November 19, 2018 Show with David Wood on “Recent Islamic Acts of Terror Examined”

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This is Chris Arntzen, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Monday on this 19th day of November 2018 and I am thanking the Lord that my cold has gotten better enough for me to conduct today's interview with my friend David Wood.

I have been suffering from a really bad cold the last three days and would have been unable to conduct an audible interview prior to today, so thankfully today was the first program of the week where I am feeling strong enough and well enough and healthy enough to do this.

But my friend David Wood, at one time at least, he was the most interviewed person on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio when I had the program broadcasting out of New York on WNYG and WGBB and David would always make it a point to drive from New York City to Long Island to conduct the interviews right in the studio and it was always a joy.

And he is a former atheist who is now a Christian apologist, a conference speaker and a debater and the founder of acts17 .net and answeringmuslims .com and today we are going to be addressing recent Islamic acts of terror examined and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, David Wood.

Hey, how's it going Chris? It's going great and why don't you tell our listeners before we go into the theme at hand a little bit about acts17 .net and answeringmuslims .com.

Well, praise God and if anybody is wondering that Muslim who David was used by the Lord to lead to.

Christ was indeed Nabeel Qureshi who is now in eternity with that very same Lord God Savior and King Jesus Christ. Let us move on to the first act of terror that is quite disturbing especially because it involves a very vital and close ally of the United States, Saudi Arabia,.

Jamal Khashoggi. Am I pronouncing that right by the way? Yeah, I think that's Khashoggi and Khashoggi. And he was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey, am I correct? Yeah. And what date was that?

Did that occur? Well, tell us something about Jamal Khashoggi because.

Liberals seem to be adopting him. I don't know if they all are but many of them seem to be adopting them or excuse me adopting him as a moderate to liberal Muslim that he was for freedom of speech and so on.

But I've also heard from sources like Rush Limbaugh that Jamal Khashoggi was himself a militant Muslim. He was no friend of the free republic that we enjoy to live in. So tell us about the truth that you know of about this man, about what kind of Islamic faith he adhered to,.

Etc. I wouldn't forget that we funded them, our nation funded their military. Yeah, and so back then he was standing against. And he was not just a different kind of Islamic extremist for lack of.

A better term. I mean as you know better than I do, you can have all kinds of Muslims who even are at war with each other, who even murder each other, who commit acts of terror against each other. But it's not because necessarily one is liberal and one is more faithful to the Quran.

They have different interpretations of the Quran and so on and leads to the conflicts that they have. So you're saying that this is not really an example of that where you just have a different kind of militant right-wing Muslim who just differed on certain nuances of Islamic theology?

No, I think you could say during. If you could give us a summary of that account, that horrific.

Account of him being murdered and dismembered at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey. And give us all the updates that you have and let us know the difference between those that are theories.

And those that are now established facts. Someone would be. Oh yeah, because now this is just a.

Cold-blooded murder, an ambush. It had nothing to do with an effort to take him back to Saudi Arabia that ended up in a fight and all that. That was just nonsense. Are there Muslims who defend this as a completely appropriate and honorable act that had happened.

To Khashoggi? There would be. Of course there's a difference between. Even in Sharia law,.

Somebody being executed after a trial or some kind of a hearing that takes place, whereas this was an ambush. This was a, just as we have already described it, a cold-blooded act of murder. Could that kind of killing be at all justified by the Quran or the Hadith?

Yeah, it depends on what he said, central Islamic authority, and because he's in rebellion in that way, this could simply be. Now what is your update on the United States government, President Trump.

And so on, in our response to this as the facts seem to be changing the stories of Saudi Arabia quite rapidly and frequently. So what is the latest update that you have in regard to.

How we plan to react to this, if at all? The U .S. has imposed... We're going to our first break right now. If you'd like to join us on the air with a question.

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I know that we do on occasion get emails from Muslims. Most of the time we get them off the air after the program has aired, but I would love to hear from Muslims who may be listening today. Our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com, chrisarnsen at gmail .com.

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And we are discussing the recent Islamic acts of terror examined. If you'd like to join us on the air, our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com. C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail .com. Tell us what you know about, as far as updates go, how is President Trump and the United States government responding to facts that seem to point clearly to the royal family in Saudi Arabia as being guilty of actually ordering this assassination?

Well, this connects to...

Yeah, this obviously would further embolden them to commit other equally horrific, if not exceedingly greater horrific acts of terror and murder and so on. So, we do have a listener. We have, let's see, Ronald in Eastern Suffolk County, Long Island, wants to know, is the form of Islam that is adhered to by the majority of those in Turkey.

At odds with the form of Islam that is dominant in Saudi Arabia? Well, thank you, Ronald.

We have John in Bangor, Maine, who asks, how do you use this information that you have just discussed in your apologetics ministry when you are dialoguing and debating with Muslims and having interaction with them?

Is this material at all central or at least a part of your ministry?

Um, yeah, but not in the same way that something's going to win.

Well, I don't know if you have anything more to say about this specific incident in the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey, but if you have finished basically everything that you care to say about that, I'd like to move on as soon as possible to Asia Bibi, the Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, who had that conviction overturned, but is still in danger of being assassinated, murdered by the Muslims in Pakistan.

And obviously that might not be under the specific category of terror, but it's still under the very closely related category of persecution, obviously.

Yeah. And, uh, yeah, that wouldn't follow. So tell us about this, uh, Christian woman.

I understand that, uh, this all started when she was getting a drink of water at some common place of, uh, getting water in Pakistan, a watering hole of sorts.

Yeah. So, uh, so, uh, do you think that that had anything to do with outside pressure or was it.

Just, uh, uh, the integrity of the court there in Pakistan?

Uh, so violence towards Asia Bibi, uh, Asia Bibi's family, her lawyer, her lawyer, uh.

Yeah. Really tragic, uh, deplorable. Uh, but anyway, um, we're going to be going to our midway break right now. This is our longer than normal break. It's because Grace Life Radio 90 .1 FM in Lake City, Florida requires of us a longer break between our two major segments because they air their own, uh, public service announcements and commercials in order to make Iron Trip and Zion Radio more localized to Lake City, Florida.

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Saudi Arabia, Jamal Khashoggi, and the Nature of Islamic Terror

And now we are back with our guest David Wood. David, for those of you who are unfamiliar with David, he is a very well-known debater of Muslims especially and some atheists as well. Founder of Acts17 .net and AnsweringMuslims .com.