7 posts tagged “moderate islam”
Gary H. Johnson, Jr. comments on the Wall Street Journal article written by Sheik Ali Gomaa, Grand Mufti of Egypt. My attention about Gomaa was brought to me by Leslie Sacks in a post sent to SlantRight.com.
The Mainstream Media (MSM) has jumped on board Gomaa’s words for they are a claim to “Moderate Islam” from a Muslim residing in the Middle East. Sacks questioned that appellation and Johnson goes into detail as to why Gomaa is a typical Muslim supremacist. This should inspire the old Western grey cells to wonder what part of “Moderate Islam” is actually moderate by Western standards.
JRH 10/19/09
CAIR's vision is to be a leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding.
CAIR's mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding. (Vision and Mission: Council on American-Islamic Relations)
Now doesn’t this sound awesome? The CAIR vision reads like a very tolerant American thinking organization whose central concern is sticking up for the civil rights of Muslim-Americans.
Unfortunately it is propaganda validating the wishful thinking of decent Muslims who actually believe that Islam means peace. Also the CAIR vision reads as something very American to American non-Muslims (kafir) who believe in the American principles of Freedom of Religion and social justice.
The reality is CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator with those of convicted in the Holy Land Foundation trial for laundering charitable donations into the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas. So much for the concept of “justice and mutual understanding.”
Now let’s look at Islam’s practice of tolerance, civil liberties and building coalitions that promote justice of mutual understanding.
TOLERANCE
Muslims constantly attack Christians in Bangladesh and force the sale of their property and humiliate them.
Seventeen year old Rifqa Bary fled her Muslim parents fearing they would kill her for converting to Christianity. Her fears have not been substantiated by law enforcement; however there are several cases of honor killing in America and the West for less egregious acts of offending Islam or Islamic family honor. Since Rifqa has fled to Florida she has received death threats from Muslims other than her family Muslim apostasy.
CIVIL LIBERTIES
Muslim Turkish father murders his son when he finds out the young man is a homosexual. If you read my blogs you are aware I believe homosexuality is a deviant sin; however I would never advocate death or harm to a homosexual. I would advocate my right as a business owner not to be forced to hire a person whose lifestyle I find to be repugnant.
There is no freedom of speech or the open freedom of religion in Muslim dominated nations and in the West many conclaves of Muslims have successfully instituted Sharia Law which denies civil rights to human beings.
Read the theme of apostasy for Muslims found in the holy writings including the Quran.
Mutual Understanding in Islam
Here is a mere small list of people who live under a death threat for their advocacy in making people aware of the negative aspects of Islam. Here is another essay demonstrating the lack of Mutual Understanding within Islam.
I could probably fill ten pages of examples of Intolerance, the non-existence of Civil Rights and the total absence of Mutual Understanding AND still not come close to exposing Islam’s negative aspects as compared to Western and (especially) American principles of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
CAIR is so hypocritical in its alleged status of moderate Islam and defender of Muslim Civil Rights. CAIR has not only been connected to Hamas legally through the HLF convictions but the organization’s founders and many of its current leadership have espoused the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is definitely not a representative of moderate Islam. Nearly all the transnational terrorist organizations of the Sunni Islam persuasion are of the Hanbali Islamic school of thought. The Hanbali school is conservative and interprets the Quran, Hadith, Sunna and so on in literal terms and consider the most extreme violence of Mohammed’s Islamic conquests and retribution as examples to be followed in the in the present time.
Muslim Brotherhood, Salafist, Wahhabi and related groups thus are Islamic reform movements seeking to enforce the return of purest Islam of the Prophet Mohammed’s day in the seventh century AD (C.E. for secular humanists).
CAIR is a part of this very non-moderate Islamic tradition regardless of CAIR allusions to the contrary.
