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The Koran Riots in Afghanistan: An Indictment of All Islam

7 United Nations workers were murdered by a crowd of angry Muslims in Afghanistan during protests organized by religious leaders. The clerics drove through the city of Mazar-i-Sharif with loud speakers, demanding that Muslims “protest” the burning of a Koran by a Florida pastor.

Two of the UN workers were beheaded.

The leftist media here is placing the blame squarely on Koran burner Terry Jones while desperately clinging to the myth of the peaceful Muslim protest that “just got out of control”–no doubt hijacked by a that tiny minority of extremists the media thinks is responsible for over 1,000 years of Islamic Imperialism. But when the Left here makes excuses for Muslim barbarity they ignore reality and the internal drives of unreformed Islam that make Muslims predisposed to mayhem and violence.

There is no other religious group on Earth that murders and rapes more people whenever they feel attacked and insulted nor is there one that attacks and insults other religions as regularly. While the Muslims in Afghanistan murdered innocent people because one man in Florida burned a Koran, Saudi authorities tortured and arrested two Indian Christians for praying. During the arrest Saudi religious police trampled the victims’ Bibles and tore the holy books.

Where are the Christian riots? How many people will be murdered in retaliation for Saudi Arabian religious police desecrating Bibles?

Malaysian authorities desecrated Bibles headed to their country’s Christians, but so far there have been no mass murders by Christians there. Why is that?

The Fogel Family massacre was celebrated by Palestinian Muslims who passed out sweets in joyous revelry over the butchering of Jewish children. Does anyone remember Jews worldwide attacking Muslim families in protest?

Of course not, because Jews and Christians are part of a Western moral tradition that seeks to rise above barbarity. Even hate cults like the Westboro Baptists don’t murder their critics and the Branch Davidians only took up arms when they believed they were backed into a corner–and had never terrorized their neighbors. Our religious extremists are less prone to violence that the average Muslim in any Islamic country.

But Islam doesn’t just fall short morally when measured against other Abrahamic faiths. In religiously pluralistic America we have many examples of religions being slandered or insulted but no examples of a religion’s adherents taking to the streets en masse to rape, pillage and kill because their collective feelings were hurt.

In 1987 Martin Sheen stared in the extremely racist anti-Voodoo film “The Believers” which was literally a Castroite screed designed to excuse communist oppression of African Diaspora religions. Yet as slanderous as the film was, there were no mobs of Voodoo worshipers on the streets burning down movie theaters at the behest of their priests and priestesses. Martin Sheen was not targeted for death.

How is it that the Left in America and the leftist media can promote a narrative where rampaging Muslims are considered better neighbors than the Haitian immigrant who simply wants to to sacrifice the occasional chicken while praying for a sick relative to get better?

Even the West’s devil worshipers are more law abiding than the Muslim street. When long time proponent of the Satanic Ritual Abuse hoax Diana Napolis ended up losing her job as a social worker after it was discovered that her delusional witch hunt led to innocent people having their children removed by the state, she took her war on Satanism to the web. Posting as “Curio,” Napolis spent nearly a decade harassing people she thought were part a an international satanic conspiracy, including Temple of Set founder Michael Aquino. Aquino, at one time an officer in the U.S. Army, was accused of running a child sexual abuse camp for the CIA. Napolis, who was arrested for stalking Jennifer Love Hewitt (and she said tried to control her mind) still harasses Aquino via frivolous lawsuits and false charges of sexual abuse.

Aquino does little but threaten to sue for slander. Imagine if Napolis was targeting a mainstream imam instead of a Satanist. Would Napolis be as safe? Would she even be alive if she stalked and harassed a Muslim Imam? Napolis was ultimately arrested for stalking celebrities like Hewitt and Steven Spielberg, who dealt with her more harshly than the Satanist she was attacking.

All Terry Jones did was burn a book he owned, and even now the Pakistani Interior Minister is demanding that Interpol arrest the American pastor. Devil worshipers in our country turn the other cheek to people who try to send them to jail with false child rape accusations. “Peaceful” Muslims in every part of the world will murder their neighbors because they are offended by the actions of one man a thousand miles away, then demand that the man who killed no one be arrested.

