Islam's Self-perpetuating Cycle of Violence and Fear
17 Jan, 2009
- You might in Montana. Don’t try it in Mecca.
Why?
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Because, Islam trains its followers with extreme intolerance
about anything, they deem, offensive to their creed particularly to
Allah and Muhammad. Drawing Muhammad in image is one such deadly
offense to Muslims. Islam's devout followers even find it OK to kill
any such offenders.
In Montana, you are unlikely to come across such potential Islamic
killers.
In Mecca, you won’t last five minutes. Muslim mobs or an Islamic
assassin would take you down almost instantaneously. It is as
simple as that.
You don’t believe me? Give it a try or ask any Muslim!
This article is about such murderous Muslims and the fear they
generate.
Islamic society is caught up in a self-replicating, endless cycle of violence and fear, driven by its most devout believers. The cycle goes like this.
The Violence
Islam preaches violence, including murder, of those who offend
its creed. In each generation, the most devout believers turn to
such potential murderers; they perpetuate the notion that it is OK to
commit violence in the name of Islam. This becomes an endless cycle,
because nobody in Islamic societies can oppose them; anyone,
who may try to teach otherwise, would herself/himself be taken down.
The Fear
In Muslim societies, all devout believers are such potential killers;
they are spread all over the greater Islamic
population (ummah). They cannot be easily identified:
it means any devout believer anywhere could become instigated to
killing someone for a perceived offense to Islam. Every Muslim is aware of this potential threat (fear) from the
devout
of Islam. As a result, all Muslims suffer from this fear; it drives the system,
the society.
The violence and fear that devout believers of Islam create amongst the general populace has a profound effect on the society, they live in. It is at the core of what Islam has become. The violence/fear cycle is responsible for all the irregularities of Islamic societies. That is why, Muslims tend to present them as pious for fear of violent response from the most devout Muslims. That is why Muslims don’t (dare) leave the faith or become liberal (devout Muslims would kill anyone who leaves the faith) to integrate in host societies when they emigrate. That is why, the so-called moderate Muslims never speak up, because devout Muslims may kill anyone who questions their faith. That is why, Muslims from Morocco to the Philippines riot over a handful of cartoons or a simple comment from the Pope.
This violence/fear cycle leaves a deep psychological scar on Muslim
societies; it is responsible for what Islam is. Understanding this
violence/fear system is key to understanding Islam. Attempts to deal with Islamic violence will
unlikely succeed, without addressing the cause of this violence/fear cycle.
Describing this violence/fear system and its self-perpetuating cyclical nature is difficult for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the violence/fear system is huge; it is spread all over the body of Islamic societies, which makes it difficult to identify. Additionally, most Muslims (and non-Muslim apologists) deny the existence of these potential killers: Muslims, as a whole, are just like every other people, they say. Furthermore, because these potentially murderous Muslims are widely, and almost evenly, distributed throughout Islamic societies and communities; they cannot be identified until they commit their acts of violence. So, it becomes difficult to connect these sporadic killers into any kind of Islamic cyclical system. They are normally being passed on as a normal criminal element as in any other society. Also because the system is cyclical, the starting point of the discussion is difficult to identify.
Let’s start by discussing the fear created by these potential Islamic assassins.
Islamic Fear
Islamic fear is easy to understand and feel if you know what to look for. Let’s look closely at two Islamic fear scenarios. The first is the case of Mohammad cartoon T-shirt mentioned above. The second is the murder of Theo Van Gogh in Amsterdam and the subsequent publication of the Mohammad cartoons as a protest to the killing.
The Mohammad Cartoon T-Shirt Scenario
It is easy to understand how a person living in Montana could
comfortably wear a Mohammad cartoon T-shirt. There are few, if any,
Muslims in Montana. The chance that you will be spotted by one such
potential
Islamic killers is slim. Even if you are, you might still get away
with it as the likely killers would count that they cannot get away
with it in Montana, which they can in Islamic societies. Therefore,
you need not feel
intimidated in Montana: the Islamic fear factor in low.
But in Dearborn, Michigan, the situation is different. Dearborn has
a fairly large Muslim population. Wearing a Mohammad cartoon T-shirt
in Dearborn would carry some risk. There you will come across a
greater number of devout believers, who would take offence. And some
of them may take to violence. The Islamic fear factor is higher—medium—in
Dearborn. One will feel more intimidated to wear a Muhammad
cartoon T-shirt there.
Now take the same Mohammad cartoon T-shirt scenario to an even
larger Muslim population: say, to the Muslim-dominated section of London. The
Muslim-dominated section of London has a Muslim population of over one million.
Undoubtedly, one wearing the offensive T-Shirt would pass by a
larger number of
potential Islamic murderers. Considering the attacks on London's transit
system on July 7 (2005) that killed
52 innocent commuters, and other failed bombing attempts, it is easy to
see that
deeply devout Muslims in London are taking offence, which is
instigating them to violence. As a result, one
will be much more intimidated to do anything offensive to Muslims in
London. The Islamic fear factor in London is "high".
Now let us try to imagine the fear one would feel in a Muslim
society. Think about wearing the Mohammad cartoon T-shirt in
Mecca, Cairo, Khartoum, Tehran or Islamabad. The fear, undoubtedly, would be over-powering.
You would not last five minutes as I have said already. You will be
taken down instantly by the overwhelming mass of offended Islamic
murderers. Islamic fear
factor over there is "exceedingly high".
[Notes. (1) In nearly al Muslim countries, the
killer would most likely walk away a free man. He would not be
prosecuted for his act. At the local mosque he would be treated with
respect for defending Islam; the larger population would support
him. (2) If you are a non-Muslim, you will killed for just being in
Mecca; non-Muslims are not allowed there.]
I have chosen this T-shirt scenario for two simple reasons.
First, it is real. (I challenge anyone to prove otherwise with the
following straightforward method. Simply wear a Mohammad cartoon
T-shirt in a prominent place in Tehran.) Second, it is easy to understand
that in Montana, almost
no Muslims, no Islamic fear; in Mecca, Cairo and Tehran, almost all
are Muslims and exceptionally high Islamic fear. To put it simply,
the greater the Islamic population in an area, the greater
is the Islamic fear factor.
The central lesson of this discussion is that some devout Muslims, if offended on their religious accounts, can turn murderous; they are embedded in any Muslim population and may come from out from anywhere and kill the offender. (This is an important detail. Keep it in mind.)
The Murder of Theo Van Gogh and the Mohammad cartoons
Now, let’s look at the murder of Theo Van Gogh in Amsterdam and the subsequent publication of the Mohammad cartoons in Danish newspapers.
