Religion Of Peace @ MindSay

There is a growing movement of non-believers in the world who want to see religion meet it's downfall.  Now, they're not going to bomb churches or protest outside churches in Guy Fawkes masks.....oh wait.....well they're not going to bomb churches anyway.

Most of these people have a live and let live policy as well.  They really don't care what someone believes, just as long as that person doesn't try to force their beliefs (whether it be through direct force or via laws or lobbying) on everyone else.  They all share a fundamental belief that religion causes harm to society.  Looking at the history of religion, they have a point.

Obviously, some religions are much more of a threat to civilization than others.  It seems that every faith goes through it's "wild" phase, where it becomes ruthless, brutal.  Judaism actually chronicled this period in their holy book, where they engaged in a deadly ethnic cleansing campaign against the people living in Canaan because God supposedly "gave" them that land.  It makes me wonder, wouldn't it have been easier for God just to make all those people disappear?  It seems kind of pointless for an all-powerful universe creator to rely on a former slave army to destroy cities one-by-one.  At any rate, running into a Jew back then would have been pretty scary.  However, nowadays Judaism is relatively peaceful.  There's a few militant sects, but nothing out of the ordinary for any other religion.  There are even militant sects of Buddhism.

Then we have Christianity, an offshoot of Judaism.  For the first few hundred years, they were pretty peaceful, and there were a lot of martyrs...then they became the ones in charge.  The middle ages saw a reign of Christian terror filled with Inquisitions and Crusades.  Now, the church has calmed down quite a bit, and fits in pretty good with the modern world.

Right on cue, Islam seems to be going through it's rough phase, and as religions go is probably the most threatening to world peace as a whole.  More violent acts are done in the name of Islam every year than those done for all other religions combined.  There is also an unwillingness among the majority of so-called "moderate" muslims to condemn this violence.  Will Islam "mellow out" if given enough time?  Or will the availability of weapons of mass destruction to such an unstable and violent belief system spell the end for us all?  Only time will tell.

It's understandable to see religion as a threat to peace, but I think those who would see the end of all religion make one mistake: they lump all religions as the same thing, and they're not.  People in Israel don't go to bed at night worrying about those Amish suicide bombers.  Religion comes in all shapes and colors, some of which are completely benign, doing absolutely no harm to society.  Many religions practice good things.  Charities for example are often run by churches.  It's incredibly closed-minded to pronounce a blanket condemnation on all religion.

The real and true threat to any civilized society is absolute thinking.  In other words, the threat is seeing everything on "black" or "white" terms.  Nothing is "absolutely" good or evil, and thinking along those "you're either with us or against us" lines can cause a lot of problems.  It got us into this disastrous war with Iraq, among other things.  Certainly religion can play a part in encouraging this behavior, but it's not unique to any one philosophy.  It's dangerous no matter which God one believes or doesn't believe in.  By putting blanket condemnations on things you don't like, you marginalize them.  Proclaiming something "good" or "evil" stops one from truly evaluating it.  Not even Adolf Hitler was completely evil.

This group of non theists also makes this mistake.  People like Dawkins and Hitchens marginalize religion and give it no redeeming value whatsoever.  I may agree with them on their stance that there (probably) is no God or Gods, but I don't think you can just marginalize the faith of billions away like that.  That line of thinking is just as dangerous as that of the rabid evangelical or the Muslim suicide bomber.  The conflict comes when people come together and have wildly different ideas about good and evil.  The smaller this world gets, the less isolate we become, the more and more we'll have to abandon that kind of thinking, or I fear it could be the end of this civilization.

 

This is what happens when a Mohammedan leaves the religion of peace and tries to marry a gal born a Christian in Iran.

 

For the details, go to Gateway Pundit (with a hit tip to MidEast Truth).

 

These are the kind of incidents that make me question the existence of a group of Mohammedans known as moderate.

 

Here is some more information on Cho Seung-Hui that is new to me but may be old news to some of the readers. It relates to the words written in red on Cho’s arm: Ismail’s Ax.

