The series of deadly attacks in the central Hama province targeted villages where most residents belong to the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam.
The Islamic State considers Ismailis apostates, and the Sharia punishment for apostasy is death. But you won’t hear much about Muslim-on-Muslim violence committed in the name of Islam from the mainstream media. The media wants to give the impression that it about us versus them (i.e., Westerners unfairly picking on Muslims).
A leading Muslim group (and many Muslims), meanwhile, were reportedly angered by a British documentary that dared to ask the question, “how Islamic is Islamic State?” A Newsweek report offers some insight: “When It Comes to Beheadings, ISIS Has Nothing Over Saudi Arabia”: the world’s most self-consciously Islamic state behaves in a manner very much like that of…the Islamic State. Saudi Arabia is a massive exporter of Wahhabi ideology and a major funder of mosques worldwide, in which imams are frequently preaching death to apostates, gays and blasphemers; the beating of wives; the permissibility of raping infidel women, etc.
“ISIS behead and dismember dozens of women and children in horrific attack on Syrian villages”, by Bassem Mroue & Lucy Clarke-Billings, Mirror, May 18, 2017:
Islamic State militants have beheaded and dismembered dozens of women and children in horrific attacks on Syrian villages which have left 52 people dead.
The series of deadly attacks in the central Hama province targeted villages where most residents belong to the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam.
The villages are located near the town of Salamiyeh and the highway that links the capital, Damascus, to the northern city of Aleppo.
State news agency SANA said militants stormed homes in the southern part of the Aqareb al-Safi village.
Government forces eventually managed to “repel them”, pushing them back toward the desert.
The head of the National Hospital in Salamiyeh, Dr Noufal Safar, said the hospital received 52 bodies, including 11 women and 17 children.
He said some of them had been beheaded, while others had their limbs removed…..
Mac-101 says
Diversity is their strength?
TheDane says
Why doesn’t Trump get his act together and do as promised: Exterminate them! He is a no-good president, and he chose to bomb the wrong target a while ago, where he should have erased Raqqah from the map! I am really disappointed in this fella!
Noneya says
You’re a troll, aren’t you?
Jeanette says
Right, Trump has had several months now to undo the damage done by Clinton, Obama, and even Carter – roughly twenty years of it.
What’s the matter with him?
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Oh, I know Jeanette. Isn’t it just ludicrous to hear these fools with their 3-yr.-old reasoning?
“Mommy Mommy I want candy NOW! NOW! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
https://youtu.be/J0PWdbOg1JY
Cornelius says
>But you won’t hear much about Muslim-on-Muslim violence committed in the name of Islam from the mainstream media. The media wants to give the impression that it about us versus them (i.e., Westerners unfairly picking on Muslims).
I have to disagree with Christine here. I find Muslims and Leftists often resort to the argument that Muslims are the primary victims of Islamic extremism. Their argument seems to be that this somehow validates Muslims as victims and Islam as a religion of peace….and clearly delineates between Muslim moderates and Muslim extremists. I don’t see it this way at all. For instance, street gangs direct most of their violence at other street gangs,,,,but nobody would insist that this in any way validates street gangs as victims and peaceable.
Muslims routinely kill other Muslims precisely because Islam is so intolerant.
Troybeam says
The real reason Muslims kill each other comes down the interpretation of the Koran and sharia law. This is nothing new its been century’s of killing for this very reason. We Americans must understand that there is only ONE KORAN, read it, read sharia law, understand the deception that is Islam and help save our nation.
Greyhound Fancier says
The big issue to the mohammedans is, who is truly islamic? If any one mohammedan judges another one to be insufficiently islamic, that must be remedied – often involving violence.
What a “religion”!
Donald R Laster Jr says
This is why one needs to understand Islam is a theocracy not a religion. They are using Shar’iah law to judge others and then punish them for not adhering to their understanding of Shar’iah law. The Internationalist and National Socialist would do the same thing.
gravenimage says
This is true–Muslims and their apologists always make the case that Muslims are the main victims of Jihad, as thought that somehow makes Islam less savage. Instead, it just means that when they do not have Infidels to slaughter that they eat their own.
