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FRANKLIN GRAHAM: MUSLIMS KILL CHRISTIANS TO COPY MUHAMMAD

Prophet was 'man of war' who murdered 'many people'

Cheryl Chumley

The Rev. Franklin Graham said Muslims set Christians in their killing sights for one basic reason, and one basic reason alone: to “emulate” their leader, Muhammad, he said.

“Muhammad was a man of war and he killed many people,” Graham said, during a recent “Fox & Friends” interview with host Tucker Carlson. “Jesus Christ came as a man of peace and as a follower of Christ I follow him and I want to emulate Him. But the followers of Islam are emulating the prophet Muhammad, and that’s what you’re seeing carried out.”

Graham also warned those of Christian faith and others not to be fooled by the teachings of Islam.

“We have to be very careful and understand that Islam, the teachings of Islam, are militant,” he said, the Shoebat Foundation reported. “I’m talking about, when you read the Koran, when you read the Surra, it’s very militant.”

He went on to say that one of the reasons Christian persecution has risen in the Middle East is that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was killed.

“When Iraq was invaded by our country – and I’m not saying this wsa right or wrong, I’m just saying it’s a fact – there was a large Christian minority. Saddam Hussein gave them quite a lot of freedom. But when that government fell and the new government came to power, the Islamists in the country, al-Qaida and others, began to attack and burn churches. We’ve seen that happen throughout Iraq and now it’s happening in Syria.”

And that’s why, at least in part, “the Christian community is being slaughtered by the Muslims and they’re being forced to leave,” he said.

But on a larger scale, the slaughter has been ongoing for centuries, Graham said.

“There used to be large Christian and Jewish communities in Saudi Arabia,” he said, during the Fox interview. “But over the centuries, they have been exterminated by the Muslims. This isn’t something that has just happened with ISIS. This has been going on for centuries and has been going on in Egypt. When those Egyptian men [Coptic Christians] had their heads cut off, that’s not the first time. That’s been going on in Egypt for a long time.”

At the same time, Graham made clear that he still loves Muslims.

“[I don't] want the Muslims out there to think that I’m bashing them,” he said. “I’m not. I love Muslims and I want them to know what I know – that God loves them, that Jesus Christ died for their sins, that he rose from the grave, he can come into the heart and they can have that hope of heaven and that hope of eternal life.”

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