The ABC's of Dhimmitude

The decline of the American news media is not so obvious to some. However, as the following two articles display, we are once again being duped into believing Islam is just another religion, in fact, it is afterall a religion of peace, and Americans are discriminating against Muslims. Is that what you think?


So imagine, you've had a long day at work, the kids are doing their homework or playing and you have a few minutes to turn on the television to catch up on the days events. You hear from your trusted "news reader", and I say that with more than a little sarcasm, about everything from some Hollywood actress found high or drunk stumbling along the streets of some city to a dogcatcher who lost his job for turning his catches of the day loose.


But let me ask you this. Does your favorite, trusted "news reader" give you the real news? The news they should be on top of and reporting to keep you informed? The news you need to hear?


If you truly believe you are getting all the news and the truth from your favorite television station, then stop. You need go no further.

Misconception?

What do most Americans know about Muslim culture? Save for the misconceptions—nothing, say the experts. So someone has to educate the American public about Islamic culture and if it isn’t ABC NEWS who is it going to be? FOX? CNN? It’s a thankless job, but ABC is up to it. They’ve been in the news and education business a long time. Thanks to ABC, Americans are better informed about cultural diversity, immigration, economics, the Texas Gunslinger and the war in Iraq, education, taxes and a hundred other things—except for Islam. Well, that is changing.

On February 29, 2008, ABC made the stark admission that Muslim culture wasn’t well understood in America and that they intended to do something about it. They would—by, golly—help Americans understand the Muslim next door. It wouldn’t be easy enlightening Larry, Moe and Curley and they would need the best possible advice they could get. So they went to the Council on American-Islamic Relations—the font of all Islamic knowledge in the United States, valiant battlers for human rights, justice and the American way.

Wow! Just look at CAIR’s organizational chart! It’s like the 1927 New York Yankees! It boggles the mind!

For starters, there’s CAIR’s long-time spokesman Ibrahim Hooper. This fine fellow put everyone’s mind to ease a few years ago when he said CAIR didn’t publicly support terrorism. Wow! What a relief! Opie hasn’t missed a night’s sleep since. It sure took a load off Sheriff’s Andy’s mind. “There is a difference with hate speech at your local mosque,” said Ibrahim, “and radio talk that reaches millions.” Now that is perspicacious! John Walker Lindh and Richard Reid listened to hate speech at their local mosques and went bad—Larry, Moe and Curley listen to Rush Limbaugh and Melanie Morgan and so do million of others, but so far none of the ditto-heads has strapped on a suicide bomber’s belt and made his way to Democratic Party head-quarters. Hatred seems to flourish in the mosque. Could Ibrahim be wrong? But he’s from CAIR and CAIR was hand picked by ABC. They weren’t self-selected, were they? One hopes not.

Here’s Nihad Awad. He’s another fine fellow. He was a founder of CAIR. He’s their executive officer. “I am in support of the Hamas movement,” he said. (Now, that could be troubling) According to Nihad, the trial and conviction of the four terrorists involved in the First World Trade Center bombing was, “a travesty of justice.” “There is ample evidence,” he said, “indicating that both Mossad (the Israeli secret service) and the Egyptian Intelligence played a role in the explosion.” Well…he’s not the only doubter. There’s Rosie O’Donnell and Woody Harrelson.

Here’s Randall Todd Royer, a gun and explosive enthusiast and a member of CAIR. Wait a minute…better scratch Randy. He’s serving 20 years in jail for aiding and abetting terrorist activities. (Every organization has at least one or two black sheep)

Read the rest here.

ABC Fakes Muslim Prejudice, Unsurprisingly Finds 'Islamophobia' in America

By Warner Todd Huston (02/28/08)

Apparently to prove that the US is filled with Muslim hating Yahoos, ABC went on the hunt to find "Islamophobia" in America and the result is "Witness to Discrimination: What Would You Do?"(1) Since they didn't really know where to find any, ABC News decided to create their own prejudice against Muslims by hiring an actress to put on Muslim dress and get "confronted" by a Muslim hating coffee store server -- also an actor hired by ABC. Then, they rolled the cameras, opened the doors to the public and, viola, ABC "found" prejudice in America. How hard is it to "find" something that you invented in the first place? Let's find out... ABC is "shocked" to find that their little manufactured moments revealed how some customers reacted.