An article by Joe Kaufman at Pajamas Media is the inspiration of my writing actually the briefest of facts about CAIR. You should probably check out the Anti-CAIR website that delves into CAIR constantly; however read Kaufman’s article about Hussam Ayloush. Ayloush is the leader of CAIR-Southern California. Evidently Ayloush sticks to the national CAIR line of being a moderate Muslim criticizing the FBI. The FBI criticism is because the Bureau wisely has cut off official team work with CAIR because of its unindicted co-conspirator connections to the HLF convicts directly sending money to Hamas.
JRH 9/10/09
Has America become so used to hearing, seeing and reading about terrorism outside of America that our great nation has become calloused? Have we forgotten the horror of a major attack by Islamic terrorists meant to terrorize America? Indeed those Islamic terrorist had won a major battle beginning an American response to Global terrorism at America.
You might say, “How?” We have not had a successful attack on American soil since September 11, 2001.
That is the irony is it not?
The highly criticized (by the Left) Homeland Security methods of keeping America safe (e.g. the Patriot Act) from Islamic terrorist attacks has ironically become a tool of the Left to be critical of American military action in foreign lands (e.g. Iraq).
The callousness of Left funneled information on foreign terrorism and the lack of Homeland terrorism has reduced Americans for the most part to an “I don’t care about fighting terrorism when my job and family is threatened by an emerging economic disaster.”
Americans have forgotten how much the death and destruction perpetrated upon America changed the way America lives. My God I remember a time when you could greet or say goodbye to loved ones at the ramp of an Airline. Those days are gone forever or at least until the West wakes up and gets tough with an Islamic culture that breeds violence for every perceived offense that comes their way.
When American-Muslims or Muslims of foreign nations living in America are on a flight, fear can cause misunderstanding in which the Muslims are scrutinized to their detriment. Why? Even though no terrorist attacks have occurred on American soil since 9/11, the American public is aware that there are Muslims in America that support the Wahhabi-Sunni Islam or Shi’ite (err…Iran) Islam. If indeed a moderate Muslim ignores the tenets of violence in their scripture in favor of the scriptures of peace (which due to abrogation is the other way around in Islam), then the moderate Muslim (who publicly ignores or is ignorant of abrogation) is indeed a victim of their true Islamic co-religionists. Then there are Muslims who totally comprehend Islamic abrogation and use Western civil rights laws to flaunt their ability to practice their Theo-Political cult under the protection of the law. This is like the “Flying Imams” who purposely acted in the manner that the 9/11 terrorists purportedly acted on flights that became weapons.
Please America; soften the calluses of your understanding of Islam to keep the vigilance of a free America absent of Islamic aspects of Sharia Law. The very same thing America’s Mother Country – Britain – has effectively failed to do. Britain is unwittingly paying the price socially and culturally to their own Western Mores and traditions by allowing anti-Western Sharia Law to find roots.
Jonah Goldberg has an excellent essay concerning this callousness of the minds of Americans. Take a gander of the essay.
JRH 1/4/08
I am a huge supporter of Israel. I am one of the guys that have accused pro-Arab American and European politicians of anti-Semitism. Because of this I have began to receive comments on various social blogs telling me they are incredulous that I would make such an accusation.
The incredulity is based on a very valid thought: How can criticism of Israel be racist or anti-Semitic?
Of course a legitimate disagreement with Israel is not anti-Semitic; however when one agrees with anti-Semitic (to the extreme) murdering Islamic terrorists, it is anti-Semitic at the very least by extension. Remember both Hamas and the PA teaches hatred of Jews to Arabs called Palestinians from primary school to graduation. The heritage of the Islamic Arab created as Palestinians is a 2nd and 3rd generation in racist education toward Jews. It is ingrained in their brutal culture.
Also I have been accused as being a bigot because I am a determined anti-Islamic writer. I know it sounds lame when I profess that I am not an Arab race hater or a hater of those that practice Islam nonetheless it is a true axiom.
The way in which Islam/Mohammedanism is developed as a Theo-political ideology makes the cult/religion in essence a racist-violent-supremacist way of living.
