god bless america

Posted by: bracelet at July 1, 2004 5:27 PM

Is this a perfect example of us not finishing the job in Afghanistan with regard to the Taliban or what?

The tolerant Islamic cult strikes once again. Perhaps some more bombings are in order. We're trying to stomp on a gigantic rat's nest with one foot in Iraq, and one foot in Afghanistan.

Bring out the daisy cutters.....

Posted by: DCWatson at July 1, 2004 5:42 PM

This is a typical example of their intolerance and hate. It shows how incapable of handling any competition islamic culture is. They have a frozen culture, whereas we have a dynamic, rational, vibrant culture where people can think, speak and believe as they wish.

“Your grandchildren will be Christian Missionaries.”

Posted by: canuck at July 1, 2004 11:14 PM

Big mistake, Taliban. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. The remote, dead-end nation of Afghanistan has heard Messiah's name; and a crack has appeared in the walls of that stronghold of Islam.

My guess is that Maulawi Assadullah was a singularly brave man--propagating Christianity from the position of a Muslim cleric. It is my prayer that the knife-wielders and their extended clans themselves may come to Christ.

Posted by: Kepha1 at July 1, 2004 11:58 PM

Here is a good description of the Muslims
Dt. 32:31 “There rock is not like our Rock.” For there vine is the vine of Sodom and the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, there clusters are bitter. Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of cobras.
Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of there calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them

Posted by: Bar at July 2, 2004 2:04 AM

I pray for him, He´s a martyr and like Kepha says, is the seed of the church. The Talibans always, the same rubbish. Greetings

Posted by: Franze at July 2, 2004 3:44 AM

test

Posted by: Andrew at July 2, 2004 5:04 AM

The murder of this cleric is not surprising. We should be quite thankfull for his sacrafice assuming the story is accurate,however futile the attempt was.

Afgan Muslims and indeed any real Muslim views this apostates act appalling and the justice meited his way in accordance to the principles of the Quran.

The Afgans in this case cannot be blamed for following the letter of their holy book literally.

To do any less would be against the will of Allah as taught by his prophet Mohammad...or something like that.

But please, let's continue third world and Islamic immigration into Europe and America. Turkey in the EU...why the hell not! After all there is nothing short of conversion that will satisfy the total aspirations of these relentless warriors.

They should be FEARED and RESPECTED, because Islam is a force that singlhandly unified a wide spectrum of seemingly divergent peoples under one banner. The banner of Islam. For better or worse they found method of cultural survival and expansion.

The people under this yoke (From our Western perspective)seemingly, willingly accept the authority of the Quran without question. They accept the fatwas and religious edicts and declarations of jihad willingly. They may or may not act on them but they seem not to act against them either.

The freedom the followers of Islam in its truest essence enjoy,is the freedom from choice. Everything is unified into one Islamic way of life. Choice leads down the slope towards Gammorah, as Robert Bork called America`'s chosen path.

Americans, citizens of a nation... E Pluribus Unun, (Out of many one), have lost something. Call it self loathing as taught in our school or cultural amnesia brought upon by the destructive forces of uncontrolled immigration. Hertigage and nationalism and patriotism are taboo words now.

Whatever it is, the West (Non-Muslims) does not have the survival instinct the Islamic world has with its long memories and deep convictions. No atomic weapon is more distructive than a society which willingly chooses suicide through PC and multi-culturalism.Who will fill the void...the strongest will...Islam.

The forces of Islam in any form, moderate, radical, militant, even non-chalant, are stronger than any weapon of mass distruction. Because it is a force of UNIFICATION and PATIENT PERSISTANCE, willing to be barbaric when necessary and always encroaching, conquering retreating and reforming, but always policing their own, as was the case of this unfortunate Cleric--never allowing for what we would call "reform".

Muslims of course are well within their right to consider the Quran as the product of divine revalation and as such perfect.It is their right and their religion for 16 centuries. Any so called reform would be apostacy, pervision of the message of the Prophet and non-Islamic.

Reform is a notion that the Islamic world must necessarily reject as they always have, because as Mr. Spencer was told in resopnsise to the question of reform in Islam.... "So you want us to stop being Muslims..".

The choice is clear. Islam is the most dynamic, prostylizing, imperial unifying forces on the planet. In the case of the West as represented by the Big Satin and Eurabia, their self loathing, PC and internal rot has produced a multi-cutural model that is Balkinzing and fragmenting. Immigration reform is key, not winning hearts and minds and one way cultural exchange.

