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‘Do the Muslims Love Their Children Too?’: Reapplying Sting’s Cold War anthem to a new war

Jun 13, 2015 4:34 am By Ralph Sidway

 

In Europe and America, 

There’s a growing feeling of hysteria…

. . . But what may save us, me and you,

Is if the [Muslims] love their children too.

—Adapted from ‘Russians’, by Sting, 1985.

 

 

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of Sting’s solo career with his critically acclaimed, jazz-inflected hit album, Dream Of The Blue Turtles. Included on this radical departure from the musical stylings of Sting’s former band, The Police, was the sobering meditation, Russians. (Complete lyrics here. Watch his live performance at the 1986 Grammys here.)

Although I disagree with some of Sting’s political sensibilities (after all, Reagan won the Cold War), his use of a simple, rhetorical question was most compelling. (Of course, the Russians love their children!)

In any case, today, thirty years after Russians was released, we seem to have entered into a new phase of a different war, a very, very old war, with ominous clouds on the horizon. 

Ours is a time of fitful contradictions and spasms of policy incoherence, as the United States, the UK, and the West vacillate between outright denial of the threat of Islam, and ill advised alliances with the very forces seeking to destroy us. Sorely lacking is a clear-headed appraisal of and strategy to meet the mortal threat posed by a globally emboldened, militant Islam, which, after fourteen hundred years, is once again 100% determined to conquer us, through immigration, birth rates, lawfare, politics, stealth, and conversion when necessary, by terrorism wherever possible, and by open warfare whenever the odds are in their favor. 

No doubt you’ve seen the projections: England will be a Muslim majority country in a couple of decades. Europe too. The growth of Muslim populations in major European cities has led to sharia “no-go zones,” where police seldom venture, and from where Muslim youths routinely riot over the slightest offense. Last Spring it was Sweden which burned. In 2005, the outskirts of Paris. This year (so far) it’s Denmark. 

Generational Assimilation among Western Muslims?

 We were told that multiculturalism was the way of the future in England, Europe, Canada and America. That any mild inconveniences experienced because of new (Muslim) immigrants having difficulties adjusting to Western paradigms would smooth away as their children grew to maturity, adopting wholeheartedly the Western worldview of prosperity, freedom, tolerance and congeniality.

Rather, the reverse seems to be happening, as numerous reports indicate second and third generation Muslim immigrants are committing far more crimes (218% more in Denmark) and are far more inclined to join the global jihad in Syria than their supposedly less-acclimated parents. There are whole French and German-speaking units in ISIS (The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the most bloodthirsty jihadist faction among the Syrian “rebels”) made up primarily of second and third generation descendants of Arab immigrants and Muslim converts.

In the Netherlands, 65% of Moroccan Muslim youths have been arrested by police, and a third of that group have been arrested five or more times. 

There are reports, too, of whole Muslim families joining the jihad, as in the case of a British Muslim father who took his five sons across Europe and Turkey in order to wage jihad with them in Syria. 

Problems within Muslim Culture?
Doesn’t this reveal something about Islamic culture, the message being propagated via mosques, books, videos, and, of course, through core Islamic texts, including the Quran, the Hadiths and the Sira?  Devotion to the example of Muhammad’s victories in battle, the all important Muslim self-image of Islamic superiority over all other religions, supposedly proven by its conquering of the Byzantine Christian Empire in 1453 (celebrated annually by “secular” Turkey), coupled with disdain for the lax and soft European, British and American cultures, breeds contempt for the West and a sense of rightful entitlement.

And that’s just the West.

Media Watch Groups report on Global Muslim views

There are shocking video reports out of the Middle East of Palestinian, Egyptian, Lebanese and Syrian TV programs and videos geared expressly towards children, which portrays Christians and Jews as sub-human, openly calling for their slaughter, and prepping Muslim children for suicide operations. A quick list of examples follows.


