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Islam Is the Problem
American Thinker ^ | December 22, 2016 | Selwyn Duke

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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To: PIF

Thank you for adding more clarity to my point that both religions (if you call one of them that) are akin to oil and water.

The sooner our leadership recognizes that the problem is Islam and not just radical Islam, the better off our country will be.

MFO


41 posted on 12/22/2016 7:01:23 AM PST by Man from Oz
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To: mbarker12474

Excellent analogy.


42 posted on 12/22/2016 7:07:09 AM PST by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: exit82

Agree 1000% We would not tolerate cannabilism if those who want to eat people called it a religion. Imagine the resurgence of pyramids and human sacrifices-that was a ‘religion’ too. It’s gone. Islam should be as well. The PC worm has been inserted in too many heads to condition us to ALLOW any and everything as ‘fair’- even our own destruction. Jim Jones called his Branch Davidians a ‘religion’ too-and he was just as insane and evil as Mohammed. The suicidal ‘tolerance’ must end.


43 posted on 12/22/2016 7:09:20 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam- it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: SkyPilot

Unless the religion of the antichrist is actually Islam.
It’s antichrist to it’s core . The statement written around the mosque on the temple mount is a declaration that God has no son. If you really understand where the ideas of islam came from it came out of the gnostics , the Koran includes parts of the gnostic writings .

The areas in Daniell’s vision are almost totally controlled by Islam today .The ancient Roman empire was mostly countries that are muslim today , even if you believe the antichrist will come out of Europe it is being turned over to islam today .

Islam is a judgement on nations that once new and rejected the one true God.

The book of Danielle tells us that it is sealed until the end . People really don’t understand what Islam is. Islam is pure paganism under the guise of worshiping one “god” it just the wrong God , they worship a false idol of war.
You can not judge a culture of liars by what they do.
They bow down and kiss an asteroid in Mecca (that was the ancient pagan asteroth worship ) they bow down when the music plays out of the music plays and they facet that rock just like in Daniels time when they bowed down to the statue of Nebuchadezzar .

The bible doesn’t call the antichrist a Roman , it calls him an Assyrian. The people of the Prince that invaded Jerusalem and actually destroyed the Temple were not Italians , they were Romans but they they were Syrians , it was a Syrian legion of the Roman empire .

the pope himself is a lover of sufi islam mysticism and he is helping islamize Europe .

There is blindness in the church just like with thinking that God is going to hide the Jews in Petra because it is in Edom . The bible doesn’t say Petra and Petra is not in the wilderness and it has no water and it is to small.
Edom extends into Dedan . The sheep pen is the wilderness where he fed them before , where he took Paul. Where he fed them manna and gave them water from the rock . If you look at areal photos of the true Mount Sinai in Arabia (where the bible and not tradition tells us it is ) you will see it looks like a sheep pen and it is where he fed his sheep before. Petra was dedicated to Baal , he is not hide his people in a city dedicated to a false idol , that’s tradition but not what the bible says . The book of Revalation even says they flee to the WILDERNESS , not a city.

There is blindness in the church because of tradition and not taking the text seriously.


44 posted on 12/22/2016 7:44:58 AM PST by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: Little Ray
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.

There is no Allah but Satan, and Muhammad was his murdering pedophile.

45 posted on 12/22/2016 7:59:05 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Man from Oz

There is no such thing as ‘radical Islam.’ That phrase is a media creation. There is only Islam. To use that term is to imply there is some other form of Islam - there is not.

A Jihadi wants to kill you now; a non-Jihadi muslim is simply one who has not decided to kill you yet - but continues to pay the mosque tax to support Jihadis - Taxpayers and Soldiers.


46 posted on 12/22/2016 8:20:13 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Little Ray

Mohammed, the perfect pattern of human behavior! The deviant type!


47 posted on 12/22/2016 8:22:31 AM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: nikos1121

This is exactly the wrong question. Just as a deadly parasite may share similarities with a symbiotic kin; it doesn’t matter.

The true threat is Wahhabism—the Islamic sect promoted by our “ally,” Saudi Arabia. Regardless of taxonomy, to destroy the threat, this sect must be eradicated.


48 posted on 12/22/2016 8:31:49 AM PST by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: Lera; SkyPilot

[[You can not judge a culture of liars by what they do.]]

Sorry that was suppose to
You can not judge a culture of liars by what they say , you have to judge them by what they do.