That sounds harsh and contradictory does it not?
Here is the thing as Bill Warner explains in a December 24 post at Political Islam, if a Muslim follows the dictates of the Quran, Hadith, Sunna and Sira and whatever else tradition that emulates Mohammed, then that Muslim is practicing their faith as a true Muslim. That practice according to all those developed documents is a compendium of violence against non-Muslims (kafirs) and toward Muslims who abandon Islam/Mohammedanism. Those Muslims (which are sensible) that practice the portions of the Quran and traditions which are indeed peaceful, drawing near to their Allah or introspective are NOT following the letter of what most Muslims consider the pure divine will of Allah.
My endeavor toward Islam/Mohammedanism is to find information on the true nature of the Theo-political cult and expose it to the light of scrutiny. Unfortunately Muslims (the exact practitioners and the deluded inexact practitioners) find what I write to be offensive; thus the accusation of racism toward me.
On that December 24 post by Bill Warner he writes about the huge lack of understanding by America’s own so-called experts that are Muslim apologists because they base their expertise on what they are told or on who they know. It is an excellent post and you need to read it!
JRH 1/3/08
Okay. I am a weekly subscriber to the blog Political Islam. The blog is militantly anti-Islam. I know it is not politically correct (especially among Leftists) but I do find Political Islam quite refreshing that it has busted out of the comfort zone of being nice. Political Islam points out the very things I believe about Mohammedanism: Radical Islam is not an aberration of Mohammedanism rather that theo-political Islamism is a revivalist movement following the example and teachings of a man called Mohammed. Radical Islamism is the true face of Mohammedanism even though the millions of adherents are the minority.
The so-called moderate Muslim is a person that has chosen to live a peaceful life. If a moderate Muslim is devout he/she cherry picks the nice beauty of the Quran and the lesser holy writings of Mohammedanism. The moderate adherent re-interprets the function of the not so nice writings of their holy scriptures and re-interprets the examples of Mohammed.
Thus a Westerner is propagandized that “jihad” means inner struggle and not holy war to convert or eradicate the kafir. To a moderate Muslim’s credit “jihad” has been revised to mean “inner struggle;” nonetheless that is not the example of Mohammed. Indeed one rarely reads or hears clamoring from the majority so-called moderate peace loving Mohammedan because in their heart there is an admiration of the purity of the theo-political beginnings of Islam.
With that little introduction I now lead into this week’s e-newsletter form Political Islam:
JRH 5/28/08
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An Ethical Basis for War Against Political Islam, part 8
Bill Warner
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Of Interest
What does the grand Ayatollah Sistani think of kafirs?
A British imam takes to the streets to terrorize the kafirs.
Why a jihadi wants to die a martyr for Allah.
This newsletter is one of a series on the subject -
An Ethical Basis for War Against Political Islam
Newsletter #8
Blacks as Islam's Molested Children
Let's run down the generally accepted history of race in the U.S. White men captured Africans, then brought them to the U.S. and sold them as slaves. Wrong: when the white slavers showed up on the west coast of Africa, they didn't capture Africans. They looked them over in the pens, gave the African slave traders their money, got their bills of sale, and loaded their purchases into boats.
The African slave traders were Muslims. Their ancestors had been plying the trade of war, capture, enslavement, and sale for a thousand years. Mohammed was a slave trader. Long after the white slave traders quit, the Muslims continued their African slave trade up into the 21st century.
Sacred Slavery
Islam is so very clear about slavery. The Arab has many words for slave. But he has only one word for blacks- abid. The word serves for both black slave and African. Islam has another word for white slaves-mamluk. Arabic has more words for slaves than any other language.
Mohammed was a slave trader, and the survivors of jihad were war booty. The Hadith contains a full legal and philosophic system of slavery. The Hadith have many sacred examples of how the slaves were traded and what was done with the children, women (frequently raped), and men who survived. Muslims took slaves from all cultures.
