Posted on 08/19/2014 6:41:30 PM PDT by markomalley
Reading the papers is reading authors of confusion. They say “Saudi top cleric blasts al-Qaida and ISIS as ‘enemy No. 1′ of Islam” in a statement issued in Riyadh.
“The ideas of extremism, radicalism and terrorism … have nothing to do with Islam and (their proponents) are the enemy number one of Islam,” the kingdom’s top cleric said.
He cited jihadists from the Islamic State, which has declared a “caliphate” straddling parts of Iraq and Syria, and the global al-Qaida terror network. Really? ISIS and al-Qaida do not represent Islam? ISIS IS ISlam and ISlam is ISIS.
Muslims frequently say that we, the critics of Islam “know nothing about Islam”. They relentlessly exhaust us with this statement that ISIS terrorists do not understand true Islam.
I finally capitulate.
They are correct. The truth is that no one truly understands true Islam, neither Muslim scholars nor Muslims in general. Even the best of its secular critics don’t understand it. The only way to fully understand Islam is to be the devil himself.
Not even Caliph Al-Baghdadi, the head of the ISIS understands true Islam for he is unaware that he worships the devil in disguise as God. We sit around calling ourselves ‘experts’ and we argue over “Jihad” and its many meanings. Than we talk about stealth Jihad and creeping Sharia. Than we talk about how to reform Islam, so we elevate well-dressed groomed Muslims to promote this new form of reformed Islam.
The Muslim world looks at us and laughs saying that we still do not understand true Islam regardless that if we point the finger at the extremists or the moderates. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most prominent Sunni Muslim scholar (for sure he should understand true Islam) looks at us mockingly saying:
“They speak not of the one Islam as revealed by Allah but of manufactured “Islams,” plural, several different Islams, which they desire to create. Sometimes they even divide Islam by regions. There is the Asian variety of Islam; then we have the African Islam. Sometimes, according to the ages, there is the Prophet’s era of Islam, Rashidi Islam, Umayyad Islam, Abbasid Islam, Ottoman Islam and modern Islam. Sometimes, according to race, there is Arab Islam, Indian Islam, Turkish Islam, and the Islam of the Malaysian… And so on and so forth. Sometimes, according to the doctrine, there is Sunni Islam and Shiite Islam. They even divide the Sunni and the Shia into divisions. New divisions have also been created; there is revolutionary Islam, reactionary Islam, radical Islam, classical Islam, right-wing Islam, leftist Islam, orthodox Islam, modern Islam and, finally, political Islam, spiritual Islam and theological Islam. Why do they invent such divisions that are rejected in Islam? The truth is that these divisions are all unacceptable in the eyes of a Muslim; there is only one Islam, which has no partners, which recognizes no other; it is the first Islam, the Islam of the Quran and Sunnah.” (Accusing Islam with Politics by Dr. Yusuf Qaradawi, 10/28/2011)8
Indeed, even Qaradawi who himself does not understand Islam had this one right; there is only one true Islam. What he is wrong about is that Islam is not from God but is of the devil. Period.
And since no human fully understands the devil, they have it wrong; they do not understand Islam. No Muslim understands Islam. To understand Islam, we all, rich and poor, lame and mute, grew up taking a copy of that green colored book; its cover was illuminated in beautiful Arabic gold script.
We were made to read it while we reclined our backs on stone hewn columns surmounted by decorated arches. We mesmerized our inner souls hearing ourselves reciting incomprehensible abstract thoughts and fragmented verses while bobbing our heads sitting under melancholy domed shrines that hovered over these beautiful specimens of Persian rugs donated courtesy of wealthy Arab princes.
It was rather a peculiar hodgepodge they all said was divine. For over millennia it was a bestseller in the east and still is. Everyone had external reverence that at any moment when they heard the recitation in the ancient classical Arabic tongue they become hypnotized by some external force, humbling themselves, ready to carry out sacred instructions to kill infidels as if under a spell from the Master Hypnotist.
No giant would even dare call this book a ‘fiction,’ in respect to its avid readers who believed it was sent to them from the seventh heaven—dictaphoned by a colorful angel of light—to a humble illiterate servant of God. My life journey to understanding Islam was filled with thorns and obstacles, which I finally managed to pluck out of my wandering soul. The prickling thorns were thrust to my side by what was left behind from the writ of a sojourner named Muhammad who once alleged that a bright angel of light once visited him while he frequented a mysterious cave called Ghar Hira’ in Arabia.
There he was dictaphoned—so he claimed—the word of a god named Maliki-Rab-ul-A’lameen, “The King-Lord of The Worlds” who was the god of this world and the god of the underworld. The sojourner who claimed to be prophet then desired to ascend to heaven, to the most high. So he alleged that one night that he was transported in a twinkling of an eye far away up to the heavens riding on the back of another being, a hybrid of a winged steed, part woman, part peacock he called Buraq.
