Death In The Big City -- Just Business As Usual Under Islam
The Muslim Mayor of London, Saddiq Khan, called terrorist attacks "part and parcel" of life in a big city in an article in the Evening Standard/UK.
He omitted the part about Islam commanding Muslims to slaughter the dirty kuffars. Many Muslims, of course, do not follow Islam's commands.
Muslims are told to fight unbelievers until they are either dead, converted to Islam, or in a permanent state of subjugation under Muslim domination. Allowing people of other faiths to live and worship independently of Islamic rule is not an option....Muhammad's efforts to recruit peacefully at Mecca netted less than 100 followers in 13 years - mostly friends and family. His tactics changed drastically during his last ten years. Once he obtained the power to do so, he began forcing others to accept his claims about himself at the point of a sword. In many places in the Hadith, he tells his followers that he has been ordered by Allah to fight unbelievers until they profess their faith in Islam (the Shahada).
...Through the centuries, Muslims have forced Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, pagans and others to accept Islam, either by bluntly offering them death as an alternative, or by making their lives so miserable (ie. taxes, denial of rights...) that the conquered eventually convert to Islam under the strain.
Forced conversions persist among extremists. Recently in Egypt, a Christian girl was kidnapped and told that she would be raped if she did not convert. In 2010, an 11-year-old Christian boy in Pakistan was kept enslaved in chains (1, 2) by his Muslim landlord, who proudly told the world that he would liberate the lad if he embraced Islam.
Neither of these examples of attempted forced conversion was condemned by Islamic organizations, even in the West. From the Muslim perspective, the victim in each case technically retains the "choice" to convert, even if the only alternative is death. In fact, some even lauded the Pakistani slave-owner for being magnanimous in offering freedom and debt relief to his subject for embracing Islam.
Since Muslims believe so sincerely that their religion is truth, they often can't help but feel, on some level, that forced conversion is more of a favor done to the subject - a case of the end justifying the means. As Muhammad said, "Allah marvels at those who are brought to paradise in chains" (Bukhari 52:254).
After the high-profile kidnapping and forced conversion of hundreds of Christian girls by Boko Haram in 2014, a Muslim woman in the UK famously proclaimed that they had actually been "liberated" from the "shackles of slavery."
Back to how many Muslims practice Islam in a sort of "Christmas Christian" way, the problem is that it doesn't take "many" to leave bombs around the city. Just one.
Friends of Rahami's who spoke with media outlets trace the roots of his radicalism to his trips to jihadist hotbeds in Afghanistan and Pakistan....Rahami began wearing traditional Muslim robes after one trip to Afghanistan, two friends, Amarjit Singh and Jonathan Wagner, told the New York Times. He grew a beard and began praying in the back of his family's chicken restaurant.
As a person who furnished her NYC pads with furniture found on the street, I love how these bombs were discovered.
And I know I'm not supposed to say this, but thank goodness it isn't Jews wanting to murder everyone, because then a lot of people would be injured or dead.
"...And I know I'm not supposed to say this, but thank goodness it isn't Jews wanting to murder everyone, because then a lot of people would be injured or dead...."
Oooh, I like the way you phrased what you weren't supposed to say, which reminds me that every history I've read of how the Israelis thrashed the Arabs in 1948, 1967 and 1973 used the same phrasing to point out that much of the reason the Israelis won was that they were fighting Arabs.
roadgeek at September 21, 2016 8:13 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
roadgeek, I suggest that Arabs are pretty ruthless when they want to be and I bet slaves are still being bought and sold today in the ME.
Bob in Texas at September 21, 2016 8:34 AM
They are Bob. But mainly for the rich. It is ?unmannerly? to let the general populace have slaves. (?? for not quite the right word.) This is one of the quiet complaints about ISIS. They let anyone go out and buy slaves.
Ben at September 21, 2016 9:19 AM
Uncouth is the word you want
lujlp at September 21, 2016 1:16 PM
Sounds right Lujlp. Truth be told it's not really my culture so I can't really say what the objection is. All I know is I know people who've met slaves attending wealthy middle easterners. So I know the practice is alive and well today. How it works in real life, I don't know. It is best to avoid asking too many questions in those situations.
Ben at September 21, 2016 2:50 PM
The local news in New York today had a story showing damage from explosions done in someone's backyard where the Chelsea bomber was "testing out" his devices.
And, it didn't dawn on those property owners or his family, or anyone else "involved" to notify the police?
Nope, he was going to kill Americans, so that was okay.
charles at September 21, 2016 6:00 PM
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