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Five questions non-Muslims would like answered
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-prager13nov13,0,6830027,print.story?coll=la-home-sunday-opinion ^ | Nov 13, 2005 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 11/13/2005 5:16:20 AM PST by mal

THE RIOTING IN France by primarily Muslim youths and the hotel bombings in Jordan are the latest events to prompt sincere questions that law-abiding Muslims need to answer for Islam's sake, as well as for the sake of worried non-Muslims.

Here are five of them:

(1) Why are you so quiet?

Since the first Israelis were targeted for death by Muslim terrorists blowing themselves up in the name of your religion and Palestinian nationalism, I have been praying to see Muslim demonstrations against these atrocities. Last week's protests in Jordan against the bombings, while welcome, were a rarity. What I have seen more often is mainstream Muslim spokesmen implicitly defending this terror on the grounds that Israel occupies Palestinian lands. We see torture and murder in the name of Allah, but we see no anti-torture and anti-murder demonstrations in the name of Allah.

There are a billion Muslims in the world. How is it possible that essentially none have demonstrated against evils perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Islam? This is true even of the millions of Muslims living in free Western societies. What are non-Muslims of goodwill supposed to conclude? When the Israeli government did not stop a Lebanese massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982, great crowds of Israeli Jews gathered to protest their country's moral failing. Why has there been no comparable public demonstration by Palestinians or other Muslims to morally condemn Palestinian or other Muslim-committed terror?

(2) Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?

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To: Dallas59
*crickets*

O.K. I'll admit it. I don't understand

What does the *crickets* mean?

21 posted on 11/13/2005 5:48:32 AM PST by Popman (In politics, ideas are more important than individuals.)
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To: tkathy

? Germans roaming around blowing themselves up? I dunno.... sounds a bit outlandish. I think their method involves panzers...


22 posted on 11/13/2005 5:51:44 AM PST by ketelone
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To: tkathy

Let's keep focused on the real enemy here. The excellent piece we're commenting on is from the MSM. The MSM has gone insane over muslim atrocities. It's the muslims who haven't, and that's the crime that won't stop giving.


23 posted on 11/13/2005 5:53:38 AM PST by Nick5
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To: mal
Because


Aap aap ahh dap dap!!!!!
It's a religion of peace
It's a religion of peace



Sura 9:5 of the “Koran,” “Slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush.”
Which parts of these words of mohamhead-n-satanallah are you having trouble understanding?


Kill A Commie For Mommie

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24 posted on 11/13/2005 5:57:33 AM PST by rawcatslyentist ("Always use fresh macaroni.... If the box rattles,.... throw it away."--- Kent Brockman)
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To: mal

Take the example of becoming infected by viruses. Two persons are exposed to the same virus; one become infected and the other doesn't. Can we conclude that virus has nothing to do with the disease? Immunities vary from person to person. The person with less immunity will get infected while the one with stronger immunity will not. But ultimately it is the virus that makes people sick.

Likewise, not all those who read the Quran become terrorists. But when all the conditions are met, Muslims become vulnerable. It is like being soaked in gasoline. All it takes is a spark to be ignited and that is what the Quran provides. Others read the Quran and may not be affected. They are like wet wood. They hardly get ignited and worked out by the hate laden verses of the Quran. But if all the conditions are met, every Muslim becomes vulnerable and can become a terrorist.

The problem is that all those conditions that prepare a Muslim to become a terrorist are also caused by the Quran. These conditions are not cultural, ethnic, political or economical. They are religious. The hatred of the Jews and the non-Muslims has its roots in the Quran. Most of the crises that Muslim youth face, like lack of opportunity and loss of hope are also the result of the failure of Islam in solving the real problems of Muslims and particularly the youth.

One more factor is very important is the lack of self-esteem and the prevalent feeling of worthlessness among Muslims, and Islam’s pedagogic fiasco in rearing confident, positive and successful humans. Terrorists are losers who seek their glory in martyrdom. That too is the direct consequence of the failure of Islamic paradigm.


25 posted on 11/13/2005 5:58:53 AM PST by Beth528
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To: mal

(1) Why are you so quiet?

Christians, in times of trial, are prompted to "be Jesus". Jesus lived as He would have us live.

Muslims have the same Koran that the terrorists do. They KNOW PERFECTLY WELL that the terrorists are 'being Mohammad'. How can a 'prophet' live EXCEPT as he expects his followers to live?


26 posted on 11/13/2005 6:00:24 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: Popman

When it gets real quiet ........ like when , no one is answering the question. You can hear the crickets chirping.


27 posted on 11/13/2005 6:01:38 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Buffettfan
When are moderate muslims going to police their own and purge their ranks of the radical islamists amoung them?

That would be tantamount to having "lukewarm Christians" purge the church of the devout. The passion exists only in the hearts of the true believers.

True Islam (as defined by the example of the Prophet) is all about sex, piracy, death, and destruction.

28 posted on 11/13/2005 6:02:44 AM PST by Dark Skies (" For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. " Matthew 6:21)
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To: mal

Everyone should read and listen to more Prager. He's great.

He wrote an article a year or more ago about this all being a conflict between civilizations and how this is a battle for the survival of Western civilization.

Plus, he writes and talks on happiness, being happy everyday. It's a simple process. Also he points out, how many happy terrorists do you know? Do happy people blow themselves and others up? Do happy people generally murder other people? Happiness is a choice.

Prager is worth reading.


29 posted on 11/13/2005 6:06:36 AM PST by garyhope
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To: mal

Dennis Prager ... way cool.


