Posted on 11/30/2016 10:29:04 AM PST by Capt. Tom
Apparently, unlike most everything else, Mitt Romney has not flip-flopped on his position on jihad and Islam.
Back in July 2009, I wrote in a post entitled, "Why Romney Won't be President" that Romney would not be president because he said something so fundamentally and unabashedly wrong about America's greatest mortal threat that he was unfit to be President: "Jihadism Is not part of Islam." Yes, he said that.
That is frightening coming from a Presidential candidate. Instead of spending the ensuing years studying jihad, Romney appears hardwired for delusion in his latest remarks. The fact that Romney knows peaceful Muslims is purely anecdotal. I believe that most Muslims are secular and have no desire to strap one on. But that does not mean that Islam is not inherently violent. The ideology is the most violent and radical on the face of the earth. What history books is Romney reading……Dr. Seuss? How did Romney miss over 270 million victims in over a millennium of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements? How did Romney miss the close to 18,000 Islamic attacks since 911? How did Romney miss the revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, etc.? How did Romney miss the jihad on the Jews and Christians and Hindus and Sikhs?
There are hundreds of millions of jihadis, what's Romney smokin'?
Mitt Romney: Islam is not an inherently violent faith Cedar Rapids, Ia. – Mitt Romney responded today to a call for a tougher stance against Muslims by saying that most Muslims are peaceful people who deserve respect.
The issue came up during a question-and-answer session at a campaign stop here this morning. A man rose from the audience, claimed he had many Muslim friends, but said, “I have never heard one Muslim condemn Islamic jihad or terrorism. I see Islamic jihad as one of the greatest threats to America and the western world. Are you going to continue to give Islam and Islamic jihad in this country a pass like everybody before you continues to do? The only people that call Islam a religion of peace are the Muslims, and they are the most violent religion in the world.”
Romney said radical, violent Islamists pose a threat to Americans and others around the world. However, he said, “they take a very different view of Islam than the Muslims I know.” He noted that he was raised in the Detroit area, which has a large Muslim population. “They are peace-loving and America-loving individuals. I believe that very sincerely. I believe people of the Islamic faith do not have to subscribe to the idea of radical, violent jihadism.”
What you believe is irrelevant, Mr. Romney. Just the facts, and they fly in the face of your fantasy. Romney sounds like ………. Obama.
Let him get foreign experience by being the ambassador to Somalia, or another @@ithole of the world.
I suspect Trump will not ditch him. I think Romney’s the frontrunner to get the job. I believe Trump is planning to do the Obama-hires-Hillary trick to eliminate his competition in 2020 primary season.
Correct. It’s the adherents that are barbaric cretins.
To hell with all of them.
Of course it’s not an inherently violence faith. I have no doubt that dozens of followers are shocked and disgusted by the actions of a few tens of thousands of Muslims each year. We should not paint with such a broad crush that we cannot distinguish those decent followers from the billion or so who engage in or approve of religious violence.
OK, that’s it. Romney is disqualified for stupidity.
Romney is either too stupid or too naive to be SOS. Maybe both.
= = =
That puts him at about even with hellary.
Tough competition.
“I can be more stupid than Hillary”
“Pick Me!”
Disqualifies him instantly
When Muhammad was preaching in Mecca he had no army, and conversions were voluntary. After his uncle Talib died he lost his protection from his own Quaresh tribe that wanted to kill him because he was bad for business, because Muhammad was berating the idol worshipers , Christians and Jews about their false beliefs.
The Quaresh tribe made money in Mecca and got gifts from visitors to the Kaaba because they maintained the Kabba for everyone, and keeping the area safe for visitors so they could honor their many different Gods.
When Muhammad fled Mecca and went about 200 miles north to Medina he had only made about 150 converts in 10-12 year sof preaching.
Muhammad started off in Medina preaching and that wasn't working, so Allah told him through the angel Gabriel to get the sword out and kill Muslim opposition, and get people to convert or be subjugated and pay protection money.
The sword was much more effective in making conversions to Islam than the tongue.
If you died in Jihad you got to go to a higher level in heaven that day, and didn't have to wait for judgement day.
If you fought and didn't die you got a share of the spoils taken from you opponents, including their women. -Tom
There is a book called “The 23 Years”, written by a modern Persian/Iranian. The title represents the length of time Mohammed was “religiously” active. The author was trying to argue for an Islamic reformation using the benign period of Mohammed’s preaching as a basis. (This “benign period” is the first 10 or 13 years of the 23.) The author was trying to claim the later “violent period” (the remaining 10 or 13 years) was where Mohammed had fallen away from what was right and good and was corrupted by power & conquests.
After publication the Shah put him under house arrest. Then the Iranian Revolution occurred, the ayatollahs jailed him and later he was killed in prison.
An interesting book.
I just ordered it from Amazon.
I am sure it will have insight into the tribes and attitudes on the people of the Arabian peninsula around the year 600.
I have done some reading on that subject and have found it to be a miserable place geographically and resource wise to be born into.
Very Tribal and in some cases behavior more reprehensible than Islam.
It was so miserable a place no major power wanted to dominate it, and enforce law and order.
The Arabian peninsula was virtually a lawless place and Tribes enforced their own ideas of expected behavior. -Tom
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