Extremism needs to be wiped out of Islam

Daily Telegraph (Sydney) ^ | 24th November 2015 | Peter Costello

[naturalman1975]

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After each atrocity complacent political leaders trot out the same platitudes. They tell us: "This has nothing to do with Islam, etc." It is wearing thin with the public. All these attacks are coming from people who subscribe to one religion, which is not Catholic or Protestant or Jewish or Buddhist or Yazidi. Plainly it has something to do with Islam. And the people who are doing it think it has everything to do with Islam. That is why they shout Allahu Akbar while firing their guns and detonating their explosives.

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One great illusion that Western liberals use to console themselves is that all religions are more or less the same. They know little of religion but find this belief to be comforting. It means there is no need to worry that Muslim immigration is bringing unique problems to Western cities. Everyone just believes the same thing anyway.

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Religions are not all the same. Christ never sought to establish an earthly kingdom - "My kingdom is not of this world," he said. But Mohammed did. He led an army in the conquest of Mecca. As an earthly ruler he had quite a lot to say about how to wage war and make peace. These are the teachings radical Islamists rely on to justify their conduct.

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There is no reason we should place any weight on what political leaders tell us about what Islam stands for. Most of these leaders have dispensed with their own religious beliefs. They don't understand the religious underpinnings of their own society - let alone the kind of society a pious Muslim would aspire to.

Our leaders are right to wish for a peaceful Islam. But wishing does not make it true.....

[bestintxas]

Then you must form a new ‘religion’.

The one called ‘Islam’ is nothing more than a cause created for sexual deviancy and male domination.

It is not a true religion, as Allah is an absent, silent god.

[Lurker]

“Be nice if people read the article, not just the headline”

You do realize this is FR, right?

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[SkyDancer]

Like separating salt from pepper.

[DiogenesLamp]

Extremism needs to be wiped out of Islam

That's like removing white from rice or stink from poop.

[MeganC]

Islam without extremism wouldn’t be any fun at all. Without extremism the Muslims might buckle down and make something of their societies instead of having an excuse to go out with the boys all the time and kill people and steal their stuff.

[vpintheak]

I like those points you broke out. However, Islam itself if a political death cult that needs to be destroyed. There is no freedom in islam.

[MeganC]

Here’s a free source for the same article.

http://www.pressreader.com/australia/the-daily-telegraph-sydney/20151124/281505045127122/TextView

[ealgeone]

To wipe out extremism in Islam one has to wipe out islam.

[Lady Heron]

People who write these type of articles do not understand islam, they should at least take the time to read the koran ad surahs. There is no extremism in terrorist actions....they are actually the ones living islam.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Stop men from impregnating their daughters...

[Grampa Dave]

[Carl Vehse]

The only extremists in Islam are those who are not practicing Islam.

[PIF]

Doing that, of course, is anathema and warrants a death sentence, but moreover reduces Islam to the suras plagiarized from the Bible and the Torah ie the First Given Half which Mohammad specifically said were void as the last words of allah superseded the first.

[FourPeas]

Mr. Costello is a wise man, the kind that western civilization can use to talk some sense about the threat that is Islam rather than spewing feel-good lies.

[FourPeas]

Be nice if people read the article, not just the headline

It would. It's much more fun, though, to post the same canned "Islam is..." that gets dumped on nearly any thread that deals in any tangential way with Islam.

[combat_boots]

These words make no sense.

Look. Westerners can ‘get up to speed’ on the ‘Oriental’ or ‘Occidental’ mind, but suggesting that ‘extremism needs’ and ‘Islam’ in the same sentence is inherently a Western concept and so is shunned as just another Western idea.

Honest to Pete, you just want to shake these so-called experts.

[Walrus]

We could start by nuking Mecca and Medina

[elteemike]

Pree-cisely...It’s as if it’s somehow possible to pick up a t&%d by the clean end...

Extremism = Islam; Islam = Extremism

Take away Jihad, Hegira, Taquiya, mass executions, stoning, beheading, amputation, rape, robbery, jizyah, dhimmitude, etc. and what do you have left?

[Mike Darancette]

Think of how hard it would be to eliminate extreme sects in Christianity and Judaism.