Hate Thy Neighbor - An Examination of Islam

Right Side News ^ | February 19, 2008 | Aaron Velasquez

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February 19, 2008
by Aaron Velasquez
Right Side News - My curiosity about Islam was piqued in the 1990s when I was completing my masters’ degree at St. Johns College. A special section was offered on the Koran and I decided to take the class. During the semester my classmates and I read the book from cover to cover, in English and Arabic.

About halfway through the course I realized that the Koran contradicts itself. It became apparent to me that Islam couldn't help but be schizoid. Some verses said to "respect the people of the book," that is, Jews and Christians, while other verses spoke of putting the same people to the sword.

I have been following world developments with an eye to Islam since then, and it is clear to me that Islam is still a political movement intent on domination, despite the cloak of public relations calling it a “religion of peace.” I was presented an outlet for this knowledge when I was asked to write for Right Side News.

It is easy to assume the truth of the oft-repeated statements in the press and by our own President that Islam is "a religion of peace." But why do we have to keep reminding ourselves and our Muslim friends that Islam is a religion of peace? When was the last time you questioned the peacefulness of Buddhism? When was the last time the President of the United States of America came on national TV to affirm the peaceful nature of Judaism or Christianity? Plenty of folks on the left will tell you how much harm has been inflicted on others by Christians, but by and large they will reference the Crusades and slavery as proof while declaring infanticide a right.

It seems no one ever bothers to refute these arguments so I will. The Crusades happened hundreds of years ago. No bands of roving Christians are bothering people with sword and cannon now. Besides, the Crusades were a response to an invasion of Europe by Muslims, intent on conquest and conversion by the sword. The Crusades were a long time ago and the Muslims started it.

Why didn't the Christians turn the other cheek as Jesus told them to? The fault is not with the religion, but with the adherents to the religion. Perhaps they were imperfect people doing their best who got tired of being slaughtered. It is hard to love your neighbor when he takes over the neighborhood. Why did the Muslims invade Europe? Because their prophet told them to. Muslims were and are enjoined to go forth and convert people to Islam forcibly or kill them. The distinct difference is that Christians are expected to practice tolerance, but Muslims are expected to practice beheading infidels.

Until very recently, slavery, the other black mark against Christendom (pun intended) was a worldwide institution, not a Christian, or as is so often insinuated, a white institution. The people selling African slaves to Europeans were Islamic Africans. Christians cast off the moral chains of the practice of slavery after two thousand years of it being acceptable practice everywhere. Good for the Christians for finally getting it right. Yet, the Muslims in Saudi Arabia are still keeping their Filipina house slaves.

The Saudis are also funding Madrassas across the Muslim world. Madrassas are schools for Muslim boys where only the most inflammatory sections of the Koran are taught, and only the peculiarly Medieval interpretations of Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab are used to illuminate the passages. Generation after generation of young men are brought up to hate their neighbor, not love, forgive, or tolerate him.

Graduates of these schools go on to a variety of prestigious careers. Some organize operations against the West, such as the bombing of the USS Cole, the attack on the Marine baracks in Beirut, the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, and of course the demolition of 9/11/2001. Some will recruit desperate or retarded children for suicide bombings against schools, nightclubs, shops and other secular targets. When has another religion endorsed such an inversion of morals?

Yusuf Islam , AKA Cat Stevens, publicly called for the death of Salman Rushdie for writing "The Satanic Verses." Muslims plotted the death of Danish cartoonists for daring to mock their prophet in print. Islam sanctions and encourages these murder calls, or 'fatwas'. When have you ever heard of this sort of behavior sanctioned by another religion?

Who would call for my death after publishing this article, and what religion would they belong to? I have small children, and it has crossed my mind that I should use a pen name. Evidence proclaims that Islam is a not a religion, not of peace, but a political movement of violent conquest. It is true that not all Muslims are violent, and that not all sects of Islam preach violence, but the Koran still encourages it. The religion is flawed because the book is flawed. We can only hope that sane Muslims continue to purposefully overlook the sections of their holy book that tell them to cut off our heads.
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Aaron Velasquez, Sleuth of the Realm and co-founder of The Clue Society.
Right Side News, Your online newspaper, publishing accurate information about threats against Western civilization.

[yldstrk]

Do not tolerate intolerance

[Emmett McCarthy]

The koran is merely the ravings of a lunatic peophile overtaken by a demonic moon god. I’m glad this author studied it, though, and especially that he also did it in arabic because that’s the standard muslim cover for it “If you can’t read it in arabic, you don’t understand it and can’t comment on it”. Words have different meanings in arabic. For example, “peace” means “death to infidels”.

[elcid1970]

Nothing in this entire and learned thread should come as a surprise to any rational thinking person.

And yet shall it be for far too many of us.

Oh we infidels! The Muslim is not our friend. Let us look to our own survival, and govern ourselves accordingly.

[rdl6989]

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Words have different meanings in arabic. For example, “peace” means “death to infidels”.

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

[sageb1]

BLOGGING THE QUR'AN by ROBERT SPENCER

[trailboss800]

Ping

[Defiant]

Who is this Velasquez? I kill you!!!

