Impact of Iraqi defeat on Islam

WorldNetDaily.Com ^ | Posted: April 17, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern

[aristeides]

Isn't it about time these people gave it up and became Christians, like everyone else?

Didn't conversion to Islam originally occur because of its military success? So what lesson should be drawn from its military failures? (For cultural reasons, I think Near Eastern Moslems are more likely to accept Bahaiism than Christianity. But if they do become Bahais, they will no longer be tempted to become terrorists, and thus a threat to us.)

Why do Moslems regard any non-Moslem occupation of any part of the Middle East as so unacceptable, but at the same time apparently think that Christians should accept the Moslem occupation of the earliest Christian lands?

[bray]

President Bush at the WTC-"You can't hear me? I can hear you and soon those people who knocked down these walls will be hearing you too!" Or in Sadamn's case....breathing dirt.

Pray for GW and Our Troops

[expatpat]

What I think is most sickening about the Arab religion/culture is the use of their own children as suicide bombers and the use of children as human shields, such as by the feyadeen in Iraq. Allah must be outraged by such people!

[Publius6961]

This is what seems to escape the "feel-gooders" and peaceniks.
The struggle is for survival against primitives with the unlimited ability to destroy civilization, since they are not bound by the rules of the civilized.

There is only one currency they understand. It may not be pretty but we ignore that reality at our peril.

Ignorance continues to be our greatest enemy.

[ironman]

"three divisions?"
3rd + 101st + I MEF + Brit Div + Brigade of 82nd + some others = 4+ Divisions

[Leatherneck_MT]

Is it not incredible that with all of the oil wealth the middle east has, with all of the military hardware they have purchased, that they seem incapable of fielding a credible military?


Actually it's been in their mindset all along. Ever since WWI during the Arab revolt the British tried to give the Arab army training and discipline in fighting a modern army (modern for then). The Arab response was "Give us Guns (meaning Artillery) and keep the training."

They feel (honestly), that their zeal for battle against the infidel can overcome any training anyone can give them.

We've just seen the fallacy of that thought process.

Semper Fi

[Matchett-PI]

"some believe, that during the Tribulation, a great number of Arabs, far greater than today, may become believers in Christ ... because of the reconciliation between Jacob and Esau in Genesis 33, among other passages saying different things ..."

Of course, those are the ones who attempt to interpret the New Testament through the Old Testament instead of the other way around.

[Mat_Helm]

After a few weeks of R&R it will be time to crusade into Damascus and Tehran.

[stripes1776]

Why do Moslems regard any non-Moslem occupation of any part of the Middle East as so unacceptable, but at the same time apparently think that Christians should accept the Moslem occupation of the earliest Christian lands?

That is a very good observation, and one that the mainstream press that always portrays Muslims as "victims" of Western crusades does not have the integrity to deal with honestly. The crusades was a concerted attempt to regain land brutally invaded and conquered by Muslims a few centuries earlier. Muslims have never gotten over being kicked out of Spain, let alone Israel.

Didn't conversion to Islam originally occur because of its military success? So what lesson should be drawn from its military failures? (For cultural reasons, I think Near Eastern Moslems are more likely to accept Bahaiism than Christianity. But if they do become Bahais, they will no longer be tempted to become terrorists, and thus a threat to us.)

Bahaiism is persecuted today under the Islamic regime in Iran, as well as Mazdaism (Zoroastrianism), the religion of the Persian empire. A moderate Islam is possible, but that is not the trend in Islam at the mement.

[joesnuffy]

I doubt moderate Islam is possible as a viable alternative..moderate Islam is apostate..those who become adept will always return or seek to return Islam to its purer form..imo