Thought you might be interested!
Why is it that we have not heard from one Muslim cleric in the USA, not one Muslim organization in the USA, not one Muslim family in the USA denouncing these terrorist acts in London or against our soldiers and the Iraqi people. Until that happens, in my opinion, then Muslims in our country are condoning these acts of violence.
This is a time for good Muslim people to come forth and denounce these acts.
nick
The poor deluded man.
Ping!
Criky. I am sure getting tired of bozos letting Islam off the hook by including Christianity in their condemnations. An extremist Christian might give away all their possessions and live their life in servant paradigm...an extremist muslim believes in killing any non-muslim in an effort to bring the world under subjugation to Islam. The terrors WERE muslim terrorists even if this guy doesn't have the moral courage to say so.
islam IS HATE!
Even Steyn hopes against all hope that there are "moderate Muslims". But where? And what else can we do except to continue to fool ourselves? Ship them all out to where they came from, when there are today thousands of mosques built in formerly Christian lands, allowed there by the elites running the secularist states who have looked at all religion as a benign 'opium of the masses'. When many (of the muzzlelimb fanatics) are citizens, unassimilated, of the Western countries? It'll take a revolution of the masses against the elites in their safe from terror academic, political and entertainment world cocoons. Rodeo Drive and the Presidents' alma matter campuses are still safe, aren't they? Who'd ever think of bombing country clubs or the Hamptons?
Daniel Pipes usefully estimates the Radical Islamicist population at 10-15% of Muslims.
While that's a relatively small minority, it is still more than ten million people who want to kill you or die trying.
OTOH, we are about one WMD away from the public requiring governments to:
"Kill them all and let Allah sort them out."
A nuke in Paris, Tel Aviv, Washington, or London would require the immediate overthrow / decimation of Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Possibly Pakistan if provenance were suggestive.
In the last 2000 years, Jewish and Christian principles, Greek ideals and Roman organization and law created western civilization. In the last 800 years, following a promising if sanguinary begining, Islam has created the suicide bomber. There is nothing else it has to show except abject poverty, both material and spiritual and tyranny. It is not a religion as we understand it, it is a suicide pact with an unwilling partner.
The violence perpetuated by the "religion of peace"
As the Catholic Church finds new ways to approach the issue of "world peace", it is faced with an unfortunate reality: currently no religious group in the world is subjected to more violence and persecution than Christians. While the Church has been instrumental in eliminating the "discrimination" towards other religions in formerly Catholic countries, not all of those other religions have followed suit.
In particular, the cult of Islam which is now referred to by confused Catholics as a "religion of peace", has shown little sign of letting up on its fourteen-hundred year campaign to eliminate Christianity. While the Pope welcomed the construction of a mosque in Rome almost completely financed by Saudi royalty, the construction of a Catholic Church in Saudi Arabia is strictly forbidden. Measures Catholic nations used to take to prevent the spread of error are subjected to the harsh condemnation of both secular revisionists and modern Catholics alike. But those same tactics employed in the Arabian counties of the Middle East are ignored out of a relativist sense of "tolerance".
The Church has decided to stop fighting its enemies in the interests of "religious liberty" and "dialogue", but its enemies have made no such concession:
The Church has chosen the road of negotiation and is "leading" by example, but such tactics appear to deny a fundamental and obvious truth not lost on the over one billion Muslims: the opposite of truth is error and error has no rights. Error is not something to be flattered, negotiated with, tolerated or accepted. It is offense to God and man and must be eliminated through conversion. The Muslims beliefs are false but their grasp of such a simple concept is irrefutable.
The relativism that considers all religions more or less good is a product of man, not God. The followers of Mohammed are right to completely reject the "enlightened" ideas of modern philosophy as every pre-Vatican II Pope did. Unless the Catholic Church is able to reclaim this truth for itself, it will find itself in an impossible position: having to defend itself from an enemy which Catholics were raised to believe is an innocent and peaceful ally.
There are many examples of persecution of Catholics at the hand of Muslims. Three areas of the world will be examined here.
Pakistan
Recently, a highly-publicized recent massacre in a Pakistani Catholic Church has caused many local Catholics to stay home on Sundays rather than risk a repeat of such a violent attack. Christians comprise less than 3% of the almost exclusively Muslim population of Pakistan.
On October 26, Pakistani newspapers printed the al-Qaeda demand for the death of two Christians in retaliation for every Muslim killed in the U.S. military strikes on Afghanistan. Two days later, masked gunmen opened fire on in a Church in Bahawalpur, putting 142 bullets into the walls, windows and altar and killing fifteen:
Indonesia
Over the past two years, Muslim extremists have been waging a Jihad against Christians in the Moluccas region of Indonesia, bombing churches, burning homes and killing over 9,000 people.