Syria
—
  • A Sunni Muslim sheikh called on children aged 5-12 to “slaughter all Christians for being infidels.” 
  • A child, prodded by the Free Syrian Army, cutting the heads off of Syrian men for apparently being loyal to the Assad government.
  • The FSA making another child hack a man’s head off—again, to cries of Allahu Akbar.
  • Young children in the town of Ras al-Ayn are shown playing “Behead the Enemy.” 
  • An early 2014 video by ISIS shows young children (under six years old), swearing allegiance to ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, and holding and cocking rifles.
 Pakistan —
  • A devout Muslim father handed over his three young sons to the leader of Jamaat-ut-Dawah (the parent Islamic organization behind Lashkar-e-Taiba, the jihadist group which committed the 2008 Mumbai massacres which killed 166 people), saying: “I hand over my three young sons to you for jihad (holy war). They will be now on your hands in your struggle.”
Hamas trains children and teens to be suicide martyrs, kill Jews —
  • The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported earlier this year on Hamas training 13,000 teens to emulate Muslim “suicide martyrs.” 
  • Palestinian Media Watch reports on the Hamas children’s program Tomorrow’s Pioneers, with a child host teaching another child to “shoot all the Jews,” while a giant happy-faced bumblebee nods cheerfully. 
  • The Muslim “Mickey Mouse” teaches terrorism to Muslim kids. Per the news report: After seeing how the Islamist terror group had appropriated her father’s work to encourage genocidal hatred, Diana Disney Miller – daughter of Walt Disney – voiced her disgust to the New York Daily News: “Indoctrinating children like this, teaching them to be evil. The world loves children and this is just going against the grain of humanity… What we’re dealing with here is pure evil.”

Egypt —

  • A Muslim child preacher cites the infamous genocidal antisemitic hadith, calling for Muslim extermination of the Jewish people. 
  • Muslim children profess their eagerness to become martyrs through fighting the kuffar. 
Palestinian Authority —
  • A Muslim mother lauds her three sons as “martyrs,” who were killed in attacks against civilians in Israel, and lamented that she did not have one hundred sons to die attacking Israelis.
  • A UN-sponsored camp for Palestinian children, supported by U.S. tax dollars and supposedly neutral, teaches antisemitism, war, jihad and martyrdom to take back Palestine from “the Jews,” who are compared to wolves.
 Lebanon —
  • Hezbollah “indoctrinates youth with messages of hate and murder.” 
  • Hezbollah’s brainwashing includes everything from “songs praising martyrs to support for jihad-like movements and glorifications of death. The organization’s goal is clear: to inspire children to become terrorists.”
 Dagestan —
  • In the Muslim homeland of the Boston Marathon jihad murderers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, children are imitating their parents by filming their own jihad videos.
 The Global Muslim Village: “Unborn Martyrs” being Prepared to wage Jihad
Hillary Clinton famously wrote, “It takes a village,” yet there seems to be a significant and growing movement within the global Muslim village, which raises its children on a steady diet of hatred of non-Muslims coupled with an eagerness to “slay and be slain” (Quran 9:111), so as to gain Allah’s favor and inherit paradise. This Islamic indoctrination into a culture of death and murder begins in utero, as seen in this video example from the 2012 Muslim Day Parade in New York City, where one woman, an official speaker for the event, exclaimed “We have the unborn martyrs in our wombs.”

FGM, Child Marriage, and Honor Killing

These are merely some representative examples of the impetus to jihad, death and murder in Islamic culture. Time and space do not allow us to cite the pervasive Muslim practices of female genital mutilation, child marriage, and honor killings, all codified in Islamic scriptures and law.

The situation of Muslim girls is perhaps the most dire of any segment of the global population, with the probable exception of Christian girls in Islamic countries such as Egypt, Syria, Pakistan and Nigeria, where incidents of rape, abductions for ransom, and forced conversions are widespread. How a culture treats the most vulnerable members of its community reveals a great deal about that culture. Islam’s treatment of women from infancy to adulthood is abhorrent and misogynistic in the extreme, and speaks volumes.

The Same Biology?

Sting’s repeating thought in Russians is the secular/scientific call for peace:

We share the same biology, Regardless of ideology…

 Clever rhyme, which both Christian and atheist could find at least some solace in. Religious or secular, one can pretty much acknowledge the innate human impulse to life, to live life, and to wish to hand down to one’s children the opportunity to live their life, and enable the same for others. America is founded on the belief that all people are entitled to “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Yet it seems there is a frighteningly powerful counter-impulse permeating and afflicting the Muslim world. In Islam, death has both practical purpose and divine sanction. The life of a non-Muslim is not sacred, as elaborate religious laws make clear in prescribing penalties for murder. And there is no penalty for a parent, grandparent, sibling or close relative for the killing of a Muslim woman or child who is perceived as bringing shame upon the family (the Muslim phenomenon of honor killings). Similarly, a Muslim apostate may be killed by any member of the umma without penalty; they are discharging Allah’s judgment.

