“Moslem States Represent a Potential Threat to World Peace” [1946 US Govt study]

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | February 13, 2006 | Daniel Pipes

[SE Mom]

Nothing new under the sun, ping!

Fascinating perspective...

[Wraith]

What's that saying about not remembering the past that we are condemed to relive it i.e. the crusades? The West had better get a grip of what is going on or it will be our childeren who will be forced to pray on carpets and who knows what....

[Aquinasfan]

In matters political Islam is a system of despotism at home and aggression abroad. The Prophet commanded absolute submission to the imâm. In no case was the sword to be raised against him. The rights of non-Moslem subjects are of the vaguest and most limited kind, and a religious war is a sacred duty whenever there is a chance of success against the "Infidel". Medieval and modern Mohammedan, especially Turkish, persecutions of both Jews and Christians are perhaps the best illustration of this fanatical religious and political spirit.

Mohammed and Mohammedanism
Catholic Encyclopedia (1917)

[Aquinasfan]

Ambassador Adja answered them, as they reported to the Continental Congress, “that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

This information was missing from the "Barbary Pirates" entry in my public school history textbook.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Yes, it sounds all too familier. Here is an earlier take on the fundamental philosophy:

The Scorpion and the Frog

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion
says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

~Aesop

[Just A Nobody]

In case you have never seen this .....

[Fred Nerks]

thanks for the ping, fascinating, we weren't cowards then, obviously.

"How did the U.S. government perceive Islam as a political force in the old days? For an answer, I propose a look at a “confidential” 76-page study (declassified in 1979) published sixty years ago tomorrow by the Military Intelligence Service of the U.S. War Department."

Don't miss it.

[Hill of Tara]

Thanks for the ping, Fred.

An interesting report.

Conflict between the US and islam goes back to the early 1800s when Jefferson sent a fleet to stop the North African Barbary Pirates from attacking American merchant ships.

Islam hasnt changed much over the last 200 years, or over the last 1500 years for that matter.

Once a terrorist religion, always a terrorist religion.

Regards,

Hill of Tara

[USF]

Thanks for the ping.

Its too bad we blinded ourselves with "political correctness" in the years after this preventing many intel officers in the field to write an honest assessment of islam and its universal goals.

We are in this for the long haul so we must not keep sacrificing our long term goals with short term objectives and being blind to the RoPs role in territorial, ethnic and political conflicts around the world.