Slavery is a constant image in the Koran and the Hadith. Mohammed called himself and his followers slaves of Allah. One of the most common Arab names is Abdullah, slave of Allah, Mohammed's father's name.
What about modern Africa? How can black leaders not see what is happening as Islam carries out its sacred violence? Why aren't the black columnists, writers, professors, or ministers speaking out? They are in total denial. They are the molested children of Islam.
The one thing whites and blacks have in common is that their ancestors were enslaved by Islam, and both are too ashamed to admit it. Molested black and white children of Islam. It is our shame, a secret shame.
Our Ignorance
Blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, artists, intellectuals, and animists have all been brutalized by jihad and political Islam. Their reactions have all been identical to that of an abused child. Each and every one denies the events, refuses to teach the history, are profoundly ashamed, and try to placate the abuser, Islam. Each group of victims knows almost nothing about the other's suffering. All are afraid and even more afraid to admit it.
There are two more reasons for our ignorance-logic and ethics. People from a culture with ethics of unity find it almost impossible to actually understand Islam with its dualistic ethics.
The third barrier to understanding Islam is that Islam uses a different form of logic, dualistic logic. So we find it hard to understand a civilization that has a different way of thinking and feeling than everyone else.
Dhimmitude
Today the formal political status of dhimmi (a semi-slave who serves Islam) has been replaced by dhimmitude, the intellectual submission to Islam. One of the characteristic of a dhimmi under the fourth caliph, Umar, was that a dhimmi was forbidden to study the Koran. The chief mark of dhimmitude today is ignorance of the Koran, the Sira and the Hadith. The ignorance of our thinkers and historians about Islam is profound.
A dhimmi's second characteristic is attacking his natural allies. This is just one example: when Hindus are talking about jihad, they will frequently turn to criticizing Christians. This is due to impotence. It is like the husband who abuses his wife when he has a bad day.
A dhimmi's third characteristic is to try to make the situation with Islam better. This is done by complete denial of current events and arguing that Islam can be reformed or is not really so bad.
Our studies never mention the political doctrine in the Trilogy. The media discusses Islam in terms of political correctness, and multiculturalism. History courses don't teach about the civilizational annihilation due to jihad. Black history doesn't refer to the 120 million Africans destroyed over 1400 years of jihadic predation that fed the slave trade up to today. Religious leaders placate imams in public gatherings and have no knowledge what the imam actually thinks of them or their religion. Political thinkers do not even know Islam as a political force.
The problem with this ignorance is that our leaders are unable to help us. They do not understand that Islam is a civilization based upon the ideal of dualism, whereas our civilization is based upon the ideal of the ethics of unity. Our intellectuals cannot explain what this difference has meant in the past or what it will mean for our future.
In order for our civilization to survive, our leaders must understand the Trilogy and its impact. They must learn to think outside the politically correct, multicultural box of our media and universities. They must learn to connect the dots and see the systemic pattern of events based upon the Trilogy. The events of 9/11, the Mohammed cartoon riots, the London bombings, beheadings in Baghdad, the death fatwah against Salman Rushdie, and the killing of Daniel Pearl are all based upon the Trilogy. Know the Trilogy; know Islam.
Our historians must acknowledge the Tears of Jihad.
The Good Muslim
Here is the theory of the "good" Muslim. There are good Muslims and extremist Muslims. You can't judge Islam by a few extremists or even a lot of terrorists.
There are 1.3 billion Muslims. If you are going to measure Islam by individuals you will have to meet and talk with a lot of them, not just the handful you may know. That is the beauty talking about the doctrine. The doctrine stays the same everywhere and is constant over time. Every Muslim can interpret the doctrine as they see fit, so Muslims differ. But in the end, every Muslim is driven by the doctrine.
But let's talk about Ahmed, the good Muslim at work. Ahmed is a professional engineer. He says that terrorists are not real Muslims. His wife does not wear a burka.
