Breaking Covenants

John Hagee, in a narrative about an interview held with Walid Shoebat, trained from his youth to become a PLO terrorist and suicide bomber who converted to Christianity in his twenties, wrote in Jerusalem Countdown, that he questioned Shoebat about whether lying is acceptable in Islam for the purpose of advancing the Islamic faith.

Shoebat answered: "Yes. Lying is acceptable to make peace between husband and wife, and another occasion is in jihad. Pastor, you can lie to the husband, and you can lie to the wife, and say, 'He loves you,' 'She loves you,' so the two can get along. This is lying in the minor ele­ment. But lying is the major element in jihad.

"Covenant-breaking is the major issue in Islam. You don't want to break covenant because Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, in the Hudaybiyya treaty with Quraysh, broke the covenant. He was critiqued by his Muslim followers, and he said, 'There is no cov­enant with unbelievers.'

"In fact, Pastor Hagee, when I confronted my father as I was preparing to leave home, it was the last words I had with my father. I purchased land from our father, and I had the bill of sale. And as I left, I asked my father, saying, 'Father, I'm not interested in the inheritance. I'm not interested in your blessings. I'm simply inter­ested in the bill of sale that we have.'

"He said, 'Son, you know in Islam we do not have to honor agreements with unbelievers.' So it doesn't matter what covenant you sign; they don't have to honor the covenant. So what's the use of having all these peace treaties? All Christians must look at the word Hudna.

"Hudna in Islam is the process of establishing covenant or a peace treaty with an enemy. And it's done solely for two purposes: one is to gain concessions, as the Palestinians did, and the other is to regain strength.

"This is why Hezbollah accepts Hudna with Israel. It's not the Oslo Peace Accord, as we think. It's the Oslo Hudna Accord in the mind of all Islamics. Gentiles and Jews look at the Oslo Peace Accord and believe it is a valid document, but in the Middle East, we call it the 'Oslo Hudna Accord,' and we never intend to keep the document."

Barack Obama received a portion of his early education in Indonesia, a prominent Islamic country at an age when the human mind is susceptible to molding and shaping as to thought patterns.

Obama thinks like a Muslim. He was taught Quranic thinking as a child: Tell the infidels what they want to hear and then do whatever you want to anyway, after all, they do not deserve the truth.

Obama fulfills the Biblical warning that in the last days would come people “who speak what their [the public’s] itching ears want to hear.” Many have been beguiled by Obama’s speeches saying the things they want to hear or would like to believe is true, then continuing on to do what he (Obama) has always intended. (cf. 2 Timothy 4:3) He has no intention to actually fulfill what many believe (wrongly) he has said he would do. Thinking like a Muslim, he feels no compulsion to adhere to a “covenant” with infidels (those who don’t think as he does). I am not saying that he is a Muslim (only God knows a man’s heart and beliefs), but he definitely acts like one!

We see similar patterns of thinking in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. He says his country is no longer trying to manufacture nuclear material for bombs. Yet, there are a plethora of intelligence reports from several countries belying this assertion.