A Look At Islam And Jihad
Some of the excerpts are from WIKIPEDIA, which I’ve mostly abbreviated.
Monotheism, or the belief in one god, originated in the Middle East thousands of years ago and is the basis for nearly all religions today.
Muslims believe that God revealed the Qur’an to Muhammad, (who in fact was the author of it) whom they claim to be God’s final prophet, and regard the Qur’an and the Sunnah (words and deeds of Muhammad) as the fundamental sources of Islam. They do not regard Muhammad as the founder of a new religion, but as the restorer of the original monotheistic faith of Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. Islam claims that Jews and Christians distorted God’s word as given to the early prophets by either altering the text, using a false interpretation, or both.
Almost all Muslims belong to one of two major denominations, the Sunni and Shi’a. Roughly 85 percent of Muslims are Sunni and 15 percent are Shi’a. Within these two there are many sub-sects, such as Sufism and Bahai Faith, which are all at violent odds with each other. All are muslims. Most Kurds are muslims.
Islam includes many religious practices. Pray (ritually chant) 5 times a day, fast, make pilgrimages, give alms, wear certain clothes in certain ways, wipe bowels and touch genitals only with the left hand, eat only certain foods cooked certain ways, never say certain things, never go to certain places, never befriend a non-muslim, abstain from alcohol, and many others. Islamic law (sharia) has developed a tradition of rulings that touch on virtually all aspects of life and society. This tradition encompasses everything from practical matters like dietary laws and banking to warfare. There is almost no free will.
And, JIHAD. This is the part of Islam that presently concerns Western civilization the most:
For most Muslims, jihad is a collective duty. The ultimate purpose of Jihad is to universalize the preeminence of Islam. -In other words, to force everyone on Earth to become a muslim.- Jihad is the only form of warfare permissible under Islamic law and may be declared against apostates, rebels, highway robbers, violent groups, unIslamic leaders or non-Muslim states who refuse to convert to Islam or submit to Islamic rule.
-This is like saying that I only drink alone or with company. All-encompassing. Jihad can be waged on anyone.-
For most Shias, offensive jihad can only be declared by a “divinely appointed” leader of the Muslim community, or imam, and as such has been suspended since 868 AD.
-Considering all the fighting, jihad is no longer suspended, by either Shias or Sunnis. Virtually any muslim with a grudge is waging jihad now. All those now rioting in Pakistan are engaging in jihad. Those people rioting all over Pakistan aren’t trained fighters or terrorist factions. They’re just ordinary citizens. Muslim citizens. Practicing jihad. THIS IS WHY THE AVERAGE MUSLIM IS SILENT ABOUT TERRORISM. HOW CAN THEY DENOUNCE SOMETHING SO BASIC TO THEM?
Historically, Islam had moved away from its violent fundamental roots. Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), ruler of the fading Ottoman Empire, secularized the Empire, creating the modern state of Turkey. Islam ceased to be the state religion, and the Caliphate was abolished, an institution of great symbolic importance for many Muslims inside and outside the former Ottoman empire. This separation of church and state didn’t take with many other Arab regions and with the advent of the Oil Age, Arab wealth has funded the resurgence of Islamic violence and aggression. The secularism of Islamic states such as Pakistan and Turkey are in danger once again.
Fundamental Islam is only one variation, just as in Christianity. Muslims can be secular, which is how secular Islamic states came into being. For a time, the majority of modern muslims moved away from the rigidity and violence of islamic fundamentalism and lived at peace with the rest of the world. This can happen again only if funding is taken away from the fundamentalists, whom we also call the terrorists.
We can’t stop their money flow as long as they control the sources of oil, as we’re dependent on the oil they produce. The only clear option is to wage war on the Arab/Islamic oil producing nations and take the oil itself and therefor its money flow away from them.