Satanists are less likely than Muslims to murder people who insult them. Think about that for a second.

Is it not obvious that there is something unique to Islam that causes even its so called moderate members to rape, murder and desecrate? There is no other religion on Earth responsible for the sheer amount of rapine and depravity as Islam, no religious group more likely to murder you for religious reasons than Muslims. Reform minded Muslims fight an uphill battle against religious texts that explicitly call for the rape, murder and torture of anyone who doesn’t accept Islam.

Yet Islam is the one religion leftists in America will defend no matter what Muslims do. Some people are confused by this, but the love for the “Religion of Peace” by the Left is perfectly rational when you look at union violence in places like Wisconsin. Both groups believe in the tyranny of the majority, and in mob rule through violence. The Left admires the Islamic proclivity for violence which is why they have allied themselves with Islam.

It is also why they won’t speak this simple truth to the powerful Muslim world: until there is some Muslim version of The Enlightenment, the Muslim world will dwell in barbarity. Unless Muslims accept the light of the West and adopt Western values of religious pluralism, rational debate there will always be riots like the one in Mazar-i-Sharif. These riots are Islam’s legacy to the world; they are an expression of Islamic faith. Muslims have no moral authority to lecture the West when their own lands are benighted, blood-soaked islands of evil where no non-Muslim is safe.

7 more lives sacrificed on the altar Islam and the media says it’s the fault of one attention-seeking man in Florida. It is not. It is the fault of Islam that those people are dead. These riots should be an indictment of a religion that began as a warlord’s vanity and continues as a hate cult. Until Muslims want more from their own people, we should expect nothing less than decade after decade of havoc and horror at the hands of the very worst humanity has to offer.

Originally published at NewsReal Blog

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  • http://www.itsaboutliberty.com IronDioPriest

    “Satanists are less likely than Muslims to murder people who insult them. Think about that for a second.”

    I have often contended that regardless of who any given Muslim believes they are worshiping, the fact of the matter is they worship Satan by another name. One video beheading whilst the executioner screams Allahu Akbar was enough for me. But if it wasn’t, watching a women shot in the head for being raped, whipped to a bloody mess for wearing pants, or reading about a 14 year old girl flogged to death by 70 lashes for having the audacity to get raped is enough. This story from Afghanistan is enough.

    We have enough evidence for generalization to provide us with the wisdom we need: Islam is evil.

    Jesus said,

    • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

      would come to the inescapable conclusion that “the evil one” uses Islam as his instrument for both inflicting death, destruction and misery upon the world and diverting people from the way, the truth and the life.

      Thank you.

      ColdWarrior

  • http://twitter.com/biggator5 BigGator5

    • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

      Duh. THIS time if we just cut and run, we’ll be able to stick our heads in the sand and nothing will happen ever again.

      Sure. We hope. If we cross our fingers really hard, and wish on a rainbow, it’ll work this time.

      • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

        We have a huge presence in Afghanistan, can you reasonably tell me that we are safer now?

        We might be if we had actually destroyed Al Qaeda, but we haven’t and cannot because they are now in Pakistan, Yemen, and other areas.

        Further involvement in the middle east will not bring us any measure of safety unless we are willing to use ferocious and overwhelming force against terrorists and the populations they are hiding in. And we both know that we will not do that.

        • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

          Have we had any jumbo jets crashing into buildings since we went into Afghanistan?

          Nope.

      • spainishirish

        We haven’t had another attack from Afghan soil because the mission has been achieved, which is the expulsion of al-Qaeda from that cesspool. Karzai simply needs to be told in no uncertain terms that we intend to leave and will turn Afghanistan into glass is al-Qaeda reconstitutes itself there. Period.

        This incident emphasizes the futility of trying to bring bloodthirsty barbarians out of the Stone Age. Let them have their medieval lifestyle with full knowledge that their lives will end if terror camps return.

