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Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
Gentle reminder 60% of Arabs in the U.S. are Christian who read Bibles that say Allah in Genesis 1, thank the Father with Alhamdulillah, and often use inshallah and bismillah.
You can speak Arabic while recognizing Muhammad was not sent by the Father because he got every single Bible story wrong.
Be blessed today.
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
Very good point. I remember that one of the major breakthroughs in my journey to Christianity came when I realized that, even if I never came to believe in the Trinity, I could still recognize how misleading the Islamic arguments against it were and how poorly they represented the beliefs of others.
That realization led me to acknowledge the human origins of Islam. I began to question how a religion claiming divine revelation could so fundamentally misunderstand the very beliefs it sought to refute. For me, this was a turning point: what I had once regarded as divine revelation began to reveal itself as a human interpretation of the beliefs of others, and a poor one!
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
I used to wash my feet before I prayed.
Now, I pray to the One who has already made me clean.
PRAISE GOD, I AM FREE!
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
هناك مبدأ معروف في اليهودية قد يقدّره أصدقاؤنا المصريو 🇪🇬
في سفر «دِفاريم» (التثنية)، وهو أحد أسفار التوراة المقدسة الخمسة، نجد الوصية التالية التي نقلها إلينا موسى معلّمنا:
«لا تكره المصري، لأنك كنت غريباً في أرضه».
فما معنى هذا الكلام في سياقه التوراتي؟
لقد استعبد المصريون القدماء في زمن موسى بني إسرائيل، ومرّروا حياتهم، وأخضعوهم بلا رحمة لأعمال السخرة الشاقة، بل وحاولوا إبادتهم عبر القضاء على مواليدهم الذكور.
ثم، بعد أربعين عاماً، يتحدث موسى وكأن شيئاً من ذلك لم يحدث، وكأن على بني إسرائيل أن يشعروا بالامتنان للمصريين على استضافتهم لهم. ومع ذلك، فإن موسى والشعب لم يكونوا في موقعهم ذاك إلا لأنهم كانوا قد فرّوا من الاضطهاد في مصر. ولم يكن موسى يريد منهم أن ينسوا ما جرى.
فما الذي تعنيه هذه الآية إذن؟
لكي تكون حراً، عليك أن تتخلى عن الكراهية. هذا هو ما يقوله موسى.
فلو ظل بنو إسرائيل أسرى للكراهية تجاه أعدائهم السابقين، لكان موسى قد أخرج بني إسرائيل من مصر، لكنه لم يكن ليُخرج مصر من داخل بني إسرائيل.
كانوا سيظلون، من الناحية النفسية، هناك. أسرى للماضي. وكانوا سيبقون في القيود، لكن هذه المرة بقيود صنعوها بأيديهم.
إن شريعة موسى تعلّمنا، فوق كل شيء، حقيقة واحدة: لا يمكنك أن تبني مجتمعاً حراً على أساس الكراهية.
ومن المعروف بيننا نحن أبناء إبراهيم أن ذاكرتنا طويلة، ولا أحد يطلب منك أن تنسى من أنت، أو من أين أتيت، أو ما الذي فُعل بك.
لكن أن تسامح، وأن تفتح قلبك أمام السلام، فذلك هو الاختبار الأصعب والأسمى.
لا أحد يولد ليكون عبداً، وبالتأكيد ليس عبداً لماضيه.
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
Liberal America and mainstream media showed immense unfairness and bias toward RFK Jr. They denounced him, they incorrectly fact checked him, taking his comments out of context. He was right. They were wrong.
RFK Jr was fair, gave the Arab civilization its due by mentioning its past greatness, attributed its decline to the takeover by the radical ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. Not a single word he said was racist, biased, bigoted, or untrue, including his comment about Nobel.
Not a SINGLE professor from an Arab university ever won a Nobel Prize for science or economics.
Nobel peace prizes are political hacks, not a gauge of advancement in human sciences. AP took his comment out of context, listed Arab Nobel Peace Laureates to debunk his comments on science. This is unethical journalism.
Now look at the non-peace Nobel prizes, 532 of them have been awarded since 1901. The Arabs, 6 percent of the global population, have won only 4 non-peace Nobels. That's 0.75 percent. Do you see the huge gap between the size of the Arab population and their non-peace Nobel winners?
