Rev. Graham: ‘Storm of Islam’ is Coming;
‘Persecution’ in USA Because Obama is ‘Very Sympathetic to Islam’
April 7, 2015 - 8:10 PM
By Michael W. Chapman
“The
storm of Islam” is coming, already with the persecution of Christians
in the Middle East but it’s “going to get worse” with “persecution” in
America because President Barack Obama is “very sympathetic to Islam,”
said evangelical pastor Franklin Graham.
He
added that Muslims are influencing U.S. foreign policy as was evident
in the way the White House “snubbed” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu. “[I]t’s because of the influence of Islam,” he said. “They
hate Israel and they hate Christians, and so the storm is coming.”
Video at link
Reverend
Graham, son of world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham, made his remarks
during an interview with Gordon Robertson on the 700 Club Interactive, a program of the Christian Broadcasting Network.
During
the exchange, Gordon Robertson talked about videotaped beheading of 21
Coptic Christians in Libya by members of the Islamic State and noted
that when that happened in mid-February, Rev. Graham had said “these
acts of terror will only spread – the storm is coming.”
Robertson then asked, “What storm do you see coming?”
“The
storm of Islam,” said Rev. Graham. "And what you’re seeing Gordon,
this isn’t just radical Islam – this is Islam. They’ve been persecuting
Christians, minorities for centuries. This isn’t something that just
started with ISIS.”
“This
is something that’s been going on for, again, it goes all the way back
to the time of Mohammed, when he began to turn his sword on Christians
and Jews and Saudi Arabia,” said the reverend. “At that time there were
large Christian communities in Arabia. Now there’s not one Jew, there’s
not one Christian left. It’s against the law in Saudi Arabia to have a
church.”
21
Egyptian Christians, in orange suits, moments before they were beheaded
with knives by members of the Islamic State. (Photo: IS video)
He
continued, “There’s fairly large communities of Christians in places
like Iraq. But after 9/11 those communities now have dwindled down just
to thousands where they were millions. This is happening in Syria. This
is happening in Egypt. There’s persecution of churches and Christians in
Turkey. You see this in Sudan. The list goes on and on, to Indonesia
where Christians are persecuted.”
“There’s
not any place for these Christians to run anymore,” said Rev. Graham,
who is president of the international Christian aid group Samaritan’s Purse. “Those that could escape to the West have come.”
“And
it’s going to get worse,” he said. “We’re going to see persecution, I
believe, in this country because our president is very sympathetic to
Islam. The reason I say that, Gordon, is because his father was a
Muslim, gave him a Muslim name, Barack Hussein Obama. His mother married
another Muslim man, they moved to Indonesia, he went to Indonesian
schools.”
“So,
growing up, his frame of reference and his influence as a young man was
Islam,” said Rev. Graham. “It wasn’t Christianity, it was Islam.”
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the White House Summit To Counter Violent Extremism, Feb. 19, 2015.
Host
Gordon Robertson also commented on how there was more openness to Islam
from the federal government after 9/11 apparently as a means to better
understand Islam and the potential threat it posed.
That
happened, said Rev. Graham, and “now have radical Islamists that are
advising various levels of government. It’s going to get worse, and
nobody seems to be alarmed about it. Nobody is saying anything about
this. And we as Christians are going to lose.”
Commenting
further about President Obama and his sympathy for Islam, Rev. Graham
said, “There are Muslims that have access to him in the White House. Our
foreign policy has a lot of influence now from Muslims. We see the
Prime Minister of Israel being snubbed by the president and by the White
House and by the Democrats and it’s because of the influence of Islam.”
“They hate Israel and they hate Christians, and so the storm is coming, I believe, Gordon,” said the reverend.
Franklin Graham, 62, in addition to running Samaritan’s Purse is the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA),
which was founded by his father. Pastor Billy Graham, 96, lives at
his home in Montreat, N.C. He reportedly is doing fairly well and reads
the Bible and prays daily.
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