[PogySailor]

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[AFPhys]

Jihad IS WWIII !!!

[Aquinasfan]

Believing this delusion requires that one ignores fourteen centuries of Islamic jihad against the West, a war of conquest and colonization ratified by centuries of Islamic theology and jurisprudence.

I didn't want to believe this either. But the truth is the truth, no matter how painful.

In matters political Islam is a system of despotism at home and aggression abroad. The Prophet commanded absolute submission to the imâm. In no case was the sword to be raised against him. The rights of non-Moslem subjects are of the vaguest and most limited kind, and a religious war is a sacred duty whenever there is a chance of success against the "Infidel". Medieval and modern Mohammedan, especially Turkish, persecutions of both Jews and Christians are perhaps the best illustration of this fanatical religious and political spirit.

Mohammed and Mohammedanism
Catholic Encyclopedia (1911)

[PGalt]

BTTT

[GOPJ]

Part of the root cause of terrorism goes back to Abraham. When God asked him to sacrifice his son, he agreed. And the father's willingness to kill his son on the alter encouraged irrational authority being acceptable. Each Imam isn't a God, but they have authority beyond anything a westerner can imagine. In our cafeteria way of dealing with religion (where everyone picks and chooses the parts of the Bible (or any other religious book) that they want to stress - Muslims chose this part. The part the reinforces blind authority.

By tradition that authority has been transferred to every two bit Mosque idiot. That power has a choke hold on Muslim cultures. It's also the reason they have suicide bombers and we don't. It's culturally supported. (Did you know the place in Mecca where all Muslims must go is the place where Abraham was asked to kill his son?)

[Tolik]

Bruce Thornton:

...In any conflict it's a good idea to take seriously the motives the enemy professes and not rationalize or explain them away in terms of your own cultural assumptions. The murderers we call terrorists are traditional jihadists, as much as were the first Islamic armies that swept away the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman civilizations of the Mediterranean. They are not going to be bought off with votes, a free press, more cable channels, Wal-Mart, or any other material good that to us constitutes the good life. They are fighting for a spiritual cause, the establishment of Islam as a global order in fulfillment of the will of Allah, and the reduction of all those who will not become Muslims to dhimmi, inferiors who acknowledge the superiority of Islam and the rightness of their subjection to it.

The next few weeks will show whether the British have advanced as far down the road of dhimmitude as have the Spaniards, who responded to the murder of their citizens not with the force and resistance their ancestors showed for seven centuries, but with fear and appeasement. As for us, we'd better discard our illusions that the jihadists, as Thomas Freidman put it, are “a cancer within the [Islamic] body politic” and accept instead that jihad just may be a vital organ. Then maybe we can see this war for what it is: one more episode in the long struggle between what used to be called Christendom and a religion of aggressive conquest and colonization

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[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks

[Terriergal]

Ever see a weasel kill a rabbit?

The rabbit won't run because the weasel is so much smaller, it doesn't see it as a threat. The weasel nips and nips at the rabbit until the thing is so exhausted from lack of blood and shock that it succumbs.

[Syncro]

The terrorists are simply fulfilling the traditional and orthodox command of their religion to battle the infidels who resist the revelation of Mohammed and the global socio-political order mandated by Islam.

Bump to that, good post as usual Char.

[manic4organic]

bump for later

[freeangel]

VDH bump!

[taxed2death]

I'll tell you something I did recently to prove a point to a friend who I was ummmm..."debating" with regarding this.

I was explaining to him that this IS a religious war. I do believe in a divine power. That's as far as I get into discussing my own religion. I told my friend before hand..."no matter what happens in the next five minutes....I do not want you to take this personal, ok?...I am your friend and will remain so....promise me what I am about to do will not harm our friendship"

With a real funny look on his face.....he agreed.

I said..."ok, here goes". I hauled off and belted him across his cheek with an open hand as hard as I could. I mean... this was like a freakin' home run hit.....right out of the ballpark! My hand went numb, I almost knocked him off of his feet. To say he was pissed at me...well, that was an understatement. He said... "WTF was THAT for"?

I said... "well, I do not like your particular religion."

His face was already beginning to swell... it was QUITE red.....
He said... "I don't understand....WHY did you DO THAT"?

I said... "EXACTLY"!

That is my point. You do not understand. You are not willing to even listen to me when I TELL you I did this because I do not like your religion. Think of it as me....starting a religious war.
That is how I choose to frame it. You can sit there dumbfounded...
rubbing your face...
and wonder WHY I belted you. You can sit there and TRY to reason with me. You'll just be wasting your time.

I belted him again.. He fell back onto a couch that was behind him. At this time, I had no desire to smack him a third time.... he's a bit bigger than me...and besides... I swear I popped something in my wrist. I quickly reminded him of his promise too! LOL

I told him again...
"This is a religious war". Do you believe me?

He was still unsure.... I laughed....thinking this is the position we (the US) are in now.....even after 30+ years of terrorist attacks... we STILL try to rationalize it. We can't even ADMIT that to these people (Muslims)....it IS a religious war! We STILL try to think about these attacks on OUR terms... by OUR moral standards. Until every man, woman and child in the US (Great Britain and Australia for that matter) take these Muslims for their word... that this is indeed a religious war.... we're doomed to keep on getting smacked in the face...and worse.

[redgolum]

Self ping

[Utah Girl]

Excellent article.

[hershey]

Great piece by VD H. Thanks.