Past and present, one of the least known—and, until the modern era,
largely futile—tactics used by Muslims to disarm Christians has been to
insist that Christianity is against warfare, violence in general.
In this regard, the most recent Muslim to take on the mantle of
Christian theologian is none other than Somalia-born Rep. Ilhan Omar,
D-Minn. Around November 18, after Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla criticized
Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock for claiming that
Christians could not serve both God and the military, Omar, the Muslim,
turned to quoting—that is, misquoting—the Bible. In a tweet with an
embarrassed face emoji, as if to suggest what Rubio was saying was so
embarrassing—in fact, the emoji was appropriate, but more because of her
spelling errors—she posted:
Mathews [sic] 6:24, The Stupid Bitch misquotes the scriptures. That's blasphemy, she should be stoned to death!! Hahaha
No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one
and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the
other. You cannot serve God and dmoney.’ [sic] The lies and smears of
the GOP have no boundaries, but this is a disgrace and shameful.
Omar is hardly the first Muslim to try to manipulate Christian
theology to Christians’ own detriment and disadvantage. Nearly a
millennium ago, prior to the Crusader siege of Antioch in 1098, Muslim
emissaries were sent to parley. They told the Europeans how their
masters were “amazed that you should seek the Sepulchre of your lord as
armed men, exterminating their people [Muslims] from long-held
lands—indeed, butchering them at sword point, something pilgrims should
not do.”
Of course, these diplomats said nothing about what “their people”
had been doing to Christian subjects and pilgrims—that is, extorting,
torturing, raping, and killing them—which is what occasioned the
Crusades in the first place.
Similarly, Omar, who hails from a radically Islamic nation, Somalia— deemed the third worst persecutor of Christians in
the world—would much rather “shame” Christians into disarming than have
them resist violence, especially at the hands of Muslims.
In other words, she, like so many others, is an advocate of Doormat
Christianity—a passive, nonjudgmental form of Christianity that deems
lying down before an enemy virtuous. Muslims and other elements are
persecuting innocents around the world? Show love and tolerance, turn
the other cheek, say a prayer, and feel guilty for your own crimes—or
even your ancestors’ crimes—is one of the dominant strains of this
brand.
Doormat Christianity was regularly on display during Barack Hussein
Obama’s presidency: “On Easter, I do reflect on the fact that as a
Christian, I am supposed to love,” he said in
2015 — three days after an Islamic terror attack targeting Christians
killed 147 people in Kenya, provoking a few American Christian groups to
express anger. “And I have to say that sometimes when I listen to less
than loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.”
Similarly, during the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, 2015, Obama directly invoked Doormat Christian tenets to shame Christians from
being too critical of Islamic State atrocities: “Lest we get on our
high horse and think this [Islamic beheadings, sex-slavery, crucifixion,
roasting and burying humans alive] is unique to some other place,” the
American president admonished, “remember that during the Crusades and
the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.”
