There Is No Such Thing As Radical Islam
Post Orlando, odd posts popped up throughout the web, hostile to Christians, even blaming Christians for motivating the massacre at Pulse. How odd, I thought, the gay community is so focused on its low level persecution by Christians and Western Civilization that it can't bring itself to see the people who not only perpetrated the massacre but, claimed glorious credit for it. Then it occurred to me, when we analyze events and threats, we use our own personal probability models. Even though Christians in the US can do little more than shout names at the gay community, the community is 100% certain the Christians condemn them emotionally. Muslims, on the other hand, just murdered 49 and wounded scores more gays. But, to the gay community, the odds of being killed by a Muslim are so small that they ignore the improbable, no matter how deadly and, focus on what they see as a sure thing, even though it's little more than an irritant.
Strange but, apparently true, the Calculus of Self Deception.
Strange but, apparently true, the Calculus of Self Deception.
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The inquisition was short? It was started by Papal Bull in the 12th century, and officially ended in 1813. It was murder for power, and it was fully sanctioned by the church...for power... not a little, but EXACTLY like the muslims today. To deny this is simply sophistry and zealotry. If you really believe, accept the mistakes of the past, and seek heartily not to repeat them.
My Jewish friends are Old Testament scholars. I am not. They say in one place in the many books of the Old Testament, Yahweh orders the Israelites to attack another tribe.
Christ is the guy who said "turn the other cheek", the guy who ordered his disciples not to fight. I've read the New Testament and cannot think of a single verse that advocates violence of any kind.
So, if you can find Biblical orders or even permissions to perpetrate violence on others, please lay them out for us here.
No, I address the point of radical vs non-radical Muslims. Remember the title of the piece; "There Is No Such Thing As Radical Islam"? Islam orders its adherents to engage in violent Jihad. Quran: V.4:95,96: (The Book of Jihad) "Not equal are those of believers who sit (at home) except those who are disabled, and those who strive hard and fight in furthering Allah's cause." And from the Hadith: A man came to Muhammad and said "Oh Allah's Messenger! If I had power, I would surely take part in Jihad." The man was blind so, Allah sent down the revelation to His Messenger that all must engage in Jihad except those who are blind or lame or disabled."
So, you see, it is demanded of every able bodies Muslim to engage in violence against all non-Muslims.
Find a place in the Bible where Christ commands his believers to commit violence against non-believers and I'll concede your point. If you can't find Christ's orders to do violence, then you should concede mine: Christianity as taught in the Bible and Islam as taught in the Quran are opposites.
2nd, there are sites all over talking about Christian violence in the past. One quote:
"Jesus in the New Testament is very violent: he promises to kill or subjugate all of his enemies, which includes those whose only crime is to refuse to believe in him."
3rd, you ignored the main point re. radical vs non-radical Muslim.
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My Jewish friends tell me there is only one place in the entire Old Testament where Yahweh instructs the Israelites to attack anyone.
Please point out anything in the New Testament that resembles Christ telling us to be violent. If you can't find anything (and I don't believe you will because it doesn't exist) then please rethink your position on Islam vs Christianity. They are and always have been opposites.
Islam didn't. But that doesn't mean that many Muslims don't practice it in a more modern, non-evil manner. Thus non-radical elements exist.
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The Inquisition was short-lived and those murdered in its name numbered in single digits. The most accurate number I've read is four (yes, 4). The infamous Spanish Inquisition killed four people.
Four people is a slow afternoon in Mecca.
No honest comparison of Christianity and Islam paints them as equivalent. As I've also said before, the Crusades were a military response to Muslim invasions of Christian lands, lands that had been Christian for centuries, some a millennia before the Muslims invaded, raping, pillaging and murdering their way through the Middle East (You realize, Egypt wasn't Muslim, right, until the Muslims invaded, taking it by force and massacring everyone along the way? You realize Turkey was Christian and Constantinople was the seat of the Orthodox Christian Church until the Muslims invaded and massacred the besieged population? You realize the Muslims took most of Spain, building pyramids of human heads as they massacred whole populations? You realize they weren't stopped until Polish King Sobieski defeated them in Vienna in 1683? Yes, for almost a thousand years Muslims invaded and massacred Christians.) Can you find anything comparable in Christian history? Really, Christians murdering millions of people just because they weren't Christians?
This is precisely the same difference between radical christians and most christians. Most christians just go in for what they consider convenient and let the rest go as allegory.
There is not one bit of difference between the power struggle in today's radical islamists and the actions of the christian church of the middle ages. Both are wrong. Both motivated by power. Faith has no place in government or as any basis for argument. Until each religion accepts this they are dangerous because they assert a place above logical discussion, criticism and humor.
