Islam Wants to Rid the World of Crucifixes

The imaginations of Muhammad contained in the Qur'an have come up with the odd idea that Jesus was not crucified, he only appeared to have been crucified.* Naturally, though there is no evidence for these mere words of Muhammad, other than he merely saying them, and though the vast authority of the Gospels and the traditions of the Church hold against this uneducated and ignorant Bedouin, a Muslim has to stick his head in the Qur'anic sands and ignore the witness of history and the whole traditions of the Church. They count as nothing to the witness of one man who had utterly no personal knowledge over that which he spoke. He is, one might add, the same man who (erroneously) thought the Trinity was a combination of God, Jesus, and Mary,** a theological honker, and that confused Mary the Mother of Jesus (whom he called Miriam) with Miriam, the sister of Aaron.*** a historical honker indeed. He is incompetent by his lack of personal knowledge and is impeached by his obvious ignorance of Biblical history and Christian theology. Moreover, the immorality of his life (multiple marriages, divorce and remarriage, concubines, murder, rapine, genocide, not to mention false ascription of prophecy are among some of his offenses) is a sure indicator of his lack of credibility. Muhammad is an untrustworthy witness.

An object of Muslim hate

Muhammad's untrustworthiness as a witness notwithstanding, the Muslims foolishly take Muhammad's naked word as true, thinking by force of will and force of arms to conjure around the entirety of reality, more or less like the cherubim with their swords keep us out of the Garden of Eden. So one of the things that Muslims believe they must do is to destroy all crucifixes inasmuch as crucifix contradicts the Qur'an, and despite the testimony of history, the Qur'an takes precedence. Islam cannot take the truth about Muhammad, just like it cannot take the truth about Christ. So, like the great spiritual tyranny that it is, it suppresses both with great vigor. It might be pointed out that its hatred of the crucifix is something that Islam shares with Satanism, though whether there is a relationship is something the reader can ponder.

Let us look at the Muslim sources. For a Muslim they are unimpeachable sources.

In Hadith Qudsi 19:5 we find in part: "The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the . . . crosses and all the trappings of ignorance." (By the way, the Hadith Qudsi, or "Holy Hadith," are those preeminent ahadith in which Muhammad transmits the words of Allah, although those words are not in the Qur'an.)

In the staple book 'Umdat al-Salik r40.0, we have the following teaching:

Muhammad also said:

(1) "Allah Mighty and Majestic sent me as a guidance and mercy to believers and commanded me to do away with . . . crucifixes, and the affair of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.

Well . . . I'll be . . . , the Devil and Muhammad share a goal, and they've joined forces against what I hold near and dear. To which all I can say (as a Catholic Texan and as heir to the monastic military orders of the Knights of Malta and the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre) to any belligerent Muslim who dares destroy our crucifixes and our way of life: I dare you, "Come and take it!"†

One Catholic Texan's response to the Muslim threat

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*"That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:- Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise; [Qur'an, 4:157-58]
**"And behold! Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, 'Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah'?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! Never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, though I know not what in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden." [Qur'an 5:116] and "O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a messenger from Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His Messengers. Say not "Three": desist: It will be better for you: For Allah is One God: Glory be to Him: (Far Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs." [Qur'an 4:171] "At length she brought the (babe) to her people, carrying him (in her arms). They said: 'O Mary! Truly an amazing thing hast thou brought! O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!" [Qur'an 19:27-28]
†In their battle against Mexico, the Texans fashioned a flag with a black cannon and star on a white background with the phrase, "COME AND TAKE IT." The cannon represented a cannon received from the Mexican government and which that same government to be returned, and failure to return it would lead to forceful taking back of that cannon. The slogan itself, is not only Texan, but Western, as it can be considered to be in the tradition of King Leonidas of Sparta's response to the Persians during the famous Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. When demanded to throw down his weapons and surrender, he is reputed to have replied according to Plutarch, "Come and get them" (Μολὼν λαβέ). The flag above is obviously modeled after this historical flag.