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BERNIE POWER
INTERSERVE &
MELBOURNE SCHOOL
OF THEOLOGY
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WHAT IS ISLAM?
HOW WOULD JESUS RESPOND TODAY?
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ISLAM TODAY
MUSLIMS IN WORLD
• 1.4 billion Muslims worldwide
• 23% of world’s population
MUSLIMS IN AUSTRALIA
• ½ million Muslims in Australia
• 2.2% of Australia’s population
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HOW DID ISLAM BEGIN?
Iraq
Muhammad
born
c.570 AD
in Mecca
Iran
MIDDLE
EAST
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AFRICA
Yemen
Oman
MUHAMMAD’S DNA  ISLAM
• “You have had a good pattern in
God’s Messenger” (Q.59:7)
• “And whatsoever the Messenger
gives you, take it, and whatsoever he
forbids you, abstain (from it)”.
(Q.33.21)
• “He who obeys the Messenger has
indeed obeyed Allah”. (Q.4:80)
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FIVE FACES OF MUHAMMAD
Face 1: Poor orphan & persecuted
refugee
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Poverty,
exclusion &
rejection
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FACE 2: THE GOD-SEEKING MYSTIC
Prayer,
Fasting, &
worshipping
God
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Vision of an
angel &
appointed
as a
prophet
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FACE 3: THE
MODERATE
PEACEMAKER
(COMPROMISE)
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PEACEFUL TEACHING
• Q.7:199 - Hold to forgiveness; command what is
right; but turn away from the ignorant.
• Q.45:14 - Tell those who believe to forgive those
who do not look forward to the Days of Allah: it is
for Him to repay
• Q.3:134 – Paradise is prepared for … those who
repress anger and pardon men
• Q.5:8 - Do not let others’ hatred for you make
you swerve to wrong and depart from justice.
• Q.3:22 – Return evil with good
45 ‘peaceful’
verses
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622 A.D. FLIGHT TO MEDINA (YATHRIB)
320 km
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FACE 4: THE LAWMAKER
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FACE 5: MILITANT WARLORD
LEADING A REIGN OF TERROR
Muhammad
• led 27 military operations
• ordered 50 other attacks
• had his critics
assassinated
• beheaded prisoners of
war
• burnt a Jewish man alive
• enslaved whole towns
• married 10 more women
• His reign of terror brought him
wealth a
and
power.
including
six-year
old
• Thousands were killed by hisgirl
troops
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VIOLENT TEACHING
• Q.9:5 – Kill the unbelievers wherever
you find them, and capture them and
besiege them and lie in wait for them
in every kind of ambush
• 412 verses which describe, endorse or
command fighting or killing
vs
45 ‘peaceful’ verses
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The Expansion of Islam under Muhammad
Tours
Talas
Tunis
Baghdad
Alexandria
Medina
Mecca
INDIAN
OCEAN
Orphan
&
refugee
Militant
assassin
5 FACES OF
MUHAMMAD
Lawmaker
Godseeking
mystic
Moderate
Peacemaker
(compromise)
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The Expansion of Islam: 1st
twenty years
– by the death of Uthman in 656 AD
Tours
Talas
Tunis
Baghdad
Alexandria
Medina
Mecca
INDIAN
OCEAN
The Expansion of Islam – 100 years
A.D. 750 End of the Umayyad Dynasty
Tours
Talas
Tunis
Baghdad
Alexandria
Medina
Mecca
INDIAN
OCEAN
The Expansion of Islam
AD 1500
Extent of the Muslim World in 1500 A.D.
Tours
Talas
Tunis
Baghdad
Alexandria
Medina
Mecca
INDIAN
OCEAN
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LEGALISM  SHARI’A LAW
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SECTS AND GROUPS WITHIN ISLAM
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CULTURAL COMPROMISE
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MUSLIMS DIFFER IN WORLDVIEWS
Islamism:
Folk
Islam
Fundamentalist
Islam
“Pure Islam”:
Traditional,
orthodox Islam
Sufi
Islam
Liberal
Islam
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HOW DID JESUS RESPOND TO THE MILITANTS?
HOW JESUS DEALT WITH
PHYSICAL ENEMIES
He exposed and broadcast their threats:
“Has not Moses given you the law? Yet
not one of you keeps the law. Why are
you trying to kill me?" (John 7:19)
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“I know you are Abraham's descendants.
Yet you are ready to kill me, because
you have no room for my word.” (Jn 8:37)
BEING HONEST ABOUT ISLAMIC
TERRORISM
Over
25,000
fatal Jihad
attacks
since 11th
Sept 2001
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AUSTRALIA’S 23 CONVICTED TERRORISTS
JESUS AND IDEOLOGICAL ENEMIES
• "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees,
you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices-mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected
the more important matters of the law--justice,
mercy and faithfulness. You should have
practiced the latter, without neglecting the
former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat
but swallow a camel. Mt.23:23-24
• "And you experts in the law, woe to you,
because you load people down with burdens
they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not
lift one finger to help them. Lk.11:46
• PRINCIPLE: Speak out against critics; speak up for
what you believe
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3. JESUS AND POVERTY
“I was hungry and you gave
me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me
something to drink, I was a
stranger and you invited me
in, I needed clothes and you
clothed me, I was sick and
you looked after me.”
Mt.25:35-36
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WARS & AUSTRALIAN MUSLIM REFUGEES
Civil wars in
• Lebanon (1975)
• Sudan (1983)
• Somalia (1991)
Wars in
• Afghanistan (2001)
• Iraq (2003)
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AUSTRALIAN MUSLIMS & POVERTY
• 40% Muslims live in households earning
less than $650/week (‘the poverty
level’)
• c.f. 19% of Australian households
• The 2010 Muslim male unemployment
rate (12.6%) is more than twice that of
Australian males (5.2%)
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(c) Bernie Power 2012
POOREST SUBURBS IN SYDNEY
COMPARED TO MUSLIM DENSITY
1. Auburn $36K = 26% Muslim
8. Granville $41K = 11% Muslim
7. Fairfield $41K = 10% Muslim
9. Punchbowl $41K = 18% Muslim
2. Lakemba $37K = 16% Muslim
10. Guildford $41K = 11% Muslim
6. Villawood $39K = 10% Muslim
5. Canley Vale $39K = 10%
Muslim
4. Claymore $38K = 3% Muslim
3. Campsie $38K = 16% Muslim
HOW DID JESUS RESPOND TO THOSE
WHO WANTED TO HEAR?
On the
Sabbath he
went into the
synagogue
and was
teaching
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“DO
YOU NOT SAY, 'FOUR MONTHS
MORE AND THEN THE HARVEST'? I
TELL YOU, OPEN YOUR EYES AND
LOOK AT THE FIELDS! THEY ARE RIPE
FOR HARVEST.
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MUSLIMS AND SPIRITUAL OPENNESS
• More Muslims have come to faith in Christ in last 40
years than in the previous 1000 years
DAGESTAN
PAKISTAN
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BANGLADESH
MALAYSIA
INDONESIA
HOW JESUS RESPONDED
TO PEOPLE
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Poor : Responsive :
Serve &
Teach Evangelism
Care &
& discipling
compassion
Help them & train them
Violent &
Oppressive:
Expose them
Research &
Public Policy
Critical :
Respond &
Oppose
them Polemics &
apologetics
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(c) Bernie Power 2012
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