"Bystanders Turn Away When Muslim Actor Hired By 'Primetime' Encounters Hostility," ABC proclaimed.ABC begins their report assuring us all that "Islamophobia" is rampant in America.

The Sept. 11 attacks, the Iraq war and suicide bombings worldwide have changed not only the way we live but the way we look at those around us, especially Muslims. "Islamophobia" has entered the American vernacular, and the anti-Muslim attitudes and prejudice it describes remain common.

Prejudiced attitudes against Muslims "remain common"? Does it really? Is ABC telling us that Muslims are being widely discriminated against in this country since 9/11?Well, ABC may be claiming this is so, but the FBI sure isn't. According to Investor's Business Daily, the FBI has found that anti-Muslim crimes in the USA is not so "common" as ABC wants to make us believe.

Read the continuation here.

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Myth vs Fact-Part 258

Myth	Fact
Islam: Religion of peace.	Sahih BukhariVolume 5, Book 59, Number 408: Narrated Khabbab: We migrated with the Prophet for Allah's Cause, so our reward became due with Allah. Some of us passed away (i.e. died) without enjoying anything from their reward, and one of them was Mus'ab bin 'Umar who was killed (i.e. martyred) on the day of Uhud. He did not leave behind except a sheet of striped woolen cloth. If we covered his head with it, his feet became naked, and if we covered his feet with it, his head became naked. The Prophet said to us, "Cover his head with it and put Idhkhir (i.e. a kind of grass) over his feet," or said, "Put some Idhkhir over his feet." But some of us have got their fruits ripened, and they are collecting them.
Tafsir

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In Your Eye, CAIR!!!

I learned this morning, at Sons Of Apes And Pigs, that CAIR spokesmen made some interesting remarks about the Obama campaign. I looked up the source, and bring you some excerpts. Note that Ibn Misr has a different take on Obama's recital and admiration of the Adhan. Ibn Misr describes the Adhan as an insult to Christians. His article is long, but very much worth reading.

From CAIR's web site:
From an article by CAIR National Director of Communications Strategy Ahmed Rehab:

Obama has not gone far enough to challenge the notion that religious affiliation could disqualify Americans from serving their nation.

From Article VI of the Constitution. [Emphasis added.]

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

Under the Constitution, no law can require adherence to a particular creed. But voters are free, within their own conscience to be selective and reject candidates influenced by creeds acverse to the principles upon which the Constitution is founded; those specified in the Declaration of Independence.

[...]all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

All men are created equal, with unalienable rights, implying the absence of divine mandate to rule. Moe said something very different, which is Islamic doctrine to be observed carefully.

Sahih Muslim Book 020, Number 4473:

It has been narrarted on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: People are subservient to the Quraish: the Muslims among them being subservient to the Muslims among them, and the disbelievers among the people being subservient to the disbelievers among them.

Sahih Muslim Book 020, Number 4476:

It has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: The Caliphate will remain among the Quraish even if only two persons are left (on the earth),

Moe's tribe is dominant, and the Caliph must be a member of it. That doctrine is not compatible with the principles upon which this nation is founded. But there's more.

Sahih Bukhari Volume 6, Book 60, Number 80:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Verse:--"You (true Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind." means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam.

Death & damnation be upon the tongue which uttered those cursed words! It is impossible for a lover of liberty to read them without execration. How can he vote for one who knows of those words without abjuring them and renouncing the one who pronounced them? Why should we elect one who seeks our enslavement?

We have the right to life & liberty, but not according to Moe.

Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 8, Number 387:

Narrated Anas bin Malik:

Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah."

Moe is ordered to fight us until we recite shehada, until we do, our blood is not sacred to Muslims. So much for dignity & equality! Why in Hell would any lover of liberty vote for a person who worships the Goddamn demon who ordered Moe to make war on us? How can a man of conscience vote for anyone who refuses to denounce that demon and its damnable doctrines? Al-Mughira , when he met the Persian army, reported what Moe and his demon had commanded and promised. His insult should ring and burn in the eyes and ring in the ears of every lover of liberty, and guard him against voting for a slave of Allah.

"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."

As I live, by Jehovah, no damned Muslim will be my master, nor will I be a slave!!! On this I stand firm, and my resolve will not be reduced.

