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The Top 10 Reasons Why It's Quite Possible That Islam Isn't Exactly a Religion of Peace (Don Feder A
Don Feder ^ | 08/31/06 | Don Feder

Posted on 09/01/2006 12:28:15 AM PDT by goldstategop

A passenger revolt occurred on a Malaga-Manchester flight. Vacationing Brits refused to fly with two Arabic-speaking men. This came in the wake of arrests of 21 British-born Muslims who were plotting to blow up as many as 11 trans-Atlantic flights.

A spokesman for Britain's opposition Tory party said the passengers panicked into "behaving irrationally." Fancy that, not wanting to fly with members of a faith whose adherents keep trying to blow things up. Oh, how irrational!

Within days of this incident, a Lebanese student was arrested for trying to plant bombs on German trains. In India, meanwhile, a group with alleged ties to al-Qaeda threatened to blow up the 17th. century Taj Mahal.

If Muslims make travelers nervous, it's not without cause.

Would you be more likely to have an anxiety attack at 20,000 feet if the passenger seated next to you was: A) An Irish nun saying the Rosary? B) A Mormon missionary in regulation white shirt and narrow, black tie? C) A Hari Krishna in a standard-issue saffron robe? or D) A bearded bloke of Middle Eastern complexion holding a well-thumbed Koran?

When you hear of a terrorist incident, is the first thought that pops into your head: Probably some crazy Muslim? Guess what? It probably was some crazy Muslim!

Guessing the religion of those who plant bombs, highjack planes, fire into crowds of civilians, take hostages and murder hostages is the world's ultimate no-brainer.

And yet our leaders, the media and many of us pretend there's absolutely no connection between psychopathic, ideological killers and the religion which exalts the slaughter of unbelievers.

To counter confusion here, a la Letterman, I humbly offer The Top 10 Reasons Why It's Quite Possible That Islam Isn't Exactly A Religion of Peace.

#1 While it's certainly true that not all Muslims are terrorists, it's equally true that most terrorists are Muslims.

Think about the really ghastly terrorist incidents over the past two decades - the 1983 Beirut Marine barracks bombing (242 dead), the 1988 Pam Am 103 bombing (259 dead), the 1993 World Trade Center attack (6 dead, more than 1,000 injured), the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish Center (86 dead), the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (291 dead, 5,000 wounded), the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole (17 dead), September 11, 2001 (over 3,000 killed), the 2002 Moscow theater hostage-taking (94 dead), the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis (344 dead), the 2004 Madrid train bombings (192 dead), the 2005 London underground bombings (56 dead) and the 2006 commuter train bombings in Mumbai - formerly Bombay (at least 200 dead).

In each and every case, the killers were ... ? That is correct, sir -- Muslims! What other religion condones savagery committed in its name? Jesus said turn the other cheek. Muhammed said cut off the other guy's cheek. The Torah says show kindness to strangers. The Koran says: If you can't convert them, kill them.

#2 Muslims don't play well with other children. Wherever there's religious bloodshed anywhere in the world, it's invariably Muslims versus someone else. Could this be a coincidence?

Israel, Gaza and Lebanon - Muslims verses Jews. Kashmir - Muslims vs. Hindus. Kosovo/Bosnia - Muslims vs. Serbian Orthodox. Nigeria, the Sudan - Muslims versus Christians. Indonesia - Muslims vs. Christians. Myanmar - Muslims vs. Buddhists. The Northern Caucuses- Chechen Muslims against Russia Orthodox, and so on.

Inquiring minds want to know why the "religion of peace" can't behave peaceably with any other religion?

Answer: Islam remains what it was at its beginning 1,300 years ago - a violent, expansionist faith that will tolerate no competitors. What other religion has the concept of jihad (holy war) - the notion that if you die fighting for Allah you get 72 virgins (exhausting as that must be) in Paradise? Muhammed started by eliminating the competition - annihilating Jewish tribes in the Arabian Peninsula. More than a millennium latter, it's still business as usual for his successors.

