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Is polygamy the cause of Muslim violence?
Human Events ^ | February 18, 2014 | William Tucker

Posted on 02/23/2014 1:15:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Syria is submerged in civil war. The Sunni and the Shi’ia of Iraq are renewing their 1300-year-old conflict. Libyan rebels have shut down the nation’s oil industry. Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has been suppressed and is resorting to terrorism. Pakistan is a cauldron of violence and assassinations. In short, the Muslim world, as usual, is at war with itself.

This is not a contemporary phenomenon. Islam has been attacking its neighbors ever since the Prophet Mohammed received the Koran from the Angel Gabriel in the 7th century. Within 50 years of his death, Muslim armies had conquered the known world from Spain to Afghanistan. The Moguls invaded India, setting off a conflict that persists today. The Ottoman Empire besieged Europe for hundreds of years before its collapse in the 20th century. As historian Samuel Huntington has written, Islam has always had “bloody borders.”

Is there any explanation for this? Is it temperament or history? Is it the inevitable fight over scarce resources? Or, as Muslim cultures would insist, is it because Islam has always been surrounded by hostile neighbors?

In my book, Marriage and Civilization, I offer a novel explanation as to why Islam has always been at war with itself and others. It is because Islam it is the only major religious culture that embraces polygamy.

Polygamy? What does that have to do with anything? Am I suggesting that because some minor sheik outside Baghdad takes two wives, two young Muslim brothers in Massachusetts feel compelled to blow up the Boston Marathon?

Well, yes. In any human society there are approximately the same number of men and women. Under monogamy, which limits each man to one wife, everyone gets a fair chance to marry. When powerful and successful men are allowed to take more than one wife, however, as they are in a polygamous society, this creates a pool of unsuccessful men at the bottom of society who are constantly in conflict with the system.

The history of Islam has been one continuous story of rebel groups off in the desert and deciding that the religion being practiced by the authorities and their harems back in the cities is not the “true Islam.” They come crashing back upon the palaces, overthrowing the leaders (no Ottoman Sultan ever died of natural causes) and establishing a new regime that is just like the old one, where powerful are allowed to take multiple wives.

The Prophet Muhammad had a novel solution to this problem. Go and conquer neighboring societies and requisition their women. If you die in the process, the reward will be even greater – 72 virgins waiting for you in heaven! “Jihad” has been a clever and effective way of redirecting the hostilities of the “bachelor herd” that polygamy inevitably produces.

The fruits of polygamy are visible all over the Middle East. Because women are always in short supply, families can charge a “bride price” to any man who wants to marry their daughter. Because daughters are now worth money, they must be veiled and sequestered so they don’t run off with some callow youth. Older men desperate for wives push down into younger and younger cohorts of the population. Marriages between 35-year-old men and 13-year-old girls become common. (Muhammad’s last wife was age six.)

But the main product of polygamy is a population of angry young men who are ripe recruits for terrorism. The Koran supposedly limits a man to four wives but in countries where there are vast disparities of wealth this is routinely violated. Osama bin Laden’s father, a successful Saudi businessman, had 22 wives and 54 children. The unbalance between unmarried men and the available women in Saudi Arabia is the highest in the world. Is it any wonder that 15 of the 19 September 11th hijackers were Saudi nationals?

Ann Coulter once suggested that we would cure Muslim violence by converting the Islamic world to Christianity. This is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Christianity’s long enforcement of monogamous marriage has obviously played a critical role in establishing the more peaceful civilization of the West. The same can be said for China and India, where the vast majority adhere to monogamy. None of these cultures is plagued with the endless internal violence and outward aggression of Islam.

Converting the Muslim world to Christianity may be out of the question, but persuading it to give up polygamy on the grounds that it creates an inherently unstable society is a task that the rest of the world might be willing to undertake.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; War on Terror
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To: restornu
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

 
 

JESUS: Hey Smith! Remember that boast you made about doing more than even I had done to hold the 'church' together?

JOSEPH SMITH: Where am I?

JESUS: Don't you remember? A few seconds ago you were in that jail.

JOSEPH SMITH: Oh; yeah; but where am I NOW?

JESUS: Don't you remember? Does bang - bang ring a bell?

JOSEPH SMITH: Oh; yeah - that crummy gun I had was about USELESS!

JESUS: I hope you left instructions on how to hold your church together.

JOSEPH SMITH: Dang! I knew there was SOMETHING I was forgetting!

JESUS: Looks like there's a power struggle going on down there.

JOSEPH SMITH: Yeah; there was always SOMEone who wanted the power that I held - especially over the LADIES - wink wink.

JESUS: No need to worry about that now; remember what my friend Matthew wrote down?

JOSEPH SMITH: This? “At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven” (Matthew 22:30)

JESUS: That's it.

JOSEPH SMITH: I thought that was mistranslated.

JESUS: Nah - it was right.

JOSEPH SMITH: Oh well; it was fun while it lasted. My buds will still get it on with the girls.

JESUS: Uh; I'm sorry; in just a few more years; your followers will cavein to the United States government and abandon the 'Eternal Covenant' that you came up with.

JOSEPH SMITH: ME!? YOU are the one that told me to do that!

