“I could be joking and cutting their throats in the next second. It’s a strategy.” -- Tarik Shah
This is not a sentiment unique to him. It is part of the training, a part of which many are proud. For it means that someone has truly mastered -- to smile, and smile, when there is murder in your heart -- the art of deception And deception is central to Islam. How else could numerically much smaller and civilizationally much poorer and more primitive Arabs have conquered such vast territories, populated by more numerous and much more advanced Christians and Jews, and Zoroastrians, and then later Buddhists and Hindus, if not by often having recourse to "deception"? How often did Muhammad deceive his enemies? What was Al-Hudaibiyya if not a grand deception, the treaty with the Meccans that, as Majid Khadduri and so many others have noted, is the basis for all subsequent Muslim treaty-making with Infidels?
Deception, deception, deception. And Americans are possibly the most naive people in the world -- just look at any college or high school yearbook, at those hopeful, smiling, never-had-to-confront-evil-or-endure-real-hardship faces, of young Americans. They are not prepared. Life has not prepared them. Their parents have not prepared them. Their studies have not prepared them.
They need to make up for lost time. This website, and a half-dozen others, are a good place to start. Help others find this website, and those books. Keep educating as many people as you can. Then books -- "Why I Am Not a Muslim" and "The Dhimmi" and "The Truth About Muhammad" and "The Legacy of Jihad" and "Islam and Dhimmitude" and "Infidel" and a dozen others. The best guides for the mass audience are Robert Spencer's "Onward Muslim Soldiers" and "The Myth of Islamic Tolerance" and "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades." Read those. Thoroughly assimilate the material. Now you are properly prepared to go to any Mosque Outreach, engage in any debate.
Some time ago a poster here wrote: “They have opened an ISLAMIC CENTER in my town. I am not sure how I feel on this one. Seemingly peaceful thus far.”
You're "not sure" how you feel about the opening of an Islamic Center in your town. And so far it's "peaceful"? Of course it's "peaceful." What did you expect? The peaceful smiling face of Islam. Mosque Outreach. Muslim-Christian "dialogues" in which every conceivable means will be used to fool Infidels, and prevent them from even hearing about the Hadith and the Sira (the biography of Muhammad), much less their contents. The Qur'an is a different matter, because unless you read and re-read it with care, and with some kind of non-Muslim-supplied guide, you will not understand it. Get the books above, and others. The enemy has just established a beachhead in your town. That's the only way to describe it. Do you love your children? Do you want them to understand the world, the world that is rushing towards them? Give them these books. Show them these websites. And spread the word.
And go to that "Mosque Outreach." You’ll see there that the whole thing is down to a science. "War is deception," said Muhammad. So as long as Islam remains Islam, why should Infidels assume that the feigning will ever come to an end? The only thing one needs to know is the doctrine of Islam, the 1350-year history of how that doctrine has been worked out, and the testimony of our best, most acute informants: the defectors from Islam, the apostates and those who are Muslim-for-identification-purposes-only Muslims who genuinely wish to warn us (see Magdi Allam) about the menace.
It is they, and the Western students of Islam, who are worth learning from -- both those who have managed to obtain posts, and those who have been shut out, very deliberately and carefully, by the army of academic apologists for Islam. If those apologists were dealt with appropriately, many of them would not only be held up for ridicule, but be stripped of the sums they have received from Muslim interests, both directly and indirectly. And some, upon thorough investigation, would be punished for what amounts to putting their own countries in danger through intellectual treason, or what might be called a "trahison des faux clercs."
A very relevant topic,Hugh, which you expound in your inimitable way...
In our local Library there are displays from time to time-various handicrafts,different cultures,organizations etc. Last year was not pleased to see one on Islam;everything tricked out like a dog's dinner[SORRY-Mo hated pooches],
favourite Dawah texts such as the one borrowed from the Jews about if you take one life you are robbing all humanity,usual lie 'ISLAM MEANS PEACE', and
one that got me hot under the collar with indignation-'WOMEN ARE EQUAL IN ISLAM'!!Caption under it read'YES,PROPHET MOHAMMED GAVE RIGHTS
TO WOMEN WHILST THOSE IN THE WEST WERE TREATED
AS THEIR HUSBANDS' PROPERTY.' Was so enraged by this taqiyya,walked out before bothering to look
at 'JESUS AND HIS MOTHER MARY,ARE REVERED IN ISLAM...'
"Americans are possibly the most naive people in the world -- just look at any college or high school yearbook, at those hopeful, smiling, never-had-to-confront-evil-or-endure-real-hardship faces, of young Americans. They are not prepared. Life has not prepared them. Their parents have not prepared them. Their studies have not prepared them."
Worst of all is the malpractice of colleges and universities because they should know better.
