Posted on 07/25/2005 8:07:19 PM PDT by CHARLITE
I can also hope that the terrorists own actions will cause the more humane Muslems to re-examine their religion (cult).
There are a number of authors you might want to check out to learn about islam: Robert Spencer, Danial Pipes, Ibn Warraq, Bat Y'eour, Craig Winn...also a number of websites to get you started: www.answeringislam.org, www.jihadwatch.org, prophetofdoom.net, faithfreedom, etc.
The sacking of Medina including the beheading and subsequent posting of all the Jewish heads on spears.
The story of Mohammed is all about military conquest.
Actually, quite a few muslims who either go or have gone to the universities are extreme.
Think liberalism or left wing ideology here on american campuses, now replace that with islam over there.
In the middle east, the only place where the univeristy system is not a hot bed of islam (compared to the other countries), is...ironically, iraq and iran (go figure), and the last one only became like that recently, they were originally the folks who formed the theocratic republic in the first place.
The taliban started out as a bunch of university radicals and Bin Laden also was well educated.
In Saudi Arabia most of the intellectual movement is dominated by islamists, like our acadamia here is dominated by mostly leftists.
Your local mullah is supposed to be a scholar, and as frightening as it may sound, students at these schools flock to the most extreme ones.
Some of them grow out of it later on, some of them kill themselves and others as suicide bombers, and if your lucky, the ones who go into hard sciences (with exceptions, again Bin Laden) might avoid chunks of the influence and become the "pick and choose" types of muslims, not very religious, and more likely to play "interpretations" with the holy books rather then "submit".
Basically, this is what Travis McGee and wardaddy have been saying all along.
Thanks for those. I was just telling my hubby that we should do some research. This will really help us get started.
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...a delusional paranoid schiz who got lucky.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2797
British Opinion Surveys From An Islamist Hell by Daniel Pipes
Muslim Survey in Britain re: attacks...
Good. There are many more resources after you get started. Get familiar with the term taqiyya and realize that the original more peaceful Mecca verses of the quran were abrogated by the more violent Medina verses.
Then, we'll get into islamic law, "sharia"...
It is equally fallacious for any government official to state that a "mere handful of radicals have high-jacked one of the world's great religions." Unfortunately, this is something that Condi Rice often says, and I can't understand why she says such things. She is so elegantly educated that she simply has to know that such statements are utterly false!
Islam is NOT "one of the world's great religions!" Nothing and nobody "highjacked" it. It was born out of one very SICK man's twisted, sinister, wicked blood lust, skewed sexual appetites and maniacal drive for sheer power for its own sake!! As the author says, "Mohammed was a FRAUD! I wish that one day, we could hear Condi Rice say so!
It's so great! It's the epitome of how a "picture is worth a thousand words!"
Thanks so much for adding it to this thread!
Char :)
Probably too embarrassed to admit that it's true and too fearful to renounce the perp who still prompts the swing of the scimitar from the grave against those who do.
It is also entirely possible that they feel they have no reason to renounce anything, feeling fully justified in committing atrocities against the human race. After all, if their 'god' says it's okay, who are they to argue?
How do you convince someone that they have a terminal disease and need help when they are feeling euphoric and invincible -- especially when they have already rejected the only medicine that will save their lives? (Doesn't Islam teach that they have no need of a savior, rejecting the concept of sin, guilt, contrition, repentance, atonement, visitation, redemption, and Grace?)
Do the 'well' need a physician? Most assuredly, but who is to convince them when they appear to lack the faculty of conscience?
Word.
Unfortunately, 1.3 BILLION people take it so seriously that they fear for their lives from any notion that the whole thing might be GARBAGE IN; GARBAGE OUT!"
Thanks for your comments!.......and BTW, the author is actually "one of us!" Yes, he's a loyal FReeper, but wants to remain incognito.......so now you can all start guessing who Alan Burkhart really is! Fun, huh?
Char :)
The Qu'ran comes from the HADITH(S)... some good websites are available to decrypt them all.. There are many ex-muslims and more everyday that provide serious insight into this gang of thieves.... And posuers of peace..
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