        • Flagstaff

          “Karzai simply needs to be told in no uncertain terms that we intend to leave and will turn Afghanistan into glass is al-Qaeda reconstitutes itself there.”

          The problem is that nobody, and I mean NOBODY, would believe it. Which means it’s another meaningless threat that takes us one step closer to paper tiger status.

          To be very brief, we have been failing in war since Viet Nam because we bought into the idea of “proportionate response.” Proportionate response gets you nothing as long as the enemy believes we will be proportionate after their next attack as well.

          DIS-proportionate response is what gets the job done. Put such a hurt on the enemy that he doesn’t WANT to make another attack.

          We are making the same mistake in Libya, if we must be there at all.

          • spainishirish

            I suspect something not so dramatic but along the same lines will be told whoever is the Afghan leader when we leave. Then State/Defense will promise Karzai ready Western markets for his opium and stuff his pockets with even more cash. Even the latter, if it works, would be better than whatever we are doing now. We ran al-Qaeda out of this cesspool years ago. There is no way we are going to drag these murderous Stone Age savages kicking and dragging into the Ninth Century.

            I think the paper tiger image sticks because it largely is true. The comments of Gen. Petraeus, along with Sens. Graham and Reid and much of the American commentariat about this episode, reveals a nauseating weakness here and further emboldens our enemies. I agree with much of what has been written today that it isn’t Jones but these guys who have put our troops at risk with their statements. I understand Petraeus’ position more than the others, but he, too, has sworn to uphold the United States Constitution even when it isn’t popular.

  • conservativecurmudgeon

    …of any size that isn’t a third-world hell-hole– This is where violent, dark, belligerent intimidation leads a culture: To lack of growth and nurture. Islam has had 13 centuries to build something grand, and it still hasn’t done it; It has no interest in building. Islam wishes to destroy.

    Islam, for all it’s protestations, isn’t a religion so much as it is a craven instrument for the repression of people and their creative impulses by either threat of force, or violent force itself. Which is why the left, as you so eloquently state, feels compelled, at every turn, to try to build up by obsequious slathered-on white-wash about Islamic civilizational contributions in art, or music, or what-have-you. Islam has contributed nothing to Western culture, and by its own definition CANNOT contribute. We need to own up to this, and fast.

    If Interpol lays one hand on the wacky pastor in Florida, they’ll have a whole lot of angry Americans to deal with.

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
    • dackterhack

      All religions have the potential to be used as “a craven instrument for the repression of people and their creative impulses.” At the same time, religions give the imagination a spark- Christianity went from banning iconoclasm to creating works like the Sistine Chapel or the Cristo Redentor. It’s not as simple as “Christianity good, Islam bad”; human history is a mural without a painter. It’s also a mural without a consistent message- like the topic rhetorically suggests, Christianity isn’t what it manifests itself as today, and it will not be what it is today forever. Islam is the same way; Muslim critics in the 1200s probably argued in their circles whether Christianity had value, or whether it had become “a craven instrument for the repression of people and their creative impulses”.
      In the West, people don’t realize the really profound intellectual culture Muslims created in the centuries after their founding; the states have floundered, as have the cultures, and many Islamic states are the hell-holes you describe. The way to respond to ignorance is not, however, ignorance. It’s hard to characterize this poist as anything other than “misinformed”, with comments like “Islam has contributed nothing to western culture.” Leaving aside the obvious counter-examples (Aladdin’s my favorite- try wikipedia for others), and even taking “culture” to only mean music and art (as I mentioned earlier, without Muslim cultures, Aristotle would be lost to the world), understanding interplays between different forms of expression isn’t an easy thing to do.

      • Doc Holliday

        Every criminal starts off as a good kid at some point. While it is true Islam had some advances at one point in history, it turned on itself and created some of the poorest people in history. Look at Saudi Arabia today, they have a few rich, with no skills, and a bunch of immigrant labor because their own people can’t do anything but recite the Koran.

        I am a historian, and I am simply not impressed by a war religion that spread by the sword. A religion and culture that subjugates women and praises those who murder.

        • dackterhack

          Why, pray tell, will I be gone soon?

