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.
Glad to see you could make it here, Jan!
Here's a cmment by Hugh Fitzgerald over at Jihad watch regarding the Ohio terrorists and islamist:
Who are these people? How did they get here? How can they possibly, given what is in their mental makeup and has been for their entire lives, be loyal citizens of the United States? They may have sworn allegiance, but that is a different thing. They are a threat to the well-being and security of every Infidel in this country, and to its laws, and to its government.
It is not hard to know what is in their minds. Simply read, and pretend to accept, what is in the Qur'an and Hadith, and know what Muhammad did and said, Muhammad the Model for All Mankind, and hence models as well for Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, and Wassim Mazloum. Accept it all, as a total system. You don't have to go to the mosque. You don't even have to pray. You need only identify yourself as a Muslim, to think of yourself as a Muslim, to be willing to defend and protect Islam from too-knowledgeable or prying Infidels, and you are then an instrument of the Jihad. And so, objectively, you are a threat to all those Infidels who do not agree that "Islam is to dominate and is not to be dominated." No, do not agree, and are not about to throw out the legacy of an advanced civilization and society, whatever its many faults (let's not forget them, those faults) is far superior, in every conceivable way, to the primitivism offered by the Complete System of Islam.
Why are they here? What are they doing here?
Hugh
Well? Anyone care to chime in?
Straight from the mouth of an imam and printed on an islamic website in Australia...
PRESERVING THE ISLAMIC IDENTITY IN THE WEST:
(SNIP)
For a multitude of reasons, most of which are not in accordance with Islam, Muslims have been flocking to non-Muslim countries. Some come as refugees, many come for a better standard of living, o thers to get education, be near to their relatives, and some for Da' wah. The result of this is a new problem which has not existed for centuries - Muslims are being exposed, on an unprecedented scale to non-Muslim cultures and beliefs. In fact, many are n ow born in these countries, and instead of being raised with a sound Islamic identity, many are taking the Christian values of their 'adopted home'. It is of little surprise that we see many Muslims turn from Islam in later life.
This article aims to expose some of the sources of misguidance for Muslims living amongst the Kuffar, as well as some solutions and defences we can employ...read more
http://web.archive.org/web/20041024220339/http://www.islam.org.au/articles/18/identity.htm.old
DawaNetto link to serve: Dawa in public schoolsDawa means to invite non-Muslims to accept the truth of Islam. Performing Dawa involves both our words and actions. Importance of Dawa in Islam ...
www.dawanet.com/methods/publicschool.dawapublic.asp - 19k - Cached - Similar pages
FROM THE FINAL PARAGRAPH:
The likeness of Islam and Kuffar is like that o f fresh clear spring water and water brought up from the bottom of a suburban sewer. If even a drop of the filthy water enters the clear water, the clarity diminishes. Likewise it only takes a drop of the filth of disbelief to contaminate Islam in the West. If we have it within our means we should therefore consider moving to a Muslim lan d whereby we can at least live amongst our brethren and within an Islamic society free from the contamination of the disbelievers.
(So, you see, there's hope. If you let them know you won't put up with their behaviour, there's a chance they'll go home!)
GIGGLE BREAK:
http://minibytes.mondominishows.com/alqaeda/main.asp?
Using our laws to protect them as they cunningly spread Islam under our noses, conniving to rewrite these laws until they can eventually take over unhindered.
Omar Ahmad (co-founder of CAIR) -
"Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting, keeping Mosques open so anyone can come and learn about Islam. If you choose to live here, you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam.
Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
Nihad Awad (Executive Director of CAIR) -
"I am in support of the Hamas movement."
Ibrahim Hooper (CAIR Spokesperson) -
"CAIR does not support these groups (Hamas) publicly."
"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future."
Dr. Ghazi Khankan (CAIR Spokesperson) -
"I bring to you salaams and greetings from the Mujahadeen at CAIR."
All I know is if Muslim rioters hit any of the suburbs of California, they won't leave alive.
I have no worries, they start something and Americans will end it. We won't put up with the crud like France.
ooooooooh...I do like the way you think and write...my toes curled up and my arms got goosebumps - let's turn this dawa thingy on it's head - let them know we aren't intersted in converting to a cult that wants to control how often or how we wash our hands and feet, nor how many times you shake your willy after you have a wee wee. (Four times! That's because one day, when Madmo had a pee, one of his 'companions'
STOOD BESIDE HIM AND COUNTED!)
And now it's a hadith...
Sounds workable as Ayan Hirsi Alis has recently reaffirmed her commitment to Submission - Part 2, despite the threats to herself. What can the Mudslimes do now? Threaten to kill all these people twice?
let them know we aren't intersted in converting to a cult that wants to control how often or how we.....
WHO, under what type of drugs, told them that we want their lie?! That ba$tard of a pig(probably mad-mo) needs his teeth cleaned on a infidel curb. To even make such statements in front of me would be insane. Convert to is-a-lie? Let me count the pigs in mad-mo's harem 1st!
The problem is conniving Mudslimes are learning and adapting and are promoting their lies as truth, and truth as lies, with the help of the left and paid whores to confuse Americans.
The pigfarm itself has Zogby planning its PR strategy in US - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1583143/posts
Saddam should have hired him so his propaganda methods would have sounded more convincing. Telling our troops Homer Simpson was sleeping with their wives wasn't exactly a winner now was it?
ooooooooh...I do like the way you think and write...my toes curled up and my arms got goosebumps
Thanks, but my girlfriend thinks you're a 30 something woman on vacation in Texas.
Dog house, here I come!
WHO, under what type of drugs, told them that we want their lie?
YOUR BRAIN ON ISLAM.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1580221/posts
The cartoon war exposed the chasms and peeled open the sores. Now is the time to pour more salt on Islams gaping wounds.
Paid whores and traitors in the MSM.
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