Posted on 11/02/2002 3:12:56 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
It's become quite fashionable for leftist intellectuals to blame Islamic terror on religion without differentiating between radical Islam and Judeo-Christian faith. Psuedo-scientific jargon is used to equate religious Jews and Christians with Islamic extremists with the preposterous contention that any belief in G-d somehow leads to violence and fanaticism. Somehow the violent and fanatic record of anti Judeo-Christian Nazism and atheistic Communism, movements that evolved out of the modern enlightenment, go unmentioned.
While violent Jihad against the infidel is certainly an integral part of Islam, the Islamic world nevertheless reached a fork in the road in the early 20th century. The choice was between the enlightened leadership of Kemal Ataturk, who sought to modernize and westernize Turkey and Prince Faisal, who signed an internationally recognized peace treaty with Zionist leader Chaim Weitzmann on the one side, and the Nazi backed Haj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and, later, his Soviet backed nephew Yasser Arafat on the other. For the most part, the Islamo-Nazism of the Grand Mufti and the Islamo-Communism of Arafat seems to have carried the day.
The Grand Mufti, undoing the progress made by Prince Faisal, introduced terror into Palestine and elsewhere in the Middle East. The Mufti mixed some of the more violent aspects of traditional Islam with modern National Socialism, which he participated in while spending World War II in Berlin as head of a Nazi/Muslim government in exile.
The Egyptian born Arafat, a creature of the left-wing Soviet Union, founded the terror cell al-Fatah in the early 1960's after spending a year in Russia. According to terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky, the Soviet Union developed a network of international terror cells for the purpose of destabilizing the West. In 1972 at a terror conference held at the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon, Marxist PFLP chairman George Habbash, Soviet KGB head Yevgeny Primakov, Arafat, and others formed an "alliance of progressive movements and terrorist organizations."
After Baddawi, terrorists struck first in Quirat Shemona, Israel, April 11, 1974 murdering 18 people, including 8 children, and then in Maalot on May 15, 1974 murdering 25 schoolchildren. This was followed in short order by the forced landing of a hijacked airplane at Entebbe Airport in Uganda where Jews were separated from other passengers for execution. After the Jewish hostages were rescued by Israeli commandos, terrorists murdered Dora Block, an elderly passenger left behind in a hospital bed. Soon afterward, on a passenger ship called the Achille Lauro, terrorists threw Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly Jewish man, overboard in his wheelchair.
The left-wing Soviets, through arms, finance, training, and propaganda, are responsible for launching the international Islamic terrorism of today. The left continues to serve as a fifth column in the non-Islamic world by supporting an anti-American, anti-Israel posture as well as appeasement. But has the left actually influenced the radical Islamic faith of Osama bin Laden and his fellows?
My suspicion is that communists created an Islamic liberation theology not unlike the Christian liberation theology that has been so effective for the communists in Catholic Latin America. Christian liberation theology isolates a couple of passages in the New Testament, placing them in a context that creates a false illusion that Jesus Christ advocated communism. Once this idea is embraced, the "liberated" Christian is more susceptible to support a violent communist revolution in the name of Christianity. Communists have also been able to work a version of this type of perverse magic within Judaism.
By isolating and emphasizing the more violent aspects of Islam, perhaps the modern socialists, first the Nazi's and then the Communists, created, or at least fostered the development of the current lethal "liberation" version of Islam. While posing as traditional Islam, this communized form retards modernization. Radical Islam today, employing all the jargon of modern communism, including the strident language of victimization and conspiracy, seems to be in the service of the modern Islamic despot.
[3.85] "And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers."
[4.91] You will find others who desire that they should be safe from you and secure from their own people; as often as they are sent back to the mischief they get thrown into it headlong; therefore if they do not withdraw from you, and (do not) offer you peace and restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them; and against these We have given.you a clear authority.
The Dinner Table - [5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
The Cattle - [6.146] And to those who were Jews We made unlawful every animal having claws, and of oxen and sheep We made unlawful to them the fat of both, except such as was on their backs or the entrails or what was mixed with bones: this was a punishment We gave them on account of their rebellion, and We are surely Truthful.
The Immunity - Denial of Deity of Christ and His Messiahship - [9.30] And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!
[9.5] So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
The Congregation [62.6] Say: O you who are Jews, if you think that you are the favorites of Allah to the exclusion of other people, then invoke death If you are truthful.
The Cow - [2.111] And they say: None shall enter the garden (or paradise) except he who is a Jew or a Christian. These are their vain desires. Say: Bring your proof if you are truthful.
