Posted on 11/26/2004 10:09:05 PM PST by CHARLITE
This past week, I have received many responses from Muslims concerning my two most recent columns: ''Followers of Islam: Can You See the Blood on Your Hands'' and ''Here Comes the Arab/Muslim Outrage.''
In one breath, some the writers would call themselves ''intellectuals'' and then accuse me of being a Jew when I put tough questions to them that they could not answer. They maintained that as an American, I just was not intelligent enough to understand Islam. The mistake these ''intellectuals'' made is believing that I have any intention of ''understanding'' Islam.
It has taken me since 9/11 to realize that civilized humans cannot understand Islam. I am just overjoyed and somewhat relieved that the world is finally waking up in time to see the rabid dog coming its way disguised as Islam.
If Bin Laden has done one good thing in his wretched life, it was to poke a stick in the eye of the world by bringing his radical beliefs forward and urging his followers to commit violent acts. It has taken some time for people to begin taking a look at Muslims in their own areas, but it is happening. The French and the English are beginning to ask themselves, ''When did this happen? When did 6 million Muslims get here and what are they planning to do?''
Approximately 33% of the world is Christian and 20% is Muslim, based on figures for the year 2000. The number of Muslims is growing at an alarming rate. Muslims immigrated to peaceful, mostly Christian countries in Europe where they had large families that were reasonably safe from the ravages of their own strict religious teachings. At least these Muslims were safe until the radical element migrated from the oppressive Middle Eastern countries and began exerting its power over the masses and started menacing the indigenous populations that took Muslims in and welcomed them over the years. The mind-control of the clerics over the average Muslim is frightening and total.
This problem is most notable in the smaller European countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden, where a backlash against Islam is growing because of the strict Islamic laws forbidding mingling with the non-Muslim citizens of a country. In short, Muslims do not fit in. They are not allowed to fit in. The religious leaders lose their total control of the people if those people are allowed to see and experience the freedom that others enjoy. This is why Islam loathes democracy. Democracy steals the power of the Islamic leaders. It gives the people the right to think for themselves and thinking people might start to question their laws. Free people will question the absolute authority and power of the Islamic leaders over every aspect of their lives from birth to often violent death.
These days, it seems that anyone who speaks out against Islam runs the risk of being murdered, as in the case of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh who was shot, stabbed, and then had his throat slit by a radical Muslim in the Netherlands. Van Gogh had made documentaries exposing the brutality directed at women under Islam. Now, mosques and Muslim schools have been burned and the normally peaceful Dutch are considering closing their borders at the very least and perhaps even expelling Muslims from their country. As one Dutch citizen said on a blog, ''This country is a free country but we can’t even speak anymore without wondering if some Muslim will murder us.'' The hate and unrest towards the followers of Islam is growing. It is just a rumble now, but it will get louder as the killing and bombing continues across Europe.
A recent report on Fox News showed the hostility growing between the Swedes and their Muslim population. There are Muslim areas where firefighters and emergency personnel will not enter without a police escort because they will be attacked. Firefighters attempting to put out a fire in a mosque were stoned. The anger between these two forces in Sweden is growing and the most liberal country in Europe is contemplating the same action as the Netherlands. It seems Muslims feel their neighborhoods are not a part of Sweden anymore but theirs, to do with as they see fit. The Swedish government does not see it that way. In those pockets of Islamic rule, poverty is common, unemployment is high, and the clerics foment hate and point fingers of blame on the evil West for Muslims' lot in life.
In France, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe, Islamic clerics openly troll the streets seeking restless young men to indoctrinate and send out to kill for Islam. They weed out the weaklings by having them view videos of the actual torture and beheadings of human beings complete with the screams of pain and all blood and gore of a nightmare. They watch Islamic ''snuff films.'' This is what will be expected of them as ''warriors'' of Allah.
Here in the United States we have a different set of problems. America is just too large for Islam to overpower by reproduction. It has also been impossible to isolate its followers from the American population and American Muslims are far less likely to follow the path of death and destruction. Here, they take a different tact.
Radical Islam is rampant in the prisons, converting the worst of the worst so that when they leave prison they are unleashed on society as pre-programmed, radical Islamic killing machines. On the outside they appear as average Americans which allow them to move about the country unencumbered and overlooked. These killing machines wait for their orders to kill and terrorize, cared for and protected by the radical Islamic element within our own borders.
