ORANGE, CA (ANS) -- Dr. Robert Morey's determined assault on the foundations of Islam has inspired enmity from many in the Middle Eastern community. These days, the doors to his offices are locked securely, and visitors are eyed with caution.

"There have been numerous death threats and one clear assassination attempt last November the FBI successfully foiled," says Dr. Morey, author of over 40 books dealing with false religions, cults and philosophies, and founder of the California Institute of Apologetics.

In 1996 Morey not only received a doctorate for his landmark research on Islam-he received his first visit from the FBI. "The FBI asked to meet with me," Dr. Morey says. "My ministry had been under surveillance for some time and they even opened our mail and monitored our calls," he says, "because one of the Pakistani volunteers in my ministry was actually a secret agent for the Pakistani Secret Service."

"The FBI warned me he was ordered to persuade me to go to Pakistan where they were going to murder me," Dr. Morey says. "Hamas has me on a death list of people to assassinate in the U.S.," he adds.

Only a week before the September 11 attacks, Dr. Morey appeared on a Los Angeles radio program and warned a major terrorist attack was imminent. "I have Middle Eastern friends throughout the U.S. who continually feed me information as to what the terrorists are up to," he says. "I, in turn, feed that information to the FBI and Naval Intelligence.

"I've been right so many times the FBI showed up at my house, suspicious as to whether or not I was somehow involved-because I knew too much. I simply pointed out to them they don't have their ear to the ground in the Middle Eastern community," he says.

"I told them several years ago that Muslim Pakistanis brought into the U.S. a small nuclear device called a 'dirty bomb' through Niagara Falls out of Canada," Dr. Morey says. "They are driving this nuclear device in the back of a van or a car waiting for Bin Laden to tell them when it's time to set it off." Dr. Morey received the information through Pakistani Christian sources.

The passage of time has not eased Dr. Morey's concerns. "My contacts now within the intelligence community have leaked to me it is feared there are three such devices in the U.S.," he says.

Dr. Morey sees a number of signs the federal government is taking the nuclear threat seriously. "At one point they put on a high alert for Washington D.C.," he says, "and Delta Force was flown in. They have now placed radiation detectors on all the main thoroughfares into Washington and even along the Potomac River."

"One would think that if this was not a real threat, the U.S. government wouldn't rush to spend millions of dollars for equipment to protect Washington D.C.," he adds.

The government deployed its Nuclear Emergency Search Team on multiple occasions since September 11, according to the New York Times, and sped up research for advanced sensors that can detect nuclear weapons. In early March, scientists testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that a 'dirty nuke' detonated in lower Manhattan would contaminate hundreds of square miles, and dozens of blocks in New York City would be permanently uninhabitable.

Dr. Morey first began researching Islam while a pastor at New Life Bible Church in central Pennsylvania during the 1980s. "I decided to read all the books on Islam in the Library of Congress," Dr. Morey says, a project that took him five years.

"The beginning is the Achilles heel of Islam," Dr. Morey says. "What I discovered is the fact that it claims it was brought down from heaven, it was written by Allah, and it was not written by Muhammad or any human source," he says. "It claims it is 100% the speech of Allah from heaven to man on Earth and utilizes no preexisting human materials."

However, Dr. Morey found overwhelming archaeological and linguistic evidence demonstrating Muhammad constructed his religion and the Quran from preexisting material in the Arab culture.

"Of the five pillars of Islam, four of them existed and were in practice before Muhammad was even born," Dr. Morey says. "Praying to Mecca five times per day was the practice of the moon god worshippers," he says. In Dr. Morey's book, The Islamic Invasion, he cites the work of Middle Eastern scholar E.M. Wherry, who discovered that before Muhammad, Allah and Ba-al were both part of astrological religions that worshipped the sun, moon and stars.

The name Allah was the personal name of the moon god, and the Quraysh tribe, which raised Muhammad, was particularly devoted to the moon god. Additionally, the symbol of moon god worship in the Middle East was the crescent moon, according to Morey's book.

"Before Muhammad was even born, the moon god worshippers made a pilgrimage to Mecca," Dr. Morey says. The Quraysh tribe oversaw the square stone temple in Mecca known as the Kabah, and filled it with hundreds of idols-enough to suit any of the caravans traveling through the area.

After a pilgrim arrived, "they ran around the Kabah seven times. Then they kissed a meteorite (known as the 'black stone') that is cemented on the outside wall of the Kabah.

"After this, they ran up one hill where there was an idol of the daughter of Allah, then they sacrificed an animal, then they threw stones at a phallus symbol of the devil," Dr. Morey says. "Every aspect of the pagan ritual of pilgrimage was carried on in Islam, except for the removal of the idols," he adds.

"Inside the Kabah it used to be 360 idols, with Allah being one of them. Muhammad removed all the idols, but he didn't have enough courage to remove the idol of the black stone. Instead he went and worshipped it, and to this day Muslims continue to worship the black stone."

In effect, Muhammad catapulted the moon god Allah to the top of his new monotheistic religion, and retained nearly all the other pagan ritualistic elements.

Dr. Morey's straightforward assault on the origins of Islam produces unusual responses. "Canada just announced they banned my book Islamic Invasion," Dr. Morey says. "The book is being seized by Customs and is on a list of hate literature," he says. "If this precedent is allowed to remain they can ban any Christian book including the Bible."

The United States is headed in the same direction, he believes. "The politically correct people are in charge of the public school systems, the universities, and the media," he says. "They have brainwashed President Bush to believe that all religions are worshipping the same 'universal God.'

"That's why President Bush sees no difference worshipping in a mosque with Muslims or in a Shinto temple in Japan," he adds. On Bush's recent Asia trip, he and his wife visited a Shinto shrine.

After World War II, the U.S. rewrote Japan's constitution to make sure emperor worship was not the state religion. "We wrote the Japanese constitution which forbids Japanese leaders from engaging in religious ceremonies," Dr. Morey says. "So the Prime Minister of Japan stayed in the limo while Bush and his wife went into the Temple," he says, "and Bush clapped to awaken the demon and then bowed in worship."

Bush's spirit of multiculturalism was not well received by some. "Japanese Christians are absolutely furious," Dr. Morey reports. "They were killed because they wouldn't bow before the image of the emperor. Korean Christians had their heads chopped off because they wouldn't bow and worship the emperor."

"He will go to a Buddhist temple and worship. He made the statement to the Muslims, 'I worship the same universal God as you.'"

Dr. Morey sees the same move toward universalism evident in evangelical circles. "Today there are many evangelical leaders who have unknowingly drifted onto the shoals of liberalism," he says. "They claim that Allah is just another name for the God Christians worship."

"I assume that just as we do a straightforward refutation of Mormonism or Jehovah's Witnesses, we should do a straightforward refutation of Allah, Muhammad, and the Quran," Dr. Morey says. "The only reason Christianity has hesitated is fear of reprisal," he says. "In the past, the great missionaries such as Zwemer and Martin were fearless in their straightforward refutation of Islam."

"This historic evangelistic approach led to the conversion of hundreds of thousands of Muslims," he adds.

"At the beginning of the 19th century liberals such as Pearl S. Buck and Stanley Jones preached that we should not confront Islam and we must never criticize Muhammad or the Quran, but enter into dialogs in which we share truths," he says. "This liberal approach now dominates the missions departments of our seminaries."

Dr. Morey shares the story of a phone call he received from a liberal seminary professor after the events of September 11.

"I hated you and I hated your book," the man told Dr. Morey, "and when I saw the towers being blown up I said, 'Bob Morey is right.'"