Of course, this has been the case since the days of the “Prophet”.
Jeanette says
“I find Muslims and Leftists often resort to the argument that Muslims are the primary victims of Islamic extremism. Their argument seems to be that this somehow validates Muslims as victims and Islam as a religion of peace…”
Only a bunch of people who have been compromised by incest could come up with that!
dumbledoresarmy says
You wrote – “For instance, street gangs direct most of their violence at other street gangs,,,,but nobody would insist that this in any way validates street gangs as victims and peaceable.”
Good one.
Nice analogy.
A ‘keeper’.
Copied, and tucked up my sleeve, for the next time I encounter some naive (or witless, or disingenuous) infidel Defender of Islam wittering on about how “Muslims are the primary victims of Islamic extremism [i.e., of the Jihad].”
gravenimage says
Spot on , Cornelius.
Mira Chaikin says
It’s a war crime.
gravenimage says
It *is* a war crime. It is also mainstream Islam.
Mira Chaikin says
I don’t know that. At the time of the Prophet Mohammad, the rules of warfare he introduced were merciful for that time. Like a Geneva Convention of it’s day. I’m sure there are many following that path. There are ISIS people following this website. For all I know, you are reading with glee about your team.
Jeanette says
See Donald R. Jaster’s comment of May 20, below.
billybob says
The false prophet Mohammad beheaded an entire tribe of Jews. Does that sound like the Geneva Convention? And if you think that was ok, while these poor male victims waited in line to be decapitated their women folk were being raped within site of them. Muhammad was a barbarian.
Mira Chaikin says
In the 7th Century, other people did much worse.
And the Moslems had a mandate from God that their prophet and his followers would not end up like Jesus and many of his followers.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Your comment is a false statement. What Mohammad did, and instructed Islamics to do, is basically unique to Islam. The rule of Law in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and other areas around the world actually held people responsible for their behavior. They did not, in general, punish people for simply not being a member of “X”. You are trying to make excuses for the deviant and abnormal behaviors Islamics consider normal.
gravenimage says
The appalling Mira Chaikin wrote:
I don’t know that. At the time of the Prophet Mohammad, the rules of warfare he introduced were merciful for that time. Like a Geneva Convention of it’s (sic) day.
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The “Prophet” Muhammed raided caravans, raped captives, enslaved his victims, and mass slaughtered unbelievers, including beheading up to 900 men and boys of the Banu Qurayza tribe, committing genocide against them.
Note that Mira Chaiken considers rape, slavery and mass murder “merciful”. *Good Lord*.
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I’m sure there are many following that path.
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God help us, this is *all too true*.
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There are ISIS people following this website. For all I know, you are reading with glee about your team.
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How many times have see seen *this* perversity? That if one condemns evil, that one is–somehow–in favor of it.
In that case, Winston Churchill was a great supporter of Fascism, and Hitler’s number one fan…sarc/off
Donald R Laster Jr says
What Mohammad did was introduce depravities that no one did at that time. In fact, Christianity and Judaism had already helped to expand changes the Roman Empire did in relation to war and not engaging in depravities. But people will make excuses when they don’t want to, can not, deal with reality.
gravenimage says
The appalling Mira Chaikin wrote:
In the 7th Century, other people did much worse.
And the Moslems had a mandate from God that their prophet and his followers would not end up like Jesus and many of his followers.
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Mira Chaiken believes that enslaving and mass-slaughtering Jews, Christians, and pagans and spreading the horrifically violent creed of Islam was a “mandate from God”?
*Good lord*. Her apologia for the viciousness of Islam is even worse than I had thought.
Does she believe Muslims still have that “mandate” to conquer us “filthy Infidels”?
Mira Chaikin says
That’s what was going on then. People were tortured and executed throughout history and in that particular time in the 8th century for blaspheming Judaism and Christianity. Self preservation on their part.
Me, In another life, I was burnt at the stake for blasphemy and later beautified and canonized as a Catholic saint.