--Democracy and the idea of a Republic held together by the rule of law and the social contract indeed has its obvious limitations in the age of globalization and mass migration.

Muslims it seems, are willing to surrender some measure of their freedom willingly for the body politic...so they cannot lose in the transformation of the world to Islam. Unlike the citizens of the Soviet state or America, who yearned for freedom, they will not accept our notion of freedom and wont allow for it to take root.

Andrew

Posted by: Andrew at July 2, 2004 5:04 AM

The same exact type of problem is developing in Fallujah.

If there's one thing we should be learning from Abu Ghraib and the recent Supreme Court choices -- don't take Taliban prisoners.

Is anyone else as out of patience as I am?

Posted by: Foehammer at July 2, 2004 8:24 AM

Foehammer,
I for one am possibly more out of patience.In reference to the above article : Yet another example of the "religion of peace" that is islam, well the butchered cleric is certainly at peace now, maybe it's about time Islam was made peaceful in the same permanent way.

Posted by: Rikki at July 2, 2004 9:37 AM

Thanks Kepha. You have the correct understanding of the real battle. As a Christian it is hard to keep things in perspective. My instinct is to want to run out and bomb the crap out everything east of Isreal. But this battle is as much spiritual as it is anything else. It goes way beyond our ability to control it on our own. Islam was brought forth from Abraham's sin. It is the repercussion of his lack of faithfulness to God's promise. We are still paying the price for that sin today.

Posted by: webo at July 2, 2004 10:54 AM

This pretty much sums it up:

http://wc0.worldcrossing.com/WebX?31@@11f2a063@36

Posted by: c dub at July 2, 2004 11:14 AM

this is a very interesting story. i have heard stories by word of mouth of whole mosques in the middle east secretly converting to christianity -- baptisms at midnight, secret records kept, just like in the former soviet union -- and keeping up the airs of their muslim ways in order to disguise their conversion in an environment that would lead to certain persecution and/or death.

so this poses the questions: if islam is incapable of reforming itself, is reformation to take the form of conversion to christianity? and if conversion is reforming, then does the above-accounted act demonstrate a counter-reformation at work -- an inquisition as it were?

Posted by: ted at July 2, 2004 11:47 AM

Just so we all understand that these executions have been going on for decades in the Sudan...and only now are we paying attention. How right that filthy old madman Arafat when he came to the United States to address the U.N. over thirty years ago! Even that long ago, he told us the primary reason behind the Jihadist performance art - if it doesn't happen on your 5 o'clock news, Americans don't see it...and if Americans didn't see it, it didn't happen.

Posted by: Phil at July 2, 2004 2:42 PM

Franze: According to the New Testament, Maulawi Assadullah is in no need of our prayers. He has departed and is with Christ. His family, supporters, and attackers, however, do need our prayers.

Ted: I'd be interested in where you got news of whole mosques secretly converting. I have heard of a number of Muslims becoming Christians over the years (and even met some--Iranian, Arab, South Asian, African-American, Hui)--including some very prominent people. Dr. Abdul Haqq, Billy Graham's chief Indian associate, was the son of a Panjabi Muslim who became a Christian, for example.

Andrew, I'm not sure Islam is all that dynamic. It's proselytizing a lot, but My guess is that in the West, a lot of proselytes to Islam don't last long. It's a phase, and the violence that is so deeply embedded in Islam soon becomes a turn-off.

Posted by: Kepha1 at July 2, 2004 10:26 PM

to kepha1: much of my information about muslim conversions to christianity comes like most information on such subjects from the 10/40 window. (For those who do not already know, the 10/40 Window is an area of the world that contains the largest population of non-Christians in the world. The area extends from 10 degrees to 40 degrees North of the equator, and stretches from North Africa across to China.) it comes from missionaries and clergymen. (my father happens to be both, thus a veritable font of such information.) in the past month i have read an account of 60 baptisms in one night (i do believe it was in pakistan) from a bible study guide that is used weekly by churchgoers (similar to study guides for sunday school). also, fred barnes covers some of these developments in a periodic column in the wall street journal. a couple of months ago, i read an account of his of a christian church in baghdad whose membership has swelled from a handful to over 300 since the fall of saddam. on another very interesting note, i recently read an account of a convention of hundreds of chinese christian missionaries who were preparing to go from china to prosyletize the 10/40 window.

Posted by: ted at July 3, 2004 2:01 PM