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First time this bit of "news" leaked to the public was 18 February 1995 when the NATO Secretary General, Willi Claes, said the following: This statement cost him his job. The politically correct European members of NATO, unopposed by the US, smeared him with a corruption charge of the same kind you can put on any political leader. The reasons for this dhimmi behaviour are obvious, and well desribed above. But it is a shame that we are still suffering under the threats and fear of Arab retaliation. Posted by: Per on December 17, 2005 08:49 AM
Interesting stuff, and the kind of stuff the American and other governments around the globe need to not just be aware of but the reasons why they actually need to develop strategies to oppose the radical ideologies of Muslim radicals. Posted by: John Meekins on December 17, 2005 10:02 AM
Bill You entirely missed the point. The Pentagon study is about to concl;ude that "Islam is a Religion of War". The the West must identify Islam, the religion, as the enemy. But in you remarks you continue to identify "radical Islam" as the enemy. That suggests two kinds of Islam. The Pentagopn Study suggests otherwise. Islam is not being hijacked by radicals. Islam itself is radical and must be fought. Posted by: Ted Belman on December 17, 2005 10:32 AM
In fact the article rep[orting on the study above linked to says "So far the conclusions of intelligence analysts assigned to the project, who include both private contractors and career military officials, contradict the commonly held notion that Islam is a peaceful religion hijacked or distorted by terrorists. They've found that the terrorists for the most part are following a war-fighting doctrine articulated through Muhammad in the Quran, elaborated on in the hadiths, codified in Islamic or sharia law, and reinforced by recent interpretations or fatwahs. "Islam is an ideological engine of war (Jihad)," concludes the sensitive Pentagon briefing paper. And "no one is looking for its off switch." Why? One major reason, the briefing states, is government-wide "indecision [over] whether Islam is radical or being radicalized." The "off switch" referred to in the article is really the means to kill Islam. No one is looking for that. Posted by: Ted Belman on December 17, 2005 10:39 AM
Actually, it is almost a bit too bad that that study (from the CIFA) comes out through the Pentagon, for it is not really a military matter. I mean, of course, it is utterly important to grasp that the enemy is Islam, the religion, the original, and not “terrorism” or some radicalized form of Islam. But that doesn’t help armed forces. Troops still have to fight armed enemies forces, not mosques or korans, or unarmed imams. If the enemy is a religion, the strategy ought to be juridical, social, and political, and not military. That is, the West must ban Islam by law. Please suffer that I repeat that: The West must ban Islam by law. Posted by: ajm on December 17, 2005 11:10 AM
Ted, I think you entirely missed my point. It does not matter whether Islam is a religion of war or Islamic radicals have perverted the meaning of Islam to inspire their war as a holy Jihad. The danger is the same and the West has failed to respond to it in any adequate unified way so as to defeat the danger. If Islam is itself a religion of war, one still needs to defeat its adherents who make that war, from the ones who kill to all those Muslim supporters of the Islamic radicals. A religion of war without followers that the West has defeated, killed and chased away is no further threat to the West and won't be if the West ensures that Islam, the religion of War becomes effectively a religion of peace because the war minded Jihadist followers don't dare show their faces and those Muslims who do not want to be involved in the war like nature of Islam, practice their religion in peace. The debate will doubtless continue to rage over whether Islam is really a religion of peace or war, but the West needs to rise up against those Muslims who rightly or wrongly are inspired by Islam to make war on the West. Posted by: Bill Narvey on December 17, 2005 11:55 AM
Bush has lost support at home for the Patriot Act and for the War on Iraq or on the war on terror. The main reason is that he didn't want to go to war against Islam just as the US went to war against Communism. If you don't identify the enemy and then vilify it how can you muster support. You seem to be in favour of fighting the radicals and leaving the religion alone. This creates all kinds of problems in the homefront. How to legislate against the radicals and leave the religion alone. I am afraid that you must make war on Islam. Britain and the US tries to walk this line and ends up making room for the radicals. Posted by: Ted Belman on December 17, 2005 12:29 PM
Bill You say "It does not matter whether Islam is a religion of war or Islamic radicals have perverted the meaning of Islam to inspire their war as a holy Jihad." But that is exactly the point of the Study. The Pentagon says it does matter and I agree.
Posted by: Ted Belman on December 17, 2005 12:31 PM
Islam has been there since the time of ADAM and will remain till and after the Day of Judgement.It is just because of you infidels who control most of the MEDIA Islam is being maligned.It is indeed a fact that JEWS and CHRISTIANS are the foremost enemy of ISLAM not a new enemy but since thousands of years.ALLAH sends prophets to guide humans but you people see GOD in Prophets and go on the wrong path.JESUS(PBUH) IS A PROPHET OF ISLAM.MOSES(PBUH) IS A PROPHET OF ISLAM JUST AS THE LAST PROPHET ON EARTH MUHAMMAD(PBUH) WAS.ADAM FOLLOWED ISLAM,JESUS FOLLOWED ISLAM,MOSES FOLLOWED ISLAM AND ALL THE REMAINING OF 1,25,000 PROPHETS FOLLOWED ISLAM.IT IS INDEED SORRY THAT THE FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM DURING THE PERIODS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PROPHET WENT ASTRAY AFTER THE PROPHETS LEFT THE EARTH.JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ARE ALSO THE SAME.BUT THEY ARE LOST IN ACCUMULATING WORLDLY PLEASURES THAT THEY DO NOT SEE ANYTHING.THEY ARE BLINDED AND INDEED ALLAH HAS CURSED THEM THAT THEY DO NOT SEE THE TRUTH. Posted by: Allah's Servant on December 17, 2005 01:13 PM
Hey "Allah's Servant Said", or "ASS" for short: We'll live with our curses. Enjoy your blessings! You deserve them. Posted by: ShyGuy on December 17, 2005 01:25 PM
“The foremost enemy of allah” sure is commonsense. We should ban Islam, but not because it is a religion of war – a religion can claim to have a right to wage war on “bad people” to “save the world” or something. Who can question that? We should ban Islam because it actually is not a religion, but a mere perversion, a crime, an offense. We have to reveal that, to make Islam’s trial. Among Muslims. To ban Islam outside the Islamic world would help that process along. And it would be a good reason for banning it, without hate, without curses. Just commonsense. Posted by: ajm on December 17, 2005 02:38 PM
Man Saudi Arabia must be full of Christians... with all the accumulation of worldly pleasures... Posted by: Gene on December 17, 2005 04:05 PM
