Once again, pointing out the obvious has got some poor soul in trouble. This from WRAL Raleigh-Durham:
Words like "bomb" and "die" draw attention to the small sign in front of Good News Independent Baptist Church.Rev. Gary Murrell put up the sign, which on one side claims the message of Islam is "submit, convert or die."
The other side reads: "When is the last time you heard of a Jew or Christian with a bomb strapped to their body?"
Despite some in the Islamic community who claim the sign is offensive, Murrell says it is not a hate sign.
"It was not put up there with the purpose of showing that we hate those people," he said. "It's not the people, it's the religion."
Murrell says it is a violent religion compared to Christianity. But not everyone agrees.
"I would really say that the actions of one individual really do not represent the Islamic faith," said Debbie Jaunich, with the Islamic Center of Raleigh. "The Islamic faith really calls for peace."
Yes, Debbie, it does. It also calls for other things, needless to say. And what, pray, does Islam mean by "peace"? A humble acceptance of diversity of opinion and criticism of one's faith? Not exactly. Rather, once the earth is subdued under Sharia law then, of course, peace will reign. In the meantime, Allah ordains combat against the House of War (the non-Muslim world) in a myriad of places throughout the Quran and the other canonical Islamic sources that I am, now on my fourth glass of port, too tipsy to specify.
"It's sad to see that we still have this kind of ignorance in the community about the Islamic faith," she added.
*Sniff*
Murrell says the sign has been up for about a week and that he plans to change it this weekend.But discussion about the message will likely continue. The Islamic Center of Raleigh is inviting Murrell and his congregation for a visit to learn more about Islam.
Learn, dammit, learn!
"I would really say that the actions of one individual really do not represent the Islamic faith," said Debbie Jaunich, with the Islamic Center of Raleigh. "The Islamic faith really calls for peace."
Wanna bet? Every time an Islamaniac commits some kind of outrage we either get an insincere sounding apology, a dozen excuses or a deafening silence. All these responses mean that, by and large, the Islamic faith agrees with such outrages. And that's why after 1400 years we keep on getting more and more of these outrages. And this baloney about Islam really calling for peace is a hoot too. It sets about bringing peace by filling graves-lots of them-because no people are as peaceful as dead people.
Unless you happen to be a member of the religion of peace of course.
"I would really say that the actions of one individual really do not represent the Islamic faith," said Debbie Jaunich, with the Islamic Center of Raleigh. "The Islamic faith really calls for peace."
Dear Debbie Jaunich,
You are in denial. According to a Canadian poll don't by one of Canada's toll companies 7% of Canadian Muslims support the murder of fellow citizens as a faithful form of protest against Canada's foreign policy. The numbers are higher in the UK 25%, over 30% in Indonesia, and likely well into the majority in Middle Eastern Countries. The only other religious group that espouses such violence is the KKK. While there may be a benign peaceful Islam, it appears that there is a deep rot within your Ummah which you are in denial about. Islam can not mean peace if you have so many followers who espouse murder. If you really seek the truth, open your eyes.
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Corbella_Licia/2007/02/18/3642930-sun.html
"The Islamic faith really calls for peace."
And HOW does it achieve that?
Through Murder, intimidation , violence and intolerance, for a start.
"I would really say that the actions of one individual really do not represent the Islamic faith,"
How about the actions of tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands , if not Millions ?
From the Palestinians who seem almost unanimous in their hatred and Hypocricy , to the Jihadis, Al Qaeda , the Sharia hardliners, The Iranians ,Egytians , SAUDI'S!! (911 hijackers) to the hate filled populations of most of the Meccas of Islam around the world, to the Minnessota cab drivers all the way down to the silent MYTHICAL " Moderate " Muslims out there. I'm sure i left out plenty but ,
the message is clear and we hear you!
Now get ready for the Awakening!
'"It's sad to see that we still have this kind of ignorance in the community about the Islamic faith," she added.'
Indeed it is sad that ignorance about Islam permeates everything in the Western world. This ignorance is also the root of many problems in America, but especially in Western Europe. Had our leaders had a proper understanding of Islam, they would not have facilitated the settlement of large numbers of muslims in our lands (Some of my friends call certain areas in Amsterdam 'occupied territories'). Nor would they have spent billions of euros trying to 'integrate' these invaders. Had we been led by smarter leaders, our foreign policy would also be quite different.
So yes, it is sad to see that ignorance about Islam is still widespread.