Theo Van Gogh had made a film, offensive to Muslims, that was critical of how Islam treats women. Van Gogh was murdered by an Islamic killer named Mohammed Bouyeri. According to published reports, Mr. Bouyeri told the court at his trial that Van Gogh had insulted Islam. "What moved me to do what I did was purely my faith," Bouyeri said adding: "I was motivated by the law that commands me to cut off the head of anyone who insults Allah and his prophet."
Mr. Bouyeri in reality had done two things. First, he had killed Theo Van Gogh. More importantly, he had helped spread and heighten the Islamic fear in Denmark and beyond that even if there are very Muslims in your surroundings (even less than 10% of the population), the fear factor is not low; you are not safe to offend Muslims over whatever it may.
The Islamic fear, spread by the murder of Van Gogh, was a part of the reason why Flemming Rose, the publisher of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, published the “Mohammad's cartoons”. Rose said in a Washington Post article (February 19, 2006) that he,
“commissioned the cartoons in response to several incidents of self-censorship in Europe caused by widening fears and feelings of intimidation in dealing with issues related to Islam… Our goal was simply to push back self-imposed limits on expression that seemed to be closing in tighter.”
He was only talking about a form Islamic fear factor, similar to what I point out in the T-shirt scenario above.
Islamic fear by the numbers
Now let us look at the reality of this Islamic fear in Europe as described by Flemming Rose and see if it can help us understand the fear in Muslim-dominated societies.
Keep in mind that Muslims make up about 5% of the population in Western Europe. The presence of such a small percentage of Muslims in a population can create such a fear of the Islamic killers that it imparted, according to Rose, “self-imposed limits on expression that seemed to be closing in tighter.”
Think of this reality! Western Europeans—grown up
believing in the freedom speech and living in their own free and open
societies—are afraid of talking critically about Islam when Muslims
make up only a small fraction of the population. It is not difficult to
imagine the kind of fear that Islam—the potential Islamic killers
to be accurate—imparts upon people in a Muslim society with no
freedom of expression, where one can break the law with near
impunity in matters of Islam. The fear factor
there must be immeasurably greater.
It easy to grasp how free expression and critical discussion of Islam is essentially shut off in Muslim societies, where unseen religious killers, like Bouyeri, roam about everywhere. It is shut off by Islam’s "dark force" of fear, generated by its unseen pious henchmen.
This inability to talk critically about Islam in Islamic
societies is the main reasons why Islam is stuck in its endless
cycle of violence. Muslims are consciously or subconsciously aware
that violence of the pious killers, like that of Mohammed Bouyeri, surrounds
them all the time. They live in a system of constant fear
surrounding issues concerning Islam that keeps them quiet. In that system, there
isn't another way for them.
Having made sense of what the Islamic fear is all about, let us move on to discuss who these Islamic killers are.
Who are the killers?
Let us
first look at a trait common to all religions. Religious believers come in
variable degrees of belief. Some are only marginal believers; others
can be very devout. For the sake of this discussion, let’s arrange a
horizontal line, a “Belief Index” scale. On it, we can spread
out the believers from the least devout to the most devout.
It goes like this. On the far left, you have the least devout
believers. Some of these have so little belief they might be
considered secular. On the right side, we find the most devout.
Let’s give the Belief Index scale numeric values from 1 to 10, where 1 equals least devout and 10 equals most devout.
Belief Index:
Least Devout ------------------------------------------------Most Devout
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4-------5------- 6-------7-------8-------9------10
Islamic killers come from the rank of Islam’s most devout
believers. On the Belief Index scale, these believers fall
somewhere in the range of 9.75 to 10.00. They, under the right
combination of factors and situation, would be willing to commit
violence in the name of Islam.
These most devout believers are religiously trained to the extent that they are ready to embrace the numerous calls to violence contained in Islamic teachings. The Koran, Hadith, and Sunnah, the foundational base of Islam, all have numerous calls to violence. Additionally, Islamic scholars and Mullahs and their fatwas as well as Islamic societal norms support violence in the name of Islam. Islam’s most devout believers, accept as true, that they have a God-ordained authority as well as duty to commit violence for the benefit of Islam, Bouyeri being an example.
Islam's devout believers, who might be incited to commit violence in the name of Islam, represent most likely somewhere between 0.1% and 10.0% of the population. There are presently about 1.3 billion Muslims globally. That means, the number of potential killers ranges from 1.3 to 130.0 million. Even the 1.3 million potential killers, the lowest possible number, poses a huge threat to the world; the threat of 130 is hard to imagine.
This wide variation in the number of potential killers in the
Muslim populace is due to a number of factors. First, the
vast majority of these likely killers are enmeshed within the wider Islamic
populace, not “signed up” to violent Islamic forces per se. This
makes it impossible to know how many there
actually are. Additionally, most of them act out of a deep religious
conviction that could change from day to day. Also, the structure of
Islam has no central authority; it commands Muslims to fulfill their
religious obligation in an individual capacity. On a day, a devout
believer might independently decide to fulfill his religious
duty. Furthermore, certain important Islamic issues, such as
perceived injustice of US intervention in Iraq, might persuade
a larger percentage of devout believers to fulfill their religious
obligation.
To make matters worse, even though the number of these most devout believers, the ones willing to commit violence for Islam, might be limited, there is second group who augment and amplify the effect of these killers. They are sympathizers, supporters and instigators, who won't engage in the violence themselves, but would incite others to religiously motivated violence. They might fall in range of 8.00 to 9.75 on the Belief Index and act as the eyes and ears of real killers. They will talk about what they see as perceived injustice against Islam and Muslims. They engage other devout believers in mosques or other social gatherings, load their minds with one perceived grievance after another. This increases the likelihood of their protégés' engagement in acts of violence.
In real number, the combination of the sympathizers and the most devout most likely make up about 20% of the Muslim population. That means about one out of five individuals is part of Islam's killing machine. Because their identities are transparent or unknown, the sympathizers’ presence adds to the fear factor discussed above.
(Imagine being Muslim in this scenario. Every five Muslim around
you, one is a part of Islam's system of violence. Who would be willing to
talk candidly about religious issues?)
Because of the Islamic principle of taqiyya, namely deception for the
furtherance of Islam, Muslims for the most part refuse to
acknowledge this “group” of potential killers in their communities.
They are not killers in the general sense of it: they are just like
every other people in most matters, but will turn killers only when
one criticizes Islam. Non-Muslims
usually do not acknowledge these killers because of a combination
of ignorance and political correctness. Additionally, the veil of
religious legitimacy given to Islam further confuses the issue.