I wholeheartedly agree that the insistence of discrimination by the gay community against christians versus muslims is misplaced. It is cut from the same cloth as the argument for income inequality solely measured within the US, ignoring the much poorer people of the rest of the world, who live on a fraction of what the poorest in the US have.
The relationships under Obama have become more twisted than a strand of DNA. If what Wanderer says is true, there's a heluva lot of deluded people out there. Didn't they ever learn about "sticks and stones?" Invective doesn't carry with it 9mm clips. Although, Christians should make sure that their words don't carry violence, just as we ask Muslims the same.
For me, its certainly takes too much time to perform a litmus test on all muslims to see an individual stands.
When it comes to humanitarian acceptance of muslim immigrants, I say we stop it now until that litmus test can be figured out. The stakes are just too high.
Its time to call a spade a spade. Obama is an idiot. He is supposed to protect us, not endanger us.
A false dichotomy is afoot. The notion that Islam is only composed of “Radical” extremists and the other Muslims are simply peaceful is actually a two prong effort to instill Sharia law by two methods of infiltration. First ,the one that gets the most attention is the bloody acts of killing and maiming witnessed most recently by the attacks in Paris. Here the suicidal fanatics demonstrate to the innocents and the muslim population at large how dedicated and ruthless they can be. Willing to blow themselves up to instill terror in the hearts of the innocents they simultaneously instill that same terror in the Muslims passively going along who dare not speak up against their fanatical brothers acting out the atrocities of Mohammad. This method of spreading Islam has been the strategy of Islamists from the first days of this religion. The objective of creating Sharia law and the killing of infidels, the worldwide conquest of all nations, and the establishment of a caliphate drive this movement.
Once the terror is established by the fanatics the road is clear for the passive Muslims to make their move by infiltration and non-assimilation into countries primarily of another persuasion. Relying on the altruism and fear of their victims, mobs of Muslims take over by majority as in the town of Hamtramck Michigan. It is equivalent to a mopping up operation after the blitzkrieg of the fanatics. This follow up movement must be reinforced by periodic acts of violence and terror to reinforce the followers belief that the movement is inevitable.
Americans and many others have not wised up to this approach and have excused the followers as deserving of innocence. The taking over of pockets of formerly non-muslim areas proves otherwise.
If you couple this approach with a willingness to lie to promote Islam you have a potent objective that can only be stopped if it is recognized as the devious monstrosity it is. The intellectual defense of claiming islamophobia when “innocent followers” are accused of compliance to this spread of Islam works well in a country willing to give the benefit of the doubt and turn the other cheek .
This war is a different war than those of the past. It is not a war of identified enemies with uniforms and national loyalty. It is a war of subversives willing to connive and infiltrate, perform suicidal carnage and simultaneously slither into the population of the unsuspecting in two different forms. One is the fanatic and one is the follower but both have the same objective and only perform differently to obtain this goal.
The term radicalized has real meaning when the follower becomes the fanatic. Passively infiltrating and avoiding assimilation is a more subdued method so those who want to speed up the process and inspire the followers to comply become who we call “ radicalized” which means they are now of the fanatic class and will do violence to intimidate and strike terror.
So what is to be done in such a war? First identify the strategy for what it is and realize how attitudes and mores are affecting our ability to counteract the movement. Calling the followers innocent is a major mistake. When the followers do not denounce the fanatics you can be sure they are being compliant. How many Muslims did you see condemn the killings in Paris?
This logically leads to the need to identify and root out those who are plotting against the people who are innocent. The source of propaganda is wherever the notion of a caliphate and Muslim dominance is taught. These centers whether in America or the Middle East or the Far East must be targeted as seeds of conquest and infiltrated and monitored and/or destroyed. Hiding behind the “sacredness” of a religious temple or sanctuary is only another tool the true Muslims hide behind just as they hide behind women and children in battle.
Once the enemy knows we are onto their game, the game is over. When they talk we know they lie. When they seek peace we know they seek dominance. When they claim innocence we know they only use a different method to overtake us. When they cry discrimination, we simply tell them we discriminate against all criminal behavior. We need to give no quarter to this enemy that is doing everything it can to overtake us. They think they are being clever but the identification of their methods and connivance puts us in the position of strength they fear. Once they know that we know what they are up to, trepidation will begin, doubt will spread and the cleverness they were sure was undecipherable will disappear. Know your enemy is the first requirement of victory.
Never mind number6, who claims to be Catholic or Irish descent but, corrects my Arabic translations and misspells everything in English and fails to recognize the most famous lines from Joyce. He's obviously a verbal Jihadi.
Who are you? Why do you call yourself thus?
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