Ahh. Port.
"I would really say that the actions of one individual really do not represent the Islamic faith," [1] said Debbie Jaunich, with the Islamic Center of Raleigh. "The Islamic faith really calls for peace."[2]
[1] (a). I think there are more jihadists than one, and I also have a sneaking suspicion that the earth is round. (b) Muhammad was "one individual" and he is supposed to represent Islam (Muslims should follow his example 33:21; to obey him is to obey Allah 4:80)
[2] Except "do not call for peace when you have the upper hand" (47:35). And when Muslims don't have the upper hand, they can follow Muhammad's example and make veiled threats while saying the word peace (43:89), make death threats openly (e.g., Muhammad in the Meccan phase tells the Meccans "I bring you slaughter"), and launch smaller terror and booty raids (e.g., the Nakhla raid).
"Rev. Gary Murrell put up the sign, which on one side claims the message of Islam is "submit, convert or die.""
Yes, saw that on CNN. The announcer mentioned in a disapproving tone that there was a spelling mistake in the word 'Christian' somewhere on the sign.
Needless to say to regular JWers, the 'submit, convert, or die' options do comprise the main message of Islam that non-Muslims need to be most concerned about.
9:29 "Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute [jizya] readily, being brought low.”
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 24:
Narrated Ibn 'Umar: Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity [zakat], so if they perform that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah."
For those who would like more evidence, please see this.
Also consider that the Hindus were not always given the "submit" (to dhimmitude) option.
"Gautier focuses mainly on the Muslim period of India's history. "Let it be said right away: the massacres perpetrated by Muslims in India are unparalleled in history, bigger than the holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks; more extensive even than the slaughter of the South American native populations by the invading Spanish and Portuguese." "
"Gautier cites two eminent historians who wrote free of any colonialist or ideological agendas, basing their accounts on documents by contemporary Muslim chroniclers themselves: Alain Danielou in Histoire de la Inde: "From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoilations, destructions. It is, as usual, in the name of 'a holy war' of their faith, of their sole God, that the barbarians have destroyed civilisations, wiped out entire races." And the well-known American historian Will Durant in The Story of Civilization: "...the Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without and multiplying from within." " [http://www.indiastar.com/wallia10.htm]
I love when I get a chance to respond to this question:
"And what, pray, does Islam mean by "peace"? "
"The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this: "Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah" (i.e. Islam). As such the Islamic concept of peace, meaning making the whole world Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was inevitable and unavoidable that the conflict would eventually reach our borders, and so it has." - Vernon Richards
(I'm just using his rhetorical question as an oppurtunity to paste that quote.. i know everyone here knows the answer)
Since 9/11 we've waged war against a tactic with the manacles of political correctness mangling our strategic thinking and hamstringing our troops in contact with the enemy. Hell if you expect to win a war you must at least find the courage to name the enemy. If we are to survive as a freed people we need leaders with the will to bust the bonds of political correctness. And since political correctness is the spawn of the American hating Left we need a leader with the guts to brand the American hating Left as the enemy they are.
On 9/11 nineteen good Muslims slaughtered 3000 Americans for the greater glory of the god of their prophet Mohammad and there has been no, repeat no opposition to this ever increasing evil from Muslims in terms of Islamic theology. Find one Muslim cleric who will condemn Muslims killing themselves in order to kill unbelievers, in the hope being rewarded with eternal fornication, and will do so publicly, unconditionally and in terms of Islamic theology. You cannot find one because their prophet promises them such rewards for such evil.
We must secure our borders but that alone will not be enough. Today or tomorrow or the next year good Muslims will attempt to nuke us. It might come via a missile or it might be smuggled in by good Muslims. Yet where in the States are good Muslims attempting to build nukes? After 9/11 we cannot suffer any Islamic polity to posses nuclear weapons. After 9/11 we cannot suffer Muslim aliens in our county. After 9/11 I am very much afraid we can no long suffer Muslims to live amongst us.
Is there a Truman out there with the compassion to bring these hard and terrible truths home to the followers of a religion whose founder's founding acts were manifestly evil? Do we as a people have the will to do what must be done to prevent good Muslims from reducing an American city to radioactive rubble?
What is more important to our survival as a free people? Spending billions subsidizing growing corn and women who have children out of wedlock? Or should a once free people spend whatever is required to field a viable missile defense and fund enough cops to round up and ship out ALL aliens in our country illegally? The welfare state is a millstone on the back of Lady Liberty.