JESUS: Sorry; but you must have mistranslated what I told you. What part of Do NOT commit ADULTERY did you not understand?

JOSEPH SMITH: mumble....

JESUS: What did you say?

JOSEPH SMITH: Oh, nothing.

JESUS: Well; it was interesting talking to you; but now I must get back to perparing a place for those who believe in Me.

JOSEPH SMITH: Oh, yeah; the Celestial Kingdom.

JESUS: No...

JOSEPH SMITH: The Telestial one?

JESUS: Nope.

JOSEPH SMITH: SUREly not the TERRESTRIAL one!!

JESUS: Nope. Didn't you read that the mind of man had NOT conceived of it? Paul wrote it down in 1 Corinthians 2:9.

JOSEPH SMITH: I thought that was mistranslated.

JESUS: No; it wasn't.

JOSEPH SMITH: You SURE?

JESUS: Yes. Now I must be going: what did you say your name was again?

JOSEPH SMITH: Joseph Smith.

JESUS: Hmmmm. According to my Heavenly FAITHbook, you didn't sign in as one of my friends - sorry, I never knew you.

JOSEPH SMITH: But....

141 posted on 02/24/2014 3:02:37 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: restornu
I got to go its been fun chatting with a child who is on the road to ruination.

A child, chatting with DEMONS, has set YOU on the BROADway!



142 posted on 02/24/2014 3:04:12 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: restornu

Our Father
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The LORD Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God called God His Father...”My Father” because God is His father...

He told us believers to call God “our Father” because God is our Father if we are born again in water and in spirit..

Jesus said “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” Matthew 5:9

and Jesus also said “But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

John said “Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” John 1:12, 13

and John also said “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” 1 John 3”1, 2

Paul said “Before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, Galatians for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:23-29

Paul also said “those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.” Romans 8:14-16

and Paul also said “But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are His sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father. So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are His child, God has made you also an heir.” Galations 4:4-7

so although we don’t start out as the children of God once we are saved we are adopted by God.

God only ever had one child, His Son, Jesus. Humans can become the sons and daughters of God through adoption when we are born again...

and we know that we are the children of God...

and thats why I know I am a beloved child of the most High God, adopted by Him, grafted into the vine..


143 posted on 02/24/2014 3:15:33 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Elsie; Tennessee Nana

I thought that would get your goat!:)


144 posted on 02/24/2014 3:24:03 PM PST by restornu
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To: Tennessee Nana

My bible, a St. James version, in a chronology lists specifically and explicitly the Lords Prayer in Mt.6:9. Mt. 6:9 does not refer explicitly to Jesus giving the “Lords Prayer’ but the quote from Jesus is there. The prayer of Jesus explicitly starts with ‘Our Father which art in Heaven’. As such I think it is nit-picking to talk about different wording.


145 posted on 02/24/2014 3:28:22 PM PST by noinfringers2 ( /*)
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To: restornu

but I on my part am always sad when I talk to you, an adult who knows better but chooses to deny Jesus and go to Hell..


146 posted on 02/24/2014 3:30:53 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: noinfringers2; restornu; Elsie

You are way off the mark...

I was referring to the way the Mormons converse in these threads to us Christians about our bible...

The Mormons claim actual terms are not in the bible so they discount them as not true...

one of their favorites is the word Trinity...

although we know that God is indeed triuns and there are Bible scriptures to support that fact, the Mormons claim god is not Three Persons because the word Trinity is not to be found in the KJV...

It is not that the Mormons believe or prefer the KJV it is because the KJV is old English from Shakespearian times and we tend to use a murderer form of English in the churches..

The Mormons also find necro baptism or baptism for dead people thus making them born again long after they have died and gone to Hell through their denial of Christ..

and although that’s not in the Bible either..

the Mormons have baptized Hitler and many of his Jewish victims, Anne Frank and Jesus himself, thus “saving” him and temple married Jesus to Mary, Martha and Mary Magdalene...making them all Mormons forever...its irreversible...

They also dead baptized Stanley Ann Dunham and sealed her to her son Barak Obama making him a Mormon too..

so they have their first Mormon president...

and they cant do anything about it..hes a Mormon forever according too their rules and beliefs..

So now Resty wants to rewrite the Bible and place the Mormon term “heavenly father” into the Christian Bible

yes we Christians know the prayer as the Lord’s prayer...

but Resty is a Mormon and she worships a different “lord” to the One we do..

her “heavenly father” is a man who had physical sex with the Mormon Mary ..and not the “Our Father” that Jesus introduced us to..

The “heavenly father” of the Mormons has a physical body like we do and is married to thousands of “heavenly mothers” and the Mormon jesus is married too to multiple wives..

The blood of Mormon jesus does not have the power to save so the Mormon humans have to save themselves and their dead ancestors by being dead dunked” after death out of Hell and into three levels of “heaven”

In the top level dead Mormons become gods and rule their own planet with thousands of wives...their have sex forever and make millions of babies to worship them as gods..

This is the way mormons claim earth was set up..by a man who just happened to be worthy and good enough to earn his godship..

