It's the only way to be sure.
Posted on 09/22/2014 5:09:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
In a 2005 study published in Middle East Quarterly, historian Timothy Furnish quotes the famous passage at Sura 47:4: “When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks.” For centuries, Furnish observes, “leading Islamic scholars have interpreted this verse literally,” and examples abound throughout Islamic history.
Yet Western leaders keep insisting that the beheading of “infidels” is unrelated to the jihadists’ religious outlook.
Last week, after British aid worker David Haines became the third Western hostage to be decapitated by Islamic State, Britain’s immigration minister, James Brokenshire, made a point of going to a mosque in London to declare that the “atrocious” beheadings “have nothing to do with Islam.” At an international emergency conference in Paris the same day, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius likewise insisted that neither Islamic State nor its “throat-cutters” were “representative of Islam.”
President Obama repeatedly makes the same assertion. When he outlined new military steps against Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) in a televised address this month, he avowed categorically: “ISIL is not Islamic.”
Alas, ISIL disagrees. And so do the radicalized Western Muslims flocking to the Middle East to join its brutal jihad, many of them stimulated by propaganda videos that feature the beheading of “unbelievers.” To millions of moderate and peaceable Muslims the world over, beheadings in the name of Islam may seem a terrible defilement of the religion they love. To a fanatical Islamist minority, they are just what Allah demands.
It may take a long while to destroy that enemy, but surely the first step is to call it what it is.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
Excellent and succinct.
To: Biggirl
MESSAGE TO OBAMA ABOUT ISIS
Some of you may be familiar with the history of the beginning of Islam. If you can, please check in the Koran the references provided by Rashid.
Brother Rashid in a message to Obama about ISIS (in English).
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=698996990181639
It's the only way to be sure.
Isn’t it a lot like how the Church in the middle ages used to behead suicides, because they believed if your head was separated from your body you couldn’t get into heaven?
In the short term, but Christians have the Gospel of Jesus, which looks towards the long term.
Satan who more than 1400 years ago masqueraded as the Moon god of the desert pagans.
The secular leftists of the west were not particularly upset by the Daniel Pearl beheading a few years ago. Now they are outraged by the three recent beheadings and demanding military intervention. Why the selective outrage?
Drop diced pork parts on them.
Those who believe in Islam are nothing more than ignorant barbarians from the 12th century.
Their “religion” survives upon absolute fear if not followed and it has kept them living in the 12th century even today.
However, we must remember the christian religion also had its dark ages too and was as violent and vicious as Islam during the middle ages.
“To a fanatical Islamist minority, they are just what Allah demands.”- article
Hello, boston globe - how big is this “minority?” Many estimates are 25% of muslims...That is at least 250,000,000 head-chopping crazies.
Dismiss them at your own peril.
The first stage of cultural death is denial.
Not true at all. The worst cases of so called Christian violence perpetrated by the corrupt Popes or States had body counts in the thousands. Islam routinely killed in the millions. Not even close.
Because Revelation 20:4:
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
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