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Posted on 01/02/2002 6:33:49 PM PST by Chuckmorse

The Violent Faith of Islam

Religious tolerance, a live and let live attitude, is fundamental to the freedom we enjoy which is why it is considered impolite in America to publicly critique another man’s faith.
This informal code of manners has never stopped the left, however, from denigrating religious Christianity, which they do with impunity.
They have a right to their insults yet it is viewed as taboo to legitimately and constructively critique the declared faith of those who hijacked the planes on Sept. 11.
My purpose in examining Islam is not to insult Muslims but simply to understand the faith of the Sept. 11 hijackers.
I would hope that the same standard would apply to any faith, religious or secular, if mass murder was being committed in its name.

In Islamic counties a person could be put to death for criticizing the Qu’ran, Muhammad, or a religious decree declared by a mullah.
There is no separation of church and state in Islam and this includes the so-called “secular” Ba’th Socialist countries of Iraq, Syria, and Libya.
Muslims imitate the dress, dietary habits, and mannerisms of Muhammad’s seventh century Arabia as Islam encompasses not only religion, but also politics and culture.
In order for such an all-encompassing authoritarian system to function, a military-backed dictatorship has proven to be essential.
The result is that in Islamic countries, little emerges in way of industry or creativity and the average Muslim lives in stifling and wretched poverty and misery.

By contrast, Christianity is a personal faith.
While western societies derive their moral and ethical standards from the Bible, western governments don’t require it’s citizens to be Christian and Christianity doesn’t teach its adherents to imitate the dress, mannerisms and culture of the Judean Jesus.
As a result, religion is viewed as a matter of individual conscience in the western democracies, which have, developed unprecedented levels of freedom, human rights, industry, creativity and prosperity.

The facts of the matter, spelled out in the Qu’ran, Hadith, and other Islamic texts, are that Islam formally advocates and condones violence and war as a means of physically conquering the world.
Islam sees the world as divided into the sphere of war or the “Dar es Harb,” which is the portion of the world that has not yet submitted to Islamic rule, and and the sphere of peace or the “Dar el-Salaam” which is the portion of the world that has.
The Muslim is commanded by the Qu’ran to engage in violent war or “jihad” against the non-believing world.
Regarding the treatment of those who resist Islam, the Qu’ran states (Sura 5:33) “Their punishment is…execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from the opposite sides, or exile from the land.”
The faithful Muslim is allowed to murder resistant non-believers.

Muhammad was a terrorist who spread his faith in seventh century Arabia through looting and murdering his enemies.
The Qu’ran states (Sura9:5) “Fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.”
Muhammad began this course of action after peaceful proselytizing got him nowhere.
Through violence and intimidation, he was able to accumulate such remarkable power that all of Arabia would flock to him in his lifetime.
Jesus, on the other hand, advocated peace and his faith was spread through ministry until it peacefully overtook the Roman Empire under the Emperor Constantine.
While Christian states have engaged in wars of conquest and inquisitions, this was done in spite of a religion that teaches that in order to become a Christian, an individual has to accept Jesus voluntarily.
Christianity doesn’t advocate or condone war or violence.

Islamic countries have a right as sovereign nations to impose any religion they choose to on their own people as long as they observe a basic common denominator regarding human rights.
While it’s unfortunate that in the case of Islamic countries those standards are near the very bottom, western democracies nevertheless have no right to impose their culture on these backward and oppressive lands.
It is the Islamic nations that are aggressively attempting to impose themselves on the west which is the motive behind the World Trade Center attack, the war against Israel, the recent attack against the Parliament of India, and numerous other conflicts around the world involving Muslims fulfilling the religious command of Jihad.
While the western democracies should continue to offer the olive branch of peace to Islamic nations and to Muslims who are willing to restrain themselves from carrying out the violent aspect of their faith, those who choose jihad must be dealt with vigorously and without hesitation.
While it may be politically incorrect to frankly expose the nature of Islam, to not do so would be perilous to our future as a freedom loving civilization

Chuck Morse Is the author of “Why I’m a Right-Wing Extremist” www.chuckmorse.com

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