Hate Crime Laws are Unnecessary

Here is my response to one reader's comment to my May 23, 2008 article, "Shining God's Light on the Koran: Personally Accountable,"

To: Muslims Against Sharia Law

You wrote quoting Matt, “Hate crime legislation is wrong, because only God has the proper authority to judge hate . . . ”

Then you responded, “So what? If it exists, why not use it to do some good?”

What do you mean “if it exists?” Are you not sure? I am told that there was honor killing in Cleveland several years ago and the people were convicted of murder. What more can you do to a person than convict them of murder. They will either get years in jail or life imprisonment or the death penalty. The death penalty, however, is not used much used much anymore. There are already laws in place concerning murder and manslaughter. It is the responsibility of the judicial system to enforce the law and to execute vengeance on the evildoer. If the judicial system does not execute its responsibility for existing laws will more laws help the situation? The United States of America is not run by Sharia Law. Originally God’s laws from the Holy Bible were put into law. Atheists in the United States have since been trying to remove any honor of God in law or in American life.

God’s law in Holy Scripture is based on love. There are two basic laws and on these two laws all other laws are derived (Matthew 22:36-40). The first law is “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your strength, with all your soul, and with all your mind. The second is like it, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you obey these two laws you will automatically obey the rest. This means that all the other laws are hate crime laws for they are breaking the law of love.

The judicial system, public education, government, unions, business, and many individuals are trying to do away with love for God and love for your neighbor, and promote hatred instead for God and neighbor.

I do not know much about Sharia Law but I suspect it is not based on love. I hear that hatred is preached and taught in the mosque by the clerics.

God has set a natural hatred between those who would obey God and those who would not. Therefore, hatred can not be removed from people by law. It takes the Spirit of God entering into a person through faith in Jesus Christ for God’s love to be manifested in that person.

You must believe Jesus is God in the flesh. That He died for you taking your sins in His own body representing you before God, the Father. He rose from the dead to sit on the right harn of God. You must repent of your sins, invite Jesus into your heart and He will change you into a new person (The Bible, 2 Corinthians 5:17). Then He will come into you and you will have eternal life (The Bible, 1 John 5:11-12).

Is Honorcide a Hate Crime?

I received the following comment from Muslims Against Sharia in response to my article, “Shining God’s Light on the Koran – Personally Accountable, which I wrote Sunday.” My response is extensive so I wanted to post it as an article and not merely as a comment.

Here is their original comment to my Sunday article:

Muslims Against Sharia said...

"The STOP HONORCIDE! Campaign was launched on Mother's Day 2008. The goal of the campaign is to prosecute honorcides to the fullest extent of the law. We want honorcide to be classified as a hate crime and we advocate for every existing hate crime legislation to be amended to include honorcide.

http://www.reformislam.org/honorcide/"

First of all, hate-crime legislation is, in reality, thought-crime legislation or speech-crime legislation. It is not Biblical. If someone hates someone else and subsequently kills them that is considered first degree murder. However, if he does not harm the person hated, then no crime has been committed. With hate crime legislation once a position is stated the person is guilty of a hate-crime. Read Deuteronomy 10:11-13.

Second, Sharia Law is NOT God’s Law. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob is the true God (Exodus 3:15). When I write the “god of Islam”, I deliberately use a lower case “g”, unless beginning a sentence. Have you ever noticed that the emblem referring to the god of Islam is the crescent moon and a star? The moon god is actually the god of Islam. I do no know what the star refers to, but if I were to guess I would say Satan. This would mean that he is over the moon god, the god of Islam. Thus, the god of Islam is an idol – a mental idol. Lucifer is Satan’s name. The word “Lucifer” means “day star”. (The Liberty Annotated Study Bible, pages 1-38) (Isaiah 14:12).

Third, if you want to be Muslim you have that right. However, never expect that you will ever get to heaven based on your belief system. Muslims – if they do not accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior - never go to heaven, only to hell. Specifically, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man goes to the Father, but by Me (The Bible, John 14:6).” Jesus is God the Son (The Bible, John 1:1-12). He was born of a virgin. Jesus existed as God before birth and was never created. Jesus was perfect; He had no sin in Himself and lived a sinless life. He tasted death for every human. Yes, even you, because He loves you (The Bible, John 3:16). When God the Father was satisfied, Jesus said, “It is finished,” and gave up His spirit, died and was buried. Then He arose from the dead. Today He sits at the right hand of God the Father in heaven.

There is physical evidence of Jesus’ death and resurrection. It is called the Shroud of Turin. It is the burial shroud or clothe of Jesus. I know this because the blood on it has never decayed. This is proof of His deity.

Fourth, God offers you as a free gift, eternal life (The Bible, John 5:11-13) this life is in Jesus. Whoever has Jesus living in them has this life in them. You can invite Jesus into your heart and life today, right now. A simple prayer is, “Lord Jesus Christ, please forgive me of my sin and come into my heart and life.”

Do this then you are no longer a Muslim, but a Christian, who can be confidently heaven-bound.