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Mark Stein hits the hammer squarely on the nail head in his slam of multiculturalism and diversity. Stein correctly fingers the two politically correct evils for allowing an obvious Muslim terrorist like Major Nidal Hasan to kill fourteen Americans on Ft. Hood army base in Texas. The signs were there but ignored even though terrorist watch government agencies actually flagged Hasan. Why was Hasan’s radical Islam not pursued to the point of removing him from being an army psychiatrist? BECAUSE it might offend the poor victim Muslims in America!
Oh by the way: in case you wonder the reason for my stating the death toll was fourteen instead of thirteen as reported by most MSM outlets. The reason is one of the murdered Americans was pregnant. As Stein correctly pointed out her murder was the death of two individuals not one.
JRH 11/16/09
Hmm … Stinger it may appear that indeed the reporter Tim Marshal writing the eye-witness article entitled, “Islamophobia. Ignorance Or Propaganda?” is telling the truth about the 450 Muslim child brides not being brides but nieces and/or sisters to prospective grooms. Mr. Marshal even admits that the Hamas organization is a terrorist – murdering organization. Then Mr. Marshal moves on to say that the Muslims of Gaza(stan) are just regular people like you and me:
Sure Hamas have cold blooded killers among them, sure they support the murder of children in Israel, sure they are cracking down on women's rights, but many of their supporters are just ordinary people. And they need a break.
They what!? “Need a break”!
The British rag Guardian reported in February 2009 that Hamas went on a rampage even among its own people murder Muslims who were simply thought to have collaborators with Israel or were critical of Hamas. So Hamas is not just bloodthirsty killers of Israeli Jews and against women’s rights but the Islamic terrorist organization utilizes murder of its own to keep the “ordinary people” under control.
There seems to be a discrepancy in reporting among MSM outlets. In late January 2009 a Wall Street Journal article claims the “ordinary people” were behind Hamas more than ever because of the Israeli invasion caused by being fed up with Hamas missiles being sent to Israeli cities.
I know it sounds unrelated to the “450 child bride” accusation of Gaza Muslims; however the point is the “ordinary people” of Gaza are indeed supporters of Hamas. This means the “ordinary people” subscribe to the same form of Islam that Hamas promotes. THAT is not so ordinary.
What kind of Islam does Hamas and their supporters follow?
Here is a glimpse of Hamas’ Islam as quoted from Hamas overall leader Khaled Mashal:
We say to this West... By Allah, you will be defeated. You will be defeated in Palestine, and your defeat there has already begun. True, it is Israel that is being defeated there, but when Israel is defeated, its path is defeated, those who call to support it are defeated, and the cowards who hide behind it and support it are defeated. Israel will be defeated, and so will whoever supported or supports it.
Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact.
They do not understand the Arab or Muslim mentality, which rejects the foreigner.
The stated goal of the murdering Islamic thugs controlling little Gaza Strip is the destruction of Israel, world domination and a global Caliphate.
This is the traditional path as interpreted by Conservative-Salafist-Wahabi Muslims that believe the Quran as delivered by Mohammed to be the exact word of Allah and the reliable Hadith and Sunnah as factual. In the case of the “450 brides” it is easy to surmise the child-girls walking with the 450 grooms were indeed brides and not just nieces and sisters. Old Mohammed married his favorite wife when she was 6 (or 7) and consummated that marriage when the favorite wife was NINE.
This is why the link to the story that I used to the Last Crusade utilizes Mohammed’s pedophilia to assume the little girls were brides. Is the story inaccurate due to the mistrust of Islam’s concept of dawa culminating in jihad? If we take Tim Marshall’s word for it then yes, the “450 bride” story is inaccurate. On the other hand because of the principles of Islam the story DEFINITELY was not off base.
JRH 11/14/09
Here is some specific criticism on the United Nations’ goal of making Islam impervious to criticism thus eliminating Free Speech.
JRH 11/14/09 (Hat Tip: Ben’s Blog)
The United Nations General Assembly has passed numerous non-binding (i.e. so far) resolutions pertaining to the UN and the OIC view of Defamation of Religions. This if adopted by any nation including the USA, will terminate freedom of speech. The deception behind the UN General Assembly resolutions ostensibly is to promote freedom of religion. The irony is that the primary supporters of the resolutions are despotic and/or Muslim nations in which neither freedom of religion or freedom of speech are hallmarks of their legal imperative.
It is time to consider to depart from the UN. At first this may seem politically disastrous for it would empower the anti-American nations politically and militarily. So steps would need to take place to fend off geopolitical power moves against the National Interests of America.
