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| Pete Heck: The problem is within Islam itself |
| 2015-01-11 |
| [INDYSTAR] In the editorial offices of a French magazine this week, Moslem butchers put an emphatic and bloody exclamation point on President B.O.s 2012 declaration before the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... that, The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. And even before the broken bodies of the French cartoonists had been removed from the scene, apologists on the American political left were taking to cameras and keyboards to make sure the apparent greater crime of political incorrectness was not perpetrated. CNN pundit Sally Kohn sent out a barrage of politically correct tweets that repackaged the foolish charge made years ago by fellow left-winger Rosie O'Donnell that, radical Christianity is just as dangerous as radical Islam. You can be forgiven for struggling to remember the last time monks with suicide belts stormed a mall food court or a group of knife-wielding nuns beheaded an infidel before mass. Can you find nutjobs claiming to be Christian who have committed violent acts? Of course. But in every example, the offender was not acting in accordance with the teaching of any mainstream Christian denomination, nor are there large groups of Christians dedicated to implementing such a strategy. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean Former Dem governor of Vermont or Rhode Island or one of those dinky states. Howard lost his bid to be president by shrieking and screaming and acting like a loon. Then they made him chairman of the Dem national committee, where he continued doing the same things only nobody paid any attention.... appeared on MSNBC attempting to say the same about Islam. I stopped calling these people Moslem terrorists,he proclaimed as though he or anyone on the left has used that phrase with regularity. I think ISIS is a cult. Not an Islamic cult. I think its a cult, he said. Despite the turbans and the automatic weapons. This is the same nonsense weve been hearing from American liberals for years. After the horrific attack at Fort Hood, where Moslem terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan jumped onto a table, shouted Allahu Akbar and massacred Americans in cold blood, the B.O. regime labeled the event workplace violence. Go online and watch Attorney General Eric Inaction JacksonHolder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... refuse to act like he understands the phrase radical Islam. When you do, it should become apparent why events like this continue to happen. We are paralyzed with fear at the thought of honestly acknowledging that the problem we face is within Islam itself. Every time Islamic jihadists strike, our society searches for some reason to explain what provoked them: American foreign policy, the invasion of Iraq, a preacher in Florida who threatened to burn a Koran, the establishment of Israel after World War II, the events at Abu Ghraib, offensive cartoons, and on and on. It's always something, ain't it? Don't forget the loss of al-Andaluz in 1492. That was a biggie. But lost in the sideshow is the truth that many within Islam have been imitating their warrior prophet and fighting the world since the 7th century. Yes, thankfully there are large numbers of Moslems who interpret their holy book in a manner that allows them to live at peace with others. But we cant deny the reality that Islam is the only religion where there is a discussion within the faith about whether its acceptable to saw off journalists heads, burn children alive who don't renounce their faith in Christ, massacre thousands by using jetliners as missiles, or slaughter cartoonists at a satirical magazine. Those acts of terror arent the product of some modern movement of Islamists who misunderstand and pervert their scriptures. It has been this way since Muhammad was perpetrating the violence himself. The stark difference between Kohn and O'Donnell's radical Christian violence and Islamic terror is the difference between despicable acts and despicable teachings. Theres a reason that Alexis de Tocqueville wrote over a century ago, I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. Multiculturalist blather prevents us from acknowledging that simple reality. Pretending there is moral and ethical equivalency between all faiths is cultural suicide. Muhammad proclaimed, I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Three Moslems in La Belle France followed that example this week. Thats the real problem we continue to ignore. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I believe that the OIC's consensus position can reasonably be called the legitimate voice of Islam as a political player in the world. I also believe that the current appalling and reprehensible political, cultural and economic circumstances of the OIC states can reasonably be attributed to Islam as a political platform. The OIC has, for years, openly and publicly called for the imposition of Sharia restrictions on non-Muslims in the West. Hypothetically, if the French government had arrested the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, prosecuted the for and convicted them of blasphemy, and if the French government had then executed them for their blasphemy the OIC would have applauded this move. The death penalty for blasphemy is not unknown in Islamic states after all. The Charlie Hebdo attackers just gave the OIC what the OIC had demanded. (Which is why I believe the presence of OIC member state reps at the Paris demonstration to be of exceptionally poor taste.) A discussion of the Islamic religion's transcendental qualities wouldn't be fruitful in this context, but it must be obvious to a reasonable observer that nearly everything is dangerously wrong with Islam as a political force. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-01-11 11:47 |
| #2 Besoeker---Read the book 25 years ago and was impressed by Churchill's concise and priescent look at Islam. Like they say at The Gates of Vienna, "We are in a new phase of a very old war." |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-01-11 10:57 |
| #1 How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome. Churchill, Winston (1899). The River War Vol. II (1st ed.). London: Longmans, Green & Co. pgs 248-250. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-11 00:35 |