What are the different ways Christians can pray in the current ISIS crisis?

Pray for Muslims in ISIS-affected areas

Muslims are targeted by ISIS as much as Christians are, sometimes even more. Shia Muslims, Kurds, Yazidis, and Sunnis or other secular Muslims who refuse to pledge allegiance to ISIS are to be slaughtered according to ISIS magazine 'Dabiq'. 

• Pray for God's protection (both physical and spiritual) and strength as they resist ISIS advancing troops.
• Pray for wisdom among the tribal and regional leaders to make the best decisions for their groups when confronted by ISIS.
• As the world is appalled by the atrocities committed by ISIS, more Muslims are asking questions about the religious beliefs they have been taught. Pray that these Muslims will call upon the one true God,  and that God will reveal Himself to them through His voice and dreams. Pray that these Muslims will too find the assurance of salvation though Jesus Christ (Acts 28:28).
• Pray that Muslims who have developed interest in Christianity will be able to find the Bible and Christian groups that can help them understanding God's Word and be discipled. (Acts 8:27-38).

Over-reaction to Terrorism: Turning a mouse into an elephant

Traditional definitions of warfare need to be substantially rethought for modern conditions. Recent conflicts, particularly those in the Middle East, have shown that concepts such as hybrid warfare and unrestricted warfare make a lot more sense than traditional state-on-state, force-on-force concepts of conventional war.

Most of the adversaries Western powers have been fighting since 9/11 are in fact accidental guerrillas:

People who fight the West not because they hate the West and seek to overthrow it, but because of the perception that we have invaded their space to deal with a small extremist element that has manipulated and exploited local grievances to gain power in their societies.

They fight the West not because they seek its destruction but because they believe it seeks theirs, a belief in which they are encouraged by a cynical, manipulative clique of takfiri terrorists who, though small in number, have been catapulted to great political influence and prestige because of our over-reaction to 9/11.

Muslim Lives Matter ?

~ a response to the tragic murder of 3 Muslim students in NC and #MuslimLivesMatter 

Why do Muslims love talking about the Crusades?

Muslims love talking about the Crusades… and Christians love apologizing for them. To hear both parties tell the story, one would think that Muslims were just peacefully minding their own business in lands that were legitimately Muslim, when Christian armies decided to wage holy war and kill millions.


Here are some quick facts…

The first Crusade began in 1095… that was:

- 457 years after Jerusalem was conquered by Muslim armies, 

- 453 years after Egypt was taken by Muslim armies, 

- 443 after Muslims first plundered Italy, 

- 427 years after Muslim armies first laid siege to Constantinople, 

- 380 years after Spain was conquered by Muslim armies, 

- 363 years after France was first attacked by Muslim armies, 

- 249 years after Rome was sacked by a Muslim army, 

By the time the Crusades finally began, Muslim armies had conquered two-thirds of the Christian world.

As early as 652, Muhammad’s followers launched raids on the island of Sicily, waging a full-scale occupation 200 years later that lasted almost a century and was punctuated by massacres, such as that at the town of Castrogiovanni, in which 8,000 Christians were put to death. In 1084, ten yearsbefore the first crusade, Muslims staged another devastating Sicilian raid, burning churches in Reggio, enslaving monks and raping an abbey of nuns before carrying them into captivity.

In 1095, Byzantine Emperor, Alexius I Comneus began begging the pope in Rome for help in turning back the Muslim armies which were overrunning what is now Turkey, grabbing property as they went and turning churches into mosques. Several hundred thousand Christians had been killed in Anatolia alone in the decades following 1050 by Seljuk invaders interested in 'converting' the survivors to Islam.

Renowned scholar Bernard Lewis points out that "unlike the jihad, it [the Crusade] was concerned primarily with the defense or reconquest of threatened or lost Christian territory... The Muslim jihad, in contrast, was perceived as unlimited, as a religious obligation that would continue until all the world had either adopted the Muslim faith or submitted to Muslim rule... The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic law."

Ironically, the Crusades are justified by the Quran itself, which encourages Holy War in order to"drive them out of the places from whence they drove you out" (2:191), even though the aim wasn't to expel Muslims from the Middle East, but more to bring an end to the molestation of pilgrims. Holy war is not justified by New Testament teachings, which is why the Crusades are an anomaly, the brief interruption of centuries of relentless Jihad against Christianity that began long before and continued well after.

Source: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/