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January 6, 2008 11:00 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Paticipating in a "religion" that allows killing is not a liberty... 

Another case of a wacko muslim killing his two daughters becasue they dated boys....

Link! 

Outlaw Islam Now!!! 




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The sooner Mecca's ambient temperature is raised to roughly 250,000 degrees fahrenheit, the better....
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January 6, 2008 11:14 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Rayj00 said:

 

Paticipating in a "religion" that allows killing is not a liberty... 

Another case of a wacko muslim killing his two daughters becasue they dated boys....

Link! 

Outlaw Islam Now!!! 

 

I don't know if we can, because of our constitution.  I would say, though, go even further and disallow faith-based education facilities, make all education secular.  Arrest radical imams on the grounds of inciting terrorism.  Don't know if we can do that either because of our consitutional right to free speech and the right to practice religion.

 I do think that we have been able to disallow ritual slaughter of animals and stuff like that, in the case of voodoo.

 Also, DON'T make allowances for the practice of Islam in airports, in sports arenas and in educational facilities.

 Having read Infidel, I agree with Ayaan that organized religion is little more than slavery and submission to an all-powerful clan or tribe.  As an independent American, I can't stand to see the some of the same aspects of radical Islam, here, in our fundamentalist evangelicals.

January 6, 2008 11:18 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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marijam said:
Rayj00 said:

 

Paticipating in a "religion" that allows killing is not a liberty... 

Another case of a wacko muslim killing his two daughters becasue they dated boys....

Link! 

Outlaw Islam Now!!! 

 

I don't know if we can, because of our constitution.  I would say, though, go even further and disallow faith-based education facilities, make all education secular.  Arrest radical imams on the grounds of inciting terrorism.  Don't know if we can do that either because of our consitutional right to free speech and the right to practice religion.

 I do think that we have been able to disallow ritual slaughter of animals and stuff like that, in the case of voodoo.

 Also, DON'T make allowances for the practice of Islam in airports, in sports arenas and in educational facilities.

 Having read Infidel, I agree with Ayaan that organized religion is little more than slavery and submission to an all-powerful clan or tribe.  As an independent American, I can't stand to see the some of the same aspects of radical Islam, here, in our fundamentalist evangelicals.

 

I've heard others say the same as you: I can't stand to see the some of the same aspects of radical Islam, here, in our fundamentalist evangelicals.

Please let us know exactly how fundamentalist evangelicals compares to radical islam... I don't see any comparison at all.... 




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Winston Churchill - "An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last."

"Victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance."

Proud member of the NRA....although I don't even own a pistol or rifle......

The sooner Mecca's ambient temperature is raised to roughly 250,000 degrees fahrenheit, the better....
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

January 6, 2008 11:31 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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The Democrats will not allow sanctioning muslems, they want to make sure to get their votes.
January 6, 2008 11:45 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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, all muslims arent going around blowing stuff up... Its just a small group...  An you read the old testement of the bible  its talks pretty much the same way as the koran...  Just as many people through out history have been killed in the name of christanty... Look at the mass conversion of pegans through out the roman empire back in the day... It was basicly convert or die... Unless you where strong enough to resist...  Saying that in the united state is just foolish this is supposedly a free country..


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January 6, 2008 11:52 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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And how many in the last 250 years have been killed in the name of Christianity? Got any ballpark figures?

The Muslims are still killing to this very day in the name of their god. Those muslims that are not part of the so called "small group" are just as much to blame becasue I have yet to see the Million Muslim march against radical islam. Until I do....all muslims are suspicious...




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Winston Churchill - "An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last."

"Victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance."

Proud member of the NRA....although I don't even own a pistol or rifle......

The sooner Mecca's ambient temperature is raised to roughly 250,000 degrees fahrenheit, the better....
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

January 6, 2008 12:10 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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And how many in the last 250 years have been killed in the name of Christianity? Got any ballpark figures?

The Muslims are still killing to this very day in the name of their god. Those muslims that are not part of the so called "small group" are just as much to blame becasue I have yet to see the Million Muslim march against radical islam. Until I do....all muslims are suspicious...