But it gets worse: Of the four Arab Nobel winners, only one -- Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz who won a literature Nobel -- lived in the Arab world. Zewail, another Egyptian, immigrated to the US and won his Nobel after having made his career in U.S. colleges. Yaghi moved to the US when he was 15, so all his college education was in America. Sir Atiyah was born in London of a Lebanese father.
Remember, except for Mahfouz, not a single Arab winner of Nobel made his career in Arab universities or labs.
One of 532 is the contribution of a population of half a billion, to human sciences, since 1901, and America does not let us ring the alarm and call for urgent reform because whoever does that, "offends the Arabs" and is bigoted and racist.
STOP obstructing the desperately needed Arab reform!!!
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
Este é São Maximiliano Kolbe. Quando os nazistas selecionaram dez prisioneiros para morrer de fome no bunker de castigo, um deles gritou que tinha mulher e filhos. Kolbe saiu da fila, falou em alemão perfeito e disse que era padre, não tinha família e queria tomar o lugar. Aceitaram. Durante duas semanas, na cela sem comida nem água, ele rezou, ouviu confissões e manteve os outros de pé. No fim, ainda vivo, recebeu uma injeção de ácido carbólico. O corpo foi queimado. Foi a lógica mais simples e mais antiga: se alguém deve morrer, que seja eu. No campo onde se tentava provar que o homem não vale nada, ele provou o contrário com a própria morte.
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
When I was Muslim, Surah 5:32 was my favorite verse to quote.
“Whoever kills a soul, it is as if he killed all of mankind.”
I put it in every debate. Every conversation about Islam and peace. It felt like the most beautiful verse in the Quran.
Then I read it slowly.
The verse doesn’t say Allah revealed this to Muhammad. It says: “We decreed upon the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL…”
Wait. Decreed where? When? I went looking.
Bro, then I found it.
Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5. A rabbinic commentary on Cain and Abel, written down around 200 AD like four centuries before the Quran. Rabbis discussed why Genesis says Abel’s “bloods” (plural) cry out and concluded: whoever destroys one soul, it is as if he destroyed an entire world.
Insane that it was word for word, with the exact same context. Bro, the same Cain and Abel story it’s attached to in Surah 5.
What I thought was the most beautiful verse in the Quran turned out to be a rabbi’s classroom commentary...
Literally, that’s when the question changed for me. It went from “isn't this verse beautiful?” to: What the heck is a rabbinic homily doing inside a book that claims to be the eternal, uncreated speech of God?!
Because there are only two options. Either Allah quoted the rabbis. Or a man in Arabia heard Jewish teachers and repeated what they said...
The crazy part is, the Bible predicted men would do this. “I am against the prophets who steal my words from one another.” ( Jeremiah 23:30)
That was the start of my journey toward Christ. I stopped defending the borrowed word of the Quran.
I found the Living Word.
PRAISE MY KING JESUS CHRIST, I’M FREE!
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
أن نحارب الإرهاب دون محاربة التطرف كمن يسقي البحر ماءاً عذباً في انتظار تحول البحر إلى نهرٍ عذب
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
لأننا شعب عنيد يتغنى بما ورثه، مهما كان، اكثر مما يتفاخر في فهم حقيقة ما ورثه وتطويره إذا اقتضى!
مستقبل اللبناني يحدده مدى تفاخره بماضيه، وهذه عقلية جامدة تقيد التقدم.
ثقافة عبادة الماضي أصيلة في الهوية اللبنانية، تعود للعقلية البعلية للحضارة الكنعانية!
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
When you concede the true nature of Islamic terrorism by refusing to acknowledge its Qur’anic foundations, hoping that sugarcoating jihadism as a mere ideological offshoot or misunderstanding of Islam will yield political gains, you are effectively trading intellectual integrity for temporary political concessions.
The bargain is fundamentally unequal: Islamist movements and governments usually offer temporary political concessions while demanding permanent intellectual concessions in return; concessions that compromise the pursuit of truth about Islam itself.
This is a losing game, one that Islamic political movements and governments have repeatedly exploited throughout history in their dealings with non-Muslims to advance their influence and power.
They understand something their opponents often fail to grasp: political realities change, alliances shift, and concessions expire. But a corrupted understanding of reality can endure for generations, repeatedly producing flawed political judgments and disastrous strategic outcomes.
When you sacrifice intellectual truth on Islam for temporary political convenience with Muslims, you are not securing peace. You are surrendering the very framework through which future threats must be understood and confronted.
