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Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: The Islamic State Has Nothing to Do With Islam?

Aug 28, 2014 9:42 am By Robert Spencer

IslamicStateshahadahIn FrontPage I discuss the latest round of denial and obfuscation from Western leaders:

Whatever they may disagree about, Western leaders are in complete agreement about one thing: the new self-styled caliphate, the Islamic State, has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. It’s a comforting, reassuring vision for Western non-Muslims facing a massive influx of Muslim immigrants and jittery about the prospect of Islamic terrorism, except for just one problem: it’s entirely false.

Barack Obama has made it clear: “ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents.” David Cameron intoned: “What we are witnessing is actually a battle between Islam on the one hand and extremists who want to abuse Islam on the other. These extremists, often funded by fanatics living far away from the battlefields, pervert the Islamic faith as a way of justifying their warped and barbaric ideology – and they do so not just in Iraq and Syria but right across the world, from Boko Haram and al-Shabaab to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.”

State Department spokesperson Marie Harf emphasized that Obama meant what he said: “ISIL does not operate in the name of any religion. The president has been very clear about that, and the more we can underscore that, the better.” British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond declared: “[ISIL]’s so-called caliphate has no moral legitimacy; it is a regime of torture, arbitrary punishment and murder that goes against the most basic beliefs of Islam.” The British opposition agrees: Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said that Islamic State “extremists are beheading people and parading their heads on spikes, subjugating women and girls, killing Muslims, Christians and anyone who gets in their way. This is no liberation movement — only a perverted, oppressive ideology that bears no relation to Islam.”

Cooper’s statement was a bit more specific than most others of its kind, and shows up the weakness of all of them. For every Islamic State atrocity she enumerated, there is Qur’anic sanction:

Beheading people: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4).

Subjugating women and girls: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them” (Qur’an 4:34).

Killing Muslims: “They wish that you reject Faith, as they have rejected (Faith), and thus that you all become equal (like one another). So take not Auliya’ (protectors or friends) from them, till they emigrate in the Way of Allah (to Muhammad SAW). But if they turn back (from Islam), take (hold) of them and kill them wherever you find them, and take neither Auliya’ (protectors or friends) nor helpers from them” (Qur’an 4:89).

Killing Christians: “Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by God and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29).

Even if the Islamic State is misinterpreting or misunderstanding these verses, it is doing so in a way that accords with their obvious literal meaning. Yet this denial from Western leaders is nothing new. Obama, for his part, excuses and apologizes for Islam every time a jihadist atrocity affects the U.S. in some way. Of course, most would wave away his denial as a political necessity, and ask why it matters anyway — why does it make any difference whether or not what the Islamic State is doing is in accord with Islamic texts and teachings? Among other reasons, because it will help determine how much support the new caliphate will ultimately get from Muslims worldwide, and will serve as an indicator of how much we can expect to see the actions of the Islamic State replicated by other Muslims elsewhere.

The blizzard of articles and statements from Muslims and non-Muslims, including the leaders of the principal nations of the Western world, assuring us that what the Islamic State is doing has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam are designed to reassure non-Muslims in the West that they need not have any concerns about massive rates of Muslim immigration and the Muslims already living among them: “Not to worry, folks, your friend Ahmad down at the office will never start acting like those nuts in the Islamic State.”

One problem with this is that it prevents authorities from calling upon Muslim communities to teach against the doctrines that the Islamic State acts upon, and to work for genuine reform. And so the door remains open to the possibility that the actions of the Islamic State could be repeated in Western countries. Barack Obama and David Cameron would do far better to confront the Islamic State’s Islamic justifications for its actions and call on Muslims in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere to teach against these understandings of Islam that they ostensibly reject.

But they never do that, and apparently have no interest in doing it. Instead, they foster complacency among the people of the U.S. and Britain. For doing so, they may never pay a price, but their people will almost certainly have to pay, and pay dearly.

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  1. gdich says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 9:55 am

    Thanks Robert for your clear eyed view of the Muslim faith and its’ practitioners. Every act of violence committed in the name of Allah is immediately followed by western protestations that this is only done my a small minority of the population and is not representative of the whole. Let’s take a odd analogy. A blood sample is used to evaluate the composition of all the blood in an organism. We do not drain all the blood, just a sample. Likewise, we extrapolate from the seemingly endless number of incidents: beheadings, explosions (Boston), shootings (Nadal), groups (Hamas, Isis, Boko Harum, etc) that there is something fundamental to this religion and the way it is practiced. The enemy is Islam, its adherents and its practices. We must stop apologizing for these bad actors.

