AMBON, Indonesia--For violent religious conflict--especially between Muslims and non-Muslims--the world's attention is directed at the Mideast and the threats emanating from al Qaeda.
But this archipelago nation has its own share of bloody discord, and like other countries facing such trouble it is attempting its version of a peace process, with mixed results so far.
Islam on the move... everywhere?
Arab outrage is going off the charts:
SUDAN - Several hundred thousand people marched denouncing Israel and America
- Two million Christians killed by National Islamic Front
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Calls for 'holy war' against Israel -
Jihad forcing Islam On Christians, Using Rape and Killing
MOROCCO -- hundreds of thousands demonstrate against Israel and America
SAUDI ARABIA - Wahabbists plus money = world-wide mess
PALESTINE -
Islamic Mufti calls for the murder of Jews and Americans
"We must not stand in the way of the intifada and jihad [holy war].
Rather, we must stand at their side and encourage them."
- Sheikh Akrameh Sabri, Mufti of Jerusalem
"The infidel countries, led by the United States, invented the excuse and justification for their dirty war against Islam and Islamic movements all over the world, following the attack against it. The U.S. used, in its criminal aggression against Afghanistan, the most destructive bombs there are ... Do the Muslims of today know how to realize Allah’s path, and to turn only to Allah? Not to turn to the evil United States, or to Europe so filled with hatred toward Islam and Muslims?"
- Sermon delivered in the Al Aksa Mosque (Temple Mount), PA's Voice of Palestine radio
EGYPT
"The solution to the Israeli terror lies in a proliferation of Fidai [martyrdom] attacks that strike horror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah. The Islamic countries, peoples and rulers alike, must support these martyrdom attacks."
- Sheikh Al-Tayyeb, Egypt’s new "moderate" mufti
"Jihad in the path of Allah is a virtue that binds Muslims at all times, and it is an obligation on everyone who is able to carry it out, and tens of Qur'anic verses narrate the virtue of Jihad in the path of Allah, as well as tens of prophetic Hadiths [traditions]. Jihad to confront the enemy and liberate the pillaged land is an obligation on Muslims in every time and place... This is what our brothers are now doing in occupied Palestine. Their Jihad against the enemy, against oppression, and against the Israeli tyranny is a legitimate and noble Jihad. It is obligatory for the entire [Islamic] nation. to support them in their Jihad."
"Every martyrdom operation against any Israeli, including children, women, and teenagers, is a legitimate act according to Islamic religious law, and is an Islamic commandment
"fighting the Americans is a divine order."
"Hitler himself, whom they accuse of Nazism, is in my eyes no more than a modest 'pupil' in the world of murder and bloodshed. He is completely innocent of the charge of frying them in the hell of his false Holocaust!! The entire matter, as many French and British scientists and researchers have proven, is nothing more than a huge Israeli plot aimed at extorting the German government in particular and the European countries in general. But I, personally and in light of this imaginary tale, complain to Hitler, even saying to him from the bottom of my heart, 'If only you had done it, brother, if only it had really happened, so that the world could sigh in relief [without] their evil and sin.'"
IRAN
"If it be through the death of Sharon or the death of Bush,
please brighten-up our hearts, O Lord,"
"Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! ... Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies] ... Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! ... Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim."- Ayatollah Khomeini, responding to apologists for Islam
(Taheri, Amir, Holy Terror, London 1987, pp. 226-7):
NIGERIA -
Sharia Declared In Southern Nigeria For First Time
LEBANON
- Surrogate for Syria
SYRIA Under the iron rule of the Ba'ath party, the security forces smashed the power of the Islamic fundamentalists in the 1970s and 80s. Nevertheless:
"[Jews] are the betrayers and torturers of Jesus and his message of peace"
"It is the Israeli public, and not just the leaders, who are like the Nazis themselves."
"[I] would kill any Jew standing next to me ... if every Arab would do so, no Jews would be left."
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Syria's Assad denies holocaust
The above is just a tiny sliver of what is going on in the region.
Can someone explain how Islam isn't the issue here?
Can someone explain how the West isn't on their short list?
Can someone explain how this isn't a clash of civilizations?
So during the colonial period, the population of Indonesia was majority Christian. Christians resented
"the influx of Muslim Immigrants." And today, Christians
"are only 10% of Indonesia's population."This will be the future of Europe and America if Muslim immigration is not stopped. The problem is American and European Liberals who are paralyzed by their Liberal paradigm and cannot--or will not--see the reality of the situation. This is probably the significance of the Le Pen vote in France--there being deep concern, on the grassroots level, about this very thing.
So "missionary efforts by Christians have" been "successful"
This is encouraging. The people of the West should inundate the benighted Muslim countries with missionaries, converting as many of these misguided people as possible.
But "missionary efforts by Christians" have "fueled the anxiety and anger of Muslims" who "feel Christians are threatening their religion." So "human casualties include not only the dead and wounded but" also "the Christians who have been forced to convert to Islam".
Certainly these "forced Muslims" need only protection to enable them to "reconvert" to Christianity. Perhaps other Muslims would convert if it were safe to do so or if they were educated enough to see the difference between Islam and Christianity and to make an educated choice. This is all the more reason for aggressive proselytizing in these countries. Missionaries have been successful to some degree even under these adverse circumstances. They must be protected and their work encouraged.
Muslim organizations clearly want "to make Indonesia into a Muslim state".
And not only Indonesia--North America, Europe, India, the Phillipines, and the entire world.
The warnings could not be more clear!
"Last year, Agus Wattimena, the head of a Christian militia fighting the Laskar Jihad, told me: 'Go back to America and tell Christians that they must help us here.' He was killed shortly afterward."
The true meaning of militant Islam is obvious.
Militant Islam intends to conquer all of the people of the world and to subject them to Islam and the sharia. Its advocates declare this. They will use whatever means are available--clearly including terror, murder, ethnic cleansing--whatever.
The warning alarms are blaring! Does the civilized world hear them?
The first and most important step in defending against this evil must be the removal of its enablers from power in North America and Europe. This means the repudiation of Liberalism and the "Liberal paradigms", the defeat of Liberal political candidates--Democrats in the U.S.--and the removal of them from office.
Those who are tempted to vote for Liberal/Democrat candidates must realize that a vote for them is a vote for America's enemies and for the destruction of the U.S.
The world faces an enemy every bit as dangerous as The Third Reich--perhaps more fanatical and more dangerous. The civilized people of the world--especially in the U.S. must defend themselves. It will not be easy. They cannot afford to do otherwise.