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Islam is Misunderstood
The New Media Journal ^ | Sept 26, 2009 | Amil Imani

Posted on 09/26/2009 11:25:56 AM PDT by NewMediaJournal

Everybody just relax. Islam is badly misunderstood. The negative stereotype of Islam is the usual evil-doings of Zionists in America and their foolish fellow travelers, fundamentalist Christians. Please don’t listen to what these hate-mongers say about Islam and hear us out. So implies the nationally-launched campaign of Muslim organizations in the United States.

Ads are popping up in newspapers and magazines proclaiming the magnificence of Islam and aiming to refute the “false allegations” of Islam’s ill-wishers.

Huge billboards are festooning major highways, such as the one along Highway 101 and Tully Road in San Jose, California, with crafty messages. Bold letters on the billboard proclaim: Islam? You Deserve to Know. A toll-free number, 1-877-WhyIslam and website, WhyIslam.org beckon the public to get the real scoop about the religion of peace.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: amilimani; islam; jihad; muslim; oppression

1 posted on 09/26/2009 11:25:57 AM PDT by NewMediaJournal
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2 posted on 09/26/2009 11:27:58 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: NewMediaJournal

To Hell with Islam, from whence it came.


3 posted on 09/26/2009 11:28:49 AM PDT by chris37
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To: NewMediaJournal
It would sure be a shame to see those billboards vandalized. What kind of rude, offensive bigot would do something like that to such peaceful folks? Yessir, it would be despicable to see that billboard defaced with a huge "9/11" spraypainted over it.

So nobody do that, okay?

4 posted on 09/26/2009 11:30:22 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: NewMediaJournal

It’s a little tough for them to preach this when the Koran teaches pretty much the opposite.


5 posted on 09/26/2009 11:30:58 AM PDT by umgud (Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
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To: NewMediaJournal

Finding a rattlesnake in my barn does NOT start a conversation on his intents nor his “right to be there”.

It leads to the death of the snake. Period.


6 posted on 09/26/2009 11:33:44 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: NewMediaJournal
Ads are popping up in newspapers and magazines. . . .

.. also radio ads in Sacramento.

I called the toll-free number. While you are on hold you are exposed to readings from the Koran, I guess it was.

I just wanted to know where I could find existing writings of American Muslims' feelings about our social contract, inalienable rights, Constitution.. I was not there to be recruited or to sign up to get stuff "explaining" Islam. The guy said I should put the question on their web site.

7 posted on 09/26/2009 11:35:36 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: humblegunner
And at the Marine barracks in Beirut and at Lockerbie and at the WTC in 1993 and onboard the Achille Lauro, and the USS Cole, and at hundreds of other locations in the past few decades where innocents have been killed just because they don't believe in or won't submit to little "a' allah. Religion of Peace my arse.

The indictment - the rest of Islam stands silent when it is time to condemn these murdering hate-mongers and their cowardly acts.

If I'm still around, I look forward to meeting these pedophile-worshipping cretins in the Valley of Meggido.

8 posted on 09/26/2009 11:36:27 AM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: NewMediaJournal
"Huge billboards are festooning major highways"

Mohammed is still hitting the highways...

PROPHET MOHAMMED WAS A HIGHWAY ROBBER

9 posted on 09/26/2009 11:37:06 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (It's a Girl!)
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To: NewMediaJournal

Islam is a minor form of Satanic theism....nothing more, nothing less.


10 posted on 09/26/2009 11:39:38 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: NewMediaJournal

Unfortunately, most Americans are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. As are most Europeans.

It’s pretty obvious if you take the trouble to look at the Koran, the Hadiths, and history, but most people are unwilling to do that. They think it would be bigoted and mean even to take the trouble to check it out.


11 posted on 09/26/2009 11:41:58 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: NewMediaJournal

http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html

here’s a good understanding...


12 posted on 09/26/2009 11:42:44 AM PDT by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com)
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I am a well informed Christian and along with my Zionist Jewish friends, I don't need some Islamic shill to tell me my understanding of Islam is wrong. Islam is a insidious social/political/religious system bent on enslaving or converting the world to relive the dark ages under their rule.

No thanks.

Someday, and I hope it won't be too late, the western world is going to wake up and take the steps, however egregious they may be, to not only stop this movement, but extinguish it from earth's surface.

Do you think the author would like to sit down with me for a bit of social discourse?

13 posted on 09/26/2009 11:43:20 AM PDT by ImpBill ("America ... where are you now?" signed, a little "r" republican!)
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To: IronJack

Some suggestions for “modifying” Islamist billboards:

“Jesus is Lord!”

