The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World: A Conversation with John Andrew Morrow

Published: July 3, 2018, 11:07 p.m.

Why do the powers that be try to convince us that there is a \u201cclash of cultures\u201d or a conflict between Islam and the West or between Islam and Christianity? \xa0\nTo answer that, Dr. John Andrew Morrow discusses his book,\xa0The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World.\xa0 We learn that Christianity and Islam co-existed peacefully with full protections for Christians for 1400 years. These covenants\xa0\n\u201cuniformly state that Muslims are not to attack peaceful Christian communities, rob them, stop churches from being repaired, tear down churches to build mosques, prevent their Christian wives from going to church and taking spiritual direction from Christian priests and elders, etc. On the contrary, the Prophet commands Muslims to actively protect these communities \u2018until the End of the World\u2019.\u201d\nIn this informative conversation we learn about the rise of European Colonialism and its handmaiden, Islamic Fundamentalism (now funded and supported by the U.S., the Saudis, and Israel) and the role of these modern powers in smearing Islam and framing Muslims as \u201cterrorists\u201d for geopolitical interests.\xa0\nDr. Morrow invites us to wake up and learn our history. Find his writings on his website,\xa0John Andrew Morrow, and learn more about these historic covenants at\xa0Covenants of the Prophet.\nDr. John Andrew Morrow\xa0was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1971. Raised in a multilingual family, he lived in Montreal for ten years and in the Greater Toronto Area for another twenty. The product of a Catholic education, he completed his elementary school in French, his high school in English, and his university studies in English, French, and Spanish. He embraced Islam at the age of 16 after which he adopted the name Ilyas \u2018Abd al-\u2018Alim Islam. After completing his Honors BA, MA, and PhD at the University of Toronto, where he acquired expertise in Hispanic, Native, and Islamic Studies, he pursued post-graduate studies in Arabic in\xa0Morocco and the United States. Besides his Western education, Dr. Morrow has\xa0completed the full cycle of traditional Islamic seminary studies both independently and at the hands of a series of Sunni, Shi\u2019i, and Sufi scholars.\xa0Not only is he a senior scholar, academic, and professor, he is also a respected \u2018alim holding the titles of ustadh, duktur, hakim, and shaykh.\xa0\nDr. Morrow has spent over a decade and a half in the United States working at various universities including Park University, Northern State University, Eastern New Mexico University, the University of Virginia, and Ivy Tech where he was unanimously appointed to the rank of Full Professor. One of his most noteworthy and memorable experiences involved working as a professor of advanced Spanish, Islamic culture, and world literature for the Institute for Shipboard Education\u2019s Semester at Sea Program.\xa0Aside from his academic duties,\xa0Dr. John Andrew Morrow is the Director of the Covenants Foundation,\xa0an organization dedicated to disseminating traditional, civilizational, Islam; promoting Islamic unity; protecting persecuted Christians; and improving relations between Muslims and members of other faiths. He regularly travels the world to promote peace and justice.\nDr. John Andrew Morrow is a Native North American and a proud member of the Metis Nation.