Organizational Structure
These killers can be independent, unorganized individuals like Mohammed Bouyeri, Van Gogh's murderer. These independent killers act like self-appointed “free agents” of Allah. Under Islamic law, Muslims are individually empowered to enforce Islamic law on the people, community and society. Because of their “free agency”, their ability to remain unnoticed until they act, their near-uniform distribution in Islamic societies and their sheer numbers, these potential killers can unfurl immense fear within the Muslim society.
When these “free agent’ killers do their work in the non-Muslim
world, their actions are usually seen as criminal acts of general
nature, unrelated to
Islamic calls to violence.
These committed killers also organize themselves into groups of all sizes and types, from a two-man cells to large organizations like al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah and likes. These groups, ideologically like-minded, can act independently or in conjunction with other groups or individuals as situation demands and permits. Their actions require no central authority but may be coordinated with other groups. Any independent “free agent” can start his own organization. Size and reach is limited only by the organizational skills of the individuals involved. Any and all of these groups can help or receive help from other groups. Many Muslim governments provide clandestine support to such groups, while claiming that these are “nonstate actors.”
One important factor about Muslims is that, while most of the killers come from the extreme right side of the Religious Index chart, some of the less devout believers may succumb to what has been called “sudden jihadi syndrome”. That is, under the right set of circumstances, they could be swayed to commit violence.
Nature of Violence
Islam’s killers act mostly anonymously. Like the killers who leave
bombs in public places or the motorcyclist tossing a grenade into a
crowd before running away. A few may come out proudly to do their
act publicly—Van Gogh's killer Mohammed Bouyeri
being as ideal example.
The 19 men involved in the September 11 attacks, the endless stream of Iraqi and Afghani suicide
bombers, the London transit system bombers, the transit system
bombers in Spain, and the Beslan school murders are a few examples
of Islamic killers. In Thailand, Islamic killers decapitate schoolgirls and gun down
plantation workers. In the Philippines, they bomb markets and
ferries. In Jordan, they
bomb wedding parties and gun down college professors. In Egypt, they shoot
tourists at the pyramids, bomb hotels and they murdered former president
Anwar Sadat. In India, they recently hit Mumbai and many other
places previously; they make
people's life miserable in Kashmir. In Africa, Islam-inspired killers work in Kenya
setting off bombs at the US embassy. In Sudan, they are responsible
for the mass killings, eviction and burning in Darfur. In Lebanon, they launch missiles into
Israel. In Argentina, they bombed the Israeli embassy.
In Western Europe, the killers work within the Muslim ghettos making sure that Muslims don’t leave their faith. In France, they bomb the subways and engage in frequent riots and vandalism. Even in the US, Islamic killers do their work. John Allen Muhammad shot ten people in the Washington DC area in 2002. In Salt Lake City, Sulejmen Talovic killed five people in a shopping mall. In Seattle, Naveed Afzal Haq killed one and wounded four. At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, a recent graduate from Iran, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, drove his SUV into a crowd of students. In New Jersey, six killers had planned to attack Fort Dix.
(Note here. Conventional wisdom would have us believe these acts were all independent criminal acts. The reality is this. These acts were all part of what you should expect from Islam’s violent cyclical system.)
Any place on the face of the globe, where you find Muslims, there
will be some potentially Islam-inspired killers. Since they are relatively
evenly dispersed in the Muslim populace, the more Muslims means
more such likely killers.
The type of work these killers do depends on the percentage of
Muslims in the society they are working in.
Inside Muslim society, their primary task is to keep Islam
thoroughly unquestionable, untouchable. They do this by killing
anyone, who purportedly insults Allah or
Mohammad, questions or tries to change Islam, or tries to
leave the faith. (This is why Muslims seam so pious, don’t leave the
faith and moderates don’t speak up.) Additionally in Muslim societies,
their task is to enhance adherence to and enforce Islamic Sharia
law. In Afghanistan, the killers blow up girls schools to enforce
their ideal of a true Islamic state. In Egypt, they killed Anwar Sadat because he had gone against Islamic law by trying to make
peace with the hated Jews (Israel).
In infidel-dominated societies, such as in Western Europe, one of their primary tasks is to make sure Muslims do not assimilate into the host society. This is to keep Islam and Islamic community pure, unadulterated by un-Islamic Western values.
In other instances, they apply tactics of terrorism to convert
non-Muslims, to institute Islamic Sharia laws
or to create independent Islamic states. To achieve these goals, they may
engage in criminal
acts or a constant
low-grade gorilla war-like conflicts. The violent Islamist campaigns
in
Kashmir, the Balkans, Thailand, the Philippines, sub-Saharan Africa,
and now even Western Europe are a few examples.
These potential killers of Islam are overwhelmingly young and male.
A small number of women have recently joined the wagon. They come from all economic and
educational strata. Poverty is not a cause, but it does work to the
advantage of devout believers looking for “recruits”.
This system even finds a way to harness the destructive power of
its young social misfits. They can practice their destructive
ways on non-Muslims in the form of rapes, muggings, and general
mayhem and receive positive feedback from the most devout. This is
why Western European jails have a high percentage of Muslim
inmates.
The sad reality about these killers of Islam is this: because Islam
makes a continuous claim of religious legitimacy, Islam, as a
system, can rely on a huge, unpaid, unseen, unorganized,
individually acting, empowered to act, and widely distributed group of
highly motivated devout believers, who are willing to kill in order
to defend Islam, to keep it pure. They represent an unconventional,
unseen phantom army: an army where no one needs orders; each
soldier knows exactly what to do. In it, no one is really in
control. It is as deadly as any on earth.
How does the system continuously train the killers?
We now know a bit about Islamic fear. We also have an idea of who
some of the Islamic killers are. Let us look at where these killers
come from and at some of the rules, regulations, social mores and
norms that create Islam’s self-replicating endless cycle of
violence.
[This selection of rules, regulations and such,
represents on a tiny fraction of the directives controlling Islam.
In reality the Islamic system comes together like the “perfect
storm”, with literally thousands of directives working to keep Islam
the way it is. The directives I have chosen to mention here are some
of the easiest to see and understand.]
Islam isn’t just a religion, it is a complete social system.
(Numerous writers have called it a totalitarian system.) Islamic
Sharia law includes rules for almost everything for ones life from birth to death.
And a large portion of these rules work to perpetuate Islam
itself.
