Posted on 02/20/2006 7:46:11 AM PST by Dark Skies
When President Bush gave his "axis of evil" speech he went out of his way to make the world understand that it isn't a war with Islam itself that we were joining — and I say joining because the war had been started by the Jihadists decades before. And, in observance to our Western principles, that must be the correct way to view our conflagration with radical Islam.
Let's face facts, it certainly is uncomfortable to a Westerner who has been brought up on tolerance, freedom of religion, and liberty to contemplate a war against an entire religion. But are we approaching a time when Western nations won't have a choice but to target Islam itself in certain ways to keep their own people safe. The best course of action is to make public displays of Islam and certain of its practices illegal in Western nations.
So, the question becomes are we at that time now? Are we fast approaching a time when Mosques will be closed and banned? Have we come to a time when Islamic literature is turned away from our borders? Have the childish and dangerous reactions of Muslims to this cartoon in a Danish newspaper proven that Islam cannot be trusted to be a vital, peaceful, and law-abiding segment of society?
It is looking like yes is the answer to these queries.
We are already approaching this today. In Ontario they have officially outlawed Muslim Sharia law, that law that uses religious precepts to enforce moral and society codes of conduct. And Muslim "family councils" have been stopped where local community groups may supplement Canadian law with their local custom.
Several members of the John Howard administration in Australia have spoken out against Islamic clashes with Western notions of law and societal comportment many times over the last few years.
Recently Howard himself said, "I do think there is this particular complication because there is a fragment which is utterly antagonistic to our kind of society, and that is a difficulty ... You can't find any equivalent in Italian, or Greek, or Lebanese, or Chinese or Baltic immigration to Australia. There is no equivalent of raving on about jihad, but that is the major problem."
Muslims routinely destroy property, threaten death and bodily harm to those who speak out against them, and they constantly fund terrorism throughout the world. In Syria they have burnt an embassy, in Europe Muslims have been responsible for murdering people who have written out against Islam or made movies, and other forms of art. These actions are also approved by Islamic teachers (Imams) and religious leaders, not just undertaken by warped loners claiming to represent Islam quite against the will of the majority or authority.
With this ridiculous cartoon issue, we have seen that Islam has no sense of perspective. In the west parody or satire is seen as not only common, but completely harmless for the most part. And religion is not immune to parody and satire, though even in the west most people are often uncomfortable with religious satire. Usually only people filled with hate attack religion in parody and most in the West instinctively know this. As a result, most people dismiss such parody as foolishness and bad taste.
But with Muslims overreacting — in western eyes at least — to this silly cartoon issue in the way they have, it becomes nearly impossible for Westerners to view Islam as a peaceful religion, but more as a vicious hate group itself. And that perception is justified with the actions that Muslims have increasingly perpetrated over the ensuing years. So, we find that Islam presents a danger to the safety of the populace all too often. It is violent, oppressive, and reactionary.
But, what is to be done about it? We have been raised to feel that religion should be left untouched by government. Freedom of religion is at the very core of our beliefs. And this concept is an important one to uphold. So, how can we honestly and without hypocrisy begin to look toward making Islam illegal?
There is a parallel of sorts in the USA that might be used as a template for action. The Ku klux Klan.
After the Civil War ended, the KKK arose from the ashes of war as an advocacy group for the disenfranchised white voter in the south. But it quickly became a terrorist organization bent on taking out revenge on the south's newly freed black population for having lost the war. It got so bad that even one of the original organizers, C.S. Cavalry General Nathan Bedford Forrest, denounced the organization and quit it in disgust.
But as the late 1800s rolled on and the south began to re-enter the Union as full partners in government, the KKK began to lose steam and prominence. For a time it subsided. But as the 20th century neared, it re-emerged and this time became a nationwide and powerful force taking on the flavor of religious, civic and racial duty. The KKK became invested in government and claimed millions of members nation wide.
In the 1920s, however, it became too much for a liberty loving country to allow the KKK to any longer exist. In Indiana, the entire state government was scandalized by their fealty to Indiana's Klan leader who had raped and beaten his secretary on a train trip. Violence against and frequent lynching of southern blacks became so pervasive that Congress finally acted and banned the Klan. The organization collapsed never again to reclaim the power and prominence it once had.
Now, the KKK has always based its precepts on Christianity, as well as racial identity. It also reacted with violence, rallies, death threats and killing when it was threatened. It careened far away from being a mere "idea" or religious theology and became a terrorist organization. And it became a terrorist organization even though literally millions of Americans that belonged to or identified with the Klan were not themselves violent, evil, or dangerous citizens.