  2. boakai ngombu says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 10:13 am

    if the adherents to the theoretical Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts) do what they do, and; this has nothing to do with Islam, then we of the West should have nothing to fear bringing the fight to them since we would then not be fighting Islam (whatever that is … don’t remember State or POTUS defining it).

  3. PRCS says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 10:34 am

    Said world leaders get away with that nonsense because they are not asked direct questions.

    Do they really NOT know that our Saudi buddies ARE Wahhabists? Do none of their advisers and confidants know that the Saudi constitution consists solely of Qur’an and the Sunnah of Muhammad? What do they think when Saudi executioners behead human beings? Just a quaint local custom?

    As it’s highly improbable that they’re all as ignorant about Islam as they appear, there is obviously an ulterior motive for their feigned cluelessness .

    And that IS disturbing.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Aug 29, 2014 at 4:32 am

      Yes, all of the pieces of this evil plan seem to be coming together, and from various directions, and all to bring about an enslaved world. The U.S. Republic is lost, possibly forever. I believe that the situation we find ourselves in is way too far gone to be corrected at the ballot box. The trap is about ready to close – on many fronts. And then there’s Syria – and now Iraq redux. This calls into question not just the tolerance of enemies among us – but the very insistence to bring those enemies among us. Why?

      There is something more sinister going on here than meets the eye, not just for the U.S., but for ALL of what we would still like to think of as the “Free World”. In addition to the pressure of the imminent collapse of the economies of the various sovereign nations of the world, NO leaders could possibly be as obtuse as those in Great Britain, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and throughout the E.U., than to constantly proclaim (more stridently than ever, it seems) after each successive atrocity perpetrated by muslim jihadis that: “This has nothing to do with Islam!” despite constant and repeated proof to the contrary, even from the mouths of the jihadis themselves. No, this is willful blindness; and it seems to me that it has a purpose – one that does not bode well for the overwhelming majority of us.

      I believe the muzzies are being used by a handful of very powerful individuals, just as the Bolsheviks were used back in 1917; and just as the Nazis were used back in the late 1930s – just to name 2 examples. This handful of super ambitious men have used people – even masses of people – as catalysts to achieve certain “states of conflict”, if you will. That makes it easier to manipulate other masses of people in conflict against them.

      I keep thinking of that damned “Hegelian Dialectic” in these situations: Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis. Remember, like Marx and Engels, these would-be “Rulers of the World” have an “absolute ideal” that they wish to bring about. Whether some want to call it “Socialism”, others “Communism”, others “Islamism”, and still others a “New World Order”. (And before you tell me to take out stock in tinfoil, just bear with me a while longer.)

      Hegel states that “Because every ‘synthesis’ is the ‘thesis’ of a new dialectic, social change is guaranteed. He also maintains that this process will continue, allowing history to unfold and to “progress” until the “ABSOLUTE IDEAL” – the ultimate “synthesis” – so “perfect” that it gives rise to no “antithesis”, is achieved. “Absolute ideal”??? In whose mind? “The ultimate synthesis”??? By whose standards?

      Very good questions.

      If we might let our minds entertain the idea that a few super-ambitious, very intelligent, extremely rich, and very powerful men very much want this “New World Order” to be ruled over by them – the handful of “elite” – with a larger gang of “tools” who have made themselves useful to this elite to help control the peons (that’s us, by the way – the peons), then this whole idea doesn’t seem too far-fetched.

      History has shown that there have always been those who have wanted to “rule” the world. Superior ability breeds superior ambition. However, they have never been able to pull off the “planetary bargain” by the usual means – that is, by aggression and war. Many have tried, and they have all failed. Since then, some few have figured it out – that the usual means [war – by itself] will never work. That the only way to pull off this “planetary bargain” is to control the world’s monetary systems – preferably to merge these systems into one “world-wide” system. (Think IMF, the World Bank and the BIS – Bank for International Settlements – as interim phases.)

      And just to shine a light on the type of individual Georg Hegel was, let me give you a quote: “…the State ‘has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State… for the right of the world spirit is above all special privileges.'” This was Author/historian William Shirer, (quoting Georg Hegel) in Shirer’s book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959, page 144).

