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It was the beginning of the modern-day feminist movement. One of the women, Kate Millett, founded the National Organization of Women, and was attributed with the achievement of previously unimaginable “legal abortion, greater professional equality between the sexes, and a sexual freedom.”

At each meeting, the women recited their “Feminist Manifesto”:

Why are we here today? The Chairwoman asked.
To make revolution, the group answered.
What kind of revolution? She replied.
The cultural revolution, they chanted.
And how do we make Cultural Revolution? She demanded.
By destroying the American family, they answered.
How do we destroy the American family? She asked.
By destroying the American Patriarch, they cried exuberantly.
And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?
By taking away his power!
How do we do that? The Chairwoman asked.
By destroying monogamy!
How can we destroy monogamy?
By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution, abortion and homosexuality!

These declarations were just beginning to gain traction early in the 1960s. However, we have witnessed their progressive realization in the six decades that followed. The values they advocated have become commonplace: 9th-month abortions, pervasive pornography, and unrestricted immoral behavior, to name a few. The widespread violence we are witnessing in our streets can trace its roots back to the “Cultural Revolution” of the 1960s. 

What does this have to do with Islam?

It illustrates the power of voice in declaration. Everything these women declared, have now become “normalized” in our culture today. 

Every day, there are public Islamic declarations released over loudspeakers in Muslim nations, and now in the U.S. and other western nations. Five times a day, Islamic prayers and declarations are released into the atmosphere. From the moment a baby comes from the womb, the Shahada is declared into its ears. 

As believers in Jesus Christ, our voices have authority…not earthly authority, but heavenly authority, to speak into the natural realm. As we pray for the Muslim world, especially during Ramadan, let us lift our voices and make declaration according to the Word of God, that Muslims might “hear” the declaration of the Word and have a divine encounter with the One who is the Word.

We will go through the Five Pillars of Islam and provide Scriptural counterparts to each pillar. Use them to declare and decree God’s will and purposes over the Muslim people. You might also ask God for a specific nation to pray for and begin to intercede for the people of that nation to encounter Jesus.

As you meditate on these scriptures and sit with the Lord, God will give you increased revelation and insight into fresh ways to pray and intercede for the Muslim world. Ask Him for specific declarations and decrees and lift your voice in His name and with His authority.