But the time I only began to understand something about Islam was the day I opened a Bible when I still was Muslim in 1993. I ineluctably began to turn its pages. As it turned out it spoke of such stories of this Buraq already mentioned in the Quran even foretelling that story a millennium before of a rebellious beautiful bright angel of light, with “every precious stone was your covering: the ruby, the topaz, and the diamond; the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper; the lapis lazuli, the turquoise, and the emerald; and the gold, the workmanship of your setting and sockets was in you” *(Ezekiel 28:13)* He than arose to be the world’s leading heresiarch, an “Antichrist who denies Father and Son” (1 John 2:22) and claimed in his Al-Isra’ Wal-Mi’raj to have “ascended to heaven” (Isaiah 14:13) reaching the seventh heaven claiming, as it says in Isaiah 14:13, “You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God” claiming to meet God who ordered him to rule over all of mankind, angels and the whole multitudes of demons.
Then I read God’s oracles concerning the Desert which God called “Babylon”, “Dumah”, “Kedar” and even “Arabia” with a proclamation that said: “Babylon is fallen, is fallen,” (Isaiah 21:9, Revelation 18:1-2) These were all in the land of the sojourner, the man with the Buraq steed and are where the city of that virgin bride cloaked in black silk, decked with silver and gold.
And for my predilection to read this book (the Bible) over the other (Quran), the giants said that they would sever my head as they severed the heads of thousand thousands before me. Yet even this peril was foretold in the book, which they forbade us to read. Then, and way later, when I dared to speak negatively of it, the media giants who even knew the book was hypnotic fiction, were grieved and alleged that I knew little about the sacred text. Publishers avoided me fearing the frenzy of the mobs, the same mobs that converged like a river once a year swirling roundabout the idol they had erected long ago in the midst of this Babel telling me that Islam was peaceful.
Was Islam peaceful when Omar bin Al-Khattab began to advance into Christian Byzantine territory? Was Islam peaceful and did not behave as ISIS did when Muslims during the decisive Battle of Yarmouk in August 636 when the Christian Emperor Heraclius was defeated by Islamic hordes?
Was Islam not behaving like ISIS when Sophronius, the Christian Arab from Bethlehem who was at the time Patriarch of Jerusalem, how in his sermon on the Day of the Epiphany 636 A.D. he bewailed the destruction of the churches and monasteries, how the sacked towns, the fields laid waste, the villages burned down by the Muslim nomads who were overrunning the country then to later invade Jerusalem itself and occupy it under Umar bin Al-Khattab.
Was Saudi Arabia and Qatar not acting like ISIS when they send incursions into Syria of replicas of the same ancient savages, beheading Christians, raping, burning and destroying everything in sight; the American Christian initially was unaware, despite our warnings, that he would take the side of such savages in full support of the so-called Free Syrian Army, Muslims from different nations whom converged into Syria to carry out the Harlot’s interest of Saudi Arabia.
The American have not learned the lessons from history about what Arabia has done to the Christian world beginning in the conquest of Christian Syria in 637, the conquest of Christian Armenia, 639, to later massacre 1.2 Million Armenian Christians in 1915.
Have we seen any difference between the Islam of ISIS and the Islam of the Ottomans?
And then we had the conquest of Christian Egypt in 639 A.D., in which the population of the Christian Copts gradually decreased from nine million to 700,000 at the early 1900′s.
And Egypt is an important case-in-point regarding peaceful Islam. It is a fact of history that the Egyptians allowed the Muslims into their country. When the Egyptian populace heard that the Muslims were arriving, they accepted them with open arms, not seeing them as deceiving heretics, but as people who merely believed in the one true God. Their open mindedness would have received the applause of the moderns, but the end result was the consequence of all ultra equality and tolerance: violence. For decades I roamed the world of cowards, politicians, media giants and even conservatives who claimed to believe in the purists of truths to only find out they were riddled with the ignorance that was born out of their inner fears. They too would not dare call the devil “devil”. But I stood and confronted the wizards; these goliaths that carried swords in one hand and that book of fictions they used for shield in the other telling them that their victories with the sword will be until all bow towards their image, but as long as there are a few who choose their scimitar blade over prostrating in submission to tyranny, that victory is for the slain who refuse to bow to their devil.
The Bible proclaimed warnings to the naïve multitudes foretelling even these giants, the ones with the scimitars, coming to the city gates proclaiming that Islam is ‘peace’ ‘peace’ ‘peace’. For decades, I began to shout from the rooftops. ‘The giants are coming’ ‘With Trojan horses they come to the city gates’ ‘they bring charmers, wizards and star gazers’ ‘they deceive by peace’ to only find out that I am but a lone voice crying in the wilderness; a watchman on walls sounding a trumpet to naïve western multitudes dazzled by charmers and the stargazers whose outcry of ‘he’s a liar’ ‘an impostor’ ‘an ant who never saw giants’ ‘there are no Trojan horses at the city gates’ while the naive slander with a sharp tongue saying that my declarations were ‘fiction’, that I need to be brought down from the city walls and sent into banishment.