It is the whole of Islam that we must measure. Even in Mohammed's day of full jihad, only some of the Muslims were out killing, stealing, raping, assassinating, slaving, kidnapping, and terrorizing. Others were back at home, doing whatever one does at home.
It has never been that every Muslim was a jihadist. But at any time that is always an option. Jihad is always an option for every Muslim.
So yes, Ahmed, the professional engineer at work, is a nice man. Where he differs from the nice Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, or atheist, however, is that Ahmed has another ethical option open at all times.
Remember that a good Muslim is commanded 14 times in the Koran to remember that a Muslim is not actually a friend to the kafirs. To the extent that Ahmed is your friend, he is not a Muslim. To the extent that Ahmed is a Muslim, he is not your friend. After all, you are kafir.
Koran 3:28 Believers should not take kafirs as friends in preference to other believers. Those who do this will have none of Allah's protection and will only have themselves as guards. Allah warns you to fear Him for all will return to Him.
Mohammed is the perfect model for a Muslim. Mohammed's uncle adopted him, raised him, taught him the trade of being a businessman, and protected him from harm. But his uncle never converted and Mohammed cursed him to Hell when he would not convert on his deathbed. Mohammed would be friendly to try to convert or get a favor, but he never, ever favored a kafir over a Muslim. He was never an actual friend to a kafir.
At any time that it is needed to advance Islam, Ahmed may be deceitful. He will also give money to Islamic charities that fund jihad. In political matters he will always come down on the side of Islam. And he will say that a terrorist is not a real Muslim. But according to the doctrine of political Islam both the terrorist and Ahmed are real Muslims.
So the question is how many Muslims follow which Koran? The same person can use either the Koran of Mecca or the Koran of Medina when needed. Islam will now and forever contain "good" Muslims who are kind and "bad" Muslims who are oppressive and confrontational. You can't have just "good" Muslims.
Within the secret heart of every "good" Muslim is the Koran of Medina and jihad. Ahmed's constant desire is to be more like Mohammed, who never had a kafir friend. Ahmed will always be one of those "moderate" Muslims who do not rise up and condemn or "rat out" the terrorists. And at all times and in all ways, Ahmed will support Islamization of our culture.
This problem of friendship is at the heart of the evil of dualistic ethics. It is this problem that members of the ethics of unity find the hardest to fathom. Most of the kafirs just cannot believe that someone with dualistic ethics is only being friendly, not a real friend. Ahmed, the person, may actually be your true friend. But, Ahmed, the Muslim, is forbidden to be your true friend.
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One of my friends of the Yahoo 360 Blogs – Eagle – has dedicated his blog to fight bigotry. Eagle understands the heinous incidents were the provocative acts of homicidal suicide that murdered thousands of Americans; however Eagle’s aim to defeat bigotry wishes to make it clear that Islamist terrorists were the perpetrators of a transnational act of war. In Eagle’s view all of Islam should not be held accountable for the acts of radical Islam.
Six years ago Eagle’s aim may have been a reasonable assumption about Islam; however over the years I have become to believe that the nature of Islam is derived from what that religion considers holy Scriptures: Quran, Hadith, Sunna, Sharia Law and so on. These are not nice non-violent documents except toward a believer in Islam itself. The documents call for the torment and/or execution of non-Muslims (fakir) depending on rather or not the non-Muslim submits to a dhimmi status. The dhimmi status is a state of existence of second class citizenship which must be continuously humiliated by the considered superior Islam religion. Thus if a dhimmi is not submissive to the status forced upon him/her, the person could face punishment up too execution. Executions are not pretty in Islamic cultures. This is why the Internet is littered with Islamists beheading (or sometimes stoning) Americans and Sharia Law breakers.
In the West and especially America before 9/11, I fully believe a majority of Muslims could be assessed as moderate non-violent people; however the longevity of America’s War on Terror (i.e. radical Islamists) has began to transform the Western Moderate Muslim to admire Islamism. I believe this admiration results from the very Scriptures Muslims considered hallowed.
