By Alan Caruba
News Report, March 19, 2012: “Four people, including three children, have been killed after a man opened fire outside a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse Monday. Police say the bullets came from the same gun that was used last week in the murder of three soldiers.”
Recently, according to several Arabic news sources, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufi of Saudi Arabia, declared that is “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region.” By “region” one assumes he was referring to the Middle East, but he might as well have been referring to the entire world.
There are no churches in Saudi Arabia and no bibles either. No evidence of or access to any other religion is permitted and one has to pause to ask whether Islam is a “religion” in any other than its outward appearance. It has mosques for “religious” worship. It has clerics in the form of imams and ayatollahs. It has a holy book, the Quran. And it has more than a billion people who identify themselves as Muslims.
As Raymond Ibrahim noted in a recent article, “Likewise, consider the significance of the Grant Mufti’s rationale for destroying churches; it is simply based on a Hadith. But when non-Muslims evoke hadiths—this one or the countless others that incite violence and intolerance against the ‘infidel’—they are accused of being ‘Islamophobes’, of intentionally slandering and misrepresenting Islam, of being obstacles on the road to ‘dialogue’, and so forth.”
Islam translates as “submission” and it is a common human trait to let someone or some institution do all one’s thinking as opposed to personally having to grapple with ethical, social, moral, and academic issues. Authoritarian regimes exist to stamp out all independent thought or action.
Reviewing a book by Robert R. Reilly, “The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern islamist Crisis”, Imbrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowtiz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum, notes that, in Islam, “Reilly chronicles how the giants of Muslim philosophy, such as Ghazali and Ashari, concluded that knowledge was unknowable, that moral truths can only be ascertained through revelation. Accordingly, all knowledge—the very bounds of reality—came to be limited to the words of the Quran and its pronouncer, Islam's prophet Muhammad.”
This explains why the burning of some Qurans in Afghanistan brought scores of Afghanis into the streets in protest and resulted in the killing of American soldiers, but the massacre of Afghanis by an American soldier has not produced the same response. They are regarded merely as “martyrs.” Indeed, what the West has witnessed countless times, the killing of infidels does not result in any calls for an end to the murders.
Mosques are hotbeds of violence planned and perpetrated against “infidels”, unbelievers.
There is, from a Western, Judeo-Christian point of view a total incomprehension of Islam’s utter contempt for any other system of faith or governance.
This is why Christians and those of other faiths are fleeing the whole of the Middle East if they can because they have no protection from either Islam or from their respective governments against the violence that has been preached and practiced against them since the rise of Islam. Christianity literally has no future in the Middle East and anywhere else where Islam is the dominant force.
This is why, if Iran acquires the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons, it will use them against Israel first, America second, and the rest of the West unless it is stopped.
In Dr. Peter Hammond's book: “Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat”, he describes Islam, saying that it “is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a ‘beard’ for all of the other components.”
“Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.”
What current generations in the West and around the non-Islamic world are witnessing is the absolute evil that lies at the heart of Islam, repeated on a daily basis. It is most evident in the Middle East from where the threat emanates, but it is a part of the daily life of Europe where an increasing Muslim population will reverse many of the advances of civilization and democracy the West takes for granted.
This accounts for Islam’s intense hatred of Judaism for its ethical philosophy, its spirit of intellectual inquiry and the way this was eventually adopted with the rise of Christianity in the West after it was largely driven from its Middle Eastern origins.
It is the greatest folly to dismiss a call to “destroy all the churches” as just the uttering of some Muslim madman. The call lies at the very heart of Islam’s total contempt for any other faith—Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Bahai—and its determination to rule the whole of the world’s population through terror and intimidation.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
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Comment by Jesus First Always! on March 23, 2012 at 2:58pm Ron, I stand uncorrected, "I knew I had read this before" but note* I am always willing to admit when I'm wrong.
New King James Version (NKJV)
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24 which things are symbolic. For these are the[a] two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written:
“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”[b]
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.”[c] 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
Comment by Ronald Sorrells on March 21, 2012 at 9:02pm Comment by Jesus First Always! on March 21, 2012 at 8:52pm OK, Hagar was "not Abrahams wife" when she had sex with him, I stand corrected on Hagars position in life.