One key rule states that all children born to Muslims are
automatically Muslim. This means, Muslims (except converts) have
no say, no choice about their participation in Islam;
their
parents have no say in whether their children are Muslims either.
This insures a continuous crop of believers, some of
them would inevitably turn potential killers.
Another important rule says “Islam is more important than
family.” This means, any family member who might try to leave Islam
would be ostracized from the rest of the family at best; at
worst, he/she would be killed. Also, because extended
Muslim families are usually large, there will also be some in a family deeply
religious (potential killer). This
means that, within every extended family, such devout
ones make sure the rest of the family is properly Islamic. It
also means that parents, will receive pressures from other family members
making sure all children are exposed to Islamic dogma. Moreover,
Islamic communities are closely knit, not individualistic. That
means, even if a whole family is not religious, the vigilance of
neighbors makes it sure that such nonreligious families remain within
proper Islamic decorum. As a result,
children in Muslim societies receive unconditional Islamic training from
the birth on.
Once a child reaches the school-age, the training becomes institutionalized. This starts at the lowest grades and continues throughout all of a child’s education. While not all schools are strictly Islamic, they all in Islamic societies require students to study Islamic subjects.
In poorer Islamic countries, where government-run schools may not exist or may not be free, there are usually Islamic schools. Most of these Islamic schools are free. These schools teach a more intense Islamic curricula.
In addition, there are the numberless madrassas throughout the Muslim world—more than 20,000 in Pakistan alone—training millions of students in Islam. These madrassas teach an unyielding, radical form of Islam. It includes rote memorization of the Koran, and teaching of the Islamic passages calling on believers to commit violence in the name of Islam.
Within the educational system, the devout believers and
sympathizers again make their presence felt. Anyone trying to
moderate the teaching of Islamic materials risks the wrath of an
unseen killer.
By the time children become adults, a small percent of them become the most devout of their generation, plus the sympathizers, constitute about 20%. This educational system is spread almost evenly throughout the Muslim world. As result, the devout believers and sympathizers are, as pointed out earlier, scattered everywhere. This process is continuous; so there is a continuous supply of potential killers in Muslim societies. And the violence/fear cycle continues, perpetuates.
(Note: It is bad enough that Muslims teach this hate inside their
own societies, but immigrant Muslims teach the same hate under the
noses of gullible western hosts. The London transit bombings of 2005
are a perfect example. I do not believe the young Islamic killers of
this incident got their motivation inside the politically correct
British educational system. The same thing can be said about the
recent foiled June 06 terrorist plot in Canada. They did not learn
their hatred of Canada inside the Canadian school system.
Additionally, numerous investigative reports on this issue confirm
this issue.)
The training of children is the beginning of a continuous process that ensures everyone is properly Islamic. In Islamic societies, unstinted training and continuous reinforcement of Islamic dogma is universal.
Let us have a look at some of the common beliefs and practices that are
part of the cyclical system. Keep in mind: 1) All of these issues
are hot issues that would draw attention of the unseen killers; 2)
Because of the fear of the unseen killers, no one ever questions any
of these issues.
Muslims are called to prayer five times a day. These calls to prayer act as a constant reminder to them that it is their responsibility to maintain the purity of Islam. It is also a constant reminder to potential skeptics that questioning Islam is a no-no thing—the devout, the potential killers, are everywhere. The prayer system of Islam helps keep the fear quotient high.
In Muslim societies, everyone is aware of the unseen killer; so, almost none dare speaking up on any issues counter to Islam. This process takes place literally on every level of the society. From market place to office, from grocery store to shoe shop, from camel race to car race, from the library to the park, no one dares speaking ill of anything Islamic.
The information media—newspapers, radios and televisions—in Muslim societies continuously put forth stories that convey the proper Islamic perspective. Because of a wide audience, reporters risk dealing with numerous potential unseen killers for even small errors of judgment. Hence, none are willing to take the risk of even the slightest questioning of Islamic issues. Note that journalists in Islamic countries face worst of persecution, often on religious offenses.
To make matters worse, the media also takes an active role in
furthering the Islamic dogma. Numerous independent organizations, which
monitor Islamic media, report articles inciting Muslims to violence,
and instilling hatred toward non-Muslims.
The following is a list of items, reinforced daily; no one ever
questions out of fear:
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'The Koran is the “perfect word of God.”' This means it can’t be questioned or changed.
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'Mohammad was the perfect human.' The fact he was a murderer, mugger, rapist, child pedophile and thief is ignored. The inability of Muslims to talk about Mohammad rationality is responsible for the erratic behavior Muslims sometimes exhibit.
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'All men should strive to be like Mohammad.' This leads devout Muslims to fanatical and erratic behavior.
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'Lying in the furtherance of Islam is OK.' More reason for erratic behavior.
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'Islam is the only true religion. All others are false.' This belief is driven into the collective Muslim consciousness to such a height that even marginal believers will agree.
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Islam includes a form of 1984 style double talk. Islam is the freedom of God. Democracy is the tyranny of man.
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'Muslim superiority. Muslims have a rightful place ahead of others.' Believed by large percentage of Muslim population, even marginal believers.
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'Non-Muslim inferiority'. Believed by large percentage of Muslim population. (Of course non-Muslims can change their position by converting to Islam.)
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'All the world must be, will ultimately turn, Muslim.' God said it; it must be true.
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Any degradation of Islam, Mohammad, or the Koran brings death at the hand of an unseen killer.
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'Islam is perfect'. So no questions, no changes, can’t quit. All are warned if they do any of these, they could be killed.
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Islam is more important than family. One's own family members may kill one, who strays from Islam.
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Family members, if non-believers, have nothing in common with you and should be abandoned or ignored.
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Killing and other crimes, committed in the name of Islam, are usually never punished or punished only lightly.
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A Muslim's trusted friends can only be another Muslim. This is one reason why Muslim immigrant don’t integrate in non-Muslim host societies.
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All Muslims have an obligation to spread or help the spread Islam.
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If a Muslim cannot fight in jihad, Islamic law says he must aid the jihad in some way, monetary contributions being one.
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Islam is a political entity; Islam is the state.
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This system elevates religion, Islam, to the ultimate pinnacle of Muslim consciousness.
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And then there is the Mosque/Mullah infrastructure.
The mosques and mullahs play an important role in this
cyclical system. The mosques act as constant reminder of Islam’s
presence with their call to prayer five times a day. The Mullahs act
as a center-point to most devout believers and sympathizers. The
Mullahs’ role is to reinforce Islamic dogma (including the items
above) and encourage devout believers to ensure it being upheld.