 

Jerry Bowyer writing for TCS Daily makes the Mohammedan connection. Not that Cho was a Mohammedan; however Cho seemed to relate to the Mohammedan version of Abraham and his son by a slave concubine Hagar. The English translation has that son’s name as Ishmael, according Bowyer the Arabs prefer “Ismail.”

 

Is it not interesting that the religion of peace mythology was associated with the Virginia Tech massacre.

 

JRH
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Ismail Ax: The Shooter Was Another 'Son of Sacrifice'

By Jerry Bowyer
18 Apr 2007
TCS Daily

First it was Johnny Muhammad, now it was Cho Sueng Hui aka Ismail Ax. Precisely how many mass shooters have to turn out to have adopted Muslim names before we get it? Islam has become the tribe of choice of those who hate American society. I'm not talking about people who grew up as Muslims, confident and secure in their faith, good fathers, sons and neighbors. I'm talking about the angry, malignant, narcissist loners who want to reject their community utterly, to throw off their 'slave name' and represent the downtrodden of the earth by shooting their friends and neighbors.

This morning I read that the Virginia Tech shooter died with the name Ismail Ax written in red ink on his arm. The mainstream press doesn't seem to have a clue as to what this might mean. To quote Indiana Jones, "Didn't any of you guys go to Sunday School?"

The story starts with a man named Abraham. He is the father of the Jews, the Muslims and the Christians. He was born in Iraq, the son of a wealthy idol manufacturer. He came to believe that there was only one true God and, according to tradition, took up his ax and destroyed his father's idols.

Eventually he left Iraq and moved to what is now known as Israel. He had a son with his concubine whom she named Ishmael. The Muslim world prefers the Arabic spelling of the name: Ismail. Eventually Abraham had a son by his rightful wife and named the son Isaac. Ishmael and his mother were disinherited and sent out into what is now Saudi Arabia. Isaac became the heir.

 


Eventually, God decided to test Abraham by telling him to kill his son, Isaac. Abraham took up the knife, but God stopped him at the last moment. Isaac lived and eventually became a man of great wealth. Ishmael became a desert warrior chieftain.

The Jews are the descendants of Isaac, the Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael.

In the 7th Century, Muhammad, the founder of Islam, re-wrote the story, claiming that Ismail was the true faithful descendant of Abraham and that it was he, not Isaac, who God told Abraham to sacrifice. Ismail was the one saved. For Muslims, Ismail (not Isaac) was the true 'Son of Sacrifice.' In the original version of the story, Abraham used a knife, in some of the later Muslim versions, he used an Ax.

Flash forward 1,400 years: a sullen, angry young man who rages against rich people and apparently against Christians, writes a play in which a mother and son try to kill his step-father, but in the end the boy (age about 13, the age many think Ismail was when he was exiled) is murdered by the step-father with 'a deadly blow'. Father issues? Yeah, I think so.

Cho Sueng-hui ***** Ismail Ax hated the American society to which he had been brought 15 years earlier. His play McBeef (a poor pun from an English Lit major on Macbeth) is one endless screed against the corruption of American culture. A cheesy re-telling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, it involves a young man abused by his step-father, a former NFL football player. The son, throws epithets at his father calling him a 'Catholic priest'. And makes derisive comments about McDonalds. It seems that none of the foundational structures of Western Civilization, Christianity, capitalism, family, are spared his rage. In other words, he really meant what he said in his last words: "you (that is us, America) made me do this."

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To its adherents the religion is known as Islam (i.e. submission). I am not an adherent so I prefer calling the cult by its founder's name Mohammed (thus Mohammedanism).

The particular brand of Mohammedanism practiced by terrorists is Islamofascism. Islamofascists are both Sunni and Shi'ite. The Shi'ite brand is best represented by the Imams and President Ahmadinejad of Iran. The Sunni brand is best represented from the Wahhabi of Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood which can actually trace its roots to a Mufti from Jerusalem and Banna hooking up with Hitler's Gestapo. The Muslim Brotherhood actually developed a strategy for Islamofascist world domination and entitled it The Project.

