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Islam and the persuasive power of fear
American Thinker ^ | 24 Dec, 2023 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 12/25/2023 6:58:19 AM PST by MtnClimber

This is not a faith that conquers through persuasion, a fact we’re now seeing throughout the West.

Of the three great religions, Jews have been disinterested in converting people; Christ urged his disciples to spread his message through words and good deeds; and Mohamed told his followers to conquer the world with fire and sword. Since October 7, while we’re not seeing fire and sword in the West (yet), we’re certainly seeing standard Islamic efforts to intimidate the West into accepting Islam’s genocidal antisemitism and overall colonialist impulses.

Islam burst out of the Saudi desert in the 7th century A.D. Within one hundred years of Mohamed’s death, its reach had tripled in size, encompassing large parts of the modern Middle East and the northern coast of Africa, while making inroads into Spain. It increased all that territory in the next hundred years. One thousand years after Mohamed’s death, it controlled the entire Middle East, all of North Africa along with a sizable stretch of East Africa, along with large swaths of Central Europe, India, parts of Russia stretching into southern China, and the Malayan peninsula:

youtube: Spread of Islam

Almost none of this happened peacefully. Contrary to the myriad websites purporting to explain Islamic values of persuasion, Islam did not persuade, it conquered. A decade ago, Mike Konrad put together a tally of the death and destruction left in Islam’s wake:

- 80 million in India

- 110 million African blacks lost to the Muslim-controlled slave trade

- 1 million Europeans enslaved or slaughtered

- Uncounted millions in the Balkans and Southern Italy.

- Uncounted numbers during the conquest of Malaysia

And that’s just a partial list.

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KEYWORDS: islam; jihad
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1 posted on 12/25/2023 6:58:19 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Allah, the Best Deceiver (Qur'an 3:54)

Satan is the father of lies (John 8:44)

2 posted on 12/25/2023 6:58:31 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

IOW, Terrorism works!


3 posted on 12/25/2023 7:09:12 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: MtnClimber

Rather than conquest, we’re more likely to be invaded and out bred. Our own stupidity is a big contributor to our demise.


4 posted on 12/25/2023 7:11:44 AM PST by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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To: MtnClimber

Quran 3:151 Strike terror (fear) into the hearts of the unbeliever


5 posted on 12/25/2023 7:13:57 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Islam 101

Jihad Watch
https://www.jihadwatch.org/islam-101


Three translations of the Koran (Al-Qur’an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali et al.

Free ebooks
Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16955


Islam Watch

https://www.islam-watch.org/


Israel Faces Violent Jihad — Why Is It Happening?

Political Islam in North America
October 11, 2023 / No. 6

https://preview.mailerlite.com/u0d6y4v2b0/2323136933082960950/w4w7/


HAMAS and its Qur’anic Playbook

Murderous Antisemitism and the Qur’an

Peter Townsend’s Newsletter
October 9, 2023

https://petertownsend.substack.com/p/hamas-and-its-quranic-playbook


Islam has killed 270 million non-Muslims. The breakdown:

120 million Africans
60 million Christians
80 million Hindus
10 million Buddhists
The number of Jews killed by Islam is in the thousands.

Tears of Jihad

http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/tears-of-jihad/


It’s Islam, Stupid

Sultan Knish
Daniel Greenfield
Sunday, October 22, 2023

https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2023/10/its-islam-stupid.html?m=1


“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
— Barack Hussein Obama


“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
— Barack Hussein Obama


NOT JUST ISRAEL: Hamas Commander vows to cleanse the entire world of Jews AND Christians.

https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1712532259830407580


Biden’s pact with Muslim Brotherhood-linked group Emgage, and his conundrum over Hamas’ war on Israel

Jihad Watch
October 30, 2023

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/bidens-pact-with-muslim-brotherhood-linked-group-emgage-and-his-conundrum-over-hamas-war-on-israel


The REAL Reason Muhammad Hated Jews and Preached Genocideated Jews and Preached Genocide

You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3NX4VnNuV8


Islam is Not a Religion

American Thinker
November 12, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/islam_is_not_a_religion.html


Tears of Jihad

Center for the Study of Political Islam International

https://www.politicalislam.com/tears-of-jihad/



6 posted on 12/25/2023 7:17:13 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: MtnClimber

Colonialist Settler arabs should return to their Arabian homeland from which they launched wars of conquest against the indigenous Jews and Christians.


7 posted on 12/25/2023 7:19:42 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Fear Not !
For I have Overcome the World!”
.
Jesus


8 posted on 12/25/2023 7:20:51 AM PST by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: MtnClimber

Grab your popcorn when the countries controlled by Islam finally revolt and demand FREEDOM


9 posted on 12/25/2023 7:22:31 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Big Red Badger

Fear not


10 posted on 12/25/2023 7:24:26 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim
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To: Uncle Miltie

That’s the correct viewpoint.

Use the Left’s own slogans against them.