It is just a small group, any as of latley christanity has kinda changed its way but it has alot longer history of violence than it does peace...  Not to long ago there was some abortion clincs being blown up an some doctors shot... Im not even saying i disagree with it but those guys where christian an equated abortion to murder... But theres people out there who would call that a radical belief should we outlaw christanity to...   Radical Islam is wrong but you cant push all of them for what a sect of there religion does...




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January 6, 2008 12:29 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Wish you could. I would love to get rid of Islam (not the muslims themselves of course.) But, the religion itself. Remember that Satan used Mohammed to invent Islam to try to crush Christianity which will never die off. Also, both the drive-by media and the Conservative media still believe that Islam is part of the church and will not allow it. So, were doing an uphill thing here. But, chin up to those like us who see the real truth about Islam.

KEEP PRAYING.




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January 6, 2008 01:37 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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this looks like another attack  against christianity.... I thought it was about Islam...... I believe People have the right to believe in  Islam if they wish...but they also have the right to not believe in islam without being killed, have the right to walk around without their heads covered, the right to  live their lives without someone trying to chop off their heads or blowing them up....... people have a right to be islam, atheists and yes even     shudder       Christian !
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NO ! NO ! To "outlaw" any belief system in the United States is a GROSS VIOLATION of our Constitution ! Aside from that statement of FACT, it would begin the "slippery slope" of governmental control over individual conscience and freedom of thought, values and beliefs. NO, NO, NO !!! On that slippery slope, begun with the outlawing of Islam, the government could and would....outlaw Catholism for implanting "guilt", Mormons for having too many books of Scripture, Jehovah's Witnesses for harrassment ( constant door knocking), Evangelicals for unattainable high moral standards, Taoist for burning incense (environmental pollution), and Aethist for wishy-washy moral code. Every religion and non-religion would be subject to governmental control eventually and individual rights to belief would be GONE FOREVER. (Some of the above was JEST based in the Lunacy of the slippery slope ).

Many of us are citizens of the United States BECAUSE other governments regulated religion. My Presbyterian Scottish forefathers fled England because of religious persecution, German Lutherans fled, French Hugonauts fled, and the list of religious pilgrims that came to the FREE THINKING America goes on. Here in the U.S. one's personal beliefs are not PERSECUTED, individuals are FREE to THINK and BELIEVE what they wish. This individual right to personal beliefs is ingrained in us as individuals and in our government from its inception.

Yes, a belief system that teaches violence to gain dominance over ALL OTHER religions MUST BE FOUGHT ! It must be fought with our intellect and our arms ! Such a belief system is CONTRA the very foundation of our society and government. But to fight such a violent belief system by BANNING it DESTROYS the foundation of a FREE SOCIETY ! Such a fine line of fighting against a violent religion while not outlawing it outright can be frustrating to many. But the fine line runs DEEP to the core of individuals rights to think and believe what they wish.  Pray that we are wise enough to fight the violence of men with arms AND reason, while not succombing to the OUTLAWING of the freedom of conscience.

January 6, 2008 02:09 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Rayj00 said:

The Muslims are still killing to this very day in the name of their god.


 

Interesting. A comment was made by al-Zawahri just the other day. His comment was "I ask God for the men of jihadi media to spread the message of Islam and monotheism to the world and spread real awareness to the people of the nations." Of course, what he means by "spread the message of Islam and monotheism" is "convert or die". You can find that and more in this post on Conservative Oasis.

In response to the original poster:

  1. In the minds of the radicals, Islam does not "allow" murder. It encourages it.
  2. Murder is already illegal here. You don't need to outlaw the religion.
  3. I agree, the silence is deafening from the rest of the "moderate" Islamic world.



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January 6, 2008 02:41 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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How could anyone believe in a religion that teaches hate?  If your daughter looked at a man or got pregnant could one of your family members kill her as a HONOUR KILLING because she disgraced the family.  They just plain believe in killing.

My God teaches Love and forgiveness. 

January 6, 2008 03:49 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Conservative Oasis Dotcom said:
Rayj00 said:

The Muslims are still killing to this very day in the name of their god.


