Posted on 12/06/2004 1:41:42 PM PST by CHARLITE
I receive the most amazing e-mail messages from all over the world. Some of these messages are angry, most are supportive, and some are from Muslims who feel they are on a mission from Allah to show me the error of my ways. Many from other countries show a woeful lack of knowledge of Americans and what is really happening in the world. One very nice Muslim man said, “Look at me, I am peaceful.” Well, that’s one.
Over and over again, these e-mailers remind me that Islam is a religion of peace. The well-documented genocide at the hands of the Islamic government in Sudan is just simply not true, most Muslim writers say. The post-script is usually something like, “but look what the Christians are doing in Sudan!” Trying to survive comes to mind. So does starving to death at the hands of yet another failed Islamic government. Many Muslims that write to me have no knowledge of any of the mass death in Sudan and if they do know about it, they have been told it is the Christians who are committing the murders.
Another nice man insisted there are no angry words in the Quran. When I sent him hundreds of lines such as, “Have no unbelieving friends. Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them,” there was just silence. He just simply ignored it and tried a different route. Those doing the killing aren’t real Muslims, he reassured me.
When I asked him who all these “fake” Muslims were that were killing in the name of Allah he just said it was for Allah to judge. I’m sure Allah will judge them but in the meantime we Americans must defend ourselves and stop all terrorists, real or fake, before they kill us.
Amazingly, a very polite and seemingly knowledgeable Muslim man told me that we Americans are fighting the wrong enemy. Everyone but we Americans know that it was the Jews that attacked America on 9/11. There were no Muslims on those planes. Muslims just don’t do such things. It was a Zionist conspiracy that blamed peaceful Muslims for the attack on America and the attack was planned and carried out by Jewish plotters to have the most powerful country in the world destroy Islam for Israel.
When I pointed out that Osama Bin Laden had admitted to the attack and clearly stated he planned more destructive attacks on America, the response was mind-boggling. It seems there are Muslims out there in the world who believe that bin Laden is fictional. That’s right: Bin Laden doesn’t exist. He is just part of the elaborate Jewish plot. This explains why we have not caught him.
Of course, this same man said Christians are not harassed in Saudi Arabia, the United States created the Taliban, and it is Muslims that are tormented around the world, sighting the fact that France will not allow Muslim girls to keep their heads covered in school. The fact that the Saudi “religious police” let Muslim girls burn to death behind a locked gate because their heads were not covered was not addressed. This was simply a lie on my part he argued, because “Muslims don’t do such things.” But if this is true, there sure are a lot of “fake” Muslims out there in high and powerful positions.
Fortunately, the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny never came up. If they had, I have no doubt this man would have told me they are both Jewish plots to corrupt the minds of American children.
There is a saying: “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” When the religious leaders have total control over every element of a person’s life, that power corrupts those leaders, absolutely. This is why in America, our founding fathers split up the power between three equal but separate branches of government. They also said, without hesitation, that while we are founded on a Judeo-Christian philosophy, there shall never be a State-run or -controlled religion inflicted on the people.
Many in Europe and the Middle East seem to feel President Bush will be--or already is--a “dictator.” They compare him to Hitler. This shows how ignorant they are of how our system works. An American dictator, with total control over the country and its people, simply isn’t possible. Our military would not follow his commands. Every man and woman in any branch of the service takes an oath. That oath is to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, not the president. A rogue president with visions of dictatorship would become a domestic enemy. I should also add that any American Muslims who decide they should be in charge would meet the same fate. As a footnote--or perhaps a warning--we Americans are heavily armed and our founders, in their infinite wisdom, planned that as well.
It is becoming more obvious every day that even educated Muslims living in countries that are totally under Muslim rule or where Muslims are not allowed to integrate themselves with the general population, live in a vacuum. The only information allowed into that vacuum is what the Islamic leaders want them to hear. What they hear is that the West is evil incarnate and is on a mission to destroy all of Islam. If these unfortunates hear of a bombing in Iraq that has taken the lives of 25 Iraqi Muslims, they are told it was done by the Jews to make Muslims look bad. Beheadings? Lies, all of them are lies and the videos were put out by Jewish Hollywood. Those that wrote to me absolutely believe this.
Virtually everything these people hear and see has been twisted in such a fashion that it is no wonder they hate the West and obsess over the Jews. What seems to be impossible to make these completely miss-informed Muslims understand is that they are being used and abused by those whose only desire is absolute power. For many, they are subjected to hours of hate-filled, incoherent preaching every Friday at their Mosque.
Most Muslims have been taught from birth to believe every word from their Imam’s mouth as if was coming from the very mouth of Allah. If they are told that the Jew is evil, they believe it. If they are told Americans are taking over the entire Middle East and plan to kill all Muslims, they will believe it. Why else would a mother kiss her beloved son goodbye and then praise him as a martyr when he blows himself up? The more “infidels” he kills the higher the family’s stature within the community. This is insanity!
As Americans we must defend ourselves against those preaching this insanity. Muslims who know the truth need to protect their own from the same insanity or more Muslim children will be sent out to die for nothing. These children aren’t dying for Islam; they are dying for leaders obsessed with having that absolute power while they hide in their Mosques preaching lies and hate.
About the Writer: Barbara J. Stock is a registered nurse who enjoys writing about politics and current events. She has a website at
http://www.republicanandproud.com/ Barbara J. receives e-mail at dickens502003@yahoo.com
Char
There was an actress named Barbara Stock played Robert Urich's girlfriend on Spenser For Hire for a season or two. I assume this is a different person.
