Extremism needs to be wiped out of Islam

Daily Telegraph (Sydney) ^ | 24th November 2015 | Peter Costello

[naturalman1975]

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After each atrocity complacent political leaders trot out the same platitudes. They tell us: "This has nothing to do with Islam, etc." It is wearing thin with the public. All these attacks are coming from people who subscribe to one religion, which is not Catholic or Protestant or Jewish or Buddhist or Yazidi. Plainly it has something to do with Islam. And the people who are doing it think it has everything to do with Islam. That is why they shout Allahu Akbar while firing their guns and detonating their explosives.

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One great illusion that Western liberals use to console themselves is that all religions are more or less the same. They know little of religion but find this belief to be comforting. It means there is no need to worry that Muslim immigration is bringing unique problems to Western cities. Everyone just believes the same thing anyway.

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Religions are not all the same. Christ never sought to establish an earthly kingdom - "My kingdom is not of this world," he said. But Mohammed did. He led an army in the conquest of Mecca. As an earthly ruler he had quite a lot to say about how to wage war and make peace. These are the teachings radical Islamists rely on to justify their conduct.

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There is no reason we should place any weight on what political leaders tell us about what Islam stands for. Most of these leaders have dispensed with their own religious beliefs. They don't understand the religious underpinnings of their own society - let alone the kind of society a pious Muslim would aspire to.

Our leaders are right to wish for a peaceful Islam. But wishing does not make it true.....

[naturalman1975]

If you want to read the complete article and find it is behind a pay wall, go to news.google.com and enter a key sentence from this excerpt into the search engine, including quotation marks around it ("Plainly it has something to do with Islam." works for me). That normally gives you links that take you to the article.

Peter Costello was the Treasurer of Australia in the conservative Howard government of 1996 until 2007. For most of that time, he was considered Howard's likely successor as leader of the party and Prime Minister, but following the loss of the 2007 election, he declined to seek the leadership and gradually moved away from politics. I, for one, wish he'd decided otherwise at this point.

The role of Treasurer is generally seen as the second or third most important position in an Australian government after the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister (in fact, historically, it hasn't been uncommon for the Treasurer to also be the Deputy Prime Minister) and Costello held it for longer than anybody else in Australian history (nearly 12 years).

By the way - I will mention there is a piece that circulates around the internet from time to time claiming Mr Costello made all sorts of statements about immigration and the need for people living in Australia to subscribe to Australian values - some of the statements in that piece are real, others were added by other people under his name. I just thought I'd mention that in case, because of this article somebody remembers it and decides to post it (it says a lot of things Freepers like - and as I've said, he did say some of it - but in total, it distorts things by adding a lot of things he didn't say).

[Paladin2]

Take out the Jihad, Sharia and all references to the nasty Mad Mo’.

[Smokin' Joe]

Extremism needs to be wiped out of Islam

Isn't that a little bit like wiping the brown off of poop?

[beethovenfan]

WRONG!! Extremism is part and parcel of Islam. ERADICATE ISLAM, PERIOD.

[TheTimeOfMan]

Well said.

[Stepan12]

Extremism? Oh bbbrrrooottthher.... An extremist Muslim is one such as Dr. Zuedi Jasser who talks about peace and actually condemns some Muslim atrocities. A mainstream Muslim is one who does homicide bombing or applauds the ones that do. It is Islam itself that is the problem. Not this play safe notion of radical Islam.

[Bryanw92]

>>Isn’t that a little bit like wiping the brown off of poop?

Yes, it is.

[Sacajaweau]

Islam is not a religion. It is a political system formed to conquer the world into submission. Their motto was “Kill all the Christians and Jews. Submit or die.” Nothing has changed since it began.

[Lurker]

One cannot wipe out the “extremism” in islam. It is at its core extreme”. It calls for your conversion, slavery, or death. Why does no one seem to get that simple fact?

islam is not peaceful. It’s never been peaceful.

islam is not tolerant. It’s never been tolerant.

islam is an insane death cult founded by a murderous, psychotic, pedophile. Western societies will never be able to coexist with it. Ever.

Period.

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[joshua c]

There needs to be a reformation with complete disavowment of terrorism. May be led by women who want equal rights within islam.

But I wont hold my breath.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

There is no reason we should place any weight on what political leaders tell us about what Islam stands for. Most of these leaders have dispensed with their own religious beliefs. They don't understand the religious underpinnings of their own society - let alone the kind of society a pious Muslim would aspire to. Our leaders are right to wish for a peaceful Islam. But wishing does not make it true.....

Hear, hear.

[naturalman1975]

Be nice if people read the article, not just the headline - remember, the author rarely writes the headline.

[MeshugeMikey]

islam is extremism at its core.

any sane person who’s read their stinking unholy koran knows that.

peas be upon him

[gandalftb]

Even if you kill all of your enemy you won’t win until all of the surviving supporters choose to stop fighting.

Like cancer, you can kill all of the tumors, but if even one cell escapes and hides, it will start another tumor some day, growing and spreading.

About 1% of all the 1.2 billion sunni muslims are salafists, the breeding ground of ISIL. That’s 12 million muslims that absolutely believe in violent jihad.

Other than the men’s beards they look and outwardly act like any other muslim. They are spread out in every sunni society.

They absolutely believe that dying brings more glory and benefits than living.

Marines and Special Operations forces are quite content to kill them all. It is up to the politicians to point them out.

All 12 million of them, men, women, and children.

While we are exterminating the salafists, we will need to destroy all the supporting books, web sites, historical records and writings of the salafists.

Google Qutb. When google no longer offers any search hits, we will have won.

[rockinqsranch]

The headline says it. Take the EXTREME out of Islam, and there is no Islam.

[wideawake]

"[The attacks] have nothing to do with Islam."
Josh Earnest, BA Political Science, Rice University

"Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No-one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels."
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, PhD Islamic Theology, Islamic University of Baghdad

[Da Coyote]

Wiping out Islam seems an approprtate approach.

[amorphous]

The world pretty much eradicated Nazism. Islam is much worse. So why is the world tolerating it???

It's not about race, it's about an evil, murderous, ideological cult that needs to be outlawed.

[VRW Conspirator]

islam Mohammedism is not peaceful. It’s never been peaceful.

The only "peaceful" Mohammedans are the submissive and the slaves...except when two buildings in New York come tumbling down, then they act like freaks in the street.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I never understand the liberal mindset.

Liberals tell us that black men are shot by white cops for no reason, for example. Each time such a case happens, we are told its part of a pattern, and driven by racism. In that case the liberals tell us black men are endangered by white cops.

But in the case of Islamic terror, with repeated incidents of people shouting Allahu Akbar and telling us they commit these acts in the name of Allah and their religion, liberals tell us there is no pattern to follow. Each act is treated as a one off discrete stand alone act, and an act for which liberals have no clue as to why such acts are committed.