A conclusion reached on Free Republic by many of us years ago. - Tom
Posted on 12/14/2005 5:26:37 AM PST by SJackson
Fortunately their "scriptures" don't say to cut the throats of the rest of the world and shout allah akbar.
That's exactly the truth. It's amazing how few people are willing to hear the truth even when it's presented to them clearly.
I think this has been debunked, or at least critiqued as being a questionable assertion.
I don't see it likely that this will become the US foreign policy.
There are now whole Kurdish villages populated with Christian converts from Islam.
I know people who have worked with the Kurdish peoples. For the most part, the US is well liked by the Kurds.
And, there is the Turkish example, where a secular elite uses military force to keep Islam bottled up. (Image the USA run by the ACLU on steroids, with guns!)
I'm surprised it's worked as long as it has in Turkey, but it's clearly not a model that can be exported and expected to work elsewhere...too delicate a balance and requires the unique history and conditions of Turkey.
Your guberment, hard at work overstating the obvious.
Not so lately. In his latest speaches he said we are fighting an ideology that wants to take over the world.
A conclusion reached on Free Republic by many of us years ago. - Tom
bttt
Awesome post
Actually, in terms of percentage growth, Islam is probably the fastest growing. Muslims pump out babies faster than bunnies, new converts are persuaded by violence and intimidation, and the punishment for leaving islam is death.
That's a pretty good formula for growth.
Perhaps a Kool-Aid solution?
They are pretty suicidal, so that would be nice if we could get them to go along with it. If not, the Branch Davidian model should get the job done.
When I see Bradley Fighting Vehicles setting mosques on fire with everybody inside like they did in Waco, I'll start taking the gubmint's efforts more seriously.
You see, it's a numbers game used by the Muslims as yet another deceptive attempt at self-legitimacy. They'd have you believe it's conversions, which it's not. It's simple birth rates.
If Christian birth rates are dropping or stagnant (as in America or Europe), and Jewish populations insignficant, then that seemingly leaves Muslims and their much higher birth rates with "the fastest growing" religion, since all babies born to Muslim families are Muslims themselves.
But this calculation seems to ignore China, which if nothing else is Buddhist/Confucian/animist. Then add Japan, Korea, SE Asia, etc.
I'd say Buddhists are the "fastest growing religion."
Well said.
We didn't go in to Iraq to democratize it, or save the population from Saddam. We thought Saddam was a terrorist threat to us in the long run and we went in to remove that threat. I agree with that approach.
Had Saddam cooperated with us, and brought us in and showed us he had no WMD, Saddam would still be in power and doing business with us, and he and his sons would still be brutalizing the Iraqis and we couldn't care less.
We got an exit break when we uncovered the fact that a lot of so- called Iraqi Muslims are heretics, and infidel collaborators.
I honestly thought our exit would go like this.
Thanks for getting rid of Saddam, and his sons.
Please turn on our water and electricity.
Get out of our country you infidel bastards;and we will start a civil war to settle some old scores amongst ourselves.
But we lucked out as the Iraqis seem more interested in worldly things than in doing God's work.
When the Iraqis didn't turn on us in mass the Muslim outsiders came in to kill us.
Infidels are one thing, worse are infidel collaborators. So the Muslims like Zarqawi won't lose any sleep over killing infidel collaborators. Who would have thought we could be so lucky as to find a country full of Muslim heretics. - Tom
I have met some interesting "Muslims" in my past. One of my drinking buddies in college was a Shiite Muslim from Lebanon. That guy could put the beer away.
It goes to show you political correctness costs lives.
"Now for the first time, a key Pentagon intelligence agency involved in homeland security is delving into Islam's holy texts to answer whether Islam is being radicalized by the terrorists or is already radical."
DUHH!!
After the attack on 9-11, the Taliban, Iraq, Spanish Train bombings, Indonesian bombings, London Bombings, riots in Autralia, they are FINALLY considering a "connection> between Islam and terrorism?
When did they hear of Amish, Methodists, Hasiditic Jews, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, animists, or any other religious group behaving like this recently???
Anybody who eveer read the Quran and Haddiths and has the slightest knwledge of Islamic history could provide an accurate response to this inane inquiry within seconds -
YES - THERE IS A CONNECTION BETWEEN ISLAMIC WRITINGS AND TERRORISM.
We're going to find out, sooner or later,
If Achmed will pray, to a glowing crater.
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