 

Interesting. A comment was made by al-Zawahri just the other day. His comment was "I ask God for the men of jihadi media to spread the message of Islam and monotheism to the world and spread real awareness to the people of the nations." Of course, what he means by "spread the message of Islam and monotheism" is "convert or die". You can find that and more in this post on Conservative Oasis.

In response to the original poster:

  1. In the minds of the radicals, Islam does not "allow" murder. It encourages it.
  2. Murder is already illegal here. You don't need to outlaw the religion.
  3. I agree, the silence is deafening from the rest of the "moderate" Islamic world.

Great post...let's hope the next time one of these nut job extremists straps a bomb to himself and takes out innocent people along with himself that he is met by 72 VIRGINIANS not 72 VIRGINS as his "reward".

And they "silenced" the moderate Islamic world when they murdered Bhutto last week.......they feared her more than anything- her ousting from Pakistan in 1996 coincides with the first time I saw State Department Travel Advisory briefings mentioning "threats" from Bin Laden and others against American intersts worldwide- they were very vague.

Mind you, they have worked DECADES to get this far and this organized on a global level.

The threat is real and the next President of this country had better have a set of brass ones....and the cunning and nerve to go up against some of these leaders of terrorist regimes.

 




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January 7, 2008 06:07 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Islamic Militants Kill 8 Tribal Leaders in Northwestern Pakistan

Monday, January 07, 2008

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  —  Suspected Islamic militants fatally shot eight tribal leaders involved in efforts to broker a cease-fire between security forces and insurgents in Pakistan's volatile northwest, authorities said Monday.

The tribal leaders were killed in separate attacks late Sunday and early Monday in South Waziristan, a mountainous region close to Afghanistan where Al Qaeda and Taliban militants are known to operate, a security official and the military said in a statement.

The suspected insurgents killed three of the men in a market in Wana, the region's main town, while the other five were killed in attacks on their homes, a security official and an intelligence official said. The men were scheduled to meet each other Monday in Wana to discuss the negotiations, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.

However, the military said in a statement that the eight tribesmen died in a single attack on the peace committee's offices in Shakai.

Pakistan is an ally in the U.S. war on terrorism, and its security forces have fought intense battles with militants in South Waziristan. Although the government has encouraged moderate tribal elders to broker a cease-fire in the region, there has been little sign of success.d

Also Monday, a homicide attacker driving a pickup truck detonated a bomb near a security post, wounding eight soldiers and two civilians, the military said in a statement.

The attacker died in the blast, which happened in Kabal in the Swat region, a former tourist destination where security forces have been battling loyalists of a pro-Taliban cleric. Swat is about 175 miles north of South Waziristan.

Elsewhere in South Waziristan, security forces exchanged gunfire with militants near the town of Ladha, but there was no information immediately on injuries, the intelligence official said. Fighting in Ladha last week following the kidnapping of four troops killed 25 fighters, the military said.

The Pakistan-Afghanistan border area has long been considered a likely hiding place for Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his top deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, and the U.S. has pressured the government of President Pervez Musharraf to crack down on militants operating in the area.

On Sunday, Pakistan reiterated that it will not let American forces hunt Al Qaeda and Taliban militants on its soil, after a report in The New York Times said that the Bush administration was considering expanding U.S. military and intelligence operations into Pakistan's tribal regions.

The Pakistani government also has blamed Baitullah Mehsud, a South Waziristan-based militant leader with links to al-Qaida, in the Dec. 27 assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. Mehsud has denied involvement, and Bhutto's supporters accuse the government of being involved in the attack.

About 2,000 supporters of the All Parties Democratic Movement, a coalition of small opposition parties that have called for a boycott of upcoming parliamentary elections, held a protest in Chaman near the Afghan border, chanting "Arrest the killers of Benazir Bhutto" and "Death to fraudulent elections."

Protesters also denounced the government for a scarcity of flour and electricity.

Rallies were scheduled for later Monday across the country, said Shahid Shamsi, a spokesman for Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan's largest Islamic group, which is also part of the anti-Musharraf coalition.




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American-Born Al Qaeda Spokesman Lashes Out at U.S. in New Tape

Sunday, January 06, 2008

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CAIRO, Egypt —  Al Qaeda's American spokesman called on the terror network's fighters to greet President Bush with "bombs and booby-trapped vehicles" when he visits the Middle East later this week, according to a video posted Sunday.

