Posted on 12/22/2016 5:45:11 AM PST by Kaslin
“Islam is not the problem,” proclaims the Left. And if you say otherwise, you’re a “racist,” even though “Muslim” is not a race. Yet a fact remains: virtually all the world’s terrorists today claim Islamic motivations. So if Islam (belief) is not the problem, are we then left with a genetic explanation for this violence? Is there something inherent in the groups generally embracing Islam — Arabs, Persians, Indonesians, Punjabis, etc. — that would account for it? And, hey, I’m just asking; it’s the liberals who profess ideas suggesting this possibility.
Consider: When analyzing WWII and Germany, few claim the problem was Germans, but Nazism. When looking at 1917 Russia, we don’t say the problem was Russians, but Marxism. So fill in the blank: when evaluating the Muslim world and its violence, do we assume the problem is the people or _____?
Then there are other explanations for Muslim violence, all of which amount to Islamsplainin’. Poverty is one, but the Muslim world is not uniquely poor. There are many millions of poor Catholics in South America, Africa and elsewhere; and hundreds of millions of poor Hindus in India. Yet they aren’t committing terrorist acts. And Osama bin Laden was worth $125 million.
Another excuse is U.S. “meddling” in Muslim nations’ affairs; our taking Israel’s side in the Mideast is always Exhibit A. But there’s simply no good correlation between American interventionism and Muslim violence. Many nations and regions, such as Nigeria, Kashmir, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali, have problems with Islamic terrorism in the absence of a Yankee hand.
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Is Islam a religion? I contend that it is not.
If it is a religion, it is a false religion.
I am hopeful our leadership will evolve from radical Islam to Islam itself. Islam and Christianity are simply incompatible on numerous levels.
Islam is not a religion, and must be outlawed for the civilized world to survive.
After 1400 years of terror and over 200 million murders, it is time for Islam to be thrown on the ashheap of history.
Christians follow Christ.
Muslims follow Muhammed.
The terrorists are the only,true Muslims.
Islam is a problem even though most Muslims don’t kill people. The religion will produce a steady supply of fanatics who do kill people and cannot accept other religions.
Islam is not a religion, and must be outlawed for the civilized world to survive.
Islam is not a religion, and must be outlawed for the civilized world to survive.
Islam is not a religion, and must be outlawed for the civilized world to survive.
Islam IS the problem.
Mohammed was a bandit, a murderer, a liar, and a pedophile - and he is the ‘perfect man’ of Islam. The purest practitioners of Islam on the planet, as it was practiced by Mohammed, are people of ISIS.
I suppose, in a lot of ways, we are lucky that most Moslems are not very good Moslems, which means that they can be good people.
It depends on what "is" is... or in this case, what you think religion is.
For me, and probably you, religion is about the unseen, and comes with a strong moral code of conduct. But it also means a system of unquestioned, deeply held beliefs.
Is Marxism a religion? It claims to be atheistic, but fulfills the unquestioned belief criterion.
Many leftists, including our own, aren't satisfied by traditional religions and seek to satisfy their religious needs in politics. Islam combines religious trappings with a plan for political conquest.
There are people who find religion in it. But for many, it is the thrill of looting, conquest, and power that attracts. That's why I've always said that Islam is a particularly dangerous thing in prison. You take people with a propensity for violence and criminality, and tell them that if they exhibit some discipline with in the new Islamic community, everyone outside the Ummah is fair game.
So, for me, Islam isn't a theological religion, but I can see that it serves the obsessive impulses that many theological religions pick up in their fringe sects.
for the record, in your mind, what actually constitutes a religion?
From my perspective, it is a totalitarian political system with religious underpinnings.
The Bible tells us very clearly that there will someday be a one world religion. As long as Islam is prominent, with 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, I don’t see how the one world religion can come in to being. So what must happen is that Islam is massively defeated or discredited globally. How can this happen? I contend that they will be a huge war in the Middle East and that Islam will suffer a MASSIVE defeat at the hands of the Jews. If it is the Ezekiel war of chapters 38 and 39, in the entire world will see that God intervened.
The world would be better off if these people chose a less violet prophet to follow, say someone like Charles Manson perhaps.
It would be a different story if it was just a religion.
But you’re right, it’s not. It’s a method of domination, proselytization by force, which necessitates governments (monopolies of force) to adopt it and reject any other competing worldviews.
Unfortunately Islam is a religion.
State and religion have been the one and the same over most of history, whether it was divine kings, divine right kingship, the mandate of heaven, the slaughterhouse religion of the Aztecs, the Judges of Israel, the Cult of Emperor, the Atheistic Communist State, the Cult of Reason, etc.
What we have now is actually an exception to this that has only existed for a very small part of history.
We need to reconsider religious freedom, but we must remember that anything we use against monstrosities like Islam will, inevitably, be turned against Christians.
Islam is an evil Political System.
Search for. Dr.Bill Warner for more info.
Islam is the problem and anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
Satan is quite real. Terrorism and, indeed, Islam itself are easily recognizable as his handiwork.
The south American drug and kidnapping industry is probably a strong 2nd place runner in the terrorism game.
Followed by ethnic motivated violence in northern India, and central Africa.
But the Koran and Hadith are the biggest drivers, and Muslims stretch in dense numbers across northern Africa, the Levant, south and central south Asia, and the southern Pacific rim.
With small pockets of density in northern Europe.
With violence and hatred and oppression in all these.
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