The indoctrination of each successive generation of children in Muslim cultures to hate the infidel, prepare for warfare, bloodshed, murder and suicide missions, offers little hope for the world. To an indoctrinated Muslim, the kuffar are unclean, even sub-human. We only “share the same biology” if we embrace the Islamic ideology.  Biology alone is not a universal standard in Islam.

Do the Muslims love their children too?

Perhaps I’m not alone in approaching this question in a non-rhetorical manner. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair recently dared to tackle the subject quite a bit more directly (albeit without mentioning children), urging an international alliance against Islamism, and defining it as “the greatest threat facing the world today.”
But could an alliance of non-Muslim nations expect to roll back fourteen centuries of entrenched Islamic culture based on unalterable sacred scripture, which makes hatred of the infidel and the slaughter of Christians and Jews permissible, even obligatory?

As we ponder the failure of the West to assimilate and rehabilitate second and third generation Muslim immigrants, as they riot and become career criminals at home, or run off to join the Islamic State and the Global Jihad, breathlessly eager to then bring the jihad back to America, Canada, Britain and Europe to advance the worldwide caliphate, the answer to Sting’s once rhetorical question seems neither pleasant nor hopeful.

But what may save us, me and you, is if the Muslims love their children too.

Whether the Muslims love their children or not may be a secondary question. We might rather ask, “Do we love our own children enough to defend them and their future?”
How we choose to answer that question will determine our response to Islam, and whether our children will have a future or not.

Ralph Sidway is an Orthodox Christian researcher and writer, and author of Facing Islam: What the Ancient Church has to say about the Religion of Muhammad. He operates the Facing Islam blog.

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  1. JIMJFOX says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 5:55 am

    LOVE for Allah is the prime directive of Islam; all other love is secondary.
    The approximate ‘LOVE’ pecking order is—

    1. Allah
    2. Mohammad
    [Arguably, 1=2]
    3. Koran
    4. Sharia’ah
    5. Ummah
    6. Parent-child
    7. Wife-husband
    8. Husband- wife/goat/camel/sheep
    9. Siblings
    10. Relatives
    11. Clan
    12. Tribe

    • Atikva says

      Jun 13, 2015 at 11:33 am

      This is submission, not love. Not long ago, a muslim angrily rebuked the author of an internet comment because he had talked about “God our Father”; he said that God was not to be consider as a father, but as an entity to be feared.

      • JIMJFOX says

        Jun 14, 2015 at 9:25 am

        Islam has a very strange idea of what love is; like much in the Religion of Peace, western concepts are anathema to the believers. We have a hard time grasping such concepts as “we love death [for allah] as you love life”

      • abad says

        Jun 14, 2015 at 7:53 pm

        Submission is correct; there is no such thing as love in Islam. Submission steals the very spark of life from a person; why do you think all Muslims have those “dead eyes”, lifeless, no sparkle at all in them? The eyes are the window to the soul. It is like they are robots commanded by their Allah to kill, kill, kill, destroy, destroy, destroy. All Muslims understand is hate, kill, destroy. No life value at all.

  2. nicu says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 6:35 am

    No , they don’t !

    They only breed to take over our countries – girls are only sex objects and boys the next generation of terrorists !

    And yes , Arabs ( Morocco , Syria , Lebanese ) commit the most crimes in our countries even act like Mafia : so called ” family clans ” — many of them are Kurdish !

  3. sahani says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 9:18 am

    1.3 billions local convert to ISlam have no love for their own roots ., no love for the nation they live, no love for the God’s creation . All convert to ISlam can be termed as Slaves of Islamic culture and will do anything to please saudi masters creators of ISlam .When an islamic preacher says a muslim man can eat his own wife when hungry is limit of foolish ness and barberisum.

