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Posted on December 3 at 8:06 p.m.Suggest removal
I'd encourage you to read the following essay on religious violence to better understand how vastly different Islam is from other religions.
Posted on November 27 at 11:46 a.m.Suggest removal
JJ,
You will find listed below a few examples from the Koran and Hadiths justifying murder and war.
I'm not sure why you need to see these listed. It's just as easy to find and to listen to what Jihadists shout out as they behead their innocent victims. In any case, here it is:
-1- ``Fighting is prescribed for you'' (Koran 2:216);
-2- ``Slay them wherever you find them'' (Koran 4:89);
-3- ``Fight the idolators utterly'' (Koran 9:36);
and such hadiths as the one related by Bukhari and Muslim that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said:
``I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and perform the prayer, and pay zakat. If they say it, they have saved their blood and possessions from me, except for the rights of Islam over them. And their final reckoning is with Allah'';
and the hadith reported by Muslim,
``To go forth in the morning or evening to fight in the path of Allah is better than the whole world and everything in it.''Details concerning jihad are found in the accounts of the military expeditions of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), including his own martial forays and those on which he dispatched others. The former consist of the ones he personally attended, some twenty-seven (others say twenty-nine) of them. He fought in eight of them, and killed only one person with his noble hand, Ubayy ibn Khalaf, at the battle of Uhud. On the latter expeditions he sent others to fight, himself remaining at Medina, and these were forty-seven in number.) [...]
The caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (N: provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya, def: o11.4) -which is the significance of their paying it, not the money itself-while remaining in their ancestral religions) (O: and the war continues) until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax (O: in accordance with the word of Allah Most High,
"Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day and who forbid not what Allah and His messenger have forbidden-who do not practice the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book-until they pay the poll tax out of hand and are humbled" (Koran 9.29)
Posted on November 24 at 5:35 p.m.Suggest removal
JJ,
I don't need to know the Koran to know what Islam is all about. All I need to do is read or watch the news. Here is what I read:
1) 4,000 Buddhists have been killed over the last few years by devout Muslims. Sometimes when they behead a Buddhist monk the quote passages from the Koran.
2) Devout Muslims in Sudan have killed hudreds of thousands (black Muslims, Christians, Animists) in their quest to spread Islam across all of Africa.
3) In neighboring Somalia devout Muslims are killing everyone and anyone who disagrees with the most extreme interpretaion of Sharia law.
4) The leaders of Iran encourage genocide against Israel. The men promoting this are devout Muslims.
5) In Nigeria devout Muslims are killing Christians as these devout Muslims force their way south into the heart of this country.
6) Devout Muslims in Pakistan and Afghanistan commit suicide bombings on practically a daily basis. They often shout out "Allah Akbar" just as Nidal Hasan did before their murderous acts.
7) Devout Shias are killing Sunnis in Yemen on a daily basis in Yemen and vice-a-vers. The same thing is happening in many Middle Eastern Islamic countries.
8) The best example of the above was the 7 year Iraq/Iran War in which one million Muslims were killed in a Sunni/Shia war.
9) In western China devout Muslims are killing Chinese.
10) In southern Russian devout Muslims are killing Russians.
11) In the Arabian peninsula in the years surrounding 700AD a man named Mohammed established the Islamic religion and spread it by murdering, enslaving and forcibly converting others to its tenants. The Koran and Hadiths are filled with tales of his murderous achievments and of his encouraging his followers to do the same.
Posted on November 20 at 1:53 p.m.Suggest removal
Jelani writes, "Sept. 11, 2001 spawned prejudice and fear of people in these groups. Our media has painted them as the enemy and shown us the horrors of what some in the communities have done.
And everyone knows the best way for an enemy to cripple its opponent is from the inside."
Interesting choice of words. The Koran speaks often of "deceit" and encourages Muslims to join the enemies rank so as to defeat them from within.
As to the "prejudice" spawned by 9/11 I would more accurately describe it as a wake-up call. "Prejudice" is to mis-characterize a religion, race or people.
To characterize Islam as inimical to our interest is simply accurate, not prejudice.
People do not want to believe it but Islam is a supremacist religion where all non-Muslims are second-class people. Islam is also about Jihad and the never-ending expansion of Islam. We see this today in western China, southern Russsian, Kashmir, Israel, Lebanon (where the Christian population is plummeting while the Muslim population is taking over), Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, etc...
To pretend this reality is something it is not, as Jelani tries doing, is a mistake that will continue to come back to haunt us.
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Posted on December 3 at 8:11 p.m.Suggest removal
Are you saying beheading an unarmed journalist is no different than removing life support from a terminally ill patient?
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