          • Doc Holliday

            there is algebra, architecture, and the African slave trade. I think the chronic murders in the name of Allah is starting to affect my judgement.

      • Vaughn Harold

        “It

      • spainishirish

        Awful things have been done in the names of other religions. However, those religions’ texts and teachings normally didn’t call for such things to be done and sometimes outright prohibited them. Islam’s texts and teachings at times do call for extreme violence, acts of horror that mirror what happened in Kabul in many ways. Such barbarism isn’t necessarily in contradiction to the faith.

        This is the terrible issue many, including quite a few Muslims who have attempted to reconcile their faith with modernity, have not been able to resolve since 9/11. I have come to doubt it can be resolved, and my thoughts on Middle East policy have changed with that belief. I would be elated if the Islamic Martin Luther emerged today, but reality tells me he would be beheaded as a heretic in a nanosecond.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    And here in America, of the self-selected Muslims that have chosen to come to America and the free life, I do believe that those that would actually do harm are a tiny minority. Which is like saying storms and earthquakes around Japan only produce a 20 foot tsunami a “tiny minority” of the time. (And while most may not do actual harm, the “tiny minority” that would are not pariahs to 99% of the Muslim community.)

    Of the Muslims that haven’t decided to leave their third world countries? A “tiny minority”? I doubt it.

    As I posted not long ago

    In their ivory towers, or over lunch at the Caf

    • d_lamar

      As such, it should not be entitled to any first amendment protection, and its members should not be welcome in this country.

      • aesthete

        and such is clear from their correspondence. In discussing the Virginia Declaration of Rights (the basis for the Bill of Rights) and the religious freedoms afforded by it, T Jefferson had this to say:

        “Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting ‘Jesus Christ,’ so that it would read ‘A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;’ the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.”

        The Treaty of Tripoli (signed in 1797) assured the Berber signatories that the US government “has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen”.

        I highly doubt that you could find a single Founder expressing opposite thoughts; even as many Americans had anti-papist sentiments, there is no legal case that in any way supports your assertion that the peaceable practice of Islam or any other religion is not protected by the First.

      • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

        We ban the terrorist activities without banning the religion.

        • d_lamar

          NT

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            The First amendment allows us to condone things.

            What we get to ban is *doing* things.

  • Loadmaster

    I’m not really keen on protecting someone’s or some group’s freedom when they have a history of cutting people’s heads off for not agreeing with them. To me, that takes the 1st amend out of play. You live within the “norms” you get to play but once you cross that line..then you lose all the rules associated with society.

    I refuse to let them (Islam) win when they are murdering innocent women, children and strangers all because of a “book”. My bible is beside my night stand. It’ s not the book…it’s the message and the man behind the message that makes me smile everyday. No book is worth another humans life. No book…period!!!

    • aesthete

      Are you seriously blaming a Kurdish American living in NC for something that someone of his own faith did half a world away? The vast majority of Muslim Americans do not violate the rights of anyone, and those that do are locked up. Why should they be deprived of their First Amendment rights, especially without due process or any other measures? Speech and religious rights should be protected *especially* when they’re unpopular, otherwise they mean nothing. No one needs a right to say or believe innocuous, inoffensive things, after all.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    There is no other religion on Earth responsible for the sheer amount of rapine and depravity as Islam, no religious group more likely to murder you for religious reasons than Muslims.

    Atheists have the lead here in sheer numbers throughout history. This diary is lazy. Rather than singling out those respnosible, you simply indict the entire religion. That takes no effort at all.

    The problem isn’t with this religion or that religion, or even no religion. The problem is in our hearts, every one of us. Paul said he was the greatest sinner of all. Scriptures say we’re all guilty of all.

    That said, causing a riot and killing people can never equate to burning a book, whether that act is right or wrong. There’s a huge difference in degree, and quite honestly I doubt the burning of the book really had that much to do with their actions anyway. They were likely just looking for a excuse for their mayhem.

    It’s simple to blame the wrongs of a few (or even many) on an entire organization. That takes no effort at all. It certainly doesn’t further the discussion about the ongoing problem of terrorism in the world.