Then theres the second level for single Mormons and others

and finally theres the lower level where the Christians who got dead dunked and other non-Mormons w3h0 got dead dunked will abide forever in by the skin of their teeth..

so if you died happily a Christian you will eventually be dead dunked into mormonism and then your name will go on the Mormn rolls as a member and on the Mormon IGI (FamilySearch)If your ancestor is listed in the Mormon research website FamilySearch they were dead dunked into Mormonism..

Every pope, every Founding Father every Catholic saint is there why not your ancestors ???

Does this sound at all like the God of the Trinity ???

Meanwhile yes Jesus does start with “Our Father” but He doesn’t start with “heavenly father”


147 posted on 02/24/2014 4:12:27 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

You are still living in the 1800’s more has come to all our understanding since those days...

As we read the scriptures and as more is discovered man limited way of applying a translation to a passage mean some thing else today, this has nothing to do with doctrine but with able to exchange or to converser with more accuracy.

The Lord is pealing back the veils so our eyes of understand is continually able to receive more of the Lord knowledge.

It you insist on remaining 200 years behind well happy camping...


148 posted on 02/24/2014 4:22:03 PM PST by restornu
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To: noinfringers2; restornu; Elsie

BTW the MOrmons deny the Trinity to such extremes they sing Holy Holy Holy and cripple the part of that beautiful Christian hymn that should rightfully go

“God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity”

The Mormons sing instead “god in his glory blessed deity’

Holy Holy Holy was written for Trinity Sunday


149 posted on 02/24/2014 4:31:52 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: restornu

The Lord is pealing back the veils so our eyes of understand is continually able to receive more of the Lord knowledge.
__________________________________

and yet you still don’t know the God of the Christian Bible and know that He is One in Three Persons..

or that the LORD Jesus Christ is God come in the flesh and the only one of the Trinity to have flesh..


150 posted on 02/24/2014 4:34:15 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: restornu

You are still living in the 1800’s
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No dear I live in Christ who is in every century..


151 posted on 02/24/2014 4:35:50 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: noinfringers2

One of the versions of the baptism for the dead done in a Mormon temple for “jesus” in order to “save” jesus

You’ll note that when the Mormons annotate the cause and date of his death they put “Death by cruicifixion (we think)”

WE THINK !!!

Who but members of a non-Christian cult would say in FamilySearch the official Mormon website supported by the Mormon church in Salt Lake City “we think” about the way the LORD Jesus Christ died ???
__________________________________________________

Jesus ben /the CHRIST/ Rabbi or Barabbas
Pedigree Resource File

birth: 1 March 0007 BC Nazareth, Judea
death: 0035 Death by cruicifixion (we think)
burial: Tomb Nazareth, Judea
marriage: 0030 Canna
father: Joseph (Josephus Cleophas) ben /Emmanus/ Alpheus of Arimathaea
mother: Mary (Miryam) bint /JOACHIM/
spouse: Mariamne (Miryam, Mary Magdalene) bint /MAGDELA/
children: Tamar (Palm Tree or Damaris) bar /JESUS/, Jesus Jr (Barabbas) ben /JESUS/ Rabbi, Josephes (Joseph) /JESUS/, Sara bar /JESUS/ or daughter of Rabbi

https://familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=75&query=%2Bgivenname%3Ajesus~%20%2Bsurname%3Achrist~&collection_id=(2 3)


152 posted on 02/24/2014 5:00:04 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: svcw; Elsie

PING for your interest #152


153 posted on 02/24/2014 5:01:13 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Polygamy?
Those 72 virgins are boys.
islamics are a death cult, they were founded on death and that’s how they live today.
The US has been dealing with them since about 1790.
Thomas Jefferson reached his limit with them and after sending ships to wipe out islamics ships who were attacking our merchant vessels he said:
“We are dealing with people who only want to kill us so they may go to paradise. It is our duty to send them”.


154 posted on 02/24/2014 5:08:46 PM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: svcw

155 posted on 02/24/2014 5:11:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: restornu
I thought that would get your goat!:)

I'm hoping that the FACTS being reported here about Mormonism will finally get your attention.

You don't Deny or Defend them: you just Ignore them.

156 posted on 02/24/2014 6:30:19 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: noinfringers2

OUR father - not MY father...


157 posted on 02/24/2014 6:31:02 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Tennessee Nana
The Mormons claim actual terms are not in the bible so they discount them as not true...

The 'word' polygamy is not in the bible either; but MORMONs will SURE point to the PRACTICE of it as something GOD intended.

Can we say...

Double Standard?


158 posted on 02/24/2014 6:32:41 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: restornu
You are still living in the 1800’s more has come to all our understanding since those days...

Like what?

That DNA tests PROVE Native Americans are NOT descended from Jews?
That absolutely NO evidence of any MILLION death battles EVER took place in this hemisphere?
That the Book of ABRAHAM is completely bogus?


Are THESE the things you wish to hang your hat on?

159 posted on 02/24/2014 6:36:07 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: restornu
The Lord is pealing back the veils so our eyes of understand is continually able to receive more of the Lord knowledge.

And we thank HIM for it!

160 posted on 02/24/2014 6:36:58 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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