‘MERE ISLAM’ AND THE MUNICH MASSACRE

Killer wasn’t a refugee, ISIS, or even a Sunni: but he was Muslim…

July 25, 2016

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

A German-born 18-year-old of Iranian descent named Ali Sonboly went on a shooting spree last Friday. He reportedly targeted young children; a number of adolescents were among the nine he murdered.

This incident is a reminder that the ongoing terrorization of the West is not limited to the Islamic State (“ISIS”), “extreme” Wahhabi or Salafi interpretations of Islam, or terrorists posing as refugees entering the West.

Ali Sonboly was none of those things. He was born and raised in Germany and, based on his name and Iranian heritage, was most likely of Shia background.

But he was a Muslim. He screamed Islam’s ancient war cry “Allahu Akbar” during his rampage. It’s also telling that he launched his attack on the one day of the week that many calculated Islamic attacks on non-Muslims occur: Friday.[1]

And that is the grand lesson of the Munich massacre. Mere Islam—to borrow from C.S. Lewis’ famous book about the many commonalities shared by most Christian denominations—is responsible for the ongoing terrorization of the West.

If you doubt this, simply turn to a recent study. It found that everyday Muslims of all sects, races, and sociopolitical circumstances—not just “ISIS”—are responsible for persecuting Christians in 41 of the 50 worst nations to be Christian in: Shia Iran is the ninth worst nation, “Wahhabi” Saudi Arabia is 14^th, while “moderate” nations like Malaysia and Indonesia are ranked 30 and 43 respectively.

The common denominator in all these nations is ISLAM—without qualifier.

Even ISIS’ abhorrent treatment of Christians and other non-Muslims is only an extreme reflection of what Muslims in general are doing to non-Muslims all around the world. See “Muslim Persecution of Christians,” reports which I’ve been compiling every month for five years this month, and witness the nonstop discrimination, persecution, and carnage committed against Christians by “everyday” Muslims—from the highest authorities to the basest mobs. Each monthly report (there are currently 58) contains dozens of atrocities, any of which if committed by Christians against Muslims would receive 24/7 blanket coverage.

While the media concoct any number of lies to dispel the Islamic nature of the Munich attack—the usual strategies, especially talk of “grievances,” are already being employed —the fact remains: for all the differences and tensions between Europe’s native and Muslim populations, the Christians being persecuted by Muslims are often identical to their persecutors in race, ethnicity, national identity, culture, and language. There is no political dispute, no land dispute. Nor do these disempowered and ostracized Christian minorities have any political power—meaning there are no Muslim “grievances” either.

So why are they hated and hounded? Because they are Christians—that is, non-Muslim infidels—and that’s the real reason Western people are being terrorized by Muslims, most recently (or at least as of this writing) in Munch.

Ugly or not, this truth, that mere Islam—not “ISIS,” “Salafism,” “Wahhabism,” or “Shiism”—promotes hate for and violence against non-Muslims will never be remedied until those in positions of leadership first acknowledge it. And, with the notable exception of Donald Trump, they are very far from doing so.

Notes:

[1] Lamenting how Muslims are often riled against “infidels” during weekly Friday mosque sermons in Egypt, a Coptic Christian once said, “Let me tell you … we [Christians] know that every Friday is a day of death; that the day after Friday, on Saturday, we’ll be carried to the morgue!”

All muslims are the same regardless of their label!
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan called for murder of police last year in the name of Islam, and he invoked the Quran:
“Death is sweeter than to continue to live and bury our children, while white folks give the killer hamburgers.
“Death is sweeter, than watching us slaughter each other, to the joy of a 400-year-old enemy. Yes, death is sweeter.
“The Quran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says, ‘Retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain.’ Retaliation is a prescription from God, to calm the breast of those whose children have been slain.
“So if the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us. Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.”
All Muslims are the same!

(There is nothing unique/special about the words "radical Islam", "Nation of Islam," "Isis" !!! It is just "Islam!

These people do what they do because a) their malware tells them to, and b) because of their malware's built-in guarantees, they are not afraid of any consequences for following the malware's path to paradise.

Clearly, one satanic book of malware deserves another and the proper response in this case is the Alinsky way, per rules 4 and 1.

RULE 4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

In this case, to make them stop, simply find ways to use their malware against them.

If their martyrs are motivated by the promise of paradise, then if you take their paradise away from their martyrs, there will be fewer martyrs.

When done with overwhelming certainty, you've set things up nicely for:

RULE 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.

Just a few properly heinous examples of your laying down rule 4 to the max turned loose into the rumor mill should go a long way to keeping things peaceful and under control.

Simply refresh the rumor mill with new examples as needed and much of that problem will self-correct.

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‘Mere Islam’ and the Munich Massacre

Killer wasn’t a refugee, ISIS, or even a Sunni: but he was Muslim…