Pretty soon, I’m not going to read anything in this site any longer. You’ve been building up the radical group ISIS and others by declaring that they represent all Moslems.
So who are you? Aleister Crowley in a new life? He’s been called the Evilest Man in the World for the mental manipulations he did on some of his students who became Nazi thinkers and planners and doers.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Mohammad did the same thing. This is standard Islamic practice. It has been going on for 1400 years.
And the woman and children were probably raped and sodomized as well. This is another standard Islamic practice.
gravenimage says
Yes–I was thinking that the victims were likely raped before being tortured and murdered.
God, I hate Islam.
dumbledoresarmy says
Women – and girls, little girls – may well have been *raped-to-death*. A sufficiently violent gang rape that goes on for long enough will *do* that to a woman, and certainly to a little girl whose body is immature and gets torn to pieces, so that she suffers internal injuries and bleeds to death.
Muslims have also been known, in the past, to *mutilate* the genitals of both male and female victims… whether before *or* after death. They cut off the breasts of women and girls – whether before or after slitting their throats. They have been known to cut open pregnant women to drag out the foetus.
Islam is a cavalcade of horrors.
gravenimage says
Islam is a cavalcade of horrors indeed.
Benedict says
Islam is an invitation to hate, an “odium generis humani” – a hatred for the human race and its goal is “Bellum omnium contra omnes” – the war of all against all. –
In Islam there is no cross to judge and put to death human nature. Man, good and evil, is free to roam the world and justify any hateful and deceptive behavior as a defense of Islam and its ridiculous and narcissistic prophet.
A Muslim is like a Nazi and a Communist man seduced and deceived.
Mira Chaikin says
I doubt the ISIS people who did this are long for this world.
gravenimage says
It is not just ISIS that is carrying out beheadings. This horror is mainstream Islam.
Donald R Laster Jr says
This is why people have to understand that ISIS is Islam, and even the “peaceful” Islamics are a threat. They are sleeper cells waiting to be activated.
Mira Chaikin says
No it’s not. It originated from remnants of Saddam Hussein loyalists who always thought of Islam as a big joke.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Obviously, you have not been paying attention to the actual history of Islam over the last 1400 years and its actual teachings. Nor have you been learning recent history of where ISIS and associated Islam groups originated.
gravenimage says
Uh…right. Muslims who consider Islam a “joke” decide to refound the Caliphate and impose the strictest Islamic law there. Try again…
Mira Chaikin says
Moron. In that part of the world, in order to run a country it has to maintain the facade of Islam. Yes,Islam is a big joke to them.
gravenimage says
Mira Chaikin wrote:
Moron. In that part of the world, in order to run a country it has to maintain the facade of Islam. Yes,Islam is a big joke to them.
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The idea that the most Islamic polity on the face of the earth is just paying lip service to Islam is absurd.
Al Baghdadi is an Islam scholar. Is he just pretending to be Muslim, as well? What about all the pious Muslims flocking to the Islamic State? Are they all fakes, too? And what about all those attacking the West in the name of the Islamic State? Just more window dressing to maintain the “facade”? sarc/off
Mira Chaikin says
No, they are not paying lip service to an Islamic facade, but Islamic State is. They use Islam to torture and suppress. People have done this with Christianity when there was no separation between church and state and other religions through time also.
gravenimage says
Islam has *always* been used to torture and suppress, even since the days of the baleful “Prophet”.
Mira Chaikin says
No. Some of these 3rd World Countries might behead in the context of corporal punishment after legal jurisprudence. In the US, we gas and electrocute. This massacre of these Shia people in Syria is something people like Charlie Manson and his followers would do. Killing children, ripping limbs from their bodies.
gravenimage says
Beheading is Islamic–one finds it throughout the Qur’an and the Hadith.
And atrocities like this one are perfectly Islamic, as well.
Muslims regularly target women and children and other vulnerable people.
Mira Chaikin says
And the people who killed all those millions of Jewish people looked like you. Right, “Graven Image”.
gravenimage says
Mira Chaikin wrote:
And the people who killed all those millions of Jewish people looked like you. Right, “Graven Image”.