      That certainly doesn’t sound like the thoughts of the “everyday” sort of people – you and me, for instance – that make up the bulk of the world’s population, does it? In fact, that line of thought is anathema to those of us who value freedom. That sort of thought seems to come from a megalo-maniacal, uber-narcissistic personality. (Islam’s so-called “prophet”, Mohammed, instantly comes to mind.) Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were of the same mind as Hegel; and in fact relied upon Hegel’s theory to back up their economic theory of communism.

      Remember, communism was never about “share the wealth”. That was the con-job served up to the masses to make socialism/communism sound appealing to them. It was always about control the wealth; and, by extension, the people. And that is why socialism/communism always seemed to attract the strangest bedfellows, like the Rockefellers and George Soros types for instance.

      Bottom line, this is all about power – something that some people desire above all things. What I call “normal” minds (that’s us peons) cannot really understand this lust for power. I certainly can’t. Most of us have all we can do to live our own lives without wanting to control others’ lives.

      The ultimate purpose of this “New World Order” Conspiracy (for want of a better, less maligned, word) is power. There are some who desire this even more than material goods, although the two frequently go together.
      “Rose Kennedy (the wife of Joseph Kennedy) knew that the man she loved loved a power beyond the power of money. He wanted the power of government, and he would have it.” Pearl Buck, author of The Kennedy Women.

      The Conspiracy, then, needs conspirators, and it is logical to ask why illustrious men of wealth and fortune would join such an enterprise.

      “The answer is quite the reverse of the question: These men (involved with the Conspiracy) became illustrious primarily because they were part of the Conspiracy.” Blair Coan, author of The Red Web.

      So those involved do not become rich and/or illustrious and then join the Conspiracy; they become rich and illustrious because they are members of the Conspiracy.

      But what is their motive? What prompts men to seek wealth and position?

      “When a person has all the money he needs, his goal becomes power.” Former Congressman John Schmitz.

      “There are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are… love of power and love of money…. When united… they have the most violent effects.” Benjamin Franklin

      However, power itself has a corrupting influence on those who seek it. In an oft-quoted truth, Lord Acton explained power thus: “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

      The obsession and lust for power, like the obsession with money, like the obsession with material possessions, like the obsession with sex, like the obsession with drugs or booze, like the obsession with what your neighbor might have that you do not, are all false idols. So it comes as no surprise that those who seek power will be corrupted by it. They will be willing to intentionally cause depressions, revolutions, and wars in order to further their desire for more power. This corrupting nature of the very pursuit of power explains why the moral mind of the individual who neither desires power over others, or understands the desire for such power, cannot fathom why power-seekers would want to create human misery through wars, depressions, and revolutions.

      In other words, the conspirators (those few ultra-rich, ultra-ambitious men – and sometimes women) are successful because the moral citizen (you and I) cannot accept the conclusion that other individuals would actually wish to commit incredibly destructive acts against their fellow citizens.

      Another power seeker, the Russian anarchist Bakunin, explained that this process of corruption even affected those dedicated to freedom, who were given power to protect the powerless. He wrote that: “… the possession of power transformed into a tyrant even the most devoted friend of liberty.”

      “Power is the end. What other delight is there but to enjoy the sheer sense of control? Let me see any other motive in the people who command.” Richard J. Whalen, author of The Founding Father, speaking of Joseph Kennedy.

      So the motive of the Conspirators has been identified: It is Power!

      (With thanks to Ralph Epperson, author of The Unseen Hand, An Introduction to the Conspiratorial View of History.)

      Beyond what I’ve just described is an unseen, spiritual dimension to all of this. After all, which of God’s angelic creatures wanted power above all – even above an eternity spent with its loving Creator? You guessed it, Lucifer/Satan. Although created perfect by God, that creature’s pride and lust for power – to be God – was a choice that was instantaneous and irrevocable; and condemned that archangel, and those angels who also rebelled against God, to an eternity of emptiness and despair.

      That pride turned into a hatred that was so perverse and all-consuming that no Hollywood imagery could even begin to depict the sheer ugliness and evil of those fallen angels that are known generically as the demonic. If God is all that is good, creative, beautiful, loving, compassionate, kind, and all things we see as positive; Satan, and all of the other fallen angels, became just the opposite.