One of Islam’s strangest phenomena is as follows. These mosques become dangerous intellectual cesspools of Islam's think-tank. Only the most devout believers work their way into leadership position in Muslim societies. They are most likely to believe Islamic calls to violence. The inability to rationalize anything about Islam is at its height inside the mosques. There are numerous cases of Mullahs being murdered by their own co-religionists for having not been conservative enough.
So, let us now look at how the fear, prompted by the killers and rules, completes the cycle.
All of these items come together in a random fashion; the order is not important. Everyone gets indoctrinated as a child. Indoctrination continues in adults. Everyone always talks good of Islam. No one ever speaks critically of Islam. There is a continuous preaching of the flaws of the non-Muslim world, their creeds and way of life. There is a consistent preaching of Islamic perfection.
Family members watch families. Friends watch friends. Neighbors
watch neighbors. The Mullahs keep stoking the cyclical system. The
most deeply religious, along
with the sympathizers, make sure that Muslims stay within the
expected norm. Reasonable questions never get asked; unreasonable
beliefs are reinforced. And all the time, the fear of an unseen army of devout
killers makes sure that all of this happen.
And here is the self-replicating cycle. The fear ensures no one questions the system. No one questioning the system leads to de-facto acceptance on issues of Islam as they are. Because all accept the system, it must be right. Because believers only vocalize the praise for Islam, everyone only hears praise of Islam. No one ever hears anything bad or critical about Islam. No one quits, questions, criticizes. The newly added children become part of the system.
Over and over and over, like a stuck phonograph. The system does
the same thing again and again. Islam, as a society, is trapped in a
self-replicating cycle of violence and fear.
Why Now?
In the 1400 years since Mohammad, Islam has ebbed and flowed depending on a number of factors. But the most important factor is the amount of resources available to the mullah/mosque infrastructure. Islam directly responds to the amount of money poured into this structure.
Since the first 'oil embargo' of the 1970s, which shot up the oil
prices, the oil-revenues of oil-producing Muslim
countries have increased by many folds. This
has allowed the rich Muslim oil states to dump unknown billions into
the worldwide mullah/mosque infrastructure.
This money has been used for a huge expansion of mosques
throughout the Muslim world, including the thousands of mosques built in Western societies. The money has also been used
to send conservative Mullahs throughout the world to preach radical form of Islam.
When you step on the gas pedal of a car there is a slight lag time—about 1/4th of a second—and the car goes faster. When oil-rich Muslim states pump money into the mullah/mosque infrastructure, there was a slight lag time, about 20-30 years, before the production of the super devout, the potential killers.
We are today reaping the harvest of violence grown from the seeds of hate and fear planted over the past 30 years.
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Author note: This article is the beginning of a complete theory on how Islam works and holds itself together. I solicit comments from readers to help me complete this theory. Bob Smith bob311w9@yahoo.com
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Name:
Date: Friday January 16, 2009
Time: 12:52:24 -0500
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"Would you wear a T-shirt with a Mohammad cartoon printed on it? You might in Montana. Don’t try it in Mecca." don't even try it in Paris London Amsterdam. Europe is finished , our dhimmi leaders and intellectuals have sold us out
Name: jenn
Date: Friday January 16, 2009
Time: 18:23:37 -0500
Comment
islam is pedophilia, rape, murder too
Name: leigh
Date: Friday January 16, 2009
Time: 22:43:28 -0500
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A spiritual sickness developed from Mohammad: Mohammad said to kill any Jew who falls within your power. Muhayyisa kills Ibn Sunayna, a Jewish merchant. Muhayyisa said if Mohammad had told him to kill his elder brother (Hurayyisa) he would have done so. The elder brother converted to Islam as he thought that a religion that can bring you to do that is marvellous
Name: U cant try Mohammed T shirt in India as well.
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 00:26:51 -0500
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In india taslima nasrin ( bangladeshi doctor liberal) was denied resident status. Recently another Bihari muslim is arrested for writing against Islam. Salman Rushdie is permanently banned from India. Mosques cannot be destroyed in illegal lands. The Muslim population is hardly 15% in India. Forget about Bangaladesh,Malyasia, Indonesia and of course Pakistan where the minority do not have any rights. How to reverse this trend? I think internet may play very constructive role in educating the masses. Let the west spend more on directly educating the masses and provide them with internet.
Name: vbv
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 00:54:26 -0500
Comment
Well written article and confirms with facts. The other day I happen to watch on TV a QTV program in which a Pakistani mullah "DR". Israar Ahmed was talking about some thing about eeman or whatever. This old bastard went on to say that nothing is worthwhile in this world but reading and implementing the Quran and the Hadiths. You may become an engineer, a doctor, a businessman,etc. but all that is worthless for your actual life starts in the 'hereafter' ,what he call "Aakhirat". All muslims should go for 'jihad' and claim this entire planet for Allah! This bastard was telling this before a large audience of atleast 2,000 muslims. If he could say such things in India ,just imagine he would be spewing fire and brimstone in his country Pakistan! I don't know how of those zombies listening to his tirade are taken in by it? No wonder muslims are backward ,regressive , oppressive ,intolerant ,bigoted ,barbaric and extremely violent and uncivilised worse than savages !
Name: Ilham Abdullah (ex-muslim)
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 01:19:47 -0500
Comment
Great article Bob. The foundation of Islam is fear and hatred, not peace. Islams fundamental claims are untrue. Islam is a fraudulent ideology and should therefore be abandoned.
Name: islam foundations are in lust ,hate and fear
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 03:03:05 -0500
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islam foundations are in lust ,hate and fear .it is the duty of every human to rationalise every muslim and make him escape from dangwerous cult called islam.
Name: Great article!
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 03:08:48 -0500
Comment
Really. Islam, in short, is the religion of the mob. In my view Muhammad succeeded, much like Hitler, by mobilising the poor and frustrated and by spreading fear. But how can these people believe to be superior? They behave like scum!
Name: Tony
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 04:01:41 -0500
Comment
"The taking of offense is what rests in the bosom of the stupid ones..." (King Solomon in Ecclesisates 7:9). Moslems seemed to have turned this wisdom on its head! They seem to specialise in 'taking offense'! In Solomon's words, they are the 'stupid ones'.
Name: Lifeblood of Islam
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 07:03:40 -0500
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Fear and violence is the lifeblood of Islam.