It goes against all that I advocate that the mere rumor of a person being a Muslim -- let alone actually being one -- could be a tool to destroy political aspirations. This in a nation that prides itself on being the heart of the free world.

Given the command & promise, above quoted as issued to Muslims, none having any pride in this nation would ever consider electing a slave of the demon to serve in high office. Certainly those who elected a Muslim to the Congress must be unaware of the damnable doctrines enshrined in the Qur'an & exemplified in Moe's Sunnah.

If elected president, how would he deal with one of the most important civil rights questions of his generation? Would he turn a blind eye to the current climate of exclusionary fear-mongering, or would he take a stance against religious prejudice and bigotry?

That ambiguous statement is a thinly veiled demand for censorship; to outlaw writings such as this which expose the damnable doctrines of Islam to public view and warn of the existential threat it poses to life and liberty. This is a stand against 'religious' prejudice, bigotry & intolerance which are prominent attributes of Moe's demon: Allah. Examine what Allah said about Jews & Christians.

3:85. And whoever seeks a religion other than Islâm, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.

5:60. Say (O Muhammad to the people of the Scripture): "Shall I inform you of something worse than that, regarding the recompense from Allâh: those (Jews) who incurred the Curse of Allâh and His Wrath, those of whom (some) He transformed into monkeys and swines, those who worshipped Tâghût (false deities); such are worse in rank (on the Day of Resurrection in the Hell­fire), and far more astray from the Right Path (in the life of this world)."

8:22. Verily! The worst of (moving) living creatures with Allâh are the deaf and the dumb, those who understand not (i.e. the disbelievers).

9:30. And the Jews say: 'Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allâh, and the Christians say: Messiah is the son of Allâh. That is a saying from their mouths. They imitate the saying of the disbelievers of old. Allâh's Curse be on them, how they are deluded away from the truth!

98:6. Verily, those who disbelieve (in the religion of Islâm, the Qur'ân and Prophet Muhammad from among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) and Al-Mushrikûn will abide in the Fire of Hell. They are the worst of creatures.

Muslims are in no position to complain of bigotry nor intolerance, which are hallmarks of their damnable murder cult.

Let's face it, those who hatched the Muslim Obama rumors would not have bothered had it not been for a political and cultural environment in which demonizing and marginalizing Muslims generally goes by uncontested.

Who demonized Muslims but those who subducted them into Hell's legion of murdering demons? It is only enslavement by Allah that makes them demons.

Obama's knowledge of Islam should count as added experience and not as a statement about his identity.

What does Senator Obama know about Islam? He says that he was never a practicing Muslim. What did he learn in two years of Qur'an classes? Does he know about the ayat above cited? Does he know about the ahadith above cited? If so, why does he not denounce them? Why does he not speak out against Islam's demonic imperative to conquer and subjugate the entire world?

I am not drawn to Obama for any other reason but his political outlook, one that brings me hope that we can move beyond divisiveness and polarization and toward a new unity for the common good.

What member of the Democrat party shuns divisiveness & polarization? You expressed a thinly veiled hope that a President Obama would violate our first amendment right to free expression by censoring criticism of Islam. Is that not polarizing?

So it is not that I am offended as a Muslim that Obama would not want to be one; I couldn't care less. I am casting a vote for the next president of the United States, not the next imam of my mosque.

You couldn't care less about an egregious violation of Allah's Sharia? If Senator Obama has accepted Christ's free offer of salvation, then he is a murtad who must be shunned...

@O8.1 [Reliance of the Traveler, search for O8.1]

When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed.

@O8.2

In such a case, it is obligatory for the caliph (A: or his representive) to ask him to repent and return to Islam. If he does, it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed.

He could start by saying something like: "There is not a Christian America, or a Jewish America, or a Muslim America. There is the United States of America."

He already made a similar statement. But your organization wants to convert this nation to Islam; to replace our Constitution with Sharia. Islam must be made dominant.

Quotes from an article by CAIR National Board Chairman Parvez Ahmed

The use of the image of Obama in a turban was clearly designed to make a visual link between the candidate and Islam, a political tactic that seeks to exploit existing anti-Muslim prejudice in our society.

