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skillicorn@ozemail.com.au (Keith Skillicorn) wrote in message news:<b5e9141e.0211031751.641f63fc@posting.google.com>...
> My fellow Americans 
> 
> The threat of Islam is real. More so than communism ever was


The father of Neo-Evangelicalism, Billy Graham, disagrees with you
concerning Islam.

As per:

In 1986 at one of his famous crusades, THE EVANGELIST BILLY GRAHAM
TOLD THE AUDIENCE THAT THEY SHOULD REGARD MUSLIMS NOT AS THE ENEMY BUT
AS FELLOW BELIEVERS, THAT THEY ALL WORSHIPED THE SAME GOD.  OVER A
WEEK HE REPEATED IT EIGHT TIMES, IN CASE ANYONE MISSED HIS POINT. 
...The elder Graham is remembered as the nation's preacher-statesman,
who never took sides, who HAD KIND WORDS FOR EVERY RELIGION, EVERY
PRESIDENT.  ...Mark DeMoss, a spokesman for Franklin Graham [said,]
"[What] his dad did [is] going to great lengths to avoid it
[controversy]..."  ...William Martin, the elder Graham's biographer
[wrote that] Billy Graham emerged as their [the evangelicals']
AMBASSADOR TO THE MAINSTREAM WORLD.  HE BEFRIENDED PRESIDENTS...AND
MADE IT RESPECTABLE TO CALL YOURSELF EVANGELICAL AGAIN.  ...BILLY
GRAHAM HAD SAID "JESUS" AT MANY OF THE EIGHT [PRESIDENTIAL]
INAUGURATIONS HE'D PRAYED AT, BUT NO ONE HAD OBJECTED.  (Hanna Rosin,
"Younger Graham Diverges from Father's Image: Ministry's Patriarch
Accepted Islam, but His Son Condemns the Religion," WASHINGTON POST,
02 September 2002, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24620-2002Sep1.html)


One with you (if) in Christ,

HP Opus
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