3. For Muslims, violence and threats of violence are always the first resort to any perceived insult or injury.

Recall the Muslim response to Danish cartoons of their beloved prophet. The Danish embassy in Beirut was burned to the ground. There were death threats against the cartoonists and the editors of papers that published the cartoons. (In London, protestors held signs proclaiming "Those who insult Islam should die" and "Europe is a disease. Islam is the cure.")

In rioting in Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 139 died. Protestors were particularly offended by the implication of the cartoons - that Muhammed and his religion encourage murder and mayhem. The irony of "They say Islam promotes violence? For that they should die!" was lost on demonstrators.

4. Islam is virulently anti-Semitic

Jews have been described as the miner's canary of the world. Those who start with the Jews never stop there. The 20th century's mass murderers- the Nazis and communists - saw Jews as a special threat. Hitler killed 6 million Jews - as well as tens of millions of non-Jews.

The Koran connects genocide to the end times: "The last hour will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, so Jews will hide behind stones and trees and the Stone and the tree will say 'O Muslim, 'O servant of God! There is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.'" Muhammed called Jews "the descendants of apes and pigs."

Every anti-Semitic canard in history has currency in the Muslim world, including the Blood Libel (that Jews murder non-Jewish children and use their blood to bake Passover matzo) and The Protocols of The Elders of Zion ("exposing" a Jewish conspiracy to subdue humanity).

Jew-hatred is a staple of Muslim rhetoric.

In a recent interview with the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram, Gen. Hamid Gul (former head of Pakistani Intelligence) said Mel Gibson was right, "Jews cause all the wars." Egyptian Mufti Sheikh Ali Gum'a says the war in Lebanon once again exposed the "Hebrew entity" (Israel) as "the bloodsuckers... who prepare matzos from human blood." In Britain, popular Islamic cleric Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal (a Jamaican convert) tells audiences "Jews should be killed... as by Hitler."

When he met John Paul II in 2001, Syrian President-for-Life Bashar Assad told the pontiff that the Jews "try to kill all the principles of divine faith with the same mentality of betraying Jesus and torturing him."

And Adb al-Rahman al-Sudais, sheikh of Mecca's Grand Mosque, in Islam's holiest city, calls Jews "the scum of the earth," and calls for the genocide of a people who are, in the sheikh's words, "an ongoing continuum of deceit, obstinacy, licentiousness, evil and corruption."

Muslims really have a hard time deciding whether the Holocaust: 1) Never happened 2) Is grossly exaggerated or 3) Didn't go far enough.

#5 - Public Opinion In The Muslim World is Scary.

Muslim public opinion can be summarized as acid hatred, chauvinism and revenge fantasies - leavened with paranoia. In the 5 years since 9/11, polls consistently show that, irrefutable evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, worldwide, a majority of Muslims believe the World Trade Center attack couldn't possibly have been committed by Arab Muslims.

Naturally, they attribute the crime to "Zionists." If someone wrote a book titled "How To Fly a Plane Into A Skyscraper Whilst Using Human Blood To Bake Matzos: A Zionist Training Manual," it would top the Tehran Bestsellers List.

#6 -Generally, the more Muslim a nation, the more lunatic and dangerous it is.

Think Iran. Think Saudi Arabia. Think Afghanistan while the Taliban was in power.

Think of the fate of women in these regimes - consigned to the status of breeding stock. Think of their attitudes toward democracy, civil liberties and minority rights - No way, Jamal.

As a rule, the more a nation is governed by Islamic law and customs, the more it hates the West, supports terrorism (Iran's support for Hezbollah, Syria's support for Hamas, Al Qaeda training camps in Taliban Afghanistan. Radical mosques in the US financed by the Saudis), and covets weapons of mass jihad (witness Iran's nuclear program).

If Islam is the religion of peace, where is its St. Francis of Assisi, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mother Teresa? Where are the Islamic equivalent of the Quakers and Jehovah's Witnesses? We have the Salvation Army. They have the Army of God (so-called).

Far from making rulers more enlightened, Islam specializes in the mass production of Ayatollah Khomeinis, Osama bin Ladens, Mullah Omars, Hafez Assads and Saddam Husseins.

