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In the Minneapolis Star Tribune on December 12, 2005, Paul Garwood reported the following:
CAIRO – In a tape that surfaced Sunday, Osama bin Laden’s deputy urged all Muslims to take up arms, saying a refusal to join the fight against “the Cross and Zionism” was a “malignant illness” that would lead to the defeat of militant Islam. Egyptian-born Ayman Al-Zawahri said the global Islamic community had “no hope for victory” until all Muslims signed on to the Al-Qaida-led jihad.

Militant Islam may call the Muslim world to arms against the cross. But the followers of the cross will never take up to proclaim or defend Christ. We will die to make him known. But we will not kill to make him known. And even if there be but a remnant of Christ-followers left, the Lamb himself will stand forth at the end and win.