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Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

Has America’s Longest War Really Ended? (Hank Unplugged Shorts)

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Christian Research Institute

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9809 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, asks what will be the fate of American and Afghan allies left captive behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Tragically, the answer is borne out by history. Recall that precisely seven years ago, Mosul, Iraq fell. Muslim fighters thereafter captured village after village. Men were executed. Women and girls taken as slaves, with the sanction for raping captives issued directly from Allah in the Qur’an. Indeed, the consensus of sharia, in concert with the will of Allah, mandates war as a “religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force” (Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah). The Islamic wars mandated by sharia will continue on as a plague on the landscape of humanity.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Hank Hanagraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible

0:16.9

and Saman broadcast with another Hank unplug short. It's Tuesday morning. I'm in my office

0:22.9

and I'm reading the headline of the Wall Street Journal, America's longest war ends.

0:32.7

After finishing the article, I was left with a question. What will happen to the American and the

0:38.9

Afghan allies? What is going to happen to those who have been left captive behind enemy lines?

0:46.9

And although I don't want to fathom it, I think that the answer is borne out by history.

0:55.0

Precisely seven years ago, August 2014, you may recall that Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq fell.

1:07.0

And thereafter, Muslim fighters captured village after village, and carnage ensued.

1:15.9

A New York Times foreign correspondent vividly describes the horror that unfolded in the aftermath of the conquest.

1:25.7

I've documented my book, Muslim,

1:28.1

what you need to know about the world's fastest growing religion.

1:31.3

Here's what the New York Times foreign correspondent wrote.

1:37.6

Adolescent boys were told to lift up their shirts.

1:41.8

And if they had armpit hair,

1:50.0

they were directed to join their older brothers and their fathers. The men and the older boys were then driven or marched to nearby fields,

1:57.0

although they were forced to lay down in the dirt and sprayed with automatic machine gun fire.

2:05.8

What happened to the women and children might truly have been worse.

2:10.7

Captives were sent to Syria or to other locations inside Iraq, and there they were bought and sold for sex.

2:21.0

One of those captives, a 12-year-old child, was raped by a devout Muslim fighter, a fighter who took

2:31.3

the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin.

2:36.2

He said it was not a sin because the pre-teen girl practiced a religion other than Islam.

2:44.9

And that is what is truly appalling.

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