Name: balam
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 08:30:44 -0500
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The first letter of Islam stands for IGNORANCE and INTOLERANCE.:S: stands for SAVAGERY.:L: stands for LUST.:A:stands for A-MORALITY.:M: for MUTUALITY.Mohammad was an Ignorant,Intolrant person but Cunning.He was savage and cruel in his behaviour.He lusted for women,even Ayesha who was just a child and that of his close friend Abu-Bakar,who was no better than a Pimp to hand over that child for sexual gratification of a serial rapist.Mohammad preached A-Moraity.He told Abu-Dhahir three times that even if he stole and committed adultry,he would still go to Paradise,if he said:There is no God--but allah,the pre-Islamic moon-god.Like the pack of wolves they share mutuality.You can not differentiate between between Islam and Terror because they are two sides of the same coin.Islam was spread with Terror .To destroy terror.you have to use worst terror to destroy it.You can cut stones with Wax.You have to be hard like diamond.Islam is a curse for humanity.Neither you can live beside them,norwith them.
Name:
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 10:14:57 -0500
Comment
Fantastic article. Incisive analysis. Congratulations Bob! Definitely worth keeping.
Name: SO why Is islam growing???
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 10:17:41 -0500
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why r u people scared of islam? just read these facts>> Many Muslims today are trying to find a balance between being members of a global society and maintaining ties to a religion that calls for strict adherence to the Koran. //The second-largest religion in the world after Christianity, Islam is also the fastest-growing religion. In the United States, for example, nearly 80 percent of the more than 1,200 mosques have been built in the past 12 years."In societies where you have minorities that are discriminated against, I think they may find an appeal in Islam," said Waleed Kazziha of American University in Cairo.// Two decades ago, few middle-class Egyptian women wore scarves or veils on their heads. Now they crowd into special emporiums that advertise Islamic clothing.
Name:
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 10:20:54 -0500
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A small criticism: At the end of the article you ask: Why now? But its not just now. It has been that way in India for centuries and millions of Hindus have been murdered.
Name: I agree with Growth of this religion
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 10:26:46 -0500
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In Islam, contrary to Western beliefs, the rights of the community are considered more important than the rights of the individual. Women are seen primarily as caretakers of the home, and religion strongly influences schools, government and courts//A case in point is 35-year-old Hisham Hussein, a wealthy playboy who turned to religion and swore off alcohol after an automobile accident.//PARIS, October 8 (IslamOnline.net) � Some 50,000 French have accepted Islam since the 1950s, a French intelligence report revealed, saying that most of the converters were heathens "who embraced Islam to fill their spiritual vacuum."Though it said most of the converters were originally non-believers, some of them came from Christian backgrounds, "which did not live up to their aspirations."
Name: jhon
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 10:31:57 -0500
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Im not very please with these figures but they might be true all I can say is that my local church which I have been going for last 35 years closed 2 years ago and to my disbelief the rumors are its going to be changed in to a Islamic children school but im gona protest as nearest church to me is now 10 mins drive, whats this country coming to.
Name: ISLAM IS MOST PISSFUL RELIGION
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 10:33:40 -0500
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ISLAM IS MOST PISSFUL RELIGION
Name: TO JHON and all none muslims
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 11:22:06 -0500
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well im sorry to hear that your church closed,but this might be a chance for you and all others to turn to the religion of ISLAM>>> 1) "Islam" means "peace through the submission to God". 2) "Muslim" means "anyone or anything that submits itself to the will of God". 3) Islam is not a cult. Its followers number over 1.5 billion worldwide. Along with Judaism and Christianity, it is considered to be one of the three Abrahamic traditions. 4) There are five pillars of practice in Islam. These practices must be undertaken with the best of effort in order to be considered a true Muslim: A) Shahadah - declaration of faith in the oneness of God and that Muhammad is the last prophet of God. B) Formal prayer five times a day. C) Fasting during the daylight hours in the month of Ramadan. D) Poor-due "tax" - 2.5% of one's savings given to the needy at the end of each year. E) Pilgrimage to Mecca at least once, if physically and financially able. 5) There are six articles of faith in Islam. These are the basic beliefs that one must have in order to be considered a true Muslim. They are belief in: A) the One God. B) all the prophets of God. C) the original scriptures revealed to Prophets Moses, David, Jesus, and Muhammad. D) the angels. E) the Day of Judgment and the Hereafter. F) the divine decree (or destiny). 6) Islam is a complete way of life that governs all facets of life: moral, spiritual, social, political, economical, intellectual, etc. 7) Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the world. To become Muslim, a person of any race or culture must say a simple statement, the shahadah, that bears witness to the belief in the One God and that Prophet Muhammad was the last prophet of God. 8) "Allah" is an Arabic word that means "God". Muslims also believe that "Allah" is the personal name of God. 9) Allah is not the God of Muslims only. He is the God of all people and all creation. Just because people refer to God using different terms does not mean that they are different gods. Spanish people refer to God as "Dios" and French people refer to God as "Dieu", yet they are all the same God. Interestingly, most Arab Jews and Arab Christians refer to God as "Allah". And the word Allah in Arabic appears on the walls of many Arab churches. 10) The Islamic concept of God is that He is loving, merciful, and compassionate. But Islam also teaches that He is just and swift in punishment. Nevertheless, Allah once said to Prophet Muhammad, "My mercy prevails over my wrath." Islam teaches a balance between fear and hope, protecting one from both complacency and despair. 11) Muslims believe that God has revealed 99 of His names (or attributes) in the Holy Qur'an. It is through these names that one can come to know the Creator. A few of these names are: the All-Merciful, the All-Knower, the Protector, the Provider, the Near, the First, the Last, the Hidden, and the Source of Peace. 12) Muslims believe in and acknowledge all the prophets of old, from Adam to Jesus. Muslims believe that they brought the message of peace and submission (islam) to different peoples at different times. Muslims also believe that these prophets were "muslims" because they submitted their wills to God. 13) Muslims neither worship Muhammad nor pray through him. Muslims solely worship the unseen and Omniscient Creator, Allah. 14) Muslims accept the original unaltered Torah (the Gospel of Moses) and the original Bible (the Gospel of Jesus) since they were revealed by God. However, none of those original scriptures are in existence today, in their entirety. Therefore, Muslims follow the subsequent, final, and preserved revelation of God, the Holy Qur'an. 15) The Holy Qur'an was not authored by Muhammad. It was authored by God, revealed to Muhammad, and written into physical form by his companions. 