Posted on 07/16/2016 5:15:57 PM PDT by HarborSentry
(Referencing poster in blog website, but you've seen it on Drudge today)
This is the poster for the upcoming movie A Birth of a Nation. The movie is probably controversial. But I'm not talking about the movie today.
I am talking about slavery. Most people like to think that they would have opposed slavery if they had been around in the 1800s. And most of those people are fooling themselves. I doubt that more than a handful of those moviemakers would have fought against it.
Very simply, if you oppose slavery, then you oppose radical Islam.
If you do not oppose radical Islam, then you do not oppose slavery. Do not pretend you would have opposed slavery in the old South.
If you want Guantanamo closed before the war ends (and I mean really closed, and not just moved), then you support radical Islam. That means you are willing to compromise with slavery.
If you want more for Guantanamo detainees than we'd have given unlawful combatants in WWII, then you're willing to compromise with radical Islam.
If you're willing to compromise with radical Islam, then you're willing to compromise with slavery.
There was a time when we would look back on the history of slavery, and imagine that we'd have fought against slavery if we lived in 1850. Maybe we'd have opened our homes to escaping slaves as a rest stop on the Underground Railroad to freedom. We might even like to think we'd have joined the Union Army in the Civil War.
But that's history. All we really know is where we stand on slavery today.
Much is made of ISIS and Boko Haram and their overt practice of slavery. But all of radical Islam supports it. Saudi Arabia outlawed slavery in 1964, but it still goes on there. It is in the Koran. You won't get an Al Qaeda member or sympathizer to denounce slavery. Few, if any, former Guantanamo detainees will denounce it without qualification.
I realize that some people say there is no “radical Islam.” That's a discussion for another day. We all know who and what I'm talking about.
If you oppose slavery, then you oppose radical Islam.
Drop the word radical.
There is nothing moderate about Islam.
Correct.
This is a specious comparison. Slavery in the 1800s cannot be compared to the barbarism that is Islam.
I’m hoping lefties will see this elsewhere, and just didn’t want to clutter this message.
That depends on where it was.
But, again, I don’t want to clutter the main message for lefties.
They can only handle so much.
Radical?
The Ottoman empire thrived because of it’s harvesting of slaves from Africa and Eastern Europe.
The Ottoman Empire was NOT ‘radical’ Islam!
Chip away, bit by bit. Some may be saved from themselves.
I’ll add, though, that in the book 12 YEARS A SLAVE (I don’t know about the movie), it does say that slaves had to be paid for work done on Sundays in that state.
Islamists don’t have rules like that.
There’s always hope.
Until after election day, that is. Then it depends on who’s elected.
Yeah, but this is one of the reasons why I said in the main post that I didn’t want to get into that.
Not “radical Islam”?
Tell that to the Knights of Rhodes & the Knights of Malta!
Yep. That is my major current pet peeve. They aren't radical.
They are Fundamentalist
Actually, I was just trying to be nice and supportive.
In my heart of hearts, I don’t believe any leftists should be allowed to convert. They’re traitors to civilization. It’s gene deep with them. You might convince one on a single issue or whatever, but they pattern of destructionism will always be there, lurking in their soul.
” ... radical islam ... “
I find the phrase to be redundant.
Whether you agree with the author or not, he’s not very good at the written word (IMHO)
I agree -I call them fundamentalists.
I don't know what else to call Muslims who follow the basics of Islam, as presented by Allah in the Koran and the examples set by Muhammad in the Hadiths. -Tom
Many leftists are most definitely traitors. But some of them are ignorant, or simply weak. I hope that those can be reached.
Regardless, this was mostly written to reach the lefties. I posted it here to see what others think of it. It’s not like anyone here needs to be turned away from jihadi agit-prop.
That’s why I was trying to be supportive in my first comment :)
We can’t all be Shakespeare.
But I do appreciate the comment. Honest opinions are good here, especially where lefties are pretty much out of the loop. I’ll try to up my game.
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