Remember God came to Abraham and told him he would have son of his own, great story because Abraham fell on his face laughing when God told him, because Abraham was 100 rears old and Sarah was 90. I don't think the Pharoah would have thought she was too smokin hot at 90 in his harem, not saying she wasn't when she was younger and that maybe he got some then but she didn't have Isaac until she was 90, so I think love child to the Pharoah is out.
Comment by Ronald Sorrells on March 21, 2012 at 8:27pm 
Comment by Walter Bowen on March 21, 2012 at 7:46pm Maybe it is time for the people of the world the declare a war on Islam just like Islam has declared War(oh, I'm Sorry, Islam has declared Jihad)on all of us! I think about the Bible and I have to wonder--are all armies marching on Islam! Severe Total Stupid Lunacy!"
Comment by Jesus First Always! on March 21, 2012 at 4:47pm New King James Version (NKJV)
11 And the Angel of the Lord said to her:
“Behold, you are with child,
And you shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,
Because the Lord has heard your affliction.
12 He shall be a wild man;
His hand shall be against every man,
And every man’s hand against him.
And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
After their "MISTAKE" with Ishmael, God did help them produce a rightful heir, his name was Isaac
Comment by Rondo on March 21, 2012 at 4:18pm I just finished reading:The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth about the Real Nature of... by Joel Richardson
In reading this, those Christians not familiar with Islamic teachings, will be surprised to learn that the Bible and the Islamic teachings are very much in agreement about the coming end times. However, Islam teaches that the coming of Jesus will be in support of their Mahdi. They further prophesy that the person Christians call Jesus will actually be one they call the Dajjal. To those of Islamic faith, the Dajjal is Satan. The roles are 180 degree opposites in Christianity. To Christians, what the Islamic believers call the Dajjal, will be Jesus Christ.
The coming of the Mahdi will be the rise of the Anti-Christ as taught in Christian prophesy. The second coming of the Christian Jesus Christ will be the Islamic Anti-Christ. It is almost as though the Islamic teachings, which came after the Bible, borrowed on the Bible and reversed the end times characters. The Islamic version has a few more extra characters, but the story is essentially the same, but reversed.
This book by Joel Richardson is very alarming and will help anyone understand the motives of Islam. Anyone who thinks that the core of Islam is a religion of peace is sadly and tragically mistaken. Christianity and Islam are polar opposites in fundamentally key beliefs that are completely irreconcilable.
I highly recommend that every Christian read this book and understand why there can be no peace in the long run. This is not a bad message, just the truth. ( ‘The truth shall make you free.’”—John 8:32, King James Version ).
Comment by MUG on March 21, 2012 at 8:32am The angel Allah that appeared in a cave to mohammed was one of Satan's minions. Mohammed was suckered, and all of Islam are suckers for Satan's attempt to destroy Judaism and Christianity and thwart the will of God.
Comment by Ronald Sorrells on March 21, 2012 at 6:55am Hunter60:
I have never studied cults but from the definitions that I have found it appears that "most cults are homicidal and suicidal".
Unlike "Religions that Believe in a Divine Being that wishes for followers to LOVE & HELP ONE ANOTHER AND EVEN BE KIND TO THEIR ENEMIES AND ADVERSARIES.
VERY DIFFICULT TO "BE TOLERANT WITH INTOLERANCE" !
Semper Fi,
Ron
Comment by hunter60 on March 21, 2012 at 5:18am Excellent analysis, Islam is a totalitarian system based largely on 7th century barbarism and whose author appears to be a drug addled pedophile that lived in a cave. Other than its religious facade Islam shares a primitive tribal commonality with National Socialism and Communism. Islam, National Socialism, Communism, indeed all totalitarian ideologies allow no dissent and solve everything with a death sentence. I still think Islam is a cult in the most derogatory sense of the word but that bit of semantics aside, Islam is a great danger to the partially free world.
If the West wishes to survive it must defeat two major threats to its existence. It must defeat the threats of leftist ideology and Islam. Temporarily allied, the worlds two largest mass murder cults seek our end, dominance by one or the other? TBA.
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