Prejudice? The Qur'an declares perpetual war on us; Moe declares open season on us, Islamic law requires at least one attack per year against us, 19 Muslims hijacked passenger aircraft to fly them into office buildings and we are 'prejudiced'? !

On Internet hate sites, religious bigotry has become the latest form of racism.

As detailed above, in response to Ahmed Rehab, 'religious bigotry' has been enshrined in the Qur'an for damn near 1400 years.

The tenor of the current campaign speaks volumes about the state of religious tolerance in America.

The Qur'an speaks volumes about the state of 'religious tolerance' in the Goddamn world. Moe also spoke volumes about 'religious tolerance'.

[Obama] has been unable to challenge anti-Muslim bigotry in the same way he has challenged racism and anti-Semitism.

Objection to Islam , criticism of Islam & condemnation of Islam & Muslims are not tokens of bigotry; they result from knowledge of Moe's Goddamn murder cult. Having read your canon of scripture, tradition & jurisprudence, we know that we have been cursed, and an open season declared upon our lives & property. we know that war is declared and prosecuted against us. We know, we are informing our compatriots, and , by our first amendment, we will not be silenced!!!

A community as mainstream and as integrated American Muslims should not have to squirm every time Islam becomes the subject of America's political discourse.

A community of free men should not have to squirm, look over their shoulders and quicken their pace whenever they see a long beard, burka or olive skin. They should not feel shivers traversing their spines when they hear the Adhan, which is actually a curse, insult and call to battle. They should not have, living among them, a fifth column dedicated & devoted to dispossessing & enslaving them and raping their widows & orphans. Islam is not the mainstream; it is a river of blood.

Muslims remain bewildered at the reluctance of presidential candidates to challenge Islamophobic bigotry.

Informed Americans remain bewildered at the continual lying of our President about Islam, when he deceitfully declares it a "great religion of peace", "compatible with liberty" & "compatible with democracy". Informed Americans are disgusted by candidates who express admiration & respect for Islam and doubt the integrity of those who refuse to denounce it. .

When a Goddamn murder cult curses us, declares perpetual war on us, and open season on our lives & wealth, brings buildings down on 3000 of us and shoots 13 of us from a position of concealment in the trunk of an automobile, fear of & objection to that cult is not irrational. There is no phobia associated with Islam!

Because your books have been translated & published, because we can read, because we can observe what is happening in the world; a growing number of Americans are aware of the true nature & mission of Islam. We will not be silent. We will resist censorship, and we will continue to grow in numbers and exert political influence. Flee at once, all is known.

Doubters are encouraged to click the links in this post, read the full context, and judge for yourselves. If you doubt that the words mean what they say; then turn to 3:7. If any doubt remains after that, then read Ibn Kathir's Tafsir of that verse. Note that the clear verses containing imperatives are to be believed and carried out. If any doubt remains, turn to ROPMA and read each of the Tafsir topics therein contained. If, after that, any doubt remains, read the Congress Debate Koran petition, and follow the links therein contained. Then copy this blog post , paste it into an email, and send it to everyone you know.


Ben 03/06/08

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Michelle Obama Shows More of Her Hate for America

I heard about this article while listening to Savage today and I'm just going to publish a few highlights. We've already heard how Michelle Obama, who desperately wants to be the next Jackie O, is actually channeling Trailer Trash Hillary, through her "proud of America" [NOT] comment a week or two ago. Then we heard about her "Orwell" speak with what her husband is going to demand of us (damn, he even wants to control our thoughts). For review, you can see my post on this here.

Now, courtesy of Newsbusters.org here, we see more of what she who wants to be queen of the world has to say about the country she wants to co-rule:

Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we're a divided country, we're a country that is "just downright mean," we are "guided by fear," we're a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. "We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day," she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. "Folks are just jammed up, and it's gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I'm young. Forty-four!"

Oh, woe is her! Just listen to how deluded this person is:

"You're looking at a young couple that's just a few years out of debt," Obama said. "See, because, we went to those good schools, and we didn't have trust funds. I'm still waiting for Barack's trust fund. Especially after I heard that Dick Cheney was s'posed to be a relative or something. Give us something here!"

Give us something here?

Can you believe this nonsense? You want to know how much this couple has been given lately?