Allah's Servant's Apologist said: "Islam has been there since the time of ADAM and will remain till and after the Day of Judgement." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Apparently you didn't get the memo that Mohammed came after Jesus by just a few humdred years!!! You even claim Jesus as a prophet. So, exactly how could Islam have been there since Adam. Your ancestor broke from Judaism after Abraham!!! Allah's Servant's Apologist also said: "It is indeed a fact that JEWS and CHRISTIANS are the foremost enemy of ISLAM not a new enemy but since thousands of years." Actually a little less than 2000 years, but yes, we are. Funny how having your people attacked murdered, raped, pillaged, conquered, tortured, burned... can mess up your day and give you a bad atitude toward a religion that will not only do these things to you, but, continually lie about it also!!! Now, if y'all had started your own fresh religion instead of cribbing off of previous religions you might have gotten somewhere instead of making yourselves pariahs in the world. Allah's Servant's Apologist then said: "THEY ARE BLINDED AND INDEED ALLAH HAS CURSED THEM THAT THEY DO NOT SEE THE TRUTH" DUDE, have you checked the Muslim world lately?? People are starving, there have been earthqakes killing tens of thousands, a tsunami killed tens of thousands, droughts, you've had some setbacks in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Thaisland, Australia, Phillipines, Libya. The US has had a few hurricanes and our losses in the wars with Muslims and other issues and we have lost fewer people than you have lost in one earthquake!!!! The Jews have moved back into the neighborhood, kicked your but in more than 4 wars and they are STILL THERE IN SPITE OF THE WHOLE ARAB WORLD TRYING TO ERADICATE THEM!!!! Dude, you're getting your butts kicked and can't even see it. Dude, you need to think about who has REALLY been cursed by Allah. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Posted by: kuhnkat on December 17, 2005 11:01 PM
Posted by: No non-sense from USA on December 18, 2005 12:29 AM
The whole world knows .... sans Israel, the story about Palestine occupation, Geo-politics has nothing to do with religion. Let us not twist and turn the truth of this conflict. Let us leave religion of Islam alone!!!! Posted by: Christ - the straight Talker on December 18, 2005 01:05 AM
A reply to "All Full Of Nonsense", 2 posts above: IS ISLAM A RELIGION OF WAR YOU TELL ME? You make it sound like the Muslim invasion of Mesapotamia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia were the greatest thing since toast. To quote Andalusian Myth, Eurabian Reality: Iberia (Spain) was conquered in 710-716 AD by Arab tribes originating from northern, central and southern Arabia. Massive Berber and Arab immigration, and the colonization of the Iberian peninsula, followed the conquest. Most churches were converted into mosques. Although the conquest had been planned and conducted jointly with a strong faction of royal Iberian Christian dissidents, including a bishop, it proceeded as a classical jihad with massive pillages, enslavement, deportations and killings. Toledo, which had first submitted to the Arabs in 711 or 712, revolted in 713. The town was punished by pillage and all the notables had their throats cut. In 730, the Cerdagne (in Septimania, near Barcelona) was ravaged and a bishop burned alive. In the regions under stable Islamic control, Jews and Christians were tolerated as dhimmis - like elsewhere in other Islamic lands - and could not build new churches or synagogues nor restore the old ones. Segregated in special quarters, they had to wear discriminatory clothing. Subjected to heavy taxes, the Christian peasantry formed a servile class attached to the Arab domains; many abandoned their land and fled to the towns. Harsh reprisals with mutilations and crucifixions* would sanction the Mozarab (Christian dhimmis) calls for help from the Christian kings. Moreover, if one dhimmi harmed a Muslim, the whole community would lose its status of protection, leaving it open to pillage, enslavement and arbitrary killing. By the end of the eighth century, the rulers of North Africa and of Andalusia had introduced Malikism, one of the most rigorous schools of Islamic jurisprudence, and subsequently repressed the other Muslim schools of law. Three quarters of a century ago, at a time when political correctness was not dominating historical publication and discourse, Evariste Lévi-Provençal, the pre-eminent scholar of Andalusia, wrote: "The Muslim Andalusian state thus appears from its earliest origins as the defender and champion of a jealous orthodoxy, more and more ossified in a blind respect for a rigid doctrine, suspecting and condemning in advance the least effort of rational speculation." The humiliating status imposed on the dhimmis and the confiscation of their land provoked many revolts, punished by massacres, as in Toledo (761, 784-86, 797). After another Toledan revolt in 806, seven hundred inhabitants were executed. Insurrections erupted in Saragossa from 781 to 881, Cordova (805), Merida (805-813, 828 and the following year, and later in 868), and yet again in Toledo (811-819); the insurgents were crucified, as prescribed in Qur’an 5:33*. The revolt in Cordova of 818 was crushed by three days of massacres and pillage, with 300 notables crucified and 20 000 families expelled. Feuding was endemic in the Andalusian cities between the different sectors of the population: Arab and Berber colonizers, Iberian Muslim converts (Muwalladun) and Christian dhimmis (Mozarabs). There were rarely periods of peace in the Amirate of Cordova (756-912), nor later. Al-Andalus represented the land of jihad par excellence. Every year, sometimes twice a year, raiding expeditions were sent to ravage the Christian Spanish kingdoms to the north, the Basque regions, or France and the Rhone valley, bringing back booty and slaves. Andalusian corsairs attacked and invaded along the Sicilian and Italian coasts, even as far as the Aegean Islands, looting and burning as they went. Thousands of people were deported to slavery in Andalusia, where the caliph kept a militia of tens of thousand of Christian slaves brought from all parts of Christian Europe (the Saqaliba), and a harem filled with captured Christian women. Society was sharply divided along ethnic and religious lines, with the Arab tribes at the top of the hierarchy, followed by the Berbers who were never recognized as equals, despite their Islamization; lower in the scale came the mullawadun converts and, at the very bottom, the dhimmi Christians and Jews. The Andalusian Maliki jurist Ibn Abdun (d. 1134) offered these telling legal opinions regarding Jews and Christians in Seville around 1100 C.E.: "No…Jew or Christian may be allowed to wear the dress of an aristocrat, nor of a jurist, nor of a wealthy individual; on the contrary they must be detested and avoided. It is forbidden to [greet] them with the [expression], ‘Peace be upon you’. In effect, ‘Satan has gained possession of them, and caused them to forget God’s warning. They are the confederates of Satan’s party; Satan’s confederates will surely be the losers!’ (Qur’an 58:19 [modern Dawood translation]). A distinctive sign must be imposed upon them in order that they may be recognized and this will be for them a form of disgrace." Ibn Abdun also forbade the selling of scientific books to dhimmis, under the pretext that they translated them and attributed them to their co-religionists and bishops. In fact, plagiarism is difficult to prove since whole Jewish and Christian libraries were looted and destroyed. Another prominent Andalusian jurist, Ibn Hazm of Cordoba (d. 1064), wrote that Allah has established the infidels’ ownership of their property merely to provide booty for Muslims. In Granada, the Jewish viziers Samuel Ibn Naghrela and his son Joseph, who protected the Jewish community, were both assassinated between 1056 to 1066, followed by the annihilation of the Jewish population by the local Muslims. It is estimated that up to five thousand Jews perished in the pogrom by Muslims that accompanied the 1066 assassination. This figure equals or exceeds the number of Jews reportedly killed by the Crusaders during their pillage of the Rhineland, some thirty years later, at the outset of the First Crusade. The Granada pogrom was likely to have been incited, in part, by the bitter anti-Jewish ode of Abu Ishaq, a well known Muslim jurist and poet of the times, who wrote: "Put them back where they belong and reduce them to the lowest of the low..turn your eyes to other [Muslim] countries and you will find the Jews there are outcast dogs...Do not consider it a breach of faith to kill them...They have violated our covenant with them so how can you be held guilty against the violators?" The Muslim Berber Almohads in Spain and North Africa (1130-1232) wreaked enormous destruction on both the Jewish and Christian populations. This devastation- massacre, captivity, and forced conversion- was described by the Jewish chronicler Abraham Ibn Daud, and the poet Abraham Ibn Ezra. Suspicious of the sincerity of the Jewish converts to Islam, Muslim “inquisitors” (i.e., antedating their Christian Spanish counterparts by three centuries) removed the children from such families, placing them in the care of Muslim educators. Maimonides, the renowned philosopher and physician, experienced the Almohad persecutions, and had to flee Cordoba with his entire family in 1148, temporarily residing in Fez — disguised as a Muslim — before finding asylum in Fatimid Egypt. Indeed, although Maimonides is frequently referred to as a paragon of Jewish achievement facilitated by the enlightened rule of Andalusia, his own words debunk this utopian view of the Islamic treatment of Jews: "..the Arabs have persecuted us severely, and passed baneful and discriminatory legislation against us...Never did a nation molest, degrade, debase, and hate us as much as they.." A valid summary assessment of interfaith relationships in Muslim Spain, and the contemporary currents responsible for obfuscating that history, can be found in Richard Fletcher's engaging Moorish Spain. Mr. Fletcher offers these sobering, unassailable observations: "The witness of those who lived through the horrors of the Berber conquest, of the Andalusian fitnah in the early eleventh century, of the Almoravid invasion- to mention only a few disruptive episodes- must give it [i.e., the roseate view of Muslim Spain] the lie. The simple and verifiable historical truth is that Moorish Spain was more often a land of turmoil than it was of tranquility...Tolerance? Ask the Jews of Granada who were massacred in 1066, or the Christians who were deported by the Almoravids to Morocco in 1126 (like the Moriscos five centuries later)…In the second half of the twentieth century a new agent of obfuscation makes its appearance: the guilt of the liberal conscience, which sees the evils of colonialism- assumed rather than demonstrated-foreshadowed in the Christian conquest of al-Andalus and the persecution of the Moriscos (but not, oddly, in the Moorish conquest and colonization). Stir the mix well together and issue it free to credulous academics and media persons throughout the western world. Then pour it generously over the truth…in the cultural conditions that prevail in the west today the past has to be marketed, and to be successfully marketed it has to be attractively packaged. Medieval Spain in a state of nature lacks wide appeal. Self-indulgent fantasies of glamour...do wonders for sharpening up its image. But Moorish Spain was not a tolerant and enlightened society even in its most cultivated epoch." The socio-political history of Andalusia was characterized by a particularly oppressive dhimmitude that is completely incompatible with modern notions of equality between individuals, regardless of religious faith. At the dawn of the 21st century, we must insist that Muslims in the West adopt post-Enlightenment societal standards of equality, not "tolerance," abandoning forever their hagiography of the brutal, discriminatory standards practiced by the classical Maliki jurists of "enlightened" Andalusia. Folks, read it all. We have been hoodwinked for too many years thinking that the Crusades was the starting point of hostility between Islam and the West. It was Islam's brutal invasion and conquest and subsequent subjugation of much of Europe (Paris and Vienna almost fell to Islam) that triggered the Crusades - not the other way around. Barbarians are still at the gates. Push them back to their sand dunes and salt flats. Posted by: ShyGuy on December 18, 2005 03:12 AM
to #14 and #15 straight Talker and no-nonsense I am kind of tired of repeating that the persecution and ethnic cleansing of Jews is at the very core and foundation of Islam. The History of Islam (it is there for everyone to read and get informed), tells us that the first victims of Mohamed's first aggressive military campaigns were the peaceful Jews of Yathrib (now Madinah). Many were murdered without provocation, others enslaved or expelled from their towns. But of course there seem to be a never-ending string of naive dreamers who overlook all red flags and want desperately to believe that islam is so good. Posted by: rocky on December 18, 2005 05:05 AM
Every Western leader at every opportunity makes the point of saying that Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance, harmony and goodwill, that its war against Muslim radicals is not a new crusade and that the problem is only with a relative few radical Islamists who do not represent the true meaning of Islam. There have been countless reports starting many years before 9/11 that would lead one to conclude that Muslims generally are extrememly sensitive and easily angered over any criticism, no matter how slight of Muslims or Islam. It seems pretty clear that Bush and other Western leaders are aware of this and therefor have gone far out of their way to avoid ruffling extremely sensitive Muslim feathers for fear that by so doing, the so called relative few Muslim radicals would be joined in droves by a great many more angry Muslims and that would only increase the danger that radical Islam poses to the West. Now it appears the Pentagon in a new study has concluded that it is not that radical Muslims have hijacked Islam, but rather it is Islam itself that is radical and it is an ideological war engine. Mention is that the West cannot find or is that that they are refusing to look for the "off switch" This Pentagon report gives rise to a number of questions. Will the Bush administration and the rest of the West accept the Pentagon report, assuming its findings and conclusions are incontrovertible and declare war against Islam itself? Will the Pentagon report be the thing that finally opens the eyes of the West to the threat Islam poses to the West? Will the Pentagon report cause the West to turn from indifference and disagreements over the extent of the threat of Islamic radicalism or Islam itself to agreement in recognizing the true nature and extent of the threat? Will a declaration of war against Islam itself be the thing that unites the West in common cause and unwavering resolve to act together and take all measures at the West's disposal to combat Islam until all Islamic radicals or Islam are destroyed as the case may be? If war is declared against all of Islam, does that mean that every Muslim in the world immediately is considered an enemy and the West will treat every Muslim as such? Will that include even those relative few Muslim who have advocated for Islam to be reformed into the kind of peaceful religion the West insists on describing Islam as or will the West declare those Muslims "good Muslims" exempt from attack. If the war is to be against Islam itself and the West were to succeed in destroying Islam, there would be no Islam left for the "good Muslims" to reform, so what is to become of them? It is doubtful that the Pentagon report will have such an impact. From all the evidence thus far, the West will turn a blind eye to the Pentagon report because its conclusions are just too much for the West to wrap their minds around for those conclusions would necessarily call for far more to be done in this war of the West against Islam than the West has the stomach for. Posted by: Bill Narvey on December 18, 2005 10:26 AM
