from the January 18, 2016 eNews issue

The LORD’s anger won’t turn back until he has accomplished what he intended to do. In the future you will clearly understand it.

— Jeremiah 23:20, (ISV)

In the last week’s eNews article, we talked about three of the Strategic Trends that the Koinonia Institute follows: Israel, America and Europe/Russia. Today we will continue the look into 2016 and examine what lies on the horizon in some of KI’s other Strategic Areas: Islam, Middle East and Asia.

Islam

Fight them until there is no more rebellion and religion is all for Allah.

— Qur’an 8:39

The world is finally waking up to the existential threat Islam poses on civilization. One cannot say “Western Civilization,” but civilization in general. For everything that Islam touches it destroys. It is not only Christians around the globe who are persecuted, but the Hindis in India’s West Bengal region, the Sikhs in England, and the Buddhists in Myanmar. A June 15, 2015, article in Forbes Magazine stated:

A handful of at least nominally Christian countries persecute; however, this behavior most often reflects authoritarian politics (in former communist states) rather than theology. In a few cases, though, the Orthodox Church relies on the government for support against other Christian faiths.

In contrast, majority Muslim nations almost uniformly persecute. The only question is how virulent the repression. Believers are mistreated everywhere, but Christians most suffer in the birthplace of Christianity. The Iraq invasion and Arab Spring have loosed a campaign of religious cleansing across the Middle East.

Al-Qaida shocked the world and staggered the United States when it destroyed the Twin Towers and struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad keep steady pressure upon Israel with attacks on Israeli civilians and rockets lobbed from Gaza. Hezbollah (backed by Iran) menaces Israel from Lebanon. In the Philippines, Islamic jihad groups have succeeded in compelling the government to grant Muslims an autonomous region in Mindanao. In Nigeria, Boko Haram, a terror group who claims allegiance to ISIS, horrified the world by kidnapping infidel girls and holding them for ransom or pressing them into sex slavery.

There is one group, however, that supersedes them all in terms of raw barbarism. It is the collection of savages that calls itself the Islamic State, the rest of the world calls ISIS, and the Obama administration calls ISIL. (ISIS calls itself the Islamic State.)

ISIS has beheaded Americans on video, burned a captured Jordanian pilot alive in a metal cage, and made sex slaves of thousands of women and young girls. It executes men for smoking and tortures women for the tiniest infractions against covering themselves in public.

Islamic Jihadism will continue in 2016 with even more terror attacks. Ironically, as ISIS continues to lose territory to the combined attacks from the United States, Russia, NATO and the Arab States, assaults on soft targets around the world will increase to show the world that ISIS is still a force to be reckoned with.

Europe – the New Battleground

The foundation has already been laid for a major conflict in Europe. Refugees are pouring into Europe from Syria and other Middle East countries by way of the Balkans. The large majority of these émigrés are Christians and non-violent Muslims wanting to escape the violence of their homelands. There are a small, but worrisome number of people who are coming into Europe for the sole purpose of fomenting terror within the host countries.

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