16) The Holy Qur'an has no flaws or contradictions. The original Arabic scriptures have never been changed or tampered with. 17) Actual seventh century Qur'ans, complete and intact, are on display in museums in Turkey and many other places around the world. 18) If all Qur'ans in the world today were burned and destroyed, the original Arabic would still remain. This is because millions of Muslims, called Hafiz (or "preservers") have memorized the text letter for letter from beginning to end, every word and syllable. Also, chapters from the Qur'an are precisely recited from memory by every Muslim in each of the five daily prayers. 19) Muslims do not believe in the concept of "vicarious atonement" but rather believe in the law of personal responsibility. Islam teaches that each person is responsible for his or her own actions. On the Day of Judgment Muslims believe that every person will be resurrected and will have to answer to God for their every word, thought, and deed. Consequently, a practicing Muslim is always striving to be righteous. 20) Islam was not spread by the sword. It was spread by the word (Islamic teachings) and the example of its followers. Islam teaches that there is no compulsion in religion (the Holy Qur'an 2:256 and 10:99). 21) Terrorism, unjustified violence and the killing of innocent people are absolutely forbidden in Islam. Islam is a way of life that is meant to bring peace to a society, whether its people are Muslim or not. The extreme actions of those who claim to be Muslim may be, among other things, a result of their ignorance or uncontrolled anger. Tyrant rulers and those who commit acts of terrorism in the name of Islam are simply not following Islam. These people are individuals with their own views and political agendas. Fanatical Muslims are no more representative of the true Islamic teachings than Timothy McVeigh or David Koresh are of Christianity. Extremism and fanaticism is a problem that is common to all religious groups. Anyone who thinks that all Muslims are terrorists should remember that the famous boxer Muhammad Ali, perhaps the most celebrated person of our era, is a practicing Muslim. 22) The word "jihad" does not mean "holy war". Instead, it means the inner struggle that one endures in trying to submit their will to the will of God. Some Muslims may say they are going for "jihad" when fighting in a war to defend themselves or their fellow Muslims, but they only say this because they are conceding that it will be a tremendous struggle. But there are many other forms of jihad which are more relevant to the everyday life of a Muslim such as the struggles against laziness, arrogance, stinginess, or the struggle against a tyrant ruler or against the temptation of Satan, or against one's own ego, etc. 23) Women are not oppressed in Islam. Any Muslim man that oppresses a woman is not following Islam. Among the many teachings of Prophet Muhammad that protected the rights and dignity of women is his saying, "...the best among you are those who treat their wives well." (Tirmidhi) 24) Islam grants women numerous rights in the home and in society. Among them are the right to earn money, to financial support, to an education, to an inheritance, to being treated kindly, to vote, to a dowry, to keep their maiden name, to worship in a mosque, etc., etc. 25) Muslim women wear the head-covering (hijab) in fulfillment of God's decree to dress modestly. From a practical standpoint, it serves to identify one as attempting to follow God in daily life and, therefore, protects women from unwanted advances from men. This type of modest dress has been worn by righteous women throughout history. Prominent examples are traditional Catholic Nuns, Mother Teresa and the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. 26) Arranged marriages are allowed in Islam but are not required. Whereas "forced" marriages, usually stemming from cultural practice, are forbidden. Divorce is permissible, however, reconciliation is what is most encouraged. But if there are irreconcilable differences then Islam permits a fair and just divorce. 27) Islam and the "Nation of Islam" are two different religions. Islam is a religion for all races and enjoins the worship of the one unseen God who, orthodox Muslims believe, never took human form. The "Nation", on the other hand, is a movement geared towards non-whites and teaches that God appeared in the form of Fard Muhammad in 1930 and that Elijah Muhammad (a man who died in 1975) was a prophet of God. These beliefs clearly contradict the basic Islamic theology outlined in the Qur'an. The followers of "the Nation" adhere to some Islamic principles that are mixed with many other teachings that are alien to Islam. To better understand the difference between the two, read about Malcolm X, his pilgrimage to Mecca and his subsequent comments to the media. Islam teaches equality amongst all the races (Holy Qur'an 49:13). 28) All Muslims are not Arab. Islam is a universal religion and way of life which includes followers from all races of people. There are Muslims in and from virtually every country in the world. Arabs only constitute about 20% of Muslims worldwide. Indonesia has the largest concentration of Muslims with over 120 million. 29) In the five daily prayers, Muslims face the Kaaba in Mecca, Arabia. It is a cube-shaped stone structure that was originally built by Prophet Adam and later rebuilt by Prophet Abraham. Muslims believe that the Kaaba was the first house of worship on Earth dedicated to the worship of one god. Muslims do not worship the Kaaba. It serves as a central focal point for Muslims around the world, unifying them in worship and symbolizing their common belief, spiritual focus and direction. Interestingly, the inside of the Kaaba is empty. 30) The hajj is a simultaneous pilgrimage to the Kaaba made by millions of Muslims each year. It is performed to commemorate the struggles of Abraham, Ismail and Hagar in submitting their wills to God.
Name: Q????What is the fastest growing religion?
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 11:29:35 -0500
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One answer By all the reliable sources, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. It has been verified by many independent sources, many of which are listed below. CNN World News ( 14 November 1997 World Christian Database ( 200-2005 Survey Foreign Policy ( May 2007 Report --- ) And also, by many other websites like, People's Daily Online ( 2 Nov, 2006 Islam is Growing And, the number of adherents of Protestants and Catholics is decreasing. So, as people are accepting christianity, they are leaving it at a greater rate as reported in leading newspaper. The New York Times ( 25 Feb, 2008 ) Therefore, as verified by indepedant news media, western sources and even by the christian organisation itself, Islam is indeed the fastest growing religion in the world.XXXXX for more info visit http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_fastest_growing_religion
Name: Walter Sieruk
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 16:05:13 -0500
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The above article shows what kind of results the religion of Islam has on tis believers. After all, Jesus did teach "by their fruits ye shall them." Matthew 7:20[KJV]
Name: Why Islam Fastest growing??
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 22:20:55 -0500
Comment
Doesn't this article tell it all???
Name: islam shoulbe crushed with science and truth
Date: Sunday January 18, 2009
Time: 02:12:33 -0500
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abul kasim this is factless anthropology.islammists can no more continue to lie and escape from rationalty
Name: Tony
Date: Sunday January 18, 2009
Time: 03:34:55 -0500
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reply to: why r u people scared of islam? - FOR THE SAME REASON THAT I DO NOT WANT TO DROWN IN A CESS PIT!
