Politics, Religion & Viral Chain E-Mail

"I was very dismayed when, recently, a family member of mine said to me with great resignation that Obama will not take the presidency. These words came from someone who in the past has been a great prayer warrior. What is happening was my question??? Why are we Muslims settling and not issuing a battle cry and falling to our knees and taking our country back? We allow ourselves to be stripped of the right to pray at school functions and in school, we have the Koran removed from government places and are told we cannot pray in school, all the while providing public prayer places for Christians. What in the world is going on and why are we being apathetic?

Why aren't we praying? Our God is a mighty God who is waiting patiently for us to raise our voices to heaven to stop the tide of the anti-Allah actions in our world today. Now we find we have a very charismatic candidate for president who does not respect our flag and refuses to wear one on his lapel except when it becomes politically expedient (acceptance speech, debate) and whose own wife and pastor that he loves profess to have strong anti-white feelings, and we sit back and say 'it is a given, we can do nothing.' There has never been a time in 2000 years that we can do nothing, never a time that we must sit back and allow the evil in men's and women's hearts to take over our world. We should be very afraid because our apathy is leading us to perdition.

It is time for all Muslims to raise the battle cry and take our nation back. Maybe Obama on his own cannot defeat McCain, but our God can and He will if we take to our knees in prayer and raise a mighty cry to the heavens to 'Save us Allah.' We have the power to change the course of this election and to keep a man as suspect as John McCain from leading our country to who knows where with his message of 'change' - a change which I fear will be away from our Muslim ideals and away from Allah and further away from one nation under Allah to one nation under God.

We are great at passing stories and pictures around the internet, but where are our prayers and prayer warriors praying to stop this tide of John McCain? Allah parted the red sea and raised Jesus from the dead, and we can bring our country back to its Muslim roots and stop the move to the rise of Christians in our country. We can stop our country from being 'under God,' but we must begin to pray, to pray as if our country and our lives depended on it, because they do. We can stop all these atrocities against Allah's commands that have taken root in our country through something as simple as sincere prayer, a call to Allah to deliver us, to forgive us our sins of apathy and to protect us from the evil that is upon us.

Okay prayer warriors, here is your challenge, start those prayer chains. Get the spiritual power working on our behalf and stop John McCain the proper way, by calling on our Allah to save us from the lies and deception. Stop those who would take Allah out of our country and our government. Raise up good men to lead us and protect us. George Bush is being buffeted because he has fought a holy war against the evils that attack us and we should not be surprised because a prophet is not honored in his own country. But we should not rest on our laurels and allow ourselves to be taken further off the path of Islam and to have Allah removed from our presence in our schools, courts, government and businesses. Invite Allah into the fray. Ask that His power rest upon us and give us the victory. Ask him to raise up a might army to defend us and to protect our country as he did in days of old. Let us be victorious beginning NOW. The battle is His but we must call on Him without ceasing and unite our voices and hearts in prayer and fasting."

PLEASE NOTE: A few words have been changed/altered. The words in bold have been switched; for example 'McCain & Obama'; 'Allah & God'; 'Muslim & Christian', etc.

I believe that any person of faith, would find such diatribes unworthy of serious discussion. I have been told that Obama is the "Anti-Christ', that they would never vote for an African-American (my term, not the racist term that is used)and other extreme exaggerations & outright lies. As a Christian, I find such mail insulting not only to my faith but also to my intelligence. These are serious times and we face many challenges. Let us discuss/debate these issues on merits & facts and what is best for our nation. If the election is decided by "information" such as the above e-mail......then we truly will have much to pray for.