James F. Gauss, Ph.D.
April 30, 2025
The following is an excerpt from the opening chapter to my book, Embracing the Anti-Christ: The Heresy of Interfaith Dialogue. It is available as an eBook on Barnes & Noble or in paperback or hard cover on Amazon.
And Jesus answered and said to them:
“Take heed that no one deceives you.”
Matthew 24:4
There are powerful forces that are deceiving Christian leaders and their flocks and students. An ever growing web of demonic entrapment is enveloping the Church, Christian schools, seminaries and Christian leaders worldwide, but especially in the West and the United States. What was the purpose of Jesus’ coming? Why did the Father God send His only begotten Son into the world? Was it to do good works? To make friends? To seek common ground with those wallowing in sin? None of that. God sent Jesus to speak the truth of God’s salvation with wisdom and power that had never been seen or demonstrated before or since. Jesus presented God’s word with boldness and brashness and unapologetically. He was not out to make friends, but to save souls from the fiery pits of hell.
There is “Common Ground”.
One of the foundational misconceptions of the interfaith dialogue movement is that Muslims, Christians and Jews share a “common ground.” This fallacy has been successfully propagated by Muslim leaders and adopted by the U.S. media, politicians, educators and church leaders. Jesus, on the other hand, did not seek common ground with anyone. His mission was to share His Father’s love and compassion; His forgiveness of their sins as He beckoned people to leave their sinful nature behind and enter into the Kingdom of God on earth and eternal life upon their earthly death.
One of the greatest providers of misinformation on Islam was America’s 44th president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, during his eight year term (2009-2017). However, the misinformation campaign did not start with him.
President George W. Bush was also prone to convey misinformation about Islam. On November 19, only two months after the horrific Islamic attack of September 11, 2001, President Bush hosted the iftar dinner (the evening meal that breaks the daily fast for Muslims during Ramadan) at the White House. He soothed the Muslim angst with these words:
According to Muslim teachings, God first revealed His word in the Holy Qur’an to the prophet, Muhammad, during the month of Ramadan. That word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements (Backgrounder).
God, as in the Judeo-Christian God, that President Bush was referencing, did not reveal the Qur’an to Muhammad. Allah did, and there is a very big difference.
President Obama, on April 6, 2009, less than three months after his first inauguration, gave a speech in Ankara, Turkey in which he firmly stated, “Let me say this as clearly as I can: the United States is not at war with Islam” (Gauss, September 12, 2014). It was a mantra that he would repeat in Cairo, Egypt two months later and in other parts of the Islamic world. Although this rhetoric may have a ring of truth, the reality is, that Islam is at war with the United States and the whole world. While the argument is repeatedly made that this “war” is only being carried out by a radical fringe element of Islamic believers, the truth is that these believers can legitimately lay claim to being the “true” Muslims.
The United States is not at war with Islam refrain was first used by President George W. Bush throughout his presidency.
In the same Ankara speech, President Obama went on to state: “We will listen carefully, bridge misunderstanding, and seek common ground. We will be respectful, even when we do not agree. And we will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better—including my own country. The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. . . .
“Our focus will be on what we can do, in partnership with people across the Muslim world, to advance our common hopes, and our common dreams.”
Again, there are four big deceptions here:
First, there is no “common ground” to be achieved between Muslims and the citizens of the world, and particularly those of the Christian faith. Although one can respect another’s beliefs, it is not imperative to seek common ground with those beliefs, nor to express a “deep appreciation for the Islamic faith” whose adherents are responsible for the vast majority of chaos, torture and gruesome murders in the world on an annual basis and since its very inception.
Second, the Islamic faith and its teachings have done far more to harm the world’s citizens over the past 14-plus centuries then to bring peace and harmony. Even though individual Muslims may secretly have hopes, dreams and aspirations that are compatible with a free, capitalist, democratic society, or republican form of government in the United States, the tenets of Islam are completely incompatible and antithetical to such goals and objectives.
Third, there are no common grounds of faith with Muslims that Christians and Jews can or should adhere to in order to become “friends” with Muslims. The dictates of the Islamic ideology make it virtually impossible to establish true friendship with a practicing Muslim. Islamic law (shari’a) dictates that Muslims are forbidden to make friends with non-Muslims, especially Jews and Christians.
O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people (surah 5:51).
The preceding verse in the Qur’an makes it crystal clear for all Muslims, they are not to befriend Christians and Jews or they will be considered as one of them and therefore an apostate from Islam and worthy of death. Islamic law dictates that any Muslim who turns from Islamic tenets of faith or gives the appearance of doing so, must immediately repent. If one does not repent, they must be immediately killed.
. . . it is obligatory for the caliph (or his representative) to ask him [the apostate] to repent and return to Islam. If he does, it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed. Reliance of the Traveller, o8.2
There is no indemnity for killing an apostate (or any expiration, since it is killing someone who deserves to die). Reliance of the Traveller, o8.4
to be continued
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