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The ‘Religion of Peace’ Strikes Again
Guest Column | By Alan Caruba | November 30, 2008
The attacks in Mumbai, India are the latest in the 1,400 year history of Islam and yet people continue to express surprise that the alleged religion of peace could harbor so many cold-blooded killers of innocent people.
Since 9/11, Muslims have carried out more than 11,000 attacks all in the name of Islam and Muhammad. Americans got a taste of it when 3,000 of their own were mercilessly killed without warning and, I might add, without any better reason than Muhammad’s call to “wage war against such of the infidels as are your neighbors.”
With more than 1.3 billion Muslims in the world, about 21% of the world’s population, that’s a lot of neighbors and wherever Muslims are gathered in great numbers or wherever they have immigrated, the demand for unbelievers is always the same: convert or die.
The death toll in Mumbai as of this writing is nearing 130 and the target area, just as with 9/11’s attack on the World Trade Center, is the financial center of India. Islam takes a dim view of capitalism wherever it is practiced, but then, Islam takes a dim view of everything that is not Islamic.
To understand Islam is to understand two central factors, its sense of superiority and its certitude. While other religions exercise tolerance for those who do not share their faith, Islam requires that “unbelievers” either convert or be killed.
While not all Muslims seek their neighbor’s blood and many are good and decent people, the single truth about Islam is that its holy book is a call to war. This thought is so frightening that most in the West end up denying the threat it poses to their lives. Terror, however, was a means to secure new adherents from its beginning.
In a new book, The 9/11 Verses: Terrorist Teachings in the Koran, author Karl J. Trautwein has painstakingly studied the book that Muslims are taught is the word of Allah and the Haddith a collection of stories about Muhammad’s life that are intended to guide the lives of Muslims. Islam lays down rules for every single aspect of a Muslim’s life and it requires prayer five times a day, always facing Mecca. One can purchase the book from www.The911Verses.com.
Muslims often point to the Koran’s verses on tolerance, but Trautwein notes that, “Passages teaching peace and tolerance are believed to come from the early days when Muhammad lived in Mecca. Verses calling for hate and violence are believed to have been revealed in Medina, which was later in his life.” In Medina, after Jewish tribes that lived there refused to accept him as a prophet and convert, Muhammad had between 600 and 900 men killed. Their wives and children were taken as slaves.
Trautwein calls Islam “bi-polar” because it contains two totally opposite beliefs and sets of behavior. The violence that the Koran demands cannot be “misinterpreted” any more than its more peaceful, earlier statements. Even so, the Koran promises great rewards for hunting, harming or killing non-believers. A statistical study of the Koran found that 52.7 percent of the verses are hatred aimed at infidels.
The lesson of 9/11, the attacks in Spain, the United Kingdom, Mumbai, and elsewhere around the world is that neither the West, nor anywhere else can “peace” be achieved with Islam. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, animists and all others are the legitimate targets for Muslims because they are not Muslims or refuse to submit to Islam.
The 21st century is now challenged by the 7th century and, everywhere, it finds itself bewildered by what appears to be appalling and senseless killing.
It makes perfect sense, however, to those who believe they are practicing Islam as commanded by Muhammad and the Koran. The Koran heaps scorn on both Judaism and Christianity despite incorporating aspects of both faiths that preceded Islam, claiming that Muhammad received the Koran from the archangel Gabriel and is the last of the prophets. This is a thin veneer to suggest the legitimacy of Islam.
Western and other nations put themselves at peril when they seek accommodation with Islam and it is an irony that 9/11 marked a moment in time when many Muslims began to question their faith, often leaving it either openly or secretly.
An “insult” to Muhammad carries with it a death sentence. Perceived insults can result in riots and attacks as occurred when Danish cartoonists drew unflattering pictures of Muhammad. Apostasy, the act of converting to another religion is a death sentence for Muslims. Adultery, homosexuality, alcohol, and a long list of other “offenses” can get you killed.
It is an irony, too, that Muslim nations such as Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and others find themselves the victims of Islamofascism because Islam does not separate the state from the religion.
The final irony is that the United States of America has elected as its next President, Barack Hussein Obama, born to a Muslim father, adopted by a Muslim step-father while living in Indonesia, and amerced in Islam in his formative years.
Mumbai now becomes another page in the history of Islam’s war on the world when its two major sects, Sunni and Shia, are not making war on one another.
For the West and all around the world, there can be only one response to Islam: resistance.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, “Warning Signs”, posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center. His book, “Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy”, is published by Merrill Press.
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One is going to criticize an entire religion for the faults of a few? Have you rejected Christianity yet? Those Crusades surely had something “convert or die” about them.
This is one of the more disgusting pieces of trash posted here at AIM.