  4. epistemology says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 9:24 am

    It’s funny, I’ve been quoting Sting’s song all along. I always said the Russians love their children and we share the same biology. But that doesn’t apply to muzzies. We’ve got nothing in common with these hate monsters. I remember Samuel P. Huntington writing in the famous “Clash of Civilizations” that an American capitalist and a Russian apparatchik could get on fine talking to each other as they speak the same ideological language, only draw different conclusions from their propositions. But this can’t be applied to muzzies, all they can think of is kill the infidels and especially the Jews.

    As for loving their children the cry “We’re bearing the unborn martyrs” answers that question to the full extent. Nobody who loves their children wants them to die.

  5. Jeff says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 9:35 am

    Seems overwhelming but in a Christian context, fully predictable. All these things and more are prophesized. Yet, as Paul says in Romans 8 – “Nothing can separate us from the love of God.”

    The best thing that can be done is to know the truth of Jesus Christ, and everything else will be just fine. It will not be a bed of roses without thorns though. Jesus’ own disciples we’re martyred, with the exception of John.

    Before Jesus crucifixion he said, as recorded in John 16:33
    “…in the world you shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world.”

    DO NOT DESPAIR!

    • Ralph Sidway says

      Jun 13, 2015 at 10:44 am

      Essential observations, Jeff. Thank you! You may like to read my “Christian Epilogue” to this article on my own blog: http://facingislam.blogspot.com/2015/05/do-muslims-love-their-children-too.html

      Kind Regards,
      Ralph

      • Jeff says

        Jun 13, 2015 at 2:37 pm

        Thanks Ralph and yes, we must not be distracted.

        There is nothing more important than continuing to grow in Christ. I look out into the world and see those looking for justice, looking for solutions while, full well knowing the game is Already won.

        Jesus’ said on the cross that “it is finished.”. These tough times come for a purpose. God wants us to choose life over death and he is still at the door, waiting.

        He will not coerce us, force our hand. He’s there as a lamp in darkness. We need but pick up the torch. We need his light in this darkening world and he wants us to choose the light and life of Christ. What we do with it is share it, like you have, as I have, and we continue to do so until He comes back with a SHOUT.

        He will.

  6. Angemon says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 10:01 am

    Of course muslims love their children. Not as much as they love allah, though. If they didn’t love their children then they wouldn’t teach them to die for allah, would they?

    As every once in a while we’re remembered of, they love death more than we love life.

  7. Atikva says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 11:22 am

    “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” 1 Corinthians, 13:4-7

    This is what “love” (from the Latin caritas, the ability to put oneself’s in somebody else’ place) is in our Judeo-Christian civilization. Islam has none of these attributes, except perseverance. But it is perseverance in the pursuit of evil.

    “Me against my brothers, me and my brothers against my cousins, me and my brother and my cousins against the world”: Where is love in this motto?

    And how can women, passed like cattle from a master-father to a master-husband to a master-son (when she becomes a widow) know what love is? If you are born, educated and live along these lines, how can you love your children the way we understand loving?

  8. RonaldB says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 11:26 am

    First cousin marriage and child marriage indispensable to Islam!

    The strong proclivity of Muslims to marry first cousins assures, besides rampant genetic defects, lowered intelligence, and no impulse control, that a group of inbred Muslims shares pretty much the same genes, looks alike, thinks alike, and don’t see any individual differences. Thus, an individual Muslim does not see any Muslim death, including his own, as any big tragedy. They are quite interchangeable and replaceable.

    Similarly, for child-marriages: how can a grown man interact with a child-bride on a long-term basis? Children simply don’t have the personality or experience to hold the interest of adults, even the stunted personalities of Muslim males. So, we wonder how a Muslim male with a wife and children can happily engage in martyrdom. The answer is, he has not developed any real personal relationships. The children will, or will not, be raised by the collective and the wife will, or will not, be supported by the community. Both the husband and wife are pretty much indifferent to the actual results.

  9. Jack Diamond says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    You forget another important factor why Muslim parents and relatives might encourage martyrdom as a career choice for Muslim children. The martyr can intercede for 70 of his relatives and guarantee Paradise for them as well. Paradise not being a foregone conclusion for any Muslim, living in dread of the Day of Judgment and how their deeds will be weighed on Allah’s pitiless scales:

    “Sunan Abî Dâwûd in the Book of Jihâd, the chapter on the intercession of the martyr. The number of the hadîth is 2522. Al-Bayhaqî also mentions this hadîth in his Sunan (9/164; #18308).