#7 - When a young Muslim becomes more involved with his religion, his thoughts often stray to suicide bombing.

I was in London when the latest terrorist conspiracy went down. On the evening news, I heard a BBC reporter interviewing a neighbor of one of the suspects. "He was a good lad," the neighbor opined. "Played football" (British soccer). "Recently, he became very involved with his religion" (hint: not the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints).

How often have we heard those fatal words? Born-again Christians witness and do good works. Born-again Muslims work with liquid explosives.

Converts to a cause are usually the most enthusiastic. Paul became Christianity's first missionary and foremost proselytizer.

Converts to Islam frequently end up shooting total strangers (John Muhammad and Lee Malvo), trying to detonate planes with explosives in their shoes (Richard Reid), fighting against their country (American Taliban John Walker Lindh) and fragging fellow GIs (Hassan Akbar ). When was the last time you heard of a Jewish convert going after civilians with a high-powered rifle, or a Catholic convert waging jihad to avenge Thomas Moore?

Religion usually makes people better (kinder, more compassionate and more tolerant). The religion of peace is the exception to the rule. You might say Islam is to religion as rap is to music.

#8 - Islam isn't minority friendly.

In Freedom House's 2006 Global Survey, of the 8 countries with the worst human rights records, 5 are Muslim -- Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Libya, Syria and Sudan. The other three - Cuba, North Korea and Burma -- are communist dictatorships. Cuba and North Korea are frequently aligned with radical Muslim regimes.

Which would you rather be - a Muslim living in Tel Aviv or a Jew living in Tehran? A Coptic Christian in Egypt or an Egyptian Muslim in Rome? An Orthodox Serb in Muslim Kosovo or a Turk in Germany?

Islam has the concept of the dhimmi (non-Moslem living under Islam), which is several steps below blacks in the Jim Crow South - though slightly better than Jews in Nazi Germany.

#9 - Where Have All The Moderate Muslims Gone - Long Time Passing?

If suicide bombers are radical Muslims, apologists for suicide bombers must be moderate Muslims. (In a letter to Tony Blair following the unraveling of the latest plot, 40 Muslim community leaders - including six members of Parliament -- claimed Britain's foreign policy gave "ammunition to extremists.")

If someone slaughtered hundreds of innocents in the name of Christianity, everyone from the Pope and Billy Graham to your parish priest or local pastor would denounce the crime as an obscenity - without reference to the fall of Constantinople.

Hardly a day goes by that evil isn't perpetrated in the name of Islam somewhere in the world. When it comes to denouncing same, moderate Muslims are mostly AWOL.

Occasionally, we'll hear from a Muslim not mired in the Dark Ages. Usually, they're wondering where all of the other moderate Muslims are. One is Irshad Manji, a fellow at Yale University and the author of "The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith."

Ms Manji can author such a book while safely ensconced in New Haven. If she wrote a book suggesting - or even hinting - that Islam is less than perfection, while residing anywhere in the Muslim world, she'd be dead. In fact, in many parts of the Islamic world, a woman can get in serious trouble for reading a book.

# 10 - Islam is bent on global conquest.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran ... should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth." - Omar Ahmad, founder of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

"Islam will return to Europe. The conquest need not necessarily be by the sword. Perhaps we will conquer these lands without armies. We want an army of preachers and teachers who will present Islam in all languages and all dialects." Dr. Al-Qaradawi, Egyptian-born, Qatar-based spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

"The Muslims are required to raise the banner of jihad in order to make the Word of Allah supreme in the world." posting on the website of the Islamic Affairs Department of the Saudi government. (These oil-rich fascists control roughly 80% of U.S. mosques)

"Islam is advancing according to a steady plan, to the point that tens of thousands of Muslims have joined the American army and Islam is the second largest religion in America. America will be destroyed. But we must be patient." Saudi Professor Nassar bin Suleiman al-Omar on al-Majd TV.