The rhetoric-packed video also featured the California-born Adam Gadahn tearing up his U.S. passport as part of a "symbolic" protest against Washington and marked the terror network's first message of 2008.

"Now we direct an urgent call to our militant brothers in Muslim Palestine and the Arab peninsula ... to be ready to receive the Crusader slayer Bush in his visit to Muslim Palestine and the Arab peninsula in the beginning of January and to receive him not with flowers or clapping but with bombs and booby-trapped vehicles," Gadahn said in Arabic, though he spoke mostly in English during the video.

Bush is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Wednesday for a weeklong regional trip that will also bring him to the West Bank, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Most of the 50-minute long video, titled "An Invitation to Reflection and Repentance," appeared to be aimed at ordinary Americans, with Gadahn saying Al Qaeda felt the need to release the statement after Washington's "defeat" in Iraq and Afghanistan and failed attempts by Bush and other diplomats to bring peace to the Middle East.

"We felt it necessary to address the American people and explain to them some of the facts about these critical and fast-moving events," said the California-born Gadahn, who wore a white and red headscarf.

"The first questions Americans might ask is has America really been defeated? The answer is yes and on all fronts," he said while sitting behind a desk with a coffee cup and laptop computer nearby.

The video could not immediately be independently verified, but it appeared on a Web site often used by Islamic militants and carried the logo of Al Qaeda's media wing, al-Sahab. At the beginning of the video, the date December 2007 was displayed, and Gadahn mentioned Robert Hawkins, who killed eight people at a mall in Omaha, Neb. on Dec. 5, suggesting the tape was made sometime after then.

Gadahn, also known as Azzam al-Amriki, was charged with treason in the U.S. in 2006 and has been wanted since 2004 by the FBI, which is offering a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction.

He has appeared in several Al Qaeda videos including most recently in August when he threatened new attacks on foreign embassies. In May, Al Qaeda released another video featuring Gadahn, who warned Bush to end U.S. involvement in Muslim lands or face an attack worse than the Sept. 11, 2001, strikes.

In his latest video statement, Gadahn lashed out repeatedly at the United States for its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and close ties to Israel and the leaders of some Muslim countries, including Egypt and Pakistan, which he described as some of the "worst dictators and tyrants."

Gadahn also criticized Christianity, which he called "baseless and doubt-filled," and urged Americans — including soldiers who fought in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan — to convert to Islam.

"Listen to me, and listen to me carefully, before you lose your mind to flashbacks, and drugs and drink-induced dementia and before your demons drive you to self-destruction and suicide, in these verses (in the Quran), God calls out to each and every one of you saying God forgives all sins ... if you simply stop and repent," he said.

At one point in the video, Gadahn took out his U.S. passport, showed it to the camera and tore it into several pieces.

"In symbolic rejection of the American citizenship that honorable and decent and compassionate people are ashamed to carry, I will now proceed to destroy my American passport," he said.

"But don't get too excited, I don't need it to travel anyway," he added with a smile after tearing it apart.

Gadahn is the first American to be charged with treason in more than 50 years and could face the death penalty if convicted. He also was indicted on a charge of providing material support to terrorists.

Earlier this month, FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said the agency would review the latest tape for intelligence value and vowed never to give up the hunt for Gadahn.




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Another Former CIA Official Goes Native: Graham E. Fuller

comment by Jerry Gordon Rest of the Story http://blog.americancongressfortruth.com/

graham-book-cover.jpgThis is a two part posting. On Thursday, I sent around an article by Graham E. Fuller in the January, 2008 edition of Foreign Policy: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cm... color="#0000ff">“A World Without Islam”. Fuller has a resume a yard long. He is a double degree Harvard Grad, spent two decades at State as a diplomat in manly Middle Eastern and Muslim countries, did a tour in the CIA. He became Vice Chair of the infamous National Intelligence Council-the crew that writes those appeasing National Intelligence Estimates. Then he retired and did a tour as a Middle East policy wonk at the RAND Corporation and became a pundit and author of copious articles and books. Graham’s latest magnus opus is “The Future of Political Islam”. One reviewer at Amazon.com had this to say about Graham’s book:

Graham Fuller has written an illuminating and important book on the relationship between Islam, a religion, and Islamism, a “religous-cultural-political framework for engagement on issues.” Most Americans, it would seem, associate Muslims with fanatic bomb-throwers. Fuller points out the diversity of Islam and its adherents and examines some of the reasons why Muslim states and political movements are so often failures in the modern world — when 1,000 years ago they were in the vanguard of civilization.

