THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIV, Issue # 51, March 21, 2012
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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"DESTROY ALL THE CHURCHES"
By Alan Caruba
THE ABSOLUTE EVIL THAT LIES AT THE VERY HEART OF ISLAM & ISLAMIC GOVERNANCE: HATRED & PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM, & OTHER
NON-MUSLIM RELIGIOUS FAITHS IN MUSLIM-MAJORITY COUNTRIES -- ISLAM'S UTTER CONTEMPT FOR ANY NON-MUSLIM SYSTEM OF FAITH & GOVERNANCE --
MOSQUES AS HOTBEDS OF VIOLENCE PLANNED & PERPETRATED AGAINST "INFIDELS" -- CLERICAL CALLS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL CHURCHES &
SYNAGOGUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- ISLAM'S DETERMINATION TO RULE THE WHOLE OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION THROUGH TERROR & INTIMIDATION
FULL STORY:
News Report, March 19, 2012:
“Four people, including three children, have been killed after a man
opened fire outside a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse
Monday. Police say the bullets came from the same gun that was
used last week in the murder of three soldiers.”
Recently, according to several Arabic news sources, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufi of Saudi Arabia, declared that it is “necessary to destroy
all the churches of the region.” By “region” one assumes he was referring to the Middle East, but he might as well have been referring to the entire world.
There are no churches in Saudi Arabia, and no bibles either. No evidence of or access to any other religion is permitted and one has to pause to ask whether Islam
is a “religion” in any other than its outward appearance. It has mosques for “religious” worship. It has clerics in the form of Imams and Ayatollahs. It has a holy
book, the Quran. And it has more than a billion people who identify themselves as Muslims.
As Raymond Ibrahim noted in a recent article:
“Likewise, consider the significance of the Grand Mufti’s rationale
for destroying churches; it is simply based on a Hadith. But, when
non-Muslims evoke hadiths — this one or the countless others
that incite violence and intolerance against the ‘infidel’ — they
are accused of being ‘Islamophobes,’ of intentionally slandering
and misrepresenting Islam, of being obstacles on the road to
‘dialogue’, and so forth.”
Islam translates as “submission,” and it is a common human trait to let someone or some institution do all one’s thinking, as opposed to personally having to
grapple with ethical, social, moral, and academic issues. Authoritarian regimes exist to stamp out all independent thought or action.
Reviewing a book by Robert R. Reilly, The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis, Imbrahim, a Shillman
Fellow at the David Horowtiz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum, notes that Reilly, in his analysis of Islam and Islamist ideology,
“. . . chronicles how the giants of Muslim philosophy, such as
Ghazali and Ashari, concluded that knowledge was unknowable,
that moral truths can only be ascertained through revelation.
Accordingly, all knowledge — the very bounds of reality —
came to be limited to the words of the Quran and its
pronouncer, Islam's Prophet Muhammad.”
This explains why the burning of some Qurans in Afghanistan brought scores of Afghanis into the streets in protest and resulted in the killing of
American soldiers, but the massacre of Afghanis by an American soldier has not produced the same response. They are regarded merely as “martyrs.” Indeed,
what the West has witnessed countless times, the killing of infidels does not result in any calls for an end to the murders.
Mosques are hotbeds of violence planned and perpetrated against “infidels,” i.e., "unbelievers."
There is, from a Western / Judeo-Christian point of view, a total incomprehension of Islam’s utter contempt for any other system of faith or governance.
This is why Christians and those of other faiths are fleeing the whole of the Middle East -- if they can -- because they have no protection from either Islam or
their respective Middle Eastern governments against the violence that has been preached and practiced against them since the rise of Islam. Christianity
literally has no future in the Middle East and anywhere else where Islam is the dominant force.
This is why, if Iran acquires the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons, it will use them against Israel first, America second, and then the rest of the West --
unless Iran is stopped.
In Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism, and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat, he describes Islam, saying that it “is not a
religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military
components. The religious component is a ‘beard’ for all of the other components.”
“Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a
country to agitate for their religious privileges. When
politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies
agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges,
some of the other components tend to creep in as well.”
What current generations in the West and around the non-Islamic world are witnessing is the absolute evil that lies at the heart of Islam, repeated on a daily
basis. It is most evident in the Middle East, from where the threat emanates; but it is a part of the daily life of Europe, where an increasing Muslim population
will reverse many of the advances of Civilization, the Rule of Secular Civil Law, Constitutionalism, and Representative Democracy the West takes for granted.
This accounts for Islam’s intense hatred of Judaism for its ethical philosophy, its spirit of intellectual inquiry, and the way this was eventually adopted with
the rise of Christianity in the West after it was largely driven from its Middle Eastern origins.
It is the greatest folly to dismiss a call to “destroy all the churches” as just the uttering of some Muslim madman. The call lies at the very heart of Islam’s total
contempt for any other religious faith — Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Bahai — and its determination to rule the whole of the world’s population through
terror and intimidation.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at Warning Signs, his popular blog -- and thereafter on dozens of other
websites and blogs. His monthly report on new books is posted at Bookviews.
A business and science writer, Caruba is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information
about "scare campaigns" designed to influence public opinion and policy.
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