    • Flagstaff

      Atheism is not a religion. It is the rejection or lack of belief in gods of any kind. So his assertion may well be correct.

      “The problem isn

      • dackterhack

        Spain went autocratic, Italy gave the world Mussolini, South America couldn’t keep it together. These were the arguments that were made; Catholicism seemed antithetical to democracy. Obviously, that didn’t stand; now, Catholicism is statistically more likely to support democracy (Italy, though..still a work in progress.)

        Saying “there is certainly something about this particular religion that brings out the worst in people” misses a few key points. First: “this particular religion” is also the religion that preserved Aristotle, that had a major hand in furthering math, science, and art, and whose prophet led a bloodless conquest- almost unprecedented in human history (read about the Conquest of Mecca). Second: Islam’s golden age took place at the same time that Europeans lived in squalor and disease, and the Spanish Inquisition happened while the Muslims allowed others to live peacefully in their land. “This particular religion” was far outclassing Christianity at the time. Third: IRA bombers in Ireland are the same as Muslim terrorists in the Arab world- both feel stripped of a voice and live in destitution, looking for a way to actually make an impact. No one- least of all Muslims, who have to deal with the guilt of association- pardons their actions; but understanding the true, universal causes for extremism, rather than an association with “that particular religion”, is the only way to avoid further bloodshed on both sides.

        • Doc Holliday

          there are no “universal causes of extremism” and comparing the hideous IRA with Al queda, Muslim Brotherhood types is an absurdity. Our enemies say we love life, but they love death.

          I landed in London once upon a time. The IRA was shelling the airport. Funny thing was, they only shelled when no planes were landing. Now the Muslim terrorists would kill every single person in Europe and North America if they had the ability. You sir, are full of crap.

          BTW, blah blah, the Muslims we so advanced for 700 AD. But I believe Aristotle predated them, so the West could play that game and win. The problem with Islam, and to a much lesser extent Greece, is that they haven’t accomplished jack freaking squat in over a thousand years. In fact, the Muslim world has regressed. Islam is a war religion, it spread through war, it is based on war, the problem is they spend to much time at war with their own people, their women, their intellectuals. If they did not happen to live above a bunch of oil the British and Americans taught them to drill, they would be no better off than Ethiopia in its worst days, and Somalia today, another Muslim country.

          • dackterhack

            The Muslims of 700 AD read the same Koran and followed the same Muhammad that terrorists today claim to. The point is, because the Muslim world has fallen to shit (for whatever reason that is), they’re all crazy. It was because of the poverty- not because of the teachings. I can’t think of a religion that hasn’t had mass genocides and huge amounts of suffeirng committed in its name; it’s only because of the development of the societies that practice these religions that they’re considered civilized.

          • aesthete

            Much more so than the Middle East. If it were a function of poverty, Africa and Latin America would have had much more terrorism than they have had. All three regions have indigenous anti-government movements that use domestic terrorism as a tool in their arsenals; only one exports terrorism in large quantities to a mostly tangential third party.

            Islam is different: the four schools of orthodox Sunni have developed doctrines for religious war, as do the Shiite schools of religious jurisprudence. One can make the argument that they can change, but one needs to acknowledge that there is a fundamental difference between Islam and the other mainstream monotheistic religions before that can happen.

        • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

          The religion that preserved Aristotle? At what Madrassa did St. Paul and St. Augustine study? This has to be one of the single most intellectually ignorant comments on the subject of religion that I’ve read on this website. I’ve been here since 2006. Congratulations!

          Spain went autocratic, Italy gave the world Mussolini, South America couldn

          • dackterhack

            There’s not one to be made. My point was to show how others cherry-pick: they used these examples to show that “Catholicism and democracy couldn’t co-exist.” That was false. So is the notion that Islam can’t produce a stable civilization. Attributing to religion problems of society is, simply, a misattribution.

        • streiff

          but most is flat out wrong.

          I fail to see how a “bloodless conquest” of an insignificant spot in the desert does to offset the succeeding 7 centuries of rapine, murder, and plunder as the Eastern Empire was destroyed and the traditional Christian areas of Palestine, Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Turkey were converted by the sword.