Amidst many other ideas, Fuller cites, from a UN study, three crisis areas for the Arab world. Lack of political freedom, low level of education, and the low social status of women. He postulates a choice among Islamists. They can continue to ossify or they can find ways to use Islam constructively to confront these crisis areas. This is the challenge of Islam, and the challenge of the U.S. and the West is to help ensure that the choice is the latter and not the former.

This is enough to make you gag.

Graham is a member of the Middle East Policy Council that is populated with experts who are Arabists and philo-Islamics. People like John Esposito of the Georgetown Muslim Christian Understanding Institute bankrolled by Saudi Prince Alaweed bin Talal and Gary Sick, former Carter NSC expert and buddy of the Islamic Republic of Iran at Columbia U’s, School of Public and International affairs. Check out his bio and connections on this SourceWatch entry. So, I promptly sent it off to a bunch of allies and got back some interesting assessments. This first posting is from Rebecca Bynum, editor of the New English Review on their blog, The Iconoclast. She gives us the bottom line of Graham’s pompous apologia for Islam. Bat Ye’or, noted Islamic scholar and expert on dhimmitude in an email to me simply said :

“Never read anything so stupid!!

The second posting is from Hugh Fitzgerald the brilliant Islamic analyst for writes for JihadWatch and posts frequently at the Iconoclast blog of the New English Review.

Rebecca Bynum, The Iconoclast, January 3, 2008

Following in the footsteps of Michael Scheuer, who now advises the Paul campaign, the author of the following article entitled, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cm... color="#0000ff">A World Without Islam,published at Foreign Policy magazine is Graham E. Fuller a former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA in charge of long-range strategic forecasting, completely absolves the enemy ideology from any responsibility for terrorism. He is currently adjunct professor of history at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He argues that the existence of Islam has made no appreciable impact on world history except as a positive “uniting” force that made things more difficult for Western imperialism. I have excerpted the ending (thanks to Jerry Gordon):




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Randynaz said:

It is just a small group, any as of latley christanity has kinda changed its way but it has alot longer history of violence than it does peace... Not to long ago there was some abortion clincs being blown up an some doctors shot... Im not even saying i disagree with it but those guys where christian an equated abortion to murder... But theres people out there who would call that a radical belief should we outlaw christanity to... Radical Islam is wrong but you cant push all of them for what a sect of there religion does...

 

Randy, there is an author by the name of Dan Simmons who I enjoy reading. His genre is speculative fiction, based upon extrapolated evidence of today's social, political, and ethical mores. He wrote an incredible short story called The Time Traveler. It is fascinating and I highly recommend it to all. However, it generated a lot of controversy and he wrote another column to address some of the issues arising from his take on Islam. You can read his response here. But what I want you to pay close attention to is his explantion of transformative beliefs. It will address your basic misunderstanding of the politico-socio fascism of Islam and the religion of Christianity.

I also suggest you pick up a copy of Samuel Huntington's book The Clash of Civilizations And the Remaking of World Order. It's a must-read for anyone to gain some insight into what we're really facing.

Take a look at this quick point:

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It is part of our Western liberal perspective of tolerance—especially institutionalized in the liberal democracies of post-Christian Europe, but perhaps even more deeply ingrained in the still-Christian psychology of early 21st Century America—to reject such data and conclusions as listed above.

Even if it is true, as Samuel P. Huntington documented in his seminal 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations And the Remaking of World Order, that most war-level conflicts on planet Earth at the end of the 20th Century were between Muslims in their societies or between Muslim nations and their neighbors, we cannot easily accept that there is something in the religion itself that causes such violence.

