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The horrific mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya by Somali Islamic terrorists continues to unfold:
‘They drive knives inside a child’s body.
Go here to Mail Online to read the sickening rest. It would be easy to regard this as merely a foreign story, but such is not the case due to our absurd immigration laws:
The US has long prided itself upon being a nation of immigrants, usually by people who have no idea of the history of immigration in this country and its many twists and turns down through the years. In contemporary America being a nation of immigrants too often means taking in groups that contain within them individuals who hate America and who will, inevitably, wage cruel war against us.
As I understand it, the terrorists who did this crime were Muslim. And while the news media did report about this attack, the fact that the perpetrators were Muslim is glossed over or hidden, and the similar attacks occurring daily against Catholic, Orthodox, Coptic and Protestant Christians – again perpetrated by Muslims – are studiously ignored. These Islamic fanatics are torturing and murdering women and children daily, especially if they are Christian or Jewish, and ignoring the plight of the victims is consistent with how the main stream media treats the torture and murder of the unborn by liberal progressives. Indeed, liberal progressives and Islamic fanatics are so different that they are the same.
PS, Not all Muslims are so inclined. I have worked with a few throughout my career, and those with whom I worked were invariably honest, hardworking and respectful of the beliefs of others.
We find good and bad in all religions. The problem with Islam currently is that it contains within it not insignificant groups dedicated to performing atrocities like this on a regular basis. Our feckless immigration policy, dating all the way back to 1965,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965,
blithely views this hard fact of life with cold indifference, as we set about setting the stage for a permanent low level, I hope, war of religion in this country.
Because Obama!
Say there are 1,000,000,000 muslims on the planet. If 1% are violently inclined, that’s 10,000,000. If 99% of the world-wide violently inclined are finance/logistics/overhead, then there are 100,000 fell killers arming, planning, training, and waiting for the whistle to go off.
Do the math. There are 300 to 600 mass-killers in the US. The variables are when and where.
Listening to Robert Spencer on “Catholic Answers,” the problem is more than groups within a religion creating violence. There is a leg of Islam stool which advocates violence; it’s a tenet of the faith. According to him, we should be led to believe Islam is essentially a religion of peace because some, the non-violent Muslims, choose not to adhere to every aspect of their faith.
The problem with Islam is that unlike Taoism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, etc., the Islamic scriptures – the Koran – does advocate and command violence against and dhimmitude of non-Muslims. Not all Muslims are like that. Perhaps not even a majority are like that. But it is the one single religion that officially requires forced subjugation if not death of those who do not adhere to its tenets, and that is the fundamental problem.
Yes, there will always be evil people in any religion, even the Catholic Church, but the amount of evil perpetrated by such individuals pales in comparison to what Islam has done, and the official Scriptures of such religions forbids such violence, contrary to the Islamic scriptures.
Again, that doesn’t mean all Muslims are bad. It just means that when the basis of a religion is bad, then one can and should expect bad results. What happened at this Mall in Kenya and what continues to happen to Christians in the Middle East is far more than simply bad. Soon, as the title to this post indicates, it may happen here in the US as liberal progressives welcome more and more intolerant Muslims under the guise of tolerance and open mindedness, and that may be how God allows us to be punished for our licentiousness, hedonism, paganism and atheism. God does not change. He punished Israel with the Assyrians and Judah with the Babylonians. It is not inconceivable that He may punish (or allowed to be punished) America with Islam. God is Holy and He demands Holiness.
So how does this end? Can the theology of violence be removed from Islam? Is it too ingrained in the faith to be removed? Can it be removed while sparing the pride of its followers? Or, is it a cross we must live with until the end of time?
I don’t see how it can remain and Muslims live peacefully with others. It’s really sad to see so many people, a civilization that did well before Islam, be dragged down by calls for violence and hate.
Islam has been around for almost fourteen centuries. The willingness of its adherents to have peaceful relations with non-Muslims has varied wildly based upon time and place. However, no majority Islamic state has ever existed where non-Muslims enjoy civic equality, leaving lip service aside, with Muslims. Such states developed among majority Christian populations only with the greatest difficult and are relatively new historically speaking. Whether Islamic peoples can ever produce such states is very much an open question and the historical record is not hopeful, to say the least.
“So how does this end?”