On November 1st, militant forces trampled through the village of Waimulang, torching 350 homes and displacing over 1,000 people.6
On November 20th, nine Christians merchants were shot down in their boat while bringing goods to the shore.7
On November 26th, Muslim militants fought to overtake a Catholic educational compound and disabled children's center (!) so as to make it their military base:
To make matters even worse, the Sulawesi region has also been host to al-Qaeda terrorist camps:
Sudan
In the northern states of Sudan, the Muslim majority has been working to implement the Muslim Sharia law which includes such things as stoning for adultery, the illegality of any Christian worship or "proselytism" and the relegation of women to second-class citizens.
Christians have been protesting against the imposition of these laws and accompanying "Islamization" of the country by the Khartoum government, but have faced increasing violence. Rather than risk having their children seized and forced into slavery, many have fled to the predominately Christian southern states, which are receiving more refugees than they can handle:
In a supposed exchange for information on the terrorist attacks, the U.S. has removed obstacles to the lifting of UN sanctions a move which seems to reward the oppressive Khartoum government. An open letter to the president signed by dozens of religious leaders and human rights activists rightfully criticized the move:
But observers fear that for radical Islamists, Sudan is the key to the rest of Africa. "Sudan is a preview of what will go on in all of Africa if the south falls," said William Saunders, who founded the Bishop Gassis Sudan Relief Fund to assist the struggling Sudanese in the Nuba Mountains.
Observers warn of a pattern that may be replicated in other parts of Africa. Initially, the Islamists present themselves as helpful and peaceful. "They go to a place as traders, bring in things people need, try to live with the people, marry, build shops, preach, ask people to convert, marry local girls, give their children Muslim names and build mosques," Bishop Mutek said.16
Conclusion
Father Vincent Serralda, a French priest who lived among Muslims in North Africa for fifty years, prepared a study analyzing the Koran and warning French families of the danger of Islam. He wrote in the preface:
And what is "authentic" Islam? One need look no further than the beliefs of their human founder himself:
Peter W. Miller
Seattle, WA
1/18/2002
FOOTNOTES: 1 From the Interventionis in scriptis on 13 October 1999 of His Eminence Mgr Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, OFM, Archbishop of Smyrna, at the Synod of European Bishops 2 ZENIT, "Christians in Pakistan Fear a 'Christmas Bloodbath'" (12/5/2001) 3 Ibid. 4 Ibid. 5 Ibid. 6 FIDES, "New Attacks by Muslim Extremists on Christians in Indonesia" (11/9/2001) 7 ZENIT, "9 Christians Shot Dead in Indonesia" (1/12/2001) 8 CWNews, "Indonesian Catholics Under Siege by Jihad Forces" (11/26/2001) 9 ZENIT, "Indonesian Christians Suffering New Attacks" (12/8/2001) 10 ZENIT, "4 Churches Bombed in Indonesia" (1/2/2002) 11 CWNews, "Indonesia says al-Qaeda Set Up Camps in Sulawesi" (12/13/2001) 12 Source: East Timor Action Network 13 FIDES, "Thousands Face Death in Sudan for Lack of Water" (1/11/2002) 14 ZENIT, "Letter to Bush Regarding Rapprochment with Sudan" (11/20/2001) 15 ZENIT, "Sudan Supports Terrorism, Bishop of Rumbek Says" (11/25/2001) 16 J. Burger, "Sudan's Christians Fight for Survival" National Catholic Register (12/2/2001) 17 Fr. J. Emily, "September 11 and the True Face of Islam" (2001) 18 Catholic Encyclopedia, "Mohammed and Mohammedanism" (1911) |
Hunting down the individual terrorists as each incident occurs and perhaps uncovering a terror cell in the process is the long road to victory. The shorter and safer road would be to have no "strong Muslim communities" in their midst in the first place. You don't fight cancer one tumor at a time, waiting for the next one send you to the hospital before treating it. You attack the whole cancer with radiation or chemo and try to get rid of it once and for all. God have mercy on our children and grandchildren who are told by our governments that Muslims are a 'peaceful people', and we only need to worry a few bad apples.
It only took nineteen "bad apples" to kill 3,000 of our people a few years ago, wound thousands more, and wreak so much havoc on our economy that we're still trying to recover from it.
Islam can't be reformed for one simple reason.
The number one rule in Islam is that there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.
Therefore the life of Muhammad is and always will be the definition of a Muslim, and the shining example of how to think and act.
And that folks is the problem us infidels will always have to deal with.
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"I'm glad you're here to tell us these things!"