Posted on 11/30/2002 6:07:06 AM PST by rickmichaels
I've only written about the allegedly tolerant religion of Islam on a few occasions. But each time I do, I receive numerous abusive and threatening e-mails, and there are organized campaigns to silence me. Odd, that. Poor fool that I am, I obviously don't quite understand the real meaning of tolerance.
Thing is, I have enormous sympathy for the Muslim world because I think Arabs in particular have been, and are, treated appallingly by the West. But this is an issue of justice and geopolitics and has nothing to with the fact the majority of men and women in the region are Muslims.
What happened in Nigeria last week, however, is extremely significant. More than 200 people were murdered and many churches were destroyed when Muslim mobs began rioting. These people ran out of services in their mosques, fired up with hatred and violence.
They screamed and shouted "Down with beauty," as they ran through the streets attacking, hacking and beating any Christians they could find. Their faces were distorted with hatred. They burned down the office of a newspaper that had dared to defend the absurd Miss World contest with the argument that Mohammed himself may well have chosen a wife from among its contestants. Some Muslim leaders then called on followers to "end the life" of the Nigerian woman who had written the offending article.
What rot! I had the pleasure, recently, of interviewing one of the contestants, Miss Canada, and she is a delightful, intelligent and wholesome young woman.
I've attended every sort of church you can imagine, I've been to all sorts of synagogues. Never, never have I left with anger in my heart. Sometimes indifference, but invariably love. I've sat with people who have suffered terribly, often because of their faith. Often because they practised their faith in Muslim countries. Yet no hatred.
PALESTINIAN SUFFERING
This hysteria, this rage, this lunacy in Nigeria was not the product of oppression. Important, this. Muslim terrorists blowing up Israeli children, for example, have been partially explained because of the undoubted suffering of the Palestinians. Not good enough, of course. Palestinians deserve justice, but please, when was the last time we saw a Palestinian Christian suicide bomber?
Yet in Nigeria the Muslims are the majority. They are the powerful, they won a brutal war in which Christians were slaughtered and starved. So in the name of cold logic and good old common sense, what on Earth could lead them to behave in such an obscene and immoral manner?
The same thing, one can only conclude, that leads groups of Muslim zealots to murder entire families in Algeria, to slit the throats of children and cut the heads off mothers and grandfathers. All fellow Muslims, by the way.
The same thing that leads some Muslim fundamentalists to rejoice when innocent people are blown apart in office towers in New York and when tourists are ripped to bloody shreds in holiday resorts.
The same thing that leads to the murder of Christians in Egypt, Sudan, Pakistan and so many other places.
Extremists on both sides claim their position and stick by it. In one corner, we have the bigots who claim every Muslim is a deadly threat and Islam a perennial danger. In the other, there are the apologists who say Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing at all to do with violence and suffering.
Seems to me the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Muslims are just like any other people. Islam, though, is not like any other religion. That would be insulting to it and to other faiths. No, it is just like Islam. As Christianity is just like Christianity, Judaism just like Judaism.
And whatever anyone tells you to the contrary, no other faith seems to be behind death and destruction to such an extent and with such regularity at this point in history. Perhaps when we can be mature and honest enough to admit this, the world can become a better place for everybody. For Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Even for well-meaning young women who dare to smile, wear a sash and try to win a beauty pageant.
Bingo.
And whatever anyone tells you to the contrary, no other faith seems to be behind death and destruction to such an extent and with such regularity at this point in history.
Unfortunately, true.
Perhaps when we can be mature and honest enough to admit this, the world can become a better place for everybody.
That would be nice to believe, but it goes against the very reality this guy is asking us to face.
History shows us that when fanatics--whether of a religious or political bent (which is all the same when you think about it)--begin slaughter in the name of whatever God or man they hold supreme, there is only one response that works.
We fought a world war just sixty-odd years ago, for much the same reason. That's not that long a time. You'd think we could figure it out.
Many Muslim Arabs kill others. Lovers of peace do not kill others. Therefore Many Muslim Arabs are not lovers of peace.
One must conclude the Muslim ideology inspires the killing and not the Arab ethnicity. Islam is a religion of hate. Its core message is as single-minded as that of communism.
And eventually it'll happen. Invariably someone in Canada will say something innocent that they interpret as an insult. Then, like Nigeria, all of these "peaceful" muslims will suddenly turn into frothing at the mouth fanatics and start tearing the place up.
Sounds like the Feminazis. :)
"[9.29] Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
[9.30] And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!"
"[9.123] O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil)."
These and other verses quite understandably have inspired wars and depredations off-and-on for fourteen centuries. Like the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, it's all there in black-and-white, immutable, and online .
And if you are looking for "moderate" Muslims to help root out radicals, you are essentially looking for people who will be looked upon as traitors and apostates by friends and family:
Treaty of Muslims with Jews and other Non-Believers, 622AD
"No Believer shall oppose the client of another Believer... A Believer shall not kill a Believer in retaliation of an unbeliever, nor shall he help an unbeliever against a Believer."
http://users.erols.com/zenithco/treaty22.html
I recommend reading the Qu'ran (or Koran), Hadith, Sharia and other Muslim documents and find for yourself the truth and what is spin, obfuscation and deception.
Since liberals always choose the perpeterator over the victim, its only a small jump for Micheal to jump to the Muzzie's defense. Did'nt happen though, he just stopped to soon. Liberals have always had serios problems following the dots or dominos. SOooo, I'll do it for him.he.he.he.he.
Islam is not a religion at all, its a GANG, club, or hive. Like the BORG the whole content of Islam is in group think. Like Bees or ants, and inter Muslim conflict is merely honing the species to a more virulent form. Any cursory reading of the Qu'ran is comical, and reading the Hadiths (addl Muzzie bull sperm) is even more comical. The Hadith(s) account of progenitor(Mohamaad) life makes the life of Charles Mason look normal. When faced with such primitive and negative ideas found therein one searches for the real glue holding such a body together.
Its the hive think "brother", the muzzies are the model for the BORG, even if the StarTrek writers did'nt make the connection, I did. Most Muslim hav'nt even read the stuff quoted above because most can't even read. They just follow the mullah, since the meaning of Islam is "SUBMISSION" its easy to see why. Automatons like any/most other cults are not trained to be individuals but drones, kind of like a democracy, hive think, not nessarily group think.
Islam is not a religion, is a social disease in the truest sense of the word I know of. Even worst than Communism. Islam is the plan "B" of the dark side after Communism failed. Thank God the Commies were too dumb to link forces with the Mullahs in times gone by. If they ever do make the link the "force"(good guys) will lose. If you're a wouldbe Jedi, you better read up on this plague and quick because this social disease not going to just go away, and makes AIDS seem like a common cold. Because theres a cure for AIDS, absinence. Deprogramming 1.5 billion people simply ain't going to happen.
The short term Answer: Throw some light on the Qu'ran and especially the Hadaiths cause when the light goes on the roaches scatter for the darkness. Sad to say most media personalitys hav'nt the courage or TALENT to highlight anything but the obvious. If it were common knowledge, the content of the Musim writings, few would enter into that world. Sad to say few have read the Qu'ran, including MUSLIMS... Any Jedi'sout there, I challege you to take the plunge and GET INFORMED OR SHUT THE HELL UP.
Islam is THE PROBLEM in all of this period.
NPR should read excerpts from the koran and then those not under ist satanic speel can discern what mohmmed is and who his master is.
He did nail it here though-
"Palestinians deserve justice, but please, when was the last time we saw a Palestinian Christian suicide bomber?"
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