With Paris burning, I’ve been thinking a lot about something I read ten years ago while doing research for The Hal Lindsey Report. I came across some things written by Dr. Peter Hammond, a South African missionary. He had made a study of ways Islam gains control of nations. Hal had also made an extensive study of Islam, especially when writing his book, The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad. Dr. Hammond’s straightforward warnings intrigued Hal.
In that 2016 episode of Hal’s program, he quoted from Dr. Hammond’s book, Slavery, Terrorism and Islam. “The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.” Hal saw that as the key point. He commented, “It’s imperative that we understand … Islam is not intent on converting us so much as it is intent on ruling us.”
Dr. Hammond also said, “The ultimate purpose of Islam is the establishment by force of a worldwide Islamic state where Sharia law is enforced on all.” Obviously, that doesn’t represent every one of the two billion Muslims on earth, but it does agree with the doctrine and actions of many Muslims. The influential Islamic scholar and imam, Abul A’la Maududi, said, “Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of its own ideology and program.”
Dr. Hammond made this crucial point: “The primary aim of Islam is not spiritual but political.” He laid out his theory about how Muslim populations behave as their percentage of a country’s population increases. His population-percentage claims have been widely challenged, but in light of what’s happening in Europe, we should give them careful consideration.
“At 1% of any given country, they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone,” Dr. Hammond wrote. He continued, “At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs … From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia.”
From there, he said, things get worse. “When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats … After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning … At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare.”
Then, according to Hammond, when Muslims reach 60% of the population, Islamic rule becomes dominant. Hammond wrote, “From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels … After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide.”
Americans and Europeans have been conditioned to see all religious thought as basically the same — even though a cursory glance proves the opposite. Hal would not be surprised by the chaos boiling in parts of Europe over the last few weeks. Back in 2016, he warned, “Folks, immigration that is not followed by assimilation is just another name for invasion.”
