If You Can Be So Bold
Sunday
A while back, I told you about Michael, a man who uses a business card with a QR code on it to educate his fellow citizens about Islam. Read about it here (he added some good ideas about using the cards in the comments of the article). Michael does something else creative and bold: He wrote this on the back window of his car:
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You can click on the image to see it larger. He wrote this: On my days off work, I can be found driving up and down very busy streets and Interstates in the Kansas City area, purposely driving just a smidgen slower than traffic, so vehicles read my back window, pass, then more vehicles have a chance to get a look at the back window of my vehicle. I haven't been called bashful for a long time.
We created InquiryIntoIslam.com as a website citizen warriors could use to share with people who really know nothing about Islam. It's a beginner's website. This is a great use of that resource.
I asked Michael if I could publish his picture, and he wrote back with this:
I would be honored if you would publish the picture of my back window on your website. That would be great if others would be willing to do the same, to get the word out. I am only guessing, but would estimate that hundreds, perhaps 500-1000 vehicles (cars, trucks, 18-wheelers) passed by that back window in just a matter of a few hours of driving during rush hour traffic this past Monday. This next time I will make the handwriting look cleaner, more presentable.
No doubt others may wonder "Hmm... where can I get the non-permanent, large, white paint markers to use for the writing?" Well, they are not that easy to find, let me tell you. I spent a bit of time searching the web for something that I felt would work and ended up purchasing these on amazon.com (link below), but the quality isn't the greatest, which I noted in the reviews section. They are imported, and while they look nice, both markers in the 2-pack began to fail before I got full life out of them. So, there's that.
But there are other options out there, large white wax crayons (I found some at a lumber store), even ordering custom decals for those people who are able to spend more for a better look and are able to keep the message on their automobiles 7 days a week. Some decals are a "peel and stick," for remove and reapply.
There are some thoughts there for others, that I had to go through for myself.
Oh! Also, you may wish to make sure you mention, or provide a link for them that they can click on, that will use your Amazon link, so you get that money that helps to support your ministry, when they buy the markers from Amazon. Every little bit helps, right? Just a thought, you can even suggest they Bookmark the Amazon link (like I did) and save it to the top of their browser so it is easy to find next time they buy something/anything from Amazon. My bookmarked icon/link automatically uses your link to Amazon.
Thank you!
Mike
For non-permanent White Paint Markers, here's the link: Uni Posca Paint Marker PC-17K White.
Citizen Warrior is the author of the book, Getting Through: How to Talk to Non-Muslims About the Disturbing Nature of Islam and also writes for Inquiry Into Islam, History is Fascinating, and Foundation for Coexistence. Subscribe to Citizen Warrior updates here. You can send an email to CW here.
5 comments:
As for that person who wrote those words in the vehicle window referring to Islam as a “religion of peace” It’s very important not to let such people fool by such false claims.
For the terrible reality is that Islam is a religion of war violence, bloodshed and dead.
So much so that what many people call "Radical Islamic Terrorism” , is very much based on religion. The religion of Islam For Islam's "holy book" the Qur 'an [the Koran] instructs on the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam.
As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. Furthermore, it may be illustrated that if Islam is represented as a tree then the fruits then the fruits of that tree are the many brutal, violent and deadly jihad terror entities. Such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, al Shabaab , Hamas, Hezbollah, P.I.J. etc.
With this statement, the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus may, very much, apply to this subject. For Jesus taught “Ye do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:16, 17, 18,.20. [K.J.V.] In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13,20.
As for the claim made by many by the apologists for Islam that “Islam is a religion of peace” That is a totally false claim if there ever was one .
Of the many examples that such a statement is bogus are the many incidences of murderous bloodshed carried out by Muslim terrorists because they were inspired to commit those vicious cruel atrocities because of Islam with its Qu ‘ran instruction for violence and killing.
Therefore, instead of the false saying the “Islam is a religion of peace it’s more accurate and truthful to say, “Islam is a religion of pieces” As observed by that
Giving just one case example of is many to uphold that statement malicious murderous and maiming Boston street jihad bombing marathon on April 15, 2013 .Those two bombs had been planted those two jihad-minded Muslims who were also brothers . They weren’t inspired in that horrendous action not terrorism by Buddhism but ,of course, Islam.
As the Qu ran instructs Surah 47:4 “Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike of their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Bombs are, indeed much more effective for making a greater “slaughter among them “ than a sword can.
Another example of this are those vicious and murderous jihadists who compose the brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS are actually putting in to the practice, with all their ruthless actions, the violence and killing that is part of the teaching of the “holy book” of Islam, the Qu ran. Which contain the doctrine of extreme violent force for the advancement of Islam. As seen in the Qu ran , for example, 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123.
Therefore, in spite of the strong denials by many, ISIS is an actual Islamic organization. Likewise the malicious, bloodthirsty violence jihadists who make up ISIS are real Muslims. Nevertheless, there are some who might , understandably, wonder and then ask “Just how can those jihadists of ISIS ,being so very religious , also at the time also be so very malice-filled ,unfeeling and deadly ? “
The answer to that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible teaches that there are some people who are extremely heartless, cold, callous and dangerous because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [ K.J.V.] In this case of the members of ISIS this “hot iron” is Islam.
Many Muslims in the public relation business for Islam strive to and beguile as to decieve uninformed and naive impressionable Americans into accepting the false claim declared by the many apologists and propagandists for Islam that" Islam is a religion of peace.” that was hijacked and wrapped by terrible men."
That bogus claim is ,in part , inspired by the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya, which is lies and deception are good thing to do as long as the lying deceit is done for the advancement of Islam.
So that “Islam is a religion of peace: farce seen from the viewpoint of the sociological perspective is called "impression management ‘ For Muslims, naturally m want Westerners to have a “good image” of Islam.
Actually impression management " is nothing new it's done not only be con- men but by people representing other religions and also many businesses.
It’s a good idea not to take at face value the claim that the word Islam means “peace.” For example, the ENCARTA WORLD ENGLISH DICTIONARY copyright 1999 defines Islam as “submission” based on the word “aslama” meaning “he surrendered.” Given the definition it’s an odd phenomenon that after about fourteen hundred years starting on September 12, 2001 the meaning changed from “submission” to “peace.”
It’s very well known that if the police are questioning someone and he changes his story something is wrong. Nevertheless, when it comes to Islam no one gets suspicious of the change. The jihadists brag that they will win the war against the West by using the Western ignorance and naive gullible mindset on the subject of Islam against us. It seems that they do have some basis in that claim since so many Westerners are beguiled by the Muslim disinformation campaign.
On the topic of the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad, as well as the subject of Islamic terrorism, the scholar and author , Robert Spencer ,in this book which has the title of THE HISTORY OF JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS. In the book on page 371 the reader is informed that “Muhammad is supposed to have said ‘I have been made victorious through terror.’ In the early twenty-first century, he is being proven correct. As the fourteen-hundred –year Islamic jihad against the free world continues to advance…”
Furthermore, as the violent and murders jihadists continue their Islamic terror attacks against many Western cities as New York City, London, Manchester, Barcelona, Stockholm, Brussels, Stockholm, ,Paris Nice, Berlin, Madrid and so forth. Those jihad-minded Muslim terrorists who engage in those vicious Islamic terror attacks cannot be and will not be reasoned with. They will not respond to either logic or reason. They aren’t interested, at all, in reason or logic. So they have to be dealt with by a strong force of might. Either by the police or the military. For to even try to reason with a jihad-minded Muslim terrorist is just as much an act of futility as trying to teach algebra to a rabbit.
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