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TechnoratiSookhdeo noted that the top 200 U.S. companies are sharia (Islamic law) complied. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has tried to influence the American education system by donating tens of millions of dollars to top U.S. universities.
“Others use violence, but there is not a single approach but a multiplicity that we need to discern,” said the expert.
He noted that Muslim extremists don’t distinguish between Christians in the West and those in the Middle East and that they are seen as “being one of the same thing.”
“We are in a spiritual battle…it is not just the great powers lining up all the technologies, but we understand and interpret the world in an altogether different ways,” Sookhdeo said. “If there is a solution, it’s a spiritual solution, a Christian solution."
The much-sought-after Islam expert concluded with hope saying that for the first time in history, there are more Muslims than ever before who are becoming Christians.
“There is a movement across the Muslim world and no country is left out … where there are not now people being saved,” he said encouragingly to a room of applause. “We are not in a position of defeat actually; the church is growing at a fair pace within the Islamic world. We have to thank God for that.”
Sookhdeo – who is also the director of the Barnabas Fund which works with the persecuted church – repeatedly urged Christians in the West to remember the persecuted church and to pray, support and lobby the government on her behalf. But he also called on Americans to learn from the persecuted church.
“There is considerable disillusionment within the Muslim world and I think violence which we see … is producing an inner hunger within many Muslims for reality,” Sookhdeo said. “The danger is at the very time we should be holding fast to our faith and onto our foundation and sharing those, the temptation is to weaken our position, to weaken it, and embrace the other.”
“So I want to say if we are going to fight this battle and fight it spiritually then we have to look at our own spiritual lives – our dedication to the Lord, our theological, our moral and spiritual and then move into prayer where we can deal with Satan … Of course I believe in love. But I think in our serious condition we need a new generation of prayer warriors with the prophets of God.”
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