LET THE MASHIACH BEN-DAWID ARRIVE SOON AND CRUSH THE PRIDE OF ISHMAEL AND ESAU! Posted by: KEITH DAWID on December 18, 2005 11:22 AM
Who is adopting a violent view of religion and orders of God; we muslims who believe in Moses (peace be upon him) and his teachings including the fact that God is the most merciful who wants guidance for all his creatures who someone who believes God will send a messanger to CRUSH his creatures instead of duiding them to the right path. Hope you take time to think about it! Posted by: MohammedToKEITH DAWID on December 18, 2005 11:50 AM
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm............ Keith mentions crushing "pride" and Mohammed gets sidetracked mentioning violence. And, of course, Mohammed was not a violent man. Of course. Posted by: ShyGuy on December 18, 2005 01:03 PM
Posted by: No_non-Sense on December 18, 2005 02:17 PM
By the way there are 57 Islamic nations today and look forward for other countries to follow soon to the enlightment that Islam presents. This web site and millions like these will come & whither. Islam is and will continue to grow, no matter what you think or do. Because the creator of this world wants it, who are we to try to stop. The truth will prevail - "the Messaiah WILL soon arrive with the message of Islam - if not you, your children will see. Posted by: No_non_sense on December 18, 2005 02:34 PM
#23 above:
Posted by: Christ - the straight Talker on December 18, 2005 02:50 PM
Hey No New Nonsense, who was slaughtering the Jews in WWII? Hitler and Europe, of course, but with a little help from their friends. Everyone should bookmark this link and pass it along. 57 Nations? Like wow! Any relation to Heinz? You can have a race against Christianity. Hint: it's quality - not quantity. But enjoy your ego trip. And to Mr. Geez Us Christ, above, which distorted history pasted above are you referring to? My post, #16? Go ahead. Disprove any of it. It should be easy as pie for you. Go ahead. Posted by: ShyGuy on December 18, 2005 03:09 PM
The poor Jews who suffered the massacre in Europe were the vistims of a larger treason and corruption that is worth investigating. I wonder who was the friend of Hitler! 1943: February 18th, Zionist, Izaak Greenbaum, head of the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee, in a speech to the Zionist Executive Council states, “If I am asked, could you give from the UJA (United Jewish Appeal) monies to rescue Jews, I say, no and I say again no!” Posted by: MohammedToShyGuy25 on December 18, 2005 05:11 PM
Mohammed - by your latest posting - you show your true colours. It is well known that the Leader of the Arab Palestinians the Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini was a stooge of the Nazi's who stayed in Berlin with Himmler the head of the SS and preached incitement to the Muslim World to carry out the Nazi's Final Solution in Israel. Whereas the Zionist Jews in Israel volunteered en masse to fight against the Nazi's and many were sent on suicide missions into Europe or Tobruk where they perished. There was a pro-Nazi revolt in Iraq and Syria. You only have to look at the recent proclamations by the iranian President to wipe out Israel and view the numerous antisemitic TV productions in large parts of the Muslim World (through website MEMRI TV) to recognise that a significant section of the Muslim World would desire a second Genocide of the Jewish population - this time in Israel. Posted by: Leonard on December 18, 2005 05:52 PM
''the Muslim World would desire a second Genocide of the Jewish population - this time in Israel'': This is the image that the state's men in israel and those who think that creating a fight between muslims and Jews would initiate the return of Jesus (peace be upon him) are trying to teach Jews all over the world and it is not true; it is just a nonsense. It is true that there are differences between muslims and (I stress this) people in Israel (Jews practicing or not) because we believe that they are oppressing palestinians and they have stolen their lands; we may of cource diagree on that. But I am not discussing the politics of this issue, I was all along discussing religion except in my last post where I have attached a quote from a guy from UJA for the poster who is trying to picture the muslims as the source of the massacre of the Jews in Europe. ben Gurion said to Nahum Goldmann, future head of the World Jewish Congress: “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” So thepoint is simple: this idea of muslims who want a genocide of the Jews doesnt stand on the basis of religion neither on the basis of history. Posted by: MohammedToLeonard27 on December 18, 2005 06:31 PM
Foregt to say: We worship the same God as Jews, the unique God who created this world, who sent Moses (peace upon him)with his message to guide people to his path! 2:136 say ye: "we believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: we make no difference between one and another of them: And we bow to Allah (in Islam)." Posted by: MohammedToLeonard27 on December 18, 2005 06:38 PM
Mohammed - Please try to explain away the latest public proclamation by the Iranian President to "wipe out" the State of Israel. If that does not amount to a premeditated genocidal intent - then I don't know what does. Also, you are coming up with various quotes purporting to come from various Jewish officials that are basically fake. You are addressing a forum where people are generally well informed. There are alot of antisemitic publications in circulation. Would you care to share with us your sources? Posted by: Leonard on December 18, 2005 07:03 PM
Hi Mohammed: Did you get the time to answer all the questions in the other post?? I see you are lying your @ss off again. Why don't you tell us about the Muslim SS groups organised by Haj Amin al Husseini in the Balkans during WWII that were killing Jews and Serbs and everyone else except genocidal Nazis. How about telling us how the Muslim Brotherhood received the head of those good Muslims Haj Amin al Husseini back in Egypt after the war as a hero and revered as his good friend Hitler to this day. Tell us how this same Muslim Brotherhood assasinated the Egyptian President who signed a peace treaty with and recognised Israel to get back the Sinai. Tell us about the many Muslims, especially in the West Bank who adopt Hitler as a nickname and are hailed by the other GOOD MUSLIMS. Tell us about the 600,000 Jews who were expelled with nothing from Muslim countries when the state of Israel was proclaimed after thousands of years!! Tell us about the ethnic cleansing of Jews from most Muslim countries that has been ongoing to the point that there are few left anywhere in Muslim countries. Tell us of the Muslim Insurgents in many countries killing innocent people, but especially Jews and Christians, to promote Jihad. Tell us about the false BLOOD LIBEL that has been resurrected in many Muslim countries to generate hatred of the Jews. Tell us of the Wahabbists preaching hate and death for Jews, Christians, and Infidels