Posted on 11/03/2023 6:52:24 AM PDT by Tell It Right
Islam is an Arian Heresy
However, I believe he gets this wrong: As responsibility for the needy is central in Islam, a society with rich elites and poor masses is unacceptable.
If you look at Islamic society, it is filled with rich elites and poor masses.
Islam is the most successful of all Christian heresies.
“There is no misunderstanding of true Islam”
They made themseves perfectly clear on 9/11
There’s no misunderstanding islam when you realize their end goal is for all of us to be dead.
I understand enough about islam to know how to respond to it.
Islamisupremacy
>>their end goal is for all of us to be dead.
Not true. Their end goal is for all of us to be Muslims.
But also the right kind of Muslim, Shia don't consider Shiites to be Muslims, and vice versa.
I would associate the development of freedom of religion with the Dutch Republic and its long wars to keep itself free of Spain and other nations. That, and the emergence of the Dutch bourgeoise elite, provided an environment in which freedom of religion could grow, fostered by both Protestant and Jewish philosophers.
Note that the Pilgrims were English expatriate religious refugees living in Holland before sailing the Mayflower to New England.
And the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam was the most tolerant, secular, and mercantile of the colonies. The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay were less so.
Certainly the current upsurge and unrest in the Muslim world is based on religion, but I have to wonder just how religious rulers were back in the long ago days before the years of decline. Was religion really more dominant India or Persia than it was in the Christian West of that day?
I’m also not sure that Western ideologies dominated the Islamic world in the years of its decline. It seems like Arabs and others in the Muslim world turned to Western ideologies in a way to move forward from colonial subjugation, but eventually Islamism proved more powerful in many countries.
OK, and then dead, because when they don’t have any infidels to kill, they eat each other alive.
If you’re the wrong kind of muslim, you’ll be just as much a target and the Jews and Christians when they run out of us.
Matthew quotes Jesus on the fruits of Islam:
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?
So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit.
A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Thus you will know them by their fruits.
>>but eventually Islamism proved more powerful in many countries.
That’s fairly recent. Among the radical fundamentalists, those inspired by the school of theology at Deoband, India are probably the oldest. They were inspired by anti-British feelings in India, and they played a role in splitting off Pakistan and in the formation of the Taliban (with Saudi Wahhabi help).
The Saudi Arabian Wahhabi are even earlier, but they didn’t have influence until they were backed by Saudi oil money and the CIA.
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928.
Khomeini didn’t really get going until ‘63, although the seeds had been planted by British exploitation of Persian oil and by the CIA and MI-6 coup in ‘53.
After 9/11 i read the Quran, then the Hadith (collection of sayings of Mohammed) and other books like “Reliance of the Traveler”.
See my FR home page for much of what I found.
Bottom line: Islam was founded by a caravan robber, murderer, rapist, pedophile. There is a REASON why so many prison inmates convert to Islam: it gives sanction to how they want to behave.
Islam is a very real existential threat to everyone else in this planet.
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