The Obamas' financial standing has risen sharply in the past three years, largely as a result of the money Barack earned from writing "The Audacity of Hope." In 2005, their income was $1.67 million, which was more than they had earned in the previous seven years combined.

[...]

Just after Barack was elected to the United States Senate, Michelle received a large pay increase-from $121,910 in 2004 to $316,962 in 2005.

Still want someone to give you something, Michelle?

But that's just the beginning of an hypocrisy an honest media would be all over if her husband was a Republican:

"The life that I'm talking about that most people are living has gotten progressively worse since I was a little girl. . . . So if you want to pretend like there was some point over the last couple of decades when your lives were easy, I want to meet you!"

Really, Michelle? Life has gotten worse for you since you were a little girl? Not according to The New Yorker:

Money was scarce but sufficient. Fraser [her father] took pride in providing for his family. "If the TV broke and we didn't have any money to have it fixed, we could go out and buy another one on a charge card, as long as we paid the bills on time," Marian [her mother] told me. Saturday nights were spent at home playing Chinese checkers, Monopoly, or a game called Hands Down (like spoons, with bluffing). It was a simple time. "I probably had two sleepovers my entire life," Craig [her brother] said. "We were home folks." Many years, the family drove to Dukes Happy Holiday Resort, in Michigan, for a week's vacation.

Compare this to her life today:

The Obamas employ a full-time housekeeper, and Michelle tries to see a personal trainer four times a week.

Between her obvious hatred of America, she and her husband's black supremacist church (under IRS investigation and subject to losing its tax exemption) which supports true haters like Louis Farrakhan, her husband's inability to stay in the hot seat and answer questions posed to him, his associations with an Iraqi banker (Rezko), their socialist leanings, her husband's inability to either cast a senate vote or push the right button when he deigns to vote, his questionable muslim ties and his definite accomodation of those who wish to kill us, not to mention his extreme "sensitivity" to his middle name--do we REALLY want these two anywhere NEAR the White House? Good God, give me Hillary before you give me these clowns. These two need to grow up and quit whining.

On the other hand, Michelle's mouth could be the best thing for McCain--why would McCain need to fight dirty when Michelle's destroying their credibility all by herself?

Michelle Obama--the gift that keeps on giving!

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The Myths of Islam, Part 3

Islam is Completely Incompatible with Terrorism

The Myth:
Islam is completely incompatible with acts of terrorism. It is against Islam to kill innocent people.



The Truth:
Even though many Muslims earnestly believe that their religion prohibits the killing of innocent people by acts of terrorism, the truth is certainly more complicated. This is why the Jihadis and their detractors are both able to point fingers at the other, while confidently insisting that they are the true Muslims.


In fact, the definition of an “innocent person” is far more ambiguous in Islam than Muslim apologists will lead others to believe. So, also, is the definition of terrorism.


First, consider that anyone who rejects Muhammad is not considered to be innocent under Islamic law. The most protected and respected of all non-Muslims are the dhimma, the “people of the book.” These would specifically be Jews and Christians who agree to Islamic rule and pay the jizya (tribute to Muslims). Yet, the word “dhimmi” comes from the Arabic root meaning “guilt” or "blame." ["...the dhimmi parent and sister words mean both 'to blame' as well as safeguards that can be extended to protect the blameworthy" Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land]


So, if even the dhimma have a measure of guilt attached to their status (by virtue of having rejected Allah’s full truth), then how can non-Muslims who oppose Islamic rule or refuse to pay the jizya be considered “innocent?”


Within the Islamic community itself there is a category of Muslims who are also said to bear guilt – greater even than the average non-believer. These are the hypocrites, or “Munafiqin,” whom Muhammad referred to in the most derogatory terms. A hypocrite is considered to be a Muslim in name only. They are distinguished either by an unwillingness to wage holy war or by an intention to corrupt the community of believers.


When Muslims kill Muslims in the name of Allah (which occurs quite frequently), they usually do so believing that their victims are Munafiqin or kafir (unbelievers). This is actually a part of Islamic Law known as takfir, in which Muslims are declared apostates and then executed. (A true Muslim would go to paradise anyway, in which case he or she could hardly be expected to nurse a grudge amidst the orgy of sex and wine).