One such bold move by a real leader in America would be to take the coalition of the willing concept and form a competing organization to the UN that would require more than merely being a sovereign nation to join. Such a geopolitical organization would profit its international members by promoting Free Speech, Freedom of Religion and various unalienable rights as well as economic and military security that has made America synonymous as the paradigm for Western freedom.
The Middle East Forum reports on a huge number of NGO’s internationally who have joined to protest this inherent threat on Free Speech.
JRH 11/13/09
Jihad Denial Syndrome is still rampant among the MSM. Ben’s Blog does an awesome job in refuting the syndrome.
JRH 11/12/09
Typically Leftists get upset when I accuse multiculturalism of destroying America rather than uniting it. Here is a comment to a picture I posted at my VOX blog:
Disuniting with multiculutral (sic) change.....I'm not sure I know what that means.
I'll guess that in your America, a melting pot is out and by "Accept American values" you mean that we just blindly agree with everything you say. Oh and Arabs will be deported. Am I on track?
Lack of unity.
ADJECTIVE: 1. Of, relating to, or including several cultures.
2. Of or relating to a social or educational theory that encourages interest in many cultures within a society rather than in only a mainstream culture.
VERB:
tr.
1. a) To cause to be different: change the spelling of a word.
b) To give a completely different form or appearance to; transform: changed the yard into a garden.
2. To give and receive reciprocally; interchange: change places.
3. To exchange for or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category: change one's name; a light that changes colors.
4. a) To lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; switch: change methods; change sides.
b) To transfer from (one conveyance) to another: change planes.
5. To give or receive the equivalent of (money) in lower denominations or in foreign currency.
6. To put a fresh covering on: change a bed; change the baby.
VERB:
intr.
1. To become different or undergo alteration: He changed as he matured.
2. To undergo transformation or transition: The music changed to a slow waltz.
3. To go from one phase to another, as the moon or the seasons.
4. To make an exchange: If you prefer this seat, I'll change with you.
5. To transfer from one conveyance to another: She changed in Chicago on her way to the coast.
6. To put on other clothing: We changed for dinner.
7. To become deeper in tone: His voice began to change at age 13.
NOUN:
1. The act, process, or result of altering or modifying: a change in facial expression.
2. The replacing of one thing for another; substitution: a change of atmosphere; a change of ownership.
3. A transformation or transition from one state, condition, or phase to another: the change of seasons.
4. Something different; variety: ate early for a change.
5. A different or fresh set of clothing.
Disuniting with multicultural change means: Lack of unity with many cultures changing (i.e. altering, substituting, transforming or making different) the design of the mainstream culture in America.
It is not my vision. Mainstream culture provides cohesion while the confusion of many cultures destroys the fabric of society. Leftists have utilized the Constitutional tools of a Representative Republic (Freedom, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness) to tear the societal fabric. The good intentions of an altruistic Leftism will guide the Leftists further and further from the mythic utopia they seek. The concept of many cultures will NOT form a cohesive unified nation. The secret of America’s melting pot used to be that immigrants conform to the American culture and learn English.
I am willing to bet that the majority of Americans with an Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, or whatever language/culture that formed the bulk of the American melting pot in the 19th and the 20th centuries (until approximately the 1960’s) eschewed their European dialects for English and the American dream began by the Founding Fathers. Leftist propaganda, political clout and money has depreciated American morality so much that homosexual, transgender and open hedonism is practiced so much that people are not shocked when two males or two females are in lip-lock groping each other in public. Adultery is merely irreconcilable differences. Unwed mothers is nearly a societal rule rather than a frowned upon exception. Teen pregnancies are huge today even though the American Left has enabled birth control via baby murder (Leftists call it termination of a fetus). School children in primary and secondary schools are concerned enough about guns and knives on a school campus that metal detectors or armed guards are there for protection. If the metal detectors or guards are lacking than a kid might go Columbine on his or her fellow students.
To be fair to the Left, their existence has brought some good changes to America. For example more legal equality for women including the right to vote (though women still fight the boys club today). Another example is giving the right to vote to young men and women that are eligible to be placed in a combat situation in the American military. Most importantly legalized racism has been terminated. The Civil Rights Movement has brought American Rights to African-Americans so that segregation has been swept from American culture.
On the other hand I can see you don’t agree with a vision of a moral fabric creating a unified mainstream culture to roll back the evils of diversity.