Muslims live in the past where they had their glory days of conquest and power. They often refer to the Crusades, which ended around 1300, as if they happened last year. I am constantly reminded of Wounded Knee and American slavery. Wounded Knee took place in 1890 and slavery ended in the 1860s.
Muslim writers love to point out the Spanish Inquisition, which was an over-reaction to the conquests of Islam in Spain and was just as much political as religious. The Inquisition officially ended in 1834. What they fail to mention is that it was not only Muslims that were persecuted, but Jews and Protestants as well. Muslims always see themselves as the only victims of injustice in the world. Muslims also fail to mention that the Pope tried to intervene and stop the Inquisition but was unable to exert his power on the political machine.
We Catholics look at this period in our history with shame, not pride. Belief in God or Jesus cannot be forced on someone; it must come from the heart. Forced conversion is not done out of love, but fear. Islam can control one's body, but it cannot control one's thoughts. Converts that are forced will not stay with Islam. They will leave it at the first opportunity.
This is knowledge that has escaped the Islamics. As they condemn the Spanish Inquisition, Islam is doing the same right now in countries such as Sudan. What Muslims are doing in Sudan is far worse than the Spanish Inquisition. Humanitarian groups estimate that since 1983, an estimated 2 million people have died from war and related famine in Sudan at the hands of the Islamic leaders. Anyone refusing to denounce Jesus and accept Islam is executed. Rape is used as a weapon. It seems that all modern-day Islam needs is a coliseum with some lions. Trapped in the past, Muslims call the coalition forces ''crusaders.''
Since the attack on 9/11 here in the United States, the enemy has been exposed. The havens of safety in Afghanistan and Iraq have been taken from the Islamics. In its fury, Islam has made many mistakes. The attacks in Spain and in Bali and murders in the Netherlands and elsewhere have made the world realize that Islam is not just the enemy of America, but the enemy of the entire free world.
Some people were foolishly saying that America deserved to be attacked but when death came to their shores, they were taken aback. They had welcomed Muslims with open arms and this is how they are repaid for their kindness? Some countries are instituting laws that make our Patriot Act pale in comparison. Threatening tapes released by Bin Laden have had the opposite effect.
Instead of cowering, the world is beginning to look Islam in the eye and say, emphatically and collectively: ''NO! This will not be allowed.'' If it was a final crusade that Islam wanted, they have it.
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Thanks for the ping!
I'm encouraged to see there are so many that "get" it.
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Ho boy, where to start?
1) When conflicts initiate between broad communities, one of the biggest ifficulties is getting the community to wake up and realize the threat and move to address it. One way of doing this is to demonize and dehumanize the opposing community.
The main drawback to this approach is that, while it works well usually, it also unites the opposition who use your hyperbole to unite their own ranks.
Right now, most well informed moderate muslims, whom the MSM ignore but are out there, are on our side for the most part. But if you paint with a broad brush a picture of Islam as a cult and inherently evil, then you will lose these people.
What sense does that make, to unite an opposing community against you? Despite the fact that it might make you feel good to call them names, it is a poor tactic and increases the likelihood of a long drawn-out unending conflict that we cant win because the Democratic West has never been tolerant of long conflicts. It also costs us far more to respond tothese attacks than it costs the ISlamofascists to launch them, so it is a horrid ratio of resources.
The cheapest and most cost efficient means of defeating the Islamofascists is to recognize that not all of them (in fact the vast majority) do not want to engage in a Jihad against the West.
2) When you attack all of Islam as an evil cult, you also engage in *hate* speech that the left will use to stifle your expression, depict you as racist Nazis or Christian fundamentalist zealots and you will alienate many moderate Americans also.
Getting the public to stick to fighting this very necesary war is hard enough without also throwing away the moral high ground by lowering our cause to religious crusading. If we do this, the public will abandon the war within 5 years if it takes even that long.
3) By alienating the Islamofascists from the moderate Islamic majority, you decrease their resources which flow from these people in the form of institutional charity. But if you attack all Islam as an evil cult, you will open the flood gates of funds and resources to groups like al Qaeda.
4) This kind of rhetoric will also undermine support for the democratic Iraqi government who needs to winthe hearts and minds of their people. In fact, were I some Arabic prince, dictator or Islamofascist, I would be trying to instigate the exact kind of hatred that is being expressed on this thread. That is why they bomb civilians, comit acts of terrorism and behead civilians - it is to provoke us into rage and indiscriminate revenge which will aid them in uniting the 'Umma' against the 'infidel'.
Why help them to achieve their goal?
How much more counter-productive can one be than to unite ones opposition, divide ones support and then increase the resources available to one enemy as well?
