It's religion gone mad

Toronto Sun ^ | April 17, 2004 | Michael Coren

[Enduring Freedom]

HOMERUN

[vanmorrison]

"I don't see that Islam has "gone" anywhere. It's doing what it's always done, and for the same reasons."


Very true...

[kanawa]

BUMP

[beavus]

Exactly correct. Islam is the most recent of three related religions, yet it holds firm to the most archaic practices.

And thanks to Mohammed proclaiming himself the last prophet, there is no hope for major reform either.

What do you do about it? You can't reason a person from a religion. You have to keep him from being raised in it. I doubt Muslems are about to stop having kids.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[WayneM]

Actually, as a Christian I find it offensive for people to say that Islam is related to Christianity.

Islam is in no way related to any other religion. This is a myth put forward by apologists for Islam.

Islam was the creation of one madman who "borrowed" and then corrupted elements of Judaism and Christianity in order to lend validity to his insane rantings.

[Moonmad27]

Bump to this article that says it all.

[GulfWar1Vet]

Exactly right.

Islam has nothing related with Christianity.

Ishmael, the son of Abraham, is the so-called father of Arabs, but not to Islam.

Islam's god is NOT the same God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Muslims are not MY brothers in Christ. To be a fellow Brother in Christ, you must submit to Jesus Christ and receive Him! (John 1:12)

[WilliamofCarmichael]

This is something deeper, darker, than an imagined fight against a foreign foe. There is a virus at work. For the sake of the good, law-abiding Muslims of the world -- the majority -- we cannot pretend any longer it's about anything other than what it is: a religion gone mad and gone bad.

Stop the lies, they only make it worse.

Very good article but..

If the madness was just "religion gone mad" it could be isolated and mostly fought "over there." But the madness is bigger. It's those who distort the war to seize power and force America to submit to international (and their) dictates.

It's Democrats like Ellen Ratner hoping Bush "messes up in Iraq," it's the best and brightest Sacramento Bee brains stating within hours of 9/11/01 that we are partly to blame for not "understanding," it's Democrat (Ms Halfbright for one) lies that the U.S. "carpet bombs" Afghan and Iraqi civilians, it's Kerry not admitting that he lied that U.S. military personnel are "war criminals," it's the mainstream media's news management that supports all the left's lies (they won a North Vietnam Communists' award for their help a generation ago), it is Berkeley's Hatem whatz-his-name, et al. calling for a war against Americans here in America and the diseased-brained students cheering -- it is all these things and lots more.

It's a war within the bigger war. We will win the big war but the winner of the inner war defines the winner.

[Carry_Okie]

For the sake of the good, law-abiding Muslims of the world -- the majority -- we cannot pretend any longer it's about anything other than what it is: a religion gone mad and gone bad.

I am sorry to report to this good fellow that, were those "good Muslims" in Britain the majority, they would stand by cheering if he were executed for failing to accept Islam.

The Islamic religion holds all infidels as effectively inhuman, thus permitting inhuman treatment of infidels. As masses abide by its words, they are, by social pressure and to curry favor from all-powerful Mullahs, forced to outwardly express ever greater heights of fervor. That fervor ends up expressed as barbarism and "good Muslims" turn into monsters.

The origins of the Koran are in Babylonian paganism, a religion that celebrated child sacrifice long before Mohammed. The book was substantively changed several times, the most outstanding example being the excision of Allat, a female deity co-equal to Allah (either the test marketing must not have gone well or Mohammed figured out that divided adoration didn't sufficiently channel through him). The Koran, however beautiful, is a proven fraud. The mullahs know the archaeological news is out and their cushy deal will come to an end if the people find out. They must attain full domination of the planet or it's over. After all, it's not their skin blowing up in Middle Eastern markets.

[SpyGuy]

Islam was the creation of one madman who "borrowed" and then corrupted elements of Judaism and Christianity in order to lend validity to his insane rantings.

Mohammed was the "Charles Manson" of the seventh century.

[beavus]

who "borrowed"

Therein lies the relation.

Muhammed was wise to do this in order to make it easier to convert the large numbers of Jews & Christians in the area. Then he proclaimed himself the last prophet to keep anyone else from pulling the same stunt on him.

[searchandrecovery]

To stop the weed, gotta get at the roots - monstrous mullah's, and money. A cleric with a militia is no longer holy. Don't know what to do about all those wahabbi (sp?) schools, though, or Saudi oil money. Tough problem.

[boris]

Islam is a malignant meme. It is highly successful, having spread to 1/6 of the Earth's population.

Just as in cancer, which spreads like, well...cancer, so does the meme for Islam.

Drastic measures are called for when a rogue meme gets loose, no less so than when cancer cells begin metastasizing.

Cautery, chemosurgery, radiation do come to mind.

--Boris

[beavus]

Mohammed was the "Charles Manson" of the seventh century.

You forget that it was "the seventh century". Manson was a fool and would never do better than a prison cell. Muhammed exploited his times cleverly to establish a foundation upon which to build a rapidly growing and lasting empire.

Unfortunately the foundation was so strong that Muslims today are still stuck in the Middle Ages. Aside from cohesiveness all they have now to offer humanity are anachronisms and two-bit thugerry.

[headsonpikes]

Bump your insightful post re 'self-hatred' as the engine of 'progressive' politics.

[beavus]

To stop the weed, gotta get at the roots - monstrous mullah's, and money. A cleric with a militia is no longer holy. Don't know what to do about all those wahabbi (sp?) schools, though, or Saudi oil money. Tough problem.

Yeah. Saudi Arabia makes a lie out of the notion that enrichment will lead to civility. Instead in only leads to rich thugs.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Mohammed was the "Charles Manson" of the seventh century.

I'm thinking more the L. Ron Hubbard of the seventh century.

[searchandrecovery]

Instead in only leads to rich thugs.

Islam - the most intolerant religion on earth. Also, the religion most closely linking church & state. Also, they want to take over the world. Hey, nice work, mohammed.

[beavus]

People are always going to demand kooky explanations for those things they value most. Better they find what they want in Scientology than Islam. I've never known a Scientologist to blow himself up in a crowded coffee shop.

_Stranger in a Srange Land_ gives an interesting spin on this idea.