world wide. Tell us how Muslims will not tolerate any free people in their countries. How our choices are Conversion, Dhimmitude, or DEATH. If you do not believe these things you are an ignorant, lying, fool of a PIG. If you believe these things you need to start working within your religion to purge these fanatics who will eventually cause a religious war that will kill a large number of Muslims in the world and may devastate a large number of non-muslim countries also. As far as your perverted post #27, like any good lying propagandist you take Ben Gurion out of context. He was stating how YOU see the reforming of the Jewish state. How HE saw it was TAKING THEIR HOME BACK. Or are you going to lie you @ss off and say that he was willing to kill innocent people and steal their land?? You are worse than a PIG if you say this. The Jews were on that land before you. They were never completely removed from it. They are now back in possession of their HOMELAND. Live with it or die. So, let's go back to calm discussion. Why will the so-called Palestinians not put down their weapons and live in peace with the Jews?? Over 1,000,000 of your brothers are living in peace in Israel and not reporting atrocities committed on them. They have a higher standard of living than any other Muslim population. They even vote for their own representatives. (one of those representatives even badmouths the country that has been so good to him just like the traitorous lefties in the US) What benefit could they possibly have to NOT sign a PEACE TREATY with the Israelis and SWEAR NOT TO ATTACK THEM and actually follow through? If you simply put down you arms and lived peacefully you would undoubtedly outproduce children and gain Israel as another Muslim country in less than a hundred years. What is the rush to KILL JEWS??? According to you Muslims take the long view and work peacefully??? ANSWER JUST THAT ONE QUESTION!!! Posted by: kuhnkat on December 18, 2005 09:16 PM
Nononsense said there are 57 Muslim nations. That's really nice. And with 57 countries under your control you can't defeat tiny little Israel?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Ya think Allah just can't get it up?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Posted by: kuhnkat on December 18, 2005 09:19 PM
Nononsense said: "Have you forgotten the time when Caliph Omar-bin-khattab invited Jews back to Jerusalem when they were never even allowed to enter?" Yup, he realised that depending on Muslims to make him rich just wasn't gonna happen. He invited the Jews cause the lower Jizyah they paid would be a heck of a lot more that the higher amount that would be paid by Muslims on NOTHING!!!!! I would also remind a MORON like you that there have ALWAYS been Jews living in Jerusalem. Contrary to your hallucinations they were never completely purged from their HOME. Posted by: kuhnkat on December 18, 2005 09:25 PM
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Posted by: No Non-sense on December 18, 2005 11:20 PM
#31 ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION: What is the rush to KILL JEWS???
Posted by: No non-sense on December 18, 2005 11:35 PM
No non-sense said: "Look at any history book from any where in the world, you'll find that you were kicked out whether its Russia, Europe, India, etc." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH You hating MORON. I am not Jewish. I do not even know too many Jewish people. You MORONS have made the biggest mistake of your lives declaring Jihad on the World. Your god Allah has deserted you and you are having to resort to killing your own people to try for PROPAGANDA victories like the Infidel Communists have taught you. What kind of religion must beg for handouts from godless communists??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH There are Jews currently living everywhere you mention. They, unlike ISLAMONAZIS, actually are HELPFUL and successful in the countries where they live. No non-sense also said: "you will not speak but each of your body part will." and every part will be denying your allah. No non-sense, I talk to American soldiers and hear what they think of having to slaughter Jihadis, I was wondering how you feel about our soldiers slaughtering your Jihadis when they take enough drugs to actually meet the US soldiers in combat. Posted by: kuhnkat on December 19, 2005 12:11 AM
http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ClipMediaID=60227&ak=null Posted by: ajm on December 19, 2005 12:14 AM
In case anyone doesn't know it yet, Islam tells its adherents that Jews are 1st class liars and have altered the text of the Torah to accomodate them. So you see, Adam and Abraham and Moses, etc., were all Muslims. It was Yishmael that was placed upon the altar by Abraham - not Isaac, etc., etc., so on and so forth. They do similar with Christianity. Christ was a human Messiah. There was no ressurection, etc. Otherwise, Muslims would have been nothing but the pagan camel thieves that they had previously been in the world's biggest sandtrap. The Internet is a great tool for disseminating both truth and falsehoods. I'll let the other non-Muslim readers here judge whose pulling the wool over whose eyes - both in posting and in historical facts. Posted by: ShyGuy on December 19, 2005 12:16 AM
Mohammed: Here is a quote of Muslims love for Jews from an article by a now ex-apologist for Islam: "...I read the transcript of an interview with Basmallah, a three-year-old girl, again aired on Saudi TV, who was introduced as a “Muslim girl, a true Muslim”. Here’s the exchange: Host: Basmallah, do you know the Jews? Basmallah: Yes. Host: Do you like them? Basmallah: No. Host: Why don’t you like them? Basmallah: Because they are apes and pigs. I shuddered to read such a thing...."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1666871,00.html For anyone who has never been there, here is the URL for a site that translates Arab papers and video so we can see what they say when they think we can't understand them. The site is run by an ex Israeli Intelligence Agent. Please note, they have been attacked any number of times by the press and others, but, no one has ever been able to show they translate anything incorrectly. (it would be hard to inflate what was and is actually being broadcast in the Arab world) http://www.memri.org It is really amazing the things they say in their own press about the west and Jews. Please note, there IS NO PRIVATE MEDIA IN SAUDI ARABIA. IT IS ALL GUBMINT OWNED!!!!! Posted by: kuhnkat on December 19, 2005 12:29 AM
no-nonsense GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT! About the problem with islam, it boils down to this: ISLAM IS BAD TO THE BONE. It's a clear fact amply evident from history and I am positive I don't want any of it in my society. The problem with Islam in the present day is only one: That is what scares me. And I am no Jew. Posted by: rocky on December 19, 2005 03:09 AM
Go f**k you sisters jews because you will run out of your women soon. fudge packing mother f**kers. Posted by: Abraham Brey (Director) on December 19, 2005 05:24 AM
Seems like Muhammed's followers have run out of arguments and are back to trading in slaves and abducting women. More of the same. Posted by: ShyGuy on December 19, 2005 06:50 AM