It borders on basic incompetence and incredulous foolishness.
Please, if you want to win the war on Terror, then *focus* your mind, expression and effort on defeating the Islamofascists and NO ONE ELSE.
Yes it is a great article and I am preaching to the choir here for the most part but we will have to rid America of islam. Muslims and their devil worshiping religion cannot coexist with other peaceful religions, not in America, not in Europe, Africa, the far east nor the middle east because they will kill each other if they cannot kill nonmuslims.
"The European nations are no longer Christian is any sense. They have gone so far as to purposely exclude God from their new constitution.
It is my opinion that Europe's departure from an active and living Christian faith is the real reason for the crisis with Islam which they presently face.
Secularism can't conquer Islam."
Amen!
And hatred cannot either.
Love for the innocent is our best weapon agaisnt our enemy, believe it or not.
Why not explore Islam for yourself so you know what you're dealing with before taking the traditonal centrist's position and that might...just might...
...be completely inappropriate in this situation.
Open your ears at this forum and you will hear from some people that know a great deal about this subject.
You will find they are willing to listen...once you have done your homework.
It is obvious you don't know the Qur'an or the life of Mohammed. The fundamentalists are adhering to the core of Islam and the moderates are ones considered heretics...
I appreciate your advice.
I did explore Islam, read teh Quran and outlined it, met with many Muslims and observed them in prayer and worship.
I find alot of beauty in Islam, though they err on the nature of Christ and the matter of His death and resurection.
The Islamofascists are perverting Islam and they are indeed horrid monstrosities worthy of the death we should give them if they do not change their violent ways.
But whether I am right about the problem being ISlamitself or not, by extending the olive branch once the sword has done its work, we can mold a new view of Islam, perhaps, though I think this version of ISlam already does exist and is the main stream.
We should nopt forget that the reaction of most Muslims in Muslim countries is due to the propaganda of their totalitarian governments who are the ones who truly hate the Democratic West for obvious reasons. They especially do not want a Democratic Iraq to ever succede.
Why help them in their goals by demonstrating that their claims of Western hatred for them are right?
Great post!
And another problem with what many want to do, which is essentially to discriminate against a MAJOR world religion in the most broad and sweeping manner, is that it LAYS THE FOUNDATION FOR USING SUCH MEASURES AGAINST THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AS WELL! ! !
If we clear the road for disenfranchising Muslims, then the secularists will have the legal means, pretext and precedent to do this same thing to us later and it can be over almost any topic from contrived health issues to child abuse for teaching that homosexuality is wrong.
We really do NOT want to go down this road.
We hate Islam because it is evil at its core.
It condones death for Jews and Christians, the enslavement of women, the molestation of young boys by imams, the mutilation of girls, death to the victims of rape (not the perpetrator...just the women), the penalty for critical examination or criticism of Islam is death (poor Salman Rushdie), and if a persons decides to leave this religion, the penalty is death.
This is just for starters...
It is a religion that believes that it is acceptable to lie to non-believers, particular if they can be coaxed into believing (sounds like you).
Tell me, which part of the above is acceptable to you?
Excellent article.
It will likely be a lot more than 3000 next time. There certainly is bound to be a next time.
At a pianfully slow and plodding pace. If it's taking us this long to take out Iraq, how long will it take us to defeat the Islamonazis in Iran, then Syria, then Egypt, then Saudi, then Indonesia, then the Philippines, then Chechnya...
Geez Louise, if we were serious about fighting and winning this war, we'd have long ago put out the call for 2 million volunteers, rebuild the military that Klinton destroyed, then repeat World War 2, using Israel as England, the Jordan River as the Channel, and Jordan itself as Normandy. Until we get serious about fighting, defeating and demoralizing our enemy, the war will go on...and on...and on...
The only way we're gonna win this thing is to pound and pulverize them so badly that for generations to come they'll tremble and wet their dirty night shirts at the very mention of the word "America". But we need leadership that knows how to fight a world war to do that.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
"Holland and Sweden are the 2 most liberal, progressive societies on the planet. If they are having the problems we are reading about and seeing on FNC..."
This is no coincidence. "Liberal, progressive societies" are sitting ducks for the Islamic infestations. They have voluntarily suspended critical judgment in favor of a mindless ideology which ultimately leads to self-destruction.
Whether they can retrieve their cultural integrity is an open question. If they are unwilling, for example, to shed blood for their nations, then it is too late-- they are goners.
Nail on head!
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