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Extremism needs to be wiped out of Islam
Daily Telegraph (Sydney) ^ | 24th November 2015 | Peter Costello

Posted on 11/23/2015 3:44:26 PM PST by naturalman1975

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After each atrocity complacent political leaders trot out the same platitudes. They tell us: "This has nothing to do with Islam, etc." It is wearing thin with the public. All these attacks are coming from people who subscribe to one religion, which is not Catholic or Protestant or Jewish or Buddhist or Yazidi. Plainly it has something to do with Islam. And the people who are doing it think it has everything to do with Islam. That is why they shout Allahu Akbar while firing their guns and detonating their explosives.

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One great illusion that Western liberals use to console themselves is that all religions are more or less the same. They know little of religion but find this belief to be comforting. It means there is no need to worry that Muslim immigration is bringing unique problems to Western cities. Everyone just believes the same thing anyway.

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Religions are not all the same. Christ never sought to establish an earthly kingdom - "My kingdom is not of this world," he said. But Mohammed did. He led an army in the conquest of Mecca. As an earthly ruler he had quite a lot to say about how to wage war and make peace. These are the teachings radical Islamists rely on to justify their conduct.

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There is no reason we should place any weight on what political leaders tell us about what Islam stands for. Most of these leaders have dispensed with their own religious beliefs. They don't understand the religious underpinnings of their own society - let alone the kind of society a pious Muslim would aspire to.

Our leaders are right to wish for a peaceful Islam. But wishing does not make it true.....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: clintonlovesisis; cult; islamisextremist; obamalovesisis; psychopaths
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To: naturalman1975

Then you must form a new ‘religion’.

The one called ‘Islam’ is nothing more than a cause created for sexual deviancy and male domination.

It is not a true religion, as Allah is an absent, silent god.


21 posted on 11/23/2015 4:27:10 PM PST by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: naturalman1975

“Be nice if people read the article, not just the headline”

You do realize this is FR, right?

L


22 posted on 11/23/2015 4:29:11 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Paladin2

Like separating salt from pepper.


23 posted on 11/23/2015 4:30:25 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: naturalman1975
Extremism needs to be wiped out of Islam

That's like removing white from rice or stink from poop.

24 posted on 11/23/2015 4:31:58 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: naturalman1975

Islam without extremism wouldn’t be any fun at all. Without extremism the Muslims might buckle down and make something of their societies instead of having an excuse to go out with the boys all the time and kill people and steal their stuff.


25 posted on 11/23/2015 4:33:15 PM PST by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: naturalman1975

I like those points you broke out. However, Islam itself if a political death cult that needs to be destroyed. There is no freedom in islam.


26 posted on 11/23/2015 4:35:12 PM PST by vpintheak (Death before disarmament!)
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To: naturalman1975

Here’s a free source for the same article.

http://www.pressreader.com/australia/the-daily-telegraph-sydney/20151124/281505045127122/TextView


27 posted on 11/23/2015 4:35:25 PM PST by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: naturalman1975

To wipe out extremism in Islam one has to wipe out islam.


28 posted on 11/23/2015 4:35:40 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: naturalman1975

People who write these type of articles do not understand islam, they should at least take the time to read the koran ad surahs. There is no extremism in terrorist actions....they are actually the ones living islam.


29 posted on 11/23/2015 4:36:03 PM PST by Lady Heron
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To: Paladin2

Stop men from impregnating their daughters...


30 posted on 11/23/2015 4:36:08 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Tony Schwartz and Meredith McIver, a couple of dam* fine authors...)
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31 posted on 11/23/2015 4:38:26 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Syrians escape to live well in US & EU..Our troops go to Syria to die in their place. More Obamacrap)
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To: Paladin2

The only extremists in Islam are those who are not practicing Islam.


32 posted on 11/23/2015 4:42:45 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Paladin2

Doing that, of course, is anathema and warrants a death sentence, but moreover reduces Islam to the suras plagiarized from the Bible and the Torah ie the First Given Half which Mohammad specifically said were void as the last words of allah superseded the first.


33 posted on 11/23/2015 5:01:37 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: naturalman1975

Mr. Costello is a wise man, the kind that western civilization can use to talk some sense about the threat that is Islam rather than spewing feel-good lies.


34 posted on 11/23/2015 5:22:30 PM PST by FourPeas (Tone matters.)
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To: naturalman1975
Be nice if people read the article, not just the headline

It would. It's much more fun, though, to post the same canned "Islam is..." that gets dumped on nearly any thread that deals in any tangential way with Islam.

35 posted on 11/23/2015 5:25:00 PM PST by FourPeas (Tone matters.)
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To: naturalman1975

These words make no sense.

Look. Westerners can ‘get up to speed’ on the ‘Oriental’ or ‘Occidental’ mind, but suggesting that ‘extremism needs’ and ‘Islam’ in the same sentence is inherently a Western concept and so is shunned as just another Western idea.

Honest to Pete, you just want to shake these so-called experts.


36 posted on 11/23/2015 5:54:43 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Da Coyote

We could start by nuking Mecca and Medina


37 posted on 11/23/2015 6:43:25 PM PST by Walrus (Motto of Congress: Hey, there's plenty enough money for all of us, if we just play nice)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Pree-cisely...It’s as if it’s somehow possible to pick up a t&%d by the clean end...

Extremism = Islam; Islam = Extremism

Take away Jihad, Hegira, Taquiya, mass executions, stoning, beheading, amputation, rape, robbery, jizyah, dhimmitude, etc. and what do you have left?


38 posted on 11/23/2015 6:57:35 PM PST by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak!)
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To: naturalman1975

Think of how hard it would be to eliminate extreme sects in Christianity and Judaism.


39 posted on 11/23/2015 7:38:34 PM PST by Mike Darancette (CA the sanctuary state for stupid.)
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