30 posted on 11/13/2005 6:07:20 AM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: mal
...questions non-Muslims would like answered...

Where do you go and what do you get when you die but DON'T blow yourself up in the process?

31 posted on 11/13/2005 6:08:34 AM PST by Libloather (Geena Davis isn't man enough to play Hillary on TV. Heck, BILL isn't man enough to play Hillary...)
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To: Beth528
Most of the crises that Muslim youth face, like lack of opportunity and loss of hope are also the result of the failure of Islam in solving the real problems of Muslims and particularly the youth.

Brilliant summation! Of course, I say that because I agree. Islam is flammable and destructive. Deprivation and low self-esteem are endemic to Islam because Islam is dysfunctional. Actually, "dysfunctional" isn't the correct word. Islam is "counter-functional"...it doesn't function, it destroys.

And Islam hates Christians and Jews because the darkness hates the light (just as the Lie hates the Truth).

32 posted on 11/13/2005 6:14:11 AM PST by Dark Skies (" For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. " Matthew 6:21)
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To: Beth528

That post gets an "A".


33 posted on 11/13/2005 6:14:19 AM PST by isthisnickcool (Eternity? Smoking or nonsmoking?)
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To: backhoe

Do you think you could convince our President of the facts?


34 posted on 11/13/2005 6:16:12 AM PST by B4Ranch (No expiration date on the oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic!)
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To: Buffettfan
We are waiting. It's time to show your hand. It's time for the whole world to know which side you are on.

The time for waiting is past. The Muslim world has had ample time to demonstrate which side it is on. And it has, in fact, done so.

As far as I have seen, the only good Muslim is a lapsed Muslim. All of the rest appear either to be Islamofascists or enablers.

35 posted on 11/13/2005 6:18:52 AM PST by Maceman (Fake but accurate -- and now double-sourced)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
They hate the West. Why are they here?


There are two reasons for that question:


1) It's much more lucrative financially here for them to fill the coffers at mosque so they can fund more terrorism on the rest of the world.


2) It's part of the quest convert and conquer, (they're converting right now in America and waiting for when the time is right to conquer)infidels and create an Islamic world ruled under sharia law.


The real question should be:


Why do we let Muslims here who because of their religion can never, (and have no desire to) assimilate into our western culture?


It's plainly a recipe for disaster...

ROUND 'EM OUT AND THROW 'EM OUT NOW!
36 posted on 11/13/2005 6:18:57 AM PST by dagoofyfoot
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To: OldFriend
For the most part there have been no attacks on people, but rather on property in France.

Except for Jews. There have been plenty of muslim attacks on Jews over the last few years.

In general, Jews play the part of the "canary in a coal mine." That should have been warning enough. And if you don't think that more attacks on French citizens, and not just Jews, then you're very wrong.

Mark

37 posted on 11/13/2005 6:24:25 AM PST by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: mal
"(3) Why is only one of the 47 Muslim-majority countries a free country?

Islam is a totalitarian society. Everyone is bound by Sharia law which is derived from the prophet's sayings, the sira, the hadith, the Koran, as well as past rulings made by past caliphs, who "fixed" the interpretations of the koran centuries ago for all time. It can never be changed, which is why muslims are stuck in the 7th century, bound for eternity to be governed by these barbaric laws.

"(4) Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by Muslims in the name of Islam?"

Because Allah has made Jihad (holy war in Allahs cause) compulsary, a duty which each and every muslim must participate in. To refuse this duty makes a muslim an apostate, and condemns him to hellfire. Qur’an 2:216 “Jihad (holy fighting in Allah’s Cause) is ordained for you (Muslims), though you dislike it. But it is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and like a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knows, and you know not. Warfare is ordained for you.”

Ishaq:208 “When Allah gave permission to his Apostle to fight, the second Aqaba contained conditions involving war which were not in the first act of submission. Now we bound themselves to war against all mankind for Allah and His Apostle. He promised us a reward in Paradise for faithful service. We pledged ourselves to war in complete obedience to Muhammad no matter how evil the circumstances.”
Until the entire world is under islamic control, and either everyone bows to Allah or pays a tax to Allah and is a muslim's slave, We will continue our fight and commit these "atrocities". They are not atrocities in our opinion, they are duty, jihad.

" (5) Why do countries governed by religious Muslims persecute other religions?

Because Qur’an 8:7 “Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: ‘Wipe the infidels out to the last.’”

Everyone must either convert to Islam, or be a Dhimmi and pay a pol tax. It is not a crime to kill dhimmi's, It's a sport, like hunting rabbits.

Qur’an 8:12 “Your Lord inspired the angels with the message: ‘I am with you. Give firmness to the Believers. I will terrorize the unbelievers. Therefore smite them on their necks and every joint and incapacitate them. Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.”

Qur’an 8:39 “So, fight them till all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam.”

If you don't want to pay tax or be killed, just become a muslim, then you will be safe and see how islam is a religion of peace.

Qur’an 8:59 “The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them. They are your enemy and Allah’s enemy.”

38 posted on 11/13/2005 6:26:05 AM PST by Forte Runningrock
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To: B4Ranch
Do you think you could convince our President of the facts?

Honesty, I can't figure out the game he's playing. He certainly has a higher level of information than we do, and dumb men don't fly hot aircraft ( for very long! )...

Gotta run- wife-unit needs me to move about 300lbs. of oak tree limbs. Nuts!

39 posted on 11/13/2005 6:58:25 AM PST by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)™...)
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To: mal

BFLR.


40 posted on 11/13/2005 6:58:32 AM PST by Rummyfan
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