          Islam’s golden age may be of academic interest but what has it accomplished in the last 600 years? Diddly squat is the correct answer. The Chinese had gunpowder while Europe was in the Dark Ages. So what. What difference does that make.

          Your comparison between muslim terrorists and the IRA is simply fact-free in virtually every regard. Take the most obvious. IRA men don’t blow themselves up on purpose. Take the next most obvious. The IRA is not a bent on blowing up things to pave the way for the Roman Catholic Church to take over.

          Nice troll though.

        • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

          Live in freaking “destitution”? And just who’s fault would that be? Especially since the countries where “they” “live in destitution” control a major chunk of the world’s supply of oil.

          • dackterhack

            It’s the fault of the autocrats they’re currently busy purging themselves of. I’m not blaming anybody, just trying to say that it’s not a religious thing.

          • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

            You are completely ignorant of history and the region. And the religion. It most certainly IS a religious thing. That’s the problem. And as long as their are fools willing to give them a pass we have no hope of even addressing the problem let alone fixing it.

          • spainishirish

            The texts and teachings of the faith command much of what has happened. While horrible things have been done in the names of various faiths, those usually contradicted the texts or actually were prohibited by them. Not so here. You really need to educate yourself on this point because this is where the huge issue looms: can a faith based in many ways on violence and other acts of horror be reconciled with modernity? I’m in the “no” school there but hope to be proved wrong.

            Along these lines, exactly what is replacing these autocrats? You get a feel for it in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood is busy preparing for the theocracy it is about to impose, or in Libya where the “rebels” are little more than Islamists, many from al-Qaeda. The autocrats are seen, correctly, as out of step with a literal interpretation of Islam, and the jihadists are seen as the pure practitioners of the faith.

            To even blame this on poverty (the richer Muslim countries tend to produce the most terrorists) is naive at best, deceptive at worst.

      • Ann_W

        Stalin called his organization the Army of the Godless and went around harrassing believers. Some religious people were killed outright and others were transported and died. And even the people who were killed for non-religious reasons were killed because of a theology based on ideology that they (Lenin, Stalin and Mao) did not answer to anyone and had the right to kill anyone who stood in the way of their ideas of a utopian society. By it’s nature atheism doesn’t have one organization, yet a belief that there is no God is still a theological belief, one that has led to many, many murders.

        Clarence Darrow defended Leopold and Loeb for murdering a boy because he said that they had been taught at university that God is dead, and were just acting on that philosophy.

        That being said the systemic destruction of women and innocents by Muslim are horrific and would not be allowed by people that were commited to good.

        • Flagstaff

          “a belief that there is no God is still a theological belief….”

          It’s logically impossible for this to be true.

          Also, there is a difference between a lack of belief in a god or gods, and a belief that there are no gods.

          The first represents the beliefs of most atheists (IMHO) and it’s like those who don’t believe there is life on other planets. They would react to the discovery of such life with, “Oh? OK. Cool.” The second group is like those who say there is NOT life on other planets. They would react with, “What? No! It can’t be! I don’t believe it. Somebody is lying and fudging the data.”

          The historically recent atrocities you cite were committed by men against other men for secular reasons, not on behalf of any religion. Even those that were aimed against religions were committed because the secular oppressor was afraid of the power those religious people had to resist the totalitarian state, not because they worshiped a particular god. That is the significant difference between modern Islamic terrorists and Islamic national leaders and other modern religions and leaders. The Islamists claim that their religion tells them to do what they do. It is the “prime mover” in the conflict.

          The idea that non-religious people behave worse than the religious is amply disproved by history. While Hitler was non-religious, his Japanese partner in WWII was a religion-supported Emperor. War crimes were perpetrated by the religious and non-religious alike. (One could argue that Christians who commit war crimes are not really Christians, but they would tell you they are.)

          Incidentally, Hitler’s atrocities were committed against Jews because he hated Jews as Jewish people, not because they practiced Judaism.