So they sent the giants to bring me down, but their efforts were all in vain. In this hear the sound of my trumpet, hear not and your blood is on your hands.
Even many radical Islamic militants run from these crazy bastards..
maybe they could try the ‘snickers bar’ approach on ‘em?
or is chocolate forbidden too?
No argument here.
The only good Muslim is a bad Muslim.
Powerful stuff from one who knows, and that is Walid Shoebat.
But why should foaming Islamic savagery be surprising to anyone with eyes to see, and ears to hear?
who needs eyes or ears? you can smell their ‘works’ miles away.
I met two jerks there, in my five years.
Jerk number one: In Dammam. This younger guy, about 18 years old, was coming INTO the jewelry store and I was leaving.
HE thought I should give way and I thought that he should give way. We glared at each other, not saying a word, glaring all the way and we moved slowly and carefully around each other.
Jerk number two: Another time, this young Saudi was tailgating us on the freeway. There were three Brits in the back seat, me in the passenger seat and my husband driving.
This ahole came up on us, tailgated VERY close, then quickly passed us going way too fast, cut us off and nearly killed us.
OF COURSE he looked in his rear view mirror to see our reaction. The four men in the car didn't move but the THIRD FINGER OF MY RIGHT HAND POPPED UP, right in his face in his rear view mirror.
He was SO PISSED...because he couldn't do a thing. The men didn't flip him off, A WOMAN DID and there wasn't a thing he could do.
Lol. All four guys said with closed mouths and no expression: GOOD FOR YOU!!! They laughed and laughed.
The young Saudi got what he deserved!
My boss and his fellow Saudis sometimes LAMENTED the fact that their teenage sons, about 18 or so, didn't want to go to school or get a job. They just wanted to drive around in their cars. I told them that some our 18-year-old men were the same.
GOTTA GROW UP EVENTUALLY, son.
I spent three years in Turkey.
What I've observed is that the more religious Muslims were far more likely to be utter jerks than those who were "cultural Muslims."
The Turks are VERY different from the Arabs. I knew only ONE Turk, who also was working for ARAMCO. He was the NICEST guy in the world.
My husband and I visited Turkey. We enjoyed it, but we were TOURISTS and didn't have to live there.
The YOUNG men are the WORST, I think, because some of them are fanatics. Fanatics, of any ilk, are obnoxious.
Islam spread by the sword.
Christianity spread by THE WORD.
THAT says it all.
Agreed. (In fact, Turks considered being called an Arab an insult)
The point was that it seemed to me that the more (overtly) religious the Muslim, the bigger the jerk the Muslim is.
My observation...yours may be different.
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I see that in Christianity too.
Do you remember the televagelist Doctor EEEEEeeeeuuugeeennne Scott? He used to THUNDER and ROAR and threaten: Send me your filthy lucre!!!
It's nigh on impossible to get Christians in the West to have any fanaticism about anything beyond what's for breakfast AFTER Sunday Mass or Sunday service.
Fanatics of ANY ilk or faith are repulsive. Muslim fanatics are the same. They hit the USA where it hurt and they knew it. They committed suicide for their cause.
Remember those Tibetan (I think) monks who set themselves on fire? All for their cause...and I can't even remember what it was.
Strange, you NEVER see women doing those things.
On the tube some years ago: I remember seeing a woman standing outside her house on fire, screaming at the FIREFIGHTERS to "Save my baby!"
She had LEFT HER BABY to get out and SAVE HERSELF...and then, SCREAMED at the FireMEN to go into the inferno to save her baby.
[Do you remember the televagelist Doctor EEEEEeeeeuuugeeennne Scott? ]
I sure do remember him and his program. There was never a bigger fake, phony, money worshiping actor posing as an Evangelistic minister than that clown.. I use to call into his program late at night to ask questions.....they always cut me off short. Never the less my calls bugged them, and I rejoiced.
I sure do remember him and his program. There was never a bigger fake, phony, money worshiping actor posing as an Evangelistic minister than that clown.. I use to call into his program late at night to ask questions.....they always cut me off short. Never the less my calls bugged them, and I rejoiced.
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He always wore a different hat and smoked a cigar.
His wife, always shown from the rear, was Philippina, with LONG black hair, 6" high heels and a...FULL LENGTH ERMINE COAT. Heck of a lot of those gorgeous, white ermines bit the dust for her coat.
When Scott kicked the bucket, I heard that mama-filippina-san took over. Just a rumor, I suppose, as she wouldn't have the charisma that he had.
ISIS members are living the mohammed lifestyle. ISIS is islam the way mohammed practiced it.
Thank-you Mr. Shobat for telling the TRUTH.
Confirms it for me!
Perhaps when Francis (and the rest of the post Vatican II hierarchy) states this same Truth we'll be on the road to defeating the scourge that is Islam.
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