JRH 11/12/09
I was a bit miffed with Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s support of RINO Dede Scozzafava over Conservative Party Doug Hoffman in the New York State House race in District 23. Gingrich attempted to salvage his stand for Party loyalty over Conservative loyalty when Scozzafava dropped out. At that time Gingrich endorsed Hoffman.
Apart of all the Republican Party at all costs mentality, Gingrich has written an awesome Veteran’s Day message. Gingrich praises civilian police officer Sgt. Kimberly Munley for not waiting for back-up taking down fifth column Muslim terrorist Major Nidal Hasan after being wounded.
Newt proceeds to praise other incidence of American heroism stretching from the fall of the Berlin Wall to roughly 1776.
It is this phrase that I found to ring sadly true with the present American government:
“Hero” is not a word we use a lot these days. We have a media dedicated to destroying, not showcasing, greatness. We have popular culture determined to celebrate victimhood rather than heroism. And we have a regime in Washington that seems more at home with international autocrats and dictators than America and its heroes.
But the inescapable fact of America is this: Ours is a country founded and defended, not by conciliation and sophisticated diplomatic gestures, but by honor, bravery and sacrifice.
Our heroes are not incidental to our nationhood but an essential part of it. Why? Because America is not, contrary to what our President believes, merely a nation among nations. We are, on our best days, closer to what Ronald Reagan believed: A shining city on a hill.
“A shining city on a hill” is an honorable way to view America rather than as a nation at fault for all the world’s woes in the 20th and 21st century. Do you not think so as well?
JRH 11/11/09
Here is a scathing denunciation of the U. S. government’s handling of who is America’s enemy. It is closely followed by a total agreement with Senator Joe Lieberman’s outspoken call to investigate the Ft. Hood Massacre. There is also a call for an investigation of the deceptive Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which is using Islamist money to sue P. David Gaubatz and son Chris to return documents obtained via a private undercover investigative effort that led to an expose book entitled, “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Seeking to Islamize America.”
The denunciation is a partner e-newsletter from ACT! For America which is using its grassroots organization to garner signatures for a petition against CAIR.
JRH 11/11/09
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“Jihad Denial Syndrome” Exposed
ACT! For America
Sent: November 10, 2009 11:43:13 AM
The facts are emerging. The warning signs were there. Story after story is breaking new information. Even some in the “establishment media,” such as ABC News, have produced news segments revealing the evidence that Nidal Hasan was a radical Islamist.
The FBI had seen warning signs. So had the CIA and the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Numerous fellow officers had witnessed Hasan make statements, even during presentations he gave, that should have set off alarm bells.
Some of the latest news to come out is that Hasan had been in communication with an al Qaeda imam — and authorities knew it and dismissed Hasan’s contacts with the conclusion that he was doing “research” for a thesis!
The tapestry of jihad being pieced together has prompted Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman to call for hearings to investigate who knew what, when, and why action was not taken.
How is it possible that so many warning signs and red flags were ignored, rationalized, or dismissed?
There are at least two reasons.
The first is that too many in leadership in our country, whether in government, the military, or counterterrorism, do not want to connect the dots between the jihadist ideology, so clearly permeating the holy books of Islam, and the act of jihad.
ACT! has been exposing this failure ever since its founding. Dr. Walid Phares, during his presentation at the American Congress for Truth webcast conference “Radical Islam’s Threat to America” (held this past Saturday), stated astonishingly that eight years after 9/11 there is still widespread denial in our government about who the enemy is and why the enemy acts as he does.
This may help explain why, on the day of the Ft. Hood massacre, the FBI released a statement declaring “this was not a terrorist act.” How could they “rush to judgment” with such a faulty claim so quickly?
Answer: “Jihad Denial Syndrome.”
The second reason is linked to the first, which we discussed in our email alert yesterday — a culture of political correctness.
College campuses, Hollywood and television, and much of the “establishment media” are principal drivers of this culture of political correctness. In this worldview, there is a denial of fact and evidence that literally boggles the mind.
Our jihadist enemies throughout the world don’t hide the jihadist ideology — they celebrate it. It’s there for all the world to see — if it wants to. Too many of our leaders don’t want to.
Another enforcer of this political correctness is organizations like CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. For years CAIR has bullied, browbeat, intimidated and smeared anyone who dares to speak the truth about radical Islam. (See our petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR.)
Last Thursday night, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad denounced the violence — and then emphasized that this had nothing to do with Islam.
So did other representatives of other Islamist organizations.