“G-d bless the Jewish people!”

“Long live Israel!”

“Pork, the all-American meat!”

“Crusaders rule!”

“Equal rights for Muslim women!” (That’ll REALLY set ‘em off)

More suggestions?


14 posted on 09/26/2009 11:44:54 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: NewMediaJournal

OH NO it ISN’T.


15 posted on 09/26/2009 11:45:17 AM PDT by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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Well once again I proved myself a dummie as I didn't read the entire article. My apologies to the author who in the article stated, "We broke away from Islamic slavery and found it to be our solemn duty to expose this fraud of a religion, help other Muslims to free themselves from it, and warn the good-hearted and gullible non-Muslims against falling prey to it."

I would love to meet the author and have a chat. My apologies to him if he reads my first post.

16 posted on 09/26/2009 11:48:02 AM PDT by ImpBill ("America ... where are you now?" signed, a little "r" republican!)
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To: humblegunner
Islam? You Deserve to Know.

I guess this child is being taught to know Islam.


17 posted on 09/26/2009 11:50:42 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: NewMediaJournal; IronJack; umgud; ridesthemiles; WilliamofCarmichael; Berlin_Freeper; Cicero

“Islam is Misunderstood”

The proof is in the pudding...

Look at any country where Islam is prevalent and the pudding looks and tastes like sh*t.


18 posted on 09/26/2009 11:50:45 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: elcid1970

More suggestions?

Yes.

“Islam is misunderstood, by Islamists.”


19 posted on 09/26/2009 11:51:56 AM PDT by Amos the Prophet (He is the son of soulless slavers, not the son of soulful slaves.)
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To: humblegunner

I second that picture and I’ll repeat the words:

Everything I ever needed to know about Islam I learned on 9/11.


20 posted on 09/26/2009 11:56:57 AM PDT by roaddog727 (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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To: NewMediaJournal

Islam, A Religion of Peace:

Sura (2:191-193) - "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution of Muslims is worse than slaughter of non-believers...and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah."

Sura (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"

Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

Bukhari (52:177) - Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."

Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared," Kill any Jew who falls under your power."

Ibn Ishaq: 327 - “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”

الاسلام هو شر لا مثيل لها ، ويجب القضاء عليه

21 posted on 09/26/2009 11:58:30 AM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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To: NewMediaJournal
Islam is a political ideology in which Muslims have rights that infidels do not. Do you seen any freedom of religion in Islamic nations? A convert to Christianity must be killed. Islam believes in conversion by the sword. There is nothing good that can come from such a brutal religion.
22 posted on 09/26/2009 12:00:20 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: elcid1970

Sharia law sucks!


23 posted on 09/26/2009 12:01:01 PM PDT by reaganbooster (The democrat party symbol should be the grim reaper instead of the donkey.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Islam is a minor form of Satanic theism....nothing more, nothing less.

No, it's the most successful of the relatively early Judeo/Christian heresies.
24 posted on 09/26/2009 12:03:38 PM PDT by aruanan
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The sadomasochistic tendencies of the Islamists and treatment of women is rooted in their latent homoeroticism...

A cursory psychoanalysis of the masochistic left in the West will find that most of those submissive, feminized males are most often allied with Islam because of such militant, misogynist attitudes in their deviant thinking concerning sexuality. Nothing is more misogynistic than the homosexuals because they deny the feminine superiority of giving life...

Homosexuals are like Islamics, nothing sets them off more than any criticism at all, even if it is founded in the facts of biological reality.

25 posted on 09/26/2009 12:07:53 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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A toll-free number, 1-877-WhyIslam and website, ...

I just called that number (1.877.949.4752) and had a talk with a chap who could not answer my question about why islam is involved in every conflict going on today.

I live in a very un-islam part of the country, don't have much opportunity to interact with 'em ... my, my, my, it felt good to unload on him.

Give it a try. It is cathartic.

26 posted on 09/26/2009 12:16:39 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: Amos the Prophet

““Islam is misunderstood, by Islamists.””

No, it really isn’t. Islam really is that bad.


27 posted on 09/26/2009 12:19:58 PM PDT by Favor Center (Targets up! Hold hard and favor center!)
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To: NewMediaJournal; All
Islam is often touted as a "religion of peace." All they need do is live up to that assertion, treat the females of their religion as equals, stop beheading people who offend or disagree with them and all will be well.

Any of you believe that will ever happen?