What city do you think good Muslims will nuke first?
"It's not the people, it's the religion."
The good reverends next sign shall read.
I wrote "Debbie" an email:
From: Vince P
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 08:45
To: 'office@islam1.org'
Subject: To Debbie: "The Islamic faith really calls for peace."
Can you please provide me the doctrinal basis for this statement attributed to you in the news?
According to Surah 2:177, A Muslim must accept all these things:
QUOTE
It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the prophets
UNQUOTE
The Last Day is the most important thing after belief in Allah. The Last Day consists of the coming of the Imam Mahdi along with the appearance of the Muslim Jesus.
For the Last Day to come, the Muslims must go to war and slaughter the Jews
QUOTE
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
UNQUOTE
But the Muslims don’t stop there.. once that’s accomplished:
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al-Mahdi will receive a pledge of allegiance as a caliph for Muslims. He will lead Muslims in many battles of jihad. His reign will be a caliphate that follows the guidance of the Prophet. Many battles will ensue between Muslims and the disbelievers during the Mahdi’s reign…
UNQUOTE
Harun Yahya, a moderate and very popular Muslim author refers to the Mahdi’s invasion of numerous non-Muslim lands:
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The Mahdi will invade all the places between East and West.
UNQUOTE
In today’s world.. non-Muslims are not killed or forced to convert if they pay the Jizya in Muslim lands and agree to live as dhimmis. Well apparently even that wonderful option will be eliminated during the Muslim Last Day. I’m assuming the pigs in this quote means Jews.
QUOTE
Volume 3, Book 43, Number 656: Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until the son of Mary (i.e. Jesus) descends amongst you as a just ruler, he will break the cross, kill the pigs, and abolish the Jizya tax. Money will be in abundance so that nobody will accept it (as charitable gifts).
UNQUOTE
Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d. 1368) from The Reliance of the Traveller, the classic Shafi manual of Islamic jurisprudence states:
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"... the time and the place for [the poll tax] is before the final descent of Jesus (upon whom be peace). After his final coming, nothing but Islam will be accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until Jesus' descent (upon him and our Prophet be peace) ..."
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Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini clearly articulates this vision:
QUOTE
The Mahdi will offer the religion of Islam to the Jews and Christians; if they accept it they will be spared, otherwise they will be killed.
UNQUOTE
Sheikh Kabbani, Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America clearly articulates the Islamic perspective regarding Jesus’ evangelistic role when He returns.
QUOTE
Like all prophets, Prophet Jesus came with the divine message of surrender to God Almighty, which is Islam. This verse shows that when Jesus returns he will personally correct the misrepresentations and misinterpretations about himself. He will affirm the true message that he brought in his time as a prophet, and that he never claimed to be the Son of God. Furthermore, he will reaffirm in his second coming what he prophesied in his first coming bearing witness to the seal of the Messengers, Prophet Muhammad. In his second coming many non-Muslims will accept Jesus as a servant of Allah Almighty, as a Muslim and a member of the Community of Muhammad.
UNQUOTE
Al-Sadr and Mutahhari, likewise articulate this same expectation:
QUOTE
Jesus will descend from heaven and espouse the cause of the Mahdi. The Christians and the Jews will see him and recognize his true status. The Christians will abandon their faith in his godhead (sic).
UNQUOTE
So tell me Debbie: How is your death cult religion of war a “religion of peace”
Another sign spotted yesterday which read -
"If your God says it's ok to blow people up on buses, my God thinks your God is a c***!"
It doesn't matter if Jews and Christians were strapping on bombs it wouldn't change Islam one iota
Rev. Gary Murrell put up the sign, which on one side claims the message of Islam is "submit, convert or die."
If we only had 10,000 more Reverend Murrells willing to speak the truth about Islam.
Unfortunately, what we have are weaklings, cowards and fuzzy, feel-good pop, psycho-babble prostelytizers. The say "God," but won't say, "YAHWEH." They point to the three great religions, maintaining that all three religions lead to the same source
They are cowards, terrified to lift the veil covering the evil that parades under the guise of the religion of piece.
They enable evil to flourish because they will not preach the truth.
