Islamic Truths

Lost Angeles Times ^ | 18 February 2006 | Mansoor Ijaz

[RKV]

ANOTHER WEEK, another Muslim country burns in rage over months-old Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in an unflattering light. On Friday it was Libya, and earlier in the week it was my father's homeland, Pakistan, where violent protests were scattered across the nation. Some Muslims have decided that burning cities in defense of a prophet's teachings, which none of them seem willing to practice, is preferable to participating in rational debate about the myths and realities of a religion whose worst enemies are increasingly its own adherents.

This week's events should compel those of us who claim Islam as our system of philosophical guidance to ask hard questions of ourselves in order to revive the religion's essential foundation: justice, peaceful and tolerant coexistence, compassion, the search for knowledge and unwavering faith in the unity of God.

[RKV]

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In fact, the most glaring truth is that Islam's mobsters fear the West has it right: that we have perfected the very system Islam's holy scriptures urged them to learn and practice. And having failed in their mission to lead their masses, they seek any excuse to demonize those of us in the West and to try to bring us down. They know they are losing the ideological struggle for hearts and minds, for life in all its different dimensions, and so they prepare themselves, and us, for Armageddon by starting fires everywhere in a display of Islamic unity intended to galvanize the masses they cannot feed, clothe, educate or house.

This is not Islam. And the faster its truest believers stand up and demonstrate its values and principles by actions, not words, the sooner a great religion will return to its rightful role as guide for nearly a quarter of humanity.

[RKV]

The guy is almost reasonable. Almost. Mohammed was a murdering pedophile and a thief. A false prophet who spread his cult by force of arms, enslaving those who he didn't kill. "Religion of Peace"^® my @$$.

[ncountylee]

Another rope-a-dope type diversion attempt from the ROP pedophile following, mass murdering, death cult.

[RKV]

Taqiyah: it's OK to lie about islam, and even if you are a muslim or not, in order to win holy war (jihad).

[alicewonders]

Too little...too late. You had me before 9/11, I bought into the notion that Islam was one of the world's great religions - along with Christianity, Judaism, etc.

But you should have spoke up long before I saw one too many deaths, beheadings, riots & celebrations of death & destruction.

I won't fall for that again. Fool me once...shame on you. Fool me twice...shame on me.

[RKV]

It really is a clash of civilizations. The muslims won't have it any other way. Be prepared.

[uglybiker]

Mansoor Ijaz has been speaking out for a long time.

Bio

[RKV]

Domination is what they want. Where is Jan Sobieski when we need him?

[RKV]

Indeed he has a track record. It still looks like good cop/bad cop to me.

[alicewonders]

Yes, we have to be brave & not back down, even when they make terrible threats against us & our families. If we back down from this battle, our future generations will be living a vastly different life than we enjoyed.

[PGalt]

Life is the standard of all value. Freedom is man's greatest concept, the only concept that buttresses the reality of life...a conceptual umbrella under which all other concepts are welcome.

Are those concepts anti-freedom or anti-life?

[alicewonders]

Yes, he has. But he is either very naive or a very articulate mouthpiece for Islamic propaganda. It seems his religion has taken off & left him in a cloud of dust.

I was a member of a church once & they started doing things I did not agree with - I had to leave that church because my conscience kept telling me something was wrong.

If he & others who believe like him, can't stop the eroding of their religion - it's time they get out.

[Tokra]

the reason he had multiple wives was not for the sake of sex but to give proper homes to the children of women made widows during a time of war.

So the reason he consummated a marriage with a 9 year old was just to give her a home?

[RKV]

Simple answer to your philosophical question? Yes, islam is anti-freedom and anti-life. Mohammed himself was a slaver and a murderer. The people who followed him do the same in the name of their cult. You can criticize other religions (and more specifically some of their belivers) but those religions haven't made murder a sacrament since the Spaniards took out the Aztecs.

[RKV]

I had that thought also.

[PGalt]

I have absolutely no argument with your comment.

[giobruno]

The best thing that ever happened to the Aztecs was Spanish cannon.

[RKV]

In terms of the life of the average Jose, I agree with you. Living as a slave to a bunch of guys who think human sacrifice is SOP, just can't be great.

[GOPJ]

The only way "Islam will dominate" is if education in the West is abolished, women are turned into property, and ignorance, hatred and cruelty replace Western enlightenment. That's a lot. Then they'd have to take away elected leaders and replace them with goons, thugs and secret police. Am I leaving anything out? Oh yeah, they'd have to take away our rights, our freedom, and our happiness.