  • moderator

    Somebody here has to say it for the sake of those of us who think comparing Islam unfavorably to Satanism shows an astounding level of ignorance.

    • spainishirish

      Yeah.

    • http://www.greenvilledragnet.com Rob Taylor

      Self-described Satanists in America and Europe commit less crimes than Muslims in those countries, even if you simply look at percentages. There has never been, and never will be a terrorist act by members of the Church of Satan, just as there will never be Wiccans flying planes into buildings, etc. Islam is unique in modern history in its ability to produce violent fanaticism. You would have to look to political philosophies like Marxism or National Socialism to find a equal level of violence from true believers.

      Are you saying Satanism is a threat to America the way militant Islam is?

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    • Doc Holliday

      I made it through the first video but just could not take anymore. Imagine waking up to that every morning.

  • http://teapartisan.wordpress.com Loren Heal

    is that Islam is not the status quo in America.

    The American left is all about rejecting authority and its symbolic institutions, including the Catholic Church, the military, and most of all fatherhood. It is why they despise corporations, the wealthy, and Fox News.

    To the left, a minority group has intrinsic moral authority. There are few Muslims here. Islam is therefore presumed Good.

    Allied to this is a strong thread of nihilism — wanting to destroy everything and start over. Because it will be better next time, or something.

    That is also why they hate Israel, a nation founded on belief in God and his Chosen People.

    Since they do hate Israel, and since they do want to destroy our institutions, Islam is a ready tool.

    • ssshannon1026

      Leftist fear mongering is always aimed at their own society. They have a vested interest in making us afraid of ourselves, our parents, our neighbors. They see fear of the foreign, the alien, as a uniquely conservative attribute. They embrace the outsider merely because he is an outsider, and will always defend him against the evil they see as an irredemable characteristic of their own society. The notion that there really is anything out there more evil than capitalists and christians is something they will never acknowledge.

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  • CJB68

       What is it about modern-day Islam that makes people so willing to remain silent while a group of militants in their midst stir up riots and murder and torture people in the name of their religion, then?  Have we to come so far before someone steps in and says to these would-be “Inquisitors”, “STOP”?

  • http://www.stevengivler.blogspot.com Steven

    The Koran judges that one of the gravest sins lies in taking away from or adding to the Koran.

    So-called Modern Islam does not stand up and try to stop riots and murder and torture because the weight of their theology is against them.

    It is a death-penalty offense to slander Islam. Under the Shariah definition of slander, truth has no bearing, so even if what you say about Islam, Mohammed, or a particular Muslim happens to be true, if it’s judged as being insulting to Islam or to a Muslim, you are guilty of slander, and the penalty is often death.

    Without adding to, or subtracting from the Koran, there’s no avoiding that, so “Modern Islam” has no leg to stand on when it comes to stopping what we see as barbaric behavior.

  • http://www.stevengivler.blogspot.com Steven

    The Koran judges that one of the gravest sins lies in taking away from or adding to the Koran.

    So-called Modern Islam does not stand up and try to stop riots and murder and torture because the weight of their theology is against them.

    It is a death-penalty offense to slander Islam. Under the Shariah definition of slander, truth has no bearing, so even if what you say about Islam, Mohammed, or a particular Muslim happens to be true, if it’s judged as being insulting to Islam or to a Muslim, you are guilty of slander, and the penalty is often death.

    Without adding to, or subtracting from the Koran, there’s no avoiding that, so “Modern Islam” has no leg to stand on when it comes to stopping what we see as barbaric behavior.

  • dackterhack

    Until extremists had to go and ruin it by taking one ridiculous, hypocritical, and backwards jurist’s opinions as absolute fact.”Shariah” is somewhat analagous to “judicial review” in America; it didn’t have a history of association with any particular value or belief set. Imagine if the craziest judge’s opinion you could find was taken up by very, very powerful groups and spread until it became dominant in America; that’s what happened to Islam.. And if you can’t hear the cries of moderate Muslims, it’s because you’re not listening loud enough; looking for moderate Muslim reponses makes it easy to find them..