Posted on 02/20/2006 7:46:11 AM PST by Dark Skies
No one cares what you (rhetorical 'you', not you 'you')believe. It's when your beliefs cross the line from peaceful contemplation and activities to deadly action that we begin to take notice.
We take even more notice when for every passage of the Koran that extolls mercy, justice and charity, is another that makes it your holy duty to rape, plunder and pillage, provided you can find an excuse (i.e. fatwa). Only Islam casts the baser aspects of human nature as virtues so long as the target can somehow be labelled "infidel" or "apostate", no matter how flimsy the pretense.
Get this trough your head: Islam IS NOT A RELIGION. It's a justification.
My friend, those do not seem to be accurate observations. If they were, I could very easily be proven wrong, and pray that you might do so.
What I deduce from my observations, and I have both lived and workled for long periods in Muslim lands, is that if most Muslims were against Islamic terrorism, it would not exist. More specifically, it certainly could not exist as a global phenomenon. You would be more correct to say that most Muslims do not publicly endorse terrorism. There is no need for them to do so, since their acknowledged religious leaders do it for them.
But in our culture, in Anglo-Saxon and Roman Law, silence can be deemed consent. IMHO, when it comes to terrorism, the silence of the Muslims is absolutely deafening.
"Islam is a toxic culture--not just a religion."
Got it in one.
That's whit is must be utterly destroyed
I have a mental scenario of how that could very easily happen. A bombing in Hollywierd. Can you picture the stunned, bloody faces of the "beautiful people", as they stagger through the rubble of what was the Oscar's, or some other BS event, as they try to comprehend how they could be attacked by the very people they tried to help kill Americans in Iraq?
So dull, so self-absorbed are these absolute sacks of excrement, that they don't even realize that the Islamofascists reserve their most virulent rage against THEM, the purveyors of all the depravity and narcissism that kinda sickens us too...except we learned to just change the channel.
"ISTR the treason charges were dropped, but I could be mistaken."
There were never treason charges against Yee. He was charged with espionage. All charges against him have since been dropped, and all record of them has been removed from his military records.
He is no longer in the military and has written a book.
There were never charges of treason against him. He is a free man with no criminal record.
Here, we deal with individuals and their behavior. We can do that just fine.
And in a couple of generations as Muslims increasingly become the majority that makes the laws, repeals the First Amendment and otherwise amends and interprets the Constitution as they see fit, and one's grandaugheter is in some sheik's harem in Chicago, then what? That's their plan, isn't it?
Cordially,
The big difference is that islam still enforces every call for beheading, every call for amputation, every call for stoning.
Maybe the distinction between the word and the action is a bit too subtle for you?
One stupid Muslim does not justify banning a religion. The crazies win if that happens. It's hard to separate the good from bad, but it's the right course.
Islam is a religion and is therefore protected by the first Amendment. If Islamic leaders are preaching terrorism, the government may go after them for inciting a riot or for advocating overthrow of the US. But the government may not ban Islam itself without modifying the first Amendment.
"Well let's see how clever you are in coming up with something legal to stop this spiritual cancer."
I have already done that. If a Muslim cleric or any other muslim who is under the jurisdiction of the United States of America breaks a law, prosecute that person to the fullest extent of the law.
That's how our system works. It's very simple.
Then we need another amendment to make an exception for Islam.
No, it's the text of the first political cartoon ever printed in an American newspaper. It was created by Ben Franklin to convince the colonies that they had to join in the fight against England, or die. It is also the precursor to the Gadsden flag ("Don't tread on me").
You can view this illustration in my profile.
But congratulations on making yourself look like fool for your ignorance of our nations history and trying to make me look like a militant islam sympathizer all at once.
You know I am getting very tired of the "most mudslimes" are good argument when the only PROOF we have seen is evil and celebrating evil. If "most mudslimes" believed in peace we should have seen thousands of them in the streets over the last 40 years protesting the acts of the "few" radicals.
Somehow that never happened but we have seen thousands protest a few truthful cartoons.
Lay off the "most mudslime" garbage unless you have facts to back it up. Without exception, everything we have witnessed in the last 40 years tells us most are bad.
As for the "state church" argument, try and remember that the Mormons were the first settlers of any size in the whole Utah Territory. What other form of government could they possibly have elected except one that included a majority of Mormons? They elected a working legislature and responded to the chosen governor. Brigham Young was appointed Territorial Governor by the Feds. The Mormons were also pro-Federal Government, pro-national Constitution and anti-slavery even when the Feds sent an army against them.
Name one American beheaded on American soil by an American Muslim acting purely in the name of Islam.
Just one.
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