Posted on 08/24/2008 8:18:38 AM PDT by SJackson
Persecution of Christians and Jews is not new in this world. Although such condemnation for religious beliefs goes back thousands of years, Nazi Germany developed it into an art form with the wholesale murder of Jewish people. Of course, the Nazis didn't limit atrocities to Jews, they spread their horror around but Nazis were mainly interested in eliminating the Jewish population.
In their hatred of Jews, they were not alone; Muslims aided and abetted the Nazis since they shared a belief system that relegated Jews to the category of "dogs and apes", as the Koran teaches Islamic adherents. However, unlike the Nazis, Muslims disdain all religions other than Islam. While Muslims complain bitterly about any perceived insult to Islam and any acts of disrespect for the Koran, it is not only accepted but prescribed by Islam to destroy the Holy Bible and those who worship the word of God as opposed to the Islamic reverence of Allah.
Muslims have succeeded in intimidating much of the world so that by actual and the threatened violence the Western World accepts restrictions on freedom of expression lest Muslims be offended. The prime mover of this pressure on the world is the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). With the help of endless petrodollars and fear of violating political correctness, the OIC has managed to have their way across the globe; they have also become the largest lobbying body of nations within the United Nations and are urging an anti-Christian and Jewish agenda with full force.
The Organization of the Islamic conference has actually succeeded in attaining passage of UN resolution in the General assemble called "Combating Defamation of Religions." This harmless sounding title is in reality a deceptive name for targeting men and women of faith who speak out in any way against Islam or reveal the atrocities committed in the name of Islam on behalf of Allah. If Muslims had their way, not only would discrimination against Christians and Jews be practiced universally but any proclamation of a faith other than Islam would be punishable by imprisonment or even death. Supreme Court Justice Scalia said in a recent dissent, "America is at war with radical Islamists"; in this he was not only correct, he was issuing a warning to the world that to overlook or ignore the intrusion on civil rights by these enemies of freedom would result in the worst form of tyranny not seen since the Nazi regime.
As the American Center of Law and Justice wrote recently:
"We are seeing worldwide persecution of Christians as part of the radical Muslim mission to "take the world for Islam" - by purging Christianity from the face of the earth.
"In Saudi Arabia, a Muslim father violently cut out his young daughter's tongue and burned her alive upon learning she had become a Christian. In Africa, a leading Gospel singer was seized, stuffed into a cargo box - with a single hole for air - and left for a month to go crazy or die. After two years, she was released, fled her captive country, and was granted political asylum in Denmark. In Iran, a couple was tortured for reading the Bible. Two men in Algeria were tried and convicted for possessing Christian books. And today we face extremely dangerous threats everywhere because of the one posed by the OIC."
Dr. Andrew Bostom, editor of the book The Legacy of Jihad about Islamic anti-Semitism, warns that the 57 Muslim nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference are trying to impose Islamic blasphemy law -- which includes the death penalty for those who "blaspheme" the Muslim prophet Muhammad -- as the universal standard across the world. These sentiments of the OIC were repeated more brazenly by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. During a sermon in response to the Danish Muhammad cartoons which were published February 2006, Qaradawi demanded action from the United Nations in accordance with Sharia-based conceptions of blasphemy: "...the governments [of the world] must be pressured to demand that the U.N. adopt a clear resolution or law that categorically prohibits affronts to prophets-to the prophets of the Lord and his Messengers, to His holy books, and to the religious holy places."
This comes as a surprise to whom?
It has been time, for a long time, for The Crusades II ....
“It has been time, for a long time, for The Crusades II ....
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Roger, that.
One must fight everyday to stay free. The next significant front of this long war with Islam is Legal jihad and it is already happening with significant frequency.
JoMa
Everything human is threatened by Islam.
Unfortunately far too many people are still asleep. Even on FR an occasional post will say something like..” Well the muslims I know are fine people and....” TOTAL BS!
islam has one purpose...to convert you or kill you....there aint no in between!
Wake up!
Now we know where Barack got his "57 states" from!
You can expect these conditions to prevail in this country soon enough. The sizeable anti-Christian crowd in this country would like nothing better than to see Christianity disappear and replaced with ANYTHING — even if it means the forcible conversion to Islam.