Within 100 years of Muhammed's death, Islam had conquered the Middle East and spread across North Africa before it was finally stopped in southern France. Today, due to immigration, one in every 10 Frenchmen is a Muslim and an estimated 50,000 convert to Islam each year.

In Britain, with 1.5 million Muslims, attendance at mosques is higher than at services for the Church of England. Islam is spreading down both coasts of Africa - in Nigeria, Kenya, the Sudan and Ethiopia -- as well as in the Balkans, former Soviet republics, Asia and the Philippines.

Whether they bury us with swords, explosives or immigration and procreation, the fate Islam has in store for us is the same.

If you don't get it, you're not paying attention. Or, perhaps your religion (liberalism) blinds you to the truth.

Islam is: A) A religion of peace B) A religion of rest in peace C) A religion that leaves you in pieces or D) A religion that wants a piece of what you have now - the rest later?


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21 posted on 09/01/2006 4:55:28 AM PDT by crghill
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To: Steel and Fire and Stone

Excellent post!


22 posted on 09/01/2006 5:28:48 AM PDT by jslade (The beatings well cease when morale improves!)
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To: roadcat
Jesus said turn the other cheek. Muhammed said cut off the other guy's cheek. The Torah says show kindness to strangers. The Koran says: If you can't convert them, kill them.

That would make a great tagline or bumper sticker if it could be shortened.

23 posted on 09/01/2006 6:54:04 AM PDT by Vigilanteman ((Do I really need a sarcasm tag?))
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To: goldstategop

Don Feder nails it!


24 posted on 09/01/2006 7:34:19 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (Mid East Ceasefire = Israel ceases but her enemies fire)
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To: Steve Van Doorn
Reading this made me think, "How bizarre is it that they actually call it "The Religion of Peace?"

Why would a religion have to declare itself "PEACEFUL?"

The Muslims think the rest of the world is stupid and if you call it "peaceful" or your terrorist organization "CAIR" then the west will not challenge you.
25 posted on 09/01/2006 7:50:06 AM PDT by msnimje (What part of-- "DEATH TO AMERICA" --do the Democrats not understand?)
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To: goldstategop

Whiff of what? Conservatives can freely criticize other Conservatives.


26 posted on 09/01/2006 10:02:50 AM PDT by freedom44
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To: goldstategop

Thanks for posting this. IMO, points #4 and #10 are the most salient.


27 posted on 09/01/2006 10:24:09 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (Make your choice and save your tears....AM YISRAEL CHAI!)
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To: gotribe
We can kill without hating, and kill we must.

Nothing personal Abu, we just need you dead. May our bullets rip through you gently.

28 posted on 09/01/2006 10:26:25 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Afghan protest - "Death to Dog Washers!")
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To: Steel and Fire and Stone; FreedomPoster

I think we had a clue re muslims prior to 9/11.

What was your first thought when the OKC Federal Building was bombed in 1995?

FreedomPoster has a thorough chronology of muslim terrorism on his homepage ...


29 posted on 09/01/2006 10:32:08 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (Make your choice and save your tears....AM YISRAEL CHAI!)
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To: DaveLoneRanger; pissant; ZULU; radar101; xzins; kinoxi; RasterMaster; nmh; ...

Pinging to a comprehensive reference work.


30 posted on 09/01/2006 10:37:11 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (Make your choice and save your tears....AM YISRAEL CHAI!)
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To: nutmeg

read later


31 posted on 09/01/2006 10:37:59 AM PDT by nutmeg (National security trumps everything else.)
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To: goldstategop
#7 - When a young Muslim becomes more involved with his religion, his thoughts often stray to suicide bombing.

Attention, Fox News! Keep an eye on Steve and his cameraman!

32 posted on 09/01/2006 10:45:38 AM PDT by Hackle
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To: hnj_00
Well Said!
33 posted on 09/01/2006 10:49:05 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: goldstategop
Thank you!