In other words, they didn’t denounce the Islamist, jihadist ideology that led to the violence. Indeed, they in effect denied such an ideology existed. Awad was crystal clear when he stated, falsely, that no religion or ideology could justify such an atrocity.
And in doing so these Islamist enforcers of political correctness fired a warning shot across the bow of the media, the military and the government. They were making it clear that politically correct “Jihad Denial Syndrome” must be adhered to.
Eleven days ago ACT! for America launched a national petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR, due to the mounting revelations of CAIR misdeeds and ties to terrorist organizations.
This petition is even more important now, in the aftermath of Ft. Hood. Why? Because America can no longer afford to be held hostage to a politically correct “Jihad Denial Syndrome” by a terrorist-tainted organization like CAIR.
This is why we continue to urge you, if you haven’t already done so, to sign our petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR.
Senator Lieberman is doing the right thing by convening hearings to investigate the Ft. Hood terrorist act.
We can’t change the culture of political correctness overnight, or the “Jihad Denial Syndrome” that political correctness has helped spawn.
But we are not powerless. There are actions we can take.
Join us today in signing the petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR.
One talk show host said this morning that political correctness can be annoying, even silly, but at Ft. Hood it was deadly.
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I just read an essay by Ari Bussel that I was pleasantly surprised to read. I really don’t know much about Mr. Bussel except from the occasional essays he sends to SlantRight.com for posting. I have to admit I don’t post all of Mr. Bussel’s sent essays.
I have kind of had the impression Ari Bussel is a Center Left kind of guy who is very pro-Israel. Once in awhile his hawkish nature shines through. That is not a complaint! The world needs more outspoken individuals willing to say the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians are full of bologna.
Most Leftists (AMAZINGLY among Israeli Leftists as well) are willing to fall into the delusion that a separate Muslim Arab State consisting of Jew-hating Arabs will bring peace to the Middle East. Hence there is a push in the West for a separate sovereign Palestine.
The so-called Palestinians sole goal in existence is to either deport Jews from their own homeland or to exterminate them in order to eliminate the existence of Israel.
My very un-Left-like and definitely politically incorrect stand is to deport the Arabs into the surrounding Arab nations that created the Arab refugees in the first place.
Ari Bussel does not sound off like that but he implies it by saying Israel needs to make some tough choices to survive. Bussel fails to provide choices and rather simply suggests Israel needs to make some rough decisions concerning the Arab minority within Israel.
You know what I think about those rough choices or decisions. I wonder what Bussel had in mind?
JRH 11/9/09
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Tough Choices
By Ari Bussel
Sent: Sun 11/8/2009 3:46 PM
Many are worried that, if left on its own, the Jewish state will at one point have a non-Jewish majority. Thus, they claim, by democratic process alone, Israel will become a country of all its citizens, i.e. cease to be a Jewish state. Recognizing what they call “the inevitable,” some call for the creation of two separate states.
I call them those of little faith. They surrender in advance, yielding to an idea that will bring only one solution: The Destruction of the Israeli (Jewish) State. Regrettably, many “centrists” in Israel have accepted the supposition and persuaded themselves this is the right course of action. They, it seems, have lost faith in themselves and in their right to exist.
The majority of Muslims in the area have a very high birth rate. Coupled with a supply of fresh water, availability of proper sewage, state-of-the-art medical attention and other provisions by the Jewish State, including monetary support, and an increasing life span, the Muslim-Arab population in Israel seems to have the upper hand in the race to populate the country.
In contrast, most Israeli families are similar to those in the United States. The single exception is the religious Jews who resemble, in that respect, the birth rate of the Muslims. They, however, are just a minority (for instance, the 300,000 residents of Judea and Samaria) and constraints – such as lack of physical dwelling places that applies only to them and not to their Muslim Arab neighbors – have an effect as well.
One solution to the race to populate the country is to encourage Jewish Israelis to have more children. On a parallel plane, support by the Jewish State to Muslim Arabs (such as monthly child support and free healthcare) can be limited, making a family less comfortable than just having a new child every year. As long as someone else is paying, why not continue, worry-free?
I am also not worried about requiring every citizen an equal burden, equal responsibility under the law. Enforcing such expectation (for instance, dismantling illegal settlements, destroying structures built without permits, enforcing mandatory national service, etc.) should be applied equally, whatever the short-term price – including to Israeli Arabs.
Arabs may be up in arms, for they enjoy all the privileges of a citizen with few if any obligations. Israel is already a country of all its citizens, with members of the Muslim and other minorities becoming Supreme Court Justices, Members of the Knesset or Ministers in the Government. These minorities enjoy equal rights and opportunities, albeit not always equal obligations.