The Women - [4.171] O followers of the Book! do not exceed the limits in your religion, and do not speak (lies) against Allah, but (speak) the truth; the Messiah, Isa son of Marium is only an apostle of Allah and His Word which He communicated to Marium and a spirit from Him; believe therefore in Allah and His apostles, and say not, Three. Desist, it is better for you; Allah is only one god; far be It from His glory that He should have a son, whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is His, and Allah is sufficient for a Protector.
The Dinner Table - The Dinner Table [5.14] And with those who say, We are Christians, We made a covenant, but they neglected a portion of what they were reminded of, therefore We excited among them enmity and hatred to the day of resurrection; and Allah will inform them of what they did.
[5.72] Certainly they disbelieve who say: Surely Allah, He is the Messiah, son of Marium; and the Messiah said: O Children of Israel! serve Allah, my Lord and your Lord. Surely whoever associates (others) with Allah, then Allah has forbidden to him the garden, and his abode is the fire; and there shall be no helpers for the unjust.
Quran tells Muslims to kill the disbelievers wherever they find them (Q. 2:191), to murder them and treat them harshly (Q. 9:123), slay them (Q. 9: 5), fight with them, (Q. 8: 65 ) even if they are Christians and Jews, humiliate them and impose on them a penalty tax (Q. 9: 29). Quran takes away the freedom of belief from all humanity and tell clearly that no other religion except Islam is accepted (Q. 3: 85). It relegates those who disbelieve in Quran to hell (Q. 5: 11), calls them najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (Q. 9: 28). It orders its followers to fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left (Q. 2: 193).
"Fight those who do not profess the true faith, till they pay the jiziya with the hand of humility." - Koran 9: 29
".... I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, Smite ye above their neck, and smite all their finger tips of them." - Koran 8: 12
"Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate." - Koran 9: 73
"When you meet the unbelievers in the Jihad strike off their heads and, when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly." - Koran 47: 4
"The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet and alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom...." - Koran 5: 33-34
" Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last day, nor hold the forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jiziyah with willing submission. And feel themselves subdued." - Koran 9: 29
"....the Christians call 'Christ the Son Of God'. That is a saying from their mouth; (In this) they but intimate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth." - Koran 9: 30
"....the People of the Book and the pagans shall burn for ever in the fire of Hell. They are the vilest of all creatures." - Koran 98: 1-8
"Garments of fire have been prepared for the unbelievers. Scalding water shall be poured upon their heads, melting their skins and that which is in their bellies. They shall be lashed rods of iron. Whenever, in their anguish, they try to escape from Hell, back they shall be dragged, and will be told: 'Taste the torment of the Conflagration!'" - Koran 22: 19-22, 23
"And burn ye him in the blazing fire. Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits. This was he that would not believe in allah Most high and would not encourage the feeding of the indignant. So no friend hath he here this day. Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds. " - Koran 31-37
"They say: Allah has taken a Son (to Himself)! Glory be to Him: He is the Self-sufficient: His is what is in the heavens and what is in the Earth; you have no authority for this; do you say against Allah what you do not know? Say: Those who forge a lie against Allah shall not be successful." - Koran 10:68-69 [SAYS JESUS IS NOT THE SON OF GOD AND WHOEVER SAYS SO IS A LIAR]
Anyway, as far as your quotations go, you have snatched one out of context. It is an interesting omission.
You post: "....the People of the Book and the pagans shall burn for ever in the fire of Hell. They are the vilest of all creatures." - Koran 98: 1-8
When I looked at that, I wondered at the dots - what was at the beginning of the sentence? So I looked it up.
Surely those who disbelieve from among the followers of the Book and the polytheists shall be in the fire of hell, abiding therein; the are the worst of men. As for those who belive and do good, surely they are best of men. Their reward with their Lord is gardens of perpetuity beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein for ever ... (Surah XCVIII, 6,7.)
It is the same old message - God will punish disbelievers and sinners with hell, whoever they may be. Paradise is a reward for the virtuous.
That's odd. The terrorists themselves say it is because
the US is in their holy land, and they want to wipe out
all infidels anyway. The USSR never came...up, Chuck.
...and gcruse listens.
...and gcruse listens.
It's obvious you don't. It's that
little voice you hear when the barn
quietens down that gets your ear.
You're a Bircher. I'm sorry, Joe. I didn't realize
I was dealing with the mentally impaired. Forgive me.
And here's a pity bump.
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