I think one of the best statements about the nature of Jihad (and how this is integral to the religion of Islam) has been written by Bat Ye'or in "Eurabia". She states:
"In recent years, the Islamist concept of *jihad* against the infidel has filtered through to the public, despite obfuscation in the Western press. From Indonesia to the Philippines, from Chechmiya and Afghanistan to Sudan, from Egypt to Algeria, and from Gaza to New York, London, and Paris, calls to Jihad repeat the same themes and are integrated into the same ideological structure. Such homogeneity cannot be improvised. Nor is it the result of circumstantial external factors. On the contrary, it is integrated into a permanent historical trend that is based on doctrinal, legal, and cultural foundations" (p. 160). As Bat Ye'or also reminds readers, "Europe had thirteen centuries of jihad experience on its lands, at its frontiers and in its cities." It's only in recent times that Europeans have become complacent, if not complicit, in the furtherance of the Jihad ideology.
It's sad to see that we still have this kind of ignorance in the community about the Islamic faith," she added.
Yeah, it's sad that so many ignorant, naive Americans still think that islam is a bonafide religion similar to Christianity instead of the ritualistic, intolerant, inherently violent, misogynic, supremacist death cult that it is. It is also sad that prominent scholars, respected for their expertise and wisdom, are disgraceful apologists for islam, lending it undeserved and false credibility.
Proffering quotes from the qur'an and hadith often do more harm than good because people assume that they are metaphoric, allegorical, or simply "taken out of context", often citing the "violence" in the Old Testament which, of course, is a false and misguided analogy.
The first time I read the qur'an many, many years ago, it made absolutely no sense whatsoever to me. The second time I read it, I was amused by the silly, mythical characters and one non sequitur after another----pure nonsense. The third time I read it, the primitive blood lust and arbitrary violence dominated the dialogue, page after page of gruesome, barbaric, inhuman behavior. The fourth time I read it, I searched for a consistent message of morality and goodness, assuming that "morality" and "goodness" have universal definitions. It took years for me to understand that the islamic definition of "good" defines pure evil from my Western, Christian perspective.
Although it is not necesary for Americans or Westerners to fully understand every islamic concept and tenet to realize that islam is evil, it is nonetheless very difficult for them to associate evil with a religion. The most blatantly antithetical, anti-Western aspects of islam are so outrageous that they are simply unbelievable. It is much easier to project Christian or Jewish beliefs on islam than to contemplate the possibility that islam really is a predatory death cult with millions of fanatical followers.
It's strange, but some people seem to instinctively "get it" without extensive study of the qur'an and other islamic texts, while others study islam in great depth and fail to perceive its inherent evil, or pretend they don't. Muslims will never openly acknowledge the fatal flaws in islamic doctrine, that's why they kill people for exposing them.
"I would really say that the actions of one individual really do not represent the Islamic faith," said Debbie Jaunich, with the Islamic Center of Raleigh. "The Islamic faith really calls for peace."
One individual? Does this woman not have access to even one media outlet?
"Learn, dammit, learn!"
Or Else!
failure to learn could well be the last thing you fail to learn...
For all any of us knows, Rev Murrell might have been lurking here. For all any of us knows, Rev Murrell may have been reading Spencer's books, or Bat Ye'or's, or a number of others. If anyone posting here comes from Murrell's neighbourhood (Raleigh? where is that?) or his home state perhaps a brief letter or phone call or email of support should be sent to his church office to encourage him and his congregation - and a letter to the editor of the newspaper that reported the story.
What if a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand churches with noticeboards put up similar messages? Sticking strictly to the facts. Spencer's little sideboxes in the 'PIG to Islam and the Crusades', comparing Biblical and Mohammedan messages, show how to do it.
The local mosques would 'invite' them to learn the 'truth' about Islam - and the pastor and parishioners, conspicuously wearing the cross, would smilingly visit, and politely dispute such Islamic Big Lies as the denial of the Crucifixion, and sweetly ask questions about Surah 9 and the interpretation thereof, or about the apostasy and blasphemy laws, or the exclusion of Infidels from Mecca on pain of death; and offer free copies of the Four Gospels over the baklava and coffee afterwards.
The pastor is simply pointing out the truth in a non-pc matter. God Bless him.
Amazing how hypsersensitive they get over a simple question that inspires thought (forget the fact it was rhetorical anyway as the answer is obvious).
Just more proof their islamist position is so baseless, so without foundation, and wish such insecurity that it cannot withstand any scrutiny.
lol
And, it would also be good to remember this pastor and his congregation in our respective prayers (or affirmations for agnostics).
A big pork chop sandwich from The Snappy Lunch to the good Reverend Murrell.