Posted on 01/21/2005 1:32:42 AM PST by moonpie57
A close friend of the Coptic Christian brutally murdered in New Jersey along with his family, Hossam Armanious, is the source of this information, which comes to you exclusively from Jihad Watch:
The Armanious family had inspired several Muslims to convert to Christianity or thought they had. These converts were actually practicing taqiyya, or religious deception, pretending to be friends of these Christians in order to strengthen themselves against them, as in Qur'an 3:28: "Let believers not make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful -- he that does this has nothing to hope for from Allah -- except in self-defense."
It was these "converts" who knocked on the door of the Armanious home. Of course, the family, not suspecting the deception, was happy to see the "converted" men and willingly let them in to their home. That's why there was no sign of forced entry. Then the "converted" Muslims did their grisly work.
Many Copts are regarding the murders as a warning to the Coptic community as a whole, related to the increasing strife between Copts and Muslims in Egypt and the Copts' energetic efforts in America to get the truth out about the differences between Middle Eastern Christians and Muslims -- differences that the Islamic lobby, with its disingenuous talk of "Arab Americans," routinely glosses over and hopes you don't notice. The Copts, to their immense credit, have been particularly outspoken among Middle Eastern Christians about Muslim oppression. And yes, many are active on Pal Talk debating Muslims.
The nature of the warning? The murders send a signal from the Muslims to the Copts: we are going to behave here the same way we behaved in Egypt, and the First Amendment and American law enforcement will not protect you. Don't expect America to keep you safe from us. The oppression and harassment you thought you had left behind in Egypt has now come to you.
This means, if Armanious's friend is correct, that this is indeed America's Theo van Gogh murder: indication that all Muslims in the nation do not, as we are supposed to believe, unanimously accept the parameters of American pluralism. That at least some are willing to enforce Sharia penalties right here, right now.
But there are so many nominees for the Walter Duranty prize this time that most Americans have no clue of what's going on. Duranty, of course, was the New York Times reporter who knowingly covered up information about the genocidal famine Stalin caused and fueled in Ukraine, and won a Pulitzer Prize for his efforts. The Pinch Sulzberger Times of these dark days should dedicate the whole paper to Duranty's honor, and put his picture on the front page right next to "All the News That's Fit to Print."
casuistry:
1. Specious or excessively subtle reasoning intended to rationalize or mislead.
2. The determination of right and wrong in questions of conduct or conscience by analyzing cases that illustrate general ethical rules.
You are welcome.
Appeasment trolls are the worst
The Democrats need no excuse, it appears.
Exactamundo. Which is why Bush's positive statements about Islam are justified. Islam is mixed. Bush isn't summarizing the history but articulating the future in those statements.
two words....Second Amendment.
Touche...but I suppose believing in our faith, our culture and our Constitution just makes us a "group of reactionaries and gun-toting bigoted nuts."
***>> Or, Muslims can take responsibility for a 'religion' that is out of control just as Western civilization did in its revolt against Rome's perversion of Christianity. <<
***Good point: they should and no arguments from me. The same way that Catholics should take responsibility for Humanae Vitae and all the misery and suffering that has resulted.
And here is a snippet:
Marriage is not, then, the effect of chance or the product of evolution of unconscious natural forces; it is the wise institution of the Creator to realize in mankind His design of love. By means of the reciprocal personal gift of self, proper and exclusive to them, husband and wife tend towards the communion of their beings in view of mutual personal perfection, to collaborate with God in the generation and education of new lives.
OMG! Can't you sense the vile papist corruption oozing out of every pore of Humanae Vitae! I don't know how we Catholics live with ourselves!
I know what casuistry is, and what it isn't. It is not taqqiya.
It is your proposition, the burden of proof is yours. But since your equation is a lie, you're lost. Why don't you just admit it: you thought you'd get away with your defamatory little sophistry, and now you haven't the integrity to admit your lie.
"Get the gun, ma! It's the papists!"
The militant, fundamentalist, Muslims exploit the weaker and "nicer" Muslims. The nicer Muslims have let their own good human nature take over and not committed to Jihad. They have left 50% of Muhammad's teaching behind whether they know this or not. But they are exploited by the true believer, Jihadist Muslims who have plenty of murderous teaching in Koran Hadith to back them up
Here is an open invitation to anyone who may be reading this: don't just quote me Qur'an verses about Allah's compassion and mercy. I know they're there. What I ask you to do is establish definitively that they apply to unbelievers, and have been understood as such in mainstream Islamic thought throughout the ages.
Where in the middle of the Republican road is the slander and libel of Catholicism placed?
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Taqiyya has 9000 hits in goggle while your casuism has 9. Did you misspell this "important" Catholic doctrine of deception?
He's merely twisted and distorted the definition and reality of casuism beyond any recognition, in order to try to reduce it to taqqiya. And now, like a good anti-Catholic troll, he is either desperately thumbing through his Chick tracts for further lies, or he has fled outright.
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