Posted on 02/02/2016 5:44:21 AM PST by Kaslin
On 9/11, one of my roommates was a Turkish pilot. Not only was he sent home that day, he didn't work again for weeks. In one moment he was just a guy with a religion that most Americans had no strong opinions about. In the next, there were people who thought he was potentially dangerous because of what he believed.
I'm sure a lot of Muslims have gone through that and since then, every other day it seems like there's a story in the news about a Muslim blowing himself up, murdering innocent people or taking sex slaves. Ironically, most of the victims of these Muslims are other Muslims. So, if you’re a peaceful Muslim who loves his country, I'm sure it's easy to feel under siege.
Personally, I think most American Muslims are good people; they're anti-terrorist; they're anti-Sharia law and they want to raise their families in peace and pursue the American Dream just like everybody else. I condemn in the strongest of terms, not just hate crimes and harassment, but the smearing of all Muslims with the same brush. Every Muslim who seems like a nice guy isn't engaging in Taqiyya as he secretly plans to kill the infidels. Moreover, telling Muslims who mean us no harm that if they understood their own religion, they'd be murdering the rest of us is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
That being said, switching gears, the second dumbest thing I've ever heard is robotically repeating, "Islam is a religion of peace," every time radical Muslims murder someone because of their religion. We know these radicals are murdering people because of their religion since they go out of their way to tell us this. You can certainly argue that groups like ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and Boko Haram are misinterpreting Islam or perverting the Koran, but that doesn't change the fact that they are Muslims who believe they're being faithful to their religion as they rape, murder, and enslave the innocent in the name of Allah.
Worse yet, a significant minority of Muslims across the world agree with what they're doing.
It would be fair to say that ISIS is generally unpopular in the Muslim world, but it's just as fair to note that this still means that enormous numbers of Muslims back ISIS. In just 11 countries, there appears to be north of 60 million Muslims at a minimum who approve of an Islamic organization that's every bit as evil as the Nazis.
Additionally, while it's true that a relatively small number of Muslims are in favor of suicide bombing, those numbers can really add up. For example, 86% of American Muslims oppose suicide bombing. Should we be hailing those numbers even though it means roughly 460,000 American Muslims are okay with suicide bombing? Incidentally, the percentage of Muslims who are okay with suicide bombing goes up over the 25% mark in places like Afghanistan, Egypt, Bangladesh and the Palestinian territories.
Then there's Sharia law, which is absolutely incompatible with Western democracy and civilized behavior; yet it's extremely popular across much of the Muslim world. Ninety nine percent of Muslims in Afghanistan, 91% in Iraq, 84% in Pakistan and 74% of Muslims in Egypt want Sharia to be the official law of their country.
Moreover, look at what's happening in Europe right now. There are so many sexual assaults by Muslim migrants that they are actually putting classes in place to teach them that it’s not okay to rape women.
When he first arrived in Europe, Abdu Osman Kelifa, a Muslim asylum seeker from the Horn of Africa, was shocked to see women in skimpy clothes drinking alcohol and kissing in public. Back home, he said, only prostitutes do that, and in locally made movies couples "only hug but never kiss."
Confused, Mr. Kelifa volunteered to take part in a pioneering and, in some quarters, controversial program that seeks to prevent sexual and other violence by helping male immigrants from societies that are largely segregated or in which women show neither flesh nor public affection to adapt to more open European societies.
...A course manual sets out a simple rule that all asylum seekers need to learn and follow: "To force someone into sex is not permitted in Norway, even when you are married to that person."
It skirts the issue of religious differences, noting that while Norway has long been largely Christian, it is "not religion that sets the laws" and that, whatever a person’s faith, "the rules and laws nevertheless have to be followed."
…In Denmark, lawmakers are pushing to have such sex education included in mandatory language classes for refugees. The German region of Bavaria, the main entry point to Germany for asylum seekers, is already experimenting with such classes at a shelter for teenage migrants in the town of Passau.
The ugly truth is that these problems are specific to Islam. If you bring 100,000 Muslims into your country, you're going to have more people who can't assimilate, more terrorist attacks and more rapes than you will if you bring in 100,000 Jews, Buddhists, Sikhs, Scientologists, Evangelical Christians, Mormons or Hindus.
