I am reading my second book by Mark Gabriel, PH.D., who gave up Islam to become a Christian. He had been a professor of Islam and an imman in Egypt, but he converted to Christianity as soon as he read Jesus's statement about turning the other cheek to anyone who slaps the first one. Gabriel thought that was wonderful advice. I don't. Perhaps Jesus could see that the Jews were on the verge of rebelling against the parasitic Romans, and knew they would be defeated, everyone found attractive or just needing to be made submissive would be gang-raped, and survivors eventually sold all over the world into slavery. Considering the consequences, perhaps turning the other cheek would be advisable. But it is not good advice in a fairly free world. It is not love to let someone slap you for no good reason. It is not love for a person to allow another person to be a psychopath and it is no love for your self to be slapped. It is simply Christian passivity, and the actions of a coward.
If you love someone, you stop him when he is doing or saying bad things. If you love yourself, you don't let someone hit you again and you certainly don't turn the other cheek. I don't know what hell Dr. Gabriel went through in Islam to attract him so strongly to the words of Jesus, but passivity is not only immoral but it is an invitation for violence. Sorry sir, but weakness provokes violence just as surely as the lamb calls to the wolf. Getting out of Islam was a good idea, but Christianity shouldn't be teaching you to be blind to reality either.
Best wishes to you and welcome to America. Thank you for your brave fight to educate Americans about how dangerous and totalitarian Islam can be especially when we have tyrants like Hillary Clinton dismissing anyone who sees the evil side of Islam as "an Islamophobe."
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
"The measure of a man
Is not what he says,
But what he does,
And what he allows others'
To do in his presence."
-US Navy Seal Instructor
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