The Arabs were mad about the Crusaders?

Too bad. Just decolonizers throwin’ out the trash.


11 posted on 12/25/2023 7:24:37 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: MtnClimber

islam is pure evil. It’s for the clueless. It’s all a lie. muhammad was a violent murderer. He was a thief that robbed caravans. He was a pervert that had sex (or rape as we call it) with girls as young as 9. Islam is evil.

We hear those clowns protesting saying “hey hey ho ho “whatever evil bs they’re saying” has got to go” — What needs to go is bringing their evil asses into the USA. We don’t need anyone named hussein or muhammad in this nation. They bring us nothing of value.


12 posted on 12/25/2023 7:29:55 AM PST by boycott
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To: Regulator
”The Arabs were mad about the Crusaders?”

The muslims were attacking Christians for 400 years before the first crusader even suited up.

13 posted on 12/25/2023 7:33:42 AM PST by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: MtnClimber

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14 posted on 12/25/2023 7:35:06 AM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: MtnClimber
We have seen that when Islam acquires wealth (the Gulf States) it very quickly comes to understand the need for civilization and rule-of-law - at least sufficient law to protect the wealth-possessors. Radicalism requires governmental imposition of poverty (Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran) to generate fuel for resentment, just as it does in urban communities in the USA.

Take poor young men from any culture and stoke their resentments for partisan political gain and you start seeing massive self-inflicted wounds - as in Europe.

The elites may have concluded that they can ultimately buy off their resentful shock troops with welfare benefits after those elites gain the power they seek through cultural destruction, but this will likely prove to be a fallacious gamble. The mob will want the elites' wealth, and go right after their erstwhile benefactors.

15 posted on 12/25/2023 7:44:09 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: MtnClimber

Yes-

AND- what people in the West fail to understand is that in Islam, society is organized around religion.

Religion is the law: Sharia and the Mufti (a cleric judge).
Religion defines what you eat: Halal

Religion defines what you get to say, the limits of free speech and democracy, how the financial system operates, gender roles, sexuality, how religions interact, the tax system...

In the West you have a secular society organized around a political system, a republic and democracy. You have a capitalist system driven by market forces supposedly, albeit today it has become more and more government controlled and centralized.

In Islamic society, everything revolves around religion which defines your education, what language you speak (Arabic), etc.

How can the West with its liberal (classic definition) and secular society accommodate such a religion?

How can the Germans who eat pork, like beer and wine, have a naturalist tradition, value the right to free expression, equality between the sexes, tolerate other religions, respect the outcome of a secular justice system and a democratic process, are sexually very liberal/open, mix with Islam and not expect problems?

The West et. al. is trying to mix mutually exclusive value systems and one of them is willing to resort to violence to achieve its expansionist goal. The West ignores 1,400 years of history, opinion polls in Islamic nations, the words of religious and political Islamic leaders, Islamic doctrine and literally what it states verbatim... and comes up with asinine sound good junk like “Religion of Peace” to smooth over what is a predestined and unavoidable clash of civilizations if these cultures mingle. The West literally projects its values of tolerance and inclusion, we literally victimize the culprit and self flagellate by pretending as if we are somehow to blame for all of this using everything from the Crusades to modern day Western involvement in the Middle East or even blaming Israel for what is a fundamental problem within Islam.

Here is a simple fact that makes all of this glaringly obvious: You can mix Jews, Christians, Hindu, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Shinto and they can all figure out how to get along. But if you add Muslims to anyone of them, things blow up. You can’t mix Muslims with other brown people, white, yellow, or blacks. You can’t mix them with the most liberal societies as in the Netherlands, or the most conservative, you can’t mix them with communists or capitalists, Spanish speakers or Chinese speakers, in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas and not have problems. ***At some point one should see a constant here, and it ain’t us!***


16 posted on 12/25/2023 7:46:53 AM PST by Red6
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To: PGalt

“strike real terror into the hearts, minds and bodies of those who would strike terror into hearts of the innocent” L.Star turnabout IS fair play when the road goes two ways.


17 posted on 12/25/2023 7:47:04 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: MtnClimber
Jews have been disinterested in converting people

1. The correct word is uninterested, not disinterested.

2. Nor were the Jews always uninterested in converts. For several centuries -- roughly from the Hellenistic Period till the destruction of the temple -- Jews aggressively pursued converts.

Matthew 23:15

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves."

18 posted on 12/25/2023 8:36:55 AM PST by Angelino97
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L8r. ;-)


19 posted on 12/25/2023 9:18:39 AM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: boycott

I watch a lot of true crime shows and many of these shows are about crimes of a sexually sadistic nature and based on what I have read of such, Muslims, especially the males, fit the profile of sexual deviants.

Islam seems to appeal to those who are sadists; therefore based on that, it is not a legitimate religion but a sadistic sex cult and has no part in civilized society or nations.


20 posted on 12/25/2023 11:25:43 AM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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