For the president of Iran: everyone is reponsible for what he says; all what I am trying to say is what is the link between what is claimed to be said or done by muslims against Jews and Islam, knowing that If I were a Jew in an Islamic country (and if you take time to read the quoran), I would be the first one to call for the respect of the orders of the Koran in the daily life of people: if someone steals my money, the koran imposes his hands be cut, if someone kills one my relative, the Koran gives me the right to do the same thing and no one can force me to change my religion and all what I am asked to do is pay a tax less than what muslims do and not preach my religion among muslims and I am not forced to partipate in any war against any other nation who initiates war against my country and my safetey and the safety of my business, my family is the responsability of muslims. Posted by: MohammedtoLeonard30 on December 19, 2005 10:10 AM
with all the respect, it is not easy to discuss with someone like you. First you lie cause I answered your questions and I told you to be more specific. You keep bringing huge sites with questions based on stories you are ready to consume because of the hatered you are full of. Just for what Koran says about Jews and I have said it before; it ranges from describing them as bad people to the very pious people, but Find me a verse in the Koran that speaks of Jews like this: Posted by: MohammedtoKuhnkat on December 19, 2005 10:25 AM
Did you get the time to answer all the questions in the other post?? I see you are lying your @ss off again: See poster 17 before starting saying words. Why don't you tell us about the Muslim SS groups organised by Haj Amin al Husseini in the Balkans during WWII that were killing Jews and Serbs and everyone else except genocidal Nazis: this is an invention that even you that you are coming with you cant confrm. If it were true, why Israeli government is not using it knowing that they are using similar thing with true perpatrators of crimes against Jews in WWII: it is just because it is not true. How about telling us how the Muslim Brotherhood received the head of those good Muslims Haj Amin al Husseini back in Egypt after the war as a hero and revered as his good friend Hitler to this day: See above Tell us how this same Muslim Brotherhood assasinated the Egyptian President who signed a peace treaty with and recognised Israel to get back the Sinai: seems you like this president; the question is not relevant to a religious discussion. Tell us about the many Muslims, especially in the West Bank who adopt Hitler as a nickname and are hailed by the other GOOD MUSLIMS: Tell us about the 600,000 Jews who were expelled with nothing from Muslim countries when the state of Israel was proclaimed after thousands of years!!:
Tell us about the false BLOOD LIBEL that has been resurrected in many Muslim countries to generate hatred of the Jews: Tell us of the Wahabbists preaching hate and death for Jews, Christians, and Infidels world wide: I guess it is the same ''argument'' as above. Tell us how Muslims will not tolerate any free people in their countries. How our choices are Conversion, Dhimmitude, or DEATH: If you do not believe these things you are an ignorant, lying, fool of a PIG:
Posted by: mohammed to Kuhnkat on December 19, 2005 10:56 AM
Since you are upset bywhat a 3 year old girl is saying, arent upset with statesmen of Isreal are saying? Can you explain this(see below):(AND AN ADVICE: dont let your hatered blind you; politics as done nowdays is synonymous or corruption, use of every means to reach goals and personal aspirations legal or not, distrortion or religion to achieve goals...; SO IF YOU ARE SERIOUSLY interested in truth, forget for a while politics cause one neds up reasoning and doing like politicians. Religion on the other hand is something different, you worship God as he asks you to do and you translate his orders and attributes into your daily life (mercy, respect(not the pig stuff!)..), you are not supposed to ''achieve'' anything in your life time (contrary to a politician) cause the judgement is not on earth. The most interesting contrast is that a politician can get away with all what he does on earth(he can manipulate people, lie..) and still achieve what he wants; in religion, you are dealing with God who his omnipresent, who knows what you think and what you do and equally important, you will stand before him and he will ask you about every single, oppression... act you have done. This is a huge difference. In Islam, we believe that God can forgive you all sins that are between you and him (related to being lazy in worshiping or not..) but he will never forget any sin between you and each one of his creatures (human or not): i.e you have to give people their rights on earth before leaving to the other life. -- David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978. -- David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99. "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." -- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998. -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online ********************************************************************************* Posted by: MohammedToKuhnkat on December 19, 2005 11:56 AM
Mohamed worse than a pig, You will use quotes from Ben Gurion but deny that Haj Amin Al-Husseini organised terrorist attacks on Jews. At the time of your first Ben Gurion quote Al-Husseini had been slaughtering Jews and Muslims for years. Committed atrocities against Jews. Killed Muslims because they sold land to Jews until Ben Gurion and other Jews could stand your filth NO MORE. Even the British decided to throw Al-Husseini out of the country because he caused too much violence to Jews, Muslims, and British and they were the ones who had selected him to be the Grand Mufti of Jerusale!!. Your hero ran to Hitler and helped him commit the Holocaust against the Jews. The other apparent Muslim on this thread keeps claiming the Europeans did this deed. Yes they did, with the help of GOOD MUSLIMS. Al-Husseini is still revered by your people for his slaughter of Jews. Hitler is still revered by your paople for slaughtering Jews. You deny, call me mistaken, a liar. The facts of history show the LIARS ARE MUSLIMS and you spew these same LIES!! You are a filthy lying propagandist who will not tell the truth because your dog god tells you that you can lie to the infidel to promote Jihad. Your words are empty and meaningless unless spoken to a Muslim and I am not and never will be a Muslim. You can not admit the truth because you are afraid to know that allah is a false god and muslims have been killing and torturing for over 1000 years FOR NOTHING!!!!! Posted by: kuhnkat on December 19, 2005 05:59 PM
Mohammed less than pig said: "Since you are upset bywhat a 3 year old girl is saying, arent upset with statesmen of Isreal are saying?" I am not upset by what a 3 year old girl who is a good Muslim in Saudi Arabia said. I am upset by what she is being taught by GOOD MUSLIMS. You claim it is all the Jews fault and you are misunderstood and are really a religion of peace. Explain why GOOD MUSLIMS teach their children what this little girl has been taught. Explain why this is common in the Muslim world. Explain why the rest of the world should not rise up together and commit GENOCIDE against Muslims who teach their children to HATE like this. Who believe their god is the best one and that everyone else must bow down to you or die. Remember as you continue to lie you give us more reason to want to eradicate a race and religion of vicious genocidal liars who can not be trusted to treat honorably with us. The proof is in the facts of every treaty you make with the Jews you break. The treaties you make with any infidel you break. Why should we suffer you animals to be loose in this world? Posted by: kuhnkat on December 19, 2005 06:12 PM
Mohammed, Islam is doomed because it has raised its hand against God's chosen people. Look at the fate of Faraoh and Nazi Germany. Posted by: rocky on December 19, 2005 11:16 PM
