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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: houeto
"O, but if the world could only understand as clearly as Dark Skies!"Heh, heh. Lot easier being a smartass, than actually being smart, eh.
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posted on
11/13/2005 7:45:06 AM PST
by
Dark Skies
(" For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. " Matthew 6:21)
To: tkathy
The MSM is already insane.
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posted on
11/13/2005 8:04:16 AM PST
by
Getready
((fear not...))
To: Dark Skies
Lot easier being a smartass, than actually being smart, eh. Nope. My comment was meant in all sincerity. I would literally give my left nut if our country would wise up to this menace.
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posted on
11/13/2005 8:11:03 AM PST
by
houeto
(Mr. President, close our borders now!)
To: houeto
64
posted on
11/13/2005 8:16:07 AM PST
by
Dark Skies
(" For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. " Matthew 6:21)
To: garyhope
Prager is known for the clarity of his arguments. The best talk show host.
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posted on
11/13/2005 8:27:56 AM PST
by
catonsville
(Evolution is a marvelous thing; I hope our species will try it sometime......Marc Barasch)
To: mal
I am not a big Prager fan -- but this is a good column. I'd like to see a credible Muslim response.
Dan
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posted on
11/13/2005 8:48:31 AM PST
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: mal
actually...and I hate to admit this.
but George Haddad who was a Pali terr.....was Christian.
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posted on
11/13/2005 8:50:09 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Captain Spaulding (the perfect dinner guest))
To: Dark Skies
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posted on
11/13/2005 8:50:53 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Captain Spaulding (the perfect dinner guest))
To: OldFriend
The tactics don't in any way have to be related when the criminals in both cases are moslems.
Islam is the problem. It is not - as our President continues to say - " A Great Religion".
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posted on
11/13/2005 8:52:53 AM PST
by
TomasUSMC
(FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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posted on
11/14/2005 11:15:53 AM PST
by
Alouette
(Gaza: Too small to be a country, too large to be an insane asylum (thanx: Pettigru).)
To: Alouette
Are you listening to Dennis right now? Did you hear that what that asswipe history teacher wrote to Dennis?
To: mal
It's obvious enough why all the Muslims are quiet. Either they agree with the terrorists, or they prefer not to have their heads cut off by their fellow Muslims.
What's more interesting to me, is why all the world's leftists are quiet about these atrocities. Many Europeans, Americans, and "civilized" people of all sorts sympathize entirely with the Muslim "insurgents."
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posted on
11/14/2005 11:31:20 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Salem; Esther Ruth; American in Israel; agrace; F15Eagle; RoadTest; Bombardier; dervish; ...
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posted on
11/14/2005 11:49:46 AM PST
by
Convert from ECUSA
(It really, truly is a "religion of peace", and the jihadistinian rioters in France prove it!)
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
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posted on
11/14/2005 12:01:42 PM PST
by
SJackson
(People have learned from Gaza that resistance succeeds, not smart negotiators., Hassem Darwish)
To: mal
"(1) Why are you so quiet? "
Either tacitly support it, or are afraid of the fanatics.
"(2) Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?"
Terrorism, although practiced by Christian groups, is not a part or parcel of any recognized organized Christian group living today.
"(3) Why is only one of the 47 Muslim-majority countries a free country?"
There is no tradition of democracy in Islam, and, as demonstrated in Medieval Europe, theocracy cannot coexist with democracy.
"(4) Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by Muslims in the name of Islam?"
What we view as atrocities, they view as acts of piety and devotion.
"(5) Why do countries governed by religious Muslims persecute other religions?"
It is a long standing tradition of Islam to consider non-Muslims living under their control as second class citizens. Even in the fairly enlightened (for Islam) Middle Ages, Christians and Jews, as "people of the book" were tolerated as long as they didn't proselytize, practice their religion openly, or bore weapons. They also couldn't hold office or testify in court against a Muslim or attempt to convert a Muslim. Non-Christians and non-Jews who were not People of the Book and not Muslims were forcibly converted or killed. These are basic tenets of Islam DESPITE the contradictory statement about their not being any compulsion in religion in the Quran.
Muslims divide the world into the House of Peace (Dar es Salaam) where Islam is the official state religion and Muslims are in control, and the House of War (forgot what they call it) where Islam is not the controlling religion. It is the duty of all Muslims to expand Islam at the expense of the House of War. Whether they do it by example and conversion or by force is a choice, apparently, of the version of Islam they practice as well as personal attitudes.
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posted on
11/14/2005 12:01:47 PM PST
by
ZULU
(Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: Convert from ECUSA
Thanks for the ping. Seems like these are rhetorical questions though. ;')
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posted on
11/14/2005 12:03:38 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
To: wardaddy
actually...and I hate to admit this.... but George Haddad who was a Pali terr.....was Christian. I think you mean George Habash. He address this on the show, and explained he was referring to the tactic of suicide bombing in his question, which Christian's have adopted no where, and the contrasting value systems that leads to it's rejection and embrace, under similar circumstances. Though they did a lot of damage, particularly in their early years, the PFLP has morphed into an Islamic organization.
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posted on
11/14/2005 12:09:44 PM PST
by
SJackson
(People have learned from Gaza that resistance succeeds, not smart negotiators., Hassem Darwish)
To: SunkenCiv
Really! Ain't it the truth!
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posted on
11/14/2005 12:17:17 PM PST
by
Convert from ECUSA
(It really, truly is a "religion of peace", and the jihadistinian rioters in France prove it!)
To: Buffettfan
When are moderate muslims going to police their own and purge their ranks of the radical islamists amoung them? I, too, used to think there were moderate Muslims who were opposed to the radical Muslims. The fact is, a moderate Muslim is someone who won't cut off somebody's head themself, but has no problem when one of the radicals does it. That's the definition of a moderate Muslim. Now you can see why they say nothing.
To: mal
This is in the LA Times? The end of the world must be right around the corner.
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posted on
11/14/2005 12:32:40 PM PST
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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