In the Middle East itself the Muslim world has become increasingly radicalized because of the teaching of Jewish hatred in Mosques and Madrassas since the end of World War Two. I do not consider it an error to say that a majority of the Intelligencia class of Muslims actively or clandestinely support Islamist ideology which is a typical Theo-political vision to dominate the globe with Islam.
(I have to point out as a side bar that I detest the appellation of the word “Islam” for the followers of Mohammed and Mohammed’s example. I usually refer to the followers of Mohammed as Mohammedans because “Islam” is a word that references “Submission.” I am never going to submit to Mohammedans. I utilize the word “Islam” and “Muslim” her mostly for the benefit of my friend Eagle. Do not insult your friends.)
Bigotry is an awful place to be. Bigotry unleashed in modern society has the ability to nearly enslave its victims (somewhat like the dhimmis of Islam). I realize I walk a fine line between bigotry and self-preservation. I pray I never go over the edge. You need to realize that much of the religious literature that enters American Mosques arrive from Saudi Arabia, the home of the most cruel Islamic school of thought – Wahhabism. Usama bin Laden (UBL) is a Wahhabi. The Muslim Brotherhood which dominates Islamic religion in Egypt is much like the Wahhabists of Saudi Arabia in that they the same goals (yet I believe the two are competitors in the Middle East). A majority of Muslim-American organizations that claim to be civil rights groups protecting the rights of Muslim-Americans receive money and literature from three main groups: Saudi Wahhabis, The Muslim Brotherhood (SA FrontPageMag.com)and Iranian Shia client terrorist organization Hezbollah. There are transnational terrorists other than the three above mentioned that also export radical ideology to America; however they are akin or similar to the above three.
Evidently Eagle was the recipient of a chain e-mail (I am just guessing). For in Eagle’s quest to eliminate bigotry he focuses on a valiant Muslim by the name of Ali Salem.
It is a worthy cause to fight and defeat bigotry. Also Ali Salem is a legitimate Muslim taking a stand against Islamism. However I disagree that Ali Salem represents the mindset of Islam toward the West, particularly in the Middle East. Ali Salem was persecuted for his writings and his publisher [Director of Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies in Cairo] was sent to prison for seven years in Egypt. Ali Salem was detained with Ibn Khaldoun but was released ca. 2000. Ali Salem was booted out of the Egyptian Writer's Union; however he managed to get the Egyptian Courts to overturn the Writer's Union ejection. After Ali Salem's court victory and reinstatement, he quit to prove his point about Islamic bigotry. The last information - 2002 - I managed to discover by Googling that Salem is being treated by the Egyptian intelligencia as a pariah (meforum link above and http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/alsalem.htm).
I am afraid the longer the War on Terrorism exists the more Muslims become at least supportive of Islamist goals while a growing minority switch from the Moderate Islam to radical Islamism. Remember the small percentage of global Islamists seems low; however it translates into tens of millions of radicals out of the hundreds of millions of Muslims. That is a chunk of people that desire the death and destruction of Americans and Jews.
Thus personally, I am known as an Islamophobe. To undo this Islamophobia, trust must be earned not assumed.
The Politically Correct would have you think that Moderate Islam is the predominate theology among Mohammedans. If that were so you would view this mysterious majority hitting the streets denouncing the acts of Radical Islamists of both the Sunni and Shia. You do not see this!
The Acts the Mainstream Media (MSM) shows are anti-American and anti-Jewish demonstrations both in America and the Middle East. There is NO Mohammedan organization that denounces Islamist Theo-political ideology.
What should an American with brains surmise from this glaring lack of denunciation by so-called Moderates against Radical Islamism? An American with brains should surmise at the very least that there is wide spread closet support for the radical Mohammedan agenda.
That Mohammedan agenda has been the same since Mohammed became delusional in a cave hearing voices to conquer the world for the demon Allah; i.e. Mohammedan Imperialism.