28 posted on 09/26/2009 12:21:57 PM PDT by davisfh ( Islam is a very serious mental and social illness)
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To: NewMediaJournal

Islam is Misunderstood
(by those who make excuses for it)


29 posted on 09/26/2009 12:23:33 PM PDT by Iron Munro (You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat - Claire Wolfe)
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To: NewMediaJournal
"I saved you," cried the woman

"And you've bitten me, but why?

You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die"

"Oh shut up, silly woman," said the reptile with a grin

"You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in ...

Oscar Brown Jr.

30 posted on 09/26/2009 12:27:55 PM PDT by La Lydia
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There are a great many thing NOT to write on UN-vandalized billboards put up by our dear mooslime brothers. Some suggestions might be ...

There is only one true god, and Allah ain't him.

Don't keep your virgins waiting.

Islam: Proof that evolution is false.

Islam: Party like it's 1199.

When it absolutely, positively has to be corrupted overnight ...

31 posted on 09/26/2009 12:30:49 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: aruanan
Heresy tends toward differences in specifics while in fundamental agreement.

For instance, while Protestants and Catholics agree on the Ten Commandments and most all of Christ's moral teachings, their differences in how to worship have long created a state of heresy between them.

Islam specifically rejects almost all of the fundamental moralities of the Bible - which is Satanic Theism....not heresy.

32 posted on 09/26/2009 12:39:14 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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Islam is a minor form of Satanic theism

There's reason to believe that soon it will become a very major form of Satanic theism. There's been recently a developing sense that Islam and its Satanic Sharia Law could very well be the vehicle which is used to usher in the end of the age and the “Beast” (Biblical scholars point to him being an Assyrian).

The scenario of the end according to the Book of Revelation in the Bible includes this “Beast “, his world government, the death of at least half of the population of the world through maniacal nuclear holocaust, his absolute hated of the Jewish people, ,and ultimately his deranged plan to assemble his world armies and fight God (!?) on plains of the Valley of Megiddo (site of Armageddon), where Christ with ten thousands of his saints will appear from heaven and utterly destroy them all, God having successfully overthrown the confused and bloody Babylonian World System, replacing it with 1000 years of Christ’s rule characterized by peace the world has never seen before.

33 posted on 09/26/2009 12:42:26 PM PDT by Jim 0216
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To: humblegunner

INDEED.

EXCELLENT.

SAVING FOR SHARING.


34 posted on 09/26/2009 12:53:38 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: aruanan; Psycho_Bunny
Islam is a minor form of Satanic theism

There's reason to believe that soon it will become a very major form of Satanic theism. There's been recently a developing sense that Islam and its Satanic Sharia Law could very well be the vehicle which is used to usher in the end of the age and the “Beast” (Biblical scholars point to him being an Assyrian).

The scenario of the end according to the Book of Revelation in the Bible includes this “Beast “, his world government, the death of at least half of the population of the world through maniacal nuclear holocaust, his absolute hated of the Jewish people, ,and ultimately his deranged plan to assemble his world armies and fight God (!?) on plains of the Valley of Megiddo (site of Armageddon), where Christ with ten thousands of his saints will appear from heaven and utterly destroy them all, God having successfully overthrown the confused and bloody Babylonian World System, replacing it with 1000 years of Christ’s rule characterized by peace the world has never seen before.

35 posted on 09/26/2009 12:56:55 PM PDT by Jim 0216
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To: NewMediaJournal
Muslims are not afraid of being misunderstood, they are afraid they are perfectly understood.

You Should Be Humiliated

Muslims don't react well to criticism and many do not respect the customs of non-Muslim countries or their people.

If was little Islamist terrorism I could agree they were misunderstood. As much and as often as Muslims lie, the message of a homicide bomber is completely clear.

Lying in Islam

"..This point is proven by many incidences in the life of Mohammed. He often lied and instructed his followers to do the same. He rationalized that the prospect of success in missions to extend Islam's influence overrode Allah's initial prohibitions against lying. .."

36 posted on 09/26/2009 1:32:22 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: humblegunner

That is the true meaning of Islam. The dead bodies of our countrymen and women. The ruined lives, the misery it causes.
Islam is a religion of the damned.


37 posted on 09/26/2009 2:28:04 PM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Hat-Trick
If I'm still around, I look forward to meeting these pedophile-worshipping cretins in the Valley of Meggido.

I'm right there.

38 posted on 09/26/2009 2:33:40 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: NewMediaJournal; All
For Islam, a Religion of Peace®? The Most Damning links-- click the picture:

Watch the videos, read the links, ponder the quotes.
Wake up, and smell the Jihad...

39 posted on 09/26/2009 4:22:07 PM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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