Monday, June 4, 2007

Know Thine Enemy-Part 8

Know Thine Enemy

[Eighth in a series.]

Islamophobia & Moderation

This installment occurs out of sequence because its publication was stimulated by Tawfik Hamid's Opinion Journal editorial: How to End 'Islamophobia'.

What does Islamophobia mean? Lets examine the definition of phobia.

an uncontrollable, irrational, and persistent fear of a specific object, situation, or activity.www.montefiore.org/healthlibrary/adult/mentalhealth/content.asp

An obsessive, persistent, unrealistic fear of an external object or situation.
www.dphilpotlaw.com/html/glossary.html

is an irrational and intense fear of a situation or object. See our leaflet on Anxiety and Phobias for further information.www.rcpsych.ac.uk/info/glosConds.htm

a persistent, irrational fear accompanied by a compelling desire to avoid the object, activity, or situation that provokes the fear.www.mcg.edu/Resources/MH/sourcebk/glossary.htm

An unrealistic fear, often with obsessional characteristics.
www.hec.ohio-state.edu/bitf/eatgloss.htm

persistent irrational fear of an activity or object. This leads to avoidance. The fear is out of proportion of the reality of the threat
www.indianpsychiatry.com/Glossary.htm

Three out of the first five definitions include irrational; the other two include unrealistic. When they attach the Islamophobe label to us, irrational & unrealistic come along for the ride.

Is fear & loathing of Islam irrational? Only if Islam is benign. If Islam is aggressive, with a track record of aggression, then the fear & loathing are neither irrational nor unrealistic. What did Allah say?

3:151 We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve

8:12 I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes.

59:2 But Allah's (Torment) reached them from a place whereof they expected it not, and He cast terror into their hearts, so that they destroyed their own dwellings with their own hands and the hands of the believers. Then take admonition, O you with eyes (to see).

Allah declares that he will cast terror into our hearts, commands Muhammad and his slaves to decapitate and mutilate us so that we can not be resurrected and declares what he did to the Bani An-Nadir to be a warning to instill fear in us.

What did Muhammad say ?

Bukhari 1.7.331 Allah made me victorious by awe

Bukhari 4.52.220 I have been made victorious with terror

But those are anachronisms, which applied only in ancient times, in particular places and situations, when Islam was attacked. In a pig's sphincter!!

2:216 Jihâd is ordained for you

8:39 fight them until there is no more Fitnah and the religion will all be for Allâh Alone

9:29 Fight against those who believe not in Allâh, ... among the people of the Scripture , until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

Abu Dawud 14.2526 jihad will be performed continuously since the day Allah sent me as a prophet until the day the last member of my community will fight with the Dajjal (Antichrist).

Bukhari 4.53.386 Our Prophet, the Messenger of our Lord, has ordered us to fight you till you worship Allah Alone or give Jizya (i.e. tribute); and our Prophet has informed us that our Lord says:-- "Whoever amongst us is killed (i.e. martyred), shall go to Paradise to lead such a luxurious life as he has never seen, and whoever amongst us remain alive, shall become your master."

In light of those damnable declarations and in light of the genocidal depredations against India, Assyria, Armenia, Israel, Madrid, London, Beslan, New York City and Washington D.C., I submit to you: fear & loathing of Islam ain't irrational. Islamophobia is a false slogan cooked up for propaganda.

Tawfik Hamid quotes the OIC's recent diatribe. From Arab News:

The ministers described Islamophobia as a deliberate defamation of Islam and discrimination and intolerance against Muslims. ...

...the foreign ministers termed Islamophobia the worst form of terrorism and called for practical steps to counter it.

How can one possibly defame an institution so evil as Islam?! Revealing the damnable doctrines & practices of the demon's own murder cult is "the worst form of terrorism"?!! Worse than the Beltway Snipings?! Worse than Beslan?!! That excrement would gag a maggot!!!

“The linkage of terrorists and extremists with Islam in a generalized manner is unacceptable,”

Can you find a more flagrant example of analencephalopathy? Who would ever think of linking Islam with terror? The links are solid, and on display in Islam's canon of scripture, if anyone would take the time to read them!

Back to Dr. Hamid's editorial.

To bring an end to Islamophobia, we must employ a holistic approach that treats the core of the disease. It will not suffice to merely suppress the symptoms. It is imperative to adopt new Islamic teachings that do not allow killing apostates (Redda Law). Islamic authorities must provide mainstream Islamic books that forbid polygamy and beating women. Accepted Islamic doctrine should take a strong stand against slavery and the raping of female war prisoners, as happens in Darfur under the explicit canons of Shariah ("Ma Malakat Aimanikum"). Muslims should teach, everywhere and universally, that a woman's testimony in court counts as much as a man's, that women should not be punished if they marry whom they please or dress as they wish.

First, he assumes that Islamophobia is real; that our fear & loathing are irrational & unrealistic. Nobody can make that claim with a straight face after the Abomination.

He says that new Islamic teachings must be adopted. He wants to write killing apostates, polygamy & wife beating out of the Qur'an. Ain't it strange that he makes no mention of terrorism & Jihad?

I have some bad news for Dr. Hamid: Allah's word is perfect and timeless. Perfection can only be defiled; never improved. Allah said that his word can not be changed.

6:115 None can change His Words.

10:15 "Say (O Muhammad): "It is not for me to change it on my own accord; I only follow that which is revealed unto me. Verily, I fear if I were to disobey my Lord, the torment of the Great Day (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)."

10:64 No change can there be in the Words of Allâh

18:27 None can change His Words

30:30 No change let there be in Khalqillâh (i.e. the Religion of Allâh Islâmic Monotheism),

Exactly what part of No change; None can change His Words do the proponents of reform not comprehend?!

Muslims should--must--develop strategies to rescue our religion by combating the tyranny of Salafi Islam and its dreadful consequences.

Dr. Hamid expects us to be ignorant of the fact that Salafists are emulators of Muhammad. Salafis did not invent Islamic terrorism; Muhammad did, he bragged about being made victorious by terror. Islam is what Allah said & Muhammad did. It is what it is; it can not be reformed. Muslims are commanded to obey Allah and his Apostle; that's what Salafis do.

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My Favorite Speeches and Other Items of Interest

George Bush's March 28, 2007 Discusses Economy, War on Terror During Remarks to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association;http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070328-2.html
Mitch McConnell's March 15, 2007 Funding For Troops, Not Timelines for Retreat; http://mcconnell.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=270747&start=1
Ronald Reagan's June 12, 1987 Tear Down This Wall Speech; http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/wall.asp
Vice President Cheney's March 12, 2007 Remarks at the AIPAC 2007 Policy Conference; http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070312.html

Winston Churchill Quotes

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Never, never, never give up.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Ronald Reagan Quotes

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources
Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
Facts are stupid things.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
How can a president not be an actor?
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tryanny and unrest.
Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?".
Man is not free unless government is limited.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.