At least I'm not the only one that sees this:

"A spokesman for Britain's opposition Tory party said the passengers panicked into "behaving irrationally." Fancy that, not wanting to fly with members of a faith whose adherents keep trying to blow things up. Oh, how irrational! "

I'm "irrational" too!
34 posted on 09/01/2006 11:06:41 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: La Enchiladita

bttt


35 posted on 09/01/2006 11:58:25 AM PDT by Txsleuth (,((((((((ISRAEL))))))))) Steve and Olaf have been released...pray for the release of the Israelis..)
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To: msnimje
There is a group of Muslims that do not follow the hate that Mohammad preached.

It was during the British Occupation of India that started the Ahmadi’s. The British was looking for an Alternative to real Islam. The British government founded this religion.

The mainstream Muslims do not consider Qadiyanis (Ahmadi) Muslims.

It is imporant to note that not all Muslims are out to kill us. But because the mainstream Muslims do not conder the Ahmadi muslims they will die with us if the mainstream get that chance.

36 posted on 09/01/2006 2:48:27 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
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To: Vigilanteman
That would make a great tagline or bumper sticker if it could be shortened.

Heck, I want the whole 10 reasons list on a bumper sticker. And then I'd slap them on some muslim owned cars.

37 posted on 09/01/2006 5:24:53 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: La Enchiladita; FreedomPoster
I was definitely surprised that it was an American "war hero" who took down that OKC Federal Building. In retrospect, it would appear to me that McVay may have converted to Islam, or at least been coopted by Muslims for the task. Based on his war background, it'd be tough to see McVay as a Muslim, but maybe he found his own "post-war" peace through Islamic Jihad.

Regardsless, we've been at war with Islam for at least 35 years, or more correctly, Islam has been at war with us. I'd love to live at peace with Muslims, and discuss faith issues with them, but I'm sorry, they want to kill me.

Islamic Murder = No Peace

Every Muslim is a potential terrorist, and the best assumption based on the facts at hand is, every Muslim is a terrorist supporter or sympathizer. At this point, I want Mosques closed down, Muslims immigrants deported, and citizenship revoked.

Hot war or "cold" war, their order of battle is to integrate with our civilian population and destroy us from within. I want complete separation between Muslims and my country. I want a bright red line between them and my family. This is the must "un-PC" thing I've ever said or written, but this war is no "spin game". It's real, and we'll have "hit bravo", a nuclear, chemical, or bio strike on American soil within 5 years of we don't knock the Muslims back to the stone age now.

An important part of the battle is to deny the enemy resources to pursue the war. We've also got to get serious in becoming energy independent. Oil is used in so many manufacturing areas that we need to use non-patroleum sources for all energy, and save patroleum for manufacturing. We need to develop 1 cent per kilowatt hour energy and low conductivity technology, and then the electric and hybrid cars will sell like crazy. If the damn Democrats leftists were not so stuck on power and destroying the West, we could have the smog-free environmental paradise they claim to seek via nuclear fusion. The key to beating the Muslims is to defund them, drop oil down to $10 a barrel, and let them choke on their oil. An energy independent USA becomes the dominant economic world power for the next 100 years. But it just won't happen unless Congress deregulates energy.

SFS

38 posted on 09/01/2006 5:38:13 PM PDT by Steel and Fire and Stone
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To: Steel and Fire and Stone

Thank you. Actually, my point was we were already well schooled by 1995 to consider such an act to be muslim terrorism, so that was the first thought of most. Whether it was just a scheme of Tim McVeigh and that Terry guy is still up for debate in my view. I don't think they had any muslim connections, though.

Now, on your closing point about ending our energy dependence on the Middle East: Amen. And this is where the Dems prove to be totally worthless. Instead of working towards energy independence, which WOULD include solar, wind and biomass power among other "alternatives," they've become noisy, destructive ideologues.


39 posted on 09/01/2006 7:43:59 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Make your choice and save your tears....AM YISRAEL CHAI!)
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To: Steve Van Doorn
The British government founded this religion.

It doesn't sound like it is Islam if it was founded by the Brits. One can call an apple and orange but that doesn't make it one.
40 posted on 09/01/2006 10:47:07 PM PDT by msnimje (What part of-- "DEATH TO AMERICA" --do the Democrats not understand?)
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