Again, this doesn't mean all Muslims are bad. In fact, most Muslims pretty clearly aren't bad people. Unfortunately, we have proven to be completely incapable of telling "moderate" Muslims from "radicals" If you think our government's vetting can tell Muhammad, the freedom-loving entrepreneur who loves America from Muhammad the wannabe terrorist who dreams of blowing himself up in a synagogue or a day care one day, you’re kidding yourself. So, when someone gets worried that we're going to let radical Muslims into our country, can we stop pretending that they're smearing moderates? A lot of moderate Muslims came here in the first place to get away from the crazies in their own religion; so why do we want to risk bringing those same crazies here by the thousands?
Because of our inability to screen out radicals, we'd be better off doing anything and everything possible to cut back on the number of Muslims we allow to immigrate to our country. That doesn't mean an outright ban, which would be impossible to implement, but we should certainly try to minimize the number of refugees and immigrants we allow into our country from Muslim nations as much as possible.
If you want to dramatically cut the risk of having another 9/11 in the next few years and want to reduce the number of American women who will be raped, reducing the number of Muslims we allow to live in our country long-term would be the most effective thing we could do.
It all depends on how willing we are to deal with the world as it is as opposed to what we wish it would be. It’s time to stop pretending that the problem is people pointing out that a significant minority of Muslims worldwide are radicalized and to start realistically dealing with the fact that a significant minority of Muslims worldwide are radicalized. With everything we know, we shouldn't need another 9/11 to convince us to start taking reasonable precautions with our immigration policy.
So what would he do with his Turkish roommate?
“That being said, switching gears, the second dumbest thing I’ve ever heard is robotically repeating, “Islam is a religion of peace,” every time radical Muslims murder someone because of their religion.”
No reason to believe this at all; look anywhere around the world with a Muslim majority, and you see a non-Muslim minority persecuted.
“Worse yet, a significant minority of Muslims across the world agree with what they’re doing.”
No reason to believe it is a “minority”...
If you are worshiping a pedophile rapist prophet you ain’t right in the head and should be isolated from intelligent and peaceful people.
This is nothing new.
What's new is our effing UTTER STUPIDITY to fall for a 1,400 year old conquest plan.
What an ignorant question.
Then you are a gullible fool and you are wrong.
And this is where I stopped reading.
What do you mean what he would do with his Turkish room mate? *rme*
Dear American Muslims, Can We Have An Honest Talk? Oh, I forgot. Taqiyya. There’s the rub.
Revoke and deport any that are here on visa's.
Close all mosques.
There may well be Muslims that are peaceful but we don't know who they are and most importantly it's NOT OUR PROBLEM. It's THEIR problem.
The author must hurt badly where he is sitting on the fence.
What pure rubbish.
I largely agree with the article. I know a number of muslims, I like them and get along with them, and I believe them to be secular in nature with no support for the negative aspects of Islam.
But I don’t know that to be sure. If I know ten muslims personally (for example) it is possible that one of them (given statistics) might agree with Sharia law, suicide bombing, etc. but, due to concepts like Taquiya, I might never know.
They hate the West.
Why are they here ?
That’s just it, we will never know for sure until they go off. Sudden jihad syndrome is always a possibility if they decide to follow the example of their prophet and his instructions in their book.
Psssst - he was dangerous all along (and still is).
You are an infidel politically, religiously and culturally - you are fair game. It is part of their culture to treat outsiders politely and be nice. Something most mistake as being ‘moderate’ or ‘secular.’ (A ‘secular’ muslim is not a muslim, and is fair game for any believer - like a Jew, a Christian, an atheist, a pagan, a Hindu are all fair game.)
You will know if you ask the which they are first American or muslim. Watch closely for facial tells which will show the truth or falsity of their answer.
They know but you evidently do not that Mohammad specifically voided what you would tern the nice parts of the koran. They strive to follow in their prophet’s footsteps as he commanded, secular or not. Mohammad’s motto was ‘kill, kill, kill.” It is just a matter of time and circumstance when they turn.
I don’t think they worship a prophet, per se, but rather choose to listen to and believe that his utterances are the superior divine revelation available on the theological market today.
That said, if Warren Jeffs is in jail for what he did to and with teenage girls...
Apparently some prophets are more equal than others.
... say hello to Peter Pan, King Arthur, and Robin Hood, cuz they're all myths too.
Why was Julius Caesar in Gaul?
I pray to God that I am always a Christian before I am an American. My country and its government do many things that are un-Christian but I am not obliged to war against the US - I believe at present I am enjoined against it.
Christianity is not opposed to the the Constitution of the United States. Islam is.
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