    In the hadîth, the Prophet (peace be upon him) says: “The martyr can intercede for seventy members of his family.” This hadîth has been classified as good by al-Suyûtî who records it in his hadîth compilation entitled al-Jâmi` al-Saghîr. It has been classified as authentic by al-Albânî.
    http://en.islamtoday.net/node/1318

    It is Allah and Muhammad who have perverted love for your child into wishing for their death fighting in the cause of Allah:

    4:74 Let those of you who are willing to trade the life of this world for the life to come, fight (kill, slaughter) [q-t-l] in God’s way. To anyone who fights [q-t-l] in God’s way, whether killed [q-t-l] or victorious, We shall give a great reward. (Haleem)

    9:111 God has purchased the persons and possessions of the believers for the Garden—they fight [q-t-l] in God’s way: they kill [q-t-l] and are killed [q-t-l]—this is a true promise given by Him in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur’an. Who could be more faithful to his promise than God? So be happy with the bargain you have made: that is the supreme triumph. (Haleem)

  10. Papa Whiskey says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 12:51 pm

    Whether the Muslims love their children or not may be a secondary question. We might rather ask, “Do we love our own children enough to defend them and their future?”
    How we choose to answer that question will determine our response to Islam, and whether our children will have a future or not.

    The real question is, “Do we love our own children enough to teach them how to defend themselves and their future?” I have given my son an assault rifle and an automatic pistol, and professional training courses in the use of both. I have also done my best to use “teachable moments” to give him insight not only into the Muslim menace but the lickspittle left that is enabling it. As I approach my own demise, I can take cold comfort in the fact that if his future is imperiled, he is at least strong and capable enough to face it.

  11. Thinking From First Principles says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    Yes of course they DO love their children … and the actions they take are the best things that a parent can do according to their belief system – since the only guarantee of paradise is martyrdom then the best thing a parent can do is to arrange that martyrdom.

    The question is NOT whether they love their children. The issue is NOT that they love their children less than anyone else. And so the solution is NOT getting them to love their children more.

    The only solution is ridding them of the false teachings of Islam. Nothing less will solve the problem.

  12. Westman says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    The Muslim jihadists and supporters passion for Allah, Muhammad, and Jew-hatred exceed any passion for their children and wives who are mere possessions. Jew-eating rabbits are not loving, sweet, or gentle.

    This institutionalized hate will eventually lead to loss of life on a scale unprecedented in human history before its adherents realize that Islam is unfit for human progression. Islam directs the frustration it creates, through obliterating the potential creative minds of Muslims with dogma, onto the “other”, i.e., the Unbeliever and the Jew.

  13. profitsbeard says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 7:20 pm

    I think the more appropriate song is: “Zombie”.

    “Another head hangs lowly
    Child is slowly taken
    And the violence caused such silence
    Who are we mistaken?

    But you see, it’s not me, it’s not my family
    In your head, in your head they are fighting
    With their tanks and their bombs
    And their bombs and their guns
    In your head, in your head, they are crying

    In your head, in your head
    Zombie, zombie, zombie
    Hey, hey, hey, what’s in your head, in your head?
    ”

    What’s in their head is the childishly literal understanding of a religious text written down in a language that has no syllables …and thus its readers must intuit EVERY SINGLE GODDAMNED word.

    Pretending that this is something simple and clear and easily grasped is their madness.

    By which they become mindless deadened automatons of sanctified Death.

  14. profitsbeard says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    TYPO above: No “vowels” not “syllables”.

    My bad.

  15. BC says

    Jun 14, 2015 at 5:26 am

    Well the top story on today’s mail contradicts the claim. The jihadi who says quite openly his family deserve to be killed if they do not follow sharia to the letter. They may love their children as long as they are 100% obedient to daddy’s wishes but the endless examples of honour killing etc. indicate that their love is by no means unconditional.

  16. particolor says

    Jun 14, 2015 at 6:04 am

    They must Love their Children? They put a Nice Vest on them and send them to Paradise !