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Mira Chaiken has no idea what I look like.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with looks, in any case. A lot of German and other Ashkenazi Jews looked little different from German Nazi Party members.
But this has nothing to with ethnicity–doesn’t MIra Chaiken grasp that both Fascism and Islam are *ideologies*?
The fact is that pious Muslims from all over the world have flooded into the Islam State–Africans, Middle Easterners, south-east Asian, and Europeans. All they have in common is an embrace of orthodox Islam.
And what have I ever said here that would lead MIra Chaiken to believe that I embrace Fascism? Nothing whatsoever. In fact, I oppose both Nazism and Islam, and for the same reasons. I reject all brutal, totalitarian ideologies–as is clear from the barest glance at my posting history.
There is also no reason for her to put “Graven Image” in sneer quotes, I have never pretended that this was anything but a nom de plume.
Mira Chaikin says
Nope. Had no idea that “Grave Image” is your ‘nom de plume’.
You said you are very studied intellectually about Islam. But it is also a faith. And faith is not an intellectual thing.
I understand you are Jewish culturally. I don’t know that you are Jewish. I don’t know that you are not an atheist.
You appear to be obsessed with hatred directed at Moslems.
People say that the Israelis act like Nazis now. You see Moslems from the perspective of an Israeli.who was thrust into a land in the middle of third world countries who are annoyingly backwards.
You allow articles to be written in your website with headlines that use the word Muslim and some derogatory salacious activity next to it. It is the same way that the Germans used to write about Jews. Or the way people in the United States used to demean black people or Asian people with their slanted eyes. I find that annoyingly backwards.
With respect to ISIS, there probably are a few people in ISIS who are Moslems and good people undercover along with many of the of the people ISIS is holding prisoner. The clown that is running ISIS has some intellectual understanding of the religion but is not a Moslem. I am talking about Islam as a religion. Moslem don’t rape. Christians don’t rape.
As a Jew, is your wife allowed out of the house when she menstruates? It’s in the Old Testament, your Bible. I’m assuming you lock your wife i the house then. That’s very repressive of you.
I am not that schooled in Islam but it is to my understanding that many of the Hadiths that Spencer sites in his articles used to explain away ISIS behaviors are not recognized as being authentic words of the Prophet by many Moslems and with other HAdiths or lines from the Quran, he gives a wacky interpretation that may be very well in their mindset but many other people have an entirely different interpretation of the same.
So you want a genocide of all the Moslems? Kill half the Islamic population? Will that make you happy? How do you know they are not reincarnated Jewish people. I’ve only met one Jewish person who I could say for a fact, was in a concentration camp in his last life. Only one. I’ve met some Hispanic people who were /Iranian/Arabic/Moslems in their last lives..
Can you see Islam as a religion vs Islam as a political system vs the customary law of these third world countries? You might be able to solve some problems if you do.
billybob says
Mira – you comment is filled with ignorance. Why do you write so much drivel, when you are clearly well aware of your own ignorance?
I am not that schooled in Islam but it is to my understanding that many of the Hadiths that Spencer sites in his articles used to explain away ISIS behaviors are not recognized as being authentic words of the Prophet by many Moslems and with other HAdiths or lines from the Quran, he gives a wacky interpretation that may be very well in their mindset but many other people have an entirely different interpretation of the same.
Your understanding that many of the Hadiths that Spencer sites in his articles are not recognized as being authentic words of the Prophet by many Moslems is incorrect.
If you regularly read Robert’s articles, you would discover that he is always concerned that he is bringing in mainstream material. If he quotes Muslim scholars, he will always choose the most respected mainstream scholars. If he quotes Hadiths, he will always quote the most accepted (strong) Hadiths, and if a Hadith is weak, he will rarely quote such a hadith, but if he does, he will caution that it is a “weak” hadith. Furthermore, if he quotes from the Quran or other Islamic texts, he will always take care to quote the full context.
Mira – there are many people here in the comment section who are well educated and deeply critical thinkers, rather than following Robert blindly. I am such. Let me tell you, when I first encountered this site, I was very skeptical. I spent a year or more cross checking everything that Robert says before I finally accepted his scholarly integrity. You can do that yourself, then come back here because before you do that, you are just displaying ignorance.that will embarrass you later.