Name: About "TO JHON and all none muslims"
Date: Sunday January 18, 2009
Time: 06:02:19 -0500
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Here we can see how islamic brainwashing works: By painting a picture of a peaceful islam without hate and violence, so many happy followers following the original word of god. However, what is written here has nothing to do with the quran, which, btw, hardly any muslim can read or understand. In the quran, Muhammad himself orders his followers to lynch apostates, to take slaves and to kidnap innocent people for ransom. This is the true islam and not what some moderate muslims teach, inlcuding those, who only pretend to be moderate. In contrast to all other religions I knwo, it is the root of islam that is so totally wrong and violent by nature. By calling other people infidels, it reveals that it is totally intolerant. Moreover, it has so many contradictions concerning logic, mathematics, science and common sense. All in all, it is, in the words of Arthur Schopenhauer, the great german philosopher, a "wrecked book" without "any valuable thought in it". In my view it is nothing but the book of a botcher. Thus, it cannot be written by god! No junior journalist would be allowed to write such a nonsense!
Name: Re;"TO JHON and all none muslims"
Date: Monday January 19, 2009
Time: 03:11:25 -0500
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Muslims and Christians coexisted in the past and can coexist even NOw. Keep in mind that there was no terrorism prior to the creation of Israel. Zionism is what as caused all the terror. Blame all the evil to islam and if Possible refer pages of the Korran and highlight them out of context. Who hates the muslims the most? The Christian church existed under Muslim rule for more than thousands of years with no problems. It is only recently that the Christians and Muslims find themselves at each other’s throats, and it’s all the Zionists’ doing. They want to see the Christians and Muslims wipe each other out for the benefit of the Zionist state, which views them both as a threat. The Zionist plan to use Israel as their headquarters for world rule and as an escape hideout. The war on terror is a war on Arabs and Muslims who concider the Zionist of not following the Ten commandments. It’s about fighting Israel’s enemies who are not America’s enemies. Zionist inlike Jews, Muslims and christians are not loyal to anyone but themselves. They are not allies to America. They use America, her money, her technology and her political system until America is of no use, and then when they are done they will dump her just like flushing the toilet. America had no enemies in the Middle East before the Zionist became our ‘friend’, and those who insist these zionist are our friends should consider a few facts–She blew up American government buildings and tried to blame it on the Arabs. She attacked the USS Liberty and killed 34 of our sailors. She stole our secrets through the Zionist spy Jonathon Pollard and sold them to the Russians. And, last but not least, she was responsible for 9/11. There is no way that a bunch of guys in caves learned how to fly those planes in a few weeks and did all that damage without help from Mossad, and now we have/ had 2 Jewish traitors sitting as head of Homeland Security and Attorney General.
Name: DH
Date: Monday January 19, 2009
Time: 09:52:18 -0500
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"Islam preaches violence, including murder, of those who offend its creed. In each generation, the most devout believers turn to such potential murderers"....And ANY apparently "moderate" Muslim can become a "devout believer" overnight. The process is well illustrated in Ed Husain's "The Islamist" where he describes how UK Muslim female students arrived at university in mini skirts and before long were black-clad "Ninja sisters" peering at the world through slits simply by being shown the deficiencies in their practice of Islam by those more knowledgable. The lesson: "moderate" Muslims are likely to be so only through ignorance of the demands of their religion.
Name:
Date: Tuesday January 20, 2009
Time: 20:11:40 -0500
Comment
too long shit
Name: Charles Martel
Date: Wednesday January 21, 2009
Time: 15:17:37 -0500
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Yes, the indoctrination-from-birth problem, reinforced by the randomness of the human response to the brainwashing is exactly the cycle that makes NO Moslem immigrant actually "safe" to come to any non-Moslem country, because even if one could read minds and only let in genuinely moderate or nominal Moslems, the chances are that one or other of their descendants will become a "born-again" Moslem killer. Countries should simply stop all Moslem immigration and try to squeeze out those they let in.
Name: DH
Date: Saturday January 24, 2009
Time: 06:01:03 -0500
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BTW, this is a brilliantly insightful article. The Christians of Europe's Iberian peninsula, who confronted Islam for 800 yrs, understood Islam only too well. They realised that only complete eradication of this cult from their soil could guarantee their longterm security. Unfortunately, some of their descendents, dazzled by such "Islamic" architecture as al-hambra took to retrospective condemnation of their ancestors for destroying a supposedly "sublime" culture and helped open the way for re-entry of Islam into Spain with all the problems that has already caused (eg Madrid train bombings, demands from Muslims to allow prayers at former Cordoba grand mosque)
Name: DH
Date: Saturday January 24, 2009
Time: 06:08:06 -0500
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"The mosques and mullahs play an important role in this cyclical system. The mosques act as constant reminder of Islam’s presence with their call to prayer five times a day."....And the main reason Ataturk's "secularization" of Turkey failed was his failure to close the mosques - probably out of fear of the large scale rioting that would result.
Name: DH
Date: Saturday January 24, 2009
Time: 06:32:31 -0500
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Coming back to Ed Husain - above-mentioned author of "The Islamist". At the time of writing this book he had taken refuge in a brand of Sufism and a whole load of self-delusion about the basic nature of Islam and the man he still calls "prophet". Whilst there is no reason to doubt his renouncement of violence, his continued self-proclaimed "Muslim" identity, insistence that the "real" Islam is a peaceful, "spiritual" faith and that Muhammad was an exemplar of kindness, tolerance and women's rights will have the effect of soothing his non-Muslim readers' concerns about Islam and the threat it poses to their societies.
Name: From Bob Smith the author.
Date: Saturday January 24, 2009
Time: 11:21:51 -0500
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In response to some comments. “Why now? But its not just now. It has been that way in India for centuries and millions of Hindus have been murdered.” This is exactly right. India has suffered huge losses at the hands of Islamic murderers. My original statement “Why now” will be modified to include a longer historical perspective. “Islam is not a cult. Its followers number over 1.5 billion worldwide.” Just because a cult is successful does not make it less of a cult. Yes, Islam is a big cult. But it is still a cult. “Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world.” Islam may be the fastest growing religion. It is only because Muslims preach the “population bomb” and anyone trying to leave the religion has to worry about being killed. “Muslims and Christians coexisted in the past and can coexist even NOw. Keep in mind that there was no terrorism prior to the creation of Israel.” This is simply incorrect. How do you think Islam spread from Morocco to the Philippines? What is the excuse for the violence in Thailand, India, and other places that have nothing to do with Israel.
Name: G.Ryan
Date: Saturday January 24, 2009
Time: 12:36:26 -0500
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to Bob smith,nothing to say but well done and keep telling the truth.
Name: marianne
Date: Thursday January 29, 2009
Time: 14:47:39 -0500
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Why r u people scared of Islam? Because: You can't criticize it, you can't change it, you can't get out of it. Great article, thanks.