Posted on 08/24/2008 8:18:38 AM PDT by SJackson
Persecution of Christians and Jews is not new in this world. Although such condemnation for religious beliefs goes back thousands of years, Nazi Germany developed it into an art form with the wholesale murder of Jewish people. Of course, the Nazis didn't limit atrocities to Jews, they spread their horror around but Nazis were mainly interested in eliminating the Jewish population.
In their hatred of Jews, they were not alone; Muslims aided and abetted the Nazis since they shared a belief system that relegated Jews to the category of "dogs and apes", as the Koran teaches Islamic adherents. However, unlike the Nazis, Muslims disdain all religions other than Islam. While Muslims complain bitterly about any perceived insult to Islam and any acts of disrespect for the Koran, it is not only accepted but prescribed by Islam to destroy the Holy Bible and those who worship the word of God as opposed to the Islamic reverence of Allah.
Muslims have succeeded in intimidating much of the world so that by actual and the threatened violence the Western World accepts restrictions on freedom of expression lest Muslims be offended. The prime mover of this pressure on the world is the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). With the help of endless petrodollars and fear of violating political correctness, the OIC has managed to have their way across the globe; they have also become the largest lobbying body of nations within the United Nations and are urging an anti-Christian and Jewish agenda with full force.
The Organization of the Islamic conference has actually succeeded in attaining passage of UN resolution in the General assemble called "Combating Defamation of Religions." This harmless sounding title is in reality a deceptive name for targeting men and women of faith who speak out in any way against Islam or reveal the atrocities committed in the name of Islam on behalf of Allah. If Muslims had their way, not only would discrimination against Christians and Jews be practiced universally but any proclamation of a faith other than Islam would be punishable by imprisonment or even death. Supreme Court Justice Scalia said in a recent dissent, "America is at war with radical Islamists"; in this he was not only correct, he was issuing a warning to the world that to overlook or ignore the intrusion on civil rights by these enemies of freedom would result in the worst form of tyranny not seen since the Nazi regime.
As the American Center of Law and Justice wrote recently:
"We are seeing worldwide persecution of Christians as part of the radical Muslim mission to "take the world for Islam" - by purging Christianity from the face of the earth.
"In Saudi Arabia, a Muslim father violently cut out his young daughter's tongue and burned her alive upon learning she had become a Christian. In Africa, a leading Gospel singer was seized, stuffed into a cargo box - with a single hole for air - and left for a month to go crazy or die. After two years, she was released, fled her captive country, and was granted political asylum in Denmark. In Iran, a couple was tortured for reading the Bible. Two men in Algeria were tried and convicted for possessing Christian books. And today we face extremely dangerous threats everywhere because of the one posed by the OIC."
Dr. Andrew Bostom, editor of the book The Legacy of Jihad about Islamic anti-Semitism, warns that the 57 Muslim nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference are trying to impose Islamic blasphemy law -- which includes the death penalty for those who "blaspheme" the Muslim prophet Muhammad -- as the universal standard across the world. These sentiments of the OIC were repeated more brazenly by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. During a sermon in response to the Danish Muhammad cartoons which were published February 2006, Qaradawi demanded action from the United Nations in accordance with Sharia-based conceptions of blasphemy: "...the governments [of the world] must be pressured to demand that the U.N. adopt a clear resolution or law that categorically prohibits affronts to prophets-to the prophets of the Lord and his Messengers, to His holy books, and to the religious holy places."
This abomination that he is talking about is not a religion. It is a world-domination movement cleverly disguised as a religion.
The best-kept secret in the U.S. about the Holocaust is that Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews.
****Now we know where Barack got his “57 states” from! ****
I thought it was the Heinz bottle’s “57 communists” in the state department in the 1962 film MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.;-)
57 Muslim nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference are trying to impose Islamic blasphemy law
Saaaay, you don’t suppose Barrack got his 57 states from HERE?
Religion? I don’t buy it. Never have; never will.”
The Fourth Reich??