    • Lioness says

      Jun 14, 2015 at 11:03 am

      Unlike Christians and Jewish parents who are proud when their children have achieved good education, a well paid job and have succeded in life, muslim parents are proud when their children are killed in suicide bombings.

  17. Gufo says

    Jun 14, 2015 at 7:05 am

    No, they don’t. They always say that they “love” their god and the prophet more than anything else, and we see every day that they do not hesitate to slaughter their own family and offspring to protect the “honor” of these evil entities. They don’t know any love. Marriage is slavery, sex is rape, pleasure is pedophilia, honor is torture and mass murder. We cannot expect anything good from islam.

  18. solange says

    Jun 14, 2015 at 4:10 pm

    I had an experience while living in Israel that truly opened my eyes, and everything since then, judging by the thoughts and deeds of the majority of Muslims, has reinforced what I heard and saw. A Muslim mother was frantically running up and down the beach and shouting. Her husband came to ask her what was wrong. She said their son was drowning. His reply? “Is that all!?! Never mind, we can make more.” I was absolutely stunned. Luckily or not for the boy, my boyfriend at that time saved him. My Israeli boyfriend then explained to me the difference in the way that they viewed the value of human life. It took a long time, but I have come to see that he was right.

  19. Elisheva14 says

    Jun 14, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    There is a famous quote by Gold Meir, the fourth Prime Minister of Israel:

    We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.
    Golda Meir

    • Thinking From First Principles says

      Jun 15, 2015 at 6:59 am

      The quote would be logically true if we all understood the good to be expressed out of love in the same way. When the belief is that the only guarantee of paradise is via martyrdom while conducting violent jihad, then love for your child is expressed by helping them gain paradise that way. There is no deficit of parental love. There is a complete difference in understanding how that love is best expressed. That is what needs to be addressed – not whether they love their children as much as we do ours.

      • Gufo says

        Jun 15, 2015 at 8:50 am

        If you express your parental love through death, why would you reproduce in the first instance? Why would you create dead children walking? Destruction is thus in the very creation, which is almost an oxymoron.

        • Thinking From First Principles says

          Jun 15, 2015 at 2:21 pm

          This is only an oxymoron when interpreted through a non-Islamic belief set. And please understand that that is the real challenge – we are trying to interpret Islamic behavior through our own norms and struggle when the behavior makes no sense to us.

          The person who is a slave to Allah holds that everything is simply the acting out of Allah’s will. Read what Islam teaches – Allah directly causes some to sin and then condemns them to punishment for sinning, etc. This makes no sense to Jew or Christian and the God who has reveled himself to us. But it makes perfect sense to the slave of Allah – hence the sense of fatalism as described by Churchill.

          In their humanity these people would prefer to see good for their children. As slaves of Allah they have no idea what fate he shall will for those children. Their best hope for their children is to see them killed as martyrs with that guarantee of paradise. Perverse as it may seem to us, the parent would rather live with the knowledge that the child died a martyr in paradise than to leave the child alive to an uncertain eternity.

        • Gufo says

          Jun 16, 2015 at 5:55 am

          The question then becomes whether we want to accept and relativize every ideology for the sake of being politically correct, and regardless of mutuality, or not. As far as we can make an effort to understand, we cannot justify and accept anything just because we understand it. If the consequences and the outcomes of this mindset are too heavy to bear and morally unacceptable, we can and must reject them. When a crime _ or the perception of it _ becomes a mere cultural difference, political correctness loses its meaning, and its value, as it begins to be the opposite of what it is.

  20. Western Canadian says

    Jun 15, 2015 at 1:09 am

    Do muslims love their children in the same manner and degree that non-muslim cultures do? That is only one part of the question…. and the answer is very probably, in all too many (possibly a sad majority) cases, no. Yes, I have muslim families among my students, and a considerable number of them have very strong love for their young children….. And others sicken me with their worship of their sons, no matter how dim or vile they are, and contempt for their daughers, no matter how intelligent of compassionate….

    The other half of the question is rather more telling:

    Do muslims have the ability to love the children of the ‘other’, or do they see them as cattle at best, possible slaves or mere interlopers between themselves and what the ‘others’ have worked so long and hard to produce.

    That is the part of the question. Both are telling, and separate the savage from civilized men and women.

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