For all you GOOD Muslims, if the so-called Palestinians have such a strong claim for the land, and if Islam is a Religion of Peace, and if Allah is soooo strong, then why did you have to kill little Muhammad Al Dura and blame it on the IDF?? http://www.seconddraft.org/home.php I'll tell you, DESPERATION in a LOSING CAUSE. Posted by: kuhnkat on December 20, 2005 02:32 AM
There is nothing in your posters that needs to be answered and of course all you do is keep recycling the same unfounded and ''ridiculous'' claims without even commenting on what i said. Anyway, I dont know your age, maybe its the cause if you are too young and in such a case, i dont blame you but I urge you to start devlopping reasoning mechanisms and FORGET FOR A WHILE THIS PIG STUFF! I dont ask you to forget your hate cause it looks like it is structural, but just remember that hate is a blinding mechanisms: its a trap that hides you all the truths. Posted by: MohammedToKunhnat47-48-50 on December 20, 2005 08:49 AM
Faraoh was defeated (and he should have been) by the forces of Allah for he was arrogant and he defies Moses (peace be upon him)and claimed he is better that the God of Moses and the Jews and he was unjust. Posted by: MohammedToRock49 on December 20, 2005 09:01 AM
To every one: sorry now, i will be using wrong and stupid reasoning, Hi Kuhnkat, 3:42 Behold! the angels said: "O mary! Allah hath chosen thee and purified thee- chosen thee above the women of all nations. 3:45 Behold! the angels said: "O mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus, the son of mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to Allah. 3:36 When she was delivered, she said: "O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!"- and Allah knew best what she brought forth- "And no wise is the male Like the female. I have named her mary, and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from the Evil One, the Rejected." 3:37 Right graciously did her Lord accept her: He made her grow in purity and beauty: To the care of Zakariya was she assigned. Every time that he entered (Her) chamber to see her, He found her supplied with sustenance. He said: "O mary! Whence (comes) this to you?" She said: "From Allah. for Allah Provides sustenance to whom He pleases without measure." 3:43 "O mary! worship Thy Lord devoutly: Prostrate thyself, and bow down (in prayer) with those who bow down." 4:171 O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of mary was (no more than) an apostle of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His apostles. Say not "Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah. Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs. 5:75 Christ the son of mary was no more than an apostle; many were the apostles that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how Allah doth make His signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth! 2:136 say ye: "we believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: we make no difference between one and another of them: And we bow to Allah (in Islam)." Posted by: Mohammed To Kunhkat47 on December 20, 2005 09:26 AM
Mohammed, If nazism was defeated owing to arrogance, can you prove that Islam is a doctrine of humility? Can you prove that a nation ruled by Islam is a just nation? Posted by: rocky on December 20, 2005 11:27 PM
''If Pharaoh was defeated by the forces of "Allah", as you say, is allah the same God as God in the Bible?'' ''If Pharaoh wwas the bad guy, Moses and the Israelites were then Muslims?'': ''If nazism was defeated owing to arrogance, can you prove that Islam is a doctrine of humility?'' ''Can you prove that a nation ruled by Islam is a just nation?'' ''So how come so many churches are burned in Indonesia and Pakistan?'': Posted by: Mohammed To Rocky on December 21, 2005 09:10 AM
No wonder - It's why there is war in the world. As a Brazilian and who descends from Jews, Natives and Blacks - and who grew up as a Christian (protestant)- and who knows very well how the Church killed, robbed, raped, made their own slaves (we cann't forget that many black slaves were Christians) Jews, Christians and Muslims through history (and I'm talking not only about Catholicism, but Ortodox and Prostestant Churches as well) I have only one thing to say: We humans are really crazy. Correction about Spanish History. Muslims didn't invade Spain (like we read in books) - They couldn't invade a country which didn't exist. Queen Isabel of Castilla (the mad) put muslims out of the land (in this case Andaluzia) and put all the different regions together. It's why in Spanish the name of the Spanish language was called for many years as "castellano" and not Spanish, because it was the language spoke only in Castilla. And we shouldn't forget that she also made cruzade against Jews. In the Dark Ages Jews were also killed by Christians because of the Black Plague. And we shouldn't forget the Holocaust - (I didn't know that Germans were muslims) - and the Pogroms in Russia. Were all Russians muslims?). And of course we shouldn't forget the KKK - which is a very antisemitic organization and who proclaims to be Christians. As John Lennon wrote: Imagine no religion too. bye Egle Posted by: Egle on December 21, 2005 01:13 PM
Its not religion which is the cause of wars; its hunman arrogance, corruption and greed. Religion from the first messages of God have the same components: a vertical relationship between humans and their creators through worshipping and obeydience and a horizontal one between them that God has ordered us to build based on justice. he the Almighty knew the arrogance and the greed of people, so he decided that rewards (and punishments)of the vertical relationship is his duty alone and its something that will be done not here on earth but in the thearafeter. Arrogance and greed also translayes in abuse and oppression in the horizontal relationship between humans, so God decided he is not forgiving any sin that emerges because of this oppression and abuse and that this sin is not forgiven unless the sinful returns the ''rights'' abused to the abused people and ask forgiveness from the people he abused or oppressed...Religion as God wanted it is the perfect haromony and the ideal and beautiful thing a human can think about , say or do. In that sense, while John lenoon was a great singer, he was wrong on this issue! Posted by: Mohammed to Egle on December 21, 2005 02:08 PM
When faced with Islam in a site like this I hear so much diplomatic talk from the Muslim propagandists. I know by experience what it is to deal with Islamic persecution because my wife, formerly a Muslim, decided to embrace Christianity. Posted by: rocky on December 21, 2005 09:34 PM
I think we have talked about this idea you are obssesd with that muslims are doublefaced liars. And I have said, that Islam has nothing to hide and I have answered your questions about what Islam says about Jews and christians without trying to please you. But it looks like you are obsessed with this idea, what can can do to help you see the truth, nothing. Now if the story of your wife is true (and i dont have any reason to say no), just tell her there is someone who claims Islam is like that (with proofs from the Koran) and let her say what she has to say. Posted by: Mohammed To Rock58 on December 22, 2005 08:40 AM Post a comment |
Islam is a Religion of War
by Bill Narvey
I wonder however if this Pentagon study (Pentagon Breaks the Islam Taboo) is a leaked bit of news of a real effort to understand Islam along the lines of the adage "know thine enemy" for the purpose of better advising the Bush administration.