Taking the oil is why the U.S. is in Iraq. Unfortunately, the generals strategies were overruled by inept civilians or the war would have been won long before now. At this point the best move would be to take over Saudi Arabia, and then hold their most sacred site, Mecca, hostage by threatening to nuke it if they didn’t stop attacking us.
Then, partition Saudi Arabia, re-naming the oil fields as a non-Arab, U.S. possession and allowing free access to Mecca within the new shape of Saudi Arabia. Additionally, all Saudi possessions and monies within the U.S. must be confiscated by the government as reparations for terrorist attacks, and all debts owed to Saudi Arabia repudiated.
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December 30th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
I LIKE THE IDEA OF GIVING AN ULTIMATUM TO THE ISLAMOMANIACS. ONE MORE TERRORIST ATTACK, AND BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR SHRINE AT MECCA AND THAT BLACK STONE THEY LOVE SO MUCH IS REDUCED TO POWDER. THESE SITES WERE PAGAN SHRINES IN THE DAYS OF “MO THE PEDOPHILE”
December 31st, 2007 at 1:30 am
Yes, if they knew that even one terror attack would result in its destruction, not one muslim would dare to lift a finger.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:07 am
When you see all those pics of Muslims touching and kissing that black stone, hard to see how it is not the very idolatry they say they despise in other religions.
December 31st, 2007 at 11:58 am
CONSEQUENCES OF NUKING MECCA
by Vernon Richards, author of Islam Undressed
http://www.islamundressed.com/Consequences%20of%20Nuking%20Mecca.htm
(…) But as has been pointed out by Robert Spencer, Nuking Mecca could be seen by Islamists as a weak action and could serve to unify Muslims and increase Jihad. But this is only true if not done properly and the city is left salvageable within a few years. Once devoted Muslims carry out their next major strike on America, the Mecca plan should be carried out without hesitation or warning. No Hiroshima class atomic wimp-weapon will do, only the 1,000 times more powerful hydrogen fusion device will work for this important job.
To be done correctly, a grid of 9 of our most powerful Hydrogen bombs (3×3, every 12 miles, the black stone at the center) are set off at the surface to be as dirty as possible, rendering the entire region uninhabitable for the next few decades. The strike is then repeated every 5 years or so if any kind of clean-up is attempted. Medina needs one too, to prevent Arabs from declaring the transference of the holy site to the secondary location, but Mecca needs to be thoroughly ‘glassified’.
Muslims will thereby learn by force-feeding that their hateful God (Allah) cannot protect them and is a figment of their collective imagination, and millions will leave the failed cult. Nothing harms an Arab more than humiliation and defeat. They sincerely believe that their most-powerful Allah has promised to protect and preserve Mecca, and so their false faith in the Pagan deity will crumble with the meteorite in the intense heat and pressure of a fusion fireball. Can a billion Moslems worldwide face radioactive glass 5 times a day and still take it seriously, I don’t think so, or at least not over the long term. Cut off the head and the snake will still squirm wildly for a while, but it will soon stop.
In addition, by preventing Muslims from – ever- performing one of the pillars (requirements) of Islam, we block their way to paradise, but thereby actually save them from real hell (Islam is hell-on-earth is this life, and brings only sorrow and torment in the next ). When the time comes, by all means, Nuke Mecca, …but do it right. By this act, and this act alone, many intelligent Arabs, Persians, Egyptians, and Asians will stop their foolish ideas of superiority, and so curb their sanctimonious rationales to commit hateful acts of murder, rape, slavery, and violence. Domestic Muslims will need to be controlled for a while, with heavy doses of education and trauma therapy applied. If they can commit to opposing Muhammad and his methods, then in a generation or two Islamic nonsense will not be worshiped by their children. If they can make no such binding commitment, then deportation is in order. As Hiroshima saved more lives than it took 60 years ago, so will thoroughly nuking Islamic sites save more lives than will be taken otherwise, including possibly yours, mine, and your children and my children.
http://www.islamundressed.com/Consequences%20of%20Nuking%20Mecca.htm