Resolving the Cognitive Dissonance of Islam

American Thinker ^ | November 06, 2009 | D.L. Adams

[neverdem]

The negative spiritual and intellectual consequence of believing two mutually exclusive concepts is "cognitive dissonance." Our interaction as a society with Islam is a direct cause of "cognitive dissonance" for us as individuals and as a culture. 

Resolution of the contradiction requires the rejection of one of the concepts as false. If we continue to ignore our cognitive dissonance about Islam the consequences are dire: we will lose our civilization.

Islam is much more than a religion; it is a complete civilization that includes politics (caliphate), jurisprudence (Sharia law), war (jihad), and a deliberately misleading "religion of peace." The doctrine of Islam is found in three books: Koran (the literal word of Allah as "revealed" to Mohammed), Sira (Mohammad's biography), and Hadith (stories about and sayings of Mohammed by contemporaries). The definitive text of Sharia law is "Reliance of the Traveller." Allah and Mohammed are to be obeyed, not questioned. "Islam" means "submission;" a Muslim is "one who submits." "Islam" does not mean "peace."

Say: Obey Allah and the Apostle; but if they turn back, then surely Allah does not love the unbelievers. (Koran,3:32)

O you who believe! Obey Allah and His Apostle and do not turn back from Him while you hear. (Koran, 8:20)

O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil). (Koran, 9:123)

The purpose of the Islamic doctrine is the destruction of all cultures that are not Islamic and expansion of Islam until the entire world is under Islamic rule and Sharia law.

 

O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be hard against them; and their abode is hell; and evil is the resort. (Koran, 66:9)

Saed had been right about taking prisoners after the battle: take no prisoners until Islam has made all submit. They were to forget the ransom and the money, Mohammed said, because submission of the non-believers was all that mattered. (Sira:Ishaq:484 - Mohammed and the Unbelievers: A Political Life, Center for the Study of Political Islam, 2006, p.71)

And fight with them until there is no persecution, and religion should be only for Allah, but if they desist, then there should be no hostility except against the oppressors. (Koran, 2:193)

It is difficult for many to accept that such an ideology can be real and that people kill and die for it; we see the truth of Islam in word and deed but pretend that it is not so.  According to Sharia law (Islamic law) Islam abrogates, that is "cancels," all other religions.

Previously revealed religions were valid in their own eras, as is attested to by many verses of the Holy Koran, but were abrogated by the universal message of Islam as is equally attested to by many verses of the Koran.

...It is unbelief (kufr) to hold that the remnant cults now bearing the names of formerly valid religions, such as "Christianity" or "Judaism," are acceptable to Allah Most High after He has sent the final Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace) to the entire world. (Reliance of the Traveller, w4.0(2))

Our national cognitive dissonance began immediately after 9/11 when President George Bush visited the Islamic Center of Washington on September 17, 2001, and said, "Islam is peace." President Obama has reiterated this misperception of Islam specifically in his recent speech of apology in Cairo to the "Muslim World."

The contradiction of Islam upon which our cognitive dissonance is based is this: Islam is benevolent and peaceful, and Islam is violent and hostile. Both positions cannot be true.

Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. (Koran:9:29)

You will find others who desire that they should be safe from you and secure from their own people; as often as they are sent back to the mischief they get thrown into it headlong; therefore if they do not withdraw from you, and (do not) offer you peace and restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them; and against these We have given you a clear authority. (Koran, 4:91)

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah 's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,' and whoever says, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,' his life and property will be saved by me except for Islamic law, and his accounts will be with Allah, (either to punish him or to forgive him.)" (Bukhari, Hadith, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 196)

The majority of the doctrine of Islam is about how Muslims are to interact with non-Muslims; it is essentially about - us. Statistical analysis of the doctrine of Islam by Dr. Bill Warner of the Center for the Study of Political Islam is enlightening:

• 62% of Koran is devoted to how Islam interacts with the kafir (the unbeliever).
• 98% of the Sira is devoted to the struggle against kafirs. (70% is jihad; 28% is argument and insults.)
• 20% of Bukhari Hadith is devoted to jihad.

The evidence to resolve our societal cognitive dissonance about Islam is readily available and painfully obvious.

Lo! those who disbelieve, among the People of the Scripture and the idolaters, will abide in fire of hell. They are the worst of created beings. (Koran, 98:6)

Islamist mass murderers and terrorists/jihadists are not "hijackers of Islam," they are not "misunderstanders" of Islam; they are the devout followers of a political ideology that is hostile to our existence because we are not Muslims.

We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and evil is the abode of the unjust. (Koran, 3:151)

Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due (jizya tax), then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (Koran, 9:5)

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) which is under a cloud of suspicion (see "Muslim Mafia" by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry) has been the leading espouser of Islamic "understanding" in America. CAIR's mission statement that it is "to be a leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding" is not, according to their founder, their true purpose.

Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "Khosrau will be ruined, and there will be no Khosrau after him, and Caesar will surely be ruined and there will be no Caesar after him, and you will spend their treasures in Allah's Cause." He called, ‘War is deceit'. (Bukhari, Hadith, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 267)

CAIR's founder, Omar Ahmad, said in 1998 that "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran . . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth." (San Ramon, CA., Valley Herald, 7/04/1998.)

So obey not the disbelievers, but strive against them herewith with a great endeavour. (Koran, 25:52)

If our culture and society are to survive we must accept the truth of the world and of Islam though it is not what we would prefer.

Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not. (Koran, 2:216)

Our cognitive dissonance will be resolved only with honesty and knowledge. Islam is not a "religion of peace." If we are unsuccessful in resolving the cognitive dissonance which results from our confused view of Islam we will lose our civilization.