How uninformed the last 2 comments are to what information is out there, but for the typical left/dumacrat the truth is whatever they want it to be not the actually truth.
I lived in the middle east for 4 years and you are stupid to believe they want peace. Even the so called moderates do not protest against the killings since they too believe that these murderers are doing what needs to be done for Islam to rule the world and they all believe that. There are very few Muslins that are truly peaceful and TOLERANT , I met a couple, most want you converted or dead, PERIOD.
Bury you head in the sand and sacrifice your families, I will not. I will speak out against the ignorance about islam until I die.
I just came from Canada and had a friend there say he believed a muslin friend of his over me, this is exactly what they want, they are hoping for the stupidity of North America to gain enough ground to take over, don’t believe me, ask muslins who are in hiding because of death threats because they converted from Islam. check out http://www.islam-watch.org/index.html
we hear very little about what happens in other places in the world. They are killing weekly if not daily and it will not stop till we stop it.
Oh and you obviously had your head buried in the sand when they announced that sharia law would start to be practiced in parallel to the UK law.
If other religions are so bad, then where are all the killings happening by them, please show your proof, no lies or false allegations, we are talking about modern history, not something that happened centuries ago.
As noted in a previous post, I have had extended family associations with Moslems for years.
I was at a dinner party with mostly the in-laws friends, all Moslem. These were gracious people, professional people, do I make my point? There the discussion about 9-11 ensued. The best of a general consenses was “well what did you expect.” These people are not fundamentalists but, typically agnostic. Still, “well what did you expect?” Brian and David, you speak with bleeding heart liberal idiocy.
Extremism of all kinds, whether political, religious, social or cultural is very problematic, as has been proven over-and-over again throughout history.
I believe everyone (in this case, law-abiding Muslims) should clean their own house - but if that doesn’t happen with the extremist Muslims - and the fundamentalists’ terrorism and violence continue in non-Muslim countries - I believe there will, sooner or later, develop a worldwide backlash of active racial and/or religious discrimination against all Muslims.
And should that happen, I will find it extremely difficult to be sympathetic - as I find it difficult to be sympathetic to the supposed problems of the illegal Mexican immigrants and the Mexican government which supports them in the public forum.
Mr. Sullivan:
I served during the Vietnam war but did not see combat as sole surviving son. I was not political but was influenced by SDS and Humanism. I have since become a christian and conservative, for which I make no apology. I do not write with your fluency but, I am very well read although probably nothing from required reading at “Columbia.” I respect your service to our country and many commendable achievements. But, you are still a liberal.(you may read that as a slur) What happened to you?
Islam is a cult of death and murder. and when ever this cult murders and slaughters the infidels,“moderate Muslims” give a faint cry against the destruction, however, they never speak out against the fundamental tenants of Islam…. the non Muslims must be slaughtered according to the teachings
Philip B. Adams, Post 6;
Your comment:
“But, you are still a liberal. (You may read that as a slur.) What happened to you?”
You obviously intend to use the word “liberal” as a slur.
That kind of partisan, ideological disrespect is a greater threat to the future political well-being of this nation than are any number of foreign terrorists!
In a recent survey, approximately 25% of voting age citizens described themselves as “liberal”; approximately 35% as “conservative”; and the remaining 40% described themselves as “moderate” or “middle-of-the-road” - - so - - you’re certainly not a member of any overwhelming majority, yet you choose to call everyone else’s kettle black?
At best? Partisan divisiveness. Worse? Pure discrimination or pure hypocrisy? Worst? A mindless ideologue? Or, maybe a mixture of all of the above?
Too bad they deleted Sullivan’s post because he sounds like he has more on the ball than you do.
Mr. Sullivan:
If you had taken pause from your diatribe, you would have noticed, I did not make an indictment to “all” Moslems. But, consider this survey by Freedom House. Five of eight countries with the least amount of freedom worldwide are Moslem. Of 46 Moslem nations only three are free, as of 2005.
From the Persians, to Greeks, to Romans, to Northern Europeans, to the Americas and now full circle: the seat of world dominion is returning to the Middle East. Primary to our demise is of course economic, with inequities in GNP but, equally significant are the demographics. The Islamic state is expanding by phenomenal proportions. Even you know they are nationalistic and reject your globalism.
Your argument in defence of moderates is reasonable. Unfortunately, even American moderates, will not speak out against the fundamentalists, for a reasonable fear of death. How much more, the undereducated, poverty stricken Middle Easterners.
Did Hitler enlist only psychotics or citizens in desparate circumstances? Islam despises us for what they think we represent: the crap [in part] exported from Hollywood and of course real Christians who will not placate to their conversion.