[Wil H]

It is true that not all Muslims are violent, and that not all sects of Islam preach violence, ...

Correct, a recent poll of 50,000 Muslims showed that 93% were peace loving.

So that's OK then, there are, by that reckoning, only 91 MILLION of them that are blood thirsty bastards that want to slit our throats!

[Biggirl]

“It is true that not all Muslims are violent, and that not all sects of Islam preach violence, ...
Correct, a recent poll of 50,000 Muslims showed that 93% were peace loving.

So that’s OK then, there are, by that reckoning, only 91 MILLION of them that are blood thirsty bastards that want to slit our throats!”

Not suprising for the 93% of Muslims saying they are peace loving. When asked in public that response “being peace loving” will be their answer. But it all changes when it comes to private thinking and the support goes to the 91 million jihadis.

[Biggirl]

“The Crusades were a long time ago and the Muslims started it. “

The writer is right for putting the blame where it truly belongs, on the Muslims at the time who attacked both Christians and the Christian shrines once and for all.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

A special section was offered on the Koran and I decided to take the class. During the semester my classmates and I read the book from cover to cover, in English and Arabic. About halfway through the course I realized that the Koran contradicts itself.

This raises a question or two! It sounds as if the writer just spontaneously decided to take a course on the Koran. And thereupon read it not only in English but in Arabic. Well, you need to know a lot of Arabic to read the Koran, and you can't learn it without studying the Koran. Nobody, but nobody, teaches the Arabic of the Koran without using the Koran. Yet it is only halfway through the course that he realizes the Koran is contradictory?

[Lucky Dog]

You are correct. It is wearisome to note the number of those who are apparently willfully ignorant, especially of the history of the Crusades and the Christian New Testament.

Christians are taught from the Originator of their faith that their second greatest commandment is to “love their neighbors as themselves.” In another instance, this same Individual taught them that when physically insulted, to “turn the other cheek.” In yet another instance, the same Individual stated, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” It seems pretty obvious that Christianity is a peaceful religion. However, a moral dilemma can arise in certain circumstances.

How is a Christian supposed to react when one neighbor or group of neighbors is killing, enslaving, etc., another neighbor or group of neighbors and is not influenced by diligent, non-violent attempts at “peacemaking?” The command to “love one’s neighbor” obviously extends equally to both sides. The answer to this dilemma is the origins of the concept of the Christian “just war” doctrine.

History is unambiguous with regard to the Mohammedan “conquest by the sword” of Byzantium lands in what is, today, known as the Middle East and northern Africa. Furthermore, history is also undisputed concerning the officially sanctioned attacks on, and murders of, Christian pilgrims visiting the Middle East just prior to the Crusades. These historical circumstances certainly seem to fit the criteria for a “just war.”

One can potentially be critical of the conduct of the Crusades in terms of “non-Christian” behavior by some of those who were engaged in the conflict. However, it is important to note that, outside of combat, those engaged in any reprehensible conduct were not adhering to the tenants of Christianity even under the color of a “just war.” Therefore, their conduct cannot justifiably “be laid at the foot of the Christian faith” and is rightly condemned.

Unfortunately, the same assertion cannot be made honestly concerning the atrocities committed by Mohammedan faith adherents, either, currently, or historically. As the author has correctly noted, murder, slavery, lying, thievery, etc., are justified within the covers of the Koran as long as Muslims are committing these atrocities against “kafirs” (unbelievers).

With the attacks on 11 Sep 01 on innocent civilians, various airliners, cruise ships, Olympic athletes, rocketing of villages, slaughter of journalists, genocide in Darfur, etc., we are, again, witnessing the killing, enslaving, etc., of a neighbor or group of neighbors by another group of neighbors who are not influenced by diligent, non-violent attempts at “peacemaking.” …and the correct response is?...

[Biggirl]

Just war.

The truth is that for too long, Moslims have been treated as the victims when in truth they are the agressers. But slowly there is a growing angry backlash against Islamofacism, proof is the famous Danish Mohammed cartoons, showing in picture form, enough is enough.

[Lucky Dog]

But slowly there is a growing angry backlash against Islamofacism…

Unfortunately, I fear this backlash to which you refer is not growing either fast enough nor widely enough. By the time, this backlash reaches sufficient proportions to be of consequence in combating Islamofacism it may, well, be too late.

… proof is the famous Danish Mohammed cartoons…

I fear that overwhelming force of arms combined with a properly executed, coherent political and economic strategy, not cartoons, are what is going to be required. Unfortunately, I see these requirements being thwarted by dim-witted, politically correct, socialistic traitors in the midst of Western Civilization.

[Biggirl]

....But the Muhammed cartoons is a start.

[Lucky Dog]

....But the Muhammed cartoons is a start.

The question remains: Is it enough of a start, soon enough and effective enough?

Will it trump the ill-conceived counters by the mavens of political correctness?

It hasn't so far...

[Biggirl]

It picked up on the internet, the famous superinformation highway. One site, Jihadwatch.org really has gotten into it.

[moonman]

LOL I have that DVD. The guy is very good!