Love? Our agenda only includes a hardy and manly hatred for everyone who disagrees with us. Your love is only a fable. And in place of this fable we have raised up the flag: of ethnicity, of internationalism, of the state, of progress, of evolution, of trans-oceanism, and of cultism. Our salvation is found in these, so get away from us.'”

— St Justin Popovich, “Orthodox Faith and Life in Christ”