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After the recent terror attacks in France that took the lives of 17 people, Islam's apologists inevitably came out and went into damage control.
We were told yet again that the attacks at the Charlie Hebdo offices and at a kosher supermarket in Paris were committed by "radicals" or "takfiris" who have perverted Islam and besmirched its honorable name.
According to the apologists, these radicals are synonymous with members of the Ku Klux Klan who identify themselves as Christians and promote violence against blacks and Jews in the name of Jesus Christ.
That was the reasoning used by basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar in a recent article he wrote for Time Magazine. President Barack Obama stuck with his usual excuse that those who commit violence in the name of Islam are just a few isolated nuts and radicals. If they are, then they do have a way of getting around.
The radical line has been used over and over again by western pundits--even by some high profile conservatives such as Ben Shapiro--who actually believe that the western world has the resources and resolve to defeat "radical" Islam.
What exactly is radical Islam? Has anyone ever heard the term radical Christianity? Radical Islam is a politically correct term invented by cowards and pansies who are either ignorant of Islam's violent theology or are too afraid to acknowledge it for fear of being persecuted.
There is no such thing as radical Islam. Those who commit mayhem and murder in the name of Islam and Allah are fundamentalists, not radicals.
Radicals are rebels and revolutionaries who follow fascist ideologies in order to impose totalitarian systems of government ruled by despots. And while that indeed sounds like Islam, it isn't because Islam--while totalitarian in nature--promotes violence against unbelievers via the Koran.
Here's how Jabbar attempts to separate Islam from the jihadists who commit violence in Allah's name: Knowing that these terrorist attacks are not about religion, we have to reach a point where we stop bringing Islam into these discussions. I know we aren’t there yet because much of the Western population doesn’t understand the Islamic religion. All they see are brutal beheadings, kidnappings of young girls, bloody massacres of children at schools, and these random shootings. Naturally, they are frightened when they hear the word Muslim or see someone in traditional Muslim clothing. Despite any charitable impulses, they also have to be thinking, “Better safe than sorry”—as they hurry in the opposite direction.
http://time.com/3662152/kareem-abdul-jabbar-paris-charlie-hebdo
Jabbar is counting on the ignorance of westerners to believe him when he claims that Islam is really a religion of peace. But it isn't. Although the majority of Koranic verses are nonviolent, there are over 100 that are. And those are the verses that encourage Muslims to commit murder and mayhem against those who reject Islam.
Here are some examples: Quran (61:4) - "Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way."
Quran (47:3-4) - "Those who disbelieve follow falsehood, while those who believe follow the truth from their Lord... So, when you meet (in fight Jihad in Allah's Cause), those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives)... If it had been Allah's Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight), in order to test you, some with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost."
Quran (33:60-62) - "If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbors in it but a little while. Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter."
Those verses are contained in the Koran. That's the book that Jabbar follows. And while he and millions of Muslims across the world surely don't embrace those verses, they're there. And no one can deny that.
And I have a message for those imbeciles who invariably send me emails that condemn Christianity by using the Crusades and Inquisitions as the moral equivalence of Islamic terrorism: Read the Bible's New Testament and see if you can find even a single verse where Christ or His apostles encouraged Christians to use violence to spread Christianity. You won't find any.
Therefore, the Crusades, Inquisitions and the atrocities committed by the Klan were done in opposition to what Christ taught. Christ said this: "For all who draw the sword will die by the sword." (Matthew 26:52)
And He said this: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." (Matthew 5:9)
Islam's dreamweavers can spin their religion as a peaceful faith all they want. But it isn't. And unless those war verses are erased from the Koran, it never will be.
That was the reasoning used by basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar in a recent article he wrote for Time Magazine. President Barack Obama stuck with his usual excuse that those who commit violence in the name of Islam are just a few isolated nuts and radicals. If they are, then they do have a way of getting around.
The radical line has been used over and over again by western pundits--even by some high profile conservatives such as Ben Shapiro--who actually believe that the western world has the resources and resolve to defeat "radical" Islam.
What exactly is radical Islam? Has anyone ever heard the term radical Christianity? Radical Islam is a politically correct term invented by cowards and pansies who are either ignorant of Islam's violent theology or are too afraid to acknowledge it for fear of being persecuted.
There is no such thing as radical Islam. Those who commit mayhem and murder in the name of Islam and Allah are fundamentalists, not radicals.
Radicals are rebels and revolutionaries who follow fascist ideologies in order to impose totalitarian systems of government ruled by despots. And while that indeed sounds like Islam, it isn't because Islam--while totalitarian in nature--promotes violence against unbelievers via the Koran.
Here's how Jabbar attempts to separate Islam from the jihadists who commit violence in Allah's name: Knowing that these terrorist attacks are not about religion, we have to reach a point where we stop bringing Islam into these discussions. I know we aren’t there yet because much of the Western population doesn’t understand the Islamic religion. All they see are brutal beheadings, kidnappings of young girls, bloody massacres of children at schools, and these random shootings. Naturally, they are frightened when they hear the word Muslim or see someone in traditional Muslim clothing. Despite any charitable impulses, they also have to be thinking, “Better safe than sorry”—as they hurry in the opposite direction.
http://time.com/3662152/kareem-abdul-jabbar-paris-charlie-hebdo
Jabbar is counting on the ignorance of westerners to believe him when he claims that Islam is really a religion of peace. But it isn't. Although the majority of Koranic verses are nonviolent, there are over 100 that are. And those are the verses that encourage Muslims to commit murder and mayhem against those who reject Islam.
Here are some examples: Quran (61:4) - "Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way."
Quran (47:3-4) - "Those who disbelieve follow falsehood, while those who believe follow the truth from their Lord... So, when you meet (in fight Jihad in Allah's Cause), those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives)... If it had been Allah's Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight), in order to test you, some with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost."
Quran (33:60-62) - "If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbors in it but a little while. Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter."
Those verses are contained in the Koran. That's the book that Jabbar follows. And while he and millions of Muslims across the world surely don't embrace those verses, they're there. And no one can deny that.
And I have a message for those imbeciles who invariably send me emails that condemn Christianity by using the Crusades and Inquisitions as the moral equivalence of Islamic terrorism: Read the Bible's New Testament and see if you can find even a single verse where Christ or His apostles encouraged Christians to use violence to spread Christianity. You won't find any.
Therefore, the Crusades, Inquisitions and the atrocities committed by the Klan were done in opposition to what Christ taught. Christ said this: "For all who draw the sword will die by the sword." (Matthew 26:52)
And He said this: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." (Matthew 5:9)
Islam's dreamweavers can spin their religion as a peaceful faith all they want. But it isn't. And unless those war verses are erased from the Koran, it never will be.
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