Will you deny, with all your alleged knowlege, these people are a serious threat? “We like Pepsi Cola, they like death.” Have you actually read the Qu’ran? I am fully convinced we will end our days dominated by a different world view.
I could continue, in my [as you call] ignorant method of thought process and self expression, almost convincing you with facts. You will notice, I have spared you the resume, as if that were a precondition to speak my voice.
How could you, a committed constitutionalist, [who professes Middle Eastern expertise] teach a liberal agenda - as is requisite at Columbia? Where is the courage you must have once had? My sympathies are with you. Liberalism is a disease and I am not sure there is a cure.
Sincerely,
Phil Adams
Tk? I won’t even honor you with a response. You are one of those who call racist as if everything Mr. Obama stands for isn’t enough.
To Accruacy in Media:
I appreciate your removal of Mr. Sullivans post, angry liberals are not my favorites. But, let him vent and give us a chance.
Thanks, Phil
Post 10;
Your comment:
“You are one of those who call racist as if everything Mr. Obama stands for isn’t enough.”
Try as I might, I have no clue what the meaning of the above sentence is nor even if it actually qualifies grammatically as an actual declaratory sentence ???
And - apparently, Post 10 WAS a “response”, even though it wasn’t supposed to be a “response”???
???
Oh TK, I really don’t expect you to understand too much. That, dear child is why I dismissed you.
Post 13;
Your expectations are of no concern to me.
Nor are your garbles.
PB Adams-
“I appreciate your removal of Mr. Sullivans post, angry liberals are not my favorites. But, let him vent and give us a chance.”
Interesting. Is Mr/Ms Adams aware of his/her speaking out of both sides of his/her mouth? I doubt it. What a putz!
Pat Pending:
Interesting. Is Mr/Ms Adams aware of his/her speaking out of both sides of his/her mouth? I doubt it. What a putz!
It is incredible as to what some would find interesting. The point was made that, I appreciate their defence from angry libidiots. You might try speaking less and consider the profound.
Truth being obvious, I have no fear or need of defence from you. I use my real name in case you should like a face to face. What are you hiding from “Patent Pending?”
To Ron: One of my teachers is a Sufi, and many of my close friends are Muslim. I also work with Muslim students all the time on my campus. My knowledge of the culture is actually quite rich. Your blanket statements about Islam are, frankly, stupid. These lines, “If other religions are so bad, then where are all the killings happening by them, please show your proof, no lies or false allegations, we are talking about modern history, not something that happened centuries ago” are maybe the most moronic of all.
Maybe I should put my remarks to Ron in the form of questions: Are two hundred years of chaos, hostility and murder by Christians not “evidence?” When is history no longer history? Better yet, when exactly do things cease to matter? Is there a shelf life on killing? A thousand years away from the attacks on the World Trade Center, can we bury them and forget that they ever happened? Can we joke about them? Perform them as a puppet show? From the perspective of Jews and Muslims brutalized in the name of the Christian god, do you think they went to the abyss confident that Ron, in the year 2008, would absolve their deaths of all meaning? How happy they must have been! If only I could breathe my last, and expire into the wind, secure in the fact Ron would declare the event void of all content after an undisclosed period of time! Thanks be to Ron!
“It is incredible as to what some would find interesting.”
And interesting as to what some would find incredible…
The point was made that, I appreciate their defence from angry libidiots.
When did you make that point?
“You might try speaking less and consider the profound.”
Um, OK. Sure. I’ll try it.
“Truth being obvious, I have no fear or need of defence from you. I use my real name in case you should like a face to face.”
tough guy, eh?
“What are you hiding from “Patent Pending?””
Big bad Phil.
Interesting thing about the Crusades, if you look back a few more years you just may find out why they happened in the 1st place. Just a thought.
AL: you mean the Crusades didn’t occcur spontaneously? Those events didn’t arise entirely on their own? You mean to say there was actually a decision-making process, and a series of events leading up to those decisions? This comes as a brutal shock to me. Can you also use causal processes to explain why cats get hungry, or how letters arrive in my mailbox, or why The White Shadow was cancelled?
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I have had some advantageous insight into Islam because my brother-in-law was Moslem. He gracefully tolerated my mother, who witnessed Jesus to him regulary. I knew him for nearly fifty years, to his natural death, and observed his guarded conversation about religion, politics and personal philosophy.
His father worked for the Shaw of Iran and most of his family fled when the Kohemeni took power. Thirty years ago there was fear in his eyes. The threat of death is over those who would dare to speak out against the violent fundamentalists. There may come a time when their low profile lifestyle is unacceptabe.
I don’t have an answer for the plight of those who love peace or how to resist those who have pledged to destroy us. But, surely the mercy of God will sustain us.