That is, of course, unless one reads the Koran and the hadith (literature and oral tradition that has grown up around the Koran which recounts the sayings and actions of the Prophet.)

Most of the world, especially since 9/11, has been waiting for a rousing and unqualified renouncement of suicide bombings, jihad, persecution of infidels, fatwas, honor killings, and other Muslim atrocities from the silent majority of Muslim clerics and devout Muslims.

With very few and always heavily qualified exceptions, that "silent majority" has remained silent. Arranged marches of "moderate Muslims" to protest even the most outrageous public atrocity—such as the Nov. 2004 brutal murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a 26-yr.-old Dutch Moroccan man in retaliation for van Gogh’s film "Submission" documenting abuses of Muslim women in Europe—drew far more journalists and local Dutch marchers than Muslims.

Could it be possible that—despite constant protests to the contrary by all of our intellectuals, government leaders, and media— the Koran and its associated religious traditions do advocate the slaughter of innocents?

"Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate." —(Koran 9:73)

"Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous." —(Koran 9:123)

"The believers who stay at home—apart from those that suffer from a grave impediment—are not the equal of those who fight for the cause of God with their goods and their persons. God has given those that fight with their goods and their persons a higher rank than whose who stay at home. God has promised all a good reward; but far richer is the recompense of those who fight for Him…He that leaves his dwelling to fight for God and His apostle and is then overtaken by death, shall be rewarded by God…The unbelievers are your inveterate enemies." —(Koran 4:95 -101)

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Meanwhile, here's a defense of Christianity, from a man who is not even a Christian:

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In our more prosaic intellectual life, we tend to hate and attack first that with which we are most familiar.

When the topic in the April Message was the great danger of the Universal Will to Believe as focused in a fantasy-ideology, a transformative belief that will—must—use other human beings as mere props in their transformative fantasies, dozens of people responded with near-rabid attacks on Christianity.

The impulse is common…but it is also puerile and calumnious.

Sam Harris’s purpose in The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason is to spare no fantasy-ideology, to excuse no faith revealed by Holy Books or revelation…he states quite baldly that the time for allowing large groups to make extraordinary claims on the nature of reality without putting forth extraordinary evidence is over, that groups’ permission to base their ideological or religious lives on fantasy and claims to divine authority can no longer be acceptable to a planet that must return to some foundation of reason if we are to surive. Such fantasy-ideology or fantasy-religion claims must not be the last word on behavior in a time of easily obtained nuclear bombs, homegrown bioweapons, and other weapons of mass destruction. Minimal planetary and species’ hygiene demands that we outgrow our primitive addiction to transformative beliefs and magic, no matter how pleasing and empowering such Universal Will to Believe has been over the course of our species’ sad history.

But to compare 21st Century Christianity around the world to the realities of radical and militant Islam, as dozens did on our forum and elsewhere, or to compare President George W. Bush to Iran’s President Ahmadenijad—to say that "Bush is worse" because of his Christian faith—is insane.

Even while saying that the time for religious fundamentalism is over everywhere, that it is a luxury we can no longer afford, Sam Harris acknowledges that Christianity has so incorporated tolerance into its faith and practice that the religion has become almost synonymous with tolerance. Perhaps more importantly, Christianity and humanist Enlightenment have been in a long, co-evolutionary spiral for so many centuries now that in most cases in Christian and post-Christian societies and in their institutions—science, free press, the courts, education systems, political systems—the secular and the religious remain essentially separate yet supportive.

Christianity remains a "transformative belief," but the transformation—as in the case of President George W. Bush, so frequently mocked by the sophisticated—is a private and internal transformation. It tends to breed more tolerance, not less. And I’ve been informed on good authority that even the strongest transformational-belief element in Christian theology required the blood of only one martyr—and that he was crucified long ago.

In America, still a "Protestant Christian nation" in a way that brings down the scorn and contempt of so many citizens of post-Christian Europe, even the most fundamentalist or evangelical Christian lives and works in a modern, scientific, secular society with little conflict. A born-again Christian not only can be a lawyer in perfectly secular courts, take his or her entertainment from secular sources, spend his workdays and social evenings comfortably with people from other (or no) faiths, and can marry outside the faith, but also can work as a NASA scientist or help others as a social worker or vote for politicians of other (or no) faiths without fear of losing his soul.