      Think of beings which still retained all of their angelic powers with which God created them, but were evil, destructive, ugly, hateful and hating, filled with malice towards God and all of His creation, who were – and are – everything negative that we could ever imagine. These are creatures perverse and perverting. You can think of the demonic as a living NOT.

      That is something extremely difficult to imagine with our limited, material minds. But these malicious beings have a certain amount of influence upon us and our world – but only as much as Almighty God permits, and as much as we allow. The usual way we humans get into trouble with the demonic is through sin. Yes, personal sin. What is sin? Sin is when we, due to our own fallen nature, prefer the pride of our own erroneous choices in preference to what God has established for our own best interests.

      Remember the seven deadly sins? Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed and Sloth.

      Their opposites, the way that God chooses for us to live in order to be pleasing to Him are: Humility, Kindness, Abstinence, Chastity, Patience, Liberality and Diligence. By ourselves, we cannot hope to live in the way God sees as best for us. It is only through the deliberate act of our free will to choose to love God, and through His grace of the Holy Spirit to prefer His will over our own – as our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, did – can we ever hope to be pleasing to God.

      Fighting against us in our journey upon this earth is Satan and his ilk. Since the demonic hate all of God’s creation – especially us, God’s children; and do not want us to be with our Heavenly Father when our time on earth is done, they try to tempt us, to turn us away from God (just as Satan tried – unsuccessfully – to tempt Jesus Christ to turn away from The Father).

      Many of these demonic creatures have an intelligence which no human on earth can hope to match; and they will try whatever works to accomplish their evil purpose. If one of our weaknesses happens to be for love of money, that is how they might tempt us. If one of our weaknesses happens to be a jealous nature, that is how they may tempt us. If one of our weaknesses is a love of promiscuous sex for pleasure, that could be how they might tempt us. The ways to “get at” us are many. We all have weaknesses.

      And then of course, there’s that old favorite, pride. I’m not talking here about a “healthy” pride, like the pride that we might take in our family, or the pride that we should take in our work. I’m talking about unhealthy pride: hubris, arrogance – that pride that seeks to elevate the creature above the Creator.

      That’s a dangerous and spiritually deadly pride. And that is the type of pride that is manifest in a lust for power. (That same pride that Eve succumbed to when she bought into the serpent’s lie: “You shall be as God!” Hey, why not? It was the same pride that every one of the demonic angels felt when they rebelled against God.)

      This is how each and every one of our lives can become intertwined – or hopelessly ensnared – with the demonic. Jesus Christ said that: “The man who sins becomes a slave of sin.” And Satan is a cruel master. We will find that the longer we remain in sin, the harder it is to escape. Our consciences become deadened; and we no longer hear the voice of God warning us away from the deadly path we have chosen.

      Unfortunately, some choose to remain upon that path of death until death takes us from this life. And if we die unrepentant, we cannot hope to be with our Heavenly Father for eternity, for it is we who have chosen to separate ourselves from His love, not the other way around. There are many who are on that path; and there are some who even revel in it because they have chosen to embrace the “prince” of this world, Satan, and all that he has offered. But it is a lie.

      Whatever temporal pleasures, riches, power or other enticements have been offered are fleeting. (The fool has said in his heart “There is no God!” or worse: “I am my own God; there is no other!” You couldn’t be more wrong.)

      But do not despair. All is not lost. While we yet live, we have a way out. Jesus Christ paid the price for our sins that we could never ever hope to pay. All we need to do is to first and foremost acknowledge who and what we are – sinners – and that by ourselves we cannot hope to “perfect” ourselves. Acknowledge Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour whose love saved us from the punishment we deserve. With a loving, repentant and grateful heart, thank Him who took our punishment upon Himself. Tell Him we want – we choose – to follow Him; and to please keep us from sin.

      Try using the prayer that Jesus Himself taught us: “Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory. Forever. Amen.” We must accept Christ’s victory – and live it.

  4. PRCS says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 10:56 am

    And here’s John McCain reinforcing Clueless Hannity’s ongoing assertions about nonexistent “radical” Islam:

    http://video.foxnews.com/v/3752458020001/sen-john-mccain-on-the-absence-of-american-leadership/#sp=show-clips

  5. SteveInSC says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 11:40 am

    I guess, according to the Obama Administration, ISIS stands for “Irreligious State of Iraq and Syria.”

