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Resolving the Cognitive Dissonance of Islam
American Thinker ^ | November 06, 2009 | D.L. Adams

Posted on 11/05/2009 11:35:37 PM PST by 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:

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cognitivedissonance; islam; quransyndrome; stealthjihad; trop
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To: JohnLongIsland
I saw last night on Larry King, they tried to vilify anyone that suggested the killings are related to Islam.

What they are waking up to this morning is that this is the sole reason these people were killed. ISLAM.

Our Islamic Kenyan President, Hussien, has some explaining to do this morning. He is the CIC. I want to know what the hell he plans on doing to stop Mohammedans from killing Americans!!! I am Pissed off.

21 posted on 11/06/2009 2:01:12 AM PST by PA-RIVER (Don't blame me. I voted for the American guy.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Will Mr. Hussien meet with Mr. Hassan, have a beer and discuss Islam? Or will he call for his execution?


22 posted on 11/06/2009 2:06:31 AM PST by PA-RIVER (Don't blame me. I voted for the American guy.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
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...

Maybe do this -- a proposed constitutional amendment to ban Islam

23 posted on 11/06/2009 2:13:19 AM PST by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: PA-RIVER
I want to know what the hell he plans on doing to stop Mohammedans from killing Americans!!! I am Pissed off.

Like any other decision he has to make during crunch time: go shoot hoops.

24 posted on 11/06/2009 2:36:02 AM PST by JohnLongIsland
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To: neverdem

Perhaps our societies biggest failing is our blind respect for all religions, regardless of what they teach.


25 posted on 11/06/2009 3:28:56 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: flash2368

The Leftwingtards and Moslems share up to 99% of the same set of wrong beliefs.


26 posted on 11/06/2009 3:42:56 AM PST by muawiyah (Git Out The Way)
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To: flash2368

The Leftwingtards and Moslems share up to 99% of the same set of wrong beliefs.


27 posted on 11/06/2009 3:43:00 AM PST by muawiyah (Git Out The Way)
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To: 1776 Reborn

Then we must recognize that Islam is not a religion but instead a cult that requires it’s followers to kill anyone that does not obey them, enslave all those that will not submit to their laws, rapes those children that are born into it, and lastly attacks all other religions with a hatred unmatched by any other religion.

It is not bigoted or racists to say these things are true, the Koran and the writing of Mohammed’s wives and followers state that this is what they believe is their path to glory.

Murder, rape, slavery, mutilation, are all allowed under their “holy” laws against us, the nonbelievers of islam, the Koran demands it of them.


28 posted on 11/06/2009 4:02:47 AM PST by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: usmcobra
Exactly, but our own cultural beliefs (and laws) are our biggest impediment in protecting ourselves.
29 posted on 11/06/2009 4:11:23 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: neverdem
After WWII, our immigration authorities had a question on immigration forms. Not the exact wording, but it asked if the potential immigrant was or had been a member of an organization that advocated the violent overthrow of the US Government. This was to pick out people, who were Nazis or Communists.

We need a similar question today. Do you believe in Jihad or Sharia Law and overturning the US Constitution? So, if Muslim immigrants start ranting about Jihad, we'll now have a legal basis for deporting them.

30 posted on 11/06/2009 5:05:16 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: neverdem

Did Homeland Security and the Brass at Walter Reed ignore his rantings, promoted him and sent him to Ft Hood?

Mark Stein does a great job of shredding the pc bs and getting to reality of Islamic Killers in America and around the world:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380112/posts

MARK STEYN: MULTICULTURAL ILLUSIONS KILL - NO STRATEGY TO DEFEND AGAINST IDEOLOGY
dakota beacon ^ | November 06, 2009 | Mark Steyn

Posted on Friday, November 06, 2009 9:36:18 AM by Mount Athos

Thirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the US military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it is not merely a “tragedy” (as too many people called it) but a glimpse of a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of what we have called, since 9/11, the “war on terror”. Brave soldiers trained to hunt down and kill America’s enemy abroad were killed in the safety and security of home by, in essence, the same enemy – a man who believes in and supports everything the enemy does.

And he’s a US Army major.

And his superior officers and other authorities knew about his beliefs but seemed to think it was just a bit of harmless multicultural diversity – as if believing that “the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor” (ie, his fellow American soldiers) and writing Internet paeans to the “noble” “heroism” of suicide bombers and, indeed, objectively supporting the other side in an active war is to be regarded as just some kind of alternative lifestyle that adds to the general vibrancy of the base.

When it emerged early on Thursday afternoon that the shooter was Nidal Malik Hasan, there appeared shortly thereafter on Twitter a flurry of posts with the striking formulation: “Please judge Major Malik Nadal [sic] by his actions and not by his name.”

The above is an excerpt. Go to the link below for Mark’s complete oped.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380112/posts


31 posted on 11/06/2009 10:40:54 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: neverdem

I’m despairing that this country collectively will ever understand what this thread says. The evidence has been here for a long time, and was clarified on 9/11 and many other times since that time. It’s clear and obvious to me and the person who posted this thread.

Someone asks “what will it take ...?”

At this moment, I don’t think that there’s any attack, any atrocity, any mass murder that will change the collective mind of this country.

Why? because today there’s more outrage over people who sound the warning than over the actual killings. That’s why.

Mass deportations.


32 posted on 11/06/2009 12:07:50 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (both the left and the jihadis want to destroy Western Civilization)
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To: neverdem

Thanks for the ping!


33 posted on 11/06/2009 9:24:13 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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