The greatest danger to America and civilization is a lack of courageous honesty. Our leaders turn a blind eye to the true nature of political reality today, because no one wants to confront this unpleasant and indeed frightening truth.
No one wants to be honest about the true nature of Islam. Academic leaders, political leaders, true believers in multiculturalism, all proclaim that Islam is a peaceful religion. In their view, those who commit unspeakable acts of terror in its name are extremists: insane zealots, wild-eyed fanatics who fail to understand the loving kindness of their own religion.
While this view of Islam is widely circulated, it is as false as it is popular. The creation and propagation of this myth was and is a deliberate political act of propaganda, an effort to mislead non-Muslims about the real nature of the most intolerant and dangerous political philosophy in existence.
A fair and objective review of the fundamental teachings of Islam reveal that it is hardly accurate to call it a religion at all. In truth, Islam is a political ideology seeking world domination. Islam is a system of thought that seeks to destroy everything that is not Islam. This is not a polemical statement but a simple and accurate characterization of Islam based on a study of the Koran,
the life of its prophet Muhammad, and documents based on his teachings.
Our dangerous failure to properly understand what Islam is comes from two sources. First, the idea that the religion of Muhammad is peaceful comes from an ethnocentric and naive assumption that Islam is like the great religions of the west, fundamentally a celebration of a loving relationship between the individual and divinity. This belief is a fundamental academic error, a clear
instance of a failure to read and think clearly, the planet’s deadliest instance of cultural bigotry, liberal bias, an ignorant judging of other culture by one’s own standards.
It is not a loving religion of peace. By the most fair minded analysis, Islam is hardly a religion at all. It is closer to the truth to regard it as a political movement bent on destroying all opposition to its universal implementation.
The second main cause of the misunderstanding of Islam is that we have been indoctrinated by the jihadis themselves. It is clearly useful in seeking to conquer the world to win the cooperation of victims. This strategy parallels their use of our own technology to attack us – sending our own airplanes into our towers. Islam has two major weapons: one is the sword, which history
shows they are not reluctant to use. The other is deceit. According to Islamic law, it is a virtue to deceive and mislead non-Muslims in the effort to spread Islam. The Koran shows that Allah favors the use of guile and deception and specifically encourages lies and misinformation. Muslim leaders are skilled at exploiting the media and taking full advantage of the open nature of western
society to disguise their mission to destroy everything that is holy to us.
Read the Koran and your eyes will be opened. If you want to confirm for yourself Allah’s hatred of non-believers, his instructions to kill or capture them, check out Islam’s fundamental document. (To save time, use the following link which gives access to a complete Koran but with its dark sayings
highlighted. You can then examine the context to confirm its full meaning.) http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/
In case you don’t have time to invest in reading the Koran, here’s a couple of quotes at random:
“Those who disbelieve Our revelations ... Fire will be an awning over them.”--90:19-20
“Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush.” 9:5
One of Allah’s essential messages is that while one must be honest and kind and compassionate. But only with fellow Muslims; anyone else can be exploited ruthlessly. Those who resists the full truth of
Islam or turns from the one true religion of all men should be beheaded.
The jihadis, whom we have been indoctrinated to believe are extremists, actually represent mainstream Islam. All it takes to understand this is to read dispassionately the words of the Koran and other Muslim sources. The program laid out by Muhammad is as clearly revealed there as was Adolph Hitler’s in Mein Kampf.
An objective study of Islam's own sources as in Religion of Peace? Islam's War Against the World shows that Islam is a ferocious, expansionary system of thought whose goal is to destroy or subjugate all other faiths, all other cultures, all other systems of government – anything that is not Islam.
What we most need to understand about Islam is that its blood-thirsty violence is not the acts of a deviant minority but those of mainstream Muslims. The difference between the blood-soaked terrorist and the Muslim next door is that the former practices his true religion openly. The latter either does not practice openly the dictates of the Koran, deludes himself about its true nature,
or is following Allah’s instruction to delude the non-believer, part of a fifth column that deliberately encourages the myth that Islam is a slightly different version of a great, peaceful, and tolerant religion. This myth is a purposeful creation, propaganda by those who seek our destruction.
The deceptive myth of Muslim tolerance provides protective coloration, a cloak of invisibility hiding an evil system intent on destroying our society.
Consider the following text:
“Like Christians, Muslims respect and revere Jesus. Islam teaches what Jesus
is one of the greatest of God’s prophets and messengers to humankind. Like
Christians, every day, over 1.3 billion Muslims strive to live by his teachings of
love, peace, and forgiveness.. These teachings, which ave become universal
values, remind us that all of us, Christians, Muslims, Jews, and all others have
more in comma than we think.”
That’s the text of an ad run in California newspapers in 2004 by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Its leaders take great care to maintain its reputation as a neutral civil rights organization dedicated to helping Muslims fit into American secular society.
But three of those same officials were arrested for terrorist related charges. CAIR is a chief propaganda arm for Islam in America. This newspaper campaign was just part of a larger Muslim effort in Western countries to present a positive and false vision of Islam Their PR efforts have been successful in ruling out of polite society any idea of Islam except one of a peaceful, tolerant and benign religion. It is taboo to even question if the public face of Islam is consistent with its true nature.