In addition to the murky definition of innocence, there is also the problem of distinguishing terrorism from holy war. Islamic terrorists never refer to themselves as terrorists, but always as holy warriors (Mujahideen, Shahid, or Fedayeen). They consider their acts to be a form of Jihad.

Holy war is something that Muhammad commanded in the Qur’an and Hadith. In Sura 9:29, he establishes the principle that unbelievers should be fought until they either convert to Islam or accept a state of humiliation under Islamic subjugation. This is confirmed in the Hadith by both Sahih Muslim and Bukhari.


In many places, the prophet of Islam says that Jihad is the ideal path for a Muslim, and that believers should “fight in the way of Allah.” There are dozens of open-ended passages in the Qur’an that exhort killing and fighting – far more than ones of peace and tolerance. It is somewhat naïve to think that their inclusion in this "eternal discourse between God and Man" was of historical value only and not intended to be relevant to present-day believers, particularly when there is little to nothing within the text that distinguishes them in such fashion.


Combine the Qur’anic exhortation to holy war with the ambiguity of innocence, and a monumental problem develops that cannot be covered over by mere semantics. Not only is there a deep tolerance for violence in Islam, but also a sharp disagreement and lack of clarity over the conditions that justify this violence... and just whom the targets may be.


Even many Muslims who claim to be against terrorism still support the “insurgency” in Iraq, for example, and often entertain the allegation that there is a broader “war against Islam.” Although the Americans in Iraq are trying to protect innocent life and help the country rebuild, Muslims around the world and in the West believe that it is legitimate for Sunnis to try and kill them.
Enjoying the sanction of holy war, the Mujahid reasons that it is permissible to attack fellow Iraqis – the ones helping the Americans… even if they are part of a democratically-elected Iraqi government. These non-combatants and combatants alike are believed to be the “Munafiqin” assisting the enemy “Crusaders.”


Although we use Iraq as an example here, this is the same rationale that is ultimately behind all Islamic terror, from the Philippines to Thailand. Wherever the religion of Islam is a minority, there are always radicals who believe that violence is justified in bringing it to dominance - just as Muhammad taught by example in places like Mecca and the land of al-Harith.


And what of the so-called “innocents” who suffer from the bombings and shootings? Even in Muhammad’s time they were unavoidable. The much-touted hadith in which Muhammad forbade the killing of women also indicates that there were such casualties in his conflicts.


If there is any doubt that he believed that the forbidden is sometimes necessary, it should be put to rest by an incident in which Muhammad's men warned him that a planned night raid against an enemy camp would mean that women and children would be killed. He merely replied “they are of them,” meaning the men.


This is the slippery slope that is opened by the sanction of holy war. What starts out as the perception of a noble cause of self-defense against a supposed threat gradually devolves into a "let Allah sort them out" campaign through a series of logical steps that are ultimately justified by the sublime goal of Islamic rule.


Islam is not intended to co-exist as an equal with other religions. It is to be the dominant religion, with Sharia as the supreme law. Islamic rule is to be extended to the ends of the earth, and resistance is to be dealt with by any means necessary.

Apologists in the West often shrug off the Qur'an's many verses of violence by saying that they are only relevant in a “time of war.”

To this, Islamic terrorists would agree. They are at war.

Islam is a Democracy


The Myth:
Islam is compatible with democratic principles. The religion itself is a democracy.


The Truth:
A democracy is a system in which all people are judged as equals before the law, regardless of race, religion or gender. The vote of every individual counts as much as the vote of any other. The collective will of the people then determines the rules of society.
Under Islamic law, only Muslim males enjoy full rights. The standing of a woman is often half that of a man's - sometimes even less. Non-Muslims have no standing with a Muslim.


The Islamic state is guided by Islamic law, derived from the Qur'an and Sunnah. A body of clerics interprets the law and applies it to all circumstances social, cultural and political. The people are never to be placed above the Qur'an and Sunnah any more than man should be above Allah.


It is somewhat debatable as to whether there are any states in the Muslim world that qualify as actual democracies. There is no denying, however, that the tiny handful that are often held up as democratic nations are ones in which deep tension exists between the government and religious leaders, as the later often complain that it is an idolatrous system imposed on them.


Islam does not facilitate democracy.



Further reading:
Democracy and Islam
Loyalty to a Non-Muslim Government

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