Morgane, our local library too had "celebrate Ramadan" month where they had the table of 'educational material' about islam all spread out, ready to deceive. Some Korans, Karen Armstrong, etc. No Robert Spencer though. No dissenting voices of course. Nothing to suggest that islam is anything but misunderstood peace and love.
Deception, deception, deception. And Americans are possibly the most naive people in the world -- just look at any college or high school yearbook, at those hopeful, smiling, never-had-to-confront-evil-or-endure-real-hardship faces, of young Americans. They are not prepared. Life has not prepared them. Their parents have not prepared them. Their studies have not prepared them.
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Dittos. I cannot add to that. Except that the faces that I see of "Muslim youths" do not look happy or stupidly naive about life
Truth is, Muslims are much more culturally sophisticated than we are. They can slide in and out of a Western 'personna' at will. And we Westerners seem incredibly gullible when it happens. Don't know about some of you, but I've heard different people say at different times that "I know a Muslim, he (or she) is really open-minded and sophisticated...I think you've got Islam all wrong."
I try to point out that a tolerant Muslim does not mean that Islam is tolerant.
Muslims are a cancerous fifth column, but they won't fool infidels who are informed. It is our moral obligation to spread the word and inform our fellow infidels, many of whom, unfortunately, don't want to hear the truth, maybe because they can't handle it. It's not pleasant to realize that there are 1.4 billion people who hate you and want you dead.
…hopeful, smiling, never-had-to-confront-evil-or-endure-real-hardship faces,…
Good line Hugh. But it goes beyond high school students all the way to the top:
Some, I know, have questioned the global appeal of liberty - though this time in history, four decades defined by the swiftest advance of freedom ever seen, is an odd time for doubt. Americans, of all people, should never be surprised by the power of our ideals. Eventually, the call of freedom comes to every mind and every soul. We do not accept the existence of permanent tyranny because we do not accept the possibility of permanent slavery.
The only correlation that I can come up with is that being naive has something to do with receiving a non-military government paycheck. Things seem to be changing though. Here’s some datapoints:
1. Sales of classic Western literature at my local bookstore are ‘wicked high’, per the hippie store clerk, most of the books being purchased by high schoolers with their own money. She couldn’t explain why.
2. The fraternal organization I’m in has a generational split. Five years ago it was about to close. People now are either over 70 or under 40 and there is an unprecedented surge in young membership. This surge is nationwide.
3. That army poll studying our soldier’s attitudes about “innocent Iraqi civilians” indicates a strong sense of situational awareness. General Petraeus be damned.
4. Handgun sales are up at the local barn / firearms dealer. Lots of new lookers.
Ahmedinejad is a national treasure and will force our hand. He’s got enough of a footprint stateside to knock off people’s blinders. Tony Snow or his successor will be the new Baghdad Bob. When things go pop, there will be leadership in America.
Fifth generation - Dutch extraction - born in Indonesia.
Recall, as a youngster, my father telling me: "Indonesians have a smile for every emotion, including one for the point just before the keris (unique Indonesian dagger) is stuck between your ribs."
And that was some 50 years ago. Ah, the wisdom of elders!
Hugh,
Great post.
For those who say they know a "moderate Muslim," ask them if they quizzed the Muslim in question as to her/his opinions on Israel, on apostasy, on "insults" to Islam and Muhammad, on whether non-Muslims should criticize Islam at all, on whether good works helps a non-Muslims avoid hell-fire (they don't), on whether Jesus is the son of God (this is a key question which Christians should ask), and a whole host of other issues that are dealt with on sites such as this one. Ask them if they have read the Quran, Hadith, and Sira. Ask them if they know exactly what is meant when a Muslim uses words like "justice," "innocent," "defence," "peace," "goodness," "kindness," and so on. Then tell them what you know from polls: That the majority of Muslims world-wide wants sharia law; that the majority of Muslims in the west wants non-Muslims to be criminally prosecuted and punished for criticizing Muhammad; that Muslims elect hard-line Islamic governments (e.g., present Afghan, Iraqi, Iranian, Nigerian, and Palestinian governments).
Speaking of deceit, the worst part of the Muslim relation to deceit is perhaps in the verses about making friends with non-Muslims: don't do it, says the Quran, except deceitfully, if as a Muslim you are weak and need to strengthen your position vis-a-vis non-Muslims. This means that non-Muslims can't easily trust Muslim friends, unless those friends really prove themselves against Islamic supremacism and jihad and the relevant parts of the Quran-hadith-sira.
The Quran can be much harder to read if one does not know how to follow the reputed chronological order of the chapters. Many people by now are aware that the Quran's chapters are bound and arranged not chronologically but from longest to shortest. That random formal arrangement increases whatever incoherence there is in the content.