Didn’t Someone already predict 2000 years ago that His teaching will always be a thorn in the side of mankind? (Who in his “right” mind wants to be held responsible for his actions?) There is very little change from the conditions that Christians had to endure under Rome or now under modern society.
This is just another case of "perception is reality", driven by the old propaganda trick that if "you repeat a lie often enough, no matter how outlandish and irrational..."
I personally don't buy it. I will never buy it. And I a convinced that I am not alone.
The rehabilitation of Nazi Germany may actually happen in the dim distant future, based on the "argument" that it's patently unfair to condemn a large cultural group when it included, in numerical terms, a handful of truly noble, good, heroic people. Some actually made the ultimate sacrifice in doing "good". But the overwhelming majority is what drove history and perpetrated atrocities beyond description. A few good men cannot expiate that.
I live in a period of history when evil has spread again, and the atrocities are worse; More widespread, not limited to a few countries surrounding the source of the evil, and unashamedly cloaking itself in the armor of religion, the very element that made that last last assault on civilization so noteworthy but this time claiming to be the victim, not the perpetrator.
This is the mind-boggling inversion of reason and logic, and it "seems" to be working due almost entirely to a new, also irrational, element: political correctness. There is no easy way to overestimate the combined effect, when individually we make the choice to be blind, but we collectively pay the price of stupidity in universal murder and mayhem.
The world is no longer prepared (if it ever was) to passively submit and accept an existence of the Eloi and the Morlocks by any name, or under any pretext religious or otherwise.
Evil is evil whether there are a billion of them or three billion of them.
The world has responded by suggesting that they "lighten up".
They refused.
The next attempt was to say "Time to back off".
Also ignored.
We are fast approaching the "Stop or else!" stage. When that state is clear to the rest of the world combined, the result will be swift, huge, violent and permanent.
Not at all pretty. But, of course, the "monsters" will claim victimhood, as they always do.
Religion? I don't buy it. Never have; never will.
History is full of religious persecutions. Believers dying for their faith.
This is the first (and hopefully the last) example of that twilight zone, where the minority vermin actually believe that they can overwhelm humanity.
Believers killing for their faith.
Good luck to them.
“Wake up!”
In order to do so, the federal government has to wake up first, and I see no indication that it is ever going to happen. We are NO different from the way that Europe accepts Islam.
Do not expect government to take the lead in this matter. Even if they knew that their grandchildren would someday get their throats cut, it still would not make any difference to them. Why sacrifice job security?
What standing does a religious group have at the U.N. anyway?
Why is it tolerated at all?
As the most powerful nation on earth, one of our most basic (rabidly defended) "rights" is the separation of Church and State. Why do we tolerate it in an all-powerful "world" body?
If there is one "most powerful" reason to abandon the U.N., this is it.
Why haven't we done so?
What will it take, dammit!??!
No, attempting to creat a Conference of the Christian Conference, to counter the Murdering Muslims at the UN would be simply playing into their hands.
Religion out of the U.N.!
Hear! Hear!
Islam is a cancer on civilization and must be excised.
Why do we tolerate the UN? The US has been vilified in that global body for many, many years. We have hosted its presence in our country, and have been spit upon around the world.
Send the UN away. Stop funding the organizations that seek only our demise.
Islam is a cult. It is multi-national in scope, and barbaric in its intent. There is no middle ground with Islam. Our choice is to convert, be enslaved, or die. I choose none of the above.
Fundamental anything is toxic and stems from a place of fear, prejudice which translates into hatred toward one’s neighbor. Everyone, even Muslims, knows that Christ was correct when he said to love your neighbor as yourself. But, many would rather die in their sins.
Islam is a system of law (Sharia), a social welfare system (Lebanon), a system of government (Taliban), a group of societal norms (treatment of women,) as well as a religion. It is completely incompatible with the English and American tenets of law, a republic with democratic elements, and civil and human rights. It can only be compatible if exercised in the same manner as other religions - subordinate to our legal system, government system, civil rights and beliefs in freedom of the individual - including non-Muslims.
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