Islam is the Prop of Christianity

There are indications and signs which show that, in the field of morals, human society is heading for decadence and deterioration, even disintegration. In this study, we will focus on those sexual relationships which are in conflict with human nature, as God has created it and wanted it to be.

In Christian countries, or those with a Christian majority, such as Great Britain, France, the Scandinavian countries, and the United States of America, for example, we notice a clear, even brazen, tendency for homosexual relationships which we will call here "perversion" or "sexual deviation".

Of old, homosexual men kept a low profile, to avoid being unmasked and humiliated, and to eschew criticism and slander and, most of the time, scorn and severance of relations.

With the passage of time, the viewpoint of Western society on this evil began to develop, so much so that it turned things upside down : homosexuals began to feel proud of themselves, and the high society welcomed them with great admiration and respect, giving them hearty receptions.

Year in year out, homosexuals began to grow in number and set up leagues and societies; they organized demonstrations and demanded their rights and prerogatives which they considered legal and legitimate.

In the past homosexuality was a heinous crime punishable by law. Today, however, it has become a sort of normal behavior, and a way of life in which homosexuals take great pride. Only when large numbers of homosexuals had been taken by AIDS did the homosexual community begin to think about its own future and that of humanity.

The Christian Church stood up firmly against this moral decline; it condemned it unequivocally, and sought to put an end to it, or at least to contain it, with all the means at its disposal.

In the last few centuries, however, the Church began to lose some of that influence it had in the past; it also lost the means which helped it in the past to impose its stands and penalties on homosexual, sinning believers who indulged in depravities and imperfections which constituted a threat to faith at its basis.

In the past, the Church had at its disposal a dreadful weapon : if need be, the Pope and the commissioned bishops would excommunicate any believer who had gone astray. The effects of excommunication were terrible. The excommunicate was deprived of the rights of church membership and excluded from fellowship in a group or community of believers, with all the consequences ensuing from such a situation. When he died he was deprived of extreme unction and his sins were not forgiven; because he died a sinner, no funeral service was held for him, and no prayers were said for him.

From the moment the excommunication decision was taken, the excommunicate became a stranger in his own community. If he was from the noble or aristocratic class, his prerogatives and rights over his subjects became null and void, thus losing authority over them. Excommunication was an early death for the excommunicate.

This horrible weapon has had no effect or consequence on the believers for centuries. Apart from preaching, guidance and counseling, nothing is left in the quiver of Christianity today. A person who does not observe the teachings of Christianity is a sinner, but he will be redeemed in the end if his repentance is sincere.

The governments of those countries have become so lenient that they have turned accomplices in this sin. For homosexuality has not only been tolerated, it is permissible both lawfully and legally. One might even say, without exaggeration, that some governments encourage this sexual deviation, thus contributing, unwillingly and unconsciously, to bringing the degradation of the human being to a very low level : wallowing in immoral filth and weltering in a mire of germs.

On Sunday April 26, 1993, thousands of American gays gathered in front of the White House, and demanded that President Clinton join the march they had organized in the streets of Washington, to claim rights owed to them by both the government and society.

Shocking scenes appeared in newspapers and on television: two men hugging and kissing, as if they were a man and a woman. What happened to pudency ? Proud and boastful, the gays had thus laid bare their sins and immoral filth to the whole world to see.

In the end, because the President was out of town, he addressed to them a letter of sympathy and compassion that was read on loudspeakers. Can one imagine a demonstration of this kind being organized in an Islamic country ? Or can one imagine the Islamic society sinking to such a low level ?

We are not claiming that the Muslim is infallible, but we are saying that the moral atmosphere, the religious environment and the human traditions in the Islamic society do not encourage such a deviation; on the contrary, they stand firm against it, thus curbing any homosexual inclination that might emerge among the believers.

Whether Sharia or those laws which emanate from it, the Islamic legislation now in force in Muslim countries stands as a forbidding barrier against social and human decadence and as a puissant deterrent in the face of those whose imagination might be haunted by such sordid dreams.

In this context, the difference between Christianity and Islam is that the former has no weapon in its arsenal against this sexual deviation, except preaching, guidance and exhortation while Islam possesses the means of deterrence and penalization. For Islam, homosexuality is a sin, just like adultery or fornication.

This lewdness was very widespread among the  people of Lut: hence the revelation of the following verse condemning it : "And (remember) Lut : Behold, he said to his people : you do commit lewdness, such as no people in Creation (ever) committed before you", [The Spider : 28].

Regarding punishment, we read : "For we are going to bring down on the people of this township a Punishment from heaven, because they have been wickedly rebellious", [The Spider : 34].

From Islam's point of view, homosexuals commit abomination : hence the Punishment which Allah had sent down on them for their evildoing. Some scholars hold that in Sharia, "the punishment for homosexuality is the same as that for adultery and fornication". Whatever the case, the punishment is inevitable, and is imposed by the Qadi (judge) in accordance with the requirements of the commonweal of society which must remain free of such abominations and sins.

This laxity, or rather this moral decadence, that is found in Christian Western societies is also noticeable in other contexts: marriage. Reliable figures have indicated that the percentage of the people who turn away from marriage, preferring concubinage in stead, is rising year in year out.

Thus, concubinage, which was banned legally and which was inadmissible socially, has now become legal, just like marriage.

For sometime now, it has been said - though the news has yet to be independently verified - that some Scandinavian countries, perhaps even Great Britain, have enacted a law allowing men to live together like husband and wife(*).

This concubinage is condemned by Christianity; however, given the weak position of the Church, to which we have alluded earlier, the latter is unable to take any radical measure against this practice.

Like Christianity, Islam also condemns homosexuality; unlike it, it has the means capable of curbing it and of imposing deterrent penalties on those who practise it.

European and American societies which represent the West - in its wide sense - with its Christian majority, are slowly but surely heading towards total moral decadence. Had it not been for the Church and the men of religion who are scattered about in those societies, the situation would have been very disgusting, indeed.

It may be true that the Christian West has for some centuries now been taking the lead in Human civilization, and appears to be more developed and highly advanced in the scientific field than the Islamic society; however, in the context of moral standards the situation is just the opposite.

The eastern societies which have a Muslim majority did not, and will not, witness the scourge of sexual deviation that has affected the Christian West, wherein homosexuals have come out of the closet and marched out in the streets, claiming their "legitimate" rights.

This understanding and tolerance on the part of Western governments towards homosexuals, who have soiled human dignity, will one day be the main reason behind the utter disintegration of the Christian Western societies. Should that happen, Islam will emerge as the only religious, social and educational reference to salvage what little morals will be left and to help the Church, if it so wishes, to shoulder its responsibilities. If these had been assumed from the start, the Christian Church would have prevented the disintegration of the Christian society and saved it from falling into that abyss towards which it is inevitably heading.