Posted on 12/05/2003 12:48:39 PM PST by veronica
I am ashamed to be a Muslim ... again. I am originally from a Muslim minority in Russia and I was never quite as ashamed of the Soviet Union, which I left as an anti-Communist emigrant long ago, as I am of the Muslim world that makes even the USSR look free and civilized.
Total gender apartheid, treating women worse than animals, tyranny, oppression, intolerance of any kind of free expression and on and on. The Muslim world is the world of no good news. And now, there's yet another sickening, albeit not surprising, headline: "Jews rule the world by proxy, says Malay leader" (P-I, Oct. 17).
Mahathir Mohamad, the Malaysian prime minister, speaking before a gathering of the world's Islamic leaders, invoked the same old, tired explanation of the Muslims' many ills and ailments: the Jewish conspiracy.
Judging by the many historical references he included in his speech, Mohamad read some history but he proved to be absolutely incapable of learning history's lessons. He alluded to Islam's glorious past when the Muslim world thrived economically and culturally and shone in science, medicine and education while the West was backward and savage, wallowing in the misery, famines and plagues of the Dark Ages.
True, but the roles have since reversed. It is the Muslim world in the Dark Ages now, as one can judge by Mohamad's speech and by his audience's reaction to it. The leaders of 57 Muslim countries greeted this hate tirade with a standing ovation and praised it as "a good road map." How pathetic.
A road map where? Deeper into darkness? During the Seven Golden Centuries of Islam, the Muslim world was tolerant of the Jews and provided a haven for hundreds of thousands fleeing the savage persecution in Europe -- a fact Mohamad acknowledged. But now it is just the opposite.
Mohamad noted that the West surged ahead of the Muslims during the Industrial Revolution. But who led this revolution? The English and the Dutch, the only ones in Western Europe who were tolerant to their Jewish communities.
On the other end of the spectrum was the Inquisition nation of Spain, which was totally bypassed by the Industrial Age, just like the Arabs. It was the only country in Europe that had completely "cleansed" itself of Jews. This put the "purified" Spaniards on a 400-year-long downslide into ever-greater corruption, backwardness, poverty and misery. Finally, after a series of shattering military blows from Anglos, both British and American, the Spanish Empire collapsed like a rotten shack.
No, Mohamad, the Jews do not "take over" the most powerful countries in the world. They help those countries that welcome them to become powerful and successful.
One hundred years ago, 1 million Jews fled from Tsarist Russia to the United States after a wave of pogrom atrocities. Russia's loss was the United States' gain. The Russian Empire had violently collapsed in just a decade and the United States, which entered the 20th century as a third-rate power, emerged from it as the world's unchallenged superpower.
Let's ponder the fate of all once-powerful enemies of the Jewish people: the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Inquisitor Spain, the Russian Tsarist Empire, the Nazi Reich. Did any one of them not suffer a brutal end?
In the Christians' Bible, there's a part about God cursing those who curse the Jewish people and the entire world history seems to confirm it. Now, whether you are Christian or not, whether you are religious or not, whether you call it God's law or the law of history, you have to agree that not one nation that persecuted Jews had escaped very bad consequences. I don't think this law has an exception for the Arabs or any other Muslims.
This is what we the Umma (the world Muslim community) should pause to think about. Only then might we be able to find our way out of darkness. Otherwise, I am afraid, the Muslim world will be beyond redemption.
Ruslan Tokhchukov lives in Redmond.
There is a reason for it and it has to do with the teachings of the respective religions!!!!
And you sound suspiciously like new troll, who has been here a long time under dozens of other names.
Enjoy your frief stay.
Your facile use of a word you don't understand gave you away, loser. Thanks for the only useful comment your brainless skull can generate.
Yes.
No, they just demand it. Muslims see the world in 2 houses; the house of islam and the house of war, for those of us who say up yours to islam.
There are many people I have formed a bad opinion about including Henry the VIII, but there are others who have my full contempt Hitler, Stalin, Mohammed, etc..
Henry the VIII did not create a religious or political movement that seeks my death or conversion, nor are my personal freedoms in any danger from any movement created by Henry the VIII.
There is not a single islamic society that I as a woman would want to live in. Slavery is not my thing, it might be ok for your wife and daughters but I will fight tooth and nail to keep my future granddaughters free.
Nor for that matter have I ever met an islamic man that I would want my son's to be like. Thank goodness for Western gentelmen who are able to control themselves enough so that ladies do not need to be covered up to keep them safe. I find that islamic contributions to society structure truely offensive.
So true, thanks to Western movement to try and bring the 3rd world up to Western standards by encourging their education in Western Universities. The hope being once educated they would go back and build enlightened modern societies.
So, thanks to liberals, we now have muslims capabible of building nukes and bio weapons, that fits nicely into their mandate of Jihad. Gee, isn't the a better place now...
And that is the real pity. They left their backward islamic countries for the freedom of the US only to bring the thing with them that enslaved and kept them backward to spread it here. I welcome all from those countries who have left islam behind as well, I can not say the same for muslims, I know to much about islam's goals. I value this countries freedoms (brought to you by the Christian religion)to much.
If I remember correctly the number is more like 300, and are used by muslims themselves today to justify "jihad" against non-muslims. That makes them worthy of quoting against islam because they are relevant today and until the day that the whole world is dar al islam.
The difference is that those Old Testament verses were for a very specific time and place (usually dealing with the Holy Land), not a continual command until the whole world became Jewish. We did not sweep barbaric stuff under the carpet the New Testemant brought Christian out from under the Law of the Old Testemant but even those who follow only the Old Testemant do not kill for world domination, that is not what those verses commanded.
The koran does command world dommination by the sword if we are unwilling to submit. The koran can not change with out being rewritten thus destroying it all together.
I do not know the group that compiled the list or their background, but they are right most of those are cults some on the list I question and there are others not there.
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