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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.
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The extreme muslim will lop off your head, because that’s what his “holy” book instructs him to do (it’s pretty clear what smite means).
The extreme Christian will forgive him enemies, pray for them, love his family and his neighbour, and work hard a live a moral life.
Seems to me that governments would be promoting Christianity, for the sake of their country’s survival.
This is an impressive operation and strategy, particularly considering it has no central authority to direct its actions.
Muslims and Liberals share a great hatred of Jehovah and Yeshua.
Muslims have two major exports: oil and terrorism. Christians don’t. This distinction is not lost on Western “leaders.”
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It is clear... why do they insist on sawing, when "smite" does not mean "saw?" Because they're sadists and enjoy the process.
“Cameron is a traitor” – Paul Weston at Downing Street 20.09.2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6GDIGjp60Q
This is a MUST SEE 5 minute video by a British patriot.
The following is from:
THE AGENDA OF ISLAM - A WAR BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS
by Professor Moshe Sharon
There is no Fundamental Islam.
“”Fundamentalism” is a word that came from the heart of the Christian religion. It means faith that goes by the word of the Bible. Fundamental Christianity, or going with the Bible, does not mean going around and killing people. There is no fundamental Islam. There is only Islam full stop. The question is how the Koran is interpreted.”
“All of a sudden we see that the greatest interpreters of Islam are politicians in the western world. They know better than all the speakers in the mosques, all those who deliver terrible sermons against anything that is either Christian or Jewish. These western politicians know that there is good Islam and bad Islam. They know even how to differentiate between the two, except that none of them know how to read a word of Arabic.”
Two Houses
“The Koran sees the world as divided into two - one part which has come under Islamic rule and one part which is supposed to come under Islamic rule in the future. There is a division of the world which is very clear. Every single person who starts studying Islam knows it. The world is described as Dar al-Islam (the house of Islam) - that’s the place where Islam rules - and the other part which is called Dar al-Harb - the house of war. Not the “house of non-Muslims,” but the “house of war.” It is this house of war which as to be, at the end of time, conquered. The world will continue to be in the house of war until it comes under Islamic rule. This is the norm. Why? Because Allah says it’s so in the Koran. God has sent Mohammed with the true religion in order that the truth will overcome all other religions.”
Islam and Territory
“This civilization created one very important, fundamental rule about territory. Any territory that comes under Islamic rule cannot be de-Islamized. Even if at one time or another, the [non-Moslem] enemy takes over the territory that was under Islamic rule, it is considered to be perpetually Islamic.
“This is why whenever you hear about the Arab/Israeli conflict, you hear - territory, territory, territory. There are other aspects to the conflict, but territory is highly important.
“The Christian civilization has not only been seen as a religious opponent, but as a dam stopping Islam from achieving its final goal for which it was created.
“Islam was created to be the army of God, the army of Allah. Every single Moslem is a soldier in this army. Every single Moslem that dies in fighting for the spread of Islam is a shaheed (martyr) no matter how he dies, because - and this is very important - this is an eternal word between the two civilizations. It’s not a war that stops. This was is there because it was created by Allah. Islam must be the ruler. This is a war that will not end.”
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/MosheSharon40214%20.htm
.....Yet in the end, both WILL BE defeated, the Holy Bible says so!
The beheading is a direct assault on the image of God.
That’s the basis of why they do it and why the Koran teaches them to do it.
Got to the remember that the REAL God of Islam is SATAN the DEVIL. This goes all the way back to the war in Heaven between him Lucifer and God Himself.
Only doing what their god, who is in TRUTH is SATAN, who was as Jesus said, “a thief, a liar, and a MURDERER from the begining.”
An energy independent China will be much more verbose on the world stage.
Right now, the USN can cut off Chinese oil supplies at any moment, which has a dampening effect on Chinese ambition.
This may become a new fad.
http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-other-slave-trade.html
Check this one out about how the white European slave trade by Muslims was higher than than the black slave trade that brought blacks to the United States/North America
**** I will admit that total black slaves brought to the Hispanic (Spain Portugal) ruled New World might exceed this
Why beheadings? BECAUSE THEY LIKE IT!
Who ya gonna believe??
ME?
Or that there lyin’ Koran book thing?
Flat untrue! They may not like that it is occurring but that is only because it renders questionable their own futures in western countries. They are Mohometans and very much believers. They, for the most part, feel a little rueful that they themselves have not yet found the gumption to do what the Koran requires.
Talk to them. Most won't even show embarrassment about it.
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