I don’t mistake Beck for a prophet. He’s sincere, often right, and he’s got a megaphone built with Beck’s Miracle Gro. But predicting something big and apocalyptic shouldn’t, in itself, discredit him. He could be right, you know.
I’ve talked to enough muslims (used to be neighbor to a whole pack of fundies with a mosque/madrassa “islamic center”) to say without a doubt, they DO want their nasty cult to take over the entire world. They DO want a caliphate and they want it yesterday.
Those muslims who don’t, haven’t the intellectual ammo or the guts to differ with the “revealed word” in their quran. They can never get to first base with a reformation, because the quran is plain on this point.
As many have said, there’s no moderate muslim as opposed to fanatical muslim. Certainly not when it comes to islamic domination.
We need to get our heads out of the sand while they’re still attached to our necks.
Here's the bind we Cassandras inevitably wind up in:
If we're right, and not heeded, we die with everyone else.
But if the warning's heard, and we defend ourselves so it doesn't happen, we're wrong:
"SEE? It didn't happen"
Those who say Islam needs a Reformation don't know what they're talking about.
The Protestant Reformation, at least in its origin and intent, was an attempt to return to the written basis of Christianity, removing the accretions of tradition.
That is exactly what the Islamists are attempting to do for Islam.
Islamism IS the Islamic Reformation.
What it teaches is a whole lot closer to what Mohammed taught than people of the West would prefer.
Maybe I should’ve elaborated more in my brief comments following that article - I’m a huge fan of Glenn and have been for a few years now. His researchers (like Rush’s) are top-notch - they have to be, or he (and Rush) would’ve been sued from here to eternity long ago.
I just posted that article (and my comments after) to illustrate the type of maligning criticism that we constantly get blasted with by the media and other libs.
To the poster who spoke of GB needing to use some comedy and theatrics for TV to get (and keep) people’s attention, I totally agree. I find myself defending him almost daily to my hopelessly liberal BF who leaves the room when Glenn’s on a (great) rant. He prefers the quieter (often boring) NPR/PBS/Charlie Rose snooty style. Therefore, he (like the editorial author) thinks Glenn’s a nut-job.
However, on a good day, he’ll watch/listen to an entire GB show without comment (which gives me some satisfaction, though I’d never say so :-))))))))
You may not have seen the following thread, but I’m including it with a response I wrote to someone who said that, essentially, Christians are just like Muslims in that our religion condemns non-believers the same way. In light of your own personal experiences, let me know what you think.
“Muslim pupils learn to cut off hands of thieves”
Thu Feb 10 2011 14:36:11 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) · 27 of 36
llandres to Soothesayer9; All
“I don’t approve of Islam either but a little perspective is in order. We preach the same thing!”
NO, we don’t. Christ commands us to be tolerant, love one another and hate the sin but not the sinner. Our faith teaches that only God can judge, NOT us, and that judgment will be in the hereafter. Muhammed (the prophet) commands his followers to be judge, jury and executioner. And NO tolerance for non-Muslims. Christ respected women; Muhammed was a pedophile, polygamist and advocated stoning, beating, mutilation, and all manner of murder against females who don’t “toe the line” according to his sick standards. Christ promised eternal life to all who believe in Him - Muhammed wrote that the only sure way to Paradise is to kill, or be killed, in the name of Allah. (Hence, suicide bombers - “livin’ to die for virgins in the sky”.)
The two religions are fundamentally different, but then, Islam is fundamentally different from all other major world religions.
And the tired, old rant about “more wars were fought in the name of religion” is not a valid argument against Christianity, either. While there has been violence through the ages by those who twisted it wrongfully for their own ends, the New Testament upon which our faith is founded advocates no such thing. The “new testament” of the Koran, however (writings of Muhammed after Medina when he became increasingly violent in his beliefs and teachings, and which Islam believes supercedes the earlier part of the Koran), commands world domination of Islam through its followers by any and all means possible (including lies/deception), and death to ALL infidels who will not convert or agree to being subjugated as second-class citizens.
Brigitte Gabriel has said that those Muslims who are “peaceful and moderate” are either not familiar with the entire Koran or choose to cherry-pick the pleasant parts of it in order to lead a comfortable life harmonious with their neighbors in non-Muslim societies.
Sorry to be long-winded, but I wrote this because we will all, more and more, be called upon to defend the facts of our religion, and Christ’s love, against Islam and the true hatred that Muhammed commands.