Posted on 07/08/2009 8:43:50 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Prior to the administration of Barack Obama, the reasons given for the Islamist hatred of the United States was they were threatened by our values, lifestyle and freedoms. That's why the United States was called the great Satan. We are leaders in the world of non-believers. Take for example this from James Taranto's WSJ Column:
Now and then a terrorist actually takes the trouble to explain his motives. London's Daily Telegraph reports on the trial of the man who allegedly (and now confessedly) murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh:
Mohammed Bouyeri, a baby-faced 27-year-old with dual Dutch-Moroccan nationality, broke his vow not to co-operate with the Amsterdam court by admitting shooting and stabbing his victim last November..... This had nothing to do with Israeli "occupation" of "Palestinian lands," America's "unilateral invasion" of Iraq, "torture" of prisoners at Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, the widening "income gap," or any of the other litany of complaints that the terror apologists trot out. Islamist terrorism arises from religious fanaticism and hatred, plain and simple.
The Islamists themselves put "western ways" high up on their reasons for hating the non-Muslim world. They are especially repelled by our democratic systems of government. Their contention is that Islam and Democracy are Absolutely Incompatible:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
Democracy is not the only thing that is incompatible with Islam. So is freedom, progress, economic growth, science, history, math and good food.
Nahhh. We ‘democratically’ elected a ‘muslim’...
the only value Muslims don’t like is that we are not Muslim!
And don’t forget MUSIC.
I'll see that and raise you the following.
KarlInOhio: Islam and Civilization are Absolutely Incompatible
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).
“democracy and islam incompatible”
doy! ya think?
My contention is that Islam and Civilization are Absolutely Incompatible. MF
Old news that has been argued, debated, and pondered for quite some time.
Islam and Western Culture are totally incompatible. The Muslims may, for a time, pretend to embrace Western Culture, but it would be nothing but a ruse. We must always keep that in mind.
Yep!
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