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Defining the Enemy

3.3.06 @ 12:01AM

ON A MISSION FROM ALLAH
Re: David Yerushalmi's What Peaceful Islam?:

Mr. Yerushalmi's discussion was highly readable. However, it would be better for him to drop the moniker of Islamic civilization for the word culture. He himself understands this since he often sets the word off in quotations.

In any culture both civilizing influences and the drive for barbarism coexist. When the former triumphs we can rightly claim that a culture is civilized. Within culture a manifestation of civilizing influences creates a kind of inertia that, hopefully, can outlast forces of barbarism. It is only in this that the effects of civilization flourish.

There is no overriding civilizing inertia in Islam, today. Our relations with Islam vary from day to day and week to week. It seems as if any insignificant action (insignificant to our Western way of thinking) may insight Muslims to unthinking violence, and then the entire project is called into question.
-- Michael Presley
Orlando, Florida

Abraham (Old Testament) was neither a Jew, Christian, nor Muslim. Yet all three religions trace their origins to Abraham. In this light, one can say that Abraham had three sons, Moses (Jews), Jesus (Christians) and Mohamed (Muslims). Each son claims that he is the true interpreter of the monotheism of Abraham.

If one reads the sacred texts, (Old Testament, New Testament and the Koran) the theologies they represent characterize their world view. The Jews and the Muslims have warrior theologies, and the Christians have a decidedly pacifist theology. In practice all three brothers are not reluctant to fight anyone, anywhere, anytime.

The Christians and the Muslims are duty bound to proselytize and spread the Word of their faith to the whole world. The Jews do not spread the "good news" of Moses, and they have been content to isolate themselves from the "dogs" of the world. By doing so, they have been (because of their limited number) surrounded and captured by their brothers of the "Book." It is obvious that the Jews would rather be under Christian subjugation than Muslim authority.

Contrary to the ecumenical fuzzy-wuzziness of these times, the sons of Abraham do not like (in fact hate) each other. Muslim Imams in America hate Americans, its flags, institutions, and symbols. Yet they covet the opportunity to convert American infidels. The Muslim command from Allah is to convert all the peoples of the world to Islam. The Christians are commanded to spread the good news of the Gospel to every nook and cranny of the world. The Jews are content with their non-proselytizing containment.

What starkly stands out in comparing the three interpreters of the "Word," is how backward Islam has been for the last two hundred years. They have invented nothing. They rely entirely on the inventions of the infidels. The irony being, that Islam's self-styled religious superiority is entirely dependent on the science and technology developed by Jews and Christians (electricity, computers, cars, weapons, the "know-how" of how to do things). It was probably our CIA who taught Muslim mujahideen during the Afghan war with the USSR how to make IED's. The suicide belts are probably made in China and the explosives come from France. What Islam cannot fathom is how Allah has let the inferior practitioners of the "Word" (Christians and Jews) be so inventive and materially successful. It isn't fair.

Because of this inferiority complex (derived from their superiority complex), Islam has evolved into a religion of jealousy, fear, anger, frustration, tribal backwardness, and hate. Islam may be a religion of "peace and love," but that peace and love is reserved for fellow Muslims, and definitely not for the Kufir (infidel). Intolerance is its foundation. They would slit the throats of Christians/Jews/Hindus/Shintos/Buddhists/Sikhs as soon as look at them. They have total disdain for their brothers (Christians and Jews). One only needs to read the history of Islam and slavery to understand how ingrained their hatred is towards other peoples and faiths of the world. The Buddhists did not fair well against the onslaught of Islam, neither did the Sikhs and Hindus. Until the whole world is converted to their way of living, Islam will not be at peace, or be a religion of peace.
-- unsigned

Amen, amen, amen!

The pro-Moslem stance of the WSJ is one of the main reasons I gave it up three years ago after subscribing for over 15. Sadly, we may have to give up the Republican Party too if the neocons continue to hold power (Bush, Cheney, Rice, et al); they of the "religion of peace," "Holy Koran," "one of the world's great religions," etc., etc.

The author's point of a hundred evil imams spouting death, rape and mayhem for every liberal Moslem professor talking taqqiya about "inner struggle jihad" is great.

This is must reading -- send it out to all politicians.
-- Andreas Giannopoulos
Los Angeles, California

Excellent perspective from David Yerushalmi on Islam. Those who doubt Mr. Yerushalmi's take on Islam should read anything by Bat Y'eor. Bernard Lewis doesn't pull many punches either. Also, Google the term "al-Taqiyya." A rough translation is "lying." Muslims have long held the idea that lying to unbelievers in order to defend Islam, even from just looking bad, is a good thing. Dr. Fouad Ajami has written about it several times. A few alert journalists have caught Muslim leaders practicing al-taqiyya when they speak of peace in English, then turn around immediately and preach war to their Muslim friends in Arabic, but most journalists are just too ignorant to notice.

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