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
المصطلحات الإسلامية:
نصارى: الغرض منها إهانة المسيحيين بإنكار انتسابهم للمسيح إنما ينسبونهم للمكان غصبا عن المسيحيين أنفسهم.
مستأمن: لا عرف للمواطنة عندهم لا يعتبرون المسيحي مواطنا مثله مثل المسلم له نفس الحقوق، بل هم أعطوه الأمان على حياته مقابل أن يعيش ذكيا بينهم خاضعا لهم ولشروطهم.
هؤلاء لا يعيشون معنا في القرن الواحد والعشرين هؤلاء لازالوا مع قريش.
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
عدم القبض علي هذا التكفيري وهو موجود في الأردن اكبر دليل علي كذب ملك الأردن وعدم جديتة في محاربة الإرهاب
الاعتداء الآثم على النصارى في الكنيسة في الكرك عملٌ غير مسبوق في هذا البلد، ونسأل الله أن يكون الأخير من نوعه.
المسلم لا يؤذي مستأمِناً يعيش معه مستأمنا إياه على نفسه وماله وعرضه،
و (المسلم من سلم الناس من لسانه ويده) كما قال نبينا ﷺ.
من كان غيوراً على الدين بحق فلْيَدْعُ جيرانه ومعارفه وأبناء بلده ممن هم على غير ملة الإسلام إلى دين الله تعالى، وليحبب إليهم دين الله بحسن خلقه وعدله، وليتَّقِ الله فيهم ولا يتجاوز أمره سبحانه.
(لا ينهاكم الله عن الذين لم يقاتلوكم في الدين ولم يخرجوكم من دياركم أن تبروهم وتقسطوا إليهم إن الله يحب المقسطين)
أما هذا العدوان بغير حق فإفساد للدين والدنيا.
ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله.
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
You know what shook me when I was Muslim?
The story of Hosea: In it, God tells a prophet to marry a woman He KNOWS will betray him.
She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, and used up. Essentially, she is worthless to the world.
Then, God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK, to pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. (Hosea 3)
I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Bro, why would any man do that!?
Then I realized I was exactly like the wife.
I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters and I sold myself cheap. In a way, I made myself worthless.
But, God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.” Instead, He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”
What's beautiful about this is, that’s the entire Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.
He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.
Islam told me to make myself WORTHY of God.
Hosea showed me an amazing, present God who pays to redeem the unworthy. The cross was Him naming the price.
Praise the Lord!
Follow for more Christian apologetics that doesn't stop at winning arguments but equips you to actually reach people!
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran DOESN'T have.
Namely, exact dates, exact places or exact titles or names you can check.
Bro, when you read the Quran’s stories there is literally zero chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year. It is incredibly vague.
You cannot get answers to questions like: Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it, which conveniently means you can’t check it.
Now, contrast that to the Bible, read the opening of Luke 3:
“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”
SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.
An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.
And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…
UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.
Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.
Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”
Certainty. That’s the offer of the Bible.
The Quran floats above history where nothing can touch it.
The Bible planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.
I dug. It’s still standing.
Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
Michigan: 10 million residents. Muslims: ~270,000. That’s 2%.
Yet they’re the loudest minority by far.
Why is a majority-Christian state electing a Muslim whose family was tied to the Muslim Brotherhood?
Why did the Democratic Party pick him as their candidate and rallied behind him?
Why is CAIR pouring so much money into this race?
This isn’t coincidence. It’s an agenda.
Blame the useful idiots. Without them, he wouldn’t be anywhere near the ballot.
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
أينما وُجد هذا العَلَم، وُجد الفساد والدمار.
בכל מקום בו נמצא דגל זה, נמצאים שחיתות והרס.
Wherever this flag is found, corruption and destruction are found.
Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
BREAKING:
Bukele releases a statement on France:
“I’ve heard it said that France is finished, that it’s too late to save her.
But France remains just as beautiful, enviable even. Her greatness hasn’t vanished; it only awaits rebirth.
We overcame, in a single year, a problem a hundred times more severe, without having the resources at France’s disposal.
France could manage it in a week”
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Mark Issa (Mohamad) 🇻🇦| مارك عيسى (محمد) retweeted
I wrote this description/warning of what is happening in the West. Please watch it and share it with others. @idicenter