This blood thirsty lineage follows a thread straight to Islamofascist terrorists known as Hamas. Is Mohammedanism peaceful? NO! The Religion of Peace as manifested by Hamas is a brutal adversary not only to Israel but to the West as well. The Liberals of the West are simply to blind to comprehend the violence of Islamofascism as fomented by its various terrorist factions.
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American Congress For Truth


Hamas: Islam will conquer US and Britain
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

Palestinian Media Watch
Hamas Video

A Hamas video just released on their web site focuses on the broader Palestinian Islamic ideology, promising the eventual conquering and subjugation of Christian countries under Islam. The way Israel ran from Gaza after terror is presented as the prototype for future Israeli and Western behavior in the face of Islamic force.

The video is a collection of statements by Hamas terrorist leader, Yasser Ghalban, killed last week by Palestinians, in the ongoing internal fighting.

To view this video, anticipating Islam's conquering of US and Britain, click here .

The following is the transcript of selections from the Hamas video:

We will rule the nations, by Allah's will, the USA will be conquered, Israel will be conquered, Rome and Britain will be conquered. The Jihad for Allah... is the way of Truth and the way for Salvation and the way, which will lead us to crush the Jews and expel them from our country Palestine. Just as the Jews ran from Gaza, the Americans will run from Iraq and Afghanistan and the Russians will run from Chechnya, and the Indian will run from Kashmir, and our children will be released from Guantanamo. The prisoners will be released by Allah's will, not by peaceful means and not by agreements, but they will be released by the sword, they will be released by the gun.

The video identifies itself as from the Al-Qassam Brigades Media Office. Al-Qassam Brigades is the name the Hamas calls its military wing. (www.palestine-info.net) June 22 2006:

Al-Qaeda Video

The ideology is similar to the Al-Qaeda ideology, and this can be seen by viewing an Al-Qaeda video seen now on many sites on the Internet, likewise anticipating battles with other religions throughout the world. They Are Coming is 12 minute collection of scenes of Al-Qaeda's training around the world: Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Eritrea, Indonesia, Kashmir, Somalia, Philippines, UK, Algeria and Pakistan. This propaganda video addresses the American public with captions in English, images of dead and injured American soldiers, and threats such as: They Are Coming, Start digging your graves, and ends with a burning US flag.

Click here to see Al-Qaeda video.

Taking credit for the video is: Al-Qaeda's 'Jihad Media Battalion' June 2006.

The Coptic Christian Church was attacked by the so-called Religion of Peace. What was the reason? The Mohammedans believed the Christians were constructing a Church. The Copts were actually building a community service building available to both Christians and Mohammedans. The Mohammedans in their intolerant hatred began to burn down homes of Copts and destroy property as well.

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Copts attacked in Quena under Police watch

Written by Copts

Wednesday, 12 April 2006   Events began on 4/5/2006 as Copts in the village of "Faw Bahry, Deshna, of Quena province" were renovating the building of St Mary's Association, a community service association that serves Christians and Muslims alike. Local Muslim extremists gathered and chanted "There is no god but Allah and Christians are the enemies of Allah."  The extremists began throwing fire balls on the association building and Christian owned homes when rumors spread that Copts were turning the association building into a church. According to Hala Al Masry, the Copts United local correspondent, fire trucks arrived 2 hours after 4 Coptic homes were set aflame and security forces have not taken decisive measures against the perpetrators although they have arrested 22 Copts so far. The Copts were attacked for allegations that they were turning St. Mary's Association into a church. 1500 Copts live in the village of Faw Bahry and the closest church is 7 miles away. In an interview with eyewitnesses, local Copts plead for help saying, "Help us, protect our properties and souls, we can't get to our fields as the Muslim radicals are burning our houses and cattle and security forces don't want to take any action."