Bump for my tagline.
"It seems necessary to know a bit more about the Muslims living, working and raising families here in the US. The site below provides a rather biased summation (or so it seems to me) but the demographics are hard to characterize in the same manner.
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/muslimlife/ Mosques in the United States: 1,209
American Muslims associated with a mosque: 2 million
Increase in number of mosques since 1994: 25 percent
Proportion of mosques founded since 1980: 62 percent
Average number of Muslims associated with each mosque in the United States: 1,625
U.S. mosque participants who are converts: 30 percent
American Muslims who "strongly agree" that they should participate in American institutions and the political process: 70 percent
U.S. mosques attended by a single ethnic group: 7 percent
U.S. mosques that have some Asian, African-American, and Arab members: nearly 90 percent
Ethnic origins of regular participants in U.S. mosques:
South Asian (Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, Afghani) = 33 percent
African-America = 30 percent
Arab = 25 percent
Sub-Saharan African = 3.4 percent
European (Bosnian, Tartar, Kosovar, etc.) = 2.1 percent
White American = 1.6 percent
Southeast Asian ( Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino) = 1.3 percent
Caribbean = 1.2 percent
Turkish = 1.1 percent
Iranian = 0.7 percent
Hispanic/Latino = 0.6 percent
U.S. mosques that feel they strictly follow the Koran and Sunnah: more than 90 percent
U.S. mosques that feel the Koran should be interpreted with consideration of its purposes and modern circumstances: 71 percent
U.S. mosques that provide some assistance to the needy: nearly 70 percent
U.S. mosques with a full-time school: more than 20 percent I should be putting my closing in caps but I tend not to be rude... especially with associates of such high caliber. I have advised everyone I know, many of whom I have met only through net contact, to learn as much as they can about "hadiths." These are supposedly direct quotes of Muhammed and many Muslims/Moslems live by them as adjuncts to Koranic teaching. I hate to be seen as beating a dead horse (that's VERY messy) but one of the most often quoted "hadiths" is as follows."Peace is found under and Arab blade." You can take that one to the bank... for many Muslims, not yet involved in overt terrorism, still believe that Muhammed did speak these words. I am left to wonder, at what point do the peaceful faithful become rabid agents of terror?
Regards,
Mike
How is it someone has access to a computer and email and knows how to use it, knows english well enough to read Barbra's column, and still can be so ignorant of the facts, or so willfully blind?
There is no structure to Islam. Anyone seems to be able to become a mullah by having two others agree that he is a mullah, and therefore there is no check on the truth, the dogma, or even the meaning of the religion. These people know less about their prized Koran than most wayward christians know about the Bible.
Is a state of denial a requirement to be a muslim?
It is too bad that the world is such that these people can't be marched into the mass grave sites and forced to dig bodies for a week, and marched into Abu Grabe and forced to speek with the muslim terrorists housed there. Thest tactics were used after Germany surrendered to force the local population to deal with the death camps up close and personal.
To quote Neal Boortz (radio dude)
"All I need to know about Islam I learned on 9-11 !"
Islam is a disease. The 101st Airborne is the cure.
God bless the 101st, but what are they going to do to fight Islam in Detroit, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago...well, you get my point?...
Islam is insidious, it is invasive, it is evil...
It cannot be stopped by military means only.
The religion of PEACE .... ??!!??
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Lee
HAS there been even one Muslim to pass a Fatwah on Osama Bin Laden?
"It cannot be stopped by military means only."
I agree with you. The Posse Comitatus Act prevents the military from acting domestically. So it falls to common people to elect politicians who will instruct the FBI to round these people up and the INS to deport them.
I expect to hear someone whine about the Constitution and the rights of the Islamofascists to peacefully fund terrorists - here in Sacramento in August 2001 the Masjid Annur Mosque at 6990 65th Street, Sacramento, CA 95823 hosted Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and is publicly documented as raising US$1.5 million for him and Al Qa'eada during his visit.
There are two types of Muslims: Those who will kill you and those who will finance your death.
There are no innocent Muslims and all of them must go. Let Them have Islam in their home country.
I understand that there is no definitive version of the koran. That it says whatever any given mullah says it says on any given friday. And Allah knows best.
Posse Comitatus makes no sense at all. It cannot possibly be constitutional. What the hell is the military for if not to protect the homeland?
One thing I know... PC was a congressional measure and what congress passed congress can jolly well repeal.
I'm sorry I can't buy this poor misinformed people manure. As human beings they lack a distinction between good and evil, right and wrong. Genetic? who cares.
When God led Israel to the "Promised Land" he made them fight for it so that it would mean more to them than something handed over for free.
His instructions were to wipe out every man, woman, child, babe in arms, and the elderly. To kill their animals, break up their pots, homes, take away nothing of the enemy with them and erase any trace of them from the face of the earth. I no longer feel confusion, or horror over why He would give such a command.
Too bad Israel disobeyed, we are all paying the price now.
Posse Comitatus was penned and approved by a much more literate Congress that was raised on "The Gallic Wars" and "Julius Caesar". They feared a military led by the charismatic generals of the day marching on Washington, DC and having a coup.
It made perfect sense then and it still does.
BUT, there is no reason why the National Guard could not be used to accomplish these things.
Heheh... little do the tinfoil turban brigade know, it's not the Jews, it's the stonecutters!
Who controls the British Crown?
Who keeps the Metric System down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Altantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs cave fish of their sight?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do! We do!
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