  6. Truth says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 11:52 am

    Obama and Cameron are a couple of stupid idiots who refuse to say the words “Muslim Terrorist”. I quit listening to their opinions years ago.

  7. Jay Boo says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 12:04 pm

    Obama said
    “murdering them when they can, for no other reason than they practice a different religion.”
    I misinterpreted this as Obama saying ISIL committed murder because ISLI practices a different religion. (that was too much to hope for) as Obama made even clearer in the following sentence

    “They declared their ambition to commit genocide against an ancient people. So ISIL speaks for no religion”

    At least Obama made it generic and said “no religion”
    I guess even Obama was too embarrassed to say that this does not represent Islam out loud.

  8. Mirren10 says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    ” … the new self-styled caliphate, the Islamic State, has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam.”

    Votes, votes, votes ! the mohammedan votes will allow me to keep my snout in the trough …

  9. Julian says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 12:49 pm

    You are correct that the life-line of the global Islamic propagation is its oil export, particularly from Saudi Arabia. However, since jihad proceeds in stages, I think the counter-jihad movement must proceed in stages as well.

    If the majority of the global population is hell-bent on the idea that Islam is a religion of peace despite the obvious voluminously barbaric instructions to present-day muslims in the Qur’an and the clear undertaking of the barbaric practices in reality by muslims daily, what chance is there of convincing westerners to boycott Saudi oil given that these same westerners already have the flawed disposition that the Saudis are following an inherently peaceful religion. I understand your frustration and it seems that there is a simply bottomless pit of corruption in the US, the UK and other PC-controlled western governments that revels in complete self-hatred and wanton self-destruction.

    I’m afraid cutting the oil export would be easier said than done. To convince the brain-dead psychos, Obama, Cameron et al that Islam is a religion of destruction and misery for infidels would be 1,000,000 times easier than to convince them to cut off clean oil supplies from Saudi Arabia, and the former isn’t making much headway.

  10. Malik says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 1:17 pm

    what About Bible ?
    Kill People Who Don’t Listen to Priests
    Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of
    the judge or of the priest who represents the
    LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil
    must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy
    17:12 NLT)
    Kill Witches
    You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus
    22:17 NAB)
    Kill Homosexuals
    “If a man lies with a male as with a women,
    both of them shall be put to death for their
    abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives.”
    (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
    Kill Fortunetellers
    A man or a woman who acts as a medium or
    fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning;
    they have no one but themselves to blame for
    their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
    Death for Hitting Dad
    Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be
    put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
    Death for Cursing Parents
    1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp
    will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs
    20:20 NAB)
    2) All who curse their father or mother must be
    put to death. They are guilty of a capital
    offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
    Death for Adultery
    If a man commits adultery with another
    man’s wife, both the man and the woman must
    be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
    Death for Fornication
    A priest’s daughter who loses her honor by
    committing fornication and thereby dishonors
    her father also, shall be burned to death.
    (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
    Death to Followers of Other Religions
    Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord
    alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
    Kill Nonbelievers
    They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord,
    the God of their fathers, with all their heart and
    soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord,
    the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether
    small or great, whether man or woman. (2
    Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
    Kill False Prophets
    If a man still prophesies, his parents, father
    and mother, shall say to him, “You shall not live,
    because you have spoken a lie in the name of the
    Lord.” When he prophesies, his parents, father
    and mother, shall thrust him through.
    (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)

    • ECAW says

      Aug 28, 2014 at 2:56 pm

      What about it?

      • Jay Boo says

        Aug 29, 2014 at 7:58 am

        Malik misquotes
        Malik paraphrases

        Malik ignores also the fact (that Anon points out below)
        “The Old Testament “violent” verses are a RECORD of what happened, not instruction to current-day followers”

        • ECAW says

          Aug 30, 2014 at 5:54 am

          Yeah, I know. My comment was an attempt at anti-whataboutery.

    • Anon says

      Aug 28, 2014 at 8:08 pm

      1. “what About Bible” [sic], gee, could anyone be more abstract. 2. Christians do not follow the Old Testament 3. The Old Testament “violent” verses are a RECORD of what happened, not instruction to current-day followers. 4. Show me where more than 100 MILLION followers of the verses you mentioned, are an organized global political threat to all nations, with traceable evidence, as in this thread http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/australia-muslim-arrested-at-airport-headed-for-islamic-state-and-jihad/comment-page-1#comment-1109755.