Islam is the worst kind of pathology on society we have ever seen. Islam never given the world anything but sudden destruction (terrorism)

The book of Revelation has almost 600 references to the Old Testament . Those references are big hints we tend to ignore.

666 was also a ancient Babylonian math symbol for what they called a majic cube , the sum of the total of their match cube was 666 and they considered it the some of the total of their god . The sum of the total of the total of the cube in Mecca also happens to be 666 and if you look at the corner of that cube you will see a false corner stone , a rock that fell from heaven.

When they actually bow down to the music the minarets play they do it at the different positions of the sun . Look at the cresents , Islam is nothing but the ancient moon and star worship . The Turkish flag itself is perfect symbol of what they actually worship .

I really think that world is going to be really surprised when a real caliphate is formed . What we are seeing now is really just the fight over who is going to actually control it.


49 posted on 12/22/2016 8:34:18 AM PST by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: RoosterRedux

[Satan is quite real]

Yes he is. And he has temporary reign. His works will intensify during the Tribulation and especially during the Great Tribulation. Then he gets locked up for 1,000 years (in the pit). Then he’s let loose for another Gog and Magog, all over the world. Then, he’s gone for eternity. /preaching to the choir


50 posted on 12/22/2016 9:04:07 AM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

[but that’s why it is so attractive to the criminally insane]

Correct. The very reason it’s popular in prisons.


51 posted on 12/22/2016 9:07:15 AM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Kaslin
Is Islam a religion? I contend that it is not.

Marxism, national socialism: all such political ideologies are functionally "religions" as well.

What does it matter? The word is just a label that large numbers of People will disagree about.

To me, the labels are not important. What we're really talking about is thoughts, ideas, and practices organized into some cohesive whole, and which can be based in any combination of science, religious or ideological dogma, etc.

Now, can thoughts be "banned" or destroyed? Of course not. But "bad guys" who act on them can. And the world will someday be forced to arrive at a consensus on exactly what it means to be one of these "bad guys".

That consensus, regardless of the high emotions involved, is probably going to fall well short of "kill every Muslim". The reasons for that are both practical and ideological. For instance, a practical reason would be that Muslims represent 20+ percent of the earth's population, and an ideological reason would be that, if the West did do such a thing, it would become exactly like the Enemy it hates so much.

Consider Nazism, whatever that might actually be, or the Arab world's anti-Semitism, for that matter. Even today, there are still Nazis, neo-Nazis, Wahhabists, ISIS, and other blindly hateful sorts who still 1) want to exterminate all the Jews, say, and 2) would love to impose their vision of a properly ordered supremacist (racial, religious, ideological) utopia on the rest of the word, including us silly would-be Free Westerners. Invariably, the "utopian" regimes created by these sort of totalitarians rely of murderous violence, or the threat thereof.

Now, any time a sufficiently large group of these authoritarian nutcases, under some flag, start murdering people who disagree with them, or even when they loudly proclaim such ideas, the ultimate result is that some virtuous people (cough, cough, Americans) man up and address the problem. Usually at the last possible minute.

What I'm saying is that Tyrannically violent ideas and thoughts really can't be banned, or even eradicated, but those who exhibit a strong propensity to act on them will eventually be reduced to such a small number that they no longer represent a threat to world peace.

After Germany surrendered in WWII, there were countless Nazi POWs. Did we simply execute all of them? Of course not. Millions of them renounced their murderous ideology and went home. There was probably not even a formalized requirement to do so. I don't know. It's actually an interesting question.

Why did these Jew-killers renounce? 1) They got their asses handed to them militarily, and 2) They saw the error of their ways.

There are doubtless some people on this earth who would like to indiscriminately eradicate all Jews, Christians, and non-Muslims who fail to convert to Islam. It certainly doesn't include all Muslims, but it reminds me of my prediction: if the Muslim world doesn't address this problem from within, the solution will be imposed from the outside, and that means a lot of dead men, women, and children, including an exceptionally disproportionate number of Muslims.

52 posted on 12/22/2016 9:31:47 AM PST by sargon (The Revolution is ON! Support President-elect Trump!)
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To: Uversabound

Well, you’re another one who clearly didn’t read the article. It’s a shame too. You could find the last part very eye-opening.


53 posted on 12/22/2016 9:38:56 AM PST by Paladins Prayer
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To: Kaslin

Anytime a muslim/islam attack happens we should bomb a mosque in Saudi Arabia.


54 posted on 12/22/2016 1:33:16 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Kaslin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoI6I6lHvK4


55 posted on 12/23/2016 7:31:35 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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