It took me 10 years, officially, to write this letter, but a lifetime of working out my hatred for Muslims with the only God who could free me in His love – Father, Son, Holy Spirit. ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty,” Zechariah 4:6. And Praise Jesus, by His Spirit, not my own power or might, I have finished my letter to you in love. Transformed from hatred to love by the Spirit of God.
Dear Muslims, in every country – in all the world, For 500 years my Christian ancestors were enslaved by your Islam. For 500 years my Christian fathers lived under your Turkish Muslim Islamic oppression and rule. For 500 years my Christian Serbian ancestors were murdered, impaled, manipulated, humiliated, massacred, slayed, crucified, by your Muslim armies and Islam. For 500 years my people did not know freedom, they knew only oppression, death, and persecution. For 500 years heritage watched as their daughters were taken from them against all will and given over to your rulers to be raped. For 500 years mothers of my people had to watch as their first-born son was taken from them and sent to your Turkey to be converted to Islam and raised up as a Muslim soldier to later be turned against his own. For 500 years your Islam did not build one hospital, one university, one library, one place of human advancement. For 500 years my Christian forefathers, withstood your taxes, your lust, your killing, your orders, your rape, your theft, your bondage, slavery, oppression, death, genocide… They withstood your Islam. My Christian forefathers survived it all. And today, I am here, and I declare forgiveness. I forgive you. I forgive you Muslim. I forgive you for the 500 years of slavery, rape, murder, torment, oppression, ruthlessness, and death your Islam was to my Christian forefathers and for all Christians who lived under your Islam. I write this letter to you, to let you know that I do not hate you anymore. I do not look at you as my enemy anymore. You are forgiven. But how? How and where do I get the power to forgive you? The power to write this letter. The power to declare my God loves you. Where does the power inside of me come from to not take revenge? Revenge for all the suffering your Islam and your people have brought on mine before me? Why don’t I seek blood, to repay you for all that you have done to Christians for hundreds of years and for what you are doing to Christians now? Why am I different than you? How long has Europe and America been involved in the Middle East? In Iraq? Maybe 30 years? Now take that and add another 470 years, but in those 470 years, add taking of your Muslim first-born sons, raping of your women, murdering at free will your men, taxing you, persecution, slavery, and so much more that this book can never fully express or explain. Imagine this for 500 years. How much hate and anger and burning with vengeance would you feel? I know how you would feel because it has not even been the slightest fraction of time that NATO has been in your countries, compared to the time and occupation of Islamic Muslim Turkish Armies in Christian lands, and look how many of your people are fighting for and seeking revenge. I know that is how you and your people feel for Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, your hearts are burning with sorrow and sadness for the suffering… your mothers mourn endlessly, and your fathers are helpless to the destruction around them. Young blood spilled and the hate and desire for revenge grows strong. Again, imagine that for 500 years this happened to your Muslim people, but wait, imagine that after those 500 years, you were talking to an American or a European and this person looked back at that time of your suffering and occupation with such pride and power. They even have the arrogance to tell you, “taking your first born sons into our army was a privilege for you - you should be proud of the fact that we took your sons and made them fight with our NATO army.” And that the reason they are not still in your countries is because they “let” you be Muslims, they didn’t forcefully convert you. Can you possibly imagine this? Can you imagine? You couldn’t imagine… it is too powerful, too emotional, too painful, right? But this is what Muslims and Turkish people have told me. They have told me that it was a privilege that Christian sons, my forefathers, were taken from their mother’s arms and raised up to fight against their own Christianity – their own people, their own beliefs. They told me that it was an honor for the Christians to have their babies taken from them. Can you believe this? What kind of person does it take to feel this and then have the heart to say this? I will give you the answer – a demon worshiper. I could not believe my ears when I heard Muslims speak these cursed words. There is no way to describe what I felt after hearing them. What if someone took your son and your sons for 500 years? And then, after the 500 years they tell you that you should be proud your sons became Muslims. Unimaginable. The same Turkish people look back to that part of their Ottoman history with pride and an unrepentant heart. Satanic pride. Proud of slavery, rape, and total contamination, ruin of another people and nation. Allah and Islam gave you the right to take away our freedom, rape us freely, tax us, murder, crucify, behead, dominate, subdue, kill, persecute, and humiliate us, Christians. This is Islam. You are proud of all of this and of those 500 years that Christians were enslaved to your caliphate. Your Islam glories in its history of oppression and occupation of land that did not belong to you. This is who you are, not who we Christians are, or who the God of Abraham is. Why are we Christians different than you? Why am I different than you? Why do I forgive you for your 500 years of slavery and ruin? Why don’t I seek revenge? Why don’t I hate you, all of you, and your Islam? This letter has shown why. It has shown you why I forgive you, and why I don’t seek revenge. This letter proves that in Christ and by the power of Him and Him alone – I can forgive you. This letter reinforces the Biblical Truth that Christ God loves you and loves all Muslims. Jesus Loves Muslims. This letter is a declaration of love and its triumph in soil saturated with innocent Christian blood, persecution, and death by your religion. This letter is for my fathers and grandfathers, who under the most impossible time of your Islam, never gave up their faith in Jesus Christ. And because of their faith, their suffering, I could come to this day that I can say freely that I do not hate you, Dear Muslims. Even without your repentance, I forgive you, but more than any of the forgiveness from me is the love Jesus God has for you. I forgive you. You have now read my letter to you. My letter of proclamation that I forgive you for what you have done to my family. I forgive you. This is a letter of the triumph of and in love. The love only found in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The love of God in a person’s heart that without Him, would seek revenge against you. It is love. Love wins again. Its victory was sealed that day that Jesus hung broken and bloody on the cross, and it wins today with this letter to you. I do not hate you, Dear Muslim, I forgive you. Today, you know that in Christ, we, my Christian Serbian forefathers and me, we have overcome your Islam. After five hundred years, Jesus broke the yoke of Islam, the ruin and oppression of your Muslim Turkish caliphate, we defeated you, and today we sing in victory over Islam: We no longer hear your Islamic commands. We no longer pray in chains. We no longer submit to your ways. We no longer pay your taxes. We built our own society. Free from Islam, free from your tyranny. Today, the voice of my forefathers sing: “Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be torn by their teeth. 7 We have escaped like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped. 8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” Psalm 124:6-8 “Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted. 5 Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.” Isaiah 12:4-5 Today, I sing with the voice of my forefathers, we have overcome you and your Islam: “He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the Lord.” Psalm 40:3 I have made known to the nations what Jesus, Savior and God, has done. How He has set us free from your Mohammed and the way of your Allah. We are free, and I exalt His name that is above all names, I sing with joy – praise Jesus, praise Jesus, praise Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, for your love. Just as You loved while you were here, I loved them, as you love them: “He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.” John 13:1 Thank you for setting me free from hatred. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Dear Muslim, and I pray this prayer for all of you: “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3 |