The Religion of Peace, an excellent book Spencer is now advertising on Jihad Watch, has a useful appendix showing the chronological order of chapters (at least what most Muslims regard as the more or less correct chron order), as given by the standard Egyptian edition of the Quran. Following that order, one sees which verses were given in Mecca and at what point Muhammad goes to Medina and how the verses start to change there. One can get a sense of the development of Muhammad's "revelations." Following chronological order also makes it easier to get started with the Quran, because the chronologically early chapters are often very short.
I wonder if the non-chron arrangement was intended to obscure the contents to non-Muslims, as a kind of defensive measure.
Am also curious whether the non-chronological arrangement has anything to do with wilful religious obscurantism implemented as a technique of domination over Muslims.
Or maybe the non-chron arrangement (ordering by size of chapters instead, from longest to shortest) was a way to avoid controversy over the "correct" chron arrangement? Or was it more or less an accident that things turned out that way?
Deceit is a double-edged sword. The moribund state of Islamic societies attests to the sharpness of the "other" edge. Where no trust can be developed, trade and cooperation are stiffled. The society must remain in a primitive state - which is indeed the state it was in during its "glory" days. It is just that the West moved ahead.
In the West we hold truth to be the highest virtue, and so to Muslims we are easy prey - the first time. What they don't realise is that the West also has a saying: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Because we value truth, we put effort into learning about things, and about people.
The Muslims happy time where they can take advantage of the naive West is coming to a rapid close, thanks to the likes of Robert, and to their own behaviour, but primarily to the way in which we value truth here.
Here locally, the caretakers of a local Muslim school (formed in what once was a Catholic Church)arrives at our local library with a 20 minute propaganda film about the life of Mo. Only 12 aging Christians attended nodding their heads at the conclusion. However, recently, much more opinion letters are expressing knowledge of Jihad and Sharia but the leftist newspaper would never allow any display of Mo's dark side to appear.
Every Koran should come with a DVD in the back showing the unnatural fates of Danny Pearl and Nick Berg at the hands of those who read this book very seriously.
The "STRIKE AT THEIR NECKS" Koran.
The fact that they hide their faces and their true goals just proves to me that they're cowards. Honor less little men who love to think they're big, but aren't. Like rats that scurry when you turn on the light.
And yet like rats they're a big problem if you let them go unchecked as we have. So it's time to set the traps and kill the rats. That's what must be done to save the ailing building that is America in modern times.
“Deception, deception, deception. And Americans are possibly the most naive people in the world -- just look at any college or high school yearbook, at those hopeful, smiling, never-had-to-confront-evil-or-endure-real-hardship faces, of young Americans. They are not prepared. Life has not prepared them. Their parents have not prepared them. Their studies have not prepared them.”
Very well put, Hugh, and this naivety and gullibility isn’t of course confined to America – we see it here in Britain, too. Until about forty years ago, a good education, particularly at university, was all about learning to think for oneself and see through all the deceptions bombarding one daily, but that has been replaced by the concept of thinking “correctly” rather than critically. How on earth do we reverse this? To a pessimist, it looks as though we’re in a late, decadent state of Western civilization in which even the instinct for self-preservation has been lost.
A sidelight on deception in Britain from Melanie Phillips, discussing the apostate Ed Husain’s book “The Islamist”:
“Husain records how dumbfounded he was that HuT [Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a group of Muslim fanatics] was never stopped by the college authorities. But the official line has always been that HuT was never associated with violence. Over and over again, Husain demolishes this myth, only to record despairingly how HuT still has not been banned despite the fact that its incitement to violence goes on, with calls upon God to “destroy the kuffar” threats to kill future Muslim leaders who oppose the coming caliph, or the statement by a prominent HuT member that “some people in Britain should be bombing Washington DC”.
In response to the devastating picture of it that is painted by this book, HuT last week issued a statement claiming that it had changed. But we learn from Husain’s book that one of HuT’s main weapons is systematic deception. It trains its members to deny the truth, using the religious justification for deceiving the enemies of Islam. When its activities led to the appalling murder of a Nigerian Christian student in Tower Hamlets college, HuT put out press releases stating falsely that it had never operated on the campus.
[Husain says:] “The Hizb leadership issued a condemnation of what had happened, saying it was a non-violent party. This myth was swallowed by investigators who never really understood the seriousness of the Hizb’s form of violence. Even today, a primary reason for western failure in the War on Terror is this same cause: an innate inability to understand the Islamist psyche.””
See the whole article (with some scathing comments on Tory leader David Cameron’s failure to get it) at:
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1514
Traeh, I'd like to know the answer to your questions about chronological verse order too.
...unless their parents do. Mine did. Fortunately, my dad spent decades in the ME and told me all about his view re: Muslims.
We just need more faith some Americans are spying for our side! ;)
"I may be honest, but I can still lie to ya if I want to." - KK