DL Adams is a co-founder of Stop Islamization of America. SIOANETWORK.COM

[MestaMachine]

WHAT is it going to take??? How long are people going to keep thinking they will “assimilate?” They do NOT want freedom. islam MEANS SUBMISSION! They do not want ANYONE to have freedom. If you do not submit, you are dead. You can’t come back and say I made a mistake if you are DEAD!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Satanist political death cult. Mohammadanism in a nutshell.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Funny thing is, if every person on this planet became a Mohammadan tomorrow, it would change little, because then they kill each other over the “proper intepretation” of the Satanic verses- er - Koran.

Mohammadanism has no place amongst the civilized nations of the 21st century. It is anathema to humanity, to reason, and to life itself.

[piytar]

Pretty solid and accurate piece. When will America wake up? And how can it with an islamic sympathizer (at best) in the White House?

[ruination]

Since the great American assimilation machine drove into a ditch many years ago, this is now an immigration issue.

[piytar]

“WHAT is it going to take???”

American and European cities (plural) being nuked or burned to the ground. And even that won’t be enough for many libs because liberalism really is a mental disorder with its own set of beliefs that could not exist without cognitive dissonance.

[Ulysse]

OBAMA is affected by COGNITIVE DISSONANCE....as he dreams with his father!

This need to be cured

[truth_seeker]

“OBAMA is affected by COGNITIVE DISSONANCE....as he dreams with his father!”

Barrack Hussein Obama

Malik Nadal Hasan

Obama is Hasan

Obama is Acorn

This should push democrat elected officials, independent voters away from Obama.

[MestaMachine]

It has had no place among civilized peoples since its inception. And before it became islam, it was Amalek. Same people, same tradition, and they were never anything but cowards. They attacked the weakest, the youngest, (women in particular for breeding purposes,) and the elderly. They attacked people in their sleep. They were slavers then, and still are six thousand years later. They never created anything or contributed anything to the world except terror and evil. And that is all they do today. Even their poetry, which THEY think is beautiful, celebrates death, murder, is gruesome, and full of bloodsport.
Unless you have never seen it out of its bright shiny wrapping, you have no idea what a literal, insectlike swarm they are. Blood sends them into orgasmic orgies. Mutilating dead bodies or dying bodies is a frenzy of horror the likes of which the West has no understanding.

[VR-21]

The author is correct that Islam has been a mortal enemy of western civilization for centuries. It is the absolute height of stupidity to expect muslims to have any loyalty to this country or anything but hatred for we who live in it. To trust a muslim is no different than trusting a venemous reptile.

[timetostand]

Britan and Europe are being over run and America is being laid to waste. And when they have weakened the US enough Take heart! it will all come down to the big Boom!!

[flash2368]

We say: “Muslims are peaceful” they hear: “infidels are stupid”

I guess it will take a nuke set off by muslims in a western city before we wake up...and then there will still be libtards who blame us for it because we were not understanding of islam.

EVERYONE who is not islamic is at war with them and until we take that attitude WE LOSE.

[neverdem]

After Ft Hood, end stupid gun free zones.

NRA: Ban adoption agencies from asking about gun ownership

Just Reverting To Norm After Anomaly Of '08 Krauthammer is on the money!

Election results rattle some Democrats

The melting snows of Kilimanjaro

Some noteworthy articles about politics, foreign or military affairs, IMHO, FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.

[Fred Nerks]

Genocide committed in the name of Allah: 3,000,000 Bangladeshi Hindus Killed during the Pakistan-Bangladesh war in 1971. From 1894 to 1896 Abdul Hamid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, killed 150,000 Armenian Christians. In India, Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur along with his disciples was burned to death by the Moghul ruler Aurangzeb in 1675. Another Sikh, Bhai Mati Das was sawn into right and left halves while he was still alive. In July 1974, 4,000 Christians living in Cyprus were killed by Fahri Koroturk, president of Turkey and his Islamic army. From 1843 to 1846 10,000 Assyrian Christians including women and children were massacred by the Muslims. From 1915 to 1918 750,000 Assyrians were killed in the name of Islamic Jihad. In 1933 thousands of Assyrian villagers were murdered by the Iraqi soldiers in Northern Iraq. Since 1990 more than 10,000 Kashmiri Hindus have been brutally murdered by Islamic fundamentalists. Over 280,000 Ugandans killed during the reign of Idi Amin from 1971 to 1979. Over 30,000 Mauritanians have been killed by the Islamic dictators since 1960. In 1980, 20,000 Syrians were murdered under the rule of Hafez Al-Assad, President of Syria. Since 1992 120,000 Algerians have been murdered by the Islamic fundamentalist army.

http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/

[JohnLongIsland]

The left is going to make a martyr and a hero from this person.

[Vanders9]

That’s the exact problem with all theocratic rule. Because their authority comes from a higher power, it follows that authority cannot be questioned. Dissenters are not only against the theocrats, they are, literally, “against” “God”. Its a very static system of rule.

[momincombatboots]

No kidding. When a disaster strikes anywhere in the world, do they respond? NO. I know The Bible inside & out and the violence inside it, but The Spirit makes the difference.

[PA-RIVER]

Islam. By nature, a truly satanic cult.

I might support a government run health care system if there was an intervention program in it to deprogram Mohammedans and shut down all mosques. This would include removing the Islamic Kenyan from the oval office and deporting him back to the Islamic countries of citizenship identified on his earlier passports.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

...if there was an intervention program in it to deprogram Mohammedans and shut down all mosques.

There is a program in the R.I.C.O. Act... Islam is a criminal organization, incarcerate the clerics and seize all the property of the mosques...