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Explore Islam: The Life of Muhammad
Religion of Peace ^ | accessed 14 Sept. 2007 | Religion of Peace website

Posted on 09/14/2007 2:14:56 PM PDT by AnalogReigns

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Just read this today. From an excellent website which purpose is to track all the Islamic terrorist acts going on in the world today (a GIGANTIC task!) Over 9,000 separate documented attacks specifically motivated by Islamic religious reasons since 9/11/01.

As we reflect on 9/11 I think it's important to remember it's perpetrators' main hero, and motivator, by their own testimony.

In reading the above too, I think it's important to note all the biographical facts of Mohammad are FROM ISLAMIC SOURCES. In Christian tradition we would call such histories "hagiography" in the sense that they were written by those sympathetic to their subject--and probably were "sanitized" of what the historians thought were the less flattering parts and polished up, or "spun" for popular consumption. Hence the damning image that emerges from them is probably not nearly as bad as that of the real history.

1 posted on 09/14/2007 2:14:59 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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. . . the Arabians lived short and brutal lives in warring tribes with very little to offer the rest of the world beyond their own harsh existence.

Not much has changed since, has it?

"If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule."

A more attractive alternative might be to do unto Islam what they'd do unto us.

2 posted on 09/14/2007 2:37:07 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: AnalogReigns

The bonds of hatred.......


3 posted on 09/14/2007 2:40:41 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: AnalogReigns
The religion does not encourage the pursuit of knowledge outside of itself, and it has sometimes been referred to as ‘the religion which has produced nothing but religion.’

I call unfair. Islam has produced terrorism, stoning of women, and blowing up of Bhuddist statues, among it's many other august accomplishments.

4 posted on 09/14/2007 2:40:58 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: AnalogReigns
Muhammad himself did not rise above his lowly station until he was 25, when he met and married a wealthy widow who was 15 years older.

Join us next eon with another exciting episode of... "The many incarnations of Jengis Con."

5 posted on 09/14/2007 2:50:16 PM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: AnalogReigns

People think I am a “chicken little” when I state my opinion but I truly feel as if the next “Crusade” has begun and we have just woken up to realize it.


6 posted on 09/14/2007 2:51:53 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (If You Support America - Thank a Soldier; If You Support Al-Qaeda - Thank a Democrat!)
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To: AnalogReigns

PS- Thanks for posting, excellent read.


7 posted on 09/14/2007 2:52:43 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (If You Support America - Thank a Soldier; If You Support Al-Qaeda - Thank a Democrat!)
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To: AnalogReigns

Cults are always bad news.


8 posted on 09/14/2007 2:53:45 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney longed to serve in Vietnam, ask me for the quote.)
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To: AnalogReigns

Too long to read. Let’s just summarize that Mo was a delusional murdering pedophile and leave it at that.


9 posted on 09/14/2007 2:59:45 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Afghan protest - "Death to Dog Washers!")
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To: AnalogReigns

We in the West need to understand that Mohammadism IS terrorism. It is not a religion of peace because it is not a religion. It is an organized criminal activity which must be eradicated.


10 posted on 09/14/2007 3:00:08 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: AnalogReigns

bookmarked


11 posted on 09/14/2007 3:00:09 PM PDT by parisa
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To: AnalogReigns

The koran is nothing but the the rantings of a two bit mentally diseased warlord who wanted to gather followers


12 posted on 09/14/2007 3:01:55 PM PDT by Charlespg (Peace= When we trod the ruins of Mecca and Medina under our infidel boots.)
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Christians & Jews say; "I will die for what I believe".

A mohammaden says; "you will die for what I believe"

13 posted on 09/14/2007 3:02:57 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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I think that America has yet to wake up

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

14 posted on 09/14/2007 3:03:51 PM PDT by expatguy (Support Conservative Blogging - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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To: AnalogReigns

bookmark


15 posted on 09/14/2007 3:04:17 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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The Arabian Peninsula at the time of Muhammad (b. AD 570) was a barren and desolate region with a scorching sun and oppressive heat by day, and a chilling cold at night. There was little vegetative growth, and the nomadic inhabitants lived between jagged rocks and sifting sand dunes.

Much as they do today, with the exception of certain oil sheikhdoms made wealthy beyond a man's wildest dreams by Western money.

... the Arabians lived short and brutal lives in warring tribes with very little to offer the rest of the world beyond their own harsh existence.

I see nothing has changed in 1,500 years.

The religion does not encourage the pursuit of knowledge outside of itself, and it has sometimes been referred to as ‘the religion which has produced nothing but religion.’

Fixed.

16 posted on 09/14/2007 3:29:19 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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ping


17 posted on 09/14/2007 3:33:50 PM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*RWVA)
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To: AnalogReigns

Thanks for the history lesson about “The Religion of Pieces.”


18 posted on 09/14/2007 3:39:59 PM PDT by wjcsux (Islam: The religion of choice for those who are too stupid for Scientology)
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Just read the opening lines. Sounds like a list of excuses. I guess everyone has one but apparently the pig-fornicator Mohhamed has a lot.


19 posted on 09/14/2007 4:27:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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The book Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization speculates that Islam was one of the sequelae of the volcanic global cooling starting in A.D. 535. Well worth reading.

From the Publishers Weekly review:

In Keys's startling thesis, a global climatic catastrophe in A.D. 535-536--a massive volcanic eruption sundering Java from Sumatra--was the decisive factor that transformed the ancient world into the medieval, or as Keys prefers to call it, the "proto-modern" era. Ancient chroniclers record a disaster in that year that blotted out the sun for months, causing famine, droughts, floods, storms and bubonic plague. Keys, archeology correspondent for the London Independent, uses tree-ring samples, analysis of lake deposits and ice cores, as well as contemporaneous documents to bolster his highly speculative thesis. In his scenario, the ensuing disasters precipitated the disintegration of the Roman Empire, beset by Slav, Mongol and Persian invaders propelled from their disrupted homelands. The sixth-century collapse of Arabian civilization under pressure from floods and crop failure created an apocalyptic atmosphere that set the stage for Islam's emergence. In Mexico, Keys claims, the cataclysm triggered the collapse of a Mesoamerican empire; in Anatolia, it helped the Turks establish what eventually became the Ottoman Empire; while in China, the ensuing half-century of political and social chaos led to a reunified nation. Huge claims call for big proof, yet Keys reassembles history to fit his thesis, relentlessly overworking its explanatory power in a manner reminiscent of Velikovsky's theory that a comet collided with the earth in 1500 B.C. Readers anxious about future cataclysms will take note of Keys's roundup of trouble spots that could conceivably wreak planetary havoc.

20 posted on 09/14/2007 4:37:19 PM PDT by AZLiberty (President Fred -- I like the sound of it.)
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