Don't forget Kenya, where it's being imposed as a result of pressure from Obama's cousin. Who he campaigned for. In Kenya. As a US Senator.
Not sure how it relates to Islam, but most people know that.
Islam is a system of law (Sharia), a social welfare system (Lebanon), a system of government (Taliban), a group of societal norms (treatment of women,) as well as a religion. It is completely incompatible with the English and American tenets of law, a republic with democratic elements, and civil and human rights. It can only be compatible if exercised in the same manner as other religions - subordinate to our legal system, government system, civil rights and beliefs in freedom of the individual - including non-Muslims.”
Also only compatible with 7th Century standards of living...
Islam is evil. Islam is unadulterated evil and on and on and on.
I disagree, I think Muslims would at best extend that concept only to fellow Muslims, and wouldn't look to Jesus as the source of their teachings. Jews would look to Leviticus for the teaching.
Funny coincidence.
In his book On War Against the Turk written in 1529, a half a millenia ago, Luther demonstrated that he had a good understanding of Islam and the threat it posed for all Christians and Christian lands. He understood that in Islamic lands Christians were not allowed to preach or confess Christ. Luther wrote this about the Koran and Islam:
“I have some pieces of Mohammed’’s Koran which might be called in German a book of sermons or doctrines of the kind that we call pope’’s decretals. When I have time, I must put it into German so that every man may see what a foul and shameful book it is. In the first place, he praises Christ and Mary very much as those who alone were without sin, and yet he believes nothing more of Christ than that he is a holy prophet, like Jeremiah or Jonah, and denies that he is God’’s Son and true God. Besides, he does not believe that Christ is the Savior of the world, Who died for our sins, but that He preached to His own time, and completed His work before His death, just like any other prophet. On the other hand, he praises and exalts himself highly and boasts that he has talked with God and the angels, and that since Christ’’s office of prophet is now complete, it has been commanded to him to bring the world to his faith and if the world is not willing, to compel it or punish it with the sword; and there is much glorification of the sword in it. Therefore, the Turks think their Mohammed much higher and greater than Christ, for the office of Christ has ended and Mohammed’’s office is still in force.
From this anyone can easily observe that Mohammed is a destroyer of our Lord Christ and His kingdom, and if anyone denies concerning Christ, that He is God’’s Son and has died for us, and still lives and reigns at the right hand of God, what has he left of Christ? Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Baptism, the Sacrament, Gospel, Faith and all Christian doctrine and life are gone, and there is left, instead of Christ, nothing more than Mohammed with his doctrine of works and especially of the sword. That is the chief doctrine of the Turkish faith in which all abominations, all errors, all devils are piled up in one heap.”
“In the second place, the Turk’’s Koran, or creed, teaches him to destroy not only the Christian faith, but also the whole temporal government. His Mohammed, as has been said, commands that ruling is to be done by the sword, and in his Koran the sword is the commonest and noblest work.”
>>>This comes as a surprise to whom?<<<
I was thinking the same thing. Of course Islam threatens religious freedom - along with all other forms of liberty and freedom. If Islam manages to gain solid hold of most of humanity, we’re in a prolonged dark ages that will make medieval Europe look like Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
I guess that also makes me a bigot. *sigh*
How did we get to a place where supporting individual freedom and liberty puts us on the defensive?
The Muslim threat to freedom of speech is a secondary effect of the Muslim threat to freedom of religion.
Actually secondary to our right of life, without which there is no liberty or pursuit of happiness. We have to be alive to enjoy our rights
Personally, I think it is wise to point out to Christians that they are also targets for death. That their own fate is tied to that of the Jews.
Look no farther than who is sitting behind the desk of any and all newsrooms and at the head of the dnc. For starters.
Did you see that Obama has a Muslim speaking at his convention, leading the inter-faith conference? The woman teaches tolerance, I’m not sure if that is tolerance of Christians and Jews by Muslims or the other way around, but I thought that tolerance was a demeaning term, at least it is when it is applied to race. I don’t think that the DNC would advocate tolerance of Blacks.
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