Those who equate Christian fundamentalism with Islamic fundamentalism choose to ignore that when a tsunami hits Indonesia or an earthquake ravages Muslim Pakistan, it is Christian charities that are often the first to respond. And no one need convert or submit to proselytizing to receive such help. And unlike Hamas or Hezbollah, which also include charities among their lists of organizations, Christian churches and relief agencies do not fund or carry out terrorism. Helping others, not jihad or suicide bombing, is hardwired into all modern Christian thought.

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Hope this helps. Knowledge of our enemy is paramount to defeating him. We do not have the luxury any longer of being naive and uninformed. Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Read Samuel Huntington. Read Robert Spencer. Read Mark Steyn and Melanie Phillips. Read Bat Y'eor. Read, read, read.

Watch Obsession, and What the West Needs To Know About Islam.

But most importantly read the Koran, Sira, and Hadith. That will open your eyes like nothing else. Don't risk your life, your family, and your nation by remaining ignorant of the true nature of Islam.




Gathering of Eagles www.gatheringofeagles.org
January 7, 2008 08:53 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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I am willing to change the constitution in order to erase Islam from our country.  Islam has no accomplishments except murder and bloodshed.  Some religion, heh ? Islam has no problem with mutilating little girls, killing relatives for honor, and having sex with barnyard animals. Let's just outlaw Islam and call it a step up in class. It's a fools errand to attempt to change bloodthirsty cavemen, but nuclear war should be saved for a last resort.

That being said, nuclear war will be what changes Islam, because reason and social progress have no chance against the brainwashing many Muslims undergo from childhood. (another tasteless practice of Islam)

Islam is not a religion, it's a disease.




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January 7, 2008 09:17 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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January 3, 2008

Arab youth says he stabbed Jew to get out of school

Truancy Jihad. From Israel National News (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):

(IsraelNN.com) A 16-year-old Arab youth from Kfar Jat has told police that he stabbed a 58-year-old resident of Pardes Hana in order to get out of school. The teen told officers that his parents would not allow him to leave his studies, and that he had decided he would rather sit in jail than return to his classroom.

The youth admitted to waiting outside a shopping mall in Pardes Hana and stabbing a random passerby. The stabbing victim was moderately wounded in the attack.




"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
January 7, 2008 09:22 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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"He was really strict about guy relationships and talking to guys, as well as the things she wears" -- so he killed her

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Really strict

He was upset that they were involved with non-Muslims. "Texas manhunt for father of slain girls," by Robert Stacy McCain in the Washington Times:

Texas authorities continued a manhunt today for an Egyptian-born taxi driver accused of murdering his teenage daughters.

Yaser Abdel Said, 50, was wanted on a warrant for capital murder after police say he shot the girls Tuesday and left them to die in his taxi, which was found parked in front a hotel in Las Colinas, a suburb north of Dallas. Police said Mr. Said should be considered armed and dangerous.

Friends of Amina Yaser Said, 18, and Sarah Yaser Said, 17, described the girls to the Dallas Morning News as "extremely smart — like geniuses," saying the slain sisters had been enrolled in advanced placement classes and were active in soccer and tennis at suburban Lewisville High School.

While police refused to discuss a possible motive for the crimes, family and friends told reporters that the girls' Westernized lifestyle caused conflict with their Muslim father, who immigrated from Egypt in the 1980s.

"He was really strict about guy relationships and talking to guys, as well as the things she wears," Kathleen Wong, a friend of the girls, told KTVT-TV, the Dallas CBS affiliate.

Two boys who said they had been dating the sisters told KXAS-TV in Dallas that Mr. Said was upset that his daughters were involved with non-Muslims.

"She just wanted a normal life, like any American girl wanted," one of the boys told the NBC affiliate station, adding that Sarah "was always kind, gentle, always cheerful, always had a smile on her face."

The boyfriends said yesterday they feared for their safety because Mr. Said was still at large. "Obviously he already showed that he is a dangerous man," one told the KXAS station.




"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

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