    • Anon says

      Aug 28, 2014 at 8:24 pm

      Islam is the only major “religion” that HASN’T gone through a reformation. It never will, because it’s texts and founder(s) are rooted in arrogance. In addition, “moderate” Muslims are not taking the lead in speaking against Islamic extremism, are not taking the lead in stopping ISIS, are not taking the lead in stopping radical teachings. NON-MUSLIMS have been doing the work of awareness and stopping physical Jihad.

      • PRCS says

        Aug 29, 2014 at 11:59 am

        ““moderate” Muslims are not taking the lead in speaking against Islamic extremism”

        1. We really need to stop using phrases like radical, radicalized, extremist, extremism, etc., for they truly do infer (and reinforce in the minds of the uninformed) that “moderate” Muslims follow a “moderate” version of Islam.

        2. They never will take that lead. To do so would be to challenge what the Big Book says; and they know what their fellow Muslims would do to them if they did.

        I personally think Zhudi Jasser is full of crap and have no respect for him, but he does suffer the insults of Muslim clerics for his views.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Aug 28, 2014 at 11:50 pm

      Malik, Jews don’t have a plan to impose Jewish law on the whole world, and never did, and even if they did have such a plan, there are only about fifteen million of them, so they couldn’t pull it off.

      Islam does have such a plan, and always has had such a plan since the death of Muhammad and before that, to impose a dictatorial system of Islamic law on the whole world and to reduce non-Muslims to second class citizens. Then if non-Muslims don’t engage in constant acts of deference to Muslims, the lives of the non-Muslims become “halal.” In Islamically ruled countries, Muslims prey on Christians, because Christian testimony is rejected in Islamic courts, so the Christian cannot defend himself.

      Muslims are just the violent, arrogant bullies of the world, and they will be crushed eventually. Someone, perhaps God, will eventually stand up to the Muslim world, and grind it into the dirt. Prepare for your destiny, Malik. It is only a matter of time, unless you don’t really support Muhammad and Islamic law, in which case, who knows, you might get off easy.

    • John Stefan Obeda says

      Aug 29, 2014 at 5:19 pm

      Mr. Malik, If the true God wants to give certain commandments to His called people, His nation, the children of Abraham, He is free to do so. That’s His prerogative entirely. Those commandments you list are not given to other nations. God insisted that the nation which He has created be different than the other nations of the world that do evil deeds which the true and only God hated. In fact, God has the 100% right and authority to tell His people to exterminate an entire nation because of the terrible sins of that nation and, then, He gave the land to the children of Abraham as He had promised to do. Now, concerning the 10 commandments He has given not only to the children of Abraham, but to you and to me and to all 1.3 billion Islamists in the world and to all the Jews and the Gentiles and to all the 8 billion in the world. “You shall not murder” “You shall not commit adultery” “You shall not steal” “You shall have no other gods before Me.” Those and the others of the 10 commandments which I am not listing God has given to every human being. All of us, therefore, must repent of our sins and come to Jesus for the forgiveness that we need.

  11. jewdog says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    Ah, now I get it. ISIL has nothing to do with metaphorical Islam. They are just a bunch of unsubtle philistines who lack the sophistication to see that the Islamic texts are entirely allegorical, spinning Grimm-like tales of long ago Arabia for the cognoscenti. Would that it were so.

  12. Bellman says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 2:05 pm

    Did the Spanish Inquisition have anything to do with Christianity? The answer is sadly yes. This dark part of history is repeating itself in a younger religion. Only this time, they have bullets, and bombs.

    Western Leaders are trying to be peace makers, hoping not to lose control over public demand that something should be done.

    If the Islamic State is a cancer within Islam, a religion that already is intolerant of other religions, then it must also be *not* be tolerated.
    It *must* be removed, otherwise, like a patient in denial about their spreading cancer, the day will come when there will be no moderates in Islam, only an ideology that mandates convert or be killed, as is actually happening to those poor souls at the mercy of the Islamic State today.

    History may look back at western leaders, and judge them.. for failing to protect us when they had the chance..
    what are they thinking? the Islamic State is a fad? it will stop? It will suddenly say we can all live peacefully? NO.
    As it is said…. ALL THAT IT TAKES FOR EVIL TO FLOURISH IS FOR GOOD LEADERS TO DO NOTHING.
    And that is * exactly* what they, our charismatic, well informed, powerful leaders are doing..as if they are under some spell.. telling us the approaching Tsunami too far off to see as yet, so it is not coming..
    We are watching this unfold right under our noses…and it is horrible.