Donald R Laster Jr says
I would also recommend you get a Qur’an and read it. This is the ISBN 978-0-913321-01-0 of one. It was translated in 1907, published in 1917, by an Islamic who believed in Islam and wanted to spread Islam. You should also understand that what Mohammad wrote earlier is superseded by that which he wrote later. Learn the history of Islam and what it did to Arabia, North Africa, and Europe, in the 600 and 700s. The look at what they did to India in the 1000 to 1100. Islamic are doing what they have been doing for 1400 years.
gravenimage says
More from Muslim apologist Mira Chaikin wrote:
Nope. Had no idea that “Grave Image” is your ‘nom de plume’.
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Well, it isn’t. My nom de plume is “gravenimage”.
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You said you are very studied intellectually about Islam. But it is also a faith. And faith is not an intellectual thing.
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Where to start? Firstly, it is possible to study any faith, and to do so rationally. The subject of study need not be rational itself in order to be studied rationally. This is not difficult to grasp.
And ideologies cover a lot of ground. If one’s ideology is, say, Western democracy, then this is a rational ideology. If one’s ideology is Fascism or Islam, then it is not.
Faiths are also ideologies, in that they consist of a set of ideas. The ideas behind Islam are quite barbaric.
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I understand you are Jewish culturally. I don’t know that you are Jewish. I don’t know that you are not an atheist.
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I am not Jewish, culturally or otherwise, although I have a great deal of respect for Judaism, and consider Western culture to be Judeo-Christian. I know a lot of civilized Atheists, as well.
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You appear to be obsessed with hatred directed at Moslems.
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No–I am concerned about Muslim hatred and violence against *us*.
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People say that the Israelis act like Nazis now.
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This is, of course, claptrap. Instead, Israel is the *only* democracy in the region. Jews were driven out of most of the surrounding Muslim countries, and Christians are threatened with genocide there now. Israel is the only nation in the Middle East the guarantees equal rights.
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You see Moslems from the perspective of an Israeli.who (sic) was thrust into a land in the middle of third world countries who are annoyingly backwards.
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What does this mean? That it is unfair to criticize barbaric Muslim countries because they are “third world”?
This gets things exactly backward–the reason Muslin countries are “backwards” is because they follow Islam.
Some Muslim nations–such as Saudi Arabia–are very rich from oil wealth, and yet, they persecute “witches”, amputate the limbs of petty thieves, and stone women to death.
And note the grotesque minimization–the idea that horrors such as murdering apostates, “marrying” children, stoning rape victims to death, and waging violent Jihad against unbelievers is merely “annoying”. *Ugh*.
Why isn’t Israel a third world country? It is because they embrace democracy and freedom.
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You allow articles to be written in your website with headlines that use the word Muslim and some derogatory salacious activity next to it.
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MIra Chaiken is mistaken in believing that I run Jihad Watch–I don’t have that honor. Robert Spencer runs Jihad Watch.
And Jihad Watch regularly cites mainstream news sources. If Muslims are raping children or waging violent Jihad, that is not the fault of Jihad Watch for pointing it out.
The implication that Muslims are being erroneously linked to Jihad is, of course, utterly false.
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It is the same way that the Germans used to write about Jews.
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Jews were not terrorizing Germans–alas, many Muslims are indeed launching Jihad terror attacks against us.
The idea that pointing this out is tantamount to genocide is, of course, grotesque.
This is equating pointing out the violence of others with committing violence oneself. What absolute calumny.
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Or the way people in the United States used to demean black people or Asian people with their slanted eyes. I find that annoyingly backwards.
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I have always been against racism. It is not only ugly, it is profoundly stupid. The shape of someone’s eyes or the color of their skin tells you *nothing* about their character.
Again, though, Mira Chaiken appears to be incapable of discerning the difference between ideology–which is a belief system–and race, which is intrinsic.
Islam is not a race. There are Muslims of every ethnic background who wage violent Jihad, which should be obvious.