In this respect, the threat of an international outcry against Israel is less than significant; Israel is already accused of being an Apartheid State (e.g. President Carter, Judge Goldstone).
There are numerous court decisions requiring the demolition of balconies, additions to existing houses and other structures built without permit, all by Arabs. To put it bluntly, the authorities are afraid. None of the court decisions is therefore enforced for it is expected the IDF will be required to assist in order to do so. Thus, the IDF is used for other noble purposes.
Did I mention that Israel is first and before all a Jewish State?
It is time to make hard choices – a minority with national aspirations must have its wings cut, for it presents a clear and present danger to the entity-state. A minority recognizing it is part of an existing state, respecting its obligations as members of the state and enjoying the many benefits associated with such an “entitlement” or privilege, continues to be a viable and vibrant part of society.
Israel’s minority citizens would prefer always to be a minority in the Jewish State than part of a majority of an Arab State. They must decide and act accordingly.
It is thus up to Israel to make up its mind on the appropriate course of action. Lacking a clear course of progress by Israel, is there any wonder that others are dictating their Israel’s destiny? Without a pilot at the helm, how are we to arrive to our destination? How is the Jewish Homeland to survive?
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Say NO to Palestinian State
John R. Houk
© November 9, 2009
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Tough Choices
In the series “Postcards from Israel,” Ari Bussel and Norma Zager invite readers throughout the world to join them as they present reports from Israel as seen by two sets of eyes: Bussel’s on the ground, Zager’s counter-point from home. Israel and the United States are inter-related - the two countries we hold dearest to our hearts - and so is this “point - counter-point” presentation that has, since 2008, become part of our lives.
© Postcards from Home, November, 2009
Contact: aribussel@gmail.com
Islam Inspired Nidal Hasan
Thursday Islam turned a man who says he is a Muslim first and an American second into a person who intended to be a homicidal-suicide killer. He did not succeed with suicide in the Islamic cowardly style however. After killing 13 Americans and sending over 20 to the hospital with bullets in their bodies a lady cop ended the Muslim’s reign of homicidal evil. Make no mistake about it; Major Nidal Malik Hasan very much intended to kill kafir American soldiers in the name of Mohammed’s Allah.
Believe it or not I don’t have a problem with the concept of Muslim first and American second. I feel the same way about Christianity.
As a Christian first I am told to honor the King (national authority) and all those in authority in order to live a peaceable life. Add to this the Christian concept of the Golden Rule: Do to others as you have them do to you. Or perhaps even love your neighbor. Or again do not render evil for evil. Do Christians now and in the past adhere to these demands of faith?
No, they do not or have not. Muslims, Jews, Secular Humanists and atheists are quick to point out the travesties of history perpetrated in the name of Christianity and/or Jesus Christ. Western Christians spent years of military movements toward the Holy Land after being fed up with Islamic brutal conquest, raids and humiliation of Christians in the grasp of Muslim control. Those military movements have become known in history as the Crusades. Crusaders unfortunately took a Just War cause and exacted violence and massacres of fellow Christians, Jews and Muslims along the way. This breaking of at least the “do not render evil for evil” Christian principle should not have exacted evil for Muslim hatred, slavery, sex-slavery, Christian humiliation of those choosing to live the life of paying the jizya tax for so-called Muslim protection to allow the practice the Christian faith.
There are a host of other atrocities executed in the name of Christianity. The next in the sphere of atrocity after the Crusades is the Inquisition in which Protestants, Jews, Muslims were tortured to death or convert to Christianity (Roman Catholic style). The Inquisition went after people suspected of practicing the dark arts such as witchcraft (which was more the case of hysteria of Roman Church greed). The Protestants are not off the hook either. Under the inspiration of otherwise great Christians (e.g. Martin Luther) Jews suffered horrendously. I am sure I have made my point even though there are more instances of acts of violence or massacre that can be dug up to accuse Christianity as being equally guilty of violence as Islam.
Yet is Islam or are Muslims a victim or possibly just simply having a comparable history similar to Christian abuses contrary to Scripture? As I said earlier acts of violence and atrocity exacted in the name of Christianity was absolutely contrary to the principles of Christianity.
Islam on the other hand exacted atrocities, violence, genocide and often the choice between converting to Islam, the humiliation of dhimmitude or death as traditional course of action as prescribed by Muslim founder Mohammed and the traditions of the Hadith and Sira (or is it Sunnah? I haven’t gotten two down yet.).