This presentation of Islam as one of the world’s great and peaceful religions, closely akin to Judaism and Christianity is accepted by most Americans. All acts of violence done in the name of Islam is explained away by its being “hijacked by extremists.” To do otherwise is to be guilty of the cardinal
American sin of “racism,” despite the fact that Islam is not a race and most Muslims are not Arabs.
Thus millions of Americans including many in the media and government believe in Islam. They may be atheists, but they have abiding religious faith in an idea of Islam. This faith consists of assumptions that have emanated from academia, the media, the State Depart, groups like CAIR and even the president of the US, who -- a few days after 9/11 -- called Islam a "religion of peace." That it is a peaceful religion is an unquestioned assumption of millions.
A cornerstone of this secular faith in Islam is that it is a tolerant faith. Jews and Christians – we are told -- lived in harmony with Muslims during the past great Islamic eras. (But a study of history shows that they lived as pathetic, intimidated second class citizens.) When Muslims bombed Madrid, we were reminded that when Muslim ruled Spain it was a beacon of tolerance and the envy of Europe.
When they bombed synagogues in Istanbul in 2003, we were told that such bombings took place in a city that long had known peace and harmony among Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
But this dogma of Islamic tolerance is dangerous, because it hides the truth and discourages genuine inquiry. Investigators are discouraged form monitoring activity in mosques. After all, terrorism isn’t an Islamic problem. Islamic is supremely tolerant. No, terrorism is a problem of political grievances of socioeconomic imbalances. If Islam has anything at all to do with it, it is only as a tool of unscrupulous religious leaders. Politicians and religious leaders make careful overtures to growing Islamic community which they assume will assimilate to the extent of becoming peaceful and active
participant in the political process. Why not? Islam is a tolerant faith.
The dogma of Islamic tolerance must be challenged. This falsehood is a potent weapon in the hands of those who hate our civilization. If we do not challenge it, we will find ourselves having encouraged millions of Muslim to live among us only to find that we have allowed evil into our midst. Our tolerance of the intolerable if continued will prove to be an act of national suicide.
The time is past for a reality check by those who still cling to a belief that there is actually a dichotomy between the "real" Islam and an imagined violent fringe. The reality-avoiding delusion that Islam is a religion of peace has cost thousands of lives, will cost millions more if we don’t open our eyes, and realize that it actually threatens the very existence of modern civilization.
The refusal of the ruling elite to look upon the true face of Islam and act decisively to defend Western civilization from its greatest threat is one of history’s greatest betrayals and a monumental act of cultural suicide. This cowardice reveals a fundamental defect -- cultural and spiritual decay -- that threatens to end the reign of freedom and peace on earth. If we have lost confidence in America's role as special defender of a free and open society, champions of great God-given human rights, there will be none to safeguard freedom and the noblest social experiment in all of history shall pass away. If we have lost our faith, we are doomed. Where God retreats, Allah advances.
This is how I see things based on my study of the Koran, the hadith, (traditions about the words and deeds of Muhammad) and other documents. What do you think? Please click on “comment” below and let’s talk.
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Muhammed received revelation for the Qur'an and imposed its doctrines first upon the people of Medina. As his preaching spread, so too did the opposition from Mecca, the influential state led by pagan leaders and secular scholars. Wars ensued, and what was once a religion of regional civil dispute has indeed become a religion granting leeway for interpretation of non-Muslims from a worldwide perspective. As a response to violence and unrest targeted towards their desire to worship Allah, they too responded with violence--backed by reason from the holy book itself. I believe that remarks insinuating violence and hatred towards non-believers was first manifested to create a free Muslim nation within the Middle Eastern realm, most especially, in Saudi Arabia.
In today's world, we see more extremists and fundamentalists in the Middle East purport to be representatives of the largest religious group in the world, when they are not. They speak outside Mosques and hold up the book in support of a movement that should be totally unaffiliated, whatsoever, with the original religious society that prevailed once in the Middle East.
So what am I saying? I believe Islam is unique in its own way. It at one time, justified a violent culture that senselessly fought for its survival but for power. But only if at this time in history, over 2000 years ago, was the Qur'an abjecting the Muslim state to violence, then I cannot so readily accept that Islam is such a religion of hate, but a religion with distorted values, and only then, based on the past. If however, real members of the Muslim community are to say that American infidels are to be slaughtered "like dogs" today, based on the teachings of the Qur'an, then it is indeed a religion of hate.
I know plenty of peaceful, friendly people who belong to this religion. They assure that war is not their path, people are not to be used as end-means, and call themselves Americans. I accept that they are members of a religion of peace. I accept that they live virtuously within boundaries of their religion.
But I do believe that the religion of Islam is a troubled one, filled with a great deal of disturbing unrest. Public effort and real leaders of the Muslim community need to reach out and defend their religion against power hungry, so-called, "jihads". And I most certainly will affirm that these people, are indeed a people of hate.
Posted by: Jamie Higley | February 24, 2007 at 04:14 AM