Posted on 08/15/2005 11:36:48 AM PDT by anotherview
Unlike your divorce, we can never get them to settle in writing, nor can we expect they won't break any deals that are entered into the legal record.
(Good luck with your side of things anyway.)
That summarizes my feelings very well. I see too many (most?) Americans and Europeans as very happy to act like ostriches. Just because four years have passed since 9/11 doesn't mean the threat has passed. Arab/Islamic culture takes a very long view of things and is very patient. Americans are very impatient and all too often fail to take in the big picture. I fear Israelis sometimes have learned American culture all too well.
Yes, we must forever be vigilant!
He has a PhD in the subject. I have no problem with people refuting him if they can back up what they say with facts.
I will tell you this: those of us who at least have some ability to understand Arabic find what comes out of the Arab world fits with Dr. Sharon's view of Islam.
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later read.
You have it right! After 911, we never got as angry as our fathers did after Pearl Harbor. Our present lack of resolve is our worst enemy.
It really is in plain view, isn't it?
"The Muslim God is a god of deception, self-gratification, and war, whereas the Christian God is one of truth, self-sacrifice, and peace. Muhammad was a man of violence who bore arms, was wounded in battle, and preached holy war against non-believers. Christ, on the other hand, healed the wounded soldier’s ear who came to arrest him. If you openly disagree with a Christian on religious doctrine, he’ll probably pray for you. If you openly disagree with a Muslim on a matter of faith, he is likely to try and kill you. In Muhammad’s day, converts were gained to Christian Faith by witnessing the constancy with which its confessors cared for others and suffered martyrdom; whereas they were gained to Islam by the spectacle of the readiness of its adherents to inflict death on others. Indeed, for devout Muslims, there seems to be no limitation to act in vile and inhumane ways towards non-believers, jihadists being allowed to enslave, rape, rob, pillage, and kill to advance Islam. In Christianity, by contrast, the direction is to ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’. These two groups truly worship very different beings, and represent polar opposites in both belief and practice. Muslims claim to honor all prophets prior to Muhammad, including Jesus, yet conveniently dismiss all previous revelations regarding proper behavior in human relations. Muslims accept without thought that their great ‘seal’ of the prophets, ‘abrogated’ (canceled out) all previous revelation by all earlier prophets. Knowing almost nothing of earlier teachings, Arabs now and then swallow easily all the self-serving ideas the man Muhammad presented, whereas Christians and Jews, with some knowledge of those earlier revelations, were and are unable to accept a philosophy which effectively wipes out all previous understandings of the nature of God and directions on good behavior. Consider the radical change in religious philosophy born by Muhammad, whereas previously God loved all inhabitants of the Earth, then suddenly afterwards only Muslims. How terribly discontenting for the non-believers, for whom the newly reformed Muslim God unexpectedly had no more patience nor love. It completely escapes Muslim theologians how a perfect and fully developed and mature being (God) could suddenly decide that his previous feelings for His children, as revealed to his prophets, were in error and needed abrupt adjustment. Is the universe really that fragile, and can mans faith in God be based on that kind of uncertainty associated with a God whose feelings for his own children are in such flux? Obviously not, the concept fails all logical standards of reason. Muslim terrorists claim to kill people in the name of the one God, while vast numbers tolerate such actions, which surely is the greatest sacrilege and affront to God possible."
-Vernon Richards in "Islam Undressed"
http://www.islamundressed.com/
One scenario is that after sufficient attacks against the US, on our soil, the materialists will clamor for "protection" and "law and order", and we'll end up in a totalitarian dictatorship.
Western civilization needs workers to support their economic and social system. Available workers migrate then vote. Demographics, economics and democracy have better long-range potential than suicide car bombs.
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...but how can your post be right? President Bush keeps telling us Islam is the religion of peace.
</dripping sarcasm>
Islama delenda est.
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"This is a war that will not end Just like my divorce"
I had one of those, I know how you feel, it will end though. Just hang in there.
It looks as though it would need to be defeated, then outlawed.
Very informative article. Perhaps someone can explain how the Iranian Islamic Mullahs justify their support of Russia over the Islamic Seperatists in Chechnya ? How is that stance justified within Islam ? There was a recent article posted on freerepublic that described how the Iranian Mullahs were trading Russian Cash and Arms for Oil at the expense of allowing Russia to crush the islamic seperatists in Cechnya. Is that not a violation of the principles of Islam as described within this threads article ?
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