    Do our leaders think our children, who are our future, are not worth protecting? if and when the shoulders of the Islamic State and the West rub, and then something awful happens…are they *then * going to say..Oh no, This is terrible, we have to do have to do something from a military standpoint.
    On what moral ground would they ask /tell us they are now going to do something..

    As a first principle, I want us to advocate peace..
    but this IS group is not about dialogue, sanctions, discussion..
    there is no room for you or I in this world if they have anything to say about it.

    These people have beheaded children… !
    crucified men and women.
    let that sink in, when simultaneously, our leaders are saying..hush..its alright..

    Not because you cant see the Tsunami coming means it isn’t there..
    And when you can see it,
    It might be too late.

    Some people have discussed the concept of the End of Days, and the idea of a great deceiver..
    Our Leaders are actually paralyzed by the soothing voice of some deceivers… “they ( The Islamic State ) are harmless, they have nothing to do with Islam. Let us come closer..”

    maybe a different image…Can you imagine someone with a sword behind their back in their right hand, coaxing a small goat to come closer, with the left hand?

    this has happened to us before…with terrible consequences, and our world was changed forever..
    yet again, today, our leaders are only looking at the left hand trying to soothe us that nothing is wrong.. yes, come closer..moderate Islam says.. we wont hurt you.
    If that is true, then Why haven’t the rich ” Moderate” Islamic countries made it their business to sharply deal with IS?
    Its because it would suit them to rule us as well, and dictate how we live, after the dust has cleared. they are just also biding their time..

    Please, we need peace, but our leaders need to have the courage to first see IS for what it is.. the sword waiting for us, and our children.

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 29, 2014 at 8:04 am

      We might wish to give Islam some credit where due.
      Didn’t the Spanish Inquisition happened just after expelling Muslims?

  13. nacazo says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    Maybe if we refer to it as the ISLAM-ic state, they will notice that it has everything to do with ISLAM?

  14. Sophia says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    Yesterday I read an article on a famous extreme leftist italian site in which was written that the Quran has nothing to do with killing and indeed gives “extreme value” to human life. Always according to the leftist moron linking Isil with Islam is like linking Nazism to Christianity!!
    I wrote a detailed comment to contrast those historical and theological bullshit, but I have been censored!! These are the libertarian media!!
    They despise Christianity and foster Islam.

  15. Marcos Ribeiro says

    Aug 29, 2014 at 6:50 am

    When the so called ‘Arab Spring’ begun, I also had the prevailing innocent vision of Islam as a non-violent religion. It was too much absurd for me the existence of a violent religion. But I followed very closely the Libyan and Egypt revolution and about the first 10 months of the civil war in Syria, and some facts did not fit with my innocent vision. I felt the need to know more about Islam and, them, I begun to understand facts that were not understandable before.

    Now, it is very clear to me the need for the West to confront Islam more directly, what means the need to confront Muslims and to defy them to take position on some very specific and very weak aspects of their faith. But I believe that this will also require some hard work of teaching Islam to the Western public itself. The same knowledge I got by myself, should be spread more freely. Reactions are foreseeable, because the reality of the Islam doctrine is unexpected indeed, surprises indeed. I am happy to discover this jihadwatch.org website. Congratulations.

    Despite obvious, I want to highlight that the need to confront Islam has noting with hate of Muslims; quite the opposite, it is as a favor to them, to help them to free themselves from the totalitarian ideology that slave them with a system of social control and brain washing that includes 5 prayers by day and that directly asks them to surrender to it, to slave themselves to it. Besides, naturally, of being a healthy act of defense of our best values.

    • Susan Borden says

      Aug 30, 2014 at 3:16 pm

      “The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property as child, wife or concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam is globally recognized as a barbaric retrograde totalitarian force born of sociopathic brigandry & self serving fictions and utterly extinguished and banned from every free and democratic land.
      If we do not act now while success is sure, a time will come when we are forced to fight when insurmountable odds and loss of life are certain; or enter into complete submission and slavery to Islamic Sharia Theocracy.”
      -Winston Churchill, TheRiverWar, 1899; TheAngel, 2011

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