In addition, Muslims are victimizing people from all over the world, and from every racial background. Jihad Watch covers stories about Jihad from everywhere.
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With respect to ISIS, there probably are a few people in ISIS who are Moslems and good people undercover along with many of the of the people ISIS is holding prisoner.
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There were, no doubt, Nazis who were marvelous people, as well. They just enjoyed conquering their neighbors, crushing freedom, and committing genocide…
But yes–pious Muslims *do* consider ISIS members to be “good people”. *Ugh*.
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The clown that is running ISIS has some intellectual understanding of the religion but is not a Moslem. I am talking about Islam as a religion.
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Al Baghdadi is an Islamic scholar with a Master’s and PhD in Qur’anic Studies. The idea that he knows nothing about Islam and is not even Muslim is ludicrous.
And it is not just al Baghdadi himself–pious Muslims from all over the world are flocking to the Islamic State–the new Caliphate–because it practices orthodox Shari’ah.
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Moslem don’t rape. Christians don’t rape.
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Well, that’s just ridiculous. There are Muslim rapists, and there are Christian rapists.
If a Christian commits rape, though, he is acting contrary to the tenets of his faith. Rape is illegal in the civilized West.
When Muslims rape Infidels, though, they are acting not just on the texts and tenets of Islam, but also on the model of the foul “Prophet” Muhammed.
Muhammed was himself a rapist, and he chided his thuggish followers at one point for *not* raping their captives, since they wanted higher ransoms for them.
The Qur’an and Hadith sacralize rape in Jihad, as well as the rape of underaged girls, again on the model of the “Prophet”.
Rape victims are often imprisoned or even murdered in Dar-al-Islam if they dare report their rapes:
“Islamic State stones four rape victims to death for ‘committing adultery’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/02/islamic-state-stones-four-rape-victims-to-death-for-committing-adultery
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As a Jew, is your wife allowed out of the house when she menstruates? It’s in the Old Testament, your Bible. I’m assuming you lock your wife i (sic) the house then. That’s very repressive of you.
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Why is Mira Chaiken obsessed with the idea that I am Jewish? I suppose this should not surprise, given her being a Muslim apologist.
Again, I am not Jewish, nor am I male. I am married, but I have a husband. We have a very egalitarian relationship.
The idea that the average Jewish person locks his wife in the house during her period is just absurd. This is considered unlawful imprisonment in the civilized West, and is illegal. How could MIra Chaiken not know that?
But requiring a Mehram’s (male owner’s) permission for Muslim women to leave their homes is *quite* common in many Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia.
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I am not that schooled in Islam but it is to my understanding that many of the Hadiths that Spencer sites in his articles used to explain away ISIS behaviors are not recognized as being authentic words of the Prophet by many Moslems and with other HAdiths (sic) or lines from the Quran, he gives a wacky interpretation that may be very well in their mindset but many other people have an entirely different interpretation of the same.
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This is, of course, quite false. Robert Spencer only cites the Sahih (reliable) Hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim.
In addition, he cites the interpretations of orthodox Islamic scholars. The idea that these interpretations are somehow made up by “Islamophobes” is absurd.
Moreover, these interpretations are followed by mainstream Muslims–this is the basis on which Muslims practice Jihad and Shari’ah. There would not be almost 31,000 Jihad terror attacks just since 9/11 if Muslims did not consider such behavior Islamic.
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So you want a genocide of all the Moslems? Kill half the Islamic population? Will that make you happy?
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The idea that pointing out the violence of Islam–which is irrefutable–is tantamount to calling for genocide against Muslims is nothing but projection.
As for what will make me happy, like the other Anti-Jihadists here, I just want to see Muslims stop oppressing, raping, and murdering us.
The idea that this is a violent impulse is grotesque calumny.
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How do you know they are not reincarnated Jewish people. I’ve only met one Jewish person who I could say for a fact, was in a concentration camp in his last life. Only one. I’ve met some Hispanic people who were /Iranian/Arabic/Moslems in their last lives..
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Whatever is Mira Chaiken babbling about here?
