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The western culture has infiltrated many Muslim-Islamic nations or countries where there is a large population of Muslims and this is westernizing modernizing or degrading the Islamic culture depending on which side you accept.

The reason for such a strong feeling in the Islamic culture is that their Qur'an warns them against going after riches and encourages them to fight against those who try to turn them from their religion. This should not surprise anyone; because the Bible does the same thing. "Radical" people who feel they must fight this holy war try to do it peacefully; but when that does not work they will revert to violence. The western culture has not been willing to see their "sins" and the intensity of the degrading going on in their culture. The Islamic "faithful" are seeing the result of the western influence on society in the United States and they do not want their women dressing in tight revealing clothing causing a loss of innocence and dignity for their women and they do not want their men captured by the seducing women. It is a clash of cultures where they can not allow the western culture into the Islamic culture without losing the holiness that they are trying to hold onto, which is what we are all supposed to strive for.

Usama Ben Laden and Al-Qa'ida acknowledge their part in attacking the World Trade Center, but they were as surprised as the rest of us when the towers collapsed. Their goal is to "unite all Muslims and to establish a government which follows the rule of the Caliphs" the religious leaders and to expel westerners and non-Muslims from Muslim countries. Al-Qa'ida was established by Usama Bin Ladin in the late 1980s. As the western powers see it, his goal is to gather all radical Muslims to kill Americans and to destroy democracy. The truth is they would rather have the United States turn toward following God's word in the Qur'an.

There is a solution where both sides can win. The United States calls itself a Christian nation and knows in theory that it must follow God's wisdom. Peace and unity in the religions involved is much easier than people imagine; many believe it is impossible.
The true message of the Qur'an repeated in many ways is to follow the whole Bible. The prophet Muhammad is a prophet to the Christians and Jews and others who were not following the whole Bible, even as it is today. That was confirming what Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word out of the mouth of God." Matthew 4:4. There is nothing more "out of the mouth of God" than the law God gave to Moses, referred to as the Books of Moses, the Law of Moses, or Torah.

When the western powers realize they have not guided their people in purity, but have let them follow many influences against the Bible, and are willing to lift up God's Bible standard for morality, then the violence from Usama Bin Laden and Al-Qa'ida and other radical Islamists will stop and we can work on bringing purity according to the Bible and not according to commentaries on the Qur'an. God has prepared the way before us; all we have to do is accept it. This is a time to pray for purity in religion and God's will to be done here and now by all who know and love Him.

600+ AD, Qur'an References, Ahmadiyya Numbering: 5:68. 69; 42:14; 2:136; 3:85; 29:47; 3:56; 2:54; 17:3; 23:50; 21:49-51; 32:24; 6:92; 6:155-157; 40:54,55
In Qur'an 7:158, 159 Muhammad speaks of a "him they find in the Torah and the Gospel with them," him they should follow. That would be the word of God through Isa-Jesus. Newer Qur'an has changed that; check different publishers.

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