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Rev. Rob Parsley
by Cecil A. Ahad
June 8, 2005

Rev. Rob Parsley is senior pastor of World Harvest Church in Canal Winchester, Ohio and founder of the Center for Moral Clarity with a following of 12,000 members and a Television program carried by 1400 stations.

Rev. Rod Parsley is showing himself to be a very dangerous man during these very first times that Christians, Muslims, and Jews are meeting with each other discussing the interest of human life; the global situations for all people, offering support and asking for help from each other aiming for all to support one agenda, and respect each other as human beings and not by race, color, gender, handicap, and religion.

Here is a man, Rob Parsley, a leader of thousands of people that, I agree, should be trying to raise the standard of morality but, he is also calling on a holy war that he does not have the authority to break those seals. He said that “Islam is a false religion and an anti-Christ religion, and that Islam is a faith that fully intends to conquer the world, and that America was founded in part with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed, and that he will rail against the idea that the god of Christianity and the god of Islam are the same being:” This is quoted from the Columbus Dispatch dated Monday April 11, 2005 Articles “churches flexing political muscle”, by Joe Hallett and Columbus Dispatch Sunday April 17, 2005 Article, “Thousands hear cry for Christian political activism,” By Mark Niquette. It is apparent that silence no more he isn’t! Maybe he is showing himself to be the anti-Christ by stopping the peace efforts road to democracy, and freedom that’s been taking place from around the world.

He mentioned Islam being anti-Christ, a false religion, not having the same god as the Christian god. The President of the United States George W. Bush, who Rob Parsley and conservative evangelical voters voted for because of Bush’s own religious beliefs, policy goals, and moral values, said “that Muslim values of family, service and community enrich our society and reflect the idea of which our country was founded.” Quoted from the Muslim Journal February 18, 2005 Article President Bush Sends Eidul Adha Greetings to Muslims

There’s an estimated five billion plus people in the world. There are over one billion Muslims world wide that practice Islam as their religion. All Muslims believe in the oneness of god, that there is only one god, the creator of everything (i.e. The Earth, Adam, etc.)

God is called Allah in Arabic by Muslims, which means just that, “One God” and nothing else. The Christian Arabs say Allah as god as well, because it is a description of the one and only god that means god in that language of Arabic.

If the god of Christianity is not the creator of heaven and earth, Adam and everything, then Rod Parsley is right, our gods are not the same. And even beyond that, whatever someone or group calls or worships as god, there is only one.

So, he mentioned Islam but he doesn’t mention the Jewish religion that believes as the Muslims concerning who is god, but what about all the other faiths and people like the Pope and many other Christian leaders, scientist, professors etc., that doesn’t believe as he does about Islam being false/anti-Christ. I am sure many of his followers don’t share his same language and thoughts concerning Islam either.

I am an African American Muslim that is deeply concerned with Rev. Rod Parsley’s thinking about Islam, and arrogance about him-self and jump starting good people up on Islam when many of them are so ignorant of this religion, but only from the pictures they see on the news of people identified as Muslims car bombing and blowing each other/something up. This behavior is wrong and it’s not Islam!!.

All the killing, drugging, bombings, school shootings, violence, slavery, homosexuality, abortions, sexual assaults etc. in this country is not Christianity, but the people that commit these acts call themselves Christians.

Muslims/Islam calls for the same moral values that the church calls for, God’s laws.
1) Islam is believing in God, having faith
2) Praying
3) Fasting
4) Charity
5) Hajj (Trip to Holy Land)

These five principles are Islam. Islam is one hundred percent against homosexuality, Gambling, excessive interests, drug/alcohol use, suicide, abortions, divorce, murder, woman/child abuse etc., Islam does not teach to blow up people or themselves. There is no promise of heaven to the martyr who believes they’re going to paradise for committing such acts but, the promise is to go straight to hell.

Muhammad the prophet of Arabia to whom the holy Quran was revealed over 1400 years ago was a man just like me and you. Jesus, said “the father and I are one, as are you and I.”.

We are all one. All people come from one. Our number system starts with one. Christianity and the doctrine of the Trinity teach three, the father, son, and the Holy Spirit.

Islam teaches one, the one-ness of god. No Muslim that I know of, prays through or to Muhammad for assistance, or to reach God. The word Muslim means to be obedient to God will.

Muslims believe in the devil, the Satan, but that he is no match for God, he’s not some fallen angel but, a rebellious creation that god allows to challenge his greatest creation, mankind, the intellect, the soul, the right to choose. It is god’s mercy and grace that’s extended to all people that allow us to fight the schemes and whispers of Satan.

We believe that this Satan is not a color but a mind set, a behavior, immortality, a picture of what is going on in the world now; a spirit reaching even the learned, good hearted, great teachers, and men such as Rob Parsley who attacks a religion that is important and serious to many of people’s beliefs and hearts, whom he should be supporting but he believing that what he is saying and doing is right. It’s the big Satan doing his best work that Rev. Parsley is allowing him to do.

Satan is not after the pimps, pushers, prostitutes, gang-bangers, gangsters etc. He already has them! He is after goodness, right minded, god fearing people. His job is to never give up until he has gotten us all. Our jobs is to never get to big-headed, arrogant, and believe we are grounded enough to be exempt from the whispers, powers and influences of Satan. Anger, big-heads, and arrogance, are Satan’s attributes. He’s only big in the eyes.

What would Jesus do? Who would he pray to? Who is the God of the Christians that separates him from other gods? Did you know that Muslims love, respect, and know Jesus as much as you do? And that he and his mother Mary are mentioned more in the book of the Muslims, the holy Quran, more then the prophet Mohammad?

Tell the five thousands plus people that! Why aren’t you talking about all the other people and religion that believe the way the Muslims do about the one-ness of God? Check yourself because maybe Satan has gotten into your mind and showing you to be the anti-Christ.

Lets pray that you have been worked on by the Satan and that you rebuke him and get him out of your eyes and direct your mission, and your following towards the same moral conscious that so many other people value, like the Muslims. Muslims/Islam teaches not to try and compel anyone to become a religion. If you believe, Rev. Parsley that your way of thinking, philosophy, and religion of Christianity is so superior and grounded then why are you challenging Islam?

It was the Muslims that ruled Spain for eight hundred years (711- 1492) that influenced the minds of our founding fathers that formed this American constitution, where Muslims, Jews, and Christian lived together in peace. The same American constitution that Rev. Rob Parsley said that, “this country was formed to destroy”.

Freedom, Justice, and Equality for all people is Islam. How people behave and are is their added culture, and ideas. Adam, Moses, Abraham, King David, and king Solomon, were all obedient servants, and prophets of god; Muslims, because they all believed in the one-ness of God, and so did Jesus the sun, the light, the love, and the peace that came into the world.

Challenging Islam is challenging nature itself May god’s mercy and grace continue to be on you and your family Rev. Parsley Peace.