TIMOTHY TAY is a marketplace minister serving Christ in the city of Perth since 1987. As an entrepreneur he has an IT business and hold investments in stocks and real estates. He has served at board levels in several non-profit organisations including chamber of commerce, bible colleges, city-wide conferences and local churches. Together with his wife, Teresa, and sons, Jonathan and Clement, they pioneered the ChurchinPerth e-ministry which has now merged into the Hope to the Nations, a ministry in words and kinds. His heart is for city and national transformation, fostering church unity and reconciliation and assisting churches, groups and individuals in fulfilling the commission of Jesus Christ (Matthews 28:18-20, Acts 1:8).

DEATH IN THE NAME OF ALLAH & HIS PROPHET

The shooting of Salman Taseer (pic), the governor of the leading Pakistani province of Punjab, at close range by a police officer who was assigned to protect him, had once again highlighted the extreme violence Muslim extremists will take for Allah and his Prophet. Salman Taseer had been an outspoken critic of the strict blasphemy law and recently defended a Christian woman convicted of violating the law and sentenced to death. Even as the killer was brought to court crowds showered him with rose petals and chanting of: "In the service of the Prophet, death is acceptable, Allah Akbar!" Meanwhile in Egypt a suicide bomber blew himself up just outside a Coptic church in the port city of Alexandria on New Year's Day that killed 23 people. Why do Muslim extremists target Christians? Al Qaeda was cited as the organisation behind the attack. What is clear is that extremists had created widespread unrest between Christian and Muslim Egyptians. But the more basic cause of this extremism is the teachings found in Qur'an and the Hadiths that sanction violence against Jews and Christians as infidels destined for destruction (Qur'an 98:6). Anyone who befriend them will draw the wrath of Allah (Qur'an 5:51; 5:60).
During the last century the world struggled through the turmoils set off by Farcism, Nazism and Communism. The world wars and cold wars of the last century are now replaced by worldwide terrorism and violent persecution carried out by a far more dominating and uncompromising force. Islam requires its followers to submit fully in all aspects of living and for nations under Islam to comply with the Sharia laws. After 9/11 air travel is no longer safe. Yet the inconvenience of air travel is nothing in comparison to the threats posed by nations under the influence of extremists, particularly, those with existing or potential nuclear arsenals at their disposals. This inconvenient truth is before us today. Where will all these lead us? Will the world survive the clash of civilisations that appear to oppose and threaten each other's survival?
Will the moderate Muslims rise to the defence and diffuse the destructive works of the extremists by emphasising the aspects of Qur'an touching on compassion and respect for individual rights? It is a tall order considering that Prophet Mohammad himself resorted to violence in order to gain power, wealth and influence. Alternately the moderates may direct attention to the coming of the Mahdi, a messianic figure, as one who will fill the world with justice and fairness without resorting to violence to obtain compliance to his beliefs. The truth is that the ultimate solution is not found in man or the makings of man but in God and only through Him alone that peace may reign.
The Qur'an acknowledges the existence of Isa (Jesus) but not His divinity (Qur'an 4:171; 5:72-75).
'I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world', said Jesus Christ (John 16:33).
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. (John 3:19)

Timothy Tay
January 6, 2011


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Walid Shoebat: Myths of Moderate Islam
Extracts from a talk given in Perth on November 2, 2010 & his book, God's War on Terror
Walid is a former Palestinian Muslim who has carried out terrorist act. Today a Christian and based in America he travelled the world to warn of the deception of Islam and the delusion Muslims living by.
Moderate Muslims.
The West is led to believe that the majority of Muslims are moderates and the terrorist acts are committed by minority fundamentalists. There are no moderate Muslim as there are no moderate Christian or Athiest. Islam, in fact, is more that a religion; it is a state, a constitution. None of the 55 Islamic nations signed the Hague Convention on Women Rights. The chief Iman in Australia, true to the teaching of Koran, had warned women to dress up and not be like uncovered meat drawing on their deserved response.
Islam is Peace?
How can it be when Fatwa is freely issued against its critics and Islam is behind the world's leading terrorists who are threatening global stability? People demonstrate by the millions when the Pope makes a statement that "Islam must never be propagated through violence." They object that Islam is not peaceful, yet they express this objection through violence.
Allah. Allah is not Jehovah God and Muslim and Christian do not worship the same god. The God of the Bible describes Himself as our Father and is the Holy Spirit. Allah in the Qur'an is neither a father nor the Holy Spirit. If fact, Allah rejects such titles and do not expect the world's billion Muslims to accept the Christian God as Allah either for "there is no God but Allah, and Muhammed is his messenger." Far from being God Allah is Satan in disguise. It is Satan's tactic to take bits and pieces of the Bible's prophetic insight, and then add his own story in order to flip the ending upside down.
Qu'ran. They took select portions of Scripture and after twisting them, made sure to lace those portions with deadly cyanide the concocted a whole new Bible that they call the Qu'ran and claim it is the final Word of God.
Jihad. Jihadists took to suicide for islamic salvation. They die in order to get instant admission into paradise because Allah took pleasure on those who die fighting for his cause. In Muslim eyes, murderers are martyrs, their funerals are weddings, and their victims are criminals unworthy of even a funeral. The promised 72 virgins are the perks for martyrs. What changed me (to become a Christian) is not all the confession or (Christian) talks on radio but what I have read in the Bible that I do not have to give my life for Allah but God of the Bible had already gave His son to die for me.
Palestine.
If not for the mandate to create the modern state of Israel there would not be a Palestinian state. In 1922, the British declared that the boundary of Palestine would be limited to the area west of river Jordan and its future to be decided between the Jews and the Arabs. Once a territory is Muslim-ruled the Muslims will never give up their claims.


Read also: God's War on Terror by Walid Shoebat
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Bills of Rights, Syaria by Stealth

Bills of Right are being passed by states and nations in recent years particularly in the western democracies with the good intention of protecting minority rights on racial, religious and sexual grounds. However, experience had shown that the new legislative power is being used to undermine the constitutional rights of freedom of expression enshrined in all democracies. By this bill which is passing through the Federal Parliament one's expression of faith can be considered as discriminatory to another person's faith. Christians are being encouraged to actively express their faith and often this very act can be interpreted under the new legislation as an infringment of privacy and discriminatory. Syaria laws in its core are prohibitions that shut the believer from interacting in any meaningful ways with infidels and this is an affront to democracy.