I have never seen any evidence of reincarnation, let alone being able to track who someone “was in their last lives”.
But let’s assume that this is true.
I have always judged people on their own actions–not the actions of their families or “past lives”.
Is Mira Chaikin implying that we should welcome being raped or murdered by Muslims if they were Holocaust victims in some past life?
If I–somehow–knew that a Jihadist had been a Holocaust victim in a past life, I would just know that this person had learned nothing from having been victimized himself. It would not change my estimation of rape and murder being bad things.
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Can you see Islam as a religion vs Islam as a political system vs the customary law of these third world countries? You might be able to solve some problems if you do.
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Firstly, there is, famously, *no* separation of mosque and state in Islam. The most customary Friday prayer condemns Jews and Christians and other non-believers, and condones violence against them. The “Prophet” Muhammed–whom all Muslims consider the perfect man–practiced pedophilia, slavery, rape, and mass murder.
Pious Muslims in fact become angry if one suggests that “political Islam” can be separated from “spiritual Islam”.
But, again, let’s assume that one can somehow separate the two–what problems would that solve?
If Muslims are just slaughtering us because of the political system that is an intrinsic part of their faith, how does this distinction help?
Muslims will go on raping and murdering us until we submit to Islam–that doesn’t make oppression, rape, and murder any more benignant.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Excellent Commentary!
gravenimage says
Thank you, Donald.
Rick Spencer says
I wonder what the Ismaili spiritual leader and ‘imam’ and descendant of Muhammad , His Highness the Aga Khan, will say about this, and the recent Sunni atrocities against Ismailis in Pakistan?
gravenimage says
Islamic State beheads and dismembers dozens of women and children in jihad attack on Shia villages
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Just horrifying–but this is mainstream Islam.
Kiki says
All those innocent people…..especially the children….it’s horrifying.
I’m glad Iraq’s making progress in Mosul, albeit slowly. If Syria could crack down on ISIS more too, they could save a lot of lives and prevent more attacks like what happened to these Syrian families.
And at least we’re arming the Kurdish fighters…..they’ve fought hard against this genocidal group from the get go.
I read that the Pentagon’s been ordered to ‘exterminate ISIS’, in other words focus on killing ISIS members, not just letting them run off–probably because experts are learning that once these guys run off, they return home and carry out more attacks.
Things are scary now, but I’m glad to see so many countries’ militaries are taking firmer action against ISIS…..certainly firmer than the past few years. I hope everyone will be free from ISIS soon, though I know the fight against jihadism as a whole will take longer.
utis says
Where’s the islamic outrage? Where are the feminists? Most importantly, where are the MSM? Selling cars and political candidates to the narcotized viewers?
Jeanette says
Perhaps we need to show the photos of victims at halftimes at football games. There seem to be plenty of Americans watching those.
gravenimage says
I don’t think you will find large numbers of Muslims at football games–not unless they are casing the stadium for Jihad, anyway.
StacyGirl says
Cue the stories of Catholic and Protestant wars. The Bible is full of violence, etc. Those who don’t pursue knowledge in this arena are those who have made up their closed minds.
TLM says
I don’t often agree with the Pope, but he is correct when he says that this senseless, irrational and violent barbarism is NOT OF ANY GOD. This is the OPPOSITE of God, which in essence is of SATAN. SATAN is the murderer, NOT GOD. Could Islamic extremists be so blinded as to buy the Satanic lie that this is of GOD? God is LOVE, TRUTH AND PEACE.God is the CREATOR, not the DESTROYER. SATAN is the LIAR AND THE DESTROYER OF LIFE. These people have it backwards, which is, again, Satan’s M.O. These people actually think they are doing a ‘Godly’ duty when in fact they are working for SATAN.
Matthieu Baudin says
“…you won’t hear much about Muslim-on-Muslim violence committed in the name of Islam from the mainstream media…”
That’s right, they are too busy keeping a small focus on things and it’s easier work blaming our broader civilisation than probing into the particular nature of Islamic inspired violence.
Heather says
1 Peter 5:8
New International Version
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.