By Jesus Christ triumphing over satan, death and hell. It ends with the conversion of Muslims to the Faith once delivered unto the Saints. We were commanded to go forth, preach the Good News, and Baptize in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. For too long we have lived under the false gospel of live and let live, your religion is as good as mine, let’s all just co-exist. There is no co-existence with the devil and the violence of Islam is diabolical. It takes the Cross to defeat Islam. That’s how it ends. No Islam. No Buddhism. No Taoism. No Hinduism. They are all false. Only Christianity is the fullness of Truth, and far from being arrogant or self-assured, we should work out our salvation in fear and trembling for our Lord is a Holy God.
It would be interesting to see how much campaign money is being donated to anti-2nd Amendment groups and candidates by Islamists. I know the sources must be domestic but the ways to funnel funds are many and difficult to expose.
Donald R McClarey wrote, “no majority Islamic state has ever existed where non-Muslims enjoy civic equality”
Turkey under Ataturk? Kemalism was heavily influenced by the French concept of laïcité and the complete separation of l’éspace public (the sphere of the state and its administration) and l’éspace privé (the sphere of civil society)
True MPS, and as we see today that concept is coming under increasing attack in Turkey. Additionally, Atatuk’s reforms took place under a very repressive regime and only after most Christians, Greeks and Armenians, had been driven out of Turkey, those who were not butchered. Turkey for the Turks was also a motto of Ataturk. The largest minority group, the Kurds, have long had a hate-hate relationship with the government of Turkey. Modern Turkey is 99.8% Islamic, if one includes in that figure people who profess no religion but were raised in the Muslim faith.
Donald R McClarey wrote “Turkey for the Turks was also a motto of Ataturk.”
Indeed it was and that is instructive in itself.
The Arab revolt against Turkish rule was matched by a Turkish revolt against Arabic influence – From adopting the Roman alphabet and the replacement of Shari’ah law with the Swiss Civil Code and the Italian Penal Code to such apparently trivial matters as banning the fez and the veil and changing the Adhan from Arabic to Turkish. The dissolution of the Dervish orders recalls the dissolving of the Congrégations in France and sprang from similar anti-clerical sentiments
In short, national solidarity trumpted religious solidarity, symbolized by the abolition of the Caliphate.
The Pan-Arabism of the Ba’athist parties and the secularism of the PLO, at least in its origins, reflect a similar tendency.
Which is proving in our day to be a rather week reed against a resurgent Islam. In any country with a majority Islamic population I would never bet, long term, against Islam. I do not think muslims in the mass will follow the secular path blazed by the Christian West, and in some ways I can understand why they would not. This century will witness a clash of civilizations to mirror the clash of secular ideologies of the last.
“I do not think muslims in the mass will follow the secular path blazed by the Christian West”
They do seem to have become stricter of late.
When I was a schoolboy, the Aga Khan and Prince Aly Khan were familiar figures at Longchamp and the ladies of their entourage always wore Western dress. He was Imam of the Nizan Ismailis and the first President of the All-India Muslim League. No imam would permit that today, or allow them to take his arm.
The same was true of Ex-King Farouk of Egypt and his party, whom I saw taking tea at the Negresco in Nice; I suppose I was about eight (1953-4)
Then again, the two female Muslim cabinet ministers in the Sarkozy government, Rachida Dati and Fadela Amara were enthusiastic supporters of the headscarf ban in schools [« l’affaire du foulard »] and, in their speeches, constantly stressed laïcité, gender equality and gender desegregation.
Most Islamic violence happening today is being perpetrated by Sunni/Wahabbist also called Salafist Muslims. A look at Saudi Arabia shows what to expect from them. Absolutely no tolerance for other religions and (as they call us) infidels. Both Al quaida and the Taliban fall into this most fundamentalist form of Islam. There are many active Jihadist groups throughout the world. Their desired form of government is theocracy governed and Sharia law. For America to attempt bringing Democracy to these people (Operation Iraqi Freedom) is Oxy-moronic. Christ’s words “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s” doesn’t work with them. It’s all for Allah. The Wahabbist form of Islam is not only a threat to Christians and Jews but to other Muslims who don’t conform to their fundamentalist beliefs. The spread of this extreme form of Islam should be a concern to all who don’t want a return to 15th century Arabic governance.
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After reading the description of the cruel violence, my first thought was of the Reavers from Firefly.
A good comparison.