There is no Golden Rule in Islam especially toward a non-Muslim enemy or person (aka kafir).
Here are some Quranic Suras that demonstrate that Islam is NOT a religion of peace. The Suras are taken from an article written by Muslim Dr. Sami Alrabaa:
O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people. (Sura 5, verse 51)
And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah DESTROY them; how they are turned away! (Sura 9, verse 30)
And the Jews will not be pleased with you, nor the Christians until you follow their religion. Say: Surely Allah's guidance, that is the (true) guidance. And if you follow their desires after the knowledge that has come to you, you shall have no guardian from Allah, nor any helper. (Sura 2, verse 120)
And KILL them (the unbelievers) wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers. (Sura 2, verse 191)
They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them (the unbelievers) friends until they flee (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and KILL them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper. (Sura 4, verse 89)
At this point a Muslim or Muslim Apologists think they have a great point to claim the Bible has the same enjoinders to kill non-Jews to make room for the Chosen People to receive the Land prepared by God. (Of course a Muslim would not say “Chosen People” or “God”). Let me point out that the order of God to kill everything in the Promised Land was based on the inhabitants being at the point of no-return in their moral arena. This people disowned the Creator in favor for false gods, committed sex sins (homosexuality and temple prostitution in their various polytheistic beliefs), infanticide of babies either unwanted or in human sacrifice and you get the idea.
Here is another point about the Old Testament Jews: the order to kill everything was not perpetual. Indeed it became obvious the Jews would not complete their God-ordained mission and time ran out on the task. It became the beginning of the constant error of forsaking God’s Law in favor of the same acts of the people they were to eliminate. Thus when the Jews of the Northern Kingdom of Israel followed by the Southern Kingdom of Judah were to the point of no-return, God removed them from the control of the Promised Land. Hence history has the Assyrian diaspora and the Babylonian diaspora (aka Babylonian Captivity). Upon a return to piety in foreign lands the Hand of God began repatriating Jews back to their Promised Land.
On the other hand Muslim holy writings have a perpetual command to kill the infidel (kafir) until they become Muslim. This command indeed stretches to the Quranic “People of the Book” (i.e. Jews and Christians). It is vague when the full throttle of the inclusion of convert or die for the “People of the Book” takes place; however it is a certainty that radical Islam acts as if this day is the age of extermination.
Another favorite rejoinder by Muslims and Muslim Apologists is this Quranic Sura:
“There is no compulsion in religion” (Quran Sura 2 verse 256).
In light of the Quranic verses above this is quite a deceptive ploy utilized by Muslim Apologists. The verse appears to promote the paradigm of tolerance but further reading of the Quran, Hadith or Sira would demonstrate there no compulsion in the sense of choice for the People of the Book. The non-Muslim is not viewed as being compelled when given the choice of convert, become a second class humiliated dhimmi or die. There is no compulsion when “choice” is involved is there?
There is also a difference between Christianity and Islam in points of view. Via Christianity the West has developed a unitary sense of logic. For example if something is valid then its opposite is invalid. If something is true then the opposite is false. If what goes up must come down then one does not jump off a tall building without some kind mechanical device that overrides the simple law of gravity.
Islamic logic is NOT the same. Islam is all about duality. This duality means two opposites can be the same under various man-molded ethics. This duality comes strait from the Quran.
For instance the “There is no compulsion in religion” Sura
is an attributed to Mohammed during his Mecca
and pre-flight to Medina
days. Mohammed attempted the Christian path of persuasion to gain converts
until he got the boot
from the Arab polytheists (a few Christians and Jews) from Mecca. Mo developed a more martial concept of
winning forcing converts in Medina
where the Jewish Arabs would not hear that Mohammed was one of the long line of
Prophets as well as being the last and final prophet which heard from God
Almighty. Yet the Jews and polytheists of Medina
did not desire early on to harm Mo as long as he stuck to his Mecca message.
Mo gained more adherents in Medina who he began to train militarily. As Mo became stronger the Jewish Arabs became a bit more resistant to the Muslim message. This all led to the slaughter of Medina Jews and the eventual conquest of Mecca. The die had been cast on how to spread Islam to the world. Hence Muslim violence and conquest is the continuation rather than the contrary of Muslim holy writings.
It is obvious that Christian atrocity is contrary to Christian principles and Muslim atrocities are ordained by Muslim principles. Thus we have one Nidal Malik Hasan going on an Islamic inspired killing spree.
JRH 11/9/09 (Originally written 11/7/09)