Assuming for the moment that the Pentagon confirms its preliminary conclusion that Islam itself is a radical war doctrine against non-Muslims with its ultimate goal to dominate the world, will such conclusion be enough to cause the Bush administration to abandon political correctness when it comes to confronting and battling back against radicalized Islamists?
One would think the answer to the question would be a resounding yes.
Consider however that virtually all people know the fact that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, but relatively few can explain why. Knowing why does not change the fact.
The Bush administration and the rest of the West already know that there are radical Islamists who in their fanatic beliefs and hatreds, seek to destroy the West. The West has long known that this radical Islamic ideology is being promoted by the likes of Saudi Arabia both within Muslim nations and within Western Muslim communities.
That there are radical Islamic cells within Western nations has also been long known.
The West has learned over the past number of years that a number of Muslim organizations and some Muslim charities were disguising their true nature of being Islamic radicalized organizations promoting radical Islam and engaged in fundraising for Muslim terrorists.
What also became public knowledge with the British subway bombing of 7/7, was that the Muslim communities and even the Muslim family and friends of these 2nd and 3rd generation radicalized British Muslims had no inkling of their radicalism. All seemed to be regular nice ordinary young men.
Even with this knowledge of the dangers of radical Islam, whether inspired by a radical Islam as a religion or a large number of Muslims who use and define the religion of Islam to support their agendas, the Bush administration and the rest of the West continues to limit their responses to radical Islam and its radical supporters from terrorists down to those non-combatant Muslims who support radical Islam with their hearts and their money.
Essentially the West has tied at least one hand behind its back in combating radical Islam.
The British 7/7 underlines that Muslim radicals intent on harming the West are adept at disguising their natures so that they are indistinguishable from peaceful Muslims. That you would think would lead to singling out all Muslims that fit the age profile of Muslim radicals and terrorists and subject them to much greater scrutiny.
Instead, the West in fear of being accused of racism should they racially and age profile all Muslims that fit the profile, avoid doing so.
It is no secret that the OPEC nations have enormously profited by picking trillions of petro dollars out of the pockets of the West and that has given those nations great economic leverage over the West.
The West's politically correct responses to radical Islam are at least in part motivated by the West's fear to not do or say anything to offend these OPEC nations that we have learned are extremely sensitive to any criticism and risk these OPEC nations pulling the economic plug on Western economies. Such an action would be economically devastating to many Western nations.
The EU that has entered into written and gentlemen's agreements to support Arabs in their hate war against Israel in return for being cut in by OPEC nations for lucrative economic opportunities, feels especially vulnerable. Incidentally, the EU's own anti-semtism dovetailed nicely for it with Islamic anti-semitism and the combination of those two forms of anti-Semitism have created a very powerful mix.
America feels vulnerable to stand alone against radical Islam. To gain some allied support from the EU, America has therefore been forced to compromise its battle against radical Islam by acquiescing to some EU sensibilities and positions. These EU positions derive not from the EU's better view of how to deal with Islamic radicalism, but the EU's desperation not to suffer any economic harm by offending their OPEC benefactors.
America's fears and the OPEC nations’ economic leverage over the West including America has resulted in the world seeing the surreal picture of Bush walking in the White House Rose Garden hand in hand with the Saudis.
With the West and America armed with all this knowledge about radical Islam, I just do not see that with all other things being equal, that a Pentagon report that even proves to a certainty that it is the religion of Islam itself that is radicalizing Muslims, that the West will see that to save itself from radical Islam, it must destroy the religion of Islam and its followers.
It seems that radical Islam is pushing its agenda for Islamic world domination and it is pushing that agenda in so many ways.
It also seems that the West appears to be ignoring that the radical Islamist agenda is being pushed in more ways than just by terrorism, yet it limits its response to terrorism and even that response is limited because those OPEC nations that promote radical Islam and fund terrorism are not viewed as culpable aiders and abettors of radical Islam.
The West preaches and tries to live by what it preaches in terms of tolerance of and mutual respect for all, abhorring violence as a means to peace and holds life precious.
Radical Islam, has no difficulty with its intolerance and lack of respect for non-Muslims, revels in its hatreds of non-Muslims and Jews especially, sees violence and pressing any other advantage, such as economic strength as a very legitimate means to its ends and does not hold life precious in the same way the West does, for it has no compunctions about sacrificing Muslim lives to achieve its ends.
The Rules of Engagement War Book the West is using is not at all the same book Radical Islam uses. There are no comparable, “How to Respect and Tolerate Different Views, How to Reach Out to Others and How to Live In Peace With Others” type Western books in the libraries of radical Islam.
As sure as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, radical Islam is unwilling to negotiate, to respect, to accommodate or tolerate the West and it is ready, able and willing to do whatever it takes to advance its agenda to destroy the West and have Islam dominate the world, including fighting and dying for their beliefs.
The West however has not shown that it is equally ready, able and willing to fight to protect and preserve all that it has and believes in, which by virtue of what radical Islam is committed to, necessarily means that the West has no choice but to defeat and destroy radical Islam.
For the West’s sake, it cannot afford to wait until its too late when all that will be left is the post mortem ‘coulda, woulda, shoulda eulogies delivered by the surviving dhimmis.
Posted by Ted Belman at December 18, 2005 08:41 PM