I’m going to ask a simple question, that I believe has been running around the heads of a lot of people but because of “political correctness”, i.e. suppression of free thought, they have been afraid to voice.
Here it is: Why is so much violence associated with Muslims? or another version might be: Does the Muslim faith per se, have an inherent drive toward destruction of all thing not-Islam?
Lets restrict ourselves to facts and observations. I don’t ask this question as an abstract exercise in the vagaries of orgnaized religion where just about anything can be made to seem true and false at the same time. Insead, lets take a look at Moslems in practice.
Iraq, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Afghanistan, here in the US. What are Moslems doing? Well, for clarity lets compare them to another popular group, Christians. There are lots of Christian countries–Italy for example is almost completely Roman Catholic– that’s Christian squared. Catholicism states, just in caseyou didn’t know, that outside the church there is no salvation. That means that in addition to the Prostestant denominations, Moslems are already condemned to hell without possibility of salvation. As Christ himself said, “He who is not with me, is against me.” That doesn’t bode well for the RC opinion of Moslems. They are sworn enemies of Christ.
Are RC Christians sending suicidebombers into Mecca? No. Are Christians from other countries organizing in little cells inside S Arabia so that they might mame and kill thousands? No.
Well, what’s wrong here? Maybe the Sweeds are? Nope, no evidence for that. How about the so called “red necks” of central Idaho? No, not many anti-moslem terrorist cells out there in them potato fields.
But wait, Moslems do those things. Why not Christians? Perhaps the difference lies in the way these religions are translated into practice– the real judge of a religions character. Christianity is a religion that has consistently preached peace. Christians sure have not practiced that always, but there has never been a doubt that this was the message of the Man from Galilee. Despite all their flaws, Christians across the West have still failed to organize terror cells to perpetrate acts of horror against Moslems.
But wait, what’s happening in Islamic nations? Apparently the more devout a Moslem one is the closer one is tied to desires to die, mame, harm, cursh, destroy all non-believers. In fact, they insist they go to “heaven” for doing it. Murder, mame, terrorize, oppress, crush, destroy– and your reward is the finest thing your religion can promise.
Hmmmm. Now before you start sending me scholarly texts showing that the Koran contains several passages urging the individual toward peace, let me tell you that I have read most (I admit not all) of the Koran and I am aware of probably most of those passages. that is not the issue. the issue is not what Moslems say, but what they do.
Islam is, in practice a religion that is focused on the destruction of all things not-Islam. there is no compromise. No living with. Such compromise is a de facto compromise with sin and no religion would condone that. For Moslems it is very black and white. The Prophet was right, all else is wrong and is evil. Destroy evil.
And before you start inundating me with examples of well intentioned Moslem charities and peaceful simple every day farmers who just happen to be Moslem let me remind you again– I am making this assessment by looking at nothing more than what Moslems as a people do. Individual exceptions can always be found but if such exceptions were the rule, why would there be this momentum of destruction in Islamic society that is encouraged and even praised? Now the question becomes, If that is how Islam ends up leading millions of its believers, is Islam something the world can survive with? Can Non-Islmaic society exist with a large and powerful group dedidicated to that society’s destruction?
Even more personal, let me ask you this: Given that Islamic society has targeted the destruction of all things non-Islamic which is more important for your survival or that of your son or daughter? How important is the the Islamic farmer in the field vs. the Osama in the mountains.? I thought we already learned that lesson– the tuition I recall was almost 4,000 dead innocent Americans and the horrific assult on our sovereign land. I thought that was a fairly steep cost to learn that all things Islamic are to be judged by their actions, not their words.
