Posted on 07/31/2008 7:05:46 AM PDT by VA Voter
Islam is evil, created by a nutcase that people in villages in his time ran him out of town and his own family killed him.
In my view of Islam, which I have been describing for the last 44 years (since the "palestinians were invented") the description is biological gunpowder. Three essential ingredients, all of which are necessary or it ceases to be as powerful or as dangerous, indeed it becomes something else.
It is a religion, it is a social system and it is a political system.
In my view, the political component encompasess the legal, economic and military aspects of the culture, the umma.
It is utterly and permanently incompatible with Democracy or any representative form of government.
That's why it can never change, it can only be wiped out completely, or it becomes "something else."
If you read the Hebrew Bible you will see that Judaism is not merely a religion but a 100% life system with legal and military components.
The separation of "religion" from the rest of life is a profound error that we are paying for 2000 years after it was first suggested ("render unto Caesar").
Islam's problem is simply that it's the wrong religion.
Which Jews are practicing this today?
In contrast we have hundreds of millions of Muslims who love Jihad and even more who like what they do. Plus the passive Muslims are pumping out Muslims babies as fast as the militants ones
Demographic warfare is being waged against the Christian natives of Europe. This is as powerful as outright warfare
“If you read the Hebrew Bible you will see that Judaism is not merely a religion but a 100% life system with legal and military components. “
I’m glad someone finally pointed that out.
And why is there an ad for muslim dating on the link you provided, Beckwith?
Good article. BTTT.
If you read the Hebrew Bible you will see that Judaism is not merely a religion but a 100% life system with legal and military components.
Which Jews are practicing this today?
All Orthodox Jews (at least theoretically).
In contrast we have hundreds of millions of Muslims who love Jihad and even more who like what they do. Plus the passive Muslims are pumping out Muslims babies as fast as the militants ones
Demographic warfare is being waged against the Christian natives of Europe. This is as powerful as outright warfare
As I said, I am not defending islam. However, I am defending the ancient pre-Western worldview which islam shares with Judaism, that there is no such thing as "religion" separate from the rest of life. That's all.
Judaism is a covenant with a specific nation rather than a missionary religion, so there it differs from islam (though it is supposed to be missionary for the Noachide Laws). However, theoretically and objectively the world is a Theocracy governed by Halakhah (Mosaic for Jews, Noachide for non-Jews). All history is moving towards the Redemption when this will be made manifest to all.
Thanks,
Islam dictates your every movement in life = even down to exact steps to take when going to the bathroom - or behind a rock or wherever...
It’s called total mind-control, kept active with the obligatory 5 times a day call to Mecca - dropping to the ground and making like a stinkbug.
Most pre-modern religions encompassed culture and government. Your average Christian in the 16th Century for example thought laws against heresy were perfectly good and normal.
I believe though that not all religions are created equal...some are truer than others. I also think God has shown Himself in history—and communicated with humans—and this through the bible and ultimately Jesus Christ.
If you look at the history of Islam, being created in the 7th Century—what was the main religious thing happening then? The most remarkable thing was the fall of paganism to Christianity. Various forms of polytheism were being abandoned in a wholesale manner—and had been at least since the 2nd Century. Scholars estimate by say AD 180, 1/3 of the Roman Empire was Christian... Think about that...by the time of the movie “Gladiator” fully a third of the Empire was believing what began as a very small, monotheistic sect, organized around an executed(and yes, resurrected!) man. Truly remarkable.
The only social/cultural/religious group, before Mohamed, which didn’t quickly embrace the faith of the Christians were—the Jews. That faction that gave Jesus such a hard time, the Pharisees, after the Temple was destroyed in AD 70, became the leading (and really only surviving)faction leading Judaism up into the 19th Century.
Anyway, back the AD 600s... It was a strict law-based monotheism which alone had resisted Christianity—but of course in a small, peaceful, persecuted minority of Judaism. Hence, after Rome fell, what did the conquering Arabs develop...to rival (and make them immune) from their major cultural/religious opponent? A strict, law-based monotheism (or really monadism), of course!
Islam is nothing but a cobbled together imitation of 7th Century Judaism, with many pagan and a few Christian elements thrown in.
Since the author above is largely right—it’s much bigger than a mere religion—it seems impregnable. However, I believe the violence of contemporary Islam is because it is in its death rattle....and will not last the centuries.
As I have posted before....
Islam is not a religion,
It is a ideology based on world domination masquerading as a religion.
No other religion requires total submission or death.
Islam does.!
ISLAM IS TERRORISM BY IT’S VERY NATURE
Although that statement is 100% true, the implication is absurd, in the state of the world today.
Most major religions have the potential to be totalitarian, but it all hinges on the interpretation of men of varying degrees of power and mental health; therein lies the potential for conversion into "something else."
We can all rest assured that if the Catholics, or Quakers or Calvinists suddenly decide to murder and destroy others worldwide, every day, they would be vilified, opposed and exterminated as surely as the muslims currently are, justifiably so.
Fortunately, the spread of any bad culture, religion-based or otherwise, cannot develop as it did in the 7th to 10th centuries, where local genocide happened mostly unseen and unknown by the world at large, and slowly ate its way into the civilized world.
Today, with instant world-wide communications and travel, that just can't happen.
Today, too many truly free societies exist, large enough, powerful enough, and fierce enough to protect their hard-earned freedoms to prevent any repetition of ancient history.
Piss off enough of the civilized world long enough, and the extermination of islam will fierce, swift, and merciless; and I hope permanent.
Good riddance!
All you say is true.
Just the way it has come out in history is that Islam has had Islamic Caliphates based on military force subjugation and conquest for centuries. While the Jews have lacked Jewish military kingdoms for most of their existence. And the ones they had were tiny compared to the Muslims
Not enough. & that's the main reason we are in this mess.
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