The Quran Calls For Violence Against The Infidel -- And Muslims In Australia Answered That Call
UPDATE: Michael Totten on The Sydney Gunman's Failed Message.
The jihadist invasion at a Lindt café in Australia is Muslims behaving as the Quran commands to behave -- waging jihad against the unbelievers (of Allah). It also calls for them to slaughter the unbelievers. Let's hope that doesn't happen.
From thereligionofpeace.com:
The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called 'hypocrites' and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.Unlike nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence, the verses of violence in the Quran are mostly open-ended, meaning that they are not restrained by the historical context of the surrounding text. They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of Allah, and just as relevant or subjective as anything else in the Quran.
The context of violent passages is more ambiguous than might be expected of a perfect book from a loving God, however this can work both ways. Most of today's Muslims exercise a personal choice to interpret their holy book's call to arms according to their own moral preconceptions about justifiable violence. Apologists cater to their preferences with tenuous arguments that gloss over historical fact and generally do not stand up to scrutiny. Still, it is important to note that the problem is not bad people, but bad ideology.
Unfortunately, there are very few verses of tolerance and peace to abrogate or even balance out the many that call for nonbelievers to be fought and subdued until they either accept humiliation, convert to Islam, or are killed. Muhammad's own martial legacy - and that of his companions - along with the remarkable stress on violence found in the Quran have produced a trail of blood and tears across world history.
...The strangest and most untrue thing that can be said about Islam is that it is a Religion of Peace. If every standard by which the West is judged and condemned (slavery, imperialism, intolerance, misogyny, sexual repression, warfare...) were applied equally to Islam, the verdict would be devastating. Islam never gives up what it conquers, be it religion, culture, language or life. Neither does it make apologies or any real effort at moral progress. It is the least open to dialogue and the most self-absorbed. It is convinced of its own perfection, yet brutally shuns self-examination and represses criticism.
This is what makes the Quran's verses of violence so dangerous. They are given the weight of divine command. While Muslim terrorists take them as literally as anything else in their holy book, and understand that Islam is incomplete without Jihad, moderates offer little to contradict them - outside of opinion. Indeed, what do they have? Speaking of peace and love may win over the ignorant, but when every twelfth verse of Islam's holiest book either speaks to Allah's hatred for non-Muslims or calls for their death, forced conversion, or subjugation, it's little wonder that sympathy for terrorism runs as deeply as it does in the broader community - even if most Muslims personally prefer not to interpret their religion in this way.
Although scholars like Ibn Khaldun, one of Islam's most respected philosophers, understood that "the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force", many other Muslims are either unaware or willfully ignorant of the Quran's near absence of verses that preach universal non-violence. Their understanding of Islam comes from what they are taught by others. In the West, it is typical for believers to think that their religion must be like Christianity - preaching the New Testament virtues of peace, love, and tolerance - because Muslims are taught that Islam is supposed to be superior in every way. They are somewhat surprised and embarrassed to learn that the evidence of the Quran and the bloody history of Islam are very much in contradiction to this.
Others simply accept the violence. In 1991, a Palestinian couple in America was convicted of stabbing their daughter to death for being too Westernized. A family friend came to their defense, excoriating the jury for not understanding the "culture", claiming that the father was merely following "the religion" and saying that the couple had to "discipline their daughter or lose respect." (source). In 2011, unrepentant Palestinian terrorists, responsible for the brutal murders of civilians, women and children explicitly in the name of Allah were treated to a luxurious "holy pilgrimage" to Mecca by the Saudi king - without a single Muslim voice raised in protest.
For their part, Western liberals would do well not to sacrifice critical thinking to the god of political correctness, or look for reasons to bring other religion down to the level of Islam merely to avoid the existential truth that this it is both different and dangerous.
There are just too many Muslims who take the Quran literally... and too many others who couldn't care less about the violence done in the name of Islam.
Europe is already in deep doodoo, reports Pravda:
President of the Institute of the Middle East, Evgeniy Satanovskiy told Pravda.Ru what jihadists wanted in Germany and what threats they posed to this country."In Germany there are thousands of jihadists, according to German Police hundreds of them are prone to organizing terrorist attacks. This is a very high threat level. And German Islamic communities, as a matter of fact, like Islamic communities around all Western Europe, are literally occupied by jihadists, and under complete inaction of the politically correct western political elite they have already trained the second or third generation of radical Islamists, a considerable part of whom now went to fight in Syria or Iraq or joined different divisions of al-Qaeda," Satanovskiy pointed out.
Back to the Australia situation: Great news -- three hostages were able to escape, police confirmed Sunday night. Via FoxNews.
UPDATE, as of 10:21 pm PT, two more hostages have gone free. Seems they're women. As of yet unsure as to whether they escaped or were let out, but I'm guessing they escaped.
The other day I was slaying some Amalekites, when all of the sudden...
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 15, 2014 12:40 AM
Alaska basically eliminated gun ownership sometime back in the 1990s.
Where I live -- Anchorage, Alaska -- everyone owns a gun. No license required.
So, if some of those ISISholes were to try something like that up here, they'd have no fricking idea who was going to turn them into a day at the range.
Jeff Guinn at December 15, 2014 1:07 AM
Where I live -- Anchorage, Alaska -- everyone owns a gun. No license required.
So, if some of those ISISholes were to try something like that up here, they'd have no fricking idea who was going to turn them into a day at the range.
Posted by: Jeff Guinn at December 15, 2014 1:07 AM
Yes, Australia went all bat shit crazy about private citizens having guns about the same time that Great Britain did.
The restrictions on ownership aren't quite a onerous but concealed carry is out of the question.
The chickens are coming home to roost. Terrorists, and the mentally ill look for soft targets. When one in five people on average is carrying concealed, there are no soft targets.
Isab at December 15, 2014 6:34 AM
"Yes, Australia went all bat shit crazy about private citizens having guns about the same time that Great Britain did."
Australia went nuts by direction after the Port Arthur Massacre. The action report there had a buncha holes in it.
So Strines cannot be trusted with their own guns, even though so much of it is wilderness as boggles the mind.
"Logic": that good is served by disarming the good.
Radwaste at December 15, 2014 1:40 PM
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