Posted on 03/28/2006 9:38:18 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
In the wake of the cartoon jihad and mosque-on-mosque violence in Iraq, most Americans now think Islam has more violent believers than any other faith. Yet many still view it as a "peaceful religion."
Psychologists might call this cognitive dissonance — a state of mind where rational people essentially lie to themselves. But in this case, it's understandable. In our politically correct culture, criticizing any religion, even one that plots our destruction, is still taboo. And no one wants to suggest the terrorists are driven by their holy text.
Which explains a Washington Post-ABC News poll showing that Americans are becoming more aware of the broader threat (58% associate terrorists with Islam), but are still convinced terrorists are radicalizing Islam and not the other way around (54% don't think Islam itself encourages violence).
The new poll, however, still doesn't sit well with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group dedicated to improving public perceptions of Islam. It has denounced increasingly negative views as "Islamophobic" and vowed to redouble its "education" efforts.
Good. What better time for CAIR and other Muslim leaders to step up, cut through the politically correct fog and provide factual answers to the questions that give so many non-Muslims pause?
Generally speaking, those questions focus on whether the Quran does indeed promote violence against non-Muslims, and how many of the terrorists' ideas — about the violent jihad, the self-immolation, the kidnappings, even the beheadings — come right out of the text? But even more specifically:
Is Islam the only religion with a doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates warfare against unbelievers?
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I think that the behavior of those who subscribe to Islam speaks for itself.
This author is to be beheaded for his apostasy. < /sarc >
CAIR is just a stool softener for Radical Islam....
If they really wanted to improve public perceptions of Islam, the first thing they would do is denounce terrorism and actively participate in hunting down and turning in the terrorists - even if they're in their own communities. Like that terrorist training guy in Lodi, CA - I can't believe his fellow mosquemembers didn't know what he was doing.
Let's run through a checklist of the major religions, and their relative size, shall we?
Christianity: 2.1 billion - No
Islam: 1.3 billion - Yes, by action, deed and scripturesNo
Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion - No
Hinduism: 900 million - No
Chinese traditional religion: 394 million - No
Buddhism: 376 million - No
primal-indigenous: 300 million - No
African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million - No
Sikhism: 23 million - No
Juche: 19 million - No
Spiritism: 15 million - No
Judaism: 14 million - No
Baha'i: 7 million - No
Jainism: 4.2 million - No
Shinto: 4 million - No
Cao Dai: 4 million - No
Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million - No
Tenrikyo: 2 million - No
Neo-Paganism: 1 million - No
Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand - No
Rastafarianism: 600 thousand - No
Scientology: 500 thousand - No
(P) Pronunciation Key (klt) n.
- A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
- The followers of such a religion or sect.
- A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
- Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
The answer to all the questions asked by the article is "Yes". Islam is a code of warfare.
LOL.
It is about time that MSM stepped up to the plate and started asking CAIR some tough questions. CAIR has been given a pass for too many years.
If the great preponderance of racist acts were committed solely by Christians and those acts were encouraged in churches and codified in scripture, would you not begin to suspect that Christianity was a cult of racists?
Theoretically true but here in the US our recent policy is apparently based on the premise that a single bad experience is to be prevented from ever happening again. Think about all the warning labels, recalls, and discontinued products because of one idiot that went out of his way to misuse it, or because of a one-in-a-million combination of events that led to a bad outcome.
And that's for mistakes and unintended consequences happening occasionally, not for intentional acts. If "Islam" were a product sold to the public like cars, hair dryers ("Do Not Use While Sleeping"), or baby strollers ("Remove Baby Before Folding Stroller For Storage"), it would have been banned a thousand different ways already.
Everything I have found about Islam, a Religion of Peace®? ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:
Read my links- first to last, last to first. Doesn't matter- you won't like what you see...
as the old testament also...
so what ?
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