The leadership of the Klan supported violence. The leadership preached violence. The leadership planned and fomented it. Therefore, it had to go because it became a danger to every law-abiding citizen, whether they agreed with the racial and religious concepts the Klan espoused or not.
Islam has become the KKK of the 21st century. The sooner we awake to this truth and take steps to ban the religion, or somehow curtail its pernicious influence the better. The west is going to have to put sever restrictions on Islamic Mosques and public display of Islam. Further, devout Muslims should not be allowed to hold public office (though it certainly should not become a racial issue — sins of the father should not be visited upon the sons).
This is no religious purge as in centuries past. In the past religions were banned to be replaced by the state sponsored sect and believers of the banned religion were mistreated, tortured, unduly taxed, and terrorized. This is absolutely not the model the west would follow by banning aspects of Islam today. No religion is replacing Islam and no one is suggesting that Muslims be mistreated. But the creed to which they hold is fast becoming the most dangerous one in the world today. It is a fine line that we walk to consider banning Islam, but the safety of society is at risk not to do so.
This is not an easy conclusion at which to arrive. But if we continue to turn a blind eye to the danger that Islam presents to the west, we are signing our own death warrants.
The KKK was put down in the USA and made powerless for the same reason. Communism was destroyed for the same reason, as well. Islam is a danger to the world.
Unfortunately, it is just that simple.
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The movie you are suggesting would not have to be a big budget production. Start with an internet version. Maybe it could be projected on a billboard (or the side of a mosque :).
All you also said!
What too many don't understand is that if we DO lose this one, who ever of our people are left, will be one of "them", or be dead.
They will not allow a third choice.
Then close them shut with a dark green glass slab.
Have you ever been blown up by a mad bomber that had
his head pop off and fly 200 feet north?
I don't think we have ever prosecuted bodiless heads and
you probably wouldn't be alive to be the first one to do it.
Sorry to butt in, I just couldn't help myself, the thought of charging the perps of 9/11 with mass murder gives me no satisfaction. But then, that's islam. There's not enough left of the criminal, homicidal 'suicide' killers to read their rights to.
The moslim is a cult not a religon.
“Laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices...”[Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145, 8 Otto 145, 24 L. Ed. 244 (1878).]
Under the guise of “freedom of religion,” no man may become a law unto himself.
The RICO Act should be applied, their assets and property seized just like other racist and violent nut-job groups. They seek to supplant the Constitution with their own laws.
The First Amendment does not give you the right to commit ritual murder... nor is it a suicide pact.
(Personally, I would prefer to end it completely. Islam cannot exist without Mecca.)
Under the guise of “freedom of religion,” no man may become a law unto himself.
“Laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices...”[Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145, 8 Otto 145, 24 L. Ed. 244 (1878).]
The RICO Act should be applied, their assets and property seized just like other racist and violent nut-job groups when they seek to supplant the Constitution with their own laws.
The First Amendment does not give you the right to commit ritual murder... nor is it a suicide pact.
End it completely - - Islam cannot exist without Mecca.
I know its simplistic, stupid and irrational...just the sort of phrase you need for a picket line or bumber sticker:)
Well said.
I think what may work the best is the underground movement of advertising anywhere on billboards, internet, TV, milk cartons and bumper stickers the true faces of Islam. The cartoons. Thus far its their achilles heel, even the "westernized muslims" are protesting, its like catnip to a pussy, like a flame to a moth. It may very well break open the sleeper cells inside the US and make them come out in the open.
But this needs to be done massively and everywhere even if it means breaking laws like hacking into satellite feeds.
If all this doesn't work then I say its time to bring back the internment camps.
Yes.
We are in a world war. When a soldier shoots an enemy soldier that is not murder. When a bomber bombs Nagasaki, (kiling innocent children) that is not murder either.
Will it be murder when another 9/11 happens? or a 9/112?
They started killing civilians and innocents. The way to defeat them is to kill their civilians and innocents. Paraphrasing General Sherman, one wins a war by making the general population so miserable that they sue for peace.
--Boris
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Realistically, there must be a line drawn somewhere. Would it be okay to allow Aztecs to practice human sacrifice? Of course not, because murder is illegal. So is treason and sedition - but we allow muslims to commit those acts because we don't want to infringe on their religious liberites.
As I said, there MUST be a line drawn somewhere. It's not all or nothing.
You're showing a singular inability to seperate advocation from action. It would be perfectly legal for an Aztec to advocate the practice of sacrifice IF ONLY IT WERE legal while acknowledging that it is illegal and not practicing it. We already have laws against terrorist activity and that's enough. We don't need to outlaw the religion.
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